Burning Questions, Even Hotter Answers

 Ann Coulter

I don’t begrudge anyone for living in a “low crime” neighborhood with “good schools,” but it’s striking how the very people loudest in their condemnation of Adams seem to have arranged their own lives in strict accordance with his “racist” advice.

"From time to time, my readers email me asking for my take on issues of the day. (This has happened twice.)

"I feel more obliged than usual to respond, now that we know that the rest of the media cannot state an opinion on anything until they figure out which side Trump is on.

"MSNBC: Trump is against men in women’s sports? … Children will DIE if men cannot compete in women’s sports!

"Fox News: Trump says he built the wall? … Go Trump! He’s built 0.2% of the wall! ONLY 1,305 MILES TO GO! 

"I may be cruel, brusque or impatient, but I don’t lie. When I say something, it’s because I think it’s true, not because I’m angling to get a show on MSNBC or a call from President Trump.

"So here are my answers to readers’ fictional questions.

"QUESTION: Are books like David Cole’s “Republican Party Animal,” Ryan Anderson’s “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” and Jared Taylor’s “A Race Against Time,” “White Identity,” “Face to Face With Race” and “If We Do Nothing” still banned from Amazon?

"Why yes they are! But please tell me more about how Gov. Ron DeSantis is Hitler for removing pornography from Florida schools.

"Liberal brainteaser: What’s the difference between a book in a public school and a book that is simply available for purchase on Amazon? Think hard. You only have three hours.

"BREAKING NEWS! Jean Raspail’s “Camp of the Saints” is now available from Amazon on Kindle!!!

"Other News In Book Banning: Barnes & Noble — unlike Amazon — sells “When Harry Became Sally,” “Camp of the Saints” — albeit in French only — and all of Taylor’s books,

"Takeaways:". . .

Fake ‘fact-checker’ finally gets it right: Joe Biden’s word isn’t worth a wooden nickel -

And the media cheers about how great the economy and Biden’s policies are as he intentionally destroys the economy; they actively campaign for him and run cover, seeking to destroy any Republican who gets in the way, no matter how much they have to lie.

  American Thinker  "Did anyone really need to fact check this story before knowing it was a lie?

"Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post just came to and realized he’s been had: ol’ Joe’s “word as a Biden” is in fact a counterfeit bank note. It all began when Kal Penn stepped in as a guest host for “The Daily Show” and interviewed the biggest stooge in political theater, Joe Biden; see the video clip below:

BIDEN: It's "terrible" and "close to sinful" that Florida banned "gender affirming" surgery, puberty blockers, and hormone replacement therapy for minors. pic.twitter.com/AXfcbRQXGd

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 14, 2023

 "In response, Kessler penned, “Three reasons to doubt Biden’s story on his father and a gay kiss” — Kessler challenged the story’s veracity, noting both the version of events and Biden’s views on homosexuality have consistently evolved over the years.

"This should be no surprise; Biden has enhanced his life stories for years. His lies dwarf George Santos’s lies, but the media never cared.

"Heck, if we took Joe at his “word as a Biden”, he is a Puerto Rican truck driver who was very active in the Civil Rights movement, and was also arrested in South Africa while trying to “see Nelson Mandela.”

"Biden had “no idea” that he filched classified documents for fifty years. Why was there no coverage when they found fifty more boxes in a Boston office?

"In the past few weeks, Biden and the Democrats have falsely blamed Trump for the Ohio train derailment and the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank. Instead of properly blaming the regulators for their failure to do their job, they try to blame Trump.". . .

Democrats Blaming Trump for Bank Crisis Are Lying

 Townhall

And as Fox News’ Steve Hilton pointed out why Warren’s line falls flat: Silicon Valley Bank was regulated by California officials, picked by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

"I’m sure the Biden White House was looking forward to moving on from the toxic train crash in East Palestine, Ohio, but then the banking system came under threat. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, and the second-largest bank closure in American history landed at the feet of Joe Biden. The banking system was downgraded yesterday, but Biden is offering a soft bailout, ensuring all depositors who doled out more than $250,000 will be covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Insurance Fund. No doubt it will stabilize things, though the Biden administration rushing to the aid of the wealthy while giving the finger to East Palestine is beyond unseemly. 

"Now, the blame game begins because SVB wasn’t the only bank to shutter; Signature Bank soon followed. Signature was more of a cryptocurrency operation, but it’s notable since former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), whose namesake bill post-2008 was supposed to prevent such bank failures, is sort of what caused this week’s calamity. But Frank is adamant, and probably right, that the slight administrative tweaks to Dodd-Frank weren’t the source of the bank closures. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to blame Trump (via Politico):

From his front-row seat, he [Frank] blames Signature’s failure on a panic that began with last year’s cryptocurrency collapse — his bank was one of few that served the industry — compounded by a run triggered by the failure of tech-focused Silicon Valley Bank late last week. Frank disputes that a bipartisan regulatory rollback signed into law by former President Donald Trump in 2018 had anything to do with it, even if it was driven by a desire to ease regulation of mid-size and regional banks like his own.

“I don’t think that had any impact,” Frank said in an interview. “They hadn’t stopped examining banks.”

But Warren, a fellow Massachusetts Democrat who designed landmark consumer safeguards that ended up in Frank’s 2010 banking law, is placing the blame firmly on the Trump-era changes that relaxed oversight of some banks and says Signature is a prime example of the fallout. . . .

Voters want Biden to take on China but fear he is compromised by family business ties

 Voters want Biden to take on China but fear he is compromised by family business ties | Just The News  "A survey released Friday shows 57.6% of U.S. voters think for the U.S. to address tensions with China the Biden administration should be more aggressive in leading a global coalition to contain the communist-run country – though voters also appeared concerned about whether President Biden has limited power in the situation because of a conflict of interest.

"The survey by the Convention of States, in partnership with Trafalgar Group, found 17.1% of voters believe the administration should continue to do exactly what it's already doing in response to tensions with China, escalated by the Chinese spy ballon over the U.S. last month. Nearly 9% surveyed said the administration should try to de-escalate tensions with China to appease the country, and 16.5% were unsure.

"However, the poll also found 57.2% of voters think Biden has a conflict of interest while responding to China's aggressive actions against the U.S. – as a result of the Biden family’s business relationships with China.

"This poll shows that Americans are rightly concerned about China’s aggressive actions towards the U.S. and want to see leadership from President Biden," said Mark Meckler, president of Convention of States. "But we are at an alarming and dangerous place when the majority of Americans believe Biden’s hesitations to address the threat from Communist China is the result of jeopardizing his family’s business dealings." 

"The survey was conducted Feb. 22-26 among 1,000 likely general election voters. The poll's margin of error is 2.9%"

J6 defendant who walked into Capitol through an open door, spent less than a minute inside, and left when asked by a Capitol cop faces prison

 American Thinker

"By any standard, the treatment of January 6 defendants has been a disgrace to the Department of Justice, the D.C. federal bench, and the Constitution.  Scores of people have been held in inhumane conditions in the D.C. Gulag, denied their constitutional right to speedy trial, and denied access to exculpatory evidence.  The blanket media coverage excoriating them as "violent insurrectionists" has prevented these constitutional outrages from becoming a national scandal.

"But there is a chance, a small chance, that the release of CCTV Capitol video by Speaker McCarthy may change the national consensus (other than in conservative media) that there is nothing to see here, they are getting what they deserve.  One such instance powered by the video release is the case of Daniel Goodwyn, who faces federal prison via DOJ prosecutors.  Goodwyn's crime was simply walking through an open door into the Capitol, spending less than a minute inside, and immediately leaving when asked to do so by a Capitol policeman.". . . Tucker Carlson commented:

They just kind of wandered through the Capitol Building. That's true of Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon shaman who people in the media told you should be killed. But he's hardly the only one. This is video of a man called Daniel Goodwyn walking through the Capitol through an open door on January 6, 2021 at exactly 3:32 P.M. That is long after the doors were breached. Now, we got this video, the one you're watching now, from the speaker of the House's office earlier this month. Mr. Goodwyn's attorney tells us that the legal team was also provided this video. In it you can clearly see that Goodwyn was inside for less than a minute. When he was asked to leave, he left. So, there's no dispute about any of that. It's all on tape. But the DoJ is still trying to send Daniel Goodwyn to prison.. . . 

 Jacob Chansley saved us all - American Thinker   "What the Democrats had planned on J6 — January 6, 2021, the day the votes were made official at the Capitol, never happened.

"Just consider the crackdown that did occur subsequent to J6. Consider then what would have happened had there in fact been an Antifa/Democrat-style riot at the Capitol.

"They would have come down on everything on the “Right.”

Everything would have been shut down. Every non-Woke website and news service (this one for sure).

"They would have initiated a brazen campaign of censorship — for our “safety” of course. It was still at the time somewhat behind-the-scenes and deniable. It would have been out front and vicious.

"Any better-known people on the Right, and even many Average Joes, would have been canceled and interned.

"Scorched earth.". . .

President Biden's Monday morning attempt to assuage concerns went over like a lead balloon.

 

'Rapid Deterioration': Major Rating Service Downgrades U.S. Banking System (townhall.com)   . . .Moody's — one of three major rating entities — downgraded its outlook for the U.S. banking system from "stable" to "negative" on Tuesday morning "to reflect the rapid deterioration in the operating environment following deposit runs at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank (SNY) and the failures of SVB and SNY," Moody's explained. 

In addition to downgrading the entire banking system, Moody's also issued warnings for several individual banks "with substantial unrealized securities losses and with non-retail and uninsured US depositors" that "may still be more sensitive to depositor competition or ultimate flight" and end up "with adverse effects on funding, liquidity, earnings and capital."

"The unrealized losses, specifically, have become substantial: . . ."

What We’re Reading: Bank Crash, Biden Family Corruption, Crazy In Cali . . . And More – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)   . . ."The specific institutions being monitored by Moody's for "potential downgrades" include INTRUST Financial, Western Alliance, Comerica, Zions Bancorp, and First Republic."

 Nov 30 2020;...Obama 'vented his concerns about Biden and said "don’t underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up"' | The US Sun (the-sun.com)

He then reportedly added: “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”

Former senior aides to Obama - including former chief strategist David Axelrod and the now-hosts of hit podcast Pod Save America - similarly disparaged Biden's chances at points throughout the campaign.

 'Rewarding bad behavior': Vivek Ramaswamy rips bailout of imprudent SVB tech clientele | Just The News   "Would Biden have bailed out the uninsured depositors of a no-name oil-&-gas bank in Oklahoma?" wrote the entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful. "Absolutely not. This is Silicon Valley tech cronyism in its ugliest form.". . .

And here we are. 

The Price of Eliminating Consequences

The “broken windows” theory of policing in the 1990s and 2000s showed how the failure to punish even minor infractions soon leads to escalation to more violent crimes.   

 Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness  "Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods.

"More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage—of the thieves! 

"They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished. 

"The criminals entertained no fear of any consequences for walking out with bags of things that were not theirs. They had no care that mainstreaming their habits would undermine the entire fabric of society.

"What is common to the pandemic of smash-and-grab, carjacking, fighting on airliners while in flight, and deadly Saturday night shoot-outs is this same apparent assurance there will be no consequences. 

"That expectation of exemption is why the Antifa thugs in Atlanta were so bold in their latest violent attacks on the police. ". . .

Could the FBI and the CIA recover their tarnished reputations if their directors knew in advance they would go to jail for lying under federal oath? Sometimes the problem is not just the absence of sure punishment for criminal behavior, but the asymmetry of penalties.

Why are some violent criminals released from custody the very day they punch, club, or shoot innocents, while others committing lesser offenses are not? 

Graphic Video: Rioters Brutally Beat Man in Portland, Kick Him So Hard Teeth Are Left on the Road (townhall.com)