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Intersectional History

Posted on | May 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Intersectional History

 

On my drive down here to Florida, I realized I’d be passing through Valdosta, where a long-time reader just moved, and so I stopped by, and was pleased to discover that her beautiful home is at the intersection of Toombs and Gordon streets. Students of Georgia history will smile at this serendipity, but for the rest of you, I’ll tell you that, among other accomplishments, Robert Toombs commanded the troops on the west bank of Antietam Creek overlooking Burnside’s Bridge, while John B. Gordon was wounded four times in the same battle.

Saturday night, on The Other Podcast with John Hoge, our long-time reader expressed concern that I’d vanished because I hadn’t updated the blog, but trying to cover this conference has kept me busy. Listen to the podcast and you’ll hear a lot more on this subject.

Category: History, Shoe Leather Fund

In The Mailbox: 05.03.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Coming To A City Near You – Seattle Is Dying
Twitchy: Donald Trump Calls Out Facebook & Twitter For Banning Conservatives, Name-Checks James Woods
Louder With Crowder: Paul Joseph Watson Responds To Social Media Banishment
According To Hoyt: Bad Trip
Monster Hunter Nation: Monster Hunter: Guardian EArc Out Now!
Vox Popoli: Attacking American History, also, Milo, Alex Jones, PJW Banned By Facebook

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Real Thing Edition
American Greatness: Clinton Projection Syndrome, also, Mogadishu Comes To Minneapolis
American Power: Great Mitch McConnell “Medicare Scare” Video
American Thinker: William Barr In The Crosshairs
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Wealth Tax Friday
Babalu Blog: Exxon Files Suit For Cuba Property Stolen By Castro Regime, also, EU Vows To Defend Cuban Property Thieves
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 3
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Netflix Releases Details Of $65 Million Obama Bribe, also, Bill Barr – More Trump Than Trump?
Dustbury: Medically-Approved Dangle
First Street Journal: A Very Bad Idea Is Being Considered
The Geller Report: Muslim-American Society In Philadelphia Indoctrinating Kids To Be Terrorists, also, Poynter Forced To Scrap “Unreliable News” List Targeting Conservatives
Hogewash: Hubble Zooms Out, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Star Power Saves Long Shot From Liberal Talking Points
Joe For America: NYT Confirms Joe Biden Extorted Ukraine For Son Hunter’s Cushy Job
JustOneMinute: It’s The Economy, Stupid
Legal Insurrection: Transgender Weightlifter Breaks Several Womens’ Records, also, “Burning Man” Event Might Be Snuffed Out By Permitting Rules
The PanAm Post: Maduro Loyalist Thugs Decapitate Enemies ISIS-Style, also, Top Ten Useful Idiots For Venezuela’s Socialist Revolution
Power Line: For Fear Of William Barr, also, The Boom Continues
Shot In The Dark: Big Personal Data
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Problem With Illegal Aliens
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Ending Training Program For Afghan Pilots – Nearly 40% Go AWOL In US, also, Army Investigating Soldier’s Alleged Leadership Of Neo-Nazi Terror Group
Victory Girls: Baltimore Mayor Pugh Resigns
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Planned Parenthood Dances & Chants About Their Abortions In “Fetus Graveyard”, also, Washington Post Labels Farrakhan “Far Right” Leader
Megan McArdle: Sorry Bernie, Most Americans Like Their Health Insurance The Way It Is
Mark Steyn: “This Isn’t Funny Any More”, also, Some Bestial Taint


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In The Mailbox: 05.03.19 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NYT – Everything Is Trump’s Fault
EBL: Obama Blamed Hillary For 2016 Loss Due To Her “Soulless Campaign”
Twitchy: Ukraine Embassy Claims DNC Op Reached Out For “Dirt On Trump” In 2016
Louder With Crowder: Facebook & Instagram Ban Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars, Laura Loomer, & More

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Correctly Vote In The Australian Elections
American Greatness: Leaky Bob Is Desperate To Slow The Reckoning, also, Has The Intel Community Become A Danger To The Republic?
American Power: Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Others
American Thinker: Ignorance, Fear, And LGBTQ
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mexican Standoff News
Babalu Blog: The Fall of Venezuela’s Socialist Dictatorship Could Mean The Fall Of Cuba’s Regime As Well
BattleSwarm: Scientology, Measles, & The Sea Org
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: The Instagram Guide To Being A Beautiful Woman Alone In Your 40s, also, The 2020 Election – Individualism vs. Collectivism
Don Surber: Covington Kid Sues NBC For $275 Million
Dustbury: Direly Straitlaced
First Street Journal: Feminist Professor Doesn’t Believe Woman Can Compete Equally With Men
The Geller Report: Gaza Muslim Activist Maryam Abu Moussa Has Some Nasty Things To Say About Jews & Trump, also, Your Tax Dollars At Work – $41 Million For Jihad
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Democrats Vs. Barr
Hollywood In Toto: Roseanne’s Son Shreds Disney Over Huge Double Standard
Joe For America: FISA Court Judge Says Obama’s FBI Lied To Them And Were Spying Illegally FOUR YEARS Before The Election
JustOneMinute: Just Don’t Call It “Spying”
Legal Insurrection: Schumer Strikes Out Again – Joaquin Castro Won’t Challenge Cornyn, also, DePaul U Faculty Condemns Prof For Supporting Israel
The PanAm Post: Democratic Politicians Promote Disinformation In Venezuela
Power Line: Loose Ends, also, Omar Blames America First
Shot In The Dark: Eggs For The Omelet
The Jawa Report: RIP Peter Mayhew AKA Chewie
The Political Hat: Gender Madness – Coerced Speech, Illegal Speech, & “Family Violence” Speech
This Ain’t Hell: When You Look Up To Reverend Al…, also, There Is Not Enough Whiskey In The World
Victory Girls: “Hi Honey!” Nellie Ohr’s E-Mails Prove She Lied About Steele Dossier
Volokh Conspiracy: Hate Speech On Social Media
Weasel Zippers: Media Spins Mueller Letter One Last Time, Sen. Grassley Drops The Mic On Them, also, High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They “Traumatize Students”
Mark Steyn: A Tide In The Affairs Of Men


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Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Crazy People Are Dangerous

Working the free wifi at Krystal here on U.S. 441.

MADISON, Georgia
After 10 hours on the road, I got five hours of sleep Thursday night on the sofa at my brother’s house in Barrow County, the headed south to avoid Atlanta-area traffic, so that my route via Macon will get me to Orlando in another six hours. One of the things about these long road trips is you miss a lot of news and, while I was driving and listening to country music on the radio, there was some serious craziness:

Federal and local law enforcement officials arrested a Washington state man on Wednesday after he allegedly threatened Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
The Kent Police Department helped the FBI arrest a 27-year-old Kent man during a traffic stop, local media reported. He faces charges related to making serious threats against Mr. Shapiro, who is founder and editor of conservative news outlet The Daily Wire.
The suspect made “extremely serious” threats against Shapiro and his family, according to a TMZ report, which Mr. Shapiro later confirmed.

 

More details on the suspect:

Chase Bliss Colasurdo is a 27-year-old from Kent, Washington, who was arrested and charged with transmitting interstate death threats against President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, his son Donald Trump Jr., and right wing media journalist, Ben Shapiro on May 1.
In the 7-page felony complaint, prosecutors say the FBI first began investigating Colasurdo after a “concerned citizen” was alarmed by his extremely anti-semitic posts on social media. In addition to his thousands of disturbing and erratic Instagram posts over the past few months, investigators found he sent an email on February 26, to five different news outlets writing “I’m going to personally execute White House Senior Advisor J.K. for his countless treasonous crimes,” court documents show.
The following day on Instagram, Colasurdo, an amateur MMA fighter, posted a photo of himself with what appears to be a black handgun and wrote in the caption section, “I made a death threat to J.K. yesterday, and I have not been arrested yet. Almost like I have special forces murdering anyone trying to f–k with me or something… By the way, I do still plan on personally executing him, ideally.”

