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Kimberley Strassel Wall Street Journal: Potomac Watch—The Mueller Bitter Enders Here’s the intro. “Democrats are struggling over the direction of their party, and this week things got more complicated. In addition to the splits over the Green Leap Forward, Medicare for All and constitutional rewrites, Robert Mueller’s report has opened a new divide. It’s Team Reality vs. Team Bitter Enders. “Granted, the end of the special counsel’s probe is a shattering blow to Trump haters. So long as Mr. Mueller continued his investigation, the left and its media mates were free to spin collusion claims and nurse hopes of a toppled Trump presidency. Anyone who pushed back was told to sit down, shut up and wait until Mr. Mueller ruled. He now has. The party is over.” Read the rest at the link.

Today’s Hot Headlines C-Span:   Beto O’Rourke Kicks Off Presidential Bid Real Clear Politics: Trump—John Brennan ‘A Real Sick Person’ MSNBC: Ocasio-Cortez Answers Audience Questions CNN: Famed Southern Poverty Law Center Accused of Racism The Weather Channel: Flint Residents Angered After Stockpile of Bottled Water Found Media Research Center: Killer Misogyny Episode of Dick Wolf’s ‘FBI’ Breitbart Hollywood: SNL Mocks Jussie Smollett Fallout Fox News/Opinion: Watters World—What Role Will Mueller Report Play in 2020 Campaign? Fox News/Reporting: Shepard Smith and Anderson Cooper Debate Which One Hates Trump More Not Video from Power Line: Long Overdue Action on EMP

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If you’re a new or occasional visitor here, you might find   this link rewarding. Today’s Hot Headlines Zero Hedge: Biden Doesn’t Recall Alleged Kissing Incident Power Line: John Brennan, From Spittle to Flop Sweat Media Matters: ABC, CBS, and NBC Completely Failed to Mention Climate Change in Flood Coverage Rasmussen Reports: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Deadline Hollywood: Jussie Skips Image Awards, Loses Bid for Supporting Actor Honors New York Post: Ocasio-Cortez Compares Impact of Climate Change to 9/11 New York Times: Spring Brings Surge of Migrants, Stretching Border Facilities Far Beyond Capacity The Federalist: Schiff Angrily Insists Trump is Guilty, Despite Utter Lack of Evidence U.K. Telegraph: TrumpThreatens to Shut Mexican Border, Says He’s ‘Not Kidding Around’ Washington Post: Mueller Report Will Be Delivered by Mid-April, AG Tells Congress

Today’s Hot Headlines: NY Daily News:   Vaccinate All Kids—Rockland County Exposes a Weakness in NY Public Health Detroit News: Trump in Michigan—‘The Collusion Delusion is Over’ The Epoch Times: Spygate—The Inside Story Behind the Alleged Plot to Take Down Trump The Week: Joe Biden’s Endless Gaffe-Riddled Apology Tour Newsweek: John Brennan Spokesman Says Trump Defenders Are Failing to Accept Reality Washington Post: The Trump-Russia Collusion Hall of Shame Breitbart: Limbaugh—‘They’re Setting Up the Impeachment Now‘ New York Post: Mexico Warns, Mother of All Caravans Headed to United States CNN: Fact-Checking Trump’s Michigan Rally The Babylon Bee: Stopped Clock Named CNN’s Most Accurate Reporter

This won’t be the last word but the first. Debra Heine at PJ Media has done the heavy lifting and assembled a list of the worst malefactors during the Mueller Investigation. Here’s a link to the article  (slow to load due to length and age) which is called 50+ Journalists, Politicians, Celebrities, and Grifters Who Peddled the Russian Collusion Hoax . The title is long. So is the article. Here’s the intro: “In 2016, corrupt Democrat partisans both in and out of government, along with their allies in the media, were desperate to stop the Trump juggernaut and used every tool at their disposal to do it. The effort started with opposition research funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Then several versions of former British spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier were delivered to the FBI, each from a different messenger: the late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), Mother Jones reporter David Corn, and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. Then the FBI counterintellig...

