In The Mailbox: 03.31.21

Posted on | April 1, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.31.21

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The Ninety Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1308
357 Magnum: It’s Not Unethical When Democrats Do It
EBL: Duct Taped Bunny
Twitchy: Gov. Kemp Fires Back At Delta CEO For Taking Cue From “Partisan Activists” & Virtue-Signaling About Election Law
Louder With Crowder: Six-Month-Old Child Thrown Into Rio Grande By Smugglers, Saved By Brave Border Patrol Agent
Vox Popoli: If You Want Hopium, also, Oh, Shut Up, Trumps
Gab News: The GOP Is Dead, Long Live American Populism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Lifting Heavy Weights & Fighting The System
American Conservative: Bad Omens From Buckley’s Biographer
American Greatness: TX Coronavirus Cases Drop Over Two Weeks After Restrictions & Mask Mandate Lifted, also, Loudoun County School Advisory Board Demands Firing Of Teachers Who Disagree With Critical Race Theory
American Thinker: The Supreme Court – Cowards, Crooks, Or Compromised?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba’s Economic “Reforms” Make Matters Worse, Spark Protests
BattleSwarm: Red China Perfidy Update
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, FAA Says It Will “Lead” Investigation Into Yesterday’s Starship #11 Crash
Cafe Hayek: Again, If Pundits Are So Smart, Why Aren’t They Super-Rich?
CDR Salamander: Is Mozambique On Your Hot List?
Da Tech Guy: Life Imitates Python & Other Holy Week Monday Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, The Left & The Purgatory Line
Don Surber: Blame Democrats For The Stomping Of Asians
First Street Journal: Big Brother Will be Watching You!
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: YouTube To Remove “Dislike” Feature As Biden White House Gets Massively Ratioed, also, Black Man Who Brutally Beat Old Asian Woman Is Convicted Murderer On Parole
Hogewash: A Change In Staffing, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: PolitiFact Gaslights Readers On Late Night’s Comically Obvious Liberal Bias
The Lid: Wildlife Conservation Programs Funded Almost Entirely By Hunters & Gun Owners
Legal Insurrection: GoFundMe Takes Down Page Of Virginia Parents Fighting Critical Race Theory Curriculum, also, Democrats Abandon Attempt To Steal IA-2
Michelle Malkin: The Global Trace & Track Regime
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Harlot’s Way 5 – The Cross
Outkick: Kevin Durant Apologizes For Social Media Slams Of Michael Rapoport, also, Two More Women File Lawsuits Against Deshaun Watson
Power Line: Chauvin Trial Day 2, also, On Race, Britain Leads The Way
Shark Tank: Senate Bill Would Ban Chicom Manufactured Solar Panels
Shot In The Dark: Opportunity Stumbles
The Political Hat: Defining The Term “Transgender Child”, also, Critical Race Theory Vs. North Carolina
This Ain’t Hell: Ninth Circus Strikes Again, also, New Rules For Trans Troops
Transterrestrial Musings: Spaceship 3, also, Chuck Lauer
Victory Girls: Beyond Jim Crow – Democrats Circle Back To Slavery
Volokh Conspiracy: Wisconsin Supremes Strike Down Governor’s Emergency Decrees
Weasel Zippers: Officials Say Border Problems Began When Biden Stopped Work On The Wall, also, NYT Actively Trying To Dox George Floyd Jurors
The Federalist: CNN Claims There’s No Way To Tell If A Baby’s A Boy Or A Girl, also, Democrats Oppose IDs For Voting But Insist You Carry A Vaccine Passport
Mark Steyn: Digging The Holes, also, Hug Stasi & Vaccine Passports

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Anatomy of a Smear

Posted on | March 31, 2021 | Comments Off on Anatomy of a Smear

When this story first broke Tuesday, I didn’t know what to make of it, and even after Rep. Matt Gaetz went on Tucker Carlson to defend himself, I still wasn’t sure what the truth was. After another 24 hours, however, the picture is becoming clearer: A scammer named Bob Kent, who has raised money supposedly to help free an American citizen named Robert Levinson from prison in Iran, evidently realized Gaetz’s father is rich, and decided to make him the target of an extortion scheme.

