as new data about the country's collapsing fertility rates has emerged, concern has deepened over what's causing the changes, whether it constitutes a crisis that will fundamentally change the demographic trajectory of the country — and what should be done about it.Read more here.
Women are now having fewer babies and at older ages than in the past three decades, a change that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported this year, and which was confirmed this week with the release of additional data that shows that the trend holds across races and for urban and rural areas.
The CDC said Wednesday that the total fertility rate — a theoretical figure that estimates the number of births a woman will have in her lifetime — fell by 18 percent from 2007 to 2017 in large metropolitan areas, 16 percent in smaller metro areas and 12 percent in rural areas.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Our country's collapsing fertility rates
Ariana Cha reports in the Washington Post,
Coming to America
Wait a minute: is that the American flag?
Roger L. Simon writes at PJ Media,
Has there been a subject lied about more for a longer time than immigration? Perhaps, but not many.Read more here.
Republicans lie about it. Democrats lie about it until the proverbial cows come home — and then they lie about it some more.
You can start with the term "undocumented immigrants" — a piece of newspeak that would make Orwell blush. The dishonesty all flows from that, as it usually does when the English language is deliberately turned upside down.
...Meanwhile, if there are children involved, left-wing politicos and their press lackeys are all too eager to sponsor this tawdry enterprise in order, they hope, to embarrass Donald Trump. But the truth is they — the lefties — are themselves the child abusers, exploiting not just the immigrants but their kids for political gains.
You can just see them salivating, hoping against hope some ICE meany will separate a few children from their parents. Then they can pounce. Better would be if they could get a picture of a desperate kid crying for mama, even if it's not really his mother or even anybody he's met. Who knows and who cares?
Beyond this dumb show, and far more important in the long run, allowing the U.S. to be an eternal safety valve for Honduras — and other failed states — is the best way to assure those states remain failed. No one will be left to fix them. (That seems to be happening to Venezuela.)
Rather than providing this safety valve, we have a vested interest in the success of the Hondurases of the world, particularly, for our own good, when they are so close to our Southern border. Otherwise, the process will repeat forever. We'll have caravans into the twenty-fifth century.
Nevertheless we absolutely must start by finally closing the door as thoroughly as humanly possible on illegal immigration. Among other things, it would save an extraordinary amount of money that could be used for other purposes if this map published in December 2017 by the Washington Examiner is even close to accurate. It puts the cost of illegals at $89 billion nationally, $23 billion for California alone.
At the same time, a Yale study released last month revealed the unsurprising news that there were 22 million "undocumented immigrants" (of course that's what they called them — it was Yale, after all) in the USA, rather than the 11 million we have been told ad nauseam for years. Who knows if the larger number — slightly more than the population of Florida — is even accurate?
Maybe, just maybe, if we're extremely lucky, this caravan will backfire sufficiently with the public to be blamed for the Republicans holding the House. In that extraordinarily fortuitous case — it could take divine intervention — Congress should move swiftly on new immigration legislation overdue by decades. Of course, we're a nation of immigrants — legal ones.
"He chose how he felt, he wasn’t going to waste time bemoaning his plight, he refused to allow his circumstances to define his dignity, he wasn’t going to give in to self-pity, and he sure as hell wouldn’t allow me to do that as his proxy."
Tom Koulopoulos writes in Innovation Excellence about his years caring for a person named Ali who was quadriplegic.
...What Ali taught me were invaluable lessons we all need to learn: that life is not supposed to be fair; that complaining about our situation is wasted energy; that we always have a choice about how we play the cards we are dealt; and that our attitude is not determined by anything other than our own thoughts.Read more here.
...He chose how he felt, he wasn’t going to waste time bemoaning his plight, he refused to allow his circumstances to define his dignity, he wasn’t going to give in to self-pity, and he sure as hell wouldn’t allow me to do that as his proxy.
If I could list all of the lessons those years taught me I’d be writing a book, not an Inc.com post. So here are the seven most important ones. As you read them think of your own life experiences and ask yourself how you measure up.
1. How you think is how you will feel.
When we find ourselves in situations that cause us to feel depressed, anxious, or angry, our first response can be to find someone or something to blame. We look outside for something to change to make us feel different inside.
2. Others ultimately see you as you see yourself.
3. Complaining is like trying to get out of a hole by using a shovel instead of a ladder.
4. Life isn’t fair and it’s not supposed to be.
...Does fairness challenge you to be creative, to evolve and grow, to reinvent yourself?
...Lesson: Instead of labeling events as fair or unfair think of everything that happens in life, no matter how hard, as an opportunity to learn and grow?
5. Giving up is always an option.
...Lesson: Give yourself credit for not giving up because many others already have.
6. Courage is understanding the only thing you control is how you respond.
Lesson: The situation is not always yours to choose, but your response always is.
7. The greater your discomfort the greater your opportunity to grow.
Lesson: We learn best and grow most when we are challenged and uncomfortable.
In what was one of life’s greatest acts of unfairness, Ali came down with an infection and passed away just weeks before my college graduation. In so many ways, some that I’m still just beginning to realize, I learned lessons from him that have endured longer than those learned in the classrooms and hallowed halls of my alma mater.
On my nightstand for the past four decades has stood a tiny plastic statue that Ali gave me. It me reminds me every morning and night that I have no reason to complain, that life’s greatest lessons about courage, strength, and dignity aren’t learned when we are comfortable, but taught in the midst of life’s greatest discomfort and adversities, by circumstances that none of us would call fair, but which, in the end, are the circumstances that shape and define who we are.
You know what? That’s fair enough!
Democratic mob tactics may actually be working!
Joel Pollock reports in Breitbart,
...Trump has warned voters that Democrats are an “angry mob” — and voters seem to agree, pushing up Republicans’ poll numbers. But polls do not vote — and volunteers may be too afraid of the mob to do what is necessary to make sure Republican voters turn out on Election Day.Read more here.
There is already anecdotal evidence from the field, where Republicans are reluctant to canvass their neighborhoods, or even put up yard signs, lest they face retaliation.
...Trump supporters faced some of the same pressures during the 2016 election — though somewhat less intensely, as Democrats presumed he had no real chance of winning.
He prevailed regardless, because voters still trust the secret ballot. That is why Republicans still have a chance of holding the twenty or so swing districts in November.
But it is easier to turn voters out for a national candidate than for a local one. The political machinery has to be in place.
The midterm election is therefore about much more than which party controls the House. It is about whether the left-wing mob is to be rewarded for its behavior.
If Democrats win, there may be no turning back from the abyss.
Who will be held responsible?
In The Federalist, Margot Cleveland reports,
...the mainstream media took no notice of last week’s federal court filing that exposes an $84 million money-laundering conspiracy the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign executed during the 2016 presidential election in violation of federal campaign-finance law.Read more here.
That lawsuit, filed last week in a DC district court, summarizes the DNC-Clinton conspiracy and provides detailed evidence from Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings confirming the complaint’s allegations that Democrats undertook an extensive scheme to violate federal campaign limits.
Media simply don’t report what they don’t live in and see.
Ken Fisher reports at USA Today,
all five richest states have both legislative chambers controlled by Democrats – Maryland, New Jersey, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Overall, Democrats dominate the 20 richest states.Read more here.
Conventional wisdom has long proclaimed Republicans the party of the rich and Democrats the party of the poor! Forty years ago that was largely true. The poor almost everywhere elected Democrats. That is how most media portray it now.
But media are almost solely big-city based, where the conventional wisdom remains true. Democrats are the party of the urban poor – from Boston to Los Angeles. But at the grassroots level, overall, it isn’t so. Republicans, overall, own America’s low-to-no income vote. Media simply don’t report what they don’t live in and see.
...The balance of power in electing presidents and controlling the Senate lies in the hands of our poor, largely our nonurban poor.
...Eighteen of the 19 poorest states have legislatures where both chambers are Republican controlled. New Mexico (46th richest, fifth poorest) is Democratic. But there isn’t another blue or purple state until you get to purple Maine (31st richest, 20th poorest) with its “split” legislature of one party in each chamber. All the states in between (such as Tennessee and Florida) are Republican, both chambers. So is Michigan, where Republicans hold all high state offices (where Donald Trump won in 2016). Above New Mexico, you jump all the way to middle of the pack Vermont (27th richest, 24th poorest) to find a state with both legislative chambers held by Democrats.
"...But no one can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison."
From today's Lectionary hat tip Bird Dog
James 3:1-12
3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
3:2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.
3:3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies.
3:4 Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
3:5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
:6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
3:7 For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species,
3:8 but no one can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
3:9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God.
3:10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?
3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
James 3:1-12
3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
3:2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.
3:3 If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies.
