A SUBURBAN MOM RED WAVE BECAUSE OF DEMS’ FILTHY BEHAVIOR?
I am not a crier. My husband jokes about my “six-second cry” when I finally shed some tears.
But as I watched Brett Kavanaugh’s opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, I cried—and for more than six seconds.
I wept for him, for his crushed wife seated behind him, for his young daughters, and for his friends. I cried for our country. It was an emotional release of sympathy, frustration and rage.
I wasn’t alone. The shared tears and collective fury are galvanizing women voters, but not in the way Democrats initially calculated. The Democrats’ insistence that due process and a presumption of innocence don’t apply to men (particularly conservative white men) is a terrifying prospect for the husbands, sons, fathers, and brothers we love.
The Left still doesn’t understand that we don’t hate men like they do.
EPITAPH FOR A DYING CULTURE
[This VDH masterpiece needs to be studied, read aloud to your children, and disseminated to everywhere throughout our country-JW]
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and their endless sequelae have ended up as an epitaph for a spent culture for which its remedies are felt to be worse than its diseases. Think 338 B.C., A.D. 476, 1453, or 1939[i].
The coordinated effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court required the systematic refutation of the entire notion of Western jurisprudence by senators and much of the American legal establishment.
There was no hesitation in doing just that by Senate Democrats, the #MeToo movement, and the press.
I write this at a moment in which conservatives and Republicans still control the majority of governorships, state legislatures, the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court and the Presidency—a reminder that culture so often is far more powerful than politics.
So, here we are, left with a new legal and cultural standard in adjudicating future disagreements and disputes, an utterly anti-Western standard quite befitting for our new relativist age:
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS OF SENATE JUDICIARY
Social Justice Soy Boy Man-Child Cory Booker
[In 2005 here at TTP, I wrote Infantlizomania, the defining neurosis of liberals, the compulsion to treat adults as children. Now we see Democrats are infantilizing themselves. –JW]
Ever wonder why, while watching the Kavanaugh hearings, you thought you were peering through a keyhole at a particularly unruly and infantile kindergarten class with the teachers off on a two-hour bathroom break?
Think no further than our college campuses today.
That’s where so-called Social Justice Warriors rule the roost, isolating themselves in "safe spaces," pushing "trigger warnings," and accusing everybody and his sister of "microaggressions" and "cultural appropriation" while making sure — oh how they make sure — no speaker gets within miles of the premises with a thought that might offend their precious snowflake sensibilities.
Their infantilism has metastasized to the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Blumenthal, Booker, Feinstein, Klobuchar, Whitehouse, Coons, Hirano, Harris, Leahy, Durbin – the whole lot – are the grownup imitators and wannabes of the juvenile anti-intellectual bigots dominating our campuses, pointing fingers but abjuring concrete evidence as some vestigial figment of white privilege.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/28/18
Jack Wheeler asked me to fill in for him on the HFR this week. What a week it’s been!
After yet another stunt by the despicables, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, 11-10, this afternoon (9/28) to send to the Senate floor the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
There was to have been a cloture vote Monday, a confirmation vote Tuesday (10/2).
But late today, President Trump ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update the file on Judge Kavanaugh. The investigation is to be limited to current allegations, and completed in less than a week.
The president issued the order because Sen. Jeff Flake requested it at the Judiciary Committee hearing today.
Flake caused hearts to flutter when he said he might vote against Kavanaugh unless there is another one week delay for the FBI to investigate. But this was largely kabuki. Here’s what’s going on behind the curtain.
WOULD THEY REALLY?
KAVANAUGH’S SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
The showdown between the fabulist Chrissy Ford and the righteous Brett Kavanaugh couldn't have come at a better time.
As we approach the crucial midterms -- which will decide whether the president has two more years in which to fulfill his restoration of the Republic, or be subjected to the likes of Spartacus Booker and Stolen Valor Blumenthal -- it laid bare the stark divisions in a country that seems to be coming apart.
On the one side, Mrs. Ford, a practitioner of "psychology," of a lesser form of Viennese Voodoo that masquerades as a social "science" and seems to channel folks in need of its services into the ranks of its purveyors.
The little-girl voice, the upturned question at the end of each reply, the absolute certainty about absolutely nothing -- this is the couch-riding Left at its most repellent.
On the other: Judge Kavanaugh, a man defending his life, his career, his reputation, his family, his faith, his future, and that of the country.
PERSIAN HOPE
Fresco of a Persian woman, Ali Qapu Palace, Isfahan, early 1600s – JW photo
Shiraz, Iran. “Where are you from?” the Iranian man asked me.
With a big smile, I happily answered, “America.” He responded with a smile of his own. “Ah, America… America Number One!”
He hooked his two index fingers together. “American people, Iranian people, good… friends.” He unhooked his fingers and waved his hand in a gesture of contempt. “Governments, no good.” We both belly-laughed.
This took place in November of 2014, when our government meant the despised Obama to him. It doesn’t mean that any longer. Iran is back in the news this week, with President Trump delivering a clear condemnation in his brilliant speech to the UN General Assembly Tuesday (9/25):
“We cannot allow the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism to possess the planet’s most dangerous weapons. We cannot allow a regime that chants “Death to America,” and that threatens Israel with annihilation, to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on Earth. Just can’t do it.Thus I am optimistic that there’s hope for Iran. The long – two thousand five hundred year long – history of Persia and the West is what I call The Persian Ratchet. An ebb and flow that ratchets up and down over the centuries. I’ve appended a summary of this history at the end. Note it includes why Persia had its name changed to Iran in 1935.
We ask all nations to isolate Iran’s regime as long as its aggression continues. And we ask all nations to support Iran’s people as they struggle to reclaim their religious and righteous destiny.”
Note also that history comes after photos of mine that I’m sure you’ll enjoy. For now, let’s talk about the Iranian people I met a little while ago, for it is they, not their government, that give me hope.
GRASSLEY’S PERJURY TRAP TODAY?
Americans now view the GOP more favorably than they do Democrats, according to this Gallup poll. Which, Gallup notes, hasn’t happened often:
“The Republican Party’s favorability rating for the last decade (averaged) 39%, compared with the Democratic Party’s 44%.”
In most polls this year, more Democrats than Republicans have said they’re likely to vote in the midterm elections. But “voter enthusiasm” among Republicans is spiking, has “soared past” Dems in some battleground states.
“In some cases, we’re talking MAJOR gaps now, with the Rs on top,” says political analyst Larry Schweikart.
Pastor Bill Kent explains why: “We are willing to walk barefoot over broken glass and hot coals to vote GOP after this repulsive smear campaign by Democrats.”
Later today, we may know a lot more how this backlash will play out – if, as I suspect, Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley will spring a perjury trap on Chrissy Blasey Ford.
TRUMP’S TRIUMPH AT THE UN
President Trump’s speech at the United Nations on Tuesday (9/25) is one of the greatest political speeches ever delivered in peacetime.
Barack Obama is reputed to be an impressive orator. But he never gave a speech that, in substance, could hold a candle to President Trump’s speeches at Warsaw, at Riyadh, before the joint session of Congress last year, or indeed his “rocket man” speech at the United Nations.
And this topped them all for forcefulness, clarity, and wisdom. What, in the end, was this speech about? It was an elaboration of Trump’s chief foreign policy idea, “principled realism.”
“Realism” connotes an accurate and unsentimental appreciation of the metabolism of power. The “principles” in question involve an affirmation of who we are as a people, which turns on our affirmation of national sovereignty.
The President’s articulation of this simple, yet deep, idea is what lifted his speech out of the realm of pedestrian blather and marked it for the history books. For now, however, we should pay attention to these key phrases in the President’s speech:
SOVEREIGNTY, PATRIOTISM, AND FREEDOM – AMERICA’S POLICY OF PRINCIPLED REALISM
The President waiting to speak at the UN, Sept. 25, 2018
[Note by JW—This is the lecture the world leaders deserved to hear. After the effrontery of laughing at first, then applauding when he took it in good humor, they sat there silently as Dad explained to the kids how it’s going to be.
The President’s speech is 35 minutes long, the text is 3,600 words. It is worth reading entire, while the key quotes are in italics to quickly scan. Watching his delivery is remarkable, calmly and dispassionately explaining to leaders of almost every country in the world how to deal with the most powerful nation on earth from now on. This is a President every American patriot has dreamed of having since Ronald Reagan. First the video, then the full text. Watch and read with pride and joy.]
Remarks by President Trump to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 25, 2018