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Democrats playing stupid games

Adam Kinzinger’s Twitter biography says he is “Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. @AirNatlGuard (ret). Founder @thecountryfirst.”

Mr Kinzinger is very adamant about enforcing our laws:

Kinzinger was one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment. He also voted to create, and was subsequently appointed to serve on, the select committee to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

On 2022, during the January 6th panel, Kinzinger criticized 5 Republican lawmakers including Matt Gaetz and Scott Perry, saying: “The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you’ve committed a crime.”

On January 20, 2025, President Joe Biden announced a preemptive pardon for the January 6th Committee members including Kinzinger from potential future prosecution by the incoming Trump administration.

Mr Kinzinger accepted the pardon, which, by his own words, means he thinks he committed a crime.

Now, the distinguished gentleman from Illinois wants to ignore the law completely, tweeting, “I think the Governor of Kentucky has every right and responsibility to either see Mitch or declare the seat vacant.”

As a former congressman, Mr Kinzinger knows full well that the Governor of Kentucky, or of any other state, has absolutely no authority to simply declare a House of Representatives or United States Senate seat to be vacant. Mr Kinzinger knows that a sitting congressman can leave his seat before the end of his term by only three ways: death, voluntary resignation, or expulsion by the chamber. The state government has exactly nothing to do with it.

What are they trying to do? Kentucky law requires that a special election be held if a United States Senate seat becomes vacant, but Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) has expressed an interest in challenging that law, and being able to appoint a Senator, basing his position on Section 152 of the state Constitution, which gives him the authority to appoint people to statewide state positions. However, the office of United States Senator is a federal government position.

It’s easy enough to see what he’d do. Senator McConnell’s term ends on January 3, 2027, and he is not running for re-election. Representative Andy Barr (R-KY 6th District) won the Republican nomination for the seat, while former state Representative Charles Booker (D-Louisville) secured the Democratic nomination. Mr Beshear would love to appoint Mr Booker to the Senate, perhaps giving him an advantage in the November election, and helping Democrats during the last few months of the current Congress. Nevertheless, if Mr Beshear tried that, it would be immediately challenged in court, and his nominee, regardless of whom it was, would never actually be seated.

Mr Booker was the Commonwealth’s senatorial nominee in 2022 as well . . . and he got less than 40% of the vote. Who knows, he might break 40% this year, but he will not win.

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To paraphrase what Mary McCarthy once said about Lillian Hellman, “Every word (Larry Krasner says) is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

Our nation’s third oldest, continuously-published daily newspaper, the winner of twenty Pultizer Prizes and the newspaper of record for the entire metropolitan area, has been doing what it can do defend the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, but things have been falling apart for Mr Krasner so badly that even the Inky has to report on what has been happening.

One of DA Larry Krasner’s top advisers once sent $100 to a man in prison for murder who’s now appealing his conviction. It’s under investigation.

G. Lamar Stewart said he supported Anthony Sutton’s prison mentorship program with his own money in 2021. Krasner defended the donation but ordered a review.

by Ellie Rushing | Tuesday, July 21, 2026 | 7:38 PM EDT | Updated: 8:08 PM EDT

The District Attorney’s Office is investigating ties between one of Larry Krasner’s top advisers and a man serving life in prison after prosecutors learned that the official sent the man money years ago and didn’t disclose it.

G. Lamar Stewart, chief of external engagement and government affairs in the DA’s office, said he sent $100 to Anthony Sutton in January 2021 to support Sutton’s mentorship program, “Mann Up,” for men incarcerated at State Correctional Institute Phoenix.

Sutton, 61, who is serving life in prison for killing a man in Germantown in 1984, has been appealing his conviction for more than a decade.

The issue came to light last week, after the prosecutors assigned to Sutton’s appeal were reviewing his prison records and noticed that Stewart was among those who had sent Sutton money in recent years.

