DB Hawthorne - DB Hawthorne "After 3 years of fake Russia stories, CNN claims that there is no evidence that if a Republican admitted on video to bribing Ukraine with $1 billion to drop a case against their son or daughter, they'd get a pass like Joe Biden. Someone already called for the President to get the death penalty just for discussing Biden's crime on a phone call."
Nolte: New York Times' Summer of Fake News and Public Meltdowns:
There are still a couple days of summer remaining, which gives the far-left New York Times plenty of time to publish another tsunami of fake news and have a few more of those glorious public meltdowns. Should that happen, this piece will be updated.
Let's get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections | TheHill "Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) delivered a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family. ...The implied message did not require an interpreter for Zelensky to understand: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats' support for future U.S. aid to Kiev.
The Murphy anecdote is a powerful reminder that, since at least 2016, Democrats repeatedly have exerted pressure on Ukraine, a key U.S. ally for buffering Russia, to meddle in U.S. politics and elections.
And that activity long preceded Giuliani’s discussions with Ukrainian officials and Trump’s phone call to Zelensky in July, seeking to have Ukraine formally investigate whether then-Vice President Joe Biden used a threat of canceling foreign aid to shut down an investigation into $3 million routed to the U.S. firm run by Biden’s son..." Read all!
"Detroit — Southfield City Clerk Sherikia L. Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts over "unauthorized and inaccurate" changes to absentee ballots in the November 2018 election.
...Allegations that Hawkins altered 193 absentee voter records came to light during the 14-day canvass following the election. Benson said the Oakland County Clerk’s Office reported with the Bureau of Elections "the potential for these irregularities and from there we began our investigation."
Hawkins' alleged actions, did not alter the outcome of any election, Benson stressed, and "there were no voters that were disenfranchised."
"All valid votes in the election were ultimately counted and the final official vote total was accurate," Benson said..." Read all.
The potential corruption stems from Mr. Biden’s actions in March 2016, when he was vice president and visiting Kiev. He threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if the nation’s leaders did not fire Ukraine’s chief prosecutor.
Mr. Biden said the prosecutor was “turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.” But the prosecutor also was investigating Ukraine gas company Burisma Holdings, where Hunter Biden had a high-paying seat on the board.
The prosecutor was fired soon after Mr. Biden’s visit.
“Can you imagine if this was the Trump family doing business like this,” said Mr. Graham. “I like Joe Biden. I like him a lot. But you can’t have it both ways here.”
Dems Will Have To Lie About Their Agenda To Win, Poll Shows – Issues & Insights
"Late-night talk show host Steven Colbert had Sen. Elizabeth Warren on recently and asked her a simple question. “How are you going to pay for it?”
Colbert was referring specifically to Warren’s radical Medicare for All plan.
“Are you going to raise taxes on the middle class?”
Warren, who’s been rising in the polls, wouldn’t answer.
She can’t answer honestly, if she wants to have any hope of being president.
Nor can any of the other Democrats running president be honest about their agendas.
That’s made clear by a recent Harvard/Harris Poll, the results of which got far too little attention.
...At $3.2 trillion a year — which is a completely unrealistic lowball estimate — you could double everyone’s income tax, and double corporate income taxes, and you’d still be a trillion dollars short..." Read all.
Venezuela Is Still Carrying Out Chavez’s Strategy to Poison America, but Trump Can Stop It | The Heritage Foundation:
It was Hugo Chavez, Maduro's predecessor and mentor, who set Venezuela on the road to ruin almost two decades ago. We have also learned that, as part of that journey, Chavez initiated a campaign to flood the United States with cocaine. That’s just one more reason why the Trump administration must keep pressing to rid the Western Hemisphere of Chavismo.
U.S. federal prosecutors have claimed that, shortly before his death from cancer, Chavez directed his top lieutenants to work in tandem with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to weaken the U.S. via an epidemic of drugs. With Chavez’s backing, the guerillas became a major producer of hard drugs, distributing them to Latin American cartels and splitting the profits with el presidente and his cronies.
Debt: Will debt doom America?
"America’s massive debt will doom us.
That’s common wisdom, but wrong. In Manhattan, a giant clock displays not only the total – almost $23 trillion for now – but your share, ticking up every second.
Pundits say it's trouble.
