'Social Justice' Preschoolers March in 'Black Lives Matter' Protest in Oakland

Well, in New York you had the little boy screaming "Fox News Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!"

So the far-left ghouls in Oakland were not to be outdone.

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Preschool protesters march in Oakland":

Oakland's Radical Brownies. http://t.co/Z08waX2rcS pic.twitter.com/M3qNd6r1sw

— David Colburn (@davidcolburn) January 3, 2015

After storytime, the marchers made their own colorful and glittery star, then sang, “This Little Light of Mine.”

The event was a marked departure from the late-night, anger-fueled protests in Oakland over the past several weeks, where people took to the streets to demonstrate against police brutality against minorities and specifically against the killing of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and in New York City.

The parents who attended the Saturday morning playground event said they wanted to participate in the Black Lives Matter movement with their children, but in an age-appropriate way.

“Many families aren’t ready to explain police violence to their kids and I can understand why, it’s complicated and scary,” said Andrea Ibarra-Tacdol in a statement. “Our families are ready to share stories about differences, to teach our little ones to appreciate the diversity of their friends, and to march with other families who believe that black lives matter.”

Neto Cornejo, 2, participated in the short march through the Lake Merritt farmer’s market seated in his red Radio Flyer push bike. He didn’t specifically chant for peace and justice, but he looked like he was having a good time.

“As a Latino person, as a parent, it’s become very apparent — the connection between the Black Lives Matter campaign and the Latino community,” said Neto’s dad, Dani Cornejo, citing common issues like mass incarceration, discrimination and police violence. “That’s why we’re out here, in solidarity.”

Lupita Martinez, 10, was among the older children at the event. She attended with the social justice scouting troop she helped start a month ago: the Radical Brownies, complete with uniform brown vests and berets.

It’s sort of a “brown beret, Black Panther” thing, said her mom and co-founder Anayvette Martinez. “It’s all rooted in social justice for girls of color.”

It was one of the first official activities of the newly formed and unaffiliated troop.

“I like to learn a lot about what’s happening around me,” Lupita said. “It gives me ideas about how to help.”

That's child abuse, seriously.

Two-year-olds cannot comprehend "social justice" and "mass incarceration." Indeed, it's not a protest involving children at all. It's about whacked out far-left parents strutting their "social justice" bona fides like a bunch of drugged-out peacocks.

I mean really. Leftism is like a disease.

Black Lives Matter? 23-Day-Old Infant Dead After Found Battered in East Harlem Apartment (VIDEO)

I'm sure the leftist "Black Lives Matter" thugs will swoop down to East Harlem to launch protests against the inhumanity.

At NYDN, "Battered infant dies after cops find him unconscious in East Harlem apartment."

At CBS News New York:

Anti-Gun Beta Males

Heh, from Katie Pavlich, lol.

I'm going to start a new club: Women Against Anti-Gun Beta Males #2A

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 3, 2015

Obama's Regulatory Siege Holds Back the Economy

Well, in light of my last entry, "Can Robust U.S. Economy Lift Global Markets?"

(Keep in mind, the recent phenomenal U.S. economic performance is in spite of the Obama administration's FUBAR economic policies.)

At IBD, "Obama's Regulatory Siege Holds Back the Economy":

When it comes to costly regulations, Barack Obama is without presidential peer. We believe it's a big reason why the economic recovery from the financial crisis has been the worst ever.

According to data toted up by Competitive Enterprise Institute Fellow Wayne Crews, 2014 ended with 78,978 pages in the Federal Register, the government's regulatory bible. That's the fifth-highest ever. An improvement? Hardly.

As Crews notes, of the "six all-time-high Federal Register page counts, five belong to Obama." Counting the number of pages in the Federal Register is key, since it reflects the general level of regulation in the U.S. economy. In Obama's case, it indicates he's the most regulating president ever.

During the five years of his regulatory siege, the annual average of regulatory pages in the Register has increased by 8% over the preceding five years.

We're not picking nits here. Every rule that goes into effect has an economic impact. And many, if not most, have a negative economic impact — that is, costs outweigh benefits. It's an enormous cost to our economy.

Americans like to wonder why so few new businesses and new jobs are being created these days. Regulation is a big reason.

Still more.

Can Robust U.S. Economy Lift Global Markets?

Good news for the U.S. economy. Not so much for the rest of the world.

At LAT, "Overseas problems won't derail growing U.S. economy, analysts say":

NEW YORK — Call it the Great Divide: The new year figures to be one of robust economic growth in the U.S., with slowdowns, stagnation and setbacks everywhere else in the world.

The list of global problems is indeed long and worrisome. Europe and Japan teeter on the edge of recession. Russia careens toward a full-blown economic crisis. China's once-torrid growth is slowing faster than previously forecast. And many emerging economies are getting slammed by plunging oil prices.

All the overseas problems put together, though, are not enough to derail a strong U.S. economy, Wall Street analysts say. The Commerce Department stunned markets Dec. 23 by reporting that the nation's total economic output grew at an annual pace of 5% in the third quarter. The result blew past an already strong estimate of 3.9%.

"Spirits unleashed," was how Mark Zandi of research firm Moody's Analytics Inc. described the U.S. economy even before the final estimate for the third quarter came in.

The good U.S. economic news, forecasters said, will translate into solid but not spectacular returns in the stock market, which has been on a long bull run.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index was up about 11.4% for 2014, its third straight year of gains since the Great Recession. Most forecasts call for returns to be about half that in 2015 and beyond.

Forecasts can always be wrong, of course, but the new year begins with a set of unusually well-defined themes that, unless something dramatic happens, figure to play an important role in shaping the year's global economic picture. Here are a few of them...

Falling oil prices are a major factor in U.S. economic growth --- to the great consternation of the leftist climate change enviro-freaks.

But keep reading.

Daley Gator's Top 50 Blogs for 2015

The very gracious Doug Hagin includes me near the top of his list of top blogs for the new year.

See, "THE 50 BLOGS YOU MUST FOLLOW IN 2015."

And see Zilla's response as well, "A Spectacular Honor."

Illegal Aliens Begin Getting Driver's Licenses in California

Progress for Mexifornia.

At Town Hall, "Immigrants seek California driver licenses."

And at LAT, "Historic day as immigrants in US illegally begin getting driver's licenses."

Plus, video at CBS News San Francisco, "Undocumented Immigrants In San Jose Begin Seeking Driver’s Licenses Under New AB 60 Law."

Dictator Raul Castro Lays Flowers at Mausoleum of Jose Marti on 56th Anniversary of Cuba's Communist Revolution (VIDEO)

And boy, talk about sending an overwhelming message of impending democratic liberalization, ahem.

Fox News Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!

So the truly demonic "Black Lives Matter" anti-cop vigilantes put a little boy on the street with a sign screaming, "Fox News Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!"

So pathetic. It's almost unreal, but then again, nothing is too low for radical leftists. Nothing is too disgusting or perverse. These ghouls will stop at nothing to destroy the normal order of things --- and in the process they debase a small child's life, to say nothing of all the children they abuse and debase 365 days a year.

See Doug Powers, at Michelle Malkin's, "Protesters in front of Fox News deploy young member of Future Agitators of America."

Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview: Daniel Mael, 'How to Fight the Campus Speech Police...'

This is mind-boggling.

See, "How to Fight the Campus Speech Police: Get a Good Lawyer":

Rolling Stone magazine in November published a 9,000-word account of a horrific gang rape alleged to have occurred in 2012 at a University of Virginia fraternity. The story triggered a national outcry. UVA administrators pre-emptively suspended all fraternal activities on campus, effectively tarring an entire class of students for maintaining a culture of rape and impunity.

Then the original story collapsed. The confusion and anger that followed was a teachable moment about campus frenzies and baseless moral panic. But the episode also threw into high relief another facet of modern higher education: university administrators who, in their eagerness to mollify critics, trample students’ rights and in the process lives and reputations.

Often students from unpopular groups and those who hold unpopular views find themselves alone, facing zealous administrators at closed-door disciplinary hearings. In these places the basic rights of Americans—including the right to counsel, due process, the presumption of innocence and even free speech—don’t apply.

That was the predicament faced by Daniel Mael, a senior majoring in business at Brandeis University near Boston. The 22-year-old native of Newton, Mass., is on the honor roll and has immersed himself in student life, intramural sports and Brandeis’s Orthodox Jewish community. As a student journalist, he has published articles in national outlets.

The problem: Mr. Mael is a pro-Israel man of the right on a campus increasingly hostile to conservatism and the Jewish state. The other problem: The Brandeis administration, as at so many colleges, is more committed to shielding students’ political sensitivities from “harassment” than challenging their minds. Brandeis administrators define harassment so broadly that almost any student could be guilty at any time.

Speaking by phone while on winter vacation in Israel this week, Mr. Mael says: “They try to intimidate students into being silent, in the interest of people’s feelings not being hurt, rather than encourage debate.”...

You gotta RTWT.

Oregon Players Taunt Jameis Winston With 'No Means No!' Chant

From Christine Brennan, at USA Today, "'No means no' chant brought on by Winston":

Oregon coach Mark Helfrich told The Associated Press he plans to discipline the three players who mocked Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston Thursday night at the conclusion of the Ducks' 59-20 Rose Bowl victory, but it should come as no surprise that Winston was the target of the players' "No means no" tomahawk chop chant.

During the post-game celebration, the players' actions were an undeniable reference to the December 2012 allegation of rape against Winston that was all but ignored by authorities for a full year.

While the sight of the three players taunting Winston with FSU's own chant was jarring, it hardly was shocking, considering Winston's considerable resume of trouble. (Linebacker Torrodney Prevot and running back Kani Benoit are identifiable on video; the other player is wearing a T-shirt.)

We're used to seeing college sports fans mock athletes who get into trouble. (Dukies, we're talking about you.)

We're not used to seeing players in uniform representing their school on a national stage mocking opponents, which is likely the reason why the Oregon players will be disciplined.

That said, Winston certainly is an easy target. In addition to the very serious allegation of rape, which was mishandled terribly by the school and the Tallahassee police, he stole soda from a Burger King and crab legs from a Publix. He was handcuffed for possession of a BB gun. And he screamed a vulgarity while standing on a table in the FSU student union.

The Oregon players will be criticized in the national media, and perhaps we'll hear from them in the coming days, but in the meantime, we should be pleased that they actually know the meaning and impact of the "No means no," phrase, and in their own way, shined a light on a famous man accused of rape...

Actually, Winston was supposedly cleared of the rape charges, following a two-year investigation. Who knows what really happened with the rape, although the dude stealing crab legs was caught on camera. The guy's a bleeding idiot.

Jake Tapper interviews Brennan here, "Taunts will follow Jameis Winston in NFL."

And Oregon's players can be seen chanting at PuffHo, "Oregon Players Mock Jameis Winston With 'No Means No!' Chant After Rose Bowl Blowout."

Buckingham Palace Denies Prince Andrew 'Sex Slave' Allegations (VIDEO)

The Other McCain reports, "Ex-Teenage Hooker Says She Was Forced to Have Sex With British Royalty."

And see London's Daily Mail, "Under-age 'sex slave': Duke denies claim in court papers that teen was picked to sleep with him by Robert Maxwell's daughter."

More, "'I will not be bullied into silence': Woman who claims Prince Andrew abused her while she was billionaire's 'underage sex slave' says she is being 'unjustly victimised'."

Of course, the Royal Family has issued a "categorical" denial, via Sky News:

British Prime Minister Warns Labour Leader Ed Miliband Would 'Destroy Jobs' and Create 'Economic Chaos'

Well, leftists tend to destroy and defile entire societies.

The British general election campaign's already shaping up to be a hoot.

At Telegraph UK, "David Cameron: Putting Ed Miliband in Number 10 could trigger 'economic chaos'":

Prime Minister warns that a Labour Government would 'destroy jobs and destroy livelihoods' as he fires first shots of 2015 election campaign with poster launch in Halifax.

Ohio State vs. Oregon: College Football Playoff National Championship 2015

My "Roll Tide!" friends lamblock and Robert Stacy McCain are crestfallen, but I think it's going to be a great championship match-up.

At NYT, "Oregon Looks Bold and Exciting; This Time It’s Not the Uniforms," and "Ohio State Upsets Alabama in Sugar Bowl and Advances to National Championship Game."

What would be a traditional Rose Bowl matchup is the national championship matchup. Old school.

— RB (@RBPundit) January 2, 2015

Confessions of a Hooters Waitress

It's hard out there for a Hooters hottie.

At London's Daily Mail, "Confessions of a Hooters waitress: From $100 tips to fending off 'pervy' men and dealing with angry wives - the truth about America's 'working class sorority'."

Return of the 1960s

From Ben Shapiro, at FrontPage Magazine, "A Dark Past Revived Under America's Radical-in-Chief":

The images of rioters burning down Ferguson mirror the images of rioters burning down Detroit in 1967. Never mind that America of 2014 is not the America of 1967 or 1972 — if Obama and his allies have to recreate that chaotic era to forward their own political ends, they will.

We’re watching the foreign policy of the hard-left McGovernites re-establish itself, this time from the Oval Office. The images of Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., railing against the CIA on the floor of the Senate over the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques mirror the images of Senator Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., railing against the American military in the aftermath of the Winter Soldier hearings of 1971. The images of the Yazidis starving on mountaintops in Iraq mirror the images of Vietnamese rushing onto boats to escape the horrors of the communists in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

We’re watching the divisive domestic politics of the social radicals reassert themselves. The images of failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis standing in pink sneakers to list the glories of late-term abortion mirror the images of Gloria Steinem blathering about “reproductive freedom” in 1971. The images of Nancy Pelosi touting freedom from “job lock” thanks to Obamacare mirror the images of President Johnson effectively doing the same thanks to the war on poverty.

President Obama and his ilk quest for a return to hopier, changier times — times like the 1960s. And so they will take us all back to the future. Sadly, our future will then be no more than a reversion to insanity of our past.

Far-Left Suspect Jarrod Shanahan Arrested in Brooklyn Bridge Attack on NYPD (VIDEO)

More from the left's war on law enforcement, at the New York Post, "‘Male Suspect #2’ in Brooklyn Bridge NYPD attack arrested."

The attack can be seen at this local update from CBS News New York:

Taylor Swift Was Freezing Cold While Performing for 'New Year's Rocking Eve'

I wasn't even watching television until 11:00pm, when I turned on the local news.

It's been cold all across the country this last week. No one's been spared the freezing temperatures. And as the local news segued into the delayed broadcast of the Times Square New Year's revelry, I was pretty surprised to see Taylor Swift strip down to nothing more than some "tuxedo" spandex pants and at little bikini-style top. I said to myself, "She must be freezing."

And sure enough, she was.

At London's Daily Mail, "'I'm freezing!' Taylor Swift shivers in tiny vest top as she leads Fergie, Charli XCX and One Direction at Times Square NYE bash."

Click through for photos.

BONUS: "Oh so Glamorous! Fergie looks incredible in FIVE different show-stopping outfits as she hosts Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."

The Left is All About Revenge

I wrote on this previously, "From Ismaaiyl Brinsley to Barack Obama, Leftist Agenda All About Revenge Against Political Enemies."

Now here comes J.R. Dunn, at American Thinker, "The Left's Base Motive: Vengeance":

American leftism has gotten an awful lot of mileage by monopolizing the moral high ground. It is the sole force in American that favors the poor. The sole enemy of racism. The sole comforter of rape victims. The sole protector of defenseless Muslims. The sole guardian of the environment, and so on ad nauseum.

It all falls apart eventually -- with friends like the left, nobody needs enemies. But often overlooked is that fact that it’s bogus from the start. Any prolonged glance at the left reveals it to be an ideology of power, its major tool violence, its goal revenge.

Leftism has always been about revenge. The works of Marx are filled with fantasies of retribution and judgment. Their tone reeks of resentment and paranoia, with blame cast for even the most trivial. "The bourgeoisie,” Marx once declared in a letter to Engels, “will remember my carbuncles until their dying day.” That’s leftism in a nutshell.

The Paris communards of 1870, the first instance of an actual leftist government-in-being, immediately began shooting bourgeois on taking power, giving full rein to the European hatred for the middle class that is all but incomprehensible to Americans. That practice has been repeated by every hard left government that has ever taken power -- the USSR, communist China, Castroite Cuba, Pol Pot’s Kampuchea, down to minor examples such as Bela Kun’s Hungarian “Regime of Light” (1919), which reintroduced the Roman practice of decimation.

This unvarying tendency toward atrocity suggests that all these regimes had something in common, and it’s not that they all suffered from boils. It’s the lust for vengeance -- revenge for slights and crimes either real or imaginary,  that can be found in every leftist from Nechaev to Bill Ayers. No less than Barack Obama spilled that when, his back apparently against the wall in 2012, he began ranting about “voting for revenge”...

Even more base is the's left's fundamental tenet of ideological hatred. From that springs all else. And if you're outspoken about your views, the left will target you for retaliation. It's all hatred and revenge against those who buck the accepted ideological line.

Keep reading.

Mario Cuomo Dies at 82

Cuomo spoke at Fresno State back in 1992. Definitely an icon of traditional Democratic Party liberalism. No one could articulate the vision of liberal activist government as he could. He was an interesting man.

Here's the outstanding obituary, at the New York Times, "Mario Cuomo, Governor, Governor’s Father and an Eloquent Liberal Beacon, Dies at 82":

In an era when liberal thought was increasingly discredited, Mr. Cuomo, a man of large intellect and often unrestrained personality, celebrated it, challenging Ronald Reagan at the height of his presidency with an expansive and affirmative view of government and a message of compassion, tinged by the Roman Catholicism that was central to Mr. Cuomo’s identity.

A man of contradictions who enjoyed Socratic arguments with himself, Mr. Cuomo seemed to disdain politics even as he embraced it. “What an ugly business this is,” he liked to say. Yet he reveled in it, proving himself an uncommonly skilled politician and sometimes a ruthless one.

He was a tenacious debater and a spellbinding speaker at a time when political oratory seemed to be shrinking to the size of the television set. Delivering the keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, he eclipsed his party’s nominee, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, seizing on Reagan’s description of America as “a shining city on a hill” to portray the president as unaware of impoverished Americans. “Mr. President,” he said, “you ought to know that this nation is more a ‘tale of two cities’ than it is just a ‘shining city on a hill.’ ”

The speech was the high-water mark of his national political career, making him in many ways a more admired figure outside his state than in it.

RTWT. (Via Memeorandum.)