That sure is easier than trying to think of a clever name for a post every day.
In deference to CtH, my personal editor, I will endeavor (or endeavor, if you’re British) to shorten this a bit so it won’t take so long to load.
Kathy Griffin Slams ‘Fame-Whoring’ Lisa Bloom for Handling of Gruesome Trump Photo Shoot
MAYBE IT’S JUST ME, BUT I REALLY ENJOY IT WHEN THE LEFT EATS THEIR OWN.
Griffin stirred controversy when she participated in a June photo shoot featuring a prop bloody head resembling the president, and she subsequently brought in Bloom to deal with the fallout, which included losing her gig as co-host of CNN’s New Year’s Eve program. Griffin found Bloom’s work dissatisfactory and accused her of “fame-whoring” in a recent interview with the Daily Beast.
The Los Angeles-based attorney most recently grabbed headlines after she represented – and days later, didn’t represent – Harvey Weinstein following the release of stories detailing numerous allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against the Hollywood film mogul.
Military judge in Bergdahl case worries about Trump impact
FUNNY… EVERY CASE OF A WHITE OFFICER SHOOTING A BLACK PERSON DURING THE OBAMA YEARS, HE BLAMED THE COP OUT OF HAND. NOBODY MINDED WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID THEN.
The judge deciding Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s punishment said Monday he is concerned that President Donald Trump’s comments about the case could impact the public’s perception of the military justice system.
Sentencing was set to begin Monday for Bergdahl on charges that he endangered comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009. But the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, instead heard last-minute arguments by defense attorneys that recent comments by Trump are preventing a fair proceeding. Bergdahl faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Thousands of Americans Will Scream Helplessly at the Sky on Trump’s Election Anniversary RUSH ALWAYS SAID LIBERALS ARE DANGEROUS WHEN THEY HAVE POWER. WHEN THEY DON’T THEY’RE JUST FUNNY.
[CtH: But did you notice how, when they had a super majority, they were STILL mad at Republicans about everything?]
Thousands of concerned citizens will take part in a new ritual of sorts, commemorating the anniversary of Donald Trump’s election by screaming at the sky.
Over 4,000 Facebook users have RSVP’d—another 33,000 are interested in attending—to the Nov. 8 event being held in Boston that is quite literally titled “Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election.”
(a) they knee jerk to their “racist, sexist, homophobe” ad hominem attacks, because they can’t actually defend any of their policies with facts or logic, and
(b) voters who learn a thing or two quickly become skeptical of the Left’s whole schtick.
Take, for example, the young man who asked Dearest for GOP candidate yard signs for the upcoming local election today. He described himself as a “formerly lifelong Democrat.”
Video: Liberal college students don’t care much for Donald Trump’s new tax plan … unless of course they’re told that Bernie Sanders came up with it.
Maxine Waters says she’ll “go take Trump out tonight.”Holy catfish! Can you imagine the Leftie heads that would EXPLODE if a Republican said that about anybody, never mind if a sitting GOP legislator had said it while Obama was in office. Sheesh.
I HAVE ADDED SOME NEWS BITES IN COMMENTS HERE, BECAUSE PETE’S OCT 23RD POST HAS GOTTEN LONG ENOUGH TO BE SLOW LOADING.
Sources:
H/t Pistol Pete … I bumped this over from Pete’s post, because it went so well with the Terrell graphic I’ve been sitting on for three weeks.
Melania Trump cuts bloated first lady payroll from Michelle Obama days.
During then-President Barack Obama’s first year in office, 16 people were listed working for Michelle Obama, earning a combined $1.24 million a year. This year, just four people were listed working for Melania Trump as of June. Their salaries totaled $486,700.
Harvey Weinstein has completed a one-week sex addiction rehab in Arizona. Psychologist says he is ‘dealing with his anger’ and starting to ‘work on empathy.’
This despite reports that Weinstein was boorish in group therapy session. The disgraced producer was pulled from group after one session, psychologist says. The psychologist downplayed previous reports that the 65-year-old film producer had fallen asleep in group sessions and ranted about conspiracy theories.
Pelosi Denies There’s a Fracture in the Democratic Party on the View
Pelosi makes face when told some Democrats want her out as leader
Nothing is Sacred or Off-Limits When Opposing Trump
He said, “We’ve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.” Ahhh, casual cruelty. The ol’ combination of noun with unlikely adjective spoken in coy alliteration. Like “compassionate conservative.” A one hit wonder returning to the rhyme scheme that carried him to the top of the charts.
