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How to Steal an Election in Four Steps.  Note the scope of what has happened.  When government agencies fake the lethality of a disease, isolate people, impose lockdowns, and try to cause a recession, when they deceive via unconstitutional laws, fake polls, mail-in-voting, and rigged software, when the fraud enlists the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI and CIA, high-level plants within other agencies, state governors & attorneys general, the broadcast media, & social media — all to take down one man because he's the choice of the people — that's not "voter fraud."  It's an organized coup.  Are the Democrats that you know capable of this?  Could Pelosi, AOC, Swalwell and the rest pull this off?  Or are just politically-aligned order-takers, like our media and social media, from, likely, Soros and China, a pair that often work together because they share a common enemy?  Today's Democrats are controlled by far-left Alinskyites who produce tension & chaos, then blame capitalism, racism, & Trump.  Look what they did to us this year.  How many Americans did they isolate to sell the virus lie?  How much depression and loss of income did they cause?  How many breakups and divorces?  How many elderly people had to die alone to serve the Left's narrative?  They even suppressed the effective covid drug hydroxychloroquine for months — they kept medicine from people who needed it — solely because President Trump had said the drug was effective and they could not allow Trump to seem to be right about anything.  As noted, they suppressed the vaccine as well.  The party is no longer a political opponent; it is a US enemy and the most retrograde force in America.

The 2020 List of the 10 Worst Mayors in the Nation.  In celebration of a 2020 that desperately needs to come to an end, here is a list of the Top 10 Worst Mayors in the nation.  These mayors most definitely use Orwell's 1984 as their policies and procedures manual, if not their Bible.  It comes as no surprise that all 10 of the mayors on the list are Democrat (something about that political party), and that five of the 10 are mayors of West Coast cities (something about the Pacific Ocean).  Several of the mayors have overseen a mass exodus of people from their cities, and even their state in a 10-month period.  But most of all, every one of these mayors stand out as abject failures of governance, with constituents that literally despise them.

You're It.  The idea of Donald Trump as a cult figure is being used to defame and dismiss a patriot's sense of duty to the republic.  It's just another communist plot to keep those patriots on the sidelines while they continue their all-out assault on the republic through corrupt government practices, including the election. [...] Now, the Democrats have more aggressive tools at their disposal like BLM and Antifa and they have used them.  They have engaged in anti-white propaganda and racism in order to brand any patriot as a racist or fascist.  One can always count on the communists to accuse one of what they are themselves.  None of this is new.  It's the communist playbook by the numbers and they operate by it with no sense of self-awareness or blushing awkwardness.  Communists hammer the opposition and count on sympathizers in the press to carry their message, when that isn't enough, they send their brownshirts (Antifa) in to break some legs and set fires.  Members of their militant wing are never arrested, or, if so, quickly released.  I wonder how many Antifa and BLM were counting votes for the Democrats.  So, why is this any different from the Tea Party?  Why would the communists ever think that they could not do with today's patriot what they did to them?  The communists know they will get support from MSM and the weaklings in the Republican Party, because their success with the Tea Party has enabled all other excesses of government.

Ossoff, Warnock bankrolled by donors in New York and California.  The record-shattering fundraising hauls made by Georgia Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are being driven by out-of-state donors in liberal cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, campaign filings show.  As Democrats try to claw back control of the Senate in enormously consequential run-off races on Jan. 5, Ossoff, an investigative journalist, and Warnock, a senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, each raised a stunning $100 million in the last two months, becoming the best-funded Senate candidates in history.  But 95 percent of that money is coming from outside of the Peach State, records show.

GA Dems Sound Alarm in Senate Race:  Running Out of Cash.  Imagine how fast they'd spend your money.  The two Democratic candidates for Senate in Georgia's Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections have raised more than $100 million each in the past two months, but their campaign managers were appealing on Monday [12/28/2020] for even more money — with a dire warning for liberals if it doesn't come through, according to NBC News.  That should be a dire warning for the rest of America of what could happen if they win.  According to NBC, the campaign managers for Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock sent a memo to potential donors "sounding the alarm" about the current state of the financial race.

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The Democrat donors probably aren't very excited about "Reverend" Warnock, who carries more baggage than a Greyhound bus, and would surely be a national embarrassment if elected to the Senate.

November 2020: The Good Points.  [Scroll down]  Traditional Democrats have no home in the new Progressive Party.  "Old line" Democrats were good people, real Americans.  JFK, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, even a Tip O'Neill.  You could disagree with them about the percentage of the top tax bracket or whether we needed yet another Federal bureau, but there would never be any question about whether they'd root for America in the Olympics or felt that Columbus Day was a real holiday.  They appreciated America's history and inherent goodness.  This is not today's Harris Progressive.  Joe the Plumber — an old-line Democrat — languishes in political no-man's land today.  He works hard, doesn't ask for a handout, maybe belongs to a union, wants to be left alone and wouldn't mind some Federal student aid so his kids could go to State U. Not a free ride, just some aid.  He voted for Trump and will every time.

Facebook Censors Ad Highlighting Raphael Warnock's Praise of Jeremiah Wright.  Facebook has censored an ad drawing attention to Democrat senate candidate Raphael Warnock's praise for far-left hate-preacher Jeremiah Wright, [...] The ad was bought by American Crossroads, a nonprofit linked to Karl Rove.  It highlights Warnock's praise for Wright, but was taken down by Facebook after it was "fact-checked" by Lead Stories, one of Facebook's approved third-party fact-checkers.  Lead Stories claims the ad "leaves out context," because it implies he was "communicating the same sentiment" as Wright.  But Lead Stories also admits that Warnock referred to Wright as a "preacher and a prophet."

More about Jeremiah Wright and the TUCC.

Keep calm, and keep drilling for oil and gas.  They claim to be science-based, but anti-fossil fuel campaigners are, at heart, ignorant and unserious.  To understand how, just witness the recent spectacle put on by The North Face, the clothing company known for its puffy jackets.  Perhaps inspired by the Summer of Wokeness, the outfitter decided it would make a statement on the issue of climate change.  With yet another tiresome act of vain virtue-signaling, The North Face snubbed one of its existing corporate customers, refusing for the first time to produce jackets bearing the company logo.  The reason?  Because this West Texas company is in the business of petroleum production.  Ah, but wait a minute — what are North Face jackets made of?  Surely, if you haven't guessed it already, you will not be surprised when you hear that they (like two-thirds of all clothing sold today) are made from petroleum products.  Thus, the geniuses in management at The North Face are effectively boycotting their own suppliers.  Brilliant.

Left Wing media Anchor, Katie Couric, Openly Says Trump Supporters need to be 'Deprogrammed'.  Former co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show Katie Couric ripped the Republicans in Congress who voted against impeaching President Donald Trump and certifying the 2020 presidential election results.  "And the question is:  How are we going to really, almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?" Couric said during an appearance Friday night on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."  [Video clip]

Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen Declares Troops Protecting the Inaugaration are Racist White Nationalists because they don't vote Democrat.  Rep Cohen on his concerns w/ the National Guard securing the Inauguration:  "The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male; and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden ... there are probably not more than 25% of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden[.]"  [Video clip]

House Minority Leaders Caught On Call Urging House Reps to Kill Trump's $2000 Check Demand.  First no response from the Republicans on the most obvious and corrupt election in world history and now Congressional Republicans want to stop the President's wishes for providing more in COVID payments to the people.  Joe Biden manufactured 20 million or more votes in the 2020 election in November to steal the race away from record setter President Trump and the Republicans in the House and Senate say nothing.  Now this same group wants to prevent Americans from receiving more than $600 in payments in a COVID package?  These individuals are not for the people.

The American Left Has Now Fully Embraced Racism.  There is no issue more important to the future and soul of our nation right now than the leftist bigotry threatening the very concept of what it means to be an American.  On the medical side, Dr. Harald Schmidt, a supposed expert on ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times that essential workers, not the elderly, should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines.  His reason?  "Older populations are whiter," he told the publication.  "Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer.  Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit."  To be clear, the term "level the playing field" here means allowing people to die because of the color of their skin.  What's amazing about this is that just months ago to even question the efficacy of lockdowns meant to stop the spread of COVID-19 was met with accusations that one was killing grandma.  Now, it doesn't matter because grandma is probably white.

Dem doc: re-educate Trump voters, purge social conservatives from government.  Congressional Democrats back "Secular America," a group that has sent a 28-page document to the Biden transition team advising him to strip First Amendment rights from Christians who advocate traditional biblical positions on the sanctity of life, marriage, education, and the nuclear family, Harbinger's Daily reports.  The letter was titled, "Restoring Constitutional Secularism and Patriotic Pluralism in the White House:  Prepared exclusively by Secular Democrats of America PAC for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Transition Team."  The document, presented by Reps Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Jared Huffman, D-Calif., and endorsed by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., states that an incoming Biden administration must "educate the American public," particularly those identified as the "religious right," on the need to keep their "religious dogma" to themselves.  The document calls for a purge of social conservatives from all levels of government, labeling them as "white nationalist" and "conspiracy theorists."

8,000+ Nursing Home Residents and 49 Criminals Died in Pennsylvania.  Guess Which Group Democrats Care About.  One of the most important and least discussed coronavirus subjects in this election was the decision by Democrat governors to infect huge numbers of nursing home residents by forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients.  Governor Wolf in Pennsylvania and his health expert, Richard 'Rachel' Levine, were one of the worst offenders. [...] Let's compare and contrast.  8,047 nursing home residents dead isn't a crisis.  But 49 criminals dead is a death sentence.  These are Democrat priorities.  Free the criminals and kill the elderly.

Warnock's baggage at risk of weighing down Ossoff in other Georgia Senate race.  Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff's losing electoral record has an advantage:  The filmmaker's been vetted.  The same can't be said of fellow Democratic Senate contender, Rev. Raphael Warnock.  Ossoff and Warnock's Jan. 5 runoffs will decide Senate control in the next Congress.  If both of them win, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be able to break any 50-50 ties in the chamber.  Given Senate Republicans' current two-seat edge, it seems commonsense that Ossoff and Warnock campaign together.  The problem?  Ossoff, who was bested in another high-profile race in 2017, is at risk of being sandbagged by political dirt that's being heaped on Warnock.

GA Law Enforcement Officials Say Warnock, Ossoff Will Undermine Police.  Top Georgia law enforcement officials and groups are expressing "serious concern" with Jon Ossoff's and Raphael Warnock's Senate bids, claiming that the pair of Democrats will push to defund police and hinder officers' ability to serve.  Ossoff and Warnock have faced criticism over a number of anti-police comments.  Ossoff in June expressed the need to hold "entire departments accountable," arguing that police funding "has to be ... on the line" if officers violate his proposed use-of-force rules.  And in a series of 2015 sermons, Warnock accused police of operating with a "gangster and thug" mentality, adding that he was not surprised to see officers act like "bullies."  Georgia Fraternal Order of Police secretary Steven Gaynor told the Washington Free Beacon that the Senate hopefuls have done little to reassure law enforcement of their support.

Ossoff Campaign Staffer Donated to Bail Out Minneapolis Rioters.  A member of Jon Ossoff's communications team donated money to a Minneapolis group that bailed out violent criminals and championed the "Defund the Police" movement.  Ossoff campaign deputy press secretary Rhyan Lake in May donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which posts bail for violent criminals and gained national prominence during riots following the death of George Floyd.  The nonprofit pledged to "support those protesting George Floyd's murder and generations of police violence" — it spent funds to bail out individuals charged with crimes including sexual assault and murder, and at least one who was accused of attempted murder of a police officer.

Rep. Tlaib:  Allah Has Given Us the Opportunity 'To Show The Power of Muslims in Georgia'.  Muslim leaders, including Reps.  Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), expressed the hope and expectation on Sunday [12/13/2020] that Muslim voters would be a deciding factor in the pivotal Senate runoff election in the state of Georgia early next month.  The early voting period begins on Monday.  Participating in an online "vote-a-thon" co-hosted by the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Tlaib said:  "I hope that you realize just the opportunity here that Allah has given us to show the power of Muslims in Georgia."

Our political opponents are vicious, but they're also crazy.  Leftists live in a world of racial hatred, gender confusion, white self-loathing, religious loathing, American loathing, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic feelings, misogyny, misandry, homophobia, transphobia, and so much more.  Everything is defined by hatred for others.  It's impossible to live in a world imbued with hate and still be happy.  These -isms and -phobias get pushed onto young people in public schools and in institutions of higher leftist learning.  Many of these people, when they leave college or university, continue to bathe in this fetid broth of self-loathing and paranoia.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock Called Israel An 'Apartheid' State Occupying Palestine.  Democratic Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock decried Israel as an "apartheid" state during a Palm Sunday sermon in 2015, railing against Israel's "occupation."  Warnock aimed his fire directly at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to a two-state solution in the Middle East, calling it "tantamount to saying occupation today, occupation tomorrow, occupation forever."  The phrase echoes the words of segregationist George Wallace who called for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."

A Message to Texas Democrat Terry Meza Who Doesn't Understand Home Defense or Texas for That Matter.  Telling a Texan to put down his guns in his own home when someone breaks into it is like telling a fish not to swim.  It's impossible for him to do.  Yet that's exactly what Texas State Representative Terry Meza is attempting to do, as she's introduced HB196 which would effectively prevent Texans from defending themselves in their own home until every other option has been exhausted.

Cuomo Given Award Named For Another Democrat Leader Who Killed And Got Away With It.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo received another award for his mishandling of COVID-19 in his state, which included making courageous decisions like keeping schools closed despite the science and directing positive COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, leading to thousands of preventable deaths.  Cuomo announced on Twitter Wednesday he would receive the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Inspired Leadership.  "I learned about humanity, leadership and putting people first from the great Senator Ted Kennedy," he tweeted.

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Yeah, putting people first.  Unfortunately, Mary Jo Kopechne is unavailable for comment.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock Says He Didn't Praise Murderous Dictator Fidel Castro.  Here's Video Of Him Doing It.  Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock praised communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castor, who is responsible for tens of thousands of brutal state murders, in a sermon in 2016[,] days after the dictator passed away.  A recently resurfaced video from 2016 shows Warnock behind his church's podium, giving a eulogy for the authoritarian to his congregation.  "We pray for the people of Cuba in this moment.  We remember Fidel Castro, whose legacy is complex.  Don't let anyone tell you a simple story; life usually isn't very simple.  His legacy is complex, kind of like America's legacy is complex," Warnock said.  [Video clip]

Durbin Admits:  Democrats Weaponized Wuhan Coronavirus Relief.  More than 100,000 businesses across the country have permanently shut their doors as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.  Over the past nine months, Republicans and President Trump have repeatedly offered Democrats trillion dollar relief deals.  They were all rejected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues in the Senate.  We knew this was for political reasons, after all, to them power comes before anything else, but we now have additional proof that they were playing games in an election year.

Democrats and their media enablers, the fancy-pants, hoity-toity party of grifters.  How to identify and characterize a Democrat?  They consider themselves to be so very much smarter than any Trump supporter.  To them, Trump supporters are morons, cultists, idiot rednecks.  They, on the other hand, are veritable oracles of wisdom.  They know so much more than we do.  Their candidates are so much more qualified to hold elective office.  Consider the lofty braininess of AOC, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib.  No Republican can possibly compare to those wise scholars of exactly... wait for it, exactly nothing, save their vicious anti-Semitism.  The squad is hardly alone in their infinite confidence in their own superiority.  How about Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff?  The mainstream media is chock full of such self-appointed luminaries:  Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta, Chris Wallace, Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow, et. al. to name a few.  Thomas Friedman of the NYT vividly comes to mind.  He long ago called Trump supporters cultists.

Seattle is about to go unthinkably left as liberal mayor announces she won't seek reelection.  Seattle's first-term Mayor Jenny Durkan announced on Monday that she won't seek reelection.  This almost ensures the unthinkable:  Seattle will drift even further to the left.  The news didn't come to me as a shock.  I have been hearing rumors for the last couple weeks that Durkan was reconsidering reelection after being rendered powerless by a City Council that repeatedly stands in her way.  After the last Council election, she was left with a majority of members who would never be her political allies.  At the same time, the mayor faced daily political pressure from the city's most vocal and fringe activists, pressuring her to adopt their dangerous plans, including defunding the police.  She attempted to curry their favor, allowing the notorious "Summer of Love" to continue with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Kelly Loeffler Asks Radical Raphael Warnock to Denounce Marxism, His Answer Tells You Everything.  During the Georgia Senate debate on Sunday night [12/6/2020], Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) nailed her far-left Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock with a lot of his questionable past and radical positions in a variety of questions.  Loeffler asked Warnock about his frequent praise for Marxism and the redistribution of income, and she asked him to denounce Marxism and socialism.  He previously had worked for a church which invited Fidel Castro to the church and praised him.  While he claimed to believe in the free enterprise system, he dodged denouncing the troubling ideologies.  How far left are you when you can't condemn it?  When you can't call out the evil it's done?  [Video clip]

Joe Biden:  Unity, Fraud, and Power.  This appears to be the most far-left presidential administration, if in fact it is inaugurated into existence on Jan. 20 of next year, in American history, and no one really believes the man putatively elected to lead it actually controls it at all.  And yet the country, which fairly decisively moved to the right — in legislative and other state-level races, in the House where Republicans captured more than a dozen seats, and in the Senate where only something untoward would have to happen in the Georgia runoffs for Republicans not to hold a majority despite having to defend 23 of 36 seats — is asked to unify behind it?

Georgia On My Mind.  In its not-too-distant past, the Democratic Party had two wings.  It was strongly anti-Communist, nationalistic, and many of its members were people of committed religious faith.  JFK believed in the creed of "American Exceptionalism" as much as Ronald Reagan.  Today's Democratic Party still has some old-style pro-union liberals who salivate over the prospect of expanding entitlements but what it doesn't have any longer is a conservative wing.  If it can be said to still have two wings at all they are a socialist wing and a socialist-lite wing.  Some of their leaders like Bernie Sanders, would openly nationalize our economy under direct government control and others like Elizabeth Warren, who would allow capitalists to create the wealth and then rob them of it.  This is why the runoff elections for the U.S. Senate in the state of Georgia are of supreme importance.  The disaster of electing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock would be the absence of a conservative brake on the runaway train of left-wing policies.

The Hijacking of the 2020 Election and the Hate America Strategy.  There is a consensus that American society in 2020 is more polarized than at any point in the nation's history.  If Joe Biden is inaugurated as President thanks to an irrefutably fraudulent and choreographed election, then this polarization is irreversible and will ultimately lead to a permanent fracturing of the country as the central government will be deriving its power from usurpation and not from the consent of the governed.  The sixty-year crusade of the American left and its Hate America Strategy, conceived to facilitate the ultimate transformation of the nation, will have succeeded in ways they never could have imagined.

How Liberals Can Destroy Football with COVID, and Why They'd Want To.  Football has always been reviled by the left.  It is quintessentially American:  invented in this country; played by high-testosterone, masculine men; and operating almost entirely as a super-competitive meritocracy — i.e., the test of whether someone gets to play in the NFL is whether he can play, and play better than the other guy.  In the NFL in 2020, there's no time to humor racism or any other "ism" in fielding a winning team; there's only the all-defining imperative priority to put the best players on the field and "coach 'em up" to play the game well.  All of those attributes of the sport are precisely why it has been so popular in America; it has been aligned with American cultural norms and preferences for decades.  The sport's popularity is in fact proof that America as a whole is not racist — systemically or otherwise.  Americans don't root for their team or watch the NFL in huge numbers based on a team's compliance with racial hiring quotas; they root and watch because they appreciate the best playing the best using talents that most of us don't have, and deciding on a level playing field who wins a competitive game and who loses.

When the Ruling Class Needs to Steal Elections.  I think that the "oppressed peoples, allies, white oppressors" political formula is a cruelly exclusive doctrine that cuts out the great middle of America.  No ruling class with half a brain would go for a political formula like that.

The Ideology Now Running the Democratic Party Looks Like a Classic Cult.  Apart from deliberate projection, which is regularly used as a political tactic as per Saul Alinsky, there is the more classic and unconscious projection that happens among true believers of the same ilk.  Take a look at what happens when one of those believers is caught telling the truth about what he'd like to do to Trump voters:  DNC member David Atkins openly suggesting that 75 million Americans need to be "deprogrammed."  While Atkins wonders how anyone could be a Trump supporter, many of us wonder how a leftist who may have been initially attracted to feel-good ideas like "tolerance" and "diversity" could publicly advocate forceful "deprogramming" of 75 million of his fellow citizens (in refugee camps? concentration camps?) for the sin of disagreeing with him about a political candidate.  How does that happen?

Democrats Must Regret Messing with Texas.  Texas was won by Republican Presidential incumbent Donald Trump by 52% to 46%.  Trump won by more than 600,000 votes among almost 12 million votes cast.  Democrats spent incredible sums of money trying to turn the state legislative chambers of Texas blue and failed miserably.  Democrats targeted 22 races in hopes of turning at least nine to their side and flipping the chamber.  They got zero.  Wendy Davis also lost her congressional race despite being the Democrat standard bearer at one time for the governor's race.  The most shocking Democrat loss was Zapata County — just north of the Rio Grande Valley along the border — by 6 points, 53% Trump to 47% for Biden.  The county is 94% Hispanic.

The ungrateful left launches a war on Thanksgiving.  There has been a lot of talk among campus progressives in recent years about the need to "decolonize" Thanksgiving.  For example, the University of Oregon held an event titled "Thanks, But No Thanks-giving," the description of which read in part:  "Thanksgiving is, foundationally speaking, a celebration of the ongoing genocide against native peoples and cultures across the globe." [...] The Huffington Post recently suggested that Thanksgiving be cancelled due to its large carbon footprint.  Ironically, the coddled and entitled, like many students and professors on college campuses, are often the least grateful.  Those who seem to have everything are often the least thankful.  Rich, spoiled Hollywood types foam at the mouth (when they're not stuffing it with caviar and expensive champagne), railing against Trump and his supporters and/or a laundry list of supposed "systemic" injustices inherent to the country that has allowed them to get rich pretending to be someone they're not.  Meanwhile, those in "flyover country" with comparatively little are often deeply thankful for what they do have, and grateful to be living in the United States of America.

Joe Biden urges nation to 'forgo family traditions' on Thanksgiving.  President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday [11/25/2020] called on Americans not to gather with extended families for Thanksgiving, saying it was a "patriotic duty" to limit the spread of COVID-19.  Biden said during an at times campaign-like speech in Wilmington, Del., that he and his family were setting an example by not celebrating the holiday as a large group.

The Difficult Way Forward.  Republicans are still playing the old politics about governmental efficiency and improving the American people's lives.  The Democrats are trying to destroy America and assume unlimited power over the American people.  Republicans do everything within the confines of the Constitution and law.  The Democrats are lawless and recognize no standard or precedent.  We should not persist in thinking of today's Democrats as the American political party of old:  Andrew Jackson, FDR, Harry Truman, [JFK], etc.  It is a radical atheist revolutionary party, more akin to the Nazi Party of Germany or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union than the Republican Party of today.  The Democrats are utterly corrupt, power mad, and pitiless.  They are trying to destroy the institutions of its country and replace them with totalitarianism.  They do not wish to serve the American people, for whom they have nothing but contempt; they wish to enslave us.  We have to stop thinking that what we are experiencing today is still normal politics.  This is a war against evil and for national survival, nothing less.

Fighting Words.  Democrats are not democrats; they are totalitarians.  They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system, and the idea of civil order.  They have called for the Republican President of the United States to be de-platformed and jailed.  Their obvious goal is a one-party state that criminalizes dissent.  To them, support for such basic necessities as borders and law enforcement are racist.  If you oppose their efforts to legalize infanticide, they will condemn you as enemies of women, and if you make videos of their confessions to selling body parts of murdered infants, they will — like Kamala Harris — throw you in jail.  Progressives are not progressive; they are reactionaries.  They are out to abolish liberal value systems and create a status hierarchy where race, gender, and sexual orientation define and confine you to an unalterable place in their new social order.  If you are white or male or heterosexual or religious — Justice Kavanaugh was all four — you are guilty before the fact.

Webster's New World College Dictionary, Third Edition, 1997, page 92.

"Burn It Down".  American cities are entering a period of chaos.  Protests and riots have dominated headlines, but beneath the surface, activists are launching an unprecedented campaign to overthrow the traditional justice system and replace it with a new model based on a radical conception of social justice.  In Seattle, where this campaign may be most advanced, activists have crafted a narrative about police brutality, mass incarceration, and punitive justice that leads to a natural sequence of solutions:  "abolish the police," "divest from prisons," and "defund the courts."  Over the past three decades, the city's radical-progressives have seized control of municipal government — with the notable exception of the criminal-justice system, which they see as the final obstacle to total control.  If they can dismantle it, activists believe, they can bring about their transformation of society.

New York Magazine Art Critic Seems to Advocate Genocide of Republicans.  As Townhall colleague Kurt Schlichter has been known to say, never forget they, that is the left, want you dead.  This is not hyperbole; it is becoming clearer by the day that the desire to consign roughly half of the nation to reeducation camps or mass graves is so prevalent on the left that when they do, as they say, "say the quiet part out loud," no one on the left is shocked.  There are no calls for toning down rhetoric or disavowals of the proposals.  Just a couple of days ago, a prominent California Democrat said that Republicans needed to undergo "deprogramming."  Presumably, this was to make us think, against all evidence, that socialism is a viable economic theory, that same-sex marriage is normal, and that giving little kids life-altering drugs and surgery to change their sex is good parenting.

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock Is Not Being Opposed Because of His Faith but Because He Is Anti-American and Has Bad Ideas.  In Georgia, the Democrats are running scared.  While they seem to have successfully stolen the presidential election thanks to the fecklessness of the Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who abjectly failed at virtually any part of his job that concerned election security, the GOP seems well-positioned for the coming runoff/special election.  David Perdue is about 100,000 votes ahead of Jon Ossoff.  The electorate is fired up. [...] [Kelly] Loeffler is something of an unknown.  She had a bruising primary that a real political party would never have let take place and which may have damaged her standing with supporters of her opponent.  And she has a telegenic, if somewhat smarmy, opponent in the Reverend Raphael Warnock.  Because of this race's visibility, Warnock is getting a good look in the bright sunlight and what is being seen is not very flattering.  [Video clip]

Biden to 'Racist' Trump Voters: 'Let's Heal'.  After four years of attacking President Donald Trump as "illegitimate," "fascist," "Nazi," "tyrant," "dictator," "racist," "anti-Semitic," "Russian stooge," "traitor," "grifter," "xenophobe," "sexist," "homophobe," "ignorant," "fat" and "lazy," Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive president-elect, now says, "Let's heal." [...] Well, that's lovely.  But please forgive Trump supporters for not being in a mood to "heal." How bogus was the Trump-Russia collusion investigation that consumed most of the Trump presidency?  Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris bothered to mention it during the campaign.  Ditto for Trump's impeachment.  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Director James Comey now admit that, knowing then what they know now, they would not have signed off on FISA warrants that were crucial to the investigation.

Georgia Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock, Continues To Spew Hateful Bigoted Comments.  The list of Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock's hateful, racist comments continues to grow[.] [...] For those keeping score:
  •   Warnock defended anti-Semite and anti-American pastor Jeremiah Wright and praised Marxism.
  •   Warnock's mentor called for the "destruction of everything white" and argued white Christians are "satanic."
  •   Warnock signed a letter comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa.
  •   Warnick claimed that "Americans Must 'Repent' for Backing Trump and 'Worship of Whiteness.'
  •   Warnock called police officers "gangsters and thugs" and "bullies."
  •   Warnock cozied up to Fidel Castro in 1995.
  •   Earlier this year, Warnock was accused by his wife of running over her foot with his car after they got into an argument.
  •   In 2002, Warnock was accused of hindering a police investigation into child abuse.
  •   Warnock criticized the Second Amendment during sermons.
  •   He's also an Anti-Semite.  Just ask former Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikand:  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar Tries to Explain Bible Scripture to Marco Rubio to Defend Raphael Warnock, It Doesn't Go Well.  [Scroll down]  One such comment that excited negative attention was [Rev. Raphael] Warnock saying during a sermon that "You cannot serve the military and God," as we reported earlier.  It's a comment that's not likely to go over well in Georgia which has a lot of military installations including military who like to think they serve both God and their country. [...] But of course that isn't scripture, nowhere does it say "You cannot serve God and the military."  Nor does it say "You cannot serve God and dmoney."  What the heck is "dmoney?"  The exact quote is "mammon" meaning riches or wealth.  Not the military.  So what are the GOP lying about, Rep. Omar?  They're quoting something wrong and disgusting that Warnock said.  That's not lying, that's correctly calling him out.  What she doesn't like is she knows it's an attack that's going to stick.  It also tells us something about Warnock that Omar is willing to go to bat for him.  That's not helpful for him in Georgia which isn't looking to move to the radical left or turn socialist.

Kelly Loeffler Demands Raphael Warnock Apologize for Saying You Can't Serve God and the Military.  Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) has demanded her Democratic opponent Rev. Raphael Warnock apologize for comments he made in a 2011 sermon about God and the military.  Loeffler and Warnock will contest one of two Senate runoff elections in Georgia on January 5.  Republican Senator David Perdue will face Democrat Jon Ossoff in the second race on the same day.  A video of Warnock's sermon has resurfaced on YouTube and Loeffler shared a clip on Twitter on Wednesday [11/18/2020].

Pushing 'defund the police,' BLM turned its success into electoral disaster.  Black Lives Matter came up with the single most effective political slogan of the year.  While no one was likely to be overly impressed with Joe Biden's line "Build Back Better," and President Trump's "Keep America Great" or "Make America Great Again, Again" didn't have the resonance of the original 2016 version, BLM broke through the clutter with a catchphrase that was memorable, pungent — and utterly devastating to Democrats.  After a surprising Tory victory in the British parliamentary election in 1992, the pro-Tory tabloid The Sun famously boasted, "It's the Sun Wot Won It."  In the same spirit, it could be said that in this year's congressional election, "It's 'Defund the Police' Wot Lost It."

Trying to Think Ahead.  [Scroll down]  So why do they need bushels of Dominion votes in four Democrat cities — Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta — to win Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia?  Why the thirty-year effort of the Dems to relax the rules on voting, from Motor Voter to the present vote-by-mail?  Why is it necessary to game the vote — even steal an election?  Why is it necessary to hound a duly-elected president with a Special Prosecutor and goose up an impeachment over a phone call, and blast him throughout the COVID-19 epidemic?  Why is it necessary to call your opponent's systemic racists 50 years after the civil rights acts?  Why is it necessary to censor social media, bearded @jack?  Why is it necessary to hide Hunter Biden's influence peddling?  I thought you guys already owned the future.  The answer is obvious.  People don't cheat unless they are about to lose everything, wife, house, job, children.  So, whatever brave front the Dems are putting on they know in their heart of hearts that the game is nearly up.

Impeachment backfired on Nancy.  Charlie Cook, Larry Sabato, and the rest of the cable news experts on American elections all agreed.  Democrats would add 10, 15, and maybe even 20 seats to their majority.  Hahaha.  Matt Vespa reported, "We have over a dozen races that have yet to be called.  Yes, some places are still counting those mail-in ballots.  In some races, they still have a long way to go.  Overall, this week has been terrible for House Democrats.  They were projected to pick up 10-15 seats.  They're probably going to lose 10[,] maybe more. [...]" [...] The progressive communists in their memo just did not get it.  No one cares what ice cream a rich old lady eats.  We have ice cream too.  There is nothing in her freezer the average American cannot buy.  Whilst progressives talk up the working-class concerns, the fact is they are the biggest elitists in the world.  They are out of touch.  They hate large pickups, canned beer, and guns.

Biden's Empty Words Won't Unify This Nation.  Joe Biden says he wants unity and promises to be a president that represents all Americans not just Democrats.  "Let's give each other a chance," he told his supporters at a rally in Delaware on Nov. 7.  "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric.  To lower the temperature.  To see each other again.  To listen to each other again.  To make progress we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy," he said.  "We are not enemies.  We are Americans."  A well-scripted sentiment that's out of touch with our deeply divided nation as the Democratic Party and its media allies have spent the past four years calling Donald Trump's supporters racist — and every other repugnant smear you can think of.  That's not exactly a way to win over half the country and heal the nation.

The Editor says...
Where was all this soothing rhetoric when the Biden Voters were conducting the summer riots?

Calls for 'Unity' [are] Really Calls for Capitulation.  Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea.  No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it.  What "unity" really means, of course, is capitulation.  America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during President Barack Obama's tenure.  Now, as then, the media will pretend that the moral fabric of the nation must be mended after Republican rule.  It's pretty transparent.  When Democrats win the presidency, we are treated to solemn calls for national restoration and political harmony, and to the expectation that, for the good of the nation, the opposition will embrace decorum and pass legislation they oppose.  When Republicans win elections, grown women put on knitted hats depicting their reproductive organs and stomp around Washington protesting, all to a hero's welcome.

'Unity' is the Carrot and the Schtick of Democrats.  Having gotten their way following a four-year long tantrum of "norm"-breaking sedition — despicable smears, the governmentally weaponized Russiagate lie, a sham impeachment, all aided and abetted by a disgracefully partisan elitist media — the latest schtick of the Democratic grifter class is "unity."  But unity isn't for everyone.  Taking their lead from that consummate con man, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrats' grifter class is proffering a return to the halcyon days when the "uniparty" ruled the swamp for fun and profit — theirs, not yours.  Of course, the Left isn't extending their olive branch to the true populists they've libeled and slandered as "Nazis."  This is a carrot shared only between elitists:  Democratic grifters are inviting their fellow GOP grifters to jump back into the swamp and scratch their backs for a buck.

Joe Biden's Majority Doesn't Work Full Time, Stay Married or Go To Church.  A week after the 2020 presidential election, one thing is obvious about the United States of America:  It is deeply divided. [...] But, according to the exit polls, there were some demographic groups that did pick Trump over Biden.  Who were they?  For starters, according to the network exit poll published by ABC News, there was the divide between people who worked full time and those who did not.  The exit poll asked the question:  "Do you work full-time for pay?"  Voters who said no went for Biden over Trump by 57% to 42%.  By contrast, voters who said they did work full time picked Trump over Biden 51% to 47%.  Why do people who don't work full time prefer Biden?  Why do those who do prefer Trump?  Is it a good sign for the long-term well-being of the United States that the popular-vote winner in our presidential election was preferred by those who do not work full time and not by those who do?

Democrat Raphael Warnock Repeatedly Praised Jeremiah Wright, Marxism.  Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Raphael Warnock has praised the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright on many occasions and praised Marxism as a way to "teach the black church."  During the 2008 presidential election, Warnock appeared on Fox News to defend Wright after it was discovered that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama had close ties to the reverend.  Warnock hopes to unseat Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) during the January Senate runoff election.  During his March 2008 appearance on Fox News, he told host Greta Van Susteren that Wright's legacy as a pastor was "social transformation that's been the hallmark of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's ministry."

Did someone mention Jeremiah Wright?

Tlaib lashes out at centrist Dems over election debacle: 'I can't be silent'.  Rashida Tlaib isn't apologizing for wanting to yank money away from bad police departments.  She has no second thoughts about her embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement, or for wanting to aggressively fight climate change.  House Democrats lost seats instead of expanding their majority, underperforming expectations across the board.  And moderates have pounced on liberals like Tlaib, the Michigan congresswoman, accusing them of handing conservatives a set of slogans and policies to scare voters.

No Truth, No Unity!  The Democrats live in a fantasy world.  It's a world in which higher taxes create jobs and prosperity, a world where central control of complex systems produces efficiency, a world where groveling weakness results in international respect and peace.  To those old and longstanding fantasies, they've added a couple of new ones: a world in which they can sow discord and division and reap acceptance and unity, and a world where the lies they tell will be trusted as the truth.  After refusing to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election and throwing a four-year temper tantrum, they're now calling on the county to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and come together as a country.  On top of that they want us all to regard as true the results of an election they have worked so hard to steal.

WSJ: Democrats Lost South Texas Latinos Due to Shutdowns, Oil, And Abortion.  The chairman of the Texas Democratic Party said the red wave that moved through South Texas's Starr County was due to three issues critical to Latino voters in that area: pandemic shutdowns, oil industry jobs, and abortion.  According to a report at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Sunday, the idea that Starr County would have 8,224 residents vote for President Donald Trump is mindboggling.

Democratic Senator Sparks Progressive Backlash After Refusing to Back Court Packing.  Democratic Senator Joe Manchin drew the ire of progressives on Monday night after he pledged not to vote against his own party on Supreme Court packing or ending the filibuster, even if the Senate were to be split 50-50 in the wake of Georgia's runoff races.  Appearing on Fox News, the U.S. senator from West Virginia said he would "not vote" with Democrats on those key issues if the Senate were split down the middle — effectively offsetting Kamala Harris' deciding vote as vice president.

Sen. Joe Manchin vows to vote against 'crazy stuff' if Democrats take Senate.  Sen. Joe Manchin is pledging to block major progressive legislative goals if Democrats retake the Senate.  Speaking to Fox News' "Special Report" Monday [11/9/2020], Manchin (D-W.Va.) made the promise while discussing the future of the upper chamber of Congress, and how the 100-member body was facing a down-the-middle split between Democrats and Republicans.  If Democrats are successful in their two Senate runoff races in Georgia in January, bills in the Senate could be moved by a single vote.  "50-50 [control] means that if one senator does not vote on the Democratic side, there is no tie and there is no bill," the West Virginia Democrat said.

Joy Reid's response to 70 million Trump voters came in a deranged rant that every Conservative should hear.  [Scroll down]  The unhinged rant that Reid would engage in should be preserved for prosperity and studied at a future date when America emerges from the post-Obama era where truth has been laid to waste.  A deranged anti-Trump rant that has taken place every single day on network after network for four years running, poisoning the minds of those easily manipulated by political hucksters.  "We have had four years of mass deaths," Reid spewed, there not being a trace of truthfulness in the claim. "240,000 of our fellow Americans have died and Donald Trump was vowing to kill another several million of us through herd immunity.  He didn't care about the dead."  For those concerned about the compromising of the integrity of our elections, such irresponsible rantings are having a crippling effect on our nation.  And Reid was just getting started with her baseless accusations and outright lies against a man whose greatest sin in her eyes may be that he's a white male.

The True Deplorables.  With the manufactured "news" that Pennsylvania and Nevada have been called for Joe Biden by news media, liberals celebrating the supposed victory of the purported 46th president took to the streets in euphoria and revelry.  It seems logical to assume that many of today's celebrants were also participants in the street protests four years ago when Donald Trump beat their gal Hillary.  Hillary Clinton made the fatal mistake of revealing the way she truly thought of half of the American population that supported Trump by calling them "a basket of deplorables."  And the next four years we witnessed the greatest revolt in our nation's history since the Civil War.  The half of the country that supported Hillary refused to accept the results of the election and have been protesting — often violently — ever since.

'Resist. Overturn.  Boycott.  Surveil.  Leak.  Impeach.  And NOW they tell us it's time to heal.'  Then-VP Joe Biden remained silent about national solidarity after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 and never asked the so-called Resistance to dial back their rage, former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz recalled.  "Never heard a peep from him about unity."  In an Op-Ed for the Fox News website, Chaffetz observed that Biden's convenient appeal for healing along with his claim that "the better angels of America are back" just constitute empty, meaningless rhetoric.  "And just like that, 'Resistance' is no longer in fashion.  The rules have been rewritten.  When Democrats hold power, we must be unified, and our opposition must be silent.  Not to be confused with the rules when Republicans hold power — which are that Resistance is as American as apple pie," Chaffetz explained about the apparent double-standard.

The Next 2020 Loser:  The Woke Utopia.  Earlier today [11/7/2020], we discussed how one of the biggest losers of the 2020 elections might have been the public's faith in the electoral process.  Continuing on with the list of also-rans, the editors at the Washington Free Beacon dug into some of the ballot issues that were decided this week, along with the identity politics driving various demographics to the polls.  Their conclusion is that one of the most damaged entities coming out of this race is the woke utopia envisioned by the Democrats' furthest-left agitators, which seems to have been roundly rejected by voters even as they threatened to end the Trump presidency.  And this effect was noted in some unlikely places such as California.

American Coup Victims Will Not Go Quietly.  This was a Coup.  It lacked, at least for the moment, the spilled blood often associated with a classic coup d'etat but make no mistake about it — this was a coup.  A record number of Americans fought an unusual number of hardships to make certain their voices were heard in the selection of our next president.  And, given the stark difference in the candidates' visions for America's future and the growing national divide, that choice was surely not made lightly.  So, when we on the right observed one "irregularity" after another on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, what we needed were answers and transparency.  What we got were evasions and coverups.  Keep in mind that we have endured over the past 4 years a seeming century's worth of dishonesty, hoaxes, threats, wild conspiracy theories and widespread corruption from those on the left.  Indeed, Liberals appear to have made sport of treating Donald Trump and his supporters much like a cat treats a litter-box.  And we got the message:  There is no limit to just how low they are willing to sink.

The left is again showing that it can't stand anyone who disagrees.  This year's presidential election hasn't provided the catharsis that many on the left were awaiting.  Instead of the hoped-for "Blue Wave," we have a still-too-close-to-call presidential election, while Republicans picked up House seats and appear to have held on to the Senate.  One response might be self-criticism:  to wonder how, after four years of single-mindedly trying to get rid of Trump and marginalize his followers, things didn't go better.  Instead, Democrats' thinkers seem to be asking themselves variations on "How can I live in a country where half the people supported Donald Trump?"  According to the Campus Reform Web site, professors around America were expressing anger and claiming to feel "genuinely unsafe, given the sheer number of people willing to vote for Trump."  Some canceled classes for the rest of the week, apparently because of the emotional strain.

The Democrats' Chickens Come Home to Roost.  Had the media been honest, the Democrats would have realized that their Pelosi-Ocasio-Bernie crazy talk about ending the filibuster, packing the courts, ending the electoral college, and making Puerto Rico and D.C. into states was scaring even Independents.  If there had been honest polls warning them of voter wariness of their socialism, leading Democrats would have been more coy, as Biden was during the campaign.  They would have moderated their boasts of what they planned to do, been more prudent and politic, reserving those plans furtively for after the elections.  Instead, the false polls bolstered their confidence.

Woke Faced the Voters — and Lost.  In a week of surprises, California's rejection of a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to resume its affirmative action program was among the most significant.  The measure, known as Proposition 16, wasn't defeated by shy Trump voters.  Polling showed Hispanic and other minority voters evenly split on the measure, and on Tuesday it was defeated in California's most Latino counties.  California's result is just one piece of the mounting evidence that voters on Tuesday threw a wrench in the progressive plan to leverage a "coalition of the ascendant" and an "emerging Democratic majority" to turn the country into a woke utopia.

A Civil War Is Already Happening, Inside the Democrat Party.  A civil war is brewing, but Trump supporters are not running into the streets to fight antifa.  Instead, the civil war has been brewing in the Democrat Party and now there are shots fired as moderates you have never heard of pay the price for the Squad's radical rhetoric. [...] Rather than comfortably retaking the Senate as anticipated, Democrats may find Mitch McConnell and Republicans maintain the majority.  Instead of Democrats adding to the majority in the House, Republicans have added up to 10 seats back to their caucus.  And the carnage in state governments across the country is palpable.  It will leave Democrats out in the cold when congressional districts are redrawn following the 2020 Census.

House Democrats Suffer a Catastrophe that Will Blow Up Their Party.  House Democrats went into Election Day supremely confident that they were going to put another nail in the Republicans' coffin.  They had outraised and outspent Republican candidates across the board.  They felt the issues of the pandemic response and Obamacare favored them. [...] But the polls were wrong.  They were very wrong.  So when reality hit Nancy Pelosi and her caucus this morning, they realized they hadn't gained a single seat in Congress.  In fact, as of noon Wednesday, Democrats had lost five seats and were trailing in several others.  What happened?  It turns out that the American people prefer to vote for candidates who aren't radical leftists hellbent on "transforming" the country.  Why this comes as a surprise to Democrats — who believe that many of their more outrageous proposals like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All are ready to be embraced by the electorate — is a mystery.

Biden Family Corruption Does Matter.  The New Yorker's famed film critic was an early observer of America's growing culture gap.  "I only know one person who voted for Nixon," she said.  "Where they are I don't know.  They're outside my ken.  But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."  Today, elites smell them.  That is what disgraced FBI man Peter Strzok actually said after a trip to Walmart, and he and his ilk recoil, naturally, from the plebian aroma.  But theirs is the nose of a sommelier, not a hunting dog.  It failed to sniff out the social movement that elected Donald Trump in 2016, and today it is missing the rage sweeping about half the country.  The fury comes from folks who don't subscribe to the New York Times, let alone the New Yorker, and who don't habituate yoga studios while carrying NPR tote bags, either.

Biden stumbles through another campaign speech:  "America is dead because of COVID-19".  Biden's America is a very dark place.  At least half of the country is populated with racist chumps, ugly people, labeled as such simply for voting for Donald Trump in 2016, according to Joe Biden.  During the final presidential debate, Biden told the audience that "We're about to go into a dark winter.  A dark winter."  He was talking about the president's plan for the coronavirus as we move forward in the coming months.  Biden's message is one of doom and gloom.  In comparison, Trump's message is meant to be an uplifting one, a message that will inspire voters.  He frequently tells rally audiences that the best is yet to come.

Eight hard questions for the Democrats.  [#1] Why are you opposing respected American traditions and Constitutional freedoms?  Why such anti-Americanism in your convention platform and in numerous acts and statements of policy?  Why opposition to the rights to assembly, to worship, to freedom of speech, to the right to bear arms, to the Electoral College?  Why support for open borders, for Medicare for illegal aliens, for abolishing ICE?  Why support for "defunding the police" and then support for violent rioting and looting?  Why support for packing the Supreme Court and for minting new "states" for political advantage?  You Democrats are even endorsing the enormities of the "transgender" movement, where people can supposedly change their sex by flipping a mental switch, and enter women's bathrooms or be transferred to women's prisons at will.

Trump will win again, then comes the hard part.  Unlike Hillary, Biden cannot credibly warn that Trump is a nutcase who will push the Red Button to annihilate the world.  Trump has been president for nearly four years and the world is more peaceful than it's been in decades.  The man has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Trump has shown he's not a violent nut, while Biden has shown he is cognitively impaired.  Speaking of violent nuts, the media initially gave a lot of coverage to the "mostly peaceful protests" because they thought they hurt Trump.  Then they figured out that people not only don't like riots, they also don't like rioters — and nearly all the rioters are Democrats.  So the media cut back on their riot coverage.  But there are still riots, people know that, and people know that the rioters are Democrats.  Contrary to conventional Democrat "wisdom," minorities don't like the riots any more than the rest of America does — maybe even less since the riots are often in minority neighborhoods.  And they, too, know that the rioters — many of whom are privileged whites — are Democrats.  Many this time plan to vote against these rioters and their Democrat sympathizers.

Voting Against Evil.  There has never been a clearer divide between the two major candidates running for president when it comes to their spiritual essence.  The Republican incumbent, Donald Trump, never fails to utter the name of God in just about every campaign speech, while some Democrats blatantly removed His name from the Pledge of Allegiance at their convention this year.  Who can forget that at the 2012 Democrat convention the crowd booed when God and Jerusalem were put back in the Democrat platform?  In 2016, they heckled and jeered when a minister, Rev. Cynthia Hale, opened the convention with a Christian prayer for Hillary Clinton.  Bernie delegates screamed out his name instead of respecting the solemnity of the moment.  Joe Biden, the Democrat candidate, professes to be a Roman Catholic, yet like all the other faux Catholic Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, still approves abortion on demand up to delivery.  That is infanticide and pure wickedness.

Oregon's Public Health Authority Announces Covid Deaths While Dressed as a Clown.  In what has to be one of the most bizarre and mind-warping decisions of all time, Claire Poche, a senior official of the Oregon Health Authority gave a Covid update today while wearing a complete clown costume.  The makeup, the red tie, the polka dots.  The whole thing.  It's hard to even express how awkward this is.  [Video clip]

An Honest Ad From Your Democratic Party Spokesperson (Parody).  Here's your Democratic 'Spokesperson' with a brutally honest message for Americans about the great reasons to vote for Joe Biden and other wonderful Democratic candidates this November.  BlazeTV's Allie Stuckey demonstrated a kind demeanor that perfectly showcased her destruction of the values and principles upheld by the Democratic party in 2020.  "You know us as the party of love, tolerance, and compassion, but we're much more than that.  We're the party of science, and the science is clear," Allie said with a smile.  She then listed gender issues, abortion rights, and vaccines (which are only successful if created when Trump isn't president).  [Video clip]

The Democratic Party is the Dark Winter.  We have to believe that most Americans haven't cast off common sense [...] But for voters on the fence — as inexplicable as that is — let's evaluate what the Democratic Party is showing us about itself.  Biden's claim in the last debate that the U.S. is moving toward a dark winter, thanks to COVID, was revealing.  It exposed more than Biden's cynicism in trying to manipulate people's fear of the virus, it exposed an irony.  The dark winter tag speaks to the Democratic Party's condition, not America's.  Democrats are ominous.  Their worldview is antithetical to the American experience, and it's rotted.  Worse is that they're destructive.  We see it in their language and actions.  2020 is showcasing the Democrats accelerating descent into a mean-spirited, grudge-filled aggression toward traditional America — the America of the Revolution and the founding.

Ilhan Omar says Squad will influence Biden administration: 'A lot of our feedback was incorporated'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar said in a new interview that she's confident she and other members of "The Squad" will be able to push Joseph R. Biden to the left if he's elected president next week.  Speaking to "Axios on HBO," the Minnesota Democrat said she and other progressives such as Sen. Bernard Sanders and Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley were able to shape Mr. Biden's campaign platform and that they expect that influence to continue in a possible Biden administration.  "There has been a level of responsiveness ... to the policies that we are advocating for that we know will have not just a future in his administration, but a future in the upcoming administrations after his," Mrs. Omar said.

A Time for Choosing.  Here we are again, just days away from another presidential election in 2020, and the American people still find ourselves facing many of the same concerns, and challenges that Reagan warned us about fifty-six years ago.  Once again, the contrast between the two candidates could not be more clear.  One is a career politician (with mounting evidence that he improperly used his office as vice president to enrich his family), the other a businessman.  As President Donald Trump said at his RNC Speech, "This election will decide whether we will defend the American Way of Life, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it."

Trumpism:  Then, Now — and in the Future?  [Scroll down]  Aside from fundamental changes in foreign and democratic policy, and renewed emphasis on class instead of race, Trumpism changed the political dialectic.  Of course, Trump could be crude, even at times bullying and profane.  But much of his braggadocio and vulgarity were designed as chemotherapy to kill the cancer of the administrative state and the lock-hold on permanent government by the revolving-door, bipartisan coastal elite.  The reasons why Trump just days after his inauguration faced a failed impeachment, or calls for his removal by the 25th Amendment, or even talk of a military coup, or the Steele dossier hoax that led to a $40 million, 22-month effort by progressives to destroy his presidency, his person and his family, were manifold.  But one cause surely was that Trump was orphaned from the hard-Left Democratic Party and the Republican establishment and seemed either to welcome the ostracism or not be fully cognizant of the cost that it entailed.

People are dropping the software company @Expensify after the CEO urged every customer to vote for Joe Biden.  David Barrett, CEO of the software company Expensify, is under fire after he sent an email to every one of his customers and urged them to vote for Joe Biden:  [Tweet]  SEE YA:  People are dropping the software company @Expensify after the CEO urged every customer to vote for Joe Biden[.]  According to Barrett, he didn't act alone and he had feedback from others at the company.

Too many Democrats are creepily suggesting Trump voters should be jailed.  Trump voters beware: your ballot could get you jailed after January 20, 2021.  If Joe Biden wins the presidency, and takes the oath of office with one hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible (hopefully not Das Kapital or Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist), open season may be declared on any American morally obtuse enough to believe that 45 deserved four more years.  "Trump must be defeated ... and his enablers, and his supporters ... must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society," ranted the always hot-blooded Keith Olbermann.  The former MSNBC anchor traffics in caustic bombast, and this declaration was not very different from his usual huffy diatribes against Republicans.  But the notion of revenge is going mainstream.

Biden lectures us on character?  C'mon man!  There can no longer be any doubt that the Democrats put party before country, politics before ethics and virtue.  One only has to read Robert Reich or listen to his intellectual peer Keith Olbermann to know that the Democrat party has morphed into totalitarianism.  Democrats vow to punish their opponents if Biden is elected.  Reich recommends "truth and reconciliation" camps, taking his cue from South Africa.  How's that for tyranny?  It is well and truly frightening.  The left has been steering us in this direction for decades, and it must be stopped if America is to survive.

Joe Biden tweets out that America is 'an idea' and 'we've never lived up to it'.  How's this for the most offensive political ad of the year? [...] Note that this isn't from his enemies, his party, his creepy allies, something that occurred years ago, or some kind of foreign disinfomation, this is straight from Joe, put out there on Twitter to entice Americans to give him their votes, in his big final push to squeeze the last of them. [...] No wonder Biden hides in his basement.  The more he speaks, the less there is to like.

New Biden Ad Causes Uproar; 'America Was An Idea, We Never Lived Up To It'.  Joe Biden released a questionable new ad saying that America "never lived up" to it's ideals, and he's getting absolutely hammered for it on Twitter.  "America was an idea.  We've never lived up to it but we've never walked away from it before," the caption said above Biden's new ad.  Apparently hundreds of years of brave military heroes fighting for our freedoms... the 9/11 first responders, ending slavery and defeating communism isn't "living up" to greatness, according to Joe Biden.

Vile Scarborough:  You're 'Un-American' If You Vote for Trump.  While most left-wing journalists try to channel all their anger at President Trump, they will occasionally go straight to the punch and just start attacking people who support him.  On Tuesday morning [10/20/2020], the co-hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe scolded American voters who dare, for any reason, to vote for Trump.  With Election Day exactly two weeks away, and millions of Americans already voting, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski decided it was time to launch a brutal verbal assault against Trump supporters.  Apparently triggered by Trump speaking publicly about the Biden family's alleged corruption on Monday, Scarborough whined that it's unacceptable to vote for him for any reason.

Young American Woman Explains It All In Less Than One Minute:  The Reason Why We Are Voting for Trump is "We Can't Stand You!"  A young woman explained everything about this election in less than one minute.  If you can't stand Trump here is our reply:  ["]If you are liberal and can't stand Trump and can't possibly fathom why anyone would vote for him, let me fill you in.  We can't stand you.  You've done everything in your power by trying to destroy this country by tearing down our police, our borders, our history, systematically destroying our schools and brainwashing our kids into thinking socialism is the answer to everything.  Demonizing religion and faith and glorifying abortion, violence and thug culture.  And calling us racists...  We are voting for Trump because of you!["]

Democratic Civil War.  Donald Trump may still sit in the White House, but America seems increasingly submissive to the rule of the Democrats.  The Party now enjoys predominant influence over mainstream media, rising influence among wealthy elites, a stranglehold over education and entertainment industries, and the domination of the burgeoning non-profit world.  Remarkably the self-styled "party of the people" now accommodates the big Wall Street firms and tech oligarchies alongside the progressive, neo-socialist, activist base and an ever-diminishing remnant of traditional working-class voters.  This powerful coalition is also a fundamentally unstable one — a three-headed hydra whose heads, particularly after Trump leaves, will soon be biting each other furiously.  One faction, the corporatist elite, genuflects and even profits from the progressive mantra on climate, gender, and race.  Some, like former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, are so committed to gentry progressivism that he recently suggested those who don't get with the program could "face a firing squad."

The virus is all they've got and they're clinging to it.  President Trump's energy infects his supporters with optimism.  He loves America, they love America.  He brought the economy back from the brink, where the Obama/Biden administration had purposefully kept it.  He has successfully stopped the massive illegal immigration that was contributing mightily to the unemployment of American workers.  He has done more for our black Americans than any previous president:  opportunity zones, prison reform, funding our historic black colleges.  He has rebuilt our military, which Obama/Biden eviscerated.  He created the Space Force.  The man is a pro-American machine of patriotism and confidence in our future.  Everywhere he goes, thousands of equally pro-Americans show up in droves for a dose of his infectious exuberance.  He is to many of us the best medicine for loving our country among those who hate this nation as much as we love it.  As we all know, we live among people who are so mysteriously filled with hatred for this man who has rescued America from the Alinskyite designs of the left, from foreign wars, and from the economic dreariness of the Obama years, that they would rather see our country utterly destroyed rather than see President Trump re-elected.

Kelly Campaign Spokesman Calls Police 'Worthless [...] Pigs'.  The campaign spokesman for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly referred to police as "worthless [...] pigs" on Twitter in August, a comment that could complicate Kelly's effort to distance himself from radical anti-police sentiment from the left flank of his party.  T.J. L'Heureux, Kelly's deputy press secretary, posted the message in response to a video that showed Chicago police clashing with protesters over the summer.  "You worthless [...] pigs," wrote L'Heureux on Aug. 17, directing the message to the Chicago Police Department's official Twitter account.

Ten Lessons from a Tumultuous 2020.  [#4] The Democrat party is now the fully owned subsidiary of the Marxist/socialist American left.  While the party hierarchy clings to the façade of moderation by trotting out the old faces from a bygone era, such as Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, the party is now the vehicle to radically transform the nation into a hybrid Marxist/socialist state by any means either illegal or unethical.  It is also an entity that does not care about the poor, working class, or marginalized groups enough to place their interests above a political agenda.

Democrats' Anti-God Religion.  Even though Amy Coney Barrett seems to have avoided a much-anticipated religious inquisition from the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the hearings have reminded us that Democrats over the years have pretty much established themselves as the anti-God party.  They booed him at their 2012 national convention, after all.  They had omitted reference to God from their platform in 2008, and when, in 2012, they tried to add it back, witnesses say about one-third of convention-goers booed.  Their social platform pushes against historic Christian morality at nearly every turn — on abortion, on same-sex marriage, on gender identity, on end-of-life issues.  And who is it that sues nuns and hassles religious schools and tries to pull down crosses on every little public patch of land they can find?

Will the Cultural Revolution Be Canceled?  Most Americans don't favor defunding police or instituting race quotas; they are wary of the costs connected with the Green New Deal and of allowing Washington to control local zoning.  Many are already voting with their feet, fleeing places that promote these ideas and seeking out areas aligned with more recognizable American values.  Over the past 20 years, virtually all the most progressive large states — New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California — have suffered massive outmigration, while red or purplish states like Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, or Arizona welcome more and more Americans to resettle there.

Our Second Civil War:  Communism Collapsed Only to Revive.  [Scroll down]  The polls so far show that the Democrats, a party extremely heavily influenced by Marxism and the doctrine of state control, is about to take control of the federal government.  Under the guise of fighting racism, a largely fictitious problem among white people, freedom of speech has already been abolished.  Under the guise of fighting to protect the environment, much of the rights of private property — the bedrock of a free society — will be abolished.  The right of the citizens to own firearms, a right that dictatorships ALWAYS have to abolish, will be attacked ruthlessly.  In the end, only the criminals and the state will be armed.  But there is a deadly catch: the left in this country is not unopposed.  There are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of people who like the free society, just as it is.  There are millions of people who are well armed who do not like the idea and the reality of a federal government that will (in a Biden/Harris administration) openly side with the rioters and the looters and the people who shoot police officers.

Strangers in our Homeland.  America is the product of centuries of evolutionary political thought centered on natural human rights.  Radical leftists now assault this land its patriots love, turning it into a place they scarcely recognize.

Here's What Keith Olbermann Wants Done to Trump and His Supporters if Dems Win in November.  If Democrats win in November, they already vow to destroy one branch of government and transform the U.S. Senate into another House of Representatives, where a simple majority rules and "fickleness and passion" carry the day, to quote James Madison.  Predicting a Bolshevik-style victory for the Democrats, Keith Olbermann quit his job at ESPN and made a quiet return this month to political commentary on his YouTube channel.  In a classic Olbermann deranged rant, the former MSNBC host breathed fire and brimstone at President Trump and all of his supporters, who Olbermann wants "prosecuted, convicted, and removed" from society.

If the Democrats Are Really So Far Ahead, Why Are They Acting So Desperate?  It all started a few weeks back when Democrats first hatched this conspiracy theory that the president was stealing postal trucks and rounding up blue mailboxes to prevent people from voting.  Even by their insane standards, this was unhinged moonbat cuckoo crazy.  Then came all the dog-whistle "coup" winks we got from both Mr. Biden and his unbearable running mate about how you are not actually voting for another 47 years of the "Biden" administration.  It will be the "Harris" administration, wink wink.  Sen. Kamala D. Harris' disastrous performance during the vice presidential debate this week raises new concerns — concerns already raised when she was soundly rejected by Democrat primary voters earlier this year.  But that does not really matter.  All that matters now is that a vote for Joe Biden is not really a vote for Joe Biden, but simply a vote against Donald Trump.  That is — literally — all they have to offer.

The End of Covid Hysteria.  [Scroll down]  Fact is, most of the country is sick of the hysteria.  Most simply want to live their lives, intelligently with caution, and return back to what we all remember was a decent life. [...] And of course, the Democrat response has been "to not let this crisis go to waste."  Meaning:  let's try to hurt Trump's re-election prospects by blaming it on him, by shutting down Democrat-run states with harder lock downs.  It'[s] hiding behind "protecting the public" in order to hold down economic data so Trump can be blamed for a poor economy.  You might ask, what kind of people would do that?  Well, the modern Democrats would.  Let me say it loud and clear, the Democrat-media complex has attempted to use this crisis with hysterical responses to everything to hurt Trump.  Hurting the American people?  Who cares?  They don't care.  What kind of people do that in the middle of a pandemic?

On Trump and the virus.  President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center a few days ago.  His messaging during this unfolding drama first drew criticism from those who claimed he should have been more transparent about every detail, every step of the way.  And the usual venomous bile and frenzied attacks came spewing from the the cackle of hyenas that is the White House press corps no less than #resistance goons like Ilhan Omar and Jennifer Rubin.  But why should they hold back?  They have all but stated publicly that they want the president dead, lo these four long years.  It would be dishonest of them at this point to wish him well.  We aren't just watching different movies anymore, as Scott Adams used to say — we need an analogy that goes far beyond that one.  The new norm the press has established is a baseline of fear and hysteria.  They live in a completely alternative intellectual, emotional, and psychological reality.

Pro-Antifa Communist Candidate Is Leading Ted Wheeler In Portland Mayoral Race.  You know you're in Portland when the current mayor who has chased out countless businesses and allowed Antifa and BLM terrorists to destroy the city on a nightly basis for over four months straight is somehow not far enough to the left to appease the voter base.  National laughingstock Ted Wheeler is now trailing in the polls for his re-election.  But not against a candidate that promises to crack down on the rioters, promote businesses, and actually fix the roads.  No, of course not.  He's losing to a candidate that's even further to the left than he is.  Plucky upstart Sarah Iannarone, who is best known for declaring "I am Antifa", now picks up 41% of the vote to Wheeler's 30%.

In rooting for the virus, the Left is just like Hitler.  The Left now actively roots for the virus to kill people they don't like, such as President Trump.  Drunk on their fantasy, they hope that his death is painful and humiliating and that his wife dies too.  They express their sick sentiments not just in the dark recesses of their troubled minds and not just over bad frou-frou coffee at Starbucks.  They boast of their wicked wish openly to the world. [...] These are the people who, simultaneously, are addicted to signaling their virtue by driving electric cars, banning plastic straws and turning our once-great cities into burning anarchy zones and vagrant toilets.

The Working Class vs.  Wokism.  Wokeness, with its accompanying white ethno-masochism, is merely the latest manifestation of an improbable ideology imprinted on the miseducated middle and upper classes.  The working class is spared this indoctrination by avoiding a crucial underpinning of wokeness, Critical Race Theory, which is served up in most Humanities departments, many law schools, and now even in some hard-science departments.  Popular culture offers examples of instinctively conservative working-class characters at odds with a college-educated, scold-filled, newly minted ideological certainty.  "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Roseanne" are just a few TV shows that displayed that that dynamic.  It's not only in the U.S. that you see working-class resistance to policies fashionable with the woke college educated.  According to polls, support for Brexit decreased with educational attainment.  More than just a reassertion on national sovereignty, Brexit was seen by many as a necessary step to restrain mass Third World immigration into Britain.

Hundreds Of Trump Supporters Gather In DC For #WalkAway Rally.  Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C. Saturday for a #WalkAway rally to support the president and celebrate those who have "walked away" from the "radical left."  "The purpose of this event is to get the silent majority to show we are not going to be silent anymore, we are going to stand up, we are going to fight for our country, we are going to fight against the radical left, because freedom in America is worth fighting for," Brandon Straka, founder of the "WalkAway" campaign, told the Daily Caller.

Democrats would destroy the presidency.  First, Democrats want to destroy the Electoral College because it failed to pick the candidate with 48% of the vote over the one who had 46% of the vote.  Then, Democrats want to eliminate the Senate as the deliberative body.  Democrats want to remove the filibuster, and end all discussion about anything, and add enough states to make the Senate permanently Democrat.  They also want to destroy the Supreme Court by adding enough justices — four at a minimum — to have their party control it.  The struggle ceased being between liberals and conservatives long ago.  It is all about power.  Obamacare was decided not along ideological grounds because there really is nothing liberal about giving health insurance companies billions in federals subsidies each year.  Their handmaidens in the press also eliminated journalism by abandoning objectivity.  Again, the idea is to silence all dissent.

Minnesota paper pulls story mocking Trump's COVID diagnosis, condemning liberals taking the high road.  A Minnesota newspaper has removed a piece from its website that mocked President Trump and first lady Melania Trump over their positive tests for coronavirus.  City Pages, an alternative weekly covering Minneapolis and St. Paul, published an article Friday headlined, "Let's laugh at all these very good 'Trump has COVID' tweets."  Editor-in-chief Emily Cassel led the piece by writing, "So President Trump and the First Lady have COVID. Man, anyone else just in a really, inexplicably good mood this morning?"  Publisher Mary Erickson described the article as "insensitive and in bad taste."

Trump haters rejoicing in his testing positive for COVID-19.  Some prominent Donald Trump-haters — including "The Wire" actor Dominic West and a former spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton — are openly rejoicing over the president catching COVID-19.  West, 50, told "Good Morning Britain" on Friday that he felt "joy" at the news of Trump's illness.  Ex-spokeswoman Zara Rahim, who has also worked for Barack Obama and Vogue magazine, said in a since-deleted tweet that she "hopes he dies."

Report: Trump's Hollywood Star Under Repair After Someone Dressed As The Hulk Wrecked It With Pickaxe.  A person dressed as the Incredible Hulk took a pickaxe to President Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame early Friday morning, rendering it unrecognizable and in need of thousands of dollars in repairs, law enforcement sources told TMZ.  The Hollywood-focused media outlet reports that law enforcement officials said that the Hulk-dressed figure delivered about $5,000 of damage to the Hollywood star, but no one has yet been arrested for the incident.

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Celebrating stars in the sidewalk is an obvious form of idolatry.  The existence of movie stars and celebrities is also idolatry.

Portland Group Plans Naked Bike Ride To Protest Amy Coney Barrett Nomination — Masks Are Required.  If you get enough people riding naked on their bikes through the streets, then Ruth Bader Ginsburg magically comes back to life and deranged leftists don't have to worry about Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed to the Supreme Court.  Or so goes the logic of one Portland (duh, where else?) group, who is putting on a naked bike ride event to protest, uhh, something.  Because it's Portland.

A Man vs.  The Movement.  This election is a contest between a man, Donald Trump, who believes America is good, and a man, Joe Biden, who is controlled by a movement that believes America is bad.  Or to put this another way, between a man who wants to preserve the American way of life and a man who will end up destroying it.  Republican leaders are too focused on policy.  This is not a policy election.  This is a regime decision; a way of life election.  One way of life, the traditional American way of life, is based on individual rights, rule of law, and a shared understanding of the common good.  Government's role is to create the conditions for freedom to flourish.  The other way of life I call "multiculturalism" or "identity politics."  This way of life assumes that society is made up of identity groups, all of which are oppressed by white males.  Government's role in this regime is to create equal income and power for each group.

Democrats can't smear Amy Coney Barrett.  [Scroll down]  In 1987, it was Robert H. Bork, nominated to the nation's highest court by President Reagan, who was a gentleman.  Democrats held all the advantages in that fight because instead of a gentleman, they had Sen. Ted Kennedy, a slovenly drunk menace to women.  Before the sun set, Mr. Kennedy strode to the well of the Senate to accuse Judge Bork of murdering women by denying them abortions — a darkly ironic slur given Mr. Kennedy's own sick history when it came to women.  Little more than a decade later came Miguel Estrada, a superlative jurist nominated by President George W. Bush to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — a frequent stepping stone to the Supreme Court.  Democrats, led by present-day Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Whip Dick Durbin, didn't like Mr. Estrada and blocked his nomination because, their staffers said, he was "Latino."  You know, "especially dangerous."  With each federal cours cage fight, Democrats got more and more unhinged from humanity.  More dishonest.  More ridiculous.

The Satanic Temple Is In Fact Emblematic Of The Leftist Worldview.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Satanism, and motherhood converged in the pages of the Huffington Post on Thursday [9/24/2020] when Jamie Smith, an attorney and mom, wrote that the death of the Supreme Court justice motivated her to join the Satanic Temple. [...] Of course, the No. 1 issue for Smith is abortion, or as she euphemistically calls it, "reproductive rights." Without Ginsburg's vote and voice on the court, Smith argues, "Roe v.  Wade is in imminent danger of being overturned not based on legal arguments or scientific reasoning, but because of religious objections to what is a safe and necessary procedure."  Therefore, Smith has joined the efforts of the Satanic Temple in bringing lawsuits that demand religious liberty for its members, elevating their open-ended tenets to the same level as firmly held religious beliefs.

Democrats Are Truly Sick People.  Individually, each piece of the progressive left is harmless; annoying but harmless.  As more of them assemble and coordinate, they become increasingly dangerous.  Protesters in the street are pointless and inconvenient but coupled with governors, mayors, and prosecutors who encourage and empower them, they embrace violence.  When your moral compass is broken and the people charged with protecting citizens publicly announce they're on your side, no matter what you do, or they won't pursue charges against you if you're arrested, what's the downside to taking all you can from a Target or beating [up] someone?

Biden Foundation Promoted Transgenderism For 18-Month-Old Babies.  The 2018 initiative, called the "As You Are" campaign, centered on a map tracking LGBTQ "acceptance stories" across the country.  It was spearheaded by Biden's eponymous foundation, which has been described as "further[ing] the work the Bidens did over eight years in the Obama administration and cement[ing] the former vice president's more than four decade legacy in public life."  Of the nearly 500 individuals highlighted, many were children under the age of 18, with one account even chronicling a "gender nonconforming" 18-month-old.  One mother submitted her story to the Biden Foundation about her six-year-old transgender child and saw it promoted by the group, despite declaring her daughter "gender nonconforming" since 18-months-old.

Biden Campaign to Appear Alongside Hanoi Jane.  The Biden campaign, which has bombarded President Donald Trump with attacks about his respect for U.S. soldiers, will be campaigning this weekend with Jane Fonda, a celebrity best known for fraternizing with enemy troops during the Vietnam War.  Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris is set to join Fonda at a Saturday [9/26/2020] virtual event held by progressive advocacy group Supermajority. [...] Fonda traveled to North Vietnam in 1972 as part of an anti-war protest that saw her pose for photos with enemy troops on an anti-aircraft gun.  The photo sparked outrage among Vietnam veterans, earning her the nickname "Hanoi Jane."

Cotton: Biden Knows if He Revealed 'Radical Left-Wing' SCOTUS Nomination List 'He Would Lose the Election'.  In a Tuesday [9/22/2020] interview with Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) sounded off on why 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is yet to reveal his list of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.  According to Cotton, Biden is stalling because he knows if he put out a list, "he would lose the election" after unveiling a list of "radical left-wing lawyers."

Can the Present-Day Democrat Party Govern America (with or without Joe Biden)?  The cabal fronted by Joe Biden is selling hatred of Donald Trump and his voters and prefers that voters not worry about their ability to govern should the Democrats win the Senate and install Harris-Biden.  This same cabal that would be charged with governing the nation has, for the past four years, marginalized, physically confronted and repeatedly accused the 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump of being not only racists but fascists and white supremacists as well as homophobic, xenophobic and among the vilest people on the face of the earth.  What will be their intentions for these rightfully incensed citizens?  Ignore them and hope they go away?  They will not.  Instead, the Democrat party cabal will continue to vilify half of the voters in 2020 thus potentially fomenting serious ongoing confrontations and retaliation.

Brace for Democrats to knock Catholics, again.  How much do Democrats hate Roman Catholics?  We're about to find out, once President Trump nominates, most likely, Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the U.S. Supreme Court.  No surprises here — the Democrats have a long, sordid history of anti-Catholicism.  And Judge Barrett understands the Democrats' rabid bigotry first-hand, from her first Senate confirmation hearing in 2017, when she was confronted by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the now 87-year-old Democrat doyenne.  "When you read your speeches," Feinstein told her, "the conclusion one draws is that the Dogma lives loudly within you.  And that's a concern."  Imagine Feinstein saying that to a Muslim.  You can't.

New York's Democratic socialists want a revolution — but does anyone else?  Fresh off of surprising upset victories in this summer's Democratic primaries for state Assembly and Senate, the city's Democratic socialists are targeting the City Council primaries next year, when 35 of the 51 seats will be without an incumbent.  The Democratic Socialists of America-NYC is planning to back a slate of council candidates who, if elected, would create a "socialist caucus" down at City Hall.  According to the strategy document obtained by The [New York] Post, one litmus test will be agreement to "defund the police" by 50 percent, slashing the NYPD's budget by $3 billion.

Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' and eliminate the Electoral College.  CNN host Don Lemon proposed radically changing the U.S. political system to take power away from the "minority" vote in the country.  During the hand-off before his show Monday night [9/21/2020], Lemon debated fellow network host Chris Cuomo by arguing Democrats should push to eliminate the Electoral College, which would require a constitutional amendment.  Lemon said such a feat was possible if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wins the presidency and Democrats "stack the courts."

Ginsburg and Providence in American Politics.  Democrats are the partners of evil in American politics.  From the race-driven politics of slavery that erupted in the Civil War, through the politics of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK to the politics of race, abortion and gender, the Democrats and their allies in the media and the academia have been engaged in the politics of transforming America from a republican order based on faith, family, and "In God We Trust" into a European-style godless social democracy.

Dems have just handed court-packing as a big election issue for the GOP.  The dimmer bulbs in the Dem chandelier are openly stating their intention to pack the Supreme Court should the party win the Senate and the Oval Office.  This hands an opportunity to every GOP candidate for the Senate (incumbent or challenger) to put his or her opponent on the spot, and demand a public commitment to either reject or endorse the announced plan to expand the number of seats on the court and appoint an ironclad progressive majority. [...] Blind anger, such as the Democrats now feel over the prospect of losing control of the Supreme Court, makes people stupid.  They now are out on a limb, threatening to gut the Supreme Court as a backstop against tyranny.  I don't think a majority of voters want that.

No Rational Person Can Vote Democratic in 2020.  Reason No. 1 — Emotional Blindness: [...] Family voting history, upbringing, and the thought of, "I've always voted that way" plays a big part in peoples' voting decisions.  Many times, a party's actual policy stance runs directly counter to that voter's personal interests (such as devout Catholics supporting Democrats who favor abortion or Jewish voters supporting Democrats who back anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian legislation), but they vote for them anyway, because of a lifelong emotional attachment.  Today, the starkest example of destructive blind party loyalty is the rioting and anti-police violence perpetrated by domestic anarchist groups.  National Democratic politicians refuse to condemn their behavior.  Assassins cheer for police deaths and block the emergency room entrance and every high-profile Democrat remains silent, which effectively amounts to approval.  Yet every committed liberal voter will still vote for them after rationalizing it away.  That is the ultimate in hypocritical emotional blindness.

Dems Call Trump a Mass-Murdering Racist; His Poll Numbers Rise.  [T]he Democratic perception and characterization of Trump is that of a crass, ignorant, xenophobic, incompetent, mass-murdering racist.  How, they ask, can someone who put the "d" in deplorable not find himself universally rejected?  Or, as Peter Strzok, the fired senior FBI agent who led the Trump-Russia collusion probe, famously texted about the 2016 election, "Hillary should win 100,000,000-0."  How, Dems ask, can such an overtly racist president get a 36% approval rating by Black likely voters in a July Rasmussen poll?

Detroit Police Chief Unloads On Democrat Senator Who Called For Disarming 'Every Police Department': 'Absolutely Ridiculous'.  Detroit Police Chief James Craig slammed Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) this week after Markey called for disarming "every police department" of certain types of weapons and non-lethal munitions.  "Portland police routinely attack peaceful protestors with brute force," Markey tweeted.  "We must disarm these officers, and every other police department in America, of weapons of war, and enact a nationwide ban on tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."  "Weapons of war" is term that is frequently used by the political left to describe semi-automatic firearms.

City Manager Receives Paid Leave For 'Chickens Come Home To Roost' Post About Ambushed Deputies.  The Lynwood city council voted Tuesday [9/15/2020] to place City Manager Jose Ometeotl on paid administrative leave after he posted an Instagram photo of Malcom X, with the text "Chickens Come Home To Roost" over the image, in response to two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies getting ambushed by an armed assailant over the weekend.  As a result of a city council vote, Ometeotl will now undergo an "internal investigation," officials said late Tuesday. [...] After Fox News Los Angeles reporter Bill Melugin posted a screenshot of the city manager's post to Twitter, Ometoetl made his Instagram account private, and the city distanced themselves from his post, saying it wasn't reflective of the council's beliefs.

Rasmussen Poll:  Black Lives Matter Riots Turning People in Riot Zones into Trump Voters.  The violent Black Lives Matter riots that rocked multiple American cities this summer have turned voters who live in those riot zones into Trump supporters, a new Rasmussen poll finds.  The latest Rasmussen Reports Survey found that 63 percent of voters who have seen violent protests in their community "strongly approve" of the president while only 35 percent don't.  The survey suggests that President Trump's strong "law and order" messaging is resonating voters who have had to deal with the riots.  It appears that the more racial unrest these voters see, the less open they seem to be toward the Democrats' racial grievance mongering.

Pennsylvania Sheriff Changes To Republican After Violent Riots: 'Democratic Party Has Left Me'.  Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert announced this week that he has changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican following months of violent riots and attacks on law enforcement by leftists.  "It was a really difficult decision and I've thought long and hard about it, but I feel I stand for the ideals of the Republican Party platform more than the Democrats today," Albert said.  "I've been a lifelong Democrat, but a conservative Democrat at that.  I'm pro-life, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, a lifetime member of the NRA and, today, I feel my ideals are closer to the Republican Party than Democrats."

Minnesota Police Group Withdraws Support for Democrats — Public Opinion of Joe Biden Marxist Movement Shifts.  An interesting report from One America News Network highlights a shift in Minnesota similar to the recent shift in Wisconsin.  Due to increased violence from Joe Biden's Marxist supporters, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Union has withdrawn their support for Democrat candidates and are now shifting to support Republicans.

Forget the Polls:  Massive Enthusiasm Gap Between Trump and Biden Bodes Ill for Democrats.  Although Joe Biden continues to lead President Trump in most national polls, the enthusiasm gap between the two candidates could not be more striking.  The situation is reminiscent of the 2016 race, only there is even less enthusiasm for Biden than there was for Hillary Clinton.  Trump draws huge crowds wherever he appears while Biden can barely muster a few dozen socially distanced quasi-supporters at his meager, tightly scripted events.  As American Greatness previously documented, massive grassroots pro-Trump boat parades have been a thing all year, although they have been mostly unnoticed or ignored by the national media.

Joe Biden Tries to Have It Both Ways on Anti-Police Violence.  Organized anti-police violence is escalating in Democrat-run cities in Democrat-run states.  Polling is showing that the Biden campaign is bleeding out over the issue of BLM and Antifa rioting and the inability of the Biden campaign to come out strongly against civil unrest because its core supporters are either in the streets or whipping up hatred to get other people to riot.  Over the weekend, two LA County Sheriff's deputies were critically wounded in what can only be described as an attempt at a targeted killing. [...] This attack was a logical and foreseeable consequence of the statements and actions and rhetoric of Democrat-elected officials across the nation stoking hatred of police and coddling the people who carry out attacks on police.  And those attacks and the anti-police violence is a feature of the Biden campaign.  Several Biden staffers have donated money to the fund that bails out violent rioters, particularly those who have assaulted police officers in Portland and Seattle.  Kamala Harris has encouraged people to donate to that fund.

The Left Sides With the Criminal.  [Scroll down]  Upon arriving at the scene, the police officers attempted to effectuate an arrest.  Blake resisted.  He apparently got one of the officers in a headlock and resisted two separate uses of a stun gun.  He then disobeyed officers' commands, walked around to the driver's side of an SUV, and reached inside.  A knife later was found on the driver's side floorboard.  This is the definition of a justified shoot, by all available evidence.  Yet former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., have chosen to side with an alleged rapist and against police officers who were attempting to do their job.

Who goes to war armed with rubber bullets?
Sen. Markey says all police must be disarmed of 'weapons of war' including tear gas, rubber bullets.  Sen. Ed Markey said Monday [9/14/2020] that U.S. police officers must uniformly be disarmed of "weapons of war," which according to the senator, include "tear gas, rubber and plastic bullets, and bean bag rounds."  Portland Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler recently issued a ban on the troubled city's police department from using CS gas (also called tear gas) on demonstrators.  Every night for the past four months, police officers in Portland have come face-to-face with protestors and rioters demonstrating in favor of racial justice and police reform.  Often the clashes have become violent and have been connected to several deaths.  Several weeks ago, Wheeler was tear-gassed while marching one night with demonstrators.

Antifa and BLM, the Democrat party's stormtroopers.  The Democrats in Congress continue to block further aid to the catastrophically unemployed due to the virus.  As usual, Pelosi and her vassals in the House are abusing their positions of power, again in some demented logic to defeat the President.  With every fiber of their being, they believe most Americans are mind-numbed idiots.  They are counting on it, counting on us to ignore the fact that they have been advocating for all the rioting the citizens of democrat-run cities have endured.  They assume as well that we will all fail to notice their candidate belongs in a nursing home.  The Biden campaign finally released a statement, too little, too late, in support of law enforcement!

Satanists and Witches for Biden.  Like all progressive groups, The Satanic Temple came out in support of Black Lives Matter.  The Satanic Temple, which distinguishes itself from its rival, The Church of Satan, through its rigorously progressive politics while accusing The Church of Satan of libertarianism, put out a statement by co-founder Lucien Greaves that blasted President Trump and accused the police of randomly killing black people that could have come from any random leftist organization.  "I watched with dismay as, in reaction to the election of Donald Trump, the least qualified, least dignified, least competent president in all of U.S. history," complained Greaves, whose real name is Douglas Mesner, and who has been known to pose wearing goat horns on his head.  Steve Hill ran in a Democrat State Senate primary as the first Satanist to seek public office.  While he lost, the Satanist and Bernie Sanders supporter was able to secure over 10,000 votes from California Democrats.  Since then, Hill has participated in a Black Lives Matter rally and one comment noted the "solidarity between Black Lives Matter and Satanists."

The Atlantic says Democrats will not be able to concede in November.  On Sunday [9/13/2020], The Atlantic ran an article that suggests that if President Trump wins in November, Democrats will not be able to concede the election.  The article was written by Shadi Hamid, where he outlines an entire list of grievances in which the left would not accept a Biden loss.  Such an event, Hamid says, is the worst-case scenario.  The author indicates that Biden losing the election would undermine democracy.  He says that Democrats would not accept losing the electoral college vote as they did in 2016.  He said that they did not accept the results then and would not accept it now.  He continued saying that the violence and extremism that the left has been financing and promoting would continue.  He continued with the same left-wing radical lie that President Trump is to blame and that all of it would go away if Biden were to be elected.  I am sure it would, as would every freedom that we all enjoy every day.

I refuse to play Nancy Pelosi's Washington games.  Playing the game in Washington means dancing to the tune of party leadership, lobbyists, and major donors.  It means you don't play across the aisle.  It means doing as you are told.  It means you are perfectly fine with the status quo, even if that means voting on legislation that spends trillions of dollars of taxpayer money when you have less than 24 hours to review, let alone debate it.  It means staying quiet and abandoning your principles.  I refuse to play that game.

How to Steal an Election - Part II.  The very publication of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) report and the subsequent news media reporting about it are components of psychological warfare within the broader information warfare campaign aimed at spreading demoralizing rumors to Trump supporters.  The goal is to break down and weaken support before, during and after election day.  Demoralized and unmotivated supporters do not make their support for their candidate public.  They do not campaign in neighborhoods or post yard signs.  They do not vote.  They do not volunteer at polling places.  They become convinced their hopes are a lost, and highly controversial cause.  They do not wish to be called a racist, or a hater, or identified with other fringe elements.  They stay at home and watch TV.  Having been psychologically conditioned (through the COVID-19 pandemic) to withdraw, isolate, and lock-down — on largely fiat orders of various government officials — many Americans will react to the "irregular" and extra-legal tactics of the Left.  The Left relies on this reaction to suppress voter turnout and use varying forms of terror, such as reprisals and the threats of reprisals, against those who do not cooperate or who challenge the projected accusations detailed in the TIP report.  The TIP report is careful not to engage in sedition.  They are a whisper away from advocating violence — but these are very sharp political operatives that are all lawyered-up, so they speak in code.

The Trump Scandal Absorption Level Has Been Reached.  [Scroll down]  We're being lied to on a daily basis.  We're being manipulated by a minority that, without the media, would be invisible.  This minority is literally so small that if the media were not sponsoring them, we wouldn't see them.  Now, as you know, psychologically, this sufficient works.  A lot of people on our side think that we are outnumbered — and the truth is, not only are we not outnumbered, they're not even close to outnumbering us.  Despite how you feel, despite how it might look.  And I'm talking specifically about the Marxist radical leftist.  Not the usual liberal Democrats that we know are out there.  I'm talking about the Antifas and the Black Lives Matters.  They are nowhere near a majority of in this country.  They are a tiny minority, and we're being told by CNN and the New York Times every day that the country has now made the move to Marxism.

President Trump may be battered by the waves, but he will not sink.  [Scroll down]  What ails the left is that leftists believe everything they think, and their thinking is characterized by pomposity and intolerance.  One has to look no farther than Twitter to be clobbered by the gross intolerance of Democrats.  They are rude, profane, wholly without manners or grace.  There are the vicious rioters in the streets whom the Democrats refuse to condemn, and there are the equally vicious boors who drive the contempt in which social media is drowning.  Those often anonymous haters hide behind their not so clever handles like schoolyard bullies who cry for their mothers if their true identities are discovered.  That's when they cry "racism," or "white supremacy," or "white privilege," even if, as most of them are, they are white.  There is nothing more absurd than watching a young white female carrying a Black Lives Matter sign shouting obscenities in the face of a black policeman to illustrate the depth of the left's vacuity.

Democrats have a plan: threaten their way into the White House.  A coalition of influential progressive groups — including the SEIU, AFT, Color of Change, Indivisible, MoveOn, and Demos — is organizing, the Daily Beast reports, for "mass public unrest": [...] There's a reason these "secret" plans were revealed in painstaking detail to a sympathetic outlet, one that would repeat fever dreams about "MAGA violence after election day."  It's the latest example of the left's campaign of extortion:  If you want the protesting, rioting, and murder wave to end, all you have to do is hand Joe Biden a landslide.  The organizations claim to be preparing for an election "without a clear outcome," or the possibility that President Donald Trump refuses to concede.  Of course, they have also worked to assure an ambiguous election night by pressing for a massive, disorganized switch to mail-in voting, even as public health experts say in-person voting is as safe as grocery shopping.

Dem Staffer Arrested by the Portland Police During BLM Riot, Dem Response Says It All.  Democrats are now trying to spin away any blame for the BLM riots after they unreservedly embraced the group and tried to downplay the actions as "peaceful protest."  Democratic leaders refused to properly address them or hold rioters accountable.  In fact, there have been multiple Democrats from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Ayanna Pressley encouraging calling for unrest in the streets.  On top of all that, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic candidate for vice-president contributed to a fund to help bail out people arrested during the riots.  At least 13 Biden staffers also contributed to the fund.  They also encouraged others to contribute as well, helping the fund raise $35 million.  That enabled violent criminals to get out, including one who allegedly committed another assault, leaving a victim with a traumatic brain injury.

'Godless' and 'imposters': Priest unleashes on Dems.  A Catholic priest in America's heartland is going scorched-earth against any Catholic who would vote for a Democrat in the upcoming presidential election, slamming the political party and even leaders of the Catholic Church as "godless," "gutless" and "imposters."  "Here's a memo to clueless baptized Catholics out there:  You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat.  Period," said Rev. James Altman of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in a new video.  "Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic church teaches.  So just quit pretending that you're Catholic and vote Democrat.  Repent of your support of that party and its platform, or face the fires of hell."

Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse responds to video of priest attacking Catholics who are Democrats.  The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse is responding to a video of one of its priests attacking Catholics who are Democrats.  The video, posted to Youtube already has almost 400,000 views.  A video by Father James Altman, the Priest at Saint James the Less Catholic Church here in La Crosse, is causing mixed reactions by those who have seen it.  The video, posted by a right wing media outlet, called Alpha News MN, shows Father Altman making claims against the Democratic party.

The Democrats Pick the Criminal.  On Aug. 23, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer.  The original video, which only included the last moments of the incident, gave no context for the incident.  But further video and police reports made clear what happened. [...] There was an open warrant on Blake for third-degree felony sexual assault; the alleged victim is the woman who dialed 911, and she apparently had a restraining order against Blake. [...] Upon arriving at the scene, the police attempted to effectuate an arrest.  Blake resisted.  He apparently got one of the officers in a headlock and resisted two separate uses of a stun gun.  He then disobeyed officer commands, walked around to the driver's side of an SUV and reached inside.  A knife was found on the driver's side floorboards.  This is the definition of a justified shoot, by all available evidence.  Yet Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris have chosen to side with an alleged rapist and against police officers attempting to do their job.

Donald Trump:  Joe Biden Will Appease Domestic Terrorists, I Will Arrest Them.  President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued campaigning against the violent radical left rioters in America's major cities, describing them as "domestic terrorists."  "Biden's plan is to appease the domestic terrorists.  My plan is to arrest them," Trump said as the crowd cheered.

The left's awkward lionization of Jacob Blake.  When we first learned that Kenosha resident Jacob Blake was offering his first interviews and sending out video messages from the hospital after being shot by the police in Kenosha, I noted a somewhat fawning tone to the media coverage he was getting.  This left me wondering about the other people involved in his story, particularly the alleged victims of his past criminal behavior. [...] Judging by the thousands of combined retweets and likes that message received, I didn't seem to be the only one raising these nagging questions.  None of these issues slowed down the rest of our major media outlets, however.

By Hailing Jacob Blake As A Hero, Democrats Have Marginalized His Alleged Rape And Abuse Victim.  Kamala Harris is the latest high-profile Democrat to meet with and pay homage to Jacob Blake and his family.  After speaking with them for an hour, Harris gushed to reporters that Blake Sr., known for ranting about "Jews" and "crackers" on social media, and Blake Jr., accused of drunkenly abusing a woman over the course of several years before finally breaking into her house and raping her, are "incredible."  Blake family attorney Benjamin Crump, a man for whom the term "ambulance chaser" was invented, issued a press release after the visit, providing more details about the kumbaya session. [...] Now would be a good time to remind ourselves why Blake Jr. finds himself in a position where he must "work through his pain."

Fostering massive social disorder is no way to protest.  It's increasingly obvious that far too many people out causing havoc in the name of Black Lives Matter are in fact just wallowing in the chance to bully people and break stuff, or worse.  And the ranks of Antifa, in particular, are packed with utter thugs (mostly white) who are devastating mainly black neighborhoods in towns like Kenosha, Wis.  Yes, many protesters try to stand up to the extremists:  In the videos of ruffians trashing restaurants and threatening diners up in Rochester, you see some people trying to stop the mayhem.  But they fail, badly — and so the cause is set back, badly.  And for that, all these movements' leaders are to blame.  The civil-rights movement understood that it could only succeed by appealing to the nation's conscience and ruthlessly policed its own ranks.  Black Lives Matter organizers seem to think otherwise — why else sit by as its followers harass restaurant-goers across the country?

Minnesota Senate candidate says 'crazy' urban liberals driving people to Trump, could flip state red.  President Trump could flip Minnesota — a state that has been blue since 1972 — because of a mishandled coronavirus response and continuing civil unrest in Democrat-run cities, GOP Senate candidate Jason Lewis said Saturday [9/5/2020].  The former congressman is battling incumbent Democrat Tina Smith in a Senate race that Real Clear Politics recently moved from "leaning Democrat" to "toss-up."  "It's sort of a microcosm of the entire country.  As the urban liberals become a little bit more crazy, it drives everybody else into Trump country and red country," Lewis said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."

O.C. Democratic leader faces backlash after sharing post praising Ho Chi Minh on Facebook.  An Orange County Democratic Party leader has learned the perils of sharing social media posts praising dead communist leaders.  On Sunday [8/30/2020], Jeff LeTourneau, vice chair of the county's Democratic Party, shared a Facebook post that glorified Ho Chi Minh, the former communist leader of Vietnam.  The post drew immediate criticism from politicians from both parties, including from those who represented Orange County's politically active Vietnamese American community, which was built on a bedrock of refugees from communism and the Vietnam War.

Antifa Effect?  Yes, the Rioting Is Starting to Impact the House Races.  Is Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the violent far-left actually giving a massive in-kind contribution to Republicans this election cycle?  Maybe.  The non-stop rioting in the cities, especially along the Left Coast and now in Kenosha, Wisconsin is starting to show up in the polling.  It's the reason why Joe Biden had to come out of his bunker after the Republican National Convention; the event mentioned the rioting.  It's why CNN's Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, who endorsed the violence, said it was now time to settle down because it was hurting Democrats.  Donald Trump is now leading with Independents by ten points, Black and Hispanic voters support for Trump spiked after the GOP convention, and the national race is tightening up.  Trump is tied with Biden in Michigan — and enthusiasm for Trump with his base is sky-high.  Joe Biden is not fairing so well with Democrats on that front.

Gaslighting America:  Democrats And Media Have Turned It Up To 11.  The Democratic Party and its communications office have been telling the country for some time now that night is day and up is down.  But, with the election two months away, the psychological manipulation of the American voter has accelerated.  As we've written the past two days, Joe Biden has condemned the riots that have been wrecking cities and killing people since the May 25 death of George Floyd.  We're glad he finally got around to it.  Yet he and his party are acting as if they've opposed the violence all along and it's President Donald Trump who has failed to come out against it.  But Trump, of course, has been denouncing the riots since they began.  Even when the media were determined to convince us they were "mostly peaceful."

A Clutch of Fools.  Our friends on the left pirouette from position to position, desperate to please the mob.  Consider a point of comparison:  Only a few years ago, a bunch of irresponsible people who took out mortgages they could never hope to afford eventually lost their houses in foreclosures.  People lost businesses, too.  That was, we were assured, a national tragedy, an indictment of capitalism.  But now the anointed mob is burning down homes and businesses, and progressives sniff that these losses are "just property."  Sometimes, property losses (those resulting from failure to pay a valid debt) are the cause of lamentation and the rending of garments, and sometimes property losses (those imposed by criminal violence) are no big deal.  A cynical man might suspect that such progressive posturing is not to be taken seriously.

Democrats are increasingly worried Trump's 'law and order message is resonating with swing state voters.  Democrats have told top advisers to the party's presidential nominee, Joe Biden, that President Donald Trump's "law and order" message and images of disorder during anti-racism protests risk undermining Biden in Midwestern swing states, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday [9/2/2020].  According to the report, Biden's campaign was caught off guard by unrest last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Jacob Blake and violence between Trump supporters and counterprotesters in Portland, Oregon.

The Editor says...
I find it difficult to believe the Biden team was "caught off guard" by an event that happened ten days earlier.  The Biden campaign would never have mentioned rioting, but the rioters are obviously not Republicans, and the voters are paying attention.

Americans chant 'Death to America' in streets of Oakland.  A large group of demonstrators took to the streets in Oakland over the weekend to protest alleged systemic racism in part by chanting "Death to America," which drew a heavy negative response.  Several videos of the protests were posted online to social media, and a number of people expressed their disagreement — not with the act of protesting, but with the message.  "The left has created a monster that they have lost complete control of," Jason Howerton wrote.  "I never thought I'd see people chanting "death to America" in the streets of America."

Here are Joe Biden Supporters Chanting 'Death to America' in Oakland.  In the olden days, "Death to America" was something you would hear in Iran.  Not Oakland.  But this is who Joe Biden supporters are now.  Call it Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or a ham sandwich.  It's all the left, and Joe Biden is the empty vessel the left is using right now, as Nancy Pelosi/Bernie Sanders try to "Weekend at Bernie's" Biden all the way to the White House.  He, and they, own this.

Trump's Running to Save Us from a Race War Fomented by Democrats.  [Scroll down]  The left in this country — it's patently obvious now — they want this election to be, they want the current American circumstance to be black versus white, not left versus right, not male versus female, not straight versus gay.  They want it to be black versus white.  Immigrant versus native maybe, but as long as it has a racial component, that's what the Democrats are attempting to foment.  And Trump didn't buy it.  He didn't buy into it.  He didn't take the bait.  He didn't respond in kind.  All last week the president made clear that it's about people who are constructive, who are productive and generally happy.  That's us.  Versus people who are — let's face it — miserably unhappy.

Neighbors Allegedly Write Letter Singling Out Neighbor For Trump Yard Sign.  Fox News contributor Guy Benson on Saturday posted a letter allegedly given to a friend's neighbor because they "have a Trump sign in their yard."  "Thank you for proudly and prominently displaying your signs of political support!  These symbols make it impossible for us to ignore how you truly feel about us as your neighbors," said the handwritten note, which was signed "your neighbors who dare to be different."

The Editor says...
Sounds like the person who really dares to be different is the one getting all the flack.

The Chaos in Urban America Is Bad Now — But Can Only Get Worse With Biden.  People used to accuse Democrats of being "soft on crime."  Now, Democrat-run cities can't even properly identify crime, let alone punish it.  (Except, perhaps, the ultimate sin of defending your life and home from the mob).  The eccentric, oddball, strange and perverse crew of mayors that run these urban cesspools are intransigent in their refusal to fight crime.  President Donald Trump is increasingly at war with America's Democrat-run cities — but only because their mayors refuse to fight the war with the crime on their streets.  This week, the President announced that he was sending 200 federal agents to Chicago and Kansas City.  He has already sent U.S. Customs Border Security guards to Portland in an attempt to alleviate the lawlessness and chaos in that city.  At least he can still distinguish between legitimate protest and rioting.  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, apparently, cannot.

Mass Exodus: People are Fleeing Democrat Cities.  We are in the midst of a mass exodus of Americans from Democrat-run cities, yet Democrats cannot seem to figure out why.  The reasons are easily explainable, but apparently not to average Democrats, who are apparently unable to discern the obvious. [...] Before we get to the exodus, here is a reminder of a few of their actions:
  •   Running with the Ukrainian impeachment hoax
  •   Refusing to condemn the Chicoms for withholding info about their virus
  •   Obstructing the federal virus response (having not made a single positive recommendation made by any #Dementiacrat members of Congress!)
  •   Completely politicizing the virus, shutting down Blue states and implementing arbitrary authoritarian policies, incentivizing the reporting of deaths as "virus-related,"
  •   Stoking the racist fires of BLM (not a single elected Dementiacrat has condemned BLM)
  •   Aiding and abetting rioting in the streets (including setting up bail money to rapidly get the few arrested protesters back on the streets for more rioting), running a God-free national convention, supporting the cancel culture that aims to destroy the Republic
  •   Implementing policies to send virus-infected elderly back into assisted living quarters to infect other elderly people
  •   Lying nonstop during their national convention while offering no positive solutions (only full-blown socialism), supporting defunding of the police nationwide
  •   Nominating two candidates who are compromised by Communist China (not one, but two Manchurian candidates in the truest sense)
  •   Making common cause with America's enemies at every turn (e.g., Communist China and Iran)
Worst of all, the Democrats have let BLM and Antifa run wild in the streets of Blue cities, destroying businesses and public property, defacing historical monuments, and causing an exodus of citizens from those cities (those who can do so are fleeing those cities in droves!).

Andrew Sullivan: 'These despicable fanatics, like it or not, are now in part the face of the Democrats'.  Andrew Sullivan's take on the danger posed to Dems by chaos in the streets is worth a read.  I don't agree with all of it but Sullivan seems to be making a genuine attempt to not be guided by talking points from either side of the aisle and it's interesting to watch even if it's not a completely successful effort.  Frankly, some of what he says seems to at least partly contradict other things he's saying but I guess that's what happens sometimes when you're reacting honestly and not just picking sides.  Mostly what comes through is his disgust at the rioting which Democrats have only belatedly realized could be a problem.

It's a little late now, isn't it?
Democrats worry about voter backlash in suburbs.  Democratic strategists are worried scenes of violence in Kenosha, Wis., and the "defund the police" debate could give Republicans and President Trump a boost with suburban voters.  The issue has come back to the forefront amid new incidents of violence, property destruction and protests this week after another unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back by a police officer.  Some Democrats worry the continuing unrest could give Trump an opening with swing voters in Wisconsin and other key states that voted for Trump in 2016.

The Democrats Face the Inferno They Created.  The other day a puling Don Lemon, the infamous CNN anchor, [...] ripped the mask off the Democrat/leftist body politic when he opined that presidential candidate Joe Biden needed to speak out against the rioting currently destroying Democrat-run cities because the unrestrained violence was beginning to hurt him at the polls.  In uttering nary a word about the impact the widespread suffering and destruction was having on Americans, he starkly displayed the callous disregard Democrats have for this nation and its citizens. [...] Someone once said that if you give people long enough and listen carefully, they will always tell you who they are.  Lemon is telling us exactly who the Democrats are.  It was a staggeringly profound confession, whether he intended it as so or not.  Perhaps next he will advise Biden to advocate reopening the economy and the schools because trying to destroy the country in order to use impoverished and despondent Americans against Trump for political purposes was also costing him votes.

Virginia Democrats Pass Bill That Eases Sentencing for Assaulting Police.  The Virginia Senate passed a new bill that would weaken sentencing for assaulting a police officer, the Associated Press reported Wednesday [8/26/2020].  The bill would strike down Virginia's six-month mandatory minimum sentence for striking an officer and provide judges the discretion to lower charges to a misdemeanor in less severe cases.  Despite vehement opposition from Republicans, Democratic lawmakers fast-tracked the passage of the bill with a party-line vote.  Republican members argued that the bill undercuts police officers who are confronting a nationwide crime wave.

The Collapse of the Democrat Brand.  Democrats approve of burning cities, mass riots, and hundreds of beatings for those willing to wear Trump-branded clothing.  Surveys show that nearly half of leftists won't even be friends with Trump-supporters.  There are also countless examples of Trump-supporters blacklisted for incorrect political viewpoints.  None of this is congruent with a kind, tolerant, peaceful brand.  Perhaps the pinnacle of the left's false brand image happened at a Minnesota high school when students violently beat another student for carrying a Trump flag during a protest — against gun violence.  It's hard for someone to be likable when any level of disagreement is anathema to him.  The same applies to the Democrat brand.  Hollywood has resorted to rewriting existing superheroes to be more woke because it can't create woke heroes.  That's because there is nothing admirable about wokeness.  Children don't aspire to be perpetual complainers who thrive on destroying people for typos.  There is nothing likable about paranoid malcontents, who see racism and Russian assets everywhere they look.  Nobody wants to be a leftist because it sounds miserable, and multiple polls prove that Democrats are less happy than Republicans.

Like trapped rats, Democrats and other leftists are starting to get nervous.  No one believes in "President Biden," which is a generic idea without any policies attached.  Trump offers Americans a mirror of themselves and their highest aspirations.  That's a winner.

The Democrats Attack the Country; the Republicans Attack the Democrats.  Last week, we watched as Joe Biden and his increasingly radical party outlined their dark perception of the country.  They offered few policies and no solutions.  Their message boiled down to America is evil and rotten to the core, and Trump is a fascist who represents an existential "threat to our democracy." The Democrats also called Trump a racist, accused him of culpability for every single COVID-19 death in the country, and for the economic contraction that has led to a 10 percent unemployment rate.  As if the well-documented failures of the Postal Service over the last several decades have not already undermined it enough, Hillary Clinton blamed Trump for supposedly trying to sabotage it in an attempt to "steal an election."

Third night of RNC 2020 puts the onus squarely on Joe Biden.  Mike Pence put it on the line in his speech on the third night of the Republican Convention:  "You will not be safe in Joe Biden's America."  As he spoke, Kenosha was reeling from the violence of the past four days while rioters were trashing Minneapolis yet again.  The embrace of law and order was one of the key themes of the night, and Pence was at his most dramatic as he said, "The violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland, or Kenosha.  Too many heroes have died defending our freedoms to see Americans strike each other down.  We will have law and order on the streets of America."  He said that the men and women of law enforcement "are the best of us," and that "we will always stand with those who stand on the thin blue line."

What Will Replace the Police?  Ten Historical Examples.  Perhaps we have found the Democrats' Kryptonite.  Conservatives have noticed for quite some time that the left never showed adequate concern about far-left extremism.  The far left has greater numbers and, unlike the far right, is entrenched in major institutions like colleges.  The far left hopes to claim the anti-police violence as a historic win for its side.  Democrats can't claim that the Floyd protests had nothing to do with rioting.  Protests have become linked in Americans' minds with riots.  The organization seen as leading these demonstrations was Black Lives Matter (BLM), whose premier issue was defunding or abolishing the police.  BLM leaders like Alicia Garza never hid their intent.  Most BLM activists rejected talk of mere reform as too weak and compromising.  Attempts by skittish Democrats like Jim Clyburn to disown anti-police slogans can't undo the effect of many fellow Democrats' embracing of a group whose trademark demand is shutting down police.

Former DNC Head Donna Brazile Freaks Out On 'Fox And Friends,' Brian Kilmeade Cuts Away.  On Tuesday [8/25/2020], Fox News contributor and former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile became irate on "Fox & Friends" when speaking with conservative pundit Tammy Bruce about the current wave of violence breaking out across America.  The moment became so heated that co-host Brian Kilmeade had to cut away.  The heated exchange began when Tammy Bruce highlighted the fact that few if any, Democrats have spoken out against the violence unfolding in cities across America.

RNC 2020 opening night ratings on C-SPAN blow away DNC viewership.  The opening night of the 2020 Republican National Convention blew last week's Democratic snoozefest out of the water, drawing in six times more viewers on C-SPAN's livestream.  Approximately 440,000 people tuned in to watch the first night of the virtual GOP convention on Monday, compared to just 76,000 views for the first night of the DNC, according to a Hill report.  While the Democratic gathering boasted speeches from big names such as former first lady Michelle Obama, who gave a rousing endorsement of Joe Biden and drew the ire of President Trump, far more people tuned in to see Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Haley and the gun-wielding McCloskeys bash Biden.

RNC 2020: Democrat Vernon Jones delivers blistering attack on his party.  Democratic Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones bashed his party and declared his ardent support for President Trump in a speech Monday night at the 2020 Republican National Convention.  Jones, who was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2016, made waves in April with his endorsement of Trump.  During his RNC address, he railed against his party, saying it had become "infected with a pandemic" of intolerance, bigotry, socialism and anti-cop sentiment.  Dems have "a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy property, and terrorize our communities," he said.

Vernon Jones:  Democrats 'Infected' with Pandemic of Intolerance, Socialism, Anti-Police Bias.  Vernon Jones, a Georgia Democrat state Rep., said during the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday that the Democrats are "infected" with the "pandemic" of "bigotry, socialism, and anti-law enforcement bias."  Jones garnered national headlines after he came out in support of President Donald Trump.  He noted that a "lifelong Democrat" might seem like an odd picture at the Republican National Convention; however, he charged that the Democrat Party does not "want Black people to leave the mental Plantation they've had us on for decades."  The Georgia lawmaker charged that Trump is the "president that America needs to lead us forward."

Two conventions, one angry and miserable, the other optimistic and grateful.  The difference in tone between the Democrat and Republican conventions could not be more distinct.  The four days of the Democrat infomercial were characterized by misery and anger.  Not one of the Democrat speakers even smiled.  They made it clear, each and every one of them, that they hate this country.  Consider Michelle Obama's scowling face; every person who spoke exuded rage, fury that President Trump had survived the four years of their demented attempts to destroy his presidency.  Even before the election, higher-ups at the FBI, the DOJ and the CIA had hatched a scheme to prevent his victory.  Once elected but before his inauguration, they escalated their treasonous plan which was constructed out of a tissue of lies.  To this day, Adam Schiff continues to promote the many lies he has foisted upon the American people with the eager help of a despicable and immoral media.  This was a grievously corrupt group of people with power to abuse — and abuse it they did.  But they failed.  Yet they have not been deterred.

While Claiming To Champion Justice, Democrats Are Letting American Cities Burn.  The leaders of the Democratic Party think they are destroying America in order to save it.  Our nation's urban revival, of which New York City was the preeminent example, was one of the great successes of the last few decades.  Now this achievement is in danger as the costliest civil unrest in American history drags on, enabled by the deliberate fecklessness of Democratic leaders.  Nightly riots and assaults in Portland, massive organized looting in Chicago, and escalating violence in NYC and elsewhere are still ongoing as police are pulled back.  The destruction and pillaging have devastated local economies already wounded by the Chinese coronavirus.

Fight for America — voters must do this to stop socialism and anarchy.  Rioting.  Vandalism.  Bullying opponents into silence.  Calls to defund the police, abolish the Electoral College and remake America as a socialist country.  It's hard to believe what we're now seeing.  For months, the forces of Marxism, socialism and anarchy have terrorized our streets and threatened the values that make America the greatest nation in the world.  They have shown no signs of stopping, and many left-leaning politicians, members of the media and celebrities either tacitly accept their behavior or openly cheer it on.  Today, America has a choice of two paths.  We can embrace the foundational principles that created this nation of limited government and individual liberty.  Or we can veer down the path of those who trash those principles, who teach our children that America was illegitimate from the start, and who want to make the vast majority of Americans subservient to an all-powerful government.

The Democrats Ignored the Riots, but Republicans Won't.  The Democratic National Convention is over, and Democrats did not leave much to voters' imaginations.  The party faithful were likely enlivened by the speakers who sketched out a transformative vision for the future of the country.  Less ideological voters will probably appreciate the not-exactly-subtle efforts to contrast Joe Biden's character and comportment with Donald Trump's.  The party smartly shaped much of its pitch around the pandemic, which will likely be the election's most salient issue and one that does not favor the incumbent president.  And yet, there were many glaring thematic omissions throughout this nominating convention.  The ones that Republicans are most likely to exploit when the focus turns to the GOP next week are rising crime rates, lawlessness in American cities, and the Democratic Party's tacit acceptance of those intolerable conditions.

