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In The Mailbox: 02.18.20

Posted on | February 18, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Dave Chappelle Is a Genius
EBL: Charles McCall Portis, RIP
Twitchy: Clay Travis Has Some Words For “Wildly Hypocritical” LeBron James
Louder With Crowder: Boy Scouts Of America File For Bankruptcy Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #135 – The Godless Marriage Episode
American Conservative: If Duterte Wants Us Out, Then Let’s Go
American Greatness: Senator Murphy Admits Meeting With Iranian Minister
American Power: The Limits Of Democracy Promotion
American Thinker: Bloomberg’s Red Chinese Conflict Of Interest, also, The Epic Donald
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Auf Deutsch News
Babalu Blog: Bloomberg’s The “Moderate” Democrat, Right?
BattleSwarm: Coronavirus Update – Red China’s Economy Burns, also, Texas Early Voting Starts Today!
Cafe Hayek: Another Open Letter To Oren Cass
Camp Of The Saints: Welcome To The Jungle – Arts & Entertainment & Letters
CDR Salamander: Naming Ships With Style, Verve…And Sanity
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Gov. Edwards Breaks His Promise To Teachers, also, The Case For Getting Rid Of The CIA & FBI
Don Surber: NYT Wonders Why Blacks Escape Chiraq, also, Mini-Mike Embraces Anybody But Bernie
First Street Journal: The Libertarian Mess, also, How #TrumpDerangementSyndrome Scrambles The Brains Of Some Supposed Conservatives
The Geller Report: Buttigieg – “We Are All Lifted Up” By Stories About Abortions, also, Dutch Museum Debates Censoring Degas Painting To Avoid Offending Muslims
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, That’s No Moon, It’s A Space Station!
Hollywood In Toto: How Crisis Moon Strikes A Blow For Conservative Art, also, How Downhill Leaves Will Ferrell Out In The Cold
JustOneMinute: “Assault Weapon” Ban Fails In Virginia
Legal Insurrection: Tom Steyer Claims Trump’s Economy Is Not That Great, also, Financially Stressed Oberlin College Seeks To End Unionized Custodial, Dining Services
Megan McArdle: Bernie Sanders Is Not Just A Garden Variety Social Democrat
The PanAm Post: Getting The Facts Right On Venezuela Is Important
Power Line: The Washington Post Pulls The Old Switcheroo On Trump, also, Bernie Ascendant
Shark Tank: Mast & Bilirakis Praise Trump’s Tactical Sanctuary City Crackdown
Shot In The Dark: If It’s Tuesday, Minneapolis Must Be An Urban Utopia
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Don’t Worry, Gamers!
The Political Hat: News of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: Threats & Violence Against GOP Voters – Part Of A Pattern? also, Naval Aviation Call Sign Protocol
Victory Girls: Media Freakout Over Trump At Daytona 500, also, Bloomberg Says Farmers Not Smart Enough To Code
Volokh Conspiracy: Are Laws Requiring lawyers To Join (And Fund) State Bar Associations Unconstitutional?
Weasel Zippers: Dershowitz Says He Has Proof Obama Ordered FBI Investigation At Soros’ Request, also, Stacey Abrams Says She’d “Go Around Constituion” To End “Racist” Electoral College
Mark Steyn: Pony Tailspin, also, The Candidate Who Never Made The Primary

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Category: Linkagery

My Celebrity Brother-in-Law

Posted on | February 18, 2020 | Comments Off on My Celebrity Brother-in-Law

 

 

You probably never heard of Bucyrus Copper Kettle Works, which has occupied the same building in the same small Ohio town for more than 140 years. My wife’s brother Rex has worked there as a coppersmith for about 30 years. You can see Rex at work in this episode of Our Ohio, a series that airs on Ohio public television:

 

Click here to see a selection of the products they offer.




 

Category: Family, Ohio

Bernie Wants to Make Everything Free …

Posted on | February 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Bernie Wants to Make Everything Free …

 

. . . so “Free the Nipple,” I guess?

