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One of my favorite Woody Allen jokes is, “Hey, don’t knock masturbation, it’s sex with someone I love.”
Well, you might want to hold tight to your copy of Annie Hall because ridiculing self-love is about to become as verboten as your copy of Dude Looks Like a Lady — because self-love is now a thing, yall, a real thing, another one of those things we are going to be forced to accept as normal and not at all as a sign of some kind mental illness or, heaven forbid, crybullying narcissism.
“What’s it like being autosexual, when you’re attracted to yourself?” the headline reads, and the answer is: “It can mean being turned on by your own look and nudity, getting butterflies when you think about yourself, being excited to spend time alone, and masturbating to the idea of yourself. It’s all the feelings we get for a potential new suitor but for ourselves.”
The piece gets most of its information from someone named Ghia Vitale, who is both “autosexual and autoromatic” — and no, I’m not looking up “autoromantic.” Google it yourself.
Ghia became aware of her sexuality at the age of seven — SEVEN — and “after unlearning her preconceived notions about relationships and the idea that you have to be with another person for it to be valid, Ghia wants to normalise autosexuality.”
“I still had sexual and romantic feelings about myself, but always assumed a relationship had to be with another person in order to be valid,” she explained. “I now realise that my relationship with myself is as valid as any other relationship.”
“The relationship I have with myself is special,” she adds. “I sometimes get butterflies in my stomach when I think of myself. I know I can always turn to myself if I’m having a problem. I love myself for my uniqueness, creativity, and beauty.”
You know, I normally don’t say things like this, but this poor girl needs to find Jesus.
But it may be too late. Ghia has already taken the next step and is engaged to herself, as in engaged to be married. “Although I will one day be my own wife, I am enjoying the feeling of being engaged,” she says.
Marriage to one’s self is called sologamy, and while sologamy is not yet legally recognized anywhere in the world, now that people of the same sex can be married, there is no argument against sologamy.
You know, it might be worth legalizing sologamy just so we can see what the divorce will look like.
Hey, remember when they told us same sex marriage was not a slippery slope? Remember when they said same sex marriage would not open a Pandora’s box, would not affect our lives? And here we are, just a few years later, living in a world where men are peeing next to our daughters, Christianity itself is labeled bigoted, men are triumphing in women’s sports, and gay rights crusader Martina Navratilova is being crucified for her opposition to allowing men to compete in women’s sports.
It is always a slippery slope, folks. Always.
Going back to Woody Allen, looks like Sleeper pretty much nailed what our future would look like — equal parts fascism and narcissism:
Let me be the first to apologize to the Baby Boomers for describing them as the “worst ever.”
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Apparently, when President Trump took time to hug the American flag on the CPAC stage on Saturday, he triggered people on the left and sent them into a tailspin. And in a report during Tuesday’s edition of Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN reporter Jeanne Moos dedicate time to hype negative responses on Twitter and by late night comedians, while lampooning the President for his display of affection for the flag.
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Hundreds of eager event attendees wearing MAGA hats and Blexit t-shirts gathered at The National Theater in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, to attend the Blexit rally. This was Owens’ second Blexit event of the year, the first having been held in Los Angeles, California, in January.
Breitbart News was present at the event and had the opportunity to speak with attendees and speakers. While waiting in line to get into the event, one young attendee, Chandler, told Breitbart News he believes he has “awoken earlier than most people” due to having “fantastic parents.”
“I had fantastic parents that allowed me to, instead of being indoctrinated — do my own research,” said the young activist, “and when I did my research and found these things about the Democrat and the Republican Party, I was angry — because my people had been lied to for generations.”
“And I just didn’t know what to do with it, but then, I went to YBLS, and my skills were cultivated and activated, and after that, I just wanted to help people — I wanted to free my people, both Latino and black, and create a better future for my people.”
“I get a lot of flack from people,” said another event attendee, Russell, “They’ll see my [Blexit] shirt and ask me about it, and when I tell them what it’s all about — they’ll look at me like I’m crazy — like, ‘don’t you know that you’re not supposed to be thinking that way?’”
Russell added that he has a “Trump 2016” sticker on his car, and is often questioned when getting out of his car. “They’ll see me get out of the car, and they’ll go, ‘Is that your car?’ — ‘You’re a Trump supporter?’”
“It’s just crazy,” continued the Blexit attendee, “It’s just amazing that I actually have to justify — the only reason they ask those questions is because of the color of my skin.”
“I’ve always been a supporter of the Democratic Party,” said a third attendee, Reginald, “but now — since I’ve started to now do my own research and find out that the Democratic party is not for minorities, of any race, whether it be black, Latino, Asian.”
