Herman Cain, R.I.P.

Posted on | July 30, 2020 | Comments Off on Herman Cain, R.I.P.

My brother Kirby took that photo of Herman Cain when we visited the studios of WSB radio in Atlanta. Mr. Cain had just returned to the airwaves after surviving a serious battle with cancer, and I’d traveled down to interview him for The Washington Times.

That was not long after I’d been smeared as a “white supremacist” and when I introduced myself to Mr. Cain, I said to him, “Don’t Google me.” He just smiled and answered, “I already did.” Somehow I’ve lost my copy of the feature article I wrote about Mr. Cain, but I felt then that he had potential as a Republican candidate. He had entered the GOP contest for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004, and placed second behind Johnny Isaacson, and I had no idea that Mr. Cain might even then be contemplating a presidential campaign. So a few years later, when he threw his hat in the ring for the 2012 nomination, I was all in. Everybody who followed my coverage of that campaign remembers how Mr. Cain began the race as the longest of long shots, but by October 2011, he was leading all the polls, before being sabotaged by a ginned-up “sex scandal” smear.

In many ways, Mr. Cain’s Tea Party-backed campaign for the 2012 nomination paved the way for Donald Trump’s 2016 populist campaign. Cain and Trump were both successful businessmen, and ran as “outsiders,” against the establishment status quo in Washington. It’s so strange that this parallel hasn’t been explored by more commentators.

My son Jefferson, who accompanied me on so many campaign trips and came to be big fan of Mr. Cain, cried when he quit the campaign. That was eight years ago, and today we got the sad news:

Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away. He’s entering the presence of the Savior he’s served as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in Atlanta for, and preparing for his reward. . . .
Let me deal with some of the particulars of the last few weeks. We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight. He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. We all prayed that the initial meds they gave him would get his breathing back to normal, but it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle.
We didn’t release detailed updates on his condition to the public or to the media because neither his family nor we thought there was any reason for that. There were hopeful indicators, including a mere five days ago when doctors told us they thought he would eventually recover, although it wouldn’t be quick. We were relieved to be told that, and passed on the news via Herman’s social media. And yet we also felt real concern about the fact that he never quite seemed to get to the point where the doctors could advance him to the recovery phase.
“We all prayed so hard every day. We knew the time would come when the Lord would call him home, but we really liked having him here with us, and we held out hope he’d have a full recovery,” Calabrese added.

He was 74 years old. Rest in peace, old friend.

Category: Herman Cain

In The Mailbox: 07.30.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 30, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: Repeal The 19th Amendment?
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1062
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
357 Magnum: Germany Has Its Knickers In A Twist
EBL: Why Are Birth Rates Plummeting?
Twitchy: The Awful Ana Navarro Out-Awfuls Herself Dancing On Herman Cain’s Grave
Louder With Crowder: These Seattle Residents Are Tired Of #BLM & Antifa Destroying Their City
Vox Popoli: At Least We Have A Good Idea, also, We Can Only Hope

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Cancelled To Death – The Mike Adams I Knew
American Greatness: The Mob Wants To Ruin Tucker Carlson Because He’s Right, also, If Social Media Wants To Play Doctor, They Should Be Ready To Be Sued For Malpractice
American Power: One Nation Under Anarcho-Tyranny
American Thinker: Islamist Obama Holdovers Still On The Job At DOJ
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Marriott Strikes Big (And Illegal) Deal With Cuban Regime For Four Luxury Apartheid Hotels
BattleSwarm: Since You Hate Cops So Much, Police Your Own Damn Convention
Cafe Hayek: Ignorance Ain’t Bliss
CDR Salamander: Seapower Advocacy – Time To Get Serious
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Back To School Part Two, also, One Reason To Thank #BLM & Antifa
Don Surber: Jake Tapper Doth Peacefully Protest Too Much, also, Republicans Gain In Pennsylvania
First Street Journal: Too Bad, So Sad, Must Suck To Be You
Fred On Everything: It’s Gonna Blow – Be A Miracle If It Don’t
The Geller Report: Over 100 Police Agencies Pull Out Of Agreement to Guard DNC Convention, also, Watch The Video Democrats Censored At The Barr Hearing
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Past Their Sell-By Date
Hollywood In Toto: Rogen Slams Israel, Promises Not To Backpedal…And Then Backpedals
The Lid: Nasty Nancy Pelosi Claims She Never Called Federal Police “Stormtroopers”, The Liar
Legal Insurrection: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Spreads Lie That NYPD Undercover Arrest Was Kidnapping, also, OR Governor Declares Victory Over Feds, DHS Says Not So Fast
Michelle Malkin: Mike Adams, Doer Of The Word
The PanAm Post: More Power For ELN Thanks To Maduro, also, Democratic Party Opposes Regime Change In Venezuela
Power Line: Bill Barr’s Challenge To Democrats Goes Unanswered, also, They Came For John Kass
Shark Tank: Reba Sherrill – Lies, Lies, & More Lies
Shot In The Dark: For The Children
The Political Hat: Conservatism Has Conserved
This Ain’t Hell: Andrew Revord, Fake Navy SEAL, also, A Midweek Note On Biden
Victory Girls: Pramila Jayapal, A Hero In Her Own Mind
Volokh Conspiracy: The Case For Replacing The Bar Exam With “Diploma Privilege”
Weasel Zippers: Nadler Defends Violent Protesters, also, Portland Rioter ID’d From Grandma’s Review Of Vest She Bought Him
Megan McArdle: Americans Can Survive Seeing Two Versions Of “The Dress, But Not Two Versions Of Protests
Mark Steyn: Woke Baseball, Racist Surfing, & Acting Hate Crimes

