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Anything That Makes Adam Kinzinger Happy Is Objectively Bad for America

Posted on | October 17, 2023 | Comments Off on Anything That Makes Adam Kinzinger Happy Is Objectively Bad for America

In 2021, the Democrat-controlled legislature of Illinois did the nation a huge favor. In redrawing their state’s congressional districts, Illinois legislators lumped together parts of the 16th and 18th districts, thereby setting up a possible Republican primary between two incumbents, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (from the old 16th District) and Rep. Darin LaHood (from the old 18th). There was never any doubt who would win that primary in a 66% Republican district, and thus Kinzinger “retired” from Congress — immediately taking a job as a comentator on America’s least-watched news network, CNN. The anchors on CNN are always careful to introduce Kinzinger as a “former Republican congressman,” a description that is true in two senses: Kinzinger is no longer a congressman, and he hasn’t really been a Republican since November 2016, becoming a flaming bonfire of Trump Derangement Syndrome even worse than David French. So the ex-Republican ex-congressman was all over CNN today, gleefully celebrating the wretched mess in the Capitol:

CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger said Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central” that he was “very proud” of the 20 Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for speaker.
Kinzinger said, “I’m impressed that there’s 20. I was worried this morning because a lot of the hard opposition to Jordan had been capitulating in the last 24 hours, like Mike Rogers from Alabama, Ann Wagner from Missouri. They were ‘hell no’ until they were all in. This is embarrassing for Jim Jordan.”
He continued, “I think this is going to be hard for him to fix. I mean the only thing I can imagine is if he starts cutting deals and those deals include things that he’s never supported in the past. For instance, if he says I’m committed to bringing Ukraine funding on the floor he may be able to peel off one or two of those. If he says I’m committed to whatever it is, I don’t know, maybe he can get to his number, but I think this is hard.”
Kinzinger added, “The easiest thing to do if you’re a Republican is to vote for Jim Jordan the first time and go away the second time. I think you could see even more peel away on the second round, or he consolidates. Who really knows? I think it’s going to be very hard for him to become speaker now.
He concluded, “That doesn’t mean they’re not going to use blistering pressure on Fox News, NewsMax, OAN to activate the base to scare the crap out of those people. There’s a lot of brave people in those 20 that I am very proud of them today.”

The fact that Kinzinger considers the anti-Jordan GOP congressmen to be “brave people” means that they are all knaves and fools. And the fact that Kinzinger hates Jim Jordan means that Jordan must be OK.

Make Jim Jordan the next speaker, and make Adam Kinzinger sad.



 

Category: Congress

Rule 5 Monday: Rule 5 Blues

Posted on | October 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Monday: Rule 5 Blues

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was a very long weekend at Son of Silvercon, but we all had fun, and everyone wants to come back next year, so I guess we will. This week’s appetizer is courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on the Twitters.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Solar Subsidies Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA – Trump At The Western Wall, Friday The 13th, Hedy Lamarr, The Devil Conspiracy, Paige Spiranac, Totally Killer, In 1492 Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue, and Happy Canada Thanksgiving Day

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Agata Zia, Another Bad Year for Bay Bass, Fish Pic Friday – Megan Rubi, Maryland Looks to Women Boaters, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, A Tuesday Tune or Two, Happy IDP!, The Monday Morning Stimulus, More Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For October 23

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Category: Rule 5

Republicans Score ‘Major Victory’ as Trump-Backed Landry Wins in Louisiana

Posted on | October 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Republicans Score ‘Major Victory’ as Trump-Backed Landry Wins in Louisiana

WDSU-TV in New Orleans reports:

Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates. The win is a major victory for the GOP as they reclaim the governor’s mansion for the first time in eight years.

Louisiana has a so-called “jungle primary,” with all candidates from every party, and this usually results in a run-off to decide the election because no candidate gets a majority, but Landry got 52% to win outright. His nearest Democratic rival got 26%, while four other GOP candidates split 13% of the votes between them. In other words, this was at least a 2-to-1 GOP landslide. What do you think this suggests for 2024? Perhaps it’s merely a local election that signifies nothing as a nationwide trend, but we’ll wait and see what happens in Kentucky next month.



 

Category: Election, Louisiana

Self-Inflicted ‘Oppression’

Posted on | October 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Self-Inflicted ‘Oppression’

When I first joined the staff of The Washington Times in 1998, our chief foreign correspondent was Marty Seiff. A native of Belfast, Marty had traveled the world, filing bylines from nearly 50 different countries, and had been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize. Whenever the subject of the Middle East came up — and it was during the Clinton years that the phrase “peace process” entered our vocabulary — Marty was fond of repeating Israeli diplomat Abba Eban’s quote about the Palestinians: “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” This quote sadly summarizes what the Palestinians have done to themselves in Gaza. Prior to 1967, this territory was claimed by Egypt until Gamel Nasser let himself be persuaded to blockade Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran, precipitating the Six-Day War.

The sequel of that war was Israel’s conquest not only of Gaza, but also the West Bank (previously controlled by Jordan) and the Golan Heights (previously part of Syria), and the prior possession of these territories was, in turn, a consequence of the 1948 war that established Israel as a nation. For 28 years before that war, the whole region had been governed by the British under a “mandate,” the result of Britain’s defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. If anyone wants to denounce “colonialism” and “imperialism” vis-a-vis Israel, they’ll have to go all the way back to the Turkish conquest. All of this history I recount not merely to promote my old friend Marty’s book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East (although I’ll collect a small commission if you purchase that book through my Amazon Affiliate link), but because so many liberals (and even a few conservatives) seem to be confused about Gaza and the whole Israel situation in general.

Liberals make the same mistake about this situation that they make on every other issue: Having made an idol of “Equality,” liberals decide that members of a less-than-successful group are victims of “oppression,” and then accuse their more successful neighbors of perpetrating this oppression. Part of this is rooted in the natural tendency to sympathize with the underdog. Watching Star Wars, we naturally cheer when the scrappy Rebel Alliance scores a victory against the seemingly invincible Galactic Empire. In college football, we’re happy when the Top 10 team gets upset by an obscure and unranked opponent. Making such a sentimental attachment to underdogs a fundamental principle of politics (or foreign policy), however, is a formula for folly, and it is just this error that the Left has committed in regard to the Palestinians.

Examining the rhetoric spewed in support of the Palestinian cause, one is reminded of Orwell’s remark: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

Is it a coincidence that support for Hamas has flourished on our nation’s university campuses? The same campuses where socialist Bernie Sanders was viewed as an inerrant hero? The same campuses where “diversity” is practically a religion and Black Lives Matter enjoys cult-like reverence?

All of these manifestations of leftist beliefs in academia express the same crytpo-Marxist mentality in which (allegedly) “oppressed” people are endowed with complete moral authority as Heroic Martyrs, their putative victimhood endlessly recounted as an indictment of “the system.”

Victimhood has become a lucrative racket in academia. Consider how Ibram X. Kendi’s “Antiracism Research Center” at Boston University burned through tens of millions of dollars in less than three years and accomplished nothing. Kendi was telling guilt-ridden white liberals what they wanted to hear, that they were complicit in the oppression of black people, and they responded by giving him millions of dollars.

You know what’s really racist? Thinking that black people (or gay people, or any other allegedly “oppressed” people) are too stupid to figure out a good hustle. And certainly the Palestinians are clever that way.

How many billions of dollars in international aid have poured into Gaza since the Israelis pulled out in 2005 and Hamas took over? And what happened to all that “humanitarian assistance”? Do you think the leaders of Hamas are living in frugal poverty, sharing the suffering of their people? No, they’ve been living in comfort in Qatar.

Alas, facts mean nothing to liberals. It is their sentimental attachment to the Palestinians as victims of oppression that dictates their pro-Hamas sympathies. The liberal is always Mrs. Jellyby, devoting herself to the missionary work in Borrioboola-Gha. It is so much easier to sympathize with the downtrodden and disadvantaged when they’re far away, preferably on the other side of the world, because the nearer their proximity, the more difficult it is to view them as helpless victims.

Who is to blame for the atrocities Hamas committed in their recent attacks in Israel? How about the people who elected Hamas? Yes, that’s right — in their first legislative election, the people of Gaza voted for Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, as their government. Everything that has happened since then is a consequence of that choice, for which the Palestinians in Gaza are wholly responsible.

How is it, then, that expressions of “solidarity” with Hamas, celebrating the “Palestinian resistance” (i.e., beheading babies), have suddenly proliferated on American university campuses?

As Israel mourns some 1,200 dead, prays for the release of more than 100 captives, reels from the worst day in its history, and mobilizes some 360,000 reservists, student activists and the international Left have mobilized to defend, apologize for, and appease evil. . . .
The toxic atmosphere of anti-Semitism has several sources. One is the corrupt university system. Fifty-one U.S. student groups have written a letter that concludes, “We support the resistance, we support the liberation movement, and we indisputably support the Uprising.” The president of NYU’s student bar association said that Israel’s “apartheid regime is the only one to blame” for the chaos. Thirty-one “Palestine Solidarity Groups” at Harvard University echoed her despicable sentiment. Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine said it “honors the martyrs” of Hamas. Graffiti writers scrawled “Long live the intifada” and “Israel is dead” on Stanford’s sidewalks. Students at George Washington University, one of the most expensive private institutions of higher learning in the country, held a “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine.” This is a small sample of dangerous student idiocy. A full catalogue would be endless.
Campus anti-Zionism and leftwing anti-Semitism are not new. The organizations behind the rallies and letters and social media posts have been around for a while. Democratic Socialists of America, Black Lives Matter, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom have spent years preparing for this moment. What they have set in motion is stunning, nonetheless.

Guess who is not pleased with the pro-Hamas demonstrations?

“I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,” [Bill] Ackman, the billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Pershing Square Capital Management, wrote on his X social media account on Tuesday.
“If, in fact, their members support the letter they have released, the names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly known.”
Ackman, a Harvard grad who has a net worth of $3.5 billion, added: “One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have beheaded babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts.”

Many Harvard students have scrambled to distance themselves from the pro-Hamas statements issued by campus groups. Dana Pico remarks: “One would have thought that the extremely intelligent students who won admission to Hahvahd would have thought, ‘Hey, wait a minute, some of the most important business leaders in the biggest financial center in America, just might be Jewish or have family who are Jewish.’”

You think so? If you believe in a conspiracy theory of Jewish global domination, wouldn’t it behoove you to try to avoid offending those who (according to your own theory) control everything in the world?

But we should never expect sound logic from kooks.



 

Category: Education, History, Intellectuals, Israel

Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas

Liberalism is many things, including a job qualification for journalists. Is there anyone who thinks Michelle Goldberg would be working for the New York Times if she were anything but a liberal? It’s not just that she writes badly, but rather that she cannot think clearly. If your stock in trade is bad writing in support of bad ideas, the only way you can find work is to be a liberal, Michelle Goldberg got her start at the worthless Salon-dot-com, and if she ever wrote anything worth reading, I missed it. Anyway, here’s her column today:

The Massacre in Israel
and the Need for a Decent Left
On Tuesday evening, I was drinking on the porch of my friend and neighbor Misha Shulman, the Israel-born rabbi of a progressive New York synagogue called the New Shul. All day, he’d been on the phone with congregants deeply distraught over the massacres and mass kidnappings in Israel. Of all the people he spoke to, he said, those most devastated were either people who had lost close friends or family, or young Jews “completely shattered by the response of their lefty friends in New York,” who were either justifying Hamas’s atrocities or celebrating them outright.
This sense of deep betrayal is not limited to New York. Many progressive Jews have been profoundly shaken by the way some on the left are treating the terrorist mass murder of civilians as noble acts of anticolonial resistance. . . .

This could only be surprising to those who have paid no attention to the Jew-hating climate on university campuses fostered by the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement. Was any conservative surprised by the pro-Hamas rally in New York? Or were we surprised when Black Lives Matter celebrated this terrorist attack? I don’t think so. Some of us had noticed how there was a remarkable rise in anti-Semitic hate in the black community after the George Floyd riots of 2020. And so for BLM to celebrate the atrocities committed by the “Palestinian resistance” was entirely predictable.

Anyway, you can read the rest of Goldberg’s latest embarrassing column, if you’re a masochist. Ann Althouse notes that “Goldberg gets in a shot at conservatives,” because, of course, she must. That’s her racket, taking shots at conservatives, even when her own leftist “allies” are celebrating terrorism.



 

Category: Israel, New York Times, Progressivism

Ironic Crime Update: Did a Gay Pedophile Basically Issue His Own Death Warrant?

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Ironic Crime Update: Did a Gay Pedophile Basically Issue His Own Death Warrant?

Josh Kruger (left); Robert Davis (right)

When I wrote last week about Josh Kruger, the “left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities,” and was shot to death in his home, there was no public information available about who the suspect was or what the motive might have been. It just seemed kind of ironic, and I figured it was probably some kind of robbery.

Kruger, a formerly homeless drug addict, “was proudly queer and openly HIV-positive” and “worked for the City of Philadelphia for about five years, overseeing the mayor’s social media platforms and policy campaigns, and acting as communications director and spokesperson for the city’s Office of Homeless Services.” That Kruger could have been the victim of a random street crime seemed entirely probable, given the prevalence of street crime in “Killadelphia,” a city more violent than Chicago. But that wasn’t what it was.

Several days after Philly police said they had identified a “person of interest” in the case, they finally named the suspect as Robert Edmond Davis, 19, and a police spokesman said, “At this time we believe that Mr. Kruger was trying to help Mr. Davis, and they were acquaintances. . . He was just trying to help him just get through life.” Because that’s what “proudly queer” men do, right?

SHOCKING PLOT TWIST!

The family of Robert Davis, 19, who is accused of killing local journalist Josh Kruger, said that Davis was just 15 when he and Kruger began a years-long relationship involving drugs — and that Davis told them Kruger was threatening to post sexually explicit videos of him online before, police say, Davis shot Kruger.
Those assertions by Davis’ mother and older brother in recent interviews with The Inquirer add troubling new complexities to a killing that has garnered national attention. Their account, they said, is drawn from recent conversations with Davis, and from the years of watching his life unravel as he tried to keep the relationship and his drug addiction hidden. . . .

(“Troubling new complexities” — yeah, this is gonna make it kind of hard for the Philadelphia Inquirer to continue portraying Kruger as some kind of “proudly queer” hero.)

The family’s contentions come as detectives separately discovered and are investigating what multiple law enforcement sources have called explicit photos and messages in Kruger’s phone. The sources, who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, did not say whether the images or messages were connected to Davis, but said they were “disturbing” and have been turned over to the department’s Special Victims Unit for further analysis. . . .

(Oh, “disturbing” images and messages on his phone? Calling in the police Special Victims Unit? Do you need me to spell this out for you?)

Damica Davis and her older son Jaylin Reason said in an interview that Davis faced mental health issues from a young age. He struggled to control his anger in school, his mother said, partially because of the absence of his biological father in his life, and often got into fights. When he was about 15, she said, his troubles intensified after he started sneaking out in the middle of the night and coming home high on drugs.
They said Davis told them he was seeing an “older white woman” he met online who “worked for the government.”
They frequently saw the name “Josh” pop up in messages on his phone, they said, and when they asked who Josh was, Davis told them it was the woman’s brother, who was gay.
It was only later, in their call with him Friday, they said, that Davis told them he had been seeing Kruger all along.

