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Financial Times: Washington Regrets the Shinzo Abe It Wished For
Since 1950s, the US has been demanding the kind of Japan that Prime Minister Abe is now advocating, says Financial Times.
Why is the US complaining, then? Buyer's remorse?
The subtitle "The US fears that Japan's departure from postwar pacifism will provoke Beijing" almost reads like what Special Advisor to Prime Minister Seiichi Eto said in his Youtube video which was then taken down by the request from Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga the other day.
From Financial Times (2/19/2014; emphasis is mine):
Washington regrets the Shinzo Abe it wished for
The US fears that Japan's departure from postwar pacifism will provoke Beijing
By David Pilling
It is fairly easy to assess the relationship between Shinzo Abe's Japan and Xi Jinping's China. Neither likes the other very much. Both are using nationalism as a prop to further policy aims. Both conceivably find it useful to have a "tough man" on the other side, the better to push against.
Less easy to calibrate is the state of relations between Japan and the US. This ought to be far easier to decipher. Japan is, after all, the US's most important ally in Asia, the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" that has hosted US fighter aircraft and troops since the end of the second world war. Now, in Mr Abe, it has a leader who, after decades of American prodding, is finally willing to adopt a more robust defence posture and revisit the "freeloader" defence doctrine that pacifist Japan has long embraced. Yet having attained what it has long been after, Washington is showing signs it is getting cold feet.
One sign of that was its expression of "disappointment" after the December visit of Mr Abe to Yasukuni shrine, which is regarded as a symbol of Japan's unrepentant militarism by China and South Korea. In the past, Washington has privately voiced its displeasure at Yasukuni visits, but has not publicly reprimanded Japan. Tokyo was taken aback by the use of the word "disappointed" – translated as shitsubo – which sounds harsh in Japanese.
There have been other signs of strain. US politicians have voiced concern at Mr Abe's view of history. Virginia lawmakers ruled that school textbooks should also use the Korean name – East Sea – for the Sea of Japan. Washington is concerned that, under Mr Abe, Tokyo's relations have also soured with Seoul, another important US ally.
From Japan's perspective, Washington did not back it up with sufficient vigour when Tokyo's control of disputed islands was cleverly challenged by Beijing's announcement of an air defence identification zone. Washington did show its displeasure by flying B52 bombers over the zone, but Joe Biden, US vice-president, did not make a big deal of the issue when he visited Beijing.
Many officials in Tokyo regard Washington as having virtually capitulated to China's unilateral move. They also regularly bemoan the absence of "Japan hands" around President Barack Obama, who has tended to surround himself with people far more steeped in China. More than one official in Tokyo speaks of a growing sense that Washington can no longer be relied upon to support Japan.
There is an irony to all of this that will not be lost on Mr Abe. Ever since 1950, Washington has been urging Japan to rearm and to adopt the sort of defence posture Japan's prime minister is now advocating. No sooner was the ink dry on the 1947 pacifist constitution, written under the orders of General Douglas MacArthur, than the Americans regretted forcing Japan to forever renounce "the right of belligerency". John Foster Dulles, appointed to negotiate the end of the US occupation, urged Japan to build an army of 300,000 to 350,000 men. China had gone communist and the US was fighting a war in Korea. It no longer suited the US to have a neutered "client state" in east Asia.
For years Japan resisted that pressure. Tokyo relied on the US nuclear umbrella and got on with the business of business. Its only concession was to form a Self Defence Force that was forbidden from fighting. Now, six decades later, Japan has a leader willing to take the US at its word. Mr Abe has the personal conviction, as well as the geopolitical pretext, to revamp Japan's interpretation of its constitution or even to overturn pacifist article nine itself.
Now the moment has come, though, some in Washington are having second thoughts. John Kerry, secretary of state, according to one former White House official, regards Japan as "unpredictable and dangerous". There is nervousness that Japanese nationalism will provoke a counter-reaction in Beijing. Hugh White, an Australian academic and former defence official, says the meaning is clear: "America would rather see Japan's interests sacrificed than risk a confrontation with China."
When Mr Abe went to Yasukuni, he may have partly been sending a message to Washington. It is a curiosity of the Japanese right that it has been the most ardent supporter of the US-Japan alliance while simultaneously being resentful of the postwar settlement imposed by Washington on a defeated Japan. Going to Yasukuni in defiance of US wishes is one way of signalling that Japan cannot always be relied upon to do Washington's bidding.
Distaste in Washington for Mr Abe is by no means universal. In some ways, the Japanese prime minister is exactly what the US doctor ordered. He has a plan to reflate Japan's economy. He is the first leader in years with any hope of solving the festering issue of US marine bases in Okinawa. He is willing to spend more on defence after years of a self-imposed limit of 1 per cent of output. Those policies, however, come with a price tag: a revisionist nationalism that many in Washington find distasteful.
"As China grows, Japan has more and more reason to be anxious about China's power, and less and less confidence in America's willingness to protect it," Mr White says. The US, he argues, must either commit itself unambiguously to defend Japan's core interests or help Japan regain the "strategic independence it surrendered after 1945". Japan's answer to that dilemma is to hold on ever tighter to America – and to pull away.
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"a price tag: a revisionist nationalism"
A more immature response could not be provided, almost [?] a rival to North Korea's Kim. Bankrupt.
To add to the above,
Valiant Abe, musing to himself on the "war heroes" of the 2nd world war, pledges to commit an even greater error than his "heroes" did in flinging themselves against a much larger economy.
This time he wants 2, both with "Big Ears".
Big Eared Tu Does Regional Conflicts
A Fantasy of AntiCommunism
It just seems absurd that Japan, the world leader in aging, would seek confrontation with China, home of the self induced demographic collapse.
I get the image of two communities fighting from their wheelchairs.
A relevant image, netudiant.
There is some sort of affliction where the geriatric emotionally regress as they grow older?
It may be their commentary on having to relate to 'outside' powers ..as if anyone thinks the Japanese don't view the rise of China's economy as engineered ..
.. Which of course is all well good and expected, but hopefully the expectation that 'leaders' would be required to rise above such adolescent affect will not be trounced. Signs are not promising for that not to happen, so 'leaders' become caricatures.

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From the Bennington Banner July 13, 1971
Mrs. RICHARD WILLIAMS
Mrs. Katherine (Landis) Williams, 52, wife of Richard Williams of Fairfield, Conn., summer residents of Manchester for several years died Monday at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City.
She was born in Logansport, Ind., a daughter of the late Indiana Congressman Frederick Landis and Bess (Baker) Landis. Mr. and Mrs. Williams owned their summer home in Manchester.
She was a graduate of Indiana University at Bloomington and during World War II had served in the WAVES. Mrs. Williams was a niece of the late Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of baseball and elected to the Hall of Fame.
She was a member of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Survivors besides her husband are one daughter, Oliven; one son, David, both of Fairfield; three brothers, Judge James M. Landis, U.S. Customs Court, New York City; Dr. Charles Landis of Milwaukee, Wis., and Dr. Lincoln Landis of Washington, D.C.; one sister, Mrs. Richard L. Cullen of Lake Forest, Ill.
The funeral will be conducted Thursday at 2 pm in the Manchester Congregational Church, with the pastor, the Rev. Jerome J. Hevey Jr., officiating. Interment will be in Dellwood Cemetery, Manchester.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society.
Brewster Funeral Home in Manchester Center is handling arrangements in Manchester.
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An atmospheric pressure argon glow discharge is shown to detect trace levels of carbohydrates in aqueous flowing systems, using either of two glow discharge solution interface configurations. The first configuration consists of an oscillating glow discharge sustained between a flowing aqueous cathode and platinum anode. Picomole and micromolar mass and concentration detection limits, respectively, are obtained for sucrose in an aqueous flow injection system when monitoring discharge oscillation frequency or discharge current. The second configuration consists of a non-oscillating glow discharge sustained between metallic electrodes near the flowing output of a high performance liquid chromatography system. A conductivity detector detects the acidic product formed when each carbohydrate elutes and is exposed to the glow discharge. This detector yields femtomole and nanomolar mass and concentration detection limits, respectively, for a variety of carbohydrates and competes with the best of the commercially available liquid chromatography carbohydrate detectors. An increase in the discharge electrode spacing or reduction in the liquid flow rate increases detector sensitivity, since the discharge area and solution exposure time are increased, respectively. The aqueous carbohydrate products formed from exposure to the glow discharge are similar to those formed from exposure to high energy radiation. Acid, hydrogen peroxide, and an absorbing species all form in amounts proportional to carbohydrate concentration and glow discharge exposure time, with yields approximating those encountered when using high energy radiation.


