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FMJRA 2.0: Electric Eye

Posted on | November 12, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Electric Eye

— compiled by Wombat-socho

My Senators played Pete’s Brewers last Saturday, so we had a break in the action until last night, when it was time to travel to Anaheim and face the Angels. We took two out of three games, with Dobson & Kaat notching their 12th wins; we’ll be fortunate to do as well against the New York Daytraders, who are next up on Tuesday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas esse delendam.

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Rule Five Sunday: O, Canada
Animal Magnetism
Average Bubba
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A View From The Beach
EBL
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‘Kill All You Little Crackers’
The Daley Gator
First Street Journal
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A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Despite Big Night for Virginia Democrats, “HotWifeExperience’ Loses Election
The Daley Gator
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rolling Stone Has Become the SPLC?
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Miracle on East Capitol Street
A View From The Beach
EBL

Seems Kind of…Insurrection-y
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 11.07.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Election Results HQ: The Check Engine Light Is Flashing for ‘Bidenomics’ UPDATE: Dem Reelected Ky. Governor UPDATE: Dems Hold Virginia Senate
A View From The Beach
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
The Daley Gator
EBL

NBC ‘News’ Hosts ‘Republican’ ‘Debate’
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 11.09.23 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.09.23
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In The Mailbox: 11.10.23
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In The Mailbox: 11.10.23 (Late Night Edition)
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Top linkers for the week ending November 10:

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The High Price of Forgetting

Posted on | November 11, 2023 | 3 Comments

“The dullards and malcontents among us are always anxious to acquire by coercion and bullying what they cannot gain by merit. Because of this, their simple-minded doctrine is attractive for a certain type of disaffected bureaucrat.”
— Stanley K. Ridgley

When I was young (says the Baby Boomer, because you callow punks don’t know this stuff) everybody knew Communism was bad. And when I say “everybody,” I mean everybody I knew growing up, as opposed to some freaky radicals in Berkeley or wherever. Stopping the spread of Communism was the primary focus of America’s national policy for at least 10 years before I was born, going back to when Winston Churchill gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. The evil of Communism was so widely recognized that it was usually taken for granted and, in hindsight, this was a mistake. I was never taught anything in school (or college) about the ideology of Communism. There was no critical analysis of the writings of Marx and Engels and Lenin and Trotsky. Nor, for that matter, did we learn anything about the Bolshevik Revolution, the failed Communist revolution attempt in Germany, the short-lived Communist regime in Hungary, etc. Keep in mind that, until I was 14 years old, our troops were fighting Communists in Vietnam. So why weren’t our teachers tasked to explain to us exactly what it was we were fighting? The closest thing we got to it was in fifth grade, when our English teacher, Tom Dowd, read Animal Farm aloud to us, over the course of a couple of weeks, explaining it as a parable of the Russian revolution: “Some animals are more equal than others.”

It was not until I was in my 30s — after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union — that I began studying the history of Communism on my own and, as I’ve often said, I’ve read more Marx than most Marxists. I’ve also read Lenin and Trotsky, for that matter, and everything I’ve learned in this autodidactic education has only reinforced what everybody knew when I was a kid: Communism is bad.

All of this is by way of introduction to Stanley K. Ridgley, a business professor at Drexel University and author of Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities. (Hint: Amazon pays me a small commission when you purchase products through my affiliate links, because capitalism!) From the book description:

Much of university life is controlled by subsidized paranoiacs, amateur psychotherapists, neo-Marxist totalitarians, “student affairs professionals” imbued with authoritarian mentality, and racialist thought reformers who run workshops that destroy family ties and traditional beliefs to clear the way for new relationships grounded in racialist ideology. These are the brutal minds who threaten and abuse students in the name of an academic fraud called “antiracist pedagogy.” . . .
An educational charade masks activities and ideology as dangerous as those that inspired Communist China’s tragic Cultural Revolution. This book strips away the façade of the modern American university to reveal the malignant bureaucratic viscera inside the institution. It is a dark world, an anti-intellectualist sanctuary where brutal minds find purpose, protection, camaraderie, subsidy, and power.

This sounds intriguing, but the reference to the Cultural Revolution in China will have zero resonance in the minds of most Americans, who know little or nothing about the history of Communist regimes in power. The only totalitarian regime that most Americans do know about is Nazi Germany, but their knowledge even of that is superficial, and the main lesson they take from the Third Reich is as simple as, “Hate is bad.”

Professor Ridgley writes about the parallels between Nazi Germany and the 21st-century “antiracist” education regime:

In the Third Reich, anti-Semitism infected every aspect of German society, even the domain of science. This was most memorable in the anti-Semitism that corrupted the discipline of physics. In accord with the Nazi authorities, the work of Jewish scientists was delegitimized by declaration. The Nazis dismissed the theories of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr as “Jewish Physics,” “Jewish Science,” “Jewish World-Bluff,” and the product of “Jewish Spirit.” Something called Aryan Physics was erected as the authentic alternative.
The major characteristic of such a primitive patois is that it attracts and works for only two types of people—those stupid enough to actually believe it (the storm-trooper class) and those who don’t believe it but see it as a useful tool to achieve their vision (vanguard puppeteers). . . .

You can read the whole thing (hat-tip: Robert Shibley at Instapundit).

What the Nazis did in demonizing “Jewish Science” was mirrored by the Soviets using “bourgeois” or “capitalist” as an epithet to demonize anything they opposed, whereas the bogus “science” of Lysenkoism was promoted as truth because it was seen as compatible with Stalinist ideology. Ridgeway’s point is that very similar coercive methods are being used to impose equally dubious beliefs about “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” etc., which conform to the Left’s radical ideology.

Certainly, it is not a coincidence that the Left is now supporting protests (or rather pogroms) to terrorize Jewish students on university campuses.



 

 

Category: Books, History

Still Living Rent-Free in Their Heads

Posted on | November 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Still Living Rent-Free in Their Heads

Just scrolling around and saw this headline:

A lot of Americans embrace
Trump’s authoritarianism

What is this? “Authoritarianism”? Words have meanings, but to liberals in the throes of Trump Derangement Syndrome, definitions are distorted to such an extent that words like “authoritarianism” and “fascism” get tossed around haphazardly, reflecting the emotional trauma of people who still haven’t recovered from that night in November 2016 when the unthinkable happened: Hillary Clinton lost the election!

Does the name Kevin Allred ring a bell? Not long after Hillary lost the election, NYPD had to take Allred to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after he went on a bizarre Twitter rant.

 

At the time, Allred was employed as an adjunct lecturer at Rutgers University. A few months later, in August 2017, Allred was teaching at Montclair State University, when he got fired for a Twitter rant suggesting that Trump should be assassinated.

The problem with people like this — I mean, other than the fact that they’re crazy — is that they take politics too seriously.

For some people, politics is a sort of religion, and the defeat of their favorite candidate is an unbearable blow to their sense of identity. They actually believe all the overblown rhetoric of political campaigns, so that when you tell someone like Kevin Allred that the Republican candidate is “literally Hitler,” they behave as if this were really true.

During the recent election campaign in Virginia, the local TV airwaves were saturated with ads accusing Republicans — “MAGA extremists”! — of conspiring to deprive women of their rights. As I watched these commercials, I couldn’t help but wonder, “Does anyone really believe this stuff?” But here’s the thing: It doesn’t matter whether the well-informed citizen is deceived by such rhetoric. It’s not aimed at us. Instead, such wild-eyed claims are intended (a) to alarm the party’s “base,” thus motivating them to turn out to vote, and (b) to persuade just enough clueless dimwits to make a marginal difference in close races. If a state Senate race is a 50-50 tossup, and a scary TV ad convinces 5% of women to vote Democrat instead of Republican (or ote Democrat when they might otherwise have not bothered to vote), this could prove decisive. And this is as good an explanation as any of happened in Virginia.

What happens, however, when the candidate demonized as a dangerous extremist actually wins the election? Such is the story of the past seven years, when many hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters believed their party’s campaign rhetoric: “TRUMP IS HITLER! DEMOCRACY IS IMPERILED! RUSSIAN COLLUSION! JOIN THE ‘RESISTANCE’!”

Well, some Trump supporters are now in federal prison because they got a little overwrought about the 2020 election. How many anti-Trump protesters got thrown in federal prison? Can you name even one? Explain to me again, please, how it is that Republicans are the party of “authoritianism,” when it’s Democrats who are sending their political opponents to prison. But here’s how Philip Bump begins his column in The Washington Post:

With every hour that passes, Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination grows tighter. Every day in which his opponents aren’t gaining ground on his position is a day in which he gets nearer to appearing on the ballot next November and nearer to possibly being inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025.
To many observers, there’s an incongruity to this. After all, recent days have also brought new awareness of Trump’s plans should he be inaugurated on that day, plans that are often unvarnished embraces of an authoritarian use of power. Trump plans to root out disloyal bureaucrats and install ideologically sympathetic ones. He’s speaking openly of using the Justice Department to target his opponents, including to hobble possible political opponents. . . .

