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In The Mailbox: 03.01.19

Posted on | March 2, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Remember Andrew Breitbart
Twitchy: Democrat Chair Of House Foreign Relations Committee Unloads On Rep. Omar Over Her Latest “Vile Anti-Semitic Slur”
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Threatens Colleagues – Vote Against Me & You Go On My List
According To Hoyt: Without Law
Monster Hunter Nation: “Sensitivity Readers” Are Bullshit, And You’re A Sucker If You Believe Them
Vox Popoli: So Be More Inclusive, Navy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The End Of A Blog Edition
American Power: Trump/Kim Summit Ends In Impasse, Uncertainty, also, Charlie Kirk & Candace Owens Are The New King & Queen Of CPAC
American Thinker: America’s Second Civil War Has Already Begun
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Asset Forfeiture Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 1
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Army Goes Emo
Da Tech Guy: Election 2020 – Sit Back And Watch, For Now, also, #Pointandlaugh Of The Day – NY Finally Finds An Abortion It Objects To
Don Surber: Trump Walked Away As A Warning To Red China
Dustbury: The Gentleman’s Cipher
First Street Journal: KY Defends The Second Amendment
The Geller Report: Muslims Brutally Slaughter 30 In Nigerian Church Attack, also, UK’s Lord Ahmed Charged With Attempted Child Rape
Hogewash: The Bladensburg Cross, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Greta Flirts With Camp Before Self-Destructing
Joe For America: Canadian Economy Grinds To A Halt Under PM Silky Pony
JustOneMinute: Gov. Inslee A Climate “Warrior”, Not A Winner, also, Going Nuclear
Legal Insurrection:  Unions & Democrats Plead With Amazon To Return To NYC, also, Authorities Charge Teenager With Attack On Old Man In MAGA Hat
Michelle Malkin: CPAC At The Bridge
The PanAm Post: Why Was The Pemon Massacre Ignored By Mainstream Media? also, Maduro Moves PDVSA Offices From Portugal To Russia To Evade Sanctions
Power Line: Shocker! Restaurant Jobs In NYC Decrease After Minimum Wage Hike, also, Berkeley Assault Update
Shot In The Dark: The Shorter “Every Argument With A Minnesota Gun Control Advocate”
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Mobilizing The Poor
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Red China’s Influence On American Education
Victory Girls: Lynne Patton Owns Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep Tlaib Paid Herself $45,500 From Campaign Fund, Accepted $$225,000 From Soros Foundation, also, Mayor De Blasio’s Wife Can’t Account For $850 Million Given Her For Mental Health Project
Megan McArdle: If #NeverTrumpers Don’t Have An Endgame, Maybe It’s Because To Them, Politics Isn’t A Game
Mark Steyn: Trudeaupia On The Waterfront, also, Anne Adrift


Category: Linkagery

CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket

Posted on | March 1, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
After breakfast this morning, I stepped out front for a smoke and the street was lined with cop cars, lights flashing. A minute later, up the block, I saw the vice-presidential motorcade speed past, bringing Mike Pence to speak at CPAC — a speech I will watch from my hotel room, because I don’t want to go through all the security hassles to get into the Potomac Ballroom. Meanwhile, a few images from yesterday . . .

With my good friend Evan Sayet.

With talk-radio host Tony Katz.

With former White House spokesman Sean Spicer.

 

And here’s the really big ticket:

Raheem Kassam had what I wanted — a ticket to his Saturday night invitation-only CPAC party — and he also had something else I wanted, a newsworthy quote: “I think we’re winning.”
A former editor for Breitbart who is now a fellow at the Claremont Institute, Kassam was talking about the Left’s campaign to silence conservative voices on social media. That campaign ensnared him this week, when his personal Facebook account was suspended. Kassam’s ban got the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted: “I’m sure this was an ‘accident’ like I’ve been hearing from the social media masters. Funny that the accidents only happen one way.” Shortly afterwards, Kassam’s account was restored, a result he credited to the intervention by the President’s son. Facebook never explained why Kassam was temporarily banned, although many suspected it was an attempt to intimidate the popular author of No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You. An ex-Muslim who formerly worked for UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, Kassam is not easily intimidated, and he sees the social-media crackdown on conservatives as evidence that the Left is frightened.
“If the other side wasn’t afraid, they wouldn’t be coming down so heavy-handed on people,” Kassam told me in an interview near Radio Row at the 46th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. “If [President Trump] gets re-elected next year, I think you’re going to see serious legislation about this — a Digital Bill of Rights.” . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.


