In The Mailbox: 03.03.19

Posted on | March 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Luke Perry, RIP
Twitchy: Former FEC Commish Says Occasional Cortex Could Be Facing Jail Time
Louder With Crowder: Google Searches For Gender Pay Gap, Finds They’re Underpaying Men

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Future Of Australian Politics – No Girls Allowed, also, Podcast #103 – Coming To America
American Power: Belgian Carnival Float Features Puppets of Grinning Jews And Money Bags, also, Labour MP Williamson Warns Of “Dark Forces” Undermining Corbyn
American Thinker: Biden’s Betrayal Of SEALS Should Doom Presidential Run
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Project Veritas Video On Facebook “Deboosting“, also, Democratic Party Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: “Five Ocean Navy Strategy” With Rep. Jim Banks & Dr. Jerry Hendrix
Da Tech Guy: Defending Military Housing’s Bureaucracy, also, Into Africa
Don Surber: Forgotten No Longer, also, Spineless GOP Ruins A Woman In WV
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, All Google-Eyed
First Street Journal: Once Again The NYT Publishes An Article Favoring Gays In The Clergy
The Geller Report: Leading Jewish Groups Demand Ilhan Omar’s Removal From Foreign Affairs Committee, also, “We Muslims Will Set India On Fire. We Will Kill Them And Blow Them Up.”
Hogewash: Forgetting Why, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Neeson’s Cold Pursuit Can’t Go The Full Fargo, also, What You Don’t Know About Captain Marvel
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Calls ICE Agents Rapists, also, CNN Analyst Compares Trump’s CPAC Speech To Hitler
Legal Insurrection: Rand Paul Won’t Support Trump’s Border Emergency, also, House Judiciary Committee Goes Fishing Against Trump
The PanAm Post: The Coming Catastrophe For Colombia & Venezuela, also, Guaido Makes History, Returns To Caracas As President
Power Line: The Folly Of Solar Energy, also, Ilhan Unbound
Shark Tank: Rep. Omar Makes Controversial Israel Allegiance Remark
Shot In The Dark: Allegiance
STUMP: NY To Amazon – Come Baaaack! Pleeeeease!
The Political Hat: DiFi vs. The Gaia Jugend
This Ain’t Hell: Call The Marines, also, Astroturf 2.0 – The Changing Climate Of Protest
Victory Girls: Support Free Speech Or Else, Says Trump
Volokh Conspiracy: Trump Administration Continues To Lose Sanctuary City Cases
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Claims She Lost Wisconsin Because POC Voters Were Turned Away From The Polls, also, Bernie Sanders Can’t Name Any Legislation He’s Passed To Help People
Mark Steyn: The Rain Maker, also, I’ll Be Around

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Madness Takes Its Toll

Posted on | March 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Madness Takes Its Toll

After a week spent focusing on politics at CPAC, permit me now to return to the insanity enveloping our culture:

Liam Hemsworth recently married Miley Cyrus, a decision he will regret “but once and that will be continually.” The new Mrs. Hemsworth, 26, is featured in the latest Vanity Fair:

Miley Cyrus may be in a heterosexual relationship with husband Liam Hemsworth, but she still identifies herself as a queer person — and sees their marriage as an opportunity to change how people view love, gender, and sexuality.
In a wide-ranging interview and a personal essay for Vanity Fair‘s March cover story, the music star got candid about why she and Hemsworth tied the knot in December, and how it hasn’t shifted her place in the LGBTQ+ community.
“The reason that people get married sometimes can be old-fashioned, but I think the reason we got married isn’t old-fashioned — I actually think it’s kind of New Age,” Cyrus, 26, said. “We’re redefining, to be f—ing frank, what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship.”
“A big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person . . . What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level. It has nothing to do with sexuality. Relationships and partnerships in a new generation — I don’t think they have so much to do with sexuality or gender. Sex is actually a small part, and gender is a very small, almost irrelevant part of relationships.” . . .
Cyrus took inspiration from her “favorite woman in the world, Hillary Clinton” and realized that she and Hemsworth were “stronger together.” . . .
Cyrus also penned a personal essay for Vanity Fair, talking more about her queerness there.
“Being someone who takes such pride in individuality and freedom, and being a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, I’ve been inspired by redefining again what a relationship in this generation looks like,” she said. “Sexuality and gender identity are completely separate from partnership.”

