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Clips tagged #Swamp DOJ releases memos backing Trump immunity claims ahead of impeachment voteThe Justice Department on Thursday made public a series of internal memos that the Trump administration has relied on to justify its defiance of congressional subpoenas related to the impeachment inquiry. Dems now claim Â… Ratcliffe: Obama Admin Asked Foreign Governments to Investigate Candidate TrumpRep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) pointed out in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning that President Barack ObamaÂ’s administration had asked foreign power to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016. Truth. Bomb. BOOM pic.twitter.com/HqvgmtaMbY Â… Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond caught watching golf on...

Inspector General Michael Horowitz's long-awaited report this week on FBI and Justice Department surveillance abuses does not provide the name of an unidentified FBI supervisory special agent (SSA) who made a series of apparent oversights in the bureau's so-called "Crossfire Hurricane" probe into the Trump campaign. However, a review of Horowitz's findings leaves little doubt that the unnamed SSA is Joe Pientka -- someone who could soon play a prominent role in the ongoing prosecution of Michael Flynn, as the former Trump national security adviser fights to overturn his guilty plea on a single charge of making false statements. Specifically,...

Operation Nickel GrassExcerpt: The Arab states had trained well and Moscow had supplied equipment on a colossal scale, including 600 advanced surface-to-air missiles, 300 MiG-21 fighters, 1,200 tanks, and hundreds of thousands of tons of consumable war materiel. By Monday, the Israelis were reeling as missiles supplied by the Soviet Union took a heavy toll on aircraft and tanks. The IDF was running out of artillery shells and the Israeli Air Force warned that its capability to sustain combat would be exhausted within the week... On 12 October, Nixon decided that no more delays could be allowed, and ordered the...

“[A] Man’s got to know his limitations”—Clint Eastwood, Magnum ForceDon’t you get tired of hearing the mantra, “There’s no limit to what you can do!” (or variations of this)? The fitness industry is downright saturated with this kind of talk. Believe me, I’m an optimistic guy. I believe in miracles. And I know that human beings have an incredible capacity to overcome. We’ve seen examples of it over and over. But we also have built in limitations. We’re not God. Each of us has these limitations, be they age, physical disability, or…. (and almost everyone, particularly over the age of...

Los Angeles officials enact ordinance requiring all prospective city contractors to disclose contracts with or sponsorship of the National Rifle Association. A violation of the NRA's and a would-be contractor's speech and association rights? District court: Indeed so. The text, legislative history, and comments the ordinance's sponsor made on Twitter "evince a strong intent to suppress the speech of the NRA," and its clear purpose "is to undermine the NRA's explicitly political speech." That's a First Amendment no-no. https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gov.uscourts.cacd_.744044.34.0.pdf

Vice President Al Gore reluctantly concedes defeat to Texas Governor George W. Bush in his bid for the presidency, following weeks of legal battles over the recounting of votes in Florida, on December 13 2000. In a televised speech from his ceremonial office next to the White House, Gore said that while he was deeply disappointed and sharply disagreed with the Supreme Court verdict that ended his campaign, ”partisan rancor must now be put aside.” “I accept the finality of the outcome, which will be ratified next Monday in the Electoral College” he said. “And tonight, for the sake of...

Years ago a professor of film studies told me that "Breaking Away" was one of the best "coming of age" films he'd ever seen because it didn't involve sex, but rather a boy being disillusioned with his cycling childhood heroes. "Richard Jewell" is in many respects a coming of age movie. Most people know the story: Atlanta Olympic Games security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), who had been fired from a police department and from a college for excessive enthusiasm, finds a bomb in a backpack left at the Atlanta Centennial venue. He calls the police, assists in moving...

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is steeped in an element critics love: It celebrates movies, thus validating the lives of those who spend inordinate amounts of time watching them. So many critics love this aspect of Tarantino’s latest that they missed an equally important factor: It mercilessly sends up leftist values. In its foundations, it’s so breathtakingly right-wing it could have been made by Mel Gibson.

A 12-year-old Texas boy, who is praying to be adopted, says God is the reason he's still smiling despite still being in foster care. Jonah, whose last name wasn't provided, is currently in the custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and has spent four years waiting to be adopted by a forever family. He sat down for an interview with WFAA 8 in Dallas for the station's Wednesday Child segment, which focuses on children hoping to be adopted. He says that God keeps him grinning when he's feeling down. 'He's brought me through many, many things,'...

