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‘Impeachable Offenses’: Obama Policy Releases Criminal Illegal Aliens

Posted on | May 19, 2014 | 7 Comments

A new book exposes malfeasance by President Obama, and the administration’s defenders are trying to “kill the messenger”:

Houston immigration attorney Raed Gonzalez claims the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s release of tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens is just a “publicity stunt” generated by the authors of a book documenting the case for impeaching Obama.
Gonzalez has been the liaison between the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which administers the immigration court system, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Asked about the scandal on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” Gonzalez told the audience, “I think all of you fell for the publicity stunt of Mr. Elliott and miss, miss, what was it, Brenda Elliot and Mr. Aaron Klein, with their book, ‘Impeachable Offenses,’ that came out a couple of weeks ago. And they were denouncing the Obama administration for releasing all of these people.” . . .
Recently reported information about the Obama administration’s release in 2013 of 36,007 criminal illegal aliens . . . originated with internal memos from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, as cited in a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.
However, in “Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office,” New York Times bestselling authors Klein and Elliott cite further ICE documentation showing the release of thousands more criminal illegals from 2009 to 2011.
“Impeachable Offenses” further documents that of the more than 7,000 criminals released in those years, some went on to be charged with 19 more murders, three attempted murders and 142 sex crimes after their release from jail by the Obama administration.
The statistics pose a grim outlook for the 36,007 additional criminal illegal aliens reportedly released last year by ICE.

Read the whole thing. Gonzalez is using a favorite liberal tactic: Trying to divert attention from a story by referring to the allegedly malicious motives of the people reporting or promoting the story. To say that Klein and Elliott are conservatives, or to say that attention to the criminal alien scandal helps Klein and Elliott sell books — well, these things may be entirely true, without changing one iota the basic facts of the story, or the policy issues involved, or the political impact of the story.

It’s like when the Left screams “Koch money!” as if the funding of any particular project by the Koch brothers immediately discredits that project. This is just a distraction tactic, and when Democrats use these tactics, they should be called out for it.

Also, you should probably buy Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office by Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott. If the Left hates it this much, it’s got to be pretty awesome.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Immigration

Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Recycles ‘War on Women’ Theme

Posted on | May 19, 2014 | 17 Comments

The DNC chairwoman issued a statement on Women’s Health Week in which she evidently presumes that (a) abortion is essential to “women’s health,” (b) opposition to abortion is an “extreme agenda,” and (c) all women think ObamaCare is awesome:

[A]t the state and national level, Republicans have repeatedly taken actions that restrict access to health care for women and families. Yes, they’ve voted more than 50 times to repeal or undermine Obamacare, but their disregard goes beyond even that. Just last week, the RNC passed a resolution that makes their restrictive and extreme women’s health agenda one of their focuses going into the midterm elections. . . .
When the RNC backs extreme policies like that, there are real-world consequences for women. In my home state, Florida Republicans including Gov. Rick Scott are taking constrictions on women’s health to a new level. The state legislature recently passed two new restrictions that will interfere with a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions with her doctor, and instead inserts the GOP’s extreme agenda into these very private discussions . . .
If Rick Scott signs these bills — and I’m sorry to say that I’m confident he will — my home state will be the next in a long line of states to roll back the clock on women’s rights. It is senseless and it is wrong. This National Women’s Health Week, I’m standing with Florida women.

(Hat-tip: Weasel Zippers.)

 

Category: Abortion, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Feminism, Health Care

Let the Politics Commence

Posted on | May 19, 2014 | 20 Comments

Sunday afternoon, our family attended a nice party to celebrate our son-in-law’s graduation from law school. It was a nice opportunity for me to hassle my daughter and her husband about the need to provide me with grandchildren, and also to tell some of my favorite lawyer jokes, but it was just fun. No need to bring politics into it. My son-in-law is more liberal than me, but then again, everybody is more liberal than me. Why argue about politics at a graduation party?

