After Racist Fiasco, Democrat Loretta Sanchez Won't Rule Out Running for Reelection to House

Well, this has gotta be the shortest Senate campaign in the history if congressional elections. She didn't even make it one week, as far as I'm concerned.

If she won't rule out a bid for reelection to her House seat, she's clearly worried about her chances. Sad too. She could have been the first Latina ever elected to the U.S. Senate.

At the Los Angeles Times, "After 'war cry' fiasco, Loretta Sanchez doesn't rule out another run for Congress":

With her U.S. Senate campaign off to a bumpy start, Loretta Sanchez refused Sunday to rule out the possibility of running instead for reelection to the House of Representatives.

At a brief question-and-answer session with reporters, Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) first declined to elaborate on her apology to state Democratic convention delegates Sunday morning for making a stereotypical Native American “war cry” gesture in remarks to a crowd the day before.

“I think I’ve said everything I’m going to say on that subject,” Sanchez said.

Asked then whether there was any chance she’d opt to seek reelection to the House next year if her Senate campaign appeared to be in trouble, the Santa Ana lawmaker responded, “Let me be very clear: I am running for the United States Senate. Thank you.”

Asked to specify whether she was ruling out a run for reelection, Sanchez said: “I am running for the United States Senate, and we’re running full bore to talk to people up and down California, and we think that by the time we finish, and [the June 2016 primary] rolls around, we’re going to be moving into the general election.”

Sanchez entered the Senate race Thursday and faces an uphill fight against another Democrat, state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, who launched her campaign in January.

By the end of March, Harris had banked more than $2.2 million for the campaign, more than quadruple the nearly $540,000 in campaign money that Sanchez had on hand, according to their most recent campaign finance reports...

She can't run for both seats simultaneously. My money's on her running for her old seat in a desperate bid to hold on to power.

A desperate racist Democrat. Aren't they all.

2-Year-Old Girl Dies After Being Struck by Falling Brick on Upper West Side

She was just a baby.

Sad.

At CBS News New York, "Police: Child Struck By Debris On Upper West Side Is Dead."

Also at NYDN, "Greta Greene, 2, dies day after hit by falling bricks in Upper West Side; parents will donate her organs."

Leftists Attack 'Racist' Duke University Political Scientist Jerry Hough!

"Microagressions = micro-nooses."

Man, it's getting hard out there for a prog --- an "old, white" prog who voted for Barack!

At the Charlotte Observer, "Duke professor responds to criticism about his comments on African Americans":

In online comments, Duke professor #JerryHough negatively compared black people to Asians. http://t.co/XMgAqcvjnd pic.twitter.com/gFzT528xhV

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) May 18, 2015

Stop trying to pit Asians against African-Americans, you racist, idiotic, old white man. We're not taking the bait.http://t.co/zlMe8dX5Eg

— J. Mijin Cha (@jmijincha) May 18, 2015

A Duke University professor faced sharp criticism for online comments he made on The New York Times website, where he compared “the blacks” and “the Asians,” writing that Asians “didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.”

In a six-paragraph comment on the Times website, political science professor Jerry Hough wrote: “The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.”

Hough did not agree to be interviewed, but late Friday he said in an email that his comments were misunderstood. He had been prompted to write about a May 9 editorial in the New York Times on the Baltimore riots and underlying factors of segregation and poverty. He said the editorial should have called for the mayor of Baltimore to resign, instead of blaming white racism.

“I don’t know if you will find anyone to agree with me,” he said in an email to The News & Observer. “Anyone who says anything is a racist and ignorant as I was called by a colleague. The question is whether you want to get involved in the harassment and few do. I am 80 and figure I can speak the truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.”

In his New York Times comment, Hough praised Asians. “Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration,” his online comment said. “Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.”

The comment concluded: “It was appropriate that a Chinese design won the competition for the Martin Luther King state (sic). King helped them overcome. The blacks followed Malcolm X.”

Hough was swiftly blasted on Twitter and other social media sites. Duke officials decried the professor’s comments while defending his right to make them.

Mark Anthony Neal, a Duke professor of African and African American Studies, responded on his blog by pasting a screen shot of the comment, with this: “In the words of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, microagressions = micro-nooses--Mark Anthony Neal.” Bonilla-Silva is a Duke sociology professor.

In an email, Hough said he was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s and voted for President Barack Obama. He pointed out that the first book he assigned to students in 1961 was “Black Like Me.” He further stated that one of the best students he ever taught was African American, and he had encouraged her to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, but she pursued a career in athletics.

He said he’s working on a book on the 1960s social revolutions and that “I am very disappointed in the lack of progress” for African Americans.

