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In The Mailbox: 09.13.24

Posted on | September 14, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

“Anybody who lets a rock star tell them how to vote is a moron. Because we’re idiots.” – Alice Cooper

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The WSJ Covers Video Games – Ubisoft In The Spotlight
EBL: MAGA Biden, also, So what does Kamala stand for? 
Twitchy: Man Who Allegedly Shot Pro-Hamas Protester Appears In Court, JK Rowling Shares Damning Report On Problems At UK Rape Crisis Center Stemming From (Former) Trans Director , and “Curious” CNN Consumer Reporter Asks What Happened To Shoplifting Crisis, Gets ALL The Answers
Louder With Crowder: WHOA! Debate moderator admits OUT LOUD why they ganged up on Donald Trump
Vox Popoli: BackerKit is Converged, The Minestrippers, Putin Gives Clear Warning, Sad Puppy Stupidity, Slay Your Darlings, and Hypergamouse Lives!
According To Hoyt: The Times We Live In, The Curious Case of The Winner Who Didn’t Act It, and Ave Atque Vale Holly Lisle
Monster Hunter Nation: Jealousy in the Writing Business
Upstream Reviews: Rachel & The Many-Splendored Dreamland,  
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #9 – The Lodestone
Gab: The “Crunchy Mom” – A Beacon of Hope In A Toxic World

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Faith over Fear
American Conservative: ‘Evangelicals for Harris’ Is Astroturf
American Greatness: Yes, Trump Won the Debate, The Democrats’ War on America, Part One: What ‘Saving our Democracy’ Really Means, and Massie: FBI, CDC & Legacy Media Conspire to Hide Armed Self Defense Data
American Thinker: The Real Tim Walz
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 19 – Alaska Seasons and Politics, also, Rule Five Major Embarrassment Friday
Babalu Blog: Over 100 acts of repression documented in communist Cuba during August, Russian tourist reveals multiple ways in which Cubans scam visitors from abroad, and Why are Cubans having so few children?
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 13
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites, Boeing employees reject deal of union and company, go on strike, New gravity map of Mars released, Perseverance looks back from on high, and Bad consequences from the medical profession’s panic/lies over COVID continue to build
Cafe Hayek: American Compass Churns Out More Fallacies
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, 
Da Tech Guy: Ohio State Troopers Sent to Town David Muir Says Nothing is Happening In
Dana Loesch: The GAP – Gaming & Politics – Is Closing, 
Don Surber: Darth Cheney cannot save Kamala
First Street Journal: Biden-Harris Admin Upset Over “False” Pets Eating Stories, Fish Wrap Wonders When Climate Homicide Charges Are Coming, Bernie Sanders tells us the truth, and Could Daniel Pearson be a conservative?
Gates Of Vienna: Pale Rain-Flawed Phantom of the Place, also, Papers, Please: “You No Longer Have the Right to Say No”
The Geller Report: ABC WHISTLEBLOWER Alleges Kamala Was Given The Questions, Promised Trump Would Be “Fact-Checked” and Kamala Would Not
Hollywood In Toto: The Onion Mocks Corey Comperatore’s Death, Scott Baio Defends Cheryl Hines Against Hollywood Bullies, Kathy Griffin Calls Gina Carano a ‘Holocaust Denier’, Deadpool & Wolverine Mocks Woke Hollywood with a Smile, The Real Questions Answered by Am I Racist? Adam Carolla Says Howard Stern Has Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Am I Racist? Already Year’s Top-Grossing Documentary
The Lid: Mark Levin’s full remarks at the RJC Annual Leadership Summit
Legal Insurrection: Apparently I’m Blacklisted in Tampa-Area Liberal Jewish Circles, MA Intifada Self-Defense Case – Right Of Israel Supporters To Defend Themselves On Trial, Poll Finds Many Jewish Voters Sticking With Democrats Despite Anti-Israel Displays From the Left, Kamala’s Vanishing Moral Clarity on 9/11, Pro-Israel MA Veteran Charged For Shooting Anti-Israel Perpetrator Who Violently Assaulted Him, Anti-Israel Activists Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Chicago O’Hare Airport Blockade, and Trial Set To Begin in Naval Academy Affirmative Action Case
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: ESPN’s Elle Duncan Fires Back As C-Section Speech During Tua CTE Chat Goes Viral, Georgia DB Daniel Harris Arrested On Reckless Driving, Multiple Traffic-Related Misdemeanors, Caitlin Clark Breaks Another WNBA Record, Gets Technical Foul Against Las Vegas Aces, Dodgers Won’t Rule Out Using Shohei Ohtani As A Reliever In The Playoffs, Sports Analyst Darren Rovell Proudly Ruins Newlywed’s Gift From Michael Jordan, NFL on Prime Wants You To Ignore Truth And Believe Communist Cuba Is Lots Of Fun, and Kay Adams Gives A Poolside Parlay, Megan Fox Sex Robot Scene Is A Talker & The Cocks Are Ready For Livvy Dunne
Power Line: Republicans for Suicide, Unsafe To Be a Jew, Is Minnesota In Play? and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental Sorbet
Shark Tank: DeSantis Asks All FL GOP Leaders To Bankroll Anti-Amendment 4 Campaign Despite lawsuit Alleging Election Interference
Shot In The Dark: The Terrorists/Communists/Nazis/King George III Won, also, Functional
The Political Hat: Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 3)
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, White House official dismissive of a group of US veterans, JD Vance on privatizing some VA services, and Soldier arrested at Schofield Barracks for January 6 assault
Victory Girls: Secret Service Testimony Has Congress “Shocked” By Its Failures
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Watts Up With That: OCEAN INTEGRITY vs. Offshore Wind, Brits BRACE for ‘economic CATASTROPHE’ as Labour ‘sacrifices jobs’ for green ‘OBSESSION’, and Gag on Climate Reporting Is Another French Obscenity
The Federalist: First Ballots Mailed Out Closer To The Biden-Harris Switcheroo Than Election Day, RNC Sues Michigan Secretary Of State, Claiming ‘Thousands’ Of Improperly Processed Ballots, Judge Dismisses Two Counts Against Trump In Georgia Lawfare Case, Young Ladies Can’t Help Noticing It’s ‘Lovely To Be A Woman’, Democrat-Led Lawfare Campaign Gets Third-Party Candidates Kicked Off Georgia Ballot, Garland Says DOJ Is Not A ‘Political Weapon’ While Waging Lawfare Against Trump For Opposing Democrats, and Democrats’ Immigration Crisis Pushes Ohioans To The Breaking Point: ‘Who’s Protecting Us?’
Mark Steyn: Falling Arms

