Alaska was hit with a major earthquake Friday morning measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale. According to Fox News, there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries, but there was some pretty serious damage — particularly given that it struck close to Alaska’s biggest city, Anchorage.

“The impact is very real, the impact is very hard, and it will require apparently a great deal of recovery and effort,” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said.

“There are homes without power. There is some concern that you may have gas line breaks that could lead to potential further disasters.”

Among those whose homes were affected by the earthquake was former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

🙏🏼 for Alaska. Our family is intact – house is not… I imagine that’s the case for many, many others. So thankful to be safe; praying for our state following the earthquake.

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) November 30, 2018

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So of course people wished her well and hoped things — oh wait, no, of course they didn’t. This is social media and liberal Twitter is horrible. RedState collected some of the better (and by that I mean worse) responses:

Good. You and your whole TRASHY family deserve it.

— DAWOMAN2FEAR (@TiffanieMarcum) November 30, 2018

Yes, because there’s clearly nothing trashy about wishing ill upon the family of a political figure you don’t like.

But, hey, it made theists of some:

Proof that there is a God?

— Free Reality Winner (@homeless_not) November 30, 2018

Oh, and then there were the jokes about Palin’s troubled son, Track:

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You sure those tremors weren’t from Track taking a baseball bat to your house?

— JackyRica (@JackyRica) November 30, 2018

And there were standard-issue awful people:

Good. You deserved that.

— baf666 (@baf666) November 30, 2018

Two responses really stuck out for me, however:

I’m very glad your family is safe, also that you have to deal with what your partys pro oil drilling stance does to poor people. Maybe now you’ll take a stand against efforts to increase drilling in Alaska? But prolly not.

— JakeBrown (@Jake_E_W_Brown) November 30, 2018

So what does this have to do with drilling? Well, who knows? Maybe drilling caused the earth’s plates to shift or something.

You know what else can do that? Climate change, apparently:

So sorry! Perhaps you’ll begin listening to science and climate change. It’s been knocking at your door

— Bill Bash (@wwbash) November 30, 2018

It would be funny if the situation weren’t so serious.

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Today we will hear most of the media talk about George H.W. Bush in a flattering manner, as they should.  They also acted as if they loved Reagan and McCain when they died – even as they sought to destroy them when they ran for office. 

The playbook is always the same.  Democrats, including most of the media, pretend they love Republicans when they die after they trashed them when they ran and lived.

Here are a few headlines from the Washington Post today. 

Today’s Opinions: Goodbye, George H.W. Bush. The world will miss a great president — and I will miss a friend.

The extraordinary life and times of George H.W. Bush  

George H.W. Bush’s prudence was a laugh line. It was also his strength.

The love for the newly departed Republican president was not strong enough to require elementary editorial diligence , however:

The Washington Post went ahead and published its prewritten George H.W. Bush obit without reading it first, I guess. pic.twitter.com/n7biR6415d

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) December 1, 2018

In 2016, CNN wasn’t so nice.  The network ran a story called “Dirty Campaigning: He Perfected It” about George H.W. Bush.

The early 1980s were similar to today.  A garbage story was put out that George H.W. Bush went to Paris to arrange the release of the Iranian hostages.  There was never any actual evidence that this meeting took place.  It was always pure fiction, but the Democrats investigated it. 



For the last two years, there has been a garbage story that Trump colluded with the Russians based mostly on a fictional dossier bought and paid for by Hillary and the DNC.  There are endless investigations, and most of the media still report the story continuously as if it were true.  The New York Times reveals the same kind of nonsense plagued President Bush 41:

Panel Rejects Theory Bush Met With Iranians in Paris in ’80

A House investigative panel concluded today that George Bush did not travel to Paris in 1980 to take part in any discussions aimed at asking Iran to delay the release of American hostages.

The notion that Mr. Bush, then the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, might have made such a trip in an effort to damage President Jimmy Carter’s prospects in the November election that year has been part of a persistent but unproved broader theory that has long swirled around Washington.

Today we will hear most of the media talk about George H.W. Bush in a flattering manner, as they should.  They also acted as if they loved Reagan and McCain when they died – even as they sought to destroy them when they ran for office. 

The playbook is always the same.  Democrats, including most of the media, pretend they love Republicans when they die after they trashed them when they ran and lived.

Here are a few headlines from the Washington Post today. 

Today’s Opinions: Goodbye, George H.W. Bush. The world will miss a great president — and I will miss a friend.

The extraordinary life and times of George H.W. Bush  

George H.W. Bush’s prudence was a laugh line. It was also his strength.

The love for the newly departed Republican president was not strong enough to require elementary editorial diligence , however:

The Washington Post went ahead and published its prewritten George H.W. Bush obit without reading it first, I guess. pic.twitter.com/n7biR6415d

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) December 1, 2018

In 2016, CNN wasn’t so nice.  The network ran a story called “Dirty Campaigning: He Perfected It” about George H.W. Bush.

The early 1980s were similar to today.  A garbage story was put out that George H.W. Bush went to Paris to arrange the release of the Iranian hostages.  There was never any actual evidence that this meeting took place.  It was always pure fiction, but the Democrats investigated it. 



For the last two years, there has been a garbage story that Trump colluded with the Russians based mostly on a fictional dossier bought and paid for by Hillary and the DNC.  There are endless investigations, and most of the media still report the story continuously as if it were true.  The New York Times reveals the same kind of nonsense plagued President Bush 41:

Panel Rejects Theory Bush Met With Iranians in Paris in ’80

A House investigative panel concluded today that George Bush did not travel to Paris in 1980 to take part in any discussions aimed at asking Iran to delay the release of American hostages.

The notion that Mr. Bush, then the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, might have made such a trip in an effort to damage President Jimmy Carter’s prospects in the November election that year has been part of a persistent but unproved broader theory that has long swirled around Washington.

Harvard graduate student Leyla Pirnie was asked to move out of her apartment after her roommates discovered she possessed legally owned firearms.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Pirnie’s roommates allegedly rummaged through her belongings while she was away from the apartment, discovered her guns, and emailed the landlord to complain. One of the roommates told the landlord: “We discussed with Leyla that all of us are uncomfortable with having firearms in the house, and that their presence causes anxiety and deprives us of the quiet enjoyment of the premise to which we are entitled.”

The landlord, Avid Management’s Dave Lewis, then emailed the apartment residents, including Pirnie, to say he had checked with local police, who verified the guns were “being safely and legally stored under lock and key.” Despite Pirnie’s compliance with the law, Lewis then cited the roommates’ discomfort with firearms as grounds for Pirnie to move out of the apartment.

He wrote: “Since it’s clear that Leyla wants to keep her firearms, it would be best for all parties if she finds another place to live.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

In mid-November, a Drake University student told school officials she had received four racist notes in one of the residence halls, at least one of which was addressed to her.

After a police and school investigation, the student, who has not been charged or named, admitted to writing one of the notes. The Des Moines Register reports that Drake officials “are confident the four notes reported by the female student were hoaxes.”

The student who sent the four hoax notes now faces harassment charges, according to Sgt. Paul Parizek, a Des Moines, IA, police spokesman (whether she will actually be charged remains to be seen and is unlikely). Drake spokesman Jarad Bernstein told the Register that the student also faces a campus discipline procedure, which could result in her expulsion. Again, this is unlikely, as most hoaxers claim they were trying to “start a dialogue” and get a pass.

On Friday, Drake University President Marty Martin sent a statement to students and faculty saying the notes reported by the student on Nov. 13 and 15 were “copycat hoaxes of an initial campus incident.”

The original note – separate from the four hoaxes – was found in early November by freshman Keith Walker. Walker wrote about the note in a now-deleted Facebook post, saying he was going to leave Drake on Nov. 9 for “mental health reasons” but would return. Drake sent a statement to the Register saying after Walker reported the note, he was offered a new place to live, academic support, counseling, and security. Bernstein at the time couldn’t tell the Register if Walker accepted any of this.

The Register also reported Walker did not return multiple interview requests and police have said the student is not cooperating with the investigation.

“Right now, we don’t have a suspect we can charge,” Sgt. Parizek said.

Parizek told the Register on Friday that they’re still investigating the note Walker found, even after the other notes were proven to be hoaxes. Based on how these investigations always seem to go, it’s probably safe to assume we already know who sent the note to Walker.

Despite the fact that every incident of racist or sexist notes turns out to be false, about 3,000 Drake students still took the opportunity to get out of class and hold a rally. One speaker, according to the Register, claimed she “felt her life was in danger” at the university.

Drake President Martin addressed the rally in his statement on Friday, standing up for the students who claim to feel threatened despite no actual threat existing.

“The fact that the actions of the student who has admitted guilt were propelled by motives other than hate does not minimize the worry and emotional harm they caused, but should temper fears,” Martin wrote.

Martin said 250 students, faculty, and staff received robo calls containing white supremacist language after the notes were reported. So, a non-hate incident masquerading as a hate incident, rather than leading to an actual conversation, led to an actual hate incident. So much for “starting a dialogue.”