by Political Editors: Insight: “Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, ‘You can’t keep a good man down.’ Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.” —John W. Gardner (1912-2002) Upright: “We are supposed to believe that [Russia] bought the American presidential election last year with $100,000 in Facebook ads and some other digital activity. Frankly, if American democracy can be purchased this cheap — a tiny fraction of the $7.2 million William Seward paid to buy Alaska from the Russians back in 1867 — it’s probably not worth having. … Much of the Russian Facebook activity was peddling online tripe indistinguishable from indigenous American online tripe — in fact, it was ripped off from content produced by Americans. If the Russians are going to decide our elections on social media, one assumes it will require at least a little originality.” —Rich Lowry
The BIG Lie: “[The Uranium One allegations are] the same bologna they’ve been peddling for years, and there’s been no credible evidence by anyone. In fact, it’s been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked. … Trump and his allies, including Fox News, are really experts at distraction and diversion. So the closer the investigation about real Russian ties between Trump associates and real Russians … the more they want to just throw mud on the wall. And I’m their favorite target.” —liar-Hillary Clinton
Non Compos Mentis: “Am I mad at God? Yeah, I’m mad at him. I wish I had more protection. I wish this stuff didn’t happen. I can’t explain it to you. Yeah, I’m mad at him.” —Bill O'Reilly
For the record: “Bill O'Reilly can keep being mad with God, blaming victims and everyone else, and denying he did anything wrong, but the inescapable fact is that much money does not change hands without something having happened. Until Bill O'Reilly repents and shows some level of contrition, we should keep him at arm’s length for his own sake. He needs to get right with God and his apologists are keeping that from happening.” —Erick Erickson
Village Idiots: “[The punishing of protestors] reinforces institutionalized white supremacy — and other oppressive forms of systemic power — by criminalizing the self-advocacy undertaken by the most vulnerable populations in our nation’s colleges and universities.” —USC professor Charles H.F. Davis
And last… “How can something be Trump’s Benghazi if the real one didn’t belong to liar-Hillary or liar-nObama?” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52015
by Culture Beat: The Fourth Circuit Court recently ruled in a 2-1 decision that a 40-foot tall cross honoring Prince George’s County, Maryland, veterans who died fighting in World War I was unconstitutional because it violates the Establishment Clause. The monument, known as the Peace Cross, was erected in 1925 with funding from local families and The American Legion and it sits on public land. It has been maintained over the years by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, a state agency. Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory, who was the sole judge voting against the majority decision, stated that the majority “ignores certain elements of the memorial … and confuses maintenance of a highway median and monument in a state park with excessive religious entanglement.” He also said, “This memorial stands in witness to the valor, endurance, courage and devotion of the forty-nine residents of Prince George’s County, Maryland ‘who lost their lives in the Great War for the liberty of the world.’ I cannot agree that a monument so conceived and dedicated and that bears such witness violates the letter or spirit of the very Constitution these heroes died to defend.”
In its ruling the court rejected the argument that since Arlington National Cemetery contains overt displays of religious symbols, specifically crosses, and is public land, that removing the Peace Cross would set a precedent that would eventually require the removal of those religious symbols as well. Judge Stephanie Thacker said that the difference here is one of size, “The crosses there are much smaller than the 40-foot tall monolith at issue here,” she said. “And, significantly, Arlington National Cemetery displays diverse religious symbols, both as monuments and on individual headstones.”
So, once again the First Amendment declaration that government should not establish any one religion is used to eliminate the free exercise of it. Moreover, the symbol of the cross is understood to be synonymous with sacrifice, an entirely appropriate symbol to use to recognize the ultimate sacrifice these men gave in service to their country. It’s a shame that the prejudicial offense of the few should so limit the freedom of expression for the entire country. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51974
How is it that it’s apparently illegal to remove labels from pillows and mattresses, but politicians are free to mislabel themselves? After all, manufacturers are not permitted to mislabel their products. Supermarkets are just begging for trouble if they try to pass off ground round as ground sirloin, so why should it be any more permissible for politicians to blatantly lie about themselves?
Why should people like RINO-Susan Collins, RINO-Lisa Murkowski and RINO-John McCain, to mention just three of the most flagrant examples, be allowed to continue calling themselves Republicans? Or, for that matter, why should the Senate’s proudest and most prominent Marxist, Bernie Sanders, get away with labeling himself an Independent?
Speaking of labels, how stupid is Joe Manchin that he wishes to continue calling himself a Democrat when he represents and clearly wishes to continue representing West Virginia, a state that Donald Trump carried by 300,577 votes, trouncing Mrs. liar-Clinton 489,371 to 188,794.
Manchin still has a few months in which to change his registration before the 2018 election. But he shouldn’t wait too long. After what Trump has done for the coalmining industry by defanging liar-nObama’s EPA, he’d win by an even larger margin than he did last year.
● Something that confounds me about black voters is that there is no discernible difference between the way that welfare junkies cast their votes than the way that responsible blacks who get up in the morning, go to work to support their families and come home to help raise their children, vote.
How is it that decent, hard-working, black men vote for the same people as the black riffraff who refuse to marry their pregnant girl-friends and who peddle or use illegal drugs?
I understand that black celebrities are as stupid and egotistical as white ones, which explains black millionaires taking a knee at sporting events, pledging fealty to Black Lives Matter and encouraging Johnnie Cochran to free O.J.
But how is it that the 30% of blacks who do get married and raise their children in two-parent homes vote the same way as the 70% who don’t, resulting in Democrats garnering roughly 95% of the total black vote in one election after another?
I mean, even Jews, who are notorious for voting foolishly, aren’t as slavishly devoted to liberals as blacks are, and have been known on occasion to give 25-30% of their votes to Republicans.
● A friend wrote, asking if I thought that Tyler Perry, a black entrepreneur best known for starring as a sassy black woman in a series of comedies that he also wrote, directed and produced, was a worthy role model for black kids.
I said that so far as I knew, he was okay, so long as you didn’t hold his friendship with Oprah Winfrey against him, but I doubted if black kids lacked for idols. I mean, they’ve grown up in a world where blacks haven’t lacked for fame and fortune, achieving the highest level possible in entertainment, athletics and even, God help us, politics.
“However,” I went on, “I suspect that most of their heroes are neighborhood gangbangers, the people they see every day, the ones that are so easy to emulate because it doesn’t require that the kids crack a book, only someone’s head.
“That is why I have always said that part of sentencing black and Hispanic gang members should be to put them in dresses, slap some lipstick and rouge on them, and then drive the schmucks around on a flatback truck in the hood, so the little kids could see them shamed in front of their friends and relatives.”
● In reading about the depravity of Harvey Weinstein, it occurred to me that an awful lot of women remained silent for decades, not because all of the authorities would have been as complicit in Weinstein’s crimes as the NYC D.A., Cyrus Vance, but because they were so utterly determined to become movie stars.
That got me to thinking about the fates of so many of Hollywood’s sex symbols. There was Jean Harlow, dead at 26; Jayne Mansfield, 34; and Marilyn Monroe, a corpse at 36. I wonder how many of the aspiring actresses who allowed themselves to be used and abused by Swinestein would have done so, even if they had somehow known they’d never make it to 40.
If that seems outlandish, consider the large number of celebrities who were dead of drug overdoses in their 20s and 30s. They certainly knew the risk. I even recall Dick Cavett interviewing the father-daughter combination of John Phillips, Papa John of the Mamas and Papas, and Mackenzie Phillips, co-star of the TV sit com, “One Day at a Time.”
Cavett asked them, both admitted drug users, if it didn’t give them pause when they’d hear about one of their friends overdosing on heroin or cocaine. They exchanged a knowing look and nearly laughed at his naivety; both assured him that they’d immediately want to find out the friend’s drug connection because it meant the stuff he was supplying was high grade.
● One of my subscribers who prefers to be identified as Citizen X wrote to say that one of the troubles with those readily-available college loans isn’t just that it forces parents and students to go into debt, but that it keeps colleges and universities from having to compete with each other by offering lower tuitions.
There are a great many pinheads, especially in academia, who object to competition because they think it fosters ill-feelings, which explains why some schools have resorted to report cards that don’t mention grades at all, but merely indicate Pass or Fail; and some have even done away with valedictorians because they subscribe to the bizarre belief that if everybody can’t be one, nobody should.
Is it any wonder that by the time the young morons get to college, they’re in desperate need of sanctuaries filled with security blankets and teddy bears if someone dares object to one of their insipid opinions?
● If I’m driving on the weekend, when political talk radio tends to disappear from the airwaves, leaving mushy-mouthed jocks to hold forth on football, I tend to listen to the classical music station.
Last Sunday, I was stuck with opera. And not just opera, but German opera. I can’t even imagine why German composers ever bother writing love songs. After listening to just thirty minutes of the stuff, I felt myself overwhelmed by a strange desire to invade Poland.
● Thanks to Kim Jong-un, I have been giving more thought than usual to the idea of a nuclear holocaust. It occurred to me that the only two species likely to survive the devastation are cockroaches and bureaucrats.
● I recently mentioned that Pat Sajak, best known to the world as the benign host of “Wheel of Fortune,” is not only an ardent conservative and a member of the board of Hillsdale College, but a very witty guy. But because I don’t tweet or follow other people’s tweets, aside from those of Donald Trump that are passed along on news shows, I miss out on a lot of Sajak’s witticisms.
In the aftermath of the uproar over Columbus Day, I am grateful to Chicago’s Penny Alfonso for finding the time to pass along one of Sajak’s recent tweets: “Looking forward to my upcoming trip to Indigenous People, Ohio.”
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