The Back To School Labor Day Book Post

Posted on | August 30, 2018 | Comments Off on The Back To School Labor Day Book Post

— compiled by Wombat-socho
Actually, I’m not going back to school – the spring semester at UNLV went badly, and summer was worse, so I’m punting the fall semester and concentrating on tax & insurance stuff in preparation for the upcoming tax season. Also, reading some good books so I can pass along recommendations to you!

At the top of the list is the debut novel by Travis Corcoran, The Powers of the Earth, which won the Prometheus Award for Best Novel this year. Probably the best short description of the book is by Eric S. Raymond: “…an affectionate tribute to and critical response to [Heinlein’s] The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.” ESR is precisely correct, though there are some major differences in the Lunar revolutions Heinlein and Corcoran are describing, and Corcoran has a ways to go before he’s as smooth a storyteller as Uncle Bob. I myself found the opening chapters slow going, but the payoff is worth it. I’m looking forward to picking up the sequel, Causes of Separation. Meanwhile, I’ll have to content myself with Corcoran’s acceptance speech, which no doubt sent the CHORFs and Social Justice Wankers at ConJose to their fainting couches.

Also coming home with a Prometheus is Karl Gallagher’s Torchship Trilogy, which adds Torchship Pilot and Torchship Captain to the original novel, which I reviewed back in 2016. If you liked the original, or enjoyed either Firefly or Serenity, these will be right up your alley.

Robert Kroese’s The Dream of the Iron Dragon is sometimes described as “Vikings in space!”, but this is a gross oversimplification. The book starts with a scoutship from Earth (which is losing an interstellar war) meeting a dissident faction of aliens, nearly being caught in the destruction of the dissidents’ outpost, and being flung back in time to the Viking era, where they must bootstrap human technology into the era of star travel – or risk losing a war of extermination. The sequel, Dawn of the Iron Dragon, is out already and I’m hoping to get it read before the final book in the trilogy, The Voyage of the Iron Dragon, comes out in December.

I sometimes think Jack Vance is one of the most underappreciated authors in SF history. This is unfortunate, because his skill at creating bizarre human cultures was second to none – and as proof of this, I present the Durdane Trilogy: The Anome, The Brave Free Men, and The Asutra. The land of Shant on the planet Durdane has known peace for millennia, its sixty-two cantons pursuing their own cultures under the eye of the Faceless Man – the Anome, who punishes lawbreakers by detonating their torcs, the explosive collars every adult wears around his (or her) neck. Gastel Etzwane escapes life as a Chilite Pure Boy and becomes a wandering musician, only to find himself swept up in an intrigue to find the Anome and compel him to rally Shant against the invasion of the Roguskhoi. Part of that intrigue involves Ifness, a researcher from the Historical Institute on legendary Earth, sometimes an ally and sometimes an indifferent observer. Every page of the Durdane trilogy contains strange people doing strange things in the service of even stranger cultures, and yet – they are all recognizably human.

Category: Books

In The Mailbox: 08.30.18

Posted on | August 30, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Keith Ellison – What Did The DNC Know, And When Did They Know It?
Twitchy: Salena Zito Refuses To Be Bullied By Vicious Troll Mob, Defends Her Work In Epic Thread
Louder With Crowder: Tess Holliday’s New Cosmo Cover Praised, Because Everything Is Terrible

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Good Whites Vs. Bad Whites
American Power: Gregg Jarrett, The Russia Hoax, also, Emotional Abuse Allegations Against Keith Ellison
American Thinker: Protect Political Speech From Tech Oligarchs With The Civil Rights Act Of 2019
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily When You’ve Lost NPR News
BattleSwarm: Semiconductor Update – GlobalFoundries Gives Up On 7mm
CDR Salamander: Rotate 90 Degrees To The Left, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Does President Trump Have The Authority To Replace NAFTA As Proposed? also, The Ignorance Of Socialist Youth Vs. The Wisdom Of Claria Csiong
Don Surber: Another Obama Mess Blamed On President Trump, also, Weinstein Paid Off Governor Cuomo
Dustbury: Increasingly High
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: College Bans 9/11 Memorial Tribute Because It May Offend Muslims, also, Chemnitz Update – One Of The Killers Muslim Migrant With “Grave Previous Offenses”
Hogewash: “Defend And Respect The User’s Voice”, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Legal Insurrection: Iran’s Ayatollah Says Europe Can’t Save Nuke Deal, also, Brown University Removes Scholarly Article Deemed Harmful To Transgender Narrative
The PanAm Post: In Ecuador, Lenin Moreno’s Government Still Looking For A Road Map
Power Line: The Self-Regard Of John McCain, also, Politically Incorrect Cheeseburgers
Shark Tank: Soros Democrats Cast Dark Shadow Over Florida Politics
Shot In The Dark: Life With An Abusive Half Of The Electorate, Part III
The Jawa Report: Trolling For Fatwas
The Political Hat: Cisnormativity – In Anime, In Preschool, & In Human Behavior
This Ain’t Hell: Our Homeland Is Not A Sanctuary, also, Drag Queen Sailor Finds Acceptance In The Navy
Victory Girls: DeSantis & The Dog Whistle Only The Left Can Hear
Volokh Conspiracy: Liberty Isn’t The Central Value of The Constitution Either
Weasel Zippers: What This Chick-Fil-A Plans To Do With Employees During Remodeling, also, Watch Crowder Ask Trump Critics To Explain Why Trump’s A Fascist
Megan McArdle: A Statistical Misfire On School Shootings

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The Subjectivity of ‘Harassment’

Posted on | August 30, 2018 | Comments Off on The Subjectivity of ‘Harassment’

If you wish to understand what feminism actually is, and how it affects daily life, I recommend Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism by Daphne Patai. First published in 1998, Heterophobia examines how claims of “harassment” are weaponized to destroy the careers and reputations of men and,in chapters 6 and 7, provides an exegesis of the feminist theory that justifies this deliberate destruction. Professor Patai once taught Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and knows whereof she speaks. Most of the examples of harassment claims Professor Patai cites are from academia, and she focuses on the “hostile environment” concept that feminists have embedded into law and policy:

Hostile-environment actions are now based upon the subjective experience of “unwanted” or “offensive” conduct (including speech), as perceived by the accuser and tested by the “reasonable woman” standard . . . It is becoming increasingly clear that this development transfers the burden of proof from the accuser to the accused, in violation of American due process. In addition, this shift has profound repercussions on the conduct of daily life. And such a consequence is . . . no accident. It is precisely what the proponents of sexual harassment regulations have in mind. (Emphasis added.)

One of the basic problems of “sexual harassment” is the extent to which it is based on subjective perception. Many older Americans may think of “harassment” in terms of the quid pro quo, in which male supervisors extorted sexual favors from female employees as a condition of their employment. Such practices were what the earliest sexual harassment lawsuits sought to punish and prohibit, but in recent decades these stereotypical cases (e.g., the lecherous boss imposing himself on a young secretary) are no longer what most “harassment” complaints are about.

In many cases, the claim that a workplace is a “hostile environment” for female employees is supported by a catalog of incidents — separate and unrelated to each other, occurring over a period of many months or years — which are portrayed by the plaintiffs as forming a coherent pattern of anti-female prejudice. When examined in detail, the various incidents cited as part of this “hostile environment” are often disputed; that is to say, an incident may be remembered differently by some participants, so that what the plaintiffs claim happened is contradicted by the testimony of other witnesses. This tactic of accumulating a pile of grievances (none of which were particularly egregious, when viewed as separate incidents) and then presenting them as a pattern proving that the workplace was a “hostile environment,” means that a disgruntled employee can become a ticking time-bomb of sorts. A male employee never knows whether his female co-worker in the next cubicle might have decided to start collecting “evidence” for a future complaint. He may consider her a friend with whom he can joke around casually, and then one day — BOOM! — he’s called into the human resources offices and confronted with the accusation of harassment. Something he said or did has been cited as “offensive” in the catalog of complaints made by his female colleague and he is expected to rebut the complainant’s tendentiously one-sided characterization of this incident. “It didn’t happen that way!” he will protest, only to discover that his version of the story counts for nothing.

As Professor Patai says, the way sexual harassment law has developed shifts the burden of proof from accuser to accused, and it is difficult (if not impossible) to disprove such accusations. The nature of the claims typically involved is subjective — the complainant’s feeling that someone’s words or actions were “offensive” — and the accused will find it useless to defend himself by saying he did not intend any offense.

