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From Green Eagle:

Hitler had engaged in a treasonous revolt against Germany. For this he should have been executed or received a very long prison sentence, but instead a corrupt, right wing judge gave him a shockingly short sentence and then saw to it that he served only a small time in custody, for a massive, murderous crime.

It is highly likely that, if this conservative judge had not been able to engineer this travesty of justice, the Beer Hall Putsch would have been the end of the Nazi party, and it is very possible that World War II, with its fifty million deaths would have never taken place.

This sort of judicial travesty is exactly what has just happened in the Manafort case.

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• Interesting insights can always be found at one of my favorite blog sites. But this is different. Infidel753 has a personal reason for asking readers for any available data on finding a small apartment while working as a temp.
   
• This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Newsday as my President attends the CPAC convention and floats past a significant milestone in documented falsehoods.
   
• Max’s Dad, the best ranter I’ve been reading takes off on CPAC. If I ever do anything horrible that attracts the attention of Max’s Dad, all I ask is a chance to apologize.
   
• M. Bouffant at Web of Evil discovers irony amid the tragic cruelty of a Republican operative at the center of a human trafficking ring.
   
• Mark at News Corpse names names and points out incidents while documenting how Fox News is purging conservatives who criticize Trump.
   
• It isn’t the just the Russians now. Frances Langum points out local news sites that are fake urls put up by Republican agents intended to look like real news stories. Can you say fake news?
   
• Green Eagle rolls print-eyes as a young liberal-minded opinion writer suggests that Trump’s love is the reason for the loyalty of his base.
   
• The Pretty Petty Award goes to… guess. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors chronicles the drama as the White House boldly awards an International Women of Courage Award to a Finnish journalist who exhibited real bravery in the face of physical danger, then withdraws the award after learning she had criticized Donald Trump on Twitter.
   
• Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post contrasts the party who has elected a diverse group of forward looking office holders with the party that restricts candidates to the old, pampered, and comfortable.
   
• Jonathan Bernstein says not to worry. The Democratic party is in no danger of being taken over by the far left.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony reflects on the light sentencing of Paul Manafort and accompanying remarks by the Judge that the guilty man should not serve the recommended time because he had “lived an otherwise blameless life.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson seems upset that the new governor not only opposes government funding of private schools, but will not support other items on every conservative wish list. It’s almost as if he’s a Democrat, and elections matter.
   

 
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

I’ve been in their homes and they’ve been in mine.

I know what these people have seen, the work they’ve been a part of, the kindness they’ve shown others, the faith they’ve professed, the God they’ve read and sang about.

Which makes it all the more heartbreaking now, to admit that I no longer recognize them; the venomous words they share on social media, the hateful theology they now ratify, the blatant corruption they turn their heads from, the human rights atrocities they are stunningly silent on.

The only conclusion I can come to, is that we were never following the same Jesus—or at the very least we aren’t any longer.

They are following a Jesus who is foreign to me, a Jesus who builds walls.

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From Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

A group of Democrats unveiled their “Green New Deal” (GND) that calls for a “‘10-year national mobilization’ on the scale of the original New Deal” geared to “transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change.”

Remember that the 1930s FDR New Deal was a catastrophic failure if the goal was economic well-being. But it was a smashing success at expanding the power and scope of government interference in the economy. The drastic transformation of the U.S. economy would require, against the choices that Americans would otherwise make, would do the same, this time likely on the scale of totalitarian power. If the climate is in a “crisis” that is an imminent “‘existential threat’ to the planet,” and human activity is the cause, then what control can’t the government impose on us? What limits on government power will be left under the government-imposed mobilization plan? None–and that’s the point.

But is climate change the primary factor motivating the GND? I doubt it. Remember that the Democratic Party is now a socialist party–a democratic socialist party.

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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Most amazing to me is that only 52% of Republicans and 53% of Trump voters say he has not committed a serious crime. That means 48% of Republicans and 47% of Trump voters either believe he did or aren’t sure whether he did or not. And yet they continue to support him, and say they would vote for his re-election.

It shows the power of hate. Those people don’t support Trump because of his agenda. He really doesn’t have an agenda (conservative or otherwise). His only agenda is to do what he thinks is good for himself (and that is subject to change at a moment’s notice).

So, why do these people continue to support him? It’s because they value hate above morality and/or policy.

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From Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:

I have, over the past few years, read threads on different forums where cops and retired cops are complaining that they have to abide by magazine and/or ammo restrictions when they are off duty, especially when they are traveling for pleasure.

My feeling is this: Suck it up, buttercup.

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From The Borowitz Report:

Mueller said that he did not seek Trump’s SAT scores because he thought that they would have any bearing on his investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. “My team has been putting in long hours and working very, very hard,” he said. “I just thought they deserved a good laugh.”

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From Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass:

We were warned. The late, great, lamented Molly Ivins warned us. When it comes to daily life, it’s our state legislators who have the most control over what we can do and whether we can do it safely.

Take Kentucky’s General Assembly. Please.

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Would this explain the success of a certain well known politician?
 
From The Journal of Improbable Research:

Hector Qirko is not only Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Department Chair at the College of Charleston, US – he’s also, as can be appreciated above, a recording artist.

As such, he’s noticed that when it comes to popular music, “dumbness” in performances can sometimes be regarded as a musically authentic asset.

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