{"id":68648,"date":"2019-04-02T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=68648"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T23:55:18","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-april-1st-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=68648","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, April 1st, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, April 1st, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, after perusing these two commentaries courtesy of the <em>WSJ<\/em>, <em>you<\/em> tell <em>us<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who&#8217;s fooling whom<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-case-for-medicare-for-all-11553815403\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Case for Medicare for All<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-case-for-medicare-for-all-11553815403\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You\u2019d be able to keep your doctor with no premiums or copays, and overall spending would decline<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbBev15LBVY\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A single-payer health-insurance system can finance good-quality coverage for all U.S. residents <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>while still reducing overall health-care spending<\/em><\/span> by roughly 10%, according to a\u00a0study\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I<\/em><\/span> co-authored last November.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>All Americans<\/em><\/span> would be able to get care from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their chosen providers<\/em> <em>without having to pay premiums, deductibles or copayments<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait,&#8230;we&#8217;ll be able to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>keep<\/em><\/span> our doctor&#8230;with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span> premiums or copays&#8230;and overall healthcare spending would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>decline<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wC871hNBig4?start=69\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pollin&#8217;s promises (which sound vaguely familiar!) notwithstanding, when it comes to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>quality<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>accessibility<\/em><\/span> of single-payer healthcare,\u00a0Jim Freeman begs to differ, and offers a little foretaste of what&#8217;s to come:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-wants-to-be-bernies-nurse-11553795227?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Who Wants to Be Bernie\u2019s Nurse<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-wants-to-be-bernies-nurse-11553795227?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">There\u2019s no guarantee that health care providers will accept pay cuts and more bureaucracy<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-11.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-11-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;In December the Financial Times\u00a0reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>National Health Service staff are quitting their pension scheme at almost five times the rate of other public sector workers as they struggle with rising living costs and tax changes, according to figures that have sparked calls for urgent action by authorities.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The Financial Times has reported that young doctors were quitting the NHS scheme because they could not afford mandatory contributions amounting to about 7 per cent to 9 per cent of their salary.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>This is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>highly relevant<\/em><\/span> to a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>fundamental question about Sen. Sanders\u2019 plan<\/em><\/span> to impose government-run health care: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Will doctors and nurses in the United States continue to willingly practice medicine if the job comes with lower pay and even more bureaucracy than the current highly regulated system<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So who are you going to believe: Robert Pollin, who&#8217;s peddling the same tired tripe we heard from Progressives when they lied ObamaCare into existence&#8230;or the actual history of single-payer healthcare where it&#8217;s been put in practice?\u00a0 One thing&#8217;s for certain: the likes of Bernie Sanders will never be subject to the slings and arrows of single-payer healthcare&#8217;s outrageous misfortunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We don&#8217;t know which surprises us more: Progressives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continuing to peddle<\/em><\/span> such patent prevarications&#8230;or the <em>WSJ<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>publishing<\/em><\/span> them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>We report<\/em>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you decide<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 But\u00a0<\/strong><strong>if you need a hint, perhaps our blog&#8217;s not for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING FOR THIS NEWS BULLETIN!!!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/michigan-state-advances-to-final-four-11554073738?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">Michigan State Defeats Duke<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00w1HGqyxTM\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, <em>Townhall.com<\/em>&#8216;s Guy Benson conveys the latest cogent criticism of Chicago&#8217;s flourishing corruptocracy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2019\/03\/29\/illinois-prosecutors-kim-foxxs-handling-of-smollett-was-dishonest-and-unethical--and-may-have-violated-state-law-n2543973\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><strong>Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association: Hey, We Don\u2019t Make Deals Like the One with Smollett<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfmnl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfmnl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfmnl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfmnl-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Thank you, Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It\u2019s refreshing to see a professional association that, when confronted with highly unusual, controversial, and possibly unethical behavior by one of its members, didn\u2019t choose to close ranks and protect \u201cone of their own.\u201d <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Instead, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the\u00a0IPBA laid down a clear marker\u00a0of what behavior is normal and standard<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">manner<\/span> in which this case was dismissed was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">abnormal and unfamiliar<\/span> to those<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> who practice law in criminal courthouses across the State<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>alike<\/em><\/span> do not recognize the arrangement Mr. Smollett received.<\/span> <em>Even<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>more problematic<\/em><\/span>, <em>the state\u2019s attorney and her representatives<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have fundamentally misled the public on the law and circumstances surrounding the dismissal<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>There\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>something delightful<\/em><\/span> about the way they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>methodically and systematically\u00a0refute the claims<\/em><\/span> of State\u2019s Attorney Kimberly Foxx\u00a0and her office:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When an elected State\u2019s Attorney <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recuses herself<\/span> from a prosecution, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Illinois law<\/span> provides that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the court shall appoint a special prosecutor<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>See 55 ILCS 5\/3-9008(a-15).