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Maryland Democrat Shouts ‘Heil Hitler,’ Causes Scene in Baltimore Theater

Posted on | November 16, 2018 | Comments Off on Maryland Democrat Shouts ‘Heil Hitler,’ Causes Scene in Baltimore Theater

Drunk Trump-hater provokes outrage:

A man shouting “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump” during a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Baltimore smelled of alcohol and told police he was motivated by his hatred of President Donald Trump.
Anthony M. Derlunas, 58, told an officer he “had been drinking heavily throughout the night” before the outburst at the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night, according to a police report.
But before details of the police report became public in the early evening, the incident rattled many already anxious about a recent spike in anti-Semitism and hate crimes in Maryland and nationwide.
Audience member Rich Scherr said the outburst, which happened during intermission, sparked fears of a shooting like the one in a Pittsburgh synagogue last month that killed 11 people.
The man, later identified as Derlunas, had been seated in the balcony and began shouting “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump.”
“People started running,” Scherr said. “I’ll be honest, I was waiting to hear a gunshot. I thought, ‘Here we go.’”
Samit Verma was seated in the balcony when he heard shouting and saw a man holding his hand straight up in a Nazi salute, he said in an email Thursday. Ushers rushed over to the man while audience members quickly made their way out of the theater and into the hall, Verma said.
“The people around me appeared to be quite shaken by the incident,” Verma said in the email. “There were some people in tears.”
According to the report, Derlunas said that the final scene of the play before intermission had reminded him of his hatred for the president, which is why he shouted. He was confused when people around him became angry. The officer deduced “that his intention was to express his dislike for President Donald Trump.”

When the incident first drew attention, before the police report disclosed the actual motive, many suggested that it was a Trump supporter, not a Trump-hater, who shouted “Hail Hitler.” If this had turned out to be the case, it would have been 24/7 news on CNN for a week. Instead, the liberal media will now forget that this ever happened.

Also, “In Democratic circles, anti-Semitism is becoming normal.”

 

Category: Maryland

In The Mailbox: 11.15.18

Posted on | November 15, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.15.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You get a double dose of linkagery today because I missed a couple of days – as you probably noticed, the previous post was mostly links from Tuesday & Wednesday. Here’s the fresh stuff.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Did McSally Lose To Sinema In Arizona?
Twitchy: Federal Judge Wants To Hear More From Hillary About Her Server & The E-Mails On It
Louder With Crowder: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had Her ID Checked. Then Her World Came Tumbling Down.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Broward County Elections Supervisor Mulls Retirement, also, Dana Loesch – “Law-Abiding People Shouldn’t Alwys Be Paying The Price For Criminals’ Actions”
American Thinker: Thanks, NeverTrumpers, Are You Happy Now?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fallen Legends News
BattleSwarm: Texas Election Results Analysis – The Warning Shot
CDR Salamander: I Hope You Didn’t Giggle Too Much At The Russians’ Sunken Drydock
Da Tech Guy: Why Do Conservatives & Libertarians Squabble So Much?
Don Surber: Nazi Till Proven Innocent, also, One In Fourteen Americans Are Millionaires
Dustbury: Fine Chinese Wheels
First Street Journal: Red Flag Laws?
The Geller Report: Trudeau Silent About Attack On Jewish Teens By Muslim Gang, also, Merkel Urged Romanian President Not To Move Embassy To Jerusalem
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
JustOneMinute: When The Elephants Scuffle…, also, Oh FFFFFudge!
Legal Insurrection: Kamala Harris Asks Nominee If She Sees Parallels Between ICE & The KKK, also, Florida Recount – DeSantis Wins Governor’s Race
The PanAm Post: Is Latin America Harboring A Mafia State?
Power Line: Systematic Fraud In Florida Election, also, In Defense Of American Nationalism
Shark Tank: Sen. Gillibrand Accuses President Trump Of Cultivating Hate And Demonizing Immigrants
Shot In The Dark: The Exposed Inner Id Of The Metrocrats
STUMP: Causes Of Public [Pension] Plan Insolvency
The Political Hat: The Grand Old Sundering
This Ain’t Hell: Expired Pigeon Carries Secret Code, also, 108 Years Ago Today, The Navy Launched An Airplane From A Ship For The First Time
Victory Girls: Ted Olson Is Wrong – It’s About Acosta, Not The !st Amendment, also, NJ Couple, Homeless Man Busted For GoFundMe Scam
Volokh Conspiracy: Neomi Rao For The D.C. Circuit, also, About The Internet of Things – “The ‘S’ In IoT Stands For Security”
Weasel Zippers: Border Patrol Arrests Caravan Members Trying To Enter U.S., also, Rep. Clyburn Accuses Fellow Democrats Of Racism
Mark Steyn: A Tale of Two Migrants, also, The Twain Meet


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Category: Linkagery

Jim Jones, Harvey Milk and the Weird Cult of ‘Revolutionary Suicide’

Posted on | November 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Jim Jones, Harvey Milk and the Weird Cult of ‘Revolutionary Suicide’

Daniel J. Flynn and his new book, ‘Cult City.’

