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Al Franken Slammed for Calling Respected Pro-Life Organization a “Hate Group”
One of the nation’s most respected champions of religious liberty draws a line at being called a hate group by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.
Abortionist Caught With 14 Containers of Aborted Babies in His Car Has His Licensed Suspended
Today, the Michigan Board of Medicine suspended the license of “Trunk Abortionist” Michael Arthur Roth for one year and fined him $25,000 for the “unlawful possession of a controlled substance.”
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Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Would Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
Members of the US Senate today introduced new legislation that would repeal Obamacare and it also defunds the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
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Group That Funds Women’s Abortions Calls Aborting Babies “a Social Good”
The Carolina Abortion Fund did not mention any caveats in its tweet. It simply said that abortion – the killing of unborn babies in the womb – is “a social good.”
He Was Forced to Choose Between Losing His Job or Helping a Woman Get an Abortion
In August of 2007, Steve Pargman was working at the Department of Social and Health Services in Washington state when he received a request that would force him to choose between his convictions and his job.
Abortion Advocates Push “Remote Abortions” Killing a Baby With the Press of a Button
Mother Jones recently featured an article discussing abortion in the modern era. We are living in a very progressive time.
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Abortion Activists: Quit “Stigmatizing” Women Who Kill Multiple Babies in Abortions
On the heels of a new study, the pro-abortion blog Rewire claimed there is nothing “negative” about a woman aborting multiple unborn babies.
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YWCA Partners With Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
The Young Women’s Christian Association has a long history of partnering with the abortion chain Planned Parenthood.
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Commentary by Bishop E.W. Jackson | Wednesday, September 13, 2017 @ 12:27 PM 
Bishop E.W. Jackson President of STAND Foundation, Inc. and host of the program The Awakening on Urban Family Talk MORE
Would it make you feel any better if the line breaker walked his cute teen-aged daughter to the front of the line and inserted her after you’ve been waiting an hour? It would be a deft move, intended to disarm you, but it would still be wrong. You might be less inclined to get aggressive with the young girl, but you still would not like it.
That, in a nutshell, is DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It is adult illegal immigrants using their children to cut in line. There are closely analogous situations when we allow people to automatically go to the front and we don’t object. We don’t complain when pilots and flight attendants breeze past us to get on a plane. None of us grumbles when a handicapped person gets a reserved parking place while you’ve driven around the parking lot three times. We do make exceptions, but not in cases where someone has done something wrong or illegal to put themselves at an advantage.
There is appeal to the argument that minor children who came to America illegally under their parents’ authority should not be punished. However, they shouldn’t be rewarded either. Allowing them to stay and obtain a work permit brings with it other advantages. Some colleges, for example, brag about the number of “Dreamers” they have enrolled and the scholarships awarded to them. The flip side is that since no school has unlimited enrollment and funds, American citizens are deprived of scholarship money and seats in the classroom.
There is even a subtle insult to American students when we call the children of illegal immigrants “dreamers.” The children of Americans dream too, but they elicit no special legal or societal “compassion” to help them fulfill their dreams. In fact, illegal immigrants’ children go to the front because their parents did something wrong. That is the sum and substance of it. Your parents brought you here illegally, and we are going to reward you for it.
That may seem a harsh analysis, but would we allow the cute teenager to stay in the front of the line because a parent inappropriately placed her there? Or would we say to the child of a convicted felon, since your parent committed a terrible crime, we are going to give you advantages which you would otherwise not have? What about the child of the parent who worked hard and obeyed the law all of his life? The logical conclusion of this thinking is that the child of a law-abiding American is not worthy of special treatment, but the child of a parent who broke the law is. Viewed from this perspective, DACA fails the tests of both logic and morality.
When government tries to be all things to all people, it ends up being a very bad thing to all but a few elites. When government tries to a become surrogate parent, it costs us all dearly.
President Obama said no less than 22 times that it would have been unlawful and unconstitutional for him unilaterally to revise the statutory rules regarding treatment of illegals. He then went ahead and did the very thing that he declared unlawful. He knowingly trespassed into a realm reserved for Congress. Legislative inaction is no excuse for presidential lawlessness.
President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are being pilloried as “cruel” for phasing out DACA, which President Obama forced on the nation in June 2012. In fact, they’re showing compassion for us all by restoring the rule of law.
Accusing opponents of lacking compassion is a well-worn tactic of the Left. Our hearts, of course, go out to these children, but their parents bear the shame and responsibility for putting their children at risk. Who could forget the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America making their way across Mexico, being robbed, raped or murdered on the journey?
E.W Jackson is a Republican Political analyst; a nationally syndicated radio host on American Family Radio & Urban Family Talk; Presiding Bishop of The Called Church; was 2013 Republican Nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia; and is founder & president of S.T.A.N.D. [www.standamerica.us].
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For Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, the trouble started five years ago when he politely refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. Although he only meant to protect his religious beliefs, he wound up triggering a chain reaction of undeserved backlash.
It included death threats from angry activists, character assassinations from the liberal media, a judgment of illegal discrimination from a Colorado civil rights commission and an affirmation of the commission’s ruling by a lower court.
The tide finally began to turn in Phillips’ favor in late June when the Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal and decide whether he actually discriminated against the gay couple when he refused to bake their cake over his religious objections.
“When Phillips designs and creates a custom wedding cake for a specific couple and a specific wedding, he plays an active role in enabling that ritual, and he associates himself with the celebratory message conveyed,” he added. “Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights.”
This is good. Very good, in fact.
And according to The Washington Times, the DOJ’s surprising decision to file a brief in Phillips’ case “raises the possibility that the government will also ask for time to argue in front of the justices when the case goes for oral argument.”
That would be even better.
During the administration of former President Barack Hussein Obama, a man who loved sitting idly by as Christians were persecuted, the DOJ said nothing about Phillips, instead choosing to allow him to suffer the indignity of being persecuted for his Christian beliefs. But with Trump in the White House, it appears those days are finally behind us. Thank God.
H/T Informed Folks
Published by ClashDaily.com | on September 13, 2017URL of the original posting site: http://clashdaily.com/2017/09/ainsley-puts-haters-u-s-full-blast-simple-yet-powerful-question/?
Have you noticed that the continually outraged are always trying to remove the American flag from, well, everywhere?
Was that offensive? Apparently, it was the chalk that was the problem.
Sure it was.
Speaking to the publication, CSU’s TPUSA chapter president Tiffany Roberts says that members of the group gathered on Sunday evening to chalk the 9/11 tribute into the sidewalk of the public university to honor those who lost their lives in the 2001 terrorist attack. It was removed 12 hours later.
According to Roberts, the maintenance operator said that he had been ordered to remove the chalk by the university’s Director of Facilities Maintenance, Shehadeh Abdelkarim. She added that the employee said that the memorial was erased because “there is no chalk allowed on campus.”
Source: Daily
And that’s not the only issue.
The University of California at Davis has decided to make the flying of the flag ‘optional’.
The University of California, Davis Student Senate voted last Thursday to strike a bylaw requiring the American flag to be displayed at meetings because “the concept of United States of America and patriotism is different for every individual.”
“It shall not be compulsory for the flag of the United State of America to be displayed at ASUCD Senate meetings,” states Senate Bill 76, introduced by Senator Jose Meneses.
Source: Campus Reform
Optional? This is a public university.
Which leads us to the question posed by Ainsley Earhardt:
If you don’t like it here, and you don’t want to see the flag flying at a public institution… then, why are you still here?
Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2017.
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Hillary Clinton: Abortion is “Sacrosanct” and Unlimited Abortion is “Not Negotiable”
Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming book makes it clear that she is an ardent supporter of unlimited abortion. Clinton calls abortion “sacrosanct” and says there should be no compromise on promoting abortion on demand.
Pro-Abortion Justice Ginsburg: “I Hope I Made This a Place Where People Can Live Without Fear”
Abortion activists have idolized U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for supporting abortion on the highest court in the land.
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A teenager with Down syndrome put German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the spot Monday when she asked about the country’s discriminatory abortion laws.
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A court in Ohio is hearing a case regarding an unsafe abortion clinic in Toledo that is unable to protect women who are victimized by botched abortions because it has no transfer agreement with the local hospital to get them prompt care.
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Like a broken clock that’s right twice a day, you can count on Planned Parenthood to tell the truth every now and then.
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Last month, the New York Times “The Upshot” blog ran a piece by Aaron Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine.
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Lawrence looks like a typical newborn preparing to go home from the hospital.
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The mainstream media has been on a steady decline in recent years, succumbing to a downward spiral of salaciously ridiculous entertainment and liberalism. The content contained within the catacombs of CNN, NBC, the New York Times, and others has become farcical at best, fascist at worst.
Enter Trump: The no-rules, Washington outsider with a penchant for putting phonies and cranks in their place.
All along the campaign trail, The Donald duked it out with reporters, outlets, and spin-doctors alike, with instantaneous lightning bolts of reality being fired directly from his massively powerful Twitter account. If the media slanted something to the left, Trump was quick to bring a dose of reality into the situation in 140 characters or less.
In return, the mainstream media turned up the heat exponentially, lambasting the Commander in Chief in new and reprehensible ways. To put it lightly, it was an onslaught.
Trump was suddenly endowed with a thousand new, insulting characteristics as the media miscreants lashed out in vengeance. The President was now a bigot, a racist, a tax cheat, a Kremlin operative, and a man who enjoys incest.
The entire mainstream media had lost their minds.
Now through the power of analytics, we can quantify just how terribly one-sided all of this presidential coverage has been, and the numbers are astounding.
“Since Inauguration Day (January 20), Media Research Center analysts have reviewed every mention of President Trump and top administration officials on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, including weekends. As of August 31, coverage of the administration has totaled nearly 74 hours (4,418 minutes) of airtime, or about 39 percent of all evening news coverage.
“For comparison purposes, coverage of the Obama administration in all of 2015 and 2016 totaled 59 hours (3,544 minutes), or roughly 10 percent of the available broadcast airtime. In other words, Trump has already received more coverage in his first 224 days in office than Obama received in his final two years as President.
“Analyzing the networks’ spin makes it clear that the goal of all of this heavy coverage is not to promote the President, but to punish him. In June, July and August, broadcast evening news coverage of Trump was 91 percent negative — worse than the astounding 89 percent negative spin we calculated during the first three months of the administration, usually a traditional honeymoon period for new presidents.”
The American people sent an extremely strong message to the media establishment in the election of 2016: There will be no more business as usual. The election of Trump was a clear warning shot to the powers that be that We The People are taking our nation back from the corporate interests, lobbying groups, and entertainment industry.
The mainstream media is about to feel the wrath of America The Beautiful, and they’ll likely be left looking frightfully unnecessary.
Kansas City Police Disarm Armed ‘Antifa’ Communist Rally
Ian Miles Cheong | Contributor | 6:34 PM 09/11/2017
Antifa in Kansas City (Screenshot: YouTube/KMBC News 9)
Dressed in black clothing and red balaclavas, the group carried red flags bearing the communist symbol.
The Kansas City Revolutionary Collective calls itself a “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist” collective that has posted calls for “self-preservation” against “far-right militias” whom they claim are supported by President Donald Trump.
According to the Kansas City Star, police ordered their disarmament and removal of ammunition from their weapons at the Saturday morning rally. The armed individuals complied, but several among them claimed that the disarmament violated their rights under the state’s open carry statutes. Members of the group reportedly said they planned to fight the order, but did not take any action at the park.
“We don’t see any merit to fight it now,” said one of the masked antifa members who reportedly removed ammunition from his rifle at the orders of the police. Several members who had their faces covered told the publication that they were afraid of their identities being revealed for fear of harassment.
Police told local news that ordinance allows people to possess weapons but ammunition can’t be with the weapon, adding that ordinance prohibits open carry anywhere in the city unless the individual has a concealed-carry permit.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced a reversal of Title IX guidance that the Obama administration had issued pertaining to campus sexual assault. (Photo: Mike Theiler/Reuters/Newscom)
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The difference was pretty well on display when the erstwhile PBS kids-show host and current human septic tank gave an interview to Dan Rather on Sirius XM last week, and said unequivocally that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are signs of climate change. His logic (aside from the fact that any climate event is a sign of climate change for true believers) is that warming doohickey kinda stuff’s going on and we ought to, you know, do something.
Unfortunately, actual scientists — not just “science guys” — were listening in, and one of them managed to silence Nye pretty much immediately on Twitter.
First, the interview: Nye claimed that the compelling factor linking Irma to climate change was how powerful it was.
“It’s the strength that is almost certainly associated with global warming,” Nye told Rather. “As the world gets warmer and there’s more heat energy in the atmosphere, you expect storms to get stronger. You also expect ocean currents to not flow the way they always have. That will make some places cooler and other places warmer.”
“The problem…is that these hurricanes are very powerful,” he added. “We’re all gonna pay for Harvey, we’re all gonna pay for Irma one way or the other. So … anyway, the more heat energy in the atmosphere strengthens the storms — as you would expect.”
Dr. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist with the Cato Institute, didn’t take long to respond to the errors in Nye’s statement to Rather:
Maue also linked to a piece by the National Weather Service, which made it clear that while the NWS felt there was the possibility that rising temperatures could lead to an increase in storm intensity by the end of the 21st century, there was no evidence that current storms were being strengthened due to man-made climate change.
“It is premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming — have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity,” the NWS piece stated. “That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate).”
In other words, there is s absolutely no evidence for Nye’s claim. And that doesn’t just come from Maue, but from the National Weather Service — certainly not a hive of clandestine climate change deniers.
So, just remember, when it comes to analyzing anomalous weather, it’s probably best to leave scientific opining to actual scientists, and not just soi-disant “Science Guys.” Of course, I doubt anyone who spreads “Science!” social media posts is going to pay much attention to the facts, but it’s always good to know that the truth is so easily accessible.
H/T TheBlaze
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Short continued by reminding the media that during his eight years in office, President Obama never made any attempt to work with Republicans on major policy issues. In fact, Short continued, there were many Democrat legislators who often complained that they were never approached or asked to help with legislative initiatives either.
This is not the way President Trump plans to run his office.
“We still believe that tax reform will be better if done on a bipartisan basis,” Short told the gathered media. “And we’ve also learned,” he continued, speaking about the Obamacare repeal effort, “that keeping 50-52 Republicans is not something that’s reliable. And so despite promises of commitments that they made to voters since 2010, we don’t feel like we can assume we can get tax reform done strictly on a partisan basis. So it’s wise for us, not just from a policy perspective, but from a vote counting perspective to try to reach out and earn the support of Democrats as well.”
