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		<title>America&#8217;s Rape Hoax Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we must refuse to let the UVA rape hoax story be sent down the memory hole. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247706" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800-450x337.jpg" alt="uva-2-800" width="346" height="259" /></a>In response to the total implosion of Rolling Stone&#8217;s preposterous story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia, the media have reverted to their Soviet-style reporting. They&#8217;re not even saying: We&#8217;re choosing not to talk about UVA because it&#8217;s a side show. It&#8217;s more like: UVA? That&#8217;s a school?</p>
<p>Not only did the UVA gang rape turn out to be a hoax, but then President Obama&#8217;s own Department of Justice completed a six-year study on college rape, and it turns out that instead of 1-in-5 college coeds being raped, the figure is 0.03-in-5.</p>
<p>Less than 1 percent of college students are the victim of a sexual assault &#8212; 0.6 percent to be exact &#8212; not to be confused with the 20 percent, or &#8220;one in five,&#8221; claimed by feminists and President Obama.</p>
<p>But neither the DOJ report, nor the UVA rape hoax have dissuaded Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill from pushing their idea that the nation is in the grip of a college rape epidemic.</p>
<p>This week, Gillibrand dismissed the UVA outrage, saying, &#8220;Clearly, we don&#8217;t know the facts of what did or did not happen in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, we know quite well what happened in this case. A disturbed young woman invented a fake boyfriend and a fake gang-rape to get attention, and an incompetent journalist acted as her transcriber. It was a total hoax &#8212; just like the Duke lacrosse case, the Jamie Leigh Jones case, the Tawana Brawley case, and every other claim of white men committing gang-rape.</p>
<p>Gillibrand and McCaskill: Perhaps the accusations against Dreyfus were overblown, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s not an epidemic of Jews selling secrets to the Germans!</p>
<p>We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s said that &#8220;women never lie about rape!&#8221; But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time -– for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false.</p>
<p>The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.</p>
<p>To put it in terms Kirsten Gillibrand would understand, two in five women claiming to have been raped are lying.</p>
<p>So why are we always being hectored: Only 2 percent of rape allegations are false!</p>
<p>That oft-cited number comes from Susan Brownmiller&#8217;s 1975 book, &#8220;Against Our Will&#8221; &#8212; which sourced the claim to a mimeograph of a speech by a state court judge, who made a passing remark about a New York police precinct with an all-female rape squad. Nothing more is known about whether this was an actual study, and if so, what was examined, how the information was collected or the actual results. Nor can any trace of the speech, the precinct or the data be found.</p>
<p>In Women&#8217;s Studies classes, that figure is called a &#8220;home run.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the feminists are so anxious to move on from the UVA nonsense rape story. They want to move on now so they can come back to it later, when everyone&#8217;s forgotten, and start citing UVA as their No. 1 example of the fraternity gang-rape culture.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s crucial that we get a letter in the file that says, &#8220;This was total B.S.&#8221; Otherwise, the UVA hoax will remain in an open file, marked &#8220;unresolved.&#8221;</p>
<p>All we&#8217;re hearing now is, Enough! Enough! Don&#8217;t be a bad winner. All this coverage is putting Jackie in a precarious emotional state. If you were a gentleman, you would drop the subject.</p>
<p>Then in three months, they&#8217;ll be bringing up the UVA gang rape as proof of a college rape epidemic. In six months, the case will show up in feminist textbooks.</p>
<p>Wait a minute! That was a hoax!</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t agree it was a hoax. We conceded nothing.</p>
<p>The Duke lacrosse case proves that. In an unusual move, after that gang-rape turned out to be yet another hoax, the players refused to accept the case being dismissed for &#8220;insufficient evidence,&#8221; which is how prosecutors usually drop charges. They insisted on being declared &#8220;innocent.&#8221;</p>
<p>This, the attorney general did. He also denounced the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, and saw that he was disbarred.</p>
<p>A few years went by, and then, this year, some douchebag wrote a book that claims &#8220;something happened&#8221; in the Duke case between the players and the stripper (who has since been convicted of murder). The book got a rave review from The New York Times.</p>
<p>With feminists, either you lose or the game was rained out.</p>
<p>So before anyone moves on from UVA, we need to get it in writing that this case was a hoax. Jackie&#8217;s got to apologize to the fraternity; UVA&#8217;s president has to not only apologize, but pay restitution to the Greek system for shutting it down for an entire semester; and Rolling Stone authoress Sabrina Rubin Erdely has got to swear that she will never, ever write again.</p>
<p>She cannot be an &#8220;investigative journalist.&#8221; She cannot even write movie reviews. Remember, Sabrina: No means no.</p>
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		<title>Leftists Willing to Fight to the Last Drop of Black Blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The left-wing lies that precipitated a made-to-order riot.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ferguson-Nationwide-Protests-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246160" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ferguson-Nationwide-Protests-2-444x350.jpg" alt="Ferguson-Nationwide-Protests-2" width="347" height="273" /></a>The riot in Ferguson reminds me, I hate criminals, but I hate liberals more. They planned this riot. They stoked the fire, lied about the evidence and produced a made-to-order riot.</p>
<p>Every other riot I&#8217;ve ever heard of was touched off by some spontaneous event that exploded into mob violence long before any media trucks arrived. This time, the networks gave us a countdown to the riot, as if it were a Super Bowl kickoff.</p>
<p>From the beginning, Officer Darren Wilson&#8217;s shooting of Michael Brown wasn&#8217;t reported like news. It was reported like a cause.</p>
<p>The media are in a huff about the prosecutor being &#8220;biased&#8221; because his father was a cop, who was shot and killed by an African-American. What an assh@le!</p>
<p>Evidently, the sum-total of what every idiot on TV knows about the law is Judge Sol Wachtler&#8217;s 20-year-old joke that a prosecutor could &#8220;indict a ham sandwich.&#8221; We&#8217;re supposed to be outraged that this prosecutor didn&#8217;t indict the ham sandwich of Darren Wilson.</p>
<p>Liberals seem not to understand that they don&#8217;t have a divine right to ruin someone&#8217;s life and bankrupt him with a criminal trial, just so they&#8217;re satisfied.</p>
<p>The reason most grand jury investigations result in an indictment is that most grand juries aren&#8217;t convened solely to patronize racial mobs. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was basically demanding an indictment of Wilson before Big Mike&#8217;s body was cold. It was only because of racial politics that this shooting wasn&#8217;t dismissed without a grand jury, at all.</p>
<p>Obama says anger is an &#8220;understandable reaction&#8221; to the grand jury&#8217;s finding. Why? And why &#8212; as almost everyone is saying &#8212; are we supposed to praise the &#8220;peaceful protests&#8221;?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing to protest! A cop shot a thug who was trying to kill him. The grand jury documents make perfectly clear that Big Mike was entirely responsible for his own death. Can&#8217;t the peaceful protesters read?</p>
<p>The night of the riot, Obama said the law &#8220;often feels as if it is being applied in discriminatory fashion.&#8221; Maybe, but not in this case &#8212; except toward Officer Wilson.</p>
<p>I know liberals were hoping they had finally found the great white whale of racism, but they&#8217;re just going to have to keep plugging away. They might want to come up with a more productive way to spend their time, inasmuch as they&#8217;re about 0:100 on white racism sightings.</p>
<p>Anyone following this case has seen the video of Big Mike robbing a store and roughing up an innocent Pakistani clerk about 10 minutes before being shot by Officer Wilson. They&#8217;ve seen him flashing Bloods gang signs in photos.</p>
<p>They know Brown&#8217;s mother was recently arrested for clubbing grandma with a pipe over T-shirt proceeds. They&#8217;ve seen the video of Brown&#8217;s ex-con stepfather shouting at a crowd of protesters after the grand jury&#8217;s decision: &#8220;Burn this bitch down!&#8221;</p>
<p>Liberals will say none of that is relevant in court, but apparently they don&#8217;t think actual evidence is relevant either. It&#8217;s certainly relevant in the court of public opinion that the alleged victims are a cartoonishly lower-class, periodically criminal black family.</p>
<p>TV hosts narrated the riot by saying it showed &#8220;the community&#8221; feels it&#8217;s not being listened to. Only liberals look at blacks looting and say, See what white Americans made them do?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s their proof of injustice &#8212; look at how blacks are reacting! (While I don&#8217;t approve of the looting part, I do approve of the whole throwing-bottles-at-CNN part.)</p>
<p>The looters aren&#8217;t the community!</p>
<p>The community doesn&#8217;t want black thugs robbing stores and sauntering down the middle of its streets. The community doesn&#8217;t want to be assaulted by Big Mike. The community didn&#8217;t want its stores burned down.</p>
<p>That community testified in support of Officer Darren Wilson. About a half-dozen black witnesses supported Officer Wilson&#8217;s version of what happened. One was a black woman, who saw the shooting from the Canfield Green apartments. Crying on the stand, she said, &#8220;I have a child and that could have been my son.&#8221;</p>
<p>And yet, she confirmed all crucial parts of Wilson&#8217;s account. She said &#8220;the child&#8221; (292-pound Big Mike) never had his hands up and the cop only fired when &#8220;the baby&#8221; was coming at him. &#8220;Why won&#8217;t that boy stop?&#8221; she asked her husband.</p>
<p>I always want to know more about the heroic black witnesses. They are put in a position no white person will ever be in and do the right thing by telling the truth &#8212; then go into hiding from &#8220;the community&#8221; being championed by goo-goo liberals.</p>
<p>White people don&#8217;t feel any obligation to defend some thug just because he&#8217;s white. Only blacks are expected to lie on behalf of criminals of their own race.</p>
<p>But real heroism doesn&#8217;t interest liberals. They only ooh-and-ahh over blacks with rap sheets. The only meaningful white racism anymore is the liberal infantilization of black people.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the ObamaCare architect's statements are worse than the Downing Street memo.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jonathan-gruber-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-245647" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jonathan-gruber-1.jpg" alt="jonathan-gruber-1" width="240" height="240" /></a>Isn&#8217;t Jonathan Gruber worse than the Downing Street memo?</p>
<p>Gruber, who was paid half a million dollars to design Obamacare, is on tape bragging about how the Democrats relied on &#8220;the stupidity of the American voter&#8221; to pass that law. Which, ironically, was sort of a stupid thing to say on camera.</p>
<p>By now there are so many tapes of Gruber explaining how Obamacare fooled stupid Americans that they&#8217;re being released as a boxed set in time for Christmas.</p>
<p>Gruber, who will hereafter be known as &#8220;the architect of Obamacare,&#8221; said:</p>
<p>&#8220;If you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in &#8212; if you made it explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. &#8230; Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Downing Street memo consisted of minutes from a July 2002 meeting of British labor, defense and intelligence officials during the run-up to the Iraq War, in which the MI6 head, Richard Dearlove, reportedly said that &#8220;Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.&#8221;</p>
<p>These notes from a British cabinet meeting were called the smoking gun of Bush&#8217;s lying his way into war.</p>
<p>The Downing Street memo was written about in dozens of New York Times articles &#8212; including six hysterical Frank Rich op-eds. It has been mentioned more than a hundred times in The Washington Post. It was covered on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Nightline,&#8221; by George Stephanopoulos on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; &#8212; even on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show. It was discussed nightly on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann covered it like it was Kim Kardashian and he was the E! Network.</p>
<p>By contrast, this week, NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd dismissed the Gruber tapes as &#8220;a political story&#8221; and The New York Times said of Gruber: &#8220;In truth, his role was limited.&#8221; (NYT, March 28, 2012: &#8220;Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, (then) the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation.&#8221;)</p>
<p>But when the Downing Street memo came out, conservatives weren&#8217;t allowed to say, Yeah, well, the British memo writer didn&#8217;t have anything to do with the president&#8217;s decision to go to war &#8212; even though that guy really didn&#8217;t have anything to do with it.</p>
<p>Those weren&#8217;t Tony Blair&#8217;s notes. They were a secretary&#8217;s interpretation of the MI6 chief&#8217;s interpretation of the Bush administration&#8217;s argument to the United Nations. It&#8217;s like a movie review, written by someone who knew someone who had seen the movie.</p>
<p>The memo writer also wasn&#8217;t being paid $400,000 by the Bush administration to make Iraq War policy. Jonathan Gruber was paid that much &#8212; plus another several million from the states &#8212; to design Obamacare.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t pay a half-million dollars to someone who is only peripherally involved in making policy. (Unless we&#8217;re talking about Obama himself.)</p>
<p>There was no tape of Bush and Blair running around saying: Trust this guy &#8212; the memo writer is our guide! But that&#8217;s what Obama, Nancy Pelosi, then-Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats said about Gruber.</p>
<p>&#8211; Kerry on Oct. 1, 2009: &#8220;(Gruber) has been our guide on a lot of this &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Pelosi on Nov. 5, 2009: &#8220;Our bill brings down rates &#8212; I don&#8217;t know if you have seen Jonathan Gruber&#8217;s MIT analysis &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Obama&#8217;s Organizing for Action website, until the tapes surfaced: &#8220;Jon Gruber, who helped write Obamacare &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Gruber had more than a dozen meetings at the White House during the drafting of Obamacare. The Downing Street memo writer had no meetings at the Bush White House. Even the guy he was quoting had only one.</p>
<p>The outrage over the Downing Street memo concerned the claim &#8212; in the memo writer&#8217;s words &#8212; that the intelligence was being &#8220;fixed&#8221; around a policy. Although a number of commentators claimed that the British meaning of &#8220;fixed&#8221; is more like &#8220;arranged,&#8221; let&#8217;s assume &#8220;fixed&#8221; implies trickery.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s still one word! Gruber has given six different speeches rambling at length about how Obamacare was intended to deceive &#8220;stupid&#8221; voters.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t say the Downing Street memo was a totally legitimate news story, but that the Gruber tapes are meaningless.</p>
<p>Ninety-nine percent of Americans were utterly unaffected by the invasion of Iraq &#8212; other than to be made safer, until Obama threw our victory away. Every American is affected by Obamacare.</p>
<p>The bald-faced lies told to pass Obamacare expose not only that law, but all Democratic economic claims. When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won&#8217;t pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.</p>
