Posts on Thursday, June 18, 2020
A statue of Thomas Jefferson should be removed from the City Council chambers, say Speaker Corey Johnson and the leaders of the Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus. “The statue of Thomas Jefferson in the City Council Chambers is inappropriate and serves as a constant reminder of the injustices that have plagued communities of color since the inception of our country. It must be removed,” Johnson, Councilwoman Adrienne Adams and Councilman I. Daneek Miller wrote Mayor de Blasio on Thursday.
“Jefferson is America’s most noted slaveholder, a man who owned more than 600 Black women and men and a scholar who maintained that Blacks
A federal judge asked the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday to clarify whether Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has the authority to continue issuing or renewing executive orders under either of the two state laws that govern her emergency powers. The request came on the same day that Whitmer extended Michigan's state of emergency through July 16. The judge's order stems from a federal lawsuit by a Grand Rapids medical center filed against Whitmer's order banning non-essential procedures, but the root questions raised by U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney closely mirror those argued by the Michigan Legislature.
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” on Thursday, described former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book “The Room Where It Happened” as “deep swamp revenge porn.”Navarro said, “What I would like to do is tell you a little about John Bolton I knew when he was here at the White House. I do think the Book Deal Big Lie Bolton moniker does suffice. He begged, he literally begged, and I saw him beg to try to get in to be the national security advisor. The minute he got in here,
Gingrich: Three generations of brainwashing
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Newt Gingrich blamed “three generations of brainwashing” for the current level of anti-American hatred in the country.The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives pulled back the curtain on how “freedom itself is at stake” in America, connecting the “educated ignorance” taught in the nation’s schools for decades and the current manifestation of radical “Leftist Anti-American Theology.” (Photo) The “brainwashing” Gingrich maintained in an op-ed published by Fox News Thursday, may go back to a German-born University of California, San Diego professor, Herbert Marcuse, who taught on Marxism in the 1960s. What followed was years of the left’s takeover of academia.“We have watched the hard left,
We’re told a second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful of states. We’ve heard warnings in recent days from the Centers for Disease Control and various public health experts and elected officials that a new series of lockdowns might be necessary.What these experts and officials don’t seem to realize is that Americans will never comply with their lockdown orders again. They have burned their credibility to the ground, and they no longer have the moral authority to tell us what to do.Simply put, the people in charge have
One accused arsonist learned the hard way that if you’re going to wear your new shirt to torch a cop car, you may want to think twice about leaving a product review for your new threads.The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Philadelphia Police Department used Instagram, LinkedIn, and a photo left in a review on the e-commerce site Etsy to locate and arrest a woman shown hurling what appears to be “flaming debris” into a Philadelphia Police Department vehicle during a May 30th protest, ostensibly honoring the memory of George Floyd, a black man who died while in the custody of Minneapolis police.
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NFL icon Herschel Walker has a message for people who hate cops and want to defund the police: Hit the road, Jack! Walker is an avowed Trump supporter who played in the NFL for 12 years. He offered to send those who want to “defund the police” to lawless countries that don’t have cops. One example is Somalia, the third-world hellhole that Muslim refugee Ilhan Omar fled. Why? Because its rampant lawlessness (due to lack of police) made it too dangerous for Omar to stay.“I have an idea,” Herschel tweeted. “For all these people who don’t want any police, I’d love to meet with American Airlines, Delta, and Southwest
On Thursday, as part of her effort to “appropriately observe Juneteenth” on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal of portraits in the Capitol of House Speakers who had served in the Confederacy.Actor James Woods, whose disdain for Pelosi has been on display many times before, fired a salient question at her, tweeting, “How about your buddy, KKK leader Robert Byrd?” (Tweet) Byrd, the longest serving senator and member of Congress in U.S. history, served as Senate Majority Leader between January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1989and
First lady Melania Trump viewed the document that gives significance to Juneteenth after her husband ignited controversy over the day commemorating the end of slavery. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, the only black member of the president’s Cabinet, toured the National Archives with the first lady on Thursday. The duo viewed the Emancipation Proclamation, the Charters of Freedom, and General Order No. 3, the proclamation announced on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that all slaves were freed.
“During our country’s long march towards freedom
On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service, alongside with the ATF, announced a 22-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection to the fire set at the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd Precinct last month.
