Highlights of the News

I started writing a tweet responding to some lefty idiocy. Midway, I said why am I giving free content to a company that hates me and wants me to die?
So I'll just put all that in Highlights of the News tomorrow.
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— Don Surber (@donsurber) September 28, 2020

​Donald John Trump is still our president.

ITEM 1: This was what I was responding to:

Taxpayers paid Trump's business $33,000 for Steven Mnuchin's Secret Service costs the very same year Trump paid $750 in federal taxes.

Meanwhile, Mnuchin was helping Trump keep his tax returns hidden. Any questions?https://t.co/N0NxKQ5CJ9

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 28, 2020

Mnuchin is in line for the presidency, hence the Secret Service protects him. The law requires Mnuchin and the IRS to keep tax records confidential. CREW is a joke and has been for more than a decade. It remains silent about Obama's unethical use of the FBI to spy on political opponents.

Conservatives have to learn to use the enemy. Before interacting in the media, ask WWPDJTD?

ITEM 2: Forbes reported, "The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of laundering $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale."

Nonpartisan watchdog in media speak means communist. Nothing is nonpartisan anymore. The campaign paid Parscale's company for services rendered. That is how campaigns work. More diversion of attention from Biden's bribed boy and Biden's dementia.

ITEM 3: The Daily Mail reported, "Governor Bill Richardson is accused of raking in hundreds of thousands in bribes and kickbacks to fund debauched lifestyle including 'sexual services and favors.'

"Bill Richardson has been accused of running a scheme in which he raked in over $100k of dollars in bribes while in office

• Richardson, 72, served as Governor for New Mexico from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2010 
• According to a recently unsealed legal complaint obtained by DailyMail.com, Richardson used the money to fund a luxury and debauched lifestyle
• His lifestyle allegedly included 'sexual services and favors' funded by the scam dubbed the 'Richardson Ring'
• The lawsuit claims that Governor Richardson was able to place his trusted 'operatives' in state government jobs to cover-up his wrongdoing 
• Richardson, a career politician, was previously accused of having sex with Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts when she was underage 
• Roberts named Richardson among several others as men Ghislaine Maxwell told her to have sex with in court documents "

Clinton's Ambassador to the United Nations, as well as the first Hispanic governor of his state, which proves Hispanic Democrats are as crooked as white Democrats.

ITEM 4: USA Today ran a fact check of a Babylon Bee piece, "Fact check: Satirical claim that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Ginsburg's death."

USA Today concluded, "Fact check: No guarantee Obama would've replaced Ginsburg with a liberal justice."

Yes, Obama would have appointed Amy Coney Barrett. The media no longer hides its bias or ignorance.

ITEM 5: Via Paul Bedard, Tom Friedman's Dear Diary moment on CNN.

Friedman said, "I think what happened in the last few days is a six-alarm fire. I think it’s DEFCON 5. The president of the United States has told us, 'Either I win the election or I delegitimize the election.' Those are your choices, folks. And he basically is trying to break people’s will to really get people to say, ‘What the heck? He wants it so bad, just give it to him.’ I think this is, this certainly is the most frightening moment in my life. It’s frightening because of him. It’s frightening because he’s backed by a state-owned network.

"And it’s terrifying because the Republican Party has become basically a political brothel that rents itself out by the night to whoever will energize its base, whether it was Sarah Palin or the Tea Party or now, Trump. This is a party that went into its convention with no platform, no platform, and basically just said whatever Trump wants, we want. And if you’re not frightened now, if you are not terrified for what could happen, it’s not we might have a disputed election. It is we are going to have a disputed election, almost certainly, unless Trump wins, in which case I shudder to think what four more years of this would be like."

Friedman's argument against President Trump has all the cogency of a Biden press conference.

UPDATE: A reader pointed out, "DEFCON 5 is peace.  The DEFCON levels get higher-risk, closer to war as they move through DEFCON 4, 3, 2, and 1.  You would think that a correspondent who has spent as much time cover 'wars and rumors of wars' as Friedman would know that."