3:4 Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
3:5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!
:6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
3:7 For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species,
3:8 but no one can tame the tongue--a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
3:9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God.
3:10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water?
3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
How about ending liberal privilege?
Sarah Hoyt writes in PJ Media,
...Being liberal means never having to say you’re sorry.Read more here.
And you know why as well as they do: for near on a hundred years, they’ve had control of the bureaucracy, as well as of those fields that shape the narrative, including the news, entertainment, and literature.
Their crimes are excused, while crimes are invented in the account of everyone who opposes them.
All of which would be galling enough without the newest wrinkle.
It started a long time before the Kavanaugh hearings. For a long time, they’ve been trying to deny anyone to the right of Lenin the rights secured to us by the Constitution of the United States. Their attacks on the Second Amendment are legendary, but lately they’ve been trying to extend the fight. For instance, we’ve seen them not only declare that certain words should be crimes, but working through those companies they control to prevent the free speech of those they don’t like or consider dangerous (often the same thing.)
And in Kavanaugh’s hearing, they tried to deny that anyone they oppose can have the right to due process and the presumption of innocence.
It’s not just that the left wants their own private law. It’s that the rights they’re arrogating for themselves under that de-facto law are the rights all of us are entitled to.
We are not peasants. We will not get in line. And we will continue to demand equality under the law. It’s the least we’re entitled to as Americans: an end to liberal privilege.
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Air Force One in Montana at sunset
President Trump was in Missoula, Montana Thursday night for a rally when this picture was taken of Air Force One at sunset. Picture posted on Twitter by James Woods, who tweeted,
He works for free, endures the vilest abuse from the lowest mob on earth, is attacked by crooked politicians, both foreign and domestic, yet here he is, working to support his fellow patriots. @realDonaldTrump literally saved this nation from a debacle beyond imagination.
He wants a new deal!
Jeffrey Rubin reports in Fox News,
President Trump says he'll pull the U.S. out of its years-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia.
Trump says Moscow has violated the terms of the weapons pact, which dates to 1987, but he offered no further details on Saturday afternoon.
The pact helps protect the security of the U.S. and its allies in Europe and the Far East. It bars its signatories, the U.S. and Russia, from possessing, producing or test-flying a ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.
Trump made the announcement following a campaign stop and Make America Great Again rally in Elko, Nevada.
National Security Adviser John Bolton was headed Saturday to Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. An administrative official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Fox News earlier this week that Bolton would be informing Moscow of the INF pullout during the trip.
“Across two administrations, the United States and our allies have attempted to bring Russia back into full and verifiable compliance with INF," said the source. "Despite our objections, Russia continues to produce and field prohibited cruise missiles and has ignored calls for transparency.”
Said Trump. "We are going to terminate the agreement and then we are going to develop the weapons" unless Russia and China agree to a new deal.
Do you remember Gene Autry?
Mark Steyn celebrates the film and musical contributions of Gene Autry, who died twenty years ago this month.
...He was a perfect gentleman, a living exemplar of his Cowboy Code, whose eternal verities appeared to have passed their sell-by dates by the time he took his leave in Clintonian America, not least Rules Number Three ("The Cowboy must always tell the truth"), Number Eight ("He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action and personal habits") and Number Nine ("He must respect women, parents and his nation's laws").Read more here.
“I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I still consider myself comparatively sane.”
In Real Clear Life, Sean Cunningham writes about Jackie Kennedy Onnasis.
Despite her desire for privacy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was subjected to frequently cruel gossip (often presented in the guise of legitimate journalism) and ultimately wound up literally stripped bare before the world. It would be nice to say this was a horrific but isolated occurrence. Of course, that isn’t the case. Today every woman in the public eye can expect at least some degree of online harassment and hackers particularly love sharing nude photos.Read more here.
Which makes Jackie Kennedy’s quip at a 1979 dinner party still timely today: “I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I still consider myself comparatively sane.”
"If I were the president, I would be on my knees every night, thanking God that my enemies are so stupid."
Oregon Muse writes at Ace of Spades,
"Lizzie 'Notaninjun' Warren has own-goaled herself so badly that down in the Twitter sewers, even hardcore progs are saying 'you know, I hate Trump and everything he stands for, but he sure owned Warren.' No Dems will defend her, Republicans are laughing at her, real Native Americans despise her and are telling her to just shut up. And her nascent 2020 presidential campaign is now a flaming pile of wreckage. Which is kind of sad, because she's still delusional enough to think she can take on Trump in 2020 and it would be very entertaining to watch that debacle. Oh, and speaking of national laughingstocks, did you hear the latest about the creepy porn lawyer? According to the L.A. Times, a federal bankruptcy judge issued a restraining order late Wednesday to block the firm of Michael CPL Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy 'Horseface' Daniels, from spending any fees it collects while it owes more than $10 million in unpaid debts and back taxes. The restraining order covers 54 cases. My question is, why does every one who goes against Trump end up hurting themselves? It's absolutely uncanny. If I were the president, I would be on my knees every night, thanking God that my enemies are so stupid."
Keep it up, Democrats!
For the second time in recent weeks, Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chu have bee accosted in a restaurant. This one was in his home state of Kentucky last night. The incident was photographed on another patron's cell phone, as she excitedly says, "I'm going to sell this to TMZ!" Adam Shaw reports in Fox News here.Click on the link to watch the video.
A fighter
Kristina Wong reports at Breitbart,
Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage is vowing to fight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — all the way up to Supreme Court if necessary — if the social media giant does not reinstate his Facebook pages, which Facebook deleted without warning or explanation.Read more here.
...After months of emailing, he finally had a scheduled appointment with a Facebook executive on October 3, 2018. However, after he raised more than $600,000 in support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Facebook canceled the meeting and deleted both of his pages. To add insult to injury, Kolfage had over the years dropped more than $300,000 in advertising on his pages.
Kolfage said before Kavanaugh, there was never any problem with his page.
“I’m being punished for my beliefs — I truly believe it,” Kolfage. “It’s truly about who we are and our beliefs…right before the elections — it couldn’t be more blatant what’s going on.”
“We need to come together and Zuckerberg needs to get hauled into court,” he said. “We’re going to take him all the way to Supreme Court if we have to. We’re going to fight for the American people and we’re going to fight for everyone who’s been screwed over by them.”
Don't forget Obama's indifference to the death of journalists!
In American Thinker, Daniel John Sobieski writes,
As facts are gathered concerning the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the foreign-policy implications are pondered by a liberal chattering class willing to blame President Trump when a sparrow falls from a tree, consider the reaction by President Barack Hussein Obama to the murder of journalists and the press treatment of a president who actually bowed to a Saudi king.Read more here.
President Trump’s caution against a rush to judgment concerning our Saudi allies has the press moaning that the condemnation of the Saudis is not coming fast enough or will not be harsh enough. Any reaction comes in the context of the need to keep Iran from building a deliverable nuclear weapon or otherwise expanding its hegemony in the Middle East. Listening to Trump’s critics could easily result in a strategic disaster as we sit after the gust clears in our smug anti-Trump motivated self-righteousness/
Journalists should not be slain by authoritarians, tyrants, or ideological fanatics for their views, but they have been, and in the case of President Obama with an attitude of callous indifference. Has the media forgotten the attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which, along with a deli attacked at the same time, the Obama administration dismissed as the victims just being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
The lives of the four Jews killed in a kosher market in Paris were dismissed by Obama as "a bunch of folks in a deli" shot "randomly" as they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
After the attack on that kosher market and on Charlie Hebdo, President Obama didn’t have time to join other world leaders in a moving protest march in the streets of Paris. He did have time to watch an NFL playoff game and welcome the San Antonio Spurs to the White House.
After issuing a perfunctory condemnation of the Islamic State’s beheading of American journalist James Foley, President Obama was moments later on a golf course. The realities of dealing with Islamic terrorism, a phrase that cannot cross his lips, could not be allowed to disturb a President who was contemplating the threat of climate change as he works to correct his slice.
Not only did Obama go golfing after James Foley’s execution, he didn’t do all that much to prevent it, according to Foley’s family:
The Obama administration failed James Foley in the 21 months before the journalist was savagely executed, the dead man's brother charged.
Michael Foley, speaking Friday with Yahoo News, said the beheading of his sibling by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists should change America's handling of similar cases in the future.
"There's more that could have been done directly on Jim's behalf," Michael Foley said in a shot at the White House. "I really, really hope that Jim's death pushes us to take another look at our approach to terrorist and hostage negotiation."
...Critics of President Trump’s handling of the Khashoggi affair ought to revisit President Obama’s indifference to the war on radical Islamic terrorists and the murder of reporters by their bloody hands.