As a general rule, the more directly familiar you are with how “sexual harassment” claims happen in real-life situations, the less likely you are to sympathize with the complainants. Any manager or executive who has witnessed a few such cases is apt to be quite cynical and, when thinking in terms of prevention, will keep a close eye on personnel policy. A smart manager wants to be sure he doesn’t hire a certain type of woman, i.e., the marginally competent employee who arrogantly over-estimates her value to the company, and who therefore is prone to imagine that she is a victim of discrimination if she isn’t treated with extreme deference.

Because an unhappy female employee can be a ticking time-bomb, we may observe that the larger the proportion of women in a given workplace, the more time and effort management must devote to making sure their female employees never become disgruntled. These preventative measures impose costs on the company (e.g., hiring “diversity consultants” to run training seminars), to say nothing of the general drain on employee morale caused by paranoid fear that your co-worker might be plotting a lawsuit. One way a company can deal with this problem is as simple as it is obvious: Don’t hire women.

This is the great irony of sexual-harassment law: Originally conceived as a way to bring about “equality” in the workplace, to a surprising extent it has had the opposite effect, creating incentives to discriminate against women in hiring. Say what you will about white males, employers are at liberty to treat white guys like crap, without fear of being targeted by a “civil rights” complaint, whereas if you say anything a female or minority employee may consider offensive, that’s a lawsuit. One explanation of the so-called “gender gap” between men and women is that women are less likely to be hired by private-sector firms and more likely to work in government or non-profit institutions, such as schools. All the talk about “women in tech” arose, after all, because feminists working in academia or in tax-exempt activist organizations looked at Silicon Valley and realized that men were about 4/5ths of the workforce in this lucrative field. But why? Whose fault is it that women are majoring in Sociology or Gender Studies instead of Computer Science? And where is the incentive for an entrepreneur, struggling to launch a tech start-up on a shoestring budget, to take a chance on a female software engineer if hiring her means he has to treat her with kid gloves lest she accuse him of “discrimination”? Unlike the gigantic conglomerates, the entrepreneurial start-up firm can’t afford a human-resources staff and “diversity” consultants; still less can they afford the costs of defending themselves against a disgruntled former employee’s lawsuit.

The risk of a “discrimination” or “harassment” complaint is like a shadow hanging over the 21st-century workplace, undermining the spirit of teamwork and cooperation by infusing a paranoid sense of hostile suspicion into every interaction between male and female co-workers. This climate of fear is not the fault of ordinary men and women who just work their 9-to-5 shift, collect their paycheck and quietly endure the routine hassles of working life. Rather, the shadow of suspicion is the result of ideologues and activists — many of them ax-grinders in academia, who’ve never done a day’s work in the private sector — who have labored to foster a victimhood mentality among young women, encouraging them to believe that they are surrounded by misogyny.

When we behold the carnival of “social justice” protests on university campuses, we can see how this victimhood mentality has become central to the curricula of 21st-century higher education, inflicting permanent damage on the future prospects of students. Having been indoctrinated to believe that oppression is everywhere, they cannot function effectively in the competitive workplace where an ability to endure hardship without complaint is often the most valuable skill of all. Why would any manager want to hire these snowflakes, who are unable to cope with normal life, requiring “safe spaces” to protect their fragile feelings?

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 08.29.18

Posted on | August 29, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.29.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box – Episode #362
EBL: Lana Turner
Twitchy: Ted Cruz’ Comeback To O’Rourke-Supporting Gun Grabber Is The Stuff Of #2A Legend
Louder With Crowder: “Change My Mind” Goes To The White House