According to the article, the District Attorney’s Office opposes Mr Sutton’s appeal, but that rings a bit hollow in the light of other things:

Sutton did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent through a messaging app for people in prison. His attorney, Jason Javie, said Tuesday that he didn’t know anything about Stewart’s payment to Sutton and declined to discuss the matter further.

“My focus is 110% on the exoneration of Mr. Sutton,” he said.

The revelation comes amid mounting scrutiny over Krasner’s office’s handling of post-conviction matters. In a forceful ruling last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Krasner’s office had a pattern of misleading judges when seeking to overturn old murder convictions.

Last week, in a separate, controversial federal appellate case, a former assistant district attorney in Krasner’s office said prosecutors were “colluding” with defense attorneys to find the most effective way to have the murder conviction thrown out. And then, on Monday, in a striking court filing in that same contentious case, two supervisors in the law division said Krasner had instructed them to litigate the matter in a way that would “protect the office.”

Mr Sutton was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1984, well before Mr Krasner’s tenure, so he did not get a sweetheart plea deal.

In Stewart’s case, his money went to support a program run by Sutton, better known as Benny Doo, who was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Richard Berry in the Pelham section of Germantown in December 1984. In the early 1980s, prosecutors said, Berry hired Sutton and other members of his crew, called the “Ghostbusters,” to retrieve jewelry that had been stolen from him, and agreed to pay with “a few ounces of blow and a couple thousand dollars.”

Berry never paid up, and after he started avoiding Sutton and his crew, Sutton killed him, prosecutors said.

So, it was a public service homicide! Mr Sutton killed another criminal, and then Mr Sutton wound up taken off the streets himself, for 42 years now, with his capture and conviction. It’s difficult to be too terribly upset by that.

Let me be clear about this: we cannot trust Mr Krasner or his office or a single word they say. To paraphrase what Mary McCarthy once said about Lillian Hellman, “Every word (they write or say) is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”

The best source for the chaos that is the Philadelphia prosecutor’s office is Ralph Cipriano’s Big Trial blog, Sadly, much of his work is behind a paywall, but he has set some of his substack articles to be free.

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Yes, political party is important! RINOs are far preferable to Democrats claiming to be 'moderate'.

In 2014, then Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, the daughter of Jerry Lundergan, a former Kentucky Democratic chairman and state representative, was the Democratic nominee facing Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in his re-election campaign. In the conservative Bluegrass State, Mrs Grimes was running a carefully tempered campaign, running as a moderate. In a race rated only “lean Republican,”[1]Carroll, James R. (August 3, 2013). “Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes race a ‘toss up,’ according to non-partisan observer“. The Courier-Journal. Footnote via … Continue reading Mr McConnell stomped her with 56.19% of the vote; so much for polling! About the only silver lining Mrs Grimes could see in that is that she did better against the then-Senate Minority Leader than the repugnant Amy McGrath Henderson did six years later.

Naturally, the Commonwealth’s two largest newspapers, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald-Leader endorsed Mrs Grimes, but what my best friend used to call the Herald-Liberal always endorses Democrats.

Humorously, Mrs Grimes was feted at a fundraiser by Harvey Wallbanger Weinstein, though that was before his scumbag reputation was widely known. Continue reading →

References

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↑1 Carroll, James R. (August 3, 2013). “Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes race a ‘toss up,’ according to non-partisan observer“. The Courier-Journal. Footnote via Wikipedia.
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Yes, we disagree with Democrats, but I never thought that they could be this stupid

It has been said that presidential candidates like to pick vice presidential running mates who will not overshadow them, and such is frequently done by picking running mates who are dumber than them. Yes, I know: I have used that opening line before, and yes, I used it in reference to Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, and his pardon of Tou Lue Vang, a previously convicted child rapist, to try to save him from being deported to Laos. Mr Vang had serially raped a Hmong girl between her ages of ten and twelve years, something he admitted to detectives:

When a detective interviewed Mr. Vang, he acknowledged having had sexual contact with the girl and called it a “minor thing,” according to a criminal complaint. Mr. Vang blamed cultural norms in Thailand, according to the complaint.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio wasn’t going to put up with that s(tuff), revoked Mr Vang’s legal status, and he was quickly shipped back to Laos.

