[Breitbart] Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D)
...one of the Soros SOS Project state secretaries of state...
cannot bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot based on a novel interpretation of an obscure clause in a Civil War-era amendment, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ruled that Secretary of State Benson must list all candidates running for the presidency on the primary ballot, citing Michigan law.
His opinion is a blow to lawsuits in states across the nation seeking to use the Fourteenth Amendment to keep Trump off the ballot. Section 3 of the amendment, known as the "Insurrection Clause," was intended to prevent former Confederates from serving in the United States government, Trump’s attorneys claim.
Judge Redford said that Congress must make the determination whether Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, disqualify him from appearing on the ballot.
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Judge Redford said that Congress must make the determination whether Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, disqualify him from appearing on the ballot.
"...Aye, there's the rub."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
[Gateway] On Wednesday Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) confronted FBI Director Chris Wray on FBI operatives working inside the crowds on January 6, 2021, during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on domestic threats within the U.S.
This confrontation took place exactly a year after Rep. Higgins confronted Director Wray for FBI assets working inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Chris Wray refused to answer the questions — last year AND today!
During the hearing today, Rep. Higgins told Chris Wray:
Rep. Higgins: A year has passed. We sit here again, a year later. We, the people, still do not have a definitive answer from you or anyone else in the Biden administration regarding the FBI presence and participation in the months leading up to the November election and in the weeks and days prior to January 6 and on January 6 here in DC. We can’t get a straight answer, although we have a tremendous amount of evidence harvested and reviewed over the course of the last year, which you will see.
[NYPOST] New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy on Wednesday announced her run for US Senate in 2024, becoming the second Democrat to toss their hat into the ring after incumbent Senator Bob Menendez was indicted on federal corruption charges earlier this year.
"Right now, Washington is filled with too many people more interested in getting rich or getting on camera than getting things done for you," Murphy says in her campaign launch video, which then shows images of Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) as well as Menendez.
In the video, Murphy, 58, highlights her accomplishments as first lady, including her focus on improving maternal health care in New Jersey and putting climate change education in the state’s school curriculum.
"I am so proud of everything we’ve accomplished, but I know there’s a lot more to do. And that’s why I’m announcing this: I’m running for the United States Senate because we owe it to our kids to do better," she says.
Murphy, wife of Gov. Phil Murphy, has never held elected office.
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...Sigh.
Might be time for me to wheel out my proposed 28th Amendment again, just to be on the safe side:
Article I: In the event of a vacancy in the House or Senate, no person shall be named or nominated to the office who is related by blood, marriage or former marriage to the former office holder or the Governor of the state wherein the vacancy occurs.
Article II: Regardless of when in the election cycle the vacancy occurs, the person named to that office shall stand for re-election at the next Federal election.
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We very much need a "No political family dynasties" amendment.
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^ One of the many reasons I was so happy to see Trump stomping all over Jeb and Hillary in 2016.
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"Right now, Washington is filled with too many people more interested in getting rich or getting on camera than getting things done for you," Murphy says in her campaign launch video.
And, more importantly, I'm not getting any of it! This is New Jersey, and I demand my cut!!!
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[NYPOST] The embattled head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was grilled on Capitol Hill on Tuesday — one day after a bombshell investigation revealed the banking regulator has long been a toxic cesspool of misogyny.
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, who appeared at a Capitol Hill oversight hearing with other top financial regulators, told the Senate Banking Committee he was personally distraught after the Wall Street Journal’s report on Monday and committed to providing a safe working environment for staff.
That did not spare him the wrath of politicians after the Journal detailed incidents where senior bank examiners allegedly texted female subordinates photos of their penises and invited employees to a strip club.
"You and your colleagues ought to hide your heads in a bag," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) railed. "This is no country for creepy old men."
Fellow Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis noted Gruenberg’s nearly 20-year tenure on the FDIC board, chastising him for what they said was his failure to act on a long-standing problem spotlighted by the FDIC’s inspector general.
Cocaine, whiskey, whores, and million dollar deals: Sound like they were balling. Banker Life have a lot of stress, what is their suicide rate? Let them have their things after close of business.
Teetotalers suck. Dick pics suck. You have a fun office environment and that one person(s) screws it up for everyone else.
We all now that its a country for child groomers and child mutilators. P0rn is to be in the school library not in the offices. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[NYPOST] Good morning, students, it’s time to help you learn less and graduate all the same.
That is the proposal the New York State Education Department just presented to the Board of Regents: To graduate from high school, students would no longer need to pass five Regents exams but could demonstrate their "learning" through alternative "assessments." Hip Hop and Interpretive Twerking Dance
What’s amazing is that it took a 64-member Blue Ribbon Commission more than a year to come up with this brilliant, groundbreaking innovation in education: Just dumb down standards, give everyone a shiny diploma, and we can congratulate ourselves for "improving outcomes."
And do it "equitably" so we can stop having to deal with politically embarrassing "achievement gaps."
What’s not to like?
The Russians, who have a long history of suffering governments that lie to them, would call such a piece of paper a "Potemkin diploma."
The Chinese, who have an even longer history of suffering governments that lie to them, have a more cynical meme to describe such travesty: "the thief covering his own ears while stealing the ringing bell."
Educrats are not fooling anyone.
Not in creating watered-down "pathways" to graduation, not in merging distinct diploma types that document different levels of academic achievement into a single diploma that hides the dumbing down, despite any added pretty "seals and endorsements," not in painting profusely that "equity" lipstick on a dumbed-down-diploma pig.
That the educracy has resorted to such transparent scams proves that our educrats can’t educate.
And they can’t educate at $38,000 per student per year, which in any honest world would constitute a major fraud.
As for the union teachers, with the latest contract raising the maximum annual salary to $151,271 by 2026, it’s not a bad living for not being able to teach.
[Fox] Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said in 2022 that she had not used encrypted apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Slack 'in years'.
Judge Lina Hidalgo — a Democrat in Harris County, Texas, the third-largest county in the U.S. — is no longer denying she used encrypted messaging apps to conduct county business, despite being called out for doing so for multi-million-dollar contracts in 2021.
FOX 26 Houston reported that last week, Texas Rangers were granted five additional search warrants to investigate bid-rigging in Harris County.
In 2021, Hidalgo faced intense scrutiny over an $11 million vaccine outreach contract to Elevate Strategies, run by Felicity Pereyra, a Democratic political insider with ties to the county commissioners' court. Pereyra also worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Pereyra's company was a one-woman operation until recently and had only existed for two years before being awarded the contract.
Pereyra’s company was awarded the contract over UT Health, one of the city’s major hospitals, and the "deciders" for the contract all answered directly to Hidalgo without input from the commissioners' panel.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg's office subpoenaed Hidalgo regarding the contract, and when asked about the subpoena, an attorney for Hidalgo told local press, "We have always followed the law, and we continue to follow the law."
A mix of industry experts and county officials told FOX 26 that Elevate Strategies did not even meet the basic requirements to engage in an endeavor of this scope. Additionally, the experts and officials said that there was no way that Elevate Strategies could have met the strict financial requirements for bidding on county contracts.
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She is a wounded gnu being circled by brain damaged lions. Maybe they eat her. Maybe they wander off, lay down and scratch their nuts. It’s sort of like all these controversies with the GOP Congress investigating the administration.
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Even before I read the article I knew it was a Democratzi judge doing this.
Just like the judges in Nazi Germany, these judges put their party first and the law a distant second.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., did not mention the failed impeachment push in his opening remarks, and instead focused on the record-breaking numbers of illegal migrants who have entered the U.S. under Mayorkas' leadership.
He also detailed the billions of dollars Mexican cartels are making off of human smuggling, calling the Biden administration's policies a 'humanitarian and national security crisis.'
His committee is especially concerned with the numbers of individuals on the terrorist watchlist that have snuck into the U.S., which Green says is especially concerning after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7.
'And yet, Secretary Mayorkas has continued to mislead Congress and the American people, claiming that this is what a secure border looks like,' he said in remarks first obtained by DailyMail.com.
'Without question, the homeland is less safe under President Biden.'
The Mayorkas impeachment proposal, put forth by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, had support from other establishment and moderate Republicans, proving how much tides have changed for the Homeland Security secretary since the start of this Congress when many were leery of impeaching him.
[PJMedia] Some decisions are so negligent and with consequences so predictably disastrous that only a Big Stupid Government could ever make them. Over the weekend, a massive fire under I-10 at E. 14th Ave. in Los Angeles was severe enough to cause structural damage bad enough to close that section of the freeway "indefinitely."
The fire was hot enough to melt guardrails.
The miracle — thanks to Big Stupid Government — is that it didn't happen sooner.
With more than 300,000 vehicles being rerouted each and every day until further notice, frustrated Los Angelenos demanded answers — and, on Tuesday, they got one.
"Bad actors" caused the fire, according to State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant. Or "Bad Luck".
Some unknown arsonist is believed to have started Saturday's blaze, but that's not the "bad actor" to whom Berlant was referring. You see, the city government leases underpass space to people and companies for storage. In this case, "bad actors" filled the underpass with wooden pallets and containers of alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
In my report on Monday (and at the top of this story), you can see the pallets stacked so high under the freeway that they're almost touching the underside of the elevated road. The photos were courtesy of Google Street View, so it isn't like the towers of literal kindling were some dark secret.
The city is currently in a legal battle with a company called Airspace that leased the underpass storage area.
Let us pause here to consider the ill-considered wonder of stuffing underpasses full of kindling and flammable goo.
Let us pause here to consider the ill-considered wonder of stuffing underpasses full of kindling and flammable goo. Let us pause again to consider the bone-crushing stupidity of allowing unpoliced homeless encampments filled with vagrants, addicts, and the mentally ill to cohabitate with pallets and accelerants.
"Giving money and power to government," P.J. O'Rourke quipped, "is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." But sometimes the situation is reversed. In this case, government gave dry wood and alcohol to vagrants.
Was the I-10 fire started by a malicious arsonist or just a bored fentanyl addict? We may never know with 100% certainty, but we do know these fires are common wherever the homeless are living free range. PJ Media's own Victoria Taft reported back in March, "Fire, fire everywhere" rages all up and down the West Coast, where the homeless are treated like an endangered species.
That story was just one entry in Victoria's ongoing "West Coast,
Meanwhile — you're going to love this one — KTLA reported Tuesday morning: "Just days after a massive blaze destroyed part of the 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, another fire broke out under a different freeway." This time, the fire appears to have started at an underpass homeless encampment near eastbound 105 and southbound 110 and then spread to nearby vegetation.
Fortunately, this fire didn't have nearly as much fuel to burn and only resulted in some traffic slowdowns.
But two of these fires in four days are a sure sign that LA's Big Stupid Government doesn't know how to protect the city's critical transportation infrastructure. Or maybe they just don't care. Maybe the neglect is on purpose — a stealthy way to promote the city's "road diet" to force drivers out of their cars and onto public transportation.
Whether by accident or design, however, it takes a Big Stupid Government to allow anyone to store kindling and accelerant under freeway overpasses occupied by those who are negligent, drug-addicted, mentally unstable, criminal, or all four.
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Two of the highest priorities of government are security and infrastructure. When it fails on these, it really isn't much different than a normal criminal organization. Democracy in this case is 51% voting themselves the product and property of 49%.
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Hazmat disposal is tedious and expensive. What a great was to make it go away.
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Maybe the neglect is on purpose — a stealthy way to promote the city's "road diet" to force drivers out of their cars and onto public transportation.
Always a distinct possibility with people like Gov. Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. We know these people don't like cars...er, they don't like for ordinary people to have cars. Don't expect them to give up their limos. But the public transportation in Los Angeles is totally inadequate and populated with the same kind of people who lived under the I-10 overpass.
I've heard the saying "Never attribute to incompetence what could well be malice." Or is it the other way around?
Anyway, the saying I like better is "Embrace the power of 'and'"...as in malice and incompetence.
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Newsom refuses to maintain the freeways in California in spite of pushing a massive gas tax that was ostensibly intended to provide money for maintenance and improvement. We pay more for gas in this state than any other state in the union and most of that is for state taxes. And yet our freeways are the worst in the union.
Newsom prefers to encourage homeless encampments and illegal storage facilities under the freeway overpasses so the resulting fires destroy the overpass's support structure. He squanders billions of dollars on projects that don't work and were never intended to work, they were intended to enrich his cronies.
He has usurped the zoning authority of cities and counties so that his developer buddies can turn the whole state into one giant slum. And while the state's population has more than doubled since 1970, no new reservoirs have been constructed. We are asked to let our lawns go brown and forego showers while water from the Sierra Mountains flows out into ocean. But Newsom calls it a drought and blames climate change.
He will register illegal aliens to vote in our elections to maintain Democrat Party rule in this state.
No wonder Biden likes him.
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Newsom's vision for California:
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^ Biden's vision for America.
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But there are times when imbeciles like Biden don't know any better than to tell the truth.
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"Saying the quiet part out loud." Also, old Japanese saying, "The drunk says what the sober man is thinking."
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Mrs Mundi retires from County employment today. We were down at the office yesterday taking care of paperwork. County has erected a sizeable homeless camp right there next to GA services, as well as kiosks for free phones/cellular service. And encircling all of this was a ring of human feces. I just missed stepping into a pile while exiting the Jeep. What shocked me was the size of the pile. We feed our homeless very well.
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^ Oopss, County = Sonoma County, CA
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Congrats to both of you Mundis!
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Here's hoping Mrs. Mundi has a long and pleasant retirement. Just don't go downtown anymore.
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[NYPOST] A short-term bill that will stave off a partial government shutdown for at least another two months cleared the House of Representatives Tuesday evening, bringing politicians one giant step closer to keeping federal operations going after 11:59 p.m. Friday.
The 336-95 vote represented a win for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who unveiled his plan for a so-called "laddered" continuing resolution (CR) Saturday. The graft must flow!
A contingent of conservative Republicans quickly came out in opposition to the bill, which they complained lacked spending cuts.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... 209 Democrats offered their support and helped send the measure on to the Senate, where it is expected to be approved later this week.
Just two Democrats — Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts and Mike Quigley of Illinois — voted against the measure.
Republicans were more closely divided, with 127 voting for the bill and 93 voting against.
"I am one of the arch-conservatives," Johnson insisted during a presser Tuesday morning.
"We’re not surrendering but fighting," the speaker insisted. "I’ve had this job less than three weeks. I can’t change or turn an aircraft carrier overnight."
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Biden only wishes he could be a dictator like Xi instead of being Xi's puppet.
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I still want to know what they did with all the good folks they cleared off the streets??? NO they did not send them to Portland....we are already full up!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] New Jersey first lady 
[NYPOST] Good morning, students, it’s time to help you learn less and graduate all the same.
