‘Selma Envy’ and the Left’s Increasing Embrace of ‘Eliminationist Rhetoric’

Posted on | April 26, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Selma Envy’ and the Left’s Increasing Embrace of ‘Eliminationist Rhetoric’

For at least 30 years, going back to when I was covering local schools for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune, I’ve been worried about how history is taught in America’s education system. This problem was apparent to me by the time our oldest child was in kindergarten, and I didn’t at first fully understand until, working on an assignment from my editor, Pierre-Rene Noth (who, coincidentally, was a half-Jew whose family fled the Nazis in Europe), I undertook a study of Marxist philosophy. You see, while I’d always hated Communists — as every patriotic American should — I had never been aware of the philosophical roots of Marxism as a theory of history (e.g., Hegel and all that). “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles,” Marx and Engels declared. If you teach students to look at history from the Marxist perspective, it is predictable that they will develop a radical worldview, believing they have a duty to support those who claim to be victims of societal oppression.

As I became acquainted with how history was being taught — even in classrooms in rural Floyd County, Georgia — the pervasiveness of this Marxist influence was impossible to ignore. Just skimming through the textbooks commonly assigned in public schools, it was possible to show how the “class struggle” theme was reiterated, and how much the content of history classes had changed since my boyhood in the 1960s and ’70s. All of that is preamble to introducing you to Hans Fiene. He is a Lutheran pastor in his 40s and, by simple arithmetic, it can be deduced that he was a high school student at just about the time I was becoming alarmed about the Marxist influence in the teaching of history.

Pastor Hans Fiene

In 2015, surveying the widespread enthusiasm for same-sex marriage among his age cohort, Pastor Fiene coined the term “Selma Envy” to explain this otherwise inexplicable phenomenon:

Why do so many people, Gen Xers and younger, invent a monster of anti-gay bigotry and keep screaming the monster is real despite a mountain of contrary facts standing before them?
The answer is “social studies.” My generation engages in straw men, misinformation, and lies because, in every year of social studies class, we studied the civil-rights movement not as history, but as hagiography. We didn’t just learn what events happened on American soil, we were encouraged to mimic the segregation-defeating holy ones and merit for ourselves a place alongside them in glory. . . . [W]e concluded that the only thing necessary to be as righteous as the saints who fought racial injustice was to decry an injustice that no one else was. And we became so desperate to find that injustice, we lost our minds in the process.
Once upon a time, my generation learned in first-grade social studies, everyone thought it was good to hate African-Americans. But then a group of saintly figures arose who were better human beings than the rednecks from the South, and they changed the world for the better. This story captivated us, and we wanted to change the world, too. . . .
More than we wanted to find the perfect prom date, we wanted to find our own bigotry to eradicate. After years of hearing those saints sing “We Shall Overcome,” we were overcome with jealousy. We coveted Selma. We envied that march. We looked at that footage and hungered for our own cause to devour.

You can read the whole thing, but the point I wish to make is that my concerns about how history was being taught — as a moralistic “class struggle” melodrama — were not paranoid. All the left-wing “social justice” crusades of recent years are consequences of the crypto-Marxist pedagogy that has suffused America’s classrooms since the 1990s.

Now consider the pro-Hamas protests on university campuses:

National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke said Tuesday that the escalating anti-Israel protests at Columbia University appear to reflect a desire on the part of the contemporary Left to “contrive” a kind of “great clarifying Manichaean moment,” even if they’re not living through one.
“I think that we are once again witnessing what is generally termed ‘Selma envy,’” Cooke said on The Editors podcast, “but I think that there is an attendant wrinkle to it.
“They have managed to deploy the logic and rhetoric of Selma in all circumstances in a manner that always, invariably, helps them,” Cooke said. He brought up something National Review Online editor Phil Klein pointed out, that “it’s not just that there is a double standard when it comes to Jews. It’s that there is a double standard when it comes to who is protesting Jews.”
Cooke recalled the Charlottesville riots, where “right-wingers were protesting Jews. They are therefore the bad guy who are making the world less safe. . . . but if the Left is protesting Jews, then they [i.e., the anti-Jewish protesters] are the downtrodden.
“You can’t win. You cannot win in this framework. It’s extremely clever.”

