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This cacophony comes from a sliver of society, with their voices amplified by a media selling an election year controversy to cripple President Trump. Donald Trump did not launch the latest culture war: The left-leaning press, political foes, Marxist-believing activists, and corporate and educational institutions did. When President Trump stood before a patriotic crowd on Friday night, under the watchful eyes of our country’s greatest presidents, his pronouncement that the silent majority will not retreat or surrender our founding principles was not divisive. It was American. On the eve of Independence Day, our 45th president proclaimed the truths on which...

A short video clip of a Tom Cruise look-a-like doing a parody of Tom Cruise announcing for President. LOL! Saw it on James Woods' twitter feed.

Those pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters are far more precious due to a national coin shortage brought on by the coronavirus and resulting shut down. As a result, the Giant supermarkets chain is the newest member of a growing list of retailers limiting cash transactions and/or demanding exact change. “Due to the national coin shortage, select Giant registers can only accept credit, debit, and electronic payments at this time,” company spokesman Christopher Brand said in response to PennLive questions about coin shortages on Friday. As the New York Post reports, Lowe’s home improvement stores have posted signs urging shoppers to...

St. Louis Police image of David Dorn. Black lives matter, and that should include the lives tragically lost in the riots following the horrific police killing of George Floyd. The riots have destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. As Black Lives Matter activists continue to repeat the names of unarmed black men and women killed by police, Americans should respond with the litany of victims killed in the George Floyd riots. Some of these victims died at the hands of police, but in every case, the riots created the tense situations that led to their deaths. Left-leaning commentators...

But in NYC, de Blasio's office says 'we do not believe there has been a resurgence in cases related to the protests' Several big-city mayors and top officials are acknowledging that weeks of anti-police protests and riots may have contributed to surging coronavirus rates, weeks after Democrats and even some epidemiologists openly encouraged Black Lives Matter allies to demonstrate in the streets. In public statements and interviews with Fox News this weekend, officials in Los Angeles, Seattle and Miami-Dade County, Fla., have indicated that some link between protests and new cases was at least possible. Still, many officials declined to...

Iran is stewing over the potential loss of its most advanced centrifuge production plant after some kind of explosion and fire severely damaged it. Naturally, the Iranians are being pretty closemouthed about the incident. They haven’t said much about the fire and explosion at what was suspected to be a nuclear research facility in the mountains outside of Tehran, either. But it’s hard to hide what happened at Natanz — the nuclear facility with the highest-profile in the country. And Iran is hinting that the destruction of its advanced centrifuge plant might have been caused by some kind of variation...

Director David Ayer responded to backlash over the alleged 'brownface' casting of Daytime Emmy winner Shia LaBeouf as a 'Cholo' gangster in his upcoming movie, The Tax Collector. MO 'Shia is playing a whiteboy who grew up in the hood,' the 52-year-old filmmaker - who boasts 479K Twitter/Instagram followers - explained. 'This is a [half-Jewish, half-Cajun] dude playing a white character. Also the only white dude in the movie.' The 34-year-old Echo Park native wore a three-piece suit in the trailer depicting his character as a 'terrorizing devil' collecting 'taxes' for a crime lord called Wizard. Ayer spent all Wednesday...

One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He told them that all people are created equal. “All humans are descended from Adam and Eve,” said Muhammad in his last known public speech. “There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or of a non-Arab over an Arab, and no superiority of a white person over a black person or of a black person over a white person, except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness.”

Something remarkable happened over the weekend after President Trump gave his address at Mount Rushmore. As was to be expected, the mainstream media deplored the speech as “dark and divisive,” but it was also immediately effective. Here’s how. In order to absurdly portray Trump’s speech as a racist appeal to disaffected white voters, the media and the Democrats had to pretend that Trump was only defending confederate statues when he spoke about our nation’s monuments. Now, this is obviously an outright and outrageous lie, but in this case the perfidy of fake fact outfits like the New York Times and...

Protests over the horrific police killing of George Floyd infamously devolved into riots and looting that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and even black monuments. The iconoclastic vandals who began by toppling Confederate monuments moved on to defacing statues of America’s Founders, Indian nationalists like Mahatma Gandhi, and even a monument to the 54th Massachusetts regiment, the first black volunteers to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Yet one of the most grotesque acts of vandalism came on Sunday when vandals toppled a statue of former slave Frederick Douglass in Rochester, N.Y. Vandals somehow removed the Douglass statue...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Jeremiah 31 31 “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.” 2 This is what the Lord says: “The people who survive the sword     will find favor in the wilderness;     I will come to give rest to Israel.” 3 The Lord appeared to us in the past,[a] saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love;     I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. 4 I will build you up again,     and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt. Again...

"Like all symbols of American patriotism, the Fourth of July has meant different things in different times and places. In Memphis in the first decades after the Civil War, Brian D. Page writes, it was a distinctly Black holiday. ..(Snip)"

GHISLAINE Maxwell knows things that implicate Prince Andrew and will be willing to name names as she is "fighting for her freedom", two Jeffrey Epstein experts have claimed. John Connolly, whose bestselling book Filthy Rich was turned into a hit Netflix mini series, told The Sun: "Ghislaine certainly knows things that implicate the Prince." Connolly also speculated that prosecutors will try to strike a deal with Maxwell in return for her testifying about Andrew's relationship with Epstein's underage sex slave, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre has alleged in a lawsuit she was recruited aged 16 by Maxwell at Trump's Palm Beach country...

It is the city administration in nearby Severodvinsk that has posted the warning on its portal. «From 6:00 on July 7 to 18:00 on July 8, the village of Nenoksa are inside the danger zone during work by the 1st scientific center of military unit 09703,» the message reads. The military informed the Severodvinsk administration that the evacuation is «for those wishing to leave Nenoksa.» There are about 500 inhabitants in the village which is located 2 kilometers from the missile test site of the navy. Five busses will be ready to evacuate the villagers. ... Port Authorities of Arkhangelsk...

Two children in Chicago and one in D.C. were killed Saturday during a spate of shootings across the country during Fourth of July celebrations. Davon McNeal, 11, was fatally shot in the head in Washington, D.C., around 9:20 p.m., according to officials. Police are still investigating the shooting, but Police Chief Peter Newsham said several men opened fire. “A mother lost her 11 year old son to gun fire tonight,” Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted. “My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family.” DC Police are offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who can provide...

"I'm sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame." So tweeted virtue-signaling Hollywood actress Rosanna Arquette, whose three-sentence message had one purpose: to help the political party she supports mainstream the absurd idea that white people should be ashamed of their skin color and, by extension, ashamed of their predominately white country. Hollywood stars are not the only ones pushing white privilege ideology.  Marxist teachers and professors in our universities and public schools have systematically burdened millions of young white minds with guilt over the accident of their birth, a relentless...

People who come to this country don't throw around that 'privilege' word as if to highlight some victimhood. They know America is still the shining beacon of hope for all mankind. From the moment I first saw a helicopter land in the rice fields of my small town in the Philippines when I was a kid, I was captivated. I wanted to fly. I never thought I’d ever get to fly anything but the homemade kites we used to make out of cement bags and bamboo sticks.Then I got an amazing, life-changing gift: opportunity.America, the Land of Opportunity When I...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 5. MORE INDIAN TROUBLES. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received important intelligence this morning from Nebraska Territory. Agent GILLIS, under date of June 22, writes that 200 or more Cheyenne. Arrappahoe and Sioux Indians had just attacked a Pawnee village in sight of the agency and killed several persons. Mr. GILLIS rode in among the attacking party, and with assistance of a half-breed Pawnee interpreter, succeeded in inducing them to draw off. They declared their purpose to return and "wipe out the Pawnee tribe." An express was immediately sent to Col....

THE 1776 UNITES CAMPAIGN “1776” is an assembly of independent voices who uphold our country’s authentic founding virtues and values and challenge those who assert America is forever defined by its past failures, such as slavery. We seek to offer alternative perspectives that celebrate the progress America has made on delivering its promise of equality and opportunity and highlight the resilience of its people. Our focus is on solving problems. We do this in the spirit of 1776, the date of America’s true founding.