As Dana Pico points out, sex with a 15-year-old would be a felony, and let me be clear that I am not saying Josh Kruger deserved to be shot to death by his alleged victim. I’m just saying it’s ironic.

BTW, police still haven’t caught Robert Davis, who remains at large and is considered “armed and dangerous.” But of course it’s Philadelphia, and basically everybody in Philadelphia is dangerous.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 10.11.12

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.11.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Bosch Fawstin’s Pigman knows.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry In Chicago
EBL: Paige Spiranac, Steve Scalise likely going to be next Speaker of the House, and The Devil Conspiracy
Twitchy: Straight Talk To Queers For Palestine, Harvard Student Group “Retracts Its Signature” From Pro-Hamas Statement, and Retired Admiral Concerned That Tommy Tuberville Is Keeping US Out Of Combat In Gaza
Louder With Crowder: What Are You Doing Step-Terrorist?! Mia Khalifa FIRED For Hamas Support! Aaron Rodgers issues a challenge to “Mr. Pfizer” Travis Kelce, tells him to bring a friend, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) refuses to admit that Hamas chopping off babies’ heads is a bad thing
Vox Popoli: Too Soon? Thus Spake Spacebunny, Juden Peterstein, and Israel Caught Lying
Draw & Talk Comics: The Final Comic Of 2023 – Burn The House Down Now!
Flappr: Misadventures In Internet Pr0n With ClothOff.com

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Should Conservatives Play By The Rules? Hedging Against a Trump Victory, and Conserving the New Deal
American Greatness: House GOP Vows Probe of Biden Administration’s Unfreezing of $6 Billion for Iran, Biden’s VP Office Exchanged Emails With Hunter, His Brother Jim, and Both of their Businesses OVER 29,000 TIMES, and Hamas Leader Calls For Global Day of Rage on Friday: ‘This is the Time for Jihad’
American Thinker: The Seven Dirty Secrets of Solar Energy, also, America at the Crossroads: A Free Republic or a Police State?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba reelected to UN Human Rights council despite human rights abuses and terrorism support, Cuba continues to support Hamas’ savage terrorist attack on Israel, and Movie about Cuba’s female political prisoners wins best foreign film award at Toronto film festival
BattleSwarm: ATF Pistol Brace Regulations Blocked, also, Verifying the Hamas Baby Beheading
Behind The Black: Astrobotic resumes suborbital test flights of assets purchased from Masten bankruptcy, South Korea is in final negotiations to cancel two Russian launch contracts, Massive landslide in Martian canyon, October 11 Quick space links, and You can’t negotiate with someone who wants to kill you
CDR Salamander: Gaza COA Decision Brief
Chicago Boyz: The New Pogrom
Da Tech Guy: Once upon a time in Israel, Five Completely Non Israel Things Under the Fedora, The Most Important Question for Americans (not America) in the Wake of the Response by BLM & Democrat Socialists to Hamas’ Baby Beheaders, and Harvard, Columbia, NY Law et/all about to Become Post War Germany & France
Don Surber: Donald The Inevitable
First Street Journal: 1,891 lives saved in Kentucky! The Israeli-Hamas War and the frustration of the Usual Suspects, and A surprising (?) new twist in the Josh Kruger case
Gates Of Vienna: Report From Sderot: Day 4, Éric Zemmour: “Israel’s Struggle is That of Our Civilization”, Pinkwashing the Perps, The Gaza War — in Thailand, Portuguese Casualties of Hamas, and New Germans in Neukölln Celebrate Hamas
The Geller Report: American Jihad: Thousands of Terror-Linked Migrants Stopped at U.S. Southern Border, Hamas Terror Leader Calls Muslims Around the World To Global Day Of Jihad on Friday the 13th, Calls for Blood, and Mayor of America’s First Muslim Majority City Council Declares ‘No Peace’ With Israel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, MIRI Looks at NGC 346
Hollywood In Toto: Schwarzenegger Calls for Trump’s Border Wall (But Won’t Use the Word), Ryan Long Humiliates Virtue-Signaling Stars (And Much More), and Colbert, Kimmel Make Hamas Terrorism All About … Trump
The Lid: Despite His Claims, Data Shows Biden Has Hardly Deported Anyone in Three Years
Legal Insurrection: Law Firm Rescinds Job Offer to NYU Law Student After She Claims Support for Hamas, American Higher Education Has a Serious Hamas Problem, Cornell U. DEI Director Under Fire for Describing Hamas Terror Attacks as a ‘Resistance’, Appeals Court Upholds Tennessee Voter Fraud Law Restricting Absentee Ballot Application Distribution, Penn State Students Arrested After Flipping Table at Riley Gaines Event, and House Republicans Nominate Scalise for Speaker, But Vote Likely Not Happening Today
Nebraska Energy Observer: There’s more, also, The Wages of Danegeld
Outkick: How Does Shedeur Sanders Not Have A Watch Deal? The Deion Sanders Effect Trickles Down To The Philadelphia Phillies Before Showdown With Atlanta Braves, Olivia Dunne Rocks Air Force Hoodie In Patriotic TikTok, Reminds Everyone America Is Awesome, Steelers Fans Crash Penguins Home Opener With ‘Fire Matt Canada’ Chants, LIV Golf Furious With OWGR’s Decision To Not Reward World Ranking Points, Swiss Soccer Player Alisha Lehmann Says A Well-Known Celebrity Offered Her More Than $100k For A One Night Stand, and Houston Doesn’t Have A Problem With Bye, Days Off, Or Road – Advances to ALCS With Win At Minnesota
Power Line: BLM Is a Racist Hate Group, Intelligence Failure, and A word from Bari Weiss
Shark Tank: Eskamani Calls Out DeSantis Over Iran Sanctions
Shot In The Dark: Dr. James Blake, Anti-Democratic, Soundtrack Part 7, and Sincere Sober Suggestion
This Ain’t Hell: Intel weenie attempts to spy for China, Four More Accounted For, American arms and ammunition for Israel, US commando mission not ruled out, and Navy Recruiting Fails
Victory Girls: Speaker Race: Scalise Wins Nomination, So Was It Worth It?
Volokh Conspiracy: “Trying to ‘Absofuckinglutely’ Take Down a Montana Business” Creates Personal Jurisdiction Based on Defendant’s Online Statements
Watts Up With That: Bad Policy: Germany Keeps Making Its Energy Increasingly Expensive, Fueling Inflation, Australia’s Answer to Greta Thunberg Faces Years In Jail, and Electric Grid Reliability: Texas vs. EPA
The Federalist: With SCOTUS Poised To Rein In Out-Of-Control Bureaucrats, Leftists Lash Out, Indulging The Left’s Historical Revisionism Has Consequences, Hamas Attack Is A Warning To America About The Risks Of Our Open Border, Why Calling For Israel’s ‘Restraint’ Is Depraved And Offensive, Why Elon Musk Nuking X Headlines Is A Good Thing, Shocker! Embracing Drag Queens Didn’t Fix The Navy’s Recruiting Crisis, and The U.S. Money Trail With Iran Is Worse Than You Think
Mark Steyn: Climate of Fear, Sleepless in Gaza, Fly the (Hamas) Flag! and Proportionate about Gang Rape

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In The Mailbox: 10.10.23

Posted on | October 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

How the Cold War should have ended.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Bail Reform Working Out?
EBL: Happy Che Guevara Day, Israel at War With Hamas and Iran, Frankie Biden Goes To Hollywood…I mean Washington, D.C. , 10 October 732 AD: Charles Martel defeats Islamic Invasion of Europe, and Israel’s Most Wanted: Mohammed Deif
Twitchy: The Atlantic Publishes An Article Critical Of Kamala Harris & The Left Freaks Out, Hot Take – Fictional Characters Can’t Consent Since They Don’t Have Agency, and “Are Your People Dead? Good.”
Louder With Crowder: Naked man tries touching kids at mall…until their dads start touching him with their fists, Weapons left during Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal used by Hamas in Israel attack…just as Biden predicted in 2007, and Porn starlet gets CANCELLED from nudie mag, mushroom company over offensive pro-Hamas tweets
Vox Popoli: A Forgotten Script Resurfaces, RIP Dick Butkus, October Book Notes, When Rhetoric Goes Astray, Green Flag or Neoclown Bait?, and The Chickenhawk Contemplates
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – A Full-Throated Defense Of Mia K.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: General Milley’s Own Private Constitution, also, On Columbus Day
American Greatness: Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War, Black Lives Matter Grassroots Issues Statement of ‘Solidarity With the Palestinian People’ After Brutal Hamas Attack on Israel, Rashida Tlaib Blasted For Hanging Palestinian Flag Outside Her Capitol Hill Office, and Biden’s Border Reversal: Now Walls Are Good?
American Thinker: Trump’s Not the Problem – He’s the Reaction to the Problem, The Moral of the McCarthy Saga? Promises Matter, and China’s Goal is World Supremacy, and America is Helping
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Legacy Media News
Babalu Blog: The war in The Middle East and its implications to the US-Mexico border, Aussie tourist finds Cuba ‘frustrating,’ vows never to return…maybe, The struggle of Cuban families to find enough food, Castro dictatorship opens new luxury hotel while buildings continue to collapse, and Cuba’s communist elites flock to swanky Havana bar for drinks, drugs, sex
BattleSwarm: The First Time As Tragedy, The Second Time As Farce, The Final Solution To The Gaza Problem, and Israel-Hamas War Update for October 9
Behind The Black: Software patch saves Europe’s Euclid space telescope, Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully launches 12 satellites, Ingenuity completes 61st flight on Mars, SpaceX blasts FAA for claiming falling satellites could by 2035 kill someone every two years, Aerojet Rocketdyne satellite power units are chronically failing, and Pushback: Court rules that schools cannot punish or suspend students who defy queer agenda
Cafe Hayek: On the Meaning of “Deindustrialization”, More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies, and Dan Klein in the Wall Street Journal on the Censoring of Science
CDR Salamander: Prelude to Slaughter
Da Tech Guy: Five Random Thoughts Under the Fedora, Star Wars deserves better, Israel, I Advise General Sherman’s War Unless You Want a Replay in Years to Come, ,Arming our enemies: From scrap metal being sold to Japan before World War II to $6 billion for Iran and Five Israel Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: The Palestinian attack was suicidal
First Street Journal: More media tributes for the connected white guy in Philly, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Editorial Board know better than you MAGAts and deplorables how to rear your children! and Israel is great, militarily, but let’s tell the truth here: they have proven to be poor conquerors
Gates Of Vienna: Breakout From Gaza, A Cornucopia of Cultural Enrichment in Italy, Taking Hostages and Desecrating Corpses: Just Another Work Day in Gaza, Military Hardware News From Gaza, The Peace of Allah, and Iranian Influence Operation Is Deep Inside the U.S. Government
The Geller Report: Joe Biden Approved the Release of $75 Million Dollar to Palestinian Jihadis Just Hours Before Attack on Israel, Israeli Babies Kidnapped By Muslim Terrorists Held in Cages, Hamas Threatens to Behead the Child Hostages on Live TV, and In Israel: “40 Babies Discovered With Their Heads Cut Off”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Real Minimum Wage is Zero, Don’t Know Much Biology, Caldwell 70, and What Winning Looks Like
Hollywood In Toto: Why Biblical Horror Movies Make Perfect Sense, Bill Maher Dubs Hasan Minhaj the Jussie Smollett of Stand-up, The Faculty – Future Stars Held Back in Mediocre B-Movie, Can This Pink Floyd Feud Get Any Uglier?, and How Hollywood Bet Big on The Exorcist… and Lost
The Lid: Enabling Iran’s Role In The Hamas Attacks And Lessons Going Forward, also, A Guide To Diplomacy When Discussing Israel
Legal Insurrection: Conservative Law Professors Who Have ‘Had Enough’ Are Leaving Academia, Kibbutz Nir Oz: Hamas Murdered A Grandmother, Then Posted The Murder On Her Facebook Page, Joe Rogan on Taking His Kids Out of ‘Woke’ California Schools, Ex-CIA Director Stands By Statement That Sen. Tuberville Should be Removed From the ‘Human Race’, Chicago Residents Protest Plan to Use Park’s Field House as Housing for Illegal Immigrants, Biden’s National Security Spokesman Asserts Climate Change More Existential Threat than Nuclear War, and Chris Rufo Gets Daily Beast To Back Down On Allegedly Defamatory Article Slamming Him
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, and October!
Outkick: Forget The Facilities, Mike Gundy Says ‘Don’t Build It, Put The Money In The Bank’ For NIL. College Football World Continues To Change, Stephen A. Smith Has Changed His Tune On Lamar Jackson, Kelsey Plum Calls Out Tom Brady For Finally Showing Up To Aces’ Game After Being Announced As Minority Owner Seven Months Ago, It’s The Gardner Minshew Show In Indy For The Next Month, And That’s Great News For NFL Bros, LSU’s Brian Kelly Wanted DB Major Burns Not To Score With Late Interception, Shedeur Sanders Taunts Students After Barely Beating Horrible Arizona State Team, and Prime Win: Colorado, Deion Sanders Defeat Arizona State On Last-Minute Field Goal, Just Two Wins Away From Postseason
Power Line: So Much For “Peace”, Doing Iran’s Bidding, Time to Close Harvard? Democrats For Mass Murder, and The Nations That Dominate the Global Economy
Shark Tank: Florida Dems Bent On Removing State’s Statutory Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Shot In The Dark: Bob Richardson, Notes From Underground, Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities Media, Bill King & His Employees, and Soundtrack Part 5
The Political Hat: Posting Hiatus Due To Work/Travel
This Ain’t Hell: Milley clowns himself once more as he leaves office, Israel at war after Iran-backed Hamas kills hundreds, Monday quickies, Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas, American carrier strike group ordered to the Eastern Mediterranean, Guess who is protesting Israel? Army special operations could see 10% cut, and Military to House the Homeless?
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden’s Latest Foreign-Policy Debacle, Rand Paul’s Fauci Expose, Israel’s Intelligence Failure, Stories And Society, and The House Members Who Flunked The Moral Test
Victory Girls: Blinken Gives Palestine Money For Food, Then Gaza Starts A War, White House Aims To Alienate Religious Foster Families, and Biden Administration Scrambling To Deflect Blame For Hamas War
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden’s Cruel Resumption of Deportation Flights for Migrants Fleeing Venezuela’s Socialist Dictatorship, “Antizionists” Show Their Genocidal Colors, Second Amendment Roundup: Fusillade of Amicus Briefs Filed in Rahimi, and The Single Best Article (So Far) on the Hamas-Israel War
Watts Up With That: ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak, A Monumental Milestone: Celebrating 500 Million Pageviews on Watts Up With That, The electric grid needs good failure mode analysis, and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Covers-up UN failures by Blaming Climate Change!
The Federalist: New Documentary Probes The Cheating Scandal That Rocked Baseball Fans Everywhere, As VP, Joe Biden Emailed His Brother And Son About Foreign Business More Than 29,000 Times, Why Americans Should Celebrate Columbus Day, Senate Republicans Probe Whether VA Is Caring For Service Members Injured By The Jab, All Christians, Not Just Catholics, Should Be Worried About Pope Francis’ Synod, and North Carolina Republicans Override Democrat Governor’s Dishonest Veto Of Election Integrity Bills
Mark Steyn: “We Are at War”, Lust in the Dust – King Vidor, the Sexy Western and Duel in the Sun, Send in the Clowns, and Partying On

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