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...I'm sure a lot of people are rapidly exercising their second amendment rights. I can see a lot of city anti-guns laws taking a deep dive in short order.
[Breitbart] The snow plows were reliable, but the extension cords kept getting cut.
C’mon, man! It’s only New York City, not the entire state! But really — only able to plow for two hours before the battery pooped out — and they were sooooo surprised.
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What!? The engineering and science is "settled".
NYC is either not using them correctly or climate deniers are sabotaging them. I will hold my breath until the government fixes this!
[PJMedia] In a stunning development, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) announced on Thursday that he will not seek re-election to the Senate in 2024.
“I believe in my heart of hearts that I have accomplished what I set out to do for West Virginia," he said. “I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate, but what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.”
The future of Manchin’s political career has been under much speculation for a couple of years now. While Manchin has managed to get elected and reelected as a Democrat in a red state, he’s experienced diminishing margins of victory in each of his Senate contests since 2012. He won comfortably in 2012 by 24 points, but he narrowly won reelection in 2018 against Republican candidate Patrick Morrisey. Manchin secured only 49.7% of the vote, while Morrisey received 46.2%. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who is the runaway frontrunner in the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate, has led Manchin by double digits in multiple recent polls.
While Manchin has been a thorn in the side of the Biden agenda in a few select cases, he has largely been a hardline Democrat, mostly voting with Biden and the Democrats on legislation and judicial nominees. Last year, Manchin entered into a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to support the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Without Manchin’s backing, the bill would not have passed the Senate or become law, providing a much-needed legislative victory for President Biden — even though it did nothing to address inflation.
Furthermore, despite being labeled as a “moderate” or “independent” voice, Manchin has voted with Joe Biden on approximately 88% of legislation and has supported the confirmation of all of Biden’s judicial nominees, including controversial figures like Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite her views on critical race theory and her support for child sex offenders.
Manchin’s effective retirement is a huge problem for the Democrats. He was likely the Democrats' best shot at holding onto the seat in a state where Trump won 68.6% of the vote in 2020. This setback comes at a critical time as Democrats are set to defend 23 seats in the upcoming year, in stark contrast to the Republicans, who have a more manageable task of defending only ten seats.
[FoxNews] An America First Legal complaint argues that 51 former intelligence officials strategically crafted to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story.
An alleged campaign finance violation could ensnare Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 51 former senior intelligence officials who asserted without evidence in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
America First Legal, a conservative organization run by former Donald Trump White House aide Stephen Miller, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in late October, alleging a "coordinated communication" and an unreported in-kind contribution to the Joe Biden presidential campaign and related entities, in violation of federal law.
"[The] evidence suggests that the respondents failed to disclose coordinated expenditures constituting in-kind donations with respect to the infamous ‘Letter of 51’ former intelligence officials claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story had ‘all the classic earmarks’ of Russian disinformation," says the 13-page AFL complaint, with 110 accompanying pages of evidence.
The FEC complaint claims that the Biden for President campaign in 2020, the Biden Victory Fund, the Democratic National Committee, and the Biden Action Fund should have reported on coordinating efforts.
The "Letter of 51" was released on Oct. 19, 2020, weeks before the Nov. 8 presidential election between Biden and Trump.
The Obama administration officials who signed included former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Former George W. Bush DNI Michael Hayden, a vocal Trump critic, also signed.
The complaint notes that Panetta and Clapper donated to the Biden Victory Fund and the Biden for President campaign in 2020.
In March, former CIA Deputy and Acting Director Michael Morrell testified to the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committees that on Oct. 17, 2020, then-Biden campaign adviser Blinken contacted him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story first reported by the New York Post.
The complaint cited an April statement from the House Judiciary Committee that summarized the Morrell testimony.
"Morell testified that his communication with Blinken was one of a few communications he had with the Biden campaign, explaining that he also received a call from Steve Ricchetti, Chairman of the Biden campaign, following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing the statement," the House Judiciary Committee press release from April said. "Morell also explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement. Morell further explained that one of his two goals in releasing the statement was to help then-[former] Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist him in winning the election."
The letter from intelligence officials provided cover and credibility for social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to restrict the access and distribution of the Hunter Biden laptop story, first broken by the New York Post. Eventually, both the New York Times and Washington Post verified the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop. Also, during the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden, Biden referred to the laptop story as Russian disinformation.
"There are reasons to believe that the public statement by 51 former intelligence officials was a coordinated political operation to help elect Vice President Biden in the 2020 presidential election, as set forth below," the complaint to the FEC says.
This fits a pattern of election meddling, said Reed D. Rubinstein, senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations for America First Legal.
"In 2016, high-ranking federal intelligence officials interfered in a presidential election, lying about Russia collusion in a failed effort to elect Hilary Clinton," Rubinstein said in a statement.
"In 2020, many of these same officials again interfered in a presidential election, lying about Hunter Biden," Rubenstein continued. "The Federal Election Commission’s charge includes election integrity — Americans have the right to know who is coordinating with federal candidates. But this right is only as effective as the agency that enforces it. The FEC must act here."
