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Rep. Brandon Williams (R- NY) in a 5/16/24 X post: Antisemitic protestors received virtually NO punishment for supporting Hamas violence. They learned that violence and vandalism are tolerated on leftwing campuses and in leftist States. Will demonstrations return in September? They’re just getting started — we must stamp out antisemitism.
New York Post 5/16/24 headline: Douglas Murray: Take off the masks, you anti-Israel cowards! Protesters aren’t really scared of COVID — they’re hiding shame of their prejudice
Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret.) contributor to American Thinker: Contrary to the DEI slogan that “Diversity is Our Strength,” the historical truth and battle-tested reality is: “Unity and Assimilation are Our Strengths.”
Jessica Marie Baumgartner contributor to The Federalist: Our leaders know that. They weaponize our fear all the time. They used it against us in 2020, and they will continue using it against us until we rely on ourselves and refuse to accept their manipulation. Self-reliance takes power away from those who seek control. That’s why they don’t want us facilitating our own food sources. We witnessed just how many of our “leaders” only care about control in 2020, and the latest bird flu narrative cannot be used to repeat the mistakes of our past.
Joe Barnes contributor to The Telegraph: White House has warned Kyiv that continued strikes on oil and gas infrastructure could harm Joe Biden’s re-election chances
Jack Cashill contributor to American Thinker: The real threat comes from the unlikeliest of suspects: educated liberal females, or “ELFs” for short. These are the women who will proudly vote Democrat regardless of soaring inflation, rising gas prices, rampant crime in the streets, the unchecked flood of illegal aliens. . . .
John Dale Dunn contributor to American Thinker: Why are all these plump, unhappy white girls protesting for Hamas and against Israel? Ms. MacDonald offers: One possible reason is that women constitute majorities of both student bodies and the metastasizing student-services bureaucracies that cater to them. Another is the sex skew in majors. [snip] In progressive movements, the default assumption now may be to elevate females ahead of males as leaders and spokesmen. But most important, the victim ideology that drives much of academia today, with its explicit enmity to objectivity and reason as white male constructs, has a female character. The female influence has increased inside and outside of the academy. The left is dominated by a grievance narrative founded on the idea that women are oppressed and that it’s up to the government to keep them safe.
John Daniel Davidson contributor to The Federalist: In corporate America today, there’s a permission structure in place to attack, defame, and destroy anyone who dares to be publicly Christian.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ABOLISH THE FIRST AMENDMENT
(2019) EWTN: NFL kicker Harrison Butker and his return to the Catholic faith
“I played up a different person for different crowds […] like a fragmented person.” The Kansas City Chiefs place kicker Harrison Butker opens up about how finding his #Catholic faith changed his life, and why he loves the Latin Mass, in an exclusive interview with EWTN’s Colm Flynn. Hosted by Montse Alvarado, EWTN News In Depth welcomes guests in a discussion of current events in the Church, politics, and culture, all through the lens of the Catholic faith. This show is about finding out who we are as people and as Catholics, and how we can confidently live our faith in the world. It is produced by EWTN News.
Read more: https://www.ewtnnews.com
Davidson: The NFL’s Condemnation Of Harrison Butker Exemplifies The Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry
In corporate America today, there’s a permission structure in place to attack, defame, and destroy anyone who dares to be publicly Christian. t didn’t take long for the NFL to come out and condemn recent remarks from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, saying his views, given during a commencement speech at Benedictine College over the weekend, “are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.” What horrible, non-inclusive things did the 28-year-old Butker say? He committed the crime of giving public witness to his faith, espousing views every faithful Catholic holds — along with a great many non-Catholic Christians. “Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder,” he said. Butker also heaped heartfelt praise on his wife, Isabelle, and told female graduates that whatever career success they might achieve, their most important title will be “homemaker.”
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/16/the-nfls-condemnation-of-harrison-butker-exemplifies-the-lefts-anti-christian-bigotry/
Silverio: Daughter Of Kansas City Chiefs Chairman Defends Harrison Butker Against Major Backlash
Gracie Hunt, the daughter of Kansas City Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt, defended kicker Harrison Butker against the major backlash over his commencement speech at a Catholic college. Hunt said she has much respect for Butker and his Catholic faith during an interview with “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy and resonated with his encouragement for women to value marriage and motherhood over a career. “Well, I can only speak from my own experience which is I’ve had the most incredible mom who had the ability to stay home and be with us as kids growing up. And I understand there are women out there who can’t make that decision, but for me in my life, I know it was very formative in shaping me and my siblings to be who we are,” Hunt said.
