Important!-----Varieties of Legal Corruption - American Thinker

Varieties of Legal Corruption - American Thinker
"PJ Media’s Megan Fox has a very disturbing six-part series on alleged judicial corruption in St. Louis, Missouri. 

• The first five detail how family court guardians and psychologists are misusing their positions to siphon off money from parents in custody disputes while the St. Louis judges ignore the fraud and collude with them, by, for example, ordering children's visits with sexual molesters and/or otherwise abusive parents in order to compel the other parent to keep paying lawyers to appeal the decisions and change the arrangements...
• ...In many ways this alleged corruption is as bad if not worse than the case a few years ago of two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan, who routinely sent poor kids who had committed minor offenses to private detention centers in return for kickbacks from the owners of those jails. They were finally sentenced for their kids for cash scheme.

Outright corruption of this magnitude seems rarer than the everyday kind, like the overuse of Soviet-style tactics against politically tainted subjects for fame and fortune. 

...Once again, the FBI is a willing partner in the outrages. The particular target seems to be members of Oath Keepers, a group the media uniformly describes as “far right” as opposed I guess to “far left,” a never used media description. Oath Keepers seem to be composed of present and former military and law enforcement types committed to enforcing the Constitution. Whichever description you choose, the actions against them seem over the top, and some judges on both ends of the spectrum are looking askance at the antics of law enforcement.
Gateway Pundit describes one such overkill by the FBI -- the arrest of Joshua James -- reminiscent of the arrest of Roger Stone -- a wounded Iraq war veteran..

The FBI lured him out of his home in Alabama by pretending to be a customer needing a pressure washing.

Then an Army armored vehicle with a turret on top, 2 FBI vans, 6 FBI vehicles, 3 local police and sheriff’s vehicles pulled up and ransacked their home.[snip] The FBI is holding him until trial because he was seen speaking with two other members of the Oath Keepers that day.

Although the probation office recommended bail, at the last minute the prosecution shifted stance and demanded he be jailed pending trial and then transferred him to D.C...Read all!

Is WA Gov. Jay Inslee Single-handedly Responsible for America’s COVID Outbreak?

Instapundit--Is WA Gov. Jay Inslee Single-handedly Responsible for America’s COVID Outbreak?

"LIKELY NO, BUT HE DIDN’T HELP MATTERS: Is WA Gov. Jay Inslee Single-handedly Responsible for America’s COVID Outbreak?

What’s amazing is Inslee and his team at DOH saw the outbreak at Life Care and still asked nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. The Seattle Times says these decisions contributed to roughly half of the state’s 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths to the nursing home policy because “nearly 200 nursing homes” had “at least one outbreak.”...

...“Why is America’s corrupt media not at all interested in some 15,000 dead senior citizens while they tar and feather Cuomo over the allegations he made [at the time of Nolte’s article] three left-wing women uncomfortable? The answer is obvious…Four other Democrat governors issued the same sociopathic nursing home order as Cuomo...--Posted by Ed Driscoll"...Read all!

Biden skewered for saying Americans might be allowed to gather on the 4th of July: 'We live in a free country' - TheBlaze

Biden skewered for saying Americans might be allowed to gather on the 4th of July: 'We live in a free country' - TheBlaze: 

President Joe Biden delivered a speech in which he outlined his plan to "get back to normal" on the one-year anniversary of the start of coronavirus lockdowns. In his first prime-time speech, Biden teased that Americans might be allowed to gather in "small groups" by the Fourth of July. The premise that Americans will need permission to gather on Independence Day was ridiculed and scoffed at by many internet commenters.

MUST SEE! (4 minutes)-----Socialism Escapee Warns America: First, They Take Your Guns, Then It's T...

Brainwashing our students on YOUR DIME!-----Campus Reform | EXCLUSIVE: NCSU mandatory diversity training includes 'whitesplaining,' toxic masculinity' and 'hate speech' lessons

Campus Reform | EXCLUSIVE: NCSU mandatory diversity training includes 'whitesplaining,' toxic masculinity' and 'hate speech' lessons

EXCLUSIVE: NCSU mandatory diversity training includes 'whitesplaining,' toxic masculinity' and 'hate speech' lessons

North Carolina State University students are being required to take a diversity training.

