Death of Prof. Mike Adams ruled a suicide, our silent majority was needed to speak out for him

Mark Steyn’s commentary on the death of Prof. Mike Adams: “if you’re doing the heavy lifting on an otherwise abandoned front of the culture war, what you mostly hear, as Mike Adams did, is the silent majority’s silence – month in, month out….”

Perhaps as we see Attorney General Barr being attacked by Democrats that we must not remain our silence and openly support him

The years-long attacks on him took a toll.

But either way, if you’re doing the heavy lifting on an otherwise abandoned front of the culture war, what you mostly hear, as Mike Adams did, is the silent majority’s silence – month in, month out….

And yet, if the facts are as they appear, a tireless and apparently “happy warrior” – exhausted by a decade of litigation, threats, boycotts, ostracization and more – found himself sitting alone – and all he heard in the deafening silence of the “silent majority” was his own isolation and despair. A terrible end for a brave man. Rest in peace.

"Sad news. The death of UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams has been ruled a suicide."

The New Hanover Sheriff’s Office has ruled that UNCW Professor Mike Adams died by suicide.

According to the agency’s spokesperson, Lt. Jerry Brewer, after an investigation by detectives and the medical examiner, “it was ascertained that Mr. Adams committed suicide with a single gunshot wound to the head.”

“No other people were in the home and foul play is not suspected,” he said.

"Mark Steyn’s commentary, which we posted earlier today, is worth repeating:

He “seemed like” a happy warrior, but who knows? It’s a miserable, unrelenting, stressful life, as the friends fall away and the colleagues, who were socially distant years before Covid, turn openly hostile….

 New silent majority against far-left extremism may help reelect Trump

Media and Hollywood elites are sending a not-so-subtle message that a vote for Mr. Trump is a vote for evil, but many people in this country have a far different definition of real evil than the likes of Rosie O’Donnell, Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper. We won’t know until November how many compose the new silent majority or if one really exists, but I am ready to bet good money that there are more than The Washington Post and ABC News suspect. 

Biden: If I Lose It’s Because Trump Stole The Election

Donkey Hotey

Issues & Insights  "Joe Biden is leading in the polls by wide margins, but he’s already making excuses should he lose to Donald Trump in November. Namely, he’s saying the president is planning to somehow steal the election.
"Back in June, Biden told “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah that “It’s my greatest concern, my single greatest concern: This president is going to steal this election. This is a guy who said all mail-in ballots are fraudulent, direct voting by mail, while he sits behind a desk in the Oval Office and writes his mail-in ballot to vote in the primary.”
"Earlier this month, Biden announced that he would deploy 600 lawyers and 10,000 volunteers to fight against election “chicanery.”
"Then last week, Biden predicted that Trump was “going to try to indirectly steal the election by arguing that mail-in ballots don’t work. They’re not real. They’re not fair.”

Trump’s complaint is that states are using the pandemic to rush through universal mail-in voting schemes and that this will make voter fraud easier.
" 'Trump is right to worry. After all, look who’s pushing these all-mail voting schemes. "Democrats tried to force every state to adopt universal mail-in voting for this November through a provision tucked into the CARES Act, which also would have waived basic security requirements such as witness signatures and official postmarks. Republicans blocked these efforts.
"So now leftist groups are busy filing state lawsuits across the country — more than 150 so far — to achieve through the courts what they couldn’t get through Congress." . . .

Four Stolen Elections: The Vulnerabilities of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots
Hans A. von Spakovsky; Heritage

Are You Sure 'Vote for Joe Biden or We'll Kill You' Is the Best Campaign Pitch?

Local residents like President Trump's decision to send federal law enforcement officers to Chicago

In Kayleigh McEnany, President Trump has finally found a skilled spokes-partner

Miami Herald

"After 1,173 days in office and three now-departed spokesmen, it appears President Donald Trump has found his preferred White House press secretary in Kayleigh McEnany — and just in time for a rugged fall election campaign.

"McEnany, a 32-year-old author, Harvard Law grad and GOP advocate from Tampa who has quickly risen from partisan TV pundit to spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee to the Trump reelection campaign and since April, to White House press secretary.

"Naming her was one of Mark Meadows’ first decisions as Trump’s fourth chief of staff. She seems a good fit for this president." . . .

CNN's Stelter accused of breaching network's confidentiality agreement with Sandmann: 'May cost him his job'

Stelter

No problem for CNN. There are plenty more Lemons in the media to pick from. TD

Fox News  
'Brian Stelter is a liar. I know how to deal with liars,' Sandmann's attorney tweeted  

"CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter may have landed himself in hot water, according to the attorney of Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann.
"Last week, Sandmann announced that The Washington Post settled the $250 million defamation lawsuit he filed over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder who had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor. This followed the multimillion dollar settlement agreement CNN reached with the teenager back in January.
"However, Sandmann's attorney, Lin Wood, spotted a retweet from Stelter of a tweet written by attorney Mark Zaid, who speculated about how much money the teen walked away with from the settlement.
""Those with zero legal experience (as far as I can tell) should not be conjecturing on lawsuits they know nothing about. What kind of journalism is that?" Zaid asked. "I've litigated defamation cases. [Sandmann] was undoubtedly paid nuisance value settlement & nothing more."
"Wood accused the "Reliable Sources" host of breaching his network's own confidentiality agreement with his client.
" 'This retweet by @brianstelter may have cost him his job at @CNN. It is called breach of confidentiality agreement. Brian Stelter is a liar. I know how to deal with liars," Wood tweeted with a screenshot of Stelter's retweet." . . .

Attorney Todd McMurtry previously told Fox News that lawsuits against “as many as 13 other defendants" would be filed.Among them: ABC, CBS, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, NPR, Slate, The Hill and Gannett, which owns the Cincinnati Enquirer, as well as miscellaneous other small outfits, according to McMurtry.

What has happened to our nation? Where is there a trace of wisdom?

Sheep easily led. http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

The Racism of Anti-Racist Education  "Amid an aggressive campaign by teachers unions to prove that the work public-school teachers do is so essential that they cannot be allowed to do it, it would seem an inopportune time for the New York Times to mount an attack on those schools. But that is what it plans to do—at least, implicitly, and only in the most socially acceptable of ways: by attacking the white parents of white students, who make up a plurality of public-school enrollees." . . .

Democratic candidate from Illinois can't stop 'laughing every single time' to loop of violent attack on police officer  "Well, here we have it: one of the faces of the new Democrats — young, diverse, leftist, a heavily promoted contributor to Teen Vogue — and as sadistic as former Weather terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who oozed thrill in the 1969 Manson murders.

"Here's what Hadiya Afzal, 20, who'd been running for a council seat in wealthy Glynn Ellen, Illinois, had to "contribute":" . . .

. . . "Those are definitely new political "norms."  Cheering attempted murder, and playing it over and over again to get excited, is, yeah, a new norm, and a very Democrat thing these days.  And for sure it's "diverse," given that most people don't laugh at such things.  Seriously, who cheers that?  What was her upbringing in that wealthy Chicago suburb — too much time with videogames, or maybe being an immigrant from a hellhole bringing some of those hellhole values with her to the States she despises so much?  Best I can tell, based on a search, is she's from Pakistan, or possibly India.  She may be, Ilhan Omar–style, bringing in the execrable values of the place she hailed from."...

Later after word of this got out, she condemned the critical responses as "racist". When everything becomes racist, then nothing is racist. TD

Now, They’ve Come for the Talented  "Is classical music racist?"

Racial grievance mongers with the least to be aggrieved about  . . . "Better to use those powerful voices to say, I did it, you can do it too, instead of trying to convince us that the greatness, the beauty and traditions of the United States of America are anything less than extraordinary, exceptional and a gift from God Almighty."

We Asked Our Readers to Send Photos of the Democrat Party Sanctioned Destruction and Rioting in their Community — We Were Shocked at What They Sent In

Kevin McCarty at Bumbling Biden and the Democrat Clown Show

The Gateway Pundit  "For weeks now since the death of George Floyd in May Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Marxists and other far left groups with the support of the Democrat Party have been looting, rioting and destroying businesses, homes and public property across America.

"The mainstream media HAS YET to air this destruction from the weeks of Democrat-endorsed violence and destruction.
"The Democrats don’t want you to see the destruction.

"On Friday we asked our readers to send photos of the Democrat sanctioned devastation in their communities.

"We were overwhelmed with the response.

"We received over 100 emails and HUNDREDS of photos.

"We’ve included many of them here.

"Out of respect for many of our readers we maintained their anonymity.

"Remember as you read this: Democrats are Destroying This Country.

"And the mainstream media is hiding this from you." . . .

DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Blasts Nancy Pelosi After She Compares Federal Agents to Nazis  . . . "Leftist terrorists and Marxist thugs have looted businesses and destroyed property in cities across the US for nearly two months now.Instead of condemning the leftist rioting and violence Speaker Pelosi blamed law enforcement and compared federal agents to Nazi stormtroopers.

Gov. Mike Parson: Over 100 St. Louis Murders Go Uncharged While Kim Gardner Charges McCloskeys

Daily Caller

" 'Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Saturday that over 100 murders had gone uncharged while St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey.
"Parson defended the McCloskeys, who were charged with felonies after they openly displayed firearms as they confronted protesters on their property, during a discussion with David Asman on “Cavuto: Live.”  
"Noting that Parson had said that he would pardon the McCloskeys if it came to that, Asman asked, “Why is it that you have a prosecutor in your state letting the law breakers go and charging the victims with a felony?”

"Parson began by hinting that he would prefer to remove Gardner from her position if that were an option, saying, “Well, it’s unfortunate that somebody, when you get elected officials, you know, under our constitution, they are fairly well protected to that job.”
"He went on to say that Gardner’s actions placed her outside what she had sworn to do when she took her oath of office, however, adding, “We’ve had 138 homicides in St. Louis, 138 already this year. Thirty cases have been filed. So that means there’s over 100 cases of people out there, victims, family members of homicides, that are waiting for some sort of justice, and yet we’re charging law-abiding citizens.' ”  . . .

(RELATED: ‘It’s Absolutely Absurd’: Kayleigh McEnany Quotes Trump On Charges Against Gun-Toting St. Louis Couple)

10 Big Fat Lies You're Being Told About the Portland Riots

Lie 3: ‘Moms’ Bravely Leave Children’s Sides to Attend Riots

After Democrats issued the new talking points that federal cops were “Trump’s secret police,” women, some of them known antifa members, took off their black balaclavas to refashion themselves into “moms.” Somehow these individually acting, concerned mothers all knew to get a yellow shirt, riot helmet, and “hey, hey, ho, ho” chant to drive away those bad federal officers.

Victoria Taft "Democrats have fully pivoted on the nightly Portland riots. They’ve gone all-in on blaming the riots on President Trump thus allying themselves with the antifa and Black Lives Matter anarchist and communist mobs. Instead of black bloc balaclavas or masks, the politicians have donned the cloak of civil libertarianism. In doing so, they make a mockery of it.
"Democrats, so far as I can find, have never denounced the violent mobs, though New York Governor Andrew Cuomo once wagged a finger at George Floyd rioters while simultaneously explaining that it wasn’t really their fault because “income inequality” led to violence. Indeed, the only remonstrance issued was over people burning down black-owned businesses – their “own house” as he put it, because burning your own stuff “never makes sense.” As denunciations go, it was a rambling nothing-burger. Atlanta’s mayor voiced similar disgust with the arsonists and looters.
"In fact, mayors, governors, and prosecutors have fallen all over themselves to support the violent mobs in Seattle, New York, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and, of course, Portland, often conflating the “mostly peaceful” protesters upset with the killing of George Floyd – remember him? – with the ones looting Louis Vuitton, tearing down statues of George Washington, and trying to burn down federal buildings.
"Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan ceded a section of the fancy Capitol Hill neighborhood to the mob. She handed over a police precinct to the mob. Two murders, gunshot wounds, assaults, and rapes took place at her pet mob’s little “summer of love” squat. She’s never apologized.
"Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey gave over a police precinct to the mob. Police officers inside thought they’d die that night and if they’d stayed they would have. When rioters weren’t boosting free stuff from the Target, looters and rioters were spectating the conflagration they’d started at the precinct with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. "The mayor later asked President Trump for money to help rebuild it. Trump said hell no.

But this is an election year and time is short. The mobs are deployed to cause chaos and misdirection, as they were in Portland and elsewhere in the months leading up and after the 2016 presidential election. They are cracking heads and cold-cocking Trump rally-goers who dare bring a contra-narrative to one of their riots." . . .

Hey hey, ho, ho! America has got to go!

. . . [Andy] Ngo writes of these “moms,” “I recognize a lot of the so-called ‘moms’ as the same antifa women who dressed in black as recent as a couple days ago. They just put on a yellow shirt now for optics. Most of these people aren’t mothers & many don’t even identify as female.  If you hadn’t figured it out yet, it’s Portland’s version of Pallywood. These are merely actors playing a role.

Dana Loesch:  

Rioters -- the ones committing arson, assault, and damaging private property -- are the ones being arrested, not protestors. If parents raised their kids not to commit arson, assault, or damage private property none of this would be necessary.

Say a Prayer for Joe Biden, but Don't Vote for Him

Rich Terrell

Say a Prayer for Joe Biden, but Don't Vote for Him   . . . "Seven years ago, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.  A common symptom is something called brain fog.  It just slows a person’s thinking and tends to come and go.  My neurologist prescribed a battery of tests to establish a baseline that he could use to monitor my cognitive function over the years.  Dementia can be a terrible symptom of multiple sclerosis later in the disease process.  Naturally, like so many of us do, I wanted to learn as much about dementia as I could.  I have studied the disease a great deal.  It is not difficult to recognize a progressive memory disease if you know just the basics.  Anyone who has had a loved one develop dementia will very often tell you that they had diagnosed their loved one long before the first doctor’s appointment.

"There is certainly a reason that Joe Biden will not answer any questions after the few speeches he has given.  He and his team are fully aware he might not be able to remember events surrounding the question, he might not be able to find the right words or the questions could cause him to get confused.  So what does he do?  He gets back to his basement as quickly as possible." . . .

 Joe Biden Left Scranton Long Ago  . . . "Not Joe, the football hero and conqueror of Cornpop. He suddenly developed asthma and made 4F after running out the student deferments.  But he obviously recovered so that he can challenge Trump and the occasional heckler he encounters to fisticuffs.

"So, sorry, Blue Collar Joe from Scranton, who has never had a real job in his life, never experienced what it was like for the rest of us in the valley.  He was long gone. 

"But the Scranton Joe story is more than Joe’s fake claims and cultural appropriation." . . .

Emails Undermine Attacks on Hannity and Carlson; This List Of Attacks Against Conservatives Is Mind Blowing

. . . Well aside from the fact that the now-revealed Areu emails of the day are said to have blown “holes” (Mediaite) in these accusations (or, per the Post, revealed “inconsistencies”). Ironically, the lawsuit brings into focus yet again just how serious and widespread is the problem of the Cancel Culture across the nation and its determination to silence conservatives wherever they may be found, especially at Fox News. So in this latest case? Stand with Sean. Stand with Tucker. And stand for free speech.

Big Snowball

In the lawsuit, Areu claims, she was a “relatively regular” guest on Hannity’s prime-time show until March 8, 2018. “On that day, Mr. Hannity, on set and in front of the entire studio crew — and completely unsolicited — threw $100 on the set desk,” the suit claimed. “He then began calling out to the men in the room and demanding that someone take Ms. Areu out on a date for drinks at Del Friscos. He repeatedly yelled, ‘who wants to take her on a date?’ ‘Take her on a date to Del Friscos.’”

. . . "According to the story, Areu was “mortified” by this supposed sexist behavior.

Well, now.

"As it happens I myself have experienced a version of this supposedly mortifying Hannity behavior. I have been an occasional guest on Hannity’s TV show over the years. On one particular occasion last year, I was invited to the Fox NY studios to appear on a show that featured a panel of about a dozen people, men and women both. All were people who had appeared previously on his shows or those of other Fox hosts, and I knew many of them.

At the conclusion of the show Hannity did a version of what he is accused of doing by Areu. There was zero sexist about it. Sean Hannity is a perpetually upbeat human being, and always looking to make his guests comfortable. Not to mention he is always urging his guests to get to know one another by spending some socializing time out of the studio. In my case he was urging all of us to go to exactly the same restaurant mentioned to Areu, with a similar insistence on his picking up the tab. A group of us, men and women both, took him up on his offer. He did not join us. No one — say again no one — took offense. We went, had a great time and took a picture of ourselves toasting him with drinks in hand, sending it to him with our thanks.

As I have learned first-hand over the years in socializing with him at various parties, this is typical Sean Hannity behavior. Which is to say, he has always been both a gentleman and generous. I have never — say again never — seen him display the slightest hint of the behavior ascribed to him by Areu. There was none. Zip, zero, nada — none. Not for nothing has Fox News issued a statement that said the accusations against Sean, Tucker (and also Fox media critic Howard Kurtz) were “false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit.” . . .

CNN covered this as only CNN does:
Fox News Lawsuit Is The Latest Black Eye For The Network

Will 2021 Be 1984? It’s all about the power, not the equality.

Victor Davis Hanson  "Cultural revolutions are insidious and not just because they seek to change the way people think, write, speak, and act. They are also dangerous because they are fueled by self-righteous sanctimoniousness, expressed in seemingly innocuous terms such as “social activism,” “equality,” and “fairness.”
"The ultimate aim of the Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist is raw power—force of the sort sought by Hugo Chavez or the Castro dynasty to get rich, inflict payback on their perceived enemies, reward friends, and pose as saviors.
"Cubans and Venezuelans got poor and killed; woke Chavezes and Castros got rich and murderous.
"Leftist agendas are harder to thwart than those of right-wing dictators such as Spain’s Francisco Franco because they mask their ruthlessness with talk of sacrifice for the “poor” and concern about the “weak.” 

Toon added by TD

"Strong-man Baathists, Iranian Khomeinists, and the German National Socialists claimed they hated capitalism. So beware when the Marxist racialists who run Black Lives Matter, the wannabe Maoists of Antifa, the George Soros-paid activists, “the Squad” and hundreds of state and local officials like them in cities such as Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis, and Big Tech billionaires take power. These are “caring” people who couldn’t care less about the working classes or the hundreds of African-Americans murdered in America’s inner cities.
Vice President as President

"If Joe Biden is elected, the effort to remove him by those now supporting him will begin the day after the election and it will not be as crude as rounding up a Yale psychiatrist to testify to his dementia in Congress . . . " It will be far more insidious and successful: leaked stories to the New York Times and Washington Post from empathetic White House insiders will speak of how “heroically” Biden is fighting his inevitable decline—and how gamely he tries to marshal his progressive forces even as his faculties desert him. We would read about why Biden is a national treasure by sacrificing his health to get elected and then nobly bowing out as he realized the cost of his sacrifice on his person and family. " . . .

UPDATED, Monday, 7/27: Radio Host Mocked Trump For Calling Seattle Violent, Then Antifa Torched His Apartment Building…

 UPDATE: Stop teasing Paul Gallant, who went from dissing Trump to wanting a gun

"Many people have been having fun because Paul Gallant, a Seattle sports reporter, put out a snarky tweet in June that Trump was overstating the extent of the Seattle protests, only to have the rioters get too close to him, prompting him to contemplate getting a gun. Here’s the deal, though: This guy is everyman, and we want him to be welcome on the freedom side of American politics.

"We’re not talking about a left-wing fanatic here. Gallant is just someone who wants to do the right thing while living in a leftist world. Rather than being shamed, he should be welcomed to the world of the Second Amendment and other constitutional rights.

. . . "If you go to Gallant’s Twitter feed, his Facebook page, or his blog, each is 99% devoted to sports. He’s certainly not above a little bit of Trump-bashing but, compared to what the hard left is doing, it’s minimal. His heart isn’t in it.

"For example, immediately after Trump’s election, Gallant said that he didn’t believe most Trump supporters are racists: . . ."

The Post Millennial via Weasel Zippers   "Seattle radio host and Twitter-based criminal defense advocate Paul Gallant "dunked" on President Donald Trump last month by denying that the riots are violent, then the radio host was scored on by rioters who set fire to his apartment. Now he's taking up arms." . . .

"Walked through it last night out of curiosity and saw no burning, pillaging, or deaths," Gallant responded in June to Trump's tweet calling out the violent leftists who continue to terrorize Seattle. "Chill dawg," Gallant added sarcastically.
"Last night, Gallant had a sudden change of heart towards the "peaceful protestors" when he came home to his apartment complex vandalized. He found the Starbucks underneath torched with graffiti plastered on the storefront. Cops told residents to stay away in case of explosives inside.
"He's was defending criminals before but he's "[r]eally angry right now.'"
"He and his cat ventured out after he witnessed a fire roaring a few blocks away.
"I feel like I need to buy a firearm, because clearly this is going to keep happening. Enough is enough," Gallant furiously typed.
"Not In My Back Yard is a hard red pill to swallow."

Antifa and BLM: The Greatest Second Amendment Promoters Since the NRA  . . . "In the past it was said that a de facto conservative is a liberal who just got mugged by reality; it now seems that de facto conservatives are liberals and independents rich or poor, who just bought guns for—no-kidding— defense of home and family. And these new gun owners are not about to give them back, especially in light of the internet-driven chaos launched by Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other outriders of the Democratic Party.
"Come November, does anyone think that folks who just spent $500 to $1,000 or more on firearms for honest-to-God personal defense are going to vote for the vertiginous Joe Biden who would appoint the skateboarding-wannabe-Latino, “Beto” O’Rourke, to take their guns away and leave them unprotected? Really?" . . .

I'm sure CNN will let their outrage be known: