So @RadioFreeTom’s whole shtick is that he is a True Conservative™ fighting in the wilderness against everyone else who has sold out & don’t believe in conservative principles anymore.
Let’s take a quick survey of his stances. I’ll let you decide if it’s actual conservatism. 1/
Abortion? I think his views on that have been pretty obvious in the current discussion, but you don’t have to take my word for it. And look at the way he talks to one of the best pro-life writers out there. Is this conserving conservatism? 2/
What about the Second Amendment? Apparently the conservative position on that is to misrepresent the position of pro-Second Amendment advocates, to argue for strict gun control, and to call on Senators to run gun manufacturers out of their states. Conservatism! Who knew? 3/
Okay so he’s socially liberal, but at least he’s fiscally conservative, right? Super concerned about the debt & deficits & stuff like that, right?
LOL. Nope. 4/
What about confirming originalist Supreme Court Justices? Well... no he doesn’t think that’s the conservative thing to do if the nominee gets angry when he’s baselessly accused of running gang rape rings. 5/
How about recognizing Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel? If you’re a real conservative, you “couldn’t care less.” 6/
The version of conservatism that @RadioFreeTom is Very Disappointed™ in the rest of us for not fighting for requires: being pro-abortion, pro gun control, meh on fiscal restraint, opposing an originalist SCOTUS nominee, and not caring about moving the embassy to Jerusalem. 7/
I’ll let y’all decide if that’s actually conservatism or not. But the bottom line is that Tom Nichols is Jennifer Rubin with more cats and a book on why he’s an expert. And he should probably be taken with that level of seriousness. /fin
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McCaul & House Foreign Affairs have now released the transcript for the interview with Jen Psaki, so I can now explain what a horrible wasted opportunity this was, how basic questions weren’t even asked, how key parts were botched, & how she was largely let off the hook. Thread…
Right off the bat, let’s talk about how the House Foreign Affairs press release has a *dead link* for the Psaki transcript, so it is *impossible* to read the transcript via the Committee website. Baffling, but okay. Luckily, FreeBeacon has the transcript.
I will note the Committee’s questioning eventually got Psaki to offer something of an apology to the Gold Star families for lying in her book that Biden didn’t check his watch during the dignified transfer at Dover, altho at first she repeatedly dodged apologizing (see below).
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure...
We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this...
I was recently among those who was shown the roughly 45 minutes of raw footage of the October 7th terrorist massacre committed by Hamas. This will be a long thread, but I believe worth reading.
The brutal and evil footage was compiled by the Israeli government and shown by the Israeli embassy on Capitol Hill this week. The videos and photos came from GoPro body cameras, cell phones, CCTV cameras, and social media posts. Some of the videos were recorded by Hamas terrorists, and some were recorded by the victims themselves, with many of the videos put together in a sequential order or from the POV of both terrorist and victim during the commission of a specific series of atrocities.
The Israeli government said the 45 minute compilation was pulled together from hundreds of hours of images & videos, and so the footage was just “a glimpse of what happened that day.” No cell phones or recording devices were allowed in the room as the footage played, but I took pages of disturbing notes (I am a recovering journalist after all).
Fr. Mychal Judge — “Victim 0001” — was an FDNY chaplain who responded on 9/11 & spent his last moments comforting firefighters & praying for those forced to jump from World Trade Center. The South Tower collapsed & he was killed, becoming 9/11’s first recorded death. #NeverForget
22 years ago today — 9/11/2001 — al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked planes & slammed them into the World Trade Center & Pentagon (and crashed into a field thanks to passengers on Flight 93), killing 3,000 innocent Americans & others. Honor the heroes who died that day & #NeverForget.
President George W. Bush’s famous Bullhorn Speech to Ground Zero rescue workers and first responders on September 14, 2001.
“I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
Scoop: Some new details below on the Chinese spying sagas related to Eric Swalwell and Dianne Feinstein — and on the FBI’s handling of the allegations. The revelations raise serious concerns about how the FBI top brass may have politicized these two investigations by limiting the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
New Details on Swalwell & Fang Fang: Axios did a very good story on this in 2020, but much of the following is new. One thing that was actually not in the Axios story but which my source has confirmed — the FBI firmly believed based on the evidence they collected on Fang that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
New Details on Feinstein & Russell Lowe: Politico & other outlets wrote about Lowe starting in 2018, but again much of the following info is new. The Feinstein staffer was being looked at by the FBI for numerous years (since at least 2008), per the source, with a case opened… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
1/ When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another & to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate & equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...
2/ ... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
3/ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.