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By Diana West on
Sunday, February 28, 2016 8:12 AM

Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, late of Sen. Jeff Sessions' staff, went on with Breitbart News Saturday Stephen K. Bannon, as reported here (including audio).
Breitbart emphasized Miller's "epic" case against Marco Rubio, but Miller's opening remarks about Ted Cruz were to me more illuminating, especially in the context of the "post-constitutional" election series I've been writing.
In the course of this series, I've examined Ted Cruz's branding as the "consistent conservative," also the constitutional conservative, and found it wanting on several levels. For one thing, Cruz has flip-flopped in the space of the primary cycle on vital immigration and trade issues.
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By Diana West on
Saturday, February 27, 2016 9:57 AM

Pt. 7 is here.
This (above) is a scene of "epuration sauvage," one of thousands of summary executions of accused Nazi collaborators in France at the end of World War II.
Now (below) a GOP consultant named Rick Wilson is invoking such executions for collaborating with Nazis as a means of characterizing Americans who are voting for Donald Trump.

Rick Wilson first came to my attention in August 2015 when he infamously revealed his own depravity by asking Ann Coulter on Twitter: "Does Trump pay you more for anal?"
I say "infamously," but I recogize it's probably not the case that in our widely debased society...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:35 AM

Part 6 is here.
When Elites meet ... they have so much in common.
Maybe I first saw this synergy in action at the advent of the Obama administration when I witnessed Obama-niks and Bush-ites come together to concoct the doomed, see-no-Islam plans for America's nation-building defeat in Afghanistan.
The unity of these same elites, from Left to Right, is now tighter than ever, solidified by shared fear and untrammelled loathing of Donald Trump, which cause poisonous snakes and toads of...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:48 AM
This week marks the tenth anniversay of the Netherlands' Party for Freedom, or PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid), founded by Geert Wilders to de-Islamize the Netherlands and regain Dutch sovereignty from the EU in Brussels.
This riveting interview, subtitles courtesy H. Numan and Vlad Tepes, is, as is usual with Wilders, a tour de force of the clarity and courage that have marked his party's first decade, and leave supporters everywhere steeled and hopeful for the next.
Via Gates of Vienna.
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By Diana West on
Sunday, February 21, 2016 7:12 AM
Instant classic.
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By Diana West on
Friday, February 19, 2016 7:06 AM

Pt. 5 is here.
In addressing the Rubio-Cruz exchange over/in Spanish at last week's debate in South Carolina, Allan Wall notes that Sen. Cruz has a Spanish-language campaign website and Donald Trump "apparently" does not.
Having searched to the best of my ability, I can say that Trump does not have such a site. It would not make sense for him to have one, given his bell-clear statements on...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, February 18, 2016 6:01 AM

Part 4 is here.
Glenn Beck may believe The Lord took Justice Scalia so The People would vote for Ted Cruz, but I think something else has been revealed by the justice's sudden death. That is the extent to which the Constitution's balance of powers lies in ruins; and, much worse, the extent to which these ruins are accepted as the not-so-new normal.
This lesson emerges from the reaction to Scalia's vacancy. I don't mean the chatter over whether Obama has the right to appoint a new justice: of course, he does; just as the Senate has the right to confirm or reject his appointment. That's just politics as usual.
But the weight of...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:53 PM

Unveiling a work in progress, The Big Conservative Dictionary of Donald Trump.
The fun part about The Big Conservative Dictionary of Donald Trump is that it is brought to you by the political Right, from GOP strategists to erudite conservatives, who, some even between birthing the stink bombs below, endlessly deplore crudeness and "tone" in simply scads of elevating sermons and television lecture-bytes. (See "Rudeness Is not a Conservative Value," "Against Trump," etc.).

