Just One Thing: Remember that Trump impeachment, Joe?
Andy McCarthy made an interesting point yesterday. I don’t want to take it too far but it’s worth considering. First, let me say that while most of us think of the hostage crisis as the innocents being held, with many of them likely dead already, by Hamas barbarians, Joe Biden seems to think that the hostage crisis is his political future being held hostage by Arab-American voters in Michigan, and that seems to be the primary hostage he’s trying to free. Andy reminds us that by withholding some weapons from Israel, Biden is blocking congressionally approved taxpayer-funded aid from our ally which was attacked. Sure sounds a lot like what Trump’s first impeachment was about, when he withheld military aid from Ukraine in pursuit of a domestic political goal. Kinda makes you think, right?
Does Biden’s Sabotage of Israel Remind You of Anything? | National Review
Meanwhile, I'm not a huge Bibi fan in recent years but the dude has demonstrably more courage in his little finger than Joe Biden has ever had in his entire life.
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Today's Guests
Kristi Burton Brown is Executive VP of Advance Colorado and former Chair of the Colorado Republican Party. We'll discuss the recently passed "property tax relief" bill: what it does, what it doesn't do, and what's next.
Property Tax | Colorado General Assembly
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Paul Mauro is an attorney, a former NYPD inspector, currently proprietor of the OpsDesk Substack and Fox News contributor.
We'll discuss Donald Trump's "hush money" trial. I have some technical legal questions and we'll talk about this interesting note by Paul: Is Trump Winning In New York? (Or is Bragg's strategy working?)
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Other Stuff
I promised this story on the air yesterday and didn't get to it, so I'll probably do it first today: Astonishing story of 'millionaire' social worker, 32, who posed as 13 year-old trafficked orphan to attend three high schools and who 'tricked' adult couple into fostering her | Daily Mail Online
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I don't do a lot of sports stories but I like this one. Classy move: Broncos' Zach Wilson gives No. 10 to Bo Nix | 9news.com
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I'm with this dude: I hate hate speech laws | The Spectator
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A bad story with a good (doggie) ending: Colorado woman saved by dog from sex assault | 9news.com
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The Federal Reserve says this: Pandemic Savings Are Gone: What’s Next for U.S. Consumers? - San Francisco Fed (frbsf.org)
Joe Biden says this:
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I proudly call myself "not a conservative" but there are gut instincts in me that are slightly conservative in the sense that I typically default to assuming that some institution, especially an American institution, that has been around a long time probably has some redeeming quality. That appears to be mostly wrong regarding Ivy League universities at this time, but in thinking about the Boy Scouts now changing their name to "Scouting USA" (they started allowing girls several years ago), my initial reaction was negative. But maybe it shouldn't be. And I don't mean that in a "girls and boys are the same" way but rather that maybe "there are timeless lessons of self-reliance and a huge range of skills that boys and girls can both benefit from learning."
I will say I was frustrated a couple of nights ago when former Redskins great Joe Theismann was on News Nation with Leland Vittert as a sort of ambassador for the Scouts and started to say something about "both genders" and then switch quickly to, I think it was, "many genders". Even if you think there are "many genders" that sort of obvious rhetorical pandering to a minuscule percentage of the population is annoying. And for the record, I have no objection to any aspect of LGBT. But I do have objection to forcing that sort of "tolerance" down people's throats. These sorts of societal change happen through evolution, not revolution, and I'm tired of the revolutionaries.
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Note: the new 6.5% tax on firearms and ammunition passed by the anti-gun Dems in the legislature must go to the voters for approval. I bet it passes because we live in East California now: Firearms & Ammunition Excise Tax | Colorado General Assembly
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I know that teens and young adults are supposed to be kinda stupid, but this stupid?
DU students build encampment as pro-Palestinian protests continue (denver7.com)
Auraria Campus leadership addresses health, safety concerns as encampment grows (denver7.com)
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Imagine if you’d bought these claims for 15 cents on the dollar (and you could have): Failed crypto giant FTX has recovered billions more than it needs to pay back bankruptcy victims (msn.com)
The rise in value of FTX's bankruptcy claims (Axios): https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-4a2353b0-0e26-11ef-b20a-271bd7848978.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3
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If you're interested, the USMC Memorial Foundation is hosting their inaugural Marine Memorial Golf Tournament in partnership with the NFL Alumni Association next Thursday at The Ridge at Castle Pines North. 7 AM breakfast, 8 AM shotgun start. More info here: Home - United States Marine Corps Memorial Foundation (usmcmemorialfoundation.org)
Marine Memorial Golf Tournament in partnership with NFL Alumni (charitygolftoday.com)
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This is why the anti-abortion folks will only be satisfied with a federal ban: Abortion seekers continue to flood Colorado for care (coloradosun.com)
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One wonders if the Chicago police will get involved if the anti-Israel protesters show up at the Democratic National Convention in a few months since they refused to help the University of Chicago: University of Chicago police clear protest encampment early Tuesday, days after president announces intention to intervene (msn.com)
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DC area senators failed: Senate passes five-year FAA bill - POLITICO
Here's what they failed at: DC-area senators try to stop more flights at Reagan National Airport (msn.com)
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Truly incredible: Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain | MIT Technology Review
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Today's Video
Studying the pentagram
Thanks to Dan Flynn from the American Spectator for pointing out this video. It's way outside of what I usually think about and it's surprisingly interesting. (This guy has hundreds of thousands of followers. I'm not among them and don't know about the rest of his work.)
When sex noises interrupt your press conference