Criminal justice activist Donna Hylton, featured in DNC video, was convicted for role in grisly 1985 murder.  Donna Hylton was known as inmate #86G0206 for 27 years.  She was behind bars for her role in the grisly murder and torture of Thomas Vigliarolo, a balding New York businessman found stuffed inside a steamer trunk and left to rot in Harlem.  Hylton and six others let him die "in the most heinous circumstances," the prosecutor said at their trial in 1985.  On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hailed Hylton as one of "America's most impactful community leaders" and asked her to participate in a video reading of the Preamble to the Constitution during a televised portion of the convention.

The Sleight-of-Hand Convention.  I watched all of the convention, and the word "China" was not uttered until 10:57 p.m. on Thursday.  Nor did any of the Democrats mention the violence that has erupted in America's cities after the protests against the killing of George Floyd.  Biden talked about jobs, but the American worker made only guest appearances in the four days of programming.  If you are a Hispanic contractor or an Obama-Trump voter in the Midwest, was any of this convention relevant to you?  No doubt Biden's speech was affecting.  But the Democrats were awfully vague about what they plan to do if they find themselves in power next year.  Time and again, Americans have elected Democratic governments only to find themselves shocked and appalled two years later.  The Democrats campaign as a worker's party, but govern as a Bobo one.  It happened to Bill Clinton.  It happened to Obama.  Is there any reason to think a Biden presidency will be different?

On the Occasion of Not Watching the 2020 Democrat Convention.  This is not a Democratic Convention, but rather a convention of persons calling themselves Democrats.  There is no Democratic Party because there is nothing democratic about it in the most important sense of the word.  It is the antithesis of democracy.  They prattle about unity, but what each of the speakers really wants is obedience to the agenda of whatever unhappy soul is speaking at the moment.  They claim to unite in their singular vitriol and hatred of Donald Trump, but it is really their hatred of one another and us who do not obey that compels them.  Just listen to them canceling us and each other out for failure to embrace one another's orthodoxies.  Unhappy and unsmiling as they recite their recorded messages, it is clear that there is nothing that would make them less angry and more happy — even winning the presidency won't do that.  They want control, and they want power.  What they will do with power if they get it is not a pleasant prospect.

A Fake DNC Convention Ends With Real Nastiness.  [Scroll down]  "I'm proud to be a nasty, nasty woman," Julia Louis Dreyfuss gloated.  It's not just her own aspiration, but that of the party that invited her.  The Democrats want to play at being serious, principled folks bringing the country together, but they're proud to be nasty.  "I will draw on the best of us, not the worst of us," Joe Biden claimed, accepting his nomination after a convention filled with conspiracy theories about mailboxes, smears, and cheap shots.  That promise is coming from a politician who spent his career insulting voters, calling them fat and stupid, whose family is notorious for profiting from his political office, who palled around with segregationists and sexual predators, but whom three nights of celebrities and fellow hacks from across the political swamp spectrum now insist is really a kind, decent, and loveable man.  Biden's transformation after 47 years of nastiness is just as convincing as that of his party.  The Democrats insist that Joe Biden is a man of faith, even as their caucuses clip "God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

The DNC Tried to Do Comedy, It Was One of the Most Awkward Things I've Ever Witnessed.  The DNC has thankfully come to a close.  Joe Biden ended it with a teleprompter performance in which he did not forget where he was, so in that sense, it's being hailed as a success.  Of course, no matter what happened, the headlines were already written.  It was "optimistic" and "uplifting."  Rest assured, when the RNC happens next week, it'll be "dark" and "divisive" no matter what is actually said.  Of course, it wasn't all flowery language.  The DNC also had Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame (I know she's been in other stuff, I just don't care) do a bit.  That led to some of the most awkward "comedy" I've ever witnessed.  [Video clip]  Of course, no Democrat joke session would be complete without insinuating that VP Mike Pence is gay, because that's the pinnacle of hilarity on the left.  [Another video clip]  You get it?  She changed his name to something it's not because that is slang in another country for being a homosexual.  Absolute comedic brilliance.  Note that Democrats are always allowed to get away with things that would be called "homophobic" if it came from someone on the right.

Joe Biden's DNC Acceptance Speech Gets 21% Lower Ratings Than Clinton in 2016.  Former Vice President Joe Biden accepted the Democrat presidential nomination Thursday, but his speech drew fewer viewers than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research.

Hatred, Prejudice and Rage.  I am becoming increasingly optimistic about this year's election.  It seems obvious that the Democrats have gone far overboard, and are alienating huge segments of the electorate.  There is indeed a pro-arson, pro-looting faction, but it can hardly comprise a majority.  The Democrats seem to think that Trump hatred can drag even a pitiful candidate like Joe Biden across the finish line, but Americans have never been haters.  Not a majority of them, anyway.  And there is little evidence that Trump hatred rules the electorate.  On the contrary, the current Rasmussen survey of likely voters finds Trump with a 51% approval rating.

DNC Panel Features 'Mermaid Queen-King' Who Calls For the Abolition of ICE, Police, and Prisons.  The Democratic National Convention on Tuesday [8/18/2020] featured a panelist who identifies as a "nonbinary/gender transcendent mermaid Queen-King" and who called for the abolition of the police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons.  According to the panelist's Wake Forest University bio, J Mai is a "Black-Vietnamese, transgender nonbinary/gender transcendent mermaid Queen-King," who recently became a "licensed minister in the Progressive National Baptist Church."  J. Mai made the extreme comments during a DNC LGBTQ caucus meeting.  "Why can't folks imagine a world without the cops?  Why can't folks imagine a world without prisons?  Why can't people expand their imaginations to include community care, to include an abolitionist future?" the self-avowed "mermaid Queen-King" said.  J Mai stressed that she was talking about real abolition, not a watered-down version.

Democrats Sure Hate America.  In watching the Democratic National Convention one thing strikes me over and over again — Democrats really don't like this country and the people in it.  No, this wasn't news to me, but it was surprising to see them be so open about it; proud of it, really.  The opening night was a list of grievances, an endless stream of whiny leftists declaring how racist everything and everyone is.  Honestly, if I lived in a place where I truly believed its very existence was based on oppressing me, you couldn't keep me there.  I wouldn't stick around, and I surely wouldn't try to take it over.  I'd get [...] out of there and go someplace else.  Yet, Democrats claim to love the country while calling for "fundamental transformation" of it.

The DNC's Ratings Enter Dumpster Fire Territory.  The ratings for the first two nights of the DNC are in and they aren't very good.  Compared to four years ago, total viewership among the broadcast networks is down 42%.  Even among the hardcore audience of the cable news networks, the Democrats are running at a 16% deficit compared to 2016.

Is This Real?  Why Some Are Calling the DNC Outro Monday Night 'The Moment Trump Won Re-Election'.  This cannot be real.  Did two hours of watching the Democratic National Convention cause me to lose my mind?  President Trump was blamed by one woman for causing her father's death from COVID.  Yeah, she used his dead body to score political points, I'm sure that's what he — a Trump supporter — would have really wanted.  Bernie tried to get the progressive base excited for Joe; it wasn't convincing.  And then we have the loser brigade, some no-name Republicans who are throwing their support behind Joe Biden.  John Kasich is also doing that — forever cementing himself as the Benedict Arnold of the Republican Party.  Well, at least for this cycle, he's decided to fill the role.

DNC Night One — I Think the Democrats Want Trump to Win.  Well, the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) kinda/sorta got underway on Monday night and we're still waiting to hear from the twelve people who aren't in political media who watched it. [...] One of the more perplexing things was the DNC giving a speaking slot to former Ohio governor and noted mailman's son John Kasich.  Kasich brings slightly less excitement than dryer lint to any gathering he graces but what was most amusing was that during the somnambulant lead-up to the DNC, the Democrats were acting like Kasich was a real big get for them.  He's a milquetoast squish Republican whom no Republicans like anymore, so he tucked tail and went begging for attention crumbs from the Democrats, which is the way of the spineless squishes.  After backstabbing his own party to score points with the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the media, Kasich then — as Matt details at Townhall — [betrayed] his hosts by disparaging Bartender of the Year Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Cuomo's Appalling DNC Speech, and Biden's Endorsement of It, Is an Opportunity for Republicans.  Night one of the virtual Democratic National Convention descended into cringeworthiness on multiple occasions.  It featured awkward State-of-the-Union response-style political speeches, interspersed with musical interludes and glorified Zoom meetings.  It was emceed by a Hollywood celebrity, at times giving off major telethon vibes.  I can't imagine a normal human voluntarily tuning in at the beginning of the program and making it through the entire two hours.  But if Republicans are tempted to point and laugh, they should humbly recall that their turn comes next week, and the strange, unprecedented format likely won't be any easier for them.  Democrats have the entertainment industry's most glittering creative talents at their disposal, and they came up with... that.  Some speakers were stronger and more effective than others.  A few were downright awful.  Some of the pre-packaged content was painful to watch.

Today's Democratic Party.  Today's Democratic Party is exemplified by John Thompson, who won a primary on Tuesday and is the DFL-endorsed candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 67A.  Earlier today he led a BLM harassment effort at the home of Bob Kroll, President of the Minneapolis Police Department's union.  As you can see, Thompson is a profane, violent lunatic:  [Video clips]  It is highly probable that John Thompson will be a member of the Minnesota legislature beginning in January.  This is today's Democratic Party.  If these are not the people you want running our country, you had better not just vote Republican, but contribute to Republican candidates and volunteer for their campaigns.

Black Congressional Candidate In Minn Screams At Kids In Front Of Their House, Calls Them Klansmen.  [Video clip]

Democrats' Celebration Of Coercive Government Policy Has Begun.  The socialist hootenanny, also known as 2020's virtual Democratic National Convention, is now one installment into its miserable four-day run.  What have we learned so far?  While delegates and speakers are in remote locations, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is in Milwaukee, the site he personally chose for the convention.  It is wholly suitable for the event.  The Wisconsin city might be the most socialist municipality in America.  "Milwaukee is the only large American city to have elected socialist mayors — and kept them in power for almost 40 years," says WTTW, a public (of course) television station in Chicago.  Voters have even elected socialist "state and local legislators and one congressman."

MSM Members Pan DNC: 'Feels Like One Long Ad on YouTube,' 'Please Talk Me Off the Ledge,' 'Unwatchable'.  Members of the mainstream media panned the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday for its similarity to a long infomercial and its boring and out-of-date feel.  Philip Lewis, front page editor for the left-wing Huffington Post, perhaps summarized it best in his tweet:  "The DNC so far feels like one long ad on YouTube you'd usually skip."  Charles M. Blow, a New York Times columnist, tweeted, "This is a good effort by the DNC, but you can already tell that a virtual convention is going to be tough."  There are three additional days of the DNC.

Wow, the Democratic Convention was a bizarre night of television.  The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday night with all the glamour and excitement of a Zoom conference.  The Home Shopping Network produces more dynamic programming and is far better at pushing product.  Inexplicably, former "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Bastón served as host.  Wearing a white sleeveless sheath dress and a permanent expression of teary concern, Longoria Bastón repeatedly invoked the convention's theme, "We the People."  She should have demanded a script doctor.  "YOU are the 'we' in 'we the people,'" she said.  Also: "'We the people' means all the people, even those with whom we might not agree."  Fourth-grade social studies class is more sophisticated and less insulting.

How to shock your woke kin out of Marxism.  In reading historian Paul Kengor's stunning new book on the demonic roots of the socialist movement — The Devil and Karl Marx — I came across one small section of the book that has the potential to deprogram the young Marxists in your life.  No, it is not Karl Marx's early and openly expressed willingness to walk on the wild side.  "My soul is chosen for hell," Marx wrote as an aspiring young poet, one of his many publicly declared yearnings to embrace the satanic over-soul.  (Quick digression:  Had Marx been a better poet and Hitler a better painter, just think how different the world would be today.)  Nor is it Marx's cruel exploitation of the women in his life.  No, what will trouble the clueless Marxists you might know — and if they are not clueless, they are evil — is Marx's extravagant racism and anti-Semitism.  The anti-Semitism I knew about.  The racism I did not.

Stacey Abrams:  The Perfect Democrat.  When Stacey Abrams was running for Georgia governor, she had an impressive list of social changes she wanted to make.  People paying their bills didn't make the cut.  Abrams was $228,000 in debt during her 2017 campaign for Georgia governor, including $50,000 to I.R.S.  Despite that, she managed to loan her campaign $50,000.  She also owed $76,000 in credit card debt and $96,000 for Yale Law School.  Abrams claimed that family obligations and a misunderstanding of how credit cards worked as the reason for her financial mess.  This from a woman who is a tax attorney who wanted to be the vice president of the United States.  Abrams claims the concept of handling money seemed to escape her.  She wrote that when she was at Spelman College, she got her first credit cards but was unaware that they would be "yoked to something called a credit score."

Protest held outside New York bakery over MAGA cake, bakery says it is still making the design.  A protest was held outside of a New York bakery Thursday over a MAGA hat cake.  Coccadotts Cake Shop in Albany put a picture on its social media of a cake baked into the shape of a red "Make American Great Again" hat.  The cake was a custom-order.  The cake set off a wave of backlash when it was posted in late July.  Though it was quickly deleted after the negative response, protestors from the Black Lives Matter movement and those supporting the MAGA cake faced off in front of the bakery on Aug. 13.  According to video footage from the protest, the sides are seen arguing while police officers attempt to keep a barricade between the groups.

Riots should re-elect Trump.  Only a fool would rebuild because city hall let rioters destroy 150 buildings and cause a half-billion-dollars in damage.  In Seattle, the mayor let rioters take over a six-block area, ceding the nation's first gayborhood to anarchists.  The city council cut the police budget, which forced the city's only black police chief to resign.  There are no black people on city council.  So much for Black Lives Matter.  In Chicago, rioters crossed the line and trashed the stores along the Magnificent Mile.  This broke the long-standing Democrat rule of allowing criminals to do what they want in poor black neighborhoods, but leave the elitists alone.  New York also broke that covenant.  Turning the cities into urban wastelands forces residents to flee for the suburbs.  Only the most delusional Democrats believe those refugees will vote for Basement Biden and COMMA-la Harris.

Austin guts police budget to pay Planned Parenthood.  The Austin City Council voted unanimously Thursday [8/13/2020] to gut its police budget.  The Austin Police Department, which is already about 200 officers below full strength, will have its budget cut by one-third.  The city's murder rate is spiking but evidently that's of no concern.

Democrats Dance with the Devil.  No one realized how weak the mainstream Democrat Party had become, or how powerful Black Lives Matter and Antifa had become, until they destroyed downtown Minneapolis.  Until then, they had done little more than make nuisances of themselves. [...] The riots that started in Minneapolis quickly spread to Seattle, Chicago, New York, Portland, and dozens of other Democrat-run cities.  Local authorities didn't know how to react.  After all, the rioters were presumptive Democrat voters. [...] Black Lives Matter and Antifa seem to have thoroughly cowed the Democrat Party.  Whatever they wish, Democrats shall do.  You want us to defund the police?  Sure.  Paint BLM "murals" on city streets?  Hand me a roller.  Don't want us to prosecute rioters?  Wouldn't think of it.  Looting is payback for long-overdue reparations?  Well, yeah.  Okay.  Democrats must surely worry about the optics of bowing to the rioters' will.

Crushing the Barbarians Inside the Gates.  [Scroll down]  What obliterates the woke narrative is the simple truth that the constitutional American republic with its rights and obligations under law, the free market economy together with common sense and traditional values have driven more creativity and prosperity than any other system in human history.  President Trump appreciates that heritage and wants to build on it.  Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have embraced the woke agenda and the social media cancel culture, and have accepted the visible toppling and removal of America's historic statues and monuments and the expungement of virtue from its history in order to remake and transform the nation.  The choice in the November elections could not be more clear-cut and the consequences more profound.

Kamala Has Already Struck Out.  Many analysts believe that Kamala Harris will be America's most radical left political candidate ever.  She's consistently among the top two "most progressive" members of the Senate.  She has been called one of the most radical-left politicians today; pick any pet woke cause, and Kamala will be farthest left!  These policy positions are not only constitutionally problematic; they are also prohibitively expensive, with a price tag in the multiple billions of dollars! [...] What Kamala Harris offers in the veepstakes is a promise to promote a grab bag of assorted radical goals of every oddball progressive from Bernie to AOC to Obama and be an advocate for special constituencies — pro-abortion voters, instigators of the BLM movement's racism, gun control activists, and illegal aliens.

Franklin Graham warns Biden-Harris ticket 'should be a great concern to all Christians'.  Evangelist Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical supporter of President Trump, is calling on Christians to take note of one issue presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris both adamantly support.  The son of the late Rev. Billy Graham notes, Biden-Harris "are labeled as the most pro-abortion presidential ticket in the history of our nation."  "This should be a great concern to all Christians," Graham, the president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, tweeted.  "As a follower of Jesus Christ, I am pro-life [and] believe every life is precious to God."

Biden to Ensure His Presidency 'Addresses the Unique Needs of... Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Women'.  Former Vice President Joe Biden says that if he is elected president his administration will address "the unique needs of... lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women."  "Biden knows that addressing the challenges faced by women and girls is more than just a campaign promise — it's an imperative if the Administration is going to succeed in its broader efforts to make sure the government and economy work for all Americans," says a page on Biden's campaign website.

The Editor says...
Promoting homosexuality is not "work[ing] for all Americans."

Are Today's Leftists Truly Marxists?  Marx is a hero to many labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and some Democratic Party leaders.  It is easy to be a Marxist if you know little of his life.  Marx's predictions about capitalism and the "withering away of the state" turned out to be grossly wrong.  What most people do not know is that Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite.  When the U.S. annexed California after the Mexican-American War, Marx wrote:  "Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history."  Then he asked, "Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?"  Friedrich Engels added:  "In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it.  It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will be placed under the tutelage of the United States."  Many of Marx's racist ideas were reported in "Karl Marx, Racist," a book written by Nathaniel Weyl, a former member of the U.S. Communist Party.

Why I Want Biden to Lose More than I Want Trump to Win.  Today's Democrats think the police are the enemy, not the rioters, who they like to call "mostly peaceful protestors."  Some Democrats have called law enforcement officers "storm troopers" and "secret agents."  When Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland to stop the rioters from burning down the federal courthouse, the mayor of the city and the governor of Oregon were angry with the president — not the anarchists!  This is a party that invited Attorney General William Barr to a congressional hearing but wouldn't let him respond to their non-stop onslaught of attacks.  They accused him of corruption, of perjury of violating his oath and of betraying the Constitution.  And when he tried to respond, they constantly interrupted to say, "I reclaim my time."  In plain English that means we get to talk and call you names and you're expected to shut up and take it.  If that happened on the street, someone would wind up with a bloody nose.

Far-left Portland mayoral candidate can't bring herself to denounce violence.  I joked on Friday after Portland's latest nightly travesty that Mayor Ted Wheeler was destined to be challenged at the polls for his response.  But, Portland being Portland, it would be a challenge from the left, accusing him of being too pro-cop.  I didn't realize when I wrote that that it's already come to pass.  He just missed winning a clear majority of the vote in Portland's May election, finishing with 49 percent of the vote.  The second-place finisher was ultra-left Sarah Iannarone, who nabbed a respectable 24 percent in a crowded field.  A poll taken in late June found Wheeler and Iannarone effectively tied, with a third of Portland voters undecided.  Given that the six weeks since that poll was taken haven't been a model of tranquility for the city, God only knows how much of an anti-incumbent vote might be out there now.  Iannarone could be a legit contender.

Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police department, slashes jobs and salaries.  The Seattle City Council voted Monday to move forward with a controversial proposal that would begin the process of defunding the police department.  The 7-1 vote comes despite objections from the city's police chief, mayor and the Seattle Police Officers' Guild.  The plan would ultimately slash funding to the department but not the 50% some had sought.  Seattle currently has around 1,400 police officers, and the current plan would see about 100 cut.  It was also cut the police department's $400 million budget by about $3 million, according to KOMO.  Councilmember Kshama Sawant was the sole "no" vote because she felt the proposals didn't go far enough, while Debora Juarez abstained, according to MyNorthWest.com.

Democrat-Controlled Seattle Votes To Defund Police As Violent Crime, Far-Left Riots Surge.  The Democrat-controlled Seattle City Council voted late on Monday to advance a highly controversial plan to defund the Seattle Police Department as violent crime and far-left riots have rocked the city in recent months.  The Seattle City Council voted to remove approximately $3 million from the Seattle Police Department's budget, [...]

'Defund the Police' is a media fantasy.  If you've paid any attention to the news, particularly cable news, over the last couple of months since George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, you might think "defunding" or "abolishing" the police is a widely held and even somewhat mainstream desire.  Gallup suggests this is untrue.  The vast majority of Americans of all races and ethnicities don't want the police to leave their communities.

Coronavirus negotiation 'makes me wonder' if Democrats want to tank economy:  Navarro.  White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday [8/9/2020] that he's beginning to wonder if Democrats are purposely stalling coronavirus stimulus negotiations to tank the economy in an attempt to make President Trump look bad.  "There is this theory, Chuck, that the Democrats would prefer to see the economy go into the tank for another 90 days because that harms the president," Navarro told Chuck Todd on Sunday in an interview on "Meet the Press."  "I hope that Capitol Hill hasn't become that cynical.  But watching these negotiations makes me wonder, because we've been willing to bend."  Talks have been stalled for weeks as Democrats have asked for more than $3 trillion in the relief bill while Republicans are looking for a narrower package around $1 trillion.

Trump boxes Democrats into a corner on help for the unemployed.  President Trump has given the Democrats a surprise thrashing, hoisting them on their own petard over stimulus payments in what must be the legislative jiujitsu of the year. [...] They had their chance to pass a stimulus bill that would have helped the unemployed, but for them, first-things-first:  They held that package hostage to the all-important need, for them, of bailing out mismanaged blue Democrat cites and their unions.  The little guy's $400 weekly unemployment check booster would have to wait.  Plus, multi-milionaire Pelosi pooh-poohed those checks as "an illusion" same as she did the news that workers were getting $1,000 raises during the Trump boom years, calling those "crumbs."

Fighting Leftists' Assault on American Small Business.  There is a war on small business right now in this country.  The battle lines are tied to the tenets of capitalism and free markets, which value property rights and private ownership of production, versus socialism and communism, which value "workers" and communal or state property.  When we think of property rights, land and home ownership comes to mind.  But it also includes the right to own and operate a business and be the beneficiary of the risks and rewards.  The Marxist goal is to deplete the ranks and efficacy of small business in America and have the remains subsumed by fewer and larger corporations, as well as government.  The next stage will focus on dividing the leadership and workforce in large corporations. [...] Right now the revolutionaries need the titans of industry on their side.  Non-cooperation is synonymous with blasphemy.  Evidence of this was the apoplectic response of the left's messengers when the CEO of Goya Foods did not sing their tune.

Too late!
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Now Begs Criminal Antifa Terrorists to Stay Home So Trump Won't Use His Failed City in His Ads.  It's a toss-up but Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler may have squeaked out a victory against Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Democrat New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio as America's worst mayor.  Just two weeks ago Mayor Wheeler blamed President Trump and federal agents for the 50-plus days of BLM-Antifa rioting in Portland.  But that didn't work because it was complete nonsense so now Wheeler is begging BLM-Antifa rioters to stay away from Portland because Trump is going to use their violent acts in his campaign ads.

The Apocalypse Election.  I have written many times that those on the left, because they believe they are on the side of all that is right and just, are willing to commit any depravity and injustice to gain the power they need to remake America.  Most Americans, however, do not understand this about the Democrats.  People believe all Americans have only the best intentions and would never deliberately harm the nation and its citizenry merely to obtain political power.  Therefore, people can only look on with incredulity as Democrats blatantly strive to keep Democrat-controlled state economies on lockdown — and, with the help of teachers unions, keep most schools closed in an attempt to deliberately immiserate Americans and their families in the hopes their suffering can be used against Trump.  With schools closed its been estimated that as many as 20 million workers will not be able to return to employment because they lack childcare, not to mention the irreparable damage the children will suffer.  Combined with the lockdowns, this will only aid in ensuring a hobbled economy with which they can blame and batter President Trump to deny him a second term as president.

Amid Cancel Culture, Now Academics Have Their Next Target:  Pickup Trucks.  We have watched our society slide into a disturbing trend of permissiveness when it comes to assaulting and removing aspects of our culture.  Between evictions of historical monuments, the eradicating of entertainment properties and the condemning of commonplace practices, we have almost become conditioned to accepting these efforts.  Now we may be seeing the effects of this movement metastasizing.  The Wall Street Journal delivered a lengthy treatise that looks at a normal aspect of American life, one that almost nobody looks at as being a nefarious component in our existence, with contempt:  driving pickup trucks.

The Editor says...
If you don't like pickup trucks, you should stay away from Texas!

Polls and Debates — Summertime Blues for Democrats.  Democrats now support urban destruction, domestic terrorism, hating America, defunding law enforcement, closing schools, and a full-on endorsement of the Sanders/AOC Marxist agenda.  If Democrats truly wanted a Bernie revolution, he would be their nominee, rather than Joe Biden.  I wonder if Trump planned it this way, branding Sanders as "Crazy Bernie," goading the DNC into nominating a supposedly more moderate Biden.  Better corrupt, incompetent, and demented than crazy must have been the DNC reasoning, but now they are left with a big steaming mess and few options to clean it up.

Mazie Hirono, Pro-Antifa Democrats Walk Out of Hearing, Refusing to Utter a Single Word Against Their Violent, Racist Paramilitary Thugs, Antifa.  Kyle Shideler, an analyst for the Center for Security Policy and an expert in terrorism including the doctrines and tactics of Antifa, testified before Ted Cruz's panel of antifa violence yesterday [8/4/2020].  He says he was expecting the Democrats to demur about their paramilitary allies' violence — but he was shocked to find Democrats outright supporting antifa.

Monsters Galore.  Liberation movements, at least in this country, always begin with a great sweeping cause — giving the vote and the right to rise upward to nonwhites and to women — that justly enlists most nonwhites and most women, and, once those are achieved, the goals devolve down to things such as abortion and quotas, which are more problematic, and on which many good people divide.  On things such as these, there are enormous divides between the voters themselves and the interest groups that claim to speak for them:  In the primaries this year, Democratic nonwhites and women showed no interest whatever in voting for members of their own race or gender, and much more in supporting the people whose views they espoused.  Those who ran strongest on race and abortion — Kirsten Gillibrand and "Beto" O'Rourke, who fawned on an ethnic group that he didn't belong to — left the race with between a 2 percent and a zero percent rating.

Insights to Consider Before November.  Women are upset at Trump's naughty words.  They also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.  Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders.  It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.  No border wall.  No voter ID laws.  Did you figure it out yet?  But wait... there's more.  Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year.  Her mom flies around the country speaking out about white privilege.  And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.  President Trump's wall costs less than the Obamacare website.  Let that sink in, America.  We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion nationally.  We are fighting evil.

Communist Party Leader Endorses Joe Biden.  Communist Party leader Bob Avakian has announced his support for former Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election.  Avakian, the founder and leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, told his followers in a statement on Saturday [8/1/2020] that they should vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Will Democrats accept election loss?  New report says no.  For weeks, there have been news reports and commentary on whether President Trump will "accept" the results of November's election.  The president started it on July 19 when he was asked, on Fox News Sunday, "Can you give a direct answer you will accept the election?"  "I have to see," Trump said.  "I have to see.  No, I'm not going to just say yes.  I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time, either." [...] So there is much discussion of Trump and the election results.  But there is another, equally pressing question:  Will Democrats accept the results of the election if Joe Biden loses?  A new report suggests the answer could be no.  The report comes from a secretive group called the Transition Integrity Project.  A bipartisan, anti-Trump organization, TIP was created last year by Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks and historian and think tanker Nils Gilman, "out of concern that the Trump administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process."

Revolutionary Communist Party Leader Calls on People to Vote for Joe Biden.  The leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, Bob Avakian, has stated that we currently live under a "fascist regime" and, come November, if President Donald Trump is still in office, then people need to vote "against Trump by voting for Biden."  "We are confronted by — we are now being ruled by — a fascist regime," said Avakian in a statement on the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) website. "[T]his election is different. ... The question is not whether Biden and the Democrats represent something 'good,' or whether, in fundamental terms, the Democrats are 'better' than the Republicans.  Both of these parties are ruling class political parties, and none of their candidates represent anything 'good' in the most basic and essential sense.  Biden is not 'better' than Trump...."

Mazie Hirono walks out of Antifa hearing in a huff, Ted Cruz confronts her.  Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono got triggered after Republican Senator Ted Cruz pressed her to condemn Antifa violence.  Not only did Hirono refuse to disavow the left-wing savagery, but she walked out of Cruz's Antifa hearing in a huff.  Hirono's refusal to denounce the Antifa riots, looting, arson, and assaults is like the ostrich that buries its head in the sand, hoping this nullifies reality.  Hirono walked out after a testy exchange with Cruz, who was chairing a Senate hearing on the role that Antifa and Black Lives Matter extremists are playing in the alarming escalation of violence around the country.

'You're Welcome To Say Something Negative About Antifa Right Now': Ted Cruz Spars With Mazie Hirono At Senate Hearing.  Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz clashed with Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono at the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday [8/4/2020] on antifa violence.  Cruz, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, convened the hearing to discuss the role antifa and other left-wing groups play in ongoing riots in major U.S. cities like Portland. [...] "I think that I've covered the subject quite well," Hirono said as she left.  "OK, she declined to speak, so that is the position of the Democratic Party," Cruz shot back.  "I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke, not one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers Nazis, stormtroopers and Gestapo.  To be fair, I have not heard the word Nazi, but stormtrooper was Nancy Pelosi and Gestapo was another Democratic leader.  That was less than helpful."

Dem Senator walks out of Ted Cruz's Antifa hearing: 'I don't think you listen'.  Tensions flared at a Senate hearing on Antifa when a top Democrat walked out of the room declaring she couldn't sit through Sen. Ted Cruz's rhetorical speeches any longer.  The dustup occurred when Cruz, R-Texas, blasted Democrats for not condemning Antifa more directly for the violence and destruction that has taken hold in certain U.S. cities in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.  But Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said Cruz just wasn't listening during the more than three-hour hearing when Democrats said violence is not acceptable.

Mark Levin admonishes Democrats' treatment of Barr at hearing.  Conservative radio host Mark Levin said Democrats with a "radical, hardcore agenda" were "beating up" Attorney General William Barr during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week.  "I've never seen a senior official of any administration ever treated like that," Levin said Saturday on Fox News's Watters' World, adding, "This hearing should have been how do we come together as a nation to put down rioters who were trying to overthrow the country.  Marxists, anarchists, whether they're Black Lives Matter or antifa.  But that's not how it works.  The Democrat Party is all in on this radical, hardcore agenda.  And so they're beating up on the attorney general."  Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee last Tuesday in a hearing that was often contentious as Democrats repeatedly cut off his responses by saying they were "reclaiming my time."  At one point, Chairman Jerry Nadler briefly denied Barr a five-minute break during the more than three-hour hearing, prompting the attorney general to call him a "class act."

Cancel Culture as a Religion.  What do religions do?  They have a belief system.  They have an orthodoxy, and if you don't conform to the orthodoxy you are a heretic.  Here in Seattle Spiked reports that the "Office of Civil Rights has come up with a 'race and social justice' curriculum which the city government's 10,000 employees must undertake." [...] This is what the Inquisition did.  This is what the Soviets did.  This is what the Maoists did.  This is what the Wokies are doing.

Was Karen Bass To Be Biden's VP Pick — Until The Daily Caller's Revelations About Her and Scientology?  As was reported here yesterday [8/1/2020] by my colleague Becca Lower, without warning the Biden Campaign announced that Joe Biden's selection of his 2020 running mate was being postponed for two weeks.  Also yesterday, the Daily Caller reported on leading VP contender Karen Bass's history of praising the "Church" of Scientology in Los Angeles, and its founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.  The "Church of Scientology" has a major presence in Los Angeles.  The industrial entertainment complex known as "Hollywood", especially on the "talent" side has many who advocate that clutching a couple of tin cylinders wired to a box and confessing all your impure thoughts is a path to inner peace.  That, and a couple hundred thousand dollars paid to the "church" for books, tapes, and "counseling" sessions with an "auditor" to guide you along on your path to salvation — at the standard hourly rate for such services by a "Church."

The Choice Before Us.  Back at home, left-wing radicals burn Bibles, assault and murder policemen and civilians, set fire to courthouses, vandalize and loot all manner of businesses.  On Friday [7/30/2020], thugs in Portland placed a pig's head on an American flag outside the city's Justice Center.  They put a policeman's cap atop it, doused it with a firestarter, and set it aflame.  The name of George Floyd, the career criminal who died in police custody at the end of May, was at first invoked mantra-like to justify or at least to explain this explosion of savagery.  Now, a couple of months later, there are still ritual invocations of his name but, really, you don't hear too much about Floyd.  The real agenda has come more and more to the fore.  Barack Obama summed it up when he said, in 2008, that he was after the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.  Cities like Portland give us a glimpse of what that transformation would entail.  The clips of the savages burning Bibles put me in mind of Heinrich Heine's solemn observation that Dort wo man Búcher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen:  "Wherever people burn books, they also end up burning men."  It may seem melodramatic, but here is the awful choice we face: the choice between the spirit of mayhem, burning pigs' heads, and burning Bibles, on the one side, and the traditional American spirit that cherishes the rule of law, free expression, and fructifying engines of prosperity, on the other.

The poisonous fruit of the public schools:
Nearly Half Of Young Americans Say It's Okay To Fire People Who Support Trump.  The Cato Institute just released a new report showing that 62 percent of Americans are inclined to self-censor what they say politically "because others might find them offensive."  Even moderate leftists report they feel increased fear of offending the offendable, while only the most "staunch liberals," as Cato described them, feel free to speak their minds.  The "very conservative" have been pushed deepest in the closet:  they are most likely to refrain from saying what they think politically, at nearly twice the rate of the "very liberal."  Buried deeper in the report, however, is a stunning data point that might be one of the most troubling current cultural indicators.  Forty-four percent of Americans younger than age 30 believe a company is correct in firing an executive because he or she personally donated to President Trump's reelection campaign.

Rubio hits Biden veep prospect Karen Bass as Castro regime sympathizer.  Trump campaign surrogates in Florida on Saturday attacked Rep. Karen Bass, a potential running mate of Democrat Joseph R. Biden, as a communist sympathizer who would try to bring the U.S. closer to the socialist governments of Cuba and Venezuela.  "If God forbid Joe Biden is elected president and Congresswoman Bass becomes vice president, she will be the highest-ranking Castro sympathizer in the history of the United States government," said Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican.  "I don't believe in the last six decades that there has ever been anyone considered for the vice presidency ... with this level of sympathy towards a Marxist regime."  Ms. Bass, California Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is on Mr. Biden's short list for his running mate.  The presumptive Democratic nominee said he plans to announce his selection next week.

Don't Be Surprised By Democrats' Radical Turn.  Much of today's political commentary is focused on the Democrats' hard-left swing, how it's now the party of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or the party of The Squad, to which she belongs, or is under the influence of socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Bernie Bros gang of militants.  This should surprise no one.  The seeds of radicalism were planted long ago.  Democratic strategist and Friend of Bill James Carville recently said he is "scared to death" for the future of the Democratic Party.  "Are we going to be an ideological cult?  Or do we want to have a majoritarian instinct to be a majority party?"

Democrats' Policies are Unfit for the Presidency.  The Constitution a president pledges to serve prescribes a government of strict limits, not the unlimited power to take what a person has earned and give it to other people for any desire under the sun.  One of the natural rights the Constitution is supposed to secure is to one's own property.  That's because what a person owns represents his life — his time and labor.  It can never be truly paid back after it is taken, because to take a person's property is to steal hours, days, weeks, years of his life that he will never get back.  It is to enslave him.  Democrats' entire plan for governance is a plan to abuse American citizens' natural rights to life, liberty, and property.  For health care or education or housing or any other material good to be a "right" requires that other people be forced into labor to supply such goods.  It is to proclaim a right to other people's work, which is to say their lives.  A right to control other people's lives is no right at all.  It is an abuse of power.  It is tyranny.  Pledges to accelerate tyranny, which equal treason against the Constitution, utterly disqualify a person and party from United States government.

We're at War.  Attacking Trump's Tweet in the NYT While the Democrats Foment Riots & Ruin to Defeat Him is Treason.  [Scroll down]  The people trying to destroy us stopped caring about the rules ages ago.  They faked Russian cyber-espionage against the Clinton Campaign to discredit WikiLeaks revelations about her corruption and incompetence.  They tried to frame Trump as part of their phony Russian plot.  They used the FBI to illegally spy on Trump's campaign.  They gave Robert Mueller power and an unlimited budget to destroy Trump and as many of his allies as possible.  They organized and promoted Christine Blasey Ford's perjurous hoax.  They tried to remove Trump from office for his patently reasonable attempt to get Ukrainian authorities to investigate Joe Biden's obvious corruption.  They've caused an economic catastrophe that could very well wind up being worse than the Great Depression, gaslit the entire nation into months of debilitating fear and panic, and caused the deaths of countless Americans by lying and withholding information about a virus that all the data literally says is less harmful than the flu.  They've fomented riots across the nation and caused the murder of American police officers and ordinary citizens alike by promoting the poisonous false narrative that American cops start their day fervently hoping they'll get a chance to kill someone who isn't white.  And that's just the egregious, defamatory and destructive mass deceptions the Democrats and their allies in the corporate press have perpetrated.

Insane: Seattle Moves to Abolish Entire Police Force.  Well, it may be time to deploy the military to Seattle after all because what local lawmakers are doing is nothing short of allowing the city to be engulfed in violence and anarchy.  They're moving to abolish the police.  It's not defunding.  It's a total dissolution.  Non-profit programs and "community-led activities" will replace policing.  Why?  Well, according to the resolution, the Seattle Police Department perpetuates racism and violence.  Oh, yes, and it's a vehicle of white supremacy.  It's typical 'woke' nonsense, and it's a cancer that's killing America.

From Alinsky to AOC: Will Communism Finally Win in America?  With last weekend bringing us violence across the country from "peaceful protestors" who believe America as we know it must be dismantled and capitalism should be replaced with a utopian system of "social justice" — sentiments not rejected but embraced by the Democratic Party and its presumptive presidential candidate, Joe Biden — we have to conclude that while we may have won the Cold War in Europe, here in America, it rages on.  Yes, America and her allies may have defeated the deadly totalitarian, Communist Soviet Union, but Communism is very much alive today.

Trump: Radical Left Wants To Leave Every City At Their Mercy, Incite Riots.  President Donald Trump lashed out at radical Democrats, calling them "sick" and accusing them of not loving the country in a speech he delivered Wednesday on restoring American energy dominance and the U.S. economy.  "The radical left wants to tear down everything in its way," Trump said.  "And in its place, they want power for themselves.  They want power.  Hard to believe — power.  They want to uproot and demolish every American value.  They want to wipe away every trace of religion from national life.  They want to indoctrinate our children, defund our police, abolish the suburbs, incite riots, and leave every city at the mercy of the radical left.  That's not going to happen.  That's not going to happen."  [Video clip]

No Holds Barred at the House Lynch Session.  [Attorney General William Barr] is strong and fierce, does not give an inch, does not get thrown off message, sticks to his guns, and sticks it to those who would take him down. [...] For the Democrats the hearing [7/28/2020] was "no holds barred."  No lie was off the table.  No insult was beneath them.  Under the guise of asking the Attorney General to answer questions, they rather used their allotted time to berate him, to berate President Trump, and to lie about the Antifa and other anarchist-driven riots that seek to undermine our Republic and to tear away our freedom.  They were not asking questions, and they did not allow Barr to answer them or speak when he tried.  Rather, they were like a parent on a tear against a child in big trouble, or a boss on a rampage about to fire his or her employee.

Seattle residents slam 'Defund the police' as 'radical experiment' during city budget meeting.  Hundreds of Seattle residents spoke up about proposals to "Defund the police" during a city council budget meeting on Wednesday [7/29/2020], according to reports.  The council is considering a plan that could slash the budget of the city's police department by 50 percent — resulting in layoffs for hundreds of officers — all as Seattle deals with the coronavirus outbreak and frequent riots and other unrest since the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.  While the "Defund the police" effort was initially popular in the city, opponents of the plan have been growing more vocal, Q13 FOX of Seattle reported.

Tick, Tick, Boom, Boom, Time's Up, Obama Goons?  Three fuses have been set and are now burning: (1) the explosive origin story of the Russia hoax, (2) the growing backlash against Democratic Party-endorsed Antifa domestic terrorism, and (3) the bottled up economy being shaken right now with one little thumb preventing a carbonated eruption.  They have the potential to redefine the final hundred days of this race in a way that the Democrats' electoral fraud cannot overcome.  It's a contest between a news media establishment that has gaslighted the American people regarding a Russia hoax of the Democrats' creation and all the Americans who have felt that their votes have been taken hostage since 2016. It's a contest between Democrat mayors turning American cities into war zones where Antifa insurrectionists can throw Molotov cocktails and bricks at police officers free from consequences and a growing number of Americans who finally understand that the socialists running the Democratic Party mean to keep going until the whole nation burns.

Don't Lecture Me.  We are indeed fortunate to have these liberals with us to enlighten us and show us the error of our unsophisticated, primitive thinking.  It's always such a pleasure to be lectured to by hypocritical liberals like Nancy Pelosi with her $24,000 refrigerator and $12/pint ice cream, living behind her security gates and consuming more energy than [who]-knows-what.  Or by Democrats like Al Gore and Barbara Streisand or just by 'regular' well-heeled Democrats who live in large houses, alone or just two people, in a 9- or 10-room 3000 sq ft+ home with a big screen TV in every room, central AC and a big, honkin' SUV or luxury car in the three-car garage.  This after watching them embark on a lifelong pursuit of monetary wealth and material possessions/snooty fashion.  Capitalism, tax breaks and profits for them, thank you, but socialism, spread-the-wealth, and high taxes for us detestable conservatives.

Are You Sure 'Vote for Joe Biden or We'll Kill You' Is the Best Campaign Pitch?  Supporters of a candidate with confidence in the politician's ability to win based on making the better argument don't usually use the heckler's-veto-on-steroids to coerce people to their point of view.  Yet that is precisely what Ronald Brownstein did in an article in The Atlantic.  The underlying tone of the article is:  "Vote for Joe Biden or the national temper tantrum will only get worse."  He accuses the president of positioning blue cities as a threat in order to rally voters to his law-and-order agenda.  A brief scroll of Twitter will show you that riots in cities like Seattle and Portland are absolutely a threat to safety and security.  No one needs President Trump to point it out.

The lunacy of the 'largely peaceful protest'.  The great conundrum facing the anti-American left at the moment is how to react to the violent protest ripping up various Democratic-run cities.  What is the preferred narrative?  The two main choices are 1) it's all peaceful protest, the 'right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances'? or 2) let 'er rip:  we're out there destroying stuff and hurting people because the country's falling apart and the sooner the better.  Just so, a contributor to the Oregonian, announcing his fears of an impending 'anti-democratic, racist police state', wondered whether he would find 'the courage to resist racism and fascism', by which I suspect he means a free, open, and democratic election in which a candidate he does not favor has the indelicacy to win.  For it should go without saying that the overriding criterion for choosing which narrative to plug is this:  which story will do the most damage to Donald Trump and Republican prospects in the November election?

Hello Liberals:  Your Politics Will Not Get You to Justice.  Back in June our beloved Seattle City Council passed Ordinance 119805 that forbad the Seattle Police Department from using pepper spray on mostly peaceful protesters as of July 26, 2020.  So the Chief of Police put out a letter to business owners and residents on July 24 that, sorry Charlie, "the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd."  But no worries, a federal judge just blocked the ordinance for two weeks so, on Saturday night when mostly peaceful protesters rioted in Seattle, the police department was able to use "less lethal tools" to disperse the crowd.  But imagine if the mostly peaceful leftie protesters were white nationalists marching to protest in the face of woke Seattle that Blue Lives Matter.  I don't think that the Seattle City Council would be forbidding the use of tear gas or the less harmful pepper spray.  Imagine the outrage among the media and the Twitterati and the bellowing call for the police to regain control of "our streets."

The Establishment Has No Clothes.  No one earns accolades for living an upright life.  Mike Pence makes a rule that he won't be seen alone with a female not his wife in order to quash any possible perception he might act in an untoward fashion or even be tempted to, and he's ridiculed and calumnied for it.  When Drew Brees stands up for the American flag he's forced to apologize.  When Bari Weiss makes a stand for diversity of opinion within the pages of the New York Times, including running an op-ed from a popular U.S. senator, she's hounded out of her job.

Democrats Start to Worry Support for Portland Riots Will Help Trump.  The first signs of worry emerged early Monday [7/27/2020] as some opponents of Trump, surveying the damage after a weekend of nationwide riots, began to worry openly if supporting "peaceful protests" in Portland, Oregon, would hurt Democrats.  Led by former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrats have insisted that the riots targeting a federal courthouse and federal law enforcement officers in Portland are actually "peaceful."  They have been supported by media that downplays violence committed by the "protesters" and highlights anything the officers do to defend themselves or to disperse the crowd.  The Democrats have also demonized federal law enforcement for merely doing what local authorities have refused to do.

This is not news.  It is a lengthy and roundabout way of stating the obvious.
Liberals fuel cancel culture because they don't fear getting canceled.  Liberals once prided themselves on being open-minded.  In contrast, today's resurgent Left seeks to police opinion and ruin the lives of those who disagree with them.  Whether it's in the world of business or sports, on college campuses or within newsrooms, there has been a significant shrinking of discourse, thanks to efforts by so-called liberals to target those who disagree with them.  Now, a new poll provides some insight into why that may be.  Put simply, liberals are eager to cancel those who disagree with them because they do not fear that those same tactics will be used against them.  And they are right not to fear because non-liberals are not nearly as likely to be cancelers.

Dan Crenshaw: 'My suggestion to the American people is start listening to the Democrats'.  U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw urged Americans to listen carefully to what is coming out of the mouths of Democrats.  The Texas Republican warned that there is a lot at stake in November during an appearance on Fox News, adding that there is a "clear choice" for the 2020 presidential election and the difference between the parties "could not be more severe." [...] "Let's take them at their word — they want to destroy the things that bring us together, our common bonds, our founding, our love of country.  Why do they do that?  Whey do they say those things?" he asked.  "Because fundamentally they want to dismantle our country and its institutions — that's not my words, that's their words — dismantle our economic freedom, our border security, our energy sector, all of it."

Liberals are never scared to speak up.  Why are conservatives?  A handful of friends and I have spoken privately about the crippling anxiety apparently only experienced by independents and right-leaners when politics comes up in a social setting.  Right up until now, it was just a theory.  A new study confirms what we suspected all along:  Liberals really do feel like they can spew their thoughts freely, while everyone else quivers with fear that anything they say might offend.  The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, published a study this week showing that overall, 62% of people in the United States believe that the current "political climate" keeps them from sharing their political opinions.  Broken down by ideology, however, self-identified liberals and "strong" liberals were significantly more likely to feel comfortable airing their opinions than centrists or conservatives.

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Marxists are bent on the violent overthrow of our government.  Socialists and Marxists proudly engage in violent insurrection every night in Seattle and Portland, among other places.  Violence and hate speech come from the political left, not the right.  Just ask Bernell Trammell.  Socialists have a propensity for physical violence.  It is therefore no surprise that those of us on the right refrain from expressing our views.

33 Tough Questions to Pose to the 'Woke'. 
  1. Do you think the same laws should apply equally to citizens, regardless of their political opinions, unless they favor the violent overthrow of the government?
  2. Or is it okay for whatever faction is more powerful to silence the expression of contrary ideas, insofar as they can get away with it?
  3. Should we make "hate speech" exceptions to silence people whose speech we really, really hate?
  4. Should small groups of people be able to dictate public policy without democratically passing laws?
  5. Even if they hold signs, attack public monuments, and claim that they're fighting "racism"?
  6. Do you believe that generally, people should be free to associate with whomever they wish, and hire whom they like?
  7. Or should the federal government scrutinize every private decision made by any citizen or business, to see if it has "disparate impact" on minority groups?
  8. Should members of minority groups be subject to similar laws regarding their conduct, or should they be exempt?
  9. Should white males be subject to discrimination, as a non-protected class, while others are protected from it?

Democrats' Draft 2020 Platform:  White People Are the Root of All Evil.  In 2020, it's definitely not "OK to be White" at the Democratic National Convention.  A draft of the DNC's 2020 Democratic Party Platform obtained by Politico shows a frequent focus on racial issues, with language that repeatedly accuses whites in America of benefiting unfairly from society at the expense of minorities.  The preamble to the platform reads:  "We will give hate no safe harbor.  We will never amplify or legitimize the voices of bigotry, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or white supremacy."  Curiously, in the 15 times the document mentioned "whites," it doesn't capitalize the word the way it does Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans.  Every time "whites" are brought up, it's in a critical way.  Often, the platform vows to "close the gap" between white Americans and all other Americans — without providing solutions.

Report: Working Class Voters In Pennsylvania Are Wary Of Joe Biden And Democrat Policies.  One of the reasons Democrats went with Joe Biden is because they really want to win back Pennsylvania in November.  Some polls show Biden having a slight lead over Trump in the state, but there are plenty of voters there, many of them Democrats, who know deep down that Biden and the Democrats will be bad news for jobs, especially in the energy sector.

Portland City Officials Order Feds to Remove Protective Fence from Courts Building to Aid Rioters in their Ransacking.  Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland, Oregon officials have made it clear whose side they're on and it's not the side of law and order.  For over 50 straight nights antifa-BLM rioters have ransacked the downtown and destroyed public property.  [Video clip]  When the leftist mob took aim at the Hatfield United States Courthouse that President Trump sent in federal agents.  Now Portland officials are ORDERING the federal government to remove it's protective fencing around the Hatfield Courthouse.

'Absolutely irresponsible': DHS chief calls Democrats' condemnation of law enforcement 'dangerous'.  Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf warned against a "dangerous" trend of demonizing law enforcement across the country.  As federal officers have clashed with protesters amid violent unrest in Portland over the past few weeks, Wolf said Sunday that there's been an inaccurate description of what agents are doing to control the situation and that calling the demonstrations "peaceful" is misleading.  Wolf said when he recently spoke with Democratic members of Congress, only one lawmaker, whom he didn't mention by name, asked him if his officers were OK.  "We're standing up for law and order," Wolf said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo [7/26/2020].  "And anyone who says otherwise is not being accurate.  I will say that the other side that wants to criticize law enforcement, what they don't do, they do not condemn these acts of violence in Portland.  I have talked with a number of Democratic members of Congress, and all but one, only one, have asked me about the health of my officers.  All they want to do is condemn law enforcement for doing their job."

The Problem in Portland Isn't the Law — It's the Lawlessness.  Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that Antifa "protesters" are "largely peaceful."  And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle, and Denver haven't been looted yet, who am I to argue?  Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform downtowns into a mess and create quality-of-life issues for thousands of law-abiding citizens.  And the mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing "protesters" are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves. [...] If mayors do nothing to stop anarchists from tearing down federal monuments or from defacing, vandalizing, and attempting to burn down federal buildings, the feds have every right to dispatch teams of agents to restore order.

What Top Democrats Say About Federal Law Enforcement Help for Their Cities.  Democratic mayors and other leaders of some large cities have grown edgier in opposing President Donald Trump's push to use federal agents to quell violence, using terms such as "resist" and "fascist."  Some elected Democrats in affected cities have vowed to sue and even arrest federal agents as they criticize federal action to protect government property in Portland, Oregon.  For "Operation Legend," the White House has announced plans to send federal law enforcement officials to Chicago; Kansas City, Missouri; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Over the next three weeks, the Justice Department intends to expand the effort into Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee.

Freedom to Deface.  Mayor Bill de Blasio has cancelled a graffiti-eradication program targeted at cleaning private buildings.  He is thus deliberately sending New York City back to its worst days of crime and squalor.  The symbolic significance of this cancellation is as large as its practical effect.  Nothing sent a stronger signal in the late 1980s that New York was determined to fight back from anarchy than the transit system's campaign against subway graffiti.  That campaign was based on Broken Windows theory, the most transformative idea in urban policy over the last 40 years.  Broken Windows recognizes that physical disorder and low-level lawlessness — graffiti, turnstile-jumping, and litter — telegraph that social control in a disordered environment has broken down.  That low-level lawlessness invites more contempt for public norms of behavior, including felony crime.

Democrats Project their own Character Flaws onto Republicans.  Democrats claim they support free speech, but then they label opposition speech as "hate speech" in order to suppress it.  Liberals tell white conservatives they cannot express an opinion on race and tell men they cannot hold an opinion opposed to abortion.  Democrats like to characterize Republicans as poorly educated religious nuts bitterly clinging to God and their guns.  Yet radical liberal activists, who support Democrats and are supported by them, have been the first to resort to violence in the recent Black Lives Matter "protests" that have often escalated into riots.

Not likely, unless you like high taxes, crowds, rampant crime, and snow.
Andrew Cuomo Knows What You're Thinking:  Let's Frantically Flee to 'Safe' New York.  Despite pandemic problems and — at least in the Big Apple — a surge of murder, apparently, The Empire State's the place to be.  During his Monday [7/20/2020] press conference, the governor declared a major victory in the fight against COVID-19, given a July 12th report of no coronavirus deaths.  The state hasn't been able to make that claim since March.  Andrew explained that NY's pandemic progress has taken the lead over other states, and so people are running into its safe arms.  But here's the rub:  He also said the throngs of refugees may cause a corona uptick.

America Held Hostage.  Things we thought were sacrosanct, the icons of our national identity, now are scorned.  We can pretend that this doesn't matter.  They're just statues, after all.  But they do matter.  Not for the pleasure they give the rioters so much as for the pain they inflict on patriots who love America.  Nor has it stopped with the vandalism.  We've gone to the next level, with the looting and rioting.  In the last month major cities have become unsafe, as rioters work out the logic of what "resistance" means.  American stores lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and merchants boarded up their stores for protection.  Nothing to see here, folks, said the liberal media, which gaslighted the looting and the boarded-up storefronts, and portrayed the riots as peaceful protests against an illegitimate president. [...] We're in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they'll let this go on as long as Trump is president.  The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested.  Try to defend yourself, and you'll find yourself prosecuted.

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DNC Milwaukee Convention Continues to Shrink — Latest Prediction of Only 350 Attendees.  The DNC Milwaukee Convention continues to shrink.  The latest prediction suggests possibly only 350 participants will attend their presidential convention in Milwaukee this year. [...] Democrats cancelled plans for a closing night speech at Milwaukee's Miller Park Stadium back in November 2019.  That was before the coronavirus.  But since the coronavirus the convention plans have been scaled down significantly.

Mayor de Blasio:  NYC Is Safer With Fewer People in Jail.  New York City mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) said Thursday [7/16/2020] that his city is safer and better with fewer people in jail, even as shootings and violence have spiked in the city this summer.  "We now have fewer people in our jails than any time since WWII and we are safer for it and better for it," de Blasio said.  But the city has experienced a dramatic uptick in crime this year.  According to the most recent NYPD crime statistics, violent crimes — including shootings, murders, and burglaries — have all skyrocketed.  Year-to-date shooting incidents in the city have increased by 61 percent, and the number of shooting victims has increased by 70 percent.

If America [Is] So Bad, You're Free to Leave.  Honestly, if the country is such a cesspool of racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression, brutality, and is fundamentally rigged against everyone not born with a silver spoon in their mouth, why the hell have you stayed?  It's not like you're in prison here, no matter how much you whine that it is like one.  You're out in the streets seemingly every other week "fighting oppression" over just about every way you can dream up to claim someone is oppressed, crying about the fascism of this or that without it sinking in that you're still free to whine about imagined fascism and if we really were a fascist country you'd be in jail or dead, why not get out?  You don't seem to have a coherent message beyond you hate it here, so leave.

Democrats Are Forcing a Civil War.  Americans believe that one can never be too rich, too thin, or too well armed.  And we are, indeed, well armed, with citizens who are beginning to see the game that is being played.  Many estimate that between 300 million and 700 million firearms are in the hands of the public.  If only 10% of those guns are brought to bear, it would mean a minimum of 30 million weapons deployed against Antifa and BLM.  No one wants to see bloodshed, especially gun-owners, who for the most part want to be left alone to protect their families, homes, places of worship, and places of employment.  Yet people are not going to stand by and watch America become another "socialist paradise."  Americans are going to fight back — this should worry the left, as every hunter is something of a sniper.

Biden's Green New Deal Is Just As Crazy As AOC's.  Joe Biden's $2 trillion climate change plan, released this week, was described by one liberal outlet as "the Green New Deal, minus the crazy."  We beg to differ.  Just look at Biden's plan to eliminate the internal combustion engine.  Biden says that on his first day in office, he will develop "rigorous new fuel economy standards aimed at ensuring 100% of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be zero emissions."  He hasn't said exactly when he wants new cars to be all-electric, but House Democrats have already established a timetable.  Their new climate change plan calls for mandating 100% "clean" vehicles by 2035.  Keep in mind that as of today, plug-in electrics account for 0.5% of cars on the road, and made up less than 2% of new vehicles sold in 2019.  And that's despite massive public subsidies that have cost taxpayers $5 billion in credits to — mostly wealthy — EV buyers.  Clearly, consumers are not that interested in plug-ins, which is why Biden and his fellow Democrats want to force electric cars on everyone in the name of climate change.

Leftist Protests, More Sacred Than Church Services.  For many Americans, the most painful consequence of the coronavirus lockdowns was closing down church services.  The grace and peace of Sunday makes it easier to make it through the week.  But our media and political elites are indifferent to that pain, or openly hostile. [...] Most regular churchgoers didn't want to fit into that secular-media stereotype of being so fanatically trusting in God's protection that they would gather unmasked in churches and share hugs and handshakes.  Church singers would disband their choirs for the duration.  They were willing to observe lockdowns as a public-health necessity.  But then came the "Black Lives Matter" protests clogging the streets to protest the death of George Floyd.  Suddenly, mass gatherings were not only allowed, they were praised and glorified on a global scale.  The coronavirus counters dropped off cable-news screens, replaced by "beautiful" protest scenes, live from the streets.

Seattle City Council Member Suggests Layoffs By Race If Police Budget Is Slashed, Chief Best Says No.  Last week Ed wrote about the push to cut Seattle's police budget by 50 percent.  In response to that, Police Chief Carmen Best released a video to her department warning that some budget cuts were probably coming.  "I will fiercly advocate that we focus on realistic, responsible solutions not political gestures or pandering or political posturing," Best said.  She continued, "I do not believe we should ask the people of Seattle to test out a theory that crime goes away if police go away.  That is completely reckless."  That phrase made news and was even tweeted out by the White House.

I'm Milwaukee's police chief.  Here's what 'defunding the police' might mean.  Our officers are also members of the community, have families, care about police-community relations and, like everyone else, want to go home safely to their loved ones at the end of their shift.  I have heard the outcries of racial injustice.  Generational wounds of oppression, racism and disenfranchisement have been reopened by examples of totally unacceptable and completely illegal police brutality.  These are real emotions and reactions that cannot be understated.  The byproduct of the past few weeks is great division and further discord.  It has turned into an "Us vs.  Them" mentality.  That must change.

De Blasio says he's got 'no respect' for NYPD union leader amid public feud and rising crime.  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has had a contentious relationship with his police department practically since his first day in office, said Thursday [7/16/2020] he has "no respect" for an NYPD union president who has ripped him often in the past.  "The [Sergeants Benevolent Association] has only practiced division, they foment hatred ... they do not try to help us move forward," de Blasio said of the SBA during his daily press conference, the New York Post reported.  "They don't try to create anything good.  I have no respect for the leadership of the SBA," he added.

Defiant Portland mayor tells feds to 'stay inside' or 'leave' city, asks DHS to clean up graffiti.  Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler lashed out at the Department of Homeland Security on Twitter Tuesday [7/14/2020], urging federal agents to "stay inside" or "leave" as the city faces its sixth straight week of protests and unrest.  "I told the Acting Secretary that my biggest immediate concern is the violence federal officers brought to our streets in recent days, and the life-threatening tactics his agents use," Wheeler wrote Tuesday evening.  "We do not need or want their help."

Beyond City Council Chambers and Newsrooms, Americans Still Back the Blue.  [Scroll down]  Frankly, I don't have much hope for the cities in the short term.  People keep saying "vote them out," but the people saying that mostly don't live in the cities.  People who do live in the cities mostly don't vote in their local elections.  Those who do vote in those elections are more and more denizens of the hard left who see city government as their instrument of revenge and path to their destructive fantasies about "transforming" America.  Most Americans don't want America transformed or reimagined.  If anything, they want its best pre-plague aspects restored — such as the vibrant economy we had and the historically low violent crime rates we took for granted less than six months ago.  The urban cancel culture leftists are far outside the American mainstream, but they dominate city elections and thereby own city council chambers.

'Hex racists': Witch joins effort to take out conservative students at University of North Texas.  A campaign launched to oust a conservative student club at the University of North Texas includes a petition, a campus president "looking into" the matter — and if that weren't enough, apparently a witch has joined the cause.  The president of the Young Conservatives of Texas chapter reportedly faces spells of some sort from at least one self-described witch and possibly more who have sided with progressives seeking to pressure administrators to ban the group.

Dem Rep. McEachin:  Racial and Environmental Justice 'Intertwined'.  During Friday's Democratic Weekly Address, Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA) stated that Americans recognize more has to be done to deal with "two critical and intertwined issues in our nation:  the unfinished work of racial justice and the need for environmental justice to protect our communities."

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What is "environmental justice," and what does the environment have to do with race?

Seattle police chief says 'reckless' and 'political' 50 percent budget cut would lead to major layoffs for black officers.  Seattle police Chief Carmen Best on Friday accused the City Council of recklessness and "political pandering" by advocating to slash her department's budget by 50 percent, arguing that cutting funds to that extent would be asking citizens "to test out a theory that crime goes away if police go away."  "These 2020 cut scenarios by the Council are political gestures, however, not realistic or rational solutions.  SPD is absolutely committed to transforming the department and has already started the process.  But if we are asked to cut 50 percent of our department overnight, we will be forced into decisions that do not serve our shared long-term goal of re-envisioning community safety," Best wrote in a letter addressed to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Friday [7/10/2020].

Two Important Questions for White Democrats in 2020.  The current rage for cultural Marxism, notably its critical race theory trope that America is "systemically racist," causes many problems for the Left and, in particular, its presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden (a.k.a., "Joey Basement") as well as other Democratic office seekers. [...] The Left's proposed solution for America is a "fundamental transformation."  The specifics are hazy, but apparently it requires the imposition of socialism and/or Communism; the abolition of our actual history; the cancellation of individuals; the eradication of constitutional rights; and the destruction of prosperity.  Talk about a cure being worse than the disease, especially when the disease does not exist!  For white Americans, however, these adherents to the "1619" thesis would have us believe there is no cure.

Dukes of Hazzard stars say 'the politically correct generation has gotten way out of hand'.  Dukes of Hazzard co-stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat addressed the long-time controversy over the show's iconic General Lee car, saying political correctness has gone too far as protests mount over the Confederate flag that the famed vehicle features prominently on its roof.  Both stars defended the customized 1969 Dodge Charger used in the hit action and comedy show about cousins Bo and Luke Duke, former moonshiners who live in rural Georgia.  The car, named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee, has enjoyed its own popularity as much as the actors, becoming a crowd pleaser at fan and collectors conventions.

House Democrats Propose Budget Cuts to Park Police as Monuments Are Being Targeted by Mobs.  House Democrats on the Appropriations Committee proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Park Police as monuments and memorials are being targeted by mobs and protests continue to occur in the streets in the Washington, D.C. area. [...] The Park Police has seen a lot of action as protests became riots during the recent weeks of unrest the country has experienced in the aftermath of George Floyd's death.  The Department of Interior said at least 60 Park officers were injured during the riots in the nation's capital.

LAPD Scorns Nationwide Effort to Bring Them Down.  The nation seems to have turned on the law enforcement officers of this country overnight as protests and demonstrations morphed into riots and a demand to end police departments.  As leaders of major American cities, members of Congress and entire city councils have called to either abolish police or gut their budgets, the men and women in blue have bravely continued to do their best to keep people safe.  Protester and rioters, who have gathered en masse in cities and towns across the nation for more than a month, attack officers, light their equipment on fire, and even shoot at the police with near impunity as mayors and governors applaud.  "Don't be afraid of democracy," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) famously said to President Trump at the beginning of a weeks long occupation in the center of her city.  Several people were shot and two teens were killed in that zone after protesters blocked the police from entering while calling them "pigs" and insisting they be eradicated.

Crenshaw takes aim at Duckworth's patriotism, accuses her of supporting the 'destruction of America'.  Freshman GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Texas) took aim at Sen. Tammy Duckworth Wednesday, questioning the Illinois Democrat's patriotism after she suggested that there should be a "national dialogue" about whether to remove statues and monuments of the founding fathers.  Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, was discussing voter outreach to veterans during a Trump campaign "MAGA meetup" event on Thursday when he took a swing at Duckworth, a combat veteran who lost both her legs serving in Iraq, accusing her of supporting the "destruction of America," The Washington Post first reported.  "I think a general message that the left stands for the destruction of America and the right doesn't probably works pretty well with veterans, even liberal ones, because even liberal veterans probably don't agree with that, unless you're Tammy Duckworth," he said.

The Winds of Woke.  Before Thursday morning [7/9/2020] I had not heard of Thomas Bosco, and I am willing to bet you haven't heard of him either.  He runs a café in Upper Manhattan. [...] Bosco seems like a noble small businessman making his way in a turbulent world.  There's a problem, though.  He once expressed an opinion.  Though Black Lives Matter signs are posted throughout the restaurant, and its owner identifies as "a liberal guy who supports almost every liberal cause I can think of," in early June Bosco told MSNBC that he voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and expects to do so again. [...] "The backlash was swift, as you might expect," writes Paybarah.  Neighbors denounced Bosco on Facebook.  Some vowed not to patronize the café.  Randi Weingarten, who as president of the American Federation of Teachers draws close to half a million dollars in salary and benefits, wrote online that it would be "hard to ever go back."  No more tips for the barista from her.  As for the drag queens, they are taking their glitter elsewhere.

Squad members push wide-ranging bill that slashes police funds, gives reparations.  Democratic Reps.  Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts announced the BREATHE Act on Tuesday — legislation that would radically transform the nation's criminal justice system by eliminating life sentences, retroactively expunging drug crimes, shutting down multiple federal agencies and permanently closing prisons and immigration detention centers, among other agenda items.  The bill also seeks to end gang databases, establish pilot programs for a universal basic income, and afford voting rights and "lifetime education" to all illegal immigrants and incarcerated criminals.

9 Radical Ideas in the Biden-Sanders 'Unity' Platform.  Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released the policy recommendations of their "unity task force" on Wednesday [7/8/2020]. [...] Here are nine of the most radical proposals in the "unity" document: [...] [#3] "End cash bail."  The platform calls for eliminating cash bail across the country — a radical experiment in criminal justice reform that has only just begun in California and New York, with results that are deeply concerning.  The idea is to reduce inequities, but in practice the end of cash bail means releasing violent criminals to commit more crimes.  One suspect in antisemitic attacks in New York City late last year, for example, was repeatedly re-arrested after her releases.

Americans Defund Democrats in Statehouse Elections as Democrats Seek to Defund Police.  Americans significantly decreased contributions to Democrats running for state legislature seats in the second quarter as the Democrat Party has turned hard left, fundraising information announced this week shows.  The lackluster performance by Democrats at the state level could have broader national implications.  First off, state-level political trends sometimes forecast later looming national trends — "from the State House to the White House," the saying goes.

Biden Says Police Have "Become the Enemy" and Calls For Defunding the Police.  Joe Biden on Wednesday [7/8/2020] fully embraced the defund the police movement.  77-year-old Biden stumbled his way through an interview with health care activist Ady Barkan.  Ady Barkan was diagnosed with terminal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2016 and speaks through a computer voice.  Biden went all in and caved to radical leftists like Ilhan Omar and AOC and said he "absolutely" supports taking away funding from police departments across the country.

New Yorkers 'no longer trust the police,' state attorney general says.  Two weeks of protests and unrest in New York City after the death of George Floyd only intensified the overwhelming distrust many feel toward the New York City Police Department, the state's attorney general, Letitia James, concluded in a preliminary report. [...] James also said at a press conference that after three days of public hearings, in which she heard from protesters and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, the commissioner's testimony on the events was "at odds with the vast majority of the protesters who came before us."

Joe Biden, the Anti-American Candidate.  Sadly, the truth and reality of America are being broadly distorted by media and others on the left, and it's having impact.  According to a new Gallup poll, 63% of Americans say they are very proud or extremely proud to be American.  This is the lowest reading ever recorded since Gallup has measured it.  The first time it was done, in 2001, 87% said they were very or extremely proud.  Among Republicans, 67% say they are very or extremely proud.  However, among Democrats, it's only 24%.  Forty-nine percent of white Americans say they are very or extremely proud compared with 24% of nonwhite Americans.  The drop among nonwhites in recent years has been particularly sharp.  Just four years ago, 45% of nonwhites said they were very or extremely proud.

The Gangsterization of the Democrat Party.  Let's start with a series of rhetorical questions related to the upcoming presidential elections:
  •   Does a broken storefront add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a burning car add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a killed or wounded policeman add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a toppled statue add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does an "autonomous zone" add votes to the Democrats?
  •   Does a demolished synagogue or a destroyed church add votes to the Democrats?
Simple human logic suggests that the answers to all these questions are negative.  Why do Democrats do all of this?  Currently, the majority opinion is solidly against the rioters.  Why did Democrats move from ideological gangsterism to a real one?  After all, this is silly, just silly.  Democrats have brought America into a post-Orwellian world, in which they demanded the presence of the police at a protest rally dedicated to defunding of police.  So many police officers, abandoned by their Democrat mayors, decided to go Galt.  Are Democrats complete blockheads or political duffers?

Tucker Carlson:  We Cannot Let Democrats Run This Country Because They Hate It.  Monday, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson opened his show by giving President Donald Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota high marks.  He then pointed to the Democrat backlash and concluded that Democrats and their allies in the media hate the country.  He alluded to remarks made by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to bolster that point.  Carlson then posed the question:  Could the left in America lead a country that it hates?

Know Your Enemy:  Undeniable Truths About the Left.  [Scroll down]  More and more people are becoming wise to all that is going on and that includes the average Democrat voter.  They see what their party is doing to this country and they are taking note.  These average working-class Democrats are just like the average working-class conservatives who only want to have a good job, savings, good schools for their kids, a nice house, and to live in a safe community.  They see their party becoming dangerously radicalized and I do not doubt that they are just as troubled about the direction of the country as we conservatives are.  These men and women may not voice their disgust , but do not be surprised to read a post mortem to the election that will show many Democrats casting a vote for Trump.  And I believe that will also be true of the Black community.

How San Francisco's Democrats made Jim Jones, and then made his memory vanish.  Do you remember that time the entire Democratic Party in California behaved like cultists, enraptured by Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones?  If you lived through the bizarre suicides of 918 people in Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978, it's hard not to remember where you were when you heard the news.  It would be like forgetting about the Challenger explosion or Sept. 11.  But collective amnesia over just who aided and abetted Jim Jones is much easier to explain.  The same influence used on Jones's behalf during his life helped after his death to erase the causes and candidates he supported.  "Such greatness I have found in Jim Jones's Peoples Temple," Harvey Milk gushed.  Yes, that Harvey Milk.  Willie Brown, later speaker of the California assembly and mayor of San Francisco, compared Jim Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.  Dianne Feinstein joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones "in recognition of his guidance and inspiration" in furthering "humanitarian programs."

The Fierce Fight Over America's Ideals and History.  Americans do more than tolerate calls to live up to our highest ideals.  We embrace them.  Martin Luther King knew that when he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.  "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.  This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... So we have come to cash this check."  Honoring that check brings together Americans of all political stripes.  Most think, rightly, that King's dream is the American dream.  They do not believe the dream itself is a fraud, an opiate for the masses.  They reject this frontal assault on America's history and basic values.  They see it every day on television and, more privately, when their children come home from school and say what they are being taught.

Cambridge walk-out:  Whole Foods employees boycott over facial mask policy.  It began three weeks ago with two Whole Foods employees being told they cannot wear Black Lives Matter face masks on the job.  The two employees in Bedford, New Hampshire were sent home for a violation of the company's dress code policy.  The employees were told to go home several times, it is reported, for violating store policy by wearing face masks and sneakers imprinted with "Black Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe."  One worker said they wore the apparel for two days before being told about the store policy.

Democrat Senator:  Founding Fathers And American Heroes Are 'Dead Traitors'.  Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) criticized President Trump's 4th of July speech at Mount Rushmore for focusing on the accomplishments of historical figures.  "He spent all of his time talking about dead traitors," Duckworth, a potential Biden vice president pick, told CNN in an interview.  In his speech, President Trump listed numerous historical figures and celebrities who played a large role in American history.  Among those listed were the founding fathers, the presidents of Mount Rushmore, Fredwrick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and Elvis Presley.  "Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children," President Trump said, as he highlighted the accomplishments of notable Americans.

Could IT Happen Here?  [Scroll down]  One reason Hitler wasn't taken seriously during the early 1930s was because the world media presented Hitler (and Mussolini) as caricatures to be laughed at more than feared. [...] Most law-abiding Americans shake their heads in disgust at what is happening.  Some view anarchist antics as more comical than threatening.  For instance:
  •   Weirdly designed pink [...] hats that look like props from a 1950s sci-fi movie.
  •   Garage door pull that had been used for months suddenly seen as a KKK noose.
  •   Bizarrely named autonomous zones that are declared separate countries.
  •   Young white girls yelling at older black cops that the black cops do not understand racism.

Spoiled 'self-hating white chicks' sing 'Ashamed to be an American,' illustrate what's wrong with BLM.  On Saturday [7/4/2020], a young, gay, anti-Trump white woman posted a TikTok video depicting her and another young white woman singing an anti-American rendition of Lee Greenwood's classic patriotic song, "God Bless the USA." [...] In short, she's a far-left zealot, and thus her views are completely detached from reality, as noted in the tweet above by black reporter and conservative commentator Jon Miller.  According to Miller, the two are "self-hating" in the sense that they hate the country where they grew up and now live seemingly comfortable lives.

Time for cancel culture to ditch the Kennedys.  If Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus no longer pass woke muster in Boston, then it's time for the Kennedys to go.

Leftists Stomp, Dance on U.S. Flag Outside White House on July 4th.  Far-left "anti-fascist" and Black Lives Matters (BLM) activists stomped and danced on the United States flag Saturday as part of a Fourth of July protest in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.  The activists were caught on camera by Breitbart News stomping and dancing the Cha-Cha Slide on the flag.  A number of those in attendance appeared to be affiliated with Refuse Fascism, an Antifa group founded in 2017 to combat President Donald Trump's administration.  Others in the crowd were also seen wearing BLM t-shirts and identified themselves as supporters of the cause.

Democrats Are Fine With Watching America Burn.  For weeks, cities across the country have been overrun by leftist anarchists seeking to destroy the United States from the inside out.  Leftist mayors have not only stood by to watch but have openly endorsed criminal behavior.  After all, it's "for a good cause."  In Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan allowed leftist anarchists to take over a number of city blocks and called it the beginning of a "summer of love."  After multiple murders of black teenagers, Durkan still did nothing to shut the zone down and tied the hands of the police chief.  When 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson was killed, she didn't bother to call his father with the news.  She finally took action when rowdy protestors, led by socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, marched to her personal home.  In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot had the nerve to lecture President Trump on leadership as murders and shootings in the city skyrocket.  In Minneapolis, the city council voted to defund the police while using thousands of dollars of taxpayer money for their own private security.  In New York, Mayor Bill DeBlasio is slashing the NYPD's budget and allowing the mob to vandalize statues of George Washington and other important historical figures.

We must decide whether we want to save America.  America is in crisis.  Her destiny is on the line, and she will survive only if we still love her.  A battle rages in the streets, in academia, in the culture, and in the hearts and minds of the American people over whether America was and remains a good and great nation. [...] Don't believe for a second that the anarchists who have hijacked peaceful protests are conflicted on this issue.  They want to tear down the entire system, which they say cannot be fixed.

Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News.  In the six weeks since a multiracial group of Minnesota cops killed George Floyd, America has learned all sorts of things about what caused the crime.  It wasn't just those cops' fault, you see.  It wasn't just the responsibility of the city of Minneapolis or even the state of Minnesota.  As it turns out, every white person in the world is responsible for Floyd's death.  That's why we now need to tear down any statue of any historical figure who was Caucasian, even the guy who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.  That's why any white person who voices a black character on a cartoon show needs to step aside now.  That's why we need to expunge that episode of The Golden Girls where they wore mud masks and the dumb one said, "We're not really black."  All of those things are racist.  All of those things made those cops kill that guy.  And we're just getting started.  Everything that white people enjoy is racist, because they're white people.  Even going to national parks is racist now, because most of the people who go to national parks are white.

National Parks Are Latest Target of Systemic Racism Claim in America.  Elements of the left are claiming now that America's national parks are built on systemic racism.  "The outdoors and public lands suffer from the same systemic racism that the rest of our society does," Joel Pannell, associate director of the Sierra Club, said in an ABC report, titled "America's Great White Outdoors."  The report called the parks "stubborn bastions of self-segregation."  "If we don't address this, and we don't see how all these things are interrelated, then we're going to risk losing everything," Pannell said.  "You're not going to have public lands to enjoy."

U. of Texas Law Prof Wants to Rewrite 'Racist,' 'Obsolete' Constitution.  University of Texas at Austin Constitutional Law Professor Richard Albert argued this week that the United States should revise the Constitution to remove "racist" and "gendered" language.  In the op-ed published by The Hill, Albert claimed that the Constitution suggests that only men can be elected president of the United States.  University of Texas at Austin Law Professor Richard Albert published an op-ed for the Hill this week in which he argued that the United States should revise the Constitution to be compatible with the progressive values of the modern era.

What a Great Time to Be President!  [Scroll down]  For President Trump, the present challenges are transformational.  To overcome them, he will continue to face fierce, unprecedented opposition from the Left who, even prior to Trump's election have engaged in lawless, seditious activities to undermine his campaign, his legitimacy, and hamstring his administration.  This leftist opposition is not dispositive of his ruin, however.  Indeed, as every leftist leader, organization, and institution sounds more and more like an MSNBC commentator, the American people will do to them what they have done to that ill-fated network:  Continue to tune them out.  After all, there is a reason left-leaning networks have fewer viewers than Fox, and liberal talk radio pales before the audiences of conservative radio:  Americans don't want to hear their country and themselves slandered as immoral and evil.  There are simply more Americans who want to hear that they and their country are good and decent and can accomplish great deeds.

Joe Biden Owns The Democratic Party's Insanity.  In New York City, shootings have skyrocketed over the past few weeks to levels not seen since what we refer to as "the bad old days."  Teenagers are being senselessly killed in our streets.  What is the Democratic Party's answer to this?  They are stripping a billion dollars from the $6 billion budget of the New York Police Department in a display of virtue signaling that will lead to bullet holes in black and brown bodies.  As Democrats across the country plot to defund the police and tear down statues of great Americans, as they cower to mobs that set up "autonomous zones" where people are raped and murdered, Joe Biden is hiding behind his mask.  Every single time a racist or bigot says they support Donald Trump, the media demands the president denounce them.  Why isn't that same media demanding Biden denounce the Jacobin mobs destroying our cities?

Breakdown.  [Scroll down]  [T]he Black Lives Matter movement is tweeting about police defunding, last weekend's gay pride marches, and NASCAR's Bubba Wallace, the subject of yet another hate-crime hoax.  DeRay Mckesson, an early BLM organizer in Ferguson, is retweeting about whether homophobes are secretly gay.  Activist Shaun King, who recently called for vandals to destroy stained-glass windows portraying the Baby Jesus and Mary, is retweeting that Mount Rushmore is an act of vandalism.  Ja'Mal Green, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago who was arrested in 2016 for assaulting and attempting to disarm an officer, offered a $5,000 reward on Saturday for information on the killing of the one-year-old boy in Chicago, but coupled that offer with another call to defund the police.  Since then, Green has been tweeting about abortion rights and the extradition of President Trump to Iran.

Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs.  President Trump had a great riff at his rally the other day in Phoenix.  It was all about "abolish," about how the Left wants to abolish the police, ICE, bail, even borders.  Trump's riff is effective because it is true.  The Left has gone off the deep end, and they're taking the Democrats with them.  Well, there's another "abolish" the president can add to his list, and it just might be enough to tip the scales this November.  Joe Biden and the Democrats want to abolish America's suburbs.  Biden and his party have embraced yet another dream of the radical Left: a federal takeover, transformation, and de facto urbanization of America's suburbs.  What's more, Biden just might be able to pull off this "fundamental transformation."

$1.5B in NYPD cuts not enough for AOC: 'Defunding police means defunding police'.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday [6/30/2020] the proposed $1.5 billion NYPD budget slash didn't go far enough.  "Defunding police means defunding police.  It does not mean budget tricks or funny math.  It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so the exact same police remain in schools," the self-described Democratic Socialist said in a press release about the budget deal between the City Council and Mayor de Blasio.  "It does not mean counting cuts in overtime as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways.  The fight to defund policing continues," she said.

Virginia Democrats Propose Reducing Charge For Assaulting Police Officers.  Virginia Senate Democrats are proposing the reduction of the charge of assault on a police officer from a felony to a simple misdemeanor offense.  The proposal, one of 28 championed by the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus to reform the state's law enforcement systems, would get rid of the current law that considers an assault of a police officer a Class 6 felony and imposes a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months.

DNC Official 2020 Position:  Celebrating July 4th Equals White Supremacy.  Under normal conditions one might expect to identify this moment as the official moment the rubicon of DNC insanity has been crossed.  However, it's 2020, therefore as soon as you think the boundaries of DNC stupidity have been reached, the DNC will bring out their stupid boundary stretchers.  In a tweet earlier tonight [6/29/2020] the DNC takes the official position that celebrating the fourth of July is the equivalent of celebrating white supremacy.

Seattle City Council Member Blames 'Capitalism's Brutality' for CHOP Murders.  [Scroll down]  I have no idea how someone like this ever gets elected.  I mean, I understand how Democrats get elected even if I have profound disagreements with them on policy and social issues.  But Kshama Sawant has shown herself to be an insane person for years.  She's actually suspected to have let protesters into the City Hall some weeks back before the CHOP was established on the streets.  She should be in jail, not rattling on Twitter about how capitalism is somehow responsible for lawlessness and murders.  Sawant's "movement" is failing like all socialist movements ultimately fail.  It's destroying businesses and it's costing people their lives.  The fact that the mayor of Seattle won't step in and stop this is an incredible breach of duty.  If Seattle's residents care anything about their own safety and prosperity, they have to change course and kick these people out of office.  Unfortunately, what seems obvious to outsiders is often lost on those living in these areas.  They are so eaten up with faux guilt and wanting to appear woke that they'll continue to vote for their own demise.  It's sad to watch.

These are dangerous times.  The left wants to force you to be silent.  That is why you need to speak up.  The liberty-minded majority has to speak up for freedom or it will be silenced forever.  That is not hyperbole.  Facebook and the authoritarian left have become more blatant about silencing the pro-liberty right to the point of directly influencing the upcoming election.  Katie makes the critical point that we need to step in and counter the efforts of those who would impose authoritarianism.  While we don't agree with every point she makes, she does emphasize that we need to leave the ad hominem attacks to the leftists.  We are on the right side of history.  The facts are on our side.  [Video clip]

America's Problem Is Systemic Liberalism.  Look through the endless woke tweets of your favorite hack journalist, pinko pol, or Hollywood half-wit, or even go up to some self-described liberal in your own life, and see if you can find one iota of deviation from any of the approved liberal dogma.  Good luck.  You won't find a smidgeon of nonconformity.  You won't detect a molecule of dissent. [...] You can't reason with them — appealing to reason is futile.  Systemic liberalism is the real poison in America's veins, not the fanciful notion pushed by bigots, charlatans, and demagogues, that the American enterprise is dedicated to invidious discrimination on the basis of race.

Who's the Real Party of the Rich?  [Scroll down]  How do we shed light on the party of the ruling class?  Where can we reliably compare and contrast the effects of Democrat and Republican policies on common Americans?  Since Washington, D.C. is a moral swamp where Deep State bureaucrats use all means at their disposal to destroy all adversaries to the ruling class, more can be learned at the state level.  Small businesses are in a sense the "canary in the coal mine" because they lack the resources and social connections to reasonably navigate burdensome regulations.  The owners of these businesses also tend to have an independent streak that does not sit well with many of the credentialed elites who regulate them.

'This is not Seattle': Oklahoma protesters hit with terrorism charges.  A district attorney in Oklahoma hit several protesters with charges of assault, rioting, and terrorism in connection to recent violent protests that took place in Oklahoma City.  Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said on Friday [6/26/2020] that he chose to pursue the toughest charges against the rioters because he does not support the lawlessness that has taken place in some parts of the country, including the "police-free" region of Seattle known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protests, or CHOP.  "This is not Seattle," he told the Oklahoman.  "We're not putting up with this lawlessness here."

Voting Isn't Enough to Combat the Woke Left.  Recently, I read with great interest James Lindsay's essay called "The Woke Breaking Point."  There, he invites his readers to ask friends and acquaintances "What would it take for you to say that the Woke movement has gone too far?"  This, he suggests, is a way to help people keep themselves honest:  if you consider in advance what state of affairs, specifically, would be "too far," then you will be able to recognize better the excesses of the totalitarian Left and more ready to resist them at the point when it becomes absolutely necessary.  Reframing the question, he writes:  "Ask.  When is enough, enough?"  To his credit, Lindsay recognizes that posing this question is a tricky rhetorical gambit.  "To get real about this, you shouldn't expect this conversation to go well," he writes.  "It might, of course, depending on the relationship, but it's very likely to be received defensively or with an assumption that you've lost your mind.  So here's some advice:  don't expect it to go well.  Don't expect them to come around.  Don't expect them to take you seriously.  Just get the question out there where they have to think about it."

Minneapolis Officials Calling to 'Defund Police' Spend $63G on Private Security.  Minneapolis City Council members who called to 'defund the police' amid the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd have spent $63,000 on private security detail following death threats.  The private security detail is reportedly costing $4,500 a day in taxpayer's money.  The total spent over the last three weeks now stands at $63,000.  "The names of the people getting security details are not public," a city spokesperson told Fox News.

Seattle City Council Unanimously Votes to Repeal Drug Traffic and Prostitution Loitering Laws.  The Seattle City Council unanimously voted to repeal the city's drug traffic and prostitution loitering laws on Monday, sending the bill to Mayor Jenny Durkan for signing.  Two years in the making, the bill seeks to eliminate the ordinances helping police crack down on loitering by suspected drug dealers and prostitutes — ordinances that a lead sponsor of the repeal bill calls "manifestly unjust," The Seattle Times reports.

Shameless: Minneapolis city council votes to disband police — but pays $4500 a day for private security.  Protection for we, social workers for thee?  The Minneapolis city council seems determined to prove the hypocrisy of "defund the police," all the way to the point of satire.  Yesterday, the council voted unanimously to pursue a still-ambiguous plan to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a more politically correct "Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention."  Would that include police, though — and if so, what's the point?

Is It Time For Americans To Start Talking About The Devil?  [Scroll down]  Don't get me wrong.  I'm not saying that all these anti-white radicals have consciously entered a pact with the Devil.  Yes, there are those Alinskyites who have deliberately sold their souls to Satan, but most radicals are unwittingly under his spell.  Think about it:  Do you ever wonder why it is so impossible to communicate facts and logic to an Open Borders zealot?  Try as we might we can never break the hypnotic hold that anti-Historical American Nation malice has on these people.  Do they not seem like they are operating under a kind of otherworldly spell?  Saint Paul warns us that Satan's minions often appear as "ministers of righteousness" exercising the art of soul murder by employing the language of goodwill.  In due course, today's ministers of righteousness are working overtime to ruin the lives of ordinary white people like Amy Cooper, Nick Sandmann, or Paula Deen.  They experience a moral thrill whenever they cancel, dox, and deplatform people whose only crime is being white.

Leftist Minstrel Show:  Self-abasing protestors mostly white, and blacks are starting to laugh.  Anti-racism protests, which form the backdrop of the violence, desecration and looting going on around the U.S., are starting to look just a little bit strange to some black people.  Made up almost solely of whites, they feature kneeling, self-abasement, calls for absolution, and vows of reparation.  There have been celebrities declaring they 'take responsibility,' Congress members bowing in Kente cloth stoles, ritual kneelings in the street, uplifted fists of ecstasy, and in one particularly ridiculous instance, thick, pasty white protestors dancing around a fallen Columbus statue as Indian drums beat, oblivous to the logic of their declaration, in that they best go back to Europe to atone.  They've actually become religious rituals for white people with no religion and in need of one, what with global warming not coming through on its promises of Armaggedon.

The Left's Idea of Bringing Us Together.  Earlier this month, former Defense Secretary James Mattis whined:  "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people.  Instead, he tries to divide us."  Apparently, Mattis wasn't alive when Barack Obama was president.  His quest for unity started as a candidate, when he described Middle Americans as bitterly clinging to religion, guns and anti-immigrant sentiments — in other words, as fanatics, gun nuts and xenophobes.  In 2016, Hillary Clinton was the left's unity candidate — heaping calumny on the heads of "deplorables" (bitter-clingers 2.0).  Now comes Joe Biden, who said at an April fundraiser that Trump voters, "really support the notion that, you know, all Mexicans are rapists and all Muslims are bad."  So, if you're tired of illegals streaming across the border, Dems say you believe Mexicans are all rapists and if you're critical of the way Muslim countries treat Christians, to Dems, it's the same as saying, "all Muslims are bad."  Naturally, no one in the establishment media denounced this slander.

RNC ad puts a spotlight on Dem tactics that bolster 'Marxist' attack on America.  The Republican National Committee released a new ad this Tuesday designed to highlight how "left-wing anarchists are using chaos to destroy America" as Democrats watch sometimes with tacit approval and other times with beaming support. [...] [T]he video links the ongoing madness being perpetrated across the country by Black Lives Matter extremists — think police cruisers being burnt, police officers being run down, statues being toppled, etc. — with the incendiary rhetoric of Democrat political figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Victor Davis Hanson: 2020 Election Is Now an 'Existential Question,' 'Civilization' vs.  Its Destruction.  The protests and rioting that began with the killing of George Floyd in late May have morphed into something much more insidious in late June, to the point where issues that previously dominated the election landscape no longer matter so much, some conservatives are saying.  As anarchists and "protesters" tear down statues, declare autonomous zones, and deface public property in Democrat-run cities, it's "not about the icon on the statue, it's about humiliation and power," Victor Davis Hanson, an author and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, told Fox News's Tucker Carlson Monday night [6/22/2020].

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What will happen when Trump is re-elected?  The riots will continue.  What will happen if the Democrat (whoever replaces Biden) is elected instead?  The riots will continue unimpeded.

New Jersey ranked least patriotic state in America.  Thinking about holding your Fourth of July blowout in New Jersey?  Better think again.  The Garden State is the least patriotic state in the US, according to a new ranking released Monday [6/22/2020] by financial advice Web site WalletHub.com.  Measuring 13 metrics on military and civic engagement — including veteran residents per capita, percentage of adults who voted in the 2016 presidential election and rates of volunteerism — the study ranked Jersey dead last among the 50 states.  But flag-waving New Yorkers shouldn't get too smug, as the Empire State finished next-to-last in the ranking.

How a Conservative Commentator Turned the Left's Cancel Culture Campaign Against Itself.  The left-wing mob is recharged and totally insane.  They're back on this cancel culture nonsense.  They're tearing down statues of historical figures they view as problematic.  There is no reasoning with them.  They're the intellectual al-Qaeda of our time.  You don't negotiate with terrorists.  As Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Roosevelt are being targeted, two things are clear.  This has never been about Confederate statues, folks.  This has been centered on the Left's hatred of America and its history and the bizarre fetish to rewrite it through a woke paradigm where no nuance is afforded to anyone.  The far-left loony code of ethics, for lack of a better term, is retroactively applied here.  It's utterly insane.

"When the new battleground for civil rights is ice cream, it may be time to lay down arms."
The Activist Never Sleeps.  In the wake of last week's Supreme Court ruling on gay rights in the workplace, Andrew Sullivan asked what sounded like a reasonable question — when can proponents of a cause claim victory?  This, of course, is a rhetorical question, as Sullivan himself later admits.  The answer is "never," and it is as applicable to our current turmoil as to the Court decision.  Victory means the game is over.  That is not how activism works.  Activism is an industry whose only goal is self-perpetuation.  Activism provides livelihoods, social, and political power, and a sense of relevance.

Ben & Jerry's honors Juneteenth: 'Defund the police, defend Black communities!'  Ben & Jerry's isn't leaving the company's stance up for interpretation.  The beloved ice cream maker took to Instagram Friday to speak out about the importance of Juneteenth, which emancipated black Americans who remained enslaved two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.  "Defund the police, defend Black communities!" Ben & Jerry's captioned a brightly colored image of a black individual scooping ice cream.  "This #Juneteenth, it's more important than ever that we dismantle the racist and ineffective model of American policing.  Learn more about how defunding the police works and why we desperately need it."

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Whatever you do, please don't ever buy this company's products.  Unless you're a lying, statue-toppling, America-hating, baby-killing Democrat, of course.

Democrats Have Failed the Black Community for Too Long.  In recent weeks, Americans have watched radical leftist anarchists and Antifa thugs engage in extreme violence and murder that will haunt many people for the rest of their lives.  Fifteen innocent civilians and two police officers were shot and killed, hundreds of civilians were savagely and brutally beaten, and more than 700 police officers were injured nationwide.  Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed as businesses and communities in more than 42 states were devastated by arson, looting, and mayhem that activists quickly followed with a call to defund the police.  With each passing day, both of us asked ourselves the same question: where are the governors and mayors of these cities who took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States and keep residents safe from harm?  Instead of upholding law and order — also known as doing their jobs — they turned a blind eye to the violence while praising the demonstrations that the radicals were using as cover.

This Leftist Tantrum Is an Information Operation and Trump Is Winning It.  [Scroll down]  This still an information operation, not a kinetic one.  They want to convince us we are powerless, that everyone else supports their commie agenda, that we cannot win.  Their tactics are designed to create that impression and crush our morale.  These include the 24/7 media hype, the outright media lies, the movie stars with their dumb PSAs, the staged statue attacks, the corporate solidarity proclamations, the social media cancellations, and the craven kneeling by people who are supposed to stand up for us.  But another tactic, familiar to any student of insurgencies, is to provoke an overreaction by those in power in order to undermine its moral authority.  They want is to make us (including the president) think this is a kinetic operation, and get our side to make fundamental strategic errors by failing to recognize the true nature of the threat.  They hope that such a mismatch between perception and reality will then lead to gravely damaging blunders.

Are We Headed into Year Zero?  Describing the fallout from Stanford University's decision 30 years ago to banish Western civ, Stanley Kurtz has produced an in-depth report outlining how the goal of "[a]cademic history as currently written and taught ... is to undermine the public's sense of national or civilizational identity.  With nothing left to kill or die for, the world will presumably 'live as one.'"  David Randall at RealClearEducation remarks on the report's stark conclusions that abandoning the study of Western civilization "was the erasure of a body of knowledge that constituted the American identity.  To remove Western Civ was a body-blow against America's civilizational memory — brain damage deliberately inflicted[.] ... This brain damage makes it possible for Americans to be molded by woke tyranny's euphemisms of social justice, multiculturalism, and global citizenship."

How Sweet to Be a Democrat.  They seem to think it's game to engage in despicable acts and dare anyone to hold them accountable.  No matter how bold and in your face the act, no matter how crazy the statement or preposterous the proposal (think Green New Deal), they know they will not be seriously questioned or held to account, let alone disciplined. [...] They can do and say whatever they please, safe in the knowledge that they have the media in their pockets and that most younger people haven't been taught anything that's true or that matters and therefore have no way to sort truth from fiction.  They know that many — if not most — folks rely solely on emotion, not reason and evidence, to determine what is real and what is fake.  They utilize this knowledge and those people in their incessant quest for power at all costs.

Poll: Less than a quarter of Democrats are 'extremely proud' to be American.  Barely one in four Democrats say they are "extremely proud" to be an American, according to a new poll.  A new Gallup survey of 1,034 adults living in the United States found that 42 percent said they were "extremely proud" to be an American, while 21 percent said they were "moderately proud."  Among Democrats, only 24 percent rated themselves "extremely proud."

Harvard Professor:  "Defunding The Police Is Not A Solution And Could Cost Thousands Of Black Lives".  A Harvard university Professor has urged that defunding the police would cause more loss of life, citing figures showing that there are "450 excess homicides per year" when police are not able to do their jobs proficiently.  "Defunding the police is not a solution and could cost thousands of black lives," professor Roland Fryer wrote in an email to the College Fix.  Fryer has recently authored a research paper titled "Policing the Police:  The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice Investigations on Crime," noting that police are less present when 'viral incidents' occur, meaning crime, including homicides increase... a lot.  "Our estimates suggest that investigating police departments after viral incidents of police violence is responsible for approximately 450 excess homicides per year" the paper reads.

Denver Board of Education votes unanimously to remove police from schools.  It sounds like there was plenty of tension at the Thursday night [6/11/2020] meeting of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education.  A vote was held on a proposal to remove all SROs (school resource officers from the Denver Police Department) from all public schools in the district.  After four hours of heated debate and public comment, the board voted unanimously to remove them.  The number of SROs on campuses is to be reduced by 25% immediately with all remaining officers to be given the boot by June of next year.  Going by the local CBS coverage of the meeting, the reasons given for the decision sounded as if they had absolutely nothing to do with anything that's been going on in the local schools and it was more about national politics than anything else.

The Kountry is Korona Krazy.  [Scroll down]  In Seattle, people calling themselves anti-fascists stormed a police station and took over a neighborhood.  They're extorting money from small local businesses in exchange for "protecting" them.  They expel the people they don't like from their little utopia.  Now they're threatening to form their own nation in downtown Seattle comprised of only people they like.  They call it Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ (how hip is that?).  This bit of socialist paradise is ruled by a homophobic criminal warlord who prances around with an AK-47.  The Seattle police chief wants to expel these criminals and return the neighborhood to the residents.  For that, Seattle libs want to cancel her.  In their eyes, the fact that she is a black and a woman is not enough; if she opposes people who trespass, loot, riot and steal in the name of a protest, then she's a racist.  The Seattle mayor is more woke than the police chief.  Unlike the police chief, the mayor supports the rioters.  Because the rioters hate America and she does too.

Mayor Walsh declares racism a public health crisis.  Mayor Martin Walsh is declaring racism a public health crisis and is aiming to transfer $12 million from the police overtime budget to help put his order in motion immediately.  Walsh said Friday [6/12/2020] there is a "new urgency" to erase racism in the city and added Boston's budget for the coming year will reallocate roughly 20% of the police OT allotment to programs for youth and other needs.  That will start with $3 million for the Boston Public Health Commission.  A new task force, chaired by former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Wayne Budd, will also review police force policies and equity issues in the department.

Entire Florida city's SWAT team resigns after police chief kneels with protesters.  Officers of the Hallandale Beach Police Department were so angered by their chief kneeling to show solidarity with protesters that every member of the SWAT team resigned from those duties.  The officers did not resign completely from the police force, and will stay on duty.  Those who resigned specifically cited City of Hallandale Beach Police Chief Sonia Quinones kneeling with protesters against racism, hatred, and intolerance as the reason for their startling act.

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I would say kneeling with protesters was a startling act.

Pelosi presenting special US flag to Floyd family sparks outrage; 'an insult to our service members'.  Scores of Americans were outraged after seeing a picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) presenting an American flag to the family of George Floyd as though he had been killed fighting for the country.  The photo, which was seen posted on various social media sites, was confirmed as genuine by BizPac Review after locating it as part of a collection involving the family of Floyd on Pelosi's official Twitter feed. [...] Scores of people reacted negatively to the photo after seeing it reposted by another Twitter user.

Leftists Claim They Want Revolution, But They Underestimate The Conservative Majority.  Revolution is usually used to topple the ruling elite.  In this case, the target is the concept of constitutional freedom that is held dear by a broad well-armed sector of society.  What the liberals seek is a complete government executed civil war against conservative-minded citizens.  They will use the rule of law in an attempt to beat us down.  They will use the much-disdained law enforcement to enact their proposals.  And finally, when that doesn't work, they will utilize the military.  Make no mistake; they want us compliant.  They don't want us gone because we are the producers.  They underestimate the silent majority — we who are cleaning our weaponry, as we watch feral morons destroy things on TV.  The reason for our silence isn't that we're meek conservatives.  They haven't heard from us, because they haven't poked us, yet.  They will regret it when they do.

Parks Dept. employees spotted cleaning Coney Island bathroom with US flag.  A day before Flag Day, two city employees were spotted using the Stars and Stripes to mop the floor of a filthy Coney Island restroom, a witness told The [New York] Post.  Jose Gonzalez, a Guardian Angel who was on patrol on the boardwalk Saturday afternoon, said he saw two employees from the Parks Department wiping down a men's bathroom with a flag mop. [...] Gonzalez snapped a photo of the mophead.  "This is an absolute disgrace especially one day before Flag Day, an honored day that no one is discussing in New York City," said disgusted Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.  "Clearly, we are not educating our citizens.  At a time when we are all divided, it's the flag that brings us together."  The city Parks Department did not immediately return Post calls for comment.

How President Trump Just Won Re-Election.  In the wake of the Floyd protests, the president has defended law and order.  He has defended business owners and police at a time when Democrats are claiming that reliance on the police is a form of "white privilege."  So when a violent criminal is breaking into my house and I call 911, that's "white privilege," and I should just let myself be robbed and murdered?  This is the crucial moment of the Trump presidency, but not in the way the media have framed it.  By standing his ground and resisting calls for change, the president will win another term.  Conservatives are watching Trump's response with intense interest because in defending law and order, he is defending us as well.  Conservatives know that they have nothing to apologize for.  It is the rioters, looters, and killers in the streets, including many young white radicals, who should be apologizing — and they should apologize from inside a prison cell.

Trump vs. Biden and our yearning for 'normalcy'.  Anyone who imagines "defund the police" doesn't actually mean defund the police should watch the viral video featuring Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey confronted on the issue by protest leaders.  Frey had been at all the protests, had sobbed at Floyd's coffin, held every correct progressive opinion — until activists asked him if he would agree to defund police.  "We don't want no police," an activist leader clarified for Frey.  When Frey couldn't agree, he was booted from the protests, as protesters hurled invective at him.  The trouble:  Police forces remain broadly popular.  Over 50 percent of Americans consistently say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in police, with another 30 percent saying they have "some" confidence.  It isn't just white people, either.  Polls have found that as many as two-thirds of African Americans have confidence in the police; a HuffPost/YouGov poll last week found that 49 percent of black people oppose defunding the police.

Anarchy, Seattle, and All That CHAZ.  Three cities, all supremely liberal, represent an American descent into anarchy against which no one is standing.  After New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wanted to slash the police budget, the New York City Council is going about cutting $1 billion from that budget, about 16%. That will inevitably cause a reduction of police presence around the city and, with equal inevitability, result in an increase in crime.  President Trump has said that if Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Mayor Durkan didn't restore order in Seattle, he would.  But he has done precisely nothing.  In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed in police custody on May 25, the city council plans to disband its police force entirely.  On Friday, the city council voted to replace the police with a "community-led public safety system."  What [...] is a "community-led public safety system"?  And then there's Seattle.

Gathering Is Essential — Unless You're Republican.  Destroying a business is tolerated, reopening one forbidden.  Democrats are bailing out rioters, and sending salon owners to prison.  Going to church is worse than trying to burn it down.  Protesting is a threat to public health, until experts declare your cause worthy enough.  These are the new, ever-changing rules of Democrats' America.  We'll forgive you if you have a hard time keeping up — but they won't.  After months shaming Americans who had the audacity to want to reopen their businesses safely as COVID-19 cases waned, social distancing is suddenly less important than "social justice," according to the media's health "experts."

Stereotyping for Thee, But Not for Me:  The Lawless States of America.  What athletes, actors, educators, most press and celebrities mouthing off about this don't get is that the rest of us don't want to pay to attend a sporting event, or spend time watching an awards show whose participants hijack it to make a political statement or gesture.  Find another platform and do it on your own time.  Kneel all you want, but not when the audience is captive.  The orchestrated show of Democrat-elected representatives, culturally misappropriating African tribal garb and kneeling, looked like a Saturday Night Live skit.  Between the pandemic shutdowns and the mass looting and arson, the rest of us, for the past three months have had many legal rights ripped from our arms, mostly in Democrat-run cities and states.  The protests have erupted in foreign cities; friendly and enemy states tsk-tsk or mock us.  And, it was all too easy.  Are we not better than this?

Black Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Defunding the Police.  A new poll has found that black Americans overwhelmingly oppose rioters' demands of defunding the police.  The YouGov/HuffPost poll found that most Americans do want police reform, such as banning chokeholds, but defunding the police was the least popular policy they asked about.  "Self-described liberals support defunding the police by a 13-point margin," HuffPost reported.  "But nearly every other ideological and demographic group opposes it.  Democrats and Democratic leaners oppose it by a 4-percentage point margin, and Black Americans oppose it by a 20-point margin."

Why Americans Must Stand Up to the Left's Power Grab.  Parts of the movement started by widespread revulsion at the murder of George Floyd have metastasized into a power grab by hard leftists.  Their aim goes beyond dismantling the police — likely to have an early sell-by date — but targets the suppression of such tenets of liberalism as speech and property rights.  Conservatives who want to conserve the republic as it is need to gird up for this battle.  For a brief, ephemeral moment, the country came together in condemnation of Floyd's death in police custody in Minneapolis.  But a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, so those who want to change America root and branch, because they see it as an experiment not worth preserving, sensed an opportunity for their agenda.

Silence is Violence:  The Quest for Totalitarian Democracy.  When a movement says, "silence is violence," it is no longer democratic, but a totalitarian movement that opposes the very essence of choice — the right to be apolitical.  Mass movements with ostensible democratic goals start out toward benign change, but their successes only feed a hunger for greater political transformation.  Left to the streets, that hunger is attracted to the extremes as the extremists are attracted to it.  When the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, who has passionately sided with the opponents of police brutality, is heckled out of a demonstration because he refuses to commit to the mob's demand to defund the police, that is shoving someone into the theater of the absurd.

Amazing! Trump Just Got Democrats to Defend a Criminal, Anarchist Mob.  Whether he meant to do it or not, Trump has gotten two prominent Democrats, a governor of a state and a mayor of a large city, to defend what can only be described as the unlawful actions of a violent, anarchist mob.  They hate Trump so much and are so fervent in their desire to oppose his every utterance they have gladly defended the indefensible.  All Trump had to do was make a common-sense condemnation of anarchy, theft, violence, and hooliganism in Seattle and Democrats reflexively attack him and defend the criminals.  So now the political lines are drawn.  Trump opposes and condemns the mob that has commandeered several blocks of a major American city as their own.  Prominent Democrats have defended the action and even praised it as patriotic.

Just In:  Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with 'Community-Led Public Safety System'.  The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously voted a resolution to replace the police with a 'community-led public safety system.'  Get out while you can!  The radical left is pushing to "defund the police" following the death of George Floyd.  By "defund the police," the left means replacing the police with Sharia patrol, Black Panthers, La Raza and other anti-Christian, anti-white social justice enforcers.

Amazon may stop streaming 'Dukes of Hazzard' over Confederate flag, report says.  Amazon is reportedly considering removing the immensely popular 1970s series "The Dukes of Hazzard" from its streaming library as it reviews its content offerings in the wake of racial tensions and protests happening throughout the US.  The TV series ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1979 until 1985.  It follows the adventures of Bo and Luke Duke, who create mischief in their fictional small town of Hazzard County, Ga.  The show has been criticized over the years, specifically for the boys' well-known car, The General Lee, which is emblazoned with a confederate flag on the roof.  As a result, Bloomberg reports that the popular streaming service is thinking about removing it so as not to court any controversy with the ongoing movement happening throughout the US. Amazon currently offers "The Dukes of Hazzard" both for free on its ad-supported streaming service, IMDB TV, as well as for sale on the Amazon store.

Seattle 'Autonomous Zone' Demands U.S. Citizenship for 11 to 22M Illegal Aliens.  Seattle, Washington's, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is demanding that all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States be granted American citizenship using Seattle Police Department funding.  CHAZ, formed by anarchists, Antifa members, and Black Lives Matter activists, has released a list of demands that would shift Seattle Police Department funding away from policing resources and towards providing naturalization ceremonies to all illegal aliens.

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The CHAZ people have declared themselves a separate country.  What do they care about U.S. citizenship?

Has America ever had a more crazed mayor than Seattle's Jenny Durkan?  It's no longer big news that Black Lives Matter, Antifa, anarchists, sex offenders, and criminal opportunists seized a six-block area in Seattle's chi-chi Capitol Hill district.  The same people who protested against Trump's walls built walls around their Utopian paradise, the gun-haters armed themselves, and the ones decrying identification at elections demand identification for anyone seeking to enter the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ).  Most mayors would be horrified, but not Jenny Durkan.  She likes it.  According to Wikipedia, the Capitol Hill district is a densely populated area known for its counterculture and LGBT communities.  It's in sync with the 87% of Seattle's population that supported Hillary in 2016.  It's in this neighborhood that BLM has brought forth a new nation, conceived in hysteria and violence, and dedicated to the proposition that all black people are created better than everyone else (because only their lives matter).

Poll: 55% of Democrats Support 'Defund the Police'; 64% of Americans Oppose.  A new poll released Friday [6/12/2020] showed that 55% of Democrats approve of calls by the Black Lives Matter movement to "defund the police" — though 64% of the country as a whole opposes the idea.

Worse than the limousine liberal: 'Prius woke-sters' cheer chaos at personal risk.  In 1969, New York mayoral candidate Mario Procaccino went after his rival, the movie-star-good-looking incumbent John Lindsay, by deriding him and his supporters as "limousine liberals" — people who, in the words of a Procaccino campaign memo, "preach the politics of confrontation and condone violent upheaval in society because they are not touched by it and are protected by their courtiers, doormen and private police guards."  Procaccino's sound bite immortalized one of the more enraging figures in modern US society — the preachy, self-righteous, anti-capitalist but conveniently rich and socially prominent person who decries American injustice and gives lip service to the need for radical change without ever having to fear the consequences of the often-violent forces he supports.  Half a century later, in the midst of America's latest urban upheaval, we find a new American type — more interesting, perhaps, than the limousine liberal because she doesn't really have doormen or private cops to protect her from the threat to civil order she welcomes.  We might call her the "Prius wokester."

