It’s Monday, October 17th, 2016…but before we begin, submitted for your approval, a picture worth well over a thousand words; one which reveals the monumental lie and illogic at the very heart not only of Black Lives Matter, but modern Progressivism and the Dimocratic Party as well:

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of The American Spectator, Dan Flynn reveals via a…

Former U.S. Attorney: Agents See FBI Chief Comey as a ‘Dirty Cop’

The FBI in open revolt against a deceitful director.

“James Comey presides over an FBI in revolt over his leadership, a former U.S. attorney tells The American Spectator, and pursues “paranoid, delusional, and vindictive” measures to prevent negative information leaking out to the public.

“I know that inside the FBI there is a revolt,” Joseph diGenova tells The American Spectator. “There is a revolt against the director. The people inside the bureau believe the director is a dirty cop. They believe that he threw the [Hillary Clinton email] case. They do not know what he was promised in return. But the people inside the bureau who were involved in the case and who knew about the case are talking to former FBI people expressing their disgust at the conduct of the director.”

The loss of faith in the bureau chief stems in part from a dishonest rendering of the decision not to indict Mrs. Clinton as unanimous rather than unilateral and in part from the bureau’s decision to destroy evidence in the case and grant blanket immunity to Clinton underlings for no possible prosecutorial purpose.

“There is a consensus among the employees that the director has lost all credibility and that he cannot lead the bureau,” diGenova explains. “They are comparing him to L. Patrick Gray, the disgraced former FBI director who threw Watergate papers into the Potomac River. The resistance to the director has made the agency incapable of action. It has been described to me as a depression within the agency unlike anything that anyone has ever seen within the bureau. The director’s public explanation for the unorthodox investigation are viewed by people in the bureau as sophomoric and embarrassing.”…”

Fine; no question whatsoever a jury would not only take Hillary down on all counts, but find James Comey and Loretta Lynch guilty of obstruction of justice as well!

This still doesn’t explain why not even one FBI or Justice Department source is willing to go public.  After all, it’s not like there aren’t whistleblower laws to protect them; or, perhaps more importantly, there wouldn’t be a flood of support to finance not only their defense, but keep them in tall cotton for the rest of their life.  And need we mention the prodigious proceeds from the inevitable book deal and Conservative lecture circuit appearances?!?

Inquiring minds, ours in particular, continue to wonder why.

In a related item, writing at NRO, Andrew McCarthy weighs in with support for what’s repeatedly been our contention:

Trump Is Right to Point Out That Clinton Should Be Prosecuted

His rhetoric is overblown, but he’s correct that Hillary should be held to account for criminal conduct.

“With due respect, the estimable Charles Krauthammer is way off base in his weekly column, addressing Donald Trump’s “threat, if elected, to put Hillary Clinton in jail.” (The headline refers to this threat as a “promise,” but I don’t take that to be quite what Charles — or, for that matter, Trump — is saying.) I wrote about this topic right after Trump raised it in the second presidential debate, in response to Trump detractors who posited the claim that Krauthammer now advances: viz., Trump is criminalizing politics with threats to persecute political opponents. I generally agree with these detractors regarding the GOP nominee’s flaws and antics; on this, however, their comparisons of Trump to brutal dictators are so beyond the pale they make Trump seem tame.

Krauthammer is right that Trump has gone too far in his rhetoric. Yet, he overstates the case in suggesting that Trump is breaching important political boundaries. While he describes these as boundaries of “discourse” and “democratic decency,” Dr. K implies that they involve something even more fundamental, and thus that the breach is more perilous.

Mrs. Clinton appears to have committed serious crimes that undermined both national security and record-keeping rules designed to promote accountability in government. If you want to talk about a truly profound threat to democratic norms, that’s the place to start. Obviously, these offenses are not just relevant but essential to the political case that should be made against Clinton, and would be by any opponent, not just by the unconventional, undisciplined Trump. Also pertinent is the fact that government officials who engage in Clinton’s type of misconduct do go to jail — to refrain from stating this would be to diminish the gravity of the crimes.

Moreover, even Krauthammer concedes that Clinton deserved to be prosecuted: “FBI director James Comey’s recommendation not to pursue charges was both troubling and puzzling.” Consequently, I don’t see why anyone, including Trump, should be faulted for asserting that there appears to be strong evidence that Mrs. Clinton has committed egregious offenses, which warrant prosecution and would call for imprisonment if she were convicted after a fair trial. Unless I am reading him wrong, that is Charles’s position on the matter — otherwise, why the dig at Comey?

Where Trump has overstepped is in his articulation of these points, not the fact that he is making them…”

No big surprise here, as, to the best of our knowledge, “Trump” and “articulate” have yet to be used in the same sentence.  Regardless, Trump’s inability to accurately articulate anything should not prevent the likes of Krauthammer from understanding America’s increasingly tenuous grasp of the rule of law would greatly benefit from seeing Hillary…and Comey…hang…quite literally!!!

