August 10, 2018
Leftism’s dire consequences, Chicago edition
Dana Mathewson
From Power Line:
With the possible exception of Baltimore, there is no city where the
consequences of leftist policies in terms of law and order are more dire
than Chicago. Most of our readers are aware, I’m sure, of the wave of
murders sweeping through the Windy City. Consider these numbers:
Between last Friday afternoon and Monday morning, 74 people were shot
in the city, 12 of them fatally. In one seven-hour span, from about
midnight Saturday to about 7:00 a.m. Sunday, 41 people were shot. Five
of them died.
Jack Dunphy at PJ Media ties Chicago’s ongoing killing spree to the liberal policies of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Dunphy explains:
If the city is plagued with a cohort of dangerous young men, what’s to
be done about them?. . .The short-term solution is well known but
politically fraught: You encourage your police officers to identify and
arrest the lawbreakers, and you encourage your prosecutors to bring
appropriate charges and seek appropriate sentences.
To those who are troubled by the specter of "mass incarceration,†a
question: Given the blood running in the gutters of Chicago’s streets
last weekend (and most weekends, especially in summer), are there too
many people in jail or too few?
Liberal dogma holds that there are too many. Mayor Emanuel either
subscribes to that dogma or is a slave, politically, to it. Either way,
his policies are to blame for the killing sprees.
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Is Ohio full of Vampires?
Jack Kemp forwards this:
Scores Of Registered Voters Over 116 Years Old Found In Ohio's 12thDistrict, Report Claims
From the Daily Wire:
A new report alleges that there are scores of registered voters who are over 116 years old in Ohioâ's 12th Congressional District, where Republican Troy Balderson is currently hanging onto a narrow lead over Democrat Danny Oâ€â„¢Connor in Tuesday´s special election. Eric Eggers, the research director at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), reports that GAI accessed voter rolls in Ohioâ's 12th Congressional District last August and found "170 registered voters listed as being over 116 years old [that] still existed on the [voter] rolls." Eggers notes that leftist billionaire and Democratic mega-donor George Soros pledged millions of dollars to fight
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Ocasio-Cortez's vision to turn Uncle Sam into Santa Claus is impractical but poses a threat we can't ignore
Dana Mathewson
One hopes -- and expects -- that the Left's shiny new toy will tarnish and lose its luster soon enough. She's already stuck her foot in the mud a few times, the most recent by refusing to debate Ben Shapiro, obviously realizing that he would mop the floor with her.
Unfortunately, her ideas are popular with millennials, who do not know any better. Fox News presents an excellent article by Hannah Scherlacher detailing the threats and the reason for them.
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – the
New York congressional candidate many in the media have fallen in love
with – was handed rejection when many of the candidates she endorsed
lost in Tuesday’s elections. But her radical and totally impractical
ideas continue to pose a threat.
The 28-year-old candidate advocates
for guaranteed federal jobs, free college for all, Medicare for all, and
the abolishment of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agency. She’d like to turn Uncle Sam into Santa Claus, handing out
freebies 365 days a year – all paid for by crushing taxes on all of us, a
skyrocketing national debt or … hey, whatever.
The surprising primary victory that turned this grossly
unqualified and woefully uninformed young woman into a candidate likely
to be elected to Congress in a heavily Democratic district shows that
the real battleground this election cycle is in the classroom.
If we continue to laugh off Ocasio-Cortez as an
ignorant and delusional radical, we will be blindsided by the soon-to-be
largest voting bloc in America – a generation of indoctrinated
millennials.
As a fellow millennial, I know firsthand that
Ocasio-Cortez’s college experience probably taught her that being a
socialist absolves her of knowing much at all. All she needs to know is
that anyone who opposes her is evil. And she needs to memorize a few
bumper sticker slogans about the cruel and greedy 1 percent who aren't
"paying their fair share.â€
Ocasio-Cortez is among the majority of millennials who now say they
would prefer to live in a socialist or communist country over a
capitalist one. That’s a troubling revelation to older generations. But
can young people be blamed for having no memory of the widespread
failures of socialism and communism if we never learned about them?
Each year, more and more schools are doing away with
basic economics and history courses andreplacing them with
anti-American, progressive propaganda.
A survey by U.S. News & World Report found that 53 out of the 76 "best†colleges and universities in America no longer require history majors to take a single course on U.S. history.
