PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot:

She supported Huey Newton and the Black Panthers in the early 1970s, stating “Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.” She called the Black Panthers “our revolutionary vanguard … we must support them with love, money, propaganda and risk.”^[34] She has been involved in the feminist movement since the 1970s, which dovetails with her activism in support of civil rights.

—Jane Fonda’s Wikipedia page.

Chaser:

Fonda’s affinity for communism served as a backdrop for her intense anti-Vietnam War activities. By 1970 she was telling American college students: “If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.” The dual villains of Southeast Asian conflicts were, in her view, “U.S. imperialism” and “a white man’s racist aggression.”

—Fonda’s page at David Horowitz’s Discover the Networks who’s who database of the far left.

Hangover:

However, Fonda also predicted violence if Clinton secures the Democratic nomination and goes on to beat the Republican presidential nominee in the general election. The main reason for that vehemence, the actress says, will be the fact that she is a woman.

“Every time women move forward, there is going to be problems,” Fonda insisted. “So one of the things we have to do is help men understand why they are so threatened, and change the way we view masculinity. We have a toxic masculinity and that’s what needs to be addressed.”

—”Jane Fonda: ‘There Will Be Violence’ if Clinton is Elected President in November,” the Blaze, yesterday.

Funny, I’m old enough to remember when the “toxic masculinity” trope was leveled by Hollywood dowagers against Hillary’s supporters, not Bernie Sander’s. (Given that the vast majority of political violence emanates from the left, as Fonda well knows and once encouraged, that’s the group that she’s smearing, no?) Speaking of which, why would the poster child for radical chic suddenly start denouncing violence?

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Yes, Corporations Do Have Free Speech Rights. “As a free speech near-absolutist, it’s been fun for me to watch my progressive friends cheer as major corporations threaten to boycott states accused of striking the wrong balance on gay and transgender rights. I’m bothered by most of the same state laws that my progressive friends are, but I marvel nevertheless that they think the solution is for big business to throw its weight around. Still, I’m happy to welcome them aboard the yes-corporations-do-have-free-speech-rights ship.”

It’s only free speech when it’s done for approved political causes. Otherwise, it’s HATE!

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VANITY FAIR ON FAMED ARCHITECT PHILIP JOHNSON’S HIDDEN NAZI PAST.

Not all that hidden, particularly in Johnson’s later years and after his death. Back in April of 2008, inspired by Jonah Goldberg’s then-new Liberal Fascism, I shot an early Silicon Graffiti video segment while I was still my getting video chops together titled “The Wonderful, Horrible Life Of Philip Johnson,” an allusion to the 1994 documentary on Leni Riefenstahl’s similar attempt to downplay her own Nazi past.

As I said in the video, “At the time of his death in early 2005, at the venerable age of 98, Philip Johnson was arguably America’s best-known architect. If you live in America and Bauhaus did come to your house, you can largely thank Johnson, who almost single-handedly created the architectural department of New York’s Museum of Modern Art shortly after its founding in 1929. But in the 1930s, Johnson was sort of the real life version of Woody Allen’s Zelig character, moving fluidly in the radical leftwing politics of the era, from socialism to national socialism to populism and back to national socialism in less than a decade, a period that he later almost entirely airbrushed from his past.”

Found via Terry Teachout, who tweets, Johnson’s far left past “isn’t news to the well read, but it’s always good to be reminded of it.”

IF THEY’LL LIE ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH, WHAT WON’T THEY LIE ABOUT? The Killer Hiding in the CDC Map: What caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic? The CDC museum knows but won’t say.

So whoever put it together must have known that this little map from London and the big map of Haiti had something important to do with each other—namely, that they both pointed to the source of a cholera outbreak.

You can see it if you look closely. It’s the spot with the earliest date next to it, right next to the blue river that has all the other early cases clustered downstream. . . .

Yet the map on display makes no particular mention of that spot. There’s no highlight around it, no explanatory blurb, no special color, no icon akin to the one on Snow’s map. The inset in the top right, which purports to show “villages affected with cholera along the Artibonite River,” doesn’t even include it.

