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The Clinton Era File Gate Scandal

grampslcf June 3, 2022 Comments Off

One of the items rising from the memory banks of some people is the File Gate scandal during the Clinton administration.

The White House FBI files controversy of the Clinton Administration, often referred to as Filegate, arose in June 1996 around improper access in 1993 and 1994 to FBI security-clearance documents. The revelations provoked a strong political and press reaction because many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations, including top presidential advisors. Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes.

One observer of all things political noted:

A Stunning Revelation

grampslcf June 3, 2022 Comments Off

There is little that surprises me about how corrupt Washington is but this item blew me away. Sundance over at The Last Refuge is reporting that the FBI maintains a work space INSIDE the law firm of Perkins Coie.

Sundance notes:

Biden’s Coming For Your Guns

grampslcf June 2, 2022 2 Comments

Joe Biden took to the podium to demand a litany of new gun restrictions. Biden called for the banning of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines through reinstating the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

Biden also called on Congress to construct new federal background checks, which sounded a lot like a federal registration of gun ownership.

Odds & Ends

grampslcf June 2, 2022 Comments Off

From Las Vegas, KTNV reported, “A video from a recent CCSD board meeting is now going viral on social media and making national headlines.

“Kandra Evans addressed the school board saying her 15-year-old daughter was given a pornographic assignment.

“Evans says her daughter was required to memorize the pornographic content and then recite it in front of her entire class.

“CCSD board members then stopped the public comment over the explicit language.”

A school board member said, “This is a public meeting. I ask for decorum.”

Evans replied, “If you don’t want me to read it to you, what was it like for my 15-year-old daughter to have to memorize pornographic material?”

They cut off her microphone.

So much for public comment on what goes on in the classroom. Is it time to end the public school system in this country?

Items

grampslcf June 2, 2022 1 Comment

We are hearing from all sides about solutions to the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. Don Surber has some thoughts:

How about we have Congress do nothing?

How about we have the president do nothing?

How about we have the entire nation just take a chill pill?

Pray for the victims. Pray for the families of the victims. Pray for the town of Uvalde.

But remember, we did not create a federal government to protect us from every imaginable evil and every tragedy in life. We already have paid too much for believing we should have an omnipotent government that protects us 24/7.

You know who gets 24/7 protection, free health care and free food?

Prisoners.

He has a point.

Trump Is Finished

grampslcf June 1, 2022 Comments Off

Trump held a rally in Wyoming that ostensibly, according to leftist news outlets, was because Cheney voted to impeach Trump. The news media characterized the rally was a grudge rally against Liz Cheney. They published stories touting a most empty arena and published pictures to back this story up. Trump once again is finished.

Why Are Democrats Facilitating Mass Shootings?

grampslcf May 30, 2022 Comments Off

Whenever a mass shooting takes place, the Left is quick to come out and accuse Republicans of not caring about people’s lives because they refuse to enact “common sense” gun reform legislation. Of course, such legislation always involves taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. Democrats will lie and say that background checks would have stopped the current tragedy. The only problem is always that such background checks already exist.

Memorial Day 2022

grampslcf May 29, 2022 Comments Off

Denninger Predicted

grampslcf May 27, 2022 Comments Off

Right now the whole country is focused on the unimaginable horror that hit a small town In Texas. Some years back when my wife and I were touring the country, we passed through Uvalde. We had lunch there. It was a nice small town and the people were delightful to talk to. This tragedy is going to dominate the news cycle for a while and do-something-itis will be in the conversation of many politicians.

This tragedy is unfathomable. Who imagines that when they send their nine or ten year old to school, that they will be coming home in a body bag?

This tragedy shows that evil exists even if the Left wants to provide some excuse for people to act like this. Once the post mortems are done, attention can be brought back to the other items that are making this country very ill.

Redefining Free Speech

grampslcf May 26, 2022 Comments Off

Australia has an eSafety Commissioner named Julie Inman-Grant. Yes, that is a real title. At the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Inman-Grant outlined a new on-line era where free speech would need to be “recalibrated,” and the ability to be free from something called “on-line violence.”