Will the Deep State Conspirators Ever Be Held Accountable?

Instapundit Blog Archive MARK ELLIS: Will the Deep State Conspirators Ever Be Held Accountable? 
“Even given all we now know, and are learning from Hannity’s ‘boomerang’ extravaganza each day, it would be irresponsible to categorically state that yes, this person, those people, will ever be charged or brought to trial, let alone hear the clank of a cell door closing behind them. 
Due to the labyrinthine depths, interconnectivity, and power inherent in a Deep State that has shocked a nation aghast at the reach of rogue bureaucracies, no one can say for certain whether any of those who concocted this conspiracy will ever be brought to justice.”---Posted by Stephen Green"

The Equality Act would turn America upside down - Washington Times

The Equality Act would turn America upside down - Washington Times
"Democrats in the House are celebrating Friday’s passage of the Equality Act, a misnamed legal jackhammer that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to federal civil rights law.
It goes far beyond allowing men into women’s sports and locker rooms, as bad as that is.
It provides the state with the power to persecute anyone who won’t celebrate any aspect of the LGBTQ agenda.
Far from merely expanding civil rights categories, it turns any recognition of the differences between the sexes or any preference for traditional sexual morality into actionable “hate,” creating fertile grounds for lawsuits.
“It is the most dangerous bill to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion that has ever been proposed on a national level,” says Houston Baptist University Prof. Robert Gagnon, an expert in biblical sexual morality.
“It will codify into law that you are a bigot, the moral equivalent of a racist, tantamount to being a member of the Klu Klux Klan, who must be shut out of society and, wherever possible, harassed and persecuted for your beliefs.”
In other words, it will criminalize Christianity, an ongoing process that got a big boost from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on same-sex “marriage.”
This draconian bill passed by a vote of 236-173, with 8 Republicans joining 228 Democrats.
Another 16 Republicans and 7 Democrats did not vote.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has actually endorsed it. 
When did destroying the moral order and paving the way for more lawsuits against businesses become part of the chamber’s mission?..."
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Al Jazeera Gets Twitter To Silence Critics Of Its Video Implying Jews Benefited From Holocaust | The Daily Caller

Al Jazeera Gets Twitter To Silence Critics Of Its Video Implying Jews Benefited From Holocaust | The Daily Caller:

The Qatar-funded Al Jazeera news network published a video questioning the Holocaust and implying that Jews have benefited from it.
Then, when Western media caught them and published translations, Twitter agreed to censor the westerners’ translated versions, invoking Al Jazeera’s copyright.

The Top 30 Deadliest Animals on Earth | Biology | Science 101

The Top 30 Deadliest Animals on Earth | Biology | Science 101
"Animals kill humans every day, but it’s not always the ones we most suspect. Death can come from the water, a farm, the jungle, or even our vegetables. Many animals are simply more deadly because humans are around them more often, compared to the scary ones we stay away from. And certainly all of these animals cause injuries or disease to many more humans than they actually kill. Starting at number 30 and getting deadlier, we countdown these killer critters.

29. Alligators--These huge reptiles certainly are a scary sight, but out of every animal on this list, they’re responsible for the fewest human deaths per year. Alligators only kill about three people each year. In fact, more people die from lightning strikes in the US than from alligators...

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28. Wolves..."

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Each of you must denounce and report six Americans

Each of you must denounce and report six Americans

4 in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
"Comrades, we're making PROGress, but not enough. 
If we can't shame them to come over to the Red side, we change how we count the numbers. if we (ahem) alter the population counted (numbers in Gulag don't count) we can rise to majority in no time. 
Two out of five is nice, but four out of ten sounds like we are influencing a greater number, so we're going with that.
Report your neighbors with cars, nicer things, better shovels, fancy degrees from universities (except degrees in ebonics or gender studies; sociology degree holders will be reviewed one by one). 
You know the drill. Little Jimmy (or Jamal) goes to school with half of a government cheese sandwich for lunch if he's lucky, but Sally and Chad have chicken salad sandwiches and a bag of chips? 
Kids, report them to your teacher, and if she doesn't forward the report, report HER!
Vote Bernie, Vote Early, and Vote OFTEN! 
It's for the Children™"

Lunch video-----Silly Snowflake Get Charged, Cuffed and Arrested After Stealing Pro-Life...