Chris Wallace says Biden, mainstream Dems running from defund police movement 'as fast as they can'.  "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace asserted Friday that calls from activists to "defund the police" are a "bridge too far" for most Americans.  "Joe Biden and mainstream Democrats are doing everything they can to run away as fast as they can from 'defund the police,'" Wallace told the "Fox News Rundown" podcast.  "Most people, myself included, [don't] fully understand what that even means.  "But I think most people, when they dial 911, when they're in an emergency, want the police to answer and to help," he added.  Wallace did acknowledge the need for policing reform and suggested the creation of a "national registry of bad actors," along with new limitations on so-called "qualified immunity," which protects officers from civil lawsuits for actions taken while on duty.

Protesters pulled down a statue, which landed on a bystander, and what happened next?
Rioters in Virginia would have their cops and abolish them, too.  With a person lying there bleeding with a split skull showing, did the anti-cop protesters call a hippie?  No, they called a cop.  Who showed the value of cops in this age of "abolish the cops"?  The cop who came was engaged in a pretty selfless act, given what the protesters say they would do to him.  He's the opposite of the bad cop in Minneapolis who triggered this round of unrest.  And he was showing them that even as they kept up their "defund the police" yellings.  Apparently, it took a cop to clear the protesting scrum because the protesters were all so busy gathering around the bleeding, maybe dying man, taking selfies with their cell phone cameras.  So much for empathy or solidarity.  This is the behavior of insects.  It reveals the essential childishness of this anti-cop movement.  Yell as they do to abolish the police, when they need a cop, they call one, and they expect one to come in to serve them.

The Media Suppresses Anyone Who Thinks Like You.  Understand this.  Tens of millions of Americans love and respect the flag.  Tens of millions of Americans despise the rioters.  Tens of millions of Americans support our police.  Tens of millions of Americans support President Trump.  You are not alone, no matter how much they lie by omission and otherwise to convince you that you are.

Multiple Studies Don't Back Up Any of the Black Lives Matter Talking Points.  Right now, we're on a defund the police kick, which has the end goal of abolishing all law enforcement from our society.  It's insane.  It's not popular.  And it will be a campaign issue — the ascendant left-wingers are slowly eating away the Old Guard in both the Democratic Party leadership structures, the base, and the various cultural institutions that have long been dominated by liberals.  On the latter, you saw how The New York Times crumbled to the will of these unhinged woke operatives.  The publication ran an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who argued that the military should be deployed to restore law and order in the wake of the unrest unleashed by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police on May 25.  Progressive reporters revolted, said the op-ed put black lives in danger (total nonsense), and forced the editorial page editor to resign.  The 'words are violence' crowd is slowly taking over.  And they're totally insane.

Systemic Racism and Bigotry Are the Lifeblood of the Left.  [Scroll down]  The only racism in America that is systemic — deeply ingrained into the system — is on the left. It is so disgusting that it is hard even to speak about it.  It is shameful, and it exists for one reason only: for White leftists to grab votes, [...] How low will they grovel to get power?  They will kneel on the floor.  They actually will kneel on the floor, groveling for power.  Of course, as Nancy Pelosi just found, she kneeled so long that she could not even get back up.  You think she was kneeling to Jesus?  Nancy Pelosi is America's leading Catholic proponent of abortion — though Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, and a boatload of other Democrat Catholics would take great offense at Nancy Pelosi getting all the credit for funding the killing of fetuses, especially in the Black community. That Pelosi is kneeling to Jesus?  And who, pray tell, was Schumer kneeling to?  He claims to be Jewish, so he is not kneeling to Jesus. But wait!  It is a core tenet of Judaism that kneeling is forbidden except on Yom Kippur during the recitation of the Kohen service that occurred at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem during Talmudic times.  Otherwise, it is so fundamentally against Judaism to kneel that every Jewish child learns the story associated with Talmud Tractate Gittin 57b of "The Woman and Her Seven Sons."

'We Need to Have a Conversation'.  Recently, the ability to "have a conversation," let alone actually solve a problem, has shriveled like a piece of rotting fruit. [...] Some common ground needs to exist.  We need to operate on a mutual moral foundation.  Do we agree that murder is wrong?  Or is it only wrong when it's a white person killing a black person?  Is it okay when the black victim has yet to be born?  Is it wrong to steal?  What with cities refusing to prosecute thieves, private property may no longer be a community value.  With massive stealing during these riots, and no repercussions, it appears that some new nuances in our understanding of theft have happened without our notification.  When a Seattle city councilwoman can say, "I don't know why people are upset about looting," then what is there to talk about?  America was built on the common urge to create a free society, one in which the needs of the individual and the needs of a smooth-running community were in balance.  People shared a reverence for dignity and decency and productivity.  But what happens when a large and loud faction of the society sees no value at all in these things?  When people parade down the streets of a city in various states of undress, performing various deviant sex acts as they go?  When people are willing to just sit around and let others support them?  When demanding respect instead of earning it becomes the norm?  There's just nothing to say.

Crystal clear differences between the left and the right.  The crisis of the coronavirus-induced economic lockdown and now the violent protests in the streets have unleashed a depression-level financial crisis and unprecedented human suffering — especially in our inner cities.  These events have also exposed a Grand Canyon-sized chasm that now separates how the left and the right see America today. [...] [Example #11] The right wants to make America look like Florida and Texas.  The left wants the rest of the nation to look like New York and Illinois — which are crumbling from rioting, lockdowns, high taxes and an accelerating stampede of businesses leaving the state.

Defund the Police?  Do you lefties really understand what that means?  The point of the Metropolitan Police and our current municipal police departments is to remove the need — and the temptation — for male city dwellers to keep the peace themselves.  You will have noticed, wokies, that already, in the wake of the recent "mostly peaceful protests" that there are reports of "vigilantes" with bats patrolling the streets in the nation's cities that are upsetting the woke female mayor of Chicago.  Another thing you might think of, wokies, is that if the police aren't cracking heads in a shocking display of police brutality then the various gangs of helpless-victim minorities will be delighted to take up the slack.

We Didn't Hire Donald Trump To Be A Uniter.  For over a century, the left has been busily destroying American institutions as diverse as Professional Football, Education, Boy and Girl Scouting, the Judeo-Christian Ethic, and the Rule of Law, to name but a few.  We sent Donald J. Trump to stop as much of that as he could.  We didn't send him there as Newt Gingrich put it, to "manage the decline" of our nation.  We sent him there to drain the damned swamp, not to form alliances with the alligators now ruling there.  We don't want unity with the evil that is tearing America apart.  We Americans have absolutely no desire to unify with people whose mindset declares that it's OK to loot and burn innocent people's property; to allow biological males to participate in female athletic contests and share their locker rooms; to forbid worship under threat of fines and/or imprisonment; to use the full force of government to overturn the results of a Presidential Election.  No!  We do not want to unify with those people.  We want to soundly defeat them at the polls and roll back their immoral policies.

Minneapolis City Council Prez:  We Don't Have All The Answers On Who'll Be Responding To Crime Once We Disband The Police.  Does she have some of the answers?  I mean, it'd be good to have a few answers lined up before outright dissolving law enforcement.  This is the second time in less than 12 hours that a CNN anchor has asked her an eminently predictable question about how she plans to keep civilized society from breaking down in a city of 400,000 people only to have her punt.  At least she admitted here that she doesn't know; this morning her response was to mumble some dorm-room cant about how dialing 911 is a form of privilege.

Democrats' Calls to Defund the Police Are a Losing Bet at the Polls.  Democratic lawmakers, operatives, and commentators are calling for the defunding or abolition of America's police departments in the wake of officer Derek Chauvin's killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.  While the proposal is popular among the party's progressive activist wing and on Twitter, it faces a hard wall of resistance among the wider public.  A recent YouGov poll showed that fewer than 20 percent of Americans of all parties supported any cutting of police funding — a finding consistent with decades of polling.

Minneapolis City Council president: 'The goal' is a 'police-free future'.  The Minneapolis City Council president said the city is aiming to have a "police-free future" as it shifts to dismantle its police department following the death of George Floyd.  Council President Lisa Bender noted on Monday [6/8/2020] that the change will take time but said that the city is aspiring to change the department completely with the goal of eventually eliminating police altogether.

Why Do So Many Christians Vote Democrat?  Christians have the power to swing the 2020 election — and a responsibility to exercise this power in a way that upholds Biblical values and religious freedom.  Churches have been barred from holding normal public worship for nearly three months.  Restraints on churches have been most severe in Democrat-ruled areas.  Democrats claim they "clean up the messes made by Republicans," yet Christian oppression is strongest in cities like Chicago, Louisville, Madison and Holly Springs and in states like New York and California that are long-time Democrat strongholds.  Christians have a moral obligation to consider the horrific harassment of fellow Christians when voting in November.  Here are six recent examples of Christian persecution in areas ruled by Democrats that occurred in March, April, and early May: [...]

CNN Grills Minneapolis City Council President:  How Do You Stop Killers Without Police?  She Struggles To Respond.  CNN's Wolf Blitzer grilled Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender and Vice President Andrea Jenkins late on Monday afternoon over their city's push to defund and dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and specifically pressed on how they would stop someone who was going around killing people.  Blitzer began by pressing Bender on what it means "to dismantle the Minneapolis police department," to which Bender responded in part by saying, "our community is ready to re-imagine public safety from the ground up to think holistically and to make sure every single member of our community is safe."

You Want Us to Join Your Pain?  You Must Join Ours.  Psychotherapy often begins with emotionally painful presenting problems.  Here are a few of the deep wells of pain that tens of millions of Americans deserve to be joined.  We are sick of your verbal abuse of calling us racist.  We are so nauseated by being guilty until proven innocent of racism that we could vomit.  So gagged by being called privileged, you can add bulimia to the presenting problems.  The most race-privileged people in American history are Barack and Michelle Obama.  We are angry at your multifarious criminality in persecuting our great president.  We are enraged by your schemes to nullify our votes, to disenfranchise us, to cheat us with fraudulent elections.  We are tormented by your relentless attack on the U.S. Constitution, on our right to bear arms, our free exercise of religion, and the enslavement you envision for our grandchildren in the banana republic you are building.  We grieve every life your evil abortion philosophy has ended.

Democrats, party of lawlessness, press to collapse police.  Eighteen state attorneys general — Democrats, of course — have petitioned Congress for "explicit authority" to investigate local police departments for evidence of abusive and unconstitutional action.  Mark this moment as an official calendar day of Democrats' quest to collapse the law and order structure of police departments around the country.  One need only look to the chaotic protests in the streets — one need only listen to the likes of Democratic leadership with their calls for resistance and cries for opposition against conservatives — to see what law and order means to the left:  That is, lawlessness.

The building cold anger throughout America.  America watches while radical leftists and aggrieved blacks riot, loot, and commit acts of violence up to murder in cities across the country.  And more galling than that is the lack of effort by responsible public officials to stem the mayhem.  Indeed, more than a few Democrat mayors and governors, when they are not actually encouraging the riots, make excuses for those participating in it.  One example comes from New York City where hundreds looters and rioters were arrested only to be released in hours, due to blue-city "bail reform."  Americans have see this before and have a gut feeling that few if any of these domestic terrorists will be punished.  Other pathetic examples are of the police and some National Guard officers "taking a knee" in front of protesters to show solidarity with them.  This is not going on unnoticed by what I'll call the "silent majority."  They are silent because the media does not report on them.  And if a reporter did ask, most would be reluctant to share their true feelings with the fake media, knowing what they said would be ridiculed and likely used against them.  So as with most things, the ironically called "informed opinion" is blind as to the pulse of America.  These ongoing demonstrations mixed with riots are an offense against decency and the rule of law.  This has countless Americans seething.  This includes independent voters and even many of run-of-the-mill Democrats, not all of whom are hard-core leftists.

Democrats know their time grows short.  Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., in a recent podcast interview, said Democrats are making it easy for Republicans this November — that a conservative sweep, due to COVID-19 crackdown madness and George Floyd-inspired out-of-control rioting, is in the works and too bad, so sad, but that's the way the liberal cookie crumbles.  And he's right.  And Democrats have to know their time is short.  Why else would they tip so many loony card hands all at once?  It's desperado on full display.

Minneapolis City Council prez:  It's "privilege" to fear crime if we disband the police.  Put yourself in the shoes of black Americans, she says.  Imagine if you caught someone breaking into your home and feared that calling the police might endanger you more than confronting the burglar yourself would.  It's "privilege" to know that you have less to fear from the cops than the criminals.  Or so she insists.  Must be a lot of "privileged" nonwhite Americans out there, then.  I pointed to this result from a 2016 Cato Institute poll on policing in yesterday's post but it's worth repeating: "9 in 10 black, white and Hispanic Americans oppose reducing the number of police officers in their community — and a third say their community needs more officers the Cato survey found."

Wow! Minneapolis City Council President Says Calling the Police on Burglars "Comes from a Place of Privilege".  After nearly two weeks of violence, mayhem, and rioting in Minneapolis, the City Council on Sunday voted on their intent to disband the police department.  The wild proposal would invest in "community-led public safety" instead of police officers.  "We are here today because George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis Police Department.  We are also here because, here in Minneapolis and in cities across the United States, it is clear that our existing system of policing and public safety isn't working for so many of our neighbors," Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender said in a written statement Sunday, obtained by the Appeal.  "Our efforts at incremental reform have failed."

Are States Going To Prosecute Their Rioters?  It Depends.  Footage of violent riots and rampant looting is coming out of nearly every major city in the U.S., but states vary wildly in their efforts to prosecute those responsible for the unrest.  While local police have had no issues arresting those engaging in violence, some jurisdictions have declined to prosecute them.  Others, however, such as Texas and Missouri, are taking a far more strict approach and partnering with the federal government to press charges.  Arguably the most relaxed reaction to rioters came out of St. Louis, Missouri, where local prosecutor Kim Gardner refused to charge nearly 40 people arrested for rioting.

Can this American version of the French Revolution bring change?  Welcome to the American version of the French Revolution.  The horrible killing of George Floyd sparked an important focus on race relations and justice in this country.  However, it is being lost to an emerging radicalism that challenges people to prove their faith by endorsing farce.  Politicians and commentators are outdoing each other to demonstrate fealty to this new order by attacking key institutions and values.  Politicians are calling to defund the police and commentators are calling for censorship.  Most moderate voices seem to be fading under escalating demands.  Take the idea to defund the police.  Once the mantra of the very extreme elements in society, it has now been picked up in Congress.  Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib has said that defunding the police should not be brushed aside.  Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar declared, "The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves far beyond reform.  It is time to disband them and reimagine public safety."

The Democrats' Insane Vow to Disband Police.  Fake news media's campaign to demonize police and Democrats' vow to disband police departments are totally insane.  Can you imagine what gangs such as MS-13 would do to this country without police intervention?  America has over 33,000 gangs with over 1.4 million members.  For decades, Democrats have tried every dirty trick in the book to repeal our Second Amendment right to bear arms.  They claim that you should always call the police rather than defend yourself.  While still insisting that we surrender our guns, Democrats have begun defunding and disbanding police departments.  Antifa has boldly announced that it will begin invading the homes of white Americans.  Without guns or police, what are Americans supposed to use to stop anarchists from robbing, raping, and murdering their families?  Harsh language?

Portland bans cops from using loudspeakers to break up George Floyd protests.  The mayor of Oregon's biggest city is forbidding the use of special loudspeakers to break up George Floyd protests — and is expected to ban tear gas, too.  Portland ended a ninth straight day of protests Friday [6/5/2020] in a fog of smoke and ear-splitting sounds — intended to disperse thousands of demonstrators.  Law enforcement officials also threw stun grenades.  Protesters took down a fence outside the downtown jail and threw objects over the fence at officers, according to Portland police and the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

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Presumably, the protesters themselves will continue to use bullhorns, even when the police can't.

Washington Post:  Let's cancel all the cop shows on TV.  Writing at the Washington Post, author Alyssa Rosenberg has a unique solution for the problems with our policing:  Cancel all the cop shows on television.  She argues we need to do that because there's a "reactionary streak" behind the "surface liberalism" in these shows.

National Guard Members Look for Place to Stay After DC Mayor Kicks Them Out of Hotel.  Members of the National Guard on Friday were looking for a new place to stay, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered that they leave the hotel they were staying at, according to an official.  The city had taken over the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington, D.C. to use for the National Guard's coronavirus response mission, but many rooms remained vacant, so National Guard members deploying to D.C. as part of the civil unrest mission began staying there.

NBC News Publishes Op-Ed Saying Our American Flag Means Nothing.  NBC News published an op-ed blasting NFL star Drew Brees for criticizing football players who kneel during the national anthem.  The op-ed by Noah Berlatsky goes so far as to say that Brees' "biggest mistake" in defending the American flag was "believing" that it "means anything."  Brees has been hit with an unprecedented amount of backlash this week after simply saying that he does not agree with kneeling during the national anthem.  The New Orleans Saints quarterback said that he views the move as a sign of "disrespect" and shared the story of his military roots.

Poll: 56% Of Americans Believe Police Are Behaving Appropriately Or Not Being Aggressive Enough.  A new NPR-Marist poll found that 56% of Americans believe that the police are behaving appropriately or not being aggressive enough during the nationwide demonstrations after George Floyd's death.  The survey, which was conducted Tuesday through Wednesday, asked 1,062 American adults about police behavior in relation to the protests about George Floyd's death with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.

Police Chief Forced Out After Offering Support For Armed Citizens.  It's hard to believe that we're now at the point where expressing support for a constitutional right can cause a public official to lose their job, but that Orwellian nightmare's come true in Lowell, Michigan, where police chief Steven Bukala was forced to resign just days after expressing his support for armed citizens who decided to patrol the downtown area while legally carrying firearms in an attempt to thwart any looting in the area.  The small town of about 4,000 people is located just a few miles from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where riots resulted in burned out buildings, looted storefronts, and the arrests of at least eight individuals on charges related to rioting or looting.  Shortly after the riots took place, the Lowell police department posted on Facebook about several individuals who were lawfully carrying in the small downtown area in an effort to prevent looting or rioting.

Members of Minneapolis City Council vow to 'dismantle' police department following George Floyd's death.  Minneapolis City Council members are expected to hold an emergency meeting Friday to vote on some of the first changes to the city's police department following the death of George Floyd, with some of the council's members vowing to "dismantle" the police department, according to the Star Tribune.  The council is working with the state's Department of Human Rights on a stipulated restraining order that would require some immediate changes to the police department.  The order would also set up a timeline for an investigation into whether the police department participated in racial discrimination over the last 10 years.

Fleeing The Collapsing Imperium.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, a white city council member is challenging the people of the city to put up with home invasions and break-ins for the sake of racial change: [Tweet] She, and other members of the city council, say they are going to dismantle the police department.  Not reform it — disband it. [...] If you are a Minneapolis home or business owner, the handwriting is on the wall.

Democrats give DOJ liars and conspirators a free pass.  Over the past few months, the media have subjected the public to a barrage of opinions about lockdowns, infections, and the value of a human life compared with the livelihood required to sustain it.  What qualifies as "common sense" changes by the hour; still, media influencers strictly police challenges to buzzy slogans meant to keep people afraid and at home.  Their cheap moral panic has turned the national discourse into a roulette wheel of grievance and threats that determines at random who is allowed to speak and on what terms.

Going All-In:  Minneapolis City Council Considers Disbanding Entire Police Force.  Once you understand the larger objectives, everything becomes a sequence of predictable events.  The term "community policing" has been used for several years by groups advocating for radical changes to law enforcement; however, behind the innocuous phrase is really a much more serious agenda.  If each community can determine the enforcement of law, then essentially all communities can eliminate the underlying law itself.  Remove local enforcement of law and the local community can independently assemble a social structure separate from all other binding contracts that frame a larger societal compact.

'Abolish the police!'? What happened when a major American city tried that a century ago.  Nothing better reveals the depth of the madness afoot in the land than the demands to defund or completely abolish the police. [...] Fortunately, there is a real-life experiment in complete withdrawal of police protection that occurred a century ago that is available to learn from.  The Boston Police Strike that began September 9, 1919 led to immediate looting and chaos as soon as the sun went down.  In August, Boston police had voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, but ran up against opposition from Boston Police Commissioner Edwin Curtis, backed by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge.  After attempts at compromise failed, the cops walked off the job at 5:45 PM.  In the language of the day, "hooliganism" broke out, with widespread looting.  The following day, the mayor of Boston asked Governor Coolidge to supply force of state militia, and he agreed.  But in the time it took to raise a force that eventually numbered 5,000, about 3 times the size of the Boston Police, looting increased on September 10, and continued for 9 days until the militia was able to quell it.

John Legend, Natalie Portman Other Celebs Sign Letter to Defund Police.  Singers John Legend and Lizzo, and actresses Natalie Portman and Taraji P. Henson are among the Hollywood celebrities who've signed a letter pushing the defunding all police departments in the wake of the police involved death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.  The open letter claims that in 2017, $194 billion was spent on the police by America's various governments even as police have "continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of Black communities."

As in the 1960s, violent rioting hurts the most disadvantaged.  "America is burning.  But that's how flowers grow."  So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.  "Riots are an integral part of the country's march toward progress."  So read a statement from the Democratic Committee of Fairfax County, Virginia, the affluent Washington suburb that has a population of 1 million.  "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful," asked CNN's Chris Cuomo.  He's apparently been too busy interviewing his brother, the governor of New York, to reread the First Amendment, which protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble."  I take a different view.  I know how violent rioting, and that's what we've been seeing, despite media attempts at hiding it, can destroy a city and ruin the lives of its residents.

James Woods Sums Up Democrats' Hypocrisy Regarding Virus Vs.  Riots In One Tweet.  On Wednesday [6/3/2020], having watched rioters and looters burn and pillage through America as Democrat politicians refrained from condemning them, actor James Woods summed up the Democrats' hypocrisy in one tweet, writing, "Democrats were literally arresting Americans for opening their businesses, but now are silent as protesters burn them down.  You were fined for worshipping in your church, but now cheered for marching in screaming crowds."

Seven Thoughts on the Civil War the Other Side Wants So Badly.  [#3] The Democrats refuse to condemn the terror on our streets, but what's more important they refuse to put a stop to it.  This was the message Trump delivered to the nation's governors in a call on Monday [6/1/2020], the meat of which was immediately leaked to the legacy media by the Gretchen Whitmers of the world.  It doesn't appear any of them pushed back on Trump's statements that they ought to be seeking to dominate their own streets and getting those riots in hand.  Instead, they ran to their own friendly media and talked about Trump like he was unhinged when he told them what is obvious to the majority of the country.  And this comes after a full week of rioting, during which it should have become obvious to them that gaining control of their streets was their job well before Trump even got involved.  But what's even more obvious at this point is the current batch of Democrats doesn't want to put a stop to the rioting.

De Blasio 'proud' of daughter Chiara's arrest during George Floyd protests.  Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday [6/1/2020] commented on his daughter's arrest during a Manhattan protest over the police-involved killing of George Floyd, saying that it was a "surprise" to him, but that he's "proud" of her.  De Blasio, speaking during his daily City Hall press briefing, said his 25-year-old daughter, Chiara, did not inform him or first lady Chirlane McCray "of her intention to get arrested" — and he first found out through a press inquiry to his office.

Darkness Falls.  Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians and the ecstatic annihilation of businesses and symbols of the state. [...] This particular form of viral chaos was inevitable, given the failure of Minneapolis's leaders to quell the city's growing mayhem.  The violence began on Tuesday, May 26, the day after the horrifying arrest and subsequent death of George Floyd.  On the night of Thursday, May 28, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey ordered the city's Third Police Precinct evacuated as the forces of hatred, distinct from legitimate forms of protest, descended upon it for a third day in a row.  The building was promptly torched, sending a powerful sign that society would not defend its most fundamental institutions of law and order.  On Friday, May 29, Minnesota governor Tim Walz explained his reluctance to mobilize the National Guard as an unwillingness to seem "oppressive."

Now We'll See How the Snowflake Generation Handles the Barbarians.  The modern urban mayor is epitomized by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has chosen not to crack down on the barbarians torching his city, but encourages them to keep the flames hot because "The symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life."  That laughable, sophomoric statement isn't going to save anyone or any structure.  That building is not a "symbol."  It has value to the person who owns it.  And that's the problem with Frey and the generation of snowflakes who are moving into positions of power and responsibility.  Quite simply, they don't believe in private property.  In fact, they see private property as a genuine evil.  So, of course, it doesn't matter if you burn it.  It's not worth protecting.  We saw this same attitude in Baltimore in 2015 when Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed the notion that protesters should be given space to destroy.

In the History of Congress, the House Democrats' New Proxy Voting Is Radical.  Much of Congress' work takes place off the House or Senate floor.  Committees even hold field hearings around the country, and members spend time in their states or districts.  But since the House and Senate were established in 1789, their members have shown up to take official votes.  No crisis ever has changed that commitment.  Not when the Capitol was burned to the ground during the War of 1812, not the Civil War, not the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, or even the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Nonetheless, on May 15, the House voted 217-189 to adopt House Resolution 965, which authorizes the speaker to designate a period during which one member may cast a vote for, and even "record the presence of," up to 10 other members.

Apparently, Democrats Really Are Worried about an Economic Rebound.  [A recent] story in Politico will add fuel to the fire to the GOP argument that Democrats are rooting against signs of an economic recovery before November.  Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, contends that "we are about to see the best economic data we've seen in the history of this country."  As the country gradually figures out how to function with the coronavirus, the sudden steep drop in economic activity will climb back up again.  In fact, it may be happening already, although it may not show up in economic statistics for a while.  The Wall Street Journal reports:  "Truck loads are growing again.  Air travel and hotel bookings are up slightly.  Mortgage applications are rising.  And more people are applying to open new businesses....  For the first time since the pandemic forced widespread U.S. business closures in March, it appears conditions in some corners of the economy aren't getting worse, and might even be improving."

The Specter of Socialism.  A specter is haunting America — the specter of socialism.  We have gotten a nasty preview of it during the Coronavirus epidemic.  We've experienced empty shelves, food shortages, limits on what you can buy, and also the attack on civil liberties, on freedom of assembly, on religious liberty, on privacy.  So we've endured on a temporary basis what, under socialism, we are likely to endure on a permanent basis.  Yet socialism has somehow entered the mainstream of political debate.  Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, we have these strange socialist characters — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders — and a whole political party that seems magnetically drawn toward the socialist camp.  This development by itself is surpassingly strange, because socialism is arguably the most discredited idea since slavery.

Democrats Will Sacrifice America to Win a Presidency.  The Dems will not allow any semblance of normalcy to return until Trump and recalcitrant Republicans in the Senate agree to bail out Democrat-run states facing fiscal insolvency.  Democrat socialist policies have left states like California and Illinois with unsustainable pension obligations and exponentially growing deficits too dear for a shrinking tax base to sustain.  Buying votes ain't cheap. [...] Democrat governors, in particular Newsom (Calif.), Pritzker (Ill.), Murphy (N.J.), and Cuomo (N.Y.), are like terrorists, unwilling to release their states from lockdown unless they get their ransom.

Liberals Don't Believe They're Capable Of Doing Anything Wrong.  One thing you notice when having a conversation with a committed liberal is you'd have a more productive and honest discussion with a shoe. [...] You see this manifest itself in reaction to the reaction to the documents exposing how the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.  You also see it in the glee from leftists whenever they have the opportunity to report bad news about Hydroxychloroquine.  And we saw it again Friday when Joe Biden casually dropped a racist comment in a radio interview.  None of these people honestly believe they are capable of doing anything wrong because progressives don't believe anything can be wrong when they do it in the name of their agenda.  Lying isn't wrong if it's done in the cause of righteousness.  Theft isn't wrong if it's done for altruistic purposes.  Murder isn't wrong if it's a bad person killed.  Taken to their logical extremes you get the horrors of fascism and communism, but these people refuse to see that.  One person, or a few people, even a lot of people, harmed in the name of the "greater good" is not a tragedy.  It's a statistic.

No Matter Who Biden Picks, His Running Mate Will Be A 'Karen'.  Applying "Karen" as a pejorative is not as fresh as it might seem.  Some uses of the name to describe a spiteful, unpleasant woman go back maybe as far as three decades.  But the name has been more widely used as a cultural meme in recent months.  With apologies to those named Karen but aren't "Karens," a "Karen" in 2020 is, "an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman," says dictionary.com.  Wikipedia says a Karen "displays aggressive behavior when she is obstructed from getting her way."  She often wants to "speak to the manager" because it's her nature to complain, hector, and rage.  During the pandemic, we've seen Karens all over, screeching and nagging about masks, social distancing (both for and against it and on occasion taking both sides simultaneously), and any conduct she doesn't agree with.  A Karen is a tattletale and a snob, mean girl who got older but didn't grow up.  And her defining traits, bullying, a desire to subjugate others, and rank hypocrisy, fit snugly with progressive-left politics.

Democrats will pay price for hurting the economy in the election.  Democrats have defined themselves as the shutdown party and, in the short term, that has served them well.  The lockdown governors such as Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan have lofty approval ratings.  The Republican governors who have opened up their states are less popular.  Government power and restrictions have been popular during this time of crisis.  This is what liberals believe in.  In Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pushed a massive $3 trillion pork barrel spending package through the House that redistributes income to numerous left wing causes, like those overinflated pensions run by blue states, and it does not even pretend to assist the private economy.  This 1,800 page legislation mentions the economy less than five times. [...] Voters will see the chaos in cities led by Democrats, particularly New York and Los Angeles.  They will see people fleeing from blue states in the north to red states in the south, where businesses are treated like assets instead of criminals.  They will realize that Democrats are the party of welfare, high taxes, and more government restrictions on the private economy.

By any means necessary; How low will the left go?  Leftwing terrorist thugs like Antifa shout, bully and physically attack those with whom they disagree.  Their creed expressly includes "by any means necessary."  A radical group calling itself BAMN for "By Any Means Necessary" violently advocates affirmative action and elimination of the border.  Similar groups [exist].  But these fringe groups are not the real peril.  It's the mainstream left, even some mainstream Democrats, who now think they should and must win by any means necessary.  These mainstreamers aren't usually threatening physically, but they are threatening in ways that used to be out of bounds.  An example is the COVID crisis.  At a time when the country should be united in battling a pandemic, many Democrats are consumed with finger-pointing and politicking.

Deliver Us from Evil Democrats.  Despite 30 million Americans losing their jobs, domestic violence and suicides on the rise, Democrats and fake news media are terrifying Americans into believing the lockdown must continue.  These evil people are fully committed to using the coronavirus to stop Trump's reelection.  I scratch my head thinking, "Don't these wacko leftists realize that if they destroy America, their livelihood is destroyed as well?"  Democrats and fake news media's hatred for Trump and his voters and their desire to block him from making America great again, again, overrules logic. [...] Democrats and fake news media will sacrifice America if it means destroying Trump.  These people must be defeated.  Sadly, half the country still does not realize that Democrats and fake news media are tag-team partners in transforming America into a socialist/communist nation.

MSNBC: Americans are so 'freedom obsessed,' they are blinded to threats like virus or climate change.  An MSNBC contributor called out "freedom-obsessed" Americans and their aversion to big government amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas blamed Americans obsessed with the idea of freedom for creating a vulnerability in the country to threats like climate change, speaking in the topic during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday [5/6/2020].

House panel investigating virus response is stuffed with anti-Trump militants.  A new coronavirus oversight panel assembled by House Democrats is being dismissed as the same old attempt to get President Trump, following the failure of impeachment or the Trump-Russia investigation to end his presidency.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently appointed a select committee on the coronavirus, to be chaired by Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, a key ally of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.  The membership was stacked with early advocates of impeaching Trump, including California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters.  Republicans have so far avoided participation.  "A better name for this committee would be 'Committee of Oligarchs to Unelect the President' or 'COUP' for short," said Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican.

Biden Enjoys Armed Protection While Fighting to Disarm Americans.  Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden is enjoying the benefit of armed protection while campaigning on a platform of disarming his fellow Americans.  On March 17, 2020, Breitbart News reported Biden began receiving Secret Service protection.  Not only does this mean he is surrounded by good guys 24 hours a day, but it also means he is protected with the very guns he is trying to take from average Americans.

The third wave of the left's attempted destruction of America.  We are currently in the third wave of the left's attempts to totally deconstruct America into the image of the leftist utopia.  There is no love of this country or its traditions or its Constitution among the left.  Remaking it into a radical ideological hellhole is leftists' only objective.  The impoverished and criminals are sacrosanct and must be preserved.  They enable the corruption and absolute power the left craves.  Two classes, the rulers and the ruled, constitute the society that the left requires.  This is absolute evil, and it is the way the world has functioned for centuries.  They have history on their side.  America has been the prime exception to this history.  Personal freedom and free markets have made this the greatest economy and the greatest civilization in the history of mankind.  We have defeated fascism and communism.  Without us, the world would be an unbearably horrible place to live.  It is only because we love God and freedom.  That's it.

Democratic Donors Are Terrified About the VP Pick Democratic Voters Actually Want.  A new CBS News poll has Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren running away with the vice-presidential nominating sweepstakes among rank-and-file Democrats.  But big donors to the party are pressuring Joe Biden not to take her on, believing, "He would lose the election."  It's one more indication just how far left the Democratic Party has lurched since 2016.  Bernie Sanders, Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and the "Squad" have brought radical, transformative, socialist ideas into the mainstream of the party, endangering the Biden's electability.

Bill de Blasio warns New Yorkers that 'the nice weather is very much a threat to us'.  The weather in New York City is going to be quite nice this weekend, which gave Mayor Bill de Blasio another reason to remind citizens about what could get them arrested.

Infamous 'Waitress Sandwich' Senator Chris Dodd Joins Biden's VP Search Committee.  Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, who is linked to corporate bailouts, lobbying for Hollywood, and alleged sexual assault of a waitress at a restaurant, is among seven individuals appointed to Joe Biden's Vice Presidential selection task force.  Dodd, the 75-year-old from Connecticut, will be joined by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and former Biden counsel Cynthia Hogan.  Three other appointees will work specifically on vetting chosen candidates; Bob Bauer, husband to former Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn, Obama homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco, and law professor Dana Remus.

Biden and Dodd: a Stupidity Sandwich.  [Scroll down]  Almost 30 years after Bill Clinton's promise of a cabinet "that looks like America," the Democrats' decisions are being made by a 75-year-old prep-school graduate at a white-shoe law firm first elected to federal office in 1974.  I'm sure the Democrats don't need me to be irritated in their behalf, but this seems like an obviously bone-headed move to me.

The left's 'listen to the science' mantra is growing old.  Trump listened and that's the problem.  Our Democrat politicians and the members of the media who show up at those briefings uninformed, aiming only to entrap the President, haven't missed a paycheck or lost a dime.  The millions of small businesses that have been shut down, many of them permanently, do not seem to enter their minds.  They have embraced this virus as though they've won the lottery; it's another crisis they mean to exploit in every way possible.  Their essential talking point?  Blame Trump and claim he is ignoring science.  That they think they are convincing anyone with half a brain would be amusing if it were not so deadly serious.  Oh, they are convincing the uninformed, the headline readers, but our media is well and deservedly loathed by all thinking persons for good reasons.

Left's scornful response amid COVID-19 lockdowns will help re-elect Trump.  You'd think the left would have learned from its boneheaded mistakes after the astounding presidential victory of Donald Trump in 2016.  And boy, would you be wrong.  From Kentucky to Oregon, protests have been staged in recent days by angry Americans sick to distraction of corona lockdown.  Wielding placards and scowls, some of them riding safely in cars — and a tiny few brandishing firearms — they've converged on state capitals and public spaces from Michigan to Montana and New Hampshire to Pennsylvania, anxious to achieve one common goal: getting back to work.

Andrew Cuomo sneers at angry, locked-up out-of-work protestors to 'Get a job as an essential worker'.  [Scroll down]  Triply insulting, actually:  One, he's suggesting they can work but don't want to work, as if every out of work architect, or bus driver, or advertising account executive can jump in and take a job as a doctor, or else clean up cigarette butts on the hospital entryway floors as low skilled labor, neither of which is a serious or practical solution.  Two, he's suggesting that he has all these 'essential' jobs on offer and they're available to everyone who asks.  It's baloney.  Three, he's reminding the protestors that the work they do is unimportant, 'non-essential' as if having a job that pays money is non-essential, at least as determined by him.  How a proverbial advertising executive or plumber staying out of work helps the 'essential workers' from catching the coronavirus is kind of questionable.  Yes, some jobs involve work in close quarters, but the shutdown has pretty well shut down all jobs, as if nobody can adapt to social distancing conditions in some glassy high rise office or shop front store.

The Left Is Taking Pleasure From The Economic Crash.  [Scroll down]  Democrats realized lockdowns could be the transformational crisis they've been pursuing for decades.  There's a reason the lockdowns are being called a "free trial of socialism."  They're crushing the economy.  And this creates the perfect opportunity for the political left to move in and "save" advanced economies in the U.S. and elsewhere with socialist/statist/collectivist policies favored by Democrats.  Free-market capitalism, they'll tell us, just isn't working.  Indefinitely prolonged lockdowns might achieve exactly what Democrats have been attempting to accomplish for decades, that is overwhelm commerce and enterprise with taxes and regulation, claim that market economies have failed, and then set up their version of a socialist paradise.

1984 Comes to Life:  The Cult That Rewrites History — Part Two.  Progressives are not individualists; they seek to form a herd, and status among the collective is established by displaying love of conformity.  Therefore, group-think commitment to the "Accepted Group View" is vitally important to the Left.  You are dealing with people who are very susceptible to methods of controlling thought, behavior and speech.  These are people who are taught from the time they join 'the herd' to self-condition their minds; to believe whatever Big Brother is saying TODAY.  What Big Brother was saying yesterday, a week ago, or [...] a full year ago is irrelevant.  What Big Brother was saying a week or a year ago doesn't help shape the present moment, and doesn't help Big Brother maintain power and influence over public discourse.

Why Trump Will Win the Post-Pandemic Election.  It is by now obvious that the Democrats are determined to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic in a last desperate attempt to get the president.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has launched yet another Trump investigation, said his call to reopen the economy is "sinful," and colluded with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to block the GOP effort to pass financial aid without which even more Americans will lose their jobs.  Meanwhile, the nation's Democratic governors refuse to ease their job-killing lockdowns, despite indications that the spread of COVID-19 has already passed its peak.  The Democrats clearly hope that the resultant recession will cause Trump to lose in November.

Lemons into Lemonade:  Did President Trump Trick Dems into Going 'Full Authoritarian' during Virus Crisis?  As the saying popularly attributed to Napoleon goes:  "Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake."  Like most modern American presidential elections, the 2020 election will be won by securing moderate voters, those who are undecided and not ideologically bound already.  Voters on the fence are unlikely to warm to the manner in which Democrats have used the Bill of Rights to clean their crevices during the toilet paper shortage.  Americans, regardless of political party, do not take kindly to curtailment of civil liberties that affect them directly and immediately.  Case in point:  liberals who went to buy firearms for the first time recently, only to wind up shocked and outraged at how laborious and slow their own party had made the process.  Already, lines at supermarkets seem to have knocked Bernie Sanders' 'friendly socialism' on the head.  Breadlines in theory are quite different from breadlines you actually have to stand in, checking your watch and grumbling.

Why Trump Will Win the Post-Pandemic Election.  It is by now obvious that the Democrats are determined to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic in a last desperate attempt to get the president.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has launched yet another Trump investigation, said his call to reopen the economy is "sinful," and colluded with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to block the GOP effort to pass financial aid without which even more Americans will lose their jobs.  Meanwhile, the nation's Democratic governors refuse to ease their job-killing lockdowns, despite indications that the spread of COVID-19 has already passed its peak.  The Democrats clearly hope that the resultant recession will cause Trump to lose in November.

Democrats introduce legislation to release detainees and stop ICE enforcement.  Democrats are introducing legislation that, if signed into law, would mandate the release of illegal aliens in detention and stop enforcement measures against a large number of aliens living unlawfully in the United States.  New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced the Federal Immigrant Release for Safety and Security Together (FIRST) Act on Monday [4/13/2020].  While many Democratic members of Congress have urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a rollback of enforcement measures amid the coronavirus pandemic, this bill marks one of the first instances where they are turning such concerns into legislative action.

Beware the Left's 'Degrowth' Movement.  It would be natural to believe that nearly everyone on the planet is horrified by the death and economic destruction wrought from the COVID-19 pandemic.  But some see the body bags and the shutdown of economic production as a weird kind of blessing in disguise.  These are the proponents of a radical and increasingly chic movement on the left called "degrowth."  This is the idea that economic growth and increased prosperity are the root CAUSE of massive ecological destruction and health pandemics.  The agenda is to shut down industrial production and industries like fossil fuels, automobiles and airline travel that contribute to global warming.  COVID-19 and the economy lockdown are seen as a kind of test run for the theory.  For example, professor Natasha Chassagne of the University of Tasmania and a disciple of this movement gushes that "we can draw many lessons and opportunities from the current health crisis when tackling planetary warming."

Over 200,000 Michiganders Sign Petition to Oust Governor Whitmer.  Michigan citizens have been flooding a petition at Change.org calling for the removal of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, accusing her of gross negligence and failures in handling the coronavirus pandemic. [...] Launched three weeks ago by John Powell, the petition has picked up steam in past days following the governor's extension of a stay-at-home order and raising penalties for non-compliance to a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail.  In just the 24-hour period between Monday and Tuesday, the petition garnered more than 50,000 new signatures as citizens rush to express their displeasure with the governor, bringing the total number of signatories past the 200,000 mark.

'She has lied since day one': Michigan residents fed up with Gretchen Whitmer amid coronavirus crisis.  An online petition to recall Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gained an additional 60,000 signatures in less than 24 hours as people in the state grow increasingly frustrated with the Democrat's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.  Sitting at 216,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning, the petition accuses Whitmer of deliberately trying to ruin the state's economy and overreacting to the outbreak of the coronavirus in the state.  The petition cites a laundry list of grievances, including "closing and banning various non essential business's and activities while leaving others open.  Further promoting the pandemic."

Auburn mayor's Facebook posts spark outrage; he says it 'has nothing to do with my job'.  A string of recent Facebook posts and comments by Auburn Mayor Bill Kirby criticizing the White House's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and other subjects came to a head Thursday night [4/9/2020].  The posts included profanities and heated exchanges with members of the community.  Kirby angered community members when his recent public Facebook post suggested supporters of President Donald Trump were akin to members of the Ku Klux Klan.  After a screenshot of Kirby's meme was shared in a Facebook group, people began a deep dive on Kirby's personal Facebook post history and uncovered a number of other questionable posts.

Does Liberalism Cause Mental Illness?  The great Zach Goldberg, the youngish Ph.D student who has been quantifying the explosion of "wokeness" in the news media and elsewhere over the last decade, has been looking through the raw data in the Pew Research Center's latest American Trends Panel Survey, and unearthed some interesting findings, which you can see here.  Top line:  liberals are more than twice as likely as conservatives to be found to have a mental health condition.

Virginia Governor Signs Law Ordering 'All Places' Open to Public to Let Transgenders Use Ladies' Rooms.  Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, a Democrat, signed a law on Good Friday [4/10/2020] prohibiting "all places or businesses offering or holding out to the general public goods, services, privileges, facilities, advantages, or accommodations" from denying access to those things to people 18 years and older based on what the law calls "gender identity."  The law goes on to define "gender identity" as follows:  "The term 'gender identity,' when used in reference to discrimination in the Code and acts of the General Assembly, means the gender-related identity, appearance, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth."  In effect, the new law that Northam signed prohibits businesses and other private organizations from denying the use of their ladies' rooms — or locker rooms, or dressing rooms — to adult biological males.

Over 80,000 Sign Online Petition Demanding Recall of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.  A Change.org petition demanding the recall of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) went viral on Saturday [4/11/2020], quickly shooting well past 80,000 signatures.  The online petition had about 60,000 names in the morning and, by the afternoon, had surpassed 80,000.

Democrats seem to be enjoying this authoritarian moment.  In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear has announced that if people attend Easter services, the police will photograph their license plates and summarily impose a 14-day quarantine on church attendees.  Governor Beshear is a Democrat.  The Kentucky governor is not alone.  In the city of Louisville, Mayor Greg Fischer has ordered his police department to write down license plate numbers of those who attend Easter services so the attendees can be locked down in quarantine.  Mayor Greg Fischer is a Democrat.  In Greenville, Mississippi, people who sat in their cars, with the windows rolled up, in a church parking lot to listen to their pastor give a sermon on the radio received $500 tickets.  These tickets weren't given just to the driver.  They were given to every person in the car.  Greenville mayor Errick Simmons is a Democrat.

Virginia lawmaker wants unemployment benefits extended to Peace Corps volunteers.  A prominent Virginia Democratic congresswoman is urging labor officials to make Americorp and Peace Corps volunteers eligible for unemployment benefits under the latest coronavirus relief package.  In a letter to Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, Virginia 10th district representative Jennifer Wexton noted the recent recall of Peace Corps volunteers from the more than 100 countries where it runs programs.

Chicago Mayor Signs Executive Order Giving Coronavirus Benefits To Illegal Aliens.  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday signed an executive order ensuring that all immigrants and refugees — including illegal aliens — are eligible to receive the city's coronavirus benefits.  The city of Chicago has launched several programs in order to help residents cope with the financial challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Such initiatives include a coronavirus Housing Assistance Grant program, an online resources program for students through the city's public schools, and a $100 million Chicago Small Business Resiliency Fund to help small businesses that are struggling.  Lightfoot's order Tuesday [4/7/2020]will allow illegal aliens to tap into all of these programs.

California governor planning coronavirus aid for illegal immigrants.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature are working on a coronavirus aid plan for the state's illegal immigrants and others not covered by the federal government's $2.2 trillion relief package.  Newsom, a Democrat, disclosed the plans Tuesday [4/7/2020], according to The Associated Press.  "Californians care deeply about undocumented residents in this state," the governor, a former mayor of San Francisco, said.

Media mystified as America rallies behind President Trump during coronavirus crisis.  For decades, Americans have rallied behind their president in time of crisis, so it's no mystery that President Trump's approval ratings are up.  Except, that is, to anti-Trump obsessives — including much of the media.  "Who Are the Voters Behind Trump's Higher Approval Rating?" a New York Times headline asked last week.  That is:  Who could possibly think he's doing a good job — when no one at the Times does?

Democrats Introduce Measure to Extend Coronavirus Relief Check to Illegal Aliens.  Democrats on Friday introduced a measure to amend the $2 trillion CARES Act, extending the cash payment benefit to non-citizens, including illegal aliens.  Three House Democrats, Reps.  Lou Correa (CA), Judy Chu (CA), and Raúl Grijalva (AZ), introduced the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act designed to amend the cash payment portion of the CARES Act — the $2 trillion emergency economic relief measure designed to help U.S. citizens who are facing economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic — to extend to non-citizens.

House Democrats introduce bill giving coronavirus aid to illegal immigrants.  House Democrats introduced legislation Friday that would allow illegal immigrants to receive money from the coronavirus relief package.  California Rep. Lou Correa and two other lawmakers introduced the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act that would amend the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, according to the Daily Caller.  "I was appalled to learn hardworking, taxpaying immigrants were left out of the $2 trillion CARES Act," Correa said in a statement Friday [4/3/2020].

Newsom is Giving Emergency Grants to Illegal Alien Small Business Owners.  On Friday [4/3/2020], a reporter from Telemundo asked California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom what emergency relief he would be providing for illegal aliens amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  "No state in America does more to help residents regardless of their immigration status," the governor rightly assured the reporter.  Newsom first bragged about the state's healthcare coverage for illegal aliens before explaining how his administration is now helping illegal alien small business owners obtain grants while a large part of the American economy remains shut down.

President Trump Stands Tall.  The Democrats seem more interested in damaging President Trump politically than they are in taking care of the American people.  Speaker Pelosi tried to attach all kinds of extraneous, irrelevant addenda to the relief bill (support for Planned Parenthood, voting rights modifications intended to make things more favorable to Dems in future elections, money for NPR and the Kennedy Center, etc.), all of which delayed the bill — needlessly — for a week.  As millions of businesses close their doors and tens of millions of Americans lose their jobs, Pelosi and the Democrats continue to look upon the entire situation as nothing more than an opportunity for a power grab.  The bill went through in bi-partisan fashion a week later than it should have, and most, but not all, of the Democratic fat was trimmed out.  But it didn't have to be that way at all.

Democrats risk losing support from America's Hindus.  There is a growing realization in the Hindu American community that Democrats, who present themselves as warriors for social justice, do not believe in justice for Hindus.  They are even willing to whitewash crimes against Hindus in order to appeal to Muslim voters.  These concerns have grown sharply over the last few months.

COVID Confirms It:  Dems Don't Understand Economics.  From Sen. Bernie Sanders demanding that a coronavirus vaccine be free for all and that "profiteering" from it cannot be tolerated, to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said "if everything we do saves just one life, I'll be happy," when he ordered the state to shut down, Democrats are demonstrating they don't know how an economy works.  This is as dangerous as it is maddening.  Though he is an open socialist, Sanders' rant is typical of most if not nearly all of today's Democrats.  Their view of profit is that it is an evil that must not be allowed.  This is at odds with what we know:  Profits are necessary to human lives.  When profits are not being pursued, an economy can never develop.  We can't all work for non-profit interest groups and expect to move forward.  How Democrats are unable to understand that the potential to earn profits is what drives companies to make lifesaving and life-enhancing drugs, as well as every other good out there, is a modern-day mystery.

Why Are Republicans and Democrats So Divided Over the Coronavirus?  Republicans have everything to lose if they don't get back to work.  We see our business, career, job as our calling in life, our baby.  It is who we are.  Taking that away from us is like death.  Democrats are made up of groups who don't see anything to gain by rushing back to work.  Some of them didn't work before this crisis.  Some are protected by union contracts and union pensions.  Some work for the government — and they have jobs for life.  Some have lived on a welfare check for much of their life.  Some want to be paid bigger checks for being unemployed than for working.  In the end, they feel they can stay home, take no risk and have the government pay them.

Death as a Political Tool.  If you've been paying attention for the last ten years or so in particular, you may have noticed in how many ways political leftists in this country love death.  Not their own, but the deaths of otherwise anonymous American citizens whom they've never met, care nothing about, and clearly consider deserving of sacrifice for their policy objectives. [...] The more people who die from coronavirus, the better the progressives think their chances will be in November.  They can rationalize that they aren't actually killing the victims; the illness is.  But as they seek to create discord and strife between the president and his experts, thereby making his efforts less effective and immediate, they obviously know that time is of the essence.  The longer it takes to get this under complete control, the more people will die, and they will blame Trump.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Upset Cash Relief Does Not Extend to Non-citizens.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed outrage on Thursday that the cash payment portion of the economic relief package, which the Senate unanimously passed Wednesday night, does not extend to noncitizens.  The Senate unanimously approved of the historic coronavirus emergency relief measure on Wednesday evening after days of partisan battles.  As many Republican leaders have stated, the passed bill remains virtually the same as the original bill Democrats rejected on Sunday.  It provides aid for small businesses, creates a lending aid program, and delivers cash assistance directly into the pockets of American citizens.

Pelosi, Democrats Are in the Business of Destroying American Lives.  Just for a moment, imagine substituting the name 'President Obama' in for 'President Trump.'  The man would have been hailed for a coronation with everything our Commander in Chief is doing to attack this worldwide pandemic.  President Trump is doing everything he can to stunt the spread of the coronavirus and restore confidence in what has been, under his watch, a flourishing economy, including the proposing of a quick and generous stimulus package in the last week.  Instead of supporting what was thought to be a slam-dunk, bipartisan move by the federal government, congressional Democrats are working in their sneaky, cockroach way to exploit the world crisis for their own ideology and agenda.

A Plague of Democratic Partisanship.  An overwhelming majority of Americans are worried about the financial effects of state and local measures imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, yet the Democrats continue to dither over an economic stimulus bill.  A new Harris poll reveals that 91 percent of Americans are "increasingly concerned" about the economy.  Late Wednesday, the Senate finally passed an emergency relief package but only after overcoming a threat by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to put a hold on the bill.  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says the lower chamber won't take up the measure until Friday, and the Democratic governor of New York has demanded additional allocations for his state before they pass it.  Despite the prominent role played by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in hammering out the Senate bill, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that it would be terrible for his state:  "I spoke to our House congressional delegation this morning, I said to them 'this doesn't do it.'  I understand the Senate theory and the Republican theory but we need the House to make adjustments."

The Moralizing Cuomo Brothers.  Mario Cuomo was given to flowery denunciations on many subjects, but not abortion.  There he would fall silent and simply say that he is "personally opposed" to it.  His sons don't even maintain that conceit.  Andrew and Chris are both personally and publicly supportive of abortion.  Recall Andrew's comment that pro-lifers don't even belong in New York:  "Who are they?  Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon and anti-gay?  Is that who they are?  Because if that's who they are, and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are."

We will remember Dems' stimulus holdup.  [Scroll down]  And then there are the Democrats on Capitol Hill, who took an opportunity to help those economically sideswiped by the outbreak and turned it into a partisan free-for-all.  According to The Hill, more than 200 House Democratic lawmakers held a conference call last week and "laid out a sweeping wish list of provisions" they wanted in the stimulus package, including highway spending and Social Security expansion.  Republicans claimed Democrats in the House were holding up the bill over such items as: collective bargaining power for unions, solar and wind tax credits, forcing airlines to adhere to stricter emissions standards and same-day voter registration.  "Tax credits for solar energy and wind energy.  Provisions to force employers to give special new treatment to Big Labor.  And listen to this — new emissions standards for the airlines.  Are you kidding me?" said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  They weren't.  And they're only kidding themselves if they think the American people aren't wondering how these pols went from an economic stimulus bill to voter registration.  People are paying attention, especially those who are out of a job because of coronavirus restrictions on businesses.

Democrats Are Really Bad People.  It's not uncommon for must-pass bills to be treated like Christmas trees — with Members of Congress hanging their personal ornaments on it knowing an earmark for their district or state will not be noticed because the bill is so big.  These bills tend to be rushed through, usually in the last minute to fend off a shutdown, where lives are not at risk, so it's an easy game to play.  But Democrats have chosen to play this game with lives at risk, lives they are putting more at risk to win payoffs to their base.  The words necessary to accurately describe how opportunistic and disgusting the behavior of Democrats has been over the third coronavirus bill has been are not fit for a family audience.  Take every four-letter word you can imagine, square it, and create a few new ones and you'll be close to describing people who see one Republican Senator diagnosed with coronavirus and 4 others in self-quarantine because of possible exposure as "leverage."

Coronavirus Unmasks The Worst People In The World.  There are no benefits to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Let's get that out of the way now.  But it has shown many what a few of us already knew:  The political left is filled with the worst people in the world.

Clueless celebs slammed for cringe video promoting world with no borders during pandemic.  The stunningly privileged, wealthy and out-of-touch elitists who comprise Hollywood have reportedly sought to "lighten the mood" as the world burns by serenading America with a communist tune that calls for a world with no borders.  That tune is "Imagine," a ditty written by deceased rock legend John Lennon that he himself once admitted was a virtual rendition of the "Communist Manifesto."  "'Imagine,' which says 'imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,' is virtually the 'Communist Manifesto,' even though I'm not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement," he once said, according to Far Out magazine.

No American Flags Present Because Democrats Are Running to be President of the World.  If you've watched the Democrat debates, or even just seen pictures, you will have noticed something:  There's not an American flag anywhere in site.  There's a reason for that.  This is because they are globalists first.  They all want to be the President of the United States, but that position is only important to them because it gives them access to American resources and control of the American people.

Joe Biden's Bizarre Outburst Is Everything That Is Wrong With The Democrat Party.  The Democrats are now the party of the Pumpkin IPA-sampling hipster, the woke tech tool, the militant diversity consultant, and the cat-fancying public school teacher whose husband went out to get her some Diet Coke when she was 48 and never came back.  Construction workers, cops, auto builders, truckers, soldiers — you need not apply.  You are not appreciated, much less wanted.  There's no place in the 2020 Democrat Party for real men, men who make things and who break things.  Today, none of the Village People could be a Democrat, not even the Indian — just ask Big Chief Warren.

Bernie's Solution to Full Employment.  The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again.  They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife.  They are marching with Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartendress.  They are rousing the drowsy forces of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the drowsy forces of the Occupy Washington movement, who have been recumbent for the past decade.  You remember them.  They were the utopian socialists and parasites who provided so much hope to the left-wing Democrats back in 2011 and 2012.  They slept in parks.  They hassled pedestrians.  They, occasionally, relieved themselves on parked automobiles.  I called them then, and I call them now, the moron vote.  They believed that health care should be free.  They were for free education, especially if, while experiencing the thrill of free education, they did not have to read a book or get out of bed before noon.  They were for a guaranteed annual income.

The Democrat Party By Definition.  To evaluate the Democrats, I am perfectly happy to do so by their own definitions.  First, anyone who calls himself a Democrat must be an extreme racist, for there is not one single person of color left in the race.  If Democrats had supported the people of color with their votes, they would have voted for at least one of them, but I'm sure it broke down on racial lines.  A Democrat must be viciously homophobic.  The one open homosexual they had running has been summarily pushed out of the race and forced to endorse the straight, white guy. [...] The Democrats support cultural appropriation, which is evident by the strong showing of Elizabeth Warren, who appropriated the role of a Native American in order to secure a college scholarship and obtain acceptance to a college. [...] The Democrats must be anti-Semitic, too.  In 2016, they combined to eliminate Bernie Sanders, a Jewish politician, from the nomination.  He admittedly did not have a chance, but that does not erase the anti-Semitism exhibited in the act.

Democrats Desperately Unhappy that America is Doing So Well.  If the goal of the previous administration was to increase poverty and racial tension, hatred of the police and of America, subversion of the rule of law, kicking Israel in the teeth, and making more people dependent on government than ever before, then Voila!  That's exactly what he accomplished.  By that measurement, I will concede that the Obama/Biden Administration was indeed successful.  Many including myself, don't believe the aforementioned outcomes were unintentional.  Nevertheless, Democrats must run against Trump's real and measurable accomplishments to have anything to run on at all.  After less than one term, we have seen a dramatic increase in the GDP, wages and employment, enforcing the rule of law, and in the confidence and prosperity of America.  All of this has been achieved against the backdrop of Democrats illustrating daily, what little regard they have for America and Americans.

Democrats are watching the speeding train head to the washed out bridge.  The party of racial diversity has only white candidates.  The party of youth has only old candidates.  The party's top candidate is an angry, spit-flecked, wild-maned old man who has been a Marxist his entire life, has never held a real job in the private sector, is now hypocritically reveling in the life of a millionaire and can't stop himself from praising grotesque dictators.  And here's the biggest laugh of all:  the Democrat party's only hope is a confused old man whose corruption is oozing into the open only because the Democrats wagered everything on impeaching President Trump.  It's very likely that, if the Democrats hadn't been bound and determined to impeach Trump, Gropey Biden's dirty dealings in Ukraine on behalf of his cocaine-snorting, alcohol-chugging, widow-shtupping, stripper-impregnating, deadbeat-dad son would have stayed in the shadows.

Super Tuesday exposes an age divide, a bad sign for Democrats in the general election.  Super Tuesday results have exposed the dramatic divide among age groups in their support for Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, which could be a bad sign for Democrats in the general election, no matter who the nominee is.  Simply put:  Exit polls have shown that Biden's surge is being driven by overwhelming support among older voters, while Sanders has dominated among younger voters.

Vegan runner who is 'offended' by the smell of meat is slammed for asking neighbors to show 'empathy' by closing the windows while cooking.  An vegan runner has been given a short shrift after they asked their neighbors not to cook with their windows open because the smell of meat is 'offensive.'  The unnamed jogging-enthusiast, from Berkeley, California, was criticized online after their demand made it on to a Twitter thread by Best of Nextdoor, a Twitter account dedicated to neighbor-on-neighbor pettiness.  The runner, who admitted they found the smell of meat 'overpowering' when they go jogging at dinnertime, asked that their community show 'empathy for their plant-based neighbors' by closing windows while cooking, and only grilling vegetables on the BBQ.

The Editor says...
[#1] Who grills vegetables on a barbecue, in the absence of any meat?  [#2] If you're a one-in-a-thousand weird-o who doesn't eat meat, or doesn't do what normal people do, you're in for a lifetime of perpetual disappointment.  And it's entirely your own fault, so stop whining.

Pew Survey:  The Democrat Party Has a Serious God Problem.  Americans do not consider the leading contenders for the Democrat presidential nomination to be very religious, reveals a new survey from the Pew Research Center. [...] In a similar vein, Catholic League president Bill Donohue noted last October that the Democrat debate has grown openly hostile toward people of faith, which reveals itself in the candidates' severity in dealing with religious freedom issues.  It is clear that "none of the Democratic candidates wants to be tagged as religion-friendly," he declared.  The Democrats' growing antipathy toward religion is most evident in their attacks on "traditional religious exemptions in law," Donohue observed, which have existed since the nation's founding and up until recently were "considered uncontroversial."

'Berkeley of the East' seeks to ban fossil fuels as part of sweeping climate plan.  A small Maryland enclave known as the "Berkeley of the East" has devised a bold climate plan that would ban gas stoves, leaf blowers and water heaters, according to a report.  Liberal Takoma Park's action plan, which would also close gas pipelines and force gas stations to relocate, is designed to eliminate fossil fuels to help save the planet, The Washington Post reports.  The town of 17,000 just outside Washington, D.C., first burnished its liberal credentials nearly four decades ago by declaring itself a "nuclear-free zone."  The non-binding plan is expected to be adopted by Takoma Park's City Council on March 4.  But the Post reports that even in a city where, as one resident put it, "the political spectrum spans Bernie to Warren," there are detractors.

Bernie Sanders may have just lost Florida to President Trump.  Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has cemented his position as the 2020 Democratic primary front-runner, is still defending Fidel Castro, claiming as recently as this weekend that the late communist tyrant was not all that bad.  After all, the Vermont senator explained during a Sunday appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes, the murderous Castro regime had literacy programs.  And just like that, Sanders has made winning Florida and its 29 electoral votes a whole lot more difficult for the Democratic Party.  Anyone who knows anything about Florida politics knows you never, ever defend the regime responsible for why there are so many Cubans in the Sunshine State in the first place.  Yet, here is Bernie Sanders, the man with the clearest path to the Democratic nomination, doing exactly that.

Remember the 'NASCAR Democrats?' Neither do they.  [Scroll down]  But seriously, Democrats, thank you for trying.  For trying to understand normal God-fearing, freedom-loving Americans.  Because there are none of those Democrats left any more.  Democratic politicians today no longer even pretend to like America or American voters.  This is a major reason why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.  And now they seem hellbent to repeat the same mistake this time.  They have embraced free health care for illegals, socialism, live-birth abortion and open borders.  Oh, and lynch Donald Trump!  Even the great NASCAR Democrat himself, Mark Warner, has fallen in with the Pitchfork Democrats out for the president.  Now their only hope for a sane candidate is that New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg spends enough of his $60 billion fortune to buy the Democrat nomination away from socialist Bernie Sanders.  The phantom "NASCAR Democrats," meanwhile, spent Sunday watching the season kick off with the Daytona 500.  And it was probably tough not to join the deafening cheers as Air Force One — ferrying Mr. Trump and first lady Melania to the race — tipped a wing to the rowdy racetrack as it touched down in Florida.

What Really Makes Democrats and Republicans Different.  The Democratic Party today embraces sharia-compliant females — à la Brooklyn's Linda Sarsour and Minnesota's Ihlan Omar — along with hyper-feminists and LBGT constituencies.  The Democrats also embrace expansive abortion rights and seem to be moving to the point of legalizing abortion up to the minute of birth.  New York State has legalized such a broad definition.  Ironically, Islamic countries and culture are notoriously restrictive with abortion and lethal to any LBGTs who fall into their hands.  So why would practicing Muslims, such as Mmes.  Sarsour and Omar, attach themselves to the Democratic Party?  How do the two of them reconcile Islamic culture's honor killing, repression of sexuality, and mutilation of women with the Democratic Party's acceptance of sexual deviance?  Likewise, how does the Democratic Party reconcile these ladies' embrace of a retrograde creed?

Report: Bernie Sanders Campaign Fears Ocasio-Cortez's Rhetoric Will Alienate Voters in Rust Belt States.  Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) campaign is reportedly unhappy with the stump speech Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) delivered in Sanders' absence on the campaign trail during the Senate impeachment trial and fears her strong rhetoric could alienate voters in Trump-won battleground states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, according to a report from Vanity Fair.  Ocasio-Cortez went on the campaign trail for her candidate in Iowa during the Senate impeachment trial, which kept Sanders locked down in the nation's capital, compromising his ability to campaign in the Hawkeye State ahead of its caucuses.

We are watching the Democratic Party burn up.  They are completely out of touch with the country around them, but they can't tell because they never see or read anything that doesn't reinforce what they are doing.  The best part is, the reason this is happening to them is inherent in who they are; in their world view.  They cannot coexist with an Internet.

Watch: Only 1 Democrat Indicates They Have a Problem With Socialist Being Nominee.  During the ABC News Democrat debate on Friday night, only one Democrat signaled that they had a problem with a socialist becoming the party's nominee to face President Donald Trump in November.  "Is anyone else on the stage concerned about having a democratic socialist at the top of the ticket?" ABC News host George Stephanopoulos asked.  Only Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) raised her hand indicating that she had a problem with it.  [Video clip]

Why Trump Keeps Winning.  [Scroll down]  Gallup goes on to point out that a huge percentage of all major demographic and political subgroups are content with the way their lives are going.  Significantly, this includes Independents, 89 percent of whom declare themselves satisfied.  In other words, most Americans are happy with the quality of their lives.  As long as that continues, Democratic show trials in Congress, tearing up a copy of the SOTU speech, and gratuitous personal slander will have little downside effect on the president's political fortunes.  In fact, according to yet another Gallup poll released Tuesday, his approval rating has now hit an all-time high of 49 percent.  As if to underscore the futility of the Democrats' attempt to oust President Trump, this new peak in his approval rating was reached during his Senate impeachment trial.

The two party system in crisis.  The immediate question facing the Democratic Party is what to do now that the Russian collusion investigation and the impeachment of Donald Trump both failed.  Should they enter into another high stakes confrontation or should they lower the stakes?  Each defeat, however subjectively glorious, exacts a price.  A sufficiently long losing streak can bankrupt any party no matter how much political capital they have.  The Democrat centrist wing is already broke, according to a New York Times op-ed by Elizabeth Breunig.  "The center cannot hold.  Bernie Sanders's strong showing in Iowa is a turning point in the battle between the party's establishment and the left wing."

The Suicide of the Left.  The American Left [...] has become a sewer of petulance, anti-Semitism, racism, socialism, and a Stalinesque political correctness.  This so discredits their candidates for office from the presidency on down, not to mention their allies in institutions ranging from the media to academia and beyond, that they will never be trusted with responsible governance again.  At least not until they stop behaving like a cross between a five-year-old with a temper tantrum (Pelosi), a communist-loving socialist (Sanders), and an identity-politics ideologue determined to divide and judge everyone and everything in America by race and skin color (Ocasio-Cortez and her "Squad").  Meanwhile, a triumphant President Trump, his polls surging after the impeachment witch hunt, the economy roaring, cruises to a potential landslide reelection victory as the Democrats self-immolate.

Democrats have a turnout problem.  The 2020 campaign season is off to an inauspicious start for Democrats.  Iowa's reporting debacle has left Democrats without a clear result in their first nominating contest, sowing suspicions as to whether there will ever be an accurate count.  Things reached an extraordinary point on Thursday, with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez calling for the Iowa Democratic Party to recanvass its results.  Beyond the counting problems, Sen. Bernie Sanders's rise means Democrats are facing the prospect of running in swing states with a socialist at the top of the ticket.  Either that, or they will have to deny him the nomination in a way that will further inflame his passionate supporters, who already feel the 2016 primary was rigged against them.  But more ominous for Democrats is the mediocre turnout in the first nomination battle, which took place before anybody knew of the counting nightmare to come.

Democrats Sit Quietly As Republicans Cheer Women's Unemployment Numbers.  Democrats sat quietly as Republicans applauded the lowest women's unemployment numbers in years Tuesday night at the State of the Union.  President Donald Trump delivered the State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., where he said that the unemployment rate under his administration is lower than it has been for any administration in the history of the U.S.

A Week of Political Karma for the Democrats.  Donald Trump couldn't have scripted it better himself:  The Democratic Party's karma knocked them right on the head this week as their countrymen watched in disgust — some, admittedly, in delight.  After three years of deception, gaslighting, and public temper tantrums, these power-hungry partisans finally got their comeuppance.  An assembly of agents provocateurs, motivated by an insatiable amount of contempt not just for the president but for Americans in general, who gambled on a farcical impeachment crusade rather than build a persuasive policy case to win over voters this year, are ranting and pouting and tearing up stuff because... well, because they are losing.  If Nancy Pelosi could have thrown a pacifier from her Capitol high chair Tuesday night, she would have.

Three Glorious Days of Democrat Agony.  [Scroll down]  And then President Trump gave the best State of the Union speech pretty much ever, spending much of it listing real achievements that help real Americans while Nancy Pelosi fumed behind him, offering a running commentary to her invisible friend.  Trump played the Dems like Pete Townsend plays the guitar.  Among the things Trump got them not to applaud for were:
  •   Record low unemployment
  •   Record high stocks
  •   Fair trade
  •   Minority children not being stuck in failing government schools
  •   People fighting cancer
  •   Law enforcement
  •   Our military
  •   Killing terrorists
  •   Not killing babies
  •   America
  •   God
These may have been good looks on college campuses and in communist bookstores, but not so much in the United States.  The speech was masterful, and when Pelosi tore it up, she highlighted just how owned she was for the whole world to see.

SOTU: The unspeakable ungraciousness of the Democrats in Congress.  The American Democrat party has become something it was never meant to be: it has morphed into a radically fascist party of autocrats.  Certainly not all of them fall into this category but those who do not are cowards.  Clearly they are afraid of the tyrants who control the party so they sit quietly by in fear of losing their seats.  As we watched them all refuse to applaud the many successes of this administration and the members of the audience Trump celebrated, we should all realize that these people are not on the side of America or Americans.  As Pelosi so ungraciously ripped up her copy of the speech on camera, she proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Democrat party is no longer pro-American, pro-freedom nor pro-democracy.  This SOTU speech was a transformative moment.  Now we know that only one party represents the American people.

"When the President Talked About 7 Million People Coming Off of Food Stamps — Congressional Democrats Hissed" — Ted Cruz.  Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined Sean Hannity following President Trump's historic State of the Union Address on Tuesday night [2/4/2020].  Senator Cruz scowled at the Democrats' behavior during the SOTU Address.  Democrats refused to cheer record unemployment rates, wage gains and foreign policy success.  Ted Cruz told Sean he could hear Democrats hiss the seven million Americans coming off of food stamps.

How rude!
Democratic women get to their feet to shout down Donald Trump on healthcare as divisive State of the Union address becomes a vocal floor battle.  Democratic women rose to their feet and shouted at Donald Trump during his State of the Union address when the president vowed to sign a bill that would lower the cost of prescription drugs.  'Working together, Congress can reduce drug prices substantially from current levels,' Trump asserted during his address Tuesday evening [2/4/2020] from the House Chamber.  'I have been speaking to Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and others in Congress in order to get something on drug pricing done, and done quickly and properly. [...] This caused an uproar from Democrats, especially from female lawmakers, many of whom were dressed in all white to stand in solidarity with the women who fought in the 20th century suffrage movement.

A Great Night for Trump and the Republicans.  More than anything, the speech was a reminder of what an excellent record the president has to run on in November.  In both domestic and foreign policy, his achievements are essentially unarguable.  This puts the Democrats in a tough spot.  Through the first half of the speech, President Trump reeled off one item of good news after another:  Record low unemployment!  Lowest black unemployment ever!  Lowest Hispanic unemployment ever!  Rising wages, especially at the bottom!  Median net worth skyrocketing!  And so on.  The Democrats greeted all of this with stony silence.  When Trump announced that in the last three years, 10 million people have gotten off welfare, the Democrats looked as though they were ready to cry.  This comes across very poorly, I think.  Would it really cost the Democrats anything to look as though they are happy about a good economy.  I don't think so, but their hatred of the president is so all-consuming that their judgment is warped.

The Democrat Party is in Need of an Old-Fashioned Purge.  The DNC, Obama, and the MSM, after successfully guilting white America into voting for a "historic" (half) Black president who was "articulate and bright and clean", realized they were in trouble after they overwhelmingly lost the House in 2010.  This was the direct result of ramming his unpopular and entirely partisan passed Obamacare down America's collective throat, and resulted in the emergence of the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party, and other anti-Obama organizations.  Obama, having lost much of the warm and fuzzy good-will that swept him into the presidency, and political capital, made the decision to jettison the idea of appealing to the country's white majority middle class (the people who Hillary Clinton would later describe as an "irredeemable basket of deplorables").  The Dems essentially said they are no longer interested in, nor will they any longer court the white male blue-collar union base that was the strength of the Dem party since FDR.

Project Veritas:  Warren staffer irked by focus on 'identity politics,' says 'this is why we lose'.  It's not easy being a straight male working on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign in Iowa, judging from the latest Project Veritas undercover sting.  In a hidden-camera video released Monday, a man identified as Iowa field organizer Angel Alicea for the Massachusetts senator complained about the office's emphasis on "identity politics" and trans-inclusive pronouns, adding that he was told by another staffer, "You're the only straight [person] here."

Democrats' Total Failure and Utter Humiliation Delights All Real Americans.  [Scroll down]  Let's face it — the Democrats in Congress have zilch to show their constituents next fall except videos of Adam the Anime-eyed Lollipop and Oompa Nadler losing in the Senate.  And their primary is a disaster of epic proportions and it's hilariously funny.  Here's how bad it is:  Beto the Furry fell out and the stupidity/insanity axis actually rose.  Just last week, Chief Sitting Bolshevik assured her baffled audience that she would allow a trans nine-year-old to pick her Secretary of Education.

Dr. Drew Pinsky hits Adam Schiff on homeless crisis in his own district: 'He's asleep at the wheel'.  Senate impeachment trial manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to his own district and is ignoring issues that matter, like the state's homeless crisis, Dr. Drew.  Pinsky said Thursday [1/30/2020].  Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, Pinsky said he started thinking that maybe he should run against Schiff because, every day he doesn't do something, three more homeless people die in the county of Los Angeles.  While Pinsky said he is "categorically not running" for Schiff's seat, he couldn't ignore the crisis unfolding in front of him.

Impeachment: Emblem of the Left's One-Step Thinking.  Success in politics has always required vision beyond the latest crisis and thinking beyond one's own most extreme instincts.  For Democrats and the left, a striking inability to accomplish either fundamental task has headed them inexorably toward a ditch.  Impeachment has become the emblem of leftists' shallow, one-step thinking:  We don't approve of, and refuse to accept, the results of an election that placed a despised villain in the highest seat of power.  And so, instead of taking stock of why this happened and formulating the arguments to try and win back the voters who abandoned us and delivered this unspeakable result, we will simply reverse the results of the election by removing Donald Trump from office.  This anti-intellectual approach among the leftist intelligentsia is ironic to its core, for the consistent complaint advanced by the left against the right is that constitutionalism is inherently anti-intellectual.

A fatal flaw in the liberal character.  I think most conservatives live in the moment way better than liberals.  "Liberal" is a sort of umbrella term; it encompasses leftist, progressive, and maniac.  Liberals live in a dimension of only two personal time zones: the present and the near future.  Conservatives consider a third element; we call it the past.  The liberal acknowledges a past that is only a craven reflection of reality; it is full of caricature and devoid of character.  Liberals focus on only two fronts:  what they want right now and what they want ten minutes from now.  It's this lack of self-perspective as part of a long history that restrains a liberal from taking the final step into ease with oneself, a necessary deed if one is to truly empathize with others.

The Democrat candidates live in Never-Neverland.  [T]hese Democrat candidates live by a set of alternative facts of their own invention that have no relation to reality.  They want to re-litigate the Vietnam War, the Iraq war and they seem to think President Trump has delivered us into a war with Iran when the opposite is true.  They all keep asserting that Trump has no strategy!  Of course he does, and anyone paying attention knows what it is.  America first!  Go ahead, be a dictator but don't hurt a hair on an American's head.  Or else.  He's no warmonger; he's brought Iran to its knees, exposed the mullahs as the weaklings they are and who are hanging on to power by a thread.  The Iranian people loathe them and want relief from their oppression.  Trump's tweet of support to them in Farsi was the most re-tweeted Farsi tweet in Twitter history!  What does that tell us?  That Trump has the pulse of the oppressed around the world and they know it.  They love him for his recognition and support.

Democrats Always Choose America's Enemies Over America.  [Scroll down]  Yes, I know it's a proud Democrat tradition stemming back to when your party started, and then ensured the communists won, the Vietnam War.  During the last decades of the Cold War, which the Republicans won, you sided with the Russians — for you younger Democrats, Russians only became bad to Democrats sometime in 2016.  Still today, if there is a Third World USA-hating potentate or terrorist leader, that dirtbag can count on you.

Not One Senate Democrat Joins Resolution Commending U.S. Military For Soleimani's Death.  With the support of 42 other GOP senators, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas introduced a resolution yesterday afternoon [1/9/2020] to commend the president for ordering "successful operations" in Iranian terrorist Qassam Soleimani's death and to honor the members of U.S. military and intelligence agencies who aided in the targeted killing of "a terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the Middle East, including 603 US service members."  Cruz hoped partisan divisions would be sufficiently and temporarily suppressed for the sake of commending the administration for destroying the mastermind behind the world's largest state sponsor of terror.  However, not one Democratic senator could marshal the courage to co-sponsor the resolution with him.

Trump's Iran Policy Isn't the Problem; Barack Obama's Was.  This week, President Donald Trump launched a global round of teeth gnashing when he ordered the killing of the greatest terrorist leader in the modern Middle East, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.  Soleimani was unquestionably responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq and thousands of others throughout the Middle East — mostly Muslim.  His global terror network ran from South America to Europe to Africa to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.  Soleimani was an unparalleled organizer and a pitiless murderer.  His death was richly earned.  But for many in the media and on the domestic and international left, Trump's action was precipitously "provocative."

Doug Collins:  Democrats Mourn Suleimani More Than Gold Star Families Who Suffered Because Of Him.  Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) went off on members of the Democratic Party on Wednesday evening for their response to President Donald Trump killing Iranian terrorist leader Qassim Suleimani, saying that they are "in love with terrorists."  Collins made the remarks on Fox Business's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" with host Lou Dobbs, where the two discussed the recent tensions between the United States and Iran.  "Meanwhile the Democrats are tomorrow talking about constraining his authorities as the commander-in-chief, vis-a-vis Iraq," Dobbs said several minutes in the interview.  "How venal, how vapid can one party become?"

Borderline Treason:  Democrats continue to betray their country.  Democrats and their progressive allies, including in the establishment media, are continuing their "Great Betrayal" of the United States.  They tried to sabotage efforts by President George W. Bush's administration to support the U.S. forces fighting in Iraq against Saddam Hussein and Islamic terrorists.  Now, we are witnessing Democrats, both in Congress and vying to run against President Trump in this year's presidential election, treacherously helping the Iranian regime advance its 40-year war against Americans.  The leftist media is right by their side.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is readying her Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to vote this week on legislation to tie President Trump's hands in dealing with the blood-thirsty Iranian regime.  Speaker Pelosi is peeved that she and her Democrat congressional colleagues were not consulted first before President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani late last week.  Too bad.  She should run for president if she wants to become the commander-in-chief.  In any case, she is a hypocrite.

Celebrity Doc Drew Pinsky Mulls Run Against Adam Schiff in California.  Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky told the Hill Wednesday [1/8/2020] that he may eventually run for "Shifty" Adam Schiff's Democrat House seat because the California congressman has become too obsessed with impeachment to do anything about the people dying in his district.  "I wake up every day and drive through this town and I am morally moved where I feel like I have to do something," said the famed internist, whose full name is David Drew Pinsky.  "I was watching all the impeachment proceedings and I was going, 'Oh my God, our Congress is tied up and we're dying out here in California.  What are these people doing?'" he complained.  "I thought, '[...] I have to run for that office at least just to get him to start participating in the governance of this region.'"

Minuscule Turnout for Anti-Trump D.C. Protest.  Roughly six to seven left-wing activists are "rising up" on Capitol Hill Monday "to urge action to impeach, remove, indict and jail President Trump."  The event, co-hosted by 12 different leftwing groups, is being billed as a "daily gathering," attracting more than 230 Facebook RSVPs, with more than 1.4 thousand additional people "interested."

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It is somewhat interesting that the writer chose to spell out "1.4 thousand" rather than type "1,400."  A later update said, "Breitbart News witnessed approximately 10 more protesters join the uprising around 1:00 p.m. Eastern."  This probably means than an urgent call was placed and some labor union brought in a van filled with mercenary protesters.

U.S. kills world's most wanted terrorist, Democrats side with Iran.  U.S. forces targeted and killed one of the most powerful military leaders in the Islamic Republic in a swift airstrike on Friday.  However, some Democrats, as well as those in the mainstream media, weren't so happy about the news.  [Video clip]

McCrory: Democrats' Attacks on Trump 'Could Almost Be Speaking Points for the Iranian Regime'.  On Sunday's broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," former Gov. Pat McCrory (R- NC) argued Democrats' attacks against President Donald Trump after the killing Qasem Soleimani sounded like Iranian talking points.  [Video clip]

Dem Senator Chris Murphy Is a Frequent Speaker at NIAC Council, the Iranian Regime's US Lobby House.  On Thursday the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran's al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad's International Airport.  The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces.  Seven people were reportedly killed in the airstrike.  Following the death of Commander Soleimani Democrat Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) lashed out at President Trump for assassinating the Iranian al-Quds terrorist leader.

Precision bombings in Iraq Expose the Democrats' Love Affair with Iranian Terrorism.  Precision bombing in Iraq killed the number-one terrorist in the world, far more dangerous to U.S. personnel and interests than Osama bin Laden was when he, a frail, isolated old man, was killed:  Qassem Suleimani. [...] Also killed, according to Iran, were General Hussein Jaafari Naya, Colonel Shahroud Muzaffari Naya, Major Hadi Tarmi, and Captain Waheed Zamanian.  Other reports include Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi paramilitary leader, who attacked American and Western embassies and was the founder of a group responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq.  And there were reports late Friday that Shibi al Zaydi, leader of the PMU (Popular Mobilization Units, Iranbacked militias) was confirmed dead after another U.S. air strike.  Yet another strike eradicated six Shiite militia leaders near Baghdad.

This [is] not your daddy's Democratic Party any more.  [Thread reader]  That party is now completely demented.  Trump just killed the world's #1 terrorist thug after Iran killed yet another American & our embassy in Iraq.  Every top D candidate attacked Trump for it.

Democrats Hate Trump More Than They Hate Terrorists Who Kill Americans.  A U.S. airstrike killed the world's most violent and deadliest terrorist of the last 20 years on Thursday night, but in the eyes of 2020 Democratic candidates and lefty celebrities, the only important takeaway from this American victory is that President Trump is bad.  Trump's authorization of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani is a vindication for the thousands of wounded veterans, many with missing limbs from Soleimani's IED attacks, and the families of U.S. servicemembers Soleimani killed.  Soleimani approved the Tuesday attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and was plotting to kill more Americans.  He was a central connection between Iran and terrorist organizations, including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas.  Yet some Democrats find it difficult to celebrate his death.

Congressional Democrats Rush to Side With Islamic Terror Chief.  What an evil party the Democrat Party is.  They don't even hide their contempt for America anymore.  General Soleimani was responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans in Iraq, and was certainly plotting to kill more.  The Democrats should be applauding President Trump for taking out this butcher.  Instead, they are condemning him.  This reaction is just another reminder as to why no rational American should vote for the deranged Democrats in 2020!

There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong With Democrats.  It's odd how the political left cheers America's shortcomings and mourns its victories.  The United States killed the top terrorist on the planet Thursday, and Democrats were... upset.  Perhaps "upset" is too vague, they were a combination of angry and scared.  They were angry that President Trump ordered an air strike on Qassem Soleimani, a man responsible for the deaths of more than 600 American soldiers and thousands more wounded. [...] Weirdly, the people who use the word "justice" most often saw no justice in the death of a man who's been killing innocent people for their whole lives.  Ilhan Omar reacted the way someone would when their childhood hero passes away, then tried to fundraise off of it because anti-Americanism translates into cash on the left.  Rashida Tlaib warned about a "lawless President recklessly moves us closer to yet another unnecessary war that puts innocent lives at risk."  She expressed no concerns for the innocent lives Soleimani had taken over his career.

Ilhan Omar 'Outraged' Over Soleimani Killing, About 9/11 Not So Much.  The traitor class has been particularly vocal ever since Qasem Soleimani was killed.  The ever-winsome Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) tweeted Friday [1/3/2020]:  "We are outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official, possibly setting off another war without Congressional authorization and has zero plan to deal with the consequences."  Wait, what?  Soleimani was a "foreign official"?  Isn't Ilhan Omar aware that Soleimani was no staid and stolid Iranian "official" sitting bored behind a desk somewhere in Tehran, but was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq?  Yes, she does know, and clearly she doesn't care.

The Left Goes Over the Edge.  [For example,] Tlaib and Omar — This pair has proven inadequate to their mission, which was to make Jihadi terror look normal and all-American, preparatory to a flood of their type entering government on all levels.  Instead, somebody forgot to whitewash their connections to some of the vilest Jihadi outfits on the planet, including Hamas and the Moslem Brotherhood.  Quite apart from that, we have the fact that they're dirty in every other sense as well, with Tlaib awarding herself spare campaign funds and Omar...  Well, she turns out to be that kind of girl that can't touch anything at all without turning it inside out in eight separate dimensions.  At this point, it's not even clear what her name is, or what Somalian murder squad she's actually related to.  The two of them have managed to duck consequences so far, but it's still early days.

Newly-Elected Democrats Let Their Masks Slip, Revealing The Fascists Beneath.  There are no "moderate" Democrats.  All Democrats are dangerous to your life, prosperity and freedom.  They prefer churchgoers die rather than be able to defend themselves.  They want newly-prosperous frackers to learn to code.  They want you jailed for denying the climate cult or the fact that there are men and there are women and there is nothing else.

Greta Thunberg:  A Living Explanation of the Left.  What leftist in history would have ever imagined that to be a leftist, one would have to believe that men give birth or men have periods, or that it is fair to women to have to compete in sports with biological males who identify as females?  There are two primary reasons it is so difficult, if not impossible, to define leftism.  One is that it ultimately stands for chaos:
  •   Open borders.
  •   "Nonbinary" genders.
  •   Nonsensical and scatological "art."
  •   "Music" without tonality, melody or harmony.
  •   Drag Queen Story Hour for 5-year-olds.
  •   Rejection of the concept of better or worse civilizations.
  •   Rejection of the concept of better or worse art.
  •   Removal of Shakespeare's picture from a university English department because he was a white male.
  •   The end of all use of fossil fuels
  •   even in transportation (as per the recent recommendation by the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization).
  •   The dismantling of capitalism, the economic engine that has lifted billions of people out of abject poverty.
And much more.  The other major reason it is impossible to define leftism is that it is emotion-based.  Leftism consists of causes that give those who otherwise lack meaning something to cling to for meaning.

Abolish the Police?  The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists:  "Abolish the police." [...] When I first heard this slogan, I assumed that it was a figure of speech, used to legitimize more expansive criminal-justice reform.  But after reading the academic and activist literature, I realized that "abolish the police" is a concrete policy goal.  The abolitionists want to dismantle municipal police departments and see "police officers disappearing from the streets."  One might dismiss such proclamations as part of a fringe movement, but advocates of these radical views are gaining political momentum in numerous cities.  In Seattle, socialist city council candidate Shaun Scott, who ran on a "police abolition" platform, came within 1,386 votes of winning elected office.  During his campaign, he argued that the city must "[disinvest] from the police state" and "build towards a world where nobody is criminalized for being poor."

Impeachment Celebration will be short-lived.  On impeachment day, the so-called somber attitude of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her House Democratic colleagues was just a façade.  Pelosi wore black on impeachment day to try to convince Americans that she was "sad" about the proceedings; however, Democrats were downright giddy about impeaching President Trump.  Right after an article of impeachment was passed, House Democrats started cheering. [...] After both articles of impeachment were passed, without a single Republican voting in support, there was no stopping the rejoicing among members of the left-wing media.  Five liberal activists masquerading as journalists from the Washington Post enjoyed a festive meal with pints of beer and spinach dip.

Corrupt Democrats Pushing America toward the Abyss.  The last three years have seen a significant decrease in Democrats' overall power, most notably in the loss of the courts.  Instead of resulting in a moderating push back toward responsibility, the rejection by voters and loss of Democrat power resulted in primal rage and a further breakdown of accountability. [...] One would think a party that saw its political power in decline would tack toward the center instead of running toward insanity.  Democrats' belief in their cultural control and media support has instead resulted in the toxic byproduct of maniacal overreach.

This Time It Is Personal — for Us.  We despise the Left's obsession with Colin Kaepernick and the troglodytic multi-millionaire ingrate lemmings like him.  No Nike athletic shoes or outdoor jackets in our homes and no more NFL football on our TV.  We strongly and enthusiastically support building the Wall.  Why should we not be enthusiastic about sealing off a porous border (i) that allows the smuggling of deadly drugs including opioids that murder tens of thousands annually, (ii) that fails to keep out animals like MS-13, and (iii) that facilitates and even invites the most vile human trafficking in women and children for unspeakable perversions and quasi-enslavement?  We virulently oppose the Democrats' cynical effort to import millions of illegal immigrants so that, having failed for generations to persuade the majority of self-sufficient Americans who live here legally and know the score, they instead seek to change vote outcomes by importing millions whom they know will rely on Democrat welfare programs.  That was their formula in New Mexico and then in flipping California from the Golden State of John Wayne and Reagan to the Homeless State of Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.

Will Dems Leave Their Irreligious Party?  The average Democrat I know does not believe that infanticide is a right nor do they accept the nonsense that there are more than two genders.  They do not believe that open borders that allow drugs and murderous gangs into our country should be our policy.  Those that have jobs do not approve of their wages taxed to give benefits to those who are here unlawfully.  They are also outraged that children are being subjected to progressive stunts like having drag queens read to them in public while exposing their crotches.  (Don't believe this?  Google it).  They do not approve of grown men being allowed to use women's bathrooms especially when they are being occupied by young girls.  Yet all of that is being pushed by the Democrats running for president in 2020.

Editorial shows why newspapers should die.  Hamiliton wrote, "A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective.  The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.  They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.  The prosecution of them, for this reason, will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.  In many cases it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt."  In other words, he knew impeachments would be political circuses and he decided to pitch the tent in the Senate, which is the one body of government where every state is equal.  That would prevent Virginia and New York from bullying the rest of the country.  Today, the threats are California and New York.

If you value human life, you must vote for Donald Trump.  I was once much more "progressive" than I appear to be now.  I was pro-choice, and I used to be a leading voice for the "you can't legislate morality" crowd.  But I don't hold that position anymore, for several reasons.  First and foremost, I have concluded that it doesn't make any sense.  I mean this literally.  There is no sense, no logic, no intellectual integrity, or moral consistency in this argument.  Legislation, if it is nothing else, is always based on morality.  Otherwise, there is nothing to legislate, and the entire process becomes meaningless.

All impeachment all the time.  Where does that get you?
Bottom Falls Out as CNN Ratings Hit 3-Year Low.  Far-left CNN, an anti-Trump, pro-violence, racist, fake news outlet that traffics in conspiracy theories, collapsed to a three-year low in the ratings during the week of November 25.

The Anti-Trump Resistance Is Really against the Deplorables.  The impeachment hullabaloo is clearly revealing the Left's virulent hatred of President Donald Trump.  The Trump Derangement Syndrome is blatantly on display for everyone to see, especially among the obnoxious Ivy League law professors featured last week in the media.  What should be equally obvious is that while Trump is the symbol, the real object of the Left's hatred is we — the average Americans whom Hillary called the "deplorables" and "irredeemables," and the ones that Barack Obama claimed "cling to their guns and religion and have antipathy to people who aren't like them."  Our values, our beliefs, our taste in music and food, our very existence offends the Progressives.

Sorry Joe, But It's AOC's Party Now.  [Scroll down]  Two-thirds of Democrats like socialism.  Biden might not think that his party isn't the party of AOC, but to those who call themselves Democrats today, AOC is their standard-bearer.  So why isn't this bigger news?  Why are Republicans routinely depicted as the party of extremists, and not Democrats?  For the simple reason that the press, the entertainment industry, and academia — the forces that shape and direct the national conversation — are far more leftist than they once were.  To them, talk of a government takeover of health care, free college, $40 trillion spending plans, is mainstream.  The more Joe Biden tries to pretend that his party isn't comprised mainly of radical leftists today, the more out of touch he appears.  Not to us.  But to those who identify as Democrats.

The Left Hates The Salvation Army.  That's All You Need to Know About the Left.  We all know some individuals who are so obviously good and kind that we are certain if anyone were to dislike them, that's all we would need to know about the person.  We would immediately assume he or she is a bad person.  To hate the manifestly good is a sure sign of being bad.  Such is the case regarding the left's hatred of The Salvation Army. [...] Yet, leftists — most especially LGBTQ groups, which spread a remarkable amount of hate in the name of "love" — seek to crush The Salvation Army.  They threaten and pressure whoever supports The Salvation Army.

The Inevitable Breakup of the American Left.  What makes up the American Left?  It is not a homogenous entity but an amalgamation of various factions now overwhelmingly dominated by its smallest and most radical element, the avowed Marxist/socialists.  However, the largest group and underpinning of the movement are the credulous, patronizing and narcissistic liberals who in their naiveté believe that the enemy of my enemy, conservatives and Judeo-Christian values, are their friends. [...] The current American mélange of activists and narcissists that began its ascendancy in the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War protests of the 1960's is now the dominant force in the nation's culture, education and governing class, with the radical element exercising de facto control of a major political party.

Two reasons why the left hates America.  A Gallup poll shows that while 74% of Republicans are "extremely proud" to be Americans, only 32% of Democrats and 23% of self-described liberals feel the same.  Why does the left hate America? [...] These leftists also would hate France, Canada, Japan or New Zealand if they moved there (as they often threaten to, but never do).  [Indeed], if they and their children were starving in the socialist utopia of Venezuela, they'd hate even that.  Wherever a leftist finds himself, that is where he hates.

Zorro in the White House.  [Scroll down]  One thing about their impeachment fetish:  it confirms what they've been all about from 2016, if not earlier.  They've stopped playing by American rules.  An election means nothing if you don't win it.  Respect for voters means even less.  Sabotage, mendacity, collusion, and insolence pretty much sum up their priorities.  They should be ashamed of themselves, but they long ago forgot what shame is.  So this is where we are.  In a very ugly mess.  If only this were about politics.

The Left Hates Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Coexistence.  Thanksgiving brings with it three things:  turkey, family, and guides on how to win political fights with family members.  The latest entry in this popular proggie pastime is Lauren Duca of Teen Vogue who not only offers a guide to fighting with your family members, but urges future lonely proggies like her who face a future of hookups followed by cat hoarding, that refusing to fight at the dinner table is racist. [...] The woke crowd understands that niceness is racism.  Now enjoy your turkey.

New Poll Shows Voters Aren't Buying Into the Progressive Sales-Pitch for Socialism.  While soak-the-rich progressives lead the Democratic presidential field, a new poll released Tuesday [11/26/2019] shows voters remain skeptical of their socialist policies.  Just 12 percent of likely voters reported preferring a socialist economic system, according to a new Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll.  Sixty-nine percent said they preferred "a free-market economic system."  When it came to the 2020 contenders, only 26 percent of likely voters said they would vote for a presidential candidate that identified as a socialist.  Fifty-percent said they would not.

They brought all this trouble upon themselves.
Vanity Fair's Impeachment Data Is Terrible News for Democrats.  The far-left Vanity Fair got its Trump-hating hands on some exclusive impeachment data, and it is all bad news for Democrats and their fellow coup plotters in the media.  The headline reads:  "Polling Suggests Democrats' Impeachment Push Could Alienate Key Voters."  The sub-headline reads:  "Data exclusive to Vanity Fair shows impeachment could be a losing issue for Democrats hoping to recruit Independents in 2020.  'Lots of people who don't like Trump who are still prepared to vote for him,' says one political science expert."

The Democratic Cold War on Christianity [is] Heating Up.  Black and Hispanic Democrats tend to be far more religious than the white Democrats who are driving the party's agenda.  Will this alliance hold as the party increasingly kowtows to vocal anti-Christian Marxists?  Will these voters start to defect as Democrats intensify their open war on people of faith?  These questions arose this week when the sad story emerged that Chick-fil-A would no longer support three mainstream Christian-based charities; the Salvation Army, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Paul Anderson Youth Home, all under the auspices that they are anti-LGBTQ.

Michael Moore: 'I Am the Center.  I Am the Mainstream Now of the Democratic Party'.  Radical-left filmmaker Michael Moore said on an MSNBC panel discussion after the Democratic debate that his views now represent the "center" and "mainstream" of the Democratic Party.  He also said that "The majority of Americans agree with me and Bernie on all the issues," which makes the "center" of the Democratic Party somewhere to the left of Karl Marx.  "Bernie" is, of course, Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist and one of the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Support flips against impeachment as Trump approval rating jumps:  Poll.  A new poll shows support for the impeachment of President Trump has declined since public hearings have started.  The Emerson poll released Thursday [11/22/2019] found support for impeachment has dropped from 48% to 43% since October, while opposition to impeachment has risen from 44% to 45%.  Independents are key in the shift, with 49% opposing impeachment and only 34% supporting impeachment.  In October, 48% of independents supported impeachment and 39% opposed.  The poll also showed Trump's approval rating rising to a net positive.

After the Impeachment.  [Scroll down]  In contrast, the Resistance consists of influential power brokers.  They are the Democrats in the House majority, the media (including mainstream and cable television), Hollywood and entertainment celebrities, Deep State bureaucrats, radical judges/courts, university administrations, faculty and students, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, many liberal church leaders, numerous blog sites like Politico and Huffington Post, along with Drudge, who has gone over to the dark side.  The Resistance has seemingly unlimited resources, including multiple big-pocket funding sources as well as both offensive and defensive weapons they use without compunction:  media attacks, Twitter storms, boycotts, marches, and demonstrations in the streets, physical attacks and intimidation, rioting, and arson. [...] And, perhaps the most important difference is that for the Resistance, politics is their religion, which they live and breathe 24/7.

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Leaves Increasingly 'Purist' Democrat Party, Will Caucus With Republicans.  Pennsylvania State Senator John Yudichak announced on Tuesday [11/19/2019] that he will be switching his political affiliation from Democrat to Independent due to a disconnect with an increasingly leftward-moving party.  "As an Independent, I will continue to put people above politics," Yudichak said in a press release.  "I will continue to support Democratic ideas as well as Republican ideas when it is clear that they serve the greater good and help government work for people rather than the narrow interests of partisan 'purists.'"

Does the Left Hate America?  Here are six reasons to believe the Left hates America: [#1] No one denies that the international Left — the Left in Europe, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere — hates America.  Therefore, in order to argue that American leftists do not hate America, one would have to argue that on one of the most fundamental principles of international leftism — hatred of America — American leftists differ with fellow leftists around the world:  All the world's left hates the U.S., but the American left loves it.  This, of course, makes no sense.  Leftists around the world agree on every important issue.  Why, then, would they differ with regard to America?  Has any leftist at the New York Times, for example, written one column critical of the international Left's anti-Americanism?

Barack Obama and the Behar doctrine.  [Scroll down]  By packaging their hard-left agenda as "sensible," "fair," and "just," they can fool the American people into electing them.  "How we approach (manipulating the American people) will be important."  "Wait until you get elected and then take the guns away."  Wait until you get elected and then take away Americans' freedom of speech, religion, and right of assembly.  Wait until you get elected and then relegate American citizens to a government-run healthcare system.  Wait until you get elected and then open the floodgates on the Southern border.  Wait until you get elected and then do away with the Electoral College, effectively relegating the Presidency to leftist voters in New York and Los Angeles.  Again, make no mistake, Obama is not a moderate.  He still seeks to "fundamentally change" America, only wants Democratic candidates to hide their agenda until elected.

Mazie Hirono exists to prove conservatives right about Democrats.  Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is a bit like failed 2020 Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke in that she is living proof that there is at least a grain of truth to even the wildest allegations leveled against the Democratic Party.  "No one is coming for your guns," they said, "that is just a right-wing fantasy."  Then along came O'Rourke.  "Climate change is not a cult," they said.  Then along came Hirono.  The senator told supporters this week that they need to keep protesting so the Democratic Party can continue to be "committed to human rights, environmental rights, climate change — believe in climate change as though it's a religion (it's not, it's science)."  There are two ways to translate Hirono's comments.  You can take her seriously and interpret her words to mean:  We must treat climate change as seriously as people of faith treat religion.  You can also take her literally and interpret her words to mean:  Climate change is a cult and we are proud acolytes.

The Return of the Moron Vote.  It is slowly becoming clearer whom exactly the Democrats are zeroing in on as their key voting bloc for 2020.  It is not the youth vote, contrary to the received opinion. [...] Nor is the union vote likely to be targeted by the Democrats.  The union vote is nowadays relatively small and getting smaller all the time thanks to the Trump economy.  Nor is it the angry women's vote being targeted by the Democrats. [...] So who is it that the Democrats are going to focus on?  In 2020, what voting group will form the most stable, reliable bloc for them?  I think they will go with the core voters they have gone with year in and year out for the last 20 years.  They won the election for them in 2008 and again in 2012.  They will go for the voters whom I have been calling for years the Moron Vote:  that is to say, the voters who believe things that are clearly unbelievable to normal citizens.  In fact, I would say they believe in things that more and more Americans believe are clearly preposterous.

Democrats Hate America.  This won't surprise anyone who has been paying attention, but there is a stark difference between the parties:  Republicans love America, while Democrats can't stand her. [...] If you hate your country, there is a party for you!  You are a Democrat.  If you love your country, you have only one plausible home:  you are a Republican.  Never has this difference been so clear.

Kamala Harris Campaign Collapses Under Perception of Law and Order.  The Black Lives Matter movement that burst on to the scene in 2013 and 2014 poisoned the Democratic Party.  Harris is a delayed casualty.  Any hint of belief in law and order is now the kiss of death in the party.  The Left relentlessly attacks all law enforcers, from policemen to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  These brave guardians are viewed with suspicion at best and hatred and revulsion at worst.  In a party where up is down, the criminals are celebrated as heroes while courageous defenders are cast as villains.  It is the same trend that has led Democrats to decriminalize many drug and theft crimes in their jurisdictions down to misdemeanors.  The result, to no surprise, is that these types of acts are becoming as common as jaywalking.  Lawlessness is now viewed as a civic virtue.  In some areas of California, you can walk into a Target and help yourself to your favorite DVD or a pair of designer jeans with no threat of being apprehended.

Elizabeth Warren:  Black Trans Women Are the Backbone of Our Democracy.  In case any of you are unfamiliar with this group, Black Womxn is "an organizing collective of leaders, activists, artists, writers, and political strategists from across the country in the fight for Black Liberation.  The last presidential election laid bare what many Black women, gender non-conforming, and non-binary, and queer folk know deeply; that this nation embraces white supremacy and its evils, even at the expense of itself."  Anyway, this organization has just given its endorsement to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.  Which is very nice for Elizabeth and certainly she has to express her gratitude for their vote of confidence.  But she took it a little too far.

Petri-Dish Leftists.  The intellectually ossified limousine liberals of the 1970s have spawned the petri-dish leftist, a more class inclusive but equally obtuse and incurious gaggle of statists.  This genus of regressives never leave the bubble of their leftist environs and salons; consequently, they have few encounters with non-leftist thought and no understanding of it, except perhaps cartoon level caricatures.  All in life is viewed through the intellectual prison that is the woke-broke prism of Leftist ideology.

Mark Halperin's 'How to Beat Trump' Sells 502 Copies in First Week.  Published Oct. 29 by Regan Arts, How to Beat Trump compiles comments from such Democratic strategists as Donna Brazile, David Axelrod and James Carville.  News of the book in August was met with widespread criticism, with the major networks saying they would not interview Halperin and even some of the book's contributors distancing themselves.

The Editor says...
The only way this book could be more useless would be if Hillary Clinton had written it.

How Did Democrats Get Here?  The ginned up hysteria over Trump's election has grown with Trump's triumphant successes with the economy and national security.  The Democrats' motivation for the fake impeachment crisis is obvious — they have no platform and no candidate that gives them a path to the White House.  What is less obvious is why three years of ugly, crude propaganda, threatened and actual violence, wearisome agitation and lies is playing so well to previously normal Democrats.  The Democrat Party has veered far left very fast, without any pushback from within the party.  Their voters have turned, seemingly overnight, from normal American citizens to a deranged mob after Trump's blood.

The Number of Democrats Showing Up at Trump Rallies Is Stunning.  On Sunday night [11/3/2019], Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, released some very surprising data guaranteed to send a shiver up Democrats' spines.  Of the 16,432 voters who provided data, 27% were Democrats.  The significance of this is monumental.  I wonder what the percentage of Republicans attending Democratic rallies is.  I imagine it would be low to nil.  This tells us that a certain percentage of Democrats are looking at the weak field of candidates and are searching for an alternative.  I would guess many of them are turned off by the injustice of the current impeachment inquiry as well as the party's sharp left turn.  It might surprise Democrats to hear that not every Democrat supports impeachment or the vision of a socialist America.

Nancy Pelosi Worried 2020 Democrats Are Going Too Far Left.  Nancy Pelosi, who opened up an impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump in response to pressure from the far-left base of her party, has issued a warning to the Democrats running for president:  far-left proposals like Medicare for All and wealth taxes won't help them defeat Trump in 2020.  "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan.  What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers' rights and sharing prosperity," she said at a Bloomberg News roundtable on Friday [11/1/2019].  "Remember November.  You must win the Electoral College." [...] She also warned about supporting the Green New Deal.  "There's very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it's like 10 years, no more fossil fuel.  Really?" she said.  Interestingly enough, Joe Biden caved to pressure and embraced the plan, despite the fact that he's supposed to be the "centrist" alternative to the crazies.

Latin loving quid-pro-quo lefties need to be fair to Trump.  When considering the apparatus of our government, the founders favored a distribution of power similar to that of the Roman Republic.  Benjamin Franklin captured their admiration of the early republic's virtue and its representative nature when responding to a question about what the constitutional delegates had crafted:  "A republic, if you can keep it."  Distressingly, the Dems don't want to keep it.

Kanye West's Conversion Could Be a Cultural Wrecking Ball.  Throughout the whole of [his] new album, [Kanye] West is in many respects deeply critical of modernity and cultural progressivism.  There are calls for a focus more on the family than on individual glory.  He seems to applaud Chick-fil-A, which in our age is tantamount to endorsing bigotry.  Social-media obsession should be exchanged for family prayer.  Fatherhood is characterized as a virtue.  Materialism is pilloried.  Calls for worshiping Christ redound to such effect that West's first Christian album is arguably more Christian than what most contemporary Christian artists could similarly muster.  But in the media rollout of West's album, it's worth paying attention to other statements he's made.  He's criticized abortion and believes that the African-American community is getting played by Democrats.

Why Republicans oppose impeachment:  Trump is even more popular with his base than Obama was.  Any effort to remove President Trump from office through the impeachment process is going to come up against a brick wall in the Senate, where 20 Republicans would have to defect to oust him.  That is likely to remain the case no matter what revelations come out of the Democrats' investigation for the simple reason that Trump remains extremely popular among the party's base — more so than even Barack Obama was at a similar point in his presidency.  Though the most recent Gallup poll finds Trump's approval rating down at just 39% among the adult population, among Republicans his approval rating is 87%.  At the comparable point in his presidency, Obama's performance won the approval of 77% of Democrats.

Trump vs. the barbarians at the gates.  American progressives, beginning with Woodrow Wilson, set out to destroy America as founded to undo the Constitution and to make the US into a totalitarian creation not unlike Mao's China, Stalin's Soviet Union, Castro's Cuba, Chavez' and Maduro's Venezuela. [...] The Left does mean to purposefully obliterate the cultural values that made this nation great.  They do mean to indoctrinate our young people with the myth of transgenderism, sacrificing the futures of countless children in the process.  They do mean to implement control over every aspect of our lives via the shallow myth of climate alarmism by instilling fear in the young.  They willfully intend to impose their socialist, soon-to-be communist globalism on us all.  That's their plan and they are sticking to it, no matter how obvious it becomes that Americans are not on board.

We need to fight for the values that made America great.  The left railed against our soldiers during the Vietnam War.  The left calls those who believe in a supreme being or the commitment of marriage uninformed and anachronistic.  They're now openly saying that churches that hold traditional values should lose their tax-exempt status.  The Left doesn't care about our enormous debt, pushes for socialism, and criticizes the Boy Scouts.  The Left thinks it's OK that our schools don't teach about the founding fathers or free markets.  They want you to think America was never great.  To a degree, the pressure from the Left is working.  Americans under 30 are less interested in joining the military.  Church attendance is at an all-time-low, participation in the Boy Scouts, even after allowing girls in, has shrunk, and many are choosing not to have families.  Socialism, the single most discredited idea of the last century, an idea that led millions into poverty and tyranny around the globe, has gained a foothold in one of our two political parties.

Washington Parish Sheriff Cites Second Amendment, Leaves Democrat Party.  Washington Parish is a rural parish of about 47,000 population in Louisiana.  The rural parish elections have been trending conservative; they have been gradually moving from traditional Democrat to Republican. [...] Sheriff Randy Seal was correct when he said the Democrat party left him.  There is no issue where this is more clear than on support for the Second Amendment.

AP-NORC poll:  Most Americans oppose reparations for slavery.  Few Americans are in favor of giving reparations to descendants of enslaved black people in the United States, a poll shows, even as the idea has gained momentum among Democratic presidential contenders.

California's legal weed profits going up in smoke.  Legal marijuana in California as a business was supposed to be a no-brainer.  How could it not be profitable in a liberal state pushing 40 million residents where some of the best weed in the world has been grown for decades?  But nearly three years after Proposition 64, the law legalizing the adult use of the drug, was passed, California cannabis producers are not seeing the windfalls predicted. [...] The California law gives local governments the right to regulate the pot shops so towns can prohibit them.  A whopping 80% of the state's towns and cities have turned legal pot shops down.

Insider Democrat 2020 fears chronicled by a sympathizer.  [Scroll down]  Today, Democrats rely on wealthy and prosperous professionals and dissatisfied minorities, whom the[y] court with preferences.  And they fear those left behind to whom they offer no identity group preferences (aka, white males) being roused from their alienation and turning out to support the many who champions their interests.  This makes me wonder if the usual suspects such as "Rock the Vote" will be quite as active in 2020 as they have been in the past, when turnout drives traditionally have benefitted Democrats.

