Month: September 2019

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Televised congressional hearings are often little more than opportunities for self-centered politicians to grandstand.

Just take California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris during the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco or Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren blowing up at Mark Esper’s confirmation hearing.

But every now and then we mine a gem out of these pits of despair, and it’s nothing short of glorious.

Conservative commentator Candace Owens’ testimony regarding the threat of white supremacy to the black community is nothing short of that.

“I just have to say that I object strenuously to your use of the word ‘hilarious,’” University of Chicago historian Kathleen Belew told Owens on Thursday during a joint hearing on white supremacy before the House subcommittees on national security and on civil rights and civil liberties.

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Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) to @kathleen_belew: “The audacity of you to bring up the Christchurch shooting manifesto and make it seem as if I laughed at people that were slaughtered by a homicidal maniac is in my opinion absolutely despicable.

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Earlier in the hearing, Owens had said in regard to white supremacy: “I also found it quite hilarious that when asked for actual numbers, nobody here could actually provide them because it’s not actually a problem  in America or a major problem or threat that’s facing black America.”

Belew wasn’t pleased with that statement.

“To me this feels a lot like your reaction to being named in one of these manifestos,” Belew said.

It seemed like she knew she was in for it, so she scrambled to save some face.

“Now, you’re of course not responsible for the words of somebody writing that document, but I do think that laughing at it is a real problem, because these are real families that are impacted by this violence.”

The shooter accused of murdering dozens of Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand earlier this month, allegedly named Owens as an influence. After learning that she was named in his manifesto, Ownes tweeted, “LOL! FACT: I’ve never created any content espousing my views on the 2nd Amendment or Islam.”

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Back to Thursday’s hearing.

After North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Meadows yielded almost his entire time to allow Owens to respond, fellow Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio stepped in to clarify exactly why she used the word “hilarious,” asking her if she simply meant that other issues matter more than white supremacy.

And boy did she deliver.

After reiterating that white supremacy isn’t as big a threat as other issues, Owens took it upon herself to go after those who use acts of white supremacy to further their own  agendas, absolutely scorching Belew specifically.

“Every four years, you bring up race, and you knew exactly what I meant when I said ‘hilarious,’ and you just tried to do live what the media does all the time to Republicans, to our president and to conservatives, which is you tried to manipulate what I said to fit your narrative, OK?” she said.

“I was not referring to the subject matter that it’s ‘hilarious,’” she continued. “I said it’s hilarious that we’re sitting in this room today and I’ve got two doctors … and nobody can give us real numbers that we can respond to so we can assess how big of a threat this is.”

“Because you know that it is not as big of a threat as you are trying to make it out to be, so that you can manipulate.”

And now for the real fun.

“And the audacity of you to bring up the Christchurch shooting manifesto and make it seem as if I laughed at people that were slaughtered by a homicidal maniac is, in my opinion, absolutely despicable, and I think that we should be above that,” Owens said.

“To try to assign reality or any meaning to a homicidal maniac writing a manifesto which, by the way, let the record show also stated Spyro the dragon, the child’s cartoon, as a source of inspiration. He also cited Nelson Mandela as a source of information, and I don’t think that Nelson Mandela has inspired mosque shootings, you can correct me if you think I’m wrong.”

After listing real issues that face the black community today, Owens went in for the finishing touch.

“This hearing, in my opinion, is a farce, and it is ironic that you’re sitting here and you’re having three Caucasian people testify and tell you what their expertise are,” she said.

“Do you want to know what my expertise are?” she asked? “Black in America. I’ve been black in America my whole life, all 30 years, and I can tell you that you guys have done the exact same thing every four years ahead of an election cycle, and it needs to stop.”

Ouch. If you’re not smiling like Jim Jordan at the end of that video, you should probably check your pulse, because there are few things more satisfying than raining down righteous anger on liberal hacks.

Well done, Candace Owens.

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For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong.

In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened.

And not once — not even once! — have these alarmists had one of their predictions come true.

Think about that… the so-called experts are 0-41 with their predictions, but those of us who are skeptical of “expert” prediction number 42, the one that says that if we don’t immediately convert to socialism and allow Alexandria Ocasio-Crazy to control and organize our lives, the planet will become uninhabitable.

Why would any sane person listen to someone with a 0-41 record?

Why would we completely restructure our economy and sacrifice our personal freedom for “experts” who are 0-41, who have never once gotten it right?

If you had an investment counselor who steered you wrong 41times, would you hang in there for number 42?

