Daily News Roundup

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NOTABLE QUOTES

Lawrence W. Reed contributor to FEE: Evil is on the loose. The restraints with which civilized society shackled it seem to be dissolving. Do not be depressed by this fact, for a defeatist spirit will fatally disarm you, and that is precisely what evil wants. The last thing evil desires is an informed citizenry eager to resist. It is not inevitable that evil should win—unless good people give up.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: If you thought Zuckerbucks was big, here you have the State Department colluding to ensure that Brazil used voting machines from a specific source, not paper ballots for the election to ensure the election of the leftist candidate.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Take this account from the IRS whistleblower. For example, we obtained a July 30th, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, where Hunter Biden wrote: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Schwimmer: The Trump trial problem hiding in plain sight

The problem has to do with the need in any trial to ensure an impartial jury — no easy task in these highly politicized times if the defendant is Donald Trump. […] But there’s another problem, one apparently not identified, at least not publicly, by any expert or journalist. Can there be any potential juror who has not seen at least one of the following photos? […] In these photos we see dozens and dozens of boxes transported from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, filled with classified documents. Or do we? “Boxes and boxes of classified documents” was, certainly, this writer’s, and surely much, if not most, of the public’s impression. But the actual number of “documents with classified markings” recovered by the FBI is…102. One hundred two documents. Total. Not enough documents to fill one box, let alone the many boxes in the above photos. […] This writer’s question to the legal expert was whether the sight of all these boxes and the misleading impression they create — were intended to create — could prejudice a jury. The expert’s answer: yes, it could.

Read more/See the photos at American Thinker.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Thompson: Michigan’s House of Representatives Passes Legislation That Would Criminalize Hurting Someone’s Feelings

That brings us to Michigan, where the House just adopted HB 4474. The proposed law and an adopted amendment would criminalize, for instance, speech causing “severe mental anguish” to another person. That standard is absurdly subjective and vague. Although the proposed law would use the “reasonable person” standard, it still leaves a rogue prosecutor with the ability to criminalize words because someone’s feelings were hurt “really bad.” One local attorney correctly noted that HB4474 is impossibly vague and open to subjective standards: . . . […] Under this law, could pastors, or for that matter, a student who refuses to use “preferred” pronouns, be charged with a crime if, for instance, a boy who claims he’s a girl has his feelings bruised? Yes. The proposed law allows for prison time or a “diversion” program for the offender. In other words, the offender can avoid a jail cell if they agree to community service. […]

In short, re-education camp for wrong speech.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Sheth: In a scathing dissent, Neil Gorsuch compared the Navajo Nation’s plight to the experience of ‘any American who has spent time at the Department of Motor Vehicles’

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote an impassioned dissent comparing the Navajo Nation’s fight over water rights to the experience of “any American who has spent time at the Department of Motor Vehicles.” “The Navajo have waited patiently for someone, anyone, to help them, only to be told (repeatedly) that they have been standing in the wrong line and must try another,” Gorsuch wrote. The high court ruled 5-4 in Arizona v. Navajo Nation on Thursday that under an 1868 treaty, the US is not required to secure water for the Navajo Nation. […] But Gorsuch wrote in his dissent that the majority “rejects a request the Navajo Nation never made.” Instead, he wrote, “the relief the Tribe seeks is far more modest.” The Navajo “have a simple ask: They want the United States to identify the water rights it holds for them,” he wrote. “And if the United States has misappropriated the Navajo’s water rights, the Tribe asks it to formulate a plan to stop doing so prospectively.”

THE LEGAL CARTEL ADOPTS LAWFARE & A DUAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Pfail: Trump Indictment Demonstrates Manipulation of Grand Jury Indictments by Prosecutors

As the old adage goes, a prosecutor could get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” Yes, it’s that easy. The prosecutor is the sole presenter of evidence and legal advisor to the grand jury. The bar to proceed to a criminal indictment is much lower with a grand jury than in an actual criminal trial. […] Former Republican politician and chief judge of New York’s Court of Appeals, Sol Wachtler, told CNN, “A grand jury is an almost entirely one-sided process.. . . Close to every time a prosecutor seeks an indictment from a grand jury, he or she will get an indictment from the grand jury.” […] During these proceedings, typical court rules do not apply, as they are not adversarial in nature. There is no judge to arbitrate in the grand jury. The accused may not be aware of any investigation or that the matter is being presented to the grand jury. […] Whether federal or state, the prosecutor essentially controls what the grand jury hears and does not hear, regardless of the quality of such evidence, even if it is merely hearsay. […] The National Registry of Exonerations reports there have been an astounding 3,300 exonerations since 1989, with the falsely accused having lost nearly 30,000 years in prison. The registry does not include the exorbitant amount of money lost in legal fees, either. The acquitted tend to proceed with civil litigation throwing the eventual financial burden upon the taxpayer. The problem all stems from the prosecutors and their pursuit of career gains over fair and impartial justice.

