Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Remember we said “the West is next”?
They mean what they say (as we learned the hard way). Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid
- Remember we said “the West is next”?
- Today H×mas releases a video threatening that “rivers of blood will flow through the streets of Paris” at the Olympic Games
- Take them seriously.
- They mean what they say (as we learned the hard way).
History for July 24
History for July 24 - On-This-Day.com 
Alexander Dumas 1802
- 1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
- 1847 - Richard M. Hoe patented the rotary-type printing press.
- 1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
- 1929 - U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
- 1948 - Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
- 1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Kamala Harris awkwardly attempts to honor Biden in her first public remarks since he dropped out of 2024 race | Blaze Media
Kamala Harris awkwardly attempts to honor Biden in her first public remarks since he dropped out of 2024 race | Blaze Media:
In her first public remarks since Joe Biden announced he was dropping his bid for a second term in office, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a short speech to honor his legacy, a speech that was so somber in nature that the New York Post called it a "political eulogy."
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How Kamala Harris Silenced Dissent, Demonized Conservatives
How Kamala Harris Silenced Dissent, Demonized Conservatives - Tyler O'Neil
Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center."
Shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, he endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, in what is now an open Democratic primary.
In addition to Biden’s endorsement, Harris enjoys many advantages, such as the fact that her candidacy will face fewer fundraising and ballot-qualifying challenges than other potential candidates in her party at this late date in the election cycle.
Yet, she also faces potential liabilities, too. Republicans often mock her for using awkward turns of phrase such as “what can be, unburdened by what has been,” and for her high-pitched laugh, which many compare to that of a hyena.
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Her record on policy may also prove a liability.
Here are five things to know about that record.
1. Targeting Planned Parenthood’s Foes
Harris has cultivated a bubbly exterior as vice president, but before she followed Biden into the White House, she developed a record for being tough on crime and weaponizing the law to silence her political opponents.
As district attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011, she led her office in obtaining more than 1,900 convictions for marijuana offenses, though her office had a policy against pursuing jail time for marijuana possession offenses. Biden and then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, attacked Harris on that issue during the 2020 presidential primaries.
Harris served as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017, when she entered the U.S. Senate. As state attorney general, she used the law to target her political and ideological opponents.
David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress released a slew of undercover sting videos showing Planned Parenthood staff admitting to selling aborted babies’ body parts for profit in 2014. Harris, who received funding from Planned Parenthood during her 2016 Senate campaign, directed her office to search Daleiden’s home, seizing his video footage and preparing a legal case against him. Her successor as California attorney general, Xavier Becerra (now secretary of health and human services), filed 15 felony charges against Daleiden and his center in 2017.
“I would say this is an abuse of the criminal process,” Peter Breen, special counsel at the Thomas More Society, told PJ Media in 2020. “I could point you to undercover investigations that are being shown on the evening news in Los Angeles. Under the standard they are applying to David, those would be felonies.”
Planned Parenthood and others sued for damages, accusing Daleiden of conspiracy, eavesdropping, and other claims. A judge awarded $2.4 million in damages and more than $13 million in attorneys’ fees. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Daleiden’s appeal, allowing most of the damages to stand.
In May 2020, Daleiden sued Becerra and Harris, claiming Harris conspired with Planned Parenthood to violate his civil rights by prosecuting him for the undercover investigation. That case remains pending.
2. Targeting Conservatives
Harris also targeted the conservative groups Americans for Prosperity and American Freedom Law Center. Her office demanded that those groups turn over their IRS Schedule B tax forms, which include donor information. Both groups refused to hand over the forms, citing concerns for donor anonymity.
Meanwhile, activists on the Left had created a video game involving a shooter massacring staff at Americans for Prosperity headquarters.
Victor Bernson, then the group’s vice president and general counsel, claimed Harris wanted the information “to directly harass and intimidate our donors, maybe bring audits against them, maybe deny them permits that they’re seeking,” and even inspire protests at their homes.
Harris’ office threatened to suspend their nonprofit registrations and fine their leaders. The Supreme Court ultimately upheld their rights to protect donor anonymity in a 2021 ruling.
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Harris also joined an effort called AGs United for Clean Power, led by then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, in 2016. The effort aimed to “aggressively” protect “the recent progress the United States has made in combating climate change.”
In announcing the effort, Schneiderman noted that his office was investigating whether ExxonMobil broke the law by misleading the public on climate change. The coalition appears to have largely collapsed a year later, after Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker withdrew subpoenas he had issued against the conservative group the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Harris later claimed to have sued ExxonMobil, but she did not do so. Rather, Schneiderman’s successor as New York attorney general, Barbara Underwood, sued ExxonMobil in 2018.
3. Demonizing Conservatives in Senate
Harris entered the U.S. Senate in 2017, and she served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She aggressively questioned former President Donald Trump’s nominees on issues arguably unrelated to their official positions.
She repeatedly pressed Trump nominees over their membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization that upholds the Catholic Church’s position against abortion. She pressed judicial nominees Peter Phipps, Paul Matey, and Brian Buescher—all of whom were ultimately confirmed by the Senate—on whether they knew “that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”
Harris joined her colleagues in pressing Allison Rushing, another Trump judicial nominee, about her participation in events with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization. Her colleagues cited a discredited Southern Poverty Law Center accusation that the ADF is an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” She did not cite the SPLC’s attack on ADF, but she did condemn ADF for opposing same-sex marriage and for supporting “bathroom bills” on transgender issues.
In 2018, Harris condemned many Trump judicial nominees for “extreme views,” including one who supported Kim Davis, then a county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who refused to personally issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to her belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
She aggressively attacked then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, faulting him for even using the term “racial spoils system” in a 2000 Wall Street Journal op-ed. She claimed the term was essentially a dog whistle for “white supremacists.”
4. A Liberal Voting Record
Harris served in the U.S. Senate between 2017 and 2021. She voted 100% in favor of the bills supported by the liberal Planned Parenthood Action Fund and she voted 4% in favor of bills supported by the conservative Heritage Action for America.
The environmentalist group League of Conservation Voters gave Harris a 90% lifetime rating. She received a 0% rating from the National Right to Life Committee.
GovTrack, a government watchdog, found Harris “least likely to cosponsor a bipartisan bill,” according to the Sacramento, California, Bee. GovTrack assigns an “ideology score” from 1.0 (most conservative) to 0.0 (most liberal), and Newsweek reported in 2020 that Harris had a 0.0, a score even more radical than Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who had a 0.02.
GovTrack’s analysis for the full completed terms of the 115th, 116th, and 117th Congresses, however, found Harris at 0.18, 0.06, and 0.11, respectively. Sanders had a 0.0 ideology score for each of those terms. These ratings still place Harris on the liberal side of the Senate, but not quite as extreme as the Newsweek report.
5. Border Policy
Republicans have criticized Harris for failing to achieve much as the Biden administration’s designated “border czar.”
On March 2021, Biden tasked Harris will leading the administration’s campaign to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. As part of that campaign, she focused on addressing poverty, corruption, and violence.
Under Biden, millions of illegal aliens have crossed into the United States without leaving. The current administration’s policies have enabled criminals and even people on the terrorist watchlist to enter the country.
According to the White House, Harris has made progress—in getting companies to pledge investments in Central American countries. The White House announced in March that a public-private partnership the vice president led generated more than $5.2 billion in private sector commitments in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
That money might theoretically encourage fewer Central Americans to surge the U.S.-Mexico border, but it will not secure it, nor address the illegal aliens coming here from other countries throughout the world.
Furthermore, Harris has carried water for illegal immigrants, suggesting an unwillingness to apply the law and secure the border.
In 2012, the then-attorney general of California submitted a brief supporting illegal immigrant Sergio Garcia, arguing that he should be admitted to the California State Bar, despite the bar’s rules disqualifying anyone who committed a criminal act. While Garcia was eventually admitted, it required a new law to explicitly make him eligible. Harris’ brief twisted the law before the legislature changed it to help Garcia.
In her first speech on the Senate floor in 2017, Harris declared, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,” because illegal immigration is a “civil violation, not a crime.” Yet entering the country illegally has criminal penalties, and reentry without permission after deportation is a crime, as is working in the U.S. without legal residency. Overstaying a visa is a civil violation, not a criminal one.
In April 2019, Harris urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to “reduce funding for beds in the federal immigration detention system,” asserting the system had “inhumane conditions,” to refuse to hire more Border Patrol agents, and to “reduce funding for the [Trump] administration’s reckless immigration enforcement operations.”
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Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center."
Shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, he endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, in what is now an open Democratic primary.
In addition to Biden’s endorsement, Harris enjoys many advantages, such as the fact that her candidacy will face fewer fundraising and ballot-qualifying challenges than other potential candidates in her party at this late date in the election cycle.
Yet, she also faces potential liabilities, too. Republicans often mock her for using awkward turns of phrase such as “what can be, unburdened by what has been,” and for her high-pitched laugh, which many compare to that of a hyena.
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Her record on policy may also prove a liability.
Here are five things to know about that record.
1. Targeting Planned Parenthood’s Foes
Harris has cultivated a bubbly exterior as vice president, but before she followed Biden into the White House, she developed a record for being tough on crime and weaponizing the law to silence her political opponents.
As district attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011, she led her office in obtaining more than 1,900 convictions for marijuana offenses, though her office had a policy against pursuing jail time for marijuana possession offenses. Biden and then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, attacked Harris on that issue during the 2020 presidential primaries.
Harris served as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017, when she entered the U.S. Senate. As state attorney general, she used the law to target her political and ideological opponents.
David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress released a slew of undercover sting videos showing Planned Parenthood staff admitting to selling aborted babies’ body parts for profit in 2014. Harris, who received funding from Planned Parenthood during her 2016 Senate campaign, directed her office to search Daleiden’s home, seizing his video footage and preparing a legal case against him. Her successor as California attorney general, Xavier Becerra (now secretary of health and human services), filed 15 felony charges against Daleiden and his center in 2017.
“I would say this is an abuse of the criminal process,” Peter Breen, special counsel at the Thomas More Society, told PJ Media in 2020. “I could point you to undercover investigations that are being shown on the evening news in Los Angeles. Under the standard they are applying to David, those would be felonies.”
Planned Parenthood and others sued for damages, accusing Daleiden of conspiracy, eavesdropping, and other claims. A judge awarded $2.4 million in damages and more than $13 million in attorneys’ fees. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Daleiden’s appeal, allowing most of the damages to stand.
In May 2020, Daleiden sued Becerra and Harris, claiming Harris conspired with Planned Parenthood to violate his civil rights by prosecuting him for the undercover investigation. That case remains pending.
2. Targeting Conservatives
Harris also targeted the conservative groups Americans for Prosperity and American Freedom Law Center. Her office demanded that those groups turn over their IRS Schedule B tax forms, which include donor information. Both groups refused to hand over the forms, citing concerns for donor anonymity.
Meanwhile, activists on the Left had created a video game involving a shooter massacring staff at Americans for Prosperity headquarters.
Victor Bernson, then the group’s vice president and general counsel, claimed Harris wanted the information “to directly harass and intimidate our donors, maybe bring audits against them, maybe deny them permits that they’re seeking,” and even inspire protests at their homes.
Harris’ office threatened to suspend their nonprofit registrations and fine their leaders. The Supreme Court ultimately upheld their rights to protect donor anonymity in a 2021 ruling.
AFP-v.-BontaDownload
Harris also joined an effort called AGs United for Clean Power, led by then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, in 2016. The effort aimed to “aggressively” protect “the recent progress the United States has made in combating climate change.”
In announcing the effort, Schneiderman noted that his office was investigating whether ExxonMobil broke the law by misleading the public on climate change. The coalition appears to have largely collapsed a year later, after Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker withdrew subpoenas he had issued against the conservative group the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Harris later claimed to have sued ExxonMobil, but she did not do so. Rather, Schneiderman’s successor as New York attorney general, Barbara Underwood, sued ExxonMobil in 2018.
3. Demonizing Conservatives in Senate
Harris entered the U.S. Senate in 2017, and she served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She aggressively questioned former President Donald Trump’s nominees on issues arguably unrelated to their official positions.
She repeatedly pressed Trump nominees over their membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization that upholds the Catholic Church’s position against abortion. She pressed judicial nominees Peter Phipps, Paul Matey, and Brian Buescher—all of whom were ultimately confirmed by the Senate—on whether they knew “that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”
Harris joined her colleagues in pressing Allison Rushing, another Trump judicial nominee, about her participation in events with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization. Her colleagues cited a discredited Southern Poverty Law Center accusation that the ADF is an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” She did not cite the SPLC’s attack on ADF, but she did condemn ADF for opposing same-sex marriage and for supporting “bathroom bills” on transgender issues.
In 2018, Harris condemned many Trump judicial nominees for “extreme views,” including one who supported Kim Davis, then a county clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who refused to personally issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to her belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
She aggressively attacked then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, faulting him for even using the term “racial spoils system” in a 2000 Wall Street Journal op-ed. She claimed the term was essentially a dog whistle for “white supremacists.”
4. A Liberal Voting Record
Harris served in the U.S. Senate between 2017 and 2021. She voted 100% in favor of the bills supported by the liberal Planned Parenthood Action Fund and she voted 4% in favor of bills supported by the conservative Heritage Action for America.
The environmentalist group League of Conservation Voters gave Harris a 90% lifetime rating. She received a 0% rating from the National Right to Life Committee.
GovTrack, a government watchdog, found Harris “least likely to cosponsor a bipartisan bill,” according to the Sacramento, California, Bee. GovTrack assigns an “ideology score” from 1.0 (most conservative) to 0.0 (most liberal), and Newsweek reported in 2020 that Harris had a 0.0, a score even more radical than Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who had a 0.02.
GovTrack’s analysis for the full completed terms of the 115th, 116th, and 117th Congresses, however, found Harris at 0.18, 0.06, and 0.11, respectively. Sanders had a 0.0 ideology score for each of those terms. These ratings still place Harris on the liberal side of the Senate, but not quite as extreme as the Newsweek report.
5. Border Policy
Republicans have criticized Harris for failing to achieve much as the Biden administration’s designated “border czar.”
On March 2021, Biden tasked Harris will leading the administration’s campaign to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. As part of that campaign, she focused on addressing poverty, corruption, and violence.
Under Biden, millions of illegal aliens have crossed into the United States without leaving. The current administration’s policies have enabled criminals and even people on the terrorist watchlist to enter the country.
According to the White House, Harris has made progress—in getting companies to pledge investments in Central American countries. The White House announced in March that a public-private partnership the vice president led generated more than $5.2 billion in private sector commitments in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
That money might theoretically encourage fewer Central Americans to surge the U.S.-Mexico border, but it will not secure it, nor address the illegal aliens coming here from other countries throughout the world.
Furthermore, Harris has carried water for illegal immigrants, suggesting an unwillingness to apply the law and secure the border.
In 2012, the then-attorney general of California submitted a brief supporting illegal immigrant Sergio Garcia, arguing that he should be admitted to the California State Bar, despite the bar’s rules disqualifying anyone who committed a criminal act. While Garcia was eventually admitted, it required a new law to explicitly make him eligible. Harris’ brief twisted the law before the legislature changed it to help Garcia.
In her first speech on the Senate floor in 2017, Harris declared, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,” because illegal immigration is a “civil violation, not a crime.” Yet entering the country illegally has criminal penalties, and reentry without permission after deportation is a crime, as is working in the U.S. without legal residency. Overstaying a visa is a civil violation, not a criminal one.
In April 2019, Harris urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to “reduce funding for beds in the federal immigration detention system,” asserting the system had “inhumane conditions,” to refuse to hire more Border Patrol agents, and to “reduce funding for the [Trump] administration’s reckless immigration enforcement operations.”
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If the goal has been to bleed Putin in a war of attrition so that he can’t threaten the rest of Europe, it’s working. Glenn Reynolds
What the apostle Paul's command about prayer teaches Christians about moments of crisis | Blaze Media
What the apostle Paul's command about prayer teaches Christians about moments of crisis | Blaze Media:
He means all leaders.
We should pray for our leaders at every level of service — local, state, and national. We should pray for their safety. I do not believe any Christian should have to practice his faith under the fear of persecution from his leaders. I also believe no elected official should ever have to do his job in fear of his life. We should also pray that God grants them wisdom. I believe as Christians we should pray that wisdom is rooted in the principles of God’s word.
The Worldwide IT Outage Isn't Funny, but the Memes Sure Are PAULA BOLYARD
Nevertheless, the internet did what the internet does:
It made light to the situation and added some needed levity for those affected by the outage.
It made light to the situation and added some needed levity for those affected by the outage.
Here are some of my favorites.
First up is a screenshot of (alleged) IT people gaming X's AI...
First up is a screenshot of (alleged) IT people gaming X's AI...
This one comes from the TOLDYASO! file:
Court rules school officials who attacked reporter's speech not protected from lawsuit * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Court rules school officials who attacked reporter's speech not protected from lawsuit * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
A ruling from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has pulled "qualified immunity" protections from officials in a school district in Massachusetts who threatened a reporter for his decision to openly film his questions in the superintendent's office.
The journalist, Inge Berge, went to the office, camera publicly visible and filming, to ask officials about their decision to limit attendance at a play involving Berge's child over COVID-19, when the state limits already had been lifted.
The missing man. - by Joshua Trevio - Armas
Let us reflect for a moment on the exceeding strangeness, the un-normalcy, of all this. - by Joshua Trevio - Armas 
- It is extremely strange for a President of the United States to end his reelection candidacy — and therefore to de facto end his Presidency — with a mere memorandum posted on social media.
- It is extremely strange for that President to issue a followup social-media post designating a successor, who immediately sets in motion the process of amassing the funds and power previously accrued to her predecessor.
- It is extremely strange for the President’s calendar to be concurrently cleared, including the cancellation of meetings with foreign leaders who are traveling to the United States specifically to meet with the President.
- It is extremely strange for all this to happen without a single personal appearance, without even a video, without even a recording of his voice, without even a photograph, in an era where producing and sharing those things has never been easier.
Why do we have nothing?...
One note on the rhetoric here: there is pushback online from certain corners against the use of coup d’état to describe events.
One note on the rhetoric here: there is pushback online from certain corners against the use of coup d’état to describe events.
This is a tell, and ought to signal that we should use it often.
We should use it because it leads ineluctably to three assertions they wish to avoid.
- One is that the plotters ought to face public accountability.
- Another is that a President unfit to run is unfit to remain in office.
- Still another is that the regime is illegitimate.
And there is one other reason to use it: because it is true.
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