Imagining Donald Trump's Future for America.  Anyone who thinks President Trump's victory is inevitable in 2020 is not paying attention.  The entire weight of America's profiteering elites is arrayed against him.  But what if he wins anyway?  What if enough voters realize they're being conned by the Democrats?  What if enough voters decide they don't want to feel like unwanted usurpers in their own nation?  What if men and women of all ethnicities realize that despite the unrelenting avalanche of lies coming from the Left, America is a welcoming and inclusive nation and that the only way a society can stay healthy is by rewarding personal initiative?

Booker: We Have to Conduct Impeachment in a Way 'That Brings Our Country Together'.  Impeachment as a way to bring the country together?  That's what Sen. Cory Booker said at Tuesday night's debate:  "So first of all, we must be fair," Booker said. [...] Booker's call for a "fair" process will get a rousing endorsement from House Republicans, who say the secretive and closed-door proceedings being run by House intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) are anything but fair.  South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Trump "has left the Congress with no choice" but to impeach him.

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The Democrat platform includes open borders, Obamacare, windmills and solar panels everywhere, high taxes, gun confiscation, homosexuality, atheism, activist judges, racial discrimination in the form of "affirmative action," one-part socialist government, and above all, abortion.  No part of the Democrat platform "brings our country together."

Ohio Swing Voters Outraged at Democrats' Lawless Impeachment Attempt.  They may not know it and they may not care but the lawless Democrats are losing swing voters with their latest impeachment attempt.  Democrats are hoping to impeach President Trump for making a call to the leader of Ukraine.  The entire process has been a lawless attempt to nullify the 2016 election.

The time has come for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.  The lunatic, lawless Left is out of control.  The corporate-run media has become a CIA propaganda front that ignores reality while fabricating fake stories to destroy America.  The tech giants despise free speech for conservatives while demanding "equality" for transgenders.  And left-wing governors and mayors are openly advocating Antifa-style lawlessness and violence in America, as long as that violence is directed at conservatives and Trump supporters.

Nearly Hidden in Elizabeth Warren's Workers Plan:  A Vow to Give Back Pay to Illegal Aliens.  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), currently the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate in many polls, has pledged to "fight" for illegal immigrants to be given back pay.  Many Americans may not realize this point, however — because this key detail in her "Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages" plan — which she released on October 3 — hasn't gotten much attention in the mainstream media.  The Warren workers plan declares that illegal immigrants will be eligible to receive back pay for previous work they did in the United States — and the progressive senator is apparently determined to make this happen by amending the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

Catholic League Decries Democrats' Growing Hostility Toward Religion.  One message resounding loudly and clearly from the latest televised Democrat debate is how hostile the party has become toward people of faith, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said on Friday [10/11/2019].  According to Dr. Donohue, the Democrat candidates "fail the religion test" for falling over themselves trying to prove who is the most severe in dealing with religious freedom issues.

Republican Versus Democratic Occupations.  [Scroll down]  For example, sculptors, yoga instructors, floral designers, environmentalists, librarians, social workers, activists (that's actually a job title?), comedians and professional poker players don't just veer left, they are absolutely and unswervingly full-steam ahead leftists.  These people slop at the government trough in industries like academic administration, social science, "research," union organization, art, education and media production.  Notably, mental health professions are overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats, as the anti-Trump zealots require much more therapy than a faddish calmness app provides. [...] Human Resource executives are also firmly entrenched in the liberal quagmire.  In fact, their encouragement of victimhood does a disservice to the increasing numbers who teeter on the cusp of madness.

Nine Democrat Presidential Candidates Taking Part in LGBT Town Hall Marathon.  CNN and the gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) are hosting a marathon town hall with nine Democrat presidential candidates on Thursday in Los Angeles from 7:30 p.m. until midnight.  "The town hall, which will take place on the eve of National Coming Out Day, will mark the first time in history that a major cable news network will air a presidential event devoted to LGBTQ issues," the HRC website states of the event.

There is No Middle Ground with Today's Democrats or the Deep State.  Like a child with a box of matches, deranged Democrats seem to think they have their hands on a good idea.  Their thinking goes something like this:  "If we can't be in control, let's burn it all down, destroy norms, throw an epic political tantrum, hold the American people hostage!  That'll show the irredeemable deplorables to question their betters!"  The Democrats' sycophant propagandists in the corporate leftist media are barking and clapping away like circus seals, cheering them on.  Both sets of deranged people appear perplexed, however, that outside of their bubble within the Acela corridor people in real America, as Politico chronicled, think the idea of impeachment is absurd.  The corporate leftist media's reaction, from Chuck Todd's meltdown over the weekend to the Politico piece, is one of shock and disgust that people are not listening to their enlightened masters on this matter.

Poll: 'Transgender' Men Ads Lead to 8-Point Voter Swing to Republican Matt Bevin from Democrat Andy Beshear.  A conservative group notes polling data shows an eight-point swing in voters' shift to incumbent GOP Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin from Democrat candidate Andy Beshear after they view ads highlighting Beshear's support of biological men competing in women's sports.

The no civil war left behind act.  Why is it always foreigners who manage to unite all the politicians from both parties in Washington?  Illegal aliens — I mean "Dreamers."  Haitian boat people.  Olde Europeans.  Sudanese.  And now the Kurds.  It is never support for regular Americans that brings politicians from both parties together.  Even military veterans seem to offend half the politicians in Washington.  Democrats in Congress would give illegal aliens free health care before they would give it to our wounded veterans.  And don't get me wrong.  I've got nothing against the Kurds.  They seem like great people.  Brave, hardworking — a considerable step up from your average American college student today.  And they seem to be truly trying to shake off the yoke of tyranny, which at least half of Americans support.  But why do politicians drop everything they should be working on and come together to do something only for the "Dreamers," who, again, are illegal aliens?  Or for the Kurds?

MIT Researcher:  Swing Voters Repelled by 2020 Democrats' Medicare for All, Open Borders Agenda.  Swing voters are repelled by leftist policies from healthcare to immigration that 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates have endorsed, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals.  MIT researcher Alexander Agadjanian published his latest research in the New York Times, where he revealed that swing voters likely are six percentage points less likely to vote for a Democrat against President Trump in the 2020 election after learning of the leftist policy positions they have embraced.

Trump's Godfather moment.  I have never seen anything like the apparently crazed condition of Democrats.  I have watched players in World War II, the Korean War, the Berlin Airlift, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Israeli wars, the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and all the rest of it.  But never have I seen anything as wild and incoherent as the current Democrat stampede.  To me, it's a headlong rush to somehow Impeach Donald Trump — by an uncontrolled run to the left.  Any new "bombshell" seems welcome.  Any new accusation is instantly worked globally into the Democrat narrative.  Anything that seems derogatory.  Anything negative.  The wilder, the better.

New York Times Kavanaugh book bombs, just 3,120 sold, Amazon rank #6,795.  The latest book on Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a critical biography from two New York Times reporters that made new sexual assault charges that were immediately undermined, has suffered an epic sales crash, according to publishing insiders.  Expected to sell at least 10,000-12,000 in the first two weeks and propel The Education of Brett Kavanaugh:  An Investigation onto the newspaper's bestseller hardcover list, it has sold about a third of that in the first two weeks.  A publishing source provided the latest BookScan numbers, which can account for about 80% of sales.  That number is 3,120.  "If you add in ebooks — they may have sold a total of 4,000.  That's one of the most epic bombs in political publishing over the past decade," said the source.

Tourist-Shaming: A Snobby Way to Save the Planet.  More people are pursuing new experiences, broadening their horizons, reveling in nature's splendor, and familiarizing themselves with the world's cultures than ever before.  But to environmentalists, these figures bring displeasure.  Emissions from aviation have spiked to an almost incomprehensible volume.  Worldwide, flights produced 895 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2018.  To the upper-crust jet set, these figures bring discomfort.

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Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  Thousands of people have very good jobs in the airline industry.  Thousands of others make a little money every month after having invested in airline stocks.  Air travel does not wreck the earth.

The Dems are doomed.  After nearly three years since Trump's inauguration, Democrats have finally mustered up the courage to go full throttle into impeachment mode, proceeding from the president's whistleblower-stricken phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.  Zelensky stated at a press conference with Trump that when in talks with the president over Hunter and Joe Biden's Ukrainian scandal, he felt no pressure as it relates to United States aid to Ukraine.  Despite this overwhelmingly important factor, Democrats are proceeding full force with impeachment — and it couldn't be better for the president.  If the economy didn't seal it for the "on the fence" soccer moms, the humiliation of Democrats cannibalizing themselves with impeachment would flip voters like clockwork.

Democrats Have Given Up on the Common Good.  Joe Biden has had a hard few weeks. [...] Speaking recently at an LGBT event, the former vice president told the audience, "In prison the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is, not what in fact the prison says it is."  Put another way, Biden came out in favor of housing male convicts with women.  Watching Biden grovel before the woke mob is rather sad, but it's also telling about the evolving priorities of his party.  With practically the sole exception being healthcare, Democrats have given up on even trying to look like they care about issues that touch on the national interest or broadly shared concerns of ordinary Americans.  The liberal elite that funds their campaigns and televises their phony "debates" has lost all connection with the common good.

Democrats' Campaign Promise:  We'll Destroy America's Energy Sector, And Economy.  Eight of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates say they want to ban fracking.  Eleven others would limit the process or "regulate it better," says the Washington Post.  Could these politicians possibly be that ignorant of how ruinous their prohibition lust would be in the real world?  First, let's get it straight why the political left hates hydraulic fracturing.  It's not because it's an environmental threat.  They know it's clean process and has been both an ecological and economic boom, in no small part due to the increased production of natural gas, a cleaner alternative to coal for producing electricity.  No, the left loathes fracking because it is so efficient in taking fossil fuel out of the ground.

Another Trump hoax or a real investigation leading to impeachment?  The majority of Americans still do not favor impeachment.  However, more than two-thirds of Democrats do.  There are several reasons, however, to believe that this picture is incomplete and could change.  Impeachment hoax or not, there are three logical defenses for allegations from last weeks first impeachment hearing.

Democrat Censured for Voting with Trump 19% of the Time.  Bipartisanship Is Dead.  One of the more interesting news items this week was the revelation that Arizona Democrats were considering a censure vote against Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being too pro-Trump.  Apparently, voting against the president 81% of the time constitutes being a raging right-wing reprobate in today's liberal hive mind.

Adam Schiff, the Lady Macbeth of the House.  There are numerous people in Congress who should not be there for a variety of reasons:  ignorance, incompetence, uncompromising partisanship, lack of patriotism, a dark heart full of hate, and sheer moonbattery.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, is shockingly ignorant of American history, basic economics, and essential science.  Rep. Hank Johnson worried some years ago that the island of Guam might "tip over" because most of the population was on one side of it.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, while watching the Mars Rover on Mars, asked where the flag that had been planted on the moon in 1969 was.  It is a long list, and it would be hilarious if such things were not actually spoken by people elected to represent their portion of America's citizens. [...] When one considers the countless crazy utterances of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren, we enter new and nuttier territory.

The Democratic Party is still Barack Obama's party.  In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, a whopping 78 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were satisfied that Obama's presidency did as much as was possible at the time in addressing the issues facing the country.  That's compared with 20 percent who said they were NOT satisfied, because more should have been done.  Even among self-described liberal Democrats in the poll, the numbers are essentially the same — 79 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied.

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Obama's favorable ratings are largely due to media bias in his favor:  Obama's admirers are probably unaware of his many scandals, bad decisions, and lies.

Censure Vote Against Kyrsten Sinema Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.  Yesterday [9/18/2019], Arizona Republic reported that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) "is facing a censure vote from the Arizona Democratic Party," whose farthest left members feel Sinema has been too acquiescent toward President Trump's policies.  Dan O'Neal, the state coordinator of Progressive Democrats of America, claims Sinema has abandoned the Democratic stances she supposedly ran on.  Sinema was elected senator of Arizona in 2018, replacing Jeff Flake and defeating Republican candidate Martha McSally.  According to Arizona Republic, Sinema's voting record indicates that, while in the House (where she served from 2013 to 2018), Sinema opposed Trump's agenda 81 percent of the time; in the Senate, 46 percent of the time.  The Democrats cite, among other things, her vote to confirm Attorney General William Barr and her unwillingness to revive "net neutrality" rules as spots of contention.

Just as Iowa veers toward the Democrats, California comes to the rescue — for Trump.  California doesn't respect the laboratory of the states, let alone state sovereignty, at least from other states, so the people running the state have chosen now to make Iowa their target.  They're not only bigger, they're socialist, and socialism has always been about controlling others.  They just did it at about the worst time they possibly could have done it — when Iowa was swinging leftward.  That amounts to a gift to Trump, reminding Iowans what they are dealing with as they sign on with Democrats.  With enemies like this, President Trump doesn't need friends.

Jerry Nadler's Troubling History.  [Scroll down]  Even though Nadler had approved the FALN clemencies, his involvement with aiding the release of dangerous and deadly terrorists would be even more direct and hands on, and it would involve Susan Rosenberg and Judith Clark, [...] Rosenberg continued her major terrorist activity after her escape.  She was finally caught in 1984, hauling 730 pounds of bombs and several illegal weapons, and some of the cache of bombs had been used in several bombings in New York and Washington, including one at the Capitol in 1983, which did severe damage to the historic building.  In 1994, when Rosenberg was first up for parole, Nadler sent a letter to the New York Parole Board recommending her release, which they rejected.  As Bill Clinton's term was ending in 2001, Nadler made a direct pitch to him, and Rosenberg was freed in Clinton's final 15 minutes in office that January.  She now publicly praises other terrorists and murderers and also advocates for all prisons to be abolished.

Fans boo US Armed Forces enlistees for promising to obey President Trump's orders.  Soccer fans booed U.S. Armed Forces enlistees this week at a swearing-in ceremony that took place at a match between the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage.  The fans were booing the fact that the enlistees had to at one point pledge to follow the orders of their commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump.  Agreeing to follow the orders of the president, by the way, is part of every swearing-in ceremony for every man or woman who joins the U.S. Armed Forces.

Climate Change and the Democrats.  Dream up a problem such as Climate Change, and I will guarantee you that it will be years before Climate Change is solved by technology.  Though when I ponder some of the solutions now being offered for Climate Change, it might be worth the wait.  Consider Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  She has dreamed up a vast scheme.  She calls it the Green New Deal.  It envisages all our homes and office buildings and even factories being revised and rebuilt according to her green code.  Others are more moderate.  They would only wipe out the commercial airline industry, though the automobile industry could be next.  Already there is an ambitious plan afoot in our country to end the life of the plastic straw.  Oh, yes, there is another problem with Climate Change.  It is not a winning issue with the electorate.

Tlaib Calls for a 'Political Revolution' and Complete Transformation of Political System.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called for a "political revolution" in America and expressed her desire to "completely transform" the U.S. political and economic system in a tweet posted Saturday [9/7/2019].

Dem Rep. Clyburn: 'Not Too Sure' the Bill of Rights Would Pass Today.  Sunday on MSNBC, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) wondered if the Bill of Rights would pass in today's "climate."  Clyburn said based off of conversations he has all the time, he believes there would be "strong support against the Bill of Rights" among people who would like to see many of the guarantees "uprooted."

'Gasland' Filmmaker Has a Problem — and It Spells Trouble for Dem Presidential Candidates.  The filmmaker and activist Josh Fox has a problem.  And it's a problem that spells serious trouble for the dozens of Democratic candidates running for president.  Josh Fox is the self-proclaimed leader of a "grassroots" movement to "reclaim our country" and has been acclaimed by Hollywood elites for years.  He has won an Emmy, been nominated for an Oscar and three of his documentaries have been broadcast on HBO.  These documentaries included two "Gasland" anti-fracking films and a climate apocalypse movie.  If you believe Josh Fox and the media, these films are important and timely, reflecting grassroots concerns.  But Josh Fox has very publicly discovered that the grassroots really don't want to follow him or his ideas.

Adios, Think Progress.  Not too many years ago, Think Progress, the web site operated by the Center for American Progress, was one of the most prominent left-wing destinations on the web.  But more recently its traffic has declined and it has consistently lost money.  CAP tried to find a buyer for Think Progress, but apparently no one was interested in the money-sucking site, and now CAP has shut it down.

Progressive Website ThinkProgress Is Shutting Down Because Nobody Wants To Buy It.  ThinkProgress, a top progressive website operated by the liberal think tank, Center for American Progress, is shutting down on Friday after a 15-year run.  The decision was made after the site was unable to find a buyer.  The Center for American Progress (CAP) has tried to sell off the website after operating for years in the red, according to The Daily Beast.

Think Progress website, which led smear of Tea Party, shuts down.  We have not written a lot in recent years about Think Progress, the left-wing website owned by the Center for American Progress.  But back in the day, in the earlier years of Legal Insurrection, we wrote a lot about Think Progress and its efforts to smear the Tea Party as racist and violent.  Think Progress led an obsessive campaign to demonize the Koch brothers and Andrew Breitbart.  The false claim that Sarah Palin's electoral map was connected to Jared Loughner's shooting of Gabby Giffords was spread with the early help of Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias.

The Left's determination to destroy us from within.  It is not an exaggeration to say that today's Left is a scourge upon this nation.  No one who values civility and respect for our law enforcement men and women should cast a vote for any Democrat, anywhere.  They pander, promise, and lie.  They defend Antifa!  And now they openly and officially oppose our law enforcement personnel.  Every Democrat presidential candidate opposes ICE, the agency tasked with stemming the tide of illegal immigration.  All of them have implicitly admitted their contempt for our police and sanctioned violence against them.  They clearly value illegal migrants over citizens.

Hilarious lineup of commercials for CNN's climate hysteria town hall.  If one were going to predict which segments of the population would be least attracted to hour upon hour of haranguing over their immoral use of air conditioning, air travel and meat-laden diets, surely the target demographics of the commercials that followed Pete Buttigieg's 40 minute segment (in which he said, "it's kind of a sin" to not act on climate change) would be among them.  Zach Parkinson, Deputy Director of Communications Research for Trump 2020 captured the abusrdity in a tweet:  [Screen grab]

Poll: Increasing Immigration, Giving Illegals Right to Vote Most Unpopular 2020 Political Positions.  Increasing illegal and legal immigration to the United States is the most unpopular position a 2020 presidential candidate can take, as well as giving illegal aliens the right to vote, according to a new poll.  The latest Harvard/Harris Poll finds that 2020 presidential candidates who want to increase overall immigration to the U.S. — while the country already admits 1.5 million foreign nationals every year — are the least likely to win over American voters.

'Woke' Gestapo Demand Conformity.  It's important to remember, the left is out for blood.  They are not your friend.  If you refuse to conform, to get in line and shut up, they will happily destroy you.  This is what they do when they're out of power, just imagine what they'd do if they won.

Democrats Send Out Secret Weapon Hanoi Jane Fonda to Pennsylvania to Plead with Swing Voters to Dump Trump.  Democrats sent out communist sympathizer and treasonous Jane Fonda this weekend to knock on doors and push swing voters to dump Trump.  Fonda wore an AFL-CIO T-shirt for her canvassing campaign against President Trump.

Rejection of Moral Absolutes Plagues the Modern Left.  Many have implied that if President Trump has the opportunity to name Ginsburg's replacement, the battle that will erupt will make the Kavanaugh confirmation look like the Mayberry City Council debate on whether to hold a Founder's Day parade.  This shouldn't be the case — because, as long as Senate republicans have his back, there is simply nothing Democrats can do to stop President Trump from nominating and having confirmed any judge he wishes.  However, today's Democratic Party is as far from rational as it is from moral.

Democrats dump climate change debate, recognizing how badly it will bomb with voters.  If you want to win an election, yelling about global warming and blaming air conditioners, cars, plastic straws, and jets — while jetting in to do it — is probably not the best way to sell it to voters. [...] We all know what was really going on here:  Global warming may excite the Democratic Party's base, but it's an absolute loser of an issue to the broader base of voters, ranking down there at the absolute bottom of voter priorities according to polls, meaning, the audience for this one's likely to be composed of viewers mainly there to see if there are outrageous statements to tweet out.  With each crazy claim coming as each Democrat tries to outdo the next one, there's little doubt they'll repel voters.

The Left's Neverland.  Now, over 150 years after the Civil War, we find ourselves living in a world that has tucked reality away in a locked cupboard and our schools, our media, and many of our churches don't want it to get out.  We live in a TV-Internet-Smartphone world where our music is mostly canned, our connections with people are at least once-removed, and our children never look up.  The virtual has taken over to a point where people actually think we can alter history by removing statues and painting over murals, and they have to change history because Neverland has to have its own annals, its own chronicles.  Neverland is not America.  This explains why both Obama and Hillary could talk with such disdain about half of the population.  We aren't their people.  They were running to be president of Neverland, not of traditional America.

Vermont Is Going Insane.  Will the Rest of America Follow?  Vermont leads the nation in adults who behave like errant children and delegate leadership to infants.  Small wonder that Vermont uncritically embraced a 14-year-old candidate for governor.  Vermont is the forefront of the new utopian vision of which Ryszard Legutko has cautioned — this is the state where Black Lives Matter flags are flown at numerous schools, and textbooks are edited to teach children that Vermont is a white supremacist culture.  This is where young children halt public parades while no police or other authorities intervene.  In Vermont, this experiment now extends to sexual and gender identity decisions in early childhood, and genital-mutilating surgeries at taxpayer expense, which insurance companies are mandated to provide without age minimums.

Cosmic Injustice.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods in his efforts to virtue signal his moral fides — even as his New York was nearly paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard that trapped millions of his city's residents in their homes due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow. [...] New Yorkers in 2011 were worried more about the piles of snow on the sidewalks than they felt threatened by 32-ounce Cokes — while realizing that no snow blocked either the Bloomberg official or private residence.

Rep Dan Crenshaw:  In Hong Kong, Protesters Wave American Flags.  In America, Antifa Burns Them.  Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw said American "antifascists" demand violence while Hong Kong protesters are "actually fighting fascists" in a Saturday [8/17/2019] tweet.  "In Hong Kong, antifascists wave American flags, demand freedom and actually fight fascists," he wrote.  "In Portland, 'antifascists' burn American flags, demand violence in the name of socialism.  Portland is a sad showing of where we are today.  All around."

Bill Maher Doubles Down on Wish for a Recession.  Real Time host Bill Maher doubled down on his desire for a recession Friday night [8/16/2019].  Maher has expressed his wish for a recession multiple times; hoping that an economic downturn would lead to President Trump losing his bid for a second term in the White House.  Maher first indicated that he was rooting for a recession on June 8 of last year, when he said "I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point and by the way, I'm hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is to crash the economy.  So please, bring on the recession.  Sorry if that hurts people but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy."

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Who hates America as much as the man who would rather see the entire economy crash than to see his political foes succeed?

Stacey Abrams:  The Grift That Keeps On Grifting.  Stacey Abrams is trying very hard to stay relevant, despite the fact that she lost a gubernatorial race (but hasn't admitted it).  She is still making appearances before whatever media will talk to her and let her tell her sob story.  The best part is that the media will keep having her on out of a tremendous sense of guilt they feel for ignoring her and focusing on Beto O'Rourke.  But Abrams is a particularly fascinating grifter and is especially good at making sure she stays relevant and continues to raise money.  Objectively, it is something the Democrats should worry about.  It's something they should tell her to stop doing.  But, as a partisan, I hope she keeps on doing what she's doing.

Leaving the Democrats.  I have had a great life in the greatest country on earth.  All along the way, the Democrats have stepped on me, taxed me more, lied to me, called me names, and demand I give up my rights.  Democrats were the ones pushing environmental causes at the expense of humans and government takeover of healthcare.  They have mismanaged everything they get their hands on, and then blame others for their own deeds.  I watch them lie and cheat and twist words.  Democrats have alienated their own base to the point they have to argue for foreigners to come into this country illegally in order to vote for Democrats, mainly by calling those of us opposed to this "racist." [...] I am now called racist, homophobic, misogynist, and Islamaphobic.  A gun-toting, Bible-believing bitter clinger.  A deplorable.  A white nationalist.  Nazi.  I can't remember all of my Democrat party subtitles.

The Dems can't win in 2020 if they keep listening to Twitter.  Everyone knows that Twitter is a sewer.  It's also a terrible newspaper editor and a lousy campaign manager.  Paul Begala knows something about the last of those.  Begala has had his highs and lows as a campaign strategist — he once lost a student-government election at the University of Texas to an imaginary cartoon figure called Hank the Hallucination, but he went on to lead Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992, so he's got that going for him — and he worries that Twitter is pushing Democratic candidates far to the left of where the party is.

Leftists doxx and threaten Dayton nurse who saved lives for appearing in picture with President Trump.  Here is an obviously warm-hearted lady who has literally saved dozens of lives in the most stressful professional setting imaginable, the terrible Dayton mass shooting, and for merely posing for posing for a picture with the visiting president, she gets threats, security, and her life upended.  She also got doxxed. [...] It's a mark of the left's insanity that they would go after someone like this, because up until now, such pictures with visiting presidents have always been routine, no matter who the president was, and people have always gathered around and smiled no matter what their politics.

Joe Biden:  There are at least three genders.  I confess that I can't hear the question being asked amid the din of the crowd, although Biden's answer is clear enough.  But in any event, it's a question that should be asked at one of the upcoming debates.  [Video clip]  Older, more traditional, working-class Dems — Biden voters, essentially — would likely seem puzzled by the question and say, "Two, of course."  Progressive answers would be more nuanced, aimed at reassuring trans activists that they believe gender is more fluid.  So why not get everyone on record?  Let the centrists in the field try to convince the left that gender is a binary thing.

'We're here to win': US democratic socialists move to center stage.  The last time the nation's largest socialist organization came together for its biennial conference, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was serving tacos and cocktails at a bar in Manhattan.  Two years later, the Democratic Socialists of America have doubled in size and the young, Latina, democratic socialist from the Bronx who unseated a 10-term veteran to win her New York congressional seat has become a political force so visible she is known simply by her initials, AOC.

The Democratic Socialists of America Meeting Was Something Else.  Socialism is creeping in our country like never before.  A recent study indicates that millennials prefer socialism to capitalism.  The Democratic Party has gone so far left, they should be accused of plagiarizing Karl Marx's ideas.  But, if these recent videos from the Democratic Socialists of America conference are any indication of how quickly their ideas could be implemented, then the U.S.A. has nothing to worry about.  It appears the DSA crowd is too triggered by scents, sounds, and the wrong pronouns to actually get anything accomplished without some whiny progressive stopping the meeting to complain.  A newly formed group, Young Americans Against Socialism, posted the videos over the weekend.  You'd be forgiven for thinking the soundbites were a parody, but no, they are real.

Another ungrateful migrant creates a new 'narrative' for ingratitude.  Rep. Ilhan Omar was just an opening act.  Now, another ungrateful migrant has come out of the woodwork to tell us how awful we are and how ingratitude for being allowed to come here is the rightful state for migrants.  Calcutta-born Suketu Mehta, a bitter revanchist who would have been ripped to shreds as a fourth-rate, fourth world 'intellectual' by V.S. Naipaul (too bad he's not alive) puts forth the argument in the Washington Post that immigration is a reparation.  His piece is titled 'I am an uppity immigrant.  Don't expect me to be grateful."  Based on what he says, it's clear he views migration to the U.S. as an entitlement solely because America is so very, very bad — and as a lagniappe, because he's so very, very good.

Two Far-Left Progressives Qualify for Runoff Election in Nashville Mayoral Race.  Nashville is governed under a metropolitan form of government that includes the city of Nashville and all the other communities in Davidson County.  Nashville/Davidson County is an island of blue in a sea of Tennessee red.

These People Are Crazy.  Liberals are insane.  That's not news, at least to anyone who watched even clips from the Democratic debates this week.  They promised a unicorn that poops gold while paying for your health care and college, giving you a high-paying job and foot rubs at will.  If you completely ignore the reality of the hell on earth their socialistic policies would create, it sounded wonderful.  But you can't ignore reality with these people.  Any of them.  It's reality they want to "fundamentally transform."  To do that they're not only willing destroy what exists now, they have to destroy it.  Leftists are very open about this.  They want to "tear down" the system — health care, capitalism, etc., you name it.  By "tear down" they mean decimate.  Most people like their health care and support capitalism, and the country, so they're unlikely to willingly allow its "transformation" to something else.

Prince Harry Says People 'Don't Understand' Their 'Unconscious' Racism.  Progressive Prince Harry has said that people expressing "racist" behaviour do so because of their upbringing, but may not know they are acting in a racist way because they "don't understand" their "unconscious biases". [...] The inheritors of a thousand years of British aristocracy and tradition, the younger generation of royals has embraced social justice causes including man-made climate change and LGBT rights.

Jake Tapper Questions Rashida Tlaib About BDS, Israel's Right To Exist.  When I hear Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speak, I can't believe she was ever elected to public office.  The Palestinian-American Congresswoman recently co-sponsored a resolution in the House with her great pal Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.  Last week, she was one of 17 lawmakers to vote against a House resolution to condemn BDS.  She compared the BDS movement to the American boycott of Nazi Germany.  Tlaib spoke to Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" this morning.  Even Tapper was a bit ruffled by several of Tlaib's replies.

Nearly 150 Obama Officials Defend 'The Squad' In WaPo OpEd.  In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, 148 African American members of President Barack Obama's administration came together to explain why they support "The Squad," made up of Reps.  Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).  According to the Obama alumni, President Donald Trump's "go back to where you came from" comments are unacceptable and racist.  Although they're bothered by the language Trump used, they use it as "jet-fuel" for their activism. [... But] Trump wasn't telling "The Squad" to leave this country as a way of being racist.  He was saying that America is the greatest nation in the world.  If someone can't respect our laws, our way of life and what we hold dear, they're more than welcome to leave.  They're more than welcome to live in a country that more aligns with their political and personal beliefs.

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[#1] If you hate America, you shouldn't have run for Congress.  [#2] You shouldn't go back where you came from, you should move to a socialist utopia, like Zimbabwe, North Korea, or Cuba.  After living in any of those places for a few years, you'd beg to get back into the U.S.A.

Why the Left So Despises Donald Trump.  The far-left faction of the Democrats, led by congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, have with this big, very white, rigorously politically incorrect billionaire, what they believe, tactically and by uncontainable impulse, is the target of their political dreams.  Mr. Trump is the personification of every policy they hate and every human trait they despise; to them, he is a monster of ignorance, greed, bombast, bellicosity, and racist bigotry. [...] All four of them qualify as anti-Semites.  As has been widely mentioned, the president is doing what he can to help make these four the best publicly known face of the Democrats.

It's official:  Democrats dislike our country.  Liberals bristle when you suggest they have contempt for America, even when leading figures like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo openly says things like "America was never that great," or "Beto" O'Rourke saying that "This country was founded on white supremacy.  And every single structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression."  Now we have survey data from Gallup that ratifies this increasing Democratic hatred of our country.

Poll: Moderate Democrats Turned Off by Party's 2020 Open Borders Agenda.  The Democrat Party's open borders, mass immigration platform for the upcoming 2020 presidential election is turning off moderate Democrat voters, a new poll reveals.  For months now, Democrats running in the presidential primary have largely presented platforms promoting amnesty for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens, free health care for illegal aliens, and the decriminalization of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border.  This open borders agenda, spearheaded by a select group of white liberals in the party's ranks, is causing a rift among Democrats.

Leftists' Effective Dirty Trick.  America's enemies within use churches, schools, corporate advertising, entertainment, fake news media and social networks to spread lies about Trump and our wonderful country.  Trump is pretty much a lone voice in the international arena standing up for America; exposing leftists' lies.  This is why I wholeheartedly support Trump exposing Democrat congresswomen Ilhan Omar, AOC, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib for the anti-American, antisemitic, racist, socialist and communist hate-filled traitors that they truly are.  How on earth did these four haters of America get elected?

NBC Poll — Wide Majority See Improved Race Relations Under President Trump.  Right there in a poll of eleven southern states conducted by NBC over two weeks we see the reason why the DNC, political leadership and media are whipping up false accusations of racial anxiety against President Trump.  The majority of those polled see improvements in race relationships, and their approval of President Trump is higher[,] and their view of the economy is more optimistic[,] and the number one issue is immigration.  All empirical points that help President Trump and simultaneously destroy the Democrat narrative.

The Squad Becomes the Untouchables.  When I first heard that Donald Trump went after Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (I had not heard of Ayanna Pressley), I immediately expressed gratitude that someone had the guts to push back.  These three congresswomen are unhinged, a fact further revealed a week earlier in the "testimony" of a brazen AOC and a half-sobbing, ready-to-burst Tlaib.  The depth of the radicalism of the AOC-Tlaib-Omar troika, in full display after only a few months in Congress, is difficult to express.  Perhaps worse, given the context of their current battle against President Trump over divisive language, is that few congressional freshmen in memory have been as out-of-the-gate acrimonious as AOC, Tlaib, and Omar.

Screaming Rashida Tlaib physically removed from 2016 Trump event.  A video resurfaced Saturday [7/20/2019] of Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib being forcibly removed from an Aug. 8, 2016 Trump campaign event in Detroit while screaming, "You guys are crazy!"  Footage showed two security officials holding Tlaib by her arms and guiding her toward the exit while she screamed at the crowd gathered for Trump's speech.  Tlaib was reportedly among at least 14 protesters removed from the event that evening.  The event, which took place at the Cobo Center in Detroit and was hosted by the Detroit Economic Club, took place just ahead of 2016 presidential election.  His speech that evening was reportedly focused on taxes, repealing Obamacare, and bolstering the economy.

The Democrats' 2020 Campaign Theme Is "You Americans Are Terrible".  [Scroll down]  They all agree that you are terrible because you don't know your place, which is behind a rock pushing it endlessly uphill for the benefit of people who hate you.  Remember Animal Farm from back when you were in school and they taught it as a chilling warning about socialism instead of as a how-to manual?  Remember the horse who got worked nearly to death then got sent to the glue farm?  Guess what?  You're the horse.  Your job is to work to generate taxes and feed the cities and defend the country while your betters clink Chardonnay glasses between bouts of redistributing the fruits of your labor to buy the votes of their slack Democrat political constituencies.

Throw Her Out.  [Scroll down]  It may be that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, The New York Times, and the Washington Post adore the Squad, their foul mouths, and their arrogant beliefs that they are going to change America from a capitalist economy built on freedom of spirit and freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom to be great.  But there are scores of millions of others among us who are not mesmerized by them, nor are we fazed.  They are nothing.  They reflect isolated pockets of electoral support in a country of more than 300 million people.  Because the Left Media are enamored of them and want to work with them to change America, the members of the Squad get disproportionate air time, emboldening them to advocate increasingly radical proposals that would move America towards communism and the platforms whose roots in Stalinism Mark Levin so effectively has traced.  But that is not America.

Something Is Happening Across America And It Spells Big Trouble For The Democrat Party.  A +15000 shift for Republicans in a single Florida county is an example of what is taking place in counties throughout the United States as everyday Americans, sick of the 24/7 anti-Trump bias, the divisive class politics, the blatant anti-Americanism, have had enough and are preparing to deliver an even more powerful anti-establishment message to the D.C. and media elites that continue to try and tear down the very fabric of the nation.

Throw Her Out.  The four Congressional vipers now known as "the [Odd] Squad" came to Washington this January, swinging.  Two of them came swinging at Jews right away.  Rashida Tlaib is a Jew-hater with a long resume and Twitter history to document that hate, and with a filthy mouth to boot.  The "M-F" word she used to describe the President of the United States — my president, your president, and her president — instantly defined her as trash.  In this country, even if you do not like the president — even if you despise him to your utmost innermost core, as I despised and still despise Obama — he still is your president.  I never have used such a word to describe Obama.  Tlaib reflected herself as trash by speaking in such a way about the president of this country.  Ilhan Omar is a vicious Jew-hater, an anti-Semite.  I often describe her as a Nazi.  Not all Nazis murdered Jews or even touched Jews.  Some just lined the streets to cheer Hitler's passing motorcades.  Her litany of anti-Jewish tweets by now is legendary.

Trump and America Vs. the Commie Quad Squad.  In one sense, the Commie Quad Squad (CQS) has done us all a favor by flushing out the extremism of the Democratic Party for conspicuous public display.  House Leader Nancy Pelosi is quaking in her boots, realizing that it is getting increasingly difficult to hide her party's radicalism from American voters, many of whom still cling to the fantasy that the Democratic Party is predominantly pro-American.  Pelosi at least has the sense to know this extremism won't play well in national elections — even today — and she is struggling to cover it up.  Her feud with the CQS, to be sure, is about control of the party, but it's also her effort to allay Americans' fears that her party has lost its mind — and moral compass.  But the women of the CQS don't care.  They are so adamantly against the America that you and I grew up to love that they will not contain their animus.  And they're arrogant enough to believe that a majority of Americans shares their antipathy.

Trump Forces Democrats To Embrace [the] Most Extreme Members Of [their] Party.  In their first presidential debate last month, all but a few of the 20 candidates running for the White House pledged to give illegal aliens free health care and said crossing the border illegally should be just like getting a parking ticket.  Two 2020 hopefuls — Sen. Cory A. Booker and former Rep. Robert "Beto" O'Rourke — even traveled to the border to personally try to get foreigners into the United States.  And just last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was racist for "the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color" in her and three of her colleagues.  That tiff exploded into a catfight, with Pelosi once again dismissing AOC and the other members of what's now known as "The Squad" — Reps.  Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

Are Democrats Becoming the Anti-American Party?  This is something new.  This not your father's Democratic Party nor the party of America-loving JFK.  There has been a steady drift to the left since then and Democrats are turning on the very values that made America great.  The truth now is that if you hate your country you are more than likely a Democrat leader or a biased agenda-driven media figure.  Democrats railed against President Trump's "Salute to America" celebration on the National Mall invoking images of military dictators, blaming Trump's ego, and as usual playing politics with a holiday that should bring us together.

Trump took out the Odd Squad.  Paul Mirengoff of Powerline took enough time off bashing President Donald John Trump to bash the Washington Post for its adulation of the Odd Squad, Democrat Congresswomen of Color Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.  Their sex and skin tone are all they have going for them because otherwise they are just run-of-the-mill communists like Beto and the rest of the fifth tier in the Democrat presidential marathon.  You need a gimmick — a shield — from criticism.  Ask the gay mayor how that works.

Auto Da Fe, 2019 Edition.  That a number of Democrats recently "came out of the closet" as America-haters shouldn't have surprised anyone.  Their party has given them a tacit nod for their behavior.  This can only have one of two meanings:  Democrat Party leadership has decided that the time has come to vie for permanent and absolute power; [or] That leadership has become so weak that the party's lunatics are comfortable in rebellion against it.  Yet at least forty percent of the electorate will vote for Democrats in 2020.

In Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing.  On Friday night [7/12/2019], a mob of protestors tore down an American flag outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colo., and replaced it with a Mexican flag.  Local police stood by and did nothing.  The next day, a gunman reportedly associated with Antifa attacked an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., throwing Molotov cocktails and attempting to set fire to a propane tank.  He was reportedly killed by police in a gunfight.  The attack in Tacoma coincided with left-wing protests at ICE facilities all over the country, prompted by nationwide ICE raids targeting Central American families whom immigration judges have ordered to be deported after reviewing their claims.  If you're a Democrat seeking your party's nomination for 2020, what's your response to these events?  So far, nothing.

Victory! Pledge of Allegiance Reinstated In St. Louis Park.  Let's call this a nice win for the common-sense American.  Following a bizarre ban of the Pledge of Allegiance by the far-left/socialist St. Louis Park City Council, hundreds packed the council chambers and demanded the Pledge be reinstated.  Council members attempted to table the issue, likely hoping people would forget and move on.  THEY DIDN'T, and soon after, the council voted to reinstate the Pledge.  On a related side note, this took place in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's district — the same Ilhan Omar who has long been attacking President Trump for his many America-first positions.

St. Louis Park City Council votes to bring back Pledge of Allegiance to meetings.  The St. Louis Park City Council will return to saying the Pledge of Allegiance prior to its meetings.  According to KSTP reporter Brett Hoffland, the council unanimously voted to return the recitation of the pledge at its Monday night [7/15/2019] meeting.  The pledge debate wasn't even on the agenda for Monday night, but that didn't stop a few hundred people from cramming into city hall to share their opinion on the issue, many coming from St. Louis Park and all across the state.

Influential Democrat:  Why Is Our Party Supporting Criminal Illegal Aliens?  One of New Jersey's most influential Democrats is expressing concern over the Democrat Party's broad support for illegal immigration and an open border.  George Norcross, considered the leading unelected Democrat in the state of New Jersey, questioned last year why the Democrat Party has taken the extreme positions of supporting illegal aliens, including those who commit crimes against Americans, and an open border.

Nasty gay piece shows where Democrats are.  If the election were held today, the Democrat ticket would be Kamala Harris and the gay mayor.  Michelle Obama's support of Harris, whom she views as a surrogate, clears the field for her topping the ticket.  Meanwhile, moneyed gay liberals are buying the veep seat for Alfred E. Neuman.  And why not?  Money talks.  And since black people and Hispanics provide 40% of the Democrat votes, why not let a woman of color head the ticket?  Plus they look nice.  That is important.  I had a boss who predicted elections based on hair.  She was very accurate.

Apologist Democrats are a sorry lot.  No matter how much outrage Trump sparked, he never said he was sorry.  You could argue that there were times when an apology was warranted.  (The McCain War Hero debacle in 2015 comes to mind).  But there is no arguing that Trump's strategy was a bold one.  And as the 2020 election nears, he is still the only individual steering clear of the words, "I'm sorry."  In fact, the Democrats are doing the complete opposite.  They apologize ... a lot.  They are sorry for the jokes they made, the positions they held, the tweets they tweeted, the pictures they posed for.  You name it, they're sorry for it.

Scalise: 'No Moderates Left; It's Literally Liberals Versus Socialists and the Socialists Are Winning'.  "It's ugly and getting uglier," House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Thursday [7/11/2019], commenting on the row between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).  There are no moderates left in the Democrat Party, and liberal Pelosi is losing the battle with socialists like Ocasio-Cortez, Scalise told Fox News.

Pelosi vs. AOC: It's a Beautiful Thing.  These people all embrace varying degrees of an extreme progressive agenda including radical environmentalism; socialized medicine; socialism writ large, evisceration of gun rights; abortion on demand; health care and welfare for illegal immigrants; open borders; confiscatory personal- and corporate-income tax hikes; softness on Iran and terrorism; leftist judicial activism; wholesale end runs around the Constitution to secure their power, such as abolishing the Electoral College and allowing 16-year-olds and felons to vote; and so much more.

Whose Side Are They On?  The Southern border is a litmus test:  do they believe that the United States has a right to exist as a sovereign nation, or don't they?  For many Democrats, the answer evidently is No.  That goes for all of the Democratic presidential contenders:  I believe all of them have signed on to the notion of free medical care (along with many other welfare benefits, of course) for illegal aliens.  This isn't exactly treason — a word that is thrown around much too often these days — but it certainly amounts to selling out the interests of American citizens.  A startling example of the Democrats' disregard of the interests of American citizens is Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who reportedly has sent her aides to Mexico to help illegal immigrants game the asylum system by pretending that they don't speak Spanish.  Why, exactly, would an important member of our government, accountable to the citizens of the United States, do this?

The Republic Is Collapsing:  The Time to Act Is Now.  As for the Democrats, they are not as suicidal in the many harebrained and socialist policies they advance as assorted commentators appear to believe.  The Party is gambling on the imbecile vote, the parasite vote, the illegal vote, the indebted student vote, the felon vote, the cemetery vote, the LBGT+ vote, the Jewish vote, the Muslim vote, the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the corporate vote and the broad liberal vote — lumped together a possible majority — to put them over the electoral top and ensure their future hegemony.

BET founder and longtime Democrat praises Trump, says Dem Party 'has moved too far to the left'.  Media mogul Robert Johnson has been a longtime Democrat but now says the party's slide to the left has turned him off.  The founder of Black Entertainment Television praised President Donald Trump in a recent interview despite his support of Hillary Clinton in the 2106 election, and complained that partisan politics have "become very wicked and very mean."

New York Democrat Pledges to Vote GOP Because [the] Democrat Party [is] Being Led by Insane Liars.  It's yet another story the far-left media refuses to tell.  The Democrat Party is imploding, torn asunder by radicalized anti-Americanism that was once on the fringe but is now running the Democrat agenda.

(Almost) Everybody Loves a Parade.  President Trump's July 4 "Salute to America" sounded perfectly normal to many Americans.  After all, the legacy American people have served in the military, respect it as a protector of our freedoms, and agree that the planes, tanks, technology, and equipment that we spend a mountain of money on are inspiring and visually compelling.  But the national freakout surrounding the event, said as much about the state of the nation, as the event itself.

A Tempest in Tempe.  Starbucks is in the news again.  No, not for adding even more goofy and overpriced varieties of coffee to their already ridiculous menu.  This time, it's for asking a half-dozen Tempe, Arizona, police officers to leave a Starbucks because their presence was making another customer feel "unsafe."  Hmm.  Unsafe?  Could the complaining customer's uneasiness have anything to do with outstanding warrants?

Starbucks employee asks police officers to leave because customer felt 'uncomfortable'.  Several police officers were asked to leave a Starbucks in Tempe, Arizona, by a barista who told them another patron did not feel safe in their presence.  The incident took place on July 4, Independence Day, just before the six Tempe officers began a long shift.  The barista told the officers they either needed to move out of the complaining customer's field of vision or leave completely because this patron did not "feel comfortable," according to ABC15 Arizona.  The officers, who had just purchased their coffees, opted to leave.

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It has been noted elsewhere that "Cake bakers have to serve everyone but liberal cafe owners can pick and choose who they will serve."

The Lost Left.  It's almost like half of America's political class set out to prove George Orwell correct in every particular.  Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, the two most cogent takedowns of socialism ever written through the lens of fiction, famously said that "there is the horrible — the really disquieting — prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together.  One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."  In America, too, as it turns out, because the prevalence of cranks among today's Democrats, who are unquestionably socialist in their political orientation, last week became a critical mass.

They Called Our Industry The 'Enemy'.  Last week, from the Democratic primary debate stage, former Vice President Joe Biden said we were the enemy.  "Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers," Biden said.  Not a single candidate on stage that night, or the night before, condemned the remark.  Their silence is tacit agreement.  Not a single candidate had the courage to name the violent criminals as the problem or the fortitude to stand up to those who prey upon the vulnerable in our society.  Instead, they are blaming us as an industry and the law-abiding gun owners we serve.

Protests Erupt, Communists Burn American Flag Outside White House in Protest of 'Salute to America' Event.  Multiple protesters were detained in the nation's capital Thursday after a protest got out of hand, with communists burning the American flag outside of the White House prior to the "Salute to America" event.  The Revolution Club's Gregory "Joey" Johnson — who won the landmark 1989 Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson on flag burning — announced his plans to burn the American flag in protest of the "Salute to America" event earlier this week.

Vice on Fourth of July: 'America Is a Constant Disappointment'.  Vice magazine has published timely Fourth of July advice for its liberal-minded readers:  "How to Celebrate the 4th of July When America Is a Constant Disappointment." [...] The article, by Leila Ettachfini, which was published last week but is still circulating widely on social media today, informs readers that America's failures did not begin with President Donald Trump.  Rather, as the first line declares:  "America has always been bad, no matter who the president is or was."

Dems Tlaib and Pressley slam Declaration of Independence as sexist and racist on July 4th.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) each spent part of their Fourth of July holiday trashing the Declaration of Independence as "sexist" and "racist."  The freshman congresswomen both promoted a Salon article titled "Fourth of July's ugly truth exposed:  The Declaration of Independence is sexist, racist, prejudiced" through their Twitter accounts.

U.S. Publications Celebrate Independence Day With Pieces About How Awful America Is.  There are 51 weeks of the year where it is not inappropriate to publish stories about how "terrible" America is.  The week of the 4th of July just isn't one of them.  Multiple prominent American publications did exactly that.

Obama DHS Sec:  Dem POTUS Candidates Pushing 'Unwise,' 'Unworkable' Plans for 'Open Borders'.  Jeh Johnson, former President Barack Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, warned Democrats running for president on Tuesday evening [7/2/2019] that calling for the decriminalization of illegal immigration will alienate a majority of Americans who oppose "open borders."  Johnson made his remarks after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday vowed to "virtually eliminate immigrant detention" through executive orders.

Why the Left hates symbols of patriotism.  President Trump is throwing an Independence Day celebration today to honor the United States.  Predictably, the Left lost its mind in response to the event and decried the celebration as emblematic of a totalitarian regime rather than American democracy.  Appearing on Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson described the event as a "combination of [a] Trump rally and Kim Jong-un-style military parade."  He bemoaned the fact that Trump's "obscene" celebration would "spoil the whole day."  The event, according to USA Today, will feature a military parade, flyovers, fireworks, and remarks from Pres.  Trump himself.

'Whatever It Is, I'm Against It'.  In a couple of days, we've gone from a celebrity saying a flag is bad, to a major corporation indulging that judgment, to presidential candidates and governors blithely confirming and cementing it.  In my view, though, the scariest part is not so much "how quick it has been," but that there has been no argument or explanation to speak of.  Upon the instant, professional progressivism has accepted the change as if it were taking orders from on high.  "The flag is in the bad column now?  Got it.  Will amend attitude and proceed accordingly."

California Democrats Push Bill Allowing Illegals Party Roles: 'They're Already Leaders'.  A bill proposed last week by California lawmakers could grant illegal aliens the ability to serve in Democrat Party leadership positions locally and statewide.  The new bill, SB 288, would allow them to be part of shaping the party's platform, including serving as state convention delegates and county committee leaders.

The Anti-Trump Circus.  We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature.  The Left should have learned something after the failed celebrity appeal to undermine the Electoral College, the initial articles of impeachment, the empty invocations of the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, and the 25th Amendment, the 22-month, $35 million Mueller investigation deflation, the periodical silly "bombshell" announcements of perennially wrong and comical Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the pathetic palace coup attempt of Andrew McCabe, the assassination chic from the likes of Madonna, Snoop Dogg, or Kathy Griffin, or the deification of the slimy prophet Michael Avenatti.  Not at all.  An entire new cast of carnival characters has arrived on the scene [...]

Democrats are Officially the Party of Derangement.  The Democrats' clown shows last week serve as the perfect illustration of just how nuts they have become.  Free everything for everyone — whether criminally invading the country or simply living beyond one's means — is now the policy of the Party.  Enforcing our laws is passé and viewed as bigoted while these self-righteous, dishonest ignoramuses fight each other for power.  Unfortunately, these progressive candidates get away with this nonsense because enough Democrats support their intolerant and totalitarian views.  They also get away with this by silencing opposing views.  When I spoke out against my town's Sanctuary City law, I was shouted down as a fear-monger and bigot by 100 crazy leftists who ignored the logic of my arguments to scream that Trump was destroying the country.

House Democrats to Introduce Bill for More Refugee Admissions from Central America.  As the immigration crisis at the border continues unabated with hundreds of thousands of migrants suffering and even dying on the treacherous trek through Mexico to the U.S. border, Democrats are blaming President Donald Trump and gearing up to introduce legislation to increase the number of refugees admitted to 100,000 a year.

Who's the Radical?  On Confidence and Common Sense.  I just heard a fellow on CNN say that Donald Trump has radicalized the Republicans.  Let's be clear on what is and isn't radical.  A well-patrolled border is not a radical policy.  An open border is a radical policy.  To believe in two genders is not radical.  To insert gender identity into Title IX is.  To praise Western Civilization as a legacy of political freedom and artistic genius is not a radical opinion.  To regard it as promotion of white supremacy is a radical opinion.  To love America as an exceptional creation is not radical.  To see America as founded on slavery and imperialism is radical.

Presbyterian church features drag queen reading story to children about LGBTQ icon Harvey Milk.  Last Sunday [6/23/2019], Dan Davidson briefly stepped out of his role as caretaker of Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church and became "Sparkle Leigh" — dressed in drag with tons of makeup and glitter — to read a story to children during the service about LGBTQ icon Harvey Milk, the assassinated San Francisco politician who was openly gay, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.  Davidson wore a pink, flowing dress and a green curly wig, the outlet said, adding that the congregation clapped during "exciting parts of the tale."

Media wants Democrats to hide their socialism.  In the wake of the Democrat cattle call (aka "debates) this week, the New York Times ran two columns on Friday that called for Democrats to tone it down on their communism.  Granted these columns were by token Republicans but the message was clear.  David Brooks wrote, "I could never in a million years vote for Donald Trump.  So my question to Democrats is:  Will there be a candidate I can vote for? [...] Brooks objected not because he disagrees with the communists.  Indeed, in his very next paragraph, he wrote, "The progressive narrative is dominating in part because progressives these days have a direct and forceful story to tell and no interest in compromising it.  It's dominating because no moderate wants to bear the brunt of progressive fury by opposing it."  His complaint is not that he disagrees with the communist policy but that you cannot win with it.

St. Louis Park will no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at City Council meetings.  The St. Louis Park City Council has decided to drop recital of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag at its meetings, citing a desire to accommodate the city's newest and more diverse residents.  "I hope it's not too controversial," Council Member Tim Brausen said.  "Our community tends to be a very welcoming and increasingly diverse community, and we believe our citizens will understand.  I don't think we're going to be any less welcoming by not starting our meeting out with the standard ritual."

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The problem here is not that the socialists are eliminating a ritual; it is that they are eliminating our society's standards.

Minnesota city council votes to ditch Pledge of Allegiance, reconsiders after backlash.  A Minnesota city is reconsidering its decision to no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of city council meetings after facing major backlash.  The St. Louis Park City Council unanimously voted on June 17 to amend the procedure rules so that the pledge would no longer be said before the start of every session in an effort to serve a more "diverse community."

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Apparently the community is diverse because it includes some who respect the U.S. flag, and the republic for which it stands, and the community includes others who do not.  That's not a diversity that should be encouraged.  That's a precursor to sedition.

Radical Democrats seem to think it's shameful to put bad guys in jail.  A perfect symbol to show how far-left and crazy the Democratic Party has become is that it was an attack line in Thursday night's debate to say someone was a prosecutor. [...] The assumption was that being a prosecutor is a bad thing.  Apparently, for this primary electorate, that assumption may be correct.  And the lack of media surprise at this as a counterpunch also indicates that a prosecutorial background is a liability in today's Democratic Party.  This is nuts.  In general, prosecutors are the "good guys."  They make sure bad guys, indeed sometimes truly awful people, go to prison.

What Democrats want is not what their candidates are offering.  Democrats' top abiding concern about the qualifications of their presidential nominee is that he or she can beat, defeat, oust, destroy and/or obliterate this evil Donald Trump character who should never have defeated what's-her-name in 2016.  Hardly anything else matters.  It doesn't even matter if the nominee is a woman or man or minority of some kind.

Tim Ryan:  Democrats Have 'Lost All Connection' to Working-Class People.  Ohio Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan admitted that Democrats have lost touch with "working class people" while being questioned during the first presidential debate held in Miami, Florida.  After he answered a question regarding solutions to climate change, Ryan jumped to respond to a previous question on "real politics."  "We could talk about climate, we could talk about guns, we could talk about all of these issues that we all care about," Ryan told MSNBC's Chuck Todd.  "We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party."

New Poll:  Voters See Democrats as Extremists.  In case you missed it this week, 20 Democrats hopeful to take back the White House in 2020 participated in their first election debates.  Candidates were split on two stages between two nights, with each hour proving Democrats have officially abandoned any moderate position with a full embrace of the most radical leftist positions.  Whether it's destroying the private health insurance system, raising taxes on the middle class, providing "free" healthcare to illegal aliens or supporting abortion up until nine months, candidates made their positions clear.  But according to a new Rasmussen poll, the majority of voters believe the positions Democrats are taking land far to the left of their own beliefs.

Oregon farmers, truckers, loggers and senators rebel against Dems.  National media has been quick to cover Oregon Governor Kate Brown's militaristic response to republican legislators who have cut senate sessions and left town.  In an effort to save Oregon agriculture, transportation and natural resource industries from bearing the burden of a boundless cap and trade bill (Oregon HB 2020), 11 republican senators ditched the state capital to prevent a quorum in the chamber.  It was a stand made to force the far-reaching plan into a referendum vote rather than allow a super-majority legislature, packed with politicians lacking business experience, to set policy.

Democratic presidential candidates are scaring off Never Trumpers.  Big mistake.  Democratic presidential candidates keep raising the stakes, particularly on the economy, making the choice for Never Trump Republicans and independents increasingly difficult.  For purposes of this column, let's define Never Trumpers as people who are center to center right on policy, so there is a lot that Donald Trump has done as president that they like.  They nevertheless find his behavior, as president and as a candidate, abhorrent.  And his impulsive and erratic conduct of the nation's business, internationally and domestically, a threat to stability and tranquility.

A Jihad Basis for the Coup.  We are the last defenders of civilization.  Period.  The evidence now shows that Obama, Hillary, and John Kerry sold out.  We still don't know how many secrets Hillary sold to foreign powers for money, but thirty thousand emails are still missing.  Even conservatives tend to forget how deeply the Democrats hate this country.  We don't really want to know that, being normal, decent people.  The Democrats colluded with Stalin in the 20th century, and they never got over being exposed by Joe McCarthy.  They were the party of slavery and secession, and later, they supported the Klan.  Their record is morally abysmal.  As for Obama, he never showed any understanding of American moral values.  He is either very blind or on the wrong side.  Take your pick.

Why the Dems Will Never Win Back Trump Voters.  [D]uring this week's Democratic debates, the candidates will devote considerable effort to courting the "deplorables."  This will, however, be an exercise in futility because everything they believe about Trump's base is false.  Their view of this large and growing segment of the electorate is distorted by a myth concocted primarily by the media to explain away a deeply uncomfortable reality — that Trump possessed a better understanding of the public mood than did the professional political class.  They were unable to abandon their preconceived notions about Trump and his supporters, despite easily accessible contrary data.

Bill Clinton Loved McDonald's, Today's Democrats Protest It.  On the campaign trail in 1992, Bill Clinton famously stopped by a McDonald's during a jog.  Impromptu or not, it helped cement Clinton's image as a regular guy who understands budget-minded middle-class families.  Fast forward 27 years, and Democrats are once again making campaign stops at McDonald's.  But not to eat there.  No, no, no.  They are showing up to protest the fast-food chain for "corporate greed" and for not paying its workers a "living wage."

The Left does not hate Trump, it hates...  Trump stands for capitalism.  The Left seems to hate capitalism because it exposes leftists' own greed.  Thus, they hide behind fake generosity that gives away other people's money.  They hate capitalism because only capitalism levels the field, where today's rich can become poor (mostly through their own wrong choices) and the poor can become rich (mostly through their own right choices).  Thus, they give the idea that they hate free choice and the rights of people to choose their destinies.  Thus, what the Left hates is really you and me.

Communist Party, USA praises Democrats' policy shifts ahead of centennial celebration.  The Communist Party of the USA will celebrate its 100th birthday this weekend in Chicago, at a conference replete with questions about what the future holds for the organization when national Democrats already embrace some of its most coveted goals.  The talk in the run-up to the conference includes questions on whether Communists should embrace Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposal — a resounding "yes" — and whether China finally has succeeded with the socialist experiment.

This sounds like treason to me.
New Denver City Council Member:  I Will Usher In Communism 'By Any Means Necessary'.  Encyclopedia Britannica defines communism as a "political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society."  [Candi] CdeBaca, who is a democratic socialist, also drew intense criticism for saying that she will "usher" in communism "by any means necessary."

Which Do Democrats Reject More:  The American Flag Or Donald Trump?  Friday [6/14/2019] must have been one confusing day for Democrats.  The President of the United States had the good fortune to be born on Flag Day, June 14, which put the Democrats in a bit of a bind.  As millions of Americans honored Old Glory, as well as the 45th President on that day, what were the Democrats to do?  They may have felt compelled to honor one or the other just to avoid completely discrediting themselves, yet they clearly despise both Donald Trump and the American history and traditions symbolized by the Stars and Stripes.

Rep. Ilhan Omar slams 'bigoted' Trump administration for barring pride flag from foreign embassies.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D., Minn., has accused the Trump administration of being "bigoted" amid reports that U.S. embassies have had requests to fly the rainbow Pride flag denied.  June is Pride Month, promoting visibility for the LGBTQ community, and U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil, and Latvia made requests to the Trump administration to fly the flag on the official embassy flagpole in honor of Pride.  According to NBC News, those requests were denied by the State Department.

Democratic abortion policy is deeply unpopular, as yet another poll confirms.  A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that only 18% of Americans support third-trimester abortion, very close to the 13% result from an earlier Gallup poll.  A plurality of the country, nearly 3 in 10 Americans, believe abortion should only be allowed in cases of rape, incest, and to save the mother's life, followed by 23% who support legal abortion up until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, or about 13 weeks.  The same share of Americans who support abortion up until the point of birth support making abortion illegal either without exception or only to save the life of the mother.  In short, Alabama's much-reviled abortion bill is just as popular nationwide as Democratic officials' abortion stance of choice.

Ilhan Omar Wants to Overhaul U.S. Foreign Policy From the 'Perspective of a Foreigner'.  Anti-Semitic Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who blames the current crisis in Venezuela on the United States, wants a "Green New Deal" style overhaul of U.S. foreign policy.  Omar argues she is best suited to lead the charge for major foreign policy changes because she has "the perspective of a foreigner." [...] Omar sits on the House Foreign Relations Committee with a dangerous blame America first attitude.

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If you have the perspective of a foreigner, you should not pretend to serve U.S. citizens in the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Democrat Who Terrifies Other Democrats.  [Scroll down]  Democratic luminaries like Bobby Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John F. Kennedy, and Henry "Scoop" Jackson — all of whom in their time represented dark blue states.  Ami Horowitz, a noted documentary filmmaker, announced his candidacy this month and expressed sentiments with which all [of the] giants of the party's history would agree.  "The Democratic Party has become the party of socialism, open borders, and late-term abortions," he said.  "They've become so radicalized over the past several years that I feel compelled to try to bring some sanity into the discussion."

Climate Change is a Political Loser.  The global technocrats, for whom Climate Change has been one of those "crises" that progressives "never let go to waste," no doubt are wishing they could "dissolve the people" rather than change the government through democratic elections.  Persuading free citizens with arguments based on fact, or with appeals to their interests, is difficult when your "crisis" is nothing more than a politicized hypothesis based on appeals to authority, rigged computer simulations, and apocalyptic predictions laced with insults to the skeptics' intelligence and morals.  The politicians should have seen the signs of global warming's declining utility as an electoral scare-tactic.  In the U.S., "climate change" for years has ranked low on the list of issues voters are concerned about.

The Real Constitutional Crisis.  [Scroll down]  What's different today is the Democrats have bought into the idea of "no enemies on the left," which means they're prisoners of the most radical people on their fringes.  They hang out with Louis Farrakhan, and we're still waiting for them to condemn the Antifa rioters.  In 1992 Bill Clinton cut loose anti-white racist Sister Souljah, but since then identity politics and racism have gone mainstream in the Party and we don't see any Sister Souljah Moments from them today.  Like children playing with fire, they've bought into ideas that put them far outside the mainstream, and they're several standard deviations to the left of where they used to be.  Bill Clinton thought that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," but that's not where the present party is.  We'll see you later-term abortions, and raise you infanticide, says Gov. Ralph Northam.  The very woke Beto O'Rourke seeks the blessing of Al Sharpton and endorses racial reparations.  As for the green new deal, if the world is going to end in 12 years, it's whoopee time and anything goes.

Americans don't want Congress to impeach, but Democrats aren't listening.  The American people are sending a pretty clear message to Washington:  They are sick and tired of the investigations into President Trump and don't want Democrats in Congress to impeach him.  But the Democrats aren't listening.

Obama Appointees in the Communist Orbit.  [Scroll down]  Joking about support for Communism is not all that funny in the Obama administration.  Obama's CIA Director John Brennan actually did vote for a Communist presidential candidate.  Brennan and Comey are two of the central players in the Russia Collusion Hoax.  Obama choose Communists and Marxists for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest political advisors, and his head of the CIA.  These facts are not in dispute.  Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary damage control.  Our press chooses not to report them.  Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama.  Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.

Why Australia's Conservatives Won.  Over the past few years, Labor has steadily drifted leftward, toward very progressive positions.  This was on full display during the election campaign.  Among other things, Labor promised to raise taxes (including on pensioners!), redistribute wealth, and implement radical energy and environmental policies to fight climate change.  Such positions may play well with affluent inner-city progressives who can afford higher taxes and for whom environmentalism seems to functions as a substitute religion (or, so it appears to me every time I visit my homeland).  But they do not resonate with the rest of the country, [...]

Lisa Smiley: Why Asians Should Leave the Democratic Party.  With grassroots movements such as "Blexit" and "Walk Away" sweeping the nation, several reliably Democratic voting blocks could be slipping away.  The Daily Caller's Lisa Smiley says that she believes Asians should leave the Democratic Party.  "Democrats have duped Asians into voting against our own self-interest," Smiley claims.  [Video clip]

Calls to jail Attorney General Barr grow from Democratic ranks.  In the days since the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress, more and more Democratic lawmakers have opened the door to the possibility of arresting the Justice Department leader in a bid to force cooperation — despite party powerbrokers signaling opposition to such a radical step.  The committee last week voted to hold Barr in contempt for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted Russia report and underlying materials, as President Trump asserted executive privilege to protect those same files from release.

The Liberal Hypocrites Who Want to Be Our Moral Betters.  The most recent attempts of the left to play the part of public virtue police recalls an almost infinite treasury of liberal hypocrisy:
  •   Demanding that private businesses (like Christian bakeries) be forced to violate their convictions of conscience by baking homosexual "wedding" cakes (though not critiquing Islamic or homosexual bakeries for similar practices) while defending other "private" businesses (like Facebook) censoring or de-platforming whomever they wish
  •   Insisting that the government be allowed to regulate the most nitpicking minutiae of private life, down to how many ounces of soda you can drink, while equally insisting that the same government should never interfere in "private" decisions about your body (like, say, a woman extinguishing the life of her offspring inutero)
  •   Lambasting the "violence" of "hate speech" (i.e., speech that dissents from leftist dogma) while assaulting restaurant patrons for wearing MAGA hats
  •   Demanding that American taxpayers freely allow aliens to illegally cross into their communities, and blasting those who disagree as "racists," while themselves choosing to live in predominantly white, low-immigrant areas; building expansive walls around their own homes; and steadfastly refusing to open their own properties to immigrants when asked

The youths in the Democratic Party are angry.  Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party's congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.  The protesting students say that the change will deter young candidates and people from historically marginalized communities from running for office.  Their outrage isn't just noteworthy because they represent younger voters in the electorate — these young people are also some of the party's key organizers and activists.

Trump is not a dictator, Nadler is.  Our political system is being weaponized against itself.  I understand that [New York Democrat Rep. Jerrold] Nadler is upset about the refusal of the A.G. to participate in some kind of show trial he was arranging after 5 hours of Barr's testimony before the Senate, but to the extent anyone is acting like a dictator here it's unfortunately Nadler.  He has lost all perspective.  Nancy Pelosi then piled on as well calling the Attorney General a criminal.  You may or may not like Barr's demeanor, answers or his summary of the Mueller report, but he is no criminal nor does he deserve this kind of unrestrained disrespect.  It's really hard to understand why Nadler or Pelosi believe this kind of personal vitriol will be rewarded at the ballot box.

Ilhan Omar: The Left's Ideal American.  When President Donald Trump, the New York Post and others criticized Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for describing 9/11 as the day "some people did something," Democrats responded in near-robotic unison.  Omar was under attack because of her religion and ethnicity, they said.  Her critics were inciting violence.  Some top Democrats evidently were queasy about having to defend Omar's remarks, and a few did not.  The party fell in line behind her anyway.  The upshot of the Omar controversy is that the Left is so committed to multiculturalism when push comes to shove, they have little choice but to downplay the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001.  That the left cannot come down firmly on the side of their own country regarding the worst terror attack in U.S. history seems a natural enough development, given their embrace of diversity as the end of all politics.

Ilhan Omar Praises A Communist And Terrorist As "One Of My Idols".  Rep. Ilhan Omar, who can't seem to stay out of the news for saying crazy things, had her latest "hold my beer" moment a few days ago.  This took place at a rally called "Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar."  What exactly they are defending her from except her own vile statements, I'm not sure. [...] If you watch the video, you see Omar tearing up as she describes Angela Davis as an "idol" and proclaims her an inspiration in her life.  Just who is Angela Davis?  She's a rabid anti-Semite, a communist who supported the Soviet Union, and aided a terrorist plot.  Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party during the 60s and 70s, where she purchased guns used to murder a judge.  She eventually fled and made it on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.

Thelma Nadler and Louise Schiff.  The electorate has had enough of collusion conspiracy theorists and Trump truthers.  This is reflected in the latest public opinion polls as well as the ratings of cable networks that continue to push the most implausible narratives of White House skullduggery.  CNN, for example, managed to lose more than a quarter of its viewers in April.

Hollywood is floundering.  This past Easter weekend at the box office was the worst in more than a decade.  The big studios with their mega-budget franchises (where would Hollywood be today without Marvel Comics?) increasingly have to resort to overseas profits to keep afloat.  Showbiz awards shows, which have degenerated into self-congratulatory displays of anti-Trump virtue-signaling, have been failing spectacularly, posting record low ratings year after year.  Trump Derangement Syndrome has caused celebs to publicly double down on their contempt for all those unwoke Americans in the flyover states, pushing audiences farther away than ever before.

Now we know for sure that Trump is the better man.  [Scroll down]  These are arrogant people who, like most leftists today, see nothing good in America worth preserving.  They are supremely confident that none of the nonsense policies being promulgated by the crazy gaggle of Democrat presidential candidates will ever affect them.  The widespread contamination of San Francisco's streets with human feces and discarded needles does not seem to bother Nancy Pelosi one bit, as she has opposed every possible solution.  She continues to encourage migrants from Central America to make their way to her sanctuary city.  As long as the border remains a thorn in Trump's side, the Democrats are willing to see the country invaded.  So what if the criminals among them maim and kill innocent Americans?  They won't likely be roaming about in their neighborhoods.

Should Natural Born Citizenship Be a Requirement for All Federal Elected Offices?  [Ilhan] Omar comes, as an immigrant, from a different cultural milieu, and she could not be expected to understand how Americans, given our culture and history, would interpret her statements.  Whether joking about the American view of terrorist organization al Qaeda, dismissing the notion that America is a "Christian" nation, or referring to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as "some people did something," Omar's apparent indifference to American culture and history has been showcased on multiple occasions.  It is fitting, albeit ironic, that Omar, a naturalized American citizen, by raising an accusation of dual loyalty and self-dealing against other Americans, has opened the door to a conversation about whether natural born citizenship should in fact be a requirement for the very office she holds.

Living in Leftlandia.  [Scroll down]  They live in La-la Land, in Leftlandia, saturated in fantasies filled with pots of gold at the ends of LGBT rainbows.  They never touch down. [...] They believe they can pretend to be a gender other than what they were born with and that if they can browbeat the rest of us into playing their game, that it will be true.  They even believe they can make up new genders no one's ever heard of before.  They might as well imagine themselves to be unicorns as far as reality is concerned, but they're not concerned with reality.

De Blasio's 'green' skyscraper idea is pure stupidity.  There's a concrete reason for Mayor de Blasio's notion to ban New York city's "classic glass and steel skyscrapers" — he's got rocks in his head.  Has any officeholder ever turned so viciously on his own town?  De Blasio's poisonous City Hall reign is distinguished by corruption, laziness and incompetence — but not by rank stupidity.  Until today.  He wants New York to be "first of any major city on the Earth" to make building owners "clean up your act ... to save energy."  De Blasio knows nothing about New York City because he has no love for it.  Unlike his every predecessor, he doesn't go to museums, concerts or restaurants.

Here are 5 reasons Trump will win re-election.  [#4] Democrats find themselves in the unenviable position of being in favor of illegal immigration.  The president continually outmaneuvers liberal leadership in Congress by recasting debates in unexpected ways.  The idea of shipping illegal immigrants into so-called "sanctuary cities" has exposed progressive hypocrisy on the matter.  If they refuse to help the feds enforce our immigration laws, well then, let them reap what they sow.  Plenty of swing voters who have a very positive view of legal immigration have a very negative view of illegal immigration, and that works in the president's favor.

Some Things to Ponder.  There's a push to change laws to permit both criminals serving time and ex-criminals the right to vote.  Guess which party is pushing the most for these legal changes.  If you guessed that it was the Democrats, go to the head of the class.  Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from behind bars.  Elizabeth Warren doesn't go that far but believes felons should have the right to vote.  Democrats want the criminal class to have voting rights restored because they could become a significant part of the Democratic base.  These are America's murderers, rapists, burglars, child molesters and drug dealers.  Over two million of these people are in prison.

Rep. Liz Cheney:  Speaker Pelosi Is Not In Control Of Her Caucus.  Congresswoman Liz Cheney said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is "not in control of her caucus."  Cheney made the comment in a recent interview, and suggested Pelosi has lost control in the first 100 days of the new Congress, "because the far-left radicals" have really set the agenda.  In outlining how House Democrats have shifted further Left, Cheney cited their "embrace of socialism," and refusal to bring the "born alive protection act to the floor" among other factors.  She also called on people to speak out against socialism.

Here it comes:  Rep. Tlaib blasts Dem leadership.  The first overt sign of the trouble that lies ahead for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership with the emergence of a radical Muslim wing of the party arrived Saturday [4/13/2019].  Following the discovery of a video clip of Rep. Omar referring to 911 as "some people did something," the blowback has been fierce, including in deep blue New York City, where the wounds of death and destruction (and lingering health issues among first responders) still are very painful.  Rep. Tlaib is not happy with what she perceives as inadequate support for her fellow Muslima in Congress, and extended the criticism on this specific issue by another Twitter user into a broader attack on the party leadership: [...]

Will The Democratic Party Faithful Ever Notice Their Leaders Are Crazy?  After almost two weeks of critical media coverage of Joe Biden's handsy history, poll after poll indicates most Democrats do not care.  The latest Quinnipiac poll — of California, no less — has the yet-to-announce Biden easily leading Bernie Sanders and favorite daughter Kamala Harris.  This poll also has Harris performing better among white liberals than nonwhite voters.  These findings are mostly news to the progressive elites at the top of Democratic politics and the establishment media.  The data suggesting the Democratic Party is an upstairs/downstairs coalition in which a small faction of disproportionately white progressives dominate a more diverse rank-and-file has been piling up in studies by More in Common, Pew, and Gallup.  In recent days, some in the media have finally begun to notice.

NY Dems Approve $27 Million In Tuition Aid For Illegals, Cap Tuition Aid For Gold Star Families At $2.7 Million.  Last week, the New York Assembly approved a bill that will provide $27 million in college tuition aid for illegal immigrants.  This week, a bill to increase college tuition aid for Gold Star families from its current level of $2.7 million was blocked.  State lawmakers think it's okay to provide $2.7 million for the children of deceased and disabled military veterans when they are providing ten times that amount for the children of illegal immigrants.

Ilhan Omar's outrageous write-off of 9/11's horrors.  How pathetic:  A member of Congress can't acknowledge what happened on one of the most horrific days in US history.  In a March 23 speech, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) complained of "the discomfort of being a second-class citizen" before claiming the Council on American-Islamic Relations "was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and [Muslims] were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."  Some people did something?  Wow.  What a way to describe the heinous surprise attack on America that claimed 3,000 lives.  Especially when Omar's focus was Muslim rights:  That made it all the more vital to note that the terrorists acted in the name of Islam — as self-described "jihadists" in a war against America, Israel and the West.  To call them merely "some people" is to deny a cancer festering in the world Muslim community.

My FDNY son's death on 9/11 was more than just 'something'.  What Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said about Sept. 11 was disgraceful.  She dismissed thousands of people being murdered like it was an everyday occurrence when she said "some people did something."  On 9/11/01 my son, firefighter Jimmy Riches was murdered along with close to 3,000 American citizens by Muslim terrorists.

Voters: On Illegal Immigration, the Democrats Are Nuts.  Do you think illegal immigration is a serious problem?  If you are like 67 percent of likely voters, you do.  If you think illegal immigration is a very serious problem, you have plenty of company — 47 percent of voters.  Of course, if you are running for president as a Democrat, you don't think illegal immigration is a problem at all.  Eight percent of likely voters agree with you.  Not only do none of the Democratic presidential candidates want to build the wall, some of them want to tear down barriers where they already exist.

Trump is Popping in the Polls.  Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear — President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders — Biden, Sanders, and Warren are septuagenarians.  Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached, a Russian agent, and so on.  Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig.  Nobody likes him.  At least that's what CNN says.  If this was truly the case, Trump should be polling in the low 30s at best, with most of the country giving him and his administration a thumbs down on performance and results.  Yet reality is far different.

Trump dinner draws only 10 protesters.  Kinfolk said President Trump, Californie is the place you oughta be, so he loaded up Air Force One plane and flew to Beverly.  Hills that is.  Dinner party.  Raising funds for Republicans.  Drew 170 to 400 guests who paid from $15,000 to $150,000 to attend.  And 10 protesters.  That's it.  In a state of 28 million native Americans and 11 million immigrants (27% of the state is foreign born), the Marxist fascists couldn't get more than 10 people to care about protesting Drumpf.

Why do the least-bright people rise to the top?  That the greatest nation on the planet has to suffer fools like Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Maxine Waters, Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, every anchor at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC, Bill Maher, all the late-night not-comics, celebrities who pay to get their kids into colleges they would not be admitted to on their own merit, is a tragedy, the tragedy of wealth and success.  Our left bothers itself with mounting numbers of gender identities, intersectionality, non-sensical notions about race (they now support segregation), and the thoroughly idiotic obsession with climate change.  This is the plight of a wealthy nation.  The leftists have to invent things to be mad about.  There can never be happiness, gratitude for what our nation has accomplished and provided to the rest of the word.  No.  There can only be anger, dissatisfaction and rage against old crimes, slights and perceived offenses.

Hollywood: Do You Know Why You're in Georgia?  [Scroll down]  In other words, if you want the benefits of financial conservatism, then you're going to have to be at least content with conservative legislation on abortion and the like.  The same political worldview that has created an economic climate that allows for the creation of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue in the film industry is the same political worldview that protects life in the womb, believes marriage is the union of one man and one woman, believes that boys don't belong in girls' locker rooms, and so on.  These positions have proved quite politically popular in Georgia, and that is why the GOP is in power here.  Ignorant of such facts, for weeks now dozens of Hollywood actors and actresses have threatened the state of Georgia over a recently passed — but yet to be signed into law — pro-life "fetal heartbeat" law.

For Peace in America, We Must Return to the Rule of Law.  The Left has simply become evil.  That is not to say all registered Democrats or Democrat politicians are necessarily evil, but the national-level leadership of the party and their primary backers represent a genuinely evil, oppressive, authoritarian, and — not coincidentally — anti-Semitic program (under the thin veneer of vicious, rabid anti-Zionism).  They either represent this mindset outright (e.g., vice DNC chairman Keith Ellison, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc.) or are unwilling to summon the elemental courage to oppose these trends effectively in their own party (e.g., Pelosi, Schumer).  What is more, almost uniformly among their leaders — to include the likes of Pelosi and Schumer — they will stoop to any level of dishonesty and corruption in order to obtain or maintain power (e.g., the Stalinesque Kavanaugh "show trial" hearings, the vote fraud spectacles we saw in Florida and California this past midterm election, advocating for illegal aliens to vote, advocating lowering the voting age to 16, etc.).

Communism in Our Schools and in Our Politics.  The Democratic Party has been sliding more and more to the Left for decades.  Now there is no doubt in my mind that they have embraced communism.  The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) supported Barack Obama in 2012 and its leadership said it would vote for Hillary Clinton but did not officially endorse her in 2016.  "God" was booed at the 2012 Democratic Party convention.  The communist drift that has gone on in that party for decades seems fulfilled in the candidacy of Bernie Sanders and the ascendancy and election of a list of presidential candidates who have embraced the so-called Green New Deal, which is nothing less than a full-fledged plan for the government takeover of the entire economy, suggests the growing ascendancy of communism within our beloved USA. [...] Opposition to the Democrats must then be couched in a biblical, pro-Christ agenda to be valid.  Republican conservatism without justification in Christ is just another man-made, fallible doctrine destined to collapse, or to lead to sin and hopelessness.  Political aspirations will fail the country if not built on the foundation of Jesus Christ.

Tutoring Eric Holder on American Greatness.  While [Eric] Holder's dismissal of American greatness might seem surprising to the vast majority of mainstream Americans, it is central to the progressive organizing philosophy of grievance with American norms, American success, and promotion of racial division.  The progressive left has converted American industrial might in the 20th century to an example of environmental degradation.  The progressive left has converted American military superiority into tropes of imperialism.  The progressive left has used America's now 154-year-old institution of slavery as an excuse for modern-day violence and criminality.  Holder really means it when he says that America was never great in the first place.  He blesses us with his honesty, an honesty that exposes his rank radicalism.  His honesty illustrates to mainstream Americans what the age of Obama, Holder, Tom Perez, and Valerie Jarrett was really all about:  dismantling the totems of American greatness.

Democrats Display Transgender Flags Outside of Capitol Hill Offices.  The freshman class in the House have brought "firsts" to Capitol Hill, including a change of rules to allow Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to wear a hijab on the House floor and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introducing the controversial Green New Deal resolution that has put socialism in the spotlight.  When Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) was sworn in in January, she was the first to hang a transgender flag outside of her office in the Longworth Office Building.

Eric Holder goes on MAGA-rant that takes a dark turn: 'Exactly when did you think America was great?'.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder fired a shot at America's past as he questioned the thoughts behind President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan[.]  Holder declared that America's greatness "never, in fact, really existed" during an interview on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber" on Wednesday [3/27/2019].  The Obama-era attorney general, who has decided not to run as a Democratic presidential candidate for 2020 so he can focus on issues like partisan redistricting and criminal justice reform, was expounding on those topics when host Ari Melber asked about America's past.

A Brief Survey of 2020's Psychotic Democratic Roster.  There was a superb column at The Federalist on Wednesday [3/20/2019] by George S. Bardmesser:  "Every Time Democrats Talk, I Want to Vote for Trump Twice." [...] He was a reluctant Trump-voter but is now completely on board the Trump train.  Why?  Because the current crop of Democrat candidates are moonbats all, with the possible exception of Howard Schultz, who has yet to officially throw his hat in the ring.  Mr. Bardmesser addresses in passing the election of Mlles.  Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib, and the presidential candidacies of Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden.  Each of them, as that author points out, is a thorough socialist nutjob.  Each of them is trying to out-fanaticalize the others.  Each of them is absolutely clueless about the American people outside the far-left bubbles all of them inhabit.  Mr. Bardmesser neglects to mention the bizarre, phony, and disturbing "Beto" O'Rourke; Kirsten Gillibrand; and Andrew Yang.

The 'Burn It Down!' Democrats.  There are some Democrats out there in the sticks — a lot of them, in fact — who simply don't understand the constitutional order.  They believe that the United States is a democracy, John Adams et al. [notwithstanding], and, in fact, they often are confused by the frankly anti-democratic features of the American order, because they have been taught (theirs is a pseudo-education consisting of buzzwords rather than an actual education) that "democratic" means "good" and "undemocratic" means "bad."  But the Democrats in Washington are a different story.  Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris went to law school.  They understand the American constitutional order just fine.  And they hate it.

Concerned citizen calls out liberal city council who treat him with total contempt.  When left-wing politicians claim to be "for the people," they never mean it.  You see it every day in how left-wing politicians behave on the national stage and on the local stage.  Take for instance the disgusting contempt that the virulently left-wing, elitist members of the Seattle City Council displayed earlier this month when a local voter showed up at a "public comment" hearing to express his concerns about the state of American democracy.  From the get-go, members of the council seemed to ignore the voter, choosing to stare down at their phones and paperwork instead of turning their heads up and actually listening.

Stick a Fork in O'Rourke.  [Joe] Biden, despite his efforts to masquerade as the vanguard of what is now called progressivism, is politically sane and, if nominated, might hold his shaggy legions back from holus-bolus embrace of the many suicide potions being offered to the Democratic contestants.  To date, the most lethal intoxicants that have been extolled by some of the candidates are legalized infanticide, open borders, reparations to African and other minority Americans, nationalized health care, a fascistic and Luddite green policy, and top personal-tax rates above 70 percent.  So far, this cocktail, which is such an assault on the sanity of an electorate that it could reduce the Democrats to splinters, has scared off Michael Bloomberg, Sherrod Brown, and Hillary Clinton[.]

President Trump Notes "Strange" Candidate Platform.  In addition to promoting infanticide; eliminating borders and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and banning guns; the Democrats have all signed on to The Green New Deal, which advocates for:  raising taxes, paying people not to work, eliminating air travel, banning cows and rebuilding every structure in America to run on 'sustainable energy'.  The platform is now expanding to:  lowering the voting age to 16; eliminating the electoral college; placing term limits on federal judges; and adding more Justices to the Supreme Court to advance the aforementioned progressive values.

The Emerging Democratic Minority.  The biases of the media are so pervasive that there is little recognition of the steady disintegration of the Democrats, though it is occurring every day.  Rational and intelligent members of the center-Left write to me every week with new concerns about where the Left is going.  The Democratic National Committee's decision not to allow Fox News to put on one of their candidates' debates confirms the weakness of the party and of its leaders.  The process of atomizing society into smaller and smaller bearers of less and less widespread grievances, on each of which the whole movement of protest, uproot, reveal, and punish is in constant paroxysms of righteousness, is becoming louder and faster and more absurdly overwrought by the day.

Advantage is not a verb, but you get the idea.
Are the Democrats Advantaging the Republicans for 2020?  The Democrats have assumed much political risk with their policy proposals and tactics.  For example, I am a registered Independent who has voted for Democrats, including Kerry and Obama.  I can say with absolute certainty that I will never vote for a Democrat again because the party is now largely anathema to all I believe in.  I am certain that I am not alone in that determination and that cannot possibly bode well for the Democrat party in the next election cycle.

Because they hate America...
2020 Dems Avoiding Red, White and Blue Colors.  The Dem base consists of people who would rather burn an American flag than hug one.  These are primaries which means that the lefty fringe will be overepresented and red, white and blue will just trigger them.  Plus the hipster design studios they'll be relying on are stocked full of the same people.  Add on the fact that the rest of the base will lean heavily toward tribal demos and it's a sure thing.

Another Democrat cooks up a health care plan even crazier than Bernie's.  Is rabidly far-left rep.  Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) trying to become the Ilhan Omar of the health care industry?  Sure looks like it, given her new Medicare-for-All proposal to be unveiled in the House as a new bill today.  The "Medicare for All Act of 2019," put out by Jayapal, is so left-wing that even the left-leaning Axios says it makes Bernie Sanders look like a piker.

Chase Bank Denies Service to Conservatives.  It's hard to imagine how conservatives could be even more complacent than they actually are about what's being done to this country.  The schools our children are taught in are almost universally run by liberals who hate everything we stand for, but we don't demand that our representatives pull funding from state schools that behave that way.  Hollywood has become vocally, over-the-top hostile to Christians and conservatives, but we go see the movies anyway.  We still buy the papers and watch the cable news shows of networks that talk about us like we're Nazis because we don't agree with their liberal worldview.

Trump will 'win in a landslide' if Dems run on socialism, vegetarianism and reparations:  Mollie Hemingway.  The latest policy positions from Democrats seeking the White House may hand President Trump a solid re-election victory in 2020, the Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway argued Friday [2/22/2019].  A lot has changed since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the Democratic Party's standard-bearers.  Neither supported reparations for African-Americans, but now several candidates are embracing the proposal — including U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

Portland Listening Session Turns Into Extremist [Fiasco] As Activists Demand Police Force Be Disbanded.  Last week a Portland police lieutenant named Jeff Niiya was accused of colluding with right-wing protest group Patriot Prayer after a string of his texts were released to the public.  Lt. Niiya's job is to coordinate with protest groups coming to the city and the texts show him doing just that, i.e. chatting with Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson about the group's intentions and planned movements.  As I noted last week, Lt. Niiya has previously been in close contact with a member of Antifa who became an outcast when other members of the group learned she'd be talking with police.  But the texts with Patriot Prayer were seen as something far more sinister by the far-left denizens of Portland.  That included left-wing city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty who declared the texts were proof police were in "collusion with right-wing extremists."

Nebraska state senator compares American flag to Nazi swastika.  Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers on Tuesday compared the American flag with the Nazi swastika on the floor of the legislature.  "I don't come here for this rag every day, and it's a rag.  That's all it is to me," said Chambers about respecting the flag.  "When you show a way to persuade Jews to sanctify and worship the swastika, when you show me that I'll come up here and stand while you all hypocritically pretend that rag is something that it definitely is not."

Gallup: Liberals outnumber conservatives in only 6 states, down from 9.  The number of states where liberals outnumber conservatives has dropped more than 30 percent, with just six now in that category:  Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington, New York, and New Hampshire.  According to the latest Gallup survey, in every other state but California, where conservatives and liberals split 29 percent to 29 percent, conservatives lead.  Nationally, those who identify themselves conservative hold a nine-point lead.

The GOP Is Trying A Bold New Tactic That Has The Democrats Terrified.  The Democrats, it seems, are finally being forced to confront the logical and foreseeable outcome of large numbers of Americans finally understanding what they stand for.

Gillibrand Agrees With Activist Saying Wall Cuts 'Indigenous People' Off From United States.  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) agreed with an activist's claim on Monday [2/18/2019] that a southern border wall cuts off "indigenous people" from being in the United States.  Gillibrand, one of a growing field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, said while campaigning in Iowa that she agreed with Christine Nobiss's assessment of there being a "crisis" at the border.  Nobiss is a Native American and "Decolonizer" with Seeding Sovereignty, an activist organization with a self-described aim to "seed paths of personal, community, cultural, and energy sovereignty by amplifying voices of new leaders working to stop violence to womxn and Mother Earth."

Democrats Don't Want ICE Notified When Illegal Aliens Try to Purchase Guns.  As the debate over illegal immigration continues to rage, Democrats continue to prove they are proponents of open borders and lawlessness.  The latest example comes from Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, who is berating Democrats for protecting illegal aliens who attempt to purchase firearms and fail a background check.

Democrats suddenly realize their Maduro-love is going to cost them Florida in 2020.  For years, Democrats have fallen over themselves to defend Latin American communist dictatorships. [...] They've always gotten away with it.  Until now.  They suddenly are realizing that the Maduro-lovers and Trump-resisters in their ranks, who happen to be some of their biggest "it" girls with the loudest voices — Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — have supported Venezuela's detested Maduro regime in recent weeks ... and it's not just them.  Other Democrats are also in their tree — think of old dinosaurs such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was all worried about the U.S. invading Venezuela, and Silent Ted Deutch representing south Florida in Congress.  Supporting a socialist regime just seems to come natural in the Democratic Party.  And for that, they're all kissing the purple swing state of Florida goodbye for the Democrats in 2020.

Abortion and the Politics of Self-Destruction.  President Trump has been a strong friend of Israel and has moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.  Republican presidents have traditionally been pro-Israel.  Barack Obama made a deal to create a nuclear Iran, a country that wants to exterminate the Jewish state.  Yet, "American Jews tend to favor Democrat candidates, with 71% of Jewish voters choosing Democrat candidates and only 25% choosing Republicans since 1968."  Voting against their interests

Democrats' 'Sit-In' Is a Stain on Their White Coats.  The success of the State of the Union address is usually measured in standing ovations, but President Trump's 2019 speech is best measured by how often Democrats stayed planted in their seats. [...] [S]ince the white coats supposedly spoke for the average American, surely they must have applauded when the president told the success story of the American economy.  No.  You would be wrong to think so.  As the president recounted the historic lows in unemployment for blacks, Latinos and Asian-Americans, the Democrats could not be bothered to stand or even applaud politely.  There they sat.  When the president announced that "[u]nemployment for Americans with disabilities has also reached an all-time low," the camera panned across the white-coated exemplars of compassion and empathy to find them scratching their noses or pulling their ear lobes, looking for all the world like they could not care less.

Omar calls for defunding Homeland Security — 1 hour after insisting that TSA workers get backpay.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., continues her streak of controversial tweets, this time taking aim at the Department of Homeland Security.  In a tweet Friday night, the freshman congresswoman refers to President Trump as "Individual 1," and insists he doesn't have "public support" to "ram his hateful wall through Congress."  "Let's stand firm: #Not1Dollar to DHS," Omar then urges fellow Democrats. [...] But just an hour before calling for DHS to be defunded, as Fox News anchor Rob Schmidt points out, Omar tweeted her outrage on behalf of TSA workers in Minnesota who haven't received back pay due to the recent partial government shutdown.

Tell The Social Justice Warrior Mobs To Go Pound Sand.  I'm not going to pretend to be "better than that" because I am loving this Virginia clusterfest of liberal hypocrisy and I hope it never, ever ends.  Wreck-It ("It" being the VA Democrat Party) Ralph Northam may well resign by the time this column posts, and his allegedly Weinsteiny lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax may be just-inaugurated and just-tossed out not long after.  This is so great.  It couldn't happen to a couple of nicer hypocrites.

Bunch of White Women Dressed in White  not applauding during talk of record minority employment — not a good look. [...] Well, they didn't stand for the minority employment, but the women stood for record employment of women.  Seems kinda ... selfish.

Trump's SOTU reveals the angry ladies of the left.  Trump's SOTU speech was wonderful, factual and optimistic.  It was a celebration of America and the successes of the last two years.  No one would know it by the visible response of the ladies in white (allegedly an homage to women's suffrage), the mostly newly elected Democrat congresswomen.  The only part of the speech they sincerely applauded was themselves — more women in Congress.  For most of the rest of the speech, they sat on their hands, looking mad (Mazie Hirono), glum (all of them), petulant and dismissive (Kamala Harris), bored and studiously disinterested (Nancy Pelosi).  Pelosi, along with Schumer, the rudest person in Congress ever, seemed to be masticating something throughout the entire speech.  Her bizarre mouth movements are as annoying as they are distracting.

Northam provides latest shame for sanctimonious Dems.  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's political career is about to be aborted, although presumably the cracker Democrat is being "kept comfortable" in his final moments as the party elders hold "discussions" about the "tragic and difficult circumstances" in which he finds himself.  Oh wait, those were the very terms the erstwhile Social Justice Warrior had used only hours earlier to describe the infanticide that his party was enthusiastically proposing to legalize in the Old Dominion.  As Northam himself noted as recently as Thursday [1/31/2019], in the case of "severe deformities," sometimes a decision must be made, for the good of all parties, in this case the Democrat party.

A growing record of insanity.  It's hard to keep up with the tsunami of cultural and economic insanity thundering through a thousand outlets every day, but here's a try. [...] Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat, wants to end all private health insurance plans and put the government solely in charge.  She's not even bothering to falsely promise, as did President Obama, that everyone can keep their health plan and doctor if they like them.  She wants no escape.  Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren wants to seize and redistribute income from "the rich" and backs government control of corporations and "Medicare for all."  Meanwhile, Democrats are deploying the LGBTQ legal agenda to criminalize conservative religious views, using transgenderism as the spearpoint.  After enacting their radical, full-term abortion bill, New York legislators passed a law three days later enshrining the LGBTQ activist agenda and another bill criminalizing counseling for young people with unwanted same-sex desires.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Democrat, signed both with fanfare.

Who Are The Deplorables Now?  Leftists are masters of projection.  They are constantly accusing the Right of the crimes they commit themselves.  Leftists think of everything in terms of race, yet they call conservatives racist.  Leftist feminists judge women by whether they meet male measures of success, yet they call conservatives sexist.  Leftists want the government to be able to control every thought, word, action, and dollar in the country, yet they call conservatives fascist.

Virginia governor story shows we don't need the media.  Big League Politics today exposed Democrat Governor Ralph Northam.  It ran a racist photo in his page in his yearbook at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984.  Not high school.  Not college.  Medical school.  Northam refused to shake the hand of his Republican black opponent in the lieutenant governor's race in 2013 after a debate.  Nevertheless, the media portrayed Republicans as racists in the 2017 gubernatorial race.

Governor Northam Must Go — But For The Right Reason.  As politics go, it is hardly possible to have a more disastrous week than Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has.  After openly attempting to rationalize — even normalize — the euthanizing of newborns, Northam placed himself firmly in the crosshairs of practically everyone who has a shred of humanity.  As a direct result of that moment of infamy — one can safely assume — someone dug into the governor's past and came up with his 1984 yearbook from medical school.  One photograph on his page in that yearbook will likely end the governor's political career.

Democrat Who Laughed Out Loud at Pledge of Allegiance will Deliver Dem's SOTU Response in Spanish.  On Tuesday [1/29/2019] it was announced that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will deliver the Dems' State of the Union response in Spanish.  Schumer and Pelosi praised the incredibly corrupt California Attorney General with more Marxist doublespeak.

House Democrats to Strike 'So Help Me God' from Oath.  A draft of a new committee rules package expected to be approved this week would strike the phrase, "So help me God," from the oath witnesses take when they testify before the House Committee on Natural Resources.  Fox News says it received an exclusive copy of the committee's draft that places the phrase in red brackets, a sign the words are slated to be eliminated.

Identity Stalinism.  [T]he roar of racist rage from the great and good directed at an innocent Kentucky boy is all about implementing the Democrats' grand strategy, which is to assemble a coalition of the margins of American society:  immigrants, welfare mothers, tech billionaires, transgenders, hedge-fund guys, black church ladies, gays, Jews, the unmarried, movie stars, felons, and so forth and so on.  In contrast, the more similar you are to a Minuteman of 1776, the more likely you are to vote Republican.  The GOP appeals to Core Americans, the Democrats to Fringe Americans.  Mass immigration offers the Democrats good reason to hope to overwhelm their foes in the long run.  But merely listing the Democrats' constituent interest groups points out the main problem with their master plan:  Their various fringes can't stand one another.

The Left Doesn't Hate the US; It Hates Us.  When Barack Obama became president with full control of both houses of Congress, the left was ecstatic.  Some were proud of their country for the first time, blissfully unaware that most Americans had always been proud of America.  It was clear to Democrats that citizens had finally agreed to give them the opportunity and power to realize their dream of a "fair" America of equal outcome with an unchecked government elite making all decisions for everybody in a socialist utopia where everyone can have everything they want, and no decisions or policies could ever be wrong and thus ever reviewable.

Deleted Doc:  Dem Candidate Katie Porter Backs Reparations, Far-Left Agenda.  A document that was deleted from the website of a progressive group shows Democratic congressional candidate Katie Porter, who is running in California's competitive 45th district against Republican representative Mimi Walters, would immediately back a far-left agenda and legislation if elected to Congress, including creating a commission to study reparations for slavery.  The document was uploaded to the Progressive Democrats of America's website but was deleted after the Washington Free Beacon contacted the group over a similar document in relation to Harley Rouda, the Democratic candidate in California's 48th congressional district.  Before contacting the group about Rouda's answers, the Free Beacon downloaded responses by other candidates in the event the group scrubbed the files from the site, which they did.

Report of Abrams burning Georgia state flag resurfaces weeks before election.  A decades-old news article about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) burning the state flag, which at the time included the Confederate battle flag, resurfaced on Monday [10/22/2018].  Abrams stood on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992 and burned the Georgia state flag, which was viewed as a symbol of white supremacy due to its Confederate design, The New York Times reported.  She was a freshman at Spelman College in Atlanta at the time and now her role in the protest is being reexamined as she faces a close race with her Republican opponent, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.  The rivals are scheduled for their first debate on Tuesday.

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams helped torch state flag during college protest.  The Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Georgia, Stacey Abrams, helped light a state flag on fire on the steps of the state's Capitol in June 1992, as part of a protest that her campaign on Monday night characterized as an effort to "overcome racially divisive issues."  The flag at the time incorporated designs from the Confederate battle flag, and Abrams, then a freshman at Atlanta's Spelman College, was one of about a dozen demonstrators involved, according to contemporaneous newspaper accounts and several social media posts that surfaced the issue late Monday [10/22/2018].

Burning with ambition and lunacy.  [Scroll down]  In Arizona, Democratic senatorial candidate Kyrsten Sinema got caught trashing her home state.  In a clip from her speech at Netroots Nation, she calls Arizona "the meth lab of democracy."  In another, she shares "things that you can do to stop your state from becoming Arizona."  Emails reported in The Washington Examiner reveal that she invited a feminist witches coven called Pagan Cluster to help celebrate International Women's Day and protest the Iraq war in March of 2003.  Later that year, she wrote about a Miami protest in which she was "singing and spiraling in the pagan's circle only 5 rows back from the police line."

Group Aided by Andrew Gillum Teaches Kids to Glorify Deadly Palestinian Terrorist Organization.  Dream Defenders, a radical organization closely associated with Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, compiled an education tool for U.S. teachers that glorifies the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a deadly terrorist organization.  The project, which claims to be compatible with common core, pushes "rebellion" and educates students on the PFLP's goal, which is posted on Dream Defenders stationary and quite literally calls for "the destruction of the Zionist state."

Just when you think Kyrsten Sinema couldn't get nuttier, here comes the witchcraft.  As I wrote the other day, gaffe- and idiocy-prone Democratic candidate Kyrsten Sinema is shaping up as the Christine O'Donnell of the Arizona Senate race.  Everything is there but the witchcraft, an unguarded reference to which sank the inexperienced O'Donnell's campaign.  Oh, wait. [...] Like O'Donnell, who glibly told an interviewer she "dabbled" in witchcraft, Sinema dabbled, too — a lot.  Actually, she took a full deep dive.  Why would she invite a bunch of witchcraft practitioners to an anti-war event when there were so many others to choose from?  It sounds as though those were the people she knew.

Democrat Senate Candidate Caught LYING About Her Past.  Interestingly, Sinema wants no affiliation with the Democrats.  In her latest commercials she calls herself, "fiercely Independent".  The commercials imply that Sinema is not a Democrat.  I suggest they even possibly imply that she is a moderate Republican.

Democratic candidate implodes in Arizona.  "When Kyrsten Sinema began her rise in Arizona politics in the early 2000s, she was a Ralph Nader supporter and local spokeswoman for the Green Party who worked to repeal the death penalty and organized antiwar protests after the Sept. 11 attacks," the New York Times reported on September 24.  The story left out a radio interview in 2003 by Ernest Hancock.

AZ Dem Senate Candidate Said 17 Months After 9/11 That She Didn't Care If Americans Joined The Taliban.  In February 2003, appearing on a radio show hosted by a local libertarian activist the day before an anti-war event that was protesting U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Krysten Sinema, who is running in 2018 as the Democratic Party's candidate for the Arizona Senate, told the host, Ernest Hancock, that she didn't care if Americans wanted to fight for the Taliban.  The exchange started with Hancock asking Sinema if she would oppose him joining the Taliban, saying, "Now you would say, maybe we do owe something to the world, as long as it's nice and sweet and peaceful and what you want to do."

The Left Is Totalitarian By Nature.  Leftism is not simply one opinion among many.  For the Left's votaries, it's closer to a religion.  It's not enough that one is himself a vegan, drives a Prius, doesn't own guns, rejects the traditional family, or anything else that goes with the lifestyle.  It is essential that everyone else does so.  Any deviations are "backwardness" and "divisive" or worse.  That's the whole point of the term progressive.  It assumes history is linear and self-correcting.  It takes for granted that there is something objectively correct about the leftist position, and that all reasonable people in time will adopt it.

After dismissing grieving angel moms, Schumer leads parade of Dems holding pics of furloughed fed workers.  Less than 24 hours after congressional Democrats snubbed a group of grieving "angel moms" who'd sought to speak with them about the ongoing border security/government shutdown fight, these same Democrats held a rally on behalf of another set of purported victims:  furloughed government workers.

Do the Math:  Trump's Wall Is $25 Billion, Illegals Cost $165 Billion.  Trump's push for "the wall" has turned ardent socialists into laissez-faire economists on the issue of illegal immigration — who cares if migration hurts America's most vulnerable?  We need aliens to grow the economy!  This flip-flop has made it clear to ordinary Americans:  the Democratic Party cares more about illegal aliens than it does the common citizen.

If President Trump were really a racist or a Nazi, then please explain these facts.  The Democrat Party has no real love for this country or its national security.  They champion the cause of illegals for one reason only:  voter fraud.  If voter ID laws were passed in 50 states ensuring that only eligible citizens could vote, they'd never win a majority.  As those Democrat politicians vacation in Puerto Rico on the taxpayers dime while the government shutdown continues, this truth is undeniable.  Now build that wall!

30 Democrats from 38 Member Hispanic Caucus Are on Tropical Retreat in Puerto Rico as Shutdown Continues.  Thirty Congressional Democrat are currently in Puerto Rico on a winter retreat as the government shutdown goes into its 4th week.  President Trump is working around the clock during the government shutdown trying to negotiate with Pelosi and Schumer to secure border wall funding.  The Democrats however, are partying at a beach resort in Puerto Rico on day 22 of the government shutdown.  This is the longest government shutdown in US history because Pelosi and Schumer refuse to compromise on a border wall — a wall they were in favor of only a few years back.

Dems fly to Puerto Rico on chartered jet, meet with lobbyists, see 'Hamilton' as shutdown drags on.  Despite a partial government shutdown with no end in sight, about 30 Democratic members of Congress traveled to Puerto Rico this weekend — with their families and lobbyists — for a winter retreat where they also planned to see a special performance of the hit Broadway show "Hamilton."  Those attending the Congressional Hispanic Caucus BOLD PAC gathering in San Juan also planned to meet Saturday with Puerto Rican officials to discuss ongoing cleanup efforts from Hurricane Maria, according to a report.

30 Democrats in Puerto Rico with 109 lobbyists for weekend despite shutdown.  Some 30 Democratic lawmakers left the government shutdown behind Friday [1/11/2019] on a chartered flight to Puerto Rico for a winter retreat with 109 lobbyists and corporate executives during which they planned to see the hit Broadway show "Hamilton" and attend three parties including one with the show's cast.  Those attending the Congressional Hispanic Caucus BOLD PAC winter retreat in San Juan planned to meet with key officials to discuss the cleanup after Hurricane Maria at a roundtable Saturday.  But the weekend is packed with free time for the members and their families on the trip.

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A "chartered flight" means they don't have to put up with TSA screening, like you do.  And what does the "carbon footprint" look like on this chartered jet?

Trump Has the Democrats Cornered.  No sooner had the Democrats taken back the majority in the House of Representatives than they proved their harshest critics correct — the party no longer concerns itself with the interests of the American people.  And by refusing to provide a dime for a physical barrier on our border, they did it in the starkest terms possible.  Led by far-left Nancy Pelosi, who held off a challenge to her leadership from the even farther left, the House Democrats promptly put themselves in the position of being seen taking the side of foreigners entering the country illegally over the security and economic prosperity of American citizens.  They reduced themselves to the absurd position that "walls don't work."

Dems becoming the party of drugs and thugs.  Democrats are the deplorable ones — for putting politics over the safety and security of the American people.  They know that our nation is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, with the drugs poisoning our citizens, destroying families and ravishing communities across the U.S. So doesn't it make sense to secure the porous southern border — by any means necessary — to stop the cartels from bringing fentanyl, heroin and other deadly drugs into our country?  Of course it does, but self-serving Democrats are more interested in scoring political points with their base by resisting the Trump agenda than protecting American lives.  It's no wonder voters hold such a low opinion of politicians.

One more place to boycott:
Red Lobster says Tucker Carlson's show 'no longer in line' with company values, pulls ads.  Red Lobster is pulling advertisements from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News show amid an ongoing boycott against the conservative host for comments he made about illegal immigration and women's pay.  "Red Lobster's advertising buying guidelines reflect our core values and commitment to supporting programming that represents the highest standards of good taste, fair practice and objectivity," the seafood chain said in a statement Tuesday [1/8/2019].  "We reserve the right to make changes to our purchases when the dialogue is no longer in line with our criteria," the company said.

Red Lobster Hillary Cabal Targets Tucker Carlson.  The Red Lobster, which I thought was in the business of selling seafood dinners and lunches, is in another business altogether:  leftwing politics.  The company, owned by an outfit in San Francisco called Golden Gate Capital, is run by a slew of Hillary Clinton supporters who have decided to follow a prompting from an ex-Clinton staffer and make censorship their main product, joining the anti-free press jihad that has made it their business to silence conservatives in the media.

Red Lobster Faces Boycott, Mockery After Pulling Ads From Tucker Carlson.  Fox News has stood behind Carlson, dismissing the advertiser boycott movement as just another campaign waged by "left-wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed 'media watchdogs,'" who "weaponize social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech."  "It is a shame that left-wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed 'media watchdogs,' weaponize social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech," Fox News said in a statement.  "We continue to stand by and work with our advertisers through these unfortunate and unnecessary distractions."

Trump's Rhetorical Knockout Blow.  The president was clear, factually unchallengeable, and credible, and Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer looked and sounded like a waxworks animated illustration of the embalmer's art and her ventriloquist, the bearer of the broadest forehead since Pericles.  The president spoke of a national-security, economic, and humanitarian crisis, and they spoke of the federal employees who are about to miss a paycheck.

Did Trump win that wall speech?  Surely he did.  Twitter went hog wild, making fun of Pelosi's and Schumer's weird-looking appearance in their public rebuttal to President Trump's argument.  They could have done nothing, as would have been normal for legislative opponents for a presidential speech, but they couldn't stand the idea of President Trump getting that camera time.  They demanded, and got, airtime, too, presumably to flip the "narrative" by making President Trump appear "heartless," and having the last word to boot.  It blew up in their faces.

On a scale of one to ten, last night Trump was a seven and Pelosi/Schumer were a zero.  [Scroll down]  On substance, the two Democrats mouthed familiar talking points on the border:  the transparent lie that Democrats are all for border security but just not walls.  But their main focus was the 25% shutdown, which matters much more to federal bureaucrats than to the general public.  One thing that has got to worry the Democrats for the next two years is that their two leaders are dreadful as persuaders.  Just awful.  And, until they have their presidential nominee, the next highest pubic profile as spokesman is that of Alexandria OcasioCortez, who is a walking, talking exemplar of an ignorant know-it-all.  I give Pelosi-Schumer a two on substance and a negative two on style, with a net rating of zero.

Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Refuses to Take Oath of Office on Bible.  Newly elected Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema refused to be sworn in on a Bible, opting, instead, to place her right hand on a book of laws, including the U.S Constitution and the Arizona Constitution.  The book Sen. Sinema placed her hand on to be sworn in came from the Library of Congress, her office told the Arizona Republic.

Democrat introduces bill to remove words 'husband' and 'wife' from federal law.  Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., is introducing a bill to rewrite federal laws with gender-neutral terms, codifying the progressive ideological tenet that distinctions between men and women are exclusionary.  Her bill, according to The Hill, would replace the terms "husband" and "wife" in federal law with the word "spouse."  "While the landmark Supreme Court decision ending the ban on same-sex marriage was a historic step in the right direction, there is still more work to be done to ensure that the LGBTQ community is treated equally under the law in all respects," Brownley said.

The New Kakistocracy.  The Democrats didn't bring in any new blood from their previous team of leadership — the one which frittered away their previous majority.  You've still got Steny Hoyer as the majority leader and James Clyburn as the whip, neither of whom are particularly good spokesmen for what they'd like to present as a youthful, hip, and energetic political movement.  For that presentation, by the way, on offer is the freshman class — the most prominent names in which are Ilhan Omar, a Somali Muslim from Minneapolis who it appears might be married to her own brother and whose only contribution to the national debate so far seems to be a radical hatred of Israel, and the comically ignorant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose façade of street-kid tough upbringing is as poorly constructed as her understanding of civics and economics.

Forget the wall — Democrats now hate the border itself.  It's a wonder that Democrats haven't staked out a negotiating position demanding the destruction of already-existing barriers along the US-Mexico border.  Their opposition to President Trump's border wall — or, more properly, his so-called wall — is now so total as to be nearly indistinguishable from opposition to any serious infrastructure at the border at all.

Our Exhausted American Mediocracy.  [Years ago,] Most Americans figured that those who lectured them on television, in op-eds, and throughout popular culture about guns, open borders, green mandates, fossil fuels, and the public schools, had the money, desire, and clout to live in desirable neighborhoods, sometimes behind walls, with ample taste for fine cars, jet trips, and private academies for their children.  The charge of hypocrisy against the elite was considered juvenile, given that exemptions were needed for the ruling class to serve us all the better.  How could Al Gore save us from our carbon emissions without his private jet?  How could Nancy Pelosi craft drastic climate change legislation without flying to a Kona resort over the holidays?  How could Eric Holder stop prejudice without a jet junket to the Belmont Stakes with his kids?  How could our Malibu elite nobly sermonize about their loyal gardeners and dutiful maids without walled estates?  How could Silicon Valley wizards pontificate about the evils of charter schools and the need for teacher unions, without private academies for their own?  And how exactly could the heads of our intelligence agencies and justice department officials track down the crimes of Donald Trump without committing greater ones themselves?

Rashida Tlaib's argument for impeachment boils down to 'orange man bad!'  America's newest and most anti-Semitic congresswoman, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted that she was just "#unapologeticallyMe" when she had a little public meltdown in calling to impeach President Trump Thursday [1/3/2019].  Yet when pressed by journalists on the Hill to comment on her late-night comments, she ran away from the reporters, relying on a staffer to shield her from the press and refusing to answer them.  I guess she's not quite so unapologetic.  The hangover of Tlaib's disgraceful first day ought to be denounced not just by the obvious suspects, but by Democrats themselves.  But then again, you break it, you buy it.  And boy, did Democrats just buy a whole lot of baggage.

Democrat hangs trans pride flag outside Capitol office.  A House Democrat said she's received an outpouring of support since she hung a transgender pride flag outside her Capitol office.  Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton, who was elected in November, hung the pink, blue, and white flag in the Longworth House Office Building next to an American flag and the Virginia state flag.  Lawmakers traditionally display the American and state flags, but can choose whatever flags they want.  Wexton's chief of staff, Abby Carter, confirmed to NBC News that Wexton displayed the flag as a statement about trans inclusion.

Dems debut their clown show strategy for the 216th Congress.  Now that voters have handed them control of the House of Representatives, Democrats are forced to reveal who they are to the national electorate, and it ain't pretty.  The party has more than its share of bizarre eccentrics, able to win a local election in a deep blue district, and they are feeling their oats.  They thrive on media attention, which they get because they are colorful and young and say radical things that excite progressive journalists.

Leftists "Make History" in Foreign Garb, Swearing Allegiance on a Quran.  Democrats say nothing about the anti-semitism of new congresspeople in the House as they take an oath which means nothing to them.  They are the face of the New Democratic Party.  Ilhan Omar is taking over the seat previously held by Rep. Keith Ellison.  The corrupt media and fellow Democrats portray her as a force against bigotry even though that isn't true.  She is an ardent supporter of anti-Semite, America hater Linda Sarsour and she backs the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel, despite denying it until she was voted into office.

The war on hope.  From the Boy Scouts to the Knights of Columbus, it's open season on anything that doesn't fit the cracked new world of socialism and sexual anarchy that "progressives" are fashioning for us all.  New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris are in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.  They are writing off a significant portion of the Catholic vote even before their campaigns get underway.

Liberal Professor:  "Mowing Your Lawn" and "Acting Respectable" Is Racist.  You can always count on the social justice warriors to take an absolutely normal thing Americans do and turn it into some sort of offensive and racist act.  Is this how they try and keep themselves relevant?  The latest insane issue that's got the SJW's all up in arms is that it's racist to mow your lawn.  It's the ultimate in white supremacy to get out the lawnmower and mow.  According to these nutjobs, it's an aggressive action that says, "stay off my lawn".

Intersectionality at the Crossroads.  [T]he inconsistency between the views and associations of the [women's] march leaders and the useful idiots who followed their call was highlighted in recent weeks when the media were compelled to finally report what had been known for a long time but kept hidden from credulous consumers of their pap:  the Women's March leaders were linked inextricably to Louis Farrakhan, an anti-Semite, anti-homosexual, anti-white propagandist who spreads lies about slavery — ignoring the most significant role of Moslems in it even to this day.  And the press hid the fact that women like Linda Sarsour were all in for Sharia, the religious-legal system that more than any other punishes women, gays, and blacks.  Sharia creates the submission culture that keeps the poor at the bottom with little chance of upward mobility and society at such a low level of productivity that environmental protection and proper healthcare are unaffordable, and legitimizes slavery, which continues in places like North Africa.  Indeed, her anti-American point of view was known months before the march in 2017 but barely, if at all, covered by the mainstream media.

Gallup: Americans Say No. 1 Problem is 'Government,' No. 2 is 'Immigration'.  A new survey shows that the "top problem" cited by Americans is "government," and the second top problem is "immigration."  For contrast, among the issues seen as least problematic for Americans are "unemployment-jobs" and "gun control/guns."  In the survey, conducted by Gallup after the midterm elections, the polling firm asked Americans about the country's top problems and then listed those issues that were "mentioned by at least 3% of respondents."

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Gun control is at the bottom of the list, and global warming isn't listed at all.  Yet these are two of the Democrats' favorite topics.  From this, one can only infer that the Democrats are completely out of touch with the average American's concerns.

Trump should shut down the southern border AND the government until we fix our immigration system.  In 2006, Chuck Schumer, along with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, voted for the funding of the Yuma Sector Wall, which after being built decreased the crossings in that sector by over 90 percent.  But that was then.  This is now.  Now the hard-left open border-types have seized control of the Democratic Party.  No one in leadership can be seen voting for building a wall:  it would be sacrilegious to the left and potentially a career-ending move.

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal Steps Over Homeless in Seattle — Gallivants to Tijuana to Defend Illegal Foreigners.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal traveled to Mexico this past weekend to show her support for the illegal alien caravan members in Tijuana.  Pramila blamed Trump for the illegal alien crisis.

These are the most expensive ZIP codes in the country.  PropertyShark's annual list of the country's 100 most expensive ZIP codes, released last week, [...] looks at median closed sales prices across the US during 2018.  It found that California just might be more unaffordable than the Empire State:  The former has 82 entries in the top 100.  (Silicon Valley alone has an eye-popping 30.)  Meanwhile, San Francisco and New York are tied in terms of the priciest city, with nine ZIP codes apiece in the top 100.

Crazy, Woke.  There appears to be a direct correlation between how "woke" a liberal is and how crazy they are.  And every single day, liberals are becoming more and more woke.  The idea of being "woke" is, for the uninitiated (meaning "sane"), the state of being hyper-conscious and aware of everything liberals hold dear — mostly victimhood and the supposed societal structures that perpetuate it.  There's no real need to understand it, unless you're one of them you will never, ever, under any circumstances be "woke enough" to appease liberals.  Saying they're crazy is an understatement.  That being said, it doesn't mean we should ignore them.  After all, they do control two of the three cable news networks, all the broadcast networks, most newspapers, the entertainment industry, academia, and much more.

Eternal Darkness of the Leftist Mind.  Regular Americans are repulsed upon learning that abortionist Kermit Gosnell murdered thousands of babies after they were born by snipping the spine at the base of the neck.  Gosnell is America's biggest serial killer.  And yet, leftists (fake news media, Hollywood, and Democrats) covered for Gosnell.  Along with Obama, leftists support the murderous practices of partial-birth abortion and infanticide.  The same leftists who vehemently fight to protect their right to kill human babies before and after birth passionately protect animals and trees.

Alyssa Milano raises funds to help asylum-seekers while fire-ravaged Americans suffer.  Only weeks after thousands of Americans teamed up to try and help actress Alyssa Milano find shelter for her horses as the wildfires in California threatened her home, she chose to show her gratitude by asking the American people to donate their money to help asylum refugees.  "Some friends and I are trying to raise $100,000 today to help some people in the fight of their lives, seeking asylum at our southern border," she tweeted she wrote in a tweet last Thursday afternoon [11/22/2018] that prompted immense backlash.

The Anti-American Americans.  So here we are, at Thanksgiving, surrounded by a crowd of arrogant, ignorant, self-proclaimed superior people who proclaim, as was once declared about Vietnam, that the only way to save the country is to destroy it.  That the European welfare state is the proper model for us, and that our electoral choices are mostly wrong.  And evil. [...] In Obama's view, we're unworthy of him and his ruling class.  All 57 states' worth, I suppose.  If we dare vote for candidates they don't like, they feel entitled to change the results.  And it isn't just the usual suspects in the media and the schools; it includes the sorry case of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Roberts, who now suggests that judges are fully empowered to undo the clearly expressed preferences of the American people, and that somehow criticism of them, not their outrageous rulings, was the inappropriate act.  It was deliciously satisfying to see him slapped down by Senator Grassley, an Iowa farmer who understands better than most how politicized the judiciary has become.  He knows how often our judges have somehow come to believe that we have a lot to learn from foreign laws and judges, an amazing development that would have us turn the obvious lessons of the past 250 years upside-down.  Just check out where our judges go during summer vacation, and what they do, and you'll see it.

Clinton, Abrams, Democrats Don't Accept Outcome of Georgia Governor's Race.  Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her run for Georgia governor on Friday [11/16/2018], but she didn't give an ordinary concession speech, accusing her opponent of centering his campaign around voter suppression and calling the outcome an "erosion of our democracy."  Abrams lost by nearly 55,000 votes to Republican Brian Kemp, but in a speech The Weekly Standard described as "contemptible," Abrams made erroneous and misleading claims about the results to essentially deem the entire race a fraud.

Democrat Losers:  Undignified and Dangerous.  What do Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and Bill Nelson have in common?  Each asked the voters for important positions of leadership and promptly proved themselves unworthy of those offices when the answer was "No."  It isn't necessary, of course, to revisit Gore's reluctant acceptance of reality or Clinton's querulous hypocrisy.  The tawdry details of those episodes are well known.  But the long-term harm they wrought on the republic merits consideration.  The extent of that damage was clearly demonstrated Friday [11/16/2018], when Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams finally admitted that the laws of mathematics could not be overcome by frivolous lawsuits.

Networks Silent as Dem 2020 Hopeful Compares ICE to KKK.  Under most circumstances, a sitting United States Senator and potential presidential candidate comparing a federal law enforcement agency to the Ku Klux Klan would be major national news.  However, after California Democrat and 2020 hopeful Kamala Harris did exactly that during a Senate hearing on Thursday, the broadcast networks decided it wasn't worth a single second of coverage.  During a contentious confirmation hearing exchange with Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Ronald Vitiello, nominated to become the permanent head of the agency, Harris grilled him about a tweet he sent out three years earlier labeling the Democratic Party "neo-Klanist."  Vitiello promptly apologized for the social media post and acknowledged that it was inappropriate.

American't: From Midterms to End Times.  Trump's 2016 victory will not MAGA; it was merely a stay of execution, a prolonging of the inevitable.  This should have been obvious in a country that could elect Barack Obama and then, like the Titanic having backed up to hit the iceberg again, re-elect him.  If it wasn't, it should be obvious now that the Democrats have seized the House in a Watergate-level rout. [...] But this isn't your grandfather's Democrat Party.  Voters this time empowered socialistic to socialist to closet-communist, sexual devolutionary, rabble-rousing, low-I.Q., no virtue, ignorant freaks who often encourage political violence by their Antifa-Brownshirt useful idiots.  So it's not your great-grandfather's America, either.  Digging into the electoral numbers also tells a tale.  Ninety percent of blacks, 79 percent of Jews, 77 percent of Asians, 69 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of women voted Democrat — same as usual.

Kamala Harris Wants to Be Your President!  She Thinks ICE Is the KKK.  Kamala Harris compared ICE to the KKK during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to be the new director of ICE.  He has been serving as the Acting Director.  Vitiello had once referred to the Democratic Party as "liberalcratic" or "NeoKlanist" and Kamala brought that up to humiliate him.  He explained it was wrong to make those comments and he was sorry he offended people.  He wasn't referring to the KKK, he explained.  Kamala didn't care since she was leading up to something quite different.  The presidential hopeful wanted to make a comparison between ICE and the KKK.

The Lonely Mob.  President Obama authorized the extrajudicial killing of American citizens as a national-security measure; President Trump is an angry tweeter.  But it is the latter rather than the former that apparently presages the rise of a Falange Americana.  That is how you know that this is a fundamentally unserious point of view.

Democrats vs. the Constitution.  Having taken control of the House of Representatives, the Democrats face an enormous and perhaps insurmountable political barrier to achieving their agenda.  It's not the Republicans.  It's the Constitution.  "Kill the Constitution" would not be a winning campaign slogan for the Democrats, and you will rarely hear an American politician running against the Constitution as such.  But it is the Constitution and the American constitutional order — not Senator McConnell — that currently vexes them.

The Great Progressive Collapse.  Scott Wallace, the grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's former vice president and Communist sympathizer Henry Wallace, was criticized for co-chairing a fund that gave liberally to anti-Israel organizations and to the virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Western British politician George Galloway.  His allies promoted him as a pioneer "on climate justice" and promised to expand Social Security and impose sick- and medical-leave plans on firms.  Ultimately, Wallace cost the Democratic Party a key swing district in the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia.

Battleground-state Dems who opposed Kavanaugh [were] all defeated.  Incumbent Senate Democrats in battleground states who opposed the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination appeared to have paid a price on Election Day, with senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Indiana's Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Florida's Bill Nelson all suffering defeat.  In fact, every Democrat incumbent who supported Kavanaugh in states rated "toss up" by Fox News lost their race.  In contrast, the lone Democrat who voted for Kavanaugh, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, won his race.

Democrat Stacey Abrams Admits Her Plans May Require Georgians to 'Turn Their Guns In'.  During a November 4 appearance on CNN's State of the Union Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) admitted that a possible outcome of her gun control plans could be that "people would turn their guns in."  She said other options might include "buybacks" and/or "grandfathering in" certain firearms, so current owners could keep them but be barred from selling them or transferring them to other individuals.

Gillum: Police Are Going 'Too Far' if They Pull Out Gun, Baton, Taser in Line of Duty.  Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee in Florida's gubernatorial race, said Wednesday [10/31/2018] that police are going "too far" if they have to pull out a gun, baton, or taser when approaching a potential suspect.

Why liberals laughed at a wounded veteran.  Conservatives rightly are getting on the case of Peter Michael Davidson of the SNL political hour for mocking a Navy SEAL's war wound.  The target was Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw whose only crime is being a Republican.  Davidson is now as repulsive as Samantha Bee, who called the First Daughter the C-word, and Stephen Colbert, who called the president a homophobic slur.  No one lost their job.  They said this in scripted, taped remarks.  That means they spoke for their network and its corporate owner.

As the Caravan Approaches:  There Probably Will Be Blood.  If the Democrats succeed in eviscerating our southern border — and that is their plan:  DACA, catch-and-release, abolish ICE — they can overcome a century of their losing the support of Americans who once trusted them — blue-collar ethnic Catholics, union workers, married women, seniors.  Instead, they can win just by importing tens of millions of new voters unschooled in American values, clueless as to the Constitution, knowing and caring nothing of our culture and higher purposes.  Between suffering Illegals, encouraging cemetery turnout, and granting suffrage to felons, they can win back lost numbers.

Intra-party civil war engulfs Missouri Dems, dooming McCaskill re-election bid.  A week ago, [Claire] McCaskill's campaign released a radio ad distancing her from "crazy Democrats" in an effort to pick up some votes from the substantial majority of Missouri voters who chose Trump in 2016.  She seems to have seen the left wing takeover of her party and realized that her home state voters would be repelled by the "democratic socialism" and identity politics obsession that plays well in the Bronx and Berkeley, but which leaves most Missourians somewhere on the spectrum from indifference to anger.

It's Democrats, Not Republicans, Who Are The Extremists Today.  Every day in the run-up to the midterm elections, the mainstream news peddles the same message:  Republicans are extremists.  But look at the data, and you see that it's Democrats who are increasingly well outside the mainstream. [...] Here's a tiny sampling of recent headlines:  "How Republican Extremism Became Normalized."  "Yes, the Republican Party Has Become Pathological."  "Why Are Republicans Promoting Ultra-Right Extremism."  "The Proud Boys, the GOP, and 'The Fascist Creep.'"  What evidence is there of this, other than President Trump's often abrasive rhetoric, and the actions of a few crazed lunatics?

The Sad, Sad Culture of Progressivism.  If you've ever read anything written by any progressive over the age of forty, chances are pretty good that you've been exposed to a certain weary, self-indulgent, spiritually-agonized tone.  It is very recognizable, like the smell of decay that's characteristic of a swamp.  By comparison, leftists under the age of forty are likely to have more-or-less the same tone that they were born with — the high-pitched tone of an infant that is not getting its way.  Older leftists have usually run out of this youthful vigor, just like the rest of us.  They do not participate in Antifa riots on the streets.  They think about such youthful protests with a sense of nostalgia, remembering their wild, radical college days — whether they actually experienced them or not.

Time to flee Democratic Party.  With the female unemployment rate at 3.6 percent — the lowest in 65 years — women should be burning their pink hats not knitting new ones.  A well-paying job allows women to live life on their own terms, make their own choices and pursue their dreams — unbeholden to anyone.  Isn't that the bedrock of feminism?  Hence it's high time women stop thinking with their ovaries and start thinking with their pocketbooks.

Andrew Gillum's Comments On Law Enforcement Are 'Disgusting' And A 'Disgrace,' Says Florida County Sheriff.  Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey called out Florida's Democratic nominee for governor, Andrew Gillum, on "Fox & Friends Saturday" for his "disgusting" comments about law enforcement.  "Andrew Gillum has no idea what it takes to serve as a law enforcement officer," Ivey said.  "As such his comments about law enforcement officers and those that wear our badge, they're a disgrace.  They're disgusting."  Gillum appeared on the "Pod Save America" podcast Wednesday" and said "At the time that a law enforcement official has to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a taser, they have already had to go too far."

When Democrats' tactics backfire.  Here are 10 big-ticket causes that have put Democrats largely on the wrong side of most Americans ahead of the midterm elections:
[#1] Support of sanctuary cities.  Most Americans, even Hispanics, oppose sanctuary cities.
[#2] Blaming "racism" for everything.
[#3] Silencing certain views.
[#4] Opposing border enforcement.  About 80 percent of Americans support secure borders.
[#5] Backing those who kneel for the American flag.
[#6] Impeaching President Trump.
[#7] Abolishing ICE.
[#8] Chasing Republicans out of restaurants.
[#9] The Kavanaugh chaos.
[#10] Illegal immigration caravan.

What's This?  Just The DNC Deputy At A Communist Parade Wearing A "I Don't Believe In Borders" Shirt.  For those paying attention, the intent of today's Democrat Party is clear.  It hasn't been the party of John F. Kennedy for a very long time.  Instead, it is the party of anti-Americanism, government slavery, and open borders that would see traditional America destroyed and absorbed into a globalist nightmare.

Feeling the urge to protest?  Then you're most likely a liberal woman.  If you're one of those citizens still with the conscientious stamina to follow the daily news flood (and you must be if you're reading this), you could be forgiven for thinking Americans protest pretty much anything and everything in existence — the National Anthem, guns, pipelines, flag, fake news, police, Congress, you-name-it.  We even have protests of protests.  It turns out, however, that only a small minority of us even consider protesting something.  Hard to believe probably.  But barely one-in-three Americans has ever even considered protesting something.

Not Guilty:  The Tea Party and Violence.  [W]ith the help of fake news media, Democrats/leftists have deceived many Americans into believing that Conservatives, Republicans, Christians, and Tea Party people are the hateful aggressors.  We are not.  We are the ones minding our own business.  Meanwhile, Democrats/leftists are demanding that we stop celebrating Christmas and Easter.  Democrats/leftists demand that teachers stop addressing students as boys and girls; deeming it hateful and discriminatory.  Democrats/leftists are demanding that they be allowed to kill babies even after they are born.  Democrats/leftists are demanding that schools assist students with abortions and sex changes without parental knowledge or consent.  Democrats/leftists demanded that prayer and Bibles be banned in schools, while mandating that LGBTQ lessons become mandatory in public schools.  LGBTQ lessons include instructions on [details omitted by The Editor].

Pelosi unveils just how bad a Democratic House would look.  Fact is, this is a real menagerie of the worst elements of left-wingery, people famous for their lockstep adherence to Pelosi's flying monkey commands, and famous only for the diversity of their idiocies.  These are people famous for making stupid and malevolent statements such as Maxine Waters, dolts who make specious, fact-free arguments such as Adam Schiff, lunatic machine pols such as Jerry Nadler, Benghazi liars such as Elijah Cummings, FARC terrorist-coddlers such as Jim McGovern, open borders advocates such as Raul Grijalva, and just garden variety left-wing irritants such as Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney, and Nydia Velasquez.

Three weeks before Election Day, Democrats bare their fangs.  Mark Salvas, the executive director of the county Democratic Party in Pittsburgh, Pa., lost his job last week.  The reason?  Long before he was hired, the Gulf War veteran and loyal Democrat had posted a picture of himself and his wife on Facebook, with two phrases superimposed:  "I stand for the Flag," and "I kneel at the cross."  Democrats came across this old post and decided it was "insensitive."  Even though Salvas believes that NFL players should be allowed to kneel in protest if they like, his expression of what he does is offensive.

Some people are really hard to like.  I really, really don't like progressives.  I don't like their raunchy language, their rude behavior, their physical vileness.  I don't like them interrupting lunch, or shouting down a speaker I want to hear, or lying to smear people they disagree with.  I don't like them pretending to be wounded in their souls when somebody says a word they disapprove of.  I don't like them murdering babies in the womb and calling it reproductive health.  I don't like their vindictiveness, their gathering at the homes of political adversaries and making lives miserable, their faking hate crimes and race crimes.  I don't like that they pay hoodlums, gangs, and other bad people to riot and destroy.  I don't like their assaults on American institutions.

Change the rules?  Why the Left is slamming the Senate and Electoral College.  Liberals who are unhappy with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh are starting to complain that the Senate itself is undemocratic.  Liberals who are unhappy with Donald Trump as president are starting to complain that the way he was elected is undemocratic. [...] I just don't think it's a winning argument to say that the problem is these institutions, and rules that have been in place for more than 225 years, rather than the failure to prevail in debates and win elections.

What Do We Have In Common?  America stands at a precipice.  It's a moral precipice of our own making:  We're not facing any external existential threat, or any serious economic crisis.  Nonetheless, we're at each other's throats in a shocking and unique way. [...] A nation is a people united by history, ideals, culture, institutions.  But we've been steadily chipping away at each element of that nationhood.  Our history now divides us. [...] On the one hand are "red state" Americans, steeped in traditional Judeo-Christian principles and mores — Americans who believe that our rights are God-given, and that liberty must be balanced by traditional moral virtue.  On the other hand are "blue state" Americans, steeped in egalitarian principles and mores — Americans who believe that rights spring from government, and that inequality is a more pressing concern than individual liberty, and that systems of traditional virtue merely mask hierarchical power structures.

Yes, Women Can Lie.  [Scroll down]  Leftism is, and has always been, about trying to persuade the general public to accept as truth things that are objectively false, from Marxist economics ("It works even though it never has") to the New Soviet Man ("We can breed selfishness out of the human character") to Lysenkoism ("Genes are a myth!").  In current times, we should have shut that [stuff] down the minute leftists told us that asthma inhalers were a greater threat to the polar icecaps than the private jets of millionaires (let's not forget that the CFC inhaler ban was passed under George W. Bush — another example of Republicans going along with leftist insanity so as not to be slammed as Hitlers by the people who slam us as Hitlers anyway).  And now, it's become a litmus test that to not be condemned as a Hitler, one must accept that a man who thinks he's a woman "on the inside" is actually a full-fledged biological woman.  That's what the left does.  Like cult leaders, leftists are not content to believe their own nonsense.  They must force you to believe it, too.  Because that's how you know you've broken someone, that's how you know you can bend them to your will... when you can persuade them to see what isn't there, and accept as truth that which is objectively false.

Democrats' Arizona Senate Nominee Caught on Tape Bashing Arizona.  Yesterday [10/10/2018], we touched on the Arizona Senate race, wondering if a new poll showing Republican Martha McSally bouncing out to a six-point lead is an outlier or a trend.  The GOP has sought to highlight Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's past radicalism — she protested the Afghanistan war in a pink tutu, and her organization portrayed American soldiers as murderous skeletons inflicting "US terror" — as well as her biographical...shall we say, enhancements.  But in a blue-tinted year, with Democrats highly motivated, Sinema has held onto a modest lead.

The new and devolved Democratic Party considers you the enemy.  [Scroll down]  This leftist rage reached its full bloom with the false charges against Justice Kavanaugh of attempted rape and gang rapes.  I doubt that any rational person, even the Dems on the Judiciary Committee, believes that Kavanaugh attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford or that he was involved in gang rapes.  The Democrats announced their opposition to Kavanaugh minutes after he was nominated by President Trump.  They demanded a seventh FBI investigation, which produced the same results as the first six FBI investigations:  Kavanaugh is squeaky-clean and innocent of the charges.  There are numerous examples of how these leftists view Americans who do not agree with them.

Kavanaugh:  What Have We Learned?  [#2] The Democrats have no ideas, no principles, just tactics.  If you were under the misapprehension that the Dems were acting on principle, they were more than happy to shatter that illusion.  Over and over, at every turn, they insisted that their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh was no different than what those evil Republicans did to Merrick Garland.  Even if you agree with that — and in order to make the comparison, you would have to quote a single Republican who ever accused Garland of organizing gang rapes — it's pretty stupid to admit that you're trying to destroy an innocent man's life for nothing more than revenge.  The Dems wanted payback, and they didn't care how they got it.  They didn't stop for one second to consider the ramifications of what they were doing.  They were unmoored by principle and heedless of scruple.  Attack, attack, attack.

Kavanaugh Foes Fill Senate Gallery With Sounds of the Insane.  I was in the Senate gallery this afternoon when Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed.  You would have thought I was at an exorcism in an insane asylum.  Perhaps you were watching on television and heard the disruptions, though you certainly didn't see them.  The attenuated audio probably didn't catch the frightening, incoherent shrieking — including the lingering screaming and howling as they were being dragged down the hallways outside the gallery.  If there was any doubt that the opposition to Kavanaugh was unhinged, uncivil, disruptive, rude, and borderline nuts, my experience in the gallery made it clear.

Kavanaugh protesters anti-American, tilting toward mental illness.  It's one thing to exercise a First Amendment right to assemble and petition the government for redress — to "peaceably" gather together for a protest, as the exact language of this particular Bill of Right specifies.  It's another thing entirely to chase senators through the halls of Congress and pro-Kavanaugh politicos through streets of Washington, D.C. [...] Within the past few days, Resist Kavanaugh types have taken to the streets in select cities around the country, honing in especially on Republican senators' district offices and casting aside all cares of common sense to express, angrily and violently at times, displeasure with anyone supporting President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick.

It's a Miracle.  Those pink-hat-wearing throngs are irate and motivated to vote.  But what [Senator Dianne] Feinstein and her Senate Judiciary Committee colleagues have done is remind so many other women that their husbands or brothers or fathers or sons could at any moment have their lives ruined by false (or at least unproven) sexual assault accusations, perhaps decades old, made by a woman with an axe to grind, whether political, business-related, personal or otherwise.  It goes without saying that many politically moderate men who were feeling unmotivated to vote next month have also been shaken out of a complacent stupor and seen the risk that the "guilty until proven innocent" Democrats pose to them, and to their fathers and brothers and sons.

We Must All Sacrifice for the Environment (But I meant you — not me!)  We laugh at those who object to some policy that seemed perfectly OK, when they thought it only applied to others.  We make fun of Al Gore proposing the end of fossil fuels, while jetting around the world in his private plane.  We chortle about politicians advocating gun control while surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards.  In truth, such hypocrisy is common, because the desire to control other people's behavior is human nature.

The 'Kavanaugh Effect' Gives GOP Hope for Mid Terms.  When it began, Democrats believed that the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would energize their voters to turn out for the midterm elections next month.  Instead, this latest poll from NPR/PBS/Marist appears to show that the Democrats' smear tactics have energized Republicans.

Even Democrats are noticing how their Kavanaugh stunts are poisoning their blue wave.  The left can be pretty amazing in its refusal to learn from history. [...] Its series of stunts around the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh — and the incredible one-sided bias of its media lackeys — is starting to suggest a conclusion for leftists similar to what the left dealt itself during the Clarence Thomas hearings at midterms:  a loss of nine congressional seats.  These people don't learn.  But some of them do notice problems going on.  The smarter ones in the lefty press are noticing falling Democrat fortunes in polls.

New poll suggests Heidi Heitkamp in trouble if she votes against Kavanaugh, hurting Democrats' chances of Senate takeover.  A new poll shows Republican challenger Rep. Kevin Cramer leading Sen. Heidi Heitkamp by a 10-point margin, with North Dakotans overwhelmingly in favor of confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Losing a race in North Dakota would make it significantly more difficult for Democrats to retake the Senate.  The poll, from Strategic Research Associates and North Dakota's NBC affiliate, shows Cramer opening up a 51 percent to 41 percent lead over the Democratic incumbent.  The poll also finds North Dakotans support the confirmation of Kavanaugh by a 60 percent to 27 percent margin.  Furthermore, the survey found that at 21 percent, more people rated Kavanaugh as their top concern than any other single issue.

Sen. Claire McCaskill Comes Out Against Kavanaugh.  Falls Behind in Polls.  Red-state Democrat Claire McCaskill is now losing in the polls after coming out against Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court last week.

Poll: Josh Hawley Takes Lead Over Claire McCaskill After She Announces Opposition to Kavanaugh.  A new poll released by The Missouri Scout on Saturday [9/29/2018] shows that Republican challenger Josh Hawley has taken a two point lead over Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in the Missouri Senate race just days after she announced she will be voting against the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  Hawley leads McCaskill by a margin of 48 percent to 46 percent in the poll conducted by Missouri Scout over two days, from Wednesday, September 26 to Thursday, September 27.  McCaskill announced her opposition to Kavanaugh on September 19.

It's All Gone: The Democrats' Dead Ideals.  As the spurious case against Brett Kavanaugh disintegrates, splinters, and re-forms into a cacophony of whiny, irrelevant expostulations, it is instructive to step back and survey the field upon which this battle took place.  The ground is littered with dead and wounded ideals:  civility, dead; basic decency, dead; the presumption of innocence, gravely wounded, ditto for the idea of due process.  And this disgusting carnage is all on you, O ancient one, Dianne Feinstein, and your self-important, preposterous colleagues.  You were desperate to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court so you abandoned any semblance of decency and respect.  You travestied the processes of the United States Senate for the sake of a cynical grab at power.  I'd say that you should be ashamed of yourselves, but, like the thugs that you are, you have no shame.  You believe the acquisition of power is a magical antidote to shame.  You are wrong about that, and one can only hope that you will one day reap some portion of the obloquy you have sowed.  It is not yet clear what the snarling, incontinent attacks on Brett Kavanaugh will mean for him and his family.  Early indications are not encouraging.

What Does 'Credible' Mean?  Something is wrong with Christine Blasey Ford's story, and not just the fact that none of the people she named as witnesses to her alleged 1982 encounter with Brett Kavanaugh remember any such incident.  There is a conspicuous hole in Professor Ford's biography — some important details seem to be missing — and we don't know what the missing elements might be. [...] Over and over, TV news talking-heads and other pundits have used the word "credible" to describe Professor Ford and her accusation, but why?  What's so credible about her story?  Well, it's detailed and vivid, but the closer you examine the details, the more problems you encounter.  Beyond Judge Kavanaugh's emphatic denial that any such incident ever occurred, there is the obvious problem that Leland Keyser, a "lifelong friend" of Professor Ford, who was supposedly present at the 1982 house party, has said she's never even met Judge Kavanaugh.

Josh Hawley Opens Up 8 Point Lead Over Democrat Claire McCaskill Following Vicious Brett Kavanaugh Attacks.  The Democrat Party overplayed their hand with their vicious lies, accusations and smears against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.  And now the mob is going to pay for their evil stunts.  One month ago Claire McCaskill held a two point lead over Republican Josh Hawley in the Missouri Senate race.

We Are Finally Getting Rid Of The Treacherous Sissies Who Used To Control The GOP.  [Scroll down]  Kavanaugh is a boomerang that can come back and knock the Democrats out.  They counted on stripping off the suburban women's vote that had been going GOP.  But those suburban women have sons, brothers, and husbands whose lives can be ruined in an instant over some uncorroborated baloney from three decades ago if the Democrat's new rules go into effect.  A vote for a Democrat is a vote against due process, a vote against justice, and a vote against men.

New Poll:  Josh Hawley Jumps to Lead Over Claire McCaskill After She Announces Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh.  The trouble with Claire McCaskill is she keeps thinking her constituents live on the coast.  Republican Josh Hawley jumped to the lead against Washington Democrat Claire McCaskill in the latest Missouri Senate poll.  Josh Hawley now leads the Democrat Senator by two points.

Democrats Lose Advantage with Middle Class Americans While Political Gender Gap Collapses, Gallup Poll Shows.  The Democratic Party's advantage among American women suffered a six percent swing over the past year, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.  Women are still more likely to view the Democrats favorably than they are Republicans, but the difference has contracted.  A year ago, 35 percent of women said they viewed Republicans favorably.  Democrats had a 14 point advantage, with 49 percent viewing the party favorably.

Dear Moderate Democrats:  Your Party Has Completely Abandoned You.  I grew up in a small town in rural New England, which has long been a stronghold for Democrats.  My grandfather was a carpenter, and for many years as a boy, my father was, too.  Several of my family members are or used to be members of labor unions, and many of them have for years consistently and exclusively voted for Democratic candidates.  For much of my young life, their commitment to the Democratic Party had puzzled me.  The values I grew up in my small town were the same American values that have made this country exceptional for more than two centuries: self-reliance, hard work, and individual liberty.  Yet, come Election Day, much of my family and many of my neighbors would march off to the polls and pull the lever for candidates who seemed to embrace policies that are in complete contradiction to these ideals.  And the older I get, the greater the divide grows between what Democratic voters in small towns and cities across the country think they're getting from the politicians they vote for and the actual policies being proposed and implemented by Democrats.

Hello, Liberals:  Can You Spell F-A-S-C-I-S-M?  I'm a live and let live guy, or at least I pretend to be.  But our liberal friends don't believe in live and let live.  Politics is their religion, and politics is all about bullying.

The Descent into Progressive Madness.  The progressive street is leading fossilized Democrats into a sort of collective madness.  The dinosaurs of the party desperately seek relevance by sounding crazier than the new unhinged base that disrupts Senate hearings, loudly pronounces a new socialist future, and envisions octogenarian Maxine Waters as more the future of the party than is septuagenarian Nancy Pelosi.  The spectacle is right out of Euripides's Bacchae, as the creaky old guard of the polis, Tiresias and Cadmus, dress up in trendy, ridiculous ritual costumes to stumble along after the racing and frenzied young maenads in their lethal courtship of suicidal Dionysian madness.  Six-term senator Dianne Feinstein is running against a far more radical Democrat, Kevin de León, in California's general election.  (He added the accent and the "de" to his name in midlife, thereby enhancing his ethnic authenticity.)

Double-Double Failure for the Left's Fast Food Boycotts.  Democrats, initially spurred by California DNC chair Eric Bauman, are calling for a boycott of In-N-Out for its having donated $30K to the California GOP in 2017.  "[L]et Trump and his cronies support these creeps," he tweeted.  "These creeps," as he put it, are "a California institution that some hold with the same level of esteem as the Golden Gate Bridge and Joshua Tree," according to the Los Angeles Times.  That alone might run the boycott efforts into the brick wall of regional pride — and there's nothing more American than that.  But there's another, more thoughtful reason why Californians and reasonable people everywhere may dismiss the calls to boycott.  Ashley Reese of The Slot writes that she's "never been more insulted by a burger" in her life.  She should have known, she says, that this revelation was coming.  After all, she knew that In-N-Out "hid Bible scriptures on their soda cups and burger wrappers," and that "reeks of GOP."

Massachusetts City of Somerville Scrapping Columbus Day In Favor of 'Indigenous Peoples' Day'.  Somerville, Massachusetts is the same city where a leftist recently urinated on American flags at a veterans' memorial cemetery.  Now the city is kicking Columbus Day to the curb over political correctness.

Somerville Mayor Says City Will Observe Indigenous Peoples' Day, Not Columbus Day.  The city of Somerville is ditching Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples' Day, Mayor Joe Curtatone announced Thursday [9/13/2018].  Somerville joins Cambridge and other places in New England like Portland, Maine and Durham, New Hampshire by choosing to recognize those who lived in the Americas before European colonization instead of Christopher Columbus.  "Columbus Day is a relic of an outdated and oversimplified version of history," Curtatone wrote in Facebook post.  "We all know there's more to the story than a nursery rhyme."

Even Democrats Want 'Mad Maxine' to Stop Impeachment Talk.  Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren called out "Mad Maxine" Waters over her repeated calls for President Donald Trump's impeachment.  The California Democrat has been one of Trump's most outspoken critics, and she continues to double down on her anti-Trump rhetoric.  Waters, who took heat earlier this year for urging her supporters to confront Trump administration officials in public, said in Los Angeles over the weekend that some Democratic leaders have asked her to stop talking about impeaching Trump.

Enemies Within.  Young corporate executives believe and pander to the left's negative view of America.  This is why we see corporate advertising supportive of lies such as that America is destroying the planet and that cops routinely murder blacks.  Leftists have instilled in our youths the lie that people around the world have too little because evil, greedy, and selfish Americans have too much.  This is why many youths believe that it is only fair that we open our borders to whoever wishes to enter.  And how dare we expect immigrants to assimilate, speak English, and embrace capitalism?  Youths believe that defending our borders against the invasion of illegals is racist and hateful.  Our kids have also been taught the lie that Christians, conservatives, and Republicans are haters obsessed with suppressing women and minorities.  Corporate executive operatives of the young enemies within movement believe that a majority of Americans share leftist disdain for their country.  This is why the NFL originally rallied behind [Colin] Kaepernick, leading the charge of pro football players taking a knee in protest against our National Anthem.

As In-N-Out boycott plan flops, Dem party chief dines alone, GOP feasts.  California state Democrats are distancing themselves from the state party's chief after he called for the boycott of a beloved burger chain after it donated cash to the state's Republican Party.  The political feud began last week when Eric Bauman, head of the California Democratic Party, called for the boycott of California-based In-N-Out over its $25,000 donation to the GOP.  Et tu In-N-Out?

Left-Leaning Fast Food Fans Lose Appetite After In-N-Out Burger Donates To California Republicans.  Cult fast food chain In-N-Out Burger is getting served after it was revealed the restaurant chain donated $25,000 to the California Republican Party. [...] The late CEO, Rich Snyder, was an evangelical Christian and supporter of Republican candidates, and current president Lynsi Snyder is also devout.  Like cult chain Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out doesn't make its founders' Christian values a secret, per se.  Customers just might be so focused on their Animal Style burgers that they don't notice the references to Bible quotes printed on the wrappers.  However, it's not clear that the company's current leadership is nearly as aligned with the Republicans as that of Chick-fil-A, a company that has backed organizations that restrict LGBT rights.

Democratic leader's call for In-N-Out Burger boycott meets its own resistance.  Anthony Grigore is a Democrat.  But as he waited Thursday at an In-N-Out Burger in El Segundo for his meal, Grigore made it clear party loyalty would only go so far.  Just hours earlier, the head of the California Democratic Party called for a boycott of the famed burger chain after a public filing revealed that the company had recently donated $25,000 to the state's Republican Party.  "Eating at In-N-Out is such a standard thing to do across California," Grigore said, dismissing the boycott idea as a bit silly.

Head of Calif Dem Party foolishly asks people to choose between party loyalty and In-N-Out Burgers.  Trump Derangement Syndrome blows up in the face of Democrats, once again.  California's far-left progressives dominate the Democratic Party and love to ban things.  Foie gras, plastic straws, and large containers of sugary soda are examples of food- and beverage-related matters.  But asking Californians to forgo In-N-Out Burgers is a bridge too far.  Late Wednesday night [8/29/2018], Eric Baumann, chair of the California Democratic Party, read an article in Los Angeles Magazine informing him that In-N-Out Burger had donated $25,000 to California's Republican Party.  He tweeted out a call for a boycott.

In-N-Out burger chain receives invitation from Alabama lawmaker amid calls for California boycott.  An Alabama state senator has invited the California-based In-N-Out hamburger chain to his state after some California Democrats called for a boycott of the chain over donations made to the state's GOP.  State Sen. Phil Williams, a Republican from Rainbow City, Ala., tweeted his invitation Thursday night [8/30/2018].

The Party Of Free Stuff And Illegal Aliens Is Not The Workingman's Friend.  Just this week the Democratic Party in Florida nominated Far Left Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum for Governor.  Gillum, an outspokenly progressive African-American, is the candidate of Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and Far-Left billionaire Tom Steyer, founder of the "Need to Impeach" super PAC.  According to reporting by The New Yorker's Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Gillum's campaign platform calls for a steep corporate-tax increase to pay for a billion-dollar boost in public-education spending, a repeal of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, Medicare for all, and a fifteen-dollar-an-hour minimum wage, abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the impeachment of the President.

Hollywood Elites Gush over Socialist Andrew Gillum's Victory in Florida.  Hollywood elites gushed over the victory of Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum in Florida's Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, after the socialist-backed candidate scored an upset victory over his more moderate opponents.  Gillum, who received the backing of prominent socialist figures including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, defeated Rep. Gwen Graham and former mayor of Miami beach Phillip Levine with 34.3 percent of the vote.  He was also endorsed and funded by left-wing billionaires such as Tom Steyer and George Soros.

The Party Of Free Stuff And Illegal Aliens Is Not The Workingman's Friend.  Democrats once passed themselves off as the party of the working guy; pro-union, pro-American manufacturing, pro-infrastructure and anti-communist, but today's Democratic Party looks nothing like the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy.  In the age of Donald Trump Democrats have become, not the party of the American working man, but the party Trump companies come backof free stuff and illegal aliens.  Leading Democrats, such as Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have called for the abolition of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency — which would in effect open America's borders to the entire world.  Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has long-advocated debt-free college and the Democrats' marquee congressional candidate, New York Democratic-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made free college and Medicare for all hallmarks of her campaign.

There Should Be a Trump Impeachment Vote — and Republicans Should Schedule It.  Not to put too fine a point on it, Democrats are not the ones known as the Stupid Party and so are well aware that a campaign centered on impeaching Trump is electoral cyanide.  As Democratic representative Eric Swalwell so eloquently put it, "[r]ight now, we're not in the majority, and so running on that, I think, misses the issues that people care about at home."  Translation:  "Don't mention the impeachment!"

DNC Goes Gender-Neutral, Demands Equal Numbers Of Men And Women On Committees.  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has passed a rule during its summer meeting in Chicago, Illinois, that includes gender-neutral language in an effort to be more inclusive to the LGBT movement.  In addition, all committees must have equal representation of men and women, but those who self-identify as gender nonbinary will not be counted as male or female.  The rules, according to CNN, now say that DNC committees "shall be as equally divided as practicable between men and women (determined by gender self-identification) meaning that the variance between men and women in the group cannot exceed one (1)."

The Editor says...
Demanding specific percentages of men and women is not "gender neutral."  Pandering to "non-binary" homosexuals does not benefit normal men or women.

A Perfect Storm Threatens America's Survival.  Nothing defines this issue more than N.Y. governor Cuomo, who said America "was never that great."  Whaaat?  Is he referring to the country regarded as the hope of the free world that saved Europe and Asia from fascist tyranny, the country that has given the world transformative improvements in medicine, technology, music and the arts, the country that created the highest standard of living in the history of the world, the country that sacrificed over 300,000 of its men to end slavery, the country with a Constitution that defines the rights of the individual against progressive governments?  When obstruction and self-dealing become the primary goals and policy of one of the two major political parties instead of trying to make our country greater, you know there's a problem

Democrats Are Leaving Their Party in Droves.  Conservatives Should Pay Attention.  Nearly every WalkAway has a unique reason for leaving the Democratic Party.  Some of the most common reasons I've encountered are:
  •   The Democrat Party rejects Christian values.
  •   Liberal rhetoric on helping the poor does not match up with reality.  For instance, Democrat-run Los Angeles now has 55,000 homeless people living on the streets.
  •   The left frequently denounces the armed services, law enforcement, and the American flag.  Many military veterans are outraged by this.
There are countless others.  But the wellspring of the #WalkAway movement has less to do with policy than with the realization that Democrats and the left invariably use despicable methods to achieve their goals, and without remorse.  To the left, winning is all that matters.

Overthrow the Church of Leftist Guilt.  Democrats still need the vague feel-good vision of America to appeal to voters' patriotism — it's hard to run a country that you hate.  And so they use aspirational language effectively to campaign while hiding their overwhelming disgust with the nation.  They have never been proud of America.  They are only proud of what America could be if everyone capitulated to their demands.  Mainstream liberals do not advertise this fact loudly, but they don't hide it, either. [...] We should not be bullied by the embarrassed and penitent metropolitan congregation that believes that America is inherently flawed and expects the rest of the country to pick up the tab for our sins.

The media keep falling into the Trump trap.  Donald Trump has long demonstrated a knack for getting his political opponents to make fools of themselves.  Sen. Marco Rubio learned this the hard way on the 2016 campaign trail when he tried to out-Trump Mr. Trump.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former CIA chief John Brennan got caught in the trap last week.  Mr. Cuomo took issue with Mr. Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," telling an audience full of Democrats that "we're not going to make America great again — it was never that great."  The audience booed.  Mr. Cuomo was attempting to insult the president but wound up insulting the country and then spent several days walking back what he said.

Cuomo says America 'was never that great'.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo stunned the audience at a bill-signing ceremony Wednesday by saying America "was never that great" as he mocked President Trump's 2016 campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."  "We're not going to make America great again," Cuomo said while signing a bill dealing with human trafficking.  "It was never that great.  We have not reached greatness.  We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged."  Some audience members could be heard ooohing and groaning at Cuomo's comment.

CNN Commentator Agrees With Gov. Cuomo That America Was Never Great.  CNN commentator Angela Rye said on Wednesday night [8/15/2018] that she agrees with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's assertion that America was "never that great."  [Video clip]

"Never That Great".  New York governor Andrew Cuomo says that America was "never that great," and he's entitled to that view, but it would be interesting to know where the U.S. ranks in his personal list of great nations.  And it's amusing to imagine what the late Mario Cuomo, who so frequently praised America for the singular place that it is — "the greatest nation in the only world we know" — would have to say, especially in private, about his impulsive son's latest outburst.  Cuomo delivered his caustic observation at a bill-signing ceremony cum campaign pep rally on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and it might be a mistake to take it for much beyond what it was:  just another rhetorical drive-by shooting aimed at Donald Trump, the bête noire of New York Democratic politics.  But let's unpack it anyway.

Trump: How can Andrew Cuomo survive saying America was 'never that great?'  President Trump on Friday [8/17/2018] asked how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can "survive," after he took a dig at Trump's campaign slogan and claimed America "was never that great."

Andrew Cuomo Doesn't Understand Greatness.  Greatness, alas, eludes Andrew Cuomo, the misspoken son of an eloquent father who axed any chance of his own elevation with a few very ill-chosen words. [...] Cuomo's words recall his comments in 2014, when he said that pro-life adherents were "extreme conservatives" who had "no place in the state of New York," a rather harsh stance he was forced to walk back but which scratched a deep itch in the base of his party, one that had been festering there for some time.  Thirty-four years ago, his father Mario saw nothing great in the United States under Ronald Reagan, which he described solely in terms of its negative qualities, at the Democratic convention in 1984.

MAGA: Trump's bulletproof campaign slogan.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week joined the ranks of prominent Democrats who have shown that attacking President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan isn't as easy as it looks.  Speaking in New York City Wednesday night [8/15/2018], Cuomo tried to make the point that America can always do better and needs to do more to stop discriminating against women.  But instead he said America was "never that great," prompting shocked gasps in the audience.

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Never That Great, Huh?  The United States exported baseball, rock 'n' roll, chocolate chip cookies, and almost every great classic movie to the world.  We helped eradicate yellow fever and created a vaccine for polio.  Americans won a share of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 55 of the last 75 years.  Americans first trod on lunar soil, experienced the speed of sound, and explored the North Pole.  The U.S. armed forces helped liberate slaves, free Europe from the Nazis, and defeat the Evil Empire without firing a shot.  America rebuilt the places it destroyed.  Since Andrew Cuomo's birth, his homeland — he was actually born here despite his self-birther insistence otherwise — took in four times the number of immigrants as the world's second-leading destination point.  But for Andrew Cuomo, all of this does not translate into greatness.

NYT Editorial Board's Mara Gay: 'America Was Never Great' Is 'Honest,' Not a 'Gaffe'.  Mara Gay, a member of the far-left New York Times editorial board, believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) was being honest when he said America "was never that great."  She also agrees with the sentiment.  During a speech before supporters Wednesday [8/15/2018], Cuomo was very clear about why he does not believe America has ever been great.  After criticizing President Trump's "Make America Great" slogan, Cuomo laid out his reasoning.  "We're not going to make America great again.  It was never that great," he said, as his supporters laughed and gasped.

Cuomo backtracks, says 'America has always been great'.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters on Friday [8/17/2018] that "America has always been great" after he was slammed by President Donald Trump for saying this week that the country "was never that great."  Cuomo, whose name has been floated as a potential Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, qualified his comments in a conference call.  "The expression I used the other day was inartful, so I want to be very clear:  Of course America is great, and of course America has always been great — no one questions that," the governor said.

The Editor says...
If there is no question, why did you say it, Governor, as part of a speech that you wrote, or someone wrote for you?  Nice try, but it's too late to backtrack now.  Good luck with your career as a lobbyist.

Cuomo Was Never That Great.  One of the greatest contributions of the Trump presidency has been the President's uncanny ability to provoke people into revealing their hidden innermost selves.  He draws it out of them.  It is amazing, uncanny. [...] Look at what he has drawn out of Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Comey, Andy McCabe, Bruce Ohr.  It is unbelievable.  For those who wondered how deep the Deep State is — indeed, whether there even is a Deep State — look at what this President has uncovered. [...] And now, without doing anything we can identify, the President effectively has ended the elevated aspirations of New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew Cuomo's Office Backtracks After Governor Says America 'Was Never That Great'.  America "was never that great" and won't be great until all Americans share true equality, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday [8/15/2018] in a speech blasting Republican President Donald Trump and his slogan, "Make America Great Again."

Nice Ladies [are] Leaving the Democratic Party.  During and after the election, many women stopped buying what the Dems are selling.  They come from every generation, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and region of America.  These women warm my heart because I have been waiting and hoping that ordinary Democratic voters would be revolted by their party's embrace of vitriol and violence.  It appears to be happening at last.  They are walking away from Democrat politicians, cultural and media icons.  The treatment of Trump and his voters has been a step too far.  Bottom line: these nice, normal women don't feel comfortable being members of a club full of haters.

Democrats Double Down on Identity Politics With Transgender, Muslim, Minority Candidates.  On Tuesday, Democrats in various states took up the identity politics banner, pushing candidates who fit the minority mold.  The August 14 primaries elevated transgender, Muslim, black, and socialist candidates, further cementing the Democratic Party's national radical identity politics brand.

DNC chief Tom Perez plays to tiny audience at mall — empty seats in front row!  Democrats claim they have the enthusiasm edge heading into the November midterm election, but an appearance today [8/15/2018] by DNC Chairman Tom Perez may leave many wondering if that's true.  Perez appeared at Plaza Fiesta, an "indoor Latin shopping mall" in Atlanta, stumping on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Can Keith Ellison Turn Lawman?  Ellison represents Minnesota's 5th congressional district covering Minneapolis and inner-ring suburbs.  It is an increasingly far-left Democratic stronghold.  A Bernie Sanders supporter to the left of the Democratic party's left wing, Ellison himself represents the tilt of the 5th district's Democrats.  He is nevertheless a most peculiar candidate for the top law enforcement job in the state.  Allegations of domestic abuse involving a recent girlfriend of Ellison made news this past Sunday [8/12/2018] and continue to reverberate.  Ellison denied the allegations in a statement on Sunday afternoon.  It is difficult to anticipate how they will play out in the current environment, especially on the left, where such charges are more or less presumed true.  By Monday they had already been reported in depth by Elham Khatami in a Think Progress report.  Even if true, however, the charges would be the least of Ellison's disqualifications for this office.

Keith Ellison, Democratic Party Radical, Takes Primary for AG in Minnesota.  Media outlets began to call the Democratic Primary for Minnesota attorney general with just over 20 percent of the vote counted Tuesday night.  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) has won in a landslide.  Ellison looks to have secured a comfortable majority of Democratic primary votes in a five-candidate field in which he had by far the most prominent public profile.

USA Today Op-Ed Writer: 'Abolish Presidency'.  In the latest episode of leftists attempting to ban everything they do not like, USA Today op-ed called for the abolishment of the United States presidency in a piece published Friday [8/10/2018].  "This is a man who openly conspired to cheat with the help of a hostile foreign nation in a federal election," said Tina Dupuy, offering no evidence for the ridiculous claim because, of course, there is none.

Democrats used to be for the middle class.  Not anymore.  Democrats were once known as the party of rural families, union members and the white working class.  It is now associated with the coastal elites, nouveau socialists, the "resistance" and all manner of identity politics.  The point is that Democrats have turned their backs on the voters who once lifted them to consistent congressional majorities and occasionally into the White House.  They may win in dozens of districts scattered across the country in the fall, it may even be a "blue wave" election.  But they still haven't come to terms with the fact that thousands of their former supporters believe that a wealthy, former reality TV star, casino mogul and New York real estate developer understands America's working class better than Democrats.

Antifa to Protest 'Alt-Right' in D.C.: Abolish ICE, No Borders, Close Prisons.  Law enforcement and city officials are preparing for protesters and counter-protesters to descend on Washington, DC, this weekend.  According to the shutitdowndc.org website, the Antifa side of the equation has purposes far beyond responding to the Unite the Right 2 demonstration set to take place on the Charlottesville, Va. rally anniversary on Sunday at Lafayette Park across from the White House. [...] The Antifa counter-protest website, calling the event "Shut It Down DC" and "Trans and Queer #ResistDance Against White Supremacy," states a much broader purpose and is supported by a long list of left-wing organizations, including Black Lives Matter, Anarchist Agency, Fredrick Socialists, D.C. Antifascist Collective, Millenials for Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, and Philly Antifa.

No Borders, No Nation.  Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] has enjoyed spectacular growth, recruiting legions of outraged Berniecrats from the failed Bernie Sanders campaign, as well as hordes of "Resistance" militants from the Hillary camp.  The DSA, reportedly, has mushroomed from 7,000 members and 15 local chapters in 2000 to 44,000 members and hundreds of chapters in 2018.  It has seized the open borders/no borders cause, which until very recently was only seriously proposed by such elements of the extreme Left as the Communist Party USA, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and La Raza (The Race), the ultra-radical Mexican irredentist group that seeks to reclaim the American southwest as "Aztlan" or "Mexifornia."

"I'm Confused": Dem Senator Has No Clue that Illegals Break the Law When Crossing The Border.  On Capitol Hill, ICE official Matthew Albence has to explain to Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) that illegal immigrants break the law when crossing the border.  This woman is a Senator?

Freeing People from Left-Wing Lies.  A recent Pew survey shows that leftists are much more likely not to want to associate with people who don't share their political views than are conservatives.  Furthermore, leftists are more likely not to know any conservatives.  Look at the electoral map from 2016 — the blue areas are all tiny and tightly grouped.  Essentially, most leftist voters live in an intellectual bubble where the fake news media provide the propaganda, and their friends repeat, hence reinforce, the lies, making them seem credible.  This even impacts the fake news reporters themselves.

Vast Majority of Americans Won't Vote For a Socialist, New Poll Finds.  Seventy-six percent of respondents in a recent survey said they would not vote for a "socialist candidate," while 24 percent of those polled said they have no problem with the hypothetical candidate.  Those results conflict with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez's prediction that young politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a dues-paying member of New York City's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America — represent his party's "future."

Democrat who knelt during Pledge of Allegiance should resign.  A Connecticut lawmaker — a Democrat, of course — is facing backlash for kneeling, NFL style, during the Pledge of Allegiance during a recent Board of Selectmen meeting.  And well she should.  Now, she needs to resign and the story will be complete.  Selectwoman Melissa Schlag said she knelt at a meeting earlier this month to protest President Donald Trump and his Helsinki appearance.  But a selectman's meeting is a time for selectman business — for the people's business.

New poll shows Americans think Dem Party is pulling far away from mainstream USA, has leftists baffled.  As Democrats ramp up their rhetoric and unhinged hatred of President Donald Trump, it seems Americans are taking notice.  The majority of voters surveyed in a new poll conducted by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal declared that the Democrat Party is "out of step" with America.

Obama's Dying Vision:  The Only Card in the Democratic Deck.  What Democrats don't seem to understand is that Hollywood is not a "messaging" apparatus, nor is parading Trump-hating celebrities into the spotlight a winning substitute for a clear enunciation of what the Democratic Party stands for and whom it represents. [...] The truth is, the Democrats have no message.  There is no vision.  There is no agenda.  There is no Democratic counter to "Make America Great Again."  Nor is there a leader to voice such a vision and stamp it with his imprimatur if there were one.  And therein lies the rub.  Who is the leader of the Democratic Party?  Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Perez, Ellison, Sanders, Clinton, Gillibrand, Feinstein, Warren, Durbin, Booker, Waters?  This is a motley crew, to say the least, and hardly visionaries, and nary a one who has an electable, national cachet that can inspire transformative change.

Latest Poll Finds Today's Democrat Party Scares the [...] Voters.  The latest NBC-Wall Street Journal poll finds that today's Democrat party scares the[...] voters.  With party leaders like Maxine Waters pushing violence and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushing Socialism, Americans are turning away from the radical far left party.  More than 56 percent of voters find the Democrat Party out of step with American mainstream.

Dems Try To Deny What Their Party Is Fast Becoming.  Democrats have been very busy lately trying to tell the public that theirs is not an extremist socialist party.  But the public sees through the smoke screen.  Just a third now see the Democratic Party as mainstream.

Does the Republican Party have the guts necessary to win the midterms?  Trump won the nomination and the presidency on the voters' belief that this guy, at last, was someone who meant what he said on immigration.  He, and the Republican Party, can hold the House and the Senate if they focus the electorate's attention on the Dems' immigration lunacy, and then, secondarily, on the president's amazing economic results.  On immigration, the Dems' agenda has become a smorgasbord of electoral emetics that only needs to be served up to American voters to produce a collective gag that will be heard round the country.

"Occupy ICE" Finally Ejected from Portland, But They Left a Nasty Surprise Behind.  It happens every time a group of unwashed, miserable liberals gathers.  From the Dakota pipeline to numerous environmental movements, when leftists come together to demonstrate, you can count on a few things.  First, you can count on nothing happening.  Liberals love to march and rally.  But rarely do they have any real goals or objectives.  It's all about making a lot of noise for the cameras.  The liberal media will cover it like it's the most important event in history.  They never have anything meaningful to say or clear intentions once the excitement is over.  Do you know what "Occupy Wall Street" was really meant to achieve?  How about the "Women's March"?  Exactly.  These "movements" are nothing more than grownup temper tantrums.

Cory Booker Tells Supporters to 'Get Up In the Face' of Republicans.  I'm telling you, this is the result of some insane left-wingers getting their foot in the door of the Democrat party, and now everybody in the room is having to outdo the crazy.  Cynthia Nixon has been yanking New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the left and now he's mumbling about President Trump being on a "jihad."  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted a longtime staple of the party and presumed heir to Nancy Pelosi, and he's now mumbling about reparations for illegal immigrants.  Now, you've got people like Maxine Waters screeching about taking to the streets to call for Trump's head and Booker encouraging them to "get up in the face" of Republicans.

Deliver Us to Evil.  So many have written about the left's meltdowns over the past years — meltdowns that include our mainstream media, or what I call the Democrat-media complex.  The left has been (correctly) called unhinged, serial liars, power-mad, angry, out of control, spite-filled, envious, spoiled, while constantly engaging in toddler-like tantrums.  The left has been exposed (correctly) as brimming with hatred for opponents, being filled with inane, oft-times insane beliefs.  These are the libertine #MeTooers who all knew that their heroes were sexual predators, are fully gender confused, and are unsurpassed hypocrites.  The left apparently now supports socialism, despises free enterprise, can't abide religious expression (hate god), can't handle other opinions or debate, believes so many things that simply aren't so, is trying to squelch the First Amendment as much as it can in institutions it rules, has embraced the invasion of America by illegal aliens and the replacement of the American voting population by said illegals, and supports the demonization of white males.  And that's just the short list.

Hollywood's Obvious Liberal Overtones Result in Box Office Flops, Rob Reiner Edition.  [Rob] Reiner's last six films completely flopped, including his latest, "Shock and Awe."  "Shock and Awe" earned a measly $45,856 at select movie theaters over the weekend along with withering reviews.  Liberal film critics blamed his heavy hand for the movie's woes.  Here's FilmJournal.com's brutal assessment:  "Shock and Awe" is "a plodding film with ill-placed, klutzy exposition and credibility-defying and/or colorless characters that are spokespersons for various predictable viewpoints."

Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba put Democrats and their beloved S-word on the spot in Florida.  Two countries, which are closely watched by Florida's immigrant population, are getting absolutely hellish as a result of socialism:  Venezuela and Nicaragua.  Cuba already is an awful place.  Venezuela, which was so praised by [Bernie] Sanders in the past, is already well known, and no, we have not seen anything negative about it from either Bernie or Alexandria [Ocasio-Cortez].  Don't even imagine that either will bring up the horrors of Cuba — we already know they'll be touting Cuban relations.  The other festering boil of socialism is Nicaragua.  It's getting really bad there now; it looks as though an all-out civil war is getting underway; and yes, the news is starting to cover it.

Kansas congressional race attracts national spotlight.  But who is the star?  One day in July demonstrated the identity crisis facing Kansas Democrats as they seek to capture a congressional seat for the first time in a decade.  Roughly 2,000 people packed into a swampy-hot hall at the Reardon Convention Center in Kansas City, Kan., Friday night [7/20/2018] to hear U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, as he led a rally for Brent Welder, a Bonner Springs attorney mounting a campaign for Kansas' 3rd District on an unabashedly progressive platform.

Where Do 'Centrist' Democrats Turn in 2020?  Two of the three most prominent 2020 possibilities have long identified with the Democratic left, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as have possible darkhorse candidates, Senators Sherrod Brown and Jeff Merkley.  Several others, like Senators Kamala Harris, Chris Murphy and Amy Klobuchar, while not aggressively ideological, have no strong connection to the Clinton-Obama centrist tradition.

The Editor says...
There is nothing centrist about either Hillary Clinton or Barack H. Obama.  The two of them are left-wing extremists who have only recently been overtaken on the left by Bernie Sanders and others who are flat-out socialists.

Here Are The 34 Democrats Who Voted Against Measure Supporting ICE.  Make no mistake; abolish ICE is still an issue the progressive Left wants to push.  More Democrats are joining the chorus that's rapidly becoming a litmus test for candidates.  At the same time, more than a few are more than aware that this isn't really a winning issue.  It's good for deep blue enclaves that elect democratic socialists, but not so much in Middle America and swing districts.

House Democrats vote 'present' on resolution supporting ICE.  Most House Democrats voted "present" Tuesday [7/17/2018] on a resolution aimed at forcing them to clarify whether they support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after some Democrats have criticized the agency's role in enforcing U.S. immigration laws.  The House passed a nonbinding resolution saying lawmakers support the "officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement."  A two-thirds majority was needed to pass it, and because Democrats voted "present" instead of "no," it passed easily in a 244-35 vote.

Yes, Democrats Are Now The Party Of Open Borders.  We've been seeing a lot of articles these days defending Democrats against charges that they are for open borders.  But recent events show that the party has, in fact, morphed into one that reflexively opposes virtually any attempt to secure the southern border.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Bashes Trump Supporters.  A recent poll shows grassroots Republicans approve of Presient Donald Trump's performance in Helsinki, despite the best efforts of liberal Democrats and media pundits to trash the president for absolutely everything he did/does and said/says.  The Axios/SurveyMonkey poll asked,"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Trump handled his press conference with Putin?" Seventy-nine percent of Republicans approved.  "Who [...] are these people?" an incredulous Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," asked on Friday's show.  He and his ilk are stunned that President Trump would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the United States, when Trump's recent meeting in Helsinki was "called treasonous" by the elites.

Liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner's 'Shock and Awe' disappoints at box office with dismal opening weekend.  Liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner's Bush administration-bashing "Shock and Awe" was a disappointment during its debut weekend with an embarrassing box office intake.  "Shock and Awe" grossed only $41,000 on its opening weekend after being shown in only 100 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.  "Shock and Awe" finished No. 34 overall, behind numerous movies that have already been in theaters for several weeks, according to the service.  Reiner's film lost to other movies that were played in a limited number of theaters, including "Eighth Grade," which was shown in only four theaters but managed to gross $252,284, according to the site.

The left is hemorrhaging, #WalkAway movement.  The left is hemorrhaging a lot of people lately.  It's not just boring, white, middle-class people, either.  It's losing demographics the left has considered its own for decades but who are now seeing the light and moving on. [...] This includes gays.  This includes blacks.  This includes Hispanics.  This includes women.  This includes young voters.  This includes, in short, everyone horrified by the violent, pugilistic, intolerant actions the left has promulgated in the last few years.  As one commenter put it, "I can't express a single different idea from my liberal friends.  I will instantly become the enemy.  I refuse that way of thinking, because it's NOT thinking."

The Democratic Party left me behind — and I'm not alone.  I am a Democrat who has spent the last two years often criticizing my own party and fellow Democrats. [...] Yes, there's grassroots energy in the Democratic Party, but party leadership is essentially bereft of ideas.  [2016] was the year I joined millions of Americans in losing faith in the ruling class of both parties and in many of our political institutions.  It was also the year this voter became increasingly frustrated that our national media outlets — cable, network and legacy news media — have self-bifurcated into stark pro- and anti-Trump factions.  The real divisions, as I see it, aren't between Democrats and Republicans, but between the political and corporate ruling class and the national media establishments that support them, on the one hand, and the rest of us.

Abortion Advocates Think Amy Barrett is a Member of a "Cult" Because She's Catholic.  The mudslinging against Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a possible nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, continued this week with abortion activists claiming she is a member of a "cult."  She is believed to be one of four candidates that President Donald Trump is considering to fill retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat.  Particularly abhorrent to abortion activists, Barrett is a devout Catholic, a conservative and a woman.  Abortion supporters have honed in on Barrett's affiliation with People of Praise, an ecumenical Christian group that focuses on prayer, counseling, marriage guidance and acts of service for families in need.  Labeling the group a "cult," abortion activists claim Barrett is a "dangerous religious extremist" because of her affiliation with the group.

The Next American Revolution: #WalkAway.  Democrats who believe that they have a permanent hold on the African-American vote should take a look at how these voters view their position on immigration.  A recent Harvard-Harris survey found that African-Americans are the racial group most opposed to unlimited immigration.  Whereas 79 percent of whites want to prioritize legal immigrants based on what they can contribute to our society, fully 85 percent of African-Americans hold that view.  A party that advocates open borders and the abolition of ICE is going to get fewer and fewer of their votes.

Polls: No, Of Course Americans Don't Want To Abolish ICE.  "Abolish ICE" isn't a solution, argues my colleague Ed Morrissey at the Daily Beast today, it's a slogan.  Indeed, and that's being generous.  It started as a Twitter hashtag, per HuffPost.  As the phrase started showing up more online, desperate opportunists like Kirsten Gillibrand who are looking for an angle to shore up their left flank in the 2020 primaries glommed onto it.  Just like that, the hashtag #AbolishICE had become the slogan "Abolish ICE," which had in turn become a semi-serious policy proposed by a semi-serious U.S. senator.  And once it did, other supposedly serious 2020 contenders had to keep pace with Gillibrand by proposing it too.  Suddenly Democrats have a problem.  No one to the right of the DSA thinks "abolish ICE" will help claw back Rust Belt voters who flipped from Obama to Trump in the last election, but because it's gone from zero to "litmus test" overnight with Gillibrand's and Warren's help, the party leadership can only run so far from the idea without getting into trouble.

North Carolina Social Justice Activist:  Boycott July 4, Crash Other People's Cookouts.  In Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, social justice activists are telling their followers to boycott the Fourth of July this year, not to buy hot dogs or fireworks, and even to crash other people's cookouts.  They say they refuse to celebrate until America addresses what they see as endemic racism; one referred to the current climate as "Trump terror."

Democrats leaving the Party in droves as #WalkAway campaign gains real momentum.  A movement to abandon liberalism and the Democratic Party has gained some serious traction after a video featuring a gay New York hairdresser went viral.  "Once upon a time, I was a liberal.  Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal," Brandon Straka said in the video seen by some five million people on Facebook and YouTube that ignited the #WalkAway campaign.

Less Than 1 in 3 Dems [are] Proud to be American.  You can't hate America and be proud of it except in those brief moments, when as Michelle Obama noted, it mirrors your own aspirations.  And when your aspiration is to destroy America, you can only love America when it's killing itself.

In U.S., Record-Low 47% Extremely Proud to Be Americans.  This Fourth of July marks a low point in U.S. patriotism.  For the first time in Gallup's 18-year history asking U.S. adults how proud they are to be Americans, fewer than a majority say they are "extremely proud."  Currently, 47% describe themselves this way, down from 51% in 2017 and well below the peak of 70% in 2003.

Warren joins calls to get rid of ICE.  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Saturday [6/30/3018] joined calls from the left to get rid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying it should be replaced with something new.  "The president's deeply immoral actions have made it obvious we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our morality and that works," Warren said during a rally in Boston.

Poll: Half Of Democrats Support Sanders' Ejection From Restaurant.  Increasingly, Democrats want to politicize every aspect of life and treat political opponents as enemies in every phase of it.  In that, they are increasingly isolating themselves culturally from every other demographic, and that will have an impact on whether voters trust them with leadership.  Few people really want to live their lives as though they're in a phony war with their neighbors — it's exhausting to even contemplate, let alone sustain.

Remember, the Democrats are the people who said George W. Bush was a warmonger.
Billionaire Democrat Donor Calls For 'Nuclear War' To Stop Trump.  Billionaire Democrat donor Tom Steyer called for a "nuclear war" to stop President Trump — then took back his comment after the interviewer called his point "sobering."  "Maybe we can have, like, a nuclear war and then we get a real course correction," Steyer told The Rolling Stone in an interview published Friday [6/29/2018].  He was elaborating on his belief that it is imperative for Congress to impeach Trump immediately, because the "checks and balances system" set up in the constitution isn't working, and the only other option is to wait around for economic disaster and war.

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Attends Lunatic Abolish ICE Protest, Gets Booed Off Stage.  There was a mass demonstration in Los Angeles Saturday [6/30/2018] for open borders and the dismantling of ICE.  Hundreds of leftists and Spanish speaking immigrants attended the event. [...] As if the exploding crime, massively increasing homelessness and stifling traffic weren't enough, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is facing a new obstacle to his presidential hopes.  First he was seen at the Los Angeles March For Immigrant Children not reacting at all during an extremist's speech who called the founding of America "criminal".  Then things went from bad to worse when hizzoner was booed off stage by lunatic leftists who think Garcetti is a lying sellout who's not extreme enough for them.  They held up a sign calling Garcetti's sanctuary city policy a lie and then proceeded to boo him offstage.

'Abolish ICE' Zealots Occupy Fantasy Island.  "No ban.  No wall.  No borders at all."  That is the radical rallying cry of the Democratic Socialists of America.  Waving desecrated U.S. flags, grubby fists and ratty anarchy banners, DSA's professional protesters are targeting Trump administration officials, threatening immigration enforcement agents, and blockading detention facilities and processing centers nationwide.  On a similar note, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., proudly marched in a parade last week with a T-shirt emblazoned with "Yo No Creo En Fronteras" — Spanish for "I don't believe in borders."  These are abjectly unserious people, operating in bad faith, who pose a serious threat to our nation's well-being.

Michael Moore: 'Electoral College — Get Rid of It, Democrats!'  "I'm just saying that the majority of Americans are very liberal," liberal activist Michael Moore asserted on Thursday night [6/28/2018] in an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

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The Colbert program is taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City (according to Wikipedia) and the majority of the people in New York City may be "very Liberal," but that doesn't mean the rest of the country agrees.

Dem Senator Calls For ICE To Be Abolished — Forgets What She Said About Illegal Immigrants In 2009.  Democratic Senator and potential 2020 presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished.  The far-left position has gained popularity on the fringes of the Democratic Party as the immigration debate heats up in the country.  Gillibrand joins New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio who said Friday [6/29/2018] "ICE's time has come and gone.  We should abolish ICE.  We should create something better, something different."  However, when Gillibrand was just elected to a rather conservative House seat in Upstate New York, she was singing a different tune on illegal immigration.  According to a report by the New York Times from 2009, Gillibrand was a hawk on immigration, advocating for strict enforcement of our immigration laws.

The 'Abolish ICE' Movement Is As Crazy As It Sounds.  The 'Abolish ICE' movement is gaining steam.  Activists are protesting in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement buildings across the county.  The Daily Caller's Stephanie Hamill and Henry Rodgers crashed the organized protest in Washington D.C. on Wednesday [6/27/2018] to find out why some are calling for the agency to [be] abolished.  They left with more questions than answers.  "America Uncensored" is a Daily Caller program dedicated to political stories dominating the news cycle.  The DC's Stephanie Hamill is a straight shooter who isn't afraid to tell you what she thinks.

Pelosi: 'Our Values Are About ... Honoring the Vows of Our Founders'.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said in her weekly press briefing on Thursday [6/28/2018] that the Democratic Party is about "honoring the vows of our founders."  "Our values are about supporting America's working families, about honoring the vows of our Founders, about honoring the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, honoring the aspirations of our children," she said.  "That is why we vote so much alike because we have shared values," she said.

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What were "the vows of our Founders" and why do we need to honor someone else's vows?  Aside from that, as is typical of a leftist, Ms. Pelosi mentions a number of issues on which there is little disagreement, in order to make it seem that Democrats are in sync with every clear-thinking God-loving American.  But that is not the case.  I don't know of any values that I share with a socialist, tax-and-spend, California baby-killer.  Besides, Ms. Pelosi is a pro-abortion Catholic.  She isn't even in agreement with her own people.

Dems All In on Kicking People Out of Restaurants Over Their Politics.  But as usual, it's only meant to go one way.  The minute Obama is sent packing from some restaurant, we'll be having another "national conversation" about what terrible people we are.  As long as it's just Sarah, the Dems are all in.

Dems' emerging litmus test:  Support for abolishing agency that guards borders.  Democratic lawmakers and candidates are increasingly seeking the elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of their suite of demands in D.C.'s heated border battle.  The calls reflect not only the deepening divide between the two partisan poles on immigration — with one side seeking a border wall, and the other looking to dismantle the lead enforcement agency — but the growing influence of the progressive wing.  More and more Democratic politicians have embraced such causes as 'Medicare for all' and a federal jobs guarantee.  Now, they're getting behind the call to abolish ICE, with gusto.

It's Crazies All the Way Down.  Just in the last few days, the liberal outrages have been hard to keep up with:  hounding the Secretary of Homeland Security out of a restaurant, then "demonstrating" on her lawn with chants and blaring audio of crying children; denying the White House Press Secretary and her family dinner at a Virginia restaurant; trying to get Hall of Fame basketball player Kevin McHale fired from his job as an NBA announcer because he attended a speech by the President of the United States; falsely accusing an ICE agent who is a double amputee as a result of an IED explosion in Afghanistan of being a neo-Nazi; confronting the Attorney General of Florida as she left a movie theater.  And that is only a partial list, covering only the last few days. [...] How many Americans know about these outrages?  How many understand that the Democratic Party's most stalwart supporters are stark, raving mad?

Laura Bush shows Democrats are desperate.  Many readers likely are wondering why Laura Bush put her name on an op-ed condemning President Trump for enforcing a border protection law that her husband signed into law.  The short answer is she is all the Democrats have left.  Their leadership is too tainted by scandal or incompetence (and in the case of Hillary, both) to persuade anyone.  Bill is a joke with his pants around his ankles.  Obama's legacy quickly shrank like a cheap T-shirt in its first wash.  Not one of their 2020 candidates had sense enough to give President Trump a sportsmanlike chance, which renders their sermons on morality to be the political opportunism in the eyes of even among the low-information voters who are the bedrock of their electoral battle plan.

Antonio Sabato Jr.: Democrats Care About Everyone, Except Americans.  Democrats care more about illegal immigrants than American citizens, warns actor-turned-GOP congressional candidate Antonio Sabato Jr.  "They care more about everyone else but the people in this country, who make this country great and we are going to keep making it great," Saboto told Gateway Pundit on Sunday as he attended a Virginia Women for Trump event at the Trump International Hotel in DC.

The Party Of Tolerance And Diversity Is Neither Of These Things.  Based on the recent violent actions and words of the radical liberals in the Democrat party, here are some of the likely valuable principles that the DNC will run on in future elections:
  •   If you disagree with President Trump's elimination of transgender people from the American military, you can kick Republicans out of your restaurant.
  •   If you don't like President Trump's treatment of immigrants trying to enter America illegally, and forgetting that Trump is following the same laws that Obama pretended to follow in previous years, you can harass Republicans in any restaurant they enter.
  •   If you disagree with President Trump's immigration policy, you can stand outside the homes of all Republicans and shout insults and obscenities at them all night long.
  •   If you disagree with President Trump's immigration policy, you can scream at and insult Republicans in public and keep them out of any movie theater in the nation.
  •   If you don't agree with the legislation passed by Congress concerning immigration law, you can harass ICE agents and seek out the agents' children and harass them at their schools.
  •   If you disagree with President Trump's position on anything, you can threaten his son with homosexual rape and get away with it.
  •   If you ask a cake-maker or a pizza shop owner to do something contrary to their ethics and religion and if they decide to not do the work, you want done, you can sue them and ruin them financially.

How to Re-Elect Trump.  The political left is now repeating that mistake as its cultural and political vanguard sends a message of condescension, hostility and now ostracism to anyone who voted for Mr. Trump or has worked with or for him for the good of the country.  Their relentless contempt might end up re-electing him.  On that score don't underestimate how the refusal by a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will resonate politically.  Ms. Sanders had taken a seat at the Red Hen with several others on Friday when owner Stephanie Wilkinson asked her to leave.  Ms. Wilkinson told the press, which is turning her into Rosa Parks, that her restaurant "has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation."  Except toward people who don't share Ms. Wilkinson's views.  Rest assured every Trump supporter in America will be reminded of this episode from here to November.  The message:  Now you're so deplorable they won't serve you in their restaurants.

Why Do They Hate Us?  A new study by the Washington Times shows that 90% of the broadcast coverage of President Trump remains negative, even after the accomplishments of his first 500 days.  Certainly, the so-called intelligentsia hate Donald Trump, but they hate Trump not just as an individual — they hate him because he sides with us. They've hated us — those heartland Americans clinging to our guns and religion — long before Trump came along and will do so long after he is gone.

Hollywood Confirmed Its Role as Voice of 'Anti-America'.  Some of the biggest names in Hollywood gathered at the 72nd Tony Awards on Sunday night [6/10/2018] to join actor Robert De Niro in trashing President Donald Trump. [...] Hailed by mainstream news outlets as a "brutal takedown of the president," De Niro's adolescent tantrum confirmed Hollywood's absolute disconnect from the American heartland, lost in its self-made bubble of anti-Trump hysteria.

The Left Achieves Perfection.  Leftists have achieved perfection, and for once not only in their own minds.  Yes — for the first time, modern leftists have managed to be perfectly wrong on every single issue.  Let's just look at some major issues where one would think that any decent human being would get the right answer.

The Democrats Descend Into Farce.  A farce is a comedy marked by buffoonery and crude, ludicrously impossible events.  So is the Democratic party.  Take Nathan Larson, who is running for congress in Virginia as an ndependent [sic].  Larson supports pedophilia, incest, white supremacy and marital rape.  I am not kidding.  So naturally you ask:  How on earth did this felonious loon get in the race?

Nathan Larson is a pedophile and a white supremacist.  And he's running for Congress.  Nathan Larson, a man who advocates pedophilia, white supremacy and rape, and who served 16 months in prison for threatening to kill the president, is running for Congress.  The 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Va., is running as an independent in Virginia's 10th congressional district.  Larson identifies himself as a "quasi-neoreactionary libertarian." His platform includes drug legalization, the elimination of all regulations regarding firearms and "putting an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars arising from our country's alliance with Israel."  Larson's unorthodox candidacy further complicates an already wild race in Virginia's 10th.  Six Democrats, including one who said President Trump poses as much of a threat to democracy as Osama bin Laden, are vying for the nomination to take on Republican incumbent Rep. Barbara Comstock.

Dear Ex-Friends in #TheResistance.  On November 9, [2016,] you awoke from a self-induced, eight-year-long political coma to find that White House press secretaries shade the truth and top presidential advisors run political cover for their boss.  You were shocked to discover that presidents exaggerate, even lie, on occasion.  You became interested for the first time about the travel accommodations, office expenses, and lobbyist pals of administration officials.  You started counting how many rounds of golf the president played.  You suddenly thought it was fine to mock the first lady now that she wasn't Michelle Obama.  Once you removed your [pink] hat after attending the Women's March, you made fun of Kellyanne Conway's hair, Sarah Sanders' weight, Melania Trump's shoes, Hope Hicks' death stare; you helped fuel a rumor started by a bottom-feeding author that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slept with Donald Trump.  You thought it was A-OK that Betsy DeVos was nearly physically assaulted and routinely heckled.  You glorified a woman who has sex on camera for a paycheck.  You have learned all kinds of new things that those of us who didn't willfully ignore politics for the past eight years already knew.

Socialists Running As Democrats In Primary This Tuesday.  Richard Becker, candidate for State Representative in Kentucky's 35th District, is a member of the radical Marxist organization:  "Democratic Socialists of America" (DSA) and a "union organizer."  The other DSA member is Ryan Fenwick, who is running for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.  The Louisville DSA is putting all of their weight behind their candidates, encouraging fellow comrades to "put socialists in power" in order to "defeat capitalism."

A grim spectacle:  The left fully revealed.  Over the eight years of the Obama administration, the Democratic Party moved left, then more left, then hard, radical, Alinskyite left.  Terrible damage was done to the country as a result. [...] The Democratic Party has devolved into a manic state of hysteria in which its members no longer know right from wrong or good from evil.  The Republicans in Congress had better step up to the partisan plate and fight these traitors to their own country, or we are lost.

Chuck Schumer spends the day defending MS-13 from Trump's 'animal' comments.  Democrats sure do seem to have a lot of strange "protected classes" lately.  Obviously, they've always liked to put people into groups, fan the flames of a victim mentality, and then play those groups against each other.  It's just what they do.  But, in the last couple of weeks, they've decided to defend Iran, Hamas, and now — the icing on the cake — MS-13.  If you're unfamiliar with MS-13, and I pray to God you are, they're a violent gang made up mostly of Salvadorans whose motto is "Murder, Rape, and Control."  They are, unarguably, one of the most violent gangs on the face of the earth, and the horror stories shared by their victims' families are heartbreaking beyond words.

Here Are The Five Senators Who Voted Against Haspel.  A handful of senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee voted against President Donald Trump's pick to lead the CIA Wednesday [5/16/2018].  The committee voted 10-5 Wednesday in favor of Gina Haspel, who must now be confirmed before the entire Senate body before she can become the next CIA director.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz:  Let's Face It, The NRA Is Just Shy Of Being A Terrorist Organization.  It's fun to compare this rhetoric to Democratic rhetoric about groups that actually are terrorist organizations.

Nazis And Socialists Are The Same Bunch Of Idiots.  The notion that Nazism was a "right-wing" ideology has been perpetuated by recent generations and is profoundly incorrect.  The perverse rewriting of history obfuscates the true causes and consequences of the Nazis.  It also dishonors the millions lost to the Holocaust.  Worse, this kind of absolute ignorance of history is a sure path to repeating it.  In fact, most Americans don't really understand who the Nazis were.  The Nazis were the National Socialist German Workers' Party.  They were demonstrably self-proclaimed socialists.

All that's wrong with the left in one Politico article.  Did Politico's Evan Mandery set out to expose the authoritarian nature of the American left in this article called "What Happened to Alan Dershowitz"?  I'm not sure.  Regardless, he has done a good job of it. [...] But missing from Mandery's article is any evidence or serious example that would remotely support this alarmist rhetoric.

Sean Hannity accused of repeatedly evicting tenants who paid no rent.  The great things about liberals is that even though most have never run a business, they all know exactly how businesses should be run. [...] I get the feeling that if liberals ran Hannity's properties, very quickly they would run them into the ground like public housing.

The Democrats' War On Capitalism.  Polls show that today's Democratic Party and capitalism appear to be on a collision course.  A November 2015 New York Times/CBS News poll found that 56% of Democratic primary voters said they held a positive view of socialism.  A Morning Consult/Politico survey in June 2017 asked if a hypothetical replacement for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi should be a socialist or capitalist.  More Democrats opted for socialism, with 35% saying it's somewhat or very important that her replacement be a socialist, while only 31% said the same for a capitalist.  Indeed, one of the Democrats' loudest voices, filmmaker Michael Moore, recently praised Karl Marx, the ideological godfather of communism.

Moviemaker Michael Moore wishes Karl Marx a happy 200th birthday.  Controversial filmmaker and vocal Trump critic Michael Moore, took to Twitter Saturday to extend enthusiastic birthday wishes to Karl Marx, the German philosopher, economist, historian, journalist and revolutionary who published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848.  Moore, famous for films that have advocated universal health care and put capitalism in the crosshairs, tweeted an endearing message seeming to praise Marx and, in a series of tweets to follow, defended his name against those who attempted to "distort" it.

Karl Marx:  Talking Points for Deplorables.  Marx launched a million killers to help solve the overpopulation problem that so obsesses our lefty friends.  But let us remind the world that this fearless prognosticator was stunningly wrong on just about everything, and let us count the ways, so you can rag on your lefty friends whenever the mood takes you.

Keith Ellison sports 'I don't believe in borders' T-shirt.  A video posted online Monday [5/7/2018] shows a Democratic Party leader wearing a T-shirt calling for an end to U.S. borders while participating in a local May Day parade in Minnesota last Friday.  Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, D-Minn., wore a black shirt that read, "Yo no creo en fronteras."  In English, that sentence translates to, "I don't believe in borders."

Sixties Counter-Culture Anarchism Is Alive and Well.  Today's left and its minions on the campuses and in angry organizations find their voices in the Democratic Party, and, as one voice, they are lashing out against reality, especially the reality of our Constitution and the higher reality of natural rights.  Although drug advocacy and Eastern mysticism are not the central tenets of its adherents, today's left is in part birthed by the 1960s counter-culture figures.  The reality of there being two sexes is being denied. [...] The rights of the U.S. Constitution are often seen as obstacles to progress.

The Democrats' favorite sport:  Ruining people.  The Democratic Party today has moved so far to the left, become so radicalized, that it is a blight on the American landscape.  Its favored strategy is to destroy everything, anyone, and anything that stands in its way — thus the Mueller witch hunt that has cost so many so much.  Gen. Flynn has lost his house.  Michael Cohen's homes and office were raided. [...] How to achieve the Marxist society they favor?  Destroy everyone, every conservative, pro-Constitution person and every person of faith who reaches or aspires to a position of power, and do it by any means, no matter how low, no matter how illegal, no matter how immoral.  This is what they do.

Why Are Millennials Turning Against Democrats?  The Answer Is Simple.  A new poll shows that the millennial generation has suddenly soured on Democrats just before the Blue Wave was supposed to crash over Republicans in Congress.  There's a good reason for their change of heart.  The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll of 16,000 millennials found that support for Democrats among this generation dropped to 46% — a nine-point plunge from 55% just two years ago.  Just 39% of white millennials now say they favor Democrats.  It also found that more millennials say the GOP is a better steward of the economy.

Fear of the Left:  The Most Powerful Force in America Today.  Leftism — in its incarnations, such as Marxism, communism and socialism; expressed through egalitarianism, environmentalism and feminism; in its denigration of capitalism and Western civilization, especially America and Israel; in its supplanting of Christianity and Judaism; through its influence on Christianity and Judaism; in its celebration of race; and in its replacing of reason with romanticism — has almost completely taken over the news and entertainment media and institutions of education.  There is a largely (though not entirely) nonviolent reign of ideological terror in America.  In almost every area of life, people fear antagonizing the left.

The ex-husband of Barbara Bush-basher Prof. Randa Jarrar speaks out.  Randa Jarrar, the Fresno State University tenured professor who demonized Barbara Bush shortly after her death and mocked her critics by pointing out that she has tenure and cannot be fired from her six-figure job shaping young minds, ought to become a poster child for the depths to which academia has sunk.  Her status is under review according to university officials, no doubt worried about alumni giving declining, so there is a decent possibility that she will become a cause célèbre on the left, should she lose her job.  More attention on her would be perfect, as far as I am concerned.

Democrat Jackie Speier:  DNC lawsuit 'not in the interest of the American people'.  Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, views the Democratic National Committee's new lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Russia, and WikiLeaks as a "side-bar" that is "not in the interest of the American people."  The lawsuit, filed Friday [4/20/2018], alleges that the trio conspired to tip the scales of the 2016 election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.  Speaking with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Speier, who endorsed Clinton in 2016, said she is "not very supportive" of the legal endeavor she described as an "ill-conceived idea."

No, Trees Are Not People Too.  For a newspaper that prides itself on its supposed devotion to science and rationality, the New York Times sure does publish a lot of tripe anthropomorphizing plants.  For example, there was that professor who appeared in the Sunday Opinion section arguing that "peas are a who," and that humans should only eat fruit and vegetables from perennials that we harvest "as a gift of vegetal being."  Then there was the Times' science columnist (!!) Natalie Angier claiming the plants "are the ethical autotrophs" because they don't kill to stay alive.  (Well, there are those Venus flytraps, but never mind.)  Now in the Book Review, novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too.

Senator Booker's lust for ignorance.  We have an endless war in Afghanistan, a dictator gassing civilians in Syria, a nuclearized Korean peninsula, trade agreements under negotiation, tensions between Russia and its former Soviet satellite republics, an Islamic invasion of Europe, and frenemies in NATO.  So what did Democratic Senator Cory Booker ask the nominee for secretary of State about?  Gay sex.  Oh, Senator Booker did not want to have sex with the nominee, CIA Director Mike Pompeo.  No, Booker wanted to embarrass Pompeo.  Instead, Booker sounded like a loser, a man unable to match wits with a nominee to the Trump Cabinet.  Meanwhile, Democrats are blocking the confirmation Richard Grenell as ambassador to Germany because he is gay.  Democrats are all for gay people, unless they are conservative.  Ditto black people.  Ditto Hispanics.  Ditto women.  Booker's question revealed the senator and his staff are unable to keep up with the news.

What a Crumby Thing for Cory Booker to Say.  Never mind the eight years during which President Obama accumulated more debt than all prior presidents combined.  [Senator] Booker insists that keeping too much of our paychecks and not the government spending too much is what drives up the national debt.  If Booker has any plans for cutting spending outside the military, they are the only thing in Washington that has not been leaked.  Letting people keep more of what they earn is not "spending," and companies giving more of what they earn to their employees is not spending, either.  Booker is typical of those who believe that all money belongs to a government that decides how much of it we will be allowed to keep in exchange for our votes.

Cory Booker disgraced himself questioning Pompeo.  First, [Senator] Booker posed as an advocate of religious liberty, angrily quoting something Pompeo earlier said about the need for Muslims to speak out against jihad terror attacks: [...] I have to wonder if Booker would quiz a Muslim nominee for office on the topic of his religious beliefs about marriage.  He seems to think you can't ask Muslims about their views on jihad terror, but it's OK to hector believing Christians on their adherence to doctrine.

Is Progressivism Satanic?  [Scroll down]  But what if Progressivism is not just a political preference, but instead originates from a more powerful and sinister source — and carries with it the existential danger that origin implies?  After all, if Satan is the great deceiver, would not political and cultural movements that appear to be secular in origin, actions and goals serve his purposes?  Would not (secular) politics and culture be natural (if not inevitable) avenues for advancing his aims?  Indeed, since his followers are by definition unbelievers, then is not some sort of secular "faith" and "church" indispensable for harnessing humans to advance his evil aims?

The Democrats' Plan to Transform America.  Obviously, Democrats are out of sync with the American people.  Most Americans want to restrain government and keep more of their money.  They believe in a strong military and defense, in killing, not appeasing terrorists.  They don't want stupid regulations and high taxes to get in the way of economic growth and job creation.  Instead of listening to the people, Democrats are trying to get different people to vote.  It doesn't matter if the people are actually eligible to vote.  All they need do is cast ballots for Democrats.

Americans Grapple With Evil Amid Decline in Religious Faith.  Blaise Pascal once described a "God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man."  But in modern-day America, few statements can raise eyebrows more swiftly than expressing faith in the transcendent.  From Joy Behar mocking Vice President Mike Pence as mentally ill for believing that God guides him, to former President Barack Obama ridiculing "bitter" people who cling to guns or religion, the "enlightened" claim to have progressed past the simplistic explanations of those who still believe in the existence of good and evil.

Memo to Laura Ingraham:  Never Beg.  The reality is, the more you apologize, the more the left will come after you.  If you show weakness, if you let them smell blood, you're finished.  The left preys on those they deem vulnerable.

Corporations Endanger Free Speech with Ingraham Boycott.  The war against freedom of speech that has emerged on our college campuses the last few years is now metastasizing to many of our private sector companies, large and small.  That is the ominous conclusion we can draw from multiple businesses — from Johnson & Johnson to Nestle — instantly pulling their advertising from Fox's "The Ingraham Angle" because Laura Ingraham made some ill-considered tweet mocking high school gun control activist David Hogg's college admission difficulties.  They did this even though Ingraham apologized the next day.  Hogg, for his part, dismissed the apology, preferring to continue his proven method of nonstop profanity-laced screeds, such as his attacks on Marco Rubio for "putting a price on children's heads."  That Hogg, a seventeen-year-old, still acts like one — in fact, a not very mature one — is hardly surprising.  What is concerning is that all these companies appear to buy his views hook, line and proverbial sinker without stopping for a moment to consider what they might entail.

NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan Says Dem Party Is 'Abandoning Catholics'.  The Archbishop of the Diocese of New York criticized the Democratic Party in an opinion piece published Friday, "Fox & Friends" reported.  Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who principally preaches at St.  Patrick's Cathedral, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Democratic Party platform appears to be abandoning its former pro-life stance.  Dolan, however, underlined that he is a man of God, not a man of Washington or Albany and has had differences with all political parties.

Trump and the Great Unmasking of the Left.  Former Justice John Paul Stevens, once upon a time a Republican but now a long term beltway establishmentarian, openly called for repeal of the Second Amendment.  Not "common sense gun control measures" anymore, the mask that gun grabbers formerly wore.  It used to be taboo to mention confiscation of guns or repeal of any part of the Bill of Rights, but in their fury, those restraints on candor are being forgotten.  The NRA, already experiencing a spike in its membership, now has an even stronger appeal to civil libertarians.  "Hands off the Bill of Rights!" is a powerful appeal beyond the ranks of gun owners.

No, Hillary Clinton:  It's the Red States that are Dynamic.  Hillary Clinton is being universally panned by Republicans and Democrats for her recent rant against people who voted for Donald Trump.  While giving a speech in Mumbai, India, Clinton boasted that she "won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product."  She went on:  "So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward." [...] Many have commented on how her speech was offensive and arrogant — which it was.  But what hasn't been noted for the record is that Clinton had her facts wrong.  For at least the last two decades, most of the dynamism and growth — as measured by population movements, income growth and job creation — has been fleeing from the once economically dominant blue states that Clinton won and relocating to the red states that Trump won.

Mr. Hogg's Revolution.  [Parkland, Florida, activist-brat David] Hogg, who has become one of the primary faces of the anti-gun movement and is notable for his impassioned and occasionally profane attacks on the NRA, parents and conservative politicians, revealed the true aims of the "March For Our Lives" movement — a Leftist revolution in America.  In this aim the "March For Our Lives" movement joins in its anti-constitutional aims, the "Black Lives Matter" movement, the "Women's March," the "Occupy" movement, Antifa, and the rest of the so-called Resistance in the Soros-funded Left.  But what makes Hogg different is that he actually comes right out and says their goals will be accomplished outside of the political process in a "revolution" if need be.  "Revolution" is a great pop culture slogan and lends itself to the composition of protest songs and slogans, t-shirts and psychedelic posters, but few purported revolutionaries like David Hogg really understand how revolutions are accomplished — and it is not through speeches and slogans.  History proves that there are really only two kinds of revolutions:  Those that seek to extend liberty, and those that seek to curtail it.

Openly atheist Dem trumped by Republican landslide in special election in Tennessee.  Openly atheist Democrat Gayle Jordan lost a special election on Tuesday to fill a vacant seat in the Tennessee Senate.  Republican Shane Reeves won in a landslide, according to unofficial results from the Tennessee secretary of state.  He received 13,139 votes compared to 5,179 votes for Jordan.

Leftism and Degeneracy:  A Beautiful Thing.  In a nutshell, leftists are using government to make the weird and freaky mainstream while trampling traditional principles and values underfoot — declaring them hateful, intolerant, and laughable.

Beto O'Rourke Just Showed Everyone How To Lose An Election In Texas.  There are two ways to guarantee you'll lose a statewide election in Texas: campaign for abortion or campaign against guns.  Texas Democrats accomplished the first in 2014, when Wendy Davis lost the governor's race to Greg Abbott by 20 points.  Now they're determined to do the second.  Beto O'Rourke, the photogenic Democratic congressman from El Paso hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in November, declared at a SXSW event Monday [3/12/2018] that there's no reason an AR-15 should be sold to a civilian.

Red-state senator Jon Tester gets a 'zero' on Trump agenda votes.  Two-term Montana Democratic senator Jon Tester has joined a chorus of red-state Democrats with a newfound affinity for Trump voters after continually voting with the Democratic caucus against the president's agenda. [...] Tester and other red-state Democrats are attempting to cozy up to Trump voters, but their records show they vote in lockstep with the Democratic caucus against the president's priorities.  A review of Senator Tester's votes on big-ticket Republican bills and nominees in Trump's first year is instructive.

Obama Alum, Grandson Of A Munich Terrorist Is Running For Congress.  Democratic candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar is running for Congress in California to unseat scandal-ridden Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter.  A San Diego native, Campa-Najjar says he wants to serve the community that helped raise him, serve his family and friends, and provide the 50th District of California a leader who is not embattled in scandal, a reference to incumbent Hunter.  Campa-Najjar supports a number of policies backed by the growing hard-left faction of the Democratic Party.  He is a staunch supporter of a universal health care system, like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-All proposal.  Like Sanders, an Independent, Campa-Najjar has no solution for how to pay for a universal health care system, but still thinks it is the system of the future.

California's Reputation for Loony Left Behavior Only Gets Worse.  Move over, San Francisco.  Oakland, the city of 420,000 people just ten miles away on the other side of the Bay Bridge, has shoved you aside for the title of Loony Left Capital of the country.  Hasta Muerte, an Oakland coffee shop whose name means "Toward Death" in Spanish, is refusing to serve police in uniform in order to show concern for the "physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves."  All over the country, coffee shops love to serve up coffee and doughnuts to cops knowing that customers appreciate the security their presence represents.  But at Hasta Muerte Coffee, an employee-owned co-op, the message to the men and women in blue is:  Take a hike.

Oakland Coffee Shop Will Not Serve Cops for 'Safety of Customers'.  Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte Coffee refuses to serve police due to a concern for the "safety of customers."  The policy came to light after NBC Bay Area reported the coffee shop refused to serve an officer in uniform on February 16.  KCRA reports that the store took to social media, saying, "We have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves."

At the Box Office and Voting Booth, Leftist Fantasies Bomb.  Because most people live in something vaguely resembling the real world, the disparity between the left's hysteria — their imaginings of Russian conspiracy, of Gestapo governance, of abusive power — and the facts of Trump's actual presidency — tax cuts, regulation rollbacks, Constitutional judges and the occasional unruly tweet — makes the self-serious emergency activism of the "resistance" seem like a child's game, a silly fantasy.  And so, instead of the hero's welcome the left always seems to be expecting, the people keep giving them the bum's rush.

Hollywood's Oscars Night Tanks as NRA Membership Skyrockets.  Hollywood's biggest night of the year turned into one of the smallest as viewers refused to watch a conga line of virtue-signaling celebrities preen about politics. [...] So, we have people flocking to gun rights organizations and running from Hollywood.  Why do you think that is?  Hollywood doesn't want to face the reality that it's because people are fed up with condescension from celebrities who don't value Americans' civil rights.

2018 Poll:  Immigration/Gun Control Top Issues for Voters; Russia 'Collusion' Dead Last.  Immigration/border security along with "gun control/Second Amendment" are the issues that voters care most about going into the 2018 midterm elections while Russia "collusion" ranks dead last, according to the latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll.  The poll shows that Republicans may be better off focusing on immigration and border security in the midterms to energize the party's base, as immigration/border security was the top issue for Republican voters (17% compared to 9% for Democrats) while gun control/Second Amendment was the top issue for Democrats (17% compared to 9% for Republicans).  The third issue that was most important to voters was taxes.  Though House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has derided the tax cuts as "crumbs," many Americans have been seeing the benefits of the tax cuts in their paychecks.

The Price Dems Pay for Purges.  For the Democrats, America did not begin in 1776 but more like 1966.  From that mentality has come a perpetual purge in which no American tradition is safe from censure.  The Democrats can't rest until post-1960s liberalism becomes the only acceptable political philosophy in America.  We're told by prominent Democrats that companies like Chick-fil-A don't deserve to operate and organizations that quote the Constitution belong on "extremist" lists.  Democrats goad companies into boycotting the NRA and demand that judges drive mild-mannered Christian bakers out of business.  But all of this radicalism comes at a political price.  Voters have consistently rejected Obama's vision of a "fundamentally transformed" America.  His presidency was a disaster for the Democrats, causing them to lose a record number of seats at the federal, state, and local level.

The Florida School Shooting:  Typical Leftist Exploitation.  When I first heard about the terrible Florida school shooting, I knew that the American left (Democrats, fake news, and Hollywood) would shamefully exploit the victims the way they always do.  The leftists' manual, Rules for Radicals, says, "In the arena of action a threat or a crisis becomes almost a precondition to communication."  In other words, "Never let a crisis go to waste."  Always exploit the victim's pain and suffering to further the leftist agenda.  We've seen leftists repeatedly use this insidious, heartless tactic.  Every time a tragic incident happens, cold, calculating leftist operatives run to the victims with open arms, pretending to have their best interests at heart, vowing to fix the problem.  But rather than seek real commonsense solutions, leftists use victims as cover to further their extreme agenda and attack people they hate:  Christians, gun-owners, the NRA, conservatives, Republicans, achievers, non-victim-minded minorities, and straight white men.

Democrat Dallas Mayor — Move the NRA Convention Out Because of JFK or Something.  The liberal Democrat mayor of Dallas (elected by ghetto voters) doesn't want to the NRA convention to be held in Dallas.  His reason?  Because JFK was assassinated in Dallas back in 1963.

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem urges NRA to find a new home for their convention.  A leader in Dallas politics does not want the National Rifle Association to meet in his city.  Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is urging the NRA to find a new home for its annual convention.  He says the meeting is not appropriate in Dallas in the wake of last week's school shooting in Florida.  Caraway also points to the past tragedies in Dallas, including the 2016 ambush that killed five Dallas officers, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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The City of Dallas has been working for decades on various ways to make the city more attractive to large conventions, even going so far as to build a nice hotel adjacent to the downtown convention center.  By attempting to turn away convention business merely on the basis of his own misguided left-wing views, Mr. Caraway is undoing a lot of other people's work.

I Wish I Were as Bad a Christian as Mike Pence.  The liberals say [President] Trump is such an awful person, which apparently excuses their monomaniacal obsession with destroying his presidency.  Yet Vice President Mike Pence is one of the finest people around, and they can't stand him, either.  Big surprise.  Remember how they ridiculed Pence for saying he has a rule that he won't dine alone with a woman who's not his wife or attend events where alcohol is served without his wife?  Pence didn't originate the rule.  I've heard variations of it from Christians, including my pastor, for years.  Well, the left wouldn't tolerate that innocuous practice of self-discipline.  No, his rule to avoid any appearance of impropriety or unnecessary temptation incurred the wrath of some liberals.  They said that refusing to meet with women is a form of discrimination because it deprives them of informal networking opportunities that could advance their careers.

How the Left Plays at Oppression and Encourages Tyrants.  [Scroll down]  I mean, we know that the left does not and has not, ever, so far as I can tell stood up to real tyrants.  They not only slavishly lick the boots of every communist dictator, worship the cursed corpse of Che, slaver all over the writings of mass murderers like Mao, but they're too timid to say that North Korea is a [hellhole], or to call out the Muslims on their aggression.  They are against all religion, except the one which might kill them.  So that gets mindnumbing appeasement.  Meanwhile, they walk around proclaiming they're resisting, and keep talking about how their free speech is being curtailed.

Why Liberals Root Against America.  Hundreds of American companies are bringing jobs to America and paying American workers bonuses.  Democrats sat stone faced.  The lowest black unemployment rate in 40 years.  Democrats smirked.  We are defeating ISIS in the Middle East.  Ho hum.  They acted like petulant 12-year olds who fold their arms in defiance and pout miserably when things don't go their way.  Many on the left are suffering from a severe case of anti-Trump derangement syndrome.  ATDS sufferers crave bad news.  In a bright sunny economic sky, they point to the single cloud.  This is why Nancy Pelosi could only sniff that the bonuses workers are getting from the tax cuts are "crumbs."

Tax cuts and more money in your pocket is nothing but a 'dark cloud' for Democrats.  Last week President Trump's tax cuts started to get personal as people across the country logged into their bank accounts and began to find increases in their paychecks.  The doom and gloom tax cut scenario the Democrats tried to sell the American people started to become exposed as nothing more than highly charged rhetoric.  This from a party desperate to justify why not a single one of them voted in favor of letting people keep more of their money.  As people's wallets began expanding this week it just got real.  More money back in the hands of people of every income level — brought to you by President Trump and the Republicans in Congress.

Democratic congresswoman caught playing 'Candy Crush' during SOTU.  It's a scenario all gamers can relate to.  You're deep into a game, maybe rescuing Princess Peach in "Super Mario Bros." or stopping your family from drowning in "The Sims."  But then you have to stop gaming and go to work.  Well, one Democratic congresswoman has come up with a solution — just keep gaming.  Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., was caught doing exactly that on her phone during President Trump's State of the Union on Tuesday [1/30/2018].  A photo, from Getty Images, appears to show Lawrence playing the addictive match-three game "Candy Crush Saga."

Sourpuss Democrats Self-Immolate at State of the Union.  Let's give them the award straight up:  Worst Performance by a Minority Party at a State of the Union Address.  They broke the record.  They get the prize with no runner-up for years to come.  Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi watching Trump's speech looked like a pair of sullen six-year olds on a sugar crash the day after Halloween.  Bernie Sanders looked mummified.  Schumer was slumped so deeply in his chair he was almost falling through the crack.  Other Democrats, even ones who should have known better or secretly felt otherwise, sat on their hands.  You could see them glancing at each other, wondering whether they were allowed to applaud or stand up.  What a bunch of cowards.

Dems offer us a Clinton and a Kennedy — will they ever learn?  [Scroll down]  As usual, once public sentiment actually seeped in, Clinton addressed the issue in more detail.  Hence the 18-paragraph-long disquisition on Facebook.  Seems someone's thinking about running again.  Yet Clinton's essay underscores what a terrible candidate she is and always has been.  She offers nothing more than self-serving prevarications under the guise of explanation:  She didn't want to take away a man's livelihood.  The young woman who complained was reassigned (because the victim should be inconvenienced).  She liked her new post!  We're in a different era now!  How was Hillary to know, way back in 2008, that sexual harassment should never be tolerated?  "For most of my life," Hillary wrote, "harassment wasn't something talked about or even acknowledged."  Except for the bulk of the 1990s, when her husband was accused by multiple women of harassment and by one of rape and Hillary worked to publicly discredit them.  Other than that, no knowledge.

The Night the Democratic Party Committed Political Suicide.  It's perfectly fine to be respectfully opposed to the politics of one party or president.  That's acceptable.  That's as American as apple pie.  But that's not what happened on Tuesday night.  Democrats were outed as the party that is rooting for America's failure.  Rooting against a booming economy.  Rooting for misery, instead of prosperity.  Rooting against job creation.  Rooting against a booming stock market.  Rooting against employee bonuses.  Angry about the lowest black unemployment ever.  Angry about the lowest Hispanic unemployment ever.  Angry at the lowest female unemployment in 18 years.  They openly frowned, grimaced, groaned and looked sick to their stomachs when President Trump celebrated the American flag, the national anthem, American freedom, and American opportunity. [...] But wait, it gets worse.  Democrats appeared to be on the side of murderous MS-13 gangs.

Dems offer us a Clinton and a Kennedy — will they ever learn?  [Scroll down]  Which brings us to Joseph Kennedy III.  Until Tuesday night, he was unknown to most Americans, yet he was chosen to deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union.  There he was, a grandfathered-in congressman worth a reported $18 million, product of Stanford and Harvard Law, standing in front of a gleaming car, an American flag and a Bengals banner at a vocational school — all those condescending, blue-collar signifiers.  He wore a tie and shirtsleeves, the car's hood open as though he'd just been tinkering with it.  Kennedy offered broad strokes and hit all the progressive talking points but was overshadowed by drooling lip balm.  Oh, and he spoke in Spanish!

Trump Divides Americans And Un-Americans.  There are two stories of America.  One is the American story and the other the un-American story.  On one side there are pilgrims settling a new land and on the other colonists ethnically cleansing the native population.  One side sees war heroes and the other sees killers.  One sees brave police officers and the other genocidal bigots in uniform.  One sees America.  And the other hates it.  At the State of the Union, we saw those two halves divide up the House Chamber.  We saw American elected officials stand for the flag, for the anthem, for veterans, for Jerusalem and for In God We Trust.  And we saw the un-American officials selected by corrupt urban machine politics stay seated.  The leaders of America and un-America were there in one room while America's story was told.

The Shabby, Sophomoric Behavior of Democrats at the SOTU.  The Democrats loathe the tax reform that has kick-started the American economy.  They abhor the return of American manufacturing and the bonuses so many companies have doled out to their employees.  It was not so long ago that Obama essentially swore that "those jobs are never coming back."  "Crumbs," billionaire Pelosi called their bonuses.  The left today hates our military.  They hate the notion of national security.  Like Obama, they cannot abide the unfair advantage, as they see it, of American might, American success, and American freedom which they are always trying to impede, to restrict, to regulate and tax.  The left has been doing its best to turn the United States into Venezuela for two generations.  Progressivism is socialism.  Venezuela is how it ends.

The Shabby, Sophomoric Behavior of Democrats at the SOTU.  It is difficult to imagine a more galling demonstration of incivility than the Democrats in the room for Trump's SOTU speech.  They scowled, frowned, and sat on their hands throughout the speech.  They could hardly be bothered to acknowledge the heroes in the audience when they were introduced.  While the Dems brought illegal immigrants, Trump invited actual paragons of American character and the families of victims of illegal immigrant crimes, as well as a victim of North Korea.  It was embarrassing, like watching the anti-Semites in the UN stomp out of the room when Benjamin Netanyahu speaks.  How is it any different?  Our Democrats behave exactly like the most racist, intolerant people on the planet, and in their own Capitol.

Resistance: Here's What Democrats Refused to Applaud During Trump's SOTU Address.  With many of them clad in black, the Democrats who did show up to President Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night [1/30/2018] were not happy about it.  In fact, they seemed so focused on opposing everything he said they couldn't even bring themselves to applaud things that are normally considered bipartisan.

Despite Dems' Petulant Scowling, Trump's SOTU Was Strong and Effective.  From start to finish, Democrats looked like they were attending a funeral.  Some didn't stand, and many did not applaud, as the president entered the chamber and made his way to the lectern, bucking a long bipartisan tradition.  They rose and cheered when they absolutely had to, but remained seated and stone-faced throughout much of the speech — including appearing glum or bitter as Trump celebrated unequivocally good news for the American people.  It wasn't a great look.  We get it, guys — you don't like Trump and you oppose most of his agenda.  But looking downright angry when the president accurately notes that, for example, black unemployment is at an all-time low looks really strange.

Rep. Tim Ryan Is Forced to Explain Why He Honored a Deported Man Instead of His Legal Constituents.  While some members of Congress brought illegal aliens to President Trump's State of the Union speech last night, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) announced that he was leaving the chair next to him empty, in honor of an Ohio resident who was deported.  The man had been in this country illegally for years, and Ryan said he did not get a "fair hearing."  Ryan told Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tuesday night [1/30/2018] he's "for border security" to bar drugs and felons from entering the U.S., but he said people who are contributing members of society should be allowed to pay a fine and back taxes to gain legal status.  But Ryan's point was lost on Carlson, who asked Ryan why he didn't leave the seat open to bring attention to Ryan's legally present constituents who have died from drug overdoses, for example; or even for those who are at risk of losing their pensions, which is another issue close to Democrats' hearts.

Democrats panic over avalanche of good economic news.  Democrats sound plain silly as they continue to attack the GOP tax cuts.  Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said at a recent town hall that $1,000 bonuses "wouldn't go very far," and they were taxable, so it wouldn't really be $1,000 after all.  Amazingly, she also said she hadn't heard of any bonuses bigger than $1,000.  Is she really that out of touch?  As Fox Business host Charles Payne noted in a tweet, Wasserman Schultz represents a district where the median household income is $50,000.  Does she think her constituents wouldn't welcome a $1,000 windfall?

The Idiots That Don't Concede Elections.  Here in America, the Democrats have failed to concede the last two normal change elections that went against them:  the 2000 presidential squeaker election and the 2016 election.  But you will search long and hard among your liberal acquaintance for anyone that understands how serious this is.

Trump's SOTU Guests Include Heroes, Homeowners, Dems Invite Transgender Veteran, Illegal Aliens.  On Monday [1/29/2018], President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania announced their special guests at the President's first State of the Union address on Tuesday: [...] Meanwhile, Democrats' guests at the State of the Union include: [...]

If Pelosi Brings Illegals to SOTU, Trump Should Bring ICE Agents.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a number of other Democrats plan to fill the House gallery with illegal aliens when President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address.  ABC News reports at least 24 House Democrats plan to bring illegals — the so-called "Dreamers" — to watch the Tuesday night speech from the House gallery.  The illegal aliens will be sitting in seats that in previous years were meant for brave military heroes, law-abiding taxpayers and America's best and brightest.  The sad truth is that Democrats would rather align themselves with foreign invaders who violated our national sovereignty, thumbed their nose at the rule of law, and pillaged and plundered taxpayer-funded resources.

The noble, environmentalist left.  CBS News reported that the protesters at the #WomensMarch "left their signs and posters on the barricade facing the west front of the Capitol building, where Mr. Trump's inauguration ceremony took place."

Liberals Hate Constitutional Government.  We should be grateful to Ryan Cooper for acknowledging so forthrightly in The Week what has been obvious to conservatives for a long, long time — liberals really really hate the Constitution, because limited government is an impediment to their endless dreams of ruling over us more completely and fixing every human problem[.]  [His article is called,] "America's Constitution is terrible.  Let's throw it out and start over."  Cooper makes five main points, some of which merely expose his constitutional illiteracy.

The Great White War.  [Scroll down]  These are the people who tell me I vote against my interests while they actively spit on my interests.  These are the ones who endorse trade and immigration policies that don't adversely affect them yet have rendered much of working white America hopeless, suicidal, and strung out on pills.  They are the ones who are statistically far more likely to be descended from the white slave-owning class than they are from the far more numerous descendants of white indentured servants, yet they've successfully scapegoated poor whites and left them bearing the brunt of black resentment.  These are the ones who'd like to imagine that Klansmen and skinheads and cops are roaming the streets indiscriminately beating and murdering nonwhites.  They are either ignorant of the modern statistics regarding interracial violence or they'll find some half-[baked] sociological excuse to justify it.  Living largely as they do in gated and secure communities, they rarely get their hands dirty with such trifles, anyway.

Linda Sarsour endorses Chelsea Manning for US Senate.  The traitor formerly known as "Bradley Manning" announced their candidacy for United States Senate in Maryland Monday [1/15/2018] and the former Army private has already lined up a key endorsement of sorts, none other than anti-Israel activist and pink-hat-wearing-angry-woman-march organizer Linda Sarsour: [...] Manning served a little over seven years (including time served during investigation and trial) of a 35-year sentence in Leavenworth for espionage and theft of over 700,000 military including battlefield videos and diplomatic cables from classified computer accounts.  (This was back when the The Swamp took classified diplomatic documents seriously and didn't reward the breach of these state secrets with a nomination for president.)

Are there enough mentally ill voters in Maryland to elect 'Chelsea' Manning to the Senate?  Bradley Manning, the traitor who was convicted of violating the Espionage Act, was sent to prison, changed his name to Chelsea, and was pardoned by Obama.  Now he is running for the Senate in Maryland in the Democratic primary against incumbent Senator Ben Cardin.  Are there enough mentally ill voters in Maryland to elect Bradley to the Senate?  Let's take a look at Democratic interest groups in Maryland.

Mika Brzezinski's Friends Embarrassed to be Americans in Paris.  Bad news, everyone.  We have failed Mika Brzezinski's wealthy liberal friends.  When they jet off to places like Paris, they are embarrassed to be Americans.  Now we've done it.  In the months since the election, Morning Joe on MSNBC has become a one stop shop for Trump Derangement Syndrome.  In this instance, Mika Brzezinski really went out of her way to show how in touch she is with average Americans.

MSNBC star Mika Brzezinski's jet-setting friends are 'embarrassed' to be from America.  "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski said her jet-setting friends are embarrassed to be Americans while discussing if there was any reason for optimism in the Trump era on Monday [1/8/2017].  "I had some friends that went to Paris over the holiday... and they said they were just viscerally embarrassed to be American," Brzezinski said.

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It's always annoying to hear the wealthiest people in America complaining about how tough their lives are.  Here's a suggestion:  Why don't you quit your job, renounce your citizenship, and leave the country?

The Left Wants to Talk about Mental Health.  Let's Start with Theirs.  These are the people who are so sane they want us to believe they can declare other people insane without medical degrees or any kind of expertise.  Not only do they think dressing up as genitalia is a delightful and totally normal thing to do on a Saturday, they also think beating up statues is a worthwhile endeavor. [...] These very same people also believed that President Trump watches a cobbled-together TV station called the Gorilla Channel for 17 hours a day.

Veterans Call on Anti-Issa Group to Return $100k From Jane Fonda.  Military veterans who support Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) on Tuesday [1/2/2018] demanded that a Democratic group aimed at defeating him return a $100,000 donation it recently received from Jane Fonda, who turned 80 in December.  Around 15 veterans outside Issa's office holding flags and sporting their combat ribbons recalled Fonda's controversial 1972 photo shoot in North Vietnam, where she was photographed sitting behind an enemy anti-aircraft gun.  The stunt earned the actress the nickname "Hanoi Jane."  "Democrats, Democrats, you should be ashamed, taking Commie money from Hanoi Jane," the vets and Issa supporters shouted at a group of Democratic protestors gathered across the street.

Pavlich: 'Every Single Democrat Voted Against the Middle Class'.  Katie Pavlich said on "Outnumbered Overtime" that by opposing the tax bill en bloc, Democrats voted against the middle class.  Pavlich called Wednesday a "historic day for the president."  After being required to vote again on the tax bill after Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) found violations of the Byrd Rule in the original bill, it passed both chambers by Wednesday afternoon [12/20/2017].

Nancy Ditches Tax Protest After No One Shows Up.  Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi bailed on a "highly-anticipated" protest against the GOP tax cuts making their way through Congress on Monday, ditching the event at the last minute after only dozens of liberal demonstrators turned up at the event inside the Capitol.  A reporter for left-leaning MSNBC news was on the scene to cover the event, but was forced to admit the blatant failure on-air, saying the protest was nothing like "what we saw with the healthcare law."

Poll Shows Nation Divided Between America First And Blame America First.  For conservatives, according to [a new] poll, the most patriotic organizations and individuals include the National Rifle Association, Chick-Fil-A, the Republican Party, Fox News and Hobby Lobby.  The least patriotic to conservatives are:  CNN, The New York Times, NFL, Planned Parenthood, Target, Starbucks, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Moore, Rachel Maddow and Al Sharpton.  Liberals think the most patriotic institutions and people are the Democratic Party, Colin Kaepernick, the U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood, Michael Moore, The New York Times, and the NFL.  The least patriotic to liberals are Chick-Fil-A, Fox News and Hobby Lobby.

Sex and the Single Goal.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, the alleged unpopularity of Trump hasn't harmed a single Republican.  Despite 5 well-funded Democrat assaults on GOP House districts in 2017 special elections, the Democrats failed to flip a single seat.  These elections — in Kansas, Montana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Utah — were all billed by the Democrats as referenda on Trump.  The Democrats managed to lose them all.  Finally, it appears likely that the most controversial candidate endorsed by Trump thus far, former Alabama Judge Roy Moore, will beat Democrat Doug Jones in tomorrow's election and win the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became AG.

Trump impeachment vote fails overwhelmingly.  House Democrats overwhelmingly joined Republicans on Wednesday to defeat an attempt to impeach President Donald Trump.  But 58 Democrats supported the bid to consider impeachment over the objections of House Democratic leaders, who viewed the measure as a distraction in a Republican-controlled Congress.  The motion to sideline the measure — killing the effort — was approved 364-58, with four Democrats voting present.

Exclusive: Liberal Organizers Incentivize Protesters To Get Arrested.  Organizers with the left-leaning group Housing Works told protesters they must "risk arrest" in order to be reimbursed for airfare to Washington, D.C., according to an internal email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.  "We will transport, house and feed you, and deal with all legal support.  Caveat: if you are far away from DC and expensive to transport, we can probably only fly you if you can risk arrest," the internal email told supporters.

Ten congressional Democrats want lenient treatment for young terrorists who murder Israelis.  Palestinian terrorist leaders often use teenagers to commit acts of terror because they know the Israeli legal system treats children more leniently than adults.  Now 10 Democrats belonging to the Congressional Progressive Caucus are trying to give terrorist leaders yet another reason for using young people to murder even more innocent civilians.  Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., introduced legislation Nov. 14 — co-sponsored by nine other Democrats — calling on the State Department to "prevent United States tax dollars from supporting the Israeli military's ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children."

Virginia: Muslims Call For "Force" To Be Used Against "Infidels" To Accept The Koran.  [Scroll down]  I don't know about you, but this is nothing more than treason.  This is clearly setting up teaching to overthrow the government of the united States and establish Islamic law here.  Where is the Attorney General in Virginia?  Where is the Governor?  Oh wait, they are Democrats.  They are complicit in this treason.

The Democratic Party Is Dead.  For years, we have been hearing that the Republican Party was on the ropes: when Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996; when Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012; when the tea party launched in 2009; when Texas Senator Ted Cruz and company shut down the federal government for a few days in 2013.  (Remember when we were told that voters were going to "punish" Republicans in 2014? Yeah, that was right before they handed the GOP control of the House and Senate.)  When Donald Trump roared into the primaries in 2015 and knocked out his more — shall we say — traditional GOP rivals one by one, and even (perhaps especially) since Donald Trump's election, the media's go-to narrative has been how the Republican Party is fragmented and crumbling.  Now we know that it's the Democratic Party that's rotting from within.

Why The Left Hates Thanksgiving.  Senator Schumer wants to argue about tax reform at Thanksgiving dinner.  And he has a handy chart for lefties to take along and wave at their more conservative relatives while screeching about the 1 percent.  In an article titled, "The Case for Ruining Thanksgiving," GQ Magazine urges its readers to punish their parents who voted for Trump by staying away, insulting them or ranting about police brutality.  The Scientific American wants readers to push Global Warming over mashed potatoes.  The organizers of the Women's March want you to accuse your uncle of having "white privilege."  Desperate lefties can text Standing Up for Racial Justice at the dinner table and get anti-Trump talking points.

Al Franken is getting away with it.  That's why Roy Moore will win.  Embattled with multiple allegations of sexual abuse and inappropriate conduct, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore refuses to quit his campaign in Alabama.  He still thinks he can win, despite the pleadings of national Republicans and conservative media.  The truth is, he's probably right, and D.C.'s institutional hypocrisy is to blame.  Moore's voters are refusing to quit on him.  Elected Alabama officials are defending him.  Some are more enthusiastic about Moore's campaign now than before The Washington Post first printed the bombshell allegations against Moore.  Why are voters sticking with a man accused of such horrible things?  Firstly, it's because the alternative offered by the Democrats, candidate Doug Jones, is far too extreme in his support for unrestricted abortion — an anathema to pro-life Alabamians who share in the disgust toward Moore.

Conyers: Allow 'People Who are Incarcerated' to Vote.  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said that all felons should have the right to vote.  "I'm for allowing people who are incarcerated to have the right to vote.  Why not?  They're citizens.  No matter what they've done, and I'm not defending any of their conduct, but all of it wasn't bad — but all I'm saying is expanding the vote and eliminating structural barriers is critical," Conyers said at this month's annual Legislative & Policy Conference organized by Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) on Capitol Hill.

Big Bird Flies Again.  On Nov. 7, Bill "Tale of Two Cities" de Blasio — a Marxist bird/man hybrid who enjoyed trips to the Soviet Union as a student, worked for Nicaragua's brutal communist Sandinista regime, and illegally honeymooned in Cuba — won 66 percent of the vote in the president's hometown, defeating Republican candidate Nicole Malliotakis (28 percent) and Independent candidate Bo Dietl (1 percent) to become the first Democratic mayor to be reelected for a second term in New York City since Ed Koch in 1985.  In an alternate universe, little things like ignoring a top imam's warnings not to disband the city's post-9/11 religion-of-peace surveillance program (which had been monitoring the mosque Sayfullo Saipov attended), protecting illegal-alien drunk drivers and 4X deported MS-13 gang members who sexually assault 2-year-olds from federal authorities, letting repeat criminal offenders off the hook, demanding boutique hotels put up homeless people, fudging crime-rate numbers, decriminalizing public urination, and skipping a massive NYPD swearing-in ceremony (where a vigil was held for Miosotis Familia, a 48-year-old officer and single mother of three who was brutally executed while sitting in her car) for new recruits in order to protest Trump alongside masked protesters at the G20 summit in Germany just might ever so sour a mayor's chances for reelection.

Leaked Democrat Donor and Activist Conference Agenda Shows White Men No Longer Welcome in Party.  A copy of the conference agenda was leaked to the Washington Free Beacon who reported on it today [11/17/2017].  Pelosi will headline the event along with George Soros.  But if you skim through the weekend agenda two things are clear:  [#1] Democrats want to spread their far left California values of open borders, Socialism and identity politics across the US[.]  And [#2] white men are no longer valued or welcome in today's Democrat Party.

The Revolution Has Been Postponed.  [I]t seems that Antifa can take its place in the left-wing tar pits along with the SDS, CISPES, ANSWER, Occupy, and all the other undergrad revos who vowed but failed to bring down the rude capitalist monolith known as the United States. [...] The left in this country can never depend on a broad-based movement.  It simply isn't there.  Most Americans are not interested.

CNN Correspondent:  Dems Might Need To 'Alienate Some White Voters' To Gain Black Votes.  A CNN correspondent suggested Tuesday that the Democratic Party may need to "alienate some white voters" in order to shore up the black vote.  CNN White Correspondent Abby Phillip said on "The Lead With Jake Tapper" Tuesday [11/7/2017], "Virginia is the kind of state that highlights the key problem for Democrats right now, which is that in order to bring out African-American voters you might have to alienate some white voters."  She continued, "It's a purple state.  It's a place where Democrats still have to appeal to some white voters.  So that balancing act is really difficult for them to strike right now."  [Video clip]

The California NAACP wants 'The Star-Spangled Banner' removed as the national anthem.  The California NAACP is seeking state lawmakers to support its campaign to remove "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem, according to The Sacramento Bee.  The Bee on Tuesday reported that the California NAACP passed a resolution at its state conference last month aimed at the song's removal.  The resolution urges Congress to rescind "one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon" in "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Get rid of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' as national anthem, state's NAACP urges.  When California lawmakers return to the Capitol in January, the state chapter of the NAACP will be seeking their support for a campaign to remove "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.  The organization last week began circulating among legislative offices two resolutions that passed at its state conference in October:  one urging Congress to rescind "one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon" as the national anthem, and another in support of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who launched a protest movement against police brutality among professional athletes by kneeling when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played before games.  "We owe a lot of it to Kaepernick," California NAACP President Alice Huffman said.  "I think all this controversy about the knee will go away once the song is removed."

Poll:  Views of Democratic Party hit lowest mark in 25 years.  Favorable views of the Democratic Party have dropped to their lowest mark in more than a quarter century of polling, according to new numbers from a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.  Only 37% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Democrats, down from 44% in March of this year.  A majority, 54%, have an unfavorable view, matching their highest mark in polls from CNN and SSRS, CNN/ORC and CNN/USA Today/Gallup stretching back to 1992.

Poll: Dem favorability drops to lowest point in 25 years.  Only 37 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, according to a new survey.  A CNN poll conducted by SSRS found favorable views of the Democrats are at their lowest point in the poll in more than 25 years.  A majority, 54 percent, have an unfavorable view of the Democrats, according to the poll.  About one-third of liberals have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party.

Democrat walks out of moment of silence for Texas massacre victims.  A junior Democratic congressman walked out of a moment of silence Monday night for victims of this weekend's mass shooting at a Texas church.  In a video posted to Facebook Monday evening, California Rep. Ted Lieu said that he would not join his colleagues who were observing the moment of silence in the chambers of the House of Representatives.

Clueless:
Democrats' civil war isn't bringing them closer to understanding why they lost.  [Scroll down]  Party strategist Stanley Greenberg notes that "the Democratic Party today is divided over whether it wants to focus on the economy or identity" — that is, identity politics.  Much of the base wants to go "full Bernie," and embrace free college and national health insurance.  Yet this ignores the fact that Bernie Sanders did so well in the primaries mainly because Clinton was the same horrible candidate she's always been.  This wing of the party thinks President Barack Obama was too centrist.  Hmm:  Is that why the party lost 14 governorships plus nine Senate and 60-plus House seats on his watch?

The left's failed civil war.  What promised to launch an "Antifa apocalypse" for America proved instead to be not a bang, but a whimper.  Only a handful of the usual radicals showed up in a few liberal cities to carry signs supplied by the Revolutionary Communist Party, which idolizes the Marxist totalitarianism of Mao Zedong.

Antifail: Low Turnouts At Nationwide 'Refuse Fascism' Protests.  Refuse Fascism, the group behind this weekend's multi-city Antifa rallies, claims to be "organizing millions of people to drive out the fascist Trump / Pence regime."  Actual turnout on the first day of their nationwide rallies was far lower.  The group, founded by Revolutionary Communist Party chairman Bob Avakian, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to promote the rally, and has enjoyed free press in the national media in the past few days.

Released JFK Documents Suggest Lyndon Johnson Was Former KKK Member.  That [Lyndon B.] Johnson would have been a member of the Klan wouldn't be much of a surprise, frankly.  As a member of the Senate, he fought vigorously against civil rights legislation favored by President Eisenhower and Republicans.  Early in his political career, Johnson was guilty of all kinds of statements in support of Jim Crow laws in the South.  This isn't verified proof that Johnson was indeed part of the Klan.  But given the political circumstances from which he rose (deep South, Democrat-dominated Texas), it's not that far-fetched.  In fact, more likely than not, Johnson mixed around with a racist crowd to get his political start.

Delusional:
John Lewis Wishes a Happy Birthday to 'Madame President' Hillary Clinton.  Democratic Rep. John Lewis (Ga.) wished a happy birthday to "Madame President Hillary Clinton" on Tuesday afternoon, even though Clinton is not actually president of the United States.  President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, defeating Clinton with an upset victory in November.  But that did not stop Lewis from describing Clinton as the commander in chief on her 70th birthday.

Despicable People.  Just when you thought liberals had sunk as low as they could, they break out the shovel and start digging.  Nothing is sacred anymore.  Nothing is off limits, and everything is political.  This week showed us once again there is nothing Democrats won't exploit, no grave they won't dance on, if they think they can score political points.  And there's nothing "journalists" won't spin, won't lie about, and no hypocrisy too great to prevent them from smearing their political opponents.

The Left's Last Spasm.  The Democrats, America's de facto leftist party (note how a sworn socialist, Bernie Sanders, is effectively exercising leadership of the party without anyone so much as blinking) have lost over 1,000 offices nationwide in the past year.  The GOP controls nearly two-thirds of all governorships and nearly half of state governments.  The left's political presence and influence is negligible across vast areas of the heartland.  They have abandoned the working class, the bedrock of any leftist movement, in favor of representing transsexuals, ball club millionaires, and noncitizen criminals, not a strategy with much of a future, on the face of it.  The year since the 2016 electoral debacle has witnessed a number of off-elections to replace cabinet picks, each one hailed by the media as the turning of the progressive tide, each one won by the GOP.

Hillary & Harvey:  Birds of a feather.  Harvey Weinstein has been exposed in the media as the sexual predator he is, and Hillary Clinton has been exposed as the craven money-grubber she is; money over morality is the mantra she lives by.  These people, the D.C. and Hollywood elite, live by different rules, rules under which faith, hope, and love have no place, no place at all.  They are about two things and two things only:  power and money.  And the two species feed off each other.  The entertainment industry wants and craves the deference of Democrat elites.  The D.C. Democrat establishment relies on the financial magnanimity of the film and television crowd, from the studio heads to the actors.  That is a lot of people with a lot of money, all of whom have an inflated view of their own importance on the world stage.  None of these folks ever gives a thought to the hopes, dreams, or concerns of citizens who live between the coasts or exist outside their own privileged bubbles.

It's Official:  Democrats Are The Extremists Today.  [Scroll down]  Given the way politics gets reported these days, it's easy to conclude that the widening gap is the result of Republicans become more extreme in their views.  That is, after all, a mantra among Democrats and the press.  The GOP is the party of racist, sexist, xenophobic, right-wing extremists, we hear over and over again, while Democrats are but humble centrists.  The Pew data, however, make it clear that the shift toward the extreme has happened among Democrats, not Republicans.  This can be seen in dramatic fashion when you look at where the center of each party was in 1994, and where it is today.

The Left's Sirens Are Already Hinting Our Culture Wars Will End In Another Civil War.  Pick your issue.  On immigration, 84 percent of Democrats say immigrants strengthen the country, while only 42 percent of Republicans say the same.  Ten years ago, those percentages were nearly identical.  On environmental regulation, 77 percent of Democrats say more regulation is worth the cost, compared to just 36 percent of Republicans.  A decade ago, that spread was 67 and 58 percent, respectively.  On whether Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, 65 percent of Republicans say it does while 69 percent of Democrats say it doesn't.  When Pew first asked that question in 2002, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the partisan gap was just 11 points.

Texas Democrats Hesitant to Embrace Gay Candidate for Governor.  A successful Dallas businessman pledging to spend in the seven figures out of his own bank account to run for governor in 2018 should be a great get for Texas Democrats.  Yet the party doesn't seem to be getting behind Jeffrey Payne, whose business happens to be a gay bar.  Payne, owner of gay leather bar The Dallas Eagle and winner of both the international and Texas Mr. Leather competitions in 2009, officially launched his campaign this week saying, "There's no reason to think that someone who is gay can't do a job, and here it's being governor and representing people."

The Congressional Black Caucus Prayer Breakfast:  The Great Black Deception.  This breakfast was all about exploiting black's Christian heritage to deceive them for the purpose of furthering Leftists' anti-Christian agenda.  Every musical performance praised Jesus.  Leftists despise Jesus, aggressively seeking to ban the God of Christianity from the public square.  Several of the all-Democrat speakers quoted the Bible to strengthen their political deceptions.  The truth is, quoting the Bible is as repulsive to Leftists as showing Dracula the cross.  I thought, does anyone in that hall know Obama led a leftist war on Christianity, making him the most anti-Christian president in U.S. history?  Do y'all know the 2017 Women's March and Trump resisters whom you've praised at this breakfast seek to continue the Leftists' war on Christianity?

77% Of Voters Want No Sanctuary Cities.  Once again, Democrats are on the wrong side of a crucial issue.  Seems to be a regular problem for these out-of-touch elites.  American voters in key battle ground states were polled, and 77% said they want NO MORE sanctuary cities.

Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights.  I don't agree with liberals often, because I'm not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, "We must have a conversation about guns!" I still couldn't agree more. [...] But we really don't need to have a conversation about our rights to keep and bear arms.  They're rights.  There's nothing to talk about.  This goes for all our rights that the left hates, like the rights to speak and write freely, to practice our religion as we see fit, and to not be railroaded by liberal authority without due process.  Leftists hate our rights because they hate us, and when we assert our rights it gets in the way of their malicious schemes to dominate and control us.

Michael Moore: 'We Have Got to Get Rid Of Trump,' 2nd Amendment.  In the wake of the horrific tragedy in Las Vegas, celebrities have decided to use death as a stump for their activism.  And of course, who better to lead the way than professional protester Michael Moore.  Moore is not backing down on Trump.  He told anchor Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, "We have got to get rid of Trump."  Even in the case of war with North Korea, Moore wanted only to "get rid of" Trump.  He said, "We are in the French Resistance."  So America is now occupied by Nazis?  He continued, "Don't even stop to think.  If Trump is taking us to war, you have to automatically assume this is an insane idea from an insane man, it's a lie we're being told."

As Obamacare repeal implodes (again), Democrats prepping for single-payer self-destruction.  Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced a single-payer health care bill he calls "Medicare for All," and to date, 15 of his Senate colleagues have signed on as co-sponsors.  Undoubtedly, Sanders think that the failure of two (and counting) Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare means the public is suddenly enamored with single-payer, government-controlled health care.  But progressives and their ilk evidently can't remember all the way back to 2010, 2014 and 2016, in which opposition to heavy-handed government-managed health care sent Republicans to Congress in droves and helped elect Donald Trump to the presidency.

CNN's Marc Lamont Hill Admits 'I Don't Stand for the National Anthem'.  On Friday's [9/22/2017] CNN Tonight, during a discussion of President Donald Trump speaking out against Colin Kaepernick and other athletes who have kneeled instead of standing for the national anthem, far-left CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill admitted that he also does not stand for the anthem.  Hill:  "I come on here every week and talk about white supremacy — I say Donald Trump is a white supremacist — I don't stand for the national anthem — and CNN still employs me."

Hillary Clinton Thinks Moral Of '1984' Is That We Should Trust The Government And Media.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir includes a questionable interpretation of the central lesson of George Orwell's novel "1984," namely that individuals should trust those in positions of authority.  Clinton's memoir "What Happened," released Tuesday, suggests the goal of the government-sanctioned torture featured prominently in Orwell's novel is to erode trust in the authoritarian overlords who control all aspects of society.  This perspective is diametrically opposed to the central lesson most readers have drawn from the book since it was published in 1949.

It's Been 10 Months and Democrats Still Have No Answer to This Question.  More than 10 months after the 2016 election, California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier still has no answer for who the leader of the Democratic Party is.  When asked who her party's leader is an interview Wednesday afternoon [9/13/2017], Speier dodged the question and declined to name a single Democratic leader.

Liberals sick of the alt-left are taking 'the red pill'.  The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016.  Now it's overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance — the growing number of liberals "taking the red pill."  People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing "red pill moments" — personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.  You might say that those who take the red pill have been "triggered."  But instead of seeking out "safe spaces," they're doing the opposite, posting monologues throwing off the shackles of political correctness.  Their videos can feature the kind of subversiveness that was once a hallmark of the left — before the movement lost its sense of humor.

Democrats give away the Rust Belt by alienating Catholics.  A clip of Martha Plimpton's exuberance over the "best" abortion she ever had played out on the television overhead of a gas-station counter somewhere along U.S. Route 422 between Ohio and Pennsylvania.  A woman with a name tag noting her as the manager rolled her eyes and said to no one in particular as she went about stacking the shelves behind the counter, "And they wonder why people don't vote for Democrats around here anymore."

The Kind of Person Buildings Will Be Named After Instead of Thought Criminals.  If you want to know what people are, look to what they revere.  For her cold-blooded murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, Assata Shakur (a.k.a.  Joanne Chesimard) is regarded as a role model not only among Black Lives Matter types, but also by liberal fellow travelers in the Women's March and at ESPN.

Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed.  American progressives have fnally gone all the way to a totalitarian vision, demanding control over not just your behavior, but your thoughts and beliefs.  This as the price of simply living without being attacked. [...] Do you believe in traditional marriage but don't care that gays marry?  Think it's OK teenagers take hormonal injections to swap genders but it's not right for your kids?  Don't really give a hoot about someone who identifies as "xe"?  Well, too bad, sucker.  The new dispensation doesn't care for your waffling.  Going forward, your private beliefs must align with your public stance.  No exceptions made or allowed.

Luis Gutierrez:  Democrats ready to shut down government if Dream Act fails.  Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said he and other liberal House Democrats are prepared to support a government shutdown if House members fail to pass the Dream Act and protect hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants from being deported.  "We have a Democratic caucus where I know the vast majority of the members of the Democratic caucus are ready to say 'If there is no pathway forward, not only for the 800,000 and for visas for all of you, but also for the rest of immigrant youth through the Dream Act, then there is no government for anyone,'" Gutierrez said Friday [9/8/2017] during a press conference with the United We Dream advocacy group.  "We will shut it down or let the Republicans keep it open with their own votes."

In A Religiously And Politically Polarized Country, Is There Still Hope For Shared Ground?  Without a shared language of belief, every difference threatens to pull us further apart. [...] We are not "one nation," perhaps largely in part because we don't believe we're "under God" anymore.

Guy who never served calls four-star general a disgrace to the uniform.  Luis Gutiérrez — a Democrat congressman who never served in the military — had the temerity to call Marine general a disgrace to the uniform.  What uniform did Luis Gutiérrez ever wear?

Texan Posts Photos of Absolutely Barren Grocery Store After Hurricane, With One Hilarious Exception.  [Jennifer Lopez] Fuller is a food writer and foodie based in Houston.  Fuller has donated her skills and time to helping people affected by the flood get food where and when they need it.  While gathering supplies at a local grocery store last week, she posted multiple photos of the sparse and sometimes entirely empty shelves.  Here are the sections and images of the completely picked over shelves: [...]

Even in a disaster no one wants the vegan food.  [Photo]

NH Dem Chair:  Rural, Disaffected Voters Are 'White Supremacists'.  New Hampshire's Democratic Party chair referred to rural, disaffected voters as "white supremacists" and "extremists" on Sunday [9/3/2017].  WMUR9 told its viewers that Look Ahead America, an organization that reaches out to "disaffected, patriotic Americans" may be headed to New Hampshire next.  "New Hampshire's going to be, probably, the state we advance to next," Matt Braynard, the executive director said.  "We've identified maybe 15,000 inactive voters who we would consider disaffected, patriotic Americans.  And potentially 100,000 or more unregistered adults we're going to reach out to."

That Time When Democrats Really, Really Liked The Border Wall.  The Daily Caller reported on Obama's border wall support back in 2016:  ["]A leaked internal memo from Barack Obama's 2008 campaign says that fencing at the US-Mexico border could help cut down on illegal immigration.["] [...] Well, by progressive standards, Barack Obama is now a racist.  Yet, it also shows how insane the Left has become over the past decade.  The descent into identity politics and the general shift leftward in political orientation has led the Democratic Party to become insanely out of touch with ordinary Americans, especially in immigration.

Democrats Literally Have No One Under 55 Who Can Run In 2020.  The GOP is the dominant political force in the country, but that won't last forever.  Democrats will find a way to win again, but as the Left looks to 2020, the impact of having less of a talent pool for candidates is explicitly clear.  The state and local level supplies these candidates and the GOP has plenty of them.  For Democrats, it's a choice between geezer world and pre-school concerning candidates.

Those Who Don't Fight Evil Fight Statues.  With regard to fighting communism — which, aside from Nazism, has been the greatest evil in the modern world (it killed and enslaved far more people than Nazism) — the left was an obstacle, not an ally.  The left in the West and elsewhere did far more to enable communist evil than to stop it.  The same holds true with regard to the greatest evil in the world at this time:  totalitarian Islam, or Islamism.  The left is doing precisely what it did during the war against communism:  It's fighting the anti-Islamists, not the Islamists.  Just as it labeled anti-communists "cold warriors" and other derisive epithets, the left labels those fighting Islamism as "Islamophobes" and, of course, "racists."  In the moral order as perceived by the left, it is the anti-Islamists who are the enemy of the good.

The Clownish Commissars of the Culture.  It must come as bitter news to the commissars that most Americans, according to the latest polling, have no interest in joining their frenzied assault upon Robert E. Lee.  The commissars have had to content themselves with ugly little victories in university towns and urban hellholes.  Just visit Baltimore if you want to see what the left's "fundamentally transformed America" looks like.

Polls shows majority of Americans think Confederate statues should remain.  A majority of Americans think Confederate monuments should be preserved in public spaces, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, a view that is at odds with efforts in many cities to remove them.  The 18-21 August poll found that 54% of adults said Confederate monuments "should remain in all public spaces", while 27% said they "should be removed from all public spaces".

The DNC: America's Most Notorious Hate Group.  In December 2015, President Obama lauded [Black Lives Matter] for shining "sunlight" on the problem of racist policing in America, and on a subsequent occasion he likened BLM to the abolition and suffrage movements, which he said were also "contentious and messy" but ultimately noble.  And on July 13, 2016 — a mere six days after a BLM supporter in Dallas had shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven others — Obama hosted three BLM leaders at a lengthy White House meeting along with the legendary racist anti-Semite, Al Sharpton.  By then, Sharpton was well-established as "Obama's go-to man on race."  Indeed, Obama had addressed Sharpton's National Action Network on multiple occasions, lauding the organization for its "commitment to fight injustice and inequality," and for doing work that was "so important to change America."  He had also characterized Sharpton as "a voice for the voiceless and ... dispossessed," and had praised Sharpton's "dedication to the righteous cause of perfecting our union."  From January 2009 through December 2014, Al Sharpton — the most visible racist anti-Semite of the past generation — visited the Obama White House on 72 separate occasions, including 5 one-on-one meetings with the president and 20 meetings with staff members or senior advisers.  And the DNC had no problem with any of this.

ACLU Apologizes For Tweeting Photo Of White Baby With U.S. Flag.  The American Civil Liberties Union is doing damage control after Twitter leftists denounced the group for sharing a picture of a white baby holding an American flag.  In a tweet sent Wednesday afternoon [8/23/2017], the ACLU captioned a photo of a Caucasian, blonde-haired child wearing a free speech onesie and waving a flag, "This is the future that ACLU members want."  Leftists were furious over the post because they believed it endorsed white supremacy.

ACLU admits to 'white supremacy' after tweeting photo of white baby with U.S. flag.  The American Civil Liberties Union backpedaled Wednesday [8/23/2017] on tweeting a photo of a white baby holding a U.S. flag after users called it racist.  The seemingly harmless photo showed a blond-haired toddler in a "Free Speech - ACLU" onesie holding a U.S. flag and what appears to be a colorful toy dog.  The tweet read, "This is the future that ACLU members want."

Katie Pavlich:  ACLU response to liberal outrage over white baby 'abhorrent and disgusting'.  The American Civil Liberties Union began a political firestorm earlier in the week over just one tweet.  And when they were appraised of the situation, they made it even worse.

U.S. Judge Orders Deportation of Convicted Terrorist and Women's March Organizer.  A federal judge ordered Thursday [8/17/2017] that convicted Palestinian terrorist and Women's March organizer Rasmea Odeh be deported from the United States, and her citizenship, revoked.  Odeh was previously convicted in Israel for masterminding a pair of 1969 bombings that left two civilians dead and fourteen injured.  She was later released as part of a prisoner exchange, and she moved to the United States.  When she entered the United States, Odeh stated she had no criminal record.  In 2013, she was indicted in federal court for immigration fraud, and in 2015, was sentenced to eighteen months in prison.  The prison sentence was to be followed by deportation.

Just listen to all the booing when Trump brings up the media!  [Video clip]

All in:  The left is through messing around.  We have seen the recent drive to take down Confederate monuments that had been around for one hundred years or more.  Enraged by Trump's press conference, the left is now calling to erase the Founding Fathers.  Trump was not wrong in asking if it were to end with Washington and Jefferson — he just didn't go far enough.  The left's goal is to eliminate the Constitution.  Every argument made against the Founders can also be made against their historic document.  Whether the left achieves this through elections or civil unrest, it has started the ball rolling, and it will be difficult to stop.

Poll: 62% of Americans Favor Keeping Confederate Statues.  A new Marist poll finds that 62% of Americans believe statues of Confederate leaders should be allowed to stand.  What's more, a majority of self-identified "Soft Democrats" say Confederate monuments should remain.

America's Second Civil War.  What has changed since 1965?  It is not history.  There have been no great new discoveries about [Robert E.] Lee.  What has changed is America herself.  She is not the same country.  We have passed through a great social, cultural and moral revolution that has left us irretrievably divided on separate shores.  And the politicians are in panic.  Two years ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe called the giant statues of Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson on Richmond's Monument Avenue "parts of our heritage."  After Charlottesville, New York-born-and-bred McAuliffe, entertaining higher ambitions, went full scalawag, demanding the statues be pulled down as "flashpoints for hatred, division, and violence."  Who hates the statues, Terry?  Who's going to cause the violence?  Answer:  The Democratic left whom Terry must now appease.

Seattle's Statue of Communist Dictator Vladimir Lenin Under Fire.  A growing number of people on social media are calling for the removal of Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin's statue in Seattle.  Many social media users, from a prominent Seattle venture capitalist to the estimated 900 people who follow the Facebook group Seattle, Tear Down This Lenin Statue! are calling for Lenin's statue to be removed.

Trump Gets it.  Trump jumped to the chase.  He gets the progressive mind.  He asked, "Will you tear down George Washington's statue next?  Do you like Jefferson?  He was a slave owner.  Will you tear down his statue, too?  You are changing the history and changing the culture."  Finally, we have a leader who fights back against the tyranny of the culture-changing socialists.  Trump understands that these actions are warm-ups.  The progressives are tearing down Confederate statues, and they are kicking and spitting on the memorials to the dead because they cannot yet kick and spit on President Trump and his voters.  If they could imprison Trump and deport his voters, they would do that and not worry about statues.  They are lashing out where they can.

Moonbat Model Family.  Congratulations to the media on finding the perfect model family to encourage us to emulate.

Charlottesville and Truth.  The principles of freedom are universal (all men) and are granted by God.  Our founding documents enshrined these rights, and were "exceptional" in their development and institutionalization.  There is a counter-movement that seeks America's destruction and the imposition of a new covenant, predicated on the wisdom of man or, more particularly, a select group of men, who seek to manage the affairs of all man.  These two contradictory principles are reflected as liberty and tyranny.  Freedom and totalitarianism.

Do the Democrats Know How Much Trouble They Are In?  The Democratic Party has never accepted the result of the 2016 presidential election, and Democrats in Washington are working feverishly to destroy the Trump administration.  At the moment, it appears that they might well succeed.  But the current drama in Washington shouldn't obscure the bigger picture:  the Democratic Party is in deep trouble.  Tonight [8/3/2017], the Governor of West Virginia will announce that he is switching parties and joining the GOP.  This isn't a big deal, since he was a registered Republican until 2015, when he decided to run for governor as a Democrat.  But as of tomorrow, this is what the map of the U.S. will look like.

Trump-haters can't help themselves, creating Trump voters in New Jersey.  Keep it up, you coastal elites.  Keep telling the unwashed deplorables how much you loathe them, where they live, their tastes, habits, and even where they go on vacation.  Ridicule the things about President Trump that endear him to people that resent the people who seem to be in charge of everything.  In fact, go ahead and deliver a scathing insult to the Garden State of New Jersey and its estimated 8.994 million residents.

Trump Vs.  MS-13.  President Trump's intensifying crackdown on transnational crime gang MS-13 is being met with fierce resistance by the Left.  Understanding the leftist mind is an inexact science but the complaints seem to center around the idea that in the Trump era trying to eliminate an ethno-culturally non-diverse criminal organization is somehow racist, no matter how horrifying and brutal the group's crimes against innocent Americans may be.  The Left habitually sides with antisocial causes, putting partisanship over the interests of the American people.  Left-wingers promote so-called sanctuary cities which are magnets for illegal aliens and the crime that accompanies them.  They don't care about the damage such policies do to American society.

Green Party Presidential Candidate Comes Out for North Korea.  Don't worry, it'll be mainstream in a few years.  Like the rest of the Green Party's positions that trickled down to the moderate left and then the Democrats.  Still in this time when the Democrats temporarily bewail treason, it's nice to remember the origin of fellow travelers, useful idiots and collabotators.  And [that there is] still no left-wing regime too awful for the left to defend.

Let the Dems Be the Transgender Party.  Trump's uncomplicated defense of common sense is nothing if not conservative.  He doesn't need "commissions" to tell him whether or not enlisting men who pretend to be women and women who pretend to be men hurts military readiness.  Anyone with five senses and a functioning intellect can see that it does.  It is only under the vast experiment against common sense that is liberalism could such obvious truths fall into disfavor.  Of course, the stupid party is joining the evil party in this experiment against common sense.

Former CIA Director Calls For A Coup If Trump Fires Mueller.  In the most vocal opposition to president Donald Trump yet, former CIA Director John Brennan said that if the White House tries to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, government officials should refuse to follow the president orders, as they would be — in his view — "inconsistent" with the duties of the executive branch.  "I think it's the obligation of some executive branch officials to refuse to carry that out.  I would just hope that this is not going to be a partisan issue.  That Republicans, Democrats are going to see that the future of this government is at stake and something needs to be done for the good of the future," Brennan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the Aspen Security Forum, effectively calling for a coup against the president should Trump give the order to fire Mueller.

Maxine Waters for President?  Please Let It Happen!  Maxine Waters running for President in 2020 would be a dream come true for Republicans.  It seems impossible that Democrats would find the elderly liberal extremist desirable.  If Trump took the working class away from the Democrats, could Maxine Waters get them back?  Highly doubtful.  Yet, as the American Mirror points out, Maxine Water's impending trip the New Hampshire indicates she might be trying out for a run.  As much as Liberals want to win the next presidential race, they seem to want to hate Trump Americans more.  That is the appeal of Maxine Waters.

Group that Protested NRA Over 'Violent' Rhetoric Embraces Convicted Cop Killer.  The group behind last week's protest against the National Rifle Association over rhetoric it claimed was a "direct endorsement of violence" wished a convicted cop killer and fugitive a happy birthday on Monday [7/17/2017].

Tribune Columnist Slams National Anthem.  Exercising the freedoms of speech and press that so many have given their last measure of devotion for, Chicago Tribune contributor Diana Goetsch has penned an op-ed defending disgraced and unemployed former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his infamous taking the knee during the national anthem.  Not stopping there, Goetsch goes on to slam the national anthem as a "pompous battle number" that wasn't played before sporting events until 1942 in the dark days of World War II.  One wonders if Goetsch has pondered the possibility that were if not for the sacrifice of veterans during World War II, she just might be plying her trade writing her tirades in Japanese or German.

Video: DNC Leader at Obamacare Rally Praises Health Care System in Cuba.  Yes, people are upset with the Republicans after the healthcare "repeal/replace" debacle.  But Democrats have no ideas.  Nothing.  Except opposing President Trump.  So they resort to preposterous lies.

Think Tank:  Reconsider Caring For Your Kids Because Money Matters Most.  What happens when you choose to stay at home and care for your children?  Some may argue that giving up a 9-to-5 job gives them ample opportunities to connect with their offspring and watch them grow.  Even other parents might suggest that this time at home is beneficial not just to their children's long-term happiness, but also to their own.  But not so the Center For American Progress.  They've been crunching the numbers, and they want you to know that giving up your career to care for your children is a huge financial mistake: [...]

Seattle Councilman:  Cleaning Poop Off Sidewalks Is Racist.  A Seattle, Wash., councilman implied that a new effort to clean excrement off the side walk outside the local courthouse could be racist Tuesday.  The crime and smell of urine and excrement have gotten so bad outside a King County courthouse that two judges are scrambling to find ways to fix the situation, reports the Seattle Times.  King County councilmember Larry Gossett isn't a fan of one solution to power wash the feces from the sidewalks to tamp down on the smell.  Power washing the sidewalks is too reminiscent of civil rights activists being hosed down, he said.

Obama's white elitist Animal House.  So it comes to light in the latest Obama tell-all book that President Obama ran a very, very undiversified Animal House in his speechwriting operation.  And all those soaring speeches that made the New York Times swoon were actually the work of a cynical leftist white-boy frat house operation, tailoring their soaring Obama lines for the elites between swigs of beer and gropes of women.  Such is the atmosphere described by David Litt, an Obama speechwriter who joined the frathouse at age 24 and then wrote his tell-all book, naively thinking the public wouldn't be disgusted.

John Wiley Price Says "No" To Fallen Officer's Day.  Dallas police are furious about remarks from an elected official who they believe is refusing to honor police officers ambushed one year ago.  A year ago, Dallas residents watched in horror as five police officers in Dallas were gunned down, targeted simply for the badge and uniforms they wore.  As the one year anniversary of the ambush approached, the Dallas County Commission voted on a resolution to make July 7 a day to honor all fallen law enforcement officers.  All commissioners voted "yes," except for Commissioner John Wiley Price.

WaPo's Capehart:  Trump's Use of Term 'Western Civilization' Triggered Me.  Washington Post opinion columnist and MSNBC weekend show Jonathan Capehart declared Saturday [7/8/2017] that President Trump's speech in Poland, wherein he used the term "Western civilization," in fact "triggered" him. [...] The issue, of course, is that Western civilization, its history and contributions to humanity, have been perverted in academia, media, the arts, and popular culture.  The end result is a current generation that hasn't the foggiest notion what its own culture stands for.  Worse, they've replaced it with one anathema to the core principles of the Enlightenment and liberalism upon which Western culture is predicated.

Liberals Can't Deal With A President Who Takes America's Side.  The West is superior to the rest of the world in every significant way, we should aggressively back our allies over our enemies, and the guiding principle of our foreign policy should always be America's interests.  No apologies.  No equivocation.  No doubt.  What are your questions?  Well, if you're a normal American, you won't have any questions — these truths are self-evident.  But if you're a progressive, you're gonna have a little sissy snit fit like so many libs did in the wake of the President's triumphant Warsaw speech.  There's one thing that always sets them off — uttering the truth/heresy that not only is Western civilization the best and most advanced culture in the history of humanity, but the United States of America is its greatest manifestation.  The immigrants and refugees get it.  Which way are they always headed?

The New Left's Fake Patriotism.  After eight years of betraying America to Chinese hackers, Iranian nuclear negotiators, Islamic terrorists from Iraq to Libya, Cuban Communists, Columbian narcoterrorists and yes, the dreaded Russians, the left wants us to believe that they have left behind the error of their ways and love this country again.

Some People Just Can't Take a Joke.  Kathy Griffin holding a bloody Trumpish head wasn't a Trump joke.  It was an ISIS joke, and anyone who thinks ISIS is a laughing matter is way out of touch.

The Most Abused President in History.  The American media, including social media, is overwhelmingly anti-Trump.  The heart of the matter is that the left does not wish to make America great again.  Leftists wish to see America diminished.  They do not favor "America First," "more and better jobs for American workers," "lower taxes for individuals and businesses," "repealing and replacing Obamacare," "greater national security," "immigration security," and other Trump initiatives.  They favor fewer good jobs, higher taxes, less military spending, open borders, and bowing to the world outside the U.S.  The media are guilt-ridden over our national history, as they see it, of racism and class oppression.  They despise the middle class, and they live in a politically correct nightmare of benefiting from any sort of privilege or unfair advantage.

What Is the Alternative to Trump Derangement?  If they weren't trying to destroy the president, Democrats would have to focus on an agenda most Americans don't support.

Process vs.  Product:  Why the Dems Keep Losing.  Memo to Tim Ryan (and please pass it along to Maureen Dowd):  Republicans are winning all over the country, as much or more in local and states races as in national ones, not because Donald Trump makes robo calls, because he tweets, or because he "motivates the base."  Nope, the Republicans are winning everywhere because people like what they are selling.  They especially like what Donald Trump is selling:  an America-first attitude that unapologetically makes the U.S. economy and U.S. national security top priorities.

Why Democrats keep losing.  [#9] They advocate weird sexual public practices.  Privately, anyone can be what he wants if his choice harms no one else.  Publicly, if a man who believes he is a woman walks into a public space historically reserved for women, then this action endangers the women because he may be just a pervert.  The Dems can't keep advocating obvious nonsense and expect the larger public to like them.

How'd that referendum on Trump work out?  The special election in the 6th District of Georgia was universally billed "a high-stakes referendum on Trump" in all the much hyped build-up coming from the left and its media allies. [...] After all, weren't President Trump's poll numbers down? [...] Wasn't President Trump engulfed in scandal for colluding with the Russians to win the 2016 election that was rightfully Hillary Clinton's?  Weren't the leftists whispering, "President Pence"?  Rubbing their mousy hands together with glee, it's pretty clear that leftists thought they had a certain victory in the bag with that "narrative," along with a perfect post-election analysis, no matter what the Georgia voters thought about it.

Congressional staffers boo Trump at unity baseball game.  Dozens of congressional staffers erupted into boos, jeers and even vulgar gesticulations Thursday [6/15/2017] when President Trump appeared in a video at the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park.  Mr. Trump delivered a message of unity, but some fans in the stands weren't having any of it.  One man shouted an expletive at the video screen as Mr. Trump was telling the fans:  "We are showing the world we will not be intimidated by threats."

Dem Staffers Boo Trump At Congressional Baseball Game.  I was glad to see that the Congressional Baseball Game went on as planned last night.  They didn't let some left-wing lunatic ruin it by trying to kill GOP congressmen for disagreeing with him.  It was a show of unity.  It was a beautiful display of the things that bring us together, no matter what sets us apart from each other.  It was American AF.  So of course, Democrats had to try to ruin it.

Big Names Headline The People's Summit In Chicago — It's A Who's Who Of Communists.  The commies have truly come out of the closet.  The whole gang will be getting together in Chicago on June 9th thru the 11th.  Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore, Danny Glover and Van Jones will be headlining the People's Summit.  Chicago is where the headquarters of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is located.  They are still labeling themselves as progressives, but anyone with two functioning brain cells knows these are devout communists... comrades in arms.  Thousands will join them to plot taking back America from President Trump and the Republicans.  It will be one giant war room.  This should be common knowledge now and come as no surprise to anyone.  Van Jones has a long, violent history of being a Marxist.  Don't believe his protestations that he has reformed, he hasn't.  Bernie Sanders calls himself a socialist... in reality, he's a communist and the current healthcare plan he is presenting to Trump should prove that.  He is pushing single payer healthcare.  Michael Moore is a Marxist film producer and the editor of The Nation.  And Danny Glover never met a communist or dictator he didn't love.

Sides square off in rallies over Islamic law vs.  Constitution.  Demonstrators at small but raucous gatherings around the country yesterday [6/10/2017] raised the specter that extremist interpretations of Islamic law might somehow spread across the U.S., but many of the rallies drew even more boisterous counter-protests by people who called such fears unfounded.  Hundreds of counter-protesters marched through downtown Seattle, banging drums, cymbals and cowbells behind a large sign saying "Seattle stands with our Muslim neighbors."  Participants chanted "No hate, no fear, Muslims are welcome here" on their way to City Hall, where dozens of anti-Shariah protesters rallied.

Luis Gutierrez Whines:  Breitbart News Coverage of Illegal Immigrants, Muslim Refugees Too Harsh.  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) whined about Breitbart News' coverage of illegal immigrants and Muslim refugees during his recent commencement address at Cambridge College.  "Breitbart and Fox News didn't invent their opinions on Mexicans and Central Americans or Muslims," he claimed the day after the London Bridge terror attacks.  "They're just recycling them."  He told Cambridge College's graduates, "I say lift the Muslim ban and tell the Supreme Court to say it's unconstitutional and un-American."

It was a merger, not a replacement.
Los Angeles replaces its gay pride parade with 'resist' march.  Members of the Los Angeles-area gay community were expected to walk en masse through the city on Sunday [6/11/2017] in a so-called Resist March against President Donald Trump, an event taking the place of the annual pride parade.  Organizers of the Resist March say the 3-mile walk will begin in Hollywood at 8 a.m.  PDT and culminate with a rally in gay-friendly West Hollywood featuring U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and groups such as GLAAD, Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Reality Winner Is A Loser, And So Is U.S. Secrecy.  That 25-year-old Reality Winner — yes, that's her real name — was caught giving out top-secret information is no great surprise.  After all, she is a far-left anti-Trump activist who called him an "orange fascist" [among other things] and once tweeted to rapper Kanye West to suggest he make a T-shirt saying "Being white is terrorism."  (For the record, Winner is herself white.)  She used the hashtags "Resist" and "NeverMyPresident" on her Facebook page and, as the Daily Caller notes, "appears to be a supporter of Bernie Sanders and other progressive icons, such as Bill Maher and Michael Moore."

NSA Leaker: 'Being White Is Terrorism'.  The woman charged by the Department of Justice with stealing "Top Secret" information from the National Security Agency apparently believes being white is a form of terrorism.  That's according to a tweet the alleged leaker, Reality Winner, sent in February.  Winner, who is herself white, tweeted at rapper Kanye West that he should make a shirt declaring whiteness an act of terror.

NSA leaker Reality Winner will plead guilty after admitting to FBI she smuggled classified documents out of the office.  Reality Winner, the former National Security Agency contractor charged with leaking a classified document to a US news outlet, has decided to plead guilty.  Winner, 26, is scheduled to plead guilty in US District Court on June 26, according to US Department of Justice spokesman Ian Prior.  Online court records show a plea agreement was filed on Thursday [6/21/2018].  Court documents did not indicate what exact charge Winner will plead guilty to, although she was indicted for one count of violating the federal Espionage Act.

Update:
Federal Judge In Georgia Sentences NSA Leaker To 63 Months In Prison.  A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information last June, is sentenced to more than five-years in prison.  26-year-old Reality Winner was sentenced to five-years and three-months in prison Thursday [8/23/2018], following a plea deal with prosecutors.  During a court testimony, Winner claimed she did not mean to harm national security.

How Do We Encourage Terrorism?  Let Us Count The Ways.  For years, terrorists have been hailed as celebrities, fawned over by journalists, and deferentially received in the halls of power.  Examples could fill a dozen columns. [...] At the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York on June 11, the guest of honor will be Oscar Lopez Rivera, an unrepentant member of the FALN terrorist group who spent 35 years in federal prison for plotting to overthrow the government.  When convicted terrorists are treated to parades on Fifth Avenue, it encourages more terrorism everywhere.

After Losses, Democrats Struggle to 'Un-Pelosi' the Party.  Frustrated with the leadership in their party, some heartland Democrats are looking to decouple themselves from Nancy Pelosi and the other coastal elites calling the shots.  The People's House Project, a super PAC founded by former MSNBC host Krystal Ball, aims to recruit candidates and raise money in a structure separate from national Democrats.  The reason?  Democrats have veered too far to the left and chosen a message that's toxic in much of the United States.

In her bubble, Kathy Griffin thought nothing was out of bounds in mocking Trump.  Imagine living in a bubble so impermeable, it didn't occur to you that retailing a photograph of a decapitated president's head would be a horrendous career move — a bubble in which you don't know anyone who doesn't think the world would be a better place once Donald Trump had had his head cut off.  That is the world Kathy Griffin lives in.  This Times Square Rolex knockoff of Joan Rivers knew the photograph of her holding the decapitated and bloody head of the president of the United States was edgy and provocative.  That's why she was excited to pose for it.  That's why she sent it to TMZ.  That's why she initially defended the picture to the journalist Yashar Ali by claiming it was "art."

Today's Democrats have no problem embracing known terrorists.  In case you haven't heard, [NYC] Council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is the prime suspect in the decision by the board of the Puerto Rican Day parade to honor a convicted terrorist, Oscar López Rivera, as a National Freedom Hero.  Her "hero" was found guilty of trying to overthrow the government of the United States with FALN, a terrorist organization that carried out 120 bombings in New York, Chicago and elsewhere.  Its 1975 bombing at Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killed four people.  López Rivera defended violence as necessary to free Puerto Rico from American colonialism so it could become a socialist country.  None of that makes him an American hero — except to Mark-Viverito, a radical Puerto Rican with a long affinity for homicidal maniacs.

Pelosi: 'It's Hard' to Say 'President Trump,' He Has No Respect For the Job.  Tuesday at a discussion hosted by the Commonwealth Club, Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that it was "hard" for her to say the words "President Trump."  When Pelosi referenced "the new president of the United States," the moderator said, "I noticed you don't say President Trump."

Portland Tries to Stamp Out Free Speech.  The mayor of Portland, Oregon, Ted Wheeler, is trying to block a free speech rally in his city: [...] That isn't even coherent:  "violent protests between far-right and far-left protesters"?  Actually, the violence has been perpetrated by far-left criminals.  There are no instances of "far right" protesters trying to prevent a liberal from giving a speech.

Fascist Portland Mayor Wants Free Speech Rally Canceled.  What a shock.  After an AntiFa, Bernie Sanders voter shot and killed two people last week in Portland, Oregon, their Democrat mayor wants to cancel a Free Speech rally because of the Sanders' voter.  This is liberal fascism on display.

Shocker: Study Shows Physically Weak Men Tend to be Liberal.  In news that will surprise absolutely no one, a new study reveals that girly men are more likely to favor socialist policies.  The study, conducted by researchers at Brunel University London, looked at the height, weight, physical strength, and bicep circumference of 171 men, along with their views on wealth redistribution and income inequality.

Democrats Love Affair With Communism.  A bill narrowly passed the house in California, repealing part of the law enacted during the Cold War era in our country's history when communists were really active and infiltrating our government, attempting to overthrow it.  The bill proposed to eliminate the section which allowed the firing of public employees if they were members of the Communist Party.  The bill now goes to the Senate and its author, Democrat Assemblyman Rob Bonta, hopes that it will pass.  "Assemblyman Randy Voepel, a Southern California Republican who fought in the Vietnam War, said communists in North Korea and China are still a threat."  Assemblyman Travis Allen, also a Republican, said that "this bill is blatantly offensive to all Californians.  Communism stands for everything that the United States stands against."

Leftists Literally Boo God and Concept of God-Given Rights at GOP Rep. Dave Brat's Town Hall.  Representative Dave Brat — the conservative favorite who ousted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Republican primary back in 2014 to represent Virginia's 7th District — held a town hall on Tuesday night, and the media narrative coming out of the constituent meeting was essentially universal. [...] But if you read through all fourteen articles (which I did), you'll find that every single one misses or just willfully skips over the most newsworthy part of the entire town hall: leftist members of the audience actually loudly booing the very mention of God and God-given rights.

Democrats Pitch Local Election as Referendum on Trump.  Then Their Guy Lost.  By a Lot.  With the nonstop anti-Trump flow on the mainstream media, Democrat Heath Mello thought he could tap into that during his run.  He even got the backing of Democratic darling Sen. Bernie Sanders (and the city itself went for Hillary Clinton in 2016, making it home turf for a Democrats).  But Mello lost on Tuesday [5/9/2017] to incumbent Republican Jean Stothert, who defeated the 37 year old 53 percent to 47 percent.  It's the third time the Democrats have pitched an election as a referendum on Trump.

The Real Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Lost In 2016.  In short, to many Americans now living through economic tough times, the Democrats have become the party of the rich and the connected.  Some 77% in the poll said that Trump's policies would help all classes of Americans, vs. just 58% for congressional Democrats.  Even so, that leaves out one key point that appeared nowhere in the Democratic Party analysis that we saw — that is, the Democratic Party has veered sharply leftward in recent years.  They easily capture the bright Blue population centers on both coasts, but increasingly have trouble capturing the middle, both geographically and metaphorically.

Now We Know:  It's Liberals Who Are Out-Of-Touch, Arrogant, Smug And Intolerant.  We've been arguing for some time that if you want to find intolerance, extremism, hate and bigotry in this country, it's thriving on the left.  The past week provides several bits of fresh evidence of this.

Dartmouth Study Finds Democrats Are The Least Tolerant Students.  A new survey of students at Dartmouth College found that those who identified as Democrats are the least tolerant on campus.  In the campus-wide field survey, students of all political stripes were asked how comfortable they would be about living with a roommate who holds opposing political views.  Of the 432 students surveyed, only 39 percent of students who identified as Democrats said they would feel comfortable living with a Republican, 16 percent said they felt neutral about the proposed arrangement, while 45 percent, a plurality, said they felt uncomfortable.

Jon Ossoff Has Never Voted in a Runoff Election, But He Wants You To.  Jon Ossoff wants your vote.  He's the 30-year-old Democrat running in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District.  The only problem?  He rarely ever votes himself.  A CNN report last week found that Ossoff did not vote in the 2012 presidential election.  Instead of procuring an absentee ballot while studying at the London School of Economics, Ossoff chose not to exercise his civic duty.  Then on Tuesday [4/25/2017], the Washington Free Beacon dropped an even bigger bombshell:  Ossoff, who is in a runoff election with Republican Karen Handel, has never voted in a runoff election, despite numerous opportunities.

Poll: 67% Of Americans Say The Democrats Are Out Of Touch With Their Concerns.  Sixty-seven percent of Americans say the Democratic Party is out of touch with their concerns — that's more than those who think the Republican Party or President Trump are out of touch with most Americans' concerns, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.

The Ugly Face of Socialism.  Recall how so many entertainment elites flocked to Venezuela when the tyrant and socialist dictator Hugo Chavez came to power.  Folks like Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Harry Belafonte, and others celebrated and dreamed of this utopia.  However, if these individuals had taken the time to read and study political philosophy they would have realized that socialism is rooted in five basic principles, tenets — wealth redistribution, nationalizing of production, expansion of the welfare state, social egalitarianism, and secular humanism.  In my estimation, these are principles not to be admired but feared.

March for Science:  Sympathy for Our Enemies.  Though the [March for Science] event is disguised as a rally for all things sciency, it is in reality intended to be a massive protest against President Trump, Republicans, and climate-change "deniers."  Its Twitter page has nearly 350,000 followers, and its website mentions "diversity" and "inclusion" repeatedly while saying nothing about specific scientific issues.  It has come under fire from some within the scientific establishment for being too divisive and overly obsessed with identity politics, and for excluding scientists who might not toe the Democratic-party line.

NBC Sports:  U.S. Flag at Baseball Games Too Political.  Everything is political to the overly sensitive mind of today's leftist.  When the Atlanta Braves unfurled a gigantic flag for the playing of the national anthem, it prompted an ultra sensitive member of the partisan media and his Twitter followers to express a whole host of ridiculous claims.  In a Twitter post this weekend, NBC baseball writer Craig Calcaterra complained that the presentation of Old Glory evoked overly political tones.

Editor of liberal magazine Mother Jones claims 'Tomahawk missiles' are offensive to Native Americans.  The editor-in-chief of a prominent liberal news organization has been slammed on social media for suggesting that Tomahawk cruise missiles are an example of cultural appropriation.  Clara Jeffery, who runs the non-profit publication Mother Jones, received a barrage of responses after speculating that Native Americans might be offended by the naming of the missiles which were launched by President Trump this week.  'That the missiles are called tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans [sic],' she tweeted on Saturday.  Twitter users immediately disparaged Jeffery's statement and her account was inundated with responses that went viral.

Why Do Leftists Hate America?  [Scroll down]  Calling NAFTA a disaster, Trump said he took us out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  The audience erupted with applause.  Trump is swiftly dismantling many of Obama's anti-America agenda items.  It dawned on me:  this guy is simply implementing commonsense policies in the best interest of America and her citizens who elected him.  So why is the American left responding with such unprecedented vitriol and bold, treasonous obstructionism?  The simple answer is that leftists hate America and her biblical values.  Therefore, when Trump came along vowing to make America great again, he ignited the leftists' hate, fear, and rage.  Why such hate for one's own homeland?

Montana Democrats Vote Against Bill Banning Sharia Law, Call It 'Repugnant'.  Senate Bill 97, introduced by Keith Regier (R-Kalispell) bans the application of foreign law in Montana's courts, with the debate particularly focused on Sharia Law, a form of Islamic law typically used in the Middle East.  Although the bill passed on party lines by 56-44, Democrats claimed it was designed to target Muslim communities.  "I think it sends a dangerous message to minority groups both here living in our state and wanting to come visit our state, just merely on the fact that you may be different," said Rep. Shane Morigeau, D-Missoula, while debating the bill.

NBC's Today Devotes Two-Minute Discussion to 'Old-School' Pence Policy.  In the wake of left-wing hysteria over Vice President Mike Pence avoiding going out to eat alone with a woman who is not his wife, NBC's Today seized on the story during Friday's show and devoted a nearly two-minute-long discussion to the topic, debating whether or not such marital fidelity was a "wise policy."

Drexel Professor Wants to 'Vomit' When Passenger Gives Uniformed Soldier First-Class Seat.  Associate professor in the history and politics department at Drexel University George Ciccariello-Maher ignited a Twitter firestorm on Sunday [3/26/2017] when he tweeted that he was trying not to "vomit or yell" when he witnessed a fellow passenger aboard his flight give up a first class seat to a uniformed soldier.  "Some guy gave up his first class seat for a uniformed soldier.  People are thanking him.  I'm trying not to vomit or yell about Mosul," he tweeted.

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For the entire duration of military history, the rank-and-file soldier has never had any control over foreign policy.  Anyone old enough to vote should know that, and anyone who doesn't should not be teaching in a university.

State Rep Caught Tipping Off Illegal Aliens About ICE Raids.  Massachusetts state Rep. Michelle DuBois posted a warning to illegal immigrants on her Facebook page Tuesday about upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that are rumored to be taking place in the area.

Feinstein: Constitution A 'Living Document;' 'Originalism... Very Troubling'.  Several Senate Democrats were unified in deriding originalism as a judicial philosophy during Monday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court justiceship[.]  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), ranking Democrat of the committee, described originalism as a "very troubling" jurisprudential approach.  The Framers, she added, intended for the Constitution to be continuously reinterpreted over time [...]

Maxine Waters goes completely unhinged.  Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is making a strong case to become the poster child for Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Long an exploiter of loony left memes, such as the contention that the CIA deliberately spread a crack epidemic in America's inner cities, Waters loves the attention and praise she garners from voicing the radical thoughts other crazy lefties shy away from.  She owes her national profile to her readiness to glorify the 1992 Rodney King rioters in Los Angeles as participating in a "rebellion," not a "riot," justifying the looting of many Korean-owned stores as "mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes[.] ... They are not crooks."  For Waters, President Trump represents an opportunity to capitalize on the anger and resentment the sore losers on the left are embracing.

"Frantic Yelling Ensued".  Congressman Steve King (R-IA) has noticed just how extremist today's respectable conventional wisdom has become.  So King has been exercising a Trump-like knack for trolling the Establishment with blunt truths that enrage goodthinkers into revealing just how much their worldview is founded upon hatred of average Americans. [...] King is [portrayed as] particularly hateful because he represents Sioux County, Iowa, which Stanford economist Raj Chetty's big 2015 study of IRS returns from 1996 to 2012 found to be the single best county in America for raising children who are upwardly mobile.  Sioux County is extremely white, Protestant, native-born, traditionalist, and prosperous.  It represents the egalitarian essence of everything that coastal elites find deplorable about the people they currently preside over.

The Only Thing She Got Wrong Was Everything.  In a new black-and-white short film, Madonna declares we have entered a "new age of tyranny" where "all marginalized people are in danger" and "where being uniquely different might truly be considered a crime."  Notice what stirs her to this declaration of modern tyranny.  It's not an angry mob at Middlebury College surrounding Charles Murray and assaulting a professor. [...] It's not a judge imposing a fine of $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a wedding.  It's not civil asset forfeiture, where law-enforcement authorities can seize property from someone without charging them with a crime. [...] It's not the vast domestic surveillance tools in the hands of the National Security Agency.  No, it's the legal democratic election of a president and congressional majorities she doesn't like.

Democrats announce bill to revoke Trump's 'extreme vetting' order.  Senate Democrats announced a bill Monday [3/13/2017] to revoke President Trump's latest extreme vetting executive order, saying it's discriminatory and counterproductive to the country's efforts to influence allies.  Led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, the new bill is succinct — it cancels the March 6 order that suspends the refugee program and puts a 90-day halt on most admissions from six Middle East and African countries.  "President Trump's discriminatory executive order isn't about strengthening our national security.  It's a transparent effort to fulfill his campaign promise to implement a 'Muslim Ban,'" Mrs. Feinstein said in a statement.

The American Left Discovers Its Inner George Wallace.  Leftish activists are campaigning to have the Confederate flag removed from statehouses, statutes of southern statesmen removed from campuses and public spaces, and the names of campus buildings changed to remove any they deem racist.  These very same campaigners, or at least their leaders, are finding time to demand that their cities and states interpose their authority between the federal government and the people of their city or state.  The word hypocrisy fails to do their work the dishonor it deserves.  The doctrine of interposition, born in 1798, was the work of none other than James Madison, author of the Virginia Resolution. [...] The left is attempting to breathe life into the slave-owning and segregationist groups' interposition doctrine.

What Has Gotten Into the Democrats?  Why are they so bellicose toward Moscow?  What happened to détente?  What happened to perestroika and glasnost?  And how about their long-time fear of a "nuclear winter" and their longing for a "nuclear freeze"? The Democrats have always been big on mixing rhetoric with climate.  Though admittedly, Putin and his fat cat cronies have changed over the years from the Soviets of old.  The old Soviet economy was something that Bernie Saunders and Pelosi and even the Schumer of recent edition could identify with.

ANALYSIS — TRUE: During emotional, 2-minute standing ovation for SEAL widow Carryn Owens, key Democrats sat on their hands.  Based upon their reactions to President Trump's outstanding speech before Congress yesterday, Democrats oppose jobs, affordable health care, fighting Islamic terrorism, great educations for inner-city children, and — most of all — America's ability to defend itself.  In the latter case, a 2-minute standing ovation to remember the sacrifices of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens and his widow Carryn was purposefully dissed by Democrat leaders.  Many remained seated and silent during the teary-eyed memorial.

Seven Things Democrats Didn't Stand For During Trump's Address To Congress.  Democrats refused to stand and applaud multiple times during President Donald Trump's hour-long Tuesday night address to Congress.  A few things Trump spoke to Congress about included creating jobs for the country's citizens, immigration reform, bolstering the military, lowering drug prices and returning power to the states.  Democrats, in response, refused to react when Trump mentioned America and putting Americans back to work.

Since Trump's Win, Dems Have Flipped Zero Seats in Four Blue State Special Elections.  In the middle of President Trump's well-received address on Tuesday [2/28/2017], a liberal writer and commentator excitedly tweeted out some breaking special election results out of Connecticut, racking up thousands of retweets.  The Left, which has been methodically stripped of power by voters since 2008, is casting about for evidence that their feverish "resistance" is tipping the political pendulum back in the other direction.

Top Democrats Refuse To Stand, Clap For Navy SEAL Widow Honored By Trump.  On Tuesday evening [2/28/2017], President Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress — and gave what was obviously the best speech of his career.  The best moment was obvious, too: his tribute to the widow of Navy SEAL William 'Ryan' Owens. [...] And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) apparently sat there and didn't cheer as the incredible moment progressed, along with Senator Bernie Sanders and others [...]

The Democrats are not done ruining the country.  This is really not your father's Democratic Party.  Joined at the hip, after last week's roll call in Atlanta, are Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, two radicals chosen to lead the Party and the nation entirely leftward.  Their constitution is not our Constitution and if they ever get in, prepare for an America favorable to Sharia law.  If at any time that crowd gets control of the White House, or Congress, forget Judeo/Christian values because they don't like Christians and they don't like Jews.

What They Are Saying:  Dem Response Is A "Fiasco".  The Democratic Party just turned to 72-year old former governor Steve Beshear to give their response to President Trump's address to Congress, and the media quickly slammed Beshear for giving a clunker of a speech, calling it a "fiasco," "overcorrecting," and even comparing it to a "Life Alert" ad.  Beshear was so ill prepared for the speech, he even accidentally described himself as a "Republican."

Target shares plunge on weak sales outlook.  Target Corp. reported a steeper-than-expected decline in fourth-quarter same-store sales and said it expected sales to continue to fall this fiscal year, sending its shares tumbling 13 percent in premarket trading Tuesday [2/28/2017].  The company has struggled with declining sales as shoppers increasingly gravitate to online retailers such as Amazon.com Inc. and spend more on big-ticket purchases such as cars and home renovations rather than electronics, food and apparel.

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Or maybe it's because Target took the lead in welcoming transvestites and perverts into their restrooms, and now there's a massive nationwide boycott of Target as a result.

It's Official:  Liberals Only Care About Illegals and Muslims.  Hey, liberals!  There's a reason why illegal Hispanics and jihadis aren't represented by the system.  In the first place, they have broken the law by coming here without completing the administrative state's vital and voluminous paperwork.  In the second place, they intend to break the law by violently overturning the United States government and its separation of church and state, replacing Western culture with Sharia law.

New DNC Chairman Tom Perez Is No 'Moderate' At All.  One of the amazing things about the now-completed Democratic National Committee chairman's race was how former Labor Secretary Tom Perez became perceived as the "moderate" or "centrist" choice.  This occurred in part because he was aligned with Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic primary, and partially because his biggest rival was Rep. Keith Ellison, former member of the Nation of Islam, the congressman who meets with radical terror-sponsoring Saudi clerics, the one with the anti-gay imam, the one who used to "go on all the time about 'Jewish slave traders.'"  "Less radical than Keith Ellison" is an awfully low bar to clear.  Relax, fans of the Nation of Islam, Perez says he wants to make Ellison "the face of the Democratic Party," and I am sure many Republicans are ready and willing to help him out in that task.

Just How Bad Is Tom Perez?  Everyone seems to think the Democratic Party dodged a bullet in selecting former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez over radical Islamist Rep. Keith Ellison for party chairman.  A look at Perez's record shows that the party dodged nothing.  Ellison's appeal to Democrats was in his openly deranged radical extremism, he was billed as the outsider, the upstart, the new wave to freshen up the stale party that had lost so badly last November.  Perez was somehow declared the moderate by default.  Fact is, he was just as extreme in his views, but less noisy than Ellison.

Starbucks Brand Crashes After Announcement of Plan to Hire 10,000 Muslim 'Refugees'.  The Starbucks Coffee brand has taken a major hit since the company's announcement that it would hire 10,000 Muslim "refugees" in response to President Donald Trump's temporary travel moratorium in January.  Starbucks was one of those early to criticize President Trump for putting a temporary hold on immigration from a list of seven terror-torn countries flagged by the Obama administration.  In response, the coffee house giant pledged to hire 10,000 Muslim refugees over five years in protest against Trump's order.

Watch foul liberal protesters LOSE IT when Louisiana townhall opens with PRAYER!  Wow, you won't believe this video.  Apparently the far left liberal protesters hate Christianity so much they scream out in horror like demons stuck in a pig when Jesus' name is mentioned.  [Video clip]

Protesters Freak Out After GOP Town Hall Opens With A Prayer.  Liberal protesters became enraged when a Louisiana town hall with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy opened with a prayer earlier this week, screaming at the chaplain as he tried to lead the crowd in prayer.  The protesters, who were there with a local chapter of anti-Trump group Indivisible, can be heard groaning and shouting as the chaplain says, "In God we trust."  One man can be heard saying, "Pray on your own time!" Others shouted incredulously, "Prayer?  Prayer?"  Video of the event, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, reveals one woman shouting the name "Lucifer" while the chaplain invokes God's name.  Other, non-protesting attendees can be heard trying to shush the protesters.

Town hall agitators explode at the name of Jesus.  Louisiana State chaplain Michael Sprague and the unidentified Vietnam War veteran should be commended for maintaining their composure in the face of such verbal barbarism.  The Feb. 22 town hall meeting in Metairie, was quickly overrun by the angry mob — much like other town hall meetings hosted by Republican lawmakers across the country.  The mainstream media would have us believe the unruly demonstrations are part of an organic, grassroots effort.  But I sincerely doubt many in the mob were actually residents of Louisiana [...]

Democratic Senators Are Avoiding Town Halls.  Democratic Senators have been avoiding town halls with their constituents, even though ten of them are up for re-election in 2018.  Only been a few have taken on town halls, the New York Post reported on Friday [2/24/2017].  Hillary Shields, a member of Kansas City Indivisible, said that her Senator skipping out on an invitation for a town hall suggests that lawmakers are "afraid" of the people they represent.  "Seems to me that all these members of Congress are afraid of their constituents," Shields said of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.), who refused an invitation to attend a town hall.

The Democrats who don't dare face voters at town halls.  Recent weeks have seen a flood of media reports on Republicans facing angry constituents at town-hall meetings, so it's nice to see the Associated Press point out that many Democrats have been dodging town halls altogether.  Specifically, AP's Steve Peoples notes that Senate Democrats up for re-election in states that President Trump carried on Election Day just don't want to show up.  Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), for one, sent a staff member rather than attend a Kansas City town hall last weekend.  She will chat with voters this week via Facebook Live — a much more controlled environment, where angry mass shouting isn't an option.

Perhaps they also pretend she's healthy, wise and honest, and makes substantive speeches with her delightful voice.
Fake News Site Lets Liberals Live In Alternate Reality Where Hillary Is President.  Liberals seeking refuge from reality now have a fake news website where they can pretend to live in a world where Hillary Clinton is president.  "Approval ratings for President Clinton hit 89 percent," "Confused by fake news, Redditers think Trump is president" and "DOJ considers charging Trump with treason" are just a few headlines featured on HillaryBeatTrump.org, a satirical news site devoted to covering stories from an alternate universe where Hillary won last November's election.  "In the midst of a Constitutional crisis, this is our response," the site's description reads.  "Long live the true president, Hillary Rodham Clinton."

Internal Secession and the Road to Ruin:  Two Countries.  The difference begins with manners.  Throughout the campaign Trump's partisans forgathered in huge rallies, applauded, calmly went home, and later voted.  At the same time we saw on Clinton's behalf mobs of ill-bred, worse mannered, loutish, perennial adolescents blocking highways, shutting down rallies, engaging in vandalism and physically attacking supporters of Trump.  Cars were destroyed, fires set, ATMs smashed.  Black Lives Matter, always ghetto predators, were worst, but low-grade college students and their equally dismal professors joined in.  They were obscene, infantile.  And naive:  They apparently believe that they harm Trump though of course their behavior drives people in the other direction.

Shoving Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Right Back in the Left's Ugly Face.  Alinsky's Rules are relatively simple, and they make sense when you are fighting a conventional opponent with an interest in maintaining the status quo.  The Rules are terrific for dealing with an old-school conservative guy who drives a Buick, enjoys gardening, and doesn't want any trouble.  They aren't so effective against conservative brawlers who like to punch, and who aren't too fussy about whether it's with tweets or with fists.  The Rules are not some magic incantation; they are simply some tactical principles that work in certain kinds of fights against certain kinds of opponents — particularly ones willing to unilaterally disarm in the face of an unprincipled enemy.

No Republicans Need Apply.  One of the less understood criticisms of progressivism is that it is totalitarian, not in the sense that kale-eating Brooklynites want to build prison camps for political nonconformists (except for the ones who want to lock up global-warming skeptics) but in the sense that it assumes that there is no life outside of politics, that there is no separate sphere of private life, and that church, family, art, and much else properly resides within that sphere.

WA College Helps Parents 'Cure' Their Toddlers of Racism and Sexism.  The workshop, for parents of children aged 3-6, includes a presentation, handouts, group activities, and homework that will help you cure your young children of any attachment they have to rational thought.  That way, they don't have to wait until college to find out that their ideas about race and gender are outdated.  The class is taught by a grad student who, according to the event page, is "engaged in education initiatives focused on inclusion and equity."

Gratitude for 84 Lumber.  As with most everything the cultural left touches these days, the backlash has been worth more than a few chuckles.  If you don't believe me, go on 84 Lumber's Facebook page and read the comments under the company's postings regarding the commercial.  A vast majority of the user replies are scathingly negative and reflect the same views that produced a map with 85 percent of American counties colored red just a few months ago.  Are those views xenophobic and anti-immigrant, as the left proclaims, or are they simply the views of those who recognize that there are no global human rights declaring unrestricted entry or immigration to the United States?

The United States Cannot Survive as Presently Constituted.  The inauguration of Donald Trump sparked national protests — obscene, vulgar, and crude — by the Left.  Over sixty congressional Democrats boycotted his inauguration.  Plans to impeach him were in the works — before he had even done anything.  And when Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by cracking down on immigration from Muslim countries — for the purpose of preventing jihadist terror attacks — the Left took to the streets once again.  And that was just Trump's first week in office.  What do Americans of the Left and the Right have in common?  Nothing  — except hate for each other.

Trump's Best Asset May Be His Unhinged Opponents.  The good news for Democrats is that the apathy of many of their voters — which contributed to Hillary Clinton's losing in November — is gone now that Donald Trump is president.  "We have never in living memory seen an electorate as fired up and angry and engaged as they are right now, Ben Wikler, Washington director of the left-wing group Moveon.org, told RealClearPolitics.  The bad news for Democrats is that the fires of protest could burn so brightly that they alienate moderate voters and threaten any Democrats who decline to throw gasoline on the fires.

Democrats are becoming the party of secession.  Some call it Trump Derangement Syndrome, but that's too kind.  It's not a temporarily insane reaction, it's a calculated plan to wreck the presidency, whatever the cost to the country.  Things never seen in the modern era are now rapidly becoming common.  Impeachment talk already is rumbling in the party's hothouses, and Trump was met with a lawsuit the minute he took the oath.  Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the top Dems in Congress, led a raucous demonstration Monday night, as if they are community organizers.  And Obama couldn't bear the irrelevance after eight days out of office and felt compelled to encourage disruptions.  This is Third World behavior and it's now the M.O. of one of America's two political parties.

Normalizing Degeneracy.  [Portland's Resistance movement] is another one of these "antifascist" movements you see with kids wearing masks, smashing Bank of America windows, and punching "Nazis" (anyone who disagrees with them) in the face.  They purport to be about equality, but I just had an epiphany and realized they're actually mentally ill perverts who are at war with normalcy because it exposes them for the freaks they truly are.  One of their favorite accusations is we are "normalizing white supremacy."  This sounds like a world where skinheads with swastika tattoos pack your groceries and it's very confusing if you take it literally, but what it really means is:  "Normal" is the worst thing imaginable.  If you recognize it as a concept, you're a Nazi.

Obama:  Jihadophile.  [Scroll down]  Obama is a jihadophile.  He has made that clear in a thousand different ways during his eight years, enough time to plant agents and suborn U.S. government personnel.  No wonder we couldn't do anything effective to resist jihad; Obama even refused to use the words "Islamic terrorism."  But he is still beloved by a veritable snowpack of campus flakes.  Exposing the real enemy is only the first step in national defense.  Fighting the enemy is a next step, and even today the Democrats and EuroSocialists are self-righteously refusing to do that.

Not All Refugees Are Welcome.  Militant mayors in Seattle, Denver and New York City re-declared themselves open-borders sanctuaries — or as I call them, outlaw cities.  All of California will now consider declaring itself a "sanctuary state."  Radical progressive companies vowed to hire 10,000 refugees (Starbucks), provide free housing to refugees (Airbnb) and subsidize left-wing legal efforts to fight President Trump's refugee moratorium and enhanced visa-holder vetting (Lyft).  Reasonable people can argue about the details and implementation of Trump's policies.  But the John Lennon-addled "Imagine there's no country" crowd is post-reason.

Congressional Democrats Sing "Commie Anthem" to Protest Donald Trump.  Congressional Democrats sang "This Land Is Your Land," a song called the Communist Anthem by its author Woody Guthrie.  Guthrie said that joining the Communist Party "was one of the best things he had ever done."

Government by mob:
Feinstein Invokes Saturday's March As Reason to Delay Sessions Confirmation Vote.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday used the recent women's march on Washington as an excuse to delay a confirmation vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general.  "I'm asking that the vote for Sen. Jeff Sessions be held over until next week," Feinstein told the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Feinstein pointed to the 188 pages of written responses Sessions has submitted at the request of committee members:  "Our staff needs time to go through these answers and we need time to put them in context with what we know and what we've learned about Sen. Sessions's record," she said.  "And I also believe it's important to reflect on this nomination in light of the demonstration we saw this weekend."

This misguided Democrat proposal would negate the deterrent effect of mutually assured destruction.
Democrats try to take nukes away from Trump:  Senator and Congressman propose new law banning the President from firing weapons without a vote.  Two Democratic lawmakers have put forward bill that would take away President Trump's access to the nuclear codes.  The new law, introduced by Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Ted Lieu of California, would prevent the President from launching nuclear weapons without first a obtaining a congressional declaration of war.  Under current legislation, the US president can launch a nuclear strike regardless of whether or not America is under attack.  In a statement, Markey said that nuclear war is the 'gravest risk to human survival,' and expressed concerns about Trump having access to the nuclear button.

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Wait, I thought the libs believed global warming was the greatest threat to human survival.  So global warming is not an absolute certainty, but nuclear war is?

Three Mainstream Media Lies on Trump's First Day.  Lie #3: The anti-Trump protests in Washington, D.C. were important.  The protests were nothing more than the venting of outrage at Trump's election.  For all the talk of "women's rights," there was nothing particular to point to that Trump had done about anything relating to women.  The demonstration was large, but also disorganized, as well as vulgar, and protesters left heaps of trash over the various routes they took, including protest signs abandoned at Union Station as they left the capital.

White Candidate For DNC Chair Says Her Job Will Be 'To Shut Other White People Down'.  Sally Boynton Brown, a white woman running for chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday that if she is chosen to lead the party her job will be to "shut other white people down."  "My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt," Brown said during a DNC candidate forum.

Idaho Dems Exec Director:  DNC Should Train People In 'How to Shut Their Mouths If They're White'.  During Monday's Democracy in Color DNC debate, Idaho Democratic Party Executive Director and DNC Chair candidate Sally Boynton Brown stated that "my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt.  My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, oh, no, I'm not prejudiced.  I'm a Democrat.  I'm accepting.'  My job is to make sure that they get that they have privilege."  And argued the DNC should have training for people in "how to shut their mouths if they're white."

The DC Women's Tantrum.  The day after Donald Trump took the oath of office to become the forty-fifth President of the United States, radical liberal feminazis took to the streets of Washington D.C. and put on a disgusting display of hedonism and hate.  What was billed as the "Women's March on Washington" quickly devolved into what any sound-minded political observer knew it would, and the worst of the American left was on unhinged display for all the world to see.

One-third of House Democrats refuse to participate in peaceful transfer of power.  Just a few months ago progressives were warning that failure to publicly accept the results of the election was a threat to our democratic system.  Yet, as of today, one-third of House Democrats say they will skip the inauguration of Donald Trump, the public ceremony marking the peaceful transition of power.  Yesterday [1/17/2017] I noted that the number refusing to attend the DC event was 52 but by today it had jumped up to sixty-five.  Very few of these lawmakers are claiming they are too busy to attend.  Instead, Democrats have announced they will protest the incoming president by refusing to take part in the ceremony.

Krauthammer: Democrats' Boycott of the Inauguration Is 'Scandalous'.  When Donald Trump is sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States, more than 60 Democrats will not be in attendance. [...] [Dr. Charles] Krauthammer noted the protesters out in D.C., saying many of them are "incoherent" when it comes to explaining what they're protesting.  He argued that members of Congress are supposed to be the "adults" who set an example.

Trump Inauguration Protesters Work Hard For His Re-Election.  Yes, a lot can and will go wrong with the Trump administration over the next four years, so it's impossible to predict the next election.  But everything in the behavior of Trump's opponents on the Left tells us they are determined to learn nothing from this past election and to double down on everything that drove voters into Trump's camp.

The Left Is Thoroughly Bamboozled.  As Inauguration Day approaches, the leftist media, the Democrats, and the moonbats that make up the nation's academic class are well and truly melting, as surely as the wicked witch of the Wizard of Oz melted when Dorothy tossed some water on her.  So thoroughly, deeply convinced of their own superiority in all things political, legal, cultural, gender, and all branches of learning that they have created their own parallel universe in which Trump could not possibly have won, everyone loves Obama and Obamacare, the economy is booming, unemployment is low, humans are destroying the planet with global warming, global cooling, climate change, and/or bad weather, and Hillary was a shoo-in to win the 2016 election.  They actually believed, without a shred of actual evidence, that Hillary Clinton was qualified to be President even though her record is one of incompetence, poor judgment, corruption and failure.  They have been bamboozled for so long that they have lost the ability to see reality.  They want no part of it because in their parallel universe these things cannot possibly be true.

Here are the Democrats Who are Skipping Trump's Inauguration.  At last count, over 50 Democrats have announced they will be skipping President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, January 20.  The majority of them are from the deep blue state of California.

And Now The Left's War On Normal Americans Truly Begins.  [Scroll down]  In Hollywood, the left is piling on anyone who refuses to completely reject Trump and, by extension, all of us normals.  Look at Nicole Kidman, who the fascists attempted to crucify for simply saying what Hillary Clinton had been saying right up until she lost — that you ought to accept the legitimacy of the winner.  Look at the death threats against a blind opera singer.  Look at those clowns lecturing us at their awards shows/narcissism orgies.  As the left always does, it is relying one fear to enforce its creepy conformity.

A Modest Proposal — To All Those Boycotting Members of Congress.  The first time I met Democrat Maxine Waters was nearly a generation ago when she was a Member of the California State Assembly.  At the State Capitol with the Republican Minority Leader of the State Assembly, I entered a "Members Only" elevator just as Assemblywoman Waters was about to close the door.  She gave the Republican Leader a dirty look, then glanced at the customary "no smoking sign" and blew smoke in my face.  A Member of the U.S. Congress since since 1990, Maxine Waters remains perennially angry.  If Al Sharpton were a transsexual, he would be Maxine Waters, except she may be more demagogic, if that is possible.  A quintessential political hack, she sees everything in terms of race, gender, class, in that order.  Extra points if you're a Palestinian or Muslim.

'Resist Trump' Meeting Refuses to Recite Pledge of Allegiance.  Left-wing organizers refused a request to recite the Pledge of Allegiance during a "Resist Trump" meeting on Sunday sponsored by MoveOn.org to plan protests against the President-elect.  The pledge was rejected because it was "not on the agenda."

Freshman Democrat Kamala Harris grills CIA director nominee on climate change.  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., grilled CIA director Mike Pompeo on whether climate change was a leading national security threat during his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.  "CIA Director Brennan, who has spent a 25-year career at the CIA as an analyst, a senior manager and station chief in the field, has that when 'CIA analysts look for deeper causes of rising instability in the world, one of the causes those CIA analysts see is the impact of climate change,'" Harris began.  "Do you have any reason to doubt the assessment of those CIA analysts?"  Pompeo, a Republican congressman from Kansas, replied that he was unfamiliar with the material Harris was referencing but that the CIA would gather information on all threats to American security, including any that stem from climatic activity, and present them to policymakers.

Hollywood, spare us your hypocrisy.  [P]eople hate being lectured by Hollywood.  Why?  Partly it's because Los Angeles is a strange, alien land full of beautiful eccentrics who use private jets like the rest of us use cabs.  Partly because their politics are often far-left and absurd.  But also because Hollywood is grossly hypocritical.

Judge Jeanine asks:  Are Americans worried about Russian hacking?  In her Street Justice segment on her Fox News show, Judge Jeanine Pirrro asks people on the street if they are worried about Russian hacking.  For the most part, they aren't.  [Video clip]

Liberals Awake From an 8-Year Moral Coma.  For eight years, the voices of what passes for morality on the left were utterly silent as the values of generations of Americans were flushed down the drain.  Those Americans whose desires, experiences and values differed from the leftist elite were treated as worthless garbage, no longer necessary to the imminent liberal utopia, except as a source of revenue.  Christianity was treated like a virus to be extinguished, or revised and controlled to accommodate leftist ideology.  Speech that offended the shameless was branded as hateful, and those daring to openly object to the onslaught of vice and immorality were falsely smeared with every vile epithet the liberals could conjure.

Perfect: DNC Chair Candidate Forum to Be Held at Anti-Israel Restaurant.  Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon reports that the Democratic party's slate of nominees for DNC chair has agreed to participate in a candidate forum hosted at a restaurant owned by a rabid critic of Israel.  The decision to hold it there may give the leading contender for DNC chair — the rabidly anti-Israel and one-time Louis Farrakhan backer Keith Ellison — something of a "home field" advantage.  Sadly, however, it's far from clear that any of the participants will feel out of place.  The restaurant in question is called Busboys and Poets.  It is owned by Andy Shallal, an Iraqi-born anti-Israel activist.  According to Shallal, Israel is an "occupation" force guilty of "terrorizing" the Middle East.  Shallal has also claimed that the United States receives its "marching orders from Tel Aviv."  Ellison likewise said in 2010 that United States foreign policy is governed by "what is good or bad" for Israel.  Shallal uses his restaurant to promote his anti-Israeli views.

Celebrities Call for 'Month of Resistance' to Fight 'Fascist' Trump.  Rosie O'Donnell, Debra Messing, Ed Asner and Michael Shannon are among the dozens of artists, entertainers, and activists who have attached their names to an effort calling for a month-long protest to stop President-elect Donald Trump.  "No!  In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!" reads a full-page ad placed in the New York Times on Wednesday [1/4/2017] by the group Refuse Fascism.

Marijuana legalization supporters to hand out 4,200 joints at Trump inauguration.  Marijuana legalization activists in the nation's capital plan to hand out thousands of joints during President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration as a way to raise awareness about the fragility of legal pot under his administration.  DCMJ, the advocacy group behind the ballot initiative that legalized pot in Washington, D.C., in 2014, will take to the streets Jan. 20 to give away 4,200 joints — or about 40 ounces of marijuana.

What Are They Afraid Of?  What's causing all the frenzy on the left is just this:  the realization that after eight years of weak and undemocratic governance, democracy has reasserted itself.  The American heartland is disgusted with what they've done, from Obamacare to Black Lives Matter to transgendered bathrooms to a feeble foreign policy that emboldens our enemies.  The truth is that most Americans are not progressives and never will be.  They are conservative by nature.  They believe in small business, family, God, and the right to self-defense.

Watching the Fakestream Break Down.  Psychologically, there is no difference now between the Democrats and Jim Jones or Scientology.  Closed-minded utopian cults are all the same: they all follow messianic personalities like Obama and Hillary, and they all drive out any source of dissent.  But dissent and open debate are what keeps us in touch with reality, a point that applies to nations as well as individuals.  North Korea is run by a closed cult, like Iran and Saudi Arabia.  No dissent is allowed, and little by little a Party Line takes over that drifts out of touch with reality.  Because Eurosocialism is identical to Obamanoia, we are seeing stunning parallels between the U.S. and Europe.  The same political ideology is running things over there and over here.  These people are still stuck in soft Marxism, having learned nothing from the fall of the Soviet Empire.  They are doomed to failure.

Liberal Logic.  If a man says he's Napoleon Bonaparte, he needs help, but if he says he's a woman he's perfectly sane and if anyone refuses to go along with him he's being oppressed.  If 97% of scientists say that man made global warming is real anyone who disagrees should be put in prison.  When 100% of scientists say that human life begins at conception it has nothing to do with abortion.  If Russia publishes true facts about Hillary it's foreign interference in our election.  If illegals, i.e. foreigners, vote in our election it's a good thing.  Clubbing a baby seal to death is evil.  Dismembering an unborn human girl without anesthetic is a societal good.  Getting water to California's central valley farmers isn't as important as protecting the delta smelt.  It's okay if wind turbines kill 4200 bald eagles each year.  Saying all lives matter is racist.  Saying only black lives matter is not.

The Christian Left Has Become Unhinged.  The left, who used every possible means at their disposal to curtail religious liberty (believers must bake cakes or take pictures at LGBT "weddings," etc.), project onto Conservatives the tactics that they employed when they were in power.  They appear to have no comprehension of the fear many Americans felt under President Obama's threats to "fundamentally transform America."  They were very happy to lump Evangelical Christians into a "basket of deplorables."  In their eyes, it was perfectly legitimate to portray mainstream Evangelicals as "alt-right" to be feared and hated because of their "extremism" and punished for living out their faith in everyday life.

Warning to Democrats:  The rules have changed.  Weeks after the election, they still don't get it.  We still hear the litany of worn out excuses, such as "We didn't get our message out."  The Russians did it.  The FBI did it.  Bernie supporters betrayed us.  Blacks did not vote.  The election was stolen.  Hillary won the popular vote (albeit with massive voter fraud, of which Detroit is only the tip of the iceberg with its 120-percent voter turnout in many Democrat precincts). [...] After decades of indoctrination in the public schools and universities, a population of newly minted liberals has filled the big cities and the coasts, feeling entitled to win elections, even when they don't vote.  Merely disagreeing with them incites them to anger, sometimes to violence.  Thus, they rarely if ever hear what we conservatives have to say.

Free therapy because Trump won?  According to the New York Post, Mayor Bill de Blasio is creating a citywide safe space for New York City's municipal workers and offering them psychotherapy sessions to deal with the results of the presidential election.  Taken literally (and we should), the mayor is telling citizens of New York City that they should indulge any potential weakness inside them that makes them believe they can't deal with the results of American democracy when the results don't go their way — that they're easily injured, inherently weak and don't have the personal fortitude to keep fighting for what they believe in.

Whoopi Goldberg:  Celebrating Christmas And Getting An Abortion Is The Same Thing.  "The View" host was talking about the right to display Nativity scenes on Tuesday [12/13/2016] when she brought up abortion out of nowhere.

Another Intelligence Agency Agrees With the FBI: The CIA Was Wrong About Russia Helping Trump.  Despite what the American government would like you to believe, not everyone in the world is convinced that Russia is the Reason Trump is President-elect today.  In fact, not everyone within our own intelligence community is convinced that they had anything to do with our election.  I mean, is it so hard to believe that millions upon millions of Americans got fed up with being called "racist" and "sexist" and "homophobic" every time we dared disagree with the liberal/progressive narrative?

Liberals get hysterical over the 'alt-right' but we are living in their 'alt-left' world.  There is no alt-left.  They are not alternative.  Their mainstream is radical and out of the American mainstream on almost everything.  This was quite obvious as liberals bemoaned the death of Fidel Castro, a man his own daughter called "a tyrant."  The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. summed up years of devotion, recalling how, "the oppressed the world over joined Castro's cause of fighting for freedom & liberation."  Some liberals distanced themselves from that love affair, though many have embraced left-wing dictators from Stalin to Chavez.

Democrats, Not Trump, Racialize Our Politics.  Democratic pundits are calling on their party to court working-class and non-coastal whites in the wake of this month's electoral rout.  But the Democratic Party is now dominated by identity politics, which defines whites, particularly heterosexual males, as oppressors of every other population in the U.S.  Why should the targets of such thinking embrace an ideology that scorns them?

Progressives without Power.  There are 25 states in which the state legislatures and governorships are controlled by Republicans, and two states with executive/legislative divides in which there are Republican legislative majorities large enough to override a veto from the Democratic governor.  Sixty-eight of the country's 98 partisan state legislative chambers are Republican-run.  There are only four states with Democratic governors and legislatures; it is true that these include one of our most populous states (California), but the majority of Americans live in states in which there are Republican trifectas or veto-proof legislative majorities.  Two-thirds of the nation's governors are Republicans; more than two-thirds of our state legislative houses are under Republican control.  Republicans control both houses of Congress and have just won the presidency.

Jill Stein praises Fidel Castro: 'A symbol of the struggle for justice'.  Green Party perennial presidential hopeful Jill Stein praised former Cuban strongman Fidel Castro on Saturday, as encomiums by many left-of-center politicians continued to roll in following his death.

Arkansas Dem switches parties, hands GOP a supermajority in state house of representatives.  This is the stuff of nightmares for Democrat bosses.  Already acutely aware of the down ballot disaster Obama has inflicted on the party, they now have to deal with abandonment, as ambitious politicians see the handwriting on the wall.  This party is going nowhere for at least the present.

Former Sanders Spokeswoman:  "We Don't Need White People Leading The Democratic Party".  Symone Sanders, former spokeswoman for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, appeared on CNN Wednesday afternoon [11/23/2016] to weigh in on the future of the DNC and the Democratic party.  Sanders dismissed the idea of Howard Dean returning as DNC chairman commenting, "we don't need white people leading the Democratic party right now."

Yeah, we can tell.
Fewer U.S. parents spanking their kids.  Spanking and hitting children to discipline them has been on the decline among U.S. parents — rich and poor alike — since 1988, a new study finds.  According to the researchers, the number of mothers with an average income level who considered physical discipline acceptable decreased from 46 percent to 21 percent over two decades.

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The Bible says the man that spares his rod hates his son.

Democrats have enthusiastically become the "anti-White people" Party.  It's pretty simple math.  Whites still make up nearly seventy percent of the population of the United States.

A Tactical Suggestion For Democrats:  Tone Down Your Hatred Of Straight White Men.  After Republican defeats in Presidential elections, the Mainstream Media constantly calls for the GOP to fundamentally change by putting illegal aliens on the Path to Citizenship.  After this Democratic defeat, however, there have been numerous reassurances that the general strategy of Electing a New People is foolproof in the long run.

Millennials Are In Election Hell Because Politics Has Become Their God.  The freak-out is especially acute among millennials.  These are the "nones" and the "spiritual but not religious" bunch we've heard about the past decade.  Millennials, we were told, didn't abandon faith per se — can the human spirit truly live without faith? — they simply redirected it away from "organized religion" toward other things, chief among which was politics.  I wonder how that's working out for them.

Oregon official who bullied Christian bakery owners loses election.  An Oregon bureaucrat who waged political jihad against the owners of a Christian bakery was given the heave-ho by voters.  Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian was defeated by Republican Dennis Richardson in his bid to be Secretary of State.  It's the first time a Republican has been elected to a statewide office in Oregon since 2002.  So consider this — Avakian was too liberal for what is arguably one of the most liberal states in the country.  Avakian, a passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA crowd, was thrust into the national spotlight when he declared war on a Christian bakery in 2013.

Getting Stupid.  While it certainly appears so when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama don't seem to have much interest in explaining to the "protesters" that Trump will be president and it's time to go home, it's often worse than that.  Take, for example, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), who came right out and said "God bless the protesters."  That's a man who supposedly will carry the Democrats' standard in 2020.

Soros and Other Far Leftists Instigate Revolution Against Trump.  [Scroll down]  Even well before the presidential election, Soros was busy behind the scenes fomenting combustible street protests that burst out of control.  For example, the Washington Times has reported that "Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations."  Soros is anti-police.  He tweeted a reference to an article published by his Open Society Foundations, entitled "Let's Reduce, Not Reform, Policing in America."  The author described policing as "the armed enforcement of the interests of the most powerful over those who would challenge that power."  Her proposed solution was not better police training or accountability, but simply to "shrink the size and scope of police forces, reduce the number of gadgets at cops' disposal, and constrain their ability to ensnare us."  Without adequate police to prevent or constrain riots, protesters will have free rein to intimidate those whom they see as their political enemies.

Democrat Luis Gutierrez Threatens War If Trump Enforces Immigration Law.  There have been a lot of crazy reactions from the democrats now that Donald Trump has won the presidency but none as insane as this one from US Representative Luis Gutierrez.  The [trash]-talking homeboy from Illinois is threatening to go to war with Trump, ICE, DHS, and the entire federal government if the next president dares to enforce our country's immigration laws by deporting illegal aliens.  Did I say insane?  I meant treasonous.

Democrats Are Losing the Culture Wars.  Democratic operatives criticized the Clinton campaign team for taking the Rust Belt for granted.  Bernie Sanders and his ascendant left-wing flank of the party blames the party's closeness to Wall Street.  No one is pointing a finger at the most glaring vulnerability:  the party's cultural disconnect from much of the country.  On issues ranging from the president's hesitance to label terrorism by its name to an unwillingness to criticize extremist elements of protest groups like Black Lives Matter to executive orders mandating transgender bathrooms, the administration offended the sensibilities of the American public.

Watch Crowd BOO Wanda Sykes for Attacking Trump & Supporters.  Celebrities just can't seem to get the message that people don't want to hear the political rantings from someone paid millions of dollars to play pretend all day.  Yet somehow, they keep doing it, even though it never ends well.  Wanda Sykes is the latest example of someone who had to learn that lesson the hard way.  [Video clip]

Cluelessness Runs Deep.  Republicans are capturing one state legislative body after another; they now control more than two-thirds of them.  Somehow, though, both national and local media fail to catch on.

Blue Nation Protesters.  Blue Nation wants to secede from the union.  Members of Blue Nation have threatened to move to Canada, but Canada has officially asked them to stay put.  Members of Blue Nation have threatened, via Twitter, to assassinate the President-Elect.  This is their character.  Yes, Red Nation would have felt much the same had Hillary Clinton been elected, but there was a little matter of placing the nation's most shameless felon in charge of the nation's law enforcement apparatus that led to those feelings.  Blue Nation wants to assassinate Donald Trump, because he does not think like they do.  Those are some serious differences.

New York Times executive editor: 'New York is not the real world'.  New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet said his newspaper's insular world view is at fault for so wrongly misreading the election that saw Donald Trump become the president-elect.  In an interview with Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg, Baquet said he and his publication at large did not see Trump's coming success on Election Day because they do not understand much of the country's voters.

Clueless:
Obama Spokesman: 'Far Too Early... to Discern Exactly What Message Voters Were Trying to Send'.  On the day after Americans chose Donald Trump over a woman who promised to defend and "build on" Barack Obama's policies, a White House spokesman said he doesn't know what message the voters were trying to send.  "[T]he results of the election are not even 12 hours old, and I think it is far too early, at least for me, to discern exactly what message the voters were trying to send last night," Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday [11/9/2016].

The Communists Behind the Anti-Trump Protests.  From reading the various mainstream media accounts of these events, one comes away with the distinct impression that they are grassroots actions that began organically among ordinary, concerned, well-meaning citizens.  But alas, if one were to think that, one would be wrong.  Contrary to media misrepresentations, many of the supposedly spontaneous, organic, anti-Trump protests we have witnessed in cities from coast to coast were in fact carefully planned and orchestrated, in advance, by a pro-Communist organization called the ANSWER Coalition, which draws its name from the acronym for "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism."  ANSWER was established in 2001 by Ramsey Clark's International Action Center, a group staffed in large part by members of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. [...] Since its inception, ANSWER has consistently depicted the United States as a racist, sexist, imperialistic, militaristic nation guilty of unspeakable crimes against humanity — in other words, a wellspring of pure evil.

Hillary's failed campaign revealed:  She turned off women, black and Hispanic voters who showed up for Obama (and that was AFTER trying out 84 slogans).  Hillary Clinton expected to win.  She was set to ride into the White House on the back of huge margins among women, minority and millennial voters.  Newsweek even sent out advance 'Madam President' souvenir issues to book stores.  But in the end Clinton lost the race to Donald Trump.  And exit polls reveal that the target demographics her campaign relied upon — sometimes favoring up-and-coming groups over historic Democrat supporters — simply did not show up as planned.  The data help to paint a picture of a campaign whose headquarters, isolated in their ultra-liberal Brooklyn, were disastrously out of touch with America's reality.

Celebrity Meltdowns.  It's been some low-hanging fruit watching celebrities react to this election, but low-hanging fruit is delicious.  Lady Gaga asked that we "say a prayer America" and then blew Trump's mind by standing outside one of his buildings with a sign that said "Love trumps hate."  This is a powerful message because Trump hates love.  He was hoping that eventually he could wipe out all the love in America but Gaga was ensuring him that no matter how hard he tried, it would still be there.  Where do these people get their views from — Dr. Seuss?

Celebrities, Have the Grace to Fulfill Your Promises.  The Left was quite positive that the first woman to be president would triumph, and obviously the whole thing was quite a shock.  Celebrities, always eager to get their faces or persons before any available camera, did so.  But just what is a celebrity?  They are people who are famous because you might recognize their face or their name.  They prefer to think that because they may or may not have some name recognition, that the world is interested in their political opinions — it isn't.  Unfortunately there are always some star-struck reporters around who are.

Hillary supporters trash lawn outside Independence Hall.  Last night, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gushed about how much they love America, but the evidence left behind by her supporters may tell a different story.  The Clintons and Obamas rallied Pennsylvania supporters outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall late Monday night, and on Tuesday morning, trash still littered the ground at the site.  Local resident Ed Mac posted several photos from the location, shows garbage strewn across the lawn.

Clinton sycophants blinded by the light.  It is said of toxic narcissists that they manipulate two kinds of people:  those who do not see the abuse and those who purposefully ignore the abuse.  Who among all those telegenic defenders cannot see the truth of who these people are?  Podesta's emails are a virtual road map, as Thomas Frank wrote in an already famous Guardian article that lays out how this country is being run by a small cadre of wealthy, inter-connected elites whose mission in life is only to preserve their own power and wealth.  This crowd helps each other, each other's kids and families.  They cover for each other, lie for each other, defend each other when legal problems arise because so many of them are lawyers.  What is stunning in the Podesta emails is that there is absolutely nothing in any of them that mentions any concern about the country, its citizens, its productivity, economy, or culture.  The emails are only about winning, by any means necessary.

All the Queen's Men.  [Scroll down]  What do the leading men in Hillary Clinton's campaign have in common?  Quite a lot:
  •   All support the sexual revolution's ascendency over religion, morality and religious liberty.
  •   All support the primacy of sex over either family or faith.
  •   All support the dominion of abortion over the dominion of life.  Put another way:  They all support a throwaway culture where human lives are expendable if found to be inconvenient, over a culture of unconditional love.
  •   All also support divorce over unconditional love which upholds the dignity of their current and former spouses.  Continued conquests in the sexual revolution are valued more highly than spouses.
  •   All support genderless, same-sex marriage as fully equal to conjugal, complementary marriage, which, whether wittingly or unwittingly serves as a mocking condemnation of the one true definition of marriage.  They just don't see marriage as a big deal.
  •   All support a decayed form of manhood that seeks sex without consequence, without commitment, with either women or men — and mostly with younger women and younger men.

Why do liberals glorify JFK's promiscuity?  [Scroll down]  This kind of glorification of Kennedy continues to make me laugh, because it's not just magazine authors and professors who do it.  Democrats continue to hold him (and Bill Clinton) up as paragons of their party while claiming Republicans are the anti-women party.  Now we have an entire book telling men that being like Kennedy is the cool thing to do.

Hillary Clinton to campaign with cop critic Jay Z.  Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading to Cleveland Friday [11/4/2016] to campaign with rapper Jay Z, who, along with his wife Beyonce, have drawn fire for their songs and statements accusing police of brutality.  It takes place at Cleveland State University and is part of the music industry giant's get out the vote effort.

I Want a President Who Loves America, Part Trois.  Well, here we are, a week to go before the presidential election of 2016, and one thing is clear.  One of the candidates snuggles up to the American flag when he does his rallies and he tells us that he can Make America Great Again quickly, really quickly.  And the other candidate?  Well, let us just say that she is not exactly celebrating the fundamental goodness of America.  If I understand the meaning of "Stronger Together" rightly, it means that unless we in the Coalition of the Fringes hang together we will hang separately, what with the national menace of white-male locker-room talk and women all over America getting harassed by billionaires and blacks getting shot by white policemen.

North Carolina Democrat Defended Bars That Banned Military.  North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross spoke out in defense of state bars that chose to stop admitting members of the military.  Ross has been forced to answer for much of the work she did as head of North Carolina's ACLU branch during her Democratic primary battle and current campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Richard Burr.  Critics of her ACLU record have pointed to cases that Ross took up and also cases that she chose to ignore, such as a Vietnam veteran who asked for her help after being told he could not fly the American flag on his property.  One group that never received her help was a group of active military members in North Carolina who were told they could not attend certain bars because they were part of the armed forces.

Voter App Reports 74% of Millennials Support Voter ID, 51% Support Border Wall.  According to an exclusive report from the "Tinder for Politics" app Voter, around 74% of its Millennial-based audience support the requirement of an ID to vote, while 51% support building a border wall.  69% also support using the term "radical Islam" to describe ISIS — something which President Obama has frequently refused to do — while 59% oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Horowitz: Is the University of Chicago a Safe Space?  There are many ways to suppress free speech, the right to which is the foundation of all our other rights, and our democracy as well.  Many leftists would like to outright suppress the speech of those with whom they disagree.  But given the fact that most Americans still believe that the First Amendment is important, they are forced to resort to other measures.  One of these is to obstruct speakers who challenge them by disrupting their events and shouting them down.  An even more effective and more common tactic is to slander those whom they disagree with and call them "extremists" and "racists" and the whole bag of "deplorables" that Hillary Clinton so imprudently identified.

Michael Moore:  Trump Voters Are 'Legal Terrorists'.  Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore said in a recent interview that Donald Trump voters are "legal terrorist[s]" and that society should treat the Republican presidential candidate as it would a pedophile.  Moore made the provocative remarks in an interview with Rolling Stone while pitching a new documentary, "Michael Moore in Trumpland."  Moore said he went to union halls for the film and met with longtime Democrats who are considering voting for Trump in November.  His goal, he said, was to force them "to think about the damage they could do by being a legal terrorist on November 8th."

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It takes a special kind of paranoia to compare voting to an act of terrorism.  Legitimate voting (as opposed to voting more than once, voting under someone else's name, and voting while dead) is one of the most peaceful, honorable and orderly ways to participate in government.

The Left and the Masses:  Part III.  When Barack Obama referred to ordinary working people as people who are "bitter," and who "cling to guns or religion," that was not just a peculiarity of Obama.  He was part of a centuries-long tradition on the left.  No one so epitomized the 18th century left as Jean Jacques Rousseau, who likened the masses to "a stupid, pusillanimous invalid."  In the 19th century, Karl Marx said, "The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing" — in other words, millions of human beings mattered only if they carried out his vision.  Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw included the working class among the "detestable" people who "have no right to live."  He added:  "I should despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like themselves."  It sounds very much like Hillary Clinton's view of the "deplorables" who support her opponent, or Bill Clinton's characterization of the same people as "standard rednecks."

Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs:  Americans Who Want to Limit Immigration Are 'Fundamentally UnAmerican'.  Hillary Clinton told Goldman Sachs executives that Americans who want to limit immigration are "fundamentally un-American," according to the leaked transcript of her private October 2013 speech made public by WikiLeaks.  Clinton's statement is significant because it suggests that, according to polling data, Clinton views an overwhelming majority of the American electorate to be "fundamentally un-American."  According to data from Pew Research Center, 83% of the American electorate would like to see immigration levels frozen or reduced.

The New War Between the States.  In this disgusting election, dominated by the personal and the petty, the importance of the nation's economic geography has been widely ignored.  Yet if you look at the Electoral College map, the correlation between politics and economics is quite stark, with one economy tilting decisively toward Trump and more generally to Republicans, the other toward Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies.  This reflects an increasingly stark conflict between two very different American economies.  One, the "Ephemeral Zone" concentrated on the coasts, runs largely on digits and images, the movement of software, media and financial transactions.  It produces increasingly little in the way of food, fiber, energy and fewer and fewer manufactured goods.  The Ephemeral sectors dominate ultra-blue states such as New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Connecticut.

Tim Kaine "Opposes Death Penalty" But Embraces Theology That Idolizes Mass-Murderers.  The comradeship between the "Liberation Theology" Tim Kaine admits to embracing while working as a missionary in Central America and mass-murderer Che Guevara is such that some of the cheekier proponents of this Catholic heresy (as denounced by Pope John Paul II himself) depict an iconographic "Chesucristo," with Christ impersonating Che Guevara in the famous t-shirt/emblem.

Ben & Jerry's Faces Boycott After Endorsing Black Lives Matter.  Socially conscious ice cream company Ben & Jerry's faces calls for a boycott after the company announced its support for the Black Lives Matter protest movement this week.  "Systemic and institutionalized racism are the defining civil rights and social justice issues of our time," the Vermont-based company said in a statement posted on benjerry.com.

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The worst business move you can make is to tie contentious politics to an otherwise broadly-appealing product.  I'm proud to say that Ben & Jerry's ice cream has never touched my lips — even though I've heard it's pretty good.

Black Lives Matter tactics prompt questions about true aims of social justice movement.  Protests over police shootings of black men.  Outrage over gender bias in business and government.  Panic over melting ice caps and rising sea levels.  Demonstrations against the "1 percent."  Racism.  Sexism.  Environmentalism.  Classism.  What's a social justice warrior to do?  Protest without end, apparently.  D'Artagnan Scorza, executive director and founder of the Los Angeles-based Social Justice Learning Institute, says the social justice movement aims to uplift different groups who have been staggered and stymied by the weight of historical prejudices, oppression, exclusion and other transgressions.

Voters Hit Back at Pro-Clinton Celebrity PSAs.  Celebrities, and particularly movie stars, have an irritating tendency to believe that just because they were in That Big Movie from ten years ago, the American public should automatically care about their political opinions or which candidate they're going to vote for in this year's election.  That's why so many of them are apparently lining up to do not-at-all-subtle anti-Donald Trump "voter registration" public service announcements.

CPAC: Kaine most liberal VP pick ever, beats Biden, Gore, Ferraro, Muskie.  Republican running mate Mike Pence, the Indiana governor and former House leader, is the "most conservative" vice presidential nominee of the last 50 years, according to the American Conservative Union's grading system. [...] By comparison, Democratic running mate Sen. Tim Kaine has the lowest ACU grade in 50 years, zero.  That is even lower than populist hero former Sen. Hubert Humphrey, former Vice President Al Gore and even Vice President Joe Biden.  In fact, Kaine is the only nominee with a perfect zero lifetime rating, and he is even lower than President Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and the top of the ticket, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Endorsing Clinton Costs Newspapers Subscribers.  Newspapers that have traditionally endorsed Republicans for president are paying a financial price — cancelled subscriptions for crossing over and endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton.  According to The New York Times, the cancellations were coming in every ten minutes at The Arizona Republic, which had never endorsed a Democrat for president in its 126-year history.

Several newspapers that endorsed Hillary Clinton for president have taken huge subscriber hits.  The Arizona Republic, one of Arizona's largest newspapers, endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president last week.  The paper could have never imagined what followed.  According to the New York Times, who spoke with the paper's editorial page editor, the paper received cancellation calls every 10 minutes following the endorsement.

MSNBC Panelist: 'The Public Should Not Trust Police Officers'.  Saturday on MSNBC's "AM Joy," while discussing the recent police shooting in North Carolina, the co-director of Advancement Project, civil rights attorney Judith Browne Dianis, said, "the public should not trust police officers."

Congressional Black Caucus demands nationwide law enforcement crackdown.  The Congressional Black Caucus is demanding that Attorney General Loretta Lynch immediately take action to prevent police killings with a nationwide crackdown on law enforcement.  "The world is watching and we cannot continue to ignore these killings," said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., presenting the letter to the media Thursday [9/22/2016] while the entire caucus stood in support outside the Department of Justice.  The Congressional Black Caucus' letter urges Lynch to "aggressively pursue investigations, indictments and prosecutions through the Office of Civil Rights against any and all law enforcement officers who harm or kill innocent unarmed black men, women and children.

The Useless Left.  Who supports Republicans?  Principally folks do work of value, like producing food, healing the sick, growing cotton, drilling oil, building houses, mining coal, protecting us as policemen and soldiers, healing the sick.  Productive people.  Who supports Democrats?  Principally those sloths whose "work" has nothing of real value to ordinary Americans at all like sociology professors; government bureaucrats; public school administrators; blood-sucking lawyers; and, of course, that vast army of leftists who live off welfare and other entitlements and who do not even pretend to do any work at all.

Seven Deadly Reasons Why the Left Loves Islam.  Imagine that some splinter Christian sect existed that preached a sneering contempt for women, sex slavery, hatred for Jews, death to non-believers (and homosexuals), child-marriage, religious conquest, segregation and gross religious discrimination, and the legitimacy of lying whenever it suited the church's purposes.  Imagine that it had been practicing all these evils since shortly after its founding, and had left mountains of corpses on three continents — complete with burned libraries, looted cities and ruined civilizations.  Do you think that secular leftists would spend their time and energy making excuses for such a church? [...] Why would leftists who are outraged, say, that the Catholic church won't ordain women or that Southern Baptists won't celebrate same-sex weddings, give a pass to a faith that endorses child polygamy and executes homosexuals?

I'm Deplorable and I'm Proud.  Friday night [9/16/2016], Hillary Clinton said out loud what our progressive friends have long been thinking.  It may cost her the election.  Half of Donald Trump's supporters, claimed Hillary, were merely anxious about the future.  The other half belonged in a "basket of deplorables."  What made them deplorable, said Hillary, was that they were "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it."

Clinton Campaign Charges College Students $500 To Attend 'Conversation with Chelsea' Event.  The Clintons understand the average American.  They know what it's like to be dead broke.  Hillary Clinton is so a woman of the people.  She's just like you.  (Except for making millions of dollars off the backs of the taxpayers and suffering from Disingenuous Lying Seahag Syndrome).  Bill Clinton is just like you!  (Minus being an unapologetic rapist, of course.)  Chelsea Clinton is just like you!  (Except for getting paid $600,000 a year by NBC to basically do nothing.)

'Deplorable' Hillary Clinton Maligns Nearly 50 Million Americans.  Clinton's remarks completely conform with the liberalism that she shares with top Democrats — from K Street to Sunset Boulevard.  As they see it, hordes of the great unwashed live in "flyover country."  They are not educated or elegant enough to have reached Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York, or — the most elevated place of all — Washington, D.C.  So, enlightened people like Hillary and her supporters must make decisions for these benighted souls.  Thus, Washington should tell these people what to do, every day, all day long.

23 great reasons to vote for Trump!
These 23 Celebrities Say They'll Leave The Country If Trump Is Elected.  Amy Schumer recently told BBC Newsnight that anyone who doesn't like Hillary Clinton is uninformed.  She went on to say that she would move to Spain if Trump was elected.  "It's beyond my comprehension if Trump won.  It's just too crazy," she said.  Okay then.  But Schumer's not alone in her anger.

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Yes, please do leave the country, renounce your citizenship, and agree never to return, in person or on film.

It's a 'basket' case.  If Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are so confident of winning this election, why are they becoming more hysterical by the day?  "You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," she said Friday night in New York.  "Right?  Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it."  The national polls are pretty much dead even right now.  So Hillary just wrote off one-quarter of the U.S. population — 80 million or so Americans.

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At the very least, this name-calling on Hillary's part will motivate less-than-enthusiastic voters to be sure and get to the polling place on Election Day.

The Dragon Comes With a Suitcase.  The Western left has the habit of preaching from a moral height while simultaneously describing its history as one unending crime.  You've heard the teaching moments.  "I live in a house built by slaves."  "You didn't build that!"  This whole country is stolen!  Say it often enough and someone will believe you.  Somebody did.  The trouble is you can't rise from the toilet to suddenly preach from a great moral height.  It's possible to do one but not both simultaneously.

NeverTrumps and the End of America as We Know It.  The election of Hillary Clinton would mean final defeat for American conservativism — for at least a generation and almost certainly for much longer than that. [...] The US Supreme Court will become a five vote rubber stamp for the Left immediately upon Clinton's appointment of Justice Scalia's replacement.  That majority will be sustained or enlarged by whatever further vacancies come Clinton's way.  So, adding it all up, the number of new future statist client voters after Clinton will be in the neighborhood of 26-38 million:  11-20 million amnestied illegals; 12 million new, almost exclusively third world, statist voting legal immigrants; and another 4-6 million newly arrived illegals.  With the full power of the federal executive branch in their hands, and no opposition from an increasingly partisan federal judiciary and Supreme Court, the re-empowered Left will move its newly chosen voters around as it chooses — to the states where their voting presence will have the greatest effect.

How to Be a Liberal.  It's easy to be an American liberal.  All that is required are hypocrisy and ignorance.  Ignorance is an absolute must, but especially ignorance of three things:  economics, human nature and all of recorded history.  One has to be truly economically illiterate to believe that high taxes encourages productivity, that union-imposed labor regulations don't dis-incentivize hiring, that energy regulations don't raise prices on the poor and working class.  Likewise, to be a liberal you must pretend that men and women are exactly alike in every respect and that communism produces the most happiness for the most people.

Hillary's Long, Cozy Love Affairs with Racists.  During her first presidential campaign eight years ago, Mrs. Clinton spoke at an event held by Al Sharpton's National Action Network, where she crowed about the "long and positive relationship" she had enjoyed with Sharpton and his organization.  Noting that "I don't ever remember saying 'no' to them," Clinton vowed "to remain their partner in civil rights" for as long as there was breath in her body.  Sharpton, you may recall, is the vile, foul-mouthed black socialist who has done more to poison race relations in America than virtually anyone other than Barack Obama.  And nothing whatsoever has changed in Mrs. Clinton's estimation of Sharpton in the years since then.

Sorry, Hillary:  Trump's policies are clearly better for blacks.  On everything from education to jobs to crime, Trump's policies offer a lifeline to people who have been losing ground for decades.  Hillary's policies will just exacerbate them.  And no amount of speeches will change that.  On education, Trump strongly supports school choice.  This would give inner-city blacks a way out of horribly performing public schools.  Clinton attacks charters and clearly opposes other forms of school choice, opting to protect teachers unions at the expense of students.  And who's harmed the most by illegal immigration?  Who's most likely to suffer unemployment or wage reductions due to the added competition?  Young, unskilled blacks and Hispanics.  The biggest beneficiaries?  Wealthy people who get to pay less for lawn care and housecleaning.  But crime is the immediate, life-and-death issue for so many blacks and Hispanics trapped in high-crime urban areas.  Too many come to physical harm, have their property stolen, or lose their jobs as businesses are driven from their neighborhoods.  Clinton seems more focused on helping criminals rather than their victims.

Democrats' Platform for Revolution.  [Scroll down]  Obama never met Alinsky personally; the latter died when Obama was a young boy. [...] Hillary, for her part, actually got to know Alinsky personally.  She was so impressed with Alinsky's theories and tactics vis a vis social change, that during her senior year at Wellesley College she interviewed him and subsequently penned a 92-page thesis on his ideas. [...] During her senior year, Hillary was offered a job by Alinsky but chose instead to enroll at Yale Law School.  Alinsky's teachings, however, would remain close to her heart throughout her adult life.

Manufactured Grievance: [Scroll down]  You are right that the number of depressed and confused men driven to enter the ladies' room is practically zero as a percentage of American men (gay or straight), but that's not the point.  You are right that good studies show police are less likely to shoot and kill black men than other men, but those facts don't matter.  You are right that America is a good country, but again you don't get it.  The point is to elevate the perceived victimhood of all minorities through the girls' bathroom issue, of black Americans by making "all lives" a slur, of successful women by converting reasonable and humane abortion restrictions into a century-reversing threat to their livelihood.

Green Party Presidential Candidate Doesn't Think Killing 49 Gay People Counts As An Attack.  Judith Butler has claimed that Islamic terror groups are progressive.  Maybe Jill Stein agrees.  Either that or she's utterly unaware of anything that happened after 1932.  Considering that she is the Green Party candidate, that is an entirely real possibility. [...] Does constantly plotting terror attacks count as an imminent threat?  Not to the Green Party which decided that its figurehead needed to be even more delusional and ideologically driven than Bernie Sanders.

Austin, TX city council member offers good advice to kids, catches hell from the left.  According to the leftists who dominate politics in Austin, Texas, it is outrageously offensive to tell young people to get an education and a job, and "do something useful and produce something in your society so you don't have to live off others."  Austin City Council member Don Zimmerman is currently experiencing vicious criticism for this sound advice.

Green Party Nominee Wants To 'Explore' Disarming Police Officers.  Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee for president, on Sunday said she would like to "explore for the future" the idea of taking away guns from police officers in order to "address this scourge of racist violence."  The liberal candidate has talked about disarming police officers before.  Asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" to explain how that would work in a society where there are already millions of guns, Stein said:  "Exactly, which is why I used the term something to explore for the future."  Stein spoke of the "need to actually hold police accountable so that we can address this scourge of racist violence."

Clinton Sought Support of Black Lives Matter, Spurned Law Enforcement Union.  In what is looking to many in the law enforcement community like a snub, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has decided not to seek the endorsement of the nation's largest police union.  She has instead — rather conspicuously — sought the endorsement of Black Lives Matter activists, and her efforts have garnered mixed results according to Kerry Picket of The Daily Caller.  After holding meetings with BLM activists for almost a year, Picket reports that Clinton received the endorsement of the BLM-linked "Mothers of the Movement" but failed to secure the support of BLM co-founder Alicia Garza.

Communist Party Unites Behind Hillary.  The Communist Party USA may not control many actual votes, but what they lack in support is made up for in enthusiasm.  That passion was in full display with a seven-person team of "reporters" covering their national political convention last month.  And their convention was the Democratic National Convention that nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton as their undisputed candidate for president of the United States.

The Madness of Democrat Science.  [Scroll down]  Democrats believe that the earth is at the mercy of natural forces that brought it from a hot molten state to a cooler solid one, then through ice ages in which glaciers formed and then melted to create many of our great lakes and then new ice ages came and ended and today, if the temperature rises half a degree in fifty years, it's a sign that driving your car is causing the apocalypse and the government has to take over the oil industry.  Democrats believe in building brilliant new machines that can look right inside a woman's body and see a tiny baby forming in the womb with completely shaped fingers and toes and a beating heart and a brain — images that must never be shown on television so you won't feel bad when you rip the baby to pieces because you really wanted a Sagitarius and you're due in June.

Democratic Party Suffers Nervous Breakdown In Philly.  The Democratic National Convention was almost literally a disaster area.  Bernie Sanders suspended all party rules on the floor of the convention to personally nominate Hillary Clinton by a voice vote.  Left-wing protesters rampaged in the streets.  Pro-Bernie delegates walked off the convention floor in protest.  Agitators seized the mainstream media's control center against an outnumbered police force.  Speakers were booed.  Green Party candidate Jill Stein crashed the event and emerged as the new Bernie Sanders in the general election.  A man set himself on fire stomping on a burning American flag.  America now has a real two-party system: one party is the Populist Nationalists.  The other party is the political class.  The Democratic Party is the political class.

Bernie Is a Mainstream Democrat.  At this point, people who are willing, even eager, to support a full-blown Commie are legion — and growing.  This is not surprising, given the daily onslaught of left-wing propaganda from Hollywood and the media and the relentless indoctrination in our public schools and universities.

There Has Not Been a Non-Lawyer on a Democratic Presidential Ticket for Three Decades.  Democrats nominated two lawyers for the ninth consecutive presidential election at last week's convention in Philadelphia, something Republicans have not done since 1972.  Both Hillary Clinton, who went to Yale Law School, and running mate Tim Kaine, who went to Harvard Law School, worked in private law practices before entering the political realm.  It has become a given for Democrats to nominate lawyers in recent decades.  All of the party's candidates going back to 1984 — Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John Edwards, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Bill Clinton, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and Geraldine Ferraro — went to law school.

Democrats Abandon Workers to Trump.  [Scroll down]  Smart liberal journalists smell the coffee.  "Donald Trump's Working-Class Appeal Is Starting To Freak Out Labor Unions" was the headline over an article in The Huffington Post.  But because the unions are endorsing Mrs. Clinton, the Trump candidacy has the potential to drive a huge wedge between the well-paid union leaders and the workers they claim to represent.  "Hillary Clinton has supported virtually every trade agreement that has cost this country millions of jobs and is on the exact opposite side from rank-and-file union workers whose jobs she has destroyed," Trump says.  "Clinton has helped negotiate the [Trans-Pacific Partnership] and is its biggest booster — there is no doubt she would enact it if given the chance — yet more betrayal of union voters whose jobs would vanish as a result of this deal."

Has Clinton Written Off Working-Class White Men?  The Democratic convention in Philadelphia this week was a shrewdly planned, well-choreographed, star-studded celebration of diversity, inclusion and social justice.  A party now dominated by progressives also tried reaching out to moderate or defecting Republicans with decorated veterans, some tough talk on national security and passionate displays of patriotism.  But for the white working-class men drawn to Donald Trump — the very voters who were for decades the foundation of the Democratic Party — the message was clear:  We've pretty much given up on you.  The convention, which started on a divisive and dramatic note with leaked emails showing the Democratic National Committee had favored the candidacy of Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders all along, ended up, by most accounts, a great success.  Yet it also illustrated what polling shows — that the ascendant coalition in the Democratic Party of women, young voters and non-whites may no longer find common cause with blue-collar white men.

Democratic Convention Celebrated an Attempted Cop Killer.  Let's be blunt about this.  Not only did Democrats on the floor of the convention interrupt a moment of silence for fallen police officers.  The official, mainstream, establishment leadership of the Democratic National Committee celebrated, by inviting his mother onstage, a man who actually attempted to kill a police officer.  Honored along with other mothers of blacks killed by white police officers, in an event titled "Mothers of the movement," was Lezley McSpadden, whose son Michael Brown was shot in August 2014 by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson, Mo., police officer.

Philly police say uniformed cops were barred from DNC floor.  Some Philadelphia police officers say they were barred from patrolling in uniform on the floor of the convention while it was in session — spurring claims that Democrats are anti-law enforcement.  Rudy Giuliani on Thursday first raised the issue of uniformed cops not being allowed to mingle with delegates on the floor.  "Philadelphia police officers are not in the convention hall.  They're not allowed in uniform," said Giuliani, a Donald Trump adviser who was monitoring the Democratic convention.

What if an Anti-American Cult Had a Convention?  Have you ever wondered what it might look like if a cult that enabled death and destruction and chaos and anarchy had its own national convention? [...] At such a convention, we might expect that God and religion are so objectionable that they are booed and marginalized.  Why, they might even boo during the invocation at the outset of the convention, though why such people would have an invocation is beyond me.  Perhaps they await the blessing of the entity to whom Saul Alinsky, one of their patrons, dedicated his book.  Certainly that would make sense.  After all, such a cult would probably have officially removed the actual God from its party platform years ago.

A Career Sexual Predator Makes The Case For Hillary At The DNC.  Amid the freakshow of the Carter mummy phoning in, the mothers of criminals, random mildly famous celebrities, the Sandernista walkout and Howard Dean doing the scream that ended his career one more time, the other Clinton took the stage.  In an evening featuring discussions about sex trafficking, the highlight was a sexual predator.  In an evening that featured 9/11 victims, the highlight was the man who left America vulnerable to 9/11 and refused to take out Osama bin Laden.  And Bill being Bill, the lying didn't take too long to get started.

Giuliani: Uniformed Police Officers Not Allowed on Democratic Convention Floor.  Thursday [7/28/2016] on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," in an appearance from the site of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called the convention "the most anti-police" and "the most anti-law enforcement" he had ever seen.  However, he also said that according to "high-ranking police officers" in Philadelphia, uniformed law enforcement was not allowed on the floor of the convention.

Old Glory's Old News To The New Democrats As The Palestinian Flag Flies At The DNC.  The flag of pan-Arab nationalism, born out of violent rebellion and struggle (or jihad), was flown today on the floor of the Democratic National Convention.  What it means that the flag of "Palestine" can be spotted in Philadelphia, with not an Old Glory in sight, is that the Democratic Party of America is taking a hard-left turn.  Bernie Sanders delegate Ali Akın Kurnaz is being credited on Twitter with raising the flag which represents a violent struggle against the only functioning democracy in the region, Israel.  This is the only reasonable interpretation of what hard-left activists attempt to dress up in the garbs of "human rights" and "self-determination".

As ISIS Attacks Mount, Dems Target The Real Threats:  Refrigerators And The Rich.  In the past 12 months, ISIS launched or inspired nearly 40 terrorist attacks around the world that have claimed more than 1,600 lives.  Almost a third of those deaths occurred in this month alone. [...] Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday — and we are not making this up — equated the global war against refrigerants with the war against ISIS.  "Yesterday, I met in Washington with 45 nations — defense ministers and foreign ministers — as we were working together on the challenge of (ISIS) and terrorism," Kerry said at a conference in Vienna, where he was negotiating a deal to phase out the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a refrigerant used in household fridges and air conditioners.  "It's hard for some people to grasp it, but what we — you — are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself."  And at the Democratic convention, not one of the 61 speakers who got up on the dais Monday uttered the word "ISIS" or "Islamic" or "terrorism" or "terrorist" or "terror," according to an analysis by Politifact.  Not one.

No American flags visible at DNC on Day 1.  Patriotism took a back seat to racial grievances last night at the Democratic National Convention, as no American flags were visibly present at an event dedicated to picking a political leader for the United States of America.

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Democrats procure flags for convention stage after embarrassing oversight leaves Old Glory missing from Monday night's festivities.  After slogging through a boisterous convention on the floor, Democrats were forced to make a last-minute adjustment to the on-stage decor, after a report pointed out there were no American flags present.  Democrats unveiled a sleek stage to the nation Monday, after the convention had been in the works for months.  As speaker after speaker took the stage, screens behind them produced stunning scenery of the country and cool grey backgrounds.  But there wasn't a single American flag onstage — notwithstanding the fact that most of the speakers were lawmakers, who each have Capitol offices festooned with flags and other patriotic ware.

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I really doubt this was an oversight.  It is most likely the stage was designed months ago — without U.S. flags — and it was changed only after news reports showed the Democrats appearing to be less than proud of their own country.  (The stage was probably designed for the best appearance on television.)  Barack H. Obama obviously hates America, and the Democrats haven't said anything bad about him, one can reasonably surmise that they must be in agreement.

For Democrats, Is It 'Great America' Or 'Hate America'?  In recent days, Democrats at the convention have repeatedly said "America is already great," an obvious rejoinder to Donald Trump's now-famous catchphrase, "make America great again." Fair enough.  But if those attending this convention think America is great, they have a funny way of showing it.  No American flags.  Little visible appreciation for the blessings our country confers on all who are born here.  Just resentment, anger, and a surprising number of flags of foreign tyrannies, like Cuba and Nicaragua.  And if Democrats think America is already great, why are they seeking to change it to its very roots?

Democrats Worship Their gods at DNC.  Outside the 8ft wall surrounding the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia on Monday [7/25/2016] TRUNEWS has discovered footage of what seems to be a series of demonic rituals.  [Video clip]

No Visible American Flags Present At The Democrat Convention.  The Daily Caller is at the Democratic National Convention and it doesn't look like there are any American flags.  The stage is bland and grey, with no red, white or blue present.  A thorough look at the crowd present also turns up no American flags.

DNC 'Interfaith' Prayer Space Has No Sign Of Any Religion Except Islam.  The Democratic National Convention has curtained off several "interfaith" spaces for prayer, but the only sign of religion in any of the spaces is Islam.  Convention goers looking to get in touch with the god of their choice can visit the "Interfaith Prayer Room" on the first floor of the Wells Fargo Center, which consists of a series of spaces sectioned off by curtains.  A sign hangs over the first space, which is simply an empty room.

Tim Kaine's radical beliefs and anti-American ties.  One of the best ways citizens can determine whether an elected official has anti-American ties is to research which organizations provided support to that individuals' campaign.  Tim Kaine has enjoyed support from the National Muslim Democratic Council, the communist-aligned Alliance for Retired Americans, and one of the most vile and influential organizations you never heard of:  Council for a Livable World.  In the 2012 election, Tim Kaine was supported by the Asian American Action Fund.  The "socialist infiltrated, anti-Israel 'two state solution' JStreet PAC endorsed Tim Kaine in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

Clinton VP Pick Tim Kaine's Islamist Ties.  In 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people, chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state's Immigration Commission.  A Muslim organization against Islamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.  Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was "founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America."  A Chicago Tribune investigation in 2004 confirmed it, as well as MAS' crafty use of deceptive semantics to appear moderate.  Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, "Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood."

Congressman who once feared Guam could capsize compares Jewish settlers to 'termites'.  A Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee compared Jewish Israeli settlers to termites on Monday while speaking at an event sponsored by an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts of the Jewish state.  Rep. Hank Johnson, D- Ga., launched into a tirade against Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians, comparing Jewish people who live in disputed territories to "termites" that destroy homes.  Johnson also compared Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a remark that drew vocal agreement from those in the room.

Clinton invites families of blacks killed by police to speak at convention.  Philadelphia's police union is blasting Hillary Clinton for inviting relatives of victims of police shootings to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week, but failing to include relatives of slain police officers.  John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was "shocked and saddened" by the planned choice of speakers at the convention, which opens Monday in Philadelphia.  "The Fraternal Order of Police is insulted and will not soon forget that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are excluding the widows and other family members of police officers killed in the line of duty who were victims of explicit and not implied racism," Mr. McNesby said in a statement.

Black Bishop Calls For All Christians To Leave Democratic Party.  Bishop Earl Walker Jackson Sr. (E.W. Jackson) has issued a plea for all Christians to leave the Democratic Party. [...] In his plea for Christians to make an exodus from the Democratic Party, Jackson refers to the Party as cult-like and cites the following reasons for his statement and actions:
  •   Pro-abortion
  •   Rejection of biblical family model and values
  •   Open hostility to anyone who expresses their Christian values including Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A and Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas
  •   Actions taken against cities and towns for displaying crosses at memorials
  •   Actions taken against anyone who invokes the name of Jesus during prayers at official events

Democrats, Have You No Shame?  George Will has decided to abandon the party of which he was a member for 52 years.  Though I don't agree with his rationale, he took a stand because he disagrees with the stances of the Republican nominee.  Though he may disagree with Trump on more than a few issues, he disagrees with Clinton on virtually every issue.  But it isn't just issues as much with Clinton as it is her moral standing.  Do you see any Democrats leaving their party over their soon-to-be nominee?  No, because Democrats have no shame.

Senate Dems block votes on immigration issues, including sanctuary cities.  The Republican-controlled Senate failed Wednesday to advance efforts to change federal immigration law — including one to cut funding to so-called sanctuary cities.  The vote was 53-44, failing to get the minimum 60 votes to begin debate on the issue.  The measure attempted to block congressional funding for sanctuary cities — municipalities that ban police from cooperating with immigration officials to potentially deport illegal immigrants.  Senate Republicans also failed to get enough votes to advance their proposed Kate's Law — named after Kate Steinle, who was fatally shot in July 2015, allegedly by an illegal immigrant who had multiple felony convictions and was deported several times prior to the incident.

As Far as MSM is Concerned, America Was a Mistake.  This Fourth of July holiday, as you celebrate America's independence, perhaps you would care to try something new:  Perhaps you would like to join with the MSM and, instead, denigrate America's independence.  As in, you could wish that it had never happened.  Yes, perhaps you would put down that hotdog and those red-and-blue streamers, stop watching the parades and the ball game, ignore all the fireworks, and instead, join with Dylan Matthews at Vox, who tells us that, in his opinion, the American independence of 1776 made the world worse off.

Transgender women running for House, Senate seats.  The U.S. may soon see its first transgender senator and member of Congress, as two transgender women are running for Congress as Democrats.

Why the Left Hates Referendums.  To the left nations are archaic constructs, impediments to the left-wing ideal of a world without national identities.  This utopia, governed ultimately by a worldwide Brussels — the United Nations or something like it — will be run by a secular totalitarian clergy consisting of left-wing parties; left-wing intellectuals in academia and the media; big corporations vying for government subsidies; and big labor, whose leaders embody the love of power.  Fellow travelers include environmentalist and feminist organizations and the religious Left (to the extent that organized Western religion will exist in a left-wing-run world).  Since its beginning, the major, if not only interest the left has had in people is to control them.  That is the reason for the left's fear and loathing of referendums.  Every referendum gives people who are not yet controlled by the left the exceedingly rare opportunity to exercise power.

Judge Richard Posner: 'No value' in studying the U.S. Constitution.  Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner sees "absolutely no value" in studying the U.S. Constitution because "eighteenth-century guys" couldn't have possibly foreseen the culture and technology of today.  In a recent op-ed for Slate, Judge Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, argued that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post-Civil War amendments "do not speak to today."

The Crazy People Have Taken Charge of the Democratic Party.  As Ben Shapiro documents, the newly-announced draft Democratic Party platform vividly illustrates that the extremists are taking control.  In areas from taxpayer-funded abortion to immigration to the minimum wage to the death penalty to jailing climate change skeptics, the official party platform pushes the party further to the left than it has ever been, even in the McGovern era.  And the more Democrats believe that the GOP has disabled itself from running a contested presidential campaign, the harder they will push their party to the left.

Democrat lawmaker claims Constitution was intended to INCREASE government power.  Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, said it "really bothers" him when Americans argue the founders wrote the Constitution to give citizens the power to limit the size of federal government.  Nadler's remarks on the Constitution came during a House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding accusations that former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made false statements during an inquiry into his agency's political targeting scandal.  The Democrat claimed the actual purpose of the Constitution was to increase government power, with the Bill of Rights being the only portion of the document intended to hamstring the government in any way.

Honorees withdraw from San Francisco pride parade protesting extra police.  The stepped-up security surrounding San Francisco's LGBT pride celebration has caused two honorary grand marshals and a health clinic that serves sex workers to withdraw from the event's signature parade.

Black Lives Matter withdraws from S.F.'s Pride Parade due to increased police presence.  Black Lives Matter Bay Area and other organizations said Friday [6/24/2016] that they will not participate in this weekend's San Francisco Pride Parade due to increased policing in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting.  Black Lives Matter, which was to be an organizational grand marshal for the parade themed "For Racial and Economic Justice," cited concerns over the San Francisco Police Department's "recent track record of racist scandal and killings of people of color" and how first responders can be a source of harm to "queer communities of color."

The Immaturity of Supporting Hillary Clinton as a Woman.  It is hard to imagine a more immature or morally primitive stance than that of progressive women (and men) who argue how important it is to support Hillary Clinton because, as your local college would put it, she identifies as a woman.  One perfect example of such thinking was the recent statement made by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright at an event on behalf of Clinton.  Albright announced that "there is a special place in hell" for women who don't support women, meaning in this instance, for women who don't vote for Clinton.  It is important to note that such immature thinking is to be found only on the left.  Racial solidarity, ethnic solidarity, class solidarity and gender solidarity all matter to the left, not the right.

The American Left is Evil:  Orlando Shooting.  Leftists are the minority.  However, they own the federal government, social media, public education, Hollywood, and the Democratic party.  They incite misdirected anger, hate and guilt to bully the public into embracing their anti-American and anti-God agenda.  Because the Left controls the media, they get away with falsely portraying their opposition.  The Left takes disapproval of them forcing their agenda on us to absurd extremes.  For example:  If you say "no" to men using girl's restrooms, Leftists in the media brand you an insane hatemonger who seeks the murder of all homosexuals.  If you disagree with the Left's illogical obsession with disarming Americans, repealing the second amendment, Leftist media brands you a racist toothless idiot redneck that wants to shoot all people who do not look like you.

Our Nation is at War.  ["]Yesterday we saw a political show on the Senate floor, with Democrat after Democrat standing for hours, incensed not at ISIS, incensed not at radical Islamic terrorism, but incensed that Americans have a right to keep and bear arms.  This is political distraction.  This is political gamesmanship.  I think the American people find it ridiculous that in response to an ISIS terror attack, the Democrats go on high dudgeon that we have to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.  This is not a gun control issue.  This is a terrorism issue.  And it is nothing less than political gamesmanship for them to try to shift to their favorite hobbyhorse of taking away the Bill of Rights from law-abiding citizens.["]

Joe Manchin laments Fifth Amendment: 'Due process is what's killing us right now'.  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin told an MSNBC panel on Thursday that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is "killing us" in terms of preventing gun violence.  Mr. Manchin, a Democrat, referred to due process as an inconvenient "firewall" when it comes to denying Americans firearms.

The American Left is Beneath Contempt.  The United States has just experienced the worst terrorist attack on its shores since September 11, 2001.  Forty-nine innocent fellow Americans were wantonly slaughtered by a radicalized Muslim, and traitor, who had pledged his allegiance to a foreign entity, ISIS, whose declared objective is the reinstitution of the Islamic Caliphate and the butchery of western infidels.  These victims were murdered primarily because they were in a gay night club, thus subject to summary execution under Sharia Law, and secondly because they were Americans.  Yet, today nearly all of the voices from the Left, and their front group, the Democratic Party, choose not to focus on the victims, the terrorist or the blood stained failure of their approach in dealing with radical Islam.  Instead they are using this tragedy to unabashedly pursue one of their primary ideological objectives:  the de facto repeal of the Second Amendment.

Paranoia strikes deep.  Into your life it will creep.
No time for Blue Angels.  John Avalos, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, says the Blue Angels, the celebrated U.S. Navy-Marine Corps aerial acrobatic team that has thrilled 260 million spectators since it was formed in 1946 to demonstrate precision flying, is no longer welcome above San Francisco.  Mr. Avalos wants to ban flyovers of what he sneers are "killing machines," because the squadron of six McDonnell-Douglas F-18 Hornet fighter jets "strike terror in the community" when they "strafe neighborhoods." Mr. Avalos, who sounds like he has watched too many war movies and confuses "strafing" with aerial acrobatics.  "It's about the terror that they cause in people when they strafe the neighborhoods," he tells the San Francisco Chronicle.  "That's something I hear about all the time when the Blue Angels fly overhead."

Why won't the Left admit the inconvenient truth about Islam?  It hates everything else they love.  How much longer can we continue to deny a fault line has been drawn?  On one side Islam and Muslims defined by it.  On the other the LGBT community, defined by their right to love as they please.  Over the last two days, the deference of the liberal Left to Muslims over the LGBT community has been excruciating to watch.  Unable to reconcile the two causes they champion, they have an awkward inconvenience they dare not face.

RI Official:  Flying Old Glory from Trucks Makes Firefighters Look Like ISIS.  A local official reportedly told firefighters in Rhode Island that they should not fly the American flag from their trucks.  Fred Gralinski of the Central Coventry Fire District bizarrely compared it to ISIS flying its black flag while riding around in Iraq or Syria.  "They look like a bunch of yahoos," Gralinski said at a board meeting.  "Like in the paper, like ISIS in Syria going to take over a city.  I don't think they need that big flag on the back of the truck.  That's not America to me.  Those are a bunch of terrorists.  So, I'm going to ask you to take the flag off that truck."

Animal rights activists charge Bernie's stage and the Secret Service makes them wish they hadn't.  [Video clip]  To sum up the 2016 election so far:  Bernie fans violently interrupt Trump rallies because he's not far left enough.  Bernie fans violently interrupt Clinton rallies because she's not far left enough.  Bernie fans violently interrupt Bernie rallies, because even he is not far left enough.  If you're seeing a pattern here it's because, when your ultimate goal is the full blown dissolution of the U.S. system of government and economics, no one on Earth is far left enough.

Progressive Boot Camp.  [Scroll down]  Everything the Progressives do has a purpose, and usually not the one that is stated by them.  Gay marriage, for instance, or transgendered bathrooms, or Black Lives Matter uprisings, have little to do with fairness for homosexuals and everything to do with breaking down the dominant culture.  It recruits a certain number of children or young people and turns them into social justice warriors, telling them they are fighting for freedom and justice.  Those who won't joint the campaigns are seen as the enemy, and are forced into silence through shaming, through bullying, through acts of aggression.  You are taught that everything you were was weak and pathetic, oppressive and, well, wrong or even evil.

Hillary Clinton's fierce anti-gun stance could backfire in general election.  Democrats, skittish over pushing gun control since Al Gore's bid for the White House fell short in 2000, are once again flirting with the issue, preparing to pick perhaps the most anti-gun presidential nominee in a generation.  Hillary Clinton's provocations will be on the minds of thousands of Second Amendment activists gathering in Louisville beginning Thursday [5/19/2016] as the National Rifle Association hosts its annual meetings, insisting Mrs. Clinton's fierce gun control stance will once again hamstring Democrats in a national election.  Likely GOP nominee Donald Trump will speak Friday, delivering his fervent pro-gun stance to the one part of the conservative coalition that has quickly and eagerly embraced him — which makes the contrast with Mrs. Clinton, who's highlighted her anti-gun stance, all the more striking.

Huffington Post:  Jesus Was First Transgender Man.  The Huffington Post has uncovered a fact that thousands of Biblical scholars and theologians have missed:  Jesus was the first transgender man.  To HuffPo writer Suzanne Dewitt Hall, "the current flap in conservative Christian circles about bathroom access is a bit baffling."  She claims that God created transgenders in Genesis, after all.  But even worse are "Christians who claim to take the Bible literally.  Of course they don't actually do that," she says; they "impose their own filters on stories and phrases to fit their particular ideology."  That's not what Hall is doing when she claims Jesus was a transgender, not at all.  "The Bible tells us that Eve was the first example of human cloning," as well as the first transgender woman.

BuzzFeed Hits Obama From the Left:  Too Many 'Straight White Men' on Supreme Court.  In an interview streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live on Monday [5/16/2016], Buzzfeed News legal editor Chris Geidner grilled President Obama over his nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: "...a large part of your legacy on judicial nominations has been diversifying the federal bench....  You had an opportunity with this nomination to, for the first time in the nation's history, if the justice was confirmed, to have a Supreme Court that was not a majority of straight white men.  Why didn't you take that opportunity?"

Former SEAL Carl Higbie: 'If Hillary Clinton Is the Commander-in-chief, Half the Military Is Gonna Get Out'.  Friday morning's [5/13/2016] guests on Breitbart News Daily included former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie, author of [two new books].  SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon asked Higbie if the major problem faced by the American military through the Obama years was a shortage of logistics, weapons, and equipment, or "a problem of will, of taking the fight to the enemy, of having the back of those people, like yourself, who are on the tip of the spear."  "I think the problem is not the men.  The problem is not the budgeting.  The problem is the direction and allocation of assets," Higbie replied.

With Gender Bender Bathrooms, Liberals Jump the Shark.  The culture of the People of the Creative Self has two strains.  On the one hand is the absolute right to be creative and challenge the status quo; that is what they demand for themselves.  But creatives also advocate for the People of the Subordinate Self using the politics of rights.  Hillary Clinton said it the other day:  "we're going to defend our rights — civil rights, voting rights, workers' rights, women's rights, LGBT rights, and rights for people with disabilities."  Because we're all helpless subordinate victims.  Rights talk has turned out to be political gold for liberals, so why not combine the right to be creative with the rights of helpless victims?  You demand your right to be edgy and out there with the demand to be cosseted as a helpless victim in your safe space.

Enthusiastic Hillary rally speaker chokes on saying 'under God' as Hillary smiles standing next to her.  It's your must-see video moemnt of the day — 16 seconds that crystallized the religious stance of the modern Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's distance from the Deity.  [Video clip]

Sneering Jon Stewart Mocks: 'When Was America Great?'.  A sneering Jon Stewart on Monday [5/9/2016] wondered, "When was America great?" The former Daily Show host appeared with David Axelrod at the University of Chicago and mocked conservatives.

New Chicago Schools Bathroom Policy Proves Liberals' Extreme Agenda.  Chicago Public Schools announced on Monday [5/2/2016] that students and staff must be granted unfettered access to intimate school facilities based on their chosen gender identity.  Put concretely, boys now have the "right" to undress in the girls' locker room before gym class so long as they say they would feel more comfortable doing so.  Kids and teens have many things to worry about as they grow into adulthood and get an education.  But having to deal with people of the opposite sex in their bathrooms and showers shouldn't be one of them.  This latest front in the bathroom wars proves that same-sex marriage was merely the start, not end, of the left's LGBT agenda.

UnAmerican ESPN.  What a joy it must be to be a leftist knucklehead.  There's your opinion — and then there's hate.  There's free speech for all — except those who disagree with you.  There's tolerance for everyone — except the opposition.  There's every kind of diversity — except diversity of thought.

Dear New York Republicans:  Let's talk about New York values.  [T]rue conservatives fully understand what Sen. Cruz meant with those words.  He didn't mean the New Yorkers who rallied together for 9/11.  Instead, he meant:  [#1] The New York Times, which is nothing more than a house organ for the Democrat party. [...] [#2] The New Yorker, which was once a soft Left magazine that aimed to make its middle-class readers feel cultured, but that is now a hardcore Leftist publication that actively, aggressively proselytizes for the Democrat party and for Democrat causes (especially climate change). [...] [#8] A city that annually aborts more black babies than are born.  In other words, a profoundly racist city that has established a cultural that encourages blacks to commit genocide against themselves.

San Francisco:  Pot Event Attendees Leave Behind 15,000 Pounds of Trash.  The cleanup crew began work at 6 a.m. [4/21/2016] and did not leave until 10 p.m.  "Not exactly a leave no trace moment out there," commented Phil Ginsburg, San Francisco Recreation and Park Department manager.  The crews picked up "countless bottles of Shasta soda, beer cans, Fruit Loops boxes and butts.  Last year, the workers picked up more than 17,000 pounds of trash.

Drop The T From LGBT.  The post-marriage culture war is asymmetrical in the group known as LGBT.  Gay, lesbian, and bisexual activists have carried the rainbow banner for transgenders for issues that truly matter, such as employment and housing.  Now the time has come for a genuine sanity check for them to stop enabling kookier parts of the trans agenda.  The current bathroom policy debate illuminates the growing gap between the concerns of the transgender community and of the LGB community.  Perhaps those who favor gay marriage do not want any part of enabling pedophiles in wigs having easier access to kids in bathrooms.

Hoyer Okay with Biological Men Using Women's Restrooms.  House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday [4/19/2016] that people "ought to be able to use the restroom of the gender they identify with.  CNSNews.com asked Hoyer at his weekly meeting with reporters at the U.S. Capitol:  "There has been a great deal of controversy lately about North Carolina's bathroom law.  Do you believe that biological males should be allowed to use the ladies' room in federal facilities and parks around the country?"  Hoyer did not directly answer the yes or no question, but instead stated his "position" on the issue.

Turning American Law Upside Down for the Transgendered.  Our nation's centuries-old commitment to free speech and religious liberty was already under threat.  But it took men wanting to use women's bathrooms and vice versa for the Left to truly show its hand, plainly and unequivocally declaring that American legal traditions should be set ablaze.  Yesterday [4/18/2016], the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a "Statement Condemning Recent State Laws and Pending Proposals Targeting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community" — a statement motivated by new Mississippi laws protecting religious freedom and by North Carolina's much-discussed "bathroom law.  The Commission claims that any law requiring men and women to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex "jeopardizes not only the dignity, but also the actual physical safety, of transgender people whose appearances may not match societal expectations of the sex specified on their identification documents."

When Did It Become Controversial To Keep Men Out Of The Women's Bathroom?  Determining what percentage of the population is actually transgender is very difficult.  For example, would Bruce Jenner have counted before he started dressing in women's clothes or not?  But, the best estimate puts transgenders at about .3% of the population.  However, if you're talking about people who've had hormones and surgery and also dress in the opposite gender's clothes as opposed to simply "feeling like a woman," it's most certainly lower.  On the other hand, roughly 50.4% of Americans really are women.  That means there are 168 women for every transgender person in America.  Even if we accept that a transgender man dressed like a woman would be embarrassed to go into a men's bathroom, doesn't it make more sense for him to be uncomfortable than all those women?

Why Does Liberalism Have "Favored Groups"?  We hear generally that "political correctness" is hampering the War on Terror.  The bottom line is that the left doesn't want to hold the members of certain groups responsible for their actions.  I suggest that several things motivate the left.  Perhaps the most fundamental reason why they seem to smile on Islam is their disdain for Christianity and Christian culture.

NY Gov. Cuomo Bans State Travel to North Carolina But Encourages Cuba Visits.  New York's Democratic governor banned state travel to North Carolina this week, citing its residents' supposed lack of equal protection under the law, weeks after he announced efforts to facilitate travel from New York to Cuba, which is ruled by a repressive communist dictatorship that routinely imprisons political dissenters.  "In New York, we believe that all people — regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation — deserve the same rights and protections under the law," said Gov. Andrew Cuomo in announcing a ban on "non-essential" state travel to North Carolina.  The move came in response to a new North Carolina law that restricts gendered restrooms to people of their respective biological sexes.

America is Still Great. Keep It That Way — Vote Smart.  The hysteria about Donald Trump's success as a presidential candidate only confirms the fact that the media and the establishment that promoted him are ignorant of history.  If there are riots to come then they will come from the Democrats who've crossed over to Trump in despair at their own pitiful candidates.  Conservatives don't riot.  They may sulk but they don't riot.  They were not there in 1968 at the Democrat convention.  Conservatives don't have progressive terrorists like Bill Ayers in their membership.  Conservatives aren't looking for cradle to grave support from the government.  Conservatives want a smaller government that will protect them against invaders not invite them in to rob and attack the innocent.  Conservatives want a government that will allow citizens the right to defend themselves as written in the constitution.  Conservatives want the government and bureaucrats to leave them alone.

The Questions Liberals Never Have to Answer.  [Question #3]  Why do you support legally persecuting millions of Christians who quite correctly believe that they cannot live in accordance with their faith if they participate in a gay wedding?  Who's a worse person, a Christian cake maker who happily serves gay customers, but believes it's wrong for her to cater a gay wedding or a gay couple that deliberately searches out a Christian cake maker who can't participate in their wedding so they can sue her?  Why should little girls be forced to share a bathroom with grown men who claim they "feel like" women?  What about their safety?  What about the fact that many of them don't feel comfortable sharing a bathroom with someone with male genitalia?  Are you helping people or hurting them by falsely telling them they can change their sex and encouraging them to mutilate themselves through surgery instead of encouraging them to get psychiatric treatment?

NY Town Board Votes Against Reciting Pledge of Allegiance at Meetings.  This member of a town board simply wanted to honor her country and community at its bimonthly meetings.  But that was sharply rebuffed last Monday [3/14/2016], when one leader called her idea to recite the Pledge of Allegiance "a total waste of time."

How the left revels in violating the 10 Commandments.  The left, righteously posing as protectors of women, blacks, gays, students, immigrants, the poor and other societal "victims" (while demonizing conservatives and Christians as selfish, racist, anti-science, anti-woman, anti-immigrant and homophobic), in reality is the primary cause of the vast majority of the misery, suffering and injustice it claims to oppose. [...] But this should not in any way surprise us.  Because if we delve just a little deeper into the subject, we'll see that the left's efforts at "fundamental transformation" couldn't possibly have any other effect on America than to deceive, corrupt, enslave and break millions of human beings — body, mind and soul.  And that is because the political and cultural left — I'm talking now about people animated by the worldview, policies, strategies and deepest motivations of people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — simply cannot operate without violating all of the Ten Commandments.

Rep. Honda Introduces Bill to Allow Homosexual 'Partner' Overseas to be Deemed 'Spouse' for Immigration Purposes.  Representative Mike Honda (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Reuniting Families Act (RFA) with added language that would allow homosexuals in the United States to petition to bring their "spouse" here from countries that do not allow same-sex marriage.  Even though the two persons are not legally married, the bill would allow the homosexual partner abroad to be labeled a "spouse" for immigration purposes to expedite the process.  The bill defines the relationship as a "permanent partnership."

Tennessee lawmaker: ISIS should be allowed to recruit at colleges.  Speaking on behalf of a bill centered around free speech, a Knoxville-based lawmaker on Wednesday [3/16/2016] said a terrorist organization should be allowed to recruit on college campuses in Tennessee.  While presenting a billed dubbed the "Tennessee Student Free Speech Protection Act," Rep. Martin Daniel, R-Knoxville, fielded a question from Rep. John DeBerry Jr., D-Memphis, about whether he believed ISIS should be able to stand in the middle of university campuses and "recruit for ISIS."  "Yes," Daniel replied.  "So long as it doesn't disrupt the proceedings on that campus.  Yes sir.  They can recruit people for any other organization or any other cause.  I think it's just part of being exposed to differing viewpoints."

Hillary Clinton: Another Enemy of Israel.  My sense is that many American Jews believe that Mrs. Clinton would be more friendly to Israel than President Obama has been.  But I am not aware of any evidence that supports that belief.  An implacable antagonism toward Israel is nearly universal on the American left.

Clinton, Libya and Israel.  Whether or not Obama's anti-Israel policies will survive his tenure in office depends on who succeeds him.  If Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is elected to serve as the next president, there is no question that they will survive him.  During her four years as Obama's secretary of state, Clinton was a full partner in Obama's hostile policies toward Israel.  Moreover, as her internal emails have shown, all of Clinton's close advisers are hostile to Israel.

Media vs. Democracy: The Case of Poland.  For half a century or more, our morale has been under deliberate attack by partisans of the Left.  This attack is very clever and very dangerous.  Break the morale of the country and our nation's dynamism, our prosperity and our future will be broken, as well.  The Left lies.  They sneer at patriotism.  They distort our history.  We are villains.  Political Correctness tries to control our thought.  Fracturing the American Melting Pot into contending racial, ethnic and economic factions shatters our unity and purpose.  Much more dangerous than these tactics is denial that America is exceptional.  We hear this often, nowadays.  We hear it in the schools and the movies.  We hear it from "progressive" politicians.  We hear it in the News.  We even hear it from the White House.  People who propagate this fiction are not friends of America, they are America's adversaries.

The H-Factor in voter turnout.  Think about this situation:  not only do the Democratic Party insist on running a candidate who is hands down the most reviled woman in America, but they insist on doing so in the face of revelations that would already have required any other candidate to step down and retire from all politics.  But those Democrat power brokers are so hell-bent on their party electing the first female president that they'll even support a candidate who, were she Jane Doe, would be facing multiple federal felony charges and likely serious prison time.  Hillary has had a lot of time since Bill left office to make lucrative promises to a lot of powerful people, so that those folks have a clear interest in seeing her made president, criminal or no — in fact, probably even better if she is, because she'll be easier to manipulate.  And that, folks, is who the Democrats think should be our next president.

'Social Justice': What Khmer Rouge And Bernie Sanders Share.  Much has been made of the signature economic failures of the Democratic candidate's professed socialism.  The ongoing economic collapse in Venezuela is Exhibit A.  But going hand in hand with socialism is "social justice" a concept that sounds noble for its presumption to level "the distribution of advantages and disadvantages in society," in the name of equality.  "My run for office was a manifestation of commitment to social justice," Sanders said as he began his presidential run.  And "social justice" made another appearance, this time, in the form of what they did in Cambodia after the last helicopter lifted off from the U.S. embassy roof in Saigon in 1975, an act explicitly sought by Sanders' anti-war left.

Poll: Almost 60 Percent Of Democrats Think Socialism Is Great For America.  A clear majority of Democrats believe socialism has a "positive impact on society," according to a poll by the American Action Network (AAN).  The political and economic system that wreaks havoc across the world from Venezuela to North Korea is enjoying widespread support in the modern Democratic Party.  A telephone poll of 1,000 likely Democratic primary voters found that when capitalism and socialism were polled head to head, socialism won by 15 percentage points, with just 25 percent of respondents saying they favored capitalism.

Another special interest group:
Hookers for Hillary prepare for Nevada caucus: Bunny Ranch prostitutes hit the road to help Clinton reach the White House.  Hookers for Hillary are back out on the road in a bid to help the Democratic candidate to a much-needed victory.  The group of prostitutes work at the legal brothel, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch near Carson City, which is owned by Dennis Hof, who made headlines after Lamar Odom was found unconscious in one of his establishments last year.

Harry Reid Defends Superdelegate System: Iowa, New Hampshire Too White To Decide Future Of Country.  Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) defended the superdelegate system in the Democratic party nominating process in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday [2/11/2016].  Reid said Iowa and New Hampshire have "no diversity."  Reid said he asked himself, "how in the world could we have the future of this country be dependent" on these two states?

Bernie Sanders: 'True believer' socialist is part of the new Democratic 'establishment'.  At this point, [Hillary] Clinton certainly has the odds in her favor of winning the nomination, but it would not surprise me to see her lose Iowa once again, and then lose the nomination, too.  However, it won't be because she is the establishment candidate — it will be because Bernie Sanders is the establishment candidate.  It just depends what establishment you are talking about.

The Left is the Real Terror Threat.  The greatest obstacle to defeating Islamic terrorism is still the left.  The left helped create Islamic terrorism; its immigration policies import terrorism while its civil rights arm obstructs efforts to prevent it and its anti-war rallies attack any effort to fight it.  In America, in Europe and in Israel, and around the world, to get at Islamic terrorists, you have to go through the left.  When a Muslim terrorist comes to America, it's the left that agitates to admit him.  Before he kills, it's the left that fights to protect him from the FBI.  Afterward, leftists offer to be his lawyers.  The left creates the crisis and then it fights against any effort to deal with it except through surrender and appeasement.  Islamic violence against non-Muslims predated the left.  But it's the left that made it our problem.  Islamic terrorism in America or France exists because of Muslim immigration.  And the left is obsessed with finding new ways to import more Muslims.

Lena Dunham and the Banality of the Disgusting.  Dissociation is a mental state caused by abuse in which the mind dulls and clouds over, making it more difficult to act for one's own happiness, welfare, and safety.  A totalitarian regime, be it communist, Nazi, or progessivist, cultivates this overcast and immobilized consciousness in several ways.  It undermines the personal, private sphere of life — the home and natural family — and places the pre-eminence of the state, aka the village, above the home.  Secondly, totalitarianism undermines morality based on God and theistic religion.  In the United States, that is the Judeo-Christian code.  The state, through its educational and propaganda systems, tries to indoctrinate a new code of conduct based on the regime's ideology.  The regime redefines good and evil, ostensibly to benefit the volk, or folks, a word often used in Obamaspeak.  Private economic success is redefined as greed.  The natural family becomes a harmful patriarchy, where abuse and oppression arise.  The state assumes control over basic necessities for children.  Privacy of personal information protects only people who have something to hide.  But American progressivism departs from communism and Nazism in its special reliance on moral chaos.

NBC's Todd to Clinton: '43% of Likely Democratic Caucus Goers Identify as Socialist'.  On NBC's "Meet the Press" today [1/17/2016], anchor Chuck Todd asked former Secretary State Hillary Clinton about a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll in which 43 percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucus goers described themselves as "socialist" while only 38 percent described themselves as "capitalist."

Bernie Sanders: Unfit to Be President.  You see, even though Sanders is running as a Democratic-Socialist, thereby reflecting the strong leftward shift of the Dems over the past 40 years, and his lifelong admiration for Eugene Debs, his entire career, including his support for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and visits to Cuba, reflect a strong Communist attachment.  His entire career is based on a criticism of capitalism with no expressed respect for its enormous successes.

Don't be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he's a diehard communist.  As polls tighten and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders looks more like a serious contender than a novelty candidate for president, the liberal media elite have suddenly stopped calling him socialist.  He's now cleaned-up as a "progressive" or "pragmatist."  But he's not even a socialist.  He's a communist.  Mainstreaming Sanders requires whitewashing his radical pro-Communist past.  It won't be easy to do.  If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he'd never pass an FBI background check.  There'd be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file.  He was a Communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War.

Sanders's Proposed Universal Healthcare Plan Covers Undocumented Immigrants.  Last night, prior to the first Democratic debate of the year, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released his new healthcare plan.  At the debate itself, he and frontrunner Hillary Clinton went around the issue a little, but one interesting aspect of his proposal was conspicuously left out.  Sanders's plan includes coverage for undocumented immigrants, which wasn't even explicitly mentioned in the proposal he released to his website.  Instead, an aide confirmed to Politico late last night that millions of illegal residents would receive health care coverage under his envisioned single-payer plan.

MoveOn.org Endorses Bernie Sanders.  Progressive organization MoveOn.org announced Tuesday [1/12/2016] that it is endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for president after a record amount of members voted to support him.  Sanders achieved the largest margin of victory in the organization's history receiving 267,750 votes (78.6 percent).  While Hillary Clinton only gained 14.6 percent of the more than 340,000 votes and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley received less than one percent of support.

Sanders campaign endorsed by MoveOn.org.  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday [1/12/2016] received the endorsement of MoveOn.org, a grassroots organization that has been at the forefront of liberal causes.

Is the Left Even on America's Side Anymore?  [Scroll down]  Exploiting the myth of Muslim persecution, progressives oppose scrutiny of the Muslim community, including terror-promoting imams and mosques.  They immediately denounce proposals to screen Muslim immigrants as religious bigotry, and thus close off any rational discussion of the problem.  Led by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Democrats have enabled the Islamist assault on free speech, which is a central component of the Islamist campaign to create a worldwide religious theocracy.  Most notoriously the president and his operatives cynically spread the lie that an obscure Internet video about Mohammed was behind the Benghazi terror attack.  Speaking like an ayatollah before the U.N. General Assembly, shortly after the attack, Obama declared:  "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."  What an American president should have said is:  "The future must not belong to those who murder in the name of Islam."

This Is Bernie Sanders.  Throughout his presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders has been Hillary Clinton's strongest rival, by far, for the Democratic nomination. [...] When Sanders was a young man, he joined the Young People's Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA.  In 1963 he was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, whose leadership subsequently grew increasingly militant, eventually culminating in the racist excesses of Stokely Carmichael, who exhorted blacks to "fill ourselves with hate for all things white," and H. Rap Brown, who urged blacks to "wage guerrilla war on the honkie white man."  Sanders also worked briefly for the communist-led United Packinghouse Workers Union, and participated in a California hospital project organized by the American Friends Service Committee, an organization that unambiguously supported the Soviet cause while opposing America throughout the Cold War.

Clinton struggles to explain difference between socialist, Democrat.  It seems to be the question Democratic Party figureheads don't want to answer:  What's the difference between a Democrat and a socialist?  Hillary Clinton, in an otherwise friendly interview on MSNBC, struggled to answer that question Tuesday [1/5/2016] when asked by host Chris Matthews.

Joy Behar: Bill's A 'Dog,' But I'd Vote For Him, Like Women Voted for Kennedy After Chappaquiddick.  ABC's "The View" panelist Joy Behar said she would still vote for Bill Clinton, even though he's a "dog" "because he votes in my favor" just like women voted for Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick, and that Republicans voting against the Violence Against Women Act is more important than anything Bill Clinton did on Tuesday.

House Democrats Move to Criminalize Criticism of Islam.  December 17, 2015 ought henceforth to be a date which will live in infamy, as that was the day that some of the leading Democrats in the House of Representatives came out in favor of the destruction of the First Amendment.  Sponsored by among others, Muslim Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, Loretta Sanchez, Charles Rangel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Kennedy, Al Green, Judy Chu, Debbie Dingell, Niki Tsongas, John Conyers, José Serrano, Hank Johnson, and many others, House Resolution 569 condemns "violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States."  The Resolution has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Muslims have more DNC delegates than Montana, Utah and Oklahoma put together.  The number of Muslim delegates attending the Democratic National Convention has quadrupled since 2004.  Muslims had around 5 percent of the delegates in a Democratic Party convention for a country where they aren't even 1 percent of the population.

After Terror Atrocities, Democrats Show Solidarity With Islam.  As the jihad against America escalates, Democrat politicians don't leave anyone guessing as to whose side they are on.

Ed Schultz Denigrates Constitution as Old 'Piece of Paper' That is 'Totally Outdated'.  Got a soft spot for the oldest written constitution in the world, the one for which every president upon taking office must swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend?  Then you're clearly a "jackass" according to Ed Schultz, who joins a long sordid list of lefties who can't hide their contempt for the founding charter that George Washington once described as "a guide which I will never abandon."  Yes, he was the Father of our Country, but clearly didn't have a clue.

Liberals Praise Hillary Clinton's New Ad With Same Sex Couples Kissing.  The Hillary Clinton campaign is out with an ad highlighting her record as an advocate for LGBT rights.  The spot includes images of gay couples kissing each other.  The liberal website Slate praises Clinton for including same-sex kissing in her campaign ad, saying, "Given the distressingly puritanical rules that govern gay PDAs, it's both impressive and heartening that Clinton includes gay kisses in her official campaign spots."

The Left has gone stark raving mad since the San Bernardino shootings.  If you were online, you could watch it happening in real-time, as the early confident predictions of white redneck Christian-fascist shooters — complete with wishcasting about the distance to the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic — gave way to the realization it was another jihad attack. [...] It was a major bit of signaling in the Left's tactical alliance with radical Islam, a way of letting them know American liberals were fully on board with their quest to restrict the free-speech rights of U.S. citizens.

Democrats visit mosque to show solidarity.  Democratic lawmakers visited a mosque on Friday [12/4/2015] to show solidarity with Muslims in the wake of rising anti-Islamic rhetoric.  They also showed resistance to any attempts by Republicans to restrict Syrian refugees from entering the country.  Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., attended prayer service at a Northern Virginia mosque on Friday [12/4/2015].  The visit was in response to try and tamp down rising anti-Islamic rhetoric, but comes at a time when Congress is beginning negotiations on how to fund the government.

De Blasio vows to protect Muslims against hate crimes.  Mayor de Blasio told more than 200 people at a Queens mosque Friday night [12/4/2015] that Muslims have the same rights as all New Yorkers and vowed the city would protect them from hate crimes by bigots seeking scapegoats for the recent terror attacks in California and Paris.  "We are here to say that with every tool we have as a city and with all the capacity of the greatest police force on earth, we will protect this community," said de Blasio at the Jamaica Muslim Center.  "We reject in New York City hate crimes of all kinds.  We take them very seriously."

The Editor says...
Hmmm...  Innocent Americans are ruthlessly shot and killed, and many others seriously wounded, in an episode of Islamic terrorism, and the response from the Left is to run to the aid of the Muslims and their sympathizers.  As George W. Bush once said, "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

The Left's Assault on 'Thoughts and Prayers' Revealed Its Anti-Christian Bigotry and Rank Political Posturing.  As the San Bernardino, Calif., attack unfolded in real time, most Americans knew that dozens of their fellow citizens were suffering, with hundreds more terrified.  They knew police were tracking down at least two depraved killers who were armed and dangerous.  They also knew there was absolutely nothing they could physically do to stop the killers or heal the victims, so they did what people of faith have been doing since the dawn of human awareness — they prayed.  They prayed for protection and courage for the police, for healing and comfort for victims, and for the stamina and precision of the surgeons.  They prayed because they know God is sovereign and because that was the single most effective thing they could do — in that moment — for their fellow Americans in grave need.  Suddenly, however, a cascade of leftist politicians and elite journalists pounced.  Shut up about "thoughts and prayers," they said, and "slink away."

Media Bias That Makes You Sick.  A so-called "Media Activism Research Conference" is being held next year in Canada to expand even further the "progressive" causes available to journalists.  The event is described as a "Gathering for Grassroots and Transformative Media" at Lakehead University and "an opportunity to develop collaborations and networks among anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-racist, trans, queer and Indigenous alternative media activists and activist-researchers by sharing knowledge, skills and experiences on grassroots and transformative alternative media."  Brace yourselves for one of the seminars, which concerns "Queer anarchist autonomous zones and publics:  Direct action vomiting against homonormative consumerism."  According to my research, and I may not have gotten to the bottom of this, it seems as if media activists in Canada are exploring vomiting as a form of social protest against capitalism.

The Editor says...
I guess you'd have to be a public school student to understand how terroristic vomiting on random strangers would make the general public sympathetic to a left-wing cause, or to understand how capitalism is a threat to homosexuals.

Yesterday's Giants, Today's Dwarves.  The latest round of condemning the past on the moral criteria of the present started with banning the Confederate flag from public places.  Now it is on to airbrushing away progressive old white guy Woodrow Wilson, in Trotskyized fashion, from public commemoration. [... but] No one is insisting that the great work of Martin Luther King Jr. be dismissed from the pantheon of American heroism because he was a known plagiarist and often a callous womanizer who did not live up to our current notions of gender equality.  The racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger is still a saint.  No one is claiming that Franklin Roosevelt was a third-rate president because his State Department was full of racists and anti-Semites, who were not too bothered by reports reaching the United States about the Final Solution, and who green-lighted the illegal internment of Japanese-Americans.

Cruz: Most violent criminals are Democrats.  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said late Monday that most violent criminals also identify as Democrats.  "Here is the simple and undeniable fact — the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats," he said on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" that evening.  "There is a reason why for years the Democrats have been viewed as soft on crime," Cruz continued.  "They go in and appoint to the bench judges who release violent criminals.

The Surging Anti-American Sentiment of the Left.  The Democratic party spews lies on a daily basis as they concern themselves with single, concrete-bound, range-of-the-moment projects and demands, without regard to cost, context, or consequence.  If it furthers the power and control of the party, they'll utter lies, force through legislation, slander opponents, and destroy whatever gets in their way.  They loathe the man that is independent and unafraid to take a stand for what he believes in, specially if that belief is rooted in Christianity, conservatism, and capitalism.  The left are cowards, hypocrites, and most of all self-hating parasites who despise the American way of life.

The Democrats' Boutique Issues.  When Hillary Clinton announced her opposition to the Keystone pipeline from Canada, she said climate change was the reason.  In the first Democratic presidential debate (CNN), Martin O'Malley listed the greatest national security threats to America as nuclear Iran, ISIS, and "climate change, of course."  And in the second Democratic debate (CBS) — it was the day after the Paris terrorist attacks — Bernie Sanders insisted climate change "is directly related to the growth of terrorism."  These comments were disingenuous (Clinton), exaggerated (O'Malley), and absurd (Sanders).  But there was another problem, the issue of global warming itself.  In polls, voters list it as one of their lowest priorities, even while paying lip service to it as a serious matter.  Yet President Obama and Democrats can't stop talking about it.

The Strange Case of the Secular Progressive-Islamist Alliance.  Indeed, often the affinity of these two outlooks is frightening.  For instance, both share an animus bordering on hatred for Christianity and Judaism, with the secular progressives trying to expunge Christians from public life, while Islamists yearn to annihilate Jews.  Certainly, academic progressives do nothing to discourage the anti-Semitic hatred of Muslims from being expressed on American campuses, as David Horowitz recently pointed out.  Why, he wonders, do prominent American universities, such as Brandeis and UCLA, permit offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood to have free rein on their campuses?  "Any other group that preached hatred of ethnic groups or supported barbaric terrorists who slaughter men, women and children as part of a demented mission to cleanse the earth of infidels would face campus sanctions, disciplinary action, and be charged with conduct code violations."

Democrats Unveil New Strategy: Take Unpopular Positions.  The DNC put out an ad attacking Republicans for talking about "radical Islamic terrorism," which the Democrats said was "inciting fear."  Just one problem: 60% of voters say we are at war with radical Islamic terrorism.  Then there are the Syrian refugees.  President Obama says it is un-American to oppose importing thousands of Syrian refugees, above and beyond current limits, and Harry Reid says he will block any effort to "pause" the importation of Syrian refugees.  But 63% of voters oppose Obama's refugee plan.  Apparently a large majority of Americans are un-American.

Tolerance in the face of tyranny is insanity.  Don't you yearn to have this nation led by someone who views its safety as his or her primary responsibility?  Neither President Obama nor Hillary Clinton will even call Muslim jihadists by their name, fearful of offending the wine-and-brie crowd.  Don't they understand what's happening in France is not theoretical?

DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying 'Radical Islam' Is Laughably Stupid.  A new ad from the Democratic National Committee attacks Republican presidential candidates for using the term "radical Islam."  Entitled "Inciting fear isn't presidential," the ad argues that the use of the term is offensive to Muslims.  [Video clip]  I've seen my share of nasty, bizarre, and over-the-top political ads.  But this may be the first that I can honestly say is just plain stupid.

New DNC ad criticizes Republicans for using the term 'radical Islam'.  President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and most Washington Democrats are desperate to avoid using the term "radical Islam" to describe, well, radical Islamists.  Forget reason or logic; toss away reality.  What Obama and the Democrats are doing by denying the existence of radical Islam is throwing a bone to Muslims who, themselves, are hostages to a fantasy.  The Democratic National Committee has now enabled that fantasy by releasing what Mediaite's Alex Griswold calls a "stupid" ad that criticizes Republicans for connecting Islam with terrorism.

Immigration and animal rights protesters crash Christian GOP candidate forum in Iowa: 'I don't care about the law!'  A quartet of immigration activists and a gaggle of animal rights protesters disrupted a Republican presidential candidate forum organized by an evangelical Christian group on Friday night in Iowa, shouting about deportations and 'violence' toward fish and turkeys.  'I feel like this is being conducted in Berkeley, California,' moderator Frank Luntz quipped as police escorted one agitator out.

The American Left Hates Americans More Than They Hate ISIS.  There are a number of compelling arguments to continue to allow Syrian refugees into the United States.  A number of prominent evangelical leaders are making those arguments.  But the American left is not.  Though they favor bringing Syrian refugees into the country, they have decided that Americans are just a bunch of racists who cannot bear debate.  The President of the United States has taken the tacit of claiming it is all political.  To the left, everything is political so they cannot fathom that some Americans might have looked at the events of Paris and decided we might want to be more cautious.  Nope.  To the political left, it is polling, politics, and racism.

Here's The Truth About Socialist Bernie Sanders' Vermont.  Vermont's 8.95 percent state income tax rate is the seventh highest in the country, according to the Tax Foundation.  The state's projected 2.7 percent growth rate ties it with seven other states as the fifth-slowest, according to usgovernmentspending.com.  Vermont's liberal policies, small size, homogenous demographics and low birth rates make it more like a small European country than a state sometimes, [Economist Art] Woolf said.

To defeat ISIS we need grownups.  On the day ISIS-related terrorists spread out across Paris and killed more than one hundred people, Barack Obama claimed ISIS was "contained."  After the attacks, liberals actually tried to argue that the attacks in Paris showed how successful Barack Obama had been because ISIS was having to lash out to get attention.  Yes, liberals actually argued this.  Earlier this year, while President Obama still considered ISIS to be a junior varsity team, he said the greatest threat to humanity was global warming.  At Saturday night's Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders reaffirmed that global warming was the greatest threat to humanity and was also the root cause of terrorism in the Middle East.

Liberals Are Losing the Culture Wars.  In Tuesday's [11/3/2015] elections, voters rejected recreational marijuana, transgender rights, and illegal-immigrant sanctuaries; they reacted equivocally to gun-control arguments; and they handed a surprise victory to a Republican gubernatorial candidate who emphasized his opposition to gay marriage.  Democrats have become increasingly assertive in taking liberal social positions in recent years, believing that they enjoy majority support and even seeking to turn abortion and gay rights into electoral wedges against Republicans.  But Tuesday's results — and the broader trend of recent elections that have been generally disastrous for Democrats not named Barack Obama — call that view into question.

Obama Unleashes His Pro-Criminal Agenda.  The most radical left-wing American president in history is defining deviancy down by attempting to de-stigmatize criminality.  The Left views criminals — especially minorities — as victims of society, oppressed for mere nonconformism.  Because it needs their votes, the Left is pressing for the restoration of felons' voting rights.  Of course, a criminal record carries with it a degree of social stigma, as it should.  Removing or watering down that socially beneficial stigma reduces disincentives to commit crimes and hinders the marginalization of the antisocial.  Without stigma and social ostracism, society would eventually collapse.  This is fine by our malignantly narcissistic Marxist president who, seeing the law in capitalist America largely as an instrument of oppression, seeks to blunt and retrofit it.

From Houston, Signs of How the Democratic Party Is Bound to Fracture.  There is an ugly and seldom-acknowledged racial dynamic animating the politics of the Left:  The ranks of the Democratic party swell with black, Hispanic, and immigrant voters, but the party is run by wealthy liberal white ladies:  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Randi Weingarten, Bernie Sanders (honorary liberal white lady), Nancy Pelosi, etc.  The message:  "You people provide the votes, we'll make the decisions."

This Isn't A Culture War, It's A War On Culture.  When liberal Houston — a city with a three-term lesbian mayor — overwhelming rejected an anti-discrimination ordinance for the transgendered (among others), a hysterical New York Times editorial accused voters of being transphobic hate mongers with blood on their hands.  There are, perhaps, some other possibilities.  For example, maybe a majority of voting Houstonians believed they could handle these social interactions without orders from the city council?  Maybe, without any animus, they believe genetically corresponding girls and boys should use girls and boys restrooms?  Maybe they find laws micromanaging the affairs and relationships of business owners intrusive?  I find myself in the last group.

Houston LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance rejected by voters.  An ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Houston failed to win approval from voters on Tuesday [11/3/2015].

Ohio votes down legalizing pot for medical, recreational use.  Ohio voters rejected a ballot proposal Tuesday [11/3/2015] that would have legalized both recreational and medical marijuana in a single stroke — a vote-getting strategy that was being watched as a potential test case for the nation.

The Bottomless Economic Ignorance of Bernie Sanders.  Yes, I know, pointing out that Bernie Sanders is an economic ignoramus is not a heavy lift; economic ignorance is the whole point of socialism.  (As Hayek reminded us, "If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.")  But just as we have too many kinds of deodorant (said Sanders), we may as well have too many observations of Sanders's abyss.

Crass:
Kentucky Democrat Gives Religious-Themed Speech After GOP Victories: 'Mary Did Not Ride An Elephant Into Bethlehem'.  Kentucky's Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo stumbled Tuesday night [11/3/2015] following big Republican victories, giving a bizarre speech covering Jesus, religion and the Bible and remarking that Mary "did not ride an elephant into Bethlehem" before giving birth to her son.  The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway reported on the odd moment that did not appear to be received well by the assembled Democrats, who offered muted applause to his remarks.

Watch Clinton supporters cheer for Sharia law.  California prankster and liberty activist Mark Dice has again taken to the streets to reveal the alarming stupidity of some Americans.  For his latest video, Dice asked Hillary Clinton supporters how they feel about Sharia law.  [Video clip]

Welfare Mom Has 52 Kids/Grand-kids: A victim of Leftist Deceptions, Promises and Betrayals.  Aborted babies iare what the Left brings to the alter as a sacrifice in worship of the earth to save the planet and poke a finger in the eye of Jesus.  Make no mistake about it folks.  The Left despises Jesus.  Therefore, the Left gives abortionists (Planned Parenthood) free rein to do whatever; kill babies born alive, sell baby heads for profit and so on.  No PP behavior is too brutal or extreme as long as 3000 babies a day continue to be murdered in America funded by taxpayers.  Isn't it interesting that it is not enough that the left has free rein to engage in anti-God activities?  They are hell-bent on forcing Christians and taxpayers to approve and fund them.  PP does not need the $500 million of taxpayer funding it receives annually.

Elijah Cummings Wins Pea Brain Award for IRS Defense.  Congratulations to congresscritter Elijah Cummings (D-MD). To honor his loyal partisan defense of (not to mention collusion with) IRS corruptocrats Lois Lerner and John Kostiken, the coveted Public Servant Pea Brain Award has been bestowed upon him.

Why Liberals Identify with Criminals.  Liberals are five times more likely to use marijuana and cocaine than conservatives.  A natural consequence of drug use is fear of the police.  While the U.S. has an overly soft policy towards drug users, users are nonetheless afraid of the consequence of getting caught breaking the law.  This fosters in liberals an anti-cop mentality, since the police are the agents of society that enforce society's laws against drug use.  If a liberal dislikes the police because he thinks they are unfairly targeting his "harmless" drug use it's not a big step for him to assume that cops are racist and violent towards other "innocent" people.

Bernie Sanders Praising Brutal Communist Dictator and Mortal Enemy of the United States.  Bernie Sanders isn't some flaky but well-meaning lovable curmudgeon.

Hillary Clinton: Illegal Aliens Are 'Law-Abiding' And Cops Are Criminals.  We all know how [badly mistaken] Hillary Clinton is, but she just outdid herself in a big way at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Des Moines Iowa on Saturday [10/24/2015].  In the same speech in which she called illegal aliens law-abiding people she suggested that police officers are bigots and criminals.

Whose Shrinking Island?  One of America's parties is turning, increasingly, into a Washington, D.C.-based island that has alienated most voters.  But that describes the Democrats, not the Republicans, and Barack Obama is a major reason for the Democrats' downhill slide.  But neither self-knowledge nor contact with reality has ever been a strong suit for President Obama.

Bernie-backers' hate for Clinton [is their] only right idea.  You can always tell a Bernie Sanders supporter — but you can't tell him much, especially if he hasn't gulped his morning Zoloft yet.  First it was those blue "Bernie" bumper stickers on their Priuses.  Now in the moonbat districts, the signs are popping up in front yards — more than four months before the presidential primary here.  Those signs are less a political endorsement than they are a fashion statement.  It's easy to ID one of Bernie's Kool-Aid drinkers, and not just at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's with their reusable cloth grocery bags.

Journalists covering the Dem Debate didn't even STAND for the National Anthem!.  Here's all you have to know about journalists and how much they love the country that they're supposed to be serving by being responsible members of a free press. [Video clip]

If Hillary wins, she has quite the reconstruction project ahead with her own party.  [Scroll down]  Republican supremacy at the state level has forced Democrats into a pickle regarding candidate recruitment for congressional races.  There are a dozen competitive House seats next year, and in some cases, they can't find anyone to run against the incumbent Republican.

The Two Hour Democrat Debate: A night the Democrat Party should be ashamed of.  [Scroll down]  The Socialist parasite who lived off taxpayers by collecting unemployment so he could campaign, eventually convinced enough voters to elect him so that he could spend the rest of his career living off taxpayers while berating them for not paying enough taxes.  Back when he was living off unemployment, he campaigned for an end to "all time limitations for unemployment benefits."  Up on stage, Bernie Sanders is still a miserable failure of a human being who couldn't work for a living, and has spent his career fulminating against successful people because they have mastered the secret of success that eludes him.  And the secret is... working for a living.

Who You Callin' 'Extreme'?  I can see very little of today's Republican Party that you can't find in Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, or in his infamous nomination acceptance speech of 1964.  On the other side, lots of Democrats, including both Clintons and Barack Obama, opposed gay marriage until very recently.  Leading Democrats — including Al Gore, Richard Gephardt, and Jesse Jackson — were opposed to abortion-on-demand well into the 1980s.  Try to find a prominent pro-life Democrat today.  It wasn't that long ago that Bill Clinton had repositioned Democrats as a fiscally responsible, market-friendly party.  Now the Dowager Countess of Chappaqua is running against his legacy, while Bern-It-Down Sanders is channeling the id of the Democrats who are disappointed that Obama isn't left enough.  And it's Republicans who are extreme?

Million Man March speaker chants 'Down, down USA'.  A female Native American speaker led a crowd in a chant of "down, down USA" at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday [10/10/2015].  In her speech, the woman claimed that former Libyan dictator Muammar "Gaddafi is still alive" and called on President Obama to pardon Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who was convicted of murdering two FBI officers in 1975.

Tens of Thousands Rally With Farrakhan in DC to Chants of "DOWN, DOWN USA".  Louis Farrakhan is a hate monger who plays on peoples' fears and hate and uses it to demonize whites, Jews, police and anyone else in his crosshairs.  Farrakhan's speech reached back hundreds of years to find the injustice he thinks people bear in the present day.  He said they — minorities — are denied the "human right of self-determination."  Leftists made these extremists into a permanently injured class who think they are entitled and who live as victims.  The damage the left has down will probably take years to counter if it can be countered at all.  Farrakhan compared the Republican presidential field to a "whore" who was prostituting herself for money.  This despicable human being called America "hypocritical" for challenging human rights issues abroad, and said Jews "have no forgiveness in them."

Black Lives Matter leader compares Ferguson rioters to those behind Boston Tea Party.  A prominent Black Lives Matter activist has offered a defense of violent looters who plundered U.S. cities like Ferguson and Baltimore in a lecture series delivered at Yale.  DeRay McKesson, 30, was invited to the prestigious school to lecture on the movement, which began in earnest after unarmed black teen Michael Brown was killed by a white cop in Ferguson, Missouri.  McKesson was hired for a two-part series, and as part of the preparation for the for-credit course at Yale's School of Divinity, he told students to read an article which describes looting as a 'righteous tactic'.

Luis Gutierrez Endorses Ryan For Speaker.  As CNN is now reporting, "Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez on MSNBC called Ryan one of the smartest men in the GOP.  'He would be good for the country,' Gutierrez said.  'He would be good for the Republican Party.  Paul Ryan is the kind of individual that would work with people on the other side of the aisle and that's what we need.'"  Gutierrez has worked tirelessly to expand immigration levels and open America's borders up to the rest of the world.  As Gutierrez once declared, "I have only one loyalty ... and that's to the immigrant community."

The Editor says...
If Congressman Gutierrez says he is loyal only "to the immigrant community," presumably meaning immigrants who are not U.S. citizens, he should be impeached.  His loyalty should be to the United States alone.

Sanders Adviser Calls for Repeal of Columbus Day.  Near the end of Mel Gibson's film "Apocalypto," we see Christian missionaries arriving in the New World to save the natives from a culture of death that celebrates beheadings and human sacrifices to pagan Gods.  Gibson has said he based the dramatic landing scene on the fourth expedition of the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.  But celebrating the spread of Christianity has become so politically incorrect that a New Age adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has called for repealing Columbus Day.

Hillary tells Black Lives Matter she'll end private prisons.  Hillary Clinton reportedly told leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday [10/9/2015] she will get rid of private prisons.  The meeting with Black Lives Matter comes a day after Clinton was heckled by a protester at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala over her ties to the private prison lobby.

Bolshevik Bernie and the Communist Spy.  In a 1,500-word article about the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, The Washington Post waited until the 25th paragraph to note that the self-declared socialist faces an "obstacle" to winning the presidency.  The paper said that "...Sanders has not faced the kind of media scrutiny, let alone attacks from opponents, that leading candidates eventually experience."  The authors, Philip Rucker and James Wagner, added, "Sure to follow his summer surge is an autumn of investigations that could reveal new details about his personal background and record."  What these investigations would find is that Sanders was a collaborator, if not a member, of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the same group that backed Obama's run for the presidency.  DSA describes itself as the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.

Sanders: America Was Founded on 'Racist Principles'.  Monday [9/14/2015] at at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said America was founded on "racist principles," but as the election of the first African-American President Barack Obama shows we have come a long way.

Pelosi Celebrates Iran Nuke Deal: 'This Is Historic. This Is Grand.'.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) expressed tremendous enthusiasm and optimism at her press briefing today about the nuclear deal that the Obama administration and five other governments has negotiated with the Iranian regime of Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei.  Pelosi called the deal "historic," "grand," and "visionary."  The Congress is currently considering the deal in an unusual procedure that does not handle the international agreement as a treaty but as an agreement between the president and a foreign government.

Are You Pro-Mengele Or Anti-Women's Health? Can You Explain Why?  The series of Planned Parenthood hidden camera videos being slowly released by the Center for Medical Progress has reopened raw wounds around what had been a relatively quiescent debate about abortion.  The images are indeed shocking, yet public opinion could not be more polarized. [...] Welcome to the world of pluralistic democracy, where believers and atheists must learn to live and govern together.

Liberalism and Optional Law.  The sad reality is that rule of law — that the laws apply equally to all Americans — no longer exists in America.  Obama's imperial presidency, sanctuary cities, and the liberal establishments refusal to enforce laws they don't like means that the law does not apply equally, even in principle, to all Americans.  Some cite the Constitutional remedies such as impeachment but the reality is that the liberal politicians have no honor and will support their own no matter what, as they did when Bill Clinton committed perjury to protect himself from sexual-harassment charges.

Islamists and the Democrat Party: Co-belligerents in the War on America.  It should surprise no one that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has joined the Black Lives Matter movement.  It is logical that CAIR, the unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for providing support to the terrorist group Hamas, should join a group which has contributed to an atmosphere of violent incitement and hatred against police officers across the nation.  While Islamic radicals seek to rid the world of heresies and of the infidels who practice them, leftists desire to purge society of the vices allegedly spawned by capitalism — those being racism, sexism, imperialism, and greed.  Although their motivations are different, fundamentalist Islam and the radical political left are both devoted to totalitarianism, have a shared hatred of Western civilization and Judeo-Christian democracy and they are equally determined to extinguish liberty and subjugate the individual, either to Sharia or the state.

Would Hillary's Election Cause an American Civil War?  Hillary Clinton is a liar not just about the absurd (that her husband's serial infidelities were caused by the rightwing conspiracy) but about our national security.  Richard Nixon never came close to that.  I can explain in two words what allows Clinton to lie about our security to the extent she has.  It's not stupidity.  She is not a stupid woman, although she may be far less bright than she is given credit for.  It is moral narcissism.  She and her supporters think they are so correct in their views that anything they do in behalf of those views is fine, legal or not.

New Hillary Clinton Supporter Refused to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance.  The latest endorsement for Hillary Clinton comes from a New York City politician who has refused to stand during or recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States.  New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico and endorsed Clinton on Wednesday, is known for her decision not to stand up during the Pledge of Allegiance as a protest of her home territory's current status.  Though Mark-Viverito has refused to explicitly state her opposition to pledging allegiance to the United States, her colleagues say it is a symbolic "protest" of the United States.  City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, also a Democrat, has said that Mark-Viverito told her that she does not stand because she wants Puerto Rico to be granted independence.

Dems Officially Endorse Anti-Cop BlackLivesMatter Movement.  The Democratic National Committee has officially endorsed the increasingly violent Black Lives Matter movement whose paranoid radical left-wing members accuse police nationwide of systemic anti-black racism and brutality against black suspects.  Throwing their lot in with black racists and radical Black Power militants who have openly expressed support for the murder of police officers, Democrats embraced a statement that slams the U.S. for allegedly systemic police violence against African-Americans.

Hillary Clinton Campaigns On Gun Control and Calls for a National Gun Registry.  Hillary Clinton is coming after our guns big time.  The very core of her campaign is Universal Background Checks.  If that goes through it will create a national gun registry and you will no longer be able to sell your guns to whoever you want to.  She also wants all gun owners licensed.  These are precursor steps to seizing and banning guns.  Clinton is blunt about it and feels it is a winning position for her.  How?  Most of America owns guns and cherishes their Second Amendment rights.  They abhor a registry as unconstitutional and they detest being taxed for ownership.

Joan Walsh: I Don't Know Any Liberals Outraged by Illegal Immigration.  Looks like Up With Steve Kornacki is becoming the go-to place for liberals to let their radical cats out of the bag ... Yesterday, as we reported here, Josh Barro of the New York Times said that the only way to impact violent crime is to undertake a "massive" gun grab.  Today [8/30/2015], it was the turn of Salon's Joan Walsh to admit that she doesn't know "any liberals upset — outraged" by illegal immigration.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Redefines 'Vulgar'.  Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the quintessential left-wing shill.  When it comes to shamelessly mouthing liberal talking points, the woman will defend just about anything.  Of late the DNC mouthpiece and supporter of the unrestricted slaughter of 4,000 babies a day has jumped aboard the Black Lives Matter bandwagon, because as long as the black life is outside of the womb and not on the streets of Chicago, Debbie does believe that "black lives matter."  In addition to embracing that tortured logic, Wasserman Schultz also celebrates the ongoing dissolution of the First Amendment.

Pro-Planned Parenthood Rally At Governor's Mansion in Louisiana Draws Paltry Crowd.  Around two dozen pro-Planned Parenthood protesters stood outside the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Thursday [8/20/2015] to protest Governor Bobby Jindal's recent decision to have the abortion provider investigated and defunded.  When the Jindal administration caught wind of Planned Parenthood's plan to hold a protest in the pro-life governor's front yard, they came up with a brilliant plan to counter them.  Jindal had a huge screen set up outside the governor's mansion, and ran each of the seven disturbing expose videos of Planned Parenthood on a continuous loop for the duration of the protest.

Did someone mention Planned Parenthood?

Why Liberals are Dangerous.  Liberals define a compassionate nation as how long that line is of people showing up for their daily allotment of free fish.  In America today, 94 million Americans are unemployed.  And yet, they have all the necessities and many of the luxuries of working Americans.  Forty-seven million Americans are on food stamps.  Millions of capable Americans are receiving disability.

'Respectable' Journalism is Slipping: Atlantic Writer Thinks Religious Believers Belong in Straitjackets.  Jeffrey Tayler is a respected journalist — an author of multiple books, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, and a frequent commentator on NPR's venerable All Things Considered.  Review his Atlantic author page, and you'll see a collection of sober-minded, interesting articles — written from a leftist perspective, to be sure, but many of them are certainly worth reading.  I haven't caught his NPR commentary, but I expect they would be worth hearing.  I enjoy thoughtful liberal commentary, and The Atlantic is still often a destination site for the best the Left has to offer.  But that's Mr. Tayler as Dr. Jekyll.  Mr. Hyde emerges over at Salon, [...]

O'Malley: American citizenship is 'a human right'.  Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley took his pro-immigration stance to a new level Friday [7/24/2015] by declaring citizenship "a human right."  O'Malley, who has long been an advocate for illegal immigrant rights, has made amnesty a centerpiece of his campaign since he declared two months ago.  His comments come in response to Texas health officials asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by immigrant parents who were denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children.

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If it's true — and it isn't — that U.S. citizenship is a human right, then one would be able to select and acquire the citizenship of any country in the world — or all of them!  This would result in the dissolution of international borders, and, in no time at all, anarchy.

They Really, Really Don't Like Him.  Obama is unpopular, and he has been unpopular for a while.  The most straightforward definition of a popular president is one who garners at least 50 percent approval in public opinion polls.  The last time Obama hit that mark in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls was April 2013.  Excepting brief boosts corresponding to his reelection and the killing of Osama bin Laden, he has consistently been under 50 percent in the RCP average since December 2009.  This makes him one of the least popular presidents in postwar history.

Illegal Immigrant Moderates Democrat 'Presidential Town-Hall'.  One of the highest-profile panels of NetRoots Nation, an annual confab of left-wing activists and bloggers, was a "Presidential Town Hall," featuring Democrat candidates Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.  The panel was moderated by Filipino citizen, journalist, and illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas.  Even in 2015, it would perhaps seem odd to have a foreign national moderate a discussion between two candidates for the U.S. Presidency.  These are not fringe candidates, mind you, but statewide officeholders who have a plausible claim to be the nominee for the Democrat party.

Black Caucus members seek name change for city of Fort Bragg.  mbers of the California Legislative Black Caucus have asked the mayor of Fort Bragg, in the northern part of the state, to seek a change in the city's name to disassociate it from the Confederate army general for whom it is named.  Fort Bragg began in 1857 as a military outpost to oversee the Mendocino Indian Reservation.  One of its founders named it after his former commanding officer, Braxton Bragg, who later became a general in the Confederate Army.  Before joining that force, Bragg was a general in the United States Army.

Ed Murray, Seattle mayor, proposes Sharia-compliant housing.  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has announced plans to increase housing in the city for Muslims who follow Sharia law, which prohibits payment of interest on loans.  Mr. Murray's housing committee recommended the city convene lenders, housing nonprofits and community leaders "to explore the best options for increasing access to Sharia-compliant loan products," according to the proposal.

This would be front-page news if it happened to a Republican.
Literally zero people support Lincoln Chafee in new poll.  Lincoln Chafee has no support, according to a recent poll.  That's right, literally zero people said they support the former Rhode Island Republican senator and independent governor for the Democratic presidential nomination.  The Monmouth University poll released Wednesday had Chafee trailing Hillary Clinton at 51 percent, Bernie Sanders at 17 percent, Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb — both at 1 percent — with 15 percent still undecided.

Rural Wisdom and the Gathering Storm.  The furor over the Confederate flag, think I, has little to do with the Confederate flag, which is a pretext, an uninvolved bystander.  Rather it is about a seething anger in the United States that we must not mention.  It is the anger of people who see everything they are and believe under attack by people they aren't and do not want to be — their heritage, their religion, their values and way of life all mocked and even made criminal.  The talking heads inside Washington's beltway, in editorial suites in New York, do not know of this anger.  They do not talk to people in Joe's Bar in Chicago or in barbecue joints in Wheeling.  They are cloistered, smug, sure of themselves.

Leftists Want Minnesota Flag Taken Down Because It Shows White Man Working.  This is deliciously ironic.  It's akin to the Left cannibalizing their own history. You see, that flag commemorates the Leftist unions — the labor Left — the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.  Yep, Marxists.  So, a flag that Progressives contrived as their own for uber Left-leaning Minnesota is not Marxist enough for them evidently.  It's too white.

Fooling ourselves: Everything is going as (they) planned.  Late night TV hosts like Jay Leno had used many videos of college students woefully ignorant of facts every grade school child should know so it comes as no surprise that the dumbing-down of Americans is factual but not at all amusing because these low-infos can vote.  A faux email recently made the rounds alleging a false attribution but it illustrates perfectly what I feel is America's greatest problem-ignorance.  "The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.  It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president."

Hilarious: 'million person march' to take down Confederate flag in Columbia, SC draws almost nobody.  You might expect the usual disputes over crowd size when a leftist group calls a "million man person march."  Usually these feature aerial photos and arguments over how many individuals are crowded how densely into a certain amount of space.  But with the "million person march" that promised 'the flag will come down," called by Operation Ferguson yesterday [7/4/2015] in Columbia, SC, this was not a problem.  The only photo available of the event shows three people, all of them onstage.

Rapper Opens BET Awards Singing About Police Brutality Atop Vandalized Cop Car.  Kendrick Lamar opened the BET Awards Sunday night [6/28/2015] rapping about police brutality while on top of a vandalized police car with a ripped American flag waving behind him.

Confederate Flag Controversy [is] a Complete Misdirect.  The left's decision to politicize the South Carolina shootings by immediately swiveling to a longstanding racial controversy demonstrates their sick inability to allow America to move beyond racial divides.  Every conservative in America called for [Dylann] Roof to fry.  That wasn't enough for the left — the same left that defends rioters in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore and hero-worships Che Guevara and Mumia Abu Jamal.  That left generated conflict because without racial conflict, it cannot survive as a viable political movement.  And for the left, politics trumps American unity every time.

Sorry Bernie: Voters would choose gay, Muslim, atheist president before a socialist.  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' surge in the presidential race against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton continues to gain speed, but a new poll finds that his self-description as a "Democratic socialist" is a killer when it comes to eventually getting voted into the White House.  A new survey from Gallup found that of 11 background characteristics voters would consider in choosing their next president, that of socialist was dead last, with just 47 percent saying that they would vote for a socialist, and 50 percent saying they wouldn't.

Wasserman Schultz to officiate gay wedding beside Supreme Court.  With the Supreme Court poised to rule on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage this month, Democratic Party boss and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Monday plans to demonstrate where she stands on the issue:  She will be the first voting member of Congress to officiate a gay wedding.

Indiana Democrats Are Worried Their Candidates Aren't Pro-Gay Marriage Enough.  Public opinion is moving so quickly on gay marriage that even its supporters are struggling to keep up.  Such in [sic] the case in Indiana, which was at the center of the national LGBT-rights debate this spring after a "religious freedom" bill was met with overwhelming opposition from voters and business leaders.  In a state where same-sex marriage only become legal in 2014, this year's backlash against the measure was an unpleasant surprise for state Republicans, including Gov. Mike Pence, whose image and approval suffered in the wake of the controversy.

The Dictatorship of Godless Perverts [...] cannot permit anyone to question the regime's absolute authority.  The commissars of the regime will tell you "what it means to be a man, and what it means to be a woman," and you are not permitted to talk back to them.  There can be no discussion or debate.  If you do not endorse the Official Truth, you must be silenced.  You must be punished if you refuse to repudiate your opposition, because everything you "consider natural and normal" — your "basic, deep-rooted ideas" — "will need to change."

Democrats' Happy Memorial Weekend Tweet: No American Flag, Just Obama and Ice Cream.  On May 22 the Democrats (@TheDemocrats) tweeted a "Happy Memorial Day Weekend" tweet with a picture of President Obama eating an ice cream cone in an ice cream shop. Not an American flag to be seen, no soldier's death being hallowed.

Obama's Memorial Day Ice Cream Gloat.  Why would the Dems circulate such an over-the-top, downright piggish picture on Memorial Day 2015?  Because Dems have absolutely no regard whatsoever for the sensibilities of others, family members counted among the fallen or not.  Because Democrats of the day have no taste.  They have no class, they have no couth.  Being so consummately wrapped up in their me-first selves, they have nothing to offer anyone else.  They're too caught up in feathering their own nests while millions of their American brothers and sisters struggle their way through a post-Constitutional America.

Hastings: Members of Congress Need a Pay Raise.  Rep. Alcee L. Hastings made the politically tone-deaf case for raising salaries for members of Congress Monday [5/18/2015], pointing to the high cost of living in the District of Columbia.  "Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution," the Florida Democrat said at a Rules Committee meeting, referring to the average member's $174,000 annual salary.  "We aren't being paid properly," he later added.

Rep. Johnson on Taxes: 'We Don't Have Enough'.  Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says when it comes to taxes, "we don't have enough to do what the government — and do what the country needs the government to do and that's the problem."

Poll: Democrats now view socialism as favorably as they view capitalism.  What's the key factor here?  Democrats drifting left over time as Clinton's coalition was replaced by Obama's?  Or the word "socialism" being watered down since its Cold War heyday?  The One promised us a transformational presidency.  Mission accomplished.

Democrats Now Cast Terrorists as Victims.  The notion that a rape victim deserved to be raped because she was wearing a tight outfit lights up all our red lights.  This is the case first and foremost because it absolves the rapist of responsibility for his crime. [...] One of the foundations of liberal societies has always been that victims of aggression are not to blame for their attackers' behavior.  Over the past few days, we have witnessed a dangerous erosion of this principle among American elites.

John Paul Stevens says some Guantanamo Bay detainees should be given reparations.  Retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens said this week that the government should compensate detainees still being held at Guantanamo Bay even after authorities determined that they did not pose a threat to the United States.  Stevens's call to give reparations to dozens of detainees at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba comes as the Pentagon is racing to move these inmates ahead of possible congressional action that could restrict transfers.

Bernie Sanders is an avowed socialist. 52 percent of Democrats are OK with that.  When he first won election to the House in 1990, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) embraced his political identity.  "I am a socialist and everyone knows that," Sanders said, responding to an ad that tried to link him to the regime of Fidel Castro.  He continued:  "They also understand that my kind of democratic socialism has nothing to do with authoritarian communism."  Times change.  With the Cold War fading in the rear view mirror, being nice to Cuba isn't the political liability that it once was.  And no longer does the term "socialist" carry the same stigma it once did — in part because self-identified socialists are few and far between.

How Riot Supporters Think.  [There is] an article in Salon endorsing urban guerrilla warfare as a viable strategy for "the oppressed."  It's important to take articles like this very seriously.  One is tempted to shrug — "well, it's Salon" — and go on with one's day.  But Salon is not The Socialist Worker.  It isn't even what Ramparts used to be.  It reaches a much wider audience, and those who read it and write for it are not solely members of obscure sects like the Revolutionary Communist Party.  They are registered Democrats and independents.  They are students, teachers, journalists, and the baristas at Starbucks.  They're all around.

Friendly Reminder: 52 Percent Of Democrats View Socialism Favorably.  [W]hile some might scoff at Sen. Bernie Sander's (I-VT) self-described "democratic socialism and think it won't resonate with the electorate, let's not forget the Reason-Rupe poll that showed just as many Democrats who viewed capitalism favorably, viewed socialism with the same regard.  Philip Bump at the Washington Post noted this flashback today, but also included that self-avowed socialists have done miserably in national elections.

Woman Texting During National Anthem At White House Correspondents Dinner Outrages America.  Shortly after President Barack Obama arrived on the stage for the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, the band began to play the National Anthem. [...] Then CNN cameras panned the crowd, showing dinner attendees with their hand over their heart — except for one woman who was buried in her cell phone. [...] The woman on her phone was Washington Post writer Helena Andrews.  She responded on Twitter that she "was taking notes.  On my phone.  Because it's 2015."

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Everybody else in the room lives in 2015, too.  The difference between them and Ms. Andrews is that they have enough respect for the flag and the national anthem to set aside their own petty personal priorities for one minute and pay their respects.

Al Gore's Climate Change Concerts Won't Commit To Being Vegan Only.  PETA is demanding to know:  Why won't Al Gore's climate change music festival go vegan?  On stage at Davos this year, Gore and Pharrell Williams announced the return of the Live Earth music festival — a concert series meant to raise awareness of climate change.  And now the animal rights group is demanding each of the concerts exclusively serve vegan products, arguing that Gore's own group touts the benefits of giving up meat to reduce greenhouse gas production.

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Hamburger does not cause global warming, and a Live Earth festival to "raise awareness of climate change" is obviously a waste of time, since all the tree-hugging hippies in attendance are already well aware of the global warming talking points.

Hidden Conservatism and Abortion.  Gallup asks this question every year, and the results are always the same:  in almost every state of our nation, some years in every single state, respondents describe themselves more often as conservatives than liberal.  Battleground Poll data for more than a decade has shown, in every single poll, that an overwhelming majority of Americans call themselves conservative.

The Quest to Boot Old Hickory Off the $20.  This week, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire introduced the Women on the Twenty Act, legislation aimed at putting an American woman on the $20 bill.  Shaheen's efforts nod to an initiative by Women on 20s, a group that is lobbying to change the $20 by 2020.  That year Americans will mark the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee Flies Communist Flag Over State Capitol.  In "honor" of his meeting [4/5/2015 (?)] with China Ambassador Cui Tiankai, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has posted the Chinese flag between the American flag and the state flag at the capitol building in Olympia.

You Don't Need a Rainbow Sticker to Let People Know You're Black.  To recap:  Tim Cook and the left are happy to do business in countries that stone to death or otherwise jail gay people, but will not do business with Indiana [...]

Nebraska senator compares police to ISIS, suggests he'd shoot a cop.  A Nebraska state senator compared American police to Islamic terrorists and suggested he'd shoot a cop if only he had a weapon.  State Sen. Ernie Chambers said during a legislative hearing on March 20 that you don't have to go halfway around the world to find an ISIS mentality.  It can be found in America because police terrorize blacks every day.

New Republic Writer: The Word 'Taxpayer' Tilts In Favor of Conservatives and Should Be Eliminated.  You don't have to be Frank Luntz or George Lakoff to know that linguistic framing matters a great deal in politics.  Sometimes, however, nuance is in the eye of the beholder.  The New Republic's Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, for example, considers "taxpayer" an ideologically weighted term.

Could Houston's Barbara Jordan replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill?  Celebrated Texas politician Barbara Jordan could be the new face of the $20 bill, if a movement called Women on 20s gets its way.  The nonprofit selected Jordan as one of 15 finalists to be the new face on the $20 bill by 2020 — the year marking the centennial of women's suffrage.

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Must everything be politicized?  Barbara Jordan, for those of you outside of Texas or younger than 30, was a Congresswoman from Houston in the mid-1970s.  She was a pretty good orator, but more importantly, she was a black lesbian activist lawyer in a wheelchair — everything liberals admire most.  If President Jackson is to be replaced on the 20, let's be sure the new face will make the liberals regret they ever suggested this idea.  How about a picture of Vince Foster, Mary Jo Kopechne, or Bill Gates?

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Group pushing to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 selects Harriet Tubman as their candidate.  A group campaigning to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman has announced who they want that woman to be:  Harriet Tubman.  Starting in March, the non-profit Women on 20s held two rounds of voting in which the conductor of the Underground Railroad claimed victory over 99 other trailblazing women including Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The Shame of the Democrats.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday regarding the dangers of nuclear talks with Iran, but more than 50 Democrats in Congress have decided to boycott his speech.  The number of Democratic members of Congress who announced they would be skipping the speech continued to grow as Tuesday approached, with a running count by the Hill putting the number at 56.