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Antifa Trash Fire Roundup

Posted on | July 30, 2020 | 2 Comments

Bad causes attract bad people, and the so-called “anti-fascist” mobs in cities like Portland are not composed of our Best and Brightest. There is abundant evidence that their average IQ is below room temperature. Gateway Pundit calls attention to a typical example of Portland’s Antifa mob, Edward Thomas Schinzing, 32, who is now facing federal arson charges “accused of setting and spreading fire May 29 inside the Justice Center at the start of two months of protests in Portland.” How did the feds apprehend this criminal genius? Well, they were helped by the fact that (a) Schinzing was shirtless during the “mostly peaceful” protest, and (b) he has his rather distinctive surname tattooed on his back:

Investigators say Schinzing was among several hundred people who gathered at North Portland’s Peninsula Park earlier in the evening on May 29 and then walked to the Justice Center.
Photo and video images captured Schinzing at the front of the crowd, crossing the Burnside Bridge, about 10:35 pm., his shirt off and his name vivid on his upper back, according to court records.
By 10:59 p.m., several people broke windows near the northwest corner of the Justice Center and climbed inside. . . .

(Note that the “mostly peaceful” phase of the protest lasted barely 20 minutes before the mob started smashing windows.)

Three civilian county employees were working in the Multnomah County Sheriff’s corrections records office at the time and “fled for safety as the windows were broken,” according to Cynthia M. Chang, a fire investigator with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
About 30 people entered the office through the broken windows, spray-painting it, damaging computer equipment and furniture and starting fires, according to Chang. . . .
Schinzing’s name across his back is clearly seen in photos of him shirtless at the protest and inside the Justice Center office that was damaged, her affidavit says. . . .
He was on probation for a domestic violence assault at the time the fire was set in the Justice Center.
Schinzing was sentenced April 16 to five years of probation after he was found guilty of third-degree assault and attempted fourth-degree assault, admitting he had punched his girlfriend in the face with a closed fist in front of her 8-year-old son in a Northeast Portland apartment in late February.
According to Multnomah County court records, Schinzing reported being homeless for the past two years. He has seven prior misdemeanor and two felony convictions.

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— DocWashburn (@DocWashburn) July 29, 2020

Oh, these idealistic youth are the conscience of the nation! Punch your girlfriend in the face, then smash windows and set fires in the name of “social justice,” and you’ll be a hero to Nancy Pelosi, who denounces federal law enforcement agents as “storm troopers.” And of course, feminists like Jessica Valenti won’t say a word about this creep’s violence against women (an issue feminists only pretend to care about as a way to attack Republicans). Valenti and other feminists like her are mere partisans, dishonest about the “progressive” coalition to which they swear allegiance. The only way Democrats win elections is by appealing to the worst instincts of the worst people in the country.

