[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Biden White House last week acknowledged America’s record-low-and-still-falling birthrate and then issued an entirely inapt analysis and unfitting prescription which happened to match the White House’s ideological leanings.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... ’s Council of Economic Advisers sees our baby bust and prescribes more day care, more federal subsidies for day care, and more mothers of young children working outside the home.
For the past 16 years, the country has had fewer and fewer children every year, and the birthrate has just hit 1.62 children per woman — a record low. America’s working-age population has flatlined and will soon start falling while the number of retirees continues to grow. This increasing "old-age-dependency ratio," the White House agrees, will be bad for the economy, as we have more consumers and fewer people making things or performing services.
The White House, however, reassures us that "growth in labor force participation and labor productivity can be countervailing forces that mitigate the impact of an aging population."
This is true. But the White House bizarrely focuses its discussion of labor force participation on mothers of young children rather than on the real cause of falling labor force participation, which is middle-aged people, as Washington Examiner opinion writer Tiana Lowe Doescher explained.
"Accessing dependent care is an example of one particularly severe constraint to labor force participation," the White House says before going on for paragraphs about the need for universal day care.
But focusing on mothers is missing the story, as the Federal Reserve Bank of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... makes clear: "While [labor force participation] for women overall has declined since 2019, the entire decline comes from the 55 and older age group, with almost no change in trend for women of prime working age, 25—54."
Women are already 49.9% of all workers in America. Why should it be a policy goal to make sure more women are working than men?
The liberal Vox recently explained that there is no crisis of mothers dropping out of the workforce: "Larger shares of moms of both preschool and school-age children working now than at any time in history. Most of the labor market gains have been driven by moms with young kids under the age of 5, with roughly 70 percent of them holding down some formal job."
The White House tries to make it sound like there’s some massive shortage of childcare, but as Vox reports: "Jobs in the child care sector ... have continued to expand, with more people working in the sector as of April than in any time on record."
The Biden team’s evidence of a child care shortage is laughable: "The Center for American Progress ...George Soros-funded think tank headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... , supplied progressive talking points and policy positions for the Obamaregime. There was a revolving door between the White House and its nerve center, with B.O. staffing his administration with many of its operatives... estimates that 50 percent of families live in child care deserts: areas that do not have enough child care supply to meet demand."
The partisan CAP’s "child care deserts" include all sorts of places with thriving families with lots of marriage and lots of children and a healthy supply of (gasp) stay-at-home mothers, extended family, and strong communities. Check out the suburbs of Salt Lake City for a good example.
The basic fact is this: Mothers in America don’t want day care as much as the Biden White House wishes they did. The CEA is upset that labor-force participation rates "among mothers of young children have historically lagged that of mothers of older children and women as a whole."
That is, the economists in Biden’s White House think the problem is that some mothers want to stay at home. The cause of falling birthrates isn't lack of childcare. It's birth control and economics. Throw in the Dems' favorite subject, abortion, to further aggravate matters. Sex has become recreational, not for reproduction. And people can't afford large families anymore.
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And don't forget the promotion of same-sex couples. Very few new kids are derived from such arrangements.
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^ They have to buy them, see: Buttgieg, Pete and Chasten
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Joe volunteers to do some of the childcare his own self.
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[NewsMax] The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors' request to bar the former president from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the prosecution.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said in her order that prosecutors didn't give defense lawyers adequate time to discuss the request before it was filed Friday evening. She denied the request without prejudice, meaning prosecutors could file it again.
Special counsel Jack Smith said the request was necessary because of several "intentionally false and inflammatory statements" that Trump made recently about the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida in August 2022.
Trump said the FBI agents who searched his estate were "authorized to shoot me" and were "locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger."
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was referring to the disclosure in a court document that the FBI, during the search, followed a standard use-of-force policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer conducting the search has a reasonable belief that the "subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person."
[JustTheNews] Under the law, such communications are supposed to occur on secure government email systems and to date Biden has not offered any explanation why his private email account was used. The Archives says it has tens of thousands of such emails from three Biden personal pseudonym accounts used during his vice presidency.
While he was vice president, Joe Biden received sensitive communications via his private email accounts created under a fictitious identity, including foreign policy discussions with his national security adviser, schedules of meetings with Cabinet secretaries and a summary of at least one intelligence briefing to President Barack Obama, according to new emails obtained by Just the News.
The new memos were released by the National Archives over the Memorial Day holiday weekend under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of Just the News that sought emails that Biden received or transmitted as vice president using his robinware456@gmail.com account.
While none of the newly released emails had classification markings on them, several included sensitive information transmitted over an insecure Google email account that could be of value to foreign powers and hostile spy agencies. The latest batch involved communications mostly from 2012.
For instance, Biden was forwarded an early morning briefing from then-White House counterterrorism director John Brennan to Obama on possible tsunamis hitting Hawaii in October 2012 which gave details on what the president had been told and how an emergency response would be crafted by the U.S. government.
