The Other McCain

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Remember, Insanity Is Hereditary

Posted on | March 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Remember, Insanity Is Hereditary

 

And the acorn seldom falls far from the oak:

During debate on a gun bill Thursday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, emotionally recounted hiding from her mentally unstable father as a child, bringing lawmakers to their feet as she declared, “He never should have had a gun.”
“I have spent more time thinking about how you keep guns out of the hands of abusers, more probably than anybody in this chamber,” said Dingell, who last month buried her husband, former U.S. Rep. John Dingell. “I know better than most the dangers they pose.
“It’s not easy for me to talk about it this week. But … I will be honest on this floor, my father was mentally ill. I had to hide in that closet, with my siblings, wondering if we would live or die. One night I kept my father from killing my mother. He shouldn’t have had a gun.” . . .
“My mother,” Dingell remembered, “went out and bought a gun.
“And then all of us were scared to death about her gun and my father’s gun. We had two guns to worry about. No child, no woman, no man should ever have to go through that,” she shouted, as other members of the House rose to applaud.
On several other occasions, Dingell has discussed her childhood, including what she has described as her father’s addiction to medication and the violence she witnessed.

“My father was dangerously crazy and . . . I’m a Democrat.”

That makes sense in a certain way, but not in a way she would like. Crazy people shouldn’t have guns. And sane people don’t vote for Democrats.

 

Category: Democrats

CPAC: The Final Wisdom

Posted on | March 3, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: The Final Wisdom

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Another year, another CPAC, more liberal media lies, and now another Sunday afternoon hotel checkout. I’ve been doing this annual ritual since 2006 — my 14th consecutive CPAC — and there’s a certain familiarity about the routine now. However, there’s a difference in recent years. President Bush never spoke at CPAC, whereas President Trump has been a regular the past three years, and his speech yesterday was a doozy:

President Trump invited a conservative activist who got punched in the face at the University of California-Berkeley to share the stage with him during a two-hour CPAC speech in which he promised to sign an executive order protecting free speech on campus.
“He took a punch for all of us,” Trump said of Leadership Institute organizer Hayden Williams, who was attacked last month on the Berkeley campus while recruiting students for Turning Point USA. Comparing him to boxing legend Muhamad Ali — “He could take a punch” — the president said “the good news” is that Williams is “going to be a wealthy young man” after he sues the university and the man who attacked him. Police have reportedly arrested Zachary Greenberg, a 28-year-old former university employee, in the Feb. 19 assault that was captured on video and went viral online.
“Today I’m proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars,” Trump told the crowd of conservative activists packed into the Potomac Ballroom of the Gaylord Hotel. “If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and many other great young people and old people to speak. Free speech. If they don’t, it will be costly. That will be signed soon.” . . .

You can read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.

Having said all that needs saying, I again conclude by reminding you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

Category: CPAC, Donald Trump, Shoe Leather Fund

CPAC: Who Brought the Gonzo?

Posted on | March 3, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Who Brought the Gonzo?

With author Timothy Denevi and some Flying Dog beverages.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Checkout time has already passed, and I’m typing this in the hotel lobby, while waiting for my ride. My habit of associating with, er, eccentric characters continues to put me in the near vicinity of controversy. Laura Loomer, whom I covered at a press conference Thursday, got her CPAC media credentials revoked for supposedly “harassing” CNN’s Oliver Darcy. And I don’t want to get in the middle of someone else’s quarrel, but the question must be asked: Why is Oliver Darcy welcome at CPAC, when he has done everything in his power to abet the deplatforming of conservatives on social media? While one might criticize Loomer’s behavior, she is a conservative, while Darcy is anti-conservative. Why punish your friends to protect your enemies? But I digress . . .

 

That elegantly dressed gentleman is Enrique Torrio, chairman of the Proud Boys. He’s been banned from every social-media platform because the SPLC applied its “hate group” label to the Proud Boys. Does he look like a dangerous extremist to you? Me neither, but the SPLC are experts, you see, and all the social-media outlets — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube — have therefore banished Enrique from their platforms. Enrique was one of our guests, along with Evan Sayet and author Timothy Denevi, on Saturday’s episode of “The Other Podcast” with John Hoge.

