Sleepless in Midland

Schiff Chia Head -- an appropriate memento of Trump's impeachment victory

Nancy Pelosi made a celebratory moment of the impeachment articles signing with her commemorative pens. But in spite of the hortatory zeal of the House Managers, it appears unlikely that the Senate will go along with impeachment.

The Obama Chia Head was pulled from the market before it got launched. After all, in an era in which a rodeo clown with an Obama mask could get fired, who in the MSM could tolerate such a thing?

That era has passed, and President Trump needs a cheap memento for the upcoming impeachment victory. And here's a free idea: A Schiff Chia Head. Yeah!

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Star gazing celebrity worshipers: ‘American Hero’: Hollywood Sold On ‘Rockstar’ Schiff’s Impeachment Screenplay

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2:23 PM 1/24/2020

If you've ever wondered who's better, men or women, Obama can mansplain it for you

Barack Obama was the consummate politician. The skill he boasted about was the ability to make everyone think he agreed with them. So one has to assume he was telling a recent audience what they wanted to hear when he said:

"Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you're better than us [men].

These days women are better off than men by most measures, especially if the measure is graduation rates from high school through college. But private business man Barack Obama is selling a service, and in this case he was lecturing people on an undisclosed subject in Kuala Lumpur for an Obama Foundation event.

Mr. Obama is a good example of the principle of public choice. That's the theory that people who go into the political arena aren't motivated by a desire to promote the common good but are motivated by the same human desires that motivate just about everyone else -- money, power, adoration, rock star fame, what have you.

And in Mr. Obama's case when people hear him speak, somehow they just get the feeling that he agrees with them. His skill has served him well.

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3:31 PM 12/16/2019

Dick Morris' book, Rogue Spooks

The new book out by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, Rogue Spooks, provides a pretty good summary of the events that concluded in the CIA and FBI working to hurt the Trump presidency. Anyone who follows the news probably already knew most of it. But the authors connect the dots with theories of how it came to be.

One chapter of interest to me was the one titled, "How the intelligence community went from red to blue." The intro to that chapter follows:

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HOW THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WENT FROM RED TO BLUE
The CIA and the FBI have always been bastions of the right. It was the FBI that was filled with anti-communist zealots who hunted down those they considered to be "disloyal." And the CIA patrolled America's borders, intervening to stop any other country from falling under Moscow or Beijing spell.

So they should have been in the cheering section saluting a Trump victory with all they had.

But, instead, they recoiled so violently against Trump that they became the key participants in the virtual coup mounted by the rogue spooks to stop him from governing.

The transformation of the intelligence community from red to blue may stand as one of the most enduring achievements of the Obama presidency-or at least one of the hardest to erase.

When Obama and his Liberal allies saw Trump about to enter the White House, they decided to deploy their weapon of choice against him: leaks from the intelligence community. Having taken care to scrub the intelligence agencies to expunge any taint of conservative thinking, these agencies were perfectly positioned to do Obama's will.

And, in the media, he had a compliant, liberal/radical institution only too happy to print the leaks his people would be handing out.

The intelligence community has long realized that it has two ways to influence public policy in Washington. It can go legitimately up the chain of command to the president, arguing the merits of its case. or it can go outside the process entirely-go rogue-and leak information- or disinformation-to a media wiling and eager to do its bidding.

As the abomination of a Trump presidency neared the oval office, they decided to kill Trump by leaking.

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The authors pin the problem on Obama with John Brennan doing the leg work to fill slots with people dedicated to the progressive agenda. Another interesting chapter was the one on Michael Flynn. The deep state spooks found out he lied about some of his contacts, and they played it into an op that brought Flynn fame, shame and trouble with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Anyway, the book is an interesting collection of factoids and possible reasons behind the acts. And although Trump opponents might brand them as conspiracy theories, those theories have a ring of truth to them.

Meanwhile, to watch a C-Span video of Morris talking about the book, click here.

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6:39 AM 11/25/2017

Six years late -- Sharyl Attkisson finally gets answers on Fast and Furious

If not for the dogged reporting work of Sharyl Attkisson we may never have heard about the infamous Fast and Furious and gun walking scandal of the Obama justice department. That, you will recall, involved the scheme through which guns Obama sought to ban in the U.S. were allowed to go to Mexico. The purpose was to cement public opinion against guns. That many of those guns fell into the hands of killers may or may not have been the original intent. But that was a result, a foreseeable one.

Ms. Attkisson finally received responses to some of her freedom of information requests which she reproduces at New Fast and Furious secrets from government emails.

As Democrats focus on James Comey's testimony to try to find some way to smear Donald Trump, impartial observers should recall just how bad Eric Holder's justice department was. Were there criminal violations of which the statute of limitations hasn't yet expired? I don't know, but we do know there was a cover-up.

Drain the swamp!

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1:02 PM 6/8/2017

Order appointing Mueller very narrow, unlikely to include Hillary's known misdeeds

Those of us who thought Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel might result in some focus on the Clinton Foundation and any other shenanigans committed by the Clintons in the run-up to or during the 2016 campaign will likely be disappointed. The order creating the special counsel is too narrow. To see it click here.

Here are the guts of it, as follows:

ORDER NO. 3915-2017
APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE WITH THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND RELATED MATTERS

By virtue of the authority vested in me as Acting Attorney General, including 28 U.S.C. §§ 509, 510, and 515, in order to discharge my responsibility to provide supervision and management of the Department of Justice, and to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, I hereby order as follows:

(a) Robert S. Mueller III is appointed to serve as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice.

(b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:

(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and

(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and

(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).

(c) If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.

(d) Sections 600.4 through 600. l 0 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations are applicable to the Special Counsel.

"Any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump." Very narrow. Too bad.

It's very unlikely Mueller will step beyond those bounds. It seems as if the Clintons and Obama can get away with anything.

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1:54 PM 5/18/2017

Is Trump a Keynesian?

That's a possible conclusion from a remark he made about priming the pump. Source is Trump Priming.

Conservatives reject Keynesianism outright. But actually the results are mixed. If it's done right, then there can be a return on the investment better than one for one. Most of the time it doesn't work, though. And that's probably because those doling out the money are merely handing out money to cronies. Obama's stimulus package was a good example of that, and it left a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths.

So now we have to wonder whether Trump can pull it off. Ramesh Ponnuru explains in the above linked article why he probably can't. But Trump can make deals. That's a given. And it's possible he just might be able to do what few have done and actually make Keynesianism work. We'll see.

Aside: Fans of political satire may recall the time when some sneaky individual held a sign at an Obama rally that asked: "Is Obama Keynesian?" Hilarity ensued as Obama fans, insecure about his background, leaped to denounce any suggestion that he was "Kenyan."

Pray on your own time -- latest Democrat mantra

Most Americans, whether religious or not, are tolerant of others who are. In fact, intolerance of some religions will have the government coming down on your head and true believers wanting to remove your head.

The chanters in the video of the meeting of Sen. Bill Cassidy (R, LA) strain credulity when they yell "Pray on your own time." We talked about this the other day -- protesters at Republican town halls are not dissatisfied Republicans but Democrat activists. And over-the-top behavior like this only confirms it.

Reminds me of a movie director's DVD commentary -- it was Chris Rock -- in which he complained about an over-acting extra. He couldn't afford to reshoot the scene, so he left it in. The scene took place in a crowded elevator with an old white lady next to a couple of black men. One of the black men made a remark that was supposed to shock the white lady. After he spoke, the lady cocked her head and stared slack jawed at the black guy. Over acting. Rock explained that a professional wouldn't have done that. Well, he got what he paid for.

And that's what Obama's OFA gets when they recruit extras to perform at the town hall meetings -- over acting zealots. It's obvious to the rest of us. And it's amusing to think that those activists watch these videos and chortle about how convincing they must be.

Addendum: Overheard conversation supplies evidence that the demonstrators strategized about how to create the impression they were Cassidy supporters, laughed at locals who couldn't get in.

1:46 PM 2/27/2017

Welcome back, Churchill sculpture

Barack Obama has done a lot of things to antagonize friends of the U.S., and getting rid of the sculpture of Winston Churchill certainly didn't do much to enhance our friendship with Britain.

So it's nice to hear Donald Trump will bring it back to the White House. Source: Winston Churchill bust set for Oval Office return by Donald Trump.

For what it's worth, that article is dated 1/7/17, however, it reads as if it was written last November. In any event, trying to undo some of the things Obama did is a worthwhile goal. Although, undoing the damage done to Israel may not be as effortless.

Who will ghost write Obama's new book if Bill Ayers is unavailable?

Kaitlan Collins at Dailycaller.com relays a report that Barack Obama Needs Time To Think About Himself Once He’s Out Of Office which includes the following:

Obama told Axelrod he plans on “writing a book and self-analyzing his time in office” during that time.

Oh my. Fact checkers -- legitimate ones -- will be working overtime to expose all the fake news in that book.

But the question that first springs to mind is, who will write it? Jack Cashill has pretty much proven as well as anyone could that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's first autobiography. See Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? To wit:

In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama’s career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama’s belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head. ...

Obama dissembles lethally when he describes Ayers as “just some guy in my neighborhood.” He is much more than that and quite possibly, as I have argued, the real author of Dreams From My Father.

Ayers has little motive to write another one. If some third party is brought in to ghost it, that writer will not only have to write for Obama, but he/she will have to sound like Ayers. That seems like a tall order.

Obama will try to remain relevant -- will the msm oblige?

Not long ago there was speculation that Barack Obama, once he's out of office, would try to establish his own network to try to stay relevant. A post at this blog encouraged him to do that so that he and his cohorts could exercise their lamentations over their victimization in their own bubble.

So here's a quote from this article: Obama's threat to meddle with Trump’s administration if Muslim registry is created. To wit:

Speaking to The Daily Show, Mr Obama, who will be leaving the White House in January, suggested he would not sit idly by if the billionaire implemented policies “going against American values”.

Lefties have been co-opting our language for a long time. And there's an example. The phrase "American values" can't possible mean the same thing to him as it does to those of us who don't subscribe to the leftist agenda. Obama has put his thumb in the eye of real "American values." But for him to sound hypocritical is not a new thing.

Anyway, one has to wonder how big a market there will be for Obama's opinions about current events once he is out of office. Currently, the cable news channels shut down normal programming whenever Trump, Obama, or Clinton walk up to a podium. Most cable viewers are probably getting tired of it. If it continues much longer maybe it's time to turn off the TV and open a book.

Obama to work in media after leaving office, as if we will still need his opinion

If this is true, Barack Obama hopes to establish an online media entity after he leaves office. That's good. Many of us feared he would be one of those pundits the cable channels go to when they need a guest to fill time. And we imagined a constant, tiresome, presence. His writers would give him a pithy statement which would saturate all the channels.

Here's one source for news of his plan: Obama considering post-presidential digital media career, sources say. Via Of course: Obama reportedly considering launching his own media company.

With his own company he can live in his own bubble. And his audience will be like minded people. He won't change any minds, and in fact, few outside that bubble will bother looking at his web channel, Youtube channel, or whatever it is he puts together.

So do it, President Obama. We would prefer that he leave the public sphere like other former presidents have done. But he has no skills -- he can't paint, he can't build a house, he can't even organize a community. But if he must be in a spotlight, then his own private channel is the best route for him and us.

Why does Obama have to be so divisive?

He wants to be the community organizer he never was. The Reverend Wright was a rebel rousing preacher with a large community following. But Obama was merely a cool black dude with good speech delivery.

Bill Ayers had to be an influence as well. And we can't forget Obama's developmental years under the tutelage of Frank Marshall Davis. Combine all that and the product was a President Obama who is convinced that discontent is a positive force.

Whatever the source of his motivation, we see this: Obama won't call off anti-Trump protesters.

Why does he hate us? The wonder is how in the world did Obama get elected in the first place. It's such a shame that he uses his power to generate divisiveness instead of unity. If only he would just go away once his term ends.

Lefty rioter groups gets tax exempt status denied to Tea Party

If there are any groups of people in the U.S. who have gotten a raw deal it's the people who tried to organize Tea Party groups.

They tried to get tax exempt status, and it's no secret that in many cases that status was denied or endlessly delayed for what appears to have been political meddling by the IRS. Under most circumstances, that would have been a big NO-NO. But in the Obama administration federal agencies were politicized to the extent no other administration had ever done, at least as far as we know.

And even today we read that two Tea Party groups' applications were denied by the IRS. See IRS denies tea party groups after long wait for decision on tax-exempt status.

Meanwhile, as we watch video of rioting anti-Trump mobs it's useful to remember who is backing them. Blake Montgomery reports that lo and behold, the radical organizer ANSWER Coalition is right in there swinging.

In case you're wondering whether they've got a tax exemption, look no further than their donate page where they helpfully explain the following:

Donations to PUF / ANSWER Coalition are processed by our fiscal sponsor, the Progress Unity Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization.

You may also make a tax-deductible donation by mailing a check made out to Progress Unity Fund / A.N.S.W.E.R. to the following address: ...

(Bold added, address withheld.)

Their tax exempt status should certainly be investigated. And if Donald Trump really intends to drain the swamp he should start with the IRS.

Let's hope Trump's transition goes better than when Bush took over after Clinton

We are hearing how Obama promises a smooth transition of the White House to Trump. Let's hope he means it and expects the same from his staff.

Let's just focus on the actual house for now. The things Bill Clinton, et. ux., Hillary Clinton, did when they left the White House have a way of haunting the memory. It was bad enough to steal government furniture. But the staff went out of their way to make things hard when they pried all the "W"s off each keyboard in the White House. Just childish fun, but someone had to pay for it, and it was us, the taxpayers. But that's the disdain they had for us.

Should we expect antics like that this time? Obama promised a smooth transition. And he wouldn't lie, would he? OK, you can stop laughing now.

Actually, they probably fear that Donald Trump could make them look like the small creatures if they did try some shenanigans.

Obama finally draws a red line that holds -- but it's with Donald Trump!

Obama shows some back bone on occasion. But it's consistent with what we've all seen already -- the only enemies Obama recognizes are his domestic political enemies. Sad but true.

Now we read that Obama has drawn another red line. This one is a warning to Donald Trump not to go after Michelle Obama.*

What chivalry! And so far it's holding.

*Ted Cruz probably had a palm to forehead moment -- "Why didn't I think of that!" Actually, it must be disheartening to Cruz to realize that Trump has more respect for Obama than he does for Cruz.

Michelle Obama -- I need an honest man

That's not a direct quote, but it works better to highlight the absurdity.

The real headline was Michelle Obama: ‘We Need Someone Who’s Honest and Plays by the Rules’ as President. Duh, as the kids say.

It's safe to say that George W. Bush was honest and played by the rules, and that factors in the fiction invented by Democrats about lies about Iraqi weapons. The problem is that we haven't had an honest president in almost eight years. I'll leave it to readers to do their own searches for the long list of Obama lies which, of course, would be incomplete if it didn't include that whopper about being able to keep your doctor or insurance plan.

Could Ms. Obama have been making a pitch for Hillary Clinton? HA HA! That's too absurd to even contemplate. Leftists have to lie to get their agenda passed. No one in their right mind would vote for it if they understood what it involved. So they lie about lying.

The choice in November is between a loud mouth show boat or a bald faced liar.

Rioters pick their spots -- Charlotte yes, Tulsa no

It's hard to miss the disparity between the responses to the police shooting in Tulsa and the police shooting in Charlotte. Charlotte is enveloped in riots, looting, and at least one killing amongst the rioters, all in the name of social justice. Tulsa erupted in peace and quite.

My own shallow assumption was that Tulsa was too far away. The people who were renting the mobs didn't want to foot the transportation bill.

Patricia McCarthy says there's more to it than that. See Charlotte riots, Tulsa doesn’t. Excerpt:

For inexplicable reasons, leftists believe that the violence wrought by angry minorities will benefit them, so they encourage it.  They subsidize it.  Obama has given his not-so-tacit permission to riot every time one of these tragic events occurs, from the Henry Louis Gates minor incident to the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the Dallas officers.  And now BLM is rolling in money, $100M from "social justice" organizations. Soros gave them $33M.

What we see in Charlotte is what they pay for.  They are not wasting their money in Tulsa because Oklahoma is in the bag for Trump.