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House Freedom Caucus Condemns Rep Justin Amash After Impeachment Stance | The Daily Caller

House Freedom Caucus Condemns Rep Justin Amash After Impeachment Stance | The Daily Caller:

The conservative House Freedom Caucus condemned member Republican Michigan Rep. Justin Amash Monday after his Saturday comments that President Donald Trump “engaged in impeachable conduct.”
Every caucus member at the meeting Monday opposed Amash’s impeachment stance, Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said, according to Politico. Amash was not at the meeting and has shown up for virtually no meetings the entire year, sources told Politico.

A Typical High School Tells a Larger Story: Schools Are Now Dominated by the Feminist Agenda | News and Politics

A Typical High School Tells a Larger Story: Schools Are Now Dominated by the Feminist Agenda | News and Politics
"Recently, my wife Janice posted a video in her Fiamengo File series about an Ottawa school, Brookfield High, that had launched a ManUp campaign, complete with posters targeting males as prone to evil and females as innocent victims. 
“Judging from the displays,” she states, “Brookfield High goes out of its way to make girls feel welcome through positive messaging; boys, in contrast, are set apart to be lectured and shamed about male evil.”
The poster, which reads When you stand back and watch evil, you’re standing by it, “strongly reinforces the grim mood…
The clear implication is that this boy…WILL encounter ‘evil’ at his school—not amidst the slutty girls who tempt him…but amidst the other boys who will supposedly do bad things to girls and condone violence.”...
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What a concept!-----ESPN president says network moving away from politics, putting focus on ...

#1 This day 1945-----Les Brown and the Ames Brothers - Sentimental Journey (1951)

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot hires private security operator married to lobbyist to run her security detail - Chicago Tribune

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot hires private security operator married to lobbyist to run her security detail - Chicago Tribune
"New Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s security detail will be headed up by a former U.S. marshal who’s married to a city lobbyist for United Airlines, in a departure from Chicago mayors traditionally relying on city police officers to keep them safe.
James Smith is a managing partner at Silver Star Protection Group.
...Lightfoot’s administration will look to Smith to coordinate her security rather than relying primarily on the Chicago Police Department. 
It was unclear Tuesday how Smith would be paid.
...She did not respond to questions about whether it’s appropriate for the person running the mayor’s security detail to be married to a corporate lobbyist.
Lightfoot campaigned on a pledge to end the influence of political insiders at City Hall..."
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Well, why doncha?

Devin Nunes: Mueller knew there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion on day one

Devin Nunes: Mueller knew there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion on day one:

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., went further than Attorney General William Barr to answer the question of when special counsel Robert Mueller knew there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In an interview that aired Friday on Fox News, Barr said he "couldn't say."
Appearing after Barr, Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was not so hesitant.

Where were you that day?-----Flight 191: 40 years later -- Chicago Tribune

Flight 191: 40 years later -- Chicago Tribune
"As 258 passengers filed on to American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare International Airport the Friday before Memorial Day in 1979, nothing suggested that they would never reach Los Angeles.
They would have listened to the flight attendant instruct them how to buckle the seat belt and where to find the emergency exits.
None of that would matter.
As the three-engine McDonnell Douglas DC-10 accelerated down the runway, reaching takeoff speed, the left engine broke away, vaulting over the aircraft’s wing.
The pilots heard a thunk.
“Damn,” one of the pilots said.
It would be the last word captured by the cockpit voice recorder.
...How the crash happened..."
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History for May 23

History for May 23 - On-This-Day.com
Friedrich Anton Mesmer 1734 - Physician, astrologist, Margaret Fuller (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) 1810 - Journalist, critic, women's rights activist, Artie Shaw 1910 - Band leader


Scatman Crothers (Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers) 1910 - Actor, musician, singer, dancer, Lauren Chapin 1945 - Actress ("Father Knows Best"), Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host


1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.


