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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Kavanaugh Is Going To Be Attacked Unmercilessly!

President Donald Trump announces his nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. (Photo: Alex Edelman/CNP/AdMedia/SIPA/Newscom)

Predictably, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick has been met with mostly hysteria on the left.

Even before Trump picked D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, left-wing publications were floating absurd court-packing plans to counter him.

Stacking the Supreme Court with more unelected judges, they argued, was a necessary measure to save “democracy.”

It’s clear that whoever Trump nominated, most of the left would come out and define the pick as a threat to the republic.

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The left-wing Women’s March was in such a rush to denounce the pick that they forgot to fill in the name on their press release claiming the nomination of “XX” is a “death sentence for thousands of women.”

Amid all of this hyperbole, there have been at least a few liberal voices arguing in favor of confirming Kavanaugh. The most prominent among them has been Akhil Reed Amar, a distinguished professor at Yale Law School who once taught Kavanaugh.

In an article he wrote for The New York Times, called “A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh,” Amar made the argument that it was “Trump’s finest hour, his classiest move.”

Amar wrote that Kavanaugh’s credentials are beyond reproach, and that he has a “deep reverence for the laws and Constitution of the United States.” He even addressed the most common line of left-wing attack on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, that this seat was “stolen” from President Barack Obama’s choice, Judge Merrick Garland.

“Although Democrats are still fuming about Judge Garland’s failed nomination, the hard truth is that they control neither the presidency nor the Senate; they have limited options,” Amar wrote. “Still, they could try to sour the hearings by attacking Judge Kavanaugh and looking to complicate the proceedings whenever possible. … This would be a mistake.”

Ultimately, Amar wrote that if Democrats are serious about opposing the nominee, they should at least offer two better suggestions that would be acceptable to Trump and the Republican majority in exchange for frank answers from Kavanaugh about his views.

Needless to say, progressive activists didn’t take well to Amar’s message.

Paul Blest, writing for the left-wing website, Splinter—the same publication that published a piece calling for mobs to harass conservatives—blasted Amar’s editorial.

“Everything we have and everything we can imagine that is achievable within this crumbling system is at risk,” Blest concluded of the Kavanaugh nomination. “The Democrats are probably going to lose this fight, but anything less than a full-throated attack on Trump’s nomination is tantamount to capitulation on what might very well turn out to be the most consequential decision Trump ever makes.”

While the Splinter article reflects the mood of the progressive base, Amar’s defense of Kavanaugh as a candidate with unquestionable credentials and background means that it will be hard to go after him on anything other than partisan or ideological grounds.

It’s clear that what the left is most afraid of is any justice who will take textual adherence to the Constitution seriously.

The Federalist’s David Harsanyi summed this up perfectly:

Democrats were going to get hysterical about any pick, because any conservative pick was going to take the Constitution far too literally for their liking. For those who rely on the administrative state and coercion as a policy tool—forcing people to join political organizations, forcing them to support abortion, forcing them to subsidize socially progressive sacraments, forcing them to create products that undermine their faith, and so on—that’s a big problem.

In essence, they will oppose—and malign—any justice, no matter their background, gender, or religious beliefs, who will not aid in carrying out a progressive policy agenda.

Time will tell if this strategy of opposition at all costs will fly with the American people.

Monday, January 22, 2018

March Participants Believe Trump And Pence Should Be Killed

WATCH: Reporter Asks Women's Marchers What They're Protesting. Things Go Exactly How You'd Expect.

ByAMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO

January 22, 2018

Turns out, the Women's March has very little to do with actual women's rights and women's issues and everything to do with an irrational hatred for President Donald Trump (and, more generally, conservatives).

Street reporter Austen Fletcher, who goes by "Fleccas," attended the LA Women's March on Saturday to let the fine folks in genitalia hats explain why they were out protesting. The women and their male "allies" had no clear message, as you might expect, though there was talk of white guilt, a women's "right" to kill an unborn child up until birth, the widely debunked "gender pay gap," hatred for President Trump (he's unqualified because he's "never been president before"), and signs calling for the murder of Trump and Vice President Pence.

[Sign reads: "Kill Donald Trump Kill Mike Pence, It's Guillotine Time Bitches!!]

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A lovely group of America's finest, really.

Missing from these "empowered" women's mouths were any words about the women currently suffering at the hands of oppressive regimes. One woman, who was holding a sign boasting the famous image of a Muslim woman in an American flag hijab, went as far as to explicitly state that she was not out protesting in solidarity with the women of Iran.

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The young lady next to her — stunningly — pitched a case for the compulsory wearing of the hijab, which only has a bad rap from "white colonists." Fleccas asked if her sign of the woman in the American flag hijab might be offensive to "Muslim women who are oppressed by the hijab."