You see how this works: Because history is about “class struggles,” then certain groups must be the victim class (analogous to the role of the proletariat in 19th-century Europe) while others must be the oppressor class (playing the role of the capitalist bourgeoisie), and this Marxist formula of victims and oppressors is applied to different situations with little consideration to exactly how the alleged “oppression” has occurred, or whether it even exists as a meaningful phenomenon.

“Selma Envy” — a desire to “mimic the segregation-defeating holy ones” in a crusade against injustice, an attitude Hans Fiene testifies that children have been encouraged to adopt since he was a first-grader growing up in Indiana — fuels this irrational radicalism. Ivy League students, who certainly should be intelligent enough to read the actual history of Israel, instead mindlessly devour Hamas propaganda about a (wholly imaginary) “genocide” of the so-called “Palestinian” people (who are just Arabs, including people who might more properly called Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, or Jordanian). The idea that the “Palestinians” are the historical victims of an outrageous oppression perpetrated by Jews — well, any reasonably skeptical researcher can find plenty of evidence to rebut that propaganda narrative. But skepticism is in short supply among Ivy League students these days, who have been so indoctrinated with the “class struggle” mentality that they consider any dissent from their belief system to be wicked. They literally fantasize about murdering anyone who disagrees with them.

“Be glad — be grateful — that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never murdered anyone in my life, and I *hope* to keep it that way.” This is a top leader of @Columbia’s encampment, with whom the school is “negotiating,” expanding on his thoughts about how Israel… pic.twitter.com/ugodO4O7M5

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 25, 2024

A ringleader of Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment is under fire after newly resurfaced video showed the student publicly raging that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
Khymani James, who says they go by “he/she/they” pronouns, made the disturbing remarks during a meeting with university officials back in January, which the student livestreamed and then blasted out on social media.
“Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live,” the student filmed themselves saying.
“The same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live, Zionists, they shouldn’t live in this world.”
“Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists,” James added. “I’ve never hurt anyone in my life, and I hope to keep it that way.”

Notice the equivalence: “Nazi” = “fascist” = “racist” = “Zionist.”

Let’s not pretend that such ranting fanatics are scrupulously careful in how they define these categories. If you disagree with the Left, if you are a member (or supporter) of a group the Left accuses of oppression, they angrily declare you “don’t deserve to live.” And this is an entirely logical conclusion, if you accept the premises of the Marxist-influenced “class struggle” curriculum with which they’ve been indoctrinated.

This “eliminationist rhetoric” from the Left, their relentless demonization of anyone who opposes them, is a product of how the teaching of history has been hijacked for political purposes, and the bad news is, there’s no way to put the crypto-Marxist genie back in the bottle. While some small number of these student radicals will repent of their youthful folly, the vast majority of them are irredeemable. Their minds have been destroyed by the poisonous beliefs with which they have been indoctrinated since childhood, and there’s no point even trying to reason with them.

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, as I’ve been saying for years, because of a phenomenon most conservatives have never contemplated: If the curriculum taught in our schools is corrupted, then the “best” students — those who most diligently study the lessons they’re taught — will be the most corrupt of all. There’s little danger that the lazy student, happy to coast along with a “C” average, will grow up to be the kind of radical who chants pro-Hamas slogans at Columbia University. No, it’s the apple-polishing honor student, the kid with the perfect GPA, who is most likely to become a left-wing fanatic. Their minds have been utterly ruined, for the very reason that they are such “good students.”

Defund the Ivy League. Cut all ties, all loans, all support. Shut it down. Seize the endowments. https://t.co/NxsdbKE2sV

