He was too busy being a stooge and being flexible for every Tom, Dick and Yuri…

Via Washington Examiner:

President Trump openly questioned on Saturday whether the Obama administration wanted to damage Hillary Clinton’s chances in the 2016 election by not immediately reacting to evidence of Russian meddling.

“Obama Administration official said they ‘choked’ when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn’t want to hurt Hillary?”, Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.

The Obama administration official he is quoting is one from a Washington Post report on Friday that said former President Barack Obama was given information in August 2016 about Russian President Vladimir Putin delivering specific instructions to his operatives to undermine Clinton’s campaign in favor of Trump’s. It wasn’t until October that Obama finally addressed the public about the suspected Russian hacking. Obama then slapped sanctions on Russia in December and reportedly authorized a cyber weapons project targeting in Russia’s infrastructure.

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The next crisis for a black robed social justice warrior.

Via Fox News:

President Trump called for the laws to be enforced that prevent immigrants from receiving welfare until five years after they arrive in the U.S.

Immigrants “must be able to support themselves financially,” the president said at an Iowa rally Wednesday.

The average federal welfare benefits of immigrant-headed households, legal or illegal, is $6234, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

Fifty-one percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one welfare program in 2012, as compared to 30 percent of native households, the Center reported.

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Gee what message was it that she wanted to send? Sounds pretty hoax-like…

Via Des Moines Register:

A 22-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of starting a small fire at a Des Moines mosque Thursday morning, police said.

At about 10 a.m., Des Moines firefighters and police were called to the Islamic Center of Des Moines, 6201 Franklin Ave., where there had been a small fire on the carpet, according to a Des Moines police report.

The fire was extinguished by the mosque’s staff by the time firefighters arrived, police said.

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Took him long enough.

Via Washington Times:

A longtime ABC News viewer from Texas is taking out his frustration over its coverage of President Trump with a giant billboard.

San Antonio residents driving along I-10 know exactly how Kyle Courtney feels about ABC News’ stories on possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia. The Boerne resident and owner of Wellstar Groundwater Technologies paid for a public parting with the network.[…]

Mr. Courtney released a statement Tuesday to a local NBC affiliate explaining his actions.

“ABC News was the only channel I watched as a child growing up in Texas but I think they have lost touch with America and forgotten the working man,” he said, the station reported. “They don’t represent our voice anymore. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was funded by the Clinton Foundation in close coordination with the media, and now we’re seeing them try to fix what they couldn’t fix during the election. They are doing everything they can, night after night, to create narratives and sway people’s direction to impeach Donald Trump.”

The billboard will be up for the next two months.

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Now, sue for inciting to riot and get it back…

Via Biz Pac Review:

Even though former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of Michael Brown, on Tuesday a federal judge approved a settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Brown’s parents, Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley McSpadden.

On Friday, the City of Ferguson confirmed the amount with News 4 – $1.5 million to be paid “by its insurance carrier on behalf of multiple defendants” which included Darren Wilson, former Police Chief Tom Jackson, and the City of Ferguson.

Lezley McSpadden, if you’ll recall, is the wife of Brown’s stepfather, Louis Head, who “consoled” McSpadden and a crowd of protesters after the shooting by shouting “Burn this motherf—er down” and “Burn this bitch down.”

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Circular firing squad.

Via Washington Examiner:

It wasn’t a good week for the Democrats. After losing the most promising of several competitive special congressional elections this year in Georgia’s 6th District, party activists formed a circular firing squad and began taking pot shots at one another.

There was infighting between centrist and liberal Democrats, with the latter quoting Bernie Sanders in saying of defeated Georgia 6th nominee Jon Ossoff that not all Democrats are equally progressive. There were debates between whether it made more sense to turn out minorities or win back working-class white voters.

Most surprising, perhaps, was the criticism of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after she was the political figure Republicans had the most success turning into a bogeyman in the Georgia race.

“The brand is just bad,” Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, complained to CNN. “I don’t think people in the beltway are realizing just how toxic the Democratic Party brand is in so many parts of the country.”

Asked if Pelosi was really more toxic than President Trump, Ryan replied, “The honest answer is in some areas of the country — yes, she is. I think that in certain areas, like in some of these special election districts, it doesn’t benefit our candidates to be tied to her.”

Ryan mounted a doomed challenge to Pelosi’s leadership after the 2016 elections and got crushed. But not everyone who sounded this theme was a longtime Pelosi detractor.

“I think you’d have to be an idiot to think we could win the House with Pelosi at the top,” said Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, told Politico. “Nancy Pelosi is not the only reason that Ossoff lost. But she certainly is one of the reasons.”

“Nancy Pelosi was a great speaker,” Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., said on MSNBC. “She is a great leader. But her time has come and gone.”

“It’s time for a new generation of leadership in the party,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., remarked to CNN’s Jake Tapper.

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A Conservative who is actually a conservative and doesn’t believe the court makes laws, what a concept!

Via Biz Pac Review:

When newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch joined originalist stalwart Clarence Thomas in a 7-2 dissent that reads like something the founders would have written, any conservatives who might have been concerned about Gorsuch somehow being another David Souter probably stopped worrying.

Indeed, Gorsuch’s first dissent, penned almost two weeks after drafting his first majority opinion, offers fascinating insight into the new justice’s thought processes (hint: It’s a lot more Scalia than Souter).

The case, Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, dealt with the process behind the appeal of a federal census worker’s employment dispute.

The majority opinion overturned the D.C. Circuit Court’s ruling, which was against the petitioner.

But Gorsuch and Thomas actually believe it’s not the court’s job to make laws. What a concept!

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Headed for vacation to the country he fled from when he was arrested.

Via Fox News:

A federal judge in Denver on Friday ordered the release of a man who has been detained for 5½ years after being accused of providing material support to an Uzbek terror organization active in Afghanistan.

Under Judge John Kane’s order, Jamshid Muhtorov will remain detained in suburban Denver until a hearing to determine the conditions of his release. His trial is expected to begin early next year.

The order came a day after Muhtorov filed court documents accusing the detention center’s warden of violating his right to a speedy trial, The Denver Post reported.

Muhtorov is accused of supporting the Islamic Jihad Union and communicating with the group’s website administrator.

“His professed desire to join a movement that justifies the murder and maiming of all who dare to think differently than he does on matters of faith and religion deeply offend our values of religious liberty, the sanctity of life, tolerance, justice, and the rule of law,” Kane wrote in his order. “Mr. Muhtorov, however, has already spent more than five years in detention before even being found guilty of acting, in any way, on his alleged terrorist beliefs.”

Kane also argued that Muhtorov is not a flight risk, citing the suspect’s family and community ties.

The judge noted that Muhtorov’s wife has lived and worked in the community for a decade, and Muhtorov himself lived in suburban Denver for five years without incident before his arrest.

The couple also have three children together.[…]

Muhtorov fled Uzbekistan in 2007 and settled in the Denver suburb of Aurora as a political refugee. He became a legal permanent U.S. resident.

Muhtorov argued he was targeted by the Uzbek government because of his work with human rights groups in his homeland.

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— Pamela Moore (@Pamela_Moore13) June 23, 2017

Lunatics get a wake-up call…

CNN viewers need pictures.

Via The Daily Caller:

CNN sent a courtroom sketch artist to Sean Spicer’s White House press briefing Friday to express frustration with the White House banning video or live audio recordings at some recent briefings.

Supreme Court sketch artist Bill Hennessy was the artist present, according to CNN’s Brain Stelter. The news organization wanted to send an artist to sketch the scene so that the public could get a sense of what the room looked like during the briefing, due to the fact that there has been no live audio or video allowed at many recent briefings.

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Despite constant obstruction by leftist judges and Congress, President Trump is doing his best to fulfill his campaign promise of curtailing refugees entering the U.S.

Via Los Angeles Times:

The number of refugees admitted to the United States was cut by nearly half in the first three months of the Trump administration compared with the final three months of the Obama presidency, reflecting the new president’s skepticism toward immigration.

Government statistics released Friday showed that more than 25,000 refugees were permitted to enter and reside in the United States at the end of the Obama administration. In the initial months under President Trump, the number fell to 13,000.

The statistics were released by the Department of Homeland Security, based on information supplied by the State Department.

Countries of origin were largely unchanged. In both periods, two-thirds of the arrivals came from five countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Myanmar.

Refugees from two of those countries — Syria and Somalia — would have been banned under Trump’s executive order against entries from certain Muslim-majority nations, but federal courts have blocked the order. Trump’s original order covered Iraqis as well, but he omitted Iraq from his revised order.

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In search of another promised land.

Via Chicago Tribune:

Cook County in 2016 again recorded the largest black population of any county in the U.S., but it carries that title with less conviction than previous years as more African-Americans move to outlying suburbs or warmer states in the South and West, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Between 2015 and 2016, more than 12,000 black residents left Cook County, an increase from the previous year when about 9,000 residents left. The greater Chicago area, which for the census includes parts of Indiana and Wisconsin, has lost nearly 46,000 black residents since 2010. That exodus is larger than in any other metropolitan area in the country.

“I’ve noticed people have been leaving the city of Chicago, absolutely,” said Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church in Chicago’s predominantly black Woodlawn neighborhood. “Families, especially, and some single-parent households with young males. I think those two factors are contributing to the numbers you’re seeing.”[…]

Dozens of former residents surveyed by the Tribune over the past year who’ve packed up cite a variety of reasons for leaving: high taxes, the state budget stalemate and the weather. But what’s propelling black flight isn’t quite the same as what’s driving out the city’s white population.

Africans-Americans are leaving in search of stability, experts say, hoping to find stable incomes and safe neighborhoods, something they feel Chicago isn’t offering them. The city of Chicago lost 181,000 black residents between 2000 and 2010, according to census data.

Brooks said one of the factors contributing to Chicago violence is a shortage of jobs.

“It’s not just gang violence retaliation,” he said. “(Violence) is about economics. People can’t eat. People can’t sustain their families.”

William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, said he thinks the trend points to conditions beyond just crime.

“People move from the city to the suburbs for a host of things, crime being one of them. But I wouldn’t expect those people to move from a whole metropolitan area. Something bigger’s going on,” he said, referencing the region and state’s general population loss.

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HT: Marathon Pundit

So hold them in contempt if they don’t comply.

Via Washington Times:

House intelligence committee sources say career officials at the National Security Council are slow-walking the delivery of subpoenaed records on former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice’s handling of classified information and the “unmasking” of Trump campaign workers — material from the Russian hacking probe that middle-level NSC managers claim was transferred to President Obama’s library and could “remain closed to the public for five years.”

One source, speaking only on the condition of anonymity, called the transfer curious and appeared to reflect an effort by former administration officials to obscure evidence on whether Ms. Rice and other top officials in the Obama White House illegally tried to identify which Trump campaign and transition aides had been caught up in the U.S. intelligence intercepts of Russian interference in the presidential race.

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Military needs a morale booster. You don’t win wars with social justice.

Via IJR:

Officials said on Friday that the military sought to delay new enlistment for transgender recruits in order to further assess how they and other service members could handle integration.

While former Defense Secretary Ash Carter permitted already-serving transgender troops to stay in the military, he punted the decision to allow new transgender recruits to enlist to the future administration. Officials told, on the condition of anonymity, the Associated Press that military chiefs discarded a two-year delay to avoid political backlash and agreed on a six-month time period that will face final approval from Defense Secretary James Mattis.

The new policy would push back a July 1 deadline that Carter set for the military. “It’s been a very deliberative process,” the Pentagon’s chief spokeswoman, Dana White, said. White indicated that Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work delayed the transition because he hadn’t made a formal recommendation to Mattis.

Work met with the heads of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force on Thursday to discuss the issue. Both the Army and the Air Force proposed a two-year delay.

The AP reported that military officials had concerns about the following:

Key concerns are whether currently enlisted troops have had medical or other issues that cause delays or problems with their ability to deploy or meet physical or other standards for their jobs. Military leaders also want to review how transgender troops are treated, if they’re discriminated against or have had disciplinary problems, the officials said.