1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.

Here’s How The Asylum System Is Being Exploited | The Daily Caller

Here’s How The Asylum System Is Being Exploited | The Daily Caller:

Tens of thousands of apprehended migrants from the Central American countries driving the border crisis exploit loopholes in the immigration system by making false asylum claims, according to data, experts and surveys.
The loopholes allow “people with suspect asylum claims … to make their way into the interior of the United States and disappear,” one expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Data shows only about half of the migrants from those countries who claim asylum actually file a formal application after being let into the U.S.

The way we were-----The B-52's - Private Idaho (ACR10 - NTSC)

Boob-tube-----Monty Python Deductive Reasoning

5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual | Intellectual Takeout

5 Telltale Signs That You’re a Sapiosexual | Intellectual Takeout:

• Never underestimate the sex appeal of intelligence.

"Is there anything more complex and multifaceted than human attraction? 
My best friend and myself have discussed in the past how different we are when it comes to the women that we find attractive. 
While we can usually agree on people who are conventionally beautiful, our personal tastes seem to be on entirely opposite ends of the spectrum.

When it comes to finding a partner, however, there is usually one trait that sticks out for both of us, and that’s intelligence.  
A beautiful mind never goes underrated. 
And if you’re a sapiosexual, then you’re probably like us–you value a person’s mind over their body.

Here are five signs that you’re a sapiosexual:..."
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Dobson rips 'thinly veiled death sentence to 1st Amendment' - WND

Dobson rips 'thinly veiled death sentence to 1st Amendment' - WND:

Now it’s the U.S. Congress, where the House last week adopted the Equality Act.
It is nothing less than “a thinly veiled death sentence to the First Amendment to the Constitution,” James Dobson Family Institute founder James Dobson warned on Monday.
“In the history of our nation, there have been times when evil was so apparent – and so heinous – that they stand in infamy decades later. They include the Dred Scott Decision on slavery in 1857, and the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. Now, we are faced with another such tragic moment in American history,” he said.

Walter E. Williams---Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering

Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering: 

• Presidential contenders are in a battle to out-give one another.

"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposes a whopping $50,000 per student college loan forgiveness. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposes free health care for all Americans plus illegal aliens. 
Most Democratic presidential candidates promise free stuff that includes free college, universal income, “Medicare for All,” and debt forgiveness.
Their socialist predecessors made promises, too.

• “Freedom and Bread” was the slogan used by Adolf Hitler during the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) campaign against President Paul von Hindenburg. 
• Hitler even promised, “In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband.”
• Stalin promised a great socialist-Marxist society that included better food and better worker conditions.
• China’s Mao Zedong promised democratic constitutionalism and the dream that “farmers have land to till.” These, and other promises, gave Mao the broad political support he needed to win leadership of the entire country in 1949.

Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized..."
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Which Major West Coast City Is Being Overwhelmed By Rats, Drugs, Crime, Piles Of Garbage And Hordes Of Homeless People?

Which Major West Coast City Is Being Overwhelmed By Rats, Drugs, Crime, Piles Of Garbage And Hordes Of Homeless People?
"Can you name the major west coast city that has become a rotting, decaying hellhole and is being completely overwhelmed by rats, drugs, crime, piles of garbage and hordes of homeless people?  
Of course San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, “all of them” and “any of them” would all be correct answers, but in this article we are going to talk about Los Angeles.  
Once upon a time, millions of young Americans flocked to “sunny L.A.” in order to experience “the California Dream”, but these days Los Angeles seems to be on the cutting edge of many of our most critical societal problems.  L.A. has been known for Hollywood, the porn industry and world class traffic congestion, but now it is also becoming famous for “rat-infested piles of rotting garbage”…

Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year’s record number of flea-borne typhus cases..."  Read all.

