Newt Gingrich on the Cultural Civil War (VIDEO)

At Fox News:

Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

*BUMPED.*

Looks like a good read. Gingrich is a prolific writer, but he knows what he's talking about. He's a hustler, for sure. He hustles the bucks, and in this case he's clearly able to publish a book exploiting his establishment insider creds.

Still, he's helluva lot more trustworthy on this than most.

At Amazon, Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump.

Dad Pulls Loose Tooth in Particularly Creative Way (VIDEO)

It's Sean Copeland and his son Brodie, two Americans who were slaughtered during the jihad truck rampage in Nice.

A beautiful video. What a great dad. And what an enormous loss of human life, for no reason other than an Islamic nihilist death wish.

At iOWNTHEWORLD Report, "Not Just Another “Dad Pulls Loose Tooth in Creative Way” Video."

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls Booed at Memorial Service for #Nice Jihad Victims (VIDEO)

Well, remember, he told French citizens to "learn to live" with Islamic jihad.

You know, in the name of diversity, or something.

At London's Daily Mail, "'Murderer!' Mourners boo French PM Manuel Valls over his failure to prevent terror attacks as thousands - and a Premier League football star - pack Nice promenade to remember the dead."

Young Girl Traumatized by Nice Terror Attack, Details Horrific Scene, Dead Bodies Everywhere, Severed Heads, Blood (VIDEO)

Well, I guess she's lucky to be alive.

But yeah, I can only imagine.

At CNN:

WATCH: You Can Briefly See Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel Plowing Down Revellers in This Video from the #Nice Jihad Attack

What's astonishing is how packed the crowd is along the promenade.

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was apparently zig-zagging left and right, up onto the sidewalk and back down, mowing down people like bowling pins.

Watch, at Blazing Cat Fur, "Front View of Truck Used in Muslim Terror Attack in Nice, France."

'Surly Misfit' Attack in Nice, France

Here's the unbelievable New York Times, "A Surly Misfit With No Terror Links Turned a Truck Into a Tank."

This surely must be some kind of joke, as I reported earlier, "Leftist Media Whitewashing Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's Fanatical Islamic Background."

Update your NY Times style guide: Out: Jihadist -- In: Surly misfit https://t.co/MhuHVIz8IL

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) July 16, 2016

Mohamed was screaming "Allahu Akbar!", but of course it has nothing to do with Islam.

Actually, a little belated, but the French government is changing its tune. At WaPo, "Attacker in Nice is said to have radicalized ‘very rapidly’":

French official: Attacker in Nice underwent swift radicalization https://t.co/oIhsP1EGXG

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2016

NICE, France — The Islamic State on Saturday asserted responsibility for an attack that killed 84 people in this coastal French city, according to the organization’s news agency, as France’s interior minister announced for the first time that investigators think the attacker had been “radicalized.”

It remains unclear whether the militant group directed the attack, was taking responsibility for an assault it inspired or was simply seeking publicity from an event in which it had no direct hand.

“It seems” that the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, “radicalized his views very rapidly. These are the first elements that our investigation has come up with through interviews with his acquaintances,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday, without offering details. Five people have been detained for questioning in the case.

“We are now facing individuals who are responding positively to the messages issued by the Islamic State without having had any special training and without having access to weapons that allow them to commit mass murder,” Cazeneuve said.

The Amaq news agency, which is linked to the Islamic State, cited an “insider source” in declaring that Bouhlel “was a soldier of the Islamic State.”

“He executed the operation in response to calls to target citizens of coalition nations that fight the Islamic State,” the news agency wrote.

Separately, the Islamic State’s al-Bayan radio station said Bouhlel used “a new tactic” to wreak havoc. “The crusader countries know that no matter how much they enforce their security measures and procedures, it will not stop the mujahideen from striking,” the station said.

But the oblique claim of responsibility left open the question of whether Bouhlel had acted alone or had any prior communication with the group, which has also claimed ties to the attacks that struck Paris twice last year and Brussels in March. French authorities have been scrambling to determine whether Bouhlel had a support network in Nice, where he appears to have been living for at least six years...

More.

It doesn't matter if Bouhlel had direct contact. He was sucking up Islamic State propaganda and jihad exhortations, and decided to go with what he knew.

Robert Spencer has more, at FrontPage Magazine, "Muslims Celebrate Bastille Day":

Muslims Celebrate #BastilleDay: 80 Dead, 68; “The worst tragedy in the history of Nice” – but many more are to come https://t.co/siorbmNeS9

— Jewhadi™ (@JewhadiTM) July 15, 2016

Jihadis have had their eyes on France for quite some time. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him…

Yes, “run him over with your car.”

Then again from the Islamic State in May 2016:

“The French must die by the thousands…. Towards paradise, that is the path….Come, brother, let’s go to paradise, our women are waiting for us there, with angels as servants. You will have a palace, a winged horse of gold and rubies….With a little rocket-launcher, you can easily get one of them… you do something like that in the name of Dawla (Islamic State), and France will be traumatised for a century.”

The French are already traumatized. The BBC reported last week that “more than 5,000 French police will be deployed at key venues in and around Paris ahead of the Euro 2016 football final between France and Portugal,” and that “there will be no victory parade if France win.” Why not? For fear of jihad terror attacks.

The Bastille Day jihad massacre demonstrates that the answer to jihad attacks is not to curtail one’s activities and cower in fear. Even if free people do that, the jihadis will strike anyway. Even without a victory parade, the jihadis struck yet again in France. The response should not be to cower in fear, but to recognize that this is a war and act accordingly. France has just suffered a fresh attack in a war that is being fought by people in service of an ideology that France, like other Western countries, refuses to acknowledge even exists.

France, even as it is under serious attack by the warriors of jihad, continues to pursue policies that will only result in the arrival of still more Muslims to France – and with them will come jihad terrorists, and many, many more jihad massacres like the one on Bastille Day in Nice. French curtailing their activities for fear of being struck by jihadis did not save them. The Bastille Day jihad attack should be the last to take place under the regime of politically correct fantasy that forces law enforcement and intelligence officials to pretend that the threat is other than what it is, and that the remedy is to apply, one more time, policies that have failed again and again and again.

Bastille Day should be a day for the releasing of prisoners. In the war against the global jihad, the truth has been prisoner for too long. It is time to set it free – before it, too, becomes irrevocably a casualty of this war against an enemy no one dares name...

Terror in Europe Becoming the New Normal

At Blazing Cat Fur:

Canadians are shocked by tonight's attack in Nice. Our sympathy is with the victims, and our solidarity with the French people.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) July 14, 2016

No, we're not shocked at all, this is the new normal https://t.co/ujrufmiDad

— Blazing CatFur (@Blazingcatfur) July 14, 2016

“…In a tweet following the latest devastation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted “Canadians are shocked by tonight’s attack in Nice.”

Really? We’re feeling and thinking many things. But given what we know about the state of the world today, shocked is pretty low down the list.”

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for #Nice Jihad Terror Attack (VIDEO)

At WSJ, "Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Attack in Nice":

Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for the deadly truck attack in the French city of Nice, saying the assault was a response to calls by the extremist group to target those nations allied against it.

Despite the assertion of responsibility, the nature and scope of the Sunni Muslim extremist group’s involvement in Thursday’s attack, which killed 84 people and wounded scores more, was unclear.

French authorities said Saturday they had found no evidence of ties between terror groups and the man who carried out the assault in Nice, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian man living in the city. Prosecutors also said they had little doubt the militant group had, at the very least, inspired the attack.

In its statement Saturday quoting an unidentified security source and carried by its affiliated Amaq news agency, the Sunni Muslim extremist group said, the Bastille Day attack “was carried out by one of the soldiers of the Islamic State, and the operation was done in response to calls to target nations of coalition states that are fighting the Islamic State.”

The statement was reported by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity.

France is one of 66 participants in the U.S.-led military coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to the U.S. State Department. U.S. President Barack Obama announced the formation of the coalition in September 2014.

On the internet and social media, supporters of Islamic State cheered the truck attack by Lahouaiej Bouhlel, but as in some previous claims of responsibility by the militant group, no clear link to the group has been established.

U.S. and European officials were running checks on financial, social media and internet communication networks to try to determine whether Lahouaiej Bouhlel had accomplices or received foreign support...

Keep reading.

#Nice Jihadist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel Screamed 'Allahu Akbar' Before Slaughtering Dozens

It's pretty hard to whitewash a jihadi screaming "Allahu Akbar' before plowing down dozens of innocents, but see, "Leftist Media Whitewashing Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's Fanatical Islamic Background."

Here's the Sun U.K., "BASTILLE DAY MASSACRE: At least ten children among 84 slaughtered by truck driver who ploughed through Nice crowd ‘like a bowling ball while shouting Allahu Akbar’.'

#NiceAttack driver ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’ ploughs through Nice crowd ‘like a bowling ball’ https://t.co/zZsun4gWZA pic.twitter.com/GDBarZN6hZ

— The Sun (@TheSun) July 15, 2016

Hat Tip: Pamela, "Jihadi Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel SHOUTED “ALLAHU AKBAR” as he PLOWED through #Nice crowd “like a bowling ball” as FAMILY EVENT 84 dead, 10 CHILDREN."

Leftist Media Whitewashing Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's Fanatical Islamic Background

Yeah, the Telegraph U.K., and a number of other outlets are using the "lone wolf" whitewash. France 24 even referred to Mohamed as a "stray dog" attacker, because of course this has nothing to do with Islam.

Here comes the whitewash. He was just a "depressed loner". #NothingToDoWithIslam. https://t.co/ibN2jeSDL3

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July 15, 2016

But see the (now-changed) headline at London's Daily Mail, "Nice attacker named as ISIS fanatic Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel."

Nice attacker named as ISIS fanatic Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/Fhs7vcNHdQ

— Ed Baker (@EdBaker3000) July 15, 2016

Video Shows the Moment Police Shoot and Kill #NiceAttack Jihadist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel

Following-up, "#NiceAttack Jihadist Identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel (VIDEO)."

At Telegraph U.K.:

#NiceAttack Jihadist Identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel (VIDEO)

At Jihad Watch, "France: Nice jihad murderer is Muslim of Tunisian origin."

And at the Telegraph U.K., "Nice terror attack: Truck driver who killed 84 named as 'loner' French-Tunisian criminal who 'became depressed' when wife left him as police question estranged spouse."

#NiceAttack Truck driver named as 'loner' French-Tunisian criminal Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel https://t.co/jNkw3tlWDP pic.twitter.com/suI7N7IS7s

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 15, 2016

And at France 24:

Newt Gingrich Calls for Deportation of Muslims Who Back Sharia Law (VIDEO)

Heh.

Some pretty aggressive statements on Islam and sharia.

Gingrich is like an echo to Trump's earlier statements on Islam, and not only does this fire up the base, it's almost like he's trying to sway Trump's veep decision at the last minute. Remember, the announcement's been postponed due to the attack in France.

Interesting.

Watch, from Hannity's show earlier, "Newt Gingrich: Deport every Muslim who believes in Sharia."

Gingrich is really on fire, heh.

.@newtgingrich on fighting terror: "We better rethink the rules, or we are going to lose the war." #Hannity pic.twitter.com/IaUayKrcQF

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2016

President Clinton Passed Speaker Gingrich a 'Secret Note' Before 1996 #SOTU

Longtime readers will recall that I'm no fan of Newt Gingrich.

That said, this is interesting. Here's the former Speaker with an intimate look back at what appears to be a proud moment in the political limelight.

Gingrich Takes Heat for Praising Mandela

At Newsmax:

Appearing Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Gingrich said he was surprised by the criticism. Some people returned up to five times repeating how angry they were, he said.

Gingrich didn't let the matter lie. He took to his online newsletter on Friday, responding with a post titled "What would you have done?"

Andrew Malcolm Dissects New Media and the Future of Journalism

A great clip.

Nick Gillespie talks to Andrew Malcolm:

Newt Gingrich: Romney's Gotta Be Aggressive

Bryan Jacoutot flags this Newt Gingrich interview on CNN, "Newt offers Romney some good advice."

Newt Gingrich Turns Tables On the 'Elite Media'

This is a phenomenal clip, via William Jacobson:

Santorum's Missed Opportunity in Mesa

I found myself getting sleepy during the debate, as the excitement factor seemed quite low, although I don't think Santorum did as badly as some are suggesting. Mostly I thought the candidates got bogged down on earmarks and the congressional process. It wasn't until later in the debate did we get into social issues, which should have been leading off the night. And even then, I thought Mitt Romney more than held his own on that, overshadowing Santorum somewhat, while Newt Gingrich seemed subdued for he evening.

See Telegraph UK, "Rick Santorum misses opportunity to cement hold over Mitt Romney."

I like Santorum on foreign policy, I must say. But that's not what folks were looking for in the debate.

More at Washington Post, "Santorum struggles to defend record in heated GOP debate."