Exceptions
The Babylon Bee reports,
After facing mounting criticism over apparent hypocrisy within its ranks, the movement using the hashtag #BelieveAllWomen has come out with an extensive list of exceptions to its directive to always believe all women no matter what.
While Americans from both sides of the aisle largely agree that women's stories shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, the far left's insistence that everyone always believe all women has gotten some pushback. This list of exceptions is designed to clarify the left's position, according to spokespeople.
Included in the list are the following:
Bill Clinton's accusers
Potiphar's wife
Delilah
Conservative women
Women who accuse Democratic candidates
Sarah Sanders
Any woman the left suddenly decides they don't like anymore
Nikki Haley
Dana Loesch
Women the Democrats no longer have a political need to exploit
Melania Trump
Cersei Baratheon
Any woman who argues for pro-life causes
The full list goes on for another 8,000 pages, explaining exactly which women the left doesn't believe while still proclaiming that everyone should "believe all women."
"This new list lets us be consistent with our rallying cry," said Hillary Clinton. "We can now simultaneously say that we believe all women, while conveniently ignoring or silencing women whose stories conflict with our narrative."
The list is available online in a 587 MB PDF download, or a hard copy of the binders full of women can be purchased from Hillary Clinton's official site.
What is Antifa all about?
Joseph D'Hippolito writes in The Federalist,
...On Saturday, Antifa will join other leftist groups in massive nationwide protests designed to force President Donald Trump’s administration out of office. Organizing those protests is “Refuse Fascism,” which declares that “in the name of humanity, we REFUSE to accept a Fascist America!”Read more here.
Despite antiseptic portrayals throughout American media, Antifa are more than “anti-fascists.” Antifa represent the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic and provide the violent complement to academic neo-Marxism. Like their philosophical comrades, Antifa seek to destroy the American emphasis on liberty under law and to impose a revival of one of history’s most repressive ideologies.
Antifa Is Anti-West and Anti-Capitalist
Bernd Langer, whose “80 Years of Anti-Fascist Action” was published by Germany’s Association for the Promotion of Anti-Fascist Literature, succinctly defined the rhetorical subterfuge. “Anti-fascism is a strategy rather than an ideology,” wrote Langer, a former Antifa member, for “an anti-capitalist form of struggle.”
Short for the German phrase, “Antifaschistische Aktion,” Antifa served as the paramilitary arm of the German Communist Party (KPD), which the Soviet Union funded. In other words, Antifa became the German Communists’ version of the Nazis’ brown-shirted SA.
...Today’s Antifa embrace those roots. During February’s protest in Berkeley, masked Antifa agitators caused nearly $100,000 in damage by starting fires, breaking windows, assaulting bystanders with pepper spray and flagpoles, painting graffiti on nearby businesses, and destroying automatic teller machines. “Refuse Fascism,” the group organizing Saturday’s protests, is controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, which seeks to create a Marxist United States through violent revolution.
Did you know about these sites?
This was sent to my email today from Prager U., which promises that they are fighting back.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Brawl, fistfight, death
Mark Tapscott reports in Lifezette,
Jamal Khashoggi was killed by an unknown person when an argument became physical, and blows were exchanged in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, according to a state media report late Friday.Read more here.
“Discussions between citizen Jamal Khashoggi and those who met him while he was in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul led to a brawl and a fistfight, which led to his death,” the report said, according to multiple U.S. media outlets.
The Saudi state media said the government’s investigation of Khashoggi’s death has resulted in the detention of 18 individuals who apparently had some role in the October 2 incident. The government’s investigation is not yet complete, so some or all of those detained could be released or charged.
In Defense of Goodness and Beauty
Guest post
by Suzann Darnall
I am sickened by what I see as the never-ending assaults on that which is beautiful and good. I realize that not all of us have the same definitions for beauty or good, but I think we often overlap more than we realize. At least, I find that with my conservative family, friends, and acquaintances. Not always so much with those I meet who are more liberal or otherwise different in their viewpoint.
One of the most egregious assaults I see on that which is beautiful and good, is the killing of our unborn children, quite often just ‘cause the child would be inconvenient if born. What is more beautiful than a baby? I fell in love with my children and grandchildren before they were even born. I thought my pregnant belly and the pregnant bellies of my daughters were truly amazing works of science and art that could house an unborn infant and aid in bringing a new life into the world. My father thinks every pregnant woman he sees is beautiful and they should all be treated like queens. My mother and I both think each and every child being born should be celebrated. So, it hurts to know that a segment of the world thinks it is okay to kill these wee treasures. A segment that find pregnancy something to be disdained and not cherished.
In a much less life-or-death situation, I am appalled by the abuse being heaped upon fairy tales in general and the Disney princesses in particular. I mean come on people, fairy tales and Disney princesses are make-believe. They are the stuff of childhood. They are about beautiful people, good overcomes evil, and happy endings. They are now being warped by feminists and their ilk into fictional accounts of rape, assault, patriarchal oppressions, child abuse, and much more. Sorry, not sorry, I do not view them that way at all. But, then again, I like the idea of being rescued by a knight in shining armor riding upon a magnificent steed. I liked playing with dolls. I always think of my husband when I hear the Snow White or Sleeping Beauty sing about their dream prince. I am lucky enough to be married to my Prince Charming, I guess.
The attack on the family is another effort I see to tear down that which is good and beautiful. Family is an integral part of a healthy society. Overreaching government and their minions are working overtime to destroy families. The welfare state, Planned Parenthood, and numerous government entities are directly in opposition to the building of a family and creation of a happy home. Some politicians even believe government should have more to say in the raising of children than parents.
While there are so many more examples of the destruction of beauty and goodness, the last one I am going to cover is the systematic erosion of our religious rights. Such an eating away of these rights directly impacts our ability to worship freely the Creator of all that is virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy. In other words, to celebrate God and the beauty of the world He gave us. We see this one being implemented on many levels, but one which concerns me is that some government entities are even curtailing the freedom of Christian artists to create only that which they wish to create.
We must stand up for that which is good and beautiful. We must fight against those who would impose their ugly views of humanity and the world upon us. Let us celebrate the light, the life, the love, and the laughter. And, along the way, let us elect those who will help us to protect not only the beautiful things in life, but our right to celebrate them as we will. Remember: Red, Right, and Republican are beautiful words when it comes to voting and protecting liberty!!!
by Suzann Darnall
I am sickened by what I see as the never-ending assaults on that which is beautiful and good. I realize that not all of us have the same definitions for beauty or good, but I think we often overlap more than we realize. At least, I find that with my conservative family, friends, and acquaintances. Not always so much with those I meet who are more liberal or otherwise different in their viewpoint.
One of the most egregious assaults I see on that which is beautiful and good, is the killing of our unborn children, quite often just ‘cause the child would be inconvenient if born. What is more beautiful than a baby? I fell in love with my children and grandchildren before they were even born. I thought my pregnant belly and the pregnant bellies of my daughters were truly amazing works of science and art that could house an unborn infant and aid in bringing a new life into the world. My father thinks every pregnant woman he sees is beautiful and they should all be treated like queens. My mother and I both think each and every child being born should be celebrated. So, it hurts to know that a segment of the world thinks it is okay to kill these wee treasures. A segment that find pregnancy something to be disdained and not cherished.
In a much less life-or-death situation, I am appalled by the abuse being heaped upon fairy tales in general and the Disney princesses in particular. I mean come on people, fairy tales and Disney princesses are make-believe. They are the stuff of childhood. They are about beautiful people, good overcomes evil, and happy endings. They are now being warped by feminists and their ilk into fictional accounts of rape, assault, patriarchal oppressions, child abuse, and much more. Sorry, not sorry, I do not view them that way at all. But, then again, I like the idea of being rescued by a knight in shining armor riding upon a magnificent steed. I liked playing with dolls. I always think of my husband when I hear the Snow White or Sleeping Beauty sing about their dream prince. I am lucky enough to be married to my Prince Charming, I guess.
The attack on the family is another effort I see to tear down that which is good and beautiful. Family is an integral part of a healthy society. Overreaching government and their minions are working overtime to destroy families. The welfare state, Planned Parenthood, and numerous government entities are directly in opposition to the building of a family and creation of a happy home. Some politicians even believe government should have more to say in the raising of children than parents.
While there are so many more examples of the destruction of beauty and goodness, the last one I am going to cover is the systematic erosion of our religious rights. Such an eating away of these rights directly impacts our ability to worship freely the Creator of all that is virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy. In other words, to celebrate God and the beauty of the world He gave us. We see this one being implemented on many levels, but one which concerns me is that some government entities are even curtailing the freedom of Christian artists to create only that which they wish to create.
