Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 7/5/2020

Biden Campaign Refuses To Release Cognitive Test Results

President Delivers Patriotic Speech Sending Trump Deranged Media Into Rage

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: Trump Spent His Entire Mt. Rushmore Speech 'Talking About Dead Confederates

Baltimore Protestors Toppled a Christopher Columbus Statue But Their Next Move Took Things to a New Level'

Six Weeks, Six Cities, 600 Murders

NAACP and Anti-Defamation League Don't Believe We're All Created Equal

The 1619 Project’s Potted History

Green Energy’s Overseas Dependence

‘President Biden’ Would Be Music to Russian and Taliban Ears

NYT: Scientists Prepare Letter to WHO Insisting COVID-19 Is Airborne

Joy Reid Show Combines Ignorance of American History with Death Wish for Donald Trump

Once again, President Trump hands Democrats enough rope…

Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 4/5/2020

GOP House leader scolds Pelosi for using coronavirus as political weapon

The NYT blames Christians for poor coronavirus response

China Accused of Hoarding PPE, White House May Take Legal Action

Sunday’s Coronavirus Briefing Was Mostly About Hydroxychloroquine

What Garbage: Clyburn Obviously Just Lied About the Focus of the House Coronavirus Crisis Committee

The Real Coronavirus Chronology Shows Trump Was On Top Of It While Biden Was Mocking The Danger

Why Severe Social Distancing Might Actually Result In More Coronavirus Deaths

HBO's Bill Maher Argues Trump Virus Response More Impeachable Than Russia/Ukraine Matters

Welcome Back, Plastic Bags

No parties, no problem: Introverts don't mind sheltering at home

Hope: Has New York State Begun To Turn The Corner Early On Coronavirus?

Here's how to safely reopen America when coronavirus pandemic wanes

Howard Schultz Calls Green New Deal 'Immoral' and 'Not Realistic'

God, I hope that Schultz runs.

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Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 11/18/18

On Criminal Justice, Trump Embraces the Left’s Racism Rhetoric

The Wrong Time to Cut Defense Spending

CBS' White House Correspondent: There's a Level of Decorum Expected of White House Press Pool

Liberals Say Gillum Lost Florida Election Due to Racism, Forget Obama Won the State Twice

How Misguided Environmentalism Is To Blame For California’s Wildfires

School Punishes Male Teacher For Refusing To Watch A Naked Girl In The Boys’ Locker Room

Abrams Concludes Bid for Georgia Governor

Tijuana Mayor On Arriving Migrant Caravan: ‘It’s A Tsunami’

Why the Senate Shouldn’t Grandstand on Mueller

Sleazy: CNN, NY Times Headlines Punish Mark Meadows on Harassment, Downplay Democrat

CNN: All Pro-Trump White Women Are 'Racist,' Benefit from 'White Supremacy'

Trump Backs Pelosi's Speaker Bid: 'She Deserves This'

More Senators Warming to a Full Healthcare Repeal

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President Trump Signs Executive Orders to Continue Construction of Dakota Access & Keystone Pipelines

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Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News - Week of 1/22/17

God and the inaugural addresses

Non-Missing MLK Bust Turns Into a 'Scandal'-Hungry Media Bust

White House Says Media Delegitimizing Trump, Won't 'Take It'

John McCain intends to vote to confirm Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

WikiLeaks: Send us Trump's tax returns so we can release them

Time To Amend The President’s Pardon And Clemency Powers

In Profanity-Laced Speech At Women's March, Madonna Muses About Blowing Up The White House

Even the Standing Rock tribe is sick of the Dakota pipeline protesters

Justice Department (and Hillary?) clear the way for Jared Kushner appointment

Metro Inauguration Day trips top 500,000, but still lowest since 2005

Wash Post: Obama Administration Spent Billions to Fix Failing Schools, and It Didn’t Work

Laura Ingraham Rips Into Barack Obama's Last-Minute Executive Action on Offshore Drilling

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Eyeing Trump, Barack Obama Takes New Action to Ban Arctic Drilling

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New Book Claims Hillary Clinton Has Mounting Health Issues

NYPost.com:

Hillary Clinton faces “mounting health issues” — and she’s secretly worried that she’s too sick to run for president, according to a new book.

