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Liberal cities, governors ramp up pushback to Trump deportations
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Liberal cities, governors ramp up pushback to Trump deportations

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Jesse Watters: Bill Clinton gives 'cold, hard truth' on why his party lost in 'humiliating' fashion
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Jesse Watters: Bill Clinton gives 'cold, hard truth' on why his party lost in 'humiliating' fashion

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U.S. Locks Embassy, Allocates New Mines in Ukraine War
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U.S. Locks Embassy, Allocates New Mines in Ukraine War

The American embassy in Kiev announced Wednesday its temporary closure due to the possibility of Russia launching a “significant air attack” on the city. The move comes a day after Ukraine significantly escalated the conflict by using long-range U.S. missiles on targets within Russia. “The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has received specific information of a potential significant air attack on November 20,” the announcement for the temporary closure read. “Out of an abundance of caution, the Embassy will be closed, and Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place.” This news comes the same day as Washington’s announcement that antipersonnel mines will be given to Ukraine. This would represent a second major escalation within the past week, particularly as Ukraine is technically a signatory to the Ottawa treaty, which bans antipersonnel mines. Humanitarian groups have condemned the decision of the Biden administration. “Antipersonnel landmines are inherently indiscriminate weapons that maim and kill civilians long after conflicts end and shouldn’t have a place in the arsenal of any country,” Ben Linden, Amnesty International’s Advocacy Director for Europe and Central Asia, stated. “Even the ‘nonpersistent’ mines are a threat to civilians.” The post U.S. Locks Embassy, Allocates New Mines in Ukraine War appeared first on The American Conservative.
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Bob Casey Jr: The Apple Fell Very Far From the Tree
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Bob Casey Jr: The Apple Fell Very Far From the Tree

Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey ended his political career on a high note: fighting his own political party on behalf of unborn children. During his second term as governor, Casey courageously opposed the Democrat Party’s drift toward the promotion of unrestricted abortion by seeking to address the 1992 Democratic National Convention on that topic. He was denied that opportunity by the Bill Clinton forces who had already made their deal with the devil on abortion — they would stand by the unrestricted abortion regime of Roe v. Wade while disguising their pro-abortion policies that kill innocent babies under the banner of “safe, legal, and rare.” Gov. Casey was, as he later wrote, “banished” from the convention over the issue of abortion. In addition to being denied an opportunity to deliver an anti-abortion speech, Casey had to endure being, in his words, “publicly humiliated” by his own party. Instead, the convention organizers had a Republican pro-abortion woman who had campaigned for Casey’s opponent in 1990 speak to the delegates. Another Democratic politico was distributing buttons that featured a photo of Casey dressed up as the Pope. Casey recalled that he had “never felt such deep, bitter hatred — the tyranny of the far left, up close and personal.” But Casey continued to fight publicly for the unborn children, both from his perch as Pennsylvania’s governor and during several media appearances — 60 Minutes, Larry King Live, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation. He was exploring a run for the presidency as a pro-life Democrat candidate. It was not to be, however, due to serious health issues. Then, in 1996, he wrote Fighting for Life, which was part memoir and part a plea to protect the lives of unborn children. Casey’s exit from politics was principled, courageous, and inspiring. Bob Casey Jr. also entered the political arena, and largely based on his father’s legacy and name recognition, won successive Pennsylvania state offices (though not governor) and later was elected three times as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. During most of his political career, Casey Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps claiming to be a pro-life Democrat. But as the national Democratic Party moved farther left, and as party leaders abandoned the disguise of “safe, legal, and rare” in favor of an openly pro-abortion stance, Casey Jr. abandoned his father’s stance and changed his position, becoming a vocal supporter of Roe v. Wade’s deadly abortion regime. Presumably, Casey Jr. calculated that his future political career in the party demanded a pro-abortion stance, so he, too, made his deal with the devil thinking that he would be rewarded by being reelected to a fourth term in the Senate. Alas, it appears it was not to be. Unlike his father, Casey Jr. abandoned the cause of protecting unborn children for political gain. And unlike his father, he is not leaving the political arena on a high, principled, or inspired note. Instead, after being declared the loser of his Senate race against Dave McCormick, Casey Jr. refused to concede and is making Pennsylvania taxpayers spend over $1 million on a recount that the experts say he cannot win. Worse, Casey Jr. hired Democratic Party election lawyer Marc Elias to challenge the election and watched silently as election officials in at least three Pennsylvania counties began counting ballots that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had already decided were illegal and should not be counted. The apple, as they say, has fallen very far from the tree. READ MORE from Francis Sempa: Rejuvenating the Monroe Doctrine Is Biden Trying to Start World War III Before Trump Takes Office? With Trump’s Presidency, the China Hawks Are Back The post Bob Casey Jr: The Apple Fell Very Far From the Tree appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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California Voters Reject ‘California Values’
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California Voters Reject ‘California Values’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s political establishment spend a lot of time blathering about protecting “California’s values,” but the election results show that even voters here have tired of that nonsense. Vice President Kamala Harris — a product of the Bay Area Democratic establishment — received a far lower percentage of the California vote for president than her predecessors, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. The county election map tells the usual stark picture of two Californias, although it’s starker this year after Donald Trump flipped eight counties from blue in 2020 to red in 2024. Those include San Bernardino and Riverside. Those massive counties (San Bernardino is larger in area than nine states) encompass vast deserts, but their populations are centered in the Los Angeles suburbs. He also flipped four heavily Latino counties in the agricultural Central Valley. California has never been a uniformly liberal state, it’s just that its most liberal areas — the population of 10 million in Los Angeles County and eight million in the San Francisco Bay Area — swamp the votes of the rest of the state. Because the dominant progressives mainly reside in white-collar coastal regions, the Democratic Party has focused on their peculiarities rather than on more traditional Democratic messaging that used to resonate in blue-collar Fresno or Stockton. Republicans appear to have made some legislative gains, which are hard given the district maps — and certainly not enough to reform the Capitol circus. But, as I reported recently in The American Spectator, they soundly rejected progressive nostrums in statewide initiatives. They opposed rent control, a minimum wage hike, and a measure to make it easier to pass local affordable housing bonds. Most significantly, they passed — with 68.5 percent approval — a tough-on-crime measure that Newsom and leading Democrats tried mightily to defeat. The measure passed in every one of our 58 counties, including San Francisco. Did I mention that overwhelmingly Democratic Los Angeles County ditched their progressive district attorney, George Gascón, and replaced him with a former Republican, Nathan Hochman, who is a former federal prosecutor? (READ MORE: Last Gasp of ‘Progressive DA’ Movement?) Even mainstream media sources grasped the message, seeing the general election as a retort to the state’s political trajectory. I loved the headline from a Los Angeles Times post-election news analysis: “If Democrats want to win back the American people, does California need to stand down?” It quoted former Democratic Assemblymember Mike Gatto: We don’t want to ever get into a position where we’re not sticking up for the least among us. But at the same time, we also have to focus on the things that the majority of voters care about and those things are affordability and the perception that some of the more extremes of the left-wing of the Democratic Party have gone too far. The Times’ Sacramento columnist George Skelton looked at the anti-crime results (Proposition 36) and concluded: “One message from California voters couldn’t have been more clear: They’re fed up with toothpaste and bandages being locked up behind glass doors on store shelves as shopkeepers try to protect their merchandise from petty thieves.” He quoted Democratic sources who agreed. There’s no love of Donald Trump here and the word “Republican” often is the kiss of political death, but Democrats need to read the tea leaves. Even San Francisco has gone through a years-long self-correction. Voters elected a moderate mayor who railed against the city’s crime and dysfunction. They previously approved a series of conservative ballot measures, recalled their leftist district attorney, and recalled progressive school board members. What’s needed, obviously, is a Democratic Party focused on bread-and-butter issues, rather than one devoted to social causes and campaigns against corporate greed. And they need to address the crises that continue to erode our quality of life — from unaffordable housing (caused by government regulation) to fleeing insurance companies (also caused by government regulation) to gridlock (caused by a government focus on climate change rather than mobility). The quality of life has diminished noticeably since I moved here 26 years ago. As writer Joel Kotkin put it in a recent New Geography article: Once upon a time, California could sell itself as a shining alternative, attracting millions from near and abroad while serving as the epicenter of unrivalled tech and entertainment. Today