LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.20.13

Virginians weren’t supposed to glom onto the fact that Terry McAuliffe is a Tommy Boy candidate, hold the redemptive climax, until after the election:
Could it be that Barack Obama has brought an end to the era of the political no-talent rodeo clown? McAuliffe seems to be giving the bulls a workout based more on the out of state frogskins than any actual capacity to fill a public office.

Ken Cuccinelli for Governor

He’s much more likely to be sober while carrying out his duties

via Bearing Drift

Update: Breitbart brings some 2008 campaign news that calls into question this post’s “Tommy Boy” characterization of McAuliffe. Perhaps Bluto Blutarsky would be more apropos.

Category: Democrats, Virginia

The Colossus Of Colorado Springs

Posted on | September 19, 2013 | 24 Comments

— Wombat-socho

As a lead-in to our main topic this week, I want to give a brief mention to a couple of things I read this week that are (at the very least) decent brain candy and might be worth your time. First, Marko Kloos’ Terms of Enlistment which right now is only available on the Kindle, but it looks like there’ll be a dead-tree edition come January. This book is awfully reminiscent of Jerry Pournelle’s CoDominium stories; Andrew Grayson joins the Commonwealth armed forces to get out of what amounts to a Welfare Island, and spends the first half of the book training for his eventual deployment to a Territorial Army unit (=Garrison Marines), one of whose duties is riot suppression in the huge poverty-stricken urban areas around the major cities. Our hero winds up being dropped into Detroit on a riot suppression mission that goes very bad and lands him in the hospital – and under investigation for excessive use of force. Fortunately, Grayson has a clout, and she bails him out by arranging for him to transfer to the Navy. The good news for him is that he’s reunited with his girlfriend from Basic; the bad news is that when they arrive at the first planet on their patrol route, something is waiting for them. A lot of reviewers complained about the shift, but I thought the story as a whole was okay – not great, but not a waste of three bucks, either. The other book you might want to take a look at is The Goliath Stone, by Larry Niven and Matthew Harrington, the latter of whom may be familiar to readers of the Man-Kzin Wars anthologies. The Goliath Stone is okay brain candy, and while it deals extensively with nanotechnology avoids the depressing “anything can happen” mood of Charles Stross’ Glasshouse. In fact, The Goliath Stone has a cheerful, almost bouncy feel to it, somewhat reminiscent of Niven’s Protector(in the happier parts of that) although a lot of the issues of free will vs. behavior modification through nanotechnology get handwaved away. There are some amusing subplots having to do with – among other things- a re-emergent (and VERY powerful) alliance of Indian tribes. Is it a really serious SF adventure involving nanotechnology, or a parody of shoddily-written disaster novels? Maybe both. Tasty brain candy, either way.

Also worth mentioning are the plethora of megapacks available for the Kindle, which collect works by Andre Norton, Ray Cummings , Reginald Bretnor , Mack Reynolds, and Robert Sheckley, to name but a few of the mid-list SF writers who may not have won any awards, but certainly spun their share of entertaining tales. Hard to beat the price, too.

The problem with chopping SF (and its authors) up into decade-long chunks is that it really doesn’t divide that neatly, as we saw last week with Poul Anderson -and, for that matter, with Isaac Asimov- but most particularly in the case of the author who has arguably had more influence on the genre than anyone since John W. Campbell dominated the field in the 1940s. He has had a plethora of critics, none remotely near his stature, and is the subject of an excruciatingly detailed biography.* I am speaking, of course, of Robert A. Heinlein. Heinlein is best known for his Future History stories (which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago), his juvenile novels (Have Space Suit – Will Travel, Citizen of the Galaxy, and Red Planet being the most notable), his controversial novels of the early 1960s which included Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land , and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Everything after that, with the exception of Time Enough for Love (the capstone to the Future History series) and possibly Glory Road are occasionally considered his “seniles” as the solipsism (magical realism?) of the World As Myth gets completely out of hand in the last two novels and The Number of the Beast.

