So, Judge Kavanaugh is now Justice Kavanaugh, which means it’s time for the American left to stop their fusillade against Republican senators and, like always, assemble into a circular firing squad of enmity.

The mutually assured destruction now features a battle between the staid Democrats, who just took advantage of people who said they were victims of sexual assaults because they wanted to stop a Supreme Court nominee, and lawyer Michael Avenatti, who took advantage of people who said they were victims of sexual assaults because he wanted to be more famous.

In an article published by CNN Saturday, Democrats both named and unnamed say that the flamboyant lawyer made their case less credible thanks to his client Julie Swetnick, who claimed that Brett Kavanaugh and his friends ran a sort of “gang rape” cabal where women were plied with alcohol at teenage parties. She would later back away from some of these claims.

“Christine Blasey Ford had just revealed her identity and was prepared to testify in public, detailing her allegations that Kavanaugh had tried to sexual assault her more than three decades ago. On top of that, a New Yorker article had just revealed that a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, was accusing Kavanaugh of exposing his genitals to her while they were college students,” CNN reported.

“Then came Michael Avenatti.

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“The combative lawyer, who represents Stormy Daniels and has been a ubiquitous presence on cable television, revealed a stunning new allegation: A woman, Julie Swetnick, said she had witnessed the Supreme Court nominee attending more than 10 house parties between 1981 and 1983 where Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, were present. At some of those parties, she alleged, Kavanaugh was ‘fondling and grabbing girls without their consent’ and, along with others, spiking drinks to force girls to lose their inhibitions.”

Not only was there no corroboration here, it turns out Swetnick wasn’t terribly reliable. Now, Democrats say that Swetnick’s claims hurt their cause.

“Well you know at some point there were a lot of folks coming forward making all sorts of accusations,” Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, told CNN.

“It turns it into a circus atmosphere and certainly that’s not where we should be.”

Peters, asked whether Avenatti helped their cause, said that, “I think we should have focused on the serious allegations that certainly appeared very credible to me that would be our best course of action.”

Off the record, senior Democrats were more candid. One Senator said that Avenatti’s involvement was “(n)ot helpful at all. I think Susan (Collins) was always (voting) yes, but Avenatti was a useful foil.”

Another Democrat aide said Avenatti should have just focused on his quixotic run for the presidency and left the actual politicking to them.

“Democrats and the country would have been better off if Mr. Avenatti spent his time on his Iowa vanity project rather than meddling in Supreme Court fights,” one aide said.

“His involvement set us back, absolutely.”

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Avenatti, meanwhile, remained Avenatti-esque.

“It is outrageous that these so-called Democrats would attack a sexual assault victim from coming forward,” Avenatti said in response.

“I guess their position is that she should have shut her mouth and remained silent? It is disgusting that these cowards blame my client and the other accusers from coming forward.”

It’s funny that Avenatti and the Democrats are now at war over the Kavanaugh debacle; these two parties deserve each other. Circuses attract clowns, and Avenatti is the biggest clown of all. While he might be cute on basic cable at two in the afternoon, raving and ranting about how he’s going to take down the president, that doesn’t play so well when he gets involved in the actual political machinery of the nation.

It isn’t that Avenatti’s charges are so materially different from what Senate Democrats presented. Swetnick’s case was uncorroborated as well and involved a topic that was designed to make headlines and defame a Supreme Court nominee. The difference was that, like everything Avenatti touches, it was just a little bit more debased than everything else being pushed by the Democrats. He was like a caricature of the entire process.

So, in the end, what did the Democrats expect? Once they let Avenatti run loose inside the funhouse, this was bound to happen. Let the circular firing squad commence.

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There is a reason so many American families supported Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, despite the left’s best attempts to derail it.

Liberals didn’t take into account two things when they orchestrated a campaign to falsely accuse the judicial nominee of sexual assault.

The first is that there would be a majority of Americans across the country who care deeply about the justice of presumed innocence over presumed guilt; the other is that not all women who make accusations of sexual assault are telling the truth.

For those of us who are parents of daughters, our concerns are for their safety and protection, of course.

For those of us who are parents of sons, our concerns are for their safety and protection, of course.

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The latter is the focus of another drama that is playing out in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles north of Pittsburgh. And it might also be the outcome all parents of sons feared would escalate if Democrats succeeded in undoing the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

According to WPXI News in Pittsburgh, Michael J. and Alecia Flood, the parents of a high school-aged boy identified only as T.F., filed a civil lawsuit on Monday in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh against the Seneca Valley School District in Butler County, District Attorney Richard Goldinger, and the parents of five teenage “mean girls” who falsely accused the boy of sexual assault.

The suit alleges “that school officials and Goldinger’s office didn’t take any action against the girls even after learning their accusations were false,” according to WPXI News.

The parents who filed the suit say the “mean girls” conspired to falsely accuse their son of sexual assault which resulted in several unfair consequences.

WPXI reported the girls “conspired in person and via electronic communication devices to falsely accuse T.F. of sexual assault on two occasions.”

WXPI also reported that T.F. was fired from his job at the Zelienople Community Pool where he was employed at the time of the allegations and “…forced to endure multiple court appearances, detention in a juvenile facility, detention at home, loss of his liberty, and other damages until several of the girls reluctantly admitted that their accusations were false.”

Breitbart also reported: “The suit also alleges that the boy was subjected to months of bullying from other kids at school.”

Penn Live reported one example of bullying listed in the suit the boy suffered: “The lawsuit said students last year placed masking tape with the word ‘PREDATOR’ written on it on his back without his knowledge during choir practice.”

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In the original 27-page complaint filed against T.F., the teen girls accused him of two different instances of sexual assault – one at the Zelienople Community Pool and another at a private home.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted the Floods’ attorney Craig Fishman on Thursday as saying, “The system right now is biased against men.”

As a father of two adult daughters, according to the newspaper, Fishman said he supported the advancement of the #MeToo movement, but said in this case, things had gone too far.

“They discriminated against the boy based solely on his gender,” Fishman told the Post-Gazette.

And isn’t that what is going through the minds of many parents of boys?

If they could take down a highly qualified Supreme Court nominee with mere accusations that had no basis in physical evidence or fact, it would certainly be a cake walk to ruin lives with false accusations against boys, men across the country. What a frightening possibility.

The left went too far in believing it could rally in the court of public opinion the advancement an agenda that collapses the constitutional principles and the presumption of innocence.

Let’s hope justice prevails in Pennsylvania.

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One of the fundamental tenets of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, which is given life through what the law calls “due process.”

The Library of Congress defines due process as “a constitutional guarantee that prevents governments from impacting citizens in an abusive way. (emphasis added) In its modern form, due process includes both procedural standards that courts must uphold in order to protect peoples’ personal liberty and a range of liberty interests that statutes and regulations must not infringe.”

You’ll notice that Democrats’ moves during the confirmation fight over now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh absolutely impacted “citizens in an abusive way” with the way they attacked and maligned Kavanaugh until Saturday’s vote.

But more damning than the Democrats’ treatment of Kavanaugh has been their utter disregard for the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution.

Just in case you haven’t brushed up on your constitutional amendments lately, the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments guarantee, among other things, that no “person” can “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

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Simply put, in America, a person accused of wrongdoing should always be presumed innocent until proven guilty. It’s literally in the Constitution, despite Democrats’ best attempts to obscure that little fact.

One reason Democrats have been so brazen in their disdain for due process has been exposed by the The Daily Caller. In short, Democrats’ knew their base would be easy to convince.

The Daily Caller asked Kavanaugh protesters if they believe that he should be innocent until proven guilty. Check out the video by The Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson here.

The answers were jarring, to say the least. At the same time, their responses eerily echoed the anti-due process rhetoric Democratic leaders have been spewing.

“Innocent until proven guilty. Do you think those rules apply here (regarding Judge Kavanaugh)?” the Johnson asked protesters in the street.

“Innocent until proven guilty for (Kavanaugh)? No,” one protester wearing an “I Am A Survivor” shirt said. “Absolutely not. He’s guilty all the way. Guilty, guilty, guilty.”

Actually, all witness statements — other than those of Kavanaugh’s accusers themselves — and the results of the FBI’s background investigation have found no evidence of Kavanaugh being guilty.

But Kavanugh didn’t deserve the presumption of innocence?

“I’ve heard that a lot, too,” a woman protesting Kavanaugh’s confirmation told Johnson. “Like, ‘He’s innocent until proven guilty.’ But then, I’m reminding people that’s in a court of law, which, this is not a court of law.”

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An older woman holding a sign that read “Shouldn’t Hire Unfit Liar,” made similar remarks.

“Yes, (Kavanaugh) is innocent until proven guilty. But that’s not what this is. It’s not a court. It’s a job interview,” the woman said.

The two women are sort of right in that the Kavanaugh confirmation process was not a criminal court case. But the reality is that the man was accused very publicly of having committed a serious crime. The American public owed it to Kavanaugh, and to the country’s traditions, to not consider him guilty simply on the basis of that accusation — but that’s exactly what Democrats did.

Another older woman joined in the chorus of saying the presumption of innocence was irrelevant.

“No, but see the thing is, it’s not about innocent until proven guilty. It is about he will not stay still long enough and take responsibility for what has happened already. When the Senate refuses to allow the FBI to investigate him, it’s just (a) sham! It’s a total freaking sham!” she said.

Never mind that Kavanaugh sat through hours of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings and, when he had the chance, denied loudly every accusation against him. And never mind that the Judiciary Committee absolutely requested the FBI investigate him. Why let facts get in the way of a great rant?

Things turned even darker when Johnson asked protesters if Kavanaugh even deserved due process. It’s one thing to think the man is guilty with every fiber of your being. It’s something much scarier when you don’t think the man even deserves to be heard. Several people all flatly told Johnson that no, Kavanaugh doesn’t deserve due process.

Any time someone accuses Democrats of trying to undermine our Constitution, The Daily Caller video should be the first piece of evidence presented.

Although, if you’re going by the Democratic logic on display here, I guess you don’t even need that evidence.

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I’m old enough to remember when Democrats lectured us about how concerns over illegal immigrants coming into the country and joining up with MS-13 was mostly hype, an unfair characterization of immigrants, a “political tool” of Donald Trump (NY Times), mostly a myth (WaPo) and any number of other denigrating statements. Of course, if you’ve been awake for just the past year you’re probably old enough to remember that also. But not even everyone in the liberal community buys these claims.

Some of biggest strongholds of Democratic donors (with deep pockets) in the northeastern reaches of the country have chosen to take the issue seriously. And they’re putting their money where their mouths are… lots of it. As the New York Post reports this week, out on Long Island, some of the wealthier residents are upgrading their homes at tremendous expense, but it’s not for a new art collection or a second yacht. They’re putting in panic rooms, bulletproof glass, arsenals of weapons and top line security systems. And they’re doing it to hide from MS-13 raids.

There is a specter haunting the Hamptons — one that’s turning some of the priciest properties in the country into fortresses equipped with bulletproof glass, weaponry and panic rooms.

“I sleep with a gun underneath my pillow: a Walther PPK/S, the same one James Bond carried,” said John Catsimatidis, owner of Red Apple Group and Gristedes Foods, who has a vacation property in East Quogue. “[My wife] Margo prefers a shotgun. Although, once, she thought she heard something, got the shotgun out and shot through the door.”

The billionaire and his family, like others in the Hamptons, are shaken up over concerns that the vicious Salvadorian gang MS-13 is too close for comfort. In April, members of the gang massacred four young men behind a soccer field in Central Islip. Three months later, a Hampton Bays brothel raided by police was found to be tagged with an MS-13 sign. And in 2016, a man with MS-13 connections broke into a Southampton home and sexually assaulted a woman.

This isn’t just a handful of nervous Nellies. The Post was able to find plenty who were willing to talk (mostly on background) who keep an eye on the local news and they don’t feel safe. Gang attacks have been escalating, even as other forms of crime have been declining, and gang members have been hitting affluent neighborhoods, probably because that’s where the money is.

Speaking of money, there’s another way to measure how many people are responding to the increased threat. The reporters in this story checked with manufacturers of specialized defense systems and bulletproof windows and they found that business is booming. Armored Entry, a company that installs bullet-proof, super-secure windows and doors, is keeping very busy in that region and they charge up to $6,000 for a single window. Covert Interiors is a company that specializes in “Luxury Panic Rooms” and they’re also keeping their calendar full. With their services, you can have a panic closet for as “little” as $20K or you can drop up to a quarter million and have a place to wait out the apocalypse in style.

So you tell me. It’s easy enough to find people to talk about a threat or challenge to add some political weight to the national conversation. But who is going to be flushing that kind of money into home security unless they are reacting to a legitimate threat? People who want to deny that we have a problem with violent illegal aliens should take a tour of the Hamptons and speak to some of the residents. (Assuming you can get past the guards.) See how much of a “myth” it looks like to them.

Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson — who made headlines last December when he revealed his “Badass” Hillary Clinton tattoo — appeared on the NBC show’s “Weekend Update” segment and launched a full-on assault on Kanye West.

“So speaking strictly for myself, what Kanye said after he went off the air last week was one of the worst, most awkward things I’ve ever seen here,” Davidson said of West’s impassioned speech during the end of last week’s show, in which the Grammy-winner railed against critics of President Donald Trump, the “90 percent” liberal media, and pro-welfare state Democrats.
“He started by saying people backstage tried to bully him into not wearing it,” Davidson said of West. “He wore it all week. Like, nobody told him not to wear it. I wish I bullied you. I wish I suggested that, you know, it might upset some people, like, your wife or every black person ever.”

Opting not to challenge any of the myriad arguments that West mentioned, Davidson jumped to personal digs, saying, “Being mentally ill is not an excuse to act like a jackass, OK?”

Putting on a red “Make Kayne 2006 Again” hat, Davidson concluded the segment saying, “We want the old Kanye back.”

In 2016, President Trump criticized SNL for being unfunny and obnoxiously liberal. Pete Davidson, responding to Trump’s comments, said, “Never been more proud. Fuck you bitch.”

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