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Sorry, @AsheSchow: ‘Due Process’ IS a Left-Right Issue — and Here’s Why

Posted on | July 10, 2015 | 59 Comments

Ashe Schow is a brilliant young journalist, and one of the few reporters who have been steadily covering the attempt by feminists to criminalize heterosexuality on college campuses. The feminist agenda is so insane and extreme, that when I try to explain what is being taught in university Women’s Studies programs — the academic Feminist-Industrial Complex — most people quite literally cannot believe it. (See “Feminists Against Heterosexuality” and “Introduction to Feminist Theory” among other recent entries in the Sex Trouble series.) Yet each day brings further confirmation. There is a deliberate campaign to incentivize rape accusations at America’s colleges and universities by requiring mandatory “training” at orientation that will have the effect of terrorizing male students into avoiding all contact with females on campus.

University administrators are under intense pressure from federal authorities to punish male students, to produce statistical evidence that they are implementing the crackdown demanded by feminists. This will lead to a zero-tolerance approach in which every male-female encounter on campus is fraught with risk. Any male student who so much as speaks to a woman could be accused of harassment. Officials are actually bragging about their “success” in encouraging rape accusations, which increased 400 percent in a single year at the University of Wisconsin.

Ashe Schow explains how the rights of the accused are systematically violated under the policies mandated by federal bureaucrats:

When a student is accused of sexual assault on a college campus, they’re often given vague descriptions of the charge against them — which may have occurred years earlier. They’re forced to come up with a defense within days, told not to talk to anyone about the allegation (making mounting a defense nearly impossible) and not allowed to have an attorney speak on their behalf.
They face a system that has been shifted against them, where an accusation is all that’s needed to brand them a rapist for life and kick them out of school. There is no due process in campus hearings — no rules of evidence, cross-examination or right to be represented by an attorney. They’re not even told that anything said in the hearing can and will be used against them in a court of law.

Feminists demanded these policies, the Obama administration implemented these policies, and Hillary Clinton is planning a campaign for president in which any Republican who criticizes these policies will be accused of being “pro-rape.” This is a Feminist/Democrat/Media convergence we have seen before, during the Clarence Thomas hearings, again during the Lewinsky scandal (when feminists put on their “presidential knee pads” to defend Bill Clinton) and in 2012, when the “War on Women” meme helped Obama get re-elected with the largest “gender gap” in Gallup poll history. The non-existent “campus rape epidemic” — a vicious lie created with Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions — is a crucial element in a shameless partisan political operation intended to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House.

Yet for some reason, Ashe Schow wants to pretend otherwise:

Due process for campus sexual
assault is not a left/right issue
Sexual assault is a serious issue that should be dealt with seriously. But the proposed solution for this problem on college campuses creates an entirely new problem. It eviscerates due process for accused students in the name of helping accusers.
The fight over campus sexual assault and due process has somehow devolved into a Republican vs. Democrat issue. The most vocal supporters of draconian sexual assault policies are Democrats like Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Claire McCaskill of Missouri. There are several prominent Republicans on a Senate bill to curb sexual assault, but none have made a name for themselves as a proponent.
Meanwhile, the print and online commentary voices defending due process rights for the accused have been mostly right-leaning. The only television voice on the issue of due process has been Fox News.
There have been exceptions to this, but unfortunately, the issue has become a way for political opponents to score points against each other. Those who favor due process are accused by liberals of being “rape apologists,” while those who favor the accusers are excoriated by right-leaning media.
That sentiment has muddied the issue. Due process used to be deeply important to liberals. Toughness on crime was more commonly associated with Republicans. Now the tables have turned and it makes no sense.
Due process should concern everyone. So should sexual assault. . . .
It shouldn’t be up to Republicans to stand up for due process or up to Democrats to stand up for victims. Both sides should be working toward the truth in each case.

You can read the whole thing. The problem is that to speak of what should be — to advocate an ideal — is a waste of time in the current environment where Democrats have manufactured a phony issue and are exploiting it for partisan gains. Democrats have created this issue and their allies in academia and the media are coordinating with Democrats to control the “rape culture” narrative in order to get more votes for Democrats. It is that simple, and anyone who supports Democrats is therefore supporting the policies that have stripped male students of due process rights. Ashe Schow writes:

In today’s climate, it is impossible to stand up for someone wrongly accused without being attacked. Once someone is labeled a “rapist” — even without evidence — he apparently forfeits his right to exist and must be expelled and have his life and future ruined.

Ruining the lives of male students is the primary goal of feminists, but the wrongly accused male students are just collateral damage to Democrats, for whom Hillary Clinton’s election is the larger objective.

To speak of “truth” to these people is both futile and misleading.

They don’t care about truth. They only care about power.

If you care about truth, if you care about the real lives of real human beings, you cannot be a feminist, nor can you be a Democrat, and it’s time we stop trying to sugar-coat that reality. We must stop pretending that such mythical creatures as “honest Democrats” and “moderate feminists” actually exist in the real world. Believing in “honest Democrats” is like believing in the Tooth Fairy and “moderate feminism” is either an oxymoron or a pointless nostalgia. Even if we were to stipulate that “moderate feminists” once existed (which I don’t), they were a phenomenon of a bygone era who have no relevance in the 21st century when, for example, the Feminist Majority Foundation employs a self-described “raging lesbian feminist” as its communications director and when Women’s Studies professors denounce Disney cartoons as being “heteronormative.” One could assemble a convention of every “honest Democrat” and “moderate feminist” in America and maybe they would fill a corner booth at Denny’s. Maybe.

Democrats have chosen the college campus as their battleground and have chosen “rape culture” as an issue because Democrats know that America’s institutions of higher education are staffed almost entirely by Democrats. Thus controlling the terrain on which they intend to fight this political battle, Democrats know they can rely on university officials to assist them, in the same way Democrats rely on the liberal media to promote their dishonest propaganda. (Need I remind you how Sabrina Rubin Erdley, Emily Renda and Catherine Lhamon collaborated in Rolling Stone‘s UVA rape hoax?) We cannot defeat these liars if we are afraid to tell the truth about who they are, what they do and why they do it. Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and Democrats are the Party of Evil Liars and Fools.

The truth is not always a pleasant thing to hear, nor should anyone expect to become popular by speaking the truth in an age where deceit, perversion and hypocrisy have become so prevalent. I would like to think there are at least some female college students who are honest and responsible adults, but no male college student can be safe in that assumption. Paul Nungesser thought Emma Sulkowicz was his friend, and she was only too willing to encourage him in that belief, so long as she harbored the illusion that she could make him fall in love with her. Once that illusion was dispelled — once Sulkowicz realized that her “friends-with-benefits” hookups with Nungesser were emotionally meaningless to him — her love turned to hate, and hate inspired a plan for revenge, a conspiracy in which other feminists at Columbia University were quite willing to participate. Nungesser was blindsided by Sulkowicz’s false accusation. “My mother raised me as a feminist,” he told the New York Times, a fact his mother verified in an interview with Cathy Young of the Daily Beast. Yet the kind of “equality” Nungesser believed in — where a young adult woman can have casual sex with a male friend and expect nothing more — proved to be a cruel deception. Promiscuous women are often emotionally unstable, their low self-esteem expressed in a desperate search for male approval. The same needy impulses that inspire this sexual depravity, however, can also be manifested as a generalized rage toward men (yes, all men) whom the psychologically damaged woman blames for her own feelings of worthlessness.

“In my clinical work, I find that a promiscuous individual suffers from low self-esteem and feels that sex is a way to get attention and to feel noticed.”
— Dr. Seth Myers

“A person with a borderline personality disorder often experiences a repetitive pattern of disorganization and instability in self-image, mood, behavior and close personal relationships. . . . The person may manipulate others and often has difficulty with trusting others. There is also emotional instability with marked and frequent shifts to an empty lonely depression or to irritability and anxiety.”
— Richard J. Corelli, M.D.

Why should a woman like Emma Sulkowicz be just another “pump-and-dump” — used and discarded — when by claiming to be a victim of rape, she can be celebrated as a heroic “survivor”? Feminists praise her “courage” and, in doing so, have made Emma Sulkowicz a role model whom they encourage others to emulate. We can therefore expect a proliferation of copycats, and any male student who thinks he can safely engage in heterosexual behavior on campus is at risk of a brutal shock when he finds himself accused of “harassment” or “sexual assault.” Even when the female student initiates a relationship and actively pursues sex with a male student — as was evidently the case with Emma Sulkowicz — she may subsequently decide that she has been a victim, and the male who is falsely accused of rape will discover he has no due process rights in the campus disciplinary procedures mandated by federal authorities.

Contrary to what anyone might say, this is a Left-Right issue, because this phony crisis was deliberately created by the Left in order to advance the feminist agenda and elect Democrats. We must tell the truth, no matter what penalty we pay for telling the truth. Whatever we may lose for the sake of truth, no good can be gained by cooperating with liars.

“Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself. … [Truth] is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, “Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom,” 1786





 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox, 07.10.15

Posted on | July 10, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Apologies for the lack of linkagery yesterday; had an early-morning appointment with the VA and things got a little strange after that.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: The Enablers
EBL: Sanctuary Cities
Michelle Malkin: Is Your Church Abetting Sanctuary Nation?
Doug Powers: Paul Krugman Advises US How To Avoid Greece-Style Demise
Twitchy: “True Propaganda” – You Won’t Believe How OPM Refers To The Massive Hacking
Allen West: Yippee, The Confederate Flag Has Now Been Removed


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: OPM Director Katherine Archuleta Resigns After Massive, Devastating Data Breaches
American Thinker: Are The Scales Falling From Our Eyes?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Brutality by Ingrid Troft
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin – Death Panels Still Not Dead
Don Surber: Instead Of Fixing VA, They Play With Flags
Jammie Wearing Fools: Granny Clinton In CNN Interview Says “I’ve Never Had A Subpoena”, Trey Gowdy Replies “Oh Really? Here It Is”
Joe For America: Jeff Foxworthy, Larry The Cable Guy Completely Mock Liberals (Video)
JustOneMinute: Income Equality – Back To The Stone Age!
Pamela Geller: Saudi Prince Pledges $32 Billion To Promote Islam/Sharia In United States
Protein Wisdom: Kate Steinle Laid To Rest, Obama Administration MIA
Shot In The Dark: Every Ghoul Demands Action For Gun Safety
STUMP: Government And Your Money – GIMME GIMME GIMME
The Gateway Pundit: Rep Gohmert (R-TX) Says Democrats Should Change Their Name Over slavery, Racist History
The Jawa Report: Two Glaring (Yet Popular) Fallacies In ISIS/Anti-Terror Strategy
The Lonely Conservative: The US Workforce Is Still Shrinking
This Ain’t Hell: Lindsey Graham Says You Veterans Don’t Pay Enough For Healthcare
Weasel Zippers: Former DHS Advisor On SC Confederate Flag Coming Down – “Allahu Akbar…No More States’ Rights”
Megan McArdle: Africa Should Lure Bangladesh’s Textile Industry
Mark Steyn: Through A Tube Darkly


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My SWATting: Perpetrator Reaches Plea Agreement in Federal Felony Case UPDATE: Investigation Is Continuing

Posted on | July 9, 2015 | 80 Comments

A letter arrived by Federal Express today from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington D.C.:

Dear Mr. McCain:
We have learned that you are a victim of criminal activity involving conduct known as “swatting.” . . .
A federal investigation has revealed that several individuals participated in a scheme to commit swatting in the course of which these individuals committed various federal criminal offenses. You were a victim of criminal conduct which resulted in swattings in that you were swatted.
A federal investigation has reveal that several individuals participated in a scheme to commit doxing, in the course of which, these individuals committed various federal criminal offenses. Personal identifying information associated with you was posted on the website used by these individuals.
One of the individuals who participated in this scheme to commit doxing has been charged with the commission of a federal offense related to that activity. . . . This individual has agreed to accept responsibility for the commission of this offense and will be entering a guilty plea in Federal Court in Washington, D.C.
This letter is intended to notify you that you are a victim and that, as a victim, you have certain rights pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 3771. . .

Readers of this blog never previously knew that I was SWATted, because I never mentioned this incident. Nor have I described here the numerous ways in which I have been harassed — costing me thousands of dollars in lost revenue and harm to my personal and professional reputation — because I made up my mind to tell the truth about certain people who didn’t want the truth to be known.

“Never Doubt That God Answers Prayer,” and thanks to all the readers who know the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

P.S.: Don’t jump to conclusions. I don’t know how (or even if) this SWATting is connected to the general pattern of harassment I have experienced since May 2012, and this incident occurred after I had moved from my former Maryland residence. Until I can get more information and provide it to readers, I ask that commenters refrain from speculation about who was involved in this federal crime, or what their motive might have been to target me. Speaking personally, however, I don’t believe in coincidences. — RSM

UPDATE (1:30 p.m. EDT): Just spoke to an official who explained that (a) the indictment is “under seal”; (b) the perpetrator who has reached a plea agreement cannot be named; and (c) the investigation is continuing. From this we may surmise, based upon knowledge of similar cases, that the perpetrator has made a full confession and is cooperating with the continuing investigation of his or her co-conspirators.

By the time the full scope of this conspiracy becomes public, it is likely that we we learn a great deal about the methods by which these criminals operate. Let it be known that the feds are getting serious about prosecuting “SWATting,” and the associated activity of “doxing.” Let justice be done. Let the guilty fear punishment for their crimes, so that the innocent need never fear. — RSM

 

Category: Crime, Shoe Leather Fund, Terrorism

Laci Green Talks Dirty to Girls

Posted on | July 8, 2015 | 103 Comments

 

Laci Green (@GoGreen18) is a large-breasted blonde who is famous for talking dirty to girls on YouTube. She is an atheist who hates all religions because she hates her parents: “I was brought up Mormon, so I was brought up in a household that really shamed and stigmatized sex . . . It just made me feel rotten inside, anything having to do with sexuality.” She claims, “I was 18 or 19 and didn’t know what a clitoris was, and that’s sad, to me.” This is a very interesting claim because while attending Sierra College as a teenager, she was an officer in a student gay-rights group and in 2008, when she was 18, she was part of the campaign against California’s Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage. A teenage gay-rights activist who don’t know what a clitoris is? Yeah. Right.

Laci Green attended the University of California-Berkeley, where she was a “Female Sexuality program facilitator” and now lives in San Francisco. Among other things, she is an expert on lesbian sex and, coincidentally, she’s a feminist. Did I mention she really likes lesbians a lot? I think I did.

Exactly who you want talking to your teenage daughter, right?

The Rochester Institute of Technology will be hosting a girl who runs a graphic YouTube channel about sex its “featured orientation speaker.”
RIT announced Laci Green is slotted to be the school’s orientation speaker in a Facebook post. . . .
The RIT orientation website confirms Green will be speaking on Aug. 19 on the topic of “Taking Back Rape Culture.”

Oh, “Rape Culture”! In her video explaining why she’s a feminist — besides hating religion and her parents — Laci Green claims her “first boyfriend sexually assaulted” her. Whether that was before or after she found out what a clitoris is, I’m not sure. She identifies as “bisexual” and she really enjoys meeting her teenage fans:

Before and after every presentation, Laci Green can be found off the stage, chatting it up with her viewers. “My goal is to connect with people personally. It’s part of what I’m trying to do with the channel,” Green says.

Laci Green wants to TALK! about SEX! with your DAUGHTER!

 

Uh, not that there’s anything wrong with that . . .





 

Category: Sex Trouble

Overwhelmed, Sad and Lonely

Posted on | July 8, 2015 | 58 Comments

 

The children of the American elite class suffer from a form of oppression that most of us can never understand. Parents whose privileges are a matter of having the right resumé — Ivy League diplomas, etc. — are keenly aware that, in order for their child to follow in their footsteps and become members of the soi-disant “meritocracy,” the child must get into their school’s “gifted” program, must maintain a perfect GPA, must achieve certain scores on the SAT, and must accumulate the kind of extracurricular and school leadership positions that will make their college application a winner. If Dad went to Yale and Mom went to Harvard, their child would be deemed a disappointment if she weren’t accepted at either of the parental alma maters.

To attend a mere state university? This will not do. She might as well be living in a trailer park and working the day shift at Waffle House.

Those who inhabit the affluent uplands of 21st-century America have problems the rest of us cannot imagine. When you’re near the top of the mountain, it’s a long way down, and there are limits to what elite parents can do to prevent their child from suffering the stigma of downward mobility. Money can buy a lot of things, but money alone will not inoculate your child against failure, especially if your idea of “success” requires your kid to have perfect grades, be senior class president, win the state science fair, be solo violinist in the school orchestra, and spend her summers helping famine victims in a Third World country. This results in an over-scheduled childhood, with parents in the role of Doctor Frankenstein and their child as a sort of laboratory experiment to produce the future Harvard student.

 

If you have to jump through all those hoops to prove how elite you are, are you really so elite? Or are you merely a well-trained hoop-jumper? If a child has outstanding natural ability, and also has a genuine appetite for achievement, is it really necessary for parents to push, push, push kids this way? And what happens when you send such a kid off to a school like Stanford University (annual tuition $44,757) where all the other kids are Frankenstein experiments, too? Not surprisingly, many of these little monsters can’t cope with the pressure:

From 2006 to 2008, I served on Stanford University’s mental health task force, which examined the problem of student depression and proposed ways to teach faculty, staff, and students to better understand, notice, and respond to mental health issues. As dean, I saw a lack of intellectual and emotional freedom—this existential impotence—behind closed doors. The “excellent sheep” were in my office. Often brilliant, always accomplished, these students would sit on my couch holding their fragile, brittle parts together, resigned to the fact that these outwardly successful situations were their miserable lives.
In my years as dean, I heard plenty of stories from college students who believed they had to study science (or medicine, or engineering), just as they’d had to play piano, and do community service for Africa, and, and, and. I talked with kids completely uninterested in the items on their own résumés.

That’s from Julie Lythcott-Haims who not only recognizes that there is an emerging crisis among America’s elite youth, but realizes that this problem is not limited to the children of the elite:

In a 2013 survey of college counseling center directors, 95 percent said the number of students with significant psychological problems is a growing concern on their campus, 70 percent said that the number of students on their campus with severe psychological problems has increased in the past year, and they reported that 24.5 percent of their student clients were taking psychotropic drugs.
In 2013 the American College Health Association surveyed close to 100,000 college students from 153 different campuses about their health. When asked about their experiences, at some point over the past 12 months:

  • 84.3 percent felt overwhelmed by all they had to do
  • 60.5 percent felt very sad
  • 57.0 percent felt very lonely
  • 51.3 percent felt overwhelming anxiety
  • 8.0 percent seriously considered suicide

The 153 schools surveyed included campuses in all 50 states, small liberal arts colleges and large research universities, religious institutions and nonreligious, from the small to medium-sized to the very the large. The mental health crisis is not a Yale (or Stanford or Harvard) problem; these poor mental health outcomes are occurring in kids everywhere. The increase in mental health problems among college students may reflect the lengths to which we push kids toward academic achievement, but since they are happening to kids who end up at hundreds of schools in every tier, they appear to stem not from what it takes to get into the most elite schools but from some facet of American childhood itself.

This is excerpted from Ms. Lythcott-Haims’s book, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, which will almost certainly find an avid readership among elite parents who went to Harvard or Yale and who therefore probably don’t have a lick of common sense. If you need an expert to tell you how to avoid turning your kid into a stressed-out psychological basket case, how “elite” are you? I’ve read enough books and articles about parenting to understand that all the truly useful advice from experts tends to confirm what any good parent knows from ordinary common sense.

If you care enough about your kids to read books about parenting, and if you’re intelligent enough that you’re actually able to read and comprehend books about parenting, congratulations — you’re probably going to be a good parent and your kid’s probably going to be a good kid. Intelligence is a highly inheritable trait, and the combination of nature and nurture (a naturally smart child being nurtured by smart parents) usually produces good results. Maybe you jumped through all those hoops necessary to obtaining an elite education and actually enjoyed all that hoop-jumping. Maybe your own child will naturally wish to replicate your path to meritocratic success, and you have the experiential knowledge to provide them guidance in this regard.

Both common sense and expert advice, however, would caution against the kind of control-freak attitude known as “helicopter parenting,” where children are so vigilantly supervised that they never develop the resourcefulness and sturdy confidence necessary to cope with the disappointments and hardships of ordinary life.





 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox, 07.08.15

Posted on | July 8, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: The Big Lie Supported
EBL: Fascist Oregon
Doug Powers: WH Spox Points To GOP After Murder By Five-Time Deportee Who Took Asylum In Sanctuary City
Twitchy: A Slip Of The Tongue, Or Does Hillary Clinton Not Understand How Sanctuary Cities Work?
Dan Bongino: There Is No “Done” In Politics
Loose Endz: In The Noose
The Camp of the Saints: On Sur-Reality And Blood Libel


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Deep Dreaming Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – The Great San Francisco Acid Wave
American Thinker: The Fate Of The Republican Establishment
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Target Utopia by Jim DeFelice and Dale Brown
Conservatives4Palin: After Obamacare Ruling, GOP Must Refocus On Repeal
Don Surber: Communism Failed Here
Jammie Wearing Fools: Homelessness And Empty Stores Becoming The New Normal In NYC
Joe For America: Jeb Bush – “Trump Outside Mainstream GOP Thought”
Pamela Geller: 1.5 Million Muslims In UK Support The Islamic State
Shot In The Dark: The Only Question Is…
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – What Does Chicago Say About Its Own Pensions?
The Gateway Pundit: China Stocks Nosedive
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Things That Are Sad
The Lonely Conservative: Documents Show DOJ, IRS Wanted To Prosecute Obama Opponents
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans Support Organization Under Scrutiny Again
Weasel Zippers: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Alien Criminals On The Loose In US
Megan McArdle: Helicopter Parents And The Kids Who Just Can’t
Mark Steyn: Luck Be A Lady


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Off The Shelf

Posted on | July 7, 2015 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Been a while since the last book post, for which I apologize; for obvious reasons, I’ve been trying to avoid picking up new books, and I didn’t get around to picking up a card for the local library system for a couple weeks after I got here. Now that I’ve done that, time to update you on a few books worth reading and one that isn’t.


Along with the release of the Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt flick Edge of Tomorrow, the folks at Viz decided to release the original light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill, under the movie’s title. My opinion of Edge of Tomorrow? Not only was the movie better, they would probably have done better to novelize the movie script, because the script is more coherent and has a better ending than the novel, which is your typical Japanese romance while trying hard to pretend it isn’t. There’s a manga version of All You Need Is Kill available, and the county library has a copy, but I wasn’t even remotely interested in picking it up.


Much better is Charles Stross’ Neptune’s Brood, a sequel of sorts to Saturn’s Children via the short story “Bit Rot”. The protagonist, Krina Alizond-114, is a posthuman cyborg searching for her sister and only gradually becoming aware that she may be on the wrong end of the biggest banking scam in history. It’s a decent read, though Stross’ tendency to infodump and his obvious fondness for Communism make a couple of sections rough going. Still, not bad for free.


Man-Kzin Wars XIV is the latest anthology of stories set in Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, and there’s not a dull story in the lot. With peace having broken out -or so it seems- the monkey-boys and ratcats are coexisting and even cooperating, but that doesn’t mean things are all calm and peaceful. My personal favorite, Matthew Harrington’s “Leftovers”, involves my least favorite character in the series, ARM General Buford Early, trying -and hilariously failing- to outthink a Protector. If you liked the first thirteen volumes in the series, you’ll like this one too.


Thanks to the Amazon Prime Lending Library, I was able to check out Peter Grant’s Forge a New Blade, the sequel to his War To The Knife. It’s a worthy sequel, and Grant deserves praise for not succumbing to Clancy-Weber syndrome and expanding each of these books to 700-page doorstops. He could quite easily have gone into mind-numbing detail about what the dozen or so secondary characters are doing off-stage, but avoids this temptation and delivers a nice little compact novel instead. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.


Finally, one from the vaults – Stephen Sears’ Gettysburg. I was expecting great things after reading Sears’ Landscape Turned Red, an excellent account of the extremely bloody Battle of Antietam, and I was not disappointed. You won’t be either.


Category: Books

In The Mailbox: 07.07.15

Posted on | July 7, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Donald Donald Donald
EBL: Democrat Bernie Sanders Says Unemployment’s At 10.5%
Doug Powers: Of Course – Murder Suspect Who’d Been Deported Five Times Chose San Francisco Because It’s A Sanctuary City
Twitchy: WaPo Op-Ed Actually Suggests Amy Schumer’s Comedy Inspires Racist Monsters Like The Charleston Murderer


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Germany Sticks To Hard Line After Greece Vote
American Thinker: Dying On The Sidewalk Of Nancy Pelosi’s Sanctuary City
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – What Lies Behind By J.T. Ellison
Conservatives4Palin: Is Hillary Clinton’s Reporter Rope Line Her “Michael Dukakis Tank Moment”?
Don Surber: Democrats Want Iran To Have Nukes
Jammie Wearing Fools: Good News – Your Stupid Electric Car Is Damaging The Environment
Joe For America: Navy Vet Brutally Attacked By Thug As Part Of “Knockout Game”
Pamela Geller: Every Day, The Iran Nuclear Deal Becomes Worse And Worse
Protein Wisdom: Goodbye To The First Amendment
Shot In The Dark: Fighting The Tyranny Of Law
STUMP: Choices Have Consequences. While Waiting For The Greeks To Decide…
The Gateway Pundit: Previously Deported Mexican Illegal Held In Grisly Double Murder Of Girlfriend And Her Child
The Jawa Report: Jawa Primer – More Tips On Insults
The Lonely Conservative: American Cities Resemble War Zones
This Ain’t Hell: Legislating Stupidity
Weasel Zippers: San Francisco Sheriff Defends Releasing Illegal Immigrant Murderer
Megan McArdle: Regulation? Great Idea. For Someone Else.
Mark Steyn: The Stupidity Of Sophisticates


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