90-10 rule. Or maybe 80-20. A small number of criminals commit most of the crimes, so get them off the street and the crime rate drops like a rock. Or don’t, and watch it go up like a rocket. They’ll be writing all new case studies for the same old principles in the textbooks after this little experiment.
[NYPOST] A small group of just 10 career criminals was allowed to run amok across the Big Apple and rack up nearly 500 arrests after New York enacted its controversial bail-reform law — and most of them are still out on the streets, The Post has learned.
Stunning statistics compiled by the NYPD show that the city’s alleged "worst of the worst" repeat offenders have been busted a total of 485 times since bail reform went into effect in 2020.
Two of the unidentified defendants are actually accused of embarking on lives of crime in the wake of bail reform, with one busted 33 times since 2020 and the other busted 22 times, all this year, the data shows.
Mayor Eric Adams — who’s been demanding that state politicians roll back the bail-reform law to crack down on repeat offenders — is expected to discuss the disturbing findings Wednesday during an afternoon news conference at One Police Plaza.
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It's not just the bail reform laws, the liberal judges also need to be replaced.
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[PJMedia] In a news conference that aired live on Rumble, Facebook, and Twitter, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the immediate suspension of Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren for consistent refusal to enforce certain laws. Accompanied by county sheriffs and law enforcement officers, DeSantis said Warren has publicly put himself above the law, citing Warren’s announcement that he would refuse to enforce any Florida laws limiting abortion in the wake of the Dobbs decision, laws against allowing children to undergo mutilating surgeries, and a consistent record of charges not being brought in violent crime cases.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister spoke, citing the case of a shooting that targeted a young family in which Warren failed to file charges, only for the suspect to continue to commit violent offenses. Chronister said the state attorney told him they didn’t prosecute because the depositions would be too long and complicated.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd then spoke about liberal cities like Chicago, New York, and Portland that have failed to prosecute violent crimes and the resulting spikes in crime in those cities. He noted that it’s the elected prosecutors who decide whether or not to support law enforcement and keep people safe.
DeSantis made a point of distinguishing between prosecutorial discretion (which is rightly exercised on a case-by-case basis) and a consistent stance of refusing to uphold the constitution and laws of Florida.
Today’s announcement came in the wake of Warren’s public proclamations that he would not prosecute riot crimes or laws against late term abortion, despite his oath to uphold the laws of the state of Florida. In June, he signed on to a letter vowing to protect abortion:
Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren issued a joint statement with prosecutors nationwide declining to go after people “who seek, provide, or support abortions” following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The prosecutors who signed on to the letter from the organization Fair and Just Prosecution say that while they all don’t agree on abortion, “we stand together in our firm belief that prosecutors have a responsibility to refrain from using limited criminal legal system resources to criminalize personal medical decisions.
In 2020, Warren declined to file charges against rioters in the wake of the George Floyd killing:
Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren will not prosecute 67 protesters arrested June 2.
The 67 individuals were arrested for unlawful assembly during demonstrations calling for police reform [in] the face of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis.
Warren’s office said Monday during a news conference they would not be filing charges.
“I’ve said many times that criminal justice reform involves looking at each case as a problem to solve, not just a person to be punished,” State Attorney Warren said. “In these unlawful assembly cases, there is no value in filing charges,” Warren said. “Prosecuting people for exercising their First Amendment rights creates problems rather than solving them. It can weaken the bonds between law enforcement and the community, while undermining faith in our system.”
DeSantis has laid down a marker, refusing to allow any Florida county or municipality to become one of those blue cities overcome by crime and violence due to woke politics and misapplied social justice.
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recalled by the voters after they voted him in on promises to do exactly what they later recalled him for.
Perhaps there weren't so many mail-in and harvested ballots in the recall.
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Not sure having a legal system that consists of a rug that can be pulled any time is a good thing.
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Never any federal action on the fentanyl problem, no effort whatsoever to secure the border and commie bastards like Boudin won't even prosecute fentanyl dealers. From all of this I can only imagine one solution: Politicians from the federal to the local level, including the likes of Nancy Pelosi and the Biden crime family, are getting a cut of the fentanyl action. They don't want the traffic stopped, they don't want the dealers prosecuted. How else can it be explained?
OK, on second thought, here's another possible explanation: Since the fentanyl precursor chemicals come from China to Mexico, maybe it's Xi Jinping who wants to destroy America by turning us all into fentanyl junkies. And since Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are corrupted by that bastard, they won't stop it.
