Connect the dots? Murdered DNC staffer may have been Wikileaks source of emails

"Police said in a press release at the time that patrols heard gunshots around 4:20 a.m. and found Rich suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead later that morning."

Rick Moran  "Rich was murdered in early July, shot multiple times in the back as he was walking down the street. His wallet, watch, cell phone, and credit cards were not taken."
. . . "Taken together, the facts - all the facts - don't prove anything. Even if Rich was, indeed, the source of the email leak, his murder may still have been a robbery gone bad. With nothing taken from the victim, though, the idea that he was killed for some other reason cannot be entirely dismissed.

"At present, the dots simply aren't connecting. But the fact that there are dots to begin with is extremely troubling and those investigating the murder should follow the evidence wherever it leads."

WikiLeaks offers $20K for info on DNC staffer's killing

Gateway Pundit  . . . "Shortly after the killing, Redditors and social media users were pursuing a “lead” saying that Rich was en route to the FBI the morning of his murder, apparently intending to speak to special agents about an “ongoing court case” possibly involving the Clinton family." . . .

American Silliness Aug 10, 2016

Weasel Zippers, as always, is a treasure trove for this sort of thing:
Supporter’s Giant Trump Sign Set On Fire In Staten Island

Lib Rag Salon Complains Coverage Of Olympics Is Sexist…  "Didn't the media make a big deal out of Michael Phelps becoming new dad but Solon thinks if you mention a woman being a mom it's sexist."

White House Touts Article On How Blacks Can “Survive At A White Institution”…

25 LGBT Groups Ask Big 12 Not To Admit BYU Because It’s A Mormon-Based School…

Boston Red Sox Cancel David “Big Papi” Ortiz Bobblehead Night After Declaring It Racist…   "For the record it wasn’t Ortiz who declared the dolls “racially insensitive,” it was team president Sam Kennedy (a white guy)." . . .

Salon Flips Out Over Reports Describing Women Olympians as Wives and Mothers  "You can always count on progressives to hate on wives and motherhood, and to find any excuse to demean the family unit."

New Jersey Goes Full Nanny State: Considers Bill to Fine Coffee-Drinking “Distracted” Drivers   "Nanny state’s gonna nanny state"

Among all this silliness, here at least, sanity prevailed:

U. Houston Student Govt Rescinds Suspension of VP for All Lives Matter Post  "Last week on The Torch, FIRE’s Will Creeley explored the legal and practical issues surrounding a decision by the University of Houston Student Government Association (SGA) to suspend its vice president, Rohini Sethi, in response to her Facebook post: “Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter.” On August 5, the SGA announced on Facebook that Sethi’s suspension has been lifted and the SGA’s judicial branch would review whether the bill that authorized the suspension violated the SGA’s bylaws."

No special sharia rules in American courts for Muslims’ wrongful-death recovery 

"But there, too, the principle is simple: American courts apply American law, including when an American law principle calls on American courts to enforce a foreign judgment . . ."
. . . "(For instance, a contract calling for the cutting off of a person’s hand would be unenforceable; a will calling for a court to apply a legal rule that requires the court to distinguish males from females might be unenforceable, though a will calling for a court to distribute property to named parties would be enforceable.)"

"I heard you on tape laughing."

From the UK: Raped At 12, Woman Now Speaking Out Against Her Attacker’s Attorney, Hillary Clinton

"Kathy Shelton was 12 years old when she was violently raped by a 41-year-old drifter on the side of an Arkansas road in 1975. Shelton, now 54, sat down with the Daily Mail for an interview where she agreed for the first time to be photographed and officially recognized as the girl whose case has been getting attention during the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

"Clinton served as defense attorney for Shelton’s accused rapist, Thomas Alfred Taylor, and was successful in plea-bargaining the rape to a lesser charge of “unlawful fondling of a minor.” Taylor spent less than a year in prison.

"Now, years later, seeing Clinton running for president is too much for Shelton to bear, and she’s speaking out." . . .

New Critics of Trump

"The strongest argument — indeed, the only argument — for voting for Trump is Hillary Clinton. For both candidates, the danger is not simply that we might have one bad administration to live through. The far greater danger is that either of them can create an irretrievable catastrophe."

Thomas Sowell  . . . "Now 50 prominent Republicans with foreign policy and national security experience have taken the unprecedented step of publicly and collectively announcing that they cannot vote for Donald Trump because they believe that he would be “the most reckless president in American history.”

"Why? Not only because he has “demonstrated repeatedly that “he has little understanding” of the nation’s “vital national interests” but because “Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself.”

"Indeed, Donald Trump has shown little real interest in anything besides Donald Trump.

"His response to these criticisms has been completely predictable. Trump has not even tried to answer the charges or to assure the American people on something as important as their survival and the survival of this nation. Instead, there is the standard Trump tactic of launching unsubstantiated charges against his critics.

"Even if all his charges against his critics were 100 percent true, that is no assurance to the American people on the vital issues they raised— and for which there are innumerable examples of Trump’s own words and deeds to make people worry about what he would do in the White House." . . .

. . . 

"Republicans opened this game with the stronger hand. But they played that hand into what looks like a defeat at the polls in November — a defeat not only for Trump but for other Republican candidates tainted by the immature and repellent behavior of the man at the top of the ticket.

"One key misstep by the Republican establishment was agreeing, once again, to so-called “debates” in which a stage full of candidates had time for only short and superficial sound bites. Trump was, and is, the king of superficial sound bites."

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Trump vs. Trump

"To negate Trump’s advantages, the Democrats had a simple strategy: bring out the demonic Trump. Hillary Clinton would simply lie about her e-mail records ad nauseam. In possum style, she would snore about the economy. She would avert her eyes from the world order’s breaking apart. She would ignore the populist furor with a corrupt Washington and media establishment.. Against this stultifying backdrop, the ego-driven Trump would be allowed to grab the headlines, and the headlines would be petty and embarrassing."

Victor Davis Hanson  . . . "The termed-out incumbent Democratic president can win approval ratings of 50 percent only by staying quiet, out of the public eye, and doing as little governing as possible. Whenever Obama emerges from his hip cocoon and talks off his teleprompter, he reminds us that he is typically petulant, untruthful, and rambling. Witness his latest pathetic assurances that sending cash on pallets at night to obtain simultaneous release of hostages was not ransom. Even the obsequious pajama-boy D.C. press corps did not quite buy that. As so often, Obama’s soft-spoken prevarication comes across as being as coarse as Trump’s crudity.

"Hillary Clinton is the weakest Democratic candidate since her moral superior Jimmy Carter in 1980. She reminds us of her liabilities daily, whether lying repeatedly that the FBI director had not systematically stated she had been untruthful about her unlawful e-mails, or, in a screeching voice, proclaiming her determination to raise taxes on the middle class — not to reduce the $600 billion deficit but to add more entitlements." . . .

The news cycle of the next 100 days also favors Trump: weekly more of the same of Islamic-inspired international terrorism, coupled with Chamberlain-like, politically correct Western appeasement. Black Lives Matter, with the sanction of the Democratic party, will only grow more brazen. (But how does one top disrupting a moment of silence for slain policemen or using a bullhorn to segregate journalists by race?)

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The choices made by she-who-would-be-president

Clinton Sought Support of Black Lives Matter, Spurned Law Enforcement Union

Hillary Clinton speaks to Lesley McSpadden, the mother
of Michael Brown

. . . "She's “a straight-up cop hater” who sympathizes with the “criminal element” of the Black Lives Matter movement, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke explained with characteristic bluntness on "Fox and Friends" Monday morning:

"Via The Washington Times:

“It’s a huge miscalculation, a huge political miscalculation on the part of Mrs. Bill Clinton,” the sheriff said. “Look, everyone running for public office, at any level, knows that you want and you have to have the support of not only law enforcement but other first responders. But she has made it clear from the convention that she is all in with the criminal element. She doesn’t care about victims of crime, she’s a straight-up cop hater, and so she is, like I said, rolling the dice on not having the support of law enforcement."

“The problem for her is that middle America, mainstream America, does not share her sentiment in having sympathy for criminals,” he said. “You’re talking a potential 3, 4, 5 million votes that she’s willing to risk just to get in bed with criminals." . . .

Lady Gaga agrees with Hillary

Black Votes Matter to the DNC; Black Lives Don't

 Orlando night club shooter's father spotted is spotted grinning behind Hillary Clinton at rally in Florida  "Mateen, a pro-Taliban political activist, later said he was there because he's a member of the Democrats and had been 'invited'.

"On Tuesday, a source in the Democratic party told DailyMail.com he wasn't invited and he was not on any of their email lists."

Like, those folks behind Hillary and Obama aren't vetted thoroughly before being allowed to be there?  

Hillary's media

Media photoshops Hillary crowd to make it look larger  "The Hill newspaper is being accused of Hillary favoritism after it used a fake photoshopped crowd to promote a live video stream of Clinton’s rally in St. Petersburg."

. . . 

“ 'A couple of hundred people showed up [door count puts the number at 171] within a St. Petersburg venue capable of holding in excess of 4,000 without seating,” points out the Conservative Treehouse.

"The media’s apparent effort to artificially inflate the size of Hillary’s crowds is noteworthy given that Donald Trump has consistently accused the press of refusing to show the huge attendances at his own rallies." . . .

NBC Quietly Scrubs ‘Discredited’ Smear of Bill Clinton Rape Accuser  "Following the receipt of a retraction demand, NBC News has quietly edited the Internet edition of a segment that aired on the highly-rated “Today Show” in which anchor Andrea Mitchell claimed Juanita Broaddrick’s rape accusation against Bill Clinton had been “discredited.' ”

Pat Caddell: Media Protects Clinton with ‘Biggest, Most Secure Bubble I Have Ever Seen’  .  .  . “ 'This is the most united effort by the press, certainly in the 45 years that I’ve been on the national political presidential stage of analysis, that I’ve ever seen them united with this kind of fierceness — against one person who they are trying to destroy, where there are no rules, which is Donald Trump,” he said, describing the crucial advantage that might help Clinton overcome her poor campaign performance. " . . .

Teaching Tolerance

"Politically Correct Segregation. I think all of these university African American Centers and Hispanic Centers are uniformly pathetic. The NAACP won the war against segregation. Then the diversity movement started to re-segregate – all the while asking the taxpayers to support it in the name of “tolerance.” The next thing you know the diversity crowd will be demanding separate “colored” and “white” restrooms."

Mike Adams

Author’s Note: The following is my planned class introduction for all three of my courses this fall semester at The University of North Carolina – Wilmington. My first-day-of-class remarks are reproduced here for your reading pleasure. It is not a word for word reproduction.  But it’s pretty close. So enjoy!

"Welcome back to another semester at UNCW! I am excited to have each and every one of you in my class. However, some of you may not be excited to have me as a professor. Each semester, I get at least one bad teaching evaluation from a student who never heard of me before enrolling in the class. Usually the student is a “progressive” who later finds out who I am and then wants to drop the class because he/she/undecided lacks the requisite tolerance to be in the presence of someone who holds different ideas. Since this discovery is often made after the drop date has passed, the student cannot get out of the class. Being stuck with a single non­leftist professor is just too much for them to handle both emotionally and intellectually.

"Although I will not be discussing my political views in class, I thought I would just give you all a basic run­down of all things these thin­skinned leftists support that I don’t believe in – just in case you are one of them and simply cannot bear the thought of having even a single conservative professor in college. If your view of tolerance causes you to be intolerant of any of the views I express then feel free to go pick up a drop slip. I would not want to force you to stay in my class any more than I would try to force you to bake a cake for my wedding." . . . 

Study: Obama issued $743B in regulations

The Hill

"Since President Obama took office in 2009, the federal government has issued 600 major regulations totaling $743 billion, according to a new study from the conservative American Action Forum.

"The Obama administration issues an average of 81 major rules, those with an economic impact of at least $100 million, on a yearly basis, the study found.

"That’s about one major rule every four to five days, or, as the American Action Forum puts it, one rule for every three days that the federal government is open.

“ 'It is a $2,294 regulatory imposition on every person in the United States,” wrote Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, who conducted the study.

"At the current pace of rulemaking, the American Action Forum estimates the Obama administration will issue a total 641 major rules before the president leaves office, bringing the nation’s regulatory bill to $813 billion.

"By contrast, President George W. Bush issued 426 major rules during his tenure in the White House.

Public interest groups often dispute studies from the American Action Forum, which they say do not accurately take into account the economic benefits of regulations.

Hillary's health and mental state

Roger L. Simon: A Hillary Clinton Presidency Would Be An American Tragedy

. . . "Many do not think Clinton is even a moral human being. Any person who could lie to the parents of the dead over the fresh caskets of their sons, as Clinton has apparently done with the Benghazi victims--if you believe the testimony of the parents themselves as many of us do--has lost contact with basic human values.' . . .

The Cost of Trump’s Letting Hillary Get Away with Repeated Mistakes

Michael Barone  "Opportunity cost. That’s an economist’s term for what you lose out on when you divert your investments and attention to something less profitable. It’s also a good term for the losses Donald 

"Trump has incurred in the last six days — more than 6 percent of the 94 days between the close of the Democratic National Convention and the election in November. Trump has spent much of that time attacking the father and mother of a Muslim U.S. serviceman killed in Iraq. He has made a point of refusing to support Paul Ryan or John McCain in their upcoming primaries. He accepted someone else’s Purple Heart and said that his business investments amounted to “sacrifices.”
. . . 
"In other words, the nominee of the challenger has a target-rich environment here. But instead he launches a Hatfield vs. McCoy–type feud against two Gold Star parents. 

"So Trump is strengthening rather than weakening Democrats’ argument that he is too erratic, impulsive, and ignorant (doesn’t he know Russia annexed Crimea?) to be president." . . .

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If you are surprised #BlackLivesMatter joined war on Israel, you haven’t been paying attention

Also here:  Black Lives Matter Keeps Getting More Radical — Will the Media Care?

Legal Insurrection

"Anti-Israel activists played an active role in stoking violence in Ferguson, as I documented inIntifada Missouri – Anti-Israel activists may push Ferguson over the edge and Anti-Israel activist still stoking fires in #Ferguson.

"A good history also is in How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged.

"No other country except Israel is used as pervasively as the connector for intersectionality. It’s a seedy tactic meant to exploit domestic U.S. racial tensions having nothing to do with Israel, and to turn those tensions into racial hatred of the supposedly “white” Israel. Underlying it all are anti-Semitic stereotypes of omnipresent Jewish manipulation, such as those spread by Oberlin College professor Joy Karega.

"There have been successes at the campus level, such as at Oberlin, of inserting anti-Israel language into list of Demands from Black Lives Matter protesters.

"Many of the leading Black Lives Matters leaders are also anti-Israel activists. They receive encouragement and support from people like Marc Lamont Hill for linking Israel to problems of black in the U.S.:" . . .