Confessions of an Oppo Researcher

This blog is devoted to evaluating vulnerable Democratic candidates, political news, law and current affairs. Author is a Political consultant specializing in opposition research for conservative candidates, attorneys and PACS at the local, state, and federal level. “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” ― Patrick Henry

Monday, August 31, 2015

Sid Blumenthal Unloaded on Tea Party in ‘Confidential’ Three-Page Memo to Hillary Clinton

Sid Blumenthal unloaded on the Tea Party in a formerly confidential three-page memo to Hillary Clinton.

The August 2010 memo from the trusted Clinton adviser, revealed Monday night after the State Department released a new batch of Clinton emails, provided the then-secretary of state with “some language on extremism and the Republican Party.”

“The Republican Party today is a captive party. It is captive to the swamp fevers of the extreme right,” Blumenthal wrote at the outset of the memo. “It is captive to its out-of-power desperation for political power—willing to do and say anything to grab it—willing to use extremists to help climb back to power—willing to give the extremists power. No one is speaking up for responsible conservatism within the Republican Party.”

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UNC’s ‘Literature of 9/11’ course sympathizes with terrorists, paints U.S. as imperialistic

ALEC DENT - UNC CHAPEL HILL

None of the assigned readings view attacks from perspective of Sept. 11 victims’ families

An English class offered at UNC Chapel Hill this fall called “Literature of 9/11” explores the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from the perspective of radical Islamists and those who view America as an imperialist nation.

The reading assignments for the class, which includes poems, memoirs and graphic novels, present terrorists in a sympathetic light and American political leaders as greedy, war hungry and corrupt, according to a review by The College Fix.

The readings mostly focus on justifying the actions of terrorists – painting them as fighting against an American regime, or mistaken idealists, or good people just trying to do what they deem right. None of the readings assigned in the freshman seminar present the Sept. 11 attacks from the perspective of those who died or from American families who lost loved ones.

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Rutgers University: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Free Speech’

Aguide to preventing “bias incidents” published by Rutgers University warns students that the idea of “free speech” is a lie, Campus Reformreports. “There is no such thing as ‘free’ speech. On the university website, the committee explains how almost any statement that fails the political correctness test on any level could merit investigation. All speech has a cost and consequences,” opens the page dedicated to the school’s “Bias Prevention & Education Committee.”

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

That awkward liberal moment

How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating An Entire Generation Of Fascists

By Jonah Goldberg

One lasting legacy (among others) of the Soviet Union is its deceptive distortion of language – dressing up ugliness with innocuous and nice-sounding terms, as predicted by George Orwell in his seminal and much-quoted work Nineteen Eighty-Four. For example, if someone says that they’re for “human rights”, that means that they’re for Stalinist thought control, hardcore government authoritarianism, and international warmongering.“Human rights activists” are, in actuality, a vile, twisted, and extremely dangerous plague upon humanity. So, too, are the self-proclaimed supporters of “social justice” (who are, of course, often the same people). “Social justice” blogging is most associated with Tumblr, a blogging platform started in February 2007 which is now among the most visited sites on the Internet. “Social justice” bloggers are notoriously zealous and exceptionally nasty people, which has led to the coining of the ironic term “social justice warrior”, or SJW for short.

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Friday, August 28, 2015

BREAKING!!!!! TEXAS DEPUTY EXECUTED DAYS AFTER BLACK RADICAL GROUP CALLS FOR KILLING COPS

HOUSTON, Texas — A Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy was shot execution style at a gas station while reportedly in full uniform. The deputy was filling up his patrol car. Witnesses told Breitbart Texas the shooter shot the deputy in the back of the head and then three times in the back. This tragedy comes within days of a group of Black radicals calling for “lynching whites and killing cops,” as Breitbart Texas recently reported. Witnesses also told Breitbart Texas that the shooter was a black male.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Is the government aware of their own 18 US Code section 241?

18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Why do men prefer tequila?

Friday, August 21, 2015

SHOCK POLL FROM RASMUSSEN: 57% of Likely Republican Voters now think Trump is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee

Friday, August 21, 2015

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has captured the public’s attention for better or worse, and his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, once seen as a pipe dream, is now a topic of serious discussion. So for the near future at least, Rasmussen Reports intends to track Trump’s race for the White House in a weekly Friday feature we’re calling Trump Change.

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Landmark UN Resolution Urges States to Monitor and Regulate Private Education Providers

2 JULY 2015

Press release

(Geneva, 2 July 2015) Eight international civil society organisations today welcomed a landmark resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) urging States to regulate and monitor private education providers and recognising the potential “wide-ranging impact of the commercialization of education on the enjoyment of the right to education”.

- See more at: http://www.right-to-education.org/news/landmark-un-resolution-urges-states-monitor-and-regulate-private-education-providers#sthash.NuIqC7at.dpuf

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL YARD SIGNS

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YARD SIGNS

By David Rosen
Aug 18, 2015
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Yard signs are the bane of most consultants and campaign staffers, but they don’t have to be if you approach them with the right attitude.

If you’re asking whether or not they win votes and benefit the overall campaign, you’re likely to see yard signs as a frustrating distraction and a waste of precious resources. After all, the scientific research into yard signs has yielded mixed results. In fact, we don’t really know whether they make a difference in overall campaign performance.

Whenever answers are elusive, it’s often because we’re asking the wrong questions. So instead of debating the macro effects of yard signs on the overall campaign, it’s far more constructive to focus on their micro effects: How yard signs can be leveraged effectively to change the behavior of individual voters and win new supporters.

So how might we use social and situational influence techniques to you keep your yard signs working?

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Hillary's response to the email scandal:

Monday, August 17, 2015

Sorority pushed to delete recruitment video after public raged they were too white and too blond

A University of Alabama sorority video featuring scores of beautiful young women enjoying their college experience was removed from social media after getting lambasted by scolds as “worse for women than Donald Trump.”

In part, because the women were virtually all white. And blond … oh, so blond.