In today’s newsletter, we examine new questions surrounding government accountability and political prosecutions, as Michael Cohen’s reconciliation with President Trump produces potentially significant revelations about the New York case against President Trump. We look at the growing concerns surrounding political fundraising giant ActBlue. Elsewhere, federal authorities say they thwarted a homegrown ISIS-inspired plot to bomb the New York State Capitol. Finally, we cover the Trump administration’s escalation of economic pressure on Iran, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares what the administration describes as its toughest sanctions yet.
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22
THIS...Is CNN! HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. blasted CNN for trying to claim that his affordable recipes cost more than claimed because he didn’t count the entire package price of each ingredient. For instance, if it included one egg, he didn’t count the full price of a dozen eggs. RFK Jr. said every recipe writer knows that you save the rest for other recipes; for instance, if you use a squirt of ketchup, you don’t figure in the price of an entire bottle.
He’s right, of course, except that we have had some cheap meals that actually did require an entire bottle of ketchup to get down.
Tags: Economic issues including inflation, interest rates, gas prices, healthcare costs
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The latest developments: Vice President Vance said the conflict is shifting into a new phase as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares to unveil the “toughest sanctions in history” on Iran. Iran dismissed the threat, claiming it proves that the US failed to achieve its military goals.
Iranian General Ali Abdollahi warned that Iran’s military will confront any “new threats from enemies with revolutionary, crushing, regret-inducing and devastating responses.” If hyperbolic adjectives were actual weapons, they would be ruling the world by now.
Derek Hunter at Townhall.com has a sobering column, warning that President Trump may be failing to understand what he’s dealing with. As a businessman, he assumes that both sides want to reach a deal that allows them to walk away with something. But the mullahs and military militants running Iran don’t care about making any deal, they only care about maintaining their grip on power. They’re not afraid of sanctions because they steal their riches off the top and don’t care if their people starve. They also don’t care if Iranians die because they kill their own people by the tens of thousands themselves.
Hunter says the only way to stop them is a full-on ground war where we send in troops to kill them all, and Trump doesn’t want that, nor do the American people. So the Iranians will threaten and delay until the midterms, hoping that Democrats get elected and run away, which is a pretty good bet. Meanwhile, Trump and the Republicans are being harmed in the polls because the focus on Iran is distracting them from promoting their economic message while the socialists push their fantasies about “affordability” and free stuff.
We don’t see an easy way out, but there has to be a better strategy than hoping Iran’s leaders will come to their senses and agree to a deal that would force them to join the 21st century and stop trying to murder all the infidels in the world.
Tags: Foreign policy, Iran, Israel, or international conflict
Nick Arama at Redstate.com has clips, quotes and analysis of President Trump’s unusual interview with his former lawyer-turned nemesis Michael Cohen. It sheds new light on the lawfare prosecution and felony hush money conviction of Trump in New York. It also included this bombshell revelation that even CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said demolished the factual basis of the trial.
The prosecutors didn’t trust that the testimony of Cohen, their star witness, was reliable, but they rolled the dice anyway. Meanwhile, Cohen said he felt “pressured and coerced by prosecutors.”
Honig said, “That’s not acceptable. If you believe he’s a liar, then your case is built on a liar. So that case is going through its appeal process incredibly slowly. I think there are major legal infirmities with it. But now the factual predicate has collapsed as well.”
So this expensive, time-wasting, politically-motivated,reputation-harming legal circus was based on lies and coercion, but the prosecutors assumed that New York judges and juries would be so biased that they’d get away with it. They may be right on the local level, but let’s see if this charade stands up on appeal. When and if it’s thrown out, let’s hope there are legal consequences for the prosecutors who tried to twist the legal system to turn it into a political weapon.
Tags: Trump administration actions or appointments; Government accountability, investigations, or alleged cover-ups
Thursday, the FBI announced the arrest of a New York woman who had converted to Islam five years ago, became radicalized online, swore allegiance to ISIS and was allegedly plotting to bomb the state Capitol in Albany, then escape to Syria.
It takes nothing away from the skill and bravery of the FBI agents who thwarted her deadly plans to note that she didn’t make it all that hard to spot her descent into Islamic moonbattery. She wore a full-coverage burka (there’s surveillance video of her in it while allegedly buying bomb-making supplies at Home Depot); she was active on social media with her radicalism; and she spilled her plans to FBI informants, reportedly telling them that she initially wanted to bomb the White House and the President (but she whined that that was too hard), praising Allah for September 11th, and saying, “Blowing kafirs’ [non-Muslims’] brains out is beautiful.”
