New info surfaces on Ted Cruz opponent’s 1998 DUI crash

(Daily Caller) Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D-Texas) drunk driving accident in 1998 has long been public knowledge, but a local outlet has discovered new harrowing details.

O’Rourke is running as the Democrat candidate to unseat Republican Sen.Ted Cruz in 2018.

The Houston Chronicle obtained police records from the scene of the crash in 1998 which, show O’Rourke with a blood alcohol level of .136. O’Rourke was recorded in the police report to be traveling at a “high rate of speed” before he careened his car into the median of an interstate near the New Mexico border.

Trump: Dems want to ‘raid Medicare to pay for socialism’

(Breitbart) Donald Trump criticized Democratic Socialists on Thursday for promising leftist dreams of universal health care through Medicare.

“They want to raid Medicare to pay for socialism,” Trump said during his rally in Indiana, as the crowd booed.

Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders and his endorsed candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Andrew Gillum have joined the fight for universal health care through Medicaid, and the idea polls well in their campaigns.

In-N-Out refuses to back down in face of threat

(Daily Caller) After California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman called for a boycott of the restaurant chain for its donations to the California Republican Party, In-N-Out Burger executive vice president Arnie Wensinger responded with a statement defending the company’s support for both parties.

“In 2018, In-N-Out Burger has made equal contributions to both Democratic and Republican Political Action Committees in the State of California,” Wensinger wrote on Thursday as he began his defense of a company that supports lawmakers not based on party affiliation but rather the promotion of “policies that strengthen California” and help the company provide “strong pay and great benefits” for its employees.

The WIRE: Your week in review

From burying McCain to In-N-Out’s pain — and most points in between — it’s time for a look back at the week that was. Personal Liberty Digest^® presents: The WIRE!

Surely, we can put aside the partisan baloney long enough to bury Senator John McCain. I mean, can’t we at least agree that a funeral is an inappropriate spot for less-than-subtle jabs at President Donald Trump?

Nope.

Witness the zeal with which they celebrated a deranged gamer opening fire on defenseless competitors at a video game tournament in the “gun-free” Jacksonville Landing. Someday, I hope to be as happy in life as the gun grabbers are when they’re turning shooting victims into sock puppets to blame the wrong people. At least, until they find out the psycho bought the gun in heavily gun-controlled Maryland.

Crazy guy buys gun in gun control state, uses it in different state. Obviously the NRA’s fault.

The anti-liberty hate group “Guns Down America” and their fuhrer, Igor Volsky, teamed with the fake news site “NowThis” to prove how “easy” it is to get a gun without a background check. But their ploy went sideways when a seller refused to sell a firearm to an out-of-state buyer with no questions asked; they couldn’t fit through the so-called “loophole.” So, they enlisted a local straw man to do it for them, evidently unaware that doing so is already a serious crime.

Uh guys, if you have to commit a felony to do it, it isn’t that “easy.”

Liberals pounced when Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Ron DeSantis suggested people not “monkey up” their upcoming election, claiming his remark was a secret, racist dig at his opponent, the scandal-plagued liberal Andrew Gillum. Apparently, the Dems think “monkey” is a synonym for “black people.”

“Hey! You kids be careful playing on those black people bars!”

2016 loser Hillary Clinton’s homebrew server was apparently a digital revolving door for hackers, with news breaking that the infamous system, set up because the old girl didn’t like government systems, was also hacked by Chinese operatives. While critics noted this level of ineptitude is a result of either deliberate malfeasance or just plain stupidity, I bet the old girl thought she was programming the coffee maker.

Still has a VHS. Still flashing 12:00.

The Associated Press joined in the windmill-tilting over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, shrieking “As a student at Yale in the 1980s, Brett Kavanaugh stayed out of debates on a campus that was going through many of them. Friends and acquaintances say he seemed more interested in basketball.” You mean there will finally be someone to challenge RBG’s rebounding in SCOTUS pickup hoops?

Watch out for Alito, though. Homeboy is a sniper from behind the arc.

