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In The Mailbox: 03.13.19

Posted on | March 13, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.13.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
A View From The Beach: A Jedi Speaks
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #558
EBL: Who Is Attacking Conservatives?
Twitchy: MMFA Goon Leading The Charge Against Tucker Carlson Has A Highly Problematic History
Louder With Crowder: Watch As Tucker Carlson Torches Media Matters, CNN’s Brian Stelter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Computer Shopping In America (Laptop Recommendations requested! -ws)
American Thinker: Meet Occasional Cortex’s Rasputin
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: US Navy Intercepts More Than Two Dozen Cuban Refugees Off Florida Coast, Returns Therm To Communism
BattleSwarm: Admissions Scandal Followup
Camp Of The Saints:
Da Tech Guy: Lenten Reflections – God v. Genies, also, Nancy, Mueller, And Da Tech Guy’s 4th Law Of Media Outrage
Don Surber: Two Scoops Of Trumpenfreude
Dustbury: Maybe This Will Fit
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Visiting Jerusalem’s Old City May Be Criminalized In Ireland, also, Netherlands Becomes Latest European Country To Record Worrying Rise In Antisemitic Outrages
Hogewash: The Crab Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: Guess How Much Vice Cost Its Struggling Studio?
JustOneMinute: Varsity Blues
Legal Insurrection: Wealthy Parents, Celebrities Charged In Massive College Admissions Cheating Scandal, also, CNN’s Acosta Pounces On Trump’s Comment That Democrats Are The “Anti-Israel, Anti-Jewish” Party
Michelle Malkin: How To Protect Your Kids From Google Predators
The PanAm Post: NYT Dishonesty Draws Ire Of Venezuelans, Colombian Government
Power Line: What Lisa Page Said, also, Pelosi Keeps Options Open On Impeachment
Shark Tank: Former KKK Boss David Duke Endorses Ilhan Omar
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To The University Of North Dakota
The Jawa Report: Dream On, Abu Abd al-Azeem
The Political Hat: Genetically Engineering A New Ecological Mankind
This Ain’t Hell: Is Yabut Kaput? Nope also, Veteran Punches Punk Through Window After Punk Threatens Vet’s Wife
Victory Girls: Lisa Page Says DOJ Told FBI Not To Charge Clinton
Volokh Conspiracy: In Defense Of The Status Quo
Weasel Zippers: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ohio Law Restricting Funds To Planned Parenthood, also, Leno Blasts Late-Night Comics Who Deploy “One-Sided” Politics Without “Civility”
Mark Steyn: A Steak In the Future


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In The Mailbox: 03.12.19

Posted on | March 13, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.12.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: National Pancake Day
Twitchy: WH Reporter Drops Hypocrisy Hammer On Sen. Menendez’ Salmming Trump’s Treatment Of Media
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Tries To Grill Wells Fargo CEO, Gets Rekt

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The Axis Of Antisemitism
American Thinker: Why The Senate Democratic 2020 Hopefuls Are Irrelevant
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nutcase News
Babalu Blog: Venezuela’s National Assembly Votes To Cut Off Oil Shipments To Cuba
BattleSwarm: May’s Brexit Deal Voted Down Again
CDR Salamander: Venezuela Is Not Our War
Da Tech Guy: Our Betters Get Busted, also, Tom Brady Explains Why 16-Year-Olds Shouldn’t Vote
Don Surber: It’s Jeremiah Wright’s Party Now
Dustbury: Call It What You Want
First Street Journal: What Was Missed
The Geller Report: Minneapolis’ “Little Mogadishu” Sees 56% Increase In Violent Crime By Somali Gangs, also, Trump Requests No Funds For “Palestinians” In New Budget
Hogewash: I’m Not Making this Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Hollywood Actresses Caught Getting Their Kids Into Elite Colleges With Bribes, Scams, & Photoshop
JustOneMinute: Brexit – Endgame!
Legal Insurrection: Nicholas Sandmann Sues CNN – Read The Complaint & Exhibits, also, Rep. Omar Compares Obama & Trump – “One Is Human. The Other Is Really Not”
The PanAm Post: Why Is The NYT So Eager to Declare Maduro Innocent? also, Hopeful Signs For Venezuela From The US
Power Line: Exposing The Real Costs Of Green Energy, also, Socialism And The “Experts”
Shark Tank: Rep. Rooney Vows To Protect Free Speech On Campus
Shot In The Dark: The Black & Pink Cloud
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Meep Is Done With 2018 Taxes
The Jawa Report: Attention, Twitter Luser @Shamir Boiii!
The Political Hat: Leviathan Is Coming To Transgender Your Children
This Ain’t Hell: Elderly Veterans Commit Suicide At A Higher Rate Than Non-Veterans, also, MD Democrat Leader Calls For Doxxing Of Gun Rights “Terrorists”
Victory Girls: Tucker Carlson Will Not Apologize
Volokh Conspiracy: Getting Some Mammoth
Weasel Zippers: NYC Could Go Bankrupt For The First Time In 40 Years, also, Desperate Venezuelans Swarm Sewer Drains In Search Of Water
Megan McArdle: Some Things Should Never Be Resurrected – Like Court Packing
Mark Steyn: Tales Of The Tape, also, Bush Whacks


