FMJRA 2.0: Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Posted on | May 19, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Another bad week for the Senators. Lost two of three to the Angels, and then wound up losing two more to the Daytraders because I forgot the reschedule moved the games to Thursday. I’d like to think I could have won one of the two losses if I’d been managing instead of the robot, but considering I was facing Seaver and Niekro, probably not. Still at the bottom of the division, tied with the Twins.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Just a bad week all around.

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White Criminal Gets Shot by Police
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Media Monday: Does Joe Biden Really Have a ‘Brand as an Empathetic Leader’?
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In The Mailbox: 05.15.24
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In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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Biden Administration Loses Key Ally

Posted on | May 19, 2024 | 2 Comments

The Biden administration gave $16 billion to Iran, but Joe Biden’s valuable partner is now missing and likely dead:

Iranians have been asked to pray for the safety of President Ebrahim Raisi after his helicopter went missing on the way back from a meeting Sunday with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
The helicopter was also carrying Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, among other officials. It went missing in heavy fog in the mountainous region of northwestern Iran.
The official Fars news agency asked Iranians to pray, according to the Times of Israel:

Authorities have lost contact with the helicopter in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was traveling, according to the Iranian Fars news agency.
Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says authorities are awaiting further details on the search and rescue operation, adding that teams are still on the way to the apparent crash site due to difficult weather conditions.
Fars calls on Iranians to pray for Raisi following the reports.

Earlier Sunday, the Abu Ali Express news blog reported on the meeting between Raisi and Aliyev, saying that it had been “disturbing” from Israel’s point of view, because Azerbaijan has been friendly with Israel until now.

A helicopter crashes in “heavy fog” in the mountains? Highly unlikely anyone survived that crash. Time to get the obituary ready:

My thoughts are with the @washingtonpost obituary team in this difficult time as they fiercely debate whether to call Ebrahim Raisi an “austere religious scholar”, a “patriotic anti-Zionist leader” or a “zealous anti-corruption crusader”.

— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) May 19, 2024

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Isn’t It Time We Discuss the Leading Cause of Antisemitism in America?

Posted on | May 18, 2024 | 2 Comments

If anyone wishes to understand why the United States is experiencing a startling increase in antisemitism, I would direct their attention not to the pro-Hamas protesters on university campuses, but rather to Rep. Jamie Rankin (D-Md.), who is so obnoxious as to make Jehovah Himself declare, “No, sir, you are not chosen.” It is to be recalled that Raskin spent months presiding over the phony J6 “insurrection” hearings, conducted by an illegitimate committee whose membership was handpicked by Nancy Pelosi contrary to the rules of the House.

That is to say, if anyone can be considered an expert on unethical congressional proceedings, it is Jamie Raskin, and this is not incidental to recent events that made headlines. Everybody was in a tizzy this week after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made a remark about the “fake eyelashes” of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Tx.). What caused that dust-up? The transcript:

GREENE: I’d like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter.
CROCKETT: Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland.
GREENE: Oh, Goldman. That’s right. He’s advising. Ok.
CROCKETT: Do you know what we’re here for? Do you know we’re here —
[CROSSTALK]
GREENE: I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your —

Why would Greene bring that up? The answer has to do with Jamie Raskin, but before I explain that, first we must remember why the House Oversight Committee was meeting Thursday. It was a full-committee markup where they would formalize contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Committee has subpoenaed the Department of Justice to turn over recordings of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s mishandling and improper disclosure of classified materials. Let us not be naive about why the Republicans in charge of the committee want that recording — they believe that audio of the interview will demonstrate the severity of Biden’s cognitive decline. Indeed, one imagines that if the committee got its hands on that recording, excerpts would be featured in GOP campaign ads showing how Biden is lost in a hopeless of fog of confusion, which is why Garland is stonewalling them.

In his opening remarks, Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) cleverly made the point of how important it is to comply with a subpoena:

Not long ago, a Member of this Committee said:
“The lesson is, please tell your children out there in America, if you get a subpoena to go before Congress, if you get a subpoena to go to the court, go. You have a legal responsibility to go.”
That was Ranking Member Raskin in 2022. Now, Ranking Member Raskin has spent this Congress making excuses for why people like Hunter Biden or, now, the Department of Justice don’t have to comply with Congressional subpoenas.