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		<title>Hysterical Media Tell Us to Calm Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats now oppose the "politics of fear"?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244093" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430-450x333.jpg" alt="Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430" width="318" height="235" /></a>In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having &#8220;fed panic&#8221; by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries.</p>
<p>NBC News&#8217; Brian Williams opened his broadcast last Friday announcing that the Obama administration was trying &#8220;to restrain the Ebola panic.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow complained that the &#8220;hysteria&#8221; over Ebola was getting &#8220;stupider.&#8221;</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed any panic. If you want panic, review media coverage of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. That hair-on-fire coverage was based entirely, it turns out, on the media&#8217;s gullibly swallowing inaccurate accounts of the incident.</p>
<p>For decades liberals have terrified soccer moms about a slew of imaginary terrors: global warming, Alar on apples, breast implants, heterosexual AIDS, nuclear war, and Republicans taking away their birth control.</p>
<p>Nannies rushed to grade schools to yank apples out of little children&#8217;s hands, elderly married couples got tested for AIDS, and students at Ivy League colleges demanded that their health departments stock cyanide pills in case of nuclear attack. (Because the Russkies were definitely hitting Ithaca, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, first.)</p>
<p>And then, except for a few heterosexual AIDS victims &#8212; who also happened to be intravenous drug users &#8212; no American ever died from a single one of these liberal-hyped dangers. I do not recall, for example, ever hearing of a nurse acquiring AIDS from treating an AIDS patient, certainly not a nurse wearing a spacesuit, as the Ebola-infected nurses were.</p>
<p>Within the past few years, Rachel Maddow has been panicked about (among many, many other things):</p>
<p>&#8211; Right-wing hillbillies murdering census workers (the census worker committed suicide in an attempted insurance fraud);</p>
<p>&#8211; Republican budget cuts killing us when bridges collapse (the Minnesota bridge collapsed because of a design flaw, not budget cuts);</p>
<p>&#8211; Gun rights supporters plotting another Oklahoma City bombing (they had assembled on April 19, the anniversary of the bombing &#8212; which also happens to be the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord).</p>
<p>But now, the political party that specializes in hysteria has suddenly become too-cool-for-school about a deadly disease being brought to our country for no reason. Oh, you big pussy, you won&#8217;t get Ebola.</p>
<p>Let the record reflect, Democrats now oppose &#8220;the politics of fear&#8221; &#8212; as NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd dubbed concerns about Ebola.</p>
<p>Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire accused her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, of &#8220;fear-mongering&#8221; about Ebola, but she sure didn&#8217;t mind fear-mongering on health care. In order to pass the widely unpopular Obamacare, Shaheen carried on about insurance companies&#8217; obscene profits and hectored, &#8220;We cannot wait!&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Daily News&#8217; Denis Hamill wrote five hysterical columns on Ferguson. One was titled, &#8220;Is this Selma in 1965?&#8221; But when it comes to a disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, he says, &#8220;Take a chill pill.&#8221;</p>
<p>How about telling the deranged protesters in Ferguson to &#8220;take a chill pill&#8221;?</p>
<p>After years of Republican candidates having to assure voters that it would require several million policemen to take away every woman&#8217;s birth control kit &#8212; but that was an excellent question! &#8212; it&#8217;s too much to have to listen to liberals scoff at a disease with a 70 percent fatality rate.</p>
<p>Ebola is a lot more dangerous than any of the fears whipped up by liberals. Peter Piot, the Flemish scientist who discovered Ebola in 1976, recently told the British Guardian:</p>
<p>&#8220;I always thought that Ebola, in comparison to AIDS or malaria, didn&#8217;t present much of a problem because the outbreaks were always brief and local. Around June it became clear to me that there was something fundamentally different about this outbreak. &#8230; We Flemish tend to be rather unemotional, but it was at that point that I began to get really worried.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few days ago, Piot described the screening being done at arrival airports as &#8220;not that effective, to be honest,,&#8221; adding, &#8220;The most cost-effective method is to screen people before they take the plane.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Speaking of which, where did the CDC&#8217;s Tom Frieden go? Does he have Ebola?)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s beyond idiotic for the media to keep condescendingly instructing Americans that they are more likely to die in a car accident, from food poisoning, skin cancer or heart disease, than from Ebola.</p>
<p>We know that. We have rationally accepted the tradeoffs in order to get places quickly, dine in restaurants, walk on the beach and eat steak. Those are risks prudently taken in exchange for something we deem more valuable.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the upside of bringing Ebola here? And why on earth is the Obama administration preparing to import non-citizen Ebolees? It&#8217;s perfectly logical for Americans to ask, &#8220;What are we getting out of this?&#8221; But the only answer they get is: We can&#8217;t build a fence around the country!</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not seeing &#8220;panic.&#8221; What we&#8217;re seeing is rage that the country is having a deadly disease foist on it for no good reason.</p>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll Tell You How Dangerous Ebola Is After the Election</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[World citizen Obama isn't interested in protecting only Americans from the outbreak. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ebola-hazmat-suit.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243196" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ebola-hazmat-suit-450x337.jpg" alt="ebola-hazmat-suit" width="291" height="218" /></a>There had never been a case of Ebola in the U.S. until a few months ago. Since then, thousands of people have died of the disease in Africa, and millions upon millions of dollars have been spent treating Ebola patients in the U.S. who acquired it there, one of whom has died.</p>
<p>But the Obama administration refuses to impose a travel ban.</p>
<p>This summer, the U.S. government imposed a travel ban on Israel simply to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu into accepting a ceasefire agreement. But we can&#8217;t put a travel restriction on countries where a contagious disease is raging.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear this is just another platform for Obama to demonstrate that we are citizens of the world. The entire Ebola issue is being discussed &#8212; by our government, not the United Nations &#8212; as if Liberians are indistinguishable from Americans, and U.S. taxpayers should be willing to pay whatever it takes to save them.</p>
<p>Maybe we should give them the vote, too! If Ebola was concentrated in Finland and Norway &#8212; certainly Israel! &#8212; we&#8217;d have had a travel ban on Day One.</p>
<p>The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, justifies Obama&#8217;s refusal to prohibit flights originating in Ebola-plagued countries, saying, &#8220;A travel ban is not the right answer. It&#8217;s simply not feasible to build a wall &#8212; virtual or real &#8212; around a community, city or country.&#8221;</p>
<p>What is it with liberals living in gated communities always telling us that fences don&#8217;t work? THAT&#8217;S WHAT A QUARANTINE IS.</p>
<p>At the congressional hearing on Ebola last week, Republicans repeatedly pressed the CDC representative, Dr. Toby Merlin, to explain why Obama refuses to impose a travel ban.</p>
<p>In about 17 tries, Merlin came up with no plausible answer. Like Frieden, Merlin kept insisting that &#8220;the only way to protect Americans&#8221; is to end the epidemic in Africa.</p>
<p>Why, precisely, must we attack Ebola in Africa? Research on a cure doesn&#8217;t require cuddling victims in their huts. Scientists who discovered the AIDS cocktail didn&#8217;t spend their nights at Studio 54 in order to &#8220;fight the disease at its source.&#8221;</p>
<p>Until there&#8217;s a treatment, we can&#8217;t put out the disease there, or here. The only thing Americans will be doing in Liberia is changing the bedpans of victims, getting infected and bringing Ebola back to America. When there&#8217;s a vaccine, we can mail it.</p>
<p>Naturally, Obama is sending troops from the 101st Airborne, the pride of our Army, to Liberia. Their general should resign in protest.</p>
<p>Merlin further explained the travel ban, saying that if West Africans can&#8217;t fly to America, &#8220;that would cause the disease to grow in that area and spill over into other countries.&#8221; So instead of infecting people in surrounding countries, our CDC wants them to come here and infect Americans.</p>
<p>But that won&#8217;t happen because the government assures us there&#8217;s nothing to worry about with Ebola. They&#8217;ve got it under control.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, everything the government says about this disease keeps being proved untrue &#8212; usually within a matter of days.</p>
<p>They told us that you&#8217;d basically have to roll in an infected person&#8217;s vomit to catch the disease. Then, nurses at two first-world hospitals in Spain and the U.S. contracted Ebola from patients.</p>
<p>With no evidence, the CDC simply announced that the nurses were not following proper &#8220;protocol.&#8221; The disease didn&#8217;t operate the way CDC said it would, so the hospitals must be lying.</p>
<p>The government told us that national quarantines won&#8217;t work, but then they quarantine everyone with Ebola &#8212; or who has been near someone with Ebola, such as an entire NBC crew. To me, this suggests that there&#8217;s some value in keeping people who have been near Ebola away from people who have not.</p>
<p>Quite obviously, the only way to protect <i>Americans</i> is to prevent Ebola from coming here in the first place. The problem isn&#8217;t that Ebola will leap across oceans to infect Americans; it&#8217;s that Obama doesn&#8217;t want to protect Americans.</p>
<p>At least he&#8217;s only putting expendable Americans on the frontlines of the Ebola epidemic &#8212; doctors, nurses, members of the 101st Airborne.</p>
<p>At the moment, more than 13,000 West Africans have travel visas to come to the U.S. Having just seen an Ebola-infected Liberian get $500,000 worth of free medical treatment in the U.S., the first thing any African who might have Ebola should do is get himself to America.</p>
<p>Of all the reasons people have for coming here &#8212; welfare, drug-dealing, Medicare scams &#8212; &#8220;I have Ebola and I&#8217;m going to die, otherwise&#8221; is surely one of the strongest. The entire continent of Africa now knows that this is a country that will happily spend half a million dollars on treating someone who just arrived &#8212; and then berate itself for not doing enough.</p>
<p>Thomas Eric Duncan&#8217;s family may be upset with his treatment, but they have to admit, the price was right.<i> Medical bill: $0.00. Your next statement will arrive in 30 days.</i></p>
<p>And now we&#8217;re going to have to let in entire families with Ebola, because the important thing is &#8212; actually, I don&#8217;t know why. It&#8217;s some technical, scientific point about fences not working.</p>
<p>Republicans &#8212; Americans &#8212; have got to demand Frieden&#8217;s resignation. If only we could demand Obama&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>Speed Kills Racial Profiling Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking the lie that black drivers are pulled over more often because of racism.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240230" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large.jpg" alt="radar-1-0819-dcgjpg-91ea17025ff934f6_large" width="328" height="250" /></a>In an article about police shootings in last Sunday&#8217;s New York Times (8/31), Michael Wines disputes the conventional wisdom about a disproportionate number of African-Americans being shot by police, saying there are no data one way or another. But Wines revives the canard about blacks being disproportionately targeted in traffic stops.</p>
<p>There actually is a study for that.</p>
<p>Throughout the 1990s, the nation was fixated on tales of jack-booted New Jersey state troopers who were stopping speeders on the turnpike just because they were black! In a 2000 primary debate, Vice President Al Gore sneered at then-New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, saying, &#8220;Racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.&#8221;</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder recently paid tribute to the myth, claiming that when he was in college, he had been stopped &#8220;driving from New York to Washington.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t mention how fast he was going.</p>
<p>The story never made sense. How could the troopers tell the race of drivers in speeding cars? Did they wait until the driver rolled down his window and, if he was white, say, &#8220;Oh, sorry &#8212; have a nice day!&#8221;</p>
<p>But the Clinton administration was slapping consent decrees for racial profiling on police departments across the country, and the N.J. highway patrol was its prime evidence, based on a study that a child wouldn&#8217;t believe.</p>
<p>As is usually the case with bogus race studies, the pivotal 1993 survey compared speed stops on the New Jersey turnpike to the population of all drivers on the turnpike &#8212; not with the population of all speeders on the turnpike.</p>
<p>Such meaningless studies are popular on the left, where it is assumed that people of different races, genders and ethnicities will always behave identically in all respects.</p>
<p>If fewer women pass the physical test to become firefighters, that can only be because of sexism. If fewer blacks pass the written test &#8212; that&#8217;s racism. If fewer whites play professional basketball &#8212; no, forget that one. Sports are important. (Unlike arson or vehicular homicide.)</p>
<p>Nonetheless, based on the assumption that blacks speed just as much as whites &#8212; because to believe otherwise would be racist! &#8212; Temple University&#8217;s John Lamberth announced that while only 13.5 percent of drivers along a particular stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike were black, 46 percent of those stopped for speeding were black.</p>
<p>Racial profiling, Q.E.D.</p>
<p>The New York Times ran a dozen articles trumpeting the nonsense study, proclaiming it &#8220;the most thorough documentation of the contention that the police regularly pulled over black drivers.&#8221; Lamberth himself praised his research for ruling out the possibility of coincidence &#8212; and if you can&#8217;t trust Lamberth on his own study, who can you trust?</p>
<p>Largely on the basis of that investigation, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Robert E. Francis threw out the contraband evidence seized from 19 African-American men in traffic stops on the turnpike. New Jersey&#8217;s ninny governor, Christie Todd Whitman, pronounced her state&#8217;s troopers guilty of racial profiling and agreed to a consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that basically prohibited the troopers from doing their jobs.</p>
<p>Statisticians, and other people with common sense, tried to explain to liberals that human beings are not identical. Any study purporting to show that too many blacks are stopped for speeding must first determine how many speeders are black.</p>
<p>Being denounced as virtual Klansmen, the state troopers demanded a real study.</p>
<p>Confident that any new study would merely serve to confirm the troopers&#8217; racism, the DOJ and the New Jersey attorney general commissioned a statistical investigation from the Public Services Research Institute in Maryland.</p>
<p>The institute&#8217;s study was a spectacular thing. Using expensive monitors with high-speed cameras and radar detectors, they clocked the speeds of nearly 40,000 drivers on the relevant section of the turnpike. Three researchers then examined the photos to determine the race of the driver &#8212; without knowing whether the driver was speeding, which was defined as going more than 80 mph in 65 mph zones.</p>
<p>The result: No racial profiling.</p>
<p>Blacks constituted 25 percent of all speeders and they were 23 percent of drivers stopped for speeding. Controlling for age and gender, blacks sped at about twice the rate of whites. The racial disparity was even greater for drivers exceeding 90 mph.</p>
