Can ‘replacement’ Michelle O survive her Princeton thesis?
“The final, most essential command” of the “Party,” George Orwell told us in “1984,” was to “reject the evidence of
your eyes and ears.” Orwell was not speaking of the Democratic Party, but he might as well have been.
For the past five years every Democrat office holder and all of their media allies have insisted there is nothing wrong with President Joe Biden other than, maybe, a schoolboy stutter.
On Thursday of last week, at an impromptu press conference staged to show how mentally sound he is, Biden proved once and for all how mentally sound he is not.
The charmed life of Capitol Police ‘Capt.’ Michael Byrd
A suit filed recently by Judicial Watch on behalf of Ashli Babbitt’s widower, Aaron Babbitt, shows just how perverse is the state of justice in the age of Obama-Biden. On Jan. 6, 2021, the 5-foot-2 Ashli found herself trapped by a crowd in the narrow corridor leading to the Speaker’s Lobby of the U.S. Capitol.
In that crowd was Zachary Alam, a 30-year-old with a criminal past. He reached between the three Capitol Police officers guarding the doors to the lobby and began smashing the glass, shouting a very un-MAGA like, “F–k the Blue.” Appalled by Alam’s behavior, Ashli’s military police training kicked in. “Call f—ing help!” she shouted at the feckless officers as they they stood in place with their backs to the doors, doing nothing.
Chauvin mom: ‘He’s locked up like an animal’
On Nov. 24 of this past year, one-time FBI informant John Turscak stabbed former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin 22 times at the FCI Tucson prison where both were housed. In their continued persecution of Chauvin, now 47, for his role in the death of George Floyd, prison officials have made Chauvin’s life even more miserable than it was prior to the stabbing. “It was like he was the perpetrator,” Chauvin’s mother, Caroline Pawlenty, told me.
While he recovers, Chauvin is locked away in a small windowless medical unit. The only real difference between his cell and a standard one is the steel procedural table in the middle with a rail on its side for easy handcuffing.
Mark Cuban’s willful cluelessness about DEI
In his X war with Elon Musk on the subject of DEI, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reached into the grab bag of rationales that made no sense even when they were fresh 60 
years ago. “There are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration,” tweeted Cuban, “By extending our hiring search to include them, we can find people that are more qualified.”
A little history lesson is in order. In researching my newest book, “Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities,” I can affirm that Cuban, if he means what he says, has no idea what he is talking about.
Death of an American hero
On Sunday morning I received a text from Elizabeth Sanders saying what I feared it would say, “Jim passed away this morning.”
“So sorry,” I answered. “He was one of a kind.” Said Elizabeth, “Yea he was.”
Elizabeth was in a position to know. In the pursuit of truth, she and James – his preferred public name – had endured the worst the U.S. government could throw at them and survived with their integrity and their patriotism intact. I first met the Sanders in September 2000 at a Kansas City country club where James was making a presentation. A veteran cop turned investigative reporter, he had authored the 1997 book “The Downing of TWA Flight 800,” and paid a high price for doing so. As James explained, 53 TWA employees were on board that doomed aircraft in July 1996, most of them deadheading back to Paris.
Barry O is Harvard’s real plagiarist-in-chief
Two weeks ago in this space I documented the good company in which Harvard President Claudine Gay finds herself as an aspiring plagiarist.
Harvard worthies Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurence Tribe, Charles Ogletree and Fareed Zakaria have all been forced to wear the Scarlet P just in the last 20 or so years.One Harvard plagiarist, however, has managed to escape scrutiny, at least from the mainstream media. But then again, former President Barack Obama. Although I have documented Obama’s perfidy in the past, I raise the issue again, not only because the subject is in the air, but also because others on the right have been raising it without attribution.
Who stabbed Derek Chauvin and why?
Having long ago decided to ignore all inconvenient news, the major media yielded serious coverage of the prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin to the intrepid independent investigator Maryam Henein.
As Henein reports, the man who stabbed Chauvin 22 times on “Black Friday” in an Arizona prison is a 52-year-old con named John Turscak. Don’t let the name fool you.The half-Croatian Turscak is serving a 30-year sentence for crimes committed while leading a Los Angeles faction of the Mexican Mafia in the 1990s. As even the major media acknowledge, Turscak was an FBI informant. The intel he provided federal investigators led to the indictments of 40 or so of his former colleagues.
Even after prison stabbing, feds continue to railroad Chauvin
Not satisfied with sentencing an innocent man to prison for 22 years, the federal government has found new ways to punish former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.That includes a near fatal stabbing of Chauvin on Friday, Nov. 24, in a federal prison in Arizona and the inexplicable refusal to alert Chauvin’s mother about the incident.
There is no evidence that the feds planned this attack or encouraged it, but their failure to anticipate it at the end of a two-week stretch in which Chauvin was continuously in the news raises eyebrows. On Nov. 13, Chauvin filed a motion in federal court claiming he never would have pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charges in 2021 if he had been aware of the theories of William Schaetzel, a recently retired Kansas forensic pathologist.
