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The Left Is Losing It! Use of “Fascist/Fascism” Expands

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Wow: Chair Of The House Democratic Caucus Calls ICE A “Fascist” Organization…

Ex-CIA Chief Compares Trump Immigration Policy To Nazi Germany…

Larry Elder’s 2nd and 3rd Appearance on Dave Rubin’s Show

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Larry Elder (Author & Radio Host) joins Dave Rubin to discuss his views on Black Lives Matter, real racism vs systemic racism, Donald Trump white supremacy, fake news, and much more. (Make sure to watch Larry the first appearance on the Rubin Report):

JANUARY 2017

Larry Elder joins Dave to discuss Kanye West’s political awakening, the state of the media, the new conservatives, and more.

MAY 2018

Football Legend Anthony Davis Discusses Kneeling for the Anthem

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Larry Elder interviews Anthony Davis on a few topics, I isolate this segment to the kneeling issue.Again, like others, he realizes this is a private business and that a product is being sold. Your petty activism can be done in a better and more constructive way.

Also, I have heard from close family (plural) that no previous rule existed for the players to kneel.

THIS IS NOT THE CASE:

According to the NFL the Game Operations Manual is it’s “Bible”

  • “The NFL Football Operations ‘bible’ is the Game Operations Manual — nearly 200 pages of procedures and policy for regular season games alone…. The NFL takes infractions of Game Operations rules seriously — so much so that clubs risk fines as high as $500,000 for violations ‘affecting the competitive aspects of the game.’ Some violations, such as late arrival for kickoff, can result in yardage penalties, and failure to comply with a uniform policy can result in a player’s temporary removal from the game. The league takes violations seriously because it takes its responsibilities seriously. Good governance is an essential component in producing a fair and entertaining game.”

Here are the NFL’s rules governing the National Anthem, found on pages A 62-63 of the NFL Game Operations Manual (TIME|September 25, 2017). I will emphasize the loophole the players were using and the owners were too scared to make waves because of:

  • “The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem. During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem <<MAY>> result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.”

MORE HERE: The 1st Amendment and Colin Kaepernick (September 3rd, 2016)

IG Report (Articles and More)

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  • FBI Agent’s Text Disclosed By Justice Watchdog: ‘We’ll Stop’ Trump From Becoming President (CNBC, by Tucker Higgins | June 13, 2018)
  • Seven Highlights From Bombshell IG Report On The DOJ, FBI Clinton Email Probe (FOX NEWS, by Gregg Re | June 13, 2018)
  • Devin Nunes: IG Report Shows DOJ/FBI Guilty of ‘Obstruction of a Congressional Investigation’; Text Message in Report Were Requested by Congress ‘Late Last Year’: ‘Why Did I Only Find Out Today?’ (FOX NEWS, by Ingraham Angle | June 13, 2018)
  • IG Report: DOJ Official Sought Clinton Campaign Job For Son, Then Shared Case Info With Podesta (FOX NEWS, by Adam Shaw | June 13, 2018)