<p>Inasmuch as the study was irrefutable, Mark Posner, a lefty Clinton holdover in the Bush Justice Department, tried to block it from being released, continuously demanding more information.</p>
<p>But no matter how statisticians fiddled with the data, the results were identical: Blacks were twice as likely to speed as whites &#8212; and at much higher speeds. The troopers were completely vindicated.</p>
<p>When the study finally leaked &#8212; over Posner&#8217;s objections &#8212; he informed the press it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;valid&#8221; without articulating any actual problems with it. The attorney general of New Jersey, David Samson, nonsensically said the results didn&#8217;t matter because New Jersey had already admitted its troopers were engaging in racial profiling.</p>
<p>Perhaps the Times is right and there is no comprehensive study of police shootings by race. But it&#8217;s also possible that there is one, it didn&#8217;t come out as planned, so it has never seen the light of day.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the media won't tell you about affirmative action plans imposed on police departments.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/poce.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239727" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/poce-450x271.jpg" alt="[p;oce" width="340" height="205" /></a>As the story of Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson&#8217;s shooting of Michael Brown begins to look less clear-cut than we were led to believe by Brown&#8217;s friend, Dorian Johnson, the &#8220;voices of oppression&#8221; on MSNBC now say the real issue is that there aren&#8217;t enough blacks on the Ferguson police force.</p>
<p>As Brown may or may not have said seconds before his death: I give up.</p>
<p>If the Ferguson police are forced to hire more minorities and women for the sake of diversity, the one thing we can be sure of is that more black people will be murdered, raped and assaulted.</p>
<p>Someone&#8217;s got to say it, so it might as well be me: I&#8217;m against more black people being murdered, raped and assaulted.</p>
<p>In a massive, detailed 2000 study of the effect of court-ordered affirmative action plans on police departments, economist John Lott found that the more minorities on a police force, the higher the rates of murder, manslaughter, violent crime, robbery and aggravated assault will be. Violent crime increased by a minimum of 3.3 percent every year after affirmative action policies went into effect &#8212; and the spike in crime was highest in black neighborhoods.</p>
<p>The problem was not with black cops, Lott&#8217;s study showed, but rather with the lowering of standards across the board, resulting in less-qualified officers of every race. To get more of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;voices of oppression&#8221; on police forces, requirements are reduced for all recruits. (Just as quality declined at MSNBC when &#8220;voices of oppression&#8221; had to be added to their lineup.)</p>
<p>We end up with cops who are criminals, the Rampart scandal of the 1990s and great movies like &#8220;Training Day.&#8221;</p>
<p>About a decade into a federal consent decree requiring the Los Angeles Police Department to hire more minority officers, the LAPD&#8217;S Rampart division was employing gang members in uniforms.</p>
<p>Training officer Jim Peasha told investigative reporter Jan Golab that he left his unit because of the preposterous recruits being sent to him as a result of affirmative action. &#8220;I had some fantastic minority recruits,&#8221; Peasha said. &#8220;One black kid was the best I ever had.&#8221; But he also had &#8220;one guy who I knew was on drugs and I couldn&#8217;t get him out. He wound up getting caught working as a guard at a rock (cocaine) house. An off-duty cop!&#8221;</p>
<p>It was almost as if the LAPD was turning into the public school system.</p>
<p>By the time of the Rampart scandal, two dozen black police officers in Los Angeles were suspected of gang activity. Most were forced out. Four officers were proved to have been engaging in criminal acts &#8212; including a bank robbery and an attempted murder. All were black and Hispanic. (Let&#8217;s call them &#8220;officers of oppression.&#8221;)</p>
<p>As a top official with the LAPD told Golab, &#8220;This is not an LAPD problem; this is a black problem.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was so obvious that affirmative action had led to the Rampart scandal that a &#8220;Blue Ribbon&#8221; commission specifically denied it. Twice. Using the exact same words. It was the equivalent of calling a press conference to announce that you&#8217;re not gay.</p>
<p>This is the irrelevancy printed twice in the commission&#8217;s report:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Personnel Department experts found no instance where a candidate failed to meet the LAPD&#8217;s background or psychological standards. Moreover, the experts found no meaningful difference in the application of background and psychological standards to candidates of varying race or ethnicity.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Wait &#8212; no applicants failed? That&#8217;s precisely the point! Everyone gets an &#8220;A,&#8221; every applicant becomes a police officer.</p>
<p>And no one imagined that only the minority officers would be less qualified. As Lott&#8217;s study showed, once standards are lowered to ensure &#8220;diversity,&#8221; standards are lowered for all recruits, resulting in a rainbow coalition of incompetence.</p>
<p>This is exactly how Democrats wrecked the economy with the subprime mortgage crisis. Then-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank bragged about how they were helping minorities get mortgages by forcing banks to adopt ridiculously low lending standards.</p>
<p>But once traditional measures of credit-worthiness were jettisoned, they were jettisoned for everyone. You will notice that the housing market crash was concentrated not in black neighborhoods, but in house-flipping hot spots.</p>
<p>Lott&#8217;s study did find some preliminary evidence that increasing the number of black male cops on a police force led to a slight reduction in shootings of civilians &#8212; as did having more white male cops. But more white females on a police force increased shootings of civilians. The voices of oppression don&#8217;t get to have it both ways.</p>
<p>The main benefit to having black cops shooting civilians is that Al Sharpton gets less air time, which I think we&#8217;re all in favor of. Also, when a black cop shoots a civilian, the whole world doesn&#8217;t have to stop, as the media go on a bloodhound-search for racism.</p>
<p>In 1999, four New York City police officers shot an unarmed immigrant, Amadou Diallo, after he disregarded their commands and pulled out what looked like a gun. It turned out to be a wallet.</p>
<p>(Diallo didn&#8217;t obey the officers because he didn&#8217;t speak English. Police work is going to be so exciting in Marco Rubio&#8217;s America. &#8220;Freeze! Para continuar en Espanol, marque el dos.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Just a few months later, a cop in Chicago fatally shot an unarmed civilian, LaTanya Haggerty, a 26-year-old computer programmer, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a car. The officer thought LaTanya had a gun &#8212; but that turned out to be a cellphone.</p>
<p>There was no Bruce Springsteen song about LaTanya, no preening by Sen. Bill Bradley on the Senate floor, no 24/7 coverage. The FBI, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Justice Department didn&#8217;t open investigations into LaTanya&#8217;s shooting.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve probably never even heard of LaTanya Haggerty &#8212; because the officer who shot her was black.</p>
<p>The Diallo cops were prosecuted for murder (and acquitted). The officer in Chicago lost her job. LaTanya Haggerty&#8217;s shooting is so little known that in 2008, the Chicago Sun-Times misidentified her as the officer, not the victim, in the shooting.</p>
<p>The only real advantage to compelling the Ferguson police force to adopt affirmative action hiring policies is that the media will be tickled pink with themselves for striking a blow against &#8220;racism.&#8221; On the other hand, more black people will be murdered, raped and maimed as crime rates rise. I guess it&#8217;s really just a matter of priorities.</p>
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		<title>Let He Who Is Without Ebola Cast the First Stone</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Cast-the-first-stone.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238589" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Cast-the-first-stone-384x350.png" alt="Cast-the-first-stone" width="271" height="247" /></a>There was some hubbub about my column last week, where I complained about Christians, like Dr. Kent Brantly, who abandon America to do much-praised work in Third World countries.</p>
<p>I planned to respond to my critics this week, but, unfortunately, there&#8217;s nothing to respond to. They call me names, say I&#8217;m cruel, malicious, not a Christian, compare me to Howard Stern and cite the titles of my books as if they are self-refuting. (Zippy, aren&#8217;t they?)</p>
<p>In other words, it feels like a book tour.</p>
<p>Missing from these alleged refutations is what we call a &#8220;point.&#8221; What is with these Christians? I know God didn&#8217;t distribute brains evenly, but can&#8217;t they make an argument? Christian websites should start separating columns into &#8220;Arguments&#8221; and &#8220;Anger&#8221; sections.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve decided to help out my detractors with a few pointers.</p>
<p>First, exposing error is much more hurtful than name-calling.</p>
<p>Take former Bush speechwriter Peter Wehner&#8217;s digs:</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;The irony of Coulter accusing anyone of narcissism seems lost on her.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that when one thinks about what St. Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit &#8212; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control &#8212; Ann Coulter&#8217;s name doesn&#8217;t leap immediately to mind.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;Near the end of her 1987 book, Ms. (Elisabeth) Elliot writes this: &#8216;If there should appear in the 20th century one who was truly holy &#8230; would we say, &#8220;Away with him! Crucify him!&#8221;?&#8217; &#8230; If Elisabeth Elliot didn&#8217;t personally know Ann Coulter, she certainly knew her type.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always hoped to be part of an &#8220;ilk,&#8221; but I guess &#8220;type&#8221; will do.</p>
<p>Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention &#8212; and I hope, for their sake, the brother-in-law of some important Baptist &#8212; wrote:</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;Ann Coulter has not suddenly pivoted to saying some outrageous, shocking thing. She&#8217;s made a living at it.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Original!)</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;Ann Coulter&#8217;s &#8230; comments are none of my concern. The church is to hold accountable those who are on the inside, not those on the outside&#8221; of the church.</p>
<p>Whoa, Russell! You got so wrapped up in your insults, you forgot that your whole point was to defend Christian missions to those so far &#8220;on the outside&#8221; of the church, they&#8217;re practicing voodoo! I don&#8217;t care how big a Baptist your brother-in-law is, Russ; you need a class in logic.</p>
<p>Liberals have been trying to insult me into submission for more than a decade. These guys think they can succeed where Vanity Fair failed?</p>
<p>Second, to get the upper hand on someone you disagree with, it&#8217;s crucial to know what that person said. I find that the ancient art of reading is invaluable in this regard.</p>
<p>On a website called Southern Baptist Convention Voices, Alan Cross wrote: &#8220;Conservatives like Ann Coulter, Michael Savage and Donald Trump (or whatever he actually is) have sounded off saying that the Christian missionaries who contracted the virus should NOT be brought back to this country to be treated. We must protect ourselves, they say.&#8221;</p>
<p>I said nothing of the sort.</p>
<p>My complaint was not with the bringing-back part, but with the going-over part. My rationale: 1) America is in the fight of its life and if this country dies, the world dies; and 2) the cost of Dr. Brantly&#8217;s medical care has now exceeded any good he did there.</p>
<p>I also expressly said: &#8220;There&#8217;s little danger of an Ebola plague breaking loose from the treatment of these two Americans at the Emory University Hospital.&#8221;</p>
<p>(In his defense, Cross devoted most of his column to promoting his own book, so maybe refuting me wasn&#8217;t really the point.)</p>
<p>Wehner also skipped the reading step. He falsely accused me of &#8220;mocking&#8221; Dr. Brantly (in addition to his main point that I am cruel, narcissistic, callous and malicious). &#8220;It takes an unusually callous and malicious heart,&#8221; Wehner says, to mock a &#8220;husband and father who, while serving others, is stricken with a virulent disease.&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think I &#8220;mocked&#8221; Dr. Brantly. I mocked &#8212; I would say &#8220;assailed&#8221; &#8212; the whole concept of American Christians fleeing their own country, which needs them, to run off to Third World hellholes. (&#8220;Mocking&#8221; would be saying something like, &#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that when one thinks about what St. Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit &#8230; Dr. Brantly&#8217;s name doesn&#8217;t leap immediately to mind.&#8221;)</p>
<p>True, Dr. Brantly&#8217;s mission was my example. I like to give examples in my writing. I find it&#8217;s more effective than abstract theorizing about how a hypothetical person might go on a Christian mission to Liberia that would end up being completely counterproductive by costing his Christian charity $2 million if he ended up catching the Ebola virus there.</p>
<p>No one has responded to that argument. It was a major strategic error for my critics to ignore one of my central points, while beating a straw man to death. (He&#8217;s a &#8220;husband and father&#8221;!)</p>
<p>Third, I strongly advise against using one-size-fits-all arguments that can be turned back against you.</p>
<p>They say: &#8220;How do you know whether God called Dr. Brantly to go to Liberia?&#8221;</p>
<p>Ah ha! But then I riposte: &#8220;How do you know whether God called me to write that column?&#8221;</p>
<p>And there we are, stuck at an impasse.</p>
<p>This is the weakest technique of my critics, and one that is sadly common among certain types of Christians. (We usually call them &#8220;atheists.&#8221;)</p>
<p>In this case, it&#8217;s even worse than the usual &#8220;who&#8217;s to say?&#8221; dodge, inasmuch as I set forth evidence for what I&#8217;m saying about there being glory-seeking and cowardice in Christian missions to Third World hellholes.</p>
<p>Among other things, I wrote: &#8220;Of course, if Brantly had evangelized in New York City or Los Angeles, The New York Times would get upset and accuse him of anti-Semitism, until he swore &#8212; as the pope did &#8212; that you don&#8217;t have to be a Christian to go to heaven. Evangelize in Liberia, and the Times&#8217; Nicholas Kristof will be totally impressed.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Hey, you know what else a Christian desperate for a pat on the head from The New York Times might do? Write a column questioning Ann Coulter&#8217;s salvation!)</p>
<p>Thus, I clearly pointed out that one path &#8212; missions to Third World hellholes &#8212; leads to worldly glory, while another &#8212; serving Christ in America &#8212; leads to abuse and ridicule.</p>
<p>The counter-argument to that point would be to say that Dr. Brantly has never been hailed as a hero or won humanitarian awards. But that would be false. Or they might tell me that Christians in Hollywood are the toast of the town &#8212; maybe Mel Gibson could write a guest column! That also would not be true.</p>
<p>My critics are left retreating into absurdity, essentially asking: &#8220;How do you know whether God calls on people to behave in ways that will get them standing ovations?&#8221;</p>
<p>I ask these similarly thought-provoking questions:</p>
<p>&#8220;How do you know whether God called the Dixie Chicks to insult George W. Bush in front of an America-hating audience, winning thunderous applause?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How do you know whether God called Gov. O&#8217;Malley to grandstand about the poor illegal immigrants at our border &#8212; while secretly demanding that none of them be sent to his state?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How do you know whether God called Samaritan&#8217;s Purse to fly out the affluent white Americans at a cost of millions of dollars, and give them an incredibly scarce medicine, while leaving the poor Africans to die?&#8221;?</p>
