‘Year of the Woman’ senators condemn sexual harassment, campaigned for Ted Kennedy

Washington Times

"Sen. Patty Murray was quick to condemn Sen. Al Franken last week after he was accused of sexual harassment, but she took the opposite tack 24 years ago with another Democratic senator dogged by accusations of lecherous behavior.

"She and the four other Democratic women serving in the Senate after the widely hailed 1992 “Year of the Woman” election used their newfound clout to come to the rescue of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy as reports of drunken debauchery threatened to sink his re-election bid.

"At a Boston fundraiser on Nov. 15, 1993, Ms. Murray was joined by fellow Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein of California, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland and Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in what marked “the first time the five senators have traveled together on behalf of a fellow senator,” according an Associated Press report.

“ 'We’re going to be here for Ted because Ted has always been there for us,” Ms. Mikulski was quoted as saying in the Nov. 17, 1993, edition of the Lowell [Massachusetts] Sun.

"They helped save Kennedy, who prevailed in his 1994 race against Republican Mitt Romney in Massachusetts; but in doing so, they set a precedent under which feminists proved themselves willing to suspend their outrage over sexual harassment in service of powerful pro-choice Democratic men." . . .

Bill Clinton is facing NEW accusations of sexual assault by four women

. . . "while the former president was working with a billionaire playboy and flying on his private jet nicknamed Air [----] One, claims Clinton author"

UK Daily Mail  "Edward Klein is the former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine and the author of numerous bestsellers including his fourth book on the Clintons, Guilty as Sin, in 2016. His latest book is All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump was released on October 30, 2017. 

"Bill Clinton is facing explosive new charges of sexual assault from four women, according to highly placed Democratic Party sources and an official who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations.

"The current accusations against the 71-year-old former president — whose past is littered with charges of sexual misconduct — stem from the period after he left the White House in 2001, say the sources.

"Attorneys representing the women, who are coordinating their efforts, have notified Clinton they are preparing to file four separate lawsuits against him. 

"As part of the ongoing negotiations, the attorneys for the women are asking for substantial payouts in return for their clients' silence. 

"A member of Clinton's legal team has confirmed the existence of the new allegations. " . . .

. . . 
"The new charges are likely to revive the debate over why Democrats defended Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and why liberals and feminists ignored credible charges of sexual assault against the 42nd president, not only from Paula Jones, but also from Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and others.

" 'Bill is distraught at the thought of having to testify and defend himself against sex charges again,' said a Democratic Party official who is familiar with the case. 

" 'He hopes his legal team can somehow stop the women from filing charges and drag him through the mud.'

"The source added that Hillary Clinton is furious with her husband for getting entangled in yet another sexual scandal. " 

The Holy Inquisition of Political Correctness and toxicity

WOW! Magazine  "Watching the goings-on in the modern academia is a hazardous occupation. From the point of view of many actors on that scene, all they are doing is cleaning the scene of “toxicity” – real or imaginary. The viewer, though, gets the full dose of the toxicity directly in his/her face… but it is rather a personal complaint.

"Here is a really heart-wrenching example of the juggernaut of Political Correctness squashing under its wheels an innocent and well meaning young person. Because of some overly sensitive human embryo, whose pea brain and overwhelming sensitivity and entitlement don’t bear a shadow of debate.

Lindsay Shepherd, a graduate student at Wilfrid Laurier University, said she ran afoul of school authorities after she aired a clip in two tutorials of a debate on gender-neutral pronouns featuring polarizing University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson.

"At this point I feel the need to stop for a moment and to explain. Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His ascent to notoriety came with his opposition to the use of genderless pronouns and his attacks on political correctness. Here he explains some of his views.

"Now, does Lindsay Shepherd share the views of the illustrious professor? Not at all, rather the opposite:" . . .

Dr. Pimlott is currently working on an anthology of Karl Marx’s journalism as well as developing research on strategic communications and social justice movements in Canada.

Trump's popularity tops that of leaders of every major Western power

The nightmare of  Obamacare has yet to be thrown out, which probably accounts for some of the hold-back on popularity that the media are so fascinated by.  Same with the tax cuts and the wretched stance a few congressional Republicans are stooping to to block all economically helpful legislation solely because they hate Trump.

 Monica Showalter  "For all our intelligentsia's gloating claims about President Trump being unpopular, it's worth nothing that his socialistic counterparts in Europe are even less popular, according to a new Zogby poll.

"Zogby Analytics reports the following:

Citizens of France, Germany and UK not happy with Macron, Merkel and May; A majority of adults in France and UK dislike Macron and May; Nearly half of adults in Germany dislike Merkel

Zogby Analytics conducted online surveys of adults in the UK, France, and Germany 11/3/2017-11/7/2017. Based on a confidence interval of 95%, the margin of error for each sample is as follows:

"The Washington Examiner summed up the findings from the Zogby charts as the following:

Zogby found the three European leaders below that:

• Merkel approval 40 percent, disapproval 49 percent.
• Macron approval 28 percent, disapproval 52 percent.
• May approval 28 percent, disapproval 61 percent.

"So much for the Beltway intelligentsia's gloating emphasis on President Trump's supposed low poll numbers compared to President Obama's." . . .

How a New York Senator Can Rag on the Clintons without Risk of Death

Michael Nollett

And Kirsten Gillibrand?  Why does she act as if she's free of Clinton blackmail worries?  Simple.  She didn't enter the House of Representatives until 2007.  The Clintons never assembled blackmail files on her.

. . . "So the national Democrats had excellent reason to resent Bill Clinton in1999 and every motive to seek revenge.  And the Republicans gave them the golden trigger by which to get that revenge: impeachment and conviction.  All that would have been needed was for at least seventeen of the forty-five Democrat senators to vote to convict Clinton of one of the impeachment charges that had been voted on by the House.  That's about 40%.

"Instead, all forty-five Democrat senators stood, phalanx-like, behind Clinton.

"Why did they do this?  He had caused them nothing but electoral losses and loss of power.  Why not just dump him in 1999 and then complain to the public about how unfair it was?  Gore would have been golden for at least six more years and probably ten.  He probably would have had coattails, too, at least in 2000.

"Did the Democrats stand by Clinton because they sincerely believed that the Constitution was in peril if the Republicans could get away with getting rid of one of theirs?  That was Clinton's defense, but the premise is so absurd as to be laughable." . . .

. . . 

"So why did the Democrats stand by Clinton in 1999, when it would have been to their advantage to get rid of him then, as well as giving them the chance to wreak their revenge on him?

"Only one reason comes to mind: blackmail files.  The Clintons did have those900 FBI raw files.  They also had their own minions of paid hacks.  Does anyone think that only Republicans' dossiers were contained in those files?  The Clintons must have had dirt on everybody, of both parties.  That's an obvious reason for the iron hold Clinton was able to wield over them." . . .

Hillary is caught lying, but she just shrugs her shoulders and brushes it off

Since this woman never, never goes away, keep this all in mind as you watch her unending campaign. TD

William Safire justified: Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar  "In a notorious 1996 New York Times essay, pundit William Safire famously saidthis of Hillary Clinton:

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation – is a congenital liar.

Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

"Could anyone who has followed her political activities since make any sensible rebuttal to Safire's observation?  As many of her critics have noted, Hillary Clinton will lie when she'd be far better served by the truth." . . .

Andrew C. McCarthy: FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook

. . . "It is a common tactic of defense lawyers in criminal trials to set up a straw-man for the jury: a crime the defendant has not committed. The idea is that by knocking down a crime the prosecution does not allege and cannot prove, the defense may confuse the jury into believing the defendant is not guilty of the crime charged. Judges generally do not allow such sleight-of-hand because innocence on an uncharged crime is irrelevant to the consideration of the crimes that actually have been charged." . . .  Read more

Yet Democrat women still sing hymns of worship and Praise for Hillary. Democrats are the darlings of daytime and nightime TV sycophants.

Would North Korea Attack the Olympics in 2018? (By the Way, They Will Be in South Korea)

The National Interest

“ 'The United States needs a new set of ideas and principles to justify its worthwhile international commitments, and curtail ineffective obligations where necessary,” argue Jeremi Suri and Benjamin Valentino, in the introduction to their edited volume Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security.

“Balancing our means and ends requires a deep reevaluation of U.S. strategy, as the choices made today will shape the direction of U.S. security policy for decades to come.”

"Though rarely spelled out in such stark terms, this question would appear to be at the core of America’s grand strategy debate—if such a debate were actually occurring. We should ponder why it isn’t, and therefore why an arguably “unsustainable” strategy persists. (As the economist Herb Stein famously said [7], “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”)

"I foresaw this problem not quite two years ago. “U.S. foreign policy is crippled,” 

"I warned [8] in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee:

by a dramatic disconnect between what Americans expect of it and what the nation’s leaders are giving them. If U.S. policymakers don’t address this gap, they risk pursuing a policy whose ends don’t match with the means the American people are willing to provide.

"And I concluded as follows:" . . .

This Is How America Would Fight North Korea in a War  "U.S. forces in the northwest Pacific are considerable, amounting to two ground combat brigades, approximately seven wings of fighters and attack aircraft, a handful of strategic bombers, an aircraft carrier, submarines, hundreds of cruise missiles and an amphibious assault task force. That already formidable force can be swiftly augmented by even more combat forces from Hawaii, Alaska, and the continental United States, including F-22A Raptors, airborne troops, and more aircraft carriers, submarines and bombers. It is a robust, formidable, adaptable force capable of taking on a variety of tasks, from disaster relief to war." . . .