Short told the media that the President wasn’t just employing high level meetings with Democrat leaders, he was also meeting with influential groups like the Club for Growth, Heritage and Americans for Prosperity. He’s also hosting various bipartisan groups in an effort to build a winning coalition. The President also plans to take his tax reform agenda on the road, directly to the American people, and ask voters to pressure their representatives to get on board with his blueprint for reforming our economy.
Short also made it clear that the President would no longer rely on GOP leadership to help him push his agenda because they had proven unequal to the task over the last year. Instead, the President has decided to build bridges with the left in an effort to get as much of his agenda passed as possible… even if it means helping the Democrats get some of their agenda passed too.
“As far as with the relationships with members, and with leadership, I think that the president maintains a strong relationship with Mitch McConnell and with Speaker Ryan right now. And I think that despite some of the news of the last week, I don’t know that we think there’s anything wrong that he also has good relationships with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
I think we would argue that the Obama administration in some ways failed to have those relationships across the aisle and it probably hurt them in some of the things that they were trying to do and it probably hurt the country for not getting more done.
So I think you’ll continue to see the president to not look it as, ‘Hey what do I need to do to stay in the good graces of Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan.’ He’s going to look at it and say, ‘What’s in the best interest of the American people,’” Short said.
It’s a fair criticism of Obama, and the GOP leadership, but it’s also a worrisome philosophical trend. Almost everything the Democrats want to accomplish is not only bad policy, but it’s dangerous for the future health of our nation. Trump helping them accomplish any of their goals will weaken his support among conservatives and will continue to make it hard for him to get Republican legislators on board with his agenda.
Today’s Democrat Party is ruinous for America, and we should not be helping them accomplish any of their stated goals, because the means by which they wish to accomplish those goals is an existential threat to our way of life.
Published by ClashDaily.com | on September 12, 2017URL of the original posting site: http://clashdaily.com/2017/09/mike-ditka-just-said-nfl-anthem-protests-pure-american-gold/?
Mike Ditka has a pretty interesting take on the NFL anthem protests, and it encapsulates the American Spirit.
‘There’s a time for everything,’ legendary former Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints coach Mike Ditka told TMZ when asked about Monday’s game on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. ‘Before a football game is not the time or place for it—period.’
Whoa!
Exactly!
Why do we need to politicize all the things?
Can’t we just have a football game without being lectured on alleged ‘systemic racism’ and identity politics?
That’d be nice.
I’m old enough to remember when Americans could put aside their political differences and enjoy watching a game together.
Ditka says that although he disagrees with the protesters, he says that it’s their right to not stand and that they’re ‘malcontents’.
This year, Ditka hopes to see all of New Orleans and Minnesota’s players on their feet during the anthem.
‘The majority of people are going to understand what 9/11 meant, what this country stands for, the values that we have, and they’re gonna go in that direction,” Ditka said. ‘You can’t stop everybody. There’s always gonna be some malcontents. So let them be malcontents, let them do their thing. They’ll move on. Nobody will think about it. Nobody will remember who they were. The fact that they didn’t stand for the national anthem, that’s their own right to do that. They have a right to do anything. I just disagree with it.’
‘You have to show some respect, especially in this position that we’re in,’ Boone told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. ‘We’re playing a game for a living. … You see all these pictures of these veterans that have no legs and they’re standing up [from] their wheelchair. … It’s shameful.’
Source: Daily Mail
When it came to game time on the 16th anniversary of 9/11? Players on both teams were all ‘stand-up guys’.
Members of the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints stood during “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Monday night, opting against partaking in the national anthem protests that have occurred throughout the NFL. —Bleacher Report
The athlete-activists that are making millions to play a game for our entertainment are disrespecting the many non-millionaire members of the military whose sacrifice has protected the flag and this country and given them the freedom to protest. It is also disgusting that these NFL elites continue to protest the law enforcement officers that are doing their job to serve and protect citizens while disregarding the problems that plague many communities in our country and make particular neighborhoods unsafe.
Ditka is right, though. You’ll always have malcontents and they’ll move on eventually. These players won’t be remembered anyway.
Colin Kaepernick should’ve put less effort into being an activist and more into improving his game. Do you think it was his political stance alone that has him on the outside looking in? Maybe it was his performance on the field that was the problem.
Don’t overthink why Colin Kaepernick is still a free agent. Simply put, years have passed since he was an effective quarterback. He is 29 years old, has succeeded only in an unsustainable scheme and is part of a well-populated group of former starters who also remained available as the week began…
…To blame Kaepernick’s unemployment on his protest is to misread the way NFL teams make personnel decisions.
While it would be naïve to think every owner and general manager approved of Kaepernick’s protest, or that it never influenced their perception of him, it’s important to understand priorities. Teams are swayed first by a player’s potential (or lack thereof) to help them win. Protest or not, Kaepernick would be under contract now if he had played demonstrably better in recent years.
Source: ESPN
Look at him now — he’s an activist, but no longer a pro-football player. And soon, we’ll all forget who he is.
Instead of having Colin’s name on our lips on the anniversary of 9/11, wouldn’t it be better to be talking about the contribution of this guy?
He’s Pat Tillman. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, maybe you should look him up.
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Reported By Jordain Carney – 09/11/17 08:09 PM EDT
Senators want Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate “all acts of violence, intimidation and domestic terrorism” by white supremacists, white nationalists or associated groups and prevent them “from fomenting and facilitating additional violence.”
Reported From the Daily Caller News Foundations:
“About 80 percent of all recovery happens because of non-profits, and the majority of them are faith-based,” Greg Forrester, CEO of NVOAD, told USA Today.
Several individual organizations have aided in the relief operations in major ways as well. Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical disaster relief group led by evangelist Franklin Graham, recently began a relief mission to the Caribbean to help victims of the hurricanes on various islands. Samaritan’s Purse also has ongoing relief operations in Houston and is preparing to aid Florida in the aftermath of Irma.
“FEMA – they have been a big blessing to us, they’re an assistance to us,” Luther Harrison, vice president of North American Ministries for Samaritan’s Purse, told USA Today. “For Hurricane Irma, the majority of our equipment has already been dispatched to Texas … so our office in Canada is bringing their equipment across the border and FEMA was instrumental in helping us clear that with customs and getting all the paperwork done.”
The United Methodist Committee on Relief, which has 20,000 volunteers trained to serve in disaster response teams, not only helps clean up the mess and repair the damage inflicted on homes by disasters, but also helps families with the process of applying for and receiving aid from various government relief programs.
The Seventh Day Adventists help state governments with warehousing various goods and necessities to aid communities in the aftermath of a disaster.
“Right now, in the state of Texas, we are going around with FEMA trying to help them select a facility,” Derek Lee, director of disaster response for Adventist Community Services, told USA Today. “It’ll actually be the state’s facility but it’ll be us that helps them manage it. We are going around with them right now trying to help them pick out a facility that will accommodate what the need is going to be on the ground.”
Non-denominational Christian relief organization Convoy of Hope helps to provide meals to victims of natural disasters by setting up feeding stations in affected communities, and they often do so at FEMA’s request. Most recently the group prepared three trailer trucks filled with food and necessities to be shipped out to areas affected the worst by the hurricanes.
The services that faith-based relief groups have rendered to ravaged communities has not only helped the families and individuals affected by the storms, but has also translated into billions of dollars worth of aid for the states in general, which must match and pay back the economic aid given to them by FEMA. The volunteers, who come at no cost to state governments, count toward the states’ matching of FEMA funds.
