Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: A multi-billion dollar company in California killed 21,000 fish -- many of them rare and endangered species in a chlorine leak.

As far as I can tell, the EPA and state authorities are uninterested in this colossal killing. The media is just re-writing the company press release.

Why? Because the company is UC Davis and no one in America ever holds academia accountable. The college's $2.2 billion endowment fund is safe.

The fish aren't safe.

The LA Times reported, "Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon are listed as endangered, and climate change is pushing the species to the brink of extinction amid drought and warming waters, experts say."

Those dead fish no longer worry about climate change, do they?

ITEM 2: The killing of endangered fish comes a week after the 7th anniversary of the EPA poisoning the Animas River in Colorado when it unleashed millions of gallons of toxins from a mine it had taken over. This poisoned the water supply of Durango, Colorado, 

Dave Ostrander, the regional EPA director of emergency preparedness, said, "It’s hard being on the other side of this. We typically respond to emergencies; we don’t cause them."

Actually he has no idea what it is like.

We had a similar but far smaller leak that shut down water for weeks from Charleston to Huntington, West Virginia. The president of the company that leaked went to prison. The company went bankrupt. The water company had to pay customers millions for the inconvenience.

The Walter Pecks in EPA and academia never pay because their intentions are good. We all know what good intentions pave.

Just a reminder that the biggest industrial accident -- Chernobyl -- was a government-run operation.

ITEM 3: Speaking of unaccountability, the press continues carrying the toxic waters of the FBI goons.

Trump tweeted, "Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged “attorney-client” material, and also “executive” privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken. By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!"

After 7 years of spying, lying and investigating, the FBI has no dirt on him and knows there is none.

This was a hunt to see what dirt he has on them.

ITEM 4: Niall Ferguson reported, "China's Demographics Spell Decline Not Domination."

His column began, "Demography isn’t destiny. If population size was history’s major determinant, China might have conquered Europe in the 15th century, and Britain certainly would not have conquered India in the 18th.

"Little countries are capable of great things. Wee Scotland, the population of which was perhaps 1.3 million in the mid-18th century, made an outsized contribution to the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. Big countries can amount to very little. By population, Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest country. But most Americans are barely aware of its existence."

The column had good data and spot-on quotes but it missed the reason why England succeeded.

Oliver Cromwell.

Cromwell challenged the divine right of King Charles I, who lost his head as well as his crown. That eventually led to a British Constitution followed by the U.S. Constitution a century later. England gave us more than a common language. It gave us the rule of law.

That led to a poor kid from Scotland to come to America and become Andrew Carnegie, king of steel.

More than a century later, it attracted Elon Musk.

You can see why the Maoists in DC want to rid us of that pesky rule of law and that meddling Constitution.

ITEM 5: Josh Kraushaar reported, "By helping Democrats pass a landmark $750 billion climate, tax and health care bill, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have complicated their own re-election fortunes for 2024."

So?

Who said they were entitled to re-election?

The people of Arizona and West Virginia want senators who represent them, not DC. In electing Manchin and Sinema, the people blew it.

ITEM 6: Barron's reported, "Orange juice prices could get fizzed up over the next few weeks. The market is already suffering from ultralow inventory levels, which means the risks of bad weather could potentially drive prices up more than 20% to record levels, say experts."

Mortimer and Randolph Duke could not be reached for comment.

ITEM 7: Just the News reported, "Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul called for the Espionage Act to be repealed as the Department of Justice is investigating whether former President Donald Trump mishandled classified materials under the 1917 law."

Doctor Paul tweeted, "The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment."

Democrat Congress passed it. Democrat president signed it. 

Repeal.

ITEM 8: CBS reported, "The Inflation Reduction Act is aimed at tackling a host of problems, from climate change to catching tax cheats, but there's one issue it may not solve: reducing inflation."

The law won't do a dang thing about climate change and installs more loopholes for millionaires.

