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CPAC: Fighting for Israel

Posted on | February 28, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia

Dalia Al-Aqidi (left, in a photo by my brother you can click to enlarge) is the Republican challenger to Rep. Ilhan Omar. She attended a CPAC event I covered Thursday night:

In emphatic terms, Jewish leaders praised President Trump during a reception Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “He has been the greatest friend for Israel any American president has ever been,” declared Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. Speaking at a reception organized by the Israel Heartland Coalition, Klein’s remarks were applauded by an audience committed to making permanent the Jewish settlements in what the media usually calls the West Bank, but which Israeli patriots call by the historic names of Judea and Samaria.
As our own Dov Fischer has noted, last year the Trump administration vindicated the legality of these Jewish settlements, repudiating United Nations Security Council resolution 2334, passed in the waning days of the Obama administration. This move, perhaps even more than the decision to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, has won Trump the gratitude of Israelis and pro-Israel Jews.
It seems odd to write that phrase, “pro-Israel Jews,” which one might think would be redundant were it not for the existence of left-wing Jews who seem devoted to Israel’s destruction. The fact that Democrats might soon nominate Sen. Bernie Sanders as Trump’s opponent in the fall election brings this strange irony to the forefront. Sanders (who for a few months in 1963 actually lived in an Israeli kibbutz) has recently accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of “bigotry,” and slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “reactionary racist.” . . .

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




 

Category: CPAC, Israel

In The Mailbox: 02.27.20

Posted on | February 27, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.27.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Caught a week’s suspension from Twitter for calling Ana Navarro a “pinche gordita”.
Please share this post on Twitter to spite that fat, lying bag of biowaste.

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Louder With Crowder: Tim Allen Wants Bernie Supporters To Know EXACTLY What Socialism Is

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American Conservative: Why Is The FDA Stalling On More Coronavirus Testing?
American Greatness: Ninth Circuit Rules Against PragerU In YouTube Lawsuit
American Thinker: Hypocritical Democrats Block Born Alive Protection
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nanny Bloomberg News
Babalu Blog: Video Of Castro’s Crimes & The Disaster He Wrought On Cuba Being Patiently Explained To A Leftist On MSNBC
BattleSwarm: President Trump’s Coronavirus Press Conference
Cafe Hayek: Read These Books!
CDR Salamander: Change What You Can – COCOMS Are A Good Start
Da Tech Guy: What An Opening For Central America On Trade, also, Are Teachers’ Unions Behind Chidrens’ Indoctrination?
Don Surber: Dollar General America Vs. Lululemon Athletica
Fred On Everything: Evenings With Lanc
The Geller Report: Israeli Scientists Announce Coronavirus Vaccine Three Months Away, also, Nation Of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan – Trump Killed “My Brother” Soleimani
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Gullies On Mars
Hollywood In Toto: Dallas Club Cancels Comedy Show Citing “Unsafe Space”
JustOneMinute: That Went Well
Legal Insurrection: Even Winning SC May Not Save Joe Biden, also, A Biochemist’s Analysis Of Trump’s Coronavirus Press Conference
The PanAm Post: Camus’ Forgotten Lesson On Liberty
Power Line: The Democrats’ Bernie Dilemma, also, Notice This
Shark Tank: Time For Florida To Untie The Hands Of Advanced Practice RNs
Shot In The Dark: Not Wired Right
This Ain’t Hell: Role Player Injured During Training Exercise, Soldier Charged
Victory Girls: CA Nannies – Thou Shalt Have No Boys Or Girls Departments
Volokh Conspiracy: Trump Wins Second Circuit Case Against Sanctuary Cities
Weasel Zippers: Fauxcahontas Wants To Defund Wall, Spend Money On Coronavirus, also, DOJ Launches Unit To Revoke Citizenship Of Criminal Immigrants
Mark Steyn: When The Edge Of The Map Moves Inward

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CPAC: VodkaPundit Is Not Worried

Posted on | February 27, 2020 | Comments Off on CPAC: VodkaPundit Is Not Worried

 

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia
Look at that cheerful visage — does Stephen Green look worried? Of course not. I encountered the legendary VodkaPundit last night in the Public House, about a block from the Gaylord Hotel, where he was having a club sandwich and a cold beverage. We recalled good times at CPACs past, and I left there owing him a cold beverage. Considering that this is my 15th consecutive CPAC, it’s like a family reunion for me.

 

Down in the exhibition area, there was a reception Wednesday night, and I encountered this Mises vs. Marx video “rap battle.”

 

Got your Official Trump merchandise store.

