Why was news just leaked that Huma Abedin was questioned by FBI a month ago?

"There is some reason to believe that the anonymous “officials” leaking the story are from the State Department, which has consistently spun in Hillary’s favor." . . .  

Thomas Lifson  "The Clinton spin machine went into high gear yesterday.  A series of leaks to the media cascaded out a day after Catherine Herridge of Fox News broke the story that Romanian hacker Guccifer told her that he had easily been able to hack into her private email server, and browse through the emails that we now know contained material of the highest classification.  Notably, NBC News had access to this information earlier, but sat on it for weeks, leaving the scoop to Fox News, which is bizarre behavior for a purported news organization.  But then again, other mainstream media largely have ignored the Fox scoop. 

"But they are not ignoring the leaks about Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, being grilled by the FBI for two hours a month ago.  Other Clinton aides, reportedly, also have been interviewed.  Who is doing the leaking and why now are two important questions.  My gut tells me that we are being played, that it is the Clinton camp spinning the arrival of bad news via anonymous sources. "
. . . 
"While I have little confidence in the Justice Department when it comes to acting on whatever information is developed by the FBI in its investigations, I take the timing and nature of the spin effort underway as a signal that the Clinton camp realizes that some bad news is coming the way of Hillary.  I am not alone in my suspicions."

Justice Department extremists

American Thinker   "I'm confused!  Just a few days ago, a 19-year-old boy was arrested for showing his private parts in a class picture.  Yet if this same boy or another boy said he has always felt like a girl in a boy’s body and paraded his private parts around in women’s restrooms and women’s locker rooms, it would be a violation of his civil rights, according to the Justice Department, if anyone tried to prevent it.

"Don’t the girls also have rights not to worry that a boy would walk in while they were changing or going to the bathroom?

"This Justice Department, which believes that people have the right to pick and choose what facilities they use based on how they feel, has considered legal action against people who say they believe that the climate has always changed naturally instead of agreeing with the government's edicts.  The First Amendment has no meaning with the Obama administration.

"How, in the United States or anywhere, can it be considered an extremist view and against the law to require that a person who has male body parts to use male facilities and a person with female body parts to use female facilities?

"Who are the real extremists?

"Is it any wonder that less than 30% of the country thinks we are headed in the right direction?"

Parents sue feds for forcing school to let transgenders in girls locker room

"Do the rights of boys who identify as girls trump the rights of girls who are born girls?
"hat question is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by dozens of Illinois parents after the Obama administration’s Department of Education strong-armed their school district into allowing a transgender student the right to use all girls’ locker rooms."

Todd Starnes

. . . "In 2015 the DOE warned the Township High School District 211 in Palatine that unless they gave a biologically male student unfettered access to the girls’ locker rooms – they would revoke $6 million in federal funding.

"In other words, the Obama administration committed a de facto act of extortion.

“ 'Every school district in America has gotten the message,” Tedesco told me.  “The DOE is starting to enforce it through threats of revoking funding. We get calls every week from parents and school administrators asking what can we do? They are caving because they know the federal government is going to come after them.”

"Alliance Defending Freedom alleges the Department of Education has been using Title IX to bully and intimidate school districts across the country by redefining what the term “sex” means.

"Title IX is a federal statute created in 1972 and amended in 2015 that reads:

“No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

Professor Mike Adams has his personal - and witty - take on this same issue

" . . .the door on the faculty men’s room in my building has a discriminatory sign reading “Faculty and Staff Only.” In fact, a note below the sign even goes so far as to provide directions to the “appropriate” restroom for students. I find this to be discriminatory, non-inclusive, and ultimately injurious to our diversity mission. '

 Mr. Trump is just fine with this.

Trump and Hillary

Trump's new finance chairman donated twice as much to Dems as GOP   "Mnuchin has donated $125,000 since 1998 to political candidates, with more than half that amount going to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

He also ran George Soros's hedge fund."

So Trump can't beat Hillary?  "Various sources have been reporting that overall Democrat turnout is down this year, and of that reduced turnout, a significant portion belongs to Bernie Sanders, as it did in Indiana this past Tuesday.  Conversely, the Trump movement has been ginning up voter turnout numbers since the primary season started.  Tuesday’s numbers bear that out."

OBAMA IS IN NO POSITION TO SAY THE PRESIDENCY ISN’T A REALITY SHOW

The American Spectator   "In response to Donald Trump's impending ascension to the Republican Party nomination, President Obama does what he does worse - lecture. To wit:

We are in serious times, and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States. Every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. 

"And what would President Obama know about being subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny? President Obama is in no position to criticize Donald Trump's candidacy as a reality show when his entire political career has been a reality show with a fawning press in tow.