We must stand up for that which is good and beautiful. We must fight against those who would impose their ugly views of humanity and the world upon us. Let us celebrate the light, the life, the love, and the laughter. And, along the way, let us elect those who will help us to protect not only the beautiful things in life, but our right to celebrate them as we will. Remember: Red, Right, and Republican are beautiful words when it comes to voting and protecting liberty!!!
"Everyone should embrace both due process and the presumption of innocence because everyone might need these themselves one day"
In Commentary, Christine Rosen writes,
...something unexpected happened on the way to his character assassination: Kavanaugh defended himself and was defended by others, including many women. Where feminists wanted women to see themselves in the seat Christine Blasey Ford occupied, many instead saw their sons or husbands or brothers sitting in the chair where Kavanaugh sat.Read more here.
...What radical feminist theorists have long been arguing—that there is no such thing as true consent because of patriarchy and that all women are potential victims of men—has reached full flower.
...The answer isn’t reeducation in radical feminist notions of men’s innately violent natures. It’s raising boys and girls to treat one another with respect and to uphold gender-free values such as the presumption of innocence and due process and equal opportunity. Civil society relies on due process not only because it’s an objective good (though it is). Everyone should embrace both due process and the presumption of innocence because everyone might need these themselves one day, regardless of his or her gender.
Maybe we haven't been looking hard enough!
The Economist asks,
Why have humans never found aliens?Read more here.
...“IF ALIENS are so likely, why have we never seen any?” That is the Fermi Paradox—named after Enrico Fermi, a physicist who posed it in 1950.
Fermi’s argument ran as follows. The laws of nature supported the emergence of intelligent life on Earth. Those laws are the same throughout the universe. The universe contains zillions of stars and planets. So, even if life is unlikely to arise on any particular astronomical body, the sheer abundance of creation suggests the night sky should be full of alien civilisations.
...In a paper published last month on arXiv, an online repository, a trio of astronomers at Pennsylvania State University have analysed the history of alien-hunting and come to a different conclusion. In effect, they reject one of the paradox’s main pillars. Astronomers have seen no sign of aliens, argue Jason Wright and his colleagues, because they have not been looking hard enough.
Dr Wright’s argument echoes that made by another astronomer, Jill Tarter, in 2010. Dr Tarter reckoned that decades of searching had amounted to the equivalent of dipping a drinking glass into Earth’s oceans at random to see if it contained a fish. Dr Wright and his colleagues built on Dr Tarter’s work to come up with a model that tries to estimate the amount of searching that alien-hunters have managed so far. They considered nine variables, including how distant any putative aliens are likely to be, the sensitivity of telescopes, how big a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum they are able to scan and the time spent doing so. Once the numbers had been crunched, the researchers reckoned humanity has done slightly better than Dr Tarter suggested. Rather than dipping a drinking glass into the ocean, they say, astronomers have dunked a bathtub. The upshot is that it is too early to assume no aliens exist. Fermi’s question is, for now at least, not a true paradox.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Is the Trump administration willing to support revolution in Iran?
Whenever I see that Michael Ledeen has written something about Iran I click to read it because he is the foremost expert on the subject. I wish Trump would hire him to develop policy on Iran. Anyway, here he writes at PJ Media. Ledeen writes that the central issue
is how to best promote the downfall of the Islamic Republic.Read more here.
...If revolution were the consequence of misery, we’d see massive uprisings in North Korea and much of sub-Saharan Africa, as in Cuba. We’d expect Venezuela to join the heap of failed states most any day. But these revolutionary events are not taking place. Turmoil and misery abound, but the regimes hold fast.
Look at Iran today and you will see the streets full of protesters who want the end of the forty-year-old theocracy. Teachers, truck drivers, and bazaaris are all striking. Students, especially at universities, are leaving their classes to demonstrate against the regime. Even the Iranian Arabs in the oil-rich area near Basra are walking off the job, threatening natural gas and oil production. They are deliberately impoverishing themselves in order to promote revolution. It’s not a demand for higher income; it is mostly a revolt against a failed regime and in favor of greater freedom.
If you want to bring down the Islamic Republic, which should be the goal of a sensible Iran policy, you should actively support the strikers and demonstrators, rather than increase the misery of the people. How should you do that? First of all, by remembering how we did it to the Soviet Union. The dissidents needed better information about what was going on all over the empire. They needed to communicate with one another, and we enabled that by direct broadcasting via Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, and Radio Liberty. Moreover, we provided them with fax machines, the technological breakthrough that created an active network throughout the Soviet bloc.
Today, we should actively strengthen our Farsi-language radio and television broadcasting, and provide the millions of Iranian dissidents with technology to thwart internet censorship and expose the myriad failures of the mullahcracy.
We have nothing approaching such a strategy, nor are we even in ongoing collaboration with the dissidents. This must be reckoned a significant failure.
If we could effectively support the relatively small number of anti-Soviet revolutionaries, we can surely do the same for the enormous number of anti-mullah Iranians.
Economic warfare and fierce speeches alone will not bring down the Islamic Republic. Our greatest weapon is political, as the Soviet example proved. But our strategists, administration after administration, are unwilling to support revolution in Tehran, and there is no sign a change is in the works. It will not “just happen” when some imagined economic/social tipping point is passed.
Obama wanted a strategic alliance with Iran, which he infamously accomplished. Trump and Pompeo don’t want that. But they have still not embraced a strategy to defeat Khamenei and his henchmen. They say they want a change in regime behavior, but they cannot have that without regime change. They can accomplish that, but only if they fight for it.
A visit to Japan
Bookworm has just returned from a visit to Japan. She writes about it and supplies some photos. Her last two paragraphs:
Japan is such a high functioning society. It’s clean, well-organized, hard-working, polite, beautiful, productive, safe, and harmonious. In each of those ways, it really is an apex of civilization.Read the whole thing here.
There are downsides, of course: A stifling conformity (or at least stifling by American standards), a high suicide rate, the seemingly sad and almost desperate lives of salarymen, the weird sexlessness of Japanese life, and, perhaps as a consequence of that sexlessness, a dramatic population decline. Still, comparing these problems to the poverty, dirty, despair, crime, violence, etc., found in so many other parts of the world . . . well, I think Japan comes off looking pretty darn good.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Trump forces the media to cover issues they would rather avoid. They hate him so much.
Like me, Andrew is fascinated by the Khashoggi case. He quipped that Crown Prince MBS must have dropped out of Evil Dictator School because he isn't a very good evil dictator. On this issue Trump is being the grown up in the room, waiting to get facts. He also mentions, by the way, that the Saudis have agreed to purchase $450 billion in things from us and another contract for $110 billion. Then CNN and MSNBC throw their garbage at Trump in several videos Andrew plays, twisting every story to their Left-wing purposes, creating an atmosphere that something is terribly wrong when nothing is wrong! Setting the narrative, making it seem that everything is about Trump. We keep hearing there is a crisis in this country. There is a crisis, a crisis of insanity because of these media pundits controlling the narrative.
Facebook or Twitter has suspended Gay Patriot, not Louis Farrakhan. They only suspend people on the right. Let Americans talk it out! Don't censor us!
Eric Metaxas is Andrew's guest. He has co-written a children's book entitled Donald Drains the Swamp. He actually conceived the book as a humor book for adults.
Metaxas quotes Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living. (Then he went out and killed himself). Eric does Socrates in the City videos. Here is one called, If You Can Keep It.
Like me, Andrew is fascinated by the Khashoggi case. He quipped that Crown Prince MBS must have dropped out of Evil Dictator School because he isn't a very good evil dictator. On this issue Trump is being the grown up in the room, waiting to get facts. He also mentions, by the way, that the Saudis have agreed to purchase $450 billion in things from us and another contract for $110 billion. Then CNN and MSNBC throw their garbage at Trump in several videos Andrew plays, twisting every story to their Left-wing purposes, creating an atmosphere that something is terribly wrong when nothing is wrong! Setting the narrative, making it seem that everything is about Trump. We keep hearing there is a crisis in this country. There is a crisis, a crisis of insanity because of these media pundits controlling the narrative.
Facebook or Twitter has suspended Gay Patriot, not Louis Farrakhan. They only suspend people on the right. Let Americans talk it out! Don't censor us!
Eric Metaxas is Andrew's guest. He has co-written a children's book entitled Donald Drains the Swamp. He actually conceived the book as a humor book for adults.
Metaxas quotes Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living. (Then he went out and killed himself). Eric does Socrates in the City videos. Here is one called, If You Can Keep It.
Jesse Lee Peterson on spiritual battles
Earlier tonight I posted episode 595 of the Andrew Klavan podcasts. I neglected to write about what Jessie Lee Peterson had to say about racism. He says it is an illusion. He didn't hear the word racism growing up. He heard that it was a spiritual battle; warfare between good and evil. We should judge people based on character. You can resolve problems if you see them for what they are: right or wrong. Are there racists? No, there are haters. In your fallen spiritual state you have anger because you have fallen away from God. They are playing God by judging and hating their fellow man. See injustice but don't let it blind you. If it blinds you, you are now subject to it! Forgive whomever you are angry at. When you forgive them, God will forgive you! He will take that spirit of darkness away and allow you to see that it has nothing to do with color; it is either right or wrong, good or evil; it is spiritual!
His discussion of the spiritual battles begins at about the 17:45 mark and lasts for just a couple of minutes. He gives us a lot to think about!
His discussion of the spiritual battles begins at about the 17:45 mark and lasts for just a couple of minutes. He gives us a lot to think about!
The counterrevolution...of nature!
Michael Walsh writes in American Greatness,
Since November 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president, the American Left has been engaged in one long crackup—a juvenile tantrum of epic proportions marked by hideous screams, rolling eyes, copious tears, foam-flecked lips, and flailing fists and feet that finally allows us to see them for what they really are: a giant 2-year-old in the midst of a frustrated, impotent meltdown.Read more here.
...In public policy, the Left is obsessed (of course) with the Marxist categories of race, sex, and class, but those problems having largely been addressed, it must create new sub-categories of “underprivileged” in order to stoke and keep the home fires of resentment burning. So it’s easy for them to see bearded “women” winning female athletic competitions as both victims and heroes, who simultaneously need to be defended from the yahoos, and celebrated for their “bravery.”
...During the eight years of the Obama Administration, this sort of nuttiness was not only tolerated but advocated—mostly, one suspects, pour épater la bourgeoisie. Ascendant Leftists like nothing better than to rub their ideological opponents’ noses in their newly minted delusions, forcing the troglodytes to submit to their increasingly outré notions of normality. In politics, such manifestly absurd notions as “leading from behind” and “soft power” brought only disaster in the realm of foreign policy, emboldening opportunistic jackals like Vladimir Putin and the radical Islamists to whittle away at civilization’s edges, while costing American lives in a literally insane attempt to prove a counterfactual.
...And now the Left knows it, too; hence their inchoate rage. For leftists are not so much reacting to the gleeful rejection of their crackpot policies as they are to their own realization that their policies were, in fact, lunacy. Men are not women. Inaction is not action. History does not unfold in an “arc” that bends toward their definition of justice. Up is not down. Black is not white. Cultural traditions are not arbitrary impositions from authority, but the residue of millennia of experience. In short, definitions matter—names matter—and truth follows.
...just because some might call a man a “woman,” or a woman a “man,” doesn’t make it so. This infuriates those for whom the power of the transgressive fantasy is more potent and palatable than reality. But when the gap between what the Left believes to be true and what actually is true become unbridgeable—even by their febrile minds and hyperactive imaginations, and fueled by their satanic rage against the natural order of things—then they cannot help but tumble into the pit.
What’s happening right now is the counterrevolution—not of conservatives, or Republicans, or Trump, but of nature, which always reasserts itself, sometimes in very unpleasant but nonetheless instructive ways. The Greeks called the defiance of the gods and the natural order hubris,which inevitably sent folks like Icarus plunging to their doom. That screeching you hear is not the Left venting its anger at the heavens; it’s the sound of the sheer terror that now possesses them as they plummet to their doom—realizing, too late, that all along they have been dead wrong.
Do you know about Fabian Socialists?
Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse writes today about Fabian Socialists.
A tireless movement of Fabian Socialists with a history of long-term strategy were behind the rise of the EU as a collective union.Read more here.
The Fabian’s come in a variety of sub-forms: Globalists, Socialists, Communists, Keynesians, The Open Border Crowd, et al. However, the central DNA which aligns them all is a general view of a Central Planning Authority with control over the individual.
Fabian’s generally support a principle that human activity is able to be controlled toward a “better outcome”. They believe central planning by a central body can create a fundamentally better society than if individuals were left to their own decisions.
Morocco, Tunisia and Libya were the primary migration gateways – the secondary Gateway was Turkey. However, when the EU economy could no longer afford the assimilation the EU national anxiety fomented as civil unrest.
After a few bad economic years you began to see visible strains inside the individual EU nations.
Eventually, the collapse of various EU currencies began an irreversible situation where socioeconomic stresses created real pressure and violence erupted. Eventually leading to political leaders beginning to outline the broad failure of multiculturalism.
Immigration had to be stopped – it was destroying the EU and worsening the civil unrest.
So the EU governing body made a strategic decision to payoff the gatekeepers to shut-down the immigration. By himself, Libyan leader Gadaffi was paid €5,000,000,000 (yes, billion) to stop the now considered “undesirables” from leaving North Africa.
Gaddaffi and Ben Ali (Tunisia) did just that. They shut the gates and stopped the immigrants from crossing the Mediterranean.
In North West Africa, Morocco, bowing to the demands of the EU, did the same.
But this created a serious bottleneck of African immigrants who were still flowing North from their initial homeland while escaping violence and bloodshed which had broken out throughout various countries in the African continent.
Free to monopolize and dominate
In this episode, Andrew's guest is Jesse Lee Peterson, a wise man and pastor. His comments on race are particularly worth hearing.
Andrew opens the mailbag to answer questions. A woman had a miscarriage, got depressed, started getting drunk regularly, and cheated on her boyfriend. To unfairly abbreviate what Andrew answered: dump her.
Another guy often feels anxious. He has finally found someone (at work) whom he really likes and he wants to get to know her better. Andrew tells him to deal with his anxiety, perhaps through psychotherapy, then let the woman know you are attracted to her.
A woman wanted to know how he developed characters in his screenplay for the Gosnell movie. He talked about seeing events through the eyes of the character.
In commenting on the news, Andrew talks about the monopoly of big tech. When they get this big they become socialists because that leaves them free to monopolize and dominate.
Andrew opens the mailbag to answer questions. A woman had a miscarriage, got depressed, started getting drunk regularly, and cheated on her boyfriend. To unfairly abbreviate what Andrew answered: dump her.
Another guy often feels anxious. He has finally found someone (at work) whom he really likes and he wants to get to know her better. Andrew tells him to deal with his anxiety, perhaps through psychotherapy, then let the woman know you are attracted to her.
A woman wanted to know how he developed characters in his screenplay for the Gosnell movie. He talked about seeing events through the eyes of the character.
In commenting on the news, Andrew talks about the monopoly of big tech. When they get this big they become socialists because that leaves them free to monopolize and dominate.
Mysterious polio-like illness leaving some children suffering from paralysis
Leslie Eastman reports at Legal Insurrection,
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now reporting that there are now more than 125 confirmed or suspected cases of acute flaccid myelitis, a condition affecting children across the nation and leaving them paralyzed.Read more here.
Federal health officials released the updated numbers on Tuesday, and said they still had no idea what was causing the spike in AFM cases or why kids were getting it in the first place.
“We understand that people, particularly parents, are concerned,” said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director for the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, during a teleconference call with reporters.
“There is a lot we don’t know about AFM, and I am frustrated that despite all of our efforts, we haven’t been able to identify the cause of this mystery."
...Symptoms include drooping face and eyelids, difficulty with eye movement and swallowing, and slurred speech. In severe cases, children might have trouble breathing and need a ventilator because of muscle weakness.
"Honestly, it's not for everyone!"
Jared Gilmour writes in the Wichita Eagle,
Potential tourists can’t say Nebraska didn’t warn them.
Nebraska’s tourism commission announced Wednesday that the tagline for its new tourism campaign is “Nebraska: Honestly, it’s not for everyone.”
It’s a concession — said with quirky, self-effacing charm — that Nebraska promoters hope will highlight what the state does provide to potential vacationers: Outdoor recreation, natural beauty, an escape from the city and a connection to the West.
“We discovered that we can’t offer something to everyone — but to those that we can, this campaign speaks to their sense of adventure and discovering what we as Nebraskans are all about,” Deb Loseke, chair of the Nebraska Tourism Commission, said in a statement.
A federal judge is amazed that State Department officials lied to him!
17 months after Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the State Department asking about Hillary Clinton's security clearance, he finally got a response from the State Department. Her security clearance has been revoked at her request! So reports Trace Gallagher at Fox News.
In related news, Gregg Re reports at Fox,
In related news, Gregg Re reports at Fox,
In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing "clearly false" affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.Read more here.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said he was "shocked" and "dumbfounded" when he learned that FBI had granted immunity to former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills during its investigation into the use of Clinton's server, according to a court transcript of his remarks.