 

You see that Professor Denevi, whose book about Hunter S. Thompson I talked about a couple of weeks ago, is drinking a “Gonzo” Belgian Porter from Flying Dog Brewery, while I’m enjoying Flying Dog’s “Raging Bitch” pale ale. Flying Dog uses art by Thompson’s illustrator Ralph Steadman, and supplying these beverages was part of the agreed terms of my interview with Professor Denevi. So that’s a tax-deductible business expense. Click here to listen to the show:


 

Category: CPAC

CPAC: Guilt by Association

Posted on | March 2, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Guilt by Association

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
The hate-watchers at the SPLC can click on that photo above to enlarge it. Peter Brimelow is author of the 1995 bestseller Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, and Michelle Malkin wrote the 2002 bestseller Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, And Other Foreign Menaces To Our Shores.

To see Brimelow and Malkin together at CPAC shows how the issue of immigration unites good Americans on one side — in favor of enforcing our laws and protecting our borders — just as it unites vicious swine of all kinds on the open-borders side of the issue. No one should ever doubt which side of that issue I am on, and let the SPLC crowd can call me a hater all they want. Brimelow is officially hate-listed by the SPLC, and you can see from her mentions at the SPLC website (e.g., “Trump Adviser, Hate Group Leaders and Anti-Immigrant Politicians Attend FAIR’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire”) what the poverty pimps in Montgomery think of Malkin. It’s a very simple trick of liberal rhetoric: First, declare that anyone who disagrees with your policy agenda is guilty of “hate” and then, using this phony definition, begin blacklisting the opposition, in order to silence dissent. This tactic will inevitably produce a defensive “flinch” reaction on the part of cowardly people who fear damage to their reputations, and who therefore will act as handmaidens to the hate-listers, by distancing themselves from the targeted “haters.”

Worst of all are people who call themselves “conservative” but in fact operate as a controlled opposition to liberals. Some of those people got called out by name in Malkin’s CPAC speech:

Congress has repeatedly mandated a nationwide visa entry-exit system to track legal short-term visa holders. But one has yet to be built—even in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which were perpetrated in part by several illegal alien visa overstayers. E-verify has been stalled. Sanctuary cities metastasized. And BOTH parties are to blame – yeah I’m looking at you, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the Bush family, Mitt Romney and the ghost of John McCain. . . .
Color of Change and the smear machine racket known as the Southern Poverty Law Center use the same playbook to marginalize and criminalize mainstream conservatives, anti-jihad groups, and immigration hawks as “hate groups” and push us out of the public square. They conspire with payment processors and Silicon Valley to deprive the Right of our voices and our ability to make a living. So many speaking up and fighting on the front lines for liberty and security are being detwittered depaypaled defacebooked deplatformed — people like Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes and the Center for Immigration Studies and Robert Spencer and so many others. . . .

Watch the whole thing on video:

 

It was a helluva of speech and sparked a helluva reaction. She’s an enormously courageous woman, and deserves your support.


 

Category: CPAC, Michelle Malkin

In The Mailbox: 03.01.19

Posted on | March 2, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Still looking for feedback on Disssenter.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Remember Andrew Breitbart
Twitchy: Democrat Chair Of House Foreign Relations Committee Unloads On Rep. Omar Over Her Latest “Vile Anti-Semitic Slur”
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Threatens Colleagues – Vote Against Me & You Go On My List
According To Hoyt: Without Law
Monster Hunter Nation: “Sensitivity Readers” Are Bullshit, And You’re A Sucker If You Believe Them
Vox Popoli: So Be More Inclusive, Navy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The End Of A Blog Edition
American Power: Trump/Kim Summit Ends In Impasse, Uncertainty, also, Charlie Kirk & Candace Owens Are The New King & Queen Of CPAC
American Thinker: America’s Second Civil War Has Already Begun
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Asset Forfeiture Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 1
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Army Goes Emo
Da Tech Guy: Election 2020 – Sit Back And Watch, For Now, also, #Pointandlaugh Of The Day – NY Finally Finds An Abortion It Objects To
Don Surber: Trump Walked Away As A Warning To Red China
Dustbury: The Gentleman’s Cipher
First Street Journal: KY Defends The Second Amendment
The Geller Report: Muslims Brutally Slaughter 30 In Nigerian Church Attack, also, UK’s Lord Ahmed Charged With Attempted Child Rape
Hogewash: The Bladensburg Cross, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Greta Flirts With Camp Before Self-Destructing
Joe For America: Canadian Economy Grinds To A Halt Under PM Silky Pony
JustOneMinute: Gov. Inslee A Climate “Warrior”, Not A Winner, also, Going Nuclear
Legal Insurrection:  Unions & Democrats Plead With Amazon To Return To NYC, also, Authorities Charge Teenager With Attack On Old Man In MAGA Hat
Michelle Malkin: CPAC At The Bridge
The PanAm Post: Why Was The Pemon Massacre Ignored By Mainstream Media? also, Maduro Moves PDVSA Offices From Portugal To Russia To Evade Sanctions
Power Line: Shocker! Restaurant Jobs In NYC Decrease After Minimum Wage Hike, also, Berkeley Assault Update
Shot In The Dark: The Shorter “Every Argument With A Minnesota Gun Control Advocate”
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Mobilizing The Poor
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Red China’s Influence On American Education
Victory Girls: Lynne Patton Owns Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep Tlaib Paid Herself $45,500 From Campaign Fund, Accepted $$225,000 From Soros Foundation, also, Mayor De Blasio’s Wife Can’t Account For $850 Million Given Her For Mental Health Project
Megan McArdle: If #NeverTrumpers Don’t Have An Endgame, Maybe It’s Because To Them, Politics Isn’t A Game
Mark Steyn: Trudeaupia On The Waterfront, also, Anne Adrift


