YES: I Faced Soleimani’s Forces; Dems Are Mourning a War Criminal. “As someone who went toe-to-toe with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Afghanistan, I can assure you that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani got exactly what he deserved when he perished in a U.S. drone strike. What he certainly doesn’t deserve is praise from Democrat lawmakers who would rather mourn a war criminal than credit President Trump for making the world safer.”
This is a good piece. Read the whole thing.
DON’T GET COCKY: Trump is holding all the cards this November.
He has the ability to thoroughly dominate media coverage with one 280-character tweet.
No matter what reporters want to report on, from impeachment to the Emoluments Clause, Trump can change the subject to what he wants to talk about.
He ups the ante with each tweet, making grandiose and often ridiculous statements.
The whole controversy over the supposed targeting of Iranian cultural sites is a case in point.
Nobody seriously thinks that the American people (or the military) would allow the president to target historically or religiously significant sites to punish the Iranians.
And yet the president mentions it, and the media goes nuts.
Trump baited the press all the way to the White House, yet they still fall for it every single time.
Not very bright, are they?
YOU MEAN, HE DIDN’T ACT OUT RASHLY? Top Five Steps Trump Has Taken To Prepare The U.S. Military For Whatever Comes Next.
Exit Question: How would you tell the difference between “retaliation” for the Suleimani killing, and whatever attacks on us Suleimani already had in the works?
THEY’RE NICER THAN MY FIRST THREE APARTMENTS COMBINED, AND I HAD TO PAY FOR THOSE MYSELF: Here’s a Look Inside LA’s New $600,000 to $700,000 Condos for the Homeless.
Easy call: They’ll be less nice once there’s poop everywhere.
YOUR OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Solyndra 2: Boondoggle Boogaloo.
Remember Solyndra, the solar energy company with Democratic Party connections that sucked up some half a billion dollars worth of green energy loans before going belly up?
If you liked Solyndra, you’re gonna love the Crescent Dunes solar plant near Tonopah, Nevada. Thanks to the efforts of Obama energy secretary Steven Chu and then-majority leader Harry Reid, it sucked up $737 million in federal loan guarantees.
Tiny problem: It was obsolete before it ever came online.
It’s nice to be the nomenklatura.
WE SHOULD PROBABLY PASS A LAW AGAINST IT, JUST TO BE SURE: Joaquin Phoenix Urges Celebrities Not to ‘Take Private Jets’ to Award Shows.
Taking private jets to climate panic conferences would still be cool though, right?
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT BLOCKCHAIN MADE THIS KIND OF THING IMPOSSIBLE: Almost $300 Million Stolen From Crypto-Exchanges In 2019.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: As Mayor, Pete Buttigieg Saw His Own Street Repaved. “Though his street was not initially slated for repavement by the city in the summer of 2017, emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that Buttigieg’s then-chief of staff Angela Kouters expressed concern that Buttigieg’s home would not benefit from road maintenance.”
YOU DON’T SAY: California’s new ammo law hurts the wrong people — and doesn’t stop ‘bad guys’ with guns.
When California started requiring people to pass background checks to buy ammunition on July 1, hunters hoped for the best and braced for the worst. What happened was far worse than we feared.
The premise of the new law is that people who can’t have guns shouldn’t have ammo either. I don’t know anyone who disputes that. Bad guys shouldn’t have guns or ammo.
The law says if you do not appear on a prohibited-persons list and you have passed a background check to buy a gun during the time the state has stored those records in a database, you can buy ammunition. Simple, right?
Here’s where it fell apart: The state Department of Justice finalized regulations to implement the law just before it took effect. There was no time, and no effort, to raise awareness, no time for gun owners to verify they were in the database, and most critically, that their ID matched their information in the database.
In the first four months, the checks thwarted 101 ammunition purchases by prohibited persons, and a staggering 62,000 purchases by people who had every right to buy ammunition. More than half of the rejections were due to data mismatches, such as an address change; one-third were because buyers weren’t in the database.
That’s 620 good guys for every bad guy.
That means it’s working. No, really — the law wasn’t meant to stop bad guys, but to stigmatize law-abiding gun-owners. By that measure, the law is working as designed (if not as advertized).
Note: This one is actually a couple of weeks old, but the browser tab got lost in the holiday madness.
IF IT’S MEATLESS, THEN IT’S NEITHER PORK NOR SAUSAGE: Impossible Foods is launching meatless pork and sausage as it prepares for a global push.
NO MAN’S LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY ARE SAFE WHILE THE LEGISLATURE IS IN SESSION: VA Gun Owners On Red Alert As Legislative Session Begins.
ASTROTURF: March For Our Lives Raised Nearly All Funding from Secret Six-Figure Donations.
The gun-control group responsible for a 2018 march on Washington, D.C. raised the vast majority of its funds from undisclosed donations over six figures, a recently-released tax document shows.
The March For Our Lives Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization launched in the aftermath of the deadly 2018 shootings at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is bankrolled almost entirely by large donations in excess of $100,000. The group reported $17,879,150 in contributions and grants over the course of 2018, its first year of operations. 95 percent of those contributions came from 36 donations between $100,000 and $3,504,717—a grand total of $16,922,331.
Some enterprising reporter want to ask Michael Bloomberg about this?
REPUBLICANS POUNCE! George Lopez under fire for joking about rumored $80 million bounty on Trump.
Don’t ever change, CBS News — or I might be out of a job.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Bernie Says His Dumbest Thing Yet. “I’m starting to get a nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach about Sanders. After the last election we know that anything can happen. My New Year’s fear is that Joe Biden will finally implode on the campaign trail and show up on stage at a rally wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and carrying a chicken. That’ll probably be too much for even the Democrats and they’ll start looking to the next in line, which has been Sanders since the beginning of the year.”
The really nagging thought is: Did the chicken consent?
DAVID HARSANYI: Attacks on the Babylon Bee Are Attacks on Free Expression. “If the only brand of political humor permitted is vapid enough for even the dumbest or most humorless person to comprehend, we’re going to end up in a world with a lot more Andy Borowitzes.”
I know it’s early, but that’s got to be the best line of the day.
FRANK MIELE: Are Dems Crazy? How Can Biden Still Be Their No. 1 Choice?
So yeah, I thought Biden would stay safely retired throughout the 2020 campaign. And when he got in, I thought the luster would wear off quickly and the radical Dems would throw him under the bus. Instead, he has hovered between 25% and 30% in the national polls and has never left first place. How can this be?
Isn’t this the candidate who called an octogenarian voter “fat” and challenged him to a push-up contest? Isn’t he the same “Creepy Joe Biden” who bragged about letting children stroke his leg hair and jump on his lap when he was a lifeguard? Didn’t Biden just do his best Hillary impression by telling coal miners that they should forget about their hefty paychecks and instead go to night school to learn how to code software? Heck, couldn’t he have just been honest and told them that everyone will eventually wind up working at an Amazon warehouse anyway, so get used to it?
In any normal campaign year, Joe Biden would have preceded Eric Swalwell and Bill de Blasio to the exit. All right, maybe not Swalwell. But this is not any normal political campaign.
I guess you might say that Biden has been fortunate in his choice of enemies.
That last part is certainly true, but only until and unless he captures the nomination. Then I’m guessing he’d rather face almost anyone but Trump.
NICE: Ethiopian Airlines launches new Boeing 787 Dreamliner named ‘Tel Aviv.’
That’s the first time a foreign airline has named an aircraft after an Israeli city.
LEFTIST PROJECTION, EXHIBIT #1,000,006: Notorious antifa doxing activist accused of racism and predatory behaviour.
By day, Christian Michael Exoo is a 38-year-old library supervisor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. However—online—Exoo uses the moniker “AntiFashGordon.” He has gained a large following in left-wing networks for his activism with antifa and by releasing “doxes,” or personal information, of his ideological opponents to his 25,000 followers on Twitter.
Exoo proudly boasts on his Twitter biography that he has gotten people fired from jobs, removed from schools and kicked out of homes.
Before becoming an online antifa activist, Exoo contributed to Salon, Alternet, Truthout, and other left-wing media outlets. Exoo also worked for Weave News, a left-wing citizen-journalist and activist group that was founded at and funded by St. Lawrence University, where his father, mother, and brother are employed as professors. Exoo was also a one-time aspiring actor.
With an undergraduate degree in information science, Exoo teaches doxing training seminars under the euphemism of “open-source intelligence research.” In 2017, he trained students at St. Lawrence at a conference organized by Weave News. In one presentation slide to his class, it read: “In this exercise, we are going to find the Facebook profile of our subject, and find all of the posts he’s ‘liked.’”
In other words, take away the substantial charges of racism and sexual predation, and you’re still left with a horrible person.
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