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In The Mailbox: 07.17.19

Posted on | July 17, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Local Municipality Makes Ransomware Payment
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #684
EBL: Hot Dog!
Twitchy: PJ Media Editor Promises New “Smoking Gun” Evidence On Ilhan Omar’s Shady Past
Louder With Crowder: Anti-ICE Protester Goes On Vulgar Tirade Against Troops

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: It’s Guerrilla Warfare
American Thinker: A Different Take On Trump’s Tweetstorm About #TheOddSquad
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Sixteen Years After The Queen Of Salsa’s Death, The Castro Regime Still Bans Her Music
BattleSwarm: Democrats File Articles Of Impeachment Against President Trump
Camp of the Saints: Adobe Walls Needs Our Help
CDR Salamander: Yemen – A Long Way To Go
Da Tech Guy: Battle Of Fitchburg – The Drag Queen Counterattack
Don Surber: No, Trump Should Not Apologize
Dustbury: Low Comprehension
First Street Journal: Democrats Table Impeachment Resolution
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Here’s A List Of Racist, Jew-Hating Statements From #TheOddSquad, also, Ilhan Omar Introduces Resolution To Boycott Jews, Announces Trip To Israel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, What Buzz Aldrin Saw
Hollywood In Toto: How Timothy Lim Avoids Comic Industry Blacklisting
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Has A New Challenger – A GOP Immigrant From Jamaica
JustOneMinute: Bracing For 2020
Legal Insurrection: Gibson’s Bakery Awarded $6.5 Million In Legal Fees & Expenses Against Oberlin College, also, Facebook Labels St. Augustine Quote As “Hate Speech”
Michelle Malkin: Defund Lutherans For Open Borders Now!
The PanAm Post: Brazil Will Collect More Money Than All Governments Since 1990 If It Privatizes, also, Maduro’s Regime Protects ELN, FARC Terrorists, Says Colombia’s Duque
Power Line: Scenes From The Democratic Panic Room, also, Anarchy
Shark Tank: No Sanctuary City Violations Found In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Double-Dog Gun-Free Zone
The Political Hat: The Sad & Pathetic Degeneration Of Society, One Jar At A Time
This Ain’t Hell: Delaware Man Charged With Impersonating A Veteran, also, No Deal For Turkey
Victory Girls: Creepy Porn Lawyer Tries To Slither Back Into The Spotlight
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice John Paul Stevens, RIP
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar – “I Do Not Regret My Earlier Antisemitic Comments”, also, Of 22 MS-13 Gangers Charged With Grisly Murders & Racketeering, 19 Are Illegals
Megan McArdle: Marianne Williamson Is The Only True Anti-Trump
Mark Steyn: The Cancelling Of Lindsay Shepherd

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Wes Pruden, R.I.P.

Posted on | July 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Wes Pruden, R.I.P.

 

He was 83 years old, and died after spending a full workday in the offices of the Washington Times. He was the last of the old-time newspapermen, and the word “journalist” was prohibited from appearing in the pages of the Times during his tenure as editor-in-chief.

That rule was one of several variations from the AP Stylebook known as “Prudenisms,” reflecting Mr. Pruden’s preference for plain English and his hostility to euphemism, jargon and lazy writing. For example, “controversial” was prohibited, as were “alleged,” “allegation” and “allegedly.” If someone was accused of wrongdoing, then you had to cite a source making that charge, rather than just saying the person allegedly did whatever it was. Also, under Mr. Pruden’s rules, “gay” was not an acceptable synonym for homosexual, which meant that, as an assistant editor on the national desk, I had to change this in AP wire stories.

The Times used courtesy titles, so the President would be “Mr. Trump” and the Speaker of the House “Mrs. Pelosi” on second reference, and we were not allowed to use “Ms.,” so that on second reference a certain New York Democrat would be Miss Ocasio-Cortez. Also, we did not use “Dr.” as the honorific for a Ph.D., but only for an M.D. This was because doctorate degrees were a dime a dozen in D.C., and even many high-school principals could demand a “Dr.” if we ever let that get started. This particular Prudenism really ruffled the feathers of James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who had a Ph.D. in psychology and always insisted on being called Doctor Dobson, but the editor’s rule was unbending and on second reference he was always “Mr. Dobson.” I seem to recall Ralph Z. Hallow on the phone with Dobson’s people, getting an earful of complaints about this, as the “Doctor” thing was part of Dobson’s brand, as it were, but it was Mr. Pruden’s paper, and complaints were useless.

Some of my colleagues at the paper grumbled about Mr. Pruden’s curmudgeonly ways, but having an old-fashioned editor was in many ways a great blessing, because he was utterly invulnerable to any kind of political correctness or manufactured “controversy.” Of course, every liberal on the planet hated the Washington Times, so there was never any shortage of “activist” types indignant about our coverage, but there was no pressure they could bring to bear on Mr. Pruden that would make him flinch. A reporter whose story touched off a firestorm of outrage knew that, as long as he had the facts right, Mr. Pruden had his back. As long as the Old Man was happy with your work, it didn’t matter who else might be angry about it. He had courage, and a sense of honor.

Did I mention he hated blogs? It’s true. Mr. Pruden despised amateurism of the kind where every crackpot with a laptop can pretend to be an “investigative journalist,” e.g., Jason Leopold. Mr. Pruden believed in hierarchy, in paying your dues and sticking to the facts. One of the rules in Mr. Pruden’s newsroom was that you could not base a story entirely on anonymous sources. An over-reliance on “sources say” tends to undermine the reader’s confidence, and rightly so. No intelligent person believes a word of anything published under the byline of Jason Leopold, who would have been thrown down the stairs by Wes Pruden.

There is no shortage of “journalists” nowadays who deserve to be thrown down the stairs by an old-fashioned editor, but I probably shouldn’t start naming names. Let’s just say that if you’re a pudgy “media critic” with fewer viewers than Spongebob Squarepants, you should probably be grateful you never had to work for Wes Pruden. God bless his soul.



 

Category: Journalism

In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 16, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Bastille Day 2019
Twitchy: Fauxcahontas Has A Temper Tantrum After Trying To Shame SecDef Nominee Mark Esper
Louder With Crowder: Talcum X Praises Anti-ICE Antifa Firebomber, Calls Him A “Martyr”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Emily Hart Dies In E-Scooter Accident
American Greatness: Trump Administration Moves To End Asylum Protections For Central Americans
American Power: Podcaster Nancy Rommelmann Won’t Cave To The Mob
American Thinker: Democrats Hold A Terrible Hand Of Race Cards
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Service Rifle News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Engineer Who Escaped Castro Went On To Play Role In Apollo 11 Landing
BattleSwarm: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update, also, Beijing’s Ministry Of Truth
Camp of the Saints: Time To Go #OUTLAW – Way Past Time
CDR Salamander: The Once, Past, & Future Strait Of Hormuz – On Midrats, also, What Use Is A Frigate?
Da Tech Guy: Red-Green Omar? also, Trump Wins The Day Again!
Don Surber: Trump Took Out The Odd Squad, also, Why Do They Doubt Trump?
Dustbury: The Magic Number Is 88
First Street Journal: On “White Privilege”
Fred On Everything: A Mid-Course Diagnosis
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar’s Father & Other Somalian War Criminals Now Living Illegally In The U.S., also, Judge Rules Muslim Killer Of French Woman Not Criminally Liable Because He Was High
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Trump Vs. Pelosi Vs. AOC
Hollywood In Toto: ScarJo’s Lame Backpedal Shows Woke Rules Hollywood
Joe For America: Putting Glitter On Your Dog’s Nutsack Apparently Now A Trend
JustOneMinute: I Want To Go Back To Wherever I Came From
Legal Insurrection: Joe Biden To Run On Obamacare, Repeats Lie About Keeping Your Plan, also, NH Poll Has Marianne Williamson Pulling Ahead Of Fartacus, Beta, & Some Nobody From New York
The PanAm Post: Paraguayan Cabbies Shut Down Streets In Protest Of Uber
Power Line: An Accusation In Search Of An Argument, also, Identity Politics Explained
Shark Tank: Rubio Angered By Ilhan Omar’s Anti-American Remarks
Shot In The Dark: Backlash
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Will Tax Increases Kill Small Businesses?
The Political Hat: This Is Why Pro-Gun People Don’t Want Gun Registration
This Ain’t Hell: From The Office Of Captain Obvious, also, Bureau Of Land Management Moving HQ To Grand Junction, Colorado
Victory Girls: Planned Parenthood Cries Over Title X
Volokh Conspiracy: The Tort Of Loss Of Sepulcher
Weasel Zippers: Watch President Obama Explain Why Economic Refugees Don’t Qualify For Asylum, also, Planned Parenthood CEO Gets The Boot After Eight Months
Mark Steyn: Censorship Over Cocktails

