JUSTICE: Prison Radicalization Risk Figures Into Judge Sentencing Terror Group Funder to Time Served. “Kane noted in his ruling that ‘many commentators warn against unnecessarily lengthy sentences for terrorism offenses’ because of lack of programs to counter extremism.”
Well, we wouldn’t want a terrorist fundraiser to become extreme or radicalized.
MICHAEL WALSH: Toronto Discovers the Joys of ‘Diversity.’
Read the whole thing.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT HOW I’D HOPED: Sweden Struggles To Address Child Marriage.
WELL, WE HAVEN’T HIT SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR’S 25-YEAR EXPIRATION DATE YET: Is Affirmative Action Near Its Expiration Date?
TRILLION-DOLLAR LOG-ROLLING: Senate plots to avert government shutdown with massive spending bundle. “That bill would make up two-thirds of all discretionary funding, most of which goes toward the Pentagon. That would make the package difficult for President Donald Trump to veto, even though the domestic piece of it, which includes health and education programs, would vastly exceed his own budget request.”
MANY OF THEM ARE PROUD OF IT: Prof: Leftist academics ‘waging a war against America.’ Though I think the preferred spelling is “Amerikkka.”
MICHAEL WALSH: Toronto Discovers the Joys of ‘Diversity.’ Rising violence, increasing fear — so naturally Canadian officials blame guns.
IF YOU CAN READ THIS WITHOUT LAUGHING OR CRYING: Now that the University of Manchester has deemed Rudyard Kipling insufficiently woke and scrubbed his poem “If” from the wall of its student union, Rod Little has revised the poem for today’s students:
If you can self-define as something you’re not,
And crawl into victimhood, however well-bred
And spew out tendentious sub-teenage rot
And wear a vagina on top of your head,
And whine like a ninny, inside your safe space,
When the real world intrudes on the crap you’ve averred,
Then apply to our college – we’ll give you a place,
(For about £30k). And you’ll get a third.
As further punishment, you’ll be forced to read the Maya Angelou poem that has replaced “If” on the wall at Manchester.
JA. NÄCHSTE FRAGE? Is Germany’s Navy Dead?
The Luftwaffe ist kaput, too.
SPIRIT IN THE SKY: A very visual photo of a B-2 stealth bomber passing overhead.
DIVERSITY: 22% of US population does not speak English at home.
Some 13.5 percent of the U.S. population — 44 million — is foreign born, the highest level ever, and many are not proficient in English, choosing to speak Spanish at home instead.
A report from the Migration Policy Institute found that 22 percent of the U.S. population does not speak English at home.
The share was highest in Nevada at 31 percent and Florida at 29 percent.
The report revealed a new trend in migration to the U.S where immigrants are dispersed throughout the nation instead of clustering in a few states and cities.
For example, while the number of immigrants in the last eight years increased 9 percent, the foreign born population surged 15 percent or more in 15 states. The report said those states are: North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Delaware, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Indiana, Florida, Nevada, Washington, Iowa, and Maryland.
“Approximately nine million immigrants, or one in every five, reside in these 15 states.” said the report.
Interesting.
NOW THAT’S REAL SOCIALISM: Venezuela Inflation Could Reach One Million Percent by Year’s End.
Everyone knows you never go Full Zimbabwe.
Plus, this friendly reminder that the only thing socialist states never run short of is zeros.
JULIE KELLY: Vindication For Carter Page. “Now, thanks to the partial release of documents submitted by the Justice Department to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2016 and 2017, we know that Page is far from a villain: He was framed by Democratic Party operatives (with their own ties to Russia); had his constitutional rights stripped away by the government; was forced to testify before Congress, and to submit to questioning from the FBI and perhaps a special counsel; and endured painful, humiliating public scrutiny while most of the media ignored—even cheered—his plight.”
ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT: Cory Booker: Anyone Who Supports Kavanaugh’s Nomination is ‘Complicit in Evil.’
HMM: Tariff Backlash Could Cost Republicans the Senate.
Heading into the mid-term elections the Real Clear Politics Battle for the Senate map suggests it it is extremely unlikely for Democrats to take control of the Senate.
The Republicans have 46 safe or not up seats, and two more likely. To take control of the Senate, Democrats would have to win all nine likely or leans, plus six of seven tossups.
The math is not as daunting as it looks. Democrats are leading in Florida, Tennessee, and Nevada. I expect those leads to hold. That Republicans were only up by 1 percentage point in Indiana looks problematic for Republicans to say the least. For the sake of argument, put that in the Democrat column.
That just gets things to 49 where things stand right now.
This is some in-depth analysis from a Hillary-hating Trump voter, so if you have the time I recommend you read the whole thing.
From where I sit, the Senate playing field is so tilted towards the GOP that it’s practically a wall — but walls do get breached.
WHO SAYS LOCAL JOURNALISM IS DEAD? Chance the Rapper Buys Chicagoist, Promises to Investigate Rahm Emanuel: “And Rahm, you done, I’m expectin’ resignation…”
CHANGE: North Korea Is Tearing Down Parts of a Launch Site. Is It a Sign of Things to Come?
The analysis from 38 North, a North Korea-focused website affiliated with Washington-based non-profit Henry L. Stimson Center, found that Pyongyang, in recent days, started tearing down a rail-mounted processing building where rockets are assembled before being moved to a nearby launch pad and a rocket engine test stand.
The dismantlement at Sohae Satellite Launching Station, located near the Chinese border and about two hours’ drive from North Korea’s major facility for producing nuclear bomb fuel, serves as the sole example of North Korea’s willingness to work with the Trump Administration since the landmark summit in Singapore on June 12.
It might be only one, but that’s not such a bad example.
MAYBE WE DO NEED KAMALA HARRIS’S FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCHING LAW: Right-Wing Protester Brutally Beaten By Angry Leftist Crowd.
Related: Mass. Independent Senate Candidate Shiva Ayyadurai Punched In Mouth By Elizabeth Warren Supporter.
GOOD ADVICE: Don’t Underestimate the Socialist Surge on the Left.
National Democrats are terrified of the rise of Ocasio-Cortez, and for good reason. They may not have any more influence over the socialist surge than Republicans had over Donald Trump’s rise in 2016. Trump broke through Republican “establishment” opposition as if it didn’t exist — because it didn’t. Today’s national parties are event planners for movements. Parties belong to movements more than movements belong to parties. Movements like the Tea Party, and now Democratic socialism, have supplanted party structures as organizers of ideas and debate.
As a longtime aide to U.S. Rep. and then-Sen. Tom Coburn, I can testify to the fact that confronting entrenched power was not mere theory. In fight after fight — especially our successful campaign to eliminate congressional earmarks — we experienced the overwhelming strength of grassroots movements and weakness of national party structures.
Joe Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, is right to warn that Ocasio-Cortez’s policies could bankrupt America, but today’s Democratic Party left Lieberman long ago. Today’s Democrats lack the credibility and political power to stop the socialist surge.
As I wrote yesterday at the PJM live blog, political power is usually cyclical, and the GOP is rarely more than one crisis away — real or manufactured — from losing it. And today’s “Democratic” Socialists don’t want to move the ball in between the 40-yard lines, to borrow Charles Krauthammer’s memorable phrase — they want just enough time in power for a Hail Mary attempt all the way into Venezuela.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Pompeo Heads to Hill for Interrogation and Much, Much More. “With Flake and Corker on the committee along with numerous unhinged Democrats, I expect this to be a real circus. The hearing will be on C-SPAN so tune-in.”
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