Most Trump supporters voted on economic issues and would not harm a flea. There are a small few who think the IRS is microwaving their brains, sure, but every successful political coalition has its whacks. Trump’s opposition seems to be dominated by whacks who think he disagrees with them to be mean. Two former presidents and a former aspirant to that office have now climbed under the tinfoil hat.
One America Appeal: Five Former Presidents Gather In Support Of Hurricane Relief, Donald Trump Praises Efforts
I’D KEEP CLINTON AWAY FROM IT…THEY MADE BILLIONS IN HAITI RELIEF DISAPPEAR
The concert, which was streamed live on the One America Appeal website, featured performances by country band Alabama, Grammy-winning “Soul Man” singer Sam Moore, gospel legend Yolanda Adams as well as Texas musicians Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen. College Station is the home to George W. Bush’s presidential library.
In a video recorded earlier today, Donald Trump showed support of One America Appeal, calling the quintet of former Presidents, “some of America’s finest public servants.” He and Melania Trump expressed gratitude for their “tremendous assistance.”
Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson has ‘nothing to say’ to Trump after controversial condolence call THE GRIEVING WIDOW HAS BECOME A CONVENIENT, ALMOST UNASSAILABLE TOOL FOR THE LEFT TO BLUDGEON TRUMP WITH
[CtH: They’ll ignore her once she isn’t useful, just like they did to Cindy Sheehan after Obama got in office and suddenly the Left didn’t give a toot about how many wars he involved us in or how many troops were being injured or killed on his watch.]
Nineteen days after her husband’s death and two days after his wrenching burial, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson said she has “nothing to say” to President Trump, whose condolence call pulled the grieving widow into the center of a national controversy.
“Very upset and hurt; it made me cry even worse,” Myeshia Johnson told “Good Morning America” about her conversation with the president.
Donald Trump Punches Back At Widow Of La David Johnson After Her ‘GMA’ Interview
TRUMP DOESN’T QUIETLY ALLOW THE SAVAGES TO RUN ALL OVER HIM LIKE BUSH DID.
President Donald Trump punched back at the widow of a soldier killed in Niger on Twitter this morning.
“I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from the beginning, without hesitation!” Trump tweeted this morning, less than an hour after Johnson said otherwise in an interview with Good Morning America.
[CtH: This is exactly how the Sheehan thing went down. Bush met with the parents and the Sheehans told the press afterwards that they had had a good talk. Only later did the “bereaved” mother become the anti-Bush darling of Democrats with her highly publicized squat by his ranch, her demands to meet with him, and her faux hunger strike. She didn’t eat BETWEEN MEALS, though she was photographed sucking on a can of soda while she had her hair done! Meanwhile, her now-estranged husband and the deaad soldier’s sibs were very opposed to what she was doing. She made a big deal about the boy’s grave stone, forcing the family to have no marker for months. Finally, on the day it was placed, Cindy was too busy doing anti-war crap in Europe to attend.]
Trump Signs EO Permitting Recall of 1K Retired USAF Pilots; Leftist heads explode.
It’s the draft! We’re going to war! The sky, it’s fallllling!
[CtH: Morons. There is a period of time following retirement when the military has every right to recall a soldier. My two Marines were on recall for four YEARS after they left active duty.]
President Trump campaigned on rebuilding our military and refocusing its mission on military matters rather than on political correctness and voracious down-sizing. He also campaigned on destroying ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism.
In aid of these twin campaign promises and goals, Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) permitting the United States Air Force to recall up to one thousand retired pilots. The cap lift applies to all branches of the military.
[CtH: I was proud of him for keeping his nose out of Obama’s business, unlike Carter who even visited foreign leaders after he was not president. But this?! Now I’m disgusted. And sad. It reminds me of when Barbara Bush, who I have always admired, reportedly said she wished Sarah Palin would go back to Alaska and stay there. The Bush family is really hard core establishment Republicans, aren’t they. Sigh.] President Bush is facing fierce backlash from conservatives after he delivered a speech that has been interpreted as a direct attack on President Trump.
“Bigotry seems emboldened,” Bush said. “Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.”