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In The Mailbox: 07.16.19 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Why Do People Refuse To Learn From The Past?
Bacon Time: Big Shoutout To Beretta
EBL: Ilhan Omar Making Light Of Al Qaeda And Hating Those Joooos
Twitchy: Did Rachel Maddow intend To Make Ilhan Omar Look Ridiculous During Interview About Impeaching Trump?
Louder With Crowder: Protestors Pull Down American Flag, Hoist Mexican Flag At ICE Facility

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Workplace MGTOW, also, Site Transfer
American Greatness: Of Progressive Carnivores & Cannibals
American Thinker: Travesty In Arizona – Disabled Vet Loses Home Over $236 In Unpaid Taxes
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Ladies In White, Other Dissidents Violently Arrested In Havana While Commemorating Victims Of Massacre
BattleSwarm: Trump Administration Wins Sanctuary City Case, also, AOC Immanentizes The Eschaton
Camp of the Saints: Power & Control – The New New Left vs. The Radical Young Left
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Exercises In Finger-Pointing & Illiteracy, also, A Glorious New Era Of Chicago Aldermanic Convictions May Be Upon Us
Don Surber: Donald Trump – The Cleanest Man In DC, also, Mo Dowd Tries & Fails To Put Down AOC
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, A Total Blam-Blam
First Street Journal: #KYSEN – Sins Of The Great-Great-Grandfathers
Fred On Everything: Puerta Arroyo, Horrible Meddlesome Old Women, Sex, & The Gringa Plague
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Claims “Palestinian” Opposition To Israel Is “Non-Violent”, also, Peter Thiel Urges Investigation Of Google’s Treasonous Acts
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Stressed Cities
Hollywood In Toto: No Safe Spaces – Our Last Chance To Save Free Speech?
Joe For America: Ronda Rousey Has A Message For Megan Rapinoe
JustOneMinute: All The News That Fits The Narrative
Legal Insurrection: Poll Shows Occasional Cortex Most Recognizable Democrat In Swing States, also, Obama-Era DHS Officials Implore Democrats To Pull Back From Border Decriminalization Positions
The PanAm Post: Venezuelan Opposition In Talks To Hold Elections Despite Maduro Remaining In Office
Power Line: Trump’s Immigration Edge, also, Democrats Start Worrying About Holding The House
Shot In The Dark: And The Social Media Lynching Will Begin In 5…4…3…
STUMP: Deaths In The Dominican Republic – How Many Are We Up To Now?
The Political Hat: Woke Creationism
This Ain’t Hell: The Burn Pit, also, Scramble The Seawolves
Victory Girls: White Guilt Consumes Democrat Candidates
Volokh Conspiracy: “Once The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, The Ball Game Is Over”
Weasel Zippers: SDNY Finds Epstein’s Expired Foreign Passport From 1980s With Different Name, also, CNN Actually Promoted Antifa Group Of ICE Attacker
Mark Steyn: Galaxy Quest, also, Wokeness At Warp Speed


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Teenage Girl Nearly Decapitated by Jealous Loser She Met on Internet

