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‘Joys of Progress’ Update

Posted on | July 23, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Joys of Progress’ Update

Last month, I told you about former New Hampshire state legislator Barry Charles “Stacie-Marie” Laughton (“The Wonderful Joys of ‘Progress’”), a Democrat who had been charged with child pornography in a case involving his/“her” ex-girlfriend, Lindsay Groves.

There was a flurry of interest in the case this past week because the Department of Justice has released documents in the federal cases against Laughton and Groves and, as WMUR-TV warns, “Details in this story may be disturbing.” You can go read that, but the most “disturbing” aspect of the case is that Groves worked at a child daycare center, and sent naked photos of the children to Laughton, and the federal affidavit quotes text messages between these two creeps, e.g.:

Not even going to transcribe that. Feel slimy just posting the screencap. Everything about this case is weird, including how they got caught:

On June 20, 2023, the Nashua Police Department (NPD) responded to a report that LAUGHTON had shown child sexual abuse images to other adults. One adult (hereinafter,
PERSON 2) reported that on June 20, 2023, LAUGHTON disclosed that her former intimate partner, Lindsay GROVES, sent LAUGHTON inappropriate images of children.
According to PERSON 2, LAUGHTON then showed PERSON 2 three images, which were on LAUGHTON’s phone in a text conversation with a contact titled “Lindsay.” Upon
viewing the three images, PERSON 2 recognized them as children and that each image depicted a separate child. PERSON 2 described each image as depicting children with
their genitals exposed.
The responding NPD officer interviewed another adult (hereinafter, PERSON 3), who reported that on June 16, 2023, LAUGHTON disclosed that GROVES sent her inappropriate images of children. LAUGHTON then sent PERSON 3 four images of nude children by text message, which PERSON 3 deleted. During the interview on June 20, 2023, PERSON 3 was able to recover the images to provide them to the responding NPD officer. The officer observed that the images were of naked children and also observed a text, purportedly from LAUGHTON, that read, “I don’t like that I have these but I wanted to show you the proof. I am not a kid pervert.”
NPD detectives conducted a voluntary interview with PERSON 3 on that same date, June 20, 2023, at the Nashua Police Department. During the interview, PERSON 3 showed the four images to the detectives.

So, Laughton showed these images to two different people, and actually sent them via text message to one of them, like, “Hey, want to see evidence of the federal felonies that I’m involved in?”

BTW, Libs of TikTok is probably incorrect in saying that O’Rourke and Swalwell “campaigned” for Laughton. Almost certainly, the photos were taken at some post-event “grip-and-grin” session following local Democratic Party events in New Hampshire, which as the traditional first primary state gets a steady parade of national political figures showing up for fundraisers, etc. Still, the fact is that Democrats in New Hampshire twice elected Laughton to office, despite his/“her” obvious craziness.



 

Category: Crime, Democrats, New Hampshire, The Transgender Cult

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 22, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Andre Longmore

Andre Longmore served in the Army from 2000 to 2006, as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, according to his mother, Lorna Dennis:

“In 2014, he had a mental breakdown and was in the VA hospital for 10 days. And after he came out, he wasn’t the same again. He just kept deteriorating until now. I tried to get some help for him, but they kept saying that he has to commit a crime or, you know, like, break up the house or anything, try to hurt himself,” said Dennis. “But if he wasn’t doing that, he has to come in voluntarily to get medical attention, but he said he doesn’t need it and doesn’t want it.”

Her son lived with her in Hampton, Georgia, a suburb 30 miles south of Atlanta, on a quiet street called Dogwood Lakes Drive, until the day last week he got a gun and murdered four neighbors:

