FMJRA 2.0: But They’ll Never Take The Man Alive

Why do so many young Americans hate their own country? Why does Hasan Piker think himself clever for obscenely smearing Dan Crenshaw as a warmongering tool of the “military industrial complex”? I blame Communism. In fact, I blame one particular Communist, Howard Zinn. When the FBI file on his Stalin-era association with the CPUSA was made public in 2010, I wrote “The Case Against Howard Zinn” for The Americam Spectator, summarizing the evidence of Zinn’s subversive activity. Yet the influence of Zinn’s anti-American ideology has actually increased since he reached room temperature (and thereby became the only kind of “good Communist”). Now, historian Mary Grabar has published Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America, which ought to be assigned reading for your back-to-school teenagers. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: History

In The Mailbox: 08.23.19

Posted on | August 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Catalina Lauf For Congress
Twitchy: Pelosi Says “The Public Isn’t There On Impeachment”
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Silent On Twitter Since CoS Chakrabarti’s Departure
According To Hoyt: History Changed So Slowly I Almost Missed The Dragons!
Monster Hunter Nation: Double Barrel Book Bomb
Vox Popoli: China Rejects Servitude To Satan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: They’re Not Your Children Anymore, also, Friday Hot Chicks & Links – The White Edition
American Greatness: The War On “White Supremacy” Reaches The Farmers’ Market
American Power: Reparations Won’t Make Blacks Whole
American Thinker: Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Red Light Cameras Friday
Babalu Blog: National Cuban Sandwich Day
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 23, also, Ex-HPD Raid Officer Charged With Murder
Camp of the Saints: From Europe To Eurabia – Maximum Acceleration
CDR Salamander: The Enemy Within
Da Tech Guy: A Rare Misstep & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Orange Man Trumpenfreudens The Press
Dustbury: That Was Then. This Is Scary.
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson Is Lying To Us
The Geller Report: Documents Reveal Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Propaganda Forced On Teachers, also, Boko Haram Takes Two Nigerian Towns After Government Declares Them Defeated, Many Feared Dead
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, An Unintended Consequence
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Media Suddenly Fear Censorship. Guess Why? also, Iraq War, The Sequel? Hollywood Revisits Bush-Era Attacks
JustOneMinute: Where’s The Beef?
Legal Insurrection: Enough Yet? Obamas Buying $14.8 Million Mansion On Martha’s Vineyard, also, Red China Retaliates With New Tariffs On $75 Million In U.S. Goods
The PanAm Post: The Rapists Who Are “Honorable” Congressmen In Colombia, also, Bolsonaro & Guedes Oversee Brazilian State Company Privatization Wave
Power Line: The Lonesome Death of Rina Shnerb, also, David Koch, RIP
Shark Tank: Rubio Targeted By FBI In “Political Espionage” Probe
Shot In The Dark: What I’m Not Doing This Weekend
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Her Motto Is “Do No Harm But Take No Shit”
Victory Girls: Miley Cyrus Divorces, And Yes, You Should Care, also, Is Patrick Byrne Crazy Like A Fox Or Just Crazy?
Volokh Conspiracy: The 80th Anniversary Of The Nazi-Soviet Pact, also, Videographers Have 1st Amendment Right Not to Make Same-Sex Wedding Videos
Weasel Zippers: Sanders Says You Can’t Nibble Around The Edges, Government Must Take Over Energy Production, also, MSNBC Calls Republican’s Belief In Only Two Genders “Incendiary”
Megan McArdle: When Will Trump Supporters Finally Say “Okay, This Is Not Normal”?
Mark Steyn: War of Words

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 08.22.19

Posted on | August 23, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Going To A Caucasian BBQ
EBL: Roger Ailes’ Threesome Movie
Twitchy: People Are Speculating About The Reason For Occasional Cortex’s Twitter Hiatus
Louder With Crowder: Reporter Tries To Prove It’s Easy To Buy A Gun At Walmart, Fails Miserably

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Recycling Scam Exposed
American Greatness: Minorities Don’t Believe Trump Is A Racist
American Power: YouTube – Publisher Or Public Forum?
American Thinker: We Must Say No To The 1619 Project In Schools
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Back To School Interrogation News
Babalu Blog: Great News! Cuba Tourism Declines Sharply
BattleSwarm: China Has A Great MMA Fighter, But The Chicom Government Hates Him
Camp of the Saints: Tech Culture & Madness
CDR Salamander: We Need More Unsexy
Da Tech Guy: Busting Some Myths About Mass Shootings, also, Under The Fedora – Latin & English, Etc.
Don Surber: The 5.2% Illegal Alien Tax
Dustbury: Trailers For Sale Or Rent
First Street Journal: Is The European Union Falling Apart?
The Geller Report: Bombings In Sweden Up 45%, 120 So Far This Year, also, Palestinian Authority Has Paid Millions To Terrorists, Will Continue Paying Them More Every Month
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, 30 Years Ago
Hollywood In Toto: Zo Rachel – Here’s How Conservatives Can Fight Back
Joe For America: Ms. Nevada Stripped Of Her Crown For Supporting Trump
JustOneMinute: Greenland Debate Turns Icy
Legal Insurrection: Trump Executive Order Cancels Disabled Vets’ Student Loans, also, Oberlin College Seeks New Trial In Gibson’s Bakery Case
The PanAm Post: No Way To Receive More Venezuelans – Host Countries Running Out Of Money
Power Line: The Collapse Of English Lit At Columbia, also, The Growing Slavery Crisis
Protein Wisdom: Further Update & Thanks!
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Prays For Maduro’s Downfall
Shot In The Dark: Since Tony Soprano-Style Trash Collection Was Such A Success
STUMP: Are Public Pensions In A Crisis? Is It Just An Accounting Problem?
The Political Hat: Transgender Lies – Pronouns, Magical Transformations, & Unwoke Feminists
This Ain’t Hell: Thursday Feel Good Stories, also, Canadian Legion Reacts To Stolen Valor
Victory Girls: Marcotte Claims Republicans Are Coming For Your Birth Control
Volokh Conspiracy: A Major Decision On The FTC & Equitable Restitution
Weasel Zippers: Obama Family Reportedly Buying Massive Martha’s Vineyard Mansion, also, Rihanna Plans To Honor Talcum X At Diamond Ball
Mark Steyn: The Homophobic Chicken Has Landed

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Category: Linkagery

NBC/MSNBC Smears the Epoch Times

Posted on | August 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

Nothing more displays the left-wing media’s devotion to propaganda than the way in which they use their influence to attack any journalistic endeavor which contradicts the liberal narrative. They have done this to Rush Limbaugh and every other successful talk-radio host, they have done it to Fox News, they have done it to Breitbart, they have done it to two publications (The Washington Times and The American Spectator) for which I have written, and they’ve done it to me personally.

Their latest target of character assassination is The Epoch Times, which had been a little-noticed newspaper until recently, when they beefed up their reporting staff and began to score some valuable exclusives, including excellent reporting on the “Russian collusion” scam. The Epoch Times also launched an online advertising effort to promote their reporting, and it was this effort — about $1.5 million in Facebook ads — that became the hook for a 3,000-word article at the NBC News web site with this kind of concern-trolling tone:

Those video ads — in which unidentified spokespeople thumb through a newspaper to praise Trump, peddle conspiracy theories about the “Deep State,” and criticize “fake news” media — strike a familiar tone in the online conservative news ecosystem.

That NBC should be accusing others of peddling “conspiracy theories,” after NBC went all-in on the phony “Russian collusion” narrative is . . .

Laughable, would be a good word. Psychological projection, if you want to go with the diagnostic approach. NBC also spends a lot of time thumping on the fact that the Epoch Times is apparently run by members of the Falun Gong, a dissident Chinese religious sect. Yeah, the liberal media are now leveraging ethnic and religious bigotry to smear their opponents — next they’ll report on the, uh, ((( ownership ))) of the New York Times? Of course not. Don’t be silly. The ethnicity and religious affiliation of journalists only matter when these characteristics can be used as an ad hominem smear against conservative media. So there won’t be any NBC News stories about the ethnic/religious identity of Andy Lack or Jeff Zucker, no insinuations that liberal media outlets are untrustworthy because of ((( who ))) the ((( executives ))) are.

