It is beyond rare for a situation to develop where the professionally black are in such a state of angst within the world of the professionally liberal.

Someone, ANYONE, please, please, please ask Hillary Clinton:

“Do you think Rachel Dolezal is black”?

Alicia Walters, Black Lives Matter activist, and Dr. Wendy Walsh appeared last night on the Don Lemon show to discuss Rachel Dolezal.  (Well worth the time to watch)

The compare and contrast method was using Caitlyn Jenner as an example of transgender, and how Dolezal’s self-identification as a black woman could be considered similarly transracial.

Ms. Walters, the black lives matter activist, was visibly filled with angst at the concept of a woman identifying as black, despite the exceptionally delivered counter-points provided by Dr. Walsh.   The interview is a case-study in how the professionally black, construct their grievances and must dismiss any comparatives lest they be diminished.

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House Dems are seeking to provide quick leak cover prior to Blumenthal’s scheduled testimony before Gowdy Select Committee on Benghazi TOMORROW – so they quickly dispatch ideological compatriots in arms at Politico.

Spin machines feverously burning the midnight oil:

(Via Politico) House GOP Benghazi investigators have discovered additional Libya communications between Sidney Blumenthal and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a congressional source told POLITICO — suggesting that either the State Department or the 2016 Democratic presidential contender withheld correspondence the panel had subpoenaed.

Blumenthal — a longtime Clinton family friend who is set to testify before the committee behind closed doors Tuesday morning — recently gave the House Select Committee on Benghazi his Libya-related emails after the panel had quietly subpoenaed them. (more…)

…. she could be exactly like:

Think about it carefully.

As more discoveries are revealed, there is a remarkably similar life of ideological choices, self-identity, willful fraud, and multiple parallels between Stanley Ann Dunham and Rachel Dolezal.

Notorious racial imposter Rachel Dolezal sued Howard University in 2005 alleging the University discriminated against her because she was white.  – Story Here–

Many of those who have struggled to understand her story have sought to identify the reasoning for her change in ethnicity/race.  It would appear the failed lawsuit she filed against Howard University was the beginning of her self-identified transition from white to black.  She then chose to live a life based on lies.

After leaving Howard University Ms. Dolezal began constructing a life as a black female; denouncing/hiding her family’s racial identity and creating a new identity as an African American ‘activist’.

Ms. Dolezal told her brother not to “blow her cover“, and enlisted several black people to support her false constructs; even going so far as to identify a black male friend as her father, and claiming her adoptive bother was actually her son.  Apparently all of the co-conspirators were willing participants in the ruse. (more…)

…. but, but what about the Sand Smelts?  All’s fair in rules and regulations until those rules, regulations and laws circle back to impact the rule making advocates. 

(Via Washington Post) Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water.

People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”

Yuhas lives in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic Southern California hamlet of ranches, gated communities and country clubs that guzzles five times more water per capita than the statewide average. In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent. (more…)

WASHINGTON DC – The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The two sides hope to conclude the deal by the first week of next month, clearing the way for Secretary of State John Kerry to visit Havana soon afterwards for a flag-raising ceremony to upgrade the U.S. Interests Section to a full-scale embassy, the sources said. (more…)

Marilyn Mosby files some additional statements in response to defense requests for substantiation of “probable cause”.

However, the oddly worded response -obviously intentionally obtuse- does not provide much additional detail as to how she can derive legal charges against the Baltimore Six.

To the contrary, if you are following the ongoing construct of her claims, based on her prior sunlight avoidance tactics, you can find additional support for a reasonable belief the ME report is not supporting Mosby’s public assertions. From the Baltimore Sun:

[…] The office of State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby filed the documents in response to motions by the officers’ defense attorneys requesting more information on her reasons for filing the charges.

Gray died in April after suffering a severe spinal cord injury in police custody, according to police and prosecutors. But how he was injured remains unclear. His autopsy results have not been made public.

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Drops mic:

Recap HERE

TAA or “Trade Adjustment Assistance” was a legislative package attached to the “fast track” portion of legislation for President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement Authority.

In essence, TAA was a provision to provide financial assistance for any displaced U.S. workers who were negatively affected by any trade agreement. TAA was attached to the Senate’s bill for “fast track trade authority” which lowers the threshold for Senatorial Consent on any Obama trade deal. TAA was basically attached to, packaged with, TPA to get more support the fast track measure.

However, TAA failed to pass (126-yea, 302-nay):

WASHINGTON […] Only 40 Democrats backed TAA while 144 voted against it. On the GOP side, 158 Republicans voted “no” while 86 Republicans voted “yes.”

The vote against TAA is a humiliating defeat for Obama, who had spent weeks lobbying House Democrats to support his trade agenda in the face of overwhelming opposition from liberal groups and organized labor.

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