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Tucker Carlson: Still Not Sorry

Posted on | March 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Tucker Carlson: Still Not Sorry

 

“One of the only places left in the United States where independent thoughts are allowed is right here, the opinion hours on this network, just a few hours in a sea of television programming. It’s not much, relatively speaking. For the left, it’s unacceptable. They demand total conformity. Since the day we went on the air, they’ve been working hard to kill this show.”
— Tucker Carlson

If you don’t understand what’s happening now, you perhaps didn’t notice this Legal Insurrection headline from 2011:

Media Matters Plans “Guerrilla Warfare
and Sabotage” on Fox News
And Conservative Websites

Eight years ago, David Brock openly described the “opposition research” Media Matters was doing as part of a “war” against Fox News, and their smear against Tucker Carlson is just the latest salvo. It is astonishing to think someone spent hours listening to recordings of old episodes of “Bubba the Love Sponge” for the sake of this “gotcha” effort. Like, can you imagine being Madeline Peltz (Oberlin College, Class of 2016) and your job every day for weeks is transcribing “unearthed audio”?

Evidently, Ms. Peltz is part of a team assigned to take down Carlson. It’s what she gets paid for, it’s her tax-exempt non-profit job to destroy him. Imagine writing a headline like this:

 

Advertisers on Carlson’s program, according to Ms. Peltz, are “sponsoring fascism” and Carlson is promoting “extremist ideology that . . . actually puts marginalized communities under direct threat of material harm.” Wbere is the evidence of this “material harm”? Carlson has the highest-rated program on the No. 1 cable news channel in America. About 3 million people tune in to watch Carlson nightly. If he is promoting fascist extremism against “marginalized communities,” shouldn’t someone be able to demonstrate this with, y’know, facts and evidence and stuff? But such defamatory assertions are an acceptable mode of discourse for the tax-exempt non-profit organization that pays people like Ms. Peltz to smear anyone on David Brock’s Enemies List.

As I noted Monday, Carlson seems to have read Vox Day’s advice against apologizing when you’re under attack by SJWs, and on Monday night, he just flat-out lit them up in his opening monologue:

 

Let’s see who survives this war, eh? Shock and awe, baby.



 

Category: Fox News

Democrats and the ‘Sailer Strategy’

Posted on | March 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrats and the ‘Sailer Strategy’

 

We cannot predict the future, and the 2020 election is still 18 months away. President Trump’s approval numbers appear stable — not necessarily good, but stable — however, if we believed the polls, there was never a chance Trump could have been elected to begin with. Let’s put it this way: If Rahm Emmanuel thinks Democrats are in a bad place, maybe thinks aren’t looking so good for them. Even while the daily headlines are full of controversy, we need to focus on the underlying political reality:

More than a decade ago, when Karl Rove and other “center-right” Republican Party strategists were talking endlessly about the need for GOP “outreach” to Hispanic voters, Steve Sailer examined the same electoral data and reached quite a contrary conclusion. The weakness of Republicans — exposed by the razor-thin margins of George W. Bush’s elections in 2000 and 2004 — was not due to their lack of support among minority voters, Sailer argued, but rather that the GOP was failing to maximize its share of the white vote. Contradicting the conventional wisdom within the Republican establishment, Sailer’s argument attracted little attention from the mainstream media until after Donald Trump stunned the nation with his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
How had Trump, despite all his flaws and disadvantages, managed not only to capture the Republican nomination against a field of formidable rivals, but also to defeat Clinton in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan that had not been carried by a GOP presidential candidate since 1988? Suddenly, Steve Sailer was hailed as a prophet. Sailer had “seemed to exercise a kind of subliminal influence across much of the right,” Michael Brendan Dougherty declared in July 2016, after Trump locked up the Republican nomination, and Michael Barone cited Sailer’s ideas in a December 2016 analysis of the election. In April 2017, New York` magazine called Sailer “The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right.”
Whether or not President Trump and his advisors have consciously acted on the “Sailer Strategy,” the results have been almost exactly what any student of Sailer’s work might have predicted. And the behavior of Democrats in recent months may foreshadow another Trump victory in 2020. Quite simply, Democrats have doubled down on their left-wing identity-politics message and, in the process, further alienated the kind of white voters who helped Trump beat Hillary in 2016. . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Politics

