Missing texts between FBI officials trashing Donald Trump recovered - Washington Times

Missing texts between FBI officials trashing Donald Trump recovered - Washington Times

"Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Congress that his investigators had managed to recover messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were both ousted from the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
Republicans had wondered how the messages disappeared — particularly after another batch between the reported lovers revealed a number of curiosities about the investigations of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump."

Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California's Stonehenge? - Victor Davis Hanson

Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California's Stonehenge? - Victor Davis Hanson:
"Nobody quite knows who built Stonehenge some 5,000 years ago in southern England. 
The mysterious ring of huge stone monoliths stands mute.
Californians may leave behind similarly enigmatic monuments for puzzled future generations. 
Along a 119-mile pathway in central California from Bakersfield to Madera, there are now huge, quarter-finished cement overpasses. These are the totems of the initial segment of a planned high-speed-rail corridor.
Californians thought high-speed rail was a great idea when they voted for it in 2008. 
...Planners assured voters that the cost for the first 520 miles was going to be an "affordable" $33 billion. 
...But projected coasts have soared even before one foot of track has been laid. 
The entire project's estimated costs, according to various projections, may have nearly doubled. 
...There is no assurance that enough Central Valley riders will wish to use the line..."
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Can California Save Itself From A Pension Disaster? | Hoover Institution

Can California Save Itself From A Pension Disaster? | Hoover Institution:
"The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and other pension systems in the Golden State might be celebrating their recent investment returns, but don’t be fooled. 
Their problems are nowhere close to solved — and those problems are taxpayers’ problems.
Unfunded pension liabilities continue to represent a colossal fiscal burden for both the state government and local governments within California. 
They’re the reason that taxes are higher than ever, crowding out the services that the state and cities deliver.
And it’s getting worse..."
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#1 This day 1968-----Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

The Islamization of Germany in 2017: Part II

The Islamization of Germany in 2017: Part II:

• "We must expect further attacks by individuals or terror groups. Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge facing the BfV and we see it as one of the biggest threats facing the internal security of Germany." — Hans-Georg Maaßen, President of Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency.
• Nearly half (45%) of all crime suspects in Berlin in 2016 were migrants, according to official statistics published by the Berliner Morgenpost.
• Thieves broke into an immigration office in the Moabit district of Berlin and stole up to 20,000 blank passports and other immigration documents as well as official stamps and seals.
• Around 30,000 rejected asylum seekers have disappeared and the government has no idea where they are, according to Bild.
• "One cannot kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place." — German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

The following is a chronological survey of some of the main stories about Islam and Islamism in Germany during the second half of 2017. 
Part 1 of this series can be found here..."
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Illegals commit crimes at double the rate of native-born: Study - Washington Times

Illegals commit crimes at double the rate of native-born: Study - Washington Times:

"His findings also challenge the general narrative that immigrants commit fewer crimes. Those past studies usually don’t look at legal versus illegal populations, Mr. Lott said.
Mr. Lott said the Arizona data is able to peek behind that curtain, and the differences between the populations were stark.
“There appears to be a huge difference between the two groups,” Mr. Lott said. “The type of person who goes through the process to legally immigrate in the United States appears to be very law-abiding versus even the U.S.-born population. The reverse is true for undocumented immigrants — they are committing crimes, and more serious crimes.”"

Maxine Waters Is Giving A National Address On BET After Trump’s State Of The Union

Maxine Waters Is Giving A National Address On BET After Trump’s State Of The Union:
"Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, will speak at the top of a BET News special after Trump delivers the State of the Union, a BET spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
...The spokesperson said activists and some elected officials will analyze Trump’s first year in office on the program, and will talk about "building black politics and the value of engagement across today’s socio-political landscape." 
A Democratic source familiar with the production on Friday night told BuzzFeed News that it wasn't immediately clear if the program would air on Tuesday or Wednesday night."...
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AM Fruitcake

History for January 28

History for January 28 - On-This-Day.com:
Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841, Jose Marti 1853, William Seward Burroughs 1857 


Jackson Pollock 1912, Alan Alda 1936 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Barbi Benton 1950 - Actress 


1521 - The Diet of Worms began, at which Protestant reformer Luther was declared an outlaw by the Roman Catholic church.


1547 - England's King Henry VIII died. He was succeeded by his 9 year-old son, Edward VI.


1788 - The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay.


1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.


