Friday, April 19, 2019

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Fans of Best of the Web Today---Michael Smith 
"I was thinking about the Democrats' romance with every person other than American citizens and this NY Post article linked at Instapundit explains a lot - but this illicit love affair is also the Democrats' tacit admission of just how successful America is.
Progressives literally hate success - at least any success that is not defined as how much taxpayer money they can spend on a particular program or activity regardless of whether the effort is successful or not. 
The fact they prioritize illegal aliens and refugees over citizens, criminals over law-abiding people and deviants over traditional behaviors is just their way of saying you are too successful, too civil and too normal...in short, you are successful where others are not. 
Somehow, in their warped, tiny little minds, it makes sense to them to push people who aren't doing it right to the head of the line, no matter what it costs those who are doing it right.
Maybe they feel guilty about America's success - they really shouldn't, because they typically aren't successful and largely depend on the success of others to exist. 
They are not responsible, nor are the part of America's success. 
They are only interested in carving up the success of others to give it to people who will vote for them to continue sharpening the carving knife."


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Is there a classier lady anywhere than Shannon Slutman, widow of FDNY firefighter Christopher Slutman — killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan while serving as a US Marine Corps reservist? No, th…

Bret Easton Ellis tells 'spoiled children' liberals to deal with Trump: 'He was elected president. Get over it.'

See the source imageBret Easton Ellis tells 'spoiled children' liberals to deal with Trump: 'He was elected president. Get over it.':
"Now middle-aged, the enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has turned to nonfiction to mock the "childlike fascism" and "demented narcissism" of American liberals that helped put President Trump in the White House and left them facing "mental and emotional collapse."
For good measure, Ellis, 55, also denounces the "legacy media" in his new book "White" — originally due to be called "White Privileged Male" — describing it as "a moral disaster for the country" that had covered Trump in the 2016 with such bias and "absolute cluelessness" that it assisted him. 
The Washington Examiner obtained a copy in advance of its publication Tuesday.
Already facing a backlash from the liberal intelligentsia he disdains — a Q&A with the New Yorker was intensely hostile — Ellis has also been praised for his devil-may-care contrarianism.
Interview Magazine described "White" as containing "searing points about how the national obsession with being liked at all costs and the silencing of opposing voices under the banner of inclusivity can create its own American hellscape."..."
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JOHN HINDERAKER on the ongoing collusion meme: “One of the Democrats’ basic problems is that ‘atte…

Instapundit Blog Archive 
"JOHN HINDERAKER on the ongoing collusion meme: 
“One of the Democrats’ basic problems is that ‘attempting’ to obstruct the investigation doesn’t make a lot of sense. 
If Trump had really wanted to obstruct the investigation, he could simply have terminated it. 
And Mueller acknowledges that the administration fully cooperated with the investigation in every way. 
So the ‘attempts to obstruct’ come down to Trump expressing outrage at the fact that a baseless, partisan investigation was hampering his administration. 
Arguably Trump should have brought the Mueller farce to an end, but he didn’t.”--Posted by Stephen Green" 

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DOJ sued for details of payments to Christopher Steele - WND

DOJ sued for details of payments to Christopher Steele - WND:

Image result for  wikicommons images Christopher SteeleWashington watchdog Judicial Watch believes the FBI still is covering up information related to the origin of the claim that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia.
In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr upset Democrats when he disclosed he believes the Obama administration spied on the 2016 Trump campaign. Barr said he plans to review the matter along with the origins of counter-intelligence probe.

OKAY, I WROTE THIS FOR USA TODAY right after the Barr press conference, but they don’t want to run it…

Instapundit Blog Archive --APRIL 18, 2019
"OKAY, I WROTE THIS FOR USA TODAY right after the Barr press conference, but they don’t want to run it because it doesn’t incorporate the Mueller Report.
Since I don’t have time to read and digest the report this afternoon (I’m teaching two 2-hour classes back to back), I’m just posting it here. Enjoy!"
"BILL BARR: ADULT IN THE ROOM--Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Bill Barr’s press conference regarding the Mueller Report release was notable for both style and substance.
On style, he reminded us that in an age of shrieking media hysteria and out-of-control twitter-pols, there is still a place for stolid, stodgy, rule-following bureaucrats. 
Standing at the lectern with his lieutenants behind him, he calmly and carefully explained what was in the report, what had been redacted and why, and what the applicable laws and rules were.
He didn’t play to the media, or to the social media.
In tone and manner he was, well, boring.
See the source imageIt was refreshing.
On substance, he made clear that, after two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and endless media speculation, the “Russian collusion” story was, as some of us had noted all along, a story about nothing.
No member of Trump’s campaign — and in fact, no American anywhere — colluded with the Russians to influence the campaign.
...So no collusion, and no obstruction, and no serious grounds for complaining about the redactions. No doubt some politicians, eager to keep their base heated up, will try to pretend otherwise, and some cable news channels and media outlets, desperate for viewers and clicks, will go along.
But normal people should be pleased and relieved that there was no collusion, even as they should be angry that a huge chunk of our political class seriously maintained that the President of the United States was a Russian puppet.
That claim, based more on a desire to undo the 2016 election than on any actual evidence, was a poisonous corruption of our political discourse, and those involved should be — but won’t be — ashamed.
They should, however, be ignored in the future.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds

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History for April 19

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History for April 19 - On-This-Day.com
David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author, Ole Evinrude 1877, Eliot Ness 1903
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Tim Curry 1946 - Actor ("Stephen King’s It", "Amadeus", "The Hunt for Red October"), James Franco 1978 - Actor ("Milk", "Spider-Man"), Kate Hudson 1979 - Actress
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1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington, MA.
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1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire.
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1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

'Code of silence' obscures surge of church attacks - WND

'Code of silence' obscures surge of church attacks - WND:

Image result for flickr commons images French churches on fireNearly 2,000 Christian houses of worship in France have been desecrated in the past two years, according to police. In Germany, there were four such incidents in March.
Some French politicians have attributed the church desecrations — averaging more than two a day — to “militant secularism.”
But in virtually every attack across Europe, writes Raymond Ibrahim for the Gatestone Institute, “authorities and media obfuscate the identity of the vandals.”
“In those rare instances when the Muslim (or “migrant”) identity of the destroyers is leaked, the desecraters are then presented as suffering from mental health issues,” he writes.
Ibrahim cited an analysis by the German website PI News that observed: “Hardly anyone writes and speaks about the increasing attacks on Christian symbols. There is an eloquent silence in both France and Germany about the scandal of the desecrations and the origin of the perpetrators.”
Authorities avoid at all costs blaming migrants, the website said.

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Seattle Man Punches Priest After Asking, 'How's Trump?' | Trending

Seattle Man Punches Priest After Asking, 'How's Trump?' | Trending
"Now that CBS is normalizing political violence, it's open season on anybody the left doesn't like. 
It's okay to punch Nazis, and a Nazi can be anybody you want. 
Even a priest.
From his home at the All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, Abbot Tryphon told KIRO 7 about how he was suddenly attacked Tuesday morning while gassing up at the Mobil Station on Southwest 148th Street in Burien.
“I have never been hit as hard,” the Russian Orthodox priest said Wednesday. The at-large suspect “zeroed in on my cross, because when he started coming my direction, he had this look of anger.”
The leader of the Vashon monks said the man who struck him first asked, “How’s Trump?” When Abbot Tryphon answered, “I have no idea, that’s when he hit me.” Read all. 
Here's a closer look at the guy:


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The King Co Sheriff’s Office just gave me these images of the man suspected of assaulting a Priest at a Burien gas station. @KIRO7Seattle

Ocasio-Cortez Makes A 'How My Green New Deal Saved The World' Video - The Lid

Ocasio-Cortez Makes A 'How My Green New Deal Saved The World' Video - The Lid New Deal
"...Perhaps to feed America’s superhero envy, or more probably to feed her own ego, freshman member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has starred in a video of herself decades in the future explaining how her Green New Deal saved the world and made Amerca a better place.
The video’s script was written by Socialist/America-hater Naiomi Klein, produced by the environment organization Sunrise Movement, and published by Glenn Greenwald’s site, The Intercept.
Klein wrote an introduction to the propaganda video that said in part:
What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a foregone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves? We realized that the biggest obstacle to the kind of transformative change the Green New Deal envisions is overcoming the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed.
...AOC’s video is below"

With Evidence, Rush Proves Hillary Paid for the Steele Dossier - The Rush Limbaugh Show

With Evidence, Rush Proves Hillary Paid for the Steele Dossier - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Image result for flickr commons images robert muellerBut the big take-away is that there was never any evidence of collusion. As Devin Nunes said on Fox, the day Mueller was hired he shows up in his office and he says, “Okay, Comey. Show me what you got.” Comey had been conducting this investigation into Trump-Russia collusion. The file’s empty! There’s nothing! The day Mueller took the job there was no evidence. There still hasn’t been any evidence. And the Mueller report now confirms there was is any collusion.
The real crime here, if you ask me, is that Mueller has known this since day one and certainly for the last year and a half of his investigation, has known there’s no collusion. Why not say so? Why not announce so?