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May 1, 2019
ONCE UPON A TIME IT WAS DIFFICULT TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NYT AND PRAVDA: It’s Getting Difficult To Tell The Difference Between The New York Times And Al Jazeera.
It’s hard not to laugh reading The New York Times coverage of the Trump administration’s efforts to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The three-person-bylined article kicks off by describing the group as a “storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions of members across the Middle East.”
Sounds like a global social club! Just some folks batting around ideas. The authors didn’t even have the decency to throw in a superficial adjective like “controversial” to create a veneer of balance.
Whether the Muslim Brotherhood’s many disparate groups and organizations meet the criteria of a single terror organization under U.S. law is debatable, but what isn’t debatable is that a large faction of the Muslim Brotherhood leads a Sunni movement that aims to implement sharia law under a global caliphate. Its deep network of “charitable” institutions and political parties form an infrastructure for extremist causes.
One could, if not a New York Times writer, describe its philosophy as dogmatic, illiberal, theocratic, and violent; and its “storied” history a long-term threat to secularism, Muslim reformers, liberalism, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East.
Read the whole thing.
Plus: “Sorry about the anti-Semitic cartoon. Please enjoy these five articles written by Palestinian terrorist apologists.”
PERMANENTLY GROUNDED, BUT ETERNALLY REMEMBERED: Sixty Years Ago, a Pilot Flew a B-47 Nuclear Bomber Under Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge.
INVESTIGATE BACK TWICE AS HARD: William Barr says DOJ to probe possibility of Clinton-Russia collusion.
I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN “NET NEUTRALITY” SUPPORTERS WERE THREATENING HIS FAMILY: Ajit Pai-proposed upgrade to 25Mbps starts paying off for rural ISPs.
BUT THE POINT ISN’T TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND HEALTHCARE DELIVERY. THE POINT IS TO DOUBLE THE INCOME TAX. Doubling Income Taxes Won’t Even Cover Medicare for All Costs.
DUMBASS ART STUDENTS WANT CAMILLE PAGLIA FIRED. Because they’re dumbasses. “It is rare for student activists to argue that a tenured faculty member at their own institution should be denied a platform. Otherwise, the protest tactics on display at UArts fit with standard practice: Activists begin with social-media callouts; they urge authority figures to impose outcomes that they favor, without regard for overall student opinion; they try to marshal antidiscrimination law to limit freedom of expression. David Bernstein described this process in his 2004 book, You Can’t Say That.”
The “authority figures” should tell them that they’re dumbasses, too. They need to learn that their behavior is unAmerican and unacceptable. And they need to suffer sufficient opprobrium for their behavior that others will be deterred. Here is their petition. The comments in support are deeply embarrassing, to higher education in general.
TAKE A PANDER AT THIS: Gillibrand Plays Beer Pong In Ad.
Democratic New York Sen. and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand released a new ad Monday on Twitter, in which she plays beer pong with water.
The video, which was shot in New Hampshire, starts off with Gillibrand standing at a beer pong table with water in the cups. She takes the shot and with the ball in mid-air, the video freezes.
Text appears, reading, “If Kirsten makes this shot… will you donate $1 to guarantee her spot on the Democratic debate stage?”
The text then disappears and she sinks the shot.
With water? Disqualifying.
THE SOCIALIST FORMULA: TALK ABOUT EQUALITY, ROB THE COUNTRY BLIND AND GET RICH, LEAVE POVERTY AND MISERY BEHIND. The Economics of Tyranny in Venezuela.
BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS, FEMINISTS: How Complaining Physically Rewires Your Brain To Be Anxious And Depressed.
REBELS WITHOUT A CLUE: The Professional Trump Haters.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: The Beginning Of The End For British Shale Gas.
Lacking the competence to ban fracking altogether, Local councils in the UK also started to craft new creative ways on how to nip the government’s shale push in its bud – for instance, the mayor of Greater Manchester introduced a so-called “presumption” with regard to new shale gas developments, effectively meaning that the default position of the local council would be to ban new projects in view of Greater Manchester’s grand target of becoming carbon neutral. As Greater Manchester hosts 10 exploration licenses, this is no small feat. Other local councils have taken similar steps to restrict fracking – even the city of London made the case for a “climate emergency” as the mayor Sadiq Khan pushed for a blanket shale gas ban. [of course –Steve]
The Scottish government, availing itself of the freedom it has on the matter, has prolonged indefinitely its shale moratorium until an already agreed-upon permanent ban is placed in vigor. Similarly, the Welsh government held public consultations throughout last year and thereupon decided to freeze all license issuing procedures for shale oil and gas, regardless of whether fracking is used or not.
What a waste.
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ROUNDING UP THE MESSAGING from the North Carolina Education Association May Day march. Never go full commie.
CHICKS ON THE RIGHT: Your Mayday Mueller And Maduro Memo.
Liberals on Twitter were basically peeing themselves with excitement over the latest bombshell from the WaPo, which said that Mueller sent Barr a letter just a few days after Barr’s four page memo came out, and the letter stated that Barr’s memo “didn’t fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the Mueller report.
Liberals’ reaction? “OMG IMPEACH EVERYONE.” You should look at Joe Scarborough’s Twitter feed. He’s out of control.
What clowns like Scarborough decided to completely overlook was the part of the article that said that Barr asked Mueller directly if Mueller thought Barr’s memo was inaccurate, and Mueller said he didn’t. In fact, it sounded more like Mueller was concerned about how the MEDIA depicted everything.
But, you know, narrative.
Indeed.
ANDREW MCCARTHY: Andrew McCarthy: Mueller’s letter to Barr – A neat trick by the Washington Post before hearings begin. Think of them as narrative police for their fellow Democratic operatives with bylines and you won’t go far wrong.
I suspect that all this sudden concern about the word “spying” is because the Obama administration was in fact doing a lot of spying on a lot of political opponents, and the Democrats know it.
Flashback, March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”
The Democrats and their bylined operatives are acting worried.
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE WITH A BYLINE: CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Lets Bernie Sanders Off the Hook on Venezuela.
OBSERVING VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY, 2019.
May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up their [authority]. I suggest that we instead use it as a day to commemorate those regimes’ millions of victims. The authoritative Black Book of Communism estimates the total at 80 to 100 million dead, greater than that caused by all other twentieth century tyrannies combined. We appropriately have a Holocaust Memorial Day. It is equally appropriate to commemorate the victims of the twentieth century’s other great totalitarian tyranny. And May Day is the most fitting day to do so….
Our comparative neglect of communist crimes has serious costs. Victims of Communism Day can serve the dual purpose of appropriately commemorating the millions of victims, and diminishing the likelihood that such atrocities will recur.
We should treat communists the same way we treat Nazis.
