In The Mailbox: 04.21.17

Posted on | April 21, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.21.17

OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm Blog: Texas v. California Update
EBL: Friday Unrequited Love – Lizzy Fenton
Twitchy: Rachel Maddow “Scoop” On Venezuela Too Insane For Words
Louder With Crowder: Ana Navarro Can’t Stop Whining About The Nuge, Palin, & Kid Rock Trolling Hillary Clinton
According To Hoyt: Such The Womb
Monster Hunter Nation: Two New Correia Collaborations
Vox Popoli: A Message To Antifa

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #45 – The $800 Bottle Service Episode, also, It’s Friday Links And Hawtness!
American Power: Marine Le Pen’s Support Grows After Paris Terror Attack
American Thinker: A Stunning School Sex Scandal The Media Refuse To Notice
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Failed Imperial Power Grab Friday
BLACKFIVE: Lisa Scottoline, One Perfect Lie
Da Tech Guy: Ten Thoughts Under My Fedora
Don Surber: I Know When Democrats Will Win Again
Dustbury: Good Intentions Might Have Been Involved
The Geller Report: Life Insurance For Jihadi Murderers? America’s First Somali Legislator Says Yes!
Hogewash: Blognet
Jammie Wearing Fools: MSNBC – “Unrest In Venezuela Over Trump Donations”
Joe For America: Masked Terrorist Who Beat Trump Supporter Has Been Identified – Liberals Shocked!
Power Line: In Re O’Reilly, Part Four
Shark Tank: GOP Targets Senator Nelson’s Voting Record
Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Ten Years Ago
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Smoking Equals Freedom, also, Breaking! Jawa Report Outlasts O’Reilly Factor!
The Political Hat: Chris Matthews Goes Full Bolshevik
This Ain’t Hell: A Lesson In Democracy From Venezuela
War Is Boring: As Long As Reporters Have Covered War, They Have Glorified It
Weasel Zippers: University Students Want Free Tuition For Blacks As Reparations For Slavery, also, Wyoming MN Police Department Wins Internet With This 4/20 Tweet
Megan McArdle: Subway Sandwiches – Death By A Thousand Cold Cuts
Mark Steyn: Writing It Down

Today’s Digital Deals

Category: Linkagery

How Bad Was the Hillary Campaign?

Posted on | April 21, 2017 | Comments Off on How Bad Was the Hillary Campaign?

Matt Taibbi is certainly not my favorite political journalist, and Rolling Stone was permanently disgraced by the UVA hoax, but nevertheless Taibbi’s brief review of the new Clinton campaign book, Shattered by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, is very worthwhile reading. After recounting the comedic failure of Clinton insiders to figure out their campaign’s raison d’etre — why did Hillary want to be president? — Taibbi summarizes the problem briefly and accurately:

What Allen and Parnes captured in Shattered was a far more revealing portrait of the Democratic Party intelligentsia than, say, the WikiLeaks dumps. And while the book is profoundly unflattering to Hillary Clinton, the problem it describes really has nothing to do with Secretary Clinton.
The real protagonist of this book is a Washington political establishment that has lost the ability to explain itself or its motives to people outside the Beltway.

What is true of the “Washington political establishment” in the Democrat Party is similarly true for Republicans. There is a yawning chasm of misunderstanding between the voters and people who make their careers in politics, and Taibbi doesn’t want to admit that he and his employer are part of the problem. That is to say, the liberal bias of the media creates such a huge advantage for Democrats, easily worth 5% of the vote in national elections, as to create a sort of cushion against reality. Meanwhile, Republicans in Washington are apt to succumb to “Potomac fever,” betraying their conservative voters in pursuit of a “centrist” or “mainstream” image, which leads them into debacles like the “Gang of Eight” immigration plan. Journalists contribute to this problem — call it The Reality Gap — with reporting so one-sided as to be dishonest.

Is Matt Taibbi willing to admit that Rolling Stone published that UVA rape hoax story for partisan purposes? Isn’t it true that the “campus rape epidemic” hysteria of 2014 was part of a Clinton-friendly propaganda blitz to make feminism a central focus of the 2016 campaign? And isn’t it also true that the Black Lives Matter movement was similarly a Democrat Party propaganda operation intended to mobilize black voters?

Liberal journalists devote enormous effort to promoting narratives that portray Democrat Party core constituencies — women, racial minorities, gay people — as victims of systematic injustice, while demonizing Republicans as racist, sexist, homophobic villains. The media become so entranced by this victimhood narrative that, like the Clinton campaign insiders, they are stunned to discover American voters aren’t buying it.

This was the entirety of Hillary’s campaign logic — (a) she’s a woman, (b) women are victims, and therefore, (c) vote Democrat: “I’m With Her.”

If that’s the only argument you’ve got, you deserve to lose. And anyone who thinks Bernie Sanders would have done better is insane. Our national debt is now nearly $20 trillion — that’s trillion, with a “T,” $20,000,000,000,000 — and we cannot afford to pay for the massive federal welfare state we’ve already got, much less the outright socialism that the Bernie voters want. Go take a look at the disaster in Venezuela, if you want to see where the Bernie Sanders agenda leads. Unless and until Democrats are willing to confront the reality of socialism’s failure, and abandon the divisive Cultural Marxism of identity politics, they will continue to alienate the ordinary American voter.

Category: Democrats, Election, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias

Activists Claim Berkeley ‘Anti-Fascist’ Attacker Is College Instructor Eric Clanton

Posted on | April 20, 2017 | 6 Comments

Activists accuse Eric Clanton of attacking Trump supporters in Berkeley.

During the Saturday confrontation between Trump supporters and so-called “anti-fascist” protesters in Berkeley, California, a young man was assaulted by a masked protester who slammed him in the head with a bicycle padlock, drawing blood. Analysis of photos and videos taken during the violent protests at Berkeley led 4chan activists to identify the attacker as Eric Michael Clanton, 28, who teaches introductory philosophy classes at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California.

After he was identified, Clanton apparently deleted his Twitter account. However, activists found Clanton’s online profile from the dating site OKCupid where he declared: “I’m interested in helping to precipitate the end of civil society.” Furthermore, on his website, Clanton described himself as “interested in feminist theory as well as critical and philosophical approaches to prisons and police enforcement.” At a 2013 conference, Clanton gave a presentation entitled “A Feminist Critique of Human Nature Essentialism.” It is reported that the victim of the Berkeley attack, Sean Stiles, intends to press charges, and the administration at Diablo Valley College has been informed of the allegations against Clanton. Based on the video, this could be at least an aggravated assault case, and arguably assault with a deadly weapon — very serious felony charges. Clanton might soon have a chance to discover how his “critical and philosophical approaches to prisons and police enforcement” work in practice. Not too well, I’d expect.

MORE: The Ralph Report, Gateway Pundit, Milo Yiannopoulos.

Category: California, Crime

Harvard Feminist @Nian_Hu Hates Men, Who ‘Will Always Be Oppressors’

Posted on | April 20, 2017 | 1 Comment

Harvard feminist Nian Hu supported Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Harvard Crimson columnist Nian Hu expressed her all-inclusive hatred of men in a column last month denouncing so-called “male feminists”:

“What these male feminists fail to realize is that,
as men, they will always be oppressors. . . .
Men, as a class, are culpable for misogyny,
and male allies are no different . . .
Feminism does not need men. . . .
Feminism is not supposed to be palatable
to men; it is supposed to be threatening.”

Merely being born male makes you an oppressor and “culpable for misogyny,” and Ms. Hu declares feminism is “supposed to be threatening” to all men, even those “male allies” who claim to support equality.

Some regular readers may remember Ms. Hu, who first called attention to herself with a 2015 column in which she declared: “I am a feminist. I believe in the equality of the sexes.” She explained that “feminism means freedom,” including “freedom to have as many sexual partners as I want without being looked down on.” As I said at the time, her assertion that no one is permitted to disapprove of promiscuity amounted to a claim that other people do not have a right to their own opinions.

Ms. Hu was just a freshman at the time, and seemed startled that anyone could disagree with her view of what feminist “freedom” means. Has she had “as many sexual partners as I want” since then? Evidence suggests the answer is “yes,” if her desired number of partners is zero.

In February 2016, for example, Ms. Hu published a column denouncing “Yellow Fever,” i.e., white men who find Asian women attractive. The apparent point of that column was to make clear that under no circumstance would Ms. Hu ever be interested in dating a white man.

A couple of weeks later, Ms. Hu unleashed a tirade in which she accused men of feeling “entitlement over women’s bodies,” an attitude she blamed for “brutal acts of violence,” concluding: “No woman owes a man anything — least of all her body.” In a column last September, Ms. Hu declared that men “view women as inferior, perceive sex as an act of conquest, and see violence as a way to establish dominance over others.” She demanded that “we must dismantle this toxic construct of masculinity” because “the patriarchy causes harm to everyone.” Yes, everyone, including girls whose parents pay $63,025 a year to send them to Harvard University.

Ms. Hu’s hatred of men is implacable and limitless, as she made clear in her denunciation of “male feminists,” whom she accused of “perpetuating the subordination of women” because “they continue to benefit from a system that establishes male dominance at the expense of women.” This is what she is learning at Harvard where she is pursuing a degree in Government and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. You might think that men at Harvard would be enlightened, but according to Ms. Hu, every man on the Cambridge campus is a misogynist oppressor:

Men from Harvard would sit down and argue with me about my articles, claiming that I was going too far and that “not all men” acted that way. I even heard through the grapevine that an all-male final club blacklisted me for my apparently “controversial” beliefs. . . .
It’s scary to be a feminist.
But, at the end of the day, it’s scary to even exist as a woman in this world. I am already afraid. I already live in fear when it’s late at night and a man is walking behind me closely, or when a car full of men drives by and they jeer at me and follow me down the street. Even when I am silent, I am afraid. Silence will not buy me safety.

Yes, “it’s scary even to exist as a women” at Harvard, where Nian Hu can’t go anywhere without a car full of men jeering at her as they follow her down the street. Why, some men even dare to argue with her!

This is elite education in 2017: Parents pay $63,025 a year to send their girls to Harvard University, where the faculty teach them to hate the boys whose parents pay $63,025 a year to send them to Harvard. It kind of makes me nostalgic for the good old days, when people hated each other without having to pay Ivy League professors to teach them how.

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.20.17

Posted on | April 20, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.20.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Egg McMuffin – In Debt, But Still Out There
Twitchy: Kirsten Gillibrand Gets Destroyed For #Time100 Writeup Of Linda Sarsour
Louder With Crowder: NYT Gets Called Out For Fake News By…The New England Patriots

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Nation Is Not a Dirty Word
American Power: “It’s Alabama, You’ll Discover The Police Behave Differently Than They Do In Berkeley”
American Thinker: Shattered – A New Fairy Tale About How Hillary “Forgot” White Voters
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily CCW News
Bring The HEAT: Joe Dunford, Warrior
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Will An Amended AHCA Be Any Better?
Don Surber: Guess What, Media – Illegal Aliens Lie
Dustbury: Pastorized For Your Protection
Fred On Everything: First Transgender President – Trump Becomes Hillary
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrants Storm French Town Hall To Protest Immigration Laws, 14 Injured
Hogewash: RICO Remnant LOLSuit News
Jammie Wearing Fools: Honeymoon From Hell – The Liberal Media v. President Trump
Joe For America: Utah Rep Chaffetz Announces He’s Not Running For Re-Election
JustOneMinute: What Does China Want With North Korea?
Power Line: Today’s University Epic Fail
Shark Tank: Artiles Apologizes For Racial Slurs, Rejects Calls For Resignation
Shot In The Dark: “Gun Violence Prevention” And Its Inevitable Consequences
STUMP: Distance Makes It Clearer – Pension Protests In Brazil
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Horse Is Out Of The Barn, also, Bad News/Good News
The Political Hat: The Ochlocracy – Censorship, Bullying, And Rebellion
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Signs Bill To Expand Veterans Choice Program
War Is Boring: North Korea’s Navy – More Nuisance Than Menace
Weasel Zippers: Ellison Blames Obama For Being Lousy Party Leader, Democratic Failures, also, Judicial Watch Sues State Dept., USAID Over Millions They Gave To Soros
Megan McArdle: Why The Tide Finally Turned Against Bill O’Reilly
Mark Steyn: Tourists In The Heart Of Darkness, also, The Look Of Love

Today’s Digital Deals

Category: Linkagery

Tad Cummins Arrested in California, Elizabeth Thomas Recovered Safely

Posted on | April 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Tad Cummins Arrested in California, Elizabeth Thomas Recovered Safely

Police say Elizabeth Thomas (left) ran away with her teacher Tad Cummins (right).