T...he $23 trillion total seems jaw-dropping but says little about what really matters: How readily Uncle Sam can pay the piper.
...The federal government itself owns more than a quarter of U.S. debt, money the government essentially owes itself. It’s an accounting entry.
...Government solvency isn’t about paying off debt.
It’s about affording interest payments and rolling over maturing bonds.
Currently, annual U.S. interest payments represent just 9.8% of tax revenues, lower than any time in the 1980s and 1990s, when they peaked at 18.4%.
If debt didn’t doom us then, why would it now?... Read all.
History for September 24 - On-This-Day.com John Marshall 1755, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896, Jim Henson 1936 - Puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, actor,Creator of The Muppets "Mean" Joe Green 1946 - Football player, Phil Hartman 1948 - Comedian, actor, Kevin Sorbo 1958 - Actor 1955 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO. 1960 - The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
Surprise! Race gets hot as Pelosi faces glamorous challenger - WND:
But she's facing a dedicated challenger for her seat in the state's 12th district.
The Gateway Pundit calls Republican candidate Deanna Lorraine "a young and beautiful conservative woman."
"You can have a young, beautiful inside and out, honest and conservative or old, crazy, corrupt and liberal Nancy. California, the choice is yours," the blog said.
See Lorraine's introduction:
Fracking Gives U.S. Better Foreign Policy Options with Saudi Arabia & Iran | National Review "It’s our choice.
Here is a news lead that begins with a bang and ends with a whimper: “The strike on the heartland of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including damage to the world’s biggest petroleum-processing facility, has driven oil prices to their highest level in” — here, Reuters should have used some ellipses of irony — “nearly four months.” Four months!
If the United States declines to go to war against Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia, our increasingly troublesome client state, one of the reasons for that happy development will be: because we do not need to.
It is no longer the case that the world sneezes when the Saudis catch a cold. U.S. interests and Saudi interests remain aligned, broadly, but they are severable.
...“No war for oil!” they chanted when George W. Bush’s administration prepared to invade Iraq.
It was always a stupid slogan — if we’d wanted to get our hands on that Iraqi oil, we could simply have bought it at a discount rather than pay a horrifying blood premium for it — but now that chant can reasonably be turned back on its authors: If you want less war, then you should want a lot more fracking..." Read all.
Last week, in a Democratic presidential debate, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro read a list of black Americans killed by police violence. Alongside Laquan McDonald, Walter Scott, and Eric Garner, Castro named Michael Brown, who was shot dead five years ago in Ferguson, Missouri. Several of the current Democratic candidates have accused the officer who shot Brown of murder. Brown’s death was a tragedy, but it wasn’t a murder.
Besides Castro, the candidates who have joined in this calumny were Kamala Harris, Tom Steyer, and quasi-frontrunner Elizabeth Warren. Saletan continued:
But at the core of the story, there was a problem: The original account of Brown’s death, that he had been shot in the back or while raising his hands in surrender, was false. The shooting was thoroughly investigated, first by a grandjury and then by the Obama Justice Department. The investigations found that Brown assaulted Wilson, tried to grab his gun, and was shot dead while advancing toward Wilson again.
Saletan, I suppose to protect his liberal bonafides, also notes: "Brown became an icon of the Black Lives Matter movement for understandable reasons."(Oh, really?)
But let's leave that aside and examine why the candidates are promulgating such a well-proven lie..."
DB Hawthorne - DB Hawthorne
...The implied message did not require an interpreter for Zelensky to understand: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats' support for future U.S. aid to Kiev.
The potential corruption stems from Mr. Biden’s actions in March 2016, when he was vice president and visiting Kiev. He threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if the nation’s leaders did not fire Ukraine’s chief prosecutor.
Dems Will Have To Lie About Their Agenda To Win, Poll Shows – Issues & Insights
In Manhattan, a giant clock displays not only the total – almost $23 trillion for now – but your share, ticking up every second.
"It’s our choice.Last week, in a Democratic presidential debate, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro read a list of black Americans killed by police violence. Alongside Laquan McDonald, Walter Scott, and Eric Garner, Castro named Michael Brown, who was shot dead five years ago in Ferguson, Missouri. Several of the current Democratic candidates have accused the officer who shot Brown of murder. Brown’s death was a tragedy, but it wasn’t a murder.