Democrats cried butthurt when Vice President Mike Pence hammered the them for their reflexive opposition to Kavanaugh, noting that they’ve gone from “advice and consent” to “resist and obstruct.” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough even claimed “GOP tribalism torched the process.”

“GOP Tribalism.” But his friends call him “Harry.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- White Girl Warpath) believes socialism will save us. Ol’ Liewatha thinks her “Accountable Capitalism Act” will return us all to “a time in America when workers and investors each got a big chunk of the wealth they produced.” Is that kinda like, “Make America Great Again?” Because I think somebody took that one, already.

Besides, do you really want to go back to the “good old days?” They weren’t all that good for “your” people.

The bizarre tale of the New Mexico compound where Islamofascists were literally beating and starving children in an attempt to turn them into school shooters got even weirder this week. As if the hasty demolition of the site, and the easy bond for the accused, weren’t bad enough, it now appears all charges will be dropped, thanks to bumbling by the local D.A. and Sheriff’s offices.

Staff photo of the Taos County, New Mexico, law enforcement community.

Just days after they were caught fabricating their now-infamous “Trump Tower” story, CNN was ready to punch back at the president over his mocking them as “fake news.” According to CNN’s official PR team: “Make no mistake, Mr. President, CNN does not lie. We report the news.”

Ha. Oh wait, they’re serious? In that case: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Celebutante lawyer — and potential Democratic presidential candidate — Michael Avenatti wants to be taken seriously. Said Avenatti, before posing with his meal ticket — ahem — client, Stormy Daniels for famed photog Annie Leibowitz, Avenatti demanded people stop calling him a “celebrity.”

Look! It’s a picture of a fame-obsessed whore! And Stormy Daniels!

The latest reason the “resistance” wants Trump impeached? He doesn’t use computers. At least, that’s what lefty babble blog Slate claimed when they “reported” on the president’s luddite tendencies, complete with this photo “proving” their point:

Does he tweet from that complicated-looking typewriter on the desk behind him?

President Trump had a pretty good week, but he did manage to work in one solid Twitter fail, claiming “The Obama people did something that’s never been done…They spied on a rival presidential campaign.”

*never

Californistan is all set to go all wind power by 2040, thanks to a new bill rocketing through the state legislature. In an electricity-dependent place like Tinsel Town, that’s gonna make things — um — inventive.

“Faster, little buddy! I have to recharge the Tesla!”

Of course, Nabisco changing the artwork on Animal Crackers boxes to placate PETA wackos wasn’t enough. Leftist blog Vox claims the new, cage-free, depiction “doesn’t address any of the underlying issues about ethics, exploitation, and corporate greed.”

Coming soon to Vox dot com: Chips Ahoy cookies — coded pressure on five-year-olds to join the Navy?

And the latest target of the liberal outrage mob? In-N-Out Burger. The lefties have fixed the fast food chain in their cross hairs after In-N-Out was “exposed” for a donation of $25,000 to the California GOP, demanding a nationwide boycott.

Vegans boycotting a burger joint. This is why we laugh at you.

And that’s your week in review! For the Personal Liberty Digest^®, I’m Ben Crystal saying, “See you next week, on The WIRE!”

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The WIRE: Your week in review

From burying McCain to In-N-Out’s pain — and most points in between — it’s time for a look back at the week that was. Personal Liberty Digest^® presents: The WIRE!

Surely, we can put aside the partisan baloney long enough to bury Senator John McCain. I mean, can’t we at least agree that a funeral is an inappropriate spot for less-than-subtle jabs at President Donald Trump?

Nope.

Witness the zeal with which they celebrated a deranged gamer opening fire on defenseless competitors at a video game tournament in the “gun-free” Jacksonville Landing. Someday, I hope to be as happy in life as the gun grabbers are when they’re turning shooting victims into sock puppets to blame the wrong people. At least, until they find out the psycho bought the gun in heavily gun-controlled Maryland.

Crazy guy buys gun in gun control state, uses it in different state. Obviously the NRA’s fault.

The anti-liberty hate group “Guns Down America” and their fuhrer, Igor Volsky, teamed with the fake news site “NowThis” to prove how “easy” it is to get a gun without a background check. But their ploy went sideways when a seller refused to sell a firearm to an out-of-state buyer with no questions asked; they couldn’t fit through the so-called “loophole.” So, they enlisted a local straw man to do it for them, evidently unaware that doing so is already a serious crime.

Uh guys, if you have to commit a felony to do it, it isn’t that “easy.”

Liberals pounced when Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Ron DeSantis suggested people not “monkey up” their upcoming election, claiming his remark was a secret, racist dig at his opponent, the scandal-plagued liberal Andrew Gillum. Apparently, the Dems think “monkey” is a synonym for “black people.”

“Hey! You kids be careful playing on those black people bars!”

2016 loser Hillary Clinton’s homebrew server was apparently a digital revolving door for hackers, with news breaking that the infamous system, set up because the old girl didn’t like government systems, was also hacked by Chinese operatives. While critics noted this level of ineptitude is a result of either deliberate malfeasance or just plain stupidity, I bet the old girl thought she was programming the coffee maker.

Still has a VHS. Still flashing 12:00.

The Associated Press joined in the windmill-tilting over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, shrieking “As a student at Yale in the 1980s, Brett Kavanaugh stayed out of debates on a campus that was going through many of them. Friends and acquaintances say he seemed more interested in basketball.” You mean there will finally be someone to challenge RBG’s rebounding in SCOTUS pickup hoops?

Watch out for Alito, though. Homeboy is a sniper from behind the arc.

Democrats cried butthurt when Vice President Mike Pence hammered the them for their reflexive opposition to Kavanaugh, noting that they’ve gone from “advice and consent” to “resist and obstruct.” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough even claimed “GOP tribalism torched the process.”

“GOP Tribalism.” But his friends call him “Harry.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- White Girl Warpath) believes socialism will save us. Ol’ Liewatha thinks her “Accountable Capitalism Act” will return us all to “a time in America when workers and investors each got a big chunk of the wealth they produced.” Is that kinda like, “Make America Great Again?” Because I think somebody took that one, already.

Besides, do you really want to go back to the “good old days?” They weren’t all that good for “your” people.

The bizarre tale of the New Mexico compound where Islamofascists were literally beating and starving children in an attempt to turn them into school shooters got even weirder this week. As if the hasty demolition of the site, and the easy bond for the accused, weren’t bad enough, it now appears all charges will be dropped, thanks to bumbling by the local D.A. and Sheriff’s offices.

Staff photo of the Taos County, New Mexico, law enforcement community.

Just days after they were caught fabricating their now-infamous “Trump Tower” story, CNN was ready to punch back at the president over his mocking them as “fake news.” According to CNN’s official PR team: “Make no mistake, Mr. President, CNN does not lie. We report the news.”

Ha. Oh wait, they’re serious? In that case: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Celebutante lawyer — and potential Democratic presidential candidate — Michael Avenatti wants to be taken seriously. Said Avenatti, before posing with his meal ticket — ahem — client, Stormy Daniels for famed photog Annie Leibowitz, Avenatti demanded people stop calling him a “celebrity.”

Look! It’s a picture of a fame-obsessed whore! And Stormy Daniels!

The latest reason the “resistance” wants Trump impeached? He doesn’t use computers. At least, that’s what lefty babble blog Slate claimed when they “reported” on the president’s luddite tendencies, complete with this photo “proving” their point:

Does he tweet from that complicated-looking typewriter on the desk behind him?

President Trump had a pretty good week, but he did manage to work in one solid Twitter fail, claiming “The Obama people did something that’s never been done…They spied on a rival presidential campaign.”

*never

Californistan is all set to go all wind power by 2040, thanks to a new bill rocketing through the state legislature. In an electricity-dependent place like Tinsel Town, that’s gonna make things — um — inventive.

“Faster, little buddy! I have to recharge the Tesla!”

Of course, Nabisco changing the artwork on Animal Crackers boxes to placate PETA wackos wasn’t enough. Leftist blog Vox claims the new, cage-free, depiction “doesn’t address any of the underlying issues about ethics, exploitation, and corporate greed.”

Coming soon to Vox dot com: Chips Ahoy cookies — coded pressure on five-year-olds to join the Navy?

And the latest target of the liberal outrage mob? In-N-Out Burger. The lefties have fixed the fast food chain in their cross hairs after In-N-Out was “exposed” for a donation of $25,000 to the California GOP, demanding a nationwide boycott.

Vegans boycotting a burger joint. This is why we laugh at you.

And that’s your week in review! For the Personal Liberty Digest^®, I’m Ben Crystal saying, “See you next week, on The WIRE!”

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The WIRE: Your week in review

From burying McCain to In-N-Out’s pain — and most points in between — it’s time for a look back at the week that was. Personal Liberty Digest^® presents: The WIRE!

Surely, we can put aside the partisan baloney long enough to bury Senator John McCain. I mean, can’t we at least agree that a funeral is an inappropriate spot for less-than-subtle jabs at President Donald Trump?

Nope.

Witness the zeal with which they celebrated a deranged gamer opening fire on defenseless competitors at a video game tournament in the “gun-free” Jacksonville Landing. Someday, I hope to be as happy in life as the gun grabbers are when they’re turning shooting victims into sock puppets to blame the wrong people. At least, until they find out the psycho bought the gun in heavily gun-controlled Maryland.

Crazy guy buys gun in gun control state, uses it in different state. Obviously the NRA’s fault.

The anti-liberty hate group “Guns Down America” and their fuhrer, Igor Volsky, teamed with the fake news site “NowThis” to prove how “easy” it is to get a gun without a background check. But their ploy went sideways when a seller refused to sell a firearm to an out-of-state buyer with no questions asked; they couldn’t fit through the so-called “loophole.” So, they enlisted a local straw man to do it for them, evidently unaware that doing so is already a serious crime.

Uh guys, if you have to commit a felony to do it, it isn’t that “easy.”

Liberals pounced when Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Ron DeSantis suggested people not “monkey up” their upcoming election, claiming his remark was a secret, racist dig at his opponent, the scandal-plagued liberal Andrew Gillum. Apparently, the Dems think “monkey” is a synonym for “black people.”

“Hey! You kids be careful playing on those black people bars!”

2016 loser Hillary Clinton’s homebrew server was apparently a digital revolving door for hackers, with news breaking that the infamous system, set up because the old girl didn’t like government systems, was also hacked by Chinese operatives. While critics noted this level of ineptitude is a result of either deliberate malfeasance or just plain stupidity, I bet the old girl thought she was programming the coffee maker.

Still has a VHS. Still flashing 12:00.

The Associated Press joined in the windmill-tilting over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, shrieking “As a student at Yale in the 1980s, Brett Kavanaugh stayed out of debates on a campus that was going through many of them. Friends and acquaintances say he seemed more interested in basketball.” You mean there will finally be someone to challenge RBG’s rebounding in SCOTUS pickup hoops?

Watch out for Alito, though. Homeboy is a sniper from behind the arc.

Democrats cried butthurt when Vice President Mike Pence hammered the them for their reflexive opposition to Kavanaugh, noting that they’ve gone from “advice and consent” to “resist and obstruct.” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough even claimed “GOP tribalism torched the process.”

“GOP Tribalism.” But his friends call him “Harry.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- White Girl Warpath) believes socialism will save us. Ol’ Liewatha thinks her “Accountable Capitalism Act” will return us all to “a time in America when workers and investors each got a big chunk of the wealth they produced.” Is that kinda like, “Make America Great Again?” Because I think somebody took that one, already.

Besides, do you really want to go back to the “good old days?” They weren’t all that good for “your” people.

The bizarre tale of the New Mexico compound where Islamofascists were literally beating and starving children in an attempt to turn them into school shooters got even weirder this week. As if the hasty demolition of the site, and the easy bond for the accused, weren’t bad enough, it now appears all charges will be dropped, thanks to bumbling by the local D.A. and Sheriff’s offices.

