[The Federalist] Last week when Andrew McCabe launched his Orange Man Bad tour, he stunned the public with claims that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office. Reaction on the hill came quickly, with Sen. Lindsey Graham calling the claim "beyond stunning."
Graham, the new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised an investigation, telling CBS’s "Face the Nation": "There’s an allegation by the acting FBI director at the time that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup, take the president down [using] the 25th Amendment process. The deputy attorney general denies it. I promise your viewers the following: that we will have a hearing about who’s telling the truth, what actually happened."
But the supposed consideration of the 25th Amendment shouldn’t be the focus of the outrage. After all, that amendment, which allows the vice president plus a "majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide" to declare the president "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," is part of our constitutional system. Its stringent requirements for removing a president ensure it cannot be used to execute a soft coup by political opponents.
The true scandal is not the swirling gossip that Rosenstein mentioned the 25th Amendment, but what has been front and center for more than two years: It’s the dossier, stupid!
It’s the dossier, its funding, its creation, and its use. It’s the leaks, the sabotage by political appointees and career DOJ and FBI agents, the media’s complicity, and the triggering of a special counsel, all with the end goal of removing the duly elected president by pressuring Trump to resign or face impeachment.
[YouTube] While in Australia, Jordan and Dave joined John Anderson at this private forum event to further examine their diagnoses of and prescriptions for our contemporary challenges. See things as they are from above.. and below.
Affirmative Action is alive and well in Great Britain.
[Breitbart] Cheshire Police abused "positive action" legislation to unlawfully discriminate against an "exceptional" candidate for being a straight white male, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Matthew Furlong, 25, applied to Cheshire Police in order to follow in the footsteps of his father, who is a serving detective inspector on the force ‐ but was ultimately turned down for a role, despite being told "it was refreshing to meet someone as well-prepared as yourself" and that he "could not have done any more" after passing the interview stage of the recruitment process, ITV news reports.
Under the Equality Act of 2010, British employers technically cannot discriminate against people on the basis of certain "protected characteristics" including race, sex, and sexuality, but they can choose candidates from certain groups over others ‐ typically white people, and in particular white men ‐ if they are of "equal merit".
Employers can also outright discriminate against people from "under-represented" groups for training programmes, workshops, and so-called internships ‐ many of which pay more than a typical working-class job ‐ aimed at increasing employment prospects.
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The whole kick off of affirmative action (AA - and no I don't think the name of the society for drunks is a co-incidence) was Griggs vs. Duke Power Co. which held that a test that discriminated based on issues that were not a factor in the job were illegal. Enter the courts and now any test that shows adverse impact on "minorities" is verboten.
[American Thinker] There is an existential threat to the Democratic Party ‐ brought on by Democrats.
Pandering to black voters ‐ and supporting policies that keep them uneducated and living in ghettos ‐ has been a high priority of the Democrat Party since the 1930s.
It has been a success. Democrats get 90 percent of the vote of Americans with black skin in most cases. But several trends are working to loosen that hold ‐ two in particular.
One is the integration of neighborhoods that is taking place naturally and despite policies designed to prevent it. One of the liberal fantasies is "white flight," in which white Americans allegedly have fled cities for the suburbs to avoid living near black Americans. Any cursory examination of the data demonstrates that blacks, as they rise the economic ladder, are fleeing crime and congestion for the suburbs and rural areas as well.
Another commonsense conclusion can be arrived at by simple observation. Look at the couples in shopping malls. How many are mixed-race? As they marry and have children, are those children going to be the oppressed or the oppressors?
Liberals are helpless. They cannot prevent it from happening. Some people have black skin, and some have white, but at some point in the future, it is likely most will have skins of a neutral hue.
[DAWN] THE decision by the country’s civilian and military leadership to take action against Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... and its charity wing, Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, is significant.
On Thursday, the National Security Committee, with the prime minister in the chair, took the decision, with the Prime Minister’s Office later saying that the state cannot be allowed to "become hostage to extremism".
The JuD is of course an avatar of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , one of the many jihadi groups that dot this country’s landscape. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... making an announcement about the group’s proscription is not enough; if the state has evidence of the outfit’s involvement in militancy it should present the facts and pursue the legal course so that JuD’s leadership can face justice.