\u00a0<\/em><\/span><strong><em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Typically, the special prosecutor is a neighboring State\u2019s Attorney, the Attorney General, or the State Appellate Prosecutor.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here<\/span>, the State\u2019s Attorney <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">kept the case within her office<\/span> and thus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never actually recused herself as a matter of law<\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Additionally<\/span>, the Cook County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s office <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">falsely informed the public that the uncontested sealing of the criminal court case was \u201cmandatory\u201d under Illinois law<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800080;\">This statement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is not accurate<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\">To the extent the case was even <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\"><strong>eligible<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong> for an immediate seal, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that action was\u00a0discretionary<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not mandatory<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only upon the proper filing of a petition to seal<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> See 20 ILCS 2630\/5.2(g)(2).\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>For seals not subject to Section 5.2(g)(2), the process employed in this case by the State\u2019s Attorney <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">effectively denied law enforcement agencies of legally required Notice<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>(See 20 ILCS 2630\/5.2(d)(4))<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"> and the legal opportunity to object to the sealing of the file<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(See 20 ILCS 2630\/5.2(d)(5))<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><strong>The State\u2019s Attorney <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not only declined to fight the sealing of this case in court<\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">then provided false information to the public regarding it<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">appearance<\/span> of impropriety here is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">compounded by the fact that this case was not on the regularly scheduled court call, the public had no reasonable notice or opportunity to view these proceedings, and the dismissal was done abruptly at what has been called an \u201cemergency\u201d hearing<\/span>.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #333399;\">To date, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nature<\/span> of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">purported emergency<\/span> has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not been publicly disclosed<\/span>.<\/span> <\/em>The sealing of a court case<em> immediately following a hearing where there was no reasonable notice or opportunity for the public to attend <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is a matter of grave public concern and undermines the very foundation of our public court system<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Whatever<\/em><\/span> motivated Foxx to make this deal, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I hope it was worth it to her<\/em><\/span>, <em>because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span> controversy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">isn\u2019t going away anytime soon<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfj2f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfj2f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfj2f.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfj2f-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, writing at the <em>WSJ<\/em>, Holman Jenkins accurately assesses&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jussie-smollett-tests-americas-taste-for-lies-11553898368?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jussie Smollett Tests America\u2019s Taste for Lies<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jussie-smollett-tests-americas-taste-for-lies-11553898368?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=&amp;mod=djemMER_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chicago\u2019s Democratic machine didn\u2019t want to hold a hate-crime faker accountable<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfkoc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfkoc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfkoc.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfkoc-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The evidence <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was all over<\/em><\/span> the TV news: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Confessions by his two accomplices<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Surveillance video<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A canceled check<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Then<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as if by the very bleach he said was used to attack him<\/em><\/span>, suddenly all charges against Jussie Smollett for faking a hate crime <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>vanished<\/em><\/span> in an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unannounced<\/em><\/span> Chicago court hearing Tuesday.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Mr. Smollett\u2019s insistence on his innocent victimhood, however unctuous, must now be counted a legal masterstroke. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Johnnie Cochran<\/em><\/span> would be impressed.<\/span> It left Chicago prosecutors only the option of near-unconditional surrender <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if<\/em><\/span> they wanted to make the case <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>go away before Tuesday\u2019s runoff mayoral election<\/em><\/span>\u2014<em>which they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">clearly did<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Whatever your exact theory of how the case was corrupted, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Chicago\u2019s famous Democratic political machine arguably did what was in its own interest<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Kim Foxx, the Cook County state prosecutor, <em>who \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recused<\/span>\u201d herself but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">didn\u2019t<\/span><\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>obviously had much to lose if the case went to trial, given her early meddling on behalf of the Smollett family<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Well-served also<\/em><\/span> were the two candidates in Tuesday\u2019s all-Democratic runoff for mayor, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>whom it behooved to have a no-win political controversy end on the watch of unpopular outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Americans are plenty cynical about elite self-dealing, though now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some<\/em><\/span> will surely prefer to believe Jussie\u2019s lies than believe he is a liar. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Others<\/em><\/span> will argue, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cogently<\/span><\/em>, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>faking a hate crime<\/em><\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>itself a hate crime<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Then again<em> a preference for lying about such matters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is becoming epidemic<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mayor Emanuel on the radio Thursday, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for some reason trying to discourage the feds from investigating the Chicago miscarriage<\/em><\/span>, threw in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a familiar slur about President Trump\u2019s remarks after the Charlottesville riot<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Never mind that Mr. Trump\u2019s plain words have now found their way even into Wikipedia\u2019s account<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>When he spoke of \u201cfine people\u201d on both sides of the argument about Confederate statues, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he explicitly said<\/span><\/em>, \u201c<em>I\u2019m <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">because they should be condemned totally<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>In an environment where even the media doesn\u2019t always seem to care about truth<\/em><\/span>, <em>why shouldn\u2019t Jussie Smollett, his family and his apparently broad support network hope <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his lie<\/span> can prevail <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">too<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Though the author&#8217;s entire essay is worthy of endorsement, his point about The Left&#8217;s (i.e., Progressives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>of all stripes<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>including<\/em><\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>MSM<\/em><\/span>!) continuing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>deliberate misquoting and misrepresentation<\/em><\/span> of The Donald&#8217;s Charlottesville comments deserve <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>special emphasis<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, as Jenkins alluded to in his commentary, a city in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dire need of cleansing<\/em><\/span>, via Smollett&#8217;s fabled bleach or any other effective agent, is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>instead<\/em><\/span> on the verge of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/after-smollett-chicagos-mayoral-runoff-turns-nasty-11554057616\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>celebrating another meaningless milestone<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chicago-prepares-to-elect-first-black-woman-as-mayor-11553950800\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chicago Prepares to Elect First Black Woman as Mayor<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chicago-prepares-to-elect-first-black-woman-as-mayor-11553950800\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Preckwinkle, Lightfoot spar over city\u2019s future amid the distraction of the Smollett drama<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xesm0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xesm0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xesm0.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xesm0-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ct-met-jesse-jackson-lori-lightfoot-toni-preckwinkle-chicago-mayor-20190330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ct-met-jesse-jackson-lori-lightfoot-toni-preckwinkle-chicago-mayor-20190330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ct-met-jesse-jackson-lori-lightfoot-toni-preckwinkle-chicago-mayor-20190330.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ct-met-jesse-jackson-lori-lightfoot-toni-preckwinkle-chicago-mayor-20190330-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After all, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>first Black male<\/em><\/span> who ran Chicago&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-19.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-19.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-19.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-19-300x208.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;was such a resounding success!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As we&#8217;ve so often observed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nI67dSs3dXU?start=6\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A whorehouse which respects <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not color<\/em><\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only Progressive political affiliation<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, there&#8217;s more evidence the legacy of White oppression continues to prey upon the Black &#8220;community&#8221;, this time in Atlantic City:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zX7-id5y8c0\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, that&#8217;s pepper spray, not bleach!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>And<\/em><\/span> there&#8217;s not a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WHITE<\/em><\/span> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>SIGHT<\/em><\/span>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, in a forward from George Lawlor,\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>\u00a0reports how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/san-franciscos-wealthy-in-pelosis-district-raise-60g-to-oppose-homeless-shelter-as-city-struggles-with-homelessness\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Wealthy &#8216;NIMBY&#8217; Libs in Pelosi&#8217;s SF district have raised $60G to fight center for city&#8217;s homeless<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2x9v2u.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2x9v2u.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2x9v2u.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2x9v2u-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rich\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0residents in House Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u2019s\u00a0congressional district have collected more than $60,000 after starting an online crowdsourcing campaign <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to wage a\u00a0legal challenge against a proposed center for the city&#8217;s homeless<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>The campaign, called \u201cSafe Embarcadero for All,\u201d was launched March 20 after San Francisco Mayor London Breed proposed <em>a 200-bed homeless Navigation Center<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in the city\u2019s most desirable location, the Embarcadero along the coast of San Francisco Bay<\/em><\/span>, earlier this month.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThe planned location for Mayor Breed&#8217;s #megashelter is home to thousands of families, visited by millions of tourists and at the center of some of San Francisco&#8217;s most iconic events &#8211; including the San Francisco Marathon, San Francisco Giants stadium and on one of the busiest bicyclist paths in the city,\u201d reads the site posted by the group opposing the construction.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>The\u00a0campaign\u00a0shamelessly raised over $60,000 and is on track to reach the desired $100,000 goal, with the money used to pay attorney Andrew Zacks, who often represents property owners, to help the dissatisfied\u00a0&#8220;Not In My Backyard&#8221; residents in the neighborhood.