Alex Occlusio-Cortex in full banshee mode. Some more background on AOC: Why the New Vogue in Buck Teeth? A Super Hoax Still Unfolding Sisters? The Real Appeal Of Occlusio-Cortex Thank God It’s Friday Choose Your Poison Non-Piquitur Seqs of the Day

Today’s Hot Headlines: Car and Driver Magazine: These Are the 15 Most Beautiful Cars You Can Buy in 2019          —American cars on the list? 0. Investors Business Daily: It’s Official—Clinton’s Popular Vote Win Came Entirely from California TMZ: President Trump—Jussie Smollett Case a National Embrassment Daily Mail: Disgraced Yale Soccer Coach Will Plead Guilty To Wire Fraud Today New York Times: Trump Owns Economy Now, For Better or Worse RealClearMarkets: Don’t Listen to Naysayers; Trump’s Economy is Booming U.K. Independent:  America Should Let Other Countries Vote in 2020 Election MSNBC: James Comey Thought Firing Was Potentially Obstruction Of Justice New York Post:   Rachel Maddow’s Ratings Plummet Since Conclusion of Mueller Probe The Bulwark: The Tao Of Joe—Biden Is Stronger Than You Think The Onion: Self-Actualized Historians Urge Nation Not to Get Hung Up on the Past

Put away the party supplies, the drinks and the appetizers. The next wave of vermin is already starting to crawl out of the woodwork in pursuit of Trump. Get ready.

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Today’s Hot Headlines New York Post: Obama Warns New House Dems, ‘Think About How to Pay for Big, Bold Ideas’ Business Insider: U.S.-China Trade Deficit Drops Sharply in January PJ Media: Police Union Rep Says Prosecutor Threw Cops ‘Under the Bus’ in Smollett Case Washington Times: Trump Wins Border Wall Battle As House Fails to Override Veto Philadelphia Inquirer: Truth About Mueller Report: Trump Behavior Provoked It and Still Helps Russia American Thinker: Hilarious Video On Media Frenzy Over Trump Collusion The Federalist: AG Bill Barr Will Be Targeted by House Democrats For No Particular Reason The Daily Telegraph: NY County Bars Unvaccinated Children from Public Spaces Over Measles Outbreak CBS Philly: ‘We’re Expecting a 3rd Wave’—Over 100 Mumps Cases Reported in Temple U. Outbreak LA Times: Schiff Doubles Down on Trump—Undoubtedly There Was Collusion’

The New York Post: Barbara Bush Blamed Trump for Her 2016 ‘Heart Attack’ Because Trump nicknamed her son “Low Energy Jeb.” Jeb tried to reassure her. ‘He’s right,” he said. (Yes, that’s in the article.) As a former Republican, this lifelong political wife and veteran of seven (7) national elections had no difficulty getting up to speed with the lefty Hate-Trump program. On her nightstand she kept a red, white, and blue countdown watch that announced the days, hours, and minutes to the end of Trump’s first term. She didn’t make it, but presumably the watch is still ticking away.

There’s a lull of sorts in the fighting, but the war for the nation is not over. It’s a good time to take stock, to remind ourselves how and why we got where we are today. That’s why I’m linking a three year old post from the blog InstaPunk Rules. You may have seen or even read it before, but I’m urging you to read it now, in the now of a deeply Machiavellian coup attempt against the president we elected two and a half years ago. What has changed since then? In the situation, in the opposition, in Trump, in us? We can each answer for ourselves. I’m thinking I was right then and still am. Here’s how the post begins: “Contrary to official opinion, we’re not dumb. We know he’s a risk. A big one. But we’re all in. Why? “Because we cannot go on as we have been. Seven years of Obama have shown that this unique and glorious nation is in danger of dying. While every single establishment institution has played along, caved, hid under the bed, pretended that business as usual would someh...

Today’s Hot Headlines American Greatness: The Mueller Dud FTA: “While the Mueller investigation was built on a foundation of lies and constituted an appalling use of our legal and justice system to litigate policy differences, it did have a silver lining: it showed how corrupt the Justice Department and FBI were under Obama. It showed the process of obtaining warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is in dire need of reform. It showed that we have a bifurcated legal system and that equal application of the law is a farce. It showed that beyond a shadow of a doubt we have many in the mainstream media who aren’t reporters or journalists; they’re just political operatives masquerading as such. We’ve seen the media annihilate whatever reputation it had left because of their loathing of Trump.” PJ Media: The Age Of Monochromatic Late Night Humor  Power Line: NPR Interviews a Republican About Mueller Report! Front Page Magazine: The Fallout from the Muelle...