Staff photo of the Taos County, New Mexico, law enforcement community.

Just days after they were caught fabricating their now-infamous “Trump Tower” story, CNN was ready to punch back at the president over his mocking them as “fake news.” According to CNN’s official PR team: “Make no mistake, Mr. President, CNN does not lie. We report the news.”

Ha. Oh wait, they’re serious? In that case: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Celebutante lawyer — and potential Democratic presidential candidate — Michael Avenatti wants to be taken seriously. Said Avenatti, before posing with his meal ticket — ahem — client, Stormy Daniels for famed photog Annie Leibowitz, Avenatti demanded people stop calling him a “celebrity.”

Look! It’s a picture of a fame-obsessed whore! And Stormy Daniels!

The latest reason the “resistance” wants Trump impeached? He doesn’t use computers. At least, that’s what lefty babble blog Slate claimed when they “reported” on the president’s luddite tendencies, complete with this photo “proving” their point:

Does he tweet from that complicated-looking typewriter on the desk behind him?

President Trump had a pretty good week, but he did manage to work in one solid Twitter fail, claiming “The Obama people did something that’s never been done…They spied on a rival presidential campaign.”

*never

Californistan is all set to go all wind power by 2040, thanks to a new bill rocketing through the state legislature. In an electricity-dependent place like Tinsel Town, that’s gonna make things — um — inventive.

“Faster, little buddy! I have to recharge the Tesla!”

Of course, Nabisco changing the artwork on Animal Crackers boxes to placate PETA wackos wasn’t enough. Leftist blog Vox claims the new, cage-free, depiction “doesn’t address any of the underlying issues about ethics, exploitation, and corporate greed.”

Coming soon to Vox dot com: Chips Ahoy cookies — coded pressure on five-year-olds to join the Navy?

And the latest target of the liberal outrage mob? In-N-Out Burger. The lefties have fixed the fast food chain in their cross hairs after In-N-Out was “exposed” for a donation of $25,000 to the California GOP, demanding a nationwide boycott.

Vegans boycotting a burger joint. This is why we laugh at you.

And that’s your week in review! For the Personal Liberty Digest^®, I’m Ben Crystal saying, “See you next week, on The WIRE!”

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‘Stunning’: Ohr fed dossier info to top Mueller deputy

Robert Mueller (via YouTube)

Republican Congress members who questioned Bruce Ohr behind closed doors Tuesday learned the former top Justice Department official had regular contact in 2016 with Andrew Weissmann – who is now Robert Mueller’s top deputy – regarding the dubious, anti-Trump dossier of unverified claims that became a major premise for launching the special counsel investigation.

Citing a source close to the matter, the Fox News Channel’s Catherine Herridge said Weissmann was kept “in the loop” on the dossier while he was chief of the criminal fraud division.

Andrew Weissmann

“This is a dramatic and stunning development that should effectively end Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation,” said Gregg Jarrett, an attorney, Fox News legal analyst and author of the New York Times bestselling “The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.”

“And in fact he should immediately fire Andrew Weissman and terminate his special counsel probe,” Jarrett said in a segment Thursday night on the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show.

Jarrett summarized why he believes the Weissman connection is significant.

The dossier, he said, “was the main part of the Russia hoax, and Andrew Weissman was in on the hoax.”

Sources familiar with Ohr’s testimony Tuesday before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees told the Daily Caller News Foundation that along with Weissman, Ohr kept in the loop former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok and former bureau lawyer Lisa Page regarding his interactions with Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.

Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, was paid more than $1 million through the law firm of the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to produce the dossier, which was based mostly on unnamed Russian sources.

Weissmann’s contact with Ohr about the dossier is significant because of the mutual interest that Weissmann and Simpson had in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the Daily Caller noted.

Weissmann, a Hillary Clinton donor who attended her 2016 election-night party in New York City, is the lead prosecutor in two cases against Manafort.

Already, it’s been reported Ohr testified that the FBI was aware when it submitted the dossier as evidence to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign that Steele was biased against Trump and that Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for the company that produced it.