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Trying to wrap my head around a Full open, 100cc , ported, geared to turn approx 16500, open slippy pipe, not completely blowing away a fairly stock, 100cc reed jet with an IR2 pipe turning 13,800. What am I missing here?
What open engine are you running if it is a older engine they don't have ports that the reed jet engines do the open engines that I ran back in the yearly 90s was just starting of the new port design that they all use now that was a big improvement over the older port design.
Buddy, new H2o Vortex, new port design. BTW, I sure miss your dad! Keep in touch!!
set ups on the tracks were more speed for a long period of time was needed then I went went toward the torque set up.
TQ is for pulling stumps out of the ground.
The question is too complicated to answered completely, because we'd need to have both complete power curves just to start. But the short answer is, you want HP.
The fact is that TQ as a number, by itself, doesn't tell you much. What is 500 ft/lbs? It's a fat guy jumping up and down on the end of 1 foot wrench connected to a crankshaft. That's not going to win any races. You need more information than just TQ. The missing number is Time. How quickly can he jump up and down on the wrench? one time per minute… 1 RPM or 16,000 RPM?
That's what HP tells you. It's a number that takes both TQ and TIME into consideration, accounting for both and allowing you to decide which is better.
Motor B makes the same amount of TQ, but at an RPM that is 20% higher, 16.5K vs 13.8K. It also makes 20% more HP, and because it can rev 20% higher, it can run gearing that is 20% higher… which is where TQ really comes into play. NOT how much TQ the engine makes, but how much TQ actually makes it to the ground.
Imagine Motor B, it's generating the same 5 ft/lbs of TQ, but at 20% faster intervals AND running 20% higher gearing. Now, this is not an real world example (Motor A / Motor B) I don't know what levels of power they make at what RPM.
If Motor A is running a 10/82 gear, Motor B can run the SAME track with a 98.4/10!
Muscle cars pay a price for that low end grunt in engine weight. Its very difficult for a normally aspirated car to make lots of torque without forced induction, or more cubic engines. But adding RPM is almost free. Not increasing compression, not adding weight, just doing things faster!
In the 3.0L V10 days of F1 cars, they were revving to 19,000 RPM, making lets say 850 HP. If that 850 HP came at 19,000 RPM, then they were also making only 234 ft/lbs of TQ at 19,000 RPM. When they upshift, revs dropped maybe 2,000 RPM. That means the fastest circuit racing cars in the world were driving around producing TQ levels found in a mid-sized ford pickup. Engine TQ doesn't win races. Small, light weight, high revving engines win races.


Having read this I thought it was very informative. I appreciate you spending some time and effort to put this short article together. I once again find myself personally spending way too much time both reading and leaving comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!
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Why Skillz Stock Just Popped 8%
Citi loves this SPAC IPO.
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Shares of esports platform provider Skillz, Inc. (NYSE:SKLZ) are soaring in afternoon trading Monday, up 8.2% as of 2:20 p.m. EST.
You can thank Citigroup for that, because this morning, the megabank announced it is initiating coverage of recent SPAC IPO Skillz with a buy rating and a $27 price target.
Skillz's esports gaming platform, argues Citi in a note covered on TheFly.com this morning, is "unique" among gaming platforms and offers "compelling" economics and a "wide array" of ways to monetize it, while the company that owns it boasts a "pristine" balance sheet.
As the company adds users, says Citi, Skillz should be able to grow its top line at a 45% annual clip through at least 2023.
Now what
And that's just the base case for Citi's buy rating. According to the analyst, Skillz also has "five potential incremental growth drivers" that could enable it to grow even faster -- and make its stock worth even more. Those growth drivers are:
Adding additional game genres such as first-person shooters.
Attracting sponsorship to offer more brand-sponsored prizes.
Expanding gaming opportunities onto Android in the U.S.
Expanding internationally.
Selling ad space on the platform.
Although the analyst isn't relying on these to establish its initial price target, if any or all of them happen, Citi would say they justify an even richer valuation for the stock. For each and every one of these boxes Skillz manages to tick, Citi suggests investors add another "between $1 and $5 to our target price."
No wonder investors are excited!


A survey of the most dangerous driving offences has highlighted a worrying trend, that drivers still think using a mobile while at the wheel is not especially dangerous.
The results of a survey by car warranty firm Warrantywise asked motorists what they deemed the most dangerous driving offence. At the top was driving under influence, with 67 per cent of the votes.
Next up was ignoring traffic lights, with 10 per cent. Only in third place – with 9 per cent of votes – do we get to mobile devices, closely followed by 5 per cent who believed driving too fast is the most dangerous thing a driver can do.
Smoking/eating, driving too slowly and dangerous overtaking rounded out the bottom of the results, scoring a mere two per cent of the votes each.
"We are always interested to hear the views of motorists, but we are surprised that so few see the use of mobile phones while driving a serious problem," Warrantywise marketing manager Richard Hodges commented.
It is no surprise drugs and alcohol use while driving ranks at the top, but is it seven times more dangerous than being on the blower in a car? One survey would suggest it is, in fact, less dangerous.
Also of interest is the low score for driving too fast. 400 people die every year from speeding ─ 100 more than those are killed while driving under the influence. As for ignoring traffic lights, do people really do that (excluding emergency vehicles)?
The government has announced aggressive strategies to combat the 500 people killed or seriously injured every year in the UK, including doubling the number of penalty points awarded to those caught red-handed and the confiscation of a mobile device after a road accident.
Currently police can slap mobile phone offenders with a £100 fine and three penalty points. 12 points are all it takes for a driving ban.


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[VIDEO] Freedom 101
Posted: February 5, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 1960s, American exceptionalism, Barry Goldwater, Democratic Party (United States), Freedom, JFK, Liberty, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Republican Party, RFK, Ronald Reagan, United States, USA, video, White House | Leave a comment
A video crash-up covering the political landscape of the 1960's, featuring MLK, RFK, JFK, Malcom X, Ronald Reagan, and Barry Goldwater.
SCIENCE: Arc of the Moral Universe; Before and After Being Lectured by Barack Obama
Posted: January 12, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Global, Humor, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: arc of the moral universe, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, MLK, morality, Parody, Progressivism, propaganda, satire, science, Science fiction, Space Exploration, Universe | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Obama's 'Arc of Justice'
Posted: August 29, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Abuse of power, Arc of History, Barack Obama, Bible, Civil and political rights, David A. Graham, Jonah Goldberg, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxism, Moral Universe, Nobel Peace Prize, Progressivism, Socialism, Soviet Union, The Whig Interpretation of History | Leave a comment
"History is not a moral force in and of itself, and it has no set course."
— David A. Graham
'The phrase is utterly lacking in feck because it outsources the bulk of the punishment to an abstract future rather than the concrete here and now.'
— Jonah Goldberg
December 2015, David A. Graham writes:
"..Obama's own fresh contribution to the genre is his invocation of "the arc of history." It's his adaptation of an older phrase, "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice," which was popularized by Martin Luther King Jr. but coined (evidently) a century earlier by Theodore Parker. Obama has mentioned "the arc of history" a dozen times since his election.
"Forget that history doesn't tell such simple stories and you end up employing this seemingly inexorable progression as evidence that humanity will continue to improve inexorably in the future. Butterfield warned in particular about the temptation to read moral judgments into history, to assume the thrust of events was determined by or proved the validity of reality over alternative possibilities that had not come to pass."
