EPA Commits to Not Saving the Bay, Again

MorningAGClips, EPA Recommits To Next Phase of Chesapeake Bay Cleanup. "EPA’s fiscal 2025 budget calls for Congress to continue funding the Bay Program"

As the partnership to clean up the Chesapeake Bay nears its 2025 deadline, EPA Administrator Michael Regan today renewed the agency’s commitment to leading the many federal agencies working together to restore the Bay into the next chapter of cleanup effort.

Regan spoke in response to a question from Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) at today’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on EPA’s fiscal year 2025 budget request.

Cardin asked if Regan and EPA would commit to reinstating the EPA-led Federal Leadership Committee, which was created in 2009 under a Chesapeake Bay restoration executive order signed by President Obama. The Committee developed and coordinated the work of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, and Transportation under what became the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Regan said EPA would “absolutely” reconstitute the committee “for a fall meeting.” Regan added, “We see it as a huge opportunity to get all the executives around the table and be sure that we’re pursuing those goals that you and others would like us to pursue.”

Since 2010, the federal government, the six Bay states, and the District of Columbia have been working to meet the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint’s 2025 deadline for adopting the policies and practices to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution to the Bay and its waterways. Despite significant water quality improvements, the partners are unlikely to meet most of these goals by 2025.

EPA administers the federal Chesapeake Bay Program, which coordinates the cleanup effort. The Bay Program also provides grant funding for restoration and research activities among a wide range of federal, state, and local government agencies, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations across the Bay’s six-state watershed.

EPA’s fiscal 2025 budget calls for Congress to continue funding the Bay Program at $92 million annually.

EPA and the Bay states set out on this path back when I arrived in the region in 1985. The most recent iteration of the plan was an estimated $25 Billion plan to "save the bay" by 1925. Well, the money has been spent, and while there has been a some progress, nutrients are down, anoxia may be slightly less than in the bad old days, and seagrasses are doing better, for the most part, most the resources sought in the Bay have not recovered to the desired levels. Striped Bass are in trouble, again, crabs are up and down (as usual), and oysters, while slightly better than they had been, but nowhere near historical landings. 

So for another $92 million a year, the EPA will keep on keeping on. As Milton Freidman once said,  "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

Maryland, My Maryland

WaPoo, Maryland’s high court removes Pr. George’s judge for ‘egregious’ misconduct

The Maryland Supreme Court removed Judge April T. Ademiluyi from the Prince George’s County bench this week, citing “egregious” behavior in violation of the state’s code of judicial conduct, an extreme and rare move for the state’s high court.

The specifics of the alleged misconduct are unclear because the high court did not include an explanatory opinion with its brief ruling. The court broadly cited at least a dozen codes Ademiluyi allegedly violated as a Circuit Court judge, involving her behavior with jurors, her impartiality and fairness, her compliance with the law and her cooperation with disciplinary authorities, but it did not offer specific details of the purported misconduct.

The justices wrote that a complete opinion would come at a later date.

Ademiluyi has presided over cases in the county’s circuit court since 2020, when she was elected as a judge by Maryland voters after running a grass-roots campaign.

She has alleged in complaints and court documents that her outsider status drew hostility from her judicial colleagues, creating a working environment that prompted her to file what she said was a whistleblower complaint against her supervisors in 2022.

In a statement, she asserted that her removal from the bench is retaliation for that complaint. After reporting her supervisors to the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities, they responded with a complaint of their own, alleging misconduct by Ademiluyi in hundreds of pages of documents that the commission and Maryland Supreme Court deemed valid.

Her fellow judges alleged that she behaved inappropriately at the courthouse, including insubordination, unprofessionalism, tardiness and lack of participation in critical judicial training sessions. 

The high court’s decision to remove Ademiluyi the same day as her hearing before the justices — issuing an immediate ruling without a complete opinion — signals an urgency to put the increasingly public saga to rest, Vinick said.

It also draws attention to the way Ademiluyi made it to the bench — by running as an independent challenger to a slate of judicial candidates.

When there is a judicial vacancy, interested candidates can apply for consideration through the governor’s office. They are scrutinized by various bar associations before coming before county-level nominating commissions, which make recommendations to the governor’s office on potential one-year appointees.

Despite a gubernatorial appointment, all judges must be elected to their jobs by Maryland voters. But candidates such as Ademiluyi can still win despite not going through the official vetting process.

Man, whatever it is, it must be awful for them to respond that strongly

Flotsam and Jetsam - More Stormy Weather in New York

Stacy McCain on the Made-for-TV Travesty: Can You Guess Who Takes Stormy Daniels Seriously? CNN. 

Democrats are hanging their election hopes on a truck stop hooker. pic.twitter.com/JSBDC0zlHz

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) May 8, 2024

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Afternoon Edition) Twitchy, Court Sketch Artist Must Be MAGA Because These Stormy Daniels Sketches Are Atrocious. Jim Thompson remembers Stormy Details of Past Affairs: When a President Watched As His Aide Had Sex With a Girl. Andrew H. Giuliani@AndrewHGiuliani, "Stormy Daniels: I am not an attorney and I read this agreement quickly so I signed based on my attorney’s recommendations. Trump D: But you signed this correct? Stormy: Yes." Ken LaCorte at Blaze, My front-row seat to Stormy’s shakedown.  Capt. Ed, "LaCorte ran FoxNews.com at the time (2016), hence his "front-row seat". It's worth reading in full, especially to see why LaCorte observes wisely that "there is no one to root for" in l'affaire Stormy. She's not a victim, neither is Michael Cohen, and neither is Trump in relation to his connection to Daniels and Cohen. The trial is a travesty, which LaCorte notes is a separate issue, while noting that the wrong person is getting tried for this exchange." 

Stormy Daniels and
Michael Avenatti

Althouse is infatuated with the Stormy story, "Necheles notes that in [Stormy] Daniels’s book, she describes the early part of the encounter, writing that she made him her 'bitch,'" "Daniels smirks as she looks at celebratory tweets she sent on March 30, 2023, the day Trump was criminally indicted for the first time," and The loophole Stormy Daniels didn't see... or declined to take. The Divine Ms. Devine at NYPo claims the Dems’ kangaroo court against Donald Trump is only backfiring. J.B. Shurk at Am Think thinks The Deep State Exposed Itself.  

Leading Report@LeadingReport, "BREAKING: Judge Arthur Engoron is now under investigation after claims surfaced that he received unsolicited advice from a prominent New York City real estate attorney, Adam Leitman Bailey, weeks before ordering former President Trump to pay a hefty $454 million." From NYPo, NYC lawyer sparks probe into Trump judge Arthur Engoron over unsolicited advice on $455M civil fraud case.

Still more analysis of Joe Biden's Really Bad, Truly Terrible Interview on CNN (Hat Hair's KT). Kyle Becker@kylenabecker, "Watch Joe Biden *CRUMBLE* during a CNN interview as the host reads him what Americans REALLY think about his presidency" Twitchy, Biden's Latest Whopper Has People STEAMED President Biden@POTUS "On my watch, when we make promises, we keep them. And we leave no one behind." Except in Afghanistan, Israel and Russia. 

Stacy McCain sees Red-Pilled at Last? ‘Reliably Anti-Trump People … Have Had It With Biden’ Jonah Goldberg is not the worst of the #NeverTrump crowd. . . .  So there is a deep irony in the fact that the straw which seems to have broken the camel’s back for the #NeverTrump crowd was Biden’s threat to halt arms sales to Israel."  At the In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Evening Edition),  Don Surber: Never Trumper discovers Biden sucks. Twitchy, Liz Cheney's Weepy Buyer's Remorse After Biden Turns His Back on Israel Backfires in LEGENDARY Fashion. Herr Professor Jacobson at LI, Biden Commits To Saving Hamas, Will Cut Off Offensive Weapons To Israel If It Enters Rafah. From Ace, NeverTrump Fatsos and Softcocks Are Coping and Seething About Joe Biden's Betrayal of Israel "But, but, but but he brought honor and dignity back to the White House. I was told America is back, baby. Was I misinformed? Is America not in fact back, baby? I expect him to reverse this statement when he gets angry calls from his Democrat donors. Bet against me. Via Duane Patterson at Hot Air. . . " The Free Bacon reports on the Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon. What could go wrong? At Hat Hair, Barak Ravid, Dem Megadonor Blasts Biden: 'Bad Bad Bad Decision on All Levels' and Capt. Ed reads the WSJ: Biden Tried to Put Israel on Double Secret Probation, or Something; UPDATE: Waives Sanctions on ...  Politico whines Vulnerable Senate Dems lukewarm on reported White House plan for Palestinian refugees. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair wonders "One has to wonder whether the White House even bothers to coordinate with its allies on Capitol Hill. Other than in Michigan -- and maybe not even there -- did none of them think to check how this plan would be received by voters who overwhelmingly support Israel in this conflict? Or do they just toss out ideas to the press to see what sticks?" Spencer Brown at TownHall says Biden Just Did What He Declared an Impeachable Offense Back in 2019 When Trump Was President. Joni Ernst to Newsmax: Biden Threat to Withhold Weapons from Israel 'Abhorrent'. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair snarks Joe Biden Sets New Personal Best for Worst Foreign Policy Decision Ever.  Final words to the  The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee "Biden Strikes Deal Where Hamas Gets To Keep American Hostages In Exchange For Fifteen Votes In Michigan https://buff.ly/3QEwAI5"

Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw reports Ohio May Be Unable to Put Joe Biden on the Ballot, for lack of paperwork. Ace is ecstatic about the AARP Poll: Trump Is Thumping Biden in Pennsylvania By Five Points. "Interesting. He's winning the Boomers. He's winning Gen X, aka "The New Greatest Generation," by 16. (Even though I'm not yet 29, I identify as a Gen Xer.) He's winning all other age groups, including the very young, by a point." Hat Hair KT notes a MSNBC Political Analyst "Shocked" that Independents View Biden Greater Threat to Democracy. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Afternoon Edition) Twitchy,  MSNBC Panel Shocked By Biden v. Trump “Threat To Democracy” Polling and at the In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Evening Edition),  Louder With Crowder: Anti-Trump actor Michael Rapaport finally gets pushed over the edge by “Cadaver Joe Biden,” rants about why Biden LOST his vote.

OilPrice thinks President Biden Is Ready to Use the SPR Again If Needed. Ace, We're Six Months Ahead of an Election So That Must Mean It's Time for Biden to Tap the Political, I Mean Strategic Petroleum Reserve Again. "This demented pant-shitting rapist has brought trust and dignity back to the White House. Biden promised to refill it. He cancelled that promise. Now he wants to deplete it further to give him an election boost." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn has a #Bidenomics Update: Highest Unemployment Filing Numbers in a Year. Matt Margolis at PJM sees Joe Biden Tell His Biggest Whopper About Inflation Yet E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.@RealEJAntoni, "Biden's retelling of economic history could win a fiction award: Quote "Autism Capital @AutismCapital "Reminder that the inflation when Biden took office was *actually* around 1% and the cumulative inflation SINCE Biden took office is about 25%."

John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP, Hunter Biden is Headed to Trial After Losing Two Court Rulings in One Day, on his gun charges. From Da Caller, a Burgeoning Sex Scandal Pits Biden Against His Biggest Backers At Critical Moment. "A new report sheds light on a pervasive culture of sexual harassment plaguing a major federal entity under the watch of President Joe Biden." At TNP, ‘Bloodbath’ Hoaxers MeidasTouch Hawk ‘Dark Brandon’ Merch, Linked to Allegations Biden Molested Daughter.

Chris Jacobs at Da Fed,  Biden HHS Redefines ‘Lawfully Present’ To Give ‘Free’ Health Care To Illegal Immigrants. Nicole Silvero at Da Caller reports GOP Reps Introduce Legislation To Block Biden Admin From Handing Healthcare Coverage To Illegal Immigrants. Madeleine Hubbard at JTN, Mass migration not delivering economic benefits, study finds. "The study's researchers argue that immigration should be capped." TNP finds DATA: Mass Migration a ‘Much Bigger Problem’ Than Climate Change. PJM's Kevin Downey,  Ignore the Shocking Number of Rapes Committed by 'Newcomers' or You'll Be Punished, You Bigot. From TNP, Laken Riley’s Killer SHOULD Get The Death Penalty, But It’s Unlikely. Here’s The Gross Political Reason Why… Jazz Shaw, Will Panama Solve the Migrant Crisis? “We’re going to close the Darien and we’re going to repatriate all these people.”

At the In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Evening Edition),  The Federalist, Did Federal Agencies Plant Classified Documents To Frame Trump? Ron Wright at Am Think thinks An Honest Judge Exposes The Dishonesty Around The Mar-A-Lago Case. 

Dave Strom at Hat Hair VIP hears Influencers are  FURIOUS At Trump After FBI Headquarters Statement. Althouse's choice, RFK Jr. would give women full control over the decision to have an abortion — "even if it's full term." That should seriously impede his ability to take votes away from Trump. 

VodkaPundit says It's Official: Rep. Jamaal Bowman Is an Even Bigger Loon Than You Thought. Impossible.

At the In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Evening Edition),  The Federalist: Board Refuses To Have Fulton County Investigated For Double-Scanning 3,000 Ballots In 2020 Recount, Republicans Introduce SAVE Act To Block Illegal Aliens From Voting In U.S. Elections. Also at Da Fed, MD Kittle happy that Shady Milwaukee Elections Chief Ousted Six Months Before Election, But Will Her Successor Be Worse? and Illinois Democrats Change Rules To Cement Incumbent Power In Actual Attack On Democracy. Leading Report@LeadingReport, "BREAKING: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a new bill that requires counties to report the results of all absentee ballots by an hour after polls close." Jazz Shaw, Will the GOP Be Able to Keep Noncitizens Out of the Census? Probably not, but it's worth trying. 

Nick Pope at Da Caller reports Senior FBI Official Reportedly Instructed Agents To Utilize Warrantless Wiretap Tool Inside America “To continue to demonstrate why tools like this are essential to our mission, we need to use them." Ace, We're In the Final Months of An Election So That Means It's Time for the Democrat Deep State to Star Censoring Political Discussions Again "One of the things that most displeases me about Trump is his championing the billion dollar FBI office and keeping it in the sewer of political corruption, Washington DC. I'd like to think that if Trump is re-elected, the FBI will have reason to fear, but I don't think that. I think Trump likes brand names." Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed, FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election. Like it ever really stopped. PJM's VodkaPundit says We're Only Just Beginning to Understand the Extent of Biden's Censorship Regime.

NewsBusters Psaki Claims Being An Ex-Biden Official Makes Her a Better MSNBC Host. MSNBC? Sure.

At CJ, What Does Quality of Evidence Mean? "Gender clinician Jack Turban misunderstands key concepts in evidence-based medicine." NYPo, LGBTQ rights activist kicked out of community board simply for asking questions. From NRO, San Francisco Mayor Appoints Drag Queen to Head Office of Transgender Initiatives. Hey, San Francisco. Elie Gardey at Am Spec thinks Boy Scouts Destroyed Itself By Accepting Girls, "Its main attraction had been that it was a place for boys to do activities geared toward boys alongside other boys." YaHoo notices Bud Light sales still falling as Modelo, Coors fight to keep their gains. "We've lost a whole generation of hardcore Bud Light shoppers," Bump Williams of Bump Williams Consulting told Yahoo Finance. "It's going to take us at least 10 years to try and recapture what we lost in one year." Capt. Ed, "Or they could -- y'know -- apologize for insulting their customers a year ago. The real damage wasn't the Mulvaney can but the public snobbery of marketing exec Alissa Heinerscheid, who scolded Bud Light drinkers for enjoying the "fratty" humor of their earlier ad campaigns. An apology would have gone a long way, and yet to this day AB-InBev has yet to offer one." Leftists never apologize, they double-down.  Stephanie Lundquist Arora at Da Fed wonders Is Glenn Youngkin’s ‘Parents Matter’ Slogan Just A Politically Convenient Phrase? Virginia is a very purple state. Take what you can get. HSLDA is excited that the  Title IX Ruling Protects Homeschool from Federal Overreach "Officials tried to use a novel interpretation of tax law to expand the reach of Title IX regulations. This ruling put a stop to that."

Bill Ackman@BillAckman, "Why, you may ask, are the campus and other protesters inspired to protest in increasing numbers, and with greater violence and aggressiveness? The answer is that the protesters believe their protests are working. . . " At Insty, HEATHER MAC DONALD: Hysterics for Hamas: Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos? "As George Orwell wrote: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”" Ace supports House Republicans: It's Time to Send the Foreign Proto-Jihadists Illegally Squatting on American Universities To "Study Abroad" in Gaza. From Hat Hair, Beege Welborn sees Cultural Appropriation: When Your Costume for the Campus 'Kill the Jews' Party Is a Keffiyeh and Dave Strom hears Northwestern's Faculty Comes Out in Favor of Eliminating Israel. At NYPo, BLM Global Network files $33 million lawsuit against group helping fund college protests. Capt. Ed, "Can we root for both sides to lose?" At the Free Bacon, A Yale Professor Wrote an Op-Ed About Anti-Semitism on Campus. The University Spent Over a Year Investigating Him. "The school has declined to investigate faculty members for celebrating terrorism and calling for the destruction of Israel." From Front Page, From Campus Intifadas to Pronoun Mandates: Who is Our Common Enemy? Sarah Hoyt at Insty asks  I S’POSE SEPPUKU WAS TOO MUCH TO ASK OF HER SENSE OF HONOR? "Cornell University President Martha Pollack steps down after year of turmoil, threats to Jewish students." Dan Greenfield at Front Page wants to Defund College "It may be the only way to save America." Kurt Schlichter at TownHall disagrees Let Them Destroy Each Other. At CJ, Confront Anti-Westernism. "Resurgent anti-Semitism isn’t just an issue for the Jewish community—it’s a warning for all who value the ideals upon which America was built." Da Tech Guy says Merrick Garland is a coward. From Da Caller, Frat Bros Challenge Antifa To Push Up Contest. Campus Reform, QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Student complains that 'anti-Jewish students' didn't get enough police protection, "'And we as Arabs, Palestinian, Muslim and anti-Jewish students, are we not worth protecting?'" 

John Sexton has an odd one, Two Students Were Kicked Out of High School for Blackface, but a Jury Agreed It Was an Acne Facemask

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Maryland, My Maryland

Hey, you weren't supposed to read those! At the Free Bacon WATCH: David Trone Goes Nuclear on Reporter for Quoting His Own Tweets

Rep. David Trone put his finger in the face of a local reporter on Tuesday and accused him of being a Republican "shill" for covering the Maryland Democrat’s claims that the criminal justice system was "racist."

Trone, the Democratic frontrunner for Maryland’s open Senate seat, took to X on Sunday to tell constituents to "face a hard truth" that the "criminal justice system is systemically racist." At a campaign event on Tuesday, Trone told Fox 5 journalist Tom Fitzgerald he should be "ashamed" for reporting on the posts. "You should be ashamed of the journalism you did yesterday," Trone said as he pointed his finger in Fitzgerald’s direction, footage of the exchange shows. "You took one line out of 20 and you should be ashamed of that type of journalism."

During the exchange, Trone’s aide tapped the congressman on the back, apparently prompting Trone to take a step back from the reporter. "And shame on Fox," Trone continued. "Fox needs to step up and do real journalism, and you didn’t do it there. You were shilling for Larry Hogan. So keep shilling for Larry Hogan. And if you want to do that, feel free to shill."

Trone said his posts to X on Sunday were "very supportive of our police" and said Fitzgerald was "just making it up" before abruptly ending the interview. Trone’s comments garnered criticism from his Democratic primary opponent Angela Alsobrooks, who said Marylanders deserve the right to police protection and that Trone has no experience in criminal justice matters.

The likely Republican nominee in Maryland’s Senate race, former Gov. Larry Hogan, said Trone’s social media posts "were terrible."

If you don't want someone to quote it, don't write it. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - RFK Jr. Brain Worm Edition

Stephen Kruiser at PJM, The Morning Briefing: Weird—I Did Have 'RFK Jr Brain Worm' on My Bingo Card R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts " #BREAKING : Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign told the press and announced that the worm that ate part of his brain would not affect his ability to serve as president." Ace, RFKJr. Told a Court During His Divorce Proceedings That a Worm Had Eaten Part of His Brain and Died Inside of His Skull, Giving Him "Cognitive Problems". "That reads like a juiced headlinebut it's actually 100% accurate. At Althouse, Small worm the size of a large worm. "RFK Jr. is my presumptive choice for President, so I'm keeping track of what the mainstream media has to say about him. They seem to be heightening the scrutiny, so let's take a look:" The Babylon Bee is on it, The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee,  "Dead Worm Found In RFK Jr.’s Brain Already Polling Higher Than Biden In 11 States https://buff.ly/44z10kA" Insty, MORE NEUROLOGICAL ACTIVITY, TOO: Althouse's feelings hurt by "The grandson of President John F. Kennedy this week savaged his presidential-candidate cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a series of mocking, meant-to-be-funny videos..."

Breitbart touts an AARP Poll: Trump Leads in Pennsylvania. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, AARP: Trump Winning Pennsylvania Decisively. I guess they need to find more dead voters in Philadelphia. Roll Call whines about a Rating change: Nevada a Toss-up in presidential race. "Biden’s challenge in Nevada is similar to struggles across the Sun Belt and South." At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed adds "Real Clear Politics' aggregate average for Nevada has Trump up by 4.5 points. The gap was as wide as eight-plus back in February, but Biden narrowed it a bit in April. And here's the real problem for Biden: he hasn't led a poll in the Silver State since the war in Gaza began seven months ago." 'Bonchie' at RedState thinks Joe Biden's Insane Interview With Erin Burnett Should Be the Final Straw for American Voters. At Twitchy, 'Look at His Face'! Biden STUNNED (and Furious) As CNN Host Rattles Off List of BAD Economic Data. 

CNN is done carrying water for Biden. pic.twitter.com/YnctSfgsgD

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 8, 2024

Nick Arama at RedState notices Biden Has Big Trouble Boarding Air Force One, Embarrassingly Garbles Title of AFL-CIO President. TNP, Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, To Be Held in Contempt for not providing the audio recording of Biden's interview with Special Prosecutor Hur when subpoenaed. 

From Breitbart, Joe Biden Calls Illegal Aliens ‘Model Citizens’ While Promoting Amnesty. At Da Fetched, Biden Slips up During Interview, Admits Real Reason Illegals Are Flooding U.S. and Tucker Carlson Exposes Hidden Loophole Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Vote  At Hat Hair, KT sees the Chicago Mayor Attempts to Play Hide-the-Illegal-Aliens From Democrat Convention, Jazz Shaw reports Illegal Migrants Send List of 'Demands' to Denver Mayor and John Sexton cites the Washington Post's Opinion: Biden Is Doing a Great Job on Immigration.  

Chris Jacobs at Da Fed describes how Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Sends Taxpayer Funds To On-Campus Mobs.  at PJM Lincoln Brown is concerned about Biden's National Guard Power Grab. "Calling it a "power grab," Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has expressed his opposition to the Biden administration's proposal to transfer members of the Air National Guard to the Space Force without the permission of state or territorial governors," (it makes sense, if you're planning on using F-35s against your domestic opponent) and Bob Spencer thinks the Biden Regime Makes It Unmistakable: We’re On Hamas’ Side Now. At NYPo, Biden Iran envoy put classified documents on hacked personal email, phone: GOP lawmakers. Capt. Ed snarks "Who does Rob Malley think he is -- Hillary Clinton? Needless to say, this is much worse (if true) in terms of a security breach than anything Trump allegedly did. Given the DoJ's insistence on prosecuting Trump for those actions, why are they dragging their feet on Malley? Or is that the only issue with Malley?"

At Hat Hair VIP, KT is disgusted with Psaki: Some Republicans Support Trump Because Maybe He Will Die. Projection. TNP reports This Town is Persecuting a Property Owner For Painting ‘TRUMP 2024’ on His Roof, Lake Worth Beach, Florida. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, I Don't Want to Hear Noem-Or 'VP' Talk About These Two, M'kay? TNP says J.D. Vance Wins National Pulse Reader VP Straw Poll. Maybe not the worst choice. 

Lincoln Brown at PJM reports on Michelle's Dinner With MAGA "As it went on, my friends and I realized we were surrounded by otherwise carefully closeted MAGAts. It's funny how the extremist or just wrong beliefs can't help but leak out, even when you least expect them, and from people you least expect. They are out there." I&I calls Democrats The Party Of ‘Death To America’. To be fair, it's only about half of them. 

TNP reports from Fulton County, Georgia, BOMBSHELL Investigation Reports ‘Improper’ 2020 Recount Procedures, THOUSANDS of Ballot Images MISSING. "The inquiry was prompted by a complaint lodged on July 8, 2022, alleging the inappropriate count of 17,852 ballots. The investigation revealed not only duplicate ballot images, implying probable multiple scanning of some ballots, but also thousands of ballot images missing." At Hat Hair, Fulton County Vindication, Master Plan Falling Apart, Democrats in Shambles! George@BehizyTweets "BREAKING: The Georgia State Election Board is considering evidence that Fulton County double counted thousands of ballots in the 2020 election If the board finds that Fulton County violated Georgia election law then they will impose fines, issue a reprimand and refer the allegations to the Attorney General's office for prosecution The board could also takeover elections in Fulton County."

 At Da Fed, Brianna Lyman, A Democrat Bill To Process Mail Ballots Before Election Day Is Headed To Pennsylvania’s GOP-Run Senate and MD Kittle, South Carolina Agency: The Feds Force Us To Give Voter Registration To Foreign Nationals  South Carolina Agency: The Feds Force Us To Give Voter Registration To Foreign Nationals. From ET, RNC, Pennsylvania GOP Seek to Intervene in Mail-In Ballot Case. The RNC and Republican Party of Pennsylvania are trying to enter a case filed by the ACLU of Pennsylvania on behalf of two voters.

Jordan Boyd at Da Fed, Trump Trial Judge Censors Federalist Writer, Former FEC Chairman From Testifying Key Defense Facts. Guy Benson at TownHall wonders (rhetorically), Why Is the Judge in Trump's New York Trial Muzzling a Key Defense Witness? Insty answers BECAUSE IT’S A KANGAROO COURT RUN BY AN IN-THE-TANK JUDGE? At NYPO, Jonathan Turley is outraged that the Judge allows Stormy Daniels to give irrelevant, salacious testimony just to humiliate Trump. The Dersh says Trump’s trial is a stupendous legal catastrophe. Capt. Ed adds "That's clearly the intent of Alvin Bragg and Judge Merchan as well." Byron York at Front Page decries The Insanity at the Heart of the Trump Trial "The fundamental insult to basic principles of justice."  Jason Cohen at Da Caller catches CNN Legal Analysts Worrying Trump Defense’s ‘Searing Cross-Examination’ Of Stormy Daniels Could Turn Jury Against Her. At TNP, Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Michael Avenatti Says She’s Falsifying Records & Committing Fraud to Avoid Paying Trump! Dave Strom, YGTBFKM: O'Donnell Says Stormy Daniels Has 'The Modesty of a Nun'. Jacob Sullum at Reason says Stormy Daniels' 'Credibility Issues' Reflect a Broader Problem With Key Witnesses Against Trump. "New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not seem trustworthy." Capt. Ed, "Not to mention all the perjury, too. Bragg has stretched a maybe-misdemeanor regarding ledger entries into dozens of felonies on the gossamer web of testimony from ... [checks notes] ... a porn performer who keeps changing her story, a convicted perjurer, and a gossip-rag publisher who admits making stuff up for fun and profit. The question isn't "reasonable doubt" so much as trying to figure out why anyone would believe any of these witnesses." Simon Ateba@simonateba "BREAKING - SHOCKING - YOUR REACTION: Judge Juan Merchan claimed Trump might have violated his gag order by shaking his head inside the courtroom while Stormy Daniels was testifying. The judge claimed that by shaking his head and reportedly 'audibly cursing', Trump might have intimidated the witness. This was said privately to Trump's lawyer and was not captured loudly during the testimony." Althouse cites Trump ""It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you..." "... especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want. It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you knowing that if you respond, even in the most modest fashion, you are told by a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge that you will be PUT IN PRISON, maybe for a long period of time. This Fascist mindset is all coming from D.C. It is a sophisticated hit job on Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME!. Judges Engoron and Kaplan, also of New York, are equally Corrupt, only in different ways. What these THUGS are doing is AN ATTACK ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND OUR ONCE GREAT NATION ITSELF. OUR FIRST AMENDMENT MUST STAND, FREE AND STRONG. 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!'"

Bryan Jung at PJM, Legislator Who Backed N.Y. Bill Used Against Trump Now Opposes It After The Tables Turned on Him. "A New York State Senator who supported a sex crimes bill that allowed E. Jean Carroll to go after former president Donald Trump now calls the legislation unconstitutional after a former colleague accused him of rape, reported the New York Post."

Don Surber foresees Trump Triumphing Over Evil "The Raid on Mar-A-Lago likely gets him re-elected. (By the way, today's poll is terrific.)" Ace, Judge Delays Trump's Florida Documents Trial to Investigate the FBI's Mishandling of Evidence; Georgia Court Agrees to Hear Trump's Appeal to Disqualify Fani Willis "This isn't even about the FBI falsifying the evidence by photographing documents inside of "CLASSIFIED" folders that they brought to the crime scene and put the documents in. This is about Jack Smith's own misrepresenations to the court about his sloppy evidence handling." 

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.08.24 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition), Twitchy notes, Rep. Adam Schiff Has a Meltdown as Another Donald Trump Trial Faces a Delay. Adam Schiff@RepAdamSchiff, "First, the Supreme Court delays Trump’s Jan 6 prosecution. Then Trump-appointed Judge Cannon postpones his trial in Florida. Now this in Georgia. The courts are deliberately delaying justice — and effectively denying it." Also, EBL MAGA Indefinite Postponment of the Trump Classified Document Case. Mia Cathell at TownHall, Georgia Court of Appeals Just Delivered Some Bad News for Fani Willis. Dave Strom, Appeals Court Considering Removing Fani Willis.

John Green at Am Think wonders Will the Supreme Court Let This Crisis Go to Waste?

 

TNP notices the NYT Admits Jan. 6 National Guard Response Hampered by Military Concern Over Trump-Friendly ‘Optics’ & BLM Fallout. Hat Hair's KT sees Fire Alarm Puller Rep. Jamaal Bowman Loves Some Conspiracy Theories. Patrick Webb@RealPatrickWebb, "BREAKING: Newly obtained internal documents reveal that the Washington, DC, police have been paying for and using online surveillance tools to monitor citizens' social media activity and track geo-locations, as well as to collect data on individual users, their friend networks, and monitor public protests."

Dave Strom, NPR CEO Refuses to Testify Before Congress Today. Da Signal, NPR’s CEO Is a No-Show at Hearing Looking Into Bias at Taxpayer-Funded Network. Capt. Ed, "Note that Maher was invited to appear, not subpoenaed, and had not reached an agreement to do so. However, since NPR gets a significant amount of its funding directly and indirectly from Congress, showing up to defend NPR against a defunding effort would probably have been the wiser choice." Next time send a subpoena. 

Althouse, "But critics like me aren’t asking the Times to abandon its independence. We’re asking the Times to recognize that it isn’t living up to its own standards..." ""... of truth-telling and independence when it obfuscates the stakes of the 2024 election, covers up for Trump’s derangement, and goes out of its way to make Biden look weak." Writes Dan Froomkin, in "New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it." (Press Watch)." From the Pipeline, The AP Leans Left on 'Climate Change.' No shit, Sherlock. At ET, Super PAC Backing RFK Jr. Says It Is Suing Meta for Censoring Documentary, "The film has been viewed over 12 million times on X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk, who vowed to restore free speech."

Tom Nickels at Front Page wonders Will Presidential Meddling With Title IX Be the End of Sports? "Biden places countless women and girls in uncomfortable -- and unsafe -- spaces." Larry Sand at Am Great, Undeniably Unentitled "The Title IX update is perverse, and many states are fighting." Mary Chastain at LI, National Women’s Law Center Seeks to Intervene in Defense of Males in Female College Sports. “Their attempts to exclude transgender women from NCAA sports actually hurt all women…”  From HE, Womanhood is erased, even as Big Pharma profits from women’s bodies. From Da Wire, School Enlists ‘Genderqueer’ Witch To Speak To Students About Dating, Survey Them About Their Sexuality. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, Insane Leftists Frame Family Formation As Sinister Right-Wing Conspiracy. Fox, Boy Scouts of America making this big change to be more inclusive. "The rebranding will go into effect next year when it will become known as 'Scouting America'", but Girl Scout to retain one sex. 

At Da Caller, Parents Sue School Board After School Suspends Student For Saying ‘Illegal Aliens.’

Larry Elder at Front Page suggests for Campus Protests: Switch Out the Word ‘Jew’ and Replace it With ‘Black’. John Sexton notices A Historian's Take on Student Protests Leaves Out a Few Things. At Da Caller, Foolish College Antics Accelerate Downward Spiral Of Higher Education. Hey, foolish antics are what college is all about! 770 KTTH, UW professor assaulted at autonomous Liberated Zone as admin keeps cops away. Red Guards. At CJ, Liel Leibovitz begs My Kingdom for an Adult. "Amid the depressing dominance of childish and thuggish behavior on campuses, some public officials have emerged to show real leadership." 'Becca Downs at TownHall, These Democrats Refused to Stand by Israel in Face of Antisemitic College Protests. From Fox, Billionaire family bankrolling both anti-Israel groups and these battleground Democrats, "The wealthy Pritzker family has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats so far this election cycle." Capt. Ed, "Well, that's awkward. Or at least it should be. Let's hope that the RNC, NRCC, and the campaigns themselves make those connections clear to voters in these districts."

Tuesday Tunes - Mason Jar

Natalie Stovall and the Drive was an American country music group composed of Natalie Stovall (lead vocals, fiddle), Miguel Cancino (guitar), Zach Morse (bass), Joel Dormer (guitar, vocals), and James Bavendam (drums).

Their debut single, "Baby Come On with It", was released in February 2014 after receiving airplay on Sirius XM Radio.

Stovall was raised in Columbia, Tennessee. She had performed on the Grand Ole Opry and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She met Bavendam in college, recruited Cancino through a Craigslist ad, then met Morse and Dormer through mutual friends.

Their debut album, released on Hitshop/Warner Bros. Records, will be produced by Paul Worley and Clarke Schleicher. In advance of its release, the band released a self-titled extended play that includes the single and five additional songs. In 2014 the group released their single, "Mason Jar". 

Natalie Stovall took part in season 13 of the American The Voice. In the Blind Audition broadcast on NBC on October 9, 2017, she performed Adele's "If It Hadn't Been For Love" and joined Team Blake Shelton. In the battles, she faced off against Adam Cunningham, singing Little Big Town's song, "Boondocks". Stovall lost her battle, and was sent home. However, Shelton brought her back into the competition for the playoffs, giving her one more chance as his comeback artist. She was eliminated again after her performance of "Callin' Baton Rouge" during the playoffs.

In May 2020, Stovall joined the group Runaway June. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she presented livestream performances of the Grand Ole Opry alongside Bobby Bones.