Karl Lessing, Return of the Crusader, 1835
Monday, May 14, 2018
Goodies from Ol' Remus
UFC's Tim Kennedy Waterboards Himself to Prove It's Not Torture
Ex-UFC star Tim Kennedy -- a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran -- doesn't believe waterboarding should be considered torture ... and to prove his point, he turned the hose on himself. Yep, Kennedy and his pals waterboarded each other for roughly 45 minutes on Friday ... and barely even flinched. So ... why??? Kennedy says the move was to show support for Gina Haspel, Trump's pick to lead the CIA. Haspel has been criticized for using waterboarding and other interrogation methods at black sites during her CIA career.
Gun Owners Should Welcome Mel Reynolds’ Intent to ‘Go Home to Africa’

Criminal sex offenders don’t get to dictate my rights.
It’s curious, but not unsurprising, that a Democrat who made a career out of transferring wealth from the productive to his constituents should avoid paying his – what do the collectivists call it? – “fair share.”
As for “going home,” I thought they didn’t want him. Perhaps he’s got his sights on nearby South Africa, which is just warming up on exercising the full joys of totalitarianism.
He was deported from Zimbabwe a few years back on pornography and immigration charges, after being arrested for bringing women into his hotel room and letting the cameras roll.
More @ Oath Keepers
Brutalized by Trump’s Winning, Liberals Nip at Conservatives’ Ankles

The Democrats are having a major case of the sadz, and it’s hilarious.
Their generic lead in the midterms ballot has evaporated. After the Iran and North Korea triumphs, Obama’s legacy is just a smoking ruin of broken dreams and corrected failures. And Stormy Daniels’s cheesy reign on CNMSNBC has morphed into a rain of singles from leering weirdos at creepy places with names like “The Treasure Chest” and “Reliable Sources.”
So what do the liberals do when they are losing the all the big fights? They try to score points by taking some conservative scalps, which should thrill Elizabeth Warren. But they only end up biting at conservatives’ ankles.
More @ Townhall
Teen Vogue Called Out for Article Focusing on Karl Marx's Ideas
Via Billy
"Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar" features
interviews with "two educators" about how his concepts apply to "current
events in the classroom."
Marx was a 19th century socialist whose ideas guided the development of communist theory.
A National Review article said the piece attempted to "sanitize" Marx, noting how Teen Vogue stated that Marx's writings inspired "social movements."
His horrifying and stupid ideas led to the deaths of 100 million human beings and the misery of billions of others. Saved you a click.
Marx was a 19th century socialist whose ideas guided the development of communist theory.
A National Review article said the piece attempted to "sanitize" Marx, noting how Teen Vogue stated that Marx's writings inspired "social movements."
Marx may or may not have anticipated the scale of the slaughter to come, but he understood perfectly well that mass murder was part of the package.
To deny that Karl Marx was, at times, a startlingly original thinker, would be nutty. To deny that he was, in many respects, one of the most lethal of a long line of millenarian preachers, is to embrace ignorance. And to deny that his work inspired the death of maybe one hundred million victims is something altogether more sinister.
More @ Fox
The Dakkar from NEMO: A Sniper’s Dream Realized
NEMO is a name synonymous with innovation. They made a splash as being one of the first to market with magnum caliber AR-pattern rifles. After that, they developed and sold the lightest recoiling semi-auto rifle in the .308/6.5 Creedmoor class.
This year, they have set their sights on something completely different. Just unveiled at the 2018 NRAAM, the NEMO Dakkar bolt action!
More @ Guns America
An "Audible Gasp" Was Heard When The Chicago Fed Unveiled Its "Solution" To The Pension Problem
An audible gasp went out in the breakout room I was in at last month’s pension event cosponsored by The Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. That was when a speaker from the Chicago Fed proposed levying, across the state and in addition to current property taxes, a special property assessment they estimate would be about 1% of actual property value each year for 30 years.
Evidently, that wasn’t reality-shock enough. This week the Chicago Fed published that proposal formally. It’s linked here.
It surely ranks among the most blatantly inhumane and foolish ideas we’ve seen yet.
Homeowners with houses worth $250,000 would pay an additional $2,500 per year in property taxes, those with homes worth $500,000 would pay an additional $5,000, and those with homes worth $1 million would pay an additional $10,000.
More @ Zero Hedge
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