Consider, for example, 23-year-old Samuel Young of Aurora, Colorado, who decided he needed to bring a pistol to a “peaceful protest” that was obstructing an interstate highway:

An arrest affidavit obtained by FOX31 and Channel 2 on Tuesday includes witness accounts recalling the shooting that left two people injured during a protest in Aurora on Saturday.
Samuel Young, 23, faces four counts of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree assault. He’s accused of shooting at a Jeep Wrangler that drove through the protest after demonstrators blocked both directions of Interstate 225 near East Sixth Avenue.
Two protesters were wounded in the shooting: 21-year-old Joseph Quinton Sagrillo and 25-year-old Creyton Loud.
Sagrillo was shot in the leg; Loud was shot near his temple. Both survived.
The Jeep’s two occupants were not injured. According to the affidavit, the Jeep was driven by 27-year-old Kyle Faulkison. Its passenger was 27-year-old Gregory Goodenough.
The affidavit includes a number of witness accounts.
One man who was standing near Sagrillo told detectives that news helicopter footage shows both men in the median of I-225 about 50 to 100 yards north of the main group of protesters.
Another witness — Raichle Farrelly — told investigators she was standing next to the man who shot at the Jeep, and that he used an “old-school Wild West gun,” the affidavit states.
“The blood drained from his face, he turned totally pale,” Farrelly said in an interview with FOX31 and Channel 2. “His eyes got really big. He started to tremble.”
She says she helped him unload the rest of his gun, fearing he could hurt himself or someone else.
“So I said to the young man, who I now know is Samuel Young, ‘I think you need to get rid of your bullets,’” Farrelly says. “‘Can you empty your chamber and just get rid of your bullets over the edge here,?’ ‘Cause I was worried he would now, realizing what he had done, either inflict harm on himself, or someone would take the gun off him and shoot him.” . . .
According to the affidavit, a third witness said the suspect was not in danger of being struck by the Jeep.

A "protestor" in Aurora, Colorado opened fire on a Jeep attempting to pass through the crowd which was illegally blocking the I-225 freeway. He hit two fellow "protestors" when he discharged his weapon. The Jeep suffered damage but the driver was unharmed. pic.twitter.com/h9tXexOikQ

— Infrequent Distancer (@Bx1bXer9) July 27, 2020

Samuel Young, 23, has been charged in relation to the shooting at the antifa BLM riot in Aurora, Colo. Young allegedly opened fire on a car on the highway, hitting 2 fellow comrades on accident. Young’s writings show he espoused #antifa views. pic.twitter.com/Mh22aItJOy

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 29, 2020

Here’s a question: What were these people in Aurora so riled up about that they considered it necessary to block traffic on I-225? In case you didn’t realize it, such “protests” are illegal. Federal law prohibits pedestrians from interstate highways. So this Antifa punk with the “old-school Wild West gun” tried to murder the occupants of the Jeep, who were doing what the highway was made for — i.e., high-speed vehicular traffic — but because of his poor marksmanship, Young only succeeded in wounding two of his fellow “peaceful protesters.”

But what were they protesting about? Turns out, it was the death of Elijah McClain, who died when an EMT accidentally gave him an overdose of ketamine after McClain got into what was described as an “altercation” with Aurora police. The circumstances that led to McClain’s death involve a seemingly over-aggressive police response to a 911 call, but this didn’t happen last week or last month. No, it happened in August 2019, nearly a year ago. The county district attorney said it was doubtful that any criminal prosecution was possible, under the circumstances, but the outcry over McClain’s death was such that Aurora officials ordered an independent investigation. While waiting for that investigation to conclude, why was it necessary to hold a “protest,” illegally obstructing traffic on an interstate highway? The answer is, it was not necessary at all. The vile scum of Antifa were just looking for an excuse to riot.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Category: Colorado, Crime, Democrats, Oregon

Democrats Debut New 2020 Campaign Slogan: ‘Reclaiming My Time!’

Posted on | July 29, 2020 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, while I was working on an American Spectator column, my office TV was tuned to the House Judiciary Committee hearing where Attorney General William Barr was testifying and the performance by the committee’s Democrats of a loathsome kabuki theatre. Every Democrat unloaded a sort of sermon accusing Barr of various malfeasances — treason, conspiracy, murder, etc. — and then, when Barr would begin to answer, his interrogator would interrupt: “Reclaiming my time!”

Barr remained calm during this abusive treatment. At one point, interrupted by California Democrat Lou Correa, Barr responded: “This is a hearing. I thought I was the one who was supposed to be heard?”

