In Effort To Shake Off Abuse Allegations, Marilyn Manson Runs For Office As A Democrat https://t.co/3dX0JFVkmI

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 2, 2021

CNN Legal Analyst: ‘You Don’t Have A First Amendment Right To Lie’.

 

That was wrong – obviously people can lie. I meant to say Trump has no 1st Am right to call for a crime to be committed (or to call for something dangerous). Sorry for the misstatement.

— Jennifer Rodgers (@JenGRodgers) February 2, 2021

Rodger’s claim that the First Amendment does not protect the right to lie runs contrary to multiple Supreme Court decisions that have upheld the right to use false statements, with the exception of defamation. Roger’s later corrected her misstatement.

Biden State Dept. Spox Calls Cops ‘Blue Klux Klan,’ and Largest Threat to U.S. National Security’

“Porter’s comments were made on Sept. 20, 2016, and appear to be in reference to video footage released that day of an unarmed black man being shot by police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “An unarmed Black man takes a knee for justice, bigots riot,” she wrote in the post. “An unarmed black man (with his hands raised) takes a bullet and dies, these same bigots are silent. Explain this to me, please.”

“…The shooting victim, Terence Crutcher, was under the influence of PCP and TCP at the time of the incident according to an autopsy.

A jury found the shooting officer to be not guilty in May of 2017, stating in the verdict: “it is clear to the Jury after intensely studying the video, still photos, and testimony that the windows to the SUV driven by Terrance Crutcher that evening were open and that the Jury believes from said evidence that Terrance Crutcher did in fact reach into the window disobeying the instructions of the police officers on location.”

The jury added that “any officer put in that situation at that exact moment and regardless of the skin color, gender or size of the suspect, would have performed the same way, which is in accordance with their law enforcement training.”

In another September 2016 post, Porter referred to police officers as the “Blue Klux Klan.”

BREAKING: @ABlinken deputy referred fo police officers as the ‘Blue Klux Klan’

This is an official in Biden’s State Dept pic.twitter.com/9h1Ro5T6wj

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 2, 2021

Porter also participated in the media hit against Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, calling the then-16-year old a “terrorist” in January of 2019.

“Tom Brady with the same MAGA smirk as that young terrorist who mocked the Native protester,” Porter tweeted.

Here is @StateDeputySPOX calling @N1ckSandmann a 'terrorist' pic.twitter.com/23fWieTYGX

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 2, 2021

Sandmann has sued multiple news outlets over their sloppy and one-sided coverage of his January 2019 encounter with an elderly Native American activist in Washington DC.

The teen and his classmates had been in D.C. for the March For Life and were waiting for their bus to take them home to Kentucky when they were accosted by a black separatist fringe group known for making outrageous, racist, anti-gay statements, and Phillips who loudly banged his drum inches away from Sandmann’s face.

Sandmann, trying to diffuse the situation, stoically faced the Phillips with a smile on his face.

But because he and a few other students were wearing Make America Great hats they picked up in a D.C. gift shop, the agenda-driven Democrat media complex put the worst possible spin  on the minor event.

Thanks to their vicious smears, Sandmann, his classmates,  and their families became the subjects of threats and harassment from a hateful online outrage mob.

The deputy spokesperson for Biden’s Sec. of State was one of those people.

Porter is a former staffer of Rep. Cedric Richmond, (D-LA), who is now a White House senior adviser.

According to One America News Network correspondent Jack Posobiec, Politico was tipped this story, but turned it down.

BREAKING: @Politico was offered the story on Biden’s new Deputy State Dept Spox Jalina Porter’s racist and anti-police tweets and they turned it down, per State Dept official

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 2, 2021

Politico, meanwhile, has written over ten stories on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Georgia), a freshman backbencher who has shared controversial opinions and conspiracy theories on social media…”

Punished for his scholarship, University of North Texas music professor files federal lawsuit

“…When University of North Texas music professor Timothy Jackson published an essay critical of a fellow music scholar’s speech on “music theory’s white racial frame,” UNT graduate students and faculty demanded that Jackson face punishment for expressing those views, which they deemed “racist and unacceptable.” Jackson has now filed a federal lawsuit against the university, a graduate student, and several faculty members.

In August, UNT launched an investigation of Jackson, announcing its intention to “reaffirm our dedication to combatting [sic] racism on campus and across all academic disciplines.” Jackson was subsequently removed from the academic journal he founded.

Last week, Jackson filed a lawsuit against UNT for First Amendment retaliation, arguing that the investigation into his journal, and his department chair’s decision to block Jackson from future involvement with the journal, were all done in retaliation for Jackson’s expression of views out-of-step with the prevailing campus orthodoxy…”

The left has captured our education system and destroyed it. It has become a racial cult that persecutes non-believers. Every American should reject this conformist nonsense.