A topless protester disrupted Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday — moments after Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced the Democratic presidential candidate to the stage.
De Blasio had just introduced Sanders to the crowd in Carson City as the “next president of the United States,” when Sanders entered the stage with his wife as the song “Power to the People” played.
That’s when a fully clothed woman jumped up and tried to wrest the microphone out of the Vermont senator’s hand, before grabbing another one from the lectern, and started speaking about the candidate’s support for dairy farmers.
“Bernie, I’m your biggest supporter, and I’m here to ask you to stop pumping up the dairy industry and to stop pumping up animal agriculture,” she said. “I believe in you…” she continued, before the mic suddenly went dead and security moved toward her.
Sanders moved to the edge of the stage as a string of women then paraded across holding images of cows — followed by a topless woman, who gestured to Sanders as members of his security detail positioned themselves between the two.
“This is Nevada. There’s always a little excitement — at no extra cost. Except we have a lot of water on the stage,” he said as he returned to the stage.
The protesters were prompted by the senator’s support in 2018 for legislation that provided emergency financial support for dairy farmers across the country because of the falling price of milk.

If you’re protesting dairy subsidies, I suppose showing your udders makes sense. By the way, I believe a majority of Trump supporters agree with me in opposing federal agriculture subsidies on limited-government principles. Nor do we mind attractive young women going topless, but the word “attractive” doesn’t describe most of Bernie’s supporters.




 

Category: Bernie Sanders

Wait a Minute: Did Joe Biden Suggest Bernie Voters Are White Supremacists?

Posted on | February 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Wait a Minute: Did Joe Biden Suggest Bernie Voters Are White Supremacists?

 

The same day he claimed illegal aliens “are better Americans than most Americans are,” Biden decided to exceed his daily gaffe quota:

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” white supremacists were “very enthusiastic” about President Donald Trump.
While criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for not disowning his supporters’ attacks, Biden said, “I know you’re seeing what has been online, the vicious, vicious threats, the misogynistic things they’ve said referring to the women who are leaders of the Culinary Union, and they received death threats. I mean, this is way, way — this is Trump-like. Way over the line. And I think Bernie has to disavow this.”
Host Nicolle Wallace said, “Do you think Bernie Sanders is acting Trump-like in his refusal to disavow people that may be unsavory but that are very enthusiastic about him?”
Biden said, “By the way, the white supremacists are very enthusiastic about Trump.”

What does this imply? If leaders of the Culinary Union have received death threats, have the police investigated? Do we know that Sanders supporters are responsible, or is this just what Joe Biden is assuming? And what was that “white supremacists” remark meant to signal? Was it just a random jab at Trump, or did he mean it as a dog whistle aimed at the black voters in South Carolina he’s counting on for his “firewall”? Did Biden mean to imply that, because Bernie supporters behave in a “Trump-like” way, they are somehow soulmates of the white supremacists who are “very enthusiastic about Trump”?

Go back and look at Nicolle Wallace’s question, though: Is this why she abandoned the Republican Party and became an MSNBC host, because she finds grassroots GOP voters to be “unsavory” people?

 

Think back to how Wallace backstabbed Sarah Palin, and think also about how she and the other members of the Bush-era GOP apparatus never expressed any real support for the Tea Party movement. Some Republicans have never actually liked the kind of people who vote Republican — the “credulous boomer rube demo,” as Rick Wilson says — and we should be grateful that Trump has flushed them out in the open, so everyone can see these #NeverTrump types for what they are.




 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Nevada, Racism

Joe Biden: DACA Recipients Are ‘More American Than Most Americans Are’

Posted on | February 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Joe Biden: DACA Recipients Are ‘More American Than Most Americans Are’

 

Remember, he’s the Democrat who’s gonna win working-class voters:

During a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada [Monday], former Vice President Joe Biden (D) said illegal aliens who are shielded from deportation by former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are “more American than most Americans are.”
While speaking to a crowd of supporters, Biden accused American citizens of being less American than even the roughly 800,000 to 3.5 million DACA illegal aliens living in the United States while touting his plan to provide them all with amnesty:

Once again, legalize all the DACA students. These DACA students are more American than most Americans are. No, I’m serious. Think about it. They come along when they’re eight-years-old and their mom says they’re crossing the … they don’t know where they’re from. They’ve never been [to their native country]. They’ve been good, decent citizens and they’re great additions. By the way … you know our Social Security system is still solvent? Because of immigration. They didn’t cost us anything, they’re paying for it … and there’s a reason why it’s moving. . . .

Biden has routinely used this talking point on the campaign trail, most recently telling Iowa voters that DACA illegal aliens are “more American than most Americans” because they have “done well in school.”

From Biden’s open-borders perspective, being an American is not about anything except going to school, paying taxes and voting Democrat. If you don’t vote Democrat, you’re un-American, according to Democrats, who are determined to import good “Americans” who will vote for them.




 

Category: Immigration, Joe Biden, Nevada

In The Mailbox: 02.17.20

Posted on | February 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The IRS Thinks Your Security Sucks
EBL: James Cagney – How To Dance Down Stairs
Twitchy: Brian Stelter Now Very Concerned With Government Institutions Becoming Political Weapons
Louder With Crowder: Girls Sue To Block Transsexuals From Competing In Womens’ Sports

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: You Can’t Be Right About Everything, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Weekend Edition
American Conservative: West Point Prof Pens Blistering Takedown Of US Military Academies, also, Jordan Peterson Deserves Love, Not Spite, In His Time Of Darkness
American Greatness: Leftists Organized Barr Attack Letter, also, Reaching Peak Progressivism
American Power: Democrats Scramble For The Black Vote
American Thinker: Two-Tiered Justice System On Full Display, also, Canada – A Totalitarian State In Progress
Animal Magnetism: While We’re Traveling…
Babalu Blog: Univision Anchor Bashes Florida’s Cubans, Nicaraguans, & Venezuelans For Not Embracing Socialist Sanders, also, Spain Uncovers Cuban Spy Ring Operating At Highest Levels Of Government
BattleSwarm: Rule In The Time Of Coronavirus, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Heat And Light, also, Americans’ Shocking Prosperity
Camp Of The Saints: The Pandering Pimpsqueek, Michael Bloomberg
CDR Salamander: Chinese Box, also, Japan Moves Out In Counter-Air
Da Tech Guy: Bloomberg Everywhere, Steyer Nowhere, & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, What if Brady Goes Somewhere And Doesn’t Bring A Super Bowl?
Don Surber: Manchin Is A Munchkin, also, Mini Hillary Begins Making Excuses For Her Flop
First Street Journal: Economics 101 – Amy Klobuchar Doesn’t Understand What She’s Doing
The Geller Report: Democrat Senators Hold Secret Meetings With Iranian Leaders, also, Muslims Slaughter 24 Christians, Including Pastor, Kidnap Three Others From Service In Burkina Faso
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Civil Rights Victory In Virginia
Hollywood In Toto: Freedom To Laugh Tour Takes On AOC, Hillary, And Others, also, The Assistant Puts Us In Harvey Weinstein’s Crosshairs
JustOneMinute: Now It’s Barr Vs. Trump, Unless It’s Not, also, Clouds On The Blue Horizon
Legal Insurrection: Journalists Really Mad That Trump Attended Daytona 500, also, Media Pushes False Narrative That Buttigieg, Klobuchar Are Moderates
Megan McArdle: Theories That Collapsed In New Hampshire
The PanAm Post: Cubans Fight Back Against Military-Style Repression, also,  Hollywood Celebrities Applaud Karl Marx At Oscars
Power Line: Topless Protester At Brainless Rally, also, Scenes From The Media Meltdown
Shark Tank: Scalise Endorses Maria Elvira Salazar For Congress
Shot In The Dark: The MNDFL – Literally The Nanny State
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – An Introduction To Cancer Statistics
This Ain’t Hell: Chow Thief Alexander Vindman Won’t Face Disciplinary Action, also, Buttigieg Called Out For Overstating His Military Experience
Victory Girls: Prager U Makes “Comedian” Samantha Bee Mad, also, Border Patrol Tac Units Deployed To Sanctuary Cities
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions, also, A Nondelegation Challenge To Trump’s Travel Ban
Weasel Zippers: NYC Thief Thanks Democrats After 139th Arrest, Release, also, Bloomberg Suggests We Need to Ration Care
Mark Steyn: Looking For Love In All The Woke Places, also, A Valentine From Mohammed

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Democrats Subvert U.S. Iran Policy

Posted on | February 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

Sucking up to the mullahs:

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and other Democratic senators had a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jahad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference. Murphy’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment by press time.
Such a meeting would mean Murphy had done the type of secret coordination with foreign leaders to potentially undermine the U.S. government that he accused Trump officials of doing as they prepared for Trump’s administration. In February 2017, Murphy demanded investigations of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because he had a phone call with his counterpart-to-be in Russia.
“Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy — even during a transition period — may be illegal and must be taken seriously,” Murphy said in 2017 after anonymous leaks of Flynn’s phone call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kisylak were published. He also strongly criticized the open letter some Republican senators sent Iranian leaders during the Obama administration’s campaign for a nuclear agreement.
However, Murphy has previously defended rogue meetings if they’re done by Democrats such as former Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Unless it was authorized by the president or secretary of state, conducting independent foreign policy sends mixed signals to our adversaries,” said Christian Whiton, former State Department senior advisor in the Trump and George W. Bush administrations. “It seems very unpalatable. If we want to talk to Iranians, they know how to reach us and they don’t need to go through an intermediary.”
A State Department official who spoke on background said that the State Department was not aware of any side meetings with Iranian officials that Murphy was engaged in.

Their partisanship knows no limits — anything is OK, including the terrorist regime in Tehran, as long as it’s anti-Trump.




 

Category: Democrats, Iran

Double Standards at the Anti-Trump DOJ

Posted on | February 17, 2020 | Comments Off on Double Standards at the Anti-Trump DOJ

 

Roger Kimball examines how the Deep State protects its own:

The news Friday that the Department of Justice had decided not to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe got me thinking once again about the legend chiseled into the façade of the Supreme Court: “Equal Justice Under Law.”
Is that what we have? Michael Horowitz, the Obama-appointed inspector general, concluded that McCabe had lied under oath. But as Andrew McCarthy noted last summer, “Government officials who leak while demonstrating their contempt for Donald Trump manage to land on their feet.” Like James Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence, McCabe left his government job to be a commentator on CNN.
Clapper, McCarthy pointed out,
is best known for lying to Congress about the government’s bulk collection of telephone metadata . . . and for discussing Steele dossier information with CNN shortly before the network published a report about it . . . CNN missed out on former Obama CIA director John Brennan, who falsely denied to the Senate that his agency spied on the chamber’s intelligence committee. Brennan, who said he was really sorry, was inked by MSNBC.
Contrast what happened with McCabe, Clapper, and Brennan with what happened to George Papadopoulos, who told the FBI he had met the international man of mystery Joseph Mifsud slightly before he had joined the Trump campaign when, in fact, it was slightly after he joined. Result: he is nabbed, disembarking from a plane at night, thrown into jail overnight, and was later sentenced to two weeks in jail.
Or contrast McCabe’s fate with that of Roger Stone, a former advisor to and pal of Donald Trump’s. Stone was subjected to one of Robert Mueller’s signature pre-dawn raids, hit with seven felony counts for allegedly obstructing Congress’s Russia investigation, lying, and threatening a witness (who later said he did not feel threatened). Prosecutors — including a couple who were on team Mueller — initially recommended a jail term of nine years — for a nonviolent first-offender. . . .

Read the whole thing. Remember the Strzok-Page “insurance policy”? During the 2016 campaign, the bureaucrats believed Hillary Clinton’s election was guaranteed, but if somehow Trump won, they were prepared to sabotage his presidency, which they never accepted as legitimate. Despite the obvious success of Trump’s presidency, the Democrats employed by the government still don’t accept that any Republican deserves to wield executive authority, and continue doing everything possible to obstruct and embarrass the administration.




 

Category: Corruption
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