  • THE INSPECTOR GENERAL PUT TOGETHER AN INSANE FBI LEAK CHART UPON FINDING RULES ‘WIDELY IGNORED’ (THE FEDERALIST, by Mollie Hemingway | June 14, 2018)
  • IG Finds FBI Agents “Willingness” To Damage Trump Presidency (SARA CARTER | June 14, 2018)
  • ‘Viva Le Resistance’: Ig Report Reveals More Justice Department Bias As FBI Lawyer Working On Mueller’S Russia Probe Texted Colleague That He Was ‘Numb’ After Trump’s Election (DAILY MAIL, by  Geoff Earle | June 14, 2018)
  • Team Mueller Lawyer: “Viva Le Resistance” (POWERLINE, by Steven Hayward | June 14, 2018)
  • IG Revelations On Agent/Journo Gift-Giving Could Be Federal Crimes (DAILY CALLER, by Kevin Daley | June 14, 2018)
  • Meet the Other Amorous FBI Staffers Who Texted About the Clinton Email Investigation (THE WEEKLY STANDARD, by Eric Felten | June 14, 2018)
  • Five Anti-Trump FBI Officials Referred For Disciplinary Action Over Private Messages (DAILY CALLER, by Chuck Ross | June 14, 2018)
  • Clearly, There Is No Bias Problem At The FBI (HOT AIR, by John Sexton | June 14, 2018)
  • Leak-O-Rama: IG Says Lots Of FBI Employees Were Talking To Reporters — And Some Even Received Benefits (HOT AIR, by AllahPundit | June 14, 2018)
  • FBI Official: Clinton’s Answers To Us Were “Hard To Impossible To Believe” (DAILY CALLER, by Andrew Kerr | June 14, 2018)
  • IG Report: No ‘Confidence’ Peter Strzok’s Decisionmaking ‘Free from Bias’ (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by Daniel Flynn | June 14, 2018)
  • FBI Employee to FBI Attorney for Russia Investigation: ‘YOU PROMISED’ Trump Would Never Get Elected (CNS NEWS, by Terence P. Jeffrey | June 14 2018)
  • IG Report Released (ACE OF SPADES | June 14 2018)
  • Standard Everday Cucks Vs. Super Mega Incel Cuck (ACE OF SPADES | June 14 2018)
  • OIG Report, Thread Two | Plus: Another Mueller Prosecutor Finally Removed Over Anti-Trump, “Viva La Resistance!” Texts (ACE OF SPADES | June 14 2018)
  • FBI Agent Assigned to Clinton Email Probe: I’m Getting Out My Guns If Clinton Doesn’t Win the Election (ACE OF SPADES | June 14 2018)
  • IG Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received ‘Improper’ Gifts From Reporters in Exchange For Leaks (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Cristina Laila | June 14, 2018)
  • IG Report: Disciplinary Action Recommended For Five FBI Agents–Oh, And Bureau Employees Got Free Stuff From Reporters (TOWNHALL, by Matt Vespa | June 14, 2018)
  • Strzok, Page Texts: ‘We’ll Stop’ Trump From Being President (WESTERN JOURNAL, by Randy DeSoto  | June 14, 2018)
  • From 9/11 To Spygate: The National Security Deep State (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, by Daniel Greenfield | June 14, 2018)
  • Shell-Shocked FBI Employees On Trump’s 2016 Win: Trump Voters Are ‘Poor, Lazy Pieces of Shit’ (TOWNHALL, by Matt Vespa | June 14, 2018)
  • Marco Rubio Wants To Know Why This From The IG Report Isn’t Getting More Focus In The Media? (RIGHT SCOOP | June 14, 2018)
  • Bloomberg: Cancel Horowitzmas … For Now; Update: “We’ll Stop” Trump? (HOT AIR, by Ed Morrissey | June 14, 2018)
  • Hillary Responds To IG Report (POWERLINE, by Steven Hayward | June 14, 2018)

Insubordination and Bias at FBI:

The inspector general report is careful in its conclusions, but damning on the facts.

By Kimberley A. Strassel | June 14, 2018

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 500-page report covers plenty, but it can be distilled to two words he uses to describe the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 2016 election: insubordination and bias. Two terms that are chilling in connection with such a powerful agency.

That won’t be the message from Democrats and most of the press, who will focus on a few episodes they will claim cost Hillary Clinton an election. Watch for them to blame former FBI Director James Comey, whom the report faults for “a serious error of judgment,” for having “concealed information” from superiors, and for “violation of or disregard for” departmental and bureau policies.

True, the report is damning about the man who lectures Americans on “higher loyalty.” It describes how an “insubordinate” Mr. Comey was, as early as April 2016, considering how to cut his Justice Department bosses from a public statement exonerating Hillary Clinton. He hid this scheme for fear “they would instruct him not to do it”—and therefore was able to “avoid supervision.” He then “violated long-standing Department practice and protocol” by using his July 5 press conference for “criticizing Clinton’s uncharged conduct.” In October, he made public that the FBI had reopened the investigation, even though the Justice Department recommended he not do so. Mr. Comey went rogue, and President Trump had plenty of justification in firing him in May 2017.

Yet it is the report’s findings on the wider culture of the FBI and Justice Department that are most alarming. The report depicts agencies that operate outside the rules to which they hold everybody else, and that showed extraordinary bias while investigating two presidential candidates.

