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CPAC 2023: Why Not This Guy?

Posted on | March 4, 2023 | Comments Off on CPAC 2023: Why Not This Guy?

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Vivek Ramaswamy is the longest of long shots among 2024 Republican presidential candidates, but anyone who knows me, knows I love an underdog. The official results of the 2010 midterms hadn’t been counted before I jumped aboard the “Cain Train,” backing Herman Cain’s 2012 campaign, which nobody gave a chance until, a few months and a few debates later, he zoomed to the top of the polls.

Ramaswamy’s speech yesterday at CPAC was lit, as the kids say. He is an outspoken and articulate critic of the religion of “Wokeism,” but more than that, is an enthusiastic proponent of American exceptionalism.

Having never paid any attention to him before, I knew nothing about this Hindu son of immigrants with the hard-to-spell name and, of course, being a brown guy named Ramaswamy is just one more disadvantage to his presidential prospects, but when you’re looking for dark horse candidates, you like ’em as dark as possible (no pun intended). Now let’s take a brief look at Ramaswamy’s bio:

Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised there. His parents emigrated from Vadakkencherry, Palakkad, Kerala, India. His father graduated from a regional engineering college in Kerala and worked for General Electric as an engineer and patent attorney, while his mother graduated from Mysore Medical College and worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.

(You know who else worked for General Electric? Ronald Reagan.)

Ramaswamy graduated in 2003 from St. Xavier High School, a Jesuit high school in Cincinnati. He was his class valedictorian and a nationally ranked junior tennis player.
In 2007, Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. in biology. He wrote his senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras. His thesis was awarded the Bowdoin Prize for Natural Sciences, and a precis was published in The New York Times and The Boston Globe in 2007. In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. In 2013, he received a J.D. from Yale Law School.

(Uh . . . “Soros Fellowship”? He’s going to have to explain that, because certainly his opponents will try to make hay of that.)

In 2007, Ramaswamy and Travis May co-founded Campus Venture Network, a technology company that provided software and networking resources to university entrepreneurs. The company was acquired in 2009 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. From 2007 to 2014, Ramaswamy worked at QVT Financial, where he was a partner and co-managed the firm’s biotech portfolio while simultaneously attending Yale Law School from 2010 to 2013.
In 2014, Ramaswamy founded the pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, which focuses on applying technology to drug development, serving as CEO until 2021. He appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2015 for his work in drug development. . . .
Ramaswamy announced his candidacy on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight on February 21, 2023.

So the dark horse with the hard-to-spell name has a pretty impressive biography, and if Tucker Carlson is willing to host his campaign announcement, that suggests that I’m not alone in thinking this guy might just have a shot — a long shot, but a real one.

 



 

 

Category: CPAC, Election

In The Mailbox: 03.03.23

Posted on | March 4, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. I promise they’ll be on time this week!
Obligatory pimping of new website for Friends of Fission-chan, which is throwing an SF convention at the end of September in Las Vegas.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

I love Waffle House and wish we had one in Nevada.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It Really Was A Beautiful City
EBL: Openly Gay Democrat Mayor Busted For Child Pr0n, also, 3 March 1861 – The Emancipation of the Serfs
Twitchy: Gisele Fetterman Got a Little Too Honest About Her Twisted, Toxic Relationship With Her Husband, also, Former Dem Rep Hallucinates “Long Time Florida Republicans” Trash Talking DeSantis, And People Are Skeptical 
Louder With Crowder: Elementary Schoolers Force White Kids To Say ‘Black Lives Matter’ Or Catch A Beating, Plus-Size Chick Says Weight Loss Is Racist And We Should Trust Her Because She Has A Master’s Degree, and America’s Sheriff roasts murder suspect who bragged about killing in rap song, yet cried like a baby when caught
Vox Popoli: The Decline of Europe, Stillborn in Singapore, and The Faith of the 150 Holy Fathers
According To Hoyt: Roll To Disbelieve, A Passion For Control, and Incomprehensible Abundance
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 E8 – Censorship is $#!*
Gab News: Why Worldview Matters

