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I just have to sit down......this winning thing is just "tuckering me out"!! Don't let up Mr. President, as a lot of folks appreciate what you are accomplishing!!
 
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Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump: They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home.
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Good news indeed!



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Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump: They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home.
<snip>

Good news indeed!


Maybe Mitch isn’t as dumb as he looks.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Maybe Mitch isn’t as dumb as he looks.

Well, I don't know if I'd go that far.




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Found this and enjoyed it! Big Grin

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Winning never tasted so good. It's not some intellectual discussion on economics- It's a grilled steak and it was delivered by President Trumps vision of what America could be again.

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Americans Are Grilling More Steaks for Labor Day With the Economy Humming


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Eat your heart out Krugman! Looks like you were wrong....again....
 
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Omarosa Manigault Newman wandered around the White House taping 'nearly every conversation she had' on her personal cell phone

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The methodology behind former Presidential aide Omarosa Manigault Newman internal surveillance operation has been revealed — she hit record on her personal cell phone and walked into White House meetings.

Axios.com reports that the former reality TV star, whom President Trump hired and fired four times, carried both a government issued cell phone and a personal one while in the West Wing.

According to an Axios source, she would sometimes put her work phone on speaker mode when chatting with administration associates, then record those conversation with her personal phone.

The report claims that Manigault Newman taped “nearly every conversation she had while working in the White House,” which includes talks with “all of the Trumps.”

The 44-year-old former Trump confidante reportedly carried her personal phone in her pocket or in a small purse when going into meetings. She claims to have done so to to “cover her own butt,” according to Axios.

Manigault Newman, who is promoting her tell-all book 'Unhinged', has accused the Trump administration of rampant dishonesty and backstabbing during her 11-month tenure as director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison.

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she accuses others of dishonesty and backstabbing as she secretly records everything

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I’ve been out of the loop on this for some time, so perhaps laws have changed, plus they vary among jurisdictions, but whatever happened to those that prohibit recording conversations with electronic devices (e.g., phones) unless certain conditions are met?

The general rule has usually been that a conversation may not be recorded without a court order unless the one doing the recording is a party to it: If A and B are talking to each other, C may not record it unless C is also involved. And some states have, or had anyway, laws that state neither A nor B may record the conversation unless both A and B are aware of the recording—and approve. Linda Tripp was threatened with criminal prosecution when she recorded Monica Lewinsky’s phone calls for that very reason.

Anyone with current knowledge about the subject? And even if it’s not specifically illegal, does anyone care any more about such invasions of privacy, or is that just something people expect these days?




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Omarosa Manigault Newman wandered around the White House taping 'nearly every conversation she had' on her personal cell phone <snip>

We can be sure that AG Sessions won’t let this interfere with his nap time.



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Taking a recording device into a sensitive area was a violation, so I would think actually recording something in that area would be also.

But it dosen't matter. Sessions dosen't care about national security. He only cares if you are a beaner. The only way to get Sessions to do something would be to tell him that she might be an illegal.

Why isn't the FBI getting a warrent for the recordings? If they were taken in sensitive areas there is a dam good chance she recorded classified information. Which she is not able to posess, let alone release to the public. Oh wait, my bad, the FBI dosen't give a shit. It's Trump, not a democrat.

The cowardice that pathetic excuse for an AG puts on display is amazing.
 
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why is she not in jail, without bail?



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Trump: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.

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For months, I’ve been driving on different routes through the vast San Joaquin Valley back and forth from the California coast—and through the usually economically depressed small towns on and near the Highway 99 corridor through the Central Valley. The poverty rate in many valley counties is higher than in West Virginia. It is a world away from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the Stanford or Caltech campus, Malibu, and Pacific Heights.

In an overregulated, overtaxed state of open borders and sanctuary cities, with the nation’s near highest electricity and gasoline prices, and facing a looming state and local pension unfunded liability of well over $300 billion, one might not expect much of an uptick from the supposed Trump economic revival. California’s calcified strategy, after all, is that global lucre pouring into coastal high-tech and finance will more than balance out the economic damage wrought by state government. Sacramento is a sort of court jester to Menlo Park.

Throughout California’s coastal and mountain forests there are waves of dead trees unharvested after a devastating drought. There are large fields of recoverable gas and oil in lots of places that are not being drilled, as well as valuable ores and metals not being mined, and unmatched farmland deprived of its long ago contracted water rights. The idea of a renaissance in the vast rich interior of the state seems implausible—especially when state government is more interested in banning plastic straws and mandating gender-neutral restrooms than in building dams or roads.

Signs of Hope in Central California
Yet signs for help wanted along highways are now ubiquitous—truckers, welders, fabricators, assemblers. Agriculture worries not just in perennial fashion about the lack of farm harvesters, even at wages of $10.50 to $14 dollars an hour. Now they’re short of forklift drivers, packing house workers, and mechanics.

New housing construction is growing after roughly a decade’s hiatus, at least to the degree carpenters, electricians, and plumbers can be found. Upward mobility is evident. At the local Walmart, the checkers often tell me they’re leaving despite raises—for better paying jobs. I drive home to my farm by a new warehouse that seems under endless construction. I finally ask the neighboring business, why? Answer: they cannot find or keep workers. The same reply comes from a friend redoing his house. Painters and floor workers no sooner start to paint and tile than they are hired away. Many now working have never held a fulltime job.

I do not know what the state’s figures on current public assistance show or could reveal, but when in line at the local grocery stores, I see less use of EBT cards than I did three years ago. Far less common is the shopper who pulls out four or five of them under various names. People have not become more honest. But they are in demand and making more money in a way not true prior in the 21st century. Labor has gained some leverage over the employer. Or rather the private sector is regaining ground on the administrative state. The fact of being needed and wanted makes a worker nearly as happy as increased compensation, this notion that he is not just appreciated, but desperately sought out by an employer far more eager to hire than to fire him.

The sense that the border may be closing, or that even in California ICE still deports criminal illegal aliens, has caused some self-deportation or perhaps slowed down the number of new illegal arrivals. Either way, American citizens, many of them of Mexican or Central American ancestry, have less competition for unskilled jobs and the rise in wages shows it. Employers do not pay more because they like paying more than the minimum wage but because they have no choice. How odd that the purported ogre Trump has ended West Coast sanctimonious talk over jacking up the minimum wage.

Does Trump Get Deserved Credit?
Does this boom translate into growing support for Trump? Not necessarily since it wars with the paradox that Trump is now seen by many as useful, but not as presidential. When one is doing well, he has the luxury of dreaming that it might be better to do poorly under a so-called presidential leader.

The media’s hatred of Trump is not necessarily determinative, but it is a force multiplier of the 24/7 unhinged narrative of the universities, popular culture, and Hollywood. Their shared goal is to make saying that one supports the Trump agenda so socially unpalatable, so culturally Neanderthal, that no sane person wishes to confess his delight with a new economy, foreign policy, and approach to the administrative state.

Amid the conundrum over Trump’s sometimes silly tweets, his 90-minute stand-up comedy routines at rallies, his spats with “fake news,” and the blood feud with the political lobby at CNN, what is lost in the calculation are these facts on the ground far from Washington, where slowly but undeniably life is getting better for the those in entry-level jobs among the forgotten near the bottom—and perhaps much better for the middle and upper-middle classes.

Surely in ethical terms that counts for something, given it was not an accident, and prior presidential efforts either failed or went untried. How odd that those who most despise Trump do what is necessary to ensure that they and their own stay in a refined class mostly barred to those who now are just benefiting from Trump.

At the top, of course, many are making lots of money, or at least believe that they are going to do so, given that new warehouse and plant construction is also ubiquitous. Cars are newer at shopping centers; tractors, too, on farms. I thought traffic to the coast would thin out given that California’s high taxed and special blended gas now nears $4 a gallon. No such luck. The roads are still clogged. Driving into the Los Angeles basin or the South Bay Area on a late Sunday afternoon is a nightmarish slog. Ride a bike on a main thoroughfare in California, and a steady stream of concrete mixers, and trailers with earth moving equipment speed by.

Facts Belie Sentiment
We are supposed to be in a near racial war. But the melting pot of the San Joaquin Valley seems unusually calm, the unity of wanting to make money is trumping the disunity that follows not finding a job.

I am now on a brief annual teaching stint at Hillsdale College in southern Michigan, in one of the poorer areas of the state. Here, too, things strike the stranger as far better than they were five years ago. There are more factory jobs in this greater automotive circumference. The food lines seem shorter, people more confident. There are more roads being paved, houses painted, and stores spruced up.

Abroad, for all the hatred of Donald Trump, there is a quiet, though usually repressed, recognition that the United States is doing what it long should have been doing—leading the world to an economic recovery, despite Trump’s trash-talking tariffs, and going to the mat with China. Critics concede that China is culpable of all sorts of trade violations. They add in the past that nothing much worked to persuade them to follow the global norms of currency, labor, environmental, and safety regulations, as well as copyright and patent laws. And while they abhor tariffs, they nonetheless have no ideas otherwise how to nudge China to follow the rules of global citizenship.

For all the op-eds condemning a polarizing Trump who has wrecked American foreign policy, there are also more silent concessions among many analysts that the team of Mike Pompeo, Jim Mattis, John Bolton, and Nikki Haley is impressive. They are more likely than imagined alternatives to stop any more Iranian nonsense on the seas of the Persian Gulf, or tune out the periodic ultimatums of the Palestinians, or take seriously the nuclear threats of North Korea, or get tough when Putin deserves tough treatment—and they have the will and, increasingly, the means to do what they say. The policy is to be ready for a fight, but neither to prompt nor to welcome one. For Trump, who values ratings and money most of all, wars can quickly lose viewers and cost too much.

In sum, we are witnessing one of the great ironies of the modern age. Minorities who are not Trump supporters are doing better under Trump than any past president, liberal or conservative. Environmentalists who despise him know that America has become more effective than its green European critics in reducing carbon emissions, largely through the breakneck production of natural gas. Diplomats who loathe Trump find their good cop talk and soft power has more resonance once it is backed up by a better military, a better national security team, and an unpredictable commander-in-chief who might just be capable of doing anything at any time to anyone anywhere in the defense of American interests and sovereignty.

NeverTrump legal scholars are perplexed that never has a Republican president appointed so many qualified judges and seen them confirmed so quickly. They wonder how that could be so, without at least one David Souter or Harriet Miers. They despair that it might become true that a president who enlists the best and brightest of the “you can’t dare do that” administrative state and the revolving Washington and New York diplomatic and financial elite, is a president who will be rendered inert.

How can things be getting concretely better than they were during the Obama years when expert opinion insists things are getting worse?

The simple answer is that for half the country Trump’s crudity trumps his cunning on the economy and foreign policy. That irony prompts the essential question of this presidency: could crudity have been the accelerant that pushed his agenda forward? And if so, what does that say about those who led us who were far less crude and far less competent—and far less worried about the consequences of their policies upon those whom they rarely ever saw? Or rather what is crudity when mellifluousness did such damage? And what is morality when a lot of ruin was done by those who claimed by birth, education, reputation, ZIP code, or influence to be so much better than those they hurt?

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I’ve been out of the loop on this for some time, so perhaps laws have changed, plus they vary among jurisdictions, but whatever happened to those that prohibit recording conversations with electronic devices (e.g., phones) unless certain conditions are met?

The general rule has usually been that a conversation may not be recorded without a court order unless the one doing the recording is a party to it: If A and B are talking to each other, C may not record it unless C is also involved. And some states have, or had anyway, laws that state neither A nor B may record the conversation unless both A and B are aware of the recording—and approve. Linda Tripp was threatened with criminal prosecution when she recorded Monica Lewinsky’s phone calls for that very reason.

Anyone with current knowledge about the subject? And even if it’s not specifically illegal, does anyone care any more about such invasions of privacy, or is that just something people expect these days?


DC is a single-party jurisdiction (the person recording can be the only "consenter" and it's fine.) So is VA. Maryland is a two-party state, though, so if any of the calls were "taken" there, and the state AG or local prosecutor cared...
 
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DC is a single-party jurisdiction (the person recording can be the only "consenter" and it's fine.)



That is true assuming she was a party to the conversation. If she is recording the conversation between others, without one of them consenting, she's breaking the law.


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DC is a single-party jurisdiction (the person recording can be the only "consenter" and it's fine.)



That is true assuming she was a party to the conversation. If she is recording the conversation between others, without one of them consenting, she's breaking the law.


That was my immediate thought, and as with the President’s famous “Grab ’em” comment, why not even a word of censure about people recording conversations willy-nilly these days? If someone is not a party to a conversation, it’s really no different than taking videos of the neighbor walking around nude in her living room when she forgets to close the curtain all the way. We may be exposed to things inadvertently through others’ carelessness (or trust), but it’s different if we seek out opportunities to invade others’ privacy, and especially if we keep the takings for later use.




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