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April 20, 2015
QUESTION #4: CAN I GET A BOLO MARK XXXIII? 3 Questions on Killer Robots.
LUXURY ON AND OFF ROAD: 2015 Lexus LX570.
VELOCIPEDE WITH A CAGE: Babel Bike could be world’s safest bicycle. Video at the link.
LIBYA’S MELTDOWN: Awkward Questions For Hillary.
I DUNNO, IT WAS AN ORGANIZED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT: Atlanta’s cheating teachers are not mobsters. So while I agree that racketeering laws are overused, I’m not sure this case is as big a stretch as some.
“COMPLICIT:” FDR’s Refusal to Save the Jews on the MS St. Louis.
LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: WRONG WAY RAHM: Mayor’s SUV Runs More Red Lights, Drives Wrong Way, City Cameras Show.
PEOPLE SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR THIS, AND, REGARDLESS, EVERY PATRIOTIC AMERICAN SHOULD WORK TO MAKE THESE PROSECUTORS’ LIVES AS MISERABLE AS POSSIBLE: Inside the Raids and Investigations that Targeted Wisconsin’s Conservative Leaders.
JOURNALISM: Media Mob Steps In It Again; Fails to Vet Britt McHenry Story in Rush to Judgment. “Another aspect that wasn’t even broached was the video clearly being edited via flash edits, which is often used in broadcast circles to marry different sound bites from one person without awkward jump cuts throughout (the flashes separate the bites while not breaking up the overall narrative).”
ROGER SIMON: Whatever You Think About Hillary, It’s Worse!
MYRON MAGNET: Free Speech In Peril. “If it sounds as though we are back in the days when ladies fainted at the mention of the legs of pianos, which had to wear skirts for decency, and when one couldn’t utter words ‘that would bring a blush to the cheek of a young person,’ as Dickens jeered, we are.” Punch back twice as hard. Censorship is less fun when it’s painful.
IN THE MAIL: From John Birmingham, Emergence: Dave vs. the Monsters.
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 711.
WELL, NOW WE KNOW WHY SHE WAS SO EAGER TO SCRUB THOSE EMAILS, EVEN AT THE COST OF CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL DAMAGE: New Book, ‘Clinton Cash,’ Questions Foreign Donations to Foundation.
The book, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, asserts that foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department in return.
“We will see a pattern of financial transactions involving the Clintons that occurred contemporaneous with favorable U.S. policy decisions benefiting those providing the funds,” Mr. Schweizer writes.
His examples include a free-trade agreement in Colombia that benefited a major foundation donor’s natural resource investments in the South American nation, development projects in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake in 2010, and more than $1 million in payments to Mr. Clinton by a Canadian bank and major shareholder in the Keystone XL oil pipeline around the time the project was being debated in the State Department.
That sort of behavior is, of course, a carryover from Bill’s time in office. But here’s why Hillary should worry: “Major news organizations including The Times, The Washington Post and Fox News have exclusive agreements with the author to pursue the story lines found in the book.”
HUNTING THE WHITE MALE VOTER: Democrats are beginning to reap the electoral effects of the hatred and divisiveness they’ve sown. White, male voters are increasingly abandoning the Democrat party, which has shown disinterest in their concerns about economic opportunity and national security, preferring instead to focus on balkanizing Americans with the “war on women,” paranoia about/hostility toward police, and global warming climate change.
Good luck, Democrats. With op-eds like this one from Charles Blow at the New York Times, I think you’ve got a lot of introspection and attitude readjustment to undertake before you will convince any Americans who define themselves as just “American” rather than “hyphen-American” to vote Democrat. Blow’s attitude is typical: Shut up and take it, white men. You’re increasingly irrelevant, we think you are “privileged,” angry closet racists (talk about projection) and we don’t care about you. Message received.
RELATED: Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb has suggested he may challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination because he thinks her campaign isn’t capable of wooing white male voters. His perspective is almost quaint. The post-Obama Democrat party is incapable, at present, of realizing the damage it has done and reforming its “divide and conquer” strategy.
FIRST JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S PEDO/RAPE ISLAND, NOW THIS: Menendez co-‘conspirator’ hosted Bill and Hillary at vacation getaway.
WHY MEN WON’T GET MARRIED: Sorry, ladies, but it’s all your fault.
An excerpt from Peter Lloyd’s Stand By Your Manhood, with a nice shoutout to the Insta-Wife’s Men On Strike.
ELIANA JOHNSON: Will Chris Christie Have A Comeback? “New Hampshirites see a lot of presidential hopefuls — there are no fewer than 17 here this weekend — but they seem to like Chris Christie. A crowd, not just the media, is here for this event, and it cheers him heartily. With so many candidates crisscrossing the state from small town to small town, that’s saying something. Christie’s performance in New Hampshire, now and in the coming months, will do a lot to determine his political future.”
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ED DRISCOLL: Jerry Brown’s Oedipal Struggle. “It isn’t just Jerry Brown; since the mid-1960s, the entire new left versus old, New Deal-era left struggle has been driven by an Oedipal Boomer-era hatred of their parents.”
ONLY IDIOTS EVER THOUGHT IT WAS INVINCIBLE: Oversight chairman: Capital’s ‘aura of invincibility’ has disappeared.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Sunday claimed that an incident involving a gyrocopter landing at the Capitol had raised concerns about protecting Washington, D.C.
“The aura of invincibility that law enforcement will prevail if someone jumps a fence or flies a gyrocopter has disappeared,” Chaffetz told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
“That shine is gone,” the House Oversight Committee chairman argued. “The question is what they’re going to do from here.”
Chaffetz said incidents like the gyrocopter landing or White House intrusions presented too much risk to vital Americans to treat lightly. After the 9/11 attacks, he continued, the stakes were too high for second guessing harsh defense measures.
“These are no-fail missions,” Chaffetz said of foiling potential safety threats. “You have to take them down and take them down hard.”
“You’ve got some real deranged people and some sophisticated terrorists that are going to come after us,” he continued. “This is going to happen again.”
The Utah lawmaker said he often worried about “coordination and cooperation” between Washington’s many law enforcement agencies. Their repeated failures, he continued, exposed major flaws in America’s domestic security.
My own feeling: There’s no reason to mount a big reaction here. The security agencies have been exposed as serially incompetent, and more money will probably just go for more hookers and blow. On the other hand, pretty much everything in the non-invincible capital is basically expendable. During the Cold War we used to worry that a Presidential assassination might be the precursor to a surprise massive nuclear attack, but those days are gone. The Republic would survive without you guys. It might even prosper. . . .