FROM TOM ROGNEBY: A Woman Scorned.
Never cheat on a succubus.
Martin Shelby’s latest client is a woman out to hurt her husband where it matters most to him – his pride. She’s teamed with the best lawyer in town, and The Boogeyman is out to find the evidence to turn her shark loose in divorce court.
But indulging a taste for younger women isn’t the only shady thing her husband’s been up to, and the blood in the water is all too real as the body count starts mounting…
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO FACE THE NAUSEATING TRUTH: Don’t Look Away.
THE NAUSEATING TRUTH: The Horowitz Report: Documenting One of the Worst Scandals of our History.
DO YOU KNOW WHO HE IS? BECAUSE HE’LL PRETEND TO FORGET THAT NEXT: Comey: what did I know? I was just the FBI director.
WOW, OBAMA SURE IS LOOKING PALE THESE DAYS: Michael Bloomberg Plays to the Left, Saying He Would Close U.S. Coal Plants.
WHAT A STRANGE WAY TO SPELL LYING BULLSH*T! FISA Court Describes FBI’s Handling of Carter Page Warrant Applications as “antithetical to the heightened duty of candor.”
AS ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC AS OCCUPY WALL STREET OR THE COFFEE PARTY. THE LEFT ARE SHEEP, BUT THEY MUST BE ELECTRIC SHEEP, THE WAY THEY CHOMP DOWN ON ASTROTURF: Not-So-Grassroots “Need to Impeach” PAC Thinks We’re All Stupid.
SIGH. LOOK, I’M PRAYING REALLY HARD I DON’T GROW OLD LIKE JOE BIDEN. HARD ON THE FAMILY. ALSO NOVELS ABOUT CORN POP ARE UNLIKELY TO SELL: Father of Hunter Biden Says No One Wants Their Kids to Grow Up to Be Like President Trump.
IT’S OCCASIONAL CORTEX’S ALL THE WAY DOWN: CNN Legal Analyst Does Not Know Supreme Court Justices Appear on Television.
WHY? FOR TRYING TO CRASH THE GENTLEMEN’S CLUB? FOR EATING WITH THE WRONG FORK? SERIOUSLY, WHAT HAS TRUMP DONE TO THESE PEOPLE THAT ALL THE “CONSERVATIVES” THEY KEPT ENDORSING DIDN’T DO MUCH WORSE? PFUI. David Brock PAC Drops $2 Million Into Anti-Trump Ads.
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I USED TO BE FLUENT IN A LOT OF LANGUAGES. IN ALL OF THEM ‘UP AGAINST THE WALL’ MEANT CHE GUEVARA’S WET DREAM. IN THE SIXTIES ALL THE COMMIES PRETENDING TO BE HIPPIES WERE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT “COME THE REVOLUTION HE/SHE GOES UP AGAINST THE WALL” AND NO, THEY DIDN’T MEAN “WILL BE PUT IN A DIFFICULT POSITION.” GRETA’S TAQUIA FAILS TO APPEASE: Why We Had Reason to Believe Greta When She Said She Wants to ‘Put World Leaders Against the Wall’.
To mangle Shakespeare: These climate hysterics have a lean and hungry look. Such fanatics are dangerous. They start by hating all of humanity but being too cowardly to take the next logical step of offing themselves. Then they go downhill from there. Their “Climate Science” (which ain’t) is just a means to their ends.
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JUDGE WILLETT CHANGES HIS MIND. “Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a revised opinion in Doe v. Mckesson, a tort suit against activist Deray Mckesson for allegedly inspiring protests that turned violent. The Fifth Circuit is allowing the suit to proceed, but Judge Don Willett has come to believe his colleagues are insufficiently sensitive the First Amendment implications of letting the suit go forward.”
Deray is garbage, but Willett is right to worry: “Holding Mckesson responsible for the violent acts of others because he ‘negligently’ led a protest that carried the risk of potential violence or urged the blocking of a road is impossible to square with Supreme Court precedent holding that only tortious activity meant to incite imminent violence, and likely to do so, forfeits constitutional protection against liability for violent acts committed by others. . . . Officer Doe put himself in harm’s way to protect his community (including the violent protestor who injured him). And states have undeniable authority to punish protest leaders and participants who themselves commit violence. The rock-hurler’s personal liability is obvious, but I do not believe that Mckesson’s is.”
BLACKS WHO DON’T TOE THE PROGRESSIVE LINE DON’T HAVE IT EASY: Black conservatives who oppose school discipline “reform” get ridiculed by Progressives, who can’t understand why anyone—especially parents—would object to a “forward thinking” school superintendent’s proposals to making school discipline “fair.” Maybe, just maybe the parents have a point.
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Lessons From The Tory Landslide.
Last week’s U.K. general election revealed two political dynamics that the rest of the world should study closely.
The first is very old: Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Jeremy Corbyn and the tightly knit clique of pro-Hezbollah, pro-Maduro doctrinaire Marxists and viscerally anti-Semitic conspiracy fans clustered around him mistakenly thought the British working class was hungry for revolutionary social change. They have received their just reward.
The second dynamic, which helped propel Boris Johnson to the greatest Tory majority since Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 landslide, will haunt his premiership and determine its outcome. More than a personal triumph for a man whose political career last year appeared over, more than a historic recasting of the British electoral map, more than the ignominious collapse of the Liberal Democrats, more than the triumph of Scottish nationalism, the election result demonstrates the power of the most disruptive force in global politics today.
Mr. Corbyn misdiagnosed that force as a rejection of capitalism. It’s more subtle. Voters around the world want the prosperity and opportunity that global capitalism provides, but many fear and reject the social consequences of the free market. Large-scale immigration, job losses to automation and foreign competition, the unequal distribution of capitalism’s rewards, and the financial instability and risk associated with innovation are all massively disruptive and inspire backlash—a global surge of populism and identity politics. From Hungary and Turkey to India and beyond, voters are embracing politicians who attack classic liberal political and economic values and vow to defend the cultures and communities this avalanche of change seems to threaten.
It is easy but profoundly misguided to conflate Mr. Johnson’s Conservatives with these movements. Though he recognizes and aims to address the discontent liberalism and capitalism evoke, Mr. Johnson hopes to draw on the Burkean traditions central to the Conservative Party’s long history to develop what we might call National Conservatism. His will be a fundamentally liberal and pro-enterprise political approach that is nevertheless grounded in the traditional sentiments and loyalties of the people it seeks to represent.
It’s not really so much populism as just a government that doesn’t see half of its populace, or more, as adversaries.
Plus: “Those who believe nationalism is fundamentally hostile to capitalism and liberal values need to study British and American history. Anglo-American conservative nationalism is more of a revolutionary force than a reactionary one. If Boris Johnson unleashes it, he may just make Britain great again. “
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OPEN THREAD: It’s all fun and games until somebody posts a racist OK sign.
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Pete Buttigieg kicks off his Latino outreach campaign with a slogan popularized by communists.
Struggling with low poll numbers among Latino voters, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign launched a Hispanic outreach effort on Monday that included a series of policy plans, websites, and online videos in English and Spanish.
Buttigieg announced the initiative on his social media accounts by invoking a Spanish-language slogan that is raising eyebrows among Latino leaders. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, tweeted “El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido” (“the people united, will never be defeated”), a protest chant that is famously associated with Latin-American communist movements. The saying was also featured in several campaign communications, including as a call-to-action on its Latino website.
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It is unclear which Americans Buttigieg is referring to, but Latin American Marxists have rallied behind the catchphrase for decades.
I wonder if Pete learned this from dad? Pete Buttigieg’s father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto.
UPDATE: An Insta-reader wonders if perhaps Buttigieg is pursuing the coveted Sham 69 demographic:
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