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UC Davis Communist Poet Joshua Clover Wants Dead Cops “They need to be killed.” Lloyd Billingsley

By on February 28th, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272994/uc-davis-communist-poet-joshua-clover-wants-dead-lloyd-billingsley

On January 10, convicted criminal Kevin Limbaugh gunned down Natalie Corona, 22, a rising star in the police department of Davis, California. The community hailed Corona as a hero who had dedicated herself to law enforcement and paid the ultimate price. Thousands of people, including police officers from across the country, attended a memorial service for the slain officer. On the other hand, not everybody at UC Davis was happy about all the praise for the officer.

After a photo of Corona, clad in an elegant blue dress and holding the “thin blue line” flag, went viral on social media, the campus Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission proclaimed, “this flag represents an attempt by law enforcement to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement.” And Blue Lives Matter was “an effort to evade accountability and critical awareness of police treatment of communities of color.” Now it emerges that a UC Davis professor actually supports the killing of police officers.

“I first heard about a UC Davis professor who thinks cops should be killed late in Fall Quarter,” wrote Nick Irvin, a columnist for The Aggie, a UC Davis newspaper. Irvin thought it was hearsay but then began poking around on Twitter and found this: “I am thankful that every living cop will one day be dead, some by their own hand, some by others, too many of old age,” from November 27, 2014. And this, “I mean, it’s easier to shoot cops when their backs are turned, no?” from December 27, 2014. And when he jumped ahead to Jan. 31, 2016, he found “People think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed.”

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The Media and Michael Cohen Deserve Each Other While Trump tries to dismantle WMDs, Dems deploy weapons of mass distraction. Daniel Greenfield

By on February 28th, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273006/media-and-michael-cohen-deserve-each-other-daniel-greenfield

While President Trump was away on a diplomatic mission to Hanoi to negotiate a nuclear deal with Kim Jong Un, the media breathlessly turned its eye to Capitol Hill to hear from a sleazy disbarred lawyer.

The dueling news stories summed up the country’s two political movements. Republicans were trying to dismantle weapons of mass destruction, while Democrats were deploying weapons of mass distraction.

In Vietnam, President Trump was dealing with serious problems. In Washington D.C., Democrats and their media arm can’t imagine any problem more serious than Trump. Forget North Korean nukes, the true threat to Democrats and the media isn’t radiation, it’s viewership. What keeps CNN’s, MSNBC’s, the New York Times’ and the Washington Post’s bosses up at night is fear that Mueller might not deliver.

And as the atomic report clock ticks down to zero, bringing Michael Cohen to Washington D.C. was a desperate effort to squeeze 15 more minutes out of their smear campaign by pretending to believe the same guy they had been calling a liar last year. Michael and the media are a perfect fit for each other.

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Cohen in the Colosseum The legal fixer unloads on his former boss, with little new information.

By on February 28th, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cohen-in-the-colosseum-11551314328

Are you not entertained? That disdainful line from “Gladiator” came to mind watching Democrats and Republicans maul each other Wednesday over Michael Cohen’s long denunciation of Donald J. Trump. The day proved again that Mr. Trump has associated with some dreadful characters, and has no great character himself, but Democrats will need more than the testimony of a former fixer to impeach him.

Mr. Cohen spared no nasty noun in describing the mogul turned President he served—blindly he now says—for 10 years. “Con man,” “racist” and “cheat” were highlights, as Mr. Cohen unburdened himself of what he called a decade of lies. He admitted lying for years to protect Mr. Trump, including to Congress, though he now says he’s telling the truth to ruin him. He will soon serve a three-year sentence for his crimes, most unrelated to Mr. Trump.

Histrionics aside, the hearing revealed few new details. The most potentially damaging was Mr. Cohen’s disclosure that Mr. Trump knew in advance about the WikiLeaks dump of hacked Democratic documents in July 2016. He says he was present in Mr. Trump’s office when Roger Stone, a Trump hanger-on, called to say he’d personally confirmed the dump with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Mr. Cohen says Mr. Trump replied “to the effect of, ‘wouldn’t that be great.’”