While Heinlein was cranking out a juvenile novel every Christmas for Scribners, though, he was writing SF for the grown-ups as well, and some of them were outstanding. Double Star tells the tale of a down-and-out actor hired to impersonate a famous politician at a critical point in human history, and tells it well enough to have been voted the Hugo for Best Novel in 1956. The Door into Summer may not have won any awards, but its tale of an engineer shanghaied into the future by his faithless fiance using cryogenics, and his eventual revenge, will keep you glued to the page. I’d be remiss if I forgot to mention the nightmarish The Puppet Masters and the equally disturbing Farnham’s Freehold. Don’t have time for a novel? Try some of his short fiction, collected in Assignment in Eternity and The Menace From Earth.

Heinlein also wrote a fair amount of nonfiction, much of which is collected in Expanded Universe, and a guide to building a political machine (Take Back Your Government), which allowing for technological changes, is still as relevant as it was when Heinlein (then a Democrat) wrote it in 1946.

Perhaps not as prolific as Asimov, Heinlein nonetheless arguably had a wider influence on not only SF but American society at large. He’s inspired legions of imitators (and the occasional parody) and driven socialists and Communists to apoplexy while providing entertainment and inspiration to conservatives, libertarians and neo-pagans. If you haven’t read anything by him, you’re missing some quality entertainment and food for thought besides; if you have, hopefully I’ve pointed you to a few things you haven’t seen before.

*Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century is very, very detailed and thoroughly footnoted; the second volume is due out next June.

Category: Books

Catholic Education: C**ts & Communism

Posted on | September 19, 2013 | 156 Comments

Would you believe that this was part of the curriculum of a radical feminist workshop sponsored by a Catholic University?

Marquette University in Wisconsin hosted this “FemSex” workshop last spring and, while the university has announced it will no longer sponsor “FemSex,” the fact that the administration at a Catholic university thought this course was acceptable tells you something about how far the advance of radical leftism has gone in our nation’s educational institutions. From the course syllabus:

FemSex provides a safe space for exploration, encourages honest dialogue, and facilitates collective learning. . . .
Evolving from the long-running, student-led courses at UC Berkeley and Brown University, FemSex seeks to bring the values of empowerment, diversity, and community to the university setting. . . .
Themes include pleasure, health, gender, consent, boundaries, privilege, power, body image, communication, race, class, orgasms, masturbation, sex, kink, and sexual identities. . . .

Week 12: Empowerment, Final Projects, and Wrap Up
4/29
What is power and who has it? What does it mean to be empowered? What are the various sources of our personal powers? We will consider each topic in our curriculum as it relates to women’s empowerment. We will discuss community building and support amongst people, self-esteem, and confidence building.
Each FemSexy will present phe’s final project, a chance to either reflect on personal experiences of FemSex or further explore a top discussed throughout the season. In the past, some of these projects have taken the form of visual art, video, poetry, exploring a new source/form of pleasure, engaging in a difficult conversation around sexuality, and much more — whatever is most helpful to you in processing and concluding your experience. It’s up to you!
As we say goodbye to a season of FemSex, we will discuss where we wish to go from here, within our own lives and communities.
Take-Home Exercises may include:
• Cunt Coloring: Color an anatomical picture from The Cunt Coloring Book.
• Affirmation Assignment: Affirm someone in a manner of your choosing.
• Birth/Adoption Assignment: Talk to your parent(s)/guardian(s) about the experience of your birth, adoption, or how they came to have you.
• Erotica: Crate an anonymous piece of erotica exploring fantasy and desire.
• Pleasure Point: Find a new pleasure point or pleasurable activity, and write about (or express in another medium) the experience
• Empowerment Object: Bring in something that you find empowering to share with the group.

What is this about? It is about campus “Women’s Studies”/”Gender Studies” as programs as a political weapon, as an ideological indoctrination in radical feminism, as a lesbian recruiting operation, and as a campus base for gay-rights advocacy. Feminist leaders have been quite explicit about their belief that lesbianism is the ultimate form of women’s “empowerment”:

[University of California-Santa Cruz Women’s Studies] Professor Bettina Aptheker is the daughter of a famous American Communist, the late Herbert Aptheker . . .
Professor Bettina Aptheker is by her own proud admission both a Communist and a self-described “lesbian activist.” . . . Aptheker’s course syllabus describes lesbianism as the “highest state of feminism” . . . In other words, change in sexual orientation is an inevitable final stage in the development of the socially conscious individual.

Feminism’s relentless demonization of males as unfairly benefiting from discrimination (“patriarchy”) and the celebration of perverse gynocentric fetishes (“a difficult conversation around sexuality,” hint hint) are all about teaching vulnerable women that heterosexuality is inferior, that men are the enemy and that lesbianism is therefore the only way to escape the oppression of “male dominance.” This is feminism as distaff Marxism, as a revolutionary ideology to destroy traditional culture. And this is not an accident:

Allison Jaggar is professor of philosophy and a former chair of the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder . . . Integrating Marxism and feminist theory, Jaggar describes herself as a “socialist feminist” and “activist,” who seeks to combat “the male-dominant structure of everyday life.” . . .
“The political economy of socialist feminism,” writes Jaggar, “establishes that, in contemporary society, women suffer a special form of exploitation and expression. . . . The distinctive social experience of women generates insights that are incompatible with men’s interpretations of reality . . . The validity of these insights . . . must be tested in political struggle . . .”

To be true feminist, you must be a Marxist lesbian. It is difficult to say whether perversion or subversion is more essential to the radical project on America’s campuses, including Seattle University, a Catholic institution that has invited 1960s radical terrorist Angela Davis to speak to students there. Who is Angela Davis?

Angela Davis is the dangerous criminal who helped smuggle weapons into a courtroom, including the shotgun that was used to blow off the head of federal Judge Harold Haley. She is a lifelong Communist revolutionary who embraces America’s enemies and who — surprise! surprise! — is also an outspoken feminist:

An online campaign has been launched by a conservative Catholic group to oppose the upcoming scheduled appearance of Angela Davis at Seattle University, a Catholic institution.
“It would be difficult to find a speaker who contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church on more levels than Angela Davis,” writes James Bascom for TFP Student Action. “Stalin maybe? She is a notorious feminist, Marxist, communist, socialist who engages in pro-abortion, pro-same-sex ‘marriage’ activism.”

Angela Davis advocates abortion as necessary to feminist revolution:

“Birth control — individual choice, safe contraceptive methods, as well as abortions when necessary — is a fundamental prerequisite for the emancipation of women,” wrote Davis in her book Women, Race and Class.

Angela Davis is anti-traditional marriage, but pro-gay marriage:

At San Jose State University, Davis stated: “Even those of us who are critical of the institution of marriage should be able to say if some people have the right to get marriage, then everybody should have the civil right to get married.”

Hey, Catholics: You have a problem here. Excuse me for observing that the problem goes to the very top of the clerical hierarchy.

There can be no compromise between Marxist radicalism and Christianity. Marxism is committed to the destruction of Christianity.

Category: Education, Feminism

The Left Suppresses Its Own History

Posted on | September 19, 2013 | 65 Comments

Lee Stranahan has an excellent article about how the Left has attempted to hide the truth about its own ideological history, so that anyone who uses the phrase “Cultural Marxism” to describe the crucial influence of the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, et al.) is accused of being a “conspiracy theorist” or worst:

The charge that discussing the Frankfurt School is anti-Semitic gets raised a number of times by those like the Southern Poverty Law Center wishing the bury the truth, so let’s dispense with it as soon as possible. In short, the Jewish heritage of the Frankfurt school is irrelevant. It’s equally true that the major figures at the Frankfurt School were all Jewish and also that some of the major figures exposing the Frankfurt School such as Andrew Breitbart and David Horowitz are also Jewish. Anti-Semitism is a false, collectivist view that has no more place in any legitimate argument than any other form of actual racism trotted out by tribal mentalities. However, in exactly the same way that it would be invalid to criticize the ideas of the Frankfurt philosophers on the basis of them being Jewish, it’s equally invalid to exempt them from any criticism for that reason.
The SPLC throws in the charge of anti-Semitism in its attempt to hide the truth about the Frankfurt School for one reason; it’s exactly the kind of politically correct smear that is the modus operand of the SPLC throughout their work. It’s no small irony that it’s the exactly the technique made possible by the Frankfurt School ideology.