2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Leesman: DeSantis Files Lawsuit Against Biden’s Department of Education

According to a press release from DeSantis’ office, the Biden administration has attempted to “undercut” Florida’s higher education reforms, stating that the Department of Education has “unconstitutionally collaborated with accreditation bodies to try to block the Governor’s efforts to bring increased transparency and accountability to public colleges and universities.” Last year, DeSantis signed legislation requiring colleges and universities to seek accreditation from different accreditors in consecutive cycles. Reportedly, universities are required to go through an accreditation process to receive federal funding. State law now requires over half of Florida’s public colleges and universities to change accreditors in the next two years.

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Kaplan, Wong & Richards: Republicans decide to forgo Biden impeachment vote after internal fighting

n a de-escalation of internal GOP tensions, House Republicans are now aiming to refer a Biden impeachment resolution to two committees instead of holding an immediate vote on impeaching the president. The House will vote Thursday to send a resolution offered by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., to the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees. By forgoing the impeachment vote, Republicans will be able to avoid, for now, a messy fight that was already dividing the conference. The House Rules Committee advanced the plan in a last-minute meeting Wednesday night after huddling with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who urged rank-and-file Republicans at a closed-door meeting earlier in the day to oppose Boebert’s resolution, arguing that such an important issue should go through the committee process, three GOP sources who heard the comments confirmed.

REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE MINORITY

Hayward: KENNEDY ON THE CASE

Let’s face it: John Kennedy is the greatest Kennedy ever. No, not John F. Kennedy of the Massachusetts clan, but Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who is for my money the greatest performer in Senate hearings we’ve ever seen. Sam Ervin could have taken lessons from Sen. Kennedy. Yesterday he shone again with his line of questioning of the head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Kelley Robinson, and swimming champion Riley Gaines, about “trans-women” . . .

Read more/Watch the 7:40 minute hearing exchange: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/kennedy-on-the-case.php

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Fanell & Thayer: The PRC’s Rise Is a Failure of American Presidential Leadership

he foundation of the People’s Republic of China’s rapid growth was laid by Deng Xiaoping. Yet, it could not have been accomplished without U.S. support and cooperation. That the PRC is now the principal enemy of the United States and its challenger in all aspects of global politics is prima facie evidence of the failure of U.S. presidential leadership to prevent its rise. The fundamental responsibility of every U.S. president was to defend the safety and national security of the United States. Since the end of World War II, the central objective of every U.S. president was to sustain what their predecessors had created. Then, having defeated one peer competitor, the Soviet Union, their obligation was to prevent the rise of another. It was an easier strategic task given the abject poverty and military weakness of the PRC. Thus, sustaining the status quo should have been a far easier task than generating U.S. victory in World War II and the defeat of the Soviets in the Cold War. Yet they failed. This failure compels an examination of why it occurred, and thus why post-Cold War U.S. presidents wasted what had been provided by previous generations. The buck stops with the U.S. presidents. During this period—Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama squandered our earned advantage, before Trump attempted to reverse course, and now Joe Biden appears to be reversing Trump’s course correction. […] A review of this history reveals there were four major inflection points in the post-Cold War period where the PRC might have been stopped.

First, from Clinton to Obama, . . .

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Mew: Why Gutting Title IX Is Psychological Warfare

Growing up in our post-third-wave feminism world, I always assumed egalitarians wanted to empower women. But as I witness male athletes celebrated for their participation in competitive women’s sports, I see nothing more destructive to egalitarianism than how women are being affected by this overt psychological warfare. Perhaps there is no literal cabal guiding these tactical non-combat techniques, but the mass-scale demoralization that’s taking place in America is leaving women feeling consistently and systematically undermined. What’s going on in America isn’t de jure psychological warfare, such as Vlad the Impaler parading through streets with victims pierced by vertical poles or the Third Reich’s use of Nazi rallies or aggressive propaganda — both intended to intimidate potential enemies. No, in America, common sense is now lost in the shuffle as we allow de facto psychological warfare to demoralize half of the population and, consequently, completely downgrade women’s interests as a priority.

Daniels: Barack Obama and his Connecticut social security number

Barack Obama has used a stolen social security number most of his adult life. The one he uses was issued on March 28, 1977 to someone living in Connecticut, born in 1890 and is now long deceased. Obama was fifteen years old that day, living in Hawaii and playing on the junior varsity basketball team at Punahou. I uncovered the SSN information and include it in my memoir The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama. Obama violated federal law by using a phony number. From the United States Code: “Identity theft laws under 18 U.S.C § 1028 makes it a crime to misuse someone’s identifying information, whether personal or financial. Personal identifying information can include social security numbers, driver’s license number, credit card or bank account information, and PIN numbers obtained through the internet.” Obama is a felon — plain and simple.

THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

Sheehan: Corvette Photos From Hunter Biden’s Laptop Place Him at Father’s Home During Threatening Exchange With Chinese Business Partner

Photographs from Hunter Biden’s forsaken laptop put him at his father’s Wilmington home the day he threatened his Chinese business partner to fulfill his “commitment” while claiming Joe Biden was in the room with him at the time. As previously reported, the House Ways and Means Committee released transcripts on Thursday revealing a message Hunter sent to Henry Zhao, his Chinese business partner and an official linked to Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC Energy. The message was discovered by an IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley, who obtained it while investigating Hunter’s tax crimes. […]

Shapley did not produce evidence that Joe Biden was in the room with his son, but the photographs prove the possibility, if not probability, of that fact, especially taken with Hunter’s claim that his father was indeed present for the exchange. If true, this revelation runs in the face of the President’s repeated claims that he never discussed Hunter’s foreign business dealings with his son.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: SEVER THE PARENT- CHILD BOND

Drey: California Residents Fear New Bill Gives Mental Health Professionals Authority To ‘Emancipate’ 12 Year Olds From Parents

California residents fear mental health professionals are one step closer to giving custody of minors 12 and older to the state after lawmakers advanced a bill on Tuesday that aligns with existing laws for children to receive certain services without parental consent.[…] “The authors want to change the law to let a 12-year-old opt out of their home on a whim, invoking parental separation and emancipation of minors without any claim of danger or parental consent,” Nicole Pearson, an attorney, said in her testimony against the bill, according to The Washington Free Beacon. “This is child emancipation.” Wiener, however, argues the bill “protects children.”

PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY HAVE YOUR VOICES HEARD

(Meet the new civil rights lawyer standing-up for white Americans) The Carousel: 51. Civil Rights Attorney David Pivtorak

By now you’ve seen the video of Armenian dads fighting Antifa on the streets of Glendale. If you’re curious about why, listen to this calm and rational Armenian mom describe how the school indoctrinates her children with extreme gender ideology. The dads showed up to voice their displeasure, they were confronted with the Regime’s shock troops: Antifa. One member is a convicted pedophile, which seems to be a common theme. Somebody save us. A couple of years ago, an attorney named David Pivtorak decided to do something. Having grown up in the Soviet Union under communism, he could see the signs better than most Americans. He knew where this was headed. So he shifted his practice to do something courageous, something that very few other lawyers were willing to do: use the Civil Rights Act to hold woke entities accountable for discrimination.

Read more/Watch the one hour interview: https://thecarousel.substack.com/p/51-civil-rights-attorney-david-pivtorak#details

Another link to the video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5k5PdF9RGY&t=88s

Watch the 2:43 minute Tucker Carlson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmsJsrT7CM

TUCKER CARLSON ON TWITTER

Ep. 6 Bobby Kennedy is winning

Watch the 18:20 minute monologue: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1672014260480901120

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Rosas: Bud Light Twitter Account Activates for the First Time in Months…It Doesn’t Go Well

“Crack a cold one: we’ve got an epic summer ahead. Sock tans included,” Bud Light tweeted along with a video of people enjoying the beverage during the hot summer days. If Bud Light thought consumers would be over with the big mistake they made, of which they have yet to fully apologize for, they were seriously wrong.

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