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In my last blog post I cautioned you not to get excited over John Durham’s indictment of Michael Sussman, the lawyer who fed anti-Trump dirt to the FBI while hiding his connection to Hillary Clinton’s 2020 campaign.
From the slimy Washington swamp of political incest comes this slime from Just the News.… read more
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Just before the Pentagon’s first briefing on Saturday, I listened to Richard Grinnell, who has a decade of state department experience and served as acting director of national intelligence under President Trump, speak of the embassy staff warnings that went unheeded by the Biden administration.
I listened to Grinnell talk about the July 13, 2021 cable sent to Secretary of State Blinken, warning of the rapid gains being made by the Taliban in Afghanistan, recommending steps be taken to accelerate evacuation.… read more
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I recently commented on President Biden’s August 5, 2021 signing of an executive order outlining his target of 50 percent electric vehicle sales share in 2030.
The title, provided by the White House: President Biden Announces Steps to Drive American Leadership Forward on Clean Cars and Trucks (emphasis is mine) couldn’t be clearer, as the order outlines the investment in the infrastructure, manufacturing, and incentives needed to lead on electric vehicles around the world.… read more
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YOU MAY HAVE HEARD that the House and Senate unanimously passed legislation (98-0 in the Senate and 416-11 in the House) to provide visa funding for Afghans who worked along side our troops as translators during the war.
Before you get excited over the fact that our lawmakers finally provided funds for something worthwhile … stop. … read more
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BEAR WITH ME, friends … there’s so much in the stack begging for comment.
“CRABBY JOE” Biden lashed out with “I don’t care if you think I’m Satan reincarnated,” during his appearance on last week’s CNN townhall.
Satan is a bit harsh. With a little of Tim Conway, I was thinking more of Scrooge McDuck, the money-grubbing Disney character, especially when I think about his cockamamie multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and what it would do to the debt. … read more
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While researching President Biden’s executive orders and proclamations on terminating construction of the Southern border wall and his revocation of former President Trump’s approval permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, I was again struck by the power we vest in the bureaucracy.
I’m sure you’ve heard Biden speak about his whole-of-government approach to his policy measures, but I thought a reminder of its meaning was called for.… read more
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We heard it from the late John McCain and most recently from a campaigning Joe Biden, who talked about his good friends in the Senate. They talked about reaching across the aisle to find common ground. It’s just that … talk. Because there is no common ground between the visions of the two parties.… read more
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It has been said that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” but that doesn’t faze Democrats, especially now, when they are wielding it in Washington.
However, they want to shore-up that power and they are taking some embarrassing steps to bring that about.
In April, a group of Democrats met to introduce their plan to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court, but Nancy Pelosi indicated she had no plan to bring it to the floor for a vote.… read more
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HE DID IT AGAIN – You may recall my May 7, 2021 plea to “Old Joe” to cut the home spun folk lore tales, repeating stories of his dad … “A job is a lot more than a paycheck, Joey … it’s about your respect, your dignity, your place in the community.”… read more
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For the past dozen or so years, I have been writing about those wimps heading up our auto and truck manufacturing firms who didn’t stand up and fight when the government insisted that they meet the mileage required by its Café standards.
More on the cozy arrangement between automakers and your government later.… read more