ZING! Welcome to the New Rules, how do you like ’em? Democrats in power are always doing things that they condemn as unfair whenever Republicans in power do the same things. When Raskin was running the “insurrection” show trial, he was willing to put people in jail for refusing to comply with his subpoenas, but now that the GOP is in the majority, suddenly contempt of Congress is no big deal. After Comer finished his opening remarks, then it was Jamie Raskin’s turn:

Ladies and gentlemen, in this special nighttime episode we resume the madcap comedy mystery series called “Comer’s High Crimes and Misadventures: The Hilarious Quest to Impeach a President Who Has Done Nothing Wrong,” an avowedly low-budget but multi-million dollar taxpayer funded production which most Americans assumed had ended two months ago and everyone had completely forgotten about.
But tonight, with the cast and crew fresh back from a surprise trip to New York City itself, it’s clear the show must go on!
Now, our originally scheduled performance was supposed to be at 11:00 am today but it was postponed when members of the Majority chose to join a mass spiritual pilgrimage to the New York criminal trial of a Florida man, an adjudicated fraudster and rapist, as he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying corporate financial records to cover up $130,000 paid in hush money to a porn star sex partner.
Although some people are churlishly complaining that Members of the House should actually be here to vote on public business and should not have forced a last-minute change in the Committee schedule, our colleagues properly demonstrated for all of history their fierce devotion to this clearly reformed, devout, and pious Florida spiritual leader who many supporters are calling the Messiah from Mar-a-Lago.
Of course, in the meantime, Chairman Jordan in the House Judiciary Committee preempted our GOP colleagues on Oversight, rendering this exercise not only absurd, but completely meaningless and redundant. They have already held Attorney General Garland purportedly in contempt.
Now, when we last met on this matter, you’ll recall that the Majority still had not identified a single high crime or misdemeanor that the President had committed.
The Committee’s impressive 3.8 million pages of documents and 80 hours of testimony from 20 witnesses produced nothing but overwhelming and definitive proof that President Biden had nothing wrong. . . .

Really? There is “definitive proof” of Biden’s innocence? But notice how Raskin had to bring up the “Orange Man Bad” theme, pandering to Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers while mocking the proceedings of a congressional committee as a “madcap comedy mystery series.”

Raskin rambled on in this vein for a while before delivering what he certainly considered his pièce de résistance:

Real obstruction happened when two members of this Committee, who may be preparing to vote tonight to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt, brazenly refused to comply with subpoenas from the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, and still have not responded to those subpoenas.
But now, it seems, Mr. Chairman, I just got passed something, that the whole obstruction gimmick may just be a fundraising ploy, which demeans the overwhelming legal integrity and impressive theatrical ambitions of this enterprise. I was just handed a mass fundraising email solicitation for your campaign that you sent out this evening, Mr. Chairman, stating that, “Biden and his advisors are terrified that I will release the recordings, forcing the media and Democrats to answer for the dismal decline of Biden’s mental state. … This could be the final blow to Biden with swing voters across the country. … The Democrats are pulling out all the stops to stop the bleeding. … Signed, James Comer, Chairman, House Oversight Committee.”
No, I must confess my disappointment to be handed this fundraising solicitation, signed by you as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. I thought that you were serious about the legal enterprise here, and not just another political huckster calling hearings to score cheap political points and to make a buck.

Oh, ho, ho! You mean to tell us that Democrats don’t constantly do the exact same thing? Do you, Mr. Raskin, expect us to believe that you never once sent out a fundraising letter mentioning your “insurrection” show trial? Your pretended abhorrence of such fundraising reminds me of a certain Captain Renault, who was shocked — shocked! — to discover there was gambling was going on in Casablanca.

Now, perhaps, you see the point that Marjorie Taylor Greene was trying to make. Raskin and the Democrats were trying to suggest that Comer and his fellow Republicans were engaged in unethical behavior, which prompted Greene to bring up the fact that Loren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, currently presiding over the Manhattan trial of Trump, is a Democratic campaign consultant. You see, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), a member of the Oversight Committee, paid more than $150,000 to Loren Merchan’s consulting firm. Committee Democrats are up to their eyeballs in the corrupt persecution of Trump in Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan, and yet dare to accuse Republicans of wrongdoing in their investigation of Biden! And while Greene was making that point, she was interrupted by Crockett — who hadn’t been recognized by the chair — and then Greene responded with the “fake eyelashes” jab, which sent AOC into a fit of shrieking hysteria.

