— I,Hypocrite (@lporiginalg) August 3, 2022
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
A bus lost control and rammed into a store on Shamgar Street in Jerusalem, killing three people and injuring a number of others on Thursday evening.
Shoshana Glustein, 40, from Ofakim and her two daughters - seven-year-old Chaya Sara and two-year-old Chana, were killed on Thursday evening in a fatal accident in Jerusalem, it was cleared for publication.
Their funeral will take place on Friday morning.
The father and another son were in the nearby mall at the time of the accident.
The accident occurred when a driver lost control of his bus on Shamgar Street in Jerusalem near the Rav Shefa Mall and ran over people standing near a store.
Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah paramedics provided first aid to the injured on the scene and evacuated them to the hospital.
Six people were injured, including one in serious condition (a young woman about 21 years old), two who were moderately injured, including a boy about six years old, and three lightly injured, including a boy about four years of age and a baby about a year old.
A young orthodox Jewish man from Baltimore was killed in Washington DC.
25 year old Aryeh Wolf z”l was shot while working in Washington DC. According to DC Police, the incident took place Wednesday afternoon at the 5100 block of Call Place. He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead R”L.
Details are still unknown. Wolf was reportedly working at a construction property when he was shot.
Wolf lived in Baltimore, and leaves behind a wife and 6 month old child. His mother is a principal in Bais Yaakov. His grandparents live in Baltimore as well.
The Metropolitan Police Department is offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the homicide.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by sending a text message to 50411.
According to reports, the Levaya will take place today (Thursday) at Levinson’s at 4:00 PM.
Senior U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are blaming FBI Director Christopher Wray for the recent raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in an apparent attempt to take pressure off U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
After Trump confirmed the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Monday, many Republican politicians called on both Wray and Garland to explain the justification for the raid.
For example, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said, “Merrick Garland, Chris Wray, come to the House Judiciary Committee this Friday and answer our questions about this action today, which has never happened in American history.”
Similarly, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called out the DOJ’s “intolerable state of weaponized politicization” and told Garland to “preserve your documents and clear your calendar” as he pledged an investigation into the FBI raid if the Republicans take control of the House after November’s midterms.
Even Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI), who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 Capitol Riots, said Wray and Garland “owe transparency on the justification for setting such a striking precedent.”
And just like in other Third World countries, if today’s raid by Biden’s FBI does not stop Donald Trump from running for president in 2024, their next move will be Assassination. https://t.co/lfdmpsgPNR
— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) August 9, 2022
The Washington Post deleted a tweet promoting one of its stories on Wednesday that suggested Attorney General Merrick Garland “politicized” the Department of Justice by authorizing an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
“Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago,” read the headline of a story written by Justice Department reporter Perry Stein.
The headline in the tweet sparked outrage on Twitter, which apparently prompted the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet to remove the tweet and re-post it using a different headline.
“No, he’s in the middle of unraveling a crime spree committed by the former president of the United States. There…fixed it for you,” one Twitter user wrote.
“This is so embarrassing I worry for the future of journalism,” another Twitter commenter said of the original headline.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tapped into his inner “Dirty Harry” on Wednesday and publicly dared Mayor Eric Adams to “make my day” by carrying through on his threat to send New Yorkers to campaign against his re-election bid.
Abbott also vowed to keep sending busloads of asylum-seekers to New York City, saying Adams was merely “getting a taste” of what beleaguered border communities have been dealing with in the Lone Star State since President Biden took office.
Abbott’s comments on Fox News came amid his ongoing feud with Adams over migrant relocations and just hours after three charter buses hired by Abbott dropped off nearly 100 migrants outside the Port Authority terminal in Midtown Manhattan.
The transports added to almost 70 who arrived on Friday and Sunday.
In response to Adams’ threat Tuesday that he was “deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good, old-fashioned door-knocking” against Abbott, the Republican governor said, “You know, I kind of feel like Clint Eastwood.”
“Go ahead, mayor. Make my day,” he said.
This week’s unprecedented FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is just one more reason Republicans must fight harder to reform a politicized and powerful bureaucracy.
For three years, the bogus Russia-collusion conspiracy theory helped derail Trump’s presidency, but the problem wasn’t just the lies of his Democratic foes and their media cheerleaders. The willingness of FBI agents and Department of Justice officials to pursue that partisan plot demonstrated that the idea these agencies are staffed by apolitical civil servants is a myth.
Though Attorney General Merrick Garland probably ordered the banana-republic-style effort to treat a former president and likely future political foe like a criminal, the willingness of civil servants to go along with it made it possible.
The travesty demonstrates anew the importance of reforming the civil service. Laws that were intended to ensure those who hold government jobs aren’t playing politics are instead protecting a status quo in which Democrats can count on bureaucrats to aid them and sabotage Republicans.
The “deep state” is no right-wing myth. While administrations come and go, the more than 2 million people who work for the federal government are largely immovable objects who cannot be fired except for cause and, as the Obama-era IRS scandal (among other incidents) indicated, not always then either.
Lois Lerner and other federal civil-service employees targeting conservative nonprofits exposed just how tight the Democrats’ grip on the administrative state is. And the fact that many IRS employees involved were able to stay in their jobs showed how hard it is to get rid of such people. That problem was also illustrated (so to speak) when a top-level Environmental Protection Agency employee was able to keep his job for years despite having thousands of pornographic files on his computer.
In the late 1800s, reformers like the young Teddy Roosevelt wanted to end the “spoils system” and make the civil service an apolitical body. The goal was to take politics and the potential for corruption out of the government. But in the 21st century, the system has created a different problem that threatens democracy.
For decades, the federal service has increasingly become a bastion for liberal Democrats. Every study shows that its members are almost uniformly on the left. To give just one example: 95% of federal bureaucrats who donated to a candidate in the 2016 presidential election gave to Hillary Clinton.
The Democrats’ grip on bureaucrats’ loyalties means these employees can stall and ultimately derail any attempt by conservatives to implement policies they don’t like. That was particularly problematic for a president like Trump, who didn’t want to play by the conventional rules set down by liberal “experts.”
Presidents are allowed to make 4,000 political appointments to government posts with about 1,200 of those subject to Senate confirmation. But 50,000 bureaucrats have decision-making authority over policy issues.
This “deep state” can be of enormous assistance to Democrats as they seek to transform government and the economy to conform to their ideological agenda. Republicans who want to drain the DC swamp, on the other hand, are faced with an unelected and unaccountable civil service that acts as an extra-constitutional fourth branch of government with an effective veto over elected politicians’ policies.
That’s why a growing number of Republicans realize that if they are to accomplish anything the next time they win the White House, they’re going to have to reform the civil service. A so-called “Schedule F” plan brought forward in the waning days of the Trump presidency — and a topic of discussion again — proposed changing the status of those 50,000-bureaucrat decision-makers from unfireable civil servant to worker serving at the pleasure of the president.
Liberals are slamming is as a step toward a Trumpist authoritarian regime, but it’s actually the opposite. It is long past time to strip this caste of partisan Democrat bureaucrats of their power and replace them, if need be, with people approved by someone whose power stems from the voters’ democratic will.
The worst corruption in Washington is the ability of those with lifetime tenure and no legal mandate to thwart the verdict of democracy as they tried to do after 2016 or, as we saw in Mar-a-Lago, act as accomplices to the politicization of justice. Whoever leads the GOP in 2024 must prioritize this plan and truly drain the swamp.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS.org
While Jewish Children in uniform were protecting us, putting their lives on the line, the Gerrerists were beating the crap out of each other!