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In The Mailbox: 12.04.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Breakdown Of Order In Baltimore & Chicago
EBL: Ali Bags Kamala Harris
Twitchy: “Only In The Minds Of Crazed Liberals” – Trump Campaign Responds To Prof. Karlan’s Cheap Shot At Barron Trump
Louder With Crowder: Someone Animated Joe Biden’s Bizarre “Hairy Legs” Speech & It’s Creepy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Shaming Women Will Now Cost You $120K
American Greatness: Mayor Pete Promises Free Healthcare (In Spanish) To Illegals
American Power: Hey, Hands Off The Hallmark Channel!
American Thinker: Pelosi Chooses Climate Change Over USMCA Jobs
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lotto Winner News
Babalu Blog: Miamians Prepare For The Worst As Arctic Blast Sends Temperatures Below 70 Degrees
BattleSwarm: Predicting The Order Democrats Exit The Clown Car
Cafe Hayek: If I Could Draw
Camp of the Saints: Laws, Regulations, & Executive Orders
CDR Salamander: SECNAV – Turnaround Specialist Wanted
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora On Monday, also, A Greek Getaway & Trump
Don Surber: When Trump Talks, People Listen
First Street Journal: Who Can Be Surprised By This?
The Geller Report: Terror Supporters At Jihad Rally In NYC Call For “Intifada In Every Classroom”, also, Brown U. Committee Votes In Favor Of Boycotting Jews
Hogewash: A Troubling Remark, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Richard Jewell Crucifies Fake News, Honors The Heartland, also, CloutHub Wants No Part Of Our Cancel Culture Age
Joe For America: Your Smart TV Is Watching You
Legal Insurrection: Though Her District Is An Environmental Disaster, Pelosi Jets Off On Climate Change Junket In Spain, also, Obsessed Yale Shrink Leads Effort To Declare Trump “Dangerous”
The PanAm Post: Mexico Frees Accounts Of Maduro Ally Linked To Food Program Corruption
Power Line: Trump Derangement Syndrome Breeds Professional Malpractice, also, The Russia Hoax In Review
Shot In The Dark: Victims
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – THE RETURN!
The Political Hat: The Wokeness Of James Bond
This Ain’t Hell: A Small Dispute Between Neighbors, also, Rep. Hunter Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy
Victory Girls: Harris Campaign Finally Runs Out Of Gas
Volokh Conspiracy: Overview Of Oral Arguments In NYS Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York
Weasel Zippers: Google, YouTube Remove Over 300 Trump Ads For “Violating Company Policy”, Won’t Explain What Policies Were Violated, also, Estate Workers Contradict Clintons, Say Bill & Hillary Frequent Visitors To Epstein’s NM Ranch
Megan McArdle: Democratic Candidates Should Spend Less Time Courting The Twitter Vote
Mark Steyn: Unlearning Together, also, Leg-Hair Malarkey

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Category: Linkagery

Professor Demands Censorship

Posted on | December 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Thomas J. Main is a professor of Public and International Affairs at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Baruch College. He has recently published a book entitled The Rise of the Alt-Right although, unlike me, I don’t suppose he’s ever met anyone who was “alt-right.” Professor Main’s expertise, you see, consists entirely of his hatred for the “alt-right.” This is how liberalism works: Any liberal can claim to be an expert in anything (e.g., climate change) and none of his peers will question his credentials, so long as he has the correct (i.e., liberal) opinion on the subject.

Once upon a time, liberals were adamantly in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Defending the First Amendment rights of Communists to advocate on behalf of Stalinism, for example, was once considered the duty of every bien-pensant liberal. More recently, however — and 2016 seems to have been the tipping point — liberals have begun demanding that anyone who disagrees with them should be silenced. Thus, Professor Main writes in the Los Angeles Times:

