As you will note I posted this on January 18, 2016, and did an update today and these Google crack heads erased all of my January 18, 2016, part of the article.
Google put back my information. You have committed a crime by interfering with this blog.
What is the first question asked of a student on one day? How many of you are liberals with a show of hands? A cautious person would hold back to find out how many would respond with their actual answer. The next statement in class would be the professor telling the students that he grades on the curve and the bulk of you will not make the grade.
Now, is all of that encouraging to the new students?
Has it been proven that the liberal professors are involved in the recruiting of professors and have input which keeps the conservatives from been hired?
That is no different than cheating in the elections by the Democrats for many years.
It is time for the universities to be investigated. Most colleges have advanced their systems to be more like resorts than places of serious learning.
California is billions of dollars in debt to the federal government to pay for its unemployment insurance trust at a time when the state’s expenses far exceed its income.
The state’s government owes almost $21 billion to the federal government at an interest rate of around 2.6%, according to the Treasury Department. California borrowed the funds after a surge in unemployment which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the state’s employment trust into insolvency, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The state’s debts are adding more pressure to the California budget, which is already in disarray, paying more than $650 million in interest on the loan already, with another $50 million due in September, according to the state’s Employment Development Department.
Governor Newsom in hot water?
To keep the safety-net program operating at a time when the taxes paid by employers and earmarked for jobless benefits are insufficient, Sacramento has been borrowing billions of dollars from the federal government. The debt now stands at about $21 billion and growing, an increasing burden for state deficit fighters and for the businesses that pay into the jobless insurance program.
Biden has repeatedly made the claim that the US has the lowest inflation than most advanced industrialized nations, but does not rank No. 1 internationally. Seven countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: Canada, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and South Korea, had inflation rates lower than that of the U.S.
For the longest while, Biden and those Democrats who push to raise taxes have always maintained that the rich don’t pay their “fair share.” This is another fictional Democrat talking point in an attempt to gaslight the voters who truly have no idea who really pays how much in taxes. “To the best of your knowledge,” asked a new poll, “how much do you think the top 1% of taxpayers by income account for in terms of share of total federal income taxes paid: 1%, 12%, 42%, or 64%?” According to the IRS, the correct answer, as of 2020, is 42%. But less than a quarter of those surveyed guessed right. Twenty-two percent, including more than a third of Democrats thought the top 1% of taxpayers paid only 1% of income taxes, which just misses the mark. Twenty-five percent suggested it was 12% of revenue. Nineteen percent said they weren’t sure. To counteract the Democrats’ campaign rhetoric, Republican candidates simply need to state the IRS statistics.
Since SlowJoe was unfortunately sworn as POTUS, the United States, and the world, have seen a marked upswing in chaos, with conflicts on two fronts(which includes sending an $8 billion ransom to Iran and having removed the Trump oil sanctions); supply chain shortages; ongoing attempts to shove the green energy agenda down our throats and the push for expensive electric vehicles; the shutdown of the domestic energy sector and restricted energy production as Biden tapped the Strategic Oil Reserves, but never replenished what was used. Why?…too expensive! The SOR is supposed to be used in times of extreme emergency, not to lower gas prices as he did during the 2022 midterm elections.
Strategic Oil Reserves
And let’s not forget the indoctrinated, corrupt radical socialist progressive Democrats pushing for higher taxes. Then there’s the rise in crime and the anti-law enforcement stance taken by the radical, progressive Democrats. Lastly, there’s the attack on American Sovereignty with the open borders, especially with illegal aliens from over 160 countries sneaking into the US, and taking up residence in Democratic run sanctuary cities. Then there’s the possibility of terrorism…just ask FBI Director Christopher Wray!
Two of the biggest concerns for the middle class American citizen are illegal immigration and the economy. The Democrats are trying to create “controversial” items for their weak, socialist, progressive agenda. They got nothing!! And they distract, distort, deny and deflect the invasion at the southern border, which has destroyed the economies of the sanctuary cities and states. Who is paying for the unlimited entitlements that the illegal aliens receive? The American taxpayer.
During Inauguration Day in January, 2021, the inflation rate was 1.4%. Within two years, the Consumer Price Index spiked to 9.3%, with the wholesale rate at 10.6%. The domestic energy sector was pumping out gasoline at a cost of $1.95 per gallon. Within two years gasoline ranged in price from $5.00 per gallon to over $7.00 per gallon in California. Home heating oil cost me $2.80 per gallon. Within one year I was paying $4.99 per gallon. My oil tank holds 200 gallons…so do the math. And while the current inflation rate is approximately 3.5%, the price of food continues to rise. So, what does a family of four do? Food, clothes or car? Joe Biden? Aloof and out of touch as he claims the inflation rate is historically low. Bidenomics or Bidenflation? Take your pick!
Realistically, “volatile items,” including gas prices, jumped 3.8% just from February 2024 to March 2024, but are still below their level of a year ago. Air fares surged 3.6% after two months of much smaller increases. Clothing prices rose 0.6% after three months of declines but are slightly higher compared to a year earlier. Housing and rental costs experience changes more gradually, having slowed in March, after they rose 0.4% from February, yet slower than the 0.6% increase the previous month. New apartment leases, which have also slowed, are expected to included into the government’s inflation data in the coming months. Then there’s the prices of living in major cities! Ouch!
Consumer prices in the United States continue to rise, a sign that inflation remains a nonstop issue for the Federal Reserve and for Biden’s re-election campaign, both of which were counting on a steady easing of price pressures this year. Not happening anytime soon! According to the US Department of Labor, prices rose 0.4% from February to March 2024, higher than the previous month’s figure of 0.3%. Compared with a year earlier, consumer prices rose 3.2% last month, above February’s 3.1% annual pace. Excluding fluctuating food and energy prices, so-called “core” prices also climbed 0.4% from February 2024 to March 2024, matching the previous month’s rise and a faster pace than is consistent with the Fed’s 2% inflation target. Core inflation is watched especially closely because it usually provides a better gauge of where inflation is likely headed.
Wholesale prices during March 2024 saw their sharpest year-on-year increase in 11 months, one day after a better-than-expected US inflation report sent stocks tumbling and stoked fears that the Fed won’t cut interest rates anytime soon. As reported by the Labor Department, The Producer Price Index, the metric that tracks the prices of products sold as they leave manufacturers, rose 2.1% in March versus a year earlier, its steepest gain since April 2023. Bidenomics or Bidenflation? Take your pick!
Even the clowns at the Clown News Network saw the problems in 2021.
Prices for dental care, car repairs, and other services are still rising faster than they did before the Wuhan pandemic. Car insurance is higher, reflecting rising costs for repairs and replacement parts. Along with substantial pay increases for nurses and other health professionals, hospitals are passing their higher wage costs on to patients in the form of higher prices. Just wait for the $20.00 per hour minimum wage in fast food restaurants in California!! And as for Biden’s promise to cut the cost of insulin?
Without insurance: $14,400.00 With insurance: $2700.00
Well, as usual Biden lied and was out of touch. The promised $35.00 cap doesn’t work chronologically or through usage. If it’s $35.00 per month, one pen doesn’t last the month. Furthermore, I called Medicare and two Biden supporting big pharma companies and they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, clarify whether the so-called $35.00 cap covers a one pen prescription or the standard three pen prescription. So, if the script is three pens, the price is $105.00 and up. A case in point is that I use Humalog and the script is three pens for $105.00…not the so-called $35.00. As for the synthetic and newer diabetic medications, those are not covered. Ozempic is under the most demand and up there in price….approximately $1200.00 per pen. No $35.00 for this one. By the way, Ozempic supplies run short because the people who have money use it for weight loss. This deprives the people who actually need it to live…like me!!! And I just reordered Ozempic and Tujeo. My out of pocket cost was $767.64…not anywhere near the bogus $35.00 promise.
Finally, under Bidenomics, like his disastrous Inflation Reduction Act, the results continue to demonstrate a constant rise in inflation, which is reflected in the prices of the aforementioned groceries, gasoline and pretty much every commodity. Gasoline will increase to at least $3.59 per gallon due to the switch to the summer mix, which will be 20 cents higher. The interest on the federal debt was $1.06 trillion in the first six months of FY 2024. That’s higher than the entire defense budget for the year of $825 billion. The Federal budget is sinking faster into a sea of red ink and Biden is doing everything he can to accelerate it. SlowJoe wants to keep spending recklessly, as seen by his new student loan “forgiveness,” that will cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars. Bidenomics or Bidenflation? Take your pick!
Moreover, Biden is desperately fishing for votes as he gaslights college graduates who floated loans they had signed as promissory notes to repay Federal loans, but end up in Starbucks. This is happening even after the SCOTUS told Biden he didn’t have any authority to “forgive” student loans. Biden is defying the law, but that’s Biden’s modus operandi. And even Representative Nancy Pelosi(D-CA) said DementiaJoe lacked the authority, as he is attempting to sneak around the Congress employing Executive Orders.
It’s not student loan forgiveness. Biden is just making other people…the American taxpayer…who never took out any loans financially responsible for them. This financial transfer has no real legal basis nor the approval of Congress, who drives the budget.
