“Scott Yenor teaches political science at Boise State University.
He wrote an essay in which he claimed that allowing children to choose their gender undermines the family and parental rights. Social justice warriors are now calling for his firing.
Even the outspoken progressive professor Camille Paglia has stated that she believes indulging children in transgenderism is a form of child abuse. Yet the left is treating Yenor as a heretic.
It all began when he wrote this at the Daily Signal:
Transgender Activists Are Seeking to Undermine Parental Rights
Winning public sanction for same-sex marriage was the last great feminist victory. Same-sex marriage undermined sex roles within marriage. It put children ever more outside the purpose of marriage. It reinforced the idea that all means of sexual satisfaction are equal.
Where will the radical feminist revolution roll to next?
The new field for the rolling revolution with the greatest possibilities is transgender rights, especially as applied to children.
Despite the accomplishments of radical feminism, the state has protected parents’ rights to raise their children. Children, after all, seem rightly under the charge of their parents, who provide personalized care for their development.
Parental rights are related to the age of consent, which states protect in order for children to give time and space to become mature, independent adults. Americans do not want their children overly sexualized, and they respect the right of parents to educate their children.
Transgender rights activists are seeking to abridge parental rights by elevating the independent choices of young children. Respecting the sexual and gender “choices” of ever-younger children erodes parental rights and compromises the integrity of the family as an independent unit.
“The Democratic Party has come out of the closet this year in full-throated support of single payer in health care. Those of us who are health care policy wonks have known this was their intent all along, but they were previously smart enough not to admit it.
While the news media has been preoccupied by Republicans’ failure to get rid of Obamacare, not to mention the president’s tweets about “Little Rocket Man,” Sen. Jeff Flake, and Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken over the Democratic Party. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has helped to lead the stampede toward the single payer approach to health care.
Democrats’ move to the radical left arrives just in time to hopefully save Republicans from their own incompetence. Republicans worried about their remarkable failure to repeal Obamacare should find some small consolation in the fact that progressives have won the war in the Democratic Party, forcing them to adopt a single-payer approach that they oddly view as an essential component of their strategy to win the midterm elections.
Yet being the second-most-incompetent party on health care is hardly a rousing rallying cry for the Republican Party: “Vote for us. We are admittedly impotent, but at least not crazy.” Has a nice ring to it.”
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“Time for Republicans to Oppose Welfare Expansion
Republicans have spent seven years telling the country they oppose Obamacare without really telling us what they support. When finally given a chance to do more than just give speeches, Republicans cobbled together an incoherent mess that failed to live up to our principles or attract the support necessary to become law. Sensing Republican ineptness, the Democrats are going in for the “kill” as they steadily advance America toward a single-payer system. Unfortunately, the thing they will “kill” in this case is the best health-care system the world has ever known.
It is wrong to say that Republicans have accomplished nothing in the health care arena this year. Think of it this way: President Obama spent eight years trying desperately to make Obamacare popular, but he failed. However, Republican bumbling in Congress has accomplished what Obama was unable to do: make Obamacare popular, at least in comparison. So we have that going for us.
Here’s an idea: let’s be honest for a change. Obamacare is a massive expansion of the welfare state. It has driven costs through the roof and is bankrupting the country. No more sugar-coating. Obamacare equals welfare. When Democrats say government has to pay for everyone’s health care, and that our plan would not do that, we should say, “Yep, you are for the welfare state. We are not.””
I don’t think you can legitimately complain about a welfare state if we’re going to continue to push the low wage service economy. It’s worth noting that most of the countries Ricky linked a few days ago are far more socialized than we are—including affordable healthcare. The thing is, we can either have a country with sustainable jobs and living wages and more freedom, or we can have a more socialized population. I’ve made no secret of my preference. The country has to decide where it wants to go.
This article by David French in National Review is the best one I’ve read on the TX church shooting. It goes right to the heart of the matter. (The full article at the link also addresses the subsequent negative Twitter-storm very well.)
When you see a mass murder unfold on the television screen or read about it online, let me tell you the single-most important and effective thing you can do in response. It also happens to be the single-most important and effective thing you can do on a sustained basis to turn the hearts of evil men, to strengthen the courage and resolve of good men and women, and to inspire the ideas and actions that bring change. You can pray.
It’s as simple as this: God is sovereign, and every good and perfect gift comes from Him. That includes changed hearts. It includes comfort that only He can provide. It includes the courage to be the “good guy with the gun” who can (and, reports suggest, yesterday did) stop a rampage in its tracks. It includes the clear mind to consider and enact policies that might make a difference.
So, yes, if you’re not praying and thinking in response to mass murders like the attack on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, your response isn’t as effective as it could be. If there’s one thing that’s clear from the spate of mass killings in the United States, it’s that we need God to move…..
….The sad and terrifying fact is that no one has a reliable answer for evil men who want to commit mass murder. And when no one has the answers, isn’t that exactly the time to pray? If the core problem is evil lurking in the human heart, who can reach the human heart more effectively than God? Even when hearts remain hardened, He can open the eyes of counselors, family members, and others to the dangers in their midst.
There’s a bottom line here: Either you believe that God intervenes in the affairs of men or you don’t. And if you do, then you know that no one and nothing is more powerful than the creator of the universe. That means that while prayer is not the only response to evil, it is both the most rational response and, in all likelihood, the most effective response.
This is a very old truth. God declared to ancient Israel, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Now is exactly the time for humility, prayer, and repentance. We don’t know what to do. But we do know our land needs healing. Twitter activists can’t do it. Neither can politicians. Angry celebrities are useless. Now is the time to appeal to heaven. In the face of great evil, we must pray.
This article made me feel sorry for Trump. During the campaign, experienced Republicans did not want to work for him, so he brought in folks like Lewandowski, Papadopolous and Carter Page, as well as family members. They were green and did not serve him well.
This is an article from the Wall Street Journal written by Peggy Noonan a couple of months before our presidential election last year. I think it ages well because even as she writes she seems to be gaining small insights into a much bigger picture and perhaps a global movement. And as it turns out, she’s correct. The whole article is good, but this is a portion:
……The larger point is that this is something we are seeing all over, the top detaching itself from the bottom, feeling little loyalty to it or affiliation with it. It is a theme I see working its way throughout the West’s power centers. At its heart it is not only a detachment from, but a lack of interest in, the lives of your countrymen, of those who are not at the table, and who understand that they’ve been abandoned by their leaders’ selfishness and mad virtue-signalling.
On Wall Street, where they used to make statesmen, they now barely make citizens. CEOs are consumed with short-term thinking, stock prices, quarterly profits. They don’t really believe that they have to be involved with “America” now; they see their job as thinking globally and meeting shareholder expectations.
In Silicon Valley the idea of “the national interest” is not much discussed. They adhere to higher, more abstract, more global values. They’re not about America, they’re about . . . well, I suppose they’d say the future……
From what I’ve seen of those in power throughout business and politics now, the people of your country are not your countrymen, they’re aliens whose bizarre emotions you must attempt occasionally to anticipate and manage.
In Manhattan, my little island off the continent, I see the children of the global business elite marry each other and settle in London or New York or Mumbai. They send their children to the same schools and are alert to all class markers. And those elites, of Mumbai and Manhattan, do not often identify with, or see a connection to or an obligation toward, the rough, struggling people who live at the bottom in their countries. In fact, they fear them, and often devise ways, when home, of not having their wealth and worldly success fully noticed.
Affluence detaches, power adds distance to experience. I don’t have it fully right in my mind but something big is happening here with this division between the leaders and the led. It is very much a feature of our age. But it is odd that our elites have abandoned or are abandoning the idea that they belong to a country, that they have ties that bring responsibilities, that they should feel loyalty to their people or, at the very least, a grounded respect…..
Saudi Arabia on Monday called the attempted missile attack on Riyadh’s main airport this weekend an “act of war” by Iran and vowed to retaliate.
Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have been fighting Saudi-backed forces there for several years, claimed responsibility for firing the ballistic missile on Saturday. The missile traveled more than 500 miles before Saudi Arabia intercepted it.
The official Saudi Press Agency charged that debris from the missile proved that it was made in Iran and smuggled into Yemen. American officials have previously charged that Iran has armed the Houthi rebels.
