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Calendar to Election 2020 moves inexorably ahead. God help us all now that the Progressives have settled on their main platform: the rank exploitation of all shooting massacres Even before the bereaved can bury their dead in the aftermath of the El Paso massacre at Walmart, their exploitation by the Progressive Left is taking precedence. We could see it coming: The tragedy of the 20 dead, 26 injured in El Paso was automatically “TRUMP’s FAULT. Trump’s fault today—anyone who voted for him in 2016 tomorrow. The tragedy of the 20 dead and 26 injured that won’t be mentioned by most...

MCCARTHY: Taiwan Democracy Watch president Wen-Tsong Chiou says Hong Kong is for Beijing a petri dish to examine the viability of the one country, two systems formula for Taiwan. WEN-TSONG CHIOU: They are testing the solutions - how to handle this type of demonstration in a democracy. So they are learning. They are learning from Hong Kong. MCCARTHY: Patrons of Taipei's Saturday morning flower market seemed resigned to events in Hong Kong, saying it had been absorbed by China two decades ago. Wu Hsueh-Chen (ph), 62, says there's an inevitability to how the protests will end. WU HSUEH-CHEN: (Foreign language...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and 'Brother Number Two' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, whose brutal rule in the 1970s led to the deaths of some 2 million people, died on Sunday at the age of 93, a court spokesman said. A U.N.-backed court found Chea guilty of genocide and sentenced him to life in prison last year, almost four decades after the Maoist regime which oversaw Cambodia's "Killing Fields" was overthrown. Chea was among a small clique -- led by 'Brother Number One', Pol Pot -- of mostly French-educated communists who rose to lead a bloody...

Just got this email....(I try to keep up with the enemy)....Check out the last paragraph..... .............................. David, today, we are heartbroken. But it’s more than that -- At least 29 lives were stolen, families broken, communities shattered in El Paso and Dayton within 13 hours. Dozens more wounded. Between those two mass shootings, dozens more were killed and injured by gun violence that didn't make national headlines. First: Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines don’t belong on our streets. We must stand up to the NRA and gun manufacturers -- they don’t own this country. We the people own this country....

As our nation mourns the senseless loss of life in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio and prays for the victims and their loved ones, we must also raise our voices in rejection of these heinous and cowardly acts of hate, terror and violence.... White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed.

Federal government agencies are investigating alleged campaign finance misconduct by Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff, who abruptly resigned on Friday, according to the New York Post. The probe focuses on two political action committees started by Saikat Chakrabarti, concerns about which were first reported by the Washington Examiner in March. Chakrabarti left his post as chief of staff for Ocasio-Cortez along with communications director Corbin Trent, who is departing for the freshman congresswoman's 2020 reelection campaign. Chakrabarti stirred up plenty of controversy during his tenure as the creative mind behind Ocasio-Cortez's campaign and strategist for...

CIRCUS HORROR AT RIVER FALLS, SEVEN PERSONS WERE KILLED And Thirty or Forty People Injured by Lightning While Attending the Afternoon Performance of the Ringling Circus From The Sun, Spring Valley, Wisconsin Friday, June 23, 1893 Page 1, Column 4 RIVER FALLS, WIS., June 21 [1893]—During a severe thunderstorm this afternoon at about four o’clock lightning struck the first center pole in the menagerie of Ringling Bros. Seven people were killed and quite a number injured, none of the latter fatally. The killed are: ALEX. O. DEAN, EUGENE REYNOLDS, CHARLES SMITH, CLARK MAPES, — ALDRIDGE, JAMES GLENDENNING, LESLIE GLENDENNING. The...

The Fifty-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival is at hand and millions are joyfully celebrating this upcoming anniversary! Events were being planned with the top pop musical artist of today for Woodstock 50 in August of 2019, but just of late this event was canceled! In light of this cancelation, promoters are now saying that Americans should reflect and remember the "spirit" of Woodstock which is "peace and love", or is it (1 John 4:1-10)? The original Woodstock Festival took place on August 16, 1969, and its spirit has been promoted, glorified, glamorized, sensationalized and etched into the very...

The question of “What ails the US press?” is too big for one column or one case study. Holman Jenkins takes it up in his Wall Street Journal Business World column this morning in the matter of the Steele Dossier. Whence the allegations of the dossier? We still don’t know. The subhead to the column puts it this way: “The media’s lack of interest in the Steele dossier amounts to collusion in a coverup.” The lack of journalistic interest calls for an explanation. Laziness, stupidity, herd mentality, and partisanship all seem to have something to do with the utter lack...

President Trump is indeed "Making America Great Again." The economy is roaring, border security is at long last a national priority, and the global trade balance is being reset in favor of American workers. Every bit as important, the incestuous cabal of deep state operatives, mainstream media mouthpieces, internet censors, and Beltway hacks conspiring against Trump (and the American people) has been exposed and embarrassed. But recently, the cabal got its revenge, embarrassing Trump for a change. Clearly, I am not talking about the high-profile congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., featuring former special counsel Robert Mueller. Advertised as the apex...

El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza has vowed to seek the death penalty against 21-year-old Patrick Wood Cruisus, the man responsible for killing 20 and leaving 26 injured during a shooting at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday.The gunman walked into the Walmart with a ".223-high capacity" rifle, extra magazines, eye and ear protection.The FBI, Border Patrol, El Paso Police and Fire and Texas' Department of Public Safety all responded to the scene. The shooter was arrested on Saturday and booked into the El Paso County Jail early Sunday morning, the El Paso Times reported.As of now, no bond has been...

The times, they are a-changin’ . . . Ah, the good ol’ days of . . . April, or so, when conservative critics of the Democratic party could still count on being lectured to about the enduring moderation of Team Blue and chastised for paying so much attention to such figures as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a member of the Democratic Socialists of America) and Senator Bernie Sanders (a member of the Democratic Socialists of America) and claiming that these self-described socialists are the socialists they describe themselves as being, who want to “abolish capitalism” (the stated mission of the Democratic...

After former Congressman Beto O'Rourke (D) appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and cited President Donald Trump's alleged racism as the reason behind the "violence in America," host Jake Tapper pressed El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on the issue.Despite Tapper's repeated attempts to get Margo to take a stance on Trump's alleged racism, the Mayor shut him down."Former Congressman from El Paso, Beto O'Rourke, told me earlier in the show that, in his view, the president's anti-immigrant rhetoric is making things worse and creating an atmosphere of violence. Do you agree? Do you have any concerns about the things...

After former Congressman Beto O'Rourke (D) appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and cited President Donald Trump's alleged racism as the reason behind the "violence in America," host Jake Tapper pressed El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on the issue. Despite Tapper's repeated attempts to get Margo to take a stance on Trump's alleged racism, the Mayor shut him down. "Former Congressman from El Paso, Beto O'Rourke, told me earlier in the show that, in his view, the president's anti-immigrant rhetoric is making things worse and creating an atmosphere of violence. Do you agree? Do you have any concerns about...

+972, a site that misses no opportunity to bash Israel, posted a report about a protest organized by the “queer palestinian community” (hat tip: Uri). Oren Ziv/Activestills.org The queer Palestinian community organized an unprecedented protest in Haifa on Thursday, as approximately 200 demonstrators arrived at the German Colony, a central area in the city, to protest violence targeting the LGBT community. The protest was organized in response to the stabbing of a transgender teen from Tamra, a Palestinian city in northern Israel, outside a shelter for LGBT youth in Tel Aviv last week. The protest was planned by a group...

When asked by CBS's "Face the Nation" host if he supports returning to D.C. for a vote, Sen. Tim Scott (D-S.C.) said he'd "be happy to go back." "I'd leave tonight. I'll go tomorrow, it doesn't matter to me. This is such an important issue," Scott said.

Megan Betts, the sister of Connor Betts, the man who killed nine people at Ned Peppers bar in Dayton, Ohio on August 3, was found dead alongside her boyfriend. She was 22 years old. NBC News’ Pete Williams reported, via, Andrew Blankstein, that Megan and her boyfriend had been found fatally shot in a car. Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl has said that Megan and her boyfriend were not in a car when they were found dead. At the time of writing, Megan’s boyfriend has not been identified. Authorities believe that Conor Betts opened fire on a crowd at a...

Full Header: Trump Says He Stands With America In Condemning El Paso Shooting. Here’s How Twitter Users Responded Trump tweeted Saturday night saying he stands “with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act” after 20 people were killed in an El Paso shooting. Twitter users were quick to respond to his post with anger. Some people, including 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren, used the shooting as an opportunity to call for gun legislation. Michelangelo Signorile ✔ @MSignorile Replying to @realDonaldTrump But you inspired the hate. And you know it. You love it. You love that a supporter obsessed with...

Investigators are examining a screed believed to have been posted online by the suspect in Saturday's fatal shooting at a Texas shopping mall an hour before the attack, senior law enforcement officials say. Investigators are “reasonably confident” that the suspect, identified by police as Patrick Wood Crusius, 21, of Texas, posted the diatribe on the extremist online forum 8chan before the shooting. Terrorism experts warn that nothing should be taken at face value in the propaganda material left behind by hate crime suspects, which aim to provide fodder for social media pickup and mainstream media coverage. The screed posted to...

The Dark Haunted History of the Cursed Town of Black River Falls Brent Swancer August 4, 2019 Every once and a while a place will pop up that seems to draw to it an inordinate amount of strange phenomena and strangeness. It is not always clear why this should be, but looking at thier histories and records it can clearly be seen that they have been host to more oddness than most, as if weird forces are drawn to them. One such bizarre place is a small town in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, which for around a decade in...