The Democrats’ complaints about having limited time to ask their questions was, of course, the fault of the committee chairman, Jerry Nadler, who had made the rule allotting five minutes to each member. This rule seemed to be intended to make sure each Democrat got a chance to stage a “gotcha” moment that might become a viral video clip on social media. Different members focused on different themes. Many wanted to talk about the Roger Stone sentencing recommendation, although the Attorney General’s intervention in that case became moot once President Trump exercised his authority to commute the sentence. Several members wanted to talk about the June 1 decision to clear protesters out of Lafayette Park. That incident happened after Antifa rioters set fire to historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin asked Barr: “Are you aware that the director of the church that the Episcopal archbishop of Washington and the bishop of the Episcopal Church nationally along with the Catholic bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, all denounced this police assault on the civil rights and civil liberties of the people?”

Barr answered: “Did they do that before or after the fire was put out?”

The Democrats on the committee seemed to have coordinated their strategy to use the hearing to attack Barr and “reclaiming my time” to interrupt his answers was probably a tactic planned in advance.

Ohio Republican Jim Jordan twice complained to Chairman Nadler about the Democrats’ abusive treatment of Barr:

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a hearing where the witness wasn’t allowed to respond to points made, questions asked, and attacks — attacks made. Not just in this hearing, not just in this committee, but in every committee I’ve been on,” Jordan said. “Particularly when you think about the fact that we have the attorney general of the United States here.”
He added, “I want the attorney general to be able to have enough time to respond to accusations and questions asked him, and you guys not cut him off.”
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Democrat who is chairman of the committee, told Jordan that what he wanted was “irrelevant.”
A second clash between Nadler and Jordan happened later in the hearing.
“For months, you have tried to get the attorney general to come. He’s here. Why don’t you let him speak? Why don’t you let him answer the questions? Time after time. If you want the attorney general to come, at least let him answer the questions and the accusations made against him,” Jordan said.
Nadler said he would not allow Jordan to continue to speak, citing his “rudeness.”
“Rudeness is on the other side,” Jordan said. “Time after time, you refused to let the attorney general of the United States answer the questions posed to him.”

If you expected the hearing to be conducted in a civil manner — question asked, question answered — you don’t understand what the Democrats were actually doing. This was a campaign event for them, a chance to air their grievances against the Trump administration and depict Barr, a longtime public servant, as a corrupt tool of Orange Man Bad.

Ace of Spades calls it a “Stalinesque show trial,” but to be fair, it didn’t end with Barr being executed in the basement of the Lubyanka. The execution of dissenters won’t begin until after Biden is elected.

Category: Congress, Democrats

In The Mailbox: 07.28.20

Posted on | July 28, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.28.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: The Virus As Simon Phoenix (Part 1 of 2)
357 Magnum: Security Cameras Don’t Make You Safe
EBL: Mike Adams, RIP
Twitchy: Too Good To Check? Protland Rioter Identified From Grandma’s Review Of The Vest She Bought Him
Louder With Crowder: 300 Kids Get Dropped Off At Memphis Mini-Golf & a Riot Ensues
Vox Popoli: RIP Laurie Bluedorn, also, The Myth Of A Free Nation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Doctors Be Like, How Many Likes Did My Selfie Get?
American Conservative: “American Stormtroopers” – A Bright Shining Lie
American Greatness: Rep. Jordan Begins Barr Hearing With Brutal Video Highlighting Antifa Violence, Looting, & Rioting
American Power: LA County Removes Homeless From Freeway Underpasses
American Thinker: The Seditious Among Us
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fusion News
Babalu Blog: Biden VP Candidate Karen Bass Was Organizer For Veneceremos Brigades
Baldilocks: Some Blogging You May Have Missed More Than Once
BattleSwarm: Will Russia’s T-14 Armata Ever See The Battlefield? also, NVidia Surpasses Intel In Market Cap
Cafe Hayek: Compulsion Initiated Against Neighbors Isn’t Neighborly
CDR Salamander: We May Need An Intervention For Our Navy-USMC Team
Da Tech Guy: The Left’s Southern Article Of Faith Collides With The Data, also, Three Strikes And I’m Out
Don Surber: Biden Is In Trouble, also, Buffett Banks On A Trump Win
The Geller Report: Democrats Unanimously Vote Against Resolution Condemning Violence & Rioting, also, Barr Beats Back Bullying Dems
Hogewash: This Is Named For a Distant Cousin, also, They’re Only Kidding
Hollywood In Toto: Basement Biden Also MIA From Late Night
JustOneMinute: Biden’s VP Pick
The Lid: No Legal Knowledge Required To Be Attorney General, Because No Answers Allowed
Legal Insurrection: #BLM Roadblock Tactic Ambushes Drivers, Leading To Violent Confrontations, also, 1619 Project Creator Admits It’s Not A History
The PanAm Post: Murky Money From Iran Puts Pablo Iglesias In The Spanish Judiciary’s Crosshairs, also, Spanish Intellectuals Oppose Cancel Culture
Power Line: Who Is Behind The Anti-Police Campaign? also, Attorney General Barr Speaks
Shark Tank: Republican Congressional Lawn Signs Being Stolen, Damaged
Shot In The Dark: In Much The Same Way OJ Was Searching For The “Real Killers”
The Political Hat: An Example Of Actual Institutional Privilege
This Ain’t Hell: Stolen Valor Cases Rising Amidst Pandemic, also, Now That’s An ND!
Victory Girls: Dem Rep Hakeem Jeffries – Trump Only Cares About Himself
Volokh Conspiracy: E-Mails To Sen. McConnell Found Not Criminally Threatening
Weasel Zippers: Twitter Locks Donald Trump Jr’s Account For Sharing HCQ Video, also, Chicago Residents Say They Want Federal Troops
Mark Steyn: Christmas In July, also, Reindeer Games