A strange and chilling saga:

Thanksgiving, 1978 was bookended by two of the most bizarre and notorious events in American history. On November 18 in Guyana, hundreds of members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple committed mass suicide, or were murdered. Over the next few days, news trickled out from the jungle of 300, 400, 600, and finally more than 900 poisoned cultists, most of them from the San Francisco Bay Area, including many children; and of a congressman, Leo Ryan, ambushed and assassinated as he left with a dozen or so apostates whom he had rescued. Then, the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and a city supervisor, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay non-incumbent politician elected to office in America, were shot and killed in City Hall by Dan White, a disgruntled city supervisor who had quit his job and then wanted it back.
The connection — sometimes tenuous, sometimes shocking — between these incidents has been brushed over by a society eager to sanctify its martyrs and forget its villains, but Daniel Flynn in Cult City brings to light a kind of secret history of California in the 1970s, showing how modern progressive politics intersected with cults of madness and despair. Jim Jones came from Depression-Era Indiana, and was drawn to charismatic Christianity and radical politics from an early age. He founded a church called People Temple, dedicated to racial harmony, the living Christ, and veneration of the Soviet Union, and presented a compelling enough message that he attracted thousands of followers over the years.
Having moved his flock to northern California in the 1960s, Jones began leveraging their labor toward political ends, volunteering them for protests or electioneering on behalf of friendly aspirants to public office. Gaining the respect of San Francisco’s political class, Jones became a player in his own right. Many gave him credit for Moscone’s tight victory in the 1975 mayoral runoff, and he was appointed head of the San Francisco Housing Authority. Praised as a hero of social justice and a crusader for racial equality, Jones became an important figure in Democratic politics.
Among his advocates was Harvey Milk, also a newcomer to San Francisco. Milk, formerly a Goldwater Republican, became politically radical in California and repeatedly sought election to office as an outsider to the political machine. Milk attended services at Peoples Temple dozens of times, and wrote effusive letters to Jones. “Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple,” Milk proclaimed.
Milk wasn’t Jones’s only fan. Many powerful people — Governor Jerry Brown, columnist Herb Caen, and Vice President Walter Mondale, to name a few — sought Jones’s blessings and expressed admiration for his dedication to racial equality and a better world.  . . .

Read the rest at City Journal.

I’ve previously recommended Daniel Flynn’s new book Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco.

 

Category: Books, History

Early Afternoon With In The Mailbox: 11.15.18

Posted on | November 15, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti Arrested For Felony Domestic Violence In LA, also, National Pickle Day
Twitchy: You May Not Believe This, But Palm Beach County Just Messed Up The Machine Recount
Louder With Crowder: Monica Lewinsky Unloads On Bill Clinton, also, Rock Star Dave Grohl Surprises Firefighters Battling California Wildfires

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 100 Years Ago Today, We Were A Nation, also, The Real Difference Between The Right And Left
American Power: Democrats Won The Wealthy Suburbs, also, Victoria’s Secret CEO To Step Down
American Thinker: The Enemy Of The People, also, Poland Celebrates Nationalism As France’s Macron Derides It
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Single-Payer News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Dennis Bonnen Sews Up TX Speaker’s Race
CDR Salamander: Revenge As A COA – Approved
Da Tech Guy: Florida Woman, also, An Interesting If Slightly Depressing Anecdote
Don Surber: Obama Judge Takes Over Georgia’s Election
Dustbury: But We Taught That
First Street Journal: The Real Problem Has Been Ignored
The Geller Report: “Wild Herd” Of 14 Muslims Rape Spanish Girl & Knife Her Boyfriend, also, In “Moderate” Indonesia, Imams Reject Measles & Rubella Vaccines As “Unclean”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Gilmore v. Jones et al News
JustOneMinute: A WW2 Diversion, also, The Science Was Unsettled
Legal Insurrection: Filmmaker Ami Horowitz – “The Caravan Is Highly Organized…Paid For By A Number Of Organizations”, also, Court Adjourns Withotu Granting Acosta & CNN Emergency Injunction They Sought
Michelle Malkin: Making A Murderer 2 – A Post-Conviction Master Class
The PanAm Post: Trump Has A Good Point On California Wildfires
Power Line: How Many Non-Citizens Vote In U.S. Elections? also, Meet Ilhan Omar
Shark Tank: FL Republicans Move Forward Amid Recounts
Shot In The Dark: Wait – You Mean Ilhan Omar Lied?
Sister Toldjah: NYT Leaves Out Crucial Point On Puff Piece On Defeat Of ND Voter ID Proponent
STUMP: A Proposal – Restructuring Current Public Pensions Through Municipal Bankruptcy
The Jawa Report: ISIS Gets Order 66’d
The Political Hat: Venezuela’s Slow Ride To Hell
This Ain’t Hell: The Emergency Call of All Time, also, Some Additional Information
Victory Girls: Flake Flipped – AZ Senate Race Called For Krysten Sinema, also, Gun Grabber Blood Dance
Volokh Conspiracy: “Out – The United States Of America, In – The State University Of America”
Weasel Zippers: Trump Cracks Down On Wasted Time & Money At The VA, also, Incoming TN State Rep Caught On Video Calling Residents “Racist”, GOP Voters “Uneducated”
Megan McArdle: How Did America Wind Up Raising Generation Paranoia?
Mark Steyn: If Ye Break Faith With Us Who Died, also, The Death Of A Princess


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Category: Linkagery

And we’re back

Posted on | November 15, 2018 | Comments Off on And we’re back

Sorry for the downtime over the last couple of days. Things got pretty messy for a while. Stacy’s moved over to a brand new, ultra shiny server, and we turned the security up to eleven. Hopefully you’ll notice a huge improvement in site speed as well. Bonus!

– Dennis

Category: Uncategorized

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Gilmore v. Jones, et al., Hearing

Posted on | November 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Gilmore v. Jones, et al., Hearing

 

 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia
Defendants in a major First Amendment case today urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by former State Department official Brennan Gilmore, who claims he was defamed by Alex Jones and others who criticized his activities at the August 2017 riot where a woman was killed.

Attorneys for Jones and his co-defendants, including Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft and investigative journalist Lee Stranahan, not only disputed Gilmore’s claims of defamation, but also argued that the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia does not have proper jurisdiction in the case. Stranahan is a Virginia resident and, his attorney Aaron Walker argued, this fact defeats the “diversity of citizenship” requirement for federal jurisdiction over a state law case, as the plaintiff Gilmore is also a Virginia resident. Walker has filed a motion for sanctions against the plaintiff’s attorneys under Rule 11, alleging they did not exercise due diligence in their filings. (Which is not legally the same as saying “they lied,” but readers are free to draw their own conclusions.)

Gilmore was on the scene of the August 2017 riot in Charlottesville, where left-wing counter-protesters engaged in sometimes violent confrontations with white supremacists at a “Unite the Right” rally. Gilmore captured video of the fatal incident in which 20-year-old James Alex Field Jr. rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of leftist protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring several others. In subsequent TV appearances and a column for the Politico website, Gilmore sought to blame President Trump for what he called the “escalating, toxic politics of hate” that resulted in Heyer’s death.

Once Gilmore’s ties to the State Department and the Democrat Party became public knowledge, Jones accused Gilmore of being a CIA operative and suggested he was on the payroll of liberal billionaire George Soros. Some of Jones’s claims were echoed by other defendants (Hoft called Gilmore “a deep state shill with links to George Soros”) and Gilmore blames the defendants for his being targeted for harassment.

During today’s court hearing, Gilmore’s lawyers — Andrew Mendrala of the Georgetown University Civil Rights Clinic and Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center — repeated the assertions in their complaint that the defendants had sought to make Gilmore a “scapegoat” for the violence in Charlottesville, in order to deflect blame from right-wing white supremacists. Lawyers for the defendants, including former Republican congressman and Army Lt. Col. Allen West, mostly emphasized the jurisdictional issues in the case. However, Walker and defense attorney Andrew Grossman, representing Jones, also strongly disputed the plaintiff’s characterization of Stranahan’s comments in an interview with Lee Ann McAdoo on Jones’s InfoWars site.

Reporters for several media organizations were on hand for the hearing and, in a brief interview outside the courthouse, Walker emphasized the importance of the First Amendment issues involved. “Free speech isn’t just for people we like or opinions we agree with,” Walker said, mentioning his personal dislike for Alex Jones. Walker made reference to Supreme Court cases including Brandenburg v. Ohio. “Today, it’s Alex Jones, but tomorrow it could be the New York Times.”

 

I made this trip with John Hoge of Hogewash, who made a guest appearance in court as an easel, holding up a large display poster that Walker had prepared for the case. He summarizes today:

The Plaintiff’s attorneys spent most of their time trying explain why the case should be left standing in spite of the facts and law.
The judge did not rule from the bench, so it will be a while before we know whether the case will go forward.

