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Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Lighter Side of Impeachment

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

Impeachment Hoax - The Beat goes on

And in the beginning - Incoming Democrat Chairman: Dems Will Go ‘All-In’ On Russia, Impeach Kavanaugh For ‘Perjury’

 Poll: Trump Job Performance Hits 52 Percent Amid Impeachment

 2020 Contender Andrew Yang Says Impeachment ‘Is Going to Be a Loser’

Eleven Cartoons That Fully Expose Democrat's Impeachment Push as the Scam it is

 House Hears Testimony From Renowned, Unbiased Legal Scholar Helga Clintonheimer

Impeachment Farce Part One is Over

 All This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement Syndrome

Impeachment Is Slowly Destroying Democrats’ 2020 Political Hopes

 Do Democrats Realize How Much Trouble They’re In?

 Democratic Law Professor: It Is Wrong to Impeach Trump Just Because You’re All Mad 

 THE IMPEACHMENT REPORT IS DAMNING….FOR DEMOCRATS
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Impeachment Smiles

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Impeachment Follies

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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Kavanaugh - Democrat Civility in Action

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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

The Clown Car - 29 June 2019

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The Clown Car - Wednesday - 3 July 2019

Assorted Links

 Kamala 2020 Makes Obama 2008 Look Positively Right Wing

 What Are Democratic Candidates Hiding About Their Plans For The Supreme Court?

 Nonsense from the Democrats’ Debates

 The Left’s Political Hit Squads Prep for 2020

 Bernie Sanders' #CancelStudentDebt Is a Dangerous Scam

The Democratic Candidates' Bidding War: Can Anybody Even Compile A Full List?

 The Best Part Of Not Being A Progressive Is Not Having To Feel Guilty All The Time

 Evening News Shows Ignore Record 10-Year Economic Expansion

 NY Times Smears GOP By Linking to Europe's Far-Right, Ignores Sharp Dem Swerve to Left

 CBS Touts Blue States and Cities Passing New Taxes, Plastic Bag/Straw Bans

 Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say Citizenship Question Should Be Allowed on Census 

Democrat street gangs in action

  Left Amps Up Justifications For Violence Against Their Political Opponents

The NY Times’ Pathetic Response to Antifa Assault on Conservative Reporter

  Facebook Tolerates 119 Violent Antifa Pages, Despite New Rules

 A lighter look:

 Free Stuff is a Human Right - Democrat campaign material

Democrat Debate 2019


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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Clown Car Links - Tuesday - July 2, 2019

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Monday, July 1, 2019

The Clown Car - Monday - 1 July 2019

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The Clown Car Links - 26 June 2019

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The Clown Car Links - Tuesday - 25 June 2019

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Saturday, June 22, 2019

The Clown Car Links - Sunday - June 23, 2019


THE WEEK IN PICTURES:  INCONCEIVABLE EDITION!

We Hold All the Cards in the Showdown with Iran

African Americans Don’t Need Reparations. We Need To Take Responsibility For Our Lives

Here Are The Best Conservative Films To Watch This Summer

While Americans Gobble Up History Books, Colleges Shut Down History Departments

America Under Democrats: Forcing Americans To Pay For Abortion And Banning Chick-Fil-A

California Farmers Waiting on a Train That Will Never Come

Socialism Will Deprive You of What You Need to Survive

Iran, Still?


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The Clown Car Links - Saturday - 22 June 2019

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

The Clown Car Links - Friday - June 21, 2019

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The Clown Car Links - Thursday - 20 June 2019

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Clown Car - Wednesday - 19 June 2019

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The Clown Car - Tuesday - 18 June 2019

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Monday, June 17, 2019

The Clown Car Links - Monday - 17 June 2019

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

The Clown Car Links - Thursday - June 13, 2019

On The Promise Of “Green Jobs” June 12, 2019/  - Francis Menton

HAVE LIBERALS EVER BEEN RIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING?