That is like expecting Krugman to know a little about economics.

ITEM 6: Larry Correia wrote, "No, You Idiots. That’s Not How Taxes Work. – An Accountant’s Guide To Why You Are a Gullible Moron."

It is an entertaining and occasionally vulgar riff on the New York Times expose on Donald Trump's taxes. Sure Correia's an accountant, but you cannot dislike a man who wrote in his biography, "I was raised in El Nido, California. I grew up on a dairy farm, where I received my black belt in the ancient art of Portuguese Shovel Fighting, because nothing motivates a Holstein to move its fat ass into the milk barn like a good shovel on the snout."

The IRS is auditing the president's returns.

In his article, Correia wrote, "On one side CPAs, and the other, hellspawn audit demons, and they’ll argue, and battle, and go to court over what is and is not owed to the government, and then the client will pay what is legally owed plus any applicable fines and penalties (and not a dime more). Both sides of this titanic eternal struggle are far smarter than anyone at the New York Times and they have access to the actual financial data, unlike all the blue check mark idiots on Twitter who are whinging on today about their feelings. Barf."

All I know about accounting is hire a CPA once you get a 1099. Turbo Tax was made for W2s

But I do know enough about journalism to know the New York Times tax story was only half the story, which meant you knew it too because journalism is not difficult to figure out.

Unlike taxes.

Want a second opinion? OK.

I have a graduate law degree in taxation, was tax counsel to world's largest bank. So, maybe I know more about taxes than the NYTimes. In real estate, gains are deferred until you sell the building. Expenses are current, (depreciation, interest, fees). So, tax losses are normal. pic.twitter.com/Zq5ARJzVZa

— Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) September 28, 2020

Journalism attracts some of the dumbest people on Earth.

ITEM 7: Forbes magazine, which bills itself as a capitalist tool, reported, "Yes, Donald Trump Is Still A Billionaire. That Makes His $750 Tax Payment Even More Scandalous."

The only scandal is Forbes lied. He paid $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017 -- according to the very Times report cited. The dispute is over tax credits and deductions, including a tax credit to renovate the Old Post Office in DC, which is now Trump International hotel.

The media is showing how accurate and fair it is.

Forbes assigned a reporter full-time to covering the president's businesses. Fine. How about looking into Spygate, Muellergate, and Huntergate?

ITEM 8: Tonight, Case Tech in Cleveland will host the first presidential debate. A reader said, "I'm not good at debate recommendations, but I'm certain Biden will brag about something where he will say he'll be ready from Day One. I think President Trump's response should be, 'C'mon man, you've been ready from Day One for 48 years, not a lie.'"

He may be ready from Day One, but he will close shop by 10 O'Clock. as another reader pointed out, take the call at 3 in the morning? Biden cannot take the 3 PM call.

And yes, I know it is now Case-Western Reserve University but I am old school. Literally.

ITEM 9: American Greatness reported, "A Biden Campaign operative in Texas is attempting to rig the 2020 election with the help of others in a massive ballot harvesting scheme, according to two private investigators who testified under oath that they have 'video evidence, documentation and witnesses' to prove it. With the help of mass mail-in ballots, the illegal ballot harvesting operation could harvest 700,000 ballots, one Harris County Democrat operative allegedly bragged.

"The investigators — a former FBI agent and former police officer — claim that Biden’s Texas Political Director Dallas Jones and his cohorts have been 'hoarding mail-in and absentee ballots' and ordering operatives to fill them out for people in Harris County illegally, 'including dead people, homeless people, and nursing home residents in the 2020 presidential election,'  Patrick Howley of the National File reported.

"While law enforcement agencies are reportedly investigating these potential crimes, nothing will be done about it until 'well after the November 3, 2020 election' the former FBI agent said.

