Archive for 2018
October 31, 2018
IT’S COME TO THIS: California city council candidate is caught dropping off his wheelchair-bound mom, 86, so she can panhandle:
David Chey has been caught on camera leaving Soon Chey, 86, in her wheelchair in the downtown district of Laguna Beach with a sign that reads, ‘please, help me.’
‘They have a brand new car, live in a condo in Irvine, yet beg for our help,’ local business owner Heidi Miller told DailyMail.com.
‘And Adult Protective Services have gone out there and can’t do anything, because she says she enjoys begging. He’s pretty much brainwashed her.’
DailyMail.com was unable to immediately reach Chey for comment.
We have a tremendous homeless problem in Laguna Beach, as every place does,’ Miller said.
‘And what the Cheys have been doing for 12 years is taking money from Laguna residents and tourists and going back to a cozy apartment in Irvine in a brand new car and taking money away from homeless people.’
Related: City Journal’s Steven Malanga in 2008 on “The Professional Panhandling Plague — A new generation of shakedown artists hampers America’s urban revival.”
SETON HALL: Another university caves to demands of rowdy students.
THE PURGE: Facebook Purges Proud Boys And Gavin McInnes After New York Scuffle With Antifa.
Twitter users reported the Facebook take-downs on Tuesday, noting that both public and private accounts associated with the Proud Boys had vanished from the social media network, including founder Gavin McInnes, and a large account with over 20,000 members.
A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed the bannings with Business Insider, pointing to the company’s rules and adding that the removal applies to Instagram as well.
On October 12, the Proud Boys engaged in a fight with Antifa outside of the Metropolitan Republican Club, where the 49-year-old McInnes had given a speech that evening. Left-wing activists had protested the club’s decision to invite McInnes to speak for much of the week, making threatening phone calls in an attempt to convince them to cancel the event, according to club president Deborah Coughlin.
After the event a brawl erupted after a member of Antifa threw a bottle at the Proud Boys, ultimately resulting in the arrest of nine Proud Boys and three Antifa on charges of rioting, assault and attempted assault.
Facebook has not banned Antifa.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED BY WALTER WILLIAMS: What would a House majority mean for the Democrats? Let’s look at it.
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DAVID HARSANYI: The New York Times Botches America’s History With The Gun. “Over the past 50 years, a wide-ranging, well-funded political, cultural, and legal revisionism effort has been undertaken to erase much of the United States’ history and culture of the gun and the Second Amendment. The New York Times’s Nick Kristof’s recent column, ‘It’s Time To Talk About The NRA’ (because no one’s been talking about them!) is a good example of this trend.”
The right to defend your property, life and liberty girds the entire American project. Not a single Founder ever challenged the notion of individual firearm ownership. Most celebrated it. Individual ownership of firearms was so omnipresent in colonial days—and beyond—that Americans saw no more need to debate its existence. Debates over the Second Amendment involved a disagreement over who should control the militia: state or federal government.
Second, the idea that “Gun control laws were ubiquitous” in the 19th century is the work of politically motivated historians who cobble together every minor local restriction they can find in an attempt to create the impression that gun control was the norm. If this were true, Kristof wouldn’t need to jump to 1879 to offer his first specific case.
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FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED:
Democrat Senator Harry Reid in 1993: "No Sane Country" Would Permit Birthright Citizenship pic.twitter.com/cWbrKHhH8u
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 30, 2018
LIFE IMITATES NICOLAS CAGE: Man arrested trying to steal Magna Carta from UK cathedral.
I KNEW THEY DATED, BUT I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE PROPOSAL. APPARENTLY NOBODY DID. O’Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal. Also, O’Connor was a total babe in law school.
Plus: “Most remarkable was that O’Connor and Rehnquist remained close personal friends. They both ended up living in Phoenix, socialized together often and even were neighbors, according to Jay. And when Rehnquist went to Washington in the Nixon administration and was later appointed to the Supreme Court, the two stayed in touch. Indeed, Rehnquist is said to have been one of those who privately suggested O’Connor to President Reagan as a potential Supreme Court nominee in 1981.” Not really that remarkable. I’ve stayed on good terms with most of my ex-girlfriends, which in fact is how I wound up with the Insta-Wife.
ACTUALLY, I JUST MIGHT: WaPo: You won’t believe what Joe Donnelly said about minorities. To wit: “Our state director is Indian American, but he does an amazing job. Our director of all constituent services she’s African American, but she does an even more incredible job than you could ever imagine.”
NEW ANDREW GILLUM TALKING POINT: RON DESANTIS WROTE A BOOK JUSTIFYING SLAVERY, YOU KNOW.
Anti-slavery Founders made a Faustian bargain with the pro-slavery wing to bring them into the fledgling country. Get them to sign onto the Constitution by avoiding any immediate confrontation over slavery, the abolitionists calculated, and then hope that the new constitutional order would gradually and peacefully steer the practice into disuse. That calculation … did not work out, but it did make national union possible in 1787. That gamble was worth taking, DeSantis is saying, given that it ensured the formation of the United States and that slavery in the south would have gone on even if the southern states had refused to ratify a new, strictly abolitionist Constitution. If that amounts to DeSantis “justifying slavery,” you could claim by the same logic that Gillum and his progressive fans believe the United States should never have existed.
Which would be an awkward position to be in for a guy running to be governor of America’s most electorally important southern state and maybe someday president.
Between banning Columbus Day, getting the vapors over Winston Churchill, and attempting to memory hole original “Progressives” Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (is FDR next?), that’s the next logical step for the left, isn’t it? (The Obamas tap-danced around the notion with Michelle Obama’s infamous “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country” quote.) Or as Dennis Prager once wrote, “As a famous Soviet dissident joke put it: ‘In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it’s the past which is always changing.'”
OH: Facebook Approved 100 Fake Ads They Believed Were ‘Paid for’ by U.S. Senators. “They also approved an ad they thought was from ISIS.”
COLLEGE HALLOWEEN MADNESS STARTS BEFORE TRICK-OR-TREAT: The fact that the mayor of New York City gets involved in making decisions about who can talk to NYU college classes is itself an indictment of our culture of speech suppression these days.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Hillary Says She Won’t Run Again, Which Means She’ll Probably Run Again.
Harold Stassen could not be reached for comment.
JAMES LILEKS ASKS A HALLOWEEN-MEETS-INTERSECTIONALITY-THEMED QUESTION: Can African-Americans with no ties to Jamaica dress up as Bob Marley?
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