Alcohol and Coffee Key to Long Life

https://abc11.com/health/alcohol-coffee-could-be-key-to-living-longer-study-finds/4968622/

Perhaps just believing the studies that we like is really the key to not only happiness but a long life? It gets even better!

In addition, people who were overweight in their 70s lived longer than people who were normal or underweight in their 70s.

Do I believe it? No ... but I very much suspect that happiness, friends,  and a positive outlook are WAY more important to longevity than constant attention to the latest set of rules to increase your lifespan!

Clinton Fund Whistleblower Raided By FBI

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/is-it-something-he-said-6.php

There may be some questions remaining in even fairly non-partisan people's minds about potential Trump "collusion" with Russia in the 2016 campaign, but we KNOW that:

1). The Clinton campaign worked with the Russians to create the Steele Dossier to bring down Trump.
2). The Clinton Fund (Funds for Clintons) pulled in 100's of millions of dollars for the Clintons, and now it's donations have all but dried up, ( down 90%) showing that if the Clinton's can't provide "play" (payback), donors do not want to pay! The Clinton Fund was obvious Pay to Play, now it is PROVEN Pay to Play!

The linked article covers the case of a whistleblower who apparently has the legal goods on the Clinton Fund Urainium One deal and shows that Robert Mueller (the current "Special Council") failed to investigage covered in an excellent article here.

The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

Powerline has been doing a great job of covering the FBI raid on the whistleblowers home and other intimidation tactics.

Any rumor or innuendo against a person with an "R" next to their name, even if the allegations are decades old is worthy of heavy duty investigation with the accuser treated as a saint (see Kavenaugh), while documents related to malfeasance in the case of a known questionable matter (Urainium One), are treated as an attack on the state, with state apparatus being used to attack the person presenting actual documentation of the crime.

This is what happens in a totalitarian one-party state people! Trump is fighting the entire US Deep State apparatus, and now he must fight the House of Representatives as well because too many supposed small government supporting people (Rs) deciced they would rather single their "virtue" in being anti-Trump than support the only person with any power in this country standing up to the single party rule of the Deep / Administrative State!

A Great Capitalism Pro-Con Haidt Video

Why BO Administration Was "Scandal Free"

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/federal-judge-rips-doj-and-state-orders-discovery-on-clinton-emails.php

A federal judge may actually bring some folks from the Deep/Administrative State to account -- note, a weak "may". As noted in the article ...

If you thought the Republicans are now running the Department of Justice–merely because Donald Trump was elected president!–you don’t understand how the federal bureaucracy, the unelected, non-constitutional fourth branch of government, operates.

"The Party" (TP-D) **IS** the government! It is the home team providing all the refs and having the home team coaches do all the "reviews" of the "close plays".

One might note that it has been festering for a very long time. The relevant events are now six years in the past. The Obama administration was astonishingly successful at stonewalling investigations, and its stonewalling continues under a Department of Justice nominally led by a Republican, but staffed overwhelmingly by Democratic Party loyalists.

 BO / Hillary had a KNOWN disaster in Libya (actually two -- they destabilized the country without Congressional approval, THEN they lost an embassy AND and the ambassador)  THEN, they claimed it was due to an internet video rather than being a terrorist attack!

TP and the Deep / Administrative State (but I repeat myself) paid to create the Steele Dossier that is the basis for the Mueller "investigation", and they have going for over two years filling the news with "allegations", but there is still no evidence of Trump collusion with Russia, and really only ridiculously tiny examples of their supposed "interference" -- Fake FB accounts and Ads! Wow, so what????

Do you REALLY think that Russia, a huge energy producing country wanted to have Trump as president fracking everything that can be fracked, building pipelines and taking gas under $2 ???

Unless they are so stupid it really doesn't matter what they do, they wanted Hillary who would have continued the BO putting the brakes on fracking, pipelines, or anything that had a chance to lower oil prices which would result in "more carbon".

BO, Oil and Snake Oil

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-s-worst-nightmare-the-permian-is-about-to-pump-a-lot-more

When BO moves his lips, you always know he is lying. In this example, he takes credit for the rise in oil production when in fact he fought it tooth and nail.

“I was extraordinarily proud of the Paris accords because — you know, I know we’re in oil country and we need American energy, and by the way, American energy production,” Obama told the audience gathered at Rice University’s Baker Institute on Tuesday night. “You wouldn’t always know it but it went up every year I was president. That whole, suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas — that was me, people.”

Here he is in 2012 telling us that people who claimed that gas prices could get to $2.50 were "either" lying to you, or doesn't know anything. In BO's case, I'm confident it is BOTH! He doesn't know anything, AND he is lying to you!

Without naming Gingrich, Obama appeared to target that remark Thursday, saying to cheers that "anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what they're talking about -- or just isn't telling you the truth."

Truth and BO ... the ultimate logical impossibility, making a "married bachelor" seem positively realistic!