1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.

1916 - Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by President Wilson to the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming its first Jewish member.


1922 - The National Football League (NFL) franchise in Decatur, IL, transferred to Chicago. The team took the name Chicago Bears.


1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.

Gingrich: Very Top Of FBI Became Deeply Corrupt Under Obama | Video | RealClearPolitics

Gingrich: Very Top Of FBI Became Deeply Corrupt Under Obama | Video | RealClearPolitics:

"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warns FNC's Sean Hannity that Hillary Clinton and James Comey are "in trouble."
"I think you're beginning to see the pieces come together in what I think is going to be an unbelievably big scandal," Gingrich said. "

Obama-Farrakhan Photo Released After 13-Year Media Cover-up - Breitbart

Obama-Farrakhan Photo Released After 13-Year Media Cover-up - Breitbart:

"Obama did not explicitly reject Farrakhan’s support.
There are other, similar instances in which Obama claimed to have had no association with radicals and was later discovered to have lied.
For example, Obama claimed during the 2008 campaign that he had no continuing links with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, with whom Obama had served on a board in the 1990s. Breitbart News discovered that then-Sen. Obama had attended a barbecue at Ayers’s home in Chicago in July 2005."

The way we were-----Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (original version)

Boob-tube-----shari lewis

News - The Post Office: Doing All The Wrong Things In All The Wrong Ways | Heartland Institute

News - The Post Office: Doing All The Wrong Things In All The Wrong Ways | Heartland Institute:
"Government is awful at doing…just about everything.
In no small part because of the rigid, unyielding dictates of human nature. 
Government, of course, being populated by humans – is not immune to these dictates.
...the government Post Office (USPS). 
An ongoing, rolling, unmitigated disaster – because…it’s government. 
So it breaks all of the immutable rules.
Let us view the Post Office in two halves, Twix-style – the snail mail side, and the package delivery side.
The snail mail side possesses a distinct, authoritarian advantage. 
They have mandated themselves a monopoly. 
If a private sector business tries to go into the snail mail delivery business – they will instead go directly to jail.
Having outlawed any competitors – the government Post Office is under no pressure to do things…very well at all. 
Because where else you got to go?...
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On Notice – Senator Chuck Grassley Sends Letters Requesting Information… | The Last Refuge

On Notice – Senator Chuck Grassley Sends Letters Requesting Information… | The Last Refuge:

"As part of their ongoing oversight efforts to ensure that the FBI’s law enforcement activities are free of improper political influence, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) yesterday sent six letters seeking information and documents regarding Christopher Steele’s work on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary for America."

EQUALITY! Oxford Extends Math And Science Exam Times To Diminish Gender Gap | Daily Wire

EQUALITY! Oxford Extends Math And Science Exam Times To Diminish Gender Gap | Daily Wire
"Oxford University was apparently troubled that men were outperforming women on math and computer science exams, so they decided to allow extra testing time in an attempt to alleviate the gender gap since "female candidates might be more likely to be adversely affected by time pressure."

In other words, Oxford lowered standards on their tests, making them easier to pass, with the hope of improving women's test scores and achieving "true equality."...
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RECORD: George Soros Spent SIXTEEN MILLION Dollars Opposing Donald Trump Last Year | Daily Wire

RECORD: George Soros Spent SIXTEEN MILLION Dollars Opposing Donald Trump Last Year | Daily Wire:

"George Soros spent a record sixteen million dollars trying to oppose President Donald Trump's agenda during his first year in office, a report from The Washington Free Beacon found. It's the most the foreign billionaire has ever spent trying to thwart a president's agenda.

And that's just one organization — Soros's Open Society Foundation, the group Soros uses to coordinate and direct all of his other progressive efforts."

The Real Hidden Tax on Increased Insurance Coverage | Economics21

The Real Hidden Tax on Increased Insurance Coverage | Economics21
"Friends and foes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) alike tend to target the relative effectiveness of the (soon-to-be-repealed) individual mandate as the key factor behind relatively higher levels of insurance coverage since the law was enacted in 2010. 
...In reality, overall coverage gains under the ACA hit a modest, but relatively stable, plateau well before last month’s tax-cutting budget reconciliation law decided to eliminate further penalties under the individual mandate as of 2019. 

