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Which One of You ‘Christofascists’ Urinated in A.R. Moxon’s Cornflakes?

Posted on | December 18, 2023 | Comments Off on Which One of You ‘Christofascists’ Urinated in A.R. Moxon’s Cornflakes?

Say hello to A.R. Moxon, a writer who has a Substack where he rants against Republicans or, as he calls them, “the sort of Christian Nationalists who would love to see a fascist dictator take power to install a white nationalist Christofascist ethnostate.” That is the eminent danger, the existentialist threat, according to A.R. Moxon, whose biographical details — where did he go to college? what did he do for a living before he became a Substacker? — are difficult to ascertain.

What is A.R. Moxon’s fundamental grievance? The immediate target of his ire was a New York Times profile of two families — the Noble family and the Huckins family — who moved for political reasons. The Huckins family got fed up with out-of-control drugs, crime and homelessness in Portland, Oregon, and moved to Troy, Missouri. The Noble family, whose teenage daughter thinks she is a boy, moved from Iowa to Minnesota after Iowa passed a law prohibiting “gender affirming care” for minors. Moxon views the Times as engaging in “both-sides-ism,” hence the subtitle of his essay targets “false equivalence in an age of rising fascism.”

But is it true? Is fascism really rising? Are we living in a repeat performance of Germany circa 1933? Is Trump “literally Hitler”? And are those of us who voted for Trump — show of hands, please — really “the sort of Christian Nationalists who would love to see a fascist dictator take power to install a white nationalist Christofascist ethnostate”?

It’s such a looney-sounding accusation that I hesitate to deny it. If we have driven liberals into a state of paranoia, why not enjoy the fruits of our labors? And, in point of fact, my co-blogger Wombat calls himself The Last Falangist, so I’d be happy if A.R. Moxon, upon taking notice of our blog, were to start shrieking that he is being “targeted” by the not-so-secret headquarters of the Christofascist conspiracy.

Heck, why not just rename the blog Christofascist HQ?

As I say, however, I was unable to find much biographical background on A.R. Moxon, so I’m at a loss to explain how he came to be gripped by this paranoid fear, except to suspect that he’s spent too much time inside the hivemind echo chamber where leftists have been inciting Trump Derangement Syndrome ever since Hillary lost the election in 2016.

Because I couldn’t find much background on A.R. Moxon, I began to suspect this might be a pseudonym. Like, what kind of name is “Moxon,” anyway? He admits to being a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan, so I Googled “Moxon + Grand Rapids” and discovered that in fact the Moxon family has a long history there. Two of his ancestors, the brothers Frank and Milton Moxon, were both WWII veterans who died in 2014 and 2022, respectively. Both Frank and Milton were members of First Evangelical Covenant Church in Grand Rapids, and Milton in particular was a zealous Christian. Milton had eight grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, and I suppose A.R. Moxon might be one of Milton’s descendants. But why then does he hate Christianity so much?

Who pissed in his cornflakes, huh? That’s the real puzzle, but unless and until A.R. Moxon explains himself, I have no way of solving it. Now, excuse me while I go place my Amazon order for hobnailed jackboots. Just hope they’ll be here in time for Christ(ofascist)mas.



 

Category: Progressivism

Rule 5 Sunday: Outstanding In Her Field

Posted on | December 18, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Outstanding In Her Field

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X.
Unsolicited and completely unrelated plug: if you like fudge and bad jokes, I cannot recommend the Uranus Fudge Factory (“The Best Fudge Comes From Uranus!) highly enough. I ordered a couple small boxes of the Reduced Sugar fudge, and it was GOOD. I can’t eat more than half a piece at a time, it’s that rich. Still time to get your fudge packed and out the back door in time for Christmas!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Or the woods. Whatever.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Nuclear Deterrent News, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Holiday Inn, MAGA – Rudy Giuliani Gets Raped In Court, Reacher Season 2, Julie London, The Ghost Of Christmas Always, Archie, Peyton Place, “Time For Her To Come Home For Christmas”, Bookie, Godzilla Minus One, Lucille Ball, Love On Harbor Island,  Israel & The Jews, Hannah Waddingham, and Spirited

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Mia Fer, EPA Issues It’s Annual Christmas Nag, Fish Pic Friday – Erin McGuinty, In My Own Mind, DOI Worries About Offshore Wind Power’s Effects on Fish, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, MD Issues Fish Consumption Advisories for PFAS, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Republicans Out to Kill Me says Hunter, Palm Sunday and Gone Fishin’

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for December 15

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule Five Friday – Santa’s Snow Bunny Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Falcons & Eagles

Posted on | December 17, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Falcons & Eagles

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, we done good, even though we lost three of our last five games – split a two-game series with Baltimore, and then lost two of three in Pittsburgh. Still, we finished 91-71, far better than any Senators team IRL, and get the home field advantage against whoever we’re playing in the first round.

