[Time] History often seems inexorable in hindsight, shaped by powerful figures operating beyond our control. But when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walked in to face the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, raised her right hand and swore to tell the truth, it was clear that an unassuming psychology professor and mother of two was about to change the course of current events in real time.
At stake was a potential lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court that could change decades of legal rulings and affect the nation’s faith in its judiciary. Control of Congress may have hung in the balance, too, as Senators prepared to assess Ford’s allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her some 36 years ago, a charge he vigorously denies. Most of all, the hopes and fears of women and men who have lived with the trauma of sexual violence were riding on the credibility of Ford’s testimony. Her treatment in the halls of power, and her reception by an expectant public, would send a signal to countless survivors wrestling with whether they should speak up.
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Her treatment in the halls of power, and her reception by an expectant public, would send a signal to countlesssurvivors wrestling with whether they should speak up. those who seek power by any means necessary.
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In the future, everyone will be a victim for 15 minutes
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Is this the same magazine that sold for $1
It was Newsweek, according to US News. The Washington Times also was bought for just $1, but that that appears to have been due to internal Unification Church/Moon family issues.
Time Magazine is being sold by Meredith Corp. to Marc Benioff, a co-founder of Salesforce and his wife.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the iconic news magazine is being sold for $190 million to Benioff, one of four co-founders of Salesforce, a cloud computing pioneer.
The sale is occurring nearly eight months after Meredith Corp. completed its purchase of Time Inc.
Meredith, the publisher of such magazines as People and Better Homes & Gardens, had put four Time Inc. publications up for sale in March. Negotiations for the sale of the three other publications — Fortune, Money and Sports Illustrated — are continuing.
So nobody really wants the magazine, it’s just that they don’t want it for a good deal more than a dollar in hand to make the sale legal.
The case of Frank Fuster has been back in the news thanks in part to this magazine’s efforts at reminding the public of the injustice of his situation. Fuster is, as National Review’s headline put it, Janet Reno’s Last Victim, the last man serving time for a conviction resulting from the "Satanic ritual abuse" hysteria of the Eighties and Nineties.
Fuster is certainly a criminal (he served time for homicide, and there is no question as to his guilt in that matter), and he may even be a child molester, but it is almost certain that he did not commit the crimes for which he was convicted, because it is almost certain that those crimes did not occur at all.
In Fuster’s case and in others like it, discredited and unethical psychological and pseudo-psychological techniques were used to unearth "recovered memories" in children, memories that were then used to convict men and women, many of them workers in day-care centers, of sexual assault. The stories the children told were, as stories invented by little children often tend to be, preposterous. They told not only of being sexually abused but of being transported via flying saucer to outer space to be abused, of being taken from their day-cares in American suburbs to distant Mexican prisons where they were abused and returned within the course of a few hours, of being dismembered and reassembled, of murder, being buried alive, and much more. That there was (of course) no evidence that any of these things had happened, that prosecutors dismissed the details as inconsequential distractions from the "greater truth," that Satanic sexual-abuse cults were real and active in Florida suburbs.
Of course, there was no evidence that these Satanic sex-abuse cults existed at all, much less that they had infiltrated the nation’s day-care centers, but that was treated as beyond question: They had to exist, because we were having a national hysteria about them, and we wouldn’t be having a national hysteria about nothing, would we? Why would we do that?
Janet Reno was prominent among those prosecutors and took the lead in the Fuster case. She oversaw the torture of his young wife, who was kept in solitary confinement, kept naked, denied basic hygiene (an observer testified that he found her covered with sores), subjected to sleep deprivation, etc. And though it is impossible to say at this point, it is probable that she was a party to the falsification of evidence purporting to show that a child in the case was infected with gonorrhea by Fuster; she certainly was complicit in the destruction of that evidence before it could be more fully examined. (Subsequent tests found no gonorrhea in Fuster or in the child.) Reno and her colleagues exhibited absolutely moral certainty in the justness of their cause: When the sexual abuse of children is at issue, justice will bear a great deal of innovation.