Lunch video-----The Truth About the Euro Elections

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Meadows Says Declassification Of Russia Probe Documents Is ‘Right Around The Corner’ | The Daily Caller

Meadows Says Declassification Of Russia Probe Documents Is ‘Right Around The Corner’ | The Daily Caller:

North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows said important documents relating to the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign will be released soon on Monday.
The House Oversight Committee member responded to the former committee chair Trey Gowdy’s comments that the FBI possibly withheld “game-changing” evidence regarding the origins of the Russia probe. Meadows said he agreed with Gowdy that former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos was being taped and recorded by FBI informants and that the unreleased transcript was never released to the FISA court, in an appearance on Fox News.

Why Is Fat a Feminist Issue? | News and Politics

Why Is Fat a Feminist Issue? | News and Politics
"In a speech on the topic of “radical fat liberation” jointly sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Department and the Center for Equity and Inclusion (what else?) at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, the prodigiously overweight Sonalee Rashatwar, a self-proclaimed Fat Sex Therapist, compared fitness trainers to Nazis, defined child dieting as sexual assault, attributed the Christchurch shooting to ‘thin” white supremacism, and condemned science as “fataphobic” for “promoting the idea that certain bodies are fit, able and desirable.”
She wonders, rhetorically, “is it my fatness that causes my high blood pressure, or is it my experience of weight stigma?”
She goes on to blame the Reagan administration for having refused to provide “social supports that also help me to subsidize my food costs.” 
...Rashatwar, of course, is not alone in pursuing her redemptive mission.
Fat is big in the feminist Weltanschauung..."
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Gotta love their governor!!-----TEXAS LAWMAKERS PASS ‘SAVE CHICK-FIL-A’ BILL IN THE HOUSE

Instapundit  Blog Archive  TEXAS LAWMAKERS PASS ‘SAVE CHICK-FIL-A’ BILL IN THE HOUSE

"..The “Save Chick-fil-A” bill does not allow the government to take “any adverse action” against any contractor, individual or business because of their religious beliefs...

There appears to be a very slight aura of a penumbra of a chance that Gov. Abbott will sign the bill:

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#1 This day 1966-----Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (Live)

French widow sues Boeing for $276 million over Ethiopian Airlines crash - CNN

French widow sues Boeing for $276 million over Ethiopian Airlines crash - CNN:
"...Explaining how he arrived at that sum, Husain added:
"In 2018, Boeing grossed $101 billion. 
When you take that figure and divide it by 365, you arrive at the figure of $276 million."
"Is one day's worth of gross receipts by Boeing severe enough to deter future behavior?
Or is it one week's worth of wages, or one month, or one year?
That's going to be for the jury to decide."
Dubois-Seex joins several lawsuits to have been filed against Boeing in the aftermath of the deadly crashes..."
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And yet they still wonder...

Hezbollah Is Feeling The Squeeze Of Trump’s Sanctions | The Daily Caller

Hezbollah Is Feeling The Squeeze Of Trump’s Sanctions | The Daily Caller:

Hezbollah has been forced to make “draconian cuts” to its expenditures as a direct result of President Donald Trump’s 2018 sanctions on Iran, according to The Washington Post.
Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, received upwards of $700 million a year, or 70% of its revenue, from Iran in the past. But Iran’s ability to finance the Lebanese militia group has been significantly curtailed after Trump pulled out of former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, WaPo reported on May 18.

How About Some “Adversity Points” For Hardworking Kids Of Hardworking Parents?

How About Some “Adversity Points” For Hardworking Kids Of Hardworking Parents?
"The latest tactic for the elite to shaft Normal Americans is the obnoxious “adversity score” that the academifascists who run the SATs plan to introduce as a way to give a fig leaf of objectivity and fairness to their screwing over of your kids in favor of the kids of people they prefer. 
Do you think there is any chance, and chance at all, that these secret numbers based upon secret factors and kept secret from you will make it more likely for your children to get into one of the elite schools?Yeah, right.
If only someone had predicted this kind of social credit nightmare…
...these “adversity scores” – like every other scam the elite pulls – are a fraud designed to increase the arbitrary power and control of the ruling class..."
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