There is no way the Unite the Right can be viewed as anything but a hate group without the right to demonstrating or enjoy such Freedom of Speech other citizen organizations enjoy.

The men arrested for the Charlottesville violence and murder prove beyond any doubt that the group is not demonstrating for their civil rights, they are demonstrating to instill hate and fear and are willing to kill to have that happen. The group should not be allowed any parade permits.



October 2, 2018
By Matthew Choi

Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer who was killed during last year's Unite the Right rally, speaks with reporters at the spot where her daughter was killed in Charlottesville, Va. Four men have been arrested in connection with violence at the rally.

Four California men (click here) were arrested Tuesday morning on charges of inciting violence at the Unite the Right rally last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, Thomas Walter Gillen and Cole Evan White were found to be part of the white supremacist Rise Above Movement and used social media to promote violence at the rally last summer, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen said at a news conference in Charlottesville. The men have a history of inciting violence at political events in California, he said, meaning they qualify as serial rioters....

The Democratic US Senators were last elected in 2012. President Obama needs to support these Senators to help turn out the vote for 2018.

The IRS ignored the corruption.

What is that? How could there be a culture in the IRS that would allow such corruption? That is outrageous.

...Much of this money (click here) came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.

These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.

The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show....

...“Our dear father, Fred C. Trump, passed away in June 1999. Our beloved mother, Mary Anne Trump, passed away in August 2000. All appropriate gift and estate tax returns were filed, and the required taxes were paid. Our father’s estate was closed in 2001 by both the Internal Revenue Service and the New York State tax authorities, and our mother’s estate was closed in 2004. Our family has no other comment on these matters that happened some 20 years ago, and would appreciate your respecting the privacy of our deceased parents, may God rest their souls.”...

Sure, there is nothing like paying taxes on vastly reduced estates, while not even paying the correct amount when transferred wealth occurred.

I have to agree there is more concern for the secretive nature about the Trump tax filings. The people have a right to know what any shady activity was engaged in by the President.

McConnell originally told Trump that Kavanaugh was not a good nominee because of a lengthy paper trail.

Now we know why Trump won't release Kavanaugh's White House record. Trump tried to shorten the paper trail. There are just too many deep secrets. What the American people know about Kavanaugh is far less than what they do know about him.

Another man knows him. Like so many others, Mr. Wittes is sad to bring adverse opinion against a man they basically like. All these people coming forward never expected to be put in this uncomfortable place where they have to inform the public and the US Senate not to place Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.

I think Dr. Ford saw this potential a decade ago, but, never formulated a method to do so. Who would? 

October 2, 2018
By Benjamin Wittes

...Despite all of that, (click here) if I were a senator, I would vote against Kavanaugh’s confirmation. I would do it both because of Ford’s testimony and because of Kavanaugh’s. For reasons I will describe, I find her account more believable than his. I would also do it because whatever the truth of what happened in the summer of 1982, Thursday’s hearing left Kavanaugh nonviable as a justice....

...I cannot condone the partisanship—which was raw, undisguised, naked, and conspiratorial—from someone who asks for public faith as a dispassionate and impartial judicial actor. His performance was wholly inconsistent with the conduct we should expect from a member of the judiciary....

...He went on: “This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons, and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.”...

To be honest, I knew about the fact Kavanaugh wrote up the impeachment of Bill Clinton while working with Ken Starr, but, it never entered my mind when I listened to him speak. Furthest thing from my mind. Never saw revenge as a reason to take up any opinion against him. I think Brett Kavanaugh has a lot of problems, including carrying a paranoia about his assistance to a failed impeachment of a president.

...The Brett Kavanaugh who showed up to Thursday’s hearing is a man I have never met, whom I have never even caught a glimpse of in 20 years of knowing the person who showed up to the first hearing. I dealt with Kavanaugh during the Starr investigation, which I covered for the Washington Post editorial page and about which I wrote a book. I dealt with him when he was in the White House counsel’s office and working on judicial nominations and post–September 11 legal matters. Since his confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, he has been a significant voice on a raft of issues I work on. In all of our interactions, he has been a consummate professional. The allegations against him shocked me very deeply, but not quite so deeply as did his presentation. It was not just an angry and aggressive version of the person I have known. It seemed like a different person altogether....

Kavanaugh has already crossed the threshold of his own inhibitions. He doesn't have the temperament to be an Associate Judge on the Supreme Court.

Mr. Wittes goes on to make a rather interesting assessment of the testimony of Dr. Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. He finds there is no real equipose to the testimonies and Dr. Ford more credible, regardless of any holes in the event timeline. I also didn't know the skis on Kavanaugh's calendar was "Brewskis." Again, nothing I was looking for. I was interested in the people on the calendar because they were nearly the same as those reported in Dr. Ford's recollection.

I have a great deal of empathy for alcoholics. There are very difficult hurdles for them, but, to have such a dependency as this at such an early age is incredibly sad. Oh, well.

The new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada (CAMUS) is basically the same as NAFTA. The American worker is NOT receiving a benefit because the car manufacturers have assembly plants in Mexico. Assembly plants that receive their parts from other countries do not have to abide by CAMUS. Then if the assembly plant workers are not receiving $16.00 per hour there is a tariff placed on each car assembled in Mexico as they cross the US border. That tariff will not effect the profits of the car companies and will be passed on to the consumer. However, the tariff will go to the US Treasury and therefore the tariff is a tax car buyers will pay for Trump tax cuts.