It’s Monday, June 8th, 2015…and here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of NRO, David French details another portion of the Progressive plan to eviscerate the First Amendment:

Title IX, the All-Purpose Leftist Excuse

It allows persecution of anyone who contravenes feminist doctrine.

 

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“If you are a dissenting professor or a male student in modern American higher education, there is a chance that you’ll be subjected to legal proceedings so bizarre, so opaque, and so unfair that you won’t believe they could happen in the United States of America. On the basis of the most flimsy of complaints, supported by minimal to nonexistent evidence, you can find yourself deprived of a lawyer and facing tribunals of hostile, barely trained ideologues applying only the flimsiest rules of evidence. As Northwestern professor Laura Kipnis discovered, it can even be an ordeal to discover the nature of the charges against you. And for every Kipnis case that gets heavily covered by the national media, there are dozens more that go wholly unreported, hidden behind university confidentiality requirements.

When students and professors question this travesty of justice, the response is uniform: The university’s hands are tied. These actions are required by federal law, by Title IX. But this is a monstrous, destructive lie. In reality, the modern campus Star Chamber is the product of collusion between a lawless Obama administration and ideologically complicit universitieswith both institutions defying established legal norms to violate due process and chill constitutionally protected speech…”

Here’s the juice:

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And modern Progressives are the very embodiment of Christ’s observation in John 8:44:

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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Speaking of the purported heir-apparent to The Dear Misleader’s mantle of inevitability, courtesy of The Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes predicts what we truly pray proves inevitable:

The Coming Democratic Panic

Watch what happens if Hillary Clinton falls behind in the polls.

 

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“Whatta ya mean I have to be elected before I’m crowned?!?”

“When a CNN poll last week showed Hillary Clinton leading Rand Paul by a single percentage point (48-47) and only three points ahead of Marco Rubio (49-46) and Scott Walker (49-46), it was mildly shocking. In April, her lead over the three Republican presidential candidates had been in double digits: Paul (58-39), Rubio (55-41), and Walker (59-37).

But wait. If the next CNN survey shows Clinton actually behind one or two or three of the GOP candidates, it won’t be just shocking. It will send Democrats into a near-panic over the possibility of losing the White House in 2016, even with their preferred candidate, Clinton, as nominee…”

Since we’re on the subject of self-serving, slippery Socialists, Mary Anastasia O’Grady reveals…

The Secret Life of Fidel Castro

A former security agent shows the leader lived large while preaching revolutionary sacrifice.

 

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“Hasta la vista, Suckers!!!”

“…The legend of Castro as a great revolutionary who sacrifices for his people is preserved by keeping the details about his life a state secret. Sánchez’s account shows the real Castro: vengeful, self-absorbed and given to childish temper tantrums—aka “tropical storms.” “The best way of living with him,” Sánchez wrote, “was to accept all he said and did.”

The book is timely. The Obama administration has just removed Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism amid sharp criticism from exiles. Their concerns are sensible: Though Castro is now rumored to be feebleminded, the intelligence apparatus he builtwhich specializes in violence to destabilize democracy and trafficks in drugs and weaponsremains as it has been for a half century.

Sánchez witnessed firsthand Castro’s indifference to Cuban poverty. The comandante gave interminable speeches calling for revolutionary sacrifice. But he lived large, with a private island, a yacht, some 20 homes across the island, a personal chef, a full-time doctor, and a carefully selected and prepared diet.

When a Canadian company offered to build a modern sports-facility for the nation, Castro used the donation for a private basketball court. Wherever he traveled in the world, his bed was dismantled and shipped ahead to ensure the comfort he demanded…”

Imagine that:

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Cunning, hypocritical Communists who live life-styles of the rich and famous, all the while decrying capitalism, espousing the plight of the poor and telling the rest of the world how to live:

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In a related item concerning Communists and their all-too-witting domestic Dimocratic fellow travelers, writing at NRO, Tom Rogan suggests inquiring minds who…

Want to Read Hillary’s E-mails? Ask China.

 

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“We have a lot of information about people, and that is something that our adversaries want.” That’s how Donna Seymour, an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) official recently described the OPM hacking to a reporter for the Washington Post. As we found out yesterday, in April, Chinese hackers intruded OPM networks and potentially acquired the personal information of 4 million U.S. government employees.

So how did this happen? Well, according to an OPM press release, the agency has been upgrading its network security over the past year. That said, yesterday’s press release also notes that it was only after the April hacking that OPM focused on “restricting remote access for network administrators . . . and deploying anti-malware software” against programs that might “compromise the network.” In short, OPM hasn’t been moving fast enough to prevent hacking.

Regardless, it makes sense that China was involved in the intrusion. For a start, China has exceptionally capable, experienced, and wide-ranging cyber-hacking forces. These units are experts at both physical access and remote penetration of network-security systems. Moreover, China has a penchant for attacking the OPM. In July last year, the New York Times reported on China’s hacking of OPM information on applicants for top-secret security clearances. That the OPM didn’t urgently upgrade its security after that 2014 incident is inexcusable. We’ve paid the price in our damaged national security.