Makes sense. Hillary Clinton is probably worrying herself sick over the lack of enthusiasm for her in Obama's most loyal voting bloc, African Americans. Democrats' plan appears to involve pouring gasoline on the fires of racial strife to motivate that bloc to vote for Hillary.

It's a sick and cynical plan, but will it work? We can only hope it doesn't.

Meanwhile, as I've said previously, like Dr. Frankenstein, they were smart enough to create a monster. But they are not smart enough to control it.

Does anyone doubt that there's a secret deal in the works between the U.S. and China over North Korea's nuke program?

What does China want? Unfettered access to the South China Sea.

What does the U.S. want? North Korea to hide it's nuclear weapons program and delivery system a little better.

The conventional wisdom tells us China is the only country with any real influence over North Korea. So given the Obama/Kerry diplomacy team's record with Iran, there shouldn't be much doubt that the U.S. would agree to give up complaining about the South China Sea thing to buy some peace and quiet from North Korea until after the new president is sworn in.

Sometimes this old fashioned notion of fairness shouldn't apply -- yeah I'm talking about Iran

We keep hearing this talk about that $400 million in cash that was sneaked into Iran, probably to secure the release of four hostages. But the pretense by the Obama administration was that the money belonged to Iran anyway, and the U.S.A. was merely returning it.

But what exactly does Iran's ownership claim have to do with it? When you are dealing with bullies who (1) don't respect us and (2) don't respect the law, why do we shackle ourselves with the same rules that would we would apply to those who do respect us and the law?

It's the rule of the playground: If a bully doesn't respect the rules of decency, then all rules are off.

Here's another one: Possession is nine tenths of the game. Give it away, and you've given the game away.

See excerpt from Heather Mac Donald's book at Freebeacon.com

Disclosure: I haven't read the book. However, it certainly has received some good praise, and it's about as timely as humanly possible.

The name of the book is "The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe." There's an excerpt at Freebeacon.com which addresses Obama's embrace of the false media narrative of the Ferguson, Missouri, encounter Michael Brown had with the police. Here's a brief excerpt from the chapter excerpted there:

This kind of misinformation about the criminal-justice system and the police can only increase hatred of the police. That hatred, in turn, will heighten the chances of more Michael Browns attacking officers and getting shot themselves. Police officers in the tensest areas may back off of assertive policing. Such de-policing will leave thousands of law-abiding minority residents who fervently support the police ever more vulnerable to thugs.

Obama couldn’t have stopped November’s violence in Ferguson with his address to the nation. But in casting his lot with those who speciously impugn our criminal-justice system, he increased the likelihood of more such violence in the future.

President Obama didn't pull the trigger on those police officers in Dallas. But his racial divisiveness certainly didn't do anything to quell the violence. It's as if he wants a certain segment of the population fired up and ready so he can use that force for political will.

Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter paused to take a breath after the "lone gunman" killed the police officers in Dallas. Then they carried on as usual. War on cops, indeed.

Who's on first -- with Muslims on top, where does your group fit in the Democrat pecking order?

When one special interest group wants to annihilate the other, that seems like an important consideration.

At least one Democrat constituency has done the math. Obama puts Muslims above gays in the political calculation, and that was be a sobering realization. (I can't locate a link for it, but there were news reports that some members of the LGBT society were miffed because Obama puts Muslims above them.)

It makes one sympathetic to Monica Lewinsky when she discovered that Bill Clinton was cheating on her with another mistress. Coming in second place can't be much fun, number three even less so. That brings us to third place winner Hillary Clinton. Poor old gal. And to think she's leading the Democrat party now. What an exiting time in which we live.

Come January we'll get the president we deserve.

Just words -- Obama chooses words carefully when referring to Islamic Terrorism and guns

It's the workhorse AR-15 that is in the left's cross hairs at the moment. They called it an "Assault Rifle" for years. Now they are calling it a Weapon of War.

The word "war" gets repeated often by Democrats when they try to disparage conservatives -- let's not forget the "war on women." Banning "weapons of war" sounds so much more palatable than "disarming America," and you know they chose the phrase carefully.

Lefties are masters at manipulating language to get their desired result from those whose votes they seek. And Obama is a good student of that school as he has put their teachings to good use through the years with catch phrases like "hope and change" and "we are the ones we've been waiting for." It would seem to take a certain susceptibility to be so easily persuaded. Yet Obama certainly had his followers.

"Islamic Terrorism" is a phrase that has been excluded from Obama's lexicon. He gave the game away when he tried to claim it doesn't matter. One has to wonder why he is so afraid of those words -- did CAIR bend his ear? He and his fellow leftists have been so careful avoiding those words yet so eager to use clever phrases against conservatives.

Words matter, and he knows it. There is a lot conservatives could learn from him.

Never let a crisis go to waste -- Obama misapplies Orlando terrorism to gun control

There's probably room for some compromise between gun controllers and gun owners. But anyone who heard Obama demonize gun owners over the years is probably more inclined to think the gun control advocates will not rest until every law abiding gun owner is disarmed. Glenn Reynolds says it best:

Remember, none of this is about saving lives. It’s about the cultural domination of the people in flyover country, by their coastal “betters” who get a near-erotic thrill out of such domination, and who are reduced to blind rage whenever their efforts at domination fail.

The issue as it is being applied to the Orlando terrorism is whether suspected terrorists should be able to purchase guns. Never mind that the killer had passed all scrutiny and had been cleared by the FBI.

The NRA has a good position on the subject, and that's that a gun sale can be delayed while an investigation is conducted and anyone who is going to be denied his/her constitutional right should get a fair and prompt hearing. See NRA Statement on Terror Watchlists:

Fairfax, Va.— The executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, Chris W. Cox, released the following statement regarding terror watchlists:

We are happy to meet with Donald Trump.  The NRA's position on this issue has not changed.  The NRA believes that terrorists should not be allowed to purchase or possess firearms, period.  Anyone on a terror watchlist who tries to buy a gun should be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and the sale delayed while the investigation is ongoing.  If an investigation uncovers evidence of terrorist activity or involvement, the government should be allowed to immediately go to court, block the sale, and arrest the terrorist.  At the same time, due process protections should be put in place that allow law-abiding Americans who are wrongly put on a watchlist to be removed.  That has been the position of Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) and a majority of the U.S. Senate.  Sadly, President Obama and his allies would prefer to play politics with this issue.

Meanwhile Obama plays politics to his fan base making ISIS look like the strong horse to its fan base.

Obama endorses Hillary Clinton -- pardon next

The big announcement of the day was that President Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. He's got his name on it now. Nbcnews.com quoting Obama:

... I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office...

(Aside: More qualified than Obama himself?)

But how would it look now if she got indicted?

That's easy. She won't get indicted. Either FBI Director James Comey will decline to request an indictment or Attorney General Loretta Lynch will decline to prosecute.

However, as a fail safe, Obama could always pardon her. To those of us who don't support her that sounds like a dreadful outcome, but it's not likely to sway her supporters.

But would it push independents toward Trump? It might. But Trump is always tripping over his own tongue, and he's likely to have offended so many people by November that only his true supporters remain in his camp. Maybe the independents stay home.

What a year this has been. For all the complaining the pundits do, this has been the most entertaining election most of us in the U.S. has ever seen.

A reason to vote for Trump -- he probably won't wilt under lefty media pressure

Obama seemed like a broken record for the first few years of his administration with all those complaints about how he faced so many problems he inherited from the previous administration. I noted in a blog post back then that he didn't inherit any problems, he bought them.

Obama got a free ride from the msm, so that made it easy for him to get away with it. The next president, if it's a Republican, won't get a free ride. He'll face endless poison gas attacks from reporters.

So the president is going to have to have tough skin and a strong nose. If we look at some of the others who ran in the Republican Primary, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are the only ones who could survive that. Unfortunately for Cruz, he wasn't liked by voters as well as Trump.

Trump seems quite capable of giving the middle finger -- be it short and fat or long and skinny, it doesn't matter -- to the scurrying crowd that is the main stream media.

Even with all his perceivable faults, that's one reason to vote for him.

If you think the high HIV rate among gay African Americans in the South is because of some other reason than racism then you're a racist

A few years ago the CDC published results of a survey of 34,557 adults and announced the following:

96.6% of adults identified as straight, 1.6% identified as gay or lesbian, and 0.7% identified as bisexual. The remaining 1.1% of adults identified as ‘‘something else,’’ stated ‘‘I don’t know the answer,’’ or refused to provide an answer.

Their focus was on the non-straights. And while that might seem to most of us to miss the mark, the Obama administration has isolated that group for special attention, in particular transgenders.

They are still fine-tuning their results with emphasis this time on HIV. The DailyCaller.com caught that one and brings this to our attention: CDC: Southerners’ ‘Racism’ And ‘Homophobia’ Cause Gay Men’s High HIV Rates.

It's all starting to fall in place. Democrats in the government need election issues to counter all the baggage they're carrying now, and there's nothing quite as caustic as racism to gin up votes among interested parties. Phobias and isms are causing high HIV rates among gay men. Oh boy. Who would have thought it?

Obama admin's fixation on Disneyland is symptom of their Fantasyland mindset

The other day Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald compared the length of time "veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn't either." Source.

He caught a lot of abuse for that unsympathetic remark, as he should have. But it tells us something. The President Obama and the people he has placed in positions of power seem to have a fantasy based reality. For example the belief that he could calm the tensions in the Middle East by virtue of his charm; that terrorists would stop their killing if we merely addressed them with neutral sounding words; that opening up the borders would make the U.S. a better place; that a smaller military here makes other countries less aggressive towards us; that he could fundamentally transform the country and the people would like what they got.

This is not new. Last year a State Department official wanted to use characters from Disney's "Frozen" to teach school children about climate change. Source.

While Obama espouses Fantasyland. The citizens debate whether he's Beavis or Butthead.

Edward Nero not guilty in Freddie Gray death -- if no riots, Obama must not willing to use his power over the mobs for Clinton's behalf

It's hard to ignore President Obama's power over the mobs that seem ready to riot at the slightest provocation. It's as if he exercises power when he needs something.

But here we are in an election year, and if Obama really wanted Hillary Clinton to win he would be steering black voters to her. But the quiet streets following the Nero verdict -- we don't know whether it will last -- suggest that Obama is holding back.

For example, Obama surrogate Elijah Cummings, "who represents the congressional district where the incident took place, told host Ashleigh Banfield that this was 'the way justice rolls.'”

Could it be Obama is going to let her sink or swim on her own? It's a mystery, like the dog that didn't bark. We'll have to wait and see.

Magic 8-ball, will Hillary Clinton face prosecution? Seems extremely doubtful.

There are plenty of people who think there's ample reason that Hillary should be prosecuted. But everything these days is political.

And given what we know about human nature and in particular politics as it's practiced today, it's simply inconceivable that A.G. Loretta Lynch would initiate prosecution. Lynch has been very loyal to Obama, and with Hillary cruising toward the Democrat nomination the odds of Obama dealing Hillary a crushing blow this close to the convention seem very remote.

But what if Trump is ultimately elected president? There's a big question mark. After a bruising campaign he may compliment her on her competitiveness and grant a pardon, not tell an Attorney General to prosecute her.

So just like her husband, she may escape paying a price for her misdeeds. That's the world we live in where people get too big to jail.

Her defense seems to stand on three legs: Ignorance of the law, ignorance of the facts, and ignorance of technology. I hate to go there, especially on Mother's Day. But is this get-out-of-jail-free card the famous "woman's card" we keep hearing about?

You've come a long way, baby.

So a rapper's ankle bracelet alarm goes off in meeting with Obama - doesn't that just add to his street cred?

This morning on a morning drive-time radio program the hosts were in outrage mode at the news headlined thus: Rapper’s Ankle Monitor Goes Off At The White House.

That happened at a meeting which was supposed to be about criminal justice reform, so it was only fitting.

We have to remember the world Obama lives in. These are influential people, and Obama hopes to influence them. African Americans have voted in blocs for years, and President Obama wants to be their go-to guy for political opinion, perhaps supplanting Al Sharpton.

One would think that criminals who are also rappers probably don't appeal to the majority of blacks. But as a group they certainly seemed unified whenever there's a confrontation between police and black people. The TV movie about the O.J. Simpson trial reminded us that it is not a recent phenomenon.

Given that, an ankle alarm going off merely adds to Obama's street cred. We'll be hearing from Obama long after he's gone from office.