After the 2017 “Unite the Right” gathering in Charlottesville, Va., during which counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed by a rally attendee, a lot of pundits predicted the demise of the alt-right movement. And for a while, it seemed as if they might be right.
In the aftermath of Charlottesville, alt-right websites spewing white nationalist, misogynist and anti-Semitic diatribes were banned from standard internet service providers, and the de-platforming took a toll. . . .
But the reversal didn’t last. In an era where the U.S. president has offered support for alt-right thinking and new communications technologies have expanded the reach of fringe ideas, the movement quickly sprang back. The alt-right’s web audience is now significantly larger than it was before its supposed Waterloo at Charlottesville, and the Daily Stormer and other publications have found new web platforms from which to broadcast their hate-filled messages. . . .
Without intervention, the alt-right will continue to endure and grow, with predictable violent results. Rebutting the rising tide of illiberalism requires not simply a technological fix, but an intellectual and political response. Certainly, cesspools of hate such as 8chan must be shut down — for good, this time. But we also need, in the short term, sharp but civil rebuttal of alt-right ideologies from influential Americans. Longer-term, and more importantly, we need much better civic education and a government that can effectively address the economic and social issues that underlie alt-right support.

Answer me this, Professor: How is one to offer “sharp but civil rebuttal of alt-right ideologies” if, as you say, adherents of those ideologies are to be denied any platform on which to express them?

Yet this leads to another question the Professor cannot answer: If the ideas expressed on “cesspools of hate” are so self-evidently wrong, as you seem to believe, then why are so many millions of people directing their attention to these online venues? In other words, while I certainly don’t endorse some of the viewpoints expressed by the “alt-right,” and would never approve any advocacy of lawless violence, it occurs to me that there must be something the “alt-right” is offering, as an alternative to “mainstream” journalism, that must be considered valuable to its online audience. Permit me to quote a Virginia slave owner:

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself … she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”

So wrote Thomas Jefferson in the  Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and what he wrote more than 200 years ago, I still believe. Alas, I’m not an “expert” like Professor Main.



 

Category: Constitution, Education, Racism

Pedophiles for Hillary: Mueller Source Indicted for Campaign Finance Fraud

Posted on | December 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Another typical Democrat:

George Nader, a convicted pedophile that special counsel Robert Mueller used in his Russia investigation, was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly concealing millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“The Justice Department refers only to an unidentified 2016 presidential candidate, but campaign finance records make clear that the candidate was Clinton,” Politico reported.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Justice wrote:

According to the indictment, from March 2016 through January 2017, Khawaja conspired with Nader to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in campaign contributions, directed to political committees associated with a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. By design, these contributions appeared to be in the names of Khawaja, his wife, and his company. In reality, they allegedly were funded by Nader. Khawaja and Nader allegedly made these contributions in an effort to gain influence with high-level political figures, including the candidate. As Khawaja and Nader arranged these payments, Nader allegedly reported to an official from a foreign government about his efforts to gain influence.

Foreign interference in an American election? Investigate!



 

Category: Crime, Hillary Clinton

Against Extremism

Posted on | December 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Against Extremism

But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao,
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

What John Lennon said about left-wing radicals 50 years ago is wise advice that should be heeded by radicals of the “alt-right” today, although we might need to alter the lyrics slightly: If you go carrying pictures of Ernst Rohm, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

The disastrous carnival of madness at Charlottesville in August 2017 was, for these young extremists, what the 1969 “Days of Rage” were to the SDS — proof that their movement had been seized by a totalitarian spirit incompatible with the mainstream of American political life.

What’s weird to me is that I actually knew so many of the guys involved in that scene. Here I was, a mild-mannered bourgeois grandfather enjoying life in my cozy family home amid the Appalachian hills, while that insane riot was going down, with latter-day Sturmabteilung mixing it up with Antifa thugs on the streets next to a Confederate monument near the campus of the University of Virginia. And I do not hesitate to admit that, for example, I’ve known Richard Spencer since 2007 and, when he was editor at Taki’s Magazine, I wrote several columns for them. You can read there, for example, my sarcastic thoughts about being “hate-listed” by the SPLC. (Wow, what a flashback — the time I introduced Suzanna Logan to Richard Spencer!) Even then, I knew that Richard was two or three clicks to the right of me; as I’ve said, what happened to Richard was that he read Nietzsche at a young age, and took it seriously. By the time I read Nietzsche, I was in my mid-30s, with a wife and three kids, and had been forewarned about the dangers of Nietzsche’s nihilism. Still, it was a disturbing experience to encounter Beyond Good and Evil and wonder, “What if he’s right?” That’s the thing about me — even when dealing with arguments that directly oppose my own values, I try to step back and objectively consider the possibility that I’ve overlooked something and thus might be, in some sense, mistaken in my beliefs.