Since we’re on the subject of just desserts, courtesy of PJ Media, Debra Heine details how the…

Former Haitian Senate President Calls Clintons ‘Common Thieves Who Should Be in Jail‘

“An eyewitness to the Clinton Foundation’s corrupt dealings in Haiti says virtually nothing has been done to help the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives, and that the Clintons are nothing but common thieves who should be in jail. 

Sandy Rios of American Family Radio interviewed former Haitian Senate President Bernard Sansaricq on Thursday, and the enraged Haitian had nothing good to say about the Clintons. He angrily claimed that they brought their “pay to play” politics to Haiti at the expense of the Haitian people. Sansaricq said that the Clinton Foundation received 14.3 billion dollars in donation money to help with the relief effort. President Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon put the Clinton Foundation in charge of the reconstruction, but Haiti has seen no help. The money all went to friends of Bill Clinton. It is now known, thanks to WikiLeaks, that the State Department colluded with the Clinton Foundation to make sure that those multi-million dollar contracts would literally go to “friends of Bill.”

Email exchanges show Clinton Foundation officials in the hours after the massive earthquake reaching out to a senior aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who “repeatedly gave special attention to those identified by the abbreviations ‘FOB’ (friends of Bill Clinton) or ‘WJC VIPs’ (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs).” “Need you to flag when people are friends of WJC,” wrote Caitlin Klevorick, then a senior State Department official who was juggling incoming offers of assistance being funneled to the State Department by the Clinton Foundation. “Most I can probably ID but not all.” 

Sansaricq said although Bill Clinton was put in charge of the reconstruction, he did absolutely nothing but give contracts to his cronies and built a sweatshop next to a goldmine that was given to Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodham, in violation of the Haitian constitution.

He said he could go on for hours about the Clinton Foundation’s destruction of the rice production in Haiti because they were importing rice from Clinton’s cronies in Arkansas. And rice is something Haiti could really use right now.

“They are nothing but common thieves,” the enraged Sansaricq told Rios. “And they should be in jail.”…”

In the spirit of the late, great Hans Gruber, the Clintons would likely disagree with Sansaricq’s less-than-superlative assessment of their talents for larceny…

…of every…

…variety!  The difference is, the mythical Hans Gruber was theoretically robbing the über-wealthy Nakotomi Corporation; the Clintons were, in reality, ripping off the poorest inhabitants in the Western Hemisphere of the PLANET!!!

Nothing to see here, folks…move along!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch with The Gang Who May Well NEVER Learn to Shoot Straight, also writing at NRO and echoing a warning we sounded back in 2015, John Fund details yet another reason the Republican Party’s leadership is in dire need of a thorough overhaul…or complete replacement:

The GOP Should Have Known They’d Be Blindsided by Trump

The party should have done its homework before nominating him.

“Donald Trump will be consumed for the next month defending himself against a host of attention-grabbing sexual and tax accusations, while leaks about Hillary Clinton’s corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the media are given short shrift. While unfair, this was entirely predictable.

Back in March, Ted Cruz warned that journalists had told him privately that news outlets were holding their most damaging Trump material until the general election, when it would be the most effective in derailing him. On Wednesday, the Hollywood-based website tmz.com reported that:

NBC execs had a plan to time the release of the Donald Trump audio to have maxi­mum impact on both the 2nd pres­i­den­tial debate and the general election…sources connected with the network tell TMZ.

Multiple sources connected with NBC tell us…top network execs knew about the video long before they publicly said they did, but wanted to hold it because it was too early in the election…As we reported, Billy Bush was bragging about the tape — in front of NBC execs at the Rio Olympics — in early August. NBC says it’s only known about the tape for a little more than a week.

And if you believe NBC now, well, then you believe there is no media bias.

Back in May, I warned that it would be sheer folly for Republican delegates to nominate a candidate with such a checkered past and a track record of fabrication that hadn’t been fully vetted. I urged them to demand that Trump conduct an opposition-research program on himself and release his tax returns, because there inevitably would be damaging leaks on Trump in the fall:

If Republicans don’t do all they can to figure just what Donald Trump is hiding, they will be violating a cardinal rule of politics: Don’t drive over an electoral cliff when there is still time to brake or turn in a different direction. Right now, all of the savvy politicos lining up like lemmings for the presumptive nominee are acting like Chumps for Trump.

…Last summer, I was told by Republican National Committee leaders that no one could stop the Trump Train from rolling to the nomination because it would be defying the will of the delegates. But then RNC officials shut down any attempt to open up the convention, demand more transparency from Trump, or allow delegates to abstain, pending Trump’s release of his tax returns. If enough delegates had abstained and driven Trump below a majority of 1,237, a second ballot could have been held, which could have cracked the convention wide open.

For a party that prides itself on promoting business-friendly policies, the Republican party failed to perform the basic due diligence anyone in the private sector would have demanded before hiring someone for a CEO position. In doing that, Republicans ended up not with a leader but with a giant distraction for a nominee. Because GOP voter turnout could be depressed as a result, Republican control of the Senate and even possibly the House is possible. By taking Donald Trump at this word that he had nothing to hide, too many Republican leaders may find they have everything to lose.“

To Hell with the Republican leaders and Donald Trump…along with Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and anyone and everyone else either taken in by his 4th-grade vocabulary, bellicose bullying and mindless meanderings or willing to sacrifice the future of the Founders’ Republic for mere pottage and ratings.  And, as long as we’re at it, to Hell with Marco Rubio and John Kasich; Kasich for not dropping out of what he had to have known was a futile race, thus giving Ted Cruz (certainly not our ideal candidate, but one who’d be beating Hillary right now like a rented mule!) a real chance of taking Trump down mano a mano, and Rubio for being either too naive, too ignorant or too Establishment to realize his Gang of Eight dalliance put a permanent fork in his presidential aspirations.

Besides, the folks most likely to find The Donald’s cost them everything are people like us; hard-working, risk-taking taxpaying Americans who never even thought of supporting Trump…that is, until he was the only alternative to Hillary.

Here’s the juice: anyone who didn’t know Trump had more skeletons in his closet than Dr. Phibes’ suite in the House on Haunted Hill either wasn’t thinking or didn’t care to know…or both.  And SURE The Donald’s playing against a stacked deck: problem is, they’re his cards and he dealt the hand!

Turning from those who didn’t care to know to those who’ve never been taught the truth, again courtesy of NRO, the great Victor Davis Hanson reflects on the true state of Academia in what is increasingly not our country:

Medieval America

Free thought was not prized at universities, and wealthy lords ruled over their inferiors. Are we talking about then or now?

“Pessimists often compare today’s troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly A.D. 500 to 1450) is the more apt comparison.

The medieval world was a nearly 1,000-year period of spectacular, if haphazard, human achievement — along with endemic insecurity, superstition, and two, rather than three, classes. The great medieval universities — at Bologna, Paris, and Oxford — continued to make strides in science. They were not unlike the medical and engineering schools at Harvard and Stanford. But they were not centers of free thinking.

Instead, medieval speech codes were designed to ensure that no one questioned the authority of church doctrine. Culturally or politically incorrect literature of the classical past, from Aristophanes to Petronius, was censored as either subversive or hurtful.

Career-wise, it was suicidal for, say, a medieval professor of science at the University of Padua to doubt the orthodoxy that the sun revolved around the earth. Similarly, at Berkeley or Princeton, few now dare to commit the heresy of expressing uncertainty about whether man-caused global warming poses an immediate, existential threat to human civilization.

Today, a fifth of American households have zero or negative net worth. The shrinking middle classes struggle to service trillions of dollars in consumer and student debt to big banks — in the manner of medieval peasants.

In the medieval world, impoverished serfs pledged loyalty to barons in exchange for their food and housing on the manor. In the modern world, progressive government is the bastion that distributes entitlements on the expectation that the masses show their political fealty at election time.

In medieval Europe, widespread literacy disappeared. Superstition reigned in place of reason. Despite spending some $11,000 per student each year, are we all that much different? In many polls, more than a quarter of Americans believe in astrology. A quarter think aliens have visited Earth. More than 40 percent can’t name their own vice president. Nearly three-quarters of Americans have no idea what the Cold War was about.

The ruling cliques of the medieval court were full of insider knaves and scoundrels, plots and intrigue. Compare the current scandals, lies, and hypocrisies of our Beltway cloister in Washington.

Closeted scholiasts wrote esoteric treatises that no one read. These works were sort of like the incomprehensible “theory” articles of university humanities professors who are up for tenure…”

Which brings us to The Lighter Side…

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sad and sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter:

Daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay fatally shot

“The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in the neck, authorities and the athlete’s agent said Sunday. Trinity Gay died at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, the coroner’s office for Fayette County said in a statement.

…Lexington police said in a statement that officers went to the parking lot of a restaurant near the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington about 4 a.m. Sunday after witnesses reported an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles. Officers located one of the vehicles and stopped two people for questioning, the statement added.

Police spokeswoman Brenna Angel said police don’t believe Trinity Gay was in either of the vehicles involved…”

Senseless doesn’t begin to describe this tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers go out to Trinity Gay’s family and friends.

But, with the caveat Trinity Gay in no way deserved to die, this story begs one simple question: forgetting for the moment what on earth a 15-year-old girl was doing in a restaurant parking lot at 0400 on a Sunday morning, what on earth was a 15-year-old girl doing in a restaurant parking lot at 0400 on a Sunday morning in close proximity to two vehicles, the occupants of which were exchanging gunfire?!? 

We’ll not jump to any conclusions until the facts are in; after all, Gay’s death could have been a simple case of wrong place/wrong time…though we’ll never agree 15-year-old girls should be out anywhere at 0400 sans supervision.  But were we a betting man, we’d wager a significant sum the unfortunate victim had a passing acquaintance with the occupants of at least one of the vehicles.

Again, Trinity Gay in no way deserved to die; but should the evidence favor our assumption, she was a party to her own early demise.

Magoo