All of that, however, was merely the sequel to the dishonest and hypocritical performance of Jamie Raskin in his opening statement. So if anyone at the Anti-Defamation League wants to know what’s causing the rise of antisemitism in America, I’ll just show them a picture of Jamie Raskin: “Have you seen this guy? Looking for all the world like a crude caricature of a sleazy Jew published in a 1932 edition of Der Stürmer? If you guys really want to do something about antisemitism, how about convincing Jamie Raskin to retire from Congress?”

Until then, sorry, I can’t help you.

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Boomers, Millennials and Stereotypes

Posted on | May 18, 2024 | 1 Comment

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Schmitz

One of the unfortunate habits of journalists, academics and other members of the intelligentsia is to generalize about generations to the point of promoting stereotypes. It is somehow acceptable to make categorical characterizations of Baby Boomers in a way that would be considered racist — RAAAAACIST! — were one to make such broad generalizations about ethnic groups. Vox Day (b. 1968, and therefore a member of Generation X) often sneers at Boomers in this manner, which annoys me. Being a “Boomer tradcon” in Vox’s telling, makes me complicit in every failure of the Republican Party for the past 30 years, despite my avowed opposition to all of the most obvious errors of the GOP during that period. For example, it was not me who thought that nominating John McCain in 2008 was a good idea; in fact, I voted for Bob Barr on the Libertarian ticket that year, as there was obviously no point in voting for the doomed “Maverick,” who was wrong on every issue that mattered, especially immigration. I am generally paleoconservative, and agree with much of Vox’s indictment of “tradcon” errors, yet there I am, categorically denounced merely by virtue of being born in 1959.

All of that is preamble to introducing Matthew Schmitz, an earnest young native of Nebraska who graduated from Princeton and became a senior editor at First Things, a conservative publication founded by the late Richard John Neuhaus. A Millennial (born circa 1986), Schmitz has published an article entitled “The New Midlife Crisis”:

Check all the boxes, then chuck it all aside at forty to follow your muse. Play by the rules and win, only to decide that you don’t want the prize. Most of the rebellions were minor. The devoted housewife informed her husband that she would not be cooking dinner for the family on Tuesday and Thursday nights, as she was finally taking the art class she had always dreamed of. The cliché for men was the red convertible. But some people set off explosions: quitting jobs, filing for divorce, engaging in affairs.
For Baby Boomers, the midlife crisis was very nearly a rite of passage. John Updike made a career of chronicling the earthquakes that rattled the mannered world of upper-middle-class suburbanites. But that world of well-scrubbed children, stay-at-home wives, and afternoon cocktails seems as remote today as King Arthur’s court. For most millennials, the idea of being a forty-year-old ad executive on a commuter train, oppressed by routine and convention as he returns to his spacious suburban home, wife of eighteen years, and two teenage children, is just a fantasy. For those who haven’t yet found a spouse or bought a house, it might seem not a nightmare but a dream. . . .
Baby Boomers got married, owned homes, and had kids. The price was conformity. No doubt it could be stultifying. But for most people, the crisis was mild. You could waste money on a sports car and still have grandchildren someday. That was true even if your affairs led to a messy divorce. What of my generation? Our plan of life has been to put off the old patterns of adulthood.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) Let us stipulate, at the outset, that comparing the life experiences of two age cohorts in a general way, to examine the way how social change has affected those experiences, is a worthwhile endeavor. For example, I might compare my own experience to that of my parents, who were born in rural Alabama and made their way to Atlanta (and eventually its suburbs) in the 1950s. They were born in the era of the Model T Ford, and by the time I was born, were living in the era of interstate highways, jet aircraft and nuclear weapons.

In general, then, it is worthwhile for Schmitz to compare what a typical “midlife crisis” meant for Baby Boomers, as compared to what it means for younger Americans. As he points out, before you get divorced, you first have to get married, and the under-40 cohort has historically low marriage rates. In particular, Millennials have tended to delay marriage and, especially among college-educated women, to delay childbearing to such an age that becoming a mother may require medical intervention, if it is even still biologically possible. Whereas, by comparison, when I was living the bachelor life back in the 1980s, I was being countercultural — because in the Bible Belt, most folks still got married in their late teens or early 20s — nowadays, it would be countercultural to marry young.

Interestingly enough, my kids are countercultural in this way. Our eldest daughter married at 21 and, of our six children, the only two who haven’t married yet are Jefferson (a 25-year-old law school student) and our youngest daughter, Reagan, now a 21-year-old college junior.