Breaking news today:

A man accused of running away with a former student has been found and arrested.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, Tad Cummins and Elizabeth Thomas were located in Northern California.
The 50-year-old man and 15-year-old girl were reported missing March 13 from Columbia, Tenn. . . .
Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office PIO Kelly Giordano says the capture of Cummins and rescue of Thomas came thanks to a tip called into the department on Wednesday night.
Giordano says an officer responded to a tip Cummins’ Nissan Rogue was spotted. The responding officer found the vehicle, which had no license plates. The officer ran the VIN number, which came back as Cummins’ vehicle. The SCSO they mobilized their Special Response Team (SRT) this morning to Cecilville, where the vehicle was found. SRT officers found Cummins and Thomas at a residence located near a commune in Cecilville.
Cummins did not resist arrest and was taken into custody just after 9 a.m. Thursday morning. . . . Cummins will be held on charges of sexual conduct with a minor and aggravated kidnapping.

We covered this story last month.

Category: Crime, Education, Tennessee

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Posted on | April 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we are doing our part by covering cases that feminists never seem to notice for some reason:

Victor Estrada-Rosas was arrested in Texas.

Victor Estrada-Rosas, 30, was arrested April 14 after Texas police say DNA proved he was the father of a baby born to a 13-year-old girl. The girl gave birth in February. Estrada-Rosas is an illegal alien from Mexico and federal officials have issued an immigration detainer on him, Breitbart News reported.

Jennifer Frechette was arrested in Connecticut.

Jennifer Frechette, 44, was arrested last week and charged with sexual assault after police in New Haven, Connecticut, say the high-school drama teacher had sex with a 15-year-old student. The investigation began in January when security officers at Wilbur Cross High School “found the student and Frechette together in a dressing room used for school plays,” WVIT-TV reported. At the time, both Frechette and the student denied that any sexual activity occurred, but police “reviewed the victim’s cell phone and found explicit messages,” according to WTNH-TV, and the boy told police Frechette had performed a sexual act on him.

Keith Pruiett (left) and Antwan Lay (right) were arrested in Louisiana.

Six people were arrested this month in Bossier City, Louisiana, after police busted a human trafficking operation that transported teenage girls in a rented U-Haul truck from Arkansas. Undercover agents were conducting a sting operation when “a 19-year-old female agreed to exchange sex for money . . . at a local one-bedroom apartment,” the Shreveport Times reported. At the apartment, Narcotics Task Force agents found four other teenage girls who “told the undercover agents they were forced to be there and hadn’t eaten in 24 hours.” Police arrested four men from Little Rock — Gary Jackson, 23, Keith A. Pruiett, 21, Zaccheaeus Butler, 27, and Fletcher L. Berkley, 24 — as well as local resident Antwan D. Lay, 18, and a 19-year-old female, Bailey C. Gibbs.

Daniel Sanchez (left) and Ronald Dumas (right) were arrested in California.

Eighteen people were arrested April 14 in Manteca, California, where an investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies targeted human trafficking. “The primary goals of the operation were to rescue victims of human trafficking and arrest sexual predators involving minors,” police Sgt. Michael Aguilar told the Stockton Record. Among those arrested, according to the Manteca Bulletin, were three men charged with assisting prostitution: Ronald William Dumas, 28, Daniel Epifanio Sanchez, 20, and Jaqwan Kyreece Anthony Johnson, 21.

None of these crimes have been mentioned by feminists during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, however. It’s as if there’s a pattern . . .

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

Rule Five Wednesday: Double-Dip Easter Edition

Posted on | April 20, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I guess I could have done something tax day related, but after the last week or so of an especially aggravating tax season, I’d prefer to just close the door on it and move on. Besides, I promised an Easter Rule 5, and by George, we’re going to have an Easter Rule 5. Here we have a pinup gal contemplating her eggs.
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