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In The Mailbox: 03.06.17

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


A double scoop from the bloglist this morning. Thanks to everyone for their kind words and prayers this past week.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Logan – A Movie Review (Of Sorts)
EBL: Mark Steyn Needs Our Help
Michelle Malkin: A Lesson For Planned Parenthood’s Pinup Girls
Twitchy: Flawless Victory! Katie Pavlich Nukes Hillary Fanboy Peter Daou In Gun Conversation
Louder With Crowder: Back To Berkeley – “Antifascists” Brutally Attack Trump Supporters
Blazing Cat Fur: Food Racism Is The Latest Front For High-Pitched Whining


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 457 Visas – The Trump Effect, also, Two Podcast Episodes For You To Disagree With
American Power: President Trump To Unveil New Travel Ban Today, also, Bernard DeVoto’s Across The Wide Missouri
American Thinker: A Master Tactician Serves Filet After The Russian Souffle Collapses, also, Ask James Rosen And Angela Merkel About Obama Spying
Animal Magnetism: I’m A Lumberjack, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
Bring The HEAT: Sweden Brings Back Conscription, also, Five Years On – RIP Neptunus Lex
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – The Useless Idiots Of Mainstream Media And Why They’ll Lose To Trump, also, 10 Thoughts Under My Fedora
Don Surber: Over 36,000 Dead Lose Their Voting Rights In WV, also, Washington Post Accidentally Tells The Truth
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries, also, It Puts The Grunt In Disgruntled
Fred On Everything: What To Do With Latinos? Get Used To Them
The Geller Report: Obama AG Loretta Lynch Says We Need More “March, Blood, Death On Streets”, also, Robert Spencer – It’s Been A Big Week For Fake Hate
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats Arrested – He’s A Left-Wing Fake News Reporter, also, Russian Hackers Allegedly In Possession of Damaging Info Seeking Hush Money From Liberal Groups
Joe For America: Obama DOJ Funneled Billions To Communist Front Groups, also, Obama Abandoned CIA Officer For Seven Years; Trump Freed Her In Six Weeks
JustOneMinute: Sessions Recuses
Power Line: The AP Springs To Obama’s Defense, also, What We Know And What We Don’t
Shark Tank: Nelson Leads Scott In New Senate Poll, also, Corcoran Says He’s Ready To Gut EFI, Visit Florida
Shot In The Dark: Why I Ignore The Journalistic “Fact Check” Racket, also, The Delicious Dish
STUMP: Mortality Monday – How Young Is “Too Young To Die”?, also, Friday Trumpery – DOL Pick Take Two
The Jawa Report: The Lurid Tabloids On Biden’s Hookers And Blow, also, Star Wars Stormtroopers Are Nazis (Or Something)
The Political Hat: #BlackLivesMatter vs. Yakub’s Soulless Albino Mutants, also, The English Language Is Liberating; The Left Wants To Corrupt And Silence It
This Ain’t Hell: Washington Post Tries To Smear McMasters, Fails Miserably, also, Marines United – A Photo Scandal
War Is Boring: Wojtek The War Bear Was Fond Of Hauling Artillery, also, American Troops In Armored Vehicles Roll Into Syrian Flashpoint
Weasel Zippers: Illegal Alien Escapes After Attacking Border Agent, Tucson Police Refuse To Help, NYT Columnist Solicits Felony, Asks IRS Employees To Leak Trump’s Tax Returns
Megan McArdle: Lenten-Fast Recipes That Don’t Sacrifice Taste
Mark Steyn: Doing Things By Half, also, Announcing The Mark Steyn Show Bag!


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Category: Linkagery

MURRAY-MANIA! Why Are College Kids Going Wild for the Latest Sensation?

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | Comments Off on MURRAY-MANIA! Why Are College Kids Going Wild for the Latest Sensation?

