The Anti-Semitic Left

Kevin Williamson's anti-Semitic haters, leftist and alt-right both, will go batty over this one --

The Jews can be whatever their enemies need them to be. For Henry Ford and more than a few on the modern left, the Jews are the international bankers secretly pulling the strings of the global economy. As one widely circulated Occupy video put it: “The smallest group in America controls the money, media, and all other things. The fingerprints belong to the Jewish bankers who control Wall Street. I am against Jews who rob America. They are 1 percent who control America. President Obama is a Jewish puppet. The entire economy is Jewish. Every federal judge [on] the East Coast is Jewish.”

For those who learned at the feet of that old fraud Edward Said, the Jews are the colonialists, the European modernists inflicting capitalism and technology upon the noble savages of their imaginations. The Israeli Jews commit the double crime of insisting upon being Jews and refusing to be sacrificial victims. They were okay, in the Left’s estimate, for about five minutes, back when Israel’s future was assumed to be one of low-impact kibbutz socialism. History went in a different direction, and today Israel has one of the world’s most sophisticated economies.

For the Jew-hater, this is maddening: Throw the Jews out of Spain, and they thrive abroad. Send them to the poorest slums in New York, and those slums stop being slums. Keep them out of the Ivy League and watch NYU become a world-class institution inspired by men such as Jonas Salk, son of largely uneducated Polish immigrants. Put the Jewish state in a desert wasteland and watch it bloom, first with produce and then with technology. Israel today has more companies listed on NASDAQ than any other country except the United States and China. The economy under Palestinian management? Olives and handicrafts, and a GDP per capita that barely exceeds that of Sudan.

The Arab–Israeli conflict is a bitter and ugly one. My own view of it is that the Palestinian Arabs have some legitimate grievances, and that I stopped caring about them when they started blowing up children in pizza shops. You can thank the courageous heroes of the Battle of Sbarro for that. Israel isn’t my country, but it is my country’s ally, and it is impossible for a liberty-loving American to fail to admire what the Jewish state has done.

And that, of course, is why the Left wants to see the Jewish state exterminated.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434730/leftist-anti-semitism

Grossly Understated

A kid asks Ted Cruz to sign his copy of the Communist Manifesto as a joke and here’s what Cruz wrote:

Cruz was being charitable. Billions have suffered. Tens of millions have died.


Also -- Bill Kristol, pushing for a 3rd party candidate, tweeted that Americans deserve a better choice than Trump vs. Clinton.

Stephen Miller's astute response -- "Look around. No, they don't."

Trump And White Supremacy

GOP primary voting to date --

Trump - 8,214,461
Non-Trump - 13,594,457

James Kirchick explores the sordid realm of white "identitarianism", a racist, segregationalist philosophy, the adherents of which provide Donald Trump with a significant portion of his overall support. The movement is, in part, a reaction to the identity politics practiced and celebrated by much of the left. Barack Obama's promise of a "post-racial" presidency has been long forgotten.

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/433215/donald-trump-white-supremacist-supporters


Kevin Williamson on the assault on free speech --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433582/free-speech-climate-science-first-amendment


Comprehensive discussion of Hillary Clinton's e-mail crimes --

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-clinton-email-scandal-20160327-story.html

The ten questions the FBI could ask that would end Hillary Clinton's candidacy --

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/05/this_is_how_the_fbi_destroys_hillary_the_10_questions_that_could_end_her_white_house_dreams/


Something to consider - Universal Basic Income --

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/04/04/universal-basic-income-wont-make-america-great-again-either/


Dennis Prager warns secular conservatives not to neglect God --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433652/secular-conservatives-think-america-can-survive-death-god

Inequality, Cuba Style

Exploding the myth of Cuba's superior medical care --

In his weekly G-File, Jonah Goldberg provides a link to an article by a Cuban expatriate comparing medical facilities for Cuba's rich elite to those serving Cuba's poor. Guess which is which.






http://opencuba.blogspot.com/2012/03/cimeq-and-myths-of-cubas-health-care.html

And here is the link to Goldberg's piece where aside from discussing Obama and Cuba, he goes after Donald Trump (again).