"I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case," Lamberth said during Friday's hearing.
...Four Americans were killed in the attack on the Benghazi embassy, and the Clinton State Department was faulted for ignoring security concerns in the run-up to the attack, contributing to the poor defense posture at the post.
Hitting a grand slam in the victimhood World Series
In Town Hall, Kurt Schlichter writes,
...it’s the liberal elite that actually imagines that we buy into the same bizarre constellation of racial weirdness that dominates their clique. They rank and rate everyone by their perceived position in the grand hierarchy of grievances. Warren gets 5 victim points for being a girl, and 20 points for being an Indian. If she only dug chicks, wore a burka, and had a limp, she would hit a grand slam in the victimhood World Series.Read more here.
It’s all just so weird, basing your self-image on who your grandmother was. And in the Commie Squaw’s case, it’s her great-great-great-great-great-great grandma. It's even creepier basing your views of others on the same meaningless criteria.
But how are we supposed to react? Are we supposed to take them seriously? Nah. We look at people for who they are. Some guy used to call our criteria for evaluating others “the content of their character,” but our alleged betters now dismiss that crazy talk as the ravings of some Christian kook mansplaining away his privilege. We live in the real world, where this nuttiness doesn’t fly, as opposed to an elite that lives in the institutional nuthouses of academia, the media, and the Democrat Party where this nonsense is their secular religion. With them, it’s a constant struggle of the unoppressed oppressed bickering over the spoils of victimhood.
Our president does not like deals that are unfair to the U.S.!
Alexa Lardieri reports in USNews,
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the United States will be withdrawing from the U.N. agency that oversees postal rates around the world out of frustration with the discounts given to China and some other countries that allow them to ship products to America at cheaper rates than those paid by U.S. companies to ship domestically.Read more here.
The international agreement determines the rates that postal services can charge to deliver mail and packages that originate with foreign carriers. The disparity – which allows Chinese manufacturers to sell low-priced consumer goods at a competitive advantage – is because China is in a category for developing nations, and the union has allowed those nations to pay lower rates than wealthier nations.
A statement from the White House says President Donald Trump agrees with an August report by the State Department concluding that not enough progress had been made on reforming the Acts of the Universal Postal Union. The report outlined steps the U.S. could take to address the issues, and Trump backed the recommendation to enact self-declared rates by no later than Jan. 1, 2020.
...According to the statement, the State Department will attempt to negotiate agreements that address the issues highlighted in the report. If the negotiations are successful, the administration will remain in the union. If not, the U.S. will withdraw and the United States Postal Service will determine its own shipping rates for international goods.
The administration official told The Hill that the discrepancy in countries' rates has cost the United States $300 million a year, which is a "major economic distortion" that impacts U.S. companies and trade.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
How they do it
John Hudson reports in the Washington Post,
The United States received a payment of $100 million from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Riyadh to discuss the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a State Department official confirmed Wednesday amid global calls for answers in the case.Read more here.
Maxine Waters charged with ethics violations faces trial before a Congressional committee
Stephanie Condon reports in CBSNews,
Tom Murse reported in ThoughtCo,
This has been going on since 2010? They sure take their time!
The House ethics committee today released three charges of ethical wrongdoing against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California.
Tom Murse reported in ThoughtCo,
Back-to-back charges against two veteran members of Congress in the summer of 2010 cast an unflattering light on the Washington establishment and its historic inability to mete out justice among members who stray beyond ethical boundaries they helped to draw.Read more here.
In July of 2010, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct charged U.S. Representative. Charles B. Rangel, a Democrat from New York, with 13 violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental income he received from his villa in the Dominican Republic. Also in that year, the Office of Congressional Ethics charged U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, with allegedly using her office to provide assistance to a bank in which her husband owned stock to ask for federal government bailout money.
The potential for highly publicized trials in both cases raised the question: How often has Congress expelled one its own? The answer is–not very.
Types of Punishment
There are several major types of punishment members of Congress can face:
Expulsion
The most serious of penalties is provided for in Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution, which states that "each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member." Such moves are considered matters of self-protection of the integrity of the institution.
Censure
A less severe form of discipline, censure does not remove representatives or senators from office. Instead, it is a formal statement of disapproval that can have a powerful psychological effect on a member and his relationships. The House, for example, requires members being censured to stand at the "well" of the chamber to receive a verbal rebuke and reading of the censure resolution by the Speaker of the House.
Reprimand
Used by the House, a reprimand is considered a lesser level of disapproval of the conduct of a member than that of a "censure," and is thus a less severe rebuke by the institution. A resolution of reprimand, unlike a censure, is adopted by a vote of the House with the member "standing in his place," according to House rules.
Suspension
Suspensions involve a prohibition on a member of the House from voting on or working on legislative or representational matters for a particular time. But according to congressional records, the House has in recent years questioned its authority to disqualify or mandatorily suspend a member.
This has been going on since 2010? They sure take their time!
4,000 now on their way to U.S. from Honduras and Guatamala
NBC is reporting,
I believe the Democrats and/or Soros-type organizations are involved in this as a scheme to increase their voter turnout for the November 6 midterm elections. Remember how much hay they made with the press publicizing children being separated from their families by that mean Trump administration? It worked for them, nothing else has, so they are going back to it!
A caravan of migrants fleeing Honduras has grown to 4,000, and the Mexican government has sent 500 additional federal police to its border with Guatemala in anticipation of their arrival, according to U.S. government documents obtained by NBC News.Read more here.
Part of the caravan, which has split into two groups, is approaching the Mexico-Guatemala border amid a surge in border crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border.
...Trump has threatened to cut aid to Honduras and Guatemala if their governments do not stop the caravan. It remains to be seen what pressure the United States will put on Mexico, but a senior Homeland Security official said border agents were hopeful that State Department negotiations would significantly curb the numbers that reach the United States.
I believe the Democrats and/or Soros-type organizations are involved in this as a scheme to increase their voter turnout for the November 6 midterm elections. Remember how much hay they made with the press publicizing children being separated from their families by that mean Trump administration? It worked for them, nothing else has, so they are going back to it!
Time to Break Up Big Tech?
Scott Galloway has a best selling book entitled,
Here are some Galloway quotes.
Galloway:
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.Chateau Heartiste quotes from it in writing about Amazon.
Here are some Galloway quotes.
Since the Great Recession, Amazon has paid just $1.4 billion in corporate taxes compared to Walmart’s $64 billion. ... In 2017, Amazon paid nothing in federal tax.CH writes,
...Its ostensible search for the next city to house its second headquarters has become “the Olympics on steroids,” Galloway says, with state and local governments promising tax breaks that would starve funding for schools, police and fire departments. We have a new national holiday, Amazon Prime Day. Alexa and Echo, Amazon’s cloud-based voice-operated systems, sit in an estimated 40 million homes and spy on us, reporting our moods, tastes, wants, needs and fears back to HQ.
Yet we don’t fear Alexa.
(Bezos) hates President Trump, as evident by the daily TDS droppings of the newspaper he owns, the Washington Post-Op. If Bezos gets his greedy mitts on a monopolistic stranglehold of streaming video, you can just imagine the amount of anti-Trump, anti-White, anti-American bilge that would spill forth every minute of every day. “93% negative stories on Trump? We can hit 100%! (with no pee breaks)”
Galloway:
We have become equally complacent while technology mauls our economy, he says. “We seem to be comfortable, at least in tech, with the 8,000 people who work at headquarters splitting $80 billion in revenue,” while lower-wage workers struggle to get by. Business Insider reported that as of this year, Amazon was among the top companies whose employees relied on food stamps. And that $15 minimum wage? In exchange, the company quietly cut monthly bonuses and stock options.CH finishes the post:
...This complicated problem, he says, has a simple answer: Break up Big Tech.
“The key to competitive markets is that no one entity has too much control of the marketplace,” he says, adding that no other company has violated anti-trust over the past 100 years as Amazon and its ilk. Bezos’ recent support for a universal basic income is alarming, Galloway writes, because it means he sees a near future in which Big Tech permanently puts people out of work.
...“Ma Bell couldn’t have been easy to break up, and we unleashed 30 years of incredible innovation,” Galloway says. “Teddy Roosevelt broke up the railroads. If the Department of Justice hadn’t moved in on Microsoft [in 1998], do you think we would have Google? We don’t break companies up because they’re evil or take jobs or don’t pay taxes. We do it because it’s time.”
Bezos is the villain who immiserates the “Forgotten Americans” Trump vowed to protect. So why isn’t Trump taking action? What’s staying his hand? It’s obvious Bezos fears an anti-trust suit; he’s busy paying off a small army of congressmen to do his bidding and cuck on cue before the almighty Amazon. Is the weak link Jeff Sessions?
