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Confirmed: You’ve Got the Racism Virus

Posted on | March 10, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Years ago, when discussing amnesty for illegal aliens, I announced one exception to my universal opposition: “Don’t deport the hotties!”

Send us your supermodels, your Maxim cover girls, your Miss Universe contestants, we lift our lamp beside the golden door. There is no such thing as too much beauty, and America’s immigration policy should make a special exception for good-looking young women. Stephen Green calls our attention to the case of University of Chicago student Evita Duffy:

The university’s Institute of Politics ran an Instagram campaign last week, giving students a chance to fill in the blank after “I vote because…” Duffy can be seen in the video holding a sign that says, “I vote because the coronavirus won’t destroy America, but socialism will.”
You can probably guess what happened next, but it was serious enough that Duffy — who describes herself as a conservative Hispanic woman — had to take it public with an op-ed in the student paper. She wrote that she hoped her “vote” message might “encourage a lively and robust debate on economics,” but instead she received an “onslaught of online hate and threats of violence” from her tolerant, progressive friends. . . .

Fellow students attacked my character, my intellect, my family, my appearance, and even threatened me with physical violence, using foul and offensive language. I was called a racist and a xenophobe. Some compared me to animals. Others declared that they would personally stop me from voting, and many defended the personal attacks, saying I deserved to be bullied and that I don’t belong at the University of Chicago on account of my beliefs. I was told by many that I was the most hated person on campus. It was frightening. It was also hurtful, since some of the attacks came from people I considered friends.

You might wonder, “How can someone named ‘Duffy’ be Hispanic?” Her father is former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, and her mother is Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy, a Latina from Arizona. Evita Duffy’s mother is not only Hispanic, but also a pro-life Catholic, and Evita is one of nine children in the Campos-Duffy family. #Winning!

Being called “racist” is just part of being a conservative nowadays, and I’ve long since become immune to such accusations. To be hate-listed by the SPLC is a sort of inoculation, and while I suppose my performance as an alleged “white supremacist” must be disappointing to anyone who takes the SPLC seriously, it’s fun to mock these perceptions by occasionally writing something that an earnest hate-watcher will have to read carefully in search of evidence — proof! — that I really am an awful hater: “Don’t deport the hotties!” Yes, there must be something racist about saying such a thing. I dare Heidi Beirich to explain why.

David Gura of MSNBC declared on Twitter that it is “racist” to refer to the current epidemic as the “Wuhan virus.”

It’s 2020: Everything is racism and everybody is racist.



 

Category: China, Health Care, Racism

Coronavirus: Not Dead, Not Scared

Posted on | March 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Coronavirus: Not Dead, Not Scared

 

 

 

After the news broke that a CPAC attendee had tested positive for coronavirus, liberals began their usual death-wishing — because liberals are sensitive and tolerant like that — and even some conservatives succumbed to the panic. Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 2,000 points and the travel industry appears on the verge of complete collapse. Members of Congress are in “self-quarantine.” In a climate of fear, why am I the least worried man in America?

At times like this, it’s helpful to remember the last words of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick. The veteran general led the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac in Gen. U. S. Grant’s spring 1864 offensive in Virginia. After the Battle of the Wilderness, Grant’s army made a flank march to Spotsylvania Court House, where Sedgwick’s corps formed the center of the Union position. On the morning of May 9, the general went to inspect his front line, and some of his troops warned him not to expose himself to the incoming fire from Confederate sharpshooters. Because the Rebel line was about a half-mile away, Sedgwick scoffed at this caution: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at that distance.” He was wrong — a Southern rifleman put a bullet through his eye, and Sedgwick died instantly.
That’s an apt metaphor for my attitude about the coronavirus outbreak. Because liberals in the media are doing everything they can to incite panic over the disease, I consider it my duty as a conservative not to panic. This is like Gen. Sedgwick, who sought to give his troops an example of heroic fearlessness by his disdain of Confederate marksmanship. But my refusal to panic is not merely a political pose; I sincerely doubt the impact of coronavirus in the United States will approach anything like the worst-case scenarios being discussed on TV news. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: Health Care

In The Mailbox: 03.09.20

Posted on | March 9, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

The FMJRA will be posted tomorrow; would have been this morning but…nah, not getting into that here. Can’t wait until I’m out of this barracks next month and into an apartment with reliable internet so I can get back to doing all the posting in a timely manner. In the meantime, since I’m permab& from Twitter, sharing links from these posts thence will be greatly appreciated. I’ll be on Gab wading through Milo posts. Still no sign of the alleged Nazis who allegedly infest the site.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Obamacare – A Financial Travesty
EBL: Bloomberg’s Own Staff Sold Him Out, also, Shakira – “Gordita” (thanks! #^__^#)
Twitchy: Your Daily Reminder That Senator Chris Murphy Is Full Of Crap
Louder With Crowder: Dr. Drew Wants A Halt On The Coronavirus Pandemic Panic
Your Bass Guy: Survival Fishing
Vox Popoli: Far Worse Than You Think

