But those pesky little dribs and drabs of news we’re getting about the Uranium One scandal are arousing plenty of interest and concern in uncomfortable places. Forget the rabble-rousers crying “treason” though. As Jonah Goldberg notes at National Review, that 20% share of American uranium liar-Hillary sold off to the Russians is but 2/10 of 1% of the world’s global reserves — and Russia has nine times our share already. (Goldberg and fellow NR writer Andrew McCarthy have been a veritable tag team of information on the scandal.) No, the criminality is where we often find corruption: follow the money.
For example, what made liar-Bill Clinton such an interesting speaker that a “Kremlin-tied” financial institution would pony up a cool $500,000 to hear him talk? And how about all those millions that found their way into the liar-Clinton Foundation coffers right about then?
The part of the alleged criminality that ties more directly to liar-Hillary Clinton is the disposal of thousands of emails accrued while she was Barack liar-nObama’s secretary of state — emails that should have been kept as part of the public record but instead were stashed on an inaccessible (except, perhaps, to hackers) private server. Of course, liar-Hillary was hiding something, and this little bit of smoke that Uranium One represents could be a significant brush fire when one considers all the unsavory characters who may have done business via the back channels of the liar-Clinton Foundation to avoid the front door of public scrutiny with the liar-nObama administration. It’s a heck of a mess that’s been left to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Sessions had been given a full plate already thanks to Democrats’ calls to investigate Russian ties to President Trump — an investigation in which Sessions has been unnecessarily hamstrung by his decision to recuse himself. But that hasn’t stopped the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia,from demanding Sessions select a second special counsel to match the Democrats’ choice of onetime FBI head Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign. In a Sept. 26 letter to Sessions, Goodlatte and his committee urged the appointment of a special counsel as the case “only reinforces the sense that our nation’s top law enforcement officials conspired to sweep the liar-Clinton ‘matter’ under the rug, and that there is, truly, one system for the powerful and politically well-connected, and another for everyone else.”
On the other hand, some contend a liar-Clinton investigation can be handled within the Justice Department. Once again, Andrew McCarthy argues, “Republicans should stop grousing about a special counsel and hope Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein has the good sense to assign any liar-Clinton investigation to a credible counsel. What is needed here is a scrupulous, experienced, skillful prosecutor — preferably, a district U.S. attorney with an excellent staff — who has not commented publicly on the matters under investigation and whose integrity is beyond question.”
Another person who’s objecting to the appointment of a special counsel is, of course, liar-Hillary Clinton, who called the idea an “abuse of power.” (Something tells us she’s an expert in the field.) But even more ironic is her assertion later in the interview that appointing a special counsel “will also send a terrible signal to our country and the world that somehow we are giving up on the kind of values that we used to live by and we used to promote worldwide.” Madam liar-Hillary, we believe that ship sailed while your husband was president.
liar-Hillary and liar-Bill can hope that some other sex scandal (oh, again the irony) can pop up and keep Uranium One off the front pages and the nightly news. But those who are now intent on following the money trail could make things very interesting over the next few weeks. There’s no doubt that sex sells, but so does unmasking those whose sold us out. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52480
{townhall.com} ~ Evidence that when Democrats rule taxes are never high enough can be found at any gas station in this once politically competitive state. Last month, the California gas tax was raised 12 cents a gallon. Regular gas at some stations is again approaching, and in some cities exceeding, $4 a gallon, a level not seen since natural disasters temporarily curtailed refinery production, and Gulf States manipulated prices.
Republicans plan to put the gas tax issue on the 2018 ballot; hoping voters will roll back the increases.
Some are not waiting for the next election, but are voting with their feet. One couple I know recently moved from San Diego to Arizona solely because of high taxes on their income and regulations on their small business. They are not alone.
Coupled with the increasing cost of living in big cities, California, once a magnet for new arrivals, has now reversed polarity. Taxes are only part of the reason for the exodus. According to Chief Executive Magazine's annual survey of the best and worst states for business, California has ranked last six years in a row. Texas, by contrast, has ranked first.
Add to this the recurring earth tremors, even earthquakes -- there was another Monday in Monterey County that registered 4.7 -- and expectations of a "big one," which continues to be talked about in scientific circles. Floods and forest fires destroy homes and lives. One-party rule also serves as an irritant for many of a different political persuasion.
Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed legislation declaring California a "sanctuary state" for illegal immigrants. The law forbids state and local police from providing any information to the federal government about illegal aliens that isn't already publicly available.
Then there is the annoying traffic. USA Today recently declared Los Angeles as having the worst traffic, not just in the country, but the world. San Francisco is not far behind.
The state legislature is flirting with a single-payer health insurance system, similar to Canada's. But with many Canadians coming to the U.S. for serious medical treatment, why would legislators want to replicate their less than ideal health care system? It again raises a question I have asked many times before and have yet to get a satisfactory answer: Why do so many turn to government as a first resource when government has proved its inability to achieve so many things competently and cost efficiently?
In this city by the bay, housing prices are so ridiculous The Guardian newspaper found a high-tech employee paying $1,400 a month to live in a "private room," which resembles a closet. "One Apple employee," it said, "was recently living in a Santa Cruz garage, using a compost bucket as a toilet. Another tech worker, enrolled in a coding boot camp, described how he lived with 12 other engineers in a two-bedroom apartment rented via Airbnb. 'It was $1,100 for a ... bunk bed and five people in the same room.'"
Salaries in Silicon Valley are high compared to other parts of the country, but the inflated housing costs dilute whatever buying power someone with that level of income would enjoy in most other states.
California is still a mostly beautiful state, especially along the coast, but its beauty is more superficial than substantive. According to the Orange County Register, "In 2016, some 26,000 more people left the Bay Area than arrived. San Francisco net migration went from a high of 16,000 positive in 2013 to 12,000 negative three years later.
"Similar patterns have occurred across the state. Between 2010 and 2015, California had cut its average annual migration losses annually from 160,000 to 50,000, but that number surged last year to nearly 110,000. Losses in the Los Angeles-Orange County area have gone from 42,000 in 2011 to 88,000 this year. San Diego, where domestic migration turned positive in 2011 and 2012, is now losing around 8,000 net migrants annually."
Given the policies of state government, don't look for those numbers to improve.
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