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31/08/2022

How do I see my Group again? The page conversion does not have any data from my old Group.

25/11/2021

A Thanksgiving Tribute. The production of this video was in 2015. It includes all three stanzas of America the Beautiful. As I was preparing it for your enjoyment, the lyrics captured me.

I hope we have not lost to history the values that so many had sacrificed for us to maintain.

Cherish your time with family and friends. May God grant you wisdom and peace that only He can impart this Thanksgiving.

https://youtu.be/xcygMredH8U

13/10/2021

Smart guy... worth listening

06/07/2021

The court got this one right. California and New York seem to do a great job at politicizing justice. I am not a lawyer but for a supposedly overburdened judicial system, it sure seems like a waste of time and money for this common-sense ruling to finally be made by the Supreme Court.

Both liberal and conservative non-profits duly noted that what California demanded was an assault on the donor's right to privacy. In her dissent, Judge Sotomayer stated she was fearful that this ruling might affect other states with similar reporting Laws. While she is concerned, I am elated that any state which attempts to violate individual rights for political gain is open to getting a haircut.

The Supreme Court struck down a California regulation forcing charitable organizations to give the state attorney general’s office ...

29/06/2021

This far-left goal is buried in a national bill, is also part of SB-9 and SB-10 in California. I have never been a Conspiracy Theorist but the Democrats leading our country, state, city, and county certainly give me pause to think that the US vs. THEM coup is being regularly waged on upon Americans both Democrats and Republicans.

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29/06/2021

The following article shows how news reporting on polls can be slanted by only reflecting partial answers to the questions.

For example; Even the FOX News poll ranked President Biden at 57% favorable. Given the allegations with his son, brother, the border, transgender rights, etc. I found this number unrealistic.

Well, the 57% is probably accurate but it just a sliver of the entire electorate. What do you think?

The voter optimism of the past few months has stalled in the new national poll of 1,000 likely voters that we posted this week and may once again be headed in the wrong direction.

28/06/2021

Fresh off of ramming through a $1.9 trillion monstrosity of a stimulus bill stuffed with pork spending and liberal pet projects, Democrats are gearing up to...

22/06/2021

This man is so correct. I still don't think Biden won the election. We basically have two clowns, a ship of foolish Progressives, setting the stage for our America.

True Democrats and Never-Trumpers should be outraged at what is being driven down our throats and we are paying these morons?

18/06/2021

Getting this page up and running is long overdue. It is my desire to make this page public and encourage civil debate where reasoning supersedes rationalization.

Jonathan Turley is a Democrat with a liberal point-of-view. He is a Constitutional Law expert and is nationally recognized. I think most Democrats and Republicans would agree with his even-handed approach to the Law even when it is not favorable to their opinion.

The problem is that most sane voices from both parties are no longer given access to the public in a manner consistent with the years of true journalistic integrity.

This post is not political. While I have a conservative view and consider myself cautious, my main goal is not getting Republicans elected or tossing Democrats. Instead, my efforts and this page will persistently look for character and stewardship in those who desire to serve us.

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/06/07/an-ideal-rule-for-the-age-of-rage-critics-may-be-making-the-best-argument-for-keeping-the-filibuster/

Below is my column in the Hill on the future of the filibuster and why this may be the most credible period for the use of such a compromise-forcing rule. There have always been good-faith argument…

24/05/2021

Original Post submitted by Patrick Flaherty.

More concerning than Joe Biden's choice of words in his Coast Guard commencement speech is the context in which they were said.

30/04/2021

Patrick Flaherty shared a link.

The Bill of Rights is a relic in the eyes of the FBI; imagine if you had been Richard Jewell or Michael Flynn? Be careful out there.

From James Bovard --
Actually, the potential problem is far worse for people targeted by the feds. FBI chief Christopher Wray, who is scrambling to deliver the indictments that please his congressional overlords, says the agency is conducting 2,000 domestic terrorism investigations.
Few Americans recognize how badly the legal playing field is tilted against them.

When FBI agents knock on their doors, many Americans won’t hesitate to open up because they assume “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear.” But along with Bureau procedures that are a travesty of due process, the FBI is exploiting a sweeping law that criminalizes casual comments.

Federal agents have the right to lie to you and to put you in prison if you lie to them. Any citizen who makes even a single-word (“no” or “yes”) false utterance to a federal agent faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
[...]
Anyone who still trusts the FBI system of interviewing and note-taking should recall what happened to Noor Salman, the widow of the guy who killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2016. She was charged with material support of a foreign terrorist organization and lying to the FBI about knowing [of] her husband’s pending attack on the nightclub.

The FBI vigorously interrogated her for 18 hours without a lawyer and with no video recording, threatening her with the loss of custody of her infant son unless she signed a confession.
Salman, who reportedly had an IQ of only 84, initially denied any knowledge but relented and signed a statement composed by an FBI agent. But the fabricated confession contained numerous brazen falsehoods that destroyed the federal case. FBI conduct in that case was suffused with deceit.

Almost two years after the shooting and eleven days after Noor Salman’s trial began, the feds belatedly admitted that the killer’s father, Seddique Mateen, had been a paid FBI informant for 11 years, starting in 2005.

Read in full at the link...
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/.../will-fbi.../

On a related note...
From Tyler Durden via Glenn Greenwald --
Natasha Bertrand has spent the last five years working as a spokesperson for the alliance composed of the CIA and the Democratic Party, spreading every unvetted and unproven conspiracy theory about Russiagate that they fed her.
The more loyally she performed that propagandistic function, the more rapidly she was promoted and rewarded.

Now she arrives at her latest destination: CNN, Russiagate Central, and MSNBC, and the home to countless ex-operatives of the security state agencies on whose behalf Bertrand speaks.

Read in full at the link...
https://www.zerohedge.com/.../greenwald-cnns-new-reporter...

With no requirements to record interviews, and the potential to prosecute based on false statements, the FBI has a terrifying amount of power over citizens.

30/04/2021

M. Hirsh Goldberg, who was a former press secretary of Maryland and writer of many novels, created the holiday in the early 1990s while writing the first draft and researching for his book The Book of Lies: Fibs, Tales, Schemes, Scams, Fakes, and Frauds That Have Changed The Course of History and Affect Our Daily Lives. People can ask each other questions and expect radically honest answers on Honesty Day, provided each of them is aware of the holiday.

Honesty Day is a campaign for the prevention of political lies. It serves to increase awareness of the most deceitful lies in history, such as the 1972 Richard Nixon Watergate Scandal, France’s Dreyfus Affair, and Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme. It is to urge politicians to stay away from lies and tell the truth. Every April 30th, Goldberg himself gives out honesty awards to companies, organizations, groups, and individuals that have remained truthful to their people.

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