Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Bob Woodward Has A Trail Of Accuracy Issues That Nobody Is Talking About ~ Which makes his new book about Donald Trump, “Fear,” more than a little suspect. Writing at the Daily Caller, Peter Hasson gives numerous examples of Woodward’s shaky veracity ~

Woodward has a muddy history with a trail of allegations that he embellished the truth or otherwise misled his readers.

 
Another outrageously irresponsible journalist ~ Why Joe Scarborough Is A Disgrace To America ~ Media malpractice at its most egregious. Scarborough claims President Trump is worse for America than the 9-11 terrorist attack ~

His column — published on the eve of 9/11 — titled “Trump is harming the dream of America more than any foreign adversary ever could,” makes illogical jumps and leaps to tie the cost of the foreign intervention following 9/11 to President Trump […]
 
It is a shame that Scarborough chose to exploit a day of grieving and memorial for innocent lives in order to take a swipe at the president. Scarborough’s actions are a disgrace to those who lost their lives and their families, and to the values that keep America together.

 
And then there’s the New York Times ~$52,000 curtains for Nikki Haley’s office were bought by Obama’s State Department, not Trump’s ~ NYT deliberately misreports story on front page; prints correction on page 10 – after the misleading version had already gone viral.

 
Russia in the news ~ Russian warships hold drills in Bering Sea in huge military exercise ~ What Russian Collusion?

Russian warships held drills in the Bering Sea which separates Russia from Alaska, part of Moscow’s biggest military maneuvers since the fall of the Soviet Union, footage aired by the Ministry of Defence showed on Friday.

 
And, (more) Evidence of ‘drilling’ found aboard the International Space Station

Now a source close to the Russian space agency Roscosmos has admitted the damage was more extensive than previously
 
‘Traces of drilling have been found not only inside the spacecraft’s living compartment,’ said the source. The damage was also ‘on the screen of the anti-meteorite shield that covers the spacecraft from the outside and is installed 15 millimetres from the pressurised hull’ […]
 
Rogozin said it was ‘a matter of honour…to find whoever was guilty’ of causing the spacecraft damage – and ‘whether it was deliberate’.

 
Luxury Socialism and the End of the Working Left ~ Daniel Greenfield analyzes the latest incarnation of collectivism ~

Luxury Socialism has won the free college battle on the Democrat side and is pushing onward to Guaranteed Minimum Income or welfare-for-all. Deploying universal welfare during a period of huge job growth and record low unemployment isn’t a response to economic deprivation. It’s “Luxury for All”.
 
Luxury for All is the inevitable next step for a welfare state that is running out of things to cover. Who needs necessities, when the government can give you luxuries?

 
Alameda County, CA – Castro Valley man allegedly cursed Trump, tried to stab GOP congressional candidate ~ This story sure got buried in a hurry. More unhinged violence from the Left ~

A Castro Valley man shouting profanities about President Trump attacked a Republican congressional candidate who was working an election booth at a town festival, threatening him and trying to stab him with a switchblade, authorities and the candidate said Tuesday.

 
Rift Between Police, Feds Allowed New Mexico Terror Compound To Fester ~ As I was saying ~

While federal authority over terrorism cases predominates, the New Mexico case feeds local law enforcement’s growing perception that they can’t assume the FBI has the situation under control. It also indicates the difficulties for local law enforcement when complicated cases with possible terror links are suddenly thrust into their laps […]
 
We should continue to expect better cooperation between all levels of law enforcement in the effort to defeat jihadist terror. But at the end of the day, local law enforcement should not accept having their “hands tied” from protecting their communities nor take a back seat on counterterrorism.

 
South Africa in Recession After Land Threat: ‘Shocking Drop in Agriculture’ ~ When the government announces that it’s going to steal your land, why would you continue to work it? ~

The recession is not quite “shocking” to opponents of the South African government’s land reform policy, which is ostensibly aimed at redressing racial inequalities in land ownership, but which critics have called a threat to property rights in general.
 
Though the policy only began in earnest last month, following a televised address by Cyril Ramaphosa, the newly-installed president had already declared that the government would pursue “expropriation without compensation” in February, during his “State of the Nation” address.

 
Dem Congressional Candidate: ‘I Worked in Opposition to U.S. Policy in Central America’ ~ Of course you did. You’re a superior being; a reality-free leftist ~

Lisa Brown (running for Congress in Washington state) worked and taught in Nicaragua in 1990, and the Examiner included an old news article from that year that described her time in the country as a professor. Brown was teaching a macroeconomics seminar at the University of Central America and was, according to the article, “one of hundreds of so-called ‘internacionalistas,’ cooperating with Nicaragua’s outgoing Sandinista government by offering technical skills.”
 
The “internacionalistas” strongly supported Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega—head of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a democratic socialist political party—who was defeated in the 1990 presidential election.

And now Brown’s hero, back in power since 2007, is rapidly destroying his country – on the path to utopia.

 
Kamala Harris is rapidly gaining a reputation as the most dishonest senator ~ Democrat darling of the Kavanaugh hearings ~

Harris is lying. If you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe the failing grades that the left-leaning PolitiFact (they went easy — she deserved the full “pants on fire” grade) and the Washington Post (four Pinocchios) both gave her for lying about Kavanaugh’s views.

 
Speaking of delusional Democrats ~ Rising Socialist Candidate’s Bizarre Past Exposed Days Before Election ~ Running for the NY state senate, Julia Salazar’s reality seems a bit distorted ~

Salazar, 27, faced criticism for saying she was an immigrant from Colombia who struggled financially when she was actually born in Florida and had hundreds of thousands of dollars in a trust fund. She was scrutinized, too, over a political and religious conversion during her years at Columbia University, where she transformed from a Republican, anti-abortion Christian to a hard-left, Jewish Democrat. One group revoked its endorsement after learning Salazar hadn’t graduated from Columbia, as she said on its survey.

(And that’s only the beginning of her “issues” 😯 )

Gym Owner’s Ad Containing Cross Returned to High School Football Field ~ Occasionally in this fallen world the Right prevails ~

Bossier City, Louisiana – Army vet Billy Weatherall knows something about fighting in battle. So when a local school decided to remove his gym’s logo from their football field because it contained a cross, Weatherall knew it was a battle he had to fight. Although Weatherall was prepared for a drawn-out legal case, it didn’t take long. Weatherall gives all the praise to God.