Since Democrats are in meltdown over the fired Inspectors General, remember that Norm Eisen fired IGs for clearly political reasons under Obama.

The Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) Gerald Walpin was fired by Eisen after his tough oversight efforts to hold senior officials accountable for excusing a friend/Obama crony who mismanaged charter school funds and was sexually inappropriate towards students. 

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Finance Committee put out a 62 page report, “The Firing of the Inspector General for the CNCS,” outlined how Obama allies and Eisen were able to remove Walpin without a formal review.

• The White House Counsel’s Office withheld information from Congress and misled investigators after Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley questioned the President’s methods and motives for removing Walpin.
• There was sizable evidence the removal was motivated by a desire to protect a friend and political ally of the President, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 12

History for March 12 - On-This-Day.com

Jack Kerouac 1922

• 1496 - Jews were expelled from Syria.
• 1755 - In North Arlington, NJ, the steam engine was used for the first time.
• 1789 - The U.S. Post Office was established.
• 1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
• 1938 - The "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria.
• 1947 - U.S. President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
• 1987 - "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
• 1989 - About 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of an exhibit.

Gavin Newsom to Charlie Kirk: 'Democratic Party Brand Has Just Been Crushed'

Gavin Newsom to Charlie Kirk: 'Democratic Party Brand Has Just Been Crushed': 

Newsom was specifically referring to his unwillingness to agree with Kirk that men should not compete in women’s sports, arguing that for him it is a matter of “principle,” not politics.

“I deeply am mindful of the politics of this, which are very unhelpful personally, and unhelpful more broadly and professionally to the Democratic Party and our brand,” Newsom added. “The Democratic Party brand has just been crushed.”

The way we were-----Rise of the Goths (Fall of Western Roman Empire)

What If Everything You Thought About CO2 Was Wrong?

Was Joe Biden’s Presidency One Long, Quiet Insurrection?

virtually every one was signed by an autopen rather than by the president’s own hand. - Andrew Shirley 

Late last week, the Oversight Project, an investigatory arm of the Heritage Foundation, revealed on X that a study of presidential documents from the Biden administration showed that virtually every one was signed by an autopen rather than by the president’s own hand.
“We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency,” the Oversight Project wrote. 

“All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.”
If the Oversight Project’s findings turn out to be accurate, it is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the scandal it would represent. 

• It would raise the alarming possibility (which Republicans long warned of) that the country was effectively being run by unelected Biden aides rather than the duly-elected President of the United States – a soft coup d’état that should enrage every American voter, regardless of political affiliation...

Can’t spell Triumph without Trump - Don Surber

The new Trump World Order puts freedom first 

A month ago, the Stockholm Sentinel tweeted with a video, “In 2018, Christoph Heusgen and German diplomats at the UN laughed when Trump said that green energy would make Germany totally reliant on Russia.
“Yesterday, Heusgen cried at the end of the Munich Security Conference about JD Vance’s speech on values.”...
The dummkopfs in Germany thought their windmills and solar thingies—bought with the money they didn’t spend on their military—would make them independent of coal, natural gas and other things that actually work. 

• They did not notice that Red China, which makes the solar panels, doesn’t use them.
• Then the runners up in World War 2 got involved in the Ukraine War, sending in military stuff and imposing economic sanctions on Russia. 
• Putin said fine and jacked up energy prices.

The price of electricity in German soared from 17 cents per kilowatt hour in April 2020 to $4.69 in August 2022. It is now $1.40—or 8 times what Germans once paid.

Trump saw it coming 4 years earlier. 

On September 25, 2018, Trump told the UN, “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.”...

Mike Rowe: Why Are 7.2 Million Able-Bodied Men Not Looking for Work? | EpochTV

Mike Rowe: Why Are 7.2 Million Able-Bodied Men Not Looking for Work? | EpochTV
President Donald Trump has promised that he will bring back American manufacturing during his presidency. 

• What if there aren’t enough Americans who want to work those jobs?
• “Every year for the last decade or so, for every five tradesmen who retire, two replace them,” says Mike Rowe, Emmy Award-winning TV host of the Dirty Jobs series.

“If we don’t have a workforce who is disabused of the stigmas and the stereotypes and the myths and the misperceptions that have kept millions of kids from giving these jobs an honest look ... you’re going to wind up in a pretty nasty feedback loop,” he says.
“People still don’t believe me. Even when I show them, not just the stats, but the actual humans who are making $150-grand a year welding with an $8,000 certificate, they just don’t believe it,” he says...

'Wake me the [bleep] up': Potty-mouth Dems think swearing like drunken sailors will make Americans like them * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Wake me the [bleep] up': Potty-mouth Dems think swearing like drunken sailors will make Americans like them * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Democratic members of Congress have upped their use of profanity in an effort to be more relatable to Americans, Politico reported Sunday. The upsurge in swearing comes as Democrats face criticism for their conduct during President Donald Trump's address to Congress, when they remained seated and rarely applauded during Trump's address, even when Secret Service Director Sean Curran presented Devarjaye "D.J." Daniel, who is battling brain cancer, with credentials during the speech. One Democratic strategist told Politico that some of the increased use of profanity by Democrats was an affect, rather than being "authentic."

"What's Coming in the Next 30 Days Is UGLY and May DESTROY America..." –...