Read more/Watch the 1:17 minute video: https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/17/daughter-kansas-city-chiefs-chair-defends-harrison-butker/
FROM ELECTION INTERFERENCE TO ELECTION SUBVERSION?
Fleetwood: ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Trains Election Offices On How To Put ‘Bidenbucks’ To Use
A ‘Zuckbucks’ group hosted a webinar advising election offices on how to take advantage of President Biden’s federal intervention in state election administration. A left-wing organization responsible for interfering in the 2020 contest to the benefit of Democrats hosted a training on Thursday instructing election offices on how to take advantage of President Biden’s federal intervention in state election administration. Hosted by the Election Infrastructure Initiative, the webinar lectured college and local election officials on how best to utilize a program announced earlier this year by the Education Department that allows Federal Work-Study grants — which are used to provide part-time campus jobs to help students with tuition costs — to employ students for election-related work. This includes activities such as “supporting broad-based get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, providing voter assistance at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker.” The agency launched the program as a means of complying with Executive Order 14019, a directive signed by Biden in March 2021 ordering hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in state and local election administration by using taxpayer dollars to engage in voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/zuckbucks-group-trains-election-offices-on-how-to-put-bidenbucks-to-use/
Hochman: The Left’s Noncitizen Voting Gambit
Last Sunday, Jen Psaki — having retired from her position as a Biden mouthpiece in the White House in favor of a more glamorous, better-paid position as a Biden mouthpiece on MSNBC — took to the airwaves to denounce the most recent dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory: noncitizens voting in U.S. elections. Blasting the SAVE Act — a new GOP bill that would “requir[e] proof of citizenship for voter registration” — as “the latest chapter in the MAGA effort to spread doubt about the integrity of our elections,” Psaki scoffed: […] It is true that, under existing law, it is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal U.S. elections — for now. But to say something is “illegal” in principle is not the same as saying it is prohibited in practice. (Just ask the millions of ostensibly “illegal immigrants” flooding across the southern border how much they were inhibited by the technical meaning of unenforced U.S. immigration laws.) As Sen. Mike Lee, one of the cosponsors of the SAVE Act, wrote in the Federalist on Monday: Those making this argument [that noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal] ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren’t allowed to require proof of citizenship. It is therefore shockingly. . . .
Read more/Watch the 3:54 minute Psaki video: https://spectator.org/the-lefts-noncitizen-voting-gambit/
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Hubabrd & Richards: Biden invokes executive privilege to prevent release of recording with Special Counsel Hur
“It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the president’s claim of executive privilege cannot be held in contempt of Congress,” he also wrote, per the Associated Press. “Because of the President’s longstanding commitment to protecting the integrity, effectiveness, and independence of the Department of Justice and its law enforcement investigations, he has decided to assert executive privilege over the recordings,” […] “The White House is asserting executive privilege over the recordings, but it has already waived privilege by releasing the transcript of the interview. Today’s Hail Mary from the White House changes nothing for our committee. The House Oversight Committee will move forward with its markup of a resolution and report recommending to the House of Representatives that Attorney General Garland be held in contempt of Congress for defying a lawful subpoena,” he added.
Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/biden-invokes-executive-privilege-prevent-release-recording-special-counsel
BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF
War Room: Andrew Giuliani And Jeff Clark Give Updates Live In NYC From President Trump’s Trial
Watch the 10:45 minute video: https://rumble.com/v4vnb9n-andrew-giuliani-and-jeff-clark-give-updates-live-in-nyc-from-president-trum.html
War Room: Congressmen Gaetz, Boebert, Biggs, And More Stand Up For Trump Against Sham Prosecution In New York
Watch the 10:22 minute video https://rumble.com/v4vll3w-congressmen-gaetz-boebert-biggs-and-more-stand-up-for-trump-against-sham-pr.html
Hoft: UNDER DURESS: Prosecutors Allegedly Threatened Convicted Perjurer Michael Cohen to ‘Flip on Trump or We INDICT YOUR WIFE!’