“Now I’m getting the bash for making my own decision and being a free thinker.”
The event-goers waiting outside of The National Theater did not look like the people who the establishment media would likely want you to believe are conservatives. In fact, there was no mainstream media outlet present to cover the Blexit event.
Sunday’s Blexit audience gathered to hear remarks from Candace Owens, as well as featured speakers such as conservative politician E. W. Jackson, political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, and Turning Point USA Director of Urban Engagement Brandon Tatum, among several others.
One speaker was Breitbart’s own entertainment editor, Jerome Hudson, who encouraged attendees to harness their power as citizen journalists, echoing the sentiments of the news outlet’s late founder, Andrew Breitbart.
“Our founder, Andrew Breitbart, famously said that politics is downstream from culture,” said Hudson to his audience, “That’s why your voice on social media is so important. You have a megaphone in your pocket that empowers you to fight back.”
“Long before the social media movement in America exploded, Andrew Breitbart used to hold up his phone at rallies just like this one and tell the audience to harness their power as citizen journalists. See, you are more powerful than you realize.”
Breitbart Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson encouraging attendees to use the power of their cell phones to be citizen journalists. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
Owens announced her “Blexit” project last October, aimed at leading “the black exit from the Democrat Party,” in which she vowed to take her mission of exodus to cities controlled by Democrat politicians.
This made the state of Virginia an obvious choice for hosting the second Blexit event, considering recent scandals involving the state’s governor, Ralph Northam, and attorney general, Mark Herring.
In January, Northam had been exposed on video casually endorsing infanticide, and then, days later, the governor’s medical school yearbook photo was leaked to the public, displaying one individual in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
While the reaction to Northam’s revealed stance on infanticide was — in comparison to his leaked yearbook photo — virtually nonexistent, (despite abortion having a disproportionate effect on the black community), Northam’s yearbook photo, on the other hand, elicited a response of public outrage across the country, as well as calls for his resignation.
Governor Northam has since successfully dodged calls for his resignation.
Owens told Breitbart News she had chosen Richmond, Virginia, to shine a light on “the hypocrisy of the left.”
“The problem is that there’s not enough of a reaction,” said Owens, “What we’re seeing down here is that they’re trying to just gloss it over, say it’s okay, and then we’re supposed to all go back to normal.”
“This, of course, would never be allowed on the conservative side,” added Owens.
Owens also noted Northam’s stance on late-term abortions, adding, “This is a perfect time to talk to black America, Hispanic America, and all of America, of the hypocrisy of the left, and the results of these progressive policies, which are always regressive for communities that are afflicted by them.”
Additionally, Owens touched upon Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“The idea that a sitting person in Congress can refer to a black conservative as a token or say that they are participating in tokenism, that’s a racial slur,” said Owens of Ocasio-Cortez’s recent tweet in reference to Trump staffer, Lynne Patton.
“This is what I mean when I say that we give a pass to and an okay to people on the left.”
Blexit attendee watches attentively as she waits for the next speaker to arrive on stage. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
Maga hat-clad Blexit attendees applaud as Dinesh D’Souza is welcomed to the stage. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
Conservative politician E. W. Jackson tells attendees not to believe the socialist lies that they need big government to succeed. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
E. W. Jackson, who was Northam’s opponent for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2013, added that Northam had once actually refused to shake his hand.
“These liberals really think that they have a free pass to do and say whatever they want because they are liberals, when in fact, they are the most condescending, paternalistic, racist individuals in this country,” said Jackson, as the crowd roared with applause and cheers in concurrence.
“Because they think they own black people, they think they own Latino people,” continued Jackson, “and it’s time to tell them, ‘You don’t own us, we are our own people and we will chart the course of our own lives!”
“We will think for ourselves, we will write for ourselves, we will speak for ourselves!”
“I want to tell you young people something,” added Jackson, “don’t believe the socialist lie that you’ve gotta have government — you can do anything you want to do because this is the greatest nation on the face of the earth for fulfilling your God-given potential.”
The Blexit audience responded with a standing ovation and chants of “USA!”
“And don’t you let anybody tell you anything different,” said Jackson, as the crowd roared, “That’s right! USA!”
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Abbott and Costello, zany comic geniuses, are enjoying a big second act 75 years after their original success.
That’s because people need easy ways to describe the pretentious but ultimately silly Common Core. Abbott and Costello cooked up some mad math that sounds strangely like C.C. homework, such as “Loan Me Fifty Cents” (2 minutes):
Common Core is a challenge for the normal mind because it is unnecessarily complicated, pompous, and dishonest, all at the same instant.
