GOP Scorches Bragg for Soft-on-Crime Policies After Trump Indictment

 Breitbart

"Just before the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on crime in the Big Apple, the committee released a video underscoring Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies, contrasting his recent charges against former President Donald Trump that many legal experts have cast doubt upon as purely political.

"The video shows multiple attacks, news clippings, and local news reports of violent crime, such as stabbings in the metro and violence against women and children.

“ 'No neighborhood is safe in New York City right now,” says a clip that captures a violent attack. “With just days on the job, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is changing how some crimes will be prosecuted,” another clip says. “He says he’ll stop seeking prison sentences for some criminal charges and will downgrade some felony charges.”. . .

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— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 17, 2023

Chaos as protesters crash Republican hearing for New York crime victims: Bodega worker who stabbed thief in self-defense slams 'horrible violence' and father of beating victim says Democrats are 'enabling Alvin Bragg'   . . ." 'It is - to use the chairmans' favorite term -weaponization of the federal government.' 

"Witness Barry Borge said his son was beaten  'in broad daylight' in 2021 in Times Square, 'all because he was wearing a yarmulke going to a pro-Israel rally.'

"Anti-semitic hate crimes have been on the rise in New York and around the country. 

"He blamed Bragg for slow-walking the case and offering one of the attackers a 'sweetheart' deal and Nadler for not stepping in to advocate for his son.  

" 'You're a Jewish New Yorker,' Borgen said in comments directed to Nadler. 'I called your office numerous times. I called Mr. Schumer's office, another Jewish New Yorker, numerous times.' "... 

The Next Item on the Climate Cult's 'Naughty List' - A Common Staple Food - Gives Scam Away

 The Next Item on the Climate Cult's 'Naughty List' - A Common Staple Food - Gives Scam Away – RedState    Hint: Panda Express.

  "We’ve seen a lot of craziness over the years from the climate change cult.

"First, it was global cooling, then global warming. Now, because they don’t know what they are talking about and none of their predictions come to pass, it’s the more amorphous “climate change” (although the “climate” is always changing). They are never held accountable for being wrong, and they just move on to the next thing to push us to panic over.

"It’s always about how things are about to implode — if we don’t commit more of our money to deal with it/give up our freedoms/turn over more control to the government.

"Let’s listen to what Joe Biden said during his vacation in Ireland. This was before he told guests at Dublin Castle that he wanted to “lick the world.”

“ 'The SINGLE existential threat to the world is climate change!” Biden claimed. Not just the “greatest” threat — the only existential threat, according to Joe Biden. “We don’t have a lot of time, and that’s a fact. And even recognizing — finally, everyone is recognizing it in America,” the president said.

"But it’s ok for him to fly to Ireland, then jet on to Delaware.

"The world’s been supposedly about to implode for the past forty years. Yet, somehow we’re still here. And no, Joe, “everyone” is not recognizing/accepting the mania.

"We’ve seen them demonize fossil fuels. We’ve seen them go after meat — even cow farts with their methane emissions.

"But an AFP News Agency tweet about what the climate cult might be targeting next had people sit up and take notice on Sunday. Because if anything underscored how anti-human the cult seems, this would be it.". . .

Sen Johnson sounds alarm on ‘jaw-dropping’ Biden family bank records: ‘Revealing’ |

Fox News

Ron Johnson says his report 'ignored' by media because they are 'advocates' for the left

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is sounding the alarm over the Biden family's "revealing" bank records, arguing that the media "completely ignored" his 2020 report on the "grifting" family.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: Let's face it, Sen. Grassley and I pretty well laid out the case against the grifting Biden family back in September of 2020 before the election. Our report was completely ignored by the media, just as they ignored the Hunter Biden laptop because they're advocates for the left themselves. And so what we're finding out now is just new pieces of evidence of the grifts that the Biden family have been involved with – the bank records that basically confirm what the Treasury records showed from Sen. Grassley's and my report.. . .

HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS BANKS, BIDEN FAMILY ASSOCIATES IN PROBE OF FINANCES

Four authors to read before the woke censors come after them

 American Thinker   "Especially among conservative circles, it is easy to see how works published or written longer ago than the current year might come under harsh scrutiny from the editors of large publishing houses.  It is not the time to panic just yet.  However, with Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming becoming subject to rewrites and censorship as well as large retailers banning certain books from their platforms, it might be time to ponder what books you have been meaning to buy before you either cannot or it has been altered past the author's intent.  Granted, while some of these books are politically controversial, it would be foolish to suppose that any such censorious instincts end at politics or the hot-button topic of the minute.

