Choose Your Votes Carefully

There are local politics and there are national politics.  The local arena is close to home and is somewhat easier to evaluate.  Even though the media on both sides of the political spectrum fills the world with bias, our local U.S. Senators/Representatives and our State/County officials are featured in our local media and have satellite offices nearby.  We can track their performance pretty well.  On the other hand, the national presidential and non-local Congressional offices are more difficult to assess.  We pretty much have to rely on non-personal experience and national information sources to get an idea of how they might be performing.  And, as we all know these days, those “other” sources are highly disreputable.  Other than the presidential, we as individuals have little to say about how these non-local political races are decided.

 

There is no excuse NOT to be informed about local political races; they are in our yard.  When it comes to those other contests that are either national or non-local, it is important for each of us to track the trends of the national parties.  We need to decide which party’s policies we agree with and factor that into the impact of our local political contests.  With an historically-small Democrat majority in the House and a dead-even Senate, anyone should be readily aware of how important a single U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative can be in the big picture.  If you need further convincing, just imagine what the last two years might have looked like if those two special Senate races in Georgia had split between the parties or both had gone Republican.  Every vote counts and every race is important.  You can never know for certain which vote or which race might make a critical difference in the overall scenario and the balance of power.

 

Now some races might be publicized as being more critical than others; but the fact remains that a Senate seat is a Senate seat…regardless of the state it represents.  What draws the attention is the competitiveness of the contests and the logistics/demographics of the contests.  If a race is not close at all, it is understandable why it will receive a small amount of media coverage.  If a race is super close or appears likely to flip from one party to the other, it is obvious why that particular race will draw extraordinary attention.  Many times, these types of contests have been portrayed as the determining factor in which party controls our government. 

 

Elections are very difficult to predict, but it appears to be a consensus that the Republicans will likely gain majority status in the House next month.  However, three races that are occurring in the Senate bear extra scrutiny.  Because they are so competitive and potentially consequential, they are drawing a huge amount of media coverage and the stakes could not be higher for either party.  Those races are Fetterman(D) v. Oz(R) in Pennsylvania; Kelly(D) v. Masters(R) in Arizona; and Warnock(D) v. Walker(R)) in Georgia.  The winners in these three races will only have one vote in the Senate; no more than a Senator from any other state.  But the results of these three races might very well determine whether Joe Biden completes his first term with a divided Congress or deals with a Congress that is united against him.  It could be the difference between gridlock and veto-wielding.  It could dramatically affect the status of presidential nominations that require Senate confirmation.  These three Senate races could very likely determine the way our government functions in terms of policy and performance over the next two years.  So, learn all you can about your local representatives; YOUR vote will decide those matters.  But also pay attention to what is happening on the national level, because that might possibly have some influence on how you want to vote locally.  We all like to think that we always vote for the best qualified candidate; but the truth is that each candidate is a loyal party member and will be obligated to their party.  There are times when a lesser candidate of one party is preferrable to a better candidate of the other party.  It is a complex decision.  Bottom line: Stay informed…Think for yourself…Apply common sense to your choices…AND VOTE.  Let us get down to it.

 

The World is Turning, Churning, and Burning.  Iran sending drones and troops to Russia.  British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after just six weeks in office.  Ukraine continues the battle to rid its country of the Russian invader.  North Korea is lobbing rockets over Japan.  China thumps its chest and mocks the United States.  This and much more…and by the way…no one seems to care what America thinks.  It is bad enough that our President has become an accepted joke in America; it is beyond dangerous that his irresponsible and disjointed rhetoric puts the security of our country at risk.  Ron Klain needs to put a sock in that man’s mouth.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/whatever-happened-to-armageddon/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.newsy.com/stories/biden-faces-backlash-over-nuclear-armageddon-comment/

 

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/10/18/state-department-cleans-up-diplomatic-mess-biden-questions-pakistan-nuclear-weapons/

 

https://cnsnews.com/article/international/peyton-holliday/saudi-prince-challenge-kingdom-then-know-we-are-products

 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3697701-ukraine-poised-for-crucial-blow-to-putin-in-battle-for-kherson/

 

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-21

 

