Texas Democrat Wendy Davis announces congressional bid

Once known in Texas as "Abortion Barbie"; she'll make good use of those California transplants. TD

Quotesgram

Dallas News  "Former Texas Sen. Wendy Davis announced early Monday that she would be running for freshman U.S. Rep. Chip Roy's congressional seat.
" 'I've learned that I'm at my best when I'm fighting for people," Davis said in an autobiographical video posted to Youtube Monday morning. "It isn't personal achievements or failures that create change. It's working together to fight for what matters."

Her famous filibuster footwear

"Davis said in March that she was considering a run for U.S. Senate, but would likely run for Congress if another Democrat decided to challenge Republican incumbent John Cornyn." 
. . . 
. . . "When her 2013 filibuster garnered national attention, Davis won the Democratic nomination to run against Greg Abbott in the 2014 gubernatorial election, but lost by over 20 percentage points.
"Once Davis moved to Austin, she campaigned for Hillary Clinton and founded Deeds Not Words, an organization for women's rights in Texas.
"The 21st District includes southern Austin and northern San Antonio, along with Fredericksburg and Kerrville. Other Democrats from the area, including Bruce Boville and Jennie Lou Leeder, have also filed Federal Election Commission finance reports."

Ave Maria Radio

The Kavanaugh Hearing Revisited

Elise Cooper  . . . "The Democrats began their campaign on July 9th, 2018 after President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for a position on the Supreme Court. Even before the confirmation hearing many Democrats including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and some Democrats on the committee had already announced their intention to vote against Kavanaugh. Thus, began the campaign to destroy Brett Kavanaugh by any means possible, including unverified and nonsensical accusations of sexual assault.

“ 'But a lack of evidence never seemed to keep them from being taken seriously.” Severino noted, “It was disconcerting to see that even when outlandish allegations came out, they were taken seriously by the Democrats and the media.  A man’s reputation was dragged thought the mud publicly with lifelong consequences. There is a need for some kind of evidence to substantiate the accusations.  We talk in the book about an understanding in our society that accusations cannot be acted upon without any evidence.”

"Hemingway felt, “There is an inherent contradiction to some people’s reaction to the #MeTooMovement.  There is the good of holding powerful men responsible in the sexual exploitation of women. Yet, not everyone’s allegation must be believed without evidence to support them. It is the standard of believing people without evidence that leads to situations. Remember Swetnick accused people of gang rape of underage women.  All the Democrats responded by saying Kavanaugh should resign.  Senator Diane Feinstein even read that accusation into the congressional record. It made a farce of the confirmation process by not handling all the accusations with confidentiality instead of the media circus.” 

"Although no hint of sexual misconduct had ever attached to Kavanaugh in his previous confirmation hearings or FBI background checks, on July 30, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford wrote U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein a letter, asking for confidentiality, that accused Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted her in the 1980s. Feinstein held on to it and did not refer the allegation to the FBI until September 14, 2018, after the Judiciary Committee had completed its hearings on Kavanaugh's nomination. " . . .

Tony Branco: Comically Incorrect

"Justice on Trial": Kirby Center Interview With Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino
. . . "That's one thing--nobody realized how absolutely intense and excruciating the next few weeks would be. And that was more because it just seemed like up was down and reality was turned on its head. You had facts, you had things that seemed like there's nothing here to support these allegations, but the media would present it as if there was a ton of stuff to support it. And you would have exculpatory evidence, and they would ignore it." . . .

Your Sunday schadenfreude

Thomas Lifson  "Senator Ted Cruz faced down and won re-election in a heated campaign against not just a fake Hispanic pretty boy named Robert Francis O’Rourke, he defeated an intense propaganda offensive undertaken by Texas and national media. That propaganda was not enough to convince Texas voters to hand a majority to O’Rourke, the already-wealthy populist who married an heiress to an estimated half billion-dollar fortune. But the propaganda campaign did convince O’Rourke that he had sufficient political assets to mount a presidential campaign.

"Poor Beto Bobby has now discovered that it was all just a matter of the media’s hatred for Cruz, who has the effrontery to be a conservative Hispanic and whip-smart.

"So, Ted Cruz has the right – maybe even the responsibility -- to point out that once he was not the target, Beto’s Bobby’s appeal evaporated quicker than a gasoline spill on a hot Texas day."
"Speaking to Margaret Hoover on PBS’s Firing Line, Ted took a well-deserved dose of schadenfreude. This video takes less than a minute of your time, and offers pure, unadulterated schadenfreude:"  Video of the interview here.

She said, "He did get 48 percent of the vote". I posit that is exactly what having a biased media does for you.

Death by Firing Squad for Islamists Who Beheaded Scandinavian Backpackers

Breitbart

"Three radical Islamic terrorists who beheaded two female backpackers in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco have been sentenced to death by firing squad.

"Carpenters Youness Ouaziyad and Rachid Afatti and street merchant Abdessamad Ejjoud were sentenced on Thursday for the murders of Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark.

"A fourth man, Khaiali Abderahman, was sentenced to life imprisonment, while another 19 accomplices were give prison terms ranging from five to 30 years, reports Sky News.

"Maren and Louisa, who were flatmates at Norway’s Bo University, had been backpacking, unguided, in the area to the south of Marrakesh when they were murdered whilst camping at the base of the range’s tallest mountain, Mount Toubkal, in December 2018.

"An anti-terrorism court in Sale, near Rabat, had heard that the men had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State before the murders, while French media reported that Ejjoud had served a prison sentence in Morocco for trying to join Islamic State in Syria and had been released in 2015.

"During the trial, Ejjoud, an underground imam believed to be the ringleader of the terror cell, had said: “We loved Islamic State and prayed to God for it.”

"The Islamist also said that he had planned a number of terror attacks, including on churches and synagogues, but chose instead to kill the two Scandinavian women. The court heard that the men took four days to identify the women as their targets, choosing Maren and Louisa because other tourists were accompanied by guides. The three terrorists filmed the decapitations and posted them online." . . .

Those ‘Making False Allegations’ Against Kavanaugh Have Not Been Prosecuted

Stephen Colbert 'Late Show' writer: 'I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life'

Ariel Dumas and the US women's soccer team; what evil has overtaken our modern culture that we celebrate these people? TD

Mollie Hemingway

"Politicians, news media figures, and assorted leftists who slandered Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have not been held accountable for their misconduct, said Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino, authors of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Audio of this interview here at Breitbart Sirius XM

"The Democrats and broader left used the “politics of personal destruction” during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court, said Hemingway, senior editor at the Federalist and Fox News contributor.

“ 'This is part of a larger effort by some people to have the politics of personal destruction be dominant,” Hemingway assessed. “It’s why it was important that Kavanaugh actually win the confirmation battle, because if he had lost it, it would have been lights out for this type of politics.”

Interview audio here.

"Those orchestrating slander against Kavanaugh have not been held accountable, said Hemingway.

"Hemingway said, “What concerns [Carrie Severino] and me is that no one really has been held accountable for some of what happened, and the way to prevent this from happening in the future is to hold people accountable.' ” . . .

Again: Ashley Kavanaugh Should Sue Christine Blasey Ford  . . . "This isn’t about revenge – even though I see nothing wrong with that. "This is about justice.

"A worryingly large number of people seem to think the War on Brett Kavanaugh is over now that he’s Justice Kavanaugh.

"It’s not." . . .

Colbert's writer and fans need to be condemned.  . . . "In a social media post on Saturday, a writer for CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" seemingly celebrated the damage done to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's reputation during his bruising and bitterly partisan confirmation battle.

" 'Whatever happens, I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life," the writer, Ariel Dumas, posted on Twitter. Dumas later briefly made her account private, preventing others from viewing her posts without her approval.

Emphasis mine, TD

Journalist Travels to Ilhan Omar’s Homeland to Prove Somalia is Beautiful, Debunk ‘Stereotypes’ – Gets Killed by Islamic Terrorists

The Gateway Pundit . . . "Hodan Nalayeh, a Somali-born Canadian journalist traveled to Somalia last week to prove Somalia is “beautiful” and to challenge ‘stereotypes’ ended up being killed by Islamic terrorists.
"Hodan Nalayeh returned to Somalia, the place of her birth, to document the beauty and to tell “uplifting” stories, according to WaPo.
"Nalayeh often tweeted about Somalia and just last week posted pictures showing how much fun she was having in Kismayo and the neighboring island of Ilisi.

“ 'It’s so clean & breathtaking. A perfect place for a day swim with the family,” Nalayeh tweeted just two days before she was killed.
. . . 
"One of Nalayeh’s Twitter followers praised her for “countering the doom narrative propagated by many about Somalia.' ”
. . . 
"On July 12, al-Shabaab terrorists stormed Asasey Hotel in Kismayo. 26 people were killed in the terrorist attack and Hodan Nalayeh, 43, and her husband were among the victims.
"According to a Canadian news outlet, Nalayeh was pregnant when she was killed by al-Shabaab terrorists last week." . . .

Hodan Nalayeh Killed In Kismayo Attack, Sparking An Outpouring From Grieving Somalis

Are Democrats Sure Biden Is Different Enough from Hillary Clinton?

National Review
"How confident should the Joe Biden team be right now?"

"Think about all of the factors that contributed to Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. She was a figure who had been around a long time, among the best-known names in the party establishment. As a senator, she worked closely with her home state’s financial industry, leaving some liberal grassroots concluding she was a corporatist who was far too comfortable with big business. Critics asked how someone who had spent the past few decades in the public sector could so quickly become a multimillionaire, and contended that her family foundation had engaged in shady deals with foreign governments and foreign businesses. Some people couldn’t believe she wanted to charge University of Missouri at Kansas City a whopping $275,000 to give a speech at a luncheon.

"More progressive figures challenged her in the primary, and activists on the Left hit her hard for her punitive stances on crime in the 1990s, including describing young gang members as “super-predators.” She attempted to shore up her support among African Americans by emphasizing her close work with Barack Obama.

"During the tough primary fight and into the general election fight, there were intermittent signs that Hillary Clinton was not at the top of her game – from claiming to being “dead broke” upon leaving the White House, to ham-handed comparisons to “your abuela*,” to the “basket of deplorables” statement. After her loss, Hillary Clinton admitted, “I really wasn’t ready or equipped to run for president against a reality TV candidate.' ” . . .

*Her "Abuela" ad

. . . Quoting below:

The “seven more ways” include:

• “She cares about children everywhere…”
• “She knows what’s best…”
• “She reacts this way when people le faltan el respeto…”
• “She reads to you before bedtime…”
• “She isn’t afraid to talk about the importance of el respeto (especially when it comes to women)…
• “She likes to highlight accomplishments…”
• “and she has one word for Donald Trump…”
• 
  

"Many of the reasons are typical from Hillary, with her claim as a champion for women and children and her swipe at Donald Trump, to whom she says “Basta! Enough!' ” . . .

Is the Democrats' wall of unreason on illegals cracking? Kyrsten Sinema breaks ranks

American Thinker

Monica Showalter  "Is the Democratic wall of craziness starting to crack?

"Arizona's Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, of all people, the former Code Pinker in the tutu, has come up with a sensible, bipartisan immigration proposal for ending asylum abuse, a proposal so good any Republican can support it.

"According to National Review:*

Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) has joined a bipartisan group of nine colleagues proposing a pilot program that would expedite the deportation of migrants who make invalid asylum claims.

The senators outlined the Operation Safe Return program, which would allow the deportation of migrants within 15 days if their asylum claims are not credible, in a letter sent to acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan on Wednesday.

“We write to urge you to use authorities in use as of June 30, 2019, to implement Operation Safe Return, a pilot program to rapidly, accurately, and fairly determine those families who have crossed the southern border that clearly do not have a valid legal claim and safely return them to their home countries,” the senators wrote. “Through this program, we expect that we can meet our commitments to humanitarian protections while ensuring proper efficiency, timeliness, order, and fairness in the credible fear screening process.”

Sinema and Republican senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin led the effort to develop the program in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis that has arisen at border-detention facilities in recent months due to overcrowding.

"That's addressing reality on the ground. It's an incredible break from the insanity, led by the far-left freshman House "squad," and highly visible in the Democratic presidential nomination racee, of the Democrats now. This Democratic insanity wall has been evident in all sorts of acts and policy proposals." . . .

But we all know what the Democrats stand for because it has been made manifest for months. I see this as a strategy change for votes and nothing more. TD

*Arizona Dem. Joins Republicans in Effort to Expedite Deportation of Migrants with Invalid Asylum Claims  . . . "The freshman Arizona Democrat began devising the program after realizing that the Trump administration’s proposed solutions, which involve rewriting asylum laws and doing away with the Flores consent decree, were inadequate, according to the Arizona Republic. 
“ 'This pilot program would apply to families who aren’t claiming ‘credible fear,’ which of course is the first threshold in seeking asylum,” she said. “If someone says ‘I left my country because I can’t make a living,’ [or] ‘it’s hard to take care of my family’ — that’s what we call an economic migrant.”
“ 'I just felt those weren’t the right answers,” Sinema added. “We wanted to solve the problem. We wanted to protect the asylum process for valid applicants . . . and we want to respect the Floresdecision,” which limits to just 20 days the length of time that a migrant minor can be held in federal custody." . . .

AOC's war against racist Pelosi, racist Republicans, racist America, racist white people, racist ... Oh! And even racist Beto O'Rourke, as he said himself. He said that. That's what he said.

But wait! Can it be racist to own an Alexa voice assistant?

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

The Trump campaign responded in a tweet, writing: "Rep. @AOC spent weeks comparing Americans in ICE uniforms to Nazi concentration camp guards, and then Antifa carried out a terrorist attack against ICE. She refuses to condemn the attack."


Democrats who call Republicans racist need to learn their history  . . . "First, it is instructive of what real racism looks like.  Real racism isn't disagreeing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar (if that in fact is her real name).  It isn't calling for lower taxes and smaller government.  It isn't stating that reparations are unwarranted and unworkable.  It's not calling for border security or voter ID." . . .

The Todd Starnes Comprehensive List of All Things Racist

"The following [is] a comprehensive list of people and things the Left considers to be racist:"

The list is at the link but they did forget to include this jewel:

"Owning pets if you’re a white male is racist and here’s why"...because it's one step removed from slavery"

'Squad' drama frustrating some House Democrats

CNN, of all sources!  "House Democrats were united in their vote to condemn President Donald Trump's racist tweets this week, but some Democratic lawmakers are quietly expressing concern that far-left progressives have outsized influence in their caucus.

"Several Democrats -- from across the ideological spectrum -- are growing tired of the repeated headlines involving four progressive congresswomen as the caucus tries to push its agenda. In conversations that took place before the President hosted a rally in North Carolina Wednesday night where the crowds chanted "send her home" in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Democrats said they want to keep the spotlight on the issues that got them elected, not a fight with the President.

" 'The President's words and actions speak for themselves. We need to focus on the issues that got (Democrats) here: jobs, health care ... instead of the issues the President brings up deliberately," said one House Democratic lawmaker, who asked for anonymity to speak freely. "Anything that takes away from bread-and-butter issues is playing into his hands."

" 'The President won this one," said another House Democratic lawmaker of the showdown. "What the President has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks, and the President has now identified the entire party with them." . . .

And there will be plenty of provocations from the President, whose attacks on the "squad" only appear to be escalating. . . .

Off the record, House Dems tell CNN's Tapper that Trump was 'brilliant' snookering Dems into letting The Squad become their symbol
. . . "Kudos to Tapper for getting the truth out of the Dems, and for publishing it on Twitter.  It takes some guts for an employee of Jeff Zucker's CNN to tell the public things that don't support The Narrative that the Left continues to peddle." . . .

BUSTED! Twitchy Uncovers #DeportMelania Used by Known Democrats and Journalists  "Twitchy has uncovered massive fraud being perpetrated on America right now. Apparently, no one thought #DeportMelania was racist or deplorable when it was being used by verified Democrats and journalists (is there a difference?) on Twitter just a short time ago." . . .

First Lady, Melania Trump

. . . 
"Isn't it interesting how Democrats can say whatever they want and no one accuses them of racism? This is even worse than what Trump said because he suggested "#TheInsufferableSquad leave voluntarily. In the case of #DeportMelania, it seems that these verified Democrats were asking for ICE to step in. Of course, that’s what I would say if I were a humorless moron, but clearly, they were joking.

"It’s telling that the right can tell a joke when they see one and let it go while the left calls for heads to roll and even charges brought for fictitious crimes like Joy Behar, who thinks she's already living outside America, demanding that law enforcement charge Trump with “hate speech” crimes. LOL"  . . .

False Racism Accusations Don’t Excuse the Real Thing

Mona Charen at NR

Our leaders use and abuse race for their own purposes.

"On a high wall overlooking the central court of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., the words of novelist James Baldwin are etched in stone: “The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it. . . . History is literally present in all that we do.”

"Baldwin’s words are particularly apt this week, as our leaders, for the millionth time, use and abuse race for their own purposes, committing sins against the past and the present. 

"Before Mr. Trump entered the fray, the Democrats were engaged in the sort of tussle that couldn’t help but bring a smile to the lips of their opponents. Nancy Pelosi was attempting to corral her wayward members — the so-called “Squad” of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alyssa Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar. Pelosi, clearly worried that four extremists were becoming the face of the Democratic party, thus diminishing the likelihood of Democratic success in 2020, had rapped their knuckles in a closed-door session last week. Pelosi warned the newcomers not to tweet against fellow Democrats, and added, “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.” Zing.

"In a different era, the smack of the speaker’s ruler would have cowed the upstarts. Speakers could determine what committees members sat on, whether projects were funded in their districts, and indirectly how much money they could raise. But in the Internet age, parties and leaders have lost influence. Social media allows members to reach their niche audiences and keep the money flowing. The more performative they are on Twitter, the more secure. 

"And so, the freshmen did what progressives so often do — they reached for the accusation of racism. " . . .

Georgia Tech Climatologist Chooses 'Career Suicide' to Keep Her 'Scientific Integrity'

"It may be worse than a joke, but liberal political orthodoxy demands it. No matter how many climate alarmist predictions fail, they keep pushing the same ideology, with the same agenda — increased government regulations. The solution is always the same, and it involves handing over power to the government.The struggles of scientists like Curry illustrate just how dangerous this ideology is— to scientific integrity, as well as personal freedom."

PJ Media

"A climatologist at Georgia Institute of Technology resigned from her post because she could no longer navigate the stifling political orthodoxy on climate change.

Former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech Judith Curry announced her resignation in a blog post on Tuesday. While her resignation is technically "a retirement event," and she is "cashing out" to get her pension, Curry explained that "the deeper reasons have to do with my growing disenchantment with universities, the academic field of climate science and scientists."

"Curry is known for her scientifically astute explanations of the uncertainties in climate science. Indeed, she has been attacked as "anti-science" by other researchers who repeat the rote "scientific consensus" that man-made global warming is a catastrophic threat to humanity. In a cruel sort of irony, the universities — ostensibly the bastion of academic freedom — have become unsafe for those who, using good scientific methods, are skeptical of the received wisdom on climate change.

" 'A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science," Curry wrote. "Research and other professional activities are professionally rewarded only if they are channeled in certain directions approved by a politicized academic establishment — funding, ease of getting your papers published, getting hired in prestigious positions, appointments to prestigious committees and boards, professional recognition, etc." (emphasis added)" . . .

Libertarian Group Demands NASA Remove False '97 Percent Consensus' Global Warming Claim
Science's Untold Scandal: The Lockstep March of Professional Societies to Promote the Climate Change Scare