"Therefore, with a focus on literature and entertainment, let's dive in to four books I'd ask you to consider before to acquire while they are unmolested and purchasable.". . .

1. The Children of Hurin, by JRR Tolkien, is one of the more controversial works by the esteemed professor.  The dust cover states that this is one of Tokien's earliest Middle Earth creations, with its origins possibly being from his WW1 days.  It is not very difficult to see why one would want to obtain the earliest of Tolkien's work unmolested.  On the matter of controversy, not even all Lord of the Rings fans are universal in adoration of this work.  To summarize what divides them: there is no happy ending, and good does not necessarily triumph.  Nonetheless, the book is a great work of tragedy.  If you do not want to support the Tolkien Estate's questionable decisions, I would advise tracking down a used hardcover.

Rep. Katie Porter (California) attacks Riley Gaines, gets her head handed to her by Piers Morgan and Bill Maher as audience applaud

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) - run state

 Thomas Lifson   "Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is supposed to be very smart, what with Yale undergraduate and Harvard Law degrees and a tenured professorship in her background. But she was made a fool of on national TV, perhaps because she spends too much time with members of the House Progressive Caucus, of which she is Chairperson.

Perhaps that is why it came as a surprise to her that biological males competing in women’s sports are not nearly as popular as she thought, even on a lefty show like Real Time with Bill Maher. And that attacking Riley Gaines (verbally, not physically like the thugs at San Francisco State University) does not generate a lot of support.  

Matt Margolis of PJ Media describes Porter’s blunder:

She likely assumed that she was in friendly territory and ended up embarrassing herself multiple times. One exchange that did her no favors was during a discussion on transgender athletes competing in sports.

Porter tried to sound measured on the issue but got destroyed after mocking Riley Gaines, who has been speaking out in defense of women’s sports.. . .

“ 'I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who—”

“ 'What has she said that is actually wrong?” Morgan asked.

"Porter then accused Gaines of trying to “get likes and get clicks,” which didn’t sit well with Morgan. ". . .

"The Biden administration has proposed a new Title IX rule change that would prevent schools from banning transgender athletes, including that no school or college that receives federal funding to impose rules that would prevent transgender athletes from competing."

California Hits the Gas on Its Way to Failed Commie Statehood  "I am well aware that many who read today’s headline will think, “On its way?!?!?”

"California is a lot more than what people outside of it see. I lived there for four years when I was a kid and spent over 20 years there as an adult. There are still a lot of good people there, and the physical beauty of the state remains unchanged.

"The politics, sadly, are rotten to the core.

"When I left there a little over five years ago, the politics in Sacramento were descending into a hideous place they hadn’t been in all the time I’d lived there. Still, I Ioved Los Angeles (judge away, haters) so much that I had to tear myself away.

"In the time that I’ve been away, the state has suffered under the draconian egomania of Gavin Newsom, and it hasn’t been pretty. Newsom began his political career in San Francisco, the city that spawned bottom-feeding haters of liberty like Dianne Feinstein, Granny Boxwine Pelosi, and the cackling weirdo who is currently one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.

"Under normal circumstances, the governor’s vibe wouldn’t affect so much of what goes on in the state. The Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu Plague, however, gave Democrat governors like Newsom a taste of tyrannical power that they have been reluctant to give up. The Golden State is now very much a reflection of its Soviet-esque chief executive. A couple of recent stories just reek of the Newsomness of it all. The first one from Rick:". . .

NY Rat Czar; let the animal rights violence begin in three...two...one...

 

Meet New York City’s new ‘rat czar’: A former elementary school teacher who became an anti-vermin advocate and has ‘a long history with rats’  "Every New York City mayor has waged war — and mostly lost — against one of humanity’s most cunning and enduring foe: rattus norvegicus. But has the city’s vilest enemy, better known as the common brown rat, finally met its match?

"Mayor Eric Adams introduced a former elementary school teacher and anti-rat activist as his new “rat czar” on Wednesday. Officially, Kathleen Corradi, the mayor’s new hire, will be known as the director of rodent mitigation.

"Corradi is tasked with battling the potentially millions of rats lurking in myriad urban nooks and crannies, subway tunnels and empty lots.

"Hers is a new job, which the city advertised with a help-wanted ad seeking applicants who are “bloodthirsty,” possess “killer instincts” and could commit to the “wholesale slaughter” of rats.

“ 'When I first saw this job posting, I wasn’t sure if it was real. ‘Blood thirsty’ is not a word you usually see in a job description and it’s certainly not a word I usually (use to) describe myself,” Corradi said in a news conference at a Harlem park.". . .

