Thursday, November 9, 2017
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...
Trump White House Recognizes 100 Years of Victims of Communism
The White House issued a statement Tuesday commemorating the National Day for the Victims of Communism, on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution that led to decades of a murderous totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union.
The statement came the same day that President Donald Trump visited South Korea, which is facing a nuclear threat from its communist neighbor North Korea.
The statement says “oppressive communism” is “incompatible with liberty, prosperity, and the dignity of human life.” The statement continues:
Over the past century, communist totalitarian regimes around the world have killed more than 100 million people and subjected countless more to exploitation, violence, and untold devastation. These movements, under the false pretense of liberation, systematically robbed innocent people of their God-given rights of free worship, freedom of association, and countless other rights we hold sacrosanct. Citizens yearning for freedom were subjugated by the state through the use of coercion, violence, and fear. … Today, we remember those who have died and all who continue to suffer under communism.Recognizing the current victims of communism was an important step, said Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
“What’s particularly important about the [White House] statement is that it mentions all who die and continue to suffer under communism,” Smith told The Daily Signal.
“Typically the last few presidents have shied away from acknowledging North Korea, China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam are communist,” Smith continued. “That’s something we haven’t really heard since President [Ronald] Reagan in connecting the ideas of communism with the consequences.”
Smith noted that President George W. Bush was the last president to recognize the victims of communism, as he was the honorary chairman of the memorial in 2007.
Communism once consumed much of Europe, but now only exists in five countries. That’s largely because the system was such a failure, said Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
“It’s important to have an acknowledgement from...
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