They Don’t Hate The NRA. They Hate You
Posted: March 1, 2018 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Self Defense | Tags: AR-15, Gun control, Gun Control Debate, NRA, Progressive, Radical Left, Second Amendment 1 Comment
Just believing in the Second Amendment makes you a non-human.
Kurt Schlichter writes: The progressives are cranking things up to 11 on the Stupid/Psycho Scale, which is good for us in the short term – some of us Normals were growing complacent and the midterms are coming. But we also need to open our eyes and accept the bitter reality we face. We can’t just pretend the truth is not the truth because we wish it were otherwise. The left’s dropping of its mask has demonstrated once again the undeniable fact. The left hates you.
Just give them a listen. Those carefully selected moppet puppets are out there on TV telling Normals “We are going to outlive you.” When leftists tell you that you are going to die first, you should believe they mean it. They have a track record of making that happen.
And then there is the new meme, that the NRA is a “terrorist” organization. This means you are a “terrorist” simply by advocating for your political views. Think about that. Labeling your political opponents as “terrorists” – gee, that can’t end badly. Violence against and suppression of terrorists is okay, isn’t it? And when this ploy works with guns, it will happen with the next right the left wants to take from us.
How’s that blood on your hands? Sure, you were thousands of miles away, and your AR-15 – like the 14,999,999 other AR-15s out there – never shot up a school, but just believing in the Second Amendment makes you a non-human. Those of us who know something about history know that the people leftists regard as non-human always tend to end up non-living.
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Oh, they want to have a conversation, all right. It’s a conversation about how you are going to be disarmed, disempowered, and at their mercy.
[Read the full story here, at Town Hall]
Crazy talk? No. Don’t be gaslighted. They will tell you exactly what they want for you if you give them long enough. The beauty of social media is these creeps just can’t help themselves; you just have to have the strength to listen and accept the truth no matter how unpleasant it is. Read the rest of this entry »
How Democracies Panic
Posted: January 21, 2018 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Autocracy, Barack Obama, Democracy, Democrats, Global Panic, GOP, Harry Ried, Newt Gingrich, Progressive 1 Comment
We are living in an era of political panic.
Yuval Levin writes: Some of President Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters in 2016 were motivated to overlook his shortcomings by desperate fear that our system of government was near death and only the most extreme measures could save it. A poll conducted by PRRI and the Atlantic immediately after the election found that more than 60 percent of Trump’s voters believed the 2016 election was “the last chance to stop America’s decline.” As one pro-Trump essayist famously put it, things had gotten so bad that it was time either to “charge the cockpit or you die.”
” … Levitsky and Ziblatt essentially ignore core conservative complaints about the ways in which the left has undermined our constitutional norms and institutions. The progressive celebration of executive unilateralism, of the administrative state, and of a politicized judicial branch are left unmentioned. But even though they do not amount to autocracy, of course, these long-term trends are surely threats to American democracy and of at least the magnitude of President Trump’s tweets.
And yet to say so, Levitsky and Ziblatt suggest, would itself amount to an attack on our institutions. Without a hint of irony, they note that one of the ways the Tea Party movement undermined political norms was that it lodged the accusation “that President Obama posed a threat to our democracy.” Later they say, regarding Republican critiques of Obama, that “such extremism encourages politicians to abandon forbearance. If Barack Obama is ‘a threat to the rule of law,’ as Senator Ted Cruz claimed, then it made sense to block his judicial appointments by any means necessary.” Presumably this means that if you write an entire book arguing that Donald Trump threatens to bring the death of democracy, you are similarly justifying resistance to his administration by any means necessary.
King County Superior Court Judge Slaps Down Seattle’s Ludicrous ‘Tax-The Rich’ Scheme
Posted: November 23, 2017 Filed under: Economics, Politics | Tags: Blue Model, Democrat, Marxism, Progressive, propaganda, Seattle, Socialism, Tax the rich, Washington State 1 Comment
Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess at City Hall, Oct. 30, 2017. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)
Seattle’s bogus ordinance is not authorized under state law.
Sandi Doughton reports: Seattle’s income tax on wealthy households failed its first legal test on Wednesday.
Seattle’s income tax on wealthy households failed its first legal test Wednesday, with a King County Superior Court ruling that the measure is illegal.
In a summary judgment, Judge John R. Ruhl agreed with multiple challengers that the city ordinance adopted in July is not authorized under state law.