Convicted perjurer Michael Cohen testified under oath that he was coerced into pleading guilty by threats from prosecutors aimed not just at him but at his family. During a tense courtroom exchange, it became evident that the deep state’s tactics might have stooped to new lows in their relentless pursuit against Trump. Greg Kelly: What??!!!! Prosecutors told Michael Cohen, “if you don’t Flip on Trump, we will indict your WIFE!”—Now THAT is a crime, not this silly Document stuff. FAKE TRIAL! [Note: You may recall that DOJ persecutors, in order to get a guilty plea from General Flynn, threatened to indict his son. Perhaps, Cohen is telling the truth this time.]
Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/shocking-coercion-prosecutors-allegedly-threatened-convicted-perjurer-michael/
THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS
(NIH) Kittle: Covid ‘Expert’ Francis Collins Finally Admits There Was No Science For Six-Foot Social Distancing
In the Covid soap opera, the lockdowners, the ‘follow the science’ preachers, took years from our lives on a foundation of bad science. […] In the Covid soap opera, the lockdowners, the “follow the science” preachers, took years from our lives on a foundation of bad science. Some of us knew that while we were in the throes of the endless Covid Red Alert; the rest are learning it these days from the same charlatans who ran the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Testifying earlier this year in a closed-door interview before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a transcript of which was released this week, former NIH Director Francis Collins confessed that the government’s sweeping social-distancing guidance wasn’t backed by the science we were all supposed to be following. […] “The six feet of separation recommendation had real life consequences. This guideline made it nearly impossible for schools nationwide to re-open due to the pressure from teachers unions to follow this guideline. In addition, businesses had to adapt at great cost or risk complete closure,” states a Thursday subcommittee staff memo on the Collins interview.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/covid-expert-francis-collins-finally-admits-there-was-no-science-for-six-foot-social-distancing/
REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY
Peacock: House Republicans Should Heed Texas’ Warning On The Dangers Of Democrat-Driven ‘Bipartisanship’
Bipartisan cooperation under Speaker Johnson will drown Congress in the same problems that have plagued the GOP-led Texas Legislature. It appears the U.S. House of Representatives has entered an era of unprecedented bipartisan cooperation. Within the last month, a rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans voted to approve a rule to advance foreign aid to Ukraine and defeat a motion to vacate the chair and oust Speaker Mike Johnson from his office. In the past, the Democrats have relished voting against the Republican House leadership while watching the corporate media blame “hard-right conservatives [for] throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos.” With the recent votes, it is clear something has changed in the Democrats’ approach. It is doubtful, though, that the change includes supporting a more conservative agenda. So before getting too cozy with their new allies, House Republicans might find it instructive to learn a few lessons from the similarly bipartisan Texas House of Representatives.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/house-republicans-should-heed-texas-warning-on-the-dangers-of-democrat-driven-bipartisanship/
Ballasy: House Judiciary Committee passes resolution to hold Garland in contempt
House Judiciary Committee voted 18-15 along party lines on Thursday to pass a resolution holding Attorney General Garland in contempt for not complying with congressional subpoenas.
The House Committees on Oversight and Accountability and Judiciary issued subpoenas to Garland on February 27, 2024 for “records, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files, related to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation of President Joe Biden’s willful mishandling of classified information,” according to committee staff.
Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-judiciary-committee-formally-considers-contempt-resolution-against
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY
Phillips: Buried facts about the Gaza war
Connect the dots: It’s America and Iran against Israel. The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to appease the genocidal and terrorist Iranian regime. It has funneled billions into Tehran’s coffers through sanctions relief. It has refused to effectively respond to repeated Iran-backed attacks on U.S. interests. And it is doing everything it can to prevent Israel from taking action that would damage America’s relationship with the Iranian regime, such as the destruction of Hamas, a vital force in Tehran’s proxy army against Israel and the West. The American appeasement of Iran has left many people mystified. They should have been paying more attention. […] Tabatabai was an agent of influence for Iran at the heart of the U.S. government and with the highest level of security clearance. […] The dots have been obvious for years. Connect them.
Read more: https://www.jns.org/buried-facts-about-the-gaza-war/
Greenfield: Biden’s Impeachable ‘Foreign Oil’ Policy
Five years after Trump was impeached over accusations that he pressured Ukraine for political reasons, Biden is pressuring Ukraine for political reasons with no impeachment in sight. Recent reports in the UK’s Telegraph and Financial Times suggest that Biden is demanding that Ukraine stop attacking Russia’s energy infrastructure because he’s afraid of the impact of high energy prices on the presidential election. “Mr Biden reportedly raised concerns with Kyiv that the bid to damage Russia’s oil production capacity could have repercussions for his re-election campaign,” The Telegraph reported. “Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year,” The Financial Times quoted a former White House energy adviser as saying. Similar reports have started to appear in other European media outlets including Politico. Whatever one thinks of the Russia-Ukraine War, Joe Biden’s re-election prospects are an illegitimate and impeachable reason to be conducting a war or any foreign policy. And this is not a unique event. Many suspect that Biden’s turn against Israel was driven by a threat to his election prospects from Hamas supporting voters in Dearborn, Michigan, as well as radical leftists in his party. And this is part of a pattern that has weakened America. Biden. . . .
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/bidens-impeachable-foreign-oil-policy/
Fleitz: Only America First Can Reverse the Global Chaos Caused by the Biden Administration
It is hard to believe there could be so much global chaos during just over three years of a U.S. presidency. It didn’t have to be this way. We have witnessed a profound deterioration in international security since 2021, not just because of the Biden administration’s national security incompetence but also because of the president’s deliberate decision to reverse the successful national security strategy of the Trump administration and replace it with failed policies of the past. This Trump strategy is called the America First approach to U.S. national security. This strategy brought our country a period of peace, kept U.S. troops out of new conflicts abroad, and resulted in important foreign policy achievements such as the Abraham Accords. You have probably read articles by liberal pundits who constantly and falsely claim that President Trump’s national security policies were isolationist or “America alone.” The truth is, considering the Trump administration’s robust foreign policy and successful diplomatic engagements around the world, these claims are clearly false.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/17/only-america-first-can-reverse-the-global-chaos-caused-by-the-biden-administration/
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY
Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret.): Which Makes Better Soldiers: DEI or Assimilation?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is divisive, as it emphasizes differences based on race, ethnicity, biological sex, gender identities, etc., which is opposed to the time-tested, traditional military culture emphasizing unity, teamwork, selflessness, sacrifice, and assimilation into the warrior ethos. May 1969, a commercial bus full of sleepy recruits stopped during darkness at Fort Ord, CA. Two Drill Instructors (DIs) jumped on the bus and started screaming, “get off my bus, you dirtbags, and line up outside.” A diverse assortment of now wide-awake young men lined up in four rows and then shuffled/marched to sterile appearing billets with a platoon of 50 recruits in each open bay, gray double-decker bunks with sheets and a wool blanket on both sides of an aisle running down the middle of the bay. They were awake until 0200 scrubbing the billet floors and latrine; up at 0530 the next day. The next day they marched with DIs yelling commands, to the long quartermaster warehouse to be issued clothing and gear. But, first a stop at the barber building with a line of barbers ready to buzz hair off which they did quickly leaving about 1/4 inch on the top and almost none elsewhere. […] All of this was done to erase the “back on the block” civilian mentality and quickly replace it with “you’re in the Army now” and don’t forget it mindset. No more personal identities, no more it’s about me, it is now about the “Green Machine, your ass is mine” and your personal identity as a civilian does not matter; it no longer exists — you are now part of the machine — you have one color — Green. What was done in basic training was all about “Assimilation” and “Inclusion” into the military;
Read more at American Thinker.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
ABC News: DOJ releases proposed rule to reclassify marijuana
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it’s officially moving forward with a proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. The Justice Department submitted the Notice of Proposed Rule-making to the Office of the Federal Register and, if approved, the rescheduling would limit the punishment for those who are in possession of marijuana when it comes to a federal crime. The proposal is subject to a 60-day public comment period. After that, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration can assign an administrative law judge to consider the evidence and make a final scheduling recommendation ABC News reported earlier this month the DEA was planning to reschedule marijuana. President Joe Biden, in a video posted Thursday on X, touted the proposal as “an important move toward reversing longstanding inequities.”