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">More than 130 people have chipped in, although many did so anonymously. The biggest donation came from an unknown resident who gave $10,000 to the cause.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>A Fox News review of records found that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>multiple individuals<\/em><\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>bank executives, professors\u00a0and authors<\/em><\/span> \u2013 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who donated to the GoFundMe page<\/span> have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">also contributed to Democratic political groups, including thousands of dollars to the Democratic National Committee, MoveOn, Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign, and other left-leaning organizations<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One of the donors, Jerome Dodson, who has since scrubbed his $1,000 contribution to the campaign, is reportedly a chairman of a \u201cresponsible investment fund\u201d that seeks to make \u201ca positive impact on society,\u201d according to the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon.<\/span> The investment fund executive donated to Democratic candidates and groups over the years, including Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice: if,\u00a0as the article suggests, San Francisco authorities plan on using <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>any<\/em><\/span> portion of\u00a0 the Embarcadero to house the homeless, their hypocrisy to the contrary notwithstanding, the NIMBY&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>have it right<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For as Al Czervik so eloquently observed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y4XQuEYDoj4?start=9\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not to mention homeless shelters<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thus, utilizing bay-front property to house incorrigible drug addicts would constitute a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>far bigger<\/em><\/span>\u00a0fiasco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other news from the purported Paradise by the Bay&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/03\/29\/elderly-man-assaulted-pro-choicer-praying-end-abortion\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">85-year-old pro-lifer attacked while praying outside San Francisco Planned Parenthood<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRO7aafLcoI\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>series of escalating attacks<\/em><\/span> led to an elderly pro-life man <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>being repeatedly viciously kicked on the sidewalk by a bicyclist<\/em><\/span> in San Francisco, California, on March 19.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Ron, who is a longtime campaign leader with the organization 40 Days For Life, was outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic when he was attacked.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Previously<\/em><\/span>, the attacker cut the group\u2019s signature banner with a pair of scissors <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and knocked Ron and another volunteer to the ground<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This time<\/em><\/span>, Ron <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>attempted to stop the same attacker<\/em><\/span> from stealing the sign by holding onto it and sticking the sign pole through the spokes of the man\u2019s bike. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He<\/em><\/span> responded by pushing Ron to the ground with his bike, saying, \u201cOld man, stay on the ground. Stay on the ground old man, unless you want to get hurt.\u201d<\/span> He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>immediately then started kicking Ron<\/em><\/span>, and this is where the video ends so Ron\u2019s companion could call 911.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Planned Parenthood <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has not been helpful with apprehending Ron\u2019s attacker<\/em><\/span>, as Britton explains: \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Planned Parenthood said that they would not give out their surveillance videos<\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #008000;\">It\u2019s also worth pointing out, and emphasizing here, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the unprovoked violence<\/em><\/span> here came <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> from the pro-life activists, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but from the pro-choice passerby<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So much for the supposed&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/b7e24f5d78fab706ab3af84471715ac7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/b7e24f5d78fab706ab3af84471715ac7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/b7e24f5d78fab706ab3af84471715ac7.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/b7e24f5d78fab706ab3af84471715ac7-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Spirit of the &#8217;60s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving from the Spirit of the &#8217;60s to the Incomprehensibility of the &#8217;70s, in today&#8217;s installment of the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>EnvironMental Moment<\/em><\/span>, we present a brilliant bit of legal reasoning to rival <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/judge-restores-obama-era-drilling-ban-in-arctic\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfk9x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfk9x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfk9x.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2xfk9x-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-v-54a96eec=\"\">&#8220;President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump&#8217;s executive order that overturned the bans that comprised a key part of Obama&#8217;s environmental legacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-v-54a96eec=\"\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Presidents have the power under a federal law to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>remove<\/em><\/span> certain lands from development <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but cannot revoke those removals<\/em><\/span>, Gleason said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>&#8220;The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>wordin<\/em><em>g<\/em><\/span> of President Obama&#8217;s 2015 and 2016 withdrawals <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indicates that he intended them to extend indefinitely<\/em><\/span>, and therefore <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>be revocable only by an act of Congress<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; said Gleason, who was nominated to the bench by Obama<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-54a96eec=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to<em>\u00a0The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032919dAPR20190329064508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032919dAPR20190329064508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032919dAPR20190329064508.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032919dAPR20190329064508-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lies_120190328103549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lies_120190328103549.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lies_120190328103549.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lies_120190328103549-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032819dAPR20190328034507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68527\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032819dAPR20190328034507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032819dAPR20190328034507.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/afb032819dAPR20190328034507-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dumbo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68520\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dumbo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dumbo.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dumbo-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12_22334120190328012819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12_22334120190328012819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12_22334120190328012819.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12_22334120190328012819-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lb190329cd20190328095442.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lb190329cd20190328095442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lb190329cd20190328095442.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lb190329cd20190328095442-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hole_in_argument20190329121143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hole_in_argument20190329121143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hole_in_argument20190329121143.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hole_in_argument20190329121143-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gv032919dAPR20190329034509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gv032919dAPR20190329034509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"345\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-29-19-at-7.53-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-29-19-at-7.53-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Image-3-29-19-at-7.53-AM-300x257.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-18.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-18.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-18.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-18-277x300.jpeg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-3-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-3-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-3-5.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-3-5-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-10.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-1-10-300x273.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-11.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/download-2-11-300x282.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these four beauties from, respectively, Balls Cotton, Mark Foster, Mark Tapscott and Wink Martindale:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image003.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image003-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mark-foster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mark-foster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mark-foster.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mark-foster-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/schiff-for-brains.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/schiff-for-brains.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/schiff-for-brains.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/schiff-for-brains-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>So You REALLY Want to Have an HONEST Conversation About Racism?!?<\/em><\/span> segment, and this just in from Savannah:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlineathens.com\/nationworld\/20190328\/only-black-reporters-allowed-in-georgia-mayoral-race-event\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000;\">Only black reporters allowed in Georgia mayoral race event<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1300.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68492\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1300-300x194.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Race was front and center on Wednesday night during a meeting coordinated to garner support for just one black candidate in Savannah\u2019s mayoral election. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>With signs stating \u201cBlack press only\u201d on the doors of the church where the meeting was held, white reporters were barred from entry, while black reporters for at least two television stations were permitted inside.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The event was coordinated by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the Rev.<\/em><\/span> Clarence Teddy Williams, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">owner of the consulting firm<\/span><\/em>, The Trigon Group, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who declined to discuss the entry policy<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Former Savannah Mayor<\/em><\/span> Edna Jackson declined to comment before going inside, as did <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Chatham County Commissioner<\/em><\/span> Chester Ellis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cThis is not my idea,\u201d Ellis said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Savannah Alderman<\/em><\/span> Estella Shabazz, who also attended, <em>said that she had <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">once owned a newspaper<\/span> and s<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he was a member of the black press<\/span><\/em>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>she declined to comment on the policy barring white reporters from going inside<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>While <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>notes were allowed<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>photos, video and audio recordings were prohibited during the event<\/em><\/span>, according to Stephen Moody, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>an African-American reporter with WJCL, who was allowed entry<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Another reporter from WSAV who attended the meeting was told she could stay because she was black, Moody said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Shirley James, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the African-American publisher of the black-owned Savannah Tribune<\/em><\/span>, was also seen going into the meeting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>here&#8217;s<\/em><\/span> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>best part<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Savannah Alderman Van Johnson<\/em><\/span>, who is one of three African-Americans who have stated their intention to run for mayor, said afterwards that <em>during the meeting he had talked about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">his vision for an inclusive and progressive Savannah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>With regards to the discriminatory policy at the door, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Johnson said <span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">he believed people have the right to assemble and determine the rules of their assembly<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJWA2fCIxWk\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Bottomline<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 The Left wants an honest conversation about racism about as much as Hillary craves an unbiased investigation of her private email server.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Any questions<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, April 1st, 2019&#8230;but before we begin, after perusing these two commentaries courtesy of the WSJ, you tell us who&#8217;s fooling whom: The Case for Medicare for All You\u2019d be able to keep your doctor with no premiums or copays, and overall spending would decline. &nbsp; \ufeff &#8220;A single-payer health-insurance system can finance good-quality 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