"Let's remember that this is the same man who consented to being "interviewed" by a woman who eat Fruit Loops in her bathtub. President Obama has also had time to sit between two ferns with Zach Galfianakis, hang out in the wilderness with Bear Grylls and get coffee with Jerry Seinfeld.

"It's hard to listen to President Obama to say we live in serious times when he was perfectly content to watch a baseball game in Havana with Raul Castro and dance The Last Tango in Buenos Aires as Brussels burned. I'm sure President Obama would have hit the links if he could have, but I guess he reserves that for really special occasions such as when American journalists are beheaded by ISIS.

"While I believe Republicans have got themselves into a fine mess by seeing fit to nominate a Hillary donor to be their standard bearer, Obama is not the person who can credibly deliver that message where it concerns Trump's shortcomings. If not for the incompetence, condescension and disingenuousness of President Obama there would be no prospect of Donald Trump in The White House in the first place."

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Thomas Sowell Fears An Unmitigated Disaster

Thomas Sowell   

". . . Trump blithely remarked that South Korea should be left to its own defenses. Whatever the merits or demerits of that as a policy, announcing it to the whole world in advance risks encouraging North Korea to invade South Korea ­­ as it did back in 1950, after careless words by a high American official left the impression that South Korea was not included in the American defense perimeter against the Communists in the Pacific.' " 

. . .

. . . "Those who talk about "the will of the people" need to know that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton represents the will of the people. Polls repeatedly show these two with the highest negative reactions of any of the candidates in either party. A majority of the people polled have negative reactions to each.

 "Hillary Clinton's much ­vaunted "experience" has been an experience in carrying out a policy that has failed disastrously from the Middle East to Ukraine to North Korea. We don't need more of that kind of experience.

"What was once feared most by the Republican establishment ­­ a third party candidate for President ­­ may represent the only slim chance for saving this country from a catastrophic administration in an age of proliferating nuclear weapons.

"If a third party candidate could divide the vote enough to prevent anyone from getting an electoral college majority, that would throw the election into the House of Representatives, where any semblance of sanity could produce a better president than these two."

My struggle with these thoughts and choices:
If either of these people becomes our President, remember this Biblical teaching: respected Bible scholar Bob Deffinbaugh reminds us that God Himself chooses our rulers.

We can seek comfort in this, though I wonder where is our source of earthly authority: our leaders or the Constitution to which they must submit?
I fear that God is using these ungodly people to remove Western cultures from any influence in the world and shaping world conditions for these times.

How must we speak as our nation chooses those who rule over us? Should the Founding Fathers have been submissive to the rule of King George instead of issuing the Declaration of Independence? Elsewhere in history thousands have died while disobeying their leaders' orders to persecute groups that were held in disfavor by those rulers. What if the leaders we have to choose between have shown themselves to be corrupt and cowardly?

In this nation where our role as citizens requires us to be wise in choosing leaders, I feel we must declare what we see of the character of candidates just as the prophet Nathan confronted King David with his adultery.

But when those leaders are in power we are commanded to submit to them and here is where my duties as an American clash head-on with my calling as a Christian. The Tunnel Dweller

The ideological earthquake and the aftermath

"If Trump is a great big middle finger aimed at a Republican establishment that has abandoned its principles, isn’t it curious that the party has chosen a man without any?"

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Charles Krauthammer   . . . "This is the narrative: GOP political leaders made promises of all kinds and received in return, during President Obama’s years, major electoral victories that gave them the House, the Senate, 12 new governorships and 30 state houses. Yet they didn’t deliver. Exit polls consistently showed that a majority of GOP primary voters (60 percent in some states) feel “betrayed” by their leaders.

"Not just let down or disappointed. Betrayed. By RINOs who, corrupted by donors and lobbyists, sold out. Did they repeal Obamacare? No. Did they defund Planned Parenthood? No. Did they stop President Obama’s tax-and-spend hyperliberalism? No. Whether from incompetence or venality, they let Obama walk all over them.

"But then comes the paradox. If insufficient resistance to Obama’s liberalism created this sense of betrayal, why in a field of 17 did Republican voters choose the least conservative candidate? A man who until yesterday was himself a liberal. Who donated money to those very same Democrats to whom the GOP establishment is said to have caved, including Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton."

"The ideological realignment is stark. On major issues — such as the central question of retaining America’s global pre-eminence as leader of the free world, sustainer of Western alliances and protector of the post-World War II order — the GOP candidate stands decidedly to the left of the Democrat.
And who knows on what else. On entitlements? On health care? On taxes? We will soon find out. But as Trump himself says of being a conservative — at this point, who cares?"

"As of Tuesday night, certainly not the GOP."

Will I vote for Trump? You better believe it; a vote for any Republican candidate is a vote against Hillary.

We must under no circumstances allow the Clinton's or ANY Democrat for that matter near the White House.

We are voting for a Supreme Court and Hillary is the most destructive choice, though Heaven only knows who Trump will choose.  TD

Meeting With Bill Clinton, Donation To Foundation Preceded Businessman’s Release From Iran Jail

Daily Caller

"Just before an Iranian-American businessman was freed from jail in Iran in Oct. 2010, his son met with Bill Clinton and also made the first of what would become more than $1 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.

"Sources tell The Daily Caller that Nima Taghavi, who owns businesses in California, grew impatient in 2010 with negotiations to secure his father Reza’s release from an Iranian prison, and so he turned to the former president for help.

"To arrange the meeting with Clinton, Taghavi first contacted Doug group that Clinton advised.

"The elder Taghavi was detained in May 2008 during a trip to the Islamic regime and accused of financing terrorist activity after he gave $200 to an Iranian man who turned out to have ties to a terrorist group suspected in a mosque bombing in Shiraz. Taghavi, who was 69 years old when arrested, said he was only doing a favor for his friend in the U.S. and had no idea that the man who would receive the money was involved in terrorism."

George W. Bush Sitting Out Election With H.W., No Plans to Endorse Trump

NewsMax 

"George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, will be sitting out the presidential election and have no plans to endorse Donald Trump, a spokesman said on Wednesday. 

"The Washington Post reported that it is the first time in five presidential election cycles that Bush 41 is not endorsing the Republican nominee.

"A spokesman for his son, Bush 43, made a statement Wednesday evening after Ohio Gov. John Kasich followed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to the exit, noted The Guardian.

" 'President George W. Bush does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign," said the spokesman for the two-term president before President Barack Obama.
Jim McGrath, spokesman for George H. W. Bush, told The Guardian that the elder Bush has stepped away from politics.

" 'At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics," McGrath said. "He naturally did a few things to help Jeb, but those were the 'exceptions that proved the rule.'" . . .

Mayor de Blasio Urges New Yorkers to Avoid Chick-fil-A

Grubstreet

"Chick-fil-A's New York invasion has finally gotten real enough to trouble the mayor. The chain's third New York City location will land at Queens Center Mall this fall, and Chick-fil-A's growing footprint is starting to frighten city officials in general, and Bill de Blasio in particular. Not because the first stand-alone location was closed over health concerns, or because Chick-fil-A's sandwiches aren't nearly as good as some of NYC's excellent roster of homegrown chicken sandwiches, but because the mayor still takes issue with the owners' history of anti-LGBT policies. Per DNAinfo, he told reporters Tuesday, "What the ownership of Chick-fil-A has said is wrong," adding, "I'm certainly not going to patronize them and I wouldn't urge any other New Yorker to patronize them. But they do have a legal right."

"The Queens location is still months from opening, but Councilman Danny Dromm, who's gay, says it's nevertheless time to boycott. Dromm held a completely unrelated press event of his own yesterday criticizing Chick-fil-A for "forcing their employees and volunteers to adhere to a policy that prohibits same-sex love," and for funding anti-LGBT organizations. "It is outrageous that Chick-fil-A is quietly spreading its message of hate by funding these types of organizations," he said.

"A Chick-fil-A rep simply reiterated that the chain's new culture is "to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their beliefs, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.' " 

Maybe there should be a tax on all uses of the word "hate".

Lib Rage Salon Pleads With Feminists Not To Abandon Bernie Sanders…

Weasel Zippers
"Supposedly Bernie is a man (hence he has a penis) so I’m guessing that disqualifies him among many feminazis."

Feds appear to be removing website posts claiming glaciers will be melted from Glacier National Park by 2030

Thomas Lifson  "Either there is a cover-up of embarrassingly overstated fear-mongering or (barely plausibly) it coincidentally happens that routine updating of United States Geological Survey web postings has temporarily removed those posts.  Writing at Wattsupwiththat, Dr. Roger Roots:

. .  . (I have often pointed out that the government’s photos from prior decades tended to not specify calendar dates. Because glaciers tend to build up in winter and then melt all summer long, the specificity of calendar dates is quite important.) . . .

"The USGS has some explaining to do.  I would say that a congressional committee hearing would be appropriate, calling in USGS officials to explain the disappearance.

"It is time to hold warmists, especially those in official positions, responsible for the fear-mongering, which has had severe fiscal consequences for the federal government and which has pushed individuals and companies to make decisions they would otherwise not make."

Two warmists pictured here: