[Free Beacon] Democratic senators Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) announced a racial litmus test on Biden administration nominees, pledging to reject all "non-diversity" picks until the president promises to appoint Asian Americans to "key executive branch positions."
Duckworth relayed the decision to reporters on Tuesday afternoon. She called the lack of Asian-American representation in President Biden's cabinet "unacceptable," vowing to oppose all White House nominees "until they figure this out."
She also confirmed that she will now opposed top Pentagon pick Colin Kahl, whose nomination has already been delayed by Republicans. She noted, however, that her moratorium would not apply to "diversity" nominees supported by congressional minority caucuses or to LGBTQ nominees.
Hirono joined Duckworth's pledge Tuesday evening, calling the move "very serious" in light of Biden's "commitment" to appoint a diverse cabinet. While the Constitution does bar any religious test for high office, it does not mention a racial test. Someone, anyone, tell me how this is NOT racism ?
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Simply codifying the unwritten code in existence within the Federal hiring process for several decades. Hopefully Hirono and Duckworth will introduce a bill to write the 'litmus test' into law.
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Next Gen spoils system. And yes, anything that makes them put their time and energy into this nonsense — incidentally annoying all the government employees and potential appointees frozen out of advancement because they belong to a less fashionable category — instead of advancing their openly stated objectives, is a good thing in the short term.
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You know that during the Roman Republic, Senators accompanied the legions to war. When a legion got wiped out, so did the Senators. At least they had a QA built into governmental performance.
[PostMillennial] The Department of Justice has since said that a portion of the evidence is not actually quite as damning as was previously believed.
As the trials get underway for those who participated in the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, it turns out that the charges against these defendants are not as serious as the public was initially led to believe. The Department of Justice has since said that a portion of the evidence is not actually quite as damning as was previously believed.
Rooters reports that none of those 400 who have been charged have been charged with sedition, which would be an incitement of rebellion. Instead, the most serious charge brought against any of the defendants has been assault. Two of the men who were charged with assault on Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick used bear spray in the attack.
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..... turns out that the charges against these defendants are not as serious as the public was initially led to believe.
...by the 'bent on sensationalism' media.
Go ahead, no longer newsworthy. Let everybody go free without charges, to include the leftest instigators. Wouldn't want a court of law to discover the origins of their logistics and funding. Besides, we need more memory hole distance on the Capital Police shooting death of USAF veteran Ashli Babbitt.
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But it's still a good excuse for their campaign against white supremacist domestic terrorism...and gun control, even though no guns were used on Jan. 6 except by the Capitol Police. It's still a good excuse and that was the goal all along.
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Fourteen states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed suit on Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters.
Biden’s order on Jan. 27 to pause new leasing was part of a series of executive actions to address climate change and curb planet-warming carbon emissions.
The president also directed the secretary of the Interior Department to begin a thorough review of existing permits for fossil fuel development.
A coalition of 13 states, led by Louisiana, filed one lawsuit on Wednesday. Wyoming filed a separate lawsuit. The states in Louisiana’s suit are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. All 14 states have Republican attorneys general.
[Conservative Tree House] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new "domestic terror watch lists." From the description it appears DHS is going to pay "big tech" (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem "dangerous."
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?...
NBC is reporting on these new developments as the U.S. intelligence apparatus is preparing to go live with the assembly of lists of Americans who "could be" potential threats to the government; and need to be watched.
However, even NBC is beginning to realize the consequences: "DHS planning to expand relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence and to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans. The department is also contemplating changes to its terrorist watch listing process."
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They should call this the State Tracking and Surveillance Initiative, or STASI for short.
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Neo-STASI's domestic terror flags - statements, comments or, in future versions, thoughts that assert such truths as:
- Michael Brown was not murdered rather shot in self-defense after threatening an officer's life
- George Floyd was not strangled rather died of a massive overdose of fentanyl
- Blacks are 7-8x more likely than whites to commit murder in the US
- US police shoot more whites than blacks every year
- There is no such thing as "systemic police racism" in the US
- BLM is a self-described Marxist revolutionary moment that seeks to use violence to overthrow the existing order in America
- there is no such thing as "white privileged"
- there is no such thing as "gender dysphoria"
- there are two genders
- the Biden family are corrupt grifters who've sold access to Joe Biden for over 25 years
All of the above are thoughtcrimes punishable by banishment from remunerative occupations and court-ordered re-education at CRT Struggle Sessions.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new "domestic terror watch lists."
I thought they already did that with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, et al.
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Should have turned it over to the police. As is, if someone found it and committed a crime they'd trace it right back to Hunter.
If you can't deliver to the police because you are afraid of the press smearing your boyfriends father, then dump it in a mailbox. Postal Workers are not going postal any longer and it'll at least be out of the hands of random homeless aluminum can collectors.
[NYP] A bill backed by the Georgia GOP that will overhaul election protocols in the state was signed into law Thursday.
The legislation includes new restrictions on voting by mail, and increases legislative control over elections in the state. Til an Obama judge invalidates it
Opponents claim the measure is a needless reaction to former President Trump’s claims that widespread voter fraud in the state lead to his defeat there in the 2020 election.
Georgia — a traditionally red state — narrowly voted for President Biden and two Democratic US Senators amid record-breaking turnout in the last election cycle.
The new law limits the window in which absentee ballots can be requested, and cuts the number of locations and times ballot drop boxes can be accessed.
No $$$$$ was spared by the Socialist Democrats in running ads and radio spots, even during conservative talk shows. Calling the Law to secure the vote racist, and making Jim Crow possible all over again.
In short they charged their Platinum Race Card to the credit limit and failed.
But all it takes is another election to go back to fraudulent voting practices.
So you know who to call on, know the partisan adulation's "questions" predetermined trash
[NY Post] New photos reveal several cheat sheets used by President Joe Biden during his Thursday press conference — including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on.
The president also used notes to assist with facts about US infrastructure, a policy area Biden is focusing on during his first months in the White House.
"The United States now ranks 13th globally in infrastructure quality — down from 5th place in 2002," read one bullet point.
But despite having the answers in front of him, Biden still slipped up, saying America ranked 85th in the world in infrastructure, before correcting himself.
The press pool at Thursday’s briefing, the first one held by Biden since taking office 65 days ago, was limited to 25 reporters.
Biden only took questions from a list of journalists whose names and outlets he read from a cue card. A photo of the card shows circled numbers around select reporters.
President Joe Biden looks on notes as he answers questions from journalists during the first formal press conference of his presidency
In the early stages of the 62 minutes presser, in which Biden fielded 10 questions, the president appeared to repeatedly lose his train of thought, forgetting questions and asking reporters if they wanted him to give detailed answers.
Many of his responses were aided by notes he kept inside a three-ring binder.
He abruptly wrapped up the press conference, telling reporters, "but folks. I’m going," without sticking around for a follow-up question.
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To be fair, Kayleigh McEnany used three-ring binders too. But not to remember who to call on.
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We expect our President to be able to speak extemporaneously. The Biden Press Conference was a joke, and a very bad one at that.
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Dunno if it's dementia or what but his performance in that press conference was feeble.
Have to give him credit though. He effectively limited the number of questions by giving long, rambling answers to the few questions he fielded. He talked and talked and talked without saying much of anything.
His response to the question about North Korea was particularly weak as he was obviously reading the answer from his notes, looking down at the notes the whole time. You know damn good and well the NORKS were watching. The whole world was watching.
I thought it was most telling when I watched the ABC Nightly News that they reported what Biden said but they showed no video clips at all from the press conference. Instead they showed a few still photos. The reason was obvious.
Remember how Trump would hold impromptu press conferences on the White House lawn as he made his way to Marine One? He'd banter back and forth with the likes of CNN's Jim Acosta or CBS's Paula Reid even though he knows they hate his guts. They hit Trump with their best shots but he used no notes or teleprompters as he gave concise answers off the top of his head. And he'd do it all the time. Good times.
Imagine how uncomfortable and embarrassed those reporters must have been watching their guy fumble and stumble his way through that farce, striking out on the few softballs they were allowed to pitch.
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[ABCNews] Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a nearly 100-page omnibus bill Thursday that will make sweeping changes to election law, impacting voters, local election administrators and the board overseeing elections.
With just days left before the legislative session ends, Republican lawmakers in both chambers of the Georgia General Assembly passed the bill, SB 202, on a party-line vote in the House first and then the Senate.
Marc Elias, the attorney leading the charge on behalf of Democrats to expand options during the pandemic, had already promised "an immediate lawsuit" if Kemp signed the bill into law.
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The "pandemic" won't be over until Dr. Fauci says it is. Or when there are zero deaths, zero hospitalizations and zero cases, anywhere in the world. In other words, never.
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[BREITBART] Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.30226 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... (D-NY) likened basic election integrity measures embraced by several states, such as voter ID, to the era of Jim Crow and accused the GOP of attempting to suppress voters. He made the remarks during Wednesday’s Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing on S 1, or the "For the People Act," which critics warn will strip power from the states and federalize U.S. elections.
Speaking to his colleagues during the hearing, Schumer blasted Republican state legislatures, such as Georgia’s, for pursuing basic election integrity measures, calling it "infuriating" and accusing Republicans of being "afraid" of democracy and trying to prevent people from voting.
"Some of these voter suppression laws in Georgia and other Republican states smack of Jim Crow rearing its ugly head once again. It is 160 years since the 13, 14, and 15th amendments abolished slavery, and Jim Crow stills seems to be with us," the New York progressive said.
"The laws, their various cousins in Republican state legislatures across the country, are one of the greatest threats we have to modern democracy in America," Schumer declared
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Oh, really? How about starting at stuff you've done. It's a really good point to have the states make voting as easy as you have in getting on a plane.
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What a useless piece of crap that has way too much control over what happens in my life.
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Don't worry, Chuckie, you won't have to worry about 50 states for too much longer.
But so typical of the Dems how they whine when something in the Constitution or rooted in law isn't to their liking. Funny how they didn't complain about the Electoral College this time, but after Hillary had her fat ass handed to her in 2016, the College was the worst entity on the planet.
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What a useless piece of crap that has way too much control over what happens in my life.
Agreed, but I'd rather have this moron in there than, say, Harry Reid. Now there's an asshole's asshole for you. At times I hated him more than I did Obama when he was running the Senate.
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He's a POS and always has been. I remember one of the NY talking heads saying that the most dangerous piece of ground in NY is in between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.
[BREITBART] The New York State Assembly’s judiciary committee announced on Tuesday that its investigation of Governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s behavior could take "months."The New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair, Long Island Democrat Charles Lavine, said its investigation of embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo could take "months, rather than weeks" to "assess whether there’s evidence that the governor has engaged in conduct that justifies articles of impeachment."
"Given the breadth and seriousness of the issues under investigation, we expect that the timing will be in terms of months rather than weeks," Lavine explained during an audio broadcast of a judiciary committee meeting streamed Tuesday.
The committee’s investigation was authorized on March 11. "The reports of accusations concerning the governor are serious," New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said at the time. "The committee will have the authority to interview witnesses, subpoena documents and evaluate evidence, as is allowed by the New York State Constitution."
Judiciary committee attorney Greg Andres acknowledged that the public may not get their answers before the results of New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ misconduct investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. "I think it’s more of a recognition that there’s a parallel process happening.," he said. "We don’t have control over that process, when that report would come out or not. And we won’t necessarily gear our investigation solely on the timing of that report. I think we want to be aware of it, to the extent possible."
Cuomo is facing allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior toward women and has been accused of attempting to inhibit the investigation led by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. Yet even that issue may be dwarfed by the governor’s alleged mishandling and subsequent cover-up of nursing homes deaths during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
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Like Gary Hart, better to get canceled for the girl than the late night phone call to Grenada. The girl is a harmless foible everybody can understand, the call, not so much.
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.
[Free Beacon] Democratic senators Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) announced a racial litmus test on Biden administration nominees, pledging to reject all "non-diversity" picks until the president promises to appoint Asian Americans to "key executive branch positions."
[PostMillennial] The Department of Justice has since said that a portion of the evidence is not actually quite as damning as was previously believed.
[ABCNews] Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a nearly 100-page omnibus bill Thursday that will make sweeping changes to election law, impacting voters, local election administrators and the board overseeing elections.
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.30226 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
[BREITBART] The New York State Assembly’s judiciary committee announced on Tuesday that its investigation of Governor 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
