Monthly Archives: November 2024

The Fallout Begins

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Not all fallout is negative!

On November 7, The Gateway Pundit reported:

Iranian government spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, told reporters on Wednesday that for the Islamic Republic, it does not matter who the President of the United States is.

Then following President Trump’s election victory the Iranian rial fell to an all-time low of 703,000 rials to one dollar on Wednesday.

…The rial traded at 703,000 to the dollar, traders in Tehran said. The rate could still change throughout the day. Iran’s Central Bank could flood the market with more hard currencies as an attempt to improve the rate, as it has done in the past.

The slide comes as the rial already faces considerable woes over its sharp slide in value — and as the mood among some on the streets of Tehran darkened.

The article concludes:

“One hundred percent he will intensify the sanctions,” said Amir Aghaeian, a 22-year-old student. “Things that are not in our favor will be worse. Our economy and social situation will surely get worse.”

He added: “I feel the country is going to blow up.”

The American money flowing into Iran will end when President Trump is sworn in. The impact of that will be unrest in Iran. Since the younger generation does not support the theocracy, that could easily result in an Iranian revolution. An Iranian revolution could easily result in peace in the Middle East and a weak Iran. That is why Iran wants to kill President Trump.

Some Common Sense After The Election

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On November 6th, Townhall posted an article about some of the media analysis of the 2024 election. Some of the most helpful and intelligent commentary came from Scott Jennings on CNN.

The article reports:

As Townhall has been covering this election cycle, Scott Jennings has been a breath of fresh air and at times the only voice of reason during CNN panels that otherwise would go completely off the rails. He’s been ramping up the warnings as to how the tactics of the Harris-Walz campaign just weren’t working, and sure enough that proved to be true. Early on Wednesday morning, Jennings tried to offer his fellow panelists some insight, if only they’d take such a free gift.

When Anderson Cooper asked Jennings his thoughts, Jennings reminded that Trump won “a huge victory” and “a mandate,” but also addressed it in the context of how Trump “has an opportunity here to try to unite the country” after such a win. Trump indeed won the popular vote, the first time a Republican has done so since 2004, which CNN’s Harry Enten had also been warning viewers about as the election was approaching. “This is a big deal, this isn’t backing into the office, this is a mandate to do what you said you were going to do,” Jennings continued, as he mentioned Trump’s priorities centered on the economy, crime, and immigration.

“I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just the regular ‘ol working class, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to, they’re not ‘garbage,’ they’re not Nazis, they’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids and they feel like they have been told to just shut up, when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives,” Jennings continued, as he reminded his panelists of the ways in which President Joe Biden and the Harris-Walz ticket have insulted their political opponents. One could hear a pin drop as such points were made.

Please follow the link to the article to read the rest of Scott Jennings’ comments. I am amazed that he is on CNN.

The Ins And Outs After The Election

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On November 6th, Issues & Insights posted an article providing a list of “ins and outs” following President Trump’s election victory. The list is a beautiful illustration of biased media reporting and how quickly it can change.

Here is part of the list”

  • Out: Questioning election results is anti-Democratic!       
  • In: Trump stole the election!!
  • Out: Election fraud is not a real problem!          
  • In: Trump stole the election!!
  • Out: There’s no evidence of election fraud, saying otherwise is a lie!       
  • In: Trump stole the election!!
  • Out: Trump is an authoritarian!
  • In: Trump wants to cut the size of government!!
  • Out: Our elections are the most secure in the world!   
  • In: Trump stole the election!!
  • Out: Questioning the president’s mental health is unpatriotic!      
  • In: Trump misspoke!! Invoke the 25th Amendment!!
  • Out: Government censorship is no big deal!      
  • In: Trump will censor us!!
  • Out: “Weaponization of government” is a right-wing fantasy!      
  • In: Trump will take away Justice’s ability to target Republicans!!
  • Out: The economy is doing great!                      
  • In: Why hasn’t Trump fixed the economy yet??
  • Out: There’s no border crisis!                             
  • In: Why hasn’t Trump fixed the border crisis yet??
  • Out: Crime rates are falling!                              
  • In: Why hasn’t Trump done anything about rising crime rates yet??
  • Out: Jan. 6, 2021, was an attempted insurrection!  
  • In: Congress must refuse to certify the election results on Jan.6, 2025!!
  • Out: We must save democracy!                          
  • In: Down with democracy, it failed us!!
  • Out: Violence is never the answer!                    
  • In: Emotions are running high!!
  • Out: I’m leaving the country if Trump wins!     
  • In: I’m still planning to leave, dammit!!
  • Out: Project 2025!
  • In: Project 2025?
  • Out: Trump will take away our freedoms!         
  • In: Trump wants to repeal government mandates!!
  • Out: Trump is a fascist.
  • In: Trump can’t make the trains run on time.
  • Out: Trump is a racist, fascist, threat to democracy, and his supporters are semi-fascist garbage.
  • In: It’s up to Trump to unite the country.
  • Out: Kamala is amazing!                                    
  • In: Harris was a terrible candidate!!
  • Out: Kamala is smart to avoid taking positions on issues!
  • In: Harris should have talked more about the issues!!

