[Washington Examiner] Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says top FBI officials used the "full force of our intelligence agencies" against President Trump. Identify the power figure in the attached graphic.
A new opinion piece from the House Intelligence Committee ranking member lays out how special counsel Robert Mueller's now-completed Russia investigation was tainted by a "political crisis whose full effects remain to be seen."
"The hoax itself was a gift to our nation’s adversaries, most notably Russia," Nunes wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner. "The abuse of intelligence for political purposes is insidious in any democracy. It undermines trust in democratic institutions, and it damages the reputation of the brave men and women who are working to keep us safe."
At the center of it all, Nunes said, is the so-called Trump dossier.
Last February, the House Intelligence Committee, then led by Nunes, released a memo asserting the dossier, which contained unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, was used by the FBI to help obtain the FISA warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page, but key information, including its author Christopher Steele's anti-Trump bias and Democratic benefactors, was left out.
[The Federalist] We walked through the fields, carefully cutting through the blades of grass, with silence our goal, shoulder-slung rifles our partners, black-gray darkness our companion, and cold air our fellow traveler. There was no light yet on the horizon. We approached the woods’ edge. Hope coursed through our veins.
Moving quietly through the woods over fallen leaves is a nearly impossible task. Despite this, we pressed on to our rocky overlook. Here we made our home. We sat, leaning our rifles on the boulders, stuck deep into the earth. Our view was a lake of darkness, nothing but cold wind moving through emptiness.
But joy comes in the morning ‐ as the sun slowly rose, the blackness turned blue, then blue-gray, then gray-brown, and then yellowish. The light was not yet pouring over the mountain ridge, but we saw clearly the gorgeous meadow-forest bordered by a lazy river. It is to this piece of land that we tied our fates. We watched, we froze, we hoped, and we waited for the opportunity for thunder to crack the air and harvest to be made.
As I sat in the woods of Virginia this past autumn, it became clear that what we were doing there was much more than waiting for a deer to show up. The woods, the cold, and the time all revealed that hunting can be about much more than sport and subsistence ‐ it can actually be a habit of virtue cultivation and character formation. And that is something we all desperately need.
[Guns America.com] Dick’s Sporting Goods lost $150 million in sales as a result of the company’s anti-gun policies, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The loss amounted to 1.7 percent of the company’s overall revenue and has spurred the company to consider dropping hunting-related items entirely.
But Edward Stack, the company’s CEO and Virtue-Signaler-in-Chief, said the move was worth it.
"The system does not work," Stack said. "It’s important that when you know there’s something that’s not working, and it’s to the detriment of the public, you have to stand up."
Stack vowed in the wake of the Parkland massacre to stop selling "assault rifles" and "high-capacity" magazines in its Field & Stream stores, and to halt all gun sales to anyone under the age of 21. The move prompted backlash in the gun rights community, and some gun companies like Springfield and Mossberg cut ties with the sporting goods chain.
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They decided to become more focussed on their target market, which is only half of those who buy the products they sell. Someone else has, no doubt, already picked up the slack, not just in guns and ammunition, but all the other hunting, camping, and exercise and sports supplies Dick’s sells.
The particular genius of capitalism is that it is forever weeding out businesses that less well deliver given products or services than the competition, no matter how illustrious the name over the door. Not that y’all don’t know that, but I felt an overwhelming need to pontificate.
[American Spectator] The Democrat deceit never seems to end.
Now that the Mueller Investigation into the Russia Collusion Hoax has blown up in their faces, they are generating new lies, new hoaxes to revive the momentum they have lost. Attorney General William Barr provided Congress with a rapid almost-overnight summary of the Mueller findings, but Pelosi and Schumer, in tandem with the Left-Mediacracy that now is a wing of the Democrat party, rebounded soon enough with ridiculous demands that are built on new lies and hoaxes, chief among them:
Barr summarized in only four pages a report that ran more than 300 pages, obviously a Watergate-quality cover-up.
If Barr deletes any grand jury testimony from the report he releases, it is a Watergate-quality cover-up.
If Barr does not disclose the entire Mueller Report within some four or five days after he received it, it is a Watergate-quality cover-up.
Although some members of Congress may be mentally unhinged ‐ for example, an Amy Klobuchar who throws hard solid objects at people, who eats salads with her hair comb and then makes people wash her filthy comb, and who forces underlings to recite their failings to third parties ‐ most of them really are normal everyday types. Their normalcy works against them because it convicts them of willful deceit. Schumer and Pelosi seem to be normal, not mentally ill, not schizophrenic or paranoiac. That leaves only one fair conclusion: (i) they either are pathological liars who lie so frequently that they do not even perceive they are lying, or (ii) they are more mentally healthy than that and thus know they are lying. To grant them the benefit of the doubt, one must determine whether it is kinder to assume them mentally ill or to assume them pathological liars.