Of course not. You’d fire him after failed prediction two or three.

And if that’s not crazy enough, the latest ploy is to trot out a 16-year-old girt to spread prediction number 42, because it is so much more credible that way.

Sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh.

Anyway, I want you to have the data, so go ahead and print this out in advance of Thanksgiving dinner with your obnoxious Millennial nephew.

LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT RIGHT

NONE.

ZIP.

ZERO.

NADA.

BLANK

DONUT HOLE

NIL.

NOTHING.

VOID.

ZILCH.

LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS THE CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT WRONG

Here is the source for numbers 1-28. As you will see, the individual sources are not crackpots, but scientific studies and media reports on “expert” predictions. The sources for numbers 29-41 are linked individually.

1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
27. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
28. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
29. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
30. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
31. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
32. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
33. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
34. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
35. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
36. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees!

Sorry, Experts… Sorry, Scientific Consensus… Only a fool comes running for the 42nd cry of wolf.

Don’t litter, be kind to animals, recycling’s for suckers (it’s all going to end up in the ground eventually), so stop feeling guilty… Go out there to embrace all the bounty that comes with being a 21st century American. 

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The Constitutional Court of South Africa upheld a previous ruling Wednesday that effectively outlawed spanking and the use of any physical punishment against children nationwide.

The Times of South Africa reports that the case was brought to the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, by the civil society group Freedom of Religion South Africa (FORSA) as a challenge to a previous ruling from the South Gauteng High Court that deemed parents using physical force against their children as unconstitutional.

The debate began in 2017 when a man in Johannesburg was found guilty of assault against his 13-year-old son for beating him after catching him viewing pornographic material. In his defense, the father argued that he was administering “moderate and reasonable chastisement” previously allowed under common law. However, the Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the 2017 ruling, stating that that were effective ways of disciplining a child without resorting to corporal punishment.

“The vulnerability of children, their rights to dignity and to have the paramountcy of their best interests upheld, as well as the availability of less restrictive means to achieve discipline, render moderate and reasonable chastisement unconstitutional,” the court wrote in its ruling.

The High Court had previously ruled that spanking amounted to a violation of children’s rights, arguing that protection from all forms of violence was absolutely critical in the context of alarmingly high levels of child abuse across South Africa. The initial ruling also argued that the case was about providing children with “equal protection of the law, dignity, freedom from all forms of violence and degradation, bodily and psychological integrity, and the child’s right not to be discriminated against based on age.”

FORSA demanded the ruling be overturned, arguing that there is an obvious distinction between “reasonable” and “moderate” chastisement and unabated child abuse and that parents maintained the right to decide what was best for their children. In a statement, they said they were acting on behalf of the public interest and those who “believe that the scriptures and other holy writings permit, if not command, reasonable and appropriate correction of their children.”

Their position was opposed by various civil society groups, including the Children’s Institute, the Quaker Peace Centre and Sonke Gender Justice, who stated in written submissions that “positive parenting” was the solution to bad or disruptive behavior.

“The aim is to develop an ethos or inner conviction in the child that will ensure that they will behave well, even when their parents are not present,” they said in a written submission. “It builds feelings of confidence and assertiveness rather than feelings of helplessness and humiliation.”

Such opposition was also backed by the government, who said that children should be protected from all types of violence. “Any act that harms a child’s right to be protected from maltreatment, neglect, abuse or degradation is unlawful and unconstitutional,” said Nkosinathi Dladla, legal services director in the social development department.

The ruling now paves the way for South African parliament to draw up legislation formally criminalizing the use of physical force against children.

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In a truly saddening but by no means unpredictable development, the AMCHA Initiative, which is a watchdog organization dedicated to investigating and combating anti-Semitism on university campuses across America, reported this week an astonishing 70% rise over the past year in anti-Semitic incidents directed against pro-Israel students on college campuses. As reported by Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon, AMCHA noted a drop in “classical” white supremacist-inspired Jew-hatred targeted against Jews on university campuses, but a huge spike in Israel-related acts of harassment against Jews and other non-Jewish Zionists who stand in solidarity with the Jewish state.

The trend is hardly new, and The Daily Wire has extensively covered the years-long development of escalating anti-Semitic incidents on the American campus. Indeed, the problem has been so bad that a group wholly distinct from AMCHA but similarly dedicated to combating on-campus anti-Semitism was founded in 2015: Maccabee Task Force. The question now facing the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities is simple: How can we begin to shift the on-campus narrative away from anti-Semitism and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and back toward a pro-Jewish, pro-Israel stance?

