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Wow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . these democrats. Texas Democrats Are Holding a Sleepover Now John Sexton As expected, Texas Democrats returned home Monday, setting up the state to pass a redistricting plan that could result in several more GOP controlled seats after next year's election. Republicans promised to impose $7,000 in fines on each Democrat who fled ($500 per day) and also to bill them for the money spent trying to track them down. But Republicans also put in place one additional penalty. No Democrat would be allowed to leave the State House unless accompanied by a member of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The idea was to keep them from running away again. Most of the Democrats agreed and left with their assigned member of DPS but one Democrat decided it was time for another headline-grabbing stunt. State Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth said in an interview Tuesday she would sleep on the House floor until Labor Day if she had to. Since Monday, Collier has entered a new existence, eating, sleeping and working from the locked chamber after refusing to acquiesce to Republican demands that Democrats agree to around-the-clock security escorts in order to be released from the building...

Alaska Meeting Was a Start, But Putin Still Up to His Old Tricks — and Trump Knows It Douglas Murray As the people of Ukraine know, neighborliness is not among Putin’s great qualities. Still, it was with a reference to the US and Russia being neighbors that Putin kicked off his conversation with President Trump in Alaska yesterday. On the red carpet at the airport he apparently said to Trump: “Good afternoon, dear neighbor. Very good to see you in good health and to see you alive.”' When relaying this at the joint press conference later on, the Russian president commented about his own earlier remarks: “I think that is very neighborly.” Of course the two leaders were only meeting because of Putin’s lack of neighborly qualities. https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/opinion/alaska-was-a-start-but-putin-is-still-up-to-his-old-tricks-and-trump-knows-it/

No mas, no mas By Bill Glahn On of the stories I’ve been following is the rise of right-wing (conservative, free-market, whatever you prefer) parties and governments across the world. From the U.K. Guardian, Bolivia’s presidential election will go to a runoff for the first time, with two rightwing candidates competing for the presidency – marking the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas). The New York Times describes the leading candidate, Sen. Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 57, as a centrist. In any event, neither finalist is a leftist. Also contested in this election was the Bolivian legislature, both lower house and Senate, and the same anti-leftist trend held. The runoff election for president will be held on October 19. How big a deal was this? The Guardian reports, Luis Arce, the deeply unpopular Mas president, chose not to seek re-election and instead put forward his interior minister, 36-year-old Eduardo del Castillo, who won just 3.16% of the vote. Adding, Some analysts described the shift to the right as being part of a broader “rightward turn” across South America, after the victories of Javier Milei in Argentina and Daniel Noboa in Ecuador. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/no-mas-no-mas.php

OBAMA’S ‘OBSCENE MONUMENT TO HIS EGO’ DRAMATICALLY BACKFIRES AS $850M VANITY PROJECT SPARKS OUTRAGE: President Barack Obama’s promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House. But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home, the Daily Mail can reveal. His $850 million presidential center in Chicago – due to open in April – has come under fire from residents, community leaders and even onetime supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility in Jackson Park is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent and forcing families out. Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the area where the center is being built, told the Daily Mail she is a fan of Obama and believes in the project but has fought aspects of it to protect her constituents. Her efforts have had mixed results. ‘We’re going to see rents go higher and we’re going to see families displaced,’ she told the Daily Mail. ‘Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for,’ the Democrat added. ‘This was no different, and we’re living what is actually happening. The city of Chicago should have done a Community Benefits Agreement before the first shovel went into the ground, but they didn’t.’ A CBA is a legally binding document that outlines what a developer will provide for a project such as affordable housing, local hiring and environmental protections. C’mon — it’s a moment to a guy who said that merely winning the Democrats’ nomination to be president was “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Surely you can trust his environmental intentions! In 2019, Jon Gabriel described the library as looking like “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off. That’s what sprung to mind when confronted with the initial design of the Obama Presidential Center.” Over the past century, it’s a truism that the vast majority of modern architecture never looks as good when built as it does in model format. And the Obama Presidential Center was looking stillborn while still only styrene: https://archive.is/0fRUW

No amount of money can change the facts.

More on the fraudulent crime numbers. (for those who were objecting)

Barry's library - currently 3x over budget and nearing a billion dollars to build

Political cartoon alert !!!

Two decades of leftwing dominance end in Bolivia as rightwingers head to election runoff by Tiago Rogero Bolivia’s presidential election will go to a runoff for the first time, with two rightwing candidates competing for the presidency – marking the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas). The candidate with the most votes, however, turned out to be a surprise: centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 57, who had started the campaign with just 3% support in opinion polls. In second came Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, 65, a rightwing former president who briefly led the country in 2001 after the resignation of ex-dictator Hugo Banzer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/bolivia-presidential-election-preliminary-results

Huh, imagine that.

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Final deluge of the libs sub sandwich thrower.

Jeffrey Epstein? Forget It by John Hinderaker Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for six years, and during the four years of the Biden administration he was largely forgotten. Earlier this year Epstein enjoyed a brief revival of sorts, as desperate Democrats tried to link him to President Trump. But that effort was obviously futile, because 1) whatever his faults, Trump is not a pervert, and 2) if Trump had a disreputable connection to Epstein, we would have known about it long ago. Today, former Attorney General William Barr, who knows the Epstein case and the “Epstein files,” testified before the House Oversight Committee. He said what we all knew to be true: Former Attorney General Bill Barr told House investigators on Monday that he never saw anything that could tie President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid crimes, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said. “He said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would probably have leaked it out,” Comer told reporters partway through Barr’s testimony. I think the Democrats knew all along that they had nothing, which is why the Epstein case dropped suddenly out of the headlines. But don’t worry: they will come up with another fraud before long. Meanwhile, we await more information about Bill Clinton’s relationship with Epstein, and what lay behind the infamous painting of Clinton in a blue dress that hung in Epstein’s house. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/jeffrey-epstein-forget-it.php

The amount of people twisting themselves into knots to oppose a deal getting done just because "TRUMP BAD" should be a litmus test for those who are either too stupid, too broken, or too brainwashed to be taken seriously. Ever. Take a lap through the MSM, podcast, socials, or print media and you'll see a dozen examples in minutes.