Monthly Archives: November 2018

Left Libertarian Tries Hard To Shed Light on Fake News, But Sheds Only Darkness

Donald Trump, IMMIGRATION, Journalism, libertarianism, Media

On the Trump-Acosta relationship, Reason magazine’s Katherine Mangu Ward writes the usual light, breezy commentary, lacking in gravitas, typical of left-libertarians.

Her eyes are wide shut in wonderment: Fake News Media? What? Where? What’s that?

Via the NYTimes, naturally

Even after two years of this administration, it is alarming to hear a president refer to the press as “the enemy of the people” and to consistently attack and undermine the media as it tries to hold him to account. It’s especially jarring when he singles out individual reporters for criticism.

No wonder Ms. Mangu-Ward got my award for the stupidest statement made to Saint Tucker Carlson, last year, in favor of a border-less America.

She told Tucker that, “If we had a billion people in America, America would be unstoppable. That would be amazing.”
There’s a method to the open-border religion, preached, invariably, from the alternate universe of the TV studio or creature comforts of a stately home.

NEW COLUMN: The New Norm: Crime, But NOT Punishment

America, Crime, Criminal Injustice, Democrats, Intelligence, Law, Pop-Culture, Private Property

NEW COLUMN IS “The New Norm: Crime, But Not Punishment.” 

It’s now on Townhall.com, slightly abridged, and unabridged on WND.COM and The Unz Review.

An excerpt:

In the title of his magisterial book, Fyodor Dostoevsky paired “Crime and Punishment,” not crime and pardons, or crime and “Civics lessons,” amnesty and asylum.

Punishment must closely follow a crime in order to be both effective as a deterrent, as well as to serve as a public declaration of values and norms.

In explaining Texas justice and its attendant values, stand-up satirist Ron White performed the public service no politician is prepared to perform. “In Texas, we have the death penalty and we use it. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.”

So, where’s such clarity when you need it?

Something has gotten into the country’s lymphatic system. The infection is becoming more apparent by the day, not least in the way matters of life-and-death are debated (or not).

Again-and-again one hears boilerplate statements that fail to properly fix on the defining issues of our time, much less fix them.

Consider the flippancy over threats against persons and property, from within the country and from without it.

The home of Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is surrounded by a small, if menacing, mob, and his family threatened. Before dinging the man’s front door, the assailants chant out their criminal intentions:

“Tucker Carlson, we will fight. We know where you sleep at night. We know where you sleep.”

To which other talkers, even the wonderful Tucker, respond by vaporizing about rights to speech and protest vs. some or other watered-down peace and security to which private property owners are entitled.

Nobody alludes to the rights of private property or to the fulcrum that is law-and-order.

No demands for arrests are issued or voiced, publicly. No expectation for retribution is set-up. Follow-up is nonexistent in media. Police do not publicize any arrests. If they make them, none are reported by media.

No teachable moments occur.

Remember words like, “Police are requesting the public’s assistance in finding those responsible”? Or, “No arrests have been made, as yet”? Such civilizing utterances have vanished from the nomenclature of media and law enforcement, when discussing acts of trespass, vandalism, and public disorderliness.

Be they within the U.S. or from without it, acts that violate one person’s property rights or the property rights of many—as the Central American caravanners expect to do—these acts don’t conjure the requisite tough talk or actions. …

… READ THE REST.  It’s now on Townhall.com,  WND.COM and The Unz Review.

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Fabulous FLOTUS Floats Like A Butterfly AND Stings Like A Bee

Conflict, Donald Trump, Etiquette, Family

Hooray. First Lady Melania Trump shows her political chops. FLOTUS floats like a butterfly, and stings like a bee, to parrot Muhammad Ali.

Melania got angry at Mira Ricardel—some rude, disruptive underling, also a top national security official—and took action:

The first lady’s anger stemmed from a dust-up between Ricardel and the East Wing over an October trip to Africa, when Ricardel allegedly threatened to undermine the trip after learning she didn’t have a seat on the plane. Melania Trump’s staff also came to suspect that Ricardel was responsible for unflattering stories about the first lady, people familiar with the matter said.

Next, perhaps Melania will fire Jared and Ivanka for us Deplorables?

The Koch’s Agenda.

UPDATES: Simple Guide To Future Trump Cabinet Picks. Very Simple.

Donald Trump, Family, Government, Homeland Security, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim

I liked the ice princess, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, whom Trump is about to remove, or so the rumor goes.

Nielsen talked tough (very tough) and smart, and has a cool temperament and looks to match. In her favor, too: Nielsen had been brought into the Trump Administration by a fine man, retired United States Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, now White House Chief of Staff.

Here goes: If the liberal, First-Couple-in-waiting, Ivanka and Jared Kushner, are behind or favor a future appointment, it’s bad. The two certainly have been gunning for White House Chief of Staff Kelly for a long time, as I warned on February 15, 2018.

UPDATES:

“Sessions was the most important member of Trump’s cabinet.”

“Heather Mac Donald said she has ‘no confidence’ that the president will stop being advised by his daughter, Ivanka Trump, on the issue of immigration.” Been saying it all along. Ivanka is poison.

“Sessions was the only member of the Trump administration that was ‘absolutely staunch in speaking up for the right of Americans to determine what the character of their country should be.’”

“There’s no one left with any understanding ‘how mass, unchecked, illegal immigration is hurting the working class of this country and transforming our culture possibly beyond recall.’ Heather Mac Donald.”