Posted on | July 15, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Bianca Devins was 17, and just graduated high school last month, but she had tens of thousands of followers on her Instagram account and was apparently popular on the Discord platform. She’s dead now. Photos of Bianca’s bloody corpse were posted online by the guy who cut her throat so deeply she was nearly decapitated. The killer, Brandon Clark, 21, was described by the victim’s sister as a “family friend” and had apparently met Bianca online before they met in person about two months ago. Clark evidently wanted to be more than friends with Bianca, however, and became enraged after he gave her a ride to a concert and she ended up kissing and holding hands with another guy. More details on her death:

Police said in a statement, “On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at approximately 7:20AM Oneida County Dispatch received numerous calls informing them that a male individual had posted to a social media site that he had killed his girlfriend, and was threatening to harm himself. It was posted that this occurred in Utica, NY, and as such, The Utica Police Department began an in-depth search for the male and female.”
Police said Clark then called 911 on himself and “made incriminating statements with respect to the homicide. The police statement continued:

He also was alluding the fact that he was going to harm himself. After determining that the calls were originating on Poe St in City of Utica, officers were dispatched to that location. Poe St is a dead end street, which runs east to west from Culver Ave. The street terminates into a wooded area where the first arriving officer located a black SUV with a male lying on the ground beside it. The officer approached this male, and almost immediately, he began to stab himself in the neck with a knife. The officer requested emergency medical care, and the Utica Fire Department arrived soon after.
After attempting to injure himself, he laid down across a green in color tarp that was on the ground some distance away. The officer immediately noticed brown hair protruding from beneath the tarp and inquired as to where the injured female was. The male advised him that the female was beneath the tarp, and proceeded to pull out a cell phone. It was at this time that is believed that the male took self-photographs of himself laying across the deceased female.
Other officers arrived within moments, and together they engaged the male. They were able to disarm the male, and after a brief struggle, they took him into custody. He was then transported to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. His injuries were severe; however, he is expected to survive.
As more personnel arrived on scene, the investigation commenced. Officers and investigators needed to verify the condition of the female underneath the tarp, and as such, it was pulled back. Once this occurred, it was learned that a young female had suffered extensive injuries to her neck, and was obviously deceased. Numerous items of evidentiary value were located immediately around the body, as well as in and around the black SUV. . . .

According to police, “On Saturday July 13th, 2019 the two had planned to go to a concert together in New York City. Information that we have received is that they in fact did go to the concert, arriving around 7:30PM. They left the venue and proceeded back to Utica sometime after 10:00PM. It is believed that some sort of argument ensued at the venue that precipitated the following engagement between the two. Sometime during the early morning hours of Sunday July 14, 2019 the two arrived back in Utica and proceeded to the Poe St location. The investigation revealed that the argument progressed until the male produced a large, black handled knife, and used this to inflict the injuries that caused her death.”

Hey, kids, murder is not cool.



 

Category: Violence Against Women

Blunder or Genius?

Posted on | July 15, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

?John Hinderaker has called President Trump’s Sunday morning tweet-storm “a blunder of epic proportions” — an “own-goal,” as they say in soccer — and maybe it is, but Steven Hayward points out:

With a wedge opening up between the Democratic Party leadership and the noisy Four Freshmen reps . . . Trump has now forced Pelosi and every other Democrat to come to their defense, elevating their profile further and cementing them as the authoritative face of the Democratic Party. What’s the downside of that? . . .
Trump’s subtle target here is multiculturalism and “diversity” — the tacit premise of the left that America should be guilty and abject before the supposedly “oppressed” nations of what we used to call the Third World. Trump goes way too far as usual, but his bit about “come back and show us how” is actually a good argument. Once again, Trump may know what he is doing. What is it the old left liked to say? “Heighten the contradictions!”

Do I think Trump is playing four-dimensional chess here? Did he carefully calculate the possible ramifications? No, I think this was his gut instinct, but those instincts are usually rather shrewd. Because he doesn’t think in the predictable terms of standard-issue politics, sometimes Trump wins by doing what would seem to be the wrong thing, but which turns out to be effective in the long run. If Hayward is correct in his estimation, what Trump has done here will have the effect of making radicals like AOC and the Somali immigrant Ilhan Omar the “face” of their party, and make it impossible for Pelosi (or Chuck Schumer, or whoever the Democrats nominate for president in 2020) to distance themselves from these unpopular radicals. At a press conference today, Trump doubled down, saying these Democrats “hate our country” and “many people agree with me.” (Analysis: True.)