Planned Parenthood Defends Rep. Wilson: Trump Administration Has ‘Pattern of Attacking Black Women’ Planned Parenthood, however, was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, whose bust an organization of black pastors has tried to have removed from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. The abortion giant also presents its highest honor – the Margaret Sanger Award – to individuals who promote abortion rights, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who said unborn babies have no constitutional rights.
It was difficult for me to do a post this morning. I’m still seething from that racist Dale Evans wanna-be pig taunting General Kelly about his dead son. The common characteristics endemic to all democrat politicians: no class, no compassion, inveterate liars, hypocrites, unabashed thieves, and cowardly bullies.Were it not for their media whore allies many of them would be in prison. That’s why they can behave badly with impunity; nobody ever hears about it who isn’t paying attention like us.
THIS MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL
Florida Dem Says She’s ‘A Rock Star’ After White House Attacks
MAH HOMIES BE LIKE: RIGHT ON, SISTER, GIVE THEM WHITE FOLK SOME SHIT!
Democratic Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson is laughing and bragging after White House chief of staff John Kelly said he was “stunned” Thursday that Wilson criticized President Donald Trump’s call to the widow of a dead soldier.
“You mean to tell me that I’ve become so important… that the White House is following me and my words? This is amazing. That’s amazing. That is absolutely phenomenal. I’ll have to tell my kids that I’m a rock star now,” Wilson told Miami Fox affiliate WSVN-TV, while laughing.
Kelly Rips Democratic Rep’s ‘Selfish’ Behavior In Attacking Trump’s Call To Army Widow
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former general in the U.S. Marine Corps, handled the press briefing today. Kelly started off by explaining what happens when a serviceperson in the U.S. military has been killed in combat, and the process of returning the body back home.
GENERAL KELLYS REMARKS LAST A TOTAL OF 11 MINUTES. MOST OF YOU DON’T HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME. IT IS EMBEDDED AT THE LINK BUT I’M POSTING SEVERAL VERY SHORT BITS OF IT.
Kelly on Calling Families of Fallen Soldiers: ‘Most Difficult Thing You Can Imagine’
Kelly Pays Tribute to Young Military Members: They Serve Because ‘They Love This Country’
Frederica Wilson: ‘John Kelly’s Trying to Keep His Job, He Will Say Anything’ “John Kelly’s trying to keep his job. He will say anything,” Wilson said. “There were other people who heard what I heard.”
Sgt. Johnson’s mother told the Washington Post that Trump “did disrespect” her son and his family with the call.
“President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband,” Jones-Johnson said.
Tasteless CNN Debases Itself by Blasting Kelly for Emotional WH Remarks
Right off the bat, CNN Political Director David Chalian noted that “it’s hard to listen to a father tell that story and not have sympathy” before declaring that Kelly’s emotions must be separated “from the White House chief of staff going into the press briefing room to clearly try and attempt to clean up a political mess that, quite frankly, his boss largely created.”
“I mean, he turned — he turned what should a solemn duty for any commander in chief, regardless of your political stipe, he turned into a competition with his predecessor. He turned it into a publicity stunt,” the former Kerry State Department spokesman added before praising Barack Obama’s behavior concerning fallen soldiers and their families.
Obama sent identical form letters to Gold Star families.
Former Clinton Spokesman Rips ‘Enabler’ John Kelly: ‘Don’t Be Distracted by the Uniform’
Kelly also made his remarks personal, discussing the trauma he experienced after learning that his son, Second Lt. Robert Kelly, was killed while serving in Afghanistan in 2010.
Fallon responded to Kelly’s remarks on Twitter, calling the retired four-star Marine Corps general an “enabler of Trump” and “as odious as the rest.” He also told Twitter users not to be “distracted by the uniform,” appearing to suggest that Kelly should not escape criticism on the issues he discussed because he served in the military.
THIS LOATHESOME PRICK ISN’T FIT TO POLISH A SOLDIER’S BOOTS.
It gets worse. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out,under Obama, the Democrats and their shills actually said that losing your job was really a BLESSING IN DISGUISE, since it meant you could finally go out, and (Pelosi said) write that poem you’ve always wanted to write, paint that painting you’ve always wanted to paint. Now that we’re in a Republican-managed and BOOMING economy,The New York Times has published an article entitled: “How a Healthy Economy Can Shorten Life Span.”