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-releases-proposed-rule-reclassify-marijuana/story?id=110309786
(Biden’s open borders invaders) Two migrants taken into ICE custody for attempting to breach Virginia Marine base, officials say
The truck’s operator told military police officers they were making a delivery with an Amazon subcontractor, but because the two had no credentials to enter, military police directed them to go through standard vetting procedures, Curtis said. At that time, the driver attempted to take the vehicle onto base, causing officers to deploy vehicle denial barriers and detain the individuals before turning them over to ICE custody.
Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/local/two-migrants-attempted-breach-virginia-marine-base-officials-say
Wolf: Letter from Salem, MA
Two Americas – one Marxist […] There is a gleaming new supermarket, run in part by the FDA, on Lafayette street. It is called Daily Table, and it looks like a Whole Foods, probably because one of its founders was a Whole Foods executive. It seems, on the surface, like an amazing idea. The prices are 20-30% lower than other supermarkets. The offerings are almost entirely healthful. Fruits and vegetables are abundant. To-go meals that are nutritious, cost as little as $2.99. There is almost no junk food. The entire shopping experience is bilingual, Spanish and English. SNAP and other benefits can be used there. This is the fifth such supermarket to open in the Salem/Boston area. It is a “nonprofit grocery model.” Sounds fantastic, right? But here’s the catch: “[Rob] Twyman [CEO] said the store’s nonprofit model is based on covering two-thirds of costs through sales and the other one-third through corporate partnerships, private donations and government funding.” So you undercut your competition in the free market, and pretty soon, the for-profit supermarkets are forced to close. So then, more and more people will rely on Daily Table for their groceries. Meaning that — people will increasingly have to rely on the government and on other even more opaque stakeholders. And then — almost anything can be asked of you. And then — the state can decide who eats and who does not. And then — the state can decide […] These “Marxized” (we need a new verb) food shopping experiences, all tethered ultimately to the intrusive and potentially withholding hand of the State, remake our relationships to one another.
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/letter-from-salem-ma/
WAR IN ISRAEL
Mroue: Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military. Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but the one on Thursday appears to have been the first successful missile airstrike it has launched from within Israeli airspace. The group has stepped up its attacks on Israel in recent weeks, particularly since the Israeli incursion into the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. It has struck deeper inside Israel and introduced new and more advanced weaponry. “This is a method of sending messages on the ground to the Israeli enemy, meaning that this is part of what we have, and if needed we can strike more,” said Lebanese political analyst Faisal Abdul-Sater who closely follows Hezbollah.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-hamas-gaza-drone-missiles-cd9f59ffa7f876aa755b3c6612246763
WORLD HISTORY 101
Mahoney: Lenin 100 Hundred Years Later
It has been a century since Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Soviet State, died in 1924 at the age of fifty-three, a victim of poor health and multiple strokes. He was once considered by Communists everywhere as a theoretician of the rank of Karl Marx, a philosopher and ideologist of the first order. But as the French political thinker Raymond Aron aptly noted, Lenin’s writings are of little philosophical interest, since hate and ideological fiat motivate them from beginning to end. A narodnik or populist supporter of revolutionary violence turned Marxist doctrinaire, Lenin never ceased to ask the question “Kto-kogo”?,” “Who/Whom?,” that is, who would benefit from any particular choice or maneuver? Struggle was everything. Compromise or coalition building was completely alien to his conception of human and political life. He despised what he derided as economism, the view that working people and trade unions could promote their interests through participation in normal political and economic activity. He hated “social democracy,” or any effort to accommodate socialism to free politics or parliamentary procedures. […] Lenin lived and breathed venom and hate. And his war on the churches in particular, and religion in general, was equally ruthless and murderous. It stemmed from Marxist position of ruthless atheism, pure and simple. To war on Orthodoxy, as Lenin did with zeal, was to take aim at the heart and soul of historic Russia. The key document in this regard is Document 94 in the Pipes volume, dated March 19, 1922. It clearly lays out Lenin’s “Machiavellian” scheme (in it, he makes a reference to chapter 8 of the Prince) for confiscating sacred “Church valuables” during the famine induced by War Communism. His purpose was to create . . .