Well, anybody else have any other possible explanations for this nonsense?
Meanwhile, just down the road in Los Angeles, Boudin's colleague George Gascon along with California Attorney General Rob Bonta are doing their part:
BTW, the petition had enough signatures so Gascon will face a recall election in November. He's too crazy even for Los Angeles.
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Note Gascon was previously SF's DA
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Oh yeah. That's right.
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You do have to question the intelligence of SF voters for electing Boudin in the first place. How on earth (aside from the most wishful of wishful thinking) could they not have known what would happen?
At least they do apparently learn from their mistakes. Some of them, anyway.
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You do have to question the intelligence of SF voters for electing Boudin in the first place.
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Rapidly coming to the conclusion that they should be called the Federal Bureau of Insurgents given they are plotting with the Demonrats to destroy this country and turn it into a socialist hellhole. I hope if they attempt to unleash that nightmare they receive the fullest amount of quarter their behavior begs for. Karma hurts.
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Politics eventually corrupts everything it touches. The feebs used to be good at catching bank robbers, kidnappers, white collar crooks, and actual violent criminals.
Now, not so much.
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fibbey used to be useful, now ? The fbi and ag need to be removed from the doj and the doj scrapped. also scrap 'homeland security'. presidents form these departments to distribute blame.
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Each law proposed, debated and passed by congress and signed by the presedeint should do one thing only. No more "comprehensive" or "omnibus" crap sandwiches. Every department should do one thing only. Each should be kept small (capped) and focused.
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"There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws...just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers."
[NPR] When a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they were onto something big. They scrounged up tables and chairs, cleared out space in the parking lot for experiments and got to work.
They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades. The engineers pictured people plunking them down next to their air conditioners, attaching solar panels to them, and everyone living happily ever after off the grid.
"It was beyond promise," said Chris Howard, one of the engineers who worked there for a U.S. company called UniEnergy. "We were seeing it functioning as designed, as expected."
But that's not what happened. Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. And more than 5,200 miles away, a Chinese company is hard at work making the batteries in Dalian, China.
The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer. An investigation by NPR and the Northwest News Network found the federal agency allowed the technology and jobs to move overseas, violating its own licensing rules while failing to intervene on behalf of U.S. workers in multiple instances.
Now, China has forged ahead, investing millions into the cutting-edge green technology that was supposed to help keep the U.S. and its economy out front.
Department of Energy officials declined NPR's request for an interview to explain how the technology that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars ended up in China. After NPR sent department officials written questions outlining the timeline of events, the federal agency terminated the license with the Chinese company, Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd.
"DOE takes America's manufacturing obligations within its contracts extremely seriously," the department said in a written statement. "If DOE determines that a contractor who owns a DOE-funded patent or downstream licensee is in violation of its U.S. manufacturing obligations, DOE will explore all legal remedies."
Several U.S. companies have tried to get a license to make the batteries
The department is now conducting an internal review of the licensing of vanadium battery technology and whether this license — and others — have violated U.S. manufacturing requirements, the statement said.
Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling."
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NPR Science™
I won't lose much sleep...
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Storage batteries of any type are wasteful and require many harmful raw materials mined from the earth with enormous diesel powered machines. What ever happed to just using wind and solar and forget about batteries?
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[Free Beacon] The $433 billion Inflation Reduction Act will have no meaningful impact on consumer costs, according to the economist President Joe Biden cites most often.
By the end of 2031, the latest Democratic reconciliation bill would shave just .33 percent from the Consumer Price Index, the traditional inflation metric, according to a report from Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. The current CPI is 9.1 percent, the highest in over 40 years.
Zandi and his coauthors say the Inflation Reduction Act will only "nudge the economy and inflation in the right direction." And that conclusion strains the definition of "nudge." Americans will see no change in inflation due to the bill, the report states, until the third quarter of 2023—a .01 percent decrease.
Zandi's analysis is often shared by the White House or the president himself. During a February 2021 speech, Biden cited Zandi's work twice while pitching his economic agenda. In July of last year, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) called on lawmakers to read Zandi's favorable report on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
But Zandi's latest findings have not deterred the White House. Both Chief of Staff Ron Klain and Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates retweeted a CNN reporter's tweet that quotes the report as saying the bill will "meaningfully address climate change and [reduce] the government's budget deficits."
The White House's celebration of the report signals how desperate they are to pass a budget reconciliation package before the midterm elections. Initially named "Build Back Better," the bill has seen a number of rebranding attempts as voters increasingly sour on Biden's presidency over the economic concerns.
Zandi and his coauthors conclude that the inflation reduction bill lowers consumer costs for some medications, something the White House highlighted, although they decline to specify the total savings. Moreover, the deflationary benefits from lower health costs, the authors write, do not kick in until "mid-decade."
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We are already in a recession. Matters little what the Biden owned economists say.
And it's going to get worse. The big driver is fuel costs. Those costs are the long pole in the tent for the final pricing of everything we need to survive.
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There will be no significant reduction in inflation until fuel costs come down.
The Fed can say nothing about that in their inflation kabuki dance because strangling investment home construction and car sales is meaningless.
Because fuel and food are burning everyone’s paycheck they don’t have money for cars and homes
[NYPOST] Republicans are calling on state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate alleged pay-to-play schemes involving Gov. Kathy Hochul ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
"Kickback Kathy is the new reigning champion of the Albany cesspool of corruption," State GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement Tuesday.
"She is brazenly selling lucrative state contracts to her donors and just because it’s likely done with a wink and a nod doesn’t make it any less criminal. She needs to be investigated and thrown out of office by the voters," he alleged of the Democratic governor.
The Hochul campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Calls for an investigation of gubernatorial fundraising follow a growing list of media reports detailing controversial campaign contributions to Hochul ahead of the Nov. 8 election against Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin.
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Sorry, folks, the date of the Democratic primary has passed, and Letitia doesn't need to shovel any dirt on Kathy. Maybe in four years, when there's another Democratic primary that Letitia thinks she can win.
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[IsraelTimes] Michigan progressive Levin notes opponent spent 5 times more than his campaign due to ’outside money,’ alluding to pro-Israel lobby, but pledges to support Stevens in November vote
A Jewish political dynasty’s four-decade run in Congress has come to an end after Rep. Andy Levin conceded to Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s 11th congressional district Tuesday.
Stevens’ decisive win concluded a bank-busting primary that attracted more than $4 million in pro-Israel outside spending to a face-off between two incumbents in the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... suburbs.
"She ran a strong campaign," Levin told his supporters. "My hat’s off to her." He pledged to support Stevens in the general election.
In his concession speech, Levin did not mention the role that spending by the political action committee founded this year by AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, played in his loss. But he did mention that Stevens’ supporters outspent his own by a factor of five to one, thanks to "outside money."
Stevens drew significant support from a PAC founded to support women candidates and was seen as favored from the beginning because of the new district’s map. But with nearly half of the outside spending coming from AIPAC’s PAC, United Democracy Project, the race also emerged as a battleground over US-Israel politics — made more poignant as AIPAC backed the non-Jewish candidate over the Jewish one. A JINO Not all Jews are Zionists. Just the smart ones.
In addition to ending a Michigan Jewish political dynasty that has lasted since Levin’s uncle Carl was elected to the Senate in 1979, Levin’s loss means the wing of the Democratic party that is most critical of Israel is losing its most outspoken Jewish ally in the House of Representatives.
"Especially for young Jews, Andy was our candidate," Levi Teitel, a local organizer with the Jewish pro-Paleostinian group IfNotNow, told JTA. "He championed the issues we care about: climate justice, the need to forge peace between Israelis and Paleostinians."
For AIPAC, that result is something to celebrate. Despite drawing criticism for its spending in this year’s primaries, the first time the pro-Israel lobby has supported candidates directly, AIPAC has unapologetically stood behind the candidates it believes to be most beneficial to the US-Israel relationship — even, as in Michigan’s 11th District when it means opposing a Jewish incumbent.
Levin, who was backed by J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, is vocally critical of Israel and authored a "Two-State Solution Act" this session that would restrict how Israel could use US aid, has been in AIPAC’s crosshairs. AIPAC’s former director David Victor, a Detroit resident, called Levin "arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the US-Israel relationship." He also said in a letter to prospective donors in January that "less engaged fellow wardheelers may take [Levin] at his word" on Israel because of his Jewish credentials.
