There's a major asterisk next to this one because William Arkin had <a href="https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/1557464955602890753">formerly claimed</a> at Newsweek that his sources told him AG Garland hadn't approved the Mar-a-Lago raid.


	And plenty of people got burned by that.


	This story claims that the FBI raid <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-sought-documents-trump-hoarded-years-including-about-russiagate-1734280">targeted </a>specific documents.

<blockquote>
	
		"The&nbsp;FBI&nbsp;raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover&nbsp;Donald Trump's personal "stash" of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell&nbsp;Newsweek.

	
		To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president's residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump's private hoard, agents went into Trump's residence on the pretext that they were seeking&nbsp;all&nbsp;government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize."
</blockquote>


	According to Arkin, these documents involved Russiagate.

<blockquote>
	
		"The sought-after documents deal with a variety of intelligence matters of interest to the former president, the officials suggest—including material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016 or any other election-related charges."

	
		"Trump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russia hoax and the wrong-doings of the deep state," one former Trump official tells&nbsp;Newsweek. "I think he felt, and I agree, that these are facts that the American people need to know." The official says Trump may have been planning to use them as part of a 2024 run for the presidency.
</blockquote>


	Is it true? Who knows. Arkin's sources were wrong about Garland. And that's a very basic thing. But it would provide a certain motive power for the controversy. It would explain why Trump wanted certain documents and why the Biden administration might want to seize them.


	Of course just because something sounds plausible, doesn't mean that it's actually true.

Did FBI Raid Seek "Exonerating" Russiagate Materials?

There's a major asterisk next to this one because William Arkin had formerly claimed at Newsweek that his sources told him AG Garland hadn't approved the Mar-a

Did FBI Raid Seek "Exonerating" Russiagate Materials?

The engine of Holocaust denial is a desire to kill Jews. Otherwise why bother?


	There's a fringe of conspirazoids, the sorts of people who believe that the moon landing was faked,&nbsp;that UFOs can be found in your backyard, and that 9/11 was carried out by the NYPD, and that Bigfoot killed JFK who are attracted to Holocaust denial among the many other conspiracy theory options.&nbsp;But the big leagues of Holocaust denials are associated with Nazism and Communism because they both specialized in the extermination of Jews.


	The "Palestinian" cause is a toxic inbreeding of Nazis and Communists.


	The Muslim Brotherhood, key players in the Arab Revolt, got a lot of their techniques from the Nazis. And the Nazi influence was felt most strongly in Egypt. But the "Palestinian" cause was manufactured by the Soviet Union.


	Mahmoud Abbas, the current dictator-for-life of the PLO, got his <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/abbass-untranslated-book-480751">Holocaust denial training</a> from the USSR. Abbas wrote it as a "student" in the Soviet Union as part of the&nbsp;Palestinian-Soviet Friendship Foundation which was itself <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/how-holocaust-denial-shaped-mahmoud-abbas-worldview/">crossbred with Nazi propagand</a>a.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;PA President Mahmoud Abbas is profoundly fascinated by Nazi propaganda and has employed it in his own writings, particularly in his doctoral dissertation on the subject of the Holocaust, “The Other Face: The Secret Connections Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement,” which he wrote in Moscow in 1982. Two years later, Abbas published a book based on his dissertation. It is written in Arabic and, tellingly, has never been translated into any other language.

	
		There is a reason for this: The book is inspired by and based on the work of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust. While he was a fugitive in Argentina, Eichmann formulated and disseminated Nazi propaganda according to which the Holocaust was a Jewish-Nazi conspiracy that sacrificed Jewish lives in order to create a Jewish state in Palestine.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	So what did the Germans really expect when they invited the head of a terror group responsible for the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-714943">Munich Massacr</a>e?

<blockquote>
	
		At a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Abbas was asked by a reporter whether he plans to apologize to Israel and Germany for the 1972 Munich massacre, ahead of its 50th anniversary. Eleven members of the Israeli delegation and a German police officer were murdered after members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, which was linked to&nbsp;Abbas’s Fatah party, took hostages at the Olympic Village on September 5, 1972.&nbsp;

	
		“If we want to go over the past, go ahead,” Abbas responded in Arabic. “I have 50 slaughters that Israel committed... 50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts,” saying the last word in English.

	
		While Scholz could be seen wincing at Abbas’s Holocaust reference, he did not immediately rebuke the Palestinian president, although he had earlier rejected his use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israeli policies.
</blockquote>


	Scholtz has since tepidly condemned Abbas' Holocaust denial.


	The debate about Holocaust denial is less important than the motive for it. Abbas responded to his role in the massacre of Jews with Holocaust denial. That's typical. It's the essence of the purpose that Holocaust denial is meant to serve.


	The "Palestinian" cause is about finishing the work that the Nazis began. It's why Hitler is so widely admired in the Palestinian Authority. "Palestinian" Holocaust denial, like most kinds, is about paving the way for justifying the future murder of Jews.

Abbas' Holocaust Denial Tour Hits Germany

The engine of Holocaust denial is a desire to kill Jews. Otherwise why bother?


	There's a fringe of conspirazoids, the sorts of people who believe that

Abbas' Holocaust Denial Tour Hits Germany

Here's the JTA&nbsp;very <a href="https://www.jta.org/2022/08/16/united-states/texas-school-district-orders-librarians-to-remove-a-version-of-anne-franks-diary-from-shelves">deliberately</a> pushing its political agenda of getting sexualized books to kids.

<blockquote>
	
		A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible and dozens of other books that were challenged by parents last year...

	
		“Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,”&nbsp;by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, is a 2019 illustrated adaptation of the bestselling diary by the teenage Holocaust victim.&nbsp;The New York Times called the book&nbsp;“so engaging and effective that it’s easy to imagine it replacing the [original] ‘Diary’ in classrooms and among younger readers.”&nbsp;

	
		The parental challenge against the book came in February, and the district initially dismissed it, Hawes said. Hawes, who is not Jewish, is on a list of parents who can be called in to serve on a committee to review book challenges.

	
		“When we got ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ we thought, ‘This is a joke.’ But it wasn’t,” Hawes said, adding that the complaint was that “the book shouldn’t be read without parent supervision.” She suspected that the parent may have objected to the unabridged diary’s references to female genitalia,&nbsp;same-sex attraction&nbsp;and&nbsp;other sexual matters, which&nbsp;have been deemed “pornographic” by parental challenges in the past. But she couldn’t be sure because the parent who challenged the book didn’t show up to the meeting.
</blockquote>


	This is not Anne Frank's diary.


	This is a comic book based on a version of the diary that neither Anne nor her father wanted published.


	I've written about the abuse of Anne Frank's legacy multiple times. There's the famous play that eliminated her Jewishness. There's also the 'unabridged' diary. This is material that Frank wrote when she was younger that she then got rid of. Her father respectfully edited the diary when he fulfilled her wish to have it published. After his death, the "unabridged" diary containing sexual materials that neither the dead girl nor her father wanted to publish was gleefully put out there.


	The material that parents objected to in&nbsp;“Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation”, even assuming it's true to the unabridged version (I have no idea if it is) was also the material that Anne's older self censored and that her father got rid of. It doesn't belong in schools and shouldn't be in public view. It's an insult to her memory.


	Not everything people write as 13-year-olds should be out there. Nor should they be forced to live with it after death.&nbsp;


	The publishing interests pushing this claim that they have some moral right to dig up and publish material that Anne did not want out there for the "greater good".


