Canary

Prediction: In the Barr/Durham investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion probe ... which has now turned criminal ... the first person to be flipped and turn states evidence to reveal all the dirty secrets of the cabal against Trump will be ... [drum roll] ... Clapper!

And he will sing like a canary ... unless he is first taken down into that Arkansas coal mine full of dangerous gases.

Headlines

Inside Susan Collin’s re-election fight in the age of Trump

Trump says he believes China sincerely wants trade deal: ‘I’m not sure they have a choice’

Big tech plans social scores ... Human era ending?

Michael Moore predicts NFL ‘won’t exist’ by 2050

Poll: Bernie, Warren surge to tie Biden atop Democrat field

Democrats float short-term funding bill to avoid another government shutdown

China’s spies on the offensive ...

Construction underway on replacement NM wall built with DOD funds

Sarah Huckabee Sanders launches new website as she weighs run for Arkansas governor

A sell-off worse than December can arrive in a week, says analyst who is predicting ‘Lehman-like’  drop

Insiders selling stocks as recession worries worsen ...

Miller: Trump ‘looking at all legal options’ to end anchor-baby policy

Quotable Quote

“I believe in climate change. It happens down in Arkansas four times a year.” — Mike Huckabee

Arkansas Travelers

There was a daring duo from Arkansas.

He was quite randy, she now a grandma.

They "solicited" many a donation

Unto their sham foundation

In order to stay ahead of the law.

Professor Hillary

Hillary Clinton is in negotiations to become a professor at Columbia University ... see: NY Daily News Story.There are a few questions and stipulations surrounding this possible development:

- Will she be charging $250,000 per lecture?

- Will her classroom be under a broken glass ceiling?

- What subject(s) will she be teaching -- Gender Bender Studies? Cattle Futures Trading? The Teachings of Saul Alinsly? Keeping Law Firm Billing Records? Political Ethics? Cookie Baking? What' s Wrong with Constitutional Law? Marital Fidelity? Wine Tasting? The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Studies? The Path to Socialism? Ashtray Throwing? Arkansas Real Estate Speculation? Public Speaking for Fun and Profit? Managing a Travel Office? FBI Files Data Mining? Spirit Cooking? The Advantages of Charitable Foundations? and/or How to Run for Political Office?

- She will only teach one hour a day, two days a week ... and never before noon.  She may have substitute guest lecturers chosen from among her friends -- Hubby Bubba, Harvey Weinstein, Ayatollah Khamenei, Barack Obama, John Forbes Kerry, John Podesta, Huma Abadin, Madelaine Albright, Mohamed Morsi, and Beelzebub. She still will be paid the same under these circumstances.

- The name of this university must be changed to something more PC.

Bobblehead

If they are ever given a real opportunity, I would love to have the media ask the following questions of Hillary Clinton:

- In the light of the recent random murder in San Francisco of a young woman by a five-time deported illegal alien, do you still support sanctuary-city policies such as led to this killing?

- Has the current financial crisis in socialist Greece caused you to rethink your espoused economic dogma and/or political leaning?

- Do you think that this country is making a mistake in its negotiating concessions with Iran regarding its path for atomic weapons?

- You recently claimed that there were no classified e-mails on your private server ... yet the State Department has just withheld 15 e-mails of the latest batch released because they were ... classified. How can you justify your previous statement?

- All major entitlement programs in the U.S. (Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security) are headed for insolvency. How would you propose fixing these problems?

- Do you support President Obama's recent push for fast -track trade authority and a renewal of the U.S. Import/Export Bank?

- When you were living in the governors mansion in Arkansas, the confederate flag flew there on public property. Why didn't you then oppose this "racist" symbol?

Afterward: Here are ten more tough questions that the bobble-head Hillary needs to address: Breitbart Article

Too Big for His Britches?

This morning on “Morning Joe,” John Heilemann revealed a Governor Chris Christie flaw that has me in a funk.  He said that Christie told Mitt Romney that he could not do a 2012 presidential fund-raiser in New Jersey until Christie had endorsed him (see: Time Magazine Story).  If true, this was obviously one of the (possibly many) vetted reasons that Romney did not pick Christie as his vice-presidential running mate.  And, is the fact that Romney didn’t pick him, the reason why Christie, as retribution, gave President Obama a big bear hug right before the 2012 election?

Christie claimed in his recent two-hour televised denial of any involvement in the Bridgegate “scandal” that he is “not a bully.”  Now, after seeing him operate over the last two years, we all know that this is not quite true.  But his machismo was part of his charm and differentiated him as a possible presidential candidate … he (unlike Romney) could stand up to the take-no-prisoners tactics of the Democrats. But I think most of us believed that his gruffness would just be only directed to his opponents … not toward those in his own party.  Maybe we were naive.

Now if Chris Christie were to win the 2016 Republican nomination, would the American people then be forced to trade-in Chicago-style thuggery for New Jersey- or Arkansas-style thuggery?  Yipes, not a very happy thought!  Let us hope that, in losing some of his physical girth (as a result of his gastric bypass), Christie also loses some of his too-big-for-his-britches management style.  If he learns a little humility and fair-play, then maybe … just maybe … he might make a good President.  If not, choosing between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie would be very painful indeed.