There’s Loretta Lynch, who felt it perfectly fine to have a long catch-up with her friend Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac and whom the inspector general slams for an “error in judgment.” Mr. Comey’s entire staff was complicit in concealing the contents of the July press conference from Justice officials. We discover that significant FBI “resources” were dedicated in October to spinning FBI “talking points” about the Clinton investigation—rather than actually investigating the new Anthony Weiner laptop emails the bureau discovered in September. We even find that Mr. Comey used personal email and laptops to conduct government work.

There’s former Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, who was tipping off the Clinton campaign even as he took part in the investigation, and who “failed to strictly adhere to [his] recusal” when he finally stepped away. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe also did not “fully comply with his recusal,” and he’d already been found to have lied to the bureau about a leak to the media. Speaking of leaks, Mr. Horowitz needed full attachments and charts to list the entire “volume of communication” between FBI employees and the press. Not only did these folks have “no official reason to be in contact with the media,” but they also “improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events.”

Be ready to hear the report absolves the FBI and DOJ of “bias.” Not true. It very carefully states that “our review did not find documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the specific investigative decisions we reviewed.” Put another way, he never caught anyone writing down: Let’s start this Trump investigation so we can help Hillary win.

But the bias is everywhere. It’s in the texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and those of three other employees who are routinely “hostile” to Candidate Trump. It’s in Ms. Page’s freak-out that Mr. Trump might win the presidency and Mr. Strzok’s reply: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” It’s in a message from an unnamed agent in November 2016 who writes that although the FBI found Clinton aide Huma Abedin had “lied,” it doesn’t matter since “no one at DOJ is going to prosecute.” To which a second agent replies. “Rog—noone is going to pros[ecute] even if we find unique classified.”

It’s in the Justice Department’s decision to cut deals with Mrs. Clinton and her staff and shelter them from a grand jury. And to agree to limitations in searching for and in devices. And in immunity agreements. The report is largely neutral on all this, giving officials the broad benefit of the doubt on “discretionary judgments made during the course of an investigation.” But it immediately follows that statement by noting that its job of evaluating the integrity of decisions was “made significantly more difficult” by the obvious bias among key players, which “cast a cloud” over the entire “investigation’s credibility.”

The current FBI and Justice Department leadership can no longer justify its refusal to come clean on its other actions. A neutral arbiter has found they made a hash of the Clinton investigation, and it is reasonable to assume that those same players made a hash of the Trump probe. The sooner they acknowledge it, the sooner Congress can move to reform these agencies so that no such thing ever happens again.

  • IG REPORT CONFIRMS OBAMA LIED ABOUT HILLARY’S EMAILS (WASHINGTON TIMES, by  Larry O’Connor | June 15, 2018)
  • FBI Attorney Who Worked on Russia Investigation Pledged Loyalty to ‘Le Resistance’ Days After Trump Was Elected (TOWNHALL, by Katie Pavlich | June 15, 2018)
  • 11 Quick Things To Know About The Inspector General’s Report (THE FEDERALIST, by Mollie Hemingway | June 15, 2018)
  • Yes, Hillary Should Have Been Prosecuted (NATIONAL REVIEW, by David French | June 15, 2018)
  • Amazing (ACE OF SPADES | June 15 2018)
  • Amazing II (ACE OF SPADES | June 15 2018)
  • Shock: Obama Lied When He Claimed He Had Only Learned of Hillary’s Illegal Off-Books Email System From the News (ACE OF SPADES | June 15 2018)
  • Mollie Hemingway: 11 Takeaways from the IG Report (ACE OF SPADES | June 15 2018)
  • Press Ignores Obama’s Lie About Emails to Hillary’s Private Server (NEWSBUSTERS, by Tom Blumer | June 15, 2018)
  • “I’M SHOCKED!” – Lindsey Graham Says Before The IG Report He Didn’t Buy Into The Anti-Trump Deep State (RIGHT SCOOP, by SooperMexican | June 15, 2018)
  • No Obstruction If Boss Cans Insubordinate Subordinate (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by Dov Fischer | June 15, 2018)
  • Viva Le Resistance: How Political Bias Infected FBI Trump, Clinton Probes (WASHINGTON EXAMINER, by Byron York | June 15, 2018)
  • The Strange Tale of How the FBI’s Anti-Trump Bias Helped Elect Trump (NATIONAL REVIEW, by David French | June 15, 2018)
  • The Anatomy of a Partisan Pile-Up (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by George Neumayr | June 15, 2018)
  • The FBI Inspector General Report Directly Criticized President Obama (NATIONAL REVIEW, by Dan Mclaughlin | June 15, 2018)
  • ‘No. No, He’s Not. We’ll Stop It.” (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by Scott Mckay | June 15, 2018)
  • President Trump Responds To IG Report (POWERLINE, by John Hinderaker | June 15, 2018)
  • Comey Responds To IG Report (POWERLINE, by Scott Johnson | June 15, 2018)

ACE OF SPADES DUMP    (6-15-2015)

  • IG Report: FBI Agents Found Huma Abedin Deleting Classified/Hillary Emails From Yahoo Account But Failed to Subpoena Her Devices (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Cristina Laila | June 15, 2018)
  • Horowitz Confirms He Did NOT Recover All ‘Missing’ Strzok-Page Text Messages (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Cristina Laila | June 15, 2018)
  • Strzok’s “We’ll Stop It” Text Was Certainly Inappropriate, Says… Hillary’s Campaign Manager (HOT AIR, by Allahpundit | June 15, 2018)
  • DEEP STATE Scrubbed Obama’s Name from FBI Report on Hillary’s Emails (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft | June 15, 2018)
  • FBI Agent Who Questioned Hillary for Email Probe Called Her ‘the President’—4 Months Before Election (CNS NEWS, by Terence P. Jeffrey | June 15, 2018)
  • Comey’s FBI Was Protecting The Legitimacy Of The Presumed Clinton Presidency (THE FEDERALIST, by David Marcus | June 15, 2018)
  • Giuliani Urges Suspension of Mueller’s Russia Probe in Wake of Watchdog Report (WESTERN JOURNAL, by Jack Davis | June 15, 2018)
  • FBI IG Report: A Slap On The Wrist (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, by Joseph Klein | June 15, 2018)
  • WSJ Columnist: Hey, The ‘No Bias’ Claim In DOJ IG Report Is Not What It Seems (TOWNHALL, by Matt Vespa | June 15, 2018)
  • House Judiciary Chair: Bring Me Peter Strzok (HOT AIR, by Allahpundit | June 15, 2018)
  • Trump: Aren’t You Glad I Fired Comey Now? (HOT AIR, by Ed Morrissey | June 15, 2018)

  • Problems at the Justice Department and FBI Are Serious (NATIONAL REVIEW, by Andrew McCarthy | June 16, 2018)
  • How the FBI’s Keystone Cops Hurt the Candidate They Sought to Help (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by Daniel Flynn | June 16, 2018)
  • Are Federal and State Prosecutors Out of Control? (TOWNHALL, by Brian McNicoll | June 16, 2018)
  • HERE IT IS: The Top 10 Different Reasons The IG’s Report On the Clinton Email ‘Matter’ Is Flawed – Obama’s Deep State Runs Deep (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft | June 16, 2018)

Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids |Updated|

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Dangerous people are filling the heads of young people with dangerous nonsense. Who are these people? They are what Jordan Peterson calls “the post-modernists:” neo-Marxist professors who dominate our colleges and universities. And here’s the worst part: we are financing these nihilists with tax dollars, alumni gifts and tuition payments. Time to wise up.

This comes from THE LID:

TODAY’S PROFESSORS DON’T TEACH, THEY INDOCTRINATE PROGRESSIVISM

[….]

To understand and oppose the post-modernists, the ideas by which they orient themselves must be clearly identified.

First is their new unholy trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Diversity is defined not by opinion, but by race, ethnicity or sexual identity; the goal is no longer equality of opportunity, but an insistence on equality of outcome; and inclusion is the use of identity-based quotas to attain this misconceived state of equity.

All the traditional rights of the West are to be considered secondary to these new values. Take, for example, freedom of speech—the very pillar of democracy. The post-modernists refuse to believe that people of good will can exchange ideas and reach consensus.

Their world is instead a Hobbesian nightmare of identity groups warring for power. They don’t see ideas that run contrary to their ideology as merely incorrect. They see them as integral to the oppressive system they wish to supplant and consider it a moral obligation to stifle and constrain their expression.

Second is a rejection of the free market—of the very idea that free, voluntary trading benefits everyone. These rejectionists won’t acknowledge that capitalism has lifted up hundreds of millions of people so they can for the first time in history afford food, shelter, clothing, transportation—even entertainment and travel. Those classified as low-income in the US (and, increasingly, everywhere else) are able to meet their basic needs. Meanwhile, in once-prosperous Venezuela—until recently the poster-child of the campus radicals—the middle-class lines up for toilet paper.

Third, and finally, are the politics of identity. Post-modernists don’t believe in individuals. You’re an exemplar of your race, sex, or sexual preference. You’re also either a victim or an oppressor. No wrong can be done by anyone in the former group, and no good by the latter. Such ideas of victimization do nothing but justify the use of power and engender intergroup conflict.

All these concepts originated with Karl Marx, the 19th-century German philosopher. Marx viewed the world as a gigantic class struggle—the bourgeoisie against the proletariat; the grasping rich against the desperately poor. But wherever his ideas were put into practice—in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, to name just a few—whole economies failed, and tens of millions were killed. We fought a decades-long cold war to stop the spread of those murderous notions. But they’re back, in the new guise of identity politics.

The corrupt ideas of the post-modern neo-Marxists should be consigned to the dustbin of history. Instead, we underwrite their continuance in the very institutions where the central ideas of the West should be transmitted across the generations. Unless we stop, post-modernism will do to America and the entire Western world what it’s already done to its universities.

Two short clips from INDOCTRINATE U I like:

JUNE UPDATES TO SPYGATE

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  • Obama Officials Spied on Trump Campaign Using at Least Five Methods (EPOCH TIMES, by Jasper Fakkert | May 31, 2018)
  • London ‘Bridges’ Falling Down: Curious Origins Of FBI’s Trump-Russia Probe (THE HILL, by John Solomon | June 1, 2018)
  • BOMBSHELL new text messages suggest Obama White House was trying to run Operation Crossfire! (RIGHT SCOOP | June 1, 2018)
  • Mueller Tries to Stop Defendants in Russian Troll Farm Case from Getting Ammo for Motion to Dismiss (LAW & CRIME, by Alberto Luperon | June 1, 2018)
  • Report: Intel On Papadopoulos Was Passed To Us Embassy Officials In London (THE DAILY CALLER, by Chuck Ross | June 1, 2018)
  • Andrew McCarthy: If the FBI spied on a mosque for the same reasons they spied on Trump campaign… (WASHINGTON TIMES, Andrew McCarthy | June 1, 2018)
  • PANDORA’S BOX: Trump/Russia May Expose Extent of “Five Eyes” Allied Spying (SARA CARTER | June 1, 2018)
  • The Real Reason Why the FBI Had a Spy in the Trump Campaign (PJ MEDIA, by D. C. McAllister | JUNE 1, 2018)
  • Report: Obama White House Tried to Intrude on FBI’s Russia Investigation (PJ MEDIA, by Debra Heine | JUNE 1, 2018)
  • Prosecutors Interview James Comey About Former Deputy Andrew McCabe (HOT AIR, by John Sexton | JUNE 1, 2018)
  • Leaker, Liar and Former FBI Head Comey Likely Caught in Another Lie – FBI Russia Investigation Started Before July 2016 (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft | June 3, 2018)
  • The DOJ IG Report Must Be Devastating Because The Media Has Already Started The Spin Cycle (RED STATE, by Streiff | June 3, 2018)

  • Ex-Clinton Adviser Penn: Mueller ‘Absolutely After’ Trump (NEWSMAX, by Solange Reyner | June 3, 2018)
  • FBI Spying On Trump Started In London, Earlier Than Thought, New Texts Implicate Obama White House (ZERO HEDGE, by Tyler Durden | June 3, 2018)
  • Trump Says Mueller’s Appointment Is Unconstitutional–Here Are 7 Reasons Why [He’s Right] (EPOCH TIMES, by Ivan Pentchoukov | June 4, 2018)
  • BOOM! Andrew McCabe asks for IMMUNITY in exchange for his TESTIMONY… (RIGHT SCOOP, by Soopermexican | June 5, 2018)
  • Team Mueller’s Illegal, Unethical Hunt for the President’s Scalp (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by George Parry | June 5, 2018)
  • BREAKING: Senate Releases Unredacted Strzok-Page Texts Showing FBI Initiated MULTIPLE SPIES in Trump Campaign in December 2015 (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft | June 4, 2018)
  • Another Trump Campaign Aide Was Invited To Cambridge Event Where ‘Spygate’ Started (THE DAILY CALLER, by Chuck Ross | June 5, 2018)
  • BREAKING: McCabe & Comey Cleared Sally Yates to Use Strzok’s Dubious 302 Flynn Report to Get Him Fired (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Cristina Laila | June 5, 2018)
  • DEEP STATE Tried to Lure Trump Speech Writer Stephen Miller to London – Invited Him to Infamous Cambridge Meeting (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft | June 5, 2018)
  • Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report (SARA CARTER | June 5, 2018)
  • How Do New Manafort Accusations Fit Into Mueller’s Investigation? (THE WEEKLY STANDARD, by Andrew Egger | June 5, 2018)
  • Napolitano: It’s ‘Unheard Of’ for FBI #2 Official to Request Immunity Before Testifying (FOX NEWS | June 6, 2018)
  • Andrew Mccabe Seeks Immunity For Senate Testimony (THE DAILY CALLER, by Chuck Ross | June 6, 2018)
  • 8 Times Obama’s Intelligence Agencies Set People Up To Fabricate The Russia Story (THE FEDERALIST, by Willis L. Krumholz | June 6, 2018)
  • First DOJ Leak on IG Report Reveals Obama AG Loretta Lynch Tried to Hide Evidence of Hillary’s Wrongdoing Before Election (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Jim Hoft | June 6, 2018)
  • Inspector General draft report says Comey was INSUBORDINATE and defied authority (RIGHT SCOOP | June 6, 2018)
  • IG Leaks – Media Frame Clinton/Obama Defense: James Comey as “Insubordinate” (CONSERVATIVE TREE-HOUSE, by Sundance | June 6, 2018)
  • Giuliani: Let’s Face It, The 13 Partisan Democrats On Mueller’s Team Are Trying To “Frame” Trump (HOT AIR, by AllahPundit | June 6, 2018)
  • Inspector General’s Report Will Be Critical Of Comey, Lynch, And McCabe (HOT AIR, by John Sexton | June 6, 2018)
  • Grassley Again Demands Flynn Documents: “If The Facts Are Inconsistent With The Plea Agreement, That Would Be An Entirely Different Kettle Of Fish” (CONSERVATIVE TREE-HOUSE, by Sundance | June 6, 2018)
  • Disappointing – Only Three Lawmakers Attended Priestap Testimony (CONSERVATIVE TREE-HOUSE, by Sundance | June 6, 2018)
  • Report: James Comey ‘Defied Authority’ While Serving as FBI Director (THE WESTERN JOURNAL, by Scott Kelnhofer | June 6, 2018)
  • Why Mueller Is Getting Desperate (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, by Daniel Greenfield | June 6, 2018)
  • Who Made Mueller President? (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by Ben Stein, | June 6, 2018)

  • DOJ to Provide Lawmakers New Information on FBI Russia Probe (NATIONAL REVIEW, by Jack Crowe | June 7, 2018)
  • Pre-Dossier Carter Page: Russian Spy … or FBI Honor Scout? (REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS | June 7, 2018)
  • Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims (THE DAILY CALLER, by Chuck Ross | June 7, 2018)
  • SpyGate: Is Robert Mueller’s Volcano Set To Blow? (INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | June 7, 2018)
  • Rand Paul: Obama Admin Sought To Criminally ‘Entrap’ Trump Campaign (THE WESTERN JOURNAL, by Randy DeSoto | June 7, 2018)
  • Prosecutorial Fanatics (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by James Black | June 7, 2018)
  • James Clapper Did Not Know About Fbi Informant’S Contact With Trump Campaign (WASHINGTON TIMES, by Alex Swoyer | June 7, 2018)