There are many scores of videos trying to illuminate the tangled web known as Common Core. This one has the virtue of being only 96 seconds.
Here’s how a C.C. shill defends the indefensible: “[E]ven if they said 3 times 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focusing on the how[.]”
Does it matter what the student “explains”? This woman thinks so. And there we enter the Comedy Zone. Abbott and Costello were there first, as we see in “Two Tens for a Five.“
Common Core is a mix of implausible and impossible. W.C. Fields, with his famously stunned expression, could be the poster boy for hifalutin stuff that doesn’t make sense. (I used him years ago to create a character called Captain Dolch, AKA The Father of Sight-Words, because phony reading instruction and phony math instruction start from the same impulse: to befuddle children.)
Or remember Mr. Ed (which surely stands for “Education”). His equine mug is pure Comedy Core.
But maybe Jack Nicholson does it best. In The Shining, he’s crazy but also dangerous. Give him long enough, and he’s going to hurt you, just like Common Core.
Common Core makes little children cry. It exasperates parents eager to help, even parents with degrees in scientific subjects. And it depresses mathematical knowledge throughout the population, to a point lower than anyone thought possible. A terrorist trifecta like this is hardly imaginable. One has to assume years of research funded by your taxes. Or did they go directly to Abbott and Costello for guidance? These guys easily prove 13×7 is 28.
There are lots of videos promoting Common Core. One expert might brag about how children are taught to look for “multiple strategies.” Why not the best one? Another official says it didn’t matter if students can’t find the right answer and wander hopelessly. What matters is the search. Getting the correct answer quickly is so 19th century. Yet another professor raves on about “multi-dimension mathematics” and “rich, open tasks.” Apparently, students should struggle to find the correct answer, and that struggle is supposed to be the genius of Common Core.
Common Core is a cheap trick. When fourth-grade questions are given to second-graders, you’re almost guaranteed bewilderment. That’s the basic gimmick all the way through New Math, Reform Math, and Common Core Math. Go over their heads, make them feel helpless, so they give up.
Advocates talk about how Common Core is more rigorous, collaborative, and creative. No, it’s just confusing. Wags and wits on the internet compete to capture the nutty essence of Common Core. For example: “If you have four pencils and seven apples, how many pancakes will fit on a roof? Purple. Because aliens don’t wear hats.”
The word because is especially delicious. Normally, because requires a smidgen of logic. But here, “because” is spoken by a crazy drunk guy who never makes sense. Abbott and Costello don’t hesitate to prove that two bananas equal three bananas.
Almost as offensive as the faux math itself is the pretentious professors who try to intimidate anyone who scorns Common Core. These annoying trolls chat smugly about how when they took advanced grad school courses, they perceived the full beauty of the Common Core approach, and you would, too, if you were that smart! Superciliousness is rarely more irritating.
Here is a golden moment. A Common Core question wants the student to say 5 + 5 + 5 = 15. Sorry, that’s the wrong answer. The third-grader should have figured out the correct answer — namely, 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15.
This stuff is so annoying, but if you can stand a heavy dose, here is a six-minute video that shows the Common Core Two-Step: start with simple arithmetic; add complexity. Just the way Abbott and Costello would do it.
We are told that, thanks to Common Core, students will learn to think like mathematicians. This is the central nonsense. Manifestly, there is no need for that in elementary school, even if it could be done. First, children should be taught to do basic arithmetic with confidence. Then, and only then, teachers might begin explaining the depths. That’s the natural sequence. Common Core violates it from the first day.
Where is common sense in our Congress? Where are people willing to oppose destructively complex instruction of elementary topics? There could be no more obvious battle lines.
Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them? He deconstructs educational theories and methods on Improve-Education.org.
Abbott and Costello, zany comic geniuses, are enjoying a big second act 75 years after their original success.
That’s because people need easy ways to describe the pretentious but ultimately silly Common Core. Abbott and Costello cooked up some mad math that sounds strangely like C.C. homework, such as “Loan Me Fifty Cents” (2 minutes):
Common Core is a challenge for the normal mind because it is unnecessarily complicated, pompous, and dishonest, all at the same instant.
There are many scores of videos trying to illuminate the tangled web known as Common Core. This one has the virtue of being only 96 seconds.
Here’s how a C.C. shill defends the indefensible: “[E]ven if they said 3 times 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focusing on the how[.]”
Does it matter what the student “explains”? This woman thinks so. And there we enter the Comedy Zone. Abbott and Costello were there first, as we see in “Two Tens for a Five.“
Common Core is a mix of implausible and impossible. W.C. Fields, with his famously stunned expression, could be the poster boy for hifalutin stuff that doesn’t make sense. (I used him years ago to create a character called Captain Dolch, AKA The Father of Sight-Words, because phony reading instruction and phony math instruction start from the same impulse: to befuddle children.)
Or remember Mr. Ed (which surely stands for “Education”). His equine mug is pure Comedy Core.
But maybe Jack Nicholson does it best. In The Shining, he’s crazy but also dangerous. Give him long enough, and he’s going to hurt you, just like Common Core.
Common Core makes little children cry. It exasperates parents eager to help, even parents with degrees in scientific subjects. And it depresses mathematical knowledge throughout the population, to a point lower than anyone thought possible. A terrorist trifecta like this is hardly imaginable. One has to assume years of research funded by your taxes. Or did they go directly to Abbott and Costello for guidance? These guys easily prove 13×7 is 28.
There are lots of videos promoting Common Core. One expert might brag about how children are taught to look for “multiple strategies.” Why not the best one? Another official says it didn’t matter if students can’t find the right answer and wander hopelessly. What matters is the search. Getting the correct answer quickly is so 19th century. Yet another professor raves on about “multi-dimension mathematics” and “rich, open tasks.” Apparently, students should struggle to find the correct answer, and that struggle is supposed to be the genius of Common Core.
Common Core is a cheap trick. When fourth-grade questions are given to second-graders, you’re almost guaranteed bewilderment. That’s the basic gimmick all the way through New Math, Reform Math, and Common Core Math. Go over their heads, make them feel helpless, so they give up.
Advocates talk about how Common Core is more rigorous, collaborative, and creative. No, it’s just confusing. Wags and wits on the internet compete to capture the nutty essence of Common Core. For example: “If you have four pencils and seven apples, how many pancakes will fit on a roof? Purple. Because aliens don’t wear hats.”
The word because is especially delicious. Normally, because requires a smidgen of logic. But here, “because” is spoken by a crazy drunk guy who never makes sense. Abbott and Costello don’t hesitate to prove that two bananas equal three bananas.
Almost as offensive as the faux math itself is the pretentious professors who try to intimidate anyone who scorns Common Core. These annoying trolls chat smugly about how when they took advanced grad school courses, they perceived the full beauty of the Common Core approach, and you would, too, if you were that smart! Superciliousness is rarely more irritating.
Here is a golden moment. A Common Core question wants the student to say 5 + 5 + 5 = 15. Sorry, that’s the wrong answer. The third-grader should have figured out the correct answer — namely, 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15.
This stuff is so annoying, but if you can stand a heavy dose, here is a six-minute video that shows the Common Core Two-Step: start with simple arithmetic; add complexity. Just the way Abbott and Costello would do it.
We are told that, thanks to Common Core, students will learn to think like mathematicians. This is the central nonsense. Manifestly, there is no need for that in elementary school, even if it could be done. First, children should be taught to do basic arithmetic with confidence. Then, and only then, teachers might begin explaining the depths. That’s the natural sequence. Common Core violates it from the first day.
Where is common sense in our Congress? Where are people willing to oppose destructively complex instruction of elementary topics? There could be no more obvious battle lines.
Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them? He deconstructs educational theories and methods on Improve-Education.org.
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Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Monday approved a controversial "red flag" gun control bill that would allow courts to order the temporary seizure of firearms from individuals deemed to be a risk.
The bill passed in a 38 to 25 vote, and will now head to the Senate for debate. It’s expected to pass and be signed by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.
HB 19-1177 would allow judges to issue temporary extreme risk protection orders (ERPO), leading to a search warrant and temporary seizure of firearms if a person is thought to be a threat. Family members or law enforcement would first have to petition the court for an ERPO.
The bill would require a court-appointed lawyer for the respondent and hold a hearing in the first two weeks of the temporary ERPO. The court would be able to issue a continuing ERPO that lasts up to 364 days under the bill if family members or law enforcement can demonstrate clear and convincing evidence of risk.
A similar bill was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate last year, despite bipartisan support. Democrats now have a majority in the Senate.
Earlier this month, the House debated the bill for 10 hours, eventually passing it on first reading.
Law enforcement officials are split on the bill, and some counties have passed "Second Amendment Sanctuary County" resolutions, citing due process concerns.
Custer and Fremont counties have both passed resolutions which would mean sheriffs in those counties wouldn’t have to enforce ERPOs if the bill becomes a law.
Democratic House Majority Leader Alec Garnett, D-Denver, mocked the counties in a floor speech before the bill’s passage Monday.