Meanwhile, the Communist Manifesto is among the three
most frequently assigned readings at American universities and Karl Marx
is the most studied economist. Never mind that his economic ideas make
about as much sense as the economic theories of Groucho Marx.
And Groucho knew better.
[...]
Crazy as it sounds, some people are even talking about Ocasio-Cortez
running for president someday. Will America put her in the White House
with the slogan "Make America Socialist?â€
If the majority of millennials truly embrace socialism,
candidates like Ocasio-Cortez are only one successful voter
registration drive away from getting elected to our highest offices.
And if that happens, we and future generations will get
to experience the nightmare of economic failure and lack of freedom
that the citizens of Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, the Soviet Union,
East Germany and other socialist and communist states have suffered
through.
The entire story is here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/10/ocasio-cortezs-vision-to-turn-uncle-sam-into-santa-claus-is-impractical-but-poses-threat-cant-ignore.html
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August 09, 2018
Trump supporters will 'provoke violence' when he leaves office, professor says
Dana Mathewson
Well, well. One of Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" states that you should accuse your opponent of doing exactly what you intend to do (or are doing) yourself. In this case, the Left is provoking violence already.
This woman is really going low. She calls Trump's supporters "racists" with no evidence. Well, maybe she's getting her terms mixed up. Maybe she thinks racists are NASCAR fans? Hey, as we know, the Left needs no evidence for anything.
A women’s studies professor predicts President
Trump’s supporters, whom she calls "overt racists,†will "provoke
violence†when Trump leaves the Oval Office – even if it is after two
terms.
Julie Novkov, chair of the political
science department at the State University of New York at Albany,
concludes in a recent article for New Political Science that Trump supporters having political power is "dangerous.â€
She defines core Trump supporters as overt racists who
view immigrants, blacks, Muslims, and Jews as "enemies of the American
state†and are "particularly inclined to embrace propaganda."
Tell me, Professor, what "race" are Muslims?
[...]
Whether it is impeachment, resignation, failure to win re-election,
or death, Novkov believes Trump supporters will riot when he leaves
office.
"I believe that Trumpers – the core supporters Trump
has bound to himself through his consistent and persistent messaging –
will not accept as legitimate any means through which he departs from
the presidency,†Novkov wrote. "Can the Trumpers can be reincorporated
into a democratic republic as engaged political actors who accept the
fundamental premises of democratic governance?â€
Looks to me as if she does not consider the possibility of his serving two complete terms, and therefore, as per the Constitution, exiting the office peacefully; or doing a Calvin Coolidge and "not choosing to run" for a second term. But I think it's obvious this woman isn't playing with a full deck anyhow.
It must be easier to become a professor than it once was. I'd sure hate to be in any of her classes!
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Dana, notice she uses the term "provoke" and not "engage in". She means her friends in the Left will commit overt acts of violence and it will be the fault of the Trump supporters! They will have "provoked" the radical Left into murder and mayhem by refusing to roll over.
This is classic left-wing parsing of language here...
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The left's 'identity politics' hypocrisy
Dana Mathewson
This, from Tammy Bruce on Fox News:
Courtesy
of California Sen. Kamala Harris, we now have a bit of a hint of the
new approach we can expect by the progressives who now control the
Democratic Party — focus on identity politics but don’t call it that.
In other words, they will recycle the age-old
leftist approach of lying to voters about who they are while vowing to
punish those who dare to expose them.
All of this became clear at last week’s "Netroots
Nation†political activism conference, which CNN described as "The
three-day gathering of thousands of progressive activists amounted to a
rejection of warnings from the Democratic establishment that their calls
for single-payer health care, abolishing Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency and other progressive priorities would alienate
moderate and Republican voters who are otherwise inclined to vote
against Trump — both in November’s midterm elections and in the 2020
presidential primary.â€
When you’ve lost CNN …
Ms. Harris,
widely believed to be eyeing a presidential run, is doing what good
progressives do — she engaged in promoting identity politics at the
conference, and then told everyone that the phrase "identity politicsâ€
was a pejorative.
"Now, I am aware that some people would say that what I
just said is plain ‘identity politics.’ But, I have a problem, guys,
with that phrase, ‘identity politics.’ ‘Cause let’s be clear, when
people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide and it
is used to distract …,†Breitbart reported.
As a friend of mine noted,Ms. Harris‘ new approach is to insist that identity politics doesn’t divide us, but calling it identity politics does.
In other words, "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ears?"
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August 08, 2018
Dennis Prager takes the Pope to task
Jack Kemp
In a complex recent article, Dennis Prager, a man with a Jewish religious school upbringing and someone who has studied aspects of Christianity as well, wrote at Townhall.com a critique of Pope Francis entitled "Pope Francis Rewrites Catholicism ... and the Bible."
Here are some excerpts. Read the who thing
here.
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Last week, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had changed the Catholic catechism. After 2,000 years of teaching that a moral use of capital punishment for murder is consistent with Catholic teaching, the pope announced that the catechism, the church fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas, among the other great Catholic theologians, were all wrong.
And God and the Bible? They're wrong, too.
Pope Francis, the product of Latin American liberation theology -- along with many other Catholic religious and lay leaders -- is remaking Catholicism in the image of leftism, just as mainstream Protestant leaders have been rendering much of mainstream Protestantism a branch of leftism, and non-Orthodox Jewish clergy and lay leaders have been rendering most non-Orthodox synagogues and lay institutions left-wing organizations.
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But the Bible makes it clear capital punishment for murder is applicable to all of humanity. It is the first law God gives Noah after the flood, after commanding him to be fruitful and multiply. Putting murderers to death is therefore the first moral law God gives the world. Why this draconian penalty for murder? Because the penalty is a statement about the seriousness of a crime, and the God of the Bible deems the wrongful, deliberate taking of a human life the pinnacle of injustice. Allowing all murderers to keep their own lives diminishes the evil of murder and thereby cheapens the worth of the human being. In God's words, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image" (Genesis 9:6).
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In a 4-3 decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment violated the Connecticut Constitution, thereby preventing the execution of the murderers and assaulters of Dr. Petit's family.
This was Dr. Petit's reaction: "I think when people willfully, wantingly, without any remorse take someone else's life, they forfeit their right to be among us."
For those who believe in the Bible, Dr. William Petit of Cheshire, Connecticut, echoes God's view. Pope Francis of the Vatican does not.
END OF QUOTE
Tim Birdnow adds:
The Catholic Church has always had a rather dim view of the death penalty primarily because the purpose of life is (in Catholic teaching) to avoid souls going to Hell and by executing someone you have permanently taken away their chance at repentance (of course the coming execution might force them to repent, but the idea is we can''t know that.) Catholic teaching always accepted the old Testament as authoritative on the death penalty, but asked it be tempered with as much mercy as could be granted. This whole "dignity of the person" horse poo is vintage left wing nonsense from Francis; he couldn't even make his argument properly. But if he had he would have upset a lot of his other cherished ideals, like acceptance of homosexuality. If your primary goal is to keep people out of Hell you can't have a cafeteria approach, condemning executions while shrugging off other behaviors that will lead a soul to Hell.
I did a quick search and found this quote from the Perplexed Pontiff:
"it is freely decided to suppress a human life that is always sacred in the eyes of the Creator, and of which, in the final analysis, God alone is the true judge and guarantor.â€
But it was THAT CREATOR who commanded the death penalty for certain crimes in the beginning, and it was THAT CREATOR who gave "the king the power of the sword" to "punish evildoers". To claim we have no right to follow the Lord's own instructions is, well, the spirit of anti-Christ, a rebellion against what we were commanded to do.
One of the problems here too is the absolute division of the individual from society. The death penalty is not just to "punish" but to act as a warning to others. Granted, it has been rarely used in that way, with years, sometimes decades of legal procedures before it is enforced, and then it is done privately rather than with a public display, so most of the latter day Popes have opposed it as not generally useful, but the fact is it does indeed serve as a deterrent. The left always argues it does not because they have made it so rare and private - and of course there is no way to determine if a person did NOT commit a crime out of fear of it.
There has been a lively (pardon the pun) debate about this topic in theological circles in the Church for a long time. This is typical Francis; he leeps in without nuance or acknowledging the other side. He is doing irreparable harm to the Church and the World he is supposed to shepherd.
I think Prager hit the nail on the head.
