AG Merrick Garland Admits Federal War On Parents Sprang From School Boards Letter, Not Evidence

 To think this man was Obama's choice to be on the U.S. Supreme Court

The Federalist

"Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted on Thursday that the basis for targeting and potentially charging parents concerned about what their children are learning in schools with domestic terrorism was a letter from the National School Boards Association, not real evidence.

“When did you first review the data showing this so-called disturbing uptick?” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan asked during a House Judiciary hearing on Thursday. 

“ 'I read the letter, and we have been seeing over time—” Garland began before Jordan interrupted him.

“ 'So you read the letter? That’s your source?” Jordan asked incredulously. “Is there some study, some effort, some investigation someone did that, said there’s been a disturbing uptick, or you just take the words of the National School Board Association?”

     'Garland then confirmed it wasn’t until NSBA contacted him that his department began to investigate claims of violence and terrorism.

“ 'Well, the National School Board Association, which represents thousands of school boards and school board members, says that there are these kinds of threats. When we read in the newspapers reports of threats of violence—” Garland said before Jordan interjected again." . . .  Full article here

The Problems With the NSBA Apology for Their ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Letter  "As we previously reported, the NSBA apologized last night for a letter they had written to Joe Biden implying that parents could be “domestic terrorists.” That letter was then used by Attorney General Merrick Garland to justify a coordinated federal law enforcement effort to address “threats” against school boards, an effort which people feared was really to chill speech from parents upset about the politicized agenda being pitched to their kids in school, particularly in regard to Critical Race Theory.". . . 

The letter (cropped to enhance legibility, but contained in the posted article above):

The Madness of King George

 

"The Madness of King George, Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. Taking place in 1788, the film's story begins three decades into George's reign, as the unstable king (Nigel Hawthorne) begins to show signs of increasing dementia, from violent fits of foul language to bouts of forgetfulness. The King's prime minister William Pitt (Julian Wadham) and his wife Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) are determined to protect the throne during this time of weakness, when many see it as an opportunity to overthrow the unpopular George, whom they blamed for the loss of the American colonies. Although doctors are brought in, their archaic treatments of the time prove of little value and therefore, in desperation, they turn to Dr. Willis (Ian Holm), a harsh, unconventional specialist whose unusual methods recall modern psychiatry."

Comment to this post by Anne Browning: "Yes - it's a brilliant screenplay enabling brilliant performances. The direction is superb.  It's also a great lesson in juxtaposition of elements. His gagging coincides with the rousing coronation music, used ironically here, it creates a terrible sense of loss of dignity. That's good direction - not pulling out the violins and going slo-mo or something obvious like that is a stroke of genius. But yes, Nigel Hawthorne is just magnificent. He was often defined as a comic actor, indeed his timing and ability to flip scenes on their head, as you might in a comedy, is used to brilliant effect in this film. His choices are unpredictable and absolutely inspired and help create the strange nature of George's "madness". In many ways George was an effective monarch, and like Shakespeare the writer uses the important stage of monarchy to talk about something much more intimate and real - the loss of status, dignity and respect we feel with a mental illness. It is a totally convincing portrait of a man unravelling before our eyes."

But did the Mad King ever announce ‘International Pronouns Day’?

There are no quick and easy fixes to our supply chain challenges

Reason

For now, policymakers should be vigilant about avoiding well-meaning but counterproductive policy responses and, instead, work to improve long-run supply chain resilience by jettisoning existing harmful government policies.

"Snarled supply chains are a major economic and news story, with dramatic photos of dozens of container ships waiting offshore for weeks at a time for the opportunity to unload their cargoes at overflowing West Coast ports. In a sign of the times, the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles became so congested that some ships could not even approach shallower depths to anchor, forcing them to drift 20 miles offshore. But it’s not just the ports; every hub and spoke of the logistics chain is at capacity. And unfortunately for pundits and politicians in Washington, D.C., there are no policy levers to pull to quickly and easily resolve these issues.

"To be sure, certain government policies have made this situation worse than it otherwise would be. These policies include the failure to adopt international best practices and technologies at U.S. ports due to intransigent labor unions and their allied politicians, the duties on Chinese truck chassis that have tripled their price in recent years under the Trump and Biden administrations, and unprecedented federal COVID-19 relief, stimulus and unemployment money going to many households, which contributed to spending. However, while policy reforms could help improve the long-run resilience of the supply chain, the main source of these problems is unusual short-run consumer demand that public policy is ill-suited to address.". . .   Marc Scribner Senior Transportation Policy Analyst

Alec Baldwin In 2010: I Wonder What It’s Like For Police To Wrongfully Kill Somebody…

 Weasel Zippers…

Democrat Family Guy

 

Democrats aim to make anyone who disagrees with them an enemy of the state

 

Mogey

NY Post  "Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-The Moon) made the Democratic position clear Thursday: If you’re not with us, you’re terrorists.

"During his opening statement for the Attorney General Merrick Garland hearing, Nadler said there was no difference between the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and parents who are angry about what is being taught in schools.

“This growth in extremist ideology is echoed in an epidemic of violence and intimidation directed at our health care professionals, teachers, essential workers, school board members and election workers,” Nadler said.

"Nadler, a partisan loon who spent the past four years stirring up every conspiracy theory against President Trump, claimed there was a “broader pattern” here, including “the growing threats of violence against public servants.' ” . . .

"Yes, it is terrible when a sitting senator is harassed and followed into a bathroom . . . Oh he wasn’t talking about Krysten Sinema? The incident President Biden said was just “part of the process”? Huh."...

White House Collaborated With School Board Group On Letter Comparing Parents To ‘Domestic Terrorists’  

The Democrat circus

 The world must regard America as a silly nation, no longer worthy of respect. Nations sheltering under our wings now have to feel they are alone in facing their enemies.

Tony Branco

Democrats Sink in Battleground States While Americans Wonder Who Is Running the Country

Maybe Biden is in a similar situation because he is using the same formula. He proposed colossal spending packages for projects that will take years just to receive permits. Meanwhile, Americans are supposed to be content with a raft of social programs that no one asked for. It wasn’t a winning formula in 2010 and does not appear to be any more popular now.

‘Down the hall’: Biden says Jill booted him from bedroom for dropping free college  ..."In a joking moment during Thursday night’s town-hall meeting on CNN, Mr. Biden was asked about the reaction from first lady [college teacher] Jill Biden to the news that the proposal for two free years of community college had been dropped from his $3.5 trillion spending bill."

Biden Says First Responders, Police Who Refuse Vaccine Mandates Should Be Fired

This is why they keep him away from the media...

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "A year ago, the Biden 2020 electoral strategy was to hide, blame it on the pandemic, and let Trump do all of the talking.  The strategy was made possible by an assist from a media hysterically obsessed with everything Trump.

"The strategy worked.

"It's the fall of 2021, and President Biden is not disappointing anyone who branded him the master of gaffes.  Check out the latest from #46:

During a rambling speech in Scranton on Wednesday, Joe Biden accidentally said he was Vice President for 36 years. Not 8 years, but 36 years.

He also said that his economic plan would cost nothing and vowed to take “millions” of cars off the road in the name of climate change.

Let's be fair. President Biden's comments about his plan costing nothing and removing cars off the road were political. He is not the first politician to say something absurd.

His comments about commuting for 36 years are not political. They are dangerously signs of a man who can't follow the text or just goes off on his own. He is obviously failing to hear what he is saying and does not have the ability to laugh and fix it.

"Don't expect a lot of press conferences or anything more than a friendly conversation with a CNN host.  In the meantime, no one in the media is apologizing for letting Biden hide in the basement during the campaign . . ."

Biden Mocks Freedom in Twisted Train Wreck of a Town Hall  . . . "Naturally, most of the questions from folks in the audience were Democrats or softball questions. But there were some highlights and it was disastrous.

"Let’s start with the creepiness and the incoherence.

"Here’s Joe Biden claiming that top corporations “don’t pay a cent” in taxes with that creepy stage whisper voice.". . . 

Rand Paul's Warning to Americans: ‘Be Afraid of Your Government'

 PJ Media

"In the wake of [Obama's choice for Supreme Court Justice] Attorney General Merrick Garland’s announcement that he plans to sic the FBI on concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings against critical race theory and COVID restrictions, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted the Biden administration and said Americans should “be afraid of your government.”

“ 'Moms at school boards are being told that they’re criminals, potential domestic terrorists, for the crime of dissent, and I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with,” Paul told Fox News.

"Garland claimed that there has been a “disturbing trend” of teachers being threatened or harassed. PJ Media’s Megan Fox looked into these allegations and concluded they’re mostly bunk.

"When asked what he would tell Americans concerned that they’ll end up on some government list if they “say the wrong thing” at their local school board meeting, Paul didn’t mince words.

“ 'I would say be afraid. Be afraid of your government,” he responded. “That’s a sad thing from someone in the government to say, but the thing is, is those lists already exist.”

“ 'I think the problem is, it’s become so normalized to use government to search out and seek out your opponents,” Paul continued, before citing the abuse of FISA warrants to illegally spy on the Trump campaign as an example.". . . 

Brian Stelter Humiliated By Guest On His Own Show

 Red Voice Media  "Trying whatever they can to save viewers, CNN has stopped reporting on the news so much and has since become nothing more than a debate center for the liberal woke. Even when it comes to their debating, it is relatively relaxed given the list of topics they won’t and can’t talk about. 

"These include the Black Lives Matter riots, the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, or the fact that President Biden might not have won the 2020 election fairly. And as Dave Chappelle is learning, don’t you dare attack the LGBTQ community." . . .

. . ."Knowing his bosses were probably already foaming at the mouths, Stelter tried to defend his company, but Weiss was way ahead of him on every front. Watch both Stelter and CNN get a lesson in telling the truth below." 