  • Senate Investigators Suspect FBI Documents Were Manipulated By Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (CONSERVATIVE TREE-HOUSE, by Sundance | June 8, 2018)
  • Congress Votes to Audit Mueller’s Multi-Million Dollar Russia Witch Hunt (GATEWAY PUNDIT, by Cristina Laila | June 8, 2018)
  • Weekly Update: New FBI Docs On Clinton Email Scandal (JUDICIAL WATCH | June 8, 2018)
  • Alleged Leaker Engaged in ‘Betrayal’ of Public Trust, Prosecutor Says (THE DAILY SIGNAL, by Fred Lucas | June 9, 2018)
  • Leakers, Liars, Lovers & Other Strangers (POWERLINE, by Scott Johnson | June 9, 2018)
  • The Spying That Dare Not Speak Its Name (AMERICAN SPECTATOR, by George Neumayr | June 8, 2018)

  • Rep. Louie Gohmert: Mueller ‘Covering’ Up For Clinton and Plotting ‘Coup’ Against Trump (TRUE PUNDIT | June 10, 2018)
  • Nunes Accuses DOJ of ‘Obstruction’ in Battle Over FBI Informant Documents (THE STREAM, by Chuck Ross | June 11, 2018)
  • Judge: DOJ Ignored Demands to Produce Records on Obama Admin Links with Clinton Campaign (LAW & CRIME, by Ronn Blitzer | June 11, 2018)
  • DOJ refusing to give Grassley access to agent who interviewed Flynn (FOX NEWS, by Alex Pappas | June 11, 2018)
  • MSNBC Guest Suggests North Korea Summit Is Only A Distraction From Russia Investigation (THE DAILY CALLER, by Julia Nista | June 11, 2018)

  • CHILLING ABUSE OF POWER: Rod Rosenstein Threatened to Subpoena GOP Committee Lawmakers, Staffers as Payback for Requesting Records (FOX NEWS, by Catherine Herridge | June 12, 2018)
  • Report: Rod Rosenstein Threatened to Subpeona Emails and Phone Records of Congressional Lawmakers and Staffers Seeking Information About the Origins of the Russia Probe (ACE OF SPADES | June 12, 2018)
  • Andrew McCabe’s Lawyer Files Lawsuit Against DOJ (HOT AIR, by John Sexton | June 12, 2018)
  • Robert Mueller Asks Judge To Hide Russian Election Evidence From The Russians Accused of Election Interference (CONSERVATIVE TREE-HOUSE, by Sundance | June 12, 2018)

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California Has Debt, Not Surplus

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Dennis Prager interviews California Senator John Moorlach (37th District) about California Assembly Bill 2943, HOWEVER, the conversation started out with budgets and economics. Sen. Moorlach is a CPA after all. This is the section I clipped for use with friends and family that state California is money rich when you speak about our states debt.

Other related audio is here:

Here are half of Senator John Moorlach’s six points in his article entitled, “Budget Primer: 6 Key Measures Of California’s Fiscal Health” (January, 2017):

1. California’s Net Financial Position

California’s “net” unrestricted financial position is a $169 billion deficit ($4,375 per person) according to the most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).

This figure should be positive for healthy organizations. It is derived by tallying the state government’s assets (monetary funds, investments, buildings, roadways, bridges, parks, etc.) and subtracting its obligations. The last positive position California had was during Governor Pete Wilson’s final term where the state had $1.5 billion in unrestricted net assets.

California is now ranked the worst state, below Illinois, whose net position is a negative $143 billion, or $11,174 per person. Illinois’ finances are so bad, they’re telling lottery winners that they may have to delay their payments.

Deferred maintenance for the state’s roads and highways is some $59 billion.

2. Estimates of California Unfunded Pension Liabilities

*NOTE: For the 2015/16 fiscal year, CalPERS planned for a 7.5% rate of return, but only managed to achieve a 0.6% rate of return. Seven percent of a $400 billion liability means a shortfall of $28 billion (some 20% of Governor Brown’s general fund budget.)

3. Current Unfunded Retiree Medical Liability

California has the nation’s highest unfunded retiree medical liability at $74.1 to $80 billion.

A John and Ken reality check (posted January 2017):

John and Ken speak to Marc Joffe of the California Policy Center (http://californiapolicycenter.org/) in regard to these recent articles on the subject of California’s fiscal emergency:

One aspect Marc Joffe mentioned would be a way to overcome this “debt” is to increase California’s population… however, we see through some recent stories…

…this is not a viable option… nor will it be as long as Democrats are in charge:

In other words, Californians are doomed if remaining on this course.

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