Over the years, I’ve read all kinds of “extremist” literature — Marxism, feminism, whatever — and had to deal with these contradictions, but if you aren’t willing to confront your antagonist’s arguments directly (e.g., reading four entire books by Andrea Dworkin), you’re guilty of intellectual cowardice. That’s the problem with most liberals — they’ve never bothered to examine and carefully consider the best work of conservative thinkers. One of these days, I might meet a liberal who has actually read Thomas Sowell, but if it ever happens, that will be the first time it’s happened. Because liberalism is so pervasive among the college-educated classes, including the overwhelming majority of journalists, it’s easy for them to follow the herd and live inside an echo-chamber where everyone they respect and take seriously agrees with them. And so the rest of us, in the “basket of deplorables,” are dismissed as ignorant bigots, no matter how intelligent or well-educated we might be.

If you’ve ever had the chance to meet some of the intellectuals who have inspired the “alt-right,” you know how false the stereotype is. Paul Gottfried, Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor, Amy Wax — they are not stupid, nor should they be dismissed as “haters” simply because they have devoted themselves to contradicting the liberal (and neoconservative) narrative about controversial issues including racial problems. Neither is it fair to blame “alt-right” intellectuals for violence perpetrated by the kind of idiots whose idea of a fun summer weekend is doing Hitlerjugend cosplay at a protest rally. (Here’s a clue for you boys: If you don’t want to be treated like a stereotype, don’t act like a stereotype.) Any intelligent person understands that, whatever “cause” you claim to represent, you will discredit your cause in the eyes of most Americans if you resort to lawless violence. That’s the story of #BlackLivesMatter in a nutshell — how many riots did we need to see before deciding that this was a bad movement? I’m certain that the Charlotte, N.C., riot in September 2016 played a crucial role in tipping the election to President Trump. The facts of that particular case — the local police chief was black, and the suspect was a career criminal — contradict the #BlackLivesMatter narrative of racist white cops murdering innocent black men in cold blood.

Anyone who would both to investigate the facts could see that this liberal victimhood narrative was false, and Heather Mac Donald, author of The War on Cops, pointed out that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by black man than the other way around. The mythology of #BlackLivesMatter was based on a lie, and that lie was not trivial. Protecting the public from crime is one of the most basic duties of government, and the dangerous falsehoods propagated in the name of “social justice” undermine the safety of every American — especially black people, who are most often the victims of violence perpetrated by black criminals. Why is it “racism” to tell the truth about this?

People get angry when they know they have been deceived, so if white voters were angry in November 2016, whose fault is that? When is CNN going to admit its role in creating the “alt-right”? If the mainstream media would just tell the truth, maybe people wouldn’t be so angry.

However angry we are, and however justified our anger might be, we must resist the siren voices who would lure us to destruction. If conservatives understand their duty to defend civilization against decadence, anarchy, barbarism and tyranny, then it is obvious that the August 2017 riot at Charlottesville was contrary to that duty. Never mind the role of Left in precipitating that violence; whose idea was it to invite every skinhead and Klansman on the continent to that rally? Who decided that a nighttime tiki-torch parade, a scene straight out of Triumph of the Will, was “good optics” for the Right?