"Dallas Jones was appointed the Biden campaign’s Texas Political Director in late August."

Democrats plan to cast enough shade on the election through extralegal, and illegal means to deny President Trump the re-election he has earned. The courts and lawyers for the Trump campaign better not allow this theft.

ITEM 10: Via Instapundit, they were so smug and smarmy and smart four years ago. They thought they found a chump who would grease the skids for Hillary.

And the best part is making them cry like the little girls they are.

Squirm, worm.

Never Bet Against Donald Trump.

ITEM 11: Is covid 19 still a thing?

Hello, I’d like to report a law-breaker. https://t.co/CNNBFznV4H pic.twitter.com/PFEpDZOZXP

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) September 29, 2020

Another amnesiac politician screaming, "Do you know who I am?"

ITEM 12: The American press isn't free.

Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, has close ties to a charismatic Christian group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head” of the family. @MBieseck @MRSmithAP https://t.co/Evd1a9fcsi

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 29, 2020

It is slavishly devoted to Democrats and their talking points.

I liked Babylon Bee's take on this nonsense, "CNN Reports Amy Coney Barrett Attended Bizarre Ceremony Where She Ate Flesh, Drank Blood Of Jewish Guy. "

ITEM 13: The Daily Mail reported, "Elon Musk has revealed he will not get a corona virus vaccine when they're available because he's 'not at risk' and defends keeping his Tesla factories up and running amid the pandemic.

"The 49-year-old tech giant defended opening up Tesla factories in defiance of lockdowns -- a lengthy saga that has seen him sue Alameda County, launch a profanity-laden rant about how lockdowns are 'unethical' and allegedly fire employees who didn't feel safe enough to return to work."

Somebody is standing up to this tyranny of technocrats.

ITEM 14: The Department of Justice announced, "the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its 2019 edition of Crime in the United States, which showed that violent crime decreased nationwide for the third consecutive year.  After decreases in both 2017 and 2018, the violent crime rate dropped an additional one percent this past year and the property crime rate decreased 4.5%."

Then came the Democrat Summer of Anarchy which turned city upon city into shooting galleries.

President Trump brought peace and prosperity.

Democrats wrecked it.

ITEM 15: NOLA reported, "The father of Ka'Mauri Harrison, the Harvey fourth-grader suspended last week after a teacher saw him move a BB gun out of the way during a virtual lesson, said the national response to the case has been overwhelming, with offers of support from regular people and even the National Rifle Association.

"In the days since news of Harrison's six-day suspension broke, the 9-year-old and his family have been swamped with messages via email and social media, some pledging legal or financial help."

School officials are afraid of a black kid learning how to use a gun.

Fire the racists.

ITEM 16: The State reported, "A Columbia TV news anchor was arrested in South Dakota on Sunday after she was accused of smashing a beer bottle into a man’s head over a political argument, according to Sioux Falls police.

"Kamie Roesler, 28, co-anchors WIS Sunrise, according to the station. She joined WIS-TV in September 2019. Roesler has been charged with aggravated assault. The victim, a 32-year-old man, told police he and Roesler had been arguing about politics leading up to the incident. Roesler and the man knew each other, according to police."

She used to work in South Dakota.

Looks like she used to work in South Carolina, too.

ITEM 17: Metro reported, "A school teacher was forced to stop teaching at a kindergarten as his appearance frightened young pupils.  Sylvain Helaine, 35, whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black was asked to switch age groups when a parent complained he gave their three-year-old nightmares. 

"He said last year he was teaching at the Docteur Morere Elementary School in Palaiseau, a suburb of Paris, when the parent said their son, who was not taught by Helaine, was scared after seeing him. A couple of months later the school authorities informed him he would no longer teach kindergarten children."

A couple of months later???

ITEM 18: Fox headline: "Wisconsin voters win protection against strict voter ID law."

Up next, Wisconsin drivers win protection against strict driver's license law.