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[REGNUM] Environmental activists at the Louvre poured soup over Leonardo da Vinci's La Gioconda. This is far from the first such action. And not even the first in relation directly to the Mona Lisa. What is her fault? The activists who organized this all call for eating only healthy and environmentally friendly food. But this is nonsense - the real Mona Lisa probably ate exactly these foods. And Leonardo himself, despite his obsession with all kinds of invention, did not use chemical fertilizers or artificial flavoring additives. So why then?
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These attacks are an attack on competency. Those who would desecrate art have no ability to create it. The far left has little to offer in terms of skills so they wish to tear it all down.
[American Thinker] In 1957, defiant Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ignored Supreme Court orders to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. To enforce the Court’s historic decision, President Dwight Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in the 101st Airborne. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized and took control of the Alabama National Guard after Governor George Wallace used guardsmen to block court-ordered integration of the University of Alabama.
The root of today’s contest between Texas and the Oval Office differs from the Arkansas and Alabama episodes. In 1957 and 1963, governors defied federal authorities attempting to uphold the law. Today, the roles are reversed: a governor, Texas’s Greg Abbott, finds himself forced to perform what is largely a federal responsibility—border security—because Washington, D.C. categorically refuses to perform its constitutional duty. Ground Zero for Abbott’s effort is Eagle Pass, Texas, where the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety have barred illegal entry by border violators over federal objections.
Count on this: the White House would justify the use of force against Texas by hijacking the moral authority of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Warren Supreme Court, who enforced the constitutional rights of black Americans to attend public schools and universities. The White House and its congressional allies already disparage as racist Abbott’s effort to defend Texas from the illegal invasion. The Roberts Supreme Court supplied a pretext for military action against Texas with an order undermining Abbott’s decision to deploy razor wire against illegal entry over a small fraction of Texas’s 1,200 mile border with Mexico in Eagle Pass.
There may be more to come from the Supreme Court as Biden’s anti-Texas lawsuits wind through the federal courts. Up next is Biden’s attempt to upend a new Texas law authorizing Texas courts and prosecutors to punish and expel border violators. But the demonstrated lawlessness of the White House and its Attorney General should leave little doubt that top Biden advisers are now mulling non-judicial strategies: the federalization of the Texas National Guard, and troop deployments to dislodge Texas authorities from Eagle Pass.
When would the Biden administration act to neutralize Abbott? Timing is everything. In 2014, to avoid blowback against the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin delayed his Ukraine invasion until after the games. Likewise, Biden probably would not escalate against Texas before resolution of the current federal budget impasse. Biden’s military action to stamp out Texan self-defense against his catastrophic executive decision to open the border would spell the end of Capitol Hill negotiations on border security, and assistance to Ukraine and Israel, among other programs.
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3 years ago I would have questioned whether federal troops would have followed those orders, but since Biden/Austin/Milley have gutted the military and replaced it with "Rachel" Levine clones... who knows.
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Not that Brandon Inc are that cognizant, but at least the Chinese understood they couldn't use locally based troops to suppress the Tienanmen Square demonstrators. They imported from regional forces to do the dirty work. Too many military installations rely upon too many of their uniformed and civilian personnel to live among the local population.
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So last week I heard the 82d went on alert over Texas. I heard it was shut down quickly.
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I have a very good friend who is a Major in the 82nd. I'm not going to ask him anything because I don't want to put him in jeopardy but I know he is conflicted over all this.
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The SCOTUS decision 22 January merely lifted the prohibition on Feds removing the razor wire barrier.
It did not require Texas to remove the wire. It did not forbid Texas from placing more wire.
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^ True, but not helpful to The Narrative™
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1. You don't think that this administration can actually DO anyting, do you?
2. This is an election year. Even the MSM couldn't ignore the hideous optics of Biden forcibly opening the border for more illegal immigrants. And the voters (outside the really die-hard Trump-haters) won't like what they see.
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The Mexicans don't like the migrantsasylum seekers gimmegrants either. When their border with the USA stops being asafety valve, things will change toot sweet on their southern border.
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#4, P2K, IIRC, Biden called the Puerto Rico National Guard to fortify Washington DC in the wake of J6.
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The Texas State Guard cannot be federalized. While the other two branches of the Texas Military can, the Texas State Guard cannot. It currently has 2,200 people but as a voluntary organization, that could be expanded /very/ rapidly if needed.
[Gateway] Conservative historian and scholar recently wrote about the E. Jean Carroll ruling against Trump, taking special aim at changes in New York law that took place prior to the case and pointing out that this is just one piece of the endless lawfare the left is aiming at Trump.
Hanson calls the case ’baffling’ and notes the inconsistencies in Carroll’s story.
Hanson put his thoughts in a lengthy post on Twitter/X:
The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional leftwing criminal prosecutions, leftwing judges, and leftwing juries to come—all on charges that would never had been filed if Trump either had not run for president or been a liberal progressive.
Yet here we are.
The E. Jean Carroll case is the most baffling of all five. She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago. Observers have pointed out dozens of inconsistencies in her story.
It was never clear what were the preliminaries that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours the alleged violence took place.
Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto—and only after Trump was running for and then president.
Hanson gets into the background of how we got here:
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Baffling? Did someone sleep through the last half of the 20th century? Go back and watch the part about the Chinese Cultural Revolution and maybe read a little Orwell.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, DC — A devastating new report revealed that despite massive layoffs, thousands of journalists still remain gainfully employed.
"It's a tough pill to swallow," said researcher Stan Morgan as he announced the study's results. "Even after multiple rounds of layoffs at the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and many other newspapers, it's only been a drop in the bucket. Tragically, even today, thousands of journalists have not yet been laid off."
Reports have conclusively proved the immense benefits of firing journalists, leaving researchers puzzled as to why more outlets
"We applaud the efforts of the L.A. Times and the Post to address the stain on our nation," said Morgan. "If only more newspapers would follow suit, millions of Americans could live more happy, productive lives. We must all do our part to never, ever read what journalists write. It's up to all of us."
As of publishing time, thousands of journalists had acquired new jobs at Dunkin' Donuts, where they reportedly spent their days harassing customers for not ordering black coffee.
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[Federalist] There’s a clip going around of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar talking to a group of Somalians about her allegiances and priorities as a U.S. congresswoman. What Omar says is instructive, not just about her general worldview but mostly (and more importantly) about how backward and destructive our immigration system is.
Omar is a woman of the left, but her speech over the weekend was pure blood-and-soil nationalism — for Somalia, not America.
She tells them she’s a Somalian first and a Muslim second. She doesn’t even mention the United States or her citizenship here. She promises to use her power and influence in Congress to protect her nation’s interests. (Again, that nation being Somalia, not America.)
Speaking in Somali, Omar tells the cheering crowd that her "top priority" is to expand Somalia’s territory. "As Somalis, one day we will go after our missing territories," she says, referencing disputed regions in Kenya and Ethiopia.
She brags that the U.S. government "will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the U.S."
[ET via Zero] Entrepreneur Juan Pablo Segura looked like the perfect Republican candidate to win the newly-created Virginia State Senate District 31 that includes much of Loudoun County, home of the parents’ rights movement that gained national attention.
But when the votes were counted in the 2023 race that was among the most expensive campaigns ever in Virginia, more than 52 percent of the ballots went to his Democrat opponent, in a loss that shocked more than a few Republicans who thought it was their year.
Democrats’ warnings of Republican threats to abortion access were the factor that produced the Virginia surprise that could be repeated nationwide in 2024, according to Democratic strategists.
But a Republican campaign pollster sees a huge shift among a key voter group concerning the millions of illegal immigrants that have crossed into the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden’s open border policies.
That shift could counterbalance the abortion issue.
I see the Biden regime and Elite supporters as the issue. This collected group is tearing apart and tearing down America.
If we want to have an America in 20 years, we need to dump and flush those that are pushing their Global Government agenda. Before they can institute a restricted social class system and limited population to rule over.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] It seems bizarre that I have to tell fellow conservatives this, but it’s sometimes OK to go to war. We’re fighting right now, and some cons about our current armed conflict are up in arms. But war is not inherently wrong. War is sometimes necessary. Sometimes it’s not. And sometimes, a war is poorly run. For example, in America, that "sometimes" is pretty much the entire last 30 years. But that does not mean that war is never an option. Sometimes it’s necessary. Conservatism is not pacifism with lower marginal tax rates.
Again, I don’t know why I have to say this, but I do. There is a strain of modern conservatism that believes all war is inherently wrong and done solely for the sake of corporations and blah blah blah blah blah. I get the cynicism. I deployed a couple of times. But this idea that there is nothing worth fighting over outside our borders is childish. It’s not conservative. It’s just lame. And people should stop thinking it.
Some long overdue stuff re Ukraine snipped.
...There’s a war between Israel and Hamas, with the background being the war between Iran and the United States. We’ve just been pretending there has not been a war between America and Iran for decades. Now, I would prefer we were not at war with Iran, but Iran seems to disagree, and it gets a vote. The idea that we would be somehow starting a war with Iran is historical illiteracy. From the time Iranians took American hostages in 1979 through murdering hundreds of Marines in Beirut and thousands of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran has been waging a war against the United States. Recognizing the obvious and desiring to defeat a threat to American lives and interests is not being a "neocon." It’s just being a con. Some would say "This benefits Israel, and therefore, haram". Israel also benefits by USA developed science/technologies and other stuff. I wonder what the same people would say to that? Read the rest at the link
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The 'Bee' has a better take.
War is conducted by serious and determined people. Where are they?
So many defeats in history when militaries march on reputation and equipment alone. But we go straight to name calling those who have questions and were not 110% in by breakfast this morning.
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.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, DC — A devastating new report revealed that despite massive layoffs, thousands of journalists still remain gainfully employed.
