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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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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

Young Climate Change Maniacs

Posted on | December 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

A few weeks ago, Rod Dreher speculated that Maximilien Robespierre, the French radical who ruled during the infamous Reign of Terror, could have been autistic. The evidence Dreher offered was perhaps not conclusive, but I have little expertise in autism so am not qualified to judge. However, it’s been reported that the teenage Swedish climate-change fanatic Greta Thunberg is autistic, and she certainly has the totalitarian tendencies that would remind one of Robespierre:

Far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg unloaded on the world in an op-ed published on Friday, claiming that fossil fuels “are literally” killing mankind, and that they are a threat to “our very existence” as she said that her “climate crisis” agenda is not just about the environment, but about fighting the “colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression.”
In an op-ed published in Project Syndicate, Thunberg and two other far-left climate activists attacked world leaders over their pro-capitalist policies, writing that “the politicians let the profiteers continue to exploit our planet’s resources and destroy its ecosystems in a quest for quick cash that threatens our very existence.” . . .
Thunberg has a well-documented history of preaching climate radicalism on the world stage as she recently ranted at the United Nations in a speech that was praised by the political Left and the media while condemned by many others.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg began. “Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering; people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”

A few excerpts of Miss Thunberg’s op-ed:

After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities. . . .
As the science makes clear, we don’t have a single day to lose. . . .
Each and every one of us must participate in the climate resistance movement. We cannot just say we care; we must show it.

Notice the words “need” and “must” here? Notice also the word “crisis.” This is a rhetorical tactic beloved by totalitarians. The problem with which they are obsessed is always a crisis, which demands immediate action — “we don’t have a single day to lose” — and anyone who doesn’t share their sense of dire urgency is dismissed as morally inferior: “We cannot just say we care; we must show it.” In other words, you must either show that you care about this issue as much as young Greta does, by doing whatever it is she demands that you do, or else you are to be classified among the untermenschen, subhuman, without any merit or value. You either join her in the work of dismantling “systems of oppression” or you are Lebensunwertes Leben — “life unworthy of life,” as the Nazis described those whom they targeted for eradication.

Autistic people often lack the self-awareness necessary to see the contradictions in their own beliefs. Notice how Greta Thunberg speaks of a “crisis of human rights” even as she demands totalitarian authority to implement measures that would negate basic liberties. You cannot negotiate with such people; they crave absolute power, and will never be satisfied with any compromise or moderate reform measures.

But please, whatever you do, don’t silence Greta Thunberg. Let her keep yapping away on national TV with that demented glare in her eyes for, say, the next 11 months or so, wrapping herself and her agenda around the neck of the Democratic Party, so to speak, and thus dragging them down to defeat next November. She’s so perfect, really.



 

Category: Global Warming

There Is No Substitute for Victory

Posted on | December 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

My Army son got an eight-point buck (click on the photo to see full-size) Sunday morning in the Georgia hills, yet this was small consolation for Saturday night’s tragedy, of which it is still too painful for me to speak. I spent most of Sunday working on a column for The American Spectator, and when I called my editor, Wlady Pleszczynski, to discuss the story, he had the poor taste to make a joke about Saturday’s game. I resisted the temptation to respond with a Polak joke. SEC football etiquette lesson: One does not joke with a ’Bama fan after a game like that.

The column I was working on will not be posted until this afternoon, but it involved accusations of “racism” against a conservative, and let me say this: I am proud to be an Alabama-American. Although my parents immigrated to Atlanta before I was born, my ancestral roots in Randolph County are deep — two of my ancestors served in Alabama regiments during the War for Southern Independence, and my father graduated from the University in 1950, so I was raised with an Alabamian identity. Human beings are tribal by nature, you see, so that despite growing up in Georgia, my affinity was always for the tribal homeland, so to speak.

Team spirit is an expression of man’s tribal nature. Humans are social creatures, so that those Enlightenment philosophers who theorized about man in a “state of nature” — a solitary creature, totally free and ungoverned by any system of law — were all just eloquent fools. Even if one is an atheist Darwinian fanatic (which I’m not), it should be obvious that our most primitive ancestors who deserve the title “human” could not have survived without cooperation among their kindred, so they were governed by the Law of the Tribe (i.e., whatever shared customs were required to secure the necessary teamwork) long before they developed any means to codify their tribal laws in written form.

Furthermore — and this is something that most intellectuals ignore — we are not the descendants of failures. If any primitive clan of paleolithic hunters could not develop a shared code of moral norms and social custom that enabled them to survive natural hardship and to successfully compete against rival clans, those primitive humans did not survive to produce progeny. We are the descendants of the survivors, so that our very existence is flesh-and-blood testimony to the efficacy of our ancestors’ Law of the Tribe. When I consider the harsh conditions that existed in northeastern Alabama when my pioneer ancestors arrived on that frontier wilderness circa 1840, perhaps you can understand how profound my admiration is of their hardy nature, which enabled them to survive by the sweat of their brows, clearing the forests, tilling the soil, building cabins, etc. My ancestors were survivors, or else I wouldn’t be here, and so my sense of tribal pride — team spirit — should be as understandable as, for example, the descendant of Irish immigrants celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, or a third-generation Mexican-American kid at an Ivy League college who buys into all that radical Aztlán nonsense even though he’s barely fluent in Spanish. You must represent your tribe, and I must represent my tribe: Roll Tide!

 

These three younger members of the McCain Tribe — Jefferson is 20, Reagan is 16, and Emerson is 18 — represent somewhat of a hybrid, considering that their mother is an Ohio native. They can thus claim membership in the Buckeye Nation, and my wife’s kinfolk enjoy ragging me when the Buckeyes are up (now 12-0 after defeating their hated rival Michigan) and the Crimson Tide is down. But I love them anyway, because Jesus taught His followers that we should love our enemies, and so I must even forgive my wife’s ancestors for fighting on the wrong side in the War for Southern Independence. Selah.

Now, if a proud Alabama-American can love a Yankee, as I do my Ohio-born wife, then why should Americans hate each other so much over comparatively trivial distinctions of ethnicity? Just because I’m the patriarch of McCain Nation doesn’t mean I hate other people as inferior. However great our family’s accomplishments might be — hey, did your son kill an eight-point buck this weekend? — we know that other folks have their own useful traits and talents to add to the common good. Yea, verily, I say unto you, even some Auburn fans are worthwhile human beings. Just because I’ve never met an intelligent Auburn fan doesn’t mean all Auburn fans are all idiots, and there’s no point repeating the common stereotype of all Auburn girls being ugly sluts. In fact, some of those Auburn sluts are kind of cute. But I digress . . .

My point is that life has a way of separating human beings into two large categories: Winners and losers. You can measure success however you want — wealth, fame, political power, football prowess or whatever — but in the grand scheme of human life, it is life itself that we must count. Perhaps it is egotistical of me to think that success might best be measured by the number of my descendants, but everything else I might have accomplished in life seems to me insignificant when I consider the enormously greater impact my six children could have on the future of humanity. Whatever difference one McCain might make in the world, alone and unaided, is exponentially multiplied in the collective potential of six McCains. My wife and I have tried to raise our children with high standards and high expectations, and have thus far been pleased with their accomplishments. Already we have four grandchildren, and my wife took a flight south on Saturday headed toward a certain swing state with palm trees, where our oldest daughter lives. Read more

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