Of Rioters and Lamp-posts

The current storm will pass. But in its wake, Trump will need, among other things, to make good on his vows to crush crime.

By Karl Spence

ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamp-post.

That’s a quotation from The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce. It popped into my head just now for some reason, but before exploring that reason and the inferences that might be drawn from it, let’s spend some more time with Bierce.

Ambrose Bierce was an American soldier and writer. He was born in 1842 in Ohio and apprenticed at age 15 to an abolitionist newspaper, the Northern Indiana. When President Lincoln called for volunteers in 1861 to quell the rebellion in the Southern states, Bierce joined the Union Army and saw service in the early fighting that established West Virginia and in most of the great battles of the Western Theater, including Shiloh, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Badly wounded at Kennesaw Mountain outside Atlanta, he recovered in time to fight in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, which were the South’s last gasp in the West.

REVEALED: John Brennan and the Plot to Overthrow the U.S. Government

By Roger Kimball

Let’s talk about John Brennan a bit. You remember John Brennan. He was Barack Obama’s director of the CIA. Once upon a time, he was an enthusiast for Gus Hall, the Communist candidate for president, for whom he voted in 1976. I can’t think of any better background for the head of the country’s premier intelligence service under Obama. In 2014, having put childish things behind him as St. Paul advised, Brennan spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee. He denied it indignantly. “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn’t do that. That’s just beyond the scope of reason in terms of what we’d do.”

But that was before irrefutable evidence of the CIA’s spying transpired. Then Brennan apologized, sort of. Senators were outraged. They shook their little fists. “What did he know? When did he know it? What did he order?” asked one of the Lilliputians.

Guess what happened to John Brennan for spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee?

Their Hoaxes Cry Out for Punishment

By Ned Ryun

Donald Trump was mocked mercilessly by many in the media for dubbing the Russian collusion conspiracy hoax a “witch hunt” and for calling it one of the biggest political scandals in American history. Memo to everyone: Trump was absolutely correct. In fact, he probably didn’t go far enough in his description of Russiagate. It dwarfs Watergate, making it look like an amateur-league ballgame next to the big league.

If we are able to get all the facts about what actually happened in 2016 and 2017, this could very well be the biggest political scandal in American history. What if the previous president and senior officials in his administration decided to use the power of the state to spy on and “take out” the incoming president and his administration? And they did this on the basis of what? Policy differences?. There was no Russia collusion or any collusion of any type. Smart people knew that years ago.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama "a deity likely the most corrupt president in a generation"

By Victor Davis Hanson

“You can’t handle the truth!” —Col. Nathan R. Jessep, “A Few Good Men”

Sometimes the truth is like mythical kryptonite. It radiates power and yet promises great destruction. And so reality is to be left alone, encased in lead, and kept at bay.

Take the Chinese genesis of the COVID-19 epidemic. We started in February with the usual Chinese deceptions about their role in the birth, transmission, and worldwide spread of the virus.

No one, apparently except Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates, was surprised by the accustomed politically correct prevarications of the Chinese-purchased World Health Organization, whose transparent lies were passed off as truth—and led to tens of thousands of deaths.

On cue, our own obsequious media accepted Chinese and globalist myths—their shared antipathy for President Trump meant whatever he is for or says, they are against and deny.

But by late March the bits and pieces of the truth had emerged. All that gobbledygook talk of a Chinese wet market, of patient-zero bats, snakes, pangolins and such, were likely ruses to deflect attention from a conveniently nearby level-4 Chinese virology lab.

President Trump's Methodical Destruction of Obama's Legacy

By Charles Lipson

We’ve all seen footage of those carefully timed explosions that bring down antiquated buildings and clear the ground for new ones. A horn sounds, the detonations begin, the building shakes, suspended for a frozen moment, and then collapses in a vast cloud of dust. That, metaphorically, is what is happening to the Obama administration’s legacy.

The presidential edifice has come down in two episodes, and the dust has not yet settled from either one. The first wrecked President Obama’s most consequential policies: the Affordable Care Act and the Iran nuclear deal. The second, happening now, is crushing its reputation for integrity, for following the most basic rules for conducting free and fair elections.

EXCLUSIVE: Report on Cellphone Usage Reveals #WuhanVirus May Have Shuttered China's Bioweapons Lab in October

A report first disclosed by NBC News appears to confirm that a "hazardous event" occurred in October at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. You know, while Adam Schiff, Nancy ("San Fran Fascist") Pelosi, and Democrats writ large were using the House Intelligence Committee to laser-focus on important topics like Ukraine "collusion".

The report analyzes cellphone tower records in Wuhan during the third and fourth quarters of 2019. Records seem to show that -- from October 7 through October 24 -- a high-security portion of the Wuhan bio-weapons lab went nearly silent.

If confirmed, it would solidify reports that the Communist China Party (CCP) tried to cover up the impact of the virus, leading directly to a global pandemic. Excerpts of the report are below:

TUCKER CARLSON ON FIRE: "Totalitarianism doesn't shock us any more"

"What are the limits on their power?"


Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.

STUNNING CHARTS: Sweden's Minimalist Response to #WuhanVirus May Have Worked Amazingly Well

Financial Times has a fascinating study of "excess mortality" in European countries related to the Communist Chinese Virus known as "Covid-19". The phrase excess mortality refers to the comparison of deaths year-over-year. In short, answering the question "how many deaths are we seeing this year compared to prior years?"

The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries.

Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 deaths reported for the same places and time periods.

Sweden embraced a non-lockdown strategy. You will want to see the charts:

CNN Weighs In On Responsible Leadership

By Biff Spackle

Hat tips: @Hale_Razor and BadBlue Uncensored News.

2000 and 2020

By Christopher Roach

There was real panic in the air 20 years ago. The “Y2K bug” was a deceptively simple flaw in older mainframes and software. It coded the year portion of dates with two digits, but this flaw would face a reckoning upon the turn of the millennium, as 2000 would now only be rendered as “00.”

While it seemed at first that maybe your watch or a spreadsheet would be confused about what year it was, we were told that power plants would fail and airplanes might fall from the sky. This, in turn, would lead to panic and disorder. A new Dark Age was reportedly upon us, and the smart set took it very seriously.

The Red Cross counseled us to store extra food and get cash from the bank. Preppers were ready. A lot of people stayed away from what should have been an epic New Year’s celebration.

MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH: Finally, a Treatment Emerges for Progressives

Take two of these and call me in the morning.

Not sure who created this graphic, but email me if you happen to know so I can credit them.

MORE #FAKENEWS: No, the U.S. Doesn't Lead the World in #WuhanVirus Cases

Over at PJ Media, Matt Margolis tallies the latest numbers and, once again, confirms that VHF media think we're idiots.

After compiling data for the top 30 countries with the most cases of the coronavirus, I ranked the top ten countries by confirmed cases per capita (per million) based on the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University’s data as of 11:00 am ET on April 18, 2020.

1. Spain (4,100.67)
2. Belgium (3,208.30)
3. Switzerland (3,166.40)
4. Italy (2,851.95)
5. Ireland (2,831.23)
6. France (2,284.94)
7. United States (2,135.43)
8. Portugal (1,930.52)
9. Netherlands (1,853.88)
10. United Kingdom (1,698.42)

Oh, and ever wonder why the media parrot Communist China's claims about the origins, nature and quantity of Wuhan Flu cases? Real journalists would have investigated whether there are financial ties between America's struggling legacy media corporations (e.g., advertising deals or under-the-table arrangements). But we don't have real journalists in traditional media any longer, so it will take Project Veritas, Judicial Watch or other truth-seekers to uncover the real story.   Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.

I See Red People

By Team America, World Police

#WuhanVirus News Roundup 04.07.20: All the News That Fits, We Print

Yet Another "Dossier"

POTUS ripped the HHS inspector general over a report that asserted hospitals were suffering from shortages of equipment and testing kits to combat the Wuhan Virus. The president asked why the I.G., who served for 8 years under Obama and its various H1N1 and Swine Flu debacles, did not "want to talk to the Admirals, Generals, V.P. & others in charge, before doing her report. Another Fake Dossier!"

Brett Samuels at The Hill buries this little nugget in the final paragraph:

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Coronavirus Backlash

By Victor Davis Hanson

Is the bad and self-negating behavior of so many of Trump’s enemies setting him up for an even more impressive victory in the fall?

As the coronavirus outbreak begins to reach its zenith, it remains unclear whether the measures taken to stem its tide will prove sufficient, insufficient, or an overreaction. What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated no capacity for leadership or usefulness in this moment.

Nancy Pelosi: Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party’s cursus honorum.

It does not matter whether her political and ethical decline was a result of her deep pathological hatred of Donald Trump. Who cares that her paranoia arose over the so-called “Squad” that might align with socialist Bernie Sanders to mesmerize Democrats to march over the cliff into McGovern-like oblivion? All concede that very few octogenarians have the stamina and clarity to put in the 16-hour work-days and transcontinental travel required by a Speaker of the House.

Instead, all that matters is that for a nation in extremis she is now puerile, even unhinged—and increasingly dangerous.

CHEAT SHEET: Helpful #WuhanVirus Timeline for Democrats and the Media, But I Repeat Myself

Presented for your review. Feel free to copy and circulate to those who need it.

It strikes me as extremely odd that the open borders kooks, who did nothing as the administration was being criticized for "xenophobia", are now lecturing us about the Wuhan Virus. [ Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News].

Pelosi Democrats: No Money to Fight #WuhanVirus Unless We Get Voting Rights for Illegal Aliens

As workers around the country lose their jobs, please remember that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Invisible Joe Biden want illegal aliens to vote. Because that will fix the Wuhan Virus.

2) This emergency, by contrast, is what happens when government forcibly shuts down the economy, and biz (through no fault of its own) is left with no revenue and spiraling payroll/overhead costs. That's what this Senate bill is aimed at helping.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) March 23, 2020

Top 20 Tweets from BadBlue Tonight, 3.21.20: The Media Doesn’t Want You To Have Hope Edition

Curated by BadBlue News, my replacement for Drudge

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Never forget that @JoeBiden, @DianneFeinstein and other DC oligarchs are wholly owned subsidiaries of Red China.https://t.co/B9nLoiF8pz

— Doug Ross 🔵 (@directorblue) March 21, 2020

SERIOUS CHEAT SHEET: Identifying the Symptoms of #WuhanVirus

Via some hopeful news from our Aussie brothers and sisters.

Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.

NEW COMIC: Party of Science

Inspired by the left-wing buffoon known as Rug Doctor.

Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News