It’s Friday, June 14th, 2019…but before we begin, if this assessment is accurate…

Pompeo Says Iran Is Responsible for Tanker Attacks

…why didn’t the Ayatollah Khamenei waken to the sound of a cruise missile coming through his bedroom ceiling; or at the very least the glow of flames from multiple strikes on military targets across his country?

In all seriousness, this makes six tankers the premier sponsor of terrorism on the planet or their proxies have hit in the past month.  Not to mention Tehran’s responsibility for the vast majority of U.S. combat deaths dating back to the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.

Meanwhile, the receipt of some $56 billion in cash courtesy of a misleader who rolled over for the Mad Mullahs faster than a Cocker Spaniel caught peeing on the carpet…

…has done nothing to slake their thirst for jihad.

As we’ve noted before, absent the overthrow of the current theocracy by a popular uprising, Officer John Davis has it right:

Here’s the juice: as long as private and government interests around the globe can make money doing it, they’ll willingly sell Tehran the means to construct and deliver WDMs, without concern for the eventual targets…likely because they believe all the bullseyes will be located within the borders of Israel.

And what’s the potential loss of another six million or so Jews as compared to hundreds of billions…if not trillions…in current assets on their balance sheets?!?

C’mon, facts and politically-incorrect history don’t lie: or does someone out there really believe Jacques Chirac sold French nuclear technology to Saddam Hussein in the belief the oil-rich Iraqi dictator was committed to the peaceful employment of the atom?!?

Cast all of Western civilization in the role of Sarah Connor, and Iran as the Cyberdyne Systems Series T-800 Model 101, and this clip from The Terminator is dead-on balls accurate:

Which begs the question, when it comes to the monied elites of Europe, Asia and the Americas…

The answer is indeed blowin’ in the wind.  And that howling gale originates primarily in France, Germany, Russia and China…with the occasional light breeze wafting in…

…from the good old U.S. of A.

There are none so blind as though who WILL not see; and 99.9% of those are Progressives…while the remaining .01% are NeverTrumpers.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, is there any other reasonable explanation why, as Jack Crowe relates at NRO., the DHS Secretary is reporting…

90 Percent of Recent Asylum-Seekers Skipped Their Hearings

Other than, of course, their utter inability to even remotely prove they’re minimally deserving of asylum status. 

In an inextricably intertwined issue bearing on Progressives’ promotion of unrestricted illegal immigration, the WSJ‘s Kimberly Strassel details the Dims’ dissimulation and deception regarding…

‘Contempt’ and the Court

The aim of House Democrats’ census ‘oversight’ is to influence the justices.

“It’s tempting to think the House Oversight Committee’s vote this week to hold two Trump cabinet secretaries in contempt is just the latest showdown over documents and “obstruction.” It’s not. This one is all about the Supreme Court.

Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings would like the public to think this vote was about a refusal by Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to turn over documents related to the administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. He complained that the administration has “delayed, dissembled” and thwarted committee oversight.

But that’s hard to square. (Unlike the Obama DOJ) The (Trump) Justice Department has flooded the committee with information, turning over 17,000 pages of documents, and making officials available for hours of interviews. More telling, the process isn’t over. The department is readying thousands of pages more, and the committee has already scheduled additional interviews. Contempt is usually a way of breaking an impasse; there’s no need for it when an agency is cooperating.

So why the rush? Mr. Cummings’s vote is the left’s latest, desperate effort to get the Supreme Court to stand down from an imminent ruling over that same census question.

Democrats have convinced themselves that if the administration is allowed to include the question, illegal aliens will shy away from the census, resulting in an undercount in urban areas and fewer Democratic House seats. The party is uninterested in the substantive policy reasons for the question. As New York’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted in Wednesday’s hearing: “This determines who has power in the United States of America.”

When the Census Bureau announced last year that it would add the question, liberal attorneys general and advocacy groups rushed to sue and won some lower-court rulings. But in April the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Department of Commerce v. New York. The court’s conservatives seemed to take the view that the Commerce Department, which oversees the census, has broad authority over questions.

Liberals have been conducting a court lobbying/intimidation campaign ever since…”

Speaking of the Hard Left engaging in a dedicated campaign of lobbying/intimidation, here’s an earth-shattering example of them coming up woefully…and legally…short, as NRO‘s David French observes…

“Late last week, an Ohio jury reached a verdict that sent shockwaves through the American higher-education establishment. It ordered Oberlin College to pay a business called Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery a stunning $11 million in compensatory damages for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and intentional interference with business relationships. And that number will rise, significantly, if it decides to impose punitive damages as well.

The case represents an important moment — the moment when the American legal establishment learned that it can potentially impose steep costs on institutions that participate in the kind of cruel, malicious, and vicious mob tactics that have become an all-too-familiar part of the American political landscape. It turns out that the law can indeed offer an answer to the worst forms of illiberal behavior.

The facts of the case are egregious. On November 9, 2016, a bakery employee suspected an African-American Oberlin student, Jonathan Aladin, of stealing wine. The employee pursued the student and got in a physical altercation with Aladin and two other Oberlin students, Cecilia Whettstone and Endia Lawrence. Police arrested the three students, and almost a year later — on August 11, 2017 — Aladin pled guilty to attempted theft, aggravated trespass, and underage consumption. Whettstone and Lawrence pled guilty to attempted theft and aggravated trespass. They were not racially profiled. They were guilty of crimes.

Yet students immediately organized a protest of the bakery, publishing and distributing flyers that claimed it was “a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION,” and that a member of the Oberlin community “was assaulted” by its owner. Evidence indicated that university officials helped publish and distribute the flyer, including by disseminating it to media.

This was but the beginning of the bakery’s ordeal. The student senate issued a resolution stating that Gibson’s had a history of “racial profiling” and “discriminatory treatment,” and the resolution was posted on campus for “a period of at least one year.” The head of Oberlin’s Department of Africana Studies published a Facebook post declaring that Gibson’s had “been bad for decades” and that “their dislike for black people is palpable.” He said, “Their food is rotten and they profile black students.”

Then, from November 14, 2016, through January 30, 2017, the college suspended all business with Gibson’s.

In sum, evidence indicated that the university assisted in the dissemination of false statements of fact about private citizens and engaged in economic reprisals based on these false accounts. The accusation of assault alone was libelous under Ohio law…”

Since we’re on the subject of Fake News…

…here’s a report we viewed with TLJ confirming the MSM’s deliberate mislabeling of a young Black man’s clear intent to commit “Suicide-by-the- Pohlice” after shooting another man 5 times and being caught in his stolen car:

Yeah, “he engaged well with others”: particularly the guy he engaged 5 times down in Mississippi!

Again…

A “father of three and a 2017 graduate of Central High School“:

Think about it: the deceased, at 20 years of age, had fathered three children…while purportedly graduating from Central High School.

Sorry, but other than the part about actually having graduated from high school, fathering three children by the age of twenty hardly sets the deceased apart from almost every other homeboy in every other ‘hood across the country.  Pardon us if we cry for his children, without shedding a tear for Mr. Webber.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Along with this meme from Speed Mach and Shannon…

…and finally, this string of animal memes from TLJ:

Magoo