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Feminism 2017: @Rose_Resistance — Communist Lesbians Against America

Posted on | October 1, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

 

Erika Heidewald is a German-born lesbian feminist and Democrat Party activist who hates capitalism, Christianity and white males, not necessarily in that order. Before last year’s election, Ms. Heidewald was busy with her immigrant girlfriend Frida on YouTube promoting homosexuality and also, of course, campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

 

 

 

Like other Democrats who have rejected democracy, Ms. Heidewald was inspired by Mrs. Clinton’s defeat to declare Donald Trump “Not My President,” and create a YouTube program “Resistance News Network.”

 

 

 

Ms. Heidewald denounces Republicans as “fascists” and, after the 2016 election, she created an organization called The Rose Resistance “to fight fascism and white supremacy” and “help protect the people most endangered by the Trump regime.” Ms. Heidewald claims to stand for “democracy” when, in fact, she advocates a one-party dictatorship by her rhetoric that delegitimizes Republicans. She seems to believe, and seeks to persuade others, that the 63 million Americans who voted to elect Donald Trump should have no right to be represented in government.

 

 

This rhetoric of “progressive” intolerance (reflecting the influence of Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School) is the antithesis of democracy. It is therefore not surprising to see Ms. Eichenwald with an anti-Trump poster from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).

 

Those readers who recall my coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention will remember that the anti-police protesters in Cleveland waved RCP posters that declared “America Was Never Great.”

 

“There will be no peace unless there is justice,” Professor Cornell West said Tuesday in a speech to an anti-police rally here organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Speaking through a megaphone amid a crowd of protesters gathered at Public Square in downtown Cleveland, West invoked “the legacy of white supremacy in this country that goes back 400 years” to condemn police.
West spoke in front of a giant RCP banner declaring, “Time to Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution. STOP MURDER BY POLICE.” Activists with the RCP held aloft signs that read, “America Was NEVER Great! We Need to OVERTHROW This System!”

The RCP, which advocates the “overthrow” of the American “system,” is a Maoist cult founded by Bob Avakian. The RCP became notorious in the 1980s when it called for the assassination of Ronald Reagan. The RCP and its front group Refuse Fascism have recently made headlines by announcing nationwide protests to “end the Trump/Pence Regime”:

Antifa is planning a new round of nationwide riots on November 4 as part of a plot to start a “civil war” that will lead to the overthrow of the Trump administration.
Far-left militants plan to “gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country” in the hope of building momentum for civil unrest that leads to nothing less than domestic regime change.
“Our protest must grow day after day and night after night—thousands becoming hundreds of thousands, and then millions—determined to act to put a stop to the grave danger that the Trump/Pence Regime poses to the world by demanding that this whole regime be removed from power,” states a call to action on the RefuseFascism website.
A longer screed posted on the Revolutionary Communist website makes it clear that Antifa is not prepared to wait for electoral change from Democrats, and will engage in a “ferocious struggle,” based on plans outlined in a book written by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which is called The Coming Civil War.

 

This extremist rhetoric — denying the legitimacy of a constitutionally elected government by denouncing it as a “regime” of fascism, white supremacy, etc. — is not merely divisive, it is dangerous, especially when accompanied by militant talk of “struggle” and “revolution.”

The RCP’s advocacy of “civil war” is not idle chatter. We have seen in the past three years how the Democrat-supported racial terrorist movement Black Lives Matter incited violent riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charlotte, and sparked assassinations of police officers. Not surprisingly, Erika Heidewald is a big fan of Black Lives Matter.

 

This endorsement of Black Lives Matter, like her embrace of the RCP, puts Erika Heidewald on the extreme fringe of American politics. However, this L.A.-based lesbian feminist actually represents the mainstream of young Democrats who have internalized the identity-politics ideology of their party in the post-Obama era. The irrationality of her rhetoric — including her claim that the only alternative to identity politics is “white male supremacy” — reflects the crisis of a party that is intellectually bankrupt and at a historic low ebb of influence.