Students at Haverford College seem to feel differently:

In a surprising move, a commencement speaker at Haverford College on Sunday used the celebratory occasion to deliver a sharp rebuke to students who had mounted a campaign against another speaker who had been scheduled to appear but withdrew amid the controversy.
William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton and a nationally respected higher education leader, called the student protestors’ approach both “immature” and “arrogant” and the subsequent withdrawal of Robert J. Birgeneau, former chancellor of the University of California Berkeley, a “defeat” for the Quaker college and its ideals.
Bowen’s remarks to an audience of about 2,800 that gave him a standing ovation added a new twist to commencement speaker controversies playing out increasingly on college campuses across the nation. Bowen faced no opposition, but chose to defend a fellow speaker who was targeted, calling the situation “sad” and “troubling.”
Rutgers University also held commencement on Sunday without former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who withdrew after professors and students there protested her appearance for her role in the Iraq war. Smith and Brandeis, too, saw the loss of speakers this year.
At Haverford, the controversy arose over Birgeneau’s leadership during a 2011 incident in which UC Berkeley police used force on students protesting college costs. A group of more than 40 students and three Haverford professors — all Berkeley alums — objected to Birgeneau’s appearance and receipt of an honorary degree, noting that many of them had participated in Occupy protests as well and wanted to stand in solidarity with Berkeley students.
They wrote a letter to Birgeneau, urging him to meet nine conditions, including publicly apologizing, supporting reparations for the victims, and writing a letter to Haverford students explaining his position on the events and “what you learned from them.”
Bowen – who made clear he took no position on Birgeneau’s handling of the Berkeley student demonstration — blasted the Haverford protestors’ approach.
“I am disappointed that those who wanted to criticize Birgeneau’s handling of events at Berkeley chose to send him such an intemperate list of “demands,” said Bowen, who led Princeton from 1972 to 1988 and last year received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama. “In my view, they should have encouraged him to come and engage in a genuine discussion, not to come, tail between his legs, to respond to an indictment that a self-chosen jury had reached without hearing counter-arguments.”

(via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Education

Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Explores New Frontiers of Failure

Posted on | May 18, 2014 | 37 Comments

It’s been three weeks since we checked in on the antics of Bill Schmalfeldt, the brain-damaged troll whose harassment of Brett Kimberlin’s enemies led him into an bizarre obsession with John Hoge, my co-defendant in the perjuring bomber’s vexatious lawsuits.

Read that sentence again, please.

If you’re a regular reader, it all makes sense, but if you were somebody just randomly browsing the Web and encountering this for the first time, you would have some questions: Who is Brett Kimberlin? Why do I call him “the perjuring bomber”? Why do I call Bill Schmalfeldt a “brain-damaged troll”? Who is John Hoge, and why are both of us being sued by Kimberlin? It’s a long, crazy story that I’ve been involved in for two years now, and it is important to acknowledge up front that the latest weirdness by Bill Schmalfeldt is occurring way off there on the obscure online fringes of Weirdoville.

It’s not BREAKING URGENT NEWS, in other words, and the essential triviality of Bill Schmalfeldt is something I understand, even if Bill doesn’t understand it himself. OK, so . . .

Bill Schmalfeldt has been self-publishing “books” about his demented misadventures. While I haven’t paid any attention to these, I think Bill is basically collecting up his own blog posts into “books,” which would probably be of interest to no one, except perhaps to a Maryland court — Exhibit A, as it were, in the case to have Bill Schmalfeldt permanently committed to a state psychiatric hospital. Let’s let Bill tell you what has resulted from his kooky publishing venture:

They killed “My Slow, Journalistic Death.” Because I used a sentence from WJJ Hoge’s blog.
They killed “Intentional Infliction”. Because “Paul Krendler” claims he sold the rights to a blog to WJJ Hoge.
They killed “WJJ Hoggy Tells You How to Smack Around a Handicapped Liberal (and get away with it).” Because Robin Wesley Causey claimed a copyright he doesn’t own.
And now, “Cyber Ins@nity” has been tossed off of the lists at Lulu.com. They won’t tell me why, except that someone claims it “invades” his or her privacy.

In other words, Bill Schmalfeldt’s book publishing career has been about as successful as his “journalism” career, which is to say it’s been a laughable failure, because Bill is a brain-damaged troll.