As has been witnessed for nearly two decades now, the state moves to ban krazed killer outfits, but, in very little time they are back, up and running, with new names and the entire structure of violence intact. For example, in 2002 the Musharraf regime banned a host of jihadi and sectarian groups, yet this effort had little practical effect because with a mere change of nomenclature, the groups continued to peddle hate and violence, making a mockery of the proscription.
Moreover, the establishment’s attempts to ’mainstream’ violent actors ‐ eg presenting them as legitimate religious scholars or relaunching the jihadi lashkars as political parties ‐ have also failed to steer these groups away from violence and hate. For example, a sectarian party has been repeatedly allowed to take part in general elections, but its big shots have failed to cease spewing venom.
History has shown that while low-level jihadi and sectarian party cadres perhaps can be deradicalised and mainstreamed, their leadership is committed to the ideology of violence and can only be silenced through the legal path. These parties’ fundraising, communications and organizational systems must be targeted to put them out of business; imposing mere ’bans’ is futile.
In the delicate post-Pulwama period, Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... must be praised for saying that those who use this country’s soil to attack others are enemies of Pakistain. The government has now started to take action. For instance, reports emerged on Friday that a key madressah associated with Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... in Bahawalpur ‐ another krazed killer outfit accused of orchestrating cross-border attacks ‐ was taken over by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government.
These moves indicate that the leadership has perhaps realised that taking half-baked steps against violent actors is dangerous for Pakistain’s internal security, as well as its external relations. Now the elected leadership and the military establishment must take this campaign ‐ as envisaged under NAP ‐ to its logical conclusion by ensuring that non-state actors are not able to raise armed militias, and that those spewing hatred against other countries or spreading sectarian views are prosecuted.
It was unwise to allow these outfits to operate in the past, and efforts are needed to shut them down permanently.
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I have not yet read the book beyond downloading the Kindle sample chapters, but I thought this Jerusalem Post review might fit with our interests here.
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
By Kenneth Pollack
Oxford University Press, 2018
[Jpost] Poor tactics, poor leadership and a litany of other failures have held back the armed forces of most Arab countries. Continued on Page 49
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[National Review] If I’ve noticed the "warrior monk" archetype emerging in society, that’s because I’ve noticed it emerging in myself. Yet nothing is quite so disillusioning as vowing to drop out of society only to find that it is actually a trend, and thus simply another aspect of society. After all, as the Victorian novelist George Moore put it, "No man is greater than the age he lives in."
Gender roles have been in a state of confusion for some time, and we’ve been down this primordial path before. During the ’90s drum-beating, group-hugging "men’s movement," Jungian analyst Robert Moore and mythologist Douglas Gillette published a still-widely-admired tome called King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering The Archetypes Of The Mature Masculine. In the bearded duo’s chapter on the warrior, they write how channeling this archetype makes personal relationships assume secondary importance to a man’s spiritual path. "The psyche of the man who is adequately accessing the Warrior is organized around his central commitment," they write. "This commitment eliminates a great deal of human pettiness. Living in the light of lofty ideals and spiritual realities such as God . . . so alters the focus of a man’s life that petty squabbling and personal Ego concerns no longer matter much."
With healthy diets, strong bodies, and vital energy retained via abstention from pornography, as well as higher consciousness honed through meditation, ritual, and perhaps even old-fashioned Christianity, what might be the character arc of these manly social dropouts?
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I go with GOD and Beer.
Everything needed said has been said already.
If you want me to check in, I will. This is my Business.
I think you are handling it as well as you can.
I also think there are better ways still.
It is your show. I would be robbing you
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The larger trend is called MGTOW, or Men Going Their Own Way. Pronounced mig-tau, it is the new hated class of the feminist left.
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No man is greater than the age he lives in. I disagree strongly. E.g, the two Soviet commanders who prevented nuclear holocaust, one in 1962 and the other ca. 1983. Hardly anyone knows of them. Both were probably filthy commies, any way.
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The purity part is a bit of a problem. From "purity of essence" to "Straight Edge" lots of cultish jabber has occurred regarding personal habits. I know some ritually polluted people I'd have at my back any time. I know some tee totalers I wouldn't let walk my dog. And I don't have a dog...
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I know some ritually polluted people I'd have at my back any time. Same here. I have to keep reminding myself "appearances are deceiving".
I knew a martial arts style master. Marine, Bare knuckle fighter in Okinawa and a Pentecostal minister. For his select students, the influence was inspiring.
Faith, education, skill, honor and lethal training have no substitute. Unless your a free range sustainable tofu leftist ;-)
[Breitbart] Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., recalled Margaret Sanger’s ‐ founder of Planned Parenthood ‐ racist and eugenicist politics in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.
Manning and Mansour asked King to address the Trump administration’s Friday issuance of a rule regarding federal taxpayer funding of family planning. The new rule, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), could block about $60 million of federal government funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
"I was absolutely delighted, because now the regulations are being addressed and we are really seeing clearly where some of the money that Planned Parenthood gets from our tax dollars comes from," remarked King.
[American Thinker] Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She holds the record for most singles and doubles titles in the Open Era (167 and 177, respectively), including 17 Grand Slam singles titles. For 15 straight years, from 1977 to 1993, she never fell below the top 3 ranking in Women's Tennis Association singles. At a time when baseline play was the norm, she revolutionized women's tennis with her aggressive serve and volley style reminiscent of her male counterparts of the era.
Navratilova defected from communist Czechoslovakia in 1975 and became a U.S. citizen in 1981. That same year, when there was still a price to be paid for doing so, she came out as a lesbian and has since engaged in a long career of LGBT activism. She lent her name and support to ballot initiatives, spoke at LGBT marches, and in 2000 was the recipient of the National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT lobbying group. She is active on Twitter and firmly in the Orange Man Bad camp. No one could ever accuse Martina of not being down for the cause.
All this was not enough to protect Navratilova from ostracization and accusations of bigotry last week when she questioned the wisdom of allowing men pretending to be women to compete in women's sports. In an equivocal, diplomatic, almost apologetic column in the Sunday Times, she suggested that men have an unfair advantage over actual women.
Perhaps in recognition of the absurdity of their position, the reaction from transsexual, transgender activists was quick, severe, and unforgiving. Navratilova was accused of being "transphobic" on social media, attacked in the LGBT press, and kicked off the board of an organization called Athlete Ally that promotes athletes based on their sexual orientation.
A new environmental proposal would have the US replace all public and private spacecraft with high-speed trains by the year 2030, reports confirmed Thursday.
"We are wasting so much rocket fuel to generate the thrust necessary to leave Earth's orbit when we could just build a train track all the way to Mars or Jupiter," said a lobbyist for the train industry. "And just think about how pleasant a ride from Earth to Mars would be, coasting along the space tracks at 200 miles per hour for the next 193 years."
The initial proposal would only cost approximately $10,000 trillion, according to a representative of one environmental think tank in D.C. "This is really a bargain when you think about it," she said, pointing to a complex series of calculations she had performed on a LeapFrog laptop. "Besides, we can just print money to pay for it. Or maybe have a bake sale or something."
The network of space trains would only function for a few seconds before needing to be rebuilt as the earth orbits away from the newly built track and rips it to pieces. But the environmental lobby insists this is a positive, pointing out that rebuilding the interplanetary space rail indefinitely will provide countless jobs that otherwise would not exist.
"Every broken train track, every new space train car, every broken space train window will contribute to the economy," said one leading environmentalist.
California is ahead of the curve and has already begun work on its own high-speed space rail, but it was immediately delayed for 770 years and will now cost 52x the original estimate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Federalist] Last week when Andrew McCabe launched his Orange Man Bad tour, he stunned the public with claims that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office. Reaction on the hill came quickly, with Sen. Lindsey Graham calling the claim "beyond stunning."
...the 
[American Thinker] Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She holds the record for most singles and doubles titles in the Open Era (167 and 177, respectively), including 17 Grand Slam singles titles. For 15 straight years, from 1977 to 1993, she never fell below the top 3 ranking in Women's Tennis Association singles. At a time when baseline play was the norm, she revolutionized women's tennis with her aggressive serve and volley style reminiscent of her male counterparts of the era. 
The network of space trains would only function for a few seconds before needing to be rebuilt as the earth orbits away from the newly built track and rips it to pieces. But the environmental lobby insists this is a positive, pointing out that rebuilding the interplanetary space rail indefinitely will provide countless jobs that otherwise would not exist.