[PJ] Jackson Cosko, a 27-year-old grad student and cybersecurity expert who worked for several Democratic lawmakers, was charged with several felonies in connection with a doxxing incident involving GOP senators.
Cosko allegedly posted the personal information of several Republicans on their Wikipedia page.
He was charged with publishing restricted personal information, threats in interstate communication, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, witness tampering, second-degree burglary, and unlawful entry.
According to a sworn statement by Capitol Police Captain Jason Bell, a witness Tuesday saw Cosko at a computer in a senator’s office, where he used to work, a day after two other unnamed senators' information had been put on Wikipedia. Cosko worked for other Democratic senators including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and former Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. While earlier reports identified Cosko as an intern for Jackson Lee, his lawyer said that he was working as a fellow in her office, paid by an outside institution.
Sources familiar with the case tell Fox News Cosko was in Sen. Hassan's office, where he was not authorized to be and was caught using a login he was not authorized to use. Cosko earlier was let go by Senator Hassan's office. A spokesman for Hassan says she "strongly denounces the alleged actions.”
According to Bell's statement, Cosko is alleged to have been confronted by the staffer and then walked out. The staffer then called police. Hours later the witness received an email from "livefreeorpwn@gmail.com" saying: “If you tell anyone I will leak it all. Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children’s health information and socials.”
The doxxing is bad enough, but does anyone else find it strange that Cosko was able to waltz into a senator's office and use a computer and login without anyone's authorization?
The suspect's lawyer assures us he was acting alone:
Cosko's defense attorney, Brian Stolarz, told Fox News his client acted alone.
"We all need to take a deep breath," said Stolarz. "In this political climate everyone wants to jump to conclusions. We need to put the conspiracy theories aside and focus on the allegations. Jackson Cosko is innocent until proven guilty, and we intend to challenge the charges."
I don't want to jump to conclusions. I just want a few answers to some simple questions, like what was Cosko working on when he was caught and how did he get access to a computer in a senator's office?
Posting personal information is a direct threat -- especially in these hyperpartisan times where hysteria dominates and people feel perfectly justified in threatening the life and safety of politicians and their families. The charges against Cosko could result in him getting 20 years of jail time.
Good. It’s about time these vicious asses start seeing actual — amd serious — consequences.
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The doxxing is bad enough, but does anyone else find it strange that Cosko was able to waltz into a senator's office and use a computer and login without anyone's authorization?
The same kind of dumbass politicians that would let the Awan brothers maintain their computers would also neglect to change a password when a guy like Cosko leaves their employ. Or, maybe that's what they would have us believe.
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[Conservative Tribune] Thanks to the national fever over the Kavanaugh hearings, a report that the FBI is holding onto documents that are potentially damning for the Clintons has been able to slip under the radar of the establishment media.
In a recent bombshell report by The Hill, investigative journalist John Solomon wrote that the FBI has identified 37 pages of documents that may offer information about what FBI agents told the Obama administration preceding the Uranium One deal about the criminal wrongdoing found in Russia’s nuclear Industry.
Those suspicious of the deal pointed to evidence that bribery may have been at play in the deal. For example, the fact that Russians paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 to give a speech at a Russian bank that was promoting Uranium One stock a few weeks before then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton had to vote on the acquisition.
Or you could bring up the $145 million that went to the Clinton Foundation from interests linked to Uranium One. Or the fact that Tony Podesta, the brother of Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, was paid $180,000 by Uranium One to encourage Clinton’s approval of the deal.
And more evidence of Clinton-Russia collusion may exist in these FBI documents. At least, there is reason to believe that the documents would inform the American people about what information the Obama administration was working with before the Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States made the highly controversial deal with Russia.
That said, neither of the two possible outcomes of this information is great. Either the Obama administration knew about the corruption involved and chose to give American assets to Russia anyway, or the FBI hid their findings and failed to alert the president, the secretary of state and the CFIUS board. Both options give serious indications about the corruption that compromised national security.
However, according to Solomon, the American people won’t be privy to this info, as the FBI is keeping the documents secret from the public. They claim that they must not disclose the info in order to protect national security and law enforcement, or that they are guarding the privacy of American citizens, or that they must protect the ability of government agencies to communicate among themselves. Pick one.
