Friday, March 31, 2017

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas: "When I Said We Should Commit National Security Felonies For Political Advantage, What I Really Meant Was I Recommend the Pasta Primavera al Dente at the Four Seasons."

"Either That or the Russians Hacked My Voice Box And Made Me Say Things I Never Said!"

Such as this:

"The Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would not longer have access to that intelligence."

(She's remarkably well-briefed on Trump for someone who left government to advise Hillary many months before Trump even announced his candidacy.)

"I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew they were trying to also get information to the hill.

That’s why you have the leaking. People are worried.".......

They're worried? About what?

Were they worried that the new Trump administration would...

*cancel missile shield defenses for NATO allies?
*let the Russians firmly establish military bases in the Middle East?
*let Russia bribe an American Cabinet Secretary to gain control of American uranium supplies?
*let Russia conduct years of cyber-attacks against America with impunity?
*let Russia supply Iran with uranium and sophisticated missile systems to guard their nuke factories?
*let Russia bomb civilians without lifting a finger to stop it?
*allow Russia to destabilize Europe by helping to cause a massive refugee crisis?
*fail to support Ukrainians with arms to staunch Russian invasions?

Because all those and more were policy in the Obama Administration.

Remember that phony-baloney Arms Control Agreement with Russia that was cooked-up for Obama so the Nobel Committee could pretend he won the Cold War, because there is no category for "Being Elected While Awesome"? The Russians were allowed to violate that, too.

In other words, "We had to stop Trump because we were afraid he'd be just as weak, pliable, servile, anti-American and corrupt as we were with Russia!"

It's tantamount to this Catch 22:

Old and Busted: "We had to destroy the village to save the village!"
The New Hotness: "We had to wiretap the village to save the village! And then leak it!"

She can try to walk back her confession now, but you can't walk back eight years of gutless Pre-Emptive Surrender by a lying traitor.

Sorry--what I really meant to say was try the Cajun Ribeye with truffle fries and sauteed spinach at Morton's.

It's Vladimir's favorite.

The Sound of Leaking

"Mr. Nunes has said he has seen proof that the Obama White House surveilled the incoming administration—on subjects that had nothing to do with Russia—and that it further unmasked (identified by name) transition officials. This goes far beyond a mere scandal. It’s a potential crime."--Kimberly Strassel

The Good News

Luke 15:4-7 The Message Bible (MSG)
4-7 “Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn’t you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until you found it? When found, you can be sure you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing, and when you got home call in your friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Celebrate with me! I’ve found my lost sheep!’ Count on it—there’s more joy in heaven over one sinner’s rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue.

Thank You Lord Jesus, our Good Shepherd! Hallelujah and Amen! 

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Russia Didn't Try to Help Trump; They Tried to Help Themselves, Morons. UPDATED: PROOF OF PRESIDENT COLLUDING WITH RUSSIANS!

It's President's Day!

"Every single day, the Democrats and media get together and decide what the day's Microcycle Narrative Attack on Trump will be. Every single day we're supposed to treat these concocted #FakeNews fictions as matters of grave concern. For the first time in my adult life, I am using this expression non-ironically -- "I just can't even anymore.""--Ace of Spades, Smart Military Blogger

You often hear it said, and said unchallenged, by Democrats and their propaganda arm, the #FakeNews Media:

"Russia was trying to help Donald Trump!"

No, they weren't. Anything Russia did was to help Russia. Period.

In fact, they tried to get the RNC's e-mails, too, but the RNC took cyber-security seriously, unlike the Democrats. The bungler Podesta even handed over his password. But we're not here to discuss the billion rubles Putin gave to John Podesta or the lobbying for Putin's SberBank by Podesta's brother.

The Russians would have loved to have had Trump's e-mails too, and the RNC's, to use against them.

In fact, it appears that while Russia was conducting its Dezinformatsiya Campaign, it was also taken in and fooled by the American #FakeNews Media's own Disinformation Campaign.

Russians assumed like all the other #SmartPeople that the election was over and Hillary Clinton had already won.

It shows the insipid monomania and the total lack of imagination of our Poodle Press Corps; they think everything in the universe revolves around them and their precious binary politics. If Russia hurts Hillary, why, they must be for Trump! Just like if the terrorists hate us, it must be something we did!

Russia does what it does because they think it helps Russia. Period. Terrorists hate us because they're haters. Period. And the #FakeNews Media does what it does because they're partisan Democrat hacks with a byline for cover.

But they're absolutely right about one thing:

There is incontrovertible proof of presidential collusion with the Russians!

"Thanks for all the cash, Mr. President."
"No--thank you and what'$-her-name for all the uranium, Comrade President!"



"Of course I will help you with our Iranian friends--for a price."
"Just name it, Vlad--nothing's too good for my Mullahs!"

"President Rafsanjani, as a fabulous parting gift, I've arranged for Pres. Putin to send you
130 tons of prime natural uranium."




"Thanks, President Obama, for letting Russia sell us these missiles to defend our nuke factory.
And even giving us the money to buy them!"
"I told you I would be more pliable after I fooled the voters one last time."
"I transmitted to Vladimir. He thanks you."
"No need to thank me, Dimitri--I did it for the Ayatollah. And don't worry; NBC won't ask. They're housebroken."


"NBC President Andy Lack here.
President Clinton colluded with President Putin who colluded with 
President Rafsanjani who colluded with President Obama 
who is colluding with me to pin it on the only president who wasn't there: 
President Donald J. Trump.
Is this a great country or what?"

#IJustCan'tEvenAnymoreEither


But He can.

The Newest Theme Park Ride: Ted Bundy's Fake Broken Arm Cast

It's a Men's Room After All

Get Real Mom: "I was at Disneyland with my son, my friend and her son. We were over in California Adventure in the food court area. We’d just finished eating and decided to pee before we headed out to The Little Mermaid. I went to the bathroom while she watched our boys in their strollers, and then I did the same. (For anyone who’s tried to fit a stroller in a bathroom stall, you get it).

I was off to the side waiting with the two boys, when I noticed a man walk into the restroom. My first thought was “Oh shit, he’s walked in the wrong restroom by mistake. lol” He took a few more steps, at which point he would’ve definitely noticed all the women lined up and still kept walking. My next thought was, “Maybe he’s looking for his wife…or child and they’ve been in here a while.” But he didn’t call out any names or look around. He just stood off to the side and leaned up against the wall. At this point I’m like, “WTF? Ok there is definitely a very large, burly man in a Lakers jersey who just walked in here. Am I the only one seeing this?" I surveyed the room and saw roughly 12 women, children in tow, staring at him with the exact same look on their faces. Everyone was visibly uncomfortable. We were all trading looks and motioning our eyes over to him…like "What is he doing in here?” Yet every single one of us was silent. And this is the reason I wrote this blog.

If this had been 5 years ago, you bet your ass every woman in there would’ve been like, “Ummm what are you doing in here?”, but in 2017? The mood has shifted. We had been culturally bullied into silenced. Women were mid-changing their baby’s diapers on the changing tables and I could see them shifting to block his view. But they remained silent. I stayed silent. We all did. Every woman who exited a stall and immediately zeroed right in on him...said nothing. And why? B/c I and I’m sure all the others were scared of that “what if”. What if I say something and he says he "identifies as a woman" and then I come off as the intolerant asshole at the happiest place on earth? So we all stood there, shifting in our uncomfortableness…trading looks. I saw two women leave the line with their children. Still nothing was said. An older lady said to me out loud, “What is he doing in here?” I’m ashamed to admit I silently shrugged and mouthed, “I don’t know." She immediately walked out, from a bathroom she had every right to use without fear.".......

"Used to". She used to have every right to use the Women's Room without fear. But that was before Bathrooms Without Borders and Sanctuary Showers.

From last year: A Government That Will Not Protect Schoolgirls in Showers Will Certainly Not Protect You From a Nuclear Iran

"According to a police report, the mother of a 17-year-old girl complained after her daughter saw the transgender individual walking naked in the locker room. A female swim coach confronted the man sprawled out in a sauna exposing himself. She ordered him to leave and called police.

The coach later apologized when she discovered the man was transgendered, but explained there were girls using the facility as young as six years old who weren’t used to seeing male genitals.

“They’re uncomfortable with him being in there, her, being in there and are shocked by it,” parent Kristi Holterman told KIRO-TV.

According to the police report, the local district attorney probably will not pursue charges because he said the “criminal law is very vague in this area.”

"Francis told KIRO-TV that he was born a man but chose to live as a woman in 2009. Francis said he felt discriminated against after he was told to leave.

“This is not 1959 Alabama,” Francis told the television station. “We don’t call police for drinking from the wrong water fountain.”".......

By the way, he self-identifies as a 'transgender lesbian'--that is, he likes girls.
 
Attorney General Lynch and President Obama agreed with him 100 percent about that 1959 Alabama-stuff.

In fact, the President should have called out the National Guard just like Eisenhower did and heroically escorted Martin Luther Queen here back to the showers and forced those bigoted schoolgirls view his penis.

 Or the Klan wins.".......

This Dirty Old Man takes over a public pool to use as his own swingin' bachelor/bachelorette pad, where he exposes himself to the Girls Swim Team.

The result: The cops go away. The staff apologizes to him. The DA gives him a pass. The Attorney General calls him the next Rosa Parks. The President tries to legislate Lola's Law singlehandedly. And federal judges start working overtime to discover in the Constitution A Right to Wave His Schlong in Your Child's Face The Way the Founders Intended(tm).

That's the Greatest Scam since Ted Buny's Fake Arm Cast. Bundy used his fake cast to gain sympathy and access to vulnerable women, and then hit them over the head with it. Today, he would just use #FakeLaw. But Ted Bundy was an amateur compared to the Professional Perverts who run the Democrat Party today.

President Trump has rescinded Obama's Executive Order, but the stench still lingers.

Women, once the darlings of the Left, keep taking third place to Sharia Rights, Gay Rights, Illegal Alien Rights, Racialists Rights, Free-Range Criminals Rights, Bureaucracies Rights, etc. Even Animals Rights have more standing than women and girls. They don't even have their own category anymore.

Women aren't even entitled to their own sports trophies anymore. And to add injury to insult, Title Nine law was used to rob them of it!

Get Back to the Back of the Bus, gals--you're yesterday's news in today's Democrat Party.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

California's Big Baby Cannibals Strike Back: Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra Charge Whistle-Blowing Reporters with Wiretapping in Baby Parts Chop-Shop Case

While Our Fearless "Investigate Trump's Toenails!"-Press Corps Remains Dutifully Silent
Becerra, Harris and California's Democrats: The New Donner Party
Ben Shapiro: TYRANNY: California Criminally Charges Undercover Reporters Who Exposed Planned Parenthood's Baby Body Part Sales. Where's The Outrage?

"On Tuesday, the state of California charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress on 15 felony counts over their undercover reporting regarding Planned Parenthood. In 2015, Daleiden and Merritt released video showing high-ranking Planned Parenthood members joking about selling baby body parts for market rates and picking through baby body parts in order to demonstrate which sorts of body parts were available for sale for medical research, as well as talking about the best methods of abortion for procuring those baby body parts. The California Department of Justice, under the auspices of now-Senator Kamala Harris, raided Daleiden’s home for footage in April 2016; last year, the state of Texas pursued charges against Daleiden and Merritt, but those charges were thrown out.

So, here’s the question: where’s the media, rushing to the defense of these undercover journalists?
They’re silent. Or they’re celebrating, since they think that Daleiden and Merritt were evil conservatives out to target the saints at Planned Parenthood. They buy the lie that the tapes were deceptively edited so as to implicate Planned Parenthood in nefarious activity – but the tapes show precisely what the tapes show.".......

Shapiro goes on to make the sound legal case for investigative reporting, but this isn't really a legal case. It's a political prosecution of the old Soviet variety. Or perhaps, given the religious zealotry of the Dead Baby Industrialists, a religious persecution of non-believers worthy of Iranian Mullahs or the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. An Inquisition of Obstetric Apostasy.

Speaking of morally-retarded foreign practices, here's Radio Free Asia from 2012:

"China has been extracting organs from living prisoners in addition to its much publicized and criticized practice of taking vital body parts from executed convicts, experts told a U.S. congressional hearing this week.

Two-thirds of transplant organs in China come from prisoners, and the government says it plans to abolish organ harvesting from death-row inmates within the next five years, according to state media reports.

Researcher Ethan Gutmann told the hearing that he began gathering details of organ-taking from prisoners in 2006 through interviews with Chinese medical professionals, law enforcement personnel, and over 50 former prisoners of China’s laogai labor-camp system.

Based on his research, Gutmann said, he believes that the practice of taking organs from Chinese prisoners began in the remote Xinjiang region—where ethnic Uyghurs say they are discriminated against by Han Chinese—in the 1990s and had expanded nationwide by 2001.

Though at first the victims of this practice were executed prisoners, he said, doctors began to take organs from living prisoners as well, he told the Oversight and Investigation and Human Rights Subcommittees of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.

'Like from hell'

One man that Gutmann interviewed—Nijiati Abdureyimu, a former special officer in the Urumqi Public Security Bureau—said that a fellow officer once heard screams “like from hell” coming from a “harvesting” van parked at a prison’s execution ground.

“Two years later, the prison’s medical director confessed to Nijiati that organ harvesting from living human beings—they would expire during the surgery of course—was now routine,”.......


China's organ harvesting policies--and press freedoms-- are almost indistinguishable from California's. "They're doomed anyway--might as well get some use out of them."

Except China plans to end their organ harvesting while California plans to expand theirs forever. Perhaps they'll establish a Baby Parts Guild like the California Raisin Advisory Board. Why not? Baby parts seem destined for California's breakfast cereals:

"Try New Frisco Fetal Flakes--Now Part of a Nutritious Breakfast!"

If they ever discover fetal cells make a better Viagra, it will be all over.

Even if the prosecution fails, Big Baby is sending a message: Do Not Interfere With Our State-Sponsored Organ Harvesting Industry.

It's a serious crime in California to traffic in snail darter parts.

But it's a serious business in California to traffic in human baby parts, and just like Democrats once told Harriet Tubman, they're telling reporters "We damn sure don't need no outside agitatuhs nosin' 'round heah, stirrin' up trouble, son."

Enjoy your people cereal, cereal people. "Baby. It's What's for Breakfast(tm)."


"Remember: Soylent Green is People! So Have Another Delicious Serving!"
Brought to you by The California Cannibal Advisory Board

Donner Party Dinner Party-UPDATE:
David French explains how undercover video reporters at a California duck farm
were hailed as heroes by these same politicians.


Randy BarnettVerified account @RandyEBarnett   
They told me if Trump was elected, they'd be prosecuting investigative reporters,
and they were right.
Photo published for California Wants To Imprison Pro-Lifers For Committing Journalism
 
Sean DavisVerified account @seanmdav                   
You know who else loves to criminalize journalism and persecute political opponents? Putin.

Old and busted: Democracy dies in darkness.
New hotness: Abortionist organ trafficking thrives in darkness.

Hot Air: "California law specifically includes an exception to its wiretapping laws for especially newsy recordings — specifically, recordings aimed at “obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to the commission by another party to the communication of the crime of extortion, kidnapping, bribery, any felony involving violence against the person.” Planned Parenthood’s fetal-tissue business may not qualify, but the principle behind that exception is sound: When a recording is of great public interest, capturing evidence that may involve significant wrongdoing, the person who recorded it is off the hook. Becerra could have exercised his prosecutorial discretion and refused to charge Daleiden and Merritt for that reason, arguing that although they don’t technically qualify for the statutory exception, their interest in exposing possible malfeasance in organ trafficking was virtuous. But that’s the whole problem. In California, making Planned Parenthood look bad isn’t virtuous, ever. Result: 15 felony counts.
Here’s the latest from Daleiden, released just this morning in a show of defiance. Sample quote: “Dr. Taylor explains to the investigators, ‘In Arizona, if the fetus comes out with any signs of life, we’re supposed to transport it. To the hospital.’ When one investigator then asks, ‘Is there any standard procedure for verifying signs of of life?’

Dr. Taylor replies, ‘Well, the thing is, I mean
the key is, you need to pay attention to who’s in the room, right?'”

No public interest in having that exposed, right?".......

David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt:
Arrested for Committing Journalism Against the State


Monday, March 27, 2017

Bold Colors, not Pastel Paul's Pale Imitation: AmeriCare, Not CommieCare

"Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness. I don 't know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, "We must broaden the base of our party" -- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents. It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating? Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?"--Ronald Reagan, "Let Them Go Their Way", 2nd Annual CPAC Convention, March 1, 1975

Newt gets it right:

1. It took 8 months to pass Reagan's Tax Cuts and Obamacare . This 3-week artificial deadline was unrealistic. This isn't over.
2. Take the argument to the Country, not the City and certainly not to the Cloakroom. A bill at 17% approval is doomed.
3. Have a bold, clear bill. This was a timid insider head-fake bill that, for example, only defunds Planned Parenthood for a year. People respond to clear, principled leadership, not to wimpy, least common denominator-maneuvering.
4. No more phony CBO numbers. No more absurd Senate rules. No more "Trust us 'til Wednesday for a cheeseburger today."

Some Republicans are also hiding behind the 60-vote filibuster rule, which should be abolished.

If 60% support is the Senate's sacred, untouchable Magic Number, then let's require senators to be elected themselves with a 60% vote.

Ace of Spades: "The Republicans actually want the Democrats to keep the filibuster, because they actually don't want a conservative court. Or to have the power to enact any of their legislative measures that they claim they want to enact, but in fact do not want to enact. They like pretending they want conservative reforms, while loving the fact that the Democrats can block those reforms.
Then they get to have their cake and eat it too -- they perpetually run on issues they don't want a resolution on, while being able to explain away their failure by saying "Because Democrats" or "Because Political Reality."".......

The whole purpose of Obamacare was to crash the system and institute full CommieCare.

And only freedom can stop it.

Neo-Civil War UPDATE:  Col. Schlichter goes Full-Appomattox Courthouse on Pvt. Ryan:

"Ulysses S. Grant also knew something about pummeling the stubborn Democrats of #TheResistance into submission, although his Democrats used iron chains instead of welfare and lies to keep their serfs in bondage. Grant wasn’t a big, flamboyant martial artist like George Patton – he didn’t make giant, bold strokes across the canvas of the battlefield. Grant was about brute force, not finesse. He found his Democrat enemy, fixed him in position, and beat on him until the Democrat couldn’t take it anymore and handed over his saber. That’s the right strategy for facing this intractable foe – luckily, the Democrats of today are merely a bunch of talky, whiny wusses, not the hardcore and courageous infantry and cavalry G-Dawg (and my ancestors) were called upon to regulate. ...

We know the strategy – grind out win after win, big and small, over time until the liberals are broken. It’s the tactics that Ryan has botched; he’s shown no aptitude for the basic blocking and tackling of legislating and consistently falls back on the errors of the past. Here’s how healthcare should have gone. Paully, starting the morning of November 9th, you should have orchestrated an inclusive effort to create a bill based on a consensus that incorporated every stakeholder with the ability to icepick it (the transition team, the Freedom Caucus, the squishes, the think tanks, and most vitally, the Senate). Once you had something everyone agreed on – and 216 sure votes in the House and 51 in the Senate – you all appear with the Prez in front of the cameras to announce it before you actually put out the document, thereby cementing in the narrative about why the people should dig it before the haters can hate it into little pieces. Then you pass it and win.

But what did we get? A tactical clusterflunk. Seven years in and Ryan wasn’t ready. He putzed around with no sense of urgency until there was a sense of urgency. Who was expecting this dog’s breakfast to drop when it did? And it just dropped on us out of the blue – one day, suddenly, there’s this whole plan out there. Surprise! I listened to Hugh Hewitt the morning after it was released; he was stunned that he couldn’t get any of the Republican House leadership [sic] on his show to talk to his conservative audience about the biggest piece of legislation in Trump’s first term.

Paully, you gave the enemy precious hours to set the narrative, and the bill never recovered. How stupid can you be to have no full court press plan to sell it, to manage the message, even though my corgi-retriever could have foreseen the media’s narrative was going to be that this was the moral equivalent of the Rwandan genocide - only without all the love?

Three phases? You didn’t have the credibility for one phase and you were babbling about three. Any idiot could have seen that Phase III (“The Democrats Do Exactly the Opposite of What Democrats Do”) was never going to happen. ... Congrats! That’s how you manage to garner a 17% approval rating for a plan to repeal something that is about as popular as herpes.".......

Solution: Mandatory Herpes Coverage!

Or freedom.

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Canadian Legislators Choose Slavery: Ask A Saudi Before You Speak, Canuck

In Ottawa, Some Supremacists Are More Supreme Than Others

I once read a quote to the effect "No one ever freely volunteered to become a slave."

If that was ever true, it's no longer true anymore.

Jihad Watch: Canadians Duped: A Victorious Day for Islamic Supremacists

"The Canadian House of Commons passed anti-Islamophobia motion (M-103) on Thursday, leaving opponents stunned that protests and tens of thousands of Canadian signatures to petitions calling for rejection of the motion were ignored. M-103 was touted as advancing tolerance, inclusiveness and racial harmony, but instead it bestows a special status to Muslims and is a first step in edging Canada down a dangerous path, eroding the freedom of speech and potentially leading to the censorship of reporting on crimes committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. ...In Canada, Mohamed Huque, executive director of the Islamic Family and Social Services Association in Edmonton has already called for migrant sex crimes to be covered up following the sex assault of six Edmonton teen girls of which a Syrian refugee was arrested."

King Abdullah II of Jordan"It is a war inside of Islam, it is our civil war...”.

Is the King's statement Islamophobic? Should he be silenced?

And if Islam is fighting a civil war, how do you let in only the good side? Or is it a crime to even ask?

Can honor killings still be discussed? Or Female Genital Mutilation? The "Cutting Season" is arriving--also known as "summer vacation", so now is the time to ask--if asking is still allowed.

"In a Toronto Sun article entitled “I’m a liberal Muslim and I reject M-103,” Farzana Hassan writes:
"Internationally, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has moved to curtail “Islamophobia” in the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights. I categorically reject such restriction on free speech, just as I reject M-103, tabled by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, who has refused to remove the term from the motion."
...Some say that a (non-binding) motion is harmless, but it is not. It guides legislative decisions. ...Khalid was swamped by the media, and pressed by a reporter on whether she thought she could have allayed the concerns of many Canadians by including a written definition of “Islamophobia.” Instead of addressing the question, Khalid clumsily dodged answering. The reporter continued: “Why won’t you answer my question?,” at which point Khalid rudely turned away from him. Still in full avoidance mode, she turned to another reporter, who embarrassed her further by stating that she, too, was  interested in an answer to the question. Now cornered and looking foolish, Khalid turned back to the original reporter and asked, “What was the question?” The reporter repeated himself but she replied only by hailing the merits of M-103..."

The question is "What constitutes Islamophobia?".

And based on previous experience, the answer is: "Whatever we say it is, at the time we say it, depending on who the speaker is and whether or not we approve of his politics."

The whole concept of Leftist Phobias is the Big Lie.

A phobia is an unreasonable, irrational, mindless fear without any basis in reality. But what if you have deep concerns based on thoughtful analysis and a reasonable review of the facts and evidence?

Islamophobia,  for instance.

What if only 20% of the Turks in Germany work and the rest are on welfare? What if there is a rape epidemic in Sweden? What if in one Australian classroom, every single schoolgirl had her clitoris carved away? What if a quarter of England's Muslims admit they want to impose 2nd and 3rd-class citizenship on non-believers? And many thousands of them support terrorism to achieve it? And that's just the ones who will admit it to pollsters. And so many Islamist terror incidents, we've lost track of them. Even major attacks.

Canada's Answer: "Shhhhhhh! Hater!"

Sorry, but that's not a phobia.

There is one runaway phobia on vivid display daily, however: Trumpophobia.

They hate him. They hate his hair. They hate his money. They hate his business. They hate his TV shows. They hate his success. They hate his buildings. They hate his voice. They hate his tweets.

They hate Melania, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, his young son Barron, probably even his grandkids. They hate his victory, his Vice-President, his staff, his administration, his policies, his demeanor and his supporters.

The only thing Trumpophobes don't hate: lecturing you about your phobias.

"Khalid is well versed in deceit, and has, despite her harmless appearance, a questionable history. She is a former president of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Student Association (MSA) at York University. MSA’s are “essentially an arm of the Saudi-funded, Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Muslim World League.”...The OIC has many member nations that once subscribed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but which signed on to the Cairo Declaration of Human rights in August 1990. The Cairo declaration affirmed that Sharia is the sole source of determining human rights. Sharia is regarded as divine law, and any insult to Muhammad or Islam is deemed blasphemous.
The passing of this “Islamophobia” motion in Canada represents a low point for freedom and an outstanding achievement for Islamic supremacists.   The same [destructive] process has begun in Canada [as in Europe], with its suicidal refugee policy of welcoming in unvetted asylum seekers and ramming “anti-Islamophobia” initiatives down the throats of Canadians, along with the persistence of Canadian authorities in unreasonably accommodating Islamic supremacists and even allowing Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups and individuals to sway public policy. The only positive aspect of the M-103 “anti-Islamophobia” ordeal was the open and widespread rejection of it by Canadians of every race and religious background.".......

Freedom is hard. But dhimmitude is harder.

Volunteering to become slaves isn't the answer, Canada.

"Don't make me turn this Freedom Train around, kids!"

Prof. Solum's Day in Court


STATEMENT OF LAWRENCE B. SOLUM
CARMACK WATERHOUSE PROFESSOR OF LAW
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER
Hearings on the Nomination of the Honorable Neil M. Gorsuch
to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

What is Originalism?
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today.  This statement is about Judge
Gorsuch’s judicial philosophy. Judge Gorsuch is an originalist and a textualist, but what
does that mean? The core of originalism is a very simple idea. In constitutional cases,
the United States Supreme Court should consider itself bound by the original public
meaning of the constitutional text.
That simple idea can be broken down into its component parts.
Like Justice Scalia before him, Judge Gorsuch believes that the meaning of the
constitutional text is its public meaning—the ordinary or plain meaning the words had to
the public at the time each provision of the Constitution was framed and ratified. If the
words employed are technical, the technical meaning must be accessible to the public.
The original public meaning of the text is the meaning that the words had then—and
not necessarily the meaning that they have today. For example, Article Four of the
Constitution refers to “domestic violence” but in the Eighteenth Century that phrase did
not refer to spousal abuse. It referred to riots and insurrections within a state.
When we interpret Article Four, we should understand the words as they were used
at the timethe Constitution was written.
What is called “linguistic drift” is not a valid method of constitutional amendment.
The Supreme Court today should consider itself bound by the text. The Court does not
and should not have the power to amend the text on a case-by-case basis.  It should
decide constitutional cases in a way that is consistent with the original
public meaning of the text.
Originalist judges do not believe that they have the power to impose their own values
on the nation by invoking the idea of a “living constitution.” Instead, they believe that
the proper mechanism for changing the Constitution is by amendment through the
process provided in Article Five—as has been done twenty-seven times.

Myths about Originalism
The basic idea of originalism is simple and intuitive. We have a written constitution
that is the supreme law of the land. Why then would anyone oppose originalism?
Some of the reasons for opposition to originalism are based on myths—
misrepresentations of the actual practice of originalism by lawyers, judges, and scholars.
Myth Number One: Originalists Try to Channel James Madison
Originalism is about the constitutional text. No originalist thinks that we should decide
contemporary constitutional bases by asking, “What would James Madison do?”  What
matters for originalists is what the constitutional text says. When Judge Gorsuch writes
an opinion that applies the original public meaning of the constitutional text to a
contemporary legal question, he does not need to know anything about the
mental states of the Framers regarding that question.
Myth Number Two: Originalists Cannot Apply the Constitution to New Circumstances
There was no Internet when the First Amendment was written in 1791. Today,
Americans can speak over the Internet.  The application of the freedom of speech to a
speech broadcast over the Internet is very simple.  Speech is speech, whether it is in
person, amplified by speakers, or transmitted over the Internet. The Constitution was
written in language that can be applied to new circumstances. There was no state of
Iowa when the Constitution was ratified, but there was no difficulty in applying the
constitutional provision that grants each state two Senators to the new state Iowa.
Myth Number Three: Originalism Would Require that Brown v. Board be Overruled
In fact, there is very good historical evidence that segregation would have been struck
down under the original meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment. In fact, Plessy v. Ferguson, the decision that established
the separate-but equal doctrine, was a living constitutionalist decision, one of many
that nullified a now almost forgotten guarantee of equal basic rights.
Myth Number Four: Originalism is Inconsistent with Precedent
In fact, the opposite is the case. The original meaning of the judicial power in Article III
is entirely consistent with the ancient doctrine of stare decisis. Judge Gorsuch has
consistently displayed a respect for precedent in his judicial career—as did Justice
Scalia. It is true that an originalist Supreme Court would gradually move the law away from
precedents that are inconsistent with the constitutional text, but great movements of this
kind are gradual—and they give the democratic process an opportunity to react.

Originalism is in the Mainstream of American Jurisprudence
Is originalism somehow outside the mainstream of American jurisprudence?  The
answer to that question is an emphatic “no.” The idea that judges are bound by the
constitutional text is very much in the mainstream of American legal thought.
For most of American history, originalism has been the predominate view of
constitutional interpretation.  There have been episodes in our history where fidelity to
the constitutional text was neglected. One such episode occurred during the
Reconstruction period when living constitutionalists of that era undermined important
provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. Another departure from the mainstream
occurred during the Warren Court, when the Supreme Court sometimes issued opinions
that decided constitutional questions without any reference to the constitutional text.
But for most of our nation’s history, the Supreme Court has made a good faith effort to
follow the constitutional text.
Originalism is in the mainstream for another reason. Originalism can and should be
endorsed by both Democrats and Republicans and by progressives and conservatives.
This point is especially important to me personally.  I am not a conservative or
libertarian, but I do believe in originalism. Why is that? It is because I am convinced
that giving judges the power to override the Constitution and impose their own vision of
constitutional law is dangerous for everyone.  If you are a Democrat, you should ask
yourself the question: Given that the next Justice will be appointed by a Republican
President and confirmed by a Republican Senate, would you prefer an originalist like
Judge Gorsuch or would I prefer a conservative Justice who does not believe that she
or he is bound by the constitutional text?  The alternative to originalism is a Justice who
believes that she or he is free to override the constitutional text in the name of her or his
own beliefs about what the Constitution should be given changing circumstances and
values.
There is a final reason that originalism is in the mainstream. The Supreme Court has
never claimed that it has the power to override the original meaning of the constitutional
text. There are cases where the Supreme Court has departed from the text, but in those
cases, the Court either attempts to disguise the true nature of its decision with an
implausible reading of the text, or it simply ignores the text altogether—usually by citing
precedent. Indeed, if Judge Gorsuch had come before this Committee and testified that
he believed that as a Supreme Court Justice, he would have the power to override the
original meaning of the constitutional text, I think it is clear that he would not be
confirmed.

The Case for Originalism
Originalism is the simple and highly intuitive idea that the Justices of the Supreme
Court are bound by the constitutional text.  The Justices, like all federal judges and the
members of this Senate, take an oath to perform their duties under the Constitution of
the United States. There are good reasons for the obligation of constitutional fidelity
represented by the oath.
First and foremost is the rule of law. John Adams is famous for insisting on the “rule of
law and not of men.”( John Adams, Novanglus Papers, Boston Gazette, no. 7 (1774)
The commitment to the original meaning of the constitutional text
is the best way to ensure that the awesome power entrusted to our Supreme Court—
the power to have the ultimate say in constitutional cases and declare that statutes
passed by Congress are unconstitutional—is the rule of constitutional law and
not the rule of the men and women appointed to the Court.
What is the alternative? Living constitutionalists believe that the Supreme Court has
the power to amend the Constitution by judicial fiat.  If the constitutional text does not
limit that power, what does?  You might say that it is precedent, but the Supreme Court
has the power to overrule its prior decisions. I have the great privilege of authoring the
volume of Moore’s Federal Practice that deals with the doctrine of stare decisis.  In that
capacity, I have read hundreds and hundreds of cases dealing with the role of
precedent in the federal courts. My conclusion, and I think fair-minded scholars
would agree, is that the Supreme Court has an inconsistent approach to precedent.
When a majority of the Court believe that a prior decision is wrong,
they have the power to overrule it, and that doctrine of precedent
does not prevent them from so doing. Indeed, in recent years,
critics of the Court have observed a pattern of what they call “stealth overruling.”
Even when the Court pretends to adhere to precedent, it can nullify a prior decision by
distinguishing it in a way that leaves it without any true precedential force.
If the Justices of the Supreme Court are neither constrained by the constitutional text
nor by precedent, then how is the rule of law to be achieved? My day job is as a law
professor.  In that capacity, I study the constitutional theories that are propounded by
my colleagues. One of the most distinguished living constitutionalists is
Professor David Strauss of the University of Chicago.
Professor Strauss is the leading proponent of what is called “common law constitutionalism”
—the view that constitutional law should be made by judges.
What I want to call to your attention now is his remarkable candor. Professor
Strauss is willing to say things that no one who aspires to judicial office would say in
public. Some constitutional amendments are passed to overrule Supreme Court
decisions. The two most famous examples are the Eleventh Amendment
which limits the ability of citizens to sue states and the Sixteenth Amendment
which overruled the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the federal income tax.
Professor Strauss believes even those amendments could be overruled
by the Supreme Court through a common-law process—
although he believes the Court should wait a few years
before taking such a radical step.
It is no accident that Professor Strauss wrote a book entitled, The Living Constitution.
(David A. Strauss, Foreword: Does the Constitution Mean What It Says?, 129 Harv. L.
Rev. 1, 57 (2015) (implicitly rejecting the Constraint Principle by stating that “original
understandings are binding for a time but then lose their force”).
The truth is that if the constitutional text does not bind the Supreme Court, then the
Justices are the equivalent of a superlegislature. A committee of nine unelected
judges has the power to reshape our Constitution as they see fit.
There is a second reason to prefer originalism over living constitutionalism. That
reason is rooted in the idea of democratic legitimacy.  Each and every provision of the
United States Constitution has been ratified by a supermajoritarian process.
The original constitution was ratified by the representatives of “We the People”
in convention assembled.
Amendments must be proposed by two-thirds of the Senate and the House
and ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. This supermajoritarian process
confers democratic legitimacy on the provisions of the Constitution.  It is important to
acknowledge that this process has not been perfect.  In the late eighteenth century,
women, slaves and others did not have the vote. But the democratic legitimacy of the
Constitution must be compared to some alternative. The Supreme Court consists of
nine women and men. They are not elected.
They are appointed for life terms.
In theory, they can be impeached by the House and tried by the Senate,
but it is difficult to imagine that any Supreme Court Justice would be removed
in this way on the basis that their living constitutionalist jurisprudence
was out of step with popular opinion.
If we must choose between originalism and a constitutional text that has been ratified
by the representatives of “We the People” and a living constitutionalist constitution that
is ratified by majority vote of a committee of nine, there is no doubt in my mind about
which constitution is the more democratic.

Objections to Originalism
My final topic concerns objections to originalism. Let me begin by noting that many of
the objections are based on the myths about originalism that I have tried to dispel.
Consider some of the remaining objections.

The Dead Hand
It is argued that originalism involves the rule of a “dead hand.” Of course, it is true
that most of the provisions of the Constitution were framed and ratified long ago. We
have an old constitution that has survived the test of time. But is this a reason to reject
its authority? Did the members of this august body make a mistake when they swore
an oath to support and defend the Constitution?
Some of my colleagues in the academy do
believe that the Constitution is outmoded and outdated,
but I believe they are wrong for two fundamental reasons.
First, the Constitution is not a code. The Constitution established a basic structure of
government—this Senate, the House of Representatives, the President, and the judicial
branch.  It established procedures for legislation and appointment of judges and
executive officials. There have been challenges and even periods of crisis, but the
fundamental structure of government has worked well for generations. The Constitution
also enshrines fundamental liberties like the Freedom of Speech and the
Due Process of Law.
Originalists are committed to the proposition that the meaning of these liberties
does not change, but that does not mean that their applications must remain frozen in
time. The whole point of originalism is to respect the text, and nothing could be less
respectful than to refuse to apply the text to new circumstances.
Second, the Constitution can be amended. And it has been. Twenty-seven times. Our
Constitution is properly changed through the amendment process when the American
people form a consensus that change is necessary and desirable.  The Constitution of
1789 was improved by the passage of the Bill of Rights. The great evil of slavery was
cured by the Thirteenth Amendment.  The Fourteenth Amendment provided a great
charter of liberty and equality, not just for the former slaves, but for all Americans. The
right to vote was extended to women by the Nineteenth Amendment and to all citizens
of the age of eighteen and over by the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
Constitutional amendment is not easy; it requires a consensus of most Americans.
But it is not impossible.
In this regard, it is important to remember that living constitutionalism undermines
the lawful process of constitutional amendment.  These days if a social movement is
seeking constitutional change, they have two alternatives.
They can marshal their forces for a constitutional amendment; that is a hard road.
Or they can attempt to eke out five votes from the Supreme Court, the easy path.
It is hardly surprising that many choose the
easy path over the hard road.  But in this case, the hard road is also the high road.
Constitutional change through the amendment process enables “We the People” to
overcome the dead hand of the past through the rule of law.

Law Office History
Another objection to originalism is based on the idea that the Supreme Court is simply
not capable of discovering the original public meaning of the constitutional text.  And
even if they were capable of that task in theory, they will fail in practice because their
ideological preferences overcome the search for historical truth.
The first aspect of this objection is simply false.  The constitutional text is old, but it is
not the Rosetta Stone.  Lawyers, judges, and scholars can work together to unearth the
evidence of original meaning in the hard cases.  And there are many easy cases,
in which the original meaning is clear to any fair-minded reader
who consults the historical record.
The second aspect of the objection goes to the virtue and integrity of the Justices. It is
true that neither originalism nor any other constitutional theory can work if the Justices
are corrupted by ideology.  For originalism to work in practice, the President must
nominate and the Senate must confirm Justices with the virtue of judicial integrity. They
must be willing to subordinate their own political and ideological preferences to the law.
They must set aside their preconceptions and desires and engage in a search for
truth—with a willingness to reach outcomes as judges that would
necessarily agree if they were lawmakers.
In this regard, I take comfort from what I have read about Judge Gorsuch’s reputation
for integrity.  The job of this committee should be to examine the record carefully.  If you
believe that Judge Gorsuch has the virtue of judicial integrity and that he is committed
to the principle that the Supreme Court is bound by the Constitution, then I believe that
your duty is to vote for the nomination.

Taking Sides
Recent discussions of the nomination of Judge Gorsuch suggest another objection to
originalism. If Judge Gorsuch is committed to the law—to the original public meaning of
the constitutional text and the plain meaning of federal statutes—then he may rule
against persons and groups about whom we care very much. One version of this
objection is based on the idea that judges should favor the little guy (or gal), the
common man (or woman) against big corporations or big government. The core idea is that
judges should “take sides” and favor some groups over others.
I understand this objection.  I have great sympathy for the plight of Americans who
struggle against poverty, bias, discrimination, and oppression.  I favor legislation that
attacks injustice and prejudice.  But I cannot endorse the idea that the Supreme Court
should take sides, if by that, you mean that the Court should bend or break the
constitutional text in order to favor one group over another.  Taking sides is a “two-sided
coin”—if you will excuse the pun.  There is no guarantee that a Supreme Court armed
with the awesome power of overriding the constitutional text will take “the right side.”
More fundamentally, taking sides is dangerous, because it threatens the rule of law in a
fundamental way.
If there is any lesson from the history of the judicial nomination and confirmation
process over the past few decades, it is that there is a grave risk of the politicization of
the judicial selection process. This Committee knows far better than I do that neither
side of the aisle is blameless in this process. There has been a downward spiral of
politicization, a process of escalating tit for tat that threatens the integrity and
fundamental fairness of the great constitutional duty of the Senate to give
advice and consent.
I cannot say what might stop the politicization of the court, but I do know this.  The
idea that we should select Supreme Court Justices because of what side they will take
can only make the problem worse. Once we start selecting Supreme Court Justices
explicitly based on ideology, it will become progressively more difficult to select
women and men of integrity who respect the rule of law.
And this leads me back to originalism. The whole idea of the originalist project is to
take politics and ideology out of law. Democrats and Republicans, progressives and
conservatives, liberals and libertarians—we should all agree that Supreme Court
Justices should be selected for their dedication to the rule of law. For this reason, I support the
confirmation of Judge Gorsuch for the office of Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court.".......


That's a lot of words to say "Words mean what they say."

The Framers thought you could understand your own Constitution and make a choice to ratify it or not. That's why they argued the Federalist Papers in the newspapers.

The "Living Constitution" Scam is a way to sneak in exactly what our Checks-and-Balances Constitution was meant to thwart: the unaccountable concentration of power in the hands of a few.

It's Your Constitution, not theirs.