You should read the whole thing. For the contemporary Left to stigmatize its opponents as Jew-haters is the exact opposite of truth. The Left — what used to be called “the far Left,” or “the extreme Left,” or simply Commies — has always been willing to exploit anti-Semitism when it suits their purposes. And in recent decades, as the Democrat Party has increasingly fallen under control of the Left, you see more and more Democrats aligned with the enemies of Israel, and using the term “neocon” as a sort of dog-whistle code word for “Jews.”

This what I mean when I refer to the “Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democrat Party.” The increasing dominance of the Left — ideologues who share the dangerous views of extremists like Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright — shares less in common with Bobby Kennedy than they do with his assassin. But try asking anyone under 30 about who assassinated RFK (correct answer: a Palestinian nationalist) or who assassinated John F. Kennedy (correct answer: a pro-Castro communist named Lee Harvey Oswald) and you immediately discover that young people have been taught no facts about history.

The names and motives of Sirhan and Oswald are not obscure bits of trivia, but these facts are deliberately suppressed by the Left (whose control of academia, especially in the humanities and social sciences, is hegemonic) because if young people were taught the truth about history, they would oppose the Left’s worldview and oppose the Left’s policies.

Is it a “conspiracy theory” to say that the Left uses its influence within institutions to advance its own aims? Of course not. In fact, this is the exact opposite of the truth: The Left’s claims of how society works (e.g., that the rich become rich by defrauding and exploiting the poor) is itself a conspiracy theory, as are its constants charges that conservatives are secretly acting from corrupt motives or hateful beliefs.

The Left uses dishonest methods, including false accusations against its enemies, because the Left cannot win if people know the truth.

By the way, Lee Stranahan has resigned from Breitbart.com, making him all least the third person (including Dana Loesch and Mandy Nagy) to exit that organization in recent months.

People have asked me about what this means, and I honestly am unable to explain this phenomenon except to say that this is how news organizations operate. People come and people go, and disagreements between journalists are nothing unusual. I’ve witnessed many a shouting match in the newsroom, and even participated in a few myself. It is probably a mistake to interpret these events as demonstrating anything other than human nature in a stressful industry where strong personalities and strong opinions are by no means a rarity.

So I don’t know what else to say, except good luck to Lee Stranahan, and good luck also to my many friends at Bretibart.com.

Category: Culture, Education, History, Intellectuals

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.19.13

Posted on | September 19, 2013 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
House GOP Links Obamacare Funding To Budget

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor

Ties one-year delay of Obamacare to debt limit increase

Former Defense Secretaries Criticize Obama On Syria
Gates, Panetta skeptical about Russia deal

Iran’s Rouhani: We Will Never Develop Nuclear Weapons
Exclusive interview with NBC’s Ann Curry

POLITICS
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Visits Congress To Push For Immigration Reform

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Met with Speaker Boehner and a bunch of Democrats

Court Rules Facebook Likes Protected Free Speech

FLOTUS Urges Marketing Healthy Food For Kids

Texas Governor Perry Visits Maryland Businesses, Invites Them To Move

Probe Launched Over Claim That Elite Police Unit Told To Stand Down During Navy Yard Shootings