And as Solomon pointed out, these sound like the same reasons that the FBI originally gave for why they couldn’t publish documents about the Russia collusion investigation ‐ documents which gave information about former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s anti-Trump texts, or documents on Clinton and other Democrats funding the fraudulent Steele dossier to take down Trump.
The bureau did release a few documents under the title "Uranium One Transaction" in its Freedom of Information Act online vault, but these were just public letters from members of Congress calling for answers about the Uranium One case.
[FrontPageMagazine] In the great span of world history, nearly all change and progress has come from an under-served and out-of-power group pushing, prodding, and pounding on those who hold power to expand it to include a wider and more diverse population. Non sense. Every communist revolution has been at its base a revolt of the ethnic majority.
Unfortunately, nearly every time, those in power don’t have the foresight or humility to expand the circles without this external threat.
As a white male Christian in America, I am part of a dwindling subset that has held the levers of power politically and economically in nearly every field for the entire history of the United States. And with good reason.
And though my Irish Catholic ancestors had to push to get a seat at the table, we are still a part of this dominant power group. Yes, the halls of power have slowly let in some people of color, women, people of a different faith, and people of a different sexual persuasion. But white male Christians still dominate the rooms where most decisions are made.
This must change in a much more dramatic way. Speak for yourself, princess.
Instead of waiting for the diverse population of America to keep pushing and prodding, I would humbly suggest that we as white male Christians take it upon ourselves to step back and give more people who don’t look like us access to the levers of power.
We don’t have to wait, and our country is in desperate need of more diverse leaders. It is that diverse leadership which will not only represent more of what America looks like today, but it will give us the opportunity to find solutions which homogenous models of leadership aren’t able to. It's ain't your nation. And people who are in positions in power aren't there because of their ethnicity. They are there because they worked their asses off to get there. Stepping aside for those who are waiting for you to step aside is an exercise in ethnic prejudice.
Yes, let me repeat, we as white male Christians should do what real leadership demands and practice a level of humility which demonstrates strength by stepping back from the center of the room and begin to give up our seats at the table. Allow me to repeat. Speak for yourself, Sparky.
We should make this move not because we feel threatened, but because we know it is morally right and it is what would help America in this troubling time. The best leaders and change makers make themselves dispensable. And that is what me and my fellow white male Christians must do more often. What is morally right is to shrink the size, scope and power of the government, so that everyone can compete for their "place at the table." Anything less is a game of musical chairs, a favorite of socialists the world over because they believe they still will have their chairs when the music stops.
We don’t need to be the CEO of nearly every major company in America.
We don’t need to be the majority of the people who hold political power. We don’t need to be President. We don’t need to be a Supreme Court Justice. We don’t need to be the ones who dominate conversations and run the meetings.
Let us let others step in to fill that power vacuum.
I myself can do a much better job of this in both my personal and professional life. I don’t need to take the seat on the board of a company or a non-profit if others equally talented are standing by. I don’t need to always speak up or try to run meetings I happen to be in. I should interrupt less, and let others from diverse backgrounds share their thoughts. Just say no, then. Problem solved.
Yes, we all have a purpose in this wonderful mysterious life, and our mission calls us to do that which is calling us in our hearts and souls. Maybe part of that mission as white male Christians is to practice real leadership by letting others step up while we step back. How about stop plumbing your ethnic identity and get on with your own "wonderful mysterious life." Where's the harm in that?
We shouldn’t wait to be shoved or “toppled”, and we should even extend a hand and say “it’s your turn, take my place.” They'll topple you anyway.
As I have watched the last week of disruption and drama in Washington, a major part of this could have been avoided if white male Christians had more readily stepped back, and turned over leadership to those who are not the same sex, or the same color, or the same religion as us. No, it wouldn't have been avoided. Stepping aside would make things much worse because now those who don't have your identity think they got there because you let them, not because they earned it. You are insulting and degrading people in that manner. That makes you a bigot.
I for one am excited at the prospect of seeing how a whole different group of people will lead and make our country and the Earth a better place. The earth is a helluva place right now without your stupid and insulting social proposal.
Let’s do this, guys. Let’s put the country first and our fellow humans ahead of our own egos. Let’s do this not out of a sense of insecurity that we are losing a hold on power, but out of a sense of security that others not like us can do the job better than we can at this time.
The greatest demonstration of strength is putting someone else ahead of ourselves. Let’s show we are that strong. What a schlemiel.
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I can tell you that I've done that several times as a program manager or construction manager and when things go to hell because they all sit around with their thumbs up their butts whining about not getting opportunities when it is beating them on the head, guess who gets to step in and bail them out.
Fuck em
Lead follow or get the hell out of the way and don't snivel on facedbook about the mean old white guy yanking your shiney new toy away from you when you fall on your ass in your incompetence.
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I think the more apt Yiddish term for the author would be schlamazel. The poor, whimpering, groveling sad sack seems to be begging others to shit on him-- and on the rest of us, as well.
"As a white male Christian in America..."
You aren't a Christian: you're a gutless coward.
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We did have a trial of that in education some time ago. There were male institutions like Harvard and Yale. There were female institutions, where the men did step out of the way and let the women lead, like Vassar, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, etc.
Which one did people universally think was better?
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The writer of this article has my permission to step back and let somebody, anybody, take his place at whatever it is he does. He can go to his safe place, put on his pajamas, suck his thumb and watch TV all day. I'm sure his mother will call him when it's time for dinner.
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Let’s do this, guys. Let’s put the country first and our fellow humans ahead of our own egos.
Hear!Hear! A random group of preschoolers could craft a more mature, thoughtful statement. He should retire and let one of them write columns for his newspaper.
This isn't the extremism of the left, it is an example of the suicidal masochism and non-existent cultural confidence that is Western consensus policy.
[The Federalist] Since the day Brett Kavanaugh was named as President Trump’s nominee to serve on The Supreme Court, women on the left have been angry. Now women on the right are even angrier. The media circus surrounding the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh have produced no evidence that he is, or ever was, the man that Democrats and the media have portrayed him to be. Many conservative women see an eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee standing his ground, while duly elected members of the Senate attempt to destroy his life and prevent him from serving on the nation’s highest court. These women are furious about the behavior of the left, and they don’t intend to stand for it.
With Senate races tightening all over the country as Election Day approaches, Republican women have shown tremendous fortification through the Kavanaugh hearings and allegations. In The Marist Poll released Wednesday, 83 percent of Republican women claim that the midterm elections are "very important," a 12 percent increase from the same poll conducted in July. The treatment of Kavanaugh has lit a fire in the belly of conservative women. Enthusiasm among Democratic women actually fell two points ‐ from 81 percent to 79 percent ‐ over the same period.
While women on the right are resentful of the treatment of Kavanaugh, they listened to Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation and testimony. These women simply want fair treatment of the accused as well, and ask for proof before condemnation. Hashtags like #BelieveWomen, and #BelieveSurvivors certainly seem to carry a positive tone of rallying around the abused, but their implication of "Believe everyone, no matter what" is terrifying to its core. The concept of believing anyone without corroborating evidence is against the fabric of this nation, and didn’t sit well with a lot of women in this country. Emily Yoffe pointed out in The Atlantic the inherent issues with the movement to flatly believe all women. "If believing the woman is the beginning and the end of a search for the truth, then we have left the realm of justice for religion," she wrote.
h/t Instapundit
The left’s smear tactics have come on full display during the surfeit of attacks on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Whether you support or oppose this SCOTUS nomination, the tactics being used are more extreme even than during the Clarence Thomas hearings.
But as we know, they are nothing new, and Democrats will continue to use them until the American people scream "Enough!" ‐ because they are effective. The real goal is psychological terrorism‐that is, engaging in a scorched-earth effort to destroy the target, and in so doing intimidating anyone willing to enter public service, or even just support a public figure that does not parrot the politically correct line.
The charges do not need to be true, or even credible. People do not recoil because of the charges themselves (although, as we see, the left spares no effort to dream up the worst accusations they can think of). People recoil out of fear.
