A propos de reparations

Has anyone mentioned that blackmailers always come back for more?

The fearless troll in the White House, maybe?

Tucker Carlson attacked for un-PC Crimespeak

Why the Left Is Trying to Get Tucker Carlson Off the Air...Again

“Kenosha has devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge of the city abandoned it. 

People in charge in Wisconsin from the governor on down refused to enforce the law,” Carlson said during Wednesday's program. 

“They stood back and watched Kenosha burn.”

The Left's objection, however, came when the host asked, “How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?”

Carlson was referring to Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man arrested and charged with murder for allegedly shooting two Antifa rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after being attacked (my colleagues at RedState evaluate whether the incident was self-defense). 

According to police, he traveled approximately 20 miles from his home in Antioch, Ill., to join others in 'protecting' Kenosha.

“So what does that amount to? We’re unsure,” Carlson said. 

“A court will decide if what you just saw qualifies as self-defense.”

Piling it on for the election

To its regularly scheduled shows encouraging blacks to see racism in the clouds, on slices of toast, and in tree rings CNN will add regularly scheduled programming to encourage women to see sexism in all the same places.

In both cases, of course, it will go with much saying that the solution - the only solution - is to vote to put Democrats in power.

Update 8/22/20.

BBC News is running a beautifully photographed, brilliantly produced series on African history emphasizing the achievements of sub-Saharan civilization and the beastly horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and European imperialism/colonialism.

BBC's 1619 project.

Deeply biased history as justification for racism against whites and a deeply racist political agenda.

When elites want something the newsies tell you it's the only decent and just thing in about a hundred different ways.

Reparations.

CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and almost all Democratic media.

Wait for some anti-Trump Republicans to get on board.

Joe B is on board.

The only way it doesn't happen in the next president's first term is the Great Fat Orange Klansman wins another term.

When elites don't want something the newsies tell you it's impossible.

Peter Jennings told Americans very firmly, decades ago, that the browning of America is utterly inevitable and there's nothing they can do to prevent it.

CNN has been saying all day and for days the Electoral College can't and will never be abolished.

CNN, MSNBC, and BBC are all in that America - white America - owes reparations to American blacks for slavery, at least

The burning question of the hour is how to pay and how much.

That is the line apparently adopted by many pro-Democratic media all over America.

CNN has a prime time show commercials for which show the host interviewing a few black people on that question.

All three demand a lot.

One insists to an apparently approving interviewer (the show's host W. Kamau Bell) that fully paying up would "break America".

These are, of course, the same people who yearn for the demographic sorpasso of nonwhites over whites in America to come as soon as possible, welcome policies that allow or speed that eventuality, and furiously denounce policies that would retard or prevent it as racism worthy of the ragingest of black rage.

A bad idea and a worse idea. Quite apart from the constitution.

Drafting men is the bad idea for any but the military purpose of pretty clearly true blue and honest to gosh national defense.

Does that include drafting men to participate in any mess we might get into because of our far flung Cold War alliances like Article 5 of NATO?

I hesitate to say aye or nay to drafting men to save Riga from the dreaded Russkies.

Yes, I suppose, given the alliance. But that is another argument against that alliance.

The even worse idea is drafting women.

Male-Only Military Draft Is Constitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules

A federal appeals court upheld the constitutionality of the male-only military draft system on Thursday, overturning a lower court ruling.

In an opinion issued Thursday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans noted that the Supreme Court upheld the male-only draft in 1981 and said the 5th Circuit is a “strict stare decisis” court and “cannot ignore a decision from the Supreme Court,” adding that only the Supreme Court may revise its precedent.

. . . .

After arguments before the 5th Circuit in March, a federal commission recommended extending the draft to include women as well.

“The Commission concluded that the time is right to extend Selective Service System registration to include men and women, between the ages of 18 and 26. 

"This is a necessary and fair step, making it possible to draw on the talent of a unified Nation in a time of national emergency,” a summary to the commission’s final report said.

If he's much like his Dad I despise him already

But this is all racist, anti-white bullshit.

As is this, by the way, and it's relevance will be apparent to readers of this Newsweek article.

Whites are more comfortable with O than with, say, Louis Farrakhan, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X., Jeremiah Wright, or even the younger (or just more candid?) version of Al Sharpton, so they are lauded as real while O is scorned as magical and - no kidding - articulate.

Georgia Democrat Faces Calls to Drop Out of Senate Race Over 'Racist' Novel

The book, which is likely not very good, far from flatteringly depicts a white racist who's maybe more than a little bats and - big surprise - often uses the word "nigger" in his thoughts.

For this and other, like literary sins, the black chairwoman of the George Democratic Party castigates Matt Lieberman mightily, as does James Woodall, the president of the Georgia NAACP.

The character just might be a satiric version of Trump, particularly since the author says the book was written after the Charlottesville affair.

At the time, Trump memorably spoke to the nation of the good people among the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other alt.right demonstrators in that city.

And as to the n-word, he was often reported back than as a frequent flier.

Lieberman, an attorney and former principal of an Atlanta Jewish school, is one of 21 contenders running in the special election for Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-Ga.) seat.

He rejected criticism over his novel in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, saying he penned the story in response to the white supremacist neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Lieberman referred to it as a  “clear-eyed and honest look at racism in America.”

“The fact that I published this book has been known since I began this campaign last year, so an attack surfacing only now is testament to the strength of my candidacy today,” he said.

He rejected call to drop out of the race.

See also from The Hill Matt Lieberman faces calls to drop out of Georgia Senate race over 'racist an discriminatory' tropes in 2018 book

I hate it when they're right.

The NRA uses routine political methods to defend and advance a somewhat overdone gun rights agenda.

This DA is way out there as to means to advance a gun control agenda that is not, so far as I know, at all extreme.

NRA fights back, files its own suit against NY attorney general seeking to disband organization

President Trump slammed AG Letitia James’ suit against the group, calling it 'a very terrible thing'

The surprise would have been if they hadn't fought back and he hadn't deplored the NY suit.

The National Rifle Association is fighting back against a lawsuit filed Thursday by New York’s attorney general by submitting its own civil suit against the state official, accusing her of defamation and violating its rights to free speech.

The NRA’s lawsuit was filed in the federal court of New York and alleges Attorney General Letitia James “made the political prosecution of the NRA a central campaign theme” when she was running for the AG’s office in 2018, and has not treated the association fairly since.

“Despite hopes that playing by the rules would procure a just outcome, the NRA has not been treated fairly by James’s office,” the 19-page suit states. 

“The New York Democratic Party political machine seeks to harass, defund, and dismantle the NRA because of what it believes and what it says.”

The defamation allegations stem from James' public descriptions of the NRA as a "criminal enterprise" and "a terrorist organization."

“James boasted that she would strike foul blows against the NRA and pound the NRA into submission. She vowed that she would use the NYAG’s investigative and enforcement powers for the precise purpose of stanching political speech (‘deadly propaganda),” the lawsuit states. 

“She has begun to deliver on her campaign promises to retaliate against the NRA for constitutionally protected speech on issues that James opposes. As NYAG, James has regrettably succumbed to ‘individual passions, and individual malevolence.’”

All incontestably true.

While the lawsuit accuses all four men of wrongdoing and seeks fines and remuneration, none of them have been charged with a crime.

In turn, NRA President Carolyn Meadows responded by calling the lawsuit a “baseless, premeditated attack” on the group and the Second Amendment.

“You could have set your watch by it: the investigation was going to reach its crescendo as we move into the 2020 election cycle,” Meadows said. 

“It’s a transparent attempt to score political points and attack the leading voice in opposition to the leftist agenda.”

The New York Attorney General Wants to Dissolve the NRA

Letitia James may have a bigger ax to grind than Paul Bunyan; she ran for the office as an outspoken foe of the organization and called it a “terrorist organization.”

But she’ll have an easier time justifying her investigation by pointing at members of the NRA’s leadership publicly accusing each other of inappropriate expenditures. 

Back in 2019, LaPierre claimed then-president Oliver North was trying to extort him and pressure him to resign. 

North claimed that LaPierre had charged more than $200,000 of wardrobe expenses to an NRA vendor, and “told the NRA board’s executive committee of other allegations, including hefty travel expenses charged to a vendor and sexual-harassment allegations against a senior NRA official.” 

