All_Pro_Bills

Not much concern for "due process" back then. A significant number of these strikes were in Pakistan. Not a country we were at war with or one that gave any official permission to the U.S. to conduct airstrikes. The real kicker here is Obama wins the peace prize. But this was all in response to 9/11 and the effort to track down bin Laden. The public was behind the effort and the administration could use the war on terror as justification when it suited the need. Also, the political divide that exists today didn't exist when Obama was in office. As both Dems and Reps generally all love a good war and being against killing "terrorists" regardless of the amount of collateral damage would get you labeled as unpatriotic. At the time Bush and his neocon crew were running the Republican party so a Democrat President that bombed people wasn't going to get any push back. There's a big difference today as political conflict is extreme on even the most mundane issue.

If Trump wants to hit India hard you don't do it with tariffs. You target the IT services and outsourcing business provided to 100's of US companies. Its a double play. You get ModI's full attention and suggest to US firms they bring these jobs back home. As a kicker maybe sanction remittances sent from the US back to India via H1B workers. That's billions. They'll dump those Russian oil purchases quick. And if they don't the economy there takes a huge hit.

Here's the thing. Almost all of us have ancestors that came to this country from other places. And while they kept remnants and characteristics of their original country and culture there was an expectation they would assimilate into American culture and adopt the attributes and characteristics of that culture. They had to learn English. The had to work. They had to support their families. They received no social assistance. And they did just that. Here's the problem today. Because of the concept of multi-culturalism there is no longer an expectation of assimilation into the culture of the host country. The expectation of these newly arrived migrants is they can "drag and drop" their home culture and customs anywhere they choose to settle. Most receive generous social assistance at the expense of the locals. Add in liberal social justice types that somehow get elected that accommodate this trend and you get chaos. Add in local governments and cops that have lost all sense of morality and duty. Like in some cities here protecting the perps. That's the UK. What amazes me is how much crap the English are willing to take before they're driven to go all Rambo on the pervs.

Such is life in the Islamic Republic of Britain.

That number puts a dent in your perpetual we need more immigrants theory. Expect a 50 pt. Fed rate cut at the September Fed meeting. Unless Friday's BLS jobs report is a big number, which I doubt.

Perhaps they should have been arrested so DC Circuit judge Boasberg could order the military to release them while providing each narco cartel employee with a complimentary gift basket?

Before the next attack on a cartel drug boat let's have the Pentagon drop a bunch of questionnaires with 20 to 25 questions. First question, "Are you a drug cartel member? Yes or No."

Rather than manufacturing paranoid fantasies about some coup cancelling elections Democrats might want to spend their time articulating a rational platform of policies and initiatives to address issues and problems facing Americans. Just being against anything Trump is for isn't going to cut it.

How about you ship a couple thousand copies of the Constitution to Chicago and advise those people being shot dead in the streets by criminals unimpeded by the rule of law as administered by the city and State governments to use them as shields to stop a bullet?

Believe what you wish but that's the look of it all. Chicago's Mayor is saying we're more comfortable with 7 killed and 54 wounded in gun battles in the streets over the Labor Day weekend than we are with getting assistance from Federal law enforcement and possibly the National Guard.

Its not a hoax. Defending the illegals riding the taxpayer supported gravy train and supporting criminals "right" to commit crime without consequences is a posture the Democrats have been forced to take rather than do the unthinkable. Which is agreeing Trump is right about something. That's something they can never do. Incidentally, a trait shared by some posters here too. Its a losing position with the majority of Americans. Including the city dwellers swamped by illegals taking up jobs and social support dollars and criminals terrorizing their neighborhoods. The self-proclaimed intellectual giants on the left have been painting into a corner by the Orange Menace. And there's no way out.

Everyone needs to deal with this from the perspective of reality. Putin knows he has the upper hand with the war on the ground and its likely a matter of a couple months before Russian forces overwhelm Ukraine's ability to hold them off. And short of direct US involvement, which Trump won't do unless under extreme circumstances, there's no need for the Russians to accept terms requiring them to concede anything of importance to them. Additional sanctions won't do much. I expect Trump's "plan" to end the war is to transfer the administration of assistance and support to the Europeans as they seem hot and heavy to continue the conflict. This "ending the war" as far as US involvement is concerned.

Whether by design or by chance this threat of National Guard deployment ìs a trap for blue state governors and mayors of cities. As it is absolutely forbidden to agree with Trump on even the most insignificant thing the Dems are forced to take what appears as a pro-crime position. In Chicago some 30 or so people have been shot this weekend. And the Mayor seems comfortable with that number while vowing to protect the citizens of Chicago from the big, bad National Guard and Federal law enforcement. Issuing orders to the local police to not cooperate. The governor has issued some nonsensical proclamation pledging to protect the rights of the LGBTQ community while never saying just what rights are at risk. None it appears. The libs look like scared and frightened clowns about to be shot out of a cannon at the circus while doing everything possible to avoid doing their job of protecting their citizens.

How do you take over a company with a 10% position? As a general rule no politician from California should criticize anyone else for ruining capitalism.

Trump's health issues, whatever people believe they are, are the result of aging not some serious neurological or physical ailment. Libs are reaching for the your guy too comparison because they faked Biden was okay and got caught looking like fools.

The cop that shot her had a history of questionable judgment. About a dozen officers at the scene and he was the only one that felt threatened to the point lethal force was necessary. I believe he radioed in "shots fired" implying the protesters were shooting. But it was him that fired the only shot.

She must be looking for attention.

It's the first I heard of this guy.

Sure the guys has an agenda. Politicans all have an agenda. Believe it or not. But that doesn't mean England is free of any immigrant issues.

Shouldn't he be subject to the same scrutiny? I think so. But i expect any ethics, or legal, removal from office would need to come from the Governor's office.

The NYT story yesterday is claiming the Minneapolis trans shooter's motive is still "a mystery". Huh? (Kunstler's stuff below is always a good read) The War On Reality is Over “. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers James Howard Kunstler Aug 29, 2025 Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery. You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel this hairball. Most obviously, the suspect, now dead, in Wednesday’s Minneapolis school shooting was not a “her.” He was a him, a 23-year-old male, Robert Westman, who had been pretending to be a female for some years since undergoing puberty, with the encouragement of his parents and the cultural leaders of his city, including Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, backed by the expressed principles of the national Democratic Party. The essence of all that was a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become. Pretend that men can become women. Pretend that Covid vaccinations are safe and effective. Pretend that national borders don’t matter. Pretend that crime is not a social problem. Pretend that riots are mostly peaceful. Pretend that our elections are free and fair. Pretend that “Joe Biden” is president. Pretend that Ukraine is fighting for democracy. And so on. All pretend. Since the Democratic Party has zero useful ideas for improving the lives of this country’s citizens, all it has is pretend theater, which is public performative psychopathology, otherwise known as acting-out. Mass murders of school-children by so-called trans people are the most garish and horrific actings-out, the most offensive to society, a slaughter of innocents. Such an act grabs everybody’s attention. The New York Times pretends that all this is “a mystery” because to tell the truth would inculpate them in the ongoing criminal racketeering operation of their patron, the Democratic Party. They all know what the truth is in this matter: that Robert Westman became insane, at least in his time of puberty, possibly earlier, and that his parents resorted to persuading their child that he was born in the wrong body — as the trendy theory goes — to remedy his psychological distress. He was thereafter influenced to play-act as a female. Possibly, he was induced to go through some stage of medical “treatment” to supposedly advance his transition to the opposite sex — for instance, a hormone regimen. This has not yet been reported. (Has it even been investigated by police or the news media?) Of course, “gender-affirming medical care” is a vicious fraud, as is the preposterous idea of “sexual assignment at birth” (as if it is some kind of error-ridden clerical function). Males cannot be changed into females no matter how much their hormones are altered or how much surgery they endure. It is all just costuming and makeup, to an extreme degree, to enhance the game of pretend. It is also bound to be nightmarishly disappointing to the person undergoing such malign rigors. As in the case of psycho-killer Robert Westman, he discovered his tragic mistake in exactly the period of life — emerging into adulthood — when emotions tend to be most labile. If he also happened to be on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, etc.), known to produce suicidal and homicidal thinking, combined with his emotional instability, there you have an obvious recipe for disaster. None of that is mysterious. Nor was the record he left behind in his “manifesto” or in the videos and social media postings he put up. Westman evinced stark rage and despair over the poor choice he was induced to make at a time in his life before the judgment region of his brain had fully developed. “I’m tired of being trans,” he wrote. “I wish I had never brainwashed myself.” It was hardly his own fault, though. He was pushed to do it by his own family and strongly supported by the culture that surrounded him in Tim Walz’s “trans refuge state” of Minnesota — the state that also gave us George Floyd, the fake martyr to black victimhood, whose death provoked a years’ long national race-hustle. And, of course, Tim Walz was a recent standard-bearer for the Democratic Party, a signature figure for all their insanity. Wednesday’s shooting in Minneapolis looks like a hinge event in American politics. We’re done pretending. Trans is done as a political fashion-statement. Doctors will have to give up their pretenses about “gender-affirming care” if they don’t want to be bankrupted by lawsuits or prosecuted for criminal malpractice. Politicians like Walz and Frey will eventually shut-up about trans. But you can sense something else beyond that. America is done being bullied and guilt-tripped into the matrix of untruth altogether, and the racketeering that thrives in it. And we are going after the racketeers. This week, President Trump suggested a RICO investigation and potential prosecution of George and Alex Soros, for using their vast philanthropic Open Society empire as a colossal money-laundering operation to fund Democratic Party activities, including all their efforts to disorder the legal system, sponsor riots, pay illegal migrants, promote trans activism, rig elections, and underwrite sedition. Without that money-flow — much of it used to winkle taxpayer dollars out of Congress — the party can’t keep paying its Antifa foot-soldiers in the streets, or the lavish salaries of its middle managers in a world of corrupt non-profit orgs. Between that and the coming prosecution of its many stars from the Clintons to Adam Schiff to New York Attorney General Letitia James and many other names you are familiar with, the Democratic Party — and its war against reality — may be truly done.

All hypocrisy argument aside, can you muster up the courage to admit there's credible and sufficient evidence that Fed board member Ms. Cook acted improperly?

And that would disqualify him from a position on the Fed. There's a lawsuit filed by Ms. Cook which is going to be heard under a "randomly" selected anti-Trump judge. Guess if you can how she'll rule? I understand it's not 2 but 3 properties now. 2 primary residences and a loan for what the applicant clearly stated is a 2nd home which is in reality a rental and 3rd home. So 2 clerical errors. Ex the partisan politics routine always at play on PPP I'm starting to get cynical about the integrity of the American political class. And it's not confined to 1 specific person or 1 specific party. Unethical behavior seems to be a requirement for these jobs.

Don't worry. These types of price increases won't show up in the CPI. The current methodology assumes consumer substitution when faced with higher prices. So high beef prices will result in consumers substituting lower cost chicken. Hocus, pocus, no inflation.

It was either Trump and his circus act or Harris and a continuation of an insane liberal agenda. And we all know the circus is more fun than being subjected to constant pontificating on alleged and most times imaginary social injustice and racism. The cleanest pig in the mud hole analogy in practice.