CNN: “What, specifically, will [the Bidenflation Scam] do to lower costs for Americans right now?”

Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: "If you install an electric vehicle charging station in your home, you can also get a tax credit!" pic.twitter.com/NKIQ4thvjK

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 14, 2022

It is actually an Inflation Resurrection Act aimed at 10% inflation after the election.

ITEM 9: Byron York tweeted, "We're in a classic Trump hair-on-fire frenzy. Nonstop talk about secret evidence, criminal charges, grave damage to national security, wild scenarios. And nobody knows what the evidence is, or is not. Secrecy allows anti-Trump speculation to flourish. Again."

WOW! Thousands of patriots showing their support for President Trump on Long Island.

The FBI made a big mistake. pic.twitter.com/117K7nUpN7

— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) August 14, 2022

We've had all we can stands cuz we can't stands no more.

ITEM 10: Just the News reported, "The firearm involved in the fatal Rust movie set shooting must have had the trigger pulled, an FBI report found, despite the fact that actor Alec Baldwin previously denied pulling the trigger."

Boy, you cannot pull a fast one over on those Clouseaus at the bureau.

ITEM 11: The Washington Examiner reported, "Former President Donald Trump has not presented any evidence showing he went through 'the process' of declassifying documents at the center of a Justice Department investigation, Adam Schiff declared on Sunday."

The president does not have to go through a process.

Besides, he does not have to prove his innocence.

SEX SELLS: Two women in bikinis.

Which is the 93-year-old widow of Sean Connery and which is the 26-year-old granddaughter?

The answer.

ITEM 12: The Daily Mail reported, "Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney said he hopes Rep. Liz Cheney wins her Wyoming GOP primary -- despite the uphill battle she'll face Tuesday to keep her seat in a state that's largely behind Donald Trump."

Citizen Free Press reported, "Al Franken endorses Liz Cheney"

They must really want Liz to lose by backing her.

ITEM 13: NBC reported, "A Texas man charged with five counts of child sexual assault died after a jury convicted him and he chugged a bottle of liquid in the courtroom, his lawyer said Friday."

One less cell. Three less meals to serve each day.

ITEM 14: Alpha News reported, "Minneapolis teachers union contract calls for layoffs of white teachers first."

So we replaced white racism with black.

ITEM 15: The Daily Mail reported, "Hero father-of-three, 35, restrains woman claiming to have explosives who stripped to her underwear and tried to storm plane cockpit shouting 'Allahu Akbar' on Jet2 flight from Cyprus to Manchester."

They dropped her off in Paris, sadly not by parachute.

ITEM 16: Bloomberg reported, "Hundreds of Mexican military troops were flown into Tijuana on Saturday to beef up street patrols after armed gangs hijacked and burned at least a dozen vehicles in the border city, the latest in a wave of attacks hitting civilians across the country. 

"U.S. consulate staff were ordered to shelter in place Friday evening but no one was reported injured in the Tijuana hijackings that snarled traffic across the city and temporarily blocked access to one of the world’s busiest border crossings. Some 350 national guard troops were flown in on Saturday to reinforce thousands of federal troops already in the state of Baja California, daily Reforma reported on its website. 

"Simultaneous hijackings occurred in four other cities in Baja and authorities arrested at least 17 people, Milenio TV reported. Tijuana is home to the San Ysidro-El Chaparral ports of entry, the busiest US border crossing.

"The disruptions in Tijuana follow attacks against businesses and civilians further along the border in Ciudad Juarez and the central state of Guanajuato the past week. The wave of violence now spreading to key manufacturing corridors is a major challenge to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s security strategy."

People call Mexico a narco-state. If so, we made it one.

ITEM 17: They are not fooling anyone.

“Do you agree or disagree with this statement about the FBI raid on Trump: “This is what happens in third world countries. Not the United States. Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do than harass the former President?”” 👇 https://t.co/gSpSkUdI4R

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 13, 2022

Have a great day and a great week. It gets better.