The National Rifle Association and its primary communications firm, Ackerman McQueen, have been in a lengthy and expensive legal fight since mid-2019, the NRA has been forced to lay off staff this year, and the pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 annual meeting. 

In January, LaPierre reportedly told the board that they had spent $100 million on legal fees.

The kind of PC, at-any-cost ultra-lefty who makes me ashamed to be a Democrat

Not that the GOPsters are not as bad in their own way, with their opposed agenda.

But they haven't used months of riot and violence and destruction all over the country to force their demands, have they?

So is there really a "moral equivalence"?

Cancel culture at its absolute worst.

Make a desert and call it peace.

New York attorney general sues to dissolve NRA

Cuomo and the Democrats generally will be tarred with this brush, but so far as I know he can't fire her, she doesn't work for him, and NY state doesn't have a so-called "unitary executive".

Another symptom of the rising extremism in both parties, both as to ends but also and with more lasting harm and danger as to means.

I have little doubt the charges are true or that the conduct is perhaps even criminal.

But she is seizing on that as an opportunity to destroy a gun rights organization long absolutely hated by, well, the haters of the left.

New York's attorney general has announced a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the powerful National Rifle Association over alleged financial mismanagement.

Letitia James said the NRA had diverted millions of dollars to leaders including its chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, for their personal use.

"For these years of misconduct we are seeking an order to dissolve the NRA in its entirety," she said.

The NRA described the lawsuit as a "baseless, premeditated attack".

. . . .

Responding to questions, Ms James, a Democrat, rejected the notion that the charges against the NRA - closely tied to the Republican party - were at all influenced by her own politics.

"We followed the facts and the law," she said.

"We've come to the conclusion that the NRA unfortunately was serving as a personal piggy bank to four individual defendants."

The case filed by Ms James' office alleges more than $64m (£48.7m) was lost in just three years as a result of the defendants' abuse.

Also on Thursday, the District Attorney for Washington, DC filed a separate lawsuit against the organisation "for misusing charitable funds to support wasteful spending by the NRA and its executives".

The New York lawsuit will almost certainly be contested in court by the NRA. 

The suit will add another strain to an already beleaguered organisation, facing congressional inquiries, investigations in multiple states and internal complaints.

Why does it have to cost taxpayers $ 2 trillion?

Biden plots $2tn green revolution but faces wind and solar backlash

His big spending plans - too big, anyway - predate the virus.

And if he had his way the virus alone would cost us another $ 2 or 3 trillion, for sure.

And these "environmentalists" want to lean on the dirtiest and most dangerous source of energy, nuclear power?

If humans are too stupid to be allowed anything pointy or edgy they are for damned sure too stupid for nuclear power.

The left of and beyond the Democratic Party see this as their chance to steal the tiller and ride roughshod over the center left types who make up the core of the party and by far most of its voters.

Trump is so wildly unpopular the Dems could adopt planks from Trotsky, Pol Pot, and Louis Farrakhan and get away with it.

They think.

And they might be right.

And I think they have.

(Kidding)

The ideological commitments of the leaders of the movement for law enforcement reform are way left of those of its sympathizers and supporters

Think about Mitt Romney marching for BLM.

Does anyone seriously think Mitt Romney has gone all Red Guard on us?

It’s Political Power That Really Matters To Black Lives Matter.

But maybe not that far to the left of some nickel and dime Democratic office holders across the country.

Maybe it's not just the mayor of New York who is out there.

BTW, the Human Events site seems to have come a long way from the days when it was Ann Coulter's personal archive.

Forcing people to do what their religion forbids

Nobody wants to be an absolutist about it, but such coercion can certainly be overdone.

Forcing medical professionals or institutions to perform procedures that violate conscience is overdoing it.

And in that regard abortion is not the only issue.

Another Catholic Hospital Sued for Refusing Transgender Hysterectomy

How much worse would things get in this regard if we had outright socialized medicine like the NHS of the Brits?

A lot worse.

Even handing over the entire health insurance market to a single federal government run insurer would significantly diminish this liberty.

And would subject provision of medical services to rationing on the basis of invidious comparisons of the worth of individual lives, and subject R&D to state-sponsored judgments of value, morality, and justice.

I am a Democrat and a progressive, but not an anti-capitalist and not at all a PC authoritarian.

Why are Indian geographic names OK but sports team names not?

Rivers and mountains and islands have Indian names.

Political units and geographic features are named after tribes or individuals.

The name of Pontiac, for example, is used as a place name and an auto brand.

Not one white person has ever been offended by the Sarah Lee or Betty Crocker brands or images.

The Irish don't riot once a year or take a knee to protest the nickname of Notre Dame's football team.

Trump versus Biden on the "Cultural Revolutionaries"

MSNBC this morning says the Duce's weekend, 4th of July speeches were American Carnage all over again.

They were racist and divisive instead of healing and celebratory and uniting.

They were wrong and harmful and wicked altogether.

The network showed videos of excerpts.

Trump actually made two speeches on the same themes, one at the White House and one at Mt. Rushmore.

Two points.

First, in both speeches Trump made no reference to the Confederacy, instead defending public honors for the Founders, defending the revolution of 1776, celebrating our nation's founding and our history, and by name celebrating Christopher Columbus at the White House, tracing back to him the story of the building of America.

Tammy Duckworth's public charge that Trump's spent his entire Rushmore speech defending "dead traitors", an apparent allusion to the debate about public honors for the Confederacy and Confederate leaders, was a ridiculous lie.

Those things could all have appeared in a speech by Joe Biden, as they reflect what we know of his rarely mentioned and all but concealed official position.

But none of that was in any weekend message or speech of Biden's, so far as I can tell from media reporting.

[Biden's near silence on these matters invites conservative "interpretation".]

Second, the Duce characterized the vandals tearing down and destroying monuments as radical leftists with a divisive and destructive program who want to "overthrow the American Revolution" and tear down America and replace it with a repressive regime featuring massive levels of indoctrination of the whole population, particularly of the young in schools.

The actions and words of the cultural revolutionaries increasingly, daily, bear that out.

Recall the statue of Columbus was wrecked by a white anarchist.

Recall Kaepernick's tweet deliberately echoing and going beyond the bitter but entirely justified remarks of Frederick Douglass about what Independence Day means to the slave before the Civil War, repudiating the revolution, the Founders, the republic, and the history of the nation from that day to this.

Neither he nor anyone of the racial left ever mentions Douglass's utter reversal when at last Lincoln and his allies ended slavery at so massive a cost in lives and treasure.

This is one the country would have been better off not seeing.

Talk about race hate.

Talk about black skin privilege.

Kaepernick denounces 4th of July as ‘celebration of white supremacy’

Along with a video showing images of the Ku Klux Klan, police brutality, slavery and lynchings, Kaepernick wrote: “Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence’, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all.”

Letting his Rev. Wright flag fly.

Sometimes you push "send" when you should just push "delete".

For sure, the alt.right will be using this tweet as recruiting material.

Maybe now it's Trump's turn to play Biden and sit tight while these endless demonstrations of hatred for America, black and white, wear on.

But, nope, he's still out there defending honors for the Confederacy and its leaders, as well as all the rest.

Asked about honors for Washington today Tammy Duckworth, whom I never liked for the job, anyway, stammered and stumbled and gave no answer.

The Democratic sympathizing media are still calling them protesters and even peaceful protesters but now they seem to be mostly vandals looking for more to destroy in the name of their politics, and to hell with everybody else's.

38 days of disorder now in some cities.

Do American blacks hate whites and white America the way Arabs hate Jews and Israel?

No doubt.

More than seventy years of liberal shouting about white racism and black rage and about how they, too, would riot and destroy and hate white people have had a marked impact, encouraging black rage and black belief in white racism.

As was intended, all that time.

White people are aware.

And the hate propaganda becomes earsplitting during election years, especially presidential years.

Why do you suppose so many whites think black hatred of them, "reverse racism", is the biggest problem in American today, bigger than white hatred of blacks?

All those decades of left wing hate propaganda had an impact on whites, too.

And yet they (we) put Obama in the White House, twice, though we knew he had very sore toes about race.

Twice.

And to this day those whites think he may have been the finest president in a long time.

