The Republican Party Must Become One - Conservatives need to overcome loathing and failure.

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "I met with the self-appointed emissary to B. last week, and he met with me, the self-appointed emissary to B. Our mission: to breach the divide. What divide? Good question. However, we know it exists. We know it threatens the well-being of the Great Republic. We as a society cannot thrive if the reds and the blues are committed to each other’s destruction and cannot share bathrooms. 

"The rot has got to where it is not only reds and blues; the two sides are divided against themselves and cannot give a simple answer to what ought to be a simple question: What do you, as a red, believe, bedrock? And you, as a blue — I am referring here to American political organizations, not redcoats and patriots — what are your basics?

"Under the circumstances, I thought to begin with what I knew, however small and of little weight in the political world; to wit, the battle of ideas, the engagement with principles and ways of thinking about them. Even here, among both reds and blues, the thinkers — sometimes called intellectuals — whose job is to explain and define key questions cannot see eye to eye or concept to concept.

"Agreeing on positions is not necessary if you agree on principles. For example, the question of whether we are a democratic republic or a republican democracy does not preclude disagreeing on setting term limits for the peoples’ representatives.

"B. and B. are magazine men. As boys, they were enthralled at how William F. Buckley Jr. had launched a magazine that became the beehive of the conservative movement. They both drew inspiration from Irving Kristol, who famously said that if you have problem, start a magazine. Now nobody knew, or appeared to care, who was writing what where.

"My response: Go back to fundamentals. Otherwise, what? You want Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene to define what conservatism is?" . . . 

Why should the average citizen uphold what the judicial system from the very top is destroying?

 Dumb Jury: The Trickle-Down Effect of No Rule of Law - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

  "Jury duty gets a bad rap and for good reason: It’s time consuming, disruptive, and often means being away from seemingly more important things. But juries are critical to the American legal system and to the concept of justice in America. The problem? The people making up juries are dumb. They have little civics understanding. Injustice prevails with biased juries. Injustice prevails when qualified jurors are so disgusted with the system that they try to avoid serving. Injustice prevails with dumb juries.

"How important are impartial juries? Just ask any Jan. 6 protester spending years in prison for walking peacefully, at a police officer’s behest, through the Capitol. Is there a D.C. jury that would find any right-leaning defendant not guilty?

"Some of the problems with juries are pure cynical malice on the part of prosecutors. Some are set up by biased judges. All the problems with juries have, at their root, ignorance of basic civics and the cascading effect that bad judicial outcomes cause a nihilistic belief that serving doesn’t matter. It does matter, though.

"Last week, I went through the jury selection and then, shockingly, got seated on a jury for a felony case.

"There were multiple reasons why people were excused from the jury pool. Some felt that they could not presume the innocence of the man based on past convictions. Some felt that the allegations alone made the man guilty. They did not believe that the prosecution needed to make a case. They believed that the defendant needed to prove his innocence. But the slate-clearing reason why people disqualified themselves: If the defendant didn’t take the stand, then, obviously, he was guilty.

"A friend of mine said of the bandwagoning that happened when this issue came to the fore that the jurors just latched on because they didn’t want to be on the jury. That might have been true of a few. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the 40 or so who disqualified themselves gave long, vehement explanations about how people who are innocent will defend themselves and want to testify.

"As I sat there, I could think of 40 reasons not to testify.

"The judge in this case dismissed them all. That left a small pool to choose from, and I was one of them. The remaining jurors were intelligent, attentive, and sincere. It was a brutal case with heart-rending evidence scrupulously compiled by a crack team of prosecutors. They made the jury’s job easy and proved their case beyond a shadow of a doubt, never mind beyond reasonable doubt. This was a case where justice prevailed.

"Leaving the courtroom, though, the responses of these jurors and the clear injustice being meted out in courtrooms across America because of dumb jurors brought disturbing thoughts." . . .

Hillary just won’t go away

 Marcus Ebenhack - American Thinker

. . ."As I like to say; how can we miss you, Hillary, if you won’t go away?

"Her latest resurrection has her calling for “deprogramming” of Trump supporters.  Calling us “deplorables” wasn’t enough.  Now we must be “deprogrammed” out of our Trump hysteria.  You have to hand it to her for doubling down on the biggest faux paus of her last campaign.  Like AOC, she’s often wrong but never in doubt.

"Two weeks ago she was accusing Donald Trump of “what psychologists call projection.”  And as always, with zero sense of irony or self-awareness.  Not to rehash the details, but her “Russian collusion” dirty political tricks against Trump in 2016 is worth mentioning in this context.  Projection?  LOL, pot meet kettle!

"For Hillary, like a shark sensing blood in the water, to resurface twice in a couple of weeks means only one thing to me.  Joe Biden is toast, Kamala Harris is… well, just hopelessly stupid.  Gavin Newsome presides over the most dysfunctional state in the union.  James Carville tells us how deep the Dem bench is and that it’s time for the next generation of Democrat Party leaders, with a straight face, but without mentioning anyone in particular.

"Democrats know they’re in dire straits.  So much so that many are hoping Michelle Obama will swoop in to save their bacon.  I don’t see this happening and given all of this, who better than Hillary to climb out of her coffin for yet another go at the brass ring?

"Remember, you heard it here first."

You knew the Babylon Bee would see the parody in Hillary, didn't you?  Elderly Woman Escapes Nursing Home, Rants About Deprogramming The Populace | Babylon Bee

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Viewers are perplexed by a CNN television interview featuring a deranged old lady who recently escaped from an elder care facility, angrily ranting about wanting to "deprogram" half of the nation's population.

" 'They must comply! Deplorables! All of ‘em!" the disheveled geriatric growled at the camera while CNN's Christiane Amanpour attempted to de-escalate the situation. "If they don't fall in line, we'll round them up and re-educate them! De-program them! Re-program them! If that doesn't work, then we'll just disappear them! Yes! Yeeeeeeessssssss! Ahahahahahahaha!"

"The CNN interview team did their best to remain calm, despite the obvious threat posed by the tottering, decrepit woman. "She may be old and frail, but you can tell she's serious," said one member of the television crew. "We heard she escaped from a nursing home nearby, but you could tell she's terrorized people in the past. Chilling, dangerous stuff. Or maybe she's just completely insane, who knows."

"The woman was later restrained by security, sedated by men in white scrubs, and thrown into the back of a waiting van to be returned to the confines of her nursing home. A spokesperson for the facility later made a statement to the press regarding the incident. "Sadly, this has become an ongoing problem with this particular patient," said Eduardo Guerrero. "She goes off her rocker a lot. She even has this crazy notion that she's actually the President of the United States, which we know full well never happened."

"At publishing time, CNN advised everyone in the country to be on the lookout, as the crazy woman was believed to making the rounds for more TV interviews."

Hillary Clinton just won't go away, could a 2024 run be looming? (bostonherald.com)

. . ."Attorney General Maura Healey, a Clinton backer, in 2018 quashed the idea of Clinton running again, saying “I don’t think it would be a good idea.” Wonder what Healey thinks of a 2024 Clinton comeback effort.

"And there are well-known tensions between Clinton and Warren, who has not given up on the idea of running again in 2024.

"So the question is, will they run from her and avoid her because she’s such lightning rod — much the same way Democrats are now running from Biden?

"I’m betting the answer is yes. Clinton has just too much baggage from her previous runs, and Democrats are looking for something new."

She Doesn't Understand How Bad She Was, And Still Won't Go Away (freebeacon.com)

. . . This was not just a bad candidate. This was a terrible candidate—the worst campaigner ever to receive a nomination. Maybe the best way to look at her new memoir is that the book represents a determined, powerfully willful effort not to understand just how bad she was.?

" A sad endlessness suffuses the list of all those Clinton blames for her loss. The nation just wasn't ready for her. Fake news undid her. The New York Times was mean to her. James Comey and the FBI were out to get her. So were Vladimir Putin and Julian Assange. Misogyny and racism. Racism and misogyny. Misogyny again, just in case we missed it the first dozen times she mentions it. The FBI again, too."

Hillary Just Won’t Go Away! | The Liberty Beacon

Why Hillary Clinton Won't ‘Just Go Away’ - The Atlantic

Why can’t the Clintons just go away? (nypost.com)

“In the Name of God, Go”: The Enduring Significance of Cromwell’s 1653 Quote | History Hit    “ 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

"These words, or some variation of them, have been invoked on three dramatic occasions in Britain’s House of Commons and are now synonymous with critiques of the country’s powerholders." . . .

Chilling then-and-now photos show where Auschwitz monsters relaxed

 Chilling then-and-now photos show where Auschwitz monsters relaxed – The First News

Party for Rudolf Höss. Left to right: Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, Josef Kramer, Rudolf Höss and Anton Thumann. Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor known for his horrific experiments on prisoners, was never brought to justice, while Baer escaped arrest until 1960. The other three were executed. This was taken at a July 1944 during a party for Höss. Based on the officers visiting Solahutte, we surmise that the photographs were taken to honor Rudolf Hoess who completed his tenure as garrison senior on July 29th.

Has the gallows, on which Rudolf Hoess was hanged at Auschwitz, been moved? | Scrapbookpages Blog (wordpress.com)  "Just a short distance from Auschwitz, where the defining crime of the 20th century was being carried out, in a picturesque setting on a hill by the bend of a river was a resort for the camp’s SS guards.

"This rustic oasis of peace and leisure was where the perpetrators of the Holocaust could relax, sing and feast before getting back to the demanding task of murdering around one million Jews as well as Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and political prisoners.

"The retreat operated from 1940 until it was closed down just before the Red Army liberated Auschwitz in January 1945.

"After the war it was used as a hotel for workers from the chemical plant in Oświęcim. Not much remains of the retreat and nature is slowly reclaiming the site, which will soon be lost forever.

"This was why British Holocaust researcher and founder of the Auschwitz Study Group Michael Challoner decided to document what still remains and he has created a fascinating series of before-and-after photographs that serve as a poignant reminder of how the SS perpetrators of the Holocaust relaxed in their free time.

"The original images from the 1940s that Michael used come from a collection of photographs known as the Hoeker Album, which was revealed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 after laying for decades among the documents of an American intelligence officer who came across the album in Frankfurt after the war." . . .

The entire Timeline | Anne Frank House  230 important events that occurred between 1914 and 1980 – before, during, and after Anne Frank's lifetime.

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