Disrupting the Narrative of the New Left, its allies in Academia, Hollywood and the Establishment Media, and examining with honesty the goals of cultural Marxism and the dangers of reactionary and abusive political correctness.
THE NARRATIVE AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”-George Orwell
The State Department is beginning to sort through more than 55,000 pages of e-mails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary that she handed over late last year, sticking taxpayers with additional costs that could reach into the millions. It's an additional burden for her former department and another aspect of an e-mail fiasco her political opponents plan to highlight.
Clinton's office sent the e-mails to the State Department last December, a portion of the total in her possession, after printing them out and stacking them in boxes. The department largely sat on them until last week, when news broke that she had used a "homebrew" server rather than her government account to conduct her official business. Clinton tweeted last week that she wanted the State Department to release her e-mails, but she hasn't acknowledged what a huge job it will be for her former employees.
On March 5, Secretary of State John Kerry pledged that the department would work "as rapidly as possible" to go through all the new documents, redact any sensitive information, and then release them to the public. The department has since said that the effort will take several months.
Representative Mike Pompeo, a member of the House special committee on Benghazi that is subpoenaing Clinton's personal e-mails, told us that based on his committee's experience sorting through 44,000 other hard-copy paper documents provided by the State Department last year, the new effort could involve "hundreds and hundreds of man hours."
"I think the effort of reviewing these documents will greatly exceed a million bucks," said Pompeo. "The United States taxpayer is going to pay for that."
The State Department must have employees review every page to ensure that no sensitive or classified information will be released. Those redacted documents must then be scanned and compiled into a database searchable by the public.
If Clinton had used her departmental e-mail account -- as she insisted her employees do during her tenure -- the messages would already be in the government's electronic records management system and could be redacted and released as part of the regular Freedom of Information Act process, Pompeo said.
Nearly two years ago, John Brennan faced a confirmation hearing in the friendly, Democrat-controlled Senate, but not one entirely ready to rubber-stamp his nomination to become CIA Director after David Petraeus' abrupt departure. The Senate Intelligence Committee pressed Brennan for his views on Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques during his tenure as deputy CIA Director, to which he had previously given mild support. Brennan dutifully retreated from his previous position, claiming that a read of the panel's draft report had given him pause. "I don't know what the truth is," Brennan told the panel and said that he now questioned his previous briefings on the matter.
That should have given Brennan a wide opening to embrace the report from the panel's Democratic majority yesterday. Instead, Brennan reversed himself — again — and defended his agency, insisting that the information gathered from EITs stopped terrorist attacks and saved lives:
Now that he leads the CIA, Brennan has returned to his original conclusion: the truth is on his agency's side. In a statement responding to the public release of the report's official summary Tuesday, Brennan defended his agency — and the fruits of severe interrogation practices.
Enhanced interrogation techniques "did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives," Brennan said, citing an unreleased internal CIA review.
"The intelligence gained from the program," he added, "was critical to our understanding of al Qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day."
That steps on the message that Democrats wanted to send yesterday — that the Bush era had nothing to do with them, and that any intelligence wins on Barack Obama's watch were his alone. That's the entire point of this exercise, after all.Dianne Feinstein and her panel pushed the report out before the Republican majority that voters just elected could stop them from releasing their cherry-picked conclusions.
That's not just my opinion on the matter. It's also the opinion of Bob Kerrey, former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, a one-time presidential contender, and most importantly a member of the Senate Intelligence panel during the years in question. Kerrey took to the pages of USA Today to scold his former colleagues fortheir partisan and political attack on the CIA...
Much has been made of the fact that when losing Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) leaves office in January, Louisiana will not have a Democratic statewide elected official in office for the first time since the 1870s. The Republicans who occupy all of the Pelican State's high offices are in good company; Republicans now control every U.S. Senate seat, legislative chamber, and governor's mansion across the Deep South – from Texas to the Carolinas.
This condition is giving some Democrats, loyal to the party for whom the term "Solid South" was coined, indigestion. The best example of this phenomenon is an ill-considered paroxysm in the form of a think piece recently published by liberal columnist Michael Tomasky. In that post, the columnist compared the "reactionary, prejudice-infested" South to a vindictive veterinarian just dying to put down a sick and pitiable dog.
"And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become," he wrote.
The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, trans-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded… I could keep this list going. But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything that's good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole they're such nice people! (I truly mean that.)
With Landrieu's departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats don't need it anyway.
Tomasky proceeded to talk himself into the notion that Democrats can't write off the South entirely. He observed that they need Florida, and the "New Southern" states of Virginia (and occasionally North Carolina) to win the White House. Moreover, the rapidly growing state of Texas might at some point provide Democrats with a tantalizing target. "But that's presidential politics," Tomasky conceded. "At the congressional level, and from there on down, the Democrats should just forget about the place."
"It's lost. It's gone. A different country," he concluded. "And maybe someday it really should be."
Someone should have stopped Tomasky from penning this embarrassment, much less submitting it to his editor. The liberal columnist might have spared himself the mortifying scrutiny this screed is receiving today if he had simply committed to screaming into a pillow for an hour...
Seriously. Landrieu says that Obama was pushing single payer, and ACA was her way of stopping it.
Shameless.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) December 6, 2014
You know what would have thwarted Obama, Sen. Landrieu? Not being the 60th vote for ObamaCare.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) December 6, 2014
On WGSO 990-AM today, I interviewed Sen.Mary Landrieu, who did not like my fair questions. http://t.co/PS55GGZaMz
— Jeff Crouere (@jeffcrouere) December 5, 2014
I Loathe NRA org.
IS THERE NOTHING THEY DONT WANT 2 KILL! ELEPHANTS🐘
R THEY FUCKING KIDDING😤THEY WANT 2 BLOCK LAW
PROTECTING EXTINCT
🐘OMG
— Cher (@cher) December 6, 2014
The NRA cares nothing 4 the elephant 🐘who is close to extinction! They Only care
about IVORY on their fkng Guns ! Btw..
Haters..BRING IT !
— Cher (@cher) December 6, 2014
NRA LOBBYIST
#TONYMAKRIS SHOT ELEPHANT IN
FACE &LAUGHED😥
“SOMEBODY GOT A LITTLE CHEEKY THERE”His head should b mounted nxt 2
The Elephants
— Cher (@cher) December 6, 2014
very discouraging news. esp since Rolling Stone has remained vanguard of truly independent journalism with a strong nat'l reporting POV.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 5, 2014
The Daily Show apologized via twitter to California DA for getting the facts wrong about a police incident;promised on air apology Monday
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) December 6, 2014
That's not an apology. You messed up admit it and leave it there. You supported fanning hate not justice. @TheDailyShow@sbcountyda
— Michael Finkle ن (@theMblaze) December 6, 2014
@TheDailyShow@sbcountyda Once again the midget minded Lib paints all police with a broad brush instead of focusing on the real problem!
— Roger B (@RogerBiles) December 6, 2014
@TheDailyShow@sbcountyda If U dont rob & steal, attack police, obey the police then U will not be shot & killed. Talk about that Funny Man!
— Roger B (@RogerBiles) December 6, 2014
@TheDailyShow@sbcountyda The problem is not the police. The problem is disrespect for the police & libs like U fueling these ignorant thugs
— Roger B (@RogerBiles) December 6, 2014
@TheDailyShow@sbcountyda shows you don't even know what you're reading...u just read whatever your pajama boy writers give u
— Stephen Candie (@Stephen_Candie) December 6, 2014
What about the young men accused?
I have grown sons. Does writer have any idea what that does to falsely accused men http://t.co/VwSLyq8ia6
— Santa's Lil Helper (@APLMom) December 6, 2014
Another "for the greater good" piece that's astoundingly dangerous and short-sighted. Unreal. http://t.co/YuPEUlT0Dl
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) December 6, 2014
Never mind that 'innocent until proven guilty' guff, all men are rapists until proven otherwise. Feminism is toxic. http://t.co/cI5BJHDxV8
— Jackart (@VeryBritishDude) December 6, 2014
Just saw the Shane Ray replay. Yeah, that's the right call. Cheap shot.
— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) December 6, 2014
How could you defend Shane Ray after that hit? Pathetic @CBSSports
— Justin Foulks (@jbfoulks) December 6, 2014
I'm sorry but that Shane Ray ejection was complete BS, penalty worthy yes but ejection... no way. These refs are getting excessive 😒
— Abigail Griffith (@A_Griff2) December 6, 2014
Shane Ray got kicked out because its Alabama, that's it. Plan and simple.
— Dylan Aaron (@DylanAaron52) December 6, 2014
Was that fool playing in a crop top? Ohio State...SMH.
— Beezy (@ambeezy10) December 7, 2014
Is #15 from Ohio State like a stripper or something? like please pull your jersey down
— Erin Stawicki (@erinstawicki) December 7, 2014
Who is this guy for Ohio State that wears his jersey like a crop top?
— Brenna O'Leary (@brenna17oleary) December 7, 2014
The running back for Ohio State looks like a douchebag with his belly shirt jersey shit
— Brandon Volk™ (@BrandonVolk23) December 7, 2014
1st play of the game & #OhioState is already irritating me
Tucking your jersey into your shoulder pads? Get real clown
#B1GChampionship
— Mackenzie J. Lucius (@TheRealLucius) December 7, 2014
Fellow white anarchists: I know smashy smashy is fun but we need to be intersectional in our action & think abt who will be blamed
— Evan Avery Birch (@brassiest) December 7, 2014
What is more important? Smashing a Starbucks window or stepping back and letting POC take the lead on this?
— Evan Avery Birch (@brassiest) December 7, 2014
I'm not a fan of the "white anarchist/communist infiltrators" line either BUT there are white radicals acting like fools, you know this
— Evan Avery Birch (@brassiest) December 7, 2014
Nothing from Orleans parish yet mind you, but this is total devastation. Think the elevator from The Shining.
— AoSHQ Decision Desk (@AoSHQDD) December 7, 2014
All I'm hearing in my headphones from other @AoSHQDD leaders on teleconference following Landrieu parish returns: "OH MY GOD...OH MY GOD."
— Jeff B@AoSHQ (@EsotericCD) December 7, 2014
We have serious ppl on AoSHQDD conference call. Nonpartisans who know voting history and are sober. Most frequent quote: "OH MY GOD."
— Jeff B@AoSHQ (@EsotericCD) December 7, 2014
Updated to reflect Landrieu loss: "Half of the Senators who voted for Obamacare won't be part of new Senate" http://t.co/IgzzK3sJN5
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) December 7, 2014
NRSC's Moran on Cassidy win: Voters sent a resounding message that they did not approve of the Obama Agenda or the dysfunction in Washington
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 7, 2014
