Devine: “An open mind was once the marker of good journalism”
Two days ago, Matt Taibbi wrote in Racket News, “The instant Donald Trump appeared on the scene, 'Deep State' became myth.”
Miranda Devine wrote in the New York Post yesterday, “Once people with eyes and common sense see the evidence about the influence-peddling racket operated by Joe’s son Hunter and brother Jim to make millions of dollars from shady characters in China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, etc., while Joe was vice president, it is impossible not to grasp the corrupt nature of that business and Joe’s role in it.” Devine then explained influence-peddling: “The ‘signals’ that were sent to friends and enemies by a corrupt oligarch’s association with the second-most powerful man in the world were worth millions of dollars.” She then wrote, “An open mind was once the marker of good journalism.”
Today, Mark Hemingway wrote of Joe Biden in The Federalist, “It’s hard to think of a more categorical denial than the one Biden issued in August 2019 about his role in his son’s business dealings.” He mentioned Victor Shokin, “the Ukrainian prosecutor Joe Biden got fired while Shokin was investigating the Ukrainian gas company that was paying Biden’s son a million dollars a year.” Hemingway also wrote, “political reporters are not a particularly consistent or principled bunch.”
Peregrine said, “Bribery is listed in the Constitution as grounds for impeachment.” Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution says, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Emily Stewart in Vox quoted Geoffrey Kabaservice, a vice president at a center-right think tank: “The reality is increasingly there is a red market and a blue market... Ultimately here the subtext is America is a pretty divided country.”
Heather Mac Donald in the Wall Street Journal wrote about Karen Fleshman's June 26 training of the Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s Victim Services Division on “how to serve white victims”. One PowerPoint panel from the training said that “‘White Supremacy Culture’ is characterized by ‘Perfectionism,’ ‘Objectivity,’ ‘Sense of Urgency’ and ‘Individualism.’” Mac Donald remarked, “Perhaps it’s harmful to expect government employees to respond to crimes objectively and urgently.”
Hamilton Nolan of In These Times wrote on Monday, “The conditions for the labor movement to organize millions of new workers and truly shift America’s balance of power towards working people are much better than usual, but we have yet to see the tangible evidence that the institutions of the union world are using this opportunity to leap into action and pour resources into organizing, rather than watching their bank accounts swell as the percentage of workers in unions shrinks.”
Melissa Mackenzie on Tuesday wrote in The American Spectator, “At the heart of the arguments about Trump is a visceral contempt for Trump voters. These people do not deserve to participate in Democracy. Disenfranchising millions of voters because they have the temerity to support a hated adversary saves the republic. The premise is that American voters are too stupid to vote in their own interests.”
On Tuesday, Chris Lehmann wrote in The Nation about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” who died this month on the 27th: “Wurzelbacher, an ardent gun-rights advocate who made a point of displaying a Luger firearm on an adjoining table during a 2018 interview with a Reuters reporter, finally did get his turn as a business entrepreneur. According to the Washington Examiner, he worked as an executive at a company called Swiftshield, ‘a company that makes steel barricades to protect students in the event of a mass shooting.’ Fighting for the American dream, indeed.”
Speaking about “a battle for the heart of urban America," John Kass wrote in John Kass News yesterday, “The people of Chicago and greater Cook County must know all facets of this ongoing battle, so they can make an informed choice to select a new prosecutor, one who believes that punishing violent criminals isn’t racism, but self preservation of the great cities and minorities who are victimized by violent criminals. Unfortunately the news media is broken [and] unable to reason beyond the simplest of slogans.”
Miranda Devine wrote in the New York Post yesterday, “Once people with eyes and common sense see the evidence about the influence-peddling racket operated by Joe’s son Hunter and brother Jim to make millions of dollars from shady characters in China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, etc., while Joe was vice president, it is impossible not to grasp the corrupt nature of that business and Joe’s role in it.” Devine then explained influence-peddling: “The ‘signals’ that were sent to friends and enemies by a corrupt oligarch’s association with the second-most powerful man in the world were worth millions of dollars.” She then wrote, “An open mind was once the marker of good journalism.”
Today, Mark Hemingway wrote of Joe Biden in The Federalist, “It’s hard to think of a more categorical denial than the one Biden issued in August 2019 about his role in his son’s business dealings.” He mentioned Victor Shokin, “the Ukrainian prosecutor Joe Biden got fired while Shokin was investigating the Ukrainian gas company that was paying Biden’s son a million dollars a year.” Hemingway also wrote, “political reporters are not a particularly consistent or principled bunch.”
Peregrine said, “Bribery is listed in the Constitution as grounds for impeachment.” Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution says, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Emily Stewart in Vox quoted Geoffrey Kabaservice, a vice president at a center-right think tank: “The reality is increasingly there is a red market and a blue market... Ultimately here the subtext is America is a pretty divided country.”
Heather Mac Donald in the Wall Street Journal wrote about Karen Fleshman's June 26 training of the Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price’s Victim Services Division on “how to serve white victims”. One PowerPoint panel from the training said that “‘White Supremacy Culture’ is characterized by ‘Perfectionism,’ ‘Objectivity,’ ‘Sense of Urgency’ and ‘Individualism.’” Mac Donald remarked, “Perhaps it’s harmful to expect government employees to respond to crimes objectively and urgently.”
Hamilton Nolan of In These Times wrote on Monday, “The conditions for the labor movement to organize millions of new workers and truly shift America’s balance of power towards working people are much better than usual, but we have yet to see the tangible evidence that the institutions of the union world are using this opportunity to leap into action and pour resources into organizing, rather than watching their bank accounts swell as the percentage of workers in unions shrinks.”
Melissa Mackenzie on Tuesday wrote in The American Spectator, “At the heart of the arguments about Trump is a visceral contempt for Trump voters. These people do not deserve to participate in Democracy. Disenfranchising millions of voters because they have the temerity to support a hated adversary saves the republic. The premise is that American voters are too stupid to vote in their own interests.”
On Tuesday, Chris Lehmann wrote in The Nation about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” who died this month on the 27th: “Wurzelbacher, an ardent gun-rights advocate who made a point of displaying a Luger firearm on an adjoining table during a 2018 interview with a Reuters reporter, finally did get his turn as a business entrepreneur. According to the Washington Examiner, he worked as an executive at a company called Swiftshield, ‘a company that makes steel barricades to protect students in the event of a mass shooting.’ Fighting for the American dream, indeed.”
Speaking about “a battle for the heart of urban America," John Kass wrote in John Kass News yesterday, “The people of Chicago and greater Cook County must know all facets of this ongoing battle, so they can make an informed choice to select a new prosecutor, one who believes that punishing violent criminals isn’t racism, but self preservation of the great cities and minorities who are victimized by violent criminals. Unfortunately the news media is broken [and] unable to reason beyond the simplest of slogans.”