America is so racist. It's so racist that a violent black racist hate group tied to the murder of police officers and the destruction of cities only gets $130 million.

$130 million? Come on. That's barely enough for 50 yachts, 30 Lamborghinis and all the caviar they can eat. I bet if Black Lives Matter had been a racist white hate group that advocated for cop killers, it would have gotten a grand total of 50 cents. But the left does love its Black Panthers and its social justice street riots and its burning black neighborhoods.

So they'll fund plenty more of the same.

For all its talk of being a street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.

The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.

That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.

It should be zero surprise that Ford Foundation and Soros are funding race riots in America. Though it should be asked whether groups can fund race riots while still posing as charities.

“The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America,” said the Borealis announcement.

It's a national conversation that involves

1. Racism

2. Race riots

3. The murder of police officers

4. The burning and looting of businesses

We should start having a national conversation about criminalizing all of the above. Including the groups like Borealis, Ford and OSI that are funding this.

The Milwaukee anti-police riots fed by the shooting of a criminal are the latest triumph by the racist Black Lives Matter hate group. And the police officer who shot the criminal? He's African-American.

The unrest in Sherman Park after a fatal police shooting Saturday appears to have mostly abated, but the social media communication that helped fuel it has, if anything, intensified and focused on the officer.

As of Tuesday, at least 3,000 people have shared a Facebook photo of the 24-year-old Milwaukee patrolman who fatally shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith – some of them adding furious and threatening comments.

“Now y'all see his face if he's seen anywhere in the city drop him,” read one post. Another called for a gun so the person could “shoot him right in his head.”

The "racist"officer is African-American.

The name of the black police officer who killed Sylville Smith has been made public. The officer is Dominique Heaggan, also referred to as Dominique Heaggan-Brown.

According to this report, Heaggan grew up poor and “rough” in the same neighborhood as Smith. Indeed, the two attended the same high school and apparently knew each other at the time.

Heaggan joined the city’s police force as a police aide in 2010. He became a sworn officer three years later.

No citizen has ever filed a complaint against Heaggan with the city’s Fire and Police Commission, the board says. In 2014, police officials recognized Heaggan for helping a homeless woman.

BLM is not fighting racism. It's a radical left-wing group that uses racism to promote radical goals.

Good news. 

If the American people elect Hillary Clinton president, she will stop taking bribes from foreigners. Also if they don't elect her, foreigners won't want to give her bribes anymore. It's a real Catch 22.

The charitable foundation led by former President Bill Clinton will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president and will hold its final annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in September regardless of the outcome of the November election.

1. The Clinton Foundation is not a charity

2. If Hillary loses, there will no longer be any reason for anyone to offer bribes since at that point the likelihood of Hillary ever becoming president is about the same as the likelihood of her ever telling the truth

3. If you shouldn't be taking foreign and corporate donations when you're president, you shouldn't be taking them when you're running for president

Bill Clinton announced the changes to the foundation in a staff meeting on Thursday, saying he and daughter Chelsea Clinton would be remiss if they didn't plan for the possibility of Hillary Clinton winning the White House.

Or, you know Bill being indicted for anything from sexual assault to stealing candy from a baby.

The former president said the foundation would continue its work but refocus its efforts in a process that will take up to a year to complete. 

Refocus them on bank accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands?

Obama Inc. just swaps out one lie with another when the previous lie gets exposed. There's always a technicality as a fallback position.

Sure, we used foreign money from foreign banks sent on an unmarked cargo plane to Iran, but it wasn't a secret. Yes we delayed payment until the hostages were released, but it wasn't a ransom.

The Obama administration admitted Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran in January was contingent on the release of American prisoners being held in the country – while still denying that the payment was a ransom.

However, Kirby said that the U.S. withheld the cash delivery until Iran made good on its promise to release the prisoners.

“In basic English you are saying you wouldn’t give [Iran] the 400 million in cash until the prisoners were released, correct?” asked a reporter at Thursday’s State Department briefing.

“That’s correct,” Kirby responded.

“What the State Department admitted today was the dictionary definition of a ransom payment and a complete contradiction of what they were saying just two weeks ago,” RNC Spokesman Michael Short said in a statement. “It’s time for the Obama White House to drop the charade and admit it paid a ransom to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.”

"Reports of link between prisoner release & payment to Iran are completely false," Kirby tweeted at the time.

To summarize, Kirby just admitted what he had denied. And the new fallback position is that the payment and the release of the hostages was linked, but that the negotiations were conducted separately, therefore it's not a ransom.

Alex, I'll take excuses no one could possibly believe for $500.

This is ridiculously stupid for two basic reasons...

1 . Colin Powell's private email was hacked

2. It doesn't remotely matter what Powell did or said. There were basic laws in place. Hillary and her people violated them.

But sure. Tell the FBI it's Colin Powell's fault.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reportedly told federal authorities during her questioning over her email practices while at the State Department that former Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged her to use a private email account.

An email exchange emerged from 2009 between Clinton and Powell during the questioning that revealed that she had asked the former secretary of state about his email practices under George W. Bush, a source told The Times. Clinton had already setup her private email server during that time.

The book details a conversation between Clinton and Powell at a party hosted by Madeleine Albright in Washington. The Times reported that Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice also attended the event.

“Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat,” a passage details. “Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer.”

This story is a blatantly obvious lie. I am no fan of Colin Powell. But does anyone really think that his advice to Hillary Clinton on heading up our foreign diplomacy would involve email accounts?

It's wildly unlikely and has all the hallmarks of another Hillary lie.

According to The Times, Powell’s office said in a statement that he had “no recollection” of the alleged conversation between him and Clinton. He did confirm that he told Clinton via email about his use of a personal account for unclassified emails and “how it improved communications within the State Department.”

As usual, Hillary Clinton can't help taking a story with some basis to it and then blowing it up into a ridiculous lie that just calls attention to the fact that she is completely untrustworthy. 

Judith Butler has claimed that Islamic terror groups are progressive. Maybe Jill Stein agrees. Either that or she's utterly unaware of anything that happened after 1932. Considering that she is the Green Party candidate, that is an entirely real possibility.

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein insisted that the Islamic State wasn’t a threat to the United States on Wednesday night at a CNN town hall.

U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Alexander McCoy, who is leaning towards supporting Hillary Clinton for President, asked Stein whether she thought that ISIS is a threat to the U.S. and whether she would use allies in the Middle East to defeat them.

Stein responded by saying that there are international rules of engagement and that a country needs to be an “imminent” threat before attacking them.

“Clearly, that threshold has not been met. ISIS is not about to launch a major attack against our country,” Stein said.

Does killing 49 gay people in Orlando count? Apparently not to Dr. Jill Stein, PhD, MA, NL, CS, GT.

Does constantly plotting terror attacks count as an imminent threat? Not to the Green Party which decided that its figurehead needed to be even more delusional and ideologically driven than Bernie Sanders.

There is apparently a new mental illness in Europe. Its symptoms include shouting Allahu Akbar, attacking non-Muslims and being of Muslim origin. But it's a mental illness that has nothing to do with Islam.

Here's the latest act of"Nothing to do with Islam" non-terrorism.

A man wearing a traditional Jewish kippah has been injured in a knife attack in Strasbourg, but police are reportedly ruling out terrorism.

I'm reassured. Are you?

Witnesses quoted by several media said the assailant shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ prior to carrying out the attack, but Le Figaro said police in the city were refusing to confirm this detail.

Of course they were. It might give people the idea that this was terrorism. Which was already ruled out.

The attacker, reported to be around 30, approached the man outside his home in the heart of the city's Jewish Quarter at around 11:45am on Friday.
 
The victim was stabbed in the abdomen, but his injuries are not life-threatening, Strasbourg's chief rabbi Rene Gutman told AFP.
 
The rabbi added that the suspect had previouly attacked a member of the Jewish community in 2010. 

So this is the second time he did it. And he got away with it before. And this time the authorities seem happy to let him get away with it again.

But according to BFMTV, citing sources close to the enquiry, said an anti-semitic motive has so far not been established and terrorism has been ruled out.

Oh my. What could it be then?

The attacker was arrested shortly after the attack. According to Le Figaro, the man had a history of psychiatric problems.

Of course he does. The poor dear.

Get him some bed rest and some art therapy and release him in 6 to 8 months so he can do it again.

How can we know that the Muslim was not anti-Semitic or a terrorist, but mentally ill?

The attacker, who stabbed his victim and beat him with an iron bar, suffered from psychiatric problems and spoke to police of his belief that Jews were running the world and were to blame for all his woes.

So, in essence, he had a typical Muslim view of Jews. Maybe France ought to use that as a test for psychiatric problems and bar anyone with such mental problems from entering the country. And deport those who suffer from them so they can be treated back home.

Why I suspect France would suddenly see far fewer of these mental illness motivated attacks.

Trump asks black voters what they have to lose. Good question.

What exactly has all the pandering from the Democratic Party done for the Black community? The economic consequences have been horrible and the only thing the Dems offer is a chance to sit at the front of their latest protest rally.

Citing poverty, high unemployment and broken education systems, Donald Trump on Friday continued to court African-American voters with the simple question: "What do you have to lose?"

"Look at how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those hurting, I say: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?" he read from a teleprompter at a Michigan rally.

By the way, what are the odds that NBC News would have described Hillary Clinton's speech as being read from a teleprompter?

But here's the actual speech...

Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime.

This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city. This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton.

The only way to change results is to change leadership. We can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place.

A new future requires new leadership.

Look at how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic Control. To those hurting, I say: what do you have to lose by trying something new?

One thing we know for sure is that if you keep voting for the same people you will keep getting the same result.

My Administration will go to work for you as no one ever has.

By contrast, the one thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes jobs and opportunities from African-American workers. Her support for open borders. Her fierce opposition to school choice. Her plan to massively raise taxes on small businesses. Her opposition to American energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.

America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.

Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to give that job to unemployed African-American youth in cities like Detroit who have become refugees in their own country.

It is time to get our country back to work, and that includes an all-out effort to help young African-Americans get the good-paying jobs they deserve.

Hillary Clinton’s plan would bring in an estimated 620,000 refugees in her first term – at a lifetime benefit cost of some $400 billion dollars, according to the U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee. She wants to be America’s Angela Merkel.

If you can make your way through Max Read's shallow, whiny and self-involved piece at NYMag, you'll reach the part where the former Gawker editor admits just how effective that despised bunch of misfits reviled by the media really were at wrecking the beloved chattering class institution. 

"As Gawker was imploding in the summer of 2015, a group of teenage ­video-game enthusiasts was throwing gasoline on the already-raging fire. These were the Gamergaters. Of all the enemies Gawker had made over the years — in New York media, in Silicon Valley, in Hollywood — none were more effective than the Gamergaters."

Read reruns a lot of the usual media spin about Gamerg"ate, but it doesn't really matter. What matter is that he admits it was effective as a movement in damaging a media institution.

"More problematically, it would turn out, I was also, unconsciously, messing with the only group even less able to grapple with irony or context: brands. What I’d missed about Gamergate was that they were gamers — they had spent years developing a tolerance for highly repetitive tasks. Like, say, contacting major advertisers.

"On Reddit, a campaign was launched to contact every advertiser Gamergaters could find on Gawker’s site — and not just the marketing departments of advertisers like Adobe and BMW, but specific executives. If you can bug a chief marketing officer, it doesn’t matter that your complaints are disingenuous: He just wants to stop being annoyed.

"And so Gawker went into full-on crisis mode. Our chief revenue officer flew to Chicago to meet shaky clients; someone I hadn’t spoken with since high school Facebook-messaged me to let me know that her employer, L.L.Bean, a Gawker advertiser, was considering pulling its ads."

In short, it worked. 

"Then it all went away. Gawker had taken a hit — thousands of dollars of advertising gone, at least. But in the weeks we’d been hemorrhaging advertisers and goodwill, stories in the New York Times and other outlets — the real media—and a segment on The Colbert Report made it clear that the Gamergaters were the bad guys in this case, not us. The sites went back to normal.

But of course it didn’t go away. Gamergate proved the power of well-organized reactionaries to threaten Gawker’s well-being. And when Gawker really went too far — far enough that even our regular defenders in the media wouldn’t step up to speak for us — Gamergate was there, in the background, turning every crisis up a notch or two and making continued existence impossible."

There are lessons here for conservatives. Ones we should not dismiss.

The crazier the left gets, the more it resembles some creepy medieval cult. Behind all the glossy NPR propagandizing, you could easily see this fellow in a hairshirt.

Standing before several dozen students in a college classroom, Travis Rieder tries to convince them not to have children. Or at least not too many.

For years, people have lamented how bad things might get "for our grandchildren," but Rieder tells the students that future isn't so far off anymore.

He asks how old they will be in 2036, and, if they are thinking of having kids, how old their kids will be.

"Dangerous climate change is going to be happening by then," he says. "Very, very soon."

Don't have kids because the world is going to end. How original.

Rieder wears a tweedy jacket and tennis shoes, and he limps because of a motorcycle accident. He's a philosopher with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and his arguments against having children are moral.

They're moral. Cynics shouldn't speculate that there isn't a single woman on earth willing to have children with a philosopher in a tweedy jacket who spends his time explaining that the world will end.

Americans and other rich nations produce the most carbon emissions per capita, he says. Yet people in the world's poorest nations are most likely to suffer severe climate impacts, "and that seems unfair," he says.

So who is going to bail out these poorest nations if Americans don't have children?

"Here's a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them," Rieder says.

Sound plan. Or we could just drown them at birth. 

There's a basic problem with a politician promising to be ethical... if they win the White House. And that's what Hillary is doing. It's even worse when the politician has actually been in the White House and violated all the rules that anyone could think of. 

Meanwhile the impact of Hillary's new proposed Clinton Foundation donations ethics rule is she wins the White House would be to render half her existing donors retroactively unethical.

More than half of the Clinton Foundation’s major donors would be prevented from contributing to the charity under the self-imposed ban on corporate and foreign donors the foundation said this week it would adopt if Hillary Clinton won the White House, according to a new Washington Post analysis of foundation donations.

The findings underscore the extent to which the Clintons’ sprawling global charity has come to rely on financial support from industries and overseas interests, a point that has drawn criticism from Republicans and some liberals who have said the donations represent conflicts of interest for a potential president.

Of course Hillary's proposed rule is beyond meaningless. A candidate who promises to stop taking dubious donations if he wins would be laughed at. Hillary deserves no better.

The Clinton Foundation is not a charity. It's just the Clinton agenda of careerism writ large.

The foundation’s announcement drew skepticism Friday from the right and the left as critics wondered why the Clintons have never before cut off corporate and overseas money to their charity — and why they would wait until after the election to do so.

Because the mission would be accomplished.

Others questioned why Clinton had now decided that the foundation should rule out donations that she apparently thought were acceptable during her tenure as the country’s top diplomat. “Is it ok to accept foreign and corporate money when Secretary of State but not when POTUS???” Donald Trump Jr., son of the Republican nominee, tweeted Thursday night.

Winston Churchill has, rightly or wrongly, been quoted as saying that, "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

The actual origin of the quote though appears to be John Adams.  “A boy of 15 who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at 20.”

Democrats tend to perform better with younger voters. Obama won the 18-29 vote by 66 to 32 against McCain and 60 to 38 against Romney. Hillary however is underperforming at 38 to 27 with 19 percent going to Gary Johnson.

Maybe Hillary needs to talk about how she inhaled. 

Forget about keeping your doctor. Forget about much of anything. ObamaCare is speedily contracting down to a black hole of extremely limited choices. How limited? Try no choice at all.

So much for choice. In many parts of the country, Obamacare customers will be down to one insurer when they go to sign up for coverage next year on the public exchanges.

A central tenet of the federal health law was to offer a range of affordable health plans through competition among private insurers. But a wave of insurer failures and the recent decision by several of the largest companies, including Aetna, to exit markets are leaving large portions of the country with functional monopolies for next year.

According to an analysis done for The Upshot by the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform, 17 percent of Americans eligible for an Affordable Care Act plan may have only one insurer to choose next year. The analysis shows that there are five entire states currently set to have one insurer, although our map also includes two more states because the plans for more carriers are not final. By comparison, only 2 percent of eligible customers last year had only one choice.

As ObamaCare continues burning through insurers, things will get worse, leading to the inevitable push for full socialization and "Medicare for All". It's all going according to plan.

Global Warming's victims are all around us. The catastrophic imaginary global problem is wreaking havoc everywhere. Like Hillary Clinton's  $33,400 per guest fundraiser out in California.

The modestly priced  $33,400 per guest fundraiser was supposed to be hosted by Leonard DiCaprio. But then a schedule change to his global warming documentary about how we all have to make sacrifices while he flies his private jet to  $33,400 per guest fundraisers forced him to abandon his hosting duties.

Some Republicans ask where the victims of global warming are.

Just take a look at Hillary Clinton. She too is a victim of global warming.

I blame racism. Some racism. Somewhere. It's usually a safe bet.

Progressive activists have had trouble getting African-Americans to support bringing in more Syrian refugees due to concerns that refugee children will receive more attention than poor African-American children, according to a leaked memo between top officials at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and members of the organization’s U.S. advisory board.

The memo notes that “immigrant and African-American leaders, while sympathetic to the plight of the Syrians and ultimately willing to support expansion of refugee admissions for them, note that their communities are conflicted as Latino children from Central America and African-American children in deeply poor parts of the U.S. do not receive equal attention.”

Maybe they should convert to Islam. I'm sure Obama would be far more sympathetic.

But yes, it's not terribly surprising that the black community would lack interest in the bleeding hearts latest pets, Syrian Muslims.And why not? Syrian Muslims treated Iraqi refugees like dirt. It goes without saying that they would have had no interest in African refugees.

All of this was being routed through the infrastructure of Soros Inc. which was trying to figure out how to flood America with more Muslims. Because that's just what you do when you're a Bond villain. 

The media is loudly trumpeting the claim that "40 Orthodox Rabbis" signed a letter condemning Trump. Except that many of the figures signing on to the letter would not be recognized as Rabbis by any actual Orthodox community. The letter appears on the site of anti-Orthodox activist group Uri L'Tzedek. It includes female "Rabbas" and "Rabbanits". 

Also it includes "Rabbi" Chaim Seidler-Feller an anti-Israel activist.. and beat and scratched a Jewish woman over her pro-Israel views condemning Trump's "dangerous tendencies"..

Here's the story of his victim, Rachel Neuwirth. 

On Oct. 21, 2003, in a corridor on the campus of UCLA, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the director of UCLA’s Hillel chapter, suddenly assaulted me when I merely asked him a reasonable question. He kicked and scratched me while trying to throw me down a flight of nearby stairs.

Fortunately, I was saved from possible concussion by several bystanders who pulled him off me in time. When these Samaritans were finally successful in prying the rabbi off me, he attacked me again. He assaulted me three times in the course of several minutes, and each time I had to be rescued by helpful bystanders. There was a wall of students separating him from me when I finally landed on the staircase and the rabbi stormed off screaming and shouting incoherently.

I later learned that after he assaulted me, he also shouted and screamed at another woman, Allyson Rowan Taylor, and had to be physically restrained from attacking her, too.

I suffered physical injuries that required medical treatment, and I am still trying to overcome the emotional trauma I suffered.

This incident occurred as we were exiting from a lecture hall where we had just heard a speech by the lawyer and Jewish activist Alan Dershowitz. My sole communication with Rabbi Seidler-Feller before he attacked me was a brief question. I asked him whether he was aware that Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian Arab who was scheduled to speak on campus the next evening as a guest of Hillel, had worked as a spy for Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. I also asked whether he was aware that Nusseibeh had contacted the Iraqi military suggesting targets in Israel for Saddam Hussein’s missile batteries to attack.

Instead of thanking me for this information, Rabbi Seidler-Feller began to assault me.

Here are some other accounts of Mr. Chaim Seidler-Feller's disgusting behavior.

UCLA alumnus David Hakimfar chronicled what he witnessed at the event:

“I saw my rabbi take swings to Neuwirth’s face and kicks to her legs. The only thing that saved Neuwirth from being pounded in the face was a notebook in Rabbi Seidler-Feller’s hand that didn’t allow his arm to make the full extension to punch her head,” Hakimfar wrote in the online magazine Jewsweek, and confirmed to me.

After attacking Neuwirth, the rabbi saw Allyson Rowen Taylor, former vice president of pro-Israel group StandWithUs, and lunged at her as well, according to Taylor.

“After he had attacked Rachel … he came after me and lunged at me and started screaming and (a student) literally put his arms around him and pulled him off of me.”

According to an article that collected testimony from a number of eyewitnesses, Dr. Roberta Seid says she saw Rabbi Seidler-Feller’s face contorted in rage as he dragged Ms. Neuwirth towards the stairs and tried to push her down. It took three students to pull off the rabbi from his victim, but as soon they separated him from her, he lurched at her again. If not for the fact that Ms. Neuwirth is an athlete with enough physical strength to resist his pushing, Rabbi Seidler-Feller could well have succeeded in shoving her down a flight of concrete stairs

Eventually Mr. Chaim Seidler-Feller wrote a letter of apology stating, "I am deeply sorry that I hit, kicked and scratched you and called you a liar on October 21, 2003. By taking these unprovoked actions, I have contradicted the pluralism, peace and tolerance about which I so often preach. I also have violated the humanitarian teaching of Judaism regarding kindness and respect for others that I am bound to uphold.”

But Trump is the one with "dangerous tendencies".

Venezuela, a country with oil wealth and a Socialist dictator, has food riots. The left lost the last election. But it just rigged the court system and is now operating as a brutal dictatorship with big plans.

In a replay of one of the ugliest chapters in the two-decade rule of the socialist party in Venezuela, a top government official said Thursday that a list of those who signed a petition seeking to recall President Nicolas Maduro will be handed over to government ministries and state-run companies.

"In a revolution, revolutionaries must be in charge of state institutions, not political opponents," Diosdado Cabello, a top official in the ruling Socialist Party and a lawmaker, said at a rally. "This is not a violation of the right to work."

Funny how "revolutionaries" became the repressive government busy putting down a revolution.

Cabello has made similar threats earlier this year, but Thursday's comments brought back memories of the so-called Tascon List which was used by the government under then President Hugo Chavez to fire state workers and bar others from everything from jobs to loans for having signed a petition for a recall referendum in 2004 that Chavez eventually survived. The list was compiled by then lawmaker Luis Tascon and electronic versions of the list circulated throughout Venezuela even being sold by sidewalk vendors. Some Venezuelans even attempted to pay officials to be removed from the list.

A former army captain, Cabello aided Chavez launch a failed coup in 1992 that would eventually help propel the late socialist leader to the presidency.

And Maduro is promising purges and more purges.

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warned the opposition asking for his recall that he is “prepared” to outperform Turkey’s Recep Erdogan when it comes to violent repression.

“If the opposition crosses the line, they will find out that Erdogan is a nursing infant next to me and I don’t give a damn about what the OAS says,” Maduro said during a live televised speech.

Also on Thursday, two journalists were detained and released after five hours for taking pictures of what authorities are now calling “the Presidential Corridor”: A portion of Caracas’ Sucre avenue that leads to the Miraflores Presidential Palace.

The opposition has called for a nationwide march on September 1st, asking that the recall against Maduro moves forward more rapidly, setting the stage for an almost certain confrontation between the anti-Maduro forces and the “colectivos”, a paramilitary faction of chavismo that uses handguns and motorcycles to enforce chavista rule in Venezuela.

Maduro riffed on the Erdogan theme for several minutes: “Let’s hope the right wing does not make that mistake, Erdogan is just wearing diapers, where I am already prepared,” he said. 

Maduro might want to learn from Mussolini instead.

The first stage of censorship is to ban any mention of censorship. Just ask the good politically correct folks over at UW-Milwaukee who have forbidden any mention of their system of political censorship.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently warned students not to use the phrase “politically correct,” which it said “has become a way to deflect, say that people are being too ‘sensitive’ and police language,” adding that it is “disconnected from authentic understanding of impact.”

And, it is also a critique of the entire system of telling people what to say and what to think.

When in doubt, assume your audience is stupid and lie to them. It worked for Hillary Clinton and Anthony Weiner, the two people closest to Huma. So why not give it a try? That seems to be the reasoning here.

Top Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin played no formal role in a radical Muslim journal — even though she was listed as an editor on the hate-filled periodical’s masthead for a dozen years, a campaign rep claimed Sunday.

“My understanding is that her name was simply listed on the masthead in that period,” Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said hours after The Post broke the bombshell story. “She did not play a role in editing at the publication.”

Merrill said Abedin was just a figurehead and not actually on staff at the Saudi-based and -funded Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs, which featured radically anti-feminist views and backed strict Islamic laws roundly criticized for oppressing women.

So, despite being listed for a dozen years as an editor, Huma Abedin never actually edited the magazine. So why was her name on there? Did she happen to know that her name was on there?

Is the Journal in the habit of listing people's names as editors who don't edit it. And how does someone no one has heard of get a position as a figurehead anyway?

These lies are positively Clintonesque in their clumsiness and implausibility. 

Angela Merkel has been making noises as of late about increasing deportations. That threat is as meaningless as it could be. Because this is how easy it is for Muslim migrants to avert deportation.

Germany hasn’t been able to execute hundreds of deportations because migrants refuse to take flights, government figures show.

The country, which has taken 1.5 million refugees since the start of 2015, is desperately trying to deport more rejected asylum seekers to ease pressure on authorities. The government plans to reach 100,000 deportations by the end of the year, but hundreds of refugees have managed to stay by resisting to fly to their home countries.

More than 330 deportations have been abandoned since January 2015, because the migrants have shouted, refused to fasten their seat belts or told the pilot they are not traveling on their own free will, according to figures from Germany’s interior ministry.

Yes, all they have to do to resist deportation is to refuse to fasten their seat belts. Not exactly a difficult change for the sorts of people likely to be deported in the first place.