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In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not sure what I did right this time, but I got home to Tonopah FULL OF ENERGY.
SF author Chuck Gannon has a Patreon. Free this month, 20% off October & November.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Government Is Hiding Data About Good Guys With Guns
EBL: Megyn Kelly: Trump vs. Harris AND Moderators in Biased ABC Debate, also, The Debate
Twitchy: Conflict of Interest Much? ABC Whistleblower Reportedly Coming Forward With Deets Proving Kamala Had Questions Before Debate, and Matt Walsh Helps The Trash Take Itself Out
Louder With Crowder: Watch as JD Vance levels CNN’s Kaitlin Collins with a massive truth bomb on migrants and “cat memes”, Shocker: 60% of voters moved to Trump after Kamala Harris’s failure to answer one important question, and Trump beats Kamala in a LANDSLIDE… according to cookies sold at this popular swing state bakery
Vox Popoli: Europe’s Economic Suicide, Clown World’s Candidate, And the Wall Fell Down, The Pragmatic Phase, and Radical Optimism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Harris Will Take America Back Into the Past
American Greatness: Despite ABC’s Thumb on Scale For Harris, Most Undecided Voters Favored Trump After Debate, Liz Cheney’s Kamala Endorsement Is A Symptom of Elite Panic, A Forgettable Warped Debate, and National Security Spokesman John Kirby Insults Veterans in 9/11 Email Accidentally Sent to Fox News
American Thinker: AG Garland Refuses to ‘Quibble’ Over Ruined Lives, also, President Trump Won the Debate with Harris
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship holds gourmet food festival as Cubans face unprecedented food crisis, UN official praises Cuba for being a world leader in healthcare, and US House of Representatives considers revoking visas of foreign officials who sponsor Cuban slave doctor program
BattleSwarm: Kerch Crumples, also, Venezuelan Gang Takes Over El Paso Hotel
Behind The Black: Polaris Dawn successfully reaches highest orbit for a human since Apollo, Space industry and Congress blast FAA for its so-called “streamlined” regulations, A new study, commissioned by NASA, endorses giving NASA more power and money, even as NASA becomes more irrelevant, SpaceX launches AST SpaceMobile’s first five operational cellphone satellites, FAA attempts to justify its red tape, and Heritage Foundation releases guide to colleges that teach instead of indoctrinate
Cafe Hayek: Noxious Protectionist Dish
CDR Salamander: The Sad Shadow of a Superpower, also, The Attacks In The Red Sea Have A Pattern
Chicago Boyz: Hole in the Sky
Da Tech Guy: Spiking the Debate Ball for Trump, also, Who were the winners and losers from Tuesday night’s Presidential Debate?
Dana Loesch: Trump Needs To Stop Traveling With Nutjobs, also, Sorry, Progressive Borg – Friendships Across Political Lines Can & Should Work
Don Surber: Singing Kamala’s praises in the wrong key
First Street Journal: Reports Says Israel Is Offering Hamas Head Safe Passage For Release Of Hostages, We Need New Bread For An Overheated World Or Something, The blinding brilliance of the United States Navy, Surprise: Election Officials Say There Could Be Problems With Mail In Ballots, and Totally A Hoax: Springfield Man Reported Haitian Migrant Snatching Geese
Gates Of Vienna: No, Starmer, the Solingen Stabbings Were Not “Senseless”, Islamic Influence In the U.S. Government — Kamala Harris Would Pick Up Where Joe Biden Left Off, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 19, Drawing a Bead on Jesus, If At First You Don’t Secede, Try Again, and Gang Rape as an Expression of the Power of an Islamic State
The Geller Report: Terrorist Attack On Synagogue In France
Hollywood In Toto: D’Souza’s Vindicating Trump Explores Assassination Attempt(s), How Gattaca Revealed IVF’s Nagging Problem, Shailene Woodley Shares Shocking Reaction to Trump Shooting, Author Says No Difference Between Comedians, Entertainers and Journalists, and Am I Racist? – 2024’s Funniest Comedy
The Lid: Dangerous: Calif. Authorities Take Child Away from Christian Family Over Transgenderism
Legal Insurrection: Hollywood Bowl Cancels Show after Heat Wave Melts Southern California Grid, Sen. Blumenthal Says Americans Will be ‘Appalled’ by Security Failures in Trump Assassination Attempt Report, Seattle Times Gaslighting Over Trump Pointing Out 2020 Protesters Took Over a ‘Big’ Part of City, Georgia Judge Dismisses Two Counts Against Trump in Election Interference Case, AAUP’s Embrace of Israel Boycotts Turning ‘Academic Guardians to Political Operatives’, Merrick Garland Harrumphs That It’s ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Outrageous’ to Criticize the DOJ, and Dems, Media Laugh at Trump Factual Claim About Harris Supporting Trans Surgery for Illegal Aliens
Nebraska Energy Observer: Church of the Dragonslayers, also, I am so humbled
Outkick: Pac-12 Revival: The Conference Is Poaching Four Teams From Mountain West In Massive Realignment Move, Northern Illinois Coach Thomas Hammock Tells Marcus Freeman He Won’t Share Notre Dame Secrets With Opponents, Miami Police Warned Of ‘Noticeable Surge’ In Threats Against Law Enforcement Amid Tyreek Hill Backlash, Clemson DB Caleb Nix, Brother Of Bo Nix, Played Entire Game With Torn ACL This Past Weekend, NBA Player Shares Great Level-Headed Message In Reaction To The Tyreek Hill Situation, WNBA Wants To Do Away With Lawsuit From Dearica Hamby, Who Claims She Was Traded Due To Pregnancy, and Danica Patrick Calls Out Taylor Swift For Insufferable Gaslighting With Kamala Harris Post
Power Line: Curb your Kirby, Correction of the year, and How Many Trans?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Am I Racist?
Shark Tank: Department of State Finds Evidence of Fraud In Petitions Amid DeSantis’ Amendment 4 Battle
Shot In The Dark: Pretense, Let Them Eat Avocado Toast, Kicked Upstairs, Debate Review, and Things That Are Too Obvious To Reiterate, But… 
The Political Hat: Twenty-Three Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET, also, Quick Takes – Anti-Racism In The Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Korean War Vet James Earl Jones passes, Co-ed sub? Coming this week, Everybody’s warning someone. Mine follows, Skilled Sailor Shortage Scuttles At-Sea Maintenance, and Fact checker fact-checks Kamala Harris’s active duty military in combat zone claim
Transterrestrial Musings: The Debate
Victory Girls: Democrats Are Desperate For Another January 6th
Volokh Conspiracy: The First Amendment and the Social Media Dilemma
Watts Up With That: Stealing the Future with Green Steel, Another Episode Of Cleaning The Augean Stables, and C40 Cities: The Authoritarian Green Dream to Destroy Your Life and Wreck the Economy
The Federalist: Like Her Campaign, Kamala’s 2024 Platform Is Largely About Nothing, New York Times Says It’s OK To ‘Help’ Your Mentally Incapacitated Relatives Complete Their Ballots, Washington Post Hit Piece Paints Elon Musk As ‘Uniquely Dangerous’ For Standing Up For Free Speech, Kamala Harris’ Pandering Tax Plan Is No Poverty Panacea, South Dakota’s ‘Pro-Life’ Politicians Notoriously Silent On Extremist Abortion Amendment, Nevada Activists Blast Elections Chief For Trying To ‘Discourage And Impede’ Legitimate Voter Roll Challenges, and Why Are Georgia Republicans Trying To Shut Down Election Integrity Efforts?
Mark Steyn: Moderators Gone Wild, Live Around the Planet – The Morning After, The Uniparty Turns Literal, The Lost Frontier, and Tongue Got Your Cat?

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Trump: I Won, No More Debates

Posted on | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump: I Won, No More Debates

This is a bold move, and can only be explained by Duane Patterson’s question: “If Kamala Won the Debate, Why Is Trump Gaining Ground?” Counter-intuitive as it may seem — because Trump had a lousy debate performance — it appears that many undecided voters moved in favor of Trump as a result. Or, to put it another way, these voters didn’t see from Kamala Harris whatever it was they had needed to see in order to vote for her. If you have ever actually talked to a “swing” voter, you know that they are, shall we say, idiosyncratic. So while it may seem inexplicable how Trump could have “won” that debate, in terms of persuading undecided voters, we’ll find out on November 5 — or in the wee hours of the morning of November 6 — whether Trump’s hunch is right. Obviously, he thinks he’s got this thing in the bag. His gut tells him that most people don’t want to vote for Kamala, no more than they wanted to vote for Hillary. For the sake of America, let’s hope he’s right.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

@skscartoons summarizes the “debate”

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: ABC’s David Muir: 100% Positive Coverage of Kamala Harris, also, Remember September 11, 2001
Twitchy: Tom Elliott’s Then vs. Now Supercut Of Democrats 180 On Dick Cheney Might Give You Whiplash, Team Kamala Hit With More Bad News About Another Group She’s Losing BIGLY To Trump, and Don Lemon Writes Check His Butt Can’t Cash – Attacks Melania For Video Speaking Out About Assassination Attempt On Her Husband
Louder With Crowder: “They’re trying to steal this election:” Megyn Kelly ANNIHILATES the hack ABC News debate moderators
Vox Popoli: Not the Worst Idea, 3 Strikes, He’s Out, CS Lewis was Right, Meme Magic Strikes Twice, and On Philosophy
Wright’s Writing Corner: Lord of Fate Kickstarter Campaign
Ammo.com: Anti-Gun Control Arguments
Stoic Observations: Give Us Us Free

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: 23 Years In The Blink Of An Eye
Don Surber: Dear Aussie – Your PM received only 50,723 votes. Sit our election out. 
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another another another “another Humpday Shrapnel post” post post

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Yes, Kamala ‘Won’ That Debate (and Why It Probably Won’t Matter in November)

Posted on | September 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Yes, Kamala ‘Won’ That Debate (and Why It Probably Won’t Matter in November)

If any of your Democrat friends try to provoke you into an argument about who won Tuesday night’s debate, avoid the provocation by agreeing that Kamala “won,” and end the conversation immediately.

“Never smarten up a chump” — don’t let them in on the secret that Harris’s debate “victory” is unlikely to make any difference.

This is why Democrats were caught by surprise in 2016. They were paying attention to the media and didn’t understand that Trump voters were not deterred by any of his scandals or “gaffes.” This was a mistake that I myself made. After the “Access Hollywood” tapes went public, I declared in early October 2016 that there was no way Trump could win — how could anyone survive that? On Election Day, I went out and voted for Trump, then came home to watch the results on TV and was amazed to see state after state turn red on the map. Incredible!

Was any voter really undecided before Tuesday? I suppose that all the regular readers here had made up their mind to vote for Trump long ago. Your choice was not in the least changed, was it? Ditto all the Harris voters — they were never going to be persuaded to vote for Trump, no matter what. They’d vote for a turnip if it had a “D” next to it. Who were the “undecided” voters, and why were they undecided? I have trouble imagining such people exist, and can’t begin to explain the motives for their indecision. But if they were leaning toward voting for Trump, why would they change their minds simply because he was extra-Trumpish during the debate? The man is a known quantity, for good or ill.

Like a lot of other Trump voters, I was disappointed by his performance, but not really surprised, and certainly was not persuaded to vote for Kamala. I am against the Democratic Party, period, and my chief regret is that not every one of the 74,000,000 Trump voters are as staunchly anti-Democrat as I am. I voted for Trump despite Trump being Trump, and will do it again, and am therefore not an accurate bellwether of how an “undecided” voter might react to Trump being Trump.

My point is that I don’t think any Trump supporter should feel discouraged about the election because of Tuesday’s debate. If you have liberal friends who are whooping it up in celebration, the thing to do is to pretend you don’t notice. Don’t start any arguments, and don’t let yourself be baited into any arguments. Democrats are going to be Democrats, and why waste time arguing with fools?

Here’s Reagan Reese reporting at the Daily Caller:

Former President Donald Trump came out hot during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, while ABC’s moderators fact-checked just one side of the stage.
Trump and Harris met for the first time in their political careers on ABC News’s debate stage in a 90 minute contest that featured no live audience, muted mics and moderators that left many conservative viewers frustrated. As ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis continuously corrected Trump and left Harris un-checked, the vice president baited the former president into fiery moments by teasing him about rally crowd size and his 2020 loss. . . .
Though Harris dodged questions on her numerous policy flip-flops and whether Americans are better off under her administration than Trump’s, pundits and media personalities suggested that the vice president presented herself better than her opponent. A CNN flash poll of debate watchers found that 63% said Harris had won the debate, compared to 37% for Trump. The same sample of individuals said pre-debate they were split 50-50 on who they expected to win.
Her campaign apparently thought so too, because minutes after the forum ended, they began calling for a second debate in October.
Trump, meanwhile, was noticeably louder and more aggressive than in his debate against President Joe Biden, where the Republican nominee largely stood quietly by while his opponent imploded.
“She conveyed the calm. Did she answer all the questions about the switches? No. But I thought he would’ve raised that,” former congressman Harold Ford said in Fox News’ post show.
“She came out ahead of him in my opinion, no doubt,” Brit Hume, Fox News political analyst, responded to Ford. “She was calm, she was prepared.”

So there’s the “objective” take, such as it is.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 11, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Another banger from @skscartoons

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The FBI Is The Biden Regime’s Secret Police
EBL: Ever Changing Kamala Chameleon, also, Erin Burnett on CNN : THIS IS KAMALA
Twitchy: Moderator Linsey Davis Gives Debate Its Candy Crowley Moment, Trump Takes Kamala’s “I’m Talking Now” Moment From Her, and Christopher Rufo Shows How The Administration Subsized The Venezuelan Illegals In Aurora
Louder With Crowder: Watch Eric Swalwell Melt Down, Have EPIC Tantrum Over Trump, Cat Memes
Vox Popoli: Smart Boys Trust the Science, Israel Invades the West Bank, China Rejects Clown World, Called on the Carpet, The End of Schengen, and RIP James Earl Jones
Fandom Pulse: An Alternative To Mainstream Publishing For SF & Fantasy Readers
Stoic Observations: Why I Was Conservative
Upstream Reviews: Sons of Heaven

