It’s Friday, October 14th, 2016…but before we begin, as reported at Newsbusters.org…
Nothing to see here folks…move along to the Trump sex scandal!
…and via Kimberly Strassel at the WSJ…
“If average voters turned on the TV for five minutes this week, chances are they know that Donald Trump made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.
But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of.
It comes from hacked emails dumped by WikiLeaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and accounts from FBI insiders. The media has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages to the Trump story. So let’s review what amounts to a devastating case against a Clinton presidency…”
…the MSM’s dropped any pretense of objectivity; any questions?!?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, one more brief observation on the contention by some prosecuting Hillary for deliberately sacrificing national security in pursuit of personal profit constitutes “banana republic” politics.
Exhibit A: this report from The Arizona Republic:
“Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they will pursue a criminal-contempt charge against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for defying orders to halt the immigration-enforcement operations that made him a national lightning rod. If convicted, Arpaio could spend up to six months in jail.
The move has few precedents in U.S. history, as prosecutors endorsed a federal judge’s findings that the lawman intentionally violated the judge’s orders…”
Exhibit B: an item from the Heart of Dixie’s AL.com:
“Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended from the bench for telling probate judges to defy federal orders regarding gay marriage. It’s the second time Moore has been removed from the chief justice job for defiance of federal courts – the first time in 2003 for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building.
The Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ) issued the order Friday suspending Moore from the bench for the remainder of his term after an unanimous vote of the nine-member court. “For these violations, Chief Justice Moore is hereby suspended from office without pay for the remainder of his term. This suspension is effective immediately,” the order stated…”
We’ve already reported on the punishment meted out to David Petraeus and Kristian Saucier, the Navy sailor who attempted to use the “Hillary defense” to avoid conviction for taking and keeping photos of classified systems aboard the USS Alexandria in 2009. And as Bre Payton relates at The Federalist, the list goes on!
By the way, deposed banana republic dictators are rarely prosecuted; instead, they’re generally allowed to flee the scene with their ill-gotten gains to live out their lives in the lap of luxury, literally getting away with murder…
…or rape!
Besides, what on earth should prevent the righting of a glaring wrong, particularly when the fix was so obviously in?!?
“The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged.
The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.
“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case, agreed with the decision not to prosecute — it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.
A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.” (Which would have rendered her incapable of performing the duties of President.)
“It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News. “We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”…”
So much for Comey’s claim “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Hillary; what he meant was “no Progressive political appointee“!
As Jack McCoy said in Law & Order when seeking to retry a case, double jeopardy notwithstanding, after a judge who’d accepted a bribe had dismissed it, “I don’t think the Constitution protects rigged trials.” Neither should a rigged investigation in which the vast majority of those involved…with no axe to grind or political benefit to gain…believed should have resulted in charges being filed against a clearly guilty party be allowed to constitute justice, let alone equal treatment under the law.
Frankly, to do otherwise would serve to enshrine a two-tiered system of jurisprudence benefiting the…GASP…1%!
Next up, courtesy of NRO, Conrad Black characterizes what we’re witnessing as…
“...The nature of the Clinton campaign, based entirely on attacking Trump, exposes its inability to try to justify Mrs. Clinton’s record or argue for the reelection of the Democrats. In the words of the New York Sun’s Seth Lipsky, it is “the bonfire of the hypocrisies.”
If Trump can spend the last month of the campaign showing some dignity as he focuses on policy issues and making regular but not excessive references to his theory that Clinton is running for the White House to avoid the jail house, he can still win. The venomous tone of the campaign among the entourages is more disturbing than the mud-slinging between the candidates. There is, after all, plenty of mud to sling, both ways. The self-justification of some of the intellectual conservatives who have defected to Clinton will cause durable fissures. In this election, Trump, though a moderate, and despite his stylistic lapses, which need hardly at this stage be highlighted, is the only quasi-conservative there is, and Clinton, though she is a capable and formidable woman (an assessment with which we vehemently disagree, as no one can name anything positive…
And THAT only because the fix was in!
…she’s ever accomplished!), will flatline the economy buying votes for the public sector and will enthrone political correctness. Even in the debate on Sunday, when prodded, she declined to mention Islamist terror. The largely neoconservative intellectual Right has led even the Clintonians and defecting traditional conservatives in denouncing Trump as a primeval, knuckle-dragging monster, repulsive in every detail. As they toil for their ancient Clinton foes, they think, like many French World War II collaborators with the Nazis, that they are saving the integrity of their cause — in this case, thoughtful conservatism. They bewail the acceptance of Trump by other, allegedly less principled conservatives.
They have read themselves into oblivion. (See Romans 1:22) Because Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol came quickly and cogently from the soft left to the Reagan right, where they were graciously received, and blended well with the such traditional conservatives as Bill Buckley and even such paleoconservatives as Pat Buchanan, they earned some of the stardom of the great Reagan victories. Whichever party wins this election, the heirs of the Reagan intellectual Right who have noisily endorsed Hillary as the lesser of evils will be wearing sackcloth and ashes and speaking inaudibly in the wilderness for a long time. To the Democrats, they are useful idiots; to the Republicans, they are deserters in battle, turncoats. As Laura Ingraham said after the debate on Sunday, “They will go back to their think tanks and devise policies that will never be enacted unless those of us who are trying to defeat Hillary Clinton are successful.” Those of the conservative intellectual Right who have rallied to Trump, with reservations noted, and those who have sat it out discreetly, will have the task of rebuilding the intellectual Right. It will not be easy under either scenario…”
As the great Thomas Sowell notes…
“Donald Trump’s gutter talk about women shows yet again that he is bad news. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is far worse. Trump’s talk is indefensible. But Hillary Clinton’s actions as secretary of state, carrying out the Obama administration’s foreign policies, have cost many lives in many places, including the American ambassador and others killed in Benghazi.