that reputation is seriously tarnished, in large part the victim of almost two decades of one-party progressive governance. Since 2000, California has lost 3.8 million residents in net domestic migration, a number equivalent to the population of Los Angeles. Once a beacon for the young and ambitious, today California ranks towards the bottom in attracting newcomers. Yet instead of adjusting his thinking, Newsom is doubling down on his tired shtick, going so far as calling a special legislative session to craft California’s legal approach in the face of a second Trump administration. This is governing by posturing given that his recently concluded special session about gas prices was a farce that blamed corporate greed rather than the state’s high taxes, special fuels mandate, and efforts to shutter the fossil fuels industry. (READ MORE: Newsom’s Oil-Price Show Hearings) Perhaps unlike most readers of this publication, I am troubled by many of Trump’s proposed policies (tariffs, militarized deportations, etc.). Whoever is in charge, it’s useful to have checks and balances and an intelligent opposition leader. As I noted in my Southern California News Group column, however, “Newsom is not that person.” I’ve been here long enough to remember when California values meant the pursuit of the dream of a better life in this remarkably beautiful state. It did not mean a crusading state government that viewed the citizenry as antagonists who needed to be regulated and hectored into compliance. There’s a huge opportunity here. Not only did the nation reject our state’s current values, but so did California voters. Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. Write to him at sgreenhut@rstreet.org. READ MORE from Steven Greenhut: State Officials Give Nod to Far Higher Gas Prices Californians Reject the Worst Initiatives Time for a Teachable Moment on Tariffs The post California Voters Reject ‘California Values’ appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Biden Desperately Tries to Save His Legacy
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Biden Desperately Tries to Save His Legacy

President Joe Biden’s allies have repeatedly claimed that his presidency is a historic success in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff, said that Biden has “delivered the largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt.” Similarly, presidential historian Robert S. McElvaine said that Biden’s record “stacks up well against the very high bars set by FDR and LBJ.” The problem for Biden is that his administration has failed to actually spend much of this money. The comparisons to FDR and LBJ center on the sheer scale of Biden’s spending. The Inflation Reduction Act alone was set to dole out $1.2 trillion, according to Goldman Sachs, $783 billion of which would be used toward the goal of reducing the Earth’s temperature through initiatives like making homes more energy efficient and replacing internal combustion vehicles with electric vehicles. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act injected another $1.2 trillion in spending. The problem for Biden is that his administration has failed to actually spend much of this money. In May, Politico found that of the $1.1 trillion in direct investments provided through Biden’s legislative actions, a mere 17 percent had been spent. And now, with Trump’s election, much of this planned spending will never happen, as Trump has promised to revoke all unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act. “To further defeat inflation, my plan will terminate the Green New Deal, which I call the Green New Scam,” Trump said in September. “It actually sets us back, as opposed to moves us forward. And I will rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.” In searching for a scapegoat for the gradual demise of their legislative achievements, Democrats would do better to blame Biden for his failure to follow through than to point fingers at Trump. While some delays stemmed from provisions requiring spending to occur in later years, for the most part, the Biden administration was simply unprepared to actually do anything with the laws Biden signed. For instance, the administration had very little use for the money passed in the infrastructure bill, with only $125 billion of its $884 billion in direct investments spent, according to the May Politico report. The administration’s usage of the CHIPS and Science Act fared no better, with just $700 million of its $54 billion allocated, though additional funds have been tentatively awarded. Similarly, the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate change law, has seen only $60 billion in funding decisions dispersed out of the $145 billion designated for direct spending as of April. Now, the Biden administration is in a mad dash to spend as much of the money as it possibly can. “Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants,” reported the Associated Press last week. On Friday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg threw $3.4 billion at various projects, including $1.2 billion to produce more environmentally friendly transportation materials. The Associated Press also cited the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent outpouring of $3 billion to replace lead pipes and the Department of Energy’s $544 million loan to SK Siltron CSS, LLC to expand silicon carbide wafers for electric vehicles. The Associated Press quoted Melinda Pierce, the legislative director of the Sierra Club, who said, “There is a new urgency to get it all done. We’re seeing explosions of money going out the door.” Biden will ultimately be remembered as the president who cognitively lost it to such an extent that his own party ousted him from the presidential race despite his stubborn effort to cling to power. However, he will also be remembered for passing trillions upon trillions of dollars under the banner of saving the planet — only for it to be rejected by the American people and largely left unspent. History will not regard him as an FDR. READ MORE from Ellie Gardey Holmes: Did Kamala’s Abortion Obsession Alienate Americans? The Spectator P.M. Ep. 92: Democrats Play the Blame Game Over Kamala’s Loss The Spectator P.M. Ep. 91: Why Kamala Failed The post Biden Desperately Tries to Save His Legacy appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Mail-in Ballots Wreak Havoc in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Senate Races
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Mail-in Ballots Wreak Havoc in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Senate Races

America’s Democrat Party is so corrupt and power-hungry that they don’t care about openly breaking laws, especially when it comes to elections. It appears possible that Democrats in Milwaukee County stole the Wisconsin U.S. Senate election from Republican candidate Eric Hovde in the early morning hours of Nov. 6 with a massive mail-in ballot dump in favor of Democrat incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Now, another incumbent Democrat senator, Bob Casey Jr., of Pennsylvania, is in the midst of trying to sway that state’s U.S. Senate election, through a recount, away from Republican candidate, Dave McCormick, who is already declared the winner. Wisconsin U.S. Senate Election — Hovde (R) vs. Baldwin (D) From around 11:00 p.m. on election night to around 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 6, Republican candidate Eric Hovde had a consistent lead of roughly 50,000 votes over incumbent Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin and appeared destined for an election victory. In fact, Hovde said he started receiving congratulatory calls for his election victory at around 1:00 a.m. on Nov. 6. But the ballot count took a sudden, dramatic turn in Baldwin’s favor when Milwaukee County reported an additional 108,000 ballots at 4:00 am on Nov. 6 — 90 percent of which were for Baldwin. This is from a county in which Trump won 43 percent of the vote this year and increased his vote total by 3,500 over his 2020 numbers, according to the New York Times. This immediately gave Baldwin a lead that would ultimately result in her winning by an official margin of 28,958 votes (1,672,550 to 1,643,592 or 49.4 percent to 48.5 percent). Aside from the statistical improbability of Baldwin receiving 90 percent of the 108,000 additional ballots added at 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 6, there is potential evidence of outright election fraud in Milwaukee County with 25 of the county’s wards reporting votes exceeding 100 percent of the number of registered voters in those wards — one ward even reported a vote total that exceeded 200 percent of the number of its registered voters. Yes, Wisconsin has same-day voter registration, but it is hard to accept that any election ward would see just as many unregistered people show up to register and vote on Election Day as had previously been registered before Election Day. Eric Hovde expressed his concern with the irregularities of this election in a statement he posted on ‘X’ on Nov. 12. Hovde mentioned considering pursuing a recount — allowed by Wisconsin election law when the margin of victory is less than 1 percent. However, such a recount effort would have to be funded by Hovde. This likely led to Hovde formally conceding the election to Baldwin on Nov. 18. In his concession statement, Hovde remarked, “Without a detailed review of all the ballots and their legitimacy, which will be difficult to obtain in the courts, a request for a recount would serve no purpose because you will just be recounting the same ballots regardless of their integrity.” In addition to possible evidence of election fraud in Milwaukee County, the Democrats also applied their customary dirty tricks by funding a phony Trump-favored candidate, Thomas Leager, under a phony new Trump-favored party, the America First Party, to take away potential votes from Hovde. Leager ended up with 28,717 votes, just shy of Baldwin’s 28,958 vote margin over Hovde. Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Election — McCormick (R) vs. Casey (D) Republican candidate Dave McCormick was declared the winner in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race by the Associated Press on Nov. 7 (less than 48 hours after the polls closed), with an approximate 31,000-vote lead over incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey Jr., with 99 percent of precincts reporting. On Nov. 13, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced a legally mandated recount based on the 29,338-vote lead favoring McCormick and all precincts reporting — a 0.43 percent margin of victory. Pennsylvania state election law requires a state-funded recount be undertaken when a margin of election victory is less than 0.5 percent. Casey will eventually have to accept defeat, but Elias will likely remain the break-the-glass option for Democratic campaigns. With the prospect of a vote recount, Casey engaged infamous Democrat legal thug, Mark Elias of Trump–Russia collusion hoax notoriety, to oversee the recount effort on Casey’s behalf. With Elias involved, the Democrats are literally trying to steal the already-called election from McCormick by counting provisional ballots that the state Supreme Court ruled invalid. Now that the recount has started, Democrat officials in certain Democrat-controlled counties are brazenly violating Pennsylvania election law by counting invalid provisional ballots. In particular, Democrat officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre, and Montgomery counties are both openly violating state election law as well as a court order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stating that mail-in ballots without legally required signatures or dates not be counted in official results. “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” said Democrat Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia on Nov. 14 as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that failed to meet the state’s legal requirements. However, the state’s Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail-in ballots lacking legally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results, which supports Republican ballot challenges during the current recount. This is especially noteworthy considering the state’s Supreme Court has a 5-2 Democrat majority. It is notable too that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered again, late on Nov. 18, that the state’s counties not count mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the return envelope. To his credit, Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro belatedly chimed in on Nov. 19 to side with the Republicans and urged county election boards to respect the decision by the state Supreme Court. This latest court order should ensure that McCormick retains his previously declared election victory. According to comments made by RNC Chairman Michael Whatley on Kudlow on Fox Business Network late on Nov. 18, only about 20,000 votes remain to be counted. Despite the efforts of Elias and particular Democrat county officials, it appears an impossibility that the recount could result in Casey overcoming McCormick’s lead. The recount is legally required to be completed by Nov. 26 and officially reported by the Pennsylvania Department of State on Nov. 27. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley authored an especially scathing opinion piece in the New York Post on Nov. 12 about the Democrats’ long-time favored “lawfare” attorney, Mark Elias, and his efforts to steal the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate election on behalf of the incumbent Democrat. Turley wrote: Despite the Pennsylvania race being called by the AP almost a week ago, Elias is working with Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) to try to change that outcome. It is not surprising that Casey was left with Elias. For many, Elias is a notorious figure who captures the hypocrisy of the “save democracy” crowd. Elias is an attorney who has been sanctioned in court and denounced by critics as a Democratic “dirty trickster” and even an “election denier.” Despite his checkered history … Democratic campaigns fund Elias and his various profitable enterprises to push undemocratic causes…. Trump won Pennsylvania’s presidential election, and Dave McCormick received tens of thousands more votes. With 99 percent of the votes counted, even Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) relented in allowing McCormick to attend the orientation for new senators…. Casey will eventually have to accept defeat, but Elias will likely remain the break-the-glass option for Democratic campaigns when other lawyers have lost their appetite for challenging election results. Turley is correct that Casey will ultimately have to concede the election to McCormick.  That should happen on Nov. 26, just in time for Thanksgiving. Steve Dewey is a retired federal financial regulator and founder of GeoFinancial Trends, LLC (www.geofinancialtrends.org) and writes on Substack (stevedewey.substack.com).  He can be reached at steve@geofinancialtrends.org   READ MORE from Steve Dewey: Expert Michael Waller: America’s Intel Agencies Are Compromised Scholar: Kamala Harris Borrows From Karl Marx   The post Mail-in Ballots Wreak Havoc in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Senate Races appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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Escaping Politics to the Serene Countryside … It’s Too Cold
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Escaping Politics to the Serene Countryside … It’s Too Cold