As for the employment numbers, yes job “creation” has increased. Yet, many of these jobs being filled remained vacant during and after the Wuhan pandemic. So, the jobs were readily available and not all are filled, even now. What people forget is that under former President Donald John Trump, the economy was booming and the Black Community, the Hispanic Community and the Asian Community experienced record high employment. The employment numbers for women were also at record levels.
Even when inflation numbers slowing down, prices still go up. That spells trouble for consumers. A recent Fox News poll found that 55% say they are not financially better off, while 22% say they are better off. Additionally, the pole found the economy, the most important issue for voters. And despite his pontificating and support of Bidenomics, SlowJoe, and his failing administration, remain out of touch when it comes to nationwide issues and needs. At one time the Democratic Party was the party of the middle class. Now? The Democratic Party is the party of the elitist class, while adhering to a socialist ideology. Just look at the $25 million he raised, while ignoring the funeral of Detective Jonathan Diller, not one hour distance. Bidenomics or Bidenflation? Take your pick!
In a recent New York Times poll, a larger share of voters see Trump’s term as better for the country than the current administration, with 42 percent rating the Trump presidency as mostly good compared with 25 percent who say the same about Biden. Unbelievable that the NYT actually gave former President Donald John Trump long overdue kudos!
So, look at Biden’s failing, and failed political scorecard, and then add on that he is cognitively delinquent, uses crib notes, doesn’t take questions during pressers unless they are scripted, uses a teleprompter and still screws up, needs constant attention and is obviously feeble and weak…while lying about family members and their finances…and leaning so far left…Bidenomics or Bidenflation…I think that’s enough!
“There are two chances for a June rate cut…slim and none and slim just died.” Phil Orlando, Federated Hermes Chief Equity Market Strategist.
Despite his wife’s backing of Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ignored calls to recuse himself from recent Jan. 6-related appeals. Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that his questioning Tuesday in such a case appeared to downplay the insurrection.
At the oral arguments in an appeal over an obstruction law used against many Jan. 6 rioters, Thomas said to the Justice Department’s lawyer, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, that “there have been many violent protests that have interfered with proceedings.” He then wondered: “Has the government applied this provision to other protests in the past?”
Prelogar conceded that she couldn’t give an example of enforcing the obstruction law “in a situation where people have violently stormed a building in order to prevent an official proceeding, a specified one, from occurring with all of the elements like intent to obstruct, knowledge of the proceeding, having the corruptly mens rea, but that’s just because I’m not aware of that circumstance ever happening prior to January 6th.”
That is, to the extent that the use of this law has been unique, that’s owing to the uniqueness (in a bad way) of Jan. 6.
The outcome of the appeal, in the case of alleged Capitol rioter Joseph Fischer, could upend scores of Jan. 6 cases prosecuted with the widely used obstruction law. (Fischer, who has pleaded not guilty, has yet to stand trial.) Notably, that same law surfaces in two of Trump’s four counts in his federal election interference indictment. So the former president, as well as special counsel Jack Smith, are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer’s case, expected by late June.
Trump’s immunity appeal in the election interference case is set to be heard by the justices next week, on April 25. Thomas hasn’t recused himself from that one, either. We’ll see if the justice also questions the government lawyer in that case about the unprecedented nature of the prosecution against the former president — as opposed to the defendant’s unprecedented alleged actions that triggered the prosecution.
Federal judges are wrestling with a dilemma as dozens of cases stemming from the Capitol riot move toward sentencing: Should they throw the book at everyone who streamed into the building on Jan. 6, or just those who committed violence and destruction?
Many of the judges on D.C.’s federal bench have advocated for stiff sentences in most cases on the grounds that breaching the Capitol was an unconscionable crime against American democracy. And they’ve overwhelmingly rejected comparisons lodged by accused rioters that the violence of Jan. 6 is akin to the unrest that plagued Portland, Ore., and other American cities alongside last year’s racial justice protests
“Some have compared what took place on Jan. 6 with other protests that took place throughout the country through the past year and have suggested that the Capitol rioters are being treated unfairly,” Chutkan said during a sentencing hearing. “I flatly disagree.”
Although she didn’t mention any names, it seemed unmistakable that Chutkan was responding — nearly point by point — to the analysis of Judge Trevor McFadden, who serves alongside her on the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., where more than 600 defendants are facing charges for their roles in the Capitol attack.
On Friday, McFadden said federal prosecutors had undercut themselves on Jan. 6 prosecutions by doing little to impose legal consequences for those who rioted during the racial-justice protests last year.
“I think the U.S. attorney would have more credibility if it was even-handed in its concern about riots and mobs in this city,” he said during another sentencing hearing, according to The Associated Press.