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ukraine is the Dress Rehearsal for WWIII
American Conservative: Dragging The Church Of England To Extinction, Today’s Psychology Can’t Help American Men, and Nayib Bukele: Serious About Saving Civilization
American Greatness: Arizona School Board Cuts Ties With Christian University After ‘Witchy AF’ Board Member Says Its Biblical Values Make Her Feel Unsafe, Biden DOJ Says President Trump Can be Sued Over January 6th Protests, and Columbia University Drops Standardized Test Score Requirement for Application
American Power: Epic Tank Battles in Ukraine, Dubious Alliances – Germany’s New Peace Movement Has Some Explaining to Do, and Biden Administration to Adopt Trump-Era Policy on Those Seeking Asylum in the U.S.
American Thinker: What’s Next for Wokeism?, also, If Red China Invades America, Will Leftist Rejoice?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Lithium Friday
Babalu Blog: Shame on AMLO – The Cuban doctors scam in Mexico, Reports from Cuba: Cuba’s demographic crossroads: No young people of working age in sight, Building explodes in Old Havana, two Cubans dead, and Cuban dictatorship targeting children, seniors, and the disabled since the July 2021 protests
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for March 3
Behind The Black: Endeavour docks with ISS, JAXA reschedules first H3 rocket launch following investigation, ESA attributes Vega-C launch failure to faulty nozzle from the Ukraine, SpaceX launches another 51 Starlink satellites into orbit, and AGs from 22 states blast Biden’s attempt to illegally insert racial quotas and climate change into federal contracting law
Cafe Hayek: A Telling Tale of Toil
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Nothing Beyond the Current Moment
Da Tech Guy: Science vs “The Science” or This Ongoing Culture War
Don Surber: Tough Libel Laws Will Save Journalism
First Street Journal: WWIII Watch: New York Times OpEd says only way for Ukraine to win quickly is for full NATO weapons and troops deployment, When supposedly responsible people make irresponsible promises, The one-world-government folks want to subject the United States to the United Nations, when they haven’t gotten their way under our laws, and The government in the Mile High City wants to run your life for you
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Gothenburg, also, It Takes a Train to Cry
The Geller Report: TRUMP: ‘WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET THEM’ STEAL THE ELECTION IN 2024, also, Which Lawmaker Accepted More BlackRock Money Than Any Other Member Of Congress?
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, When DART Met Dimorphos, and Disinformation Lawfare
Hollywood In Toto:  Hollywood in Toto Podcast – Corbin Bernsen Finds Faith, Enduring Success, also, Showtime’s Waco: The Aftermath Boosts Media’s Jan. 6 Narrative
The Lid: Biden’s FAA Nominee, Phil Washington, Is Embarrassingly Unqualified
Legal Insurrection: Surprise! Biden’s FAA Nominee Doesn’t Know Anything About Aviation, Democrat Maryland Mayor, Mentored by Buttigieg, Arrested on Child Pornography Charges, Republican Mayor of California City Eliminates Homeless Problem, and Trustees Appointed to Florida’s New College by DeSantis Shutter School’s DEI Office
Nebraska Energy Observer: Experts, Expertise, Aristocracy, and False Prophets
Outkick: Mark Harris -Ja Morant Needs To Drop The Tough Guy Act, For Himself And For The City Of Memphis, Pete Maravich’s NCAA Scoring Record Lives! Antoine Davis Finishes 4 Points Shy, And Then There Was A Fight, C.J. Stroud Pretty Much Tells The Bears To Not Draft Him, Jordan Spieth Says PGA Tour Changes Would Not Have Happened Without LIV Golf’s Pressure, and Instagram Slaps CDC Vax Label On Danica Patrick’s Photo For Attending JP Sears Comedy Show
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Thought for the Day: Depressing Liberals, and Lawyer shaming — as someone might say, not a joke
Shark Tank: State Senator Lauren Book Pushes Medically Assisted Suicide Bill
Shot In The Dark: Planting Season, also, Riddle
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Mechanism of Moral Development
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, US military support for Somalia to increase, Secretary of the Army discusses plan in case of war with China, and John Loveridge – Another Phony Beirut Survivor
Transterrestrial Musings: The John And Giselle Romance, Student-Loan SCOTUS Arguments, and Biden Sets Israel On Fire
Victory Girls: Biden Admin Admits Going Green Is More Important Than Energy Security
Volokh Conspiracy: Tennessee Bans Pornographic Performances by “Male or Female Impersonators” Where Minors Can See Them
Watts Up With That: Gas Power Is Cheaper Than Wind, Despite Carbon Brief’s Claims, also, Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Part I)
Weasel Zippers: Biden Breaks With Woke Democrats Over “Wacky” DC Crime Bill, Won’t Veto GOP Attempt To Stop It, Poll: 61% Believe Feds Helped Incite Capitol Riot, and James Bond Novels To Get Woke Rewrite
The Federalist: Major Doctors’ Organization Publicly Embraces Dismembering Babies Until Birth, Critical Race Theory Teaches Kids To Hate Each Other, And The Proof Is On The Playground, Utah Considers Ranked-Choice Voting In Primaries Despite Disasters In Alaska And Maine, The Sex-Ed Industrial Complex Revolves Around Planned Parenthood And Is Fueled By Your Tax Dollars, and Virginia AG Probes Mounting Religious Discrimination Cases After Hospital Revoked Covid Jab Exemptions
Mark Steyn: Mea (Disingenuous) Culpa