Please follow the link for the rest of the list. It is awesome!

Christians and Politics

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Author:  R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.

As a practicing Christian, I have frequently been troubled by the seemingly low interest in politics in churches. Since this country was founded on Judeo/Christian principles, it is essential that those principles be proudly and consistently displayed and promulgated. If Christians would consistently vote in high percentages in every election, then those who want to remove Christian principles from our schools and culture would fail. In fact, John Adams, one of the original Founding Fathers, wrote that our country would not be successful if the people did not continue to practice Christian principles.

Let me give you an example. While attending church service a couple of weeks ago, I reminded the congregation that the upcoming election was crucial and that they should get out and vote and base their candidate selection on which candidate(s) advocated Christian principles. I did not specify any particular candidate.  A week later, I was informed that a married couple told the pastor that they would never again attend that church because politics were mentioned. Now you have to ask yourself, if practicing Christians do not stand up for Christian principles and values, who will? Fortunately, our pastor was not intimidated by the couple leaving and advocated exercising our constitutional right to vote and to select candidates with biblical teachings in mind. Good for him.

How did we ever get to this point? Throughout most of this country’s history, pastors routinely discussed what was happening in the political arena because they realized our freedom and welfare depended on who was elected. In 1954, Democrat Lyndon Johnson (who later as President would author The Great Society, which was a leftist program that destroyed the black family structure as well as making people dependent on the federal government welfare programs) introduced an amendment to a spending bill that prohibited churches from advocating for specific political candidates or they would lose their tax-exempt status. Note that even though no church has ever lost their tax-exempt status since the restriction was enacted, the majority of churches have caved in and restricted their own freedom of speech. The amendment only prohibits churches from formally endorsing or raising money for a specific candidate. The impact, however, has been the silencing of many churches on any matter that even appears in anyway to be political.

This is very unfortunate since issues in the political realm frequently reflect values and principles that are prohibited by the Bible. For example, homosexual marriage, abortion at any stage of pregnancy, and transgender mutilation of children are contrary to Judeo/Christian values and teaching but are now rampant in our increasingly secular society. And we are the worse for it. A recent survey reported that 94% of atheists voted Democrat in the last election. It is past time for Christians in general and pastors in particular to stand up for the values and principles that are essential to the survival of this country. The invasion at our borders by people who do not share our values will destroy this country just as it destroyed other countries throughout history. This invasion is being facilitated by Non-Government Agencies (NGOs) many of which are religious organizations that are being paid to assist the flood or aliens into this country.

It is time for true Christians to stand up against this.

While We Were Looking The Other Way…

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On Monday, The Gatestone Institute posted an article about a United Nations Pact adopted in September by the Biden/Harris administration.

