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McCabe Targeted Sessions in ‘Coup’ Conspiracy by Obama-Era DOJ Officials

Posted on | March 22, 2018 | Comments Off on McCabe Targeted Sessions in ‘Coup’ Conspiracy by Obama-Era DOJ Officials

 

Fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe launched an investigation against Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year as part of a “coup” organized by Obama-era holdovers in the Department of Justice.

“We already know Andrew McCabe was one of the primary conspirators in the plot to illegally spy on, manufacture evidence against, and then impeach a duly elected president using Illegitimate criminally obtained FISA warrants as pseudo legal cover,” according to an analysis of the revelation that McCabe targeted Sessions in a “covertly launched a criminal case.” By taking out Sessions, the analyst alleges, McCabe hoped to replace the attorney general with fellow conspirator Sally Yates, who was acting attorney general before Trump fired her in January 2017.

In a 35-message analysis on Twitter, @NameRedacted7 explains that McCabe — along with former FBI director James Comey, rogue FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr, former assistant attorney general Peter Kadzik, and other Democrats in the Justice Department — were complicit in “spying on Team Trump” through illegally obtained FISA warrants. (“8 top DOJ and FBI officials under a cloud over roles in Clinton, Trump investigations.”) The conspirators then launched an effort to “frame” Sessions, which was part of a “staggering” attempt to “decapitate” the executive branch in “show trials,” according to @NameRedacted7.

McCabe was accused of mishandling the investigation of Hillary Clinton for her use of a illegal private email server to conduct official State Department business. “McCabe opened his politically motivated case” against Sessions in response to a letter from Democrat Sens. Patrick Leahy and Al Franken, who had attempted during confirmation hearings “to falsely paint [Sessions] as a Russian agent,” the analysis notes.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation is likely to lead to the prosecution of McCabe and perhaps others, the analysis suggests. It has been reported that Horowitz will accuse McCabe of improper leaking to the press and deliberately misleading investigators.

The connection between McCabe and the phony “Russiagate” smear against Sessions shows how Democrat Party loyalists in the Justice Department used what Page and Strzok called an “insurance policy” in their attempt to sabotage the Trump administration.



 

Category: Corruption, Democrats

In The Mailbox: 03.21.18

Posted on | March 21, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.21.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #201
EBL: Governor Matt Bevin Speaks On Recent Violence
Twitchy: Josh Barro Schools Ezra Klein On Hillary, And Her Minions Are Pissed
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg, You Lying, Opportunistic, Insufferable Little Toe Rag
DC Whispers: Former FBI Director Goes On Record – “Comey, McCabe, & Brennan All Corrupt, And Everything Leads Back To Obama” (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: At The Pleasure Of The Police
American Power: Austin Bombing Suspect Identified, also, Ralph Peters Quits Fox News
American Thinker: John Brennan, Deep State Political Hack
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: NEWSFLASH – Austin Bomber Dead
CDR Salamander: You Had Me At ASWOC, Kathlene
Da Tech Guy: The Schooling Of David Hogg, also, Cause And Effect, Eric Reed Edition
Don Surber: Gay Mafia Attacks Its Own
Dustbury: Imagine What This Kid Used To Be Like
The Geller Report: Florida Woman Who Crashed Car Into Police Station Is Devout Muslima – Total Media Blackout, also, Obama Campaign Staffer Said Facebook Allowed Them To Harvest Masses Of Data
Hogewash: The Orion Nebula In Visible Light And Radio, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Seth Rich Investigator Victim Of Hit & Run, Shooting
JustOneMinute: As Much As I Hate Seeing A Nazi Win Something…
Legal Insurrection: Reuters Blames Trump For Canada’s Immigration Problems, also, Why Is India Financing Palestinian Terrorism?
Michelle Malkin: Document Drop – Another Fatal FBI Fumble In Florida
Power Line: Digitalships & Double Standards, also, Barking Mad
Shark Tank: Parkland School Faces More Threats
Shot In The Dark: Vast Conspiracy
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – NJ Wants To Be Number One
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Rusty’s Monkey Missing, also, Austin Bomber Bombs Himself
The Political Hat: The Netherlands Accelerates Down The Slippery Euthanasia Slope
This Ain’t Hell: Salcido Canned, also, Busted Memes
Victory Girls: John McCain Whips Out The Derp
Weasel Zippers: Oakland Illegals Who Dodged ICE Sweep Thanks To Mayor Re-Arrested For New Crimes, also, Male Student At Providence College Threatened With Rape For Supporting Traditional Marriage
Megan McArdle: Killing Drug Dealers Won’t Stop The Opioid Epidemic
Mark Steyn: Of The Remenant Nedeth Nat Enquere, also, The Undocumented And The Over-Documented