Read more: https://www.fusionaier.org/post/lenin-100-hundred-years-later
BOOK REVIEW: THE DEVIL’S TRIANGLE: MARK JUDGE VS THE NEW AMERICAN STASI BY MARK JUDGE
Johnson: MARK JUDGE: MY BOOK LAUNCH
Mark Judge is a witness with a powerful story to tell about the operation to take down the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He tells the story in his 2022 book The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi. Mark recently returned with his timely review of Christine Blasey Ford’s book (cited below). We offered to publish Mark’s review and I have inserted the editorial note below indicating as much with his permission. In his column here Mark criticizes publications that we respect and have no reason to disparage. However, we welcome his contribution and note that readers can support Mark’s work at his GoFundMe page. Mark calls his column “My Book Launch and the Shame of the Conservative Press: They wouldn’t let me blow up the Liberal Death Star.” He writes: . . . This was it. All the points of the story had converged to this moment. I had breached the Death Star, was approaching internal exhaust port, and was ready to take the shot that would end the evil empire. The conservatives just wouldn’t let me take the shot.
Read more: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/mark-judge-my-book-launch.php
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION
Whedon: Truth Social CEO demands ‘robust inquiry’ into alleged stock manipulation
tump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes this week pressed House Republicans to probe what he suspects to be the illegal short-selling of the company’s stock. “I remain convinced that a robust inquiry is needed to protect shareholders, including TMTG’s retail shareholders, and to ensure that Main Street investors retain their faith in the fairness of U.S. markets,” he wrote in a Tuesday letter. […] “The apparent anomalies surrounding the trading of DJT have become chronic and alarming to TMTG,” Nunes wrote. “In the last 30 trading days, an extraordinary volume of DJT shares traded have been shorts, leading to an astonishing quantity of FTDs [failures to deliver]. In fact, recently published SEC data indicate that FTDs exceeded 1 million DJT shares on eleven separate trading days between April 9, 2024, and April 30, 2024, with a peak of over 2.3 million FTDs on April 29, 2024, alone.”
Read more: https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/truth-social-ceo-demands-robust-inquiry-alleged-stock-manipulation
O’Brien: Shutting Out Parents
Who’s accountable when violence happens? In an unprecedented recent case, the parents of school shooter Ethan Crumbley were each sentenced to prison sentences of 10 to 15 years. James and Jennifer Crumbley sat in a Pontiac, Michigan, courtroom on April 9 as each were sentenced on four counts of involuntary manslaughter in relation to their son’s killing of four Oxford High School classmates in 2021. The couple each received the maximum penalty possible of 15 years imprisonment. Both will be eligible for parole after 10 years served. The court found Jennifer Crumbley, Ethan’s mother, to have been a negligent parent for largely ignoring the signs her troubled son exhibited prior to the killings. Ethan—who has already been sentenced to life in prison—had told his parents he needed help with his mental problems. His mother was busy with work, currying her horse, and pursuing an extramarital love life. James Crumbley was found to have given a handgun to his son as an early Christmas gift two days before the shootings without properly securing it. There is now concern that this precedent will be used going forward to charge not just parents of mass shooters, but parents whose minor children commit any range of gun crimes. But given the current culture within America’s justice system and its big city prosecutors’ offices, it is unlikely that district attorneys will now go after the parents of black Chicago teenagers who shoot their rivals. It is more likely that this new precedent will apply selectively, especially when it can support a leftist narrative—involving white culprits and legally purchased firearms—in the wake of a tragic event. […] Meanwhile, courts around the country are dealing with a different form of parental ignorance of their children’s behavior at school. Except in these cases, schools are pushing to keep parents in the dark, regardless of the impact it could have on the health and safety of the child or others. […] For anyone keeping score, this means that if your son shoots up a school, you can go to prison for not knowing what he was up to beforehand, and for not proactively doing something about it. But if your son thinks he’s your daughter and doesn’t want you to know, not only does his school not have to tell you, but it may be forbidden to tell you.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/shutting-out-parents/