What??!!-----Tucker does Iran | Power Line

This past November, Erica Orden reported that “Iran ordered an operative to assassinate Trump before the election,

Last week Tucker Carlson released an interview with the prime minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. 

He seems to think the prime minister is a friend of the United States and that he is offering us valuable advice that has caused him to be taken down by “American media.” 

If only.

Tucker may not have kept up with the news regarding Iranian operations in the United States. He puts the fact that Iran is a “sponsor of terror” in scare quotes. He assures us that Iran is not our problem. 

Lunch video-----"Scientists Forecast"

Noon-toon

 

Your job, your future, your humanity: AI just crossed the line we can never undo | Blaze Media

Your job, your future, your humanity: AI just crossed the line we can never undo | Blaze Media: 

AI isn’t a passing trend. It’s not a gadget or a convenience. It is the most powerful force humanity has ever created. And if you don’t take the time to understand it now, you will be at its mercy.

This is the defining moment of our time. Will you be a master of AI? Or will you be mastered by it? The choice is yours. But if you wait too long, you won’t have a choice at all.

83% Yes!!

 

Dr. Peter McCullough Links Bird Flu Outbreak To USDA Gain-Of-Function Experiment In Georgia | ZeroHedge

"This strain of bird flu is different... We're so sure of it that we've published this in a peer-reviewed paper … and it hasn't been disputed by any of the public health officials. We cite the USDA research." McCullough told Bigtree. - Tyler Durden
McCullough continued, "Serial passage is when a blend of viral strains is intentionally put in a mallard duck. 

They were trying to see which strain would pass to other mallard ducks...

And indeed, they found CLADE 23446 that looked like it transmitted ... and sure enough, Athens was where the first cases were found."...

• He pointed out that USDA officials have generally used biosecurity measures such as "sterilizing the entire farm" to stop the spread, adding, "Well, that doesn't work because the mallard ducks would just continue to re-infect the farms."

And this is only a starter pack!

 

DOGE Dimensions - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry

...the allure of centralized control—and punishment—that features in every true collectivist’s dreams... - Michael Smith 

There’s one aspect of the DOGE efforts I’ve overlooked as it begins to expose the crazy and uncontrolled spending of domestic agencies and programs: the allure of centralized control—and punishment—that features in every true collectivist’s dreams...

• National Parents Union (NPU), a leftist “educational” non-profit group. NPU tweeted: “Before the @usedgov’s creation, states routinely denied education to students who were blind, deaf, or developmentally delayed. Today, MA receives over $350 million in IDEA funding annually to support students with disabilities, says @radiokeri.”
• Corey DeAngeles replied: “Straw man. The bill to abolish the Department of Education moves special needs programs to the Department of Health and Human Services.”
• @radiokeri (Keri Rodrigues, founder of National Parents and the National Parents Union Action Fund) shot back: “We’re not talking about funding. We’re talking about oversight. The states do a notoriously terrible job on this.”

The funding is secured in the bill to abolish the Department of Education, it just flows from a different source to the states. 

• The real fight is over who controls and enforces it. 

He who pays the piper calls the tune and with federal control via the Department of Education, the left could dictate nationwide policy with a single edict, leaving parents voiceless...

#1 This day 1959-----Frankie Avalon "Venus"

Big talk, tiny stick! Dem Walz lies again!-----Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump's trade war

Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. 

• Trump Tariffs© Jill Colvin - “The first victims of Trump’s Trade war? Minnesotans struggling to pay their skyrocketing electric bill,” Walz tweeted with a link to a story about Ontario’s move. “Minnesotans cannot afford Trump’s billionaire-run economy. We have to put a stop to this madness.”
• But Minnesota Power, the main electrical utility serving the part of Minnesota that borders Ontario, gets only a “very small” proportion of its power from the province, company spokesperson Amy Rutledge said...While it gets about 11% of its power supply from Manitoba Hydro, she said, that’s not affected by Ontario’s announcement. Trump© Luis M. Alvarez - “We really expect any impact on our customers to be negligible,” Rutledge said.
• Midcontinent Independent System Operator — the organization that manages a regional power grid that stretches from Manitoba to Minnesota to Louisiana — also expects little effect, spokesman Brandon Morris said. MISO gets under half its power from Canada, and less than half of that comes from Ontario, he said...

Yet, they believe Biden is "at the top of his game". And honest too!

 

Mark Levin ROASTS Jane Fonda's radical leftist SAG awards speech | Blaze Media

Mark Levin ROASTS Jane Fonda's radical leftist SAG awards speech | Blaze Media: 

“What is coming at us that you need to resist?” Levin asks. “You’ve had such a tough life as a multimillionaire in Hollywood.”

“She's part of the resistance. And what is she resisting this time? The American people,” he mocks. “I guess she likes fraud and bloat in the federal government. I guess that's okay with her.”

Levin recalls Fonda’s earlier days when she “backed the communists who were killing American troops in Vietnam” in 1972.

The Myth of Daylight Saving Time? Ed Morrissey

It's not a 50-50 issue; it's more like a 33-33-33 issue.

Many people are tired of clock shifting, but they're split as to whether to remain on Standard Time or DST permanently. 

And some people see this as a state issue rather than a federal issue, despite the fact that it clearly implicates interstate commerce to some degree.
However, there are plenty of Americans who support the status quo as well...
One reason for it being a bigger priority is that DST doesn't actually deliver on the energy savings that justified its imposition in the first place...