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The Biden Baseball League
The sports league sides with Democrats on Georgia’s voting law.
Truist Park in Atlanta on March 29
Photo: erik s lesser/Shutterstock
The MLB excuse is that Georgia’s elected Legislature passed, and Gov. Brian Kemp signed, an election reform law that leaves the state with more opportunities to vote than Delaware and New York. Better not play any games in Yankee Stadium. But Democrats have decided to portray the Georgia law as a “voter suppression” bill, and “ Jim Crow 2.0,” as part of their political strategy to pass their own radical voting reform in Washington that would overturn 50 state election laws.
Note how America’s elites have quickly fallen in line. First the media picked up the Democratic theme and distorted the truth about the law. As CNN put it, the new law “introduces new impediments to voting, reducing the number of drop boxes in heavily African-American areas.” But drop boxes were allowed in Georgia only as a temporary measure during the pandemic. The new law allows more drop boxes than Georgia had in 2019, which was zero.
Next came the fleet of CEOs intimidated by political threats. Now comes MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who said in a statement that “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.” He thus puts a high-minded but distorted patina on a decision to take a side in a partisan debate over the balance between the important values of ballot access and ballot integrity.
In the process the league has smeared Georgia’s elected majority as racist and anti-democratic. It has done economic harm to the state, though we suppose Mr. Manfred will have a new friend in the White House. Mr. Biden gives the order, and Mr. Manfred salutes. Welcome to the Democratic Baseball League.
Mr. Biden’s lobbying of MLB, and Mr. Manfred’s acquiescence, is every bit as politically divisive as Donald Trump’s stigmatizing of athletes for taking a knee during the national anthem. It furthers the destructive progressive desire to politicize everything. So much for healing and uniting the country.
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Let's hear from the Western Trojan Horse equivalent of Stacey Abrams.
Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to ‘Dismantle Capitalism’
By Alex Nester
-(Free Beacon)
Headlining a diversity and inclusion webinar hosted by an elite California K-12 preparatory school on Wednesday, Marxist Angela Davis called on students at the $47,300 a year prep school to “dismantle capitalism.”
Davis, a militant black power activist and former Communist Party member, headlined the final session of the Head-Royce School’s 2021 CommunityEd series.
“Ultimately I think we’re going to have to dismantle capitalism if we really want to move in a progressive direction, if we want our children and children’s children and their children to begin to move along a trajectory that is described by freedom,” she said.
Davis has long been accused of anti-Semitism, beginning with her support for the Soviet Union’s oppression of Jewish dissidents. She also backs the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
Head-Royce spokeswoman Jennifer Beeson told the Washington Free Beacon that the school considered Davis’s record before inviting her to speak, but ultimately felt that the lecture would be a good venue for students “to focus on her activism.”
“There’s kind of a complex and layered history that she has,” Beeson said. “We viewed this as a teachable moment for students interested in activism, which is a core to being in our community.”
Davis landed on the FBI’s most wanted list for her involvement in an attempted courtroom takeover in 1970. Guns she purchased were used in a plot to free three murder suspects from the Marin County Civic Center in California, which left four people dead. Davis spent 18 months in jail and faced three felony charges for providing the weapons used in the attack, but was acquitted in 1972.
Davis went on to receive the Soviet Union’s International Lenin Peace Prize in 1979 and praised “glorious” dictator Vladimir Lenin and his “great” Bolshevik Revolution, which ushered in a century of communism and left an estimated 100 million people dead.
At Wednesday’s event, Davis spoke on subjects ranging from the coronavirus pandemic to the Black Lives Matter movement. She urged students to develop an international focus and “struggle against” the notion that the United States is the best country in the world.
“Of course it’s the United States that claims to represent America, and I think that we have to struggle against this notion that this is the best country in the world, that we are always the ones to give leadership even when we’re talking about social justice struggles,” she said. “We have to take internationalism into consideration.”
She also blamed American businesses for making life “unlivable” for immigrants in their home countries, driving them to seek shelter in the United States and subsequently imprisoning them.
“The detention of immigrants is the most profitable sector of the private prison industry and this is much connected to struggles against the prison industrial complex,” Davis said. “And the fact that we have mass incarceration driven by racism is a product of capitalism.”
Davis ensured students that she was aware of the carbon footprint she’s left on the world through her extensive traveling through the Soviet bloc and beyond. That footprint, Davis told the students, is entangled in the “heteropatriarchy.”
“This is the first time I have not been on a plane for an entire year since I was a young child. I also have to say parenthetically that my carbon footprint isn’t what it should be, and I’m aware of that,” Davis said. “I’m aware of the connections of struggles against climate change, for environmental justice, our struggles against racism and heteropatriarchy and capitalist exploitation.”
Decades of activism, Davis told students, taught her that there are always new social justice battles to fight, including the fight for black transgender women, a community that is “subject to more forms of violence” than any other, Davis said.
“We think of freedom as an endpoint. But I don’t think there is an endpoint. Freedom is an infinite struggle. There’s always more work to do,” Davis said.
