Month: August 2018

A great piece on the inconsistencies of liberal support for Strzok.

Philip Wegmann:

“…He cheated on his wife, and the Left gave him a quarter-million dollars.

A GoFundMe page for disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok has raised more than $290,000 for his legal expenses in just one day. Donations continue to pour in for Strzok, who sent tons of anti-Trump text messages to his colleague and mistress, Lisa Page.

It seems that the roughly 6,500 donors hate President Trump so much that they are willing to enable the infidelity of this philanderer because they like his politics. The women in question have not been so lucky.

No legal fund has been set up for Page, though she remains at the FBI and seems to be cooperating with congressional investigators. More egregious still, no money has been sent to Strzok’s wife, Melissa Hodgman.

Her politics aren’t known, but her plight has been public for some time. Her husband texted his mistress thousands of messages on a government phone to hide the affair from her, and inadvertently archived his infidelity in the process, for all of posterity. She has been humiliated on the front page of every major paper and disgraced almost daily during the nightly news.

Everyone knows his cheating. No one cares about her pain.

The pair has not split. One can only hope that if they do divorce, though, a judge will award her a hefty chunk of his ill-gotten cash at the very least. But money won’t undo the betrayal. Cash payments won’t change the fact that liberals are crowdfunding so that another man who used women can escape the consequences.

This isn’t the first time the Left has forced women to take a back seat for partisan purposes. When battling Trump or confronted with vast right-wing conspiracies, liberals suddenly care significantly less for victims.

The same people who ignore violated interns turn a blind eye to ruined marriages because, turns out, women are expendable when the patriarchy has the correct politics…”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/peter-strzok-got-fired-for-cheating-on-his-wife-and-liberals-gave-him-250-000-anyway

Horrible. Really horrible.

“…Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s, and senior church officials, including a man who is now the archbishop of Washington, D.C., systematically covered up the abuse, according to a grand jury report released Tuesday…”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/deadline-looms-release-catholic-church-abuse-report-57161030

Omarosa made a significant mistake. She does not have the resources to battle Trump related entities in court. She will incur tremendous defense costs, and will loose, and could face a significant monetary judgement against her. This does not include the potential criminal case against her for surreptitiously recording conversations in the White House. In addition to Omarosa being a disaster as a person, she is also a nitwit!

“…President Trump’s campaign organization has filed an arbitration complaint against Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House aide who is out with a scathing memoir of her time in the administration. The campaign alleges that Omarosa is in breach of a confidentiality agreement she signed.

The claim was filed with the American Arbitration Association in New York City, a firm that handles such cases for private parties. However, the arbitrator overseeing the case can impose a penalty for the breach of a non-disclosure agreement. The Washington Examiner first reported the news, which was confirmed to CBS News’ Arden Farhi by a campaign official.

According to the Examiner, the arbitration move could “wipe [Omarosa] out financially.” The publication, citing “a Trump ally,” says that it is the campaign’s contention that Omarosa’s 2016 non-disclosure agreement remains in effect…”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/omarosa-trump-campaign-files-arbitration-suit-against-former-aide-over-non-disclosure-agreement/

This is a good summary of the dire situation the Iranian regime finds itself faced with. I don’t agree with the Financial Times opinion on economic pressure from the US or the Obama Nuclear deal with Iran, but this is the best presentation of those positions I have seen.

“…Troubles are mounting in Iran. Its currency, the rial, has lost more than half its value against the dollar on unofficial markets this year and inflation is soaring. Even middle-class Iranians are struggling to get by, with food prices rising and reported fuel shortages in some cities. Sporadic anti-government demonstrations are continuing. Worse, the economic pressure on the country is set to mount. The US government last week reinstated economic sanctions that had been waived as part of the Iran nuclear deal of 2015. These punitive economic measures are set to intensify in November, when the US will seek to ban Iranian oil exports. EU nations have pledged to try to preserve economic ties with Iran. But it seems probable that most large European companies will sacrifice trade with Iran, rather than risk suffering from secondary sanctions. The US government says its goal in re-imposing sanctions is to force Iran to make deeper concessions on its nuclear programme and to stop its military and political intervention in neighbouring countries — in particular Syria, Lebanon and Iraq…”

https://www.ft.com/content/9e851942-9c8b-11e8-9702-5946bae86e6d?segmentId=7ac5b61e-8d73-f906-98c6-68ac3b9ee271

This is a good article about how the media treated with Omarosa and the lack of judgement and professionalism in today’s media personalities and newsrooms.

Thomas H. Lipscomb:

“…Rather than functioning as a news organization, NBC news simply allowed itself to be used as a PR outlet promoting the clearly self-interested complaints of its source, just as Andrew Duehren at The Wall Street Journal did the following day. And why?

This isn’t “fake news.” It is news fraud. It is a conscious failure to cover an equally critical part of a news story that isn’t hidden, but sitting there in plain sight. It is a conscious choice by a news organization to only run the allegations of a source and allow selective use of a tape offered as bait to support those allegations and in the process provide only negative information on the Trump administration. Kelly states the White House had “integrity” issues with Manigault Newman. But she at least makes no pretensions to greater ideals than her own self-promotion. There are even greater integrity issues with news organizations that do.