Just guessing that MSNBC’s “national correspondent” not only can’t name any of the Benghazi heroes, living or dead, but also still believes in her Democrat heart of hearts that it was all about a YouTube video.
But speaking of honoring fallen heroes by, you know, REMEMBERING their NAMES:Anyone else recall the McCain-Obama presidential debate, when John McCain talked about the dead soldier whose bracelet he was wearing? Barack Obama jumped in like a petulant child with, “I have a bracelet too!”, butthen couldn’t remember the dead soldier’s nameand had to read it off the bracelet.
After the debate, the parents of that dead soldier told reporters they had specifically asked Obama NOT to wear it!
Plus, McCain was 100% rightabout what would happen if Obama won the election and withdrew troops from Iraq prematurely.
You first heard about this here yesterday. In the last 24 hours it has mushroomed into a full-blown hate fest, all phony, all perpetrated by the media as a way of distracting from the real criminality of the Russian uranium sellout by Obama and Mme. Pantsuit. There were 4 Green Berets murdered in the ambush in Niger. One was black, so like the bottom feeding scum that they truly are, the Democrats are using the widow as a pawn to heap more raw sewage on the president. Anyone with half a brain can see what they’re doing, but their target audience has less than that. All they care to hear is, “Trump disrespected the widow of a soldier.”
Jan over at Diogenes summed it up pretty succinctly:
Now that blockbuster revelations have emerged that the Obama regime knew about a huge bribery scam over that Russian uranium deal that went down when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and covered it up, it is time for the media to launch another weapon of mass distraction. That Sgt. Johnson and his grieving spouse have become pawns in the left’s war on Trump is a testament as to just how vile and embittered that the Democrats have become after their putrid excuse for a candidate lost the election.
Trump: Pol ‘totally fabricated’ story of call to Gold “I didn’t say what that congresswoman said – and she knows it – and she now is not saying it,” Trump said during a meeting in the White House on Wednesday. “I’d like her to make the statement again. Because I did not say what she said.” Trump went on to say he had a “very nice conversation with the woman, with the wife, who sounded like a lovely woman,” then added, “Did not say what the congresswoman said.” But the soldier’s mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, told the Washington Post that she was also in the car and the president’s comments “did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband.”
HOW CAN YOU DOUBT A WOMAN NAMED COWANDA?
[CtH: Hmmm … how about the same way we were RIGHT to doubt that woman named Tawana?]
Media playing along as liberals weaponize Gold Star families in fight against GOPAs many Democrats weaponize Gold Star families against the GOP, mainstream media outlets now seem to be approaching the families of dead soldiers one by one in an attempt to find the next controversy surrounding President Trump.
Earlier this week, Trump said former President Obama and past presidents didn’t always call the families of soldiers who died while serving the country during a Rose Garden press conference.
Gold Star widows and parents were all over the place on Wednesday, from CNN to The New York Times, mostly to criticize Trump. “Are you a member of a Gold Star family who’s had contact with the White House? Confidentially share your story here,” the AP tweeted.
AP WAS NOT INTERESTED IN THIS GOLD STAR FATHER’S COMMENTS… WONDER WHY
Father of Slain Soldier Blasts Controversy: ‘Not About Trump or Damn Phone Call’; ‘My Son Knew What He Signed Up For’ Arnold Wright, the father of Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright who was killed with three other soldiers in an attack in Niger on October 4, spoke to Time Magazine on Wednesday about a condolence call he received from President Donald Trump on Tuesday and his thoughts on what his son knew when he volunteered for military service.
Wright blasted the controversy over the condolence call Trump made to the Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson who was also killed in the Niger attack. Wright’s comments and observations are 180 degrees opposite of the highly negative experience reported by Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) about Johnson’s talk with Trump.
FROM DIANNY:
Such a convenient squirrel
Just as the Russia Uranium One story hits, the Enslaved Press is suddenly distracted by a convenient squirrel.
This time, carefully lobbed their way by crank Congresswoman Frederica Wilson.
I mentioned in the previous post that both CNN and MSNBC are ignoring this explosive Russia story. Instead, their main pages are devoted almost entirely to Wilson’s claim that President Trump disrespected the wife of fallen soldier Sgt. La David Johnson.
It really is convenient, isn’t it?
So why are they making an unsubstantiated claim by a rabidly anti-Trump congresswoman into the next Watergate?
Why do you think?
Deflect and distract.
It’s what they do. http://patriotretort.com/such-a-convenient-squirrel/
Leftists make me SICK. Thankfully, Wounded Warrior J.R. Salzman tweets!
Yesterday:
If I have this right, Obama released dangerous terrorists, to free Bergdahl from captivity, all so he could plead guilty and go to prison?
I had a couple thoughts pop into my head today about Bergdahl. First, does everyone remember the timing? Right after the VA scandal.
After the press reported that veterans were dying on secret waitlists, after Obama had promised to fix the VA, they needed positive news.
There were times the military knew where Bergdahl was being held right down to the number of men guarding him. Obama wouldn’t greenlight.
Suddenly on the heels of the VA scandal, Bergdahl became urgent. His health was supposedly failing. Obama said the trade HAD to happen.
Although the military knew he had walked off and deserted, Obama gave him a hero’s welcome. Rice said he served with honor and distinction.
There was the big TV conference with Obama and Bergdahls parents. It was all spin. Then his former soldiers started coming forward.
They started revealing how many soldiers were killed and wounded looking for him after he deserted. The spin collapsed and now here we are.
As a veteran I agree that we never leave a man behind, even a shit bag like Bergdahl. But the positive spin never should have happened.
Bergdahl was never a hero. He chose to abandon his post and his fellow soldiers got killed and wounded because of his actions.
Unfortunately the whole scenario is what happens when politics and the military converge. People get used as props. I experienced it too.
In the end five terrorists were released who never should’ve been. And Bergdahl was released from captivity only to go to another captivity.
Today:
Amazing to see those who basically cheered when a soldier died under Bush bring out the fainting couches for gold star families under Trump.
You a**holes never supported us under Bush. You cheered every time the soldier death count ticker got higher on CNN. We were political ammo.
You marched in your little antiwar protests. You threw fake blood on our recruiting centers. You protested outside Walter Reed every Friday.
You shouted about the fierce sense of moral urgency to immediately end the wars and bring all the troops home. And then what happened?
Then Obama got elected and you disappeared. You turned your back on the wars. Your protests were all for show. F*** you and your politics.
Do you think those of us who served have forgotten how you treated us? How you cheered for failure? We haven’t. We never will. F*** you all.
My two cents:
The Left called George W. Bush a “blood for oil” war-mongering cowboy who didn’t care a toot about soldiers’ lives. Yet, Bush regularly visited Wounded Warriors in hospital while he was in office and has done so since he retired. He continues to host annual sporting events for them in which he personally participates and he and Laura have Gold Star wives and moms to their home.
The Left called Barack Obama a hero for peace. The Nobel committee gave him a prize for promoting peace when he had done exactly nothing except run for office and not be George Bush.
The slobbering Democrat media did not CARE that, while campaigning, he ditched a scheduled visit to a U.S. military hospital because they wouldn’t let his camera crew inside, or that he sent form letters to the bereaved, or that he lied to the faces of the Benghazi families.
They did not CARE that he bombed more countries and involved us in more foreign wars than ANY PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY.
They did not CARE that his wife made “Support for Military Families” one of her two First Lady projects but, to my knowledge, never visited or did damn all to support wounded warriors or the families of wounded and killed soldiers.
So, Lefties … ASK me if I CARE what you think about Trump’s phone calls or whatever it is you’re whining about. Go ahead, ask. I dare you.
Ahead of Halloween, universities nationwide tell students what not to wear “Unacceptable costumes” listed on a University of St. Thomas diversity flier are “wearing Native American headdresses, dressing up as a ‘Mexican’ by wearing a sombrero, dressing as a ‘geisha,’ any form of blackface.”
“Cultural appropriation is defined as ‘the act of taking intellectual and cultural expressions from a culture that is not your own, without showing that you understand or respect the culture,’” explains a University of St. Thomas diversity memo to students.
[CtH: They’re very, very selective about whose culture is inviolable, so I’m guessing they don’t have anything in there about dressing up as an Irish leprechaun, an Italian mobster, a German Nazi, etc. etc. ]
George Lopez Booed For Anti-Trump Jokes At Charity Event
According to a person at the event, the CEO of Liberty Media, Greg Maffei, asked Lopez “nicely to stop making Trump jokes … George doesn’t, continues, gets booed.”
“Thank you for changing my opinion on old white men, but that doesn’t change the way I feel about orange men,” Lopez responded to the request.
HE WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO LAND A HIT TV SHOW. NOW HE LOVES RUBBING ANGLOS’ NOSES IN IT.
Video posted Saturday on YouTube shows the comedian apologizing for “bringing politics to an event.” Then slams the audience for their “white privilege.”
“Listen, it’s about the kids,” he added. “I apologize for bringing politics to an event. This is America–it still is. So I apologize to your white privilege, but yes I’m sorry. If I was a minority in Denver I would be upset too.”
HE WAS PAID $275,000 FOR HIS APPEARANCE AT THIS CHARITY EVENT.
[CtH: “White privilege” now means having the sacred right to shut up while your “betters” bully you. Gee, thanks, SJWs! It’s just what I always wanted! Not.]
McCain makes speech blasting ‘half-baked’ nationalism
PLEASE GET THE HELL OFF THE STAGE… WE’RE SICK OF YOU.
The former POW and Arizona Republican called the United States “the last best hope on earth” while giving an acceptance speech for the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal, according to Politico.
While not mentioning President Trump by name, McCain’s speech was a sharp contrast to Trump’s habits of shunning international institutions such as NATO and the United Nations.
THE AWARD WAS PRESENTED BY HIS CLOSE PERSONAL JERKOFF BUDDY, JOE BIDEN.
[CtH: If half of what his fellow POWs say about him is true, then he’d know ALL ABOUT half-baked patriotism.]
COLLINS DECIDED TO STAY IN THE SENATE AND HELP McCAIN SCREW OVER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Four Republican senators hold and have held our country in their hands for most of this year by themselves. They obstruct progress by wielding far too much power than their positions and number merit. They are Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and John McCain of Arizona.
Brigitte Gabriel: ‘Refugee Resettlement’ is ‘About Supplying Cheap Labor’ at U.S. Taxpayer Expense
“Here’s what I mean by that: Most refugees are on some type of welfare and that makes anyone who employs them, any company that employs them, eligible for the federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit. An employer has a greater incentive to hire a refugee because the salary is subsidized by the government, than hiring a good, hard-working American who is looking for a job.”
Seriously? Hillary Clinton Says She Was “Running Down Stairs in Heels With Cup of Coffee” When She Broke Toe Hillary Clinton canceled her interview with the BBC today. She said, “I was running down the stairs in heels with a cup of coffee in hand, I was talking over my shoulder and my heel caught and I fell backwards. I tried to get up and it really hurt. I’ve broken my toe. I’ve received excellent care from your excellent health service.”
Seriously? Does anyone believe that?
Judge REFUSES to dismiss, says Menendez case going to JURY TRIAL!
DON’T EXPECT TO HEAR A WORD OF THIS FROM THE LSM.
After raising U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s hopes last week, a federal judge crushed them on Monday morning.
U.S. District Court Judge William Walls refused to toss any of the 18 charges in the corruption case against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, despite last week casting doubt on a legal theory that’s at the heart of the prosecution’s case.
Deal for Bowe Bergdahl looks worse and worse
To garner sympathy from the sentencing judge, Bergdahl’s defense team is expected to play up his alleged mental health problems, including what they claim is paranoia and schizophrenia.
However, Army shrinks found Bergdahl does not suffer from psychological problems that would prevent him from standing trial. And last month, Bergdahl’s lawyers failed to produce for prosecutors mental health records and other evidence detailing any serious condition.
[CtH: SUCH a SHAME that his conviction will come too late for BHO to pardon him. NOT.]
President Trump to Hillary Clinton: “Hillary, Please Run Again,” In 2020
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Ends ‘Abusive’ Obama ‘Sue & Settle’ Policy
Under previous administrations, particularly the Obama administration, special interest environmental groups such as the Sierra Club used lawsuits to force the EPA and other federal agencies to issue regulations that advance their climate change agenda. Those groups would sue the EPA and ask the court to compel the agency to enact new environmental regulations.
Critics say the “sue and settle” policy amounts to regulation through litigation, which allowed former EPA administrations to skirt around the agency’s limited rulemaking authority.