	Getting it out of libraries and out of publication is a very good thing because it's effectively stolen material that was never meant for publication. It's no different than publishing sexual materials or photos of any other deceased person&nbsp;that they would have not wanted in the public realm.&nbsp;


	Exploiting the Holocaust to push a sexual agenda in schools is despicable. And using stolen writings from a murdered Jewish girl to do so is equally so.


	Anne Frank deserves better. So do our children.

This Version of Anne Frank's Diary Should Be Removed From Libraries

Here's the JTA&nbsp;very deliberately pushing its political agenda of getting sexualized books to kids.


	
		A school district in suburban Fort Worth,

This Version of Anne Frank's Diary Should Be Removed From Libraries

NY Gov Hochul Won't Lock Up Criminals, Will Ban Toy Guns

Toy guns don't kill people, violent criminals who aren't locked up kill people.


	But New York's Governor Hochul has made it clear that, along with

NY Gov Hochul Won't Lock Up Criminals, Will Ban Toy Guns

I remember the controversy over dropping Truth, Justice and the American Way. But that was just the beginning.


	This story involves Spider Man: Remastered, a game for Sony video game consoles that recently came to the personal computer. PCs have a vibrant modding community, much of which is based around a site known as 'Nexus'. While the game's fictional depiction of New York City contained the inevitable 'Pride' flags, a&nbsp;'modder' on that site reportedly figured out how to trigger an alternate graphic used in Muslim countries that would get rid of the flag. And he replaced the Pride flags with American flags.


	Anyone downloading the 'mod' would be able to replace all the 'Pride' flags with the Stars and Stripes.&nbsp;


	Since Spider Man: Remastered is a single-player game, it's an individual choice and nothing they did would have any impact on anyone else playing the game.


	Despite hosting a variety of violent and sexual mods,&nbsp;Nexus, the modding site, responded by banning the 'modder' declaring that sort of thing isn't welcome here. The ban however has only made the mod <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/woup7g/nexus_mods_removes_spiderman_mod_that_replaces/">more popular </a>and it's being distributed across a variety of sites.


	While it's been a while since Gamergate hit the scene, the struggle between the social justice elites and gamers has never actually gone away. Gaming journalism has become much less relevant since, but at the same time corporate wokeness has become more rigidly policed.&nbsp;


	And the one thing you can't do in even the most violent games, as Rockstar's GTA 6 series and its studios are reportedly being remade to be sensitive and politically correct, is be proud of being an American.

Pride Flags, Yes, American Flags, No in Spiderman Game

I remember the controversy over dropping Truth, Justice and the American Way. But that was just the beginning.


	This story involves Spider Man: Remastered

Pride Flags, Yes, American Flags, No in Spiderman Game

A <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/mom-of-salman-rushdie-stabber-hadi-matar-says-she-wont-speak-to-son-again/">familiar story</a> from previous Islamic terrorist attacks.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Silvana Fardos, the mother of suspect Hadi Matar, 24,&nbsp;added to the Daily Mail&nbsp;on Sunday that she is&nbsp;disowning her son over his alleged crime&nbsp;and hopes Rushdie gets well.

	
		The mom said she was born Muslim but is not religious. She said she hadn’t even&nbsp;heard of Rushdie&nbsp;until after the famed “Satanic Verses” author was attacked in western New York and the FBI began contacting her family.

	
		“I didn’t push my kids into religion or force anything on my son,” Fardos told the Mail. “I don’t know anyone in Iran, all my family are here. I’m living a simple life as a single mom, trying to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table for my kids.”

	
		But Fardos, who also has twin 14-year-olds, said her eldest child grew more religious as he got older.&nbsp;

	
		She noted that her son’s demeanor particularly changed in 2018 after he returned from a trip to Lebanon, her home country, where he was visiting his father.&nbsp;

	
		“One time he argued with me, asking why I encouraged him to get an education instead of focusing on religion. He was angry that I did not introduce him to Islam from a young age,” she said.
</blockquote>


	The authorities are still searching for the motive, but the story is a familiar one. It's also a warning about the so-called "secular Muslim" immigrants who in the second generation start searching for their roots and their identity.&nbsp;


	And turn to Islam.


	A number of years ago, I wrote, "<a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/integration-not-answer-muslim-terrorism-daniel-greenfield/">Integration is Not the Answer.</a>"

<blockquote>
	
		There is&nbsp;a famous photo&nbsp;of Anjem Choudary, the head of multiple banned organizations calling for imposing Sharia law on the UK whose follower was responsible for the Lee Rigby beheading, getting drunk as a young law student. Friends recall&nbsp;“Andy” smoking pot&nbsp;and taking LSD, sleeping around and partying all the time. Andy was really well integrated, but he still turned back into Anjem.

	
		&nbsp;Some of the worst Jihadists are culturally integrated and religiously disintegrated. They speak the native language fluently. They are intimately familiar with popular culture. They move easily among the native population. It’s their belief system that is fundamentally disintegrated and whose demands cannot be integrated without a civil war.

	
		Cultural integration won’t transform Muslims into non-Muslims. All it does is make them conflicted and insecure. And that is why it is those second-generation culturally integrated Muslims who go to bars, call themselves Andy or Mo, sell drugs, go to university, who take a detour into Syria and come back with bomb plans and big plans for transforming Europe into an Islamic state.

	
		Cultural integration builds up a conflict with Islam. Some Muslims respond to it by abandoning Islam, others by embracing it. If we fail to recognize this, then integration becomes a ticking time bomb.
</blockquote>


	And the bombs keep going off.


	Fewer Americans are buying what our culture is selling anymore. Why would we think that Muslims would? Faced with a choice between Starbucks, TikTok, green everything, LGBTQAIOUP=, #MeToo, #Thatsnotfunny and Marvel comics as the defining cultural narrative, Hadi Matar went back to his roots in Lebanon. And went on a mission for Allah.


	We're going to need something better to counter it with than social justice hashtag and the latest Disney+ programming.&nbsp;

Rushdie Stabber's Mom Says Islam Changed Him

A familiar story from previous Islamic terrorist attacks.&nbsp;


	
		Silvana Fardos, the mother of suspect Hadi Matar, 24,&nbsp;added to the Daily Mail

Rushdie Stabber's Mom Says Islam Changed Him

After the Mar-a-Lago raid, the same familiar voices are once again insisting that we ought to give the DOJ the benefit of the doubt.


	That's Un-American.&nbsp;


	(These same folks don't think the police officers in the George Floyd drug overdose case or the Breonna Taylor case, currently being lynched by Biden's racist DOJ deserve that.)


	The government doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt in our criminal justice system, the accused do. And there's a big difference between respecting the integrity of the average law enforcement officer on the ground (which, for whatever it's worth, I think stands above that of the average politician, but is certainly far from incorruptible) and the system that dispatches him and tasks him with certain missions. Lefties and Never Trumpers tiresomely continue to conflate attacks on law enforcement with a lack of credulity for a politicized system that calls the shots.


	A political appointee, like AG Garland, approving a raid on a political opponent deserves zero of the benefit of the doubt and all the suspicion that can be mustered. The same would be true if a GOP AG had approved a raid on Hillary Clinton for that matter. Regardless of the guilt or innocence of the target, a raid on a political opponent should be assumed to be political until proven otherwise. And there would be a really high barrier to proving that going after your political opponents is apolitical.