Does this man have any self-awareness at all? Is he inside some kind of cocoon that insulates him from any information about, e.g., everything the Justice Department (and the FBI in particular) has done since 2016?

But this kind of bizarre counterfactual rhetoric is everywhere now, e.g., Noah Berlatsky warning of “The Christofascism of Mike Johnson,” at a time when violent Hamas supporters are endangering Jews everywhere.

What part of “calm the fuck down” do I need to explain here? These campus Hamas mobs are the crazy tip of a vast iceberg of people who have lost their minds because they’re tuned into too closely to the 24/7 Political Noise Machine that is our national media establishment. Somebody needs to tell these people: “Put down your phones! Stop reading the messages on your social media! And for God’s sake, don’t watch cable news! You obviously can’t deal with it!”

Who’s threatening Jews on campus at MIT? (Hint: Not Trump voters.) Anyone in the media promoting the message that the great danger to America is Republicans — “MAGA extremists” like Mike Johnson and his “Christofascism” — is being grossly irresponsible. But no responsible person would ever write for the Washington Post, a discredited organization that employs Taylor Lorenz.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 11.10.23 (Late Night Edition)

Posted on | November 11, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday U.S. Marine Corps, Ronna McDaniel is a Failure as RNC Chair, and Nashville Police Chief John Drake Hid The Shooter Manifesto
Twitchy: Call 911 Because Rabbi Shmuley Just Wrecked Cenk Uygur Over Israel On Piers Morgan’s Show, Az. State Law Prof Has Jussie Smollett Moment, and “I’m A Full Professor” – Georgetown U Prof Whips Out Credentials, Gets Mocked
Louder With Crowder: Man uses firearm to prevent another NYC subway mugging, so of course, HE’S the one who gets arrested, Kmart Pulls Festive “Merry Ham-Mas” Bag From Shelves Over  Outrage: “We got it wrong”, Liberal Braintrust Says To Stop Blaming Inflation. Instead, Blame High Prices – hey, wait a second…, and WaPo takes down accurate political cartoon about Hamas, bends the knee to Hamas supporters who thought it was too mean
Vox Popoli: Aborted by the Market, also, I Read, Therefore I Know
According To Hoyt: Stop The Circular Firing squad, In Their Time, and The Children Of The Good Times
Monster Hunter Nation: A Review of Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever
Jon Del Arroz: Woke Fake News Destroyed As Jezebel Shuts Down And Vice Has Massive Layoffs