More than 1,000 Head-Royce students and community members viewed the webinar, according to Head of School Crystal Land. Head-Royce director of diversity and inclusion Johara Tucker moderated the discussion.
Tuition at Head-Royce starts at $33,100 for kindergarten through fifth grade. Head-Royce charges $37,200 for middle school and $47,300 for high school.
Davis frequently speaks at colleges and universities across the United States. Yale University selected Davis to speak at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event last year. Butler University this week canceled an event where the controversial figure was expected to speak after facing pressure from Jewish students.
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At this crucial time in Israel's history, personally speaking, I would hate to see BIBI give up a leadership role for a ceremonial one. No human is indispensable but his stature, his contacts and what he has accomplished for Israel has never been adequately appreciated because, like Trump, he has a prickly personality and stands head and shoulders above his opponents. Israeli politicians seems to be among the world's most self-centered.
Netanyahu as president supported by Knesset majority - Likud source
PM’s departure could allow new party leader to build stable 73-MK coalition.
A majority of the MKs who will be sworn in to the Knesset on Tuesday would vote for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be Israel’s next president, a senior Likud source close to Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
By law, the election for president must be held between April 9 and June 9, before President Reuven Rivlin’s seven-year term expires on July 9. The politician closest to Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, will set the date for the vote in the Knesset, which must be held at least three weeks after the date is announced.
“I know for a fact that most of the MKs would vote for him if he decides he wants to be president,” the senior Likud source said. “It’s all in Netanyahu’s hands.”
The source revealed that there is also a majority in the new Knesset to change the law and switch the vote from a secret ballot to an open one, which could significantly increase the chances of Netanyahu’s election.
It would also help Netanyahu’s election chances because leaving the Prime Minister’s Residence on Balfour Street for the President’s Residence three blocks away could help end the two-and-a-half-year political stalemate.
If Netanyahu is no longer leader of the Likud, the party would hold a snap primary among its members, and whoever wins could easily form a stable, center-right coalition comprised of the 73 MKs of Likud, Shas, Blue and White, United Torah Judaism, Yamina, New Hope and the Religious Zionist Party.
New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar has vowed to never sit under Netanyahu. But last week he said he would join a government led by a new Likud leader, singling out Finance Minister Israel Katz, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and MK Nir Barkat, who would all be candidates for Likud leader in the post-Netanyahu era.
One complication that could prevent Netanyahu from running is that it is legally unclear whether the law preventing a president from being prosecuted would apply to a new president who is already under indictment and on trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
A spokesman for Netanyahu said he could not confirm a Channel 12 report that the prime minister had checked the law with legal experts or a separate report by the same channel that he was no longer ruling out a run for president as he did before.
Hebrew news site Walla News, which is part of the Jerusalem Post Group, was the first to report that Netanyahu is considering seeking the presidency.
Another technical possibility is that Levin could refuse to initiate the race for president. When Rivlin’s term ends, it would be up to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit to determine whether Levin would then become acting president.
When Knesset speaker Dalia Itzik served as acting president after then-president Moshe Katsav suspended himself to deal with rape charges, Itzik pardoned hundreds of people, including former MK Nomi Blumenthal.
Blumenthal had been convicted of election bribery and obstruction of justice for paying for hotel rooms for Likud Central Committee members before elections for the party’s Knesset slate and then trying to cover it up.
Levin could pardon Netanyahu if a plea agreement takes place before then in which the Likud leader is convicted on criminal charges.
If Netanyahu is elected president, he would join Shimon Peres as the only two leaders to have served as both prime minister and president.
Other candidates are expected to include former Labor Party ministers Isaac Herzog, Amir Peretz and Shimon Sheetrit, Likud MK Yehudah Glick and perhaps Israel Prize-winning educator Miriam Peretz and singer Yehoram Gaon.
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IAF receives the 'Oron' advanced intelligence jet
The jet was designed and planned as part of lessons learned in Israel’s past wars and operations.
The Israel Air Force received on Sunday the Oron advanced intelligence jet at the Nevatim Air Base in Southern Israel.
The IDF said in a statement that the jet was developed by the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Research and Development, the IAF, the IDF Intelligence Directorate, the Navy and Israel Aerospace Industries. It said that it was designed and planned as part of lessons learned in Israel’s past wars and operations.
The statement said that it will be equipped with an automatic learning system that is based on an advanced algorithm and AI, and will allow the different branches of the IDF to persevere and deepen its intelligence superiority.
The Oron is based on the platform of the Gulfstream G550 business jet aircraft, which has outstanding flight performance and low maintenance costs, the statement said. The plane will also be equipped with advanced IAI radar and intelligence systems. These will provide the IDF with advanced intelligence abilities in the areas of visual coverage in real-time and in any weather and visibility conditions.
The plane will allow creating a real-time comprehensive intelligence image, which includes the deployment of enemy ground forces – in closer and further circles – both in day-to-day routine and in wartime.
The Nachshon 122nd Squadron will operate the new jet. The squadron also operates the Shavit and the Eitam jets, which are also used for intelligence purposes.
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Where is John Galt and , by the way, where is Durham?
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