Trump should make anti-trust and the Wall his defining issues in 2019 if he wants to lock up 2020.
Trump gives an interview to three AP journalists
Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse brings us a transcript of an interview President Trump gave to three Journalists from AP. Read more here.
Ain't it the truth?
The Coyote Principle
CALIFORNIA
• The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor.
• The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
• He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
• He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.
• The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
• The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
• The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.
• The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
• The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training for the nature of coyotes.
• PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.
TEXAS
• The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
• The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
• The buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
Hat tip Bob Hicks
CALIFORNIA
• The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor.
• The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
• He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
• He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.
• The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
• The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
• The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.
• The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
• The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training for the nature of coyotes.
• PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.
TEXAS
• The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
• The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
• The buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
Hat tip Bob Hicks
Hillary crashes her SUV.
Yes, she was driving! As Ace wrote, she had a mechanic assert that the car was suffering from Automotive Pneumonia.
LIVE LOOK at @HillaryClinton trying to save @SenatorMenendez. (Spoiler alert: she crashes.) #NJSen pic.twitter.com/7poUpIYxl6
— The Senate Majority (@NRSC) October 16, 2018
Exposing the Left's ferocious hate for blacks who dare to think for themselves
In FrontPage Magazine, Bruce Thornton exposes the Left's ferocious hate for blacks who dare to think for themselves. Read it here.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Ask her out!
Subscribers call into the Conversation. Here are some of the answers Andrew gave to some of the questions that subscribers asked.
If you act well in joy, then you will be an advertisement for virtue. If you are miserable but act virtuously you will not be a good advertisement for virtue.
Life is good. That is the greatest truth. Life is also suffering. If you choose to live, suffering will be a part of life that you will experience. "To be or not to be" is actually the question.
What makes the Gosnell movie about abortion? Because the media won't cover it because they think it is about abortion! They didn't cover the trial. They didn't cover the story (book). They won't cover the movie. Are they experiencing shame and guilt?
Who are Andrew's favorite writers? Number one is Shakespeare. He also mentions Dickens. But Andrew's favorites are American tough guy writers such as Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hamit. He believes in fast-moving American prose that gets you where you want to go, the American vernacular. Stories that have insight into human life.
Why sabotage yourself? God will give you insights into why you are sabotaging yourself if you go to Him in prayer. By talking to a psychotherapist you can avoid walking through a minefield. Instead, you can walk through a field of traps and see where they are. Ask God for help and follow His will instead of your will. Almost all of us want things for our lives that are actually not the things we should want.
Obama used political correctness and cultural issues to distract from his failing policies.
Andrew's favorite movie musical is Singin' In The Rain. Stage favorites: Sweeney Todd and Arcadia.
The government has the power to protect you from me, but it doesn't have the power to protect me from me!
Drugs steal the souls of users.
Saying you are afraid is fine, but acting on your fear is not so fine. Ask her out! Courage is not not having fear; it is having the fear and doing what you gotta do! The more you do it, the more you can do it!
Don't be careful about what you say; be careful about the way you say it! Don't confuse courage with rudeness.
Boys need to get outside! Boys deal with objects better than they deal with relationships. They relate to each other through objects (like sports). That is why science and technology are things boys naturally gravitate toward.
If you act well in joy, then you will be an advertisement for virtue. If you are miserable but act virtuously you will not be a good advertisement for virtue.
Life is good. That is the greatest truth. Life is also suffering. If you choose to live, suffering will be a part of life that you will experience. "To be or not to be" is actually the question.
What makes the Gosnell movie about abortion? Because the media won't cover it because they think it is about abortion! They didn't cover the trial. They didn't cover the story (book). They won't cover the movie. Are they experiencing shame and guilt?
Who are Andrew's favorite writers? Number one is Shakespeare. He also mentions Dickens. But Andrew's favorites are American tough guy writers such as Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hamit. He believes in fast-moving American prose that gets you where you want to go, the American vernacular. Stories that have insight into human life.
Why sabotage yourself? God will give you insights into why you are sabotaging yourself if you go to Him in prayer. By talking to a psychotherapist you can avoid walking through a minefield. Instead, you can walk through a field of traps and see where they are. Ask God for help and follow His will instead of your will. Almost all of us want things for our lives that are actually not the things we should want.
Obama used political correctness and cultural issues to distract from his failing policies.
Andrew's favorite movie musical is Singin' In The Rain. Stage favorites: Sweeney Todd and Arcadia.
The government has the power to protect you from me, but it doesn't have the power to protect me from me!
Drugs steal the souls of users.
Saying you are afraid is fine, but acting on your fear is not so fine. Ask her out! Courage is not not having fear; it is having the fear and doing what you gotta do! The more you do it, the more you can do it!
Don't be careful about what you say; be careful about the way you say it! Don't confuse courage with rudeness.
Boys need to get outside! Boys deal with objects better than they deal with relationships. They relate to each other through objects (like sports). That is why science and technology are things boys naturally gravitate toward.
Trump warns Honduras to stop caravan of migrants or lose US aid.
S.A. Miller reports in the Washington Times,
President Trump on Tuesday said he warned Honduras to stop a caravan of more than 1,000 migrants headed for the United States or else lose American aid.
“The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!” Mr. Trumptweeted.
The caravan of at least 1,600 crossed Monday into Guatemala, chanting “yes we can” as they defied the Guatemalan governments orders to stop.
Mr. Trump made a similar threat in April when a caravan of more than 1,200 migrants left Honduras for the U.S. That time, the caravan dwindled as it approached the U.S. border, thanks in part to Mexico granting refugee status to some participants.
On Monday, about 250 police at the Guatemalan border stopped the caravan for about three hours Monday before relenting and allowing the migrants to pass.
The caravan began as about 160 people who first gathered early Friday to depart from San Pedro Sula, one of Honduras‘ most dangerous places, figuring that traveling as a group would make them less vulnerable to robbery, assault and other dangers common on the migratory path through Central America and Mexico.
Local media coverage prompted hundreds more to join, and Dunia Montoya, a volunteer assisting the migrants, estimated Sunday that the group had grown to at least 1,600 people. Police gave their own estimate of around 2,000 on Monday.
• This article is based in part on wire service reports.
There's hope for us!
Can you believe it? This tech expert who calls himself "the most connected man in the world" predicts that we will no longer be looking at the screens of smartphones in ten years. Screenless AI will take their place. Read more here.
Amazon to help the Pentagon, while Google helps the Communist Chinese
Have you noticed that Google backed out of doing work to aid the US Department of Defense, but is moving forward with plans to help China censor its own people?
At the same time Jeff Bezos plans to go forward with Amazon's project to help the Pentagon with cloud services. "If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the US Department of Defense this country is going to be in trouble."
At the same time Jeff Bezos plans to go forward with Amazon's project to help the Pentagon with cloud services. "If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the US Department of Defense this country is going to be in trouble."
Khashoggi's connections
JJ Sefton wrote yesterday in the of Ace of Spades blog,
The other big story continues to be the fallout with this Jamal Khashoggi Washington Post correspondent who went missing in Istanbul and has been presumed to have been assassinated by the Saudis. While the media here and abroad is desperate to use this as some sort of cudgel to beat the President with and perhaps split our alliance with the KSA, some interesting developments have come to light. It turns out that Khashoggi is not only vehemently opposed to the reform-minded young Saudi Prince and his agenda, he is/was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, has a connection to Osama Bin Laden and, surprise-surprise! the mullahs in Iran.
Questions about the Khashoggi affair
In The Federalist, Lee Smith has ten questions that need to be answered before buying the press narrative on the disappearance of Khashoggi.
. Is There Evidence Khashoggi Was Murdered?Read more here.
...In one of the few leaks from the U.S. government, an intelligence official told CNN there is no hard evidence as to whether Khashoggi is dead or alive.
Why Has Turkey Asked Saudi Arabia to Join Its Khashoggi Investigative Team? ...This makes no sense. If Saudi Arabia is suspected of abducting or killing Khashoggi, its involvement in the investigation would compromise the probe, even giving a potential suspect opportunity to tamper with evidence. Further, if there is audio and video evidence that a Saudi team killed Khashoggi, as Turkish and U.S. media report, there is no need for an investigation—the case has already been solved.
Are Internal Turkish Issues a Factor in the Khashoggi Affair? ...The discipline shown in the messaging campaign—accuse Riyadh through leaks and reveal nothing in public—suggests Erdogan is managing the Khashoggi file directly.
What Does the Khashoggi Affair Have to Do with the Gulf Cooperation Council Cold War? ...it’s clear that Erdogan sees the Khashoggi affair as an opportunity to advance Turkish interests against Qatar’s rivals.
