Thursday, November 9, 2017
President Trump is NOT Pandering to the United Nations
President Trump’s leadership began as a campaign promise to remove the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a promise he kept when he announced last June 1st that while the U.S. will remain in the Agreement’s negotiations for the time being, he plans to withdraw altogether after four years, in 2020.
The 2015 Paris Agreement was largely negotiated by then Secretary of State John Kerry and constituted Obama’s “Clean Power Plan,” a radical environmental scheme that was to be imposed on Americans by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Trump was elected on the second day of last year’s meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, which caused great angst among delegations that fully expected Hillary Clinton to be elected. If she had been, she was expected to continue and even surpass Obama’s radicalism. In Marrakech, Secretary John Kerry spun Trump’s victory as if one election could not stop the progress that he had worked for so passionately since 1992. The plan’s lack of scientific basis and its plot to rob Americans of...
As Communism Turns 100, a Brief Look at the Death and Destruction It Has Wrought
The date that Tojo’s Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor heralded America’s entrance into the bloody fighting of World War II.
But there are other dates that live in infamy, and many of them aren’t nearly as well known. But they deserve to be. Take Nov. 7, 1917.
Anything come to mind? One hundred years ago this month, Bolsheviks under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. “The world has never been the same since,” writes foreign policy expert Kim Holmes in a recent article for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
How many perished in the wake of this “revolution”? It depends on which historian you ask. According to Richard Pipes, it was 9 million. Robert Conquest says at least 20 million, and likely as many as 30 million, died in the “Great Terror.”
If you include “unnatural deaths,” the number who died could be as high as 50 million. For perspective, consider that more than 60 million died in World War II—roughly 3 percent of the world’s population at the time.
In short, when looked at in terms of human carnage—of lives lost—the Russian Revolution was essentially another world war. So why isn’t Nov. 7, 1917, as notorious as Dec. 7, 1941?
This discrepancy becomes even more blatant when one considers the wider cost of communism. The Russian experience, after all, inspired other “revolutions,” and its record of mass genocide “is exceeded only by another communist dictatorship, Maoist China, which destroyed between 44.5 to 72 million lives (according to Stephane Courtois). And let’s not forget the ‘killing fields’ of Cambodia in the 1970s.”
Why isn’t this history better known?
“[Soviet leader Josef] Stalin kept most media out, so few Americans knew that millions were starving,” writes John Stossel in a recent column. And he had help. “Even as the Russian regime killed millions, some journalists and intellectuals covered up the crimes.”
But it isn’t just the loss of life that stains the history of communism. Its legacy is also one of grinding poverty.
Most of the 88 countries that score “repressed” or “mostly unfree” on The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom are either communist, former communist, or...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #70
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Today it’s the Air Force Academy admitting it got taken by a racist graffiti hoax
So is it overkill to do this day after day? For now I’m going to say no, because the fact that we keep finding out about these hoaxes day after day shows just how determined some people are to manufacture a false and hysterical racism-is-everywhere narrative. And today’s hoax revelation comes from no less an institution than the Air Force Academy. When the incident happened, academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria received nationwide attention and praise for his eloquent speech denouncing this horribly widespread epidemic of racist expression.
And eloquent it was. But we now find out there is one big honking problem with the whole thing. There was no white supremacist racist jerk spray painting the car of a black academy student. The alleged victim, as it seems is always the case, faked the whole thing:
But on Tuesday, the school made a jolting announcement. The person responsible for the racist messages, the academy said, was, in fact, one of the cadet candidates who reported being targeted by them.
“The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation,” academy spokesman Lt. Col. Allen Herritage said in a statement to the Associated Press, adding: “Racism has no place at the academy, in any shape or form.”
The cadet candidate accused of crafting the messages was not identified, but the Colorado Springs Gazette reported that the individual is no longer enrolled at the school. Sources also told the Gazette the cadet candidate “committed the act in a bizarre bid to get out of trouble he faced at the school for other misconduct,” the newspaper reported.
The announcement thrust the Air Force Academy Preparatory School onto a growing list of recent “hate crime hoaxes” - instances in which acts of racism or anti-Semitism were later found to be committed by someone in the targeted minority group.
The story doesn’t say exactly why the faker is no longer enrolled at the school, although it seems to suggest that he was already in trouble and the hoax may have been...
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