Forget the glowing Wikipedia entry for gay classicist Claude Fredericks of Bennington College, he preyed on students

The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s' Most Decadent College:

NICHOLAS DELBANCO: A strange fellow, Claude Fredericks. He dropped out of Harvard because he refused to take the swim test or something like that, but he was a genuinely learned person, an autodidact. Knew Latin, Greek, Japanese. Punctilious in his self--presentation. And he had an avant-garde printing press, quite famous at the time, called Banyan Press. It published people like Gertrude Stein and the poet Jimmy Merrill, who’d been Claude’s lover early on. ...

MATT JACOBSEN: It was never unfriendly between me and Claude, but as I fell more deeply in love with Liz [Glotzer, Jacobsen’s girlfriend and eventual wife], I saw less of Claude. I realized it was kind of ridiculous to hang out with him, cool as he was. And he wasn’t going to get what he wanted from me, so he moved on to greener pastures, started fooling around with another guy who’d been his student. At the end of the day, Claude was driven by a—you know—perverse interest in me. And that was wrong. I’m a geezer now, and I understand how wrong he really was.

Cable from UK Ambassador to China declassified in 2017 indicates 10K brutally killed by China's military during Tiananmen Square protest in 1989

Tiananmen Square protest death toll 'was 10,000'

UK cable on Tiananmen Square Massacre

 

Full transcript of John Dowd conversation with Flynn lawyer shows Mueller report's selective quotation intended to insinuate improper behavior when there was none

JOHN DOWD BLASTS MUELLER OVER SELECTIVE QUOTES IN RUSSIA REPORT:

“Isn’t it ironic that this man who kept indicting and prosecuting people for process crimes committed a false statement in his own report. By taking out half my words, they changed the tenor and the contents of that conversation with [Flynn lawyer] Robert Kelner,” Dowd said of former special counsel Robert Mueller in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity.

Just 58 Republicans had the temerity to vote Nay on the $19 billion disaster relief bill

You'll notice that Democrat Ilhan Omar didn't bother to vote. Must have been busy washing her hijabs.

The bill showers more money on Puerto Rico, and spends nothing on the disaster at the US/Mexico border.

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 232

Gillibrand steals from Yang, Booty Judge steals from Beto: Elect any of them and they'll steal from you

El Salvadorans in the US remit so much money back home it amounts to 20% of El Salvadoran GDP

2017 GDP was nearly $25 billion, so $5 billion.

Merkel did not see that coming

Wow, white Daily Beast POS who doxxed black blue-collar Pelosi-vid creator did 5 years for espionage

Daily Beast Writer, A Convicted Felon Previously Banned From The Internet, Doxxes Man Who Made Pelosi Meme Video

Twitter's 12-hour punishment of Erick Erickson for this Elizabeth Warren joke was so grade schoolish

Twitter is treating some of its customers like children because it can. The company lost money every year since 2013, when it went public, until 2018, when it turned a profit of $1.2 billion. The service has about 126 million daily users.

ICYMI Twitter banned the conservative who said conservatives banned by Twitter were reactionaries not conservatives

Helping the ࿕ will not protect you.

A multiculturalist self-excommunicates from National Review

"Glory, glory, hallelujah, His truth is marching on."

Erick Erickson is still too wet behind the ears to appreciate how National Review made purging conservatives from the movement its persona, Twitter just puts that on steroids

Catholics excommunicate. Protestants self-excommunicate. Get with it, Erick.

 

 

 

 

 

National Review’s Own Struggle With “Ideological Diversity”:

For Murray Rothbard, the history of National Review was largely a story of exclusion. “And so the purges began,” Rothbard recounted in a 1992 article. “One after another, Buckley and the National Review purged and excommunicated all the radicals, all the nonrespectables. Consider the roll call: isolationists (such as John T. Flynn), anti-Zionists, libertarians, Ayn Randians, the John Birch Society, and all those who continued, like the early National Review, to dare to oppose Martin Luther King and the civil-rights revolution after Buckley had changed and decided to embrace it.” 

That policy of excommunication continued to the present. Over the years, the magazine has fired or stopped publishing figures like Joseph Sobran (an editor who should have been fired for his anti-Semitism and racism but was not let go until criticizing Buckley in 1993), Peter Brimelow (an editor who was excessively anti-immigrant) and Ann Coulter (who was fired in 2001 after writing a column arguing saying that the United States should “invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”).

Trump gave 2.3 million foreigners US jobs in fiscal 2017 and 1.8 million in 2018 while 22.7 million able-bodied Americans 25-54 weren't even in the labor force in 2018

2018 USCIS Statistical Annual Report

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

In China, however, things are mostly wrong, very wrong

Chinese dissidents are being executed for their organs, former hospital worker says:

The world is beginning to wake up to the fact that virtually every organ transplant in China costs the life of an innocent human being. That’s why countries like Israel, Spain, Italy and Taiwan have already banned transplant tourism.

 

Justin Raimondo checks to make sure that all is right with the world, and finds that it mostly is

Elizabeth Warren has another tough day on the warpath

There were zero bank failures in 2018, but we got the first one of 2019 last night

The Enloe State Bank, Cooper, Texas, failed last night, the first bank failure in the US since Dec. 15, 2017. A bank failure hasn't occurred in Texas since 2013.

The failure in Texas is estimated to cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund $27 million.

The FDIC insures the deposits at 5,362 institutions as of March 31, 2019.

Bernie's still dead, Jim, up not quite 2-points since May 9th, with Creepy Uncle Joe still comfortably in the lead

Stocks shook what?

A literate person would have written "stocks shaken".

To kick off abnormal pride month, Drudge headlines two stories highlighting gay proclivity for the extreme

An unbelievably lame one from NBC featuring a gay storm chaser who proposes during a tornado (death wish much?), and one from the Advocate featuring supposedly gay Philippine President Duterte, whose regime has encouraged violence in the extra-judicial killings of thousands of drug pushers.

And it's only June 1.