Greta Tagliavia

  Don’t blame me, I voted for President Trump!!!!! LET’S GO BRANDON!!!!

Kevin Jackson at The Blacksphere:   "In this interview, Stelter makes the cardinal mistake of asking a question to which he doesn’t know the answer. And when it comes to sane questions, Stelter doesn’t have a clue." 

"Thus, he asked this question, “So in what ways has the world gone mad?”. . . 

But Stelter must have been on drugs and didn’t feel pain from the shotgun pellets through the thrashing. Thus, he offered a follow-up question: “Who’s to blame?”  

"Round 2 of the onslaught commenced, as Weiss replied, “YOU!”  

“ 'People that work at networks like, frankly, like the one I’m speaking on right now, who try and claim that it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory,” Weiss shot back, adding later that CNN and the MSM’s actions were “disinformation by omission.”

"Real admiral, make-believe woman"; The madness of American culture

"Nevertheless, we're told that Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn, and that Richard Levine became Rachel.  If we point out the absurdity of either of those assertions and flat-out falsehoods, it's a fine, public shaming, and probably a trip to a re-education camp in the near future." 

Bookworm Room

Don Fisher, Jr.   "On Tuesday, the news item that caused the corporate media to swoon was that President Biden's choice for assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Richard "Rachel" Levine, was sworn in as the first "openly transgender four-star admiral."  Others insist the new admiral is a "female." Regardless of the qualifications for the job, which is largely a ceremonial position, we're told that this is HISTORIC! because Mr. Levine is a pretend woman.  I say "Mr. Levine" not because I'm mean or obstinate, but because that's still a biological fact.  Levine was born a man; decided that he wanted to become a woman; and, in 2011, says he "transitioned" to a different gender, defying many of the known laws of human biological science.

"When I read the news, I thought it must be some sort of a joke.  The obviously male Levine looked like a man pretending to be a woman, complete with long hair and lipstick.  RuPaul, in his full drag attire, looks more convincing as a woman.  Then I remembered who our president is and that the goals of his party are never about logic, qualifications, or science.  It's about promoting the perverse, delusional, and foolish.  In that case, they're winning.

"Notice how Levine is being referred to as the first "openly transgender four-star admiral" as if hordes of male military officers were secretly wearing dresses and lipstick as they trembled in closets until this glorious moment when they could cross-dress and publicly pretend they're something that neither God nor nature created.  Yes, making Levine a four-star admiral will change history, but for the wrong reasons when future generations read of our descent into madness and intellectual bankruptcy." . . .

. . ."For now, I'll continue to call "Rachel" Richard Levine because I'm sane and I understand that biology doesn't change just because someone wishes it to do so." . . . 

Babylon Bee: Arms Race Heats Up: Just As China Reveals Space Nukes, America Responds With Trans Admiral   

..."China, you've been warned," said Biden to a Chinese food delivery person he mistook for President Xi. "Our transgender admiral is fully armed and operational. If you cross us, we will unleash the full fire and fury of this deadly weapon upon you, make no mistake." 

"Military experts say that while a space nuke is somewhat impressive, it pales in comparison to the awesome power of diversity. "With Rachel Levine serving as admiral, nations around the world will bow before the terrifying might of our transgender empowerment," said General Milley. "We must pursue peace through strength. Strength of inclusivity."... 

(An Honorable) Kennedy’s Examination Of This Biden Judicial Nominee Makes Us Sad

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned a judicial nominee at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday;

Below: "Thomas can’t even cite the case law providing for them. A sane Senate Judiciary Committee would toss her with extreme prejudice from the pile of nominees. She’s clearly unqualified."

The Hayride: 'Is It Systemically Racist Or Not?': Kennedy Questions Judicial Nominee On LA County Superior Court   "VIDEO: Kennedy’s Examination Of This Biden Judicial Nominee Makes Us Sad"  

. . ."The questions she’s asked aren’t complicated. They’re simple. They’re the kind of questions any intelligent human being should be able to have a ready answer for.

"And Holly Thomas is thoroughly incapable of answering them.

"If you’re the Chinese Politburo member looking at America as a potential adversary, what does this do to/for your thinking about that future conflict? Would you be encouraged or discouraged from advocating hostile action toward a country where the Holly Thomases of the world are embedded in its leadership class?

"Holly Thomas has been a woke leftist advocate her entire career. But Kennedy asking her if the Los Angeles County Superior Court is systemically racist short-circuits her completely. If she says it isn’t, despite the fact that court routinely hands out jail sentences disproportionately to black and Hispanic defendants (because black and Hispanic people in Los Angeles County make up a grossly disproportionate share of the criminals there), then she puts herself in jeopardy of being seen as a traitor to the leftist cause. What’s more, such an answer will do damage to further efforts at making a more woke judiciary in L.A. County, efforts about which she’s clearly enthusiastic." . . .

You Are Passionately Committed To A Particular Vision of Law': Cruz Grills Biden Judicial Nominee