As a rule, we don’t repeat the names of people who commit violent acts, lest we give them publicity and inspire copycats, but we will tell you (and you can see from this New York Post write-up) that her first name is Jessica, she’s a 35-year-old white woman from Albany, and she has the nihilistic tattoos and weight problem that seem to be standard issue for America-hating, privileged, white radical women. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if ISIS beat her because her burka is too form-fitting. She planned to leave the bomb in a DoorDash food delivery bag, which we assume she had plenty of.
Among the many concerns that this story raises about homegrown terrorism is that such plots are likely to get much more common (and therefore, harder for the FBI to catch them all) not only because the Democrats let in so many potential terrorists from the Third World, but because of native Americans like this (for some reason, especially women) who reject all the blessings of being an American and side with the terrorists.
In addition to anti-terrorism law enforcement, we might have to establish a task force of psychiatrists and clergy to try to figure out why so many American women -- who enjoy levels of freedom, prosperity and rights greater than in any society in history – hate the capitalism and Western civilization that provide those rights and comforts and want to destroy them, and on behalf of one of the most violent, misogynistic, cruel and intolerant cults in the world. It’s as insane as starting a sports league for women, then demanding that men be let in to pummel and humiliate them.
We admit being baffled by these women’s “thought” processes, but we’d like to learn more about why this happens so we can prevent it. Is it due to indoctrination into America-hating in schools? (Back when “SNL” wa funny, they did a sketch illustrating this perfectly.)
Or is it social media propaganda and peer pressure? A combination of those things and more? Whatever’s causing this epidemic mind virus, we need to find out and counter it. That’s way too much crazy to blame solely on daddy issues.
RELATED Video Of The Day! Thanks to Miranda Divine for pointing this out. Independent Women’s Voice created a brilliant video inspired by “Back To The Future,” showing a young female proponent of “Democratic” socialism what the future would actually be like under the policies she supports. Needless to say, she discovers to her horror that the reality doesn’t match the promises. But for that, you don’t need a time-traveling DeLorean; just a few history books about every other attempt to institute socialism that’s ever been tried.
Tags: Government accountability, investigations, or alleged cover-ups
Nick Arama at Redstate.com has clips, quotes and analysis of President Trump’s unusual interview with his former lawyer-turned nemesis Michael Cohen. It sheds new light on the lawfare prosecution and felony hush money conviction of Trump in New York. It also included this bombshell revelation that even CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said demolished the factual basis of the trial.
The prosecutors didn’t trust that the testimony of Cohen, their star witness, was reliable, but they rolled the dice anyway. Meanwhile, Cohen said he felt “pressured and coerced by prosecutors.”
Honig said, “That’s not acceptable. If you believe he’s a liar, then your case is built on a liar. So that case is going through its appeal process incredibly slowly. I think there are major legal infirmities with it. But now the factual predicate has collapsed as well.”
So this expensive, time-wasting, politically-motivated,reputation-harming legal circus was based on lies and coercion, but the prosecutors assumed that New York judges and juries would be so biased that they’d get away with it. They may be right on the local level, but let’s see if this charade stands up on appeal. When and if it’s thrown out, let’s hope there are legal consequences for the prosecutors who tried to twist the legal system to turn it into a political weapon.
Tags: Trump administration actions or appointments; Government accountability, investigations, or alleged cover-ups
We’ll most certainly have more on this as soon as more is known (it took place in a closed-door Congressional hearing), but just for the record:
On Thursday, Matt DeBergalis, director and co-founder of ActBlue (the Democrats’ massive money-launder-- oops, sorry, money-RAISING organization), was questioned by three House committees on allegations that ActBlue didn’t take proper precautions to prevent foreign money and fraud from tainting the billions they took in for Democrat candidates and left-wing organizations. The hearing took only half an hour because DeBeralis (surprise!) took the Fifth and refused to answer any questions.
David Manney at PJ Media has the full story on the hearing and all the suspicious activity that led up to it and to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones also taking the Fifth repeatedly in front of Congressional investigators.
As Manney rightly notes, taking the Fifth is not an admission of guilt. But based on what we’ve already seen of ActBlue’s practices, “My spidey sense isn’t tingling anymore: it’s banging pots together in the kitchen.”
Tags: Government accountability, investigations, or alleged cover-ups
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