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NYC Terrorist Got ‘Diversity’ Visa in Program That Democrats Still Support

Posted on | November 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

How does an Islamic terrorist get to New York City?

29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, the immigrant from Uzbekistan who murdered at least eight people in Manhattan on Tuesday, arrived in the United States seven years ago under what is called the Diversity Visa Program, a program that President Trump and the GOP have been trying to eliminate.

More details on the Halloween truck jihadi:

The man who allegedly ran down cyclists and pedestrians along 17 Manhattan blocks pledged his allegiance to ISIS before his attack, it has emerged.
Police sources say Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, entered a bicycle path at Houston Street at 3.05pm and drove downtown, knocking down victims before smashing into a school bus at Chambers Street, exiting and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
He then waved a paintball gun in one hand and a pellet gun in the other, and was shot in the abdomen by a police officer. He has now come out of surgery and police are waiting for him to wake up before they question him.
Images of ISIS flags were found in his truck, as well as a handwritten note pledging his allegiance to the terrorist group.
An official said that the note read in part ‘ISIS lives forever,’ according to NBC Philadelphia.
CNN said it was one note, written in English, found inside the car. But the New York Times reports that it was multiple notes, written in Arabic, found outside the car.
As the horrific toll — currently at eight dead and at least 15 injured, including one child in critical condition — climbed up, details began to emerge about Saipov’s life.
He was an Uzbekistan native who had lived in the US for seven years and ran two trucking companies located in Ohio, sources claim.
The ride-hailing company Uber said Saipov passed its background check and drove for the service for six months, making more than 1,400 trips.
Documents reveal how he got married on April 12, 2013 to Nozima Odilova, who was 19 at the time. Both list Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as their hometown.

President Trump blamed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for the diversity visa program, which Ed Morrissey at Hot Air explains is inaccurate, but the Washington Post says it’s not entirely inaccurate:

The diversity visa program has been around for more than 20 years, offering a limited number of visas to people from parts of the world that have relatively few immigrants in the United States.
Schumer did play a key role in drawing up the program in 1990. His proposals eventually became part of a broader immigration package that was passed by Congress in a bipartisan vote and signed into law by a Republican president, George H.W Bush.

The blame-game about who did what on a bill passed in 1990 is irrelevant to what we need to do in 2017 — end this program, period.



 

Category: Immigration, Islam, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 10.31.17

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.31.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Did Team Mueller Tip Off The Podestas?
Twitchy: Planned Parenthood’s Mask Slips, Revealing Racist Monsters Underneath
Louder With Crowder: Watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders Perfectly Explain Taxes With Clever Bar Analogy


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There Are No Short Cuts
American Power: Six Seconds To Live, also, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Crime And Punishment In The Russian Revolution
American Thinker: So Where Are The Podesta Indictments?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Spooky News
BattleSwarm: Podesta Lawyer Tries To Silence Tucker Carlson
Bring The HEAT: We Get It, You Vape
CDR Salamander: Cluelessness And The Africa Challenge
Da Tech Guy: A New Communist Manifesto, also, Tim Tebow Is The Obvious Choice To Backup Tom Brady
Don Surber: Remember Hillary’s Desperate Daisy Ad?
Dustbury: A Couple Of Wows
The Geller Report: Canadian Muslim Slits Woman’s Throat, Found “Not Criminally Responsible”
Hogewash: Tonight’s Sky – November 2017, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Granny Clinton Plans To Dress As “The President” For Halloween. Sad!
JustOneMinute: Keep BS Alive!
Legal Insurrection: House Of Cards Production Suspended Indefinitely After Spacey Allegations, also, Desperate Democrats Max Out Race Card In Virginia Governor’s Race
Michelle Malkin:
Power Line: Democrats To White Males – You’re Not Wanted Here, also, The Collusion Confusion
Shark Tank: Deutch, Democrats Still Mum On Fusion GPS, Awan IT Scandals
Shot In The Dark: Twisted Memory
STUMP: Happy Halloween! Some Scary Public Pension Projections
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Like Deliverance But In A Good Way Edition
The Political Hat: Happy Halloween!
This Ain’t Hell: Lost Mariners’ Story Not Adding Up, also, Mustafa Al-Imam In Chains
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Claims “President Trump More Scary Than Any Ghoul Or Goblin”, also, Florida Rep Buchanan Rejects IRS Apology, Calls For Prosecution Of Lois Lerner
Megan McArdle: How To Break An Obamacare Exchange
Mark Steyn: Thumbs On The Scales Of Justice


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UPDATE: ‘This Was an Act of Terror,’ NYC Mayor Says; 8 People Killed in Attack

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | Comments Off on UPDATE: ‘This Was an Act of Terror,’ NYC Mayor Says; 8 People Killed in Attack

 

 

Details are still sketchy, and early reports of such incidents are often wrong, but it is now being reported that a man used a rental truck to run over pedestrians and bicyclists in New York City. The driver was reportedly shot and wounded by NYPD and taken into custody. Six people are reported dead. Fox News says they have been told by law-enforcement officials that this is being treated as a terrorist attack.