END
And here is what Dana Mathewson adds:
All I have to offer is that I believe Dennis has hit it out of the ballpark here. His understanding of the Bible is deep...
And if one wishes to extend the baseball analogy, Pope Francis has struck out, once again. He seems not to understand that his job is not to rewrite the theology of the Church. If he desires to make his mark upon the Church, what he should do -- if he has the wisdom, which clearly he does not -- is to extend the understanding of the message of Jesus. Not to distort it.
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To Limit the Second Amendment, New York Attacks the First
Dana Mathewson
On Aug. 4, Jack Kemp posted an article detailing how New York City officials are attacking the NRA (please see the article). Now, in an article on National Review, David French declares that their efforts are unconstitutional. I sincerely hope a courts steps in and informs him of that fact!
The state has no right to threaten financial institutions that do business with the NRA.
Imagine the following scenario. Imagine the media response.
By October, the governor of Texas was fed up. A well-funded ten-month
campaign by Everytown for Gun Safety designed to stigmatize gun
ownership was causing support for gun rights to measurably decline.
Called "You afraid?†the campaign mocked men and women who carried
weapons to grocery stores or restaurants. An associated "courageâ€
campaign asked mothers to hand back their carry licenses, and while most
didn’t, the dozens who did received international media attention.
Then, two weeks before Halloween, a gunman opened fire in a Houston
Walmart, and no one responded for nine agonizing minutes until police
arrived. This was Texas. The store wasn’t a gun-free zone — yet not a
single armed citizen was available to intervene.
The governor was furious. In public comments, he blasted Everytown,
declaring — in no uncertain terms — that "gun-controllers have no place
in Texas. Because that’s not who we are.†But words mean nothing without
action, and the state of Texas acted. The governor directed state
regulators to "urge insurers and bankers statewide to determine whether
any relationship they may have with Everytown or similar organizations
sends the wrong message to their clients and their communities who often
look to them for guidance and support.â€
Regulators responded, issuing "guidance letters†directed at the
chief executive officers, or equivalents, of all Texas licensed
financial institutions and all insurers doing business in Texas. The
letters urged recipients to sever ties with Everytown and other "gun
controller organizations.†The letters went well beyond a mere political
exhortation and invoked the private corporations’ "risk managementâ€
obligations and their obligations to consider "reputational risks.â€
State regulators began investigating Everytown’s business
transactions in the state and coerced key vendors into consent decrees
that not only punished allegedly unlawful activity but banned those
vendors from engaging in entirely lawful business relationships with the
gun-control organization. As state regulators moved, other commercial
entities backed away — ending longstanding business relationships with
Everytown.
Let me ask a simple question. If Texas acted like this — if it used
state financial regulators to issue warning letters to institutions
doing business with an organization unquestionably engaged in
constitutionally protected advocacy — do you think for one moment that
America’s mainstream media would remain silent, or speak up mainly to
chuckle at Everytown’s financial predicament? Do you think for one
moment that America’s leading progressives wouldn’t sense an immediate
threat to free speech?
Yet the scenario above is playing out today, in a different state,
with a different target. New York’s Andrew Cuomo is engaging in a
deliberate campaign to use state power to drive the NRA out of business.
It’s using a combination of consent decrees and warning letters
directed at financial institutions to coerce them into cutting of
business relationships with the NRA.
Cuomo’s intentions aren’t hidden. He’s on a crusade. "If I could have
put the NRA out of business, I would have done it 20 years ago,†he said earlier this week.
He followed up with this pithy statement: "I’m tired of hearing the
politicians say, we’ll remember them in our thoughts and prayers. If the
NRA goes away, I’ll remember the NRA in my thoughts and prayers.â€
Clever. But when statements like this are accompanied by state action, there’s another word that applies — unconstitutional.
[...]
Heckle all you want, Governor Cuomo. Display your malice. But the
instant that malice translates into state action aimed at speech is the
instant the Constitution holds you to account.
My money is on the NRA here -- literally, as I am a few months into a 3-year membership. But their pockets are not really all that deep, even though they are now up to unprecedentedly high membership numbers. New York City's left is also very well-funded.