You do not have to follow social trends; you do not have to be a slave to peer pressure. Intelligent people can evaluate choices rationally, and make choices based on their own judgment, rather than being another sheep in the conformist herd. Of course, larger social factors may limit one’s choices. Beginning with Ronald Reagan’s presidency, there was a general economic expansion, a boom that lasted until the 2008 collapse caused by the mortgage crisis. For those who have come of age in the past 15 years — a cohort that includes Matthew Schmitz — economic realities have generally been less encouraging, and the housing market in particular has been made difficult by “Bidenflation.” Furthermore, employment opportunities have been diminished by various regulatory impositions of government (a fact of which Democrats seem oblivious), and many young people have no choice but to become freelance hustlers in the “gig economy,” because there are fewer full-time jobs available.

General economic conditions, however, cannot explain everything wrong with the lives of Millennials (or Gen Z). The lazy bum sitting on the sofa in his mom’s basement, playing videogames all day, is not a victim of anything except his own sloth. For every miserable young slacker like that, you can point out many others who are energetic and industrious and who, as a consequence of their good traits and good attitudes, have a clear path ahead to success and happiness in life.

Certainly, I suppose Matthew Schmitz points out the unfortunate trends among young Americans in order to encourage them to stop following these trends: “Be not conformed to this world,” etc. What was good advice to the early Christian church in pagan Rome is also good advice to anyone living amid the neopagan decadence of 21st-century America.

Because I was never a character in a John Updike novel, I resent having my life experience depicted as some kind of generational stereotype, and I’m sure that Matthew Schmitz would not enjoy being lumped in with the stereotypes of his own generation. He’s not a lazy slob or an anarchist spray-painting pro-Hamas graffiti on synagogues (to name just two of the many varieties of antisocial behavior popular among today’s youth), and unless he’s recently dyed his hair purple and gotten his earlobes gauged, seems to have avoided the worst trends of the era.

About 1,200 words ago, I began this post by comparing the stereotyping of generations to racism. Think about the phrase “the black community,” which is used to imply a monolithic commonality of interest among the 46 million black people in America. “The black community” is viewed as generally poor and oppressed, simply because of statistics, i.e., comparing group averages. Certainly it is true that, on average, black people have lower incomes than white people, but to turn this statistical comparison into a definitive description of “the black community” is unfair to those black individuals who strive to be more than average.

In fact — perhaps a white guy isn’t supposed to say this — many ambitious black people try to get as far away from “the black community” as possible. They want to make it into those John Updike suburbs, with spacious homes on tree-lined streets, and become part of the respectable bourgeoisie, living the American Dream. To achieve this goal, they must swim against the cultural tide of stereotypes which presents “the black community” as defined by ghetto behavior. Your chances of making it to bourgeois respectability are near zero if you don’t reject that ghetto mentality, and yet some pundits profess to be shocked by the emerging trend of black Trump voters. The idea of “the black community” as a political monolith, like the idea of Baby Boomers as a monolith, is a mistake, a mental trap of categorization that can blind us to individual differences. Because I’ve spent my entire life fighting against certain negative stereotypes of my own ethnic group (never tasted moonshine and I don’t play the banjo), I can relate to the dilemma of the black man who is accused of betraying his “community” if he doesn’t want to live the ghetto life (including the ghetto politics of the Democratic Party).

Rebellion, you say? Yes, there’s quite a tradition of that in my family, but “very fine people on both sides,” as someone once said.

If following the current trend means going straight to Hell — which is where it’s heading now — then it’s good to be a rebel. Deo vindice.

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In The Mailbox: 05.17.24

Posted on | May 18, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Today is Friday in California.
A couple of our loyal readers submitted links to the Mad At The Internet post below. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Mad At The Internet: Online Censorship’s Institutional Power
347 Magnum: Australia Takes A Step Back From Censorship
EBL: St. Brendan The Navigator, also, MAGA – Dicks of Hazzard
Twitchy: Democrat Senator Tries Gaslighting Republicans & Swiping At Trump Instead Of Addressing Border Security, VALHALLA AWAITS – Scottie Scheffler Fought The Law & The Memes Won, and Epic Takedown! Baseball Crank Reminds Bill Kristol Of His Past Clarence Thomas Praise
Louder With Crowder: “I showed them my twin towers to save our city”
Vox Popoli: The Return of UATV, The Cost of Taking Sides, and Power > Influence
According To Hoyt: In Praise of Populism, diminished responsibility, and The Struggle, It Is Real
Upstream Reviews: Raven, Fandom Pulse Facebook Page Gets Pulled Down,
Jon Del Arroz: The New Doctor Who Pains Me