The word for this is crazy. And if you recall how Johnny Depp was more or less destroyed by her marriage to Amber Heard, it is not difficult to predict what Miley Cyrus will likely do to Liam Hemsworth. In a society warped by feminist ideology, however, the common belief is that women are universally victims of male oppression, which means that as soon as the Cyrus-Hemsworth marriage collapses, it is his reputation that will be destroyed by accusations of abuse, etc. Meanwhile . . .

Charlotte Allen calls attention to the sad tale of Emma Thomas, a British girl who moved to Thailand and spent five years of her life, ages 24-29, in a relationship with a mooching womanizer who was “cheating on me with multiple partners from the start.” And now? The epiphany:

A year of self-love has changed me for the better, seeing me evolve into a happier and healthier version of myself. I didn’t know what it was like to love yourself, know your worth or feel “good enough” until I made myself a priority for the first time in my life.

You see this is bogus “wisdom.” Her problem was never a lack of “self-love,” but rather an excess thereof, i.e., an arrogant and mistaken confidence in her own judgment. Charlotte Allen concludes:

In days of yore young women spent their twenties looking for husbands. In fact, they started to worry quite a bit if too many years of their twenties passed without their having found…a guy who would at least take them out to dinner now and then if not put a ring on it. And their mothers or aunts or grandmas warned them that if you wanted a husband, it was a big mistake to shack up with any man who wasn’t serious about marrying you because you’d be cutting yourself off from access to men who were.
But now, we have…female freedom. And the above is what we get.
I want to know what’s wrong with women.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Young people quite generally are nowadays encouraged to believe they can make their own rules and ignore the wisdom of their elders without risk of averse consequences. To quote Ace of Spades: “I gotta be me, as the douchebag credo goes.”

Narcissistic self-regard is the kind of pride that proverbially goeth before destruction, but quoting ancient proverbs is probably “hate speech” now, and so we are not allowed to warn young people against trusting their own untutored judgment. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” is also now probably hate speech, and did I mention that the alleged True Conservatives at a certain #NeverTrump site are now engaged in celebrating abortion and mocking pro-lifers?

Quem deus vult perdere dementat prius is more ancient wisdom that we aren’t supposed to impart to young people anymore. Last month, I attended a panel discussion of transgender madness at the Heritage Foundation, where I quoted Jennifer Chavez, a board member of the radical Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), who shared emails from parents of teenagers caught up in the insanity of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD). The transcript of Chavez’s presentation is now online at The Public Discourse:

I was shocked when my thirteen-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son. She had no masculine interests and hated all sports. But as a smart, quirky teen on the autism spectrum, she had a long history of not fitting in with girls.
Where did she get the idea she was transgender? From a school presentation — at a school where over 5 percent of the student body called themselves trans or nonbinary, and where several students were already on hormones, and one had a mastectomy at the age of sixteen. In my daughter’s world — in real life and online — transgender identities are common, and hormones and surgeries are no big deal.
I took her to a gender clinician seeking expert guidance. Instead, he accepted her new identity and told me I must refer to my daughter with masculine pronouns, call her by a masculine name, and buy her a binder to flatten her breasts. He recommended no therapy, and there was no consideration of the social factors that obviously affected her thinking. I was directed to put her on puberty blocking drugs. I was falsely assured that these drugs were well-studied, and that they were a perfectly safe way for her to “explore gender.” I was told that if I did not comply, she would be at higher risk of suicide.
I have nowhere to go for proper help. Therapists are actively trained and socially pressured not to question these increasingly common identities. In Washington, DC, and many states with so-called conversion therapy bans, questioning a child’s belief that she is of the opposite sex is against the law.
I have been living this nightmare for over four years. And despite my best efforts, my daughter plans to medically transition when she turns eighteen later this year.

