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Gov. Sarah Palin To Address CPAC; Doug Mataconis’s Nose Wrinkles In Disdain

Posted on | February 18, 2013 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

CPAC 2013 remains a crucial huddle for the battered troops.

The American Conservative Union (ACU) today announced former Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will address CPAC 2013 – the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. America’s largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists will be held Thursday, March 14 – Saturday, March 16, 2013.“We are pleased to again welcome Governor Sarah Palin to CPAC in March,” said ACU Chairman Al Cardenas. “Governor Palin electrified the crowd in 2012 and we are thrilled to welcome her back this year.”

The whole GOProud kerfuffle doesn’t interest me, on so many levels. Sexuality as policy is the ne plus ultra of politics in everything. The SoCon/GayCon cage match is just a distraction from the reform we need.

On the other hand, Sarah represents the anti-elitist spirit that founded this country. Her capacity to make heads on the Left, and even thinly-disguised statists like Mataconis, remains a site to behold.

CPAC’s a month away, and I can’t wait.

via Dos Mas Cervezas

Category: CPAC, Sarah Palin

Thaddeus McCotter Remembers, If Not Honors, Millard Fillmore

Posted on | February 18, 2013 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

In one of the biggest Huh? moments of my memory, McCotter went from high-ranking GOP representative and dark horse Presidential hopeful to. . .recovering Congressbum and of Counsel at the Detroit law firm of Ottenwess, Allman & Taweel, PLC.

McCotter offers a profile of Millard Fillmore over at Breitbart.com, wherein he performs the masterful trick of making 160-year-old history quite interesting. A taste:

Historians have been even less kind. Fillmore’s presidency has been consistently ranked in the “Bottom 10,” no mean feat for someone who wasn’t a Republican. A key reason is Fillmore’s acquiescence to signing the Compromise of 1850 over the objections of, among others, Northern Whigs and his wife Abigail (Note to husbands: she is always right).
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state; settled the Texas boundary and gave that state $10,000,000 in debt relief; granted territorial status to New Mexico and Utah and allowed them to determine the status of slavery within their own borders; enacted the fugitive slave law, which put Federal officers in the service of slaveholders; and abolished the slave trade, but not slavery, in the District of Columbia. Intended to end slavery’s sectional divisions, the compromise only exacerbated them: afterwards, Northern Whigs prayed, “God Save Us from Whig Vice Presidents!”

A great read. About the only thing missing was a “separated at birth” gag, which I’ll provide:

Category: Uncategorized

World’s Youngest Blogger: I May Be Needing A Raise

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | 10 Comments

Haven't even reached my 2th birthday, and already getting hammered with chores. Where is the love?

Haven’t even reached my 2th birthday, and already getting hammered with chores. Where is the love?

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

Boyle on Menendez: ‘Miller Cut His Teeth in Democratic Scandal Management’

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | 9 Comments

The shameful partisan effort of the major media to discourage attention to the Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) scandal gets a brutal beatdown from the man who originally broke the story last fall:

The New York Times on Saturday published a story with a headline claiming “Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push,” referring to the multiple ongoing investigations of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez.
Times reporter Eric Lipton named National Legal and Policy Center chairman Ken Boehm as the person behind the story. . . .
Lipton could not be further from the truth. While Boehm and his group have done phenomenal work investigating the Menendez scandal and his ties to Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen, he was never an original source for this story.

This tactic — claiming that Democrat scandals are the artificial products of “partisan” opponents — was pioneered by Chris Lehane during the Clinton administration, when the White House circulated a 331-page report called “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce.” Knowing that the Washington press corps is overwhelmingly Democrat (e.g., 89% voted for Clinton in 1992), the Clintonistas knew that all they needed to do was to convince liberal reporters that coverage of Clinton scandals was bad for Democrats, and they’d shut up about it.

As Matthew Boyle points out, the media lapdogs are eager to regurgitate Democrat spin on the Menendez scandal:

This is the second questionable mainstream media article on the scandal in as many days, too. . . .
It appears the progressive press is working with aides from Sen. Menendez’s office on narrative reconstruction, in [an] attempt to the blur the truth to help the senator skate off allegations of misconduct. The tactic is one that Attorney General Eric Holder and his aides have skillfully employed in the past.
Menendez hired former Holder aide Matt Miller as this scandal heated up to help him try to get out of the scandal, and this all appears to be the work of Miller. Miller cut his teeth in Democratic scandal management, getting Holder out of allegations of impropriety surrounding the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.

Keep an eye on Matthew Boyle’s continuing coverage at Bretibart.com.

