Power Line (powerlineblog.com) "Donald Trump is undergoing a criminal trial in Manhattan. He is charged with filing corporate records that included a false statement; namely, that payments to Michael Cohen that were described as being for legal services were, in fact, to reimburse Cohen for making one or more payments to Stormy Daniels in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement. But those payments to Daniels were perfectly legal, and filing a false corporate document is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has passed.
"So in order to charge Trump, District Attorney Alvin Bragg had to allege that the false documents were filed in order to cover up another crime. That would make it a felony. But what is that other crime? Bragg has been coy about it. In truth, there was no other crime, and Bragg’s prosecution is election interference on behalf of the Democratic Party, plain and simple.
"One would think that this case could not have gone to trial without a clear specification of that other crime and evidence in support of it. But that appears to be what has happened, courtesy of trial judge Juan Merchan, who is in on the scam.
"But maybe the cost will be worth it. After all, we’ll finally have justice for past injustices, right? Hardly. Anyone who believes reparations are the final step to healing and harmony is loco. Their legacy will be the intensifying of racial division, greater opportunities for graft, and a boost to race hustlers."
"Maybe insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But insanity is also whatever the California Legislature is doing at any given time. The most recent example? A reparations bill that would establish the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency has sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Senate Bill 1403, one of at least 14 reparations bills introduced in the Legislature, cleared the committee by a 8-1 vote two weeks ago, confirming one more time that lawmakers have descended into madness. Unless they regain their wits, reparations will break the state.
"But a return to reason is unlikely. Even though California was not a slave state, the Democratic side is all in. This was obvious in 2020 when they established a task force to study reparations.
" 'It appeared to me that the legislators were violating a fundamental rule of governance: Never create a commission to ‘study’ a controversial problem unless you are relatively certain that you’re going to want to follow its recommendations,” University of San Diego School of Law professor Gail Heriot wrote Monday on Instapundit. Yet it was clear “from the start” that the task force “appeared to be stacked in favor of reparations.”
"There’s a lot of political mileage to be gained for lawmakers in blue states who glom onto progressive initiatives that make no sense to centrists and exasperate conservatives and libertarians. Nowhere is this more true than in California, where bad ideas are birthed and then surge across the country, infecting other Democratic citadels. In terms of rank, reparations might be the worst of them all.
"Summary: Every day, lies are spread through the media to interfere in our elections. They catch and kill truthful stories that are supportive of Trump and Republicans, and catch and kill negative stories about Biden and Democrats. They do not care about misinformation at all. They only care about power for Democrats and their destructive agenda to remake and destroy America."
. . ."Lie: Biden inherited a disastrous economy and his policies turned it around.
"Fact: The economy was soaring the last eight months of 2020, after a short two month recession, and inflation remained below 2%.
"Lies: The inflation was transitional; caused by supply chain disruptions; caused by the Russian war.
"Facts: Inflation was low throughout President Trump’s term despite COVID. It soared as soon as Biden took office. Biden campaigned on destroying the oil and other industries, and has focused on that destruction since day one. Biden sent the message to oil traders and producers throughout the world that we weren’t going to compete. Today crude oil remains over 100% higher than the day he was (s)elected. He compounded the inflation problem with all his spending programs, which focuses greatly on giving huge kickbacks to green pushers."
"The higher oil prices also have substantially helped Russia and Iran finance destruction; Biden further helped Iran and Russia by lifting sanctions Trump had imposed on the regimes.
"A good or intelligent president would fix things that he had screwed up and reverse course. That is not Biden. Results don’t matter, only the agenda—he is doubling down. He recently blocked LNG exports, which helps Russia and harms Europe; he also blocked drilling on 13 million acres in Alaska. It shows he doesn’t care about the destruction he is causing." . . .
. . .Enough is enough. We are witnessing a lack of leadership! Our president is allowing pogroms on college campuses. The N.Y. Post reported, “Columbia rabbi warns Jewish students to go home, don’t come back to campus because of ‘extreme antisemitism.” A Jewish Columbia University professor requested a police escort onto campus and got denied. He then was even denied access to the campus. His comment: “This is 1938.” According to the Free Press, chants of “go back to Poland” were cast at Jewish counter-protesters at Columbia, along with “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground.” This from the so-called ceasefire crowd." . . .
