Wednesday roundup

Michelle Malkin has a chilling tale out of Oberlin, Ohio - home-of course, to one of the most rabidly totalitarian college campuses in post-America. A family-owned bakery, in business since 1885 experienced a shoplifting. An Oberlin College student was caught trying to get out of the store with two bottles of wine underneath his shirt. A 911 call was made, cops arrived - but not before a scuffle ensued, in which the shoplifters' friends gave the store employee a pretty nasty beating. Because the shoplifter was black, a boycott was organized at the college, which extends to the school itself cancelling its standing order for daily delivery of donuts and bagels. The dean of students distributed a flyer accusing the bakery of a history of racial profiling. All this is pretty rich, coming from a school with a history of fake hate crimes. Oh, and the effort of outraged townspeople to take their cause to social media? Facebook has censored their page.

Miss Sloane, the "thriller" about a Washington lobbyist who puts everything on the line to get rid of the Second Amendment, is a box-office flop.

Pro-lifers don't intend to sit idly by and take anybody's word for it that a given SCOTUS nominee is going to be sufficiently aligned:

President-elect Trump's pro-life allies are embarking on a campaign to narrow his Supreme Court short list to ensure a pro-choice nominee does not replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Andy Schlafly, lawyer for the conservative Eagle Forum and son of the late conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, held a strategy call on Tuesday with other pro-life groups joining his cause and warned that Trump "cannot be expected to know who's pro-life and who isn't, so he's going to rely on us, on conservatives," to guide him.

"We're going to see the Republican establishment in D.C. led by [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell try to deflect Trump away from taking a pro-life candidate," Schlafly said on the call. "What the Trump team will do is they will trot out some people with pro-life credentials to vouch for the nominee and we've got to be ready for that and we've got to anticipate that and start to bring that down now before they even pull it."

Schlafly told the Washington Examiner that 70 like-minded organizations have signed onto his coalition letter opposing the potential nomination of Diane Sykes, Steven Colloton, Joan Larsen, Neil Gorsuch, Raymond Kethledge or Allison Eid to the high court. The coalition letter set to be sent to Trump later this week features signatories from think tanks, academia and the legal community.

Strong stuff from a source not usually known for standing up to this type of regime:

The UN High Commissioner on Human Rights confirmed Tuesday that at least dozens of civilians in Aleppo have been slaughtered by Syrian regime forces who claim they're liberating the city and evacuating the citizens.

That's in addition to many more casualties suffered due to heavy bombardment of Syria's largest city.

Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein confirmed online reports of men, women and children being slain by government forces or militias loyal to Bashar al-Assad, including at least 11 women, 13 children and 58 men shot to death Monday by Assad forces entering homes, rounding up and killing residents.

“The crushing of Aleppo, the immeasurably terrifying toll on its people, the bloodshed, the wanton slaughter of men, women and children, the destruction – and we are nowhere near the end of this cruel conflict," Zeid said. "What can happen next, if the international community continues to collectively wring its hands, can be much more dangerous. What is happening with Aleppo could repeat itself in Douma, in Raqqa, in Idleb. We cannot let this continue."

This has global ramifications. As we know, the regime that currently has its grip on the throat of post-America, through the diplomatic representation of Secretary Global-Test and Wendy Sherman, "reached" an "agreement" with Iran, one third of an axis that also includes Russia and the above-mentioned Assad regime in Syria, on Iran's nuclear ambitions, thereby conferring ill-deserved legitimacy on it. Also, as we know, the other third of the Axis, Russia, has invaded Ukraine and taken over Crimea, harassed US ships and planes in international waters, and engaged in cyber-mischief. The US is about to select a new Secretary of State, and the likely appointee has ties to Russia that need a whole lot of explanation.

One last item about this that needs mentioning: the Assad regime has retaken Aleppo and ISIS has retaken Palmyra. The "moderate rebels" that were supposed to be the West's proxies in the Syrian mess are not a relevant force today.

Why it's still late in the day and why this is still post-America: Why does a president-elect feel like he has time to meet with a pop celebrity - someone whose reason for fame is a body of "work" in a "musical genre" characterized by relentless ugliness and an utter absence of humanity - who just last month had a complete meltdown at a concert and whose friends are deeply worried about him, to talk about "multicultural issues?" This whole business of a variety of public figures being photo-opped in the lobby of Trump Tower on the way up the elevator to kiss Squirrel-Hair's ring establishes a precedent that would seem to run counter to the bleating of Squirrel-Hair's devotees that they spearhead some kind of "anti-elitist" movement.