	AG Garland and his people had a way out of this. They could have turned the whole matter over to an independent investigation, even now they could appoint a special master to oversee the products of the raid. They've refused to do that. Those are not the actions of devoted civil servants following an investigation wherever it goes. They're the work of political hacks looking to maintain control at all costs.


	In China and Russia, the government gets the benefit of the doubt. Americans suspect their government. That's the American way. It's Un-American not to.

A Raid on a Political Opponent is Political Until Proven Otherwise

After the Mar-a-Lago raid, the same familiar voices are once again insisting that we ought to give the DOJ the benefit of the doubt.


	That's Un-American.

A Raid on a Political Opponent is Political Until Proven Otherwise

The original story told through the media was that the FBI raid was about retrieving documents that the National Archives wanted in its custody. As I wrote at the time, that wasn't the reason, that was the pretext.


	And AG Garland is admitting as much by trying to keep the<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-warrant-affidavit-justice-department-oppose-unsealing-court-filing-today-2022-08-15/"> affidavit classified</a>&nbsp;after agreeing to declassify the search warrant.

<blockquote>
	
		The Justice Department said in court documents Monday that it opposes the release of the FBI affidavit used to justify the&nbsp;search warrant&nbsp;on former&nbsp;President Donald Trump's primary residence at Mar-a-Lago.
</blockquote>


	Because the documents are classified? Nope.

<blockquote>
	
		In Monday's filing, prosecutors indicated that the affidavit contained sensitive information regarding the testimony of witnesses in the investigation, adding later they feared that releasing the requested documents would "chill" the future testimony of other potential witnesses.

	
		While the Justice Department did not oppose the release of the search warrant last week, the department argued Monday in a court filing to the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida that the affidavit should remain sealed "to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security."
</blockquote>


	The investigation isn't about returning documents. It's about maintaining their informants and keeping a political investigation going.

<blockquote>
	
		But while the Justice Department has "carefully considered whether the affidavit can be released subject to redactions," it said in Monday's court filing that "the redactions necessary to mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest."
</blockquote>


	That is some statement. Everything has to<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/merrick-garland-weighed-search-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-for-weeks-11660601292?mod=djemalertNEWS"> be kept secret,</a> not because it's classified information being kept hidden from the enemy, but because it's being kept secret from the target of its investigation, Trump and his associates.

<blockquote>
	
		If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” the department wrote in its filing.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	It's all about the next steps. The raid was a means, not an end, to gather material for a political witch hunt by the Biden administration.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Justice Department officials have defended the Mar-a-Lago search as a necessary step approved by Mr. Garland himself. People familiar with the Justice Department’s approach have said a primary goal of the search&nbsp;was to ensure the security of highly sensitive national-security documents&nbsp;after the Trump team didn’t relinquish them and amid concerns that the security of the material at Mar-a-Lago had been put at risk.
</blockquote>


	Justice Department officials have just admitted that's a bunch of lies.

AG Garland Admits FBI Raid Wasn't About "Retrieving Documents" for the Archives

The original story told through the media was that the FBI raid was about retrieving documents that the National Archives wanted in its custody. As I wrote at

AG Garland Admits FBI Raid Wasn't About "Retrieving Documents" for the Archives

As The Point previously discussed, the warrant they bore allowed them to pretty much take everything, giving them the right to search most of Mar-a-Lago and to take anything potentially classified, anything near anything classified, and anything potentially covered under the presidential records act.&nbsp;


	That's the definition of a fishing expedition. Now a few of the fish had to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-passports-returned-mar-lago-search-doj-official-says-rcna43192">be thrown back</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Passports belonging to&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;have been returned to the former president after last week's&nbsp;FBI search&nbsp;of his Mar-a-Lago home, a Justice Department official told NBC News on Monday.

	
		The FBI acknowledged it had had the passports the same day Trump said on his social media platform that FBI agents who conducted the&nbsp;search&nbsp;on Aug. 8 took them.

	
		In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said agents "stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else." He did not provide further details or specify whether the travel documents were personal or government passports. (Presidents receive diplomatic passports when they take office.)

	
		A Justice Department official said Trump's passports have been returned.
</blockquote>


	They didn't need the passports obviously. But how much else did they take inappropriately?


	The whole story that this was a clean search and the only things taken in the raid were legitimate has fallen apart. It's insupportable. They clearly took everything and the kitchen sink.


	But that's routine for FBI raids. Look at the <a href="https://ij.org/federal-judge-deals-another-blow-to-fbi-in-u-s-private-vaults-raid/">US Private Vaults case</a> which is still dragging on.

<blockquote>
	
		FBI agents raided the U.S. Private Vaults facility in March 2021, and they rummaged through the contents of every box in the vault. The government attempted to justify the raid on the ground that U.S. Private Vaults—the business—was being charged with federal crimes, but none of the individual box holders were charged. And the warrant authorizing the search specifically said that the government&nbsp;was not&nbsp;authorized to conduct a criminal search of the individual security deposit boxes. Yet, nonetheless, the government opened every box, made a video record of the contents, and even opened sealed envelopes and held documents up to the camera.

	
		The government cannot search your private property when it cannot even say what you might have done wrong. That’s what the Fourth Amendment means when it protects the right to be “secure” in your “persons, houses, papers, and effects.” So, in May, IJ sued on behalf of box holders Paul and Jennifer Snitko, Joseph Ruiz, and Tyler Gothier.

	
		On the eve of the lawsuit, the government doubled down on its constitutional violations by moving to take the contents of hundreds of boxes through civil forfeiture.
</blockquote>


	People have had cash, jewelry, and memorabilia <a href="https://www.lawcommentary.com/articles/fbi-seeks-to-confiscate-over-86-million-in-raid-of-private-vault-company">seized through</a> civil forfeiture.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Despite the orders in the search warrant, the FBI is alleging that they have rights to the over $86 million in cash that was confiscated during the raid. There are millions more in assets customers of the vault company stored away including jewelry, watches, heirlooms, and other valued memorabilia.

	
		Along with the cash, there are thousands of gold and silver bars, Rolex watches, and jewelry with valuable gems and stones that the FBI wants to confiscate. In one box, there are over $1.3 million in poker chips from the popular Las Vegas casino, Aria.

	
		The contents of 175 boxes are in the process of being returned to their rightful owners, and the FBI has already given back the contents of at least 75 boxes. With the remaining boxes, it's not clear who owns the contents yet.
</blockquote>


	The Feds returned some items, others <a href="https://reason.com/2021/05/26/see-the-fbi-dig-through-an-innocent-womans-safe-deposit-box/">were lost</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Next, the agent opens the letter taped to the top of the box, which contains all the necessary information to identify the box's owner—identified in legal filings as "Linda R.," an 80-year-old woman who had stored a significant portion of her retirement savings in Box 8309.&nbsp;

	
		The agent keeps digging anyway, eventually tearing open a heavy-duty envelope that contains an unknown number of what appear to be gold coins.

	
		As the ransacking of Box 8309 continues, the video appears to show at least one of Linda's coins falling to the ground. According to&nbsp;an amended complaint&nbsp;filed last week, the search of the box "was conducted in such a shambolic and disorganized manner that it is no surprise that items were misplaced, lost, or worse."
</blockquote>


	This is the reality of how Fed raids work even when there's no political bias or other agenda. Once you unleash the government, it doesn't stop where you expect it to.


	That's why only fools and totalitarians go down this path.

Why Did the Feds Take Trump's Passports?