Allegedly, I hasten to add, because this complex story involves a lot of accusations and counter-accusations that I can’t fully evaluate. But if the story laid out by Emily Brooks and Joseph Simonson in the Washington Examiner is accurate, apparently Kent came up with the idea of telling Gaetz’s father that the congressman was under investigation by the FBI for sex trafficking. In return for funding Kent’s project of rescuing Levinson from Iran, the elder Gaetz was told, his son would be guaranteed a pardon by Joe Biden. Crazy.

The “sex trafficking” part of the thing involved an allegation that Gaetz had paid for a 17-year-old girlfriend’s interstate travel, but he says he hasn’t had any 17-year-old girlfriends. Assuming that this denial is truthful, then Gaetz is the victim of a crime, not a perpetrator.

However, we must wait and see what shakes out because (a) Gaetz is a bachelor, (b) he’s been known to date younger women, and (c) one could imagine how this might lead to trouble, even if it doesn’t actually amount to “sex trafficking.” Still, at this point, it looks like Gaetz is the target of a politically motivated smear, which the New York Times was willing to assist. There has even been a guilt-by-association element to the smear, with outlets reporting on Gaetz’s acquaintance with Joel Greenberg, a local Florida politician who actually did get charged with sex trafficking last year. And so what? There is zero evidence that Gaetz (or anyone else) knew what Greenberg was doing with his “sugar daddy” accounts.

I hesitate to go all-out defending someone in Gaetz’s situation because it may turn out he is guilty of something, but from what I’ve seen so far, this looks like an elaborate smear job. We shall see.

Category: Florida, Scandal

The Late, Great G. Gordon Liddy

Posted on | March 31, 2021 | Comments Off on The Late, Great G. Gordon Liddy

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” as the famous line from an old Western says, and G. Gordon Liddy was certainly a legend.

Most famously, Liddy was the man in charge of the so-called “Plumbers,” assigned to stop national-security leaks in the Nixon administration after the “Pentagon Papers” were published. It must be remembered, when we are discussing the Watergate scandal, that Nixon was trying to bring the Vietnam War to a successful conclusion by forcing the Communists to negotiate a ceasefire agreement. The so-called “peace” movement in the United State was an impediment to that effort, despite the fact that no one was more eager than Nixon himself to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam. By 1972, Nixon had drastically reduced the size of the U.S. troop deployment to Vietnam, but he was at all times an enemy of Communism, and the Commies were doing everything they could to undermine Nixon’s presidency. This is crucial to understanding why the “Plumbers” morphed into a dirty-tricks squad, engaged in intelligence operations against the Democrats in 1972.

The great irony of the Watergate break-in is that it was completely unnecessary. Nixon was on his way to a re-election landslide over the hapless George McGovern, and no dirty tricks were needed. Liddy never denied his responsibility in the scandal that destroyed Nixon’s presidency, but famously refused to cooperate with the investigation:

Mr. Liddy refused to cooperate with prosecutors and Congress, and was sentenced in March 1973 to a 20-year prison term for conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping. President Jimmy Carter commuted Liddy’s sentence in 1977 and he was released after 52 months behind bars.
By his own account, the Liddy of the Watergate break-in was a product of the culture wars of the 1960s. “The nation was at war not only externally in Vietnam but internally,” he said in his 1980 autobiography “Will,” which sold more than 1 million copies. “I had learned long ago the maxims of Cicero that ‘laws are inoperative in war’ and that ‘the good of the people is the chief law.’ ” . . .
Mr. Liddy refused to testify before the grand jury investigating Watergate, saying he had not been raised to be “a snitch or a rat.” But his silence failed to prevent the disintegration of the coverup after Nixon’s reelection in November 1972. When [James W.] McCord began to cooperate with investigators in March 1973, Dean and other Nixon aides concluded that it was every man for himself and negotiated their own immunity deals.

How many people do you know who would be willing to go from a White House job to federal prison, rather than turn snitch?

Liddy believed he had done his patriotic duty, and if that meant he must go to prison, so be it, but his code of personal honor did not require that he act as a witness against others involved in Watergate. Liddy never hesitated to denounce John Dean as a selfish coward after Dean became a chief witness against Nixon in the impeachment investigation.

“Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” — that’s all you need to know, when it comes to situations like this. Trying to get a break from prosecutors by ratting out your accomplices is a punk move, and whatever you say about G. Gordon Liddy, he was no punk.

Some 20 years ago, I was first interviewed as a guest on Mr. Liddy’s talk-radio show, which at its peak reached an audience of 10 million. I returned for many other interviews with “The G Man,” who famously described himself as “virile, vigorous and potent” into his 80s.

Mr. Liddy relished his reputation as a right-wing tough guy, a scourge of liberals everywhere, and his success in talk radio let him have the last laugh against those who tried to destroy him. Think about this — is John Dean a hero to anyone? No, but Mr. Liddy was a hero to millions who shared his belief that re-electing Nixon in 1972 was a patriotic duty, and if that duty involved a few dirty tricks against Democrats . . .?

Well, he served his time in federal prison, but he was no punk.

R.I.P., G Man.

Category: Celebrities

‘Insurrection’? Most Capitol Rioters Probably Won’t Face Prison Time

Posted on | March 31, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Insurrection’? Most Capitol Rioters Probably Won’t Face Prison Time

This should have been obvious from the start: Trespassing and disobeying police commands are the only charges likely to stick against most of the Trump supporters involved in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Most of them just got swept up in the excitement of the moment and certainly were not part of an “anti-government” conspiracy. This reality was obscured by a lot of prosecutorial bluster and media hype:

Americans outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill are in for a jarring reality check: Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time. …
In recent days, judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys have all indicated that they expect few of these “MAGA tourists” to face harsh sentences.
There are two main reasons: Although prosecutors have loaded up their charging documents with language about the existential threat of the insurrection to the republic, the actions of many of the individual rioters often boiled down to trespassing. And judges have wrestled with how aggressively to lump those cases in with those of the more sinister suspects. . . .
The prospect of dozens of Jan. 6 rioters cutting deals for minor sentences could be hard to explain for the Biden administration, which has characterized the Capitol Hill mob as a uniquely dangerous threat. … Justice Department prosecutors sent expectations sky-high in early statements and court filings, describing elaborate plots to murder lawmakers — descriptions prosecutors have tempered as new details emerged.

(Hat-tip: Hot Air via Instapundit.)

Joy Pullman at The Federalist points out that the FBI has been missing a lot of terrorists while it has been devoting such enormous efforts to investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot:

For that investigation, USA Today says, “agents in all but one of the FBI’s 56 field offices have been drafted to track down” people who attended the Capitol protest that day, the vast majority of whom peacefully protested. “Investigators who typically work cases involving the trafficking of drugs, child pornography and sex have taken calls from rioter’s angry ex-wives and former girlfriends and employers turned tipsters.”
Meanwhile, the FBI and other investigators appear to be hiding the truth about the one death that occurred in connection with this havoc that hasn’t yet been definitively proven to be an accident, besides the rioter a police officer shot to death.
It also appears the FBI is using its police power to prosecute people in connection with the Capitol riot who participated in no violence, including one who never went inside the Capitol nor harmed any person or public property, according to Julie Kelly’s reporting of court documents. His true crime appears to be belonging to a group in which some members believe, according to the federal indictment, that “the federal government has been co-opted by a cabal of elites actively trying to strip American citizens of their rights.”

Read the whole thing.

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 31, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Overlord Manatee is good with children. At least this one.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Rapist, Turned Loose, Offends Again
EBL: Pre-Easter Bunnies
Twitchy: Kathy Griffin Raging Because Covington Catholic “Darlings” Are Still Suing Her For Smearing Them Is Just Delicious
Louder With Crowder: CA Public School Teachers Return To In-Person Teaching – But Only For Illegals
Vox Popoli: Black Privilege, also, The Bubble Pops
Stoic Observations: An Uppity Answer