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433571/donald-trump-michelle-fields-corey-lewandowski-lies-followers


#TheChalkening. The absurd spectacle of Emory University students reeling in pain from sightings of pro-Trump sidewalk chalk messages has inspired a series of copycat artists nationwide. Some of these efforts have been rather ambitious (see example below).  Finally! A positive effect from the otherwise calamitous Trump candidacy - A well deserved assault on the delicate sensibilities of students populating politically correct American campuses.




David Burge (Iowahawk) - Americans are sick of crony capitalism, so naturally the leading candidates are someone who buys favors and someone who sells them.


Here is a concise, accurate overview of the Flint, Michigan water crisis from the editors of National Review --

The city of Flint, Mich., was for generations ruled by an incompetent and often corrupt Democratic machine. When the city went into an extended financial crisis, a Democratic emergency manager was appointed to reform its finances. The city’s Democratic leadership decided to build an expensive new water system as an economy-stimulating infrastructure project, which annoyed the Democrats in nearby Detroit, who had been earning a nice income providing Flint with Detroit’s finest tap water. The Detroit Democrats retaliated against the Flint Democrats by ending their aqueous relationship earlier than planned, and the Flint Democrats turned to an alternative source of water, the Flint River, as a temporary measure. The Democrats who run Flint’s government consulted with the Democratic union men who run its city agencies and came up with a water-treatment process for that Flint River water, which turned out to be ineffective. The residents of Flint, including its vulnerable children, were exposed to high levels of lead in the water as a result. The Democrats who run Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency learned of this, and did nothing. This sent the Democrats running for that party’s presidential nomination into a tizzy of moral intoxication, during which they called for the resignation of . . . the Republican governor of Michigan.

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/432562/week


Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post) posts a devastating critique of Obama's Syria policy, juxtaposing his words and those of UN ambassador Samantha Power against his administration's feckless inaction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/03/31/obamas-syria-legacy-horrific-genocide/


Ian Tuttle (NRO) says that it's time for conservatives to make a clean break with Donald Trump. (Advice most rational people have followed for decades). --

...We should stop trying. Stop trying to convince Trump supporters that he’s contradicting himself. Stop trying to show that Trump’s solutions won’t work. Stop treating Trump’s policies as serious contributions to the hopper of policy ideas — because they’re not.

It’s time for a blackout. We are at a point where the only appropriate response to Trump’s ramblings is ostracism. He’s not a reasonable person with whom you can have a rational discussion, and we should treat him accordingly.

Whenever Donald Trump says anything — even if it has the patina of a reasonable, coherent thought — the response of every genuine right-winger should be: “I don’t care what Donald Trump says. He is an affront to rational thought and reasonable, thoughtful, humane discourse. I’m not going to waste time responding to any word that comes from his mouth. Period.” He — and every one of his bottom-feeding surrogates, and his media minions, and his army of Twitter eggs — should be ignored. They should be boxed out of public discourse, with prejudice.

Donald Trump has done incalculable damage to virtually every cause for which the conservative moment has fought for the last 60 years. It’s not enough to say he’s wrong. He should be exiled from public life. The Left will never do that; Trump’s success is theirs. This must be the work of whatever conscientious conservatives remain, and it has to start now.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/433477/donald-trump-abortion-conservative-blackout


Tuttle should have added a caveat - it's OK to analyze Trumpspeak if done for entertainment purposes. Kevin Williamson goes ahead and does just that.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433484/donald-trump-big-government-concept-country

Reckless, Obnoxious, Ill-Informed...

Donald Trump -- "Another radical Islamic attack, this time in Pakistan, targeting Christian women & children. At least 67 dead, 400 injured. I alone can solve."

DT -- "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."

Mark Steyn -- "If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain topics, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones."

Jim Geraghty with a big "Eff You!" to those Trump supporters suddenly having second thoughts about their guy. Devastatingly on target.

Trump supporters, no one should let you off of that bandwagon now. You should be handcuffed to that Titanic you volunteered to crew.

Donald Trump didn’t suddenly change in the past few days, weeks or months. He’s the same guy he always was, the same guy that most of us in the conservative movement and GOP have been staunchly opposing for the past year. He didn’t abruptly become reckless, obnoxious, ill-informed, erratic, hot-tempered, pathologically dishonest, narcissistic, crude and catastrophically unqualified for the presidency overnight. He’s always been that guy, and you denied it and ignored it and hand-waved it away and made excuses every step of the way because you were convinced that you were so much smarter than the rest of us. You were so certain that you had received some superior wavelength giving you special insight into the Donald; only you could tell that it was all an act. Only you could grasp that his constant courting of controversy was just to get attention from the media. Only you could instinctively sense that his style would play brilliantly in the general election and win over working-class Democrats. (SPOILER ALERT: It won’t.) You insisted that you could “coach him.”

You came to those conclusions not because you’re smarter than the rest of us, but because you’re actually more foolish than the rest of us. You insisted Occam’s Razor couldn’t possibly be true– that Trump acts the way he does because this is who he is, this is the way he is all the time, and he will always be like this. You fooled yourself into believing that Trump was playing this nine-level chess that only you and a few others could perceive and understand. Only you could see the long game.

There is no long game. He’s winging it. There is no grand strategy. There is no master plan. Trump doesn’t look ahead to the next sentence, much less the next step in getting elected.

...Technically we’re supposed to welcome previous Trump fans-turned-foes with open arms. But barring some miraculous comeback by Ted Cruz, the Trump campaign will have cost the Republican Party the presidency after eight years of Obama, and perhaps the Senate and even the House – and Scalia’s replacement on the Court as well. Years of effort spent attempting to dispel the accusations of inherent Republican misogyny, xenophobia, hypocrisy, ignorance and blind rage have been undone by Trump’s campaign. And every Trump advocate in front of a camera had a hand in this.

We’re not just gonna hug it out. 

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/433432/mental-utterly-stupid-trump-only-cares-about-trump

George Will doubts we will ever see a period of scientific and economic advances comparable to the one immediately following the industrial revolution. --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433247/technology-future-robert-gordon-rise-and-fall-american-growth

Kevin Williamson on the double standard of justice for leftist elites (Clintons, Lerner, et al) vs. ordinary folk. --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433286/hillary-clintons-crimes-prison-impunity

KW states the obvious - Trump is stupid --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433296/donald-trump-stupid-psychopath-ignorance-policy-complex-problems

Williamson giving a long talk on why things don't work. Essential KW. --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cwzRV_YUjc

Andrew McCarthy on the possibility of a Loretta Lynch stonewall of a Clinton indictment. --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433369/hillary-clinton-e-mail-scandal-justice-department-stonewall

Jim Lewis, (as quoted by Jim Geraghty) --

The man (Trump) didn’t emerge, all at once and fully formed, from some hidden and benighted hollow in the American psyche. He’s been kicking around for 30 years or more, and he was promoted and schooled, made famous and made wealthy, by the same culture and economy that now reviles him, and finds his success so vexing.

After all, it wasn’t some Klan newsletter that first brought Trump to our attention: It was Time and Esquire and Spy. The Westboro Baptist Church didn’t give him his own TV show: NBC did. And his boasts and lies weren’t posted on Breitbart, they were published by Random House. He was created by people who learned from Andy Warhol, not Jerry Falwell, who knew him from galas at the Met, not fundraisers at Karl Rove’s house, and his original audience was presented to him by Condé Nast, not Guns & Ammo. He owes his celebrity, his money, his arrogance, and his skill at drawing attention to those coastal cultural gatekeepers — presumably mostly liberal — who first elevated him out of general obscurity, making him famous and rewarding him (and, not at all incidentally, themselves) for his idiocies.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/433374/conservatives-werent-ones-who-made-trump-ubiquitous-celebrity

Daniel Greenfield examines the Obama administration's insane anti-terror policy. --

If you’re keeping score, freeing Islamic terrorists from Gitmo does not play into the hands of ISIS. Neither does bringing Syrians, many of whom sympathize with Islamic terrorists, into our country. And aiding the Muslim Brotherhood parent organization of ISIS does not play into the Islamic group’s hands.

However if you use the words “Islamic terrorism” or even milder derivatives such as “radical Islamic terrorism”, you are playing into the hands of ISIS. If you call for closer law enforcement scrutiny of Muslim areas before they turn into Molenbeek style no-go zones or suggest ending the stream of new immigrant recruits to ISIS in San Bernardino, Paris or Brussels, you are also playing into the hands of ISIS.

And if you carpet bomb ISIS, destroy its headquarters and training camps, you’re just playing into its hands. According to Obama and his experts, who have wrecked the Middle East, what ISIS fears most is that we’ll ignore it and let it go about its business. And what it wants most is for us to utterly destroy it.

Tens of thousands of Muslim refugees make us safer. But using the words “Muslim terrorism” endangers us. The more Muslims we bring to America, the faster we’ll beat ISIS. As long as we don’t call it the Islamic State or ISIS or ISIL, but follow Secretary of State John Kerry’s lead in calling it Daesh.

Because terrorism has no religion. Even when it’s shouting, “Allahu Akbar”.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262307/fighting-isis-plays-isis-hands-daniel-greenfield

Thinks That The Man In The High Castle Is A Documentary

Running a close second in the category of dumb remarks by world leaders responding to the March 22 Brussels terror attacks is perennial dumb commentator, Barack Obama --

"We defeat them in part by saying you are not strong, you are weak."

Take that! you evildoers!

During his half-hour harangue appeasing the communist thugs running Cuba's totalitarian regime, Obama reluctantly spent 51 seconds responding to the Brussels terror attack. His cliché-ridden remarks included this line -
"The thoughts and the prayers of the American people are with the people of Belgium."

Remember back to the San Bernadino terror attack in December and the NY Daily News' outrage when Republican spokesmen offered their "thoughts and prayers"?

No such moral outrage was forthcoming from the Daily News after Obama offered his "thoughts and prayers" following the Brussels attack. Apparently, invoking God is inappropriate when Islamists murder with guns but it's perfectly OK when they use bombs.


Vulgar, Stupid, Ignorant, Evil -- Trump touches all the bases.

Ian Tuttle (NRO) expresses proper revulsion at the latest example of Trump's depravity.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/433257/donald-trump-heidi-cruz-post-literate-political-culture


Providing welcome comedy relief to our latest run of national and global bad news is James Lileks' column in the March 28 issue of National Review. Lileks asks, why would a terrific, tremendous, beautiful multi-billionaire real estate titan stoop so low as to lend his name to a vitamin supplement hawking scheme? Very, very, VERY funny. (Sorry, it'll cost you a quarter without an NR subscription).

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/432582/trumps-golden-ticket

Rule Of Law

I'm disappointed at Roger Simon over at PJ Media for his surrender to the forces of Trumpism and I now ignore anything he has to say regarding the GOP nomination process. However, he has written an excellent article detailing the significance of THE most important issue of the general election campaign, bar none : How will the FBI and the Justice Department (and what we're actually talking about here is the White House) deal with the seemingly overwhelming evidence of Hillary Clinton's national security violations and her influence peddling via the corrupt Clinton Foundation. The judicial treatment of Clinton's alleged crimes will determine whether or not the U.S. has devolved into a banana republic.

Bill Clinton was impeached for two causes -- perjury and obstruction of justice. But the charges concerned a matter of personal conduct and were not deemed serious enough for Clinton to be removed from office, although he was disbarred by the state of Arkansas.

Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency before almost certain impeachment over his coverup of the Watergate break-in, a farcically useless burglary of Democratic headquarters in an election that the Republicans were already winning by a landslide.

Neither of these misdeeds, bad as they were, even remotely approach the magnitude of crimes for which Hillary Clinton is said by many to have committed.

Read the entire piece here. It's important.

https://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2016/03/23/james-comey-and-loretta-lynch-hold-the-whole-country-in-their-hands/