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You already know that I’m a fan, so now that the move has happened, we don’t need to go over that again.
Instead, let’s take a look at some recent comments Bolton made about missile defense as it related to North Korea, and why our capabilities are still limited even after so many decades of working on it. Quote courtesy of my Facebook friend Gregory Hilton:
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The permanent national security bureaucracy – whom many call the Deep State – is in big trouble at the White House.
A new sheriff is in town, and his name is John Bolton. Bolton, named the new national security adviser by Donald Trump, is ready to fire dozens of White House staffers when he takes the job next month.
Among those who will get the boot will be Obama administration holdovers and anyone who isn’t loyal to President Trump, sources told Foreign Policy.
“Bolton can and will clean house,” one former White House official was quoted as saying.
On Thursday, Trump announced that Bolton would replace H.R. McMaster as head of the National Security Council – a move that would be effective on April 9.
Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President George W. Bush, hinted in follow-up interviews Thursday on Fox News and Fox Business that he would be a strong force to solve the White House’s lingering issue with leaks, particularly those of a national security nature.
“It’s not for them to put in jeopardy the other 300 plus million American citizens just because they think their morality is better than everybody else’s,” Bolton said of the leakers on Fox Business.
Trump may be having trouble draining the swamp on Capitol Hill, but he’s making progress on the diplomatic and national security fronts. State Department employees have been whining for months about Trump not naming new personnel. Dire warnings about how badly U.S. diplomatic efforts will suffer because there aren’t enough bureaucrats to push the paper appear not to be materializing.
So now it’s the turn of the NSC. It really is outrageous that Obama holdovers have access to information that, when leaked selectively, can make their boss look bad. But that’s the nature of the NSC, as the appointed staffers rely heavily on others to be kept up to date on what’s happening in the world.
If Bolton follows through, I fully expect most of those positions to go unfilled. And that’s as good as anything when you’re trying to drain the swamp.
The permanent national security bureaucracy – whom many call the Deep State – is in big trouble at the White House.
A new sheriff is in town, and his name is John Bolton. Bolton, named the new national security adviser by Donald Trump, is ready to fire dozens of White House staffers when he takes the job next month.
Among those who will get the boot will be Obama administration holdovers and anyone who isn’t loyal to President Trump, sources told Foreign Policy.
“Bolton can and will clean house,” one former White House official was quoted as saying.
On Thursday, Trump announced that Bolton would replace H.R. McMaster as head of the National Security Council – a move that would be effective on April 9.
Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President George W. Bush, hinted in follow-up interviews Thursday on Fox News and Fox Business that he would be a strong force to solve the White House’s lingering issue with leaks, particularly those of a national security nature.
“It’s not for them to put in jeopardy the other 300 plus million American citizens just because they think their morality is better than everybody else’s,” Bolton said of the leakers on Fox Business.
Trump may be having trouble draining the swamp on Capitol Hill, but he’s making progress on the diplomatic and national security fronts. State Department employees have been whining for months about Trump not naming new personnel. Dire warnings about how badly U.S. diplomatic efforts will suffer because there aren’t enough bureaucrats to push the paper appear not to be materializing.
So now it’s the turn of the NSC. It really is outrageous that Obama holdovers have access to information that, when leaked selectively, can make their boss look bad. But that’s the nature of the NSC, as the appointed staffers rely heavily on others to be kept up to date on what’s happening in the world.
If Bolton follows through, I fully expect most of those positions to go unfilled. And that’s as good as anything when you’re trying to drain the swamp.
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The far left organized March for Our Lives march and rally was held today in several cities in the US.
The largest turnout was in Washington DC where liberals and Hollywood elites bused in several hundred children.
In Washington DC it was clear the march and rally was more than just about taking away gun rights.
The protesters marching past the Trump Hotel in Washington DC took time out to flip off the building and wave their anti-Trump signs.
Several demonstrators stopping at the #Trump Hotel in downtown DC to give the middle finger. #marchforourlives #MFOL @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/aeItNVI588
— Andrea McCarren (@AndreaMcCarren) March 24, 2018
?? La Asociación de hombres inseguros con el pene pequeño aporta el punto de humor frente al hotel Trump #MarchForOurLives Washington DC pic.twitter.com/slhQXthcWm
— Carlos Pérez Cruz (@clubdejazzradio) March 24, 2018
The #Trump #DC hotel along #MarchForOurLives route has become a popular backdrop for protesters. here are some greetings from #Philadelphia pic.twitter.com/DQbHeVfZv0
— Michael Mayo (@heymikemayo) March 24, 2018
I don’t know. Can I even put this on #Twitter? #MFOL #MFOLDC Outside Trump Hotel. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/upVjl1ejAJ
— Andrea McCarren (@AndreaMcCarren) March 24, 2018
Cette manifestante a un message très clair à adresser à Donald Trump, devant son hôtel #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/Osf7UpsjtU
— Charlotte Mattout (@PetiteCha) March 24, 2018
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Have shotgun, will travel.
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A 69-year-old Virginia Beach man has been arrested for threatening to murder Congressman Scott Taylor (R-Va.).
According to court documents, Wallace Grove Godwin visited Rep. Taylor’s office in Virginia Beach on Thursday.
After becoming frustrated during a discussion about marijuana policy, Godwin allegedly made the following statement to a staff member:
“Scott is having an event this Saturday. I am going to get my shotgun and do something about this. I will just handle this myself.”
Godwin then pointed at two staffers in the room and stated, “You two are next.”
The discussion between Godwin and those at Taylor’s office was about marijuana policy in the state of Virginia.
Rep. Taylor was a cosponsor of a bill last year that would end the federal prohibition of marijuana.
Court documents also reveal this isn’t Godwin’s first aggressive interaction with Rep. Taylor. In 2017, Godwin visited Rep. Taylor’s residence and interacted with him outside the home. He also visited the Virginia Beach office once before and yelled at congressional staff members.
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But they never want to talk about that. Talk about racism.
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It seems fairly evident that nobody on the gun control side of the aisle wants to have a serious talk about guns and gun violence. What they want is an easy win. They want to cast the National Rifle Association as the epitome of evil. An army of children is marching on Washington this weekend, and they want to take semi-automatic rifles away, specifically, the spooky AR-15 rifle.
If they were actually serious about gun violence, they’d be talking about places like Chicago and they’d lobby for further regulation of or outright ban on the sale of handguns. Yes, the real numbers actually show rifles are among the safest firearms for an American to own. According to the FBI, Americans are roughly 20 times more likely to die at the end of a handgun.
Yet, handguns are definitively not part of the script the media follows when a mass shooting occurs in America. First, blue check marks start tweeting for gun control while the bodies are still warm. Second come the spin masters like Bloomberg’s anti-gun Everytown USA, which got basically the entire media to repeat a wildly false statistic that 18 school shootings had occurred in 2018. Third come the “thoughtful” and “powerful” opeds, lately from veterans quick to use their service as a lecturing device.
Finally, the big brands come out to play.
We get scary posts on the AR-15 like this one from a two-time Pulitzer recipient at The New York Times, which notes that “173 people have been killed in mass shootings in the United States involving AR-15s, according to a New York Times analysis.” Of course, the article — which reads like a less dishonest version of a press release from Everytown — is missing the context on handguns. How else would they have fit in the swipe at the NRA, the quote from a military veteran for gun control, and all the terrifying language about the infantry’s use of AR-15s?
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McConnell can GF himself, at this point!
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Besides containing funding for Planned Parenthood, funding for sanctuary cities and funding for gun control research, the patently horrific $1.3 trillion omnibus bill passed by the GOP-led House and Senate this week also contains a salary boost for America’s least finest, according to the Washington Free Beacon:
The Senate increased its total salaries of officers and employees by $12.6 million in the 2,232-page bill that lawmakers had fewer than 48 hours to read and vote on. …
Salaries of staffers in the Senate are also set for an increase. Division I of the legislation breaks down the total salaries of officers and employees, which are being raised from $182 million in 2017 to $194.8 million in the final bill, an increase of $12.58 million.
The Senate also increased its expense account, as expense allowances are going from $177,000 to $192,000, an increase of $15,000.
Led by lifelong RINO hack Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Senate basically just used our money to reward itself for not doing its job.
And while House Speaker Paul Ryan is as much of a hack as McConnell, at least his chamber of Congress “kept its budget for salaries the same at $22.3 million and lowered expenses by $4.4 million.” That’s appreciated.
As for McConnell, he simply couldn’t keep himself from exploiting the omnibus to score some goodies. How nice of him …
It’s no real surprise, though, given his and his wife’s history of corruption. If you knew what I know about them, you’d realize that, though they present themselves as “Republicans,” they share far more in common with Democrat crooks like Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Case in point (H/T RedState):
“Current ethics laws create a zero accountability zone for the Washington, D.C., political class” https://t.co/RXKyAmWJzg
— New York Post (@nypost) March 18, 2018
And oh, did you know that McConnell’s wife once successfully pressured Fox News into ridding itself of political commentator Erick Erickson because he had the apparent temerity to call the current Senate majority leader out on his bullshit?
It’s a good thing I don’t work for Fox News, because this means I can get away with loudly and proudly saying F–K YOU, Mitch, you bitch!
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A schools superintendent in northeast Pennsylvania is arming students with buckets of large rocks in case a would-be killer enters a classroom.
David Helsel, superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District in Orwigsburg, north of Harrisburg, outlined the plan before a recent legislative education committee, WNEP-TV reported.
The discussion comes during a national debate about school violence after a man killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Congress has not introduced new legislation, but President Donald Trump has suggested arming teachers with guns.
“Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone,” Helsel said. “If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.”
Helsel’s idea came from a national school safety program called Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Evacuate or “ALICE.” ALICE emphasizes barricading classroom doors for students unable to safely evacuate. Another part of the training is teaching students to distract or fight off intruders.
Helsel admits the rocks are a “last ditch” effort. But it’s better than students cowering in fear and doing nothing, he said.
A bucket of rocks is kept in every school classroom. Along with the rocks, classroom doors are outfitted with devices that make it very difficult for intruders to enter, Helsel said. Students are also taught how to barricade doors.
“At one time, I just had the idea of river stone,” Helsel told the TV station. “They’re the right size for hands, you can throw them very hard, and they will create or cause pain, which can distract.”
The rocks are called “go buckets,” and the district has trained students on their use for about two years.
“Obviously a rock against a gun isn’t a fair fight, but it’s better than nothing,” Helsel said in a Fox News report. “I’m not sure why some people feel that it’s more appropriate to be a stationary target under a desk in a classroom rather than be empowered to defend yourself and provide a response to deter the entry of an armed intruder into their classroom.”
Some students and parents told WNEP they support the idea.
“At this point, we have to get creative. We have to protect our kids first and foremost,” parent Dori Bornstein told the TV station. “Throwing rocks, it’s an option.”
But not everyone agrees.
Kenneth Trump, president of the National School Safety and Security Services, a K-12 security consulting firm, called the idea illogical and possibly life-threatening.
Susan Spicka, executive director of Education Voters of Pennsylvania, told BuzzFeed she attended the hearing.
Spicka said a lawmaker responded to Helsel’s bucket of rocks plan by asking, “Can I come out and watch?” Laughter ensued.
“School districts in Pennsylvania are so underfunded, then they joke about kids having to defend themselves,” Spicka told BuzzFeed.
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A revised version of the blanket transgender military ban issued by the president last summer was released by the White House on Friday which would restore a ban on transgender individuals “except under certain limited circumstances.”
According to CBS News, that ban cannot go into effect immediately because of court challenges to the blanket ban that was announced last summer on Twitter.
The proposed ban was based off of a memorandum prepared by Defense Secretary James Mattis, which was presented to the White House in February but not officially released to the public until Friday.
“Among other things, the policies set forth by the Secretary of Defense state that transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances,” the White House memo read, according to Fox News.
The Department of Justice later released a statement saying it found the Pentagon’s findings to be consistent with the law and asked the courts to remove the ban.
“After comprehensive study and analysis, the Secretary of Defense concluded that new policies should be adopted regarding individuals with gender dysphoria that are consistent with military effectiveness and lethality, budgetary constraints, and applicable law,” the DOJ statement read.
“The Department of Justice will continue to defend DOD’s lawful authority to create and implement personnel policies they have determined are necessary to best defend our nation.
“Consistent with this new policy, we are asking the courts to lift all related preliminary injunctions in order to ensure the safety and security of the American people and the best fighting force in the world.”
The long-standing ban on transgender individuals serving in the military was reversed by the Obama administration in 2016.
The memorandum stated that Defense Secretary Mattis, “in the exercise of his independent judgment,” had formulated the new policy which would prohibit most transgender individuals from serving.
That wording was key, in part because the president’s surprise implementation of the ban via Twitter announcement last summer — an announcement that caught the Pentagon off guard — has played a part in many of the court rulings blocking the ban from taking effect.
Just this week, a judge in Seattle denied a motion to remove an injunction prohibiting the ban from going into effect, noting that the president has failed to produce evidence that the decision was made with the “consultation with my generals and military experts,” as he stated in his tweets.
The memo, however, would seem to provide a strong basis for evidence of consultation.
“Based on the work of the Panel and the Department’s best military judgement, the Department of Defense concludes that there are substantial risks associated with allowing the accession and retention of individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria and require, or have already undertaken, a course of treatment to change their gender,” the memorandum from Mattis read.
“Furthermore, the Department also finds that exempting such persons from well-established mental health, physical health, and sex-based standards, which apply to all Service members, including transgender Service members without gender dysphoria, could undermine readiness, disrupt unit cohesion, and impose an unreasonable burden of the military that is mot conductive to military effectiveness and lethality.”
In terms of the “limited exceptions,” the 48-page memorandum states that individuals who “have been stable for 36 consecutive months in their biological sex prior to accession,” have been “diagnosed with gender dysphoria after entering into the service” and “do not require a change of gender and remain deployable within applicable retention standards” or who are “currently serving Service members who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria since the previous administration’s policy took effect and prior to the effective date of this new policy” that require medical attention may still be retained.
However, individuals who “require or have undergone gender transition are disqualified from military service.”
“Transgender persons without a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria, who are otherwise qualified for service, may service, like all other Service members, in their biological sex.”
Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis which replaced the old diagnosis of gender identity disorder in the DSM-5, the official diagnostic handbook of the American Psychiatric Association, back in 2013. According to the APA’s website, it “involves a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which he/she/they identify.
“People with gender dysphoria may be very uncomfortable with the gender they were assigned, sometimes described as being uncomfortable with their body (particularly developments during puberty) or being uncomfortable with the expected roles of their assigned gender,” the APA states.
“People with gender dysphoria may often experience significant distress and/or problems functioning associated with this conflict between the way they feel and think of themselves (referred to as experienced or expressed gender) and their physical or assigned gender.”
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Michael Bennett, the defensive end and national anthem protester who made headlines last year when he accused Las Vegas police of racial discrimination after a chase, has been indicted with pushing an elderly disabled woman in an incident at the 2017 Super Bowl, according to KHOU-TV.
A Harris County grand jury indicted the defensive back on Friday on a felony charge of injury of the elderly. Prosecutors allege that he shoved a 66-year-old paraplegic worker at Super Bowl LI in Houston’s NRG Stadium in February of 2017.
Bennett, now with the Philadelphia Eagles, was in the stadium to watch his brother Martellius Bennett, a tight end with the New England Patriots.
When the Patriots won the game in overtime over the Atlanta Falcons, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says that Bennett tried to force his way onto the field even though officials saw no more room for anyone to enter safely. There were also questions over whether Bennett had the proper credentials to enter the playing field.
Officials tried to stop the the 6-foot-4 Bennett, but he barged through locked doors and then accosted two female security workers, including one paralyzed from the waist down.
As was making his way onto the field, the 274-pound Bennett allegedly pushed the 66-year-old paralyzed security worker so hard she sprained her shoulder.
When a police officer tried to intervene, Bennett reacted with the same dignity and respect for authority that one might expect from such a gentleman.
“(Bennett) said, ‘F*** you,’ and walked past (the officer) on the field,” Chief Acevedo alleged. “’Y’all must know who I am, and I can own this m***** f*****. I’m going on to the field whether you like it or not.’ Those are quotes.”
Alas, Bennett’s ability to own that, ahem, playing field didn’t stop the jury for indicting him on the charge of injury to the elderly, which involves intentional bodily injury to an individual 65 or older. While the possible $10,000 fine probably isn’t too much of a worry for Mr. Bennett, the 10-year jail sentence it can carry definitely may be.
“I’m grateful that a guy who decides to push a 66-year-old black female paraplegic little old woman that’s trying to make a living making a fraction of what he’s making not only did they have to put up with his verbal abuse but had to put up with his physical assault,” Chief Acevedo said.
You may perhaps not be surprised that this is not Bennett’s first run-in with the police. Back in September of 2017, Bennett claimed he was the victim of police brutality after an incident in Las Vegas “for doing nothing more than being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The incident happened after another major sporting event, the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight on Aug. 27. Body cam footage released by Las Vegas Metro Police quickly proved Bennett was little more than a social justice fabulist; Bennett was apprehended by police after running from a casino where they were searching for an active shooter.
As for Bennett’s claim that an officer threatened to blow his head off, there seems to have been absolutely no evidence to back this up.
Bennett was also one of the higher-profile anthem protesters during his time with the Seattle Seahawks. In September of 2017, the 32-year-old Bennett said that he was doing so because he was “challenging people spiritually.”
In January, Bennett also announced he would be co-authoring a book to be released in April called “Things that Make White People Uncomfortable.” Given that it’s co-authored by The Nation’s very white Dave Zirin, one assumes the target audience was the kind of self-important white liberal who finds a book called “Things that Make White People Uncomfortable” hilarious and buying it an act of #resistance.
I have a good idea for a sequel, should the book be successful: “Things that Make Everyone Uncomfortable.” Number one: pushing paraplegic 66-year-old women, which his new team — the Philadelphia Eagles — seem awfully uncomfortable with.
Eagles Statement on Michael Bennett: We are aware of the situation involving Michael Bennett and are in the process of gathering more information. Because this is an ongoing legal matter, we will have no further comment at this time.
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) March 23, 2018
Number two: Losing lots of money. That’s probably what Bennett stands to do if things go very badly for him. He’s in the midst of a five-year, $40 million contract, according to The Daily Caller. If he gets convicted, even if he somehow avoids prison, there’s a pretty good chance the Eagles can get out of paying most of it. Sports and Entertainment Law Insider notes that Section 11 of the standard NFL player contract states that “if Player has engaged in personal conduct reasonably judged by Club to adversely affect or reflect on Club, then Club may terminate this contract.” Pushing elderly paraplegics again seems to fall under the aegis of this.
If you think that clubs aren’t wont to exercise this out clause, just ask Ray Rice.
Oh, and brings me to number three: prison. While plenty of spiritual revivals have occurred and/or good books have been written from within the walls of penitentiaries, most people tend to find them a drag. And Michael Bennett could be facing 10 years in one.
While I have doubts he’ll end up serving that long, I’m guessing there’s a good shot he’ll have plenty of time to write that follow-up.
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If it’s a day ending in “y,” there’s usually a celebrity out there trying to politicize controversy or tragedy, almost always on the liberal side of things.
Friday, that celebrity was Taylor Swift.
In a post on Instagram, Swift promoted the “March for Our Lives,” the political movement that seeks gun control legislation in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17 individuals.
“No one should have to go to school in fear of gun violence. Or to a nightclub. Or to a concert. Or to a movie theater. Or to their place of worship,” Swift said in the post.
“I’ve made a donation to show my support for the students, for the March For Our Lives campaign, for everyone affected by these tragedies, and to support gun reform,” Swift continued.
“I’m so moved by the Parkland High School students, faculty, by all families and friends of victims who have spoken out, trying to prevent this from happening again.”
The March for Our Lives movement has essentially been borne out of the political activities of the vocal liberal survivors of the Parkland shooting — survivors of an unspeakable tragedy who have been astroturfed by Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety and promoted incessantly in the media.
As it so happens, Everytown is also the primary driving force behind the marches on Saturday.
“On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end this epidemic of mass school shootings,” the website for the movement reads.
“The collective voices of the March For Our Lives movement will be heard. Join us in DC or march in your own community.”
Over 800 marches are planned across the world, although the primary march will be in the nation’s capital, where celebrity performers like Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Common will continue to vulgarize tragedy for political purposes.
And, at the end of the day, when the marchers have gone home, when the celebrities are done Snapchatting and Instagramming in solidarity, when the sanitation workers are cleaning up the mess, we will be no closer to a solution to school violence, we will be no closer to a consensus on public policy on gun rights and we will be no closer as a people.
However, the coffers of Everytown will be fuller, the profiles of those who want to profit off of this tragedy will be higher and the celebrities in the Hollywood Hills can continue to bask in the social media goodwill as they bask in the sun. Nice work.
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