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Rule 5 Monday: Michelle Malkin

Posted on | March 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Activist, author, entrepreneur, and mom – Michelle Malkin has done it all and is still having an impact on conservatism, as demonstrated by her incendiary speech this weekend calling out the GOP Establishment. She’s launched two major media sites – Hot Air and Twitchy – and done very well with both of them. So we’re arguably a little overdue in recognizing her here, given that in addition to all her other accomplishments, she’s living proof that conservative women are not only smarter but prettier than their opposite numbers on the Left.

A shot of Michelle, on the rocks

Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us Hot Pick of the Late Night,The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #545, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism is in like a lion with Rule Five Asset Forfeiture Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s smorgasbord of goodies includes Desperately Seeking QAnon, Clam Chowder Day, Pistachios, Polar Bear Day, Chili Day, CPAC – Fight On 2019, Wales Day, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Texas Independence Day.

A View From The Beach brings Lily Cole, A One in a Million Shot, MD Senate Votes for Ray Ban, Russiagate: All Cohen All the Time, #MeToo Moves to Turkey, Just Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, “Hell in a Bucket”, A Cold Splash for Tuesday, Global Warming is for Crabs, Well, You Asked For Equality and Men Need Feminists Like a Robot Needs Vegetables.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Marisa Ramirez, his Vintage babe is Sue Ann Langdon, and there’s a Brie Larson bonus. At Dustbury, it’s Kristen Johnson and H’Hen Nie.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor

Posted on | March 4, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Toccata & Fugue In D Minor

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Ski Bunnies!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Never Trust a Bisexual
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Transgender Women of Color’
EBL

UNLEASH ‘THE TONE’!
A View From The Beach
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Baby, Whatcha Hiding?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Bee Stings, Cult Violence, and MAGA Hats
EBL

‘Gender’ and the Question: Why?
EBL

WHOA! PayPal Working With SPLC to Enforce Ideological Conformity?
Bacon Time
357 Magnum
EBL

SJWs Ruin Everything: Knitting Bloggers in Meltdown Mode Over ‘Social Justice’
Grace & Mercy
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.26.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Cohen to Testify Before Congress
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC 2019: Great Minds Think Alike
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC 2019: Wednesday Scenes — Don’t Hate Me, I’m Only the Media
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.27.19
Proof Positive
EBL

CPAC: Another Day, Another Deadline
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC 2019: #FightOn Video
A View From The Beach
EBL

CPAC: ‘The JOOOZZ!’
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.28.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

CPAC: Getting the Big Ticket
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.01.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending Friday, March 1:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  A View From The Beach (11)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

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


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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
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