John Schindler, a former NSA counter-intelligence official and the author of the 20 Committee strategy blog told me that OPM information can be “vital to recruiting or compromising” U.S. government officials. The agency gathers “extensive details of their personal lives, their finances, their families, their career highs and lows,” he said. “In short, everything you would never want your enemy to know about you – from a counterintelligence viewpoint, this breach represents a true nightmare scenario.” By finding U.S. officials with personal or professional difficulties, China can target them for recruitment.

Schindler’s point is well made. After all, it’s not hard to guess why hackers are so interested in the OPM. By finding U.S. officials with personal or professional difficulties, China can target them for recruitment. And China has a record here. In recent years, China has worked hard to recruit Westerners — both in the United States and in China. It does so because it wants people who have access (or who will have access) to steal information for China’s military and industrial development.

But the significance of this incident isn’t only that information has been stolen. It’s that it reveals massive flaws in the broader American policy towards China. It proves that U.S. warnings to China over hacking have so far been utterly impotent. Seeing that his aggressive cyber-operations result only in occasional, unenforceable indictments from the U.S. Justice Department, President Xi Jinping simply keeps doubling down. Today, while he challenges America across the planet, Jinping is also challenging America in cyberspace. It’s a full-spectrum Chinese effort. And it’s uncontested by America.

Oh, and one final observation: If hackers can repeatedly breach American government servers, we should certainly assume that Jinping has also read Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.

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Why the Chi-Coms (or No-Kos, Cubans, Russians or Iranians for that matter!!!) haven’t hacked into the records systems at Columbia and Harvard and used The Obamao’s transcripts to blackmail him into rolling over to their every desire is beyond us.  Oh…

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…never mind!

And in the Environmental Moment, the WSJ details another indefensible aspect of the Left’s anti-American agenda highlighted by the EPA’s recent report supportive of fracking:

The EPA Fracking Miracle

Andrew Cuomo’s ban on drilling is exposed as a fraud.

 

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“…EPA’s conclusion really is remarkable. The agency has yearned for an excuse to take over fracking regulation from the states, which do the job well. So if there was so much as a sliver of evidence that fracking was dangerous, the EPA would have found it. Think of this as the Obama Administration’s equivalent of the Bush Administration failing to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The truth is that state oversight, industry best practices and especially innovation in technology and engineering are more than adequate to protect water and the wider ecology, as well as the prosperity that fracking underwrites. The EPA paper even accepts that the domestic energy boom has “increased domestic energy supplies and brought economic benefits to many areas of the United States.”

Some areas—but not all. One exception is New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo banned fracking by executive order after winning re-election last year. The Democrat hinted during his campaign that he was open to drilling, especially upstate atop the oil-and-gas-rich Marcellus Shale that straddles Pennsylvania and the Empire State.

But suddenly his health department rolled out a report full of dubious science concluding that it could not say with “absolute scientific certainty”—as if such a thing existsthat fracking does not endanger the public. The department cited “potential water contamination” and “the potential to affect drinking water quality.”

In other words, Mr. Cuomo’s sleuths couldn’t find conclusive evidence that fracking harms drinking water, so he banned it until they can. Even as formerly depressed and de-industrialized Pennsylvania regions benefit from drilling, over the border the unlucky saps must bow to the green superstitions of New York City elites…”

Hey, when they don’t provide you any campaign cash, and you don’t need ’em once your reelected, why on earth would you ever even think

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…of their interests?!? FYI, in the most recent gubernatorial election in New York, Andrew Cuomo carried only New York City, the counties surrounding the college towns of Syracuse, Ithaca and Binghamton, the three northeast counties (which are more Vermont, (i.e., think “Bernie Sanders”) than New York), the decaying labor stronghold of Buffalo and Albany, one of the most corrupt state capitals in the Union.

So much for Liberals’ claims to support “the Middle Class” and/or “working Americans”; either Liberals are lying…

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…or else carbon-based energy workers are (a) part of the 1%, or (b) don’t actually work.

For more on the subject of government-mandated insanity, the Journal also informs us all about…

Dirty Rotten Ethanol Scoundrels

The feds admit defeat on the mandate but pile on a new subsidy.

 

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“Mark down May 29 as the date when the last tether connecting ethanol subsidies to reality came unhitched, and the fuel made from corn and tax dollars achieved a kind of postmodern perfection. On the same day the Obama Administration conceded that the U.S. auto fleet cannot practically consume enough ethanol to fulfill Congress’s quotas, it announced a new program so motorists can consume more ethanol.

In other words, the point of the subsidy is the subsidy, and therefore the U.S. must subsidize ethanol because the U.S. already subsidizes ethanol. Once in place, such self-referential mandates appear to be eternal…”

Which begs the question, when it comes to the entity which is…

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Finally, on the Lighter Side…

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By the way, thank GOODNESS that last photo wasn’t of Hillary; it wouldn’t have pleased ANYone…except maybe Janet Reno, Donna Shalala or “Big Sis”.

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