Campus Reform obtained an exclusive look at the mandatory training materials.

...According to the university website, key topics in the training include "identity, selfhood, imposter syndrome, identity transitions, power, privilege, oppression, bias, respect, allyship and self-care."...Read all!

Lunch video-----Rapper Ice-T gets it: Guns prevent tyranny

Noon-toon

 

Biracial student fails Critical Race Theory class for refusing to confess his 'white dominance,' mom claims - TheBlaze

Biracial student fails Critical Race Theory class for refusing to confess his 'white dominance,' mom claims - TheBlaze: 

Gabrielle Clark says that her son, William, was forced to take a mandatory "Sociology of Change" course at his school, Democracy Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada. A crowdfunded profile of the situation posted by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism explains: "In the class, William, along with all the students, was asked to publicly reveal his race, gender, religious, and sexual identities, and then attach derogatory labels to those identities. Students were then asked to 'undo and unlearn' their "beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that stem from oppression."

Poverty Plantation"!

 

“The left is great at using slogans..." - WSJ

Name a Great Civilization Created by Progressive Leftists - WSJ
"Reader Mail--Modern Media Marketing

“The left is great at using slogans that are impossible to oppose,” writes Mark Dunaway, who argues that “student debt forgiveness” is the latest such example.
“What good person can be against forgiveness?
But it’s not forgiveness!
It is taxpayer-paid student loans.”

"Fact-checker" another term for fabulist.

 

The rest of the story!-----Wind Power Is a Disaster in Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says | Mises Wire

Wind Power Is a Disaster in Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says | Mises Wire

"Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article.

In the wake of February’s tragic power outages in Texas, during which 4.5 million households suffered service interruptions, partisans on both sides have been quick to interpret the events as confirmation of their preferred energy policies...

• In this article I’ll lay out the basic facts of which power sources stepped up to the plate during the crisis. 

Contrary to what you would have known from reading Ron Bailey (let alone Paul Krugman), when the Texas freeze hit, electricity from natural gas skyrocketed while wind output fell off a cliff. The people arguing that wind wasn’t to blame mean it in the same way Jimmy Olson wasn’t to blame when General Zod took over: wind is so useless nobody serious ever thought it might help in a crisis.

...What Really Happened During Texas’s Power Crisis

Had I not seen the analysis from my former colleagues at the Institute for Energy Research (see their articles here and here), I might have believed the spin that the Texas crisis was really a failure of fossil fuels rather than renewables. Yet as we’ll see, the actual numbers tell a much different story from what most Americans probably “learned” from the media discussion.

The simplest way for me to communicate the relevant information is through three infographics, generated from the Energy Information Administration’s handy tool that shows the source mix for daily energy generation by state.

Before showing the numbers, I need to make an important clarification: the demand for electricity soared to unprecedented levels during the freeze...

With that context in place, here are the stats for electricity output from various sources on February 15, 2021:

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#1 This day 1981-----Dolly Parton - 9 To 5

Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration | RealClearPolitics

Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration | RealClearPolitics

"If you think really hard, perhaps you can imagine more disastrous policies than throwing open our country’s southern border and abandoning criminal-law enforcement in city after city. 

The consequences are already emerging, and they are grim. 

...Our border policies are national fiats handed down by the Biden administration. 

The abandonment of criminal enforcement, by contrast, is a local decision, made by supine city councils and district attorneys, many of them “social justice Democrats” backed by progressive elites and Black Lives Matter.

The most consequential effect of open immigration and lax criminal enforcement is to undermine the safe, stable environment law-abiding citizens need to go about their lives, free from predation.

Providing that environment -- and signaling clearly that you intend to provide it -- is the first responsibility of government.

That means punishing crimes. 

The goal is not vengeance. 

...It is also to send a strong message to would-be criminals: Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. 

Right now, we are sending the wrong message and, by doing so, we are encouraging law breaking on a massive scale...Read all.

This is another "cartoon" going around the young democrat set. This qualifies as "clever".

 

Portland rioters attack federal courthouse, set fires, and bash Biden: 'New president same imperialism' - TheBlaze

Portland rioters attack federal courthouse, set fires, and bash Biden: 'New president same imperialism' - TheBlaze: 

Violence erupted in Portland on Thursday night as rioters targeted the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Federal officers were dispatched to quell the unrest that included fires and windows smashed. There had been regular protests and riots in downtown Portland since the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Despite frequent and reoccurring unrest in the area of the federal courthouse, the protective fence surrounding the federal courthouse was taken down Thursday for the first time since last summer, KGW reported.

The Sovietization of the American Press - TK News by Matt Taibbi

The Sovietization of the American Press - TK News by Matt Taibbi

• The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement

"...Reality in Soviet news was 100% binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another...

Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed. 

Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like “glittering,” “full-hearted,” “wise,” “mighty,” “courageous,” “in complete moral-political union with the people,” etc.

Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:

— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty

— Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor

— Biden's historic victory for America

...Forget that the “impregnable to parody” pol spent the last campaign year 

• jamming fingers in the sternums of voters, 
• challenging them to pushup contests, 
• calling them “lying dog-faced pony soldiers,” and 
• forgetting what state he was in. 
• Biden, on the day Zoglin ran his piece, couldn’t remember the name of his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, 
• and referred to the Department of Defense as “that outfit over there”...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 14

History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com

Albert Einstein 1879

• 1629 - A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
• 1891 - The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
• 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. A deal was signed on November 6, 1903 with the newly independent Panama.
• 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12― hours to 93 minutes.
• 1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married.

Reporter confronts Jen Psaki over whether Biden admin's spin is making border crisis worse - TheBlaze

Reporter confronts Jen Psaki over whether Biden admin's spin is making border crisis worse - TheBlaze: 

As thousands of unaccompanied migrants have entered to the U.S., the Biden administration has been forced to deal with its first major crisis. Migrant children are reportedly being housed in detention facilities "akin to jails" and are being separated from their families. Unfortunately for President Joe Biden, the problem is only expected to grow. In fact, according to Homeland Security estimates, immigration officials expect a record 117,000 unaccompanied minors to travel to the U.S. this year alone, Axios reported.

The way we were-----A stay at the Holiday Inn - Life in America

Boob-tube-----Family Guy - Back To The Future

"I'm In A Cult!" - The Miseducation Of America's Elites | ZeroHedge

"I'm In A Cult!" - The Miseducation Of America's Elites | ZeroHedge

• Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret...
  

"The dissidents use pseudonyms...these are the rebels: well-off Los Angeles parents who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.

By normal American standards, they are quite wealthy. 

...So it strikes them as something more than ironic that a school that costs more than $40,000 a year—a school with Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right hand, and Sarah Murdoch, wife of Lachlan and Rupert’s daughter-in-law, on its board—is teaching students that capitalism is evil.

For most parents, the demonization of capitalism is the least of it. 

They say that their children tell them they’re afraid to speak up in class. 

Most of all, they worry that the school’s new plan to become an “anti-racist institution”—unveiled this July, in a 20-page document—is making their kids fixate on race and attach importance to it in ways that strike them as grotesque...Read all!

And our media covers this up-----Fauci and the Communists

Fauci and the Communists

"This past week, Dr. Anthony Fauci shared a platform with a Chinese Communist Party “health expert,” and it went largely unreported by any Western media outlets. 

Chinese state media, on the other hand, could not get enough of it, because Fauci delivered a propaganda coup for the communist regime in Beijing. 

Countless state media outlets and CCP official praised the co-panelists for endorsing the endless amounts of anti-American propaganda shared during the event, which included demanding more devastating draconian restrictions in order to “combat” COVID-19. 

...comes following the revelation last week that Fauci and his deputies were directly coordinating with the Chinese government over COVID-19 messaging during the early outbreak in Wuhan, China. 

The transparency watchdog organization Judicial Watch has released new government emails acquired via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which show U.S. government health institutions signed off on COVID-19 related non disclosure agreements requested by Chinese Communist Party officials.

It’s important to recall that the United States and over 100 countries initiated lockdowns exclusively because of the “data” that was being transmitted out of Wuhan. 

It was faulty, unchallenged Chinese data, repeated by authoritative figures like Fauci and his colleagues, that convinced the world to undergo lockdowns and embrace early, aggressive ventilation of COVID-19 patients, among other botched, unscientific treatment and mitigation measures...Read all.