Top Newspaper Story this Morning New York Post: Mueller Madness—The Media Pundits Who Got It Most Wrong

HOLDOVER FROM SUNDAY’S VIDEO NEWS!  Chris Wallace Sharpshoots the Mueller Report Today’s Hot Headlines The Hill: Sharyl Attkisson—Apologies to President Trump New York Post: Michael Goodwin—We Should All Be Celebrating the Collapse Of Hillary’s Big Lie CNN: Hell Freezes Over—Victor Davis Hanson Pens CNN Op-Ed American Greatness: VDH—Did Trump Really Do All That? American Thinker:   Klobuchar Joins Kamala Harris, Desperately Trying to ‘Victim Up’ USA Today: Instapundit—Collusion by the News Media, Not Trump, But Don’t Expect Apologies Power Line: Obstruction Of What? CBS News: Islamist Extremism Caused 84,000 Deaths Worldwide in 2017 Washington Post: How the Democrats Are Putting A Bad Spin On Good Economic News Babylon Bee: Nation’s Psychiatric Wards Prepare for Influx Of Deranged Liberals Breitbart Hollywood: Maher—I Don’t Need the Mueller Report to Know That Trump’s a Traitor

h/t to Randy Cech at Facebook for his Venn Diagram trio. (Search FB by name; he doesn’t share.) The Boomer Bible is the only book that can explain it all, in context. Workman Publishing 1991. Book still available across the Internet, via Amazon et al, and in a truncated electronic form here . Start reading at random, then let the book help you find the reading order that suits you. The Intercolumn Reference links work. No other book written in English is as interconnected as this one.

Sunday’s Hot Video News Clips MSNBC :   Network Victory Lap On Mueller Report Chris Matthews: Not Entirely Satisfied with Mueller Report Rachel Maddow: Races from TN Trout Stream to Studio for Mueller Revelations Wolf Blitzer:   Placing Hopes in Southern District Of New York (backup capital of U.S.) CNN :  Still Digging On Russia Collusion Tucker Carlson: No American Has Been Indicted for Russia Collusion Fox News/Chris Wallace: “Too Early to Tell” If Trump Cleared by Mueller Report Fox News/Brit Hume: Not Having Been Told That There Is A Mueller Report Donald Trump: Reacting to Mueller Report Barack Obama:   Launching Brand New Trump Collusion Investigation

Malashock is posting at FB today about an old issue that America’s forward thinking atavistic socialists have just discovered shining like a new dime on the ash heap of history: Reparations for Slavery. I wrote about this almost 15 years ago, in terms I have yet to see attempted by anyone else. I tried to calculate a per capita number owed. I did that. No one else to my knowledge has done that, tongue in cheek or otherwise. Here’s the article . Here’s an excerpt that introduces the process of calculation: The first step is to acknowledge that any claim of reparations pursued through the courts now is on behalf of people who have not themselves been slaves. The specific pain and suffering illustrated by the photograph(s) above was committed by people who are now dead against victims who are now dead. All possibility of reparations as a moral expiation of guilt is moot because all parties to the immoral  acts involved have been deceased for about a century. For this reaso...

Tinker’ . It can’t be described. One reviewer would say only that he drove 5 1/2 hours to see it at a film festival and would do so again now that he’s seen it. I recommend it. Not that you should believe me in this case. It’s got Tesla, and divine order, and barely connected people barely touching one another to great effect. How could I resist?

Today’s Hot Headlines New York Times: Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General CNN: Mueller Report is Just the Start of a New Russia Showdown Breitbart: John Dean—Mueller Report Conclusion Doesn’t Resolve whether Trump Russian Agent Weekly World News:   Saturn is a Giant UFO! Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin—Democrat Voters Would Rather Defeat Trump at Polls in 2020 American Thinker: Democratic Presidential Contenders’ Demeaning View Of Americans The Onion: Study Reveals Girls Who Grow Up Playing Princess Have Skewed Views Of Monarchy The Daily Whale: Trump is Still a Vulgar Vulgarian Who Shouldn’t Have Been Nominated PJ Media: The American Media Destroyed Themselves Over the Mueller Investigation InstaPunk Returns: Saying What Nobody Else Wants to Say About Trump BONUS: More from American Thinker: Read All the Ones Pictured Below

This was a Facebook post I wrote on the first day of winter last year. I made predictions, which have come true. You should read them for the multiple reminders of how sickly seditious the Democrats are. I’ll quote just two separate paragraphs here. “The Mueller investigation and all those gunslinger prosecutors in the outlying states. Whew. Time to be scared, Trumpkins. All this is also baked in the cake. If Mueller really had anything, we’d have seen some dramatic revelations BEFORE the elections, not after. We know from the ugly public record, no fake news needed, just how desperate the Dems were to October-Surprise their way to a midterm landslide. Which did not happen despite three mighty swings at the plate, all whiffs...” Strike 1 was the McCain Funeral Week Of Trump Assaults. Then... “Strike 2, the flurry of scandalized press coverage about a mad bomber (and implied Trump Deplorable) who sent packages containing fake bombs to the Secret Service details of some disp...

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"The Mueller investigation is complete and this is a simple fact that will never go away: not one single American was charged, indicted or convicted for conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election - not even a low-level volunteer. The number is zero." Glenn Greenwald.

It’s been a year since she posted this on the first full day of Spring, 2018.  Robert’s Attempt to Get Banned from Book Publishing in Two Different Centuries . It’s pricey but worth it for the Renaissance artwork and the Turing Test flowcharts alone.

Today’s Hot Headlines New York Post: Why a Strong Economy Isn’t Boosting Trump’s Approval Ratings Rasmussen Reports: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Of Likely Voters Fox News: Koppel Says NYT-WAPO ‘Decided As Organizations’ Trump Bad for U.S. The Federalist: Democrats Want to Kill the Electoral College Because They Fear the Constitution Cracked: 5 Reasons Gender-Flipped Remakes Never Work Daily Mail: AOC and Hillary Mock Jared Kushner for ‘Using WhatsApp for Official Business’ Desmoines Register: Miller-Coors Sues Anheuser-Busch over ‘Corn Syrup’ Commercials CNN: Tensions Rise as Washington Looks to Mueller Hot Air: Did Rosenstein Already Tip His Hand On Mueller Report? Philadelphia Inquirer: Criticism Of McCain Is Message to Trump’s Base, Allies Say

Laughs, tears, and a smart blow against the Swedish Nanny State. Showing on Amazon Prime. Peas in a pod. Compare with this Swedish  TV Masterpiece from InstaPunk Rules.

Dogs and Marines. Heroes. What’s not to like? At Amazon Prime.

Today’s Hot Headlines   Front Page Magazine: ‘Progressive’ = The New Nazi Zero Hedge:   Doomed Boeing 737 Lacked Optional Safety Features; Captain Skipped Training Power Line: The Hard ‘Lasch’ the Left Deserves The National Enquirer: Mean Megyn Kelly Making Waves at CBS Breitbart Hollywood: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore Planning Strategy for 2020 Blue Wave MSNBC: How Trump Plans to Weaponize the Mueller Report The Bulwark: Let’s Maybe Not Trash the ‘Estabishment,’ Okay? The Babylon Bee: Reanimated Ché Guevara Announces 2020 Run Reason Magazine: The Right’s Identity Politics Is More Dangerous Than the Left’s College Fix: College Faces Trial for Forcing Conservative Student to Lobby for Leftist Causes

Beto seems to be taking some early lumps, and Unka Joe isn’t exactly setting the world on fire, so the tireless Hillary campaigners appear to be trying to start a boomlet for Elizabeth Warren. Jennifer Rubin has a laudatory column about her in the Washington Post today, although thanks to the shrewdly conceived WAPO pay wall, the indifferent and barely interested will never get to read anything of it but the bold headline Elizabeth Warren has done her homework. Why hasn’t anybody else? Others have been slow to get behind her because of the career-making lie she told universities about her Native American ancestry, which doesn’t exist, as verified in triplicate by DNA tests she commissioned herself. This isn’t what they should be worried about. I have another test to demonstrate the real problem. First, though, I’ll give you a hint by showing you a screen cap [click to enlarge] of a Google Search response to a simple question: Not only is there no link to anything like an ...