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #138 – The Leopardskin Tights Episode
American Conservative: Corruption In U.S. Military Academies Is Harming Our National Security
American Greatness: California Is A Cruel Medieval State, also, Antifa’s Most Important Enabler – Its Legal Arm
American Thinker: Saying No To The Invasion Of Europe, also, Coronavirus Codswallop – By The Numbers
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Photos Reveal Decrepit, Filthy Cuban Hospitals, also, Spain’s Socialist Government Becoming An Ally Of Maduro’s Murderous Regime
BattleSwarm: Cenk Uygur’s Bad Week, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: “Industrial Policy” Is Another Name For Central Planning
Camp Of The Saints: Lizzie Boredom Heads To Happy Hunting Ground
CDR Salamander: EMCON A
Da Tech Guy: A Basic Compare & Contrast, also, If Biden Falters, Then What For The Democrats?
Don Surber: Obama’s FBI Let Terrorists Go Who Then Killed Americans, also, PolitiFact’s Big Fat Corona Lie
First Street Journal: The Feminists Are Whining About Elizabeth Warren, also, It’s All About Them!
The Geller Report: Judge Dismisses Most Serious Charge In FGM Case Against Muslim Doctor, also, Greek Border In Flames As Migrants Storm The Border
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Lagrange Points
Hollywood In Toto: The Way Back Shows Ben Affleck’s Star Rising (Again), also, Low-Budget Exit 0 Captures Joy Of Indie Filmmaking
JustOneMinute: A New Front In The Culture Wars, also, Big If True – Bernie’s Numbers Don’t Add Up
Legal Insurrection: Maybe It’s Time To Dial Back The Coronavirus Drama, also, Kamala Harris Endorses Biden Despite Previously Accusing Him Of Praising Segregationist Senators
Michelle Malkin: What Part Of NO AMNESTY Doesn’t DC Understand?
The PanAm Post: Is Spain Maduro’s Ally? also, The Reality of Cuban Healthcare – No Sanitary Towels
Power Line: Why Not Tulsi? also, Starbucks Learns The Cost Of Virtue Signaling
Shark Tank: FL House Passes Controversial Tax Breaks For Airlines, also, FL Senate Passes E-Verify Measure
Shot In The Dark: Imagine My Shock, also, The Thought Leader Of Today’s Left
STUMP: How Not To Be A Dumbass – Media Innumeracy Edition
The Political Hat: All The Cops Are Criminals, All The Sinners Saints
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Says Fixing First Four LCS Not Worth It, also, Can’t Make This Up
Victory Girls: A Slip, A Rip, & A Trip Into Democrat Madness, also, Weaponize Everything The Democrat Way
Volokh Conspiracy: Are There Any Red Lines In A Hyperpartisan World?
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Hopes Coronavirus Is “Trump’s Katrina”, also, Gavin Newsom Praises Trump Admin Response To Coronavirus In California
Mark Steyn: Who Wants To Be A Million Airhead? also, Terms Of Endearment

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Men Accused of Raping 11-Year-Old Girls, But Don’t Expect Feminists to Notice

Posted on | March 8, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

These cases don’t fit the “intersectional” narrative:

Two Montgomery County Public School students — ages 20 and 19 — were recently arrested at their respective high schools, on allegations they raped different 11-year-old girls at apartments located off-campus.
Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, 20, and Ivan Reyes Lopez, 19, are each charged with second-degree rape. Coreas-Salamanca has additional counts of sexual abuse of a minor and third-degree sexual offense.
According to law enforcement sources, police arrested Coreas-Salamanca on February 13, at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, where he is enrolled as a student. Six days later, on February 19, police arrested Lopez at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School where he is enrolled as a student.
Coreas-Salamanca is accused of providing an 11-year-old girl with a cell phone sometime last year. He allegedly used that device to exchange explicit text messages and photographs with the girl, plus arrange sexual meetups.
On Christmas Eve, the victim’s father came across the phone and was stunned to find scores of text messages describing “vaginal intercourse, fellatio, and cunnilingus.”
“[The victim’s father] described a text message where Suspect Coreas-Salamanca advised Victim A that she bit his penis the last time she performed fellatio,” court documents state. “Suspect Coreas-Salamanca’s purpose in sending the text message was to teach Victim A how to better perform fellatio.”
The victim’s father immediately called the police. Patrol officers seized the phone and submitted it to the department’s Electronic Crime Unit for forensic analysis.
Lopez is accused of luring a different 11-year-old girl from a park near the Rollingwood Apartments in Silver Spring to his family’s apartment. The 19-year-old reportedly told the girl to sit down on a bed. He then turned on Netflix before raping her, the victim would later tell detectives.
Speaking through a Spanish translator, Lopez explained to investigators that he led the victim by hand to his bedroom where the two had “consensual vaginal intercourse,” court documents state.