“ … the City’s tax, which is labeled ‘Income Tax,’ is exactly that. It cannot be restyled as an ‘excise tax’ on the … ‘privileges’ of receiving revenue in Seattle or choosing to live in Seattle.”
— Judge John R. Ruhl, in a summary judgment
Opponents of Seattle’s so-called “wealth tax” immediately hailed the ruling as proof that the city long has known the tax was legally flawed, but nonetheless pushed it into law.
“The city knowingly violated several laws in imposing this tax,” said Brian T. Hodges, a senior attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented several Seattle residents challenging the law. “This ruling is probably the worst scenario for the city and the best scenario for the opponents of the income tax.”
While Wednesday’s decision is disappointing, the city intends to appeal it directly to the State Supreme Court, where officials always expected the question to be decided, a spokeswoman for Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said in an email.
In a joint statement, Holmes and Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess said their goal is to eliminate the state’s overreliance on regressive sales taxes and ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.
Washington’s tax system has been called the most regressive in the country, meaning that low-income people pay a much higher percentage of their earnings than wealthier residents.
Ed Note:
“has been called”.
Really? When? Where? By whom?
This is a passive lazy gesture, using weasel words.
Passed by a unanimous City Council vote in July and subsequently signed into law by former Mayor Ed Murray, the Seattle measure would impose a 2.25 percent tax on total income above $250,000 for individuals and above $500,000 for married couples filing together. The city estimates it would raise about $140 million a year. Read the rest of this entry »
Bret Stephens: A Century of Progressive Excuses for Communism
Posted: October 28, 2017 Filed under: Education, History, Politics, Russia, Terrorism | Tags: Authoritarianism, Communism, Cuba, Democrats, Dictatorship, DNC, Fascism, Fascist, Genocide, Great Leap Forward, Havana, Joseph Stalin, Killing Fields, Mao, Marxism, Progressive, Progressivism, Red Famine, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalinist, Totalitarianism, Ukraine Leave a comment
People gathered to honor Stalin’s victims at a ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, last year. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Communism Through Rose-Colored Glasses.
Bret Stephens writes: “In the spring of 1932 desperate officials, anxious for their jobs and even their lives, aware that a new famine might be on its way, began to collect grain wherever and however they could. Mass confiscations occurred all across the U.S.S.R. In Ukraine they took on an almost fanatical intensity.”
I am quoting a few lines from “Red Famine,” Anne Applebaum’s brilliant new history of the deliberate policy of mass starvation inflicted on Ukraine by Joseph Stalin in the early 1930s. An estimated five million or more people perished in just a few years. Walter Duranty, The Times’s correspondent in the Soviet Union, insisted the stories of famine were false. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for reportage the paper later called “completely misleading.”
How many readers, I wonder, are familiar with this history of atrocity and denial, except in a vague way? How many know the name of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s principal henchmen in the famine? What about other chapters large and small in the history of Communist horror, from the deportation of the Crimean Tatars to the depredations of Peru’s Shining Path to the Brezhnev-era psychiatric wards that were used to torture and imprison political dissidents?
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Why is it that people who know all about the infamous prison on Robben Island in South Africa have never heard of the prison on Cuba’s Isle of Pines? Why is Marxism still taken seriously on college campuses and in the progressive press? Do the same people who
rightly demand the removal of Confederate statues ever feel even a shiver of inner revulsion at hipsters in Lenin or Mao T-shirts?
These aren’t original questions. But they’re worth asking because so many of today’s progressives remain in a permanent and dangerous state of semi-denial about the legacy of Communism a century after its birth in Russia.
No, they are not true-believing Communists. No, they are not unaware of the toll of the Great Leap Forward or the Killing Fields. No, they are not plotting to undermine democracy. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Compilation of Liberal Media Freaking Out About Google Memo
Posted: August 8, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: ABC, broadcast news, CBS, CNN, Global Panic, Google, Google Memo, Groupthink, Liberal Media, media, MSNBC, news, Progressive, video Leave a comment
The Authoritarian Media
Posted: June 14, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, History, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Al Jazeera, Columbine massacre, Donald Trump, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Israel, journalism, Marx, media, Media malpractice, Middle East, news, President of the United States, Progressive, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, Smear, The New York Times, Trump, Tucson Safeway massacre, WSJ 1 Comment
The New York Times has crossed a moral line, writes James Taranto.
Jan. 11, 2011, James Taranto wrote: After the horrific shooting spree, the editorial board of New York Times offered a voice of reasoned circumspection: “In the aftermath of this unforgivable attack, it will be important to avoid drawing prejudicial conclusions . . .,” the paper counseled.
Here’s how the sentence continued: “. . . from the fact that Major Hasan is an American Muslim whose parents came from the Middle East.”
The Tucson Safeway massacre prompted exactly the opposite reaction. What was once known as the paper of record egged on its readers to draw invidious conclusions that are not only prejudicial but contrary to fact. In doing so, the Times has crossed a moral line.
Here is an excerpt from yesterday’s editorial:
It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge. Many on the right have exploited the arguments of division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants, or welfare recipients, or bureaucrats. They seem to have persuaded many Americans that the government is not just misguided, but the enemy of the people.
That whirlwind has touched down most forcefully in Arizona, which Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described after the shooting as the capital of “the anger, the hatred and the bigotry that goes on in this country.” Anti-immigrant sentiment in the state, firmly opposed by Ms. Giffords, has reached the point where Latino studies programs that advocate ethnic solidarity have actually been made illegal. . . .
Now, having seen first hand the horror of political violence, Arizona should lead the nation in quieting the voices of intolerance, demanding an end to the temptations of bloodshed, and imposing sensible controls on its instruments.
To describe the Tucson massacre as an act of “political violence” is, quite simply, a lie. Read the rest of this entry »
New Rules Surged in Obama’s Last Year to 3,853, Most Pages in Federal Register Ever
Posted: June 1, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Bank Secrecy Act, Barack Obama, Federal Register, Joe Manchin, Myron Ebell, Pen and Phone, Progressive, Regulations, Rules, U.S. Federal Government, United States, White House Leave a comment
Joseph Lawler reports: President Barack Obama’s last year in office set a high watermark for new federal rules and regulations as the outgoing Democrat sought to leave his mark on the country through a “pen and phone” strategy.
The total number of Federal Register pages in 2016 rose nearly 20 percent to 95,894, the most ever, and the number of final rules, at 3,853, was the most since 2005, according to a new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Read the rest of this entry »
Deep State: Obama Agitators Are Subverting Government and Undermining Trump
Posted: February 16, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: ABC News, Alexander, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Eric Holder, Frankfurt School, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, John Daniel Davidson, Organizing for Action, Presidency of George W. Bush, Progressive, Radical Left, Saul Alinsky, Shadow Government, Subversion, The Federalist, White House 1 Comment
The leaks that led to Michael Flynn’s resignation are just the beginning. Obama and his loyalists in and outside government are working to undermine Trump.
“As the leaks keep flowing from our intelligence agencies and the tweets keep flying from former Obama officials, keep in mind that although we haven’t heard much from Obama himself yet, the Trump administration is going to keep feeling the disruptions of what amounts to a shadow government.”
There are exceptions, of course. Jimmy Carter threw himself into international diplomacy, mediating an agreement in 1994 to return exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in Haiti, and generally agitating for a Palestinian state.
Then there is Obama. Less than a month out of office, the broad contours of Obama’s post-presidency career are already taking shape. Obama and his loyalists, it seems, will remain in the center of the political fray, officially and unofficially, in an organized effort to undermine the Trump administration.
The bizarre scandal now unfolding over the resignation of national security advisor Michael Flynn is a case in point. Flynn’s resignation was prompted by a series of coordinated and anonymous leaks from current and former Obama administration officials in our domestic intelligence agencies.
“Obama had eight years in the White House to secure his legacy. Any efforts on his part to undermine his successor aren’t just an affront to the principles of our democracy, they’re an admission that he and his acolytes never put much stock in democracy to begin with.”
Regardless of any valid criticism of Flynn, the leaks are part of a larger, loosely organized effort now underway to preserve Obama’s legacy. This effort involves Obama-era officials still inside the federal government, former Obama staffers working in the private sector, and Obama himself.
[Read the full story here, at thefederalist.com]
This isn’t some conspiracy theory. After the election, Obama indicated he intends to stay involved in the political fray. In an email to his supporters on his last day in office, Obama encouraged them to stay engaged, promising “I’ll be right there with you every step of the way.” Less than two weeks later, he issued a statement saying he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests over the executive order on immigration.
But there’s more to all this than Obama issuing solidarity statements to Trump protestors. For one thing, the former president isn’t moving back to Chicago. The Obama family will remain in Washington DC, within a couple miles of the White House, for the next two years as Obama’s youngest daughter finishes high school. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Why I Left the Left
Posted: February 6, 2017 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Critical Thinking, Left Wing, Marxism, Prager U, Progressive, The Philosophers' Magazine, The Rubin Report, The Young Turks Leave a comment
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report used to be a big progressive. He even had a show with The Young Turks! But now he’s not a progressive. He has left the left. Why? Dave Rubin shares his story.
Source: PragerU
The Left’s False-Flag Conspiracy Panic
Posted: February 3, 2017 Filed under: Education, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: Alessi Brothers, Barack Obama, Berkeley, Breitbart News, Cenk Uygu, Conspiracy theory, Donald Trump, False Flag, Freedom of speech, Global Panic, Left Wing Activism, London, Marxist, Marxist Theory, Milo, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paranoid, Progressive, Protest, protests, Radical Left, Riots, Robert Reich, The Young Turks, Violence Leave a comment
Cenk Ugyur: ‘Riots Were Conducted By Right-Wingers’
“What a convenient Reichstag fire we just had.”
Alex Pfeiffer reports: Progressive journalist Cenk Uygur, who hosts the popular online news show “The Young Turks” with Ana Kasparian, suggested Thursday the Wednesday riot at the University of California – Berkeley was conducted by right-wingers.
Uygur and Kasparian addressed the riot in an episode titled, “Why The Media Is Wrong On Berkeley Protest.”
[Read the full story here, at The Daily Caller]
Ugyur maintained that there is no way to know who the protesters are even though anti-fascist “black bloc” protesters have essentially taken credit for the violence.
Kasparian chimed in that it could be a “clever strategy by the right.”
[ALSO SEE – Armchair Conspiracy Theorist Robert Reich Implicates Breitbart in False-Flag Operation at Berkeley]
“Could the right-wing come in masked? Could it be 4chan guys who come in to cause trouble so they can then turn around and do exactly what they did today, ‘Oh you have to take away the funding from Berkeley?,’” Uygur asked. Read the rest of this entry »
Freedomways
Posted: February 1, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Alice Walker, Communist Party, design, Harry Belafonte, Illustration, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Julian Bond, Magazines, Marxism, Paule Marshall, Progressive, Shirley Graham DuBois, W.E.B. DuBois Leave a comment[VIDEO] Tucker Carlson vs UConn Professor Matthew Hughey: White Supremacy Fueled Donald Trump’s Win
Posted: January 24, 2017 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Academia, Fox News, Left Wing, Marxism, media, news, Professor Matthew Hughey, Progressive, propaganda, Socialism, Tenure, Tucker Carlson, UConn, video, White Supremacy Leave a comment
[VIDEO] SNL: ‘The Bubble’
Posted: November 21, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: comedy, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, GOP, Presidential Election 2016, Progressive, Saturday Night Live, Sketch comedy, SNL, video Leave a comment
‘Where Life Continues for Progressive Americans as if the Election Never Happened’
Angela & Barack: It’s Over
Posted: November 18, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Global, History, Humor, Politics, White House | Tags: 1964 Civil Rights Act, 2016 Presidential Election, Al Queda, Alternative for Germany, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Elite, EUROPE, Germany, Immigration, ISIS, Islamism, Left Wing, Leftism, Marxism, Progressive, The United States Leave a comment
[VIDEO] College History Professor Pulls Down 9/11 ‘Never Forget’ Posters
Posted: September 9, 2016 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 9-11, California, California Legislative Analyst's Office, Campus, Community college, Left Wing, poster, Progressive, Saddleback College, September 11 attacks, Southern California, Twin Towers 1 Comment
A history professor a Californian community college was caught on video ripping down “Never Forget” 9/11 memorial posters.
One of the World Trade Center’s twin towers collapses after it was struck by a commerical airliner in a suspected terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
New York Daily News: Authoritarian Secular Progressive Anti-Christian Rage Boils Over
Posted: December 2, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, Self Defense, Terrorism | Tags: anti-christian, Anti-Semetic, Anti-Semitic, Fascism, God, Gun control, Hatred, Hysteria, Left Wing, media, murder, New York Daily News, news, Progressive, Progressive Democrats, Tabloid Leave a comment
The coordinated prayer backlash is intuitively painfully stupid& rude, but thanks to @seanmdav for illustrating why pic.twitter.com/78UfuJrrsm
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) December 2, 2015
BREAKING: NY Daily News Identifies New Suspect in Colorado Shooting, ‘Hate’ Sought as Mystery Gun-Loader in Investigation
Posted: November 30, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Demagogue, Democratic Party, Gun control, Gun Grabber, Hate, Hysteria, journalism, Left Wing, New York, NY Daily News, Panic, Progressive, propaganda, Tabloid 1 Comment
Bonfire of the Academy
Posted: November 11, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Education, Mediasphere | Tags: Activism, Berkley, Campus, Columbia, Columbia Daily Tribune, Constitutional amendment, Cornell, Far Left, Fascism, Law, Lawsuit, Liberal, Missouri, Mizzou, Politically Correct, Progressive, The Frankfurt School, Tim Wolfe, Totalitarian, Tyranny, University of Missouri, Yale Leave a comment
University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe at the board of curators meeting shortly before he announced he would resign his post on Nov. 9. Photo: Allison Long/Zuma Press
As liberal adults abdicate, the kids take charge on campus.
By bonfire of the academy we mean a conflict of values about the idea of a university that now threatens to undermine or destroy universities as a place of learning. Exhibit A is the ruin called the University of Missouri.
In the 1960s—at Cornell, Columbia, Berkeley and elsewhere—the self-described Student Left occupied buildings with what they often called “non-negotiable” demands. In the decades since, the academy—its leaders and faculties—by and large has accommodated many of those demands regarding appropriate academic subjects, admissions policies and what has become the aggressive and non-tolerant politics of identity and grievance.
This political trajectory arrived at its logical end this week at Missouri with the abrupt resignation of the school’s president, quickly followed by its number two official. The kids deposed them, as their liberal elders applauded either out of solidarity or cowardice.
The cause of President Tim Wolfe’s resignation is said to be his failure to address several racially charged incidents on campus and the threat by its Division One football team to boycott this weekend’s game unless he stepped down.
[Read the full text here, at WSJ]
The university’s campus, in Columbia, is not far from Ferguson, Mo. Among the charges against President Wolfe was that his response to the shooting of Michael Brown was inadequate, which is to say, he did not sufficiently take the side of the protesters or rioters. Since Ferguson, the left-wing Black Lives Matter group has come to prominence and intimidated even presidential candidates. This has been accompanied by successive claims of racial grievance against public and private institutions.
In the United States, by now the instinct of the overwhelming majority of people is to address such complaints in good faith, investigate them and remediate where necessary. Only the tiniest minority would wish to see racial grievances bleed indefinitely. Yet the kids assert that America is irredeemably racist. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama Administration Has Doubts That Key Hillary Gun Proposal Can Work
Posted: October 7, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense, White House | Tags: Background check, Barack Obama, Concealed carry in the United States, Confiscation, Democratic Party (United States), Executive (government), Gun control, Gun violence, Guns, Hillary Clinton, National Firearms Act, Progressive, The Washington Post 1 Comment
Greg Sargent reports: Speaking at a rally in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recalled speaking with parents of victims of gun violence and condemned opposition to gun control laws. (Reuters)
When Hillary Clinton rolled out a series of new gun control proposals this week, one of the most newsworthy and controversial ideas she put forth was a vow to use executive action as president to fix the background check system if Congress refused to act.
But the Obama administration has already taken a long, internal look at the same executive-action proposal Clinton has promised to undertake, and has doubts over whether it can be made to work in practical terms, according to current and former senior administration officials.
The administration is still looking at this idea, in the wake of Obama’s announcement after the Oregon shooting that he has directed officials to “scrub” current laws for further actions the executive branch can take against gun violence, those officials say.
But the administration studied the same proposal in 2013 after the Newtown shooting, in the run-up to its release of a number of other executive actions on guns, and decided against including this particular idea out of concerns about its workability, the officials confirm.
The Clinton campaign has pointed to her vow to use executive action to begin closing the long-discussed private seller loophole — which allows for sales conducted by private sellers to proceed without a background check — as proof of her commitment to acting on gun violence. As a Clinton spokesperson put it: “Her willingness to pursue reforms by executive action if necessary is proof of how urgent a priority this is to her.”
But it turns out that this proposal may be harder to actually implement than it might seem. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Does the Left Green Light Anti-Semitism?
Posted: September 11, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, History, Politics, War Room | Tags: Anti-American, Antisemitism, BBC, Far Left, Hate crime, Islamism, Islamophobia, Islamophobic incidents, Jew Hatred, Jews, Jihadist sympathizers, Left Wing, London, Muslim, Neighbourhood Policing Team, Progressive 3 Comments
writes: Why do leftists care more about Muslims than they do about Jews? If that sounds confrontational, consider this: this week, the Met Police released the latest hate-crime figures for London. They show that offences against Jews have risen by 93% over the past year, while offences against Muslims have risen by 70%. And guess which story the BBC, Guardian and Independent, those voices of the British liberal conscience, have chosen to flag up? Yep, the 70% hike in Islamophobic attacks, not the nearly 100% hike in anti-Semitic offences.
“Pretty much every liberal newspaper in Europe continued thundering on about the potential for an ‘Islamophobic backlash’ following the Charlie killings, even as Jews were being killed.”
The BBC’s headline is ‘Islamophobic crime in London “up by 70%”‘. The Guardian‘s is ‘Hate crimes against Muslims soar in London’. The Indie opts for ‘Hate crimes against Muslims in London “up by 70%”‘. What about the crimes against Jews? Sorry, no room for those. They aren’t mentioned. Whether as a result of how the cops chose to press-release their new figures or how editors chose to interpret them, or maybe a bit of both, someone down the line has taken the decision that a bashed-up or verbally abused Muslim is more newsworthy than a bashed-up or verbally abused Jew.
“On the morning the four dead Jews were being put on a flight for burial in Israel, George Clooney was telling fawning hacks how worried he was about ‘anti-Muslim fervour’ in Europe. It’s surreal.”
This is becoming increasingly common. For some reason, so-called progressives, especially those of a leftist bent, are made more upset by hatred of Muslims than they are by hatred of Jews.
“Some people seem more worried about possible attacks on Muslims than by actual attacks on Jews.”
It’s why the very people – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Diane Abbott, every leftie on Twitter – who normally rail against racism, and against the people who rub shoulders with racists, could in essence say ‘What’s all the fuss?!’ when it was revealed Jeremy Corbyn had been hanging out with Holocaust deniers.
[Read the full story here, at Spectator Blogs]
It’s why every bovine attack on a mosque is held up as hard evidence that Europe is descending into a cesspool of anti-Muslim hatred, whereas you have to scour the media to find mentions of attacks on synagogues. In recent days, a Manchester teen was beaten up in a suspected anti-Semitic assault; a Jewish Spanish teenager was physically attacked; and two Holocaust survivors in Amsterdam were assaulted and called ‘dirty Jews’. Read the rest of this entry »
Hillary: How To Party Like It’s 1938
Posted: September 3, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: 401(k), American Revolutionary War, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Boeing, Capital Gains, Capital gains tax, China, Franklin Roosevelt, Progressive, Socialist, The Wall Street Journal, United States Congress, Wall Street Leave a comment
In The Wall Street Journal, Alan Reynolds says Hillary Clinton parties like it’s 1938—her capital-gains tax proposal has been tried before, by Franklin Roosevelt, with disastrous results….(read more)
Source: WSJ
SEATTLE: Bernie Sanders Loyalists Captured, Imprisoned, Sent to Worthless Progressive White People’s Reeducation Camps
Posted: August 9, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BowDownBernie, Activists, Agitators, Bernie Sanders, Concentration Camp, Mao, Marxists, Parody, Progressive, Reeducation Camps, satire, Seattle, Socialists, Stalin, Totalitarian, White people 1 Comment
#BowDownBernie #BlackLivesMatter #WorthlessWhitePeople #SayYouAreSorry
Los Angeles Times Fires Leftist Cartoonist Ted Rall For False Account About LAPD
Posted: July 28, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: California, Daily Kos, Left Wing, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Times, Marxist, media, news, Police car, Police officer, Progressive, propaganda, South Los Angeles, Ted Rall, The Times 1 Comment
For Marxists like Ted Rall, Lying is as natural as breathing.
Matthew Balan Breitbart’s John Nolte reported on Tuesday that the LA Times discontinued its relationship with far-left cartoonist/writer Ted Rall, after he claimed in an May 2015 item that he was “thrown up against a wall, handcuffed and roughed up by an LAPD motorcycle policeman who also threw his driver’s license into the sewer.” The LAPD subsequently released records about the 2001 police encounter (where Rall was stopped for jaywalking), which included an audiotape that “does not back up Rall’s assertions.”
From John Nolte’s report:
Ted Rall, a noxious left-wing political cartoonist who has advocated violence against conservatives and on more than one occasion revealed himself as a racist, finally went too far, even for the same LA Times that champions those who threaten Jews with curb-stomping. According to the Times, in a May 11 article, Rall outright lied about a 2001 experience he had with the LAPD….(read more)
Maetenloch at AceofSpadesHQ has this:
You’ll be shocked, shocked to find out that Rall is a lying liar who lies. In fact as far back as 2003 Ted Rall was known as a long-time scumbag. The fact that he was ever employed by reputable publications after this cartoon is reason enough for the MSM to be destroyed in a cleansing fire of incandescent righteousness…(read more)
The liberal newspaper’s editorial page editor, Nicholas Goldberg, wrote a note to readers on Tuesday about Rall’s firing. Goldberg first summarized the cartoonist’s claims against the police officer, where he also contended that “dozens of onlookers shouted in protest at the officer’s conduct.” The editor continued that the newly-released audiotape “gives no 
indication that there was physical violence of any sort by the policeman or that Rall’s license was thrown into the sewer or that he was handcuffed. Nor is there any evidence on the recording of a crowd of shouting onlookers.”
Goldberg also pointed out that Rall filed a complaint with the LAPD which made no mention of the allegation of excessive force:
In Rall’s initial complaint to the LAPD, he describes the incident without mentioning any physical violence or handcuffing but says that the police officer was “belligerent and hostile” and that he threw Rall’s license into the “gutter.” The tape depicts a polite interaction.
In addition, Rall wrote in his blog post that the LAPD dismissed his complaint without ever contacting him. Department records show that internal affairs investigators made repeated attempts to contact Rall, without success. Read the rest of this entry »
Barney Frank: ‘Nobody Cares What I Think’
Posted: July 23, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Barney Frank, comedy, corruption, Democratic Party, Irrelevance, Politico, Progressive, Progressivism, propaganda, satire, Socialism Leave a comment
Barney Frank – POLITICO Magazine
Apple Urges Probe of Sen. Al Franken
Posted: July 22, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Al Franken, Apple, Apple Music, Comedian, comedy, Digital Music, Left Wing, Progressive, satire, US Senate Leave a comment
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray Introduces Sharia Law Plan for Muslim Home Buyers
Posted: July 16, 2015 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Religion | Tags: celebrity, Council on American–Islamic Relations, European Court of Human Rights, Family Research Council, Islam, Islamic terrorism, Muslim, Muslim Brotherhood, Pamela Geller, Progressive, Saudi Arabia, Seattle, Sharia, Socialist, Southern Poverty Law Center, United States 1 Comment
“We will work to develop new tools for Muslims who are prevented from using conventional mortgage products due to their religious beliefs.”
— Seattle Mayor Ed Murray
The Puget Sound Business Journal‘s Marc Stiles reports: For some Muslims, it can be hard to buy a house, and Mayor Ed Murray plans to do something about it.
On Monday, Murray’s housing committee released its recommendations for ways the city can increase housing in the city. Most ideas were what you’d expect, including increasing the city’s housing levy and implementing new rules and regulations to foster development of market-rate and lower-income housing.
One suggestion would help followers of Sharia law buy houses. That’s virtually impossible now because Sharia law prohibits payment of interest on loans. The 28-member committee recommended the city convene lenders and community leaders to explore options for increasing access to Sharia-compliant loan products.
“They could easily qualify for home loans but opt not to apply ‘simply because they don’t want to pay interest.’”
— CAIR Chapter Executive Director Arsalan Bukhari
More and more lenders are offering Sharia-compliant financing, according to a USA Today report. The sector has grown to more than $1.6 trillion in assets worldwide over the past three decades, and analysts see potential for continued growth as the number of Muslims in the United States and Europe grows.
“Their religious beliefs also call for killing those who leave Islam, killing gays…having four wives, marrying children, and waging jihad…Is Murray going to help Muslims enjoy those aspects of their religion too?”
It’s unclear how many Muslims in Seattle would benefit from Murray’s plan. The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) estimates more than 30,000 Muslims live in the greater Seattle area, and Chapter Executive Director Arsalan Bukhari on Tuesday said it’s “fairly common” for some not to seek loans.
CAIR has been identified as a terrorist organization by the UAE. Many of CAIR’s leaders have been jailed or deported on terror crimes. [see Gallery of Terror-Linked CAIR Leaders]
Based on what he called “rough anecdotal evidence,” Bukhari estimated a couple hundred people aren’t borrowing money for houses due to their religion. He said this includes even high-wage earners, such as the more than 1,000 Muslims who work for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MFST) and more than 500 Amazon.com employees. Read the rest of this entry »
Dem Governor Inslee Blames GOP for His ‘Climate Change’ Legislative Failures
Posted: July 14, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Blue State Model, Curtis King (politician), Democratic Party (United States), Emissions trading, Fuel tax, Jay Inslee, Joe Fain, Judy Clibborn, Low-carbon fuel standard, Patty Murray, Progressive, Republican Party (United States), Seattle, Socialist, Sound Transit, Washington State Leave a comment
Washington State’s Democratic Party holds the record for longest uninterrupted control of the Governors office for nearly half a century, longer than any other state in the United States.
SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has “gained national attention” for rolling out some of the “most ambitious” climate initiatives in the country.
“Inslee blamed the Senate Republican majority for the failures, saying the party ‘is now in the stranglehold of the oil and gas industry.’”
But Inslee has failed to pass ‘bold’ proposals, including the centerpiece cap-and-trade plan to charge emissions from oil refineries, power plants and fuel suppliers.
The Democratic governor also conceded to Republican demands and approved a transportation revenue package that included what he called a “poison pill” preventing a state agency from taking action on a low carbon fuel standard for eight years. Read the rest of this entry »
Pizza, Tolerance, GOP Dirty Tricks, The Koch Brothers, Left-Wing Paranoia, & Math
Posted: April 4, 2015 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, Politics, Religion | Tags: #RFRA, Bigotry, FoFundMe, GOP, Koch Brothers, Left Wing, Math, news, Paranoia, Progressive, propaganda, Tolerance, Twitter 1 Comment
Help Wanted: Cuckoo Bananas Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $20 an Hour Minimum Wage Wants to Hire Web Developer for $13 an Hour
Posted: October 16, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere | Tags: Communism, Craigslist, Freedom Socialist Party, indeed.com, Marxism, Minimum wage, Progressive, San Francisco, Seattle, Tyranny, Wage, Web developer 2 Comments
Killer item from Pundit Press:
It’s sometimes said that if some people didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all. That applies to the Freedom Socialist Party.
In 2012, their official website was pushing for a drastic increase in the minimum wage. In fact, they pushed for a full $20 per hour minimum wage, even for the most basic jobs:
From the ash heap of history: The Seattle SOCIALIST ZOMBIES
Well, if you are a socialist, I have good news: the Freedom Socialist Party is hiring! They must have competitive wages for a web developer, right? Not exactly.
The people who want people who flip hamburgers for a living to earn $20 an hour to do that are willing to pay an experienced web developer… $13 an hour.
Their ad, posted on both indeed.com and craigslist.org, can be seen here:
This Day in History, Oct. 14th 1912: Theodore Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt
Posted: October 14, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: 1912, Assassination attempt, Bull Moose, John Flammang Schrank, Milwaukee, Progressive, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson 2 Comments
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
On this day in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot while making a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Roosevelt, who served as President from 1901 to 1909 was attempting to run for a third term for his Bull Moose Party. He lost the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson. He was shot by John Schrank, a mentally disturbed saloon keeper, who claimed he was told to kill Roosevelt by the ghost of former President William McKinley. Read the rest of this entry »
D’Souzaism of the Day: ‘Progress’
Posted: September 7, 2014 Filed under: Humor, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Autocracy, Barack Obama, censorship, Communism, Democratic Party, FDR, Hillary Clinton, Marxism, Plutocracy, president Wilson, Progressive, Progressivism, Socialism, Tyranny Leave a comment
Failed Ideologies 101: Election Year Edition
Posted: September 4, 2014 Filed under: Comics, History, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Brainwashing, Democratic Party, DNC, Genocide, Lenin, Marx, Marxism, Mass murder, murder, Progressive, Progressivism, propaganda, Socialism, Starvation, Statism 2 Comments
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“Funny or Die” to Change Name to Just “Die”
Posted: March 14, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Humor | Tags: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Funny or Die, Obama fundraising, Obamacare, Pro-Obama organization, Progressive, satire, Will Ferrell Leave a comment
“It’s a simpler name, easier to remember, and reflects our transition… We’re excited about the new name, and we hope our fans will be too.”
said “Funny or Die” co-founder and star of “Anchorman” and “Anchorman 2“, actor Will Ferrell. The new name will replace the old one at the beginning of April, said a “Funny or Die” spokesperson Nancy MacGuffin, who asked reporters to refer to the new website, formerly a comedy website, by the new, more serious name, “Die“.
The original logo:
The new, improved logo:
Developing…
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