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Don’t Mess With the USA

Posted on | March 21, 2018 | 2 Comments

There are about 2,000 U.S. troops in eastern Syria controlling key oil fields in territory formerly held by ISIS. Having destroyed that Islamic terrorist organization, our troops have little to fear from Syria, or from Iran, or from Syria’s Russian allies:

A small US presence in an eastern town called Deir Ezzor has maintained an iron grip on the oil fields and even repelled an advance of hundreds of pro-Syrian government forces— including some Russian nationals believed to be mercenaries — in a massive battle that became a lopsided win for the US.
Russia has advanced weapons systems in Syria, pro-Syrian government militias have capable Russian equipment, and Iran has about 70,000 troops in the country. On paper, these forces could defeat or oust the US and the Syrian rebels it backs, but in reality it would likely be a losing battle, according to an expert.
“They have the ability to hurt US soldiers — it’s possible,” Tony Badran, a Syria expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider. But “if they do that,” he said, “they’ll absolutely be destroyed.”
In Badran’s view, even if Russia wanted a direct fight against the US military in Syria, something he and other experts seriously doubt, the forces aligned with Syria’s government don’t stand much of a chance.
“I think the cruise-missile attack in April showed, and the ongoing Israeli incursions show, the Russian position and their systems are quite vulnerable,” said Badran, referring to the US’s April 2017 strike on a Syrian airfield in response to a chemical-weapons attack in the country. Though Russia has stationed high-end air defenses in Syria to protect its assets, that did not stop the US when President Donald Trump’s administration decided to punish the Syrian air force with 59 cruise missiles.
Russia has just a few dozen jets in Syria, mostly suited for ground-attack roles with some air-supremacy fighters. The US has several large bases in the area from which it can launch a variety of strike and fighter aircraft, including the world’s greatest fighter jet, the F-22.

Hat-tip: Nebraska Energy Observer, which has previously noted how some Russian mercenaries in Syria were devastated after they attacked a group of anti-Assad rebels supported by by U.S. troops. Compare the current situation to what we confronted in Iraq circa 2005-2008.

In Iraq, an insurgency used terrorist tactics — including car bombs and IEDs — against the occupying U.S.-led coalition forces. In Syria, U.S. forces are on the side of the insurgents (rebels fighting Assad’s regime) and the local Syrians, who have survived the brutality of ISIS, want no part of any kind of Islamic extremism. While the situation could conceivably change, a rather small force of U.S. troops is currently able to control a key region in Syria simply because anyone who attacked them would suffer a devastating counter-attack backed by everything the U.S. military can bring to bear, up to and including bombing raids by B-52s.

UPDATE: One of our NATO “allies” can’t take a hint:

The Pentagon Monday leveled sharp criticism at a military offensive on northern Syria, which has displaced tens of thousands of Kurds, killed hundreds of civilians and is creating a humanitarian crisis, all while carefully not mentioning the country carrying out the offensive, Turkey.
“Civilian casualties, not getting humanitarian assistance, a growing humanitarian crisis. It’s gotta be stopped. It’s gotta be averted,” Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters.
Pressed by a reporter from the Turkish Anadolu News Service about who specifically was to blame for the worsening situation in the North, Manning refused to name Turkey, a NATO ally, and simply called on all sides to stop. . . .
The US has complained to Turkey that its two-months-old offensive, which captured the city of Afrin over the weekend, is siphoning off Kurdish fighters from the fight against ISIS in the east to battle Turkish and Syrian rebel troops in the west.

On the one hand, we would like to remain on friendly terms with Turkey. On the other hand, there are limits to such friendship.

 

Category: Military, Russia, Syria, Turkey

Texas Bomber Identified

Posted on | March 21, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

“Nice kid from a great family”:

The suspected Austin serial bomber who apparently killed himself early Wednesday as authorities closed in on him was Pflugerville resident Mark A. Conditt, local and federal law enforcement sources told the American-Statesman and KVUE.
As the sun rose, neighbors of the 23-year-old, who was home-schooled growing up and went to Austin Community College, struggled to wrap their minds around the news that authorities were linking him to the bombings.
“I know this is a cliché but I just can’t imagine that,” said one neighbor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and whose children grew up playing with Conditt on Pfluger Street. The neighbor described Conditt as a nice kid from a great family. . . .
Conditt received a degree from Austin Community College’s Northridge Campus and had worked at Crux Semiconductor in Austin as a “purchasing Agent/buyer/shipping and receiving,” according to a profile on a job recruiting website. He previously worked as a computer repair technician.
There are very few public social media posts under his name.
His mother, Danene Conditt, posted a picture in February 2013 to commemorate her son’s completing a high school-level education.
“I officially graduated Mark from High School on Friday. 1 down, 3 to go. He has 30 hrs of college credit too, but he’s thinking of taking some time to figure out what he wants to do….maybe a mission trip. Thanks to everyone for your support over the years.”
He and his father, Pat Conditt, purchased a Pflugerville property last year that is now valued at about $69,000. The neighbor said Mark Conditt had been living in that house, which he built with his father’s help.

PREVIOUSLY: Austin Bomber Reportedly Dead After Shootout in Round Rock

 

Category: Crime, Texas

Will Democrats Self-Destruct?

Posted on | March 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Will Democrats Self-Destruct?

 

When former Sex in the City actress Cynthia Nixon announced that she would challenge New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democrat Party primary, I was delighted. What could be more perfect, in a year when Republicans are defending their House majority in the midterm elections, than for a left-wing Democrat to attack an otherwise safe incumbent in an expensive primary battle in a deep “blue” state like New York? This couldn’t be more perfect for Republicans than if Paul Ryan, the Koch Brothers and a squad of Russian hackers had planned it.

In case you didn’t know it, Cynthia Nixon is a lesbian, and so is former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Are there any women in the New York Democrat Party who aren’t lesbians? Never mind. The point, from the Koch Brothers/Russian-hacker perspective, is for Democrats to tear each other apart over this primary in New York, and I’m happy to report that our plan is working perfectly:

Former Democratic New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn on Tuesday said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D.) Democratic challenger is a “unqualified lesbian.”
The remark from Quinn, an openly-gay supporter of Cuomo, came one day after former “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon announced she would challenge Cuomo in the 2018 Democratic primary. Quinn told the New York Post in an interview that Nixon was an “unqualified lesbian” before taking a shot at Nixon for endorsing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over her in the 2013 Democratic primary for mayor.
“I’m surprised by this race. It’s a flight of fancy on her part,” Quinn said of Nixon’s campaign announcement.
“Cynthia Nixon was opposed to having a qualified lesbian become mayor of New York City,” Quinn said. “Now she wants to be an unqualified lesbian to be the governor of New York. You have to be qualified and have experience. She isn’t qualified to be the governor.”
Quinn, who is also a CNN contributor, admitted she and the “Sex and the City” actress are both supporters of progressive positions, but she said there is more to running the state of New York than being a liberal celebrity.
“She’s an accomplished actress, a supporter of political causes and that’s a good thing. Participating in rallies is important,” Quinn said. “But she’s never run an organization. Being an actress and celebrity doesn’t make you qualified for public office. This is a time to move away from celebrity and toward progressive leadership.”

It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Now what we need to happen:

  1. Cynthia Nixon must raise millions of dollars for her campaign, draining the pockets of liberal donors who might otherwise contribute to Democrat congressional campaigns.
  2. Every progressive kook in the country must give their 100% support to Nixon. It is especially important that feminists and the LGBT coalition must see Nixon’s campaign as a do-or-die grassroots effort to take control of their party away from corrupt corporate-funded “moderates” personified by Cuomo.
  3. Cuomo must defeat Nixon decisively, thus demoralizing her grassroots supporters and spreading the belief throughout the progressive community that the Democrats are not only a bunch of corrupt corporate-controlled stooges, but also patriarchal betrayers of gays and women.

You might be wondering, though: “What if Cynthia Nixon actually wins?” That would be even better — imagine the impact in blue-collar Midwestern “swing” districts of having a celebrity lesbian score a historic victory in the New York Democrat primary. Nothing could better serve to inspire a homophobic right-wing backlash in the Heartland.

Trust me, the Russian hackers and Koch operatives have thought of every possible scenario here. It’s a total win-win for the GOP.



 

Category: Democrats, Election, New York

UPDATE: Austin Bomber Reportedly Dead After Shootout in Round Rock

Posted on | March 21, 2018 | 3 Comments

Breaking news:

An officer-involved shooting on Interstate 35 in Round Rock near Old Settlers Boulevard is related to the Austin bombing suspect, a source tells KXAN’s Sally Hernandez.
The source says the bomber blew up a device during the incident.
Round Rock police say while northbound I-35 is open, Southbound I-35 will be closed for the next four to six hours due to the investigation.

UPDATE: Tony Plohetski of the Austin American-Statesman reports:

Bombing suspect is dead, law enforcement sources confirm.
Officials say police traced suspect using mix of cell phone technology, security video, store receipts.
Sources say the suspect killed himself using an explosive device.

So the bomber who has terrorized Texas for weeks is dead.

UPDATE II: More background:

A man whom authorities were attempting to arrest early Wednesday in a string of bombing attacks in Austin killed himself with an explosive device as authorities closed in, a high-ranking law enforcement official told the American-Statesman early today.
The official said authorities identified a suspect in the past 24 hours based largely on information gained after police said the suspect shipped an explosive device from a FedEx store in Southwest Austin. That evidence included security video.
Authorities also relied upon store receipts showing suspicious transactions from the person and obtained a search warrant for his Google search history that showed him conducting searches they considered suspicious, the official said.
Authorities relied upon cell phone technology to trace the suspect to a hotel in Williamson County, the official said.

UPDATE III: All that is known about the bomber at this time (5:15 a.m. ET Wednesday) is that he was male. Because we don’t know the identity of the bomber, we do not yet know his motive. His first three bombings appeared to target black people, which raised suspicion of a racial motive, but the targets then shifted, and the motive is unknown.

UPDATE IV: At a press conference, the suspect was identified as a 24-year-old white male, but authorities declined to name him:

The suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday.
Investigators identified several leads but the case really broke in the past 24 to 36 hours, Manley said.
The chief described how authorities tracked down the suspect’s vehicle to a Round Rock-area hotel. Police began following the suspect’s vehicle, and as SWAT approached, the suspect detonated a bomb in the car, Manley said.
The name of the suspect, described only as a 24-year-old man, has not been released, pending notification of his family, Manley said.
Although police are still investigating the possibility of accomplices, he said, “we believe this individual is responsible for all of the incidents in Austin.”

UPDATE V: In an interview on Fox News. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the bomber was unemployed and lived in the Austin suburb of Pflugerville with two roommates. The suspect had no criminal record and there were “no red flags” on his social media that would have called him to law-enforcement attention, the governor said.

UPDATE VI: The bomber has been identified as Mark Conditt, a “nice kid from a great family.”

 