At one time, Barack Obama actually uttered truthful words—he said “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.” Jack Hellner
. . ."It’s almost as if less qualified personnel have been hired and placed in positions of critical responsibility. But could such a thing be possible?
"While we don’t know anything about the people involved in these incidents, it is fair to wonder if DEI policies, which lower standards to place less qualified people in jobs, had anything to do with it.
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As a fellow traveler in the world of Islam, Obama has had to work hard to keep his roots from showing. He has barely succeeded. In a lengthy statement in October, Obama made a few perfunctory remarks about the “unspeakable brutality” perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, but he reserved very nearly all his finger-wagging for Israel.
. . ."In January 2018, as a way of promoting his new book, Muhammad shared with the world a photo he had taken in 2005 at a Black Congressional Caucus event. In the center of the photo is a smiling Barack Obama. Standing right next to him, also smiling broadly, is Nation of Islam honcho Louis Farrakhan. Sensing what might generously be called “bad optics,” a Black Caucus member stopped Muhammad even before he left the building.
“I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy,” Muhammad admitted thirteen years later. “But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was president, it was kept under cover.”
"When asked whether he thought the photo, if revealed, would have made a difference in the 2008 campaign, Muhammad said, emphatically, “It absolutely would have made a difference.' ”. . . More below this next post.
. . ."Obama's past friendly relationships with radical figures like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers dogged him during the 2008 campaign. Farrakhan has made anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-gay statements during his career, and a published photo of the two smiling together likely would have stirred more controversy around his candidacy." . . .
. . . "As Columbia University’s most prominent alum, former president Barack Obama would seem to have a moral obligation to speak about what is arguably the most visible outbreak of antisemitism on American soil in his lifetime.
"I refer here to the occupation of Obama’s alma mater by Hamas-supporters who have been openly threatening Jewish students, chanting “Kill all Zionists,” and shouting racial slurs like “pig.”
"As I sat down to write this, five days into the protest, Obama had said not a word.
"By contrast, Obama was tweeting about the August 2017 Antifa/white nationalist brouhaha in Charlottesville, Virginia before the day was through." . . .
While the major media were spinning their collective fairy tale about the Obama presidency, the alternative conservative media—America’s “samizdat”—were telling the truth. During the Obama years, an asymmetrical media war was waged to control the critical first draft of American history. There is no fair way to record that history without first acknowledging the war. The field of battle shaped up as follows: on the right, the alternative conservative media and the “responsible” right, occasionally working together, often working at odds; on the left, the mainstream media, the social media giants, Hollywood, Broadway, the federal bureaucracies, the national security apparatus, and what Ray Bradbury would call “firemen”—the virtual book burners, amateur and professional. Rarely at odds, these forces routinely worked together to amplify what Obama adviser Ben Rhodes famously called the White House’s “messaging campaign.” Money, resources, and power overwhelmingly favored the left, but the right had the equalizer on its side—the truth.
"As the crisis in the Middle East continues, we are witnessing more and more of the consequences of former president Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy.
" 'I just think Obama came from a tradition that saw the world very differently, and saw America sort of as a colonialist power" said David Harsanyi, senior editor with The Federalist, "And for him, he doesn't really see any big moral difference between Iran and Israel."
"As bad as Bill Clinton was, he was still pro America on most key issues. But with Obama, that's when we got our first glimpse of the left's truly radical agenda, and the beginning of America 'last' from the Democrats and our own U.S. government.
"Barack Obama was focused on bolstering Iran and the Middle East. And now his foreign policy legacy has become Joe Biden's legacy as well.
" 'Biden wants to be loved by the party" Harsanyi told KTRH, "But he's made the anti-Israel people mad in the Democratic party, he's made pro-Israel people mad in his party. No one is listening to him, there's no coherent Middle East policy."
"If you remember, Donald Trump did more for Israel than any president in U.S. history. But just like with everything else, Joe Biden reversed it. Now the Democrats are openly boasting about their pro-Hamas support, while turning their backs on Israel."
The U.S. and the world is paying a deadly price for Barack Obama's foreign policy plan.
"Through no fault of your own, you are funding the subversion and destruction of the country you love, the country you will pass on to your children. The politicians you vote for and donate to have watched it happen, and they have happily signed over more of your tax dollars whenever they’re given the chance." . . .
"The anti-Israel protests on America’s elite university campuses have reached a fever pitch: On name-brand campuses across the country, students have occupied offices, set up encampments, and held daily demonstrations to protest the war in Gaza. Today, nearly 50 campus activists were arrested at Yale. Last week, more than 100 anti-Israel protesters were arrested at Columbia — and university administrators subsequently announced that they would be moving to online classes due to the chaos. Those moves only inflamed tensions further, unleashing “a wave of activism across a growing number of college campuses,” the New York Times reported on Monday. “In the days after the tents at Columbia came down, students at Yale, the University of Michigan and M.I.T. erected their own encampments in support of those arrested. By early Monday, New York University had become the latest protest site.”
"If onlookers are disturbed, they shouldn’t necessarily be surprised. None of the radicalism emanating from the nation’s most influential universities is new, nor is it confined to the issue of Israel-Palestine. That it has invited the level of outrage and scrutiny it has now — including from conservative megadonors who happily funneled cash to these elite radicalization machines for years — is preferable to the alternative; late is always better than never. But this most recent spate of upheavals did not materialize out of the blue. It is only the most recent culmination of an ideological corruption that has been decades in the making, often with the implicit assent of Republican politicians — and the active support of Republican university donors. As I wrote for the American Conservative back in late October:
Hamas’s savage attacks are outrageous, as are the efforts to excuse or justify them. But so is the mass murder of unborn children in the womb. So is our open border. So is the radicalization of our universities, the carnage and violence on our city streets, and the systematic destruction of our history and heritage. That our conservative leaders have suddenly found their appetite for outrage is laudable, but it’s impossible to avoid wondering where it has been for the past decade…
"We are enjoined not to go full Godwin's this early in the column, but the photograph prompted this thought: A century ago, the Jews of Germany were the most assimilated in Europe. They had prospered under the Kaiser, and seemed set to do even better in the Weimar Republic. They were industrialists, intellectuals, scientists, artists... A quarter of the thousand richest men in Prussia were Jews. As we heard on a pertinentTale for Our Time, if you were an ambitious Jew born in the Bukovina or points east, you dreamed of Berlin and Vienna.
"And then...
"What Germany was to the Jews of a century ago, America is today. New York is the world's most Jewish city, and Brooklyn is famously the most Jewish place on earth, with more Jews than either Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. As in Germany, Jews are the businessmen, brain surgeons, physicists, film producers. I take it as read that the day is fast-approaching when London, Paris, Toronto, Copenhagen will be Jew-free. But New York?
"Well, it depends whether you think Jewish students being advised for their personal safety to leave Columbia University and take cover elsewhere is just an unfortunate one-off ...or whether America is amid a sea-change in its general attitude to Jews. As I wrotefifteen years ago:
"The Islamicization of Europe entails certain consequences, and it might be worth exploring what these might be. There are already many points of cultural friction—from British banks' abolition of children's "piggy banks" to the enjoining of public doughnut consumption by Brussels police during Ramadan.
"And yet on one issue there is remarkable comity between the aging ethnic Europeans and their young surging Muslim populations: A famous poll a couple of years back found that 59 per cent of Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace." . . .
We always thought America would not stand for this ugliness, but now look at the people we choose for Congress:
"H.R. 771, which reaffirms America's support for Israel as it responds to the attack, received overwhelming bipartisan support and passed by a vote of 412-10 with six members voting present.
Hillary claims Trump wants to kill his opposition - American Thinker "Over the weekend, we saw a continuation of the projection from the fascist far left, which has taken an increasingly dangerous tone. At this point, there should be no doubt that they know what they are doing and that they probably take charges of hypocrisy as a badge of honor. No group of people could go on like this, being completely unaware of exactly what they are doing.
"The question becomes, how do we convince many of those in the middle that the threats cited by them are born of the left?" . . .
" 'That’s what Trump really wants," Clinton continued. "And so we have to be very conscious of how he sees the world because, in that world, he only sees strongmen leaders. He sees Putin, he sees Xi, he sees Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Those are the people he is modeling himself after, and we’ve been down this road in our, you know, world history. We sure don’t want to go down that again."
