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VP Pence Casts Historic Vote to Confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education

Posted on | February 8, 2017 | 1 Comment

The New York Times:

The Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos on Tuesday as education secretary, approving the embattled nominee only with the help of a historic tiebreaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence.
The 51-to-50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice through charter schools and vouchers, but has limited experience with the public school system — to be steward of the nation’s schools.
Two Republicans voted against Ms. DeVos’s confirmation, a sign that some members of President Trump’s party are willing to go against him, possibly foreshadowing difficulty on some of the president’s more contentious legislative priorities.
It was the first time that a vice president has been summoned to the Capitol to break a tie on a cabinet nomination, according to the Senate historian. Taking the gavel as the vote deadlocked at 50-50, Mr. Pence, a former member of the House, declared his vote for Ms. DeVos before announcing that Mr. Trump’s nominee for education secretary had been confirmed.
The two Republicans who voted against the nominee, Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, announced their opposition to her last week. . . .
For many in the education community, Ms. DeVos’s full-throated support for charter schools and vouchers — which allow students to use taxpayer dollars to pay tuition at private, religious and for-profit schools — is emblematic of a disconnection from the realities of the education system. . . .

(Via Memeorandum.) Who is “the education community”? The bureaucrats and teachers unions and activist groups who want the federal government to impose a left-wing agenda on schools that brainwash children through a compulsory indoctrination program funded by taxpayer money. The government school system is not about teaching kids facts and skills, it’s about promoting atheism, socialism and sexual deviance. Christianity is specifically prohibited from government school classrooms and the curriculum is anti-Christian. The teachers are all corrupt left-wing union thugs who are actively training children to vote Democrat. If you are a Republican parent, your child’s school teacher considers you the enemy, and is teaching your child to hate you.

Donald Trump appointed an Education secretary that “the education community” hates, and let’s hope Secretary DeVos earns their hate.

 

Category: Education

Notorious Liar @LenaDunham Claims She Can’t Eat Since Trump Got Elected

Posted on | February 7, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

The most important thing to understand about Lena Dunham is her dishonesty. She wrote a book in which she falsely claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a Republican when she was in college. She refused for months to admit her fabrication, nor did she apologize to the innocent person harmed by her deliberate (and politically motivated) defamation.

Lena Dunham lies routinely and habitually. Slander is her raison d’etre and deceit is her modus operandi. No honest person would willingly associate with Lena Dunham, and only bad people admire Lena Dunham. Therefore, we are not surprised by her latest lie:

Dunham stopped by Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show Monday morning and revealed that she has none other than Donald Trump to thank for her slim figure.
“Donald Trump became president and I stopped being able to eat food,” she told Stern after he complimented her look. “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose weight.’”

(Hat-tip: Hogewash.) “Her slim figure”? Compared to what? Vogue magazine recently posted a 9-minute video interview with Lena Dunham at her Hollywood home (introducing us to her gay personal assistant who takes care of her poodle). Anyone can watch that video and conclude that Lena Dunham hasn’t been doing much time on the treadmill. Or to put it another way, Lena Dunham probably won’t be competing in triathlons anytime soon. She is still pudgy and pear-shaped. Her arms are still flabby and her butt is still wide. If she has lost weight since November, she must have been grossly overweight last year. However, it is not her Pillsbury Doughboy physique that makes Lena Dunham so odious and disreputable. Rather, it is her selfishness and the sadistic cruelty of her deliberate dishonesty. What she did to an innocent man in her 2014 book Not That Kind of Girl was unconscionable, as Michelle Malkin (like Dunham, an Oberlin alumna) explained at length in a 2015 column:

When John Nolte of the conservative website Breitbart investigated, he discovered that Dunham’s description didn’t match up with the real Barry. “In the end, Breitbart News could not find a Republican named Barry who attended Oberlin during Dunham’s time there who came anywhere close to matching her description of him,” Nolte reported. “In fact, we could not find anyone who remembered any Oberlin Republican who matched Dunham’s colorful description.” Wham: “Under scrutiny, Dunham’s rape story didn’t just fall apart; it evaporated into pixie dust and blew away.” Humiliated and facing a litigation nightmare, Random House paid the falsely accused College Republican’s legal fees after his lawyer complained. Stung and exposed, Dunham carped about conservative journalists who refused to cover up the real truth. She nursed her self-inflicted wounds by publishing a self-pitying diatribe on the liberal website Buzzfeed . . .

You can read the whole thing, if you’ve forgotten the sordid details. Someone who did what Lena Dunham did — cruelly defaming an innocent man, then falsely claiming to be the victim of honest journalists who helped clear this man’s name — is not merely untrustworthy, but evil.

 

What explains the wicked dishonesty of Lena Dunham? Here it is helpful to quote what Camille Paglia wrote about Andrea Dworkin:

Dworkin, like Kate Millet, has turned a garish history of mental instability into feminist grand opera. Dworkin publicly boasts of her bizarre multiple rapes, assaults, beatings, breakdowns and tacky traumas, as if her inability to cope with life were the patriarchy’s fault rather than her own. She pretends to be a daring truth-teller but never mentions her most obvious problem: food. Hence she is a hypocrite. Dworkin’s shrill, kvetching, solipsistic prose has a sloppy, squalling infantilism.
Dworkin, wallowing in misery, is a “type” that I recognize after twenty-two years of teaching. I call her The Girl with the Eternal Cold. This was the pudgy, clumsy, whiny child at summer camp who was always spilling her milk, dropping her lollipop in the dirt, getting a cramp on the hike, a stone in her shoe, a bee in her hair. In college, this type — pasty, bilious, and frumpy — is constantly sick from fall to spring. She coughs and sneezes on everyone, is never prepared with tissue and sits sniffling in class with a roll of toilet paper on her lap. She is the ultimate teacher’s pest, the morose, unlovable child who never got her mama’s approval and therefore demands attention at any price. Dworkin seized on feminism as a mask to conceal her bitterness at this tedious, banal family drama.

This familiar type — “the pudgy, clumsy, whiny child” who carries into adulthood a permanent grudge and seeks to make others suffer for her own self-inflicted misery — uses feminism as a rationale for her own vindictive cruelty, justifying her slander of the innocent. What part of “Thou shalt not bear false witness” does she not understand?

Despite her cruel slander of “Barry” the College Republican, however, Lena Dunham continues to be celebrated by liberals, who are so invested in the Feminist™ brand that they will embrace a purveyor of falsehood who deserves to be condemned and ostracized. Of course, Lena Dunham climbed onto the Women’s March bandwagon, employing first-person plural possessive pronouns in a profoundly dishonest Twitter message.

 

Lena Dunham is a childless 30-year-old woman who advocates abortion, so that her use of the phrases “our daughters” and “our sons” is a lie.

This phony first-person “our children” is a pet peeve of mine. Feminists who advocate baby-killing claim to care about “our children,” and yet none of them will lift a finger or spend a cent of her own money to help any actual children. Feminists not only hate babies, but they hate families — they hate mothers and fathers — and never miss a chance to condemn marriage as an institution of oppressive heteropatriarchy.

Well, “patriarchy” is just another word for paying the bills, and HBO hasn’t offered me a multimillion-dollar deal to create a series called Lying Feminist Trolls, so paying the bills for “our children” requires me to invoke the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thanks in advance for your support.



 

 

Category: Abortion, Celebrities, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.07.16

Posted on | February 7, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.07.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Soros Seven – With Republicans Like these, Who Needs Democrats?
Twitchy: “School’s Out Forever” – Betsy DeVos Confirmed As Education Secretary, Cue Wealthy Celeb Freakout
Louder With Crowder: OUTRAGE? Japan Refuses Refugees, Will “Prioritize Our Citizens First”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Women’s AFL Competition Is A Complete Joke
American Power: Nonie Darwish – Wholly Different
American Thinker: The Blood Libels Of The Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Second Amendment News
Bring The HEAT: World of Warships – Clemson Close Combat
Da Tech Guy: Christopher Harper – Trump And Churchill
Don Surber: More Law Is Not The Answer, also, Trump The Establishment
Dustbury: On Behalf Of My Dumb TV
Hogewash: A New Weight Loss Secret
Jammie Wearing Fools: Drug Dealer Whose Sentence Was Commuted By Obama Is Back Behind Bars
Joe For America: Ohio Muslim Butchers His Daughter
Power Line: The Super Bowl’s Biggest Loser
Shark Tank: Florida Legislature’s Trying To Get Rid Of No-Fault Auto Insurance
Shot In The Dark: Hate Trumps Freedom?
STUMP: Mortality Monday – Supreme Court Probabilities
The Geller Report: Soros Tied To A Dozen Lawsuits Against Donald Trump
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Falcon Fan Edition
The Political Hat: Public Education And Jousting With Kyriarchical Windmills
This Ain’t Hell: House Bill Proposed To Protect Purple Heart
War Is Boring: Iran And Russia Apparently Fighting Each Other In Syria
Weasel Zippers: Shocker – Mountains Of Garbage Left By “Environmentalists” After Dakota Pipeline Protests