“The point I was raising was why the Asians who were oppressed did so well and are integrating so well, and the blacks are not doing as well,” his email said. “The comments have convinced me to write a book which will add the Asians to all the research I did on blacks.”

He also admitted his comment in the New York Times was not expressed as well as he had intended: “There were typos in my outrage towards [the editorial] and I could have been more careful (though hard in the space limits).”

Of course, the university has "condemned" the professor's "insensitivity."

Mt. St. Helens Eruption 35 Years Ago Today

I wasn't reading the newspapers too much back in 1980, but I remember when National Geographic came out with its cover story on the eruption. I was absolutely fascinated. I've never forgotten the pictures from that edition and whenever I visit friends with a National Geographic collection, I always go and find that issue. (See, "Mountain With a Death Wish.")

USA Today had a great graphic report over the weekend, "Mount St. Helens: Facts about deadliest U.S. volcanic event 35 years later."

I was watching a bunch of videos of the eruption on YouTube last night, at the U.S. Geological Survey page in particular. Check it out on Google.

Bristol Palin, Dakota Meyer Wedding Called Off, Says Sarah Palin

Well, it's from Sarah Palin Herself, via Twitter:

Bristol and Dakota couldn’t be more thankful for the love and support of family and friends over the past months... http://t.co/gpu7xgwXNy

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) May 18, 2015

Also at London's Daily Mail, "Bristol Palin's Saturday wedding CALLED OFF with just five days to go: Sarah Palin announces cancelled nuptials in Facebook post days after ex-Marine groom's 'secret ex-wife was revealed'."

Black Leftist Saida Grundy, Boston University Sociology Professor, Attacks White Rape Victim in Vicious Facebook Posts

Oh boy this is ugly.

Pretty typical for leftists though. You can see why these people are seen as toxic hulks of radioactivity to be avoided at all costs.

At iOWNTHEWORLD Report, "“Self-important and condescending academics are nothing unusual, but mocking a traumatized rape victim crosses a line”." Following the links takes us to Fox News, "Boston University prof in racist tweet flap accused of trolling white rape victim."

Also at London's Daily Mail, "'Go cry somewhere': Hateful words of black Boston University professor to a white rape survivor written on Facebook three months before she claimed white men are 'THE problem for America's colleges'."

"Hateful words" alright.

The left is full of hate. Hate, hate, hate. Hate all the time. Ghouls.




RELATED: At College Insurrection, "Newly Hired Boston University Prof Bashes Whites and Men on Twitter," and "Boston University Responds to Prof’s Racist Tweets Aimed at White Men."

Ceding Civilization to Barbarism

A thought-provoking entry from Bob Belvedere, at the Camp of the Saints, "The Budding Flower of Savagery [UPDATED]."

Running With the Predators

From Heather Mac Donald, at City Journal, "Liberal elites continue to condemn law enforcement and excuse inner-city crime":

Starting in late summer 2014, a protest movement known as Black Lives Matter convulsed the country. Triggered by the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the movement claimed that blacks are still oppressed by widespread racism, especially within law enforcement. The police subject black communities to a gratuitous regime of stops and arrests, resulting in the frequent use of lethal force against black men, according to the activists and their media and academic allies. Indeed, America’s police are the greatest threat facing young black men today, the protesters charged. New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio announced in December that he worries “every night” about the “dangers” his biracial son may face from “officers who are paid to protect him.” Less than three weeks later, a thug from Brooklyn, inspired by the nationwide anti-cop agitation, assassinated two New York police officers.

The protest movement’s indictment of law enforcement took place without any notice of the actual facts regarding policing and crime. One could easily have concluded from the agitation that black and white crime rates are identical. Why the police focus on certain neighborhoods and what the conditions are on the ground were questions left unasked.

The year 2014 also saw the publication of a book that addressed precisely the questions that the Black Lives Matter movement ignored. Alice Goffman, daughter of the influential sociologist Erving Goffman, lived in an inner-city Philadelphia neighborhood from 2002 to 2008, integrating herself into the lives of a group of young crack dealers. Her resulting book, On the Run, offers a detailed and startling ethnography of a world usually kept far from public awareness and discourse. It has been widely acclaimed; a film or TV adaptation may be on the way. But On the Run is an equally startling—if unintentional—portrait of the liberal elite mind-set. Goffman draws a devastating picture of cultural breakdown within the black underclass, but she is incapable of acknowledging the truth in front of her eyes, instead deeming her subjects the helpless pawns of a criminal-justice system run amok.