(He was doing this in February, and just now got arrested?)

There are many violent threats on his Instagram page, and toward such a wide array of public figures, but his account remains active, despite seemingly being against rules set by Instagram’s parent company, Facebook. Federal authorities also said that numerous weapons and ammunition were found during a search of his home. . . .
With more than 3,000 Instagram posts dedicated to the praise of Nazis or hate speech against Jewish people, there are few selfies peppered into his account in which he complains about still being single, and having no girlfriend. . . .

(“Hey, why don’t girls swipe right on a Nazi psycho?”)

When federal agents dug into Colasurdo’s emails, they said they found he had made purchases of body armor, a bulletproof baseball cap, rifle armor and 300 rounds of 9mm ammunition. . . .
The 27-year-old also owned a framed portrait of Adolph Hitler, a Nazi flag, and anti-Semitic books like The Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion, according to court documents. . . .
Colasurdo appears to be suffering from mental health issues, and he’s been arrested on assault charges twice before. In 2015, he was arrested after police said he caused a disturbance at AMC Kickboxing in Kirkland, Washington, in which he was charged with assaulting the owner of the business. At the time, he told officers he had smoked methamphetamine and marijuana, and drank alcohol prior to the assault. As the court documents show, he was then transported to a mental health facility where he then attempted to grab a police officer’s gun, and needed to be “handcuffed to the bedrail,” according to court documents.
During an interview with federal agents last month, he claimed that he never planned to hurt anyone and that he was previously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after the 2015 assault arrest landed him in King County Mental Health Court, court documents show.

People say its wrong to “stigmatize” mental illness, but when you’re a Nazi psycho with a history of violence? Yeah, you earned your stigma.

Speaking of earning, thanks to everybody who hit the tip-jar yesterday to fund this road-trip. By my estimate, I’ll complete the final 427 miles to Orlando by 1:30 p.m., if I leave now, so there’s just time to remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Shoe Leather Fund

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: 1,071 Miles to Orlando — How About $30?

Posted on | May 2, 2019 | 3 Comments

 

Billed as “The World’s Ultimate Event for Fathers,” the 21 Convention in Orlando begins Friday, and I’m leaving this morning to drive there in a rental car — 1,071 miles one-way, 2,142 round-trip. So far as I know, I’m one of only two journalists — along with Mike Cernovich — invited to cover this “red pill” manosphere gathering.

My wife and I recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, and if readers would like to make a $30 hit to the tip jar, that would go a long way to ease Mrs. McCain’s concerns about the family budget.

If there is any “red pill” secret to a successful marriage, it can be summarized rather simply: Get yourself a good wife.

 

 

 

 

“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. . . . Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
— Proverbs 31:10-12, 30 (KJV)

Because I believe in the power of intercessory prayer, I’ve always felt that my Grandmother Kirby’s prayers on my behalf may have had something to do with my good fortune in finding a God-fearing wife. Secular readers will dismiss this as superstition, I suppose, but how else to explain the miracle whereby I not only married this wonderful woman, but have stayed married to her for three decades? Other men, perhaps much better men than me, have fared far worse in their marriages, and as I am basically Calvinist in my theology, I must interpret the blessing bestowed on me as evidence of unmerited grace — not what I have deserved, but what it has pleased God to grant me, making manifest His mercy.

Readers may ponder this mystery, while I call attention to a reaction to Tuesday’s blog post, “Insta-Whores,” in which I talked about how social media is enabling prostitution. This prompted some commentary from “red-pill” blogger Dalrock:

But this also raises the question of what we expect young (and not so young) women to do while they delay marriage. Nearly all people are troubled by the idea of a woman marrying at 18, 19, or even in her early 20s, and most would be troubled to learn that she did so without having sex with other men first. How can she be ready to marry if she lacks “life experience”? . . .
But again, what do we really expect young women to do in the interim, as the median age of first marriage continues to advance?  In theory they are supposed to be looking for their soulmate, but while busily sampling their options are also not supposed to find him too soon.

You can read the whole thing, and Dalrock’s point is correct. Most Americans do expect their daughters to delay marriage and, consequentially, they at least tacitly endorse pre-marital sex (fornication). Even many self-professed Christians have adopted this attitude, deeming college education and a professional career (the usual reasons for postponing marriage) more valuable than virtue.

Having contemplated this problem, I have no one-size-fits-all solution to offer, except to say that we need to change our expectations, and warn our children against this amoral and materialistic view.

Sin happens — we cannot change human nature — but: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.” This is what’s happening in our upside-down culture, where fornication flourishes, marriage is declining, and abortion is celebrated as a “right.” Whether these subjects will be addressed this weekend in Orlando, I don’t know, but I do look forward to interviewing the “red pill” guys who are at least trying to find common-sense (i.e., non-feminist) answers to these problems.

Well, I’m running late to pick up that rental car, so there’s only time to remind you of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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Barr Testifies, Democrats Attack

Posted on | May 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Barr Testifies, Democrats Attack

 

The low moment of Wednesday’s Senate hearing:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shut down Sen. Mazie Hirono’s (D-HI) line of questioning Wednesday against Attorney General William Barr, saying that she “slandered” Barr “from top to bottom.”
During Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s report which concluded that President Donald Trump did not collude with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election and that he did not obstruct justice by firing former FBI director Robert Mueller.
During her questioning of Barr, Hirono said that he joins Kellyanne Conway and Rudy Giuliani as people who have “sacrificed their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar that sits in the Oval Office.”
Hirono added, “You know the difference, but you’ve chosen to be the president’s lawyer and side with him over the interests of the American people.”
The Hawaii Democrat continued, “You called a press conference to once again clear Donald Trump” and that Barr “used every advantage of your office to create the impression that the president was cleared of misconduct.”
“You lied to Congress,” Hirono said. “You knew you lied. And now, we know.”
Hirono then noted that she voted against Barr’s confirmation and then called on him to resign, saying, “You have betrayed that trust. America deserves better. You should resign. I have some questions for you.”
Sen. Hirono then proceeded to ask Barr a series of questions, including whether he believes it remains ok for a president to ask someone to lie.
During Hirono’s questioning of Barr, Graham interrupted the Hawaii Democrat, saying, “Not really to this line of questioning. Listen, you’ve slandered this man.”
“You slandered this man from top to bottom, so, if you want more of this, you’re not going to get it, if you want to ask questions, you can,” Graham charged.

To state the obvious: If you’re a Democrat who’s been watching CNN or MSNBC for the past two years, you are convinced that “Russian collusion” was real, and therefore if Mueller didn’t prove this beyond all doubt, it was because of “obstruction of justice.” Nothing can convince Rachel Maddow or her audience otherwise. Trump must be guilty of wrongdoing — this is a foundational belief of the Left’s worldview — and therefore the Attorney General is part of the Trump conspiracy.

After testifying all day to the Senate committee, Barr decided against testifying to the House Judiciary Committee, which had wanted to have him interrogated by Democrat staffers who, I suspect, were endeavoring to set up a perjury trap so they could impeach Barr himself.

The Wall Street Journal:

This trashing of Bill Barr shows how frustrated and angry Democrats continue to be that the special counsel came up empty in his Russia collusion probe. He was supposed to be their fast-track to impeachment. Now they’re left trying to gin up an obstruction tale, but the probe wasn’t obstructed and there was no underlying crime. So they’re shouting and pounding the table against Bill Barr for acting like a real Attorney General.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Democrats, Senate

In The Mailbox: 05.01.19

Posted on | May 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in April!


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #607
357 Magnum: Would You Let A Random Stranger Install Cameras In Your Home?
EBL: Victims Of Communism Day
Twitchy: Nikki Haley Lowers The Boom On Ilhan Omar And Her Support Of The Maduro Regime
Louder With Crowder: Ilhan Omar Says America Shouldn’t Be A Country Of White People

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Why Aren’t There People Of Color In Game Of Thrones? also, Four Floors Of Whores
American Greatness: Why Don’t Climate Activists Support Nuclear Power?, also, Senator Hirono Calls AG Barr A Liar
American Power: A Rising Tide Of Antisemitism
American Thinker: Whitewashing Black College Beach Week
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Violence & Bloodshed In Venezuela As The People Rise Against Maduro, also, Guaido Accuses Cuba & Russia Of Keeping Maduro In Power
BattleSwarm: Venezuela – Scenes From A Revolution
CDR Salamander: 2030 Is Now
Da Tech Guy: Hey Limbaugh, Time To Start Beta’s Global Warming Countdown Clock
Don Surber: Lawyer Up, Jim Comey
Dustbury: Defending Mary Sue
First Street Journal: The Washington Post Promotes A One-Sided Racial Fight
The Geller Report: Sri Lanka Suspends Sunday, Weekly Masses Indefinitely, also, Muslim Migrant Who Raped Eleven Women In Two Weeks Not Deported
Hogewash: A Coming Attraction
Hollywood In Toto: Truth To Power Jordan Klepper Fawns Over Clintons
Joe For America: Alabama Democrat Says “Some Children Are Just Unwanted. You Either Kill Them Now Or Kill Them Later…”
JustOneMinute: Life Is Unfair, Let’s Make It Worse
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar Joins NYT In Spreading Lie That Jesus Was Palestinian, also, NY State Government Joins The War On Trump
Michelle Malkin: The Beltway Bidens – Creepy, Crooked, And NOT Just Like Us
The PanAm Post: The US Begins To Understand That A Military Option May Be Unavoidable
Power Line: Mueller’s Moan, also, The Barr Testimony – Democrats Gone Wild
Shot In The Dark: The Definition Of Insanity
The Political Hat: Victims Of Communism Day, 2019
This Ain’t Hell: Latest Venezuela News, also, KS Shootings Add To Concern Over Ex-Military Extremists
Victory Girls: WaPo Twists And Spins Mueller Note To Barr
Volokh Conspiracy: Victims Of Communism Day
Weasel Zippers: AG Barr Confirms Multiple Criminal Leak Investigations Underway, also, MSNBC Report On Venezuela Inadvertently Makes Case For Second Amendment


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CNN’s Ratings Fall Even Further

Posted on | May 1, 2019 | Comments Off on CNN’s Ratings Fall Even Further

 

How bad are CNN’s ratings? Lower than the Hallmark Channel, so low that their highest-rated show (“Chris Cuomo Primetime”) is 26th among all cable news programs, a smaller audience than most daytime hours on Fox News. A complete collapse for the trapped-in-the-airport network:

CNN’s prime-time ratings dropped a whopping 26 percent in April compared to last year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
MSNBC’s ratings were down 14 percent in April 2019 compared to April 2018, while Fox News’s ratings overall were flat.
The sharp decrease for CNN marked its lowest-rated month in total viewers since October 2015.
In the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers covet most, it was the network’s least-watched month since Aug. 2015.
In prime time, Fox News finished first with an average of 2.4 million viewers. In April 2018, the network also averaged 2.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
MSNBC was second with an average of 1.66 million viewers, down from 1.93 million in April 2018.
CNN was third with 767,000 average primetime viewers, down from 1.04 million in April 2018.

If you see Anderson Cooper’s picture on a milk carton, you’ll know why.



 

Category: CNN
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