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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Rashida Tlaib Beats Hamas Leader for 'Antisemite of the Year'

"The pro-Israel organization StopAntisemitism voted Representative Rashida Tlaib as its 2023 "Antisemite of the Year" on Monday over Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

"Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat who is the only Palestinian-American to serve in Congress, has faced criticism over her stance on Israel amid the conflict and has called for a ceasefire. The conflict has left over 20,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis dead since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Israel in turn launched a ground invasion of Gaza, a territory that is home to roughly 2 million people.

Harvardicide; Come for the destruction of DEI, stay for academia's collapse

Don Surber | Substack

This all began on October 7 when Palestinian soldiers invaded Israel and raped, tortured, murdered and mutilated more than a thousand Israelis and kidnapped 240 more, including babies. The next day — before Israel even had a chance to respond — Harvard students and faculty condemned Israel. . . .

"I come to praise Claudine Gay, not condemn her. The now ex-president of Harvard did our nation a great service by being smug and arrogant at a congressional hearing. Her hubris revealed what a farce DEI is as Harvard overlooked qualified candidates and chose her simply because she is a black lady.

"This is Bidenism. He chose his vice president and a Supreme Court justice the same way. The latter told Congress she could not define what a woman is. The former’s speeches make her sound like a 10 year old explaining the world to a 7 year old.

"(A 10 year old is a person who has lived for 10 years.)

"But wait. There’s more Bidenism. He plagiarizes everything, including his biography. Gay plagiarizes too! How do you think a dummy like her got a PhD? Her doctoral dissertation in 1997 from Harvard turned out to steal the work of others in violation of Harvard’s rules.

"Her ability to become the top scholar in America — and presiding over Harvard is the cherry atop the Ivy League whipped cream that covers the higher education dessert — raises the question of whether this treat is worth having. Maybe America needs more meat and potatoes.

"America has 1 million active medical doctors. They are useful and I would not be surprised if half the 6,020 doctors in West Virginia are foreign born.

"America has 3 times as many people with doctorate degrees. I am not saying they are useless. I just would feel better if we had 3 million medical doctors and a million PhDs.

"Every one of those PhDs wrote a doctoral dissertation and many of them have written research papers since then and even books. It would be a shame if some used artificial intelligence devices to check to see if those committee approved theses were cut-and-pasted, wouldn’t it?

"Spoiler alert: Somebody is." . . .

Monday, January 8, 2024

Obama, worried about Trump, urges Biden circle to bolster campaign

MSN (msn.com) . . ."During the lunch, Obama noted the success of his reelection campaign structure in 2012, when some of his top presidential aides, including David Axelrod and Jim Messina, left the White House to take charge of the reelection operation in Chicago. That is a sharp contrast from Biden’s approach of leaving his closest aides at the White House even though they are involved in all the key decisions made by the campaign.

"Obama also recommended that Biden seek counsel from Obama’s own former campaign aides, which Biden officials say they have done, the people said.

"Obama has been even more explicit with people close to Biden, suggesting the campaign needs to move aggressively as Trump appears poised to quickly wrap up the Republican nomination. His concerns about the campaign structure were not tied to a specific moment, but rather his belief that campaigns need to be agile in competitive races, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations.

"Spokespeople for Obama and the White House declined to comment.

"Obama has long harbored worries about Trump’s political strength, telling Biden during a different private lunch last summer that Trump is a more formidable candidate than many Democrats realize. He cited Trump’s intensely loyal following, a Trump-friendly conservative media ecosystem and a polarized country as advantages for the former president in 2024.

"Obama warns of Trump's political strength

"Obama, who commands enormous loyalty and star power in the Democratic Party, is not alone in worrying about Biden’s weak poll numbers and his unorthodox bifurcated campaign structure." . . .

How to blitz the Judge and secure a sack on a passing down.

That felon who ‘sacked’ the judge who denied his probation displayed remarkably good technique… " I want to break down the technique on this video from my good friend @LasVegasLocally and explain why it’s a textbook example of how to blitz the quarterback and secure a sack on a passing down. Walk with me:. . ."

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Why Are Americans at Each Other's Throats? Ask Barack Obama.

Larry Elder (townhall.com)

But after Obama's eight years in office, both blacks and whites thought race relations got worse. What happened?

. . ."From the beginning of Obama's presidency until its end, the man America's considered a unifier played one race card after another. He enraged American law enforcement by falsely accusing a white Cambridge police officer of "acting stupidly." He implied the officer was racially motivated when he gave to a reasonable and lawful order to a black Harvard professor, who resisted it. When black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, Obama said, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." The jury found the defendant not guilty, and the jurors said race played no role in the encounter. But Obama, who later embraced Black Lives Matter, again advanced the false narrative of anti-black "systemic racism." Never mind studies showing cops more reluctant, more hesitant to pull the trigger on a black suspect than a white suspect.

"In an interview, the man who said he would not blame race if he lost the election said: "The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives -- you know, that casts a long shadow, and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it. ... Racism -- we are not cured of it." Obama invited the race-hustling Al Sharpton to the White House over 70 times.

"Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder complained of America's "pernicious racism," giving as an example voter ID. In Obama's second term, a black man motivated by the Obama-promoted police anti-black narrative murdered two NYPD cops as they sat in their squad car. In Baton Rouge, another black man driven by the same narrative ambushed and murdered three police officers. In Dallas, another black man influenced by this narrative ambushed and murdered five police officers.

Biden DOJ Went Too Far With Prosecuting Jan. 6 Suspects: Bill Barr

The Epoch Times. (resistthemainstream.com)

"Dozens of Jan. 6 detainees are still languishing in jail awaiting trial three years after the Capitol incident"

"Former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Saturday—the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incident—that the Justice Department under President Joe Biden went too far when it comes to prosecuting individuals involved in the events of that fateful day and targeted people who merely “walked into open doors and hung around.”

"Mr. Barr made the remarks in an interview on Fox News, where he said he has no intention of downplaying the seriousness of the events of Jan. 6, 2021, which he called a “shameful episode” for which some people should face prosecution.

“ 'I don’t think it was an insurrection,” Mr. Barr said, rejecting a label that has been pushed in particular by opponents of former President Donald Trump, who faces over a dozen lawsuits seeking to bar him from the 2024 presidential ballot under the claim that he engaged in an “insurrection.”

"Mr. Barr was then asked in the Fox News interview for his thoughts about the fact that criticism appears to have grown with regard to the treatment of Jan. 6 defendants by federal authorities, with allegations that it’s been unfair, unwarranted, or heavy-handed.

“ 'Well, you know, like everything else the left does, they did, I think, go too far,” Mr. Barr replied.

"Dozens of Jan. 6 detainees are still languishing in jail awaiting trial three years after the Capitol incident." . . .

Israeli soldiers don’t have the luxury of grief

Phyllis Chesler Organization

“Who do you think you are?” she said. “Both my parents had numbers on their arms. I will not be quiet as you tell lies about Israel and the Jews.”

"In Israel, our soldiers are fighting heroically, but they are also being killed in combat.

"In Israel, so I’ve been told, one soldier who had been allowed to return home for 24 hours left her family and went to the basement to sleep in their safe room. What she’d seen in the south and Gaza, what she now knew, compelled her to do so.

"Young Israelis today understand more about Jewish history than they ever had to before. They are living a replay of it on steroids. Some former “peaceniks” no longer believe that they can trust, live with, live near or employ Arab Gazan civilians. One wonders what this means in terms of the pro-Hamas Arabs in Judea and Samaria. This question is a very serious one.

"In 1980, when I was interviewed for the front page of Yediot Aharonot about the return of antisemitism, most Israelis with whom I spoke rejected the information. They gently but firmly explained to me that this was simply business as usual between one nation and another. But I had just returned from a U.N. conference in Copenhagen—the precursor to the notoriously antisemitic 2000 Durban conference—and sadly, I knew they were wrong.

"Now their children and grandchildren have no choice but to grapple with the fact that we have not escaped Jewish history; although this time around, we have a blessed and powerful army to fight for us (may God protect its soldiers). Our young are called upon to sacrifice their lives for us, as they’ve done in war after war.

"Earlier this century, the same took place in Jenin, the terrorist hotbed from which numerous suicide bombers left to blow up Israeli civilians in buses, cafes and at Passover seders:

"As we all now know, the “Jenin Massacre” was a lie. It never happened." . . .