Latina Lesbian Murdered by Two Men (But Don’t Blame Racist Homophobes)

Posted on | January 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

Today, I watched a true-crime documentary about the 2001 murder of 27-year-old Tzatzi Sanchez, who was sexually assaulted and strangled to death in Las Vegas. Now get ready for the plot twist: The two men who raped and killed Sanchez, Luis Barroso and Omed Marroquin, did so in a murder-for-hire scheme plotted by Sanchez’s former lesbian lover.

Luz Marcela Villanueva-Soto, a/k/a Marcela Whaley, was a lesbian from Durango, Mexico, who in 2000 moved to the United States with her girlfriend, Kimberlyn Estrada. They were looking for someplace to live in Las Vegas when, as luck would have it, they met Sanchez, who was working at a waitress while attending the University of Las Vegas. Sanchez was also Mexican, the daughter of a successful businessman who had sent her to school in the U.S. and had rented a large house in Las Vegas for her to live in. Sanchez offered to rent a room to Marcela and Kimberlyn. After the couple moved in with her, however, Marcela made advances on Sanchez, who had previously been strictly heterosexual. When Kimberlyn discovered this, she moved out, but the relationship between Marcela and Sanchez didn’t last. Marcela was abusive and controlling, and Sanchez became concerned for her safety. She turned to Kimberlyn for help and soon, Kimberlyn and Sanchez became lovers. This enraged Marcela, who recruited Barroso to kill Sanchez. He in turn got his buddy Marroquin to help with the murder. Police caught them, and they were both sentenced to life in prison in Nevada. Marcela fled to Mexico, where in 2007, she was sentenced to 39 years in a Mexican prison. Here’s the 2012 “Deadly Women” episode about the case:

When feminists are lecturing us about “violence against women,” they never mention the death of Tzatzi Sanchez, for some reason.

Category: Violence Against Women

Living Well Is the Best Revenge

Posted on | January 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

Friday morning I went to the airport to pick up my 18-year-old son, who was returning from a trip to our oldest daughter’s house. She lives in a crucial swing state, near the beach, and the high temperature there today is forecast at 74°F. Our youngest daughter, who recently turned 16, accompanied me to the airport, and was subjected to a few of my paternal lectures along the way. We’d left the house early, seeking to beat morning rush-hour traffic, and were so successful in that regard that we arrived at the airport more than an hour before my son’s flight arrived, and so I bought us breakfast at an airport restaurant — $27.68.

Was that too much to pay for breakfast? Yes, but I don’t spend enough time with our kids. They’re busy with school and their friends, and I’ve always got my head stuck inside the computer, trying to solve the world’s problems and/or staring into the abyss. So I wanted to do something nice and, while most people wouldn’t consider breakfast at a restaurant in the airport as something special, most people don’t have six children, and our kids have grown up with fewer of the luxuries that some other kids take for granted, including restaurant meals and vacation travel.

The cliché of “quality time” was invented by Baby Boomer yuppies in the 1980s to rationalize the way their lifestyles deprived their children of so many traditional childhood experiences. Whereas most Baby Boomers grew up in traditional families — perhaps our parents were not as perfect as Ward and June Cleaver, but we still had the basic security of a stable home life — many of the Boomers sadly failed their children in this regard. If you’ve read Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s book The Divorce Culture, you understand how the cliché of “quality time” insinuated itself into the vocabulary of parenting. The working mother might not be able to give her children the kind of daily supervision and care she’d like to give them, but she could take them on a three-day vacation to Disney World and say they’d had quality time together. The divorced father might only see his kids one weekend a month, but he could take them out jet-skiing at the lake and tell himself that this quality time made up for the absence enforced by the custody settlement.

Rationalizations are a psychological defense mechanism — the ego defending itself against negative feedback — and everybody has to do whatever it takes to stay sane in difficult circumstances. Even if we have been able to avoid the worst impacts of cultural decadence in our own lives, most of us have friends and relatives who’ve been directly affected by the unraveling of our social social fabric. Divorce, suicide, drug addiction, criminal violence — the kind of stuff Tucker Carlson was talking about Wednesday night — are both cause and effect of the downward spiral that has been destroying American culture for the past 50 years. My work involves constantly staring into the abyss, looking for the latest bizarre deviance to emerge in the years since our decadent elite opened the Pandora’s Box of atheistic perversion. And I don’t know how to explain why this swirling catastrophic collapse has left my own family unscathed, except to say that God answers prayer.