— Dan Gainor (@dangainor) April 22, 2024

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In The Mailbox: 04.26.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | April 26, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.26.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Probably not going to get caught up on everything, since I have a CHP class tonight, but I’ll see what I can do.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Can’t believe it took somebody this long to come up with this.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry Permit Holder Defends Himself In Chicago
EBL: Thomas Sowell on Activism, Machete, Joe Biden: How Many Times Does Trump Have To Prove We Can’t Be Trusted? One of Kamala Harris’s Secret Service Agents Acted “Erratically”, and New York Court of Appeals Overturns Harvey Weinstein Conviction
Twitchy: It was The Russians, Adam! Anita Dunn Tries To Oust Special K, The Worst Press Secretary Ever, and WaPoo Columnist’s Big GOTCHA Defending Pro-Hamas Protesters Terrorizing Jewish Students Backfires Bigly
Louder With Crowder: Dollar General employee illustrates perfect way to respond to angry customers claiming you “misgendered” them, Expert explains why TikTok is the most significant threat to your privacy your smartphone, US Military Service Members Who Refuse To Use Someone “Preferred Pronoun” Could Face Court Martial, and Australian Senator calls for Elon Musk to be ARRESTED over his support of free speech, “and the key be thrown away”
Vox Popoli: The Seventh Tribe, The Midwit Science, And Here…We…Go, and Another Fake Election
Upstream Reviews: The Road To Damascus, The Black Hole,
Postcards From Barsoom: The Hollow Gods Of Wires & Sand,
Ammo.com: Ohio 2A Grades & Endorsements
Defending The Wood Perilous: Is Reading Misleading?

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CDR Salamander: What Happened To Our Ship Repair Infrastructure? also, Diversity Thursday
Don Surber: NATO revived Russia, also, Goldberg should have listened to Trump
Glenn Reynolds: Education Apocalypse Now?
STUMP: Revisiting Death By Falls, Around The Pension-o-Sphere,

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TikTok Inluencer Hangs Herself

Posted on | April 24, 2024 | 1 Comment

Eva Evans had over 300,000 followers on TikTok and more than 30,000 on Instagram. She killed herself last weekend at age 29:

The cause of death has been announced for Eva Evans, a TikTok influencer and director of the Prime Video series Club Rat, who died at the weekend aged 29.
TMZ reports Evans appears to have died by suicide.
Law enforcement sources told the outlet a friend found Eva’s body late Saturday night after having seen her alive Friday morning, going on to relate, “We’re told the friend had a key to Eva’s NYC apartment and when they went to check on her … they found her hanging inside.”
Sources told TMZ “there were no unusual injuries … and there was no sign of a struggle.”
A note was left behind, the contents of which have not been made public.

While hanging yourself is bad, it beats lighting yourself on fire, I suppose. Unless and until the contents of Eva’s suicide note are made public, we have no idea what motivated her suicide, but probably a lot of social-media “influencers” are desperately depressed. Engaging in online exhibitionism in a competitive quest for “clout” isn’t the sort of occupation that emotionally stable people are apt to pursue — really, have you seen the kind of kooks that LibsOfTikTok finds? — and you could see how such a career might lead to feelings of hopeless despair. But why hang yourself? Just log off and delete your account. A recent study found 74% of teenagers feel happier without their smartphones. As the song says, “If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?”

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In The Mailbox: 04.23.24

Posted on | April 24, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Beekeeper, Happy Passover, The 2nd Amendment Does Not Exist in New York, and A Gentleman in Moscow
Twitchy: People Sound Off On Occasional Cortex’s Condemnation Of Cops Enforcing The Law Against Protesters, NASA Administrator Shows He Needs Remedial Astronomy Lessons, and Dollar General Employee Completely Indifferent To Customer Ranting About Being “Misgendered”
Louder With Crowder: “Why’d you kill that lady?” Alec Baldwin attacks pro-Hamas heckler, manages to look like the good guy in this video
Vox Popoli: The Failed Counterstrike, A Tale of Two Comics, Remember This, Diversity is Mediocrity, and Oh, No! Anyway
Stoic Observations: Requiem Unfinished
Gab: A Choice Between Creative Freedom And Machined Slavery