After a nearly 24-hour manhunt, the man accused of shooting and killing four people Saturday in a Henry County subdivision was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after a shootout on Sunday.
“The monster is dead,” Henry County Sheriff Reginald B. Scandrett said during a press conference on Sunday.
“The citizens of Hampton, the county of Henry, the metro Atlanta area, and the entire state of Georgia can breathe a little easier tonight. The suspect is off our streets.”
The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Andre Longmore, is accused of opening fire in the Dogwood Lakes area at about 10:45 a.m. on Saturday.
On Sunday, a Henry County Deputy made contact with the vehicle the suspect was driving and requested backup at around 1:30 p.m. When Clayton County officers responded, they learned the suspect ran to a nearby wood line.
Officers were then led to an apartment building on Wagon Wheel Court in Jonesboro. When officers got there, the suspect tried to run again and gunfire was exchanged, Scandrett said.
“Gunfire was subsequently exchanged, leaving Longmore fatally wounded,” the Clayton County Police Department said in a statement.
They said two Clayton County Police officers and one Henry County Sheriff’s deputy suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting. . . .
The victims were identified as Scott Leavitt, 67, Shirley Leavitt, 66, Steve Blizzard, 65, and Ronald Jeffers, 66.

The gunman’s motive is unknown, but of course, schizophrenia is sufficient in that regard. No one has suggested race as a motive, but do you think the national media would just ignore that angle if the gunman had been white and his victims were all black? I don’t think so.

Anyway, as I keep saying,  Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Barbie is Hot Pink Woke Man Hating Mess, Oppenheimer: A Review, and Tony Bennett, RIP
Twitchy: Pic Of Hunter’s Lawyer Getting Blazed “During Visit By President’s Son” Sparks Controversy, Sen. John Kennedy Torches Democrats For Racism, Leaves Durbin The Turban Speechless, and Rolling Stone Rages At “Trolls” Pointing Out Their Hypocrisy On Jason Aldean
Louder With Crowder: Shop owner melts down after getting punched in the face by a guy peeing in the street, also, Shrill, gun-control harpy brags about getting Jason Aldean’s “Try That in A Small Town” canceled from CMT
Vox Popoli: Fear of a BIC Planet, 7 Signs of Controlled Opposition, and Success in Clown World
According To Hoyt: Bearings make the world go round by The Phantom, High Flung Dreams, and Blog Funding, Day 15 of 15
Monster Hunter Nation: What’s In A Name?, also, Bestseller Life, from Michaelbrent Collings
Gab News: The Meaninglessness Of Modern Life

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Tennessee Is ‘Undemocratic’
American Greatness: Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, Slay the DEI Leviathan, also, LSU Graduate Student Relieved of Teaching Duties After Leaving Threatening, Profanity-Laced Voicemail For Republican State Senator
American Power: Witness Describes Moment When U.S. Army Private Travis King Crossed the Demilitarized Line Into North Korea, The Political Rise of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shakes Israel’s Sense of Identity, The Autism Surge, and So Much for Local Control of Education: Gavin Newsom Takes on the Temecula Valley Unified School District
American Thinker: The Time for a New Church Committee Is Way Overdue, also, Can Concerned Parents Stop Schools from Grooming Children?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Infinite Number of Days Friday
Babalu Blog: Half a million Cubans living without potable water in their homes, No cafecito for anyone! Cuban dictatorship warns there’ll be no coffee in stores for two months, and Spanish ‘influencer’ who visited Cuba to promote tourism expresses profound contempt for natives
BattleSwarm: Number of Police Austin Adds In New Budget: Zero, also, LinkSwarm for July 21
Behind The Black: Viking cemetery found at new Saxavord spaceport in Scotland, South Korean researchers turn simulated lunar soil into building blocks, Chandrayaan-3 completes fourth engine burn in Earth orbit, Strings of Martian cones, and The corporate fad to impose racial quotas appears to be fading fast
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worth Pondering, History Friday: The Indefatigable Mother Bickerdyke, and Apollo Missions and an Alternative History
Da Tech Guy: I Guess if the Money is Right the US is Safe Again
Don Surber: Trumpism expands to Europe
First Street Journal: How wealthy New Englanders fight #ClimateChange
Gates Of Vienna: Another Swedish Embassy Goes up in Smoke, Bad Germans Must Stay Home, Muslim Migrants Carry Their Contempt for Women to New Lands, “I Would Expel All the Trash”, and The InterNazi Takeover
The Geller Report: First Trans State Lawmaker (Democrat) Arrested on Child Pornography Charges, Distributing ‘Child Sexual Abuse’ Images, also, EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE: Guardians of Divinity Expose Human Trafficking at Port Authority NYC
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Meathook and a Flying Fish, A Darwin Award Candidate, and STEM v. LGBTQ
Hollywood In Toto: Media Pound Sound of Freedom, Ignore Biden Crime Family, also, Roseanne Barr: ‘Liberals in My Day Protected Art’
The Lid: Question About Jack Smith Could COLLAPSE The Whole Trump Prosecution
Legal Insurrection: Buh-Bye: Stanford Law Diversity Dean Involved in Shoutdown of Conservative Federal Judge Departs, Alabama Republicans’ New Redistricting Map May Parlay SCOTUS Voting Rights Act Loss Into Seat Pick Up, Derek Chauvin Did Not Receive A Fair Trial, But Minnesota Supreme Court Will Not Hear His Appeal, Air Force Academy Superintendent Stumped on Transgender Labels – “I’m not really sure”, Intimidation of Conservatives at Arizona State U. Documented at Legislative Hearing, and NYT Says Nebraska is Punishing Teen for Abortion but She Pled Guilty to Abandoning a Dead Body
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Miss Italy Bans Transgender Competitors, New Washington Commanders Owner Will Reportedly Change Team’s Name, NBA’s Fearless Jonathan Isaac Speaks With OutKick On Strength Through Faith, Starting Anti-Woke Clothing Brand, And More, Patrick Mahomes Denying Kid’s Autograph Request Leads To Incredibly Awkward Moment, Jacksonville Jaguars Coach Kevin Maxen Comes Out As Gay, A First For NFL And Major U.S. Men’s Pro Sports, and Saquon Barkley Drops Giants From Social Media Bios
Power Line: Try That In a Small Town, The buried FD-1023: Key quotes, The Decline of DEI, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Waltz Presses Academy Superintendents Over CRT
Shot In The Dark: Trench Warfare, also, Since They’re Rebooting Everything Anyway
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday: Don’t Count Those Geese Before They’ve Laid Those Golden Eggs
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Was Gandhi for Real?
This Ain’t Hell: .Mil mails going to .Ml – Mali, Greg Ouimette – Another Purple Heart and Bronze Star Fake, Valor Friday, and Wife charged with Navy husband’s murder accused of adultery
Transterrestrial Musings: Tony Bennett RIP, also, The Feds Weren’t Protecting Hunter
Victory Girls: A UPS Strike Could See Economy Take A Seven Billion Dollar Hit
Volokh Conspiracy: A Former Law Examiner Comments On the NextGen Bar Exam
Watts Up With That: New Greenland Ice Sheet study Shows Why It’s Called “Climate Idiocy”, The Atlantic: “Vermont Was Supposed to Be a Climate Haven”, Claim: Windfarms will Destroy the Australian First Nations Connection to Country, and More Barents Sea Polar Bear Habitat at Mid-July 2023 Than In 2012 Despite More Atmospheric CO2
The Federalist: Parents Sue Pennsylvania School District For Barring Parochial Students From Extracurriculars, Barbieheimer Is For The Fellas, No Girls Allowed, The Disinformation Police Are Even More Incompetent And Dishonest Than You Imagine, The Democrat Party Of The Proudly Unwell And Perverts, and Legislators In Four More States Prepare To Ditch American Library Association
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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Death in ‘Killadelphia’

Posted on | July 21, 2023 | Comments Off on Death in ‘Killadelphia’

Armed and dangerous — and only 15 years old:

Philadelphia police are searching for a 15-year-old suspect who is wanted in connection with a deadly attempted carjacking last week.
Michael Salerno, 50, was shot and killed around 10:45 p.m. on July 12 at 12th and Porter streets.
Investigators say Salerno was shot when three males, thought to be between 15 and 20 years old, were trying to carjack his vehicle.
A female friend was inside the car.
“The offenders approached the vehicle, and the offenders were aggressive and violent from the start,” said Lt. Hamilton Marshmond.
While trying to stop them, Salerno was shot once in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Friday, police identified one of the suspects as 15-year-old Rasheed Banks Jr, who is considered armed and dangerous.
Salerno was not inside the vehicle at the time of the carjacking, police said.
It appears the suspects may have been looking for a target. Police say they were circling the neighborhood in a Red Kia Soul with out-of-state plates.
“We do see the offenders’ vehicle ride past in the area several times. It appears that the offenders were in the area to either rob a person or attempting to take a vehicle,” said Marshmond.
Jackeline Ortiz heard the commotion then saw the victim on the street.
“Slowly there started to form a pool of blood. The lady was screaming and she came back – she was screaming over the man on the ground,” said Ortiz.
The suspects got away in the Kia Soul. The vehicle was last seen going south on 12th Street.

Nothing to see here. Just a 15-year-old killer at large.



 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 21, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Oppenheimer, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Escapes Judgment at Chappaquiddick, and Manhattan
Twitchy: Katie Hill Tries Shaming GOP For Hunter Biden Pics And LOL, also, “Maybe If Biden’s Granddaughter Moved To Florida He’d Actually Visit Her”
Louder With Crowder: Jason Aldean’s anti-woke “Try That in A Small Town” rockets to #1 on the iTunes charts, “Nothing to apologize for”, “Great Movie!”: Donald Trump hosts Sound of Freedom screening, praises the filmmakers, and Elon Musk brags about the power of his farts, gets Community Note’d about them
Vox Popoli: Long Covid is Long Vaxx, Science is Observably Unreliable and Challenge: Define Intelligence
Stoic Observations: I Hate Florida
Flappr: How To Prostitute Yourself For Twitter Bucks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Every day is a spiritual battle
American Conservative: Jason Aldean & Outlaw Country, also, The Democrats Need Kennedy
American Greatness: The Biden Family Caricatures, also, Doubts and Questions About Biden Will Only Grow
American Thinker: America’s Degradation Is No Accident, Is Sound of Freedom the Next ‘Shot Heard Round the World’?, Trump Doesn’t Need to Unite the Republican Party to Win the Election, and Our Defense Secretary’s Repeated Failures Humiliate Our Nation
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Stupid Is As Stupid Does News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: The bureaucracy of death in Cuba, a nightmare for families of the deceased, Mexico can’t have it both ways, and The European Union needs to stop supporting Cuba’s oppressive dictatorship
BattleSwarm: Movie Review: The Death of Stalin
Behind The Black: Venezuela officially signs onto Red Chinese lunar base project, SpaceX gets license to provide Starlink service to Malaysia, ISRO successfully tests propulsion system of Gaganyaan’s service module, Red China’s Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches four satellites, Arizona State University loses major donor for its anti-first amendment actions, and Real pushback: Stanford Law forces out administrator who aided and abetted a mob
Cafe Hayek: Bhattacharya and Kulldorff on the War Against Covid, also, In Defense of Allowing Collusion
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Review of the revival of The Who’s Tommy at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Don Surber, You’re Wrong On This, Thank you Ware Massachusetts Police for speaking up against Governor Healey’s gun control bill, and If You Told Me Mexico Would Do This Just A Few Years Ago I wouldn’t have bought it
Dana Loesch: There’s Nothing Controversial About Jason Aldean’s Song
Don Surber: Running For President, Inc. 
First Street Journal: Odd question: will LGBTQ+ population decrease with end of Affirmative Action?, Philly District Attorney who doesn’t enforce existing gun laws wants “bipartisan, common-sense gun control legislation”, and More bullets fly in Philly!
Gates Of Vienna: Sweden Opts For Total Submission, also, “I’m Fed Up With the Denial of Reality”
The Geller Report: IRS Whistleblower Mr. Ziegler Confirms Biden Family Received $17 Million from Romania, China, & Other Foreign Countries In Just 5 years, Obama Comes Out, Pushing Gay Porn in School Libraries, and BOMBSHELL: Senator Grassley Releases FBI Document Showing Joe BIDEN was Involved in $5,000,000 Ukraine Bribery Scheme
Glenn Reynolds: Some Notes On Fitness
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Sibling Planets?, and All The News That’s Fit To Print
