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.

The Editor says...
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.

The Editor says...
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.

The Editor says...
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.

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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.

The Editor says...
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.

The Editor says...
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.

The Editor says...
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.

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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.

Update:
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.

The Editor says...
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.

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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.

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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."

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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."

The Editor says...
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.

The Editor says...
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.

The Editor says...
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?

Update:
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.

The Editor says...
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.