The article reports:

  • On September 22, unnoticed by most Americans, the Biden-Harris administration adopted the United Nations Pact for the Future to transform global governance, which introduces the foundations of a world government. There was no debate, no media coverage, no press releases, and no interviews about the Biden-Harris administration’s surrender of United States sovereignty to the UN.
  • Americans were apparently not supposed to find out.
  • These agreements usher in a dystopian future, where the UN — an active supporter of terrorism and arguably the world’s most corrupt international entity… in partnership with the unelected and unaccountable World Economic Forum, led by Klaus Schwab… is given unprecedented power over the peoples of sovereign countries, who have had no say whatsoever on the contents of this pact, because it has been kept hidden from them.
  • Buried near the end of the Digital Global Compact, in paragraph 30, is the only thing you need to know about it: “We must urgently counter and address… all forms of hate speech and discrimination, misinformation and disinformation….”
  • The UN, its member states and the Biden-Harris administration evidently want to establish world-wide censorship that will make any future criticism of their power grab impossible.
  • In 2021-22, the UN entered into a partnership with Google to ensure that the search engine only display information reflecting UN perspectives. Dissenting views would have to be erased. The UN did not even hide their totalitarian move, and issued a press release about it.

The article concludes:

The partnership (between Google and the UN) has paid off tremendously for the UN and the globalists: Google is clearly doing the UN’s bidding. If you try to google the words “climate change” today, every single dissenting view has been suppressed by the search engine. In the first twenty-plus pages of results that come up on Google, not a single of them deviates from the UN/WEF narrative, with most results only containing links to UN bodies or other institutions that partner with the UN, such as the EU, the World Bank, government websites and a few climate-alarmist articles from the Guardian, the New York Times, AP and Reuters.

This is what UN censorship looks like now. Can you imagine what it will be in a few years, if countries do not immediately move to stop it?

I am not sure if entering into a Pact requires Senate approval, but if entering in was done with an Executive Order, it can be undone by an Executive Order. This is another reason why today’s election is so important.

There Are Good People…

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On Monday, Alan Dershowitz posted an article at Breitbart about some recent ads put out by the Harris/Walz team.

The article reports:

On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz reacted to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris running ads with different messages on Israel aimed at different groups by stating that Harris “basically is saying there are fine people on both sides of what happened on October 7.”

Dershowitz said, “Well, she basically is saying there are fine people on both sides of what happened on October 7. She has praised some of the protesters who have called Israel’s response genocide. It’s like saying there are fine people on the side of 9/11. No, there aren’t. There are terrorists, and there are democracies. And she has to give the same message in Michigan as she does in Pennsylvania, and she risks losing everybody on the ground that she’s a hypocrite. And she has given messages out of all sides of her mouth on so many issues. But, on this issue, it’s so important, and she doesn’t have the courage to stand up. And [Walz] has been much worse. He has pandered to the protesters in ways that are completely unacceptable.”

The article notes:

This is not a two-sided issue. The attacks came from Hamas. Israel is doing everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties. Hamas — according to a message captured by Sinwar — said he wants Israel to kill more Gazan civilians so that their reputation around the world will suffer and they’ll be pressured into coming to a resolution that favors Hamas. So, Gaza knows — Hamas knows what it’s doing. And every single death in Gaza is the fault of Hamas for starting it and for hiding behind human shields. And that’s what the American policy should be.

Israel is essentially fighting our war on terrorism while we are not fighting it. We owe them all of the support we can reasonably give them.

What Are You Willing To Believe?

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On Tuesday, The Media Research Center posted an article about a recent statement by Heather Long, a columnist for The Washington Post.

The article reports:

Washington Post columnist Heather Long decided to gaslight voters one more time before they head to the polls to decide who will run the White House for the next four years. “As Election Day arrives, the data is clear: Americans are better off economically than they were four years ago,” read Long’s ridiculous opening paragraph for her Nov. 4 item. She must have realized the insanity of her claim because she then resorted to telling voters they were better off whether they knew it or not: “I understand many people aren’t feeling it because of the inflation hangover that has left prices noticeably higher than they were in 2020. But it’s important to step back and assess the full picture.” It’s as if Long is trying her hardest to channel her inner Paul Krugman. 

The article includes the following screenshot:

The article concludes:

Ah, but how about that sexy stock market, says Long! “The stock market has gained about 75 percent since Oct. 30, 2020. (A record share of Americans — nearly 60 percent of households — have money in the market],” she wrote with glee. Not so fast. As Heritage Foundation Senior Research Associate Alexander Frei noted in an Oct. 31 column, “Inflation is also making stock markets appear stronger than they really are and cutting into returns for everyone, including those with retirement accounts.” In other words, as prices rise, “even significant returns lose their purchasing power.” Frie argued that now “[m]ore money is required to buy the same goods and services, eroding the real value of one’s gains. As everything becomes more expensive, higher earnings or investment returns don’t stretch as far, making it harder to keep up with the true cost of living.”