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Barbie Drowns In Feminism & Lectures, Tim Dillon Drops Brutal Truth Bombs on Woke Hollywood, Strikers, and Cobweb – Silly, Sophomoric and Undeniably Spooky
The Lid: Dan Bongino, Says White House DOES Know Who Brought in Cocaine, also, Confidence in American Colleges is in Free Fall
Legal Insurrection: Joint Chiefs Chairman Nominee Soft Pedals His Prior Racist Policies in Confirmation Hearing, House Democrats Prove RFK Jr. Correct by Trying to Censor him at Censorship Hearing, Michigan AG Charges 16 ‘Fake Electors’ for Trump for Allegedly Trying to Overturn 2020 Election, Colorado Offering Free College for Students Who Want to Work in Certain Fields, Dem Rep. Rosa DeLauro Calls Republicans ‘Terrorists’ for Targeting LGBT Related Spending in Bill, and VA Governor Glenn Youngkin Implements K-12 Transgender Policy That Emphasizes the Role of Parents
Nebraska Energy Observer: Presidential Politics, Elections, and the Great Republic, also, I hardly know
Outkick: Ex-Red Sox Pitcher Matt Dermody Tells OutKick’s Tomi Lahren He Won’t Bend Knee To Rejoin Woke MLB, Vikings Rookie Wide Receiver Jordan Addison Cited For Going 140 MPH In His Lamborghini, Majority Of OutKick Fans Rooting Against US Women’s National Team At Women’s World Cup, Patriotic Olivia Dunne Shows Off Flexibility By The Pool In Latest NIL Deal, Browns Can’t Determine Sex Of Their Brownie The Elf Mascot, and Lane Kiffin Destroys NIL And ‘Legalized Cheating,’ But Still Has To Play The Game Until It’s Fixed
Power Line: “All roads lead to Joe”, Fast Car in Age of Stupid, and FBI Burisma Document Released
Shark Tank: Soto & Salazar Join Hands To Protect Military Spouses From Deportation
Shot In The Dark: Every Single Conversation, also, You Say You Wonder
STUMP: 2022 Top Causes of Death in the U.S. by Sex and Age Group
The Political Hat: California & Kids: Pronoun Punishment; Dead Daughter; Woke Work
This Ain’t Hell: Female recruit forced to shower and sleep between males who are “transitioning”; considered resigning, Uncomfortable Questions, and Transgendered servicemembers may skip deployment for up to 300 days, DOD memo
Transterrestrial Musings: Donald Trump, 54 Years On, Foresight’s Space Workshop, and Covid’s Origins
Victory Girls: The FBI Has Been Protecting The Bidens For A Long Time
Volokh Conspiracy: A Flawed “Popular Constitutionalist” Rationale for Disobeying Supreme Court Decisions, District Court Strikes Down Race Preference in USDA’s and SBA’s Contracting Schemes, “Busting the Durable Myth that US Self-Defense Law Uniquely Fails to Protect Human Life”, and Conservatives Should Not Be Surprised By Justice Kavanaugh’s Voting Pattern With Chief Justice Roberts
Watts Up With That: Renewables Versus the Grid at PJM, Don’t Be Fooled! Here’s How NOAA Perpetuates A Climate Crisis Rainfall Myth, Kerry Returns from Red China without a Climate Deal, or Even a Meeting with Xi, and In the Heat of Climate Change Drama, Spain May Choose Its Own Path
The Federalist: Jason Aldean And Country Music Are Standing In The Way Of The Left’s Total Cultural Hegemony, CNBC Declares Top Destination States For American Movers The ‘Worst’ Places To Live And Work, As Michigan Charges Trump Electors With Felonies, Recall How Leftists Everywhere Urged 2016 Electors To Defect To Hillary, Biden’s Nominee For Top Pentagon Job Is An Unapologetic DEI Activist, Obamas, Clintons Didn’t Have Porn In Their Kids’ School Libraries But They Want That For Your Child, and FBI Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real When New York Post Story Broke, Then Hid Behind Big Tech Censors’ ‘Disinfo’ Smear
Mark Steyn: Wokesplanations

