LIVE AT FIVE: 09.24.14

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must still be faced.

And really, thinking that we can legislate redemption has got to be the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Read.
But let’s give Brooks discredit. He does know him some fail, from the same venue as Gore above, emphasis mine:

It’s important in times like these to step back and get clarity. The truest thing to say is this: We are living in an amazingly fortunate time. But we also happen to be living during a leadership crisis, and a time when few people have faith in elites to govern from the top. We live in a vibrant society that is not being led.

We don’t suffer from an abuse of power as much as a nonuse of power. It’s been years since a major piece of legislation was passed, and there’s little prospect that one will get passed in the next two.

This leadership crisis is eminently solvable. First, we need to get over the childish notion that we don’t need a responsible leadership class, that power can be wielded directly by the people. America was governed best when it was governed by a porous, self-conscious and responsible elite — during the American revolution, for example, or during and after World War II. Karl Marx and Ted Cruz may believe that power can be wielded directly by the masses, but this has almost never happened historically.

We offer our elites every bit of the faith and respect they’ve earned, Brooks. Our self-appointed quasi-aristocracy, and the throne-sniffing sycophants that support them (e.g. you) could all be replaced by a button marked “Crap” at significantly reduced savings.

“elites. . .govern from the top” What. Elites. Brooks? If George Washington and his troops could see the utter shambles the 1787 Constitution has been reduced to in the last century of Progressive elite deconstruction, I daresay he’d order the Colonials to fix bayonets. Technology happened. We grasp that our “elites” are a pack of self-serving louts. If you want to argue something useful, Brooks, tell me about term limits. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” as Acton noted, and lesser amounts of power produce Reids and Boehners, Pelosis and McConnells over time. Like any compost heap, Capitol Hill needs frequent turning. Am I being irreverent? Of course I am, Brooks: it’s a wholly American thing. Fear God; sneer at Caesar. It’s when these two objects become confused that we can arrive at the drivel you’re pushing, Brooks.

Karl Marx and Ted Cruz. . .did you really juxtapose those two, you little passive-aggressive twerp? Cruz pulled an all-nighter for liberty in the Senate, and this is all you’ve got? Really? Are you saying that Ted Cruz argued for Athenian democracy? You’re going with that? Well, I guess you’re located in the same dirty diaper of a newspaper that thought George W. Bush had no coalition to support the Iraq invasion.

You really are a discredit to your country, Brooks.

Category: New York Times

The Incoherence of Liberal Feminism

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 36 Comments

Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) is a trendy young female British writer who, like trendy young women everywhere, calls herself a “feminist,” a habit that annoys the hell out of actual feminists:

From: “Catherine Brennan” <[email protected]>
Date: October 20, 2013 7:05:21 PM
To: Jason Cowley, [email protected]
Subject: Fwd: Internet bullying
Mr. Cowley –
I am writing because your contributing writer, Laurie Penny, has spent much of her time today defaming me on her Twitter feed. See attached. I am astonished that this is considered responsible conduct for a journalist, especially as she has stated that she plans on writing a “news article” about something related to my alleged conduct (relying, apparently, on a Rational Wiki entry created by Men’s Rights Activists. How credible). I am forwarding this exchange to my lawyer in the UK for further action. Please be advised that New Statesman will be liable for any defamation Ms. Penny prints.
Kind regards,
Cathy Brennan

What did Laurie Penny do that elicited that response? It involved the ongoing radical feminist quarrel with transgender activists over “woman-only space” and, Brennan says, Penny “regularly tweets abusive misinformation about lesbians and radical feminism.”

So there you go.

As always in such arguments, I agree with Cathy Brennan: Real feminism is about radical dykes destroying the patriarchy, which has nothing to do with the incoherent and contradictory noises emitted by silly girls who want to strike a fashionable pose.

Laurie Penny is a “feminist” like David Brooks is a “conservative.”

This is the kind of idiocy “feminist” Laurie Penny writes:

“If you’ve a ladyboner for sexist schmuckweasels,
short hair isn’t going to help, although they might let you
administer a disappointing hand-job.”

Does anybody know what she’s trying to say there? She meant to say that “short hair [for women] is a political statement,” but this blew up into a lot of Twitter squabbling over . . . . well, whatever.

Of course, she’s a victim — that is always the moral of the story for these Trendy Young Feminists: “Waaahh! People hate me!“

Feminist author Laurie Penny has been subjected to “a stream of vile sexist and anti-Semitic abuse” as part of a campaign against her book Unspeakable Things, she says. . . .
However in a blog post Ms Penny said she had had “quite a weekend” as she experienced a “predictable sexist troll backlash”.
“In the past 24 hours, I have been subjected to a stream of vile sexist and anti-semitic abuse on Twitter and elsewhere,” she wrote.
“This has become a normal part of my life as a person who dares to write in public whilst being both female and left-wing, but this weekend it’s been particularly full on.”

Let me remind you of McCain’s Law of Feminism:

There are three kinds of feminism:

Feminism that is wrong.
Feminism that is crazy.
Feminism that is both wrong and crazy.

(When in doubt, it’s usually Number Three.)

It would seem that Laurie Penny’s variety of feminism boils down to telling British women, “Vote Labour, because . . . vagina!”

Never mind whether Labour does anything that actually helps women. All that matters is how women can help Labour.

There is no reason why anyone should bother sending hate-mail to Laurie Penny, because she’s nothing but another clever young girl trying to get rich selling books to slightly-less-clever girls who need someone to tell them why they should be left-wingers:

According to her publishers, Unspeakable Things is a “ruthless” dissection of modern feminism and class politics.
“This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets and lies on the television,” it says. “The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice — and feminism needs to get braver. Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also about freedom for all.”

How many “new feminism” books must these clever young girls write before their intended readership wises up to the fact that “new feminism” is nothing more than a marketing hustle? Laurie Penny couldn’t possibly say anything truly new about feminism, because it’s all been said before by women who, like Laurie Penny, hoped to ride the movement to fame and fortune. Their failures are legendary. Shulamith Firestone, for example, published The Dialectic of Sex in 1970, rapidly descended into a maelstrom of paranoid psychosis, and died alone at age 67.

Yeah, baby — “ruthless.”

Of course, as anyone who has ever read The Dialectic of Sex understands, Shulamith Firestone was crazy long before she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I’ve got a copy of her book on my desk, where it’s sitting atop the volume of feminist essays in which Sally Miller Gearhart outlines her lesbian plan to reduce males to 10 percent of the human population. You can say Professor Gearhart is crazy, but you can’t say she is necessarily wrong. If you accept the feminist premise that heterosexuality is both the cause and effect of women’s oppression, then if you advocate a genocidal campaign to eliminate males and convert all females to lesbianism . . . Well, you see, Professor Gearhart’s conclusion follows logically from her premises.

They may be crazy, but lesbian feminists at least have integrity.

“Political Lesbianism is the radical feminist idea that Women can ‘choose’ to be Lesbians, and that such ‘choice’ is a way for Women to escape the shackles of Compulsory Heterosexuality. It enables Women to politically and personally ally with other Women. In effect, Political Lesbianism allows Women a framework to reorder our priorities — it gives Women space and room to maneuver as we navigate the Heterosexual grooming all Women experience. As Feminists, many of us, in exploring our ideas about Woman-hating culture, realize that Lesbianism can bring us to experience deeper connection to and intimacy with other Women, an experience many of us want, need and crave. . . .
“The process of deconstructing the Woman you were groomed to be from girlhood is lifelong and never ending – even for Real Lesbians.
“Thus, we are Political Lesbians and choose to be a Lesbian in a Woman-Hating culture. We choose to love Women and put them at the center of our lives. All Women can do this.”
— Cathy Brennan, 2012

“Male sexual violence against women and ‘normal’ heterosexual intercourse are essential to patriarchy because they establish the dominance of the penis over the vagina, and thus the power relations between the sexes.”
— Professor Dee Graham, University of Cincinnati, 1993

“Fucking is a large part of how females are kept subordinated to males. It is a ritual enactment of that subordination which constantly reaffirms the fact of subordination and habituates both men and women to it, both in body and in imagination.”
— Professor Marilyn Frye, Michigan State University, 1983

“The lesbian is the woman obviously who unites the personal and the political in the struggle to free ourselves from the oppressive institution. . . .
“Proceeding from the premise that women are oppressed by the heterosexual institution, that women are an oppressed class, that from the point of view the man has become (if he was not always) the natural enemy of women, it follows that the continued collusion of any woman with any man is an event that retards the progress of woman supremacy.”
— Jill Johnston, Lesbian Nation, 1973

It’s only logical, you see? If “women are an oppressed class,” then heterosexual intercourse “reaffirms the fact of subordination” for women, which is “essential to patriarchy,” and lesbianism is the only way females can “escape the shackles” of male supremacy.