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Public Sin of Elle Macpherson
American Conservative: Did Communism Really Fall?
American Greatness: The Biden-Harris World Is Afire, Liz Cheney’s Kamala Endorsement Is A Symptom of Elite Panic, and Kamala Harris Reaffirms Support for Mass Amnesty
American Power: Larry Bartels, Democracy Erodes from the Top
American Thinker: Trump May Not Win in Pennsylvania — Until After the Election, It’s Not the Fed That’s Causing Inflation, and Beating the Cheat
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Federalist Papers News
Babalu Blog: House Republicans demand answers from Biden-Harris admin over immigrant visa for Cuban Communist Party, Price of eggs in Cuba skyrockets to 4,500 pesos per carton, and Cuba spends $36 million on car imports from U.S. in first 7 months of 2024
BattleSwarm: More On Venezuelan Gangs, Paxton Sues Travis County Over Partisan Voter Drive, Harris County Justice Cancels All Warrants, and Biden Admin Paying Ft. Worth Catholic Charity $1 Billion For Illegal Aliens?
Behind The Black: Unmanned Starliner lands in New Mexico without problems, A crack on Mars more than 600 miles long, Hurricane damages China’s new launch facilities at its coastal Wenchang spaceport, In approving Europa Clipper’s launch, NASA and JPL claim its non-spec transistors will “heal” themselves in Jupiter orbit, The reasons why Mars two polar caps are so different, and Today’s blacklisted American: Democrats demand Elon Musk be censored and arrested simply for disagreeing with them
Cafe Hayek: Lose the Faux Familiarity, Yet Another Open Letter to Donald Trump, and Teachout Continues to Teach Poorly About “Price Gouging”
CDR Salamander: Hypersonics Won’t Save Us
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Listening, College Football and Memory, and The Social Engineers and a Synthetic Candidate
Da Tech Guy: Quick Thoughts Rights and Wrong, Dynasty League Playoff Pictures 1997 & 1972 Leagues, Swing state voters, what to say when an Illinois leftist is at your door telling you to vote for Kamala Harris, Patriots, White Sox and Not Getting Cocky, and Why Harris Lost? Now She’s Known as the Unlikeable Person She IS
Dana Loesch: About Tonight’s Debate
Don Surber: Cats for Trump
First Street Journal: National People’s Congress Black Caucus Extols Companies Complying With DEI, also, Bummer: Climate Doom Could Cause Big Problems For Pacific Island Tourism
Gates Of Vienna: It’s All Elon Musk’s Fault, Those Busy, Busy Knives, Return to Poltava, We Have to Destroy the Constitution in Order to Save It, and The Invalid Corps
The Geller Report: New York Times Tells BIG LIES to Protect Noncitizens Ability to Vote, also, ‘Palestinian’ Authority wants UN to order removal of 500,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria
Glenn Reynolds: A Substack About Nothing
Hollywood In Toto: The Incredible Shrinking Late-Night Lineup, My Penguin Friend Is the Blockbuster Antidote We Need, Sopranos Alum Blasts Trigger Warnings, Wise Guy Lets Sopranos Mastermind Spill His Secrets, and Amazon Censors Trump Assassination Book Cover
The Lid: Horrible Bias: ABC’s Election Coverage has been 100% Positive for Harris, 93% Negative for Trump
Legal Insurrection: Today’s Campus Protesters Have Some Things in Common With the 60s Radicals of the Weather Underground, The Tragic Losses Because of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis, Kamala Harris Campaign Surrogate Gina Raimondo Makes Excuses for Lack of Policy Details, Explanations, Small Ohio Town Becomes Battleground in Broken Border Policies and Social Media Messaging, Brown University Prof’s New Book Warns of ‘Dangers of the Constitution’, and Donald Trump’s Polling Numbers are Far Better Than They Look
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Lost Weekend In The City of Thieves; Parts 1 and 2, Free England (and trade with your friends), and A clarion cry
Outkick: Tyreek Hill Isn’t An Innocent Angel, And The Media Is Lying To You, Shedeur Sanders Ruthlessly Roasted After Simple Tweet Backfires, Payton Thorne Says Auburn Fans Are Sending Him Venmo Requests After Losses, Former Vikings RB Adrian Peterson Ordered To Turn In Assets To Cover $12M Debt, ESPN’s Michael Wilbon Says Tyreek Hill Incident Happened Because Hill Was ‘Driving While Black’, and Alica ?chmidt Puts Instagram On Notice
Power Line: “A man’s got to know his limitations”, Useless Fat Ladies, and A Disaster For Trump?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Oh, Congratulations. This is your Haitian divorce 
Shark Tank: Lawyer Sues DeSantis, Moody, & Weida Over Amendment 4
Shot In The Dark: Habits, Astroturf, Don’t Get Cocky, and Out Of Their Depth
STUMP: Happy 50th To ERISA! also, World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 – Let’s Turn Around A Bad Trend
The Political Hat: Daniel Hannan On The U.K. Bringing Back Blasphemy Laws, also, Rose-Tinted Doom
This Ain’t Hell: Space Force going to actually do Space Force stuff, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro runs afoul of Hatch Act, Army Veteran’s Capitol Riot related sentence reduced, Defection Monday. And Mr. Backward Scope, and Judge hammers US Department of Veterans Affairs in ruling
Transterrestrial Musings: The Uniparty, The Biden-Harris World, Musk’s Latest Mars Plans, and On The Road Again
Victory Girls: Debate Night: The Moderators Take On Trump To Save Harris
Volokh Conspiracy: “How Different Are the Trump Judges?”
Watts Up With That: Britain spending record £250m a month on electricity imports, Italy Demands the EU Scrap its 2035 Internal Combustion Phaseout, and The Texas Oil Lawsuit which could Bankrupt Greenpeace USA
The Federalist: If You Want Haitians Eating Cats And Decapitating Ducks In Your Town, Vote For Harris, 25 Lies Kamala Harris Told In Her Debate Against Trump, The Men Women Chased Out Of Society Need To Come Back Before We Lose Everything, Debate Moderators Bringing Up J6 But Not Trump Assassination Attempt Tells You Everything About Media Corruption, Kamala Harris Can’t Stop Talking About GOP Policies Because Hers Are Indefensible, and Kamala Harris’ ‘Veterans’ Platform Is Dishonest Gaslighting At Its Dimmest
Mark Steyn: All of You-oo-oo-oo, All Hot and Crowthered: Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart, Get Hip, Little Dogies, People Will Say We’re in Love, and Live Around the Planet: As The World Turns

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Debate Night: America in the Balance

Posted on | September 10, 2024 | Comments Off on Debate Night: America in the Balance

The first presidential debate this year was such a huge Trump victory that Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid a few weeks later, resulting in Kamala Harris being anointed as the Democrat nominee. What are the chances that Kamala Harris will do better than Joe did against Trump? We’ll see. Feel free to use the comments as a sort of open thread. While I don’t expect to live-blog the debate, I will try to throw some new stuff in periodically. Maybe the topic of Haitians eating cats will come up.

UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET: So what they decided to do was, first, ask Kamala about the Biden economic agenda. She doesn’t say anything in defense of Bidenomics, but instead talks about what various things she’s promising to do if elected. Then it’s Trump’s turn, and then they just keep going back and forth — Harris, Trump, Harris, Trump. I don’t know who’s winning this, but it’s annoying the hell out of me.

UPDATE 9:21 p.m. ET: One-liner of the night: “Run, Spot, run!”

UPDATE 10:09 p.m. ET: Wow, this is an awful, awful TV show. I suppose Kamala Harris’s supporters think she’s winning, while Trump has to not only debate his opponent, but also the ABC “moderators” who (a) keep telling lies while “fact-checking” him, and (b) never fact-check any of Kamala’s lies. Trump supporters are probably unhappy, but I don’t imagine they think their guy is losing. Probably the net impact of this whole thing is a wash, but my hunch is that a lot of viewers just tuned out after 30 or 45 minutes of squabbling.

UPDATE 10:28 p.m. ET: Folks, I’ve had as much of this as I can stand. Maybe tomorrow, after three or four cups of coffee, I’ll do a roundup of post-debate reaction, but I’m heading to bed now. Good night!



 

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Springfield Gets What It Deserves

Posted on | September 10, 2024 | Comments Off on Springfield Gets What It Deserves

Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio

When tales of Haitian immigrants eating cats emerged on social media this week, it suddenly focused attention on the city of Springfield, Ohio, but now we are learning there’s more to the story:

“Those 20,000 Haitians did not show up overnight or uninvited. Though flown in by the federal government, they were not forced on the city by the federal government. Elections have consequences. Springfield voted for this. They signaled their virtue, their signal was seen, and virtue arrived. This is what they wanted. This is what they got. They’ll have to deal with the consequences.”

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) Much commentary has focused on whether it’s true that pets are being killed and eaten by the Haitians, but that’s not really the point. The point is why Springfield became the destination for thousands of Haitians (who may or may not eat cats).

It’s a long story. First of all, you’ll find liberals insisting that these Haitians are not illegal immigrants. Research further, however, and you learn that most of them entered the country illegally, crossing the U.S.-Mexico border after making their way through Central America. After Haiti descended into its latest crisis, the Biden administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to all Haitians in the U.S., so you may say that they have been retroactively (but temporarily) “legalized.”

Now let’s talk about Springfield, which is a “blue” island of liberalism in a sea of Republican “red.” Ohio was once a battleground state, closely contested in every presidential election, and then Trump came along and the Buckeye State has now become a GOP stronghold. Springfield was a city of 58,662 residents before the Haitian influx, and the city sits in Clark County (population 136,000) which voted 61% for Trump in 2020.

You see that, if the Democrats can turn these Haitians into voters, they can make Clark County “blue,” and a similar calculus is being applied nationwide by the Biden administration’s immigration policy. Democrats insist that the “Great Replacement” is a right-wing conspiracy theory, but we can see them doing it — blatantly, deliberately, in front of our eyes — in places like Springfield. And this brings us to the late Warren Copeland.

