Cruz vs O’Rourke: State Interests or Hollywood Glitz?

Victory Girls

Conservatives need to remember two things. First, appearances aren’t everything. The fact Cruz doesn’t have as many yard signs out O’Rourke doesn’t mean he’s already lost the race. In my part of the state during the 2016 election, the Clinton signs far outnumbered Trump’s. Yet voters turned out for Trump.

"It’s been awhile since Texas has seen a Senate race like the one between Senator Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke. It is more than a choice between Republican and Democrat. Texans must choose between a conservative senator, one who has proven he shares many of our concerns and values, and the Democratic challenger who seems more interested in honing his national image than in listening to what’s important to his constituency.

"It is easy to worry about Senator Cruz’s chance for re-election. It seems barely a week goes by when Beto isn’t on some national talk show. He appeared on Ellen. He’s been interviewed in Rolling Stone. And let’s not forget his appearance on Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Joe Kennedy III will be appearing with him later this month to help drum up support. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize he is being groomed for bigger and better things by the DNC. The problem is Texas will suffer if he does somehow manage to defeat Cruz.

"The election is far from decided. A number of conservatives have expressed concern. Everywhere you turn, you find O’Rourke campaign signs. Drive through many neighborhoods and the signs for Beto far outnumber those for Senator Cruz. For much of the campaign season, the media and polls have gleefully rubbed their hands together, telling us how their darling Beto is going to trounce Ted Cruz.

"Except. . . .

"Texas has been a Red State for several decades now. Our U. S. Senators are Republicans, as are our governor, lieutenant governor and every other statewide office holder.

"But that hasn’t stopped Beto and his handlers.

. . . 

"After months of Beto leading Cruz in the polls, the tide has turned. The latest polls show Cruz has not only caught up to O’Rourke but has pulled ahead. The cries and panicked beating of chests has already begun. Vanity Fair has a new post about the election and the title says it all." . . .

O'Rourke doesn't mind kneeling during the National Anthem

Likewise, taking a knee at a football game, O'Rourke explained, is a way to peacefully point out that "black men, unarmed, black teenagers, unarmed, and black children, unarmed, are being killed at a frightening level right now, including by members of law enforcement, without accountability and without justice.”

Stop the Press Before It Profiles Beto O’Rourke Again  . . . "He exudes youth (he’s 46). Cruz looks old (he’s 47). He makes reporters nostalgic for the 1960s by conjuring the spirit of Robert Kennedy, complete with the bangs, the teeth, the rolled-up sleeves, the paeans to the oppressed, the uplift and the liberal platitudes." . . .

No matter what, Elizabeth Warren will be loved by the left

But Hillary shows us that in spite of everything we learn about someone female and contemptible, the left will love them intensely.

General Kelly reveals the truth about Elizabeth Warren: She's uncouth in private

" . . .What an impolite arrogant woman.  She immediately began insulting our people accusing them of not following the court order, insulting and abusive behavior towards those covered by the pause . . ."

"Democratic presidential frontrunner hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren always prides herself on being the candidate of the little guy.  In her old-fashioned granny suits with her old-fashioned glasses, she speaks in a soft, syrupy voice and calls herself a consumer advocate.  Naturally, there's not a left-wing cause on Earth the Massachusetts Democrat won't support, and of course, as a professional fake Indian with affirmative action professorships under her belt, an incongruous house-flipping history, an Imelda-sized wardrobe, and a big bankbook, she knows how to play the games, academic or otherwise.

"But she always portrays herself as nice.  She doesn't have that hectoring, cackling, manic, revolting voice you hear from Hillary Clinton.  Nope, Warren's always soft, soothing, and smooth.

"But then we hear how she acts in private." . . .

But Mazie Hirono would say she must be believed and the General should just shut up!

Cherokee author: “I Won’t Support An Elizabeth Warren Presidency While She Appropriates My Identity”  

"Rebecca Nagle: “If Warren falsely claimed to be related to the queen of England or Elvis, people would dismiss her as a kook”'  . . .

"Elizabeth Warren is going to run for president, that’s becoming more clear by the day.

"Among Warren’s pre-planning is trying to shed the problem that has dogged her since 2012, her false claim to be Native American.

"Warren has used the Boston Globe and other friendly outlets to claim that she never actually benefited from claiming to be Native American for employment purposes. But that is somewhat besides the point. She tried to benefit from misappropriation of Native American identity, and that doesn’t sit well with Rebecca Nagle.

"Nagle is a member of the Cherokee Nation. She previously has written critically of Warren at the left-wing Think Progress in a November 2017 op-ed that generated a lot of attention,

 "I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not:

She is not from us. She does not represent us. She is not Cherokee….

Oh, please. While it is nice to see Warren get push-back, I get so sick of all this cultural, racist, sexist balkanization. But then, being a man, Mazie Hirono wants me to "just shut up". TD 

Liberal Media: Our Mobs Are Not Mobs, So Don’t Call Them Mobs

Legal Insurrection  "As someone who attended and wrote about Tea Party protests in 2009 and 2010, it has been surreal to watch folks at CNN and MSNBC twist themselves into knots to defend the recent actions of the left.

I clearly remember Democrats and their media allies using words like “dangerous” and “mob” to describe people who obtained protest permits and cleaned up their own trash. Everything is different now.

"Groups of angry leftists are hunting down Republicans and members of the Trump cabinet to harass in public places, clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court, and accosting members of the Senate in the halls of the Capitol building. But the folks at CNN and MSNBC are clutching their pearls at the suggestion that these are mobs.

"Bill D’Agostino of NewsBusters reports:

CNN, MSNBC Throw Three-Day Temper Tantrum As GOP Call Protests ‘A Mob’ . . .

What today's Democrats do:

Kavanaugh on Campus Week in Higher Education

Legal Insurrection  "Your weekly report on campus news."
"Campus progressives are not taking the confirmation of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court very well.

• Pro-Kavanaugh Flyers Torn Down at U. Cincinnati
• U. Wisconsin-Steven’s Point Student Govt. Passes Anti-Kavanaugh Resolution
• Scholars Worry Justice Kavanaugh Could Undermine Diversity on College Campuses

"Like, at all.

• New York Law Students Walk Out to Protest Kavanaugh Confirmation
• Susan Rice’s Pro-Kavanaugh Son Allegedly Assaulted on Stanford Campus
• Pro-Communism Group at UT Austin Doxxes Pro-Kavanaugh Protesters

"Meanwhile…

• UNC Prof Nominates Christine Blasey Ford for ‘Distinguished Alumna’ Award

"Compare and contrast.

• U. Washington Students Create Website for Anonymous Sexual Assault Accusations Against Men
• Student Spends $12,000 Defending Himself Over Incident He Says Was Consensual

"All leftism, all the time.

• Georgetown Prof Who Called for Republican Deaths Placed on ‘Research Leave’
• Harvard’s Kennedy School to Begin ‘Unconscious Bias and Micro-Messaging’ Training
• U. Minnesota Scholar Claims Capitalism Must Be Destroyed to Save the Planet

"Crazy." . . .

Who would you prefer to meet on a dark street? These people?

Or these violence - capable drones?

Other Republican Presidents, intimidated by the left, would have abandoned Kavanaugh.  And the Democrats would have still hated that Republican. 

Conrad Black writes: Trump Wins the Kavanaugh Poker Match  "When the cant and emotionalism and bilious partisanship have subsided, the Kavanaugh episode will be seen as a decisive watershed." . . .

Large elements of the party, especially some the female senators, including Kirsten Gillibrand, Mazie Hirono, and Kamala Harris, said Ford had to be believed because she was a woman, and Hirono helpfully added that American men should “shut up.” The most egregious of the Democratic male posers on the committee, Cory Booker and Richard Blumenthal, fell in like obedient eunuchs with the opinion that held that since Ford had appeared, had only one head, and repeated her allegations in sentences, that was proof of Kavanaugh’s criminality.

One Ford Narrative Too Many

Victor Davis Hanson  . . . "Senate prosecutor Rachel Mitchell might have proven in court more a depositioner than an inquisitor in her seemingly circular questioning, but in retrospect she proved a brilliant interrogator nonetheless in getting Ford to testify to a host of things that simply could not all be true—and would come back to haunt Ford in Mitchell’s damning summary of Ford’s likely untruths.

'And why exactly were there so many contradictions as outlined in Mitchell’s written summation?

"Christine Ford in July may have had no idea that her original anonymous accusation would ever become sensationalized publicly, much less put her into a position of trying to reconcile a number of irreconcilable narratives.

"Instead, Ford had initially thought a single anonymous but poisonous letter would do the trick far better than had previous weeks of grandstanding Democratic baiting, demonstrations, and walkouts. A last-minute drive-by and anonymous charge of sexual assault would panic Republicans with the mere whiff of #MeTooism, shock and cower a goody-two-shoes, family-man Kavanaugh, and thus force a beleaguered, pre-midterm-anxious President Trump to withdraw the nomination—all without the disclosure of Ford’s name and thus without any further need to substantiate her narratives.

"As a side note, in this context, I am confused by the bipartisan outrage solely directed at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s or her staff’s lowdown leaking of Ford’s name. Of course, it was unethical and so typical of the twilight years of the senior senator from California. But, then again, so is authoring an anonymous hit piece without any corroborating evidence but with misleading written assertions (such as how Ford sought “medical treatment” for the assault—without disclosing she meant marriage counseling 36 years after the fact.) It seems far less noble to charge Kavanaugh with sexual assault anonymously than to have come forward at the outset and demonstrate the charge transparently. The cloak of anonymity does even more damage to the idea of jurisprudence than does the unethical removal of it by a would-be enabler.

"Yet the radical change of events that followed the disclosure of Ford’s name did lead to discovery of lots of Ford narratives with still more to come." . . .

Maxine Waters hit with 3 ethics violation charges

Personal Liberty  . . . "CBS News reports that the charges related to whether Waters gave inappropriate assistance to a bank that got federal bail-out money and to which she had personal connections. The ethics committee charged that Waters organized a meeting in 2008 between Treasury officials and executives from OneUnited Bank, where her husband was once a board member and had large investments. The bank received $12 million from the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Waters with the white-hating Farrakhan

"Waters serves on the House Financial Services Committee, and there have been rumors for some time that she had acted inappropriately regarding the bailout funds.

"According to CBS, Waters has defended her request for the meeting between Treasury officials and OneUnited executives as part of her efforts to advocate on behalf of minority-owned businesses. She maintains she is innocent of any wrongdoing.

"The charges are that she violated a House rule that members must “behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House;” that she violated the “spirit” of the House rule that prohibits a member from receiving compensation for exerting improper influence from her position in Congress; and that she violated the Code of Ethics for Government Service.

"She will face a public [trial] before the Ethics Committee in the fall."

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Brutality is in the Eye of E. Holder

Stilton's Place

. . . "Hillary Clinton, who once swore to accept the results of the election in which Donald Trump kicked her fanny, just declared "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. That's why I believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. But until then the only thing Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength."

"Hang on - we're pretty sure that there's a word that distills that whole thought. "Strength" applied in a way that lacks "civility"...  Oh yeah, now we remember! That word is violence.

"And let's not forget Mad Maxine Waters, who helped pour gasoline on this anti-American fire by saying "If you see anyone from the Cabinet in a restaurant, a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd! And you push back on them! And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere!" Except, perhaps, the death camps that Maxine and her chums seemingly have in mind for citizens who won't do what they're told." . . .

Hillary Clinton’s security clearance has been withdrawn at her request.

State Dept. Provides Update on Ongoing Review of Clinton-Era Officials’ Handling of Classified Material  "The U.S. State Department recently confirmed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security clearance has been withdrawn at her request. Clearances for five other individuals whom Clinton designated as researchers have also been withdrawn, including close aide Cheryl Mills, according to the State Department’s update of its ongoing review of the mishandling of classified information related to the use of Clinton’s non-government email server.

 

"Documents containing classified material have been sent to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and all valid security incidents have been added to the security file for some individuals.  Department authorities are continuing to review tens of thousands of documents for classified content. 

 

"The update was provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and is being released for the first time following consultation with the State Department.  The update follows a letter from the Department in May of 2017 confirming the Department’s review into any mishandling of classified information stemming from the use of Clinton’s non-government email server.  That letter, which responded to an inquiry from Grassley, also outlined the review and adjudication process.

 

"The recent letter from the State Department is available HERE." . . .

Via the Gateway Pundit

Democrats Go MEAN!

Townhall

Tammy Bruce  ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” announced Hillary Clinton during an interview on CNN. This after the Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearings descended into mob action to destroy that man and his family.

Here is a twice-failed presidential candidate, former senator and secretary of state, revealing her rejection of the peaceful transfer of power, a hallmark of the American system. One could see this as her confession explaining the Democratic Party’s obscene and contrived effort to politically and socially assassinate a good man for committing the crimes of being a conservative and being nominated by President Donald Trump.

You see, the mob action hasn’t only been on the street. It was witnessed by us in the Senate, when Sen. Dianne Feinstein first decided to hide the Ford allegation from the committee, deciding to use it as an improvised explosive device against not just then-Judge Kavanaugh but the process itself.

Even more shocking was Hillary’s next remark during the interview: “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.”

Many women across this country, and around the world, know what this means. Her rhetoric is shockingly similar to an abuser’s — Hillary Clinton is telling us that once we comply, once we give them what they want, they’ll stop hurting us. But as long as we’re bad, they will punish us. Because, you see, they’re only hurting us to make things better. We deserve it, and this is for our own good.

Hillary is not one to say something out of turn. It’s not coincidental that just two days after the former secretary of State gave her seal of approval for euphemistic “incivility,” her friend, former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., reinforced this new narrative.

At a campaign rally in Georgia, Mr. Holder told the crowd, “Michelle [Obama] always says that, you know, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No, no. When they go low, we kick them [to applause]. That’s what this new Democratic Party is about.”

Even The Washington Post seemed taken aback by Mr. Holder’s remarks, reporting, “For the second time this week, a leading Democratic voice is proposing that the party pursue a meaner, more combative approach — with this one going so far as to allude to metaphorical violence.”

Metaphorical? Taking these comments by Democratic Party leadership in context is key. What exactly has been happening just prior to these statements, moreover, for the past one-and-a-half years?

Conservatives and Republicans have been personally harassed and attacked in public. There has been violence, including attempted mass murder of Republican congressmen, the almost fatal injury of Rep. Steve Scalise, and the attempted stabbing of a Republican candidate. Women who work for the administration have been harassed at movie theatres, restaurants and while conducting official business.

During and in the immediate aftermath of the Kavanaugh hearings, Republican senators were chased down hallways, accosted in elevators and harassed at airports. The president, secretary of Defense and the Navy chief were sent threatening letters containing the raw ingredient for the poison ricin. Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign office has received a letter containing a powder. A Republican senator’s wife received a video of a beheading sent to her private cell phone number.

A Democratic Party operative, who had worked for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Democratic Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Maggie Hassan, posted online home addresses and personal phone numbers of Republican Judiciary Committee members. Arrested, this man was determined to be such a threat to others the judge has denied him bond.

Sen. Rand Paul is also concerned and noted a frightening possibility on “Fox and Friends.” Daily Wire reports, “… Paul condemned the violent rhetoric of the political Left and the Democratic Party and warned that someone is going to end up getting killed if the inflammatory rhetoric doesn’t stop. ‘I was there at the ball field when Steve Scalise almost died from a very, very angry violent man who was incited really by rhetoric on the left,’ Paul said.

“‘And this hasn’t been reported enough, when he [the gunman] came on the field with a semi-automatic weapon firing probably close to 200 shots at us, shooting five people and almost killing Steve Scalise, he was yelling ‘this is for healthcare!’ Paul said, reported Daily Wire. “‘So what happens is that when Democrats say ‘get up in their face,’ they need to realize that there are a lot of unstable people out there. There are people with anger issues, there are people who are prone to violence.’”

We should take Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder very seriously. This is indeed the “New Democratic Party” as Mr. Holder put it. Rep. Maxine Waters was simply the first one to announce it when she encouraged Democrats to “confront” the president’s supporters. Now Cory Booker, Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton, among others, have endorsed the politics of harassment and chaos.

Americans want solutions, ideas and progress, not threats. Democrats don’t have any new ideas or policy that address our concerns as Americans, so they’re hoping they can harass and frighten you into voting for them. This is what they think of you, and they will fail. Again.

Cartoons added by TD

I kid you not: "Ritual to Hex Brett Kavanaugh"

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Please join us for a public hex on Brett Kavanaugh, upon all rapists and the patriarchy at large which emboldens, rewards and protects them. We are embracing witchcraft's true roots as the magik of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised and it's history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men just like him.

He will be the focal point, but by no means the only target, so bring your rage and and all of the axes you've got to grind. There will also be a second ritual afterward - "The Rites of the Scorned One" which seeks to validate, affirm, uphold and support those of us who have been wronged and who refuse to be silent any longer.

50% of the event proceeds will be donated to charity:
25% to the Ali Forney Center and 25% to Planned Parenthood.

Please note that no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

 The comments section contains more intelligence, so all is not lost to America. 
Especially if the commenters vote Republican. 

Ian Macfarlane

Trump defies DiFi and Kamala, nominating 3 Federalist Society members for Ninth Circuit

Legal Insurrection

Thomas Lifson  "The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is about to become about ten percent less crazy. President Trump has nominated three new judges for the 29-seat circuit court, over the objections of the two senators representing their home state of California. Until Trump discarded the practice, home state senators were allowed to veto judicial nominations for courts in their states, a custom known as the “blue slip.”   That seems quaint these days, a relic of a bygone era in which actual qualifications, not ideology were the issue in Senate confirmation votes that, anyway, required a filibuster-proof 60 votes."


"As a result, President Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are filling the federal bench with judges and justices that read an apply the Constitution, instead of deciding which outcome they want ideologically, and then finding a rationalization for it. Emily Cadei and Kate Irby of the Sacramento Bee report:" . . .

. . . President Trump’s nominees for the appeals court — litigators Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee and Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Bumatay — are all based in Southern California, are prominent members of the conservative Federalist Society, and have worked for Republican administrations. None of the three were approved by Feinstein or Harris via a process known as a “blue slip,” the senators’ offices confirmed Thursday.  . . .

 It will be a fight  “ 'I repeatedly told the White House I wanted to reach an agreement on a package of 9th Circuit nominees, but last night the White House moved forward without consulting me, picking controversial candidates from its initial list and another individual with no judicial experience who had not previously been suggested," Feinstein said in a statement." . . .

Democrats' Kavanaugh Obsession Costing Them Dearly

. . . "It is time to accept the reality that Justice Kavanaugh was properly and fairly nominated, and confirmed, to the Supreme Court.  The arguments by some on the left are illogical or devoid of any factual support or corroboration.  By consistently making such arguments, Democrats could well be hurting themselves with moderate and centrist voters and, ultimately, helping Republicans as the midterms inch closer."

Taylor Swift, having wrecked country music, now wrecks politics

Being a liberal is so easy, with no downside; being a conservative can be dangerous these days and takes guts. TD

Taylor Lewis  . . . "By endorsing Democrats, Swift joins the long and stupid tradition of celebrities opining on political affairs.  It was, at least for her, a risk-less move.  Few if any Swift fans will refuse to buy her songs off iTunes because she isn't a Donald Trump fan.  Meanwhile, liberal listeners have been begging for Swift to denounce the president for some time.  The Bredesen-Cooper nod will placate them temporarily, until, that is, another injustice requires a Swiftian reproof.

"The whole business is as uninspiring as the canned melodies and prosy romantic themes that constitute the "Shake It Off" singer's radio-friendly oeuvre.  Swift is a political naïf.  Her first foray into advocacy is as unimaginative as you can get.  It's chock-full of the platitudinous pap that once filled Hillary Clinton's website.  Trite phrases like "the fight for LGBTQ rights" and "systemic racism" fill the sanctimonious jeremiad, which, most unsurprisingly, reads like a college freshman essay composed after a blithe browsing of a Jacques Derrida Tumblr fan page.

"It's silly to expect any better.  The entertainment industry as a whole is cursed with a simplistic view of politics.  For singers, songwriters, musicians, actors, comedians, showrunners, producers, directors, models, reality TV stars, social media personalities, agents, and other Hollywood Hills notables, politics is a daft struggle between good and evil; in more Swiftian pop-culture patois, it is the liberal, caring "love wins" wizards and witches versus the reactionary, intolerant followers of Lord Voldemort.

"This moral assuredness leads to many horribly trite opinions and the occasional combustion of righteous pretense."  . . .  Read more...