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June 2022

Clinton’s Debunked 2016 Russia Hoax Was Far Worse Than What Happened On Jan. 6 By Jordan Boyd

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/13/clintons-debunked-2016-russia-hoax-was-far-worse-than-what-happened-on-jan-6/

It was Democrats who objected to every Republican-won election this century, in the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections.

Everyone who bought Hillary Clinton’s prepaid lies about Trump colluding with Russia to steal the presidency she was “born” to win participated in a far more damaging scheme to cast doubt on an election than anyone who ever wondered why “Sleepy Joe” Biden received more than 81 million votes in the 2020 election.

When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, nearly half of Democrats said they believed the election was rigged. After all, all they had heard for months was that Trump worked with a sworn American enemy to secure a seat in the White House.

This was a patently false lie based on a debunked document bought by Trump’s political enemy and her sleazy legal team. There’s not a shred of evidence from Special Counsel Robert Mueller nor anyone else that Trump worked with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election. As a matter of fact, those who have been legitimately charged, arrested, and put on trial for lying have all been from Clinton’s side.

27 Democrats vs. Supreme Court Protection The House finally adds security, but not without dissenters.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/27-democrats-vs-supreme-court-security-house-congress-nancy-pelosi-brett-kavanaugh-11655242635?mod=opinion_lead_pos3

The House on Tuesday finally passed a bipartisan bill to step up security for Supreme Court Justices and their families, and the embarrassment is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat on the measure for weeks, even after a man with a gun showed up at Brett Kavanaugh’s house in the middle of the night. More than two dozen Democrats apparently don’t think the Justices deserve additional protection.

The Supreme Court Police Parity Act passed the Senate unanimously in May. The purpose of the bill is to extend extra security to the families of Justices, consistent with protections offered for senior Members of Congress or executive appointees.

“If the families of Supreme Court Justices have the same profile and exposure as the highest ranking officials in our government, they deserve the same level of protection,” Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons said last month. He’s right.

The Capitol ‘Reconnaissance’ Smear The Jan. 6 committee indulged a false and partisan accusation.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-capitol-reconnaissance-smear-jan-6-committee-barry-loudermilk-mikie-sherrill-11655244928?mod=opinion_lead_pos4

If the Jan. 6 select committee wants to have more bipartisan credibility, how about apologizing to Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk ? The Republican was vindicated this week after false accusations that he had provided “reconnaissance” tours for Capitol rioters.

On Jan. 12, 2021, Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill (N.J.) alleged on Facebook that she’d seen “members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on Jan. 5 for reconnaissance for the next day.” The press piled on.

Asked on MSNBC about reports of GOP “tours to insurrectionists,” New York Rep. Sean Maloney responded: “I can confirm that. I don’t have firsthand knowledge of it but I spoke to a Member who saw it personally and he described it with some alarm.” Mr. Maloney added that the “enemy is within.”

Ms. Sherrill and 33 other House Democrats sent a letter to the Capitol police and House and Senate sergeants at arms demanding an “immediate investigation” into the “suspicious behavior and access given to visitors” on Jan. 5. They said some attackers “seemed to have an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout,” and this became a central feature of the Democratic and media narrative.

Kavanaugh Assassination Plot Draws Muted White House Response By Phil Wegmann

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/14/attempted_kavanaugh_assassination_draws_muted_wh_response_147740.html

“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told RCP in a separate statement, “It’s an outrage that President Biden found the time to appear on a late-night comedy show and predict a ‘mini revolution’ if the Supreme Court doesn’t rule his way on abortion, yet remains silent on the attempted murder of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”

The would-be assassin had a knife and a gun and, in the end, cold feet: When Nicholas Roske saw the U.S. marshals standing outside the home of Brett Kavanaugh, the 26-year-old Californian called off his plan to kill the Supreme Court justice and phoned the police to turn himself in instead.

It wasn’t just good luck, though, that prevented a tragedy that would have destroyed a family and roiled America’s civic life even further. It was no accident that armed U.S. marshals happened to be in the exact right place at exactly the right time. No, the fact that federal law enforcement were in a position to be “instrumental in this person not accomplishing that horrible deed,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told RealClearPolitics, was due – in no small part – to the diligence of the Biden administration. “One of the reasons” the plot failed was because the Department of Justice took threats against Kavanaugh’s life “very seriously from the beginning.”

JUNE 14, 2022 PRIMARIES

June 14 Primaries
Laxalt Wins GOP Nomination to Challenge Sen. Cortez Masto in NV

GOP Challenger Fry Ousts Rep. Rice in South Carolina’s 7th District

Rep. Mace Fends Off Arrington Primary Challenge in SC-1

Flores Wins South Texas House Seat Long a Democratic Stronghold

Make America Florida: The Case for DeSantis By Cherie Zaslawsky

http://Make America Florida: The Case for DeSantis By Cherie Zaslawsky

Many people I know have left California for what they consider greener—I mean redder—pastures: red states free of most of the lunacy in the “woke” Golden State.

Some moved to Texas, some to Idaho, but most have fled to Florida, leaving us stay-at-homes green with envy.

Why Florida—with its notorious humidity, alligators, snakes, humungous mosquitos, and yearly hurricanes? In a word: DeSantis.

Facing off against the radical, America-hating Left, DeSantis fought and won two major battles recently: protecting students in third grade and younger from the Dems’ cherished “choose your gender” narrative, and poking woke Disney in its progressive eye. I’ll wager Walt would approve.

Speaking about these triumphs, Charles Lipson has this to say: “What his legislative victories demonstrate is that DeSantis is willing to fight hard against formidable opposition on high-profile issues, including cultural issues. That is exactly what Republican voters want today.”

Governor DeSantis has continuously put the liberty, interests, and wellbeing of Floridians first, for which he endures perpetual barbs and ridicule from the Pravda media’s coterie of presstitutes. Imagine—he took a stand for sanity in the schools, by outlawing gender “fluidity” indoctrination of children in kindergarten through third grade. How dare he!

And as of September 2020, he refused to allow mask mandates! Does he think he’s smarter than the CDC? Let’s hope so!

MAF: MAKE AMERICA FLORIDA!

Liz Peek: Biden loses control of inflation, and the trust of American people

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-control-inflation-trust-american-people

Remember how President Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president — pointedly hanging FDR’s portrait over the fireplace in the Oval Office?

Turns out, as we now officially fall into bear market territory and Americans are getting poorer by the minute, Biden’s dreams are coming true.

Already, Biden has notched some historical firsts.

For example, consumer sentiment plummeted in June to the lowest level ever recorded in the 70-year history of the University of Michigan index. It is a stunning collapse, not seen even during the darkest days of the COVID-19 scare. The index fell to 50.2 from 58.4 in May – already a recession-level reading – and was far below the 58.1 projected by economists.

Meanwhile, the New York Federal Reserve just reported that consumer expectations for inflation hit a record level in May, as did pessimism about the stock market.

It seems the country has never been so gloomy. Way to go, Joe!

These are remarkable achievements, considering that most people who want a job can get one. Almost half the respondents to the Michigan survey noted gasoline prices or inflation generally as a reason for their pessimism, but clearly there is something else going on.

Hydrogen Is Unlikely Ever To Be A Viable Solution To The Energy Storage Conundrum Francis Menton

https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?e=a9fdc67db9&u=9d011a88d8fe324cae8c084c5&id=93183ec05c

What I call the “energy storage conundrum” is the obvious but largely unrecognized problem that electricity generated by intermittent renewables like wind and sun can’t keep an electrical grid operating without some method of storing energy to meet customer demand in times of low production. These times of low production from wind and sun occur regularly — for example, calm nights — and can persist for as long as a week or more in the case of heavily overcast and calm periods in the winter.

If the plan is to power the entire United States by wind and solar facilities, and if we assume that wind and solar facilities will be built sufficient to generate energy equal to usage over the course of a year, we then need to do a calculation of how much storage would be required to balance the times of excess production against those of insufficient production in order to get through the year without blackouts. The challenge of getting through an entire year could require far more storage than merely getting through a week-long wind/sun drought, because both wind and sun are seasonal, producing much more in some seasons than others.

Previous posts on this blog have cited to several competent calculations of the amount of storage needed for different jurisdictions to get through a full year with only wind and sun to generate the electricity. For the case of the entire United States, this post from January 2022 describes work of Ken Gregory, who calculates a storage requirement, based on the current level of electricity consumption, of approximately 250,000 GWH to get through a year. If you then assume as part of the decarbonization project the electrification of all currently non-electrified sectors of the economy (transportation, home heat, industry, agriculture, etc.), the storage requirement would approximately triple, to 750,000 GWH.