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Even though Obama had access to 8 years of Trump tax returns, the socialist in the House are demanding copies of them. Seems that 'equal before the law' should mean all 535 members of Congress and our judiciary should have theirs opened as well for public purview.
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Trump should say publicly that they are asking Barr do disobey the law. He should also have Barr release the documents in the most public way as soon as possible. Perhaps have some embarrassing bits that don't need to be redacted, redacted, so they can be unredacted when the lefties start to claim he's hiding things.
[Babylon Bee] UNDISCLOSED‐According to a US special ops team in an undisclosed location, a feminist activist and blogger endangered their team's mission by popping up out of nowhere to lecture them on the gender balance of their squad.
The team leader later claimed that "this crazy lady" jumped out at them and began to scold them for their lack of gender balance.
"Excuse me, are there any women in your squad?" she said, frightening the officer, who nearly put a round into her right there.
"Wha---who are you?" he responded. "You scared the crap out of me. You really shouldn't be here.
"Just what I thought," she said, shaking her head. "You're against me being here because I'm a powerful womyn, and that somehow threatens your white male existence."
"Lady, I'm just following orders. Can you move aside so we can finish our mission here?" he said as the squad proceeded to the target location, according to a mission log.
The men of the elite special ops team then offered to carry her out of the dangerous combat zone, but instead received a lecture on how women are just as capable as men and how she didn't need to be carried like some piece of property.
At publishing time, the woman had been captured by enemy forces but was quickly set free after she annoyingly lectured the terrorists for several hours on the gender balance of their terror cell.
Now, now, let us not mock our fellow commenters without cause. Who among us has not lost a round of "The Bee or Not the Bee?"?
Like that guy said, We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.
I do, however, think "It's the Bee, Herb" would make a great catchphrase here at the 'Burg. Lord knows we'll all get stung with it eventually. (get it? Bee, stung?)
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I'd go with "It's the Bee Jake." to parallel "it's Chinatown Jake" from the movie of the same name by that pedophile director hiding in France. Oh, never mind.
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It’s the Bee, Jake. It’s not fair to pick on Herb when we’ve all done it — as Steve S points out — none more than me. He and I disagree about Israel, but overall he’s a good man with some interesting things to say.
[PJ] Post-Christian America is nearly upon us, so what are you doing to prepare your kids to live in an overtly anti-Christian culture? I don't mean an America where Christians are thrown into internment camps and tortured for our faith‐though Jesus warned us to be prepared for persecution, so I'm certainly not ruling anything out. I'm talking about an America where Christians are a marginalized minority. Where we can't speak the truth openly and freely and where we may have to choose between our faith and our jobs.
Raising children in this new kind of America is going to have to be different than the way most of us were raised. We grew up believing there wasn't anything we couldn't do. The sky was the limit, we were told! You can be anything you want to be when you grow up! But in case you haven't noticed (and I'm sorry to break this to you if you haven't), all that's changed in the last few years. Oh, most of the changes have been subtle, to be sure, though some have been screaming-in-your face changes like the insistence that we all deny science and recognize an ever-growing number of genders. But to date, only a few people have lost their jobs or their businesses as a result of conflicts between their faith and the strict new American moral code, so it's easy to feel like "it can't happen to me" ‐ or to my kids.
But Rod Dreher, a columnist at The American Conservative, warns in The Benedict Option (an excellent book that has been unfairly maligned) that American Christians now have targets on their backs.
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where Christians are thrown into internment camps and tortured for thier faith
Very rare. Ref: North Africa today and mass graves of Christians. Ref: The Crucifiction of Chrïst and the Christians in Rome by Nero. THAT is what really happens. But nobody believed the left would murder new born babies in the U.S. either.
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I suspect post-christian America will overreach very quickly and end up with a bloodbath that sort of restores Christian america or leads to the end of the worst offenders in post-christian America.
The birth center. "Mrs. McDermott?
Your signature, please, for this permit:
'It seems that the father
Would really not rather,
So let's git 'er done. -- Dr. Kermit'"
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As though pre-Christian America was a vibrant multi-cultural paradise. /sarc
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] UNDISCLOSED‐According to a US special ops team in an undisclosed location, a feminist activist and blogger endangered their team's mission by popping up out of nowhere to lecture them on the gender balance of their squad.