 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 02.28.19

Posted on | March 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Anyone using GAB’s new commenting feature, Dissenter? Tell me what you think!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Chili Day
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Whines About Lynne Patton Standing Up At Hearing
Louder With Crowder: Canadian PM Trudeau The Younger Accused Of Covering Up Payments To Whores For Qaddafi’s Son

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Coal Miners Need To Learn To Code, also, There’s No Such Thing As A Hate Crime
American Power: Muslima Dem Rep Tlaib Calls Out Mark Meadows For Bringing “Black Friend” To Committee Meeting
American Thinker: Is A Second Civil War Coming?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Big Cat News
BattleSwarm: Indo-Pakistani Conflict, Day Three
CDR Salamander: Truman To The Breakers Early? also, Theory Is Soft, War Games Are Malleable; Hard Truth Is Found In Combat
Da Tech Guy: Underminers, also, What’s Wrong With Retail Pt. I
Don Surber: 3% Growth For The First Time Since 2005
Dustbury: Your Dog Wants A Handkerchief
First Street Journal: Common Sense Press Control!
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar – Jews Call us Anti-Semitic Because We’re Muslim, also, “I Was Nothing But A Toy To Play With”
Hogewash: CPAC Day One, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Spike, Ellen Page, & Liberal Celebrity Privilege
Joe For America: Berlin Study – 92% Of Left-Wing Activists Live With Their Parents
JustOneMinute: As Much As I Respect David French…
Legal Insurrection: VA First Lady Pamela Northam Passed Out Cotton To Black Students At Governor’s Mansion, also, UC Berkeley Police Seek Felony Warrant In Attack On Conservative Student
The PanAm Post: US Sanctions Four Venezuelan Governors For Blocking Humanitarian Aid, also, Chavista Collectives – The Face Of Terror In Venezuela
Power Line: Are The Democrats Committing Suicide? also, From The Mixed-Up Files Of The Iranian Nuclear Program
Shark Tank: Florida Senators Back Relief Effort For FL, PR
Shot In The Dark: In Passing
STUMP: Dealmaking – NY, Amazon, Chicago, & Corruption
The Political Hat: South Africa – The Next Zimbabwe, The Next Venezuela, The Next Genocide
This Ain’t Hell: Stolen Valor & Stolen Victimhood, also, Thursdays Are For Cooking
Victory Girls: Project Veritas Gets Facebook Details From Insider, also, Three Positive Takeaways From “No Deal” In Vietnam
Volokh Conspiracy: “Cleaning Up The Lemon Mess”
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Sanders – No Private Health Insurance After Socialists Take Over, also, Amazon Abandons 30-Story Skyscraper In Seattle As It Follows Through On Year-Old Threat
Megan McArdle: The Next Chicago Mayor Will Make History, And Face A Staggering Financial Challenge
Mark Steyn: Woke & Wokier, also, The Blurry Area In The Middle


Category: Linkagery

CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’

Posted on | February 28, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
In the lobby of my hotel, the Young Jewish Conservatives are meeting tonight, and the national media are nowhere in sight because of course, this doesn’t fit the liberal narrative which is that (a) Trump is Hitler and (b) Republicans are Nazis. So many things about CPAC are beyond the perimeter of what the media want to report that if you really want to know what’s going on here, you have to either be here, or read my blog.

 

 

Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman and Laura Loomer held a press conference today that the media will do their best to ignore:

Rep. Ilhan Omar “married her brother and she defrauded the United States,” Jacob Wohl said Thursday afternoon in a press conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Announcing the result of a recent investigation by the website Culttture that took a crew of conservative activists to the freshman Democrat’s Minnesota district, Wohl presented the findings of their investigation in an eight-page report concluding that Omar’s marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was “part of a nefarious attempted immigration scheme… in the service of two federal felonies: immigration fraud and student loan fraud.”
Omar is one of the most prominent new members of Congress, elected as the first Somali-American as Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats recaptured the House after eight years of GOP control. The latest issue of Rolling Stone features a cover photo of Pelosi posing with Omar, New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes, hailing them as “Women Shaping the Future.”
Wohl appeared with Internet personality Laura Loomer and Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman in the lobby of the Gaylord, where they were surrounded by a scrum of reporters and activists attending the 46th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Wohl and Loomer have been banned from Twitter, and contend that their banishments were retaliation for their support of President Trump and their efforts to expose Omar’s anti-Semitic extremism. In her case, Loomer said Twitter succumbed to a pressure campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has connections to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. “Why is a designated foreign terrorist organization lobbying with Twitter, an American social media company, to ban a Jewish-American conservative journalist who is exposing the anti-Semitism, the fraud and the terrorism ties that Ilhan Omar has?” Loomer said at the press conference. “It’s egregious.” . . .

You can read the rest at The American Spectator.

Other reporters were at this press conference. Where are their stories? Given Omar’s prominence, isn’t this newsworthy? Perhaps some might say that they don’t believe what Wohl and Loomer say they’ve found. OK, fine. Call Omar’s office and get a statement from her denouncing them, but if you’re so convinced that Omar is innocent, why not investigate the story yourself and prove she did nothing wrong?

But liberal journalists never investigate Democrats, so Omar can pal around with Hamas and CNN can’t be bothered to notice, whereas by contrast if any Republican got within handshake distance of an anti-Semite, it would be front page news in the New York Times and 24/7 on CNN. In other words, liberals aren’t actually against anti-Semitism; they only pretend to be against it when it’s useful to their partisan agenda as a means of smearing conservatives.


 

Category: CPAC

CPAC 2019: #FightOn Video

Posted on | February 28, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC 2019: #FightOn Video

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Today, after the national anthem opened CPAC proceedings in the Potomac Ballroom, they played a five-minute video that captures what it is that conservatives are fighting for, and what we are fighting against. The video was so popular that CPAC officials received requests to make it publicly available on YouTube.

 

Very nice. #FightOn indeed.

 

Category: CPAC

CPAC: Another Day, Another Deadline

Posted on | February 28, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Another Day, Another Deadline

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
After I hit my deadline about midnight, I strolled down Fleet Street to The Public House, where I was hailed by a guy who was talking to a group of college Republicans attending their first CPAC. “This is Stacy McCain — he’s been at 14 consecutive CPACs,” said the guy, whose name I had forgotten, but who knew me from back in the Tea Party days. The college kids were part of a Leadership Institute (LI) group, and I made a joke about getting punched in the face — which is what happened to LI organizer Hayden Williams at Berkeley. The ongoing campus culture war is a topic that will be addressed here at CPAC by none other than Hayden Williams himself, and I was happy to talk to a few of these kids gathered outside The Public House, telling them stories like how I first met Andrew Breitbart at CPAC in 2007. But I digress . . .

Part of my predicament at CPAC is that I’m supposed to be doing actual journalism here, and this interferes with just having fun, which is what I’d rather be doing. Wednesday night, while everybody was out partying, I was holed up in my room trying to make sense of the notes I’d scrawled during the day and turn this into 800 words of Final Wisdom. You’d think, after all these years, it would get easier by constant practice, but it never really does. At 10 o’clock, I was around the 250-word and getting from there to 800 in two hours . . . Well, do the math. Yet I think I managed to produce something worth the effort:

Jacob Wohl is a 21-year-old Trump supporter from California who laughs at how much he’s hated by liberals: “Of course they hate me. I’m destroying everything they love.” Wohl is a political prodigy. Having started his first business while still in high school, he was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission when he was only 18 years old, an investigation he believes was a “Deep State” reprisal for his outspoken support of Trump during the 2016 campaign.
When we met in the lobby bar of the Gaylord Hotel on the first day of the 46th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), I had no idea how notorious Wohl is. Just the previous day, he’d been banned from Twitter, where he had more than 180,000 followers, after bragging to USA Today about his plans to use fake accounts to play havoc in the 2020 presidential campaign. Basically, Wohl intends to use social media to influence Democrat primary voters into supporting fringe candidates with no chance of beating President Trump. Such mischief-making by private citizens is not illegal. Liberals have spent the past two years fuming over conspiracy theories about “Russian collusion” in the 2016 campaign, but there’s no law against Americans trying to influence election outcomes, or else everybody at CNN might be in federal prison. . . .

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

Now I have to take a shower then go back, Jack, and do it again.

 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 02.27.19

Posted on | February 28, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.27.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny:  The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #543
EBL: Polar Bear Day
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro, Andy Ngo, & Sally Kohn Talk Smolett & Fake Hate Crimes On Dr. Phil
Louder With Crowder: Project Veritas – Facebook Engineers Regularly “Deboost” Conservative Pages, Including Steven Crowder

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Be Careful What You Wish For, also, George Pell & The Australian Assault On Christianity
American Thinker: The Resistance Is Everything They Accuse Trump Of Being
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Interesting Video On Recovery, also, Pakistan Reportedly Shoots Down Indian Fighter
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXI
Da Tech Guy: Why Do Hoaxers Hoax? also, Jorge Ramps Discovers The Real Thing
Don Surber: Another Day, Another 6500 Manufacturing Jobs
Dustbury: Fetch Some Of That Jollity Over Here
The Geller Report: Pelosi Condemns Antisemitism, Then Poses With Ilhan Omar For Rolling Stone, also, Paypal Depends On $PLC Directions To Censor Those Who Oppose The Left
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, CPAC 2019
Hollywood In Toto: What Woke Critics Completely Miss About Green Book, also, Boots Riley Props Up Venezuelan Dictator On Twitter
Joe For America: Florida & Texas Thrive While California & New York Collapse
JustOneMinute: Big Day
Legal Insurrection: 81-Year-Old NJ Man Attacked Over MAGA Hat, also, CO Gov Signs Away State’s Electoral College Votes To National Popular Vote As Eric Holder Cheers
Michelle Malkin: I’ve Been Silicon Valley Sharia’d
The PanAm Post: Maduro Released Prisoners To massacre Pemon Indians, also, Colombian Leftist Petro Claims Lima Group “Has Been Disrupted”
Power Line: Knitting – A Hotbed Of Racism? also, Trump’s Nork Policy Win Praise From Experts
Shark Tank: Trump Clowns “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal
Shot In The Dark: When Government Barbie Deigns To Acknowledge The Peasant, The Peasant Shall Be Acknowledged
STUMP: Chicago Runoff – Preckwinkle & Lightfoot
The Jawa Report: Jaish-e-Mohamed Haven In Pakistan Bombed
The Political Hat: Amy Klobuchar’s Salad Days
This Ain’t Hell: How To Spot Stolen Valor Cases Like Nathan Phillips, also, Phone Scam Leads To Soldier Suicide
Victory Girls: SCOTUS To Hear Maryland Peace Cross Case
Volokh Conspiracy: Denaturalizing Natural-Born Citizens
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Furious At Photos Of Her & Staffer Destroying The Planet With Burgers, also, Michael Cohen Talked With Adam Schiff About Topics To Coem Up In Hearing
Megan McArdle: Harris & Warren Are Wrong – We Shouldn’t Pay Reparations For Slavery
Mark Steyn: Sousaphoning It In, also, Oscar Ennui


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Category: Linkagery

CPAC 2019: Wednesday Scenes — Don’t Hate Me, I’m Only the Media

Posted on | February 27, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC 2019: Wednesday Scenes — Don’t Hate Me, I’m Only the Media

The National Affairs Desk for the next four days.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Just after 2:30 p.m. today my son dropped me off in front of the hotel and I checked into my room, unloaded my luggage and immediately went over to pick up my media credentials for CPAC. Even though the sign said check-in wouldn’t begin until 4 p.m., they were already issuing credentials and the line was forming up. Fortunately, I’d brought the email confirmation with a bar-code, so all I had to do was scan that in, show my ID and — zoom! — I was off, an official member of the media.

 

Which isn’t really an honor. Americans hate the media, and I don’t really blame them. American journalism is a disgrace, and its practitioners deserve all the opprobrium heaped upon our collective head.

With the legendary Phil Kent.

Immediately upon leaving the media check-in, I ran into my old friend Phil Kent, who used to be Strom Thurmond’s press secretary back in the day, became a regular at the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and on the popular statewide politics show The Georgia Gang. He runs Inside Advantage and, like all great Americans, is hate-listed by the SPLC.

 

The line for CPAC registration was out the door.

Is CPAC attendance up or down this year? I have no idea, and don’t actually care. Whatever the trend may be, there are thousands of people in attendance, and it’s the biggest gathering of conservatives in the country. And there are lots of cool people here besides me and Phil.

Say hello to Rick Harrison of ‘Pawn Stars.’

After I’d completed my media sign-in, I headed outside to have a smoke, turned the corner and there in the smoking area was History Channel star Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars fame. He’s a big Trump supporter and will speak Thursday here at CPAC. Rick was talking to a couple of “Angel Parents” whose kids were killed by illegal aliens. One of them was Steve Ronnebeck, whose son Grant was a convenience store clerk murdered over a pack of cigarettes in 2015 by Apolinar Altamirano, a criminal who was facing deportation but had been released from federal custody.

The handsome and charming Jacob Wohl.

Old guy interviewing Jacob Wohl.

I met up with friends, including podcast partner John Hoge, for dinner and found myself talking to Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Trump supporter who just got banned from Twitter yesterday. I had no idea how notorious Jacob was until I came back to the National Affairs Desk and started Googling him. He was banned from Twitter after giving an interview to USA Today in which he described his plans to troll the 2020 election.

Student activists gather around Turning Point USA leaders.

After dinner, I headed downstairs where there was a reception, but quite by accident stumbled upon an interesting scene, where about 150 college students were gathered around for a pep talk from leaders of Turning Point USA. So if you want to get punched in the face . . .

Well, I’m credentialed as a correspondent for The American Spectator, and that midnight deadline isn’t going to meet itself, so I’ll have to get cracking on that part of the job now. Ciao.



 

Category: CPAC, Shoe Leather Fund
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