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Semper Fi: https://youtu.be/KSEwux-nmPw
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Judicial Watch report regarding funding by tax payers of Soros' Foundations. This is a must read. Talk about a swamp! (See 1 below.)
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At some point, possibly sooner than later, Israel may be forced to strike Lebanon and Bibi is discussing same with Pompeo. (See 2 and 2a below.)
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No sooner had I written about campus speech in a previous memo, I ran across this. Intimidation is the enemy of free speech, the exchange of ideas, thought provoking interaction. Colleges and universities no longer welcome ideas. They are institutions devoted to stifling and intimidation. This is the weapon of choice of the progressive radical left. (See 3 below.)
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More left wing efforts to attribute terrorist acts to right wingers and it just does not hold statistical water. (See 3a below.)
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Leaving for a wedding tomorrow in Sarasota and returning late Sunday. Have a nice weekend. This is last memo for a while.
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1) JW Special Report: Government Funding of Soros Foundations
 On Thursday, black pro-life activist Ryan Bomberger shot back after the leadership of the Wheaton College student body condemned a speech he gave as threatening to people of color. In the speech, he decried the "black genocide" of abortion and criticized Black Lives Matter for teaming up with Planned Parenthood. About a week after the event, the student leaders sent an email to the entire student body, denouncing it.
"The speaker of this event, Ryan Bomberger, made several comments at the event that
deeply troubled members of our community," the students wrote. "His comments, surrounding
the topic of race, made many students, staff, and faculty of color feel unheard,
underrepresented, and unsafe on our campus."
In his official response, Bomberger suggested this attack constituted slander and said he was
considering legal action. He directly addressed the three authors of the email — Lauren
Rowley, student body president; Tyler Waaler, student body vice president; and Sammie
Shields, executive vice president of community diversity.
"I am a person of color, a clarifying fact which you conveniently left out of your letter of denouncement. I was primarily presenting a perspective of those who are never heard, always underrepresented, and are actually unsafe — the unborn," he declared.
"For anyone—student, faculty, or staff— to claim that they were 'unheard' or '
underrepresented' obviously didn't stay for the 25 minutes of Q&A that followed or the
additional 30 minutes that I stayed and responded to more thoughtful questions as well as
some baseless (and even hostile) accusations," Bomberger added. "For anyone to claim
they felt 'unsafe' by anything that I said is unfortunate and simply hyperbole." "Are students
at Wheaton taught to fear or taught to think?" the black pro-life activist quipped.
The student leaders' claims seem particularly laughable considering the facts that
Bomberger's entire presentation is publicly available via Facebook video and that he began
his discussion with an attack on "factophobia." He lamented, "When you're speaking facts or
speaking truth, you'll be called a hater." That claim now seems rather prophetic.
Furthermore, the speaker focused on the fact that many abortion clinics specifically target black women for abortion — a trend confirmed by billboards in Dallas this August and Cleveland this past January, not to mention the disgusting history of the eugenics movement.
Yet Bomberger addressed these emotionally charged issues with nuance. He recalled that
Steve Ivester, the dean of student engagement at Wheaton, "came up to me after the event
and praised me for the way in which I approached such heavy issues." Indeed, this praise
seems natural, as Wheaton is a Christian college with a clear pro-life stance.
As LifeSiteNews's Dorothy Cummings McLean rightly noted, Wheaton joined many other Christian colleges in suing the Obama administration over the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraception mandate under Obamacare. Like so many other institutions, Wheaton objected to the government's order that it must provide abortion-inducing drugs in employee healthcare plans. In February 2018, a federal judge ruled in Wheaton's favor. 3a) There Is No ‘Surge’ in Right-WingViolenceA Washington Post “analysis” of domestic terrorism argues that attacks from white supremacists and other “far-right attackers” have been on the rise since Barack Obama’s presidency and “surged since President Trump took office.”
It’s a familiar story line meant to assure liberals that yes, Trump-motivated right-wing terrorists are running wild. There are, however, a few problems with this proposition.
For one thing, even if we accept the numbers the Post offers, the use of the word “surge”—meaning a sudden, powerful forward or upward movement—strains credibility. There’s no evidence of a “surge,” either in historical context or as a matter of ideological preference.
That is to say, we have good reason not to accept the numbers.
According to The Washington Post, which relies on Global Terrorism Database data, there were zero acts of right-wing terrorism in the entire nation in 2002. Since then, we have seen a “surge,” to 36 in a nation of 325-plus million people in 2017. Among those acts, there were 11 fatalities.
In other words, fewer homicides were committed by political terrorists of any stripe in the United States in 2017 than were committed by undocumented immigrants in the state of Texas alone—which, I am assured, is an incredibly low number that shouldn’t worry us very much.
If one of these “surges” is scaremongering, why not the other?
Then again, even if we use the criteria offered by the Global Terrorism Database, we need to be exceptionally generous to even get to 36 incidents of right-wing violence in 2017. (I could find only 32.)
For example, although the Post acknowledges that the Las Vegas shooter’s motivations are still unknown, the Global Terrorism Database had no problem categorizing the murderer of 58 people as an “anti-government extremist.” And it takes these sorts of assumptions to get in the vicinity of a “surge” in right-wing terrorism.
Of the 32 incidents I was able to find, 12 featured perpetrators who were merely “suspected” of being right-wing terrorists. Some of these incidents could have been the work of one person, as in the pellet gun shootings of Muslims in New York. In other incidents, we are asked to treat patently insane people as if they had coherent political agendas.
Still other events are even more opaque. In San Juan, Puerto Rico—apparently a hotbed of white supremacy—an incendiary device was thrown into a gay nightclub. No one was injured, thank goodness. Also, no one was caught, and no one claimed responsibility for the act. Yet the episode doesn’t even earn a “suspected” designation from the Global Terrorism Database.
If the definition of domestic terrorism is muddy at best, the definition of right-wing terrorism is often arbitrary and self-serving.
To help bolster right-wing terrorist stats, for instance, we would have to perfunctorily include every anti-Semitic act. The Washington Post even mentions an Anti-Defamation League study showing “a 57 percent surge in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017.”
If anything, the Anti-Defamation League study should be cautionary, as it demonstrates how difficult it is to not only quantify these incidents but also categorize them ideologically. The Anti-Defamation League’s faulty data were self-reported, for instance, and most of the “surge” can be attributed to a single Jewish teen in Israel calling in a number of bomb threats to Jewish centers.
In the real world, a Jewish American is probably likelier to encounter anti-Semitism at a college campus than anywhere else.
Then there is the matter of inconsistently defining terrorism. If throwing a rock through the window of an Islamic center is an act of right-wing terrorism, why isn’t it an act of left-wing terrorism for anti-capitalists to throw rocks through the window of a business in Oregon?
Surely, both fall under the description of terror, which the Global Terrorism Database defines as “the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor seeking to attain a political, economic, religious or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation.”
As far as I can tell, only one of these genres actually makes the cut for the Global Terrorism Database .
This is what happens when reporters work backward from a predetermined premise.
You’ll notice, as well, that these analyses typically begin in 2002, seeing as the 2,977 Americans murdered on 9/11 are inconvenient to the white-supremacy-is-more-dangerous-than-radical-Islam narrative. The reason we don’t have a real-life “surge” of attacks by Islamic extremists since 2001, incidentally, is that the United States has spent billions yearly to stop it.
Of course, political violence isn’t the monopoly of any one group. Although there have been flare-ups of leftist violence in the 1900s and the 1960s and ’70s, for the most part, this kind of violence is still rare.
That could change. And none of this is to say horrible events aren’t happening. Nor is it to say that haters don’t exist.
But exaggerating the problem for political reasons doesn’t help anyone. Covering your partisan work with a bogus veneer of scientific analysis doesn’t make it any more useful.
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