Sanity From a Surprising Place—French and Dutch Publishers Pointedly Refuse to Censor Roald Dahl

 RedState

"The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.

"As RedState’s Becca Lower reported on Saturday, British publishing house Puffin made the audacious (and utterly obnoxious) decision to change some of the prose in the works of one of the all-time-great children’s book authors, Roald Dahl, who penned such classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda.

"For me, the decision was a personal affront, as the effort seemed designed to take away some of my favorite memories—and prevent new kids from ever having them.

"Thankfully, some sanity has prevailed in an unlikely place: the European continent. French and Dutch publishers are pointedly refusing to censor Dahl, with one executive saying that Dahl’s stories “lose all their power” when his words are changed.". . .

I think calling some European countries "surrender monkeys" is all played out since Biden deserted our allies in Afghanistan leaving billions of dollars of lethal equipment as a gift to America's enemies for over the past two decades. Now they won't need to hijack airplanes to do us harm; tthey can use what we left them. TD

Open borders; stupid is as stupid does

 Speaking for our family, we now pay taxes to Texas instead of California. TD

California's Gavin Newsom notices his pockets are empty for illegals   "California is depopulating, with some 500,000 taxpayers fleeing the one-party socialist state in search of lower taxes, less onerous business regulations, and a friendlier government that views them as assets and not ATMs.

"So not surprisingly, the state has found itself in a $22-billion hole. 

"This doesn't seem to bother the state's insular ruling class, which blames the pandemic, President Trump, and a host of other factors for the flight, secure in the sense that those taxpayers can always be replaced by newcomers.

"Illegal aliens fit that bill nicely, given the massive benefit packages the state doles out to court them.

"Now reality is biting.". . .

It did seem that that ridiculous denial may have been premised on not having much money left in its coffers.  If FEMA has been shelling out for illegals in these past months, as five million surged across the border, suddenly things are pretty clear as to what's going on here.

Another hysterical gem from CNN stalwart Don Lemon

 Ethel C. Fenig  ". . .Granted, Lemon has a point — a very small one, that Haley should be careful.  But Lemon's very broad sexist and ageist generalizations did not go over well with his co-hosts.  With his program's staff.  With CNN executives.  And most importantly, with his television audience.  And so Lemon disappeared from CNN for a few days to learn politicial correctness — uhm, for "formal training."  

He learned.  Something.  Yesterday, prior to his reappearance, he tweeted: 

I appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today. To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience — I’m sorry. I’ve heard you, I’m learning from you, and I’m committed to doing better.
See you soon.

— Don Lemon (@donlemon) February 22, 2023

 "So Lemon is back.  But for how long?  And really, who cares?  CNN in general, CNN's morning show — all suffer from lack of viewers.  This headline-grabbing incident might bring in a temporary, additional audience, curious to see what the teapot tempest was about.  But unless CNN can take advantage of this — which it probably can't — the newcomers, after satisfying their minimal curiosity, will probably once again mostly tune out.

"And then?  Who cares?

"Certainly not forever "prime" me."

The word of a Biden; world leader

Fact check: A look at Biden's first year in false claims | CNN Politics

Twitter users piled on President Biden Tuesday after he boasted growing up in a Polish community while visiting the country.   . . ."For those who haven't been paying attention, Biden is half half Puerto Rican, half black, half Jewish, half Republican, half Polish, half Italian, and half coal miner," Grabien founder Tom Elliot tweeted."

  

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Biden hit for boasting of growing up in Polish community during Poland visit: 'I thought he was Puerto Rican'

Idaho House Approves Talks To Annex Oregon Counties

 The Federalist

"The Idaho House passed a resolution on Wednesday to begin talks with the Oregon Legislature about potentially expanding the Idaho border into eastern Oregon.

"Such a resolution has its roots in the Greater Idaho movement, which seeks to absorb 11 Oregon counties, or 63 percent of the state’s landmass, into Idaho. The rationale for such a move is that the leftist residents of northwest Oregon — Portland, Salem, Eugene — control the politics of the state, and therefore rural, conservative residents in eastern and southern Oregon are effectively silenced on matters of state governance.

“ 'The aspirations of Portland-area and northwestern Oregon voters force the state government toward a direction that happens to be incompatible with the values and livelihoods of my town and many in eastern and southern Oregon,” Mike McCarter, president of Citizens for Greater Idaho wrote in an op-ed for Oregon Live.

"Rural, conservative Oregonians would feel well-represented in the Idaho legislature, which is overwhelmingly Republican. Idaho politics bleed red; the state has not backed a Democrat for President since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

"Idaho Rep. Judy Boyle supports the expansion because she wants to crack down on drugs pouring into her state. Boyle represents a border district, and because Oregon has moved to decriminalize most drugs, there’s been an influx of drugs into the region. She told the Idaho Press she voted to extend her state’s border to “get those drugs away from us.”. . .

Here’s The Full List Of Every Lie Joe Biden Has Told As President: 223 And Counting

Remember when columnist William Safire called Hillary "a congenital liar"? It runs in Democrat dna.

 The Federalist Staff

"Updated Feb. 7, 2023. Two hundred twenty-three lies and counting. 

More than two years into President Joe Biden’s time in the White House and the end to his lies is nowhere in sight. Here is part three of The Federalist’s rigorous coverage keeping the Biden administration accountable with substantive fact-checking throughout the president’s tenure. 

You can find part two of “The Full List Of Every Lie Joe Biden Has Told As President” here. 

The column closes with this: "The truth is, Biden has done nothing but sabotage the U.S. oil and gas industry and replaced it with his green energy policy agenda. The president used his first year in office to wreck domestic production by suspending oil and gas leases, axing projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, canceling Arctic drilling leases, and pushing a cascade of taxes and regulation on the industry.

"As a result, domestic gas prices were rising dramatically well before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Painful prices at the pump have quickly become a sore spot for Americans, many of whom have indicated they’re looking for a change in the November midterms.". . .

Twitter users piled on President Biden Tuesday after he boasted growing up in a Polish community while visiting the country.   . . ."For those who haven't been paying attention, Biden is half half Puerto Rican, half black, half Jewish, half Republican, half Polish, half Italian, and half coal miner," Grabien founder Tom Elliot tweeted."

Biden hit for boasting of growing up in Polish community during Poland visit: 'I thought he was Puerto Rican'

January 6 Prisoners and Their Families Petition Speaker McCarthy to Release the 41,000 Hours of Capital Video to The Gateway Pundit Investigative Team and J6 Families

 Jim Hoft

"On Monday, Axios reported that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 protests.

"Since January 2021, The Gateway Pundit has shared the plight of the January 6 political prisoners, while the mainstream media has ignored the plight of these men and women, stalked their families and homes, smeared their good name, and repeatedly lied about the events on January 6, 2021.

"Many of these prisoners had their homes raided by the FBI, lost their livelihoods, have been separated from their friends and families and had their reputations ruined by entrenched politicians on both sides of the aisle. Dozens still sit in prison without a trial. Several were convicted and sent to prison for walking into an open door of the US Capitol and leaving minutes later when asked.

"Chris Wray is STILL hunting down Trump supporters who stood outside the US Capitol that day. The DC prosecutors are STILL hiding evidence from the families and prisoners in their DC kangaroo court trials.

"The Gateway Pundit has been with these men and women from the beginning. TGP told their stories and helped their families. TGP has published hundreds of reports, shared letters from the prisoners, released audio and video, spoke with their families and told THEIR SIDE of the story. We told the truth.

"The Gateway Pundit helped raised nearly $2 million to help these fellow Americans feed their families and fight the trumped-up allegations in the DC Kangaroo courts. Even leftist Rolling Stone magazine was forced to admit the impact we have had"...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/january-6-prisoners-and-their-families-petition-speaker-mccarthy-to-release-the-41000-hours-of-capital-video-to-the-gateway-pundit-investigative-team-and-j6-families/Signers of the request

The Toxic Racialist Obsessions of Joe Biden

  Victor Davis Hanson

Somehow Biden has transferred his own checkered history of racial disparagement onto the white working class. 

"Joe Biden ran on “unity,” which is critical in a multiracial America. He vowed to heal the divisions supposedly sown by Donald Trump. Instead, he is proving to be the most polarizing president in modern memory. Often his racialist rhetoric and condescension have proven demeaning to both blacks and whites. In a volatile multiracial democracy that demands tolerance and restraint, a highly unpopular Biden, for cheap political advantage, continually proves incendiary and reckless. 

"Last week Joe Biden snarked after watching a White House screening of Till:

Lynched for simply being black, nothing more. With white crowds, white families gathered to celebrate the spectacle, taking pictures of the bodies and mailing them as postcards. Hard to believe, but that’s what was done. And some people still want to do that. 

 

" Exactly who are these “some people”? Who fits Biden’s innuendos of contemporary “some people” who, he alleges in 2023, still wish, as “white crowds, white families” of the past, to mail celebratory postcards after they lynch black people? The Ultra-MAGA villains of his recent Phantom of the Opera speech? Have his current targets ever echoed anything like Biden’s own racist past warning that busing would force people to “grow up in a racial jungle”?

"What current data might support Biden’s absurd charges? Is Biden referring to federal interracial crime and hate crime statistics charting violent white propensities against blacks? None exist. In fact, they continually reveal that so-called whites are underrepresented as perpetrators in both categories, while overrepresented as victims in interracial crimes—dramatically so in the case of black-on-white violent crime.

"In our sensationalist YouTube world, are we suffering an epidemic of Internet-fed, white-on-black incendiary crimes that might have prompted the president’s demagogic accusations? Not at all. Most of the most recent publicized interracial violence—a woman in a gym fighting off a would-be rapist, a bicyclist doctor stabbed to death in an intersection as his attacker spewed racial hatred, a 26-year-old mother lethally shot in the back in front of her children in front of her children in a parking lot over a minor argument, a young boy violently choked on a bus, a small girl on a bus beaten repeatedly by two teenage boys—have involved black perpetrators and apparent white victims. So, what contemporary evidence or widely publicized anecdotes prompt Biden’s recent charges of “white rage”-fueled violence?". . .

Almost 20 years ago, South Park nailed the insanity behind ‘transgenderism’

  Andrea Widburg  "Although conservatives are continuing to laugh, humor in the greater culture is on its way out. Tucker Carlson has done an entire Fox Nation special directed at the way in which the shibboleths of woke, leftist culture make mainstream comedy impossible. An utterly savage, incredibly funny South Park episode from 2005, which attacks the madness of transgenderism, and also gets in a huge dig at abortion, goes a long way to explaining why leftists fear and censor humor.

"Judging by the Wikipedia summary, the entire episode from which the clip is drawn seems worth watching. Mr. Garrison has decided he is a woman trapped in a man’s body and gets a sex change operation in Trinidad. At the same time that Kyle is told that he can’t play basketball because he’s too small and white. Upon learning about the sex change surgery, Kyle heads to Trinidad to get a “negroplasty” to make him African American.

"That’s just the setup and, of course, there is much more, including the now-viral clip below. I just want you to imagine anyone making a cartoon like that in today’s totalitarian woke climate. Wikipedia says that, even in 2005, Trey Parker was worried about airing the episode, but Comedy Central accepted it, and it got aired. Amazingly, the world did not end.". . .

South Park episode from 2005 was on point about the trans movement and abortions 🤣 pic.twitter.com/RHY87h1yfq

— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) February 20, 2023

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Who fell out of Air Force One in Poland? Member of Biden delegation takes a big tumble

 Who fell out of Air Force One in Poland?  "The “slapstick” quality of the Biden presidency was in full display on the tarmac at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in southern Poland when a member of the presidential delegation appeared to fall down the stairs of Air Force One.

"It’s not clear who fell or whether they sustained any injuries, but a short video clip seems to show the individual being caught by others at the foot of the steps."

Who fell out of Air Force One? pic.twitter.com/mO3MpxaiwR

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 21, 2023

Related:  WATCH: Biden Stumbles, Barely Makes It Up the Stairs to Air Force One as He Leaves Poland "Russian President and Ukraine War aggressor Vladimir Putin must be shaking in his boots after U.S. “President” Joe Biden’s manly show of strength and unity in the region this week. First, Biden snuck into Kyiv to strut alongside Ukraine’s besieged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — because nothing says “I’m the most powerful man in the world, leading the most powerful country in the world, and I go where I want” like having your handlers smuggle you into a meeting.

"After preening and posing alongside Ukraine’s actual wartime leader, Biden was whisked away by his handlers to visit neighboring Poland, where he was to deliver a speech. Upon landing, Biden’s support staff commenced the visit with a female staffer’s spectacular tumble down the steps of the jet she arrived in.

“ 'The person is understood to be part of the White House support staff who arrived in Warsaw on Tuesday morning,” reported the Daily Mail. “The clip, which appeared to be part of footage being broadcast on a Polish television network, has been viewed nearly half a million times.' ”

Special Interest Groups Block Gov. Kristi Noem’s Move to Stop China Buying South Dakota Farmland

Breitbart

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s efforts to block China from buying up farmland in her state were thwarted this week when a supermajority of state Senators rejected her proposal.

As Breitbart News previously reported, Noem had proposed a bill that would “create a state-level version of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)” in order to curtail foreign Chinese entities from buying agricultural land in her state:

Currently, CFIUS is a federal board that approves or disapproves of foreign entities engaging in major U.S. transactions. Noem’s proposal would establish a CFIUS-South Dakota, or CFIUS-SD, which would review proposed transactions in the state where foreign entities including but not limited to Chinese entities seek to purchase land. The board, if established — which would require the legislature to pass Noem’s proposal — could block such land sales as it sees fit.

Essentially, Senate Bill 185 would have granted the South Dakota governor the power to unilaterally veto any purchase reviewed by the panel. The state senate rejected the bill on Tuesday with an 11-23 vote.

“The bill faced opposition from nearly every agriculture industry group in committee testimony. But the proposal’s supporters on the Senate floor said any flaws would be rectified before it becomes law,” reported South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB).

The bill’s opponents, such as Republican State Sen. David Wheeler, feared that it would give too much power  to the executive branch.

Noem previously told Breitbart News that she considers the bill a matter of national security, charging that special interest groups did not want the bill to pass.

“This is an issue that came up months ago when we saw a land purchase in North Dakota, our neighbors to the north, where a Chinese entity bought up land next to their Air Force Base, saying they were going to build a corn plant, but there wasn’t enough even corn grown in that area to sustain a facility like that, and it came under question,” Noem said. “I think we all agree that we shouldn’t allow our enemies to have a presence, especially close to our national security infrastructure. ". . .

Former Abortionist Confirms: Abortion is Not Health Care, “Never Medically Necessary”

 

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Former Abortionist Confirms: Abortion is Not Health Care, “Never Medically Necessary”   "Doctors never need to kill unborn babies to save their mothers’ lives, a former abortionist and Virginia OB-GYN explained this week in a column at The Federalist.

"Dr. John Bruchalski, the founder of Tepeyac OB/GYN in Fairfax, Virginia, wrote to correct the prevalent lie that state abortion bans are somehow endangering women’s health. And as a former abortionist himself, Bruchalski said he believes money, not sincere care for women’s health, is behind it.

" 'There are no advantages for a mother to end her pregnancy by an elective abortion, even in the most life-threatening circumstances,” he explained. “Elective abortions become more dangerous the further along in pregnancy, and that’s when the majority of these health complications arise.”

"Bruchalski said the goal of every good doctor should be to care for both patients: the mother and her unborn baby, and killing a baby in the womb does not help either one.

"Sometimes, he said an early induction is necessary to save the mother’s life, such as in the case of an infection, and her baby is too premature to survive. There also are times when pregnant mothers need chemotherapy to treat cancer and her unborn baby dies, but neither scenario involves intentionally killing the baby; the intent is to save a life, not to end one, Bruchalski continued.". . .