American Spectator,
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Geoff Shepard
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Pundits are all atwitter over Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on former FBI Director James Comey’s disgraceful conduct, which borders on criminality. While Comey is claiming vindication from the Department of Justice’s decision not to prosecute (at this point), the 84 pages of detailed descriptions of his actions as FBI director are simply devastating.
Perhaps not so surprisingly, Comey’s conduct and treatment by the media offer striking parallels to those of John Dean, felonious counsel to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Both Comey and Dean were political lawyers. While holding presidential appointments to positions of extraordinary importance, each intentionally misled his president — and then lied about it.
Fox News,
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Daniel Turner
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CNN devoted about seven hours to a series of town halls on climate change Wednesday night, giving 10 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination the chance to discuss their wish-lists of extraordinarily expensive environmental proposals they would seek to enact if they make it to the White House.
The biggest winner of the night wasn’t even on stage. It was President Trump, who has brought the American people massive job creation, a stronger economy, lower taxes and a booming energy sector that has put us on the road to energy independence.
I predict that millions of voters who learned about the Democrats’ energy plans
Chicago Tribune,
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John Kass
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9/5/2019 10:46:31 AM
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“The moutza pops up more and more quickly,” lamented Barb Bruce Baroni on Facebook. “And, the candidate list for the award grows by the month!”
Indeed, from the bitter seeds of stupidity, a teeming vine of idiots grows across the land, giving us a bumper crop of morons worthy of the Golden Moutza of August.
So, who wins the Moutza of the Month?
Readers find me on social media and nominate their moutza-worthy candidate. Just point an open palm at some nincompoop — as did my ancient Greek ancestors — thrust it at the deserving jamoke, give out a hearty “Nah!” (here take it) or a “Feesa Etho” (blow on it).
City Journal,
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Christopher F. Rufo
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9/5/2019 10:42:34 AM
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America’s big cities are, without exception, politically blue cities, with a new class of progressive politicians doing real damage to public order. When it comes to urban development, however, the blue monolith breaks down: socialists, city planners, cyclists, environmentalists, pragmatists, and social-justice activists are often at odds with one another. They might all support more housing, more density, and more public transportation, but they disagree sharply on the means for getting there.
In recent years, a new faction has emerged in city politics: what one might call the new Left urbanists. These activists believe that local governments must rebuild the urban environment—housing, transit, roads, and tolls—to produce a new era
Department of Homeland Security,
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Staff
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HOUSTON — A Bangladeshi man residing in Mexico was arrested Saturday – upon his flight arrival into the George Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas – for his role in a scheme to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States.
This arrest was announced by U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick, Southern District of Texas. This case is being investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from HSI offices in Mexico City, Houston and Calexico, Mexico; and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Border Patrol, and U.S. Marshals Service.
Following his Aug. 31 arrest, Milon Miah, from Bangladesh but residing in Tapachula, Mexico, appeared
New York Post,
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Kyle Smith
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9/4/2019 5:17:34 PM
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A curious thing happened in the second half of the Obama era: The commander-in-chief began viewing the military less as an entity designed to destroy enemies but a tool with which to achieve progressive goals. Warriors were turned into social-justice warriors. Men and women with risible-to-nonexistent military records were made heads of the services. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus (who had logged all of two years’ service as a junior officer) named ships after Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk.
James Hasson, a former Army captain who served in Afghanistan, stresses in “Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging the Military” that he isn’t making a partisan, political case
The Hill [DC],
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Rebecca Beitsch
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9/4/2019 5:07:05 PM
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The regulation eliminates efficiency standards for about half the bulbs on the market. It leaves in place rules for standard pear-shaped bulbs, while removing such requirements for recessed lighting, chandeliers and other shapes of bulbs.
When first proposed, the rule was supported by lightbulb manufacturers, but consumer groups estimate continuing to use less-efficient bulbs will cost the average household more than $100 a year and create more pollution as utilities produce energy that otherwise would not be needed.
“The Energy Department flat out got it wrong today. Instead of moving us forward, this rule will keep more energy-wasting bulbs on store shelves,” Jason Hartke, president of the Alliance to Save Energy,
CNN,
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Katelyn Polantz
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Sam Fossum
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Kate Sullivan
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Washington-Greg Craig, the White House counsel in 2009 and 2010, was found not guilty Wednesday of one charge of allegedly concealing work he did for the Ukrainian government from the Justice Department.
The charge revolves around work Craig did with lobbyist Paul Manafort in 2012 regarding a report he wrote on Ukraine.
The case was a high-profile one for a Justice Department unit that is cracking down on unregistered foreign lobbying.
The charges grew out of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Manafort's ties to Russia-connected Ukrainian politicians. Craig, President Barack Obama's former White House counsel, was the highest-ranking Democrat charged in connection to that probe.
Washington Examiner,
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Editorial
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9/2/2019 8:46:53 AM
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The life cycle of labor unions is predictable, the late economist Sylvester Petro once wrote. Because they are born not out of mutual exchange, but out of state-backed coercion, American unions inevitably face eventual demise triggered by their own corruption.
The aged United Auto Workers union may be approaching that moment of extinction.
After a four-year federal investigation into UAW bribes, kickbacks, and crony labor negotiations, the government has secured prison sentences for eight people connected to the union, Fiat Chrysler, and Automobiles NV, according to the Detroit News.
The feds raided six locations, including the home of UAW President Gary Jones, and say they have evidence
CNN,
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Ralph Ellis
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Ed Lavandera
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9/1/2019 4:22:29 AM
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A gunman in West Texas who went on a shooting spree, killing five people while randomly firing from his vehicle and then from a hijacked mail truck, was shot and killed by police in a gun battle in a movie theater parking lot, authorities said Saturday.
At least 21 people were injured, including three law enforcement officers, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference. A hospital administrator said a child under the age of 2 was hurt and at least seven people were in critical condition.
Gerke identified the shooter as a white male in his 30s. His name and a motive were not given. The rampage began
City Journal,
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Theodore Dalrymple
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8/31/2019 12:51:19 PM
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You would have thought, from the howls of outrage that greeted Boris Johnson’s temporary suspension of Parliament, that he had appointed himself prime minister for life. Our democracy was in danger, said the demonstrators against it, when what they really meant was that Johnson’s maneuver had made it harder for Parliament to obstruct the wishes of the people as expressed in the Brexit referendum. Jacob Rees-Mogg was right when he said that the outrage was bogus: it was that of a spoiled child who doesn’t want to go to bed.
Whether the referendum was a good idea in the first place is another question entirely. I think that it was not.
National Review,
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Rich Lowry
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8/31/2019 12:42:14 PM
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Emmanuel Macron may not technically be a celebrity, but he tweets like one.
Prior to the G-7 summit, the French president declared on Twitter, “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire.” He added that “our house is burning,” and called the fires an “international crisis.”
Macron’s tweet was deeply ill-informed, but indistinguishable from the misleading rants of sundry actors and singers.
At least Diddy and Leonardo DiCaprio don’t host multilateral meetings of Western heads of state. Macron does. He made the fires a major item of discussion at the G-7 summit, with the ready assent of other European governments.
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Posted with Staff permission. The article was written after Texas passed the open-carry law. Walmart had (and has) problems with the requirements.