Maxine Waters to women: John Conyers 'has impeccable integrity on our issues'

Washington Examiner

"Rep. John Conyers, newly facing sexual misconduct charges from former aides, was praised by fellow Rep. Maxine Waters just last month as a champion of women.

"During an address to organizers of the national Women’s March in which she lashed out at “rape culture” and President Trump, she singled out the Michigan lawmaker for special attention.

“ 'You know, there is a member of Congress who has been supportive of women for many, many, many years,” said said in a keynote address to the Women's Convention Sojourner Truth Luncheon in Detroit.

“ 'He is quiet, he is confident, he is powerful, but he has impeccable integrity on all of our issues. Give John Conyers a big round of applause.” C-SPAN captured her comments and those of others who spoke at the event.

"In her address she rallied women. “We are reclaiming our time,” said the outspoken Trump critic.

“We’re speaking to women who are single mothers, women who work two and three jobs making minimum wage or less, women who have been exploited, harassed, or taken advantage of in their personal and professional lives,” said Waters, adding:

“ 'I just want to take time to focus on something that I think we need to focus on right now. It is very fortuitous that we are gathered here this afternoon in Detroit as we continue to recognize a record number of women who are boldly coming forward to reveal disturbing and grotesque acts of sexual harassment, assault and rape, often times at the hands of men who believed they were too rich and too powerful to ever be confronted or held accountable.” . . .

Why Have Liberals Been Such Horrendous Hypocrites on Women's Rights?

"To ask the question why liberals have been such hypocrites about their treatment of women and about women's rights is not to say that conservatives haven't been.  They have. And some of their actions have been pretty bad. But by comparison, GOP hypocrisy in this area has been quite literally dwarfed by the Democrats.

"Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are the most recent spiritual fathers of this atrocious behavior. Both extreme sexual predators -- Teddy to the extent of walking away from the corpse of Mary Jo Kopechne and other improprieties, Bill for, well, practically everything from rape to cigars -- they were revered as American heroes for decades by their party with but glancing and forced (in Clinton's case) attention to their abhorrent, often illegal, personal behavior and complete disrespect for and objectification of women." . . .

REVEALED: Top Democrat Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accuser With $27K In Taxpayer Money  . . . "The congressman, Michigan Rep. John Conyers, is described as a serial sexual harasser who would prey on his female staffers in sworn affidavits signed by four of his former staffers. BuzzFeed News first reported the bombshell allegations and accompanying settlement after right-wing blogger Mike Cernovich provided the website with the documents." . . .

Democrats, Media: Franken Made a “Mistake,” We Need Him in the Senate  "If what Franken did was simply a mistake, and he’s too politically valuable to lose, when and to whom is this standard also applied?"

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Democrats outflank Charles Manson in deathbed conversion

Rich Terrell

"Until Democrats beginning with Kirsten Gillibrand condemn the slaughter of the innocents – abortion – with the same evangelical awakening they now display over sexual transgressions, their deathbed conversions will have the same sacramental value as if Charles Manson chanted, Christe eleison. On the other hand, Charles Manson will never be accused of hypocrisy."

Geoffrey P. Hunt  . . . "Of course, just the thought of Charles Manson seeking confession, Eucharist, and extreme unction is absurd on its face.  This means that any report of Charles Manson's deathbed conversion is as plausible, and sincere, as Democrats confessing their sins of adulating Bill Clinton, whose serial sexual misdeeds, sometimes accompanied by assault according to numerous alleged victims, overshadow all of the extant sensational storylines today.  But the Democrats, taking no chances, outflanked Manson in the race to the confessional.

"The Democrats, and their progressive accompanists, led by the disingenuous U.S. senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, a longstanding recipient of the Clintons' stained patronage, have been happy to defend and endorse the sordid, squalid, and destructive criminal enterprise known as Bill and Hillary Inc. – until doom by association threatened to crush their electoral aspirations.  And Hillary Clinton's political power had expired, no longer threatening potential rivals, with Clinton endorsements now worthless.

"Thus, Gillibrand decided this past week to finally denounce Satan, seeking deliverance by confessing her sins of commission." . . .

Hillary is toast: Scandals finally catch up with Clintons  

Now That Charles Manson Is Burning In Hell, Don’t Forget The Leftist Radicals Who Cheered Him On…

Weasel Zippers

"Via Daily Wire:

On Sunday, mass murderer Charles Manson finally received the trip to Hell he earned long ago. The world universally condemned his life’s work – as, of course, they should, given that Manson’s followers were responsible for nine murders in 1979 alone, that one of his followers attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, and that he hoped to initiate a race war through “Helter Skelter,” a strategy of chaos and death.

The universal hatred of Manson is revisionist history. There was a small but significant element of the radical left – people who are now praised in academia and on the political left – who praised Manson fulsomely. Among them: Bernardine Dohrn, of the Weather Underground. After the Manson family slaughtered fully pregnant Sharon Tate, Dohrn reveled, “Dig it, first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach.  Wild!” No wonder she felt that way: at a Weathermen “war council” in Michigan, the Weathermen Underground preached Manson’s race war message. Dohrn spent over two decades teaching law at Northwestern University Law School, and her husband, Bill Ayers, is one of the more famous radicals of the 1960s-cum-professor at University of Illinois.       Keep reading…

 

‘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." . . .

Top Nuclear General Says He Would Refuse 'Illegal' Order From Trump to Launch Nukes

PJ Media "Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told a security conference in Nova Scotia that he would refuse to obey an "illegal" order from Donald Trump to launch nuclear weapons.

"Asked if he has given much thought to how he would handle a nuclear strike order from President Trump that he thinks is unlawful, Hyten, who oversees the U.S. nuclear arsenal, answered, "I think some people think we're stupid. We're not stupid people. We think about these things a lot. When you have this responsibility, how do you not think about it?"

""I provide advice to the president, he will tell me what to do," Hyten said. "And if it's illegal, guess what's going to happen? I'm going to say, 'Mr. President, that's illegal.' And guess what he's going to do? He's going to say, 'What would be legal?' And we'll come up options, with a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is, and that's the way it works. It's not that complicated."

"He explained that if he were to execute an unlawful order, "You will go to jail. You could go to jail for the rest of your life."

"The key word here is "illegal." In fact, no U.S. military officer is bound to obey an order he believes to be "illegal," so why this is being made into a big deal is something of a mystery." . . .

It should be noted the general did not declare, as C.E.M. Joad's disciples did in the 30's, that he would not ever fight under any orders from President Trump. He declared simply what, hopefully all military leaders would, that he cannot wage what he might feel was an "illegal" war.

But the Nazis in the 1930's did hear and consider what Joad's  followers declared and knew the road was clear for Germany to aggressively swallow up country after country under Hitler's orders. The Tunnel Dweller

. . . Professor Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, even while witnessing the rise and stated goals of Adolph Hitler, supported the proposition debated on Thursday 9 February 1933, was "that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.” 

It should be noted that In his early life, as a Wikipedia contributor states, "Joad very much shared the desire for the destruction of the Capitalist system". . .


Churchill called WW2 "the unnecessary war", because Britain, France and their allies had no stomach to risk war with Germany. When they finally realized - as Hitler long knew - that pacifists such as Joad and millions of others had no stomach for military courage, it was too late to stop the Nazis without war. Millions would die because of pacifism.  TD

Those of us who are committed to facing the facts should condemn these peaceniks for what they really are: warmongers for our enemies.. . . "The absence of a peacenik peace plan is no accident. Pacifism is inherently a negative doctrine–it merely says that military action is always bad. As one San Francisco protester put the point: “I don’t think it’s right for our government to kill people.” In practice, this leaves the government only two means of dealing with our enemies: to ignore their acts of aggression, or to appease them by capitulating to the aggressor’s demands." . . .

Obama Concealed Strength of al-Qaeda Before 2012 Election

Bin Laden Docs Show Obama Misled, Politicized Intelligence During 2012 Campaign  

 By the way, this story has been embargoed -- at least so far -- by all major media.

. . . "The only thing really surprising here is the lengths to which Obama went to justify pulling troops from Iraq -- that he would risk so much just to please his liberal base. Intelligence in this case was cynically manipulated to paint a false picture of American security." . . .

Legal Insurrection

"Bin Laden was dead, but al-Qaeda was very much alive."

"At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the big moment was Joe Biden triumphantly declaring “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”

"It turns out that in order to make that narrative stick, Obama had to downplay the actual strength of al-Qaeda.

"Saagar Enjeti reports at the Daily Caller:

‘Cherry Picked’: Obama Downplayed Al-Qaida Strength In Lead Up To 2012 Election

The Obama administration deliberately sought to downplay how robust the al-Qaida network was in the lead up to the 2012 election by selectively releasing documents that enforced a preferred narrative, The Weekly Standard reports, citing experts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and New York Times Correspondent Rukmini Callimachi.

The revelation of the al-Qaida network’s strength in 2011 comes after the final release of thousands of documents obtained by U.S. Navy SEALs in a 2011 raid to kill Usama Bin-Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan. The documents reveal that Bin-Laden was minutely managing the day-to-day operations of his terror network all while former President Barack Obama assured the American public the group was “decimated.”

“Think back to when bin Laden was killed. It was 2011, it was right before a major campaign season. I don’t want to underplay the role that the killing of Osama bin Laden had,” Callimachi told the Friday audience, adding “But I think that that was theorized into something much bigger.”

"The obvious subtext here is that Obama and Democrats put his re-election above national security concerns. The fact that we’re just learning about this now also suggests that the media either knew this and ignored it, or was too busy cheering at the DNC to look into it. Anyone surprised?

"Jenna Lifhits of the Weekly Standard has more:" . . .