In fact, despite making the direct analogy between Snow’s map and the Haiti map, the CDC display does not indicate a source of the epidemic at all.

Why not? A spokeswoman for the CDC says in an email that the Haiti map was devised “to optimize response activities on the ground.” Mapping the origin of the epidemic, she says, “was not germane to the purpose.”

That’s one answer. Another is that the CDC knows as well as anyone else that the source—that unidentified spot beside the red triangle, the Broad Street pump of Haiti—was a U.N. peacekeeping base.

Read the whole thing. And, of course, the answer to the question up front is, there isn’t anything they won’t lie about.

OUT: LIMOUSINE LIBERALS. IN: PRIVATE-JET SOCIALISTS. @BernieSanders is about to take off for NY. We’ve been served a menu for the 9 hour chartered flight he’s taking.

WHY ARE AMERICAN JEWS SO LIBERAL? SARAH SILVERMAN’S SISTER HAS SOME ANSWERS:

Another of [Susan] Silverman’s social-justice views manifested itself in her personal life, with the adoption of two young boys from Ethiopia. To her credit, Silverman recognized how having a black son lent her legitimacy as a white woman in her progressive world. While searching for a local Starbucks soon after her son’s arrival, Silverman discussed her embarrassment at being a caricature of herself, a suburban middle-class white woman driving a minivan. Because of her son, she was now “something new, deep and complex.” And her son? “So pure, this boy, and I had made him into a prop. I was using him to ‘pass’ in my own distorted way.”

Read the whole thing.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? State seeks to pick up pace on bringing Syrian refugees to US.

The State Department is hoping to bring an average of nearly 1,500 Syrian refugees to the United States per month in order to meet President Obama’s target of settling 10,000 refugees in the country by September.

About 1,300 refugees have already been placed in the United States since Obama first made the commitment in September.

That’s far fewer than those taken in by European countries such as Germany, who has dealt with an unprecedented wave of migrants fleeing Syria’s civil war, as well as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Yet the settlement has provoked a significant backlash, mostly from Republicans, who argue it puts the U.S. at risk from terrorism.

“It’s clear that ISIS wants to, has planned on attempting to infiltrate refugee populations. This is a problem. If one person gets through who is planning a terrorist attack in our country, that’s a problem,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, who recently returned from a trip to the region, said Thursday.

“The administration — whether it’s Homeland Security or the FBI, cannot tell us that they can adequately screen people. There isn’t really a Syrian to talk to on that end of the equation to vet people, so it is a problem,” Ryan told reporters.

The State Department says it has fallen behind schedule in meting Obama’s goal partly due to a lack of personnel available to interview refugees.

It is now doing a “surge operation” in Amman, Jordan, that is designed to process the rest of the Syrian refugees in as little as three months and leave them enough time to get to the U.S. before September.

With voter registration cards on arrival, no doubt, and buses to the polling places in November.

MEMO TO HILLARY AND BERNIE: Student Loans Are Expensive Because Student Loans Are Risky.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: The Long, Sordid Tale Of The American Income Tax.

First, some history: In 1913 the U.S. federal individual income tax was enacted following the passage of the 16th Amendment, which granted Washington the authority to take a piece of citizens’ paychecks. According to the Tax Foundation, the top tax rate that year (adjusted for inflation) was 7 percent on income above $11.5 million; the lowest rate was 1 percent on income under $463,826.

Oh, how things have changed. The tax code today is a 76,000-page monstrosity, and the current top marginal rate of 39.6 percent will hit all married filers with taxable income of $466,950 and higher.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government collected $3.249 trillion in taxes in 2015. Almost half of that amount came from the income tax, meaning that the average income tax per return was $10,300. Most of it is withheld from our paychecks during the year—thanks, Milton Friedman!—and the rest is owed come April. If you’ve over-withheld (i.e., if you extended an interest-free loan to the federal government), you will get a refund.

But don’t go thinking you can refuse the withholding, invest that money, let it grow in the market, and then pay your entire tax bill at the end of the year. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is eager to get its hands on your cash right away, so it penalizes anyone who owes more than $1,000 (after subtracting their withholding and estimated tax payments) or who’s paid less than 90 percent of their tax burden for the current year or 100 percent of their tax burden for the prior one—whichever is smaller. With the IRS, each time you play, you lose.

Not everyone owes $10,000 per year, of course. The federal income tax is progressive, which means the top earners pay a much larger share of the tab. According to IRS statistics, in 2013 the top 1 percent of households paid about 37 percent of federal income tax revenues collected, while the top 10 percent paid roughly 70 cents of every dollar collected through the federal income tax.

For all the talk of the rich not contributing their fair share, the United States has a more progressive tax system than the social democracies of Europe, even if our top tax bracket is technically lower than theirs. This is in part because lower-income Americans benefit from refundable tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, which offset their federal income taxes and, for some, their payroll taxes too.

Read the whole thing.

THE SAUD REMAINS THE SAME:

Shot: “Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.”

—“Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill,” the New York Times, Friday.

Chaser: “News Alert: Saudi Arabia takes Guantanamo detainees, reports say.”

—The Washington Examiner, yesterday.

AS A FAMOUS SOVIET DISSIDENT JOKE PUT IT: ‘IN THE SOVIET UNION, THE FUTURE IS KNOWN; IT’S THE PAST WHICH IS ALWAYS CHANGING:’ Why Do Democrats Hate Their Own Presidents?

(Headline via Dennis Prager.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professional Educator: Grades, Showing Up On Time Are A Form Of White Supremacy.

A professional education consultant and teacher trainer argued at the White Privilege Conference (WPC) in Philadelphia that great teachers must also be liberal activists, and described in detail her goal for destroying the “white supremacist” nature of modern education.

Heather Hackman operates Hackman Consulting Group and was formerly a professor of multicultural education at Minnesota’s St. Cloud State University, where she taught future teachers. On Friday, Hackman was given a platform at WPC to deliver a workshop with the lengthy title “No Freedom Unless We Call Out the Wizard Behind The Curtain: Critically Addressing the Corrosive Effects of Whiteness in Teacher Education and Professional Development.” The long title masked a simple thesis on Hackman’s part: Modern education is hopelessly tainted by white supremacy and the “white imperial gaze,” and the solution is to train prospective teachers in college to be activists as well as pedagogues.

In fact, Hackman argued teachers shouldn’t even bother teaching if they aren’t committed to promoting social justice in school.

If I were determined to keep minorities down forever, I couldn’t do better than pushing this agenda.

TIME TO EXPOSE THEM: The Silent Nasty.

AT LEAST IT’S OUT IN THE OPEN: one advantage of living through these last few years is that “progressives” are saying in public what they used to whisper; admitting what was simply built into indoctrination before.  In a way this is a good thing, like lancing an infected wound. Professional Educator: Grades, Showing Up On Time Are A Form Of White Supremacy.  No more mote and bailey strategy.  Call them on what they actually do and what they actually believe.

BACK WHEN SOCIAL PLANNING WAS SCIENTIFIC: Civil Service: Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive Dream.

AND GOOD QUESTION: Why Can’t New Yorkers Have A Nice City?

CLARIFYING THE MUDDIED WATERS: Why Generation Ships Will NOT “Sink” A Failure To Communicate.

A VERY GOOD QUESTION: What Does John Kasich Think He’s Doing?

WE MIGHT NOT BE INTERESTED IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, BUT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ARE INTERESTED IN US: Russian Jet Threatened U.S. Recon Aircraft.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Minimum Wage, Maximum Ignorance.

DROP THE DOCTOR SEUSS AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP: Couple could be jailed for lost library book.

AN IOWAHAWK SMACKDOWN:

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mountain lion filmed prowling around residential street. The video’s pretty impressive.

I’M JUST WORRIED THAT HE’S GOING TO GIVE OBAMA IDEAS: Turkish President Erdogan Seizes Six Christian Churches, Making Them State Property.