...The choice is between bad and disastrous. Are women more in danger from Trump’s words or Hillary’s actions? Are Americans in general more in danger from Trump’s shallowness on issues or Hillary’s ruthless grabs for money and power — a track record that goes all the way back to the days when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas?
Mrs. Clinton’s own announced agenda attacks the very foundation of American constitutional government, on which Americans’ own freedom depends. She has already said that she will appoint Supreme Court justices who will specifically overturn a recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. FEC. That decision said that both corporations and labor unions have freedom of speech, including the right to contribute money toward political campaigns.
Hillary Clinton’s determination to pick judicial appointees on the basis of their willingness to overturn that decision is a more brazen extension of the political Left’s other attempts to stifle the free speech of those who oppose their agenda.
Demands that various advocacy organizations reveal the names of all their donors are an obvious attempt to scare off those donors, with harassment by everyone from vandals to rioters to the Internal Revenue Service and other government bureaucrats.
Without the right to free speech, none of the other rights is safe. Government officials can get away with all sorts of abuses, if others are not free to talk about those abuses…”
Keith Koffler continues:
““You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time,” said Donald Rumsfeld in 2004.
Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. John McCain, and the rest of those who simply can’t support Donald Trump, or who do so only halfway, don’t seem to get, or don’t seem to want to acknowledge, that this election is a binary choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
We will have one or the other as president. Republicans who don’t vote for either and try to keep their consciences pristine are handing half a vote to Hillary. They help her by not doing what they would normally do, voting Republican. So how does that feel on their consciences, helping elect Clinton for four and — most probably — eight years?
Trump is the army you have. The choice is between him and Clinton. There is no escaping. Gary Johnson is not going to win.
Republicans who don’t support Trump should vote for Clinton. Make a choice. One is better for the country, one is worse. If you opt out and write in your grandmother because voting for Trump or Clinton makes you personally uncomfortable, then you are putting yourself above the interests of the country…”
Then there’s this from Eric Mataxas, writing at the WSJ:
1 Timothy 4: 1-2: Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. These people are hypocrites and liars, and their consciences are dead.
“This question should hardly require an essay, but let’s face it: We’re living in strange times. America is in trouble.
…It’s a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country’s chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution—and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died—is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever. Many say Mr. Trump can’t be trusted to deliver on this score, but Mrs. Clinton certainly can be trusted in the opposite direction. For our kids and grandkids, are we not obliged to take our best shot at this? Shall we sit on our hands and refuse to choose?
If imperiously flouting the rules by having a private server endangered American lives and secrets and may lead to more deaths, if she cynically deleted thousands of emails, and if her foreign-policy judgment led to the rise of Islamic State, won’t refusing to vote make me responsible for those suffering as a result of these things? How do I squirm out of this horrific conundrum? It’s unavoidable: We who can vote must answer to God for these people, whom He loves. We are indeed our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.
We would be responsible for passively electing someone who champions the abomination of partial-birth abortion, someone who is celebrated by an organization that sells baby parts. We already live in a country where judges force bakers, florists and photographers to violate their consciences and faith—and Mrs. Clinton has zealously ratified this. If we believe this ends with bakers and photographers, we are horribly mistaken. No matter your faith or lack of faith, this statist view of America will dramatically affect you and your children.
For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.“
As we so presciently noted to TLJ in the run-up to the 2008 election, the protections provided by the Constitution are meaningless if a President, Congress and SCOTUS simply choose to ignore the limitations it places upon them. The Bill of Rights was enacted for a reason; and the 1st and 2nd Amendments weren’t at the top of the list by chance.
Voting for Trump may indeed be the worst choice…except when compared with all the other options! For those who still don’t get it, we refer you to Kimberly Strassel’s commentary at the top of the page.
Which brings us to The Lighter Side…
Finally, courtesy of Katie Yoder and Newsbusters.org, some information worth remembering next time you’re spending your hard-earned after-tax dollars:
“Just days before Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary, a conservative corporate watchdog has released an updated list of companies that fund America’s largest abortion provider.
Last year, 2ndVote made headlines in conservative news for revealing Planned Parenthood’s corporate donors after undercover videos exposed the abortion giant’s harvesting of aborted baby parts. 2ndVote updated that list, which includes names like Nike and Starbucks, last week in time for Planned Parenthood’s big anniversary on Sunday, October 16.
In addition to 37 companies that directly fund Planned Parenthood, 2ndVote lists 200 companies that “have supported 3rd party groups that fund Planned Parenthood.” Those companies include CBS and NBC Universal.
Corporate donors make a difference. Planned Parenthood receives $1.3 billion in yearly revenue, and of that, “over 25% comes from private donations, including corporate contributions,” according to 2ndVote. (Never mind the $553.7 million from the government.)
Here are the 37 companies that directly fund Planned Parenthood:
- Adobe
- American Express
- Avon
- Bank of America
- Bath & Body Works
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Boeing
- Clorox
- Converse
- Deutsche Bank
- Dockers
- Energizer
- Expedia
- ExxonMobil
- Fannie Mae
- Groupon
- Intuit
- Johnson & Johnson
- La Senza
- Levi Strauss
- Liberty Mutual
- Macy’s
- March of Dimes
- Microsoft
- Morgan Stanley
- Nike
- Oracle
- PepsiCo
- Pfizer
- Progressive Insurance
- Starbucks
- Susan G. Komen
- Tostitos
- Unilever
- United Way
- Verizon
- Wells Fargo
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