Bruce Ohr

That information, however, was withheld from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, which granted warrants to conduct surveillance on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

Weissman’s 9-0 Supreme Court rebuke

Weissman was famously rebuked in 2005 by the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned 9-0 his convictions in the cases against legacy accounting firm Arthur Andersen, which was destroyed by the prosecution, and Merrill Lynch. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later dismissed all the fraud convictions against four Merrill Lynch managers who had served a year in prison.

A critic of Weissman’s prosecution as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force concluded, “People went off to prison for a completely phantom of a case.”

Houston lawyer Tom Kirkendall, who represented an Enron executive, told the Washington Times that Weissmann “seemed more interested in obtaining convictions than in promoting justice.”

Defense attorneys asserted, the Times reported, that Weissmann bent or broke the rules, pointing to appeals court decisions, exhibits and witness statements.

They charged he intimidated witnesses by threatening indictments and created crimes that did not exist. In one case, they said, he withheld evidence that could have aided the accused.

The Times noted one instance in which an incredulous district court judge told an Enron defendant he was pleading guilty to a wire fraud crime that did not exist.

‘Willing and constant conduit’

Republican House members who questioned Ohr, including Reps. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Darrell Issa of California, said that after the FBI terminated its relationship with Steele in November 2016 for leaking to the media, the bureau privately used Ohr as a backchannel to reengage contact with Steele and continue receiving the former British spy’s information.

“This was after suggesting to the American public they had cut Steele off,” Meadows said in a tweet.

Now-fired FBI agent Strzok confirmed during recent congressional testimony that the FBI received “documents and material” from Ohr, a former associate deputy attorney general.

WND reported earlier this month that newly obtained emails, texts and handwritten notes of Ohr confirmed the connection to Steele, who told Ohr of his fear that they would be “exposed” because of the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

Issa said in an interview Wednesday with Fox News that he and his colleagues confirmed Tuesday that Ohr was “a willing and constant conduit between Fusion GPS, paid for by the Clinton campaign, and the FBI.”

Noting Ohr is an attorney, Issa said that under cross-examination he conducted along with Jordan and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the Justice Department official was asked if he had ever in his career made himself a “fact witness,” essentially creating a conflict by being a conduit of information in a case.

Ohr replied that prior to the dossier matter, he had not.

“He knew he was delivering not hearsay, but double hearsay that would never stand up in court, and he admitted that, that he was providing as fact that which turns out to be fiction,” Issa told Fox News.

Jordan, in a Fox News interview, provided more perspective on Ohr’s testimony, calling it “the biggest abuse of power” he had ever seen.

“Go back to the fundamentals. Bruce Ohr, a top Justice Department official, his wife worked for the firm hired by the Clintons to produce the dossier. The dossier that we all know is the foundation of this whole thing which was disproven, salacious, unverified, not credible. That dossier Fusion is giving to Nellie Ohr, to Bruce Ohr who is giving it to the FBI. We know all that, and the FBI took it to the court. Didn’t tell the court who paid for it. Didn’t tell the court the guy who wrote it, Christopher Steele had been terminated,” Jordan said.

The congressman said it “now it appears [the FBI] knew about Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr’s involvement and didn’t tell the court that either.”

“They did all of that for what purpose? To spy on the other party’s campaign,” Jordan said.

“That is never supposed to happen in the United States of America and yet it did. This is the biggest abuse of power I have ever seen. And I am going to keep digging at it and so are my colleagues until we get answers for the American people.”

‘Someone is lying’

WND reported Tuesday Republican congressmen who questioned Ohr found his testimony conflicted with the declarations of other key figures, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.

“In the first hour of testimony it became very clear that there are a number of factual conflicts,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told reporters Tuesday during a break in the closed-door session with Ohr.

“Either Bruce Ohr is lying or Glenn Simpson is lying.”

The congressman added that “in another circumstance, either Bruce Ohr is lying or Lisa Page is lying.”

Page infamously exchanged anti-Trump text messages with lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok while they were carrying on an adulterous relationship. While working on the Hillary Clinton classified-information probe and later the Russia investigation, Strzok confided to Page his intent to “stop” Trump from becoming president and to deploy an “insurance policy” as a backup plan.

