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Biden Lawsuit Against Sheetz Gas Will Enrage Pennsylvania Voters SALENA ZITO ALTOONA, Pennsylvania -- The oldest gas station in America still in operation, Reighard's here in this Blair County city, got its start in 1908 when a local blacksmith decided to sell gasoline out the back of his shop when the Model T was introduced. It has been open ever since. While architecturally it is underwhelming, the service is good because the people who work there care about the work they do, whether it is pumping gas, washing your windshield or doing minor fixes on your car. It is important to them that you return. While Reighard's holds the title of the oldest gas station in the country, it was another Altoona family that put a different kind of gas station excellence on the map. The Sheetz family story is one of struggles. This family-friendly service station struggled with a salmonella breakout in 2004, but it retained a deeply local customer base and expanded well beyond its western Pennsylvania roots. Ask any traveler in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina and they'll tell you when they see the cheery red and yellow stations along their drives, Sheetz means quality and comfort to their loyal customers. One very loyal and vocal customer is Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), the Braddock Democrat who often posts on X his preference for Sheetz over Wawa, the other mega service station based in the state, with cheeky posts such as "Sheetz > Wawa." With so much loyalty among residents in the state, it made sense for President Joe Biden to do a photo-op at a Sheetz in suburban Pittsburgh last week after his visit with local steelworkers. He wanted to demonstrate that he is no different than any other Pennsylvanian in his affection for the family-owned business. Biden even went so far as to pick up sandwiches for construction workers after pulling the presidential motorcade into the Sheetz gas station in Moon Township. Wearing his aviator glasses, he posed for a selfie with an employee. Then things got weird. Just one day after the president's orchestrated Sheetz run, the Biden administration hit the privately held convenience store chain with a federal lawsuit in which federal officials say the company discriminated against minority job applicants. The theory, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is that because the company uses criminal background checks to screen job seekers, somehow that's a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. {snip} Going after Sheetz is like tugging on Superman's cape in Pennsylvania, in particular in central and western Pennsylvania when pulling up to a Sheetz is like pulling up to home. This is especially so when the alleged "violation" is what common sense says is just good business practices, such as making sure employees who interact with the public aren't criminals. Like the Biden administration's pause of exports of American liquefied natural gas, which harms hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state, or his proposed rule for the 45V hydrogen production tax credit that would cut Pennsylvania workers out of the equation in the hydrogen industry, the Sheetz lawsuit has local Democrats shaking their heads. As one Democrat said privately, "Is [Biden] just trying to lose Pennsylvania?" https://hotair.com/salena-zito/2024/05/21/biden-lawsuit-against-sheetz-gas-will-enrage-pennsylvania-voters-n3788764

THAT’S TRUE, IF YOU’RE A HORRIBLE PERSON AND A NEW YORK DEMOCRAT (BUT I REPEAT MYSELF): New York Democrat says there’s ‘no greater enemy’ than Trump ahead of Bronx rally. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3009849/ritchie-torries-bronx-blasts-trump-rally-new-york/

Hahahahahahaha. The Trump trial was supposed to be such a big deal, but somehow "a strange sense of anticlimax hangs over the whole affair." As Michelle Goldberg puts it, in "The Trump Trial’s Great Anticlimax" (NYT). In a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll, only 16 percent of respondents said they were following the trial very closely, with an additional 32 percent following it “somewhat” closely. “Those numbers rank as some of the lowest for any recent news event,” wrote Yahoo News’s Andrew Romano. When people were asked how the trial made them feel, the most common response was “bored.”... A hopeful possibility... is that a guilty verdict will come as a shock to many Americans who have checked out of the news cycle, perhaps giving them pause about putting a criminal in the White House. I wouldn’t count on it, though. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/columnists/trump-trial-apathy.html?smid=url-share .

How dare they question their "betters" "Over a dozen Democratic elected officials criticized a parent group that asked for a review of rules that let students play on sports teams that align with their gender identity." The NYT reports, in "N.Y.C. Parents Rebuked for Questioning Transgender Student-Athlete Rules." The parent council — representing the diverse local District 2 that weaves through the West Village, Hell’s Kitchen and the Upper East Side — said that the current policies present “challenges to youth athletes and coaches” and fail to consider the “well-being of girls.”... In a letter made public on Monday, a coalition of 18 Democratic elected officials from New York called the proposal “hateful, discriminatory and actively harmful” to the city’s children.... The officials argued that while some parents say they were “simply asking for a conversation,” the resolution “was based in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric”.... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/nyregion/transgender-athletes-nyc-public-schools.html?smid=url-share

Actually, It Was the U.S. Who Killed Iranian President Raisi (Iran Says) by Joe Cunningham It is with a heavy heart that we must report who Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's real killer is: The United States of America. At least, that's the implication from Iran, which needed a couple of days to get its story straight and blame "Western sanctions" on the poor quality of its helicopters, which led to Raisi's untimely demise. That talking point is now floating around, thanks to friendly media outlets willing to overlook (if not actually cheer on) Iran being a country run by very bad people. “One of the culprits behind yesterday’s tragedy is the United States, because of its sanctions that bar Iran from procuring essential aviation parts,” https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/05/21/actually-it-was-the-us-who-killed-iranian-president-raisi-n2174453 .

