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The former first lady reached out to Melania Trump to welcome her to a “very exclusive club,” but notably did not vote for her husband. Barbara Bush didn’t vote for Donald Trump, but two weeks after he won the presidential election, she sent his wife, Melania, a warm letter welcoming her to “the First Ladies very exclusive club.” An upcoming biography about Bush reveals details of the note she penned to Melania Trump as the incoming first lady faced intense speculation about when she would move her family to Washington from New York — or whether she planned to move...

Josef Mifsud is the key to everything. A year ago I first brought this up and it is more critical now than it was then because we have Mueller adding to the haze around Mifsud. Who is Josef Mifsud? Josef Mifsud is a mysterious figure and who he is depends on who you ask. Wikipedia describes him this way: Joseph Mifsud (born 1960)[1] is a Maltese academic, with reportedly high level connections to the Russian government.[2] In 2016, he became involved with George Papadopoulos, an advisor to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, and was later accused of being a link between that campaign and Russia. In...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Following up on my piece from yesterday afternoon (Despicable Dems Setting the Stage for Rejecting 2020 Election Results), House Speaker took her rhetoric to borderline seditionist lengths Tuesday morning. Here’s the clip – a transcript will follow: Embedded video Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra Democrat Nancy Pelosi: “we cannot accept a 2nd term for Donald Trump” 1,246 10:48 AM - May 7, 2019 2,561 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy As a courtesy to those of you who still like to read stuff, I have transcribed the...

ARE DEMOCRATS ALL INSANE? HOW DO YOU OBSTRUCT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A CRIME????? AND WHY? WHY OBSTRUCT MUELLER WHEN HE IS PROVING YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING??

VIDEO The mainstream media is hiding just how incredibly SMALL the Joe Biden campaign crowds are. However, by checking out social media, especially Twitter, I was able to find photos taken by "civilians" which reveals the laughable truth about the turnout at Biden's campaign stops. WARNING: Put down your coffee while watching this video or you could risk splattering your screen due to the hilarious burst out laughing nature of one of these photos.

Seeking to ensure that he can never again run for office, former Florida Republican Governor Jeb Bush took issue with current Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' support of legislation aimed at penalizing cities that provide sanctuary for illegal alien criminals. "I just don't see sanctuary cities as a problem," Bush asserted. "Immigrants coming to the United States is an act of love. We should all be welcoming them. It shouldn't be left to a daring few communities to bear the sole burden of sheltering them." Even in the case of immigrants with a criminal history, Bush was adamant that "the...

Our tune today is Hank Snow's 1947 recording of The Night I Stole Old Sammy Morgan's Gin. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Not long ago, Sturm, Ruger reintroduced one of the company’s most popular rifles in recent memory, the Hawkeye Alaskan, chambered in three slamming calibers that are known for their stopping power. It's a superb rifle, especially for conditions one is likely to encounter in the fall, when if it's not raining, sleeting or snowing, it’s probably getting ready to – am I right? Hitting the scale at 8 pounds (unloaded, without scope), the Hawkeye Alaskan is chambered for the .375 Ruger, the .338 Winchester Magnum or the .300 Winchester Magnum. Either/or, you’ve got a potent load for anything on four...

How weak is the 20-person Democrat field? – It’s so weak that a 76 year-old, miserable two-time loser in presidential politics who has been wrong about literally every major issue facing this nation over the last half-century is sucking all the air out of the room. That’s weak. Three new polls released yesterday show Biden blowing away the rest of the Democrat field and getting close to eating up half the support among the Party’s mind-numbed voter base: He comes in at 44% support in the Harvard-Harris poll , 46% in the Hill-HarrisX online poll and 40% in the new...

