The government of Puerto Rico is insisting on some in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
The Puerto Rican government is taking a hard line on rebuilding properties decimated by last year’s Hurricane Maria, offering homeowners federal financial assistance only if they move out of flood-prone areas.
It’s about time some politicians stood tall and required some personal responsibility instead of subsidizing its lack with taxpayers’ money.
Progressive-Democratic Party candidate for Texas Senator Beto O’Rourke wants a cop fired. At a rally last Friday, O’Rourke was asked whether Officer Amber Guyger should be fired. You remember the case: the officer seems to have entered the wrong apartment, mistaking if for her own, saw a man in the still darkened apartment, the man did not respond to Guyger’s commands, and she wound up shooting him. O’Rourke’s response to the rally-goer’s question:
I don’t understand given the actions how anyone can come to any other conclusion.
Really? The evidence the NLMSM has chosen to publish—a subset of the evidence the police are able to release in the middle of an ongoing investigation—certainly appears damning. But where is the public record of all of the evidence? When was Guyger’s trial and conviction? When did it become the American way to begin punishing a person even before an investigation is completed, much less a trial held?
O’Rourke wasn’t finished. He also
questioned why when everyone is seeking facts, the warrant was released which detailed that marijuana was found in that apartment.
Apparently, only some facts need be sought out, especially early on when it’s unclear—except to the special few—which facts matter.
Of course, it’s of a piece with the Dear Colleague Letter sent out by the Obama Education Department that made it permissible for a school to “convict” a male student on the basis of a female student’s accusation while denying the male student’s right to legal representation or even the opportunity to cross-exam the accuser or accuser’s witnesses. It’s of a piece with the Progressive-Democrats’ hue and cry over current DoEd Secretary Betsy DeVos’ unmitigated gall in insisting on actual due process for the accused in educational facilities.
And it’s of a piece with a Progressive-Democrat President’s insistence—immediately after he’d admitted he knew none of the facts—that a cop had acted stupidly.
This is due process as the Progressive-Democrats would have it. This is Beto O’Rourke’s view of due process for those accused of wrong-doing. Remember this, this fall.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has new ambassadorial digs, and those digs have new curtains. The rent for the digs is 58 large each month, and the curtains were almost $53k. If you think those numbers are outlandish for some office space and window coverings, you’re right.
Then we get The New York Times castigating her for spending that kind of taxpayer money. Never mind that the NYT carefully buried some key facts regarding these expenses. Facts like it being the Obama administration that committed to the rent and that bought the curtains; Haley had no say in the matter. Facts like the rent in particular, to Obama’s credit, being much lower than other administrations have spent on their UN ambassador’s digs.
Jeez. At least the NYT‘s sister tabloids, National Enquirer, Globe, Star, et al., have some entertainment value.
Bob Woodward wrote a book about President Donald Trump, and his “on-the-record” sources are coming out of the…woodwork…to deny they said the things Woodward claims they said or that they were misrepresented in misleading ways (redundancy deliberate).
I have to ask: does Woodward have any “on the record” sources about whom he hasn’t seemed to have lied? He claims to have tapes and transcripts of those conversations and of his claimed conversations with anonymous “sources.”
Regarding the latter, he should explain why we should believe anonymous sources who’ve demonstrated their dishonesty by speaking against their terms of employment if not their oaths of office.
Publish the tapes and transcripts, or there’s no reason to believe they exist. If they don’t exist, there’s no reason to believe those “on the record” sources were honestly cited or that those anonymous “sources” actually exist.
Sadly, even the Wall Street Journal‘s author of the piece at the link, Rebecca Ballhaus, has chosen to go along with Woodward’s game. Citing a statement by Rob Porter in which he said he was struck by the selective and often misleading portrait in the book, she wrote,
Mr Porter didn’t dispute any specific elements….
Gary Cohn said in a separate statement that that the book does not accurate[ly] portray my experience at the White House. Ballhaus again:
He, too, didn’t dispute any specific anecdotes.
This is a cynically misleading over-parsing of their statements, carefully designed to leave the impression that Woodward’s claims are true, just because the two men chose not to enumerate and explicitly deny every jot and tittle of Woodward’s missive.
This one in Navasota, Texas. Progressive-Democratic Party candidate for Senator from Texas Beto O’Rourke is running against first-term incumbent Republican Ted Cruz, and O’Rourke had his townhall event at the VFW hall in Navasota.
This is what drew my eye to what would otherwise have been a rather ordinary campaign event. VFW Post #4006 Commander Carl Dry:
[T]hey wanted to take the flags down, I didn’t only say no, I said hell no, you don’t take the flags off the wall. I can’t believe any American would ask us to do that and I don’t know why he wanted them down or what he was going to put up instead.
Yeah. Why on earth would anyone claiming to want to represent Texans want to take American and Texas flags down from the VFW hall’s walls?
O’Rourke is making a habit of being contemptuous of our nation’s flag; now he objects to our State’s flag and those of the other States, too? Just who does O’Rourke really represent?