 Meanwhile: Byron York TORCHES D.A. Alvin Bragg for ignoring actual CRIME in New York City and it’s PERFECT – twitchy.com

See? I told you. PETA Says New York City Shouldn’t Kill “Sensitive” Rats… | Weasel Zippers  . . .“ 'The rats you see on the streets are still sensitive, intelligent animals and they deserve better than to be killed in gruesome, painful ways,” she added."

Biden Returns From Vacation Overseas, Leaves on Another Vacation, and Insults His Interior Sec –

  RedState

How much more do we have to put up, before someone finally decides to throw in the towel and say he needs to resign? 

  "Joe Biden embarrassed us before the world while he was on his vacation of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

"First, Biden got confused about where his office was and had a huge security breach while he was in Northern Ireland. Then he snapped at his son Hunter in a deli in Ireland and twisted the words of Pope John Paul II about the Catholic faith. He managed to insult the British by calling a rugby team the “Black and Tans.” He even ticked off the Irish president’s dog. He told a bunch of stories that couldn’t have happened in a speech to the Irish Parliament. He couldn’t even respond to a simple question from a child and had to have Hunter help him multiple times. Then he made up another story that he told the kids, which couldn’t possibly be true. Finally, his parting words were about how we’re all doomed by climate change, but we could “lick the world.”

"Fortunately, Biden finished his embarrassing tour on Saturday. But as he was leaving, he said that he would be heading out on yet another vacation, to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. I guess being on vacation already must have been so hard, he needed to rest up from spending our money in Ireland—by spending our dime at the beach.". . .

Protesters call for transgender women to be removed from all-female NJ prison

  NY Post

"Protesters are demanding that transgender women be removed from New Jersey’s only all-female prison — where 10 transgender women, including one who says she has a “taste for blood,” are held out of a total of 356 prisoners.

"#GetMenOut activists held a protest at the state Capitol in Trenton on Friday, reading letters from four biologically female inmates at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, where one transgender inmate impregnated two women last year.

"The women described from behind bars their fears at being housed with biological men who identify as women.

“ 'I was repeatedly raped as a child until I was in my teens,” wrote Dawn Jackson, 51, who stabbed her adoptive stepfather in 1999 after what she said were years of sexual abuse.

"Jackson was featured on Kim Kardashian’s “The Justice Project” on the Oxygen network last year.". . .

California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make

 California: 'How Much Is My Bill?' 'How Much Have You Got?' – PJ Media

Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard. 

"The state of California is implementing full Marxism before our very eyes under the guise of “equity.” And so now there can be no possible doubt if there ever was for anyone: instituting Communism has been what “equity” initiatives have been about all along. Now three of its most powerful utility companies are saying that they’re going to charge based not on how much of their product was used, but on how much money the user makes.

"In simpler times, if you bought something, you paid for it. Rich or poor, tall or short, black or white, female or male, wise or foolish, everyone paid the same amount for a product. But in our more enlightened era, we know how unjust that really is. It deprives the poor of access to vital goods and services, and that injustice must be redressed.

"That’s what Communism is all about, at least in theory: leveling out economic differences between people by confiscating earnings from the rich and awarding them to those who have less. This is the fundamental reason why Marxism, despite its extraordinarily bloody historical record, still appeals to so many people, rich, poor, and in between: it appears to redress the injustices in life and provide everyone with a decent living.

"The problem with it arises from the fact that capitalism is inescapable. It is an iron law. It is not actually an economic system that can be discarded and replaced with a better one. It is simply the way human interactions work. If the California utility companies are going to make people who have more money pay more for the same goods and services they could get for less money if they had less, there will be several results: wealthier people will seek to hide their wealth through various means, so as to pay the lower rate. Some enterprising entrepreneurs will make a good living by helping them do this. So from the Marxism of the utility companies will come more capitalism.". . .

Humor behind the iron curtain: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".

Poll: Majority of Americans Accuse Churches of Abandoning Basic Tenets of Christianity –

  RedState  "Question: Have you noticed over the last several years or longer how the more the left attacks the basic tenets of Christianity, the more some Christian churches seemingly rush to abandon or water down fundamental Christian doctrine in an attempt to placate the “Christian left”? Yeah—me, too.

"So, how’s that twisted symbiotic relationship working out?

"According to a recent Rassmussen poll, a majority of respondents believe America is losing “that old-time religion.” While more than 75 percent of online poll respondents said religious faith is important in their daily lives, adults who attend services at least weekly are most likely to strongly agree that too many religious institutions today are watering down or abandoning their traditional beliefs.