As longtime readers know, Hoge, Walker, Stranahan and I were all co-defendants in lawsuits filed by convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin, whose pro se shuttuppery LOLsuits failed miserably. Whether the current Gilmore v. Jones et al. litigation has more merit than Kimberlin’s nuisance suits is a matter of opinion, but the whole point is that as Americans we are entitled to express our opinions, and the Gilmore suit might conceivably infringe our rights . However, while we still have our freedom, I wish to remind you of an important truth, that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Constitution, Neutral Objective Journalism, Shoe Leather Fund

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.12.18

Posted on | November 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.12.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stan Lee RIP
Twitchy: There’s Something Really Dubious About This Surgeon Shaming The NRA With An Operating Room Selfie
Louder With Crowder: Dan Crenshaw Appears On SNL’s “Weekend Update” To Roast Pete Davidson

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #95 – The Electric Dreams Episode
American Power: Martha McSally Concedes, also, Isabell Sawhill, The Forgotten Americans
American Thinker: The Common Thread In All Those Florida Election Debacles
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Colion Noir On Dystopian Seattle
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Arab Lessons O The Arab Spring
Da Tech Guy: To Survive, The Illinois GOP Must Be The Anti-Tax Hike Party, also, The Time To Be Ready For The 2020 Election Vote Fraud Algorithm Is NOW
Don Surber: Election Will Be Stolen Only If We Let Them
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, What The Traffic Will Bear
First Street Journal: The Elephant In The Sacristy
Fred On Everything: Intelligent Design – Two Weeks In & Around Chengtu
The Geller Report: Boston Imam – “This Is The Home Of The Coward And Land Of The Slave”, also, Israel Under Attack – Over 100 Rockets Fired From Gaza
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Shoe Leather Journalism
JustOneMinute: We’ll Always Have Paris
Legal Insurrection: AZ Senate – Why Did McSally Underperform Other GOP Candidates? also, Democrats Reportedly Have “Subpoena Cannon” Aimed At 85 Trump Targets
Michelle Malkin: Say “No” To Nanny Bloomberg
The PanAm Post: To Fight Money Laundering, Bank Of England Refuses To Repatriate Venezuelan Gold
Power Line: Republicans Fight Back In Florida, also, A Second Look At Last Week’s Election
Shark Tank: Rick Scott – “My Win Will Be Certified By The Court”
Shot In The Dark:  A Good Guy With A Gun, Maybe Two
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – 100 Years Since The End Of World War I
The Jawa Report: John Hawkins, H8er Extraordinaire, also, The Guns, They’ve Stopped
The Political Hat: 100 Years Ago Today The Guns Fell Silent
This Ain’t Hell: The Ghost Army Of WW2, also, Army Retro Uniform OK’d For 2020
Victory Girls: Florida’s Bay County Election Supervisor Let People Vote By E-Mail
Volokh Conspiracy: Libertarian Critiques Of Democracy Can’t Be Refuted By Showing It’s Better Than Dictatorship
Weasel Zippers: Andrea Mitchell Lies That Broward County Election Boss Snipes Is Republican, also, World War I’s Unlikely Canine Hero
Megan McArdle: Populists On Both Sides Might Want To Rethink Cheering On The Norm-Busters
Mark Steyn: The Four Chads Return, also, The War That Made The World We Live In


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Category: Linkagery

University Begins ‘Intersectional Diversity and Sexual Harassment Training’

Posted on | November 12, 2018 | Comments Off on University Begins ‘Intersectional Diversity and Sexual Harassment Training’

News from the campus SJW Thought Police:

The University of Washington-Seattle has caved to student demands culminating after a computer science professor pointed out why efforts to close the “gender gap” in computer science may be futile.
The controversy began in June, when UW-Seattle Professor Stuart Reges published “Why Women Don’t Code” for Quillette, in which he articulated why women are less interested in computer science than men. (Hint, hint: men and women are different).
Though Reges admits the title was hyperbolic — as he has taught hundreds of women to code during his career — UW students didn’t see it as such. They circulated an internal memo of concern ad lobbied UW against his “gender harassment.”
Roughly five months later, a group of graduate students have announced that they’ve negotiated with senior officials at the UW computer science school to ensure that “more will be done to address gender harassment at the Allen School.”
While it’s unclear exactly how many “grievance demands” students filed, the school agreed to at least three.
From now on, UW will provide “intersectional diversity and sexual harassment training to both [student employees] and [the professors who supervise them]” which all students and professors will be highly encouraged to attend. . . .
UW spokesman Victor Balta said that nearly every aspect of 100-level computer science courses will be inspected to ensure they promote inclusivity. This includes “curriculum, organization, programming language and environment, teaching methods and techniques, new devices… as well as ensuring that our gateway courses are attractive and welcoming to the broadest group of students.”
All this, it seems, simply because students were outraged at Reges’ op-ed pointing out that men simply are more interested in coding, as men tend to want to work alone and with numbers, while women are more people oriented.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Given a choice between university “intersectional diversity” training and, say, driving a forklift in a warehouse, I’m absolutely certain I’d be driving a forklift. What part of “fuck your totalitarian ‘social justice’ ideology” do these pinheads not understand?

 

Category: Education
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