 

 

 

Not since The Beatles played Shea Stadium, perhaps, have mindless mobs of hysterical youth made news by going wild the way Middlebury College kids did last week. It’s not a pounding backbeat or lovable moptops singing four-part harmony that’s driving them crazy these days, however. No, it’s a 74-year-old policy analyst named Charles Murray:

When Murray is introduced before an audience of some 400, a patter of boos and catcalls disrupt the introduction. When he rises to speak, most of the audience rises en masse and turns its back on Murray. For the next 20 minutes, as Murray stands calmly at the podium, the mob cycles through a sequence of obviously rehearsed chants: “Who is the enemy? White Supremacy,” “Hey hey, ho ho, Charles Murray has to go,” “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Charles Murray go away,” “Your message is hatred we will not tolerate it,” “Charles Murray go away Middlebury says no way,” etc. . . .
College officials, apparently anticipating a disruption, announce, to renewed boos, that Middlebury Professor Allison Stanger will conduct an interview with Murray from another location and stream the proceedings back to Wilson Hall. . . .
Once the interview began in the second room, protesters swarmed into the hallway, chanting and pulling fire alarms. Still, the interview was completed and officials, including Ms. Stanger, escorted Mr. Murray out the back of the building.
There, several masked protesters, who were believed to be outside agitators, began pushing and shoving Mr. Murray and Ms. Stanger, Mr. Burger [a spokesman for the college] said. “Someone grabbed Allison’s hair and twisted her neck…”
After the two got into a car, Mr. Burger said, protesters pounded on it, rocked it back and forth, and jumped onto the hood. Ms. Stanger later went to a hospital, where she was put in a neck brace.
Note that the violence occurred as Murray and Stanger attempted to leave. As Andrew Stuttaford of National Review observes, “The ‘justification’ for disrupting his speech was that opinions such as Murray’s should not be given a hearing on campus, but this was something else. Murray was not about to speak, he was about to depart, and yet he and Ms. Stanger were attacked.” . . .

Yes, the crowd went wild at Middlebury — like Beatlemania, but not in a fun way — and Murray explains the mob’s rationalization:

A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes in Coming Apart and how they relate to the recent presidential election. Professor Allison Stanger of the Political Science Department agreed to serve as moderator of the Q&A and to ask the first three questions herself.
About a week before the event, plans for protests began to emerge, encouraged by several faculty members. Their logic was that since I am a racist, a white supremacist, a white nationalist, a pseudoscientist whose work has been discredited, a sexist, a eugenicist, and (this is a new one) anti-gay, I did not deserve a platform for my hate speech, and hence it was appropriate to keep me from speaking. . . .

The Bell Curve was published more than 20 years ago. It does not advocate eugenics, it is not racist in any meaningful sense of that word, and the facts examined in the book have not been “discredited” — a fact is always a fact. What the ignorant Middlebury mob has done is to recycle a controversy from two decades ago, basing their false claims on what critics wrote about Murray, rather than what Murray wrote himself.

Such idiots claim to know what Murray “believes” (i.e., that he is a “white nationalist” or whatever), as if they were clairvoyant mind-readers, capable of knowing Murray’s hidden intentions despite everything he has done to contradict this decades-old “white supremacist” smear. This nonsensical way of approaching The Bell Curve is the result of the Left’s propaganda tactics, which involve labeling a critic or opponent as an Enemy of the People, demonizing them in such a way as to prevent anyone from seriously examining their arguments. While I do not wholly agree with every interpretation Murray (and his late co-author, Richard Herrnstein) made of the various data they examined in The Bell Curve, it is nevertheless important to look at the actual data — the facts as they exist — rather than to base our arguments on myths or prejudice. Effective public policy cannot be based on the mere emotional appeal of some sentimental slogan we learned in grade school. Clearly, facts and logic are not being taught in America’s schools today:

The goons who attacked Charles Murray at Middlebury College probably think of themselves as rebels, defending “diversity” against a fascist enemy, but the truth is the complete opposite. Murray is the real rebel, and the mob who attacked him are the real enemies of diversity. Being a left-winger on an elite campus like Middlebury is the most conformist thing imaginable. The anti-Murray protesters were defending a failed status quo against a genuinely radical critic of the system. Murray is a man who creates controversy because he asks tough questions and follows wherever the facts lead. Does this sound familiar?
“I always asked why people did things and why society was like it was,” John Lennon told an interviewer from Playboy magazine. “I didn’t just accept it for what it was apparently doing. I always looked below the surface.” . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator. The Middlebury madness is symptomatic of serious problems. If young people don’t wake up to this danger, America could collapse quite suddenly, and soon.



 

 

 

Category: Culture, Education, History, Intellectuals, Music

Rule 5 Sunday: Massachusetts Girl

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Without further ado, I present probably the best-known person from Watertown, Massachusetts: Eliza Dushku, perhaps best known for her role as Faith on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. As usual, many of the following links lead to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ill effects arising from your mistimed, misplaced clicking.

Venus on furs?

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls And Girls And Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism chipped in with Rule Five Dissolving EU Friday and the Saturday Vikamageddon.

EBL offers Mandi Gosling, Kellyanne Conway – Kneegate, Janet Nguyen, Alexandra Turshen, Maria Zakharova, Brianna Keilar, Janelle Monae, and Chrissy Teigen.

A View From The Beach has Forward with Myla Dalbesio, Can Lizard Blood Save Our Lives?, Actress Shocks Hollywood with Display of Graciousness, But Was It Like Rape Rape?, But In His Defense, His Eyebrows are Perfect!, Getting Clean for Tuesday, Monday Morning in Curacao, and Reason #5458 Trump Was Elected.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Emmanuelle Vaugier, his Vintage Babe is Cristina Ferrare, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels. At Dustbury, it’s Cush Jumbo and Vimala Raman.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!
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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Home Again

Posted on | March 5, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Home Again

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: In Like A Lioness
The Pirate’s Cove
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Second Amendment and @LogCabinGOP: Because Survival Is the First Natural Right
EBL

#CPAC2017: @SaveTheStorks Offers Free Services to Help Pregnant Women
EBL

#CPAC 2017: Witches vs. Trump
The Political Hat
EBL

#CPAC2017: Draft Sheriff Clarke
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: And Now A Word From The Evolution Control Committee
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Aggressive Heterosexuality’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.27.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Trigger Warning: @SkyJordan4 Says You Can’t Tell Her She Has ‘Daddy Issues’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.28.17
Proof Positive

Trump: ‘A New Chapter of American Greatness Is Now Beginning’
EBL

Pelosi Explained
EBL

Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism and the Ultimate Failure of All Feminism
EBL

#BlackLivesMatter Activist Missed the Memo From Democrat Party HQ
EBL

Violence Against Women
EBL

Feminism: The Demonization of Males
EBL

Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
EBL

Police Say Illegal Alien Raped Girl, 3
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

Language Alert: “Conservative Opposition To #Obamacare Repeal”
A View From The Beach
EBL

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Remember, to qualify for the FMJRA, your links must be for the week preceding the FMJRA. So, next week I’ll be looking for links to posts from 3/4 through 3/10.

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Language Alert: “Conservative Opposition To #Obamacare Repeal”

Posted on | March 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Language Alert: “Conservative Opposition To #Obamacare Repeal”

by Smitty

Emphasis mine:

Privately, senior Republican lawmakers and staff are more blunt. They say they have no problem steamrolling conservatives by daring them to vote against an Obamacare repeal that their constituents have demanded for years.
Sen. Rand Paul walks to a room on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 2, where he charges House Republicans are keeping their Obamacare repeal and replace legislation under lock and key and not available for public view.
“Conservatives are going to be in a box,” said one senior Republican lawmaker. Trump, the source predicted, eventually will “go out front and … tell the conservatives … they’re either for this or for keeping Obamacare.”

Wait a godforsaken minute. If they’re actually repealing ObamaCare, then Speaker Ryan should be greeted with hurrahs. What sort of Orwellian suppository is this? Conservatives don’t want any part of this noise, and the Progressive tools in Congress have made no alternative case.

FreedomWorks suggests we Join [Them] in DC for Our Day of Action on March 15!

It’s starting to look like I might have to take the afternoon off and visit the compost heap at the East end of the Mall.

Category: Health Care

Police Say Illegal Alien Raped Girl, 3

Posted on | March 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Police Say Illegal Alien Raped Girl, 3

 

Stamford, Connecticut:

Police say the 19-year-old Cove man charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl was supposed to attend an immigration hearing only hours before he was arrested Thursday morning.
Douglas Hus-Flores, a Guatemalan native, appears to have been living in Stamford illegally, police said. An immigration detainer has been placed on him as well as a $250,000 court appearance bond, following his arraignment at the Stamford courthouse Thursday afternoon.
Hus-Flores was charged with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor after the toddler was transported to Stamford Hospital for injuries and bleeding police say she sustained in the assault.
Lt. Tom Barcello said the girl’s mother called for an ambulance late Wednesday night after the child complained of pain.
Stamford Hospital doctors determined the child’s injuries were likely caused by a sexual assault, Barcello said. . . .
Hus-Flores told investigators he “felt lonely and wanted to be with a woman” and admitted sexually assaulting the girl, the police report said. . . .
Barcello confirmed Hus-Flores had an immigration hearing scheduled in Hartford on Thursday.

Do you think any feminists will mention this crime? Of course not. Try using Twitter to ask a feminist — Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti, Melissa Fabello, Laurie Penny, Meghan Murphy, et al. — why they never seem to notice violence against women and girls committed by illegal immigrants. See how long it takes before you get banned from Twitter.

(Hat-tip: Stephanie on Gab.ai.)




 

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Sex Trouble

Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

Posted on | March 3, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Patrick Dollard calls this the “feel good story of the day”:

A 22-year-old who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials early Wednesday, moments after giving a speech at an immigration press conference, will be deported without a hearing, according to her lawyer.
Daniela Vargas spoke at a press conference in front of city hall in Jackson, Miss., and was driving away with a friend when ICE officials pulled them over and detained her, her lawyer said, according to The Associated Press.
Vargas’s attorney said ICE agents told her Thursday she would be immediately deported, rather than being offered a court hearing or bond, according to The Huffington Post.

Vargas “came to the U.S. from Argentina when she was 7 years old [and] previously had a work permit and deportation reprieve under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA,” the Huffington Post reports. However, her visa expired in November, and now . . . Hasta la vista, baby!

 

Category: Immigration

Feminism: The Demonization of Males

Posted on | March 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

She is a 28-year-old feminist witch with a Tumblr blog, and she also has another Tumblr blog in Swedish, from which I quote:

When women are exposed to sexual violence and exploitation [and] are encouraged to not call themselves “victims” or talk about their vulnerability, [it] becomes clear how a stigma around being just a victim . . . [is] cemented. But it is when misogynistic men say women who talk about men’s violence and patriarchal structures “just put on their victims cardigan” it becomes quite clear how this performance is a tool for the patriarchal forces to silence women, and to prevent us from [naming offenses] against us and who the perpetrators are.

The cardigan of victimhood is a term I’ve never encountered, but maybe the Google translation from Swedish was a bit sketchy. She says her witchcraft is “the opposition, a force to thwart the current system, the oppressing power,” yada yada yada. And oh, she’s got her theory:

To its nature, patriarchy is such that it normalizes, renders invisible like a chameleon the ways in which it is upheld, and the ways in which misogyny and male exploitation of women and male domination is reinforced. It renders invisible that certain things are expressions of male supremacy and misogyny, so that people won’t question it. It makes misogyny and male domination the default. That is its nature.
Prostitution (specifically, the act of buying sex) exists because male exploitation of women and men’s imagined entitlement to sex is normalized by patriarchy, to such an extent that many people can’t even see it for what it really is.
Porn exists because male objectification of women and male violence (both physical, mental and existential) is normalized by patriarchy, to such an extent that people can’t see that it isn’t a healthy and equal expression of sexuality and don’t care that women are exploited and hurt in the making of porn.
Femininity exists because female subordination and women’s submission to men is normalized by patriarchy to such an extent that people turn it into norms and ideals and believe this is what makes “a real woman” or makes a woman pleasing and gives her value.
Many norms and acts surrounding sex exist because male control over female bodies and the degradation of women is normalized by patriarchy, to such an extent that many people believe it to be nothing but their free choices, their own preferences unaffected by the surrounding environment — even when men themselves express how they see these norms and acts as ways of humiliating women.
The list of examples could go on. Maybe it should: because we need to put it into words, what the things we do and the norms we follow really stem from, how they have their roots in patriarchy, and how they reinforce female subordination and male domination. Questions need to be asked, questions such as “why?” and “who gains from this?”. Patriarchal forces want us to believe things must be as they are. We must show that they really mustn’t.

The point I wish to make here is not that this woman is crazy — although, obviously, she is — but rather that this kind of paranoid madness is a logical consequence of the core beliefs of feminism.

Most people in this world are just doing whatever it takes to survive. Get up in the morning, go to work, come home at the end of the day, eat supper, watch TV a while and go to sleep, then get up the next morning and do it again. Our lives are basically about paying the bills. Do men exploit, dominate, objectify and degrade women? Perhaps some do, but most guys are just working and paying bills. They don’t have spare time to do all that patriarchal oppression stuff. So what is she complaining about?