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S.-Ukraine Security Entanglement Risks Forever War
American Greatness: Appeals Court: Parents Cannot Opt K-5 Children Out of Pro-LGBTQ Curriculum
American Power: Germany – A Nation In Its Time, also, How The Radical Left Conquered Everything
American Thinker: January 6 & Covid Stir the Fascist Soul of the Educated Liberal Female
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tenth Annual Commencement Speech Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship deploys military in Santiago to deter another mass protest, Cuban pro-democracy activist rebukes Biden for ‘whitewashing’ the Cuban dictatorship, and Apartheid in Cuba: Using poverty to politically segregate the Cuban people
BattleSwarm: Democratic Voting Rights Act Lawsuit Could Mean Less Democratic Seats, also, LinkSwarm for May 17
Behind The Black: Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches classified payloads, NASA signs new agreement with ESA to partner on Franklin Mars rover, A really really big landslide on Mars, Starliner launch delayed again, to May 25, 2024, and A Catholic threatened with blacklisting because he gave an unapologetic Catholic speech at a Catholic university to a class of Catholics: How dare he!
Cafe Hayek: Hugh Macaulay, 1924-2005
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Literary Imagination
Da Tech Guy: My Trump Running Mate List, Choice One: Ron DeSantis, A primer on Palestinian groups, My Trump Running Mate List, Choice Two: Ted Cruz, My Trump Running Mate List, Choice Three: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, There is only one weapon that is effective against liberals, and My Trump Running Mate List, My Dark Horse: John Kennedy
Don Surber: The Summer of Correction
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, How interesting that inclusive places like Haverford College allow discrimination against Jews on campus, and Noooo! It’s not #AntiSemitism at all, just opposition to Israeli government policies!
Gates Of Vienna: A Rightly Guided Caliphate in Hamburg, also, Culture-Enricher Tries to Burn Down a Synagogue in Rouen
The Geller Report: Philadelphia Muslim student: These days ‘the pinnacle of Islam is realized – jihad for the sake of Allah’
Hollywood In Toto: Devastated Is the Wake-Up Call We Need, If Is a Sweet, Well-Intentioned Debacle, Phelim McAleer’s Haunting October 7 Ignored by Press, Can Happy Gilmore 2 Avoid the Zoolander Curse? Here’s Why We Needed Judge and the Justice, Comedian Kyle Dunnigan: The Internet Saved My Career, The Powerful Lesson This Reagan Actor Learned on Set, and Does RFK Jr. Have Rebel Comedy Vote Locked Up?
The Lid: Biden’s Dept. of ‘Homeland Security’ Says Privacy of Terror List Illegals More Important than Public’s Right to Know
Legal Insurrection: California Democrats Push Union-Backed Anti-Self-Checkout Bill Under Guise of Fighting Crime, Racism, The Late Republic, Cause and Effect: Military Enshrines DEI While Recruiting Tanks, The Bureau of Labor Statistics Denies Removing Coffee from Consumer Price Index Review, Jewish Student at Reed College Struck in the Head by Rock Thrown Through Her Dorm Room Window, and IDF Discover Bodies of Three Hostages in Gaza
Nebraska Energy Observer: Seeing this, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Harrison Butker Women’s Jerseys Sell Out After Viral Commencement Speech, Paul Skenes Jabbed Cubs, Then Toyed With Them In No-Hitter With 11 Ks For 1st MLB Win, Jimbo Fisher Proclaims “College Sports Is Not Fair”, Mid-Major Programs Have Turned Into Glorified JUCO Teams, Tiger Woods Puts In Brutal Performance, Set To Miss Cut At PGA Championship, Kansas City Newspaper Calls For Chiefs To ‘Fire’ Harrison Butker And Replace Him With A Female Kicker, Paul Skenes Threw 9 Of 10 Fastest Pitches In MLB In 1 Start – How Long Before Surgery? and SI Swimsuit Model Xandra Pohl Is Ready To Dominate The Next Decade
Power Line: The Times Threatens the Supreme Court, Great Moments In Democracy, Bring on the Harris Pole, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: State Senator Ingoglia Blasts “Activist” Judge Walker For Latest Blockage Of DeSantis-Backed Law
Shot In The Dark: A Stylish Little Stiletto Boot On Your Neck Forever – Apple Valley Edition, World War III Is Starting, and About That Henco District 6 Special Election
STUMP: More Ohio STRS Commentary
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Political Responsibility of Artists
This Ain’t Hell: Easy Calls, 18th Century Soldier Art Discovered on Castle Door, Valor Friday, Governor Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, Two Jordanians attempted to breach Quantico Marine Corps Base, and We are not a vassal state of the United States!
Victory Girls: House Committee, Oh Baby Girls!
Volokh Conspiracy: Apparent Suspension of Student Groups at Wisconsin for Pro-Hamas Chalking
Watts Up With That: Compulsory smart meters crucial to fight ‘real and growing risk’ of drought, experts warn, The Carbon Capture Con, and Debunking the Cheap Renewables Myth
The Federalist: Covid Fearmongering Worked So Well, The Government Is Now Creating A Poultry Panic, Exclusive: Wisconsin Judge Stops Elections Commission From ‘Fomenting Election Fraud’, There’s No Such Thing As Good Masculine Male Characters In The Woke World Of Book Publishing, Former NIH Director Admits Government Was Top Source Of Covid Misinformation, ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Trains Election Offices On How To Put ‘Bidenbucks’ To Use, This Week In Lawfare Land: Bragg’s ‘Star Witness’ Blows Up His Own Credibility, and House Republicans Should Heed Texas’ Warning On The Dangers Of Democrat-Driven ‘Bipartisanship’
Mark Steyn: Diversity is Our Death, Political Violence, Here and There, Gone with the Wine and Roses, and America First?

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In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 17, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Evening Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Dam Busters, also, Is it a mistake for Trump to go to CNN to debate Biden?
Twitchy: NIH Official Brags He Knows How To Make Emails Disappear After FOIA Request, Anderson Cooper Says Michael Cohen Was Cornered In What Appeared To Be A Lie, and Biden’s Gaza Pier Project Moves Into Hamas Line Of Fire
Louder With Crowder: Influencer expects fat dude to simp for her, gets hilariously put in her place: “Maybe eat a burger and not be anorexic”
Vox Popoli: A Free Pass on Beating Children, Accountability is Unavoidable, Brave on Linux, and Crushing the Comics
Stoic Observations: Throwback Thursday
Gab: You Need To Be Babymaxxing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Pox on Schooling, The Furnace of Humiliation, and Preserved for Posterity
American Conservative: The Maryland Senate Race Is a Test of Both Parties’ Viability
American Greatness: The Biden Reelection Strategy, Ohio Removes Illegal Aliens from State Voter Rolls, and Who’s Ready For President Kamala Harris?
American Power: Wannsee, also, Black Edelweiss
American Thinker: Biden’s Complicity in the Cancellation of Israel, Biden and His ‘Ironclad’ Support of Israel, The Biden Anti-American Legacy, and When Gasoline is $100 per Gallon
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily JBERBear News, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 7 – Urban Women And Men v. Bears, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Spanish Congress of Deputies passes resolution condemning human rights violations in Cuba, The Castro dictatorship’s long arm of repression even reaches Cuban dissidents in exile, Nicaraguan dictatorship drives Miss Universe out into ‘indefinite exile’, and Che Guevara’s daughter rails against rampant ‘capitalist anarchy’ in Cuba, calls for more aggressive repression
Baldilocks: The Battle Continues
BattleSwarm: China: Old And Busted: 1 Bed, 1 Bath. The New Hotness: 1 Bed In Bathroom, Police Flee High Crime California For Texas, Shoigu Out As Russia’s Defense Minister, Cuellar Aides Flip, and Texas Sues Biden Administration Over EV Trucking Mandates
Behind The Black: NASA versus Isaacman/SpaceX on upgrading Hubble, AST SpaceMobile makes deal with ATT to use its cell-to-satellite constellation, Scientists: No evidence of obvious changes on Europa, Potentially serious problem on BepiColombo Mercury mission, Congress passes new authorization bill for FAA that includes short extension of “learning period”, and Another “rightwing COVID conspiracy theory” proves to be true
Cafe Hayek: American Compass Is Broken, Benighted Lighthizer, Substitution Effects, Protectionism Is Topsy-Turvy Nonsense, and An Open Letter to Katherine Tai
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: RFK Jr, also, Subsidization, Regulation, and AI
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora Shocked SHOCKED edition, Volunteering as tribute, The Eurovision Protestors Unfair to Israel’s Entry and Unfair to all the other entries, Trump-ified A Man in Full on Netflix comes up empty, and Let’s Stop Pretending there is Any Doubt as to the NYC Trump Trial Verdict
Dana Loesch: Facebook Deleted All My Pictures With The Dallas Jewish Conservatives, NBC & DOJ Team Up To Wage War On School Board Parents,
Don Surber: Ukraine may be lost
First Street Journal: The muddled Methodists, Crazy people are dangerous, Holding their breath until they turn blue, Hamas delendum est, and This is what happens when prosecutors give out sweetheart plea deals!
Gates Of Vienna: The Head Spook in Thuringia Vows to Stop the AfD, Palestinian Culture-Enricher in Germany Sentenced to Life For Double Murder, Gendarmes Mobilized to Track Down “The Fly“, All Your Gold Are Belong To Us, and Exterminate the AfD!
The Geller Report: Jew Hater Assaults Jewish Children Playing Outside Jewish School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in Random Attack
Glenn Reynolds: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?