For most of the past three decades, Copeland was the mayor of Springfield. He was a professor at Wittenberg University, a local institution affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Anyone who knows anything about the ELCA will tell you it is the pluperfect example of degenerate liberal Protestantism. “The ELCA has drifted so far into pagan goddess worship that to call it ‘Lutheranism’ is an insult to Luther; to call it ‘Christian’ is blasphemy,” as I wrote in 2016. Copeland was a radical obsessed with “social justice,” and the fact that Springfield repeatedly elected him as their mayor tells you something about the politics of the city. Indeed, Springfield eagerly welcomed the influx of Haitians. Read this article from December 2022:

A surge in the number of Springfield residents from Haiti has resulted in an outpouring of language assistance and additional forms of help from the Springfield City School District and others who are trying to meet their needs.
“Four years ago we didn’t have a Haitian population,” says Pamela Shay, director of federal programs for Springfield City School District.
Now the district has about 200 students from Haitian families, many speaking Haitian Creole, French or Spanish, she says. In the past, the district has had two or three bilingual assistants who speak students’ native languages in order to help in classrooms and communicate with parents. Now the district has nine, she says.
“I think we will see growth continue for a few years,” Shay says. . . .
Estimates about the number of Springfield and Clark County residents from Haiti vary. Shay says she has been told there are about 7,500 Haitians in the area, although she suspects the number is lower based on the number of students enrolled in the school district.
Davah Germain says there were already several thousand people from Haiti when he arrived in Springfield almost two years ago, and he suspects that number might have doubled in the meantime.
“And people are still coming,” he says.
Germain left Haiti due to political issues and moved to Miami, Fla., in 1985. The 63-year-old moved to Springfield at the urging of a friend. Word is spreading about the ease in which newcomers can find jobs, particularly in manufacturing.
“They’re coming to stay,” he says. “They’re coming to make Springfield their home.” . . .
Germain . . . translates for the Springfield District Council of St. Vincent de Paul.
Peggy Johnson is a longtime volunteer with the council, and she oversees its community navigator program to help the local Haitian and Hispanic communities.
“I applied for a grant last year when I started to see a lot of Haitians moving into town,” she says.
That $10,000 grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, along with another $10,000 from a private organization in Springfield, is helping the program fund 20 hours of services each week. The organization also now has two Haitians employed who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish. The extra services started in September.

You see? According to the school system official, as recently as 2018, Springfield didn’t have any Haitians, but by 2022, the number had reached an estimated 7,500, and now it’s believed to be at least 15,000. And the city did everything to assist and support the Haitians, effectively encouraging still more to come. The Biden administration’s decision to grant TPS to all Haitians — no matter how they got into the country — means that no Haitian can be deported, and every Haitian in the country is now eligible for employment, Social Security cards, Medicaid, etc. The liberals in Springfield, the ones who made Warren Copeland the city’s mayor for nearly 30 years, voted for this policy. They approved it.

And then in 2023, a child suffered the consequences:

Aidan Clark

A Haitian man charged with causing a bus crash in which 11-year-old Aiden Clark was killed and more than two dozen other students were injured was previously caught and released at the US border.
Hermanio Joseph, 35, was driving with an invalid license when his Honda Odyssey minivan veered over the center line and collided with a Northwestern Local Schools bus on Troy Road in Lawrenceville, Ohio, on August 22. . . .
Aiden was ejected from the bus and was pronounced dead at the scene. Another student suffered life-threatening injuries and 26 children sustained minor injuries. . . .
Joseph and his passenger, Roberto Mompremier, 37, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment.
He produced a Mexican driver’s license to Ohio State Highway Patrol officers at the scene but this was invalid due to his immigration status.
Joseph is registered as a Haitian immigrant in the state of Florida and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman confirmed he arrived at the US-Mexico border in August 2022.
He was given notice to appear in federal immigration court by the Department of Homeland Security before he was released under the Biden Administration’s border policies.

Hermanio Joseph

So never mind if Haitians are eating cats, because the fact is that Haitians are killing actual human beings, including this 11-year-old kid from Lawrenceville, a crossroads about 7 miles north of Springfield.

It was not Aidan Clark’s fault that the Biden administration adopted a “catch-and-release” policy for illegal immigrants. It was not Aidan Clark’s policy that the liberals in Springfield welcomed thousands of Haitians to their city. Hermanio Joseph has been sentenced to prison, but this hardly suffices to clear the blood-guilt for Aidan Clark’s death, and the people responsible are not just the residents of Springfield. Yet they have brought a curse upon their city, which I expect will soon cease to be recognizable as an American city. Springfield, Ohio, is going to turn into a cesspool of misery, bearing no resemblance to what it was when the first Haitians arrived there. This sad fate is not something I approve — were it in my power, I would prevent it– but at the same time, I cannot deny that it is what Springfield deserves. They have invited their own destruction.

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