News of the Week for May 15th<\/sup>, 2016<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n State Dept. says it can’t find emails from Clinton’s IT aide<\/a> Ted Cruz backers ready for fight at convention to make party platform conservative<\/a> Inside the Anti-Trump Circus: Here Comes the Summer of Hate<\/a> Carson leaves Trump’s VP vetting team <\/a> New Republic blames Donald Trump for Budweiser’s new “America” beer<\/a> What a Hillary-Shaped Supreme Court Would Look Like<\/a> Senator Cruz Open to Reentering the Race<\/a> Cruz delegates push to add transgender bathroom issue to RNC platform<\/a> Could Maryland senate race be a Republican pickup?<\/a> Supervisors OK ballot measure to lower SF voting age to 16<\/a> “Patriot” candidates are now getting elected in Oregon<\/a> Democrats Counting on “Trump Effect” to Help Retake Statehouses<\/a> Reporter to Rubio: You’ve got until June to change your mind and run for Senate again, you know<\/a> New Oregon Poll Has a Shockingly Depressing Result for Trump (AND Hillary)<\/a> Ralph Nader: Trump’s Done Some Good, Clinton’s Winning By “Dictatorship”<\/a> Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million<\/a> Senator Ben Sasse and #NeverTrump Targeted in Nebraska<\/a> Virginia GOP Races to Block Felons From Voting in November<\/a> #NeverTrump, Contrary To Criticism, Represents A Wide Range Of Conservatives<\/a> What’s Right About #NeverTrump<\/a> Venezuela Running Out of Food as U.S. Says Total Meltdown Imminent<\/a> A Harbinger of Dem Convention Chaos<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obama’s last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy<\/a> Obama Administration forces transgender bathroom rules on every school in America<\/a> New Obamacare Transgender Regulations Threaten Freedom of Physicians<\/a> Facebook Knows Where You Live And Wants To Register You To Vote<\/a> Obama School Bathroom Decree Issued: Worse Than Expected<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dems Battle Each Other Over Gun Control<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Emails between Pro-RICO Climate Scientists Made Public <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Harvard: Obamacare program isn’t working<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gone In a Flash: State Department Deletes Jen Psaki’s Admission that Her Predecessor Lied About Nuke Deal<\/a> CENTCOM intel officer fired for cursing after exposing cooked ISIS intelligence<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2016<\/h1>\n
\nThe State Department has been unable to locate any emails that were sent to or from Hillary Clinton’s former IT aide at the department, according a Monday court filing.<\/p>\n
\nWhen I tweeted that earlier, someone replied that they’re trying to protect the house’s foundation, not the wallpaper. <\/p>\n
\nWherever Donald Trump goes, protests follow.<\/p>\n
\nBen Carson has stepped away from a selection committee tasked with finding Donald Trump’s running mate, a new report says.<\/p>\n
\nTrump Derangement Syndrome is off to a good start.<\/p>\n
\nMark Tushnet of Harvard Law School is one of the leading leftists in legal academia today. Yesterday on Jack Balkin\u2019s website Balkinization, Tushnet lets it all hang out how he thinks a reliably liberal Supreme Court should think and act.<\/p>\n
\nWhile appearing on Glenn Beck’s radio program this morning, Senator Ted Cruz suggested that the notion of his reentering the race was not out of the question.<\/p>\n
\nAssuming Ted Cruz doesn’t “unsuspend” his campaign after tonight’s caucus results are in, he won’t be going to the convention in Cleveland as a potential candidate to be nominated from the floor. <\/p>\n
\nConventional wisdom would say Republicans in Maryland have no chance to win a Senate seat. But conventional wisdom has had a terrible track record recently.<\/p>\n
\nA charter amendment to lower the voting age to 16 that will appear on the November ballot would put San Francisco at the forefront of expanding voting rights at a time when some other governments around the country have implemented increasingly restrictive voting laws.<\/p>\n
\nJoseph Rice’s manner is a long way from militia stereotypes. The Patriot Movement leader does not present as a crazed gun nut, nor as a blowhard white supremacist. He\u2019s genial, folksy, and matter-of-fact in laying out his views. But talk to him for long enough, and time and again the Patriot Movement leader returns to what really drives him: land.<\/p>\n
\nDemocrats say Donald Trump’s presence atop the Republican ticket will help stem a tide of electoral defeats that put Republicans in charge of statehouses across the U.S. and in control of taxes, social issues and district lines that preserve their majorities.<\/p>\n