Larry Fast, who released most of his music under the name Synergy, is one of the electronic music scene’s forgotten people. Starting in 1975 with Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra, he released eleven albums of music that fell somewhere between the classical-influenced work of Klaus Schulze and the shorter, more Europop stuff that Tangerine Dream was doing in their later years. He also played with Yes, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Bonnie Tyler, Nektar, and Tony Levin, another former member of Yes.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

On to the playoffs!

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Rule 5 Sunday: For The Fallen
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BREAKING: Penn’s Magill Resigns
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Pharaoh Amenhotep II and the Exodus: Vindicating the Bible as Israel’s History
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FMJRA 2.0: Dune
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In The Mailbox: 12.11.23 (Weakened Warrior Edition)
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David Drake, RIP
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Save The Republic
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In The Mailbox: 12.12.23
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In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Morning Edition)
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Can We At Least Agree That Nobody — and Certainly No Republican — Cares About Hunter Biden’s ‘Struggle’?
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In The Mailbox: 12.13.23 (Evening Edition)
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‘The Usual Suspects’: Detroit Police Make Arrest in Murder of Synagogue Leader
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In The Mailbox: 12.14.23
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Fact Check: Jesus Was NOT an ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ (and Also, Joseph and Mary Weren’t Homeless)
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In The Mailbox: 12.15.23
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Top linkers for the week ending December 15:

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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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John Hoge, R.I.P.

Posted on | December 16, 2023 | Comments Off on John Hoge, R.I.P.

“The Other Podcast” is on hiatus, and NASA’s space robot program has suffered a major setback, as my podcast co-host John Hoge died Friday morning. Our friend Aaron Walker relayed the news:

I want to take a moment to announce that my best friend, John Hoge (@wjjhoge) has passed on. His son, William Hoge IV, called me this morning to share the terrible news. Earlier today, he was driving as normal when he had a heart attack. What little chance he had of surviving was foreclosed when he struck the side railing on the road. I am told that no other persons were hurt in that accident. I have no doubt that John would be glad to hear that no one else was harmed. A few years ago, his beloved wife, Connie Hoge had also passed on. I don’t think he ever fully got over losing her and I think everyone who knows him would be comforted by the thought that they are together again in heaven. Maybe doing some slow dancing. Maybe just enjoying each other’s company. Will is still working through the details, such as when he will be memorialized. I am sure Will would appreciate any thoughts and prayers for John and everyone who cared for him. And I am sure John would want well-wishers to donate to Connie’s Fund . . . (But you might also save your money possibly to help Will with final expenses.) I know many people online and offline will be mourning him. . . . We lost a good one today, folks.

As longtime readers will know, I first met John because of the Brett Kimberlin saga. In May 2012, when Kimberlin was trying to get Aaron Walker jailed, John immediately rallied to the cause on Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day, and was able to attend several court proceedings in the Kimberlin v. Walker affair to act as a reporter (he got his start in journalism as a radio broadcaster in Nashville in the 1960s). Eventually, the Kimberlin controversy culminated in Hoge, Walker, Ali (Akbar) Alexander and myself being co-defendants in a lawsuit (see “Sue Me Again, You Evil Liar,” August 13, 2014). Although he was an engineer by profession, John was the son of a lawyer, and proved to be quite an industrious pro se litigant, taking the legal offensive against Kimberlin on occasion, while monitoring the proceedings of Kimberlin’s various doomed efforts to appeal his original criminal convictions.

Polymath would be the best one-word description of Hoge’s tremendously versatile intelligence. The scion of a prosperous Tennessee family, John was a proud Vanderbilt University alumnus, and served as an officer in Army intelligence during the Vietnam War. He worked as a recording engineer in Nashville, then was a design engineer for sound equipment companies before landing (pardon the pun) in the aerospace industry, which brought him to Goddard Space Flight Center. When people asked him what he did, he’d give some kind of dry description, but after I understood his most recent endeavor, I told him his answers weren’t cool enough: “No, you design space robots for NASA.” Literally true, and much cooler sounding than “engineering contractor.”