The 67-year-old Democratic front-runner has been “frequently plagued” by “blinding headaches” and a series of strokes over the course of the campaign which have left her second-guessing her chances of winning in 2016, says the upcoming book “Unlikeable — The Problem with Hillary.”

Excerpts were published Tuesday by Radar Online.

“For the first time I’ve known her, she’s showing self-doubt about her strength and vitality,” a friend of Clinton’s told author Edward Klein, who has written about the Obamas and Kennedys in the past.

The presidential candidate has also been battling bouts of insomnia that have ultimately “worried her, because it sapped her energy just when she needed it most for the campaign,” Klein writes.

“She is exhausted and depressed a lot of the time,” a friend is quoted as saying, adding that Clinton even tried taking sleeping pills to combat the problem, but to no avail.

“She said they made her less sharp the next day,” the friend explained.

In late 2012, Clinton suffered from a life-threatening blood clot on her brain that left her “constantly worried” she would develop another one, according to Klein.

Clinton has insisted she’s in good health and released a letter from her doctor over the summer attesting to her fitness.

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The Democrats’ Green Energy Dream is Becoming Their Nightmare

HotAir.com:

Like so many other scandalous episodes, the media long ago dismissed the controversy surrounding the green energy firm Solyndra. A little corruption at taxpayer expense is the cost of doing green business, the left-leaning members of the press apparently tell themselves. 

“Now that the loan program is turning a profit, those critics are silent,” a 2014 National Public Radio report highlighting the bountiful successes of the Energy Department’s green energy loan program read. “[Energy Secretary Ernest] Moniz points to a small company called Beacon Power as an example. It got an Energy Department loan, went bankrupt and defaulted on about $14 million in debt. Today the company is back in business, providing a valuable service to electricity grids and repaying the rest of its loan.”

Only in Washington would a publicly funded media outlet praising a publicly funded boondoggle not strike anyone as obscenely perverse. 

But for all the government’s green energy success stories, there are far more abject failures. The Investors Business Daily editorial board warned of the coming corruption scandals involving renewable energy investments in 2012:

Other Solyndras are coming to light, the latest being Sapphire Energy. Its pond-scum-based biofuel still costs over $26 a gallon, but that doesn’t matter when your executives give almost solely to Democrats.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that after $104.5 million in stimulus and other Energy and Agriculture Department funds for a New Mexico facility, it can boast just 36 new jobs. UC Berkeley’s Energy Biosciences Institute says it’ll take a decade before we know if algae-based fuel can compete with gas.

The Washington Post recently found “$3.9 billion in federal grants and financing flowed to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to five Obama administration staffers and advisers.”

In that same year, Ed Morrissey asked how the bankrupt Colorado solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar was awarded $68 million in subsidies despite having a documented history of manufacturing an underperforming product and “catastrophic failures.” But at least Beacon Power is doing well. 

For years, Democratic politicians have been untouched by the scandalous antics of the green firms they supported. But the Democrats’ green energy chickens are finally coming home to roost. The rolling clean power fiasco has claimed a new scalp, and it is no small prize: Four-term Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber. 

“Oregon’s controversy has created new questions for billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, a major Democratic supporter and bundler for Mr. Obama,” The Washington Times reported last week. “It also has renewed questions about whether the nation’s embrace of clean energy has become a lobbying bonanza that enriched some well-heeled Democrats.”

The scandal that sunk Kitzhaber and now threatens to impugn the reputation of one of the Democratic Party’s most prolific donors revolves entirely around the deference given to those in the green energy sector. Kitzhaber’s fiancé, Cylvia Hayes, allegedly collected $118,000 in fees while serving as an “unpaid policy advisor” to the environmentalist nonprofit based in Washington D.C. that was tasked with setting low-carbon fuel standards for the Beaver State. 

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