In the waning days of his campaign, rather than try to win over the voters that AIPAC had sought to mobilize, Levin instead drew attention to his Israel politics. He held a rally with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... and Representative Rashida Tlaib and did a virtual event with Peter Beinart of Jewish Currents, three figures who are critical of Israel and its treatment of the Paleostinians and largely despised by the hardline pro-Israel crowd.
"I’m really Jewish," Levin said on MSNBC last week. "But AIPAC can’t stand the idea that I am the clearest strongest Jewish voice in Congress standing for a simple proposition: that there’s no way to have a secure democratic homeland for the Jewish people unless we achieve the political and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... for the Paleostinian people."
On Tuesday night at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, volunteers and young campaign staffers wearing "Jews For Levin" shirts commiserated with Levin supporters of a variety of races and ages. Outside, the rock band Coheed and Cambria was playing a loud gig to a parking lot full of headbangers.
Though Levin was fighting a variety of uphill factors in the race, including a redrawn district that covered much of Stevens’ territory, his Jewish supporters laid the blame for his loss squarely on AIPAC’s spending.
"Andy is actually very close to the center of gravity of the American Jewish community," Eva Borgwardt, a Levin volunteer who drove from her parents’ home in Missouri to knock on doors for the campaign and who had written invective against AIPAC in red ink on her arm, told JTA.
Not really, no. But it’s very human to define where one stands as the center, especially for those driven by feelings instead of actual facts.
"This is an attempt from AIPAC to send a very clear message that if you are an American Jew for Paleostinian rights, we will destroy you."
Nah, they aren’t prejudiced. If you are a non-Jewish American politician who occupies the same anti-Israel territory, they’ll express their opinions on the subject by supporting your pro-Israel opponent, regardless of your or their faith/race/ethnicity.
Matt Nosanchuk, the president and executive director of the progressive Jewish group New York Jewish Agenda, is Levin’s brother-in-law and flew into Michigan to campaign for him.
"Ultimately AIPAC may enjoy a victory in the short term, but I think they need to think hard about the political space they’re shutting down through their efforts and their money," Nosanchuk said.
Oh. So it’s perfectly ok for you to push your agenda, but not for AIPAC to do the same — because Israel is icky. Gotcha.
For its part, AIPAC was eager to claim victory Tuesday night, tweeting that Stevens was "the 10th AIPAC-backed Democrat to defeat a challenger who sought to undermine America’s partnership with our ally Israel." (So far this year, one AIPAC-backed candidate has lost).
Making the Democrats more sensible, on candidate at a time.
The group added, "Being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics!"
AIPAC also poured more than $4 million into a different Michigan race, in the 13th District, to support Adam Hollier against a billionaire state senator, Shri Thanedar, who funded his own campaign and whom AIPAC considered a threat because he once introduced anti-Israel legislation. That race had not been called Tuesday night.
[IsraelTmes] Ahead of hotly contested US primary, local partisan group says clip mentioning AIPAC campaign spending and saying ‘Zionists have no place in office’ was ‘completely inappropriate’.
The chair of a county Democratic Party in Michigan apologized after the group made a social media post reading “Zionists have no place in office,” apparently meant to support a member of the US Congress, Rep. Andy Levin, who identifies as a Zionist.
But as we all know, identifying as is not at all the same as being.
Washtenaw County Democratic Party chair Chris Savage issued an apology Saturday for the TikTok post, which was sent Friday by the @WashtenawDems account and referenced the millions of dollars’ worth of pro-Israel money that has flowed into Michigan’s 11th District primary. The race, a redistricting battle between progressive Jewish member Levin and centrist non-Jewish Rep. Haley Stevens, concludes Tuesday.
The party group has since deleted the post, but a screenshot of it was shared on social media by Jordan Acker, a Jewish Democrat who is an elected member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. It contains the text “Zionists have no place in office” under a headline reading “AIPAC VS ANDY LEVIN” and a hashtag reading “#nastywoman” with a devil-horns emoji.
“Naturally, I was troubled by this,” Levin told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I was grateful for the Washtenaw Dems’ swift action and apology.”
The post, which Acker later said was made by a college student, was notable for arriving in the thick of a Democratic primary season that has been largely defined by how thoroughly Israel has taken center stage in even local races. AIPAC has demonstrated a willingness to spend enormous sums of money to back their preferred candidates, who support hardline pro-Israel policies, over more liberal opponents.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] The Trump-endorsed candidates in Arizona are running the board; however, the corrupt, conniving and scheming UniParty constructs that have thoroughly infected the state election process still remain.
As it currently stands, Trump-endorsed Blake Masters appears to have easily won the GOP primary in the Senate race and will now face Mark Kelly. The comprehensively corrupt Rusty Bowers, the Arizona state House speaker who was insistent upon retaining corruption as a political business model — and a favorite of the J6 committee in DC, has thankfully lost his bid for a state senate seat to Trump-endorsed David Farnsworth.
Additionally, Trump-endorsed Kari Lake has taken a sizable lead in Governor’s primary race over decepticon Mike Pence-endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Arizona voters have overwhelmingly selected Trump-endorsed Mark Finchem as their candidate for the secretary of state’s office. Perhaps Finchem, if he succeeds in the general election, can finally fix the insufferable mess of Arizona elections.
Kari Lake’s victory, if certified, is a profound set-back for the two UniParty wings of the political club.
No doubt RNC Club Chairwoman Heavy McD (Ronna McDaniel) ate a few extra slices of red velvet cake for breakfast before throwing the coffee pot at the trembling concierge hiding behind the spa door. For the Arizona contest, Ms Kari Lake raised about $3.8 million in mostly small dollar donations, while Ms. Taylor Robson -a billionaire club member- raised more than $18 million. The one thing Arizona voters and Heavy D would agree upon, is that Arizona rebels are revolting.
In the State of Florida, it was always Broward County that led to more than twenty years of constant eyerolls whenever an election cycle came around. The issues with Broward County voting in the sunshine state were well documented, transparently corrupt and brutally obvious for decades.
Then newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis finally intervened, appointed state oversight, removed the corrupt Brenda Snipes (with her entire staff) as supervisor of elections, and ’presto’ — just like that all of the Broward County issues mysteriously resolved. In 2020 the full state reported election results by 10pm on election night. Funny that.
The state of Arizona, specifically Maricopa and Pima counties, who seem to need days -if not weeks- to tally their votes, perhaps needing the assistance of DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... trained carrier pigeons handled by GOPe caretakers, has become the new Broward County.
Despite the intransigence of the GOP club, the turban MAGA victories continue....
[BREITBART] A 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... , Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, law that allowed illegal aliens and other foreign nationals to vote in some local elections was struck down in court late last week.
On July 29, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer overturned the city’s ordinance that was first passed in 2016, which allowed foreign nationals — including illegal aliens — to vote in citywide school board elections so long as they are the parent of a school-aged child and are not incarcerated or out on parole.
By 2018, as Breitbart News reported, the city had spent almost $400,000 to register a total of 61 foreign nationals to vote in the school board elections.
Ulmer, though, ruled that the ordinance is in violation of the California Constitution, which specifically states that "a United States citizen 18 years of age and resident in this state may vote."
"In sum, San Francisco ordinance 206-21 is contrary to the California Constitution and state statutes and thus cannot stand," Ulmer wrote,
The ruling is yet another blow to the open borders lobby, which has made noncitizen voting a fixture of their agenda to eliminate the privileges of American citizenship.
In June, the New York Supreme Court similarly struck down a New York City law that allowed foreign nationals to vote in citywide elections so long as they had lived in the city for at least 30 days. In that case, the court found that the state’s constitution is clear that voting "is a right granted to citizens of the United States."
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Aliens/illegal aliens voting proves its all a ritualistic shame no different than dictators with mock elections getting 99% of the vote.
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It's all political posturing for mid terms that the LSD's are tanking in the polls. Question is ... Did LSD's get their new ballot printing machines in yet?🙃
[FEDERALIST] Joe Manchin, the Democratic U.S. senator from West Virginia, may finally see the writing on the wall and realize his time in politics is coming to an end. Manchin, who held onto his Senate seat by just over 3 percent during his most recent reelection bid, is likely to squander any of the goodwill he has generated among his constituents with his recently declared support for the latest reconciliation bill in the Senate.
After presenting himself as a foil to many of the Biden administration’s leftist legislative goals, Manchin has come to an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.65985 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... about dedicating "hundreds of billions" of federal funds to "deficit reduction," raising taxes on American industry, and emboldening green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... initiatives.
Manchin has insisted that passing the reconciliation bill will bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, but the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) disagrees. According to NAM, the bill intends to raise $313 billion, nearly half of which will be generated by imposing a 15 percent minimum corporate levy on domestic manufacturers.
This new tax is expected to reduce real GDP by $68.45 billion, eliminate more than 200,000 jobs, and decrease the income of laborers by $17.11 billion.
The bill also, according to Manchin, "addresses our nation’s energy and climate crisis by adopting commonsense solutions through strategic and historic investments that allow us to decarbonize." According to a summary of the bill from Senate Democrats, the bill would "put the U.S. on a path to roughly 40% emissions reduction by 2030, and would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history."
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Consider - someone whispered in Joe's ear that he gets the VP slot after they Agnew Harris? Knowing the Big Guy's show only has months left, wouldn't a pol be tempted to take the bait?
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i recall a tv show when then rep schumer was propounding gun control when an audience member said that the constitutions 2nd amendment was not to protect citizens from criminals but to protect citizens from 'you' ... his smile turned waxen.
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He knows he is toast next election. He is getting his and yours before then. A promise of a VP slot wouldn't be out of the question to sweeten the deal either.
[NYPOST] Longshot challenger Suraj Patel came out swinging in the Democratic primary debate for the race to represent Manhattan’s Upper West and Upper East sides, saying it’s time to retire septuagenarian Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney.
The call for new blood from the 38-year-old came right after Nadler stumbled badly through his own opening statement.
"It’s 2022. It’s time to turn the page on 1992," Patel, 38, said in a swipe at Nadler, 75, and Maloney, 76, during his introductory statement in the debate co-sponsored by NY1 and WNYC.
Nadler’s delivery was halting during his initial presentation and he misspoke and often seemed unable to come up with the right words.
And then Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, uttered a real whopper, proclaiming, "I’ve impeached Bush twice."
He was referring to his oversight of the politically divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... impeachments of former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , whom he confused with either the 41st or 43rd president.
Nadler’s bumbling seemed to prove Patel’s point.
"Nineteen-nineties Democrats have lost about every major battle to Mitch McConnell ...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least... and the Republicans," said Patel, referring to the Senate Republican leader from Kentucky.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Nadler sat during the entire 90-minute session while Maloney and Patel stood at their lecterns.
Nadler had many other verbal stumbles throughout the debate and at one point when the moderators offered him a chance to respond since his name had been brought up by an opponent, he seemed stunned and had nothing to say.
At one point, WNYC moderator Brigid Bergin asked Nadler about the importance of seniority and how he and Maloney differed on policies, two related but different questions.
Nadler answered that seniority is important if used effectively, but forgot about the Maloney comparison.
"The second one, the second question, what was the second one?" Nadler asked.
Maloney made waves for a different reason during the debate: She predicted that President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... , 79, would not run for re-election.
"I don’t believe he’s running for re-election," Maloney said.
Nadler, meanwhile, would not commit to supporting Biden’s re-election and would only answer, "It’s too early to say," when asked.
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And then Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, uttered a real whopper, proclaiming, "I’ve impeached Bush twice."
"...And I stopped the Germans from bombing Pearl Harbor!!!!"
[NYPOST] Rep. Peter Meijer, who ripped Democrats this week for bankrolling his Trump-backed primary opponent, lost his bid for a second House term to challenger John Gibbs in Michigan’s 3rd District Tuesday.
Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... over last year’s Capitol riot — and who was targeted for defeat by Trump as a result — conceded early Wednesday with results showing Gibbs ahead by almost 4,000 votes with more than 88% of the expected ballots counted.
"This was a hard-fought primary campaign and I want to thank everyone in west Michigan for their support. ... I also want to congratulate my opponent, John Gibbs, on his victory tonight," Meijer said in a statement, according to the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Free Press.
"I’m proud to have remained true to my principles, even when doing so came at a significant political cost," he added.
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Rep. Peter Meijer, who ripped Democrats this week for bankrolling his Trump-backed primary opponent, lost his bid for a second House term to challenger John Gibbs in Michigan’s 3rd District Tuesday.
Anybody remember Rush Limbaugh's operation chaos to back Obama over Hillary?
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Meijer spent $4 million of his own money on his campaign. The $450k from the dems is not chicken scratch but it isn't the push over the top either. And it's money they don't have now to spend elsewhere.
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Happily, there are no Meijer's stores where I live. I'd hate to get busted for public defecation on their sidewalk.
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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.
[NPR] When a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they were onto something big. They scrounged up tables and chairs, cleared out space in the parking lot for experiments and got to work.
...The 
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The 
...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as 
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