<p>Oh I don&#8217;t know. Call it a sneaking suspicion.</p>
<p>Ironically, despite the flailing anger of my critics &#8212; in fact because of it! &#8212; I&#8217;ve changed my mind. I see now that not everyone is called to be a Christian witness in an advanced nation.</p>
<p>You guys should definitely go to Africa.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237472" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later-450x337.jpg" alt="the-border-crisis-is-hurting-obama-now-but-it-will-hurt-republicans-later" width="258" height="193" /></a>It&#8217;s been reported everywhere &#8212; The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News &#8212; that the William Wilberforce Sex Trafficking Act requires that any non-Mexican children who show up on our border be admitted and given a hearing. (New York Times, July 7, 2014: &#8220;Immigrant Surge Rooted in Law to Curb Child Trafficking.&#8221;)</p>
<p>The problem, we&#8217;ve been told, is that a loophole in the sex trafficking law mandates these hearings &#8212; or &#8220;removal proceedings.&#8221;</p>
<p>But there is no such loophole.</p>
<p>The fact that people on both sides of the aisle are telling the same lie about this law is worrisome. Are Republicans being tricked into thinking we need an emergency bill, so that, two weeks later, we&#8217;ll see them emerging from a conference, saying:</p>
<p>We fixed the loophole! We didn&#8217;t get everything we wanted, but you can hear about that later.</p>
<p>No, tell me now.</p>
<p>Well, remember amnesty? It&#8217;s kind of in this bill. But the headline is: We closed the loophole! So no more worries about that loophole. But yeah, amnesty passed.</p>
<p>Why else would everyone be carrying on about a non-existent loophole? I know they&#8217;re mistaken because I read the law.</p>
<p>The Wilberforce law states, in relevant part:</p>
<p>&#8220;Any unaccompanied alien child sought to be removed by the Department of Homeland Security, except for an unaccompanied alien child from a contiguous country (i.e. Mexico &#8212; or Canada, so as not to sound discriminatory) &#8230; shall be &#8212; placed in removal proceedings &#8230; eligible for relief &#8230; at no cost to the child and provided access to counsel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obviously, that&#8217;s the whole ball of wax. Once a kid is in, given La Raza attorneys and a hearing date, he&#8217;s never going home. No immigration judge is going to listen to a lawyer-manufactured sob story and say, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m sorry, that didn&#8217;t touch my heart. You have to go back to Huehuetenango.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the law&#8217;s definition of &#8220;unaccompanied alien child&#8221; limits the hearings to kids who have no relatives in the United States. If your relatives live here, the law assumes you&#8217;re not being sex-trafficked &#8212; you&#8217;re trying to join them.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the definition &#8212; note subsection (C):</p>
<p>&#8220;(g) Definitions</p>
<p>&#8220;(2) the term &#8216;unaccompanied alien child&#8217; means a child who &#8211;</p>
<p>(A) has no lawful immigration status in the United States;</p>
<p>(B) has not attained 18 years of age; and</p>
<p>(C) with respect to whom &#8211;</p>
<p>(i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or (ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.&#8221;</p>
<p>The law is not &#8212; as George Will suggested on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; &#8212; a general humanitarian mandate allowing all 2 billion poor children of the world to show up at our border and be told, &#8220;Welcome to America!&#8221; It&#8217;s a law to combat sex trafficking.</p>
<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Vice President Joe Biden wrote the law &#8212; and Feinstein isn&#8217;t stupid. She&#8217;s well aware of illegal immigration. That&#8217;s why the law specifically excludes two huge categories of illegal aliens from getting hearings: (1) Mexicans; and (2) children who have relatives in the U.S.</p>
<p>Those cases look more like illegal immigration than sex trafficking. (Didn&#8217;t anyone wonder why Mexican kids are excluded?)</p>
<p>Mexicans make up the lion&#8217;s share of illegal immigrants in the U.S., and children with relatives already living in the U.S. are probably just trying to rejoin family &#8212; not trying to escape a fiendish kidnapper about to sell them into sex slavery.</p>
<p>According to last Friday&#8217;s New York Times, almost 90 percent of the 53,000 illegal alien kids given refugee status since October have already been transferred to parents or relatives living in the U.S. By the law&#8217;s clear terms, those 47,000 kids should have been summarily turned away at the border &#8212; just as Mexican children are.</p>
<p>(Democrats wailing about a &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; crisis &#8212; after calculating the precise number of voters they need &#8212; evidently don&#8217;t care about the Mexican kids.)</p>
<p>No law needs to be fixed. The only thing that needs to be fixed is the president.</p>
<p>Obama has gone mad and is defying the law in order to &#8220;fundamentally transform America&#8221; &#8212; as he pledged to do during the 2008 campaign &#8212; into Latin America. (Luckily for George Will, he won&#8217;t be around by the time Latin America gets to his neighborhood.)</p>
<p>Any Republicans pushing for an immigration bill to seal an imaginary loophole aren&#8217;t fighting Obama; they&#8217;re helping him.</p>
<p>Constitutionally, the remedy for a president defying the law so he can assist an alien invasion is impeachment. But the media won&#8217;t let us impeach Obama &#8212; and Republicans don&#8217;t have the votes, anyway. The only way for Americans to fight back is to put large Republican majorities in the House and Senate this November.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140703-border-patrol-jms-1802_35c1edbbf667f8181a3fa0687922aab5.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-236442" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140703-border-patrol-jms-1802_35c1edbbf667f8181a3fa0687922aab5-450x300.jpg" alt="140703-border-patrol-jms-1802_35c1edbbf667f8181a3fa0687922aab5" width="254" height="169" /></a>It&#8217;s been fun to watch the media discuss the border crisis in real time, improvising their arguments on the fly. Let&#8217;s try A, and if that doesn&#8217;t work, we&#8217;ll try B.</p>
<p>First, they said there was no surge at the border &#8212; it was a phony crisis manufactured by the Drudge Report. The facts on the ground quickly made that argument inoperable.</p>
<p>Next, liberals told us these &#8220;undocumented migrants&#8221; (the PC phrase for &#8220;illegal aliens&#8221; &#8212; because we&#8217;ll never figure out what that means) were mere children fleeing violence and drug cartels.</p>
<p>Then we found out that more than 80 percent of the &#8220;children&#8221; were teenage males, some being recruited for the homicidal Central American gang MS-13, right there in the detention facilities.</p>
<p>(Suspiciously, liberals&#8217; wailing about a &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; crisis began immediately after Sen. Chuck Schumer emerged from a meeting with Democratic number-crunchers figuring out exactly how many more Latin American voters they&#8217;ll need to take Texas and Florida.)</p>
<p>Why would there be a humanitarian crisis now? Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador &#8212; where most of the migrants are coming from &#8212; have been hellholes forever, even longer than Detroit.</p>
<p>The &#8220;horrendous civil wars in Central America&#8221; were a major topic during the presidential debates between Reagan and Mondale &#8212; and that was in 1984. Mondale campaigned on conditioning aid to El Salvador on disbanding that country&#8217;s &#8220;most lawless and notorious security forces&#8221; and bringing to justice the murderers of American nuns. Those guys are putting in for their pensions by now.</p>
<p>In 1992, Noam Chomsky described El Salvador and Guatemala as &#8220;murderous terrorist state(s),&#8221; adding that human rights abuses in Honduras were worse even than in Panama under Noriega.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s new now?</p>
<p>Liberals finally settled on complaining that if only we&#8217;d passed &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform,&#8221; none of this would have ever happened. Why not a global warming bill? That might be nutty, but at least it wouldn&#8217;t be the exact opposite of the truth.</p>
<p>We are not dealing with a delicate point of logic here, some tiny flaw in liberals&#8217; reasoning, where they neglect to consider this or that aspect of a situation. This is something I don&#8217;t recall encountering before. It&#8217;s anti-logic.</p>
<p>The Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill would have made this crisis 10,000 times worse than it already is.</p>
<p>The precise reason our borders are besieged is that the 11 million to 20 million &#8220;undocumented migrants&#8221; currently living here seem just a few more bad Marco Rubio speeches away from being legalized. And the reason they entered the country undocumentedly is that Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens in 1986.</p>
<p>Every powerful group in America is pushing for amnesty: President Obama, Sen. Schumer, Schumer&#8217;s new friends Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Chris Christie, Wall Street, the Republican National Committee, the Democratic National Committee, farmers, ethnic activists, the entire media, wealthy elites who need domestics and the Chamber of Commerce.</p>
<p>Instead of &#8220;living in the shadows&#8221; &#8212; the shadows of mass protests, New York Times magazine covers, TV shows, government housing, free schools, free medical care, free food stamps, the Catholic Church, state colleges at in-state tuition rates in 17 states &#8212; &#8220;undocumented migrants&#8221; seem poised to become full legal residents.</p>
<p>With that, they would gain the additional rights to more welfare programs, to vote for more welfare programs &#8212; and to vote for more amnesty. (Also, they won&#8217;t have to worry about being deported if they&#8217;re convicted of rape or murder after they&#8217;re amnestied.)</p>
<p>Obama has already effectively granted amnesty to millions of &#8220;undocumented migrants&#8221; by refusing to deport &#8220;children,&#8221; i.e., MS-13 members. (I&#8217;m starting to think somebody ought to sue that guy.)</p>
<p>Consequently, a lot of Latin Americans decided it was a good time to come to the U.S. to get in on Obama&#8217;s administrative amnesty and also to be here in time for the next amnesty.</p>
<p>So why are Obama, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Jeff Flake, MSNBC and The New York Times editorial page all telling us that if only we&#8217;d passed &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform&#8221; &#8212; which would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants &#8212; this never would have happened? That&#8217;s the reason it&#8217;s happening!</p>
<p>Usually, liberals push ideas that aren&#8217;t true, but sound like they could be true. Raise taxes and we&#8217;ll get more revenue! Give condoms to teenagers and we&#8217;ll reduce unwed pregnancies! Ban guns and we&#8217;ll have fewer gun crimes!</p>
<p>On immigration, they&#8217;re out of practice and don&#8217;t know what to say when their auto-pilot &#8220;living in the shadows&#8221; claptrap doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>They seem to know that the prospect of amnesty has something to do with the current crisis, so the word &#8220;amnesty&#8221; pops into their heads, and then they end up blurting out that the cause is the solution.</p>
<p>We need to discourage people coming to America for amnesty, by passing amnesty! Yes, of course! If Congress would only pass amnesty, the people of the world would say to themselves, &#8220;Uh-oh! I better not cross the border into America now! I&#8217;ll never get amn &#8211;&#8221; Oh, wait.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that one small part of their argument is wrong. It&#8217;s more like there&#8217;s a whole section missing from the explanation. Or as if they&#8217;re talking about some other issue altogether, such as a solution to the elites&#8217; servant problem. Or two totally different ideas got into a teleportation machine and their atoms were accidentally mixed up as they traveled across the universe, which I saw happen in the movie &#8220;The Fly.&#8221;</p>
<p>Immigration advocates don&#8217;t have a good set of arguments and, with tens of thousands of &#8220;undocumented migrants&#8221; crossing the border, their usual method of prohibiting any debate on the subject isn&#8217;t working.</p>
<p>The very inanity of their argument that amnesty would prevent people from coming here to get amnesty gobsmacks us into silence.</p>
<p>In the world of the sane, the only way to prevent all of Latin America&#8217;s poor from showing up on our border expecting to be admitted is to repeal the law requiring that they be admitted.</p>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blog_deflated_soccer_ball.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234915" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blog_deflated_soccer_ball.jpg" alt="blog_deflated_soccer_ball" width="288" height="202" /></a>I&#8217;ve held off on writing about soccer for a decade &#8212; or about the length of the average soccer game &#8212; so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation&#8217;s moral decay.</p>
<p>(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls &#8212; all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they&#8217;re standing alone at the plate. But there&#8217;s also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.</p>
<p>In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child&#8217;s fragile self-esteem is bruised. There&#8217;s a reason perpetually alarmed women are called &#8220;soccer moms,&#8221; not &#8220;football moms.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That&#8217;s when we&#8217;re supposed to go wild. I&#8217;m already asleep.</p>
<p>(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it&#8217;s a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.</p>
<p>(3) No other &#8220;sport&#8221; ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: &#8220;2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0.&#8221; Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: &#8220;1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0.&#8221; If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he&#8217;d still be alive, although bored.</p>
<p>Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties &#8212; and it&#8217;s a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.</p>
<p>(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don&#8217;t worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.</p>
<p>Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game &#8212; and it&#8217;s not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.</p>
<p>(5) You can&#8217;t use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here&#8217;s a great idea: Let&#8217;s create a game where you&#8217;re not allowed to use them!</p>
<p>(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Girls,&#8221; light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is &#8220;catching on&#8221; is exceeded only by the ones pretending women&#8217;s basketball is fascinating.</p>
<p>I note that we don&#8217;t have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.</p>
<p>(7) It&#8217;s foreign. In fact, that&#8217;s the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not &#8220;catching on&#8221; at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.</p>
<p>(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it&#8217;s European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren&#8217;t committing mass murder by guillotine.</p>
<p>Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he&#8217;ll say something like &#8220;70 degrees.&#8221; Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he&#8217;ll say it&#8217;s about 200 miles.</p>
<p>Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more &#8220;rational&#8221; than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man&#8217;s thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That&#8217;s easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?</p>
<p>(9) Soccer is not &#8220;catching on.&#8221; Headlines this week proclaimed &#8220;Record U.S. ratings for World Cup,&#8221; and we had to hear &#8212; again &#8212; about the &#8220;growing popularity of soccer in the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women&#8217;s World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women&#8217;s games are as thrilling as the men&#8217;s.)</p>
<p>Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year&#8217;s Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.</p>
<p>Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.</p>
<p>If more &#8220;Americans&#8221; are watching soccer today, it&#8217;s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.</p>
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		<title>You Bet This Is Swiftboating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's disturbing response to real servicemen telling the truth about a dishonorable comrade. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bergdahl-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234383" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bergdahl-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg" alt="bergdahl-videoSixteenByNine600" width="248" height="190" /></a>While the Obama administration tortures the Benghazi raid suspect into a false confession that a YouTube video made him attack our embassy, let&#8217;s review what his &#8220;capture&#8221; is meant to distract us from:</p>
<p>(1) The IRS&#8217; Lois Lerner claims her computer crashed, destroying all her emails to the White House, congressional Democrats and the Department of Justice, at the very height of the IRS&#8217; targeting of tea party groups. Six other IRS officials now claim their emails are also missing. (Have they tried shutting down their computers and restarting?)</p>
<p>Rosemary Woods erased part of a White House tape nearly half a century ago, and Chris Matthews is still talking about it.</p>
<p>(2) Soon after he became president, Obama pulled every last troop out of Iraq, despite the fact that the war was over and we had won. Now Iraq is on fire, torn apart by terrorist invaders. We still have more than 100,000 troops in defeated Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan. But Obama couldn&#8217;t leave a few troops in Iraq simply to preserve our victory. Now it&#8217;s gone.</p>
<p>(3) In the worse deal in history, Obama traded five hardened terrorists &#8212; specifically chosen by the Taliban &#8212; for an American who is a probable deserter.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t whine about not &#8220;knowing&#8221; if Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was a deserter. It&#8217;s not a big secret. The Pentagon investigated Bergdahl&#8217;s disappearance back in 2010 and concluded that he had walked away from his unit of his own free will. This guy did everything but fill out one of those &#8220;change of address&#8221; postcards redirecting his mail to the local Taliban post office.</p>
<p>The left has reacted to the embarrassing truth about Bergdahl by:</p>
<p>(a) Denouncing Republican congressmen who initially posted happy tweets about Bergdahl&#8217;s release, and then deleted those tweets &#8212; probably on orders from Fox News!</p>
<p>(b) Accusing Bergdahl&#8217;s displeased Army comrades of &#8220;swiftboating.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, exactly. This is precisely what &#8220;swiftboating&#8221; is: The truth about a serviceman from the people who actually served with him. Similarly, the attacks on John Kerry came from the men he served with, not the Republican Party.</p>
<p>To the contrary, John McCain, who never served with Kerry, called the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth &#8220;dishonest and dishonorable.&#8221; (You nominated him!) President Bush requested that they take their ads off TV.</p>
<p>The only prominent Republican to defend the Swifties was former Sen. Bob Dole &#8212; a genuine World War II hero &#8212; who told CNN:</p>
<p>&#8220;One day (Kerry&#8217;s) saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons. The next day he&#8217;s standing there, &#8216;I want to be president because I&#8217;m a Vietnam veteran.&#8217; Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn&#8217;t the only one in Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is precisely because the truth about Bergdahl didn&#8217;t come out until after he had been released that Republican members of Congress initially sent out those &#8220;Welcome back!&#8221; tweets. They didn&#8217;t know the truth about Bergdahl, and neither did most people, until his fellow soldiers spoke up. Even people in his own hometown ended up canceling a Bergdahl homecoming celebration in response to the accusations of his platoon.</p>
<p>Bergdahl&#8217;s comeuppance didn&#8217;t come from some right-wing Wizard of Oz in the fevered brains of MSNBC hosts: It came from members of Bergdahl&#8217;s own unit in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The reason these soldiers hadn&#8217;t said anything until Bergdahl&#8217;s release was that, as a condition of leaving Afghanistan, they were required to sign gag orders prohibiting them from discussing Bergdahl. (It&#8217;s strange; liberals usually don&#8217;t like gag orders, but they don&#8217;t seem to mind this one.)</p>
<p>After Bergdahl&#8217;s release &#8212; heralded by a ceremony in the Rose Garden that included a shout-out to the Taliban &#8212; the soldiers decided those agreements were moot.</p>
<p>It apparently never occurred to Obama that the troops Bergdahl abandoned would not be popping champagne corks at the news of his release. (Nor did it occur to Rolling Stone. The 2012 article about Bergdahl spoke of the &#8220;hope&#8221; of Bowe&#8217;s old unit that &#8220;a deal could get done&#8221; with the Taliban for his safe return. Remember the good old days when you could get reliable military intel from a left-wing music magazine written by half-brights?)</p>
<p>Democrats should just stop talking about the military. Whenever they do, they sound like Republican men talking about rape.</p>
<p>Democrat adventures with the military have included that ridiculous photo of little Mike Dukakis in the tank. There was Bill Clinton&#8217;s letter explaining that he needed a nuanced way to dodge the draft during Vietnam in order to &#8220;maintain my political viability.&#8221; We had John Kerry, who thought it would be a great idea to remind Americans that he was the guy who came back and crapped on his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. John Kerry, reporting for duty.</p>
<p>And now we have Obama, who gazes upon deserter Bowe Bergdahl and thinks his return will be a feel-good American story.</p>
<p>So maybe the guy deserted. Hasn&#8217;t Obama pushed girls, gays and transgenders on the military? Why the pushback this time?</p>
<p>The Democrats&#8217; only concept of how to support the troops is to treat them like their other constituent groups &#8212; single women, blacks and the poor &#8212; and offer them more government benefits.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m fairly certain what the troops would really prefer is to be left alone by liberals.</p>
<p>How about no free college tuition &#8212; and not forcing the military to accept open homosexuality? How about fewer increases in military pensions &#8212; and no Defense Department-funded transgender operation for gay traitor Bradley Manning? How about skimping on PTSD therapists &#8212; and no girl generals?</p>
<p>The military doesn&#8217;t ask for a lot. Soldiers just want to do their job, which is to kill people and break things, not to be nurturing to women, gays and traitors.</p>
<p>The troops don&#8217;t complain much, but when they do, there is nothing more devastating than a real &#8220;swift boating.&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bergdahl wasn't "left behind." He was left where he wanted to be. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3065866291.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233364" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3065866291-450x291.jpg" alt="306586629" width="340" height="220" /></a>Death Penalty Month at anncoulter.com has already been interrupted by the psycho in Santa Barbara, and now it&#8217;s being interrupted by the Buddhist in Bagram.</p>
<p>Keeping to the spirit of Death Penalty Month, let&#8217;s review the execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik. Slovik&#8217;s offense: desertion in wartime. (See the tie-in?)</p>
<p>Unlike Bowe Bergdahl, who deserted his unit, according to the accounts of his comrades, Slovik never actually deserted. He also didn&#8217;t call America a &#8220;disgusting&#8221; country or say he was &#8220;ashamed to be an American.&#8221;</p>
<p>Slovik was just a chicken.</p>
<p>In October 1944, as Allied forces were sweeping through France, Slovik left his position on the front lines, walked to the rear of his unit and handed a note to the cook, confessing his desertion. The letter explained that he was &#8220;so scared&#8221; that he had already abandoned his unit once, and concluded: &#8220;AND I&#8217;LL RUN AWAY AGAIN IF I HAVE TO GO OUT THERE.&#8221;</p>
<p>Slovik was like Bradley Manning minus the lipstick and eyeliner.</p>
<p>A lieutenant, a company commander and a judge advocate all tried to persuade Slovik to shred the letter and return to his unit, warning him that he&#8217;d be tried for desertion otherwise. Slovik refused.</p>
<p>In the middle of World War II, the military court-martialed Slovik, tried him and sentenced him to death.</p>
<p>Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower denied Slovik&#8217;s pardon request, saying it would encourage more desertions, just as the fighting was getting especially hot. Slovik was executed by firing squad and buried among the numbered graves of court-martialed rapists and murderers in an American military cemetery in France.</p>
<p>Contrast Slovik&#8217;s story with the beloved troop whose return just cost us the release of five of the most dangerous terrorists in the world.</p>
<p>Three days before he walked off his base, Bergdahl emailed his parents:</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;I am ashamed to be an american.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;The US army is the biggest joke &#8230; It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools and bullies.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;The horror that is america is disgusting.&#8221;</p>
<p>These emails were given to the author of a 2012 Rolling Stone article on the case by Bergdahl&#8217;s own parents.</p>
<p>The overwrought soldier&#8217;s father, Bob, emailed back: &#8220;OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!&#8221; And then, according to the Rolling Stone profile reporting these emails &#8212; as well as the Army report on the incident &#8212; Bergdahl &#8220;decided to walk away.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bergdahl&#8217;s unit commander, Evan Buetow, told CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper that intercepted Taliban &#8220;chatter&#8221; soon revealed that Bergdahl was looking for a member of the Taliban who spoke English. (Other than his father.)</p>
<p>Buetow said he couldn&#8217;t prove it, but he believed Bergdahl began helping the Taliban attack his own unit. After that, Buetow says, the assaults were much more direct, and Bergdahl would have known the unit&#8217;s tactics and how they would respond to an attack.</p>
<p>U.S. forces in the area spent the next two months on a single mission: trying to find Bergdahl. It is beyond dispute that any American killed during that time was killed on a mission to &#8220;rescue&#8221; Bergdahl from his new comrades.</p>
<p>Over the years, the Taliban produced several propaganda videos with Bergdahl &#8212; eating, doing push-ups and criticizing American foreign policy.</p>
<p>During the Vietnam War, POW Navy Vice Admiral James Stockdale disfigured himself so that he could not be used in a propaganda video. He slit his wrists to avoid being tortured for information.</p>
<p>When captured Navy aviator Jeremiah Denton was forced by the North Vietnamese to make a propaganda video, he blinked the word T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code, over and over again, as he said these words:</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what is going on in the war now. My only sources are North Vietnamese radio, magazines and newspapers. But whatever the position of my government, I agree with it. I support it. I will support it as long as I live.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was the first confirmation the U.S. had that the North Vietnamese were torturing POWs.</p>
<p>These men &#8212; and many more &#8212; had limbs torn from their sockets, their legs and backs shattered by the North Vietnamese. As Denton said of the repeated torture, he&#8217;d rather lose an arm than his honor.</p>
<p>When right-wingers get choked up about &#8220;the troops,&#8221; these are the sort of men we&#8217;re thinking of. Not Bowe &#8220;America is disgusting&#8221; Bergdahl.</p>
<p>But to Obama, Bergdahl was the picture of American manhood and military honor.</p>
<p>He released five of the most dangerous terrorists in the world &#8212; captured at great cost to our military &#8212; in order to give Bergdahl an exit plan from his Great Adventure. (Before he ever set foot in Afghanistan, Bergdahl had told a fellow soldier, &#8220;If this deployment is lame, I&#8217;m just going to walk off into the mountains of Pakistan.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Bergdahl wasn&#8217;t being &#8220;left behind&#8221; or &#8220;left on the battlefield.&#8221; He was being left where he wanted to be, with the poor, innocent Talibanists, far away from this &#8220;disgusting&#8221; country that made him &#8220;ashamed to be an American.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Stigmatize Murderers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 04:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another leftist-enabled mentally ill person attacks society. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot-rodger2.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226457 alignleft" alt="elliot-rodger2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot-rodger2-450x336.jpg" width="315" height="235" /></a>Mass murder at a sunny college campus in a beach town would normally be considered &#8220;newsy,&#8221; but Elliot Rodger&#8217;s massacre at the University of California-Santa Barbara last Friday is getting surprisingly little press.</p>
<p>This is not a good case for liberals: The killer was an immigrant, a person of color, and the majority of his casualties resulted from attacks with a car or knife. It makes as much sense to rant about the NRA as to blame the Auto Club of America or the National Knife Collectors Association.</p>
<p>Rather, what we have is yet another mass murder committed by a schizophrenic &#8212; just like those of Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza.</p>
<p>Yes, they all used guns. Also, they were all males. They were all college-aged. They all had hair. Those are not distinctive characteristics.</p>
<p>When the last five mass murderers share something that only 1 percent of the population has, I think we&#8217;ve found the relevant common denominator.</p>
<p>Rodger had been seeing therapists since he was 8 years old. Just last year, his psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, prescribed him Risperidone, an anti-psychotic. But after looking up what Risperidone was for &#8212; schizophrenia &#8212; Rodger decided &#8220;it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take&#8221; and never did.</p>
<p>See, that&#8217;s the thing about schizophrenics &#8212; they don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re sick. They think the lava lamp that&#8217;s talking to them is sick.</p>
<p>Rodger&#8217;s &#8220;manifesto&#8221; reads like Nikolai Gogol&#8217;s &#8220;Diary of a Madman&#8221; &#8212; generally recognized as the first description of schizophrenia, except it&#8217;s a little repetitive and not well-written, no matter what that &#8220;tech guru&#8221; says.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m one of the few who have read all 141 pages. It is a tale of increasing delusions, paranoia, hallucinations and wild, grandiose self-assessments. In other words, it is a slightly less whiny version of Obama&#8217;s first inaugural address. (How many pages does your manifesto have to be before we can force you to take your medication?)</p>
<p>Rodger says of himself:</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;I saw myself as a highly intelligent and magnificent person who is meant for great things.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;Becoming a multimillionaire at a young age is what I am meant for.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;I am like a god.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.&#8221;</p>
<p>(No &#8212; wait &#8230; Last one was Obama.)</p>
<p>Rodger saw every female as a &#8220;tall, hot blonde&#8221; &#8212; and, this being California, that&#8217;s at a campus that&#8217;s only 50 percent white. He viewed all couples as his sworn enemies causing his suffering.</p>
<p>Although Rodger loved driving his car, he &#8220;soon learned the hard way&#8221; not to drive on Friday and Saturday nights, where he &#8220;frequently saw bands of teenagers roaming the streets.&#8221; They &#8220;had pretty girls beside them,&#8221; probably on their way to &#8220;get drunk and have sex and do all sorts of fun pleasurable things that I&#8217;ve never had the chance to do. Damn them all!&#8221;</p>
<p>At Santa Barbara City College, he dropped his sociology class on the first day of school &#8220;because there was this extremely hot blonde girl in the class with her brute of a boyfriend.&#8221; Rodger couldn&#8217;t even sit through the whole first class with them, merely for being a couple.</p>
<p>Santa Monica Pier was out for him, too: &#8220;I saw young couples everywhere. &#8230; Life was too unfair to me.&#8221; On a trip to England, he refused to leave his hotel room so he wouldn&#8217;t have to see men walking with their girlfriends.</p>
<p>The &#8220;cruelty&#8221; of women apparently consisted of the failure of any &#8220;tall, hot blondes&#8221; to approach Rodger and ask for sex. He would walk around for hours &#8220;in the desperate hope that I might possibly cross paths with some pretty girl who would be attracted to me.&#8221;</p>
<p>But only once, in the entire 141-page manifesto, does Rodger attempt to speak to a girl himself. She&#8217;s a total stranger walking past him on a bridge, and he musters up the courage to say &#8220;hi.&#8221; He claims she &#8220;kept on walking&#8221; and said nothing. She probably didn&#8217;t hear him. But he called her a &#8220;foul bitch&#8221; and went to a bathroom to cry for an hour.</p>
<p>Although Rodger repeatedly denounces the world and everyone in it for &#8220;cruelty and injustice,&#8221; he was the bully more often than the bullied, especially as time went on, and his rage increased.</p>
<p>He sees an Asian guy talking to a white girl at a party, decides he&#8217;d been &#8220;insulted enough,&#8221; and roughly bumped the Asian aside. &#8220;How could an ugly Asian attract the attention of a white girl, while a beautiful Eurasian like myself never had any attention from them? I thought with rage.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even after this unprovoked assault, the couple was nice to him, telling him he was drunk and should have some water. He stormed out of the party, but returned to &#8220;spitefully insult&#8221; the Asian.</p>
<p>Then he climbed up on a balcony at the party, and when some college kids joined him, he began insulting them and tried to push the girls off a 10-foot ledge.</p>
<p>He hectors his mother to marry &#8220;any wealthy man&#8221; because it would &#8220;be a way out of my miserable and insignificant life.&#8221; He tells her &#8220;she should sacrifice her well-being for the sake of my happiness.&#8221;</p>
<p>When flying first class, he says, &#8220;I took great satisfaction as I passed by all of the other people who flew economy, giving all of the younger passengers a cocky little smirk whenever they looked at me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 141 pages, the worst thing anyone ever did to him was not say &#8220;hi&#8221; back.</p>
<p>His claims that couples all over were &#8220;making out&#8221; or &#8220;passionately kissing&#8221; are probably hallucinatory. In the Starbucks line? At family dinners? They were probably holding hands and Rodger hallucinated something resembling a live sex act.</p>
<p>Thus, he writes that a couple in a Starbucks line were &#8220;kissing passionately &#8230; rubbing their bodies together and tongue kissing in front of everyone.&#8221; Livid, Rodger followed them to their car and threw his hot coffee on them. Utterly self-pitying, he says: &#8220;I cursed the world for condemning me to such suffering.&#8221; Then he spent five days alone in his room.</p>
<p>Another couple Rodger says were kissing &#8220;passionately&#8221; in the food court outside Domino&#8217;s pizza enraged him so much he followed them in his car and &#8220;splashed my iced tea all over them&#8221; &#8212; to fight &#8220;against the injustice.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the story that sounds the most like Gogol&#8217;s Poprishchin hearing two dogs talking in Russian is Rodger&#8217;s allegation that his stepmother bragged to him that his stepbrother, Jazz &#8212; her own 6-year-old son! &#8212; &#8220;would be a success with girls and probably lose his virginity early.&#8221;</p>
<p>I know Moroccan cultural mores are different, but I&#8217;m calling &#8220;auditory hallucination&#8221; on that one.</p>
<p>A family friend, Simon Astaire, described Rodger&#8217;s flat affect, common to schizophrenics, saying he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t look at you straight in the eye and looked at your feet. It was unbearable.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to feel sorry for a mass murderer, but it was cruel to Elliot Rodger to allow him to refuse medication and turn himself into a monster. It was beyond cruel to his innocent victims &#8212; as well as the other victims of psychopathic killers. But liberals are more worried about &#8220;stigmatizing&#8221; the mentally ill than the occasional mass murder.</p>
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		<title>Statistics Show 4% of NY Times Reporters Are Serial Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 04:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking the Left's claims that death row inmates are routinely wrongly convicted. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/save_troy_davis_poster.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226029" alt="save_troy_davis_poster" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/save_troy_davis_poster-356x350.png" width="249" height="245" /></a>The New York Times has been touting a study purporting to show that 4 percent of death row inmates have been &#8220;falsely convicted.&#8221; &#8220;Falsely convicted&#8221; is not &#8220;innocent.&#8221; But after being processed through the lawyer-to-journalist telephone game, &#8220;insignificant procedural errors&#8221; quickly becomes &#8220;27 guys didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221;</p>
<p>What the study actually shows is that those sentenced to death are more likely to have their convictions overturned than those sentenced to prison.</p>
<p>Yeah, we knew that. Anti-death penalty fanatics fight every execution tooth and claw. Sometimes they get lucky. What the statisticians have proved is that it&#8217;s very difficult to be executed in this country.</p>
<p>Most of the media cited this pointless study to proclaim that &#8220;statistical analysis&#8221; proves that 4 percent of people on death row are innocent. They just have to be! And if you disagree, you must hate science.</p>
<p>Whether innocent people have been executed is not a matter that lends itself to statistical analysis. We have the names of every person who has been executed &#8212; 1,373 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.</p>
<p>A few dozen lawyers could each take home a stack of case files for the weekend and find the innocent guy &#8212; if there were one. But despite years of searching by single-minded zealots, they still don&#8217;t have the name of one innocent person executed in at least the last half-century.</p>
<p>Identifying the innocent has lead to embarrassments in the past. In this week&#8217;s and next week&#8217;s columns, we&#8217;ll review the left&#8217;s last few poster boys for &#8220;innocence.&#8221;</p>
<p>First: Troy Davis.</p>
<p>The day of Troy Davis&#8217; execution, MSNBC and CNN went live until midnight to cover it, much like the 9/11 terrorist attack. Rachel Maddow posted an article claiming there was &#8220;persistent doubt that the death-row inmate is guilty of the crime of which he was convicted,&#8221; under the headline, &#8220;Georgia plans to kill Troy Davis tomorrow.&#8221;</p>
<p>(This was a delightful change from Rachel&#8217;s usual nightly smirk-fest.)</p>
<p>A reporter for the British Guardian claimed Davis was &#8220;very possibly innocent.&#8221; Amnesty International issued a statement after the execution, announcing that Georgia had &#8220;executed a person who may well be innocent.&#8221; (In the same sense that I &#8220;may well be&#8221; an astronaut named Smitty.)</p>
<p>The New York Times editorialized about &#8220;A Grievous Wrong&#8221; being done to Troy Davis, citing &#8220;reports about police misconduct, the recantation of testimony by a string of eyewitnesses and reports from other witnesses that another person had confessed to the crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>In all criminal appeals, defense lawyers roll out claims of &#8220;police misconduct,&#8221; preposterously unbelievable &#8220;new&#8221; witnesses and a surprise &#8220;confession&#8221; by someone else.</p>
<p>In fact, that&#8217;s a single typewriter key at the Times, used for all reports on criminal convictions. I have my own typewriter key to describe Times&#8217; editorials on executions: &#8220;reports about extreme self-righteousness, excessive moral preening, obliviousness to the facts, and lies from a string of journalists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Always check to see if the person suddenly confessing to a crime will face any penalty for doing so. You will find that surprise confessions invariably come from those already serving the maximum sentence or that the statute of limitations has run.</p>
<p>(The Times editorial didn&#8217;t mention the police officer murdered by Davis. A few days later, an article on the execution did mention the victim in the fifth paragraph &#8212; and then spelled his name wrong.)</p>
<p>Those of you who follow my work assiduously know that Davis shot and killed an off-duty cop, Mark MacPhail, in a busy Burger King parking lot in front of dozens of witnesses, including people who knew him, as well as a van full of Air Force airmen. (He didn&#8217;t recant.)</p>
<p>After shooting the cop once, Davis sauntered up to the cop&#8217;s body and shot him again, directly in the head. As one of the airmen told the jury in identifying Davis: &#8220;You don&#8217;t forget someone that stands over and shoots someone.&#8221;</p>
<p>The much-ballyhooed &#8220;recantations&#8221; in Davis&#8217; case were typical, which is to say: nothing of the sort. Years after the trial, defense lawyers trick witnesses into making small, inconsequential alterations to their testimony. Then the lawyers rush to the press claiming the witness has &#8220;recanted.&#8221;</p>
<p>For example, Davis&#8217; lawyer prepared an affidavit for the girlfriend of the homeless man Davis was beating when MacPhail intervened and got shot. The affidavit was consistent with her trial testimony in all respects &#8212; including identifying Davis as the killer &#8212; except that the lawyer altered her description of events to say that Davis had been &#8220;arguing&#8221; with her boyfriend before shooting the cop.</p>
<p>The girlfriend would have had no way to know &#8212; years later &#8212; that this was any different from her original trial testimony. She signed the lawyer-drafted affidavit, but didn&#8217;t consider it important enough to get notarized. Then she died.</p>
<p>Out of 34 witnesses for the prosecution, that was one of the five purported &#8220;recantations.&#8221; Normal people hear that and say, &#8220;ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THAT&#8217;S WHAT YOU&#8217;RE CALLING A &#8216;RECANTATION&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>One begins to see why the criminal lobby has turned to statistics, rather than specific cases, to claim that America executes the innocent.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 04:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The details of Clayton Lockett's heinous crimes that the media refuses to tell. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/stephanie_neiman-450x300.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225034" alt="stephanie_neiman-450x300" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/stephanie_neiman-450x300.jpg" width="360" height="240" /></a>The next time liberals get indignant when we say they care more about criminals than the victims of crime, remember their hysterical weeping over Clayton Lockett. I refer, of course, to the vile rapist-murderer, whose execution last week is getting more press than Chris Christie&#8217;s bridge scandal.</p>
<p>This week we will review some facts about the case that The New York Times edited out of its capacious articles on Lockett. This is the information that was not fit to print. Next week, we&#8217;ll discuss the death penalty, with particular reference to Clayton Lockett.</p>
<p>The main category of facts you won&#8217;t read about Lockett in the Times, or elsewhere in the NFM (Non-Fox Media), is what he did to his victims &#8212; which is to say, his last four victims. It may surprise you to learn that Locket had a long felony record.</p>
<p>In 1999, Lockett and two confederates broke into Bobby Bornt&#8217;s house to rob him. Bornt recognized Lockett as the man he had hired a few weeks earlier to cover a tattoo.</p>
<p>Lockett savagely beat Bornt for 15 minutes with a shotgun, as Bornt&#8217;s 9-month old son wailed in the next room. The three men bound Bornt&#8217;s hands together with duct tape and set about searching his home for something to steal. Indeed, Lockett pushed Bornt off the couch, complaining that he was bleeding too much into what he called &#8220;my couch.&#8221;</p>
<p>About that time, Bornt&#8217;s friend, Summer Hair, showed up to invite him to a party. The thieves pulled her inside, threw her against a wall and hit her, holding a gun to her head until she called her friend waiting in the truck outside, to tell her to come inside. That was Stephanie Neiman.</p>
<p>Stephanie walked in, and she, too, was beaten until she relinquished the keys to her truck. All three victims were locked in the bedroom with Bornt&#8217;s infant child, while Lockett and Co. ransacked the home, pausing only to pull Hair out and gang-rape her. One of Lockett&#8217;s crew orally sodomized her, then vaginally raped her. Lockett raped her vaginally, anally and orally.</p>
<p>Lockett directed one of his conspirators to steal a shovel from Bornt, loaded them all up in Bornt and Neiman&#8217;s trucks and drove to a remote area. Lockett took Hair from one of the trucks and again raped her vaginally and orally. He returned her to the truck, where the third man forced her to perform oral sex on him.</p>
<p>(Let&#8217;s pause here to reflect on The New York Times&#8217; hysteria over <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_campus_rape.html">hazy date rape allegations</a> by drunk coeds on college campuses.)</p>
<p>Lockett demanded that his victims promise not to tell the police what he had done. Bornt and Hair promised, but Stephanie would not, so he yanked her out of the truck and directed one of his confederates to start digging a grave.</p>
<p>(He later told the police that he wanted to kill all three adult victims so that his parole officer wouldn&#8217;t find out he had left the county.)</p>
<p>Stephanie stood by the grave being dug for her for 20 minutes. Lockett shot her, but his gun jammed. So he walked back to the truck to fix it, listening to Stephanie cry, &#8220;Oh God! Please! Please!&#8221; The three men laughed at her.</p>
<p>Then he returned and shot her again. But Stephanie was still breathing &#8212; so Lockett told the others to bury her anyway. She coughed as dirt was heaped on her face. She was buried alive.</p>
<p>Lockett warned Bornt and Hair that they&#8217;d be murdered, too, if they went to the police, then drove them back to Bornt&#8217;s house. Bornt and Hair reported the rapes, kidnapping and murder the next day. One of Lockett&#8217;s accomplices quickly confessed and brought the cops to Stephanie&#8217;s body.</p>
<p>These facts are not contested by Lockett, who, as he wrote in a letter from prison, &#8220;told that fool&#8221; &#8212; the district attorney &#8212; &#8220;I did shoot that bitch.&#8221;</p>
<p>All four adults who lived through the evening with Lockett &#8220;snitched&#8221; on him &#8212; his two co-conspirators, as well as the two victims. (For this, he strove mightily from prison to orchestrate hits on all four of them &#8212; letters that came in handy during his clemency appeal!)</p>
<p>A jury sentenced Lockett to death, but he lived for another 15 years after committing these savage crimes, during which time he was fed, housed and given medical treatment by the generous people of Oklahoma.</p>
<p>In addition to plotting hits against the four witnesses against him, while in prison, Lockett repeatedly threatened guards, was caught with homemade weapons, destroyed prison property, and threw feces and urine at officers bringing him food.</p>
<p>When called to account for his attack on one prison guard, he explained, &#8220;F-ck this kangaroo court, next time it will be a knife.&#8221; Four days later, he was caught with an 11-inch shank and 23-inch club in his cell.</p>
<p>Another time, when a homemade shiv was found on Lockett, he told the officer, &#8220;You know that I could have stuck this in your f-cking heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lockett was so violent that other prisoners refused to be housed in the same cell with him, even though they could be punished for their refusal.</p>
<p>In letters from prison, Lockett said that he planned to &#8220;put a bullet in&#8221; Bornt. He wrote to his aunt &#8212; the mother of one of his accomplices &#8212; warning her that his &#8220;homeboys&#8221; in prison are &#8220;waiting on him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lockett also planned to kill his ex-girlfriend, of whom he said, &#8220;She was gone&#8221; (going to) &#8220;get done real, real bad! And she still is. Her ass better get the fucc out of Perry&#8221; (Oklahoma) &#8220;cause my little brother coming down here from San Diego and niggaz think I was crazy then wait till cuzz get here! He already on the run from New Orleans for murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>New York Times editors may not have slept well after Lockett&#8217;s execution, but Bornt, Hair and about a dozen other specific individuals surely did.</p>
<p>In letters to the under-sheriff, Lockett bragged about his gang affiliations, his previous crimes and his intention to murder Bornt and Hair. &#8220;Cuzz Im a California Hoover Crip!&#8221; he says. &#8220;We don&#8217;t get down at all like these Hooverz from Oklahoma. Why you think so many niggaz beat cases out that way? Cause Im an assassin &#8212; point blank!&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the murderer whose recent execution has thrown liberals into deep despair.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York City poised to deliver millions of dollars to men of dubious innocence. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-central-park-five.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224071" alt="the-central-park-five" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-central-park-five-450x316.jpg" width="360" height="253" /></a>New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding a quick settlement of the lawsuit brought by the five men convicted of one of the most sickening crimes in the city&#8217;s history: the attack on the Central Park jogger in 1989. The plaintiffs are demanding $50 million apiece &#8212; for going to prison for a rape that they committed, as detailed in Chapter 13 of &#8220;Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Destroying America.&#8221; Abner Louima got $5.8 million for a shockingly brutal police assault on him, and he was just an innocent bystander.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Central Park Five,&#8221; as PBS documentarian Ken Burns has dubbed them, aren&#8217;t exactly Emmett Till (as Burns would have you believe). Even if they were innocent of the Central Park rape, which they aren&#8217;t, the reason they were originally arrested was that they were rampaging through the park, assaulting people.</p>
<p>Even after they began denying the rape, the defendants continued to admit committing these other attacks. How&#8217;d you like to be one of the people badly beaten in the park that night watching your tax dollars go to pay your assailants millions of dollars?</p>
<p>All those convictions &#8212; on the rape as well as the assaults &#8212; have been vacated because an aging district attorney wanted a glowing obituary in The New York Times.</p>
<p>In 2002, the ancient Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney, issued a report recommending that the convictions in the Central Park rape case be vacated. Justice Charles Tejada (Fordham Law 2009 Hispanic Heritage Award winner!) granted his request.</p>
<p>Liberals are opposed to rape in the abstract, but when it comes to actual rapists, they&#8217;re all for them.</p>
<p>The D.A.&#8217;s report was based solely on the confession of Matias Reyes, career criminal, serial rapist and murderer. Reyes had absolutely nothing to lose by confessing to the rape &#8212; the statute of limitations had run &#8212; and much to gain by claiming he acted alone: He got a favorable prison transfer and the admiration of his fellow inmates for smearing the police.</p>
<p>While dumping on the police for screwing up the investigation, Morgenthau wouldn&#8217;t let the cops interview Reyes themselves, even though his &#8220;confession&#8221; was the sole evidence that he raped and brutalized the jogger by himself.</p>
<p>Not only were the police prohibited from interviewing Reyes or giving him a polygraph, but Morgenthau ordered other inmates not to talk to any police investigators about their conversations with Reyes. First the D.A. slimed the cops, then he ran interference for a rapist-murderer.</p>
<p>New York journalist Nicholas Stix reports that <a href="http://vdare.com/articles/it-was-fun-robert-k-tanenbaum-vs-the-central-park-five-25-years-later">one inmate says Reyes</a> told him he heard the jogger&#8217;s screams and raped her only after the &#8220;Central Park Five&#8221; had finished with her.</p>
<p>The media proclaim those five rapists innocent based on their own over-excited reports that the DNA found on the jogger matched that of Reyes, but none of the others!</p>
<p>Yeah, we knew that. It was always known that semen on the jogger did not match any of the defendants. (&#8220;DNA Expert: No Semen Links to Defendants,&#8221; The Associated Press, July 14, 1990.)</p>
<p>Hallmark should have a greeting card: &#8220;Guess whose semen wasn&#8217;t found anywhere on the rape victim?&#8221; (Open card) &#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of you, son!&#8221;</p>
<p>Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer expressly reminded the jurors of the missing rapist in her summation to the jury: &#8220;Others who were not caught raped her and got away.&#8221; Now we know who &#8220;got away.&#8221;</p>
<p>DNA wasn&#8217;t the evidence that convicted the &#8220;Central Park Five.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to believe now, but in 1989 DNA was rarely used to convict anyone, so it wouldn&#8217;t have been carefully collected by police investigators. DNA identifications had only been invented a few years earlier and were not even permitted in New York courts until six months before the Central Park wilding.</p>
<p>This case was solved with old-fashioned police work. After the first 911 calls came in, the police arrested some of the thugs in the park that very night. Then they arrested those named as part of the wolf pack by the first detainees.</p>
<p>For example, one boy picked up in the park told the cops &#8212; without prompting &#8212; &#8220;I know who did the murder. I know who did the murder. I know where he lives and I&#8217;ll tell you his name.&#8221; He named one of the five convicted of the attack on the jogger, Antron McCray. (The night of the attack, no one expected the jogger to live.)</p>
<p>Of more than three dozen hoodlums brought in for questioning, only 10 were charged with any crimes, and only five of those were charged with raping the jogger. All those charged with the jogger&#8217;s rape gave detailed, corroborated, videotaped confessions, after full Miranda warnings, four of the five in the presence of an adult relative.</p>
<p>Recall that none of them &#8212; including the police &#8212; could have known whether the jogger would emerge from her coma and be able to identify her attackers. (She emerged, but blocked all memory of the attack.) All five confessed to assisting the attack on the jogger, but none to raping her themselves. That&#8217;s enough for a rape conviction.</p>
<p>In Antron McCray&#8217;s 34-minute videotaped statement, for example, he said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody started hitting her and stuff. She was on the ground, everybody stompin&#8217; and everything. &#8230; I grabbed one arm, some other kid grabbed one arm and we grabbed her legs and stuff. Then we all took turns getting on her, getting on top of her. &#8230; I just like, my penis wasn&#8217;t in her. I didn&#8217;t do nothing to her &#8230; I was just doing it so everybody &#8230; Everybody would just like, would know I did it.&#8221;</p>
<p>There was other incriminating evidence, all of which is currently being ignored by the media and PBS documentarians.</p>
<p>Melody Jackson, whose brother was friends with defendant Kharey Wise, testified &#8212; reluctantly &#8212; that she talked to Wise by phone when he was at Rikers Island and that he told her that he didn&#8217;t rape the jogger, he &#8220;only held her legs down while Kevin (Richardson) f&#8211;ked her.&#8221; She originally volunteered this information to the police thinking it would be helpful to Wise.</p>
<p>(The District Attorney&#8217;s report that recommended vacating the sentences described the above exchange as: &#8220;Wise replied that he had not had sex with her, but had only held and fondled the victim&#8217;s leg.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Other witnesses provided various corroborating details to the police, such as one who said Kevin Richardson told him, &#8220;We just raped somebody,&#8221; and another who heard Raymond Santana and another boy laughing about how &#8220;we made a woman bleed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Two witnesses independently told police they saw several of the defendants walking from the 102nd Street traverse area where the jogger was raped. One said he realized the significance of that fact only when he saw where the memorial to the jogger in the park was.</p>
<p>When Raymond Santana was being driven to the precinct the night of the wilding, he blurted out: &#8220;I had nothing to do with the rape. All I did was feel the woman&#8217;s tits.&#8221; Wait! Who said anything about rape? The cops had not asked him about any rape.</p>
<p>Two of the defendants, Santana and Richardson, independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger, something only the perpetrators could have done.</p>
<p>The evidence against Richardson also included his vivid description of the attack &#8212; given on videotape, in the presence of his father &#8212; and a deep scratch wound on his cheek that he admitted was from the jogger. Oh, also &#8212; the crotch of the underwear from the night of the attack was stained with semen, grass, dirt and debris.</p>
<p>Contrary to media reports, there was hair, blood or semen on all five of the defendants.</p>
<p>In the opposite of a rush to judgment, two multi-ethnic juries deliberated for 10 days and 11 days, respectively, before convicting the five defendants of rape or sexual abuse &#8212; as well as the other assaults that night, mysteriously vacated by Justice Tejada &#8212; and acquitting all but one on the most serious charge, attempted murder.</p>
<p>But now de Blasio wants to hold down our legs while the &#8220;Central Park Five&#8221; rape us, again.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FARMERS-2-articleLarge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222578" alt="FARMERS-2-articleLarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FARMERS-2-articleLarge-429x350.jpg" width="300" height="245" /></a>Last Sunday, The New York Times published a front-page article about the heartfelt need of California farmers for more illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The first tip-off that heinous public policy ideas were coming was that the Times introduced farmer Chuck Herrin, owner of a farm-labor contracting company, as a &#8220;lifelong Republican.&#8221; That&#8217;s Times-speak for &#8220;liberal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Herrin admitted that he employs a lot of illegal aliens and bitterly complained that they lived in fear of &#8220;Border Patrol and deportations.&#8221; (But, apparently, he doesn&#8217;t live in fear of admitting he&#8217;s violating our immigration laws.)</p>
<p>Sorry that running a country inconveniences you, Chuck.</p>
<p>He said his illegal alien employees deserved amnesty because if &#8220;we keep them here and not do anything for them once they get old, that&#8217;s really extortion.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the punch line goes, &#8220;What&#8217;s this &#8216;we,&#8217; paleface?&#8221;</p>
<p>Taxpayers have been subsidizing Chuck Herrin&#8217;s underpayment of his illegal labor force for decades, with skyrocketing taxes to pay for schools, roads, bridges, food stamps, health care and so on. Now Herrin thinks &#8220;we&#8221; are supposed to support his illegal employees in their old age, too.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another idea: How about a federal law mandating that employers of illegal aliens take responsibility for the people they hire? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for illegal aliens&#8217; food, housing and medical care, when Chuck Herrin got 100 percent of the profit from their cheap labor?</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t allow chemical companies to dump pollutants in rivers, walk away and then say, &#8220;If we dump chemicals in rivers and we don&#8217;t clean them once the plant is gone, that&#8217;s really criminal.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, you dumped the chemicals &#8212; not &#8220;we.&#8221; And you, Chuck Herrin, got the cheap labor &#8212; not &#8220;we.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8221; got hospital emergency rooms jammed with illegal aliens when we came in with heart attacks. &#8220;We&#8221; got the crime, drunk-driving and drug trafficking associated with illegal aliens. &#8220;We&#8221; got the overcrowded schools filled with kids whose illegal alien parents don&#8217;t pay property taxes. &#8220;We&#8221; got to press &#8220;one&#8221; for English.</p>
<p>This is even worse than the Wall Street bailouts &#8212; another example of fat cats pocketing 100 percent of the profits when business is good, but demanding a taxpayer handout when their investments go south. At least the Wall Street bailouts didn&#8217;t alter the country forever by giving the Democrats 30 million new voters.</p>
<p>According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/illegal-aliens-cost-california-hospitals-more-than-1-billion-annually">over $1 billion a year.</a>. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Last year alone, California taxpayers paid <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/05/3699529/fresno-co-aims-to-cut-health-care.html">$32 million for indigents&#8217; health care</a> at hospitals located in Fresno County&#8211; which happens to be where Chuck Herrin&#8217;s company is based. How about submitting a portion of that cost to Herrin?</p>
<p><i>Here&#8217;s your bill for $13 million.</i></p>
<p>What&#8217;s this for?</p>
<p><i>The county hospital. You&#8217;ve been paying your employees $20 an hour, and that&#8217;s just not enough to pay for their measles and tuberculosis treatments, not to mention delivery of their premature babies. No one&#8217;s saying it&#8217;s your fault, but it&#8217;s not the county hospital&#8217;s fault either.</i></p>
<p>Luckily, you&#8217;ve got deep pockets, Chuck &#8211; <a href="http://www.manta.com/c/mm7pxmy/sunrise-farm-labor">several hundred million dollars a year, we understand</a> &#8211; thanks in part to how little you pay your workers, who are burdening our local services.</p>
<p>Not only should employers of illegal aliens be responsible for their employees&#8217; becoming public charges, but they ought to be legally responsible for any crimes their illegal workers commit, just as parents can be for the crimes of their minor children, and bars can be for the behavior of their over-served customers.</p>
<p>Why should employers of illegal aliens be allowed to externalize their costs, while keeping 100 percent of the profits?</p>
<p>The very fact that the American taxpayer is required to subsidize illegal alien farm labor &#8212; to say nothing of anti-competitive marketing orders, tariffs and subsidies given to farmers &#8212; proves that we&#8217;re propping up an industry the country doesn&#8217;t need.</p>
<p>If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There&#8217;s absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call &#8220;competitive advantage.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Times quotes a report by two pro-amnesty farmers groups, Partnership for a New American Economy and the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, complaining that American consumption of foreign-grown produce has increased by 80 percent since the late 1990s.</p>
<p>I see why rich farmers are alarmed by that, but why should Americans care? If food can be grown cheaper in other countries, isn&#8217;t it the very essence of libertarian free trade principles to buy it from them?</p>
<p>No. Apparently, we&#8217;re required to wreck the country by bringing in millions upon millions more poor people so we can save the buggy whip industry.</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t do that with oil. We didn&#8217;t do it with steel. We must be &#8220;Fortress America&#8221; only when it comes to asparagus!</p>
<p>Hey! Where&#8217;s the Cato Institute on this? Busy drafting another philippic against our drug laws?</p>
<p>I care more about my fellow Americans who can&#8217;t get well-paying jobs than I do about multimillionaire farmers, demanding that the rest of us pay to support an industry that claims it can&#8217;t compete without taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien labor.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/obamacare_signup_rtr_328.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221992" alt="USA-HEALTHCARE/TECHNOLOGY" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/obamacare_signup_rtr_328.jpg" width="268" height="195" /></a>I&#8217;ve been thrown off my health insurance &#8212; THANKS, OBAMACARE! &#8212; and have spent hours and hours over the past month trying to figure out my options now that the Democrats have made my old plan, which I liked, &#8220;illegal.&#8221; (I prefer to think of my plan as &#8220;undocumented.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Whom do I bill for the hours of work Obamacare forced me to perform? How about you, Mickey? You&#8217;re the smartest living liberal (faint praise), and you assured us that Obamacare was going to be fantastic.</p>
<p>By now, Obama has issued &#8220;waivers&#8221; from Obamacare to about 99 percent of the country. (Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard, there&#8217;s a big midterm election this year.) As one of the few Americans not granted a waiver, I&#8217;m here to tell you: You have no idea what&#8217;s coming, America.</p>
<p>I thought I had figured out the best plan for me a month ago after having doctors and hospital administrators look at the packets of material I was sent by my old insurance company &#8212; the same mailing that informed me my old plan was &#8220;illegal&#8221; under Obamacare.</p>
<p>But when I checked online recently, I discovered the premier plan &#8212; the &#8220;platinum,&#8221; low-deductible, astronomically expensive plan that might be accepted by an English-speaking doctor who didn&#8217;t attend medical school in a Hawaiian shirt and board shorts &#8212; does not include treatment at any decent hospitals.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s sort of unfortunate because THAT&#8217;S THE ONLY REASON I WANT INSURANCE! That&#8217;s the only reason any sane homo sapien wants health insurance: to cover health care costs in the event of some catastrophic illness or accident &#8212; not to pay for Mickey Kaus&#8217; allergy appointments. But my only options under the blue-chip plan were hospitals that also do shoe repair.</p>
<p>I called Blue Cross directly to ask if its most expensive insurance plan covered the only hospital I&#8217;d ever go to in an emergency. Since that&#8217;s all I wanted to know, that&#8217;s what I asked. (I like to get to the point that way.)</p>
<p>But &#8212; as happens whenever you try to ascertain the most basic information about insurance under Obamacare &#8212; the Blue Cross representative began hammering me with a battery of questions about myself.</p>
<p>First my name. (Does that make a difference to what hospitals its plans cover?) Then my phone number. By the time he got to my address, I said, CAN YOU PLEASE JUST TELL ME IF ANY OF YOUR PLANS COVER XYZ HOSPITAL? I DON&#8217;T EVEN KNOW IF I WANT TO SIGN UP WITH YOU!</p>
<p>Finally, he admitted that Blue Cross&#8217; most expensive individual insurance plan does not cover treatment at the hospitals I named. Their doctors are &#8220;out of network&#8221; (and the person who designed this plan is &#8220;out of his mind&#8221;).</p>
<p>This was the rest of the conversation, verbatim:</p>
<p>ME: None of your plans cover out-of-network doctors?</p>
<p>BLUE CROSS: No.</p>
<p>ME: Why is it called &#8220;Premier Guided Access WITH OUT-OF-NETWORK PLAN&#8221;?</p>
<p>BLUE CROSS: Where did you see that?</p>
<p>ME: On Blue Cross&#8217; own material describing its plans.</p>
<p>BLUE CROSS: Oh. I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s called that.</p>
<p>ME: None of your plans cover (the good hospital)?</p>
<p>BLUE CROSS: No.</p>
<p>ME: I don&#8217;t know who you are, but I have a very specific set of skills that will help me find you. And when I find you, I am going to kill you. (Click.)</p>
<p>True conversation. Except the last sentence. That was my fantasy.</p>
<p>I decided to approach it from the opposite direction and called one of the nation&#8217;s leading hospitals to ask which plans it accepted. The woman listed a series of plans, but she couldn&#8217;t tell me if I was eligible for any of them. For that, she said, I&#8217;d have to go to the Obamacare website.</p>
<p>Does Obamacare cover suicide?</p>
<p>I went to &#8220;healthcare.gov&#8221; and &#8212; I guess I had heard this, but had blocked it from my memory like a rape victim unable to remember her attack &#8212; you can&#8217;t even peek at the available plans until you&#8217;ve given the government reams of personal information about yourself.</p>
<p>How about they let me look at the merchandise first?</p>
<p>Inasmuch as the cost of health insurance under Obamacare is so high that it will generally make more sense just to pay for your own catastrophic health emergencies, I was not interested in telling Kathleen Sebelius everything about me in order to have the privilege of glancing at the government&#8217;s crappy plans.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s the only choice. As the Obamacare website directs:</p>
<p>(1) Create an account. (Name, password.)</p>
<p>(2) Tell us about yourself and your family. (Every single thing.)</p>
<p>(3) Choose a health insurance plan. (That&#8217;s where you finally get to see the plans.)</p>
<p>I wonder if other consumer-oriented businesses will start demanding names, addresses, passwords and phone numbers before the customer is allowed to browse the merchandise. Maybe Williams-Sonoma could pick up a few sales tricks from Ezekiel Emanuel! Oh, you&#8217;d like to see the bronze muffin tin? Sure, but first I&#8217;ll need your Social Security number, date of birth and mother&#8217;s maiden name. Sign here, here and here.</p>
<p>The main point of the Obamacare website is to encourage people other than me to get a government subsidy. There&#8217;s also a section helping you register to vote. You just can&#8217;t see the insurance plans. (Guess which one you need a government ID for?)</p>
<p>With zero help from the Obamacare website, I eventually figured out that there was one lone insurance plan that would cover treatment at a reputable hospital. The downside is, no doctors take it.</p>
<p>So my only two health insurance options &#8212; and yours, too, as soon as the waivers expire, America! &#8212; are: (1) a plan that no doctors take; or (2) a plan that no hospitals take. You either pay for all your doctor visits and tests yourself, or you pay for your cancer treatment yourself. And you pay through the nose in either case.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not insurance! It&#8217;s a huge transfer of wealth from people who work for a living to those who don&#8217;t, accomplished by forcing the workers to buy insurance that&#8217;s not insurance. Obamacare has made actual health insurance &#8220;illegal.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not &#8220;insurance&#8221; when what I want to insure against isn&#8217;t covered, but paying for other people&#8217;s health care needs &#8212; defined broadly &#8212; is mandatory.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s as if you wanted to buy a car, so you paid for a Toyota &#8212; but then all you got was a 10-speed bike, with the rest of your purchase price going to buy cars, bikes and helmets for other people.</p>
<p>Or, more precisely, it would be like having the option of car insurance that covers either collisions or liability, but not both. Your car insurance premium would be gargantuan, because most of it would go to buy insurance, gas and air fresheners for other people in the plan.</p>
<p>If you have employer-provided health care, you may not have to make the 400 phone calls I had to, but the result will be the same: You&#8217;re not getting what is commonly known as &#8220;insurance.&#8221; You&#8217;re getting a massive bill to pay for other people&#8217;s chiropractors, marriage counselors, birth control pills, smoking cessation programs, &#8220;preventive care&#8221; appointments and pre-existing conditions.</p>
<p>Health insurance has been outlawed, replaced with a welfare program that has been renamed &#8220;insurance.&#8221;</p>
<p>When Matt Drudge decided he&#8217;d rather pay for his own health care, liberals hysterically denounced him for not buying an Obamacare transfer-the-wealth, fake &#8220;insurance&#8221; plan. It used to be shameful to be a public charge. Now it&#8217;s shameful to pay for yourself.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s shameful to work for yourself. The self-employed are currently the only Americans subjected to Obamacare. (In a way, it&#8217;s lucky for the Democrats that there aren&#8217;t enough of us to hurt them in this year&#8217;s midterm elections!)</p>
<p>But we&#8217;re the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. You may have an employer-provided plan now, but the waivers can&#8217;t go on forever. If you live in America, your health insurance is going to disappear, too.</p>
<p>The government simply cannot force all insurance companies to give subsidized health care to a third of the country, to ignore the pre-existing health conditions of its customers, to pay for every little thing tangentially related to health &#8212; like smoking cessation programs, marital counseling and pediatric dental care &#8212; and also expect them to cover your cancer treatment.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;ve been paying for insurance your whole adult life. That policy is now &#8220;illegal.&#8221; Put your hands in the air, nice and easy, and step away from the policy &#8230;</p>
<p>You 99-percenters still unaffected by Obamacare will blithely go to the polls this November and vote on some teeny-tiny issue, completely unaware of the total destruction of health insurance in America. The waivers have worked.</p>
<p>Now we&#8217;ll have to wait 40 years for a future Mickey Kaus to come along and expose the disastrous consequences of this horrendous government program, just like the real Mickey Kaus did with welfare. But for now, I say: Screw you, Mickey Kaus.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/012714_dobbs_rogers2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219842" alt="012714_dobbs_rogers2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/012714_dobbs_rogers2-407x350.jpg" width="285" height="245" /></a>Democrats believe they&#8217;ve hit on the perfect issue to distract from the horror of Obamacare in the 2014 elections: the minimum wage.</p>
<p>Apparently, increasing the minimum wage was not important for American workers during the first five years of Obama&#8217;s presidency &#8212; least of all his first two years, when Democrats controlled Congress and could have passed <i>anything.</i> (And did!)</p>
<p>No. The minimum wage did not become a pressing concern until an election year in which the public&#8217;s hatred of Obamacare is expected to be the central issue.</p>
<p>As The New York Times explained, Democrats see the minimum wage as an issue that &#8220;will place Republican candidates in a difficult position,&#8221; and also as a tool &#8220;to enlarge the electorate in a nonpresidential election, when turnout among minorities and youths typically drops off.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Unlike Republicans, Democrats consider it important to win elections.)</p>
<p>To most people, it seems as if the Democrats are giving workers something for nothing. But there are always tradeoffs. No serious economist denies that increasing the minimum wage will cost jobs. If it&#8217;s not worth paying someone $10 an hour to do something, the job will be eliminated &#8212; or it simply won&#8217;t be created.</p>
<p>The minimum wage is the perfect Democratic issue. It will screw the very people it claims to help, while making Democrats look like saviors of the working class, either by getting them a higher wage or providing them with generous government benefits when they lose their jobs because of the mandatory wage hike.</p>
<p>Of course, the reason American workers’ wages are so low in the first place is because of the Democrats&#8217; policies on immigration. Republicans might want to point that out.</p>
<p>Since the late 1960s, the Democrats have been dumping about a million low-skilled immigrants on the country every year, driving down wages, especially at the lower end of the spectrum.</p>
<p>According to Harvard economist George Borjas, our immigration policies have reduced American wages by $402 billion a year &#8212; while increasing profits for employers by $437 billion a year. (That&#8217;s minus what they have to pay to the government in taxes to support their out-of-work former employees. Of course, we&#8217;re all forced to share that tax burden.)</p>
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<p>Or, as the White House puts it on its website promoting an increase in the minimum wage, &#8220;Today, the real value of the minimum wage has fallen by nearly one-third since its peak in 1968.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why were wages so high until 1968? Because that&#8217;s when Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s 1965 Immigration Act kicked in, bringing in about a million immigrants a year, almost 90 percent of them unskilled workers from the Third World.</p>
<p>Our immigration policies massively redistribute wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest. It&#8217;s a basic law of economics that when the supply goes up, the price goes down. More workers means the price of their labor plummets.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, politicians spend a lot more time talking to rich employers than to working-class Americans. And the rich apparently have an insatiable appetite for cheap labor.</p>
<p>Having artificially created a glut of low-wage workers, now Democrats want to artificially raise their wages.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s win-win-win-win-win for Democrats.</p>
<p>&#8211; Employees who get a higher minimum wage are grateful to the Democrats.</p>
<p>&#8211; Employees who lose their jobs because of the minimum wage hike are grateful to the Democrats for generous government handouts.</p>
<p>&#8211; Poor immigrants who need government benefits are grateful to the Democrats.</p>
<p>&#8211; American businesses enjoying the deluge of cheap labor are grateful to the Democrats.</p>
<p>&#8211; Democratic politicians guaranteed re-election by virtue of ethnic bloc voting are grateful to the Democrats.</p>
<p>Do Republicans have any principles at all? Why isn&#8217;t the GOP demanding an end to this dump of unskilled workers/Democratic voters on the country?</p>
<p>Democrats show how much they love the poor by importing a million more of them to America each year. But then they prevent the last batch of poor immigrants from getting decent, well-paying jobs by bringing in another million poor people the next year.</p>
<p>You want a higher minimum wage? Turn off the spigot of low-wage workers pouring in to the U.S. and it will rise on its own through the iron law of supply and demand.</p>
<p>In response to the Democrats&#8217; minimum wage proposal, Republicans should introduce a bill ending both legal and illegal immigration until the minimum wage rises naturally to $14 an hour.</p>
<p>Australia has a $15 minimum wage for adults &#8212; more than twice the U.S. minimum wage. Meanwhile, their official unemployment rate is lower than ours: 6 percent compared to 6.6 percent in the U.S. &#8212; and that&#8217;s with a lousy $7.25 minimum wage.</p>
<p>Sound good? Try immigrating there. Australia has some of the most restrictive immigration policies in the world. Their approach to immigration is to admit only people who will be good for Australia. (Weird!) Applicants are evaluated on a point system that gives preference to youth, English proficiency, education and skill level.</p>
<p>Similarly, New Zealand will soon have an official minimum wage of $14.25 for adults. Even our Democrats aren&#8217;t proposing that! New Zealand&#8217;s minimum wage hit $10.10 &#8212; the Democrats&#8217; current proposal for us &#8212; back in 2006. Their unemployment rate is also 6 percent &#8212; up from several years of 4 percent unemployment a few years ago.</p>
<p>Like Australia, New Zealand&#8217;s immigration laws are based on helping New Zealand, not on helping other countries get rid of their poor people, which is our policy.</p>
<p>Instead of training the citizenry to look at the government as our paternal benefactor, distributing minimum wage laws and unemployment benefits in important election years, why don&#8217;t Republicans put an end to the artificial glut of low-wage, low-skilled workers being imposed on the country by our immigration laws?</p>
<p>Republicans could guarantee a $14 minimum wage simply by closing the pipeline of more than 1 million poor immigrants coming in every year.</p>
<p>Businessmen will gripe, but maybe the GOP could explain to their Chamber of Commerce friends that they will help them by slashing oppressive regulations, reining in government bureaucracies, passing tort reform, etc. They&#8217;ll also be able to cut taxes because the welfare state will shrink, a result of Americans going back to work.</p>
<p>But if the plutocrats insist on admitting another 30 million Democratic voters in order to get ever-cheaper labor, then, soon, Republicans won&#8217;t be in a position to help them at all.</p>
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