How nice of the police to provide a Spanish translator so that the 19-year-old could explain how he had consensual sex with an 11-year-old. And this raises the question, of course, about why a Maryland high school student requires a translator. This is explained:

According to court documents, Coreas-Salamanca had been living along the 7700 block of 25th Avenue in Adelphi, Md. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Salvadoran national is living in the U.S. illegally. The federal law enforcement agency has filed an immigration detainer with the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation.
Court documents state Lopez emigrated from Honduras nearly three years ago. He had been living in an apartment with his uncle along the 8800 block of Lanier Drive in Silver Spring.

The fact that these adult men, one from El Salvador and the other from Honduras, were attending Maryland high schools raised questions:

In light of the criminal charges brought against Coreas-Salamanca and Lopez, 7 On Your Side contacted Montgomery County Public Schools Monday and asked how many 19, 20, and 21-year-old students are currently enrolled.
A spokeswoman replied, questioning the relevancy of that information. As of this story’s publication, MCPS had not provided those statistics, which 7 On Your Side believes is a matter of public record.
“There is no data suggesting that being a high school student at 19, 20, or 21 makes a person more or less likely to commit a crime,” spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala wrote in an email to 7 On Your Side. “Any suggestion otherwise is wrong and trying to make a connection there to students enrolled in our district is wrong.” . . .
Early Thursday, MCPS responded to 7 On Your Side’s Maryland Public Information Act request. As of February 1, 2020, the school system had 1,282 students between the ages of 19-21. That accounts for around .77 percent of the approximately 166,000 students currently enrolled in MCPS.

19-year-old students: 797
20-year-old students: 388
21-year-old students: 97

Many parents expressed surprise and outrage this week upon learning that 20 and 21 year olds are allowed to attend school with minors as young as 14.

You can read the whole thing. Recall that Brock Turner was an 18-year-old freshman at Stanford University when he got drunk at a frat party (his blood alcohol was 0.16, twice the legal limit for driving) and molested a drunk 22-year-old woman (whose blood alcohol was 0.24, three times the limit). Feminists nationwide raised an outcry when a judge sentenced Turner, a national champion swimmer, to only six months in jail. This leniency, feminists insisted, was proof of patriarchy, “white privilege,” “rape culture,” etc. Have any of the feminists who demanded harsh punishment for Brock Turner taken notice of these adult men — both of them older than Turner was at the time of his crime — who raped 11-year-old girls in Maryland? No, of course they haven’t, because . . .

Well, “intersectionality.” Oh, and don’t forget the 11-year-old girl in Missouri who gave birth to a baby boy, and the father turned out be her own brother, Norvin Leonidas Lopez-Cante. “Diversity is our strength.”

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Education, Immigration, Violence Against Women

Rule 5 Sunday: Cyd Charisse

Posted on | March 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Born today in 1922 as Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Ms. Charisse overcame polio and studied ballet before becoming a Hollywood star alongside Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She stopped dancing in the 1960s but continued acting in films and TV.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny kicks off this week’s post with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #916, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Reboot Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Julie London, Janet Leigh, the Carter Family, Susannah McCorkle, Jamestown, Biden Babes, Ana de Armas, Cereal Day, and Women of the Iditarod.