Category: Linkagery

CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket

Posted on | March 1, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
After breakfast this morning, I stepped out front for a smoke and the street was lined with cop cars, lights flashing. A minute later, up the block, I saw the vice-presidential motorcade speed past, bringing Mike Pence to speak at CPAC — a speech I will watch from my hotel room, because I don’t want to go through all the security hassles to get into the Potomac Ballroom. Meanwhile, a few images from yesterday . . .

With my good friend Evan Sayet.

With talk-radio host Tony Katz.

With former White House spokesman Sean Spicer.

 

And here’s the really big ticket:

Raheem Kassam had what I wanted — a ticket to his Saturday night invitation-only CPAC party — and he also had something else I wanted, a newsworthy quote: “I think we’re winning.”
A former editor for Breitbart who is now a fellow at the Claremont Institute, Kassam was talking about the Left’s campaign to silence conservative voices on social media. That campaign ensnared him this week, when his personal Facebook account was suspended. Kassam’s ban got the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted: “I’m sure this was an ‘accident’ like I’ve been hearing from the social media masters. Funny that the accidents only happen one way.” Shortly afterwards, Kassam’s account was restored, a result he credited to the intervention by the President’s son. Facebook never explained why Kassam was temporarily banned, although many suspected it was an attempt to intimidate the popular author of No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You. An ex-Muslim who formerly worked for UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, Kassam is not easily intimidated, and he sees the social-media crackdown on conservatives as evidence that the Left is frightened.
“If the other side wasn’t afraid, they wouldn’t be coming down so heavy-handed on people,” Kassam told me in an interview near Radio Row at the 46th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. “If [President Trump] gets re-elected next year, I think you’re going to see serious legislation about this — a Digital Bill of Rights.” . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.


 

Category: CPAC

In The Mailbox: 02.28.19

Posted on | March 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Anyone using GAB’s new commenting feature, Dissenter? Tell me what you think!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Chili Day
Twitchy: Rashida Tlaib Whines About Lynne Patton Standing Up At Hearing
Louder With Crowder: Canadian PM Trudeau The Younger Accused Of Covering Up Payments To Whores For Qaddafi’s Son

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Coal Miners Need To Learn To Code, also, There’s No Such Thing As A Hate Crime
American Power: Muslima Dem Rep Tlaib Calls Out Mark Meadows For Bringing “Black Friend” To Committee Meeting
American Thinker: Is A Second Civil War Coming?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Big Cat News
BattleSwarm: Indo-Pakistani Conflict, Day Three
CDR Salamander: Truman To The Breakers Early? also, Theory Is Soft, War Games Are Malleable; Hard Truth Is Found In Combat
Da Tech Guy: Underminers, also, What’s Wrong With Retail Pt. I
Don Surber: 3% Growth For The First Time Since 2005
Dustbury: Your Dog Wants A Handkerchief
First Street Journal: Common Sense Press Control!
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar – Jews Call us Anti-Semitic Because We’re Muslim, also, “I Was Nothing But A Toy To Play With”
Hogewash: CPAC Day One, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Spike, Ellen Page, & Liberal Celebrity Privilege
Joe For America: Berlin Study – 92% Of Left-Wing Activists Live With Their Parents
JustOneMinute: As Much As I Respect David French…
Legal Insurrection: VA First Lady Pamela Northam Passed Out Cotton To Black Students At Governor’s Mansion, also, UC Berkeley Police Seek Felony Warrant In Attack On Conservative Student
The PanAm Post: US Sanctions Four Venezuelan Governors For Blocking Humanitarian Aid, also, Chavista Collectives – The Face Of Terror In Venezuela
Power Line: Are The Democrats Committing Suicide? also, From The Mixed-Up Files Of The Iranian Nuclear Program
Shark Tank: Florida Senators Back Relief Effort For FL, PR
Shot In The Dark: In Passing
STUMP: Dealmaking – NY, Amazon, Chicago, & Corruption
The Political Hat: South Africa – The Next Zimbabwe, The Next Venezuela, The Next Genocide
This Ain’t Hell: Stolen Valor & Stolen Victimhood, also, Thursdays Are For Cooking
Victory Girls: Project Veritas Gets Facebook Details From Insider, also, Three Positive Takeaways From “No Deal” In Vietnam
Volokh Conspiracy: “Cleaning Up The Lemon Mess”
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Sanders – No Private Health Insurance After Socialists Take Over, also, Amazon Abandons 30-Story Skyscraper In Seattle As It Follows Through On Year-Old Threat
Megan McArdle: The Next Chicago Mayor Will Make History, And Face A Staggering Financial Challenge
Mark Steyn: Woke & Wokier, also, The Blurry Area In The Middle


Category: Linkagery

CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’

Posted on | February 28, 2019 | Comments Off on CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
In the lobby of my hotel, the Young Jewish Conservatives are meeting tonight, and the national media are nowhere in sight because of course, this doesn’t fit the liberal narrative which is that (a) Trump is Hitler and (b) Republicans are Nazis. So many things about CPAC are beyond the perimeter of what the media want to report that if you really want to know what’s going on here, you have to either be here, or read my blog.

 

 

Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman and Laura Loomer held a press conference today that the media will do their best to ignore:

Rep. Ilhan Omar “married her brother and she defrauded the United States,” Jacob Wohl said Thursday afternoon in a press conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Announcing the result of a recent investigation by the website Culttture that took a crew of conservative activists to the freshman Democrat’s Minnesota district, Wohl presented the findings of their investigation in an eight-page report concluding that Omar’s marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was “part of a nefarious attempted immigration scheme… in the service of two federal felonies: immigration fraud and student loan fraud.”
Omar is one of the most prominent new members of Congress, elected as the first Somali-American as Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats recaptured the House after eight years of GOP control. The latest issue of Rolling Stone features a cover photo of Pelosi posing with Omar, New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes, hailing them as “Women Shaping the Future.”
Wohl appeared with Internet personality Laura Loomer and Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman in the lobby of the Gaylord, where they were surrounded by a scrum of reporters and activists attending the 46th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Wohl and Loomer have been banned from Twitter, and contend that their banishments were retaliation for their support of President Trump and their efforts to expose Omar’s anti-Semitic extremism. In her case, Loomer said Twitter succumbed to a pressure campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has connections to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. “Why is a designated foreign terrorist organization lobbying with Twitter, an American social media company, to ban a Jewish-American conservative journalist who is exposing the anti-Semitism, the fraud and the terrorism ties that Ilhan Omar has?” Loomer said at the press conference. “It’s egregious.” . . .

You can read the rest at The American Spectator.

Other reporters were at this press conference. Where are their stories? Given Omar’s prominence, isn’t this newsworthy? Perhaps some might say that they don’t believe what Wohl and Loomer say they’ve found. OK, fine. Call Omar’s office and get a statement from her denouncing them, but if you’re so convinced that Omar is innocent, why not investigate the story yourself and prove she did nothing wrong?

But liberal journalists never investigate Democrats, so Omar can pal around with Hamas and CNN can’t be bothered to notice, whereas by contrast if any Republican got within handshake distance of an anti-Semite, it would be front page news in the New York Times and 24/7 on CNN. In other words, liberals aren’t actually against anti-Semitism; they only pretend to be against it when it’s useful to their partisan agenda as a means of smearing conservatives.


 

Category: CPAC
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