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: It’s Not the Pro-Life Argument That’s Losing
American Greatness: Hamas Terrorist Attack Drove the Left’s Growing Antisemitism Into the Open, also, Princeton Professor Calls Sex with Animals ‘Thought-Provoking’
American Thinker: Chicago: A City in Freefall, also, Threats to the United States now at a Whole New Level
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Business Tax Climate Friday
Babalu Blog: Havana ‘Dinner in White’ is a callous mockery of ordinary Cubans struggling to eat, Cuban animal rights activist sentenced to two years in prison for criticizing dictatorship, and Reports from Cuba: Energy contingents prepare to detect ‘illegalities’ of consumption in Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For November 10
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches a cargo Dragon to ISS, FCC extends SpaceX’s communications license for Starship/Superheavy launch, Samson’s flying car completes its first test flight, and Frank Borman, an old-fashioned American of the highest order, passes away at 95
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: What Does Senator Joe Manchin Have in Common With Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, also, Rewriting History’s Unintended Consequences
Don Surber: Why they hate Snow White
First Street Journal: Another deep-pockets Ivy League donor tells the pro-Hamas students to go to Hell
Gates Of Vienna: The Brutal Atrocities of Monsters, An Allahu Akhbar Moment at the Railway Station in Milan, Angela Merkel, Protector of the Jews, Putin Punishes Russia’s Key Ally, and Hitler Was Right!
The Geller Report: ‘Palestinian’ Mother: I Will Happily Sacrifice My 17 Children, 65 Grandchildren for the Sake of Allah
Hogewash: A Team Kimberlin Post of the Day for Veterans’ Day, This Was Bound To Happen, and SPHEREx
Hollywood In Toto: Will Elon Musk Biopic Be a Hit Piece on Steroids? also, The Scorsese Film Disney Won’t Let You Watch
The Lid: GOP Rep Stefanik Filed Complaint Against Wise-Guy Judge In Trump Trial
Legal Insurrection: CDC Warns Syphilis Cases Among Newborns are at ‘Dire Levels’, Michigan Township Votes Out Entire Local Government over Plans for China-Linked EV Battery Factory, Nashville Democrat Fail: Known Violent Criminal ‘Accidentally’ Guns Down College Freshman, Another Billionaire Donor Deserts Columbia University Over Anti-Semitism, McDaniel Claims RNC Didn’t Invest in VA Elections Since Gov. Youngkin Said He ‘Didn’t Need Them There’, and Columbia U. Suspends ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ and ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Shedeur Sanders Says He’s Perfect Mixture Of Tom Brady & Michael Vick, BREAKING: Jim Harbaugh Files Emergency Motion In Michigan Court Against Big Ten, Tony Petitti. Ruling Could Come Before Kickoff, Danny Wuerffel Says He’d Be Worth At Least A Chicken Sandwich In NIL Era, Topgolf Memphis Is Already A Mess And Black People Are Mad At Black People For ‘Ruining S–t’, Bret Bielema Shares Incredible Pat Fitzgerald Story When Asked About Michigan Cheating Scandal, Shohei Ohtani, Confirmed Good Guy, Donates 60K Baseball Gloves To Every Elementary School In Japan, and Former WWE Superstar Mandy Rose Wants You To Know She’s Enjoying Her Hot Tub Way Too Much, So She Put On A String Bikini & Grabbed Her Camera
Power Line: Springtime for Hitler at MIT, Douglas Murray in Israel, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Trump Jr. Wants Laura Loomer For Press Secretary
Shot In The Dark: All Talk, also, Shall Not Be Infringed
This Ain’t Hell: Terminally ill cancer kid gets to be a Marine, Valor Friday, Don’t mess with a Navy Chief’s ‘dirty’ coffee cup, The US Department of Veterans Affairs has almost 450,000 staff, but still hiring, and Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gaza Military Situation, Red Meat, The Hollow Men And Women, and Frank Borman
Victory Girls: Something New For Matt Gaetz
Volokh Conspiracy: U Chicago Arrests Student Protesters Engaging in Pro-Palestinian “Sit-in” in Admissions Office (+ Two Faculty Members)
Watts Up With That: The Intermittency Problem with Wind Power Generation in Great Britain, As The Transition to Green Energy Crumbles, Funding for The Climate Scare Soars, and BBC: Kenya’s Ogiek People are Being Evicted for Carbon Credits
The Federalist: Out Of The Ashes Of Government Censorship Rises A Swing-State Election Protection Project, FBI, DOJ Refuse To Call Covenant School Shooting An Anti-White Hate Crime Even After Racist Manifesto Is Leaked, Conservatives Beat Back Democrats’ Misleading Money Grab In Colorado, These 70 Republicans Just Rewarded The FBI With New Headquarters Worth $375 Million, Can America, And Its Veterans, Find Their Purpose? Subway ‘Vigilantes’ Aren’t The Problem, They’re A Symptom Of NYC’s Crime Catastrophe, and Wisconsin Sends Amendments Banning ‘Zuckbucks,’ Noncitizen Voting To Voters For Approval
Mark Steyn: On Being Right Too Soon

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In The Mailbox: 11.10.23

Posted on | November 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Tidal Wave Of Anti-Jewish Hatred Is Getting Worse
EBL: Sadie Hawkins Day
Twitchy: CNN Claims Jack-o-Lanterns Major Cause Of Climate Change, FBI Seizes NYC Mayor Adams’ Phones, and “That’s A Moose”
Louder With Crowder: Author comes out as a trans man after his wife came out as a trans woman… and then things get confusing, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry in panic mode over “Family Guy” mockery, and Hilarious if true: Disney is reportedly extra “butthurt” over South Park mocking how much they suck
Vox Popoli: Do They Want Right-Wing Death Squads?
Draw & Talk Comics: Exclusive Print for Bullet Assassin Backers!
Gab News: Abortion Is The Sacrament Of Trashworld

