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And the tabs go by like a click in the wind, in the web that is my own … 





Ed: Who did Shaheen think she was kidding? Gavin Newsom bragged about expanding Medicaid to illegal aliens, and then complained about budget shortages. You’d have a very difficult time finding a Democrat who OPPOSED allowing illegal aliens access to ObamaCare and/or Medicaid. Lawrence Jones literally could not believe Shaheen walked into that obvious trap. I thought he might leap through the screen. 

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Axios: A secretive donor network closely aligned with Vice President Vance drew Cabinet members, lawmakers and major GOP donors to a “cowboy-chic” bar here Tuesday night for a marquee pre-party ahead of the Republicans’ midterm convention.

Why it matters: The donor group, Rockbridge, has become an influential hub for conservative donors and operatives as Vance prepares for a likely run for the White House in 2028. …

Rockbridge was founded in 2019 by Vance and investor Chris Buskirk.

  • The organization’s events have drawn prominent Republican donors — many of them with close ties to Silicon Valley, including Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, investor David Sacks and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.

Ed: How is this “secretive”? It’s been known for years. If the donors don’t have to disclose their activity, then it’s basically a super PAC, which these days are a dime a dozen. Axios calls this “secretive” in the same way that anything more conservative than Lincoln Chafee gets labeled as “far right” these days. If they are holding public events with high-ranking government officials, then Rockbridge can’t be all that secretive at all. 

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Ed: I wonder if Axios will call them “secretive.” 

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Deep Background: Sixty-two years and $22 trillion after Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, the national poverty rate hovers around 11 percent. As recent reporting from The Center Square highlights, decades of relentless federal spending have created a self-perpetuating bureaucratic apparatus that enriches administrative agencies while producing almost no structural reduction in underlying poverty. The federal government ran the most expensive social engineering experiment in human history, and it produced nothing measurable. …





The explanation is neither mysterious nor accidental. When Washington replaces market discipline with bureaucratic central planning, it doesn’t eliminate scarcity it relocates decision-making from individuals to administrative agencies that develop a vested career interest in perpetuating dependency.

Across virtually every domain where big government has attempted to substitute federal spending for market mechanisms, the pattern remains identical. Good intentions are codified into law, billions are allocated, and the underlying problem either metastasizes or remains untouched.

Ed: Worth reading and bookmarking for later reference, too. Centralized, controlled economies fail for very clear reasons, as F.A. Hayek laid out on his seminal book, “The Road to Serfdom.” Another reasons these kinds of programs fail despite their investment is that a good portion of the resources committed to them get absorbed by the bureaucracies created to deal with all of the contradictions of central planning, not to mention culling the grift. 

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Ed: Via Twitchy, I mentioned this incident in last night’s Final Word. There apparently was no intent to assault Acton, but given the assault on two other people at the fair, one can understand why concerns were raised over this person’s intent. Acton and the media blew it out of proportion by framing it as an assassination attempt, but it wasn’t entirely innocent either. There’s no harm in reserving public judgment until all the facts are in evidence – and we may still not have all the facts yet. This update is worth noting, though. 





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Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO: At the same time, these three jurors are not their own best advocates. They do make clear that the judge was absolutely right in declaring a mistrial, but maybe not for the reason they contend.  

The women blame it all on one man, a juror who had issues with “reasonable doubt.” At one point, he’s accused of inconsistency — the jury foreman (yes, I still do that) says she was “excited” when she thought they were all coming to an agreement that Clancy was “not guilty” so she could get the help she needed. 

The most memorable line of the interview, though — unfortunately — was when another juror declared that this juror’s “arrogance” meant “he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.” …

Honestly, though, maybe the worst part of the interview was when they started fan-girling Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer. They were indistinguishable from the women who have been posting videos on social media and appearing outside the courtroom in pink as advocates for Lindsay Clancy, saying that, in murdering her children, she is somehow representative of their struggles as mothers.  

Ed: I’m not sure that these jurors could have done worse for themselves than with their post-trial PR blitz. It sounds very much to me like they were tracking the public reaction to Reddington and Clancy while serving on the jury and got caught up in the AWFL rallying around the mother as a result. The next jury – assuming one can be seated, after Reddington’s attempts to poison the pool – will require sequestration. 

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… There were some big personalities in that room. But at the end of the day, it just came down to an inability to move past your convictions.” 