In The Mailbox: 03.11.19

Posted on | March 12, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Coming Destruction Of The Pacific Northwest
Twitchy: Sounds Like #MeToo Crusader Kirsten Gillibrand Has Some Splainin’ To Do
Louder With Crowder: Alexandra Occasional Cortex Condemns Capitalism As “Irredeemable”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Falling Into The Groupthink Trap
American Power: Workers Suddenly Have More Power, also, The Democrats And Anti-Semitism
American Thinker: Trump Is An Army Of One
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba Adds Some Desperation To The Socialist Stew Cooking In Venezuela, also, We Remember The Great Scalia!
BattleSwarm: More On The Democratic Party’s Institutional Antisemitism, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: John Jackson – One Nation Under Drones, also, No, The Next War Won’t Be Livestreamed
Da Tech Guy: On Refusing To Let Others Pull Your Strings, also, Next For Democrats – The “Personally Opposed To Antisemitism” Phase
Don Surber: Maybe Jeff Sessions Pulled The Plug On The Swamp, also, Don’t Mess With Texas Or Tucker Carlson
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Over A Barrel
First Street Journal: Putting Self Above Party – Roy Moore Considering Another Senate Race?
The Geller Report: Shocking 33-Year Prison Term & 148 Lashes For Nasrin Soutoudeh, also, CBS Asks, Should We Forgive Terrorists Who Tortured Children?
Hogewash: There’s Good News, And There’s Bad News, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Taylor Swift’s Political Awakening Rings False
Joe For America: Illegal Immigrants Terrified After Video Of Military’s New Weapon Goes Live
JustOneMinute: In Memoriam, also, Run Beto Run!
Legal Insurrection: Finnish Government Collapses Over Universal Health Care Costs – #Bernie2020 Hardest Hit, also, Zoo Won’t Put Down Jaguar That Mauled Fool Who Jumped Fence For Selfie
The PanAm Post: Maduro Regime Militarizes Morgues To Hide Genocide’s Death Toll, also, An Anti-Revolutionary Party For Cuba And Venezuela
Power Line: Facebook Bans ZeroHedge, also, Wallowing In Stupidity
Shark Tank: Occasional Cortex Defends Omar’s Remarks, Questions Democratic Detractors
Shot In The Dark: Aim Toward “Complete Collapse” And Glue The Throttle To The Floor
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere
The Political Hat: Big Brother Is Watching You Enjoy Porn
This Ain’t Hell: The Prowler Is Retiring, also, “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal Calls On VA To Get Necessary Help For Veterans
Victory Girls: Hammer To Fall On CNN Over Covington
Volokh Conspiracy: The ACLU’s Shameful Role In Promoting Antisemitism
Weasel Zippers: CNN President Claims Fox News Has Done “Tremendous Damage” to America, also, De Blasio Orders “Meatless Mondays” In NYC Public Schools Because Of Climate Change
Megan McArdle: Why “Break Up Big Tech” Will Work Better For Warren As Campaign Theme Than Actual Policy
Mark Steyn: The GOP’s Next Hill Not To Die On? also, How Warner Brothers Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Kubrick’s Bomb


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Democrats Have Standards

Posted on | March 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrats Have Standards

 

They have two standards — one for them, and one for everybody else:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of the most outspoken advocates of the #MeToo movement who has made fighting sexual misconduct a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, spent last summer pressing legislators to update Congress’ “broken” system of handling sexual harassment.
At the same time, a mid-20s female aide to Gillibrand resigned in protest over the handling of her sexual harassment complaint by Gillibrand‘s office, and criticized the senator for failing to abide by her own public standards.
In July, the female staffer alleged one of Gillibrand’s closest aides — who was a decade her senior and married — repeatedly made unwelcome advances after the senator had told him he would be promoted to a supervisory role over her. She also said the male aide regularly made crude, misogynistic remarks in the office about his female colleagues and potential female hires.
Less than three weeks after reporting the alleged harassment and subsequently claiming that the man retaliated against her for doing so, the woman told chief of staff Jess Fassler that she was resigning because of the office’s handling of the matter.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

What’s important to remember here is Sen. Gillibrand’s role in promoting the bogus “campus rape epidemic” myth circa 2014, when the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter resulted in male students being systematically deprived of due-process protections. Ask yourself what would have happened to a college boy who “repeatedly made unwelcome advances” and “regularly made crude, misogynistic remarks” under the campus regime supported by Democrats like Sen. Gillibrand.