As The Point previously discussed, the warrant they bore allowed them to pretty much take everything, giving them the right to search most of Mar-a-Lago and to

Why Did the Feds Take Trump's Passports?

I'll skip over the schadenfreude over an ultra-woke company realizing that the leftists it supports won't just be satisfied with voluntary contributions to their cause, but want to take the whole company.


	Starbucks, like a number of companies, is fighting corrupt unionization efforts being run from inside the federal government. And its complaint is revealing about<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/08/15/1117533919/starbucks-nlrb-union-vote"> how these things work</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Starbucks is accusing National Labor Relations Board employees of secretly coordinated with union organizers in the Kansas City area — and it wants the agency to halt all mail-in votes nationwide until a full investigation has been conducted.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	The letter contains some interesting allegations.

<blockquote>
	
		Starbucks alleges that NLRB regional staff repeatedly crossed the line of neutrality, alleging that despite ordering a mail-in election, the agency arranged for some voters to cast their ballot in person without informing Starbucks representatives.

	
		It also says NLRB workers shared real-time information with organizers about whether certain ballots had been received. And the company said it believes similar actions took place in at least two other NLRB regions.
</blockquote>


	Essentially the NLRB's people are&nbsp;acting as union coordinators. The NLRB's biases are obvious, but here its people have set out the objective of making a union vote happen by providing information to the unions about the current state of play and how many votes they need to get over the top.


	&nbsp;Three of the NLRB's five board members, including its chairwoman, are Biden appointees. The most blatantly inappropriate of them may be&nbsp;David M. Prouty.


	Mr. Prouty was nominated by President Biden on June 23, 2021 and confirmed by the Senate on July 28, 2021. His term will last until August 2026.

<blockquote>
	
		Most recently, Member Prouty served as General Counsel of Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, the largest labor union for property service workers in the country with over 175,000 members. He served as General Counsel of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 2013 – 2017 and as Chief Labor Counsel of the MLBPA from 2008 – 2013. Prior to June 2008, Member Prouty was General Counsel of UNITE HERE, and was General Counsel of UNITE from 2001 – 2004. Before serving as General Counsel of UNITE and UNITE HERE, Member Prouty was Southern Regional Counsel for UNITE and its predecessor union, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), for fifteen years. He received his AB&nbsp;magna cum laude&nbsp;from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1980; worked as a researcher and organizer for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1980 to 1983; and received his JD&nbsp;cum laude&nbsp;from Harvard Law School in 1986.
</blockquote>


	I'm shocked, shocked, that the NLRB is functioning as an arm of the unions and illegally coordinating with them. Republicans ought to toss the NLRB into the dustbin of history along with much of the New Deal socialist trash.

Starbucks Accuses Biden Admin of Corrupting Mail-In Union Election

I'll skip over the schadenfreude over an ultra-woke company realizing that the leftists it supports won't just be satisfied with voluntary contributions to

Starbucks Accuses Biden Admin of Corrupting Mail-In Union Election

How racist can diversity, inclusion and&nbsp;equity get? <a href="https://alphanews.org/minneapolis-teachers-union-contract-calls-for-layoffs-of-white-teachers-first/">This racist.</a>

<blockquote>
	
		A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before “educators of color” in the event Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needs to reduce staff.

	
		After the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS&nbsp;struck a deal&nbsp;on March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike, the two sides drew up and ratified a new collective bargaining agreement complete with various proposals.

	
		James Dickey, senior trial counsel at the Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC), says the racial component violates both the Minnesota and United States constitutions.

	
		“The [collective bargaining agreement] … openly discriminates against white teachers based only on the color of their skin, and not their seniority or merit,” Dickey told Alpha News. “Minneapolis teachers and taxpayers who oppose government-sponsored racism like this should stand up against it.”
</blockquote>


	It's blatantly illegal,<a href="https://thechalkboardreview.com/report-minneapolis-will-fire-white-teachers-first/"> especially after more</a> recent Supreme Court decisions on the subject. That said, affirmative action is almost universally practiced at the federal and state level, and is equally illegal.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Hans Bader, a constitutional lawyer, says that the measure is&nbsp;outright unconstitutional.&nbsp;

	
		“When it comes to termination…an employer can’t racially discriminate even against whites. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1996 [Taxman v. Board of Education of Piscataway] that an school district can’t consider race even as a tie-breaker, in deciding who to lay off, even to promote diversity, because that (a) unduly trammels the white teacher’s rights…and (b) putting that aside, the school district couldn’t consider race to promote diversity when black people weren’t seriously underrepresented in its workforce as a whole,” Bader wrote.&nbsp;

	
		Bader also argued that the Third Circuit’s ruling is strengthened by a 1989 Supreme Court ruling (Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education) that stated that “a school district can’t lay off white teachers to remedy societal discrimination against blacks.“&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Minneapolis has been ground zero for the racist war&nbsp;on America. And educrats are spinning as "seniority disrupting". And it turns out that miniature versions of this <a href="https://www.startribune.com/new-minneapolis-teacher-contract-language-disrupts-seniority-to-protect-educators-of-color/600179265/">are already</a> in place.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;Some districts, however, including Robbinsdale Area Schools, have agreements that protect probationary teachers — defined as those with less than three years of experience — beyond the last-in, first-out order if they better reflect student demographics.
</blockquote>


	So now they're field-testing an undisguised version of this racist policy.

<blockquote>
	
		"It can be a national model, and schools in other states are looking to emulate what we did," said Edward Barlow, a band teacher at Anwatin Middle School and a member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers executive board.&nbsp;

	
		Barlow, who is black, has worked in Minneapolis schools since 1989. He's proud of the new provisions in the contract, but he said it's now up to the district to live out the values represented in those words.

	
		"There's so much more than seniority at stake here," he said.

	
		"This is a bigger conversation about working conditions, compensation, and microagressions and macroagressions in the workplace," he said. "Those are the pieces that this district also needs to reflect on and make some motions to improve."
</blockquote>


	A basic question though is whom does the union represent? Certainly not the majority of teachers. Like most unions, it represents a radical leftist cause to which it is happy to sacrifice its members, knowing that if any rise up and protest, it can rally lynch mobs to have them canceled.&nbsp; 
	&nbsp;

Minneapolis Teachers' Union Contract Requires Schools to Fire White Teachers First

How racist can diversity, inclusion and&nbsp;equity get? This racist.


	
		A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be

Minneapolis Teachers' Union Contract Requires Schools to Fire White Teachers First

Not surprising.


	The IRGC is Iran's terror hub. But Obama and Biden opposed placing sanctions on it and putting it on the foreign terror list. The IRGC was just busted soliciting terror attacks on Bolton and other former Trump administration members. The odds are good <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qxvz/salman-rushdie-hadi-matar-revolutionary-guard">that they solicited</a> or at least encouraged the Rushdie stabbing attack.

<blockquote>
	
		The 24-year-old man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie had been in direct contact with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on social media, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials told VICE World News.

	
		A NATO counterterrorism official from a European country said the stabbing had all the hallmarks of a “guided” attack, where an intelligence service talks a supporter into action, without direct support or involvement in the attack itself.

	
		A Middle Eastern intelligence official said it was “clear” that at some point prior to the attack, Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the Quds Force,” referring to the Revolutionary Guard’s external operations force.&nbsp;

	
		“It’s unclear the extent of the involvement, if this was a directly supported assassination attempt or if it was a series of suggestions and directions in picking a target,” said the official, who could not speak on the record for diplomatic reasons.

	
		“A 24-year-old born in the United States did not come up with Salman Rushdie as a target on his own,” the Middle Eastern intelligence official said. “Even an avid consumer of Iranian propaganda would have some difficulty finding references to Rushdie compared to all the other, modern enemies, designated by the regime.”

	
		Matar’s family hail from the South Lebanese town of Yaroun, an area deeply sympathetic to Iran and its local proxy Hezbollah.
</blockquote>


	Authorities and the media however are <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/salman-rushdie-is-talking-after-being-taken-off-ventilator-family-says-11660492155">still searching</a> for the motive.

<blockquote>
	
		Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man&nbsp;accused of stabbing&nbsp;acclaimed novelist&nbsp;Salman Rushdie, had no prior criminal history, and authorities said they have yet to determine a motive for the attack against the man targeted by Iran’s leader more than 30 years ago.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Global warming? Systemic racism? Income inequality?


	Wait, I know. The old standby "mental illness."


	What else could possibly explain why a pro-Iran Shiite Muslim whose family hails from Lebanon would want to kill one of the top targets of the terror regime.

Rushdie Stabber Was In Touch With Iran's IRGC Terror Network

Not surprising.


	The IRGC is Iran's terror hub. But Obama and Biden opposed placing sanctions on it and putting it on the foreign terror list. The IRGC

Rushdie Stabber Was In Touch With Iran's IRGC Terror Network

In response to the McCaul report from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden regime trotted out partisan hack Adrienne Watson from the NSC to launch an unhinged barrage of lies thinly disguised as a memo.


	The Biden NSC take, which could have been written by the Iraqi Information Minister, claims that Al Qaeda isn't reconstituted in Afghanistan, after just doing a victory lap for taking out its leader, and then insists that it was completely prepared for a rapid Taliban takeover.

<blockquote>
	
		Claim: The Biden administration was not prepared for the speed of the Taliban retaking Kabul and an evacuation.

	
		Reality: Former President Trump’s 2020 agreement with the Taliban: &nbsp;Agreed to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by May 1 2021, without conditions &nbsp;Released 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison &nbsp;Invited the Taliban to Camp David
</blockquote>


	Look, a squirrel!&nbsp;


	While Trump's agreement with the Taliban was bad, Biden's withdrawal was absolutely terrible. The claim and reality are disconnected. Biden did what he had proposed doing all along before Trump was even elected. Blaming Trump for it is pathetic even for this incredibly pathetic administration which takes responsibility for none of its disasters.


	Secretary of State Blinken, along with other administration members, have come out and said that they were not prepared and were not expecting a rabid Taliban takeover. The entire thing has been more than amply reported.


	The key criticism all along has been that Biden failed to pull civilians out before the military. Period.


	Watson isn't just denying the contents of the GOP report, she's spreading ridiculous lies and spin about facts that the media long ago reported on, including the lack of prep for SIV evacuations.


	And yet the fact checkers will never touch her or this administration of liars.

Biden Admin Denies GOP Report It Had No Evac Plan for A-Stan

In response to the McCaul report from the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden regime trotted out partisan

Biden Admin Denies GOP Report It Had No Evac Plan for A-Stan

Expect a lot of moaning when this happens, which it very well could.


	Despite seemingly being out forever, or at least back in May, the Tom Cruise sequel just climbed back up to third place this weekend. Top Gun Maverick has blown through the year's box office stats, but with a $673,822,000 domestic gross (as of now), it's on track to break box office records. These days that list is dominated by Disney/Marvel's comic book garbage machine.


	Top Gun Maverick has already blown past The Avengers and Titanic. It seems very likely to suprass Avengers: Infinity War. And at $700 million, it would pass Black Panther. While these are all garbage comic book movies, (there are good comic book movies, these aren't it), Black Panther has been adopted by black nationalists. The death of its lead actor was treated as up there with George Floyd's drug overdose death. You can see Kamala Harris doing a Wakanada Forever salute.


	Short version, don't expect these folks to take it well.


	Top Gun Maverick has another $27 million to go to pass Black Panther in the domestic box office. If studio releases continue to underperform as the summer drags on, it might do it.

Top Gun Maverick Set To Pass Black Panther's Box Office Record

Expect a lot of moaning when this happens, which it very well could.


	Despite seemingly being out forever, or at least back in May, the Tom Cruise sequel

Top Gun Maverick Set To Pass Black Panther's Box Office Record

It's not a good year for Obama.


	You may recall the Raila Odinga story from the Obama administration when ties between the Kenyan Muslim radical and the... other Kenyan Muslim radical made headlines. <a href="https://gellerreport.com/">Pamela Geller </a>covered the story extensively at the time, but with the current Google censorship and the general state of the internet, I'm having trouble finding materials.

<blockquote>
	
		"This is not Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. He campaigned for a man who has boasted of being his cousin named Raila Odinga. His slogan was “Vote For Change.” Sound familiar? Odinga’s platform had a socialist ring to it. He also got the support of Kenyan Muslims by advocating “shaaria” or Islamic law in areas with large Muslim populations. The election was close, with allegations of fraud. Supporters of Obama’s cousins staged violent protests which degenerated into pogroms.In one recorded case, a church was burnt down with women and children in it by Odinga supporters. The United Nations ended up rewarding Odinga’s thuggery with a position in a national unity type government."
</blockquote>


	Pamela Geller wrote at the time, "The recent revelations of&nbsp;Obama's ties to Raila Odinga in Kenya&nbsp;are disconcerting as well, because Odinga is behind the terrible violence in his country. It was he who instigated bloody riots and killing after he lost the election. Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenyan government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge." And while there are few angels in Kenya, Odinga is the source of great unrest and turmoil; and the MOU he signed with the Muslim Council to institute&nbsp;sharia&nbsp;is a foreshadowing of a dark fate for Kenya."


	In one of the few pieces of good news from abroad, Obama's cousin hasn't <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/africa/ruto-wins-kenya-presidency-intl/index.html">done so well </a>in the latest election.

<blockquote>
	
		Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has been elected as the country’s next President, the electoral commission announced Monday.

	
		Ruto won with 50.49% of the vote, narrowly defeating veteran opposition leader and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was contesting his fifth election.

	
		He will become Kenya’s fifth President since independence, winning the seat on his first attempt. Ruto’s party, the Kenya First coalition, has won a majority of seats in Kenya’s senate, the second highest in the National Assembly.

	
		During a speech Monday, Ruto said: “It was God that brought us here … my team and I will make sure that the sacrifices made by many Kenyans is not in vain … we will not let them down. I am confident that this country will come together and we can move forward as one democratic nation.”
</blockquote>


	Ruto is a vocal Christian.

<blockquote>
	
		Analysts had predicted a win for Odinga, given his performance in&nbsp;opinion polls&nbsp;and the support he enjoyed from outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta.

	
		But Ruto’s populist “man-of-the-people” approach, which rejected political dynasties and played on anti-elite sentiment in the country, endeared him to voters.
</blockquote>


	Maybe Odinga can move into the Obama mansion. I hear there's plenty of room even though Barry and Michelle use separate bedrooms.

Obama's Muslim Cousin Loses Kenyan Pres Election to Christian Candidate

It's not a good year for Obama.


	You may recall the Raila Odinga story from the Obama administration when ties between the Kenyan Muslim radical and the

Obama's Muslim Cousin Loses Kenyan Pres Election to Christian Candidate

"Last night, a terrorist shot at a bus in Jerusalem wounding 8 people, including a pregnant 30-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man who are in critical care. We pray for their full recovery," Israel's Foreign Ministry announced.