Fired FBI Director James Comey described claims in the dossier as “unverified and salacious.” And last week, longtime Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis rebutted a key claim in the dossier, contending his new client, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, was never in Prague. The dossier makes Cohen and his Prague visit central to its contention that there was “clandestine” conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

The House members are considering bringing back Ohr, Page and Simpson in an open hearing to sort out the apparent conflicts, reported the Fox News Channel’s Herridge.

Earlier Tuesday, Meadows said he’s seen “hard evidence” that the FBI leaked information to media to justify the FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.

Democrat vows to impeach Clarence Thomas if elected

(Washington Times) A Democrat running for the U.S. House in Massachusetts has made an unusual political promise: Put me in Congress and I’ll impeach Justice Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment and perjury.

State Sen. Barbara L’Italien said the promise would be part of a broad assault on sexual abuse at the highest levels of the U.S. government that also would include congressional hearings about claims made by many women about President Trump.

At Justice Thomas’s confirmation hearings in 1991, Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment — one of the first such cases made against a public figure. Justice Thomas vehemently denied the charges, calling them a “high-tech lynching” against an “uppity” black man.

Numerous women who’d worked with Justice Thomas said the graphic accusations from Ms. Hill were not credible to them.

Obama-era DACA program likely illegal: Judge

(Washington Times) A federal judge ruled Friday that the DACA deportation amnesty was probably illegal when President Obama created it in 2012 — but he refused to halt the program altogether, leaving it to other courts to sort out a major legal mess.

Judge Andrew S. Hanen’s ruling clashes with those of several other federal courts which said President Trump’s attempt last year to phase out the DACA program was also illegal.

Taken on face, the rulings mean that the program is illegal — but so is the effort to erase it from the books.

Sponsor of California ‘Bible-sale ban’ pulls proposal

The sponsor of a proposal in California that would have called any financial transaction involving counseling against same-sex attractions – a conference fee, a book purchase and more – consumer fraud has pulled his proposal.

AB2943 was just one vote short of the governor’s desk, and it had virtually unanimous support from Democrats who are in the majority in the state Assembly and Senate.

But it had been condemned by faith leaders as a virtual ban on the sales of the Bible, which includes text condemning homosexuality.

The Sacramento Bee reported Friday Assemblyman Evan Low said after meeting with faith leaders, he dropped his plan.

“I left those productive conversations feeling hopeful. I believe every person who attended these meetings left with a greater understanding for the underlying reason and intention of this bill to create a loving and inclusive environment for all,” the Democrat said in a statement. “However, I believe there is still more to learn.”

The deadline for a vote also was Friday.

Assembly Bill 2943 would have made it against the law – a “consumer fraud” – to sell any service intended to change an individual’s sexuality or gender identity.

Such counseling, which studies show is effective, is anathema to homosexuals and lesbians, because it takes away their argument that they were born that way and cannot change.

It reveals the decision to choose an alternative sexual lifestyle as just that – a decision, even if there are factors that push a person in that direction.

The state already adopted such a prohibition for counseling for minors.

Low, a homosexual, claimed those therapy programs inflict abuse on people.

That claim also was made just this week by Chelsea Clinton, who erupted when it was reported some ads promoting that therapy found their way on the pages of Facebook.

Following user complaints, Clinton stormed into the discussion on Twitter:

“Child abuse. ‘Conversion therapy’ is child abuse. There are not two sides to this question and these ads – and the practices they promote – should be illegal everywhere. Full stop,” she wrote, apparently tossing the Constitution’s free speech protections into the dustbin.

The London Daily Mail reported that a Facebook user named Alystair Ryder had complained of an ad for a book titled “Help for Men with Same-Sex Attraction.”

He said the ad left him “shaken.”

According to the British paper, users said that when they clicked on an option to find out why they were being shown the ads, they were informed it was because they showed interest in “gender” issues.

Critics of the plan had promised an immediate challenge in court because of the free speech implications.

Officials with the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund expressed gratitude that it was gone for now.

A statement issued by the group said: “The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund is dedicated to the preserving the First Amendment rights of all Americans. If passed, AB 2943 would have criminalized even ordinary religious speech on same-sex attraction, and it also would have forbidden LGBT persons from making a deeply personal choice to explore conversion therapy.

“We applaud Assemblymember Low for understanding he represents all his California constituents, regardless of political ideology or sexual orientation. His choice to at least listen to the millions of Californians who opposed AB2943 should be a model example for all elected politicians.”

The California Family Council and other groups has actively opposed it.

From the National Center for Law and Policy, spokesman Dean Broyles said, “I am grateful to Evan Low for listening to pastors and religious leaders who were legitimately concerned about how AB 2943 targeted, chilled, and censored religious beliefs and speech.

“Tolerance is a two-way street. As recently confirmed in the NIFLA v. Becerra and Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission rulings at the U.S. Supreme Court, we still have a First Amendment that protects conscience and religious beliefs, even unpopular beliefs not approved by the state. Change is possible and we need to preserve freedom of choice here. Citizens struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria must remain free to choose to seek the counseling assistance they desire and need.”

Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute added, “This should be a great encouragement to the faith community in California that active engagement with lawmakers can still make a difference.”

The legislation had been looming amid the release of a Liberty Counsel study showing that such therapies overwhelmingly are effective.

The study, titled “Effects of Therapy on Religious Men Who Have Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction,” authored by Paul Santero, Neil Whitehead and Dolores Ballesteros, all PhDs, introduces its findings by noting that the American Psychological Association and other organizations “have formally claimed that sexual orientation change therapies should not be used because they are probably ineffective and may cause harm.”

However, the authors report: “A survey asking for negative and positive experiences of 125 men with active lay religious belief who went through sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) strongly conflict with those claims. In our study, most of those who participated in group or professional help had heterosexual shifts in sexual attraction, sexual identity and behavior with large statistical effect sizes, similarly moderate-to-marked decreases in suicidality, depression, substance abuse, and increases in social functioning and self -esteem. Almost all harmful effects were none to slight.”

This result, Liberty Counsel explains, “strongly refutes claims the American Psychological Association and other organizations have made aimed at discouraging counsel to change unwanted same-sex attractions, behavior, and identity.”

WND reported on when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, now a news commentator, warned of “a terrible storm that’s brewing on the horizon.”

“You may have heard the news or seen the reports, but people of faith in California are bracing for one of the most dramatic ideological shifts away from the First Amendment in our nation’s history,” Huckabee said. “It’s the kind of storm that destroys the foundations of liberty and a free society.”

Huckabee said it “prevents faith-led counselors from assisting clients with same-sex attraction or gender confusion. It prohibits churches from holding any ticketed events addressing topics of sexuality.”

“But it’s FAR more reaching than that,” he added. “This means the sale of ANY book that states the practice of homosexuality or transgender identification as immoral actions would be illegal in California. … This could include the Bible!”

Although the legislation’s sponsors deny it, he said, “legal experts agree that AB 2943 is so broadly worded in its description of prohibited activities that it can easily be interpreted to stop the sale of goods and services that promote a biblical worldview!”

WND has reported that a lawmaker and an LGBT activist have admitted that the bill targets “pastors” and members of the “faith community.” A video showed California state Assembly member Al Muratsuchi admitting he wants to target people of faith.

After all, the lawmaker argued, the First Amendment “does not prohibit banning fraudulent conduct.”

“The faith community, like anyone else, needs to evolve with the times,” he declared.

Meanwhile, in a speech at Google headquarters, LGBT activist Samuel Brinton promised to “figure out” how to stop “pastors” and churches from offering such counseling.

“I may not be able to find every little camp … every pastor, but I can make it something that is culturally unacceptable,” he said. “Yes, it’s directly affecting mental health professionals, but by proxy, it’s affecting everyone else.”

The California bill had been approved by the Assembly, then the Senate, and was awaiting only another vote in the Assembly to consider Senate amendments.