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Campus Losers Resort to Political Violence

Posted on | February 7, 2017 | 1 Comment

J.D. Tucille writes at Reason magazine:

Last week, anti-fascist protesters showed up in Berkeley, California, to courageously battle the Nazi supporters of alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos. Soon after, they likewise put it all on the line to tussle with the right-wing mob supporting radical demagogue Gavin McInnes.
Well, that’s how they imagine it in their fever dreams, anyway. In reality, the Nazis didn’t show up and the protesters themselves were the only totalitarians in sight. The Black Bloc thugs — “about 150 masked agitators who came onto campus and interrupted an otherwise non-violent protest,” says UC-Berkeley — seem to imagine themselves as stars of a Weimar Germany reenactment. . . .
But the anti-fascists couldn’t find any Nazis at Berkeley. So instead “[t]hey shattered the glass of our Amazon Pickup Center, one of the few places Berkeley students can receive packages without fear of them getting stolen. They created a bonfire of trash in the center of the chaos, picked up barricades to drive through the building’s glass walls, set off fireworks, and left a trail of rage-filled destruction in their wake as they stormed the very streets we call home,” in the words of a student who saw a peaceful anti-Trump protest hijacked by visitors from 1930.

Meanwhile, Lauren Cooley writes at Campus Reform:

The “Knights for Socialism” group at the University of Central Florida (UCF) held a workshop Sunday to teach left-wing students how to “BASH THE FASH” with a “Leftist Fight Club” open to everyone but Republicans.
“In response to the record number of hate crimes against Latinxs, Immigrants, Muslims, Women, the LGBTQIA+ community, Jews, African Americans and other minorities since the rise of Donald Trump and other Alt-Right Neo-Nazis, Knights for Socialism has decided to host a series of self-defense clinics for anyone that wants to learn how to BASH THE FASH,” asserts the Facebook event page for “Leftist Fight Club: The Rumbles at Lake Claire.”
“This event is open to everyone and anyone, EXCEPT REPUBLICANS.”
The description explains that a local amateur boxer was on hand to teach basic hand-to-hand combat techniques at the self-defense clinic, in order to help the socialist students better protect themselves from potential hate crimes performed by those sympathetic to “Donald Trump and other Alt-Right Neo-Nazis.”

Students pursuing fantasies of heroic “anti-fascist” violence are victims of a failing education system, I explained in my column Monday:

The idea that Republicans are Nazis from whom students need protection is widespread in academia, where the vast majority of professors are Democrats, and administrators impose “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” to stifle dissent against the prevailing left-wing orthodoxy. (See “The Cult of Social Justice,” Dec. 21, 2015.) Hillary Clinton’s defeat last November was a profound shock to many inside the campus bubble. Yale University canceled exams for students “traumatized” by the election. The University of Massachusetts offered “grief counseling” to students, with one official saying those with “marginalized identities” had suffered most from the campaign. At Virginia Tech the morning after the election, officials sent an email to students “waking up with fear, anxiety, concern, questions, and confusion among many other emotions,” directing them to campus services offering “support.” Did any universities offer counseling and support to Republican students after Mitt Romney lost in 2012? Of course not.
On the 21st-century campus, it’s conservatives who are truly “marginalized,” but nobody offers a “trigger warning” before discussing Keynesian economics in class, and there are no “safe spaces” for, say, a Christian student who wishes to defend Bible-based morality. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.



 

Category: Education

Patriots 34, Stereotypes 28

Posted on | February 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

Julian Edelman (left), Danny Amendola (center) and Chris Hogan (right).

They’re calling it the greatest Super Bowl in history, and not because of Lady Gaga dancing in her sequin-covered panties at halftime.

No, it was because the Patriots staged the greatest comeback ever witnessed, as Tom Brady threw for a record 466 yards to win the first Super Bowl ever decided in overtime, and broke my heart. Being a native of Atlanta, this Super Bowl defeat was hard one for me, especially after the University of Alabama lost the national championship.

