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Forgotten History for a Sunday in July

Posted on | July 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Forgotten History for a Sunday in July

 

Most Americans have never heard of the Battle of Kettle Creek, fought in Wilkes County, Georgia, in February 1779. The British had captured Savannah two months earlier, and in January moved upriver to take Augusta. The British began recruiting and arming local Tories. By February, Lt. Col. John Boyd led a force of about 700 Tory militia, who plundered the locals as they marched through the backcounty until they were intercepted, some 20 miles south of the Savannah River, by about 400 Patriot militia commanded by Col. Andrew Pickens.

In the battle, Boyd was killed and most of the Tories fled or were captured, while the Patriots suffered fewer than 30 casualties. One of the Patriots wounded in the Battle of Kettle Creek was a Georgia militia private named Samuel Emory Davis, a 23-year-old Augusta native whose father immigrated to Georgia from Cardiff, Wales. Samuel Davis later raised a company of mounted troops and rose to the rank of major. After the war, he married Jane Cook, the daughter of a South Carolina Baptist minister, and settled down to farm in Wilkes County, Georgia, not far from the battlefield at Kettle Creek. By 1797, the Davises had five children when Samuel made the decision to relocate his family to the Kentucky frontier, where they established a settlement about 20 miles north of present-day Fort Campbell. There the Davis family kept growing, with their 10th child being born in 1808, when Samuel was 52 years old.

Samuel Davis later moved his family twice again, first to Louisiana before finally settling in 1812 near Woodville, Mississippi. When America went to war against the British that year, three of Samuel Davis’s sons enlisted, and two were commended by Andrew Jackson for their gallantry in the 1814 Battle of New Orleans. Samuel’s oldest son, Joseph Emory Davis, became a lawyer and one of the wealthiest men in Mississippi, but it was his youngest son who was destined for historic fame. A brilliant scholar, Samuel’s youngest son was the only Protestant student enrolled in a Dominican Catholic boarding school in Kentucky. He later studied at Transylvania University in Lexington. He was 16 when his father died in 1824 and shortly thereafter, his brother Joseph helped him gain appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he graduated in 1828. Second Lieutenant Davis was assigned to the First Infantry Regiment, stationed at Fort Crawford on what was then America’s remote northwest frontier, in present-day Wisconsin.

The commander at Fort Crawford was Col. Zachary Taylor. Four years later, the Black Hawk War broke out, ending with the defeat of the hostile tribes and the capture of Chief Black Hawk. Taylor assigned Lieutenant Davis the duty of escorting the prisoner to St. Louis. With peace restored to the northwestern frontier, it was now safe for Taylor’s family to join him at Fort Crawford, and Lieutenant Davis fell in love with the colonel’s beautiful daughter Sarah. Her father opposed this romance, not wishing his daughter to have the difficult life of a soldier’s wife, but love won out. Read more

Category: History

FMJRA 2.0: Floating

Posted on | July 20, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Floating

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Baba Fumika
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Gender Equality,’ World Cup Edition
EBL

Death by Tourism
EBL

‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ Sparks Outrage in St. Mary’s County, Maryland
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Neon Knights
A View From The Beach
EBL

Antifa Terrorist Shot Dead After Firebomb Attack on ICE Facility in Tacoma
Bacon Time
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

Tacoma Antifa Terrorist’s Manifesto Blames ‘Rich Guys’ for ‘Evil … Concentration Camps’
EBL

Aziz Ansari ‘More Thoughtful’ Now (But It’s Still Not Safe to Date Abby Nierman)
EBL

Professor William Jacobson Will Speak at DOJ ‘Combatting Anti-Semitism’ Summit
EBL

Blunder or Genius?
Dark Brightness
Bacon Time
A View From The Beach
EBL

Teenage Girl Nearly Decapitated by Jealous Loser She Met on Internet
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Wes Pruden, R.I.P.
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.17.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Is the ‘Baseless Rumor’ True? Why Don’t Journalists Do Some Actual Journalism?
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.18.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Marianne Williamson Will Share CNN Debate Stage With Elizabeth Warren
Dark Brightness
EBL

Guatemalan Girl Was Smuggled to Iowa and Repeatedly Raped, Feds Charge
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.19.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending July 19:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Honorable mention to Dark Brightness. Thanks to everyone for the links!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Saying ‘Thank You’ to David Atkins