Her answer, I kid you not, went as follows: "So, obviously I'm not Muslim so I feel like I can't speak for Muslim women, but I did take a Middle Eastern Studies class this past semester, and one of the things I learned is that the hijab really got a negative image from white colonists."

So much women's empowerment!

WATCH:

Real Progress In Afghanistan Under Trump While Marchers Ignore It

Nikki Haley Puts Women’s Marchers to Shame With Just 1 Photo From Afghanistan

BY CHRIS GOLDEN
JANUARY 21, 2018 AT 10:21PM

One year ago, members of the distaff gender from around the world took to the streets for a series of Women’s Marches, the goal of which was — well, that was rather indeterminate. It seemed to have a lot to do with anti-Trump/#notmypresident sentiment, knit hats fashioned with feline ears and a lot of inchoate speeches from sorta-celebrities.

Fast forward a year, and what was accomplished? Donald Trump is still your president (if you’re a U.S. citizen, that is) and had a pretty solid 2017. In the interim, we found out the most prominent abusers of women were, in fact, the Hollywood cohort of those same celebrities railing so diligently and incoherently against the president. And, last but not least, there’s a glut of cheap knit pussy caps on Etsy.

Having had such unparalleled success in achieving their aims, marchers reconvened across the country and globe this weekend, albeit to far lower attendance and interest. The media tried to put a pleasant spin on the reduced turnout; “This year’s march was less an assertion of outrage and shell-shocked solidarity than a goal-setting exercise,” The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot assured readers, just two paragraphs below a shot of the National Mall on Sunday, which evinced attendance that would have been dwarfed by an XFL reunion game.

In a mostly overlooked tweet few days before the marches trickled on throughout the streets of the United States, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley had a thing or two to say about goal-setting. Surprisingly, it did not involve knit pussy hats.

Haley, along with other U.N. Security Council diplomats, had traveled to Afghanistan for a two-day trip to see conditions there firsthand. According to Voice of America, Haley met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and a number of other Afghan officials.

However, it was a meeting arranged by the first lady of Afghanistan, Rula Ghani, that should have garnered the most attention.

“Thank you First Lady Ghani for introducing us to this group of women,” Haley tweeted last week.

Do you think the Trump administration is winning in Afghanistan?

“Today in Afghanistan, more girls are going to school & women are serving their government & starting businesses. They’re using the power of their voices to create a brighter future for their country.”

Three days after that tweet, women across America took to the streets in a series of marches on Saturday and Sunday that one can safely assume were in support of the Democrat Party.

That party’s last president, Barack Obama, pulled out of Afghanistan abruptly, leaving a power vacuum in which the Taliban was quickly resurgent. The Taliban, for those of you who with short memories, is a group that tends to frown upon women going to school, going to work, or going pretty much anywhere outside the home.

Razia Jan, who founded a girls’ school outside the Afghan capital of Kabul, described to CNN the horrors she and others who dared to educate young women faced on a daily basis.

“The day we opened the school, (on) the other side of town, they threw hand grenades in a girls’ school, and 100 girls were killed,” Jan said back in 2016. “Every day, you hear that somebody’s thrown acid at a girl’s face … or they poison their water.”

In 2015, there were 185 documented terrorist attacks in Afghanistan on schools and hospitals, the majority of which were attributable to groups opposed to female education.

Meanwhile, in 2018, Haley says that the U.S. strategy under the Trump administration is working. The Afghan government, she says, “are starting to see the Taliban concede, they are starting to see them move towards coming to the table.”

Were the women who assembled in cities across America this weekend explicitly looking for a return to the old order in Afghanistan? Of course not. They weren’t considering it — just as they weren’t considering a whole lot that didn’t involve midterm victories in 2018. (“The real march is on Election Day,” one protester put it.)

Presumably, however, they’ll be voting for the same party whose pull-out strategy was partly responsible for the misogynistic terror that has so long haunted the nation of Afghanistan. They’re also the same party currently crippling the military tasked with protecting Afghani citizens from the Taliban, thanks to the party’s insistence on attaching amnesty without border security to any resolution that would keep the federal government open.

Let’s not pretend, therefore, that the weekend’s marches were about women. They were about stoking the embers of rage from the Nov. 8, 2016 bonfire that still dimly glow from the more privileged corners of the Democrat Party base yet one more time.

Thankfully, it only took one photograph to put them to shame.

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What are your thoughts on the situation in Afghanistan?

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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Kavanaugh Is Going To Be Attacked Unmercilessly!

Liberal Professor Comes

Out in Favor of

Kavanaugh, Left

Pounces

Opinion | A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh