[Powerline] When a guy named Jussie Smollett, who is an actor on a TV show called Empire, claimed that he was attacked in the middle of the night, in his exclusive Navy Pier neighborhood of Chicago, by a couple of Trump supporters wearing "MAGA" hats, no one with any sense believed him. It was obviously another in a long series of such claims, pretty much all of which turn out to be frauds. That was the case here, as most people always assumed.
The truth is finally coming out, as the Chicago police have patiently investigated Smollett’s story. First, though, let’s visit the liberal media’s uncritical reaction to Smollett’s transparent fabrication. Our friends at Grabien have an excellent compendium:
[The Hill] Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Sunday decried former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's comments that Justice Department officials raised a plan to potentially remove President Trump from office as a "silent coup," and suggested those involved should be imprisoned.
"We’re losing sight of what happened. People unelected, simply 'cause they don't like a guy's hairstyle or like where he came from, decided the American people’s decision was invalid and began a systematic process to get him thrown out of office," Limbaugh said on "Fox News Sunday."
"This is a silent coup," he continued. "These guys, if you ask me, ought to be the ones in jail. They ought to be the ones under investigation."
McCabe said in a "60 Minutes" interview set to air Sunday that there were conversations among Justice Department officials raising the possibility of removing Trump via the 25th Amendment, and that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had offered to wear a wire around the president.
[ELUNIVERSAL] For years, the socialism of the 21st century has languished, a monstrosity supported by the Venezuelans, significantly their elites, when the utopia had already died many times. Since the beginning of the Great Terror of Robespierre, the first form of ideological dictatorship in modernity, the drama of the revolutionaries in power is repeated. It is a cycle until now fatal in which those who wanted to correct the deficiencies of the human condition were trapped, straightening the twisted wood of Humanity by means of the severe exercise of power to create just and harmonious societies.
Modern revolutions are inspired by that social prophylactic desire that is only observed in marginal movements of the Middle Ages and Antiquity. At the beginning of the cycle, variable doses of violence are exercised to subdue the reaction, the resistances of the privileged who defend their dark and petty interests. But fatally with the passage of time, imprisoned dissidents, crushed bourgeois liberties and expressions of rejection, the model still does not work. The expropriated companies go bankrupt, the shortage of goods reigns and the misery, inseparable feature of the revolutions, is imposed.
They say that it is the work of internal and external sabotage, it is necessary to tighten repression and sharpen the systems of espionage, not against political opponents but against the whole society, globally suspicious. Any citizen, imbued with the perfidious ideology of the past, can be a terrorist or saboteur, until the new man finally appears. Then as the years pass, disenchantment comes and important parts of the ruling group understand that the system does not serve, that it is a failure, that what was the citizenship in the previous society, now a mere population, is getting poorer and unhappy.
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[Al Jazeera] That Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is playing a subversive role with its financing of certain krazed killer groups is not an accusation that has been levelled only in Pakistain. Just this week, the European Commission added the country (alongside Pakistain) to its blacklist of nations that pose a threat because of lax controls on "terror financing and money laundering".
Pakistain's reliance on Saudi money to keep its failing economy afloat has kept Pak politician silent on the issues of problematic financing. Prime Minister Khan has previously admitted that the country cannot afford to turn down Saudi Arabia's investment and aid offers because it is "desperate for money". But what cost are we willing to pay for Saudi money?
While any economic investment is most welcome, Khan must tell Prince Mohammed that it cannot come at the price of its internal stability. It is time that Islamabad reconsiders its decades-old transactional relationship with Riyadh.
Pakistain cannot afford to be a battleground where Saudi Arabia and Iran settle their scores. It cannot be complicit in the rise of anti-Shia violence or destabilisation of neighbouring countries any longer.
What Pakistain needs even more than money is religious harmony and stability. If the Pak government does not put an end to Saudi Arabia's harmful actions within its borders, peace in the country and in the region will be at great risk. And no aid package is worth that.
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However Qatari money is as clean as Antarctic snow.