A View From The Beach has Down Under with Natasha Oakley, Fish Pic Friday – Rockfish,  I Might Have to Rename the Blog, It’s Wednesday, Staying in the Family Business, Safe At Last!,  More Monday Mud  and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe Of The Week Is Anita Ekberg, and Red Pilled Jew has Ready for Date Night.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Liberals Cheering for Coronavirus

Posted on | March 8, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

On MSNBC, a Friday panel discussion turned into a pep rally for a deadly disease, as Nicolle Wallace and her guests speculated that coronavirus could inflict political damage on President Trump:

Wallace, who worked in the Bush administration during the deadly storm, sees an opportunity for the media to blame President Trump for the virus the same way the media blamed President Bush for Hurricane Katrina.
“We gave them a proof point that we were indeed incompetent and also people died,” Wallace characterized the Bush administration’s response to Katrina. “I mean, this has the making structurally for the same kind of moment for President Trump.”
The panel was optimistic that enough babies, friends, loved ones and old people would perish from the virus that Trump’s solid base of support would finally begin to waver.
“And if there’s any a moment that would shake that 40 percent, the folks that would allow him to shoot someone right down fifth — if there’s any a moment, it’s this one because it’s babies, it’s friends, it’s loved ones,” said Eddie Glaude Jr., an African American Studies professor. “And so it seems to me that this is an event that could take down the president.”

“More people could die, and yet they don’t seem too horrified by that thought, opting instead to focus what effect it might have on Trump? Wow.”

By the way, if you’re a Republican alumnus of Princeton, why would you contribute so much as a nickel to your alma mater? They seem to be operating a partisan political training school nowadays. But more importantly, why is an African American Studies professor on this panel? Wouldn’t a medical professor or a biology professor be more qualified to discuss a public-health crisis? And for those of us who remember Hurricane Katrina, wasn’t the actual failure of emergency response due to the incompetence of local Democratic officials? Remember all those school buses that Mayor Nagin left sitting idle, rather than using them to evacuate the city? Never mind. Facts don’t matter to the MSNBC audience. It’s all about the narrative, and the Katrina narrative was (a) Republicans don’t care if black people die, and (b) global warming.

The only way to counter this kind of spin is to call it out for what it actually is — partisan propaganda. Democrats are willing to exploit natural disasters and diseases in order to win elections, in the same way they exploit poverty and racial division to win elections.




 

Category: MSNBC

Michelle Malkin vs. ‘Conservatism Inc.’

Posted on | March 7, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Last year, Michelle Malkin gave a speech at CPAC in which she denounced the open-borders faction within the Republican Party, specifically making mention of “the ghost of John McCain.” A few months ago, I became aware that Michelle Malkin had offended some people by defending Nick Fuentes, who had been accused of anti-Semitism, but I somehow missed the story of what happened next. Her enemies somehow managed to get her dumped by the Young America’s Foundation, which had been sponsoring her campus appearances for 17 years.

Keep in mind that I’ve known Malkin for nearly 20 years, having first interviewed her in 2002 when she published her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. In 2006-2007, Malkin rallied the conservative blogosphere to stop John McCain’s amnesty proposals, and in 2013, she again led the online opposition to the “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan. My point is that it has never been any secret how serious Malkin is about immigration, and no one who knows her would accuse her of racism or anti-Semitism. She is a woman of color, her parents were immigrants, and her husband is Jewish, for crying out loud. Just incidentally, Malkin also (a) created Hot Air and Twitchy, two of the most popular conservative sites on the web, (b) was instrumental in forming the Tea Party movement in 2009, and (c) has done me more than a few favors over the years, including rallying support against Brett Kimberlin in 2012. If there is a fight, you want Malkin on your side, and when she decided to defend Nick Fuentes, my advice to anyone who asked would have been, “Get out of her way. She knows what she’s doing.”

If she’s willing to vouch for this kid and his “Groyper” crew, I would assume she’s investigated enough to satisfy herself that they’re not actually Nazis, and that she has undertaken to advise them against drifting any further toward the fringe. I don’t know the background, nor do I know what happened at YAF, but like I said, when Michelle Malkin decides it’s time to fight, you don’t want to be on the other side.

So, during CPAC this year, Malkin organized a get-together of the “Groypers,” calling it AFPAC (America’s First Political Action Conference), and she gave a speech that included this:

A year ago this week, I had no idea who most of you were and most of you had no idea who I was and that’s okay–even though we have been largely, unbeknownst to each other, fighting many of the same battles against many of the same enemies, against the same fearful odds on the same rigged playing field. I did not know you then, but I did stand on that stage at CPAC in 2019 calling out the feckless organizers for barring real conservatives, immigration hawks, free thinkers and various dissidents from the conference. Meanwhile, the simulators and the saboteurs and the speech squelchers and the Soros smear merchants — like that, Jared Holt [Boos.] weasel that you chased out [of CPAC] — and of course the highest bidding sponsors who were all enjoying free rein back then in the front seats, in the VIP sections, and backstage. On stage last year, I mentioned our friends, Gavin McInnes and Laura Loomer and others who had been banned from darkening the CPAC door. But of course in a larger sense, I was talking about all of you here now and so many others who’ve been forgotten in the past. Who’ve been relegated to our motley Valley of the Banned in one way or another, either by CPAC or ConInc.
It’s an intergenerational club. Nick Fuentes, Patrick Casey, VDARE and Peter Brimelow. Faith Goldy, Milo, Frank Gaffney, Pamela Geller, Robert Stacy McCain, Dinesh D’Souza, Ann Coulter, John Derbyshire, Jason Richwine, Darren Beattie, and on and on and on.
A fury had welled up inside me a year ago that had long been simmering. There was a time when CPAC did at least give the grassroots nationalists a seat at the table. And I’ll never forget this, because this was a very pivotal moment for me in my young career. 17 years ago when I had the privilege of teaming up with the original Godmother of America First, the Catholic author, lawyer and social conservative, mom of six and grandmother of 16, Phyllis Schlafly. . . .