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: What $61 Billion for Ukraine Won’t Do
American Greatness: Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Complains About Lack of ‘Food Support’ and Shelter After Getting Suspended From Barnard Over Anti-Israel Protest, Biden Administration Giving $300 Million to Sanctuary Cities, Florida Congresswoman to Propose Bill Banning the Display of Foreign Flags in Congress, Dems Kill Mayorkas Impeachment Trial in the Senate, Dismiss Both Articles as ‘Unconstitutional’, and War By Affirmative Action?
American Thinker: Israel — An Unlikely Pariah in a Dangerous World
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Ice Breakup News
Babalu Blog: State Department human rights report on Cuba details extrajudicial killings, torture, increased repression, Why you should forego that apartheid vacation in communist Cuba, Reports from Cuba: The old relationship between rationing and totalitarianism, and Cuban dictatorship leaves equivalent of 3 Olympic pools of garbage uncollected in Havana every day
Baldilocks: A Few Changes, Coinages, also, On Payback
BattleSwarm: Texas Election Roundup For April 23
Behind The Black: Voyager-1 back online after software patch works, PLD Space announces its upcoming plans, Hubble celebrates 34 years in orbit with a new photo of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, Scientists think methane detections by Curiosity come from the salts in the local soil, and It is simple: Conservatives don’t have the votes
Cafe Hayek: Lina Khan Has Mastered Newspeak
CDR Salamander: The Boxer Is 2024 Navy’s Canary
Da Tech Guy: The Pennsylvania primary
Dana Loesch: Three Stupid Things
Don Surber: Tedious TDS Find New Target
First Street Journal: Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right
Gates Of Vienna: German Muslims Long for Sharia, Money Has Its Favorites, and Sharia Is Incompatible with Human Rights, Complaint at U.N. Alleges
The Geller Report: Columbia University: Protestors Call Jews ‘Pigs’ As Qur’an Says, also, University of Michigan: ‘Freedom for Palestine Means Death to America’
Hollywood In Toto: Infested Will Get Under Your Skin, also, The 10 Best TV Shows of 2024 (So Far)
The Lid: Biden’s Pentagon Threatening Soldiers with Courts Martial for Using the Wrong ‘Pronouns’
Legal Insurrection: Judge Declares Mistrial for Rancher Accused of Killing Illegal Alien on His Property, “This is an openly anti-American movement, which is using Israel as the scapegoat”, U.S. Report Claims North Korea is Producing Pathogens for Germ Warfare Program, Columbia Students Demanding Refunds Due to Anti-Israel Protests, Classes Going Virtual, Anti-Israel Encampments: 133 NYU Students, Faculty Arrested and Columbia Goes Virtual for Remainder of Semester, and New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Pulls Financial Support From Columbia Over Antisemitic Protests
Nebraska Energy Observer: I’m so glad
Outkick: Jim Irsay Contradicts Police Report, Shuts Down Overdose Speculation After Being Found Unresponsive, Kelsey Plum, Darren Waller Are Getting A Divorce, Senate Investigation Uncovers Why Eventbrite Censored Riley Gaines, Brewers Pitcher Hospitalized After Taking Line Drive To The Neck, Dana White Savagely Trolls Media Haters, and How Much Longer Can Mike Trout Stay In Anaheim?
Power Line: Quotations from Chairman Joe, “I know I did something bad”, and A Prosecution In Search of a Crime
Shark Tank: U.S. Senate Candidate Accuses Democratic Party Of Racial Insensitivity
Shot In The Dark: The Babylon Bee Has Apparently Taken Over Democrat Messaging, also, Sen. Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury),
The Political Hat: Utah vs. Gaia (And Robots And Aliens)
This Ain’t Hell: The bad old Clinton days are back, Air National Guard Lieutenant Colonel arrested for burglary, and Army Meeting Recruiting Goals; Not So Navy
Transterrestrial Musings: The Latest (Weird) Google Evil, Boeing And The Dark Age Of American Manufacturing, Socialism’s Survival, Jack Smith, and In Search Of Common Ground
Victory Girls: Terrorist Chic At Columbia University With Generation Z
Volokh Conspiracy: The Narrowest Ground for Deciding Trump v. United States
Watts Up With That: The War On Cars, Profits of Doom, and How Many Billions of People Would Die Under Net Zero?
The Federalist: Joe Biden Says There Are Very Fine People On Both Sides Of The Oct. 7 Debate, FBI Won’t Say If It’s Investigating Self-Declared ‘Hamas’ Terrorists Protesting At U.S. Universities, Prepare For A Slow, Spendy Baltimore Bridge Rebuild That Won’t Satisfy Anybody, 8 GOP States (And Counting) Ban Biden’s DOJ From ‘Intimidating’ Voters At 2024 Polls, Hillary Clinton And Russia Hoax Architect Warn Of GOP ‘Disinformation Campaigns’, To The Ivy League Palestine Supporters: Welcome To The ‘Eat Dirt’ Club, and Exclusive: Pennsylvania Lawmakers Appeal To Supreme Court In Case Challenging ‘Bidenbucks’
Mark Steyn: Strolling While Jewish

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It’s ‘Protester,’ NOT ‘Protestor,’ Dammit!