Category: Crime, Texas

In The Mailbox: 03.20.18

Posted on | March 20, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.20.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Philadelphia Inquirer Editors Want to Keep Policy That Allowed Nikolas Cruz To Buy Guns
EBL: Where In The World Is Mark Zuckerberg?
Twitchy: Sports Writer Takes Insane Swipe At Dana Loesch After Hero SRO Stops Great Mills Shooter
Louder With Crowder: “Count Dankula” Convicted Of Hate Crime For Teaching Girlfriend’s Pug Nazi Salute
The Federalist: Was Social Media A Mistake? (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Never Trust A White Knight
American Power: Facebook’s Existential Crisis, also, Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming
American Thinker: Homeschooling – The Best Hope for America’s Future
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Sendai News
BattleSwarm: Welcome To The Progressive Utopia
BLACKFIVE: Christopher Rice, Bone Music
CDR Salamander: Has The Air Force Already Shifted To A Drone Future?
Da Tech Guy: Student Protests & The Constitution
Don Surber: Fake News Suckers In More Journalism Students
Dustbury: Apocalypse Soon
Fausta: Venezuela – US Bans The Petro
Fred On Everything: Civil Insurrection – A Modest Proposal For Ending The United States
The Geller Report: Terror-Tied CAIR Demands Senate Block Pompeo’s Confirmation, also, UK Police Dropped 20 Cases Against Telford Rape Gang Because It Was “Too Much Trouble”
Hogewash: Global Warming Report, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: David Hogg Makes Horrible Error With Nazi-Like Images In Anti-Gun Post
JustOneMinute: “Lacking Candor”
Legal Insurrection: Armed School Resource Officer Ends Maryland School Shooting, also, Wyoming Joins Large Majority Of “Stand Your Ground” States
Power Line: Mohamed Noor Charged In Damond Shooting, also, Hearing Whistle, They Bark
Shark Tank: Governor Scott Tackles Opioid Crisis
Shot In The Dark: Count The Proposals
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – I’m Happy I Didn’t Wait
The Jawa Report: Russia Just Following DNC’s Lead, also, Allah Hates The Taliban 100% Proof
This Ain’t Hell: David Hogg & Emma Gonzalez On CBS, also, Lacey High School Board Faces Angry Parents
Victory Girls: Sharpton & Black Lives Matter Rally In Support Of Racist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
Weasel Zippers:  What’s Genius For Obama Is Scandal For Trump, also, Peaceful Picketers Protest Oakland Coffee Shop That Won’t Serve Police
Megan McArdle: How Safe Are Driverless Cars? It’s Too Soon To Tell
Mark Steyn: Step Inside Love, also, Jewnami Tsunami


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‘Social Justice’ Indoctrination Is Now Mandatory for Future K-12 Teachers

Posted on | March 20, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Social Justice’ Indoctrination Is Now Mandatory for Future K-12 Teachers

What is “social justice”? Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek famously called it a mirage, a delusion of an impossible “equality.” This radical ideology has become the agenda of the Democrat Party in the 21st century, however, and because Democrats control the education system, indoctrination into “social justice” ideology has become mandatory in university teacher-training programs:

Two education professors recently argued that aspiring K-12 teachers who hold conservative views and resist social justice theories may not be qualified to work with children.
Erin Miller and Tehia Stark-Glass, both professors at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, advanced the case in a March 8 article in the journal The New Educator entitled “The Maintenance of Whiteness in Urban Education,” expressing concerns that white conservative teachers will be unable to effectively teach minorities if they do not thoroughly internalize social justice.
The professors assert that some white students in their elementary education diversity classes have “impervious dispositions that would likely not qualify them to work with diverse children,” as evidenced by the fact that those who struggled most with the course content tended to “think they were being indoctrinated into Anti-American values.” . . .
“It would be difficult to know whether the experiences the preservice teachers shared through their life stories — experiences that highlighted how they held on to conservative values, experienced marginalization, and interpreted violent acts — directly contributed to their inability to successfully demonstrate mastery of the course goals and objectives,” Miller and Stark-Glass remark, adding that “for these preservice teachers, their whiteness seemed to congeal when they perceived the course material as un-American, in contrast with their conservatism.”
In their conclusion, the professors concede that many students don’t agree with their social justice theories on diversity and racism, saying they wish to better understand “why they feel so threatened by diversity,” albeit “not because we should be concerned about the discomfort of whites when discussing race and racism, but because we should be concerned about what will happen to children of color if we do not.” . . .

You can read the whole thing. These professors are employed at taxpayer expense to teach young white people to hate themselves, because white people are “privileged” and therefore deserve to be hated, according the prevailing academic ideology of social justice.

Parents and taxpayers need to be aware of what is being taught by the Democrats who control America’s universities and K-12 public schools.

 

Category: Education, Racism
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