The problem with this kind of thinking is that it imputes an agency to history that doesn't exist. Worse, it assumes that progress is unidirectional. But history is not a moral force in and of itself, and it has no set course. Presuming otherwise embraces the dangerous tendency that the great English historian Herbert Butterfield dissected in his 1931 essay, The Whig Interpretation of History. Butterfield was writing about the inclination among certain historians to see the Reformation as a unalloyedly positive force—a secularizing, liberalizing movement that led inexorably to liberal democracy in the 20th century. Butterfield objected that this wasn't at all how things worked. It was just a retrospective reading.
"The total result of this method is to impose a certain form upon the whole historical story, and to produce a scheme of general history which is bound to converge beautifully upon the present," he wrote. In fact, "the more we examine the way in which things happen, the more we are driven from the simple to the complex."
"The problem with this kind of thinking is that it imputes an agency to history that doesn't exist. Worse, it assumes that progress is unidirectional."
Viewing history from the standpoint of the present not only misrepresented the complexity of events, he wrote, but also risked framing history as a natural progression wherein humans improved over time, going from darker, less intelligent and moral times to an ever-improving present. Butterfield warned against that:
History is all things to all men. She is at the service of good causes and bad. In other words she is a harlot and a hireling, and for this reason she best serves those who suspect her most. Therefore, we must beware even of saying, "History says […]" or "History proves […]", as though she herself were the oracle; as though indeed history, once she spoken, had put the matter beyond the range of mere human inquiry. Rather we must say to ourselves: "She will lie to us till the very end of the last cross-examination."
Within a decade of The Whig Interpretation, World War II broke out, providing a visceral example of how the passage of time didn't necessarily result in progress. But the fallacy recurs occasionally, and Obama seems to have fallen into it. If history is on a trajectory toward perfection, it follows that there can be a right and a wrong side of history…(read more)
Source: The Atlantic
In March 2014, Jonah Goldberg writes:
"…The progression of history is scientifically knowable, quoth the Marxists, and so we need not listen to those who object to our program. Later, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and others would use this reasoning to justify murdering millions of inconvenient people. It was a "God is on our side" argument, minus God.
In fairness, I doubt Barack Obama and John Kerry have Marx or Hegel on the brain when they prattle on about the right and wrong sides of history. They more properly belong in what some call the "Whig school" of history, coined in 1931 by historian Herbert Butterfield. The Whiggish tendency in history says that the world progresses toward the inevitable victory of liberal democracy and social enlightenment. Again, I doubt Obama and Kerry have ever cracked the spine of Butterfield's book.
Still, this administration has used the "wrong side of history" phrase more than any I can remember. They particularly like to use it in foreign policy. In his first inaugural, Obama declared, "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." Ever since, whenever things haven't gone his way on the international scene — i.e., on days that end with a "y" — he or his spokespeople have wagged their fingers from the right side of history. Read the rest of this entry »
Is America is Due for a Revolution?
Posted: October 18, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Capitalism, Catholic Church, Che Guevara, Communist, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Free market, Global Panic, Havana, James Piereson, JFK, Jr., Lee Harvey Oswald, Manhattan Institute, Martin Luther King, Polarization, Pope, Revolution, Shattered Consensus | 1 Comment
Here's the good news: The chaos and upheaval we see all around us have historical precedents and yet America survived. The bad news: Everything likely will get worse before it gets better again.
Michael Goodwin writes: That's my chief takeaway from "Shattered Consensus," a meticulously argued analysis of the growing disorder. Author James Piereson persuasively makes the case there is an inevitable "revolution" coming because our politics, culture, education, economics and even philanthropy are so polarized that the country can no longer resolve its differences.
"How, Piereson wonders, was it possible that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara became heroes to the American left when it was a committed communist who killed the left's beloved Kennedy?"
To my knowledge, no current book makes more sense about the great unraveling we see in each day's headlines. Piereson captures and explains the alienation arising from the sense that something important in American life is ending, but that nothing better has emerged to replace it.
The impact is not restricted by our borders. Growing global conflict is related to America's failure to agree on how we should govern ourselves and relate to the world.
[Order James Piereson's book "Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order" from Amazon.com]
Piereson describes the endgame this way: "The problems will mount to a point of crisis where either they will be addressed through a 'fourth revolution' or the polity will begin to disintegrate for lack of fundamental agreement."
[Read the full text here, at New York Post]
He identifies two previous eras where a general consensus prevailed, and collapsed. Each lasted about as long as an individual's lifetime, was dominated by a single political party and ended dramatically.
"Piereson also deftly demolishes the myth of Camelot by recounting how a grieving first lady created the legend on a single weekend after the president's funeral…White and his editors resisted the grandiose and sentimental story line, but finally relented to the grieving widow. White later expressed regret for helping to create the Camelot myth."
First came the era that stretched from 1800 until slavery and sectionalism led to the Civil War. The second consensus, which he calls the capitalist-industrial era, lasted from the end of the Civil War until the Great Depression.
Author James Piereson
"That's not to say he's pessimistic — he thinks a new era could usher in dynamic growth, as happened after the previous eras finally reached general agreement on national norms. But first we must weather a crisis that may involve an economic and stock-market collapse, a terror attack, or simply a prolonged and bitter stalemate."
It is the third consensus, which grew out of the depression and World War II, which is now shattering. Because the nation is unable to solve economic stagnation, political dysfunction and the resulting public discontent, Piereson thinks the consensus "cannot be resurrected."
"The problems will mount to a point of crisis where either they will be addressed through a 'fourth revolution' or the polity will begin to disintegrate for lack of fundamental agreement."
That's not to say he's pessimistic — he thinks a new era could usher in dynamic growth, as happened after the previous eras finally reached general agreement on national norms. But first we must weather a crisis that may involve an economic and stock-market collapse, a terror attack, or simply a prolonged and bitter stalemate. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Black Church Choir in Birmingham Sings 'All Lives Matter' to Thousands at Restoring Unity Event
Posted: August 29, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Religion | Tags: Alabama, Alveda King, Beck, Birmingham, Chuck Norris, Glenn Beck, Guiding Light, Jim Bakker, Kelly Ingram Park, Martin Luther King | Leave a comment
The Guiding Light Church Choir in Birmingham, Alabama, sang "All Lives Matter" Friday at Glenn Beck's Restoring Unity Rally. Watch the Performance.
Source: TheBlaze.com
'Hate Won't Win': Thousands Unite on South Carolina Bridge #UnityChainCharleston
Posted: June 21, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Religion, U.S. News | Tags: ABC News, AFCA Coach of the Year, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Alabama, Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, Charleston SC, Emanuel AME Church (Mobile, Lexington, Martin Luther King, South Carolina | 1 Comment
Thousands of people are meeting up on Charleston's main bridge in a show of unity after nine black church parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study.
The crowds are planning on holding hands across the bridge around dusk. Part of the bridge is closed as people are walking, chatting and taking pictures.
he bridge has been taken over with LOVE!! #unitychainCharleston
When the marchers from the Mount Pleasant side and the Charleston side met on the bridge, there was clapping and singing of "This little light of mine."
"It feels great. There's so much love out here," said Juliett Marsh of Summerville, who was toward the front of the marchers who walked from the Mount Pleasant side…(read more)
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[VIDEO] Eric July's Principled Rant Goes Viral: 'White Liberals Fuel Racism!'
Posted: June 20, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Religion | Tags: African American, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Alabama, Black people, Charleston SC, Colorado, Emanuel AME Church (Mobile, Eric July, Facebook, Google, Martin Luther King, Police brutality, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Racism, South Carolina, White people, White privilege | 1 Comment
…He makes some great points about the liberal response, which makes it seem as if all white people approve of the evil acts in Charleston yesterday. They would rather divide us by blaming all white people rather than seeing how much true profound sorrow is found from all Americans, black and white, conservative and liberal…(read more)
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Video source: Self-described 'Indo-Creek/African American Libertarian' Eric July, from his Facebook post
Cameron McWhirter: To Quote Thomas Jefferson, 'I Never Actually Said That'
Posted: June 12, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Think Tank | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Azealia Banks, Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America, Boris Johnson, Cecilia Muñoz, Chuck Norris, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jr., Martin Luther King, Memorial Day, Michael Gambon, Nelson Mandela, Texas, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment
Librarian Tracks Sayings Misattributed to Founding Father; 'A Fine Spiced Pickle'
Cameron McWhirter writes: Thomas Jefferson once famously wrote, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
[Also see Aldous Huxley and the Mendacious Memes of the Internet Age at National Review Online, by Charles C.W. Cooke]
Or did he? Numerous social movements attribute the quote to him. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government and Politics" cites it in a discussion of American democracy. Actor Chuck Norris's 2010 treatise "Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America" uses it to urge conservatives to become more involved in politics. It is even on T-shirts and decals.
"On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
–Never said by Thomas Jefferson
Yet the founding father and third U.S. president never wrote it or said it, insists Anna Berkes, a 33-year-old research librarian at the Jefferson Library at Monticello, his grand estate just outside Charlottesville, Va. Nor does he have any connection to many of the "Jeffersonian" quotes that politicians on both sides of the aisle have slung back and forth in recent years, she says.
"Winston Churchill had so many sayings misattributed to him that one academic gave the phenomenon a name: 'Churchillian drift.'"
"People will see a quote and it appeals to an opinion that they have and if it has Jefferson's name attached to it that gives it more weight," she says. "He's constantly being invoked by people when they are making arguments about politics and actually all sorts of topics."
A spokeswoman for the Guide's publisher said it was looking into the quote. Mr. Norris's publicist didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. A website lists bogus quotes attributed to the founding father. Bloomberg News
To counter what she calls rampant misattribution, Ms. Berkes is fighting the Internet with the Internet. She has set up a "Spurious Quotations" page on the Monticello website listing bogus quotes attributed to the founding father, a prolific writer and rhetorician who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
"It's a hopeless task. You would need an army of secretaries to reply to all these tweets. Twitter and Facebook have made it worse, because people glom onto these things and pass it on and there it goes."
The fake quotes posted and dissected on Monticello.org include "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government." In detailed footnotes, Ms. Berkes says it resembles a line Jefferson wrote in an 1807 letter: "History, in general, only informs us what bad government is." But she can't find that exact quotation in any of his writings.
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Another that graces many epicurean websites: "On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar."
Jefferson never said that either, says Ms. Berkes. The earliest reference to the quote comes from a 1922 speech by a man extolling the benefits of pickles, she says.
"People will see a quote and it appeals to an opinion that they have and if it has Jefferson's name attached to it that gives it more weight. He's constantly being invoked by people when they are making arguments about politics and actually all sorts of topics."
Jefferson is a "flypaper figure," like Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill and baseball player and manager Yogi Berra—larger-than-life figures who have fake or misattributed quotes stick to them all the time, says Ralph Keyes, an author of books about quotes wrongly credited to famous or historical figures. Read the rest of this entry »
#BaltimoreRiots: Violence Breaks Out in Baltimore After Freddie Gray's Funeral
Posted: April 27, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968), Baltimore Protests, Baltimore Riots, Freddie Gray, funeral for Freddie Gray, Looting, Martin Luther King, Mondawmin Mall, news, Police, Tennessee, Violence, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment
Police officers injured in clashes; mayor imposes overnight curfew starting Tuesday evening
BALTIMORE— Scott Calvert and Kris Maher report: Violent confrontations between demonstrators and police broke out in this city for the second time in three days, hours after thousands of people attended Monday's funeral for Freddie Gray , a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody this month.
"Right now, we're seeing unprecedented violence throughout the city."
— Darryl DeSousa, chief of patrol for the city police department
Fifteen officers were injured and two were hospitalized, police officials said. Earlier Monday a police spokesman said the injuries included broken bones. One patrol car was attacked and at least one more engulfed in flames as looters ransacked stores. A CVS store was looted, then apparently set on fire. At least 27 people were arrested.
"It is so frustrating that people think that this makes sense, to destroy our community."
— Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
The altercations took place along several busy intersections near the Mondawmin Mall in northwest Baltimore, in a neighborhood near the church where the funeral was held. Demonstrators pelted lines of police in riot gear with rocks, bricks and other objects.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake hugs a member of the Gray family during Freddie Gray's funeral. Photo: Shawn Hubbard for The Wall Street Journal
Police responded with tear gas and set up a cordon seeking to restore order. Chunks of bricks, rocks and broken glass littered the streets, and smoke from burning cars and trash cans rose into the sky. The Maryland Transit Administration closed several subway stops near the unrest, and the Baltimore Orioles baseball game was canceled.
"It began as a cause and is ending in pure ignorance."
— Sean Berry-Bey, a 33-year-old resident of West Baltimore
"Right now, we're seeing unprecedented violence throughout the city," said Darryl DeSousa, chief of patrol for the city police department.
[Read the full text here, at the Wall Street Journal]
Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency Monday evening, activating the Maryland National Guard. Maryland State Police troopers arrived on the scene earlier in the evening, as did police from several counties, including Prince George's County, outside Washington.
Demonstrators throw rocks at police in Baltimore after the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake imposed a citywide 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew beginning Tuesday evening and lasting at least a week. "It is so frustrating that people think that this makes sense, to destroy our community," the mayor said. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Baltimore Officers Injured After High Schoolers Call for 'Purge'
Posted: April 27, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: African American, Black people, Bloody Sunday (1972), breitbart, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Fox News, Jr., Katie McHugh, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Michael Eric Dyson, Police officer, United States | Leave a comment
"Police has sustained broken bones after black Baltimore high schoolers calling for 'The Purge' struck them with heavy bricks, rocks, and pipes. One officer is unconscious, non-responsive. The city's transportation has been crippled by the raging violence and residents are urged by city officials to avoid several, out-of-control areas."
Katie McHugh reports:
UPDATE: 5:15 PM: The Rev. Al Sharpton plans to visit Baltimore on Monday to "push for answers" in the death of Freddie Gray. Sharpton also plans to organize a two-day march from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. From The Baltimore Sun:
Sharpton said the march from Baltimore to Washington is designed to call attention to Gray — as well as others before him, including Walter Scott, who was shot by a police officer in North Charleston, S.C. — to Loretta Lynch, the incoming U.S. attorney general.
"Ms. Lynch, in her new role that we all supported, must look and intervene in these cases," Sharpton said. "Justice delayed is justice denied."
UPDATE: 5:08 PM: Baltimore Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk vowed to investigate the "lawless individuals" who are rampaging through Baltimore and attacking police officers.
"In 1963, my father Rev. AD King, after the firebombing of our home in Birmingham, Alabama, urged hostile protestors to abandon violence and turn to God in prayer instead. Thank God they listened to him, and the even greater voice of his brother, my Uncle MLK, during those turbulent days."
"Now, you are inviting violence to your city? Who, Ma'am, will incur the moral and economic costs of picking up the pieces? The innocent taxpayers?"
— The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in a letter to Mayor Rawlings-Blake
"Right now our focus is making sure that the people [who] live in that community are safe and that our officers are safe. You're going to see tear gas, you're going to see pepper balls," Kowalczyk said. "We're going to use appropriate methods to ensure that we're able to preserve the safety of that community."
"That thing I said? Yeah, I didn't say that." https://t.co/HK4MQfGwMB
— Ian Tuttle (@iptuttle) April 27, 2015
UPDATE: 5:04 PM: Police has sustained broken bones after black Baltimore high schoolers calling for "The Purge" struck them with heavy bricks, rocks, and pipes. One officer is unconscious, non-responsive. The city's transportation has been crippled by the raging violence and residents are urged by city officials to avoid several, out-of-control areas.
Note, above: pic.twitter.com/gIA9bPwGQI
UPDATE: 4:57 PM: Rioters have set a police car ablaze. Another common feature of riots, looting, has begun. But Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings maintains that the riots are "peaceful."