So now this 30-something married man, who is “one of Gillibrand’s closest aides,” stands accused of behavior that might have gotten him expelled from any university and, rather than protecting the young women on her staff, Sen. Gillibrand seems to have abetted a cover-up, in which her female staffer was subjected to retaliation.

You can always trust Democrats to do the wrong thing, whenever doing the right thing might impede their shameless pursuit of power.



 

Category: Democrats, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Monday: Komi-san Has A Communication Problem

Posted on | March 11, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

High school freshman Shuko Komi has the kind of aloof classical beauty that makes her classmates (male and female) swoon, but what they don’t know is that the aloof quality stems from terrible anxiety and great difficulty in talking to people. Hitohito Tadano winds up sitting next to her in class and discovers that Komi isn’t snotty, she’s terribly shy, and all she wants to do is somehow make one hundred friends. This comes out in a “conversation” conducted after class on the blackboard, and so begins a story that appeals to a lot of us that have problems with the words getting in the way. The manga has been running in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump since May 2016, and an English translation is coming in June.

Komi gets ready for school.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #552, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule 5 Schadenfreude Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Rio Carnival, Tartar Sauce, Ilhan Omar, Women’s Day, Crab Meat, Alexandra Stepanova, Dido, and Marie’s The Name Of His Latest Flame.

A View From The Beach brings us The Song of Siren with Eline Powell,  Thursday,  Goes the Extra Mile in Paris, Dispatches from the Peoples Republic of Maryland, My Cup Runneth Over with Russiagate, Anyone Else Ready To Boycott Capt. Marvel?, It’s Fat Tuesday!,  New Advances in Human Evolution, Russiagate Expansion, Modern Madness,  New Level of Climate Guilt and No Bones About It.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nazneen Contractor and his Vintage Babe is Jennifer Tilly. At Dustbury, it’s Taylor Swift and Cindy Bradley.


Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

Tucker Carlson: Sorry, Not Sorry

Posted on | March 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Tucker Carlson must have read Vox Day’s SJWs Always Lie, because he is following Vox’s advice to those under SJW attack: Do not apologize!

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Sunday refused to apologize for a series of past comments about women and issues like statutory rape that surfaced in a YouTube compilation by Media Matters for America (MMFA).
During call-in segments on “Bubba the Love Sponge Show” between 2006 and 2011, the future Fox News host said that women enjoy being told to “be quiet and kind of do what you’re told” suggested that statutory rape isn’t like “pulling a child from a bus stop and sexually assaulting” them and described Martha Stewart’s daughter, radio and TV personality Alexis Stewart, as “c–ty.”
In a statement on Sunday night, Carlson said, “Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago.” (He sidestepped the fact that some of the highlighted comments occurred as recently as 2011.)
“Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour,” Carlson continued. “If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why.”

If you don’t know who “Bubba the Love Sponge” is, he’s a working-class guy from Indiana who became a successful morning radio host in Tampa, Florida, with a “shock jock” style similar to Howard Stern. He was repeatedly fined by the FCC for his crude humor. There is something absurd in Media Matters pretending that guests on Bubba’s show are expected to offer serious public-policy insights. As for the comments themselves, what did Tucker say that was actually wrong? It is true that statutory rape is not the same as a violent sexual attack, and everybody knows it; the purpose of statutory rape laws is to protect young people from those who may take advantage of their, uh, youthful enthusiasm. To go back to the 2013 Kaitlyn Hunt case, for example, no one alleged that the 18-year-old used physical force to compel her 14-year-old girlfriend into lesbian activity. It was a crime, but not a crime of violence.

Anyway, Tucker went on this “morning zoo” type of show — a radio frat-house, basically — and said the sort of things one might say on such a program, and you’ve got to be amazed at the desperation of the Left in assigning someone to wade through hours of decades-old audio archives in order to catch Tucker saying “offensive” things.

To repeat Vox Day’s advice: Do not apologize.



 

Category: Fox News, Sex Trouble
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