"Now we have sanctuary counties," he said. "I mean, do we have to talk about the ridiculousness of sanctuary counties? You’re not going to enforce a judicial order?"
The counties of Weld and Montezuma have also considered passing sanctuary county measures. Sheriffs in El Paso and Teller Counties have also said they won’t back the bill.
Dave Kopel, research director for the Independence Institute and head of its Second Amendment Project, said the resolutions "don’t formally negate state laws."
"If a county sheriff won’t enforce a particular law, then the only available enforcers are municipal police plus state police," he said.
The bill’s main sponsor, Rep. Tom Sullivan, D-Centennial, lost his son in the Aurora shooting. Sullivan and Garnett announced the bill at a press conference last month on the one-year anniversary of the shooting that took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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Poor Will Smith can’t catch a break! First the African-American star was roundly mocked on the Internet for being the color blue in the new live-action Aladdin movie, now social justice warriors are complaining about his skin color in a different way.
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Two of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) top advisers have deep ties to the anti-Israel community and were chastised several years ago for their involvement in an anti-Semitism scandal that gripped a prominent Washington, D.C., think-tank.
Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic-socialist who has once again thrown his hat into the ring for a 2020 presidential bid, has begun to rely in recent months on two staffers: Foreign policy adviser Matt Duss and campaign manager Faiz Shakir, both of whom faced charges of promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during their time at the Center for American Progress, or CAP, a liberal think-tank.
Sanders’s dependence on Duss and Shakir has been making waves in the pro-Israel and Jewish community in recent months, given the duo’s prominent role in CAP’s 2012 anti-Semitism row, which saw several staffers at the organization’s Think Progress blog rebuked for invoking age-old canards about Jewish control of money and politics. Duss has faced additional scrutiny in the subsequent years for publishing Nazi-era propaganda posters and steadfastly standing against the U.S.-Israel alliance
As the matter of anti-Jewish bias in prominent D.C. political circles makes its way back into the news following a series of anti-Semitic comments by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), many in the pro-Israel community are beginning to raise questions about Sanders’ choice to fill his ranks with individuals closely tied to some of the most prominent anti-Israel causes.
In 2012, Duss was CAP’s Middle East director, while Shakir served as editor-in-chief of the group’s Think Progress blog, which has since become regarded as a hotbed for anti-Israel activism.
During their tenure at CAP, Duss and Shakir emerged at the forefront of a scandal involving several Think Progress bloggers who accused pro-Israel Jews and members of Congress of being "Israel firsters," a term implying that those who support the Jewish state have dual loyalties.
The scandal rocked CAP for several months and drew condemnation across the board, including from the Obama administration ,which distanced itself from Duss, Shakir, and the rest of Think Progress’s former staff.
Shakir—who initially remained silent as controversy swirled around Think Progress’s use of anti-Semitic language—later said in a leaked internal email that his employees used "terrible, anti-Semitic language" when invoking the "Israel firster" term.
Duss also stood on the sidelines at the time, declining to condemn the anti-Semitic language. Numerous articles penned by Duss and other CAP Action Fund bloggers were said "to be infected with Jew-hatred and discriminatory policy positions toward Israel," according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which combats anti-Semitism.
Duss, who was recently hailed as the "progressive" foreign policy mind behind Sanders, has for the better part of the last decade been a driving force behind the far left’s anti-Israel activism. Oftentimes, this criticism waded into anti-Semitic waters.
In 2013, for instance, after the "Israel firster" scandal ended with the firing and departure of several Think Progress bloggers, Duss again was charged with anti-Semitism after he published Nazi-era propaganda posters online as part of a campaign to discredit a conservative Israeli advocacy organization.
"Given CAP’s disturbing familiarity with, and history of, deploying what leading global anti-Semitism experts and watchdog organizations identified as actual anti-Semitic language, it is both ironic and troubling to see CAP’s Matt Duss dubiously objecting to imagery that is not being described as such by such experts in his transparent attempt to smear those with whom he disagrees," one senior Jewish community official told the Washington Free Beacon at the time.
A Free Beacon report conducted at that time linked several other members of Duss’s family to vitriolic activism against the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, Shakir also returned to the anti-Israel stage after departing from CAP.
As national political director for the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, Shakir led the charge to kill a major piece of pro-Israel legislation aimed at thwarting boycotts of Israel.
Shakir and a colleague penned a Washington Post editorial in 2017 in which they argued that congressional efforts to impede the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, a global campaign to wage economic warfare on Israel, impeded free speech rights.
This argument has been thoroughly debunked by prominent members of Congress and the pro-Israel community as a whole.
Multiple sources from across the pro-Israel and Jewish worlds who spoke to the Free Beacon both on the record and only on background emphasized that Sanders’ promotion of both Duss and Shakir is not going unnoticed.
"Sanders is building a campaign team filled with people who have devoted their careers to running anti-Semitic campaigns and calling them anti-Israel," said one veteran Jewish communal activist. "It’s deliberate and transparent. These are people who take over progressive organizations and turn them into hubs for pushing and defending open hostility toward Israelis and Jews. It’s clearly what they’re being hired to do now."
"Sanders used to leave foreign policy alone, but now he’s found advisers to sharpen his message for the progressive zeitgeist," said Noah Pollak, a veteran Republican consultant and executive director of the Committee for Israel. "The zeitgeist, and those advisors, are obsessed with Israel, and the reason they’re obsessed with Israel is because they appear to be obsessed with Jews. It’s appalling on the substance but it’s also bad politics. Most of America is going to be puzzled to discover, to take one example, that a few months ago during Hamas’s attempts to send terrorists across Israel’s border, Sanders was on TV repeating Hamas talking points about peaceful protesters. Sanders’s domestic policy amounts to hating the rich and his foreign policy amounts to hating Israel. It’s probably not a winning platform."
"In a climate of escalating Jew-hate, particularly coming from self-described progressives, it is especially alarming that Bernie Sanders would put in charge of his presidential campaign and foreign policy portfolio two people so deeply at the heart of an anti-Semitism scandal and cancer that had to be cut-out from the Center for American Progress for engaging in vile Jew-baiting, including attacking pro-Israel Democratic members of Congress as ‘Likudniks’ and American Jews as ‘Israel Firsters,’" said Josh Block, CEO and president of the Israel Project.
"If the European Union, the U.S. Department of State and more than three dozen countries can uphold a common standard going back to 2005 that says ‘no’ to those who single Israel out with slander and boycott and who truck in anti-Zionist, antisemitic rhetoric and discrimination, surely we should expect those seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States to do the same."
Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a correspondent with the Jerusalem Post who is largely responsible for exposing the CAP scandal, told the Free Beacon that Sanders must ensure he is not allowing himself to be steered toward
radical, anti-Semitic elements of the Democratic Party.
"Bernie Sanders in the past has recognized that there are anti-Semitic elements among those promoting BDS," Weinthal said. "I can only hope he will be vigilant and not let his policies be steered in a destructive direction."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was a vocal critic of both Duss and Shakir during their time at CAP. He told the Free Beacon during a Tuesday interview that Sanders’s decision to elevate the two staffers to the top of his political organization is "troubling."
"It’s clear that when you put these types of people at key positions of your campaign you’re sending a signal and the early signal is clearly a troubling one," said Cooper.
"When you have someone who seemed to take a leading role of taking the ACLU from its historic role of standing up for freedom of speech in the United States to becoming a major proponent of anti-Israel moves, of course that’s a source of deep concern," Cooper said.
While Cooper expressed optimism that Sanders will make strides to reassure the pro-Israel community, he said that "individuals who are clearly anti-Israel … of course it’s a source a concern."
Sanders is no stranger to anti-Israel causes and individuals. He has a penchant for hiring from the far left, anti-Israel ranks.
Simone Zimmerman, a former Sanders top aide who was fired as the senator’s Jewish outreach coordinator after profanity-laced screed against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to light, announced late Tuesday that she had accepted a job with B’Tselem, a fringe group primarily known for angling to undermine the elected Israeli government.
Sen. Sanders office did not respond to a request for comment.
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released its February statistics on apprehensions at the border and it’s a doozy:
That red line represents what’s going on just so far this year.
According to the El Paso Times:
Federal immigration law enforcement leaders said the United States is facing a massive “border security and humanitarian crisis” and is at a “breaking point” while highlighting El Paso as an example of the overwhelming number of migrants coming to the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan and United States Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings held a news conference Tuesday in Washington D.C. to announce the large increase of apprehensions being made by Border Patrol agents.
The latest statistics show that agents are on pace to break the record numbers of migrant crossings set last year.
More than 76,000 illegal border crossers were caught in the month of February alone, with 66,450 of those either unaccompanied “children” (read: gang-aged young men) or else people traveling as claimed family units, authentic or otherwise. Some of the press seems to be misreading the charts to suggest that the entire total was 66,450, but the official statistics (shown in the chart above) demonstrate that that number was just the ‘moms and kids’ of the group. There were more than 10,000 others, seen on the chart above it, and with a harder time claiming asylum as single adults, rest assured, not all of those crossers were actually caught.
It’s not really that surprising, either – it’s right on track with a major Gallup poll of Latin Americans released last month showing that five million foreign nationals south of our border are planning to come to the U.S., legally or otherwise in 2019. The Gallup poll found a 40% rise in the worldwide desire to immigrate, and Central American countries showing some of the highest percentage totals within that group - 52% of Salvadorans and 47% of Hondurans wanting to leave. The Guatamalan stats must be comparable, given the very large numbers of those nationals being apprehended at the U.S. border, although Guatemala is about twice the size populationwise of the other two.
What is shows is a crisis unfolding in not-so-slow motion. That kind of spike in illegal U.S. border crossings – and those are only the apprehended ones, not the ones who slipped in illegally and got away with it, is a human wave.
Obviously, something is pushing the number higher, and based on a reading of its local presses, it’s not conditions in Central America, from where most of the illegal border crossers originate. There’s a pull factor driving this, likely in the fact that a wall is supposed to be going up, and it’s being obstructed by Democrats in Congress and their leftwing activist and lobbyist buddies, throwing out a smogs of lawsuits, accommodated by left-wing judges willing to rewrite the law. When the odds rise of a successful entry to the U.S. without a need to go through the legal immigration process, would-be illegal migrants hear a dinner triangle is ringing.
I threw out this argument last month:
So long as the U.S. is enmired in Democrats’ blockage of any funds for a border wall, yet the talk goes on of building, the message to illegal migrants is to move. Get in before the wall gets built while the Democrats are still arguing. This is the window. Don’t wait for the border wall to get built. Get in under the wire.
That very dynamic is a good argument for why President Trump should just skip the shenanigans with the Democrats, declare an emergency, and build the wall. The longer this drags on the more the human waves are going to build. And as Gallup reports, we’re looking at a tsunami.
and I still think it’s operative.
Democrats of course, are deeply wedded to the notion that importing a socialist-minded electorate in need of government services is the key to their ambitions for permanent one-party rule. This is obvious enough in California where illegal immigrants are continuously coddled, offered a banquet of goodies from the state as an incentive to migrate, as well as unusual state protections coming at the expense of even rule of law to ensure they are never deported. Illegals even have a major role in the ballot-harvesting electoral apparatus, which was instrumental in the strange picture of deep-red Orange County suddenly going “blue,” to ensure that illegal crossings remain encouraged and protected.
With Democrats in Congress now promoting the nonsense that all border enforcement is “racist,” (see what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been up to, here), it’s pretty obvious that the border crisis (which they deny is a crisis) is actually something they want.
That means that even with editorials such as this one, from the New York Post, arguing that stats show the crisis is real and Congress must do something about it, Congress isn’t going to do anything about it.
Only a wall is going to do something about it. That’s all we have left. President Trump’s declaration of an emergency then, is the right course of action. The crisis is congressionally made, and that’s the emergency.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released its February statistics on apprehensions at the border and it’s a doozy:
That red line represents what’s going on just so far this year.
According to the El Paso Times:
Federal immigration law enforcement leaders said the United States is facing a massive “border security and humanitarian crisis” and is at a “breaking point” while highlighting El Paso as an example of the overwhelming number of migrants coming to the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan and United States Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings held a news conference Tuesday in Washington D.C. to announce the large increase of apprehensions being made by Border Patrol agents.
The latest statistics show that agents are on pace to break the record numbers of migrant crossings set last year.
More than 76,000 illegal border crossers were caught in the month of February alone, with 66,450 of those either unaccompanied “children” (read: gang-aged young men) or else people traveling as claimed family units, authentic or otherwise. Some of the press seems to be misreading the charts to suggest that the entire total was 66,450, but the official statistics (shown in the chart above) demonstrate that that number was just the ‘moms and kids’ of the group. There were more than 10,000 others, seen on the chart above it, and with a harder time claiming asylum as single adults, rest assured, not all of those crossers were actually caught.
It’s not really that surprising, either – it’s right on track with a major Gallup poll of Latin Americans released last month showing that five million foreign nationals south of our border are planning to come to the U.S., legally or otherwise in 2019. The Gallup poll found a 40% rise in the worldwide desire to immigrate, and Central American countries showing some of the highest percentage totals within that group - 52% of Salvadorans and 47% of Hondurans wanting to leave. The Guatamalan stats must be comparable, given the very large numbers of those nationals being apprehended at the U.S. border, although Guatemala is about twice the size populationwise of the other two.
What is shows is a crisis unfolding in not-so-slow motion. That kind of spike in illegal U.S. border crossings – and those are only the apprehended ones, not the ones who slipped in illegally and got away with it, is a human wave.
Obviously, something is pushing the number higher, and based on a reading of its local presses, it’s not conditions in Central America, from where most of the illegal border crossers originate. There’s a pull factor driving this, likely in the fact that a wall is supposed to be going up, and it’s being obstructed by Democrats in Congress and their leftwing activist and lobbyist buddies, throwing out a smogs of lawsuits, accommodated by left-wing judges willing to rewrite the law. When the odds rise of a successful entry to the U.S. without a need to go through the legal immigration process, would-be illegal migrants hear a dinner triangle is ringing.
I threw out this argument last month:
So long as the U.S. is enmired in Democrats’ blockage of any funds for a border wall, yet the talk goes on of building, the message to illegal migrants is to move. Get in before the wall gets built while the Democrats are still arguing. This is the window. Don’t wait for the border wall to get built. Get in under the wire.
That very dynamic is a good argument for why President Trump should just skip the shenanigans with the Democrats, declare an emergency, and build the wall. The longer this drags on the more the human waves are going to build. And as Gallup reports, we’re looking at a tsunami.
and I still think it’s operative.
Democrats of course, are deeply wedded to the notion that importing a socialist-minded electorate in need of government services is the key to their ambitions for permanent one-party rule. This is obvious enough in California where illegal immigrants are continuously coddled, offered a banquet of goodies from the state as an incentive to migrate, as well as unusual state protections coming at the expense of even rule of law to ensure they are never deported. Illegals even have a major role in the ballot-harvesting electoral apparatus, which was instrumental in the strange picture of deep-red Orange County suddenly going “blue,” to ensure that illegal crossings remain encouraged and protected.
With Democrats in Congress now promoting the nonsense that all border enforcement is “racist,” (see what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been up to, here), it’s pretty obvious that the border crisis (which they deny is a crisis) is actually something they want.
That means that even with editorials such as this one, from the New York Post, arguing that stats show the crisis is real and Congress must do something about it, Congress isn’t going to do anything about it.
Only a wall is going to do something about it. That’s all we have left. President Trump’s declaration of an emergency then, is the right course of action. The crisis is congressionally made, and that’s the emergency.
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Guest post by Joe Hoft
In Part I of our series we discussed the Clinton Foundation and the donations to the Foundation from the COB (Martin L. Edelman) and CEO (Mati Kochavi) of AGT International as well as from Sheikhs in the UAE. These donations in the millions of dollars were for favors from the Clintons. In return the Clintons helped promote AGT –
In Part II of our series we discussed the illegal actions that AGT International took to generate revenues around the globe. Highly sensitive US defense technology and ITAR classified products were provided to China, Russia and other countries in the name of sales growth. These actions were beyond criminal, they were treasonous.
(Below is an AGT article about its premier defense software from its company 4D Security Solutions.)
In Part III of our series we discussed the investigation that the FBI/DOJ started into AGT and the Clinton Foundation but then terminated and covered up before the 2016 Presidential election despite irrefutable crimes!
In Part IV of our series we discussed the activities by individuals associated with AGT in obtaining entrance to a highly sensitive US Intel facility circumventing the controls in place that prevent illegal entries to the facility.
In Part V of our series we discussed the efforts by AGT to obtain top secret US Intel for the sole purpose of selling to the Russians. AGT personnel used the information as a means to entice sales from US adversaries. AGT offered Russians the ability to conduct counter-Intel operations (e.g. cell phone intercepts, object and vehicle tracking, etc.). All of this information provided to the Russians was highly classified and never should have been placed in their hands. This information was provided by AGT senior managers like Gadi Lenz, a US national who also held a key executive position at the US based defense contractor 4D Security Solutions.
Image below shows an AGT C4I system deployed in Liaoyuan China. The system among other things was designed to automatically track and create a detailed pattern of motion of vehicles belonging to western embassies.
In Part VI of our series we showed the shady efforts AGT took to obtain contracts in the US and abroad. AGT utilized its COB (Martin Edelman) and the Clintons to gain access to highly placed Law Enforcement Agents (LEA’s) and former Federal and political figures in in the US and used bribes around the world to initiate contracts.
Today in Part VII of our series we provide evidence that AGT hid its employees identities in the US market by using aliases for all its employees at 3i-MIND.
AGT provided all its employees( at at least one of its company’s 3i-MIND) aliases as seen from partial list below –
AGT management sent an email to the employees at 3i-MIND and noted that “since the blog will be used in the US as well, we are and we will not be allowed identifying ourselves using our real names.” This poorly written comment provides evidence that the company encouraged its employees to hide their identities in the US.
This company was so corrupt it had to be involved with the Clinton Foundation!
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