Governor Jindal Demands Feds Drop Voucher Lawsuit

Gun Rights Group Sues Colorado Governor Over New Laws

Appeals Court Upholds California Fuel Standard

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Surges In Asian Trade After Fed Continues Stimulus: NYMEX $108.59, Brent $110.87
Shares Surge, Bond Yields, Dollar Fall As Fed Continues Easing Spree
Beanie Babies Creator Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion
Gun-Shy Starbucks Tries To End Armed “Appreciation Day”
BlackBerry Could Lay Off Up To 40% Of Employees
Boeing To End C-17 Production In 2015, Close California Production Plants
iOS7: Apple’s New Operating System Goes Live Today
Google Launches Calico To Tackle Illness And Aging
BlackBerry Messenger To Hit Android, iOS This Weekend
Administration Urges FCC To Require Carriers To Unlock Mobiles
Take Two’s “Grand Theft Auto V” Starts Strong With Over $800 Million In Sales
Ouya Revamps Controversial Fund-Matching Program

SPORTS
Former Heavyweight Boxing Champ Ken Norton Dies, 70

Despite three epic championship fights with Muhammad Ali, the two were friends outside the ring

Succumbed to complications from stroke

Rays Take Top Wildcard By Beating Rangers 4-3

O’s Whiz In Boston’s Punchbowl Again, Beat Red Sox In Extras

Former NFL Player Takes To Internet Over Trashed House

Diamond Goes Long, Twins Avoid Sweep

Royals Topple Tribe 7-2

M’s Iwakuma Shuts Down Tigers, 8-0

Hamilton Homers, Drives In Three As Angels Top A’s

Padres Rally Past Reeling Pirates, 3-2

Bruce Leads Reds Over Astros 6-5 In 13

Snakes Pound Dodgers 9-4

Braves Deliver Blow To Nats’ Playoff Hopes; Now 5.5 Back In Wildcard

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Five Things You Need To Know About Eiza Gonzalez

Not Miley Cyrus. Thank God.

Facts about Liam Hemsworth’s new hookup

Cher Rips Miley’s Dancing, Song, Physique, And Oral Hygiene

Pink Thinks Miley Can Do Better: “It’s Tacky”

“Person Of Interest” Filming Shut Down By NYPD Over Fake Gun Battle

Rashida Jones Dating Fellow Harvard Alum

Taye Diggs Heads To “New Girl”

Matt Bomer Set To Play Montgomery Clift In Indie Feature

Kelly Osbourne Sues Former Landlord: “I’m Not A Pig!”

Dakota Johnson’s Co$ Boyfriend Encourages Her To Join The “Church”

Garrett Hedlund Boards Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken”

Jenifer Aniston’s People Deny She’s Preggers

Sandra Bullock: “Gravity” Set Was Baby-Proof

Madonna Does Reddit AMA

FOREIGNERS
Defiant Assad Claims Syria Didn’t Use Chem Weapons
Merkel’s CDU Lashes Out At Euroskeptics As Polls Narrow
Bo Xilai Verdict To Be Announced Sunday
Christians In Southern Egyptian Town Get No Respite After Army Takes Control From Islamists
Five Pakistanis Killed By Afghan Forces
Iran Frees Political Prisoners On Eve Of President’s Visit To US
Neo-Nazi Held In Greek Hip-Hopper’s Death
Berlusconi Vows To Fight On
Acapulco Looted As Mexican Storm Death Toll Hits 80
French Senate Moves To Ban Child Pageants
Family Outraged After Rehtaeh Parsons Photo Appears In Facebook Dating Ad

BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: California Plans To Ban The Private Sector By 2016
Michelle Malkin: WARNING – Our Government Is A Threat To Public Safety
Twitchy: Funny Because It’s True – Introducing The Piers Morgan Guide To Firearms
American Power: Historic Left-Wing Clusterf*ck Media Falsely Reports AR-15 Used In Navy Yard Shooting
American Thinker: Why A Defund Obamacare Strategy Would Succeed
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – KACHING! The Remunerative Revolving Door
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, September 18
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama – Everyone Is Wrong To Doubt Obamacare
JustOneMinute: Buy Anything!
Pat Dollard: Beckel Defends IRS Targeting Of Tea Party In Fight With Hannity
Protein Wisdom: Scenes From Mayonnaise Landing, Crackerado
Shot In The Dark: But Don’t You Dare Claim The Media Is Biased
The Jawa Report: Non-Sarcastic Good News In Syria – FSA Killing Al-Qaeda
The Lonely Conservative: IRS Harassment Of Tea Party Came From The Top
Megan McArdle: Hey Millenials, You Got A Raw Deal. Get Over It.

