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Dinesh D’Souza Pleads Guilty

Posted on | May 20, 2014 | 38 Comments

The conservative intellectual committed a particularly clumsy crime — an ill-disguised straw-donor scheme that violated federal campaign finance law — in an inexplicable attempt to aid a Republican candidate who never had a real chance to win. Whether or not Dinesh D’Souza was a target of selective prosecution, he was nonetheless guilty, and has now officially admitted he broke the law:

Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation, avoiding a trial that had been expected to begin the same day in a Manhattan federal court.
D’Souza, known for his biting criticism of President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty to one criminal count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. A second count concerning the making of false statements is expected to be dismissed once he is sentenced.
The plea came four months after Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged D’Souza with using “straw donors” to give funds in 2012 to Republican Wendy Long’s U.S. Senate campaign in New York. Long, who met D’Souza while they were students in the 1980s, lost to Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand.
“I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids,” D’Souza, 53, told U.S. District Judge Berman on Tuesday. “I deeply regret my conduct.”

(Via Memeorandum.) Evading federal campaign finance law is rather easy to accomplish by entirely legal means, and even illegal “straw donor” schemes usually go undetected. But D’Souza is an intellectual, and as such, lacked the necessary “street smarts” either to find a legal loophole or to get away with a federal crime.

 

Category: Crime, Intellectuals

Fremdschämen For Towson U.

Posted on | May 20, 2014 | 42 Comments

by Smitty

Fremdschämen is when you watch someone else beclown themselves in a shameful way, yet express no awareness of their own debasement. See also LEO.

College Wins US Debate Championship By Repeating the [bigger digger trigger] Over and Over, Speaking Incomprehensibly

To paraphrase The Sage, a house with its head in a lightless location lodged shall have trouble standing.

The sad thing about these special snowflakes from Towson University, there in the People’s Republic of Maryland, is that they will probably continue to fail upward, and clog some political office over you before too long.

Oh Lord, please help us pass this Progressive kidney stone as soon as possible, so that there can be a return to rationality.

Alternative title to this post

“HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University now offering a degree in Dada, but you have to stay blissfully incognizant of it”

Category: Education

Sweet Revenge: @SarahPalinUSA on the Media’s Hillary Double Standard

Posted on | May 20, 2014 | 27 Comments

The ironic payback for Trig Trutherism: Now that liberals want to protect Hillary Clinton from scrutiny and criticism — especially questions about the 66-year-old former Secretary of State’s health — Sarah Palin is there to remind the media of how they treated her:

Hey! Hillary’s brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are right — scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of personal destruction, and for the media to engage in it would be unfair, unethical, and absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. You can’t probe a woman like that because, well, it’s a war on women! . . .
Goodness, no one credible would print lies, continually harass a candidate’s doctor, disrupt local hospital staff, or even offer to pay locals to give “quotes” about her health records to be included in a “research book” by a public university professor (your tax dollars at work?) which the candidate’s attorney will need to respond to.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Sarah Palin

The @AmandaMarcotte Agenda

Posted on | May 20, 2014 | 28 Comments

So, the New York Times does a feature article about “women’s empowerment conferences” — upscale corporate-sponsored events for career women — and Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ Amanda Marcotte has “mixed feelings,” because “corporate sponsors have a way of quietly refocusing these kinds of conferences away from the nitty-gritty issues that face ordinary American women and toward elite women congratulating one another for getting increasingly richer.”

You hear that, Corporate Sponsors? Next time, be sure to invite Everybody’s Favorite Feminist™ as a speaker, so she can travel first-class and stay in a swanky resort hotel for a weekend and give a talk about “the nitty-gritty issues that face ordinary American women.”

Keepin’ it real, yo.

 

Category: Feminism

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.20.14

Posted on | May 20, 2014 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Army Declares Martial Law In Thailand

A Thai soldier in front of the NBS TV station in Bangkok

Army chief says it’s not a coup

Narendra Modi Elected Parliamentary Head Of BJP
The BJP Landslide: Party takes 282 seats in Lok Sabha for an outright majority


PRC Warns US Cyber Charges Could Damage Ties
Pro forma protests of symbolic indictments?



POLITICS
Republicans Fight For Nomination In Crowded Georgia Primary

Businessman David Perdue leads the pack

Can Perdue avoid a runoff?


Judges Overturn Gay Marriage Bans In Oregon, Utah

WV Doctor Claims Patients On VA Waiting Lists Committed Suicide


Sarah Palin Mocks Liberal Hypocrisy On Hillary’s Brain

McConnell: Obama Needs To Step Up To The Plate On VA Scandal

Chipotle Asks Customers Not To Bring Their Guns

Cisco Chief Urges Obama To Rein In NSA Surveillance

Supreme Court Takes Up Case Of Fired Air Marshal



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Above $102 As Libya Tensions Flare: NYMEX $102.29, Brent $109.60
Credit Suisse Charged By DOJ In Tax Evasion Scheme
Internet, Biotech Shares Give Market A Slight Boost
New McDonald’s Mascot Terrifies America
LL Bean CEO To Step Down In 2016
Wheat Climbs Most In Two Weeks As US Crop Conditions Decline
Microsoft Surface Tablets Lead Windows Tablet Marketshare
These Gaming Videos Explain Why Twitch May Be Worth $1 Billion
Google Joins Instagram
“Assassin’s Creed: Pirates” Now Available On Your Browser
AT&T’s Solar Charging Stations Invade NYC Again



SPORTS
Blackhawks Can Play Defense, Too

Kings center Jeff Carter shoots – but does not score

Shut out Kings 1-0 in first game of Western finals


Spurs Crush Ibaka-less Thunder In Game 1

Rangers Upset Canadiens 3-1, Take 2-0 Lead


Braves Break Out Of Slump, Rout Brewers 9-3

Brantley’s Blast Boosts Tribe Over Tigers In Tenth

Keuchel Pitches Astros Past Angels

Reds’ Frazier Finally Finishes Nats In 15th



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Double Victory For Lindsay Lohan

$150,000 richer

Settlement with clothing company leaves her richer and keeps details of miscarriage secret


Robert Pattinson: “I’m Too Old” For Another “Twilight” Movie


Glen Mazzara Prepping “Omen” Sequel For Lifetime

Kate Major Gets Eight Months In Jail For Screwing Up

50 Cent: I Didn’t Blow Off My Son’s Graduation, I Wasn’t Invited

Heidi Klum, Sugar Mama?

Pamela Anderson Claims She Was Raped At 12, Molested By Babysitter From 6-10

Mick Jagger Now A Great-Grandfather



FOREIGNERS
Thailand Under Martial Law And What It Means
PRC Confronts American Ambassador Over Cyberspying Charges
NY Court Convicts Imam Abu Hamza Of Terrorism
Russia Seeing New Cold War Arising From Crisis In Ukraine
Emotional Narendra Modi Breaks Down During Speech, Dedicates Government To The People
3000 PRC Workers Evacuated From Vietnam In Wake Of Riots
Mali Deploys More Troops To Rebel Stronghold
Maverick Libyan General Steps Into Political Void
Egypt Turns To Army In War On Unemployment



BLOGS & STUFF
Dead Republican Party: On Being A Pariah
Doug Powers: Washington Times – Obama Knew About VA’s Cooked Books For Years
Twitchy: Brit Hume Retweets Perfect Snapshot Of Obama’s Selective Accountability
American Power: The War After The War – #GWOT
American Thinker: Were American Veterans Benghazied?
Conservatives4Palin: What Karen Handel Is Up Against Today
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 19
Jammie Wearing Fools: From The Free Speech Movement To The No Speech Movement
Joe For America: Is Hillary’s Brain Damage Fair Game?
Pat Dollard: White House Refuses To Confirm If President Obama Took That Pay Cut He Promised
Protein Wisdom: Feinstein – Republican Select Committee On Benghazi Is A Lynch Mob
Shot In The Dark: In A Just World…
STUMP: Numerical Interlude – Linguistic Diversity In The US
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Just Say No
The Lonely Conservative: Hey, What Do You Know – Obama’s Bypassing Congress Again
This Ain’t Hell: Dear Breitbart – The VA Is Not DOD
Weasel Zippers: Nigerian Sex Slaves Disrupt Obama Narrative On Islam
Megan McArdle: To Roth Or Not To Roth


Category: Live at Five

Democrats Trail by 7 Points

Posted on | May 19, 2014 | 25 Comments

A new poll by Politico shows that ObamaCare is a loser for Democrats in key congressional races, with Republicans holding a 7-point edge less than six months before the November mid-term elections.

Of course, six months is a lifetime in politics, and there’s no telling what the situation will look like on the first Tuesday in November, but still, the GOP is clearly favored to gain seats this fall, both sides know it, and the general unpopularity of ObamaCare is a key reason why. This factor helps explain why Georgia Democrat Michelle Nunn can’t give voters a straight answer about ObamaCare.