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Science That Cried Wolf
American Power: Grifters And Candace Owens
American Thinker: There Should Be A Trump Impeachment Vote – And Republicans Should Schedule It
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: The Texas Senate Race And The Case Of The Ever-Shrinking Poll Sample
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXVII
Da Tech Guy: Breaking Free, also, Hey, Dems! Buck Your Party And You Too Can Be John McCain
Don Surber: News The Press Buried Today
Dustbury: Thank You, I’ll Pass
Fausta:
First Street Journal:
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Ontario Muslims Skin Cow Alive For Eid, also, South African Government Withdraws Bill For Seizure Of White Farms After Trump Tweet
Hogewash: Democrat Mavericks – A Vanishing Species, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: FEC Subtleties
Legal Insurrection: Judge Dismisses Child Abuse Charges Against NM Terrorist Camp Suspects, also, Facebook Employees Come Together To Take On Its “Intolerant” Political Culture
Michelle Malkin: The Left’s Long War On Conservative Speech
The PanAm Post: Pope Francis Should Seriously Consider Resigning
Power Line: The Arizona Senate Race – An Aviator Vs. A Bloviator, also, Will Keith Ellison Drag Down Minnesota Democrats?
Shark Tank: Rep. DeSantis Wins GOP Governor Primary
Shot In The Dark: Life With An Abusive Half Of The Electorate – Social Gaslighting
STUMP: Pension Quickie – Paying For Hamburgers On Tuesday, Or Not At All
The Jawa Report: Mo MoToons!
The Political Hat: Transing The Cake
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Last Reunion For Merrill’s Marauders
Victory Girls: The New Playboy Club & A Feminist Beer Hall, Really
Volokh Conspiracy: Democracy Is Not The Central Value Of The Constitution
Weasel Zippers: Republicans Resist Plan To Rename Senate Office Building For McCain, also, CNN’s Toobin Claims Trump Attacks Antifa Because “It’s Widely Perceived As An African-American Organization”
Megan McArdle: To Stop Abusive Clergy, The Church’s Factions Must Make Nice
Mark Steyn: Farewell Luncheon, also, Danes, Davos, & Denial

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Paging Captain Obvious

Posted on | August 29, 2018 | Comments Off on Paging Captain Obvious

“I didn’t expect to be treated like a piece of meat.”

So says ex-camgirl Jenny Blighe complaining about her first experience shooting a commercial porn video, asserting that there should be a #MeToo movement for women in the porn business.

Excuse me, but maybe if you don’t want “to be treated like a piece of meat,” you should avoid that line of work?

Because really, isn’t that what it’s all about? Like, it’s not as if there should be any kind of illusion here. You sign a contract to be degraded on video in return for a specified sum of money, and everything that happens to you after you sign that contract is part of the bargain. If you wish to be treated with respect, you should stay away from the, uh, “adult entertainment industry” as it is euphemistically called.

Also, what kind of woman becomes a “camgirl”? Not the good kind.

And what kind of man produces porn videos? Not the good kind.

Bad men abusing bad women — throw ’em all in prison, as far as I’m concerned, but don’t act like they are entitled to my sympathy.

Category: Sex Trouble

Paul Gottfried vs. Neocon Mythology

Posted on | August 29, 2018 | 1 Comment

Last week, I received an email from Paul Gottfried, the retired professor who is president of the H.L. Mencken Club. Readers will recall that White House speechwriter Darren Beattie was recently purged for having spoken at the Club’s 2016 gathering, because of his alleged association with “white nationalists.” I later discussed Beattie’s speech to the Club (“Darren Beattie: Guilty of Intellectualism”). Professor Gottfried emailed me to contest the description of the Club as a “white nationalist” gathering. Although he has been called the “Godfather of the Alt-Right,” this itself highlights misunderstandings about the loose aggregation of those who dissent from what Gottfried calls “Conservative, Inc.”

Professor Gottfried spoke to me by phone Sunday evening — a conversation, not an interview — and I shared with him my own observations about the history of the quarrel between paleoconservatives and the neoconservatives who, over the past three decades, have obtained hegemonic authority in “Conservative, Inc.” As I hastened to point out to Professor Gottfried, I have friends on both sides of this quarrel, and believe this internecine conflict has been enormously damaging to the conservative cause overall. Years ago, I began jocularly threatening to write an essay on this subject, which I would entitle, “First, They Came for Mel Bradford.” If you don’t recognize that name, it was Bradford’s nomination to be Reagan’s Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities that was the first grand battle of the paleocon/neocon war. Bradford’s nomination was torpedoed by the neocons, who installed their man Bill Bennett in the NEH chairmanship, which was the making of one man’s career and unfairly inflicted permanent damage to Bradford’s reputation. If you want to understand how serious an injustice this was, go read Bradford’s Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution, an invaluable work that ought to be required reading for constitutional scholars.