Here we go -- so far.
A is for "Anal"

-- Rick Wilson, GOP consultant with "informal ties" to...
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By Diana West on
Saturday, February 13, 2016 8:46 AM

The breathtaking rage of this recent tweet by Charles Murray may be submerged in the masses of words of his latest article, "Trump's America" -- but I find both hard to fathom.
In explicating "Trumpism," Charles Murray argues that our Anglo-Protestant heritage (bad) has "inevitably faded" (good). This ignores, first, the 1965 Immigration Act that, in effect, made war on that heritage, and the nation and culture that had grown from it. He ignores also the dire toll that the unceasing wave of mass immigration ever since has had on cultural cohesion -- and now even national existence. His is a purely economic and class related analysis which misses so much of the living, breathing cultural core of Trump's appeal.
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By Diana West on
Friday, February 12, 2016 5:41 AM

Part 3 is here.
It's an unanswered question.
Lawrence Sellin takes the prize for cogent thinking and also courage for asking it and other unanswered questions concerning Sen. Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency, as stipulated by the U.S. Constitution.
Writing at Family Security Matters, Sellin highlights the contradictions around what we might think of as Sen. Cruz's own "pathway to citizenship." Sellin also notes the senator's continuing failure to release a Consular Report of Birth Abroad.
Above is a picture of one such document, as provided by Ken Sikorski, an American whose children were...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, February 11, 2016 6:15 AM

Meanwhile, back in the Netherlands...
nltimes.nl reports on poison on the political Left, which continues its demonization of Geert Wilders, recklessly echoing the drumbeat that preceded the assassination of Pim Fortuyn in 2002.
Wilders' PVV party is currently leading in Dutch political opinion polls.
Local Labour leader wishes for Wilders death in Tweet
PvdA leader in Katwijk Willem den Hertog wished that PVV leader Geert Wilders will die of a heart attack in a post he distributed through his Twitter account late Thursday morning. Following the commotion [the death-wish-tweets] caused, [den Hartog] said the messages should not have been published,...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 5:34 PM
This video, this woman, her words, her simplicity, her humanity, need no introduction except to say that this is a warning from the edge of hell -- La Belle France, which today exists only in the hearts and souls of its good citizens. Not its government mininsters; its police; its privileged.
Thanks to Vlad Tepes blog for subtitles and Oz-Rita for translating.
This is why there is such vitality to Donald Trump's campaign. He is the only U.S. candidate who seems prepared even to pause Islamic civilization jihad, and to stop the de facto illegal merger with Mexico now underway.
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By Diana West on
Saturday, February 06, 2016 7:41 AM
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, February 03, 2016 7:01 AM

Part 2 is here.
Dr. Ben Carson calls it "dirty tricks," "blatant lying" and wants someone fired. Donald Trump calls it fraud, a stolen victory, and wants a redo. Ted Cruz calls it a "mistake" and clearly hopes to move on, as they say, after apologizing to Carson.
What is "it"? The false rumor that Carson was suspending his presidential campaign which Cruz campaign people used to urge Carson supporters to support Cruz on caucus night in Iowa.
Evidence includes the email (image above) that CNN, Huffington Post, the Daily Mail and other media outlets have reported that the Cruz campaign sent to Iowa precinct captains.
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By Diana West on
Sunday, January 31, 2016 6:37 AM

Meanwhile ... Bernie Sanders could possibly become the Democrat nominee for president.
A reader wrote in:
My wife and I have been looking forward to a Trump/Bernie general election precisely because we could witness a national MMA fight between capitalism and communism, and finish this thing once and for all.
He called my attention to a recent Sanders column by smear artist Ronald Radosh.
First, Paul Sperry wrote a column in the New York Post arguing that "self-described socialist" Bernie Sanders was also a "communist." Small-c.
Radosh replied with a dissent posted at PJ Media arguing that Sanders was not a "Communist." Large-C.
Typo? A large-C communist is a party member -- a claim Sperry does not make....
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By Diana West on
Friday, January 29, 2016 4:49 AM