"Call with POTUS took place at 3:10 a.m. EST," the email from Brennan stated. "He was briefed on earthquake, tsunami warnings, evacuation plans, and FEMA/federal response. He directed that all possible be done by the federal government to assist Hawaiian authorities before, during, and after tsunami hits.
"Same should be true for any potential tsunami impact on Alaska, west coast of continental United States, or U.S. territories in the Pacific. POTUS asked to be kept updated on developments, which Alyssa and I will do," the email noted.
Federal employees are allowed to use a private email account only as long as they forward government-related messages to their official work account in order to preserve the conversations so they can later be made available to the public or accessed by oversight groups. In 2017 the Trump administration was pilloried for allegedly failing to follow this rule.
To date Biden has not offered any explanation why his private email account was used and the emails were apparently not forwarded to secure government servers. The White House has yet to address why Biden chose to use fake account names. Ironically, Biden was vice-president when President Obama introduced on his first day in office, the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, boasting that it would usher in "a new era of open and accountable government meant to bridge the gap between the American people and their government."
The Archives says it has tens of thousands of such emails from three Biden personal pseudonym accounts used during his vice presidency.
One sensitive email hinted at frictions between Obama and Biden which emerged on television talk shows over the raid that killed reviled terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who ordered the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on America. Biden had opposed the raid.
"Transcripts look great. I've got your back on the other thing," senior White House adviser Antony Blinken wrote Biden on Oct. 23, 2012, just a few weeks before the presidential elections. "Also I re-read that transcript and - - not that this is much better -- potus was not referring to decision to get bin laden but rather warning Pakistan. Goes back to 2008 campaign. I can explain."
Several of the more sensitive emails involved communications with Blinken, now Biden’s Secretary of State and then the vice president’s chief security adviser.
For instance, during a period of tensions between the Kurds and Iraqis in the Middle East, Blinken sent several emails to Biden with observations about the Mosul region on Aug. 22, 2012.
"Mosul -- is due west of Erbil BUT in Iraq proper, NOT in the KRG. It's just west of the green line on the Iraq side," Blinken wrote in one missive offering the vice president some geographic context.
A short while later, Blinken added some sensitive observations about possible violence,
"Further to this — there are parts of Ninewah Province that are disputed and a very small piece of Mosul itself, but the Kurds make no claim to the city as an entity. Lots of oil though, so could become a flash point," Blinken wrote.
Earlier releases by the National Archives to the Southeastern Legal Foundation and Just the News included more mundane transmissions of official government business, such as schedules and news clips. The latest batch had more foreign policy and security information in them.
One clear pattern is that Biden staffers felt comfortable sending official information to Biden’s pseudonymic accounts, including schedules of meetings, even when they involved sensitive figures.
For instance, White House official Cathy Cheung sent a tentative itinerary that revealed Biden was planning a private meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the Naval Observatory in fall 2012.
"Sir, this is what the day would look like if you depart on Thursday for the service," Cheung wrote Biden on his private email account. "AM — 30 minute meeting with Secretary Panetta at NavObs."
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Since most of these people knew the rules, had clearances, yet CONSPIRED to do illegal circumventing...isn't there a crime here? What would that be called...hmmm?
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It’s all right. Biden didn’t remember the briefing anyway.
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Hildabeest and her cronies stripped classified headers or rewrote classified text verbatim got away with it. Rules don't apply to the political aristocracy, just the rest of us, because we believed it mattered.
[NY Post] A former business associate of James Biden has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare of $51 million through a lab-testing company linked to the first brother.
Keaton Langston, 39, admitted to using pharmacies, durable medical equipment companies and a laboratory in which he had a financial interest to bill for unnecessary tests and orders, the Justice Department disclosed last week in court filings.
James Biden, 75, has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing and has sought to distance himself from Langston, whose father Joey Langston also was associated with the first brother.
Keaton Langston founded Fountain Health, a lab company, in May 2017 and offered its services to rural hospital operator Americore Health, which later went bankrupt.
Records show James Biden was involved with Fountain Health in 2017 before connecting with Americore, which provided him in $600,000 in loans in 2018 as he allegedly vowed to use his political connections to secure foreign investors.
James passed $200,000 of the funds to Joe Biden in an alleged loan repayment.
Shortly after the lab firm launched, Joey Langston emailed James Biden and his son Keaton and three others on July 12, 2017, about an upcoming "meeting for Fountain Health partners," Politico reported in February.
"Jim will report to the group the results of his discussions earlier today with a contact at [Blue Cross Blue Shield]," the elder Langston wrote. "There will also be discussion about how to proceed with the Union contacts that have been made by Jim and Keaton, within the last two weeks."
Paul Fishman, an attorney for James Biden, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but previously said his client "conducted himself ethically and honorably in all his business dealings."
Keaton Langston agreed in September to repay Americore $240,000 in a civil settlement. James Biden agreed in 2022 to repay Americore $350,000.