Posted on | July 20, 2019 | Comments Off on Saying ‘Thank You’ to David Atkins

 

Everybody had a good point-and-laugh at David Atkins’s expense, without wondering: Why would a California Democrat be so filled with loathing of “rural white evangelicals”? Was he bullied by militant Baptists as a child? Has he ever actually met any of the rural white people he says are thoroughly despised by “the vast majority of Americans”? No, he’s just a liberal who can look at the map and read the exit polls the same as you or I can, and who therefore understands which demographic category most strongly supports the Republican Party. He hates white people and Christians and rural America because they are an obstacle to the Democrats’ project of turning America into a totalitarian one-party regime where dissent from the approved opinions is forbidden.

Of course, Atkins himself is white, but he lives in Santa Barbara, an affluent seaside enclave of privilege where the media home value is over $900,000 and only 1.4% of the population is black. It’s very easy for people who live in such circumstances to imagine that they are morally superior to everyone who lives in, say, Lowndes County, Georgia, where 37% of the population is black and the median home value is $129,700.

Hillary Clinton got 61% of the vote in Santa Barbara County, whereas Donald Trump carried Lowndes County with 57.5% of the vote.

What do you think the typical resident of Lowndes County might say if David Atkins showed up in person to tell him we was “heavily subsidized, drowning in federal largesse,” a beneficiary of “overrepresentation” who has “all [his] bills paid by cities and blue states”? Whatever answer Atkins got, it probably wouldn’t be “grateful.”



 

Category: California

In The Mailbox: 07.19.19

Posted on | July 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: When Are We Going TO Get Our SHADO Moon Base?
Twitchy: Buzz Aldrin Catches Flak For White House Visit
Louder With Crowder: Trans “Woman” Sues Businesses For Refusing To Wax “Her” Genitalia
According To Hoyt: Common Sense & Thomas Sowell
Monster Hunter Nation: Tom Stranger The #1 Audiobook In The World, Again!
Vox Popoli: Epstein, NXIVM, & Mega

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Miss World America Strips Trump-Supporting Miss Michigan of Her Crown Over Tweets
American Power: Trump Supporters “Must Be Confronted And Destroyed”
American Thinker: Democrats Hate America & Americans
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five NYT Hypocrites Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Baptist Minister Speaks With President Trump About Religious Persecution In Cuba, also, Music Video Tribute To Spy Vs. Spy Creator Antonio Prohas By His Daughter Suzi
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 19
Camp of the Saints: The Ongoing Danger To The Catholic Faith
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Some Life Advice For The Modern Age
Don Surber: CNN Ignores Trump’s Rule In Chicoms’ Turmoil, also, Curing Racism
Dustbury: Absolute Zero In Real Life
First Street Journal: Pro Wrestling Deemed More Trustworthy Than Chris Cuomo
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Used False Name To Enter U.S., Married Brother, also, Journalist Travels To Ilhan Omar’s Homeland To Prove Somalia Is Beautiful, Gets Killed By Jihadis
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Winning The Straw Pole
Hollywood In Toto: LuPone Gets Ugly On Twitter, Keeps Digging
Joe For America: Deaths On Mexican Border Have Declined In First Two Years Of Trump Administration
JustOneMinute: Could This Be Peak Bernie?
Legal Insurrection: NH Voter Tells Fauxcahontas “I Have Concerns About Your Honesty”, also, Survey – Majority Of Mexicans Want Illegals In Mexico Deported To Their Home Countries
The PanAm Post: Bondholders & Emissaries Seek To Keep Maduro In Power, also, Why Support For AMLO Has Fallen By Almost Half
Power Line: The NYT Covers For Omar, also, Daily Mail Vs. Daily Beast
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Introduces TPS Bill For Haitians
Shot In The Dark: One Day In The Star/Tribune‘s Morgue
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Would Anarchy Work?
This Ain’t Hell: Friday Valor, also, Occasional Cortex Gets Schooled On Border Issues
Victory Girls: Rural White Americans Are Ungrateful Losers, Says California Democrat
Volokh Conspiracy:  Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Bernie Sanders Caught Paying His Campaign Staff Less Than $15/Hour, also, Congressional Security Says Threats Against #TheOddSquad Have Not Increased, Despite Their Claims
Megan McArdle: Feeling Bad About U.S. Politics? Take A Look At Britain
Mark Steyn: Populism & Globalism…At Sea

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Category: Linkagery

Guatemalan Girl Was Smuggled to Iowa and Repeatedly Raped, Feds Charge

Posted on | July 19, 2019 | Comments Off on Guatemalan Girl Was Smuggled to Iowa and Repeatedly Raped, Feds Charge

Last month — on June 5 — police in Sioux City, Iowa, found a girl wandering the streets, saying she had been raped. It turned out the girl and her father had been brought from Guatemala by a couple who had been helping smuggle illegal aliens into the United States, according to an arrest affidavit filed this month by Department of Homeland Security investigators. The girl, identified in the affidavit as “ABF,” told authorities she had been locked in a room and repeatedly raped by Cristobal Francisco-Nicolas, 37. She escaped after the door was left unlocked. The girl said her mother died when she was 3 or 4 and she had been raised in Guatemala by her aunt, but she was brought to the United States by her father, Fernando Francisco.

The affidavit portrays this as part of a smuggling scheme masterminded by Francisco-Nicolas and his wife, Amy, who had allegedly advised immigrants to bring a minor child to the U.S. with them:

The father and daughter reportedly traveled from Guatemala, through Mexico where they crossed the border into the U.S. on May 29 by walking across the Rio Grande 18 miles west of the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso. Border Patrol agents arrested them and fingerprinted them. The agents released her and her father the following day due to processing center overcrowding, the complaint states. Officials released them on an Order of Recognizance and Supervision.
From their release in El Paso, the father and [the girl] ABF flew to Omaha, Nebraska where “Francisco” (later identified as Cristobal Francisco-Nicolas) and “Sofia” (later identified as Amy Francisco) picked them up and drove them to a house in Sioux City.
The father then reportedly “left her” with the couple in Sioux City. It is not clear where the father went or if he simply abandoned her after using her to exploit loopholes in U.S. immigration law to get past Border Patrol and immigration officials.
ABF reportedly told the investigators that Cristobal and Amy locked her in a room with a “metal bed and a bucket for bodily waste.” She stated that Cristobal began raping her and that Amy watched from the door to the locked room, the complaint continued.
After allegedly being raped five times, ABF managed to escape from the house after Amy left the door unlocked as she slept and Cristobal left for work. ABF said she fled from the house and found someone who could speak Spanish. . . .
During an interview with Amy’s father, he reportedly told investigators that Amy and Cristobal made arrangements for ABF and Fernando to travel from Guatemala to the U.S. They reportedly told Fernando that he must bring a child with him. He said they were to turn themselves in at the border and then, if released, contact Amy for flight arrangements to Iowa.
Once they arrived in Sioux City, they were expected to get a job with Amy’s assistance and help pay for rent and the food while they lived at the house. They were also to pay Amy and Cristobal and Amy back for the smuggling fees.
The other foreign nationals in the house also reportedly told investigators Amy and Cristobal helped smuggle them to the U.S. and they were also helping to pay household expenses and repaying smuggling fees, the complaint states.
All of the foreign nationals found in the house are reportedly under an Order of Supervision from immigration officials. . . .

Democrats in Congress refuse to pass any legislation that would close the loopholes in our immigration law that made this crime possible.



 

Category: Guatemala, Immigration, Iowa, Violence Against Women

Marianne Williamson Will Share CNN Debate Stage With Elizabeth Warren

Posted on | July 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

The lineup for the second round of Democrat presidential debates — July 30-31 in Detroit, televised by CNN — will feature Marianne Williamson on the first night, along with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Meanwhile the second night will feature a rematch between former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris.

Second-quarter fundraising showed five candidates — Buttigieg, Biden, Warren, Sanders and Harris — raise three-quarters of the money raised by the entire Democratic field. Buttigieg’s surge in the second quarter, raising nearly $25 million, was remarkable, as was the complete meltdown of former Texas Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s campaign. After raising $9.4 million in the first quarter of 2019, O’Rourke’s total slumped to $3.6 million in the second quarter, when he spent more ($5.3 million) than he raised. O’Rourke’s second-quarter “burn rate” of 146% was exceeded only by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who spent nearly twice as much (184%) as she raised in the second quarter. Having a high “burn rate” — spending more than the candidate raises — is usually a sign that a campaign has more paid staff than it can afford, which could eventually bankrupt a campaign.