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: First, Do Harm
American Conservative: Re-Platforming America’s Deplatformed
American Greatness: The Trump-Hate Coalition Is Crumbling, also, Media Fawns As Fauci Promotes Child Abuse
American Power: Victim-Blaming DC Mayor Bowser Dragged For Sharing “Preventing Auto Thefts” Video While Remaining Mum On Murder Of Carjacked Uber Eats Driver
American Thinker: Bottom Line – Democrats Are Afraid Of You
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Travelogue Day 3
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba’s New Ration Book Allows One Bar Of Soap Per Person Every 42 Days
BattleSwarm: DeSantis Continues To Crush It
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Congressional Democrats Taking Aim At SpaceX & Starship Testing
Cafe Hayek: It’s Not Journalism, It’s Fear-Mongering
CDR Salamander: On Suez – You Can’t Buy Training Like This
Da Tech Guy: Thanks, Larry McMurtry! also, Report From Louisiana – Downsizing
Don Surber: Most Capitol Protesters Won’t Be Jailed. Media Angry.
First Street Journal: Ve Need To See Your Papers! also, Fighting Fascist Governors
The Geller Report: Head of Spanish Islamic Agency Arrested Over Terrorism Financing, also, Democrats File Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Integrity Law
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Mergers & Acquisitions
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Goes From Subversive To Serving The Corporate Elites, also, Woke Media Hits New, Embarassing Low
The Lid: Jim Crow Relic? Democrats Used Filibuster 327 Times Last Year – GOP Only Once
Legal Insurrection: SOCOM’s Chief Of Diversity & Inclusion Under Fire For Social Media Posts, also, Georgetown Students Demand Abolition Of Campus Police As Crime Surges In DC
Nebraska Energy Observer: Satan – Happy Dance
Outkick: President Biden Won’t Throw Out First Pitch At Mets-Nationals Season Opener, also, Nearly Half Of Americans Changed Sports Viewing Habits Because Of Social Justice Nonsense
Power Line: Biden Hits The Dishonesty Jackpot With Claims About Georgia Voting Law, also, An Ex-President Strikes Back
Shark Tank: DeSantis Nixes Vaccine Passports
Shot In The Dark: Birthday Greetings
The Political Hat: Nevada Bad Bills – The ERA On Steroids, Election Fraudapalooza, and Property Tax Grab
This Ain’t Hell: Carlo Dobrich, The American Legion’s Navy SEAL Sex Instructor, also, SOCOM Diversity & Inclusion Chief Reassigned, Investigation Opened
Transterrestrial Musings: Continuing To Learn
Victory Girls: Scott Adams Vs. Naomi Wolf On Vaccine Passports
Volokh Conspiracy: First Appellate Court Ruling On CDC Eviction Moratorium Goes Against The Feds
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris Is Nuts, also, $1 Trillion In New Taxes Coming Soon
The Federalist: An FBI So Corrupt It Lets Mass Shooters Rampage Needs To Go, also, Gov. DeSantis Vows To Ban “Vaccine Passports”, Slams Them As “Totally Unacceptable”
Mark Steyn: Teach Me Tonight, also, Hostages Of The Cult

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In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 30, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.30.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Still true after all these years.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: SWATting – Will Cops Ever Learn?
EBL: George Segal, RIP
Twitchy: Chelsea Handler Reminds How Vapid She Really Is With This Stupid Take On The Chauvin Trial
Louder With Crowder: Graphic Footage Of Deadly Crash After Two Girls Hijack Uber Eats Driver
Vox Popoli: White America Begins To Secede, also, Pushing Vaccine Passports
Stoic Observations: The Real Steely Dan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Right Kind Of Realignment
American Greatness: Is Racism Moral Now? also, The Pathetic Genesis Of A Fake News Story
American Power: Tucker Rips Stumbling, Bumbling Biden Press Conference
American Thinker: The Democrats’ War On Black Americans, also, The January 6 Prosecutions Hit A Speed Bump
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dictatorship’s Spanish Spy Ring Uncovered, also, The Socialist Roots Of Fascism
BattleSwarm: Blue Alert In Mexia, also, Cop Shooter Shoots Himself
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, More Data – Lockdowns Did Nothing To Slow COVID
Cafe Hayek: Ten Problems With Freedom
CDR Salamander: Focus, DOD, Focus – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: GOP Senators Knock Down Walls Of Biden’s Border Potemkin Village, also, No Inflation? Not Buying It
Don Surber: NYT’s Expert On Middle East Smacked Down, also, Biden’s Border Cruelty
First Street Journal: It’s Time To Stop Printing Newspapers, also, The Silliness Of Earth Hour
The Geller Report: Biden’s Humanitarian Disaster At The Border, also, Head Of CCP Details Plan To Defeat United States, Including Manipulating Elections
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Large Galaxy & Its Satellite
Hollywood In Toto: How Scorsese’s Cape Fear Did More Than Trump The Original, also, Could Colbert Survive His “Racist” Asian Jokes today?
The Lid: Biden Team Wants Volunteers To Help With Border Crisis
Legal Insurrection: The AP Steps Up To Help Flailing Biden Administration, also, Red China Weaponizes SJWs & Black Lives Matter In Its Covert War Against The U.S.
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Palm Sunday
Outkick: LA Lifeguards Make Up To $400,000 A Year, also, NBA Ratings Continue Pre-Pandemic Nosedive
Power Line: Judge Ho Tells It Like It Is, also, Today In Campus Crazy
Shark Tank: Who Really Commissioned The Latest Fried/DeSantis Poll?
Shot In The Dark: Learning To Punch
The Political Hat: Senator Cotton Vs. Critical Race Theory In The Military
This Ain’t Hell: Woke-ism In The Military (also Part Deux), also, Donald Lidy – Phony Navy SEAL
Transterrestrial Musings: The Aztec Gods
Victory Girls: Biden Stumbles, Fumbles, & Bumbles As America Burns
Volokh Conspiracy: PA Voters Can Approve Amendment To Limit Governor’s Emergency Powers
Weasel Zippers: Famous Woke Philosopher Signed Petition To Legalize Sex With Children, also, Rose City Antifa Attacks Cars At Random As Police Passively Stand By
The Federalist: CNN Describes Horrific Murder Of Uber Eats Driver As “Accident”, also, Loudoun County Diversity Council – “We Can & We Will Silence The Opposition”
Mark Steyn: Brokeback Mountain, also, The Hundred Years Ago Show

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Trump-Hating BLM Activist Charged for Attacking Asian Women in Seattle

Posted on | March 29, 2021 | Comments Off on Trump-Hating BLM Activist Charged for Attacking Asian Women in Seattle

News that doesn’t fit the preferred media narrative:

A Black Lives Matter activist and fervent Democrat Party supporter is accused of committing anti-Asian hate crimes in Seattle.
King County prosecutors charged 51-year-old Christopher Allen Hamner, of SeaTac, Wash., with a felony hate crime for targeting multiple Asian victims on two separate occasions in March. Hamner, who is mixed-race, is accused of threatening women and children of Asian background as young as five years old with racial slurs.
On March 16, Hamner allegedly harassed a woman while she was in her car with two children, ages five and 10.
Pamela Cole, the victim, alleged in a Facebook post that Hamner yelled, “F— you, Asian bitch!” She says he jumped out of his vehicle and started “punching his fist together” before throwing projectiles at her car. She called the police.
Three days later on March 19, Hamner allegedly cut off two Asian women with his sedan near a supermarket, blocked traffic in the middle of the road and screamed similar profanities at them. Hamner then got out of his car, charged at the victims who were driving together and launched an object at them, the probable cause affidavit cites. Jenny Wong, one of the victims, posted photos and video of her encounter with Hamner on Instagram.
The Seattle Police Department arrested Hamner on Thursday. His bail is set at $75,000. He is being held at the King County Correctional Facility for the felony hate crime charge plus three additional counts of malicious harassment.
The videos and accusations against Hamner have been surprising for some given his reputation as a staunch BLM and racial-justice activist in the Seattle-area.
In June 2020, Hamner participated in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), where BLM and Antifa extremists seized six blocks of city property. He recorded video of himself in the zone where he was holding an anti-Donald Trump and anti-police sign.
His social media is filled with posts expressing hatred of Donald Trump and Republicans.

Don’t expect to see this reported on CNN.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Crime, Racism, Washington State

Rule 5 Sunday: Oksana Rykova

Posted on | March 28, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Oksana Rykova

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Those of you who are regular readers of the New York Post’s Page Six have probably seen Ms. Rykova before, usually in connection with Baywatch actor David Charvet. The Canadian model, fitness trainer, and businesswoman splits her time between LA and Miami, and has an Instagram (of course).
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