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And if you want to know how much she "won" the debate, look at the fact that largely every media report from the debate is about what Trump said. No one cares about what Harris said because she never really said anything. //
The campaign clearly knows that, despite the hype, it's a neck-and-neck race between Harris and Trump, and swing state polling gives Trump the advantage still. That's why they're bringing out the old tried and true out of the reserves.
That's right. The Obamas and the Clintons are hitting the campaign trail.
Retired Professor
10 hours ago
Fascinating. Defamation was one of the subjects I used to teach in Law School, and as you know, the general rule is that attorneys have immunity for extra-judicial remarks made in connection with cases they are involved in, but this can be overcome by a showing of malice (in the technical Defamation sense of "reckless disregard"). But, win or lose, it is fun to see the liberals get a taste of the "lawfare" that they so love to use themselves.
metalheaddoc Retired Professor
10 hours ago
Can you explain why attorneys have immunity for extra-judicial remarks? and immunity from what specifically?
Retired Professor metalheaddoc
9 hours ago
Very good question. The immunity is from civil liability for money damages for such things as defamation of character, invasion of privacy, or intentional infliction of emotional distress. (I can assure you, if you've ever been cross-examined by a good lawyer, that'll be some of the worst "emotional distress" you'll ever suffer). What are the policy justifications for this?
First, it arises out of the free speech we all enjoy.
Second, out of the right to counsel, which of course is a Constitutional right in criminal cases, and in most states is part of your constitutional "right of access to the courts," even in civil cases (although of course the state doesn't pay for it).
Third, society has an interest in attorneys being able to zealously represent their clients, and not have attorneys being dragged into court personally because of their advocacy, which obviously would be a tactic open to a lot of abuse, as well as inviting invasion of the attorney-client privilege.
Fourth, attorneys are subject to professional discipline for false or misleading statements, so the system polices itself in that respect.
Fifth, an attorney who makes a statement that he/she knows to be false or is made with reckless disregard for truth or falsity IS subject to liability, just like any public figure would be, so it is by no means an absolute immunity.
There are other considerations, as well, but those are the most common.
Please remember that 98% of the attorneys give the other 2% of us a bad name....
stickdude90 Retired Professor
9 hours ago
Sixth, attorneys wrote the rules.
Retired Professor anon-ho3e
10 hours ago
Kinda interesting having sympathy for an IRS agent, isn't it?
NEW: ABC News Caught Grossly Deceptively Editing Kamala Harris' Disastrous Solo Interview – RedState
The above exchange can be seen online by going directly to ABC 6's website. Guess who didn't see it? That would be the network's television audience. According to Tom Elliott, who runs Grabien, a media service that archives news coverage, ABC 6 and Taff made an astonishingly dishonest edit to the interview before playing it on the nightly news.
Specifically, the above word salad was completely cut out of the interview, and instead, a later portion was spliced in. In the recording of the live broadcast, you can hear Taff ask the question posed in the above excerpt, yet the answer Harris is shown giving was not her actual answer in the interview.
Here is the comparison between the actual interview and what ABC 6 put on air.
Tom Elliott @tomselliott
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Maybe someone has already mentioned this, but the rambling answer Kamala Harris gave last night on inflation is not what @6abc actually aired. Instead they edited her response so that it went straight to her "policies." Compare/contrast the two clips below
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Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck
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.@6ABC and Brian Taff shilling for Kamala.
And btw WPVI isn't just the Philly ABC affiliate. It's an ABC-Disney owned-and-operated station. //
What Taff and his network did is not journalism. It's activism, and they had no excuse to mislead people by chopping up the interview in that way. Harris is a vapid empty suit, and voters deserve to know that.
Lochel's Bakery in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, had some big news in their big cookie poll as of Friday morning.
Every four years, they hold a poll where people can buy red cookies or blue cookies--with the candidates' names on them and the election year--to indicate their choice for president. And the current count in the poll, based on how many have been bought for each candidate, is not looking good for Kamala Harris.