Williamson’s second-quarter fundraising haul of $1.5 million came mostly (71%) from small donors, exceeding Sanders (70%) and Warren (67%) in the percentage of donors giving under $200. However, earlier this month, Williamson said she still needs 49,000 new unique donors to reach the 130,000 unique-donor threshold the DNC has announced for the third round of debates in September. Perhaps getting a celebrity endorsement from Alyssa Milano will help, and the candidate also made an appearance this week on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show.

 

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (D) ripped President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening for his “dangerous” rally that was out of the “fascist playbook,” warning Americans to think about how Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany.
“The president’s talk tonight was more than discouraging. The president’s talk tonight was dangerous. And it’s very important for Americans to see that talk and for all patriotic Americans, whether on the left or right, to be very clear that we don’t do that in America,” Williamson told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Our political opponents are not our enemies. You didn’t hear talk like that from Ronald Reagan or from George W. Bush or from George Bush Sr. when talking about Democrats. That’s not what we do here.”
Williamson, the spiritual adviser and author who has advised Oprah Winfrey, even suggested a link between Trump and the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany when speaking about the “send her back” chants directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
“And this is so far away from the traditions of democracy that when your former guests were trying to talk about has anything like this ever happened in America, the question is not has anything like this ever happened in America. We need to think about how it happened in Germany,” she continued. “We need to be very, very serious and take this very seriously because the president has said this is how he’s going to run this campaign. The way he was talking about four elected officials, these women are U.S. Congresspeople. We don’t do this in America.”

Remember: This is about Democrat primary voters. You may not believe Trump is a potential Hitler, but Democrat primary voters do.



 

Category: Debates, Democrats, Election

In The Mailbox: 07.18.19

Posted on | July 18, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.18.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As EBL points out, Kirby McCain needs some help as well.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Seattle’s Recipe For More Crime
EBL: Adobe Walls & Kirby McCain Need Help
Twitchy: CNN’s Acosta Says “Video Doesn’t Lie”, Which Is Why He Needs To Correct His Earlier Tweet

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: The New Face Of The Democratic Party
American Power: Trump Has The Moral High Ground
American Thinker: The Left’s Demonization Of Conservatives Becomes Dangerous
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Stoned Vikings News
Babalu Blog: “Send Them Back!” When The NYT Cracked The Whip Against Uppity “Law-Breaking” Refugees
BattleSwarm: Impeachment Motion Tabled
Camp of the Saints: “A Great Moral Failing” On Our Part
CDR Salamander: “You Can Sleep In The Grave” Isn’t All That Funny Any More
Da Tech Guy: And The Award For The Best Economics Book Goes To…, also, Parody Or No? Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Trump’s Hamilton Distraction
Dustbury: Wrong On Both Counts
First Street Journal: This Man Did Nothing Wrong But Faces 49 Years In Prison
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Muslims Rape, Stone 60-Year-Old Syrian Woman To Death, also, How Ilhan Omar Desperately Tries To Explain Marriage To Brother
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Marx Sisters
Hollywood In Toto: Why Liberal Netflix May Have Dug Its Own Streaming Grave
Joe For America: President Trump Has A New, Shorter Name For AOC And She’s Already Losing Her Mind Over It
JustOneMinute: Send Back “Send Her Back”
Legal Insurrection: House Approves Bill To Double Fed Minimum Wage To $15, also, CO State “Inclusive Language Guide” Suggests Avoiding “America”, “American”
Power Line: Tying Up Lose Threads In The Curious Case Of Ilhan Omar, also, Democrats Can’t Take Their Own Medicine
Shark Tank: Pro-Israel Democrats Challenged by “Progressives”
Shot In The Dark: Squad Level Tactics
The Political Hat: Transgender Violence – Dead Baby, Murdered Boy, Offended Trans-Boy
This Ain’t Hell: Fake SEAL Behind Memorial Effort, also, USS Independence
Victory Girls: No, I Won’t Stand With Ilhan Omar – EVER
Volokh Conspiracy: MS Gubernatorial Candidates Out Billy Grahaming Each Other
Weasel Zippers: Ted Cruz Calls Out How Google Swung Millions Of Votes To Hillary In 2016, also, Students Say Obama Immigration Quote Is Racist – When They Think It’s From Trump
Megan McArdle: Why The Wheels Are Coming Off Obamacare’s “Cadillac Tax”
Mark Steyn: Wokers Of The World Utd.

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Is the ‘Baseless Rumor’ True? Why Don’t Journalists Do Some Actual Journalism?

Posted on | July 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

The question of whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) married her brother is an interesting question and, earlier this year at CPAC, I covered a press conference by bloggers who said the answer is “yes.” The persistent accusations that her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a fraud finally prompted the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to investigate, and they could not rule out the possibility that Elmi is indeed her brother:

New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.
Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as “baseless rumors” first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.
The questions surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmi.
Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.
The new documents also detail the Omar campaign’s efforts to keep the story of her marriage to Elmi out of the press, arguing that detailed coverage would legitimize the accusations and invade her privacy.

Well, if the Star-Tribune could find nothing to debunk the “baseless rumors,” how do we know they’re baseless? And the investigation raises questions about the purpose of this marriage, which appears to have existed only as a matter of paperwork and might have constituted fraud.

Yesterday, Donald Trump challenged reporters to pursue this story:

President Trump on Wednesday repeated the claim that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by illegally marrying her brother.
Trump made the statement while responding to a question from a reporter from the One America News Network before leaving for a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina.
Reporter Emerald Robinson asked the president “if the administration was looking into possible immigration fraud committed by Ilhan Omar for possibly marrying her brother.”
“Well, there’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it,” Trump said.
“I hear she was married to her brother. You’re asking me a question about it. I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s somebody who will be looking at that,” he added.
Trump’s statement comes amid his ongoing feud with a group of freshman congresswomen known as “the Squad,” which includes Omar. . . .
The claim that Omar illegally wed her brother so he could gain American citizenship first surfaced on conservative blogs in 2016, when she was running for the Minnesota state legislature.
In a statement that year, Omar called it “baseless rumors” that “are absolutely false and ridiculous.”
Omar then said she had married her current partner, Ahmed Hirsi, in the eyes of her Muslim faith in 2002 — but never legally married him. Their partnership ended in 2008.
Omar then legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, but that union ended in 2011, according to her statement.
“Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive,” she said at the time.

The question is not whether the “insinuations” are “offensive,” but whether they are true, and why couldn’t the staff of the Star-Tribune determine this question one way or the other? It would seem simple enough: Who are Ahmed Nur Said Elmi’s parents? But good luck finding a definite answer to that question, because Somalia is notoriously a failed state, destroyed by civil war and Islamic fundamentalism, and a reporter can’t simply book a flight to Mogadishu, stroll into a government office and walk out with a Xerox copy of a birth certificate for Ahmed Elmi — or Ilhan Omar, for that matter. We are told that she was born in 1982, and that her mother died when she was 2, and while I’m not saying I doubt any of the specifics about her early life in Somali as related by Wikipedia, I’d suspect that finding documentary evidence to verify these details would be difficult. What we know is that she arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1992, when Somalia was being torn apart by rival warlords, and that her subsequent career as a politician puts her on the extreme left-wing fringe of American politics. But let us ask a very simple question: Where is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi now?

If reporters want to debunk the “baseless rumors,” wouldn’t Ahmed Elmi be the obvious source to put an end to this controversy?

Go ask Brian Stelter or Jake Tapper: Where is Ahmed Elmi? Why can’t CNN reporters find this mystery man who once married Ilhan Omar? Wouldn’t it be the biggest scoop of the year if CNN could locate this man, interview him on camera and thereby vindicate Ilhan Omar’s innocence?

What explains the mainstream media’s lack of curiosity about Ahmed Elmi? Why isn’t a crew from 60 Minutes doggedly trying to find him? Doesn’t it seem like these journalists don’t want to know the answer?

Or perhaps they’ve just been “hypnotized.” Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.



 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Media Bias, Minnesota, Somalia
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