“The majority of the room was trying to kind of sway [the male holdout] from the very beginning.”

Ed: The “big personalities” are on display for all to see now. It sounds like they had decided to bully the jury into an acquittal, and one holdout just refused to get bullied. 

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Matt Margolis at PJ Media: The holdout juror has not spoken publicly, and that is probably wise. As my PJ Media colleague Catherine Salgado previously reported, pro-Lindsay fanatics have already attacked her ex-husband, Patrick, and made death threats against him. A man who single-handedly kept a child killer from being held criminally responsible would probably be an even bigger target.

Even Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, was not shy about his contempt for the holdout. He said his client had been “robbed” of a favorable outcome and added, “I hope that guy can sleep well at night.”

I bet he does, actually.

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that one of the female jurors openly complained that the holdout “had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,” as if that fact were beside the point. Liberal women on that panel let their sympathy for a killer matter more than justice for three dead children.

Ed: This reminds me of a scene from “The River’s Edge,” which tells the fictional version of an actual crime, where a boy strangled his girlfriend to death and then showed her body to their friend group, most of whom said nothing. Crispin Glover rallies them to protect the murderer, saying that the girl was dead but the boy was still alive, and that meant they should protect him rather than seek justice for her.  Grim stuff, to be sure, but it’s still a compelling film, starring a young Keanu Reeve, Dennis Hopper, and Ione Skye. 





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Ed: Maybe they should check where Kevin Reddington studied law next. Anyway, good to see that the DoJ is still focusing on getting DEI out of Academia. 

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Kira Davis: As a former Canadian, I’ve spoken off and on about the very bizarre Canadian trait of hating America. I’ve called it the final pillar of Canadian pride. The country is broke, weak and overwhelmed with third world immigrants, trash and crime. Yet, their greatest obsession is their neighboring nation which also happens to be the only reason they aren’t speaking Russian, German or Chinese right now.

America hatred is sewn into the fabric of every Canadian life. Even during the more ‘peaceful’ North American relations of my youth Canadians were always preoccupied with America and all the things Canadians were better at – which was, as far as I could tell then and now – politeness, environmental awareness, and hockey. …

It’s very sad, not because it hurts our feelings but because Americans really couldn’t care less and Canadians are spending an inordinate amount of energy in the mistaken belief we care very much. It is a completely unnecessary expenditure of energy, energy that could be put to better use solving Canada’s current issue of rapid cultural decline.

Ed: Perhaps if Canadians addressed that, along with their supine attitude toward China and Islamists regime, they would discover that we’re not so bad after all. Although one has to admit that Trump went pretty far out of his way to antagonize a country that appeared ready to give Conservatives a chance to govern. 





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“Now those fields will become productive and will generate royalties and income for the Venezuelan people, eventually through a democratically elected government, we hope sooner rather than later.”

This deal will change the west and America for generations. No more will the west have to rely on OPEC and the Middle East for energy and it will benefit the Venezuelan people in the process.

Ed: Plus it gets Iran and China out of our hemisphere, especially Iran and Hezbollah.  The strategic implications of the “Donroe Doctrine” success have largely been overlooked by the Protection Racket Media. 

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Liz Mair: Last week, I saw a few stories (or tweets?) pop about how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis—who famously ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024—is telling prospective 2028 candidates not to wait too long after the 2026 midterms to jump in the presidential race.

I guess in hindsight, DeSantis feels he did just that last time around. …

Nonetheless, 2028 seems likely to be well underway shortly, and with that in mind, I’ve been thinking about a potential candidate that—so far as I am aware—no one else is even talking about.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

Ed: I like Duffy, but he doesn’t really have a constituency for a presidential bid. Rubio has the best portfolio for it as a Cabinet member, plus multiple terms in the Senate. Vance has been one heartbeat away in Trump’s second term, plus a term in the Senate. DeSantis has Florida, and in fact transformed Florida dramatically into his constituency over the last eight years. All three of these candidates have won statewide elections, and Rubio and DeSantis have done it more than once. Duffy has done well in his current post, but that’s no launching pad for a presidential bid, as Pete Buttigieg will find out. Duffy may need to spend some time in the Senate or as governor first.





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Ed: Ouch, baby. Very ouch. 

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Last night’s lyric: “Cover of the Rolling Stone” by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. 


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