But Long was adamant that “looking at the full picture shows that most Americans are better off financially than they were four years ago.” But a Sept. 25 analysis by the Financial Health Network determined that “the majority of Americans are not financially healthy, with expenses outpacing income, little wiggle room to protect against financial shocks, and diminished hope for the future.”

Long is clearly trying to attempt a pathetic, last-minute effort to smear as much lipstick on the pig of the Biden-Harris economy as she can before Election Day closes out. She even undercut herself by conceding that most of her points matter “little to voters. And I get it. They are focused on high prices.” Uh, duh? 

The economy is bad. If people vote their pocketbooks, President Trump wins.

What Has Happened To Our Freedom?

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On Saturday, The New York Post posted an article about the euthanizing of a squirrel in New York State. Normally, an article like that would not be important, but there are some details about this event that are disturbing.

The article reports:

An upstate man whose beloved squirrel was cruelly killed by the state said he was treated like a “terrorist” when 10 government agents descended on his home during a five-hour raid.

Mark Longo, whose pet P’nut captured the hearts of 3 million social media users, was stunned when a convoy of vehicles carrying officials from the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Health arrived at his Pine City home Wednesday.

That squirrel was treated more harshly than the illegal aliens in New York City who are routinely robbing stores, assaulting people, and operating drug and human trafficking rings. The argument that they had to kill the squirrel to test for rabies is bogus–he was an indoor squirrel! If they were that concerned about rabies, why didn’t they contact a local vet and ask him to design a rabies shot for squirrels. This whole story is an example of horrendous government overreach.

The article reports:

“They treated me like I was a terrorist. They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. They ransacked my house for five hours,” Longo (Mark Longo) told The Post Saturday.

“They asked my wife, who is of German descent, what her immigration status was. They asked if I had cameras in my house. They wouldn’t allow me to go to the bathroom without a police escort, who then checked the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.”

But worse than all of that, they delivered his gray fur baby to its death.

The state claimed it had to euthanize both animals Friday so that they could be tested for rabies — because the squirrel sunk its teeth into the hand of an official during the disturbing raid. The test results are not yet known.

Longo noted that the officials were wearing thick gloves and that the biting story is unlikely.

The article notes:

Longo explained it is illegal to house a squirrel and raccoon, but he didn’t have the “heart” to keep them outside.

Would it also be illegal if a child rescued a rabbit whose mother had been killed? This is ridiculous.

The article concludes:

“Everything else our government looks the other way on as far as illegal immigrants but then come down on someone harboring a squirrel,” said state Senator Thomas O’Mara. “It just highlights the priorities of the government we have in New York State, frankly. It’s disturbing and we need answers from both the state DEC and the Chemung County department of Health.”

Ken Girardin, research director at the conservative watchdog Empire Center for Public Policy, said that the raid that ultimately led to Peanut’s death demonstrates how the DEC is “arguably the most powerful state agency.”

“They have sweeping authority that, as this case shows, allows them to enter private homes and seize private property with what appears in this case to be questionable justification,” he said, adding, “Some of the blame falls on New York state lawmakers, who haven’t provided adequate oversight.”

Unfortunately, This Is Necessary

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On Saturday, PJ Media posted an article about what the political left has been doing to lawyers who work for President Trump and the solution to their intimidation tactics.

The article reports:

You’d think that there might be an ethical issue running ads that threaten the careers of any lawyers if they work for Donald Trump, but this is the state of play in 2024 in the Democrats’ Lavrentiy Beria political police state. Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime. Rules of propriety are for you, not for us.

Those ads, which you can see here, are running in swing states online and in legal journals in this election—in effect promising the personal destruction of anyone who touches the Trump campaign. 

This is a screenshot of one of the ads:

The article notes:

America First Legal has given the director of The 65 Project, Michael Teter, a taste of his own medicine and filed a bar complaint against him in the state of Utah, where he’s licensed. America First is filing the complaint on behalf of Stefan Passantino, who represented Cassidy Hutchison after Jan. 6. 

