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Billionaires like Tom Steyer are funding organizations like John Podesta’s Center for American Progress which use their influence to silence opposition to the radical environmental agenda:

Blue-collar workers and other traditional Democratic constituencies are the biggest losers from the green policies peddled by Podesta and funded by Steyer and the the billionaires and progressive foundations who finance the Climate Industrial Complex. To make up for this democratic deficit, big ticket donors ensure their dollars are bundled out through often secretive intermediaries such as the Environmental Grantmakers Association to finance phony grassroots campaigns. Purportedly spontaneous climate activism turns out to be centrally financed. Research by Canadian journalist Vivian Krause revealed that what Bill McKibben describes as his “scruffy little” 350.org outfit had been bankrolled by the Rockefeller Family Fund and a handful of other large foundations.
Krause also found that a separate Rockefeller fund has been financing anti-pipeline activism in Canada, kick starting the effort with a donation to the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation to launch the Tar Sands Campaign. Between 2009 and 2015, Tides made more than 400 payments to nearly 100 anti-pipeline groups. . . .
The Climate Industrial Complex’s biggest political challenge is squaring its de-industrialization agenda with what used to constitute the backbone of the Democratic coalition. The Blue-Green Alliance was set up to anesthetize pain from the green squeeze on well paid blue-collar jobs and desensitise the labor movement to the enormous subsidies going to China’s solar industry. But its phoniness was blown open when it opposed the Keystone XL project.
“We’re repulsed by some of our supposed brothers and sisters lining up with job killers like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council to destroy the lives of working men and women,” stormed Richard Trumka, president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America.

The environmental agenda is about destroying the American economy. Believe it or not, there are people who profit from such destruction, and who delight in putting Americans out of work. Remember when Hillary Clinton bragged that she would abolish the jobs of coal miners? In that notorious gaffe, Clinton said “clean renewable energy” was the “key” to her economic agenda. Want to guess who’s invested in such projects? Could these investors include Tom Steyer and George Soros? Yeah, I think so. The billionaires who insist we must shut down existing energy industries — opposing not only coal mining but also oil drilling and petroleum pipelines — made money when the Obama administration wasted taxpayer dollars on “green energy” boondoggles and used federal regulatory power to punish competing industries.

Well, Obama’s gone, Hillary lost and now Trump’s in charge and, do you want to guess who’s leading the “impeach Trump” bandwagon? Yeah, that would be the Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Environmentalism, Global Warming

‘A Herd of Savages’

Posted on | May 19, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘A Herd of Savages’

MS-13 ‘animals’ in custody after being captured in El Salvador.

This past week, President Trump inflamed liberal fury when, in a White House discussion of California’s “sanctuary state” laws, he made a remark about the MS-13 gang: “These aren’t people. They’re animals.” Because the media deceptively portrayed this as an insult aimed at all immigrants, there were hours of tut-tutting by cable TV talking heads that continued even after it was made clear that Trump’s remark was in response to a comment by Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims, complaining about how California’s law makes it more difficult to fight the vicious Salvadoran gang: “There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.” When we consider the unspeakable atrocities committed by MS-13, to call them “animals” is certainly appropriate. However, this incident provided Democrats an opportunity to say ignorant and foolish things.

This remark by Sen. Schumer expresses the “nation of immigrants” mythology, beloved by advocates of open borders. In this telling, all Americans are descended from Ellis Island immigrants, as if there were no Americans here before the great wave of immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe that began in the 1880s and continued into the mid-1920s. This mythology, which involves frequent appeals to the 1883 poem of Emma Lazarus (“your tired, your poor, your huddled masses . . . the wretched refuse of your teeming shore”), relies upon a bogus guilt-trip morality. Because we are “a nation of immigrants,” it is suggested, Americans have no right to enforce our own laws regulating immigration.

Sen. Schumer invokes “our great-great-grandparents [who] came to America” as if everyone’s fourth-generation ancestors were among the “wretched refuse” who went through Ellis Island back in the day. This might be true of many, if not most, of the senator’s New York constituents, but it is not true of Americans like me.

All of my ancestors as far back as 150 years are buried in a couple of cemeteries in Randolph County, Alabama, and having done quite a bit of genealogical research, I can trace my ancestors back as far as the first census (1790) in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. My ancestors came to this country when the future American nation consisted of a few scattered frontier settlements on the edge of a vast wilderness, threatened by rival powers — principally the Spanish and the French — as well as by hostile natives. My pioneer ancestors didn’t come here in steamships; there were no factory jobs awaiting them; nor was there a Statue of Liberty lifting her lamp “beside the golden door.” More than 200 years before Emma Lazarus wrote her poem — and before Sen. Schumer’s great-great-grandparents arrived — my ancestors were Americans.

Those of us descended from old colonial stock are never supposed to mention this, of course, because to do so is interpreted by some people as casting aspersions on their more recently arrived ancestors. We are compelled to listen to this “nation of immigrants” nonsense babbled endlessly by politicians and media commentators, and never permitted to mention those who built the nation to which later immigrants came. Somebody had to build that “golden door” and light the beckoning torch of Liberty, and yet these earlier Americans are rhetorically erased, so to speak, when an eminent fool like Sen. Schumer implies that there was nobody here before his great-great-grandparents arrived.

One of my great-great-grandfathers, Benjamin Berryman Bolt (b. 1806, in Laurens County, S.C.) was the father of five sons who served in the Confederate army. The younger two, including my great-grandfather Winston Wood Bolt (b. 1839) and his brother Robert, served in the 13th Alabama Infantry, while three of their older brothers (John, James and William), who had moved to Texas a decade before the war, served in the 9th Texas Cavalry in the brigade of the famed Lawrence Sullivan Ross.

My ancestors were mostly farmers, and my great-grandfather, who was captured at Gettysburg, was so illiterate he signed his name with an “X.” By contrast, my blogger friend and podcast colleague John Hoge can trace his lineage to much more prestigious forebears in the Old Dominion, including William Hoge, who was born in Scotland in 1660 and was a pioneer settler of what is now Frederick County, Virginia. The Hoge family tree includes eminent Presbyterian clergymen, planters, publishers, and lawyers, so that I suppose I must doff my cap and tug the forelock in respect to my friend, a scion of the Virginia gentry.

A true aristocrat, of course, does not habitually boast of his illustrious heritage, as this would be a breach of courtesy, and I would not have raised the subject, had it not been for Sen. Schumer’s absurd and insulting insinuation of the “nation of immigrants” mythology in the context of President Trump’s MS-13 comments. Trump’s ancestors were German, a reminder that New York once had a very large and proud community of German immigrants. Because we fought two world wars against Germany in the 20th century, this German-American community suffered a terrible opprobrium, despite the fact that the Allied commander in World War II (and subsequently, a popular Republican president) was Dwight Eisenhower, himself of German ancestry.

The Germans historically have been a warlike people, going back to ancient times when tribes of fierce barbarians menaced the Roman legions that guarded the frontiers of the empire. It so happens that I have been lately re-reading Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and in Chapter IX, he describes the ancient Germans:

The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; and in the rude institutions of those barbarians we may still distinguish the original principles of our present laws and manners. . . .
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilized people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. . . .
The religious system of the Germans (if the wild opinions of savages can deserve that name) was dictated by their wants, their fears, and their ignorance. They adored the great visible objects and agents of nature, the Sun and the Moon, the Fire and the Earth; together with those imaginary deities, who were supposed to preside over the most important occupations of human life. They were persuaded, that, by some ridiculous arts of divination, they could discover the will of the superior beings, and that human sacrifices were the most precious and acceptable offering to their altars. . . .
The same ignorance, which renders barbarians incapable of conceiving or embracing the useful restraints of laws, exposes them naked and unarmed to the blind terrors of superstition. . . .
Such was the situation, and such were the manners of the ancient Germans.

These barbarians — an ignorant “herd of savages” who practiced human sacrifice — ultimately overran the Roman empire and it required the passage of more than a thousand years to rebuild the civilization of Europe, from whence the colonial settlers of America arrived here.