	According<a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-714649"> to news reports,</a> the baby was delivered by emergency C-section while the mother is in "serious but stable condition - in a shooting attack targeting a bus near King David's Tomb near the Western Wall on Saturday night."&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		According to the report, four of the injured belonged to the same family and are part of the hasidic Satmar sect and were visiting Israel from Williamsburg, New York.&nbsp;

	
		A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Jerusalem confirmed that US citizens were among the victims of the terrorist attack, but had no further comment on the matter.

	
		Yosef Chaim HaCohen, a paramedic with United Hatzalah who lives near the scene, stated, “I parked the car near the house and heard gunshots and screams. The neighbors ran to me and shouted 'terror attack.’”

	
		MDA paramedic Shimi Grossman said: “This was a bus that left the Western Wall with worshipers heading toward the city. According to a passerby, a terrorist began to shoot indiscriminately toward the bus. When I arrived there was a great commotion, people ran in panic, MDA teams treated and evacuated a 30-year-old man and a 45-year-old man in serious condition, a 30-year-old woman in serious condition, a young man about 20 years old in moderate condition and 4 injured in mild condition.”

	
		Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum praised the attack as a courageous act of resistance
</blockquote>


	The&nbsp;Islamic terrorist, allegedly a man named Amir Sidawi, has been <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/suspected-terrorist-in-jerusalem-shooting-turns-himself-into-police/">arrested</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Those wounded in the attack included a 35-year-old pregnant woman who was shot while sitting in a nearby car, Hebrew media reported. Her abdomenal injury was described by doctors as “complex” and her life was said to be in danger. Shaare Zedek hospital said she had undergone an emergency delivery and that the newborn was in serious but stable condition.

	
		&nbsp;The family’s father was said to be in serious condition, sedated and on a respirator, while the mother was in moderate condition.

	
		“It was a very difficult scene, the blood-soaked&nbsp;tzitzit&nbsp;and abandoned baby stroller will remain in my memory for many years,” said Moshe Levy from the United Hatzalah emergency organization, referring to knotted ritual fringes worn by observant Jews.

	
		The alleged perpetrator had reportedly waited for the bus’s arrival and fired the shots while passengers were boarding, then fled on foot to Silwan.

	
		“The bus was full, jam-packed. I stopped at a bus stop at King David’s Tomb and then I heard gunfire, people started yelling, people were hurt inside the bus,” the bus driver, Daniel Kanievsky, said.

	
		The driver said he had wanted to drive away but couldn’t because passengers were helping a wheelchair-bound woman board the bus, with the lowered ramp blocking the door from closing.
</blockquote>


	So another heroic and "courageous" act of Islamic terrorism.

Islamic Terrorist Opens Fire in Jerusalem, Pregnant Woman, Americans Wounded

"Last night, a terrorist shot at a bus in Jerusalem wounding 8 people, including a pregnant 30-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man who are in critical care.

Islamic Terrorist Opens Fire in Jerusalem, Pregnant Woman, Americans Wounded

From a New York Times article trying to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/13/trump-mar-a-lago-search/">justify this farce</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		In the spring of 2021, the National Archives and Records Administration, the government agency charged by law with maintaining the papers of former presidents, alerted Trump’s team to a problem. In going through materials transferred from the White House in the chaotic final days of Trump’s presidency, officials had noticed that certain high-profile documents were missing. Trump’s correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he had termed “love letters.” A National Weather Service map of Hurricane Dorian, which Trump had famously marked up with a black Sharpie pen to extend to Alabama.

	
		Under the Presidential Records Act, the items belonged to the American people. The Archives asked for them back.
</blockquote>


	We know who runs the National Archives and what they want.


	The&nbsp;National Weather Service map of Hurricane Dorian is one of those things that any proper lefty will recognize but that most conservatives have never heard of. It was one of the dumb TDS&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/donald-trump-hurricane-dorian-alabama-1482815">obsessions</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		President Donald Trump has been widely ridiculed for insisting that Alabama faced a grave threat from Hurricane Dorian and for even showing off a&nbsp;Sharpie-doctored map&nbsp;that added the state to the storm’s potential path of destruction.

	
		But was he really wrong?
</blockquote>


	The damn map wouldn't be a priority for anyone except lefties. While foreign correspondence should be maintained, it doesn't justify this level of harassment.

<blockquote>
	
		On Jan. 17 of this year, Trump relented, allowing a contractor for the Archives to load up 15 boxes at Mar-a-Lago and truck them north to a facility in Maryland. The boxes contained some of the notable items of the Trump presidency that Archives officials had sought.
</blockquote>


	As it turned out, this was a mistake because it provided the "resistance" with the materials for planning this raid.

<blockquote>
	
		But as Archives officials sifted through the recovered documents, they began to suspect some records were still missing.&nbsp;They also realized some of the returned material was clearly classified, including highly sensitive signals intelligence — intercepted electronic communications such as emails and phone calls of foreign leaders.

	
		...&nbsp;By February, Archives officials had formally referred the matter to the Justice Department.
</blockquote>


	This was a month later.

<blockquote>
	
		“He gets his back up every time they asked him for something,” said another Trump adviser. “He didn’t give them the documents because he didn’t want to. He doesn’t like those people. He doesn’t trust those people.”
</blockquote>


	Can't imagine why.

<blockquote>
	
		In early June, a small knot of federal investigators arrived at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the document issue with Trump’s lawyers. It was clear they believed their mission was serious — the team was headed by Jay Bratt, chief of counterintelligence and export control, the division of the Justice Department that leads investigations into leaks of government secrets.

	
		Trump greeted the officials and offered a show of cooperation, said Bobb, who attended the meeting along with another lawyer for the former president, Evan Corcoran. “He pointed to the attorneys there and said, ‘anything they need, make sure they do it,’ ” she told Fox News.

	
		Bobb told The Post that the group toured the storage facility, opening boxes and flipping through the records inside. She said Justice Department officials indicated they did not believe the storage unit was properly secured, so Trump officials added a lock to the facility.
</blockquote>


	There was no reason for the escalation. This was a political move.

What the National Archives Wanted From Trump: A Weather Map

From a New York Times article trying to justify this farce.


	
		In the spring of 2021, the National Archives and Records Administration, the government

What the National Archives Wanted From Trump: A Weather Map

What does it take to get charged with first-degree attempted murder in New York?&nbsp;


	Stabbing a top target of Islamic terror <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/officials-ban-post-and-ap-from-arraignment-of-suspect-in-rushdie-attack/?lctg=6079a542373dd11b6e38368d">isn't enough</a>?

<blockquote>
	
		Authorities in upstate New York&nbsp;tried to bar the press&nbsp;from attending the arraignment of Hadi Matar, the New Jersey man accused of the stabbing of writer Salman Rushdie.
</blockquote>


	What were they trying <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/13/us/salman-rushdie-attacked-saturday/index.html">to cover up</a>?

<blockquote>
	
		The man suspected of stabbing renowned author Salman Rushdie in western New York pleaded not guilty Saturday to attempted murder in the second degree and other charges, his attorney says.
</blockquote>


	Right now this is being handled by the county prosecutor even though this is terrorism which is a federal issue. The feds poke their noses into places where they don't&nbsp;belong and then carefully avoid cases where they do.


	New York's penal code notes that murder in the second degree includes situation where "the defendant acted under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse, the reasonableness of which is to be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the defendant's situation."