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In The Mailbox: 07.27.20

Posted on | July 28, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago Continues Its Slide Into Chaos
EBL: Guy On a Buffalo & Hassie Harrison
Twitchy: NRCC Brings Knife To A Gunfight With Kurt Schlichter Over Their Annoying AF Text Messages
Louder With Crowder: Joe Rogan Makes It Official – LA Sucks, He’s Moving To Texas
Vox Popoli: Jason Whitlock Won’t Work On The SJW Plantation, also, Trump Will Take Minnesota

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Grain of Salt Edition
American Conservative: How LGBT Nonprofits & Their Billionaire Patrons Are Reshaping The World
American Greatness: Gunfire, Arson, & Explosives At This Weekend’s Peaceful Protests, also, DHS Agent Desribes Portland Rioters As “Mentally Ill”, “Drug Abusers”, “Catatonic With Hate”
American Thinker: Fauci’s Lies & The Political Cowardice Of Mask Mandates, also, Are Fake News Polls Hiding A Potential Trump Landslide?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday!
Babalu Blog: Supporters Of Cuba’s Murderous Dictatorship Find Kinship With #BLM, also, Cubana Country Music Artist Angie Rey One Step Closer To Her Dream
BattleSwarm: The Chieftain Talks Autoloaders, also, BidenWatch For July 27
Cafe Hayek: Hoping That Silicon Valley Moguls Stand Their Ground, also, Rising Costs? You Bet!
CDR Salamander: Military Power & Intellectual Property On Midrats, also, Iran’s Performative Art
Da Tech Guy: Why Ships Burn, also, After The Statues Are Gone The Leftists Will Come For The Parks
Don Surber: These Aren’t Protests, They’re A Show Of Force, also, Trump Flipping Nevada & New Mexico
First Street Journal: I Was Wrong, also, Mass At St. Elizabeth’s
The Geller Report: American Doctors Address COVID-19 Misinformation With SCOTUS Press Conference, also, Over 30 Shot, Ten Killed In NYC As Violence Surges In De Blasio’s Hellhole
Hogewash: Open Mouth, Insert Foot, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Late Night Gaslighting – Seth Meyers Ignores Portland Riots, also, Thirteen Box Office Sleepers That Shocked Film Experts
JustOneMinute: A Win For Trump!
The Lid: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Says Antifa Violence In Portland “A Myth”
Legal Insurrection: Mayor Groot Blames States With “Virtually No Gun Control” For Chicago Violence, also, Mainstream Media Oddly Silent As COVID-19 Cases Surge In Portland & Seattle
The PanAm Post: Red China Buys Half Of Africa, also, Venezuelans Stranded In U.S. Thanks To Maduro’s Draconian COVID-19 Restrictions
Power Line: 77% Of Americans Concerned About Urban Crime, also, Worst. White. Supremacists. Ever.
Shark Tank: Charlie Crist & Ted Deutch Accept Donations From Terrorist-Supporting CAIR
Shot In The Dark: The Second Amendment Freedom Activist’s Eternal Lament
STUMP: Bailouts, State Bankruptcies, & The Next COVID Bill
The Political Hat: Will The Suburbs Survive?
This Ain’t Hell: Occasional Cortex Wants To End Live Streaming Military Recruiting Efforts, also, U.S. Marines Trained To *GASP* Kill!
Victory Girls: Wall of Vets Joins Anarchy In Portland, also, About Those “Costumed Soldiers” In Portland
Volokh Conspiracy: “A Peaceful Demonstration Intensified”
Weasel Zippers: AP Reporters Embeds With Feds At Portland Courthouse, Redpilling Ensues, also, Radio Host Mocks Trump For Calling Seattle Violent – Then Antifa Torched His Apartment Building
Mark Steyn: Me & Julio Down In Hong Kong With The Boom-Ding-A-Diggi Blues, also, A Not So Happy Warrior

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The Usual Suspects

Posted on | July 27, 2020 | 2 Comments

There is no problem in the world that cannot be blamed on racism, and therefore we know how to solve all the world’s problems:

Tear down statues of Christopher Columbus;
Loot the local Walgreen’s during a “mostly peaceful” protest;
Hold a CNN Town Hall with Greta Thunberg;
and
Vote Democrat.

Perhaps you might criticize this solution as illogical, but that’s because you’re a racist and logic is a tool of white supremacy.

Anyone expecting facts and logic from the #BlackLivesMatter movement is doomed to be disappointed. What the movement is about — other than making the organizers rich from corporate contributions — is promoting a political narrative to help elect Democrats by appealing to raw emotion. On the one hand, affluent bien-pensant white women are able to assauge their sense of personal guilt by masochistic rituals of self-denunciation. On the other hand, black people are encouraged to vent their frustration, resentment and rage through “mostly peaceful” protests and (of course) voting for Democrats. As I’ve said before, these “protests” are actually Joe Biden campaign rallies, because outside the context of election-year politics, we wouldn’t be having all these suburban punk anarchists running wild in Portland and Seattle (which are, by the way, two of the whitest major cities in the United States). Because the media are so dedicated to the partisan project of preventing President Trump’s re-election, the public is being bombarded with atrocity propaganda, intended to “energize” Democrat voters by portraying black people as victims of “systemic racism.” If we do not push back against this propaganda, our silence implies that we agree with the Democratic Party’s message: White people are evil. Police are racist murderers.

And thus there is a need to talk about overlooked facts:

Racism did not kill Breonna Taylor. She did not die from prejudice or discrimination. Her death was not caused by Confederate monuments or statues of Christopher Columbus, nor could her death have been prevented by social-media hashtags. If you don’t know who Breonna Taylor was, the short version of the story is that the 26-year-old was shot to death March 13 by police in Louisville, Kentucky, during a drug raid. The long version of the story is rather more complicated, but Taylor’s death has been reduced to a slogan (“Justice for Breonna”) by the #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) protest movement.
Like so many other police shootings seized upon by this movement, BLM activists are interested in promoting a political narrative that ignores specific details of Taylor’s death. Most of the movement’s supporters have probably never looked past the slogan-sized condensed version of the story — an unarmed black woman killed in her own home by white cops — to ask whether racism had anything to do with her death. Certainly the national media have not sought to determine whether the facts of this cause célèbre support the BLM movement’s mythology of “systemic racism” as the one-size-fits-all explanation for police shootings. Fear of being targeted by “cancel culture” plays a role in silencing all criticism of the movement, and therefore no one (no, not even Tucker Carlson) has questioned the BLM narrative of Breonna Taylor’s death. . . .

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

Category: American Spectator, Crime, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Kate Upton To The Edge Of Madness

Posted on | July 27, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

But it’s the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insa-a-a-a-ane!
LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
– “The Time Warp”, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

We’re reasonably sure Mrs. Verlander hasn’t lost her mind, or even come close, but the recent stories about her doing what are apparently exceptional weights during her hip thrust workouts inevitably brought the old song to mind. Here she is on the weight bench, looking damn good for a woman who just had a baby not long ago.