“Fake news” may often be a matter of opinion, but a blatant case of intentional news fraud against the fair presentation of a news story of interest to Americans is hard to miss. Avoiding exploring why she was fired, when the opportunity to do so was readily at hand, has only one net effect: It avoids challenging the veracity of Manigault Newman’s charges against Trump and his administration…”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/14/fake_news_and_news_fraud_137791.html

A good article. Worth reading the whole thing.

Rupert Darwall:

“…No country has a greater abundance of hydrocarbon energy than the United States. The corollary is that no country was as big a loser from participating in the Paris Agreement and its intention to progressively decarbonize the world’s hydrocarbon superpower. On July 10, the Energy Information Administration forecast that next year, the United States will produce 12 million barrels of oil a day and overtake Saudi Arabia to be the world’s number-one producer. When it comes to the politics of energy, the interests of the United States and European green ideology are irreconcilable.

Donald Trump understands this. “Our country is blessed with extraordinary energy abundance, which we didn’t know of even 5 years ago and certainly 10 years ago,” the president said in 2017. Those remarks were not only a paean to America’s energy resources, they were a full-dress rejection of the policies of his predecessor and of the Democrats’ goal of Europeanizing American energy policy.

We have nearly 100 years’ worth of natural gas and more than 250 years’ worth of clean, beautiful coal. We are a top producer of petroleum and the number-one producer of natural gas. We have so much more than we ever thought possible. We are really in the driving seat. And you know what? We don’t want to let other countries take away our sovereignty and tell us what to do and how to do it. That’s not going to happen. With these incredible resources, my administration will seek not only American energy independence that we’ve been looking for for so long, but American energy dominance. And we’re going to be an exporter—exporter. We will be dominant. We will export American energy all over the world, all around the globe. These energy exports will create countless jobs for our people, and provide true energy security to our friends, partners, and allies all across the globe.

For the first time since 1992, when George H.W. Bush went to the Rio Earth Summit, an American president was outlining a global energy strategy diametrically opposed to the tenets underlying the U.N. climate process. Trump was establishing a rival pole based on energy realism and energy abundance…”

https://www.weeklystandard.com/rupert-darwall/breaking-the-climate-spell

The Trump-Russia Collusion Investigation has been corrupt from the start. This is the biggest scandal in American history. The scandal is the intelligence and law enforcement apparatus of the government directed to destroy a presidential candidate, and later the elected president. 

Victor Davis Hanson:

“…Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s “dream” and “all-star” team.

Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else in his campaign—and therefore end the Trump aberration.

Press puff pieces highlighted the résumés of his superstars—of Lisa Page (no comment needed), Peter Strzok (less than no comment needed), Jeannie Rhee (a former attorney for the Clinton Foundation, Ben Rhodes, and for a bit Hillary Clinton), Andrew Weissman (Clinton zealot, Obama and DNC donor, and the cheerleader to Sally Yates’s refusal to carry out a presidential order), Aaron Zebley (the former attorney for Clinton staffer Justin Cooper who set up the infamous Clinton home server and smashed to bits her mobile devices), and a host of other pros, who were all shortly to prove Trump-Russian “collusion.”

Although that Mueller mandate of collusion was never formally defined, much less explained as a criminal offense, the media salivated at the idea that Mueller’s whiz kids nonetheless were going to find it and no doubt thereby usher in impeachment.

Now we have gone from melodrama to bathos…”

and

“…Robert Mueller’s legacy will be not so much that he was chasing the white whales of Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort, or even that he is another Patrick Fitzgerald desperate to indict Trump as the new Scooter Libby. Instead, Mueller’s testament thus far will be one of willful blindness: he saw nothing ethically or legally wrong, or dangerous to the republic, in a bought and fictional dossier that fueled both his own reason to be, and in various ways was central to an historic government effort to surveille, to infiltrate, to undermine, and to discredit a political campaign first—and later to derail an elected presidency…”

https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/13/the-legacies-of-robert-muellers-investigations/

This is not the 21st century I was anticipating!

Social Justice Warriors Drive Lesbian Actress Off Twitter For Not Being Lesbian Enough and/or For Being an Inauthentically “Hot” Lesbian

I have been assured by numerous media personalities that this is impossible!

Michael Goodwin:

“…A story is supposed to have  two sides, but there is only  one when it comes to President Trump’s foreign policy. Most American media treat his every effort as a savage assault on a harmonious world order.

Whether it’s the trade dispute with China, his pushing North Korea to scuttle its nukes or his demand that NATO members spend more on defense, the headlines sound the same shrieking note: “Trump inflames . . . Trump escalates . . . Trump doubles down . . . Trump risks . . .”

The parade of horribles continues to this day, but it will be hard to out-fear-monger a Time magazine headline from May: “By Violating Iran Deal, Trump Jeopardizes National Security.”

But since the world hasn’t ended and since we’re not dead yet, I humbly suggest it’s time to take a deep breath and consider the other side of the story.

We don’t have to look far. Numerous signs are popping up that the impact of Trump’s policies is far from the disastrous scenario the media predict. By wielding America’s power instead of apologizing for it, and by keeping his focus on jobs and national security, Trump is making progress in fixing the ruinous status quo he inherited.

America First, it turns out, is more than a slogan. It is a road map to reshaping America’s relationship with friend and foe alike…”

https://nypost.com/2018/08/11/trumps-foreign-policy-is-actually-boosting-americas-standing/

Ari Fleischer✔@AriFleischer

It’s great to be the DNC. If Ellison were a Republican, the press would have knocked over the doors of the RNC demanding a statement. But the DNC’s co-chairman? No comment from the DNC. No feeding frenzy from the press. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-minnesota-ellison-abuse-20180813-story.html …3:40 PM – Aug 13, 2018

Journalism!

I don’t like to comment on personal matters relating to politicians. It is not fair. Everybody deserves some privacy and room for mistakes. It does seem however, that the torpedoes the democrats put in the water to get Trump and republicans keep circling around and hitting the democrats. I read a little bit about this situation and the first women who claimed abuse at the hands of Ellison. All of the people involved, men and women, seem like trouble to me.

“…A guy named Jeff Kolb, who is a city councilman in a Minneapolis suburb, has raised a new sexual assault allegation against Congressman, Deputy DNC Chairman and candidate for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. I have no idea how reliable Kolb is, but his tweets don’t seem to depend much on his own credibility…”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/another-keith-ellison-sexual-assault-charge.php

Journalism!

This is a great article about a heretofore unreported aspect of FBI/DOJ/CIA malfeasance during the 2016 election. He makes a compelling case.

George Parry

“…Why Did Nellie Ohr Suddenly Become a Ham in 2016?…It is apparent that, between her own professional experience and her marriage to a top DOJ official, she was well aware of the ability of the National Security Agency to intercept and store every communication on the Internet. Did this knowledge have anything to do with her mid-life decision to become a ham radio operator and communicate outside cyberspace?…”

http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/02/fusion-gpss-anti-trump-researcher-avoid-surveillance-ham-radio-license/

“…CNN calls marchers chanting ‘f*ck the police’ and throwing eggs ‘anti-hate groups’…”

Journalism!

Related:

Media Ignores Fact That Cops And NBC Reporter Were Attacked At Charlottesville [VIDEO]

Journalism

Monica Crowley:

“…While Democrats and their wingmen in the media are falling over themselves to make superstars out of shiny new socialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, the unapologetic capitalist in the White House is achieving something much more monumental. He’s delivering a booming economy that is bringing increased prosperity, opportunity and freedom to every demographic group. That, in turn, is generating growing support for him and his policies, including, most significantly, from constituencies critical to the Democratic Party. These inroads into traditionally reliable Democrat voting blocs are giving rise to a developing existential threat to the party and its policies…”

http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/401215-the-trump-economy-is-destroying-the-obama-coalition#.W22Jljig9No.twitter

The Canadian psychology professor’s stardom is evidence that leftism is on the decline—and deeply vulnerable.

“…There are many legitimate reasons to disagree with him on a number of subjects, and many people of good will do. But there is no coherent reason for the left’s obliterating and irrational hatred of Jordan Peterson. What, then, accounts for it?

It is because the left, while it currently seems ascendant in our houses of culture and art, has in fact entered its decadent late phase, and it is deeply vulnerable. The left is afraid not of Peterson, but of the ideas he promotes, which are completely inconsistent with identity politics of any kind. When the poetry editors of The Nation virtuously publish an amateurish but super-woke poem, only to discover that the poem stumbled across several trip wires of political correctness; when these editors (one of them a full professor in the Harvard English department) then jointly write a letter oozing bathos and career anxiety and begging forgiveness from their critics; when the poet himself publishes a statement of his own—a missive falling somewhere between an apology, a Hail Mary pass, and a suicide note; and when all of this is accepted in the houses of the holy as one of the regrettable but minor incidents that take place along the path toward greater justice, something is dying.

When the top man at The New York Times publishes a sober statement about a meeting he had with the president in which he describes instructing Trump about the problem of his “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric,” and then three days later the paper announces that it has hired a writer who has tweeted about her hatred of white people, of Republicans, of cops, of the president, of the need to stop certain female writers and journalists from “existing,” and when this new hire will not be a beat reporter, but will sit on the paper’s editorial board—having a hand in shaping the opinions the paper presents to the world—then it is no mystery that a parallel culture of ideas has emerged to replace a corrupted system. When even Barack Obama, the poet laureate of identity politics, is moved to issue a message to the faithful, hinting that that they could be tipping their hand on all of this—saying during a speech he delivered in South Africa that a culture is at a dead end when it decides someone has no “standing to speak” if he is a white man—and when even this mayday is ignored, the doomsday clock ticks ever closer to the end…”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/why-the-left-is-so-afraid-of-jordan-peterson/567110/