First, notice how the phrase “on the autism spectrum” is now used as a synonym for socially awkward or just nerdy. This diagnosis-as-explanation is a quite recent phenomenon. Twenty years ago, parents weren’t using this vocabulary to describe their children, and I suspect that the notable deterioration of adolescent social skills is not the result of any actual epidemic of autism, but rather reflects changes in society and culture. The pseudo-diagnostic jargon of saying “my kid is on the autism spectrum” is perhaps less embarrassing than saying “my kid is an unpopular dork,” even if the two sentences are more or less synonymous.

Can’t parents say, “Hey, stop being such a weirdo”? Is that hate speech, too? Something else parents aren’t allowed to say, I guess: “Hey, you’re spending too much time staring at your iPhone.”

How about some old-fashioned common sense? Or is that illegal now? Parents can still use the carrot-and-stick approach to encourage appropriate behavior and discourage inappropriate behavior, but what do I know? I’m not an “expert,” just a father of six whose kids turned out all right — so far, at least. I suppose it’s entirely possible anyone might get sucked into the swirling vortex of cultural craziness, but these things are never entirely random. There’s always a backstory whenever you see kids get towed under by social trends, which was true in terms of my own adolescent misadventures as a dopehead hoodlum in the 1970s.

Probably I’m too judgmental, too opinionated, too negative in my attitude toward current social problems. But isn’t it obvious that a shortage of judgment is the underlying problem? If grown-ups weren’t afraid to bluntly speak the truth — “Stay away from that crazy Miley Cyrus, son” — maybe young people wouldn’t get themselves mixed up in all this insanity. Even if we cannot reverse the general trend of moral and cultural decline, we can at least try to protect our own children from the undertow of decadence and depravity. Imagine what the parents of Liam Hemsworth must be going through. The shame! The horror!

Category: Culture

Rule 5 Monday: Michelle Malkin

Posted on | March 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Activist, author, entrepreneur, and mom – Michelle Malkin has done it all and is still having an impact on conservatism, as demonstrated by her incendiary speech this weekend calling out the GOP Establishment. She’s launched two major media sites – Hot Air and Twitchy – and done very well with both of them. So we’re arguably a little overdue in recognizing her here, given that in addition to all her other accomplishments, she’s living proof that conservative women are not only smarter but prettier than their opposite numbers on the Left.

A shot of Michelle, on the rocks

Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us Hot Pick of the Late Night,The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #545, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism is in like a lion with Rule Five Asset Forfeiture Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s smorgasbord of goodies includes Desperately Seeking QAnon, Clam Chowder Day, Pistachios, Polar Bear Day, Chili Day, CPAC – Fight On 2019, Wales Day, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Texas Independence Day.

A View From The Beach brings Lily Cole, A One in a Million Shot, MD Senate Votes for Ray Ban, Russiagate: All Cohen All the Time, #MeToo Moves to Turkey, Just Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, “Hell in a Bucket”, A Cold Splash for Tuesday, Global Warming is for Crabs, Well, You Asked For Equality and Men Need Feminists Like a Robot Needs Vegetables.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Marisa Ramirez, his Vintage babe is Sue Ann Langdon, and there’s a Brie Larson bonus. At Dustbury, it’s Kristen Johnson and H’Hen Nie.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor

Posted on | March 4, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Ski Bunnies!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Never Trust a Bisexual
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Transgender Women of Color’
EBL

UNLEASH ‘THE TONE’!
A View From The Beach
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Baby, Whatcha Hiding?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Bee Stings, Cult Violence, and MAGA Hats
EBL

‘Gender’ and the Question: Why?
EBL

WHOA! PayPal Working With SPLC to Enforce Ideological Conformity?
Bacon Time
357 Magnum
EBL

SJWs Ruin Everything: Knitting Bloggers in Meltdown Mode Over ‘Social Justice’
Grace & Mercy
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.26.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Cohen to Testify Before Congress
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC 2019: Great Minds Think Alike
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC 2019: Wednesday Scenes — Don’t Hate Me, I’m Only the Media
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.27.19
Proof Positive
EBL

CPAC: Another Day, Another Deadline
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC 2019: #FightOn Video
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.28.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.01.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending Friday, March 1:

EBL (20)
A View From The Beach (11)
Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Remember, Insanity Is Hereditary

Posted on | March 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Remember, Insanity Is Hereditary

And the acorn seldom falls far from the oak:

During debate on a gun bill Thursday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, emotionally recounted hiding from her mentally unstable father as a child, bringing lawmakers to their feet as she declared, “He never should have had a gun.”
“I have spent more time thinking about how you keep guns out of the hands of abusers, more probably than anybody in this chamber,” said Dingell, who last month buried her husband, former U.S. Rep. John Dingell. “I know better than most the dangers they pose.
“It’s not easy for me to talk about it this week. But … I will be honest on this floor, my father was mentally ill. I had to hide in that closet, with my siblings, wondering if we would live or die. One night I kept my father from killing my mother. He shouldn’t have had a gun.” . . .
“My mother,” Dingell remembered, “went out and bought a gun.
“And then all of us were scared to death about her gun and my father’s gun. We had two guns to worry about. No child, no woman, no man should ever have to go through that,” she shouted, as other members of the House rose to applaud.
On several other occasions, Dingell has discussed her childhood, including what she has described as her father’s addiction to medication and the violence she witnessed.

“My father was dangerously crazy and . . . I’m a Democrat.”

That makes sense in a certain way, but not in a way she would like. Crazy people shouldn’t have guns. And sane people don’t vote for Democrats.

Category: Democrats

CPAC: The Final Wisdom

Posted on | March 3, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: The Final Wisdom

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Another year, another CPAC, more liberal media lies, and now another Sunday afternoon hotel checkout. I’ve been doing this annual ritual since 2006 — my 14th consecutive CPAC — and there’s a certain familiarity about the routine now. However, there’s a difference in recent years. President Bush never spoke at CPAC, whereas President Trump has been a regular the past three years, and his speech yesterday was a doozy:

President Trump invited a conservative activist who got punched in the face at the University of California-Berkeley to share the stage with him during a two-hour CPAC speech in which he promised to sign an executive order protecting free speech on campus.
“He took a punch for all of us,” Trump said of Leadership Institute organizer Hayden Williams, who was attacked last month on the Berkeley campus while recruiting students for Turning Point USA. Comparing him to boxing legend Muhamad Ali — “He could take a punch” — the president said “the good news” is that Williams is “going to be a wealthy young man” after he sues the university and the man who attacked him. Police have reportedly arrested Zachary Greenberg, a 28-year-old former university employee, in the Feb. 19 assault that was captured on video and went viral online.
“Today I’m proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars,” Trump told the crowd of conservative activists packed into the Potomac Ballroom of the Gaylord Hotel. “If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and many other great young people and old people to speak. Free speech. If they don’t, it will be costly. That will be signed soon.” . . .

You can read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.

Having said all that needs saying, I again conclude by reminding you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

March 3: CPAC: Who Brought the Gonzo?
March 2: CPAC: Guilt by Association
March 1: CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket
Feb. 28: CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’
Feb. 28: CPAC 2019: #FightOn Video
Feb. 28: CPAC: Another Day, Another Deadline
Feb. 27: CPAC 2019: Wednesday Scenes — Don’t Hate Me, I’m Only the Media
Feb. 27: CPAC 2019: Great Minds Think Alike

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CPAC: Who Brought the Gonzo?

Posted on | March 3, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Who Brought the Gonzo?

With author Timothy Denevi and some Flying Dog beverages.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Checkout time has already passed, and I’m typing this in the hotel lobby, while waiting for my ride. My habit of associating with, er, eccentric characters continues to put me in the near vicinity of controversy. Laura Loomer, whom I covered at a press conference Thursday, got her CPAC media credentials revoked for supposedly “harassing” CNN’s Oliver Darcy. And I don’t want to get in the middle of someone else’s quarrel, but the question must be asked: Why is Oliver Darcy welcome at CPAC, when he has done everything in his power to abet the deplatforming of conservatives on social media? While one might criticize Loomer’s behavior, she is a conservative, while Darcy is anti-conservative. Why punish your friends to protect your enemies? But I digress . . .

That elegantly dressed gentleman is Enrique Torrio, chairman of the Proud Boys. He’s been banned from every social-media platform because the SPLC applied its “hate group” label to the Proud Boys. Does he look like a dangerous extremist to you? Me neither, but the SPLC are experts, you see, and all the social-media outlets — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube — have therefore banished Enrique from their platforms. Enrique was one of our guests, along with Evan Sayet and author Timothy Denevi, on Saturday’s episode of “The Other Podcast” with John Hoge.

You see that Professor Denevi, whose book about Hunter S. Thompson I talked about a couple of weeks ago, is drinking a “Gonzo” Belgian Porter from Flying Dog Brewery, while I’m enjoying Flying Dog’s “Raging Bitch” pale ale. Flying Dog uses art by Thompson’s illustrator Ralph Steadman, and supplying these beverages was part of the agreed terms of my interview with Professor Denevi. So that’s a tax-deductible business expense. Click here to listen to the show:

Category: CPAC

CPAC: Guilt by Association

Posted on | March 2, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Guilt by Association

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
The hate-watchers at the SPLC can click on that photo above to enlarge it. Peter Brimelow is author of the 1995 bestseller Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, and Michelle Malkin wrote the 2002 bestseller Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, And Other Foreign Menaces To Our Shores.

To see Brimelow and Malkin together at CPAC shows how the issue of immigration unites good Americans on one side — in favor of enforcing our laws and protecting our borders — just as it unites vicious swine of all kinds on the open-borders side of the issue. No one should ever doubt which side of that issue I am on, and let the SPLC crowd can call me a hater all they want. Brimelow is officially hate-listed by the SPLC, and you can see from her mentions at the SPLC website (e.g., “Trump Adviser, Hate Group Leaders and Anti-Immigrant Politicians Attend FAIR’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire”) what the poverty pimps in Montgomery think of Malkin. It’s a very simple trick of liberal rhetoric: First, declare that anyone who disagrees with your policy agenda is guilty of “hate” and then, using this phony definition, begin blacklisting the opposition, in order to silence dissent. This tactic will inevitably produce a defensive “flinch” reaction on the part of cowardly people who fear damage to their reputations, and who therefore will act as handmaidens to the hate-listers, by distancing themselves from the targeted “haters.”

Worst of all are people who call themselves “conservative” but in fact operate as a controlled opposition to liberals. Some of those people got called out by name in Malkin’s CPAC speech:

Congress has repeatedly mandated a nationwide visa entry-exit system to track legal short-term visa holders. But one has yet to be built—even in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which were perpetrated in part by several illegal alien visa overstayers. E-verify has been stalled. Sanctuary cities metastasized. And BOTH parties are to blame – yeah I’m looking at you, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the Bush family, Mitt Romney and the ghost of John McCain. . . .
Color of Change and the smear machine racket known as the Southern Poverty Law Center use the same playbook to marginalize and criminalize mainstream conservatives, anti-jihad groups, and immigration hawks as “hate groups” and push us out of the public square. They conspire with payment processors and Silicon Valley to deprive the Right of our voices and our ability to make a living. So many speaking up and fighting on the front lines for liberty and security are being detwittered depaypaled defacebooked deplatformed — people like Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes and the Center for Immigration Studies and Robert Spencer and so many others. . . .

Watch the whole thing on video: