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I wonder if Hillary was in Dallas taking sniper fire during the Black Lives Matter protests? I expect that she will one day believe she was and use that as a reason why all firearms (except for those protecting her and collecting taxes) should be banned. (/sarcasm) Seriously, would anyone be surprised to hear that she adds this sniper fire to that she faced in Bosnia?

"More Will Be Assassinated In The Coming Days! Do You Like The Work Of Our Assassins? Get Your Own Sniper" read a post on the Black Power Political Organisation Facebook account A Facebook page claiming to represent a black power group has posted messages claiming responsibility for the deaths of five police officers in Dallas. The so-called Black Power Political Organization claimed on its Facebook account that it was behind the attack in which cops were picked out from an 'elevated position' - believed to be a multi-storey car park. It came in the week of public outrage over the...

NEW YORK/MESQUITE, Texas, July 8 (Reuters) - Military veteran Micah Xavier Johnson posted an angry rant against white people on a black nationalist Facebook group called Black Panther Party Mississippi on Saturday, denouncing the lynching and brutalizing of black people. Five days later, U.S. authorities say, he took part in the sniper-style killing of five Dallas police officers. "Why do so many whites (not all) enjoy killing and participating in the death of innocent beings," Johnson, 25, wrote in his Facebook post above a graphic video of people participating in a whale-killing, comparing it to the treatment of black people...

Many folks have been expressing a great deal of excitement that Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, made an exhortation calling for the Novus Ordo to be offered Ad Orientem. I agree with Rorate Caeli in finding this excitement badly misplaced. That is to say, his words, while nice and comforting to conservative/traditional ears, perhaps, are meaningless in any real, effective sense. Nothing will change, as they did not change after Cardinal Arinze many times called for Latin in the Mass and Communion received on the tongue. The fundamental issue, as Rorate notes, is that modernists/progressives do...

ATLANTA — A man in a passing vehicle accused of opening fire on a police officer on patrol in Georgia will likely be charged with aggravated assault on the officer, authorities said Friday. A suspect was apprehended after a short car chase and is in custody. The shooting happened in Roswell, a city just north of Atlanta, early Friday, just hours after a sniper attack killed five police officers in Dallas, and officers were already on edge, Roswell Det. Zachary Frommer said. Victor Alonzo Majia Nunez, 21, was being questioned by detectives Friday. Police have not released a motive. Asked...

BALLWIN, Mo. (KMOX) – A Ballwin police officer is “fighting for his life,” according to the chief of police, after he was shot during a traffic stop Friday morning. Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar and St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger addressed the media during a news conference at Ballwin police headquarters on Friday afternoon. Scott says the incident began with a traffic stop in the 300 block of New Ballwin Road when the officer pulled over a vehicle. The officer then got out of his patrol car, approached the vehicle and had...

Stein, expected to become the party’s nominee at its August convention, says she has invited Sanders to collaborate: ‘Everything is on the table’ Bernie Sanders has been invited to continue his underdog bid for the White House by the Green party’s probable presidential candidate, who has offered to step aside to let him run. Jill Stein, who is expected to be endorsed at the party’s August convention in Houston, told Guardian US that “overwhelming” numbers of Sanders supporters are flocking to the Greens rather than Hillary Clinton. Stein insisted that her presidential bid has a viable “near term goal” of...

Does anyone think that the Dallas killings are not a direct result of racist policies enabled and fostered by the Obama administration? Race relations 8 years ago were the best in our country's history and still improving. Since the election of the half-black community organizer with a hatred of America and white folks, race relations have gone from decent to the verge of civil collapse. He has intentionally planted the cancer of victimization within the black community that will long outlive his toxic administration.

Our hearts are broken. For the dead and wounded Dallas officers. For their loved ones, friends and colleagues. And for the Dallas Police Department, which has often gotten it right in this ugly time of national tensions between law enforcement and their African-Americans constituents. A peaceful protest in downtown Dallas on Thursday night, planned to mark police shootings in other cities, morphed into a horrific sniper ambush on the men and women sworn to protect them. These were police officers who had earlier posed for photos with the demonstrators, shaken their hands and provided security for their rally. Throughout the...

There is much talk about “the talk.” “Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk,” Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ Dell’Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in...

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke blasted President Obama’s rhetoric Friday in the wake of the shooting deaths of five law enforcement officers in Dallas. Sheriff Clarke, appearing on “Fox and Friends” to discuss Micah Xavier Johnson, the 25-year-old man accused of ambushing Dallas police officers at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, said Mr. Obama uses the bully pulpit after tragedies in ways that sow anger and resentment among the population. “He’s usually popping off at the mouth before he’s been briefed or before he knows any of the facts like he did yesterday,” the sheriff said regarding Mr. Obama’s...

The US economy added 287,000 jobs in June, crushing the 180,000 expected by economists. This was the biggest jump in payrolls in eight months.

At a Democratic forum hosted by Fusion, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton resonds to a question about minorities concerned about police violence. “ QUESTION: The danger of ISIS is clearly a major threat to American safety, but personally, I know many minorities who are much more concerned with racist attacks at the local level than radical Islamists, so just — question to put it plainly since often, issues of race are tiptoed, do you believe that white terrorism and extremism is as much a threat to some in this country as something like ISIS? HILLARY CLINTON: You know, I think...

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Islamic supremacist groups have assiduously courted Black Lives Matter, and linked their propaganda efforts against “Islamophobia” to the Black Lives Matter stand against perceived racism. In Dallas last night, we see where this is tending: as Kyle Shideler notes in the March article below, “At the event, MAS leader Khalilah Sabra openly discussed the importance of Muslim support for Black Lives Matter, and urged ‘revolution.’ “Dallas police shootings: Race rally cops killed in Dallas sniper ambush,” The Australian, July 9, 2016: “ Heavily armed snipers killed five police and transit officers...

The organizer of the Dallas Black Lives Matter rally, in which four cops were murdered and numerous others injured by trained snipers, is a sodomite pro-Muslim agent. His name is Jeff Hood. In 2015, after American Christians protested an Islamic event in Dallas, this reprobate, Jeff Hood, said:  “I think that Texas Muslims are the real Christians.” Jeff Hood says that he is a Baptist minister, but I believe that this is a disguise that he is using to cover his Islamic sentiments. In one statement Hood described a conversation with a Muslim “about Islam”, and of how “The...

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said authorities were initially called to reports of an active shooter and bomb threat. Miami-Dade Police Detective Daniel Ferrin said the hospital has been evacuated as a precaution because of the reported threats. Officers are going floor to floor to ensure that the campus is safe.

I was wondering if anyone else here recently donated to Trump's campaign.... directly through his site. I did on 6/30 using my debit card, which I never use (except for things like this... the only other time I've used it recently was for a donation to Free Republic, but that was a couple months ago). I saw an unauthorized charge on my statement this morning... for $50 on someone's cellphone Starbucks app. so, I called the bank and cancelled the card and they'll reverse the charge of course.... but since this donation was my only use of the card in...

President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial Russian anti-terrorist bill in the face of objections from internet companies and the business community, but has ordered measures to be taken so that the financial risks of the law will be minimal. The anti-terrorist package of bills was drafted in April 2016 by a group of lower house lawmakers, who described it as a response to the bombing of an A-231 jet liner in Egypt in October 2015 and the terrorist attacks in Paris in November of that year. The document contains a separate criminal article that orders up to...

4 minute video for those who haven't seen it. Some course language.

A Catholic church in Lyon, France, has sold off statues of monks killed by Muslims, for fear they will provoke attacks. The statues, which were to be shown at Saint Louis church, honoured monks who were beheaded by Muslims in Algeria during the 1990s. The Algerian consul in the city responded with “fury” to the statues. The church sold the statues to an institute that hosts a private museum of Catholic artifacts to prevent conflict with local Muslims. Cardinal Barbarin approved the statues to be placed in the church’s grounds last year. But the more powerful Bishop of Lyon was...