Democrats Announce 2018 Platform: ‘Elect Us, So We Can Ban All Your Guns’

Posted on | February 26, 2018 | 3 Comments

House Democrats have introduced a bill banning semi-automatic firearms in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., announced Monday he is introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018. More than 150 Democrats have signed on in support of the legislation, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., said. . . .
Cicilline’s legislation names 205 specific firearms that are prohibited, including the AK-47 and AR-15.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades HQ.) If you were wondering how Republicans were going to fire up their base for November, wonder no more.

Great news! The @NRA reports about 500,000 new members since the #BoycottTheNRA movement started. Now 5.5 million paying members. Success for #TweetYourNRAMembership #JoinTheNRAToday #JoinTheNRA https://t.co/dbxb7okkk0

Cc @DLoesch @ChrisLoesch @instapundit @LegInsurrection @ali

— (((Aaron Worthing))) (@AaronWorthing) February 26, 2018

Category: Democrats

Russia! Russia! Russia!

Posted on | February 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Russia! Russia! Russia!

Andrew McCarthy on the Democrat Party’s obfuscation:

The FBI and the Justice Department heavily relied on the Steele dossier’s uncorroborated allegations. You know this is true because, notwithstanding the claim that “only narrow use” was made “of information from Steele’s sources,” the Democrats end up acknowledging that “only narrow use” actually means significant use — as in, the dossier was the sine qua non of the warrant application. The memo concedes that the FISA-warrant application relied on allegations by Steele’s anonymous Russian hearsay sources . . .
[B]ecause Page was an American citizen, FISA law required that the FBI and the DOJ show not only that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power (Russia), but also that his “clandestine” activities on behalf of Russia were a likely violation of federal criminal law. (See FISA, Section 1801(b)(2)(A) through (E), Title 50, U.S. Code.) It is the Steele dossier that alleges Page was engaged in arguably criminal activity. The Democrats point to nothing else that does.

Scott Johnson at Powerline comments:

The Democrats’ mainstream media adjunct has of course seized on the release of the memo to regurgitate the obligatory talking points. Read properly, however, the Schiff memo undermines the Democrats’ case.

(Via Memeorandum.)

Category: Democrats, Russia

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday
Sailor Moon Goes To The Olympics

Posted on | February 26, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As previously mentioned in other Rule 5 posts, I’ve been avoiding the Olympics. However, with my extensive contacts in anime fandom, it was impossible to miss the wonderful performance by Russian skater Evgenia Medvedeva. Medvedeva, you see, is a huge fan of the classic anime Sailor Moon, and in fact defended her world title in Tokyo last year skating to the Sailor Moon theme “Moonlight Densetsu”, cosplaying as the series heroine Usagi Tsukino.

Evgenia Medvedeva defends her skating title – and the Earth. (Tokyo, 2017)

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #174, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 “Reasonable Restrictions” Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Ania Bukstein, Hostiles Rule 5, The Women Of Altered Carbon, Black Panther, National Margarita Day, Women With Guns, Alina Zagitova, Ester Ledecka, Annihilation Women, Nanette Fabray, and Sridevi.

At A View From The Beach, it’s Haley Kalil, Your Friday Swimware Ad, Olympic Sore Loser of the Week, Lindsey Vonn Missed the Brass Ring,I Love America and All, But . . ., Free the Nipple: The PyeongChang Demonstration, Why Don’t More Women Choose STEM?, Ester Ledecka’s Gold Medal Mistake, and Anne Althouse Ain’t Buying It.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Stacey Farber, his Vintage Babe is Gloria Grahame, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Scarlett Johannson. At Dustbury, it’s Clara Helms and Beth Broderick.