“Tory scum off our streets, Nazi scum off our streets!” shouted left-wing protesters in central London. Around a thousand demonstrators, many masked and holding antifa symbols, poured onto the streets of the British capital to protest the U.K.’s election results. The Conservatives won in a landslide election the day before, likely guaranteeing Britain’s withdrawal from the EU at the end of next month. The British capital descended into chaos as the Met Police struggled to contain protesters connected to antifa, socialist and communist groups. They had shut down the streets in and around Westminster. They demanded a “revolution” and the...

He just seemed the type. He lived with his mother. He had lots of guns in the house. He dreamed of being a police officer. He wanted to be important. He knew everything about bombs. And so, for 88 days Richard Jewell — who was not only an innocent man, but a hero, who’d saved lives — had his own life torn apart, when he became the prime suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. 1996. “Richard Jewell,” which tells his story, is a suspenseful, beautifully composed film from Clint Eastwood, his finest since “Hereafter” (2010) —...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is non-political respite, although you will find that most here are conservative folks. No matter what, you won’t be flamed and the only dumb question is the...

Cardinal Burke: Catholics have Our Lady of Guadalupe as mother, ‘not Pachamama’ LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, December 13, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – An American cardinal has condemned the “idolatry” of Pachamama at the Vatican and in St. Peter’s Basilica during the October Amazon Synod, calling it a “shocking manifestation of how Satan has entered into the Church.” He called on Catholics to turn to the “one holy mother, the Mother of God, the Virgin of Guadalupe, not Pachamama.” “Satan roams about the world, confusing man about his own nature, about the inviolability of defenseless human life, about the integrity of holy...

I'd just like to thank the Admin Moderators on this website, whom I believe do a very good job (even though I was chastised on one of my earliest posts, because I didn't yet understand what the thread designation 'caucus' meant :-)

The Impeachment Vote Farce The FBI and DOJ Massively Violated the Law Court Hearing on House Democrat IT Awan Bros Scandal New York Becomes 13th State to Give Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses The Impeachment Vote Farce As I told the press today in a statement, the Judiciary Committee’s vote on the articles of impeachment was both a tragedy and a farce. Truly, it was a sad day for America because a grave injustice was committed. There is no abuse of power by President Trump, however, it is clear that abuses were committed against him by the DOJ, the State...

So Britain doesn’t, after all, want to be run by an antisemitic, terrorist-supporting Marxist and his gang of nasty, aggressive, intolerant, historically illiterate Social Justice Warriors who think the only problem with Communism is that it hasn’t been tried properly yet… Who would have thought, eh? Well, I did, for one. I’ve been calling a big Conservative win ever since this general election was announced: not because I’m Nostradamus but because it seemed to me that all the Tories’ stars were so obviously in alignment. Unelectable Opposition led by crabby hard-left ideologue with very dodgy friends? Check.

$391 million is the exact amount stated in the official Articles of Impeachment that President Trump is accused of holding from Ukraine between July 3 and September 11, 2019. If the President did not hold that money back from Ukraine, the entire basis of impeachment is removed. My research proves that this number – $391 million – is a devious fraud perpetrated by Adam Schiff (and others) that GOP reps and counsel have failed to properly dispute. I have no doubt that the Republicans and House staff legal counsel are genuinely trying to protect President Trump from the impeachment coup....

A federal appeals court had vacated a decision by a panel of its judges overturning blocking Ohio from protecting unborn babies with Down syndrome from discriminatory abortions. The decision gives new life to the abortion ban and hope to babies with Down syndrome that they will not be victimized in abortions just because they have an extra chromosome. The 2017 law prohibits abortions that are performed specifically because an unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the state, and a judge with close ties to Planned Parenthood blocked it last...

California cops have arrested a man they say forced his pregnant girlfriend to take drugs at gunpoint so she would have a miscarriage. Jagmeet Sandhu, 23, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder, domestic assault and false imprisonment, Bakersfield Police said. Cops say one of the woman’s relatives contacted police shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday to say the unidentified victim “had been held at gunpoint and forced by her boyfriend to ingest numerous unknown-type pills in an effort to force a miscarriage.” Officers located the woman at a local hospital where she allegedly confirmed the relative’s statement. “The victim did...

Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday it has partnered with the County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to open 50 taxpayer-funded centers that will distribute birth control drugs and provide “pregnancy options counseling” to teens. The nation’s largest abortion chain says it is calling the new in-school programs “Well Being Centers.” Alexis McGill Johnson, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, in a press statement said: This groundbreaking program means that students don’t have to worry about missing school just to access the quality health care, education, and resources they need. Too many young people don’t...