Well, I’ve rambled on for nearly a thousand words, when all I wanted to do was to talk about the SPLC’s smear of Stephen Miller:

For most of its history, a wise observer once remarked, the American conservative movement has been an oxymoron: it doesn’t move anywhere and has never conserved anything. The man who made that observation died a few years ago, but not before suffering the common fate of anyone who tells the truth in America. He was denounced as a racist, banished from polite society, and “hate-listed” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Such is the destructive fate that liberals (and some misguided soi-disant “conservatives”) have in mind for Stephen Miller, the senior adviser to President Trump. If you are a conservative who just stumbled onto this column online, and you are too busy to read past the first paragraph, let me sum it up succinctly: Protecting Miller from this dishonest attack is as vital to the future of the Republican Party as it is to oppose the Democrats’ efforts to impeach our president.
Even his worst enemies will admit that Stephen Miller is a genius. Whatever his IQ might be, it’s almost certainly at least one standard deviation above the average of your typical Republican political strategist. Miller has an uncanny knack for spotting the key stress points in our long-running culture war and finding ways to leverage these conflicts to gain support for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda. It is precisely because he has been so effective that the Left has long sought a way to destroy him, and it is frankly shocking that a former writer for Breitbart News was willing to assist the president’s enemies in this project by leaking hundreds of emails to the SPLC. . . .

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



 

Category: American Spectator, Racism

In The Mailbox: 12.03.19 (Leftovers)

Posted on | December 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I don’t have time to catch up on yesterday’s news and today’s as well; going to try and double up tomorrow.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Medical Rationing In The UK
EBL: Elizabeth Warren – I’m An Indian Too
Twitchy: Lauren Duca Shames The Left For Their White Supremacy As Kamala Harris Drops Out
Louder With Crowder: Mark Zuckerberg Seemingly Defends Free Speech

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Thanksgiving Edition, also, Podcast #127 – The Rainbow Friday Edition
American Greatness: How America’s Students Need To Get “Woke”, also, Joy Reid Apologizes For Confusing White Supremacist With Navy Secretary
American Power: Troubling New Era In Mexico, also, Black Friday Tool Girls
American Thinker: Conservative Media Killing Operation Mockingbird, also, Waiting For Horowirz
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: The Castro Regime’s Long History Of Persecuting Gay Cubans
BattleSwarm: The Twitter Primary For November 2019, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Irrational Us?
Camp of the Saints: Watching The Detectives – Power, Corruption, & The FBI
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, You Want Another Fat Leonard?
Da Tech Guy: Was Secretary Spencer Any Good? also, Evanston’s Use Of Weed Taxes For Reparations Won’t Solve Deeper Problems
Don Surber: The Real Thanksgiving This Year, also, Trump In Afghanstan
First Street Journal: Perhaps Elizabeth Warren Needs To Think Her Climate Change Proposals Through
The Geller Report: Fourteen Dead As Muslims Attack Church In Burkina Faso, also, Google & YouTube Deleted Over 300 Trump Campaign Ads
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Mergers & Acquisitions
Hollywood In Toto: Anti-Fox News Bombshell Set To Bomb At The Box Office, also, Here’s Why National Lampoon 2.0 Won’t Save Comedy
Joe For America: Company Co-Founded By Pelosi’s Son & Linked To Ukraine Charged With Securities Fraud, also, Meathead Claims White Supremacists, Evangelicals Made A Pact With Putin To Defend Trump
JustOneMinute: Panic On The Left Bank, also, Meanwhile Back In Iran
Legal Insurrection: Former Hillary Aide Still Attacking Justice Kavanaugh, also, Lisa Page Whines To Daily Beast One Week Before Justice IG Report Release
The PanAm Post: Lessons For Venezuela From The Bolivian Crisis, also, Brazil’s Lula To Spend More Time In Prison
Power Line: Another Reporter Pays For TDS, also, DOJ Seeks Delay In Flynn Case
Shot In The Dark: Poison, Picked
STUMP: Happy Thanksgiving! Wrapping Up Movember, Etc.
The Political Hat: Anti-Hippocratic Oath
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Behind Eddie Gallagher’s Court Martial is A Much Larger Issue
Victory Girls: Hong Kong Protesters Hold Thanksgiving Rallies In Gratitude For Trump & American Support, also, Adam Schiff, Progressive Rock Star?
Volokh Conspiracy: Bill Barr Is Wrong To Say Courts Can’t Examine Government Motives, also, Can Indian Tribes Sue For Libel?
Weasel Zippers: House Democrats – No Impeachment Vote Until February? also, Red China Suspends U.S. Military Visits To Hong Kong, Sanctions U.S.-Based NGOs
Megan McArdle: This Holiday Season, Give The Gift Of Organ Donation
Mark Steyn: The People’s Queen, also, We’re All Gonna Die!

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Tuesday: D.C. Fontana

Posted on | December 3, 2019 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Better than last week…
Today brings the sad news that Dorothy Fontana, a screenwriter many credit for helping make the original Star Trek a success, has died. We don’t have any good rule 5 pics of Ms. Fontana, but here’s an Orion slave girl from “The Cage”, which later was adapted into the episode “Court Martial.”

No actual Orion slave girls were harmed in this episode.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #818, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five FoMoCo Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Midia Molonudpoor, Gauguin, It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, Avalon, The Irishman, Pulp Disco 2000, Greatest Christmas Movie Rule 5, and Iron Bowl Rule 5.

A View From The Beach: Hecho en Mexico – Ana de la Reguera, Fish Pic Friday, And Punkin Pie!, The Turkey’s Done!, Time to Put the Turkey In!, Happy Thanksgiving!, Stick That Where the Sun Don’t (Usually) Shine!, Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, MD Legislator Proposes Balloon Release Ban, Utah Woman Accused of Topless Home Improvement, I Just Want More Money, Explained Taylor Richly, Nope, It Was His Dad And Granddad, Feminism Kills More Women’s Jobs and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive: Vintage Holiday Babes

Yitzakhon/Red Pilled Jew: Pretty Faces

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Black Woman’s Presidential Campaign Rejected by Racist Sexist Democrats

Posted on | December 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Why do Democrats hate black women?

Kamala Harris ended her presidential campaign on Tuesday after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom of the field — a premature departure for a California senator once heralded as a top-tier contender for the nomination.
Harris told aides of her intentions in an all-staff call, and a person familiar with the conversation said she sounded distraught. While Harris had qualified for the December debate in her home state later this month, she was running dangerously low on cash — lacking the resources to air TV ads in Iowa — and her staff was gripped by long-running internal turmoil.
Still, the news came as a shock to some of her biggest supporters. Just as Harris was announcing the news internally, a super PAC had cleared more than $1 million in TV ads in Iowa to boost her struggling campaign. The ad, which argued she was the best-equipped candidate to take on President Donald Trump, was canceled.
“Eleven months ago at the launch of our campaign in Oakland I told you all: ‘I am not perfect.’ But I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. I will speak the truth. And that’s what I have tried to do every day of this campaign. So here’s the truth today,” Harris wrote in a note to supporters.
“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life. My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
Harris, who spent Thanksgiving in Iowa with family, took a deep look at the campaign’s resources over the holiday and decided she did not have a path to the nomination.

How perfect is this? Kamala Harris got beat by a gay white guy, a fake Cherokee and a socialist Jew. Trump couldn’t have planned it any better as a way to inflame racial paranoia in the African-American community.  I’m sure Vladimir Putin must be delighted by this news . . .

UPDATE: Yeah, this is the kind of headline I want to see:

Leader of Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’
On Kamala Harris Dropping Out:
‘Racism and Sexism!’

Democrats are now divided and demoralized.

“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .”



 

Category: Democrats, Election, Racism

Barr Disputes IG Horowitz Report

Posted on | December 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Barr Disputes IG Horowitz Report

 

What could this possibly mean?

Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report — that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horo­witz, is due to release his long-awaited findings in a week, but behind the scenes at the Justice Department, disagreement has surfaced about one of Horowitz’s central conclusions on the origins of the Russia investigation. The discord could be the prelude to a major fissure within federal law enforcement on the controversial question of investigating a presidential campaign.
Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz’s rationale for concluding that the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016, these people said. . . .

Frankly, I am so bored with this witch-hunt that until something actually happens — not this “sources say” stuff — I’m content to ignore it. Do Democrats really intend to go through an impeachment proceeding less than a year before the next election? Crazy times . . .



 

Category: Donald Trump
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