Once you accept the premise that every misfortune or unhappiness any woman experiences is a result of male oppression, if you believe that anything in the world which seems “unfair” is also social injustice, then the feminist syllogism can have but one conclusion.

Radical lesbians like Cathy Brennan are women who have followed the feminist argument to its only logical conclusion. Of course, if you study feminism’s history, many movement leaders were lesbians first and feminists later, but does that distinction really matter? What finally matters is that radical lesbians are at least consistent in their interpretation of feminism’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology. And, occasionally, their radical logic leads them to conclusions that are actually true: Pornography and prostitution are not “empowering” or “liberating” for women, and a man in a wig and a dress does not become a “woman” by injecting himself with estrogen.

Whereas, by contrast, the next time Laurie Penny tells the truth, it will also be the first time she tells the truth.

Nice of @PennyRed to betray #Feminism by collaborating with heteronormative male supremacy. #Patriarchy #Winning! pic.twitter.com/gQ9fBftMbH

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 23, 2014

Cathy Brennan must certainly be glad that Laurie Penny is not a lesbian. If Laurie Penny became a lesbian, homophobia would flourish, because everybody hates Laurie Penny. Or everybody should hate Laurie Penny, and I’m sure everybody eventually will.

Category: Sex Trouble

‘My Sister Is Pregnant and We Don’t Know Which of My Brothers is the Father’

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 146 Comments

The quoted sentence was spoken by a child on a school playground. Overheard by a teacher, this triggered an investigation that exposed a multigenerational horror story in rural Australia:

Police raided the Colt family home in rural south-western New South Wales in July 2012 after a teacher alerted authorities to a conversation overheard in the playground that detailed the incest. . . .
The raids found 38 adults and children living in filthy caravans and tin sheds without electricity, town water or any plumbing. They were the result of four generations from grandparents who were brother and sister. . . .
When the raid occurred Betty Colt was found sharing a marital bed with her brother Charlie and her children, same only as young as 10, were the result of sex between Ms Colt and her brother, father or another close male relative.
The five family groups comprised of sisters, Rhonda, 47, Martha, 33, and Betty Colt, 46, who slept every night with her brother, Charlie, and two of Betty’s daughters who each had children who proved to be from unions of related parents. . . .
Eight of the Colt children have parents who were either brother and sister, mother and son or father and daughter.
A further six have parents who were either aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, half siblings or grandparents and grandchild.
Interviews with the Colts revealed the family saga began back in New Zealand, in the first half of last century when June Colt was born to parents who were brother and sister.
June married Tim and in the 1970s the couple emigrated to Australia. . . .
Tim and June gave birth to four daughters and two sons.
Three of the daughters — Rhonda, 47, Betty, 46, and Martha, 33 — and at least one of the sons, Charlie, form the elder members of the family group in the NSW bush camp.
Betty had 13 children. . . .
Betty’s eldest child, Raylene, now aged 30, has a 13-year-old daughter, Kimberly. . . .
Testing identifies Kimberly’s father as either her half brother, an uncle or a grandfather.
Betty’s second oldest child, Tammy, now aged 27, has given birth to three daughters, one of whom died from a rare genetic disorder, and all of whom, she eventually admitted, were fathered by her closest brother, Derek, 25.
Betty’s younger sister, Martha Colt, 33, has five children, four of whom were fathered by her own father, Tim, or by her brother, and another who is the product of a union with a close relation.
It was the 10 youngest of Betty and Martha’s children, and Raylene’s daughter, Kimberly, 13, who ran wild in a sexual spree about the property. . . .
The children were sexually involved with each other and only one, the youngest, a five-year-old girl, had parents who weren’t related.

In case that’s not enough to give you nightmares, here’s a report detailing the squalid conditions in which this family lived.

When my brother Kirby (follow him on Twitter) called to tell me about this story, I was a bit impatient because his call interrupted my research for the “Sex Trouble” series on radical feminism.

At the time Kirby called, however, my work was somewhat stalled because of another odd story from Australia: In 2008, a 19-year-old Irish girl named Rosemary Nolan traveled to Brisbane, where she became the lesbian lover of 24-year-old Melissa Keevers. In 2009, via artificial insemination, Keevers became pregnant and gave birth to a girl named Lilly. In 2010, while being treated with a drug to stimulate ovulation, Keevers was inseminated again with sperm from the same donor and this time conceived quintuplets. In 2011, Keevers gave birth to two boys and three girls. In 2012, Nolan and Keevers split up.

Here’s what struck me about that story: It was celebrated with a worldwide publicity campaign by journalists who did not seem the least bit skeptical — or even curious — about glaring omissions of basic biographical information on Nolan and Keevers. Evidently, the Australian publication Woman’s Day had purchased exclusive rights to the story of this “miracle” — the first quintuplets ever born to a lesbian couple. The coverage by Woman’s Day (which seemed to be the only source for direct information in news accounts by other media outlets) emphasized that the odds against conceiving quintuplets without in vitro ferilization (IVF) were 60,000,000-to-1. However, the fact that Keevers was being treated with a drug to cause hyperovulation was omitted from the glowing stories about the lesbian couple’s “miracle” babies; so far as I could discover, it was only in a TV interview with Karl Stefanovic that this highly relevant detail was even mentioned.

As a journalist, the omission of this detail about Keevers being treated with an ovulation drug — a treatment that obviously was the secular cause of this alleged “miracle” — was striking, as was the apparent lack of journalistic curiosity about other details. If you are writing a human-interest feature about two lesbians, for example, wouldn’t you want to include their personal accounts of when and how they became aware of their same-sex orientation? You know, did they always feel “different” from other girls (as one sometimes hears in such narratives) or was this a surprising adult revelation, in which a woman just happened to meet and fall in love with another woman (another standard lesbian narrative)?

If any reporter asked those questions about Nolan and Keevers, the answers never showed up in any of the coverage I could find online. And a lot of other stuff you’d expect to find in human-interest features was missing, too. Where did they go to school? What do their friends and siblings have to say about the lesbian couple and their “miracle”? Most of all, I wondered, how could the Irish teenager Nolan afford to travel to Australia for a backpacking excursion during which she reportedly met her lesbian lover Keevers by sheer coincidence?

Answer: We don’t know. There’s a hell of a lot we don’t know about that story, including how much Woman’s Day paid for the exclusive rights to the story, and I am dumbfounded by the credulity of journalists in Australia and Ireland who did not seem the least bit curious about the missing details. The Nolan-Keevers Miracle Quintuplet story was reported in much the same way an Orlando Chamber of Commerce spokesman might “report” about Disney World.

And after the lesbian miracle moms split up in 2012 — Nolan cited stress from her job as a police trainee — when the quintuplets were 2 years old, a Cone of Silence descended on the story. For more than a year, it seems, no journalist followed up on this story that once made worldwide headlines until, in August, Keevers gave an update to a TV station:

Ms Keevers met her current partner Nicole, a full-time student studying nutrition, 18 months ago through an online dating site.
With Nicole’s seven-year-old son now living with them, Ms Keevers now has seven children living under her roof.
Nicole has “as much responsibility for my children as I do” and loves them “like her own son”, Ms Keevers said.
“She feels like a mother to them.”

All this struck me as strange, but it’s one of those dead ends you sometimes encounter: You find a story that seems vaguely suspicious, but there is no way to check it out yourself. I have no contacts in Ireland or Australia, so unless other reporters share my skepticism, the mysterious gaps in the Nolan-Keevers Miracle Quintuplet story may never be filled in.

I can recognize a familiar aroma when I'm standing downwind from a cow pasture. So don't tell me a story that doesn't make sense.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 23, 2014

Such was the impasse I found myself in Monday, after hours spent trying to figure it out and write it up for the “Sex Trouble” series, when Kirby called to tell me about this horrifying tale of multigeneration incest in New South Wales, Australia.

