Monday, August 21, 2023
Jonathan Turley says the worst thing that can be said of Trump on January 6th is that he might have felt some satisfaction over a few hours of chaos in the Congress
Which is not a crime.
Here:
If Trump supported a rebellion or insurrection, what was the plan? Not only did Smith not charge him with any such crime, but there was little evidence that even the most radical defendants charged were planning to overthrow the nation’s government or were part of a broader conspiracy. There were no troops standing by, no plan for a post-democratic takeover by Trump or his alleged minions. At worst, according to witnesses against Trump, there was a despondent and defiant president who may have gotten satisfaction from the chaos in Congress.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Parents prepare to send their kids back to the failed public schools
In the national sample of 13-year-old students, average math scores fell by 9 points between 2020 and 2023. Reading scores fell by 4 points. The test, formally called the National Assessment of Educational Progress, was administered from October to December last year to 8,700 students in each subject.
Similar setbacks were reported last year when NAEP released broader results showing the pandemic’s impact on America’s fourth- and eighth-grade students.
Math and reading scores had been sliding before the pandemic, but the latest results show a precipitous drop that erases earlier gains in the years leading up to 2012. Scores on the math exam, which has been given since 1973, are now at their lowest levels since 1990. Reading scores are their lowest since 2004. ... The federal government sent historic sums of money to schools in 2021, allowing many to expand tutoring, summer classes and other recovery efforts.
But the nation’s 13-year-olds, who were 10 when the pandemic started, are still struggling, Carr said.
More.
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Emerson August national poll shows Trump beating Biden by 1-point when Green Party candidate Cornel West is also on the ballot
Here:
In a potential 2024 Presidential Election matchup between Biden and Trump, candidates are tied with 44% support each. Twelve percent are undecided. Trump has gained about a point in the head to head matchup from the June Emerson poll.
When Green Party candidate Cornel West is added to the ballot,
support for Trump and Biden declines slightly to 42% and 41%
respectively, while 5% support West and 13% are undecided.
Same old story: The Freedom Conservatives are godless, pro-immigration, free-trade libertarians
Discussed here by John Fonte:
Unlike in both the Sharon Statement and the National Conservatism Statement of Principles, “transcendent values” and “God” are nowhere to be found in the Freedom Conservatism Statement . . ..
It is no accident that Grover Norquist, Jeb Bush, and mass immigration enthusiasts associated with Koch-funded organizations such as the Niskanen Center and The Bulwark readily signed on to the FreeCon statement. ...
Overall, the share of American imports covered by trade restrictions
increased under Reagan from 8 percent in 1975 to 21 percent by 1984.
Friday, August 18, 2023
Child care prices rising at nearly twice the rate of inflation
The national average price of daycare and preschool services rose 6% in July from a year before, the Labor Department reported recently. That was nearly double the overall inflation rate of 3.2%, which was down from its recent peak of 9.1% in June last year. ... a mother of three living in Blaine, Minn. ... said she is paying about $2,500 a month for child care this summer.
More.
Ha ha ha, kinda like Trump's taxes, see . . . except Hunter Biden had a history of filing late in 2002, 2004, and 2005, didn't report his Burisma income in 2014, and didn't file at all in 2016, 2017, and 2018
Not to mention the falsely claimed deductions, like no-show employees, a hooker, and a sex club membership fee.
Byron York has no problem explaining it . . . at all:
The money men have the best Fed and the best Fed chair that money can buy
The 10-year US Treasury note has averaged BELOW average inflation for three consecutive years, and is set to make it four.
This is unprecedented, and shows that the authorities have not been serious about fighting inflation. Inflation is actually what they want when the country is $32 trillion in debt, aka a devaluation of the liability.
Notice that they actually tried this for a couple of years in the mid-1970s, after which all hell broke loose with the highest inflation on record and the people revolted. We got Ronald Reagan as a result.
Inflation is the same thing in the world of money as immigration is in the world of labor. Inflation devalues what you owe, and immigration devalues what you make.
You are just collateral damage.
Powell, a Republican, was elevated to the Fed by Obama, appointed to the Fed chair by Trump, and reappointed by Biden.
The Uniparty.
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Flashback: WaPo reporter on CBS in December 2016 said Democrats wanted 47 electors to be faithless and rob Trump of his election
Democrats: Insurrection is OK when we do it.
Here.
CNN ran this story advocating that 37 or 38 electors defect from Trump to Clinton:
The Supremes ruled against faithless elector schemes in 2021.
Nine marines of the Philippines vs. The Chicoms
Nine marines of the Philippines aboard this ship at Second Thomas Shoal contest ownership of the Spratly Islands against the Chicoms. It is the former USS LST-821, originally launched in October 1944. The Wall Street Journal has the story here.
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
LOL, the brains behind Trump's fake electoral scheme wasn't Eastman, it was liberal Democrat Ken Chesebro according to none other than Laurence Tribe
Trump is the biggest fool who ever hit the big time, and liberal Democrats have played him like a fiddle.
WaPo, here:
VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico — The blinds were drawn at a handsome villa in an oceanfront gated community on the northern coast of this Caribbean island. Inside, a woman’s voice could be heard calling out “Ken” — but no one answered the door.
Records show this is the tropical refuge of Kenneth J. Chesebro, a lawyer who allegedly marshaled supporters of President Donald Trump to pose as electors in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, creating a pretext for Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting or disregard valid electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021. ...
The successful appellate lawyer studied at Harvard University under Laurence Tribe, the preeminent legal scholar who advised congressional Democrats on both of Trump’s impeachments. Chesebro continued working with Tribe for about 20 years, on wide-ranging litigation involving class-action claims and punitive damages. ...
Tribe called Chesebro “the brains” behind the fake electoral scheme. “If the pressure campaign on Pence had worked,” Tribe said, Chesebro and Eastman “would have generated a successful coup.”
I'm so old I remember when Drudge was the fringe website
Fringe website posts names and addresses of grand jurors...
Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online
A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump
Democrats really should nominate Gavin Newsom so that he can make the whole country just like California
Flash mobs invade luxury L.A. retailers with brute force, overwhelming numbers...
Ransack NIKE store in front of shocked customers...
166-year-old high-end shop in San Fran warns: Could be last year...
Workers in Pelosi Federal Building told to stay home due to crime...
CA assisted deaths surge 63%...
'Drunk' California judge shot wife with one of his 47 guns...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Biden beats Trump in New Hampshire by 7, with Green Party Cornel West on the ballot by 5
More.
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