What happened in the Bradford affair was a continuation of a trend within the conservative movement of purging dissenters, a trend which was unfortunately pioneered by William F. Buckley Jr. during the years when National Review enjoyed a near-monopoly as a voice for the conservative movement. The prestige of National Review was mobilized to purge a number of conservatives and libertarians from the ranks of the “respectable” Right, and a false mythology about these purges has gained credence among many conservatives who ought to know better.

Professor Gottfried has striven to correct the historic record, and shared with me the draft a lengthy essay on this subject he has written for a forthcoming anthology. In this essay, he examines the controversy over Kevin Williamson’s hiring (and subsequent firing) at The Atlantic Monthly, and makes a crucial point:

[Williamson’s] firing, however, was only one of a multitude of such incidents, going back to the 1950’s, in which National Review and other fixtures of the conservative movement empire had released and sometimes subsequently humiliated employees and former allies, who had taken deviationist stands. It is astonishing how rarely this behavior received notice. Those whom the gatekeepers of the socially and professionally acceptable Right cast into perdition allegedly deserve their fate. After all, the nice conservatives, the ones who appear on network TV and on the Republican cable network and who write for the national press, have condemned those they expelled as “extremists.” Why should the liberal establishment even question these judgments?
On the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of National Review in 2005, senior editor Jonah Goldberg presented the authorized account of how the magazine’s founder William F. Buckley had sanitized the post-war conservative movement. In a commentary “Golden Days” Goldberg indicates the care with which Buckley scraped off the dross from what became a major political and cultural force in American life.

[Quoting Goldberg:] Buckley employed intellectual ruthlessness and relentless personal charm to keep that which is good about libertarianism, what we have come to call “social conservatism,” and what was necessary about anti-Communism in the movement. This meant throwing friends and allies off the bus from time to time. The Randians, the Rothbardian anarchists and isolationists, the Birchers, the anti-Semites, the me-too Republicans: all of these groups in various combinations were purged from the movement and masthead, sometimes painfully, sometimes easily, but always with the ideal of keeping the cause honest and pointed north to the ideal in his compass.

Professor Gottfried goes on to examine several examples of these purges, correcting the errors of those who have distorted the record. For example, many have claimed that Buckley’s 1965 denunciation of the John Birch Society was because the Birchers were guilty of anti-Semitism. This is simply slander. Whatever their other errors may have been, it wasn’t anti-Semitism that led Buckley to denounce the JBS, but rather their opposition to LBJ’s escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

As we know, both Williamson and Jonah Goldberg belong to the “Never Trump” cult that National Review created in late 2015, and the anti-Trump fury of “the socially and professionally acceptable Right” illustrates how jealously they regard their status as Gnostic archons of the movement, with the authority to banish anyone they dislike. Trump won the GOP nomination despite the opposition of the National Review crowd and, while they predicted (and openly planned for the aftermath of) his defeat in November 2016, somehow Trump won again. We’ve had to endure the butthurt whining of the Never-Trumpers ever since.

How do we explain this? A major factor is the vanity and careerist ambitions of the intelligentsia. Those whom Ace of Spades has dubbed “the Cruise Ship Wing of fake conservatism” (a reference to the travel-with-pundits deals sold to subscribers of National Review and the Weekly Standard) are careful to protect their “respectable” reputations, and they cannot enhance their reputations by admitting they were wrong.

We must stipulate that the ultimate consequences of Trump’s presidency cannot be predicted. Perhaps we are headed toward disaster, in which case the professional know-it-all types — Bill Kristol, Tom Nichols, Rick Wilson, et al. — will be able to say, “See? We told you so.”

So far, however, the pundits who were wrong in 2016 are still wrong. “US consumer confidence rises to 18-year high” is the latest Associated Press headline, and the Democrats’ advantage in so-called “generic” congressional polls, which was 13 points in the December RCP average, has been whittled down to as low as 4 points in the most recent Reuters poll. With less than 10 weeks to go before the crucial Nov. 6 midterm elections, Democrats’ hopes of a “blue wave” may yet be disappointed and, if Republicans somehow manage to retain their majority in Congress, we can expect the Left to implode in hysterical madness that will only serve to increase Trump’s chances for a second term in the White House. At this point, however, we simply don’t know how the future will turn out, but the Never-Trump crowd is so devoted to pessimistic doomsaying that anything less than disaster for the GOP will make them look like utter fools. But I digress . . .