As Aaron remarked, John was devoted to his late wife Connie, and since her death, he had a habit of beginning his anecdotes by saying, “When Connie and I . . .” For example, anytime there was news from California to discuss on the podcast, we’d hear a story about “when Connie and I” lived in California. Did I mention he was a leader in his church? His ancestors included prominent clergyman, among them a Presbyterian pastor named William J. Hoge. John led congregational “shaped note” singing at Frederick Church of Christ. He was a gentleman and a scholar, who was always well-dressed, well-mannered and well-spoken. His engineering skills made him indispensable at NASA, which was why he continued working into his 70s — younger engineers simply couldn’t do what the old guy did, having learned his trade in the slide-rule era.

John loved word-play and puns, and his last blog post was part of his long-running riff on Pinky and the Brain: “Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering? I think so, Brain … but if we switched to Danish, today would be a day ending in –g.” A typical droll Hoge-ism there.

In my first phone conversation with his son Will after John’s death, Will’s immediate thought was to find some way to get the podcast done at its usual time, but I told him to forget about that for now, as I’m sure he’ll have much work to do in making funeral arrangements.

Will should be your in prayers, and as for what else you can do to help, I’m sure contributions to Hoge via Pay Pal would be best.

Category: Blogging, The Kimberlin Files

In The Mailbox: 12.15.23

Posted on | December 16, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.15.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

And that’s the way it is.

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
William J. Hoge, RIP.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens When You Pass Medical Students Without Regard For Merit?
EBL: Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip running for vacated Santos Seat, Reacher: Season 2, and MAGA: Rudy Giuliani Gets Raped in Georgia Defamation Trial 
Twitchy: “The Word You’re Looking For Is WOMEN”, Trailer Drops For Film About Magical Black People And Twitter Has Thoughts, and Absolute Narcisse-ism – Va. Principal Celebrates Her Strength After Student ODs On Fentanyl
Louder With Crowder: “Karen” Is Suing Her Neighbor Over The Delicious Smells Of His BBQ Restaurant That She CHOSE To Move In Next To, New chairman gets sworn in on stack of porn he wants in school libraries because this is what progressives do now, and Sanity Prevails – VA Supreme Court Gives Win To Teacher Fired Over Forced Pronouns
Vox Popoli: Those Darn Kebabs, Mystery, and The Haiku Phase
According To Hoyt: Farewell to A Friend, Earthquake Bells Again, and Nice
Gab News: Satanic Statue In Iowa Dismantled By Based Christian Man

