A federal court has ruled that it’s probably still targeting conservatives (my phrasing, but it’s the way to bet). Well, why wouldn’t they continue? No one has suffered any adverse consequences from it.
[Late-evening update]
Thoughts from Walter Olson.
I really don’t know if she really believes this, or if it’s the usual lies and spin. But no, “lack of sufficient evidence to prosecute is not “declared innocent.” I’ve been railing about this lying tactic of Clinton defenders for years, and as recently as last year.
[Thursday-morning update]
The ultimate media priviege: Hillary’s lies and corruption versus Trump’s mouth.
So we have a perfectly good military communications satellite stranded in the wrong orbit. If we were a truly space-faring nation, we’d send something up to give it a tow. In a few years, with things like ACES, we’ll be able to.
I haven’t seen the movie, and I’m glad that it exposes young people who’ve been taught a false history (or little history at all) of the Clinton crime syndicate, and the vile racist nature of the Democrat Party, going back to its founding and continuing through today. But the Republicans have their own issues, and the notion that it’s unpatriotic to not be one is nonsense.
Barrack Obama says Donald Trump is. Howie Carr says it takes one to know one:
Brave talk from a guy who thinks there are 57 states, that they speak Austrian in Austria, that they speak Arabic in Afghanistan, who pronounced the state he lived in for three years as “Mass-a-tu-setts,” who pronounced corpsman as “corpseman.” Who thinks the Transcontinental Railroad was “intercontinental.”
He described Eric Holder’s wife, a physician, as a “nationally renowned ohbee-gynee.” He misspelled “Syracus” on his NCAA brackets sheet. He is utterly tongue-tied without a teleprompter. He makes “recess” appointments when the Senate is not in recess.
If he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. His grandmother was a typical white person. The Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly.
It never ends with this buffoon. Yesterday, in Singapore, he mangled the name of the country’s founding father. He can’t be bothered acting like an adult. He chews gum in public. Remember how he took selfies of himself with the Danish hottie at Nelson Mandela’s funeral?
The media were all over Trump like white on rice yesterday because he was goofing around with a baby at a rally. But Obama gets a base on balls on absolutely everything. If his middle name weren’t “Hussein,” it would be “Entitlement.”
Indeed.
An asteroid strike could cause immense suffering.
You don’t say.
Anyway, I’m starting to become a @SMOD2016 guy.
The administration has an on-line guide to how to avoid deportation.
Part of defending the Constitution is upholding the law that flows from it, as ruled by the courts (and the courts of ruled against the administration’s lawlessness on this issue). This is exactly the opposite, and should be an impeachable offense against Lynch, if not Obama himself, but the Congress continues to lack feck.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The ATF is illegally hoarding gun owners personal information.
Tar. Feathers.
An incumbent Tea Partier has been knocked off in the primary. Those opposed to spending will have to step up their political game, but this also shows that all politics is local. The farmers wanted (almost literally) their pork.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related somehow: Political moron Meg Whitman is joining forces with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump.
[Update a couple minutes later]
This seems related, too: “The soul-sick leadership ‘elite’ in America.”
Scare quotes because there’s nothing elite about them at all. They’re incompetent vain greedy power-hungry hacks.
Reagan sent them a cake and a bible, but Obama shipped them $400M in cash. But don’t call it ransom!
[Thursday-morning update]
Why did the mullahs want the ransom in cold hard cash? The question answers itself:
Don’t the Iranians trust us? After all, they know we’re good for it, even if we have a national debt of 19 trillion. Of course, we do have a history of withholding payments from Iran, not that they don’t deserve it. Or maybe they just wanted to stick it to Obama-Kerry at the last moment, show who’s boss.
Well, they did that, but I suspect there is another reason – the great flexibility and usefulness of cash, something that can be distributed hand-to-hand without having to go through the banks and their nosey wire-transfer tracking. Like the Mafia, the mullahs are not keen on transparency. They like to keep to themselves how they use their money.
I’m sure that Valarie Jarrett is pleased.
[Update in the evening]
The Justice Department objected to the cash transfer, but was overruled.
Jeff Foust writes that that’s the question the media should be asking of the presidential campaigns. I agree; until we know why we’re doing it, it’s not possible to come up with sensible way of how to do it.
And this is an interesting parenthetical:
…perhaps, the answer would be not to spend the money at all: in the mid-2000s, the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative members of the House of Representatives, proposed cutting funding for President George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration as part of a broader set of spending cuts. The chairman of the committee at the time? Then-Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, now Trump’s running mate.
Though there’s no requirement that it be the case, historically, the vice president has generally been responsible for space policy (going back to Johnson), though that has been much less the case in the second Bush and Obama administrations (thankfully, in the case of the latter).