“Depravity,” Kirby said. “That’s the only word I can think of.”

Yeah. We talked about it, how it was that this Colt family (“Colt” is a pseudonym the authorities are using to protect the identities of the children involved) could have descended into such total depravity. Once people lose sight of basic moral principles — when people start acting like all that “Thou shalt not” stuff from the Bible doesn’t really mean anything — you never know how far down the slippery slope they may eventually slide. Then one day an Australian school teacher overhears a kid say a sentence like, “My sister is pregnant and we don’t know which of my brothers is the father.”

Depravity is the only word that can describe what Australian officials uncovered in the Colt family. Their decades-long descent into total depravity began, we are told, when the incest taboo was ignored by a brother and sister who married and gave birth to June Colt, who then married her own brother Tim, and somehow this depravity continued generation after generation until 2012.

Anyway, I was kind of peeved when Kirby called me Monday, because his call interrupted me while I was trying to find the answers to questions about the Australian lesbian miracle moms, questions that other journalists apparently never bothered to ask. It’s always annoying to encounter a dead-end story like that, where you can’t get the answers you want, and I was already frustrated when Kirby interrupted to tell me about the Colt family — a distraction that has nothing to do with radical feminism and lesbian motherhood.

Nothing to do with it, I tell you. There is no relevance, no analogy, no correlation between these two stories — none at all.

What are you, some kind of hater?

Category: Australia, Crime, Sex, Sex Trouble

Dilbert Panel Or U.S. Foreign Policy Summary? You Make The Call

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.23.14

Posted on | September 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
130,000 Syrian Refugees Flee To Turkey

“I just want to go home.”

Refugee situation exacerbates tension between Ankara and Turkish Kurds
Turkey clamps down on Syrian border after Kurdish unrest
As masses seek refuge in Turkey, peshmerga rush back to Syria
US, partners begin airstrikes in Syria

US Rejects Iran’s Offer To Cooperate Against Islamic State
Teheran wanted flexibility on its nukes in return for joining coalition

Afghan National Army Officers Disappear From Cape Cod Base
Found attempting to cross into Canada near Buffalo and now being questioned

POLITICS
NYT Blames Dead Democrat Senator For Harassment of Sen. Gillibrand

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

NYT quotes anonymous sources as saying Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) was the harasser

Justice Kagan Performs Gay Wedding

Rep. Issa Renews Call For Lerner To Testify After Media Interview

Fauxcahontas Hits The Fundraising Trail For Democrat Women

Louisiana Judge Rules State’s Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

DOJ Bans Media From Attending Ferguson Town Hall Meetings

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rebounds Slightly From NY Close On China Data, Syria Bombing: WTI $91.18, Brent $97.30
Housing Data Hits Wall Street; S&P Has Worst Day Since August 5
Treasury, IRS Crack Down On Tax “Inversions” By Companies Leaving US
Asia Relieved As China Flash PMI Beats Low Expectations
Draghi Pessimistic On European Growth
Soybeans Rebound From 2010 Low As Brokers Eye China Demand
Ray Ozzie Aims To Change The Way We Talk With Talko
iOS 8 Users Report Slow Wi-Fi, Battery Drain
AT&T’s New Internet Plan Comes With Free Amazon Prime
Apple Denies It’s Shutting Down Beats Music
BlackBerry Eyes $599 Price Tag For Square Passport Phone

SPORTS
Surprising MNF Twist: Bears Defense Saves The Day!

Jets QB Geno Davis: just not his night

Bears capitalize on two interceptions and other Jets blunders to win 27-19

Royals Blank Tribe 2-0, Now Within One Game of Tigers

Braves Fire GM Frank Wren

US Soccer Says Hope Solo Can Keep Playing While Domestic Abuse Charges Pending

Rookie Leads White Sox To Shutout Victory Against Tigers

Liriano Helps Bucs Shut Out Braves, 1-0

Astros Fall To Rangers, 4-3

Jays Pound M’s 14-4 With Three Homers

Nationals NLDS Tickets Sell Out In 17 Minutes

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Naomi Watts Wishes She’d Had More Kids

“I should have had more kids, started younger”

“…Now that I have kids, I don’t want to do so many daredevily things anymore.”