Democrats have lost power at every level, as Republicans not only control the White House and both houses of Congress, but also hold the governorships of 33 states, and 68 of 99 state legislative chambers. In 32 states, which are home to 61% of the U.S. population, the GOP controls both houses of the state legislature. Hillary Clinton’s supporters like to point out she won the popular vote, with 66 million votes to Trump’s 63 million, yet nearly a quarter of her total — more than 16 million votes — were concentrated in just three states: California, New York and Illinois. Lacking effective leadership, Democrats have become deranged and desperate, and are being attracted to lunatic fringe movements.

 

On Sept. 26, when the RCP front group Refuse Fascism blocked the 101 expressway in downtown Los Angeles, one of the protesters was Perry Hoberman, a 62-year-old professor at the University of Southern California. Hoberman’s anti-Trump tirade is worth quoting:

“This is basically how fascism works,” Hoberman says. “It’s shock and awe. It’s the big lie. It’s doing things so absurd that no one knows how to react. It’s impossible to keep track of what they’re doing and how they’re driving us all crazy.” . . .
“They’re playing with utter destruction and it’s completely unconscionable to let it go on.” . . .
“Calls to impeach and take back the House and Senate are fine, and we support all that. But ultimately we don’t think anything will fix this but mass action by huge amounts of people gumming things up.
“This is just too serious to continue with business as usual.”

“They’re driving us all crazy.”

Hillary Clinton got 71% of the vote in Los Angeles County, and yet this was absolutely irrelevant to the outcome of the election. Liberals are politically isolated in their urban enclaves, ranting about “white supremacy” and “fascism” because too many voters in places like Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan are sick and tired of being lectured by Hollywood elitists, university professors, and CNN talking heads.

 

So here is Erika Heideman in her “Trump Is Not My President” T-shirt, living in Los Angeles with her Swedish lesbian girlfriend, apparently oblivious to how the rest of the electorate might read her message. This is relevant to a point I made after Roy Moore’s victory Tuesday:

In the GOP primaries, Ted Cruz was the main candidate of the Christian Right, who did not approve of Trump’s offensive language and behavior. Nevertheless, when it came to a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, conservative Christians knew which side they were on. If they didn’t, Hillary’s campaign reminded them.

The Cultural Left was empowered by Obama’s presidency, to the detriment of the Democrat Party’s appeal to mainstream Americans. As the Democrats have become more beholden to the far-left fringe, they have alienated the kind of middle-class voters who might not be “right wing,” but who damned sure aren’t going to vote for a Democrat Party that looks increasingly like the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

Erika Heidewald probably doesn’t realize that gay Republicans played a key role in launching Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. The group GOProud invited Donald Trump to speak at CPAC in 2011, and my late friend Andrew Breitbart threw a party for them:

Also exciting to many attendees was the prospect of Thursday night’s GOProud party at 18th Street Lounge with Big Government publisher Andrew Breitbart, featuring ’90s alt rock performer Sophie B. Hawkins. More than 500 guests are expected at the event, according to organizers.
Breitbart, a Los Angeles conservative, reached out to GOProud about throwing the party for them as a way of welcoming gays and lesbians to the conservative conference.
“This party will highlight the story the main stream media has missed in the weeks leading up to CPAC, namely that the vast majority of the conservative movement is united and welcomes GOProud and any other conservative into the fold,” said Breitbart, who also recently joined GOProud’s Advisory Council, announcing the event in early February.

Yeah, I was at that party. Despite my status as a member of the heteropatriarchy, effective coalition politics in a two-party system requires a broad-based movement to win a majority in a diverse nation of 330 million people. To quote former GOP chairman Haley Barbour, “My old boss Ronald Reagan used to say, ‘Somebody who agrees with me 80 percent of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20 percent traitor.’”

Of course, in the 2012 GOP primaries, I ended up supporting Rick Santorum, the antithesis of GOProud, who was unfortunately defeated by the establishment candidate, Mitt Romney. Now, I hate establishment Republicans and consider Mormonism a cult, but that didn’t stop me from going all-in once Mormon Mitt locked up the GOP nomination.

Erika Heidewald is a young Democrat and a fool, but I repeat myself. Perhaps some day she will grow up, get tired of hanging around with losers, and decide instead to help Make America Great Again.



 

Category: Democrats, Gays, Sex Trouble

Nation-Building President Ain’t Got Time For Backstabbery

Posted on | September 30, 2017 | Comments Off on Nation-Building President Ain’t Got Time For Backstabbery

by Smitty

Jazz Shaw over at HotAir is off the mark, methinks, with: “In three tweets, Trump undoes all the gains he made during Irma and Harvey”

  1. Trump is showing loyalty to FEMA and military responders who are doing optimal work. If you want them to work above “adequate”, you don’t let your peoples’ efforts go under the bus, where Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz seeks to toss them.
  2. Listen to the San Juan mayor’s sound bite over at HotAir, which could lead you to believe that Trump is to Puerto Rico as Obama was to Tennessee flood victims. Is that actually the case? What an imbalanced, straight-to-Narrative little screed.   San Juan should vote her out at the next election, so that she can get a job making beds in a large hotel, where a tucking fool can feel right at home.
  3. This is the President who not only grasps the media chess match, but doesn’t hesitate to put the opponent in check. We voted for him both out of dread of Her Majesty, and the expectation of non-flaccid response to this sort of blatant Commie propaganda. Trump’s response is tame, in context.
  4. Unlike Irma and Harvey, the Puerto Rico situation is “over there”, and less subject to feedback from people on the ground acting as a check on the Commie media pulling #FakeNews from its nethers. The media is purely tactical. It seeks to hit hard, hit now, and then shrug later, when the truth gets out.

Once again, we’re seeing Trump getting the job substantially done, and a bunch of concern trolling over he stylistic aspects of how that job gets done.

If anything, Trump has demonstrated an almost immaculate capacity to gauge how to handle feedback from the media. The claim that he’s “undone gains” seems overblown.

Update: more at Rare.

Category: Donald Trump, Hot Air, Pureto Rico

In The Mailbox: 09.29.17

Posted on | September 29, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box – Episode #29
EBL: ASSHAT OF THE DAY – Nick Kristof
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Diagnoses Chelsea Handler’s Problem In Just Six Words
Louder With Crowder: #UndercoverAntifa – Exposing The Dangerous Truth Of Antifa
According To Hoyt: Dust And Despondence
Monster Hunter Nation: An Opinion On Suppressors And The Hearing Protection Act
Vox Popoli: Alt*Hero Launch


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Special Podcast For Aaron Clarey, also, Friday Links & Hawt Chicks – The Economics Edition
American Power: Kirsten Powers Deletes Hefner-Shaming Tweet She Sent Moments After His Death, also, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
American Thinker: Blacks, Crime, and the Bended Knee
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tax Reform Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 29, also, Trump Nominates Don Willett To Fifth Circuit
Bring The HEAT: Ken Block Vs. Pike’s Peak
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Why You Should Love Hockey Even If You Hate Sports, also, Yet Another “Movement” For Violent Leftist Kooks
Don Surber: Why They Say Dr. Seuss Is A Racist
Dustbury: A Man, A Plan, Pajamas
The Geller Report: Norway’s Immigration Minister – “We Are Now Experiencing The Fear Israelis Have Felt For Decades”
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Reaching The End Of His Leash, also also Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Sanctuary” Cities Targeted By ICE Immigration Raids, Nearly 500 Arrested
Joe For America: NFL Takes Big Financial Hit As First Huge Advertiser Pulls Ads
JustOneMinute: This Is How We Keep Trump, Library Edition
Legal Insurrection: Adieu, Jim Treacher, also, HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns
Power Line: SCOTUS Grants Cert In Historic Employee Freedom Case, also, Chuck Todd Is A Chucklehead Toad
Shot In The Dark: Day of The Living Doakes
STUMP: The Saga Of The Never-Ending Soda Tax
The Jawa Report: Progressive Democracy In Action (Video)
The Political Hat: California Poised To Legally Trip Balls
This Ain’t Hell: Spencer Rapone In Deep Kimchi, also, US Stops Issuing Visas In Cuba, Cuts Embassy Staff, Advises No Travel To Island
Weasel Zippers: Bar Owner Uses Kaepernick Jersey As Doormat, People Flip Out, also, Trump’s Transportation Department Hands Puerto Rico $40 Million To Fix Roads & Bridges
Megan McArdle: Why Is Italian Food So Amazing?
Mark Steyn: Laid To Rest


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In The Mailbox: 09.28.17

Posted on | September 28, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.28.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #28
EBL: Iraqi Kurds Vote For Independence
Twitchy: Clay Travis Notices Something Amazing About CNN’s Hefner Coverage
Louder With Crowder: South Park takes On Christopher Columbus Controversy


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Sound Women Make When They Run Into The Wall
American Power: Jerry Pournelle Remembered At Instapundit, also, Niven & Pournelle, The Mote In God’s Eye
American Thinker: Bending The Knee
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Disability News
BattleSwarm: Hugh Hefner Dead At 91
Bring The HEAT: Fire Finder Radars
CDR Salamander: Old Dogs, New Tricks, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Tax Cuts Are Great But meaningless Without Spending Cuts, also, The NFL Backlash For Democrats Begins
Don Surber: With An “Emotional And Joyful” Speech, Scalise Returns To The House
Dustbury: Embedsores
The Geller Report: Catholic Archbishop Condemned, But Not Muslim Imam
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Flashback – Moron Paul Krugman Said GDP Wouldn’t Grow by 3%, Second Quarter Just Revised to 3.1%
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Down In Puerto Rico
Legal Insurrection: Trump Nominates Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett To 5th Circuit Appellate Court
Power Line: A Feelgood NFL Story, also, Hollow NFL Protests Ignore Inconvenient Truth
Shark Tank: Allen West Gets Involved In Fight Between Broward County GOP And Its “Antifa” Faction
Shot In The Dark: Disaster Relief For Bureaucrats
STUMP: Connecticut – A Review While Waiting For A Budget
The Jawa Report: Buzzkill – Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Alive
The Political Hat: Institutional Privilege At Colleges – For Illegal Aliens, For Social Justice Wankers, For Woke Engineers
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Brings Back Pencils And Compasses, also, More Troops To Puerto Rico
Weasel Zippers: Pic Of Man Kneeling At Tomb Of Unknown Soldier Infuriates America, also, Pic Of The Day – Kaepernick Isn’t Racist, He Has A White Friend
Megan McArdle: These Are No Reagan Tax Cuts
Mark Steyn: A Tale Of Two Trumps


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In The Mailbox: 09.27.17

Posted on | September 27, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.27.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #26
Proof Positive: The Ghost Of Trayvon Martin Takes A Knee
EBL: President Trump Is Getting Aid To Puerto Rico And The Virgin Islands
Twitchy: Dinesh D’Souza Drops Massive Truth Bomb On Kamala Harris’ Incomplete History Lesson
Louder With Crowder: Kick Them Out! Illegal Immigrants Cost America $135 Billion


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Gay Marriage In Holland – Why Dutch Liberalism Works
American Power: Alejandro Villanueva Apologizes For Standing During National Anthem, also, Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad
American Thinker: Can We Please Stop Pretending The NFL Protests Have Anything To Do With Free Speech?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Roy Moore Wins In Alabama, also, Corker Retires, Instapundit Demurs
BLACKFIVE: Eric Rickstad, The Names Of Dead Girls
Bring The HEAT: Let’s Talk About 2LT Spenser Rapone For A Bit
CDR Salamander: Hezbollah, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, And What’s Next – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Call For Action – Ask President Trump To Suspend The Jones Act
Don Surber: NFL Ratings Kneel Down 23% In Two Years
Dustbury: Kitty and the Colonel
The Geller Report: Trump Cuts Obama’s Refugee Target In Half, Takes In More Christians Than Muslims
Hogewash: On Declaring War, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: All That Kneeling Ignores The Real Cause Of Soaring Black Homicides
Joe For America: Unglued Dem Congressman To Force Trump Impeachment Vote Over NFL Tweet
JustOneMinute: Trumpian Tax Reform
Legal Insurrection: Cornell Faculty “Take A Knee” Protest Hijacked
Michelle Malkin:
Power Line: Hillary Peddles Fake News About Trump & Puerto Rico, also, How Obama Funds The Anti-Trump Resistance
Shark Tank: Democrat Taddeo Beats Republican Diaz In FL SD40 Special Election
Shot In The Dark: Customer Satisfaction
STUMP: Show Me (The Money) State – Missouri Tries A Pension Buyout
The Jawa Report: Islamic Culture 101, Lesson 1, also, Ministry Of Jiggly – Shortage
The Political Hat: Musical Interlude – The Star Spangled Banner
This Ain’t Hell: Venezuela Prepares For War With U.S., also, Hillary Clinton, Backseat Driver
Weasel Zippers: Army Opens Investigation Into Commie Pinko 2LT Rapone, also, Reminder – In 1936 Jesse Owens had The Courage To Salute The Flag Despite Being Flanked By German Nazis
Megan McArdle: It Shouldn’t Be So Easy To Go To Grad School
Mark Steyn: The Subversion Of A Civic Ritual


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The Incorruptible Roy Moore Wins

Posted on | September 27, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

No man in American political life has suffered more than Roy Moore for his devotion to firm principle. He was harassed by the ACLU, purged from his office as chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and suspended again after he successfully campaigned for re-election. All of this he suffered because of his belief that human law ought to be in accord with God’s law, or otherwise is invalid. You may not share that belief, but Moore’s unwavering commitment marks him as incorruptible, a rare quality in an age when we see Republicans in Washington abandoning their campaign promises, and even forsaking their party platform, in misguided efforts to curry favor with the liberal media.

A well-scarred veteran of the Culture Wars, a former Army captain and a kickboxing champion, Roy Moore won a big battle Tuesday:

Roy S. Moore, a firebrand former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, overcame efforts by top Republicans to rescue his rival, Senator Luther Strange, soundly defeating him on Tuesday in a special primary runoff.
The outcome in the closely watched Senate race dealt a humbling blow to President Trump and other party leaders days after the president pleaded with voters in the state to back Mr. Strange.
Propelled by the stalwart support of his fellow evangelical Christians, Mr. Moore survived an advertising onslaught of more than $10 million financed by allies of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader. His victory demonstrated in stark terms the limits of Mr. Trump’s clout.
Taking the stage after a solo rendition of “How Great Thou Art,” an exultant Mr. Moore said he had “never prayed to win this campaign,” only putting his political fate “in the hands of the Almighty.”
“Together, we can make America great,” he said, borrowing Mr. Trump’s slogan and adding, “Don’t let anybody in the press think that because he supported my opponent that I do not support him.”

(Via Memeorandum.) This was a humiliating defeat for Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment in Washington, and the fact that Alabama’s evangelical Christians were not swayed even by Trump’s campaigning for Moore’s opponent is remarkable. Moore’s willingness to forgive Trump is itself testament to his character as a Christian and as a gentleman, who understands the nature of political combat.

John Nolte of Breitbart.com explains the national dynamic:

With the results now clear in Alabama’s hotly-contested U.S. Senate Republican primary race, the unambiguous message coming from the GOP voters responsible for Roy Moore’s underdog victory is clear-cut — a crucial reminder to everyone that Trumpism is not about any one person.
More importantly, what this humiliating loss tells President Trump is that Trumpism is not even about him. The indisputable lesson here for the president is that even he, the man who started the movement, is not bigger than the promises, ideas, agenda, and platform he ran on.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) This is arguably true, although Nolte overlooks the fact that conservative evangelicals, in general, have been reluctant Trump supporters. In the GOP primaries, Ted Cruz was the main candidate of the Christian Right, who did not approve of Trump’s offensive language and behavior. Nevertheless, when it came to a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton, conservative Christians knew which side they were on. If they didn’t, Hillary’s campaign reminded them.

Alabama was one of 31 states where voters approved constitutional amendments declaring marriage a union of one man and one woman, prior to the 2015 Obergefell ruling, which invoked the Fourteenth Amendment to say otherwise (as if this was what those who ratified that amendment, circa 1868, had in mind). Among the states which voted to protect traditional marriage was California, where the Proposition 8 campaign exposed the viciousness of the Gay Left. My November 2008 American Spectator column “Gay Rights, Gay Rage” began thus:

Before he was purged from the bench, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore made a remarkable and lamentably unappreciated contribution to American jurisprudence.
Concurring in the 2002 case of Ex Parte H.H., a custody dispute involving a lesbian mother, Moore demonstrated that homosexuality had no protected status in the Anglo-American common-law tradition, that indeed such behavior had been proscribed for centuries as “a crime against nature,” and that Alabama courts had consistently condemned homosexual acts as “illegal under the laws of this state and immoral in the eyes of most of its citizens.”
One does not have to share this abhorrence of homosexuality to agree that Moore’s concurrence — copiously studded with court precedents and citations of Blackstone’s Commentaries, 16th-century British jurist Sir Christopher Wray and even the Justinian Code — accurately summarized the legal foundation of the case against gay rights.
Moore’s 7,000-word treatise came to mind last week when gay activists began targeting sponsors of Proposition 8, the successful ballot initiative that amended the California state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. Taking to the streets in furious indignation, activists created an “enemies list” of those who had contributed to support the measure, targeting them for boycotts and protests. . . .

You can read the whole thing and, furthermore, Judge Moore’s concurring opinion in Ex Parte H.H. is still available online. The disastrous consequences of America abandoning its Christian heritage are insufficiently understood, even by most Christian conservatives:

If you read Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, it was apparent at the time that the majority’s “Emerging Awareness” Doctrine would have far-reaching effects in law, society and culture. These effects were not entirely predictable, because Lawrence amounted to a repudiation of many centuries of Anglo-American common law precedent. With this decision, America was setting sail into uncharted waters, voyaging toward that part of the ancient map marked “Here Be Dragons.” . . .

You can read the rest of that. My point is that too many Republicans have become so afraid of the accusation of “homophobia” that they are unwilling to examine the underlying principle which was at stake in Lawrence. If you didn’t know better, you might imagine that the United States was, prior to Lawrence, a nightmare regime akin to Iran as far as the safety of homosexuals was concerned. Democrats would have us believe that Christian conservatives are like ISIS throwing gay men off roofs, and the typical CNN viewer probably thinks Alabama is the Worst Place in the World to Be Gay. Yet the reality is that gay people in Alabama are generally unharmed by “homophobia” and, as I recall from my college days at Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, gays and lesbians didn’t exactly live in a state of fear back then. Who could forget the flamboyantly gay black man who served dinner at the university cafeteria, or the butch lesbians who played on the school’s athletic teams? Certainly, as a student in the drama department, I was aware of how many homosexuals there were among my fellow students, and if any of them were thrown off roofs, I somehow missed it.

What theses recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions — Lawrence in 2003, Windsor in 2013 and Obergefell in 2015 — have done is to reverse many centuries of legal precedent, and to establish (as is now becoming increasingly clear) the exact opposite of the status quo ante. Whereas before these decisions, homosexual behavior was under legal sanction, now we find that “homophobia” is so strictly forbidden in elite opinion (including judicial opinion) that people are losing their jobs and businesses because of their mere disapproval of homosexuality.