This tactic relies on the human herding instinct. People naturally shy away from anyone so vilified, whether the charges are credible or not, simply out of fear of being smeared with the same brush. They don’t want to be ostracized by the group.
Such excommunication has real consequences on reputations, jobs, relationships, even survival. The real goal is to threaten the rest of us into silence. How many people, for example, never used Donald Trump yard signs or bumper stickers out of fear of ostracism, or even property destruction?
[Rasmussen] The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -3. (see trends).
Dear Mahmoud Abbas says, “Let’s you and him fight while I choke him a bit for extra funsies.”
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian sources say Ramallah warned it would boycott Israeli fuel, told fuel workers in Strip not to show up to work, as Abbas tightens stranglehold on the enclave
For the umpteenth time in recent months, Israel has received proof that severed relations between Jerusalem and Ramallah and between Ramallah and Gazoo could significantly compromise security on the Gazoo border.
Paleostinian sources said Thursday that threats made by the Paleostinian Authority to an Israeli gas company and to UN employees have delayed the planned transfer of emergency Qatar
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h/t Instapundit
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz believes the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh by Julie Swetnick provide an "educational moment" in dealing with women who falsely accuse men of sexual misconduct.
Dershhowitz joined other panelists on Fox News’ "Hannity" on Tuesday discussing the questionable interview of the Supreme Court nominee’s third accuser.
Swetnick’s NBC interview which aired Monday was filled with accounts that appeared to differ from the sworn testimony she had already provided claiming Kavanaugh had attended parties in high school which were known to have gang rapes of women.
Every one of Swetnick’s claims should be investigated by the FBI for possible perjury, Dershowitz argued, since she appeared in the interview to walk back her sworn statements.
"This becomes a very important educational moment because when you have to teach the women of the world and the men of the world that there is no genetically linked aspect of telling the truth, that women make up stories about alleged events that never occurred and that’s why it’s so important," Dershowitz told Sean Hannity. "But this is an education moment. And the world is watching." Make some group privileged - there will always be some members of the group who'll abuse the privilege.
Any person who, against his better judgment, accuses a person, who is not guilty of a crime or misdemeanour, to the authorities with the intention of bringing proceedings against him shall be punished by imprisonment or a fine.
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The good Professor is right. These clown shows will continue if there are no bad consequences for perjurers. Now if we could just figure out how to wake up Snoozy Sessionzzz.
Kavenaugh should also sue these people (including the MFM) into the poor house, but current U.S. libel laws make it extremely difficult for a "public figure" to win.
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...yeah, go figure. 14th Amendment says we're equal before the law, but a SCOTUS interpretation says there are private and public peoples. Even public individuals can still sue if they can prove malice. I think we've seen a lot of clear malice.
[American Thinker] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saks has stated that the ultimate basis of Jewish peoplehood throughout history has been "Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh" ‐ "All Jews are responsible for one another." We may not agree on anything, but we remain a single extended family. If you disagree with a friend, tomorrow he may no longer be your friend. But if you disagree with a family member, tomorrow he is still part of your family. Being a family is what keeps us together. We don't need to agree with each other, but we do need to care about each other. This historical connection among Jews has come to an abrupt end. It can no longer be ignored or denied. American Jews from the Democratic, progressive side of the political map not only have transformed themselves into a vanguard dedicated to publicly criticizing Israel, but act as if Israel is a flawed democracy unworthy of their support.
This monumental shake-up and self-inflicted division of the Jewish world has been building up, changing the foundation of the Jewish world we have been accustomed to for the past 150 years. Not since the period of European enlightenment leading to the establishment of the Reform movement and secular Judaism, and not even during the darkest days of the Holocaust, has the Jewish world undergone such a widespread and fundamental rethinking of what it means to be Jewish. With the establishment of the State of Israel and her metamorphosis within a relatively short period into a world leader in defense, technology, medicine, agriculture, water purification, and food production, allowing Israel to free herself from the shackles of dependence on the American Jewish community, the schism has only accelerated and is threatening the unity of the Jewish world.
We see it everywhere today; led by self-hating Jews, appearing on mainstream and social media, adopting an anti-Israel narrative that not only rejects Israel's basic national right of self-defense, but simultaneously demands that Israel forfeit her right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Jewish intellectuals, liberal and progressive organizations, Reform rabbis, lay leaders, university faculty members, students, communities, and grassroots movements have all joined hands, using their Jewish identity and Jewish affiliation to represent themselves as a moral authority and amplify their rejection of the State of Israel while making alliances with BDS organizations, Islamic organizations, and anti-Israel movements throughout the world that specifically express their objective of ending the existence of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. They express solidarity with the Palestinians and their efforts to delegitimize the Jewish State.
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yes there have always been Jews who went to the other side
the article should have made a quantitative point, i.e., that rather than the idiomatic anti Israel quack or the cultic anti Israel groups (e.g. Neturai Karta) you have what is essentially a mass movement
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Well, there was that one fellow. Soros I believe his name was.
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has the Jewish world undergone such a widespread and fundamental rethinking of what it means to be Jewish.
In every generation there arises the anguished cry that we are divided and disappearing. Nowadays those same anti-Zionist, Progressive Jews are the ones who are reproducing at well below replacement rates, just like non-Jewish Progressives, while Zionists like Ivanka Trump are well above replacement.
It seems to me that the last big adjustment to intra-Jewish connections within the larger world occurred with the conquest of Byzantium, floowed by the closing of east-west trade routes and the Crusades, the previous biggies being the disdain for the Jewish revolts against Rome by the diaspora population, and the return of a small Jewish population to the holy land from the Babylonian captivity with the permission of Cyrus of Persia.
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TW, in my recent convalescence last year I found myself listening a lot to Mike Duncan's "History of Rome" podcast. The section on Hadrian suggested that he was mentally not all there, and that Hadrian basically put down a revolt that wasn't happening anywhere but in his head. Is that accurate?
The Bar Kokhba revolt marked a time of high hopes followed by violent despair. The Jews were handed expectations of a homeland and a Holy Temple, but in the end were persecuted and sold into slavery. During the revolt itself, the Jews gained enormous amounts of land, only to be pushed back and crushed in the final battle of Bethar.
When Hadrian first became the Roman emperor in 118 C.E., he was sympathetic to the Jews. He allowed them to return to Jerusalem and granted permission for the rebuilding of their Holy Temple. The Jews’ expectations rose as they made organizational and financial preparations to rebuild the temple. Hadrian quickly went back on his word, however, and requested that the site of the Temple be moved from its original location. He also began deporting Jews to North Africa.
The Jews prepared to rebel until Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah calmed them. The Jews then satisfied themselves with preparing secretly in case a rebellion would later become necessary. They built hideouts in caves and did shoddy work building weapons so that the Romans would reject the weapons and return them to the Jews.
...As long as Hadrian remained near Judea, the Jews stayed relatively quiet. When he left in 132, the Jews began their rebellion on a large scale. They seized towns and fortified them with walls and subterranean passages. Under the strong leadership of Shimon Bar-Kokhba, the Jews captured approximately 50 strongholds in Judea and 985 undefended towns and villages, including Jerusalem. Jews from other countries, and even some gentiles, volunteered to join their crusade. The Jews minted coins with slogans such as “The freedom of Israel” written in Hebrew. Hadrian dispatched General Publus Marcellus, governor of Syria, to help Rufus, but the Jews defeated both Roman leaders. The Jews then invaded the coastal region and the Romans began sea battles against them.
It sounds like there would not have been a revolt had Hadrian not mismanaged the entire situation so incredibly badly, Snowy Thing, but the revolt was certainly not a figment of his imagination. Back in May, the Times of Israel reported another finding of coins struck by the rebels during that period.
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I wonder how many 'outtakes' it took to record this... How many 'Cut! Run it again!' when the actor couldn't stop laughing at how idiotic the spiel sounded when he spoke the lines...
Stand-Up Comedy at its finest
[American Greatness] The polarizing atmosphere of the university has now spread to Congress.
During the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we witnessed how college values have become the norms of the Senate. On campus, constitutional due process vanishes when accusations of sexual harassment arise. America saw that when false charges were lodged against the Duke University lacrosse players and during Rolling Stone magazine’s concocted smear of a University of Virginia fraternity.
Americans may disagree about the relative credibility of either Kavanaugh or his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. But they all witnessed how the asymmetry of the campus governed the hearings.
Ford’s veracity hinged on empathy and perceived believability. There was little requirement of corroborating testimonies, witnesses and what used to be called physical evidence. In contrast, Kavanaugh was considered guilty from the start. He had to prove his innocence.
One belief of the university is the postmodern idea of relativist truth.
On campus, all can present equally valid narratives. What privileges one story over another is not necessarily any semblance to reality, at least as established by evidence and facts. Instead, powerful victimizers supposedly "construct" truths based on their own self-interests. As a result, self-described victims of historical biases are under no obligation to play by what they consider to be rigged rules of facts, evidence or testimony.
This dynamic explains why Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J) insisted that Dr. Ford told "her truth." In other words, evidence was not so relevant. Ford’s story of events from 36 years ago inherently would have as much claim on reality as Kavanaugh’s rebuttal‐and perhaps more so, given their different genders and asymmetrical access to power.
There was little interest in discovering the ancient idea of the Truth. To do that would have required the messy work of taxing the memories of teenage behavior nearly four decades prior.
Truth-finding would have required difficult, time-honored examinations of physical evidence, the testimony of witnesses, and even unpleasant cross-examinations about the time and place of the allegations. Feelings might have been hurt. Motives might have been questioned, as they are under constitutional norms of due process.
Also on the campus, the race and gender of people now increasingly determine who we are.
Republican senators were repeatedly written off by critics as "old white men," not unique individuals who might be disinterested or biased, fair or prejudicial.
Kavanaugh was largely assumed guilty, in part for once being a privileged white kid of 17 who had gone to a prep school.
Meanwhile, Booker, by virtue of not being old and white, was considered a credible senatorial examiner. No one cared that Booker had once invented stories about an imaginary friend named "T-Bone."
Such blanket race- and age-based stereotyping was not even consistent. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is 72 and white. Yet given his progressive politics, no one dismissed him on the basis of gender and age, much less for being a serial fabricator who concocted false stories of being a Vietnam veteran.
The Senate also adopted the modern university’s doctrine of self-censorship, no-go zones and safe spaces.
Given issues of gender and the university concept that accusations of sexual assault inherently are exempt from constitutional protections of due process, Ford was more or less excused from normally tough cross-examination.
In her testimony, Ford never explained why despite her self-professed fear of flying she has been a frequent flyer on business and leisure trips.
Ford’s privacy and medical status were understandably to be respected and off-limits. Yet Ford suggested that her friend, Leland Ingham Keyser, was suffering from "significant health challenges" after Keyser did not corroborate Ford’s allegations.
Ford was never really asked why her narratives concerning the number of witnesses to the alleged assault and their genders were not compatible. Her accounts of the location and time of the alleged assault were either inconsistent or nonexistent.
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.
[Time] History often seems inexorable in hindsight, shaped by powerful figures operating beyond our control. But when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walked in to face the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, raised her right hand and swore to tell the truth, it was clear that an unassuming psychology professor and mother of two was about to change the course of current events in real time.
[PJ] Jackson Cosko, a 27-year-old grad student and cybersecurity expert who worked for several Democratic lawmakers, was charged with several felonies in connection with a doxxing incident involving GOP senators.
[Conservative Tribune] Thanks to the national fever over the Kavanaugh hearings, a report that the FBI is holding onto documents that are potentially damning for the Clintons has been able to slip under the radar of the establishment media.
[FrontPageMagazine] In the great span of world history, nearly all change and progress has come from an under-served and out-of-power group pushing, prodding, and pounding on those who hold power to expand it to include a wider and more diverse population.
[Right Scoop] John Bolton totally triggered a reporter today when he referred to the state of Palestine as the "so-called state of Palestine".