Sanders's Socialist Snake Oil

What’s Wrong with Asking about Citizenship on the Census? -  Rich Lowry


 And for some humor:
Google Maps Developers Apologize For Bug That Instructs Conservatives To Drive Off Cliff

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The Clown Car Links - Wednesday - June 12, 2019


Why do we like Trump? Here's why - Phil Grant
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/opinions/commentary/why-we-like-trump

Justice Ginsburg Angers Dems As She Heaps Praise On Kavanaugh -  Carmine Sabia
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/justice-ginsburg-angers-dems-heaps-praise-kavanaugh

Who says Democrats are not civil? 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/marcia-fudge-reads-constituent-letter-calling-trump-voters-racist-and-dumb-on-house-floor/

Another Media-Fueled Collusion Narrative Falls Apart - Julie Kelly
https://amgreatness.com/2019/06/11/another-media-fueled-collusion-narrative-falls-apart/

How Diversity Narrows the Mind - Graham Cunningham
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/06/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind/

Why The IG Report On FISA Abuse Will Unleash Barr’s Investigation Of Spygate - Margot Cleveland
https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/07/ig-report-fisa-abuse-will-unleash-barrs-investigation-spygate/#.XPpim5iGxak.twitter

Candidates’ Consciences For Sale - Thomas McArdle
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/07/candidates-consciences-for-sale/

Latest Ramirez cartoon
https://www.creators.com/read/michael-ramirez/06/19/255940

Interesting Link: My Congressional District
https://www.census.gov/mycd/

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The Marx Brother

Bernie Sanders clings to socialism, ‘rivals laugh.’

By James Freeman
The Wall Street Journal
June 12, 2019

Having parted ways with some non-Marxists who managed to infiltrate his 2016 presidential campaign, Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders will attempt to clarify this afternoon that he is not like other candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in 2020. Edward-Isaac Dovere notes in the Atlantic that Mr. Sanders will be speaking in Washington this afternoon on “How Democratic Socialism Is the Only Way to Defeat Oligarchy and Authoritarianism.” Mr. Dovere reports that the speech topic is sparking laughter among Democratic rivals as Mr. Sanders “leans into socialism.”

Adds Mr. Dovere:

Aides say the D.C. setting is an attempt to convey his seriousness on the subject. They want this to be a major signpost in his 2020 campaign, an opportunity for Sanders to lay out why he’s running with an argument no one else can or would make as forcefully, and to dare the rest of the field to oppose him. They believe this speech has the potential to re-center the dynamics of the race around him, and that the other candidates will regret any of their laughter and questioning...

Many readers may find it laughable that Mr. Sanders would attempt to position himself even further to the left than he did in 2016. But as a Journal editorial noted in April, there’s nothing funny about the extreme commentary from people who are now members of the Sanders 2020 operation. For example, current Sanders speechwriter David Sirota once wrote an op-ed titled “Hugo Chávez’s Economic Miracle”. And Mr. Sirota isn’t the only Sandernista who has lauded the Chavistas.

Assessing the current Sanders team, the Journal observed:

Voters need to understand that they don’t merely admire Venezuela. By their own words, they want America to emulate it.

Mr. Dovere writes today in the Atlantic:

Sanders’s inner circle is now committed to democratic socialism in a way that some senior members of his 2016 campaign team were not, though he did deliver a speech about the topic back then as well. This new speech, aides tell me, will go much deeper. Sanders and his aides see this as a moment to reach for the revolution that he’s been dreaming of since he was an angry, underemployed writer in the 1970s, paying his bills through essay writing while being an activist.

Given the long history of Mr. Sanders’ friendly relations with communist thugs, one must be optimistic to assume his brand of socialism would remain “democratic.” How many Americans want to live through a revolution dreamed up by an angry, underemployed writer anyway? Fortunately, as Mr. Dovere notes, the citizens of our democracy don’t necessarily want exposure to the full Bernie:
Not everyone believes the message will penetrate. “There is zero electoral evidence that voters support hard socialism or care about the fights the left relitigates every day on Twitter,” one frustrated former 2016 Sanders aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely criticize the current campaign, told me.

Who knew we’d be looking back with admiration at the relative moderation of the Sanders 2016 staff?

As for the members of the current Sanders staff, one would hope they would look back in horror at their admiring commentary on the Venezuelan regime, but today’s speech suggests not. Attendees at today’s Sanders event can expect him once again to urge U.S. adoption of the same health care guarantee that’s been made for years by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The results have been appalling. Last month Vivian Sequera of Reuters reported on the “Venezuela healthcare collapse” and focused on 11-year-old Erick Altuve, who died “from respiratory problems while being treated for stomach cancer at the Jose Manuel de los Rios public hospital.” According to the Reuters report:

For the past six months, Altuve had not received his medication, his mother, Jennifer Guerrero, said, because of widespread shortages of drugs and medical equipment that have devastated Venezuela’s health system...

Children have paid an especially heavy price from the collapse in Venezuela’s healthcare system as the economy has shrunk by over a half during six years of recession.

The most recent figures from Venezuela’s Health Ministry show that infant mortality, covering children age 1 and below, rose 30% to 11,466 cases in 2016 from the year before. There is no official data on children’s’ deaths from cancer.

More broadly, the mortality rate for children under 5 years has risen by 40% since 2000, the humanitarian group Save the Children said in its 2019 report.

Democratic voters have an opportunity to save U.S. patients of all ages from the plans of Mr. Sanders and his staff.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

All Bernie’s Socialists


The candidate’s advisers want America to be more like Venezuela.

By The Editorial Board
Wall Street Journal
April 8, 2019

Socialism is cool again, and Bernie Sanders wants to reassure voters that there’s nothing to worry about. “I think what we have to do, and I will be doing it, is to do a better job maybe in explaining what we mean by socialism—democratic socialism,” Mr. Sanders said last month. He has also said that conservatives portray his brand of socialism “as authoritarianism and communism and Venezuela, and that’s nonsense.”

We wish that were true. But we’ve been reading the work of Bernie’s senior political advisers, and their words deserve more attention. Take speechwriter David Sirota, who joined the Sanders campaign in March, though he had been attacking the Vermont Senator’s Democratic opponents on Twitter for months.

Mr. Sirota wrote an op-ed for Salon in 2013 titled “Hugo Chávez’s Economic Miracle.” Mr. Sirota conceded, Chávez “was no saint” and “amassed a troubling record when it came to protecting human rights and basic democratic freedoms.” Those pesky disclaimers aside, Mr. Sirota suggested that there’s plenty to learn from Chávez.

“For example, the United States has adamantly rejected the concept of nationalization and instead pursued a bailout/subsidy strategy when it comes to rapacious banks and oil companies—and those firms have often gone on to wreak economic havoc. Are there any lessons to be learned from Venezuela’s decision to avoid that subsidization route and instead pursue full-on nationalization?” Mr. Sirota wrote. “And in a United States that has become more unequal than many Latin American nations, are there any constructive lessons to be learned from Chávez’s grand experiment with more aggressive redistribution?”

He wrote this in 2013, nearly 15 years after Chávez took power. Mr. Sirota has also opposed nearly all U.S. military actions abroad, and he blames the U.S. for inciting terrorism. Days after the Boston marathon bombing in 2013, Mr. Sirota wrote that “with America having killed thousands of civilians in its wars, we should be appalled by acts of terrorism—but we shouldn’t be surprised by them.” His disclaimer: “Noting this is not to argue that such attacks are justified or that we deserve them.”

Mr. Sanders’ political director, Analilia Mejia, spent part of her childhood in Venezuela and told the Atlantic in 2016 that “it was better to live on poverty-level wages in a shantytown in Venezuela than on a garment-worker’s salary in Elizabeth, New Jersey.”

Mr. Sanders’ senior policy adviser Heather Gautney visited Caracas in 2006 to attend the World Social Forum. The event featured a two-hour speech by Chávez lauding Karl Marx and Fidel Castro and pledging to “bury the U.S. empire.” Ms. Gautney admitted the event had “a militarized feel” but wrote about how Chávez had “implemented a serious [sic] of programs to redistribute the wealth of the country and bolster social welfare.”

She defended Chávez’s nationalization of private industry and efforts to rewrite the Venezuelan constitution on grounds that Chávez’s “proposals advocated for a system in which the presidency would be decided via popular vote.” She also wrote that “today’s neoliberal capitalist system has become utterly incompatible with the requisites of democratic freedom.” And she says that “as it stands, US representative political and economic institutions are not structured as representative bodies in any real sort of way.”

As a sociology professor at Fordham, Ms. Gautney has written admiringly that the U.S. Occupy movement was “based on the belief that some places, institutions, forms of property, and rights, should be collectively owned and enjoyed.” So “if neoliberal forces of privatization and deregulation have indeed dispossessed people of these forms of social wealth, then occupation should be understood as an act of repossession in which persons or groups take back what was once common.”

Redistribution of wealth and property is a major theme among the Bernie brigades. In a column for the Intercept this year, Mr. Sanders’ national press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, wrote: “There will be no racial equality under capitalism. . . . voters should be clear that ‘recognizing’ disparities and doing something about them through aggressive, redistributive policies are not the same thing.”

Claire Sandberg, national organization director for the Sanders campaign, praised U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for going “beyond even what Bernie called for in saying that we need to have a robust public sector, that we need to in the UK bring the railways back under public control, and to really fight back against the privatization. That’s something that we’re not even talking about here: How do we undo all of the privatization that’s occurred over the last 30 years?”

Mr. Sanders isn’t a gadfly on the fringes of the Democratic Party. He’s a leading candidate for its presidential nomination, and these are the people who would staff his White House. Voters need to understand that they don’t merely admire Venezuela. By their own words, they want America to emulate it.

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Still Dreaming of Watergate II


Conrad Black
https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/26/still-dreaming-of-watergate-ii/
March 26th, 2019

Of all the asinine and, at times, almost psychotic misstatements about the bone-crushing victory the president has won, the prize goes, with admirable historical symmetry, to John Dean.

It was Dean who led the destruction of lawyer-client privilege in the Watergate debacle, and with it, of much of America’s claim to be a society of laws. Having been the corrupt source of many of the most fatuous illegalities in the amateur obstruction put forward by members of President Richard Nixon’s entourage, John Dean was the first rat down the hawser, denouncing his client, employer, and benefactor with contemptuous disregard for the truth and in the supreme demonstration of the evil of the American plea bargain system.

This perversion of the justice system, more than anything else, has ensured that prosecutors in the United States, win a percentage of their cases about equal to those of North Korea and Cuba. They extort inculpatory evidence against the main target by threatening witnesses and give the denunciators immunity from perjury and a sweetheart sentence.

Dean’s performance exceeds in venality even the antics of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, American history’s most successful fiction-writers. (At least Gore Vidal acknowledged he was writing historical novels.) Odious though Woodward and Bernstein are, irritatingly imperishable though they are, as far as I know they didn’t break any laws and didn’t dishonor a learned profession. (Having employed thousands of journalists for decades, I can attest that they aren’t part of a profession and few of them are learned.)

With that preamble to remind us of what we are dealing with in John Dean, I cite his tweet on Friday night at 11:55, after news broke that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had given Attorney General William Barr his report and that he would recommend no more indictments: “Trump and his minions think they dodged a bullet. I have a notion—that Mueller delivered a bomb to AG Barr, who is now trying to figure out how to tell Trump in a way that doesn’t cause him to start World War III. Barr knows he works for a psycho.”
Thus are we reminded of the prescience and integrity of one of the sleaziest characters in American political history, the Michael Avenatti of his times, though thanks to the president he betrayed and traduced, he achieved an ostensibly serious position.