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Finally! Some fuel economy common sense
Paul Driessen
In 2012, the Obama EPA decreed that Corporate Average
Fuel Economy (CAFÉ
standards must rise to 54.5 mpg by 2025 … claiming that CO2
and other vehicle greenhouse gas emissions required a near-total shift to
electric cars to prevent manmade climate cataclysms. The fact that such
standards would force car makers to build much smaller, lighter vehicles that
would lead to numerous extra injuries and deaths was never considered. Last
week, the Trump EPA and Transportation Department proposed that the standards be
frozen at 37 mpg – or perhaps allowed to rise at a much slower rate. Public
comments on the proposal will be accepted until the end of September.
As my article points out, CAFÉ standards are a relic of
the 1973 OPEC oil embargo and recurrent fears that we would soon run out of oil.
Climate fears were a convenient add-on. None of these assertions is grounded in
evidence or common sense – any more than are California Governor Jerry Brown’s
assertions that the 37 mpg freeze is "an assault on the health†of all
Americans, a "reckless scheme†that will force motorists to "pay more at the
pump and breathe dirtier air.â€
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After Greitens Unions win Big in Missouri
Timothy Birdnow
Labor unions in Missouri have won a huge victory in defeating prop A, also known as Right to Work, in a referendum held on the law, which was passed by the Missouri legislature and signed by former Governor Eric Greitens.
CNN has the story:
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Florida cows thwart carjacking suspect, herd her straight toward police
Dana Mathewson
From the "Cops get unlikely help" files, here's one that'll surprise you. Or maybe not.
An alleged carjacking suspect almost got away from Florida police – only to be thwarted by a herd of pesky cows.
Police said the driver and a passenger in a stolen Subaru SUV fled on foot after the car crashed in a ditch in Sanford,WKMG-TV reported. Another passenger remained at the scene and was arrested.
The driver, identified as Jamie Michael Young, was apprehended with the help of a Sanford police dog, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
But the other passenger, Jennifer Kaufman, fled to a nearby field where she was corralled by cattle.
In a video released by the Seminole County Sheriff’s
Office, which assisted in the incident, Kaufman can be seen running
through a field with more than two dozen cows in pursuit. At least one
cow got very close to the woman.
"If you see the large group of cows, they’re literally following her and chasing her,†an officer said in the video.
Eventually the cows herded her to the edge of a field where she climbed
through what appears to be a fence, only to be immediately arrested.
Yep, that's no bull, folks. Apparently cows are pretty territorial when all is said and done. The farmer gives a good explanation in the article, found here http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/08/florida-cows-thwart-carjacking-suspect-herd-her-straight-toward-police.html
which contains the aforementioned video AND a photo of the woman, who looks to be one I wouldn't want to tangle with. No wonder the cows wanted her out of their field!
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August 07, 2018
Florida restaurant cancels NFL package over national anthem protests
Dana Mathewson
This makes me want to visit Florida sometime during the NFL season, once it gets going.
From Fox News:
A Florida restaurant decided to cancel its DirecTV
NFL package over the controversy about players kneeling during the
national anthem to protest social injustices.
Curtis West, who co-owns Beef O’Brady’s in Brooksville with his wife Janet, told FOX13 Tampa Bay on Monday there will be no NFL games shown because of the "disrespect†the players have shown.
"Last year, with the kneeling and the disrespect to our veterans and our
flag and our country, I was very upset,†West told the station.
The restaurant will save more than $5,000 by canceling its package and
instead will offer veterans 40 percent off on food Sundays during game
days, the station reported.
I'm not a vet, neither is my wife, but I like the gesture. And I'd support it if my travel plans included Florida. Dare we hope this man's action inspires others around the country?
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Heat’s on Rahm in re-election race after bloody Chicago weekend
Dana Mathewson
Whatever happened to never letting a crisis go to waste? Here, Ex-President Obama's former chief of staff is letting an entire city go to waste. Apparently the Peter Principle (remember that?) has hit once again.
From Fox News:
After a bloody Chicago weekend that left a dozen
dead and another 62 wounded, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing a mounting
political crisis -- with his rivals emboldened as they aim to unseat him
in the looming mayoral election.
Several of Emanuel’s 10 challengers
slammed the prominent Democrat for the city’s soaring crime and blamed
him for everything from an understaffed police force to a lack of
investment in Chicago’s economically downtrodden neighborhoods.
Emanuel has tried to fend off the attacks while calming
an alarmed electorate, but the latest violence has only fueled the
calls for political change in the February election.
"What happened over the weekend is absolutely horrific and
unacceptable. It’s another tragic weekend in Chicago, and unfortunately,
we’ve had too many of them,†former Chicago Public Schools CEO and
mayoral candidate Paul Vallas said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "There is no substitution for providing the police resources we need to close this gap.â€
Vallas blamed Emanuel for permitting the police
department’s detective division to be "gutted through attritionâ€and
accused him of shifting officers to various sections of the city for
"political reasons.â€
There's lots more, as you'd expect, including a blast from former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who rightly refers to
decades of "one party Democratic rule" for the violence in a series of tweets.
Meanwhile, Emanuel serves up meaningless pablum about how "Our souls are burdened," Emanuel said. "It is unacceptable to happen in any neighborhood of Chicago. We are a better city." Words, but so far no action.
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Elizabeth Warren tries to fuel a race war
Jack Kemp
In
order to change her lilly white image as someone who only talks about
(fighting) big money banks - and to also compete with Bernie Sanders as the
biggest nut in America - Elizabeth Warren is now smearing US law
enforecemt as racist.
J'accuse Sen. Warren. Clearly she is trying to raise racial tensions in this country with
undocumented and inflamitory remarks - and she doesn't much care what
the consequenses will be, just as long as she can get a chance at the
Democratic Party nomination for President in 2020.
In Rich Lowry's article in the NY Post, he
concludes "... in reaction to President Trump, the left is embracing a sweeping
indictment of America as undemocratic and racist at the core.Warren’s performance shows that the party is prepared to consider no critique of America too radical or out of bounds.?"
Here are some of the lowlights.
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The Massachusetts senator who has made a career of unfairly maligning bankers and other alleged capitalist malefactors is now smearing the criminal justice system, too.
In a speech at a historically black college in New Orleans, she
declared that "the hard truth about our criminal justice system: It’s
racist . . . I mean front and back.â€
Her riff is a sign that the Democrats are going to leaven their lurch
toward socialism with a condemnation of America as fundamentally
racist. After helping fuel Trump’s rise in 2016 with loose rhetoric
about the bigotry of cops, Democrats hope to dislodge him in 2020 with
even more sweeping accusations of systematic racism.
...But
the contention that US law enforcement is a product of racial hatred is a
paranoid lie, from top to bottom, from beginning to end, from front to
back.
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The biggest reason for the overall disparity in incarceration is
different rates of offending. Blacks account for a little more than 50
present of homicides.
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August 06, 2018
Moonbat Peter Fonda Suggests Election Fraud for Democrat Election Wins
Dana Mathewson
I just found this one on Tammy Bruce's excellent site. Peter Fonda continues to embarrass. It's short and to the point, so I won't quote any of it here, just give you the link.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is A Millennial’s Millennial
Dana Mathewson, with hat tip to David Dickinson
Here's a good evaluation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- or She Guevara, as some are styling her -- by John Hirschauer, found on Daily Wire. I hope you appreciate it, and the threat that she (and they... "they" being millennials, of course) pose to today's America.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the hero millennials deserve. Her
cocksure ignorance befits a generation that despises its elders, shouts
down its superiors and scoffs at its history, all because they’re
confident -- no, certain -- that they are more virtuous than you.
When
she decried the Israeli "occupation†of Palestine -- whatever that
means -- and was subsequently pressed on the subject in a now-infamous
PBS interview, she ceded that she’s "not an expert on geopolitics on
this issue.†She has given completely incoherent answers when asked how
she is going to pay for the multi-trillion dollar entitlement programs
she’s proposing, offering little beyond emotive adjectives and the
assurance that she has spoken with a "Nobel Prize economist.â€
That’s cold comfort; to modify Bill Buckley’s formula
slightly, someone has to win a Nobel Prize in economics. And if Mark
Steyn is right when he says that being a multiculturalist absolves you
of knowing anything about other cultures, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s candidacy
seems to suggest that being a socialist absolves you of knowing anything
at all.
Sock! Pow! Biff! I'd add that knowing nothing makes her just what millennials want, makes her fit right in with them.
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August 05, 2018
California Nightmare
Dana Mathewson
In the past few years we've often heard the Anchor State of the Left Coast referred to as The Peoples' Republic of California. In case there are one or two of you who have just moved in from, oh, say, Lithuania and don't understand the reference, the following blog post from Power Line may help you:
And don't you love it when a politician tries to say "Well, you didn't understand what I was trying to say?" Yeah, sure, Skippy, We totally understood you, and that's your problem. We hope the voters of Santa Barbara remember this at election time and hang this around your neck like a dead albatross!
I wish they'd included the testimony from the nine-year-old, but I have the suspicion it wouldn't have been much different from the councilmember's comments.
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Reminds me of Groucho Marx; this is so simple a five year old child could understand it (go find me a five year old child - I can't make heads or tails of this.)
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August 04, 2018
NRA's Future at Risk in NY Courts
Jack Kemp
Gov. Cuomo of New York is engaged in lawfare against the NRA and The Second Amendment, moving to force New York insurance companies to not cover the NRA gun education classes (and other services) under penalty of a stiff fine.
Townhall.com reports that:
The NRA's Future Rests In The Hands of One Court Case. Here's Why.
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The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has filed a
collective lawsuit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), New York State's
Superintendent of Financial Services Maria T. Vullo and the New York
State Department of Financial Services (DFS).
Why These Defendants?
The
NRA claims Cuomo, Vullo and DFS knowingly went to banks and insurance
companies to tell them not to work with the pro-gun group,
Rolling Stone first reported.
"Simply
put, Defendants made it clear to banks and insurers that it is bad
business in New York to do business with the NRA," the lawsuit says. "As
a direct result of this coercion, multiple financial institutions have
succumbed to Defendants’ demands and entered into consent orders with
DFS that compel them to terminate longstanding, beneficial business
relationships with the NRA, both in New York and elsewhere."
According
to the NRA, Everytown for Gun Safety reached out to Cuomo's office in
Sept. 2017 over NRA's Carry Guard insurance program. Specifically,
Everytown "prompt[ed] a crackdown by sympathetic government officials
that would target alleged compliance infirmities in Carry Guard."
END OF QUOTE
This is a fairly long story and somewhat complicated. But it is readable. Go to the link
here.
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Corey Booker holds up anti-Israel sign
Jack Kemp
Some of Booker's wealthy Jewish contributors are rethinking donations. But other ones are not because their religion is leftism and only their ethnic identity is Jewish. But this event (and the photo can be seen at American Thinker) has exposed the self-contradictions of Booker supporters. Online media outlets such as Legal Insurrection have made sure this significant act by Sen. Booker is not forgotten nor denied to have occurred.
Cory Booker claims he didn’t read the anti-Israel sign that he allowed himself to be photographed holding by Thomas Lifson
Senator
Cory Booker, who is one of the Democrats contending for his party’s
2020 nomination for president, is pleading political negligence,
claiming that he didn’t bother to read a sign that he allowed himself to
be photographed holding. Booker, who has raised considerable money
from pro-Israel Jewish groups, apparently got carried away with
intersectional enthusiasm at the Netroots Nation confab...
The professionally printed sign reads, "From Palestine to Mexico all the walls have got to go.â€
As Aaron Bandler points out at Jewish Journal,
that slogan was crafted by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights...
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Senator
Booker has a long record of phoniness, going back to the start if his
political career when he pretended to live in public housing. Now, he is
trying to cultivate the far left of the Democratic Party, which hates
Israel, while maintaining his ability to raise money from Jewish donors
to the party, some of whom still are attached to the notion of the
survival of Israel. Even morons realize that without walls to protect
it, Israel would suffer wave upon wave of terror from its neighbors
Hamas and Hezb’allah, not to mention the ISIS troops operating in Syria.
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August 03, 2018
Rush Misses the Point: The Destruction of the US Is Well Organized and Underway
Dana Mathewson
This one's scary, no two ways about it.
Joel Goodman writes this one for Townhall. I'll give you just a taste, as usual.
Everyone says that the Democratic Party is not the Party of JFK, still
they discuss the far left element of the party through an
intellectualized political lens formed in the shape of the old politics.
Many on the air still treat the Democrats and the media and those who
revere former President Obama with a certain politeness when ascribing
motives to their actions. They make fun of them and laugh at them when
discussing their actions. Humor is always good in a too serious world.
But the violent left is not funny.
The game is different. The rules have changed.
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