The most presidential in a very, very long time.

Cancel culture, BLM ideology, and Krugman's Red Guards

Don't recall seeing much, if any, of this on CNN or MSNBC.

Or BBC News, for that matter.

All of them too busy as cheerleaders and megaphones for the mob and the key mob propaganda points of BLM.

Not being a Fox viewer or regular reader I didn't know Krugman has lost his mind, for example.

(But I have noticed the long articles on their site are often exceptionally information rich.)

Paul Krugman, professors seek top economist's removal from influential job for criticizing Black Lives Matter

Quite a lot of information in this story.

Gregg Re doesn't like what Herr Krugman and these Cultural Revolutionaries are doing.

Neither does Andrew Sullivan, a well-known political moderate.

(Whose job may be in jeopardy.)

Nor does Michael Walzer, a much honored leftist intellectual.

An interesting story about a white radical destroyer of statues, described as "antifa".

One about the leader of the Times' extraordinary weaponization of history, The 1619 Project. 

Think Howard Zinn, but with a lot more vitriol.

NRO on the project. As history, it's worthless propaganda.

I have the impression the position of the right on racism in law enforcement under Trump is much as it has been for decades, that there is little or no racial bias in law enforcement and no institutional racism in America.

That view seems not to be shared even by most whites, these days.

Very likely, when Americans say they agree with the ideas of BLM this is what they mean.

Very likely, they otherwise have no idea what those ideas are.

A Democratic governor anticipates the Red Guards

Rhode Island moves to change official name over slavery ties

Governor’s order would shorten state’s full name of ‘The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations’ to just ‘Rhode Island’

The name has no slavery ties.

No more than the name of the Niger River has ties to the racial epithet.

Or Niger the country, or Nigeria the country, through both of which the river passes.

In the 17th century, the English used "plantation" to mean "colony".

But, hey, the mob's the mob and this Democratic governor is desperate to virtue-signal.

And, anyway, "colony" is a bad word to use in a name, too, eh?

Rhode Island

Providence Plantations

Plymouth Plantation

See the Guardian article.

The change requires action by the RI legislature.

If it's made contingent on a popular vote of confirmation it possibly won't happen.

It was tried once before and the voters opposed the change by 75%.

It is predictable that Republicans will want to make it so contingent while Democrats will oppose that.

Let the orgy of oppo research begin!

Expect it when the radical left put forward their list of heroes and heroines to replace the ones it rejects.

The statue celebrates this fellow for being a hero of press freedom under Mussolini.

Protesters target statue of famed Italian journalist who married a 12-year-old in Eritrea

A statue of famed Italian journalist Indro Montanelli in Milan has been painted red and sprayed with the words "racist" and "rapist," while a petition has called for its removal.

While serving in the army in 1935-1936, during Italy's war in Eritrea, the 26-year-old Montanelli bought and married a 12-year-old girl.

During a 1969 interview with Italian journalist and activist Elvira Banotti, Montanelli said he was married to the child because he "bought" her, which he said was part of the region's tradition and common among Eritrean soldiers.

When Banotti pressed Montanelli on whether he had raped the girl, named Desta, the journalist did not answer the question directly but defended himself by saying that he was married and that the issue of rape was out of the question.

. . . .

Milan's mayor, Beppe Sala, said Sunday that although he had seen the video in which Montanelli admitted he had bought the girl, he believed Montanelli was a "great journalist" who fought for press freedom, and that the statue should remain where it is.

"Now I invite all of us, I invite our community to reflect on two issues. The first question I ask myself and you is what do we ask of personalities we want to remember with a statue, with a plaque, with the name of a street or a square, or a garden? 

"Do we ask for a spotless life? For a life in which everything was absolutely right? It is possible. However, few would remain to remember," he said in a video posted to Facebook.

"And the second question that I ask myself and you is: When we judge our lives, can we say that our own is spotless? And without things that we wouldn't do again?" he said.

"I put my hands up, my life is not. I made mistakes, I did things I wish I hadn't done, but lives must be judged in their complexity. 

"For all these reasons, I think that the statue must remain there. I am nevertheless available to discuss the issue of racism and Montanelli whenever you want," the mayor added.