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CPAC 2023: Celebrity Sightings

Posted on | March 3, 2023 | Comments Off on CPAC 2023: Celebrity Sightings

Sarah Palin says, “Hi!”

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Wandering through the exhibition space here at CPAC, we turned a corner and saw people standing in line. “What is this about?” my friend asked. “Book signing,” I guessed, without any idea what author might be up at the head of this queue. But then I looked and saw it was … her.

From the moment she was announced as John McCain’s 2008 running mate, Palin has been adored by grassroots conservatives. The first time I covered her, at a rally in Lebanon, Ohio (“Sweetheart of the Heartland,” Sept. 10, 2008), it was obvious that she had ignited a populist fuse which, it could be argued, ultimately elected Donald Trump in 2016.

So, while I am generally immune to starstruck celebrity fanboy behavior — a professional journalist shouldn’t act that way — I decided I needed to get in that line with the rest of the fanboyNMs. When I finally got to the front of the line, there was only time for a brief conversation, as other people were waiting their turn. But I did mention the time in 2010 I visited Wasilla and hung out with her family, including little Trig, and also that my old friend Lynn Vincent was her co-author on Going Rogue. Palin said, “Tell Lynn I said, hi!” And then I had to make way.

Roaming the corridors later Thursday, I bumped into my fellow American Spectator contributor Jeffrey Lord. Don’t know why I look so glum in the picture. Probably needed to visit . . .

The lobby bar — this is where the real action is at CPAC. Never mind all those politicians and pundits blabbing on the main stage, I must be among the genuine grassroots. Or, at least, my old buddies.

Stacey Lennox of PJMedia was telling me very interesting off-the-record stories about people who shall not be named. One thing about being a journalist is, you hear so many juicy stories that you can’t ever publish because you’re sworn to secrecy by your sources. I never burn a source, and my sources never burn me, because they know there’d be hell to pay.

Talk-radio star Larry O’Connor pretending he doesn’t know that crazy old guy, but me and Larry go way back to Tea Party days.

Superstar lawyer Ron Coleman has represented many conservatives in court. As for the question of whose beers those are, my attorney advises me I have the right to remain silent. The one thing I’m certain of is, I didn’t pay for those beers. Professional journalists always dodge the tab.

Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter is a former Army officer and practicing attorney, but he’s never claimed to be a professional journalist, which probably explains why he got stuck with the tab.

Between uploading these pictures and doing some other work this morning, time has flown, but I have lots more photos piled up that I’ll be posting later. Meanwhile, I need to get showered and dressed for another day of covering CPAC with professional journalism. IYKWIMAITYD.