As of Friday morning, the shop has sold a whopping 5,200 Trump cookies vs. 500 Harris cookies. //
Lochel's correctly determined three of the four elections since 2012, The only one that didn't turn out was in 2020. Then they ultimately sold 31,804 Trump cookies vs. 5,750 Biden cookies before the election. That was six times as many, but they're ahead of that pace so far this time.
In any field of endeavor where one is gathering data, like, say, temperature, it's important to first determine if your measurements will be valid. If you are measuring the temperature inside an oven used for curing ceramics, you would not place your thermocouples in the lunch room. That wouldn't make any sense.
Nor does it make sense to place temperature-monitoring stations gathering data to prove global climate change, say, within a few feet of a tarmac on which jet airliners taxi for takeoff. But the United Kingdom's Met Office seems to have done just that. At the Daily Sceptic, Environment Editor Chris Morrison has brought photos: //
Teddington Bushy Park is a junk class 4 station with internationally-recognised “uncertainties” of 2°C. Joke class 4 station might be a more apt description. How anyone can think information taken at this site is suitable for scientific work that ultimately produces a global mean temperature is a mystery.
It is a mystery, unless, of course, you contemplate the idea that it may well be deliberate. I'm generally more inclined to accept incompetence rather than malice, but there sure seems to be a pattern here.
This website was created in response to the realization that very little physical site survey data exists for the entire United States Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN) surface station records worldwide. This realization came about from a discussion of a paper and some new information that occurred on Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog.
Mid term census report of the Surface Stations Project: Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? - click cover image at left to download a PDF document. Now at 80%, and with a majority sample that is spatially well distributed, a full analysis will be coming in the next few months. We will however continue to survey stations in the hope of locating more CRN1 and CRN2 stations due to their rarity.
The upcoming papers will feature statistical analysis of the nationwide USHCN network in the context of siting.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/surfacestationsreport_spring09.pdf
When I first hit play, I was expecting some typical TikTok political video with a person on a coach saying some funny one-liner. What I wasn't expecting was for the camera to pan and show multiple U.S. servicemembers, currently serving in a combat zone, ripping Harris for her misleading statement:
Where these troops are deployed is not something we can know (or should know), but somewhere in Iraq or Syria is a decent enough guess. So, do those places qualify as combat zones? When I posted the video, I had a few people snipe in the replies that because America isn't in an active, large-scale war, Harris wasn't lying. That's not how combat zones are defined, though, and the United States government still recognizes much of the Middle East as an active combat zone.
To pretend otherwise is to play a ridiculous, insulting game of semantics that should be ruthlessly mocked into oblivion. American service members are still serving in combat zones where they are being injured and killed by rocket attacks and during active operations. Those people didn't cease to exist because Harris needed a talking point on Tuesday night.
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Kathy Hochul joins a growing list of prominent Democrats plausibly compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, up to and including Joe Biden and Tim Walz. //
The Chinese have compromised the Democrat Party in ways Democrats dream the Russians have infiltrated Republicans.
Two indictments this week shook the nation, revealing the lengths to which foreign adversaries have gone to compromise the integrity of the American political system. One indictment, however, was not like the other. In fact, one was far worse in just about every way imaginable. //
Yet the Russian interference effort to buy off a couple of oblivious influencers pales in comparison to Chinese operations that are targeting elected leaders who are actually in office.
Another indictment unsealed this week revealed the far more devastating details of a foreign rival compromising one of the most powerful governorships in the country. On Tuesday, the former deputy chief of staff for New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged with a laundry list of offences, including crimes under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Federal prosecutors say Linda Sun, whose 14 years in the state government also included time under Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was actually working on behalf of the Chinese government. Sun was charged along with her husband, Chris Hu, for myriad financial crimes compromising the governor’s office in the nation’s fourth most populous state.
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors: An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined
Robert Hargraves, Ralph Moir
American Scientist, Vol. 98, No. 4 (July-August 2010), pp. 304-313 (10 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27859537
By Robert F. Hargraves, Ralph Moir
An old idea in nuclear power gets reexamined
What if we could turn back the clock to 1965 and have an energy do-over? In June of that year, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) achieved criticality for the first time at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.
The Citizen Outreach Foundation is questioning a memo from Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar telling local officials to reject certain voter roll challenges.
Georgia’s controversial Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state Republicans are trying to stop the State Elections Board from doing their job. //
Many Georgians still have strongly-held reservations about the integrity of the state’s elections. To help assuage those concerns, the State Election Board should be fully funded immediately by Governor Kemp’s OPB, so it can execute its responsibilities on behalf of Georgia’s citizens. Time is of the essence.
As Donald Trump and J.D. Vance try to win over swing voters, some pro-life leaders are busy dispiriting pro-life voters. //
Now, I am not going to imply that Lila Rose is a communist, as James Lindsay did. But to suggest that the Trump-Vance ticket does not “stand for pro-life principles,” and that pro-lifers should withhold their votes, as Lila did, is equally outrageous. In an interview with Politico published on Thursday, Lila Rose said she “would not vote for Harris or Trump” if the election were held today and said there are “other candidates” and even “write-in candidates.”
Such comments are a priceless gift to Kamala’s campaign. Expect interviews on CNN, MSNBC, and other regime media to follow as they use Rose to demonize Trump and demoralize pro-life voters into staying home on Election Day.
Everyone needs to remember that this is the pro-life president who spoke at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., had many pro-lifers in top positions, and pursued a host of pro-life policies at home and abroad. This is the pro-life president whose Supreme Court appointments overturned Roe v. Wade. The federal government is no longer forcing the states to allow mothers to murder their children, and 22 have partial or complete bans in place.
Finally, this is the once-and-future pro-life president who is all that stands in the way of Kamala Harris. If she gets into office, she will pack the Supreme Court with pro-abortion justices, Roe v. Wade will be brought back, and abortion on demand up to — and beyond — birth will be the law of the land for another two generations. //
the practical politics of the matter are plain: Anyone who is still attacking Trump this close to the election is dispiriting the base, giving quotes to the opposition, and — it must be said — making Kamala Harris’ election more likely.
Is that what Lila Rose — or any pro-lifer — wants? Does anyone (besides Kamala) want pro-life voters so demoralized that they will wash their hands of the whole nasty business of politics, declare a pox on both their houses, and stay home on election day? Because that is the political effect of her reckless words. //
Just to be clear, the Republican platform is still pro-life, as it has been since 1984, although it could be stronger. Donald Trump is still the most pro-life president since abortion became a national issue, although he could be more resolute.
We need to pray as hard as we can for Trump and Vance’s complete conversion on the life issue. And we must work as hard as we can to get the most pro-life president in my lifetime back in office.
In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu wrote, “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” In “Am I Racist?,” the satirical documentary released by the Daily Wire that’s in theaters now, writer and star Matt Walsh leans into that concept with gusto, doing the work necessary to become an anti-racist. Fortunately for him, the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts he lampoons don’t have the same level of dedication to studying their purported enemies. //
This is the beauty of “Am I Racist?” It hilariously skewers the anti-racism industry as the destructive grift that it is, one that enables its high priests and priestesses to earn lavish amounts of money for lecturing white people about how awful they are. It shows that most people are not of the faculty lounge or corporate diversity training milieu, blathering on about systemic racism and land acknowledgements. The men and women on the street Walsh talks to, regardless of skin color, rarely agree with his pronouncements. Many openly argue with him. The huge chasm between real people and the charlatans who seek to profit off dividing us is exposed, all with humor and verve. //
It also reminds us that the fight to turn America into a country wholly focused on cosmetic differences is one that the sane can easily win.
Floridians Protecting Freedom’s paid circulators allegedly forged signatures on the abortion amendment petition in Florida. The state investigated, and left-wing media attacked.
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One of her most galling claims is that she has "plans" to make the economy better. If that were true, why hasn't she done any of it already, as Trump said? Why did she vote for spending that made inflation worse, a very basic principle she doesn't seem to understand? //
But one of the things she's been saying was that Goldman Sachs had endorsed her "plan." //
Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Kamala: "Goldman Sachs said my plan would grow the economy and his plan would shrink the economy."
The Goldman Sachs CEO said earlier today that Kamala lied about this.
6:46 PM · Sep 12, 2024