UPDATE: 4:48 PM: Rioters are throwing pipes, chucks of concrete at police, and setting things on fire, according to a CNN reporter.
UPDATE: 4:44 PM: Seven police officers have suffered injuries, according to reports.
UPDATE: 4:37 PM: Baltimore Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk informed reporters that criminals responsible for damages and assault will be put in jail.
UPDATE: 4:34 PM: The rioters continue to tear apart everything in their path, including a photographer and now a police car. Read the rest of this entry »
Toni Morrison: 'This is the Conversation'
Posted: April 26, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Africa, African American, Black people, Civil rights movement, Demagogue, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Racism, Thomas DiLorenzo, Toni Morrison | Leave a comment
This unarmed white teen was killed by a black officer by means of self defense.
This black women got gang-raped by 4 white men. they all got life sentences. This sentence was given out 6 years before the civil rights movement.
It's finally over. Racism is over. You have nothing else to complain about now. Racism doesn't exist anymore…
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Reverend Sam Mosteller: 'Let me just say it this way, I am going to have to advocate at this point that all African-Americans advocate their Second Amendment right'
Posted: April 1, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Religion, Self Defense | Tags: African American, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968), Alabama, Civil and political rights, Jr., Martin Luther King, Selma, Selma to Montgomery marches, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, United States | Leave a comment
President Of MLK Group Advocates For Second Amendment
Chuck Ross reports: The president of the Georgia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said Tuesday nonviolence is not working and African-Americans should "avail themselves" to their Second Amendment rights.
Rev. Sam Mosteller made the statements during a press conference Tuesday in Atlanta. He and members of SCLC, which was co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957, were protesting the recent shootings of two young black men in the state.
"You know, the SCLC stands for nonviolence, but nonviolence hasn't worked in this instance," Mosteller said, according to My Fox Atlanta.
"Let me just say it this way, I am going to have to advocate at this point that all African-Americans advocate their Second Amendment right," he added. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington Post: 50 Years Ago, March 8, 1965
Posted: March 7, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History | Tags: Academy Award, Alabama, Bloody Sunday (1972), Civil Rights, Civil rights movement, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, media, MLK, Montgomery, news, Selma, Selma to Montgomery marches, Voting Rights Act | Leave a comment
ccording the wire reports carried by the paper, more than 600 marchers had been walking across the bridge. Some were singing songs. Others were praying. Then officers on horseback descended on them. Almost 100 people were hospitalized with serious injuries.
[Fifty years after 'Bloody Sunday' march, struggles endure in Selma]
On page A3, the articles continued, and included a photo of a young civil rights leader named John Lewis being beaten by an Alabama State Trooper. (Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia, recently reminisced about Selma.)
The following day, the story pressed on. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had called for clergy to join the marches — prompting ministers from around the nation, many of them white, to travel to Alabama. Meanwhile, protests began here in D.C.
According to a March 9, 1965 piece by Post staffer Richard L. Lyons, 175 people picketed at the Department of Justice. Three of them attempted to enter the Attorney General's office, and one had to be physically dragged away. Later in the day, another 25 people staged a sit-in at AG Nicholas Katzenbach's office, and several Democratic members of Congress issued statements of outrage. Rep. James O'Hara, a Democrat from Michigan, declared that the beatings of the marchers were a "storm trooper action taken a the direction of a ruthless demagogue," referring to Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
By now, hundreds more demonstrators had begun arriving in Selma at King's request. A second march was planned. State officials instructed King and the others not to go on with the march. Federal officials declined to directly intervene. Read the rest of this entry »
Why the Left Hates American Sniper
Posted: January 27, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Academy Award for Best Picture, Bessie Braddock, Character actor, Cockney, Conservative Party (UK), Dante Alighieri, Desertion, Edward Herrmann, Jr., Martin Luther King | 2 Comments
Hating evil is just as important as loving the good. Because if you don't, you're likely to give evil a pass
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: American Sniper is a film of soaring patriotism and an ode to our courageous military. For too long Americans have lived with only two percent of the population losing arms and legs and dying so that the other ninety-eight percent can be safe and free. If we're not going to copy the heroes of the military at least we can salute them. But the prerequisite of gratitude is knowledge and so few of us really know how much our military sacrifices that it's hard to feel indebted. That's what makes American Sniper a movie that portrays Hollywood at its best, telling the story of a valiant and selfless soldier with complexity, truth, and depth.
"What American Sniper is really about is the battle by decent men against truly dark forces of wickedness. The American soldiers who battle the terrorists in Iraq do not hide their contempt for the killers. They hate them, despise them, loathe them, and want to kill them."
So why are so many people on the left attacking the film? What is their issue with a hero like Chris Kyle, who dedicated his life to saving Americans from murder and was himself killed when he tried to help a psychologically damaged marine?
In this photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday May 12, 2014 shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. The new video purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300 were kidnapped from a northeastern school
"The most accurate standard in judging our commitment to humanity is the extent to which we fight to preserve life. For some that fight involves research in a lab to defeat cancer. For others it involves climbing a ladder in a terrible inferno to rescue a stranded child. And for some it involves going to war against barbarous terrorists so that they cannot blow up pregnant women."
The answer lies in our failure to hate evil. What American Sniper is really about is the battle by decent men against truly dark forces of wickedness. The American soldiers who battle the terrorists in Iraq do not hide their contempt for the killers.
"Churchill spoke openly of his utter hatred of Hitler…And because he hated the beast he inspired a nation to fight him. The French, who did not hate Hitler, collaborated with him and sent Jews and many others to the gas chambers instead. But on the political left, hatred has gone out of vogue."
They hate them, despise them, loathe them, and want to kill them. Not because they have any bloodlust and not because they enjoy violence. Rather, they are committed to life and are well aware of the fact that the only way to prevent the murderers from slaughtering the innocent is through the necessary evil of conflict.
"Hating evil is just as important as loving the good. To be truly righteous, it's not enough to love good people. You have to hate—and fight—bad people."
From time immemorial theologians have debated what makes a person truly righteous. How do we know when someone's faith is sincere? Some say it is evidenced by a love of humanity. But I have met legions of confirmed atheists who are the finest human beings alive.
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Others argue that it is martyrdom and a readiness to lay down one's life for a great cause. But suicide bombers blow themselves up in the name of their faith all the time. Still others argue that goodness is judged by religious ritual observance. But we all know religious people who are devout church and synagogue-goers but who are utterly unethical in other spheres.
Which brings me to this conclusion. Read the rest of this entry »
'American Sniper' is the Most Widely Screened R-Rated Movie in History
Posted: January 23, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, Breaking News, Entertainment, History, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Academy Award, Bradley Cooper, Chris Kyle, Clint Eastwood, Jr., Martin Luther King, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, The Daily Beast, United States, United States Navy SEALs, War film | 1 Comment
Demand to see American Sniper is so great that it will expand to 3,705 screens this weekend, making it the most widely screened R-rated movie in history. The controversial war movie starring Bradley Cooper as a Navy SEAL made $105 million over the four-day weekend instead of the expected $50 million…(read more)
[VIDEO] Rand Paul's STOU Rebuttal
Posted: January 21, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Criminal justice, Kentucky, Liberal elite, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Martin Luther King, President of the United States, Rand Paul, Stanford University, Two Americas | 2 Comments
Good evening. I wish I had better news for you, but… All is not well in America. America is adrift. Something is clearly wrong.
"I think we should put limits on the terms of Congress and infuse our government with fresh ideas."
America needs many things, but what America desperately needs is new leadership.
I've only been in office a short time, but one thing I've discovered is that there is no monopoly on knowledge in Washington.
"The war on poverty is 50 years old, and still black unemployment is twice that of white unemployment."
The best thing that could happen is for us—to once and for all—limit the terms of all politicians. We already limit the President to two terms.
[Go to Breitbart to read the rest.]
Before I ran for office, I practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Liberal elites fly over my small town, but they don't understand us. They simply seek to impose their will upon us—from what insurance we can buy, to what light bulbs we can use, to how we generate electricity.
Most of us in flyover country, and I suspect many who live in our big cities, think those in government take us for granted. Those of us who are actively pursuing the American Dream simply want government to get out of our way. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Americans Forget Martin Luther King and What He Did – First African American to Walk on the Moon?
Posted: January 19, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Alice Walker, Arizona Daily Star, Armory Park, Buzzfeed, Interview, Jr., Jr. Day, Martin Luther King, media, news, satire, Twitter, YouTube | Leave a comment
Americans Forget Martin Luther King and What He Did. Mark Dice interviews beachgoers in San Diego about MLK for Martin Luther King Day 2015.
Cartoonist Barry Blitt the Cover of Next Week's New Yorker: '…the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile'
Posted: January 17, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: African American, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968), Barry Blitt, Cartoon, Civil and political rights, Illustration, Magazines, Martin Luther King, New York City, New York City Police Department, Rafael Ramos, The New Yorker | Leave a comment
The artist Barry Blitt on his inspiration for next week's cover:
"It struck me that King's vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile"
Nick Gillespie: Americans Trust Government Less and Less Because We Know More and More About How It Operates
Posted: November 16, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Barack Obama, Civil and political rights, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Suicide note, United States | 3 Comments
Nick Gillespie writes: Fifty years ago, FBI operatives sent Martin Luther King, Jr. was has come to be known as the "suicide letter," an anonymous note suggesting the civil rights leader should off himself before his private sex life was made public. The information about King's extramarital assignations was gathered with the approval not just of the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover but Attorney General Robert Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson.
"There is but one way out for you," reads the note, which appeared in unredacted form for the first time just last week. "You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Thus is revealed one of the most despicable acts of domestic surveillance in memory. These days, we worry less about the government outing our sex lives than in it tracking every move we move online. It turns out that President Obama, who said he would roll back the unconstitutional powers exercised by his predecessor, had a secret "kill list" over which he was sole authority. Jesus, we've just learned that small planes are using so-called dirtboxes to pick up cell phone traffic. One of the architects of Obamacare publicly states that Americans are stupid and that the president's healthcare reform was vague and confusing on purpose. The former director of national intelligence, along with the former head and current heads of the CIA, have lied to Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
Do Black People Have Equal Gun Rights?
Posted: October 26, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Health and Social Issues, Self Defense | Tags: #blackopencarry, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, African American, Black Panthers, Charles Cooke, Civil Rights, Emily Gets Her Gun, Frederick Douglass, Gun Control Act of 1968, Gun rights, Ida B. Wells, John Lott, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms | 1 Comment
For centuries, firearms have been indispensable to black liberation: as crucial a defense against tyranny for Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. as for Sam Adams and George Washington.
For the New York Times, Charles W. Cooke writes: Conventional wisdom holds that firearms are the preserve of conservative white men. You would never know this at my local shooting range, which happens to be in a majority African-American area, and has a clientele that reflects that fact. There, as a white man, I'm often in the minority; just one more guy who likes to fire weapons — another person to chat to and share stories with. It is, I'd venture, how things should be.
[Check out Nicholas Johnson's book "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms" at Amazon ]
The readers of @nytimes are upset that the paper published this excellent piece by @charlescwcooke. http://t.co/a0z8HZQXjm
— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) October 26, 2014
By rights, the Second Amendment should serve as a totem of African-Americans' full citizenship and enfranchisement.
"A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give."
— Ida B. Wells
[Order Emily Miller's book "Emily Gets Her Gun" from Amazon]
For centuries, firearms have been indispensable to black liberation: as crucial a defense against tyranny for Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. as for Sam Adams and George Washington. Today, however, many black Americans have a decidedly mixed relationship with the right to bear arms.
The first major ban on the open carrying of firearms — a Republican-led bill that was drafted after Black Panthers began hanging around the State Legislature in Sacramento with their guns on display — was signed in 1967 by none other than Gov. Ronald Reagan of California.
In August, as the outrage over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., dominated the news, an African-American group calling itself the Huey P. Newton Gun Club took to the streets of Dallas, rifles in hand, to protest.
[Order the book "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" from Amazon]
Huey P. Newton Gun Club, demonstrating in Dallas, Texas
Local businesses were supportive, and the city's police chief confirmed in a statement that his department "supports the constitutional rights of all." On Twitter, the hashtag #blackopencarry prompted a warm response from conservatives.
[Order John Lott's famous book "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws", Third Edition (Studies in Law and Economics) from Amazon]
The federal Gun Control Act of 1968 was primarily a reaction to the scourge of "Saturday night specials" — cheap handguns owned by the poor and the black. The National Rifle Association opposed neither law.
Until around 1970, the aims of America's firearms restrictionists and the aims of America's racists were practically inextricable. In both the colonial and immediate post-Revolutionary periods, the first laws regulating gun ownership were aimed squarely at blacks and Native Americans.
And yet, that same month, a 22-year-old black man named John Crawford III was shot dead by the police in an Ohio Walmart after a white customer claimed excitedly that a man was pointing a gun at his fellow patrons.
[Order the book "A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State" from Amazon ]
Later, the store's security footage revealed that Mr. Crawford had been holding a BB gun that he had picked up in the sporting goods department, and that the caller's testimony had been wrong. Ohio is an open carry state. That didn't make much difference for Mr. Crawford.
"Malcolm X may have a deservedly mixed reputation, but the famous photograph of him standing at the window, rifle in hand, insisting on black liberation 'by any means necessary,' is about as American as it gets."
Until around 1970, the aims of America's firearms restrictionists and the aims of America's racists were practically inextricable. In both the colonial and immediate post-Revolutionary periods, the first laws regulating gun ownership were aimed squarely at blacks and Native Americans. In both the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies, it was illegal for the colonists to sell guns to natives, while Virginia and Tennessee banned gun ownership by free blacks.
In the antebellum period, the chief justice of the United States, Roger B. Taney, wrote a grave warning into the heart of the execrable Dred Scott decision. If blacks were permitted to become citizens, Taney cautioned, they, like whites, would have full liberty to "keep and carry arms wherever they went." Read the rest of this entry »
'I Tried to Vote for a Republican and the Machine Registered a Vote for a Democrat'
Posted: October 22, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Chicago, Democratic Party (United States), Early voting, Illinois, Martin Luther King, Monday, Moynihan, Paul Miller, Voting machine | 1 Comment
CHICAGO — Paul Miller reports: Early Voting in Illinois got off to its typical start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats.
Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan had trouble voting for himself on Monday when early voting started in Illinois.
"I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent."
"You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat."
The conservative website Illinois Review reported that "While using a touch screen voting machine in Schaumburg, Moynihan voted for several races on the ballot, only to find that whenever he voted for a Republican candidate, the machine registered the vote for a Democrat in the same race.
[See Pundit Planet's Ongoing Coverage of Voter Fraud]
Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library.
Be careful when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before submitting your… http://t.co/mOD8uxvsDl
— James Moynihan (@JimMoynihan1) October 21, 2014
[Also see – What could go wrong? Volunteers go door-to-door 'ballot harvesting' in Colorado]
He notified the election judge at his polling place and demonstrated that it continued to cast a vote for the opposing candidate's party. Moynihan was eventually allowed to vote for Republican candidates, including his own race.
[A good time to check out John Fund's book "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk" available from Amazon.com]
Moynihan offered this gracious lesson to his followers on Twitter: "Be careful when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before submitting." Read the rest of this entry »
Bizarre Racial Intolerance: Whiteface Vandalism of Republican Candidate's Sign
Posted: June 30, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: African American, Corinne Brown, Democratic Party (United States), Florida, Glo Smith, Martin Luther King, National Review, Tim Cavanaugh, Twitter | 1 Comment
For National Review Online, Tim Cavanaugh reports: A Florida Republican congressional candidate's campaign sign was vandalized with whiteface paint last week in a district with overwhelmingly Democratic voter registration. The attack follows a string of bias incidents against black Republicans.
"We expect signs to be tampered with or stolen, but not to this extent…"
Glo Smith, who reports that she has also had a number of signs stolen, tells National Review Online she became aware of the racist defacement of an eight-foot-by-four-foot sign Tuesday. The sign was situated on private property in view of Interstate 10 in Jacksonville. The vandal sprayed white paint over the face of Smith, who is African-American. The paint job appears to be carefully done and leaves the eyes untouched, creating a very creepy effect. Read the rest of this entry »
A Shocker From NPR: 'Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible'
Posted: June 10, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968), Civil and political rights, Gun, Gun rights, Martin Luther King, Michel Martin, NPR, Self-defense | 2 Comments
For NewsBusters, Tim Graham reports: The liberals at National Public Radio can't really imagine guns being necessary for anything…unless perhaps it's to keep Southern segregationists at bay.
"Legitimate self defense has absolutely nothing to do with the criminal misuse of guns."
—Gerald Vernon, veteran firearms instructor
On Thursday afternoon's Tell Me More talk show, host Michel Martin brought on Charles Cobb, who wrote the book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made The Civil Rights Movement Possible. She called it a "hiding in plain sight story" and asked why he wrote the book:
COBB: I'm very conscious of the gaps in the history, and one important gap in the history and the portrayal of the movement is the role of guns in the movement. I worked in the South. I lived with families in the South. There was never a family I stayed with that didn't have a gun. I know from personal experience and the experiences of others that guns kept people alive, kept communities safe. And all you have to do to understand this is simply think of black people as human beings, and they're going to respond to terrorism the way anybody else would….
MARTIN: Why do you think we don't know more stories like this? Read the rest of this entry »
The Left Doesn't Believe in Dr. King's Colorblind Dream
Posted: January 22, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Daily Caller, discrimination, Gratz v. Bollinger, Martin Luther King, martin luther king day, race, Thomas Jefferson, United States | 4 Comments
Jennifer Gratz writes: Martin Luther King is an American icon whose legacy has become part of the American ethos – the guiding beliefs that characterize our national identity.
Just as Thomas Jefferson is best known for authoring the Declaration of Independence, King's contribution to this ethos is inseparable from his "I Have A Dream" speech, which articulated a future to which America continues to aspire. King's portrait of a nation where individuals are judged on their actions and character without regard to their race remains the ideal for the vast majority of Americans.
Celebrating Martin Luther King Day, we honor his condemnation of racism, we commemorate his stand against government-sponsored discrimination, and we look forward to a day when colorblind society is a reality.
Martin Luther King Jr. Was Harassed By The IRS, Too
Posted: January 20, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, History | Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, martin luther king day, Montgomery Improvement Association, Obama administration, SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference | 3 Comments
Martin Luther King giving his address at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington,DC, Aug. 28, 1963.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Tallahassee Democrat, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the IRS:
This past year, much ado was made about the so-called "IRS-Gate" and concerns that the Obama administration may have used the agency to target Tea Party and other right wing groups. … [W]hat often is not stated during the Martin Luther King Holiday weekend is that King, early in his leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was routinely subjected to IRS audits of his individual accounts, SCLC accounts as well as accounts of his lawyers, first starting during the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower and continuing through the Kennedy administration…
[VIDEO] American Conversation: Shelby Steele describes how the Civil Rights Movement veered off course
Posted: January 13, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Civil and political rights, Civil rights movement, History, Hoover Institution, Martin Luther King, New York City, Shelby Steele | 1 Comment
In the third video produced in conjunction with New York City's 92nd Street Y, Shelby Steele, the Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, describes how the civil rights movement veered off course after its greatest achievement, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1965. After its initial success in securing individual freedom, the movement increasingly called for government transfer programs, which had the unintended effect of creating dependency, resentment, and an ongoing sense of victimization.
The 'Racism' Wrecking Ball
Posted: December 30, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: African American, Duck Dynasty, GQ, Jesse Jackson, John Fund, Martin Luther King, Michael Eric Dyson, MSNBC, Oprah Winfrey, Phil Robertson, Robertson, Rosa Parks | 2 Comments
Indiscriminate charges of racism do more harm than good, as Martin Luther King well knew
John Fund writes: Would America be better off if the Outrage Industry went on a diet for New Year's?
We just spent much of December quacking and arguing way too much about the views of Phil Robertson, one of the stars of the Duck Dynasty reality-TV series. Most of the attention focused on Robertson's harsh, mean-spirited comments about gays and on the subsequent, short-lived decision of the cable network A&E to suspend him. But people saved plenty of ire for his comments, offered in an interview with GQ magazine, that when he grew up in Louisiana in the 1950s he never saw "the mistreatment of any black person" and that African Americans in that era didn't have complaints about white people.
That's an invitation to call Phil naïve, blind, or a liar. But such descriptions weren't enough for Jesse Jackson, who said: "These statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, more than 59 years ago. At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law. Robertson's statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was 'white privilege.'" He wasn't the only prominent liberal to go way over the top. MSNBC's Michael Eric Dyson said Robertson and Duck Dynasty were "part of a majority-white supremacist culture." Read the rest of this entry »
Remembering Christopher Hitchens, 1949 – 2011
Posted: December 15, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Communist Manifesto, Labour Party, Martin Luther King, Nation, Nick Gillespie, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson | 1 Comment
Nick Gillespie writes: Christopher Hitchens died on this date two years ago. Hitchens was the model of a public intellectual. He was certainly public in his positions and arguments, which allows for anyone interested to assess a person's arguments. And he was intellectually honest in a way that is uncommon, with many (most?) thinkers curtailing their views if they threaten a broader ideological identity. Though definitely a man of the left, Hitchens was never orthodox and ran into trouble given his positions on issues such as abortion (he was against it), foreign interventionism (he was for it), free speech deemed offensive to certain groups (he was for it), and more. While he rarely missed opportunities to offend right-wing sensibilities (he once joked about Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's clearly having started with the president was still in office), he didn't hold back against the left, either. He had few kind words about Martin Luther King, Jr. and he dismissed Gandhi as a "poverty pimp."
He admitted to Reason in a wide-ranging 2001 Reason interview conducted a few months before the 9/11 attacks that his connection to the left was fraying (he would break definitively with The Nation magazine shortly after the attacks). Part of the reason stemmed from his realization that the forces of creative destruction unleashed by capitalism were remaking the world in a way that he – along with Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto – could appreciate:
The thing I've often tried to point out to people from the early days of the Thatcher revolution in Britain was that the political consensus had been broken, and from the right. The revolutionary, radical forces in British life were being led by the conservatives. That was something that almost nobody, with the very slight exception of myself, had foreseen.
The Gassy Knoll: The Last Stand of the JFK Truthers
Posted: November 12, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, David McCullough, Dealey Plaza, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Martin Luther King | 1 Comment
Recreating the scene in Dallas for the Warren Report.(CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
"I always tell people I'm not a bookworm. I'm a book anaconda," John Judge says, as he turns sideways and carefully maneuvers his large frame down a narrow staircase into the main library of the Coalition on Political Assassinations, a nonprofit dedicated to researching the killings of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Carved deep into a hill in Penn Branch, a quiet, leafy community in Southeast Washington, the room might otherwise be a basement, were the house not inhabited by a man who for the past 45 years has been obsessively reading and researching every facet of the Kennedy assassination.
He scans through hundreds of books, carefully pulling from the shelves some of the foundational texts of the assassination canon: Mark Lane's best-selling Rush to Judgment, the first book he ever read on the case, and Robert Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone's High Treason: The Assassination of JFK & the Case for Conspiracy. Judge gestures to 26 hardcover volumes of the Warren Commission report, the official government investigation that fingered Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman. On a shelf beside him sits a self-satirical bumper sticker: "Humpty Dumpty was pushed." Judge, who has wavy silver-white hair and a goatee that fans out beneath his chin, smirks, "I tell people you can call me a conspiracy theorist if you call everyone else a coincidence theorist."
Reality Catching Up to the Political Class
Posted: September 2, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere | Tags: 1963 March, Jackie Robinson, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, RealClearPolitics, Rosa Parks, United States, Washington | Leave a comment
"Is that my iPhone or your iPhone? We must have the same ring tone. Could you turn that off? Where were we…?"
By Scott Rasmussen
Official Washington is always a decade or two behind the American people. That was true in 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr. shared his dream for a better America and it's true today.
The 1963 March on Washington came 16 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. Robinson did more than make news; he won the Rookie of the Year award in 1947, the MVP award two years later and entered the Hall of Fame in 1962. By then, black ballplayers were part of every major league team.
"For those in power, that was a terrible glimpse into the reality of how irrelevant much of what they do has become"
Another big moment took place in 1955 when Rosa Parks courageously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Many other events, big and small, changed the nation's attitudes on racial issues in the decades leading up to King's most famous speech. But it had little impact on official Washington until the march forced the politicians to pay attention.
Cornel West had some harsh comments for MSNBC's Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson…
Posted: August 31, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Cornel West, Friday, Martin Luther King, Michael Eric Dyson, MSNBC, Obama, Tavis Smiley, Wall Street | 1 Comment
Early in the radio show "Smiley and West," West said of the previous day's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, "We saw of course the coronation of the bonafide house negro of the Obama plantation, our dear brother Al Sharpton, supported by the Michael Dysons and others who've really prostituted themselves intellectually in a very ugly and vicious way" (video):
Ben Carson: MLK would be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values
Posted: August 28, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Ben Carson, Black people, Detroit, Johns Hopkins University, King, Martin Luther King, United States, Washington Times | Leave a comment
It is hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the famous "I have a dream speech" of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall in Washington. I was an 11-year-old child in Detroit languishing in the midst of poverty, but very interested in the strides that were being made in the civil rights movement.
I was the only black kid in my seventh-grade class and over the previous two years had risen from the bottom of the class to the top. My mother had forced us to read, which had a profound positive effect on both my brother Curtis and myself. I was quite optimistic that things were getting better for black people in America.
Edward Snowdens Real Impact
Posted: August 20, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Gun Control Act of 1968, Jeffrey Toobin, Martin Luther King, National Security Agency, Robert F. Kennedy, Snowden, United States | Leave a comment
by Jeffrey Toobin
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. Does that change your view of the assassinations? Should we be grateful for the deaths of these two men?
Of course not. That's lunatic logic. But the same reasoning is now being applied to the actions of Edward Snowden. Yes, the thinking goes, Snowden may have violated the law, but the outcome has been so worthwhile. According to Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who was one of the primary vehicles for Snowden's disclosures, Snowden "is very pleased with the debate that is arising in many countries around the world on Internet privacy and U.S. spying. It is exactly the debate he wanted to inform."
In this debate, Snowden himself says, those who followed the law were nothing better than Nazis: "I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg, in 1945: 'Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.' "
To be sure, Snowden has prompted an international discussion about surveillance, but it's worthwhile to note that this debate is no academic exercise. It has real costs. Consider just a few.
What if Snowden's wrong? What if there is no pervasive illegality in the National Security Agency's surveillance programs?
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DOJ Strikes Deal to Hand Over Some Mueller Investigation Evidence
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the Justice Department has agreed to begin turning over some information the panel had subpoenaed related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
"The department will share the first of these documents with us later today," Nadler, a New York Democrat, said in a statement Monday. He added that all members of the committee will be able to view the materials. "These documents will allow us to perform our constitutional duties and decide how to respond to the allegations laid out against the president by the special counsel."
The committee and Attorney General William Barr have been locked in a fight over access to Congress of redacted portions of Mueller's report, as well as the underlying evidence. Nadler's announcement comes a day before the House plans to vote on a resolution authorizing Nadler and his committee to initiate civil legal action against Barr for his refusal to turn over Mueller report-related material.
The deal with the Justice Department won't forestall the Tuesday vote, according to a House official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The resolution drafted by House Democrats would give the Judiciary Committee authority to pursue civil legal action and judgments against Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn for defying congressional demands for documents and testimony under White House direction.
Nadler said that if the department "proceeds in good faith and we are able to obtain everything that we need, then there will be no need to take further steps." But if important information is held back, he added, "then we will have no choice but to enforce our subpoena in court and consider other remedies."
Republican Response
While Nadler has blamed the Justice Department for refusing to negotiate over material to release, Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he was glad that Nadler "has finally" met the Justice Department at the negotiating table. He said the "good-faith provision" from the administration to turn over the documents "debunks" claims the White House is stalling Congress.
"In light of today's agreement from the Justice Department, it's logical to ask: Is the chairman prepared to rescind his baseless recommendation to hold the attorney general in contempt, or do House Democrats still plan to green-light lawsuits against the attorney general and former White House counsel tomorrow?"
The developments came as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top House Democrats work to counter President Donald Trump's defiance of congressional investigations by imposing consequences for ignoring House subpoenas and other demands.
Despite pressure from inside their caucus to open a formal presidential impeachment inquiry, they sought to maintain a middle ground with a vote on the House floor to further empower committee oversight of Trump and his administration.
The planned resolution stops short of finding Barr and McGahn in contempt of Congress, a move the House Judiciary Committee approved for Barr. The resolution also would give Nadler and a number of other chairmen the power to issue contempt citations — with approval of Pelosi and a couple of her top House lieutenants — without needing a vote of the full House.
Middle Path
"It's a resolution that reflects the middle of the caucus, who appear to have grown frustrated over the president's obstruction," said Joshua Huder, a senior fellow with the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. "Regardless of its political meaning, it's a step up in the fight between Congress and the president."
Confronted with Trump's vow to resist all cooperation with House investigations — "we're fighting all the subpoenas," he said in April — Democrats are also moving on other fronts to sharpen their case against the president.
That starts with a hearing on Monday afternoon labeled "Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes." Lacking any administration witnesses, the committee will hear from critics including John Dean, who was President Richard Nixon's White House counsel and gave crucial testimony when the House weighed impeaching him.
Dean has become an outspoken critic of Trump. The president tweeted on Sunday that Democrats seeking a "Do Over" of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's findings "are even bringing in @CNN sleazebag John Dean."
….No Obstruction. The Dems were devastated – after all this time and money spent ($40,000,000), the Mueller Report was a disaster for them. But they want a Redo, or Do Over. They are even bringing in @CNN sleazebag attorney John Dean. Sorry, no Do Overs – Go back to work!
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The new round of House hearings could be a start to building a case for "high crimes and misdemeanors" — the constitutional standard for impeachment — even as Pelosi continues to stiff-arm calls from increasing number of her House Democratic colleagues for a formal impeachment inquiry. That's included nudging in private from Nadler.
Barr had resisted producing an unredacted version of Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and the underlying evidence. McGahn has refused to produce documents or appear before the Judiciary panel to provide testimony concerning Trump's alleged obstruction of justice. The White House asked both men not to comply with the congressional subpoenas.
The speaker's middle-ground approach giving more power to committee chairmen also may provide protection — at least for now — to some House Democrats in districts that were carried by Trump in 2016, according to Samuel Everett Dewey, a former congressional lawyer who led investigations in key committees in both the House and Senate.
"This will completely shield them," said Dewey, who's now with the law firm McDermott Will & Emery.
But rushing to launch swifter court action to stop Trump's delaying tactics carries risks — including that the House might lose some of these cases. And there's no guarantee that getting to court faster means the case will be resolved swiftly. It took several years to get a court ruling in a 2012 contempt of Congress action against one of former President Barack Obama's attorneys general, Eric Holder, over issues executive privilege.
There have been swift initial successes for House legal efforts in federal court orders to Mazars USA, Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp. to produce financial records. But Dewey, the former congressional lawyer, said House moves toward fast action could backfire.
'Litigation Risk'
"The more you speed up and strip process, the more litigation risk you run," he said.
The House Rules Committee will meet Monday night to debate the path forward for Tuesday's House vote.
Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia, chairman of the House Oversight subcommittee on government operations, said he doesn't worry that Democrats demanding impeachment now will use that stage to undermine Pelosi's go-slow approach.
"The honest discussion about impeachment" among House Democrats reflects the discussions "going on in households across the nation and in the media," he said.
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