[PUBLISH.TWITTER] So that would be “Christians” against Trumpism…
A founder of "Christians Against Trumpism" has been arrested in Florida for alleged child s—x crimes. Joel Searby allegedly tried to have s—x with a 15-year-old boy. He was denied bail at his first hearing. https://t.co/Mpdk284lqY
The fact that anyone is shocked by Biden's brain-dead performance tonight is a scathing indictment of the media which has gone to great lengths to cover this fact up for the public.
I understand that the two big shocks for Biden suporters last night is that they got to see the real Biden and that they got to see the real Trump. Not just the media stereotypes and edits.
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[FoxNews] The judge 'apparently needs a dictionary to discern the difference between a noun and a verb,' a spokesman for Gov. Gianforte said
A judge ruled that a Montana law which defined "sex" in state law, when referring to a person as only male or female, was unconstitutional, saying that the law's description did not explicitly state its purpose.
District Court Judge Shane Vannatta struck down the 2023 law on Tuesday after a group of plaintiffs who identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex and other identities sued, arguing the law denies legal recognition and protection to people who identify as gender-nonconforming, according to The Associated Press.
Vannatta did not address the claim of a lack of legal recognition and protection, but did say that the bill's title did not adequately explain whether the word "sex" referred to gender or sexual intercourse and that it did not indicate the words "male" and "female" would be defined in the body of the bill.
"The title does not give general notice of the character of the legislation in a way that guards against deceptive or misleading titles," Vannatta wrote.
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No one talks about the deteriorating state of our nation's rail infrastructure, even though it is still the most cost efficient means of freight transport we have.
And, believe it or not, the drive motors run on electricity (with a diesel generator or two powering them). Their power generation system is the only thing 'icky' for some folks.
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Railroads and pipelines helped make America Great. They must be eliminated.
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Last week during the weeklong heat wave a stretch of downtown expressway was abruptly closed so that a failed piece of pavement could be replaced. There was no explanation of exactly why that happened. I go over that stretch twice a day & it was fine up until the closure a few hours later. I think it was because of the sustained heat. Local officials said nothing about the cause. Patch was fully functional after the repaving.
Consider the impact, and simplicity, of simultaneous railroad locations at key choke points, like the Cajon Pass for example. And consider how simple to do so at remote, unobserved locations by small teams of imported military-aged men among the 8 million illegals over the past 3.6 years.
Curious idea, but since the days of intermediate warehousing of commodities like food have been replaced by "just-in-time" logistics and "retail swipe to production demand" at centralized production locations, widespread interdiction by key rail arterial routes could produce enormous impact and shortages, with consequent disruption and public unrest. Who might find that useful?
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...the Urbanist islands that want to dictate to the rest of us their radical agenda don't appreciate that its not just 'foreign' agents that understand that vulnerability.
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To #6 - when rails were jointed every 39', expansion and contraction of the steel took place in the joints. When the joints were eliminated, with welded rail, the changes in rail length are restrained, so instead of movement, you get stress in the rail (50-60,000 psi, IIRC).
Ties and ballast are the restraint; too much (hot) stress leads to a track buckle and a derailment. Excessive cold stress leads to a 'pull-apart' which does not always lead to a derailment, since the rail alignment is maintained.
Requirements are well-understood in the business, but mistakes happen in rail installation or track maintenance. Extreme weather highlights the 'mistakes'.
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[Townhall] In a 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court handed down a massive blow to federal prosecutors, concluding, per SCOTUS Blog’s Amy Howe, that for the statute to be used in this way, there must be evidence to the fact that "the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records." In a blow to the narrative that the Supreme Court is rogue and right-wing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the majority. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented.
The question before the court was whether the "obstruction of an official proceeding" statute could be used in how the Justice Department weaponized it to go after hundreds of January 6 defendants. The plaintiff, Joseph Fischer, a former police officer, argued that the statute only pertained to evidence tampering in a congressional investigation.
The court reverses the D.C. Circuit, which had adopted a broader reading of the law to allow the charges against Fischer to go forward. The case now goes back to the D.C. Circuit -- which, the court says, can assess whether the indictment can still stand in light of this new and narrower interpretation.
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@KurtSchlichter
Wow. This has to be the worst 24 hours for the Democrats since Appomattox
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In a blow to the narrative that the Supreme Court is rogue and right-wing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the majority. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented.
This is what happens when politicians in the other two branches threaten the Justices.
The Justices screw with thir heads.
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Conservative candidate Don Stewart winning the closely-watched Toronto-St. Paul's federal byelection, and delivering a stunning upset to Justin Trudeau's candidate Leslie Church in the long-time Liberal riding, has sent political shockwaves through both parties.
Responding to the result, and facing calls from his main opponent now to call a general election, Trudeau acknowledged the outcome has made it clear that "I and my entire Liberal team have much more work to do to deliver tangible, real progress that Canadians across the country can see and feel." "The arrests, internments, and confiscations start now!"