Category: Live at Five

Past The Hooplah, One Hopes The GOP Replacement Proposal Gets A Review

Posted on | September 18, 2013 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

This is interesting:

Conservatives representing nearly three-quarters of the House Republican conference unveiled their proposed replacement for President Obama’s healthcare law Wednesday, delivering on a long-delayed GOP promise.
The bill from the Republican Study Committee would fully repeal the 2010 law and replace it with an expansion of health savings accounts, medical liability reform and the elimination of restrictions on purchasing insurance across state lines.
Authors of the proposal said they would push for a vote on the House floor, although they acknowledged the bill stands no chance of passage with Obama in the White House and Democrats controlling the Senate.

Thus, no one can reasonably say that the GOP is purely obstructionist here. The House’s action sets up the (more realistic, let’s face it) possibility of delaying ObamaCare another year, and turning 2014 into a referendum between a despised train wreck and the Republican Steering Committee idea, which could retain some flavor of traditional American liberty for our future.

It’s worth noting that even the staunchest ObamaCare advocates wouldn’t mind additional time to actually get some of the infrastructure developed for the program. Scream and holler though they will, the additional schedule slack would be a boon for them.

Hayward notes at Human Events:

Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor made a point of supporting President Obama’s quest for military strikes on Syria because they thought it would earn them some reciprocal goodwill. Then they got to watch Obama take the stage, just hours after a shooting rampage at the Washington Naval Yard, and launch slash-and-burn partisan attacks against them. Perhaps that influenced their decision to go all-in on ObamaCare repeal. Maybe they got tired of trying to shake hands with someone who keeps hitting them below the belt.

Nice fable, John, but we’re talking about the kind of a guy who lets one Ambassador twist in the wind in Benghazi, then sends another Ambassador to urinate down the public back while talking about the video that precipitated the tragedy. Our President is a lying, no-talent rodeo clown of such magnitude that you’d require a lobotomy scar of Kerry proportions not to notice. Still: good try.

via Human Events

Category: Health Care

Mopery, With Intent to Lurk

Posted on | September 18, 2013 | 48 Comments

WE'VE BEEN SUED BY DOCTOR EVIL! pic.twitter.com/K7evM3wIBn Hat-tip: @bet0001970 | @wjjhoge @AaronWorthing @ali @Kimberlinunmask

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 18, 2013

Mopery (noun) — “The action of committing a minor or petty offence, such as loitering, etc.; contravention of a trivial or hypothetical law, esp. when used as an excuse to harass or arrest a person against whom no more serious crime can be charged.”

Whenever citing the list of heinous torts alleged against us by lying felon Brett Kimberlin — “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking” — John Hoge always hastens to add, “Mopery, with intent to lurk.”

Perhaps even aggravated mopery, in the first degree.

Alas, being sued by The World’s Most Evil Pro Se Litigant™ does not spare defendants the hassle and expense of defending ourselves, and so getting this absurd case laughed out of court is far more serious business than these lighthearted jests might suggest.

“Kimberlin’s malicious prosecution and conspiracy to abuse process claims appear to be a classic ‘accuse the accuser’ tactic — he filed a series of ‘peace order’ requests and criminal complaints against his critics, and when some filed requests against him, he calls it malicious prosecution and abuse of process. The complaint’s description of this chain of events dishonestly omits Kimberlin’s own filings.”
— Ken White, “The Popehat Signal: Help Fight Evil In Maryland

Ditto, says defendant McCain, as to every other spurious claim in Kimberlin’s suit. Who has harassed, defamed and stalked whom? And who has organized a conspiracy against his enemies? This is why Neal Rauhauser’s confessed role in Kimberlin’s lawsuit is so important.

Perhaps you should ask Patterico what manner of mischief Neal Rauhauser has perpetrated over the years or, for that matter, you should read for yourself what Rauhauser (alias “Stranded Wind”) wrote on July 4, 2011: “Weinergate: Patterico’s Penalization.”

Bad causes attract bad people, and Neal Rauhauser’s association with Brett Kimberlin shows what manner of “progressive” client a disgraced Democrat campaign consultant inevitably finds. Kimberlin’s “accuse the accusers” tactics in the courtroom furnish fuel for online defamation by the army of slanderous sockpuppets that Rauhauser has helped assemble. John Hoge cites a typical example:

I will say that essentially all the “facts” cited by Xenophon are not factual. They are demonstrably false. Of course, this doesn’t surprise me. On multiple occasions, I’ve watched Brett Kimberlin lie in court, so why would I expect him or his lackeys to tell the truth any place else.
I’ll make sure that Xenophon’s post gets archived and forwarded to my lawyers.

Tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin, and he then enlists liars like Rauhauser and “Xenophon” to lie about you. The lies that have been endlessly repeated about me, I will not specify here, but the purpose of such smears is obvious: In order to explain why honest people say bad things about Kimberlin, his army of liars must discredit the truth-tellers. Once you know their motives, their methods make perfect sense.

“There’s nothing left-wing monsters hate more than people shining the truth on their acts of godless hatred, harassment, and intimidation.”
— Donald Douglas

“I have watched how the Left rolls: Target, Isolate, Attack and Destroy.”
— Lady Liberty

As Sister Toldjah says, this is all about “shutuppery.”

Can you guess what I don’t plan to do?

One million dollars — that’s the amount of punitive damages that convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin is seeking from myself and four other bloggers in a lawsuit recently filed in Maryland. Kimberlin filed this lawsuit pro se (charging “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking”) more than two weeks ago, but I haven’t written much about this suit because I haven’t yet retained counsel.
The fact that Democrats and their liberal allies in the media will not condemn Brett Kimberlin has angered me since May 2012, when I first started covering the story . . . Because Kimberlin once claimed to have sold marijuana to Dan Quayle, he was celebrated by many liberals — including Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau — as a political prisoner of sorts. Liberals ignored the facts about the crimes of which Kimberlin was convicted in 1981 and sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. He eventually served only 17 years of that sentence, and since his release in 2001, Kimberlin has promoted himself as a progressive, an “activist-musician” as the Washington Post’s Monica Hesse called Kimberlin in a 2007 feature profile.
The true story of the “Speedway Bomber” who terrorized an Indiana town, planting a bomb that blew off the leg of a Vietnam veteran, evidently isn’t something the Washington Post considers newsworthy. And neither has the Post shown any interest in Kimberlin’s legal war against blogger Aaron Walker that resulted in Walker being briefly arrested last year and ordered by a Maryland judge to stop writing about Kimberlin. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

Today, I’m planning a road trip from the Undisclosed Location to a Mysterious Destination for Journalistic Purposes I Can’t Reveal. Loyal readers have been supporting the Shoe Leather Fund generously for years, and your contributions have been profoundly appreciated, even if I haven’t found time to thank each of you directly. I always figure that you’re paying me to keep blogging, and time spent writing “thank you” e-mails is time not spent providing the work you’re paying me to do. Nevertheless, please do not doubt my gratitude, nor the gratitude of my family, for every $5, $10, $20 contribution.

Let’s do the math: If 500 readers gave $20 each, that’s $10,000. And if that happened twice a week, every week for the next year, by September 2014, that would be One Meel-lion Dollars — with $40,000 left over for coffee, cigarettes, cheap motels and road food.

What the hell, huh? Nobody ever thought I’d make it to Wasilla.

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Constitution, Fear. Loathing., Journalism, Media Bias, Shoe Leather Fund, The Kimberlin Files

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