Those initial reductions in the number of uninsured Americans were due primarily to expanded eligibility for Medicaid and, secondarily, to generous subsidies for lower-incomeenrollees in state-based health insurance exchanges.
The less-explored question involves why Obamacare’s overall combination of taxpayer subsidies, expanded insurance programs, health benefits requirements, AND coverage mandates had so much less of an effect than the law’s architects envisioned.
It turns out that many of the nominally uninsured still have other alternatives to health care than just through heavily-subsidized Medicaid and exchange-based insurance. 

You might call such uncompensated care either an option for “implicit insurance” or a hidden tax on acquiring more formal coverage..."

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7 Lies Of The ‘Women’s March’, And 1 Thing They Got Right | Daily Wire

7 Lies Of The ‘Women’s March’, And 1 Thing They Got Right | Daily Wire
"While critics of last weekend’s “Women’s March” disparage the parade as the most frivolous protest in the history of the world, pussyhat-clad harpies have responded by shrieking profanities. 
As the historian David McCullough observes, “To write well is to think therefore,” and so the Women’s March vapid mission statement flows as incoherently as one might expect:

The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events. Women’s March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

When the organizers tire of platitudinous vacuity, they settle into the more traditional feminist enterprise of peddling outright falsehoods by insinuating that various rights and privileges are being trampled in the United States. 
Here are the eight “unity principles” of the Women’s March..."
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Lunch video-----Dan Bongino: Socialism Equates Failure

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At Long Last, Michigan College Admits It Was Wrong to Arrest People Handing out the Constitution

At Long Last, Michigan College Admits It Was Wrong to Arrest People Handing out the Constitution:

"On September 20, 2016, well over a year ago, Kellogg Community College in Michigan arrested three people for handing out copies of the Constitution on campus.
Yes, you read that right…the Constitution, the very document that protects free speech. It’s amazing this even made it to court.
But it did make it to court, where the Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys with the Center for Academic Freedom presented arguments on behalf of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) – the group that was handing out the copies of the Constitution and asking those that passed by if they “like freedom and liberty.” "

Get Ready for a Meat Tax Push | National Review

Get Ready for a Meat Tax Push | National Review:
"Remember the old saw, “If it moves, tax it?” 
Well now, there’s a corollary, “If it once mooed, baaed, clucked, quacked, or gobbled, tax it.” 
Yes, here comes the meat tax push–because you know, eating meat to environmentalists and animal rights activists is a terrible sin. 
From the Americans for Tax Reform warning (quoting Bloomberg Law): Excise taxes on beef, pork, and chicken could be the next big thing in a state and local tax environment that’s already comfortable with “sin tax” regimes aimed at cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and gambling and is adapting quickly to special levies on sugar-sweetened beverages, greenhouse gases, and marijuana..."
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WELL, YES: The Russia ‘Fake News’ Scare Is All About Chilling Speech. David Harsanyi: If y…

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WELL, YES: The Russia ‘Fake News’ Scare Is All About Chilling Speech.

David Harsanyi:

If you genuinely believe that Donald Trump’s distasteful tweets are attacks on the foundations of free expression, how can you not be alarmed by a pair of powerful elected officials demanding social media companies hand over information about their users? What would they say if the president had sent a letter to Google insisting they give the executive branch an “in-depth forensic examination” of his political opponent’s searches?

As it turns out, reports today say that Twitter’s internal analysis found that it was mostly Americans, not creepy Slavic mind-control robots, who were behind the hashtags. Not that it really matters, anyway. If a group of Americans have a legitimate issue to rally around, how are they supposed to control what outsiders do? It’s not as if #ReleaseTheMemo was a secret or illegal. Republican politicians were openly using it.

Yet, if Feinstein and Schiff had their way, Twitter and Facebook would have moved to quash the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag for what turned out to be apparently solely partisan reasons. Sounds like a power that can be abused. Even if the two had been genuinely troubled by Russian hashtags — yes, suspend your disbelief — the source of fake news is not always easily discernible. Sometimes it comes to you from an anonymous Russian bot, and sometimes it’s retweeted by a prominent journalist.

Democrats have manufactured panic over amateurish Russian propaganda to not only claim that Vlad Putin was “meddling” in the election, but also to argue that interference had the power to turn the election to Trump. With this risible idea in hand, they have created paranoia about social media interactions and rationalized infringements on expression.

"It’s always about rationalizing infringements on what the proles are allowed to read, say, or do."  Posted by Stephen Green