 

 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 03.02.23

Posted on | March 3, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Do You Legislate Against Blocks Of Steel? also, Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso
EBL: Everyday is the Ides of March for Paul Ryan
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex’s Met Gala Ethics Problem Just Got Worse, also, David Hogg Slams NRA “Keyboard Warriors” For Ignoring His Debate Request, Maj Toure Offers To Help
Louder With Crowder: Tiktoker faces major backlash for calling out Jeffrey Marsh, but she hits back hard with receipts, Marvel actor dumps over what crap Hollywood has become: ‘You’re making movies for 16-year-olds and China’, and Nearly-Nude Man Dances Around in Bondage For An Audience of Babies And We’re Supposed to Be Ok With It
Vox Popoli: The Folly of Ukraine, The End of the Involuntary Non-European, Hence the Library II, and The Cupboard is Bare
Stoic Observations: A Denial Of Free Will

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Thoughts on Death
American Conservative: The Antiwar Conservatives Rise, Why South Africa’s Collapse Finally Came Down to Eskom, and Russian Realism
American Greatness: Christian School in Kansas City Gets Woke With LGBTWTFBBQ Messaging And Goes Broke, Hershey’s Faces Backlash After Featuring Biological Male in Ad Honoring International Women’s Day, and Voters Suspect Federal Involvement in J6, Want Tapes Released
American Power: The Conversation About Ukraine Is Cracking Apart
American Thinker: CNN and Election Disinformation, A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump, Is Resistance Futile?, and How to Lose in 2024
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Chicago News
Babalu Blog: Biden cuts short Cuban officials visit to U.S., but fearing retaliation, allows tour of Coast Guard base, Shocking! Leaking ceiling creates ‘puddles of blood’ inside Havana hospital, The Cuban Communist Party really loves ‘elections’, and Reports from Cuba: About food rations and Cuba’s future
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Steps Up Drone Strikes
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab might forgo use of a helicopter in recovering its Electron 1st stages, UK’s bureaucracy blasted for delaying Virgin Orbit launch, A Martian glacier waterfall?, and SpaceX successfully launches its Endeavour capsule carrying four astronauts
Cafe Hayek: The Economic Ignorance Is Stunning, also, Good Sense Spoken to Congress by Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Marty Makary
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Give a Thumbs Up & Sub to Ladd & Don and maybe a five spot in Zilla’s old tip jar, also, The World Health Organization Pandemic Treaty is a smorgasbord of Progressive subterfuges
Don Surber: Invest In New Mexico, Not Ukraine
First Street Journal: The internal segregation in Philly is only going to increase, also, Don’t waste time and money trying for a death sentence which will never be carried out
Gates Of Vienna: Elections in Holland
The Geller Report: American Fighting for Ukraine Defects to Russia, Blows Whistle on Nazism, War Crimes, also, Houston Methodist RN Jennifer Bridges Exposes the Hospital’s Appalling, Fatal Behavior
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Exploring Venus
Hollywood In Toto: Hunt Her Kill Her Makes the Most of Its Limited Budget & Setting, Operation Fortune Offers Generic Guy Ritchie Mayhem, and Joe Rogan on Biden Administration: ‘These People Are Utter Fools’
The Lid: Biden Chuckles When Talking About Two Brothers’ Fentanyl Deaths
Legal Insurrection: Liz Cheney Joining U. Virginia’s Center for Politics as ‘Professor of Practice’, Catholic College Denies Formation of Conservative Group Over ‘Belief in Two Sexes’, Fetterman’s Chief of Staff Won’t Tell Anyone How the Hospitalized Senator is Introducing Legislation, Chip Roy Calls Out Fellow Republicans: Will They ‘Honor Their Campaign Commitments to Secure the Border?’, and “You can’t assume that there is discrimination just because different groups have different outcomes”
Nebraska Energy Observer: I’ve told you
Outkick: LSU Issues Warning Statement After Olivia Dunne Promotes A.I. Helper That Violates Code Of Student Conduct, Former NFL Player Willie McGinest Hit With Multiple Felony Charges Stemming From Alleged Brawl, Deion Sanders Is In The Middle Of A Religion Controversy With Atheist Group Stating ‘He’s A Coach, Not A Pastor’, Bruce Pearl Goes Ballistic On SEC Officiating, Compares Alabama Basketball To Football Team In Angry Rant After OT Loss, and NFL Ref Jerome Boger Retired Today So The Internet Revisited His Worst Calls, Of Which There Were Many
Power Line: Biden Demands Race Discrimination, Liberal Girls Are Depressed, and United Airlines Touts All-LGBTQ Flight Crew; Customers Not Amused
Shark Tank: Former Judge Accuses DeSantis Of Violating U.S. Constitution
Shot In The Dark: More Than Zero, Urban Progressive Privilege – Alone, and Tina Smith Is A Filthy Liar
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Academic Madness: Woke Janitors; “Power, Inequity, and Justice”; “Abolish the Family”
This Ain’t Hell: DoD tells troops to stop literally flying the flag, National Archives backlog holding up veterans, Code for gun retailers allows credit cards to track gun purchases, and Fan favorites in the news
Victory Girls: Mom Of Fentanyl Victims To Biden: “How Dare You Laugh?!”
Volokh Conspiracy: Gun Carry Licenses, Self-Defense, and Sealing
Watts Up With That: ‘I had no reason to think this wasn’t established fact. I was wrong’, also, IAEA: Wants Papers Describing the Nuclear Path to Net Zero
Weasel Zippers: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff: There’s Too Much “Masculine Toxicity” Out There, Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry Decries “Unabated Emissions From Fossil Fuels” — Like His Private Jet, and FBI Director Defends Agency Targeting Pro-Lifers
The Federalist: Teen Volleyball Star Lost Her Legs Because Of Soros Prosecutor Kim Gardner’s Pro-Criminal Policies, , New York Magazine Makes Gay Shaming Great Again In Hit On George Santos, If The Dominion Defamation Lawsuit Is A Slam Dunk, Why Are CNN And The New York Times Lying About It?, Faced With Their Own Idiocy On The Lab Leak, Media Double Down On Calling You A Racist Rube, and Aversion Therapy Is Back, And It’s Coming From The Trans Lobby
Mark Steyn: The Manchurian Prime Minister, also, A Double Anniversary (Sort of)

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CPAC: Founding Fathers

Posted on | March 2, 2023 | 1 Comment

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
My old friend George Washington — James Manship, who has been portraying the Father of Our Country for more than 20 years — was among the familiar faces I encountered on the first full day of CPAC, but of course not the only old buddy who crossed my meandering path. Just moments ago, I was sitting in the lobby bar of the Gaylord hotel with Kurt Schlichter, Larry O’Conner and Ron Coleman, and have pictures to prove it, but don’t have time right now to post the pictures. So you’ll just have to take my word for it, for now, because it’s time for me to go get dinner with another buddy, and — OMG! — do I have stories to tell. But as I say, dinner awaits. Stacey Lennox of PJM just called me, so we’re on our way to a dining establishment that also serves excellent beverages, and my main goal is to bolt out of there shortly before the check arrives.

Y’all have fun in the comments. Will post more later.



 

 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 03.01.23

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in February!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

The New Urbanism in action.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Loser Lori Lightfoot, also, Hey Japan – Free Lt. Ridge Alkonis
Twitchy: Airline Spotlights Flight With All-LGBTWTFBBQ Crew – Passengers Have Other Priorities, Ted Cruz Chews Out Merrick Garland For BS Non-Answers On Threats To SCOTUS Justices, and  Allow The View’s Harpies To Explain Why Trump Was Bad For Being Right About COVID Origins
Louder With Crowder: Chicago’s Mayor Groot loses reelection so we wish her well in her future endeavors with these career lowlights, also, Family Guy actor apologizes for ever apologizing for playing a cripple in the cartoon
Vox Popoli: The Premier Fake Science Journal, Already #1!, and Google is a Clown World Creation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Wake Up and Smell the Incense
American Conservative: Naomi Wolf & The Ancient Gods
American Greatness: Chicago Ousts Lori Lightfoot, FDA Sued for Withholding Information About Children’s Use of Hormone Treatments, and Josh Hawley Torches Merrick Garland Over FBI’s ‘Unbelievable Show of Force’ Against Pro-Life Family
American Thinker: Beating the Balrog, also, Just Call it What it Is
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: The Cuban dictatorship’s unwavering support for Russia during the past year of war in Ukraine, Havana province meets only 42% of its food production targets, and Another balcony in Havana collapses, falls on Cuban woman walking by
BattleSwarm: Taking His Deposition, Open Carry Advocate Dismantles Police Officer Who Unlawfully Arrested Him
Behind The Black: No resolution in sight for Blue Origin’s investigation into New Shepard flight abort, ULA about to be sold?, Intelsat develops airplane WiFi antenna that can access both Intelsat and OneWeb satellites, and Today’s blacklisted Americans: Pro-lifers banned from the Washington Monument because it is a “First Amendment-free zone”
Cafe Hayek: As a Facebook Commenter Said, also, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – “Impressive material progress”
CDR Salamander: Building the WESTPAC Team we Need
Chicago Boyz: It’s A Little Late to Develop A Conscience.
Da Tech Guy: For Those Idiot Sports Writers, Etc. Unclear on the Difference between being the Subject of a “Slave Auction” and the “NFL Combine”, also, March Indulgence Calendars Ready for Download
Dana Loesch: Remembering Andrew Breitbart, 11 Years Later, also, The Second Amendment And 2024
Don Surber: Obama Begat The Tranny Circus
Gates Of Vienna: The New Normal Among Athletes: Sudden Death, also, The Vax and the Immune System
The Geller Report: Lori Lightfoot LOSES Big in Chicago Mayor Election, Director Wray Admits FBI Knew ‘For Quite Some Time That COVID Came From A Lab, and 39 Republicans Sponsor Bill To Cut Off Funding of UNRWA
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Tycho Supernova Remnant, and Meanwhile, in Chicago
Hollywood In Toto: Walter White Fights His Privilege, Kyle Dunnigan Mocks Hunter Biden in Hilarious Clip, and King’s Children of the Corn Still Searching for Credible Big-Screen Version
The Lid: Biden Launches The Worst Regulatory Deluge in History
Legal Insurrection: ‘Apologize for WHAT?’ We Lost Andrew Breitbart 11 Years Ago, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies Are on the Decline, Female Faculty More Likely to Support Speech Restrictions, Campus Investigations, Deplatforming,  and Pentagon Burdens Warfighting Commanders with New Transgender Policies for Military Personnel
Nebraska Energy Observer: Higher, Further, Faster
Outkick: Police Accuse Ja Morant Of Threatening Teenager With Gun After Allegedly Hitting Him During Pickup Game, Eagles Star Calls Out Former DC And Current Cardinals Head Coach Over Super Bowl Loss, Minnesota Vikings General Manager Says Wide Receiver Justin Jefferson Has Say In Roster Decisions, The Wrong Call: Against The Wishes Of Most Of Its Fans, The PGA Tour Will Remove The Cut In Elevated Events, and Duke Player Flops In Humiliating Fashion, Draws Technical Foul On Opponent
Power Line: America’s Public Schools Are a Disaster, Disunion? It’s Not So Unpopular, and Get those lies straight!
Shark Tank: Gimenez – US Must Decouple From Red China
Shot In The Dark: How Do You Think He Does It?, He Who Controls The Past Controls The Future, and The Bull Leaves The China Shop
The Political Hat: They Fear The Traditional Nuclear Family
This Ain’t Hell: Air Force selling out Army, Patriotism is Not a Pejorative, VA hospitals facing police staffing shortages, and Vaccine Vets- No Thanks
Transterrestrial Musings: A Sea Change In The Industry?, Don’t Let The Door Hit You, and The Greatest Cover Up In Human History
Victory Girls: Garland Insists DOJ Does Apply The Law Equally
Volokh Conspiracy: A Textualist Defense of the Major Questions Doctrine
Watts Up With That: “The Last of Us” – Global Warming Zombies
Weasel Zippers: “I Wanna Make It Clear – I’m Gonna Raise Some Taxes”, Mayor Groot Voted Out, Plays Race Card On Its Way Out, Top Dem Warns “Literally Hundreds” Of Democrats In Congress Don’t Want Biden As Nominee, and Joe Biden Malfunctions While Reading From His Gigantic Teleprompter
The Federalist: Why It Matters That I’m A Mother, Not A Generic ‘Parent’ Or ‘Grown-Up’, Here Are Three Dead People Jocelyn Benson Wants To Keep On Michigan’s Voter Rolls, Questioning Biden’s Ukraine Policy Doesn’t Make You An ‘Isolationist’, Biden’s DHS Just Revealed How It Plans To Use Your Tax Dollars To Interfere In U.S. Elections, and Federal Court Says Pro-Life Maternal Care Centers Don’t Have To Hire Abortion Activists
Mark Steyn: Second-Class Citizen, also, We Laughed No More

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Back to CPAC With the Big Yellow Button

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

 

For something like 15 years, I never missed the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), covering it first for The Washington Times, then for The American Spectator. And by “covering it,” of course I mean hanging out with all my friends and filing late-night screeds of semi-incoherent gibberish. The liberal media always feasts on CPAC as an occasion to pursue their endless search for right-wing scandals and controversies, while most of the conservatives in attendance have a great time at the event that I long ago dubbed “Mardi Gras for the Right.”

With the D.C. area in the grip of a draconian COVID-19 lockdown, CPAC decided in 2021 to move the conference to Orlando, and did it again in 2022, so that I’ve missed the event the past two years. But as soon as I finish this post, I’ll be packing up my laptop and heading off to National Harbor for CPAC 2023, and covering it in my usual gonzo manner. You wouldn’t believe what I’m paying for a hotel room, which is the main reason I’ve brought back the Big Yellow Button. Even though the PayPal contribution button is always on the page, sometimes I enlarge it for the benefit of near-sighted readers who may not have noticed it before.

 

Our usual request for tip-jar hits is $17.76. A 150-mile road trip to D.C. is quite expensive under Bidenflation, so if you want to chip in $4 for a gallon of gas, that would be appreciated. If you’re in the patriotic spirit, you might want to pay tribute to such great Americans as Andrew Jackson or even Benjamin Franklin, IYKWIMAITYD.

Helping defray travel expenses for my return to CPAC may be sufficient cause for most readers to kick in a few bucks for the trip, but as usual the most urgent thing is, keeping my wife happy.

Mrs. McCain likes it when the blog actually produces revenue, and keeping her happy is Job One, so once again I ask readers to recall the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

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Good-Bye, Mayor Frogface! Lightfoot Places Third in Chicago Reelection Bid

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

The pioneering Amphibian-American got less than 20% of the vote in her effort to win another four years in office to wreck Chicago:

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election Tuesday, ending her historic run as the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the position.
Lightfoot, a Democrat, failed to get enough votes in the nine-person race to move on to an April 4 runoff election, according to projections by The Associated Press.
Paul Vallas, a former CEO of Chicago schools, will face Brandon Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union.
Ideologically, the choice between Vallas and Johnson is stark. Vallas ran as a moderate law-and-order candidate, while Johnson ran on an unabashedly progressive agenda.
But Chicagoans sent a message that they wanted change, rejecting both an incumbent mayor and a sitting congressman. Lightfoot is the first incumbent elected Chicago mayor to lose re-election since 1983, when Jane Byrne, the city’s first female mayor, lost her primary.
Lightfoot conceded defeat Tuesday night at her party in downtown Chicago, saying, “Obviously we didn’t win the election today, but I stand here with my head held high.”

Frogs everywhere — to say nothing of toads, newts and salamanders — are still proud of Mayor Frogface, who inflicted the kind of vengeance on humans that amphibians have long craved, turning Chicago into a racially-divided hive of Fear and Loathing where 737 people were murdered last year and more than 3,600 were wounded by gunfire.

You may be surprised — but probably not very surprised — to discover what factors Lori Lightfoot blames for her historic defeat:

Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed racism and her gender for her landslide defeat in her re-election bid, as Chicagoans weary of the rising crime on her watch celebrated her fall from “political rock star to rock bottom.”
“I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” she replied when asked by a reporter if she had been treated unfairly.
But she called being Chicago’s mayor “the honor of a lifetime.”
“Regardless of tonight’s outcome, we fought the right fights and we put this city on a better path,” Lightfoot said, as she urged her fellow mayors around the US not to fear being bold.
Amid heavy criticism for the crime wave, homelessness and other troubles plaguing the city, the mayor had also injected race into the run-up to the election.
“I am a black woman — let’s not forget,” Lightfoot, 60, told the New Yorker in a piece that ran Saturday. “Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles.”

Prior to being elected mayor in 2019, Lightfoot had never previously held elective office, but instead had been appointed to various government jobs — assistant U.S. attorney, president of the Chicago Police Board, etc. — by Democrats eager to fulfill their “diversity” quotas. And her upward ascent continued until finally, she found herself in a position where real-world consequences mattered. At which point, she became a victim of oppression, because all those RAAAAACISTS in Chicago voted against giving her another four years of letting their city go to ruin.

Eighty-three percent of Chicago voters are racists, apparently.



 

 

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