However, because he is unable to acknowledge his ineptitude or to take responsibility for his own failures, every time Bill Schmalfeldt fails, he blames his enemies, demonizing them as scapegoats, and then doubling down on failure. Later, rinse, repeat.

(The nice nurses at the psych ward are nodding in agreement.)

Bill has inflated the importance of his own (self-inflicted) problems and blames these problems on Hoge and on various commenters at Hoge’s blog — Paul Krendler, Robin Causey, etc. — and has taken to “doxing” these people (publishing their personal information) and, by using such materials in his “books,” Schmalfeldt has stirred up trouble for himself with these online self-publishing services.

Who is Nancy Gilly? Is she indeed @LibraryGryffon? And why would anyone other than Bill Schmalfeldt care? Bill’s complaints are as nonsensical as his helpless obsession with the “Wonderful Wizard of Hoge,” but this is how pathology becomes identity: Believing himself to be a victim, Schmalfeldt makes his victimhood the basis of his identity, and then interprets everything in that context. But because his victimhood is delusional — his misfortunes are in fact the result of his own actions — his self-created persona of “Victim Bill” is simply a symptomatic manifestation of his derangement.

In the latest episode, Bill Schmalfeldt went chasing after the identity of that elusive phantom “pemason54,” to no avail:

What does Bill Schmalfeldt know about “Honest People”? Never mind.

Hoge comments on the comic value of Schmalfeldt’s “faildox”:

Portland, Oregon, huh?
Of course, I have the IP addresses of all the comments that have come in under the name pemason54. The IPs trace to three sets of locations. Two are in adjacent towns in a state on the east coast. The third traces to various locations east of the Mississippi River belonging to a mobile phone carrier.

 Here’s a brilliant satire: “Because, let’s face it — I couldn’t be more of a dick if my feet were testicles.”





 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

The Progressive Spirit Is Breaking

Posted on | May 18, 2014 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Michael Goodwin at the New York Post gets it wrong in “The American Spirit is Breaking“:

There are many examples that say our spirit is breaking if not already broken. One involves a Wall Street Journal report that, six years after the housing bubble popped and sank the economy, federal officials want to lower mortgage standards again so more people can buy houses that they can’t afford. Been there, done that would seem to be the logical response, but the idea is gaining momentum because so few people can legitimately qualify for credit that the only way to spur housing growth is to junk the standards.
The same thing is happening in schools. Americans overwhelmingly agree that our educational system, once the envy of the world, is now lagging.

The American notion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is still chugging along. A century of decay in our self-appointed and vastly over-rated elite has wrought significant debt and damage, sure.

The question is whether the basic “In God we trust” ethic has been catastrophically supplanted by “In the State, its ‘experts’ and the pagan, hedonistic, fruitless, and ultimately destructive pleasures they peddle, we trust, despite repeated backstabbings”.

The effects have been devastating, sure: to go the Apollo moonshot to an appalling President who can’t launch a website, in a mere half-century, is a downer. But my contention is that #OccupyResoluteDesk is not a representative sample. It would be better to argue that the variance across a population the size of America is so vast as to make the notion of an “American spirit” too nebulous to pursue.

I hope that the smarmy blue state Progressive spirit is breaking. There is significant risk that the final Progressive implosion will bury the conservatives in humus. Irrespective of that, the basic, God-fearing “American spirit” has by no means been completely vanquished by the Progressive lust for Hell. Let not your heart be troubled. Pray that wisdom find these Progressives, that they repent, even as we put the heat on them in primaries and elections, and kick their foolish selves out of office.

These Progressives have been lying about the ‘recovery’ for long enough. Lies are tactical, like elections. Truth has a strategic character to it, and is going to outlive these lies. Could take a few years. Have faith. In what matters.

Category: Democrats

Rule 5 Sunday: Armed Forces Day Edition

Posted on | May 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yep, time once again for a break from politics, feminism and other unpleasant realities – well, I suppose you could argue that Rule 5 is an important part of National Offend A Feminist Week, and in fact last week’s Rule 5 Sunday was the most linked post of NOAFW. As usual, some of the following links may not be suitable for children, fellow workers, wives, girfriends, and the easily offended, so exercise caution with your clicking.