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Waiting for the Snow
American Conservative: EXCLUSIVE: NatCon Is Having an American Moment
American Greatness: Report: Six Rashida Tlaib Fundraisers Connected to Terrorism
American Thinker: MAGA Is the New Sons and Daughters of Liberty, also, Michelle Obama: The Black Face of White Flight
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily It Happens Here Too News
Babalu Blog: 1989: The Berlin Wall comes down, Reports from Cuba: Egg subsidies leads to bankruptcy of Ciego de Avila poultry companies, and Cubans urge Norah Jones to reconsider her 4 days of ‘music and adventure’ in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Conservatives Oust SJW Board In Cy-Fair
Behind The Black: Federal judge throws out Justice’s discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX, Rocket Lab schedules next launch, plans 22 launches in 2024, Next X-37B launch now scheduled for early December on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, The strange craters in the high northern latitudes of Mars, Red China’s Long March 3B rocket launches communications satellite, and Intellectual dishonesty caused the experts to misread the Gaza military situation
Cafe Hayek: The Goals of Industrial Policy Are Indeed Too Much to Ask
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime’s Digital Discrimination Rule will devastate the internet
Don Surber: An election not worth analyzing
First Street Journal: Rashida Tlaib and the rest of the Usual Suspects prove the need for a strong, independent, affirmatively Jewish Israel!
Gates Of Vienna: Germany Wants the Wretched Refuse Thrown Out by Pakistan, International Law or Sordid Double Standards, and As If They Had Nothing Better to Do
The Geller Report: Muslim Jew-hating Professor Loay Alnaji Identified as the Killer Who Beat Old Jewish Man To Death, Massive FBI Manhunt is Underway in New Jersey for…a January 6th Protestor, Asylum Officer Nejwa Ali at DHS: “F*** Israel and any Jew Who Supports Israel.”, and Multiple Shootings at Jewish School Buildings in Montreal
Hogewash: Panning Across M83 with NIRCam, also, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hail Mary Sue! Marvels Trailer Features Male Avengers to Save Female-Led Film, Black Walrus Children’s Author – No Agenda, Just Good, Clean Fun, The Marvels Lives Down to the Bad Buzz, and DISASTER: The Marvels Tracking as Low as $35 Million
The Lid: Kristallnacht-The Night The Holocaust Began
Legal Insurrection: Nothing To See Here: Democrats, Media Think The Real Problem With Hamas Invasion of Israel Is…Wait For It…Americans’ Islamophobia, ‘California’ Congressman Adam Schiff Has Full-Time Home In Maryland, Captured Hamas Terrorists Admit Hoarding Weapons and Explosives in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, Other Medical Facilities, Why Can’t They Just Leave The Jewish Hostage Posters Alone? Climate “Experts” Predicting Big Freeze this Winter, Thanks to El Niño, ‘Pro-Palestine’ Protesters Attack Israel Supporters Outside L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance After Viewing of Hamas Oct. 7 Footage, and Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter at Rutgers Accuses School of Racism and Repression
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Conversation
Outkick: Dawn Staley Believes Only White Referees Deserve Criticism, As Her Racial Bias Continues To Show After NCAA Tournament Review, USC May Be Targeting Texas Coach For Defensive Coordinator, Ex-NFL OL Michael Oher Received $138K For ‘Blind Side’ Movie, Contrary To Shocking Allegations Against Tuohy Family, Carli Lloyd Confirms USWNT Lost To ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster’ Team Of U15 Boys, The A’s Have A New Design For Their Vegas Stadium Already, Trevor Bauer Inches Closer To Comeback After Agents Reportedly Meet With MLB Teams, and Instagram Star Veronika Rajek Says She’s Saving Lives With Her Boobs
Power Line: Rampant Anti-Semitism, RNC Upgrades Debate Moderators, and Extra thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Moves To Prevent Digital Transactions From Chinese Central Bank
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To A Generation (Maybe Two), also, Muslims – Shut Up Or Get Cut Up
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – In Service To Gaia: Science, Schools; Milwaukee County
This Ain’t Hell: CAS? What’s that? Three More Accounted For, Army veteran allegedly threatened to kill soldiers in California, Thank Me For My Service, Russia withdraws from a nuclear pact, China rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal, both invited to sensitive U.S. nuclear site, and Good news story from Illinois
Transterrestrial Musings:  Bearing Witness, also, Die, DEI
Victory Girls: Minnesota Court: Trump Stays On Ballot, Insurrection Clause Doesn’t Apply, also, Three Inch Heels Politics
Volokh Conspiracy: May Judges Consider Law Clerks’ Political Speech in Hiring or Firing Decisions?
Watts Up With That: CFACT Blasts Fed’s “Floating Wind” Fantasy, also, ‘Demographic Warming’: Humans Increasingly Choose to Live Where It’s Warmer
The Federalist: Why RFK Jr.’s Censorship Case Could Matter More For Free Speech Than Missouri v. Biden, Italy Offered Free Care To Disabled Baby Indi, But Britain’s Socialized NHS Is Refusing To Let Her Live, 4 Huge Issues The Pentagon Should Tackle Instead Of Financing Service Member Abortions, Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus Finally Discovers (Too Late) The Problem With Political Prosecutions, Listen To Hillary Clinton Spell Out Exactly What Democrats Are Doing To Destroy The Republic, Far-Left Feminist News Site Jezebel Shut Down, and The Heritage Foundation’s Military Vets ‘Stand United’ Behind Tuberville’s Pentagon Abortion Protest
Mark Steyn: Poppies for… Palestine?