[WND] Editor’s note: Islam is conquering Europe through uncontrolled immigration and a sky-high birth rate, while jihadist mass-murder attacks pose an ever-present threat both in Europe, the U.K. and America. Against that backdrop, one of the most egregious examples of psychological projection in today’s politics is the ongoing campaign ‐ by Islamic supremacists and their enablers in the progressive left, including the media ‐ not only to deny that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with Islam, but to portray Muslims as the innocent victims of racial and religious hatred on the part of a bigoted America. Following is the introductory chapter of Jamie Glazov’s acclaimed new book, "Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us," which explains this psychological and spiritual jiu-jitsu.
At approximately 3:05 p.m. on Halloween afternoon, October 31, 2017, twenty-nine-year-old Sayfullo Saipov drove a rented truck onto a Manhattan bike path and slammed into nearly two dozen cyclists and pedestrians. He then crashed into a school bus and emerged from the vehicle wielding a paintball gun and a pellet gun. He screamed "Allahu Akbar" throughout the whole ordeal and succeeded in murdering eight people and wounding fifteen ‐ until an NYPD officer shot and wounded him, dropping him to the ground.
Saipov was a married Muslim father of three who had come to the United States from Uzbekistan seven years earlier on a "diversity visa lottery" program, a system that allows foreigners into the country, not through their merit, but through random games of chance.
The evidence was overwhelmingly clear that this Uzbekistani immigrant was engaging in Islamic jihad during his massacre on that Halloween afternoon in Manhattan. Indeed, he was already known to law enforcement "for his direct ties to other terrorism suspects under investigation," and the FBI quickly tracked down a second Muslim in connection with his attack. Saipov had also left a note behind in the truck, stating that the Islamic State "would endure forever" and that "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." His cell phones contained thousands of Islamic State-related images, including about ninety videos depicting Islamic State fighters killing prisoners by running them over with a tank, beheading them, and shooting them in the face.
Satire of course.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐With President Trump now nominating his second justice to the Supreme Court, a lot of attention is being paid to the oldest Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Critics fear that if Trump replaces her, it would shift the court far to the right. She’s in fine health for now, though, according to the technicians that have frozen her in carbonite until the next term of the Supreme Court.
As Ginsburg was lowered into the carbonite freezing chamber, she bravely looked up at her fellow liberal justices, who said, "I love you." She reportedly replied, "Huh?"
"People do not need to worry about Justice Ginsburg," said law carbon-freezing technician Clint Simon. "While she is 85, she’s very fit for her age. Also, she’s now hibernating in a nearly indestructible metal shell."
Ginsburg’s legal aides assured the press that carbonite-freezing is very common for someone her age and should keep her safe and perfectly preserved until she is needed again. As soon as there is another court session, they’ll unfreeze her, and after a brief bout of hibernation sickness, she’ll be back to hearing cases and delivering opinions.
"It’s a foolproof way to keep her safe and sound," said legal aide Angela Patterson, though she did admit they had accidentally lost Ginsburg in a shipping error. They now know where she is, though ‐ on display in the parlor of a crime lord ‐ and say they will have her back by the next Supreme Court term in October.
[Breitbart] On this weekend’s broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," nationally syndicated conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said President Donald Trump was right to declare a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border to build a wall.
Limbaugh, "We have an emergency. This is an invasion. The very existence and definition of American culture, American society, the rule of law. Why does nobody talk about the fact that millions and millions and millions of people are breaking the law coming here illegally and that the Democrat Party wants that to happen?"
He added, "It is undeniable that we have a major immigration problem and a political party that needs a permanent underclass of voters that wants that parade of illegal people who are uneducated, don’t even speak the language, they want them here. It is a crisis."
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I think we should tear down that wall, the one in California that is. The emergency money should be spent on bulldozers lining up south of Chula Vista. That will shut up all the dems and that dumbass Gov.
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As long as we build a wall between California and the rest of the U.S. first!
But lovely for those who want to pay less for nannies, house keepers, lawn care, crop picking, etc, and don’t want to pay what the work is worth. And especially don’t want to deal with those dreadful locals who fancy themselves equal instead of being properly respectful.
