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— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 25, 2017
Saturday, March 25, 2017
'Fiery G.O.P. Civil War' Erupts After Collapse of Health Care Repeal Bill
At the New York Times (where else?), via Memeorandum, "Trump Becomes Ensnared in Fiery G.O.P. Civil War."
Violence at Pro-Trump MAGA Rally in Huntington Beach (VIDEO)
Not good, but probably inevitable, given the murderous hatred of the radical left.
At the O.C. Register, "Pro-Trump rally draws 2,000 marchers, some protesters and a violent brawl."
At the O.C. Register, "Pro-Trump rally draws 2,000 marchers, some protesters and a violent brawl."
Violence erupts in Huntington Beach between protesters and Pro-Trump marchers. @ocregister #protest #HuntingtonBeach #trump pic.twitter.com/3mBuJu2Ukz
— Kevin Sullivan (@sullikevphoto) March 25, 2017
Lots of Trump supporters down here at the #Maga rally in Huntington Beach @ocregister pic.twitter.com/469n2pNAEc
— Kelly Puente (@KellyPuenteOC) March 25, 2017
Trump supporters at #MAGA rally in Huntington Beach @ocregister pic.twitter.com/0jvAuNwtcm
— Kelly Puente (@KellyPuenteOC) March 25, 2017
Good sized crowds supporting Trump at #MAGA rally in Huntington Beach @ocregister pic.twitter.com/5GTawWad9C
— Kelly Puente (@KellyPuenteOC) March 25, 2017
Sea of red, white and blue at #MAGA rally in Huntington Beach. @ocregister pic.twitter.com/D0GPrCFVQb
— Kelly Puente (@KellyPuenteOC) March 25, 2017
I've Started Fergus Bordewich's, Killing the White Man's Indian
I'm alternating today between Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, and Fergus Bordewich, Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century.
Sometimes I need a little breather from the unrelenting anti-Americanism of the leftist approaches, especially in Dunbar-Ortiz, who's a revolutionary Marxist.
Bordewich, on the other hand, offers the most balanced interpretation of the American Indian experience I've read, at least among the more recent publications in the genre. (When we go back to some of the older historians, like Robert Utley, they too offer balanced and pleasurable interpretations. It's just that Dunbar-Ortiz, while recommended, is pretty intense --- indeed, I'll have some longer comments on her book when I've finished it.)
Purchase the Bordewich volume at Amazon.
Sometimes I need a little breather from the unrelenting anti-Americanism of the leftist approaches, especially in Dunbar-Ortiz, who's a revolutionary Marxist.
Bordewich, on the other hand, offers the most balanced interpretation of the American Indian experience I've read, at least among the more recent publications in the genre. (When we go back to some of the older historians, like Robert Utley, they too offer balanced and pleasurable interpretations. It's just that Dunbar-Ortiz, while recommended, is pretty intense --- indeed, I'll have some longer comments on her book when I've finished it.)
Purchase the Bordewich volume at Amazon.
Kara Del Toro at 'Power Rangers' Premiere (PHOTOS)
She's beautiful.
At I Don't Like You in That Way, "Kara Del Toro Did the ‘Power Rangers’ Premiere in This Dress."
At I Don't Like You in That Way, "Kara Del Toro Did the ‘Power Rangers’ Premiere in This Dress."
Vogue's First Transgender Cover Model
It's Vogue Paris, but she's so hot you wouldn't know she's trans.
At Evil Beet Gossip, "March Vogue: First Trans Model to Cover the Mag!"
And at Telegraph U.K., "French Vogue to become the country’s first magazine to feature a transgender model on its cover."
At Evil Beet Gossip, "March Vogue: First Trans Model to Cover the Mag!"
And at Telegraph U.K., "French Vogue to become the country’s first magazine to feature a transgender model on its cover."
Mountain House Breakfast Bucket
At Amazon, Mountain House Just In Case...Breakfast Bucket.
Also, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Anniversary WindTunnel Self Propelled Bagged Corded Upright Vacuum U6485900.
Plus, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - White.
Coaster Home Furnishings 460096 Transitional Bunk Bed, Amber Wash.
More, "U.S. Art Supply 133pc Deluxe Artist Painting Set with Aluminum and Wood Easels, Paint and Accessories.
Fitness Reality E5500XL Magnetic Elliptical Trainer.
And, Whiskey & Rum Barrel Aged Coffee Beans Gourmet Coffee Gift Set by Cooper's Cask Coffee, Single Origin Coffee Beans (Sumatra, Ethiopia, Rwanda) - Three 4oz Bags, Whole Coffee Bean.
BONUS: Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal.
Also, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Anniversary WindTunnel Self Propelled Bagged Corded Upright Vacuum U6485900.
Plus, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - White.
Coaster Home Furnishings 460096 Transitional Bunk Bed, Amber Wash.
More, "U.S. Art Supply 133pc Deluxe Artist Painting Set with Aluminum and Wood Easels, Paint and Accessories.
Fitness Reality E5500XL Magnetic Elliptical Trainer.
And, Whiskey & Rum Barrel Aged Coffee Beans Gourmet Coffee Gift Set by Cooper's Cask Coffee, Single Origin Coffee Beans (Sumatra, Ethiopia, Rwanda) - Three 4oz Bags, Whole Coffee Bean.
BONUS: Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal.
Without God, All Morality is Mere Opinion
Here's Dennis Prager, "If There Is No God, Murder Isn't Wrong
Epic 'Implosion' of GOP's American Health Care Act of 2017
Following-up from yesterday, "'Spectacular Defeat for Trump'."
Here's today's dramatic front-page story at the Los Angeles Times, "GOP dreams of repealing Obamacare collapse as Trump pulls vote on House bill":
Here's today's dramatic front-page story at the Los Angeles Times, "GOP dreams of repealing Obamacare collapse as Trump pulls vote on House bill":
Today's LAT front: pic.twitter.com/pJvM5tfu8m— Lisa Mascaro (@LisaMascaro) March 25, 2017
President Trump, elected on a promise to use his deal-making prowess to get Washington working, blinked Friday in the face of defeat, agreeing to halt a House vote on a GOP healthcare overhaul amid crumbling Republican support.More.
The move came just hours after the White House insisted the vote would go forward regardless of the outcome, and followed Trump’s extraordinary ultimatum Thursday night, when he told rebellious lawmakers that if they didn’t vote for the bill, he would move on to other priorities.
To avoid an embarrassing vote, Trump asked House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to abandon the effort.
The collapse of the bill — legislation that managed to displease both Republican conservatives and centrists — dashed the party’s immediate hopes of fulfilling a longtime campaign promise to repeal and replace President Obama’s signature healthcare law, also called Obamacare.
Trump made a hard, last-minute push for the GOP bill. His spokesman said Friday that the president "left everything on the field."
In an Oval Office appearance after the vote was pulled, Trump described it as a “very interesting experience.” He praised his fellow Republicans and deflected blame on Democrats — who opposed the bill. He also said he’d learned something about “loyalty,” apparently referring to the GOP defections.
Trump predicted the country would eventually need to revisit the issue, saying, “We will end up with a truly great healthcare bill in the future after this mess that is Obamacare explodes.”
Both Trump and Ryan, however, said the Republican Party had no plan to revive the repeal-and-replace effort anytime soon, so the current healthcare law will remain in place.
The defeat exposed Trump’s limits as negotiator in chief and raised doubts about his administration’s ability to achieve the rest of its conservative agenda, including tax cuts, deregulation and trade reform.
The fallout was also a setback for Ryan. Critics say the legislation was crafted too quickly and without enough input from other lawmakers or consultation with industry and interest groups.
"Hopefully there will be a lesson learned that let’s work together to write the bill instead of writing it in private," said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).
The failure will only complicate the odd-couple partnership between Ryan and Trump. The president may think twice next time about relying on the speaker to lead legislative campaigns. Though Trump signaled his continued support Friday for Ryan to remain in his post, and many lawmakers were standing by his side, finger-pointing over what went wrong is bound to linger.
Ryan could have afforded to lose no more than about 21 Republican votes to reach the 216 needed for passage. Defections were estimated at one point to be 30 or more.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus wanted Trump and Ryan to go further and faster in unwinding Obamacare rules and taxes. Centrist Republicans were worried the GOP plan would leave too many Americans without health insurance.
“Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains and, well, we’re feeling those growing pains today," Ryan said. "We came up short.”
The GOP defeat marked a victory for a broad coalition of patient advocates, physician groups and hospitals, which had mounted an intense and sustained campaign to highlight the damage they said the bill would do to patients' medical care.
Congressional offices reported a huge influx of calls urging a "no" vote on the bill...
So Much Snow in Mammoth Lakes, National Guard Called to Help Remove Snowpack
I love this story.
So much snow, reservoirs spilling over with record water totals, and the state will still say we're in a "drought."
At LAT:
So much snow, reservoirs spilling over with record water totals, and the state will still say we're in a "drought."
At LAT:
Mammoth got so much snow this winter that it had to call in the National Guard for help https://t.co/7MNjVQjSfX pic.twitter.com/F0g03XWS2X
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 25, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
'Spectacular Defeat for Trump'
I'm just reading books. I haven't turned on the TV all day, but saw some news on Twitter.
Of course the New York Times would run with this headline on the GOP healthcare bill, at Memeorandum, "In Spectacular Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails."
Of course the New York Times would run with this headline on the GOP healthcare bill, at Memeorandum, "In Spectacular Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails."
Trump and aides pushed for a health vote so they could shame Republicans who opposed it. Paul Ryan talked them down. https://t.co/80nY1nBwrO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 24, 2017
Christina El Moussa Looks Spectacular in a Bikini
Heh.
Instapundit's posting some Rule 5, "A “REVENGE BODY?” I’ve never really seen the point of that, but whatever. It’s Blog Sweeps Week!"
Also, at People Magazine, "See Christina El Moussa’s cute matching bikini with her daughter Taylor."
And at the Wrap, "‘Flip or Flop’ Star Christina El Moussa Blasted for ‘Completely Inappropriate’ Mother-Daughter Bikini Photo."
It's just a bikini, for crying out loud.
Now, don't get me going about the divorce (that's another story).
Instapundit's posting some Rule 5, "A “REVENGE BODY?” I’ve never really seen the point of that, but whatever. It’s Blog Sweeps Week!"
Also, at People Magazine, "See Christina El Moussa’s cute matching bikini with her daughter Taylor."
And at the Wrap, "‘Flip or Flop’ Star Christina El Moussa Blasted for ‘Completely Inappropriate’ Mother-Daughter Bikini Photo."
It's just a bikini, for crying out loud.
Now, don't get me going about the divorce (that's another story).
Shop Toys and Games
At Amazon, Toys & Games.
And reposting my frontier book links:
See Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890.
Bernard DeVoto, The Course of Empire.
And, Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West.
Allan Nevins, Frémont: Pathmarker of the West.
More, Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific.
Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West.
Plus, Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860.
BONUS: ICYMI, Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
And reposting my frontier book links:
See Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890.
Bernard DeVoto, The Course of Empire.
And, Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West.
Allan Nevins, Frémont: Pathmarker of the West.
More, Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific.
Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West.
Plus, Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860.
BONUS: ICYMI, Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
Louis S. Warren, God's Red Son
A brand-new book, out April 4th.
At Amazon, Louis S. Warren, God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America.
At Amazon, Louis S. Warren, God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America.
In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To this day, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to resist American conquest and return to traditional ways. In fact, followers of the Ghost Dance sought to thrive in modern America by working for wages, farming the land, and educating their children, tenets that helped the religion endure for decades after Wounded Knee. God's Red Son powerfully reveals how Ghost Dance teachings helped Indians retain their identity and reshape the modern world.
Motion 103 (VIDEO)
At PuffHo Canada, "M-103: Anti-Islamophobia Motion Easily Passes House of Commons."
Also, from Rex Murphy, at Toronto's National Post, "The anti-Islamophobia motion has passed. And what today has changed for the better?"
And let Faith Goldy tell us all about it:
Also, from Rex Murphy, at Toronto's National Post, "The anti-Islamophobia motion has passed. And what today has changed for the better?"
And let Faith Goldy tell us all about it:
Why Birmingham's Such a Breeding-Ground for British-Born Terror
Well, all of Britain's gone to hell with jihad.
But see Blazing Cat Fur, "London Attack: Why Has Birmingham Become Such a Breeding Ground for British-Born Terror?"
But see Blazing Cat Fur, "London Attack: Why Has Birmingham Become Such a Breeding Ground for British-Born Terror?"
Judith Matloff, No Friends but the Mountains
An Amazon #1 New Release, Judith Matloff, No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands.
And at the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor:
And at the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor:
Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Judith Matloff on Why Mountains Attract War https://t.co/4kSwjR74YM
— Lara Heimert (@LaraHeimert) March 22, 2017
.@csmonitor calls Judith Matloff's #NoFriendsbuttheMountains a "crushing investigation into mountain mayhem" https://t.co/S4tZtSG5eb
— Basic Books (@BasicBooks) March 10, 2017
What's Left of the Communist Left?
Well, the old-line Marxist-Leninists may be out, but Gramscian neo-Marxist post-colonial social justice warriors are still definitely in.
It's a weird paradox, actually, but that's the world we live in.
Read this outstanding review of the scholarly literature on the Russian Revolution, from Sheila Fitzpatrick, at the London Review of Books, "What's Left?"
Under review:
* China Miéville, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
* Mark D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921.
* S.A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928.
* Sean McMeekin, The Russian Revolution: A New History.
* Tony Brenton, Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution.
It's a weird paradox, actually, but that's the world we live in.
Read this outstanding review of the scholarly literature on the Russian Revolution, from Sheila Fitzpatrick, at the London Review of Books, "What's Left?"
Under review:
The ‘Russian Revolution' brand is in danger. https://t.co/3LKpfXexCJ
— London Review (LRB) (@LRB) March 23, 2017
* China Miéville, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
* Mark D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921.
* S.A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928.
* Sean McMeekin, The Russian Revolution: A New History.
* Tony Brenton, Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution.
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