But I wasn’t just wandering around CPAC seeing old friends, of course, I was engaged in journalism:

By the time President Trump speaks Saturday afternoon at the Gaylord Hotel National Harbor, the thousands of activists at the 48th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will have heard from dozens of Republican politicians, authors, strategists, and media personalities. As important as any of the other speakers might be, none will pack the Potomac Ballroom the way Trump will. It’s an election year, and Trump’s speech at CPAC can be considered the official launch of his 2020 campaign for reelection.
With socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont currently leading the field of Democratic presidential contenders to face Trump in November, the contrast could scarcely be clearer. Trump has repeatedly vowed — most recently in his State of the Union address — that “America will never be a socialist country.” Democrat primary voters seem intent on putting that proposition to the test, and Sanders’ promises of “Medicare for All,” free college tuition, and all the rest are as direct a challenge as any conservative could ever hope to see. Perhaps not since 1984, when Democrat Walter Mondale ran against Ronald Reagan with a promise to raise taxes, has the American electorate faced such a stark choice. . . .

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




 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 02.26.20

Posted on | February 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
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Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
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BattleSwarm: The Battle Of 73 Easting
Cafe Hayek: At Least Listen To Adam Smith
Camp Of The Saints: Ancient Freedoms & Ordered Liberty – Restoring The Balance
Da Tech Guy: Voting Communist & The Right To Be Wrong, also, Ash Wednesday & My Favorite Old Testament Passage
Don Surber: Coronavirus Proves Trump Correct
First Street Journal: Oh, The Poor Baby!
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Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, CPAC Registration
Hollywood In Toto: Indie Shocker Shows White Couple Torturing Illegals
JustOneMinute: Debate Debacle
Legal Insurrection: Appeals Court Upholds Trump Withholding Of Funds From Sanctuary Cities, also, Over 200 Native Americans Sign Letter Demanding Sen. Warren Withdraw Claims Of Cherokee Ancestry
The PanAm Post: A Year After Maduro Crossed The Red Line
Power Line: Major Red Chinese Spy Ring Busted In Australia, also, A Message From Abdi Nur
Shark Tank: 2010 Rubio/Crist Race Being Rerun In FL-26 GOP Primary
Shot In The Dark: Justice Must Be Served!
STUMP: The Moral Case For Pension Reform
The Political Hat: Florida Vs. The Gaia Cult
This Ain’t Hell: “Miracle On Ice” Team Struggles With Backlash Over Appearance At Trump Rally, also, First Woman Expected To Become Green Beret Soon
Victory Girls: Chelsea Clinton Rips Trump On Coronavirus
Volokh Conspiracy: Senate Hearing On National Injunctions
Weasel Zippers: Warren Refuses To Recognize Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital, also, Biden Claims Over Half The U.S. Population – 150 Million People – Have Been Killed By Guns Since 2007
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CPAC: We Are Here

Posted on | February 26, 2020 | Comments Off on CPAC: We Are Here

 

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia
My brother Kirby and I checked into our hotel here about 6:30, loaded everything up from the car and stopped in the lobby bar for a beverage. We are staying here in Alexandria — about 2 miles across the river from National Harbor, site of CPAC 2020 — because the hotels near the conference are either filled up or charging $450 a night, which is crazy. Upon checking in here, we discovered there’s a $20 per night fee to park the car, which means an extra $60 for our three nights here before we re-locate Saturday over to the Gaylord, where John Hoge has reserved a room where we’ll be doing a special episode of The Other Podcast.

Kirby is here as a photographer, and if you’ll follow his Instagram account, you should get excellent photos this week capturing the scene at CPAC with substantially better quality than I get using my notorious Barbie Cam. Meanwhile, Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle has this preview:

American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Matt Schlapp told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview ahead of the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that this year’s conference will focus on exposing and explaining the contrast between the rising socialist left inside the Democrat Party and a renewed and energized GOP under the leadership of President Donald Trump.
“We believe that CPAC 2020 is unique because we believe the starting gun goes off for the presidential campaign,” Schlapp told Breitbart News late last week. “The Saturday of CPAC is the Saturday of the South Carolina primary. We’ll have a much clearer idea of the Democratic presidential race. We believe that presidential race is reflected in our theme ‘America Versus Socialism.’”
As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rises through the ranks of the Democrat Party to become the delegate leader—before this year’s CPAC, he has won the popular vote in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, the first-ever candidate in either party to do so in a presidential primary process—the focus of rising socialism on the left is becoming clearer. Democrats are in panic mode as Sanders surges heading into South Carolina’s primaries, and next week’s Super Tuesday contests, but on the other side of the aisle President Trump and a cleaned up and newly unified Republican Party are on the march as this election year kicks off. Gone are the likes of former House Speaker Paul Ryan, and uninvited from CPAC this year are the handful of globalist establishment Republicans like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).
Schlapp said this year’s CPAC theme, “America Versus Socialism,” offers a contrast between Trump’s renewed and refreshed GOP and the rising socialist left taking over the Democrat Party that “couldn’t be clearer.” . . .

Read the whole thing. We’ve got to run over to the Gaylord to pick up our credentials. The media check-in closes at 8:30 and I’ve got a midnight deadline for an American Spectator column.




 

Category: CPAC

The Backlash of ‘Hate’

Posted on | February 26, 2020 | Comments Off on The Backlash of ‘Hate’

For several months, here and at The American Spectator, I have occasionally addressed the theme of “hate” — how Democrats insist that racism or “white nationalism” or some other species of bigotry explains opposition to the liberal agenda in the Trump era. If you are a white male heterosexual Christian, you are are by definition guilty of “hate,” according to the Left’s intersectional logic of “social justice.”

The ordinary person’s instinctive reaction to such an accusation is to feel insulted: How dare you? If you are a decent, law-abiding citizen, intelligent and reasonably well-educated, being accused of bigotry, merely because you vote Republican, is probably going to make you angry. What are the consequences of that anger? Political analyst Jake Novak offers some insights:

For all the policy differences and political minutiae Democrats delve into when criticizing President Trump, the most enduring attacks on Trump from the Democratic establishment remain accusations that Trump is supporting white supremacy and is controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
These are over-the-top accusations, and it’s hard to accept that even most elected Democrats actually believe them. But pushing that message on America for the last three-plus years comes at a price for both sides.
For the Democrats, the price is becoming clear: it’s made moderate presidential candidates look less viable than ever.
Think about it: if you really believe the president is a traitor and supporting violent plots against non-white Americans, is this really the time to support mainstream Democrat or Republican candidates?
Sanders may be a career politician, but he’s never been a mainstream politician. His persona and political brand fits much better into the current Democratic narrative that we’re living in desperate times.
Establishment Democrats are reaping what they sowed.
As a result, it’s looking more and more like Sanders has unstoppable momentum going into the Super Tuesday primaries and beyond.

Read the whole thing. I’ve got to get packed up and head down to CPAC. Thanks to everyone who contributed to make this trip possible.




 

Category: CPAC, Donald Trump, Racism

Democrats Engage in Angry Shouting Match in Charleston, South Carolina

Posted on | February 26, 2020 | Comments Off on Democrats Engage in Angry Shouting Match in Charleston, South Carolina

 

The worst debate in the history of American politics:

The CBS News moderators came under fire on social media Tuesday as the Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina grew heated, with crosstalk often drowning them out.
Meghan McCain compared the debate’s atmosphere to the contentious discussions she faces on “The View,” saying, “these moderators need to get this under control.” . . .
Former Vice President Joe Biden in particular spoke over moderators attempting to cut him off on several occasions, insisting, “I am not out of time. You spoke over time, and I’m going to talk” and later asking, “Can we just speak up when we want to? Is that the idea?”
Later, as Biden attempted to break in again, moderator Gayle King quipped, “I promise, Mr. Vice President, we are going to get to you,” with Biden responding, “You keep promising me that, but you never get to me.”

Some commentators declared that Joe Biden had his strongest debate performance to date, but what I noticed was he kept shouting at the top of his lungs, as if being loud was whole point — aerobic shouting. Meanwhile, almost everyone directed their fire at Bernie Sanders, except Elizabeth Warren, who spent much of the night attacking Mike Bloomberg, who isn’t even on the ballot in South Carolina. Jim Geraghty might have explained that strategy best:

 

In general, the debate was a colossal waste of time, and time is the valuable commodity that Democrats can’t afford to waste now:

Time is running out for the Democratic Party and, by this time next week, it will probably be too late for them to turn back. More than a third of the delegates to their national convention will be chosen next Tuesday, when 14 states including California and Texas hold their primaries. One the one hand, this means that the party’s agonizing struggle over its 2020 presidential nomination may soon be effectively over. On the other hand, if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders claims a decisive victory next Tuesday — which now seems likely — the “Anybody But Bernie” faction of the party will be pushed to increasingly desperate measures in their efforts to deny him the nomination. . . .

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




 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Debates, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, South Carolina

In The Mailbox: 02.25.2020

Posted on | February 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

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Da Tech Guy: I Oppose Trump’s Commutation Of Blagojevich’s Sentence, also, Let’s Dump Recycling
Don Surber: Guns, Not Socialism, Are Why Mini-Mike Is Mad At Bernie
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The Geller Report: NC Muslima Attacks Air Marshal, Threatens To Stab Everyone On Plane, also, Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Tests Positive For Coronavirus After Regime Tells Everyone Not To Panic
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, CPAC Ahead
Hollywood In Toto: Seven Awkward Questions The Press Should Ask Mark Ruffalo, also, Weinstein’s Fall Remains A Stain On Entertainment Journalism
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Shot In The Dark: Let The Record Show
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Victory Girls: Miami Plans Anti-Communism Concert In Response To Bernie’s Support Of Castro
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judges Association Tells Members Meeting Wasn’t Called To Discuss Trump Intervention In Stone Sentencing
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