Democrats Vying to Embarrass Themselves

Others who inflict upon themselves more often than I do the cruel punishment of looking at the more egregiously bigoted news outlets are already presenting delicious examples of malicious and dishonest idiocy among the apostles of the Russian collusion fraud.
I cannot resist offering, however,  the two stupidest comments I heard from the bloated dunciad of Democratic presidential candidates. Naturally, the grand prize goes to the vapidest person ever touted as a presidential candidate in my 63 years as an observer of American politics, Beto O’Rourke. Just before the revelation that there would be no further indictments, Beto asserted his knowledge “beyond the slightest doubt” that the president was guilty, in effect, of high treason—that he would only escape the death penalty because the United States and Russia were not at war. (But neither were they when Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953.) And the day Trump was completely cleared of the collusion suspicion, O’Rourke declared that the investigation of Trump must continue.
Close at Beto’s heels is the almost equally simple-minded and even more pretentious straw-haired airhead, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). Standing in front of the Trump Hotel in Washington on Sunday, she called the president “a coward” and then Gillibrand (“I chose to be brave”) said he was still a prime suspect of collusion with Russia, 90 minutes before the release of the attorney general’s letter to the leaders of the Senate and House judiciary committees. I stop here, but not for any lack of other worthy contestants to win the sweepstakes for malice and foolishness.

In the convulsive aftermath of the sudden death of the whole impeachment fraud, the grievously outnumbered elements of the media who had kept their heads through the whole saga were severely overworked calling the witless majority of media assassins to account. The most durable and contemptible of all American media mythmakers, Carl Bernstein, claimed the role of the anti-Trump media was heroic and entirely admirable. He did so on CNN, and so was not asked by his co-defamer Brian Stelter, who although he is only 33, manages to look like he lost his hair fighting alongside Senator Da Nang Dick Blumenthal in Vietnam. Of course, Bernstein was not probingly questioned. He never has been. This mad and pandemical egotism of the Washington media is precisely the reason why this time, the almost suicidal failure of the media must be run to ground.

No Forgiveness Without Conversion

I am venerable enough to have been a publisher of small daily newspapers at the time of Watergate, and I was one of the very few who warned where the criminalization of policy differences would lead. Eventually, Richard Nixon will be seen as the troubled but courageous, talented, and irrepressible American hero and very successful president that he was, (and was always perceived to be by his scores of millions of followers). He has been short-changed in recognition of his greatness and over-penalized for his faults, but history will sort it out, as he knew. (I had the privilege of knowing him in his last five years.)

The same ghastly group-narcissism that showered media awards among the Watergate jackals flared up again, like Camus’ description of the Plague, with Pulitzers to the New York Times and Washington Post for their obscene campaigns of lies about Trump-Russian collusion. The president spoke nothing but the truth when he said on Monday: “It was an illegal take-down that failed.”

It need hardly be emphasized that the right to freedom of expression is sacrosanct, and any attempt to muzzle or intimidate the media would be anathema. Even so, as the almost certain crimes of Hillary Clinton and some of her inner circle and allies—former intelligence chiefs John Brennan (now desperately backpedaling), and James Clapper, the FBI’s own James Comey and Andrew McCabe, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and her deputy Sally Yates, Yates’ successor Rod Rosenstein, and many lesser figures—are resurrected and charged, untainted elements of the media must conduct a process of chastisement and reinduction of their wayward colleagues. The mercy of forgiveness must await those visited by the grace of conversion, in this case to honest reporting and the separation of reporting of facts from tendentious personal opinion. (Both must be expressed, but not commingled.)

Having been the victim of the evils of the American criminal justice system, I would not have it inflicted on others. In any case, I do not believe in the incarceration of nonviolent, first-time offenders. I wouldn’t ask more than some community service for those who seriously broke the law in the 2016 election and its aftermath.

But it was an attempted coup that would never have come to light if Hillary Clinton had won. The perpetrators must be given the opportunity to atone for their crimes and expiate them, and American posterity must understand the sanctity of the constitutional process. Those who deliver great nations from terrible fates are not always people who seem to have been selected by casting studios. This president’s imperfections are not indiscernible, but he has shown himself to be a courageous and indomitable leader in excruciatingly difficult circumstances. And he is the president; those who want him out can vote against him at the next election.

Having expressed my wish for gentle sentencing, I proclaim what must now be the wish of the majority toward those who so gravely threatened the democratic republican system of American government. I am not a pious man, but so important is the proper outcome of this prolonged crisis, I am moved to cite Judeo-Christian Scripture: “God of Vengeance, God to whom vengeance belongs; show Thyself.” Then it will be time for mercy, even unto the most unworthy, who shall be nameless, such as John Dean and Carl Bernstein.


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