Those weekend getaways to the countryside are a good reminder of how pleasant it is to shower with hot water, without intervals of ice-cold water, and no lizards on the ceiling. Perhaps we don’t value the comforts of the big city enough. True, the countryside provides a soothing silence in the evenings but, in return, the water doesn’t leave an aftertaste of chlorine and, in general, it appears obvious that everything could do with a good vacuuming. Especially those dusty roads that leave your car looking like a croquette. And of course, there is plenty of lettuce to be found too. I recently discovered something incredible — in places like this, food grows directly in the ground, without plastic wrapping. If a health inspector were to show up here, they would close the plot for lack of hygiene. I came to the country to spend a few hours forgetting about politicians and was greeted with the usual hostility. No hot water, cold worthy of a forensic laboratory, and the wet chimney laughing at my matches. While battling these hardships for yet another year — at least for the moment — I am inclined to answer the question that readers always ask me if we meet on the street: “How do you manage to light the fireplace in your country house in winter”? Making a fire is much easier when you’re trying to do something else. For example, smoking while sitting on a haystack, fixing a short circuit, or throwing butane bottles down an elevator shaft. On the other hand, it becomes a chore when you’re trying to set the fireplace on fire. Flames are fickle. But almost everything in a country house answers to strange whims. I’ve been wrestling with the heater for two hours, unjamming rusty locks, killing poisonous spiders, and giving a heart massage to a mouse lying in cardiac arrest on the living room couch. There’s also a drooling cat by the window, contemplating the scene. And, if my eyes do not deceive me, I have some goats crammed in the front door, nibbling on the grass sprouting between the wood planks. If the thing has horns and talks like Ayatollah Khamenei, it’s a goat. You know you’ve lost control of your cottage when you can’t tell it apart from the rest of nature without the help of a weed-whacker. As a journalist, I experience a particular Freudian pleasure in lighting fireplaces with tons of paper balls made from newspapers. I often use my own articles, which, by the way, burn great. The Good Fireman’s Handbook says that for a real fire to be produced, a combustible substance, a combustion agent, and an activation agent must interact. The price of fuel is always too expensive, so you can substitute it perfectly well with wood. I don’t know what the combustion agent is. Try throwing some hamburgers wrapped in silver foil into the chimney. As for the activation agent, it is usually the fire itself. Hence the old firemen’s manual falls into a philosophical dilemma at this point — does it take fire to make fire? I’m very much in favor of making firewood from a fallen tree. Otherwise, I’d have to go out to the garden and take an axe to the lemon tree and I’m not sure I could set fire to that, with the sap still flowing through its veins, or whatever it is that flows through the tree that Biden runs soymilk through. For a good chimney fire, the ideal is to combine small chipped pieces of kindling with thicker logs. You can use any of Paul Krugman’s fat books as a model for the log size. The rustics say that pine cones help to light a fire. No one has proven it scientifically. It doesn’t matter. I always throw a bunch of them into the fireplace because it amuses me to see how they explode and how the embers jump onto my shirt. And my tailor is delighted with the results of my “city-slicker visiting the country” hobbies. Now they sell fire pistons in the Chinese bazaar (whose clientele is limited to terrorists and chimney lighters). With them, everything burns so easily that you can do without the rest. I don’t use them because I enjoy burning my fingers as I pinch each match trying to get a couple of wet sticks to ignite. I hear on the radio that Biden has decided to set fire to everything in Ukraine and, frankly, I’m thinking of asking him to send one of those cucumbers up my chimney to speed up the process. All these discomforts I type out here, on the edge of the night, are nothing compared to the dawn in a few hours when the awakening sun fills everything with light, and the little birds replace the Twitter (aka X) chirping to wake me up. Seriously, there are real birds here. The kind that chirp, chirp, and can’t be retweeted. No one can find me here, except the surrounding neighbors who are delighted not to find me, and the sheep, who speak a more elaborate language than most politicians. Here we are only interested in what is important: the cheese, the steaks, and the wine. And don’t let the fireplace go out, for God’s sake, or instead of a column I’ll have to send The American Spectator a cold obituary. Mine. READ MORE from Itxu Díaz: Make Government Small Again Ten Priorities for Trump’s New Administration A Long Letter of Condolence to All the Losers The post Escaping Politics to the Serene Countryside … It’s Too Cold appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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PLOT TWIST: Alex Jones Fights Back, Sues The Onion and Sandy Hook Families Over ‘Rigged’ Auction of Infowars
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by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit: Alex Jones sued The Onion and Sandy Hook families over the ‘rigged’ auction of Infowars. As previously reported, The Onion purchased Infowars in a bankruptcy auction on Thursday with plans to turn it into a satire website — but the judge overseeing the case has ordered a hearing into how […]
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Is Trump’s Victory Trouble for Gold?
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Is Trump’s Victory Trouble for Gold?

by Peter Schiff, Schiff Gold: Gold began dipping before the election on November 5th, and with Trump’s win, it has crashed even further. We know that Trump wants a strong US dollar, so does his victory spell trouble for the yellow metal? As Trump promises to pump up markets, long-term interest rates are continuing to […]
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