You know who else lost Sunday? Racial stereotypes:

So there the Patriots were, playing in the Super Bowl, trailing Atlanta by 25 points, and history said there was no chance they could win. As a Falcons fan, this was what I was happy to believe, but for some reason, the Patriots didn’t get the memo. Instead, the team that had rejected stereotypes decided to make their own history. It was a well-balanced team effort. Running back James White was New England’s leading receiver, but his 14 catches accounted for only 110 yards of the 466 yards that Brady passed for Sunday, and the three white receivers combined for 17 catches and 222 yards, including [Danny] Amendola’s fourth-quarter TD catch that narrowed the score to 28–20 with just under 6 minutes left to play. Key to that drive was [Julian] Edelman’s miraculous catch of a tipped pass in the middle of three Falcon defenders.
That catch was replayed from every angle and, no matter how much I wanted it to be incomplete, there was no doubt: The white boy caught it. That was when I (and every other Atlanta fan) started cussing at our TVs. Could that blankety-blank Brady pull a blanking miracle out of his blank?
Well, he did it, didn’t he? And it was Amendola who caught the 2-point conversion pass that tied the score and, for the first time in Super Bowl history, we went to overtime. Blank blank blankety-blank!
New England’s final 75-yard overtime touchdown drive included catches by Amendola (14 yards and a first down at the Patriots’ 45), [Chris] Hogan (18 yards and a first down at Atlanta’s 37) and 15 yards to Edelman for a first down at the Falcon 25. That’s three catches for 47 yards and — blankety blank! — I was screaming at my TV, “What the blank is it with all these blanking white guys?” What kind of world are we living in, when Atlanta’s getting beat by a blankety-blank named Edelman and a blanking lacrosse player from Ramapo, N.J.? . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree. Like other Falcon fans, I’m still trying to figure out how Russians hacked Atlanta’s defense . . .



 

Category: Football, Racism

In The Mailbox: 02.06.17

Posted on | February 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Post-Super Bowl LI Schadenfreude
Twitchy: Backfire Alert! Dems Given A Clue What The ‘Resistance’ Is REALLY Doing
Louder With Crowder: Crowder Hijacks Shia La Boeuf’s “He Will Not Divide Us” Installation


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australian Conservative Party Pushes Gay Marriage Vote
American Power: The Left’s Outrage Fatigue Problem
American Thinker: The Press Eunuchs Rattling Their Cups
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Bring The HEAT: SGM Unable To Choose Anything But E-9 On Vending Machines
Da Tech Guy: Ten Thoughts Under My Fedora
Don Surber: The Fake News So Far In 2017
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, In Which I Hit A Nerve
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Columnist Tells CNN Fake News Clown “I Think You Can Border On Being Sort Of Quite A Ridiculous Figure”
Joe For America: Hungary Sets Out To Stop Soros’ Criminal Activities
JustOneMinute: The NYT On Gorsuch – With Enemies Like This…
Power Line: What Part Of “You Lost” Don’t Liberals Understand?
Shark Tank: Smoking Pot Is Still Illegal In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Happy Reagan’s Birthday
STUMP: Friday Trumpery – Social Security (And A Little Medicare)
The Geller Report: Canadian PM Smears All Canadians With Islamophobia Lie To Create A Sharia State
The Jawa Report: Ibrahim Al-Rahaal Abu Bakr Is Dead, Jim, also, Revenge Of Sith – Super Bowl LI Edition
The Lonely Conservative: If Only He Didn’t Make It So Hard To Defend Him
The Political Hat: Trump’s Useful Idiots
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Dumps SHARP, Replaces It With Spay/Neuter Program, also, New SecNav Is Inheriting A Mess
War Is Boring: Belarus Prepares For “Hybrid War” As Europe’s Last Dictator Knocks Russia
Weasel Zippers: Leftists Planning National Strike Against President Trump For February 17, also, Patriots Player Refuses White House Meeting With President Trump After Super Bowl
Megan McArdle: Obamacare, Abortion, And The Ease of Extremism
Mark Steyn: A Winter’s Tale


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Category: Linkagery

Impeach the Unconstitutional Judge

Posted on | February 6, 2017 | 4 Comments

 

If the Republican-controlled House of Representatives wants to do something about judicial overreach — a pet peeve of conservatives — they could start impeachment proceedings against this judge:

James Robart, the U.S. district judge in Washington State, offered little explanation for his decision to stop President Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending non-American entry from seven terror-plagued countries. Robart simply declared his belief that Washington State, which in its lawsuit against Trump argued that the order is both illegal and unconstitutional, would likely win the case when it is tried.
Now the government has answered Robart, and unlike the judge, Justice Department lawyers have produced a point-by-point demolition of Washington State’s claims. Indeed, for all except the most partisan, it is likely impossible to read the Washington State lawsuit, plus Robart’s brief comments and writing on the matter, plus the Justice Department’s response, and not come away with the conclusion that the Trump order is on sound legal and constitutional ground.
Beginning with the big picture, the Justice Department argued that Robart’s restraining order violates the separation of powers, encroaches on the president’s constitutional and legal authority in the areas of foreign affairs, national security, and immigration, and “second-guesses the president’s national security judgment” about risks faced by the United States.
Indeed, in court last week, Robart suggested that he, Robart, knows as much, or perhaps more, than the president about the current state of the terrorist threat in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and other violence-plagued countries. In an exchange with Justice Department lawyer Michelle Bennett, Robart asked, “How many arrests have there been of foreign nationals for those seven countries since 9/11?”
“Your Honor, I don’t have that information,” said Bennett.
“Let me tell you,” said Robart. “The answer to that is none, as best I can tell. So, I mean, you’re here arguing on behalf of someone [President Trump] that says: We have to protect the United States from these individuals coming from these countries, and there’s no support for that.”
Perhaps Robart has been briefed by the intelligence community on conditions in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and the rest. Perhaps Robart has received the President’s Daily Brief. Perhaps not. In any event, the Justice Department argued — reasonably but not successfully — that it is the president, and not a U.S. District Court judge in the Western District of Washington State, who has the knowledge and the authority to make such decisions.
“Your Honor, I think the point is that because this is a question of foreign affairs, because this is an area where Congress has delegated authority to the president to make these determinations, it’s the president that gets to make the determinations,” Bennett said. “And the court doesn’t have authority to look behind those determinations.”

(Via Memeorandum.) Think I’m joking about impeachment? I’m not. If the president’s executive order was legitimately a matter of national security (as his defenders have argued) then Judge Robart is giving aid and comfort to the enemy by impeding the Commander-in-Chief in the lawful exercise of his duties. Beyond that, however, how else can the constitutional separation of powers be enforced, if the judicial branch disregards its own proper limits and impedes either the authority of Congress to make laws or the authority of the President to execute the laws? Congress has the power to impeach judges, and it ought not neglect to use that power in defense of the Constitution itself.

Liberals have spent decades building up the mystique of the Supreme Court’s authority, and you can go back tot the Bork hearings to show how Senate Democrats have used their own power in attempting to control the court. What have Republicans done to limit the imperial judiciary? Not much. And so this judge in Washington State thinks himself immune to consequences for his bizarre decision to issue a restraining order. Republican members of the House could disabuse Judge Robart of his delusion of immunity. All it would take is for one House Republican to bring forward an impeachment inquiry, and no matter how far the matter proceeded — even if the rest of the House refused to take it up — this would at least make the point that judges who overstep their lawful authority may pay a price for failing to uphold the Constitution.

 

Category: Constitution, Donald Trump, Immigration

Rule 5 Sunday: The Humiliation Of Roger Goodell

Posted on | February 6, 2017 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m almost sorry I missed this Super Bowl. Unlike many such games in years past, this one was actually a good game, with Tom Brady leading the Patriots on a 28-3 run to tie the game in the fourth quarter and win it in overtime. As Mary Katherine Ham tweeted,


Yes indeed. The man who did so much to ruin professional football for its fans this year was publicly humiliated by Pats fans in Houston, as he so richly deserved. But enough of The Man Who Tried To Ruin The NFL; let us instead celebrate the New England Patriots and their fearless leader, Tom Brady, who is no doubt reclining on his enormous bed of money and enjoying the glorious naked body of Mrs. Brady, better known as Gisele Bundchen.

Gisele Bundchen, hard at work.

As usual, we lead off with Ninety Miles From Tyranny and Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff and burlesque legend Sally Rand. Animal Magnetism checked in with Rule Five CalExit Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week included Tennis Sisters, Tamron Hall, Atlanta & New England Cheerleaders, Andie MacDowell, Pan Am, Big Bang Theory Cheesecake Factory, Sarah Ryan, and Women of Black Sails.

A View From The Beach brings us Kelly Gale, Maryland Lawmakers Weigh Ray Ban, Reason #5420 Trump Was Elected, Around The World in 2:12, Women: DIY, Sydney Leathers Boyfriend in Deep Doo Doo, Another Version of Insanity, I’m Ready For Spring Break, But Will The Deer Hold Still While She Warms Up?, and “Highway to Hell”.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Deena Dill, his Vintage Babe is Cher, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Lady Gaga. At Dustbury, it’s Suzanne Pleshette and Gabrielle Anwar.

Thanks to everyone for their links!

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