The great Geert Wilders addressed the Europe of Nations and Freedom group in Milan today.
Excerpt:
Most of us here are leading in the polls in our respective countries.
We are politically successful because we stand for the following five principles.
The principles of the new patriotism.
One, we want to close our borders for mass immigration from Islamic countries and the asylum tsunami. If I become Prime Minister of the Netherlands next year, I will close the Dutch borders at once.
Two, we must protect ourselves against the terrorist threat.
We do not want jihadis in our countries. And we must restore the safety of our citizens, especially our women. No more rape, no more sexual jihad. On New Year’s Eve in Cologne alone, over 1,000 women were assaulted,...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:24 AM

**See latest edition here.
Unveiling a work in progress, The Big Conservative Dictionary of Donald Trump.
The fun part about The Big Conservative Dictionary of Donald Trump is that it is brought to you by those erudite conservatives who, some even between birthing the stink bombs below, endlessly deplore crudeness and "tone" in simply scads of elevating sermons and television lecture-bytes. (See "Rudeness Is not a Conservative Value," "Against Trump," etc.).

Here we go -- so far.
A is for "Anal"

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By Diana West on
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:57 AM
This is not a parody.
From The Local (Aus.):
An Austrian parent has complained after his daughter was given an altered version of a popular children's hymn in which the word 'God' was replaced with the word 'Allah'.
The woman told local media she was shocked when her daughter came home with the text to learn from the school in the Upper Austrian town of Wels.
The original song "Gottes Liebe ist so wunderbar" which means "God's love is so wonderful" is an extremely popular song for young children in Christian Austria. However, the teacher had decided to rewrite the text, replacing the word God with the word Allah.
The teacher justified the action by saying that the majority of children in the class of 10-year-olds were Muslims,...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:16 AM

The Local (It.) reports:
Hassan Rouhani visited the Capitoline Museums with premier Matteo Renzi, having signed contracts worth up to €17 billion ($18.4 billion) on Monday.
And Renzi was clearly keen to avoid offending his new business partner. The nude statues and sculptures in the museum were completely covered by large white boxes ....

The decision to cover up nudity was seen as a mark of respect for the traditions of the Muslim country, which has only just had its trade sanctions lifted.
Ansa reported that as a further mark of respect, no wine was served at the official dinner during Rouhani's visit.
The vineyards await Allah's...
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By Diana West on
Sunday, January 24, 2016 10:53 AM

Part 1 is here.
A word cloud envelops the Ted Cruz campaign for president. "Consistent." "Conservative." "Reliable." "Consistent conservative," "reliable conservative." "Trusted." Or, as the tagline goes, "TrusTed."
This branding does not serve Ted Cruz well. After all, he is a politician. In his short career as a senator and presidential candidate, Cruz has already flip-flopped on vital immigration and trade issues. There is a pattern to his political "evolution." As a measure of the Trump effect, Cruz has moved from the globalist position to the nationalist position on Syrian refugess (for to against), Obamatrade (for to against), H1B visas (from calling for expansion to calling for a moratorium), birthright...
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By Diana West on
Saturday, January 23, 2016 8:43 AM
On with Sam Sorbo to dispel the Cruz "consistency" myth and talk NR's backfire.
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By Diana West on
Friday, January 22, 2016 5:30 AM

Below is an excerpt from a story appearing at WBUR, Boston's NPR, which includes an exchange with LaurenceTribe, a leading constitutional lawyer and professor, who taught constitutional law to Sen. Ted Cruz (also Cheif Justice John Roberts) at Harvard Law School. Tribe epitomizes the Left's approach to the Constitution as a "living" document. As such, Tribe says he would, as a Supreme Court justice, vote that Ted Cruz was eligilble for the presidency -- "but Ted always made fun of that way of looking at the Constitution."
From the January 15, 2016 WBUR article:
Questions about his birth and eligibility to be president have become a major irritant for Cruz, who was also in New Hampshire this week. He wanted to focus on Second Amendment rights, terrorism and his effort to unite conservatives,...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 6:04 PM

Rush Limbaugh said today that nationalism and populism have overtaken conservatism in terms of appeal.
I would add that until Donald Trump's candidacy, neither nationalism nor populism were political choices. Both had been demonized into oblivion.
I would also add that since the heyday of William F. Buckley, Jr., conservatism has been synonomous with internationalism, which overrides nationalism, and has nothing to do with populism.
It is for this reason I suspect that many Americans who love Donald Trump will be voting for the first time.
And it is for this reason I suspect that many of them would never vote for a Ted Cruz, because, no matter where he ends up in terms of political positioning, he, too, springs from the internationalist camp when it comes to immigration and economics, trade and borders: the existential issues that Donald Trump has made this presidentiail primary about.
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By Diana West on
Friday, January 15, 2016 1:14 PM

For some of us, this is not about gotcha games, cresting news cycles or even, as Sen. Ted Cruz suggests, supporting Hillary I have endorsed Donald Trump (here), but I have also been writing about the natural born citizen issue and an array of eligibility-related issues (e.g., fraud, forgery) at least as long as Barack Hussein Obama has been president. Not that our best, brightest, bravest and most brilliant wanted to touch any of it then, either. But never have I seen advanced the crazy-if-you-believe-this-one definition of a "natural born citizen" attributed to Donald Trump by Sen. Cruz in Thursday night's debate (also discussed here).
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By Diana West on
Friday, January 15, 2016 8:33 AM
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By Diana West on
Thursday, January 14, 2016 7:48 AM
He says: "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
She says: "Ja!"
This, as far as I can tell, is NOT a tasteless spoof of the rape jihad (I discuss it here with Frank Gaffney) sweeping Europe and the wider West. It is the cover of a German primer for sale for 14.90 Euros by a company called smarterGerman.
Crystal clear is right.
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By Diana West on
Saturday, January 09, 2016 4:24 PM

Anti-Islam PEGIDA demo in Cologne
Some comments of mine in a recent report at WND.com on the Islamic war on women that erupted across Europe on New Year's Eve:
Conservative commentator Diana West also pins the responsibility squarely on Merkel.
“History should remember Angela Merkel...
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By Diana West on
Saturday, January 09, 2016 4:04 PM
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By Diana West on
Friday, January 08, 2016 12:39 PM
Dr. Peter V. Pry, former CIA analyst and author, came on Update Brazil this week with Allan Dos Santos and Jeff Nyquist to discuss the recent North Korean nuclear test, how very little the "experts" actually know about it, and why it is all too likely they (and we) have been deceived.
Pry believes it is likely that the North Koreans were testing a low-yield hydrogen bomb -- a neutron bomb, or, more likely, a super EMP weapon. Pry notes that, among other sources, South Korea military intelligence indicates that Russians are in North Korea helping them.
"Peter's initial presentation and analysis was one of the most profoundly disturbing things I have ever heard in an interview," Jeff told me after the interview -- which, given Jeff's expertise and experience, is saying something!
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By Diana West on
Thursday, January 07, 2016 5:24 AM

Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Mark Levin and Andrew C. McCarthy have taken strong positions on the constitutional eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz for the presidency. In fact, they assert there is only one position -- that Cruz is eligible -- and, further, that it is (1) "wise" of Cruz to laugh off the question (McCarthy), and (2) that questions about Cruz's eligibility are "for the kooks" (Levin).
The issue recently resurfaced after the Washington Post asked Donald Trump about it. (Trump's remarks here.)
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, January 06, 2016 8:02 AM

Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom tops Dutch polls, has written an open letter to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. It concerns rampaging mobs of Muslim men on New Year's Eve in Germany, particularly in Cologne/Koln, which is about 50 miles east of the Dutch border.
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
Yesterday and today, I received hundreds of emails. Hundreds of emails full of fear and indignation. About the horrific events on New Year's Eve in Cologne.
I have not heard you about those events. I find that very strange. After Paris last November, we now have Cologne. After the Islamic terror, the sexual jihad. But we do not hear you. Hello, Mr. Prime Minister? Are you still there?
What happened in Cologne is repulsive. Fear reigns in Germany, but also in the Netherlands. Don’t you notice it? Thousands of Dutch women worry about their safety. Thousands of Dutch men fear for the safety of their...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, January 05, 2016 2:47 AM
MRCTV reports on astronomical immigration projections based on Census data compiled by the Senate Subcommittee of Immigration and the National Interest.
Looking on the bright side, I didn't know the Senate (Jeff Sessions aside) deliberated on "the National Interest." But the rest isn't so nice -- that is, if the national interest is your bag.
The U.S. immigrant population is projected to increase by 715% from its 1970 level – hitting 78.2 million by 2060, Census data show. ...
Today, the foreign-born population is already at an all-time high of 42.4 million. Measured as a percentage of total national population, it is set to soon surpass the highest levels ever recorded and continue rising to new unseen records every year and decade to follow.
Left unchecked, immigrants...
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By Diana West on
Monday, January 04, 2016 9:10 AM

Image by Bosch Fawstin
I keep scrolling up and down the interview of Bosch Fawstin at National Review Online looking for something that is amazingly not there.
Fawstin, of course, is the talented artist who in 2015 won the Draw Mohammed contest in Garland, Texas, becoming internationally famous after the contest was attacked by Muslims seeking to carry out Islam's death penalty for making images of Mohammed.
I keep looking for his cartoon (posted above) in the article, written by Andrew C. McCarthy. The cartoon, after all, is the raison d'etre of this interview concerning the infinite chasm between free speech and Islamic blasphemy law.
I see Fawstin's face, his Pigman comic, his quotation in bold: "I draw Mohammed because...
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By Diana West on
Sunday, January 03, 2016 6:41 PM

Hang around long enough and you see everything -- twice.
Seen at a town hall in New Hampshire 1999: Katherine Prudhomme asking the projected Democratic nominee for president a question about the credible story Juanita Broaddrick tells about being raped by Bill "Better Put Some Ice on That" Clinton.
Seen at a town hall in New Hampshire 2016: Katherine Prudhomme O'Brien, now a New Hampshire State Representative, trying to ask the projected Democratic nominee for president a question about the credible story Juanita Broaddrick...
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By Diana West on
Sunday, January 03, 2016 7:14 AM

It wasn't long enough to rate as vanWinklen, but it was nearly as deep and now it's (pop) over.
Three items.
1) Catching up, I find myself in very fine company as one of Jack Cashill's "The Outstanding Cultural Warriors of 2015." My ticket is my 2013 book, American Betrayal, which Jack Cashill has earlier quite extravaganly compared with Witness, writing "I have a whole library of books on communism, but -- "Witness" excepted -- this may be the best." Now, he writes:
In her dazzling book “American Betrayal,” West made a powerful case that the FDR White House, led by fifth columnist Harry Hopkins,...
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By Diana West on
Friday, January 01, 2016 7:24 AM

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By Diana West on
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:34 AM

Be grateful to Islamic expert Andrew Bostom for doing the dirty work -- i.e., the study of Islam -- to link the perfectly foul ISIS fatwa on sex slavery to the perfectly foul canonical Islamic texts that sanction it. The media-political complex won't tell us the truth, falsely attributing the ISIS fatwa to "ISIS" or to "extremist" ideology -- and not to the teachings and traditions of Islam itself.
Be grateful also to Breitbart News for publishing it.
Bostom writes (links in the original):
What was Muhammad’s “perfect” role model, vis-à-vis jihad slavery? Also, what do Islam’s canonical texts, especially the Koran and the hadith...
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:26 AM