Neither the Biden 2024 presidential campaign nor the Democratic National Committee responded to inquiries for this story.
The State Department also did not respond to an inquiry about Blinken’s role from Fox News about the matter.
The complaint alleges that the "51 former intelligence officials" statement was part of a carefully orchestrated effort to influence the 2020 election. AFL argued the Biden campaign, through key individuals, actively participated in drafting and disseminating the statement. The complaint argues that the 51 former intelligence officials' public statement was strategically crafted to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story, with the intent of aiding Joe Biden's campaign.
The complaint details communication between then-Biden campaign advisor Blinken and Morell regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story. For his part, Blinken has denied having a role.
"There is reason to believe that the respondents failed to report the above contribution and to identify the individuals who made it," the complaint says.
The complaint also alleges that the disinformation campaign should be considered a "coordinated communication" under FEC regulations, subject to reporting requirements.
The AFL complaint contends that the Biden campaign actively participated in drafting and disseminating the statement, utilizing the national security credentials of the former intelligence officials to downplay the Hunter Biden laptop revelations.
The complaint further references a survey that found almost four of five Americans who followed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal thought that honest news coverage would have changed the outcome of the election. The survey by Technometric Institute of Policy and Politics was released in August 2022.
[NY Post] Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been convicted on two counts of perjury by a federal jury.
The federal jury reached the verdict Thursday, finding Mosby guilty of perjury after she falsely claimed financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to withdraw money from the city’s retirement fund, prosecutors announced.
"We respect the jury’s verdict and remain steadfastly committed to our mission to uphold the rule of law, keep our country safe, protect the civil rights of all Americans, and safeguard public property," US Attorney Erek L. Barron said.
Mosby faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for each of the two perjury counts.
US District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby hasn’t scheduled a sentencing hearing.
Mosby initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, which allege that the former prosecutor falsely claimed financial hardship during the pandemic in order to withdraw $90,000 from her city retirement accounts.
She then used those funds for down payments on two vacation properties in Florida, prosecutors said.
Mosby lost a re-election bid in July 2022 to defense attorney Ivan Bates.
Mosby received her full salary of $247,955.58 in 2020, which is the year she claimed financial hardship and withdrew the money from her retirement accounts, according to federal prosecutors.
The trial was delayed in February after Mosby’s entire defense team quit.
*Snicker* A definite vote of No Confidence.
As she walked out of a federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, following the verdict, Mosby said, "I’m blessed," according to FOX 45.
Mosby also faces two counts of making false mortgage applications in a pending federal case, which relates to the purchase of two Florida vacation homes. A trial date hasn’t yet been set in that federal case.
If convicted of making false mortgage applications, Mosby faces a maximum prison sentence of 30 years for each of the two counts.
Ouch! Still, it will be interesting to see how many other Soros DAs join her behind bars in the next few years.
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Oops - not divorced just yet - Hubs is Preznit of the Ballymore City Council and a minor-league criminal too: The perjury charges stemmed from the testimony that Mosby provided during hearings that examined her abuse of COVID relief program funds to benefit her family. In addition to the perjury charges, Mosby is still facing two counts of mortgage fraud, but no date has been set for that possible trial yet. If convicted of everything, she would face a total of up to thirty years in prison.
But those aren’t the only possible charges she’s facing. She and her husband are also being investigated for tax evasion. The Mosby’s are separately facing allegations of campaign finance “irregularities.” They also apparently didn’t feel it was required for them to pay their water bills. Throughout all of this, Marilyn Mosby has remained indignant, insisting that she’s just a misunderstood public servant. She even filed a complaint against Fox News for reporting on her misdeeds.
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I wonder if old George Soros rethinking the wisdom of his investments.
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I don’t think George cares. These DAs are like harpoon missiles to him. They are generally people without integrity to begin with. They accomplish his goal of damaging society. He probably expects them to flame out and plans for a succession by a deputy of equally dubious character. They are ammunition not staff.
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[Becker News via Rantingly] There’s trouble in Fulton County, Georgia as two high-powered criminal defense attorneys have suddenly filed a motion to withdraw from a 2020 election case.
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Criminal Defense Attorneys Donald F. Samuel and Amanda R. Clark Palmer have motioned to withdraw themselves from the Favorito v. Wan case, according to the motion.
Rasmussen speculated that the lawyers reportedly motioning to withdraw may have something to do with "missing" mail ballots.
Update: Fulton County GA’s High Priced Criminal Defense Lawyers See Writing On Wall, Hit The Silk
These 150,000 still secret 2020 unfolded mail ballots with the perfect ovals protected by court order for 3 years may have gone missing, and the county’s lawyers have just quit. https://t.co/ez6E40exWwpic.twitter.com/UuQTiS90xa
"These 150,000 still secret 2020 unfolded mail ballots with the perfect ovals protected by court order for 3 years may have gone missing, and the county’s lawyers have just quit," Rasmussen posted on X.
It is not clear why the lawyers are withdrawing from the case. Becker News has reached out to the law firm Garland, Samuel and Loeb for comment and will update accordingly.
Human Events, however, had earlier reported on the 147,000 mail-in ballots controversy:
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Fulton County poll manager Suzi Voyles was sorting through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November when she noticed something odd: several ballots marked for Joe Biden were extremely similar.
One after another, the votes contained perfectly filled ovals for Biden. What’s more, each of the bubbles boasted an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they’d been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil, per the Epoch Times.
Voyles also noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different paper than the others she’d counted and none were folded or creased, which is standard for mail-in ballots as they come from envelopes.
"All of them were strangely pristine," Voyles said. She noted that she’d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County.
All but three of the 110 ballots in the stack — which had been labeled "State Farm Arena" — were marked for Biden and appeared to be "identical ballots."
After Voyles came forward, she was fired as a poll manager by the Fulton County Department of Elections.
"I got the boot for speaking the truth," she said.
At least three other poll workers observed the same thing.
These election watchdogs have used their sworn affidavits to help convince a state judge to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots in Fulton and allow for a closer inspection. They argue that potentially tens of thousands may have been manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes.
An election integrity organization has reported that original images of ballots from the November 2020 election have not been available from seventy-four counties in Georgia.
VoterGA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring election integrity, has obtained certification from 56 counties via Open Records Requests (ORRs) that the state’s voting machine system automatically generated either the majority or all of the images used for result tabulation.
Voter images are essential for election records and must be preserved for a period of 22 months in the federal government and 24 months in the state government, per their respective statutes.
"We have what is almost surely major absentee-ballot fraud in Fulton County involving 10,000 to 20,000 probably false ballots," claimed Garland Favorito, the lead petitioner in the case and a certified poll watcher.
"We have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse," he said.
In addition, there are massive chain-of-custody issues in Georgia related to ballot images.
Seventy-four of Georgia’s counties have not been able to produce original images of ballots from the November 2020 election, according to VoterGA, an election integrity nonprofit organization.
The group received confirmation through Open Records Requests (ORRs) from 56 counties that either most or all of the images that the voting machine system automatically created for tabulating results have been destroyed.
"At least 28 counties admitted having no original images at all and 22 of those counties only had recount images that some claimed are the same as originals," as reported by non-profit group VoterGA.
The Associated Press did not deny the substance of the reports in a "fact check," but merely rejected the narrative that the missing ballot images "proved" voter fraud.
They may not "prove" voter fraud, but they do prove an election where voters have ample cause not to trust the results.
Georgia voters, and the American public, need to be able to trust that election officials are doing due diligence to secure elections and providing all voters with transparency.
Transparency has been slow in forthcoming when it comes to the 2020 election. Getting to the bottom of what happened in Georgia during that election would be a significant start.
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Favorito is the geek Terminator. He dweebs relentlessly.
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Marking your unfolded ballot with toner is a problem ?
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IMO we should scrap all constitutional amendments above 10 and add 2 ... no distinction for color or shape of skin ... voting in-person on paper ballot counted by hand.
[ReclaimTheNet] The controversial federal mandate requiring all vehicles from 2026 onwards to embed an auto-disable or “kill switch” technology was met with resistance on Tuesday as it faced potential defunding. Despite efforts by Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie, the House chose to reject the amendment that could have seen the mandate dissolved, in a vote of 229 to 201, thereby keeping the future of personal movement under the watchful presence of corporations and government.
The mandate was originally integrated into the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, prompting Massie to attempt defunding it. The dividing lines were clearly drawn, with 210 Democrats and 19 Republicans voting against the amendment and just two Democrats siding with the 199 Republicans who voted in favor. Eight members abstained from participating in the late-night voting session.
The kill switch mandate forms a critical element of the 2021 infrastructure law. Car manufacturers are bound by the legislation to incorporate advanced driving technology designed to proactively assess a driver’s performance and, if deemed impaired, limit or completely prevent the vehicle from functioning. Hailed initially as a safety feature, it also raises privacy concerns, providing unprecedented access to personal information and individual freedom of movement.
However, attempts to call attention to the potential overreach of this mandate have been dismissed. Assertions were made that the hyperbole surrounding the term “kill switch” was simply alarmist, as the suggestions under consideration wouldn’t abruptly halt a moving vehicle, as if that was the only thing that people were concerned about.
Undermining the credibility of these dismissals, however, is the reality that the implementation of this technology would be directed by non-elected agency officials. The substantial power handed to these individuals to dictate the operations of new vehicles highlights a potential overreach of authority and encroachment on privacy.
Related: The Federalist goes into greater detail here.
[Washington Examiner] Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie got into a heated debate with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski over his comments on abortion.
Appearing the morning after the third Republican presidential debate, Christie was confronted by Brzezinski on his comments the night before on abortion, specifically his denunciation of late-term abortion. The MSNBC anchor accused him of being dishonest, which drew a hostile reaction from the former governor.
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Auto correct changed my post so severely that I can’t even cognate what I meant. It must have been something to the extent that seeing both of those bozos saying stupid things in parry fashion might cause a China Syndrome of my loathing.
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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.
In a stunning development, Sen. 
[NY Post] Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney 