UPDATE 5:15 p.m. ET: New York Daily News:

At least six people were killed Tuesday afternoon when a speeding Home Depot truck plowed along a Lower Manhattan bike path, running down helpless riders from behind, sources said.
Eyewitnesses told police the driver yelled “Allahu Akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great!” — after leaving the mangled bodies scattered behind his rental truck.
The Middle Eastern man was arrested after police shot him in the rear end. Sources said he was waving a pair of guns when cops reached the scene.
The truck jumped the curb near Houston St. at 3:04 p.m. and began bearing down on the unsuspecting bicyclists, sources told the Daily News. Video showed crumpled two-wheelers and four bodies left in the vehicle’s deadly wake.

UPDATE 5:25 p.m. ET: In a press conference, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio says, “This was an act of terror.” He reports at least 8 dead and “more than a dozen” injured.

UPDATE 5:35 p.m. ET: The driver of the truck was a 29-year-old male, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said at the press conference. The suspect is in custody; his identity is not being released yet, pending further investigation.

UPDATE 6:05 p.m. ET: The suspect is an immigrant, and has been described as “of Middle Eastern descent.” The New York Times:

Eight people were killed when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by police officer, the authorities said.
Federal authorities were treating the incident as a terrorist attack and were taking the lead in the investigation, a senior law enforcement official said. Two law enforcement officials said that after the attacker got out of the truck, he was heard yelling, “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference: “Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror, and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”
Two law enforcement officials said the driver of the truck, a 29-year-old man who came to the United States in 2010, was in grave condition. One official said he had rented the truck in New Jersey.
The motorist, driving south down the path in a Home Depot rental truck, hit numerous people as nearby Stuyvesant High School was letting out for the day, officials said. At least 15 people were injured, but officials were still working to assess the extent of the casualties.

 

Category: New York, Terrorism

Democrats: Proud to Be the Anti-White, Anti-Male, Anti-Heterosexual Party

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

“Diversity” is Democrat Party code for deliberate discrimination:

Employees within the Democratic National Committee are looking for new employees in the Technology Department. However, the DNC is apparently not interested in your resume if you happen to be a white male.
In an email issued to DNC insiders on Monday, Data Services manager Madeleine Leader announced that the Technology Department is looking to fill several positions and asked interested parties to forward the openings to their colleagues.
She included the following caveat:

I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight white males, since they’re already in the majority. . . .

After the latest scandals to plague the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election, the new leadership under Tom Perez and Keith Ellison (D-MN) seek to rebrand the party as a more inclusive and welcoming community. Unfortunately, this email doesn’t exactly help their case.

Meanwhile, Democrats have resorted to fear-mongering propaganda as their strategy in the current Virginia election campaign:

A new ad for the Virginia governor race shows a man in a truck with a Gillespie sticker and Confederate flag on it, chasing minority children who are running for their lives. Gillespie is the Republican candidate.
What’s being implied in the ad is clear. The driver of the truck is a white Republican man who is trying to kill minority children by running them down.
This screen cap from the ad shows the back of the truck chasing the children. Note the Confederate flag, Gillespie sticker and “Don’t Tread on Me” license plate.

Democrats should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame, they wouldn’t be Democrats, would they?

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Also, it’s good to see Rod Dreher seems to have recovered from his Bush-era “Crunchy Con” detour, which was rather embarrassing.



 

Category: Democrats

In The Mailbox: 10.30.17

Posted on | October 31, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Due To Terrible Ratings, NBC Is Going To Rename Megyn Kelly Today
Twitchy: Pro-Life Tweeters Take Over @PPact’s #ScaryStats And It’s GLORIOUS
Louder With Crowder: #252 – DNC Trump/Russia Dossier Backfires Bigly!, also, Did Family Guy Warn us About Kevin Spacey In 2005?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Art of Consistency And The Riot Act
American Power: Rash of “Knockout” Attacks has NYC On Edge, also, Laura Ingraham Brings Populist Fire To Fox
American Thinker: Implausible Deniability, also, Koskinen Should Be Imprisoned, Not Just Removed
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Random Tweets On Hillary Clinton
BLACKFIVE: Iris Johansen, Mind Game
CDR Salamander: NavyCon – SF’s Important Role In National Security – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Where Are The Warner Todd Huston Stories In The MSM?, also, If You’re Sick Of Liberals Hiding Behind The Media, Do Something About It
Don Surber: My Case For Keeping Mueller, also, Experts Say If He’d Listened To Experts, Trump Would Have Won
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Not Even A Two-Peat
The Geller Report: Australian “Millionaire Muslim” Ripped Off Taxpayers For Eighteen Years Posing As Single Mom, also, French Sharia – Court Orders Cross On Statue Of Pope John Paul II Removed146
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told To Surrender
Joe For America: Angry Dad’s Eight Words Shut Down School Board For Teaching Sharia
JustOneMinute: Andrew McCarthy On The Manafort Indictment, also, Are You Ready For Some Standing/Sitting/Talking & Maybe Football?
Legal Insurrection: Plan To Split California Into Three States May Be On Next Ballot, also, Virginia Church Announces It’ll Remove Plaque Honoring George Washington
Power Line: Investigate This (5), also, How Churches Die
Shark Tank: The Florida Senate – Sexual Affairs, Coverups, And Gubernatorial Candidates
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Melvin Carter, also, Never Let It Be Said…
STUMP: Geeking Out (And Illinois Pensions) – Fixing A Graph And Assigning Blame For Underfundedness
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Victory For First Galactic Empire, also, I Told You They Would Never Consciously Betray The Rebellion
The Political Hat: Why Hate Speech IS Free Speech
This Ain’t Hell: Convicted Murderer Infiltrates Bergdahl Hearing, also, More Beret Kerfluffles
Weasel Zippers: CNN Failed To Disclose Close Ties To Firm Behind Bogus “Trump Dossier”, also, New Book Reports Berkeley Antifa Worked With ISIS, FBI Confirms
Megan McArdle: So What If You Can’t Join A Class Action?
Mark Steyn: The Blair Witch Project, also, Blueberry Hill


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No Mercy for @KevinSpacey? Welcome to the Sexual Harassment Apocalypse

Posted on | October 30, 2017 | 5 Comments

 

First, the news:

In an interview with BuzzFeed News, [Star Trek Discovery actor Anthony] Rapp is publicly alleging for the first time that in 1986, [Kevin] Spacey befriended Rapp while they both performed on Broadway shows, invited Rapp over to his apartment for a party, and, at the end of the night, picked Rapp up, placed him on his bed, and climbed on top of him, making a sexual advance. According to public records, Spacey was 26. Rapp was 14.
For years, Rapp, now 46, told no one about his experience, and he has never spoken with Spacey since. But as Spacey’s star began to rise through the 1990s and 2000s — including a Tony Award, two Oscars, a decadelong run as the creative director of the Old Vic theater in London, and six seasons and counting on the hit Netflix series House of Cards — Rapp’s frustration, anger, and incredulity with the sexual boundary he said Spacey crossed with him grew as well. Seeing Spacey now, “My stomach churns,” Rapp said. “I still to this day can’t wrap my head around so many aspects of it. It’s just deeply confusing to me.”

Needless to say, this is what you’d call a “troubling” accusation. And the reaction from Spacey could also be called “troubling”:

Kevin Spacey is being criticized for “hiding under the rainbow” after he came out in the same statement in which he apologized for alleged unwanted sexual advances towards actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was just 14. . . .
After apologizing for the alleged incident — “if I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,” Spacey, 58, wrote — the House of Cards star came out as gay.
“This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life,” Spacey’s statement continues. “I know that there are stories out there about me and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my privacy. As those closes to me know, in my life, I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic relationships with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man. I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior.”

Translation: “I was too drunk to remember and, now that I’ve cleared that up, you can applaud my courage for being homosexual.”

The Internet was not buying that story. Not at all.

Gabriel Malor, a gay conservative, was particularly merciless:

The “stereotype for the gay predator” is arguably the worst of it because, if you believe everything you read on the Internet (which I don’t) this wasn’t just a one-time drunken mistake on Spacey’s part. There is, and has been for a long time, much chatter about Spacey’s predatory habits. While it is impossible to know whether any of this chatter is accurate, there are those who say Spacey more or less routinely solicited oral sex from young guys who worked on the House of Cards crew. These were reportedly guys in their 20s and, while it is alleged that many of them were willing to accommodate Spacey’s requests (in his trailer on the set, or in the back of his limo), it’s still a pattern — if this chatter is true, which I cannot verify. However . . . Read more

Category: Celebrities, Hollywood, Scandal, Sex Trouble

Manafort and Associate Indicted in Mueller’s Russia Investigation

Posted on | October 30, 2017 | Comments Off on Manafort and Associate Indicted in Mueller’s Russia Investigation

 

First, the news:

Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been charged with conspiring to defraud the US in his dealings with Ukraine.
The 12 charges brought against Mr Manafort and one of his business associates, Rick Gates, include conspiracy to launder money.
Mr Manafort and his lawyer have arrived at an FBI office in Washington.
The charges are the first to stem from an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US 2016 election.
However, they do not relate to Mr Trump’s campaign but to the two men’s Ukrainian business dealings up to 2015.
An investigation headed by special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into any links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Both sides deny any collusion.

When news of this indictment was leaked Friday, my initial hunch was that it involved a minor figure — and that was wrong, because Manafort is a big deal. Also, my hunch was that the charge would be lying to investigators, which is a typical thing in an investigation like this, because a lot of people just don’t understand their Miranda rights, so they say something wrong to FBI agents and — boom! — hello, Scooter Libby. But that hunch was also wrong, and the actual story is something I didn’t expect: Manafort was charged for his business deals in Russia going back to years before he joined the Trump campaign.

CNN calls these indictments “a dramatic new phase of Mueller’s wide-ranging investigation” except (a) it’s not actually “dramatic” and (b) the investigation is apparently so “wide-ranging” that it includes stuff completely unrelated to the Trump campaign. While the charges against Manafort are serious, and it definitely looks bad that such a key figure had shady foreign business dealings, this doesn’t prove “collusion” with Russia. It’s not about Russia “interfering” with the election or “influencing” Trump’s policy. In other words, even if Manafort is guilty as hell — which has yet to be proven — it’s still a big zero, as far as the heart of the matter that Mueller is supposed to be investigating.

 

Category: Crime, Donald Trump, Russia, Scandal

#NeverTrump: Double-Secret Head Fake?

Posted on | October 30, 2017 | Comments Off on #NeverTrump: Double-Secret Head Fake?

by Smitty

Taking in the NRO’s latest ritual Trump denunciation:

Trump’s substitution of sneering for analysis, his shallow anti-“elitism,” his attacks on free trade and on freedom of the press, his adolescent social-media habit: Republicans have not rallied behind him in spite of these things, but because of them.

. . .one is inclined to wonder if it’s all been a role.

Forced to take a label, I’d say I’ve been a “Trump skeptic”. His out of the NY-blue yonder campaign seemed (and no refutation has ever been offered) an ersatz Romney offering, suitable for the framing using the 2012 Mitt’s-an-elitist framework. Trump gets the nomination; the Trump University and parade of sexual harassment accusers demolish Donald’s numbers; Her Majesty puts the hurt on another case of chardonnay.

But like some Roadrunner of the citrus orchard, Donald of Orange keeps forgetting to fall prey to these traps. At some point, his ‘sneering’, ‘shallow’, ‘adolescent’ approach starts to look more methodical than mad. Which invites the question: just exactly how sincere is this NRO “Against Trump” business?

There are certainly quite a few #NeverTrump idealists who are as serious as lung cancer in their opposition to Tribble-head. He was certainly the penultimate choice, just ahead of JEB, during the primaries for quite a few conservatives. Trump had zero conservative history; he was contemptuous of the Tea Parties during the Obama Insurrecti–I mean, Administration; his pageants and ex-wives collection raised moral questions. And so forth.

And the temptation to post hoc reasoning should be avoided. We have as much evidence of a grand plan for a Glorious MAGA Revolution as we have evidence that Barack Obama ever delivered any academic work in college. This post is not me saying “OK, I get it. It’s obvious in retrospect.”

Instead, it just seems that:

  • Altering course from the “Hope & Change” malarkey of the last decade wasn’t going to be easy.
  • The Left was braced to neutralize any traditional candidate, including the ones (a lot of) conservatives favored.
  • Lesser mortals would’ve melted in the napalm shower delivered by the Left, and finally:
  • They may never admit it, but, if the NRO were secretly, deliberately driving the conversation toward #MoarTrump, I would not be surprised.
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