Got your tickets for the Clinton gig yet?

UPDATE:

Thomas Lifson: Pathetic Clintons resort to Groupon trying to get people to show up and fill some seats on their stadium tour  "We now have the first acknowledgment from their side that the Clintons vastly overestimated their personal popularity and the public’s interest in hearing them talk about themselves.

"The Clintons and their stadium tour promoter are officially responding to the public’s refusal to show up in sufficient numbers for them to avoid embarrassment (and financial loss) at the level of ticket prices that seemed realistic when the tour was announced only two months ago. The UK DailyMail noticed this offer on Groupon: . . ."

. . . "I conjecture that the Clintons are afraid of the ridicule that would accompany outright cancellation of the tour. Even worse, it might signal to other Democrats that there is no reason to continue to protect them for the consequences of their misbehavior. If they can’t even pull a crowd, why not cut the party’s losses?

"I suspect that this Groupon offer is a compromise. My theory is that Live Nation is saying to the Clintons that if the discount doesn’t drive a lot more sales, they will pull the plug in the tour.

"Bad as this move looks, it heralds even worse news ahead."

No way out for Clinton, Inc. corruption this time  "The legal dodge used by James Comey to exonerate Hillary Clinton from her prima facie crimes in using an unsecured server for official business won’t be any help to the Clinton Foundation as it faces charges coming from whistleblowers*." . . .

"One can finally hope that the recent whistleblower revelations will tell us that a legal prosecution fuse has finally been lit to embrace the legitimate campaign chant of Trump Nation supporters to “Lock Her Up,”

"Finally one can only hope that Bill and Hillary Clinton may legally have no way out."

*Revealed: Clinton Foundation whistleblowers have been working with FBI and IRS since last year  

"The reckoning for the Clintons I have dreamed of for a quarter of a century finally approaches with whistleblowing and documents about the slush fund known as the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.  The ability of the Clintons to blow off charges of criminality will be crippled by the latest evidence revealed to be in the hands of prosecutors.  With the former first couple humiliated by their inability to draw a decent crowd anymore, and plenty of other Democrats anxious to move on and put this embarrassment behind them, it is starting to look as though karma finally is catching up with them.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kate McKinnon, are you paying attention?

My Title IX Sex Discrimination Complaint

Prof. Mike Adams

"On October 16, I filed a Title IX sex discrimination complaint against administrators at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where I have been teaching for the last twenty-six years. Readers will also recall that it is the same institution I successfully sued on First Amendment grounds back in 2014. The facts leading to the present controversy are briefly recapitulated below. 

"Two females, one a student at UNCW, the other an alumna at UNCW, paid a visit to the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) located in Bear Hall on the UNCW campus. The student is a member of a campus Christian club, which also employs the alumnus. Their purpose was to request funding and co-sponsorship from the WRC for an upcoming campus debate on the topic of abortion, which is scheduled to occur on February 21 st in 2019. The debate is between Dr. Willie Parker, a physician who has aborted over 10,000 innocent human beings, and myself." . . . 
. . . 
"It is worth noting that I am not the only victim of discrimination in this case. Dr. Parker, who happens to be black, is also a victim of discrimination. It is my hope that the university will take the refusal of the WRC to fund his speech on the basis of his gender just as seriously as they would take the refusal to fund his speech on the basis of his race. Either form of discrimination is reprehensible. 

"As my readers can see, I had no choice but to file a formal complaint. I would have been content merely to publicly ridicule the WRC for its rank hypocrisy. But the tenor of Dr. Sartarelli’s email suggested I really had no choice but to contact the Title IX office. In other words, I am just trying to be a good employee and abide by the university’s rules. 

"Regrettably, over a month after filing the complaint, I have not been advised of the university’s ruling in the case. Thus, I am writing publicly to remind the powers that be that I am not going away quietly. 

"The public needs to know whether those in charge of fighting sexism are guilty of promoting it." …  To be continued.

EMBARRASSING: Europeans Realizing Trump Was Right About Iran

Daily Wire 

. . . "It must be murder for them to admit it, but suddenly Western European leaders are realizing President Trump was right about ditching the Iran nuclear treaty. On Tuesday, diplomats from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France expressed their concern because of an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile test on Saturday." . . .

Cartoon added by TD

 . . . "Dutch Ambassador Karel van Oosterom added, “This kind of ballistic missile activity is inconsistent with the JCPoA , especially Annex B which calls on Iran not to engage in these kinds of activities.” Even French Ambassador François Delattre avowed the test was "inconsistent" with the resolution, urging Iran to "immediately cease any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be able to carry nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology."
"Still, the group displayed its usual pusillanimous attitude when it came to Iran, with the resolution stating it only “calls upon” Iran to stop its ballistic tests instead of demanding a cessation.
"On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, in her typically blunt manner, stated that the ballistic test was "dangerous and concerning, but not surprising" adding, “The United States has repeatedly warned the world about Iran’s deliberate efforts to destabilize the Middle East and defy international norms. The international community cannot keep turning a blind eye every time Iran blatantly ignores Security Council resolutions. If the Security Council is serious about holding Iran accountable and enforcing our resolutions, then at a minimum we should be able to deliver a unanimous condemnation of this provocative missile test."
"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), echoed, “The United States has only begun to reverse the damage done by Obama's Iran nuclear deal, which gave the Ayatollahs the resources and diplomatic breathing room to build more and better ballistic missiles. The last round of sanctions, while important, clearly failed to deter Iran from advancing their missile program. It's time to totally cut off Iran from the global financial system and deny them the resources they're using to threaten us and our allies.”

Teacher fired for refusing to use trans student's pronouns

Good grief!

MSN  "A Virginia high school teacher who refused to use a transgender student's new pronouns has been fired.

"News outlets report that the West Point School Board voted unanimously Thursday to dismiss Peter Vlaming after a four-hour hearing that drew an overflow crowd. The school system said in a statement that Vlaming was fired for insubordination.

"Over the summer, the ninth-grade student's family informed the school system of the student's gender transition to male. The student wasn't involved in Thursday's hearing.

"It's not suggested that the 47-year-old West Point High School French teacher deliberately referred to the student using female pronouns in the student's presence, but in conversations with others.

"Witnesses described a "slip-up" when the student was about to run into a wall and Vlaming told others to stop "her." When discussing the incident with administrators, Vlaming made it clear he would not use male pronouns, a stance that led to his suspension referral for disciplinary action.

" 'I can't think of a worse way to treat a child than what was happening," said West Point High Principal Jonathan Hochman, who testified that he told Vlaming to use male pronouns in accordance with the student's wishes.

"Vlaming told superiors that his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for the student. Vlaming said he had the student in class the year before when the student identified as female." . . .

More information and video here.
A petition to support Vleming(sp) is currently 30 signatures shy of its goal.

File this under here as well:
He Played Handball For Australia's Men's Team. Now Transgender, He's Dominating Women's Handball.  . . . "Last month, for example, the athlete posted a bizarre tweet praising Iran for being inclusive and progressive with regard to transgenderism in comparison to his home country. Of course, gay men in Iran can be murdered if they are found out to be homosexual, so many resort to presenting themselves as the opposite sex as a more acceptable, or frankly less fatal, option.

" 'How good would it be if Australia was as progressive and inclusive as Iran," he wrote." . . .

After DNA test, even Elizabeth Warren's fellow Democrats have got the willies over her

Monica Showalter  "Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is running for president, and she's not quite getting the response she thought she would, even from her fellow leftists.

According to the New York Times, "Elizabeth Warren Stands by DNA Test. But Around Her, Worries Abound."

"Here, the Boston Globe's editorial page recommended that she wise up and not run: "Deval Patrick knew when to call it quits on a presidential bid. Other politicians take note."

"Memo to Liz: That's your establishment.

"Fox News, of course, has fun with the whole thing, but we don't have to count that outlet.

"Seems the fake Indian scandal is sticking to Warren, and pretty much defining her, enough for Democrats to get the willies.  Her DNA test, supposedly to Get Trump on his taunts that she's a fake Indian, were released in a hamfisted time ahead of midterms, and more important for her, revealed that she may be as little as 1,024th Indian, less than the average American.  That's what's going on, and why the Times chose to highlight the issue by quoting Democrat operatives.

"Here's a random tweet that demonstrates the real flavor of what's going on out there, not the prissy Times version:" . . .

Don't go away mad, Joe – just go away

Acting the buffoon at the Ryan VP debate

Richard Jack Rail  "Joe Biden says he's the most qualified person in the country to be president. 

"Well, Joe, if it were about paper qualifications, you'd have an argument.  You have an East Coast (if not Ivy League) sheepskin.  You've been in the Senate and warmed the veep's chair.  You've run for president.

"You've been around, no question about that, and for a long time.  A very long time.

"That's what you've done.

"What you have not done is anything worth talking about.  We all admire your dental and hair work, and we're duly impressed with your wife's doctorate in education.  We're not so taken with the way you ran the Anita Hill hearings, your putting your hands all over other men's daughters in public places, your lifting other people's words and not giving attribution, or your being wrong on just about everything in foreign policy and national security for the last four decades.

"Nothing comes to mind that recommends you, Joe, and we don't want another president who needs a teleprompter to tell him what to say, or a line of interns in the wings to take care of his personal qualification.

"You guys on the left, Joe, don't seem to grasp that being president is serious business.  You keep putting up people whose flaws make Richard Nixon look shiny – people whose personal lives have been tawdry, petty, bullying, and ugly.

"People like you, Joe.  Well qualified, but with nothing of substance to recommend them.

"Bow out gracefully.  Go home and enjoy the pretend adulation of family and neighbors.  Retire.  Get out of the spotlight.  If you ever had a chance at the big prize, you blew it long ago."

Still good looking after all these years

On Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Salvage Operations - Washington Post March

Video: Peer Into a Fallen Battleship at Pearl Harbor
A 3D tour of the USS Arizona and this model of the monument as it is today.

Recovered body of Japanese flyer shot down.

Remember when we thought Hillary was as far left as we could get?

This new crop of Democrats may just make us miss them.

Rich Terrell

Bill And Hillary Tour Underwhelms In Ticket Sales, Attendance, and Hot Air

. . . "Does anyone else think it’s odd that a former U.S. president and a former Secretary of State began a self-promoting tour in Canada? Maybe it’s just me." . . .

Bill and Hillary Clinton should just go quietly  "Like an aging vaudeville duo whose act has grown stale and whose once-adoring audiences have diminished to a nostalgia-driven handful, Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken to the lecture circuit in their obsessive quest for relevancy and, of course, money." . . .

Bill and Hillary Clinton Have Overstayed Their Public Welcome . . . "The talk by the former first couple in Toronto was reported as consisting of rants and raves.
"It was an evening of Trump-bashing and what might have been.
"Just imagine if Election Day in 2016 had seen Donald Trump defeated. Today first gentleman Bill could be tending to the Rose Garden, planning the White House Christmas decorations, redecorating the family quarters, and picking the menus for state dinners. And President Hillary could be breaking glass ceilings and cellphones, and fighting what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
"The Clintons’ shtick in their appearances is a walk down memory lane, revenge, jokes only the most ardent Clinton lovers would find funny, fantasy and tag-team banter.
"Juxtapose the Clintons’ speaking tour for profit and President Trump’s free-admission appearances to standing-room audiences and thousands waiting outside in cities all across America.
"Breaking news: The Clintons ain’t what they used to be. They are desperately trying to stay relevant in a nation and a party that have long since moved on." . . .

Developing: Axios, CNN Report Kelly To Resign “In Coming Days”

Axios  "Get ready for a little Christmas-season drama at the White House … or at least in the media. Axios’ Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen offered a bare-bones report on the upcoming departure of chief of staff John Kelly earlier this morning as part of a review of other changes coming. According to their sources, Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers will likely get the job instead:" . . .
. . . 
"CNN followed up with two sources who also say  Kelly will resign within days as his relationship with Donald Trump has hit an all-time low. “Right now, the president and his chief of staff are not even on speaking terms,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports below:" . . .

Remember this encounter between General Kelly and rookie senator Kamala Harris (Democrat, California)?

Classy Bush Funeral Reminds Us of Just How Awful the McCain Family Is

Breitbart Politics

What a disgrace, and every decent person knew at the time it was a disgrace. But through their act of common courtesy, humanity, dignity, and modesty, the Bush family once again reminded us of who they really are and who the McCains really are.

"Whatever you might think of the Bush dynasty’s legacy, no one can ever accuse the family of not showing class and decency.

"And their sterling example of this, while saying goodbye to their beloved patriarch, has also served as an important reminder of just how awful the McCain family is.

"Remember when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) died?

"How could you forget?

"The funeral lasted longer than the first season of Cop Rock — something like nine episodes.

"McCain died on a Saturday, and his funeral services did not come to an end until the following Sunday, but only after it had toured three different cities. George H.W. Bush died on Friday and his services will end on Thursday. Both men were legitimate war heroes, but only one was a U.S. president.

"Although illuminating, that is the least of it.

"President Bush’s funeral has been lovely, classy, unifying, and loving. There have been no cheap snubs, no axe grinding from the grave.

"The Bush family’s simple and decent act of burying the hatchet with President Trump, their patriotic act of making the president (and by extension his supporters) feel welcome and honored at these services, that is true patriotism, and that is what American democracy is supposed to be about.

. . . And then there were the so-called eulogies, most of which were reprehensible acts of narcissistic exploitation. On one hand, you had eulogies being used as score-settling tirades against Trump and his supporters, and on the other you had those like Meghan McCain — the deceased’s own child, for God’s sake — using her eulogy to up her media profile, to create a YouTube moment, to reassure the same hideous media that personally destroyed her father during his 2008 presidential run, that she is one of them.  . . .

40 Years Of Climate Hysteria Summed Up with a Single Tweet

The Federalist Papers

. . . "The United States was being railroaded in the Paris Climate Agreement but Trump, who has employed an “America First” foreign policy, pulled us out of the deal in June. The president said he would consider reentering the agreement if the terms were renegotiated, but the remaining parties have not made an effort to do so.

“ 'As President, I can put no other consideration before the wellbeing of American citizens. The Paris Climate Accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers — who I love — and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production,” he said at the time.

"And despite the “sky is falling” rhetoric of this set of researchers, another set last week predicted that a mini Ice Age was coming, and it could reverse the damage from supposed global warming, the UK Express reported:

Earth could be plunged into a mini Ice Age in the next few decades, but there is good news – it could override the damage done by global warming.By 2030 comes about, the temperatures on Earth could be so low that the River Thames freezes over during winter, much like in the last little ice age which spanned from the 13th to 17th century.Maths professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University said the Ice Age could help offset the damage of global warming.She said: “I hope global warning will be overridden by this effect, giving humankind and the Earth 30 years to sort out our pollution.”She added any global warming damage that is undone will be instantly reversed again when the next solar maximum begins in the 2050s.

"That is probably because the Earth has been warming and cooling for thousands of years — long before humans and their machines came on the scene.

"Humans would be much better off not overestimating our place in the world and assuming what we do, or don’t do, can affect the Earth." . . .

The Perpetual Presidency

Victor Davis Hanson

Obama believes that all of Trump’s successes are due to Obama, and all of Trump’s setbacks are his own.

"Former president Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, President Donald Trump.

. . . 

"Still, after 22 months, no one knows what the final verdict will be on the Trump administration. So it seems wise to wait until Trump’s four-year term is over before weighing in on his legacy or lack of one.

"By the same token, the frenetic Obama should take a deep breath, stop arguing the past, and allow history to adjudicate his own eight-year economic and foreign-policy record.

"Given that Obama was a strong progressive while Trump surprisingly has proven to be a hard-right conservative, their presidencies offer a sort of laboratory of contrasting worldviews.

"History will decide whether a more managed or more deregulated economy works best. We will learn whether a focus on traditional energy sources is preferable to an emphasis on subsidized green energy.

"In recent times, Republican ex-presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush — left the limelight at the end of their tenures. They kept silent about their successors, and they allowed history to be the judge of their relative successes or failures. Reagan and the younger Bush often were ensconced on their ranches in out-of-the-way places. Obama would do well to buy a ranch, too.

"In contrast, progressive ex-presidents such as Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Obama saw the presidency as a never-ending story. Politics were a 24/7, 360-degree, all-encompassing experience. All envisioned their retirements as opportunities to relitigate their administrations and to politick the present in hopes that future kindred presidencies would be progressive and would continue their own agendas.

"Carter frequently warned that the Reagan defense buildup and tough stance toward the Soviet Union were dangerous and would lead to an existential confrontation.

"Clinton became a fierce critic of the Iraq War as his wife Hillary prepared to enter the 2008 presidential race as an anti-Bush candidate.

"Obama still seeks to convince the country that Trump is “unfit” to be president." . . .

NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. @vdhanson