Teter’s name may be familiar to you. He pulled this “sure would be a shame” stunt in 2020. He’s the Media Matters and David Brock-blessed lawyer behind the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News, and he was Ray Epps’s attorney, the curious Jan. 6 “Fed! Fed! Fed!” who whispered into the ear of an alleged pro-Trump actor standing outside the Capitol Building barricades, and seconds later, the assault on the barricades began. Teter filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox on Epps’s behalf. 

The article concludes:

America First Legal said of its bar complaint against Teter that his objective of “seeking the personal destruction and financial ruin of another lawyer – simply because of the client he represented or the cause he took up – runs counter to… the letter and spirit of the law governing the activities of lawyers,” according to Reuters.

That’s exactly what it sounds like. And that’s why it should be stopped. Maybe getting a taste of their own medicine will do just that. 

Lawyers who have chosen to ignore integrity in their practice of the law have done a lot of serious damage to this country.

This Needs To Be Corrected Immediately!

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On Saturday, Townhall reported the following:

GOP Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Mike Waltz (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin citing their “grave concern over deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols” for the U.S. military because they said the absentee ballot stockpile has been “depleted and had not been replenished.”

“Our nation’s brave men and women in uniform brought to our attention that there has been inadequate education at the administrative level on how to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and fill in a federal write-in absentee ballot if their state-issued ballot does not arrive in time,” the letter reads. “Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished.”

…The Republicans demanded that the Pentagon take extraordinary measures to ensure that the nation’s “elite warriors” have an opportunity to cast their vote in the upcoming election. However, with only three days until Election Day, lawmakers fear the government has not yet taken action.

The article concludes:

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have mobilized federal manpower, resources, and tax dollars to block state-level election integrity measures, including in Georgia and Virginia, through lawsuits and smears,” Mast said in a press release. “They claim to care about democracy and the right to vote, yet they’ve failed to plan accordingly to facilitate the right to vote for every single one of our nation’s brave men and women in uniform. Our nation’s elite warriors deserve to have every opportunity to vote for the next commander-in-chief, especially since that person will be making life-and-death decisions for our troops.” 

The incident comes after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have refused to acknowledge that U.S. military members are serving overseas in combat. During a debate, Harris claimed that no active service members were on the battlefield.

The election should not be declared until all military ballots have been received, proven to be valid, and counted.

The Hypocrisy Is Amazing

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On Friday, BizPacReview reported that the paragon of unbiased reporting, The Washington Post, is alleging that Elon Musk illegally worked in the United States in the 1990’s and should be deported. I wish every ‘illegal immigrant’ who came to America worked as hard as Elon Musk.

The article reports:

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk has triggered the powers that be, so much so that they are now going after his American citizenship.

Legal experts claim that if Musk were to have lied on his immigration forms, he could have his citizenship stripped and be denaturalized. The Washington Post, which has had a leftist lean as of late, alleged he illegally worked in the United States in the 1990s. Their claims are allegedly backed up by “former business associates, court records and company documents,” and claim that when he was accepted to Stanford in 1995, Musk began working on a startup that would later be known as Zip2 instead of enrolling in classes.

The outlet further reported claims that one year later in 1996, investors addressed concerns about Musk and his brother Kimbal’s immigration status by hinging their funding agreement on the brothers obtaining legal licenses to work in the United States.

I would like to point out that The Washington Post has never done anything that would negatively impact the citizenship of George Soros.

The article includes screenshots of a number of X responses to the idea of deporting Elon Musk. Here are a few:

X is so much fun now that it is not being censored!

How You Handle Baseless Accusations

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The conspiracy theorists are everywhere–on both sides of the political spectrum. (Actually, I should have said the current political spectrum. Our Founding Fathers had a much more realistic political spectrum–the put anarchy at one end and tyranny at the other end. Their goal was to create a government somewhere near the middle.) Some of the conspiracies (on both sides) are just ridiculous. Be careful what colors you wear.

On Friday, The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article about reporter Adam Satariano’s request to Tucker Carlson regarding the Proud Boys.

The article reports:

In a post on X, political commentator and media personality Tucker Carlson revealed a request he received from reporter Adam Satariano, who prefaced that he was writing a story about how groups affiliated with the Proud Boys use the chat app Telegram to communicate. 

The inquiry read: ‘In some Telegram posts from chapters of the Proud Boys, they discuss Mr. Carlson wearing black and gold colors at the recent MSG rally for former President Trump in New York.

The article includes Tucker Carlson’s reply:

He responded facetiously: ‘Yes, this is an official Proud Boys necktie. I received it at my Proud Boys initiation several years ago, after swearing a blood oath to the global fascist revolution and the sacred principles of Q Anon.

‘As you can imagine, I wouldn’t normally admit this. The rules of secret societies being what they are, anything related to dress code is supposed to be confidential. But in this case, I’ve been outfoxed by your relentless shoe-leather journalism.

‘Darn you, New York Times. You win again.’

The article concludes:

Adam Satariano, who prefaced that he was writing a story about how groups affiliated with the Proud Boys use the chat app Telegram to communicate.DJT, the operator of Trump’s Truth Social platform, was worth $9.5 billion by Monday’s close – the same as Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter.

The stock is up by 236 percent this month – on pace for its best month since October 2021. It was trading for over $54 at noon on Tuesday.

However, trading was suspended several times on Tuesday over the stock’s extraordinary volatility.

I just hope that after the election the ‘silly season’ ends.

Learning From The Past

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On Friday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the latest economic numbers released by the Biden administration. On the surface, they look wonderful. At closer examination, not so much.

The article reports:

The economy expanded by 2.8% from July to September, according to Commerce Department figures. The growth is said to be driven by consumer spending, also up 3.7% during this time. Job gains actually slowed to the lowest point since 2020, a sharp decline from 254,000 in September to just 12,000 in October, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Yet the regime has plenty of excuses — storms and strikes — and touts how the unemployment rate remains unchanged at 4.1%. Meanwhile the inflation rate is approaching the Federal Reserve’s target, meaning it could lower interest rates as soon as next week. All told, things are looking alright — at least on the surface.

“Consumers are spending. Inflation is cooling. And the U.S. economy looks as strong as ever,” The New York Times giddily ledes with.

When the corporate media and financial regulators are on the same page, there’s always an instinctual reason to be distrustful. During the Biden-Harris administration, all the Very Smart People running the U.S. economy have made a habit of quietly revising their optimistic numbers after they come out. After all, it’s only the initial headlines that count.

The article includes the following screenshot:

There’s some history here–in the Biden administration (and possibly in previous administrations), the initial numbers are not always accurate.

The article concludes:

This might even be an understatement; the downward revisions on jobs numbers have been nothing short of egregious this year. The revised figures between Q1 2023 and Q1 2024 showed there were 818,000 fewer jobs added than initially reported. But the new figures did not trickle out until August 2024, at which point it was safe for CNN to admit that job growth was “far weaker” than many thought. The pattern has continued throughout the year as well, with the last two months’ figures being revised significantly downward after their initial release. August figures were revised down by more than half, from a gain of 159,000 to just 78,000. September was less drastic, but still dropped by 31,000 jobs after revision. With just a measly 12,000 jobs added last month, there’s hardly any room to revise without the figure turning negative. Only time will tell.

Downward revisions are also an issue in growth figures, albeit to a lesser degree. Already poor Q1 2024 growth rates of 1.6% were quietly revised to a sluggish 1.3% at the end of May.

It’s an undeniable pattern. We get these awesome economic releases, a barrage of friendly headlines and then months later quiet updates that dramatically alter the actual, final number. Either all the Very Smart People are much worse at this than they used to be, or there’s some shady politicking at play. With the numbers coming days before an extremely tight election, skepticism toward the latter is certainly warranted. Either way, there’s good reason to think these new economic numbers will go down. It’s only a matter of when.

If the people reporting these numbers are that far off, maybe we need new people reporting them.

The Last Straw

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On Friday, Fox News reported that Hugh Hewitt has left The Washington Post. Hugh Hewitt is a conservative columnist who has written articles for The Washington Post for the past seven years. Last year he wrote 48 articles for the paper; this year he has written only 7.

The article reports the circumstances of his leaving:

Hewitt quit after a clip of him went viral earlier on Friday when he walked off the Washington Post’s online show, “First Look,” with liberal columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus on its “Washington Post Live” platform. It came during a discussion of former President Trump’s rhetoric around election integrity.

“Does it seem like Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania?” Capehart asked Marcus. “By suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities, and this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses, it’s because of cheating.”

Marcus said Trump had been preparing to blame an election loss on cheating for months.

“No election can be fair in Donald Trump’s mind unless Donald Trump wins it,” Marcus said.

As Marcus went on, Hewitt tried to interject, but Capehart snapped, “Let Ruth finish, Hugh.”

“Well, I’ve just got to say, we’re news people, even though it’s the opinion section,” Hewitt said. “It’s got to be reported. Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home. So that lawsuit was brought by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful. The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful.

“We are news people, even though we have opinions, and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story,” Hewitt added. “So, yes, he’s upset about Bucks County, but he was right, and he won in court. That’s the story.”

After a brief pause, Capehart said, “I don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting when, Hugh, many times, you’ve come here saying lots of things that aren’t based in fact.”

Hewitt stood up and said, “I won’t come back, Jonathan. I’m done. I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of. You guys are working. That’s fine. I’m done.”

That’s how the major media works–by not mentioning that the Republicans had won both court cases, they spun the story to make President Trump look as if he were not justified in filing the lawsuits.

I have followed Hugh Hewitt for years and am glad that he had the integrity to stand up and leave.

When You Don’t Confront A Problem Early…

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Unfortunately, in recent years the American Justice Department has been more concerned with parents attending school board meetings and Catholics who are pro-life. While the Justice Department was watching innocent Americans, groups with less than innocent intentions grew and remained unmolested.

On Tuesday, Andy Ngo posted and article in The New York Post about the recent arson attacks on ballot drop boxes in Washington State and Oregon. Andy Ngo is a reporter who has been reporting on Antifa and other anarchist groups operating in America for years. During that time the groups have remained pretty much unmolested by the Justice Department of local law enforcement. (Remember the autonomous zone in Portland). The anti-Israel protesters have also been handled with kid gloves.

The article at The New York Post reports:

Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington may have been set on fire by an anti-Israel protester, as investigators found a note that said “ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN. FREE GAZA,” The Post has learned.

Between 3 and 4 a.m. on Monday, fires caused by incendiary devices were discovered in ballot boxes in Vancouver, Wash. and neighboring Portland, Oregon.

A built-in fire suppressant stopped most of the flames at the Portland location, but hundreds of ballots were destroyed at the drop box at Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in Vancouver. 

The FBI is now heading the investigation into the two Monday fires, which are believed to be linked and also connected to a third attempted arson attack earlier in the month in Vancouver.

The article notes:

All elections in Washington and Oregon are vote-by-mail.

The arson attacks come amid a closely-watched congressional race rematch in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District between incumbent Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat, and Joe Kent, a Republican US Army veteran. The two are polling neck-and-neck in the district.

By Monday evening, the Clark County Auditor announced that election office employees will monitor 24/7 all 22 drop box locations.

Hopefully, everyone who voted in Washington and Oregon will check online to make sure their ballot was received.

Let’s Return The Government To The People

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On Thursday, The American Thinker posted an article suggesting ten ways President Trump can bring our government back to the people if he is elected (His wanting to do that may be the reason some people are fighting so hard to keep him from being elected.)

Here is the list:

  1. Seal the border and deport all 30 million illegal immigrants.
  2. Resurrect the 10th Amendment.
  3. Restructure the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon. Fire the leadership of all four, up to and including the top 100 senior managers/officers of each, with severance packages.
  4. Ban every DEI program and race- or sex-based program in the United States government. Make it crystal clear to Americans that every single job, scholarship, or contract associated with the federal government is based on one single thing: merit.
  5. Abolish the IRS and the income tax and implement a flat tax or, better yet, the FairTax.
  6. Negotiate a peace between Russia and Ukraine. Neither wanted this war and a month after Russia invaded, there was a peace deal on the table that both sides supported until Joe Biden torpedoed it.
  7. Remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord.
  8. Craft a plan that sunsets every law and regulation in the federal register within a decade.
  9. Pass a law that explicitly states that it is illegal for government agencies to coerce or motivate private enterprises to accomplish desired tasks that are illegal for the government to do on its own.

Every one of these things will bring us closer to the government our Founding Fathers envisioned. If President Trump really wanted to bring us back to the government our Founding Fathers created, he would find a way to overturn the 17th Amendment.

Fighting The Fraud Before The Election

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On Wednesday, Red State posted an article about one of the legal cases brought by the Republicans to insure that everyone has the opportunity to vote.

The article reports:

The Donald Trump Campaign and the Pennsylvania GOP won a huge victory today in their efforts to force the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, government to permit voters to request mail-in ballots in person.

The campaign filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, documenting how county officials broke state law and turned away voters hours before the deadline (see Trump Campaign Suing Over Voter Suppression in Major Swing State). This was after video surfaced of a police officer and skeevy individuals, some later identified as local Democrat activists, wearing “Voter Protection” badges but with no visible identification credentials shutting down the line at 1:45 p.m. when the law required the line to stay open to 4:30 p.m.

The article concludes:

There is no indication of any interest on the part of the State of Pennsylvania in why a uniformed police officer and seemingly unauthorized persons countermanded Governor Josh Shapiro’s instructions and state law.

This is the second case in Pennsylvania where early voting has been obstructed, and the courts have stepped in to extend voting deadlines.

I hate the idea that from now on all American elections are going to be decided in the courts, but it sure is looking that way. When there is election interference, there needs to be immediate legal intervention, and the people responsible need to pay a serious price for their actions.

Please follow the link to read the article. There are a number of pictures illustrating actions that were probably illegal.

Using Taxpayer Money To Create The Illusion Of Fiscal Responsibility

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On Thursday, Issues & Insights posted an article about a change in Medicare law included in the Inflation Reduction Act and the consequences of that change.

The article reports:

We have no doubt that, in the years to come, the media will describe the Biden-Harris administration as “scandal-free.” But that’s only because for the past four years they’ve vigorously ignored any and all scandals.

Case in point is the $15 billion giveaway that Biden-Harris snuck through this summer without a single hearing, vote, or advance notice, in an attempt to buy seniors’ votes. Followed up by a campaign email to these same seniors on behalf of Kamala Harris, also paid for by taxpayers.

Is any of this legal? Who cares, if it helps Harris win in November? At least, that’s how the mainstream press is treating this scandal.

The article explains:

The criminally misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” that Joe Biden signed on Aug. 16, 2022, after Harris cast the tie-breaking vote, including among its many horrid provisions, several that affected Medicare Part D – the drug benefit for seniors – is set to go into effect in 2025.

Biden and now Harris have been running around claiming that this was a tremendous deal for seniors, except those provisions added huge costs to these drug plans that were going to jack up monthly premiums for this benefit by an average of $110 – a 179% increase!

So, to avoid that, the administration conjured up a “demonstration project” whereby insurance companies would agree to hold monthly premium increases to $35 or less in exchange for a pile of cash.

The Congressional Budget Office figures this will cost $5 billion a year – in borrowed money – plus another $2 billion a year in added interest costs on the national debt.

Critics have pointed out that this wasn’t a “demonstration project,” normally understood as a small-scale effort to test a change in rules governing a program. Instead, it was a subsidy handed out to every insurance company offering Part D plans.

So basically, all Americans are paying for seniors’ Part D Medicare so that the public won’t know that the cost went up. Well, I just told them.

The Health and Human Services sent out a letter touting the Medicare changes.

This is a part of that letter:

“I want to make sure you’re aware of the historic changes to Medicare that are lowering health care costs,” it begins, that are “a result of the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law and that Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to secure.” It goes on to say that “these are just some of the ways my administration has worked to help you save money on your health care costs.”

(No mention is made of the $15 billion they’re planning to spend to make budget-shattering premium increases.)

The letter is flagrant electioneering, paid for by taxpayers, and in clear violation of the Hatch Act, which outlaws the use of federal staff or resources “for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.”

Last week, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel saying that the email “was entirely political in both its purpose and language,” and “has been described as ‘a sales pitch for Kamala Harris.’”

Don’t look for this story in the mainstream media.