Posted on | April 23, 2024 | Comments Off on It’s ‘Protester,’ NOT ‘Protestor,’ Dammit!

Why do you do this to me, Babylon Bee? For more than 20 years, going back to when I was an assistant national editor at The Washington Times, this has been one of my pet peeves. There is no such thing as a “protestor.” The correct word is protester. I can explain very clearly why this is so, and why allegedly “educated” people keep making this mistake.

See, you’re confusing two different (but related) words for the same thing. When choosing a noun to describe a bunch of commie students chanting pro-Hamas slogans, you can call it a “protest” or a “demonstration,” but these nouns come from different types of verbs, and therefore, they operate differently. Let me show you:

Verb = Educate.
Noun = Education.
Noun = Educator.

By the same principle of grammar:

Verb = Demonstrate.
Noun = Demonstration.
Noun = Demonstrator.

Do you see the principle I’m talking about? Now let me show you why the non-word “protestor” is wrong:

Verb = Protest.
Noun = Protest.
Noun = Protester.

They were having a protest at Columbia, not a protestation, and so the participants were protesters, not “protestors.” This non-word pisses me off every time I see it, like a split infinitive or a dangling participle. Learn to write the English language correctly, or get the hell out of the business.

You’re welcome.

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In The Mailbox: 04.22.24

Posted on | April 23, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.22.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Just Call 911,” They Say
EBL: Julie and Dick in Covent Garden
Twitchy: The Lost Jedi – People React To Mark Hamill’s Claim That Joe Biden Is The Best President Ever, UCLA Med School’s DEI Chief Caught Plagiarizing, and “Biden’s Newest Handler” – Earth Day Brings Slow Joe And Occasional Cortex Together
Louder With Crowder: “Undocumented” Cornell Professor Throws Temper Tantrum At Ann Coulter Event And Gets Herself Arrested, also, Trans middle schooler beats female student to a bloody pulp and this brave girl wants to know why the school did NOTHING
Vox Popoli: Another Horseman in Hell, Why Warhammer Survived So Long, The Empire’s Economic Death Spiral, Waterloo Need Not Have Been Fought, and Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: LLM Considered Harmful,
Upstream Reviews: Superversive Spotlight – Henry Vogel,
Postcards From Barsoom: The Great Canadian Darkness, also, Devil-Worshipping Aliens From Dimension X

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: What’s Next After the Ukraine Mistake? also, The Generals’ Trump Brief Actually Makes a Compelling Case
American Greatness: Biden Weaponizes the Federal Government for His Own Reelection Campaign, Florida Congresswoman to Propose Bill Banning the Display of Foreign Flags in Congress, Mass Deportations Would Lower Housing Prices, and Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?
American Power: Peachy Keenan, Domestic Extremist (and a bunch of other worthwhile books)
American Thinker: President Trump Did Not Incite the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Aren’t Theoretical Anymore, Voices For a Return to God, and What Won’t the Swamp Do to Stop Trump?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Public transportation in Cuba drops by nearly 20% while tourist transportation spikes up over 60%, The reason the Cuban people are starving, Tourist numbers in Cuba continue to decline in 2024 (except among Canadians) while half a million ‘diaspora’ Yo-Yos flock to the island, and Cuba purge update: Another provincial communist party first secretary gets sacked
Baldilocks: Strategic Assault
BattleSwarm: Petition To Remove Soros-Backed Travis County DA Jose Garza Granted, Why Saudi Arabia’s Neom Is Doomed, and “Ghost Gun” Ban Headed To Supreme Court
Behind The Black: Slovenia signs Artemis Accords, Update on SpaceX’s preparations for the 4th test flight of Superheavy/Starship, Computer models suggest there is no life in Europa’s underground ocean, China launches “remote-sensing” satellite, Patchy arms in a nearby spiral galaxy, and On the left, certainty and violent passion; On the right, doubt and fearful timidity; This must change!
Cafe Hayek: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Council of Political Enablers”
CDR Salamander: Israel’s Measured Response
Chicago Boyz: Ukraine, and the World Outside US Borders
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora: Who Needs Norms Edition, Is this not the Perfect Metaphor for the Democrat Party, History awaits as Chicago White Sox might finish with worst MLB season ever, DaTechGuy’s 3rd Law of Media Outrage Memphis Edition, and Oh Canadian Teeth!
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – The Storm Has Started, also, Yes, America Was Right To Drop The Atomic Bomb
Don Surber: Lawyer up, Republicans
First Street Journal: Crazy people are dangerous
Gates Of Vienna: Not Quite the Götterdämmerung I Expected, Thoughts on the State of the UK as We Approach Our Rubicon, and Daddy Warbucks is Doing Just Fine
The Geller Report: Democrats Move to Strip Trump of Secret Service Protection, HITLER YOUTH Rampage at Columbia University, Biden Regime To Announce Sanctions Against IDF Unit, and Jewish Yale Student Stabbed in Eye By Terrorist Student
Glenn Reynolds: In Which I Partake In A Cultural Moment
Hollywood In Toto: Beautiful Girls Couldn’t Be Made Today. Here’s Why, Bill Maher Agrees with DeSantis – Disney Grooms Children, Can Colbert Ignore ‘Genocide Joe’ Chants at DNC? and What Happened To World War II Movies?
The Lid: Socialism and Passover: The Holiday Of Freedom, Michigan Bishop Says Joe Biden a ‘Stupid’ Catholic, and Smithsonian, America’s Top Museum, Worried it Can’t Hold Drag Shows Any More
Legal Insurrection: Columbia Faculty for Justice in Palestine Announce Boycott of Commencement Until Demands Are Met, Harvard Suspends Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee for the Rest of Spring Term, Twenty-Five State Attorneys General Sue Biden EPA over Economy-Crushing Emissions Mandates, Dean of Students at Northwestern U. Attends Protest Targeting Campus Jewish Community Center, NYC Judge Rules Trump’s $175 Million Bond From Civil Trial Stands, Disease Caused by Rat Urine Surged in New York City to Record Levels during 2023, and IDF Intelligence Chief to Step Down Over Hamas Invasion Failures
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Jubilate, and Decline and Fall
Outkick: Texas High School Baseball Game Takes 2 Days To Play, Finally Ends After 23 Innings, Caitlin Clark’s 8-Year Nike Deal Worth Up To $28 Million, Olivia Dunne Didn’t Compete At NCAA Championships, But She Is A National Champion, Kendrick Perkins, Michael Wilbon Slam Miami Heat Fans: ‘They’re Front-Runners’, Chinese Swimmers Test Positive For Banned Substance, Win Olympic Gold Anyway While WADA Looks Other Way, Former Colorado CB Cormani McClain Says He Wants To Play For A ‘Real Program,’ Not Just ‘For Clicks’, and Angel Reese Shares Simple Message About Protecting Women’s Sports
Power Line: The EV Bubble Bursts, And then the darkness fell, and Did Biden Revoke Title IX?
Shark Tank: “Democrats Have A Jewish Problem”
Shot In The Dark: The Kristallnacht Theme Park, Feature Not A Bug, and Call On Line 5 From The Dixie Chicks
STUMP: Five Decades Of Meep,
This Ain’t Hell: News for Marines today, Illegal aliens moving into Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Michael Avenatti in contact with Donald Trump’s defense, Massie, Trump dissing troops, and Sailor Convicted of Attempted Espionage
Transterrestrial Musings: An American Education TImeline, Economists, Civil War, Lunar Elon, and A Propellantless Drive?
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar Is Extremely Proud To Be Hateful, Hillary Clinton – Still Crazy After All These Years, and Biden Surrenders Niger Base, After Afghanistan Debacle
Volokh Conspiracy: House Passes REPO Act Giving President Authority to Confiscate Russian Government Assets in the US and Transfer them to Ukraine, also, Special Counsel Jack Smith Lacks Standing to Defend the D.C. Circuit’s ruling on Presidential Immunity in the Supreme Court
Watts Up With That: Electric car demand plunges across Europe, Smart meters could soon cost you a whole lot more, Major Setback for New York Renewable Energy Goals, China’s dangerous battery monopoly, and Climate Change Is Normal and Natural, and Can’t Be Controlled
The Federalist: SCOTUS Deliberates Over Homeless Camps And A Fictional ‘Right To Housing’, Ignoring Primaries Gives The GOP Establishment Permission To Be Awful, Here’s Just Some Of The Historical Evidence For The Biblical Exodus, We’re So Sorry, Uncle Bosie, Why West Virginia’s Secretary Of State Won’t Follow Biden’s ‘Illegal Directives’ Federalizing Elections, Opposition To Trump Is Rooted In Contempt For Ordinary Voters, and Is Biden’s IRS Meddling In The IG Investigation Of Hunter Biden Whistleblowers?
Mark Steyn: Island in the Sun: Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned, The Days of Wine and Roses, Happy Earth Day! and A Biden in Every Pot!