"After a period out of the spotlight, Bill and Hillary Clinton aretrying to make a triumphant returnto the front ranks of the Democratic party, according to a new report.
"Several people close to the former first coupletell Politicothat the Clintons see divisions between moderates and progressives over key pieces of President Biden’s agenda as an opening to reassert their brand as dealmakers.
" 'It’s a perpetual itch that will never go away,” one insider told the outlet. “They know how to slowly reenter. The Clintons want to reset the board in their favor and then move the pieces.”
"Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, brought forth the "Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act"—or the DISGRACED Act—on Friday that would terminate Secret Service protection for individuals convicted of either state or local felonies.
"Trump is specifically mentioned by Thompson as someone whose protection privileges would be affected should he be found guilty as the former president faces four criminal indictments. Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case that began on Monday.
"Following an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, Trump was indicted in March 2023 on charges of falsifying business records relating to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels alleges that she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which he has denied. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and said the case against him is politically motivated.
"In a Sunday interview with Newsmax, Dershowitz, a member of Trump's legal team during his first impeachment in 2020 who is also a constitutional law and criminal lawyer, discussed the legislation, which is co-sponsored by eight Democratic representatives." . . .
Elect banana republic politicians and you get a banana republic for a nation that does banana republic things. TD
Where are the Republicans? Where are their lawyers challenging this unconstitutional giveaway to the higher education industry?
"Late Friday night, Sarah Parshall Perry of the Heritage Foundation wrote, “The Department of Education just released its long-delayed Title IX rule—a rewrite of the 50-year-old civil rights law so vast that it promises to turn Title IX’s guarantee of sex equality in education completely upside down.
“Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is all of a single sentence. It simply bars sex discrimination in any federally funded education program. It does not matter how much federal funding a school or institution of higher education receives. And it does not matter whether such funding from the federal government is direct or indirect. So yes, even the vast majority of private schools must comply with the rule.
" 'But this simple longstanding prohibition on sex discrimination has been manipulated by the Biden administration to both undermine constitutional freedoms—like the freedom of speech—and erase the very women that Title IX was enacted to protect.”
"Most of the attention to this unconstitutional legislation by a president — not Congress — has focused on turning over women’s sports to trannies and drag queens.
"But Biden’s Law — and hold him, not bureaucrats, responsible for this travesty of justice — also strips men accused of rape of their rights to due process and the presumption of innocence.
"She’s a lawyer and she ended her column on a positive note: “The Independent Women’s Law Center has already indicated it is readying a lawsuit against the Department of Education. Others are likely to follow. Let’s hope so.' ” . . .
"I fail to see how any Christian can be antisemitic, Jesus Christ was Jewish. You can't be both a christian and antisemitic. Ask yourself why did God send his son to the Jewish people and not some other group?" Comment to the next post.
The Columbia U pogrom, and the Jews’ bad gamble on the Democrats - Andrea Widburg"Two thousand years of non-stop persecution affects people’s psyches, especially when that persecution seems to have reached a crescendo in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Jews are always waiting, not for “the other shoe to drop,” but for the other jackboot to stomp. As they look at events on Columbia’s campus, while one part of their brain says, “I never thought this could happen here,” the other part is saying, “I always knew this would happen.” What self-reflective Jews will realize is that part of why it happened here is because American Jews gambled that the Democrats would protect them, and that gamble was a fatal mistake.
"People often ask why Jews have long been so blindly loyal to the Democrat party. The answer is that, for almost one thousand years, European Jews had been on the receiving end of often deadly and always disruptive Christian-driven antisemitism. Very often, this persecution came straight from the top, with kings and aristocrats indebted to Jewish moneylenders (since Christians were forbidden to lend money), erasing the debt by killing or driving out the Jews." . . .
Protestors at Columbia University call Jews "pigs" and claim "we are Hamas" and "long live Hamas."pic.twitter.com/D8NIXjDFqX
Democrats Are Going to Get Someone Killed and They’re Perfectly Fine With It; Derek HunterTrust me, MSNBC will not complain. . . ."What Democrats on the radical left are now pushing about Israel and Jews is going to get someone killed. The rest of the Democratic establishment knows that but is too afraid to say anything, instead they just hope whatever death or deaths come from it are something they can use. An angry mob beating a few Jewish students to death would be damaging to Joe Biden’s cause, but some terrorist allies getting killed would be exploited by the left to rally their goon squad to vote. In other words, they would be fine with that.
