3rd August 2023
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3rd August 2023
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3rd August 2023
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3rd August 2023
Donald Trump expected in court over attempt to overturn 2020 US election – US politics live (The Guardian)
Um, where are our voting machines? The bonkers details of the new MI election indictments (MSNBC)
Bill Barr tells Kaitlan Collins what he finds ‘nauseating’ about Trump (CNN)
From Right-Hand Man to Critical Witness: Pence at Heart of Trump Prosecution (N.Y. Times)
Secret Service Issues Warning Before Trump D.C. Arrival (NewsMax)
Trump Was Indicted for Being Wrong—Which Is Not a Crime (Jonathan Turley)
Trump’s indictment for Jan. 6 turns Mike Pence into a litmus test (Politico)
Trump Extremists Make New Calls to Hang Mike Pence: ‘Watch His Toes Dangle’ (Rolling Stone)
Finally. The Coup Indictment. (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes joins the witch-hunt.
Jack Smith Admits To Making False Claim To Court In Trump Case
Morning Joe: Trump A ‘Monster’ Like Bin Laden, Will End Democracy If Elected
The Legal Cases Against Trump Explained
Trump’s Threat to Democracy Is Now Systemic (The Atlantic)
Trump Election Charges Set Up Clash of Lies Versus Free Speech (N.Y. Times)
Trump Prepares to Make Familiar Trip to Courthouse, This Time in Washington (N.Y. Times)
Trump, Five Lawyers and Their Conspiracy Against Our Democracy (Democracy Docket)
Indict another day (Spectator)
Trump Indictment: Sad Story, Lousy Legal Theories (Power Line)
How Dare Trump Question the Election Result? (Power Line)
The Trump Indictment Criminalizes Political Dissent
The Trump Indictment Stinks; Let Me Count the Ways (Power Line)
Trump 2024: Running for President, and to Beat the Rap (N.Y. Times)
What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? (N.Y. Times) David Brooks sits up and begs for his proglodyte paymasters.
Trump’s First Amendment defense in Jan. 6 case is shaky, experts say (Axios)
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responds to Donald Trump’s indictment in the January 6 investigation (CNN) The witch-hunt continues.
Coup Indictment: Here’s Why Trump’s Usual Defenses Won’t Work (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew are all-in on the witch-hunt.
Heart of the Trump Jan. 6 indictment: What’s in Trump’s head (Washington Post) Narrative media ‘journalists’ all pretend to be able to read minds, that ought not to be hard.
Network Tally of Third Trump Indictment Hits 111 Mins; ABC Fears Global Harm to U.S.
Pence Says Trump Pushed Him ‘Essentially to Overturn the Election’ (N.Y. Times)
Obama-Nominated Judge In Trump Case Is ‘Toughest Punisher’ Of J6 Rioters And a Person of Color, so naturally there will be no bias at all.
4 Things to Know About Obama-Appointed Judge Presiding Over New Trump Case (The Foundry)
The View Decries Thought of Trump Deserving a ‘Fair Trial,’ Want Exile
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3rd August 2023
The Foundry.
“If we keep quiet, we are going to go extinct,” says Catholic Bishop Chipa Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, Nigeria.
In June, the Congressional Values Action Team caucus met with Anagbe and the Rev. Remigius Ihyula who shared their testimonies of atrocities committed against Christians in Nigeria by Islamic extremists and about the complacency of the Nigerian government.
The meeting rallied support behind House Resolution 82, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., expressing the sense of Congress that the Biden administration officially redesignate Nigeria as a “country of particular concern for grossly violating religious freedoms and appoint a special envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad region.”
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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3rd August 2023
Read it.
In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group ruled much of Iraq and Syria and carried out a wave of oppression toward various minority groups, committing acts of genocide against the Yazidis (a Kurdish-speaking ethnoreligious group), a fact now finally being acknowledged by the British government.
This week, the UK Foreign Office announced it would recognize that the Islamic State carried out acts of genocide against the Yazidis in 2014, with the group being largely targetted by the Islamic extremist group because of their non-Islamic beliefs.
“The UK has today formally acknowledged that acts of genocide were committed against the Yazidi people by Daesh (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State) in 2014,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday, August 1st.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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3rd August 2023
Zman blows the whistle.
A paradox of the modern age is that the average person in the West knows more about the natural world than the most learned man of prior eras, but people remain as superstitious and irrational as ever. This is true even in the human sciences, where doctors continue to tell patients that they should make sure to eat plenty of vegetables and avoid fatty foods. Much of what people experience as medicine is the same old oogily-boogily that has been with us since forever.
The carnivore diet is the latest bit of nonsense to make the rounds. Search the topic on YouTube and your recommendations will suddenly be packed with videos of men wearing lab coats or standing in front of dry erase boards, explaining how this diet is based on the science of cavemen. They claim that humans are made to eat meat, not bread or vegetables, so we should only eat meat. This will cure the things that ail you in the modern age, like obesity and unhappiness.
This is pure nonsense. Modern humans are the product of a long process that continues to this day. That process is called evolution. The ancestors of modern humans survived on what they could find. We know that species that can survive on a varied diet are more adaptive than species hooked on a narrow diet. If you can eat anything, you can live anywhere. If you can only eat bamboo shoots, then the only place you can live is in a Chinese zoo.
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3rd August 2023
Some of us can’t wait that long.
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3rd August 2023
Gates of Vienna.
The following video shows a rant by a transgender “woman” in Sweden with a bullhorn, who harangues passersby on the deadly danger that Islam poses to homosexuals, transgenders, women, Christians, Jews, and anybody else who is not a Muslim.
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2nd August 2023
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2nd August 2023
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2nd August 2023
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2nd August 2023
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2nd August 2023
Daily Signal
The social networking platform Nextdoor bills itself as an app to bring neighbors together, claiming that “connecting with others is a universal human need,” but it relies upon the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory, to determine which groups are too “hateful” to be good neighbors.
Nextdoor recently banned a Tennessee chapter of the concerned parents group Moms for Liberty after neighbors reportedly complained about the group being on the site. The ban took place exactly one week after the SPLC put Moms for Liberty—including the Hamilton County, Tennessee, chapter—on a “hate map,” along with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
“As a mom and former teacher in the community who cares deeply about the future of our children, I think it is ironic that a company that aims to bring communities together has targeted a large group of our community members by canceling us. We cannot communicate with our community,” Tonya Dodd, chapter chair of the Hamilton County Moms for Liberty, told The Daily Signal.
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2nd August 2023
NewsBusters.
One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals on everything, and the dumbest path is to oppose them emphatically.
The latest flagrant example of this is a column in the Los Angeles Times with the provocative headline “Republican racism has finally weaponized Kamala Harris.” The columnist, Jackie Calmes, was falsely categorized for decades as an “objective journalist.” Moving over to the opinion pages isn’t really a significant change. Calmes begins by acknowledging Harris is deeply unpopular. But, shazam! Republicans “keep doing stupid stuff underscoring their racial insensitivity” — like Ron DeSantis and his government in Florida claiming a “silver lining to slavery” in their new African-American history standards for schools.
It doesn’t matter that the Florida standards explicitly demand slavery be presented to students as a dehumanizing horror. It doesn’t matter that the original standards that DeSantis criticized also had a passage about a so-called “silver lining to slavery.” It doesn’t matter that the “silver lining” for slaves came after slavery ended or after they escaped slavery. What matters is trying to construct a spin that makes Kamala Harris less of a liability for Democrats.
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2nd August 2023
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2nd August 2023
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In Democracy on Trial, Jean Elshtain stresses the need for what she calls “democratic dispositions,” which include a willingness, or perhaps even eagerness, to act with others toward shared purposes, to compromise, to converse, and to understand one’s unique life as embedded in a skein of relationships that help constitute one’s distinctive personhood. The maintenance of these dispositions is a necessary condition, it seems, for preserving the civic virtues of “sobriety, rectitude, hard work, and familial and community obligations.”
What Elshtain calls democratic dispositions are, by my way of thinking, habits that temper and moderate democracy rather than express its inherent nature. The “savage instincts of democracy,” to use Tocqueville’s phrase, tend toward despotism rather than freedom, toward barbarism rather than toward civility. Unchecked democratic instincts encourage people to withdraw into an intensely private sphere and to see the world from the narrow perspective of their own self-interest, crudely understood. Disconnected from public obligations, having come to think of individualism as a virtue, the democrat sees only his own small world of family and close associates, and then the abstractions of nation or humanity. The rich world of political and civil associations in between these two extremes are invisible to him.
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2nd August 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
Why do electric car batteries frequently burst into flame? In my opinion, EVs are essentially an obsolete technology even without this glaring flaw. But those who are trying to force them down our throats should be made to explain why this isn’t a serious issue.
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1st August 2023
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1st August 2023
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1st August 2023
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1st August 2023
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1st August 2023
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1st August 2023
Hmmm … Left Coast, Other Left Coast, Canadian Left Coast….
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1st August 2023
The Spectator.
Since the early campaign got underway in earnest, the contest for the Republican nomination has been remarkably stable. Trump has held a commanding lead, Ron DeSantis has lagged behind him in a clear but distant second, failing to breakthrough as many thought he might after declaring his candidacy. Meanwhile, no one else has registered enough of a polling surge to announce themselves as a serious alternative.
Insofar as there has been any movement in the race so far, it has been in Trump’s favor. And his commanding lead is evident in a New York Times/Siena College poll published today. It finds 54 percent of Republican primary voters backing Trump, with DeSantis on 17 percent. No one else can register more than 3 percent.
In his analysis of the poll, Nate Cohn puts Trump’s commanding lead in clear terms: “In the half century of modern presidential primaries, no candidate who led his or her nearest rival by at least twenty points at this stage has ever lost a party nomination. Today, Donald J. Trump’s lead over Ron DeSantis is nearly twice as large.”
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