The judges’ dueling comments reflect what appears to be a developing schism in the federal judiciary over how to treat the lower-level defendants who glommed on to the insurrection attempt by extremists who led the Jan. 6 charge.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who once worked in the same courthouse with the judges staking out positions in the Jan. 6 cases, defended prosecutors Monday against complaints that some Capitol rioters were allowed to settle their cases by admitting to misdemeanors.
“I’m quite aware that there are people that are criticizing us for not prosecuting sufficiently and others complaining we are prosecuting too harshly,” Garland said during a video interview for The New Yorker Festival. “This is part of the territory for any prosecutor in any case.”
While many of the most serious cases remain pending — and likely will extend deep into 2022 — dozens of misdemeanor cases are being resolved at a suddenly rapid pace. And it’s giving judges their first crack at weighing in on the broader character of the Capitol assault.
McFadden, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, appears to be a lone voice, for now, on the D.C. bench. Several judges have expressed sentiment similar to Chutkan’s: that those who joined the Jan. 6 mob helped overwhelm police and stretch resources in a way that aided the violent extremists to threaten the transfer of power.
“What happened … was nothing less than a violent mob trying to prevent the orderly, peaceful transfer of power as part of an election,” said Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama. “That mob was trying to overthrow the government. … That is no mere protest.”
Judge Emmet Sullivan, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, lamented last week that during the events of Jan. 6, a number of ordinary, law-abiding Americans “morphed into terrorists.”
At sentencing hearings last week, Judge James Boasberg made clear he agreed that those who remained nonviolent on Jan. 6 effectively encouraged the violence.
“There are few actions that are as serious as the one this group took on that day,” said Boasberg, an Obama appointee. “If there are five people or eight people or 10 or 15, there’s no riot. … The encouragement and incitement of other people is what led to the violence.”
And Judge Paul Friedman, a Clinton appointee who sentenced Jan. 6 defendant Valerie Ehrke to probation, said he anticipated her light sentence would be the exception, not the norm, for crimes that threatened democracy.
At the sentencing Monday for Matthew Carl Mazzocco, Chutkan acknowledged that the Texas resident hadn’t broken into the Capitol, damaged any property there or engaged in violence, but she said he and others who illegally entered the seat of Congress bore some responsibility for the mayhem that unfolded.
“People who were committing those violent acts did so because they had the safety of numbers — one of whom was Mr. Mazzocco,” Chutkan said.
McFadden’s statement echoed arguments that have been lodged by many of the defendants, by Trump himself and by his allies on Capitol Hill.
During the Friday sentencing hearing, McFadden scolded the defendant before him, Danielle Doyle, for “acting like all those looters and rioters last year. That’s because looters and rioters decided the law did not apply to them.”
The judge said Doyle’s behavior was not excusable, called it a “national embarrassment,” and again likened it to the police brutality protests following the death of George Floyd last year that made “us all feel less safe,” the AP reported.
McFadden, notably, has taken a hard line with some Jan. 6 defendants. He ordered the pretrial detention of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an Army reservist who sported a Hitler mustache to his job on a naval weapons base, citing Hale-Cusanelli’s violent rhetoric and embrace of what he believed was an oncoming civil war.
However, on Monday, Chutkan took exception to McFadden’s suggestion that Jan. 6 rioters were being treated unfairly harshly. She argued that, in fact, many of those charged in the unrest at the Capitol had been treated more gently than those arrested for rioting alongside the Black Lives Matter protests.
For example, Chutkan said, the Capitol suspects weren’t arrested on the spot and were allowed to remain in their home districts for many of the proceedings. And prosecutors have agreed to allow many of them to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge, Chutkan noted, despite charging most with at least four offenses.
Chutkan also said the basis for the Black Lives Matter protests — racial justice — differs sharply from the purpose of the Jan. 6 event, assembled by Trump as he promoted discredited claims that the 2020 election was stolen. The defendant she sentenced Monday, Mazzocco, traveled to the Capitol for Trump, not for a democratic cause, she said.
“He went to the Capitol in support of one man, not in support of our country,” Chutkan said.
McFadden and Chutkan didn’t differ in just their assessment of Jan. 6 misdemeanor crimes. The two also diverged on the sentences they handed down in the cases they handled.
While McFadden gave Doyle a sentence of two months probation and a $3,000 fine, Chutkan hit Mazzocco with 45 days in jail — a stiffer punishment than the three months of home confinement prosecutors had asked for.
“This court believes that a sentence of probation does not reflect the seriousness of the crime. … There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government, beyond sitting at home,” Chutkan said Monday. “The country is watching. … If Mr. Mazzocco walks away with probation and a slap on the wrist, that’s not going to deter anyone from trying what he did again.”
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