The attempted missile strike was “a blatant act of military aggression by the Iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war,” the Saudi Press Agency said in a statement.
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I suspect, with all the commotion about church shooting and NKorea, this is where the real trouble is.
“In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units,” according to its literature.
Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her. One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press. In other cases, journalists directed by Weinstein or the private investigators interviewed women and reported back the details.
The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein that eventually emerged in the New York Times and The New Yorker. Over the course of a year, Weinstein had the agencies “target,” or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focussed on their personal or sexual histories. Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally. He also enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating.
In some cases, the investigative effort was run through Weinstein’s lawyers, including David Boies, a celebrated attorney who represented Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential-election dispute and argued for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme Court. Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein’s abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case.
Boies confirmed that his firm contracted with and paid two of the agencies and that investigators from one of them sent him reports, which were then passed on to Weinstein. He said that he did not select the firms or direct the investigators’ work. He also denied that the work regarding the Times story represented a conflict of interest. Boies said that his firm’s involvement with the investigators was a mistake. “We should not have been contracting with and paying investigators that we did not select and direct,” he told me. “At the time, it seemed a reasonable accommodation for a client, but it was not thought through, and that was my mistake. It was a mistake at the time.”
Techniques like the ones used by the agencies on Weinstein’s behalf are almost always kept secret, and, because such relationships are often run through law firms, the investigations are theoretically protected by attorney-client privilege, which could prevent them from being disclosed in court. The documents and sources reveal the tools and tactics available to powerful individuals to suppress negative stories and, in some cases, forestall criminal investigations.”
“Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump…
Hours before the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom, a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump Tower meeting…
NBC News first reported that Veselnitskaya and Simpson were both at a hearing centered around another Fusion client, Russian oligarch Denis Katsyv. His company, Prevezon Holdings, was sanctioned against doing business in the U.S. for its alleged role in laundering more than $230 million.”
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“So Glenn Simpson and Natalia Veselnitskaya were in court together because they’ve been involved in representing Russian oligarchs for some time. That happened on the same day that Veselnitskaya met with Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner with the promise of dirt on Hillary Clinton. What Veselnitskaya actually presented, according to the NY Times, was the contents of a memo about some American DNC donors who had allegedly failed to pay taxes in Russia:
The memo that Ms. Veselnitskaya brought to the Trump Tower meeting alleged that Ziff Brothers Investments, an American firm, had illegally purchased shares in a Russian company and evaded tens of millions of dollars of Russian taxes. The company was the financial vehicle of three billionaire brothers, two of them major donors to Democratic candidates including Mrs. Clinton. By implication, Ms. Veselnitskaya, said, those political contributions were tainted by “stolen” money.
Kremlin officials viewed the charges as extremely significant. The Ziff brothers had invested in funds managed by William F. Browder, an American-born financier and fierce Kremlin foe.
Are some of the puzzle pieces starting to fall into place? “
Of all the reporters that have come and gone, I have always liked Catherine Herridge. I can remember watching her 20 or so years ago as a foreign correspondent, and I was impressed with her solid no nonsense reporting then, and now. She is proof that it can still be done—even at Fox.
So how does a communist dictator have a great political victory?
Getting ready to make a major speech to the National Assembly here in South Korea, then will be headed to China where I very much look forward to meeting with President Xi who is just off his great political victory.
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!
Wandering Views 
Dissent will not be tolerated.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/boise-state-prof-attacked-for-article-transgender-activists-are-seeking-to-undermine-parental-rights/#more-232009
“Scott Yenor teaches political science at Boise State University.
He wrote an essay in which he claimed that allowing children to choose their gender undermines the family and parental rights. Social justice warriors are now calling for his firing.
Even the outspoken progressive professor Camille Paglia has stated that she believes indulging children in transgenderism is a form of child abuse. Yet the left is treating Yenor as a heretic.
It all began when he wrote this at the Daily Signal:
Transgender Activists Are Seeking to Undermine Parental Rights
Winning public sanction for same-sex marriage was the last great feminist victory. Same-sex marriage undermined sex roles within marriage. It put children ever more outside the purpose of marriage. It reinforced the idea that all means of sexual satisfaction are equal.
Where will the radical feminist revolution roll to next?
The new field for the rolling revolution with the greatest possibilities is transgender rights, especially as applied to children.
Despite the accomplishments of radical feminism, the state has protected parents’ rights to raise their children. Children, after all, seem rightly under the charge of their parents, who provide personalized care for their development.
Parental rights are related to the age of consent, which states protect in order for children to give time and space to become mature, independent adults. Americans do not want their children overly sexualized, and they respect the right of parents to educate their children.
Transgender rights activists are seeking to abridge parental rights by elevating the independent choices of young children. Respecting the sexual and gender “choices” of ever-younger children erodes parental rights and compromises the integrity of the family as an independent unit.
That led to the campaign against Yenor. “
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Republicans have a new rallying cry.. 🙂
But don’t worry, Democrats are still worse. Barely.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/06/democrats-finally-admit-real-goal-single-payer-health-welfare/
“The Democratic Party has come out of the closet this year in full-throated support of single payer in health care. Those of us who are health care policy wonks have known this was their intent all along, but they were previously smart enough not to admit it.
While the news media has been preoccupied by Republicans’ failure to get rid of Obamacare, not to mention the president’s tweets about “Little Rocket Man,” Sen. Jeff Flake, and Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken over the Democratic Party. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has helped to lead the stampede toward the single payer approach to health care.
Democrats’ move to the radical left arrives just in time to hopefully save Republicans from their own incompetence. Republicans worried about their remarkable failure to repeal Obamacare should find some small consolation in the fact that progressives have won the war in the Democratic Party, forcing them to adopt a single-payer approach that they oddly view as an essential component of their strategy to win the midterm elections.
Yet being the second-most-incompetent party on health care is hardly a rousing rallying cry for the Republican Party: “Vote for us. We are admittedly impotent, but at least not crazy.” Has a nice ring to it.”
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“Time for Republicans to Oppose Welfare Expansion
Republicans have spent seven years telling the country they oppose Obamacare without really telling us what they support. When finally given a chance to do more than just give speeches, Republicans cobbled together an incoherent mess that failed to live up to our principles or attract the support necessary to become law. Sensing Republican ineptness, the Democrats are going in for the “kill” as they steadily advance America toward a single-payer system. Unfortunately, the thing they will “kill” in this case is the best health-care system the world has ever known.
It is wrong to say that Republicans have accomplished nothing in the health care arena this year. Think of it this way: President Obama spent eight years trying desperately to make Obamacare popular, but he failed. However, Republican bumbling in Congress has accomplished what Obama was unable to do: make Obamacare popular, at least in comparison. So we have that going for us.
Here’s an idea: let’s be honest for a change. Obamacare is a massive expansion of the welfare state. It has driven costs through the roof and is bankrupting the country. No more sugar-coating. Obamacare equals welfare. When Democrats say government has to pay for everyone’s health care, and that our plan would not do that, we should say, “Yep, you are for the welfare state. We are not.””
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I don’t think you can legitimately complain about a welfare state if we’re going to continue to push the low wage service economy. It’s worth noting that most of the countries Ricky linked a few days ago are far more socialized than we are—including affordable healthcare. The thing is, we can either have a country with sustainable jobs and living wages and more freedom, or we can have a more socialized population. I’ve made no secret of my preference. The country has to decide where it wants to go.
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This article by David French in National Review is the best one I’ve read on the TX church shooting. It goes right to the heart of the matter. (The full article at the link also addresses the subsequent negative Twitter-storm very well.)
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Dreher with help for Christian parents:
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A good historical review of the actual effects of protectionism for those interested in economics:
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This article made me feel sorry for Trump. During the campaign, experienced Republicans did not want to work for him, so he brought in folks like Lewandowski, Papadopolous and Carter Page, as well as family members. They were green and did not serve him well.
http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-congressional-testimony-transcript-steele-dossier-2017-11
His current White House staff (now led by Kelly) is much better.
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This is an article from the Wall Street Journal written by Peggy Noonan a couple of months before our presidential election last year. I think it ages well because even as she writes she seems to be gaining small insights into a much bigger picture and perhaps a global movement. And as it turns out, she’s correct. The whole article is good, but this is a portion:
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From FoxNews via Drudge:
Saudi Arabia on Monday called the attempted missile attack on Riyadh’s main airport this weekend an “act of war” by Iran and vowed to retaliate.
Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have been fighting Saudi-backed forces there for several years, claimed responsibility for firing the ballistic missile on Saturday. The missile traveled more than 500 miles before Saudi Arabia intercepted it.
The official Saudi Press Agency charged that debris from the missile proved that it was made in Iran and smuggled into Yemen. American officials have previously charged that Iran has armed the Houthi rebels.
The attempted missile strike was “a blatant act of military aggression by the Iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war,” the Saudi Press Agency said in a statement.
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I suspect, with all the commotion about church shooting and NKorea, this is where the real trouble is.
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This is one sick individual.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies
“In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units,” according to its literature.
Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her. One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press. In other cases, journalists directed by Weinstein or the private investigators interviewed women and reported back the details.
The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein that eventually emerged in the New York Times and The New Yorker. Over the course of a year, Weinstein had the agencies “target,” or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focussed on their personal or sexual histories. Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally. He also enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating.
In some cases, the investigative effort was run through Weinstein’s lawyers, including David Boies, a celebrated attorney who represented Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential-election dispute and argued for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme Court. Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein’s abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case.
Boies confirmed that his firm contracted with and paid two of the agencies and that investigators from one of them sent him reports, which were then passed on to Weinstein. He said that he did not select the firms or direct the investigators’ work. He also denied that the work regarding the Times story represented a conflict of interest. Boies said that his firm’s involvement with the investigators was a mistake. “We should not have been contracting with and paying investigators that we did not select and direct,” he told me. “At the time, it seemed a reasonable accommodation for a client, but it was not thought through, and that was my mistake. It was a mistake at the time.”
Techniques like the ones used by the agencies on Weinstein’s behalf are almost always kept secret, and, because such relationships are often run through law firms, the investigations are theoretically protected by attorney-client privilege, which could prevent them from being disclosed in court. The documents and sources reveal the tools and tactics available to powerful individuals to suppress negative stories and, in some cases, forestall criminal investigations.”
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You smell that?
Smells like a set-up.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/07/fusion-gps-founder-met-russian-attorney-day-went-trump-tower/
“Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump…
Hours before the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom, a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump Tower meeting…
NBC News first reported that Veselnitskaya and Simpson were both at a hearing centered around another Fusion client, Russian oligarch Denis Katsyv. His company, Prevezon Holdings, was sanctioned against doing business in the U.S. for its alleged role in laundering more than $230 million.”
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“So Glenn Simpson and Natalia Veselnitskaya were in court together because they’ve been involved in representing Russian oligarchs for some time. That happened on the same day that Veselnitskaya met with Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner with the promise of dirt on Hillary Clinton. What Veselnitskaya actually presented, according to the NY Times, was the contents of a memo about some American DNC donors who had allegedly failed to pay taxes in Russia:
The memo that Ms. Veselnitskaya brought to the Trump Tower meeting alleged that Ziff Brothers Investments, an American firm, had illegally purchased shares in a Russian company and evaded tens of millions of dollars of Russian taxes. The company was the financial vehicle of three billionaire brothers, two of them major donors to Democratic candidates including Mrs. Clinton. By implication, Ms. Veselnitskaya, said, those political contributions were tainted by “stolen” money.
Kremlin officials viewed the charges as extremely significant. The Ziff brothers had invested in funds managed by William F. Browder, an American-born financier and fierce Kremlin foe.
Are some of the puzzle pieces starting to fall into place? “
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Of all the reporters that have come and gone, I have always liked Catherine Herridge. I can remember watching her 20 or so years ago as a foreign correspondent, and I was impressed with her solid no nonsense reporting then, and now. She is proof that it can still be done—even at Fox.
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In case anyone forgot, we are living in an idiocracy.
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So how does a communist dictator have a great political victory?
Debra, I told you that your guy was super-impressed that Xi got his name in the Chinese Constitution.
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Guess whose fault is wasn’t?
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Even the preachers are getting in on the fun.
https://twitter.com/edstetzer/status/928078081436323840
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