I have personally observed this ongoing fight across numerous college campuses and have been a part of more than one pro-Israel university event that was protested and forcibly shouted down by the Jew-hating miscreants of the misnamed hate group “Students for Justice in Palestine.” I have seen the vicious faces of those who yell “Nakba!” and the genocidal eliminationist phrase, “from the river to the sea, ‘Palestine’ shall be free.” (One must wonder whether these people feel similarly about liberating other legally fictitious locales, such as Mordor or Narnia.) I also have seen many Israeli flag-wielding students push back with hapless pleas for “peace!,” “tolerance!,” and (unfortunately) “two states!”

Do my fellow proud Zionists see the problem here? The Palestinian-Arab side of the argument may be genocidal and jihad-loving, but at least they present a morally framed narrative (no matter how grossly immoral that narrative actually is). The pro-Jewish/pro-Israel side, by contrast, tends toward an overly defensive, AIPAC-inspired defensive posture that relies on a non-substantive, purely procedural narrative.

Interestingly, then, the fight against Israel-inspired Jew-hatred on the university campus can actually learn much from the ongoing conservative dialogue between the New York Post’s Sohrab Ahmari and National Review’s David French. Procedure-based arguments, especially when confronted with a substance-based argumentative opposition, are unlikely to be sufficient; the only way to truly make a dialectic dent is to argue on the substantive merits of an issue and argue in overtly moral terms. I wrote as much in June: “Advocates for Israel on the American university campus must transition away from pleas for ‘peace’ and ‘tolerance’ and toward arguments grounded in the inherent, biblically derived morality of a Jewish state existing between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”

This simply must be the path forward for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus who are invested in helping to turn back the tide of rising on-campus anti-Semitism. Jewish and Zionist students must make the moral, historically informed case that Zionism — which is simply the Jewish right to self-determination in the Jews’ biblical, ancestral homeland — is an inherently beautiful phenomenon. These courageous students must argue that the culmination of Herzl’s Zionist vision, the establishment in 1948 of a sovereign Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael for the very first time in millennia, represents one of the most profoundly beautiful developments in human civilization over the course of the last century. These students must advance direct, overt, morally based arguments that defend the beauty that Zionism. These students must also advance historically and legally informed arguments that rebut the utter mendacity that is “Nakba” and other purported Palestinian-Arab “national” humiliations.

Appeasement and unilateral disarmament — here, in terms of the use of overt moral terminology — never work. The students who take the lead on this initiative will necessarily be bold. They will be valiant. And they will face mighty resistance from the leftist/Islamist alliance all across the nation. But these students will have the benefit of standing for truth, morality, and, fundamentally, justice. It’s time to get the ball rolling and begin to defeat on-campus Jew-hatred in America.

Just days after appointing her, the Women’s March, which has come under fire for the anti-Semitism of its past leaders, was forced to remove its newest board member, Zahra Billoo, for extreme statements she made on social media. Billoo responded by posting a lengthy thread on Twitter denouncing the group and blaming her removal on an “Islamophobic smear campaign.”

The ouster of Billoo came in response to a series of past statements the activist and former executive director at the controversy-riddled Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) made on social media about Israel.

As reported by The Daily Caller, in 2017 posts on Facebook and Twitter, Billoo defended her decision to boycott “Wonder Woman” because it stars Gal Gadot, who once served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). “I similarly would not watch a movie where the lead actor or actress were proud of their participation in the US military, ISIS, or Al Qaeda,” Billoo explained. “Don’t guess, I’ll just tell you, I believe all of them are comparably evil.” She went on to call Gadot a “murderer” and to condemn “Apartheid Israel.”

In February 2018, Billoo posted on Facebook an account of her encounter with a Marine recruiter in which she compared American military to ISIS and Nazis. “He explained the promise of the educational benefits lured him in. He was otherwise not going to be able to go to school,” she wrote. “I shared that financial benefits are often a recruiting tactic for groups like ISIS also. That was tricky for me. Gently comparing his experience to that of ISIS fighters. I refrained from comparing him to a Nazi cook, who though a cook, was still part of the Nazi operation. It took a lot to not say it.”

She also said in May 2018 that she doesn’t see “any difference between American youth leaving the country to join ISIS or the IDF,” declaring, “Both are murderous, war crime committing, terrorist entities.” (See the posts here.)

The Women’s March, which has had to dismiss other high-profile leaders, Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, for their anti-Semitic rhetoric and actions, voted Billoo out just days after voting her in, The Daily Caller notes in a follow-up report.

In a 25-tweet thread posted late Wednesday night, Billoo unloaded on the Women’s March, which she decried as having caved to an “Islamophobic smear campaign” and which she denounced as “unable and unwilling to be an ally during challenging times.” She also made clear that she stands by her extreme statements that ultimately compelled the group to remove her.

Below is the full text of her tweet thread (formatting adjusted):

Since this is going to be in your newsfeeds in the morning – here’s a thread about me being voted off the board of @WomensMarch tonight.

A few hours ago, I was voted off the @WomensMarch national board. This followed an Islamophobic smear campaign led by the usual antagonists, who have long targeted me, my colleagues, and anyone else who dares speak out in support of Palestinian human rights and the right to self-determination.

The past 48 hours have been a spiral of bad news and smear efforts. Part of the smear campaign is motivated by opponents of the Women’s March, because the organization has traditionally challenged the status quo of power and white supremacy in our country.

However, much of the campaign is driven by people who oppose me and my work challenging the occupation of Palestine, our country’s perpetuation of unjust and endless wars, and law enforcement operations targeting the American Muslim community.

The Women’s March, Inc. is an organization I once held dear. I spoke at the first #WomensMarch, spoke at regional marches every year after, spoke at the #WomensConvention, participated in national actions including the original #Kavanaugh protests, and worked to mobilize Muslim women for their efforts.

During the past few years right-wingers, from the President’s son to the Anti-Defamation League and troll armies, have targeted the Women’s March, Inc. For so long, I’ve admired their resilience in speaking truth to power, in working together, and in never cowering.

Over and over again, the co-founders of Women’s March, Inc., @lsarsour, @msladyjustice1, @TamikaDMallory, and @bobblanddesign, put their lives on the line, winning power for all women in all of our diversity.

The Women’s March, Inc. that voted me off its board tonight is one that no longer demonstrates the strength that inspired millions of women across the country. To see and experience its new leaders caving to right-wing pressure, and casting aside a woman of color, a Muslim woman, a long-time advocate within the organization, without the willingness to make any efforts to learn and grow, breaks my heart.

This isn’t about a lost seat, there will be many seats. The Women’s March, Inc. has drawn a line in the sand, one that will exclude many with my lived experiences and critiques. It has effectively said, we will work on some women’s rights at the expense of others.

To be clear, anti-Semitism is indeed a growing and dangerous problem in our country, as is anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant sentiment, Islamophobia, ableism, sexism, and so much more. I condemn any form of bigotry unequivocally, but I also refuse to be silent as allegations of bigotry are weaponized against the most marginalized people, those who find sanctuary and hope in the articulation of truth.

In looking at the tweets in question, I acknowledge that I wrote passionately. While I may have phrased some of my content differently today, I stand by my words. I told the truth as my community and I have lived it, through the FBI’s targeting of my community, as I supported families who have lost loved ones because of US military actions, and as I learned from the horrific experiences of Palestinian life.

In attempting to heal and build in an expedited manner within Women’s March, Inc., I offered to meet with stakeholders to address their concerns, and to work with my sisters on the new board to learn, heal, and build together. These efforts were rejected. And in rejecting these efforts, the new Women’s March, Inc. board demonstrated that it lacks the courage to demonstrate allyship in the face of fire.

I came to Women’s March, Inc. to work. My body of work has included leading @CAIRSFBA a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization for over a decade, growing it now more than six fold. I have led the team that forced Abercrombie to change its discriminatory policies, have been arrested advocating for DACA, partnered w/Jewish organizations including @jewishaction and @jvplive to protect our communities, and was one of the first lawyers to sue the President.

It is not my first time being the target of a smear campaign. The Women’s March, Inc., more than any place, is where I would have expected us to be able to have courageous conversations and dive deep into relationship building work. I am happy to have as many conversations as it takes to listen and learn and heal, but I will no longer be able to do that through Women’s March, Inc. This action today demonstrates that this new leadership is unable and unwilling to be an ally during challenging times.

My beliefs drive my work and I am not seeking accolades or positions of power. These past few days have been the greatest test of that. My integrity, my truth, and my strength comes from God and a place of deep conviction. I will continue my work as a civil rights lawyer and a faith based activist. You will find me speaking out against settler colonialism everywhere, challenging Islamophobia and all forms of racism and bigotry, and building with Muslims and our allies in our quest to be our most authentic and liberated selves. Onward, God willing.