Pro-Nuclear Iran Democrats Throw Temper Tantrums Over Netanyahu's Magnificent Address to Congress.  Perhaps because it highlights the contrast between a leader and a community agitator with extremely questionable motives.

Bibi's grand slam: Boxing in Obama on Iran's nukes.  For six weeks, the president and his team have been letting it be known just how angry they are that the leader of the House of Representatives invited the Israeli prime minister to speak about the threat from Iran.  The enraged leaks and overt hostility toward the head of state of an ally have been unprecedented.  The White House even tried to engineer a mass Democratic boycott of the speech, an effort that either (take your pick) met with success because 50 members of his party agreed to it, or was a failure because 75 percent of elected Democrats on Capitol Hill defied him and chose to attend.

Here's the List Of 26 Anti-Jew Democrats Turning Their Backs On Israel.  23 in the House and 3 in the Senate.

54 terrorist-supporting Democrats not attending Netanyahu speech.  54 Muslim terrorist supporting Democrats will not attending Benjamin Netanyahu address to Congress tomorrow morning.  Latest addition to the terrorist supporting Democrats include fauxcahontas Elizabeth Warren.

Which Democrats shun Netanyahu's address to Congress.  They each offered different excuses from "We know what he's going to say" to "I hardly ever attend such speeches" to "It's a tawdry stunt" to "I am offended."  Other than that, these Obama backers are in full support of Israel, or will be when fundraising time rolls around next year.  But dozens of Democrats, who have long taken Jewish money and votes for granted, have announced they will boycott the address to a joint session of Congress today by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the United States' closest Middle Eastern ally.

List of Lawmakers Skipping Netanyahu's Speech.  Dozens of lawmakers, almost all Democrats, will miss Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.  In separate statements, many of the lawmakers are accusing House Speaker John Boehner of undermining the president by inviting Mr. Netanyahu to speak to Congress — and are critical of the timing of the speech, which comes two weeks before the elections in Israel.  The prime minister is expected to talk about Iran and the U.S. effort to negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program.  The White House said that President Barack Obama won't be meeting with Mr. Netanyahu during his time in the U.S., citing the timing of the elections.

Susan Rice AIPAC Speech: Crowd Cheers for Iran Policies Obama Admin Opposes.  The audience at Susan Rice's Monday night speech at AIPAC's (America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) 2015 Policy Conference expressed open displeasure with the Obama administration's policies towards Iran — not by booing the National Security Advisor — but by applauding in approval of policies she disagreed with.

Top Dem On The House Veterans Affairs Committee Is Skipping The Big American Legion Conference.  The top Democratic member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee is skipping the American Legion's national conference in Washington, D.C. this week.  Hosted annually, the conference usually brings in top elected officials and, especially, the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate veterans affairs committees.  But Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown has other plans, according to her director of communications, David Simon.

Patriotism deficit: It's just the way liberals are.  A Pew Research survey last year found that 46 percent of "steadfast conservatives" believe that the United States stands above all other countries; only 11 percent of "solid liberals" believed the same.

Nothing but the Truth.  [Scroll down]  If the lie is repeated enough, if outside information or opposing viewpoints are not permitted or tolerated, if those receiving the disinformation are hungry, dehumanized, uneducated, or tortured enough, anyone can become a believer in the inconceivable (that two plus two could really equal five) or the implausible (that global warming is a greater existential threat than radical Islamic terrorists).  This is how we came to believe there are dozens of genders even though thousands of years of science and human history confirm the existence of only two.  This is how we came to believe that homosexuality is not a choice but an alternative physical attribute that cannot be controlled; that gay sex is equivalent to heterosexual sex, even though only the latter results in reproduction; that abortion is a social good and constitutional right that should be encouraged; that a family with two daddies is exactly the same as a family with a mommy and a daddy; that blended and broken families are just as good as traditional families; and, that fathers are superfluous.

Why Secular Elites Ignore Religion.  It is not too brash to say that "religion" is the one field that is frequently disallowed in serious discussion by the urban, bi-coastal crowd.  For years the New York Times best-seller list would not contain any religious book.  If you listened to NPR from 1970 to 1990, you would think that no one in America ever had a religious thought.  Since that time, it appears that somebody woke up and sent an internal memo indicating that religion is now a legitimate subject for thinking people.

The Democratic case for Impeachment.  The notion of casting their ballots for a young, good-looking, articulate, black-American struck the right nerve for millions of voters.  But his obsessive desires to fundamentally change America into debt-laden, socialist utopia for bisexual transgender unionized illegals do not.

Ellison: 'I've Often Asked Myself Why You Should Have to Register to Vote'.  Speaking at the U.S. Vote Foundation's Voting and Elections Summit earlier this month, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said "we need to make voting easier," and "I've often asked myself why you should have to register to vote."  In his remarks in the opening keynote address, Ellison said, "Now I also think we need to make voting easier.  It should be easier.  In other countries it's easier.  Why should voting be so difficult?  Tuesday?  Who thought that up?  I mean the fact is, is that there's wide variation in when people can vote.  You can't necessarily register to vote on Election Day.  I've often asked myself why you should have to register to vote.  Why shouldn't it be automatic."

Gallup: Only Three States, D.C., Tilt Ideologically "Liberal".  Many fewer Americans are willing to identify themselves as "conservatives" than in years past — but we still have a significant edge.  In only three states and the District of Columbia are there more self-professed liberals than conservatives.

Hating the Duggars.  If you're not familiar with the Duggars, there are, well, 19 of them. The Duggars are devout evangelicals following what they believe is God's plan for their family and fertility.  They have their own reality TV show.  Actually, it's now 19 Duggars and counting, as some of the older children are having little Duggars of their own.  That mere reproductive fact infuriates a large number of very angry people on the left.  But to make liberals' nightmares worse, the Duggars display their lifestyle on a popular TV show broadcast by The Learning Channel (TLC).  That the Duggars have a platform, even as a mere bizarre curiosity to the 99.9% of people who have no desire to produce 19 children, is driving many liberals into fits of rage.  Once again jettisoning their professed sacred cows — tolerance, diversity, open-mindedness, and let's add freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and opposition to censorship — they're insisting the Duggars' show be canceled.  For many of them, this has become an obsession turned into a crusade, as they are hellbent in driving the Duggars off the air.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Marriage Cop.  Does Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz approve of your marriage?  It may depend upon the religion of you and your spouse!

Decoding the Left.  Liberal academics speak like this because they're obsessed with identity politics.  They see society as organized into groups and are determined to refer to those groups without sounding offensive.  And since the threshold for offense has been lowered to the level of a limbo bar at a drunken house party, the English language must be rinsed and sterilized accordingly.  Hence "non-binary POC," which sounds like something I forgot during a high school chemistry quiz.

Michelle Obama Praises Movie-TV Industry for Promoting Same-Sex Marriage.  Speaking to a group of television and screenwriters in Washington, D.C., on Friday [1/30/2015], First Lady Michelle Obama praised the movie and television industry in the United States for promoting same-sex marriage.  "Every day, through the movies and TV shows and ads you all create, you have the power to shape our understanding of the world around us," said Mrs. Obama.  "You challenge our most strongly held beliefs.  You influence our opinions on current events."

Communist Party USA Chairman Vows Cooperation With Democratic Party.  The chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA has penned a 2,023-word manifesto making the critical point that American Communists are eager to work with the Democratic Party to advance the modern communist agenda and achieve communist goals.  Communist Party chairman John Bachtell published his essay last week at People's World, a "daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker."  "[L]abor and other key social forces are not about to leave the Democratic Party anytime soon," Bachtell promised.

What 'American Sniper' Tells You About Its Critics.  I am not at all surprised that Michael Moore and Seth Rogen don't like American Sniper.  For them, the idea of military sacrifice is absurd.  We get an idea of how badly they understand the motivation of the modern American fighting man and woman when they can't tell the difference between someone like me, with 15 years of experience in law enforcement, military intelligence, and counterterrorism, and a Nazi.

The 'American Sniper' Freakout: Why the left can't tolerate this movie.  The film, which opened wide January 16, shattered the record for the largest opening weekend of a film released in January, a month traditionally considered a graveyard for ticket sales.  The film pulled in $105 million its first weekend against its $60 million budget — and the film that previously held the record for largest January weekend is Avatar, the highest-grossing picture in history.  Already, American Sniper has the markings of a cultural phenomenon.

The Furor Over American Sniper: The One Percent on the other One Percent.  Clint Eastwood's masterpiece, American Sniper, has shattered box office records and touched a chord in movie audiences across the country.  The film has also unleashed an unbecoming waft of snarkiness from a pair of Hollywood insiders — Seth Rogan and Michael Moore, men who have monetized their own constitutionally guaranteed right of freedom of expression and made themselves into millionaires — the lucky 1% of our population.

Optimistic Obama out of touch with Americans.  The recent terrorist attacks in Paris, on the heels of the hostage situation in Australia and the slew of ISIS beheadings, have rattled Americans — and for good reason.  Over 80% of the electorate believes that there will be a terrorist attack on American soil.  And, unfortunately, in light of what we now have seen is possible in Western nations, it is my belief that they may not be wrong.  In light of this, the president's claim that we are stopping ISIS's advance is not only wrong in real terms, but shows an administration that is out of step with American sentiment.

MSM Says Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam.  Two events recently transpired that forced mainstream media to address a question they habitually dodge: Is Islam intrinsically violent?  First, on New Year's Day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi — a world leader, and a Muslim — did the unthinkable when he publicly asserted that Islamic texts and thinking have made the Muslim world a scourge to humanity.  The MSM ignored it until, as if to prove his point, Muslim gunmen shouting "Allahu Akbar" killed a dozen people in offices of a satirical newspaper in Paris.

No supporters show up for 'protest' to be held on I-40 bridge.  The protest was planned by a group calling themselves The Black Revolutionary Organization.  In a news release, they said the plan was to meet at Mississippi Greenbelt River Park at 4 a.m., march over the A.W. Willis bridge, cross the I-40 Hernando DeSoto bridge and block the westbound lane of traffic.  The protesters said the march would be a "massive call to action for police reform and an end to police brutality."  No protesters showed up to the park.

'American Sniper': Same Leftists Defaming Chris Kyle as 'Killer' Wanted Every Iraqi Dead.  Because they are freaked out over what the critical and box office success ($105 million opening weekend) of "American Sniper" might mean for our culture and on Oscar night, the very same Hollywood Left (and Left in general) who poured their wicked hearts and souls into a campaign that would have resulted in the murder of millions of innocent Iraqis, are now falsely accusing American hero Chris Kyle of murdering Iraqis.

American Sniper — Record Breaking Box Office Smash Hit.  Americans love God, are patriotic, love the military, and have been under increasing leftist assault for almost 6 years.  This is why Clint Eastwood's patriotic movie about U.S. hero sniper Chris Kyle has hit at exactly the right time for a confluence of success.  The Box Office Records are being obliterated so fast the predictions of the Hollywood types are having to be revised upward by the hour — and the progressive Left is apoplectic in rage.

Seth Rogen: 'American Sniper' Is Equal to Nazi Propaganda.  Actor Seth Rogen — along with fellow obese star Michael Moore — is unhappy with Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper.  Rogen is so unhappy, he compared the record-smashing film to a fake Nazi propaganda clip.

The Editor says...
The opinions of actors and actresses are no more valuable and substantial than yours or mine.  Especially if they compare the right wing to the Nazis.  For indeed, the name Nazi is a contraction of "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" — the national socialist party in Germany.  The socialists are on the political left, not the right.

Chris Kyle's Widow Overwhelmed By 'American Sniper' Success, Elites Unhappy.  In spite of the vitriol spewed toward the movie "American Sniper," Americans flocked to see the Clint Eastwood biopic of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in record numbers.  The previous record for a movie opening on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend was set last year by "Ride Along," which opened with $41 million.  "American Sniper" is estimated to have more than doubled that, bringing in an astounding $90.2 million.  Many in Hollywood and the media have express their dislike of the film, claiming it glorifies war.

'American Sniper' Targeted By Michael Moore; Says Shooters "Cowards".  The film stars Bradley Cooper as Kyle, who was killed after returning from Iraq in early 2013 at a Texas shooting range by a former soldier with PTSD whom he was mentoring. The movie about his life scored Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screening nominations on January 15 from Academy voters.  In a surprise snub, past Oscar winner and current DGA nominee Eastwood didn't get a nom for Best Director.  In a major consolation, the movie was a massive hit at the box office this weekend, its first in wide release, as it set box-office records for a January film (and for Eastwood's work) with an estimated $105 million for the long holiday weekend.

Americans love war heroes, despite what Hollywood liberals think.  Clint Eastwood's new movie, "American Sniper," marks the return of the American war hero.  Heroism on the battlefield had never gone away, of course, far from it (witness the Medals of Honor awarded for acts of extraordinary valor in Iraq and Afghanistan).  But the classic war hero is more than just brave or fierce.  He is famous and almost universally acclaimed.  On top of his battlefield exploits, he is a cultural phenomenon.  That is what "American Sniper" unquestionably makes of Chris Kyle.

Pro-War on Terror Films Crush Anti-War on Terror Films at Box Office.  Anti-American films are costly box office bombs at a rate of nothing less than 100%.  On the flip-side, pro-American films make money.  Many are outright blockblusters [sic].  Moreover, almost every the anti-American film produced over the last decade has also been an artistic failure, while many pro-American films have garnered positive reviews.  Let me boil this down for the leftwing-impaired:  Lies make for lousy art and can't be sold to the public.  And here's another lie Hollywood was spreading a few years back — the lie that in an international film market, Americanism doesn't sell.

Democrat Leftists and Islamists Join Forces to Promote Terrorism.  I agree completely with Trevor [Loudon] when he says that 2015 could usher in chaos, unrest and violence as we have not seen in our lifetime.  The Communists are now joining hands in America with the Radical Islamists, forming an American Intifada — an uprising, resistance, revolt.  They are using racism as the building blocks and their hate for America as the glue to forward massive havoc and violence in our streets.

Top Democrat: 'Un-American' to Question Muslim Lawmaker on Intel Panel.  Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said those who criticize the appointment of Democratic Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) to the Intelligence Committee because he is a Muslim are "un-American."  Schiff, who is the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he has been "deeply disturbed" by the reaction by some to Carson's appointment last week.

Democrats will appoint Muslim to the House Intelligence Committee who said US schools should be like Islamic madrassas.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is set to appoint a Muslim lawmaker to the Intelligence Committee, congressional aides said Tuesday, giving him access to some of America's most closely held secrets in the war on terror.  The move will come as the world is still grappling with an al-Qaeda death squad's massacre last week of journalists at the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, executed because they had published a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

NYT gets weepy over cop-killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley.  He was a victim! The man who cold-bloodedly shot Officers Ramos and Liu gets a shocking amount of sympathy and understanding from the New York Times today.  The three (!) writers assigned to the story, Kim Barker, Mosi Secret and Richard Fausset present us such empathy as:  ["]In reality, Mr. Brinsley's short life was a series of disappointments.[..."]

Five Reasons Why the Senate 'Torture' Report Became a Flop.  Congressional Democrats, leftwing groups, and the mainstream media were certain this month's Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA enhanced interrogation program (which they call torture) would spark a groundswell of anger against Bush administration officials and the CIA that would change the subject from the president's growing unpopularity and the Democratic Party's poor showing in the mid-term elections.

USA Is Biggest Threat of World Violence Today, Says Boston Globe Columnist.  "The United States of America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does," says novelist and journalist James Carroll in a recent interview in Salon Magazine, "and that boils down to our refusal to disarm after the end of the Cold War."  Carroll, a long-time anti-war activist, blames America's "unchecked, monumental national security establishment" for "defining our nation in terrible ways."

As I Was Saying About That 'Torture' Report.  It's basically a sham, a false-flag operation with the hapless Dianne Feinstein as the designed drop-box, designed to make the Bush administration look bad, the Democrats look "moral" (stop laughing) and the White House look innocent (no, really, stop laughing).  For proof, you need look no further than this glowing tale of the bond between two men as lovingly depicted by the Chief Stenographers of the Obama administration, the New York Times: [...]

Massive Media Fail: Only 29% Oppose CIA Interrogation Methods.  A Pew Research poll finds that the mainstream media and Democrats failed miserably in their coordinated attacks against the Bush Administration (and America) over Bush-era enhanced interrogation methods employed by the CIA against 3 terrorists to stop future terror attacks (and hunt down 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden).  Only 29% said the methods in question were unjustified.  A majority of 51% consider them justified.  A clear majority refused to buy into the media's lies about these methods not working.  A full 56% believe correctly that the intelligence gathered stopped future terror attacks.  Only 28% disagreed.

Was Feinstein a Useful Idiot or What?  I kept asking myself, why would Senator Feinstein approve a "report" whose main effect inevitably would be to damage America?  And it occurred to me that it might be a mistake to try to understand this bizarre event in the usual context of domestic politics.  It probably belongs to a different realm of analysis:  national security, international affairs, and espionage.  Maybe that was really the point of the operation.  It benefits our enemies, after all.

Tell Us Again Which Party Is Filled With Extremists.  [W]ho is the darling of the Democratic Party and its legions of media helpers?  Sen. Elizabeth Warren.  Warren is so far to the political left that she almost can't be found on the charts.  The FiveThirtyEight blog says that she "would be the most liberal Democratic nominee since 1972," meaning that she'd be the most leftist candidate for the Democrats since George McGovern.  The senator who represents you-didn't-get-rich-on-your-own land has positioned herself as an eager regulator of private enterprise and private affairs, a class warrior and privileged populist.

News Flash for Sen. Feinstein: Americans are OK with CIA tactics.  For days now Americans have heard graphic details of intense CIA interrogation tactics imposed on a handful of captured terrorists years ago and deemed torture by the media and Democrats on Dianne Feinstein's oddly-named Senate Intelligence Committee.  The goal, of course, in those early post-9/11 attack days when almost 3,000 had just died was to encourage these fellows to divulge details about other plots and plotters planning further expected attacks on the homeland.  The rough methods included exposure to sleep deprivation, terrible music, cold temperatures and water-boarding similar to that imposed on U.S. Special Forces candidates.  Democrats and sympathizers who do not see the country in an undeclared war with terrorism profess profound shock at such ruthless methods against helpless prisoners by a Republican administration.

The Self-Hating Americans.  They hate America.  They hate themselves for being Americans.  And in a vivid display of just how far self-hating Americans will go to smear their own country, look no further than this quickly infamous leftist-generated so-called CIA report.

Liberals believe that Christianity, Judaism and religiosity contribute to the stubborn bad character traits of Americans.  If Americans would stop clinging to religion, the nation could progress and lean forward.  Because this is so evidently true, elite jurists have turned the First Amendment religion clauses inside out.  Formerly read as an insurance for religious liberty, it is now obvious to our elite that public expressions of religion are illegal with one important stipulation:  if the religious expression offends a preponderance of a community then the expression is to be encouraged.  Satanists should be able to set up public memorials in Oklahoma — not because it does not violate a supposed notion of 'separation of church and state' — but because it so upsets Christians and other American religious conventions.  For the American deceptionalist, life has a civic container of secular privilege.

Make a Liberal Mad, Shop Here.  From deep in the bowels of Crazytown come these helpful hints for members of the Hive looking for places not to patronize.  According to writer Mindy Fischer, the major don'ts include Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, Walmart, Exxon and Cracker Barrel.

Democrats lost the South through culture war and elitism.  With Mary Landrieu's gigantic loss on Saturday [12/6/2014], following Hagan's surprise loss and Pryor's thumping, the Southern Democratic senator is officially extinct.  In the House, there are no White Democrats from the South.  Why did it happen?  In short:  Democrats waged a culture war against the South, trying to force Southerners to stop "clinging" to their guns and to God. When you try to make it illegal for people to conduct their own affairs according to their conscience, you tend to lose their votes.

The Democrat Select Committee On Intelligence Releases Their "We Hate America" CIA Report.  The media is claiming CIA Director John Brennan is angry about the release of the CIA report.  [Nonsense]!  That is a complete and total ruse meant to deflect attention away from the real reasons why the former White House advisor, and fellow ideological traveler, was selected for the top job in the CIA.

Torture Report: Another Obama Insult to Allies.  It's not enough that the Obama administration has offended nearly every ally of the United States.  Now, the Democratic Party with the full approval of the White House has endangered them as well.  That is the likely upshot of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogations, which is evidently so threatening to some of the countries that participated in our post-9/11 security measures that their leaders pleaded against its release.  What countries?  A 2013 report from the George Soros-sponsored Open Society Justice Initiative says 54 governments cooperated with the U.S. in our interrogation and detention measures, including 25 European countries and Canada.

CIA interrogations report: Feinstein offers aid and comfort to enemy, stabs heroes, allies in the back.  Can anyone cite one practical good accomplished by releasing this gratuitously destructive report at this time?  Will revealing successful practices make us more secure?  No.  The report provides a propaganda windfall for Islamist fanatics.  Will it benefit our allies?  No.  It exposes those who took great risks to help us in the wake of 9/11.  Will it "set the record straight?"  No.

The Bitter End.  Louisiana's Mary Landrieu is flailing in the political current. [...] And she's anchored by weight of her own choosing.  Landrieu didn't have to ignore opinion polls and vote for Obamacare, but she did.  She didn't have to vote for radical Obama nominees like Debo Adegbile, pro bono legal advocate for cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, but she did.  It was her own choice to vote against repealing the medical device tax and to vote increasingly pro-abortion in a pro-life state.  She started her Senate career somewhat left of her Louisiana mentors Breaux and Bennett Johnston, and moved even further left.

Progressives Seem Unaware the Election Results Proved Their Policies Aren't Popular.  After the widespread Democratic defeats in the recent midterm elections, had these liberals learned anything?  Would they propose any new policies?  The short answer:  no.

Poll: Obama pays the price of a unilateral presidency.  A new Quinnipiac poll shows broad public dissatisfaction with President Obama and his legacy achievements.  Just 39 percent of those surveyed approve of Obama's performance in office, while 54 percent disapprove.  Just 40 percent approve of the Affordable Care Act, while 54 percent disapprove.  And just 45 percent approve of the president's recent executive action on immigration, while 48 percent disapprove.  There is a theme running through the numbers, and it is that unilateral action, whether by the president himself (immigration), or by a single political party (Obamacare), alienates a significant part of the electorate, including independents, and makes it hard for a leader to win the support of a majority of the American people.

The Forgotten Americans.  In our vast nation of 320 million people, there are still millions of mostly middle-class voters, along with the proverbial white working class, who are ignored by Democrats.  They feel desperately squeezed by the higher taxes necessary to fulfill the dreams of progressive elites.  And they feel they are not on the receiving end of government entitlements the way the underclass is, while being a regular target of cheap progressive rhetoric, from "clingers" to "stupid."

How the Democrats Lost Texas.  While Texans have always welcomed newcomers, they have never liked invasions.  They didn't like it when Santa Anna did it in 1835.  They didn't like it when the Yankees did it during the Civil War and Reconstruction.  And it's pretty clear from the midterm election results that they definitely didn't like it when Jeremy Bird and his team of Obama organizers known as "Battleground Texas" did it in 2013.

Aid and comfort to the enemy:
Dem Sen. Udall Considers Reading CIA Torture Report on Senate Floor.  Outgoing Democratic Sen. Mark Udall is reportedly considering "all options" to reveal the long-concealed CIA torture report, including reading the entire classified report on the Senate floor.  Udall, who has been a fierce opponent of torture and of NSA surveillance programs throughout his tenure, lost his re-election bid to GOP Rep. Cory Gardner.  And now, some civil libertarians are encouraging Udall to cement his legacy and "go out with a bang" by invoking the seldom-used "speech or debate clause" of the U.S. Constitution, which gives lawmakers immunity even if they reveal classified information.

It's Almost Official: The Democrats Are the Party of the Devil.  One of our major parties is so closely associated with godlessness, with evil, with everything so antithetical to the divine that even the mere mention of God's name in a polling place constitutes a message in opposition to that party.

Salon: 'Forced Troop Worship and Compulsory Patriotism Must End'.  Radical leftist writer David Masciotra waxes somewhat less than eloquently that Americans who think all soldiers and police are heroes are childish, and betray "a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism" in a piece published Sunday [11/9/2014] on Salon.com.

Mpls. Mayor Flashes Gang Sign with Convicted Felon; Law Enforcement Outraged.  [KSTP] has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign.  The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling and possession and illegal possession of a firearm.  He is currently sentenced to five years at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility, with the prison term stayed for three years while he is under supervised probation until 2016.  If he violates terms of his probation during that time, he will serve the five years behind bars.

Losers.  Fairly or not, the face of the Democratic party has been Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.  Not only were these three unappealing personalities prone to gratuitous slurs and strange outbursts, but their politics were demagogic and far out of the mainstream.  They should and will soon disappear from the American political landscape and recede back into the mediocrity from which they somehow emerged.

Flashback: When Presidents Respected the Constitution.  The concept of limited government is the fundamental divide separating conservatives and liberals.  Conservatives hold dear the Constitution's enumerated powers clause and the protections of property guaranteed by the Constitution's Fourth and Fifth Amendments.  Liberals behave as if the Constitution did not exist.

Major consumer media study finds liberals far less tolerant than normal people.  How do you stack up in a national sampling of political news consumers — your sources, habits and friends?  A fascinating, major new survey by the Pew Research Journalism Project is examining political polarization in the United States of 2014.  The report comes just two weeks before a crucial midterm election that will be widely read as a six-year verdict on Barack Obama's performance and agenda, whatever that is today.

Kerry: Defaming Islam is as Bad as Rape.  Western elites are stuck in permanent hysteria over supposed Islamophobia, but the sale and rape of women and girls is a lot worse than any supposed insult to Islam.  Furthermore the Islamic State is not insulting Islam.  Its religious scholars know Islam far better than a scholar of windsurfing like Kerry does.  Kerry released a press release in response to an ISIS magazine explaining the Islamic basis for their actions.  If Kerry were really capable of debating the issue, he would have responded with citations from the Koran instead of hot air.

Red states give more to charity. It's because of religion.  Wealthier Americans gave less to charity in 2012 than they did in 2006, while poorer Americans gave more, a new analysis from The Chronicle of Philanthropy indicates.  It's the most recent look at giving from the periodical, and that gap in giving — particularly given the recession that occurred between those two years — is what jumped out to them.  Something else caught our attention.  Of the states that gave the most to charity in 2012, the top 17 all voted for Mitt Romney that year.  The bottom seven states in giving all voted for Obama.

Leading Dem Insider: Save America, Scrap The Constitution.  Harry Reid is a determined radical, intent on limiting freedom, overturning American traditions, and remaking our institutions in the name of crushing the opposition and empowering the left.  His attempt to amend the First Amendment to curb free speech is a natural extension of his obliteration of longstanding Senate rules that promote deliberation and minority input.  But Reid seems almost moderate by left-wing Democrat standards.  Take Donna Brazile, vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee for voter registration and participation.  For her, eviscerating the First Amendment is small potatoes; she wants to scrap the entire U.S. Constitution.

Global Citizen Festival Fights Poverty By Leaving A Mess.  If you caught any of the Global Citizen Festival on MSNBC Saturday night, you saw millionaires and billionaires decry "extreme poverty" around the world.  The concert was held in New York City's Central Park and involved an elaborate stage and light show by the likes of No Doubt, Jay-Z and Beyoncé.  They could easily end a lot of poverty if they wanted, but...  Since the hypocrisy of people who made their fortunes through capitalism complaining about it is obvious, I'll just say this on that:  Capitalism is so awesome that you can even get rich by telling people it's awful.

Democrats Unfazed.  Obama hasn't lost one single billionaire donor.  They are holding firm.  It is only independents who are running away from the Democrat disaster — citing Obama's record on terrorism, foreign policy, immigration, the economy, and health care.  The puzzle is that 84% of Democrat voters are completely unfazed.

See the 10 Dumbest Idiots from the People's Climate March.  If you believe the media, today's People's Climate March was a gathering of grandmothers, adorable kiddies and smiling college students in polar bear costumes to urge us all to live in miserable poverty in order to save the planet from a threat that doesn't exist. [...] But when most people hear the word "People" and "March" in one sentence, they think commies.  And indeed there were plenty of Commies there.  Also terrorist supporters and random lunatics from the great asylum that is New York City.

Climate change skeptics call out marchers' 'hypocrisies'.  Manhattan's flood of green protesters had climate-change skeptics seeing red Sunday [9/21/2014].  "Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn't even use a trash can," tweeted a disgusted @chelsea_elisa, along with a photo of an overflowing trash can in Manhattan, after tens of thousands of marchers invaded the city on fleets of smog-producing buses.

Poet: I 'would've died' for my aborted daughter's 'right to choose,' just 'like she died for mine'.  What kind of mother asks her baby to die for her?  And what kind of media outlet celebrates that?  To take the second question first, The Huffington Post is promoting a video featuring Scottish "poet" Leyla Josephine, celebrating her decision to abort her daughter.  [Video clip]

A Kafkaesque standard of morality:
Poet: I would have died for my aborted daughter's right to choose, just like she died for mine.  She starts by imagining the moments she would have shared with her daughter had she been born, then takes to repeating "I am not ashamed," as if trying to convince herself by incantation that she really isn't.

Sanders: 'I Do Not Want to See This Become ... War Between Christianity and Islam'.  The 22 senators who voted [9/18/2014] against arming Syrian rebels in the continuing resolution came from each party and had different reasons for their objections.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who may be contemplating a run for the White House, told MSNBC he voted "no" because "I do not want to see this become a war between east and west, a war between Christianity and Islam, a war between the United States and ISIS."

Senator Blocks Ted Cruz bill to seize passports from ISIS fighters who return to the US.  A showdown over the passports of so called 'foreign fighters' — Americans and other westerners who have joined the ISIS terror army in Iraq and Syria — came to a head on Thursday [9/18/2014] when a U.S. senator killed legislation aiming to strip them of their citizenship.  Democrat Mazie Hirono, a freshman senator from Hawaii, objected on the Senate floor when Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas tried to fast-track his 'Expatriate Terrorists Act.'

Voters Care About Jobs, Economy, Not Green Agenda.  The world is aflame in violence and barbaric acts of terrorism, and Secretary of State John Kerry is running around warning one of the biggest problems facing the planet — ranking "right up there" with "terrorism, epidemics, poverty (and) the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" — is global warming.  Good thing almost no voters agree with him.

Dem wears flip-flops to House floor.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee sporting a pair of white flip-flops with her pearls while on the House floor on Monday [9/8/2014].  While the Texas Democrat was all business on top — wearing a red suit jacket with a black and white scarf and pearl necklace — she was ready to hit the beach on the bottom, with her toe-baring shoes.  The House feed on C-SPAN did not capture the summer recess-worthy thongs.

Dem Senate Candidate Dodges Questions About Ties to Communist Group.  The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana last month dodged questions about her ties to a group that explicitly advocates the abolition of capitalism in the United States.  "That sounds like contemporary communism," said Montana Public Radio reporter Edward O'Brien of the Industrial Workers of the World, a labor group for which Montana legislator Amanda Curtis' husband is a representative.  Her ties to the group have come under scrutiny since she won the Democratic nomination for Senate.  She replaced disgraced Sen. John Walsh (D.) on the ticket after it was revealed that he plagiarized his final paper at the Army War College.

Why Won't Endangered Democrat Senate Candidates Repudiate Their Todd Akin?  There are a whole bunch of Democrats running for Senate this year, though in this case "running" seems to mean running as far away as possible from failed liberal messiah Barack Obama.  You'd practically think they were Tea Partiers by the way they publicly espouse conservative principles like support for the family, protection from crime, and respect for religion.  But they can't run away from their duty to repudiate the single most offensive, anti-woman, anti-family, anti-Christian candidate running under their Democrat Party's banner.

Elijah Cummings' Plan for a Police State Run by a Federal Czar.  IRS targeting-advocate, Rep. Elijah Cummings, [...] and his Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members, sent a letter Monday [8/26/2014] to President Obama demanding a police czar and national regulations that would in effect nationalize local police forces.  "The administration must quickly establish a national commission to review existing police policies and practices," the letter reads.  "And identify the best policies and practices that can prevent more Fergusons and vastly improve policing in communities across the nation."  The letter calls for the appointment of a federal czar within the Justice Department to monitor and oversee local police departments that receive federal funding.  They will end up bullying and abusing local police.  The CBC claims they want to stop the militarization of police while they are actually demanding nationalization of the police in all states, a move that would ensure the U.S. would one day be a police state.

The Democratic Shift to the Left.  It would take a heart of stone, as the fellow said, not to laugh out loud at President Barack Obama's recent comparison between the two major political parties.  "Ideological extremism," he told The New York Times, "is much more prominent right now in the Republican Party than the Democrats.  Democrats have problems, but overall if you look at the Democratic consensus, it's a pretty commonsense, mainstream consensus.  It's not a lot of wacky ideological nonsense, the way it is generally fact-based and reason-based."  Spoken like a true partisan:  My Side is calm and reasonable, and Your Side is full of raving lunatics.

Montana U.S. Sen. Candidate Mocks Gun Owners, Christianity, the Bible, and the Family.  Montana State Senator Amanda Curtis (D-76 Dist.) is running for U.S. Senate and will no doubt be trying to run away from her past statements mocking guns, Christianity, the Bible, and the family.  She just stepped into the race in place of John Walsh, the Democrat candidate who had to step down amid a plagiarism scandal.  On August 22 the Tea Party Express posted a compilation of Curtis's statements that include laughing at gun owners who stress the importance of having a gun for self defense.

Montana Dems Replace Plagiarist With Socialist in Senate Race.  Montana Democrats are banking on a long-shot liberal Senate candidate to replace the disgraced John Walsh, but their choice might be too radical even for the increasingly extreme party.  Democrats are hoping that Montana state representative Amanda Curtis will be the next Elizabeth Warren:  an outspoken and unapologetic liberal who can fire up the base and raise big bucks from like-minded benefactors.  A self-described "punktuator" who has been seen sporting a mohawk and studded denim jacket with the iconic anarchist "A," Curtis is certainly distinct from most Montana politicians.

The Constitution Lives in Ferguson.  [Scroll down]  Liberals can't stand the Constitution.  No less than Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised Egyptians caught in the chaos of a dictatorship that "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012."  Former Justice John Paul Stevens has written a book titled Six Amendments:  How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, in which, as noted by Richard Wolf in USA Today Stevens would "reduce gun violence, abolish the death penalty, restrict political campaign spending, limit states' independence and make Congress more competitive and less combative."  And, of course, there is that now much cited 2001 radio interview with State Senator Obama in which he complains that "the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties."

Lehmberg Democrats Drunk On Their Own Power.  [B]ecause Ferguson is a city which is two-thirds black run by a white mayor and an overwhelmingly white police force, and because there has been a history of tension between the cops and the black community, the [Michael] Brown case was too juicy for the race industry not to politicize.  Within days of the shooting, Jesse Jackson had weighed in, only to ultimately be booed when he committed the unmannerly act of fundraising among the aggrieved in Ferguson.  So had Al Sharpton, who managed to incite a riot on Sunday [8/17/2014].  And Eric Holder swung into full Trayvon mode, descending on Ferguson with FBI agents and DOJ community organizers in tow and by the weekend demanding a third autopsy of Brown.

Change is coming in Colorado, but not by a landslide.  Voters in Colorado are evenly divided right now on who their next governor will be.  Support for incumbent Governor Hickenlooper is softening, and he's looking weak in the polls.  It's not hard to see why.  He led an unconstitutional incursion on Second Amendment rights.  He continues to delay progress on energy exploration in the state, even arranging for a November ballot measure on fracking to be killed and the process to be handed over to a commission appointed by himself.  He won't take a position on the Keystone Pipeline either.

A World In Chaos, And Kerry's Talking Climate Change.  As the world melts into chaos and threats to the U.S. homeland multiply, America's top foreign policy official seems bizarrely, even dangerously, fixated on ... global warming.  In remarks at the East-West Center in Honolulu on Wednesday, Kerry repeated his claim that climate change is "the biggest challenge ... we face right now."  To which we respond:  Can he be serious?

Kerry: Climate Change is 'The Biggest Challenge of All That We Face Right Now'.  The global impact of climate change is "the biggest challenge of all that we face right now," Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience in Hawaii Wednesday [8/13/2014], putting an issue he feels passionately about at the center of a speech entitled "U.S. Vision for Asia-Pacific Engagement."

Democratic phonies are on the run.  What's with all the Democratic Senate candidates being caught displaying a condescending, insulting contempt for voters?  The latest embarrassing incident involves Georgia Senate candidate Michelle Nunn, who suffered the indignity of having her 144-page campaign plan leaked.  By the way, whatever happened to political professionals applying the "Washington Post rule"?  That rule is simple:  If it wouldn't be flattering if it was published in The [Washington] Post, don't put it in writing.  Anyway, her entire blueprint for faux authenticity has been published, and it contains all of the usual and contrived political maneuvering that voters find so disgusting.

Dem Rep to Illegal Minors: 'I Felt Ashamed' of America.  Tuesday [7/29/2014] at the Congressional Progressive Caucus' Ad-Hoc Hearing on the humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied minors flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) said she "felt ashamed" her country has handled the influx of illegal immigrant children

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They're the ones who are breaking the law, and she's the one who is ashamed.

Eleanor Holmes Norton says 'you don't have a right to know' what's going on in government.  Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday [7/25/2014] that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.  "You don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend.  That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government," Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.  It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials.

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Here's the good news:  Ms. Norton is a "non-voting congressional delegate."  Now for the bad news:  Barack H. Obama wants to change that, by giving statehood to the District of Columbia.

Democrat Rep: 'You Don't Have a Right to Know' What's Going on in Your Government.  Remember when the Obama Administration was meant to serve as the model for how a transparent government is supposed to operate?  That promise of "hope'n'change" has produced the most secretive government administrations in the history of this nation. [...] What Norton seems to have confused is that it is the very principle of scrutiny that defines a government that is equipped with a separation of powers. Each branch of government checks the power of the other branches of government.  It's amazing that America possesses even one citizen who would believe such an obvious falsehood; it's even more outrageous that America has a representative in Congress who believes this.

US wealth based on theft? Progressives and their dangerous view of America.  Is the wealth of America based on theft?  This allegation lies at the heart of modern progressivism, and provides the justification for government seizure and government redistribution, not only within America but also from America to the rest of the world.

How to Renounce America and Still Be Called a Patriot.  This story is about a gilded class of people and corporations enriched by the new American economy while the rest of its citizens pay the tab.  The protagonists could be any number of institutional elites, but this column happens to be about a Democratic senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, and his daughter, Heather Bresch, the chief executive of Mylan, a giant maker of generic drugs based outside Pittsburgh.  Her company's profits come largely from Medicaid and Medicare, which means her nest is feathered by U.S. taxpayers.  On Monday [7/14/2014], Bresch announced that Mylan will renounce its United States citizenship and instead become incorporated in the Netherlands — leaving this country, in part, to pay less in taxes.

Bruce Braley's War on Chickens.  Rep. Bruce Braley (D., Iowa) threatened to sue a homeowners' association after a chicken crossed onto his vacation home property in Iowa, again raising concerns that the Senate candidate is out-of-touch with farmers in the state, the Iowa Republican reports.  The dispute started this spring after one of his neighbor's chickens appeared on his vacation property in Holiday Lake, Iowa.

Iowa Senate candidate Braley threatened lawsuit over chicken in his yard.  The dispute started this spring after one of his neighbor's chickens appeared on his vacation property in Holiday Lake, Iowa:  "Braley's wife Carolyn attended a May 8 meeting of the Holiday Lake Owner's Association to complain about the fowl.  The dispute escalated, causing the association to incur nearly $1,700 in legal fees after Braley called the association's attorney with an implied threat of legal action.

Big Majority Favors Sending Alien Minors Home.  Three in five Americans say the tens of thousands of minors who have crossed the border "should be ordered to leave the U.S."  What about that do the Congress and president not understand?

Obama the Betrayer.  Obama will be historic for his fanatical leftism, which has no precedent in American history.  The biggest headline is Obama's ideology, not his race.  The left is a revolutionary cult, one that has no compunctions about violations of laws or human rights — for what they imagine to be a utopian cause, of course.  But every single power cult in history is all for love and peace — once it takes over.  Head-chopping Muslims sing the song of love and peace just as well as the left.

Proud to be an American? You're probably not a true liberal.  Michelle Obama took some heat in 2008 for saying that, "for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country..."  As it turns out, that sentiment isn't all that unusual on the far left of American politics.  According to a new Pew Research Center study, only 40 percent of consistently liberal Americans say they often feel proud to be Americans.  The other 60 percent say that doesn't describe them.

Only 40 Percent of Liberal Democrats "Proud to be American".  In little more than two hundred years, Americans empowered the individual; defeated slavery, Nazism, military Shintoism and Communism; refined mass production; invented human flight; created 75% of all medical innovations on the planet; put a man on the moon; invented the telephone, the Internet and the search engine; and advanced humankind in millions of other ways, in every field and endeavor.  And these Democrats prefer some other land, some other country.  What that they would move there, permanently.

She would have been no help in World War II.
Dem Rep: I'm Uncomfortable With Us Feeling It Has Moral Authority.  In an interview with KABC radio last week, Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA) offered the liberal world view of globalism before nationalism last week during an interview about the on-going crisis in Iraq.  Hahn said she was "kind of uncomfortable" with the concept that the United States could claim any moral authority in using military action.  "I'm kind of uncomfortable with, you know, with the United States feeling that we do have some moral authority to go into these other countries and use military power to solve problems," the California lawmaker said.

U.S. Rep. Sean Maloney Marries Same-Sex Partner.  New York's first openly gay member of Congress has married his longtime partner.

Undocumented fight for in-state tuition.  They just earned diplomas at North Carolina high schools, but it's proving much harder to get to the next level.  A group of young un-documented immigrants hit the halls at the North Carolina General Assembly Tuesday, fighting for in-state college tuition — despite the fact they were brought to the US illegally by their parents.

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It doesn't matter if they were brought here by their parents or by global warming or by the Tooth Fairy.  If they are here illegally, they are not entitled to the privileges that citizens enjoy.

New York Dem: It's time to give the vote to illegal aliens.  Daily Caller tells us it's the first bill of its kind in the nation; giving adults here illegally the opportunity to vote in state and local elections.  The legislation is being introduced by state Sen. Guestavo Rivera and is designed to "integrate illegal immigrants, who are estranged from participation in civic, economic and political life."  What could go wrong?

New York Dem: Illegals Should Have The Right To Vote.  New York state Sen. Guestavo Rivera wants to pass legislation to give illegal immigrants the right to vote in local and state elections, Reuters reports.  In terms of the broad benefits available to non-citizens, this bill is the first of its kind in America.  The main objective of the New York Is Home Act, according to Rivera, is to integrate illegal immigrants, who are estranged from participation in civic, economic and political life.  The legislation not only gives illegal immigrants the right to vote, but establishes a kind of second-tiered citizenship on a state level, in which illegal immigrants can apply for tuition assistance, health insurance and driver's and professional licenses, among other benefits.

The Ghost of John Edwards.  John Edwards' old campaign manager, Josh Stein, is the current North Carolina Senator in District 16.  He's also among the most extreme and dangerous politicians in the state.  Among the reasons he is dangerous are a) his assertion that killing unborn children is a fundamental constitutional right and b) his suggestion that Senate Republicans are more dangerous than Islamic extremists.  It is bad enough that this former disciple of John Edwards is serving in our state senate.  To make matters worse, he also wants to be the next attorney general of the Tar Heel State.

Majority of Americans do NOT want Obama to shut down Guantanamo Bay.  Most Americans do not want President Obama to shut down the United State's terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a poll released this afternoon.  Americans continue to be wary of releasing prisoners with terrorist ties like the ones swapped last month for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl or moving them to prisons in the U.S.  Two in three Americans told Gallup that they want president Obama to keep the 149 suspected terrorists being held at Gitmo under lock and key on foreign soil instead of shutting down the camp.

Dem Congresswoman: Taliban "Part of Fabric of Afghanistan", Not Terrorists.  [A]t least she said in plain language what used to be confined to policy papers and vague terminology.  Obama's endgame is to bring the Taliban into the government.

Dem rep compares Taliban to soldiers in American Revolution.  A Democratic congressman offered a curious analogy on Monday to explain why the U.S. is dealing with the Taliban — apparently comparing them to soldiers in the American Revolution.  According to sources, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., made the comparison during a House briefing late Monday [6/9/2014] with administration officials on the trade of Taliban members for American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.  Nadler apparently made the point that the Taliban, as non-state actors, have a status similar to that of American soldiers who fought the British during the Revolutionary War.

The Obama Doctrine.  To leftists like our president, we are the bad guys.  Sharia law is a right.  Israeli's self-defense and sovereignty are wrongs.  Islam is a beautiful religion; Judaism and Christianity are backward and hateful.  Islamophobia is real.  The jihadi threat is not real.

White Teacher Says He Helped Write Common Core Because Of His 'Privilege'.  An educator who helped write Common Core standards said Monday that one of the reasons he contributed to the curriculum was because he is a privileged as a white man.  Dr. David Pook teaches at The Derryfield School and Granite State College. [...] The Derryfield School, where Pook teaches history and English, is a bastion of "white privilege" itself.  Its student body is 91 percent white, and the annual cost of attendance is over $28,000, Campus Reform reports.

Dem Congressman: 'We've Proved That Communism Works'.  Democratic Florida Rep. Joe Garcia — fresh off being caught eating his own earwax on camera — was caught red-handed in another gaffe this week, claiming that low crime rates in border cities with lots of federal immigration workers is proof that "Communism works."  Garcia made the comment during a Google hangout he convened last week to talk about comprehensive immigration reform with supporters.  The Democrat attempted to point out how, for all their talk about limited government, many Republicans are fine spending loads of government money on border security.

Dem Rep: Communism Works!.  "The safest city in America is El Paso, Texas. It happens to be across the border from the most dangerous city in the America's, which is Juarez.  Right?" Garcia asked a Google Hangout participant.  "Two of the safest cities in America are on the border with Mexico.  Of course, the reason is we've proved that communism works.  If you give everybody a good government job, there is no crime," Garcia said.

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Does El Paso, or any city in the world, have zero unemployment and zero crime?

Why Are Democrats Afraid of Tom Steyer?  Democrats have made casting conservatives as beholden to the ultra-rich central to their 2014 strategy, and that makes it awkward when a billionaire of their own puts himself front and center. [...] Steyer's persona, the skeptics feel, opens Democrats up to charges of hypocrisy, and leaves too much of the party's profile in the hands of a man who has been popularly elected to exactly nothing.

6 Times Democrats Demonstrated Their Hatred of the Bible.  Putting aside the rocky seas and cross-currents of modernity, Kerry's statement that most people do not want to live based on "something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago" demonstrates his — and his party's — enormous hatred for the Bible.  They see the Bible as an antiquated document, a dire opponent of the new, modern morality.  Kerry makes no distinction between the Koran, the Old Testament, or the New Testament; he makes no distinction between the myriad streams of religious thought throughout history.  They are all the same.  Anyone who believes in ancient codes of morality is out of step with history.

Kerry on Religion: 'Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live'.  During a talk to the U.S. embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the first stop on his trip to Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked about what he called the "different cross-currents of modernity" and the challenges they present on the African continent.  The comments contain a veiled reference to religion, and the part that religion might be playing in some of the current conflicts in Africa: [...]

King Barack's Court: A Flippant Regime.  Despite its seriousness, Benghazi has literally become a joke to the left wing of the ruling class. Fortunately, only to them.  A large majority of Americans (60% of voters) want Congress to keep investigating the attack and ensuing political scandal.  Even more (61%) think the White House is covering up the details.  That's more people than support same-sex marriage (59%), but you don't hear administration officials flippantly dismissing the issue of equal rights.  And it's not just Benghazi.  The glib dismissal emanating from the White House also covers issues like the IRS targeting of conservative non-profits, the Keystone XL pipeline, NSA surveillance of American citizens, and the Fast and Furious gun debacle.  Like Benghazi, Republicans have widespread support to pursue all these issues according to polls.  And like Benghazi, Obama surrogates consider them all political theater rather than legitimate concerns.

Why Elizabeth Warren is perfectly positioned for 2016 (if she wanted to run).  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) says she's not running for president in 2016, and we believe her — for the most part.  But there is one thing that will keep the pilot light of the Warren for President speculation aflame:  the almost-gaping hole in the Democratic primary that seems tailor-made for her.  Look no further than the new Washington Post-ABC News poll for a little glimpse into that void.  The poll shows that a huge portion of the Democratic base not only dislikes Wall Street and big business; its voters actually think these institutions are inflicting harm on them personally.

The Faux Conservative Evangelicals Fighting for Immigration Reform.  Although the article simply refers to them as "faith leaders," they are all part of the same group that has been working with Jim Wallis for some time, allegedly funded with Soros money.  Soros is making a habit of using evangelicals, as he did with the funding of Telos, an outreach to convince evangelicals to be pro-Palestinian.  Among those on the Telos advisory board, we find Dr. Joel Hunter, Obama spiritual advisor; Lynne Hybels (Willow Creek Church); and Samah Norquist, wife of Grover Norquist.  The immigration group Soros funds is known as the Evangelical Immigration Table and is made up of a wide array of "social justice" evangelicals who have been criticized previously for their approach to the immigration issue.

Fighting Inequality: Rule Of Law Vs. Legal Plunder.  [Thomas] Piketty claims he is not a Marxist but rather a socialist with a belief in private property.  Yet, the contradiction should be apparent:  One cannot defend private property and at the same time call for a massive taking of property.  Piketty reveals his preferences when he states: "Capitalism and markets should be the slave of democracy and not the opposite."  In his view, property is not a natural right prior to the law; it is a creation of the state. Hence, the majority should be able to use the power of government/legislation to heavily tax the rich and near-rich.  The purpose would be to rid the world of inequality.  This is his moral imperative.

Liberals Digging Their Political Graves.  I don't think that our all-American liberals have really thought through their sophomoric ideas about striking a "balance between free speech in a democracy and protection against racial abuse in a multicultural society" and the use of the IRS to punish their enemies.  One repression leads with iron logic to the next, and each injustice provokes its own head of rebellion.  At some point, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), you and your fellow House Democrats may have to embarrass yourselves and walk back your partisan insouciance, and admit that your opponents were right about the IRS and True the Vote.

Radical group's founder helps Dem candidate.  One of New Mexico's candidates for Governor is downplaying his ties to a co-founder of the radical anti-government Weather Underground.  Democrat Alan Webber has raised the most money out of the five candidates vying for the party's nomination and the right to take on Governor Susana Martinez in the November election.  It turns out Webber got some fundraising help from a controversial source.

A Lesson in Liberal/Democratic Party Hypocrisy.  What do Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, Michele Bachmann, Condoleezza Rice, Allen West, Dr. Ben Carson, and TW Shannon all have in common? [...] They are hated by liberals and Democrats. [...] They are women and minorities who honor God, family, and country.  They are self-reliant, extremely successful and do not view themselves as victims.  Liberals and Democrats will not tolerate such liberated independent thinking by women and minorities.  It threatens the foundation of the Democratic Party which is built on insidious evil lies, class envy, and victimhood-ism.

How many books has Jay Carney read?  [Scroll down]  Mike, another conservative in attendance at Saturday's cattle call for Republican presidential hopefuls, spotted a poster in the Carney-Shipman kitchen — shown in another Washingtonian MOM picture — that's a take-off on Soviet propaganda art.  'I know that picture,' said the visitor from Nashua.  'The original Russian poster asked, "Have you volunteered?"  It's sort of like "Uncle Sam Wants YOU," only for communists.'

What A Disembodied Finger In Jay Carney's Photo Says About Media Propaganda.  [I]t's amusing to note the lengths to which the media will go to make Democratic bureaucrats appealing to us.  In the run up to the 2008 election, the Atlantic hired a hate-fueled leftist photographer who took unflattering photos of John McCain for their profile.  And yet here we have a popular magazine going out of its way to make the condescending Jay Carney look more human.  Because they'd do the same for Bush, right?

Why do Jay Carney and Claire Shipman decorate their house with Soviet propaganda posters?  The moral blindness of the American Ruling Class is on display.  The Washingtonian Magazine, a glossy lifestyle and politics rag, has published a fawning profile of D.C. power couple Jay Carney and Claire Shipman that was a bit more revealing than intended.  At the top of the piece was a photo of mom Claire with her son and daughter, flipping a fried egg in their beautiful kitchen/great room.

Three pictures in the Washingtonian that make Jay Carney look ridiculous.  The most decadent Beltway publication yet conceived, Washingtonian, has outdone itself with its latest celebration of what life is like inside the city fueled by your forcibly confiscated money.  The publication recently ran with a profile of White House Press Sec. Jay Carney's wife, ABC News personality and working mom Claire Shipman.  Carney's two beautiful children are also profiled in the piece, but the profile itself is largely irrelevant.  What is worthy of dissection are the three featured images that add value to the profile.  And by "value," we mean guffaws galore.

Obama's press secretary decorates home with Soviet propaganda.  It's the sort of adoring journalistic exercise reserved for only the most handsome of the power elite. [...] But keen observers may notice the kitchen decor in the photo:  Soviet propaganda posters.  They really are the perfect pop of color whether you are the dour and sincere Nikita Khrushchev or the cheeky press-wrangler for a president who is constantly accused of being a socialist himself.

The Real Meaning of Soviet Agitprop in Jay Carney's Kitchen.  As soon as the photograph of Soviet propaganda posters in Jay Carney's kitchen hit the Internet, right-wing pundits began to draw conclusions about White House Press Secretary's ideology, morals, and political leanings.  It was as if things that a man merely places on his walls and looks at day after day can be any indication of his life choices.  If that were so, the meals in Carney's kitchen would also probably match the menu of the place and time of the posters.  His family would be living on a diet of beets, gruel, occasional rat, and thinly sliced boiled jackboots, which is what many Soviets ate at the time these posters were produced.

Oh Look, an Obama Staff Democrat Who Thinks a Bloodthirsty Communist Dictatorship is Cute!  [Comment #1:]  The ironic thing is that there is more food on those counters than you would have found in any Soviet grocery store.

Update:  Mr. Carney enjoys the fruits of capitalism.
Jay Carney cashes in.  Jay Carney just left the White House podium and he's already joined the ranks of George W. Bush, Tom Brokaw and Mike Ditka in one profitable enterprise:  lecturing on the private speaking circuit.  The former Obama administration flack signed on this month with the Washington Speakers Bureau, a gig that came with a signing bonus and is likely to yield payments as high as $100,000 per speech to share his personal presidential anecdotes and analysis of the next two election cycles.

Uninstall Firefox.  The left is out to crush individuals and companies with whom it differs.  This is especially so today on the issue of same-sex marriage.  Perhaps the most dramatic example of this took place last week.  The governing board of the widely used browser, Firefox, forced the company's CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign. [...] All these years, the left, after coining the term "McCarthyism" in order to disparage the right, had fooled most people into believing that it is the right that suppresses liberty.  The truth, of course, has been the opposite.

Dem Rep.: 'Members of Congress Are Underpaid,' Can't Afford to 'Live Decently'.  Do you think members of Congress are overpaid or underpaid?  Most likely you'd go with the former, but Democratic congressman Jim Moran argues it's actually the latter.  In an interview with CQ Roll Call, Moran says, "I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid."  The House recently took up a bill to freeze members' paychecks, placing another halt on the annual cost-of-living pay increases they would normally get and keeping annual salary at $174,000.

Testing and Detesting SGO.  At week's end, retiring Cong. Jim Moran (D-of course, VA-unfortunately) told Roll Call that Congress was underpaid.  Before we could see clearly through our laughter-teared eyes, he added that "I understand that it's widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world."  And he said all that with a straight face.

Juan Williams Clashes with Eric Bolling: 'We Need America to Be a Gun-Free Zone' .  The tragic Fort Hood shooting this week reignited the debate over shootings in gun-free zones and whether gun-free zones are generally more prone to this kind of horrible violence.  On Cashin' In Saturday morning [4/5/2014], Eric Bolling and Juan Williams tussled over mental health and the gun culture, with Williams saying, "I think we need America to be a gun-free zone."

Your Political Leaders Are Unsurprisingly Terrible at Empathizing with Your Salary.  Democratic Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia wants you to know that, at $174,000 a year, members of Congress are underpaid.  Because Jim Moran, like others, doesn't understand actual economic hardship and, frankly, isn't that great at politics either.  Moran is not the only public official to make a dubious claim about salary hardship in the past 24 hours.

78% Favor Proof of Citizenship Before Being Allowed to Vote.  A federal judge last week upheld the right of states to require proof of citizenship before allowing someone to register to vote.  Voters continue to overwhelmingly support such a requirement.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% of Likely U.S. Voters believe everyone should be required to prove his or her citizenship before being allowed to register to vote.  That's up from 71% a year ago.  Just 19% oppose that requirement.

Former Top Biden Adviser Endorses Famous Marxist Tenet.  In 2009, Jared Bernstein helped craft President Obama's economic stimulus law in the White House, directing over $800 billion in taxpayer funds to various liberal priorities.  On Tuesday [3/25/2014], he endorsed a famous and important tenet of Marxism in an open congressional hearing.  "Dr. Bernstein, if I utter the phrase to you 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,' do you look upon that generally favorably or generally unfavorably?" Rep. Mick Mulvaney asked the former top economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden at Tuesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing.  "Generally favorably," Bernstein answered, to which Mulvaney replied:  "Thank you, sir, I have no further questions."

One wonders what the Senator would prefer to replace the Judicial Branch.
Sen. Patty Murray: 'Stunning to Me' That 9 Justices Will Decide Hobby Lobby Case.  "I've worked hard to make sure that women have access to the right kinds of health care, and it's their choice, not their employer's choice," Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday [3/25/2014].  "Sitting in that court today, it was stunning to me to recognize that nine people are going to make that decision — and will decide for a long time to come — whether women have to question when they go to work every day what the shareholders of that company's religious views could be."

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I'm impressed that Senator Murray managed to get both the "health care" and "choice" buzzwords into one sentence.  But killing your children is not health care, and homicide is not a legal "choice."

Democrat Wants His Party to Officially Come Out Against the Second Amendment.  The Daily Surge has a clip of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) on Bill Maher's HBO show.  Ellison says the Democratic Party should just be honest about its stance on guns. [...] For some reason, Americans murdered by drug cartel members along the border never came up.  Neither did the victims of Chicago's gang violence.

Obama's Rogues Gallery Of Radicals.  America is a country of 320 million people, most of them holding to traditional values.  Yet President Obama keeps mining the fringes for his hires.  Does he have any friends who aren't crackpots?  Seriously.  The president keeps saying he champions the middle class and its values.  But his choices of people to help him run the country are the most extreme in U.S. history, and his second-term nominations are more radical than the first.  No sooner had even some Senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting down a cop killer-coddler for civil rights chief, Debo Adegbile, than Obama sent up a 2nd Amendment-basher for U.S. Surgeon General.  Dr. Vivek Murthy advocates doctors asking patients if they keep guns in the home, a shocking invasion of privacy.  Murthy may also have a rocky path ahead of him, but other extreme-left nominees are getting confirmed.

Has Charles Rangel Forgotten the Real 9/11?  [Scroll down]  We should have been aware of where this nation was headed when Barack Hussein Obama was elected president in 2008.  As soon as we heard Michelle Obama say after her husband's selection as candidate, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country...," we knew how little respect both of them had for America. [...] I hope and pray that in the upcoming elections we band together and elect those who love our country and have always been proud of it.

Senate chaos: Democrat says cabinet secretaries can ignore GOP questions.  The Democratic chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee declared Wednesday that cabinet secretaries do not have to answer questions at hearings if they don't feel like it, the latest breakdown in collegiality.  In a politically-charged atmosphere during a hearing on increasing the minimum wage, HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin brushed aside ranking Sen. Lamar Alexander's request for a "yes or no" answer from Labor Secretary Thomas Perez.

Burlington voters opt to give up gun rights, gut state preemption.  Three City of Burlington resolutions were passed by voters Tuesday, Vermont's WPTZ News Channel 5 reported this morning.  The measures are now headed to the state legislature, where it will be decided if municipalities will be given the power to override state preemption protections.  Voters chose to allow authorities to seize firearms at domestic investigations (Yes: 5,579 / No: 2,066), ban firearms from establishments that serve liquor (Yes: 5,194 / No: 2,517), and require firearms in the home to be locked up (Yes: 4,351 / No: 2,971) in an election that marks the latest battle in a long campaign being waged between "progressive" Burlington Council members working with Gun Sense Vermont, and the Vermont Federation of Sportmen's Clubs.

Poll: 65 percent support Keystone construction.  Sixty-five percent of people support the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline between the United States and Canada, a new poll finds.  A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday [3/7/2014] shows only 22 percent are opposed to the project.  The poll shows there has been little movement in support or opposition to the pipeline in the last year.  A Pew poll last April found 66 percent backed construction.

New Post-ABC News poll: Keystone XL project overwhelmingly favored by Americans.  Americans support the idea of constructing the Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States by a nearly 3 to 1 margin, with 65 percent saying it should be approved and 22 percent opposed, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.  The findings also show that the public thinks the massive project, which aims to ship 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the northern Great Plains to refineries on the Gulf Coast, will produce significant economic benefits.  Eighty-five percent say the pipeline would create a significant number of jobs, with 62 percent saying they "strongly" believed that to be the case.

Mr. Farrow and the Obama Syndrome.  Young, charismatic, good-looking, hip, and glib are all superficial traits that supposedly cerebral liberal elites have a bad habit of believing trump experience, knowledge, humility, and what the Greeks called pathei mathos, learning through requisite pain.  Once someone is acclaimed as a liberal prodigy by elites, stamped with the right Ivy League brand and aristocratic contacts that resonate through networking and cocktail parties along the Boston to D.C. corridor, all normal cross-examination seems to end.

Dirty Harry Reid Goes Around the Bend.  Harry Reid delivered another salvo against the Koch brothers on the floor of the Senate today.  On reading it, the reaction of any normal person would be that he has gone off his meds.  That a Senate Majority Leader should indulge such crazed vituperation against a couple of private citizens, on the floor of the Senate, dramatizes how low our democracy has fallen.

NY lawmaker: Parents should take parenting classes.  New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz Jr. introduced a bill that would require parents of elementary school children to attend a minimum of four parent support classes.  If parents don't go, 6th graders won't move onto 7th grade.  Leslie Venokur, the co-founder of Big City Moms, called the idea "crazy" and "insane."

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When the news media says "parents," that almost always means "mothers."  And somehow the writer of this article forgot to mention that the State Senator with the totalitarian idea is a Democrat.  Oops.  The word "Democrat" was probably omitted because there was no room for it.  No, wait — the article was posted on the internet, where space is unlimited.

Front-runner to lead North Carolina Democratic Party a Nation of Islam member, formed an all-black political party.  North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Randy Voller is considering naming former Nation of Islam leader Benjamin Chavis as the state party's new executive director.  Voller was expected to announce Chavis' hiring at a Wednesday [2/12/2014] press conference, but canceled the event Tuesday night during a conference call with party leaders, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.  An interim executive director is being tapped for 30 days while Voller and his cohorts "explore a permanent replacement."  Voller made clear on Tuesday night's call that Chavis is his preferred choice for the job.

American Humanist Association demands students stop feeding starving kids.  The American Humanist Association sent that message to a school in Robbinsdale, Minn., accusing them of violating the U.S. Constitution by allowing students to participate in a community service project at a church that involved preparing meals for impoverished children in Haiti. [...] "The school has clearly violated the Establishment Clause," AHA attorney Monica Miller wrote in a threatening letter to the school and district officials.

DNC's Donna Brazile: Reform Immigration So Illegals Can Vote.  During the February 2 airing of This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Democratic National Committee vice chairwoman Donna Brazile stressed that Obama cannot stop short of full citizenship on immigration reform because citizenship will allow current illegals to vote.

Hundreds of Career Prosecutors Revolt Against Eric Holder.  Hundreds of career Justice Department lawyers have broken into open revolt against Attorney General Holder over his support of legislation that would drastically cut back on mandatory minimum sentences for drug pushers.  The legislation Holder supports, known as the Durbin-Lee bill, would overturn the current mandatory minimum sentences not only for marijuana violations but for all drug offenses, including major and repeat trafficking in heroin, meth, PCP and other extremely dangerous, and often lethal, drugs.  This was too much for hundreds of federal prosecutors.

Pete Seeger-Commie Lover until the End.  Only in America would a singer who insults a U.S. President (Lyndon Johnson) as "a big fool" in song be awarded the National Medal of the Arts by a U.S. President (Bill Clinton), hailed as a "Living Legend" by the U.S. Library of Congress, and be invited to play at a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Barack Obama's.)

Gov. Cuomo to conservatives: Leave NY!  Gov. Cuomo has a message for conservative Republicans — you don't belong in New York.  Cuomo said Friday [1/17/2014] that members of the GOP with "extreme" views are creating an identity crisis for their party and represent a bigger worry than Democrats such as himself.  "Their problem isn't me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves," the governor said on Albany's The Capitol Pressroom radio show.  "Who are they?  Right to life, pro-assault weapons, anti-gay — if that's who they are, they have no place in the state of New York because that's not who New Yorkers are."

Why Is a Teachers Union Fighting on Behalf of Convicted Child Molester?  There's outrage in Michigan after the union, Michigan Education Association, began fighting to win a $10,000 severance payment for a convicted child rapist.

NY Times and the Left: Champions of Polygamy.  The New York Times, ever eager to push any meme that undermines the Judeo-Christian devotion to traditional morality and the single heterosexual family unit, has progressed from championing LGBT rights to its newest passion:  polygamy.  The Times is not alone; other leftist media outlets such as Huffington Post are leaders in the effort, too.

Bill in the China Shop: 'We Won't Wait, We'll Do It Now'.  We all knew we were in for something completely different when the inauguration of self-described "progressive" Bill de Blasio as New York's mayor began with a keynote from pro-Communist activist Harry Belafonte.  The 86-year-old singer has a history of extremism.  He has been an infamous house guest of Fidel Castro, called Colin Powell and Condi Rice "house slaves" of the Bush administration, and last year compared the free-market Koch brothers to the Ku Klux Klan.

Ripping Off the "Progressive" Mask.  It is a sad fact that telling a lie these days has become more convenient than telling the truth.  This is a terrible commentary on those with access to our major media.  Consider the coverage of the inauguration of Bill de Blasio as New York City's mayor.  The term "progressive" is used in most accounts to describe him and his backers.  De Blasio accepts that term.  Yet, by any objective measure, he is a dedicated Marxist, and has been for most of his life.  For example, he never disavowed his support for the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua.  He claims to have honeymooned in communist Cuba, when such a trip was illegal.  His wife was a member of a Marxist collective.

Comrade De Blasio Takes Over.  Communist-sympathizing radical Bill de Blasio has laid out an ambitious, far-left agenda as he begins what is destined to be a disastrous reign as New York's 109th mayor.  Leveling left-wingers, with their perverse obsession with income equality, are looking eagerly to the city in the hope that the new mayor will "morph New York City's municipal machinery into a closely watched laboratory for populist theories of government that have never before been enacted on such a large scale," according to a fawning New York Times profile.

Environmental Fascists Move to Ban Plastic Gift Cards.  The left's environmental fascists go after another hugely popular capitalist standby, the plastic gift card. N

Swirling the Bowl.  Covered with the stench of debacles including Obamacare, the NSA, Syria, Benghazi, the IRS, and the AP, while demonstrating a level of incompetence so great that it must give pause to all but the most committed members of the cult of unlimited government, few liberals will be willing to dig through the muck to reclaim their once-prized possession.

Obamacare Panders To Gay Community.  President Obama is now hoping that the gay community will "come out" and sign up for the embattled Obamacare plan, as a new video pandering to "the boys" has just been released to help with enrollment.

Jon Stewart Chuckles Over 'Knockout Games,' Claims [it is] not a Trend.  Stewart brought up the brutal attacks on The Daily Show Monday night, chortling along as he described a series of physical assaults on innocent victims.  The liberal comic couldn't scrounge up much sympathy for the victims, nor did he think it might be helpful to boost the penalties against such assaults. [...] Instead, he used his favorite tool — the cherry picker — to insinuate the trend doesn't actually exist while calling once more for stricter gun controls.

Barbara Walters on Obama: 'We Thought He Was Going To Be The Next Messiah'.  Yes, she really said it.  On CNN's Piers Morgan Live Tuesday [12/17/2013], in a brief discussion about President Obama, Barbara Walters actually said, "We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn't say this at Christmastime, but — the next messiah"[.]

Barbara Walters: We Thought Obama Was 'the Next Messiah'.  Barbara Walters said the difficulties engulfing President Barack Obama are a reflection of the let-down people are feeling from the high expectations they had during his earliest days in office when she and others thought he was going to be "the next messiah."

Pelosi calls for Obama to halt deportations.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi privately has urged the Obama administration to halt deportations for some illegal immigrants, saying that President Obama needs to use more "discretion" to reduce the number of people he's kicking out of the country.  In an interview with Telemundo over the weekend, Mrs. Pelosi said that just being in the country illegally is not enough of a reason to be deported, and she said illegal immigrants must have something more serious on their records.

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Analogy:  Just breaking into Ms. Pelosi's house should be no reason to call the police, unless she has evidence of some other crime as well.  Why does the US-Mexico border exist, if there is to be no enforcement of it?

Who Funds the Far Left? You'll Be Surprised.  The Center for American Progress is a left-wing organization that is closely associated with the Obama administration.  Its principal product is a web site called Think Progress.  Think Progress is part of the internet cesspool that modern liberalism has become.  Written by hack left-wing bloggers, it is bitterly hostile to free enterprise.  It is a low-rent site that traffics in the most absurd smears and conspiracy theories.  Many have wondered for some years who finances far-left web sites like Think Progress.  As of today, we know at least part of the answer, as CAP released its corporate donor list for the first time.

GE, Walmart, AT&T, Google Among Center for American Progress Donors.  On Friday [12/13/2013], the Obama- and Clinton-allied Center for American Progress finally revealed its long-sought corporate donor list after heavy pressure arising from CAP's quasi-lobbying history.  That scrutiny ratcheted up following the announcement that CAP founder John Podesta would be formally joining the Obama administration. Both Politico and The New York Times called for the donor list to meet the public eye.  And so CAP handed over the list to the leftist Huffington Post.

Dems Are the Out-of-Touch Extremists.  The public overwhelmingly believes the country is headed in the wrong direction, that current economic policies aren't working, that President Obama is doing a bad job, that government should be smaller and that ObamaCare should be repealed.  But not Democrats.  On issue after issue, in fact, Democrats are the outliers by wide margins, according to an analysis of the December IBD/TIPP survey.  They are, by and large, Pollyanna-ish about the economy, they can see no evil when it comes to Obama or ObamaCare, and they are extremists when it comes to the size and role of the federal government.

EPA Chief: 'No More Urgent Threat to Public Health Than Climate Change'.  Ahead of her upcoming trip to China, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy told a liberal advocacy group in Washington on Monday that she has dedicated her life to protecting the environment:  "And I really see no greater issue and no more urgent threat to public health than climate change."

Democrats Face Battles in South to Hold the Senate.  Sen. Mark Pryor, speaking to a group of college officials, recently offered a biblical solution to Washington's gridlock.  Politicians should follow the teachings of Jesus, the two-term Democrat said, quoting from the Sermon on the Mount.  Dale Leatherman, an administrator at a Baptist college, warmed up to the Arkansas senator after those remarks but said he still couldn't imagine voting for Mr. Pryor next year.  "Even though he personally supports conservative ideas," Mr. Leatherman said, "I struggle with the fact that he's part of a party that does not."

The seasonal liberal hatred of America.  As inevitable as the turkey and football that go with Thanksgiving is the liberal moaning about the evil of America.  A collect [sic] of liberals took to social media to demonize America and Thanksgiving.  Ronan Farrow, who is a new host on MSNBC, was one of the first to get in the act.

America has gone from government of laws to semi-political banana republic.  The rule of law has been replaced in Washington by "yes we can."  The events we witnessed Thursday [11/21/2013] in the Senate, that is Majority Leader Harry Reid's success at invoking the so-called 'nuclear option,' stripping the minority party of its primary power to block nominations, have become a stunning capstone to what has been already a steady erosion of a government of laws down to a sort of semi-political banana republic.  We are now living in a republic in which politicians do what they want without regard to tradition or the best interests of our country.

Pennsylvania Town Clings to Its Guns, Ousts Mayor.  Many of these people feel attacked on all sides for many activities that they consider normal, such as hunting, going to church, flying a flag on holidays or every day, and wishing store clerks a "Merry Christmas!"  So when Mayor Bloomberg brings his circus to town to build his own fame and to spread money around, or when Washington decides it wants to start regulating gun ownership with more background checks, these people react in the only respectful way they know:  They vote out of office those who are infringing on their way of life.

ESPN Commentator: National Anthem a 'War Anthem,' Shouldn't Be Played Before Games.  On ESPN's Around the Horn, frequent guest Kevin Blackistone said that football games should not include the singing of the national anthem beforehand, as that added to the "military symbolism."  He actually called the Star-Spangled Banner a "war anthem."

Rob Reiner aka Meathead: 'Obama Is Right Around Where Reagan Was' Politically.  It really is hysterical listening to liberal Hollywoodans talk about politics.

Grayson, media bias, and the new totalitarianism.  [Alan] Grayson is a great example of the "soft" media bias that shields Democrats.  He's a [person] who daily says the kind of idiotic and offensive things that would immediately end any Republican's career.  More importantly, if he was a Republican, every other member of the party would be routinely asked to denounce him, right up to the President. [...] We saw the same thing with Filthy Filner, whose party affiliation had all but vanished from media accounts before his sordid tale was done.

Jay Z's American Fascism.  Who would have believed that a performing genre (it is a stretch to call it "music") dominated by convicted and confessed criminals, brutally misogynistic, preaching and practicing violence, would come to dominate American popular culture?  Jay Z, who brags of dealing drugs and shooting an older brother in his youth, and pleaded guilty to stabbing a record producer, could "help shape attitudes in a real (sic) positive way," according to President Obama.  Jay Z texts regularly with the president and is a regular White House visitor after opening Obama campaign rallies.

How Crazy Are The Democrats?  The Democrats have achieved a public relations coup that any ministry of propaganda would be proud of.  Worried that the United States is $17 trillion in debt?  Radical!  Unconcerned about deficits that pile up as far as the eye can see?  Responsible!  Unhappy about an anemic economy in which a generation of young people struggles to find full-time employment?  Traitor!  Content with record levels of poverty and non-employment?  Moderate!  Want to get rid of a law that is opposed by most Americans, decimates the economy and is patently unworkable?  Crazy!  Delighted at the sight of millions of Americans losing their health insurance and being demoted to part-time employment?  Public-spirited!

The Political Left And The Criminalization Of Dissent.  MoveOn.org wants Republican leaders arrested for "seditious conspiracy" against the U.S.  The initiative, of course, won't get anywhere, but it does provide a peek into how some among us respond to disagreement.

Dem Rep. Steve Cohen: Tea Party Republicans Are 'Domestic Enemies' We Took Oath To Defend Against.  Watch out, Alan Grayson: you've got competition when it comes to uttering the ugliest slur on Tea Party Republicans ...  Sure, you've compared them to the Klan.  But fellow Dem Steve Cohen has upped the ante.

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There can be no reconciliation with a politician who believes that those who adhere to the Constitution are his enemies.  I see secession as the only way out of the mess this country is in.  Let the other 49 states go bankrupt.

Only 2 People Attend 'Obamacare and You!' Event in South Carolina.  Last night [10/10/2013], the organization formerly known as President Obama's reelection campaign, Organizing for Action, held an Obamacare event in Greenville, South Carolina.  The event was called "Obamacare and You!"  "Let's discuss what this Affordable Care Act means for you and your community.  This session will help you understand the benefits and will equip you to spread the word about the benefits of Obamacare in your community.  Come out and get the facts!!," the event advertisement said.  But it wasn't widely attended.  Only two people, in addition to the two organizers, showed up.

Harry Reid Wants Americans To Suffer From Shutdown.  Word came this week that the National Institutes of Health has suspended therapy-dog visits to sick children at its clinical center because of a 25% reduction in staff, even though volunteers run the program. [...] It's comforting to know, however, that the House and Senate gyms are still open, that the government had enough money to buy a mechanical bull and, while the feds barricaded the open-air National Mall and threatened to fine and arrest those who walk there, they'll let an immigration amnesty rally take place on those same grounds.

Obama as Napoleon.  [Scroll down]  Mr. Obama, on the other hand, began the year with 54 percent of voters on his side.  Since the shutdown, 17 percent have abandoned him.  A majority think Mr. Obama hasn't negotiated, at all or enough.  Sixty-two percent disagree with the way the Democrats handle the deficit, which is to say, most people realize spending more money won't create a surplus.  Since 81 percent haven't felt any effects of the shutdown, many of them are not likely to care very much how it's resolved.

The Threat We Face.  The president, his chief operative Valerie Jarrett and his chief political strategist David Axelrod all came out of the same Communist left and the same radical new left as I did, and all have remained heart and soul a part of it.  As someone who turned his back on that destructive movement, I can say with confidence that they have not. [...] Instead of calling themselves communists or socialists they call themselves liberals and progressives.  This camouflage is very old.  I never once heard my parents and their party friends refer to themselves as Communists.  They were progressives — and registered Democrats.

Reid Claims Media Is Unfair to Democrats.  In an interview with Politico, Senator Harry Reid argued that the media is being unfair to Democrats in its coverage of the shutdown.  Reid said he believes that there is no way someone viewing the situation objectively could conclude that Democrats are at fault for the shutdown.  "You and other journalists have a real shortcoming in that you are trying so hard to be fair that you are unfair," Reid said.

Allow me to present abundant evidence to contradict Senator Reid.

What Democrats Really Care About.  To understand what motivates Obama, it's important to understand a critical aspect of liberalism:  liberals are all about a will for power, not about caring for the poor.  A key core attribute of most liberals is a sense of smug superiority:
  •   Atheist liberals believe they are better than those fools who believe in God.
  •   Liberals who give little of their own money to charity believe they are better than Christians who sacrifice to help the poor.
  •   Liberals who have no children believe they know better how to raise children than do families who actually have children.
  •   Racist liberals believe that they are better than blacks, which is why white liberals believe they can define who is authentically black.
  •   Liberals who've never run a business or created a job believe they know better than American businessmen how to run a business.

Wendy Davis favors driver licenses for immigrants here illegally.  The Fort Worth Democrat, who is due to announce her plans Thursday, said in response to questions at the Texas Tribune Festival that she favors:
  ·   Granting driver licenses to immigrants in the country illegally, citing business backing for the idea.
  ·   Re-regulating college tuition only if the state steps up to the plate with the money needed to subsidize the move.
  ·   More investment in public education, including making pre-kindergarten available to all students.

Extremely Extreme Extremists.  Democrats and their media allies have spent the past week labeling Republicans "anarchists," "fanatics," "radicals," and "terrorists" who are wholly to blame for the situation that we are told will soon lead to a government shutdown.  And if all you know about this situation is what you get from the media, you might actually believe that this is a crisis created by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow conservatives who sought to use the vote on a short-term spending bill as a means of preventing implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.

Ted Turner: Men Should Be Barred From Political Office For 100 Years.  Media mogul Ted Turner reiterated an absolutely absurd idea Sunday [9/22/2013].  Appearing at the International Women's Earth and Climate Summit in New York City, Turner proposed "men be barred from political office.  They could do everything else, be president of universities, business leaders, but they just couldn't serve in any elected position for 100 years".

OFA Uses Navy Yard Shooting to Fundraise.  Organizing for Action, the non-profit group that branched off the Obama campaign, used this week's Navy Yard shooting to ask supporters for donations in an e-mail.  The e-mail asks supporters to "chip in today" after supporters sign an online petition to push for more gun-control measures.

Catholic University to Welcome Communist Leader.  With no room for opposing views or questions, Seattle University is planning to host a talk, complete with a book signing and reception for Angela Davis, on October 17. [...] "It would be difficult to find a speaker who contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church on more levels than Angela Davis.  Stalin, maybe?  She is a notorious feminist, Marxist, communist, socialist who engages in pro-abortion, pro-same-sex "marriage" activism," James Bascom wrote for TFP Student Action, a group whose goal is "Defending Moral Values on Campus."

Obama says Republicans blocking his efforts to fight economic inequality.  The president has powers to fight income inequality, President Obama argued in an interview broadcast Sunday, adding that Republicans in Congress have hobbled his efforts to do it. [...] "I think the president can stop it," Obama said, when asked about the growing income gap.  "The problem is that there continues to be a major debate here in Washington, and that is, how do we respond to these underlying trends?"

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Income inequality is not something to be fought, especially by the leader of a supposedly free country.  Income inequality results from inequality of skill, talent and experience.  Income inequality is the reward for hard work and the punishment for laziness.  The elimination of income inequality is one of the primary goals of Communism.  It is also apparently one of Barack H. Obama's primary goals.  What does that tell you?

Putin Exposes the Secrets of American Liberalism.  There is an unspoken sub-text at play here:  what President Putin said in his column is pretty much what American liberals and leftists have been saying about the United States since the 1960s.

Wendy Davis Wants Double-Barreled Assault on Texans' Gun Rights.  One would think that the Democrats in Texas would take a lesson from its decades of defeat and moderate toward the middle.  That doesn't seem to be in the cards.  [State Senator Wendy] Davis has become a national name thanks to her pink-shoed filibuster of a bipartisan abortion law that a majority of Texans support.  The media made her a national darling among themselves, but she lost the fight and her protest devolved into madness and anarchy by the end of it.  She is now known chiefly for that single unsuccessful effort, which will galvanize pro-life forces against her if she runs statewide.

Joe McCarthy was right.  They're everywhere.
Communist Groups Helped Organize Petraeus Protest.  Protests against General David Petraeus Monday by CUNY students were organized by an ad hoc committee that includes several Communist groups.  A leaflet for the protests, which refers to Petraeus as a "war criminal" and "mass murderer," says that the events were organized by the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Militarization of CUNY and were endorsed by the Internationalist Group, Workers Power-US, and IGNITE.  These groups are explicitly Communist in nature.

The Real Reason College Costs So Much.  Another school year beckons, which means it's time for President Obama to go on another college retreat.  "He loves college tours," says Ohio University's Richard Vedder, who directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.  "Colleges are an escape from reality.  Believe me, I've lived in one for half a century.  It's like living in Disneyland.  They're these little isolated enclaves of nonreality."

Obama Flag at March on Washington Gets Twitter Riled Up.  We know a picture is worth a thousand words.  Apparently it's also good for fifty stars.  An American flag with President Barack Obama's face where the fifty stars normally go caused a bit of a stir on Twitter, where some objected to the "hero worship" of Obama, and complained that it was part and parcel with the rally's overall "Democratic" feel.

Pledging Allegiance To The Flag Of The Obama Nation.  A U.S. flag with the president's face replacing the field of stars resurfaces at the March on Washington's 50th anniversary, turning the symbol of freedom many have fought and died for into a campaign prop.  It has been a while since President Obama accepted his first nomination among faux Greek columns in Denver in 2008.  But judging from the reappearance of the "Obama flag" at a march celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, the cult of personality that has risen around him has not been diminished or discouraged.

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Look at the creases in that flag.  That thing is a commercially available product — not just a one-of-a-kind creation put together by a fanatic.

Executive Editor of NYT Picks Cuba as Vacation Spot.  In a long article bemoaning the fact that the new CEO of the New York Times likes to keep his eye on the newsroom, an interesting anecdote reveals executive editor Jill Abramson has a special vacation destination when she wants to unwind:  Cuba.

Efforts to Repeal Stand-Your-Ground Falter, Fail ... Backfire?  The much ballyhooed efforts to repeal the Stand Your Ground law in Florida have suffered an ignominious and well-deserved death.  An enormous and bi-partisan majority of Florida legislators — 72% — this week overwhelmingly declined to hold a special session for the purpose of even debating the repeal of SYG.

The 25 Stupidest Liberal Quotes of the Last Decade.

How much did it cost U.S. taxpayers to airlift Bo, the First Dog, to Martha's Vineyard?  This is the worst kind of arrogance and hubris ever displayed by a U.S. president when millions are struggling to put food on the table.

Hot air in Las Vegas.  What happens in Las Vegas, despite what they say, does not always stay in Las Vegas.  Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has invited Democratic politicians and liberal activists to gather there Tuesday [8/13/2013] to sit still for sermons about global warming and to think big thoughts about clean energy.  The congregation will hear how it's not so much about taking control of the weather as about how to promote more government subsidies for impractical sources of power that nobody else wants.

Let Them Eat Wind.  [Scroll down]  The rot is greater than just Obama.  Nancy Pelosi has never worked in a real job or even lived in a community of Americans who actually worked in productive jobs and created consumable wealth.  Dick Durbin, who also lived his whole adult life in places that produce only court cases and laws, has no clue about what makes America tick.

OFA Attracts One Person for ObamaCare Event.  Organizing for America, the advocacy off-shoot of Barack Obama's reelection campaign, has declared August as a month of "action."  It is taking a page from the Tea Party playbook and trying to show grass-roots support for Obama's agenda.  Its first event on Sunday [8/4/2013], Barack Obama's birthday, was to promote the benefits of ObamaCare.  In Northern Virginia, a base of support for Obama, it attracted one volunteer.  One.

Political Correctness Run Amok.  The Office for Civil Rights in Seattle, a Fox News report informed us last week, instructed city workers about no longer using terms that some people in Seattle might deem offensive.  I wondered when first reading this if they were talking about scores of white employees using the N word.  No, that's not it.  The words they are complaining about include the following:  "citizens" and "brown-bag lunch."  Not to be outdone, New York City's Department of Education warned about such dangerous words as "dinosaurs," "birthdays," and, last but not least, "Halloween."

"Brown bag" controversy reveals chink in the armor of language police.  I tend to make light of the language police when it comes to the Saturday Night Card Game, but it's actually a very serious subject.  The incessant attempt to turn race-neutral phrases into racial testing grounds is part of a larger political war in which race agitators seek to turn everything into a discussion of race all the time in every sphere of life.

Seattle bans words 'citizen' and 'brown bag'.  A memo which was circulated within local government in Washington state, before being leaked to local TV station KOMO News, advised state workers that they should refrain from using such phrases in official business.  According to the memo, the word 'citizen' is offensive to those Seattlelites who are residents in the city, but not US citizens.

Seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially offensive' language.  Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms "citizen" and "brown bag" are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.  KOMO-TV reports that the city's Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive.

Which political party is notorious for offensive language?

The Democrats just can't seem to take America's side.  The current Democratic standard-bearer (and U.S. president) believes that Ho Chi Minh was inspired by America's founding fathers and, apparently, that Harry Truman should have cooperated with the mass murdering Vietnamese Communist.  The previous Democratic standard-bearer, John Kerry, considered the U.S. troops who fought against Ho Chi Minh's forces to be like "the Army of Genghis Khan."  Kerry is now our Secretary of State.

Defunding: Framers' Remedy For Presidential Lawlessness.  Two weeks ago, the House Appropriations Committee stripped the scandal ridden Internal Revenue Service of nearly one quarter of its 2014 budget as punishment for its targeting of political groups and its costly boondoggles.  Shockingly, Senate Democrats voted to increase the IRS' budget.

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That's not shocking at all.  The IRS is the gas tank from which the liberals draw the fuel for their tax-and-spend utopia.  The IRS is the best friend the liberals ever had.  Nobody but a left-wing liberal politician has any affection for the IRS.

On Abortion, It's Liberals vs. Public Opinion.  If pro-abortion activist Wendy Davis was seeking to move the polls on public attitudes toward abortion and her own political fortunes, she seems to have succeeded — though surely not in the direction she intended.  After Davis's media blitz, Texas voters still made clear they'd vote against her for governor.  And now the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll confirms what has been the case all along:  Davis and the Democrats hold extremist views on abortion.

What Do the Microscopic Rallies for Trayvon Mean?  According to Reuters, in New York a grand total of 2000 people showed up Saturday to protest in favor of Trayvon Martin in the George Zimmerman trial. [...] More New Yorkers show up for pizza at Ray's between 6:00 and 6:05 in the evening.  In our second most populous city, my hometown of Los Angeles, the results were even worse, according to the Los Angeles Times.  A measly 400 people demonstrated.  The totals in Miami, closest big city to the event, were 300.  In other words, the turnout was somewhere between minuscule and puny — maybe, at best, fifteen thousand people nationwide in a country of 314 million.

'Stand Your Ground' Against the Left.  This administration has a disturbing propensity for manipulating tragedy and doing all in its power to jab sharp objects into open wounds.  To Holder and the president, the isolated events involving Trayvon Martin, which have not been publicly replicated anywhere else in America on any regular or reported basis, serve as yet another excuse to launch sweeping radical attacks on the rights of all Americans.  They loathe the ability of citizens to protect themselves against the left's predators, whether social or political.

Va. ramps up restoration of voting rights to some felons.  Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) could restore the voting rights of 10,000 non-violent felons by the end of his administration — nearly twice the number he has granted in 3½ years in office, administration officials said Monday.  With no statewide felon database and no electronic records before 1995, the administration faces an uphill battle over the next six months to locate the thousands of former, non-violent felons scattered across the commonwealth.

The Grim Effects of Liberals' Death-Obsession.  Question:  What do homeless dogs, poor babies, and the infirm elderly have in common?  Answer:  Liberals want them all dead.  Static analysis, the absence of the virtue of hope, and a failure to realize that joy can exist in suffering are the hallmarks of modern liberalism — the result of which is an inhuman and arrogant callousness.

26 percent of Obama supporters say tea party greatest terrorist threat: poll.  About half of all voters see radical Muslims as the biggest terrorist threat to the country, but among those who approve of President Obama's performance, the tea party is not far behind, according to a new poll.  Fifty-one percent of likely U.S. voters consider radical Muslims to be the bigger threat to the country today, and 13 percent say the Tea Party is, according to a new Rasmussen poll.

A quarter of Obama supporters think the Tea Party is America's top terror threat.  Rasmussen has just published an extraordinary poll which highlights the deep-seated prejudice against the Tea Party among both US government workers and supporters of President Obama.  According to the poll: ["]Half of all voters consider radical Muslims the bigger terrorist threat facing the nation, but supporters of President Obama consider the Tea Party to be as big a danger.["]

Why does the left want to suppress free speech?  Many people on the political left don't much like the First Amendment. [...] Anyway, here are some examples of liberals trying to shut down speech.

Biden: 'At least five senators' would like to change gun control vote.  Vice President Joe Biden said Friday [6/21/2013] that "at least five senators" have called him looking for a way to change their votes to support expanded background checks.  Speaking to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas, Biden said the 45 senators who voted to block the background checks deal brokered by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) have seen "the bottom fall out" of their approval ratings.

Case Closed? Far From It.  Right now the IRS story looks stalled and confused.  Congressional investigators are asking for documents — "The IRS is being a little slow," said a staffer — and interviewing workers.  Pieces of testimony are being released and leaked, which has allowed one congressman, Democrat Elijah Cummings, to claim there's actually no need for an investigation, the story's over, the mystery solved.

MSM is Lying: Conservatives Are the Mainstream.  Liberals decry as "kooky" those of us who believe that the institution of marriage should continue to remain the union of one man and one woman.  Expecting the president to obey the Constitution is also declared by Obama media sycophants and the mainstream media a bit nutty, mean-spirited, racist, and extreme.  The left, assisted by their buddies in the MSM, use a very effective tactic to render conservatives politically impotent.  They accuse us of being haters and aggressors, all the while forcing every item on their socialist/progressive list down America's throats.  Conservatives who were simply minding their own business are branded the bad guys.

White House reconsiders pick of 'Founding Founders' over 'Founding Fathers'.  Throughout United States history, the group of men who assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 to write the nation's Constitution had been known as the "Founding Fathers," a moniker used even on official government websites.  But the use of the "fathers" may have been a step too far for the Obama administration.  In a Thursday [6/13/2013] post on the White House's blog, Keith Donohue, the communications director for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives, announced that the papers of the "Founding Founders," otherwise known as the Founding Fathers, are available online.

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You would think that the well-paid "communications director" could come up with something less insipid and redundant than "Founding Founders."

Alleged Pedophile Ambassador Protected By State Dept Is Major Obama Bundler.  We are being governed by a bunch of sickos.  There's no other way to look at this.

Second Colorado Democrat facing recall over gun vote.  Gun-rights advocates submitted signatures Monday [6/10/2013] against a second Democratic state lawmaker in the escalating backlash against the Colorado legislature's recently approved gun control bills.

Schumer: Put Aliens Who Forged Documents on Path to Citizenship.  Americans might generally think that if someone forges a document and uses a Social Security number that does not belong to them, they should go to jail.  Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., believes if you are an illegal alien and you do these things, you should become a U.S. citizen.  He made his case for this in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Some Democrats will say anything to keep the IRS from being scrutinized.
How Many Things Can Jim McDermott Get Wrong in Five Minutes?  Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) attacked victims of IRS targeting at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today [6/5/2013], saying that it was their fault they were targeted because they applied for tax-exempt status.

Durbin wonders: Does [the] First Amendment apply to bloggers, Twitter?  Thanks to the Obama administration's attacks on the Associated Press and its representation in federal court that Fox News' James Rosen is a spy for asking questions, one has to wonder whether the First Amendment applies to anyone in the Age of Hope and Change.

Why a Level Playing Field Matters in U.S. Politics — and How the IRS Helped One Side.  One thing that puts "progressives" at a disadvantage in these ongoing Obama scandals is that many of them admit they want the American federal government favoring the Left.  Some of the more honest among them have said they have no real problem with the power of the federal government being used to suppress Conservatives since it tilts the political field in the correct direction.

Obama should end up on Mount Rushmore say a third of George Washington profs surveyed.  According to a survey of George Washington University professors, some 30 percent generally endorse the eventual addition of President Barack Obama's face to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.  The survey, conducted and reported by The College Fix, is hampered by an extremely limited sample size.  Nonetheless, the results are fascinating.

Congresman Rangel sides with the IRS, not you.
Rangel worries honest IRS agents are now 'getting a bad shake'.  Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Sunday [5/19/2013] said that he feared the Internal Revenue Service scandal over political targeting of Tea Party groups would unfairly stigmatize other workers at the agency.  "The biggest problem is that tens of thousands of IRS workers that work hard with all of this stigma being tax collectors, are getting a bad shake out of this," said Rangel during a panel discussion on ABC's "This Week."

Dem Sen: Second Amendment Not Meant For Citizens To Take Up Arms Against Government.  Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on states nullifying federal gun laws: [...] ["]The Second Amendment is not an absolute right, not a God given right, always had conditions upon it like the First Amendment has.  The idea that the Second Amendment was put in there in order to allow citizens to fight their government is insane.["]

Ellison To FBI: Nothing To See In Muslim Community.  By arguing that there's no need to investigate the Muslim community, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison is going out on a very shaky limb.  Almost nobody believes that anymore.

Dick Durbin At May Day Immigration Rally: Communists? What Communists.  On Wednesday [5/1/2013], Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined nearly two thousand trade unionists, open communists, socialists, anarchists and illegal aliens at Chicago's May Day march and rally.

Feminism may be dead: 72 percent of Americans say they're not 'feminists'.  It is likely disappointing news for old school bra-burners and Gloria Steinham-inspired activists.  "Has feminist become a dirty word?" demands a new Economist/YouGov Poll released Wednesday [5/1/2013].  "Feminism is a mixed bag in the eyes of most Americans.  Overall, 28 percent consider themselves to be feminists, 72 percent do not," the findings report.

Recalls underway for Colorado Democrats: 1st Amendment is not absolute.  Recall petition drives are well under way for four pro-gun control Democrats in the Colorado state legislature. [...] There are a very few cases about the right to collect petition signatures outside of places like grocery stores but they all come down on the side of the signature gatherer's First Amendment rights.

Big Sis: Obama Admin Can Pick Which Laws to Enforce.  During her testimony on the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [4/23/2013], Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that she, President Barack Obama and other political officials at the top of this administration have the authority to decide which laws to enforce, and which ones to ignore.

Why Liberals Still Detest Fox News.  More than 16 years after its founding and 11 years after it assumed its current perch as the most-watched cable news network, Fox News remains the favorite punching bag of the left.  Liberals take it as an article of faith that Fox is not merely biased but a travesty that serious people should ignore.  But the notion that there is something unholy about what is broadcast on Fox or that its mix of news and opinion is uniquely biased has never stood up to scrutiny.

DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling.  [Scroll down]  Unfortunately, the U.S. government appealed the ruling granting asylum to the Romeikes, and the Immigration Board of Appeal reversed Judge Burman's decision.  That tribunal found that "there is no indication that [the actions taken against the family] are motivated by anything other than law enforcement." [...] Thus, what Americans traditionally would have deemed a clear case of persecution becomes, to the current left-liberal way of thinking, "law enforcement."  I can't help but wonder what other infringements on liberty will one day soon be shrugged off as mere law enforcement.

LA's Largest Teachers' Union Endorses Racist Anti-Semite for City Council.  Ron Gochez [...] is affiliated with racist groups such as MEChA, La Raza and the African People's Socialist Party.  And he also has a history of saying racist things.

New Dem. Finance Chief Dined With Fidel Castro.  Politico reported this morning that "Henry R. Muñoz III of San Antonio — an Obama bundler and a national chairman of the Futuro Fund, a group of Latino leaders who raised money for the president's reelection — is expected to be named DNC Finance Chair, the first Latino to hold the title."  What's also interesting about Muñoz, though Politico omitted this fact, is that he at least once dined with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Obama's Not a "Liberal" — He's a Communist.  Let's get the terminology right.  The fact of the matter is, the entire Democrat party today is Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Collectivist/Statist.  There are no more conservative or moderate Democrats.  They all support the big government collectivist agenda — and they're all willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to maintain it. [...] Communists are liars.  Obama will lie right to our faces and not feel a second of shame because the ends justify the means.

Just 44 percent say Obama should control guns laws.  As Obama prepares new gun control legislation, the poll found that just 44 percent believe that laws governing guns should be the responsibility of the federal government.

America's Coming Gun War.  To most Americans, an armed guard in a school is a good idea in our too-violent nation.  Most Americans realize that when shooting breaks out in a gun-free zone — a school, movie theater, mall — the first call goes to 911 to get cops with Glocks and a SWAT team with black rifles there as soon as possible.  Most folks understand why air marshals on planes might have to be armed.  Most folks know that the people running up the death toll in murder capitals like Chicago are not using AR-15s.  And many Americans yet accept that in the last analysis it is a man's duty to be the defender and protector of his wife and children.

Texas AG Proposes 'Double-Barreled' Lawsuit Challenge if City, County Ban Gun Shows.  According to the Austin American-Statesman, the City of Austin, Texas and Travis County are both looking at proposals to limit gun shows in their jurisdictions. [...] This is Texas, but Austin and Travis County are the blue dot in the red sea here.  They're more than a little out of sync with the rest of the state.

Pelosi says upcoming fiscal deals should include greater tax increase.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday [1/6/2013] that recent tax increases are "not enough" to solve the country's fiscal problems and argued that additional hikes should be included in upcoming deficit-reduction deals.

New York congressman introduces bill to abolish presidential term limits.  New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress on Friday to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.  The bill, which has been referred to committee, would allow Barack President Obama to become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to seek a third term in office.

Dem House Proposal Would Allow Obama to Run For More Than 2 Terms.  Before you take up arms against the government, keep in mind this has been proposed before in 2011 and died in committee.  It would have to get two-thirds support in both houses, including our radical right-wing hostage House of Representatives, and after that, three-quarters of the states would have to ratify it, or 38 states, which is nearly impossible.

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Or Obama could bypass the Congress and implement it himself, which is entirely possible.  It's worth noting that some Congressmen are willing to introduce bills which have no hope of passing, thus wasting everyone's time.  A law of this sort would require an amendment to the Constitution.  The only reason a Congressman might introduce such a futile bill is if he or she knows the Constitution has been ignored and bypassed for so long that anything goes.

An Appeal for Dictatorship Comes Out of the Closet at the New York Times.  True to form, the New York Times saw out 2012 by publishing another apology for dictatorship.  In his op-ed, Louis Michael Seidman — Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University — argues that the Constitution should be abandoned.  The suggestion is so preposterous that it is tempting to dismiss the article altogether, but to do so would be to miss some very revealing implications.  The article is not so much a suggestion of constitutional reform as an open call for dictatorship.

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Rather than abandoning the Constitution, let's abandon the New York Times.

State Rep's anti-Free Stater post draws local, national criticism.  A Democratic state lawmaker's recent web post critical of the libertarian-leaning Free State Project has gone virtually viral in the past few days and, as one might expect, has drawn criticism.

New Hampshire Legislator: We Need to 'Restrict Freedoms' of Conservatives.  A New Hampshire legislator wants her constituents to know that she feels conservatives are the "single biggest threat" her state faces today, and she wants to use her powers to legislate to "pass measures that will restrict" the freedoms of Granite State conservatives.

Vanity Fair: Second Amendment 'Must Be Removed from the Constitution'.  On January 2, Vanity Fair ran an all-out attack on the constitution, the 2nd Amendment, and common sense in a column by Kurt Eichenwald titled, "Let's Repeal the Second Amendment."  Eichenwald's approach consists of attacking the NRA, arguing that gun owners avoid discussing more gun control by saying they don't want to "politicize" shootings, and taking the standard progressive position that there wasn't really a right to keep and bear arms until Justice Antonin Scalia created one in recent Supreme Court decisions.

Understanding the Progressive Mind.  [Scroll down]  Libertarians loathe no federal agency as much as they do the Internal Revenue Service.  They view it as an unwarranted expansion of the State into their lives, and they see an agency full of people who have way too much power over the daily lives of others.  Progressives, on the other hand, believe that the IRS has too little power.  The mission of the IRS — to seize tax revenue — is utterly important for it is the IRS that ultimately allows us to pay for the "Social Contract" that Progressives believe is central to life itself.

When In The Course Of Human Events...  [Scroll down]  So why do I write this essay?  Because we have an individual in our Senate, Diane Feinstein, who is proposing to put forward a facially-invalid law, on top of the 20,000 already-invalid gun laws on the books, purporting to violate The Second Amendment.  She doesn't [care] that what she proposes today, had she done so in 1775, would have instantly precipitated Concord as soon as word was passed.  She thinks she can get away with this based upon your inaction over the last few decades when similarly-bogus and facially-void laws were both proposed and passed.

Give Up On The Constitution? The Political Left Already Has.  For many, the Constitution is the barrier that blocks government from trampling a free people.  Yet many on the political left see it as a hurdle to their ambitions.  Consider the constitutional law professor who wants to kill it.

Unmitigated propaganda in the New York Times:
Let's Give Up on the Constitution.  As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is.

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The writer of the article immediately above is identified by the New York Times as "a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University," which tells us a lot about the potential for anti-American indoctrination at Georgetown.  He never gets around to his alternatives to the Constitution, but apparently he would prefer that the America-hating Marxist, Barack H. Obama, be pronounced America's not-so-benevolent dictator, bypassing the ballot box.  The whole article sounds like sedition to me.

Subverting the Constitution.  Louis Michael Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, is no fringe figure.  He is a pillar of the left wing legal establishment, graduate of Harvard Law, former clerk for Thurgood Marshall, and notable figure in the Leftist "critical legal theory" movement. [...] Seidman has taken to the pages of the daily bible of the progressive establishment, the New York Times, to lend respectability to a movement to subvert the Constitution, and turn to an undefined system which inevitably means the loss of our safeguards against tyranny.  All expressed in superficially reassuring prose.

Hey! Let's have a 'Burn the Constitution Day!'  I don't believe the Constitution is holy writ nor do I think that the Founders had all the answers for today's America.  But all public officials and members of the military swear fealty to our founding document for a reason; it is the most visible, the most tangible representation of our sovereignty as a nation.  We don't have kings, or castles, or ancient ruins to which we can point and say our sovereignty lies within.  It is the Constitution that unites us as a people.  And positing the notion that we should just throw it away is outrageously stupid and disquietingly radical.

Also posted under Anti-American indoctrination in schools, Analysis of the New York Times, and Threats to the Constitution.

CNN's Morgan: Amend The Bible.  Piers Morgan has done it again, this time saying that both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are "inherently flawed" and need new "amendments."  During Morgan's Monday, December 24 broadcast of his cable spectacle, CNN's British import once again attacked America's most deeply held principles by slaming both the Constitution and the Bible.

Kerry Backed LGBT 'Immigration Equality' to Stop Deportation of Gay Partners.  For the last two years, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the nominee to be the next secretary of state, has called for "immigration equality" to prevent the deportation of illegal alien same-sex partners of legal U.S. residents.  In May, shortly after President Barack Obama announced his support for homosexual marriage, Kerry and 16 other Democratic senators sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

"Progressive" talk radio station shuts down, feels betrayed.  From the website of WVKO 1580AM in Columbus, "Ohio's Progressive Talk":  ["]It is with great sadness I must inform WVKO's listeners that once again, Progressive Talk will be silenced on the Columbus airwaves.  Our one-year lease on the station is about to expire, and at this time there is no way that we can continue operating the station.["]

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Left-wing talk radio has been tried many times and has never been commercially successful, because (1) there aren't that many leftists, partly because they feel free to abort their offspring, (2) if you've heard one episode of a left-wing rant program, you've heard them all, (3) advertisers won't support tax-and-spend anticapitalists who are trying to put those advertisers out of business, or under the control of the government, and (4) the message from left-wing talk radio is tiresome and disheartening:  There is never anything uplifting in the extemporaneous rant of a baby-killing totalitarian marxist.  A lot of late-night right-wing radio is tiresome, too, but at least it's punctuated with pride in our country, love of freedom, and faith in God.

Black Skin Privilege.  As it happens, the term "white skin privilege" was first popularized in the 1970s by the SDS radicals of "Weatherman," who were carrying on a terrorist war against "Amerikkka," a spelling designed to stigmatize the United States as a nation of Klansmen.  Led by presidential friends, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather terrorists called on other whites to renounce their privilege and join a global race war already in progress.  Although their methods and style kept the Weather radicals on the political fringe, their views on race reflected those held by the broad ranks of the political left.  In the following years, the concept of "white skin privilege" continued to spread until it became an article of faith among all progressives, a concept that accounted for everything that was racially wrong in America beginning with its constitutional founding.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree.  Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that his administration calls the decorated evergreen tree erected in the Rhode Island State House in December a "holiday tree" — rather than a "Christmas tree" — because that is what the tree is traditionally called.

Obama voters love socialism.  While 90 percent of liberal Republicans and even 51 percent of moderate Democrats oppose socialism, 59 percent of liberal Democrats view socialism positively.  This is Obama's base:  liberal Democrats, the young and African-Americans.

45 percent of US Democrats favour socialism.  Rasmussen has just published a major poll on US voter attitudes towards socialism.  It reveals that Democrats are evenly divided in their views on socialism, with 45 percent viewing it favourably, and 45 percent negatively.  This is a strikingly high level of support for socialist ideology within a political party in the United States (and the ruling party at that), and strongly suggests that Democrats are increasingly moving towards a continental-European style approach to economic issues, advancing a big government agenda that resembles that of European Social Democratic governments.

Dem Rep. Hank Johnson: Amend Constitution to Restrict Freedom of Speech.  Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says, "corporations control the patterns of thinking" in the United States and that the Bill of Rights to the Constitution should be amended so that the government is given the power to restrict freedom of speech.  "We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations," said Johnson.

Chicago's Sandi and Jesse Jackson Jr. — the perfect "Machine" Democrats.  Sandi Jackson is a Chicago alderman, a member of one of the most corrupt criminal groups in the nation.  Thirty-two Chicago aldermen have been hauled off to prison over the past four decades.  Others have resigned in disgrace.  There is always some kind of federal investigation of the Chicago City Council going on.  The Chicago City Council is the overworld to the crime syndicate's underworld. [...] Chicago alderman make over one hundred thousand dollars a year.  They also have lavish expense accounts, Cadillac pensions, and Rolls Royce medical insurance.  There are other perks and pleasures they receive.

5 Signs Of Societal Degeneration In America.  [#4]  Politics: As a society, we moved from expecting politicians to be better than the rest of us to expecting them to be more degenerate than the rest of us.  Ted Kennedy left a woman to die in a tidal pool and was reelected.  Marion Barry was reelected after being caught smoking crack.  Barack Obama is the first President to be elected after admitting he used cocaine.  Barney Frank had a prostitution ring run out of his apartment.  Just this last election cycle, Jesse Jackson, Jr. was reelected from the Mayo Clinic.  Because of the partisan leans of states and gerrymandering, for a majority of politicians, they have lifetime appointments and elections are mere formalities.

Was the 2012 Election Stolen?  [Scroll down]  Remember, the Democrats have been honing this act for many, many years.  And vote fraud is Democrat domain.  Liberals are the situational-values set, people who for years insisted that right and wrong is relative and that if it feels good, do it.  And what feels good to them at election time is stealing votes to win — and they do it.  They relish it, in fact.

Totally Unworthy Liberal Icons.  For those who do not know about "Hanoi Jane" just Google her smiling picture sitting on a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun.  There may be false stories about what she said but the real ones can't be denied.  She said publicly that the POW's were lying about being tortured and called them hypocrites.  She made a half-hearted apology when Vietnam vets protested filming of one her films and explained that she was young and foolish.  Oh really?  Fonda was almost 35 when she went to Hanoi.

Democratic Women in White Sit Impassively as Colleagues Cheer Trump's Call for a Ban on Late-Term Abortion.  An enduring image from the 2019 State of the Union address:  a bloc of Democratic congresswomen, dressed in "suffragette white," sitting in stone-faced silence as colleagues cheered President Trump's request for "Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb."  Trump had just spoken about a plan for nationwide paid family leave — comments that were evidently well-received — but then juxtaposed the idea of a mother bonding with a newborn baby with recent controversies over late-term abortion and infanticide.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is holding his State of the State event at a Hamas-linked radical Islamic Center.  The Middle East Forum has learned that New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will conduct a State of the State town hall event at the Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC) in northern New Jersey tonight — a mosque with a long history of pro-Hamas leadership and a radical imam, Mohammad Qatanani.

For Democrats, The Era Of Big Government Is Back, Big Time.  Leading Democrats are pushing an agenda that would more than double the size of the federal government.  This comes as a new Gallup Poll finds that the public views government as the most important problem facing the country today.

Liberal Reporters Caught Texting on Phones During National Anthem in Oval Office Naturalization Ceremony.  President Trump delivered a major announcement Saturday afternoon [1/19/2019] concerning the "humanitarian crisis" at the border and the government shutdown.  Before his announcement President Trump oversaw the swearing in ceremony of five new US citizens.  Five legal immigrants from Iraq, UK, Jamaica, Bolivia, and South Korea became US citizens today.  During the ceremony the group said the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem was sung.  The liberal media ignored the national anthem and were caught texting on their phones.