Being blessed with a good wife, and watching our children grow into caring, responsible adults, is not something I could ever deserve, and too often I take this evidence of God’s grace for granted.

We have had a happy holiday season, and being a ’Bama family means it’s not over until the Crimson Tide wins the national championship.

It’s important not to take our blessings for granted, of course, and just as I try to remind myself to be grateful for Alabama football, I am also thankful for simple blessings like a trip to the airport and breakfast with my daughter. Watching my kids grow up — and now, watching my grandchildren grow up — is a blessing for which I’m especially grateful, when I consider all the ways in which wicked people have endeavored to destroy my family’s happiness. When I mentioned how the “social justice” trolls attacked Jordan Peterson’s daughter, this was something I felt very personally, because of how my own family has been attacked by these monstrous hate-filled perverts. And speaking of Heidi Beirich . . .

My Thursday post about Dr. Beirich got linked Friday morning by Stephen Green at Instapundit, and I didn’t even realize it until today. Sometimes I get so focused on productivity, and the endless hunt for Strange and Savage Tales of Fear and Loathing, that I feel worthless on those days when I don’t publish anything, which was the case Friday. Overall, my productivity the past couple of weeks has been substandard, and I was feeling bad about it until I woke up this morning, checked the site stats and saw that we’d just had our best traffic day since November. So my worst day ironically turned out to be one of my best days.

God bless you, Vodkapundit! This takes us back to September 2009, when I spent the morning on the phone reporting to Steve the massive Tea Party rally in D.C., which prompted the attack by LGF’s Charles Johnson that inaugurated a memorable blog war. Nearly a decade later, it’s possible for me to go months at a time without thinking back to that ordeal, mainly because most people have forgotten that Little Green Footballs ever existed. How bad is LGF’s decline? Well, in spring 2015, Charles announced a GoFundMe to subsidize his project of “exposing” the “conspiracy theories and . . . hate speech” of “the right wing.” The stated goal was $20,000, but so far it’s raised less than $9,000 in 44 months, i.e., a little over $200 per month. Sucks to be you, Charles.

Sometimes, survival is victory. When people quite literally want you dead, every day you stay alive is a win. And I’m still hanging in there.

While my daughter I waited for her brother’s flight to arrive, I suggested she should plan a trip to visit her sister for spring break. She started saying something about her other plans and I was like, “What’s the matter with you kids nowadays? Your sister lives at the beach and you’ve got other plans for spring break? Are you crazy?”

Anyway, if she booked her flight now, it would be about $350 roundtrip and, while that’s nearly twice what LGF’s GoFundMe page raises in an average month, I figure if 10 readers could kick in $35 each, or if 35 readers could donate $10 each, that would suffice and I don’t think it will take more than a couple of days to raise it. God bless all of you who remember The Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: Shoe Leather Fund

The “Character” Issue II: More Personality

Posted on | January 5, 2019 | Comments Off on The “Character” Issue II: More Personality

by Smitty

I’d linked both Jonah Goldberg and Roger Kimball the other day, coming as they did when the

. . .carefully constructed, pre-planned, pre-scheduled, and pre-organized public op-ed by incoming Senator Mitt Romney was deployed in the Washington Post… for those who have watched McConnell work; we knew exactly who orchestrated it and why.

Senator Romney will be one (not the only) visible face of the opposition. However, just like former Senator Corker and current Senator Sasse, the instructions (direct and indirect), and/or the approvals, will come from Leader McConnell’s office.

Through his power structure McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Graham and now Romney]

McConnell needed to test Romney’s commitment to the Decepticon club. Romney passed the test. Romney was rewarded with placement on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Those Senators who sit on this committee get the most financial benefit from foreign lobbying. To understand the financial process think: Qatar & McCain Institute etc.

I’d fall well short of saying the NRO is directly related to any orchestrated campaign to undermine the POTUS. The NRO certainly was opposed to the piece of work that preceded Trump.

But Jonah continues to insist that

the transactional defense of Donald Trump is intellectually defensible.