Hollywood In Toto: Arcadian Delivers Scares Atop Conservative Values, The War on Jerry Seinfeld, Explained (UPDATED), Winston Marshall Shreds Pelosi in Epic Smackdown, These Maligned Movies Deserve a Second Chance, and Winehouse Biopic Back to Black Puts Camera Where It Belongs
The Lid: Survey: Most Car Dealership Owners Doubt Electric Cars are the Future of Auto Industry, Biden Polls Still Crashing: More Say Economy Will Improve if Trump is Elected, and Why Are Western Countries Committing National Suicide?
Legal Insurrection: Pelican Island Bridge in Texas Slammed by Barge, Causing Portion to Collapse, Stockholm Syndrome: Outgoing Cornell President Expresses “Gratitude” To Anti-Israel Encampment Protesters, Sonoma State Univ. President Placed on Leave After Going Rogue Under Protest Pressure And Agreeing To Academic Boycott of Israel, Daniel Perry Gets Full Pardon From Texas Governor Abbott, Iowa Governor Signs Bill Banning DEI Policies at Public Institutions, and Eighteen States Sue EEOC Over Guidelines That Force Employers to Allow Men in Women’s Bathrooms, Prohibit “Misgendering”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Exaudi, Crusade for Rights, Ending Equal Justice Under Law, and Summer is Coming
Outkick: Harrison Butker’s Jersey Among The Most Popular Selling Following College Address, NFL Games Are Boring And Overrated, ACC’s Jim Phillips Calls Florida State, Clemson Lawsuit ‘Disruptive And Harmful’, Leaders Are NCAA Focused, The Iron Claw Is An Incredible And Unbelievably Sad Movie, Caitlin Clark’s Debut Turned Over WNBA TV History With Highest Ratings In Decades, and Paige Spiranac Finds Happy Place In White Lingerie, NBA Wife Posts Thirst Trap & Ohio Realtor Turns On America
Power Line: Another Look at Energy and the Environment, An Alpha News Trump exclusive, and America’s Next Vice President?
Shark Tank: A Tale Of Two Resolutions
Shot In The Dark: Not To Be Left Behind, Manners, Everything’s Just Fine, and We’ve Got Good News And Bad News
The Political Hat: Nature Rights In Colorado — Gaia Strikes Back, also, Quick Takes – DEI Must DIE: Ending Diversity Statements At MIT; Axing Mandatory DEI Statements In Kansas; Scrapping DEI Requirements In Virginia
This Ain’t Hell: Sergeant Shields Student from Grenade Blast, Air Force Vet Cyril Wecht dies at 91, Pro-Palestine Major Resigns, VA’s MDMA Clinical Trials for PTSD, Hard Call, and Alvin Bragg offers plea deal to six illegal aliens accused of attacking two police officers
Transterrestrial Musings: Hubble Trouble, The Pace Of Vulcan Rockets, Campus Anti-Semitism, Mars Sample Return, and Spaceport Vegas?
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden Is About To Run Out Of Other People’s Money, RNC Chair, Lara Trump, With Non Breaking News, The Niceness Offensive: Trans Tone Policing, and Marines Covered Up Attempted “Migrants” Breach At Quantico Base
Volokh Conspiracy: Congress is Preparing to Restore Quotas in College Admissions, also, Can Nonprofits That Help Organize Protests Lose Their Tax Exemptions?
Watts Up With That: Michigan Government Is Stacked Top to Bottom with Donor-provided Climate Activist “Staff”, DeSantis signs laws slashing climate agenda directives, targeting adversary investments, Biden China Tariffs Infuriate Climate Activists, and Many of the ‘Climate Experts’ Surveyed by the Guardian in Recent Propaganda Blitz Turn Out to be Emotionally-Unstable Hysterics
The Federalist: Jerry Seinfeld Laughs Off The Haters, The NFL’s Condemnation Of Harrison Butker Exemplifies The Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry, Whatever U.S. Elites Are Defending In Ukraine, It Isn’t Democracy, HHS Secretary Admits The Feds Will Punish Hospitals That Resist Trans Mutilation, Russia Hoaxer Jake Tapper Is The Perfect Partisan Hack To Give Biden A Debate Edge, Air Force Celebrates ‘Pride Month’ Amidst ‘Worst’ Recruiting Crisis In Modern History, and MIT Breaks With DEI Insanity In Faculty Hiring, But Is It Too Late?
Mark Steyn: Down in the Depths: Destination Tokyo and the Submarine Movie, M-O-T-H-E-R, McIntyre vs Ofcom, The Mountain Comes To Mohammed, and Malmö and Me

