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Everything you have been taught, all your life, about the police and the courts and the justice system is a lie. Take all your mental images, everything you learned in primary school, every episode of "Perry Mason" or "Law and Order" or "The Rookie", crumple them up, throw them away. Banish them to a corner of your mind prominently labeled "fairy stories for little kids". That is not how any of this works. The police do not exist to protect you from criminals. Detectives do not exist to investigate crime and find the offenders. Courts do not exist to find...

This November’s election will determine whether the U.S. remains a viable constitutional republic or becomes a one-party state.The election of 2024 will be epochal for the United States. It will be as impactful on the course of the nation as the election of 1860 and the ensuing Civil War. This November’s election will determine whether the U.S. remains a viable constitutional republic or becomes a one-party state. If Vice President Kamala Harris wins, the result will be the realization of President Obama’s intent, voiced in his famous 2008 remark, to “fundamentally transform” the United States. Thus, the election is important...

This is HUGEAmericans can now invest in election outcomesNot only are these money markets more accurate than rigged polls, but now there is a MUCH stronger legal framework to file lawsuits against election fraudIf someone loses millions b/c of a rigged election, courts will hear their case like they would any securities fraud caseNo more BS dismissals based on “lack of standing” like we saw in 2020 - they have a direct financial loss/damage from the rigged electionThere’s a reason Biden tried to keep this illegal as long as possible but the courts overruled himHuge. Just huge.

In his first court appearance, the 17-year-old who shot San Francisco 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall claimed he was “very sorry that this did happen.” That message came through his court-appointed attorney Bob Dunlap, who said the shooting was “completely out of character for him,” while confirming that the juvenile has another “outstanding matter” in San Joaquin County. The “matter” was not revealed and neither was the suspect’s identity. No photos of Pearsall’s assailant have appeared and a courtroom sketch portrays him with light brown hair, beard and pony tail, the style of a Malibu surfer. His mother, also unnamed, needed...

When the film Truth premiered in 2015, only a little over ten years after the events depicted, film critics seemed to take the movie as a historical account. Based on Mary Mapes’s memoir Truth and Duty, the film was something else again. It prompted John and me to revisit the story in the Weekly Standard article “Rather shameful.” On Power Line I itemized “problems” with the film in “Lies of Truth.” Today is the twentieth anniversary of the CBS News broadcast that we helped expose as a fraud in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election. I find that even...

https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2024/09/07/affirmative-action-3/Two opposing views on affirmative action: Supporters of affirmative action focus on admission rates, whereas opponents of opponents of affirmative action focus on graduation rates.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)September 7, 2024Here are two very different points of view on affirmative action.This 7 minute video from MSNBC is called “MIT diversity data confirms ‘worst fears’ about end of affirmative action.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIyZL_I0ysQThe MSNBC video includes this chart:This article from the Atlantic is called: “The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action: Why racial preferences in college admissions hurt minority students — and shroud the education system in dishonesty.”https://web.archive.org/web/20121004223026/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-painful-truth-about-affirmative-action/263122/Now here’s my take on...

After Tucker Carlson platformed Darryl Cooper, I saw numerous Democrats on ?Twitter and other sites calling for Tucker to be arrested for doing so. It looks like this has been memory holed, as I cannot seem to find it, even in Republican search engines. I need help finding that information again.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate failed to mention Hamas or the six murdered hostages in his response to a local radio stationMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, told a Michigan NPR affiliate on Thursday that anti-Israel protesters in Michigan “are speaking out for all the right reasons.” “I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It’s a humanitarian crisis. It can’t stand the way it is, and we need to find a way that people can live together in this,” Walz said in an interview...

Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters You took a trip to China paid for by a Chinese Communist Party influence group in exchange for “favorable coverage.”And then tweeted about advising them on “how to craft” better propaganda.Quote Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias · 17h Big swathes of the GOP have just been mainlining Russian propaganda for a while now and it's not a great situation.https://slowboring.com/p/republicans-

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Yesterday I went to see Reagan. Excellent movie. Go see it.There is a scene in the movie after President Reagan is shot where he gets a hospital visit from Tip O'Neill. They pray together.Even as recently as a few years ago when a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to kill Republican Congressmen and injured Steve Scalise, members of both parties condemned the act and cheered Scaise's recovery.A few months ago, when President Trump was shot, Democrats' responses largely fell into three groups: deny that it happened, claim that Trump staged it, or wish that the shooter had better aim,What has happened...

