Thursday, June 9, 2016

Seven Awesome Conservative Lifehacks

The internet is full of helpful hints for making everybody else’s life simpler, but where are the lifehacks for conservatives? There are helpful hints for frazzled moms, dopey college students, and every other demographic, but as usual, we normals get overlooked. No more!

1. Reclaim your time by unsubscribing to junk emails. If you’ve ever given money to a conservative cause, or especially to a fake conservative cause, every single conservagrifter, republiscammer, and rip-off with “Tea Party” in its name is now clogging your inbox with junk. This kind of time banditry is super annoying – yes, of course, I want the GOP to stand up to Obama’s gun grab, so stop sending me your damn polls! But it’s also a timesuck. You spend at least 15 seconds a day deleting this junk. That’s two minutes a week, 104 minutes a year. Save nearly two hours a year by taking five minutes right now to go through your emails and unsubscribe to all those useless newsletters, fake alerts, and other unwanted dreck. Just make sure you don’t accidentally unsubscribe to Townhall’s daily newsletter or Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt. They rule.

2. Make a real difference by picking a local race and helping out. As a practical matter, the presidential race is going to be what it is no matter what you do, so find a local race and intervene with time and money. There, your personal influence is going to be exponentially greater, and you’ll help the movement by building the farm team while enacting conservative policies at the state and local levels. I help out with this West Point dad here in the belly of the blue beast, and damn if we weren’t.

Donald Trump’s Biggest Opponent Is Himself

Derek Hunter / Townhall Columnist

Throughout the primary, only one contender laid a glove on Donald Trump – himself. It wasn’t for lack of effort or ammunition. It’s just that nothing any of his opponents said broke through the dense wall of supporters and media sycophants insulating Trump from the consequences of his words or past pronouncements. That wall can’t protect him from his greatest obstacle: the self-inflicted wound.

There are many Trump supporters for whom there literally is nothing he could do to shake their devotion. He wasn’t joking when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a single vote. But that dedicated vote total is a fraction of what will be needed to win a general election.

Trump doesn’t seem to understand or take seriously the need to broaden his appeal, nor does he seem to get the need for a campaign infrastructure and a coherent message. It appears he and his diehard supporters think they’re enough, that nothing has to grow or change.

His supporters aren’t concerned, but Trump himself got a cold, dead fish of reality across the face this week when, after months of making the claim about the judge in the Trump University case being “Mexican” and therefore possible biased against him, blowback reached the point of reckoning.

It was February when he first claimed U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel was making unfavorable decisions against Trump in a legal matter because he’s “Mexican” and Trump wants to build a wall. Dumb, plain dumb.

Tel Aviv: Mall jihadis were disguised as Orthodox Jews, murdered at least 3

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.269) An update on this story. “At Least Three Killed, Six Wounded in Shooting Attack at Food and Retail Center in Central Tel Aviv,” by Yaniv Kubovich, Ido Efrati and Barak Ravid, Haaretz, June 8, 2016: At least three people were killed and five people were wounded in a […]

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New ISIS ‘Kill’ List Targets Thousands Of Americans

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Obama is importing thousands of these assassins with his “Syrian refugee” immigration policies, while crowing on Ramadan, “I stand firmly with Muslims.”

In February of 2015, ISIS threatened that February to flood Europe with 500,000 refugees. Now they’re doing it. There have already been jihadis discovered among the refugees. There will be many more.

This is a hijrah — in Islam, a migration to bring Islam to a new land, in imitation of Muhammad when he moved from Mecca to Medina.

Will Obama and the left blame the targets for “taunting Muslims,” much the way they blamed us in Garland, Texas? We’re guilty of the the same thing — we’re non-Muslim and free.