Related:

University of Central Florida Fires Professor Charles Negy for refusing to conform to the preferred racial narrative

A data maven says fraud affected the election outcome

Matthew Braynard:

“…What I’m finding and continuing to find, because we’re actually still doing research, and we’re looking forward to presenting it more aggressively without the constraints of the lawsuits we were entangled with initially, is that among those three states, the number of illegal ballots surpassed the margin of victory. Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona, without those three, Joe Biden isn’t president – and I think we can prove that fairly conclusively…”

Democrats and media will studiously refuse to investigate 2020 election results and will attempt to ridicule and otherwise prevent other individuals from investigating fraud.

Biden Admin Sends Message That Some Racism Is Okay With Dropped Yale Lawsuit

Biden’s team faces the ugly facts on China

Post Editorial:

“…Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent rebukes of China give hope that the Biden administration recognizes the truth about this vicious regime.

On NBC’s “Today,” Blinken called Beijing’s coronavirus coverup a “profound problem” that continues “even today,” accusing the Communist country of failing to live up to international obligations since the first cases popped up in 2019.

Before that, he said during confirmation hearings that China’s mass detention of Uighur Muslims qualifies as “genocide.” He even admitted that Team Trump was right to take a tougher stance against China.

Beijing is already whining that these words amount to “interfering in its domestic affairs and undermining its interests.”

The good news is that the Bidenites have also offered more than words, by rushing a US Navy group to support Taiwan during the mainland’s latest effort to intimidate the free, democratic island nation…”

I congratulate the President for doing the right thing on this, at least so far.

The ‘battery fairy’ and other delusions in the demand to replace gasoline powered vehicles with electric cars and trucks

Thomas Lifson:

“…I continue to be amazed that serious people think that gasoline powered vehicles can be completely replaced by electric vehicles in a decade-and-a-half, and that this would be a good thing, even if possible. Under threat of government action, however, the world’s major auto manufacturers are falling in line boosting production of plug-in models, and upstart Tesla Motors is now the world’s most valuable auto manufacture, based on the value of its capital stock issued and in the public’s hands. Mary T. Barra, CEO of General Motors, has pledged to sell only zero emission vehicles by 2035.  That would meet the deadline imposed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed an executive order banning the sale of internal combustion vehicles in the nation’s largest car market by 2035…

…Studies detailing the carbon emissions necessary to manufacture an electric vehicle reveal that on a net basis, there are more emissions for vehicle bought and used for its expected lifetime, than would be generated by buying and using a conventional gasoline-powered vehicle…

…Where will all, the electricity needed to power to entire fleet of cars in the US (or Japan) come from? Despite the fantasies of greenies, it won’t be from windmills or solar farms. They are too unreliable, take up too much land, and cost too much. Right now, it is coal and natural gas that produce the most electricity at the most reasonable cost.  And they emit CO2. Plus, there is considerable loss of power due to resistance in the transmission lines, requiring an even greater amount of gross power before the net power reaches the battery in the vehicle, charging at the user’s home ort some other location.  Nuclear power does offer some potential, but how many people want to live near the hundreds and hundreds of nuclear power plants that would be required to fuel the nation’s vehicles?

Then there is the small matter of batteries. The very large batteries needed for electric cars use lots of expensive lithium (and some other rare elements) whose supply is limited, and whose mining requires lots of scarce water. In fact, powering the world’s vehicles by battery is simply impossible, given the limited world supply of lithium…”

Conrad Black:

“…Despite the heavy pressures on it from Right and Left, the American political system is in fact functioning moderately well. This must be counted as evidence of its fundamental strength, given that there remains serious doubt about the outcome of the last presidential election, and the dictators in Big Tech and Big Media continue to show complete disregard for freedom of expression and for traditional criteria of unbiased, professional reporting. 

As has been amply publicized—though it has also been the subject of a great deal of obfuscation—Joe Biden undoubtedly won the popular vote by 5-6 million, but he only won in the Electoral College by fewer than 50,000 votes. If those votes had flipped in the right numbers in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, they would have given the election to President Trump. Trump’s policies were generally approved in the congressional and state elections, but a clear—though narrow—majority of Americans could no longer endure the controversy of his incumbency. 

Given the sandbag job conducted against him by 95 percent of the national political media, 98 percent of the social media bosses abusing their positions as supposedly impartial platform operators, and the fact that Trump was outspent in a horrifyingly expensive election campaign by a margin of two-to-one by his opponent, it is remarkable that he almost won.

The majority of Americans found the endless tumult and recriminations insufferable, and in its almost magical way, the American political system has succeeded: the tumult has ended but the president who was possibly cheated and in any case hounded from office by dishonest media and corrupt magnates of technology and finance, remains a formidable political presence. After such a clangorous term in the White House, bracketed by the uproarious election campaigns of 2016 and 2020, he lives to fight another day and remains unambiguously at the head of the greatest single bloc of voters ever bound to an individual by personal voting loyalty in the history of the country. 

A number of the most popular presidents in the past undoubtedly had larger followings as percentages of the numbers of voters: both Roosevelts, Reagan, and possibly Eisenhower. All of them enjoyed what it is now fashionable to call almost cultish popularity, but it was a smaller electorate in those times, and all of those leaders followed traditional paths to the White House, up the political ladder, or by earning the gratitude and admiration of the nation through high distinction in supreme military command at a critical time—General Eisenhower was a world-historic figure before he was elected president.  

There is a new president and there is also what only occasionally occurs in the United States—an inter-election, de facto, leader of the opposition. The last time that someone lost a presidential election in circumstances that enabled him to campaign plausibly as the almost certain challenger of the person who defeated him was Andrew Jackson in 1824, after he led the polls but without an electoral college majority. His opponents in the election, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, combined to elect Adams in the House of Representatives and Clay, the speaker of the House, became the Secretary of State.

There has never been such a prolonged and frenzied hostility to any president from the political class as President Trump faced throughout his term, and next week, there will be an unusual political turning point as Trump’s enemies have a final parting with Trump-hate as a substitute for government and politics. The narrow victory of his enemies at the election will be countered by the abject failure of this insane attempt to impeach him. 

Trump did not incite the 300,000 followers whom he addressed in Washington on January 6 to do anything except “peacefully and patriotically to make (their) voices heard” by the Congress. No one was attempting an insurrection, even the hooligans who led the assault and vandalism. 

In attempting to remove the ex-president from an office he does not hold for incitements he did not make to an insurrection that was not attempted, Trump’s enemies confess to an obsessive irrationality. They are unable to emancipate themselves from their hatred of the former president and to execute the razor-thin mandate to govern they have been given…”

Outstanding. There is more at the link.

U. Central Florida Fires Dissident Prof. Charles Negy After 8-Month Retaliatory Investigation

“…Defenders of academic freedom and freedom of speech throughout academia should be rallying to the defense of University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy after egregious retaliation against him for expressing constitutionally protected views on Twitter.

The American Association of University Professors, the premier faculty organization defending academic freedom, should be marshalling its substantial resources and committees behind Prof. Negy, as it has done for other professors over the decades. Public interest lawyers and law professors across the land should be volunteering their services.

Instead, Negy stands almost alone against the administrative and legal weight of the massive publicly-funded UCF.

There has been near silence because Negy’s protected speech was critical of the prevailing campus racial politics. In the age of Black Lives Matter dominance on campuses, anything that questions the prevailing racial narrative could be a career-ender.

Readers of Legal Insurrection are familiar with the Negy story, because we have covered it several times, starting with The administrative torment of UCF Prof. Charles Negy:

Negy’s alleged crime that sparked the controversy was two tweets questioning the orthodoxy of systemic racism and white privilege.

One tweet, which no longer is available,said:

“If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming ‘systematic racism’ exists?”

A second tweet, also no longer available, said:

“Black privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they’re missing out on much needed feedback.”

…Negy’s tweets, which UCF admits were constitutionally protected and for which they could not punish Prof. Negy, set in motion a particularly vicious online and on-the-ground mob, which included participation in protests by senior UCF administrators, including the President of UCF, Alexander Cartwright…”

The left has captured our education system and destroyed it. It has become a racial cult that persecutes non-believers. Every American should reject this conformist nonsense.

Hat tip to Steven Hayward

Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t in Capitol Building during her ‘near death’ experience, analysis of events show

Biden’s Education Secretary Nominee: Biological Males Have a Right to Compete Against Girls in Sports

“…President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona, said he will work to protect a new executive order that mandates biological males be allowed to compete against biological females. Specifically, he will work to make sure the practice is allowed in high schools, where female athletes are often stripped of scholarship opportunities and athletic titles after being forced to compete against biological men.

“What do you think in general about boys running in girls track meets, like they’ve been doing in Connecticut?” Republican Senator Rand Paul asked during Cardona’s confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.

“I think it’s critically important to respect the rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular actives,” Cardona responded.

“Does it bother you that the top 20 percent of boys running in track meets beat all of the girls in the state? And that it, you know, will completely destroy girls athletics? The girls are being pushed out. If they don’t make the finals in the state meet, they don’t get college scholarships, that it’s really detrimental to girls sports. Do you worry about having boys running in girls track meets?” Paul followed up. “Do you think it’s fair?”

“I recognize and appreciate the concern and the frustrations that are expressed,” Cardona said. “I think it’s appropriate for, it’s the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities and this includes students who are transgender.”

“So you don’t have a problem then with boys running in the girls track meet, swimming meets, name it. You’re okay then with boys competing with girls?” Paul asked.

“I believe schools should offer the opportunity for students to engage in extracurricular activities, even if they are transgendered. That is their right,” Cardona said…”

Pentagon Axes Advisory Boards to Purge Trump Appointees

California City Raises Wages for Grocery Workers, Grocery Chain Responds Predictably

“…The City of Long Beach, California has been among the hardest hit in the country as a result of COVID-19 restrictions placed by both the state and the City of Long Beach.  Lots of small businesses continue to remain closed and those lucky enough to be open are struggling for business.  Among the businesses that never closed, grocery stores have been exempt from most, if not all of the government-imposed restrictions.

There’s an old saying about the road to hell, and it definitely applies in this case.  In order to reward the work of grocery store employees, Long Beach passed the “Hero Pay” measure, which increased the pay of grocery store employees by four dollars an hour.  While the measure seems like it was well-intentioned, good intentions don’t balance budgets nor make the availability of products any more diverse.  Long Beach officials were looking for a positive moment in the press, however, the Kroger grocery brand quickly put that to rest, by announcing that they were closing two grocery stores in the city, a Ralph’s location as well as a Food4Less store.

In an interesting development, Kroger tied the decision to close the stores directly to the ordinance.  Most of the time, companies are less likely to wag their finger at the government as they don’t wish to draw the regulatory ire of elected officials.  In this case, Kroger didn’t hold back.  When people (who obviously don’t understand how business works yet continue to opine about it) began to attack Kroger about the decision, Kroger doubled-down to respond to those critics:

Hello! Despite our teams’ efforts to overcome the financial challenges we were already facing in these locations, the extra pay for some but not all grocery workers imposed by Long Beach City Council makes it impossible to run a financially sustainable business. (1/2)

— Kroger (@kroger) February 2, 2021

We’ve made the business decision to close our Ralphs location at 3380 N. Los Coyotes Diagonal on April 17th. Our team looks forward to continuing to serve you at our 4 other Long Beach locations. (2/2)

— Kroger (@kroger) February 2, 2021

…Imagine being as insane as to watch a policy literally backfire, which will lead to the layoff of dozens if not hundreds or thousands of grocery workers, reduced hours for the workers who are not laid off (with greater responsibilities), the reduction of accessibility of products (because of the likely closing of other stores) and other horrible outcomes, and still enacting the policy anyway.  When I have said for a long time that liberalism is a mental disorder, I mean it.  Their policy proposals are so divorced from reality that when the chickens for their horrible policies come home to roost, they have yet another policy in the hopper ready to wreck business or industry…”

Biden White House gets backlash for dismissive response to question on U.S. military’s Space Force

Space Force was created under the Trump administration and put in place by Congress.

While the Biden Administration continues to think about whether or not the #CCP is a threat, China is working overtime to become the dominant force in space.

We need the professionals, @SpaceForceDoD, to keep American’s safe. https://t.co/K3S5dqWujg

— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) February 2, 2021

Can you imagine media response if a Republican press secretary was this clueless about some issue? Ms. Psaki will have to “circle back.” The militarization of space is not something that Ms. Psaki considers worthy of her time, apparently.

Grenell congratulates Buttigieg on becoming second openly gay Cabinet member

If you get your news from MSM, you’d think Buttigieg is the first.

https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1355782289435725825

Hat tip to Kane

BREAKING: The DC District Court refused to disbar convicted felon Kevin Clinesmith for his crimes against the President of the United States. Instead they simply suspended him while on probation and until he pays his $100 fine. He should never be allowed to practice law again. pic.twitter.com/hsNZJUIJlt

— @amuse (@amuse) February 2, 2021

Rules and laws are for Republicans. Democrats who break the law obviously did it for the right reasons so they are not held to account or they get a slap on the wrist.

San Francisco school board declares — ‘Acronyms are racist’

“…First the San Francisco School Board decided to rename 44 schools because they are named after people with ties to racism or slavery. Now the Arts Department has taken a bold move by changing its name, “VAPA” because they say, “acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.”

Schools have yet to reopen in San Francisco, but their Arts Department has continued to work toward ensuring that all students have access to quality arts education.T

he director of that department said, “We are prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work.” So they got rid of the acronym “VAPA,” which is short for visual and performing arts.

From now on, they’ll simply be called SFUSD Arts Department.

“It is a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are,” explained Sam Bass, Director of the SFUSD Arts Department…”

What a bunch of nitwits. You can’t make this stuff up.