No amount of pragmatic, real-world regulatory, economic, or foreign policy evidence can mitigate the need to remove Trump due to his penchant for “clutching the kitty”:

“Clutching the kitty” pic.twitter.com/eArsjvccxT

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) January 4, 2019

And then Jonah tries to walk the idealism that fuels his posts back just a little:

But I can’t object to the logic of someone who says, “Yeah, I know Trump is crude and a boor, but I like what he’s getting done.”

Roger Kimball has the far better argument, in my opinion.

The status quo is the nutrient jelly in which [conservatives] live. They may criticize it. But they would not dream of changing it.

It is in this context—the context of Hillary Clinton as the only alternative to Donald Trump and the existential peril that Anton outlined—that we must place any meaningful discussion of Trump’s character.

Restated, Goldberg’s punditry borders on an academic detachment from any real-world context for his arguments. Somewhere out where “all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God” we cannot refute Jonah. Trump himself allows that he’s never had a beer, and that it’s one of his only good traits. In stark contrast with Pseudajawea, who quaffs a brew in an attempt to bridge the gap her impossibly curated political image to a distant planet Earth.

Dear @GOP Elite Weenies,

We’ve got a globalist Goliath threatening to devour our liberty. The homo bureaucratus infestation, culminating in Obama, is a future of ruin. We elected you wankers to repeal #ObamaCare. #YouHadOneJob. We’ve seen your value, and elected a specimen of homo Americanus to deal with you and your swampy breeding pit.

You keep tubing it at your peril, Republicans.

Cheers,
America
—
via Paco

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 01.04.19

Posted on | January 5, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Marie Kondo
Twitchy: The Look On Anderson Cooper’s Face When Occasional Cortex Says She Wants To Tax The “Tippy Top” At 70% Is EVERYTHING
Louder With Crowder: Ellen DeGeneres Defends Kevin Hart, And Of Course The Left Attacks Her
According To Hoyt: Living In Elfland
Monster Hunter Nation: What I Got Done In 2018/January Update Post
Vox Popoli: Financial Blacklisting

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #99 – The Holiday Episode, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Bad Santa Edition
American Power: Lisa Delpit, Multiplication Is For White People, also, Rookie Muslim Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Vows To “Impeach The Motherf*cker!”
American Thinker: MAGA – First Real Household Income Gain Since 2000
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Socialist Sweden Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 4
CDR Salamander: So, Would A Littoral Combat Group Have A…, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For January 4
Don Surber: Trump Recession Lasted Less Than A Day, also, Trump Brought Xi To His Knees
Dustbury: Working Dog
First Street Journal: Americans Are The Freest People In The World!
The Geller Report: New “Islamic Party Of Ontario” Claims Islam “Is The Native Religion Of Ontario & Canada”, also, Muslim Convert Runs Down Three LA Pedestrians, Chase Ensues
Hogewash: Quote Of The Day, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Faith Made Goddard’s Bad Times Better
Joe For America: Trump – Government Could Stay Shut Down For Months, Years
JustOneMinute: And Here Comes The Boom!
Legal Insurrection: Conservative Talk Host Michael Savage Moves To Secret Location After Death Threats, also, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) To Retire In 2020
The PanAm Post: The Laughable Launch Of Venezuela’s Petro, also, Brazil’s Bolsonaro Might Be Wise To Step Back From The Culture Wars
Power Line: Tlaib Talks Trash, also, Can Trump Build The Wall?
Shark Tank: Gruters Wants “Butts Off Beaches”
Shot In The Dark: America’s Conservative Pundits Called, And She Answered
STUMP: Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: Reimagining The Human
This Ain’t Hell: US Court Rules For Trump On Transgender Military Limits, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Congressional Proglodytes Still Don’t Grok Economics
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: House Democrats Vote Unanimously To Leave Town After Four Hours Despite Shutdown, also, Occasional Cortex Ducks & Runs When Asked If She’s Forgoing Her Salary, As She Urged Congress To Do
Megan McArdle: Occasional Cortex Was Just Trying To Get Into The Spirit Of Congressional Deficit Irresponsibility
Mark Steyn: Straw Man

Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 01.03.19

Posted on | January 4, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ilhan Omar Gets Sworn Into Congress Today
Twitchy: Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) Introduces Constitutional Amendment To Eliminate Electoral College
Louder With Crowder: Someone Compiled Jordan Peterson’s Greatest Comebacks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 2019 – The Year Of The Powder Keg
American Thinker: No Sharia In America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fauxcahontas News
BattleSwarm: Pat Condell On The Anti-American Dream
CDR Salamander: An Army Historian’s D&G To The Navy
Da Tech Guy: Our 10th Anniversary Top Ten Posts Of All Time, also, Add Gosnell To Your Queue
Don Surber: Trump Gets China To Buy Rice, also, Go Ahead, Impeach
Dustbury: Youthful Exuberance
First Street Journal: The Neocons Are Revolting!
The Geller Report: Racist Rep. Tlaib (D-MI) Removes Israel From Her Office Map, Replaces It With Palestine, also, States Consider Sex-Offender-Like Registries For Released Jihadis
Hogewash: Congress Convenes Today, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Golden Globes Hosts Vow No Trump Jokes
Joe For America: Jonny Kim – Navy SEAL, Doctor, And Now Astronaut – He’s Only 34!
JustOneMinute: How Do You Like Them Apples?
Legal Insurrection: Leading House Dem Introduces Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump, also, Fauxcahontas Campaign Already Defined By Her Native American Problem
The PanAm Post: Bolivians Go On Hunger Strike To Protest Morales Installation As President For Life
Power Line: Trump Trolls The Democrats, also, What We Have Learned So Far
Shark Tank: DeSantis Unveils More Appointments
Shot In The Dark: Surely There Must Be Some Mistake
STUMP: Geeking Out – The Best Way To Graph Stock Market Indices, also, New Book Project – A Dickens A Month
The Political Hat: Woke Geekdom – Social Justice Computer Games, Social Justice Board Games, and Social Justice Comics
This Ain’t Hell: Giraffe Riddle Resurrection, also, Muslim Patrol Cars Now On American Streets
Victory Girls: 116th Congress Convenes Today, And Liberals Are Revolting
Volokh Conspiracy: Laws Banning Organ Sales Kill Even More People Than Previously Thought
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Thinks The Constitution Makes Her Trump’s Equal, also, Rep. Johnson (D-GA) Compares Trump To Hitler, Makes Horrifying Remarks About President’s Supporters
Megan McArdle: Instead Of Right & Left, Our Politics Are Increasingly Defined by Rooted & Mobile
Mark Steyn: Teaching The Masses A Lesson

Category: Linkagery

The Wheel Turns on SPLC’s Heidi Beirich

Posted on | January 3, 2019 | Comments Off on The Wheel Turns on SPLC’s Heidi Beirich

Exclusive news from PJMedia’s Tyler O’Neil:

In December 2018, a Baltimore lawyer filed a devastating lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and two of its employees. The SPLC targeted Glen Keith Allen over his former ties to the National Alliance (NA), a white nationalist group. In doing so, the liberal group allegedly violated laws and legal codes of conduct by receiving and then paying for stolen documents in violation of confidentiality agreements. The group went after Allen with the intent of getting him fired by the city of Baltimore and permanently destroying his future prospects. Allen’s suit claims that the SPLC should have its 501c3 tax-exempt status revoked, that it owes him restitution for racketeering, and that it should pay $6.5 million in damages. It also references Allen’s pro bono work on behalf of African-Americans and his mentorship of an African-American teen, powerfully rebutting claims that he is a racist. Allen told PJ Media he now regrets his NA support, and an African-American friend of his laughed at the idea of this lawyer being branded a racist.
Perhaps most importantly, the suit attacks the liberal group for undermining America’s tradition of free expression. In an August 2016 interview with The Washington Post cited in the lawsuit, SPLC Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich (a defendant in the case) claimed to have watched Allen “like a hawk” because he had “the worst ideas ever created.”
“This East Europe Communist thought-crime surveillance mentality is antithetical to fundamental American cultural and Constitutional principles protecting freedom of expression and association,” Allen wrote in the suit, which can be found on his website. His lawsuit uses concrete claims of lawbreaking and defamation to expose the SPLC’s Orwellian strategy of branding its opponents “hate groups” and orchestrating campaigns against them.
In August 2016, the SPLC published an article branding Allen a “neo-Nazi lawyer” and insinuating that this lawyer’s work for the city of Baltimore was racist. Beirich, the article’s author, smeared a small political party as racist and then published allegedly stolen documents protected by confidentiality agreements connecting Allen to the National Alliance.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

This makes me smile because it was Heidi Beirich who first falsely labeled me a “white supremacist” in a failed effort to get me fired from my job at The Washington Times. Have I ever told that story in its entirety? No, and I’ve never sued them, either (just the same as I turned down the opportunity to sue Twitter for banning me three years ago).

Over the years, the SPLC’s smear against me has been endlessly recycled, despite its self-evident falsehood. Anyone who actually knows me knows that I am not a “white supremacist,” and if I were concealing a crypto-Nazi agenda, you might think there would be substantial evidence of this. The paucity of evidence — beyond guilt-by-association smears and what I’ve called the “Ransom Note Method” of assembling parts of disparate statements to create a sort of word-collage — is particularly remarkable, given that I’ve been an independent blogger for 11 years now. How can anyone believe that it is my desire to incite hatred or advocate racial oppression, when I’ve published so many thousands of posts here, with no editor to filter my entirely candid expressions, but never once written anything that would justify the “white supremacist” label?

You see that my silence was strategic. The First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment are highly related. Just as I have the right to free speech, I also have the right to remain silent, and cannot be compelled to answer my accusers. During my 2009 blog war against LGF’s Charles Johnson, I used this to my advantage, following the advice someone once gave me: “Don’t get down in the tall grass with them.” That is to say, if you are innocent, there is no need to make a point-by-point rebuttal of every bit of “evidence” put forward by your self-appointed prosecutors in the court of public opinion. Did you say this “offensive” thing or did you associate with this notorious person? “Objection your honor — irrelevant.”

The so-called “evidence” cited by these Thought Police apparatchiks doesn’t matter, because the actual accusation is that you are somehow a menace to public safety, that you harbor sentiments that make you dangerous, and that you advocate wrongful treatment of others.

It is not illegal to express opinions with which Heidi Beirich disagrees, nor is it illegal to befriend people Heidi Beirich dislikes. And yet, as an employee of the SPLC, Dr. Beirich seemed to believe that she was authorized to determine the limits of our personal liberty. Because no one has ever offered to pay me to write the full story of my career as a Thought Criminal, and because I have not (yet) felt any need to share every detail of that saga, Dr. Beirich never understood my jocular good cheer in response to being defamed and, on advice of my close personal friend Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I have been content to watch patiently as she has proceeded down her chosen path to her inevitable destruction.

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.

Two words for you, Dr. Beirich: Deo Vindice.

Category: Culture, Racism

YouTube Suspends Jordan Peterson’s Daughter @MikhailaAleksis

Posted on | January 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

A screenshot of Mikhaila Peterson taken from a YouTube video was removed due to a spurious DMCA complaint.

If the Left ever decides you’re an Enemy of Social Justice, they won’t stop at trying to destroy your life, they’ll also attempt to destroy the lives of your family members. This appears to be the case with Professor Jordan Peterson’s daughter Mikhaila, whose YouTube account just got a “first strike” suspension because . . . “spam and deceptive practices”?

"spam and deceptive practices". I am literally 100 percent honest and try as hard as I can to be. Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/3X94lbY3UQ

— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaAleksis) January 2, 2019

This is obviously bogus, as bogus as Twitter’s claim that I was a participant in “targeted abuse,” and anyone who has followed the SJW jihad since #GamerGate understands what is really happening. YouTube is owned by Google, a company that is controlled by SJWs; the company fired James Damore and is being sued for allegedly prohibiting the hiring of white males. While the Cultural Marxists within the company are afraid to ban such a high-profile free speech advocate as Jordan Peterson, they figured they could get away with punishing his daughter, depriving her of advertising revenue and whatever other limitations this “first strike” suspension involves. The process whereby Google enforces its terms of services, however, is arbitrary and opaque. We don’t know which SJW apparatchik inside the company imposed this “first strike,” and there is no way the executives at Google (all of whom are major Democrat campaign contributors, by the way) will give an honest explanation.

Because I don’t like to publicize the tactics these monsters use, I’ve never discussed some of the ways my family members have been targeted by the Left, but trust me when I say that being an Enemy of Social Justice is quite a dangerous occupation, and that there is no known limit to the Left’s vindictive methods. There is a reason why I always say the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!