Is the Release of Pastor Brunson Related to the Khashoggi Affair? ...There were rumors in July of a deal to free Brunson. The United States helped win the release of a Turkish terror suspect held by Israel, but instead of releasing Brunson, Ankara put him under house arrest. The Trump administration sanctioned Turkish officials, and warned that an already damaged Turkish economy was vulnerable to more sanctions. ...The fact that Ankara is bargaining with Riyadh suggests that the Turks were looking to improve their position by giving the Trump administration something it wanted. Thus the release of Brunson is almost certainly related to the Khashoggi affair.
Did U.S. Intelligence Know the Saudis Were Planning an Operation Targeting Khashoggi?
How Did a Man with Extensive Ties to Intelligence Services as Well as Extremist Groups Get a Green Card?...Khashoggi was an adviser to former Saudi intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal when he was ambassador to London, then Washington. Khashoggi reportedly joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s and continues to advocate for political Islam. He called the late Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden a friend and mourned his death. It appears that Khasshogi may have been something like Riyadh’s back channel to al-Qaeda, at least prior to 9/11. ...So how did a former Saudi official with ties to intelligence services, connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and a long history with a terrorist responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths on U.S. soil obtain permanent resident status?
Khashoggi must have important American patrons, because even though he reportedly moved to the United States in 2017, he already had a green card. According to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius: “Friends helped Khashoggi obtain a visa that allowed him to stay in the United States as a permanent resident.” So who vouched for him and why? ...It might be useful to put these questions to former CIA director John Brennan. He was station chief in Riyadh from 1996-1999, when Khashoggi’s patron Turki al-Faisal was head of Saudi’s general intelligence directorate.
How Much of U.S. Press Coverage and Expert Opinion Is Shaped by the Pro-Iran ‘Echo Chamber’? ...Obama’s signature foreign policy initiative was not only or even primarily an arms control deal. Rather, the JCPOA was purposed to realign U.S. interests in the Middle East, with Iran as the favored partner and traditional American allies, especially Israel and Saudi Arabia, downgraded.
Obama-era officials rightly saw the Trump administration as a threat to undo Obama’s policies. Trump not only got out of the Iran deal but also underscored the centrality of America’s traditional alliances. He made his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia and moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. ...How much is U.S. reporting and opinion regarding the Khashoggi affair shaped by the pro-Iran echo chamber? Nearly all of it.
Why Are Some DC Public Relations Firms Now Worried about Representing the Saudis? ...Since Trump looks with favor on Saudi and the UAE, the media considers them enemies, too.
Why Are Conservative Policy Analysts and Journalists Advising Trump to Go Hard on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman? ...A meltdown in the Persian Gulf may affect global stability in ways that no one can fathom—including the experts, analysts, and pundits who now counsel punishing MBS, even though they, like virtually everyone else, have no idea what is at the bottom of the Khashoggi affair....
"They flew in an expert in bone-sawing!"
Mark Steyn: Saudi Arabia is basically ISIS with diplomatic recognition! There are no good guys in this (Khashoggi) story.
Monday, October 15, 2018
We got one!
Ralph Z. Hallow reports in the Washington Times,
In what might rightly be seen as a gigantic feather in President Trump’s MAGA cap, the U.S. will bring to trial a Chinese government intelligence agent accused of trying to steal trade secrets from American aviation firms.Read more here.
This is possible because the feds have under lock and key, for the first time ever, an accused intellectual-property thief and espionage agent for the People’s Republic of China.
Yes, it’s the very same country that, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump accused of “raping” the U.S. on economics.
More recently, Vice President Mike Pence accused China’s intelligence agencies of the “wholesale theft of American technology.”
Long before the current administration, lots of economic, trade and intellectual property rapists who hail from Beijing and its environs had been indicted in U.S. courts.
Indicted and that was it. None had been nabbed, let alone tried in open court in the U.S.
Now, we got one.
Tricked by U.S. federal agents into showing up in Belgium, Yanjun Xu, a senior officer in China’s Ministry of State Security, found himself in handcuffs on a plane to the U.S. and then thrown in the slammer.
He will face prosecution in, yes, open court on charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from American aviation firms, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
...Mr. Trump has itched to see U.S. law enforcement crack down on such thefts by the government of Xi Jinping, the man who while dining with the U.S. president, learned that, under orders from Mr. Trump, the U.S. military was bombing the hell out of a Syrian military airbase as punishment for Syrian use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Even with all his official titles that include general secretary of the Communist Party of China and president for life of the nation of 1.4 billion people, Mr. Xi was impressed. Here beside him sat an American president willing to show off his military power — and his willingness to use it — over dinner.
The U.S. long has accused China of waging a stealthy and highly successful campaign to grab U.S. military technology, top secret information and the trade secrets of U.S. companies, some of which have had to partner with Chinese firms as the price of doing business in China.
“Here we go again”
We all say that to ourselves.From Seth Godin's blog
The question is: when do you say it?
Do you say it when you're being rejected, failing, stuck, panicked, overwhelmed or alone?
Or do you say it when you're engaged, winning, changing things and in the groove?
Because the more you rehearse this feeling, the more it's going to happen.
We get what we expect.
And we expect what we get.
The easiest way to change this cycle is to alter the scale we play in. If you keep failing at the big stuff, it's worth honing the habit of succeeding at the small stuff first. And if you're finding yourself in a rut, a cycle of failure, walk away from that series of projects and find a new field to plant your seeds in.
Boston Globe admits inaccurately calculating the percentage of Native American ancestry in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s DNA.
Amber Athey reports in the Boston Globe,
The Boston Globe issued a correction Monday after inaccurately calculating the percentage of Native American ancestry in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s DNA.Read more here.
After years of skepticism about Warren’s claim that she is at least part Cherokee, the Democratic Sen. from Massachusetts recently released the results of a DNA test. The test provided “strong evidence” that Warren has a Native American ancestor dating back six to 10 generations.
The Boston Globe originally claimed that this put Warren at somewhere between 1/32 and 1/512 Native American.
However, the Globe admitted in a correction that the upper bound of Warren’s Native American ancestry is actually 1/1024. This would make Warren somewhere between .09 and 3 percent Native American.
...According to a New York Times article cited by the Republican National Committee’s Michael Ahrens, the average European-American has 0.18 percent Native American DNA.
In 1996, the Harvard Crimson referred to Warren as a Native American, and in 1997, a Fordham Law Review article described her as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color.”
According to previous reporting by The Daily Caller, “Warren later acknowledged that Harvard had singled her out as a Native American professor because she identified herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory from 1986-1994. She stopped listing herself as such when she gained tenure at Harvard.”
...Warren also used her “high cheekbones” and an old story about her parents eloping over “issues” relating to her mother’s Cherokee ancestry as proof of her ancestral claims.
The Cherokee tribe does not accept DNA tests as proof of ancestry.
Gosnell opening weekend breaks into top ten at box office.
Kerry Picket reports in the Daily Caller,
Did you know Facebook even disallowed ads for the film!
Read more here.
The Kermit Gosnell movie managed to break into the top 10 on its opening weekend at the box office according to Box Office Mojo, despite a menagerie of hurdles to get the film made, released and marketed.That is a surprise to me. When my family attended on opening day, we went to the 5:15 p.m. showing and there was only one other person in attendance.
Did you know Facebook even disallowed ads for the film!
Read more here.
Sunday, October 14, 2018
"Yet again, the party of Jim Crow has sought to stymie the freedom of a black man to express his own political opinion."
Brandon J. Weichert writes in American Greatness,
The Democratic Party is a group of tricksters. Consider this: the party of Jim Crow managed to recast themselves as the paragon of racial equality during the tumultuous 1960s, while still supporting the economic programs that impoverished minorities. They then convinced a majority of African-Americans that Republicans were their true oppressors! It is no wonder, then, that Michael Walsh has determined that Democrats today are aligned with the “Satanic Left.”Read more here.
Lies, deceit, manipulation, these are the ways of Satan—and the Democratic Party.
...Yet again, the party of Jim Crow has sought to stymie the freedom of a black man to express his own political opinion. In this case, Kanye’s declaration of support for Trump has prompted the self-styled “guardians” of race in America (the most vanilla group of people imaginable) to brand Kanye’s actions as those of a mentally unstable person. Interestingly, the Soviets used to claim political dissidents were mentally ill, too.
...Republicans are finally competing for the hearts-and-minds of black Americans in a meaningful way. Seen that way, the Trump-Kanye meeting is only strange if one is a racist left-winger, who views black Americans as a class to be kept pacified with dreary government handouts in heavily policed inner cities.
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