 

 

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Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Dominican Republic, Media Bias, New Jersey, Scandal, Senate

The Left Loves Cop-Killers

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | 29 Comments

The usual suspects protest in L.A. (Photo: Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times)

Call it the Mumia Rule: All you have to do to become a hero to the Left is kill a cop. So the renegade ex-cop Christopher Dorner qualifies:

Dozens of protesters rallied outside Los Angeles police headquarters Saturday in support of Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer and suspected killer of four who died after a shootout and fire this week at a mountain cabin following one of the biggest manhunts in recent memory.. . .
Michael Nam, 30, who held a sign with a flaming tombstone and the inscription “RIP Habeas Corpus,” said it was “pretty obvious” police had no intention of bringing Dorner in alive.
“They were the judge, the jury and the executioner,” Nam said. “As an American citizen, you have the right to a trial and due process by law.” . . .
Dorner was already believed to have killed three people when he was cornered Tuesday at the cabin near Big Bear Lake, and during the standoff shot and killed a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy, authorities said. . . .
The 33-year-old has already inspired a burgeoning subculture of followers. While most don’t condone killing, they see him as an outlaw hero who raged against powerful forces of authority.

An “outlaw hero . . . against powerful forces of authority”!

Why do these radical anti-authority types never protest against speed limits? Here I am, minding my own business, driving 82 mph in a 45-mph zone, and suddenly The Man and his radar are infringing my rights. How come protesters aren’t hailing me as an “outlaw hero,” huh?

The Left’s boundless rage “against powerful forces of authority” doesn’t extend to cops running a speed-trap in Livonia, Louisiana, I guess.

Nor does the Left seem able to muster any indignation about Mayor Bloomberg’s tyrannical nanny regime in New York City. Bloomberg is taking his anti-gun crusade nationwide and we haven’t heard a peep of protest from the Left.

Hey, lefties: How are your “outlaw hero” types supposed to kill cops and become symbols of “due process” (!) if they don’t have any guns?

Seeking logical consistency from the Left is a waste of time. Civil disobedience against speed limits doesn’t count toward “outlaw hero” status, and they don’t give a damn about “powerful forces of authority” unless it involves a cop-killer with a man-crush on Piers Morgan.

Jazz Shaw exposes the bogus victimhood meme in the Left’s claim that cops deprived Christopher Dorner of “due process”:

At any point in this saga, Dorner could have put down his weapons and walked into a police station with his hands up and he’d have been taken into custody without further incident. But by the same token, the police weren’t going to blindly wander around while searching for someone who had already shot several of their fellow officers without being prepared for the worst.

Good luck proving the hypothesis that the Left is interested in facts.

 


Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Golden Ball & Chain

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho
New to Rule 5 Sunday? Be aware that many of the links below go to pages that are definitely NSFW, and opening them in the wrong company could have adverse effects on your purity of essence.
This week we bid a sad farewell to El Opinador Compulsivo, who is getting out of the blogging game and will no longer be sending us the finest of Argentinian Rule 5. He will be maintaining his archive of Opiladies, however. FOR SCIENCE!
Speaking of science, Fishersville Mike leads off with Kaley Cuoco, Laughing Conservative has Nikki Cox, and Animal Magnetism brings Rule Five Friday along with the Saturday Gingermageddon. Randy’s Roundtable has Carly Foulkes from T-Mobile this week, Eye of Polyphemus settles on Amanda Seyfried, while First Street Journal provides their own version of Rule 5 in Iraq and Ninety Miles From Tyranny delivers a threefer with Lingerie Ladies, Beautiful Bikini Babes, and Boootay!
EBL gives us a blast from the past with Linda Ronstadt, and a blast of an entirely different sort with the women of The Walking Dead. (Caution: stops being Rule 5 and starts being gross after a while.) Also, vintage Roman beach volleyball and Valentine’s Day with Democrat Steve Cohen.
A View From The Beach brings the Thora Birch; also, Let The Old Boy Enjoy, Valentine’s Day Pinups, A Little Gymnastics Humor, I Didn’t Think The Job Was This Dangerous (Kate Upton in Antarctica), Important Things Seen At The Grammys, On How To Smell Less (Hunting Advice From Women), and Scientists Confirm Asteroid Strike Killed Dinosaurs -with obligatory Cave Girl alternative hypothesis!
Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Reeva Steenkamp, his vintage babe is Sharon Tate, and Sex in Advertising this week is covered by Victoria’s Secret. Also, Adriana Lima’s Valentine! Dustbury offers Susan Oliver and Beril Akcay, and at the Camp of the Saints it’s Maite Perroni and the Rule 5 News.
The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Kim Delaney, Nikki Limo, Jamie Lee Kirchner, Tracey Edmunds, Liz Vassey, Bikinis and Racism, Aryane Steinkopf, Maria Menounos Can’t Help It, Catalina Oltavaro – and over at the DaleyBabes blog, Hungarian Hooters Girls, Maria Menounos in tight leather pants, Adrean Butler, a Daisy Watts video, Vanessa Veasley, Random Beauties, Amanda Cerny, and some Evening Hotness.
Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, February 23.

Category: Rule 5

Another Controversial CPAC Scandal!™

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | 18 Comments

How long have I been covering the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)? Forever, it seems, and every year the liberal media find some reason to denounce CPAC as extreme, fringe, controversial.

From my perspective, the biggest CPAC controversy this year is that they moved it from the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest D.C. — near the Adams-Morgan district and a short taxi ride from downtown — to the new Gaylord National Harbor resort, eight miles south of town in Prince George’s County, Md.

I could think of a dozen arguments against this move, and have heard only one argument in favor of it: They got a great rate.

Well, so much for my CPAC controversy. The really big controversy according to liberal Sarah Reese Jones is this:

CPAC: White Supremacists and Wayne LaPierre
are Welcome, but GOProud is Banned

Students of propaganda techniques should ponder how Jones manages to suggest that Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association is somehow as controversial as “white supremacists.”

But wait a minute: Who are these “white supremacists” being welcomed at CPAC? Looking over the announced schedule, I don’t see any, unless Sarah Reese Jones is using the liberal definition of “white supremacist” as “someone who didn’t vote for Obama.”

What the headline seems to refer to is a panel at last year’s CPAC that included Peter Brimelow of VDare.com and John Derbyshire, formerly of National Review. While I didn’t attend that panel, I did run into Peter Brimelow between sessions at CPAC and he was, as always, entirely civil. To describe Brimelow as a “white supremacist” requires a distortion of the term that very nearly strips it of all useful meaning, but when a liberal propagandist wants to portray a CPAC controvery, truth is the first casualty. Readers will also note that Sarah Reese Jones labels Breitbart.com editor Ben Shapiro a “conspiracy theorist.”

So . . . yeah. Shapiro is Willis Carto, Peter Brimelow is Julius Streicher and you have yourself Another Controversial CPAC Scandal!™

The real motivating purpose of Sarah Reese Jones’s article, as far as I can tell, is to air the grievance of GOProud that they were not invited or, as I’m sure Jimmy LaSalvia would say, GOProud quite specifically un-invited, as in not welcome, persona non grata.

Could I comment on that dispute? Yes, I could.

Do I want to have that argument in public? No, I do not.

Meanwhile — since it’s apparently now the annual season for Another Controversial CPAC Scandal™ — let me point out that the CPAC agenda includes M. Stanton Evans, author of Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies. Here is a guy who did years of research to prove that Joe McCarthy was right, and liberals don’t think that’s controversial?

You commie pinko stooges dissapoint me . . .

 

Category: CPAC

FMJRA 2.0: #WARRIORS

Posted on | February 16, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Media Embargo Slowly Crumbling on Jennifer McKenna Morbelli’s Death

Stormfront for Liberals: The New Republic

CNN Anchor Deb Feyerick Apparently Thinks Global Warming Causes Asteroids

Carhart Victim Identified: N.Y. Woman Sought Abortion for ‘Fetal Abnormalities’

Corrupt Thought Studies, Holder Edition

HOOAH! Army Training Update

FMJRA 2.0: Turning Japanese

Matthew Hoffman: The Ohio Man Who Loved Trees … and Also Murder and Rape

The Brooks/Parker Cage Match

Finally: Washington Post Covers Death of Woman at Maryland Abortion Clinic

Rule 5 Sunday: “Who Gives A F*** About A G*ddamn Grammy?”

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.11.13

POPE BENEDICT XVI RESIGNS

‘And the Grammy Award for Most Implausibly Enhanced Cleavage …’

How Many More Women Will Die Before Abortionist LeRoy Carhart Is Stopped?

Despite Death in Carhart Clinic, Fanatics Want To Open Abortion Clinic In Wichita

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.12.13

ObamaPhone Boondoggle Update

Why Does @BridgetteDunlap Want to Suppress the Truth About Abortion?

Maryland Attorney General Investigates Abortionist Linked in Woman’s Death

UPDATE: Crazed Ex-Cop Chris Dorner Believed Dead After Cabin Catches Fire

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.13.13

‘Charred Human Remains’

They Buried Jennifer Morbelli Today

Obama’s Amazing Bullshit Factory

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.14.13

Liberals Outraged Like It Was a Bad Thing for Hillary to Have Sex With Animals

Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Charged With Deranged Cyberstalking

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.15.13

It’s Time to Play ‘Name That Party!’

Meet @BridgetteDunlap, Fordham’s Campus Commissar of ‘Human Rights’

‘Corrupt Democrat,’ ‘Obnoxious Feminist’ and other Phrases To Avoid as Redundant

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (15, the hard way)
  2. The Camp of the Saints (8)
  3. That Mr. G Guy (6)
  4. The Lonely Conservative (5)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline to submit links to next week’s FMJRA is Friday, February 22.


Category: FMJRA Award
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