How quickly we’ve moved from the Russia! Russia! Russia! Collusion! Collusion! Collusion! offense to the “Trump could still have obstructed justice — even if he didn't break the law” defense. “Any Person Other Than Trump Would Have Been Indicted For Obstruction”  – Hillary Clinton Logic aside, apparently you needn’t have a crime in order to commit obstruction, as explained in this WaPo piece: Barr is wrong: Obstruction of justice doesn’t require another underlying crime. “It is black letter law that a defendant can satisfy the corrupt intent criterion for obstruction even if the defendant himself committed no underlying crime.” He...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A recent college graduate from New Mexico who had just landed his dream job as a fishing guide in Russia was among those killed when an airliner burst into flames during an emergency landing in Moscow. Jeremy Brooks, 22, of Santa Fe was remembered Monday as a fly-fishing expert by his former boss Ivan Valdez, owner of The Reel Life fishing shop. Valdez said Brooks recently graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs after majoring in environmental science.

I don't whether to laugh or cry about this article. The 29-year old congresswoman from NY who is telling us we need to completely overhaul the US Economy is stumped by a garbage disposal..... Actually I think it's funny but indicative of how ridiculous she really is...

Kamala Harris's presidential campaign is quietly building out its national footprint. The California Democrat has taken a more methodical approach than some rivals in amassing ground troops. On Tuesday, Harris' team will take another step, launching a national training program designed to harness volunteer energy on the ground that it could later tap into, according to a preview of the plan shared with POLITICO. **SNIP** Harris, who piloted her online program in Iowa under the banner of "Camp Kamala," will put volunteers through one or two sessions a week as part of its national effort to train future precinct captains...

Identity politics were a big focus in the 2016 presidential elections and they will surely play a role in 2020. The left’s overwhelming obsession with identity will shred this country into pieces.

Twitter user Deplorable Hill caught Hillary Clinton off-guard at her recent speaking event. He yelled to her from the crowd, "you're going to jail, lady" and he was eventually escorted out. What, no one likes the truth! Video of live incident at the source.

So, Meghan Markle, the American biracial wife of Prince Harry, did it. She managed to have their baby (a boy) on her own terms. Which is to say, at an undisclosed location — although we all know the young British royal couple has been holed up at their Windsor home with the fairy tale name of Frogmore Cottage, we don’t know where she actually gave birth — and on an undisclosed timetable. We all found out about the birth when Harry and Meghan announced it on Instagram. (Buckingham Palace announced it too.) Nor did Meghan submit to the postpartum photo...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Seriously, all these people do is devise plots to defraud the American people. – Imagine, just imagine, what our country could accomplish if Democrats in Washington, D.C. spent half as much energy trying to do the right thing for the American people as they do plotting to destroy our country’s foundations each and every day. Here is the full Democrat Party agenda as of May 6, 2019: Destroy the President of the United States and do everything they can to obstruct his ability to run his administration; Smear the Attorney...

Studding internal conditions of the Iranian society and the Iranian Regime remarks that the regime is feared of a new destructive uprising like what it witnessed in previous years. Both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin have imposed crushing sanctions on Tehran for its role as the world’s “most active state sponsor” of terrorism. These groups have "the greatest influence and the most far-reaching network outside Iran”, according to the Hudson Institute, but are also the greatest threat to the Iranian Regime. Meanwhile, the NCRI office released a 194-page report about the role played by...

There was a time when Lance Armstrong’s downfall in cycling was going to not only equal a lifetime of shame — but also financial hardship. Faced with lawsuits seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages for his fraudulent life as a doping cheat — and an aggressively litigious pursuer of anyone who suggested otherwise — Armstrong’s was in strife. But in his first US television interview since sitting down with Oprah Winfrey in 2013, the cancer survivor who captured the imagination of the world while winning seven Tour de France titles — then had them stripped in the biggest...

A consistent criticism of education reform is that much of the agenda has been based on what some call a “deficit mindset.” That is, reformers saw individuals, institutions, and communities as broken and in need of fixing (or worse, saving), not as individuals, institutions, and communities with culture, history, and potential that could be cultivated and built upon. As education reform enters rural schools, it can learn from this mistake and not make it again. Most rural schools and the communities that they serve are not broken. These communities are often home to deep wells of social capital, tradition, and...