Film Review: “Gone Girl”

Kenan Thompson Leaving SNL After This Season

NYT Grovels Over “Angry Black Woman” Review Of Shonda Rhimes’ TV Show

Bryan Singer Set To Helm “X-Men: Apocalypse”

Big Ang Makes Huge Scene During “Mob Wives” Filming

It’s Never Been Better To Be Blake Griffin

Johnny Depp’s Fiance Amber Heard Latest Victim Of Hacked Nude Pix Scandal

Emma Watson Obviously Didn’t Read The Other McCain Before Speaking At The UN About Feminism

FOREIGNERS
Brazil Cuts 2014 Growth Projections From 1.8% To 0.9%
Canada Joins Global Push Against Islamic State
Islamic State-Aligned Jihadis Threaten To Kill Frenchman in Algeria
Thousands Of Hong Kong Students Protest For Democracy
Study: Number Of Ebola Cases Could Hit 21,000 In Six Weeks, “Rumble On For Years”
Pakistan’s New Spymaster Once Called For Rapprochement With India
Obama To Meet Iraqi PM, Egyptian President In New York
As Asia Tensions Cool, Putin Turns Up The Heat
Amnesty International Complains Chicom Companies Exporting Torture Tools
David Cameron: English Home Rule To Be At Heart Of Tories’ Election Campaign

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Found On Facebook
Doug Powers: Selective Disenfranchisement – Ferguson Residents Must Show ID To Enter Town Hall Meetings
Twitchy: Lefty Journalists Circle Wagons Around Politico Reporter, Attack Stephen Hayes
American Power: People’s Climate Demarche
American Thinker: Meet John Feehery, Perhaps The Worst GOP Establishment Consultant Ever
BLACKFIVE: The Passing Of A Giant
Conservatives4Palin: Remember When ESPN Was About Sports?
Don Surber: Starbucks Nation vs. Chick-Fil-A Country
Jammie Wearing Fools: Good News! White House Estimates 100 ISIS Terrorists Are Back In The US
Joe For America: Does The Military Trust Their Commander-In-Chief?
Protein Wisdom: Don’t Lock Your Car And Perpetuate Theft Culture, We Need To Tell People To Stop Stealing Cars
Shot In The Dark: It Wasn’t An Intruder…
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – How Important Is The Mortality Assumption? And Other Assumptions?
The Gateway Pundit: MN Muslims Demand Pork-Free Food From Food Shelves
The Jawa Report: Muslims Hold Huge Anti-ISIS Rally In Toronto
The Lonely Conservative: High Turnover Hinders DHS Ability To Stay On Top Of Threats
This Ain’t Hell: So Why Are We Allowing ISIS To Export Oil?
Weasel Zippers: CAIR Sends A Copy Of The Koran To Every Mayor In Montana On 9/11
Megan McArdle: Fixing Climate Change Will Never Be Free

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Category: Live at Five

Another Community Organizer? We Need That Like Additional Cranial Ventilation

Posted on | September 22, 2014 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

The Washington Free Beacon continues to demonstrate what a properly functioning media could resemble:

“The more I’ve seen of places like Yale Law School and the people who haunt them, the more convinced I am that we have the serious business and joy of much work ahead—if the commitment to a free and open society is ever going to mean more than eloquence and frustration,” wrote Clinton.

According to the letter, Clinton and Alinsky had kept in touch since she entered Yale. The 62-year-old radical had reached out to give her advice on campus activism.

and

“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power,” wrote Alinsky in his 1971 book. “Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

So maybe Her Majesty can be seen as merely connecting the dots between Niccolo and Saul.

At this point, it looks like #OccupyResoluteDesk is going to honor the 22nd Amendment more than he has the Affordable Care Act. If these United States are so unrelentingly stupid as to elect Her Majesty, the last trappings of the Constitution could truly be in danger.

Oh, and what dreck is this?

@EtherealHeart Is there some other purpose to #MadamSecretary than airbrushing Her Majesty's stint as SecState?