Sarah Hoyt via Instapundit
With President Trump declaring that America is not now and will never be a socialist country, the masks have come off. I remember when "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves." was taken for granted. Today singing "Rule Britannia" on English street will, probably, get you arrested.
[PJMedia] All the establishment left that a mere ten years ago would have denied strenuously that they were in any way, shape, or form socialists, are now defending their precious dream of socialism (really, communism, but the difference is academic and like the difference between male and female penguins, it matters only to themselves. Let’s remember the USSR only ever called itself socialist).
Occasional Cortex had to come out and talk about how socialism is getting more popular all the time (someone told her it was to die for) and the Washington Post (democracy dies in darkness while we hold a pillow over her head) said Trump will lose his "war" on socialism (just like we were always going to lose till communism, till the wall came down. Unexpectedly! As far as the left was concerned).
This means communism and socialism (100 million dead. Why not try again?) has been much in the minds of most of my contacts both on the right and left, and I’ve been reading testimonials on our side and people pointing out it’s not Trump’s war on socialism. It’s our war on socialism. It’s merely a relief to have a president who, unlike Mr. Obama, doesn’t think the ridiculous and abominable system is inevitable.
Thing is, because of it being in the news, I’ve heard an awful lot about why communism and socialism (its pink, pale cousin who causes death by stagnation and piecemeal instead of the honking big mass graves of communism) don’t work.
To be fair there is so much wrong with both systems it’s almost like they were dreamed up by a reclusive and bookish man who had never worked a day in his life and in fact had no concept of what this "working for a living" was, much less of how the economy worked.
...For the purposes of this essay, though, socialism and communism are the same; they're just at different stages of the same cancer.
As such, the flaw at their center is the same.
I followed a link on Facebook to what is generally a very good post.
Apparently, for those not willing to follow the link, someone was asked why the acrimony between right and left, if both love their country.
In the comments, the author of the post above got into a discussion with someone who claimed to have been on the right and turned left.
This gentleman claimed to have turned left because right-wingers don’t care that the world is unfair. They know that some humans have more than others and that success is largely a matter of luck (this is truer in academic and artistic fields) and (according to the commenter) "people on the right don’t care." When he started caring and decided people were "entitled" to food and medical care, etc., he became a leftist. (I would say rather that he became a complete lunatic, but that’s probably a matter of semantics.)
The author of the piece linked above countered that, in fact, people on the right know that and care. But we know life is not and can never be made "fair."
IIRC the studies show the 'right' gives more to charities than the 'left'. The Left simply uses the public treasury ie 'other peoples money' to do their 'charity'. When you use your own money, you take care on how effective the money is employed and that there are results. When you use other people's money, you don't care about how it is used or if it is effective. It's about feelings not about results.
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The statistics show that conservatives give both more money and more of their personal time to charity, and both to individual charitable efforts as well as formal ones, yes.
The 4 Ways Of Spending
1) Spend your own money on yourself. You will expect good value.
2) Spend your own money on somebody else. You won't care about value so much.
3) Spend somebody else’s money on yourself. You still won't care about value so much.
4) Spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. You won't care about value at all.
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I read this and tried to see what was the ONE WRONG PREMISE but I couldn't identify it.
There are many things wrong with socialism but it depends on what the socialist advocate thinks socialism is.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WND] Editor’s note: Islam is conquering Europe through uncontrolled immigration and a sky-high birth rate, while jihadist mass-murder attacks pose an ever-present threat both in Europe, the U.K. and America. Against that backdrop, one of the most egregious examples of psychological projection in today’s politics is the ongoing campaign ‐ by Islamic supremacists and their enablers in the progressive left, including the media ‐ not only to deny that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with Islam, but to portray Muslims as the innocent victims of racial and religious hatred on the part of a bigoted America. Following is the introductory chapter of Jamie Glazov’s acclaimed new book, "Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us," which explains this psychological and spiritual jiu-jitsu.