Leading off this week is Laughing Conservative with Candice Swanepoel, followed by Ninety Miles From Tyranny with a cosplay gallery, Girls with Compound Bows, and Morning Mistress. Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot spots Zombie Kaley Cuoco, and First Street Journal honors the Air Force women this week.

EBL contributes Irina Shayk,  a Big Gay Rule 5 post about Michael Sam, Jill Abramson, German Google, Meriam Ibrahim, Dumb And Dumber, and Hot For Teacher. (The management offers no warranty, express or implied, as to the actual attractiveness of the heifers pictured.)

A View From The Beach brings us Cheryl Cole, A #Hashtag to Get Behind, North America’s Oldest Woman (with cave girls), Slightly Used Castle for Sale, “Don’t Do It, You Idiot”, The Sky is Crying (Obamacare Schadenfreude), “Grip of the Blues”, Feeling Drained Again, “Crocodile Tears”, Monday Morning Eye Opener, and When Life Gives You Lemons Make. . .

At Soylent Refuge, it’s your Sunday AM Angel, Evening Awesome Elizabeth Swan, Monday Motivationer Raising The Main Mast, Overnighty Mary, Tuesday Titillation Chaps, This Header May Be Too Much, Humpday Hawt Linky Love Contender, Happy Hour Hawtness, Falconsword Fursday Fantastic, Fursday Evening Asian Awesome Nicole, Corset Considerations, T-GIF Friday, Weekender Ahoy, and Overnighty Tea.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Alicia Witt, his Vintage Babe is Martha Vickers, and Sex In Advertising this week is covered by Beyonce. At Dustbury, it’s Diane Webber and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: National Offend a Feminist Week, Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: I Can See For Miles

Posted on | May 18, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Rule 5 Sunday: Insert Appropriate Song Title Here

The Brutality of Kurt Schlichter

Boko Haram and the Jihad in Africa

GOP’s Angst Correlates To Progressivism

FMJRA 2.0: Every Picture Tells A Story

#NOAFW A Gift to Aspiring Mothers

In The Mailbox, 05.12.14

Vote Sodom/Gomorrah 2016!

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 05.13.14

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.14.14

Today’s Ray Of Hope: Harvard Gets A Clue

The Kook Caucus and the Pervert Lobby

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.15.14

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.16.14

Was She Too … Bossy?

Can the #Benghazi Spinners Win?

The Science Is Settled?

Generally Speaking, @AmandaMarcotte Is Insane, and Feminism Is Always Wrong

Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (14)
  2. Regular Right Guy (11)
  3. Dead Citizens Rights Society (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, but special thanks to everyone who helped push Rule 5 Sunday to the top during National Offend A Feminist Week!


 

Category: FMJRA Award

‘Forget It, Jake …’

Posted on | May 18, 2014 | 39 Comments

It’s Chinatown Mississippi:

A Pearl man who runs a political blog is accused of sneaking into a nursing home where U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife is bedridden and photographing her, then posting the image in a video political “hit piece” on the internet.
Madison Police arrested Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl on Friday night on a charge of exploitation of a vulnerable adult. He’s being held on a $100,000 bond. . . .
Kelly is accused of sneaking into St. Catherine’s Village in Madison, where Rose Cochran has resided since 2000, suffering from progressive dementia and now bedridden.
Cochran on Saturday issued a statement: “I have been fortunate to have a wonderful family, and like so many families, we are deeply affected by my wife’s serious, long-term illness, that we consider to be a very private family matter. We will continue doing everything we can to protect my wife’s safety and security.”
Donald Clark, attorney for Sen. and Rose Cochran, said the Cochrans’ “privacy and dignity have been violated.”

The blogger accused of this bizarre criminal stunt is a supporter of Cochran’s GOP primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who I’ve endorsed. Of course, I would never in a million years endorse this kind of weirdness, and I’m sure McDaniel wouldn’t either, but the Cochran campaign seems to be suggesting such complicity.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Crime, Mississippi, Senate
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