According to a tweet, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson was arrested in Breckenridge, Colorado. He is one of several suspects wanted for the burning of the police station on May 28.
Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended Michigan's state of emergency Thursday through July 16. The declaration, which was set to expire Friday, allows the Democratic governor continued authority to issue the executive orders that have created the framework for the state's coronavirus restricted activity in recent months. Whitmer's response to the pandemic has so far included 122 executive orders.“The aggressive measures we took at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have worked to flatten the curve, but there is still more to be done to prevent a second wave,” Whitmer said in a statement.
LONDON– Workmen began removing protective hoarding around a statue of Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill on Wednesday ahead of a visit from French President Emmanuel Macron, after the monument was covered up during racial equality protests. London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office confirmed the uncovering was linked to Macron’s visit, which marks the 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle’s radio address to France after the Nazi invasion in 1940, broadcast from London by the BBC. The plinth of Churchill’s statue outside parliament was daubed with graffiti that said “Churchill was a racist” during a Black Lives Matter march 10 days ago. The authorities feared it was at risk
Calls to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol were shot down in the Senate this week.Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) brought a vote on the matter to a close Thursday, voting against the removal of the statues.Blunt has said he’d “like to get the opinion of states who are taking out similar statues” before voting. He further suggested holding a hearing on the matter.“I think that today’s action would violate our agreements with the states. I frankly think my friend from New Jersey encouraging the governors, encouraging the speakers of the House to do what they have every right in the Congress, in fact, in 2000 gave them
Senate Democrats are agonizing over what to do about Senate Republicans’ police reform proposal.
They can either vote down the legislation next week and face charges of obstruction amid a national reckoning on race — or advance a bill they say needs massive changes in order to meet the moment. The dilemma was hoisted on them Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly rejiggered the Senate schedule to bring legislation from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to the floor.
When the great American experiment in liberty officially comes to an end, there will be plenty of finger-pointing and blame-assigning taking place. Plenty of Founding Fathers observed that the natural progression of things was for government to grow and liberty to contract. But when we’re wanting to pinpoint what institutions, what things played the biggest part in facilitating the demise of freedom, I am going to predict that a fair reading of history will show that few entities had a bigger hand in destroying our civilization than the American university system.
Atlanta police officers are still reportedly calling in sick to work in protest of charges against the cop who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks, as it's announced every officer will receive a $500 bonus for working amid civil unrest. On Thursday the Atlanta Police Department saw cops continue to call out of work, in protest of 11 charges, including felony murder, announced Wednesday against fired officer Garrett Rolfe.(Snip) The call outs come after 'scores' of officers failed to turn up for work for Wednesday's evening shift and people monitoring the police scanner reported near radio silence. For Thursday’s shift 'most' officers called out sick,
Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy says it’s time to find strangers and “shine their shoes” to combat racism in the U.S. The Christian businessman, long reviled by LGBT activists for his support of the traditional definition of marriage, suggested the idea while weighing in on Black Lives Matter protests across the nation.(Snip) “I invite folks just to put some words to action here and if we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we need to just go right on over and shine their shoes,” Mr. Cathy told Christian rapper Lecrae and Passion City Founder Louie Giglio.
President Trump, in the wake of Thursday's defeat at the Supreme Court in his efforts to repeal the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, called for new justices as conservatives took aim at Chief Justice Roberts for what they called a “pattern” of siding with the liberal wing in key decisions. (Snip) If the Radical Left Democrats assume power, your Second Amendment, Right to Life, Secure Borders, and ... Religious Liberty, among many other things, are OVER and GONE!” he tweeted.
Of all that has been disclosed so far in John Bolton’s campaign to get his book published, the most significant--at least to us--is the classified information non-disclosure agreement that binds Mr. Bolton to keep our national secrets. It starts with the words “intending to be bound.” It describes his obligations in detail. It places the burdens on Mr. Bolton. It ends with his signature. So whatever else is bound up in this dispute, one of the issues will be the value of Mr. Bolton’s word. We understand one question in the lawsuit the government just filed will be
The fanatical urge to purge and punish wrong-think is claiming scalps across the country, and one of its latest victims is a blue collar, Mexican-American worker in Southern California. Via San Diego's NBC affiliate, this is yet another installment of weaponized political correctness harming innocent people -- as the practitioners of paranoid, irrational cancel culture run roughshod over any semblance of common sense, logic, or grace. Everything about this is cartoonishly insane: [Tweet]
It all started about two weeks ago near a Black Lives Matter rally in Poway when Emmanuel Cafferty, a San Diego Gas and Electric employee, encountered a stranger on the roadway.