The NBC News smear job on The Epoch Times got turned into a half-hour segment on Rachel Maddow’s show Tuesday night. She spent nearly 10 minutes going on about an incident in 2006 when a Falun Gong protester disrupted a press conference with President Bush and Chinese President Hu, which is relevant to The Epoch Times journalism . . . how?

See, when you’re engaged in character assassination, as Maddow is, you’ll use whatever you can to discredit your target, in this case, a cheap guilty-by-association smear intended to convey the idea that The Epoch Times is untrustworthy because Falun Gong is a bizarre cult full of wackjobs who act crazy in public. But in fact, according to what I can gather from a swift scan of a Wikipedia article, Falun Gong is a blend of Buddhist and other beliefs that are common in Eastern religion, and the woman who disrupted the 2006 press conference was angry because China’s Communist government is persecuting Falun Gong.

The Epoch Times editor has responded to NBC’s slimy hit job:

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, known for her biased coverage of the Trump administration and for getting the Trump–Russia collusion story wrong, dedicated a whole 30 minutes of prime-time television to us on Aug. 20.
In her segment, Maddow presents a carefully crafted picture based on false claims that The Epoch Times is a purveyor of “conspiracy theories.”
As Maddow and the staff at NBC News know themselves, nothing could be further from the truth.
Maddow and the NBC reporters dismiss but do not provide a single point of factual rebuttal to our extensive coverage of the actions by Obama-era officials to target the Trump campaign in 2016, which have become known as “Spygate.”
Instead, Maddow engages in a description of Spygate that borders on lunacy, saying the scandal is “something about Donald Trump saving America from ‘satanic Democratic pedophiles.’”
The reality is that The Epoch Times has become a recognized leader in its coverage of the Spygate scandal. The tireless reporting by our team of reporters based on actual evidence — including court documents, congressional testimony, and interviews — has received wide acclaim from readers across the country and validation from other media outlets, including The New York Times, which has cited our coverage. . . .

You can read the whole thing. The fact that they got smeared by MSNBC means The Epoch Times must be doing good work.

Meanwhile, Maddow’s ratings are not so good lately.

Category: Journalism, MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 08.21.19

Posted on | August 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #719
EBL: Hong Kong – “Sing Hallelujah To The Lord”
Twitchy: Epic Thread From Epoch Times – Spygate Focus Shifts To CIA, John Brennan
Louder With Crowder: Watch Crenshaw & Rogan Expose The Left’s Outage Culture Obsession

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Democracy + Immigration = Subjugation
American Greatness: Trump Is Fighting The Battles Nobody Was Willing To Fight
American Power: What Happened To Bernie’s Financial Backers?
American Thinker: Have Pollsters Learned Nothing Since The Last Election?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: How Informants Help The Castro Dictatorship Remain In Power
BattleSwarm: Wilco Less-Than-LivePD
Camp of the Saints: Therapeutic Culture & Madness
Da Tech Guy: Remember The 11/8/2016 Stock Futures Story When The MSM Predicts A Recession For Election Day
Don Surber: Trump Covfefed Biden
Dustbury: Meanwhile Amidst The Arctic Waste
First Street Journal: As Always, I Have Been Proven Right
The Geller Report: Muslim Praying On French Plane Gets Up & Punches Out Stewardess, also, NYC’s First Lady Vetoes Voters Choice Of Saint In Favor Of Drag Queens
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Success Is Not An Option
Hollywood In Toto: Flashback – That Obama/Netflix Deal Isn’t Political At All!
Joe For America: President Trump Cancels Disabled Veterans’ Student Loan Debt
JustOneMinute: Circling Back Toward Sanity?
Legal Insurrection: Rep. Tlaib “Forgot” To Mention Suicide Bombers In Weepy Statement About Checkpoints, also, Minneapolis Star Tribune Paints Mt. Rushmore As Monument To White Supremacy
Michelle Malkin: Triggering The Google Social Credit System
The PanAm Post: Bolsonaro Jr. – “Those Who Negotiate With Maduro Are Deceiving Themselves”
Power Line: Poll Says Kamala Harris Is Sinking, also, Puig’s Good Deed
Shot In The Dark: This Time Without Daddy Warbucks’ Money
STUMP: Are Public Pensions In Crisis? Is Pay-As-You-Go Sustainable?
This Ain’t Hell: Local Nevada Governments Preparing For Area 51 Crowds, also, Rep. Eric Swalwell Claims NRA Arms School Shooters
Victory Girls: March For Our Lives Issues Gun Grabbing Manifesto
Volokh Conspiracy: States May Not Cancel Votes Of “Faithless” Presidential Electors
Weasel Zippers: Odd Squad Silent As Palestinian Authority Outlaws LGBT Activity In West Bank, also, Rural Hospitals From Maine To Texas Say “Medicare For All” Would Force Them To Close
Mark Steyn: On The Warren Path, also, State Funeral For A Glacier

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Category: Linkagery

Italy: Will Salvini Become Prime Minister?

Posted on | August 21, 2019 | 2 Comments

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation Tuesday, an event Forbes describes as “creating more chaos for Italy just 17 months after the last election.” If you want to know what it really means, however, read Vox Day, who sees Conte’s resignation as a prophetic omen of an October victory for nationalist Matteo Salvini, “the most popular man in Italy now.” Salvini is leader of La Lega, which was originally Lega Nord per l’Indipendenza della Padania (Northern League for the Independence of Padania), dating back to the 1990s.

At a time when Italy’s political establishment was dominated by the interests of its more backward southern provinces, Lega Nord advocated independence for Italy’s prosperous northern region (“Padania”), and thus was a secessionist movement. This phenomenon caught the attention of certain intellectuals in the United States, who saw in Lega Nord an omen of a future in which the large nation-states constructed in the 19th and 20th centuries might be disaggregated. Why should “lines on the map” be considered sacrosanct? The breakup of the Soviet Union, the return of independence to Eastern Europe, the separation of the Czech Republic from Slovakia, and the civil war that turned the former Yugoslavia into several separate countries — all of these events seemed to be pointing toward a future of reorganization and realignment.

It was this emergent trend that inspired the formation of the League of the South in 1994, advocating “the cultural, social, economic, and political well-being and independence of the Southern people.” Six years later, the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the League a “racist hate group.” My former association with the League (circa 1996-97) then became the basis of smearing me as a “white supremacist,” even though it could be shown from contemporaneous emails that I had argued strongly against any racialist platform. But facts don’t matter to the SPLC, which has since lost all credibility as an arbiter of “hate.”

The past 25 years, as the intelligent reader must perceive, have validated the judgment of those who, like League of the South president Michael Hill, saw in the Lega Nord an omen of future political trends. What propelled Salvini’s Lega and other “right-wing” nationalist movements into prominence was the phony “refugee” crisis that began in 2014, which was a predictable consequence of the so-called “Arab Spring” that Hillary Clinton’s State Department endorsed (and perhaps orchestrated via the CIA). In Italy, as in other European countries, the unprecedented influx of “refugees” was welcomed by the Left and respectable centrists, and this center-left consensus in favor of the foreign invasion (to call it what it actually was) understandably provoked a reaction that favored the so-called “far right.” If the only alternative to surrendering your country to foreigners is an “extremist” party, every patriot will become an extremist.

Of course, the center-left establishment panicked at the prospect of losing control of the political machinery, and labeled “racist” anyone who advocated opposition to the open-borders agenda of the international elite. Yet the people saw through this propaganda, and voted for Salvini in Italy, Orban in Hungary, Brexit in England, etc. It is not “racism” that has given Matteo Salvini a chance to become Italy’s next prime minister, but rather the political bankruptcy of the elite establishment.

As someone who was an “extremist” before extremism became cool, I don’t expect any apologies now from the liars who falsely smeared me. Sometimes those of us blessed with political foresight must patiently endure abuse while we wait for events to prove us right. Deo Vindice.