Closing the Barn Doors After all of the Horses Have Escaped.  Having been presented with a secure southern border by President Trump and a sensible border wall well under construction, our idiot President dismantled every…single…practical…and functioning…element of immigration processing with no plan in mind to replace it with.  And to make matters even more ridiculous, he did this out of pure spite and partisan consideration.  Now the chickens are coming home to roost.  Having allowed and encouraged an illegal immigrant invasion across our southern border, the adverse consequences of millions of illegal immigrants scattered throughout the communities, towns, and cities of America with no provisions in place to accommodate them are blowing up in the face of the Biden Administration and its naïve and foolish liberal puppet masters.  All of this…ALL OF THIS…was entirely predictable.  That is precisely what makes it so inexcusable and tragic.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/18/heres-the-truth-about-criminals-pouring-over-the-southern-border-cnn-is-trying-to-hide/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/what-the-media-tell-you-about-illegal-immigrant-crime-is-plain-wrong/

 

From Energy Self-Sufficiency to Energy-Dependency; the Green New Deal “Magical Mystery Tour” of the Liberal Democrats.   This, too, was entirely predictable.  Once again, ignorant and irresponsible actions taken out of sophomoric spite and shallow “feel good” motivations are crashing into the harsh and cold realities of hardship, terrible costs, and human suffering.  All because we have idiots running our governments.  Fossil fuels and alternative energy sources ARE NOT EXCLUSIVELY BINARY CHOICES.  The rational approach is to apply the most suitable energy source in a practical way to the proper circumstances.  Let the free market determine where and when and how those opportunities exist.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/a-cold-dark-winter-in-new-england.php

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-democrats-oil-folly

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/19/morning-greatness-biden-to-release-15-million-barrels-of-oil-to-ease-gas-prices/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/us/joe-biden-oil-strategic/2022/10/19/id/1092568/

 

https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/biden-my-administration-has-not-stopped-or-slowed-oil-production

 

Some of the things that the Biden Administration does are so stupid that you literally cannot…make…them…up.  Here is one of them: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/oil-2020-a-different-time

 

https://cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/pence-biden-depleting-spr-compensate-his-failed-energy-policies

 

https://cnsnews.com/article/national/patrick-goodenough/rubio-oil-reserves-do-not-exist-win-midterms-they-exist-help

 

https://cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/granholm-defends-spr-release-wartime-footing

 

How bad is it when the Democrats have lost MSNBC? ….   https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/msnbc-host-admits-biden-is-draining-oil-reserve-to-help-democrats-win/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/europes-energy-crisis-the-wood-squeeze-and-other-stories/

 

Drag Queens in the Classroom…Have These People No Shame?  School board “overlords” and the woken corps of academia are indoctrinating our children in ways that not long ago would have been considered unimaginable.    Transgender nonsense, critical race theory, rewritten history…the list goes on and on.  Admissions and grading standards have become the equivalent of “participation trophies” and convenient means to “equity and diversity”.   The corrupt and vicious money flow cycle of “liberal spending to academia to liberal politicians to liberal spending” has become an accepted practice in American education.  The ones that are benefitting ARE NOT the kids.  And of course, the coup de gras is…. student loan forgiveness; a gift from liberal government to academia that will continue and escalate the disproportionate spending on education administration as opposed to education effectiveness; pushing the costs of education even higher.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/colleges-are-now-breeding-ground-mediocrity-not-meritocracy-opinion-1751997

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/10/22/breaking-news-students-prefer-courses-without-exams-papers-or-assignments/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-do-we-do-about-colleges-that-embrace-diversity-rather-than-truth/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/majorities-of-blacks-and-hispanics-oppose-racial-preferences-in-college-admissions/

 

Really?  It’s OK to have this: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/when-exactly-did-drag-queens-in-schools-become-a-thing/

 

… But not this: https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/can-christian-groups-at-public-schools-have-christian-leaders/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/17/how-much-porn-do-libraries-and-schools-have-to-sponsor-to-get-defunded/

 

This hypocrisy is sickening.  Gag me with a ghost pepper hot wing: https://cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/pelosi-we-have-give-children-values-are-respected-and-agreed-upon

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-8-million-people-apply-for-student-debt-cancellation-as-biden-drops-application-link

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/court-temporarily-halts-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan

 

https://apnews.com/article/online-school-covid-learning-loss-7c162ec1b4ce4d5219d5210aaac8f1ae

 

The Department of Justice is a Farce; We Have Forsaken Our Police; There is No Accountability for Crimes; and in the Liberal World…Anything Goes.  Selective and Unequal Law Enforcement Has Become a Useful Tool of the Liberal Lunacy.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/17/did-danchenko-lie-to-the-fbi-as-jury-decides-his-fate-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/17/the-fbis-million-dollar-men/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/18/danchenko-case-exposes-another-fbi-dirty-secret-politics-prompted-crossfire-hurricane/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/whats-next-fbi-after-durham-trials-final-report-and-maybe-church

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-loses-but-lays-bare-fbi-corruption-in-russia-collusion-trials

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/19/media-shame-durham-after-danchenko-verdict-but-its-russia-hoaxers-who-should-be-embarrassed/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/john-durham-exposed-the-fbis-misconduct/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/fbi-agents-association-rewarded-agents-who-took-a-knee-in-front-of-blm/

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/boomerang-public-turned-biden-admin-targeting-political-opponents-polling

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-complete-total-failure-jan-6-committee

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/18/marijuana-legalization-in-california-has-gone-miserably-so-officials-are-expanding-drug-enforcement/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/21/the-doj-is-hiding-information-about-bidens-attempts-to-interfere-in-u-s-elections/

 

Journalism Has Become a Partisan Appendage and Has Little, If Any, Credibility Remaining.  It is Not Difficult to Understand Why It Has Become a (Bad) Joke.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/in-search-of-umbrella-man.php

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/10/18/report-hunter-biden-secured-40-million-in-deal-with-russians/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/wheres-the-outrage-over-bidens-quid-pro-quo

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/10/16/he-was-not-arrested-former-cnn-and-msnbc-bosses-struggle-to-justify-burying-hunter-biden-story/#more-195301

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/media-malpractice-on-fettermans-health/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/18/press-physician-heal-thyself-apologists-for-fetterman-and-other-commentary/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-left-should-not-treat-mike-pence-as-beyond-the-pale/

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/18/pro-democracy-journalisms-problem-with-the-facts/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/democrats-voter-suppression-myth-exposed-georgia-turnout

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/19/georgia-sets-early-voting-record-debunking-criticisms-of-new-voting-law/

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/hanson102022.php3

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/a-star-is-born.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/wapo-kbj-is-most-loquacious-justice/

 

And of course, the nexus between the liberal community, the Democrats, and the entertainment industry continues unbroken: https://reason.com/2022/10/19/netflix-teams-up-with-the-obamas-to-produce-big-government-propaganda/

 

Government Continues to Grow and Becomes More Autocratic; Becomes More Wasteful; Becomes More Intrusive; and Continues to be Obsessed with Race and Division.  Discrimination in Any Form is Not a Prescription for Equality. 

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/18/government-and-corporations-are-colluding-to-kill-our-nations-health-care/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-chief-justice-on-supposedly-benign-racial-discrimination/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/20/markets-arent-perfect-but-government-is-worse/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/appeals-court-rules-structure-obama-era-consumer-financial-protection-bureau

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/18/the-central-importance-of-infrastructure/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-governors-rush-to-assure-parents-cdc-ruling-on-covid-jabs-wont-affect-schoolchildren

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/21/colorado-town-seizing-ski-resorts-land-to-stop-it-building-employee-housing/

 

Fact: More Federal Dollars Chasing a Non-Expanding Pool of Goods Results in Inflation.  Federal Spending Must Be Restrained. 

 

https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/4896119000000-federal-tax-collections-set-record-fiscal-2022

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-daily-chart-bidenflation.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/well-all-be-deficit-hawks-soon/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-not-just-yours-study-shows-how-much-average-401k-is-down-under-biden

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/bidens-economic-fairy-tale

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/21/unmitigated-gall-of-joe-biden-claiming-that-he-lowered-debt/

 

Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends.

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone102122.php3

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/bidens-closing-moves.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/white-house-in-panic-mode-over-midterms/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/20/ranking-the-11-competitive-senate-races/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/midterm-exam-top-governors-races-that-could-flip-red-part-one

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mainstream-poll-ron-desantis-ranks-1-for-major-american-politicians-in-net-favorability

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/18/why-desantis-should-not-run-in-2024/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/can-desantis-beat-trump-among-non-college-and-rural-voters/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/re-can-desantis-beat-trump-among-non-college-and-rural-voters/

 

And why not…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOhAFyZ5wZU

 

And “Down the Stretch” They Come

I approach this year’s mid-term elections with a great deal of trepidation.  The liberal Democrats who now control our government are dangerously out of control.  They have corrupted the departments and agencies of government by appointing incompetent ideologues to run them and then turning them into political extensions of their party in order to advance a radical agenda.  They have repeatedly demonstrated that they have little or no regard for the Constitution and the principles it sets forth.  They have formed unholy alliances with the mainstream media and big tech to such an extent that the public trust credibility of all three is essentially destroyed for some time to come; the majority of our population is either misinformed or uninformed.  Their quest for an authoritarian government that seeks only its own ideals and actively schemes to destroy any opposing thoughts is an extremely disturbing and dangerous development in the evolution of our country.  The lack of shame, civility, transparency, morality, ethics, and simple respect demonstrated by the liberal Democrat Party we see today is a tragic embarrassment to our nation on a global scale, to our citizenry on an accountability scale, and to the (I hope and believe) majority of its own members. 

 

On the other hand, it is deeply disappointing that the best thing that can be said about the Republican Party is that it is not the Democrat Party.  It has always been much simpler for the minority Party to criticize the majority Party; the weight of governing is massive indeed.  But my goodness, it is hard to be critical of the Republican Party throwing up their hands in frustration considering the one-party rule of the Democrats.  The Democrats have provided such a large target that it is difficult to blame the Republicans for their lack of substance and easy to understand why they stand to the side and simply fire away with the complaints.  My point is that while I have no doubt that an increased Republican Party presence in our government would be a positive development, I have serious reservations about their ability and motivation to go beyond the simple act of political victory and delve meaningfully into solving the fundamental problems facing our society, culture, and government.  Is there any reason whatsoever to think that a Republican-led government will either introduce a new fiscal sanity to federal spending and/or shrink the size of the bloated and wasteful behemoth that our government has become?  History certainly lends no credence to that hope.

 

Separate Trump from his policies and I am enthusiastically on board with those policies; but that separation is impossible.  Trump himself makes it impossible.  The Republicans have to somehow solve their Trump problem.  Biden is not currently competent to serve as president and it goes without saying that in any universe where water is wet, he is not fit to run for a second term.  Kamala Harris has proven to be a master of holding a powerhouse hand and somehow losing the biggest pot of the night.  To put it mildly, the Democrats have a Biden/Harris problem.  To exacerbate that problem, they also have a bench of potential successors that is long on tooth and short on viability.  The Republicans seem to have a relatively deep bench of reasonable substitutes ready to enter the game in place of Trump…if they can get him off the court.  Once the mid-terms are past us, it is going to be absolutely intriguing to see how the candidate selection process of the two parties plays out.

 

Hopefully, Trump and Biden will both be removed from the game and the remaining candidates, having their obvious political targets removed from action, will be forced to actually put forth ideas and policies relating to moving our country back towards a steady, responsible, and productive path.  But while that situation develops over the next couple of years, it will remain a dangerous and ominous time as the liberal elements of the Democrat Party see their opportunity to foist their radical agenda on our nation and beyond continue to wane.  The transition from having a Democrat Congress to one that is either divided or hostile will greatly diminish their ability to strongarm policy.  The continued deterioration of their useful idiot in the White House will also lessen their ability to force change through executive action.  These developments will no doubt raise the desperate anxiousness of these liberal zealots in their quest to shape our nation into their preferred vision.  Add this explosive ingredient to the unstable brew of a national election cycle and there can be little doubt that regardless of the coming mid-term election results, the next two years will be full of uncertainty and high drama.  The very fiber of our nation will be severely tested.  May God be with us as we navigate that space in time.  Meanwhile…back at the ranch.

 

The Continuing Degradation of Education.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-enormous-problem-of-university-leadership/

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/12/education-freedom-wins-big-in-arizona/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/high-school-graduate-act-scores-drop-to-30-year-low/

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/12/a-top-ranked-high-school-got-rid-of-merit-based-admissions-then-students-grades-tanked/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-daily-chart-harvard-home-of-inflation.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/the-education-exodus-advances/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/15/prodigies-of-credulousness-in-the-ivory-tower-of-utopia/

 

The Many Facets of the U.S. Economy…Tax and Spend…Spend and Tax.