Image by Gates of Vienna
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In his recent essay considering Donald Trump and his proposed ban on Muslim immigration published at Gates of Vienna, Jeff Nyquist cuts a diamond, exposing sparkling new ways of thinking through the murk.
What is unusual about this essay, which is here, is its explication of first things -- patriarchy, nation, posterity, Constitution, etc. -- which restores to them, for want of better languague, the essential decency, which has been perverted, for want of a better label, by the Left. It is, of course, a story of Good and Evil, and Evil is winning. The age-old struggle. As limned by Nyquist,...
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By Diana West on
Monday, December 28, 2015 2:25 PM
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"`Reprehensible and Indefensible': Did Someone Say Clinton?"
In the summer of 2013, Democratic National Committee chief Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) called for the resignation of Democratic San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, previously a U.S. representative, after former supporters of the mayor went public with accusations of sexual harassment.
Wasserman-Schultz:
The misconduct Mayor Bob Filner has been accused of is reprehensible and indefensible. I am personally offended by his actions, and I firmly believe no employee should face a hostile environment or harassmentat their place of employment. There is no place for this type of conduct in the workplace and certainly not in our city halls and public offices.
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By Diana West on
Sunday, December 27, 2015 8:18 AM

Posted below is my endorsement of Donald Trump as GOP 2016 presidential nominee which Breitbart News published today. It was about time to make such a statement, given that over the unfolding campaign season, my support for his candidacy has not wavered, but rather solidified for some of the reasons stated below. It all began with "the wall" -- the concept of border, concrete and metaphorical, that in our times is revolutionary. The voter-candidate bond was also forged in the hellaciously, noxiously fiery attacks on Trump from the mainstream Right, where I just happen to find some of my own choice antagonists, and perhaps for some similar reasons.
I had almost forgotten how bad these attacks have been, to tell the truth (probably blocked them out), so...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:18 AM

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By Diana West on
Thursday, December 24, 2015 6:35 AM

Then there's Hillary Clinton and her insane, media-fired efforts to play the combatively aggrieved female, a woman affronted on behalf of all womanhood, cis to trans, for being the subject of a passive sentence improbably resuscitated by the past participle "schlonged."
As in -- for that remaining sliver of the Western world that has not heard -- Hillary "got schlonged" by Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries. So sayeth Donald Trump, inimitably, but not, it turns out, uniquely. On the occasion of Geraldine Ferraro's death in 2011, an NPR host used this same vernacular to describe what happened in 1984 to Mondale-Ferraro on challenging Reagan-Bush. They got "schlonged," too.
Coarsening public diction (in a political season in which so many establishment voices have already covered themselves in toxic mud) aside:...
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By Diana West on
Thursday, December 24, 2015 2:50 AM

Actually, the insanity is not possible to quantify. An abundance of social and political indicators break the meter.
The fact that there is no effective border of the United States is insane. The fact that 82 members of the Democratic Party have signed onto a House Resolution against free speech about Islam is insane. The fact that the United States still has troops risking -- and losing -- their lives in Afghanistan for the tag end of a bankrupt Bush-Obama political agenda is insane. On this eve of Christmas, with six grieving American families having just met their war dead returned from Afghanistan yesterday, it is also cruel and crying out for redress.
The insanity doesn't end in the "advisory" mission in Afghanistan now being carried out by some 10,000 Americans. Think about what the six Americans we have lost -- four of whom were members of the Air...
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By Diana West on
Monday, December 21, 2015 7:36 AM
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US Marine marksman, Sangin district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, June 2011
Sangin is falling or has fallen.
What is Sangin? A 200-square-mile petri dish inside the 250,000-plus-square-mile Afghanistan laboratory of for failed nation-building/COIN experimentation in blood overseen by George W. Bush, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal and other mad political/military scientists while our own nation's borders remained, and remain, undefended.
A few notes from along the way.
December 3, 2010: "Sangin: Epicenter of US Government...
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By Diana West on
Saturday, December 19, 2015 8:11 AM

12.21.15: Avi Davis passed away this morning in Los Angeles. RIP.
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I have only just heard the tragic news that Avi Davis recently suffered a massive heart attack and remains hospitalized in a coma.
Avi is a loyal friend and dear colleague, the head of the LA-based American Freedom Alliance, an organization that has in professional terms been extremely supportive of my books, The Death of the Grown-Up and American Betrayal both.
During the sustained attacks on American Betrayal spearheaded by David Horowitz's Frontpage magazine, Avi had occasion to prove his mettle: both his independence of mind and moral compass. Declining to follow the cowardly lead of many who reacted to the smear campaign by joining it or shunning the book, Avi decided instead to stage a public event around American Betrayal and M. Stanton Evans' and Herbert Romerstein's Stalin's Secret Agents both, inviting me to Los Angeles in December 2013 to speak at the Skirball Cultural Center. There I was joined via video by both Stan Evans and Sebastian Gorka. The following evening, Avi hosted a private dinner for 20, followed by a book-signing-cum-discussion drilling down on the possibly reasons behind the controversy American Betrayal had created.
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By Diana West on
Saturday, December 19, 2015 7:17 AM

American Betrayal: A Christmas story?
Not really. However, it is the striking case that most of the main action of the book takes place within a span of years notably bookended (see below) by two Christmases: Christmas, 1919, when Lenin ordered the Chekists, his pre-KGB secret police, to shoot anyone failing to show up for work in observance of St. Nicholas' Day, and Christmas 1991, the day the USSR officially dissolved.
The book attempts to unmask some mass of the colossal deception and fakery that have taken shape in between those two Christmas seasons as consensus-history, the nearly completely false narrative from which we take many twisted lessons that thwart us to this day.
No, it is not a Christmas story. But it is a tale of good and evil, truth and lies, and why light is losing to darkness, usually without seeing any of it coming.
From American Betrayal, Chapter...
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By Diana West on
Friday, December 18, 2015 5:34 AM

In the run-up to Election 2012, I asked the question whether Americans would choose to be citizens or subjects of the almighty State. In giving Barack Obama a second term, Americans very much answered the latter.
Approaching the next presidential election, the question once again presents itself -- although it is harder than ever to win one for the Citizen, given the extent to which the Republican party is the jealous guardian of the almighty collective.
From the vault:
Election 2012: Citizen or Subject
Back in 2008, during the peak illusory powers of Barack Obama as the post-partisan hopester-and-changer, the media consistently failed to report that the statist beliefs of the Democratic presidential nominee came straight...
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By Diana West on
Friday, December 18, 2015 4:56 AM

Listen here.
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By Diana West on
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:24 AM

Fear makes blackguards out of bullies. It makes them behave in disgraceful ways. As they see their thuggish dominance dissipate, their thrones of lies lurch and topple, they rage, they spit, they dribble. They lash out, and always at the best of their opponents. The patriot. The one whose example inspires others.
So it is with the vials of acid barely disguised as news stories being hurled from all around the polluted-mainstream media at national security expert Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy. Why? For Frank Gaffney's unceasing campaign to alert and inform Americans and particularly our lawmakers, whose sworn duty it is to protect our Constitution, about the totalitarian perils of the legal, political, religious system codified in Islam as sharia, or Islamic law. Why now? For his campaign's great success.
As jihad attacks recur with greater frequency and proximity -- and predictably...
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By Diana West on
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 6:42 AM

Alger Hiss (center), Soviet GRU agent, State Department official, and the first General Secretary of the United Nations
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Over on what we think of as the right side of the political spectrum, critiques of Donald Trump often include laments and/or teeth-gnashings over his "splitting the Republican Party," and/or his "not being a conservative."
Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti approaches this same and, to him, alarming territory with an eye on whether Trump's candidacy portends a historic shift in the GOP as we have known it in recent decades.
He writes:
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