Whether or not Judge Moore foresaw all these consequences 15 years ago, he nevertheless had the courage to defend our national heritage — including the British common law tradition — against those radical forces who have since become generally known as “social justice warriors.”

 

There is yet hope to “Make America Great Again,” and Judge Roy Moore’s victory proves that many Americans still believe in that hope.



 

Category: Alabama, Election, Mitch McConnell, Senate

In The Mailbox: 09.26.17

Posted on | September 26, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.26.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: This American Life and Radio Lab On The “Alt-Right”
Twitchy: INFURIATING! West Point Cadet Shares “Communism Will Win” Selfie On #VeteransForKaepernick
Louder With Crowder: Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin Has Had Enough – “Just Let Us Play Ball”
The Grauniad: No Biz, No Boozing, No Casual Sex – What Happened When Togo Turned Off The Internet (h/t Loyal Reader NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Skin In The Game Is No Guarantee Of Success
American Power: The Politicization Of Everything, also, John Del Vecchio, The 13th Valley
American Thinker: What Happened To Our Music?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Soda Tax News
BattleSwarm: Anthony Weiner Gets Hard Time
BLACKFIVE: Alix Rickloff, The Way To London
Bring The HEAT: The Military Response To Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria
CDR Salamander: Men, Material Money, and Morale In Ukraine’s Foreverwar
Da Tech Guy: Of Dead Geese and Distractions Removed, also, An Ode To Flyover Country
Don Surber: Liberal Misunderstands Trump’s Strategy In North Korea
Dustbury: She’s Alive!
The Geller Report: Pope Says Concern For “Cultural Identity” Doesn’t Justify Opposition To Mass Muslim Migration
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Top-Down View Of An Aurora
Jammie Wearing Fools: Protesters, Beware – Americans Adore The Flag
Joe For America: California High-Speed Rail Project In Chaos
JustOneMinute: This Is Easily Taken Out Of Context, So I Will
Legal Insurrection: What Four More Years Of Merkel Mean
Power Line: Obama’s Lying Quartet
Shark Tank: Trump Detractors Continue Politicizing Natural Disasters
Shot In The Dark: A Tale Of Two Knees
STUMP: Soda Tax Follies – The Backstory Of Preckwinkle & More
The Jawa Report: How To Liberate Women Under Islam In Less Than 1000 Rapings
The Political Hat: Canadian Physicians Empowered To Kill At Will
This Ain’t Hell: Spencer Rapone, The Commie Butterbar
Weasel Zippers: NYT Recalls Walter Duranty, also, DirecTV Announces Refund To Viewers Who Cancel NFL Package Over Anthem Controversy
Megan McArdle: Plea Bargains Are A Travesty. There’s Another Way.
Mark Steyn: L.A. Confidential, also, Man Un-Makyth Manners


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Feminist Group Offers $5,000 Grants to Promote Anti-Male Hatred on Campus

Posted on | September 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Female students can get $5,000 grants from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to create feminist propaganda campaigns to “fight the patriarchy” on college campuses. For example, at SUNY-Brockport, AAUW’s Campus Action Project (CAP) grants funded a group called “Be the Revolution,” which hosted a celebration of violent anarchist Emma Goldman, who was deported from the U.S. in 1917. The SUNY-Brockport group also promoted the “1-in-5” campus rape myth, as well as the “gender pay gap” myth, blaming “bias and barriers” for women’s lower average income. By promoting feminist myths that demonize men as oppressors and rapists, these propaganda campaigns teach female college students to hate and fear their male classmates, and justify policies of deliberate discrimination against males who are already a minority (43%) of undergraduate enrollment.

Women are victims of “hostile work environments, negative stereotypes about women in leadership, and unconscious or implicit bias,” said Paige Robnett, AAUW’s College Relations Manager. This victimhood ideology is used by feminists to mobilize student support for Democrats. Although AAUW claims to be non-partisan, Robnett is a Democrat Party activist.

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble
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