Duluth–City leaders are making a push to remove the word “chief” from job titles, calling the term offensive to indigenous people. At a news conference Wednesday, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson implored City Council members to vote to approve the change next week “so that we have more inclusive leadership and less language that is rooted in hurt and offensive, intentional marginalization.” The measure, slated to go before the council Monday night, would change Chief Administrative Officer Noah Schuchman’s title to city administrator and Chief Financial Officer Wayne Parson’s title to finance director.(Snip) Kozlowski said “chief” is used as “a racial epithet, and it turns into a microaggression.”
Ford’s upcoming all-electric Mustang Mach-E will offer hands-free driving when it hits the road next year, the automaker said Thursday.The feature, dubbed Active Drive Assist, arrives six years after Tesla and four years after General Motors introduced similar features. It will be offered on several Ford models, but most notably on the electric Mustang, a crossover vehicle targeted at the Tesla Model Y market which will hit the road later this year. Ford said that Americans will be able to order the Mustang Mach-E in the fall with the high-tech hardware package, which includes extra radar sensors and a driver-facing camera,
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President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the Supreme Court after the majority ruled against his attempt to repeal President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “These horrible and politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives,” Trump wrote on Twitter.The president said it was more important than ever to win re-election in 2020. “We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd Amendment and everything else,” he wrote. “Vote Trump 2020!”
Fiona Onasanya, a Black Lives Matter activist and former member of the UK parliament, claims that Kellogg’s Rice Krispies is a racist cereal because it has “three white boys” as mascots.
Now that’s “systemic racism”!
If Ms. Onasanya had stopped there, she would simply be dismissed as a fool and that would have been that. But. in her eagerness to prove racism, Onasanya doubled down on her charge and, in the process, proved she is an ignorant fool. [Tweet]
It’s an idiotic point, even if it were true. It isn’t.
Gorsuch Takes a Knee
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What U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch did in his opinion proclaiming that civil rights in employment requires recognition of gay rights was abominable enough, but what it revealed about his view of his role as a justice is even worse.
Conservative critiques of Gorsuch’s pretentious preening aside—if Justice Antonin Scalia were alive, he’d be turning over in his grave at this supposedly “textualist” opinion his replacement authored—Republican lawmakers may be breathing a sigh of relief. Gorsuch took them off the hook and eliminated the necessity of voting on proposals expanding employment protections to cover discrimination against gays, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic majority favors.
Republicans duck so many
The University of Virginia changed its athletics logo for the second time in less that two months after realizing that the last version had connotations to the school's slavery past. A new logo unveiled this week lacks the curls added to the handles of the sabers which have come to represent the school's Cavaliers athletics department. The sabers now have smooth handles. The Charlottesville school's athletics director Carla Williams says she did not realize at the time the previous logo was introduced on April 24 that it had a 'negative connotation' to slavery. The curls recall the serpentine garden walls that were once
A 92-year-old woman was brutally knocked down in a random broad daylight attack in Manhattan last Friday. /snip for tweets/ The video was captured on security camera. The 92-year-old woman was walking down the street with her walker when 31-year-old Rashid Brimmage walked by and punched her in the side of the face. On Tuesday, NYPD announced Rashid Brimmage was arrested. According to the New York Post, Rashid Brimmage is a convicted sex offender with over 100 prior arrests!
BUTLER, Pennsylvania—Last Monday was supposed to be a celebration, a coming together across the ages and across the country to mark the day “Ghostbusters” debuted in 1984, a film that made movie executives cringe but won the hearts of moviegoers. The film was going to be shown at drive-in theaters from coast to coast. (Snip) All that changed when the official Ghostbusters Facebook page announced the event had been canceled, with hopes of rescheduling. The page said, “it does not feel like the time for celebration right now,” a reference to the protests across the country in reaction to the death of George Floyd in police custody.
t seems no great event or upheaval in our national life can pass now without the media lying to our faces about it.
They lied about the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016. They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn. They lied about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president and the impeachment farce that ensued. They lied about the coronavirus and the lockdowns and the White House response. And now they’re lying about the riots.(Snip)Over the weekend we were told,(Snip) that the looting and violence was being instigated not by left-wing anarchists(Snip) but by the media’s favorite villains: white supremacists.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) held a $6 million fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this week despite having denounced high-dollar fundraisers during her failed presidential campaign.
In comments denouncing high-dollar fundraisers, Warren told reporters during a campaign stop in February that we are “tearing this democracy apart.” “She talked in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire about her disdain for the typical fundraising practices used by most candidates; she was often rewarded with thunderous applause (but not enough votes),” The Washington Post notes.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the Trump administration’s effort to end the Obama-era program that offers legal protections to young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. The court ruled that the administration's decision to rescind the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which sets out rulemaking procedures for federal agencies. In a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberal members to author the opinion, the court said the Department of Homeland Security's move to eliminate the program was done in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident said they are merely exercise equipment that he put up there months ago.
Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wedesday that a hate crime investigation was underway(Snip)Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.
“Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose.
A Morally Empty Jurisprudence
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Conservatives were bracing for the defection of Justice Gorsuch on the cases dealing with the “transgendered” and “sexual orientation.” But even the anticipation of the jolt did not diminish its depressing force. The reactions, coming with disbelief and anger, have not been understated. For make no mistake, this case of Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC will be the Roe v. Wade for transgenderism, with effects that will ripple out widely in our country, touching and disfiguring our private lives. After all, the Court has pronounced it quite wrongful to cast an adverse judgment, a disapproving judgment, on people who affect to shift their “genders.” (Snip)children will have to be
Atlanta got its first brief look at what abolishing the police looks like after their officers walked off the job overnight in protest of charges in the Rayshard Brooks killing. Entire shifts reportedly walked out and neighboring jurisdictions reportedly refused to assist Atlanta except to back up officers on the job, although the city tried to downplay the wildcat action: [Tweet]
That’s not what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last night, and it’s not what those listening to police scanners heard, either. A reporter from the local CBS affiliate said her sources confirmed the walkout: [Tweet]
The union didn’t seem interested in downplaying it, anyway:
New Levels Of Crazy
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A friend who works for a conservative website shared an email with me that was sent to the staff, “We have to be careful” about how they write about Black Lives Matter, it said. Not because what they were reporting was inaccurate, but because it could upset the mob, and upsetting the mob nowadays is worse than being inaccurate. “Truth” can be whatever you want it to be, the mob, on the other hand, can seemingly make reality anything they want it to be by force of will or worse.
It’s not even Black Lives Matter, really, at least not the rank and file protestors taking to the streets
Kimberly Bauer is married to a police officer. She has a TikTok account called “MarriedtotheBadge”.Because she is open about her marriage to a police officer Kimberly and her family receive death wishes and abuse.Kimberly spoke about a few of those vile threats in a recent TikTok video. This is outrageous and heartbreaking.
The left needs to STOP with their war on police! Kimberly ends her video with, “God be with you!”
Again, if the Left didn’t make a big deal about canceling people, running amok with political correctness, and overall being hypocrites, this wouldn’t be an issue, but here we are. Joe Biden now has his own ‘very fine people’ moment that the Left loves to bring up to attack President Trump, albeit erroneously. We’ll get to that in a second.
We’re now in the second wave of the anti-Confederate fervor that’s swept the progressive Left. They always targeted the statues and the flag. Now, we’re going after the names of U.S. Army bases. These names weren’t an issue for decades,
Pageant movies are like war films for Bravo viewers. They unsparingly show humanity at its most aspirational and its most viciously cutthroat. The smiles are faker than the hair extensions, the spray tan could stain an outdoor deck. But the fighting spirit is deeply felt. We haven’t seen too many since the reality TV show “Toddlers & Tiaras” and its spinoff “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” turned them into exploitative freak shows. However, “Miss Juneteenth,” about a Texas scholarship competition for teen black women, brings the subgenre back to its emotional roots.(Snip) Kai’s dad, Ronnie (Kendrick Sampson), is in and out of prison, and Turquoise
Is Cream of Wheat next in line for a social justice makeover? Cream of Wheat is now re-evaluating its black mascot following announcements by Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s that they’d overhaul their controversial imaging amid online criticism. The move comes in wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the deaths of George Floyd and other black men while in police custody.(Snip) “You still are referencing the place of black people as servants, as your chefs,” said Naa Oyo A. Kwate, associate professor of Africana studies at Rutgers University, with regards to the logo’s facelift. “You can still draw on that legacy
The White House had the idea of opening hundreds of ambitious mobile testing sites at the outset of the coronavirus crisis. But there was a problem: Officials quickly realized that creating that many sites would use up an inordinate amount of the nation’s limited supply of testing swabs.
“We had 1.2 million swabs in the country for the month for everything,” recalls Admiral Brett Giroir, the HHS official who became the administration’s testing czar in mid-March and soon will be returning to his regular duties.That number wasn’t going to come close to meeting the need, and it wasn’t clear how the gap would be made up.
In a striking rebuke to President Trump, the Supreme Court Thursday rejected his plan to repeal the popular Obama-era order that protected so-called Dreamers, the nearly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to this country illegally as children.
Led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the court called the decision to cancel the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, as arbitrary and not justified. The program allows these young people to register with the government, and if they have clean records, to obtain a work permit. At least 27,000 of these DACA recipients are employed as healthcare workers.
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Whether it’s true or not, if you say the “wrong” thing about Islam, you’re guilty -- even if you’re merely quoting what Muslims themselves say.
Consider the recent case of Professor Nicholas Damask, chairman of the Department of Political Science at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona. Last month, after one of his students, Muhammad Sabra, found -- and shared on social media -- quiz questions which Muhammad felt were in “distaste of Islam,” the professor received a plethora of online death threats to himself and his family and criticism from his college.
President Trump is holding his first big rally since the wake of the coronavirus in Tulsa on Saturday and the Democrat-media industrial complex is howling its head off. (snip)
Formally known as Trump rallies, we can now by this logic call this the inaugural deep state and fake news protest, which will be headlined by America’s most famous petitioner of government redresses and grievances - President Donald J. Trump.
This movement is made up of people you could probably identify as patriots, who have decided to exercise their First Amendment rights and who plan to peaceably assemble to do a little redressing and airing of a few grievances.
In 1864, Atlanta burned to the ground when General Sherman conducted his famous March through Georgia. Atlanta citizens had better hope that history does not repeat itself, this time because Atlanta police officers are so horrified by the eleven charges the Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard filed against Garret Rolfe, who shot Rayshard Brooks, they’re engaging in a sick out. Without the police, the whole of Atlanta is a sitting duck for every criminal out there.
So here’s what we know: Despite the media’s usual claim that a man who died while fighting the police was a beloved family man, Rayshard Brooks might not have been such a nice person.
The great fear of any president running for reelection is being found naked in bed with a dead economy — or, to be less extreme, trying to convince the voters to give him another four years when we're in a recession. Things are looking pretty good for President Trump, then, as all the signs show that the lockdown and the coronavirus-induced recession are going to be over by the time voters start making their ballots.
The fear of running for reelection when the economy is dire is well founded. That's what did in Presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. President Gerald Ford wasn't exactly running in the happy times,
White Christians should repent for racism and fight for their black brothers and sisters, Chick-fil-A's CEO urged, after weeks of protests over police brutality and the death of Rayshard Brooks.
Cathy spoke about racism in America during a 70-minute roundtable discussion Sunday at Passion City Church in Atlanta. Brooks had been shot dead two days earlier by an Atlanta police officer in a Wendy's parking lot, sparking protests.
Most of us, white people, we're out-of-sight-out-of-mind oblivious to it," Cathy said about injustice against black Americans. "We cannot let this moment pass."
What are the real problems in America’s inner cities? Is it all about racism, or could it be a combination of several factors? According to a survey of Chicago parents by the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, poverty, violence, and crime are also some of the biggest concerns in their neighborhoods. Good jobs and capitalism could solve the poverty part of the problem, but if cities make it hard for businesses to come into town or for a local person to start a small business, citizens with little mobility stay poor.
Why wouldn’t these cities want the freest, most business-friendly laws and policies imaginable for their citizens?
A “higher than usual” number of Atlanta police officers failed to show up for work Wednesday night, hours after the Fulton County District Attorney announced criminal charges for two accused in the death of Rayshard Brooks.
“The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift,” Atlanta police posted on social media. “We have enough resources to maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents.”
During the last two years of the Obama administration, some unusual purchases were made. Large quantities of ammunition were purchased, as were firearms, mostly for somewhat obscure agencies or agencies with no real need for such weaponry. Estimates are that over 1 billion rounds of ammunition were ordered, which resulted in making ammunition scarce for the normal civilian market.
Also significant was Obama's troublesome statement made during his campaign, as follows
We cannot continue to rely only on our military ... we've got to have a civilian security force just as powerful
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Tucker Carlson is the most important journalist working in America, and, thankfully, the public has caught on, making him not simply the ratings champion of cable news, but on Monday the top rated program on all of television, cable and broadcast combined. If the nation survives intact the current insurrectionist movement, future historians will credit him as a courageous truth-teller who braved social, political, and physical intimidation to break through pervasive smog of propaganda emanating from most of the media and the commanding heights of the economy, culture and academy
How to Fight the Woke...and Win
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The Woke are everywhere. They're in our schools, in government, and at our places of work. More importantly, the Woke are on the move. They are coming for you, for me, and for anyone else who does not subscribe to their quasi-religion. Don't fool yourself — you are not safe. The Woke are at war with anyone who opposes them, and it does not matter if you just want to be left alone. You will have to bend the knee or fight.
Here are a dozen strategies that you can start using right now
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer denied Wednesday that President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping in June 2019 for help in the upcoming presidential election, an allegation that former national security adviser John Bolton levels in his forthcoming memoir.“Absolutely untrue, never happened. I was there, I have no recollection of that ever happening. I don’t believe it’s true, I don’t believe it ever happened,” Lighthizer testified during a Senate Finance Committee hearing.New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez had asked Lighthizer, a well-known critic of the Chinese government, about an excerpt from Bolton’s book in which he alleged that Trump asked Xi for election help during a meeting
The Book-Burners Are Here
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In terms of free speech and the defense thereof, this month has been one of the worst in our nation's history. Those who don't kowtow to either the street mob or the Twitterati regarding the George Floyd controversy are finding themselves canceled, fired, and socially exiled for life. Opinion editor James Bennet of the New York Times was forced to resign after printing an article by Senator Tom Cotton that fellow staffers claimed put them "in danger."Bennet is not alone. Magazine editors, TV stars, sports announcers, university professors, radio hosts, and newspaper reporters donned their scarlet letters and took the walk of shame after uttering their
This week saw a depressing new low in the attempt by the left to silence voices with which it disagrees when an NBC News “reporter” tried to enlist Google to block two conservative websites’ ability to make money.
In a report on Tuesday, NBC News’ London-based Adele-Momoko Fraser claimed that Google had banned The Federalist and Zero Hedge from its ad platform over articles that were “pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests.”
Google soon tried to correct the record, saying that “The Federalist was never demonetized.” Google had only threatened to blacklist the site from its ad
Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup says it will review its brand and packaging after two other popular products announced changes to their products due to racial bias concerns.
“The Mrs. Butterworth’s brand, including its syrup packaging, is intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother,” the company said in a news release Wednesday. “We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown communities and we can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values.”
Conagra Brands said it has “begun a complete brand and packaging review on Mrs. Butterworth’s.”
The press, for the most part, got the story wrong, as usual.
The way most reporters and commentators told it, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo led one of the best, if not the best, government responses to the coronavirus pandemic. The way members of the press told it, Cuomo’s wisdom, steely determination, and steady hand were guiding the Empire State through one of the most dangerous and deadly episodes in its history.
But these glowing characterizations of Cuomo have not been borne out by the facts. Indeed, when it comes to the coronavirus, the governor of New York seems to be every bit as incompetent and out of his depth
It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist sc*mbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.
That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) had some choice words to describe Sen. Tim Scott's (R., S.C.) police reform bill.
"What we say on the Democratic side is we can not waste this historic moment, this singular opportunity," Durbin said on the Senate floor while discussing the legislation proposed by Scott, who is black. "Let's not do something that is a token, half-hearted approach."
As Durbin is almost certainly aware, "token" is a problematic, racially charged term used to denigrate the accomplishments of people of color.
Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy criticized former National Security Advisor John Bolton for hawking his book after refusing to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Gowdy spoke with Fox News host Martha MacCallum about Bolton’s book Tuesday after it was leaked to the New York Times. “Hot off the presses, brand-new excerpts from John Bolton’s book released tonight ahead of its publication on June 23rd,” MacCallum began.
As Michael Avenatti saw it, he would be battling President Trump for the White House this summer.
Instead he’s battling to stay out of jail yet again, having won a coronavirus release as long as he stays locked in an apartment in Venice, California, while he awaits sentencing on one extortion conviction and trials in two other fraud cases.
Based on court proceedings Wednesday, he may not be free for long. The man who promised to watch over Avenatti during his coronavirus release, Jay Manheimer, testified Wednesday that he helped Avenatti perform internet searches, logged into Avenatti’s email account and allowed access to his computer at least once —
On Twitter, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley blasts the UN Human Rights Council for wading into America’s racial tensions. On Monday, the council announced an “urgent” debate on “racially inspired human-rights violations, systemic racism, police brutality and the violence against peaceful protests” in the United States. While “America is not perfect,” Haley notes, the UN mandarins refuse “to debate concentration camps in China, political murders in Cuba, torture in Syria, state-imposed starvation in North Korea and slavery in parts of Africa.” She might have in mind, perhaps, the more than 1 million Muslims the Beijing regime keeps in Orwellian “re-education camps.”
How Beijing Buys Influence
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The Chinese Communist Party is waging information warfare to shape American public opinion and influence our economic and government policy to their benefit.
China’s methods are more sophisticated and insidious than simply passing off envelopes stuffed with cash to American agents of influence. Often, the agents don’t even know they’ve been recruited.
The CCP manipulates the self-interest of its targets, making them unwitting recruits.
Rarely do you hear one of these influencers say, “That Communist Party of China sure is great—we ought to let it run the show! Everyone get on board!”
The CCP doesn’t shape public opinion by buying billboards and TV ads. That kind of persuasion is far too American for
Today’s dumbest news comes from corporate America. First, Quaker Oats announced that it is doing away with Aunt Jemima.
Quaker Oats is retiring the more than 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand and logo, acknowledging its origins are based on a racial stereotype.
“As we work to make progress toward racial equality through several initiatives, we also must take a hard look at our portfolio of brands and ensure they reflect our values and meet our consumers’ expectations,” the Pepsi-owned company said in a statement provided to CNN Business.
So, how did Aunt Jemima fail to “reflect [the] values” of Pepsico/Quaker Oats?
On the menu today: NBC News appoints itself the policeman of political speech on the Internet; Anthony Fauci has some good news to share but alludes to some bad news; and President Trump unwittingly helps his critics make money, yet again. It Turns Out the ‘NBC’ in ‘NBC News’ Is for ‘Now in the Business of Censorship’
Wow. I guess every day at the “NBC News Verification Unit” is a game of “Two Truths and a Lie.”
Yesterday NBC News, the employer of Brian Williams and former employer of Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, and Chris Matthews, revealed that it has an obscure self-described “verification unit” that appointed itself to police
Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council is holding an “urgent” debate on police brutality and systemic racism. While the UNHRC president says the debate is not just about the United States, it’s clear the U.S. is the primary subject as the killing of George Floyd was the catalyst for the meeting. And it’s clear that the conclusion the council will reach is a sham.
The Human Rights Council has been an abomination for years, with its only clear goals being the demonization of Israel and providing cover for the world’s biggest human rights abusers.
Conventional wisdom among corporate executives who lean left is that Joe Biden will be our next president, and they’ve begun eying various posts in the new administration that they or their friends would want to fill.
But they’re forgetting one big obstacle to their path to power: the economy.
That’s right, the economy.
Yes, our economy appears to be in really bad shape and is working horribly for many Americans, particularly those in the hospitality, travel and restaurant industries hardest hit by the coronavirus shutdowns.
Yesterday Came Suddenly
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Did you know that Paul McCartney once wrote a song celebrating slavery? Well, neither did he. It took about half a century after “Penny Lane” was a hit for the Beatles before historians decided that this street in Liverpool was a legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sir Paul wrote the song as a nostalgic ode to Penny Lane as the scene of childhood happiness “beneath the blue suburban skies.” The Liverpool-born musician could not have known, while composing the cheerful tune in the mid-1960s, that scholars would one day conclude Penny Lane was probably named in honor of James Penny, a local mariner who made his fortune
Now that the Senate GOP has begun the process of rolling out their own version of a “police reform” bill, predictable partisan fights are already breaking out. One of the major bones of contention is the idea that the bill would “discourage” the use of chokeholds by the cops during confrontations with non-compliant, disruptive or violent suspects. As with some other provisions, this doesn’t go far enough for the liberals and Democrats who are aiming to either defund or abolish the police, but will settle for as much as they can get in the meantime. They want the maneuver to be forbidden entirely with punishment meted out
A new report is shedding more light on the bombshell 2017 Navy sex-trafficking scandal in Bahrain, which allegedly involved sailors housing and pimping Thai prostitutes in their taxpayer-funded apartments.
Navy Criminal Investigative Service agents raided one suspect’s apartment in 2017, and although he was acquitted of all charges last year, according to the Military Times, the case led to a deeper, more thorough investigation that allegedly found widespread abuses – and implicated a chief operations specialist who spent time assigned to SEAL Team 3.
The Military Times said it obtained and reviewed hundreds of pages of court records, video footage and other documents.
Business owners and residents in Seattle’s so-called “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone, or CHOP, are growing increasingly concerned about safety inside the area, according to local reports.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best declared this week that there’s no “cop-free zone” in the city, but stakeholders in the neighborhood around the abandoned East Precinct police station say otherwise.
And response times to 911 calls in the surrounding area have tripled since police vacated the building, according to authorities. “We are just sitting ducks all day,” Matthew Ploszaj told Seattle-based KIRO 7. “Now every criminal in the city knows they can come into this area,
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris is widely considered a favorite to be presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, but an old line of attack could prevent her from getting the nod. Harris is one of six Democratic women reportedly being considered for the vice presidential nomination, alongside former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Florida Rep. Val Demings, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Prominent oddsmaker US Bookies currently lists Harris as the overwhelming favorite to be on the ticket, with 5/4 odds.
The Atlanta Police Department said it saw an uptick in the number of officers calling out of work on Wednesday night — hours after local prosecutors announced charges against the ex-cop who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks.“The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call-outs with the incoming shift,” Atlanta PD tweeted. “We have enough resources to maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents.” Earlier on Wednesday, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced felony murder charges against Garrett Rolfe — who was fired Saturday
BLACK LIVES MATTER has taken America by storm. Simply put, it is a radical Leftist outfit that seeks to replace capitalism with socialism, abolish the police (and let criminals out of jail), and looks to socialist Venezuela as a model. Historically, BLM’s antecedents reach back to the Black Panthers of the 1960s; in recent years it has drawn inspiration from the radical Occupy Wall Street movement. (Snip) The Left has prepared the cultural battlefield well, and with BLM in the vanguard, they have turned to outright insurrection in an effort to obliterate the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our civilization.
A heart condition was identified as the probable cause of death for Eleanor Carol Leavell Barr, wife of Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr, according to preliminary autopsy results. The condition is known as Mitral Valve Prolapse, or floppy valve syndrome, and occurs when the valve between the heart’s upper and lower left chambers doesn’t close properly, according to the National Heart, lung and blood institute.The condition doesn’t normally cause any life-threatening problems.The 39-year-old passed away Tuesday leaving behind her husband, to whom she had been married for 10 years,
The fallout from the Rayshard Brooks’ saga continued in Atlanta on Wednesday night on the heels of Fulton County, GA District Attorney Paul Howard’s announcement that former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe, the suspect in Brooks’ death, was facing 11 charges.Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, who functions as the head of the police union for the city of Atlanta, acknowledged during an interview with Atlanta’s FOX 5 morale within the Atlanta Police Department had hit a low, which backs up a similar claim made by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on CNN earlier.“It’s the worst day in law enforcement
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Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. announced charges on Wednesday afternoon in the death of Rayshard Brooks last weekend at a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta.Brooks was killed by police after resisting arrest, wrestling with the police, punching one officer in the face, stealing the officer’s taser and then firing on the officers.Eleven charges were announced including felony murder by the officer involved in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks.