P&D and the Week That Was

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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By Rich Kozlovich 

 

Okay, today's edition is going to start with this article, A Soldier to the End: The Story Behind ‘The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant’.  I knew the facts about Grant and how Mark Twain admired him so much he wanted to make sure his financial future was secure, but there's a lot more to this story, and there's a lot of emotion to this story I wasn't aware of, and the author captures it.  Unlike all the articles I publish or link I don't have any particular point I'm trying to make by presenting this piece, I just thought it was inspiring, and perhaps that's my point. We can always use some inspiration. 

This week news has been consumed by the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, and the outrageous conduct of the Secret Service.  I have two pieces on this discussing all the aspects of that event, including the speculations.  As a result of posting the discussions on the potential of a second shooter a friend of mine asked if I thought this was another "grassy knoll" scenario.  I don't, certainly not at this point.  

The speculation of a second shooter is predicated on..... speculation!   While that's where all investigations have to start, there has to be far more evidence than is being presented now. Also, if there was a second shooter then the kid would have been the patsy, and the second shooter would have been a real shooter, and I have no doubt a real shooter wouldn't have missed at that distance. 

From that distance it would take about a second for the bullet to reach it's target, and his shot would have focused on the center of his head, and a slight movement wouldn't have mattered,  and after the kid missed, that would have meant there was time for a second shot before he was covered.  

 

Here's what I do believe.  Before this plays out I think we're going to be surprised at what went on with this and I'm convinced the Secret Service and the FBI, at least at the leadership level, have deliberately been remiss in their duties in hopes he will be killed.   

• Revealed: Secret Service Declined Drone Tech for Trump Rally

 The fact of the matter is no one trusts the FBI.   Local law enforcement is even refusing to work with them over their DEI hires and what they perceive as the FBI's concept of "law enforcement" is now politically driven versus legally driven.  And for the same reasons the Congress doubts any credible investigation by the FBI or the DHS, who are heading up the investigation.  

•  A ‘Warren Report’ isn’t going to fly in 2024 
• Congress Must Appoint An Independent Investigator For The Assassination Attempt

The four rules of life always apply.   People will always be people.  The patterns of life repeat over and over again.  Everything is the basics.  Culture is king.  And I do wish more people read history books.  

Then there's Kamala.  Break out the popcorn folks, this is going to be a clown show, a four month situation comedy playing out daily exposing the corruption and stupidity of the Democrat party, the media, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, the Deep State, their billionaire donors, Kamala Harris, and the lack of depth of quality, the radical character, and serious lack intelligence and corruption of the Democrat party as a whole.  

 

The Democrats are very poor judges of character - How hard was it by 2015 for the political class to know, at the core of their beings, that Joe Biden was a despicable man?  Everyone in Congress knew it.  They all knew he was a pathological liar, a greedy SOB for whom money was his singular motivation for everything he said and did.  They all knew he was a racist.  Long before he attempted to humiliate the great Clarence Thomas, he was mentored by Robert Byrd, once an “Exalted Cyclops” of the KKK.  Biden was terrified of his children going to school with blacks, which is why he adamantly opposed bussing.  But, even after two previous attempts to become president and failing, once for plagiarizing Neil Kinnock’s speech, he was selected by the Democrat party to be installed in order to prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming the Democrat candidate in 2019......

Watching Kamala and the nitwit brigade embracing, justifying, and defending the disaster Joe Biden and his administration has been to America, will be both outrageous, and hilarious.  And it starts with their insane claim he's the greatest President since George Washington.  

So..what's not to like?  

Let's start today's offerings with my friend John Droz, Jr's. The Media Balance Newsletter: 7/22/24, which starts out with a really great cartoon, and then proceeds to cover all the issues confronting us.  

So, enjoy, best wishes, and have a great weekend.

Press Release 

Press Release From the Buckeye Institute,

My Commentaries

1. It Really is Time to Revisit New York Times v. Sullivan
2. Thought For the Day
3. So, It's Kamala? Really? Then We Need a Little History Lesson!
4. This Election Will Be One of America's Most Historic
5. Who Were the Secret Service Protecting?
6. Passing Thoughts on Today's News
7. Lucy, You Got Some Splaining To Do?
8. Biden's Out, But So What?

Commentaries

1. The Joe Biden Bait and Switch By Mark Angelides
2. The Canonization of Joe Biden By Leesa K. Donner
3. Trump Shooting Update: Secret Service Director Cheatle in the Hot SeatBy Leesa K. Donner
4. The Biden Coverup and Kamala Harris 2.0 By Tim Donner
5. Helping with Election Integrity By John Droz, Jr.
6. Critically Thinking about Kamala Harris By John Droz, Jr.
7. Netanyahu Defends America Before Congress By Daniel Greenfield
8. Iran is Funding the Pro-Hamas Protests  By Daniel Greenfield
9. Mostly Peaceful Assassinations  By Daniel Greenfield
10. Biden Unfit to be Candidate, Fit to be President  By Daniel Greenfield
11. The DEI Secret Service  By Daniel Greenfield
12. Who Reports to Who? Robin Itzler
13. Joe's Gone and the RINO's Must Go Too Robin Itzler
14. Are We Now a Radical Socialist Nation? Robin Itzler
15. Only a Nitwit Could Think Biden Was a Great President Robin Itzler
16. Let The Laughter Begin Robin Itzler
17. Biden Administration Launches A Great Leap Forward Into Green Energy By Francis Menton
18. The Energy Transition Ain't Happening: Hydrogen In Australia By Francis Menton
19. Georgia’s Libertarian Hero By Dan Mitchell
20. Whitewashing Soviet-Era Tyranny and Failure By Dan Mitchell
21. President Joe Biden Has Been Bad, but a President Kamala Harris Would Be Worse, Part II By Dan Mitchell
22. Labour’s Class-Warfare Raid Will Cause Rich People to Leave the United Kingdom By Dan Mitchell
23. Creating Rich Societies By Dan Mitchell
24. Will France Opt for Bernie Sanders-Style Taxation? By Dan Mitchell
25. Federal Reserve Printing Press Running Wild Again By Andrew Moran
26. Well...That Was Fast! By Rob Pue

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor
   
4. An Analysis: Senate Race 2024 and More

Constant as the North Star

You know that voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say?  Yeah, I don't have that!    We need to question everything because everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality!  Much of what we're told does not!