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ignorant, Afraid, or Complicit, you are a Slave
American Conservative: The U.S. Debt Is Getting Uglier—And That’s the Plan
American Greatness: Biden Turns on Netanyahu Ahead of 2024, Study: More Americans Over the Age of 65 are Heading Back to Work, and Elise Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Judge Beryl Howell Alleging ‘Highly Inappropriate Political Speech’
American Thinker: A State-by-State Look at Noncitizen Voting, also, GOP Betrays Voters…Again
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Nuclear Deterrent News
Babalu Blog: Heavy rains in Havana cause 28 building collapses, Cuban exile who escaped poverty in Cuba is now a U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, and Cuban mothers offer to sell their kidneys in exchange for food, housing, money for emigration
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 15
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 5 launches classified satellite; core stage liable to crash anywhere on Earth Update on Starship/Superheavy work at Boca Chica, NASA: The flight plan for Dream Chaser Tenacity’s first demo mission to ISS, Another minor canyon on Mars that would be a world wonder on Earth, and Is the pushback against the bigots in academia finally and actually becoming real?
Cafe Hayek: Yep, There’s Truth in Tiebout, and Is It Beating a Dead Horse If the Horse Being Beaten Still Gallops?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Dear School of Experience Visits A Survivor of Kibbutz Nir Oz 
Don Surber: Weird War III
First Street Journal: The Inky tries another tactic to defend Liz Magill
Gates Of Vienna: From Jerusalem to Yerevan
The Geller Report: 10 IEDS FOUND AT BORDER, also, Murdered Hostage Had Broken Jaw, Gouged Out Eye, Missing Fingers
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Footprints on the Moon
Hollywood In Toto: Wonka Ignores Gene Wilder, Crafts Spry Origin Story, also, 10 Most Important Female Characters in TV History
The Lid: Lesley Wolf Stonewalls House Investigation Into DOJ Obstruction Allegations
Legal Insurrection: Giant Spiders from Asia Now Weaving Their Way Up the US East Coast, Chris Cuomo After Watching Footage Of October 7 Hamas Massacre: “They enjoyed mutilating”, House GOP Demanding Harvard be Stripped of Billions in Federal Funding Over Anti-Semitism, Huge Win for Women’s Sports – Appeals Court Says Female High School Athletes Can Sue Over Transgender Athlete Participation, U. Wisconsin Board of Regents Finally Accepts Deal With Republicans to Reduce DEI Staff in Exchange for Funding, and Minneapolis Partners With NYU Law School to ‘Reimagine’ Policing
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Football Writer Claims Fired Chargers Coach Brandon Staley Was Only Hired For Being White, Months After NCAA Suspension For Players Gambling, Iowa Collective Accepts Massive Donation From Casino Group, Ja Morant Says All The Right Things Ahead Of His Comeback, Now Has To Prove His Words Matter, The Athletic Doesn’t Want The National Anthem Played At Sporting Events Anymore, END OF AN ERA: Legendary UFC Octagon Girl Brittney Palmer Retires, and Max Scherzer Has Back Surgery, Out Until Summer
Power Line: After the atrocity video, Cuomo style, After 10/7, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Florida 5th Circuit Seeks Death Penalty For Child Rapist
Shot In The Dark: Converts, also, The Spirit Of The Season
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2023 (Day 3), also, Happy Bill of Rights Day!
This Ain’t Hell: New robots to aid troops, Skynet smiles, Smallest Military in 80 Years Gets Even Smaller, Valor Friday, The Military says that recruiting woes are more complicated than ‘woke’ policies, and U.S. Navy Lieutenant, who was sentenced in Japan, is back in United States custody
Transterrestrial Musings:  Anti-Semitism, also, Civil War Two
Victory Girls: Melania Trump – It Is My Privilege To Share This Great Nation With You
Volokh Conspiracy: 16 Disclosures from the New York Times Leak Report About Dobbs
Watts Up With That: COP 28: The radicals lose again, Has Australia’s Nuclear Debate Killed Renewable Energy Investment? and 100-Year-Old Union-Backed Law Among Snags Derailing Biden’s Green Energy Agenda
The Federalist: CVS’s Shift In Drug Markups Could Stop Big Pharma’s Price Gouging, Senate Democrats Block Bill To Allow Whole Milk In School Lunch Programs, How Democrats Like Gavin Newsom Got Away With Devastating The Greatest State In America, Virginia Supreme Court Says Lawsuit By Teacher Fired For Christian Beliefs About Sex May Proceed, If Republicans Want To Govern, They’d Better Learn How To Go After The Left, and Texas Education Board Votes To Protect Kids From ‘Sexually Explicit’ Books In School Libraries
Mark Steyn: Our Revolting Elites

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Fact Check: Jesus Was NOT an ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ (and Also, Joseph and Mary Weren’t Homeless)

Posted on | December 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Fact Check: Jesus Was NOT an ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ (and Also, Joseph and Mary Weren’t Homeless)

“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David: To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”
— Luke 2:1-7 (KJV)

It’s that time of year, when ignorant liberals try to turn Christmas into a political talking point. We can expect, for example, a repetition of the claim that Jesus and Mary were homeless. This popular Democratic Party holiday theme was pioneered by the Rev. Jesse Jackson:

Every Christmas season we hear the inevitable revisionist version of the Christmas story in order to further government programs. Jesse Jackson was the first to turn Joseph and Mary into a “homeless couple” when he claimed that Christmas “is not about Santa Claus and ‘Jingle Bells’ and fruit cake and eggnog,” of which all Christians would agree, but about “a homeless couple.” . . . He repeated his “homeless couple” theme at the 1992 Democratic Convention. . . .
Hillary Clinton, in comments critical of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s homeless policies, sought to remind all of us that “Christmas celebrates ‘the birth of a homeless child.’”

This is obviously false. Joseph and Mary had a home in Nazareth. The reason they were in Bethlehem was because the government wanted to tax them, a policy which required them to go to Bethlehem. Trying to turn this into an argument for voting Democrat is about deceiving fools (which is true, of course, of all arguments for voting Democrat).

My podcasting partner John Hoge calls attention to a new variation of this — the idea that Jesus was an “undocumented immigrant”:

Jesus was not an immigrant. He was born in Joseph’s family’s home town in the same part of the Roman Empire where he spent essentially all of his life until the cruxifixction. Joseph had returned to Bethlehem for a census, so it also unlikely that Jesus was in any sense “undocumented.”

Research led me to the Rev. Kevin M. Young as the person who’d posted that photo, showing his gesture of enlightening his “deep South” neighbors. The question occurred to me: Who is this guy?

One of the first things I discovered was that he had formerly been pastor of a Quaker church in Ohio. Quakerism is heresy — “inner light” and all that — and no Bible-believing Christian would be associated with it. A bit more searching turned up an article identifying Young as “An Obvious Wolf In Wolf’s Clothing.” No one should be deceived by this man, who is not preaching anything close to actual Christianity.

Conservative Christians must beware of the danger of co-opting religion for political purposes. Some years ago, I read an article by a conservative theologian criticizing the idea of “All-American Jesus” — a corruption of faith, an idolatrous fiction making the Gospel an endorsement of suburban middle-class life. It is easy for some people to be seduced by such ideas, which appeal to their vanity, and certainly I don’t want anyone to get the idea that voting Republican is going to get you into Heaven, still less that it’s going to bring about Heaven on Earth.

In conclusion: “Don’t immanentize the eschaton!”



 

Category: Christmas, Religion

In The Mailbox: 12.14.23

Posted on | December 15, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.14.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry In Chicago
EBL: Antarctica, Hunter Biden Snubs Subpoena, and André Braugher, RIP
Twitchy: Tucker On X – The Kyle Rittenhouse Interview, Marc Lamont Hill Stunned To See Mediocre White Men Dismiss Mediocre Black Woman, and Christian Veteran Topples, Beheads Satan Statue In Iowa
Louder With Crowder: UFC 296’s Colby Covington ANNIHILATES LeBron James’ latest National Anthem disrespect, Jill Biden drops official WH Christmas video and it looks like she got her hands on some of Hunter’s special candy, and Boston Mayor apologizes for accidentally inviting whites to a Christmas party exclusive to “electeds of color”
Vox Popoli: Neoclown Admits the Defeat of “the West”
Postcards From Barsoom: Cracking The Shell Of A Dead Future

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Market for Failing Boys
American Greatness: Civilization Versus the New Nihilists
American Thinker: The Decline of Art in Western Culture Parallels the Decline of Everything Else
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Impeachment News
Babalu Blog: Worsening crisis leaves Cubans overwhelmed with desperation, Cooking shows in communist Cuba, and Reports from Cuba: Cuban regime’s scriptwriters no longer scare anyone
BattleSwarm: Elon U?
Behind The Black: NASA celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight, Amazon files to have shareholder lawsuit dismissed, The scrub of this week’s Falcon Heavy launch of X-37B, The scientific results from South Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri, Rocket Lab returns to flight, successfully launching a Japanese commercial radar satellite, and The long term deep-rooted bigotry at MIT, sadly typical of modern academia
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday – Reading The NDAA Tealeaves, Part III
Da Tech Guy: ,Doctor Ben Carson would be the ideal running mate for Donald Trump also, The Real Conundrum In Gaza
Dana Loesch: The Kate Cox Situation
Don Surber: Don’t impeach – prosecute
First Street Journal: Israel and the Second Amendment, I’ll wait for more evidence before I believe this story, and The Inky’s Editorial Board have weighed in: they think that genocide of the Jews is a subject for debate
Gates Of Vienna: Memorializing the Culture-Enrichers of Berlin, also, Hamas Attack Thwarted in Northern Europe
The Geller Report: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Defends ‘Electeds of Color Only’ Holiday Party, also, Israeli doctors tell hospital administration they won’t treat terrorists
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Moon and the Earth, When An Incompetent Gives Advice, and Don’t Know Much About History
Hollywood In Toto: Leave the World Behind Hates America, Not White People, also, Poor Things Had This Critic Pining for the Exits
The Lid: Loony Left-Wing California Set to Fine Stores that Fail to Create ‘Gender Neutral’ Toy Section
Legal Insurrection: CDC Issues Warning After 3 People in California Die From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, New York Republicans Choose Mazi Melesa Pilip, an IDF Veteran, to Succeed George Santos, Former Harvard Presidents Release Statement in Support of Claudine Gay, Federal Judge Decided Not to Temporarily Block Naval Academy From Using Race in Admissions, OK Gov. Stitt Orders DEI Reviews, Cuts at Public Universities in the State, and Congress Approves Extension of Warrantless Surveillance as Part of the Defense Policy Bill
Nebraska Energy Observer: This is not my favorite person
Outkick: Jalen Milroe Is Returning For Another Season At Alabama. So Can We Put The Nick Saban Retirement Talk On Hold Now? Megan Rapinoe Saying Playing For USWNT Is ‘Worst Job In The World’ Perfectly Represents The Loser Mentality Creeping Into American Culture, Army/Navy Game Puts Up Big TV Ratings, Is A Win For America, Colby Covington Unleashes Vulgar Anti-LeBron James Rant After National Anthem Disaster, Perfect Timing: Alabama Reportedly Hires Former Michigan LB Coach Two Weeks Before Rose Bowl Showdown, and Is This Paige Spiranac Hole-In-One Real? Golf World Divided Over Video
Power Line: After the atrocity video, Merry Christmas? and Statehood Was a Disaster?
Shark Tank: Rubio Urges Release Of Imprisoned Nicaraguan Bishop
Shot In The Dark: The Conversation We Need, Priorities, and Backlash – Sooner Rather Than Later
The Political Hat: The Woke Ethnogenesis Of The Indigenous, also, 12 Posts of Christmas, 2023 (Day 2)
This Ain’t Hell: Strong, the stupid is, Wreaths Across America a scam? and Norfolk City Council ignores city planning commission, approves permits for Armed Forces Brewing Company
Transterrestrial Musings: The Russo-Ukrainian War, also, Harvard
Victory Girls: Cruel, Incompetent Boston Mayor Wu And The “No Whites” Party
Volokh Conspiracy: Attempt to Vanish My Article About Attempt to Vanish My Article About Attempt to Vanish Other Articles
Watts Up With That: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) inventory only has a 20-day supply for country, Meat Made Us Human, and “Many Will Die”: Climate Scientists Respond to COP28 Fiasco
The Federalist: You Won’t Believe The Leftist Nonsense Public School Teachers Inject Into Your Kid’s Brain, Here’s The Evidence CNN’s Abby Phillip Says Doesn’t Exist, 10 Naughty Bureaucrats, Brands, And Buffoons Who Deserve Coal In Their Stockings This Year, Jill Biden’s ‘Hunger Games’ Themed Christmas Video Is An Abomination, Illinois Cooks Up Cashless Bail And Discovers It’s A ‘Perfect Recipe For Lawlessness’, and How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law To Turn Out Democrats For Elections
Mark Steyn: Blessings (and Latkes) Over Evil

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‘The Usual Suspects’: Detroit Police Make Arrest in Murder of Synagogue Leader

Posted on | December 14, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘The Usual Suspects’: Detroit Police Make Arrest in Murder of Synagogue Leader

Probably not a Trump voter:

A 28-year-old man was charged with the murder of Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll Wednesday after he allegedly broke into her house two months ago, prosecutors said.
Michael Jackson-Bolanos was charged in the stabbing death of Woll after a person of interest was taken into custody Sunday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy said during a press conference Wednesday.
Jackson-Bolanos, of Detroit, was an apparent stranger to Woll, 40, Worthy said, adding there were “certainly no facts to suggest” it was a hate crime against the Jewish leader.
Instead, the fatal stabbing happened during a break-in, Worthy said. Woll’s front door “was ajar and unlocked, and a significant amount of blood was inside,” the prosecutor said according to the Detroit Free Press.
The suspect allegedly lied to detectives about the theft and attempted theft of cars the same day Woll was found dead outside her home on Oct. 21.
On top of the murder charge, Jackson-Bolanos was also charged with home invasion and lying to a police officer.
“This was an extraordinarily sad and tragic case,” Worthy said.

Because she was murdered just two weeks after the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, many at the time were concerned that Woll’s murder was a “hate crime,” even though police immediately emphasized that nothing was known about the motive, and then later ruled out anti-Semitism as a motive. My initial reaction: “However, knowing what we know about Detroit, I’m willing to hazard a tentative guess that the killer was probably not a Trump supporter.” This was a simple deduction. Detroit is a crime-ridden pesthole and, as in most such cities, Biden voters comprise the vast majority of the population. So if police did not immediately suspect Woll’s murder to be motivated by anti-Semitism — if there were no anti-Jewish slurs spray-painted at the scene, etc. — a simple process of elimination would lead one to guess that her killer was an ordinary local criminal. It is therefore not surprising to read this:

Jackson-Bolanos previously spent two years on probation after being convicted of receiving and concealing a stolen motor vehicle in 2019, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. He also spent four years in prison for a similar offense in 2013.

If the killer had been a MAGA-hat-wearing Republican, this story would be 24/7 on CNN. Under the circumstances, however, we can expect the murder of Samantha Woll to disappear quickly from the news.



 

Category: Crime, Michigan
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