Every once in a great while, Biden's handlers give him the right thing to say. Good. Biden Slams ICC over ‘Outrageous’ Netanyahu Arrest Warrant by David Zimmerman President Joe Biden forcefully denounced the International Criminal Court’s “outrageous” arrest warrant application against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant on Monday. “Let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas,” Biden said in a brief statement. “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.” Earlier Monday, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan announced his intention to apply for an arrest warrant for the two Israeli leaders, as well as a separate warrant for three Hamas officials https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-slams-icc-over-outrageous-netanyahu-arrest-warrant/

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Alvin Bragg's Case in Shambles After Michael Cohen Admits to Stealing From Trump and More It's not quite time for closing arguments in the New York-based criminal case against Donald Trump, but the crescendo is building. On Monday, disgraced felon Michael Cohen retook the stand as he continued to serve as the prosecution's star witness. The problem? Cohen is a proven liar and total s*****g, and Trump's legal team got him to admit that on the stand in no uncertain terms. In a moment that set the internet on fire, Cohen admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the Trump organization. I can't claim to know what the jury will ultimately decide in this case given how absurd and overly-politicized it is. I can say with some certainty that in any normal situation, having the prosecution's star witness admit to being a dishonest thief would be a death blow to the case's credibility. Remember, everything revolves around Cohen, who is now claiming to be a patsy who was just doing the bidding of Trump in cutting the check to Stormy Daniels. That wasn't the only gut punch to Bragg's prosecution, though. Trump's legal team later highlighted that Cohen had repeatedly told the press and others that Trump did not know about the payment. It wasn't until after the FBI raided Cohen's home and office that he changed his story. Again, the lack of credibility of Bragg's star witness is simply astonishing. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/05/20/michael-cohen-admits-on-the-witness-stand-to-stealing-money-from-trump-as-case-gets-more-absurd-n2174413#google_vignette

Vulnerable Democrats Hit Panic Button, Bail on Biden Administration By Ward Clark The polls for the Biden administration keep getting worse, even as former President Donald Trump continues to channel his inner Obi-Wan Kenobi and become stronger with everything the Democrats and their fellow travelers throw at him. Now vulnerable, mostly swing-state Democrats are starting to panic and to distance themselves from all things Biden. Democrats in tough races are breaking with Biden over border security, liquified natural gas exports, the Israel-Hamas war and tariffs on Chinese goods. They’re staying competitive in the polls despite Biden’s low approval ratings and lagging position relative to Trump, but they are worried the president’s political brand will start weighing them down as Election Day nears. “If you go out there and do a focus group, the focus groups all say, ‘He’s 200 years old. You got to be kidding me.’ And the worst part about it is for unaffiliated voters or people that haven’t made up their mind, they look at this and say: ‘You have to be kidding us. These are our choices?’ And they indict us for not taking it seriously,” said a Democratic senator who requested anonymity to discuss the alarm sparked by Biden’s weak poll numbers in battleground states. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4671279-alarmed-democrats-flee-bidens-ailing-brand-in-battleground-states/ https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/20/vulnerable-democrats-hit-panic-button-bailing-on-biden-administration-n2174429 .

Maybe Chicago 'leaders' should try Gun Control At Least 45 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Johnson’s Chicago by AWR Hawkins At least 45 people were shot, one fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the one fatal shooting occurred Saturday about 11: 30 p.m. There was an argument and two of the people involved pulled a gun and opened fire. Two men–one 50 years old and the other 44 years old–were shot, as well as a 27-year-old woman. The 44-year-old was holding a handgun but dropped it after being shot. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Breitbart News reported at least 21 people were shot during the weekend of May 10-12, 2024, and three of those shooting victims succumbed https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-at-least-45-shot-1-fatally-in-gun-violence-across-city-police-department-says/14846030/ .

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And THAT crime has not been specified. As JD has so clearly laid out. .

HE’S THE HONEST KIND OF CROOK WHO STAYS BOUGHT: Biden’s ’Inflation Reduction Act’ Enriches Commie China. CATHERINE SALGADO It will be unsurprising to most of us that the wildly misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” from the Biden administration not only did not help American citizens — but actually helped America’s existential enemy, Communist China. https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/05/19/bidens-inflation-reduction-act-enriches-commie-china-n4929165 .

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