The Gory Details About Terrorist Teacher Kathy Boudin

That's Kathy Boudin at the clip below, via iOWNTHEWORLD, "Newly Hired NYU Employee, Murderer Kathy Boudin, Wishes Her Murdering Buddies Could Be There With Her."

And here's Lee Stranahan, at Big Government:

Katherine Boudin is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and has been named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School. She is also a communist, a Weather Underground radical, a terrorist, and a convicted felon.

Whatever you’ve heard about Boudin, the fully detailed reality is far worse. The story of Kathy Boudin’s crimes and her victims is bloody and ugly. Many details get left out or smoothed over, even by her critics. There’s a wider importance to Boudin’s story: it’s yet another example of how the left uses America’s most respected universities as both a breeding ground and a retirement home for radicals; a way to give violent ideologically driven criminals both legitimacy and a paycheck, often at taxpayers' expense.

These American terrorists and advocates of overthrow like Dr. Kathy Boudin are given a pass by academia and lauded in the arts because they promote communism, socialism and bloody revolution. As such, they are idolized by the left establishment, who view them as ideologically pure embodiments of their ideals, carnage be damned.

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And ICYMI, from earlier this morning, "The Daily Beast’s Disgraceful Interview With Bill Ayers."

U.S. Department of Transportation: Cellphone Laws Aren't Working

As we we're driving out to Temecula the other day, I kept noticing people talking on their cellphones. I mentioned it to my wife. Basically, the risk of being pulled over is far outweighed by the benefit of being able to use mobile phones. I doubt there's much of a moral calculation either, since folks probably think the laws are stupid.

In any case, at the Los Angeles Times, "Laws against driving and cellphone use aren't working, study finds."

Benji Backer, 15-Year-Old at Appleton North High School in Wisconsin, Harassed by Teachers for Conservative Views

Being around a public community college with a far-left teachers union and loads of socialists professors, I can tell you what young conservatives face if they dissent from the progressive party line.

An interview with Megyn Kelly. His worst teacher was in English, where he was being hassled week after week, apparently. English? These union hacks are pathetic. Here's his essay: "15 Year Old Wisconsin Conservative Meets Bullying From Teachers."

Also at the Green Bay Press Gazette, "Appleton teen claims teachers harassed him over politics."

Rebel Throws Explosive Down Barrel of Manned Syrian Army Tank

I never liked tanks.

They're always sitting ducks in war movies and this Syria confrontation doesn't turn out too well for Assad's forces. At the second half of the clip, via Pat Dollard.

Leftist Hypocrisy: Socialist Leaders Condemn Wealth But Still Get Rich

At IBD, "French Socialist Jerome Cahuzac Hides Swiss Account":

This hypocrisy is found in the U.S., as well.

We don't have a working socialist party in this country, but the "progressive" Democrats are doing quite well at holding up the standard. So we ask: Who among Democratic lawmakers and party leadership is in middle-class solidarity with the working man?

And which big mouth of the Hollywood left, who votes Democrat and pretends he or she believes in equality, actually exercises it?

They all inveigh against capitalism. And all have made it work for them in their personal lives.

RTWT.

They're hypocritical assholes, but you knew that.

And at Guardian UK, "France's former budget minister admits lying about secret offshore account":

Jérôme Cahuzac's sudden admission that he hid €600,000 (£510,000) offshore for more than two decades is the biggest scandal to hit Hollande's presidency.

The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.

What Jobs Report? Hey Look, Gay Marriage!

From Walter Russell Mead:

If a Republican president got very busy on social issues at a time of economic stagnation and disappointment, there would be earnest hand-wringing of the “What’s Wrong with Kansas” variety about how American rubes were being diverted from their true economic interests by the skillful manipulation of emotionally charged social issues and identity politics. This would be taken as a sign of the cynicism of the ruling party and the clueless credulity of the hypnotized voters.

Fortunately, we aren’t going to have to listen to any of that depressing rhetoric now. Social issues are good and important; economic questions like jobs and incomes and growth are a distraction from the real business of the people.

Yes, if a Republican president... Isn't that the leitmotif of progressive politics during this administration?

The Daily Beast’s Disgraceful Interview With Bill Ayers

I saw the interview. "Fawning" comes to mind.

David Horowitz sets the record straight, at FrontPage Magazine:

Below is an email that David Horowitz sent to the editor of The Daily Beast in response to their recent interview with Bill Ayers.

When you interview a shallow, murderous liar like Billy Ayers, you should assign someone who is at least familiar with the basic facts. The Weather Underground was created in 1969, not after the Townhouse explosion which took place in 1970. The Underground was created with a formal “Declaration of War” against “Amerikka.” By their own account at the time (not in retrospect of course) Ayers and his friends were intending to start a race war in America, which is why they idolized Charles Manson. Their first political act was to destroy SDS (which they called “Offing the pig”). Not surprisingly, they had virtually no support in the anti-war left. Far from being innocent of attempting to kill others (you actually let Ayers imply that he had nothing to do with his friend Kathy Boudin’s plan to kill teenagers at Fort Dix), Ayers and his wife incited people to conduct a “war” against their own country, and famously urged others to “kill your parents.” They are still being investigated for the cold case murder of a policeman in Los Angeles who was killed by a Weatherman bomb.

Ayers tries to wrap the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War around his crimes to exculpate himself and your fact challenged interviewer lets him do it. But Ayers was conducting bombing runs long after American troops were withdrawn from Vietnam , and when Jimmy Carter was president, he and his wife provided material aid to their friend Kathy Boudin to carry out a bank robbery which left nine children without fathers. Ayers has no regrets about launching a war that left his former lover and two other of his comrades and friends dead, and that ended pathetically when it became apparent even to them that their brand of violent extremism had completely marginalized them not just in the American mainstream but in the left itself. Shame on you for giving a platform to this malevolent narcissist to glorify himself once again.

Syria: A Collection of Images

At the Big Picture:

The Associated Press recently re-transmitted a collection of images from the Syrian conflict. It remains an incredibly dangerous situation for working journalists who document the ongoing conflict and the conditions of those living in constant danger and with constant risk. Many continue to die for their beliefs, hoping that peace will come to their country eventually. The images that follow are storytelling, intimate and worth seeing again and again.

Obama Leads Effort to Map Human Brain

Via the People's Cube:

Brain mapping of Dems and Repubs reveal 2 types of brains wtim.es/YVeqkY @wtcommunities #tcot twitter.com/ThePeoplesCube…
— The People's Cube (@ThePeoplesCube) April 4, 2013

Also at USA Today, "Punchlines: Leno, Fallon on mapping the human brain."

Rule 5 Diversions

At Knuckledraggin My Life Away: "I KNOW!!!!!"

Melissa Cunningham for Zoo Magazine

At Guyism, "MELISSA CUNNINGHAM HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE IN GLAMOUR MODELING."

15-Year-Old Sarah Merkle Interview With Gretchen Carlson on Fox & Friends

Maryland law bans the reentry to the state of guns owned by legitimate gun owners? Sounds unconstitutional. And the young lady's looking to get into Harvard on a shooting scholarship? Doesn't fit the left's ignorant yokel meme. Indeed, it's the leftists who're proving themselves a bunch of ignorant f-ks.

Call Child Protective Services: MSNBC's Krystal Ball Pimps Out Daughter in Depraved Homosexual Marriage Segment

Via William Jacobson, "Obligatory — Krystal Ball uses daughter as prop."

And see the comments at NewsBusters, "MSNBC Now Uses 4-Year-Old Daughter of Anchor to Push For Gay Marriage."

The child is 4-years-old. That's literally child abuse. As William writes:

Regardless of your position on gay marriage, it’s very disturbing to see a child used this way on television — but then again, it’s Krystal Ball and MSNBC, so almost nothing is surprising.

Another Syrian Rebel Dude Gets His Head Blown to Bits

At Blazing Cat Fur.

They're cracking me up in the comments: "Syrian Rambo Takes a Headshot."

'Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For' Listed in Amazon's 'Must Read Lesbian Books for Teens'

So I'm over at Theo Spark's and he's got this post up, "What Liberals Read."

One of the titles is "Pre-Teen Lesbianism: Tips, Tactics, Tools."

And I'm thinking, okay, that's got to be a Photoshop, so I check Amazon for the title. And what comes up? Well, it's worse: "Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for: Cartoons." Seriously. There's a whole section over there: "Must Read Lesbian Books for Teens."

Parenting these days. It's harder than you think.

President Obama Apologizes to California Attorney General Kamala Harris

I tweeted on this yesterday:

Okay, so O outs himself as a playa appreciating him some fine black booty. Who knew?

And now at the Los Angeles Times, "Obama apologizes for Kamala Harris remark; some cry sexism."

And from Garance Franke-Ruta, at the Atlantic, "Why Obama's ‘Best-Looking Attorney General’ Comment Was a Gaffe." And Althouse responds, "'Women today operate" in "two worlds": "the system of beauty, and the system of power'."

I thought there were 2 systems, beauty and power. But beauty is a system of power. Franke-Ruta stumbles over her own jargon. The word "system" was already too much. What makes beauty or power a "system"? Back in the 1960s, we were always complaining about "the system." It's the system, man. So it's a word that sets off my bullshit detector. What does it mean to say "Beauty is a system of power, deeply rooted, preceding all others, richly rewarded"?

Via Memeorandum.

Site Meter Domain Name Expires — UPDATE: It's Working! Site Meter's Working Again! Hallelujah!

Doug Ross reports, "Epic fail by analytics company Sitemeter: forgets to renew domain name."

Site Meter's been sucking for awhile. Here's James Joyner from last summer, "Is SiteMeter Finally Dead?"

I think it's dead now. When it worked well, the service was the best for instant feedback on your visitors. But it's not the only service I use. Feedjit Live is more fun, especially during traffic surges. And eXTReMe Tracking is way more reliable.

I don't see a post from Althouse yet, but she's been a full subscriber at Site Meter for years. She'll no doubt  have some complaints posted soon enough, especially as Site Meter apparently threw in the towel without any formal notification to customers.

UPDATE: Site Meter's back. Amazingly, I've been offline throughout the interlude. Robert Stacy McCain reports, "Did SiteMeter Commit Suicide? - UPDATE: It’s Working Again, But Unfortunately, My Traffic Sucks."

And Ed Driscoll reflects on the service, "Sitemeter Suicide?":

Sitemeter must have rolling server repair issues, as my counter was out yesterday and — knock on Formica — appears to be back, but now others are experiencing issues today. Also, as with their mammoth outage last year, their technical support seems to have fallen into a black hole; while the product still works (most of the time), Sitemeter reps never respond, beyond an automated ticket, to outage issues. Needless to say, this is not good customer support.

Well, as I mentioned at the main post above, I use other stat-counters in addition to Site Meter, although when it's working, I go to Site Meter first. It's got a great layout and attractive display of information, and the information is delivered in real time. Enjoy.

Oops! Jeremy Irons on Homosexual Marriage: 'Could a Father Not Marry His Son?'

Well, shoot. Some folks keep drawing all these politically incorrect conclusions, and now Jeremy Irons? I'm impressed. He's libertarian, apparently.

At Astute Bloggers, "I LOVE JEREMY IRONS — LIBERTARIAN."

Sure to give paroxysms to the depraved progressives.

Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated 45 Years Ago Today

I read this piece earlier, on my iPhone during the drive home from Temecula. It's from 1968 at the New York Review:

The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King by Elizabeth Hardwick (1968) #longreads j.mp/Zb2Oq2
— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) April 4, 2013

In the march and at the funeral of Martin Luther King, the mood of the earlier Civil Rights days in Alabama and Mississippi returned—a reunion of the family at the grave. And no one could doubt that there had been a longing for the reunion among the white ministers and students, the liberals from the large cities. The “love”—locked arms, songs, comradeship—all of that was remembered with nostalgia and feeling, like Irish Revolutionaries remembering Easter Sunday. This love, if not actually refused, was seldom forthcoming in relations with new black militants, who were determined to break the dependency of the black people even on the cooperation, energy, and checkbooks of the guilty, longing, loving whiteys. Everything separated the old Civil Rights people from the new militants, even the use of language. The harsh, obscene style, the unforgiving stares, the insulting accusations and refusal to make distinctions between bad whites and good—this was humbling and perplexing. Many of the white people had created their very self-identity out of issues and distinctions. They felt cast off, ill at ease with the new street rhetoric of “self-defense” and “self-determination.”....

The murder of Martin Luther King was a national disgrace. This we said over and over and it would be cynical to hint at fraudulent feelings in the scramble for suitable acts of penance. Levittowns would henceforth not abide by local rulings, but would practice open housing; Walter Reuther offered $50,000 to the poor sanitation workers of Memphis, the Field Foundation gave a million to the Southern Christian Leadership movement; New England boarding schools offered scholarships to the King children; Congress acted on the open housing bill. Nevertheless, the mundane continued to nudge the eternal. In 125 cities there was burning and looting; smoke rose over Washington.

RELATED: From Joel Pollak, at Big Government, "The Left Has Been Undermining Dr. King's Legacy for Decades."

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, Takes Disabled Parking Spot as Government Slashes Programs for the Disabled

Folks are outraged, at Mirror UK: "George Osborne parks in disabled bay: Tory Chancellor causes outrage by ignoring restrictions" (via Memeorandum).

Friday's front page exclusive: George Osborne caught parking in disabled bay after cruel cuts to disability benefits twitter.com/DailyMirror/st…

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) April 4, 2013

Meh. Worst thing is giving the idiot progressives a ready target. Not smart, Osborne. (He claimed he didn't know he was in a handicapped spot.)