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California’s taken considerable heat over the years for it’s often irrational left-leaning ideologies. And an article today on FoxNews.com by William La Jeunesse indicates that the criticisms aimed at the state are well deserved.

 

Mr. La Jeunesse writes: “At three inches long, the delta smelt is one of the smallest fish in California -- but ounce for ounce, no species statewide carries more weight.

 

“Endangered since 1993, the plankton-eating silver minnow is blamed by farmers, lawmakers and water officials up and down the Golden State for locking down billions of gallons of water that otherwise would go to them. That's because, since the smelt's listing as a protected species, biologists have tried saving the fish, in part, by withholding fresh river runoff annually to maintain smelt-friendly temperature and salinity levels.”

 

Aside from the fact that there must be some sane way of relocating or protecting the fish, considering the hardship and damage caused to so many citizens, the number of creatures actually involved are minimal at best.

 

“In a March 2012 trawl survey, wildlife officials found 296 fish. An identical sampling a month later found 143. But in April 2015, officials found a single fish, not enough to propagate the species.” Yet, since environmentalists persist unhampered, one has to wonder why there hasn’t been a revolution in the state. Because the drought situation caused to save one fish is beyond unbelievable. Why don't they just put it in a top-line aquarium?

 

Today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife comes from Elizabeth Harrington, a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon.

 

To begin, “The Boston-based health arm of the Clinton Foundation has come under scrutiny for failing to disclose donations from foreign governments—in violation of a pledge Clinton made to the Obama administration before she assumed office as secretary of state.”

 

At the same time, “A Reuters report found that the health initiative stopped making its annual disclosure in 2010 and that “no complete list of donors to the Clintons’ charities has been published” since. The group only recently published a partial donor list, which its spokesperson Maura Daley told Reuters “made up for” CHAI’s “oversight” of failing to meet the disclosure agreement.”

 

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) itself, “is chaired by Bill Clinton and run by the former president’s long-time associate Ira Magaziner, has received $6,010,898 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2010. CHAI, the biggest arm of the Clinton family’s charitable efforts, accounting for 60 percent of all spending, received $3,193,500 in fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012, according to federal contracts, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. The organization received an additional $2,817,398 from the CDC in FYs 2013, 2014, and 2015.”

 

Which means that, if the spending ratios  posted here in yesterday’s chart are correct, of the $12 million or so dollars received, 90% went to the foundation itself for salaries, overhead and expenses. 

 

It’s also likely that many readers will remember CHAI’s chief executive officer and vice chairman, Ira Magaziner. He was, "a 1960s student activist who tried to “convert a small American city into a model of municipal socialism,” and a “long time associate of the Clintons. Magaziner was a Rhodes scholar with Bill Clinton in the late 1960s, a senior advisor in the Clinton White House, and the architect of Hillary Clinton’s failed health-care plan in the 1990s.

 

“Magaziner formerly ran the foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative while also running CHAI, though he ceded control over the environmental group late last year. He was paid $415,000 in salary and consulting fees from the Clinton Foundation in 2013, according to Politico.” Thus, he’s a guy who’s still getting a return for continually paying his dues, and lucky for him, the return certainly keeps going up.

 

Another example of how the foundation performed against its stated goals was shown regarding stimulus grants received.

 

“The Clinton Foundation received another stimulus grant on Sept. 28, 2009 for $639,711, through the Department of Energy. The grant also went to the HEAL program and to “support the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in Arkansas.” 

 

‘”The project is listed as creating zero jobs.”

 

Ron Fournier summed up the current problems of Bill Clinton's wife in his column in National Journal, as follows: “This is not the fault of a vast right-wing conspiracy, sexism, or unfair media coverage. It's the result of actions taken by an experienced and important public servant whose better angels are often outrun by [Hillary Clinton’s] demons—paranoia, greed, entitlement, and an ends-justify-the-means sense of righteousness.” As accurate a description of her as could be found anywhere.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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