DON’T BELIEVE IT – There is no imminent crisis with the U. S. Postal Service, as Nancy Pelosi would have us believe.  She called her party in off recess on a Saturday to pass a $25 billion piece of legislation on the pretense that it was necessary to assure that the organization would be prepared to handle mail-in ballots.

Behind Pelosi’s move was another attempt to falsely accuse President Trump of preventing fair voting just 70 days before the election.  The postmaster general was even called in to testify so Democrat committee members could make anti-Trump statements.  Sadly, she knew going in that the bill was DOA in the Senate and that the president would not sign it.

It’s a continuation of the party’s talk of a Trump post office conspiracy during their convention.

The postmaster announced weeks ago that he had sufficient funds to keep the USPS running through November and then some.  He also stated that the service had the capacity to handle the influx of mail-in ballots.  The USPS handles a larger load of mail during the Christmas and Mothers’ Day mailing periods.

The postmaster stated that the problem is with the voting deadlines set up in the country’s counties and states.  Some don’t allow sufficient time between the deadline for ballot requests and arrival by Election Day for counting.

Here is a recipe for problems: 28 states require mail-ins arrive by Election Day, four must be postmarked one day before the election, and, incredibly, in 17 states your mail-in ballot must be postmarked on Election Day.  It’s a foregone conclusion that there will be counting delays.

How about those four states – Connecticut, Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming – with a November 2, 2020 deadline to request an absentee ballot. Why bother.

HAVE YOU HEARD that all four members of the State of Michigan’s Board of Canvassers criticized problems encountered with the counting of ballots in Detroit’s primary election as “alarming” and “concerning?”  One Republican board member found it “very troubling” and “unacceptable,” while a Democrat board chairman called it “very alarming” and “disheartening.”

PRESTIGIOUS HARVARD UNIVERSITY is the latest institution to cave to pressure on climate change.  I find it astonishing that this university, where it is said that the smartest of the smart go to become lawyers, lawmakers and lobbyists, would allow itself to be extorted.

An alumni activist group, opposed to the fossil fuel industry, recently won three of the five seats on the school’s board of overseers, up for reelection this year. Their goal is to force Harvard’s $40 billion (yes, billion) endowment to end its investments in oil and gas companies.

It is believed that groups at other colleges and universities, including Yale with its $30 billion endowment, will follow suit to tout themselves as leaders in the fight against the so-called climate crisis.

Shares of Exxon Mobil and Chevron have fallen significantly, and may have to cut dividends.  Of course, the universities, in their zeal to look environmentally responsible, ignore the fact that the move will affect individuals with 401k’s.

It’s reminiscent of how many of our well-known corporations have allowed themselves to be coerced into supporting the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement for fear of being boycotted.  No backbone.

ABOLISHING LAW ENFORCEMENT – J. Mai, a young black Vietnamese panelist at the DNC, called for a “complete end to law enforcement – from the police and ICE to prisons in general.”

FROM A MINNESOTAN, James Lileks, known for the columns he writes for newspapers and his own blog, comes the “perfect one sentence slogan about the hapless nominee of the Democrat Party,” Joe Biden, quotes Steven Hayward in PowerLine: “The soft bigotry of Joe expectations.”

NO SURPRISE – It turns out that Joe Biden is another cheap-skate liberal, who is always generous with other people’s money, but not his own.  Joe and Jill Biden’s charitable gifts from 1998-2011, published in PowerLine, is quite disappointing.

From 2008-2011, when Joe was vice president, the Biden’s contributed an average of $8,531 each year from an adjusted gross income average of $339,367. That’s just 2.5 percent.

We’ve heard Biden say “character” is on the ballot, and his sycophants have told us of him being a decent, good man.  His record of giving while he was vice president is quite revealing, but even in the 10 -year period before 2008, the Biden’s contribution average was also just 2.5 percent.  Hardly what we would expect from the man who speaks of our “values,” constantly tells us “who we are” and pledges to restore the “soul” of America.

While President Trump’s charitable contributions are not readily known, we do know that he donates his quarterly salary of $100,000 for charitable purposes, the most recent went for Covid-19 research.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.