Xaver Becerra, when he was pulled out of the position of attorney general for California to become Joe Biden's Health and Human Services chief, widely was known for one thing: his ardent advocacy for abortion for all.
Now the choice Biden made in appointing someone with the qualifications of Becerra is coming back to sting, as a congressional report is warning that billions of dollars of federal biomedical and public health research funding could be jeopardized because of his technical failure.
He ran a basement campaign in 2020, while Donald Trump, who is nearly as old as Biden, toured the country putting on one massive rally after another...
Biden’s disability was obvious throughout his presidency.
He couldn’t talk without a teleprompter.
On the rare occasions when he wasn’t reading a script, he quickly veered into incoherence or worse. Even with a teleprompter, he couldn’t be trusted. He would read instructions like “Pause” and “Repeat line.” An intelligent fifth-grader would have done better.
Biden fell down (or up) steps.
He wandered aimlessly.
He was officially on vacation half the time. The fact that his aides protected him from public exposure was obvious.
And it’s not as though no one was talking about his evident incapacity...
Michael Smith - I wrote about this 15 years ago. Obama's DOJ was... | Facebook I wrote about this 15 years ago. Obama's DOJ was not only inviting favored NGO's and grievance groups to sue the government, they were helping some of them - then the process would undergo a little Kabuki theater, and miracle of miracles, Obama's wing man, Eric Holder, would just allow a settlement for several million dollars. Boom!
NGOs and groups that they could never fund, got funded.
A school district in Jackson Township, Ohio, is having to pay $450,000 for forcing a teacher to resign over its gender fantasy – that boys can become girls and vice versa.
It was the Jackson Local School District in Ohio that demanded faculty members personally participate in students' "social transitions" by calling them by names and pronouns that were not theirs.
"No school official can force a teacher to set her religious beliefs aside in order to keep her job," explained ADF lawyer Logan Spena. "The school tried to force Vivian (Geraghty) to accept and repeat the school's viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students.
Those who have been paying attention know that the climate hoax hasn’t just infested our political discourse alone.
In the 35 years or so since the deranged idea was spun that an overabundance of carbon dioxide is destroying the world, the Left has ensured that the concept permeate the arenas of education, science funding, the business community, the pop culture, even religion... The example of the day comes to us from the beautiful western state of Montana. In 2020, lawyers representing a group of sixteen children and young adults (now ranging from age 7 to 23) filed suit against their state government to force the state’s bureaucracy to consider not just normal environmental impacts such as pollution, erosion, and wildlife when considering the granting of permits, but the misguided ideology of the “carbon footprint” as well...
The constant stories of drug gangs, murders of innocents, rising homeless camps that were cleared recently, and teachers molesting students.
What haven’t we seen going down in the Seattle area?
The crime rate is going higher, streets are more dangerous (even in nicer neighborhoods), judges still release prolific offenders back onto the streets, and the public’s concerns are not addressed...
The 2024 election was indeed a victory, but it was also a reprieve.
Is freedom retreating, or is freedom advancing? Just a few weeks ago, I would have said that it is retreating. But something is changing, and America — though bruised and battered — is leading the way back.
When everything went wrong for us during the past four years — when we felt like freedom was on the brink — what did we do? We didn’t scream at the waves like a group of liberal women in New York City did. We didn’t take to Instagram and post videos of ourselves bawling and distraught. We went to work. We went to God. And we remembered who we are.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.
1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.
1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. They had been found guilty of crimes against humanity.
1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.
1970 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for original One World Trade Center (North Tower) took place. The South Tower's ceremony took place on July 19, 1971.
It’s a common criticism in anti-Trump circles. But it raises a question. Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after? If one wants to discuss the prospect of a new director unleashing the FBI on enemies, shouldn’t he grapple with the reality of years of bureau leadership unleashing the FBI on enemies?
During the Trump years, FBI directors and other top law enforcement and intelligence officials did the following: 1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates. 2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate’s advisers. 3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering. 4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate’s adviser. 5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States. 6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research. 7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products. 8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation. 9) Misled/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president. 10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him...
...When I wrote about Rhodes’ ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest.
In constructing these echo chambers, the White House created feedback loops that could be gamed out in advance by clever White House aides, thereby influencing and controlling the perceptions of reporters, editors and congressional staffers, and the elusive currents of “public opinion” they attempted to follow.
If you saw how the game worked from the inside, you understood that the new common wisdom was not a true “reflection” of what anyone in particular necessarily believed, but rather the deliberate creation of a small class of operatives who used new technologies to create and control larger narratives that they messaged to target audiences on digital platforms, and which often presented themselves to their targets as their own naturally occurring thoughts and feelings, which they would then share with people like themselves...
The Federalist noted it months ago had documented how Cheney suppressed evidence "that Trump pressed Democrats to accept 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of Jan. 6, 2021."
Ohio teacher Vivian Geraghty received a $450,000 settlement to drop her two-year-old First Amendment lawsuit against the Jackson Local School District for forcing her to resign shortly after Geraghty expressed "reservations" about participation in the "social transition" of gender-confused students...
It's not clear whether lawyers will be granted the same leeway when arguing cases for their clients or the state, even when gender identity itself is key to the litigation.
A California judge ordered a prosecutor to refer to Tremaine Carroll with female pronouns in the male inmate's upcoming felony trial for rape and "dissuading a witness" while housed at the Central California Women's Facility...
It was obvious even before he became president. 
Those who have been paying attention know that the climate hoax hasn’t just infested our political discourse alone. 
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...When I wrote about Rhodes’ ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest.