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Is New York City in 2024 Better or Worse Than Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692?

Posted on | April 22, 2024 | 1 Comment

There was less crime in colonial Salem than in Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan, and certainly more justice than Donald Trump is likely to get with Judge Juan M. Merchan presiding over this 21st-century witchcraft trial. Bragg’s theory of the case is that Trump STOLE THE ELECTION from Hillary Clinton in 2016 by arranging for a “hush money” payment to keep Stephanie Gregory (a/k/a “Stormy Daniels”) from telling the world about her “affair” with Trump (which, I feel pretty certain, never happened).

Trump was the victim of an extortion scheme, and “Stormy Daniels” was the perpetrator (or, at least, she was a willing participant in an extortion conspiracy against Trump), but rather than punish the blackmailers, instead Bragg is persecuting Trump, the victim of this crime. A year ago, the House Judiciary Committee sent Bragg a letter:

The New York County District Attorney’s Office has been investigating President Trump since at least 2018, looking for some legal theory on which to bring charges. The facts surrounding the impending indictment have “been known for years.” Michael Cohen, President Trump’s disgraced former lawyer, pleaded guilty over four years ago to charges based on the same facts at issue in the impending indictment. By July 2019, however, federal prosecutors determined that no additional people would be charged alongside Cohen. Now, in the words of one legal scholar, you are attempting to “shoehorn” the same case with identical facts into a new prosecution, resurrecting a so-called “zombie” case against President Trump. Even the Washington Post quoted “legal experts” as calling your actions “unusual” because “prosecutors have repeatedly examined the long-established details but decided not to pursue charges.”

Everybody knows Bragg’s case is bogus, including Bragg.

Bragg and Judge Merchan are both Democrats, and this bogus prosecution is simply the latest Democratic Party operation intended to extend to the entire United States the totalitarian one-party government that exists in New York, by criminalizing opposition. When they talk about “our democracy,” this is what they mean — in “our democracy,” there can be no effective opposition, and never a chance that a Democrat could lose an election. If you express doubt that Joe Biden really got 81 million votes, you’re an “election denier” — a dangerous extremist — and the candidate you voted for will be sent to prison, just to stop you from voting for him again. Alvin Bragg is going to convict Trump of a felony, even if he has to solicit “spectral evidence” to do it.

NEW: DATA: Majority Now Say Trump Trials 'A Witch Hunt,' Agree 'Fair Trial' is 'Not Likely.'https://t.co/dIBsEi3n7K

— The National Pulse (@TheNatPulse) April 22, 2024

Trump attorney and spokesperson Alina Habba GOES OFF on lawfare waged against Trump outside NY courtroom:

"This is where your taxpayer dollars are going, America! Right here—witch hunt after witch hunt!"???

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 22, 2024

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Rule 5 Sunday: Super Extra Double-Scoop Post-Tax Day Leather Edition

Posted on | April 22, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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This was originally going to be dedicated to hot accountant chicks, but the results of that image search were disappointing when they weren’t X-rated, so you get busty biker babes in leather instead.
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