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In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Live At Five Edition)

Posted on | July 21, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This would have been last night’s post, but after the long drive back from Las Vegas in 100+ degree heat, I went to bed and didn’t wake up until an hour ago.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Should A Woman Respond To Four Home Invaders?
EBL: Where is Sam Brinkman-Fried Holing Up?, also, Oregon’s Democrat Governor Kate Brown Freed A Serial Killer and Let Him Kill Again
Twitchy: Mitt Romney Posts Cringe For “National Hot Dog Day”, also, Shannon Watts Big Mad At Jason Aldean For Telling Her What She Didn’t Want To Hear
Louder With Crowder: CMT cancels Jason Aldean’s new controversial anti-woke video, but the singer refuses to back down, also, Joe Biden mumbles his way through a meeting so badly, even the Israeli president is like “Dude, what the hell?”
Vox Popoli: Red Flags Waving, also, Better Stick with Cash
Gab News: Being Happy Where You Are

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Nicholas Kristof: A Faulty Prophet
American Greatness: FBI Tried to Stop FBI Whistleblower From Telling Oversight Committee About Bureau’s Misconduct During Hunter Biden Probe, also, The Latest in Teacher Union Ugly
American Thinker: Georgia’s Newest Republican is a True Social Justice Warrior, also, Senate Republicans Despise Their Voters
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s fake president vows to never ‘apologize for the right to be different,’ parrots slogans from Fidel and Che, also,  We need more candidates talking about Mexico
Baldilocks: Some Brain Wash, Going Long, Tomorrow, also, Taking The Opportunity
BattleSwarm: College Kids: “I’ll Be Making A Six-Figure Salary When I Graduate!” Reality: “LOL!”
Behind The Black: July 18, 2023 Quick space links
CDR Salamander: Why No Production Lines Can Go Cold
Da Tech Guy: FYI WQPH 89.3 FM Shirley Fitchburg only available as stream for the next week or so
Don Surber: You Have No Choice But Trump
Gates Of Vienna: Taking Pride in Her Work, also, “We Have Been Lied To”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Going to a Heavy Metal Asteroid, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Lesbian Comic Judy Gold: I Was Canceled by LGBTQ Group
The Lid: The Exodus 1947: The Real Story
Legal Insurrection: Iran-Backed Hezbollah Releases Video of Simulated Attack on IDF Border Post, “The racialization of medical education and medicine constitutes a national emergency”, Judge: DOJ Request For Mid-December Trump Florida Trial “A Bit Rushed”, and Federal Courts Allowing Secret Social Transitioning in Schools, Rebuff Parents’ Rights
Outkick: LSU Basketball Star Angel Reese Continues To Parlay Her Celebrity Into Attention, Throws First Pitch At Baltimore Orioles Game, Division-III College Unveils Brand-New Turf Field That Will Make Athletes’ Lives Miserable During Summer, and Clay Travis Asking Tim Tebow The Virginity Question At SEC Media Days Turns 14 Years Old
Power Line: Woke Kindergarten
Shark Tank: City of Miami Commissioner Covo Pushes Not-So-Green Measure
Shot In The Dark: I Love A Happy Ending, also, A Matter Of Trust
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday: Texas Tax Cut and Twitter round-up
The Political Hat: Learning About Propaganda
This Ain’t Hell: Convert to electric they say, it’ll be easy they say, also, Three More Accounted For
Victory Girls: Washington State Closes Prison, Boasts Low Incarceration Rate
Volokh Conspiracy: Today in Supreme Court History: July 19, 1949
Watts Up With That: Will Wind Turbines Be Generating More Waste Than Electricity?, Are Green Investments so Lame they need Special “Green Banks” to Succeed?, and Neil Oliver: “Fear mongering” over high temperatures is an ‘incessant attempt to keep us frightened’
The Federalist: How The Left Weaponizes ‘Kindness’ To Manipulate You Into Giving Them What They Want, Biden’s DOJ Will Trigger A Major Crisis If Trump Is Indicted For Jan. 6, Corporate Media Forget Their Racist Past When Lecturing About Reparations, It Is Completely Reasonable To Wonder If Oppenheimer Was A Soviet Spy, and Get Race Quotas Out Of The Cockpit Before We Literally Crash And Burn
Mark Steyn: Birth of the New

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‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden Bribery Scandal

Posted on | July 20, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden Bribery Scandal

Press release from Senator Grassley:

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an unclassified FBI-generated record describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive. Grassley acquired the record, an FD-1023, via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.
“For the better part of a year, I’ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme. While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers. What did the Justice Department and FBI do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long? The Justice Department and FBI have failed to come clean, but Chairman Comer and I intend to find out,” Grassley said.
“The FBI’s Biden Bribery Record tracks closely with the evidence uncovered by the Oversight Committee’s Biden family influence peddling investigation. In the FBI’s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn’t pay the ‘big guy’ directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said. “At our hearing with IRS whistleblowers, they testified that they had never seen or heard of this record during the Biden criminal investigation, despite having potentially corroborating evidence. Given the misconduct and politicization at the Department of Justice, the American people must be able to read this record for themselves. I thank Senator Grassley for providing much needed transparency to the American people. We must hold the Department of Justice accountable for seeking to bury this record to protect the Bidens.”
Grassley first disclosed the FBI’s possession of significant and voluminous evidence of potential criminality involving the Biden family last year. He has since worked to unearth the FBI record, eventually partnering with Comer on a subpoena to compel its public disclosure. After delays, the FBI provided a highly redacted version of the document to select members of the House of Representatives, but it remained shielded from the public and omitted key details, including references to recordings. Following the FBI’s failure to fully comply with the congressional subpoena, Grassley received the legally protected disclosure with limited redactions to protect a trusted FBI source, handling agents, department whistleblowers and identifiers related to other ongoing investigations.



 

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden, Scandal

Orioles Face ‘Huge’ Series in Tampa

Posted on | July 20, 2023 | 1 Comment

Tyler Wells has thrown 105 strikeouts in 19 games

Last season, the Baltimore Orioles finished fourth in the American League’s East Division, and the year before that, they were fifth, losing 110 games. As of last night, however, the O’s were leading the AL East with a 58-37 record (.611), just fractionally ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays (60-39, .606). As recently as July 1, Tampa had a 6½-game lead over the Orioles in the division, but Baltimore is 8-2 in their last 10 games, while the Rays, who jumped out to a strong lead early in the season, are 3-7 in their last 10 games. Everything will be on the line starting tonight when the O’s face the Rays in Tampa for a four-game series:

“It’s all you want. You want to get to the big leagues, and then once you get here, your goal is to win,” [Orioles left fielder Austin] Hays said. “That’s what we’re playing for now. We’re winning a lot of games right now. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’ve put ourselves in a good situation at this point in the season.”
The Orioles (58-37) visit Tropicana Field on Thursday tied with the Rays (60-39) for first place in the AL East. The last time Baltimore was atop the division this late in the year was August 2016 — the last season they made the playoffs. If the Orioles sweep the Rays, it would be their first time with a four-game lead in the AL East after the All-Star break since September 2014 — the last season they won the division. . . .
“We knew that all those losing seasons wouldn’t last forever,” [Baltimore first baseman Ryan] Mountcastle said. “It came quicker, I think, than most people thought, and we’re just excited to be where we’re at right now. This series is going to be huge, and we’re super excited for it.”

A few years ago, my son Jim became an Orioles fan, listening to them on the radio during his long drives home from contracting jobs. The past couple of years have been painful for Jim and the rest of the O’s faithful, and this season’s long chase of the Rays has been frustrating. There were times when Baltimore’s record would have put them on top of any other division in the major leagues, but there they were, stuck in second place in the AL East behind Tampa, which was playing .600-plus baseball for so long that it couldn’t last forever. Baltimore deserves credit for hanging tough for three months, waiting for the Rays to stumble. The big break came during a stretch earlier this month when Tampa went 3-5 while the Orioles put together a seven-game win streak. Then on Wednesday night, the O’s beat the Dodgers 8-5 while the Rays lost 5-1 to the Texas Rangers.

The Orioles have been led this year by right fielder Anthony Santander (.272, 17 HR, 54 RBI), catcher Adley Rutschman (.275, 13 HR, 41 RBI), left fielder Austin Hays (.304, 9 HR, 37 RBI) and third baseman Gunnar Henderson (.247, 15 HR, 41 RBI). Top starting pitchers for Baltimore are Dean Kremer (10-4, 4.80 ERA), Kyle Gibson (9.6, 4.77 ERA) and Tyler Wells (7-5, 3.54 ERA), with Felix Bautista (4-1, 1.00 ERA, 26 saves) as their bullpen ace. Gibson is expected to take the mound tonight. All the O’s need to do is take it one game at a time. Orioles fever — catch it!



 

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