According to the preliminary results, Stewart secured 42.1 per cent of the vote with 15,555 votes cast for him, while Church received 40.5 per cent of the vote, with 14,965 ballots cast for her. The NDP candidate Amrit Parhar came a distant third, and Green Party candidate Christian Cullis placed fourth.
Now that it has been confirmed that not only did the Liberal support slip, but the party has lost what has been a textbook definition of a Liberal stronghold for three decades to Poilievre's Conservatives, the prime minister is likely to face more tough questions about his future.
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[NYPOST] President Biden lied during his most recent debate against Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... when he claimed a group of former intelligence operatives had determined files from his son Hunter’s abandoned laptop were "garbage" and a "Russian plant" — so signers of the "Spies Who Lie" letter told Congress in testimony made public Thursday, just hours before the first Biden-Trump debate of 2024.
The former spies, whose letter was drafted specifically to give Biden, now 81, a "talking point" at the second and final debate of the 2020 campaign, said they merely suggested that files from Hunter’s hard drive were bogus, but didn’t assert it as a fact — days after bombshell reports by The Post showed the elder Biden was involved in his family’s Chinese and Ukrainian business relationships.
"When he said that it is a Russian plan or whatever — garbage — that’s not what we said in there," said former CIA Director John Brennan ...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt... , who was among the best-known signers.
"What he said was not an accurate reflection of what the statement said," Brennan added in a May 11, 2023, deposition before the House Judiciary Committee.
Asked if Biden had been "accurate" with his debate claim, James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said, "Not exactly."
"If he had said ’could have’ or ’may have,’ that would comport with what the intent, as I felt it was, of
the public statement, not a definitive statement [that] this was Russian interference," Clapper said in a May 17, 2023, deposition.
The controversial letter said the laptop files had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" and was organized by former CIA acting director Michael Morell, who wrote in an email acquired by House Sherlocks that "we think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this week’s debate, and we want to give the Vice President, VP, a talking point to use in response."
"I wanted [Biden] to win the election," Morell said in his own April 4, 2023, desposition.
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Is it really a lie if he has no free will of his own but merely repeats what Jill and Baraq tell him? Isn't that like blaming a zombie because some voodoo priest put a spell on him?
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It takes a certain level of mental acuity to knowingly utter a falsehood. OTOH if you don't know what you're talking about, you're just wrong, not a liar.
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Many people have covered up Biden stuff. Let’s compare the Hur transcript and tapes as a starting point. I’ll like to see indictments if they don’t match.
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[PJ] Also overturned J6 Obstruction Law use. Presidential Immunity decision on Monday
Today, the Supreme Court ruled to overrule the so-called Chevron deference in a 6-3 decision. The ruling is a HUGE victory for those who hate the massive power the administrative state has amassed in recent decades.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, concluded: "Chevron is overruled."
In the most basic terms, the Chevron deference (also called the Chevron doctrine) allows the courts, through a two-step process, to defer to "reasonable" administrative agency interpretations if a federal statute is unclear or ambiguous. It was/is essentially a get-out-of-jail-free card for presidents and agency hacks who liked to claim that a law says whatever they want it to say. It gave federal agencies broad authority to regulate everything from health care to immigration to women's sports to Covid jabs.
According to Ballotpedia:
The principle derives its name from the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. which concerned disagreement over a change in the Environmental Protection Agency's interpretation of a permitting provision of the Clean Air Act of 1977. The case established a two-step review approach used by courts to analyze an agency's legal interpretations. Under the review process, courts consider (1) Congress' clear intent in passing a law and (2) (if the court finds ambiguities in the law) whether an agency's rule was reasonably construed and not arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute.
Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog wrote:
Chevron, Roberts explains, [Chevron] "defies the command of" the Administrative Procedure Act, the law governing federal administrative agencies, "that the reviewing court--not the agency whose action it reviews--is to decide all relevant questions of law and interpret ... statutory provisions. It requires a court to ignore, not follow, the reading the court would have reached had it exercised its independent judgment as required by the APA."
Chevron's presumption that statutory ambiguities are implicit delegations of authority by Congress to federal agencies "is misguided," Roberts explains, "because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."
Roberts notes that today's decision does "not call into question prior cases that relied on the Chevron framework. The holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawful--including the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itself--are still subject to statutory stare decisis despite our change in interpretive methodology."
The high court had consolidated two cases—Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce—and heard oral arguments in January of this year.
Howe reports, "The vote is 6-3 (although 6-2 in Loper-Bright because Jackson is recused). Kagan dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson as it applies to Relentless, from which she is not recused."
Both cases concern the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) interpretation of a federal fishing law (George W. Bush's Magnuson-Stevens Act) requiring government monitors to accompany certain fishing boats. At issue: Who would pay for the monitors—the agency requiring them or the fishermen themselves? The statute is unclear on that point, and using the Chevron deference, the lower court ruled that the NMFS had the right to require the fishermen to pay for the $700-a-day monitors on trips that often last several days.
After losing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs argued before the Supreme Court that the lower court's decision “perceives ambiguity in statutory silence, where the logical explanation for the statutory silence is that Congress did not intend to grant the agency such a dangerous and uncabined authority.” They added, "Whether by clarifying Chevron or overruling it, this Court should grant review and reverse the clear agency overreach at issue here."
Most of us learned in school (I hope!) that the judicial branch interprets the law. It's explained in both Marbury v. Madison and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 78. The Chevron doctrine takes some of that power to interpret from the courts and hands it to unelected bureaucrats. The word "deference" in Chevron means that the court defers rulemaking to "experts" in the administrative state.
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The J6 Obstruction Law overturning will screw the DOJ's prosecutions and Jack Smith's case against Trump
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Well it must be said that a lot of the underlying problem is that some legislation is written poorly (maybe poorly on purpose). Also, there are laws where previous judicial decisions have made the law incomprehensible.
The Chevron decision, made in 1984, was on such a case where the issue was what was a 'source' of pollution for the purpose of requiring a lengthy govt review. Chevron argued it was only a 'source' if it was a new or rebuilt facility. An environmental org said it was a source even if Chevron did a minimal alteration of the source. The EPA (this was in 1984 under Reagan) argued for Chevron's position and the SCOTUS agreed.
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...we achieved the goals of the 1984 organization. The Administrative State has taken upon themselves to keep moving the goalposts for decades.
Good God man. The President of the United States is one big clogged fuel filter. Durrdurrrdurrdurdurrrrr No one in their right minds can justify voting for this level of brain damage. pic.twitter.com/xvnWLWopmM
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Trump made his fortune then decided to enter politics. Biden entered politics to make his fortune. It was recently disclosed that he has now re-financed his Delaware residence 22 times to leverage equity.
Biden, a failure in both politics and personal finance.
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The puppeteers have conceded that their puppet is worn out and can’t be re-elected; he will be replaced. At this point, doing so at the Convention would be consistent with the operation of a representative democracy (which is what we are) though some rules or laws may have to be changed or Lautenburged.
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Trouble is, China probably agrees.
If Jojo were to remain in power, China would probably hold off and let the rot continue. If Trump is in the offing, they probably think they need to act soon.
Diplomats and Officials of U.S. Allies have expressed Disappointment and Worry about tonight’s Debate Performance by President Joe Biden, with some Hinting they are Concerned that Biden may not be ready for a Second Term as the Leader of a Nuclear-Armed Superpower. pic.twitter.com/2V3TrlomzX
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And be sure and take your talking dust mop when you go.
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Jill controls all the delegates and a huge pile of campaign cash that serves as her IRA. Explain to me why she should relinquish her throne and state dinners. For the good of her husband? For the good of the country? Give me a break.
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As I said in another comment here, she wants to get the Jean Carnahan promotion.
Ain't gonna happen. She should take the money and run.
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[MSN] Michelle Obama has resisted campaigning for Joe Biden in part because of how the family treated Hunter Biden's ex-wife, according to reports....Along with her concerns over Ms Buhle's treatment, Mrs Obama is also said to be reluctant to support Mr Biden during his re-election campaign due to her dislike of partisan politics.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Thirteen U.S. troops were killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport during Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August 2021. Three U.S. troops from a guard uniy in Georgia were killed in a terrorist attack in Syria in just six months ago.
Biden said at the debate, "The notion that we were this safe country. The truth is I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any, this, this decade, that doesn’t (have) any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did."
Biden was confronted by Steve Nikoui, the Gold Star father of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui who was killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack, during the State of the Union last March.
The names of the U.S. troops killed in the attack (via the Guardian):
Eleven US marines, one solder and one sailor were lost in the country’s deadliest day in Afghanistan in a decade.
The marines were: S Sgt Darin T Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Sgt Johanny Rosariopichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; Sgt Nicole L Gee, 23, of Sacramento, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,; Cpl Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, California; Cpl Daegan W Page, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska; Cpl Humberto A Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana; L/Cpl David L Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas; L/Cpl Jared M Schmitz, 20, of St Charles, Missouri; L/Cpl Rylee J McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyoming; L/Cpl Dylan R Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, California; and L/Cpl Kareem M Nikoui, 20, of Norco, California.
The sailor who was killed was Navy Hospitalman Maxton W Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio.
The soldier was SSgt Ryan C Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tennessee.
Excerpt from the Department of Defense statement on the deadly attack in Syria January 28, 2024:
Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were maimed following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border. Those service members were in Jordan to support Operation Inherent Resolve, which is the U.S. and coalition mission to ensure the defeat of ISIS.
The three soldiers killed are Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett of Savannah, Georgia. All three were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, Fort Moore, Georgia.
The attack occurred in the early morning at the logistics support base located at Tower 22 of the Jordanian Defense Network. Approximately 350 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel are deployed to the base. The three soldiers were killed when a one-way uncrewed aerial system impacted their container housing units.
Biden’s lie was so blatant even USA Today fact checked him:
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His responses were very nuanced.
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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.
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