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/11/writing-student-loans-in-red-ink/

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/14/maintaining-the-student-loan-forgiveness-application-will-cost-an-estimated-100-million/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/15/lawsuit-to-block-student-loan-bailout-can-set-stage-for-solving-debt-crisis/

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/inflation-report-dashes-democrats-last-hope-of-changing-economic-narrative/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-latest-inflation-report-is-even-worse-than-it-looks/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-know-whos-to-blame-for-soaring-inflation-joe-biden

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/terence-p-jeffrey/food-prices-156-under-biden

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-stagflation-president/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/how-to-blow-a-trillion-dollars/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/investing/premarket-trading-stocks/index.html

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-are-rightly-embarrassed-at-their-inflationary-spending

 

The Complete Idiocy of the Woke Movement.

 

https://reason.com/2022/10/15/the-rise-of-the-stake-holders/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/to-understand-the-woke-you-have-to-understand-the-culture-of-narcissism

 

Crime and Justice.  The Corruptive Politization of Our Department of Justice is Complete.  It Has Become a Partisan Tool.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/12/the-lefts-funny-new-lie-its-the-red-states-with-more-crime/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/10/12/utter-proof-the-fbi-framed-trump-and-shielded-hunter/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/fbi-offered-bribe-to-bring-down-trump.php

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/14/why-the-fbis-last-minute-change-to-a-fisa-application-is-worse-than-using-unverified-steele-dossier/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/archives-politicization-portends-another-russiagate/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/10/10/the-golden-rule-and-the-hunter-biden-scandal-three-questions-raised-by-the-fbi-leak/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/hiding-hunters-laptop/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/11/is-a-joe-biden-appointed-prosecutor-letting-james-biden-skate-in-federal-criminal-probe/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-marijuana-myth/

 

Lying, Spying, Bending, Breaking, Shading, and Trading On…the Truth.  Censorship by Any Other Name is Still Censorship.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-new-york-times-bidens-a-serial-liar-but-trump/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/scandalous-pfizer-exec-tells-eu-lawmaker-covid-jab-was-never-tested-to-show-it-blocked-transmission

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/report-pfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb-played-major-role-in-convincing-twitter-to-ban-vaccine-critic-alex-berenson/

 

The Greening of the Planet Leading to Unintended Consequences.  Wishes and Dreams Will Not Keep Us Warm at Night.

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/shapiro101222.php3

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/biden-should-ask-a-mirror-whom-to-blame-for-his-energy-policy-failure

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/the-supreme-court-will-drain-the-epa-of-its-navigable-waters-delusion

 

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/germany-apokalypse-now

 

Feckless Foreign Policy Contributing to Global Chaos.  Naïve Fools Running the Ship of State is a Dangerous Prescription.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/09/ukraine-and-the-malevolent-legacy-of-the-obama-biden-administration/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/were-in-the-climate-army-now/

 

Border…. What Border???

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/13/morning-greatness-dhs-sec-was-told-that-border-patrol-whipping-story-didnt-add-up/

 

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas-shame-biden-whips-border/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-immigration/2022/10/16/id/1092078/

 

Election Day Approaches.  The Wolves are Herding the Sheep…But Will the Sheep Stop and Stare Down the Wolves?

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/10/has-a-quisling-gop-enabled-a-desperate-october-surprise/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/12/things-are-much-worse-than-they-seem-for-democrats/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/no-the-main-character-of-2022-is-not-donald-trump/

 

As a registered Independent, I find a lot about the Libertarian Party to agree with.  But you have to look at their entire platform before embracing their Party.  Beware of cherry-picking a policy or two when considering who to cast your vote for.  Here is the story of one Libertarian candidate (first link) followed by the Libertarian Party national platform (second link):

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/3rd-party-candidate-seeks-to-shake-up-arizona-senate-race/ar-AA12YJDV?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=0b341d37e5ce4a66a01ac938d5d55211

 

https://www.lp.org/platform/

 

Politics In General.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/11/how-republicans-can-earn-national-supermajority-status/

 

Like her or not…this lady speaks truth to power: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/the-compleat-tulsi.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/13/why-ron-desantis-should-run-in-2024/

 

Democrat Rule: Government Grows, The Morass Expands, and Big Brother is Gathering.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/this-election-is-your-best-last-hope-to-curb-power-hungry-democrats-extremism

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/ponnuru101022.php

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-states-have-worse-inequality-than-red-ones-new-census-data-shows

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/on-obamacare-biden-goes-where-even-obama-wouldnt/

 

https://www.americanexperiment.org/biden-sidesteps-congress-illegally-expands-health-insurance-subsidies/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/10/15/north-carolina-judge-jails-prospective-juror-for-not-wearing-mask-in-a-mask-optional-courthouse/

 

https://www.city-journal.org/rand-pauls-lonely-battle

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressional-republicans-outraged-by-biden-admin-using-fbi-to-wage-open-war-on-pro-life-activists

 

Extensive coverage has revealed the Trump/RussiaGate farce to be the worst political scandal in my lifetime (70 years); it was conducted with either a wink or a nod under President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ).  As Durham continues to pull back the sheets on this filthy corruption that occurred under the Obama Administration and continued with the “DOJ Deep State” under the Trump Administration (the subversion of a sitting President), the limits of disgust for corruption in government must be continually raised.  This level of malfeasance is so elevated that it literally boggles the mind.  How can this happen in America?   And make no mistake about: It DID happen and it is STILL happening.  When we excessively empower our elected officials, it is inevitable that they will become poisoned by the power granted them.  We as human creatures are organically fallible and given sufficient opportunity, that fallibility will rise to the top. 

 

I am an advocate for term limits.  I wrote about it here: http://centerlineright.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-place-to-begin.html .  I believe our nation’s founders included term limits in the Constitution…they called them “elections”.    They could not possibly have been expected to foresee or imagine the awesome influence and all-encompassing power to shape opinion that is today held by the mainstream media and incumbent politicians.  If they could see the death grip doggedness exhibited today by incumbent Presidents, Senators, and Representatives to hold on to the levers of power, I have little doubt that they would quickly jump on board the term limits train.  They would also be bitterly disappointed in how casually Americans have taken for granted their right to vote and have failed to inform themselves.

 

One of the more recent chapters in a long litany of Democrat “dirty pool politics” is the so-called “House Select Committee” on the January 6, 2020 WDC activities.  Putting aside a judgement on the substance of any wrongdoing that occurred on that day, this circus masquerading as a Congressional hearing is likely the biggest Capitol Hill joke since the Mueller investigation.  In fact, the utter ridiculousness of this Committee makes it a most worthy successor to the Mueller farce.  While wasting the opportunity to conduct an honest and transparent investigation into an event that needs investigation, this Committee has shamed itself and the body it represents by its bald-faced partisan efforts to nail Donald Trump at any cost. 

 

By including only two Republican members (out of nine total committee members…and who just happen to be rabidly anti-Trump) from a House where the Democrats enjoy an historically-thin majority, the Democrats made a mockery of bipartisanship and the composition of the Committee is a joke.  There is nothing even remotely bipartisan about this Committee.  The fact that the accused subject (or his representatives) of the investigation, Donald Trump, was never given the reasonable opportunity to cross-examine witnesses or offer up alternative versions of events shades the Committee findings even further.  The damning effects of treating the hearings as a propaganda effort, hiring a professional liberal television producer to orchestrate the hearings, and then coordinating with the mainstream media to stage it in prime-time pushes the credibility of the effort near the limit.  Pushing it over that limit is the fact that throughout its process, the Committee has selectively leaked information to the mainstream media that was partisan, one-sided, and always damaging to the image of Donald Trump.  The whole episode was a disgusting display of partisan politics run amuck in the U.S. House of Representatives and will ultimately go down in history as the clown show that it was.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/13/the-broken-promises-of-the-january-6-committee/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/five-loose-ends-jan-6-committee-left-tie-up

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/politics/6-takeaways-last-jan6-hearing-before-midterms

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-response-jan-6/2022/10/14/id/1091848/

 

In Closing…. Music is a subjective thing.  Everyone has their own individual tastes when it comes to music.  There are also many different…and valid…methods for measuring success in the music industry.  Whatever your tastes might be and whatever method you wish to use, it is beyond debate that the Beatles were certainly one of, if not “the”, greatest bands in music history.  The diversity of their music catalogue reflects the vast talents of the individual members.  It would be rare indeed for someone to be unable to find a song or two somewhere in their history that they could really enjoy.  McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, and Starr were certainly prolific during their careers and created music that will live on for time immemorable.  All of the members were great artists, but here is a very interesting story about Sir Paul, followed by a link to one of their greatest hits.

 

https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/paul-mccartneys-freakish-memory

 

How about the song that ties back to the article link and to the groundbreaking movie Yellow Submarine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y