Consider, for example, the feminist witch’s denunciation of “norms and ideals” about what “makes a woman pleasing and gives her value.” While she is not specific as to what she means by this, we may assume that she is referring to “norms and ideals” of female appearance and behavior, especially as they are esteemed by men. In other words, what kind of women do men generally like best? It is ordinary male preferences which are being denounced in this diatribe about objectification, etc.

This demonization of males — the claim that women are victims of “mental and existential” violence, simply as a consequence of living in the same world with men — is inherent to feminist theory. This isn’t just what some random Tumblrina is spewing on the Internet, it’s what is being taught in university Women’s Studies courses. If any man objects to this insulting rhetoric, he is accused of being a misogynist. The only enlightened men, according to feminists, are men who hate themselves, who enthusiastically agree with this anti-male ideology. If men say that feminists are engaged in exaggeration when they “talk about men’s violence and patriarchal structures,” this criticism is rejected as a “tool for the patriarchal forces to silence women.” Far from seeking to “silence” feminists, of course, my purpose is to quote them at length, so that everybody can see how crazy they are. The craziness is self-evident.

Furthermore, as I say, this craziness isn’t just the province of a few fringe kooks, but is the essential core of feminist belief. Here, let me quote an eminent academic feminist:

Lesbian feminist politics is a political critique of the institution and ideology of heterosexuality as a cornerstone of male supremacy. . . .
Therefore, women interested in destroying male supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism must, equally with lesbians, fight heterosexual domination — or we will never end female oppression. . . .
We need to discover what lesbian consciousness means for any woman, just as we struggle to understand what class or race consciousness means for women of any race or class. And we must develop strategies that will destroy the political institutions that oppress us.
It is particularly important for those at this conference to understand that heterosexuality — as an ideology and an institution — upholds all those aspects of female oppression discussed here.

So said Charlotte Bunch in a 1975 speech at the Socialist Feminist Conference at Antioch College in Ohio. Professor Bunch is not a marginal “fringe” figure in the history of feminism. That speech was included in a 1981 anthology Building Feminist Theory, a collection of essays from Quest, a feminist journal founded by Professor Bunch, and the foreword to that book was written by none other than Gloria Steinem. Notice that the goal of Professor Bunch’s movement is “destroying male supremacy” by the destruction of heterosexuality “as an ideology and an institution.”

Charlotte Bunch speaks at Antioch College, July 1975.

The first paragraph of Charlotte Bunch’s 1972 manifesto, ‘Lesbians in Revolt.’

Notice again Professor Bunch’s destructive goal — “destroying our sexist, racist, capitalist, imperialist system.” Was the “system” of American society in 1971 so atrocious that it deserved destruction? Whether you think so or not, the point is that the entire feminist movement agreed with this assessment. This was why Gloria Steinem wrote the foreword of that 1981 anthology, as an endorsement of these beliefs.

 

Charlotte Bunch became one of the most influential feminists in America. She is the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, where she is a distinguished professor in Women’s and Gender Studies. Professor Bunch has many powerful admirers. In 2013, at a sold-out New York gala for the Global Women’s Fund, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced Professor Bunch, who was the guest of honor at the event.

 

In her introductory speech, Secretary Clinton praised Professor Bunch as an “activist and organizer” and an “extraordinary leader” whose “tireless work and her brilliant vision” placed this radical lesbian on “the front lines of the struggle” to promote feminism internationally.

 

Professor Bunch “was one of a small group of women” chosen by Secretary Clinton to direct the State Department’s feminist agenda, she told the audience at the April 2013 gala. While Secretary Clinton did not mention Professor Bunch’s decades-long commitment “to destroying our sexist, racist, capitalist, imperialist system,” certainly her praise for the world-famous lesbian feminist leader could be considered an endorsement of Professor Bunch’s anti-heterosexual ideology.

When we encounter a self-described feminist witch on Tumblr ranting about “men’s violence and patriarchal structures,” you see, we cannot dismiss such a woman as a lone kook, because the feminist movement’s most eminent intellectuals share the same basic beliefs as the kook.

Now consider the fact that Hillary Clinton, who offered such effusive praise for Charlotte Bunch, came within about 70,000 votes of becoming President of the United State. Doesn’t this suggest that our society is teetering on the brink of utter madness? And shouldn’t we do all we can to alert Americans to this threat? March is Women’s History Month, and maybe it’s time to wake people up to the real history of feminism.

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Category: Sex Trouble
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