The Bidens and the Langstons have been linked financially for years.
The elder Langston hosted fundraisers for Joe Biden when he was a senator, ProPublica reported.
Joey Langston also loaned James Biden $800,000, with most of the installments coming toward the end of the Obama-Biden administration in 2016, and ended up only being repaid $400,000 of the amount, he told House impeachment investigators in February.
The wealthy Mississippi lawyer pleaded guilty in 2008 and was sentenced to three years in federal prison for being part of a plot to bribe a judge in an asbestos legal fees dispute.
He was seeking to overturn his conviction when he made loans to the then-vice president’s son.
Joey Langston’s alleged co-conspirator in the bribes case, attorney Dickie Scruggs, was involved in a second prosecution for attempting to bribe a different judge.
James Biden was wiretapped by the FBI in 2007 as part of its investigation of the second bribery case, the Washington Post reported in December.
James was in talks at the time with Scruggs and conspirator Tim Balducci about setting up a law firm that would have employed himself, his nephew Hunter Biden and James’ wife Sara.
Then-Sen. Biden went from an opponent of federal legislation to sanction tobacco companies for lying about the addictiveness of cigarettes to a supporter after Scruggs — who planned a multibillion-dollar lawsuit — paid James Biden’s lobbying firm $100,000 in 1998, the Washington Post reported.
"I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother," Scruggs told the paper.
[Breitbart] The Democrat-led city of Denver, Colorado, is offering a how-to guide to help other cities turn into immigrant sanctuaries at the expense of taxpayers.
The guide is titled “Newcomers Playbook: A Guide to Welcoming Newcomers into Your City,” and its authors say they are “thrilled” to offer their guide on how to plan and implement a sanctuary city.
The guide exclaims:
We are thrilled that you are interested in creating a welcoming environment for migrants in your city. As part of Denver’s welcoming approach, we use the term “newcomers” to refer to migrants, recognizing that they are new to our city and embracing a more inclusive language. This playbook is a guide divided into two sections, offering recommendations and strategies for successfully integrating newcomers into your city.
The guide credits the “Office of Mayor Mike Johnston” and several of his migrant agencies. Even though the 22-page booklet celebrates turning cities into immigrant sanctuaries, it is supposedly written by the same mayor who has attacked outside groups and states for sending immigrants to Denver, claimed the wave of immigrants was unsustainable, sent officials on trips to discourage immigrants from coming to Denver, spent millions shipping immigrants to other cities, cut funding and services, and worked to evict immigrants from city-sponsored shelters.
Despite actions that seem to contradict the “welcoming” that the guide claims Denver has offered “newcomers” — that being the latest Orwellian rebranding of the term “illegal aliens” — the guide offers handy tips to aspiring sanctuary cities on how to redirect city services from citizens to immigrants.
It makes perfect sense: the more welcoming other locations are, the fewer illegals Denver will need to welcome itself. This, of course, assumes a finite number of illegal aliens far less than the seven billion or so current living on Planet Earth.
Included are tips to establish intake centers to help direct immigrants to free services, how to offer free transportation, free housing, food, clothing, medical care, legal advice, and more.
The guide even suggests that cities purchase or arrange contracts with mobile showers and laundry trucks to offer such services to “newcomers.”
There is also a comprehensive checklist of “guest-related” questions to help cities identify trouble spots ahead of time. The guide even helpfully advises city officials to use fraudulent social security numbers (SSNs) for immigrants in instances where such information is needed, informing readers, “If an online application requires an SSN to move forward in the online portal, we have entered 123-45-6789.”
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) is warning of possible retribution against some of his GOP colleagues in the House who are actively campaigning against the Texas Republican’s reelection bid.
As Gonzales seeks a third term to his seat on Tuesday representing Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, the incumbent is facing a challenge from his right over his voting record to protect same-sex marriage and to implement stricter gun safety measures. Those votes attracted a crowded field of candidates looking to oust the incumbent during the March primary, forcing Gonzales into a runoff with challenger Brandon Herrera after neither candidate secured more than 50% of the vote.
The runoff election has attracted national attention as many of Gonzales’s colleagues in the House have endorsed his challenger, a move the Texas Republican said won’t go unnoticed.
"Here’s the deal: If somebody backs your opponent and goes to your district and does events [and] are giving your opponent money — they are trying to kill you politically. And you better believe them," Gonzales told the Washington Examiner in an interview. "So your only option is to kill them politically. So I think there’s focus on Tuesday, and then we’re going to do a little purging of ourselves of our own."
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
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...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
[NewsMax] The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors' request to bar the former president from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the prosecution.
[JustTheNews] Under the law, such communications are supposed to occur on secure government email systems and to date Biden has not offered any explanation why his private email account was used. The Archives says it has tens of thousands of such emails from three Biden personal pseudonym accounts used during his vice presidency. 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. 
