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Judge Merchan seems to have no alternative but to sentence Trump to jail, given the obvious fact that Merchan and his rabid constituents are inflamed by the enormity of Trump’s conviction on thirty-four felony counts. However, there are problems that place the judge between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Here are some possible issues: What if the Republican convention is moved forward to, say, July 4th to be convened at Mar-A-Lago? Trump would be chosen as the Republican nominee for President. Then, Merchan would be sentencing the Republican nominee for President. That’s an escalation that might cause the...

Down in Mexico, they killed another mayor and I can't count anymore. 36? 37? Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán, was shot dead hours after the country elected its first female president. Here we go again. To be honest, they've been killing both men and women so I don't think that the killers care one way or another. They just want to send a message that they want to control the routes with or without you.The presidential elections results were quite a landslide for the incumbent party and Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum the candidate. In fact, it was so...

Hillary Clinton met the head of a Chinese Communist Party political “friendship” organization that the U.S. intelligence community warns is advancing Beijing’s interests through political-influence operations in America. This comes as Chinese political-influence actors are developing ties to top Democrats in California and New York as a counterweight to bipartisan China hawkishness in Washington. The former secretary of state’s meeting with a delegation led by Yang Wanming, the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), took place last week in New York City at some point between May 30 and June 1, according to a...

There's a reason federal agencies used to stay out of politics, but it appears the Obama generation never thought it meant them. Now we get Andrew McCabe, the fired former FBI deputy director, attempting to whip up sympathy in the press for FBI agents who have turned that agency into the internal security apparatus of the Democrat party. According to Breitbart News:CNN analyst and former FBI chief Andrew McCabe said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source” that people in the intelligence and law enforcement community were worried if former President Donald Trump is elected again, they would be “thrown in jail...

The Center Square) – After two decades at war with the Taliban, the U.S. government is now sending millions of taxpayer dollars to the terrorist group. The Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan immediately after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops earlier in the Biden administration. A recently released federal watchdog report shows that the U.S. government has sent at least $11 million to the Taliban since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops. But experts and even the federal watchdog estimate the number is much higher. "The U.S. government has continued to be the largest international donor supporting the...

President Biden claimed Thursday that he has “known” Vladimir Putin “for over 40 years” — despite Russia’s president having served as an undercover KGB intelligence officer through the entire 1980s. “I’ve known him for over 40 years. He’s concerned me for 40 years. He’s not a decent man,” Biden, 81, told ABC News anchor David Muir during an interview in France at the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Putin worked as an intelligence officer in the Soviet Union’s spy network from 1975 to 1991, with postings in his hometown of St. Petersburg and the former...

Rednecks and war. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CI6c-rlsyms&feature=youtu.be

A 41-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the arm on a Bronx subway train Wednesday afternoon as it rumbled into the station, authorities said. The victim was knifed in the right arm while on a southbound 2 train at 3 p.m. right before it arrived at the Jackson Avenue 2/5 station in Melrose, according to the NYPD. The wounded man hurried off the train and begged a station agent to call 911, cops said.

The Netherlands is set to hold its European Parliament election on June 6, 2024, as part of a four-day, 27-country ballot that will return 720 MEPs to the next European parliament. The election is expected to have a significant impact on the direction of the European Union, particularly on issues such as immigration, national sovereignty, and climate action.

Top officials in Russia have raised concerns about Kremlin moves to nationalize companies and an overheated economy in rare rebukes of Vladimir Putin's economic policy. On Tuesday, Herman Gref, the CEO of Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, warned about the negative effects of high state spending on the military to fund the war in Ukraine. "Our economy is definitely overheated," Gref told the Federation Council, Russia's upper house, on Tuesday, according to the Tass news agency. The next day, questions were raised about a Kremlin policy of forced nationalizations since the start of Putin's full-scale invasion, which has been followed by...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAnd when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions. Mark 12:34Finally, we have the witness of one of the religious leaders, a scribe, who got it right. The passage above is the conclusion of the interaction with this scribe who asks Jesus which of all the commandments is the first and greatest. Jesus gives the twofold answer that we are to love God above all, with all your heart, mind, soul and strength,...

The date of the Day is based upon the metric equivalent of 20/20 (ft), 6/6 m.On 6 June, "Blind Day" was marked, a day for enhancing awareness and empathy with the blind and visually impaired community in Israel.The Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman absorbs into its ranks people with special needs in general, and blind and visually impaired persons in particular."Blind Day" - Day of awareness and empathy with the blind and visually impaired in IsraelThere is no English-language Wikipedia page for Blind Day -- only Hebrew -- but the auto-translation provides:Nature of activityThe "Thinking in Color" group...

Heated debates have erupted across the West, triggered by the sudden rise of an ideology that seeks to remove the significance of biological sex in society and replace it with the vague and scientifically vacuous concept of “gender identity.” This shift is often justified by highlighting the existence of so-called “intersex” conditions, more accurately termed disorders/differences of sexual development (DSDs). Proponents argue that because approximately one in every 5,500 individuals (0.018 percent) is born with sexual anatomy that may appear sexually ambiguous or opposite to their sex at birth, this means that biological sex is a “spectrum” and that male...

Former Attorney General William Barr called the New York hush money case against former President Trump an “abomination” in a Wednesday interview and said he was confident the guilty verdict will be overturned on appeal. “When people were talking about it, I said that the case was an abomination, and I didn’t think it was going to be brought at the end of the day because it was so vaporous,” Barr told Fox News’s Jimmy Failla in an interview on “Fox Across America.” “I was surprised they went ahead with it,” Barr said about New York prosecutors. “And it’s met...

The fantasies of democrats are wilting on the vine. Alvin Bragg got his pound of flesh from Donald Trump, but it isn't the home run democrats thought for sure it would be. The contrived conviction has seen Trump raise hundreds of millions of dollars as a consequence and democrats have largely backed off the "convicted felon" theme. The verdict is very likely to be overturned on appeal. In Georgia Fani Willis' dreams have been put on hold until after the elections as an appeals court considers whether she should be disqualified from the trial: In a major setback to the...

One neighborhood in East Oakland is so dangerous that construction workers apparently feel unsafe. A construction crew left a residential street unpaved and refused to return because the workers did not feel safe being in the neighborhood. The situation has left Sobrante Park residents with their street torn up and reduced to gravel with gaping potholes. Resident Shari Angarano said the unfinished road work made bumpy driving conditions on Colorados Drive go from bad to worse. “The ground is uneven and a lot of the gravel used to fill pot holes is being kicked up,” Angarano said. The unfortunate situation...

At a moment when Kyiv is in desperate need of reassurance that the West continues to support its defence against Russia’s onslaught, Ukrainians have every right to despair of US president Joe Biden’s latest intervention, in which he appeared to rule out the prospect of their country joining the Nato alliance.Ever since Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there has been an unmistakable equivocation about the Biden administration’s backing for the Ukrainian cause.While the American leader has pledged to support Kyiv in its attempts to defend its territory from Russian aggression, his constant dithering over...

Portland, Oregon, has earned its reputation as America’s most radical city. Its public school system was an early proponent of left-wing racialism and has long pushed students toward political activism. As with the death of George Floyd four years ago, the irruption of Hamas terrorism in Israel has provided Portland’s public school revolutionaries with another cause du jour: now they’ve ditched the raised fist of Black Lives Matter and traded it in for the black-and-white keffiyeh of Palestinian militants. I have obtained a collection of publicly accessible documents produced by the Portland Association of Teachers, an affiliate of the state...

A conservative activist who fought against local school departments over transgender bathroom policies, CRT lessons, and LGBT books has ended his own life. Shawn McBreairty, 53, from Hampden, committed suicide, according to a former Hermon School Committee member, after receiving confirmation of the death of a Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office deputy.

Democrat's talk a lot about insurrection. Unless it is carried out by Progressives... Four years after the 2020 siege and insurrection of the Federal Court House in Portland, Oregon, I take a closer look at what happened. What's the truth? How did media cover it? Why do Democrat politicians ignore it, or worse, support it? Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi degraded the whole incident to mere "graffiti" by peaceful protestors. Meanwhile, President Trump was trying to send in Federal law enforcement to deal with the violent mobs. Who was right? What was the real cost of it all? What really happened in...