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In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Journalism & Self-Defense
EBL: Emigrants Cross The Plains, also, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Twitchy: Dopey Sara Haines Of “The View” Says Latin Mass Is Extremist & Doesn’t Know Where Christianity Begins, Darwin Award – Woman Charged By Bull On Baja Beach After Ignoring Warnings To Stay Away, and Moorpark Professor Charged With Murder In Death Of Pro-Israel Protester
Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden challenges Donald Trump to debate in a video that needs to be seen to be believed (UPDATED), “This guy sh*ts his pants every now and then”: Aaron Rodgers, Tucker Carlson take turns ROASTING Joe Biden, and New York says “no white men allowed” when it comes to bidding on new airport contract
Vox Popoli: The Consequences of Boomer Solipsism, Way Too Little, Way Too Late, Truth is Disinformation, An Accurate Review, and A Warning Shot
Upstream Reviews: Rebel Moon

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Baldilocks: Snapshot, also, Sitting Out The Flesh Wars
CDR Salamander: Not Your Grandfather’s Philippines
Dana Loesch: Not Everything Has To Be A Flex
Don Surber: How America came to hate Joe Biden
STUMP: Ohio State Teachers Pension Drama Continues!

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Six Weeks Until First Debate

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | Comments Off on Six Weeks Until First Debate

The earliest presidential debate, ever:

CNN is President Joe Biden’s preferred network to host at least one presidential debate, he said Wednesday.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will host, according to Puck News. . . .
The Biden campaign said the president would debate Trump only in June and September, without live audiences present.
“I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th,” Biden posted on X. “Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.”
Trump accepted Biden’s invitation and urged the president to debate him earlier and more often.
“I’m ready to go…The dates that they proposed are fine…Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium,” Trump reportedly told Fox News Digital. “The proposed June and early September dates are fully acceptable to me. I will provide my own transportation.”
Trump also said he would debate Biden in October on Fox News.

Of course, everybody sees this setup as favoring Biden, who is trailing Trump in most polls and therefore will welcome the chance to reset the perceptions in a friendly media forum, knowing that CNN is completely controlled by partisan Democrats. As someone who routinely watches CNN (so you don’t have to), I can attest that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are about as objective as Karine Jean-Pierre. Everybody sees this debate arrangement as proof of how desperate the Biden campaign is:

President Joe Biden’s decision to take Donald Trump up on his “anytime and anywhere” debate offer and propose June and September debates is a clear sign of worry among his reelection campaign team.
Two months ago, Biden cracked the door open to not having any debates, which hadn’t happened in a presidential race since 1972. Asked by a reporter if he would “commit to a debate with former President Trump,” Biden responded, “It depends on his behavior.”
Nothing has changed about Trump’s behavior since then. What also hasn’t changed is who is leading the polls. . . .
Recent polling suggests Biden only has a narrow path to 270. He would need a bigger recovery in the more diverse Sun Belt swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina—where his deficit is generally around 5 or 6 points—to recreate the multiple paths he had four years ago when he narrowly defeated Trump in several critical battlegrounds.

So we’re going to have a debate in June — more than four months before Election Day — and what happens if that doesn’t resurrect Biden’s poll numbers? Frank Lautenberg could not be reached for comment.

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