Oh boy. Another Obama hack.

Congressman David Trott came to the conclusion that Loretta Lynch’s testimony was one big waste of time.

Trott’s staff counted up the number of times the attorney general said she couldn’t answer a question or refused to give an ‘appropriate’ response, and they had added up at least 74 instances prior to Trott’s questioning, during a hearing today of the House Judiciary Committee.

‘I knew you weren’t going to answer our questions today and I apologize for wasting so much time here because it’s really not been very productive,’ Trott said. ‘It’s one of two things: . . . .

Cat got her tongue after Bill Clinton got her ear.

Source: AG Lynch refuses to answer questions over 74 times – The American MirrorThe American Mirror

“Dangerous faggot” Joshua Nash is facing severe blow-back from a Facebook post criticizing BLM.

Biology major knows the score.

Source: University Student Who Criticized Black Lives Matter Faces Expulsion, Death Threats | Heat Street

​“Corporate Lobbyist Jumps Into Senate Race To Replace Retiring Lobbyist. And it’s good news for Democrats.”​

Well, if not all, it says a lot.

Chi Trib’s Clarence Page, 7/10/16, quotes Obama as source and inspiration, which works for him:

President Barack Obama told reporters in Warsaw that the shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota were “symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.”

He cited statistics that showed that blacks and Hispanic Americans were far more likely to be arrested and shot by police and, once charged, to receive longer sentences for the same crimes.

“Sited statistics,” did he? Rather conclusions. In any case not these findings, which agree as to racial disparities in arrests, etc. but not as to their being evidence of racial discrimination:

The study is entitled “No evidence of racial discrimination in criminal justice processing: Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health,” It’s presented here in abstract:

One of the most consistent findings in the criminological literature is that African American males are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated at rates that far exceed those of any other racial or ethnic group.

What does one make of that?

This racial disparity is frequently interpreted as evidence [as above by Obama and Page] that the criminal justice system is racist and biased against African American males.

However:

Much of the existing literature purportedly supporting this interpretation . . . fails to estimate . . . statistical models that control for a range of individual-level factors.

Arrestees are not all alike.

The current study was designed to address this shortcoming by analyzing a sample of African American and White males drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

Analysis of these data revealed that African American males are significantly more likely to be arrested and incarcerated when compared to White males.

This racial disparity was completely accounted for after including covariates [“control variables”] for self-reported lifetime violence and IQ. Implications of this study are discussed and avenues for future research are offered.

It all means that when you take into consideration “self-reported lifetime violence” and IQ, you explain the difference (disparities) in arrests, etc. No need to consider race, which statistically has nothing to do with it.

Howls of objection can be heard in response, of course, especially the IQ part.

See here for discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication.

At the Oak Park library, July 17, 2013 — from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters — one down the middle for the state rep:

The Democratic (honorary) committeewoman asked Lilly how “marriage equality” was coming along, setting her up with a softball she could hit out of the park for this Oak Park audience.

Lilly connected, proclaiming, hand on chest, “It’s my heart that it will pass, now that it’s really got momentum. Our great state” will do this. It did pass a few months later and became one of the jewels in the Democrat crown.

Then hardball about election and reelection:

A CPA shifted tone considerably, urging Sen. Harmon to “do something about corruption in our very corrupt state.” He specified “gerrymandering” and complained, “The way it’s set up, candidates know they will win,” continuing at length in this vein.

“Each of us is vulnerable in a primary,” Harmon said. When an opponent surfaces, he might have added. Lilly, appointed in 2010, had run unopposed in primary and general elections in 2012 and would do so again in 2014. Harmon had run unopposed in the general every year but one since he was elected in 2002.

Some non-close calls:

Harmon was to be opposed in the 2014 primary, by a Galewood man with public-employee-union background, whom he defeated handily. He was unopposed in the general, though briefly threatened by a last-minute Republican opponent who thought better of it after a week and withdrew for “personal reasons.”

A candidate needs money to answer nominating-petition challenges, which led to the withdrawal for lack of funds of a credible candidate seeking to oppose Congressman Danny Davis in 2014, for instance.

Illinois Blues is available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

Most recently in Louisiana.

Piece by tantalizing piece.

Have decided she is a very unscrupulous person.

Extremely careless, at that.

And wow, does that FBI director know how to scold or not??!!

A stinging rebuke, no doubt. (Argues indictability: close but no cigar.)

Hillary did not intend to compromise national security with her emails. So she is not charged with doing it.

Sounds like the old-fashioned definition of a mortal sin — full consent of the will.

What this says about her competence is another story. Crooked Hillary is transformed to . . . what? Dumbo Hillary? Distracted Hillary? Unable-to-concentrate Hillary? Possibilities abound.

Anyhow, she didn’t mean to do it. The devil made her.