"That view is shared by 52 percent of evangelical Christians, as well as 34 percent of Catholics, 30 percent of Protestants, and 41 percent of Jews, Rasmussen found. Is it any wonder? Consider the following:

"The churches, which refer to themselves as “Reproductive Freedom Congregations” [how “clever”] are united in their public support of a woman’s “right” to an abortion and are determined to “take God back” from the religious right.

"God was unavailable for comment, although sources suggest He might weigh in, later.

"I’ll just leave this here:

No Biggie: Just a Church Hosting Drag Queen Prayer Time for Children

This is everybody’s first time they’ve ever seen a drag queen? Well, hello. I am also a boy most of the time when I’m here, but today I [tosses hair] am beautiful today.

More here...

 Methodist Church’s First Drag Queen Pastor: ‘God Is Nothing’ - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics    "In a new poem, a gender-bending minister for the nation’s third-largest denomination says that queerness is divine."

From what seminary did he come?

UPDATE: The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church: Lucas Miles   "The Christian Left unveils how liberal thought has entered America’s sanctuaries, exchanging the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the trinity of diversity, acceptance, and social justice. This in-depth look at church history, world politics, and pop culture masterfully exposes the rise and agenda of the Christian Left. Readers will learn how to:

• identify and refute the lies of the Christian Left
• uncover the meaning of love as Jesus defined it
• navigate controversial subjects such as abortion, gender identity, and the doctrine of hell
• gain confidence in upholding biblical values
• come face-to-face with the person of Jesus, who is neither left nor right but the embodiment of truth and grace

"Equip yourself with a firm understanding of issues facing the church today and become empowered to elevate God’s truth, justice, and wisdom."

Biden Returns From Vacation Overseas, Leaves on Another Vacation, and Insults His Interior Secretary

  RedState   

"Joe Biden embarrassed us before the world while he was on his vacation of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

"First, Biden got confused about where his office was and had a huge security breach while he was in Northern Ireland. Then he snapped at his son Hunter in a deli in Ireland and twisted the words of Pope John Paul II about the Catholic faith. He managed to insult the British by calling a rugby team the “Black and Tans.” He even ticked off the Irish president’s dog. He told a bunch of stories that couldn’t have happened in a speech to the Irish Parliament. He couldn’t even respond to a simple question from a child and had to have Hunter help him multiple times. Then he made up another story that he told the kids, which couldn’t possibly be true. Finally, his parting words were about how we’re all doomed by climate change, but we could “lick the world.”

"He’s spent 40 percent of his time in office on vacation. That is a ridiculous waste of our tax dollars. He claims that he’s only been to the Rehoboth home “10 times” — I’m guessing he means since he’s been occupying the White House. But we’re also having to pay for a wall being built around the beach home that costs more than half a million dollars. Because walls work for his security; we’re just not allowed to have them for the security of our nation.

"Biden also said that he’d made up his mind about running again, although he wasn’t ready to announce it just yet.". . .

BOOM! Conservatives Send Clear Message to Major US Companies; Get Woke, Go Broke!

 BOOM! Conservatives Send Clear Message to Major US Companies | The Kevin Jackson Network (theblacksphere.net)

“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” -Warren Buffett

Those marketing ploys cost their companies not only their fan base, but their bottom lines.

. . ."For nearly 80 years, soft drink giant Coca-Cola was the most powerful beverage force in the industry since its inception in 1886. WIth the exception of the newly formed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, Coca-Cola literally had no competition.

"However, in the mid 1980’s, that had all but changed. By 1985, they had continued to lose significant market shares to diet and non-drink alternatives. To make matters worse, blind taste tests proved that consumers preferred Pepsi by large margins. In response to those results, Coca-Cola made a bold move-‘New Coke’ was introduced. The backlash was ‘bold’, to say the least.

"'New Coke left a bitter taste in the mouths of the company’s loyal customers. Within weeks of the announcement, the company was fielding 5,000 angry phone calls a day. By June, that number grew to

"8,000 calls a day, a volume that forced the company to hire extra operators.

" 'I don’t think I’d be more upset if you were to burn the flag in our front yard,” one disgruntled drinker wrote to company headquarters. At protests staged by grassroots groups such as “Old Cola Drinkers of America,” consumers poured the contents of New Coke bottles into sewer drains.

"One Seattle consumer even filed suit against the company to force it to provide the old drink. The outrage caught Coca-Cola executives by surprise. They had hardly made a rash decision unsupported by data. After all, they had performed 190,000 blind taste tests on U.S. and Canadian consumers.". . .

Al Goodwyn -