 

By the way, if hating Ilhan Omar is “racist,” we should all be racist. She is a very bad person, a disgrace to the district that elected her.



 

Category: Donald Trump

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

Posted on | July 15, 2019 | Comments Off on Professor William Jacobson Will Speak at DOJ ‘Combatting Anti-Semitism’ Summit

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice will host a “Summit on Combatting Anti-Semitism” that will include a presentation by Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson, whose site Legal Insurrection became a spectacular success after he read my “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog.” Of course, I don’t claim credit for his success, but it is a fact that he was impressed by my post, so you can take that for what it’s worth.

Professor Jacobson will participate in an “Anti-Semitism on Campus” panel, and says he will focus on the role of “intersectionality”:

The concerted effort to turn the Black Lives Matter movement into an anti-Israel movement has at its core the claim that Israel is the root of problems of non-whites in the United States. . . .
This anti-Semitic use of “intersectionality” theory flourishes because a generation of students — many of whom now are faculty — have been schooled based on lies about the creation of Israel and the Arab refugees created in the civil war and invasion by Arab armies. In that false narrative, the Jews are wholly evil and the Arabs are wholly innocent. . . .
The [Students for Justice in Palestine] strategy also had a putrid racial overtone, with SJP repeatedly emphasizing that all of the non-white student identity groups endorsed the resolution. The resolution thus was presented as students of color backing ‘Palestine” against the white Jews supporting Israel. This is the toxic byproduct of how intersectionality theory dominates on campuses, with Jews and Israel being the center of the supposed intersecting systems of oppression.

The Left fails to apprehend the risk of a “boomerang” effect. Like their incessant rhetoric about “white supremacy,” the Left’s demonization of Israel will inevitably exhaust the patience of intelligent people. There’s only so many times you can hear the same smears and conspiracy theories repeated before your eyes glaze over and you tune them out. And, as I’ve said before, bad causes attract bad people. The anti-Israel fanatics on campus are the vilest left-wing scum imaginable, and most intelligent students want nothing to do with them.



 

Category: Education, Israel, Legal Insurrection

Rule 5 Sunday: Baba Fumika

Posted on | July 14, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to the Daley Gator for tweeting about this young Japanese actress this past Thursday! If you’re a fan of the Kamen Rider movies & TV shows, she made her TV debut as the enemy Medic in Kamen Rider Drive, and since then has appeared in two movies in the franchise. Her skills, according to Wikipedia, are ballet and juggling, which seems appropriate for an actress in that kind of show. Here she is on the beach with the wind in her hair.

Blue skies, blue seas, and a nice white bikini.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny opens with Hot Pick Of The Late Night,The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #678, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Good Times Friday and a strawberry-blonde Saturday Gingermageddon. Bacon Time helps out with Car Washing Rule 5.

This week EBL brings us Cara Buono (from Stranger Things), National Fried Chicken Day, Who’s The SDNY Really Going After?, Cow Appreciation Day, Martine McCutcheon, Popcorn, Ghislaine Maxwell, Kate’s Kelowna Dress, Simona Halep, and Kelly Rohrbach.

A View From The Beach serves up a variety as always: Strange Angel of Dark Pride and Zombies – Bella Heathcoate, Nobody Knows The Trouble They See . . ., Another Fish Pic Friday, Some DIY Russiagate While I Fish, Save a Sea Turtle, Kill a Person, Another Reason I Didn’t Give Up Entirely on the Women’s Soccer Team, Will Snakeheads Kill the Bay After All?, Let’s Kick this Ball Around a Little, The Trials and Tribulations of Being Fabulously Wealthy and Famous, I Just Hate it When That Happens and Another Great Moment in Climate Hypocrisy.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Rachel Sterling, and his Vintage babe is the incomparable Diana Rigg. At Dustbury, early celebration of Bastille Day with Garcelle Beauvais and Thylane Blondeau.

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