"Individuals have always been disposable to the left – it’s how they can look at the 100,000,000 people slaughtered by their ideology in the last century and yawn. What’s a few more? As long as the deaths are ones they can use.
"You never know on which side a pot is going to boil over, you only know there’s going to be splatter. A sane person – read: a good one – would turn down the heat so it doesn’t happen at all. Democrats are neither sane nor good…
AG @AGHamilton29: Thanks for reminding everyone that you supported criminal riots, demanded defunding police so others don’t have protection from the rioting, and then used campaign funds (currently under DoJ investigation) to get security for yourself.
Also in the Bush thread: "ICYMI, Obama's own DOJ investigation determined that "hands up, don't shoot" was a complete lie. Ferguson burned because race mongers like you manipulated the press." Many more comments on Rep. Bush at the link.
Yeah... RIGHT! Ilhan Omar Wishes Jewish Communities a Happy Passover and it doesn't go well "Her daughter is suspended for protesting in a group chanting 'Death to America' and siding with Hamas against Israel, not to mention Ilhan herself voted against sending aid to Israel. But hey, Happy Passover. "She had to know this would not be overly popular with her haters or supporters, right?" . . .
"Ceasefire" is the best way to make Israel give up on ridding the world of Hamas and forgetting about the Hamas hostages.
New Mind-Blowing Talking Points Go Out on Pro-Hamas Protests As Libs Scramble for Cover – RedState "Amid a rash of violent pro-Hamas protests, both in word and deed, liberals are scrambling for political cover, and the talking points have gone out. The videos of large crowds chanting "Death to America" while assaulting Jewish students have become too visible, and that means a new framing is needed.
"Are you ready to have your mind blown? You see, those pointing signs at Jews that say "Al Qassam's next target" while calling for Tel Aviv to be "burned to the ground" are just "anti-war."
. . ."Nothing says "anti-war" like demanding to "globalize the intifada," am I right? Sometimes I wonder what being a Democrat must be like. I mean, sure you'd be morally bankrupt and economically illiterate, but on the other hand, you could literally get away with anything. Are you calling for genocide in the name of a terrorist group? Well, you're just a harmless "anti-war" protester.
"The profane chants in September closely followed the feckless and deadly decisions that led to the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan at the end of August. As if that wasn’t bad enough, in January, Biden blathered into a microphone his prediction that Vladimir Putin “will move in” to Ukraine and it would probably draw no response from NATO if it was a “minor incursion.” . . .
Joe Biden's Growing List of Failures | Opinion (newsweek.com) "For many, electing Joe Biden represented a return to normality, moderation, unity and competence. Unfortunately, his presidency has only ushered in hyper-divisiveness, immoderate policy, venality and staggering incompetence. The list of Biden's failures is long, and it grows daily. But here are the highlights of that list.
"First, of course, is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden pulled out our troops before getting out our civilians, green card holders and allies, then had to send troops back in to help them get out. Yet even then, Biden failed to get everyone out, despite promising to do so. And in addition to stranding people, the evacuation left billions of dollars' worth of arms, vehicles and equipment in the hands of the Taliban, abandoned a strategic base in the fight against terrorism and allowed the release of imprisoned hard-core terrorists.
"Right up with these two disasters is that of inflation." . . .
"With no Fox News cameras around and nobody paying much attention to what was going on in Niger, a disgraceful, utterly humiliating exit of the U.S. military from that benighted country now led by a military junta, has dealt the U.S. another strategic blow, and entirely preventably. The crummy little tinpot junta now running Niger has managed to kick Uncle Sam around, much as the Taliban and Iran did, creating an accumulating pattern of lost U.S. influence. And sure enough, they got us good, because Joe Biden let them." . . .
. . .Well, we've noticed, because we've seen this show before. It's time to throw the whole Biden crew out come November, because if we don't, there will be much more like this to come, as U.S. influence on the global stage shrinks down to nothing and our capacity to fight terrorism will be nil.