	I'm not saying this is the rationale here, I don't know whether it is or not in play.


	Murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree are oddly light for what was an obvious murder attempt. Not to mention domestic terrorism.


	&nbsp;

Rushdie Stabber Only Charged With Second-Degree Attempted Murder, Authorities Try to Bar Press

What does it take to get charged with first-degree attempted murder in New York?&nbsp;


	Stabbing a top target of Islamic terror isn't enough?

Rushdie Stabber Only Charged With Second-Degree Attempted Murder, Authorities Try to Bar Press

One of the problems with federal authority is the constant overreach. Federal law enforcement was supposed to focus on cases with its purview. How is this <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/southern-baptists-say-denomination-faces-doj-investigation/">within its purview</a>?

<blockquote>
	
		The Justice Department (DOJ) has opened a federal investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the second-largest Christian domination in the country, following a report that alleged church leaders ignored survivors of sexual abuse.

	
		The DOJ investigation will include “multiple entities” of the SBC, and each entity intends to cooperate with the investigation, according to a&nbsp;statement&nbsp;from the SBC.
</blockquote>


	The DOJ had opened an investigation into sex abuse cases in the&nbsp;Catholic Church in 2018 and came up with nothing more than a defrocked priest "lying to the FBI" which is basically an admission that this was a waste of everyone's time but that the people in charge wanted to act like they had come away with something.


	The laborious grounds for a federal investigation of the Catholic Church in Philly was looking for whether priests had used child porn or if church leaders used church funds to cover up misconduct. That was somewhere between a fishing expedition and a very long reach. It was pretty obviously a case of the federal government looking for excuses to intrude into areas it had no particular reason to be. Never mind proposals to use racketeering charges.


	Using RICO against political and cultural opponents is obviously a dream.&nbsp;


	Now maybe this is all above board, but the SBC is conservative-leaning and under AG Garland, the DOJ has become a political machine targeting political opponents.


	It's unclear if the SBC investigation is national or by a local office, but either way there are basic questions about who is responsible and what the scope is. As the recent Mar-a-Lago raid reminds us, federal secrecy allows civil rights to die in darkness while political corruption thrives.


	The public deserves answers about the agendas behind the scenes.

Why is Biden's DOJ Investigating Southern Baptist Sex Allegations?

One of the problems with federal authority is the constant overreach. Federal law enforcement was supposed to focus on cases with its purview. How is this

Why is Biden's DOJ Investigating Southern Baptist Sex Allegations?

Compare Biden's statement on the Rushdie attack to his statement on the death of terror collaborator&nbsp;Jamal Khashoggi.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		"Two years ago, Saudi operatives, reportedly acting at the direction of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, murdered and dismembered Saudi dissident, journalist, and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi. His offense — for which he paid with his life — was criticizing the policies of his government".
</blockquote>


	Here's Biden's statement on the recent Islamic terror attack on Salman Rushdie. See if you can spot what's missing.

<blockquote>
	
		"Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the&nbsp;vicious&nbsp;attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all Americans and people around the world, are praying for his&nbsp;health and&nbsp;recovery. I am grateful to the first responders&nbsp;and the&nbsp;brave&nbsp;individuals&nbsp;who jumped into action&nbsp;to render&nbsp;aid to Rushdie and&nbsp;subdue the attacker.&nbsp;

	
		Salman&nbsp;Rushdie—with his&nbsp;insight into humanity,&nbsp;with&nbsp;his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced—stands for essential,&nbsp;universal&nbsp;ideals.&nbsp;Truth. Courage.&nbsp;Resilience. The ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;share ideas&nbsp;without fear. These are the building blocks of any free and open society. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression."&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	There's a good deal of praise for Rushdie, but no condemnation of the attack and its backers in Iran. It would be awkward for Biden to condemn the regime he's collaborating with on a deal to legitimize its nuclear weapons program.


	And this is how you can tell what a statement is covering up about the author. Don't just look at what's there, but look at what's missing.

Biden Statement on Rushdie Attack Fails to Condemn Islamic Terrorism

Compare Biden's statement on the Rushdie attack to his statement on the death of terror collaborator&nbsp;Jamal Khashoggi.&nbsp;


	
		"Two years ago,

Biden Statement on Rushdie Attack Fails to Condemn Islamic Terrorism

After Mueller broke their poor little hearts, the Resistance once again overflows with fantasies of Trump being locked up. And CNN is licking its ratings chops.


	And that's what it's been about.


	The investigations serve their own purpose, they maintain surveillance on political opponents, cripple their networks and maintain a perpetual funk of scandal around them.


	Trials are a test and even the heavily rigged D.C. federal trials have their legal limits. And an actual trial, even if it ended in a conviction, would very nearly defeat the true purpose of the game.


	The purpose of manufacturing a threat is building and maintaining the machine meant to fight it. The fight isn't meant to be won, only perpetuated.&nbsp;


	Trump becomes a pretext for targeting a wide range of conservatives. Every action is met with a reaction that further boosts the "Fortify Democracy" complex and expands their range of powers and tactics.


	The Left's goal is the fascist one of consolidating and seizing direct and total power over all Americans. Their means of doing so are...


	1. Manufacturing a crisis


	2. Radicalizing elements of society to build a radical coalition


	Seizing police powers is tricky business, but invariably involves manufacturing some sort of extremism threat. Spygate moved beyond Clinton administration era paranoia about militias to go after a broad spectrum of the conservative movement. Trump is the thinnest slice of the onion. The point is to normalize this kind of thing until America closely resembles a totalitarian country where the political opposition is routinely subjected to investigations and suppressed with police powers.&nbsp;


	The Obama administration, like the JFK and FDR administrations, marked the broad use of police powers against political opponents. The Biden administration is going beyond Obama. Under Obama, surveillance was used against domestic political opponents. Under Biden, they're building it out to more direct raids and information seizures. How long will it take until they get more ambitious?


	History suggests it won't be that long.


	But for now building a police state using a manufactured emergency is the central goal. The pretexts, as always with lefties, matters much less than the power.


	&nbsp;

The Trump Investigations Are About Building a Leftist Police State

After Mueller broke their poor little hearts, the Resistance once again overflows with fantasies of Trump being locked up. And CNN is licking its ratings chops

While Twitter banned former President Trump along with a growing list of conservatives, it continues to provide a platform for Islamist terror groups and leaders.


	Including Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1558121314313031687">who used Twitter</a> to endorse Iran's ongoing murder fatwa calling for the killing of author Salman Rushdie.


	&nbsp;<img height="402" width="680" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" src="https://cms.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2022/08/khamenei.jpg" alt="" />


	&nbsp;


	&nbsp;


	Let's recall that fatwa again.

<blockquote>
	
		"In the name of Allah... I am informing all brave Muslims of the world that the author of&nbsp; The Satanic Verses , a text written, edited, and published against Islam, the Prophet of Islam, and the Qu’ran, along with all the editors and publishers aware of its contents, are condemned to death. I call on all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world to kill them without delay, so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth. Whoever is killed in this cause will be a martyr, Allah willing, Meanwhile if someone has access to the author of the book but is incapable of carrying out the execution, he should inform the people so that [Rushdie] is punished for his actions.

	
		May peace and blessings of Allah be upon you."
</blockquote>


	This is what Twitter is fine with.


	Even after Rushdie's stabbing, Twitter has done nothing. It's not concerned about violence. It's a leftist company allied with Islamists which is fine with any kind of doxxing, violent threats and violence as long as it's directed at those it deems to be ideological enemies.

Twitter Let Iran Leader Stay Despite Inciting Attack on Rushdie

While Twitter banned former President Trump along with a growing list of conservatives, it continues to provide a platform for Islamist terror groups and

Twitter Let Iran Leader Stay Despite Inciting Attack on Rushdie

First things first, let's look at how open-ended the search warrant is.


	We were repeatedly told that the documents in question&nbsp;were secured in boxes in a particular room with a padlock on it. That there had been ongoing negotiations about turning those documents over.


	The search warrant however sought a broad spectrum search of "locations to be searched include the "45 Office," all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate."


	Pretty much everything.


	The list of property to be seized begins with classified documents and escalates from there to... everything.


	Here's Item C. "Any government and/or Presidential Records created between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021".


	The search for classified documents is a pretext for a fishing expedition by agents of the ruling party.


	What's the first item on the list?


	"Executive Grant of Clemency re: Roger Jason Stone, Jr."


	This is not about classified documents.


	&nbsp;

Search Warrant Shows FBI Raid Was a Fishing Expedition

First things first, let's look at how open-ended the search warrant is.


	We were repeatedly told that the documents in question&nbsp;were secured in boxes

Search Warrant Shows FBI Raid Was a Fishing Expedition

Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced to spend a chunk of his life in hiding because his book, The Satanic Verses, offended Islamic religious authorities in Iran who imposed a murder fatwa on him, was stabbed in the neck and had to be airlifted to a hospital when he was <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/salman-rushdie-stabbed-eyewitnesses-say-he-was-hit-10-15-times-it-lasted-20-seconds-3250217">attacked on stage</a>.

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		&nbsp;Author Salman Rushdie, being stabbed at an event in New York State on Friday, suffered "10 to 15" blows in the attack, eyewitnesses said. One of them said she thought it was "a stunt" at first.

	
		"This guy ran on to platform and started pounding on Mr&nbsp;Rushdie," said Rabbi Charles Savenor, who was in the audience for the lecture at Chautauqua Institution, about 100 km from the city.&nbsp;

	
		A reporter from AP said the attacker "punched or stabbed&nbsp;Mr Rushdie&nbsp;10 to 15 times".

	
		"At first you're like, ‘What's going on?' And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten," Mr Savenor told the news agency.&nbsp;He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds.
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	The media, at least in this country, has wrapped itself in knots to avoid using the "I" word.&nbsp;


	Back when Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses, it was controversial. Today, any kind of criticism of Mohammed is considered hate speech and censored to such a degree that the media would not even report what an Indian elected official said about Mohammed's pedophilic tendencies, only to denounce it as hurtful and hateful to Muslims.


	Today, a new author could never publish something like that. And the media is uncomfortable even discussing what it is that Rushdie wrote.


	The various condemnations likewise don't mention Islam, Islamic terrorism or any beyond generic concepts like "freedom of expression."


	Long before this attack, the sharia censorship that Iran wanted to impose on Americans had already been achieved. 
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Media Tries to Report on Salman Rushdie Stabbing Without Mentioning "Islam"

Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced to spend a chunk of his life in hiding because his book, The Satanic Verses, offended Islamic religious authorities in

Media Tries to Report on Salman Rushdie Stabbing Without Mentioning "Islam"

Biden's a little over the age and generation of participation trophies, but it's incredible what a low bar is being set.


	The media has spent over a week taking a victory lap on Biden's behalf because he managed to get a watered-down version of the bill through after it was held hostage by two senators from his own party.


	As the signature accomplishment for a year and likely a presidential term, it's really pathetic.


	Even in isolation from the national disaster that is the economy, the massive crime and all the other political, social, cultural, medical and assorted other problems, it would be a pretty poor accomplishment for the president of a party that holds majorities in the House and the Senate, to claim victory for managing to get a bill passed.


	Especially when that bill was blocked by two Senate members from his own party who determined the final content of it.


	Never mind doing a time when most people are focused on inflation, crime, diminishing hopes and national conflict.


	But&nbsp;Joe "Low Expectations" Biden always seems to get graded on a curve.


	Did he manage to recite most of his teleprompter speech without fumbling it too much? A+


	Is his approval rating at 40%? Gold star!


	Is the catastrophic inflation only slightly higher in the latest selectively categorized report? He's the new FDR! Happy days are here again!


	I don't know if this is a general attempt by the media to salvage the reputation of the Democrats ahead of the midterms or to make Biden feel like he can retire a winner. Probably both. Certainly the former. But even Obama wasn't this condescended to for pretty much just getting out of bed in the morning.

Joe "Low Expectations" Biden Always Gets Graded On a Curve

Biden's a little over the age and generation of participation trophies, but it's incredible what a low bar is being set.


	The media has spent over a week

Joe "Low Expectations" Biden Always Gets Graded On a Curve

Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.


	Here's California <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/california-descendants-slavery-data-disaggregation">dividing black people</a>.

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		California has become the first in the nation to require state agencies to include a separate category for descendants of enslaved people in its collection of employee data.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;Advocates say the data disaggregation will help identify and address long-held inequities within black communities. Many descendants see it as a model for other states — and the federal government —&nbsp;to follow.
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	An obvious point is that many of the country's highest black officials are the children of African immigrants or visitors, including Obama and Kamala Harris.&nbsp;

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		A&nbsp;2016 study&nbsp;found that in Los Angeles, the median net worth for a black descendant of enslaved people is $4,000 compared to $72,000 for a recent immigrant from the African continent.
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	Also obviously true. And it makes a certain amount of sense to focus affirmative action benefits on American black people rather than African immigrants. But the upshot is that this pushes further subdivisions into identity politics.

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		Organizers took a page out of Asian American advocates' book after seeing their successful effort to push the state to&nbsp;break down different ethnic groups&nbsp;in health data collection.
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	If you thought American identity politics wasn't divisive enough, we'll start creating black ethnic groups to build new models of privilege and oppression within the black community.

<blockquote>
	
		No one is denying that back people&nbsp;at large are marginalized in America, said Chris Lodgson, lead organizer of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California. But the kind of historical oppression he faces as a descendant has different consequences than the inequities more recent immigrants face, he added.

	
		"One of the things that is core to any group's existence is their identity," Lodgson noted. "When we use these big broad categories called black or African American, not only do we hide the differences between the different groups ... [it also] prevents us from even being able to do anything about any of those differences."
</blockquote>


	What the Axios story doesn't mention is that the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California is all about ":reparations" and this paves the way for deciding who gets them and who doesn't.


	Sorry, Kamala.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Identity politics is about perpetual division. Its goal is not to unite, but to find new ways to break down groups, turning former allies into enemies.

Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People

Here's <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-several-pa-republican-lawmakers-sources-say.html">some more</a> "election fortification".

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		Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

	
		At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them.

	
		The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said.
</blockquote>


	Criminalizing election strategies is about elections.


	Was the FBI actually looking for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago? I'd bet that they were looking for materials related to the electors stuff which is the current bugaboo of the Biden administration, its legal operatives, congressional investigators and the rest of the gang.


	The pattern isn't hard to spot and the timing is painfully obvious.


	A political investigation, as I wrote yesterday, is always about politics and elections.&nbsp;


	This is about the 2024 election. Biden and his allies know they can't win it at the ballot box. They're using the FBI to criminalize political opposition again.

FBI Targets PA Republicans Because This Is About the 2024 Election

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		Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in

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