You would think that even a vice presidential candidate selected because he was dumber than Kamala Harris Emhoff would figure, at that point, OK, he’s gone, there’s nothing more we can do about it. Remember: Mr Vang was a convicted child rapist! Continue reading →

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You in a heap o’ trouble, girl! You can't cure stupid, but the internet can make you even dumber

There’s a popular internet meme that we used to think a lack of information made people stupid, but nope, it wasn’t that!

Public school teachers are supposed to be educated, with at least a baccalaureate degree, and frequently an expectation that you must work on your master’s. From the case of Mary Kay Letourneau in the 1990s until now, teachers are taught about and warned against sexual contact, any sexual contact, including just flirting, with students. Most states have laws which hold teachers accountable for sexual contact with students, even those who have reached the age of sexual consent, due to the positions of authority teachers are presumed to hold over students. Yet we keep getting the stories over and over and over again:

Perv substitute teacher sent 14-year-old naked snaps every time she showered: ‘God, I want you so bad’

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Canucks can get Trump Derangement Syndrome, too!

Someone get these clowns a MAGA hat!

Our great neighbor to the north is a virtual paradise, or so they would have us believe. Free health care, though you have to wait in months-long lines, strict gun control, way better airports than some of the ones Americans have, Air Canada rather than Delta or United, beautiful, wide-open vistas, across their frozen fruited plains. You’d think that they’d have little reason to care about the politics of we unworthy Americans, everything is just so groovy-cool up there. But, if you thought that, you’d be wrong!

Ironic twist for Canadian woman accused of slapping Jersey Shore teen for wearing MAGA attire

By Chris Nesi | Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | 12:51 PM EDT

The Canadian woman who slapped a teenager at the Jersey Shore because she didn’t like the girl’s MAGA clothing was arrested by ICE and brought to Delaney Hall in Newark — the very immigration detention center her lefty husband has railed about on social media.Kaitlyn E. Tracey, 33, was taken into custody after she filmed herself confronting two girls wearing “patriotic colored” sweatpants over Fourth of July weekend at Point Pleasant, one of whom she struck across the face and body, cops said. Continue reading →

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught! He wasn't concerned with the law until it seemed he might get to Make Mexico Great Again!

The credentialed media rarely tell us outright lies, but sometimes you have to look pretty closely to find the parts they don’t want for you to know. From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Getting ‘legal status’ in America is harder than most people think. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE before he could.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist | Monday, July 13, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday in Houston. He arrived in the U.S. from Mexico 35 years ago, built a construction business, and became one of five people killed by federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s plan of mass deportation. Continue reading →

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The Capitol kerfuffle is almost over My good friends at The Philadelphia Inquirer will be appalled

Zachary Rehl following his release from a wholly unjustified sentence, via Wikipedia Commons.

The January 6, 2021 protest at the Capitol building certainly got a bit out of control, but I have never seen it as anything more serious than a fraternity keg party that spilled out onto the streets, or perhaps University of Kentucky students burning a decrepit old couch in the middle of State Street after an unexpected UK football victory. The vindictiveness with which President Joe Biden and Republican-hating Attorney General Merrick Garland went after the protesters was wholly unreasonable.

On January 20, 2025, President Trump pardoned the vast majority of the Capitol kerfufflers, but there were 14 for whom he only commuted their sentences, and did not pardon their convictions. Now four remaining injustices have been corrected: Continue reading →

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Way too many conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell

Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American who is far more Turkish than American. A rabid anti-Semite, to him everything is controlled by the evil Jooooos. A co-creator of The Young Turks, which he co-hosts with fellow anti-Semite Ana Kasparian. But the tweet pictured to the right was inspired by Kentucky’s Democratic Governor, Andy Beshear:

Kentucky Gov. Beshear wants more information on McConnell’s health, hospitalization

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