Thanks for the shout-out, ma’am. Being in the Valley of the Banned is a tremendous honor, and I’m sorry I missed your event.

 




 

Category: Immigration, Michelle Malkin

Brett Kimberlin Attempts a Hail Mary, But ‘None of His Passes Finds a Target’

Posted on | March 7, 2020 | Comments Off on Brett Kimberlin Attempts a Hail Mary, But ‘None of His Passes Finds a Target’

Late last month, while I was covering CPAC, convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin lost a case in federal court in Indiana, in which he was trying to get some of his earlier convictions vacated. My podcast partner John Hoge has covered this latest failure of Acme Law:

One of my favorite excerpts from this proceeding is U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler’s response to one of Kimberlin’s court motions:

Kimberlin has received an abundance of process. He had three trials, and at least four direct appeals, five collateral attacks, and four habeas petitions. … Put differently, “Kimberlin is no stranger to appellate proceedings.” United States v. Kimberlin, 898 F.2d 1262, 1264 (&th Cir. 1990) (Kimberlin VII). As of 1990, he had “averaged two appeals per year in [the Seventh Circuit] over the last decade.” Id.
Now he is back. Decades after his convictions, Kimberlin returns for another inevitable round of litigation. Dispersed over at least 10 filings, he launches a fusillade of claims — complete with typical conspiratorial bent — that range from merely incorrect to actually misleading. He does so under the writ of coram nobis — “[the] criminal-law equivalent” of a “Hail Mary pass.” United States v George, 676 F.3d 249, 251 (1st Cir. 2012). None of his passes finds a target.

I enjoy it when lawyers include colorful language in their filings. Like, how often do you encounter the word fusillade? We might have expected “barrage,” but fusillade catches us by surprise. The author of this filing is assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Reitz, an Indiana University alumnus who majored in — wait for it — sports journalism.

There was a time, about ten years ago, when I could write like Grantland Rice. Not necessarily because I believed all that sporty bullshit, but because sportswriting was the only thing I could do that anybody was willing to pay for. And none of the people I wrote about seemed to give a hoot in hell what kind of lunatic gibberish I wrote about them, just as long as it moved. They wanted Action, Color, Speed, Violence…. At one point, in Florida, I was writing variations on the same demented themes for three competing papers at the same time, under three different names. I was a sports columnist for one paper in the morning, sports editor for another in the afternoon, and at night I worked for a pro wrestling promoter, writing incredibly twisted “press releases” that I would plant, the next day, in both papers.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

How perfect is it that an ex-sportswriter like Brian Reitz became a Republican lawyer whose job gave him the opportunity to sling a sports metaphor in the face of that evil bastard Brett Kimberlin?

There is no reason why legal writing must always be boring, and I suspect that Judge Pratt got a smile on her face when she read Reitz’s filing in the Kimberlin case, which concluded thus:

Kimberlin’s incessant litigation appears unlikely to abate. Reveling in his litigiousness, he covers the “continual reexamination of [his] old convictions.” Craig. 907 F.2d at 658; cf. Kimberlin, 2017 WL 3141909, at *1. But he has had his day(s) in court. This Court should deny his petition — without discovery or a hearing — to preserve precious judicial, and governmental, resources for “those who have yet to receive their first decision.” Sloan, 505 F.3d at 698 (citing Keane, 852 F.2d at 204) (emphasis in Sloan). Because, besides the weakness of Kimberlin’s claims, “no society can afford forever to question the correctness of its every judgment.” Withrow v. Williams, 507 U.S. 680, 698 (1993) (O’Connect, J., concurring and dissenting). Enough “is enough.” Peoples, 403 F.3d at 846.

That’s lawyer-talk for, “This criminal pest deserves nothing.”




 

Category: The Kimberlin Files
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