— 'Teahadist' h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) September 22, 2014

via Instapundit

Category: Hillary Clinton

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.22.14

Posted on | September 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
California Burning: King Fire Spreads As Seven Blazes Burn Across State

US Forest Service crews clean up along a road in El Dorado County last Thursday

More than 7800 firefighters in action; King Fire only 10% contained
Thirty-two structures destroyed by California wildfires
Record amount of fire retardant used to fight blazes

NASA’s Maven Probe Arrives In Mars Orbit
Looking for answer to how Mars’ atmosphere leaked away

Afghan Presidential Rivals Sign Pact For Unity Government
Ashraf Ghani to become president, Abdullah Abudullah to nominate CEO with powers similar to the prime minister

POLITICS
UN Ambassador Power Touts Support From 40 Countries For Anti-ISIS Fight

But won’t (can’t?) say who they are or what they’re committing

Bipartisan dubiousness in the House

Lawmakers Criticize Secret Service Over White House Security

Close Races Could Mean Senate Control Will Be Decided In Runoffs

Rick Perry Cites Joan Rivers In Defense Of Texas Abortion Law

Dem Rep Michaud Under Fire For Trashy Video Making Sexual Reference To GOP Senator Susan Collins

Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Several Clean-Air Vehicle Bills

Bob Dole To Stump For Pat Roberts In Kansas

Kansas Dem Governor Candidate Tries To Explain Getting Caught In Strip Club Raid

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Continues Slide Before China Data: WTI $91.33, Brent $97.92
Alibaba’s Banks Boost IPO To $25 Million
Asian Shares Slip On Jitters Over China Growth
Siemens To Acquire Houston’s Dresser-Rand In Multibillion Deal
US Gasoline Prices Lowest Since February
Indiana Toll Road Operators To Submit Restructuring Plan
Oculus Brings The Virtual Closer To Reality
Microsoft Delays XBox One Launch In China
Nobody’s Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate
New Android L OS To Encrypt Data By Default

SPORTS
Cards Clinch Playoff Spot, Lose 7-2 To Reds

Lance Lynn coughs up three runs in six innings

Cards back into playoffs thanks to Pirates blanking Brewers earlier in the day

Broncos Retool, Lose To Seahawks Again Anyway

Mets Crush Braves 10-2 For The Sweep

Joey Logano Pulls Away To Win Sylvania 300, Advance In Chase

A’s Take Rubber Game From Phillies With Sayonara Homer In 10th

Red Sox Edge O’s 3-2

Royals Top Tigers 5-2, Stay Close In AL Central

Astros Crush M’s 8-3

Kluber K’s 14 As Tribe Whips Twins 7-2

Ravens Rally In 4th Quarter, Edge Browns 23-21

Steelers Run All Over Panthers, 37-19

Pack’s Offense Sputters In Loss To Lions

Makeshift Offensive Line Comes Through For Eagles; Redskins Fall 37-34

Bengals Rip Titans 33-7

Patriots Hang On For 16-9 Win Over Raiders

Strasburg Leads Nats Over Fish 2-1

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Polly Bergen Dies, 84

Her career began with Cape Fear, also included The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives

A household name since her 20s

Gabrielle Union Calling FBI Over Latest Celeb Nude Pix Leaks

Colin Farrell Confirms “True Detective” Role

Jessica Simpson: The Access Hollywood Interview

Eric “The Actor” Lynch Dead At 39

Little People, Big Wedding!

Jennifer Lawrence Joins Chris Martin Backstage After Coldplay Concert In Las Vegas

Trista Sutter Surprises Husband Ryan With Camping Trip

Honey Boo Boo Looks Sad On The Set As Her Parents Split

Keyshia Cole Arrested After Assaulting Woman In Boyfriend’s Condo

Jimmy Fallon Surprised By Shirtless Seth Rogen, James Franco On Tonight Show For His 40th Birthday

Barbara Walters’ Live Appearance On “The View” Nixed By ABC

Court Battle Reignites Over Richard Avedon Book

Jeff Goldblum Debuts His Jazz “Orchestra” At Cafe Carlyle

FOREIGNERS
Syrian Refugee Flood Into Turkey Hits 100k
Yemen Government Signs Peace Agreement With Shiite Rebels
Survey Says Scottish Referendum Damaged Economy
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