At the center of On the Run are three half-brothers and their slightly older friend Mike, all of whom live in a five-block area of Philadelphia that Goffman names Sixth Street. Sixth Street, we are told, isn’t viewed as a particularly high-crime area, which can only leave the reader wondering what an actual high-crime area would look like. In her six years living there, Goffman attended nine funerals of her young associates and mentions several others, including one for “three kids” paid for by local drug dealers, eager to cement their support in the community.

Goffman contends that it is the legal system itself that is creating crime and dysfunction in poor black communities. Young men get saddled with a host of allegedly petty warrants for having missed court dates, violated their parole and probation conditions, and ducked the administrative fees levied on their criminal cases. Fearful of being rounded up under these senseless procedural warrants, they adopt a lifestyle of subterfuge and evasion, constantly in flight from an increasingly efficient and technology-enhanced police force. “Once a man fears that he will be taken by the police, it is precisely a stable and public daily routine of work and family life . . . that allows the police to locate him,” Goffman writes. “A man in legal jeopardy finds that his efforts to stay out of prison are aligned not with upstanding, respectable action but with being a shady and distrustful character.”

Goffman’s own material demolishes this thesis. On the Run documents a world of predation and law-of-the-jungle mores, riven with violence and betrayal. Far from being the hapless victims of random “legal entanglements”—Goffman’s euphemism for the foreseeable consequences of lawless behavior—her subjects create their own predicaments through deliberate involvement in crime...

Keep reading.

Anthropology 101 — 'Cultural Diversity' — Replaces American History Requirement at Sacramento State

No joke.

Students at Sacramento State can satisfy their U.S. history requirement by taking Anthropology 101 — "Cultural Diversity."

At Blazing Cat Fur, "California State University Approves U.S. “History” Course That Teaches No History."

The Triple Crown: We Want Answers

I really think American Pharoah's the one. I really do.

At WSJ, "A roundtable discussion about American Pharoah’s chances at the Belmont Stakes; will Charlie Brown finally kick the ball?"



Also at NYT, "American Pharoah Will Run Against History at Belmont."

Democrat Loretta Sanchez Apologizes for Racist Native American 'War Cry'

Definitely the thing to do. You want to apologize and move on after a racist Democrat slur like that.

At the O.C. Register, "Loretta Sanchez apologizes for remark many criticized":

U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez apologized Sunday after a videotape surfaced showing her making a whooping cry in reference to Native Americans that brought her a cascade of reprimands from fellow Democrats to posts on Twitter.

Speaking to party activists at a state Democratic convention Sunday, Sanchez described herself as a longtime champion of civil and human rights who has Native American blood in her mother's family. She said she had a hectic day of speeches and handshaking at the convention Saturday and was not the type of politician routinely managed or sheltered by "handlers."

"It's hard to put yourself out there and to do what leaders need to do — day in and day out — and yes, sooner or later we make mistakes," she told the delegates. "In this crazy and exciting rush of meetings yesterday, I said something offensive and for that I sincerely apologize."

More.

And hey, a Kamala Harris operative caught the racist gaffe on video. Well played Kamala Harris. Well played.

PREVIOUSLY: "Democrat Loretta Sanchez Makes Racist Native American 'War Cry' at State Party Convention (VIDEO)."

Stanford Band Banned from Road Games Next Year for Alchohol Abuse, Sexual Harassment

At the San Francisco Chronicle, "Behaviorally challenged Stanford band gets in jam again."

And watch, at CBS News San Francisco, "Stanford Band Banned From Road Trips Next Season For Alcohol Abuse, Hazing And Sexual Harassment."

Victoria's Secret Model Lily Aldridge for Maxim

Stunning.

The Right Baits the Left to Turn Against Hillary Clinton

HRC's the only game in town for the left. The right can bait the left until Kingdom come and it won't mean jack --- that is, until Elizabeth Warren enters the race.

Now that would be interesting.

In any case, I don't put much credibility into this report, at the New York Times. But we'll see. Maybe Bernie Sanders will be able to knock her down a couple of pegs.

BONUS: Watch America Rising PAC's "Unethical" Hillary attack.

Base Jumper Dean Potter Killed at Yosemite

You can only defy the odds for so long.

At Outside, "Dean Potter Killed in BASE-Jumping Accident."

And at the Los Angeles Times, "Extreme athlete Dean Potter dies in BASE jumping accident in Yosemite."

Here's Potter in a National Geographic video from 2012:

The Attack on FrontPage Magazine from the Leftist Jewish Federation of Orange County

From the editors at FrontPage, "The Attack on Frontpage from the Jewish Federation of Orange County":

Unable to withstand criticism from their shameful attacks on Jewish students and pro-Israel activists exposed by Frontpage, the Jewish Federation of Orange County (JFOC) has taken to the media to slander our publication. These calumnies must not go unanswered.

On May 4th, Frontpage made public serious reports of misbehavior on the part of the JFOC at a student-run pro-Israel event held at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). One of the most notable revelations of the piece was a report that JFOC representative Lisa Armony was witnessed attempting to move pro-Israel activists waving Israeli flags away from anti-Israel protesters who ambushed the event.

Writing on behalf of the JFOC in the Jerusalem Post, Armony’s primary complaint was that Frontpage’s coverage was based on “unsubstantiated” information from “unnamed sources.”

In fact, the information directly related to Lisa Armony and the JFOC in this incident was based on a named eyewitness’ account of Armony’s activity. Gary Fouse, a lecturer at UCI and credible witness, confidently affirmed to Frontpage what he saw. We subsequently reported this eyewitness account, taking the utmost care with the accuracy of its presentation. As such, accusations that Frontpage’s coverage of this incident was flawed are simply false.

Of course, the JFOC’s reprehensible behavior as detailed in Frontpage’s May 4th report involves much more than just flags. Of note is what the JFOC did not deny in its article in the Post. JFOC President and CEO Shalom Elcott engaged in an unhinged verbal attack on the 21-year-old female student president of Anteaters For Israel (AFI), the student group that hosted the campus pro-Israel event at UCI. Numerous witnesses recounted to Frontpage Elcott screaming at this young pro-Israel leader, bringing her to tears in the middle of the public event. The student herself, Sharon Shaoulian, confirmed this to Frontpage.

The mistreatment of Shaoulian is deeply disturbing and warrants a public apology. While the JFOC decries Jews “turning against one another” in its Post article, the first place to start to remedy this is clearly at the federation itself.

Also conspicuously absent from the denials issued by the JFOC is the report, witnessed last year by Shaoulian, of a student being screamed at by another representative of the federation after she called police following her injury from anti-Israel protesters. Such behavior should only be expected from an organization that donated tens of thousands of dollars to a campus group, the Olive Tree Initiative, that arranged a secret meeting between students and a leader of the terrorist organization Hamas in 2009. This same campus organization exposes students to indoctrination by world leaders in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the terrorism-supporting International Solidarity Movement (ISM). This, again, was neither denied nor explained by the JFOC in its attack on Frontpage in the Post.

Without a doubt the JFOC has much to answer for. The JFOC can be assured Frontpage will continue our no-holds-barred coverage of its brazen attacks on Jewish students and pro-Israel activists without apology.

Leftists are terrible people, but you knew that.

More from Gary Fouse, "UC Irvine Gets a Mention in the Jerusalem Post -- For All the Wrong Reasons." And, "Pro-Palestinians Mar I-Fest at UC Irvine."

Leftists just can't let anyone else be. They just can't. If they don't like you and your positions, they'll try to destroy you. That's what they do. That's who they are. Hateful, despicable ghouls.

Sunday Biker Gang Shootout in Waco Leaves Nine Dead

At KWTX-TV News 10 Waco, "Sunday Biker Gang Shooting Leaves Nine Dead, 16 Injured."

Nine dead, now that's a shoot out. https://t.co/RWe5nzu6S1

— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) May 17, 2015

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."



More at Randy's Roundtable, "Friday Nite Funnies," and Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's SUNDAY FUNNIES."

Cartoon Credit: Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – In The Bag."

The Real Teens of Silicon Valley

Fascinating.

At the California Sunday Magazine, "Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon Valley to join tech startups":

As the demand for tech labor grows, ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco. There’s no official tally of the number of teens who work in tech, but Fontenot estimates that there are as many as a hundred recent high school dropouts working on startups in the city. Some were too distracted by programming projects and weekend hackathons to go to class. Others couldn’t pay for college and questioned why they should go into debt when there is easy money to be made. Still others had already launched successful apps or businesses and didn’t see why they should wait at home for their lives to start. In Facebook groups for young technologists, they saw an alternative: teens lounging in sunny Dolores Park (dolo, as they call it), teens leasing expansive South of Market office space, teens throwing parties whenever they want. And so they moved to San Francisco, many of them landing in houses like Mission Control.

Their parents watch from afar, some more supportive than others. “We just miss him. We miss him a lot,” Tanya Latta, Zach’s mom, told me. “But the ultimate goal for us as parents is to have our kids be able to be self-sufficient and happy. So when we saw that he’s reached out a little early, we were really happy that he’s in his element. But it happened so fast.”

RTWT.

Islamic State Takes Ramadi

At CNN, "ISIS takes Ramadi as reinforcements surge into city."

Watch: "ISIS captures Ramadi."