\nI think he’s 90 percent committed to leaving at the end of this term, as he’s promised to do, but I’d hang onto that last 10 percent for a few weeks longer.<\/p>\n
\nFor reasons that are not entirely clear, the poll also tested the Republican primary, which isn\u2019t even contested anymore. And this is where things get bad for Trump \u2013 because he didn’t even clear 50% in the polls even though his opponents aren’t in the race anymore. According to this poll, he pulls in 45% of likely Republican voters, but 28% of likely Republican voters said they intended to vote for Cruz and\/or Kasich even though both had already dropped out before the survey started. Another 27% responded “unsure” even though there’s only one choice left.<\/p>\n
\nHe heaps praise on Bernie Sanders, but won\u2019t reveal how he’ll vote in November.<\/p>\n
\nA Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.<\/p>\n
\nNebraska Senator Ben Sasse has been one of the more vocal proponents of the #NeverTrump crusade.<\/p>\n
\nImagine the glee that political party leaders would feel in any state where they get the opportunity to sign up 206,000 new voters.<\/p>\n
\nWhen listening to Donald Trump discuss the #NeverTrump, something commonly heard outside the dripping contempt is the accusation the movement is made up of nothing but “establishment” DC types not needed by Trump, and therefore a threat to their livelihood.<\/p>\n
\nLast week Paul Ryan and Donald Trump began an interpretive dance that will end with a show of party unity. That it is just a dance is indicated by its practical uselessness: since Trump is not a man of his word, what words could he possibly say that could reasonably change Ryan’s mind about him? But since Ryan is the highest-ranking Republican and disunity hurts the party, the speaker of the House will continue to move to unify as much as he’s able. That’s his job.<\/p>\n
\nVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro extended a state of emergency another 60 days as several riots broke out in grocery stores this past week. The country is running out of food, the workweek has been reduced to two days, there is a water shortage and — soon — a gasoline shortage in a country with more oil than Saudi Arabia, there are long blackouts as electricity is scarce, and 70% of the voters want Maduro out this year.<\/p>\n
\nIt was only a few weeks ago that the Republican Party appeared destined to suffer a contentious and unsightly contested nominating convention.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nHillary’s rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.<\/p>\n
\nThe Department of Education will instruct every public school in America to provide “suitable” bathroom and locker room facilities to match transgender students “chosen gender identity.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized new transgender regulations for Obamacare on Friday.<\/p>\n
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\nMeanwhile, Texas promises to fight back<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nSeeking to bolster his early-bird campaign for governor, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom forged ahead with a controversial ballot initiative designed to put severe strictures on guns in California. But in addition to raising the ire of Republicans statewide, Newsom has begun to clash with members of his own party in Sacramento, who don’t share his vision of the right political strategy on the issue in November and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nLast fall, I wrote about Jagadish Shukla, professor of climate dynamics at George Mason University, head of the school’s Institute of Global Environment and Society (which he has used to pocket $5.6 million since 2001), and the lead author of a letter sent in September to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House Office of Science and Technology policy director John Holdren calling for “a RICO investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change,” a tactic first proposed by Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nA key Obamacare program intended to revolutionize the U.S. healthcare system by tying hospital compensation to medical outcomes is not working, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nJames Rosen, in 2013, confronted Jen Psaki about a lie the Administration was peddling — that they had only begun nuke talks with Iran after the “moderate” Rouhani was elected.<\/p>\n
\nIf you’ve been following this story about how the CENTCOM intelligence office cooked the books to downplay the growth and threat represented by the Islamic State, the latest on the scandal takes on a surreal quality.<\/p>\n