Posts on Monday, July 20, 2020
Protesters have drawn national attention after setting a fire inside the Portland Police Association building Saturday night.
Portland Police said around 10:45, protesters broke into the PPA’s building and almost immediately started a fire.
The building on North Lombard Street is still covered with graffiti and remnants from the fire set Saturday night are still scattered inside.
Ash Leabenworth lives a few houses down from the PPA and said while it’s scary to see this happening on his street, he says dramatic action needs to be taken in order for change to happen.
Chicago may see an influx of federal agents as soon as this week as President Donald Trump readies to make good on repeated pledges he would try to tamp down violence here, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for example, is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to the city this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned. The Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, agents are set to assist other federal law enforcement and Chicago police in crime-fighting efforts, (snip), though a specific plan on what the agents will be doing
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to Chicago this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities.
The Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, agents are set to assist other federal law enforcement and Chicago police in crime-fighting efforts, according to sources familiar with the matter, though a specific plan on what the agents will be doing had not been made public.
One city official said the city was aware of the plan but not any specifics. The Chicago Police Department had no immediate comment.
An ABC News exec who was accused of making racially insensitive remarks — while overseeing diversity programs for the network — and has gotten the boot.
Barbara Fedida, a senior vice president, had been on leave since last month, when it was alleged that during contract negotiations with black “Good Morning America’’ host Robin Roberts, Fedida told colleagues it wasn’t like ABC was asking her to “pick cotton.’’
The Huffington Post report also alleged that Fedida called black “The View’’ co-host Sunny Hostin “low-rent,’’ while suggesting black former ABC correspondent Kendis Gibson was worth less than toilet paper.
Before you open this book or turn a page, look at the cover. What do we see? A handsome, young Donald Trump, in dashing cadet uniform, during one of the finest periods of his life. In his five years at New York Military Academy, he reaped undiluted acclaim from faculty and classmates — a model student in behavior and academics, popular with classmates, a star athlete elected to the school's Athletic Hall of Fame, garnering offers from Major League Baseball. For a book entitled Too Much and Not Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, what is the meaning of this charming cover?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will throw out the first pitch for the Washington Nationals on opening day on Thursday, the Major League Baseball team announced Monday.“The Washington Nationals are thrilled to announce that Nats super-fan, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has accepted our invitation to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day, Thursday, July 23,” the team said in a statement. “Dr. Fauci has been a true champion for our country during the Covid-19 pandemic and throughout his distinguished career, so it is only fitting that we honor him
North Carolina mom charged after baby
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A Wilmington, North Carolina, mother has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after a crying newborn baby was found in a trash can last week. Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo, 21, was taken into custody on Saturday and is currently being held at the county jail, according to The News & Observer. Her alleged son was found by a woman walking her dog on Thursday who heard the baby’s cries from the can. The boy was found inside a tied black trash bag with his umbilical cord still attached and wrapped around its neck. However, despite these circumstances, the baby was alive and soon
Rapper Kanye West is now eligible to be on Illinois' ballot in November. We're told he filed as an independent. Matt Dietrich with the Illinois State Board of Elections says his team filed at 4:56 p.m., mere minutes before the deadline.
Chicago Police Department leadership on Monday sought to highlight the attacks on officers during a violent confrontation at the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park.
After showing six minutes of video footage captured during the clash Friday, Supt. David Brown repeatedly stressed violent protests force the department to divert resources from the South and West sides, where shootings are most prevalent.
Seventy people were shot over the weekend, 10 fatally, according to a log maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. Ten minors were hit by gunfire, keeping with an alarming recent trend in which young children have been shot throughout the city
Biden, at Muslim voters summit, says ‘I
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Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden spoke to a summit of Muslim voters Monday, telling them he wished U.S. schools taught more about Islam."I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. I wish we talked about all the great confessional faiths. It's one of the great confessional faiths," Biden said Monday at the “Million Muslim Votes” summit hosted by Emgage Action. Emgage Action, the country’s largest Muslim American PAC, endorsed Biden in April after endorsing Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary. Biden told the voters he would end President Trump's travel ban affecting Muslim-majority countries on day one
As 2020 presidential election polls continue to show Joe Biden trouncing President Donald Trump, a recent survey should spook the campaign of the Democratic candidate. The Meet the Press politics team flagged that Biden has surprisingly bad numbers with young voters in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last week. (Snip) Biden also has room to grow with Black voters in the NBC poll, who have a higher level of interest in this election than 2016. Among that subset of voters, Biden’s favorables are 48 percent positive, 19 percent negative (up 29). As MTP put it, that’s “good, but
St Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, a Democrat, announced on Monday that she is charging the St. Louis couple who defended their private property using firearms last month with felony unlawful use of a weapon.“Mark and Patricia McCloskey each are facing a single felony count of unlawful use of a weapon — exhibiting,” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. “Charging documents say he pointed an AR-15 rifle at protesters and she wielded a semiautomatic handgun, placing those protesters in fear of injury.”In a statement, Gardner said, “It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner at those participating in nonviolent protest,
The presumptive 2020 Democrat presidential nominee, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, used the N-word 13 times in a 1985 hearing series, U.S. Senate transcripts reveal.Video of one such instance where Biden used the N-word twice when he was quoting someone else already surfaced late last month. The Senate hearing series during which Biden repeatedly used the offensive term was when he was questioning William Reynolds, then-President Ronald Reagan’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, when Reynolds was under consideration for a promotion to be associate attorney general. In particular, Biden was asking Reynolds about his role in providing clearance for
Joe Biden said Monday he would overturn on his first day in office President Donald Trump’s travel ban that initially targeted Muslim-majority countries.Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, said Muslims were the first to suffer attacks under the Trump administration the led to kids being bullied in school and an increase in hate crimes. Biden said Trump appointed unnamed key leaders in the Defense Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development despite their open Islamophobia.“Donald Trump has fanned the flames of hate in this country
Federal authorities identified a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead Monday as the “primary subject” in a shooting at a federal judge’s New Jersey home that killed the jurist’s son and left her husband badly injured.
U.S. District Judge Esther Salas was not injured in the Sunday shooting, which the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and local authorities are investigating. The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey identified the dead suspect as Roy Den Hollander. Law enforcement officials said his body was found in Sullivan County, New York, about a two-hour drive from the scene of the shooting.
The sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida, said he isn't sure his department has the money or the manpower to provide the Republican National Convention's security.“As we're talking today, we are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable that we're going to keep that event and the community safe,” Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams told Politico on Monday.The Republican Party selected Jacksonville at the last minute to host aspects of the 2020 iteration after Democratic leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, refused to guarantee a crowded gathering could take place amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Jacksonville's program includes
The last thing you want to hear from your brain surgeon (aside from “Oops”) is “Wow, I’ve always wanted to do one of these.” You’ll feel a lot better hearing, “I’ve done 30 operations like this over the past month.” Expertise like that is essential for brain surgery . . . and much, much more. Our modern world is built upon it. We need such expert advice as we decide whether to open schools this fall, and we should turn to educators, physicians, and economists to get it. But ultimately we, as citizens and the local officials we elect, should make the choices.
(UPDATED with Fox News statement on lawsuit) Tucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a short vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of alleged misconduct at the now Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace-run outlet.
A progressive Democrat who ousted a longtime establishment congressman in a New York primary earlier this month said Monday that he's "right in alignment" with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who is running as a moderate Democrat. The comments by Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal who defeated House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, underline a recognition by Democrats across the ideological spectrum that avoiding the intra-party fractures that helped sink Hillary Clinton in 2016 will be necessary to beat Donald Trump this November. "In this moment, we're dealing with the second biggest crisis since the Great Depression.
Lightfoot tightens regulations on bars,
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot wasn’t messing around when she warned of a rollback if young people didn’t stop their risky behavior. Now, bars, restaurants, gyms and salons are paying the price. (Snip) Arwady branded bars “one of the higher-risk scenarios,” in part because they’re a magnet for 18-to-29-year-olds, where cases are rising faster than any other age group in Chicago.
“People are not only talking and socializing and having fun. They’re often needing to raise their voice, project and yell. For all of those reasons, they are broadly considered one of the higher-risk settings,” she said.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Mark Dice, the fortysomething slacker who from his Southern California kitchen has cooked up a bigger audience than Brian Stelter on CNN, is going on a short hiatus this week. But before he went, the mavericky conservative posted this gem which explains in one hashtag why so many commercials are hopelessly woke, even at the detriment to the products they sell. Turns out the #unstereotypealliance is a global phenomenon, produced and delivered by the United Nations. Corrections*
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday said President Trump may have to be “fumigated” out of the White House.The Democrat-media complex exploded this weekend after President Trump refused to commit to the election results if he loses in November.“I have to see. Look … I have to see,” Trump told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace during an interview on ”Fox News Sunday.” “No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time either.” The Biden campaign responded: “The American people will decide this election. And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of
In November 2019, the star witness for the Democrat Representative Adam Schiff’s impeachment show trial was announced. Her name was Fiona Hill.
Today we’ve uncovered that Hill is a close associate of the Primary Sub-Source (PSS) for the Steele dossier – Igor Danchenko – the individual behind most all the lies in the Steele dossier. No wonder Hill saw the Steele dossier before it was released. Her associate created it (Snip)
This is the one individual those looking into the Trump – Russia collusion fraud were after – the PSS – the individual who was behind the material amount of Steele dossier lies.
Rev Al Sharpton calls Trump a 'bigot' after
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Reverend Al Sharpton has hit back at President Donald Trump after he used the civil rights activist's name to mock efforts to rename Fort Bragg.In an interview on Fox News on Sunday, President Trump poked fun at the efforts of those seeking to rename the military base in North Carolina which is currently named after the Confederate General Braxton Bragg.Speaking to news anchor Chris Wallace, the president said: 'Because I think that Fort Bragg, Fort Robert E. Lee, all these forts that have been named that way for a very long time.'Fort Bragg is a big deal. We won two World Wars,
In his 1992 book, The Way Things Ought to Be, radio host Rush Limbaugh warned that liberals would disguise their efforts to reclaim power by “superficially [advocating] . . . popular, sentimental political causes which are difficult for people to oppose.” According to Limbaugh, leftists adopted this cunning strategy because they are “painfully aware” their preferred policies cannot win majoritysupport in this country.
“A common, broad-sweeping theme underlies all of these ‘movements’,” Limbaugh noted. “Unmistakably, that theme is anti-capitalism . . . and socialism.” Limbaugh was prescient, as Democrats are now using a Marxist organization—which has been strategically wrapped in an unassailable exoskeleton of racial justice—to recapture what they lost in
As if police officers don’t have enough to worry about these days, in Los Angeles they now have to deal with despicable, attention-seeking Democratic lawmakers interfering with their efforts to do their job.Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the woman who launched a wave of incidents where Republican officials were accosted in the public by unhinged activists, was captured on video over the weekend pulling her SUV over to monitor a traffic stop by LA police.Her reasoning being clear — because the driver being stopped was a black man.“They stopped a brother, so I stopped to see what they were doing,” the lawmaker tells some admirers.Waters was praised online for her actions.
Vehicles owned by deputies in a western New York county were torched overnight in an incident that is still being investigated.The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is reviewing video surveillance footage taken from the area after a fire was started in a personal vehicle belonging to a deputy in the early morning hours on Sunday. The fire began in one vehicle in the driveway of the Clarkson home, then spread to another and a portion of the house, WROC-TV reported. (Video) Brockport Firefighters reportedly responded to the call about a car fire around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday.
President Donald Trump is one step closer to putting an end to Barack Obama’s disastrous housing rules that would give the federal government full control of how suburban homes are built, where they are built, and who is allowed to live in them. Just before he walked out of the White House door for the last time, Obama’s administration passed regulations with the Orwellian title of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. The plan would give the federal government full control of what sort of houses are built in every American community, in part by requiring a certain amount of low-income housing to be part of every suburban subdivision.
An early human trial of Oxford University’s experimental coronavirus vaccine has yielded a strong immune response in hundreds of people, according to newly released data. The potential vaccine, which the U.K. university developed in partnership with drugmaker AstraZeneca, was administered in a trial that involved 1,077 people and caused an immune response in people aged 18 to 55 that lasted two months or slightly longer, according to data published Monday by the medical journal The Lancet. The vaccine, which is made from a combination of coronavirus genetic material and a virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees, caused
Much of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Donald Trump was built on the premise that Christopher Steele and his dossier were to be believed. (Snip) Just how far off the claims were became clear when the FBI interviewed Steele’s “Primary Subsource” over three days beginning on Feb. 9, 2017. Notes taken by FBI agents of those interviews were released by the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday afternoon. The Primary Subsource was in reality Steele’s sole source, (Snip) From the FBI interviews it becomes clear that the Primary Subsource and his friends peddled warmed-over rumors and laughable gossip that Steele dressed up as formal intelligence
The nation’s largest state Republican Party has a new leader. Allen West was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Texas in the early hours of Monday during a virtual vote among the organization’s membership. The retired U.S. Army officer and former presidential hopeful has already taken on the responsibilities of the role and begin to “implement his strategy to hold Texas,” according to his campaign—which means a return to traditional conservatism for Lone Star Republicans. “I am honored and privileged that Republicans of Texas have selected me to Chair their party and to be at the helm during this coming election cycle.
Trader Joe’s plans to remove ethnic brand names from its products as a petition calling for their removal gains steam.
The California-based grocery chain said it’s working to phase out foreign names it has attached to ethnic foods, such as “Trader José’s” for Mexican cuisine, “Trader Ming’s” for Chinese products and “Arabian Joe’s” for Middle Eastern dishes.
“While this approach to product naming may have been rooted in a lighthearted attempt at inclusiveness, we recognize that it may now have the opposite effect — one that is contrary to the welcoming, rewarding customer experience we strive to create every day,” Trader Joe’s spokeswoman Kenya Friend-Daniel said in a statement.
In 1961, Cold War tensions and the legacy of colonialism came to a head in the nation known today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Early that year, Patrice Lumumba — who had played a crucial role in Congolese independence — was assassinated as part of an ongoing civil war in the country. Lumumba wasn’t the last statesman whose life was claimed by this conflict, either. On September 18, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace among the conflicting factions.
In the nearly 60 years since then, Hammarskjöld’s death has been analyzed from a host of vantage points.
Given the polls, you would think anyone positing Donald Trump has already won the 2020 election was some kind of blithering idiot—and maybe I am. (I’ve been called worse.)
But I can’t help but think that in current conditions the polls are not only not worth the paper they’re printed on, digital or otherwise, they’re about as accurate as a thermometer run over by a six-wheeler.
No one sensible is talking about their political allegiance these days in public—especially to an anonymous pollster.
Yo-Yo Ma and the Acid-Free Box
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“What should we do for our anniversary?” my dad asked my mom. They were driving on the thruway, listening to the radio. A few years before, in an uncharacteristic burst of extravagance, he’d bought her a fur, a sure sign to me that they were running out of ideas. They had been married 40 years. It was 1987.
The music on the radio ended. “That was the Concerto in E-flat, Dumbarton Oaks, by Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Mr. Robert Woods Bliss in honor of his wife’s 60th birthday,” the announcer said.
“That’s it!” my mom, then 60 herself, exclaimed. “I want to commission a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma.”
ONALASKA Wisconsin—Vice President Mike Pence dismissed recent polling showing President Donald Trump behind former Vice President Joe Biden by as much as double digits in the 2020 presidential race.“I think polling is broken in America,” he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Air Force 2, returning from a campaign trip to Wisconsin. “I didn’t believe the polls in 2016, and I don’t believe the polls in 2020.”The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Biden ahead by 10 points nationally and recent polling in swing states shows the president trailing Biden.The vice president encouraged supporters to have faith in the president’s ability
A city councilman from East Fishkill, N.Y., has issued a travel advisory for New York City, warning residents of his Dutchess County city to stay away from the Big Apple due to a rise in crime.
The NYPD recently released data showing that in June 2020, the city saw a 130 percent rise in shooting incidents compared with June 2019, and a 51 percent rise in car thefts. “Due to the rising rate of violence and major crimes, it is recommended that area residents exercise increased caution while visiting New York City,” Anil Beephan said in the advisory, which he posted on Facebook Wednesday, noting that “[a]rmed criminals have been known
Fired up, ready to go!…Not really. The DNC Milwaukee Convention continues to shrink. The latest prediction suggests possibly only 350 participants will attend their presidential convention in Milwaukee this year. The Biz Journals reported: In planning an anti-Donald Trump, public-health-centric convention anchored in Milwaukee, the Democratic National Party’s plans for the city seemingly sink a bit more every day. One Wisconsin Democratic Party insider familiar with convention planning told the Milwaukee Business
It hasn’t escaped the notice of most Americans that, to put it mildly, things in the country are not going well. But one group of people hasn’t seemed to pick up on it, yet: Congress. To be more precise, the Republican-led Senate. As American cities burn, police departments across the country come under assault, the culture feasts on itself in a frenzy of Twitter-driven cancellations, Google controls the presentation of information for 90 percent of the world, Twitter gets hacked by the Saudi government, Planned Parenthood reaps millions in CARES Act money it wasn’t supposed to get ...
If you’re one of those people offended by the sexism of their own body, I’ve got great news.
Dr. Kristin Small — a gynecologist, obstetrician, and anatomy lecturer — is calling for an end to the term “Adam’s apple.”
Why? Because it’s “misogynistic.”
So the next time you refer to the male-only part, don’t use some male-specific word, you malevolent miscreant.
I guess that last “male” word’s okay, but the Adam thing’s primed for a choking.
So told Kristin to the Brisbane Courier-Mail.
But the good doctor isn’t just down on the protruding throat of the patriarchy; she also wants to heal the heel: “Achilles heel” has gotta go, too.
ORLANDO, Fla. – The debate over reopening schools may be headed to court. A joint lawsuit filed by an Orange County teacher and parent, whose kids are enrolled in the school district, was filed Sunday. It asks a judge to intervene and stop districts from conducting face-to-face learning. The lawsuit states that the school district doesn’t have enough resources to follow CDC guidelines for reopening, including social distancing in classrooms and safe transportation for students. The suit says that the Orange County school board is being forced to reopen in August to avoid the risk of losing state funding and
Democrats learned the hard way 10 years ago that elections leading up to a decennial census aren't just about the White House.
State-based Democratic parties are jostling for power in their legislatures so they can exert some influence on the congressional and local redistricting process set to take place in 2021 after the 2020 census.
Doing so can help them tip congressional contests in their favor or secure control of their statehouses until the next decade's headcount when it's constitutionally mandated that district maps be re-drawn. If they don't have independent redistricting commissions, that is.
Redistricting is on the minds of political insiders,
We don’t know for sure but we’d bet most of those we see smugly wearing NASA T-shirts are Democrats, because, after all, they’ve declared theirs to be The Party of Science. But that’s about as true as one famous Democrat’s claim that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”
From President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, to the political right’s warranted skepticism of the man-is-overheating-Earth narrative, the Democratic machine, which includes the legacy media and an ever-expanding segment of academia, has peddled the indictment that Republicans and conservatives are anti-science.
According to failed Democratic
Noisy Black Lives Matter supporters
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DENVER -- Black Lives Matter supporters verbally, and in some instances physically clashed with law enforcement supporters, during a set of dueling rallies Sunday afternoon at Civic Center Park. Police later said they used pepper balls and a can of pepper spray to disperse part of the larger BLM supporters crowd, after some people "made aggressive moves" toward officers. The protesters said there was no reason for police to use the spray. (Snip) The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and other Black Lives Matter supporters, including the Afro-Liberation Front, planned a counter-demonstration. Armed with pots and pans, whistles, hand-held sirens and
Joe Biden signed the death warrant for his campaign last week, even if he doesn’t know it. The joint manifesto he released with Bernie Sanders is 110 pages of radical far-left policies — from a job-killing $2 trillion climate agenda to eliminating cash bail and dismantling border protection.
It betrays the working-class voters Biden claims to represent and destroys any pretense that he is a “moderate.”
As Sanders has boasted, Biden would be “the most progressive president since FDR.”
Well-meaning people might stick their fingers in their ears and vote for Biden out of nostalgia for a Democratic Party that no longer exists or out of exhaustion at the relentless anti-Trump barrage.
An American Refuses to Sign Coronavirus
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Kentucky resident Elizabeth Linscott was planning to visit her mother in Michigan. Despite having no symptoms of the Wuhan coronavirus, Linscott decided to get tested out of an abundance of caution. Her results turned up positive and she was told to self-quarantine at home.
“My grandparents wanted to see me, too,” Linscott told WILX-TV. “So, just to make sure if I tested negative, that they would be OK, that everything would be fine.”
Once the health department alerted her to her positive test results, they wanted Linscott to sign the Self-isolation and Controlled Movement Agreed Order, a document stating she would not leave her house
The Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), and the Florida GOP won a federal court victory upholding Florida’s ban on ballot harvesting.
Priorities USA, a progressive advocacy group, and other Democrat plaintiffs dismissed their claims in Nielsen v. DeSantis, a lawsuit challenging Florida’s ban on ballot harvesting which also aimed to force the state to count ballots that arrived after Election Day. The plaintiffs also dropped their claim that Florida needed to provide pre-paid postage on vote-by-mail ballots.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement on Sunday:
Today’s victory is a win for Florida voters and a win for election integrity.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) suggests he will pardon St. Louis couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey if they are charged over brandishing firearms to keep protesters from their home.
On June 28, 2020, a video was posted to Twitter showing the McCloskey’s holding firearms to protect their home: [Tweet]
On June 30, 2020, Breitbart News reported an investigation had been opened against the couple.
The New York Post quoted St. Louis Prosecutor Kimberly Gardner saying, “I am alarmed at the events that occurred over the weekend, where peaceful protestors were met by guns.”
She added, “We must protect the right to peacefully protest, and any attempt to chill it through intimidation
It was a Big Deal when New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, after asking the federal government for over $7 billion in federal aid for Wuhan virus losses, nevertheless managed to scrounge up the money to pay city workers to paint a giant “Black Lives Matter” sign on the street in front of Trump Tower. The fact that Trump lives in the White House and that de Blasio is a man running New York into the ground was irrelevant. Mayor de Blasio had made his statement.
The New York BLM sign has already been attacked several times. The most dramatic attack came from Bevelyn Beatty,
Homicide at Rough Point
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On the last full day of his life—October 6, 1966—Eduardo Tirella flew into Newport, Rhode Island, the storied summer colony of the country’s old money families. He was met at the airport by Doris Duke, the richest woman in America, and they drove to Rough Point, her 10-acre estate on Bellevue Avenue—Newport’s Millionaire’s Row. Eddie, as friends knew Tirella, had just told intimates that after a decade as the artistic curator and designer of Duke’s estates in New Jersey, Bel Air, Honolulu, and Newport, he was planning to sever his professional ties with her, for good. Now, it was time to let his patron and constant companion know,
The polls currently show Biden in the lead, but there are reasons to suspect their accuracy. For example, in 2016, at the same time during the election cycle the polls also showed Hillary in the lead. Another problem is that many of the polls are national, which is irrelevant. We don’t have a national vote; we have fifty state votes, plus D.C. Whether Biden wins by one vote or three million votes in California, he still gets the same number of electoral college votes.
But the single most significant indicator that the polls are untrustworthy is the fact
Seven people have been killed and 53 others, including 10 minors, have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend. The numbers already surpass those of the same weekend last year, when 43 people were shot, three of them fatally. Last weekend, 64 people were shot across the city, 13 of them fatally. Six of those victims were teenagers and one teen was killed. Sunday - The latest fatal shooting left a man dead early Sunday in Little Village on the Southwest Side. The 20-year-old was shot about 2:55 a.m. in the 3200 block of West Cermak Road, according to Chicago police.
Conservative author and activist Michelle Malkin was brutally assaulted and prevented from speaking as she made her way to the speaker’s platform at a pro-police public rally in downtown Denver on Sunday. The patriotic event, the 6th Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day billed as “family friendly,” was advertised in advance on social media including at Malkin’s Twitter, where she has 2.2 million followers. (snip) Malkin was live streaming the event from her cell phone on Periscope Sunday afternoon as the situation deteriorated after masked thugs wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts assaulted two speakers and then set upon Malkin.
The New York Times is standing by a February 2017 report alleging that Trump associates were in communication with Russian intelligence officers, even after the release of an internal FBI memo that identified numerous inaccuracies in the story.
“We stand by our reporting,” New York Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy told her own paper for its report on the newly released documents.
Attorney General William Barr declassified two documents this week related to the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. One released Friday is a 57-page memo of interviews that dossier author Christopher Steele’s primary source conducted with the FBI in January 2017.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) accused the FBI of running a bogus tip line while investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the latest in a sequence of serious but unsubstantiated claims the Rhode Island Democrat has made about Kavanaugh and his confirmation process.
The senator spoke Wednesday by Zoom to an Ohio chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS), a progressive judicial group. Three attendees told the Washington Free Beacon that Whitehouse twice asserted that the FBI operated a "fake" tip line while purporting to investigate the justice.
Joe E. Collins III grew up in South-Central Los Angeles in a neighborhood where crime literally struck home the day a drive-by shooting left bullet holes in both the windows and the family sofa. Inner city life did not faze the young man, who later joined the Navy, became a fighter-jet mechanic, saw combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom, served as a Navy recruiter, and was certified as both a financial planner and a mental health counselor.
Following the 2016 election, Mr. Collins became acutely aware of the huge populations of disenfranchised Americans, a news media which promoted outrage and politicians who were failing their constituents.
Dozens of boaters took to Manhattan’s Hudson River on Sunday to show their support for President Trump. This is what the silent majority looks like. Where is the Biden boat parade? “Raise your Trump flags and sport your Trump gear to show your support at the Statue of Liberty,” the “TrumpStock NY” event page said. Boats and jet skis waved Trump 2020 flags as they cruised through the Hudson River. VIDEOS:
Brace for the Backlash
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According to science, which we recently learned is racist except when it is useful to the libs, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Putting aside the gender and pallor privilege of Sir Isaac Newton that has the sociology students in Goucher College’s “Physics for Liberal Arts Majors and other Dummies" course literally shaking, his Third Law of Motion provides a glimpse of the future as the center-left and the ravenous tiger it is riding, the radical left, seek to lock in their domination of the culture through physical and social terrorism. The intended victims – us –
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) claimed during a recent private event that President Donald Trump risks losing key swing states in November’s presidential election that he won in 2016, according to a Sunday report.The New York Times states: Ryan, for instance, offered a bleak assessment of Mr. Trump’s electoral standing at a recent event hosted by Solamere, a company with close ties to Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, and his family. According to a partial transcript of the comments, shared by a person close to him, the usually tight-lipped Mr. Ryan said Mr. Trump was losing key voting blocs across the Midwest and in Arizona,
We’ve been writing about Kim Gardner, the incompetent leftist St. Louis prosecutor, who is persecuting the McCloskeys for defending their home against a mob. We’ve also been encouraging readers to contribute here to the campaign of Mary Pat Carl, who is running against Gardner in next month’s primary.
The importance of this primary is highlighted by news that a George Soros-linked group has contributed $78,000 to Gardner’s campaign. This is part of Soros’ effort to undermine order in the U.S. by electing prosecutors who want to hamstring the police and go easy on criminals. His organization backed Gardner financially in 2016, and it’s doing so again this year.
The Media’s Atrocity Narrative
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You have probably never heard of Sean Ernest Ruis, but the Michigan man’s death last week marked the convergence of two current media propaganda themes — police shootings and the threat of COVID-19. The proximate cause of Ruis’s death was Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (“The Worst Governor in America”), who expanded her state’s mandatory mask policy on July 10:
Businesses in Michigan must now require all of their customers and employees to wear a face mask or face a $500 fine and other penalties.…
“Masks can reduce the chance of spreading COVID-19 by about 70 percent. …
We often hear that what this country needs is an honest conversation about race. Here’s a whole lot of “honesty” for you, from an unexpected place:
Black people are less likely than white people to be self-reliant. Black people are less likely to emphasize “rational linear” and “quantitative” thinking. They are less likely to think that “hard work is the key to success.” They believe in punctuality less, and instant gratification more, than whites do. Black people aren’t as likely to believe in a Christian God and more inclined to be tolerant of pagan or polytheistic religions.
Hours before what is expected to be the 53rd straight night of protests in the city, the head of the Portland police union said the community has “had enough.”
Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner, surrounded by 20 faith leaders, business owners, police officers and neighborhood residents, held a news conference in front of the union’s offices in North Portland. On Saturday, protesters broke in and lit a fire inside. The building itself was covered with graffiti.
At least two people were arrested in Seattle and a police officer is in the hospital Sunday after a march through downtown devolved into property damage and looting, police say.
Police said Sunday evening the demonstrators had broken out several windows of the East Precinct, then threw a device into the lobby that ignited a small fire.
The fire was later extinguished and no injuries were reported, police said.
The demonstration started between 2 and 3 p.m. near the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Pine Street. A photo posted on Seattle’s DOT traffic channel showed crowds blocking an intersection.
Members of the left are upset that Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed an immigration judge who actually respects and believes in America’s immigration laws.
“The judge, Matthew J. O’Brien, was officially named to his new position in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) in June — but was just formally inducted into the largest ever corps of immigration judges along with 45 others,” Law & Order, a far-left news website, complained Saturday.
“‘From 2016 to 2020, he served as the director of research at the Federation for American Immigration Reform.’ … The group, known in immigration law circles by its acronym, FAIR,
The son of a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, has been shot and killed, and her husband shot and injured in an attack at the family's home, according to law enforcement sources. The judge, Esther Salas, was not hurt.