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In The Mailbox: 11.09.23

Posted on | November 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.09.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Euthanasia Is The New Medical Care
EBL: The Last Sentinel, There is a whole genre of Neanderthal cave man erotic romance already, and  Republicans fall just short in Virginia…why?
Twitchy: WaPo Reportedly Pressured To Remove “Racist” Cartoon About Hamas, “I Can’t Believe This Is Real”, and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Not Running For Re-election
Louder With Crowder: House Passes Bill That Would Cut Pete Buttigieg’s Government Salary to $1, Intersex Track Star Claims Being Born With Testicles “Don’t Make Me Less Of A Woman”, Bystander declares “we’re not gonna take it” as he takes down shoplifter in epic video, and Of course, YouTube removed our #NashvilleManefesto video, and the absurdity of their excuse should be marveled at
Vox Popoli: Ignore the Boomer Ghosts, Junior Classics ebook editions, Infection is the Strategy, The End of The Escapist, and MAILVOX: In Defense of Doug Wilson
Stoic Observations: Hot Takes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Only with God
American Conservative: Why Can’t Anyone Say How Much We’ve Spent on Ukraine? also, Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalism—And Yours
American Greatness: California Spends $4 Million on Gender Surgeries for Prisoners, Death Row Inmates, President Chaos Not Likely to See Second Term, The House Votes to Censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib Over Anti-Semitic Rhetoric, and Comer Subpoenas Hunter Biden, James Biden and Rob Walker to Appear For Depositions
American Thinker: Was October 7 an Earthquake for the Democrats? Biden: Pro-Israel by Day, Pro-Hamas by Night, Unfairly Targeting Trump, and The Unforgettable, Dreadful 2020s
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chimp Warfare News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Victims of Communism Day: Stop glorifying communism, One of Cuba’s Ladies in White has ‘disappeared,’ dissident group fears the worst, Sen. Ted Cruz: Cuban communist playbook being used by leftists to indoctrinate American children, Reports from Cuba: More controls on producers to stop livestock debacle in Ciego de Avila, and UN General Assembly vote condemning U.S. sanctions against Cuba does nothing to curb hunger
BattleSwarm: New Jersey Wants Your Baby’s Blood, also, Phelan: Aw, Looks Like We Couldn’t Get School Choice Done. Abbott: Eat A Nice Steaming Bowl Of “Fourth Session,” Dade 
Behind The Black: Astra secures temporary investment funding to keep it afloat, Two Russian satellites — one thought defunct — have been tracked in rendezvous maneuvers, ESA commits to a zero space junk policy, FCC raises questions about SpaceX’s application to link cell phones to Starlink, Virgin Galactic trims staff and spending, and The Democratic Party and its voters endorse bigots and murderers
Cafe Hayek: Phil Magness Provides Further Evidence of the Corruption of the Academy, also, Sohrab Ahmari Should Read More Widely or Carefully
CDR Salamander: What A Balanced Fleet Looks Like
Chicago Boyz: “Welcome to Columbia Untisemity”, also, A Stop On a Journey – The Lesson To Be Learned
Da Tech Guy: I Fully Endorse Shooting Someone Who Pulls a Knife on You, A hero in Hong Kong, Yes You can Blame the US and the UK and Australia and Yes Even Israel in a Fram Oil Filter sort of way, and Election 2023 Here Comes the Reaping
Don Surber: Three Reasons Why Trump Is Leading
First Street Journal: Three pages of Nashville shooter’s notebooks leaked
Gates Of Vienna: It’s Time for Slovenes to Arm Up, Biden Administration Focuses on ‘Islamophobia’ While Jew-Hatred Runs Rampant, Islam Means Peace — The Peace of the Grave, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Who’s the Dumbest of Them All? and “I Want Sharia in Germany, Definitely”
The Geller Report: THEY KNEW AND PARTICIPATED, Elderly Jewish Man Beaten To Death By Pro-Terror Genocidal Protester in Los Angeles, and Muslim Jokes About ‘Seasoning’ the Israeli Baby Baked in an Oven
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Euclid’s First Images, Who Is Really Failing? An Imagined Freedom From Consequences, and A Record Breaking Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: Just Stop Oil Ramps Up Attacks on Priceless Art, It’s a Wonderful Knife Spoils a Holiday Classic, HuffPo Slams Cancel Culture, Can’t Admit Conservatives Were Right, Did Roger Waters Just Confirm What His Harshest Critics Claim? and Damaged Doc Gives Detransitioners a Voice
The Lid: Corrupt DHS Ran Illegal Censorship Campaign on Social Media During 2020 Election Cycle
Legal Insurrection: Minnesota Supreme Court Dismisses “Insurrection” Challenge To Trump Primary Ballot As Premature, Border Crisis: Judiciary Committee GOP Demand DOJ Explain Settlement With ACLU Over Separated Migrants, Hamas Admits in Sympathetic NYT Piece: We ‘Hope That the State of War With Israel Will Become Permanent on All the Borders’, Cooper Union Alums Threaten to Stop Donations Over School’s Response to Pro-Hamas Protests, Ahed Tamimi arrested for incitement after “We will drink your blood and eat your skulls” threat, Democrats Begin to Regret Relying on China for Trade in Green Energy Components, and Judge Engoron Claims He is ‘Not Here to Listen to What’ Trump has to Say During Testimony
Nebraska Energy Observer: Back to back, also, DeSantis, Israel, Good vs. Evil
Outkick: There’s Now A Proposal To Play The World Series At A Neutral Site, Here’s Why That’s A Terrible Idea, Michigan Responds To Big Ten, Tony Petitti. Wolverines Object To Punishment Of Football Coach Jim Harbaugh, Attention Gamblers: LSU QB Jayden Daniels Has A Chance To Play Vs. Florida Saturday After Suffering Concussion At Alabama, ‘You Guys Are Trying To Throw Adulthood On Him’, Washington State Coach Shares Ominous NIL Warning About Future Of The Program, College Football Rosters Are About To Be Raided, As The Transfer Portal Period Is Nearing A Start, NIL Picks Up, and Las Vegas Strip Club Offering Free Lap Dances For Military Members On Veterans Day
Power Line: Why Democrats Are Panicking, What Is Worse: Ignorance or Double-Standards? Audrey’s Manifesto, and Gibson on top [update: Gibson loses]
Shark Tank: The Hard Line According To Ron DeSantis*
Shot In The Dark: The Cano Corollary To Berg’s 21st Law, All Relative, The Enemy Within, Around, & Above, and Review & Revise
The Political Hat: The Witch Cult Of Academia
This Ain’t Hell: Vultures Circling Lejeune, Personal data on active-duty personnel sell for $0.12 cents per service member, VA does it again…oddly, Linguists not cunning,  Army Recruiting Woes Redux, Psychedelics to treat veterans with PTSD? Research underway, and Ukraine End Game?
Transterrestrial Musings: The Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto, Germany’s Delusions, Sorry, Barack, and Race Horses
Victory Girls: Anne Frank Name Will Stay On German Daycare, David Axelrod Drops A Hint For Joe Biden – Drop Out, CNN Thinks We’re A Bunch Of Sourpusses, and GOP Debate: Why Does Ronna McDaniel Still Have A Job?
Volokh Conspiracy: November 7 as Victims of Communism Day—2023, also, A Woman Intentionally Crashed Her Car Into What She Thought Was a Jewish School 
Watts Up With That: Electric Vehicles and Africa: No Place for Rich Boys Toys, The Great Green Crash – Solar Down 40%, Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies, Catching-up on Monarch Butterflies, and California Continues to be a National Security Risk for America
The Federalist: Court: Democrats Have No Evidence To Challenge New Hampshire’s Voter ID Law, Biden’s HHS Wants To Nuke The Definition Of Nuclear Family From Its Regulations, Leftists Silently Shredding Hostage Posters Are Saying Exactly What You Think They Are, Like Father, Like Son: Eco-Hypocrites Charles And Harry Scold About Climate From Private Jets, How Biden’s Oil Policies Empowered Iran And Its Terror Proxies, Report: Leftist-Funded ProPublica Attacks Conservatives 23 Times More Often Than Democrats, and Senate Republicans Sniping At Tuberville’s DOD Abortion Protest Are Cowardly Fools
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Wednesday November 8th, also, The State as Rootless Transient

*Sorry, couldn’t resist the allusion to the overrated Terence Trent d’Arby. 

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In The Mailbox: 11.09.23 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

Posted on | November 9, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.09.23 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Average Bubba: Triggered Much?
357 Magnum: How Firearm Magazine Limits Cause Problems For The Law-Abiding
EBL: It Ain’t Over
Twitchy: Jamaal Bowman’s Fearmongering In Response To Texas Refinery Explosion Met With Alarming Response, American College Students Shocked To Discover That Hamas Are The Actual Bad Guys, and Anxious, Nonbinary, Indigenous “Person” Wears Out Woke Card Trying To Escape DUI
Louder With Crowder: Anne Frank’s Name To Be Removed From German Day Care Center Because Her Name Upsets Immigrants, The Left’s Latest Attempt Of A Bombshell On Mike Johnson Is That He Doesn’t Watch Pornography, and “Has there ever been a more clear-cut motivation for a shooting?”
Vox Popoli: Boomer is a Philosophical Path, A Glimpse of the Game, The Last Lesson of Bobby Knight, “The Whole Election is a Lie”, and Reddit Bans Autarch

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Dana Loesch: Election Results, Welp Edition
Don Surber: Obama Wants Biden Out

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NBC ‘News’ Hosts ‘Republican’ ‘Debate’

Posted on | November 9, 2023 | Comments Off on NBC ‘News’ Hosts ‘Republican’ ‘Debate’

Excuse me for overloading on the scare-quotes in the headline, but let’s not kid ourselves: None of the five “candidates” (there I go again) on the stage in Miami is likely to be the 2024 Republican nominee.

According to the Real Clear Politics average, Donald Trump has 58.3%, more than 40 points ahead of his nearest rival (Ron Destantis at 14.6%), followed by Nikki Haley (9.4%), Vivek Ramaswamy (4.4%) and Tim Scott (2.6%) and, while I suppose anything is possible, the likelihood of the GOP 2024 nominee being anyone else but Trump is rather remote. So having televised “debates” without the odds-on favorite for the nomination is, we may say, “a really stupid and futile gesture.”

Speaking for myself personally, I’d be happy if DeSantis got the nomination, and I’ve previously expressed my admiration for Vivek Ramaswamy, but GOP primary voters aren’t seeking out my advice on how they should vote, so I’ve made my peace with the idea that Donald Trump will be the 2024 nominee, even if he has to give his acceptance speech from a jail cell in New York. It is what it is, and there’s no point complaining about it, so why was this “debate” on NBC?

Isn’t it just to provide fodder for media coverage? Sound-bites and TV images they can use as the basis for “news” stories and commentary, all of which is generally hostile to the Republican Party?

Highlights from the third Republican Debate: Ramaswamy, Haley and DeSantis spar over Trump, abortion and the economy
— NBC News

Losers, scumbags and policy, too.
The third GOP debate got testy, quick.
— Politico

Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy
During GOP Debate: ‘You’re Just Scum’
— The Daily Beast

Fact Check: Nikki Haley Claims
Ukraine Is a ‘Democracy’
— Breitbart

Tim Scott finally reveals mystery girlfriend
at 3rd Republican debate
— NY Post

So there’s your “news” about the “debate,” so you can’t say I haven’t done my “job” in covering this made-for-TV event. But I think there’s no doubt that Ramaswamy had the best rant of the entire night:

All the Trump people hate Ramaswamy and all the DeSantis people hate Ramaswamy, too. I’d say the same for the others, but is there such a phenomenon as “Chris Christie people”? Who are they? Can you name even one? Is anyone stupid enough to think Republicans are going to nominate that bloated RINO? And what about Nikki Haley? What is her constituency, beyond the media and Pentagon contractors eager to get paid to supply weapons for endless neocon foreign-policy adventures?

Readers here are probably divided into two large groups: Those who think Trump should be the 2024 nominee, and those who favor Somebody Else. My point is that, (a) if you’re in the Somebody Else camp, it doesn’t matter which candidate you support, because (b) Trump’s going to win it no matter what. The sooner you accept that reality, the better your mental health will be. Worrying about it will only drive you crazy and, I don’t know about you, but I’m holding onto sanity by my fingernails, and can’t afford to risk the psychological trauma of thinking too much about it — or watching these phony “debates.”



 

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