 

Category: Election, Polls

If The @GOP Nominates Jeb, I Hope @SarahPalinUSA Runs

Posted on | May 19, 2014 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

From the FaceBook page that makes Obama wet himself:

Hey! Hillary’s brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are right – scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of personal destruction, and for the media to engage in it would be unfair, unethical, and absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. You can’t probe a woman like that because, well, it’s a war on women!
Bunch of sexist, big meanies engaging in something heretofore unheard of, for shame.

Savor the whole thing. Some deftly played sarcasm.

If the Vichy GOP (and Hillary) insist that Jeb run, I hope Sarah shows up for the Perot role. Because if the GOP is more committed to Progress than constitutional reform, I’d rather cast my ballot for someone I respect than the next Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney tool, while the ship of state sinks.

Category: Republicans, Sarah Palin

University Shuts Down Women’s Center After ‘How to Be a Lesbian’ Controversy

Posted on | May 19, 2014 | 88 Comments

 

Controversy flared in March when it was reported that the University of South Carolina Upstate (USCU) Center for Women’s & Gender Studies would host Leigh Hendrix’s one-woman show, “How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less.” Now, USCU officials have announced that the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies will be closed:

The University of South Carolina Upstate eliminated the center that sponsored a gay culture symposium this spring as part of $450,000 in cost cuts for next year. School leaders said that sponsorship did not lead to the 15-year-old center’s demise. . . .
The decision to close Upstate’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies on July 1 was not related to sponsoring a symposium this spring that examined “New Normals, Old Normals, Future Normals in LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) Community,” chancellor Moore said. The symposium scheduled a play, called “How to Be a Lesbian in 10 Days or Less,” that was canceled after an outcry . . .
Cutting the center will save $45,000 a year, a school spokeswoman said. The center’s director will return to the school’s full-time faculty.
“Not only is this decision not punitive or a response to external pressure, it is part of an effort to be consistent and systematic across academic affairs in how we administer and support various programs,” Moore said.
Women’s and Gender Studies is the only interdisciplinary minor at Upstate that has a dedicated center, the school said.

Despite official statements that the lesbian controversy was not a factor in the decision to close the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the USCU campus in Spartanburg, some faculty members told Charleston City Paper columnist Alison Piepmeier that USCU is now “a hostile environment,” a climate they find “terrifying.” Trudy Ring at the feminist site SheWired.com suggested “retaliation” motivated the decision.

The web page of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies has no statement about the decision, nor have press accounts about the decision quoted the Center’s director, Professor Merri Lisa Johnson.

Professor Merri Lisa Johnson.

Professor Johnson is a self-described radical “queer feminist”:

The director of the University of South Carolina Upstate (USCU) Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) suffers from a “serious mental illness” and in 2010 described herself as a “newlywed lesbian” whose partner was apparently her former student.
Professor Merri Lisa Johnson published a 2010 book about her struggles with borderline personality disorder. The description of her partner in that book appears to fit a young “butch” lesbian who graduated from USCU in 2008, two years after Professor Johnson joined the faculty of the school in Spartanburg, S.C. . . .
In her 2010 book, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality, Professor Johnson describes herself as a “psycho girlfriend” with a history of dysfunctional relationships with both men and women: “Johnson combines her late-in-life coming out story (between ages 31-37) with the story of what amounts to a nervous breakdown as the result of an affair with a married lesbian colleague.” That affair “prompted her to seek professional help,” apparently around the time Professor Johnson  left Coastal Carolina University to become director of USCU-CWGS in 2006. . . .
In an article last fall, Professor Johnson described her “queer feminist insistence on the importance, validity, and complexity of women’s pleasure” and her “Marxist feminist distrust of pleasure under patriarchy,” adding that “teaching Women’s and Gender Studies 101 since fall 2006 . . . has firmed up my radical side.”

Feminism’s hostility toward men and toward heterosexuality has often been expressed as lesbian advocacy:

“Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.”
— Ti-Grace Atkinson, 1971

“The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist.”
— Sheila Cronan, 1988

“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.”
— Andrea Dworkin, 1989

“Men have been creating ideologies and political practices which naturalize female heterosexuality continuously in every culture since the dawns of the patriarchies. . . . Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual woman’s erotic attraction . . . Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices.”
— Marilyn Frye, 1992

“Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.”
— Sheila Jeffreys, 2005

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