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The true story behind Keira Knightley’s film ‘The Aftermath’ – when a British family moved in to a German household by Cara Cara McGoogan

By on February 27th, 2019

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/true-story-behind-keira-knightly-film-aftermath-british-family/

The European winter of 1946/7 was one of the coldest of the 20th century. The Allies had won the war, but severe and relentless snowfall compounded the hardship across the continent – not least in Germany, where a defeated population had to rebuild a flattened nation during what came to be known as the Hungerwinter.

Out of this environment came a remarkable tale of reconciliation and friendship, when Walter Brook, a British colonel installed by Allied powers as governor of Pinneberg, a county near Hamburg, rejected official advice and moved in with a German family. The occupying British forces had been given orders to requisitions homes and cars… anything they might need in order to govern, with German families being sent to camps or denuded of their possessions.

Rather than requisitioning the family home of local baker Wilhelm Ladige and his wife, Erika, a wealthy heiress, Walter decided it was big enough for both families. It helped that the Ladiges had been as “anti-Hitler as far as one dared” – especially as a family with three children. So in February 1947, Walter’s wife Anthea and their three children – Kim, eight, Sheila, 15, and Colin, 17 – moved into a grand mansion with the Wilhelm and Erika and their children: Holger, five, Heike, seven, and Theo, 12.

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Mary Frances Williams:How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting

By on February 27th, 2019

https://quillette.com/2019/02/26/how-i-was-kicked

I am a Classics Ph.D. who recently attended the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS—formerly the American Philological Association), a yearly conference that provides papers on classical subjects and interviews for academic positions. I now regret doing so since some remarks I made at the conference led to me being branded a “racist” and the loss of my editing job with the Association of Ancient Historians.

I don’t usually attend because of the expense—I’m an independent scholar and cannot rely on universities for reimbursement. But it seemed like a good idea to go since the weather is always nice in San Diego. A bonus was the USS Midway, now a floating museum. The Midway, a World War II-era aircraft carrier that served as the command center for the bombing of Bagdad during the Gulf War, is well worth visiting.

On January 5 I decided to attend panel #45, a “Sesquicentennial Workshop”—it was the 150th anniversary of the SCS—titled “The Future of Classics.” It was described in the meeting program as “an open and free-form large-room discussion of what we think the trajectories of our field, broadly defined, will and/or should be, not just in the immediate future but for the next 150 years.” Based on the description (“discussion” is mentioned three times), the panel seemed like an opportunity to raise some questions and obtain some answers about what was happening in the field.

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Ilhan Omar: Poster Child for the Red-Green Axis By James Simpson

By on February 27th, 2019

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/ilhan-omar-poster-child-for-the-red-green-axis/

Stop ignoring this virulently anti-Semitic, anti-American coalition of subversives. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), along with her comrades Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), has gotten a lot of press since winning a seat in Congress. Despite her non-apology for bigoted, anti-Semitic statements she made earlier this month, Omar remains a virulent anti-Semite. But it is much worse than that: In addition to likely criminality, her extreme Left positions and connections to terrorists make her a security risk.

Some have demanded she be removed from the House Foreign Relations Committee, a position awarded to her by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But she has no business in Congress at all, and should at the very least be investigated for numerous crimes committed over a period of years.

Omar’s position on Israel is long-established and well-known. She supports the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, and is overtly anti-Zionist. The 2012 tweet below — which she only deleted in the past few days — reiterates the incessant Arab narrative that casts Israel as an invader and abuser of Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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Democrats Are Interminably ‘Waiting for Mueller’, Just as in Samuel Beckett’s Absurdity By Roger Kimball

By on February 27th, 2019

https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/democrats-are-interminably-waiting-for-mueller-just-as-in-samuel-becketts-absurdity/

I have no doubt that some theatrical director specializing in the work of Samuel Beckett has been eying the investigation of Robert Mueller with envy. After all, what the nation calls “Waiting for Mueller” has been running nearly two years and, just as in the famous Beckett absurdity, the title character never shows up. We’re told that may be coming to an end, that finally, at last, Mueller really will deliver the goods, as soon as next week, CNN reported. But then it was CNN that reported it, so of course it turned out not to be true but just another installment of its fake news machine. Still, soon, soon, he’ll be wrapping up “soon,” just as he was last spring, this past summer, and all through the fall. He’s shedding lawyers, he’s wrapping up, he’ll be done … soon.

Well, sooner or later, he will be done soon, and then he really will be done. Maybe Donald Trump will have served out the whole of his first term by then, or maybe he will just be entering the 2020 election cycle when Mueller and his team of Clinton-Obama prosecutors turn off the lights and slide their report over the transom to Attorney General William Barr. We just don’t know.

But here’s something we do know. While the nation’s eyes have been riveted on the Mueller Russian Collusion investigation, its father, the Clinton Email investigation, has been quietly swept under the rug, pushed into the oubliette, stricken from the public’s consciousness.

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Why We Need a ‘Chicago Statement’ By Augusto Zimmerman…..see note please

By on February 27th, 2019

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2019/02/why-we-n

  Throughout the Anglosphere- America,Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, academic institutions and free speech are threatened by political correctness and lockstep leftist ideology. This is from Australia …rsk

The Australian government has announced that an independent review of free speech on university campuses will be undertaken by the Hon Mr Robert French AC, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and current chancellor of the University of Western Australia, will be reviewing existing material, including codes of conduct, enterprise agreements, policy statements and strategic plans.The review comes after a series of controversies on campuses across Australia, where students and academic staff have been accused of stifling public debates.

This is also followed by an extensive research by the Institute of Public Affairs (‘IPA’).  In 2017, the IPA recommended that Australian universities adopt the Chicago Statement or a similar declaration.The Chicago Statement recognises free speech on campus as an issue that carries the core mission of every university as a place of learning. It defends free and open inquiry in all matters, and guarantees the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge and learn. The Statement works as a set of guiding principles intended to demonstrate a strong commitment to freedom of speech and freedom of expression on college campuses.

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A quick and dirty guide to Chicago’s down and dirty mayoral election For decades, Chicago has held its elections in February precisely because it is cold, often snowy, and hard to get to the polls Charles Lipson

By on February 27th, 2019

https://spectator.us/quick-dirty-chicago-mayoral/

On Tuesday, Chicago voters head to the polls to vote for Rahm Emanuel’s successor as Da Mayor. ‘Why vote in late February?’ you might ask. ‘Didn’t Chicago just vote in November for House members and Governor?’Oh, you naive soul. For decades, Chicago has held its elections in February precisely because it is cold, often snowy, and hard to get to the polls. When you suppress ordinary voters, who is left? For many years, it was reliable voters for the old Chicago Democratic Machine. Some of them drove city busses or garbage trucks; others shuffled papers in city offices. Some filled potholes. Many more watched their co-workers fill potholes while they grabbed a cigarette. What better way to ensure that insiders get reelected?This system is on life-support, mortally wounded by the Federal Courts, which made two crucial rulings in the 1970s and 1980s. Known as the Shakman Decrees, the first said the city could not hire workers based on their politics. The second said it could not fire workers for the same reasons. The courts knew the city would not comply readily, so they appointed monitors, who stayed for decades.

Those decrees drove a stake through the heart of the old system, where alderman and ward committeemen gave out good-paying jobs to city workers who got out the vote. It was a well-organized system. The city employees had to visit homes in their neighborhood, listen to what residents wanted (such as a stop sign or better garbage pickup), and then share that information with their boss, known in Chicago as ‘their Clout.’ The visit concluded by reminding voters who they should vote for. Often the advice was simply ‘vote straight Democratic.’ These political workers were expected to make campaign donations and were held responsible for how many of their voters came to the polls. Fail in these critical tasks and find yourself a new job.

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Netanyahu ignores global opinion at Israel’s peril By Lawrence J. Haas

By on February 27th, 2019

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/431613-netanyahu-ignores-global-opinion-at-israels-peril

Few things are more infuriating than to hear Western leaders lecture Israel about how it should behave – whether the issue is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or other matters – while they say little if anything about far more serious matters of regional stability or human rights around the world.After all, it’s Israel – and no other nation – that sustains the rocket fire that the terrorists of Hamas direct from Gaza, and it’s Israel that suffers the consequences of anti-Jewish incitement by the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority from the West Bank. No Western leader should tell Israel how best to protect its people.

Having said that, rising anti-Semitism that’s often cloaked in the politer guise of anti-Zionism is a global fact of life, and so is growing hostility to Israel among leftist political parties across the West. Thus, the Jewish state, which seeks U.S. and other Western support when it’s under attack at the United Nations or elsewhere, should be at least somewhat sensitive to the global ramifications of its actions.

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