My own ancestors, of course, were from the British isles, which have their own barbaric past. Not long after Christ was crucified by the Romans under the prefect Pontius Pilate, a Roman army commanded by Aulus Plautius invaded Britain (44 A.D.), and by 122 A.D., the Emperor Hadrian built a wall from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth, marking the northern limit of the Roman Empire. Twenty years after that, the Romans pushed their frontier about 100 miles further north, where they built the Antonine Wall from Old Kilpatrick to Carriden. Yet the Romans never did succeed in taming the wild barbarians of present-day Scotland, and not only were the Roman legions unable to maintain the line of the Antonine Wall, but by 180, the savage hordes sweeping down from the north broke through Hadrian’s wall and killed the Roman governor of Britain. And I proudly claim those ferocious savages as my ancestors.

Is it possible that, a thousand years from now, the descendants of today’s Mara Salvatrucha “animals” could become civilized humans? History suggests it is possible, but if we don’t want to see our nation descend into utmost barbarism — overrun and sacked like ancient Rome — in the meantime, we must enforce our laws and protect our borders.

Category: History, Immigration

The Parental Trump

Posted on | May 19, 2018 | Comments Off on The Parental Trump

by Smitty

I wear my conscience on my sleeve. When made sincerely aware of offense given, fixing the problem now, Now, NOW! is an imperative to me. As a child, Dad would send me to my room to stew over my indiscretion for a while, prior to summoning me for discipline. As a father, I get that he was cooling off before switching roles to Judge, but the dread of the discipline almost made the discipline an afterthought. Almost.

Thus, the rolling out of the IG Report may be a study in parenting-as-politics. Swift justice is a Good Thing. But in politics, especially at the national level, swift justice would have permitted Her Majesty and the Thralls to make the discussion about Vengeful McHitlerTrump, and not about the fact that the Left had tried to run the country like a banana republic.

On Twitter, Stealth Jeff is a fascinating tweep:

You may not like the slow, year long rollout of the evidence, but it's working. Admission after admission is being forced out of these people.

By the time the indictments drop, EVERYBODY will know it was a foregone conclusion. https://t.co/kH5yA0piHa

— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) May 18, 2018

No idea who this guy is, where he’s sourced, or his batting average. But he has the ring of truth about his threads.
Roger Simon observes:

Whether Barack Obama himself will be looped definitively into the IG’s report, we don’t know at this time. But we all know where the fish rots from and we also know that Obama, despite his denials, knew well that Hilary was using an illegal server. He wrote her there himself under an assumed name, showing he was only slightly more computer savvy than John Podesta.

These next few weeks are going to be among the most interesting in our lifetimes — especially for our friends in the press. We know from the NYT earlier this week they are preparing their excuses. Let’s hope they don’t have enough.

Stealth Jeff says be prepared for a longer wait:

This is all being timed for the midterms. We'll get the final report on the FISA Court sometime in July or August, then the indictments will be unsealed, giving the public about 3-4 months to digest what these people did.

— Stealth Jeff (@drawandstrike) May 18, 2018

As with dad sending me to the room, the psychology at work (beside the mid-term jockeying) has the effect of allowing more of the detail to leak out. The Bad Guys get to punish themselves. As with so much of the Trump Deal, this is not how I’d do it. But, then, I don’t have the stomach or talent to win the Presidency. So I’m left to admire the results.

Category: Uncategorized

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 05.18.18

Posted on | May 19, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Paul Ryan’s Farm Bill Fail
Twitchy: Sharryl Atkisson Breaks Down Why The Deep State Didn’t Want Trump Elected
Louder With Crowder: Parkland Activist Emma Gonzalez Argues It’s Cheaper To Take Away The Guns
According To Hoyt: A Shining City Upon A Hill
Monster Hunter Nation: Statement Concerning My Being Disinvited As The GoH For Origins Game Fair
Vox Popoli: The Suicide Of The Conservative Movement

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Africans Gonna Africa Edition
American Power: Crossfire Hurricane – Obama’s FBI Spied On The Trump Campaign
American Thinker: To Know Muhammad Is To Know Islam
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Alien Octopus Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 18
BLACKFIVE: Owen Laukkanen, Gale Force
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – How To Carry
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: An Open Letter To The Cheesecake Factory On Behalf Of Trump Supporters
Don Surber: Cavuto Turns Off Trump Viewers
Dustbury: Eventually This Will Be Mandatory
The Geller Report: Oklahoma Muslima Stabbed Daughter 50-70 Times, Hit Her In Head With Pickaxe, also, West Virginia Middle School Instructs Kids To Write Out Their Submission To Allah
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Cate Blanchett Realizes #metoo Means Pound Me Too In Cannes Protest
JustOneMinute: Another School Shooting
Legal Insurrection: Senate GOP May Cancel August Recess, And That’s Bad News For Democrats, also, Gunman Yells “Anti-Trump Rhetoric” Before Shooting Up Trump Golf Club
Power Line: Richard Pipes, RIP, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Diaz-Balart Praises HUD, Transportation Appropriations Bills
Shot In The Dark: Shot In The Dark – Today’s News Fifteen Years Ago
STUMP: Senseless In Seattle
The Political Hat: Ebola Outbreak In The Congo? Vox Blames Trump
This Ain’t Hell: Confirmed! also, Air Force Apologizes For Tweet
Victory Girls: Yes, MS-13 Gang Members Are Animals, And Here’s Why
Weasel Zippers: Clapper Says It’s A Good Thing FBI Was Spying On Trump Campaign, also, John Brennan’s “Exceptionally Sensitive” Issue
Mark Steyn: A King In Kafiristan

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Dimitrios Pagourtzis Identified as Perpetrator of Texas School Shooting

Posted on | May 18, 2018 | 1 Comment

This morning, as news of the shooting at Santa Fe High School was being broadcast on my office TV, I ignored it. No sense rushing into this latest atrocity before the murderer had been identified. Until a suspect is identified, usually you can’t even begin to guess the motive for these atrocities beyond the simple label “evil.” Now more information is available, and the motive seems to be . . . just evil:

Ten people were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. School district Police Chief Walter Braun said that explosive devices were found in Santa Fe High School and the surrounding area.
According to law enforcement sources, nine students and a teacher were killed in the shooting, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports. At an afternoon press conference, Abbott said that another 10 people were wounded.
The suspect in custody was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset said in a statement. He was being held without bond on a charge of capital murder. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the suspect was believed to be a student at the school.
Abbott said that two people in interest were being interviewed by authorities. He didn’t identify them.
According to a law enforcement source, the suspect posted to social media “Dangerous Days” with a pentagram on Friday before the shooting, Milton reports.
Abbott said the suspect had said that he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting.
“He gave himself up and admitted at the time that he didn’t have the courage to commit the suicide,” Abbott said.
Police found pressure cookers and pipe bombs around the school, a law enforcement source told CBS News.

Oh, he had enough “courage” to shoot 10 people, but not enough to shoot himself? What an evil little twerp. The liberal media are eager to portray the twerp as some kind of “alt-right” neo-Nazi type (in other words, to blame Trump) but guess what? Pagourtzis is the son of a Greek immigrant, so we could just blame Greeks and immigrants instead. The collective political blame-game approach to commentary on mass murder is never played by neutral rules, you see. I’m sure feminists will blame “toxic masculinity,” and Democrats will blame the NRA, but as for me, I’ll stick with the anti-Greek/anti-immigrant explanation.

If any of my readers are Greek immigrants, understand that I’m not saying all Greek immigrants are mass murderers, just like feminists don’t blame all male college students for campus rape. Right?

UPDATE: Some things are so predictable.

UPDATE II: Ace of Spades:

Suspect in Santa Fe Shooting Has Trenchcoat Adorned With Symbols of Imperial Japanese Kamikazes, Baphomet (a Devil), Cthulhu, the Soviet Hammer and Sickle, and the German Wehrmacht Iron Cross.

My theory? Crazy People Are Dangerous.

The Best Explanation for Our Spate of Mass Shootings Is the Least Comforting https://t.co/ceFIce7b29

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) May 18, 2018

Category: Crime, Education, Texas

It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas!

Posted on | May 18, 2018 | Comments Off on It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas!

The lyrics of the Rolling Stones’ hit “Jumping Jack Flash” were used as the code name for a domestic political espionage operation:

Wall Street Journal reporter Kim Strassel shared some stunning analysis of her bombshell report detailing how the Obama administration weaponized the FBI and CIA to rig the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton by planting a spy inside the 2016 Trump campaign and illegally surveilling his aides.
Anonymous former operatives of the Obama FBI confirmed Strassel’s reporting to the New York Times, where they revealed that the covert operation to spy on Donald Trump when he was a private citizen was called “Crossfire Hurricane.”
In a tweetstorm, Strassel discussed how the leakers who had spied on the Trump campaign are using the New York Times to push their own narrative before the Inspector General releases his own findings, which will undoubtedly be damning.
Strassel pointed out that the New York Times downplays the illegal spying activity of the Obama FBI to “fix” a U.S. election. Keep in mind that the liberal media — especially the NYTimes and CNN — brutally mocked President Trump when he insisted that the Obama administration had spied on him.
“[The New York Times] makes it out like it isn’t a big deal,” Strassel tweeted. “It is a very big deal.”
It turns out that not only was Trump correct in his assessment, but the illegal and unethical surveillance by the Obama FBI and CIA were far worse than anyone had ever suspected.

Yeah, Trump was ridiculed as paranoid for claiming that the Obama administration had spied on his campaign, and now that he’s been proven right, the anti-Trump media are pretending that this revelation is inconsequential. But of course, they’re in the “fake news” business.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Donald Trump

In The Mailbox: 05.17.18

Posted on | May 18, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #259
EBL: Donald Trump Is Blessed With Some Really Stupid Enemies
Twitchy: Anyone Defending MS-13’s Humanity Needs To Read This Thread RIGHT NOW
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Tackles Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, And Safe Spaces

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Fortunate Life
American Power: “I Know Who I Want To Take Me Home…”
American Thinker: Millennial Conservative Candace Owens Causes Nationwide Snowflake Meltdown
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Seattle Stupidity News
BattleSwarm: Twitter Admits Shadowbanning Users
Da Tech Guy: Matt Light Made The Patriots Hall Of Fame For Being Ashamed To Be A Patriot
Don Surber: Obama Spied On You, Too, Mitt
Dustbury: Quote Of The Week
The Geller Report: The Future Of Europe Is Civil War, also, Sheffield’s New Muslim Lord Mayor Says He Wouldn’t Toast The Queen
Hogewash: It’s Coming, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Don’t Talk About Gun Control When You Can’t Even Get Your Facts Right
JustOneMinute: Jumpin’ Jim Comey, He’s A Gas Gas Gas
Legal Insurrection: #FakeNews Story About Trump Calling All Immigrants “Animals” Is Why People Hate The Media, also, Someone Called 911 To Report Man With Bassoon
Power Line: Who’s An Animal? also, The Solution To School Shootings
Shark Tank: Putnam Releases New Ad Attacking “Liberal Elites”
Shot In The Dark: Why Does The DFL Hate Poor People?
The Jawa Report: Maybe Communism Not So Bad After All
The Political Hat: Academic Feels – Emotion As Knowledge, Feminist Science, & Feminist Geography
This Ain’t Hell: Dixon Police Officer Stops School Shooter, also, Boulder Bans “Rapid Spray Firing” Weapons
Victory Girls: The Empire Strikes Back – Trump Answers MS-13 Criticism, And It’s Perfect
Weasel Zippers: Nancy Pelosi Defends Violent MS-13 Gang In Response To Trump, also, White House Announces President Donating His Salary To Veterans’ Affairs
Mark Steyn: The Max Factor

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