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Thursday, May 17, 2018
Confederate Monuments and Racism
When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu succeeded in removing three Confederate monuments, he said those three statues to Lee, Beauregard and Davis represented “terrorism.” “. . . [T]hey were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city,” he added.[1] Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio made similar comments when the San Antonio Confederate monument was removed. On Aug. 31, 2017, he said the Confederate statue represented the darkest chapter in San Antonio history.[2] Both mayors described their respective Confederate monuments as extensions of the Confederate States of America.
As a lawyer who has practiced employment law for some 25 years (with a couple of interruptions for military service), I cringe. Two elected leaders, both very bright and hard working, are conflating two different events, the Civil War and the monuments memorializing Confederate dead. Worse, they confuse motives for the war with motives for the monuments. Mayor Landrieu may have greater latitude, because at least, the New Orleans monuments commemorated actual CSA leaders. But, the state in San Antonio represented no leader. It represented the common Confederate soldier
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Steve King: ‘Rotten’ GOP Amnesty Petition Gives Paul Ryan Final ‘Authority’ on Immigration Bill
A pro-amnesty “discharge petition” pushed by some House Republicans could grant Speaker of the House Paul Ryan authority to bring his own amnesty bill to a vote, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) explained on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM.
“When have we ever passed legislation or had a discharge petition on something that would just simply give the Speaker of the House the authority to introduce a bill and grant it a path to passage without even knowing what it is?” King asked Breitbart Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
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Report: Inspector General Will Declare FBI, DOJ Broke Law in Clinton Email Probe
]A new report suggests an imminent Inspector General (IG) report may rule that FBI and Justice Department officials broke the law in their handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Thursday that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has “found ‘reasonable grounds’ for believing there has been a violation of federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ’s handling of the Clinton investigation/s,” adding that the top watchdog official has “referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution.”
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"Concealed-carry permit holders are more law-abiding than the police."
“The NRA is kind of just shy of a terrorist organization,” declared Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “They have done everything they can to perpetuate the culture of violence that we have in our country with the spread of assault weapons across the nation.” She was responding to Oliver North, the NRA’s new president, who said recently of gun-controllers, “They call them activists. That’s what they’re calling themselves. They’re not activists — this is civil terrorism.” He accused them of “intimidation and harassment and lawbreaking.”
More @ Patriot Post
Mueller team gives judge unredacted memo on Russia mandate
Attorneys for special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday provided a federal judge with an unredacted memo detailing the scope of his investigation.
Mueller's team made the filing after Judge T.S. Ellis III requested the full document, Bloomberg and Reuters report. The memo was written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation, and spells out in detail what Mueller can investigate.
More @ The Hill
No Wonder He Never Got The Nobel Prize: Tom Wolfe Made The Left Look Stupid
Via Billy
It’s couched in oh, so delicate terms, as pretty much everyone mourns the death of the great Tom Wolfe. Tom Wolfe was a reporter; Tom Wolfe was an observer. Tom Wolfe eyed status-seeking. Tom Wolfe skewered the establishment. And through his incredible mastery of words, he entertained the hell out of us.
Yes, true enough. But somehow he never got a Nobel Prize in literature, despite vastly outranking almost everyone else who has.
So I guess I am corrupting things a little when I state the obvious about Wolfe: he did write; he did observe; he did skewer; and by gosh, it all added up to making the left look stupid, particularly the cultural left, because it is the establishment. There is no way a writer this honest could not find them. And because he was a ferocious believer in and chronicler of American exceptionalism, he got them good.
It’s couched in oh, so delicate terms, as pretty much everyone mourns the death of the great Tom Wolfe. Tom Wolfe was a reporter; Tom Wolfe was an observer. Tom Wolfe eyed status-seeking. Tom Wolfe skewered the establishment. And through his incredible mastery of words, he entertained the hell out of us.
Yes, true enough. But somehow he never got a Nobel Prize in literature, despite vastly outranking almost everyone else who has.
So I guess I am corrupting things a little when I state the obvious about Wolfe: he did write; he did observe; he did skewer; and by gosh, it all added up to making the left look stupid, particularly the cultural left, because it is the establishment. There is no way a writer this honest could not find them. And because he was a ferocious believer in and chronicler of American exceptionalism, he got them good.
More @ LRC
Giuliani: Mueller Admits He Can’t Indict Trump, All He Can Do Is ‘Write a Report’
President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has informed him they understand that they cannot indict a sitting president.
“All they get to do is write a report,” Giuliani told CNN. “They can’t indict. At least they acknowledged that to us after some battling, they acknowledged that to us.”
CNN added, “That conclusion is likely based on longstanding Justice Department guidelines. It is not about any assessment of the evidence Mueller’s team has compiled.”
The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel looked at the issue both during the Nixon and Clinton administrations and reached the same conclusion, which was recorded in official legal memos.
More @ Western Journalism
Boulder passes sweeping anti-gun bill; pro-2A nonprofit vows to sue individual councilmembers
Via Billy
The city defines assault weapons as
"semi-automatic firearms designed with military features to allow rapid
spray firing for the quick and efficient killing of humans."
The Boulder City Council unanimously passed a
sweeping gun control ordinance Tuesday night banning "assault weapons"
and bump stocks, even as a pro-Second Amendment group threatened to
retaliate by suing individual councilmembers.
In a surprising turn, one Colorado
councilwoman admitted that she disagreed with the ordinance "in many
ways," saying it would invite a flood of litigation -- despite voting
for it.
More @ Fox
Sweden in Free Fall
- If it is considered 'objectionable' in the West to talk about the factual consequences of migration, in Sweden it is now viewed as a crime.
- The kind of 'integration' that the mosque in Växjö is reportedly
spreading to the local Muslim inhabitants is that Muslims are urged not
to participate in the Christmas celebration of "kuffars" [a derogatory
term for 'disbelievers'], and Jews are, of course, mentioned as the
enemies of Allah. The mosque's school uses Saudi Arabian school
curricula, and encourages women not to dress in 'Western clothes'.
- "Silence has become an established norm in certain groups of
inhabitants" in these areas.... there is pressure from relatives and
religious communities, not to contact authorities, but to use the local
alternative systems, such as the mosque, instead. Sometimes, the local
criminal gangs even tell the residents to call them, instead of the
police, to minimize the presence of police in the area. — BRÅ, the
Swedish Crime Prevention Council
- It increasingly appears that it will be Sweden that integrates into Islamic culture.
More @ The Gatestone Institute
Leakers to NYT Confirm FBI Ran Spy Operation Against Trump Campaign
Leakers to the New York Times confirmed in a story published on Wednesday that the FBI had run a spy operation on the Trump campaign that involved government informants, secret subpoenas, and possible wiretaps.
The story comes ahead of the release of the pending Department of Justice inspector general report on the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election, and likely is an attempt by the leakers to paint the FBI’s efforts in the most flattering light possible.But the story revealed that the FBI – which is supposed to be an apolitical agency – was spying on the Trump campaign through phone records and with “at least one” human asset.
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Trump questions whether Obama FBI 'spied' on campaign, as Giuliani floats Comey prosecution
President Trump on Thursday questioned whether the
Obama FBI “spied” on his presidential campaign, on the heels of an
extensive report on the Russia investigation's origins that said a
government informant met several times with Trump's former advisers.
Rudy Giuliani, a member of the
president's outside legal team, also told "Fox & Friends" that
former FBI Director James Comey "should be prosecuted" if his bureau
spied on the campaign.
More @ Fox
One year after Mueller's free-for-all began the costs are incredibly high and Putin is the only real winner
One year ago Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein dove down a rabbit hole by appointing Robert Mueller as a
special counsel to look into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election and possible collusion between President Trump’s
campaign and the Russian government.
Specifically, Rosenstein’s order
directed the special counsel to look into “any links between the Russian
government and individuals associated with the campaign of President
Donald Trump,” any “matters that arose or may arise directly from the
investigations” and “any other matters within the scope” of the Code of
Federal Regulations applicable to the special counsel.
In other words, Rosenstein launched a free-for-all.Exactly 365 days later, where are we?
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