What is the sphere of influence – that is, the region in which the United States has a legitimate right to assert itself on the world scene, and demand respect for our borders, our shores, our people and our goods? When our nation was in the process of being founded in the 1770s and 1780s, our Founding Fathers would have identified our thirteen colonies, and stopped there. We weren’t interested in other nations’ petty squabbles and they had no business being involved in ours, so we believed. That position was soon to change. We hadn’t realized that our global shipping...

The press is sweeping yet another important ballot integrity case under the rug this week. Understanding the problems in this most recent Pennsylvania ruling requires a little thinking through it. Here’s the short summary, as it is presented by the theoretically nonpartisan mass media: Republican counties want to be able to refuse to count mail-in ballots that either lack the handwritten dates required by law, or have wrong dates shown on them. The Commonwealth Court ruled, and I quote, that “The refusal to count undated or incorrectly dated but timely mail ballots submitted by otherwise eligible voters because of meaningless...

I just watched the video on X where the lady is asking what candidate TRUMP or HARRIS /should get her vote. It is displays absolute BIAS … So like everyone I checked for myself… I think we should all post our own videos until someone at Amazon corrects this very BIG problem 👇

Discover the “Joy” Of: 1. high inflation, and its effects on your wallet 2. wide-open borders; incidentally, it wasn’t that long ago that Mayorkas, et al, proclaimed that everything was okay at the border. The very fact that the “border czar” now rejects this title makes it easy for everyone (including her voters) to understand, simply, the border was never secure after they took over. 3. paying (in more ways than one) to support millions of illegal immigrants who all happen to be “asylum seekers.” But, on the bright side, one can buy slices of tropical fruits and bottles of...

Obamacare is one of the biggest examples of false advertising in history.According to this article from wikipedia, the original, official name of Obamacare was “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” and it was later changed to “Affordable Care Act.”Please note the use of the word “affordable” in both versions of the official name.That was how Democrats advertised Obamacare to the voters: “affordable” health care.However, on July 17, 2024, CBS News published this article, which revealed the actual truth about Obamacare. The article is called, “Americans spend more on health care than any other nation. Yet almost half can’t afford care.”This...

During the DNC, the Democrats bumped Biden’s speech, as the New York Post put it, “past his bedtime” but Biden managed to read the boilerplate composed by his woke-left-globalist handlers. He did the same on September 1, 2022, backdropped in blood red, with U.S. Marines at the ready, like something staged by Nazi cineaste Leni Riefenstahl,. .... As a student, Joe Biden was a bottom feeder and even hagiographical hooey like Mark Bowden’s 2010 Atlantic profile conceded that Biden was a semi-literate plagiarist. As a senator, the Delaware Democrat was a consort of segregationists and Ku Kluckers like Robert Byrd....

Jack Kemp once said that liberals "measure compassion by how many people they're helping; we measure compassion by how many people no longer need our help." In my many years of life, especially my years as a minister and a practitioner, I understand that the latter is the better measure. Here's the problem, though. If your measure is how many people you're helping, what happens when people no longer need your help? What do you do? There are fewer people to help, so by your own measure, you're less compassionate. Clearly, we need more people in need. Eventually, as the...

Here’s video of several different military families defending Donald Trump and criticizing Kamala Harris over the recent incident at Arlington National Cemeteryhttps://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830045970911867154Darin Hoover, Father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/ANQaSfjcUs— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044938148442601Coral Doolittle, Mother of Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/dz3UfvhVLB— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044664688165285Jaclyn Schmitz, Mother of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/MeACvB310r— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044423079530939Steve Nikoui, Father of Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/e7uRJo8ViA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044131021762757Mark Schmitz, Father of Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/pRLF9tS7Jn— Donald J. Trump...

Patrons at a northern Virginia restaurant specializing in Vietnamese cuisine broke out in raucous cheers to greet former President Donald Trump on Monday, according to reports. The 45th president visited the Truong Tien Vietnamese Restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, with Hung Cao, a U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia. Cao, a Naval Academy graduate and combat veteran, is running to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine. Earlier in the day, Cao had accompanied Trump when the 45th president laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The wreath was a tribute to the 13 service...