“FEMA can not do what it does so well without the cooperation of faith-based non-profit organizations and churches,” Rev. Jamie Johnson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships, told USA Today. “It’s a beautiful relationship between government and the private sector and it is something to behold.”
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They show what it was like to be inside the Pentagon and at the World Trade Center after the attack.
There are also some candid photos of President Bush and his advisors in the moments immediately following the attack.
It’s been 16 years since the horrific September 11th attacks that left 2,996 people dead and more than 6,000 others wounded in America.
To mark the harrowing anniversary, the Department of Defense has released dozens of astonishing and rare images showing the aftermath of the attack inside the Pentagon and at the World Trade Center.
They were hit by planes on that fateful morning during a series of coordinated attacks by al Qaeda hijackers.
Another plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crash landed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers stopped the terrorists from hitting their intended target.
The powerful photos include candid shots of then-President George Bush as he came to terms with the horrifying attack on the United States.
Source: Daily Mail
The photos of President Bush
ClashDaily contributor, John Cardillo, posted a timeline of what happened on 9/11 on his Facebook page:
The World Trade Center photos
Images after American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon:
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Democrats argue that the GOP fixation on voter fraud is all about denying some citizens the right to vote, meanwhile Republicans argue that the Democrats near-monolithic defense of voter fraud is all about winning extra votes. Both arguments have merit, but the Democrats are lying when they pretend that the problem simply doesn’t exist.
Every election there are countless examples of voter fraud (sometimes even mass voter fraud) that come to light, and this election has been no different. However, the latest shoe to drop on the voter fraud front could be a game changer… if the national media will pay any attention to the story.
In New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton won the vote by the slimmest of margins. Less than 3K votes separated the two candidates. The race for Senator was even closer, and some local elections were decided by just a handful of votes. These facts make what the state government just discovered all the more troubling.
State law requires that anyone moving to the state must acquire a new driver’s license within 60 days of establishing residency, but more than 5K 2016 voters have still not done that, leading authorities to believe that these were fraudulent voters who came to the state to influence the outcome of the election.
On Nov. 8, 2016, 6,540 voters used an out-of-state driver’s license as identification to vote but as of Aug. 30, 2017, only 1,014 of those individuals – 15.5 percent – had been issued a New Hampshire driver’s license, according to the data.
Of the remaining 5,526 individuals, only 3.3 percent – about 213 people – had a registered motor vehicle.
That would leave 5,313 people who used an out-of-state license to vote but never obtained a new New Hampshire license despite being required to by state law after implying that they were establishing residency or domicile in the state to vote in November.
Of the 5,313 individuals who registered to vote same-day on Election Day, 81 percent – 4,314 people – neither held a New Hampshire driver’s license nor had a registered vehicle in the state ever.
With the exception of the gubernatorial race – where Republican Chris Sununu easily bested Democrat Colin Van Ostern by more than 16,000 votes – Democrats won all the other statewide and Congressional races.
But three races were determined by less than 5,000 votes: Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, beat incumbent U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes – although many have suspected that last minute, illegal campaign mailers pushing votes to independent Aaron Day cost Ayotte the race. Hillary Clinton bested Donald Trump by 2,736, earning the state’s 4 Electoral College votes even though she ultimately lost the presidency. U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter was sent back to Congress after she bested incumbent U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta by a few more than 4,900 votes.
In the grand scheme of things 5K fraudulent votes in a nation of 315 million people may not seem like much, but in a state where 3 of the most important races were decided by less than 5K votes, it’s monumental. Consider the failed Obamacare repeal vote; could Senator Kelly Ayotte have helped the GOP ram repeal through? Or how much help could Rep. Frank Guinta be giving the House GOP if he’d actually defeated his liberal opponent?
The state government must continue its investigation and these fraudulent voters must be brought to justice. Voter fraud is a felony and it should be investigated and prosecuted as such.
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Democrat Illinois Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez released a video reacting to Trump’s decision on DACA where he implied that DACA recipients and their supporters should be turning to violence.
“I want to say something that so that we’re clear,” Gutierrez stated on the video. “Yes, we will be on the streets fighting.”
Over the past month we’ve seen what liberals fighting in the streets looks like, and it is quite violent and quite brutal. Gutiérrez is essentially calling for more violence in the United States.
“Yes, we will go to the courts to fight, and we will also insist that our friends and our allies in the Congress of the United States don’t sign a budget, don’t support a budget, don’t collaborate with Republicans and give us a budget unless there is a safe place legislatively, an avenue legislatively, that secures the future for the 800,000 DACA recipients,” he added.
“Let’s be clear. We are going to fight in the courts, we are going to fight in the streets, but also we are going to fight in the Congress of the United States to make sure legislatively we have a solution,” he concluded at the end of the video.
You can watch the promise of violence here:
Gutiérrez has been a particularly outspoken proponent of DACA. In August, he was actually arrested at a protest outside the White House demanding that Trump keep DACA in place.
The Washington Times also noted that Gutiérrez (who has not served in the military) claimed that White House chief of Staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, is a “disgrace” to the military because he didn’t stop Trump from ending DACA.
“General Kelly is a hypocrite who is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear. He has no honor and should be drummed out of the White House along with the white supremacists and those enabling the president’s actions by ‘just following orders,” his statement read.
Rhetoric like that isn’t really going to help Gutiérrez convince people that his side is right. Calling for fighting in the streets and disparaging a decorated Marine general only makes sane Americans think you are off your rocker.
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It should be fine though. He’ already been criticized for ‘only’ giving a million dollars of his own money.
This is the same President who never gets to face his qccusers before the story goes public, and most of thoe stories are told with ‘alternate facts’.
One of them they’d probably be fine with. As for the other parents? News like that could give some of them a stroke.
Perfect example: Franklin Graham. Franklin is definitely his ‘own person’. He’s been on their hit list for a very long time. They aren’t fans of his take on Islam. Or how he weighed in on Charlottesville. Because his charity — Samaritan’s Purse … which among other things it does, specializes in disaster recovery is a great choice. But to know Franklin Graham’s cause got them some coin? It must be driving them crazy. $100,000.
Red Cross and Salvation Army each got $300K. They’ll probably think that’s more or less fine they might chafe at the religious nature of Salvation Army, but will recognize it for the work it does. They’ve probably fogotton entirely about the founding of the Red Cross and assume it’s strictly secular.
Trump also said he would also give $100,000 to Reach Out America, a Houston-based charity connected to the United Pentecostal Church International.
And $25k each to:
—Operation Blessing International, a faith-based disaster-relief charity based in Virginia Beach
—Catholic Charities
— The Houston Humane Society
—The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
—Team Rubicon, a charity that sends teams of military veterans to help in disaster zones.
—Portlight Inclusive Disaster Strategies, a nonprofit group that focuses on helping those with disabilities.
—Direct Relief, a medical-aid group which has shipped doses of medicines and vaccines — all of which must be kept cold — to flood-ravaged areas in Texas.
Operation Blessing! Oh no!
The Rubicon seems a really great choice, considering how many citizens stepped up to help their neighbors. Of course, the Media (D) and their liberal playmates will find all sorts of reasons to bitch about it.
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In 2006, President Bush got the brilliant idea to push amnesty on the country. His party was wiped out the very next time voters could get to the polls.
Liberals like to claim that their brave opposition to the Iraq War led to the midterm slaughter, but, as I recall, they were against that war in the 2004 presidential election, too, and Bush won. An April 2006 Washington Post–ABC News poll — taken about a month after Bush launched his amnesty crusade — showed that more Americans approved of Bush’s handling of the Iraq War than approved of his handling of immigration. In nearly every poll on Bush’s handling of immigration that year, a huge majority of the public disapproved
Three years ago, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his seat to an unknown economics professor, Dave Brat, by a whopping 55 percent to 45 percent, despite outspending Brat 40-to-1. It was the first time in history a member of leadership had lost a primary. (This despite Cantor being one of the “Young Guns”!) Brat had explicitly attacked Cantor for supporting amnesty.
Most spectacularly, last year, an utterly implausible presidential candidate crushed all his opponents — including the media — and won the White House by promising to deport illegals and build a wall.
The media imagine that President Trump’s deficiencies are an argument for not taking his positions seriously. Oh no — it’s just the reverse. The fact that Trump’s supporters implacably stick by him, through every horror, proves they are willing to put up with any lunacy if it means getting that agenda.
We already tried amnesty once. The 1986 amnesty under Reagan was supposed to be a one-time fix. We’d forgive the estimated 1 million illegal aliens living here and, in exchange, draconian measures would be imposed on any employer ever caught hiring an illegal again — up to a $10,000 fine per illegal and jail time for repeat offenders.
There weren’t 1 million illegals — it was 4 million.
It wasn’t a one-time fix. In another real-world example of “incentives,” the first amnesty led to a never-ending stream of illegals across our border, confident of getting in on the next amnesty. Today, there are at least 40 million illegals living in the U.S. (Eleven million is nonsense — they’ve been claiming that since the 1980s. See Adios, America
We’re told the DACA amnesty will apply only to a very small, discrete group of unbelievably fantastic illegals — who melt Ivanka’s heart by refilling her water glass at Cipriani with such alacrity!
Not only that, but there will be strict requirements on who qualifies for a DACA amnesty.
None of which will ever be enforced.
Congress has passed laws requiring that immigrants pay back taxes, learn English, not collect welfare and have good moral character. That’s not too onerous, right? It’s not like we’re requiring them to have any skills or talents that would be valuable to America.
Every single one of these requirements has been scuttled by immigration bureaucrats, federal judges and Democratic presidents. All of ’em. Our immigration bureaucracy is so dedicated to destroying America that it’s made citizens of thousands of convicted felons
This nation is mind-bogglingly generous. But decades of lies make it impossible for even the most tender-hearted American to fall for this bait-and-switch one more time.
Every politician swears up and down that he wants a “secure border.” But then these same politicians go absolutely berserk when Trump says he wants to build a wall.
They say we’ll get enforcement right after the amnesty. That’s obviously absurd. When the tub is overflowing, water pouring out of the faucet, across the carpets, down the stairs, up the dining room walls, we don’t debate whether we’re going to dry clean the curtains or throw them out. We don’t argue about whether to use a mop or towels. FIRST: Turn off the water.
As long as both political parties stoutly refuse to build the wall, we know they are not serious about ever stopping illegal immigration. (Luckily, the Constitution gives the commander in chief full authority to protect our borders, with or without congressional approval.)
We know what happened after the Reagan amnesty. We know politicians and the media are lying to us. Why, some of the politicians who lied to us then are lying to us today, for example, Chuck Schumer.
No matter how innocent and lamblike a “Dreamer” they produce to tear at our heartstrings, it won’t work anymore. Decades of their perfidy has made sympathy impossible. It’s as if, night after night, Paul Ryan knocked on our door and asked us to take in one helpless orphan and, night after night, we crack open our door, only to be set upon by 30 armed felons with tire chains and brass knuckles.
At a certain point, Ryan might actually produce a sad orphan. Who knows? It’s theoretically possible. But we could not be faulted for not opening the door.
Politicians and the press are themselves responsible for thoroughly killing any human sympathy Americans may have had for illegal immigrants — even the “Dreamers” (whom Ivanka adores, but would die before sending her kids to a school jam-packed with them).
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Reported by Ian Miles Cheong | Contributor | 11:03 AM 09/06/2017
Antifa members and counter protesters gather during a rightwing No-To-Marxism rally on August 27, 2017 at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Berkeley, California. Amy Osborne/AFP/Getty Images.
The anarchist movement’s violence against white men is rooted in academia. Intersectional feminists on campuses teach their students about “heteropatriarchy” (or patriarchy, for short) and other pillars of white supremacy, including sexism, colonialism, orientalism, capitalism, colorism, and a host of other -isms that are all said to oppress everyone today — except for white men.
Conveniently enough, minorities who disagree with the orthodoxy and its “intersections of oppression” are said to suffer from “internalized oppression” caused by the white supremacist society they supposedly live in. Because white men are considered the “oppressor,” most of antifa’s assaults have been committed against white men. The victims included white male progressives — and those who simply look like white men.
In the months since Donald Trump’s election to office, white men have been the victims of antifa violence across the United States and Europe. In February 2017, antifa thugs and Black Lives Matter activists in London assaulted a man holding up a sign that read “the right to openly discuss ideas must be defended,” whom they accused of being a Nazi.
There was no shortage of anarchist violence at the University of Washington in early April, when black clad protesters scuffled with police and assaulted a white male Trump supporter. Through the use of “black bloc” tactics — dressing in full black and moving as a cluster — the group was able to maintain its anonymity as it harassed students.
During the Berkeley “Free Speech Rally” in mid-April, black-clad antifa supporters assaulted a disabled veteran who was sitting in a wheelchair by dumping liquid onto him as he attempted to speak to them peacefully. A man who stood between antifa and the veteran was robbed of his cellphone by another masked antifa thug.
During the same protest, an antifa protester assaulted (though this description is generous, she was half his size) a photojournalist for attempting to put out the fire that the group set.
The most egregious instance of violence happened during the same protest, when Eric Clanton, a professor at Diablo Valley College and antifa supporter, was captured on video smashing a Trump supporter in the head with a bike lock.
Antifa’s assaults were not limited to Trump supporters or disabled military veterans. During a protest in Boston in August, a liberal who refused to denounce all white people as white supremacists was sucker-punched in the back of the head by an antifa thug.
Of course white men aren’t the only targets of antifa violence. In a New York Times report, a Syrian Muslim student 
at UC Berkeley was assaulted by antifa members who accused him of merely looking like a white man. He was told that he “looked like a Nazi.” He was pepper-sprayed and hit with a rod before he could offer a reply.
If there was a gang just going around assaulting members of any other demographic, there would be blood in the streets and the newspapers would be plastered with headlines condemning the group.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
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I would also like to reiterate what we said in … the last meeting [concerning Jack Phillips]. Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust … I mean, we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use—to use their religion to hurt others.
Little did Rice know, Phillips’ father fought in World War II, and saw many of the Holocaust atrocities for himself. In The Daily Signal’s latest edition of “Underreported,” Phillips recounts learning about the Nazi concentration camps from his father in the years before he passed away, and describes what it was like to hear a government official compare not making a cake for a same-sex wedding to the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.
“I don’t have words for it,” Phillips told The Daily Signal. “But it’s wrong.”
Watch in the video above.
Published by ClashDaily.com | on September 6, 2017
Deporting kids back to Cuba is different than sending them back to Mexico and South America for some reason.
Barry was soft on Castro’s regime. We had a ‘Cuban Reset’ if you will.
US law — until Obama nixed it — said that Cubans fleeing the Communist regime would be granted permanent residency status if they had ‘one foot’ on American soil.
“By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries,” Obama wrote in a statement Thursday.
“The United States, a land of immigrants, has been enriched by the contributions of Cuban-Americans for more than a century,” he continued. “Since I took office, we have put the Cuban-American community at the center of our policies. With this change we will continue to welcome Cubans as we welcome immigrants from other nations, consistent with our laws.”
Source: CNN
Did Obama just say that we are to treat all immigrants equally ‘consistent with our laws’? Somebody tell all those ‘Sanctuary City’ nuts. They probably won’t understand, though.
Elian’s Miami relatives argued if the boy went back to Cuba, he would become a brainwashed trophy for Castro in his long-running feud with the US.
As the two sides fought out the high-profile case in court, U.S. immigration officials decided to put Elian in the custody of his father, who had come to the United States to press for his son’s return.
Elian is now 23 and a solid communist. He believes in the ‘Revolution’ and is joining the Cuban army. He also blames the United States for the many Cubans that take their lives in their hands — like his mother did — to flee. But hey, it’s not like he was ‘used politically’ like he claims he would have been in the United States.
At his seventh birthday party, the guest of honor was Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Images of Elian and Castro celebrating were first shown on the island’s state-run TV and then transmitted around the world, to a public still fascinated by the case of the rafter-boy.
“I don’t profess to have any religion, but if I did my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path,” Gonzalez said in an interview with Cuba’s state-run media in 2013.
Source: CNN
Yep. That’s not brainwashing at all. Good thing that the Democrats protected this child in a terrifying way at gunpoint in the middle of the night. After all, look at the young man he’s become. He’s a staunch supporter of the ‘Revolution’ that jailed thousands of political dissidents and, between 1959 and 1987, killed somewhere in the range of 35,000 to 141,000 citizens.
Great work, Democrats.
Posted by GirlsJustWannaHaveGuns.com | on September 6, 2017Former President Obama has pooh-poohed Trump’s decision, although Donald has given Congress to act on the issue, claiming his actions are unconstitutional. Apparently Obama has had a laps in memory.
Via Herman Cain: DACA was created via executive order back in 2012. Obama has called the decision to end it “cruel” and “self-defeating.” As usual, his outrage is patently, provably, phony.
Obama himself admitted that DACA was a “temporary stop-gap measure” during the very speech where he announced its existence. It was never supposed to be permanent, and it wasn’t a path to citizenship…
Clearly Obama didn’t believe his own words. It’s nice to see another president hold up a previous president’s promise. Rarely do we see government programs stay temporary. Our IRS and welfare programs are a great example of the destruction such organizations can cause if implemented in the long run.
Posted by GirlsJustWannaHaveGuns.com | on September 5, 2017The dossier has been completely debunked. Now Congress is hunting for answers, which is where Trey Gowdy and his committee have stepped in…
From Washington Examiner:
In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier, the FBI’s relationship with dossier author Christopher Steele, and the bureau’s possible role in supporting what began as an opposition research project against candidate Donald Trump in the final months of last year’s presidential campaign.
The subpoenas are an indication of growing frustration inside the committee over the FBI and Justice Department’s lack of cooperation in the Trump-Russia investigation.
Gowdy’s thoughts:
The subpoenas are the result of a months-long process of committee investigators requesting information from the FBI and Justice Department. Beginning in May, the committee sent multiple letters to the FBI and Justice requesting information concerning the Trump-Russia affair.
“We got nothing,” said committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who is taking a leading role in the Russia investigation. “The witnesses have not been produced and the documents have not been produced.”
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Reported URL of the original posting site: http://conservativetribune.com/islamists-wont-tell-taqiya-secrets/
The word “taqiyya” quite literally translates as: “Concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury.”
In other words, dissimulation, which means to purposefully hide something underneath a false appearance.
The concept of concealing one’s faith and the goals associated therewith from those who don’t share said beliefs is believed to have arisen early and become accepted on the Shia side of the Islamic split. It was used in order to counter persecution or threats coming from the Sunni side of the split, though Sunnis have also embraced the concept over the centuries as well, and adapted its use to further their own jihad.
Many Islamic scholars have gone to great effort to cite specific instances in the Quran that would support the belief that it is not only permissible, but even encouraged, for a Muslim individual to deliberately lie to non-Muslims about their faith or intentions, if doing so would save them from potential harm while at the same time not causing any harm to the Islamic faith as a whole.
Part 3 of al-Islam’s dissertation on dissimulation quoted several different suras from the Islamic holy book, two of which were suras 3:28 and 16:106.
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“Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, (they) shall have no relation left with Allah except by way of precaution (“tat-taqooh”), that ye may guard yourselves (“tooqatan”) from them,” read 3:28, which essentially stated that lying by way of precaution to guard oneself was acceptable and wouldn’t draw the wrath of Allah.
Sura 16:106 stated nearly the same thing, as “Any one who, after accepting Faith in Allah, utters unbelief, EXCEPT under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in faith — but such as open their breast to unbelief, — on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a dreadful Chastisement.”
The al-Islam site further sought to justify the deliberate use of deception by Muslims as being perfectly natural and merely the inherent instinct of self-preservation and survival shared by virtually all living things.
So there you have it, not from some supposedly “Islamophobic right-winger,” but straight from the Quran and the Islamic scholars that interpret and explain it on behalf of their faith to enlighten their followers, that Muslims are permitted to lie to non-Muslims in certain circumstances that are rather loosely defined.
H/T Wikipedia
Reported 
“(They’re) a pack of rabid animals,” McNesby said on Friday during a pro-police rally at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 headquarters. “When you go to work each day, you shouldn’t have to worry that a pack of rabid animals will suddenly show up at your home and openly threaten your family. These are not activists, they are racist hate groups determined to instigate violence.”
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McNesby’s statement and the rally came in the wake of an ongoing dispute in Philadelphia where a police offcer is under fire after shooting a man as he fled from the officer. While BlackLivesMatter activists want to paint the situation as yet another instance of police brutality, and yet another example of a white officer targeting and shooting a black man… the local P.D. says that’s not at all what happened in this case.
Protests kicked off back in June when Officer Ryan Pownall shot 30-year old Ryan Jones as he fled from the officer. Pownall pulled Jones over for riding an illegal dirt bike on a city street. When the officer patted down the suspect he felt a handgun in the man’s waistband. 
A witness who was in the back of Pownall’s police car said he saw the officer pull his gun and then tell the man not to touch the gun in his waistband. The man then struggled with the officer before pulling his gun from his waistband, but the witness says Jones then dropped the gun, and began to run away. That’s when Pownall fired his gun, hitting the man in the back with two of his shots. Jones later died at a nearby hospital. Police did find a fully-loaded handgun at the scene and have not, as of yet, offered a different version of the story then the witness has described, though the shooting is still under investigation. This is the second time that Officer Pownall has been the center of controversy for shooting a man in the back:
Black Lives Matter, along with others, have been protesting the shooting for weeks. In July, the group marched on the Police Administration Building and City Hall demanding a larger investigation.
Pownall was called a “racist, bigot pig cop” and Khalif said he has “a murderous spirit” — referring to another shooting that the officer was involved. That 2010 shooting left Carnell Williams-Carney paralyzed when a bullet hit him in the back. The shooting was ruled justified and Williams-Carney lost a federal lawsuit against police.
McNesby’s comments about the protesters being a “pack of rabid animals,” comes less than a week after he called their leader “a punk” who should have been arrested for protesting without a permit. When pressed by the media about calling the BLM leader a “punk,” McNesby said, “I can’t use the words I want. To take it to someone’s house, a police officer’s house, he doesn’t have any respect. He’s a two-bit punk who doesn’t have the respect of decent protesters, if there is any in this city.”
McNesby has gotten riled up by the latest protests because the Black Lives Matter protesters (and their leaders in particular) have been using heated, aggressive, and sometimes violent-sounding rhetoric. For example, last week BLM leaders argued that they knew where Pownall lived before insinuating that they might pay the officer and his family a visit. “We have something in the tank,” the BLM leader said. “There is nothing off the table, including coming back to the police officer’s home.”
Both sides should probably consider modulating their rhetoric, but I don’t expect we’ll see anyone do so.
Reported 
As we’ve explained before, DACA was a wholly unconstitutional attempt by the Obama administration to “do something” about certain illegal immigrants when Congress refused to act.
Here’s the problem, that’s not how our system works.
In our system the LEGISLATURE makes law, the Executive Branch ENFORCES the law, and the Supreme Court gives its OPINION on whether or not certain laws are constitutional and legal.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration was eliminating Obama’s DACA rule, though they would slowly roll back the program over the next 6 months. President Trump put the ball into Congress’ court and told them that the legislature should be the one to fix the DACA mess, and he’s signaled that he’ll sign a new DACA law… IF Congress can pass one.
AG Sessions even quoted prominent LIBERAL law professor Jonathan Turley in explaining why the Obama DACA rule had to go.
George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was clear about the enormous constitutional infirmities raised by these policies.
He said: “In ordering this blanket exception, President Obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with.….If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense…The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.”
Already the leftists are going nuts and there are even rumors that former President Obama has something planned to show his disagreement with Trump’s decision to end DACA.
If you think we’ve heard the last of DACA now that the Trump administration has announced it’s end… you’re being naive. The left will continue to fight, tooth and nail, to save DACA and to open our borders. It’s what they do.
Here’s the announcement, starting about 2:40 into the video:
Transcript From the Justice Department:
Good morning. I am here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama Administration is being rescinded.
The DACA program was implemented in 2012 and essentially provided a legal status for recipients for a renewable two-year term, work authorization and other benefits, including participation in the social security program, to 800,000 mostly-adult illegal aliens.
This policy was implemented unilaterally to great controversy and legal concern after Congress rejected legislative proposals to extend similar benefits on numerous occasions to this same group of illegal aliens.
In other words, the executive branch, through DACA, deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions. Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.
The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of unaccompanied minors on the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences. It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same jobs to go to illegal aliens.
We inherited from our Founders—and have advanced—an unsurpassed legal heritage, which is the foundation of our freedom, safety, and prosperity.
As the Attorney General, it is my duty to ensure that the laws of the United States are enforced and that the Constitutional order is upheld.
No greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic, than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. Societies where the rule of law is treasured are societies that tend to flourish and succeed.
Societies where the rule of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become societies afflicted by corruption, poverty, and human suffering.
To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. That is an open border policy and the American people have rightly rejected it.
Therefore, the nation must set and enforce a limit on how many immigrants we admit each year and that means all can not be accepted.
This does not mean they are bad people or that our nation disrespects or demeans them in any way. It means we are properly enforcing our laws as Congress has passed them.
It is with these principles and duties in mind, and in light of imminent litigation, that we reviewed the Obama Administration’s DACA policy.
Our collective wisdom is that the policy is vulnerable to the same legal and constitutional challenges that the courts recognized with respect to the DAPA program, which was enjoined on a nationwide basis in a decision affirmed by the Fifth Circuit.
The Fifth Circuit specifically concluded that DACA had not been implemented in a fashion that allowed sufficient discretion, and that DAPA was “foreclosed by Congress’s careful plan.”
In other words, it was inconsistent with the Constitution’s separation of powers. That decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court by an equally divided vote.
If we were to keep the Obama Administration’s executive amnesty policy, the likeliest outcome is that it would be enjoined just as was DAPA. The Department of Justice has advised the President and the Department of Homeland Security that DHS should begin an orderly, lawful wind down, including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program.
Acting Secretary Duke has chosen, appropriately, to initiate a wind down process. This will enable DHS to conduct an orderly change and fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time period for Congress to act—should it so choose. We firmly believe this is the responsible path.
Simply put, if we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional order and the rule of law in America, the Department of Justice cannot defend this type of overreach.
George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was clear about the enormous constitutional infirmities raised by these policies.
He said: “In ordering this blanket exception, President Obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with.….If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense…The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.”
Ending the previous Administration’s disrespect for the legislative process is an important first step. All immigration policies should serve the interests of the people of the United States—lawful immigrant and native born alike.
Congress should carefully and thoughtfully pursue the types of reforms that are right for the American people. Our nation is comprised of good and decent people who want their government’s leaders to fulfill their promises and advance an immigration policy that serves the national interest.
We are a people of compassion and we are a people of law. But there is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws.
Enforcing the law saves lives, protects communities and taxpayers, and prevents human suffering. Failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and even terrorism.
The compassionate thing is to end the lawlessness, enforce our laws, and, if Congress chooses to make changes to those laws, to do so through the process set forth by our Founders in a way that advances the interest of the nation.
That is what the President has promised to do and has delivered to the American people.
Under President Trump’s leadership, this administration has made great progress in the last few months toward establishing a lawful and constitutional immigration system. This makes us safer and more secure.
It will further economically the lives of millions who are struggling. And it will enable our country to more effectively teach new immigrants about our system of government and assimilate them to the cultural understandings that support it.
The substantial progress in reducing illegal immigration at our border seen in recent months is almost entirely the product of the leadership of President Trump and his inspired federal immigration officers. But the problem is not solved. And without more action, we could see illegality rise again rather than be eliminated.
As a candidate, and now in office, President Trump has offered specific ideas and legislative solutions that will protect American workers, increase wages and salaries, defend our national security, ensure the public safety, and increase the general well-being of the American people.
He has worked closely with many members of Congress, including in the introduction of the RAISE Act, which would produce enormous benefits for our country. This is how our democratic process works.
There are many powerful interest groups in this country and every one of them has a constitutional right to advocate their views and represent whomever they choose.
But the Department of Justice does not represent any narrow interest or any subset of the American people. We represent all of the American people and protect the integrity of our Constitution. That is our charge.
We at Department of Justice are proud and honored to work to advance this vision for America and to do our best each day to ensure the safety and security of the American people.
Thank you.
Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2017.
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Peter Hasson | Associate Editor | 8:16 PM 09/03/2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides the 3rd Meeting of Activists of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in the Movement for Winning the Title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on August 4, 2016. KCNA/ via REUTERS
One group is Refuse Fascism, a well-funded “resistance” group created for the express purpose of opposing President Trump’s administration. Internal presentations from a Refuse Fascism conference last month said the group intends to make America’s leaders lose “international legitimacy” as a way of ultimately bringing down the Trump presidency, as TheDC first reported.
Both groups have consistently echoed North Korean talking points that demonize America while excusing Un’s genocidal regime, and both groups have instructed their followers to distrust American media reporting that reflects negatively on North Korean leaders’ oppression of their own people.
After the United Nations’ Security Council unanimously voted on August 5 to impose further sanctions on North Korea, both Refuse Fascism and Workers World defended the North Korean regime as the victim of international imperialists.
Workers World’s magazine published an editorial titled “Korea won’t be intimidated.” The editorial claimed America — and not the North Korean regime — is the country standing in the way of peace. The last nine paragraphs of the editorial were direct quotes from North Korea’s government.
Five days later, the magazine published another editorial titled “Self-defense and the DPRK” that portrayed the U.S. as the “oppressor” of North Korea.
Three days after the UN voted on the new sanctions, Refuse Fascism — whose financial backers include left-wing financier George Soros — published an outraged statement that framed the U.S.-North Koreas standoff as “the largest military power in the world bullying a small, isolated country and terrorizing the people of that entire region.”
In July, Refuse Fascism issued a statement accusing the U.S. of using a “playbook of demonization” against Kim Jong Un. The statement urged Americans to put aside their country’s and “act in the interests of humanity instead.”
“Stop thinking like an American,” the statement said. “Start thinking about humanity.”
Both Refuse Fascism and Workers World have railed against the media’s coverage of North Korea. Refuse Fascism’s statement last month urged against believing American media’s “lies and distortion” that portray North Korea — one of the worst human rights’ oppressors in the world — in a negative light.
“No, we should not be comfortable with the disgusting media frenzy, full of lies and distortion, that marches us toward not just another invasion of a small country but a nuclear attack that can wipe out millions of people in one day and threaten the future of life on earth,” the statement declared.
Workers World has similarly criticized “the entire web of the capitalist-owned press and electronic media that marches in lockstep, assuming that everyone will automatically believe their endless hostility against the DPRK.” Last month the group criticized America’s “corporate media” as untrustworthy.
Both Workers’ World Party and Refuse Fascism have been on the front lines of the anti-Trump “resistance.” Both groups were among the organizers of counter-protests on inauguration weekend, where far-left actors staged riots and attacked innocent bystanders.
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: A protester sits by a fire in the street as police and demonstrators clash in downtown Washington following the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Washington and the entire world have watched the transfer of the United States presidency from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, the 45th president. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
For months, Refuse Fascism has been planning massive, nationwide demonstrations for November 4. According to the group’s statements, the protests are part of their long-term strategy of creating a “political crisis” resulting in both Trump and Pence being forced from their elected offices.
Three weeks ago, the group held planning conferences for the mass demonstrations. Presentations from the conference reveal the group wants to disrupt the “ability to govern” of America’s leaders and make them “lose respect and legitimacy in the eyes of people here and internationally.” Costing America’s leaders “international legitimacy” is key because it “is a very critical calculation for the rulers of this country.” (RELATED: Activists Plan To Make America’s Leaders Lose ‘International Legitimacy’)
Workers World Party was one of several far-left “anti-fascist” groups present at the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last month, where James Fields, a 20-year-old white nationalist, drove through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one person and injuring dozens of others. The group’s activists led the toppling of Confederate monuments following the violence in Charlottesville.
Workers’ World’s stated goals including igniting an international socialist revolution and “the shutdown of the Pentagon and the use of the war budget” — that is, the funding for the Department of Defense — “to improve the lives of the working class and especially the oppressed peoples.”
Reported 
In a video posted to Facebook by Turning Point News we see River Ridge High School math teacher, Lyn Orletsky, attacking her students for daring to wear Make America Great Again (MAGA) t-shirts into her classroom.
River Ridge High School is in Cherokee County, GA… a county that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and is still solidly in support of the President. How overwhelmingly did Cherokee County support Trump? 73% of the county’s voters cast their ballots for him. Suffice it to say that Orletsky is in the clear minority in her community, which makes her outburst all the more incredible.
In the video Orletsky can be heard saying, “You cannot wear a swastika to school … you cannot wear ‘Make America Great Again’ like that…. Please go, at least for this class. I don’t care what you do in other classes.”
When one of their classmates incredulously asks, “Wait so both of them have to like flip their shirts inside out because it says Trump on the top?”, the teacher begins to realize that she’s just made a terrible mistake but then makes the situation worse by comparing Trump’s campaign slogan to Nazi accoutrements. “Because it says ‘Make America Great Again! The Neo-Nazis … I’m not saying about Trump, but the slogan…” The teacher argued that the shirts were inappropriate because they reminded her of Neo Nazis!
In the aftermath of the incident the Cherokee County School District has profusely apologized to their students and their families for the teacher’s innapropriate behavior. In a statement the district said, “Her actions were wrong as the ‘Make America Great Again’ shirts worn by the students are not a violation of our School District dress code.” The district also chastised the teacher for also inappropriately sharing “her personal opinion about the campaign slogan during class.”
Further the district said that the school’s principal had met with and apologized to the students in the class and their families. Meanwhile, Superintendent Dr. Brian V. Hightower said that ‘he is deeply sorry that this incident happened in one of their schools, and that “it does not reflect his expectation that all students be treated equally and respectfully by our employees.”‘
Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2017.
What Did You Say? 
States already do this in the context of child and elder abuse, requiring teachers, administrators, school nurses, and coaches to report suspected abuse to appropriate law enforcement agencies. Failure to report can trigger civil and criminal penalties against the individual and penalties against the institution.
These proposals would take the pressure off colleges to conduct quasi-criminal proceedings, which college administrators are ill equipped to do. No one would expect a college tribunal to handle a murder on campus.
It makes no sense for a college to handle other serious crimes such as sexual assaults and rapes. Rapists are criminals, not just college students who violate a school’s honor code. They should be prosecuted in criminal court, and if found guilty, punished accordingly, including having to register as convicted sex offenders.
But the Obama-era guidance led colleges to steer students away from reporting crimes to the authorities, and required use of the low “preponderance of the evidence” standard of proof when investigating and disciplining students accused of sexual assault.
This led to colleges barring an accused student from reviewing the evidence against him or cross-examining his accuser; refusing to allow an accused to hire an attorney or, when attorneys were permitted, prohibiting them from speaking on the accused’s behalf; and implementing other procedures that fly in the face of the protections typically afforded to someone accused of a crime.
The guidance letter received criticism from liberal and conservative quarters, from law professors to think tank scholars to members of Congress and many others.
Law professors at the University of Pennsylvania wrote that this “approach exerts improper pressure upon universities to adopt procedures that do not afford fundamental fairness,” and that “due process of law is not window dressing.”
Harvard law professors similarly decried the procedures as “overwhelmingly stacked against the accused” and which were “in no way” required by federal law. It also led to numerous lawsuits filed by students who were punished in these kangaroo courts.
In her speech, DeVos stated, “The notion that a school must diminish due process rights to better serve the ‘victim’ only creates more victims.”
Instead, due process must be “the foundation of any system of justice that seeks a fair outcome. Due process either protects everyone, or it protects no one.”
Sexual assault investigations and adjudications are serious issues that involve complicated procedures designed to get at the truth and prevent further harm to victims and those falsely accused.
Compound this complexity with a massive federal bureaucracy and various interest groups with their own agendas, and it is little wonder that alleged victims, alleged perpetrators, and universities themselves are often left with no clear idea of their rights and responsibilities under the law.
Reversing the ill-advised Obama-era guidance is the first step to ensure that sexual assaults are properly investigated and adjudicated by trained professionals, leaving college administrators, as DeVos said, “to focus on what they do best: educate.”
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