Here’s the story from American Thinker about Fake K-12 Education . Here’s an excerpt: Whole Word , a theory that children can learn to read by memorizing sight-words, is a lot like living with Chinese drywall.  You get headaches and respiratory problems.  Your health is shot from worry and failure.  After years of going to school, the victims still have nothing to show for all that work and expense.  Memorizing sight-words is difficult to do and counterproductive.  Once you have these designs in your brain, you can rarely be a fluent reader.  More than 40,000,000 people, known as functional illiterates, are victims of this peculiar adulteration.  Reading is promised but not delivered. And here’s the author’s book on the subject. His name is Bruce Deitrick Price and you should absolutely read what he has to say, whether you have children or not. We are all affected. A recent InstaPunk post, Portrait o...

Today’s Hot Headlines GEICO: A Camel on Wednesday NY Daily News: German Politicians Want to Boot Ambassador Richard Grenell Desmoines Register: “Totally Trashed” Levees Along Missouri River Could Cost Billions to Fix MRC NewsBusters:   Here Comes a Cakewalk for the Democrats The Onion: Your Horoscopes — Week of March 19, 2019 Breitbart Sports: Jemele Hill Claims Electoral College Created to Preserve Slavery Power Line: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most American Thinker: K-12 — Fake, Like Adulterated Milk CNN: New Mueller Probe Revelations Explain Trump’s Rage New York Post: AP Analysis Humps Clear Signs Of “Human-Caused” Climate Change

Today’s Hot Headlines Zero Hedge: Boeing/FAA Saga is a Perfect Microcosm Of Our “Twisted, Broken Culture” American Greatness: How a McCain Associate Helped Advance the Russian Collusion Narrative Hollywood Insider: Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara to Exit as Studio Chief Business Insider: How Elizabeth Holmes Convinced Powerful Men onto Theranos Board Washington Times: Supreme Court Upholds ICE Detention Without Bail New York Times: How California’s Biggest Utility Overlooked Wildfire Risks  [Keep scrolling] Hot Air: Baltimore Mayor Resigns from Board that Paid Her $500K for Books MSNBC: How Jared and Ivanka Might Be More Dangerous than Trump Vogue : Opening of Gender Bending Fashion Show at Boston Museum Of Fine Arts LA Times: Why Do Republicans Still Back Trump?  [Subject of Today’s News Spotlight below]

This morning, the Spotlight is on an op-ed at the LA Times, linked from Facebook by Bill Gertz . Our purpose today isn’t to be mean but to flag an emergent phenomenon we’ll call backhanded Trump praise. Here’s a quote from the linked op-ed written by Scott Jennings and called  Why do Republicans still back Trump? Why do Republicans stick with Donald Trump? It’s a question I’m asked again and again by Democrats, “Never Trumpers,” and journalists.  But the answer is simple. Attitude and gratitude. For years, Republican voters wanted someone — anyone — to come along and do two things: stick it to the Clintons and punch back against the media-Democratic Party alliance that fires on every Republican brave enough to stick a head out of the foxhole.If you attended any GOP fundraiser or grassroots event between 2000 and 2016 — and I went to hundreds — you heard this sentiment over and over. And over. And over... Trump isn’t a politician but he alone in a ...

The last item on the Link List is especially interesting. Last night, saw a new episode of Smithsonian Channel’s Air Disaster series. The near-crash incident involved an Airbus 320 with faulty software that turned altitude info into Angle of Attack info and precipitated unnecessary and very dangerous dives without warning. The Boeing status reported by Reuters sounds identical. The Airbus problem, which also reoccurred on different 320s, has not been solved to date but only mitigated. This Boeing-Airbus Link seems like a fruitful new line of investigation. Two manufacturers, one unit of software? Today’s Hot Headlines LA Times: Iowa is Shaking Things Up, Ripples May Reach White House “Most significantly, Democrats wishing to participate will no longer be required  to show up at a caucus... Under  the new rules, Democrats may be able  to back a preferred candidate by participating in one of six “virtual” caucuses,  submitting  a list of as many as fi...