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  • A BLOODBATH IN THE SUPREME COURT

    03/18/2024 1:00:02 PM PDT · by bitt · 58 replies
    https://www.powerlineblog.com ^ | 3/18/2024 | scott johnson
    This morning the Supreme Court held oral argument in the case that is now styled Murthy v. Missouri. C-SPAN has posted audio of the oral argument here. The case arises from the government’s “encouragement” of censorship by the social media platforms, as documented in the Twitter Files. We have followed the case as it has wended its way through the district court to the Fifth Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. We (I) have been pulling for the plaintiffs. The Supreme Court has already entered an order staying the narrowed preliminary injunction that had been fashioned by the Fifth...
  • Gay Black Republican Leaves Party: 'I Was Betrayed'

    03/18/2024 11:55:08 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 59 replies
    Newsweak ^ | March 18, 2024 | Andrew Stanton
    Rob Smith, a gay and Black conservative who was heckled and called racist and homophobic slurs while attending a MAGA event last year, said he is leaving the Republican Party. Smith, a longtime conservative commentator, announced he now identifies as "politically homeless" during an episode of his podcast Can't Cancel Rob Smith titled "I Was Betrayed—Rob Smith Speaks Out" on Monday. Smith shared a video on social media in December that he said showed him at an event in Phoenix being "confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don't like gays or blacks in the Republican Party." He said...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?

    03/18/2024 6:57:00 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 18 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses. In 2011, then Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama, John Brennan, swore before Congress that drone-targeted assassination missions near the Pakistani border had not led to “a single collateral death.” That was an obvious lie with grave consequences, given that Brennan was sworn under oath and was one of the top officials in the US national security community. Yet there were no subsequent repercussions. In fact, the opposite occurred. Brennan was subsequently rewarded with...
  • The Thin Veneer of Civilization

    03/18/2024 6:24:34 AM PDT · by SJackson · 29 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 18, 2024 | Mark Tapson
    The Left is turning us into a “sh*thole country.” During a White House meeting with Senators in January, 2018, then-President Donald Trump reportedly questioned the reasoning for allowing immigration from “shithole countries” such as Haiti. This triggered the pearl-clutching mainstream media, and charges of racism flew fast and furious, including from Haiti Ambassador to the U.S. Paul Altidor, who said Trump’s language was based on “clichés and stereotypes rather than actual fact.”Today Haiti is a shithole country, and that is not a racist cliché or stereotype but actual fact. It is a failed nation in a state of emergency, becoming...
  • Homophobia in Africa: The American far-right's footprint {barf alert}

    03/18/2024 5:58:01 AM PDT · by Salman · 26 replies
    DW (Deutsche Welle) (German radio) ^ | March 15, 2024 | Martina Schwikowski
    Fundamentalist Christian churches from the United States are increasingly gaining power and influence in societies and political spheres across Africa. Many of them have been whipping up negative sentiments against LGBTQ+ people and abortion rights. Haley McEwen, a sociologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, has examined some of their influential networks. "US Christian right-wing groups have been very active in the US foreign policy since the early 2000s," McEwen told DW. "There are several organizations that have been around since the 1970s — and in the early 2000s they started to increase their influence internationally." ...
  • How will the Ukraine war end? Only when Vladimir Putin is toppled

    03/17/2024 4:48:42 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 42 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 16 Mar 2024 | Simon Tisdall
    Pope Francis’s suggestion that Ukraine’s leaders should admit defeat, find “the courage to raise the white flag” and negotiate a halt to the war with Russia provoked justified fury in Kyiv and eastern Europe. He was wrong to say Ukraine is beaten, and gravely remiss in failing to condemn Moscow’s illegal aggression and war crimes. Yet Francis is not alone in wondering how this conflict ends. Two years on, there’s no sign of a winner. Maybe that’s just as well, in the sense that outright victory for either side could be disastrous for all. Does this unheroic consideration tacitly influence...
  • SCS: Old battleground, new twist: Old battleground, new twist

    03/16/2024 9:28:24 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 3 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Sunday, March 17, 2024 | Makhan Saikia
    The South China Sea has once again become a focal point of international attention following sudden clashes between coast guard vessels of the Philippines and China. As tensions rise, the involvement of global powers like the US and Japan adds further complexity to the situation, potentially pushing more nations to align against Beijing. Amid these escalating tensions, it becomes imperative for China to reconsider its assertive stance and respect the existing global order to avoid further international backlash The South China Sea (SCS) has once again come into focus following sudden skirmishes between the coast guard vessels of the Philippines...
  • Erin Go "Naaaaaaa..."

    03/16/2024 5:51:01 PM PDT · by Twotone · 11 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | March 11, 2024 | Mark Steyn
    Late on Friday Steyn's lawyers filed three new motions in the District of Columbia Superior Court. You can read them in full here... ~There is not a lot of good news around as western civilisation floors it off the cliff. The last such in the anglosphere came last autumn, with the Australian people's coast-to-coast rejection of the proposed "Indigenous Voice to Parliament". In the face of suffocating universal support for the yes side from the political, legal, cultural and media establishments, Oz voted it down 60-40. Well, this weekend the Irish just upped the Aussies, and rejected overwhelmingly two constitutional...
  • Dear Idaho, you aren't conservative.

    03/15/2024 5:53:23 AM PDT · by Twotone · 11 replies
    Idahofreedomcaucus.Substack ^ | March 13, 2024 | Staff
    Dear Idaho, You are not a conservative state. I know you think you are. After all, more than 80% of your lawmakers call themselves Republican. The Republican Party controls the House, the Senate, and the Governor’s office. But let’s be honest. Idaho just isn’t conservative. Many Republican lawmakers vote like Democrats. Even those who campaign as “conservatives” vote liberal more than half the time. Here are some examples: HJM11—To hold President Biden and the federal government accountable for the invasion at our southern border. (Failed on the House floor.) Conservative states stand up for the rule of law rather than...
  • Bidenflation: 18.6% so far! Did your income go up that much?

    03/15/2024 5:32:46 AM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 25 replies
    Bureau of Labor Statistics ^ | Ides of March, 2024 | Uncle Miltie
    The Consumer Price Index has increased 18.6% from 261.582 in January of 2021 when Biden took office to 310.326 in February 2024. Has your income gone up 18.6%, or did Biden make you POORER?
  • The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage

    01/11/2010 6:23:41 PM PST · by steve-b · 142 replies · 4,112+ views
    Newsweek ^ | 1/9/10 | Theodore B. Olson
    Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California's Proposition 8—the voter-approved measure that overturned California's constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex.... Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marriage. This does not make sense, because same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize. Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation. At its best, it is a stable bond between two individuals who work to create a loving household and a social...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?

    03/14/2024 6:55:52 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Anytime ideology and dogma trump merit, logic, and safety, the result is predictably dangerous. America needs to recalibrate its priorities to protect the lives and aspirations of its citizens. The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Biden referenced the deceased Ms. Riley. But Biden misidentified her as “Lincoln Riley”—the USC football coach! Biden only accurately noted that she “was killed by an “illegal.””...
  • The Crime of Mohamed Hadid-An Israel hater utters a threat to Joe Biden

    03/14/2024 5:59:47 AM PDT · by SJackson · 18 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 14, 2024 | Hugh Fitzgerald
    Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Ah, the Hadids. Where would we be without them? Brainless beauties, those Hadid girls, Gigi and Bella, sashaying down the catwalks of the Western world, and their doting, equally empty-headed, stage-door papa, a real-estate tycoon on his uppers and down on his luck, in sunny California, appear to have no other subject in their empty heads – as their Instagram postings make clear — than the hideousness of the Israelis and the sheer wonderfulness of the Palestinians they persecute. Gigi has informed the world that “Jesus was a Palestinian,” that the Palestinians are the “indigenous”...
  • Rutgers University Professors Bash ‘Privileged’ Jews-A webinar of hate

    03/14/2024 5:56:51 AM PDT · by SJackson · 12 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 14, 2024 | Andrew Harrod
    Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...American Jews enjoy and suffer from, respectively, “white privileging and white fragility,” stated Sahar Aziz, director of Rutgers University Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR), during its February 21 webinar. While Jews in America and beyond face a global surge in antisemitism following Hamas’ brutal October 7, 2023, attack upon Israel, CSRR and its factually-challenged director have once again displayed anti-Jewish, jihadist apologetics.Aziz spoke with her likeminded colleague, Noura Erakat, Rutgers University associate professor of Africana studies, in a webinar titled after her 2019 book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine....
  • The Realignment

    03/13/2024 7:50:43 AM PDT · by Lake Living · 2 replies
    Tablet Magazine ^ | May 10, 2021 | MICHAEL DORAN AND TONY BADRAN
    But even the Israelis have yet to absorb the full scope and magnitude of Biden’s accommodation of Iran. The problem is not that Sullivan and Blinken are failing to restrain Malley, but that they are marching in lockstep with him. A consensus reigns inside the administration, not just on the JCPOA but on every big question of Middle East strategy: Everyone from the president on down agrees about the need to complete what Obama started—which means that the worst is yet to come. If the control that Obama’s project exercises over every mind in the Biden administration is not already...
  • Who Is Fani Willis Really? | Willis' Mask Slips in Extremely Disingenuous Testimony

    03/13/2024 7:02:17 AM PDT · by SteveH · 30 replies
    Martin Decoderfaniwil ^ | 2024-3-11 | Martin Decoder
    Why did judge McAfee reprimand DA Fani Willis during her testimony? What's wrong with Willis' statements? Why do they seem unclear and stalling? To answer these questions, this in-depth language analysis looks at heated and revealing excerpts from Willis' testimony to the Fulton County court. In these excerpts, Willis is questioned about whether people in her office knew about her relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade. The analysis uses concepts such as 'distancing language' and 'weak denials' to find out how Willis' word choice affects the reliability of her testimony. This video has an educational purpose. You can use many of...
  • Are Ramadan Jihad Cells Already in the U.S.?-“The warning lights are blinking.”

    03/13/2024 4:18:23 AM PDT · by SJackson · 27 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 13, 2024 | Clare Lopez
    Two recent interviews — one with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and one with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., — pointed to the gathering threat of terror violence inside the country this year.Aside from these two and a few more, though, there seems to be scant attention being paid to the likelihood that a confluence of threat indicators will erupt into street violence on a scale we’ve not seen since the summer of 2020.This year, the Islamic month of Ramadan begins on March 10.It runs until sundown on April 10.Against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing Swords of Iron...
  • Foes of Israel Wore Red Hand Pins at Oscars-A reflection on the full horrific symbolism.

    03/13/2024 4:14:58 AM PDT · by SJackson · 29 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 13, 2024 | Robert Spencer
    The Oscars are always a superb occasion for leftists to indulge in an orgy of virtue-signaling, and this year was no different. Foes of Israel sported little round pins featuring a red hand with a black heart in the palm, which even for them was a bizarre and ham-fisted way to show the world that they want Israel to stop fighting and Hamas to live. It recalled nothing more vividly than a notorious Palestinian jihad massacre which, despite having taken place over twenty years ago, is still recalled with horror among Israelis and supporters of Israel.NPR reported happily on Monday...
  • Anti-Semitism Poses Dangerous Threat to States with Largest Jewish Populations-It's only a matter of time

    03/12/2024 7:28:18 AM PDT · by SJackson · 12 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 12, 2024 | Casey Ryan
    Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Hostility is nothing new to Jewish populations throughout the world. Jews have faced one atrocity after another for thousands of years. However, the hostility that Jews have experienced in America’s schools since the barbaric 10/7 attack against Israel is appalling, especially when taking into consideration that antisemitism seems to be rising the most in states with large Jewish populations.The Jewish Virtual Library estimates that approximately 7.4 million Jews live in America, disproportionately in a select number of states. New York is estimated to be the home to nearly 1.8 million Jews, with California being the...
  • Israel should be invited to join NATO

    03/11/2024 11:03:28 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 28 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/3/24 | Dr. Hans-Georg Maassen
    Well over 20 of these terrorist operatives who came to Germany to carry out attacks were identified and arrested. Another major challenge were Islamist lone perpetrators who radicalized themselves via the Internet and planned their own attacks. Identifying these lone wolf attackers, who were often completely under the radar, was a huge challenge. I worked very closely with my colleagues from Mossad and Shabak on this. I have visited Israel many times and look forward to going again soon to meet new friends. As the new German conservative party, the Values Union is fully committed to supporting Israel and its...