IS ROBERT MUELLER A JUDAS GOAT?
Is Robert Mueller Dr. Jekyll? Or is he Mr. Hyde? Judging by the Special Counsel’s final report, he’s both.
Volume I killed the Russia collusion narrative dead, then drove a wooden stake through its heart. After crushing moonbat hopes in Volume I, the Mueller report revived them in Volume II by implying President Trump may have obstructed justice.
The Lying Swine jumped on “obstruction” with the same zest and enthusiasm with which they flogged the bogus collusion narrative.
Democrats and Fake Newsers marched arm-in-arm, in lockstep, to promote collusion. But now their interests sharply diverge.
THE RETURN OF SLAVERY
There are some plagues that mankind seems to be incapable of fully destroying. One of these plagues is slavery, which has existed since man moved from being a hunter-gatherer to agriculture.
By 1900, most of the “civilized” world had abolished slavery and serfdom. But then a more lethal variant emerged under the more benign names of socialism, fascism and communism.
The implementation of these ideologies resulted in governments causing the deaths of somewhere between 100 and 200 million of their own citizens in the 20th century.
Yet, here we are, three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with allegedly serious American politicians calling for the re-imposition of socialism as if history had not happened.
EXPLORING OUTER MONGOLIA
©2019 Jack Wheeler
The first time I went to Mongolia was in 1963. I was 19 and by myself. It was a colony of the Soviet Union back then. No arat (Mongol nomad) living in a ger (conical tent like those above) had ever heard of America much less met somebody from there, so I was a real novelty.
I was a novelty again when I got back home. Just about the most obscure course in the UCLA history department was on Mongolian history. There were about a half-dozen students, and when the professor asked us each why we were in the course, I answered, “Because I’ve just been there,” he couldn’t believe it.
All those 35mm slides from back then are in one of the many boxes containing my pictures of yore. By 2005, however, when I ran an expedition of some 2,500 miles criss-crossing the country north to south, east to west, there were digital cameras so I can share a few pics with you. It took a while for Mongolia has no roads, just 4WD tracks.
FANTASY GRASPING
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/19/19
Happy Good Friday! This is a day of celebration for all Christendom – as the ancient Catholic catechism says, on this day, “Christ showed His great love for man, and purchased for him every blessing.”
And tonight, Passover begins for Jewish people around the world. Pesach Sameach!
Coincidentally, this is a good Friday for America, as proclaimed on the cover of today’s (4/19) New York Post:
And we’re just getting started. What a week – here we go!
MUELLERS REPORT SPEAKS VOLUMES
What’s in the special counsel’s findings is almost as revealing as what’s left out.
By the fall of 2017, it was clear that special counsel Robert Mueller, as a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was too conflicted to take a detached look at a Russia-collusion story that had become more about FBI malfeasance than about Donald Trump.
The evidence of that bias now stares at us through 448 pages of his report.
President Trump has every right to feel liberated. What the report shows is that he endured a special-counsel probe that was relentlessly, at times farcically, obsessed with taking him out.
DO DEMOCRATS SECRETLY WANT A TRUMP LANDSLIDE?
The Trollmaster encourages the Dem Circular Firing Squad
No wonder Obama talks of a circular firing squad, because Democrats are drawing a bead on other Democrats with malice. aforethought, and mayhem in their hearts.
Being intersectional (enjoy all the Urban Dictionary definitions) means never having to say you're sorry, and it also means demanding that everyone else say they're sorry.
Feminists like Pelosi are Islamophobes, gays like Buttigieg are racists, blacks are homophobic, and white men like Biden and Sanders are misogynist and classist, as the case may be.
No goofier notion ever invaded American political thinking than the idea of a coalition based on entitled victimhood and invented identity. Do Democrats want a Trump Landslide in 2020?
CHINA IS NOT RECOVERING
Donald Trump says “trade wars are good and easy to win” if your foes depend on your market and you can break them under pressure.
You see, he knows that China’s majestic and elegantly-stable GDP figures are best seen as an instrument of political combat. Which is why he proclaimed victory when the Shanghai equity index went into a swoon over the winter. This is classic Trumpian gamesmanship.
It is in China’s urgent interest to puncture such claims as trade talks come to a head. Xi Jinping had to beat expectations with a crowd-pleaser in the first quarter. The number was duly produced: 6.4%. Let us all sing the March of the Volunteers.
“Could it really be true?” asked Beijing-based Caixin magazine. This was a brave question in Uncle Xi’s evermore totalitarian regime.
Of course it is not true.
THE HOPE OF NOTRE DAME
I used to be a professional bridge player, a member of the “Omar Sharif Bridge Circus.” Sure, I believe in omens. Like most all card players I’m superstitious.
But my Italian friend Christian Rocca is surely right to point out that we have to start with the hard facts about the Notre Dame fire: the cathedral wasn’t destroyed, most of its treasures were saved, the damage will be repaired, nobody died, and the fire was not an omen of the decline and fall of Western civilization.
If anything, the very sad accident—as it seems to have been—suggests a very different theme, a theme of Western strength and endurance, perhaps even Western vitality and faith that many of our wisest and most eloquent thinkers see in perilous decline.
Take two examples from two or our very best, Rod Dreher and Dennis Prager. I must disagree with both.
PUTIN LOSES HIS KEY TO HIS AFRICAN EMPIRE IN SUDAN
Sudan’s now former dictator
Today (4/17), the Islamist dictator of Sudan for 30 years, Omar al-Bashir, was incarcerated in Kober Prison in Khartoum, the maximum security prison that held so many of the political prisoners Bashir put there. He was overthrown by his own military last Thursday (4/11).
Putin has now lost his key to his goal of an African Empire for Russia.
On orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin, his agent Yevgeny Prigozhin—popularly known as “the cook” because of his ownership of a catering company—has inserted “political technologists” in at least 20 African countries.
The Kremlin has for years viewed Sudan as an important base for this operation on the African continent. But the recent coup in this country shows how fragile and changeable is the foundation on which that Russian effort is based.