You have to love this WSJ hit piece. While striving to be snarky and cutting, the writer unwittingly gives a lot of love to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. The misogynist white male dominated Trumpster Republican Party is seeing the future and doesn’t like the view.

This columnist is entertaining.

Excerpt from Kimberly Strassel OpEd- Wall Street Journal 2.8.2019

The Republican Party has a secret weapon for 2020. It’s especially effective because it’s stealthy: The Democrats seem oblivious to its power. And the GOP needn’t lift a finger for it to work. All Republicans have to do is sit back and watch 29-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . . . exist.

Nice. The Daily Political Correctness Report

The Sporting News 2.7.2019

The disabled list as we know it is no more.

The DL will now be known as the “injured list” according to an ESPN report, which cited a source familiar with the MLB’s plan.

The change is due to the league’s concern that the term “‘disabled’ falsely conflates disabilities with injuries and an inability to participate in sports,” ESPN reported.

Despite the name change, the rules of the DL will remain the same, the report said.

The right to Choice should be non-negotiable. Why is it that men continue to make Victorian Age decisions truncating the rights of Women? America is so backwards when it comes to a Woman’s right to protect her body. I’m ashamed and embarrassed.  In this case it is FOUR men on the Supreme Court who would have restricted the rights of Women. These men have issues!!! Grow up!!!

The Guardian 2.8.2019

Justices vote not to allow enforcement of new regulations on abortion clinics, in case testing conservative court’s view.

The US supreme court is stopping Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics, in a test of the conservative court’s views on abortion rights.

The justices say by a 5-4 vote that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in putting a hold on the law, pending a full review of the case.

The four more conservative justices, including Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, would have allowed it to take effect. Kavanaugh wrote a dissent explaining his vote.

The law is very similar to a Texas measure the justices struck down three years ago. Roberts dissented in that case.

The analysis provides a sobering journey through the  linkage between Bolshevism, Judaism and the  20th century rise of anti-Semitism with its catastrophic results.

Review by Christopher R Browning – New York Review of Books 2.21.2019

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

One of the great merits of Paul Hanebrink’s A Specter Haunting Europe is its demonstration of how Europe’s most pervasive and powerful twentieth-century manifestation of anti-Semitic thought—the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism—emerged before the rise of National Socialism and has continued to have a curious life long after the Holocaust and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Hanebrink’s approach is not to repeat what he considers an error of the interwar era—the futile attempt to refute a myth on the basis of historical facts and statistical data. Trying to discredit powerful political myths with mere facts, as we know all too well today, is a frustrating endeavor. Thus Hanebrink seeks instead to understand the historical background and the “cultural logic” of the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism—how it functioned and morphed through different phases.

The poster:  de Jude

Behind the Enemy Powers: The Jew’; a poster created by the Reich Propaganda Administration and displayed in the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Nazi-occupied Belgrade, which focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination, 1941

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/21/fake-threat-of-jewish-communism/

Dystopian and bizarre End to Beginning.

Anterograde Amnesia is a focus of the story.

Memento, released in 2000, begins at its conclusion and travels backward in time to the beginning.

Trump supporters have  Anterograde Amnesia when traveling backward 2016 through 2008.

Director Christopher Nolan (“Batman”) should have made more films of this genre.

The David Julyan soundtrack is eerie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)

I will hand it to WSJ and Fox News potentate Rupert Murdoch. Say what you will but at least he is very clear in advocating for his “Turn Back the Clock to 1850″perspective on America……….along with the usual snark directed at RBG.

Excerpted from Wall Street Journal Editorial 2.4.2019

“With an enhanced GOP Senate majority of 53, Mr. Trump can keep adding to another achievement—judicial nominees who are remaking the federal bench in the image of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. We wish Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg well, but if illness forces her retirement Mr. Trump could cement what the last three GOP Presidents did not: an originalist majority on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in decades.”

As a reporter for the campus newspaper I attended debates between Palestinian/Arab and Israeli students at San Francisco State in the late sixties. The sessions were intense and volatile. The dynamic has remained the same in the intervening decades.

Excerpted from Golden Gate Xpress 1.29.2019

A tenured professor filed a lawsuit against SF State President Leslie Wong and other top-ranking administrators on Jan. 14, alleging discrimination based on her race, health and political activism.

Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas program director and professor Rabab Abdulhadi alleges in the suit that Wong, Vice President of Student Affairs Jennifer Summit and former Provost Sue Rosser acted on behalf of Zionist organizations who donate money to the SF State.

In the lawsuit, Dr. Abdulhadi claims these administrators helped foster a hostile work environment by launching repeated investigations into her research, excluding her from cohorts and canceling trips to Palestine to stall the AMED program at the behest of pro-Israel groups like AMCHA, the Jewish Community Relations Council and SF Hillel.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi (left) -11.1.2018

Dr. Abdulhadi said her work teaching students advocacy for anti-colonialism is misconstrued as anti-Semitism by these groups to frighten the Jewish community, villainize her nation of origin, Palestine, and obstruct her position at the helm of the AMED program.

Behnam Gharagozli, the plaintiff’s attorney, said because these Zionist organizations happen to be affiliated with wealthy SF State donors, they use the same tactics of intimidation that reflect the political landscape between Israel and Palestine.

https://goldengatexpress.org/2019/01/29/professor-files-discrimination-lawsuit-against-top-ranking-administrators/

The photo is from the Attica Prison uprising in 1971 during which guards killed and injured scores of inmates. Nothing has changed in the past 48 years.

Excerpted from The Guardian 2.2.2019

A congresswoman who visited a federal detention center in New York City where inmates have been stuck in cold, dark cells for days said it was “surreal to hear the inmates banging on the walls.”

“I am frustrated. This is America. In America, everyone has rights,” said Nydia Velazquez, a Democrat whose district includes the Metropolitan detention center in Brooklyn. “It’s a violation of their human rights to be kept in the cold and not to be able to talk to anyone.”

Velazquez visited the jail on Friday after seeing news reports that hundreds of inmates there had spent the past week largely without heat, power or the ability to communicate with their attorneys or families.

Velazquez said she was not allowed to speak to the inmates but got access to common areas and showers. She said she and other elected officials planned to return to the facility on Saturday and hoped to speak to inmates this time.

The New York Times first reported Friday that inmates at the facility had been stuck in their cells without lights or heat since last weekend, when an electrical fire knocked power out.

New York Times Photo 2.2.2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/02/inmates-new-york-city-jail-heat-light

The usual story. Law enforcement looks after itself. Always

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner 2.2.2019

The San Francisco District Attorney’s office on Thursday dismissed charges against three sheriff’s deputies who stood accused of staging an inmate “fight club” in San Francisco jails in 2015 after defense attorneys brought forward evidence the Sheriff’s Department had botched the investigation.

Attorneys for the three accused deputies maintain evidence was mishandled and destroyed.

Nicole Pifari, attorney for one of the accused deputies,  in a Motion to Dismiss, told the Court, “Upon further inquiry, the Sheriff’s Department explained that ‘sometime in October,’ approximately seven months after they had received two preservation demands, the Sheriff’s Department destroyed the laptop’s hard drive by smashing it with a hammer.”

The District Attorney’s Office filed felony and misdemeanor charges against deputies Eugene Jones and Scott Neu in March 2015 after Public Defender Jeff Adachi brought forward information from inmates saying deputies had forced them to fight for food like gladiators and gambled on the winners. A third deputy, Clifford Chiba, was also charged with two misdemeanors.

The deputies threatened inmates with violence or withheld food if they didn’t fight each other for the deputies’ amusement, Adachi said.

“It’s extremely disappointing, and it sends the wrong message,” Adachi said. “You are forcing prisoners to fight against each other and betting money on it — and you get away with it. Yeah, charges were brought, but because the Sheriff’s Department bungled its own investigation you’re free to go. What kind of message does that send to people who always assume American jails are better?”

“The problem here as far as I can tell is they didn’t know what they were doing. Keystone cops were assigned to investigate their fellow deputies,” he added. “You can certainly wonder if the investigation was intentionally conducted in an incompetent manner.”

While San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ross Moody granted the district attorney’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges that carried possible state prison terms, a new prosecution team will review the case to determine whether there is enough untainted evidence to proceed with new charges.

At the center of the dismissal decision are statements the deputies were required to make during an internal affairs investigation by the Sheriff’s Department. Such statements, known as “compelled statements,” cannot legally be used in criminal probes because they violate a defendant’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Law enforcement agencies usually isolate administrative and criminal investigations from each other in a process called “walling off” to avoid such conflicts.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DA-drops-charges-in-SF-jail-fight-club-case-13580636.php

http://www.sfexaminer.com/charges-dropped-deputies-fight-club-case/

Excerpted from Wall Street Journal 2.2.2019 and Visit to German Museum of History 10.2.2018

In the first half of the 20th century, German-speaking Europe experienced world wars, economic chaos and the rise of Nazism. It was an unlikely historical moment for artists to focus on the most private of genres, the self-portrait. But “The Self-Portrait: From Schiele to Beckmann,” a new exhibition that will be on view at New York’s Neue Galerie from Feb. 28 to June 24, suggests that this time and place produced the greatest flowering of art depicting the artist since the Renaissance.

There is nothing stylized about the haunted, unshaven face that Felix Nussbaum gave himself in “Self-Portrait With Jewish Identity Card,” painted around 1943. At the time, Nussbaum was in Brussels, where he had gone into hiding after escaping from a concentration camp. In the canvas, the artist is portrayed wearing a coat with an upturned collar bearing the yellow-star symbol that Jews had been forced to wear. In an ironic contrast, a small I.D. photo on a card he holds up for our inspection shows him in an earlier incarnation, wearing a suit and tie. Arrested soon afterward, Nussbaum died in Auschwitz in 1944.

Born in Osnabruck, the artist and his wife Felka went into hiding in Brussels in 1942.  This self-portrait with his wife and a young helper shows him as a devout Jew, dressed in a blue-and-white striped prayer shawl and wearing a kippa. They follow the front lines on a map, but their faces show no sign of hope for their rescue.  After being betrayed, the Nussbaums were sent on the last deportation train from Belgium to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944.