Conservatives deserve an honest analysis of their own movement’s history and, while you may not agree with Professor Gottfried on every issue, you should be grateful for his diligence and persistence in combating the establishment myth-makers of “Conservative, Inc.”

Category: Conservatism 101, History

In The Mailbox: 08.28.18

Posted on | August 28, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.28.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Twitter Recognizes That Threatening Children With Death Violates Its Policies
Twitchy: Babylon Bee Nails This Outrageous Defense Of Pope Francis’ Inaction, But Nobody’s Laughing
Louder With Crowder: Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich Excuses Abuse Scandal Because “Francis Has A [Liberal] Agenda”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There Is No Such Thing As A Greek-Australian
American Power: “And I Don’t Want The World To See Me”
American Thinker: John McCain & The Church Riots – A First Hand Account
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily PC Stupidity News
BattleSwarm: Dinesh D’Souza Demolishes The Myth Of The Southern Strategy
CDR Salamander: DTS – How Long Does It Take To Get Rid Of A Bad Military Program?
Da Tech Guy: It Ain’t Watergate, also, The MSM’s Pope Francis Dilemma
Don Surber: Bury The Good News, Gin Up Fake News, also, Pope Francis May Be Headed To The Trump Schadenfreude List
Dustbury: Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart?
The Geller Report: In Germany, Thousands Protest Muslim Migrant’s Murder Of German Man, Merkel Condemns Protests, also, Polish Lawmaker – No Saudi Mosques In Europe Until There’s a Polish Cathedral In Saudi Arabia
Hogewash: Playing By Twitter’s “Rules” Is Like Playing Calvinball, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Lanny Davis
Legal Insurrection: Clintonite Robert Reich Wants To Annul Trump’s Presidency, also, East Germany Swept By Riots After Migrant Stabbing Spree
The PanAm Post: Maduro’s Economic “Reform” Is Just More Of The Same Crippling Socialism
Power Line: Missing Elvis, also, And Now For Something Completely Different – Sarah Sanders In Full
Shark Tank: Governor Scott Releases New Ad
Shot In The Dark: “The DFL Has Always Been The Rural Party, Winston”
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Closing The Imaginary Loophole & High Tax State Reality
The Political Hat: The White Patriarchy’s Greatest Weapon Against Women Of Color – Menses
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Grabastic Clusterfucks That Should Have Been Spit Out
Victory Girls: Preachy ESPN Says Tiger Woods “Not Black” Because He Won’t Bash Trump
Volokh Conspiracy: President Says Google Search Results Are “RIGGED”
Weasel Zippers: Chicoms Reportedly Hacked Hillary’s Illegal Server, Got All her Emails, also, UNC Board Of Governors Member Says “Silent Sam” Statue To Be Reinstalled On Campus
Mark Steyn: Affliction, also, Annulling Reality

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Russia! Russia! Russia!

Posted on | August 28, 2018 | Comments Off on Russia! Russia! Russia!

The scandal of MuellerGate keeps getting worse for Democrats:

Check Your Sources: CNN’s
Cohen-Russia-Trump Tower Meeting Story
Just Blew Up In Their Faces
— Matt Vespa, Townhall

Suspended Pentagon Whistleblower Says
FBI’s Russia Probe Was ‘All a Set-Up’
— Debra Heine, PJMedia

SOURCE: FBI AGENT TOLD CONGRESS
THE BUREAU USED LEAKED STORIES
TO OBTAIN SPY WARRANTS
— Chuck Ross, Daily Caller

As I’ve been saying for months, the Mueller “investigation” isn’t really an investigation, it’s a cover-up, intended to conceal or distract attention from the illegal means by which corrupt Obama administration operatives sought to sabotage the Trump campaign. As the latest revelations show, however, the so-called “mainstream” media were an integral part of this anti-Trump operation, and so you cannot expect Democrat-controlled organizations like CNN and the Washington Post to tell the public the truth about all this. If all you know is the “news” you get from CNN, you have no idea what actually went on in the manufacturing of the phony “Russian collusion” story.