Thanks to everyone for their luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Somewhere Within

Posted on | February 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Mash Note
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Advancing Gender Stereotypes’: You Can Be Fired for Telling the Truth, Feds Rule
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: [HOWLING FOLLOWS]
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Transgenderism: ‘Equality’ for the Insane
Welcome to My Playpen
EBL

A Nation of 327,000,000 People
EBL

‘Europe’s Last Hope’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.19.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

No, Russia’s ‘Rinky-Dink Troll Operation’ Did Not Change the 2016 Election Result
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.21.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

No, Our Boys Are Not ‘Broken’
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Suspended by @Medium: Another Platform Is Banishing Conservatives
Nebraska Energy Observer
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.22.18
Proof Positive
EBL

#CPAC2018: Legion of the Banned
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 02.23.18
Proof Positive
EBL

#CPAC2018: Fighting for Freedom

Posted on | February 24, 2018 | Comments Off on #CPAC2018: Fighting for Freedom

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
There was an epic moment here at CPAC when Dana Loesch called out the “legacy media” for their coverage of the Parkland massacre:

National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch said Thursday that members of the media “love mass shootings” because it provides high ratings.
“Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it,” Loesch said when addressing a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. “I’m not saying that you love the tragedy, but I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media.” . . .
“There are thousands of grieving black mothers in Chicago every weekend and you don’t see town halls for them, do you? Where’s the CNN town hall for Chicago? Where’s the CNN town hall for sanctuary cities?” Loesch said. “… If it bleeds it leads, but it has to be the right people from the right communities at the right time.”
Loesch said that much of the conversation in the wake of last week’s shooting has centered around the need to ban assault rifles, but said often times when mass shootings occur, law enforcement including the FBI misses red flags that would’ve prevented the gunmen involved from purchasing firearms.
“We will not be gaslighted into thinking that we’re responsible for a tragedy that we had nothing to do with,” Loesch said of the NRA. “It is not our job to follow up on red flags. It is not our job to make sure that states are reporting to the background check system. It is not our job. A failure of law enforcement is not a failure of the law. It is a failure of enforcement.”

Watch it on video (beginning at 1:55):

Seven years ago, in Tampa, Florida, Dana explained to me the tattoo on her arm — Ephesians 6:12-13 — and she fights with the “whole armour.”

In the past 24 hours, the hashtag #TweetYourNRAMembership went viral on Twitter, and I decided to pay $40 and join the NRA, which is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.

Meanwhile, on another front, my friend and former co-defendant John Hoge and I have decided to start a podcast — The Other Podcast, we’re calling it — and we make our debut tonight at 7 p.m. ET.

The Other Podcasthttps://t.co/VjmGOPe1X4
7 pm Tonight

— (((WJJ Hoge))) (@wjjhoge) February 24, 2018

Join the fight for freedom — only $40! https://t.co/bvR7znEW3e #TweetYourNRAMembership @NRA @DLoesch @AaronWorthing @instapundit pic.twitter.com/pV3wvp3fky

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) February 24, 2018

Category: CPAC, Dana Loesch

Broward Rhymes With Something

Posted on | February 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

A little rhyming repartee with JoahnOfArgghh. Twitter ain’t dead; it’s just restin’.

Sad, the tale of Broward,
Whose men proved so untoward,
When Destiny chose to put them to the test.
When calamity comes messin',
Put your skill in Smith & Wesson,
And your faith in God, where it will do you best.

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) February 24, 2018

You speak as though duty ought be their bent,
Not some doctored annual arrest percent.
But why do your job, even under duress,
When the real master is Holy Progress?

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) February 24, 2018

“Doctored annual arrest percent” alludes to this thread.

Money talks, sure.
But it can't sing & dance, and rarely walks pure.
Fool the man who'd rather be in blue jeans of the flesh,
Than sowing to that which is eternally best.#ApologiesToNeilDiamond

— I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) February 24, 2018

Category: Uncategorized

Chris Cassone: “Who Among Us”

Posted on | February 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Chris Cassone: “Who Among Us”

by Smitty

Old blog buddy Chris Cassone came to mind while breaking fast with Stacy McCain this morning at CPAC. It’s been almost a decade since we first had him play at an event at the Army & Navy Club that we hosted. Chris is coming out with some new stuff Real Soon Now, and this video promises much greatness to follow: