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  Ann Coulter    

"It’s one thing for Roberts to forget the Civil War. Liberals do that all the time, quickly turning the 14th Amendment into an instrument for the advancement of gays, immigrants, lesbians, the disabled, etc. —wait, what were you saying about slavery?"

"Obviously, the Supreme Court’s ruling on anchor babies in Trump v. Barbara is ridiculous. Chief Justice John Roberts, along with the Papist nut and the three witches, has apparently decided the “FREE MONEY” sign on our border was not good enough. We need to give the third world an even bigger incentive to flock here. Henceforth, we will lure illegal aliens with the guarantee of American citizenship for any kids they give birth to on U.S. soil. Welcome Hamas! (And you thought Democratic primaries were already wild!)

"Inasmuch as no one on TV seems to have bothered reading the opinions, here are a few highlights.

"1) Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent is a tour de force. It will go down in history with Justice Benjamin Curtis’s dissent in Dred Scott and Justice Frank Murphy’s dissent in Korematsu. (It’s also a good primer for snowbirds, who plan to avoid state taxes by moving to Florida, on the vital importance and clear legal meaning of “domicile.”)

"By contrast, Roberts’s opinion for the court will go down with Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, finding that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination against transgender employees—a ruling that was so embarrassing it was immediately ignored by everyone, including Gorsuch. That was clear this week, when, for the fourth time since Bostock, the court rejected similar claims by transgenders.

"2) I’m sorry to mention that, inasmuch as Gorsuch was on the right side of the anchor baby case. Which reminds me, could the conservatives confidently informing us that anchor babies are required by the constitution (Bill O’Reilly, John Yoo, The Wall Street Journal, etc.) cite a single other case with Roberts on one side and Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the other, where Roberts was right? How about that terrific Obamacare ruling, deeply grounded in the text of the constitution?

"3) Thomas’s central point—appalling to liberals, but true nonetheless—is that the purpose of the 14th Amendment was to overrule Dred Scott, which held that black Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court."   

"Black slaves and freedmen alike, Thomas writes, “were unambiguously Americans. They were not foreigners. They were not aliens. They owed no foreign allegiance.” He quotes Frederick Douglass’s plea for the citizenship of blacks: “We address you not as aliens nor as exiles … We are Americans.'”

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SCOTUS Citizenship Decision Demands Legal System Overhaul

That a court with six Republican-appointed justices could hand down such a patently un-American decision is an indictment of America’s rogue legal system.

. . . "This nation has tens of millions of anchor babies and their descendants, up to one-quarter of the next generation. Millions more could be created tomorrow given how many foreigners are here illegally and legally. Under birthplace citizenship, all fraudulently obtain not just lifetime welfare but also voting abilities. That’s well more than enough to tip elections not just into the future but going back decades.

"Those in leadership positions who are not ready to defend the country in response to this reality should resign, or be forced to.". . . 

Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist and the researcher and host for The Federalist's forthcoming lawfare podcast series, "Overruled." Her latest book with Regnery is "False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America." 

Ben Shapiro Blames ‘Useless White People’ for Socialism

The American Conservative   

"In last year’s mayoral election, the moderate Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a majority of whites, yet the Ugandan-born, Indian-American DSA candidate Zohran Mamdani dominated the election thanks to overwhelming support from foreign-born residents, who make up around 37 percent of the city’s population."

"The Daily Wire podcaster supported policies that boosted the hard left in New York.

"The Democratic Socialists of America won big in New York’s Democratic primaries last Tuesday. By the time the ballots were tallied, conservative media had identified a scapegoat: white people.

"Specifically, “overeducated, useless white people,” in the words of the Daily Wire podcaster Ben Shapiro.

"Batya Ungar-Sargon—a pro-Trump leftist—wrote a Substack essay with this imperious headline: “Stop Calling Them ‘Socialists.’ They’re Over-Credentialed White Gentrifiers Driven by Resentment Ousting Working-Class Candidates.”

"For those not in the know: “White gentrification” is when white people move into an area and make it nicer, “white flight” is when they move away, making it worse, and both phenomena prove how evil white people are.

"Ungar-Sargon has some expertise in the evils of white people, having authored a PhD dissertation at U.C. Berkeley that examined “how rape and colonialism contributed to the development of modern English fiction,” according to Wikipedia. So, next time your mom’s snuggled up with a book by Jane Austen, let her know that rapey colonialism made the reading experience possible.

"The New York Post also did some white-bashing after the shock elections. “The Young and the Clueless,” blared the cover headline on Thursday, above a photograph of triumphant-looking young people with fists in the air. The subheadline: “Just 7% of voters, mostly white and under 30, pick Israel-hating radicals to represent Dems.”

"I’m trying to imagine Shapiro calling out “useless Hispanics,” Ungar-Sargon lamenting “Jewish gentrifiers,” or the Post doing a cover story on “mostly black” street criminals.

"I can easily imagine Shapiro hating on Muslims. In fact, I don’t need to imagine. “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage,” Shapiro once wrote on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter.

"It’s pretty rich of Shapiro to blame white people for DSA victories. Any sentient being can see that the Democrats and hard left benefit from the country’s ongoing demographic transformation, i.e., from its becoming less white. Well, anyone but Shapiro can see that. “I don’t give a good damn about the so-called ‘browning of America,’” he wrote in 2017. “Color doesn’t matter. Ideology does.”

"At least, that’s how Shapiro conceived of the relationship—or in his view, non-relationship—between ethnicity and nationhood in America. For Israel, things are different. “If you believe that the Jewish state has a right to exist, then you must allow Israel to transfer the Palestinians and the Israeli-Arabs from Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Israel proper,” Shapiro wrote two decades ago. “It’s an ugly solution, but it is the only solution.”

"Some might even call it the final solution.

"While Shapiro’s rhetoric about Muslims may have softened, his views don’t seem to have changed. “I think Israel should have gone harder and faster in Gaza,” Shapiro told Vanity Fair in a profile of him published this week. Should have gone harder and faster in Gaza. Those repulsive words should disqualify Shapiro from ever again opining on U.S. foreign policy." . . .

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Andrew Day is the senior editor of The American Conservative. He has a PhD in political science from Northwestern University. 

Jordanian Immigrant Gets One Year in Jail For Killing a Jewish Man at Pro-Hamas Protest

Twitchy    

"Judge Derek Malan Should be removed from office and disbarred as an attorney of law. A gross miscarriage of justice. Federal hate crime charges should be upgraded." Comment to the post.

‘There Are No Words’: The Daily Caller

"Remember the 2023 incident in which a 69-year-old Jewish man holding an Israeli flag at a counter-protest was hit in the head with a bullhorn and died the next day from blunt-force trauma? Jordanian immigrant Loay Alnaji last month pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and battery. The attack wasn't prosecuted as a hate crime, and Alnaji faced up to one whole year in jail. You'll be glad to know he got the maximum sentence of one year in county jail."

Judge Derek Malan Should be removed from office and disbarred as an attorney of law. A gross miscarriage of justice. Federal hate crime charges should be upgraded. pic.twitter.com/L8AM5lTG92

"Not only that — he was a Moorpark College professor.

"He gets probation."....More...

Not just NYC: Anti-Christian AG, socialist barista who got fired from lawyer job because she loves Hamas win CO Dem primaries

 Not just NYC: Anti-Christian AG, socialist barista who got fired from lawyer job because she loves Hamas win CO Dem primaries for gov, rep

"Elect the third world, become the third world" Siraj Hashmi

"If you think idiotic Democratic socialism is going to stop within the confines of the five boroughs of New York City, Tuesday should have offered you a wake-up call.

"In Colorado, two major upsets in the Democratic primaries again put rabid revolutionary candidates at the top of the ballot in November.

"In the gubernatorial race, Attorney General Phil Weiser -- known for aggressively pursuing Christian individuals and organizations that maintain that marriage is between one man and one woman, among other non-woke faux pas he believes constitute legally actionable issues -- beat out the more moderate candidate, Sen. Michael Bennet, who has represented the state in the upper chamber since 2009 and ran for president in 2020.

"Current Democrat Gov. Jared Polis was term-limited and ineligible to serve again.

"Meanwhile, in the state's First Congressional District, socialist barista Melat Kiros, who was fired from her job as a lawyer in New York City after writing an anti-Israel, pro-terrorist screed that whitewashed the history of the Israel-Gaza conflict in terms that made the Palestinian Authority look like veritable angels -- just one month after the atrocities committed by Hamas and its associated terror groups against thousands of innocent Jewish people who were slaughtered, raped, or kidnapped -- beat longtime U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who has served the Denver-based district for almost 30 years." . . .   more...

Dave Portnoy says 'welcome to communism' as Zohran Mamdani makes urgent NYC heatwave plea    . . . "Portnoy, the Barstool boss, has been a loud opponent of New York City's mayor, often taking the time to send jabs the 34-year-old's way. In particular, the 49-year-old Portnoy has taken offense to many of Mamdani's policies, believing the mayor has enacted directives detrimental to New York.

Now, Portnoy posted a message on X in an attempt to take down Mamdani, seemingly equating his plea to save energy to "communism" - months after blasting the mayor as a "moron."

"78 degrees??? Welcome to communism people! Hope you enjoy!" Portnoy wrote on X in response to a post on Mamdani's account on the social media platform.

From sly slurnalism to the big lie

 Jewish World Review

"The Times never treated the news of the Holocaust as important — or at least as important as, say, informing motorists to visit the Office of Price Administration if they did not have their automobile registration number and state written on their gasoline ration coupons."

Buried by the "newspaper of record"

"Even those who've developed an immunity to Timesspeak had to be shocked by the recent article in The New York Times alleging Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners.

The article slid from sly slurnalism to the big lie.

(That's a lie so outrageous that it becomes believable because it must be true, otherwise nobody could say such a thing.) If you don't know what article I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky.

Neil Postman, who headed the department of "Media Ecology" at NYU, gave his students rules to live by to preserve their sanity. One was, "Do not watch TV news shows or read any tabloid newspapers." They're too jarring.

But it's important to have some historical perspective. So, let me tell you about three little-known stories from the Holocaust. All three were kept secret. The first indirectly involves The New York Times.

You're probably too young to remember Nipper. He was the dog on RCA Victor record labels, staring into the speaker of a crank-up phonograph, listening to "his master's voice."

In 1986, Nipper got a new master. RCA Records was sold to a German media behemoth, the Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG).

That same year, Bertelsmann acquired American book publisher Doubleday; a year later, it created the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. Next, in 1998, it acquired Random House, which was launched in 1927 with the mission to publish "a few books, on the side, at random."

By 2020, Bertelsmann took 100% control of Penguin Random House, making it sole owner of the world's largest publishing group.

OK, I'm not in the habit of business bashing. Business today is more global than national.

(Still, it rankles me that Tnuva, the largest manufacturer of dairy products in Israel, became Chinese food. In 2014, the state-owned Bright Food Group of China bought 56% of Tnuva, over the protests of many of the farms that supply the milk. It's enough to curdle your milk and honey.)

If you'll forgive me for repeating myself, you may remember what I told a car rental agency in Israel when they offered me a free upgrade from a Hyundai to an Opel: "I don't want a German car. It smells from gas."

But this is more than garden variety Germanphobia. Bertelsmann spent 50 years hiding its active collaboration with Nazi Germany and claiming to be a victim. But facts began to surface, especially its support of the Schutzstaffel — the special police force known as the SS, notorious for their inhumanity.

Debunking the American Left’s Favorite Lie

 The American Spectator

"The American Left does so because charging others with their own crimes leads to moral relativism, which serves to absolve them of their wrongs. By charging everyone with the Left’s own crimes, then all are guilty."

"The American Left’s most favorite lie is that Nazis and Fascists were conservatives. They were not; instead, they were cut from the same socialist cloth that America’s Left idolizes and increasingly personifies. The reason for the Left’s false equation of Nazis and Fascists with conservatism is that America’s Left needs it to advance their ends — and, as in the case of Democrats’ Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, they want America to ignore the obvious.

"It is difficult to single out one lie from the American Left’s myriad. The one proclaiming that this time they can make socialism work — despite it failing in every other attempt and in every time in every other place — is certainly useful. The one promising that giving all power to the state will somehow make people freer comes in handy, too.

"However, the lie America’s Left tells with the most relish and gusto is that Nazis and Fascists come from the Right of the political spectrum rather than from within the Left’s own ranks. They say this because, in addition to needing it to be true, America’s Left so want it to be true. Of course, as with the rest of the American Left’s myriad of lies, it is not only not true but demonstrably false.

"It is a historical fact that Nazis and Fascists were socialists. In the case of “Nazi,” simply look at its etymological root. It is short for “Nationalsozialist,” itself short for the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeitpartei (NSDAP), which translates to National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

"However, the connection is much stronger than the name alone. The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises writes in his 20th-century monograph, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis: “Marxism and National-Socialism agree in … rejecting the capitalist social order. Both desire a socialist order of society. The only difference in their programme (sic) lies in slight variations in their respective pictures of the future socialist State.” Continuing: “It is important to realize that Fascism and Nazism were socialist dictatorships.” . . .

J.T. Young is the author of the recent book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing.

Ex-Yankee Mark Teixeira unloads on MLB for trying to 'silence' Christian faith

 Madison Colombo  

"Some players have spoken about their decision to include Bible verses, including starting pitcher Landen Roupp, who said the message was intended to represent "God’s covenant," not hatred toward anyone."

"Former New York Yankees star and Texas congressional candidate Mark Teixeira called Major League Baseball’s handling of a Pride Night dispute a "total disaster" aimed at silencing Christian athletes.

"Speaking on the "Fox News Rundown" podcast, the 2009 World Series champion and current congressional candidate argued that sports should not cross the line into being political.

"'We live in a Christian culture where people are trying to silence us," Teixeira told Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich. "And we're not [going to] let the San Francisco Giants or any outside group, silence our faith."

"The controversy stemmed from the Giants’ annual "Pride Night" celebration earlier this month. Several players protested the event by writing Bible verses onto the rainbow-colored Pride caps or declining to wear the caps altogether.

"In a statement reported by The Athletic, an MLB spokesperson said, "The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations."

"Teixeira argued that requiring players to wear the hats would force them to support something they may not believe in, calling the situation a "PR disaster." . . . More...

CODEPINK makes progress to bring antisemitic politics into K–12 classrooms - American Thinker   . . . "CODEPINK’s campaign is dangerous because it targets children before they are old enough to understand the complexity of what they are being taught.

"If these ideas take root in elementary and high schools, they will not stop there. They will follow students onto college campuses, into student organizations, into protests, and into public life.

"Parents, school boards, and education leaders should take this seriously before CODEPINK’s agenda spreads any further."  

Zohran, the Magnificent

 Zohran, the Magnificent - American Thinker   

"Those in his party, the Democratic Socialists of America, lead similarly cloistered lives. Over the last few decades, universities have produced a bumper crop of these people—graduates of disciplines in which they are trained to identify systems of oppression but not much else."

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Trying to Think Wise Thoughts after DSA Tuesday   

. . . "Labor unions? A rigid system giving above-market wages to organized workers for a season.

Government education? A rigid system of teaching the official narrative to kids bored out of their minds.

Business regulation? A way of forcing businesses to pay tribute to politicians and regulators.

Universities? A way of getting the young generation buried in debt and young women spouting woke ideology." . . .

How the Left Fell in Love With Militant Islam

  Endowment for Middle East Truth

Although some Leftists have sympathy for Islamist causes, most Islamists are disgusted by their rainbow flag-waving ideological counterparts. But that does not change their shared ideological roots.

"(April 2, 2024 / Newsweek) In the “Gender and Islam” course that I took a few years ago at Columbia University, the professor made what many might consider a provocative point: Western criticism of female genital mutilation and honor killings is hypocritical and a form of racism.

"While she lectured, two young women sitting in the front row—one in a spaghetti-string tank top with green hair and several piercings and the other conservatively dressed and wearing a hijab—snapped their fingers in approval.

"At the time, I wondered why these women, living in the United States and so different on the outside, were so quick to dismiss the subjugation of women in other places in the world?

"There has been a similar surprise for American moderates since the vicious, inhuman assault on Israel on Oct. 7 by Hamas. They have been shocked by the support for the Islamic extremists from Leftist academics and activists. How could ardently feminist supporters side with a culture that represses women? How could trans-rights activists back a society where any deviation from sexual or gender norms can result in death. What could the far left have in common with Islamists who seem to stand for everything they are against?

"Dig down and you’ll see Islamists and radical leftists have a lot more in common than meets the eye.

"Prominent leftist scholars like Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler have expressed support for such terrorist groups as Hamas and Hezbollah and have described them as part of the international and progressive left." . . .

Joseph Epstein is EMET’s Director of Research. Prior to EMET, Joseph worked in Business Intelligence and Due Diligence for Kroll and Vcheck Global. He has additionally worked as a journalist, analyst, and consultant covering security and migration issues in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Central Africa. 

Silenced no more: The Israeli women who documented Hamas's October 7 sexual crimes   

. . . "She arrived in New York expecting that evidence of the atrocities committed against women would command urgent international attention. Instead, she found herself surrounded by the UN Committee’s apathy and hatred, as dozens of pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas activists came out to accuse Israel of genocide. The experience left a profound impression. “I remember feeling devastated,” Elkayam-Levy told the Magazine in an interview at the commission’s office in Modi’in." . . .

Why jihadi evil attracts the left

 Washington Examiner  

"The difference and winning margin between the two was that the losers didn’t reject Israel’s right to exist and wouldn’t voice antisemitic hatred the way the victors did."

"Friday will be the thousandth day since jihadis massacred 1,200 people in Israel. Which means we’ve been wrestling for about 999 days with the appalling fact that the pogroms increased support for Hamas and the other terrorists instead of revolting and alienating world opinion.

"The jihadis tortured and mutilated their victims, raped and murdered them, burned and starved them, and forced them to watch as they inflicted their horrors on their mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, grandparents and babies. The fact that such evil would draw rather than repel millions of people seems, on the surface, inexplicable.

"Yet the killers of Oct. 7, 2023, knew it would happen. They calculated that visual evidence of their depravities would stoke enthusiasm. The rest of us should have known this, too. After all, we saw it happen only a decade earlier when young Westerners abandoned their home countries to join the Islamic State after seeing video of those black-clad executioners slit the throats, decapitate, and burn their caged victims alive.

"So 1,000 days ago in Israel, the marauders strapped on cameras, recorded every atrocity, and uploaded the video for global viewing on the internet. They wanted the world to see. They knew it would not be only proud parents back in Gaza who’d swell with pride. It would be millions of others around the planet.

"By Oct. 8, a Jew-hating subculture that had previously been underground emerged from tunnels beneath Western civilization to celebrate the barbarities we’d all just witnessed. They blamed Israel, they insisted rape was resistance, and they beat and intimidated fellow countrymen in America who happened to be Jews. They were not protesting Zionism or other policies, as they claimed. They were giving free, gleeful rein amid the madness of crowds, to a vile and visceral hatred.

"This hatred is engulfing much of what we used to know as leftism. It explains why radical candidates lost in Democratic congressional primaries last week to other radical candidates. The difference and winning margin between the two was that the losers didn’t reject Israel’s right to exist and wouldn’t voice antisemitic hatred the way the victors did.

"This hatred is engulfing much of what we used to know as leftism. It explains why radical candidates lost in Democratic congressional primaries last week to other radical candidates. The difference and winning margin between the two was that the losers didn’t reject Israel’s right to exist and wouldn’t voice antisemitic hatred the way the victors did." . . . More...

The LGBT movement is being consumed by 'pro-Palestine' activists

 Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner

"The LGBT movement is currently being consumed by the antisemitic “pro-Palestine” movement, to the point that even the biggest champions of the former now find themselves as targets of their left-wing base.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was booed at a New York City “Pride” parade on Sunday by the gathered left-wing activists. On its face, this would seem like the kind of crowd that would be most accepting of Schumer. As Schumer told his hecklers, “I was the first senator to ever march in this parade, in 1999. And I haven’t missed one yet.” No element of the Democratic Party coalition has a bigger ally in Schumer than the LGBT “community.”

"But the Democratic Party is being overrun by the Palestinian movement, and Schumer is a Jewish Democrat who criticizes Israel but doesn’t openly celebrate or defend Palestinian terrorism the way the party’s activist base does. This is especially true in New York City, where communist Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsed candidates dominated the city’s primaries last week. As one Mamdani ally said, “Palestine is on the ballot” in New York, and Schumer’s long support of the LGBT movement isn’t going to help him anymore.

"You could argue that booing Schumer is just the result of generic dislike of the Democratic establishment, but you can’t argue the same thing for Scott Wiener, the state senator who is the favorite to fill Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) seat in Congress. Wiener's greatest hits include reducing criminal penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV, turning California into a “sanctuary state” for the medical mutilation of “transgender” children, putting male prisoners in women’s prisons, and inadvertently aiding the sex trafficking industry by decriminalizing loitering with intent to commit prostitution. Wiener did all of those things under the pretense of helping the LGBT “community.”

"That was not enough to protect him, though, as he was harassed away from a transgender march by antisemitic activists screaming at him and accusing him of having Israeli handlers." . . .