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In The Mailbox: 06.14.18

Posted on | June 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is Democrat Senator “Air Claire” McCaskill Leaving On A Jet Plane?
Twitchy: “Scandal-Free” President Had Name Scrubbed From Comey’s Report On Hillary
Louder With Crowder: Congress Bans Importation Of Child Sex Dolls

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #5 – The No Chicks Allowed Episode
American Thinker: Virtue-Signaling Run Amok In America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Gun Ban Averted News
BattleSwarm: The Amnesty That Refused To Die
Da Tech Guy: On North Korea, Watch The Generals & The Chinese
Don Surber: Barack is The Next Pelosi
Dustbury: Where Things Stand
First Street Journal: The Success of Socialism Part XVII – Polio Returns To Venezuela!
The Geller Report: Terror-Tied CAIR Attacks Southern IL School Board Member, also, Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Arrested, Taken To “Hell On Earth” Prison After Defending Anti-Hijab Protesters
Hogewash: An Unlikely Ally, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Waiting For The Inspector General
Legal Insurrection: NY AG Sues Trump, His Kids, & The Trump Foundation, also, Pompeo Says Sanctions On North Korea Will Remain Until Complete Denuclearization
Power Line: Food Justice? also, Notes On The IG Report
Shark Tank: Rubio & Warren Introduce Student Loan Bill
Shot In The Dark: The Plantationmasters
The Jawa Report: People Of Walmart – Good Gun Control Edition
The Political Hat: Happy Flag Day, 2018
This Ain’t Hell:  Happy 243rd Birthday, U.S. Army, also, U.S.S. Hue City Saving The World
Victory Girls: Establishment Types Fear GOP Has Become The Party Of Trump
Volokh Conspiracy: MN Ban On “Political” Clothing In Polling Places Unconstitutionally “Unreasonable”
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Wonders Why There Aren’t Nationwide Uprisings Against The Government, also, San Juan Mayor Who Attacked Trump Under Investigation For Corruption
Mark Steyn: The Eyebrow Of The Storm


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Yes, CNN Hates America

Posted on | June 14, 2018 | Comments Off on Yes, CNN Hates America

 

CNN became notorious as the “Clinton News Network” during the 2016 presidential campaign, when the third-place cable news channel was so completely in the tank for the Democrat nominee that their programming was like a 24/7 contribution-in-kind to the DNC.

Since CNN’s candidate lost the election, they have spent the past 18 months attempting to delegitimize and subvert President Trump’s administration by promoting the phony “Russian collusion” narrative.

The liberal media should be ashamed of themselves, but if they had any sense of shame, they wouldn’t be liberals, would they?

CNN covered itself with disgrace when President Trump traveled to Singapore for his historic summit meeting with North Korea’s dictator. The network aired 100% negative coverage of the summit, completely reversing its usual bias in favor of Communist dictatorships. CNN praised Obama for traveling to meet with Cuba’s Communist dictator in 2016, but when Trump met with Kim, CNN presented this as a catastrophic blunder. The Free Beacon reports:

CNN host Wolf Blitzer said on behalf of the media “we love the American people” on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s latest broadside against the profession.
Apparently angered by the media’s coverage of his nuclear summit with North Korea, Trump tweeted Wednesday that the “fake news” press was “our country’s biggest enemy.”
CNN analyst David Gregory attacked Trump for being unoriginal, saying all politicians don’t like the press.
“Everybody’s always criticizing us and not happy with our coverage, whether it was President Clinton or President Bush or President—they’re all criticized,” Blitzer said.
Blitzer went on to say a lot of Trump’s supporters believed the charge, which was “a really, really awful situation.”
“We are not the enemy of the American people. We love the American people,” he said.

No you don’t, Mr. Blitzer. Your network relentlessly insults and degrades the American people. You have done everything in your power to undermine the constitutional government of this country, to smear and silence voices critical of the Democrat Party’s left-wing agenda.

CNN has never apologized for promoting the #BlackLivesMatter terrorist movement, ignoring the reality of crime and race in America.  Heather Mac Donald exposed this reality in her book The War on Cops, pointing out that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black man than the other way around (see “Putting Homicide in Perspective vs. the Media’s ‘Atrocity Narrative’ Propaganda,” Oct. 3, 2017).  CNN’s 24/7 propaganda for #BlackLivesMatter incited riots in Ferguson, Baltimore and Charlotte, and the network never reported about George Soros’s sponsorship of this movement, which was calculated to demonize law enforcement and incite anti-white hatred. If CNN didn’t hate the American people, why did they devote so many resources to promoting this dishonest and divisive racial propaganda?

The American people have not forgotten what you did, Mr. Blitzer, and you should ask yourself: Why is Donald Trump president? Isn’t it because he gave millions of Americans an opportunity to wave their extended middle fingers in the faces of “fake news” hacks like you?



 

Category: CNN, Donald Trump

Tyler O’Neil Strives To Paint Corey Stewart As A White *YAWN* Supremacist

Posted on | June 13, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Another primary, another strident nominee, another round of Seals & Crofts fans rushing to denounce the Terrifying Specter of a Republican Candidate with a Backbone.

Crimes:
1. “The candidate took an uncompromisingly positive position about symbols of the Confederacy during last year’s campaign.”
The statues had been there for generations. While communities should certainly be able to decide what they’re doing with their public spaces, come on. You got roped in by a left-wing propaganda play, Tyler.

I’ve only lived in Virginia for ~20 years. I lack any romantic connection to the Confederacy.

But I smelled rat, and it was coming from the Left, not the miniscule self-pity-party that is White Supremacy (which would wither completely if the media would give it a thorough ignoring.)

2. “When running for governor last year, Stewart hosted rallies in front of Confederate flags. At many of these rallies, activist Jason Kessler spoke. Kessler later became infamous as an organizer of the “Unite the Right” rally which sparked the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville.”
We need to get to three points and hit the target word count, so lets zoom in on the first charge and go for some guilt by association.

So what if few know who this guy is (I’ve never heard of him, and I flatter myself that I represent “reasonably” informed) if it’s important that Kessler be important so that important writers can make this point important–well, that’s important. Because its importance has been established.

3. “Also during his campaign for governor, Stewart paid Paul Nehlen $759 to rent his email list for fundraising. Video later surfaced showing Stewart praising Nehlen as one of his “personal heroes” and declaring that he was “inspired” by Nehlen’s challenge to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.).”
Nehlen I have heard of. I was unaware of Nehlen’s high social- and social media crimes and misdemeanors:

Nehlen has associated himself with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and has engaged white supremacist figures like Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer and “Crying Nazi” Christopher Cantwell.
Nehlen got himself banned from Twitter in February for using anti-Semitic language and for posting a photoshopped image of biracial actress Meghan Markle (now wife of Prince Harry). The tweet superimposed the face of Cheddar Man, a dark-skinned Mesolithic man believed to be one of the earliest humans in Britain, on Markle’s face. “Honey does this tie make my face look pale?” Nehlen disgustingly tweeted, with the image.

These are as impressive as people attacking BHO over his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, daming America. Sure, Wright deserves to be laughed at in public for laughable opinions, but this business of policing peoples’ associations, and insinuating that, welp, A was at event B, and so was C, and C knows D, and by the Transitive Power of Alinsky, Corey Stewart is some kind of Foaming H8-Monger. This is a good time to cut that nonsense out.

So, sorry, Tyler. Your post is worthwhile in the sense of raising something worth keeping an eye on. But the other 99% of it is pure concern trolling of a sort that has got to please Tim “Tiny Dancer”  Kaine, and for that you get no thanks.

Vote Corey Stewart

Stick a fork in politcal correctness

 

Update: The Virginia GOP’s Death March

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In The Mailbox: 06.13.18

Posted on | June 13, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.13.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #285
EBL: Trump’s Video Message To Kim Jong-Un
Twitchy: Wonkblog Claims Minimum-Wage Workers Can’t Afford A Two-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere
Louder With Crowder: Study Shows That Lifting Weights Reduces Depression

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Judeo-Christian Values
American Power: President Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize, also, Bruce Cumings, Origins Of The Korean War Vol. 1
American Thinker: The Key To Trump’s Success In North Korea
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Singapore Summit – Trump, North Korea, Dennis Rodman, And The Continuing Liberal Freakout
CDR Salamander: Off Yemen, The Future Speaks
Da Tech Guy: Ten Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, The Work of The Worcester Tea Party
Don Surber: If California Splits, Do We Have To Accept All Three States?
Dustbury: Living With The Seven Sisters
The Geller Report: Muslim Uber Driver Kicks Lesbians Out Of Car, also, Muslim Migrant Who Beat NYU Prof To Death Previously Arrested For Rape But Released For No Apparent Reason
Hogewash: A Hermit Galaxy, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Building Confidence
Legal Insurrection: New Poll – Mueller’s Image Has Dropped To All-Time Low, also, Media Freaks Out Over Trump’s Video Diplomacy At Singapore Summit
Michelle Malkin: NYC’s War On Academic Excellence
Power Line: In Venezuela, The End is Near, also, Rosenstein’s Rot
Shark Tank: DeSantis Fires Back At Putnam Ad
Shot In The Dark: As A Million Men Agree Vigorously And Stay Out Of The Way
STUMP: Wisconsin Wednesday
The Jawa Report: America Welcomes Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi
The Political Hat: Infanticide And The Ignoble Savage
This Ain’t Hell:  Indiana VA And Gay Pride Flag, also, Taliban Continues Attacks During “Cease Fire”
Victory Girls: Campaign Follies – Progressive Democrat Maces Himself For School Safety
Volokh Conspiracy: Deerfield IL Gun Confiscation Ordinance Blocked By State Court
Weasel Zippers: Trump Campaign Manager Calls For Acosta’s Press Credentials To Be Pulled, also, Leftist Activists Storm Republican Lawmaker’s Office For “Die-In”
Mark Steyn: Sea Change


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Report: Brett Kimberlin and DNC Staffer Helped Push ‘Russiagate’ to Feds

Posted on | June 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Report: Brett Kimberlin and DNC Staffer Helped Push ‘Russiagate’ to Feds

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981

From the Populist TV Morning Report:

In an exclusive report, Lee Stranahan highlighted a Facebook post by operative Alexandra Chalupa made the day after the 2016 election where Chalupa said: “Homeland Security / DOJ teamed up with a group that is part of Anonymous based in Washington D.C. called “The Protectors.”
The alleged hacking group “The Protectors” is believed to actually be convicted serial bomber Brett Kimberlin, who worked with Chalupa during and after the election.
A 2012 story about The Protectors has more details on the sketchy claims about the group that Chalupa said worked with the Obama administration.

If you don’t follow Stranahan on Twitter, you may have missed this important news, which Lee livestreamed via Periscope.

Before he went live on Twitter with this report, Lee called me to explain what he had discovered. Alexandra Chalupa was a DNC staffer who left that job in summer 2016 to focus full-time on the Trump/Russia angle. Her association with Kimberlin was reported in 2017. Yet until Lee started poking around, no one seems to have caught the significance of her Facebook post, in which she asserted that “The Protectors” (apparently an online front for Kimberlin’s tax-exempt Justice Through Music Project, and likely involving Neal Rauhauser) had “teamed up” with federal agencies to encourage investigation of the phony Russian “collusion” narrative. Such a connection, if proven, would almost certainly be of interest to current DOJ officials trying to get to the bottom of so-called “Deep State” efforts by federal employees to sabotage the Trump administration. Expect more news about this.

UPDATE: Linked by Vox Day — thanks!



 

 

Category: Crime, Donald Trump, George Soros, The Kimberlin Files

In The Mailbox: 06.12.18

Posted on | June 12, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.12.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Seattle City Council Caves to Amazon Pressure
Twitchy: Conservative Group You Never Heard Of Bails On TPUSA Event After Candace Owens’ #MeToo Remarks
Louder With Crowder: Alec Baldwin Tells Howard Stern “I Could Totally Beat Trump”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Art Of Changing Negative Behavioral Patterns
American Thinker: The Democrats’ IT Scandal Coverup
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Alpha Centauri News
BattleSwarm: Interesting Essay On Anthony Bourdain’s Suicide, also, Klein ISD Tries To Pull A Fast One
CDR Salamander: When You’re Weak In M & E, Push D & I
Da Tech Guy: Social Media Produces Lots of Unfinished Business, also, LGBT Community Forces @Jack To Give An In-Kind Contribution To The GOP
Don Surber: Terms of Surrender
Dustbury: Weird Scenes Inside The Pyrite Mine
First Street Journal: So? That’s It?
The Geller Report: Muslim Rape Gang Crisis Comes To Canada, also, Germany’s Far-Left Green Party Wants To Ban Alcohol During Ramadan
Hogewash: Who’s Next?
Legal Insurrection: Trump Ending War Games, Signs Vague Agreement With Kim, also, Domino’s Pizza Has New Offering – Filling Potholes
Power Line: Donald Trump As Goldenhair? also, The Agreement
Shark Tank: Governor Scott Declares June 12 As Pulse Remembrance Day
Shot In The Dark: To Fact Check The Afflicted And Afflict The Factual
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Suck It Up, Buttercup, The IRS Is Going To Block “Cleverness”
The Jawa Report: Nork Summit Boogie!
The Political Hat: California To Ration Water
This Ain’t Hell:  Trump & Kim “Commit” To Recover Remains Of U.S. Troops, also, Fake Cop Falls For Mother’s Taco Gambit
Victory Girls: Italians Say “Turn The Migrant Ship Around”
Volokh Conspiracy: The Clever Red State Lawsuit Against The Individual Mandate And DOJ’s Disappointing Response
Weasel Zippers: Weeping Dennis Rodman Praises Trump, Says Kim Wanted To Talk Five Years Ago But Was Ignored By Obama, also, WaPo’s Eugene Robinson Praises Trump, Compares Him To Reagan
Mark Steyn: The Changing Face Of Anti-Globalists, also, Soliloquies For Dummies


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‘Operation Broken Heart’: Feds Bust More Than 2,300 Online Sexual Predators

Posted on | June 12, 2018 | 1 Comment

Department of Justice press release:

The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders during a three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identified 195 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 383 children who suffered recent, ongoing, or historical sexual abuse or production of child pornography.
The 61 ICAC task forces, located in all 50 states and comprised of more than 4,500 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies, led the coordinated operation known as “Broken Heart” during the months of March, April, and May 2018. During the course of the operation, the task forces investigated more than 25,200 complaints of technology-facilitated crimes against children and delivered more than 3,700 presentations on Internet safety to over 390,000 youth and adults.
“No child should ever have to endure sexual abuse,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. “And yet, in recent years, certain forms of modern technology have facilitated the spread of child pornography and created greater incentives for its production. We at the Department of Justice are determined to strike back against these repugnant crimes. It is shocking and very sad that in this one operation, we have arrested more than 2,300 alleged child predators and investigated some 25,200 sexual abuse complaints. Any would-be criminal should be warned: this Department will remain relentless in hunting down those who victimize our children.”
The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking of children; and (4) travel across state lines or to foreign countries and sexually abuse children.

(Hat-tip: An Open Secret on Twitter.)

UPDATE: Among those arrested in this federal sweep was a Maryland man who was an employee of the U.S. Secret Service.

 

Category: Crime

Trump Wins, and the Left Complains

Posted on | June 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Trump Wins, and the Left Complains

 

No matter how much President Trump succeeds, the Left simply will not acknowledge his success. The headline on Robert Kuttner’s American Prospect column — asserting that Trump is inflicting “damage” by his “disastrous diplomacy” with North Korea — shows how the Left is committed to denying any recognition of Trump’s success.

What is Professor Kuttner’s argument?

It’s hardly a surprise that Donald Trump blew up the Group of Seven summit. In his warped view of the world, America’s closest allies are enemies, and nations that represent dangerous threats are friends.
Thus Russia is to be welcomed back, while Canada, about as benign a neighbor as exists, is a menace for taking advantage of the United States on trade. (Fact check: The U.S. government’s own data suggest the United States ran a small trade surplus with Canada in 2017.) The European Union, whose subsidy and open-market policies are on a par with our own, is seen as a bigger threat than mercantilist China. And North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Un gets warmer words than the leaders of Europe.
Has the world gone mad? No, only Donald Trump.

Has the world gone mad? No, only Professor Kuttner. He engages in the simple tactic of argument by assertion — he says that Trump views our “closest allies as enemies,” and expects us to accept this as fact, without further discussion. Likewise, Professor Kuttner contrasts the “warm words” Trump expressed during the negotiations with Kim to what Trump has said about “leaders of Europe,” without regard to context.

Trump’s deliberate disruption of the diplomatic status quo, his willingness to re-examine our relationship with “America’s closest allies” is one of those crazy-like-a-fox moves that cannot be understood by those committed to defending the convention wisdom, Left or Right. Professor Kuttner expresses the Establishment’s sense of a “world gone mad” without bothering to ask the fundamental question: Why?

Isn’t it obvious that Trump’s unpredictability is a tactic?

Trump knows a simple truth of business: You will always negotiate from a position of weakness if you are unwilling to walk away from the deal.

Embrace the power of “no.”

The United States possesses both the world’s most powerful economy and the world’s most powerful military. Why should “America’s closest allies” be permitted to treat us disrespectfully, as if such alliances are a one-way street with no reciprocal obligations on their part? Why should Canada or the European Union be allowed to act as though America’s friendship can be taken for granted, and that we have no way to prevent them from enacting policies that are harmful to American interests?

As for Trump’s “warm words” for the North Korean dictator, was his conduct not influenced by the advice of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, two of the most hawkish Republicans imaginable? Do these men understand better how to deal with Kim than does Professor Kuttner? Maybe these men, with access to every bit of information our intelligence agencies can supply, know something that the professor doesn’t?

What matters, in diplomacy as in business, is results. President Trump has been in office less than 18 months. It is too soon to know what the long-term consequences of his policies will be. But the man has a winning record so far. Almost no one imagined Trump could ever have been elected President, but he did it. Trump’s behavior intimidates and mystifies people, and I don’t think this effect is accidental. Trump doesn’t care whether you like him personally or understand what he’s doing. Trump cares about exactly one thing: Winning.

As the man said, the United States has the power to wipe the Pyongyang regime off the face of the Earth with “fire and fury.”

 

If it came to war, America would not lose, and Kim would certainly be dead. Trump knows this, Kim knows this, and if Professor Kuttner doesn’t understand this, what kind of “expert” is he?

Aren’t Japan, South Korea and Taiwan among our “closest allies”? Haven’t these allies grown tired of America refusing to take action to halt the North Korean nuclear threat? Is it not also the case that North Korea is dependent upon support from China, so that by playing hardball with Kim, Trump thereby sends a message to Beijing? And isn’t this helpful to our “closest allies” in Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand?

Donald Trump is not stupid. Crazy maybe, but not stupid.

It’s his craziness that unnerves Trump’s enemies, both foreign and domestic. They cannot predict his behavior — does he really mean all those crazy things he says? — and this unpredictability puts Trump’s antagonists at a disadvantage. Furthermore, Trump has a knack of getting away with errors that would destroy anyone else in politics. When the Access Hollywood tapes became public in October 2016, I thought, “That’s it. He can’t possibly win now” — and I was wrong.

Trump was proven right. He really could grab them by the you-know-what and they didn’t mind — 53% of white women voted for him.

Nobody voted for Professor Kuttner, and American women wouldn’t want to be grabbed by him. This probably bothers Professor Kuttner more than anything Trump said or did during the Singapore summit.

Winners win, and losers complain. As one of my college professors liked to say, the dogs may bark, but the caravan rolls on.



 

Category: Donald Trump, North Korea
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