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Pardon my use of the title, but yesterday we saw what looked like a Pyrrhic victory, wherein those who would Keep America Great came together in a blue and red sea of vibrant harmony, only to incur the distaste of the chattering class when they entered the Capitol Building (through suspiciously ill-guarded entries) and behaved like a rowdy tour group after a hot toddy or two. When a trigger-happy member of the Secret Service shot a female veteran trying to open a door through a broken window, this startling display of assertiveness (which liberals have come to never expect in...

If you live in a swing state, consider contacting your State Legislators by phone or email, and tell them this: Dear _____________ It is clear to the public that fraudulent vote counts are underway in order to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election. I do not want my vote for President Trump thrown away. He has fought hard for us, and now seems to be standing alone. Where are the Republicans of the ________ (Michigan, Wisconsin) legislature while these mysterious vote counts are going on? How was Trump leading by hundreds of thousands on the evening of the election,...

When Pence winds up his remarks, the moderator says, "That's a great segue into the next topic" (which she had not yet introduced. Kamala smirks and says, "It IS a great segue." How would she know what the next topic was and whether it was a "great segue?"

Based DC woman (accent sounds Nigerian) calls out BLM. "You are hypocrites! Blacks kill blacks in Chicago every day, where are you? No one takes you seriously! You are a joke!"White woman (or Asian, hard to tell) tries to shut her down but she has a VOICE and she uses it.

I know very little of these things. I'm an English teacher, and a mathematical cripple. But it seems to me our economy could shrink to a point where tying our money back to gold might be possible. I'm asking Freepers because most of you know more about this than I do. So... what do folks here think?

For those of you who do not know Michael Harriot, or his forum for black anger, The Root, here is an excerpt from his rant on Monday against Peter Buttigieg (who, from what I can tell, is so hated by blacks we have no fear of him getting anywhere near the DNC nomination): Michael grew up in “the hood.” To get to school every day, he cut through the projects to a short cut that was interrupted by a deep ditch. He would jump the ditch, however, it if had rained, he waited for someone to help him put a...

In one of the most well-known classics of British Literature, Pride and Prejudice, the author Jane Austen offers a morality tale. She describes the slow realization of the heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, that her much-vaunted intelligence failed to give her an accurate reading of the man who eventually emerges as the hero of the tale. Mr. Darcy, the wealthy landowner who arrives new to town with his likable friend Mr. Bingley, is at first regarded with some appreciation. He’s a rich man, considered handsome, and: “… he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening; till his manners...

I feel the need to share this. Over at Reddit, on The Donald, someone posted this article from "The Independent" in Washington DC about how to blue-pill your grandparents at Christmas. The story includes a link to an article stating that according to a study by New America, "white homegrown terrorists" have killed more Americans than Muslim immigrants or refugees (if you start counting AFTER 9/11, of course.) So I followed that link to another article, also by The Independent. They link you to New America, but not the study, and no page you can find the study on. But...

This whole Russian hackers may be Wiki's source of HRC's emails and that means the Russians "hacked the election" narrative reminds me very much of the stunt an ambassador named Joe Wilson pulled in 2002, with the help of the New York Times. Anyone remember this? It was not long after G.W. Bush's State of the Union address, where Bush said that Saddam Hussein had sought to buy enriched uranium from Africa (presumably to make weapons of mass destruction.) Joe Wilson, who was a liberal, decided to "investigate" this claim. He went to one country, Niger, for about 10 days...

I recently went to the Getty Villa on the Malibu coastline in California, and wandered around looking at the antiquities of ancient Rome and Greece. Currently, the display features some very intricate mosaics, decorated vases, and several funereal portraits that would apparently decorate the mummies of the aristocratic dead. What struck me most is how detailed, beautiful, and lifelike were the renditions of humans and animals. The lions snarled, the snakes writhed, the warriors flexed, and the portraits of the dead, almost all of them tragically young, gazed with hope and eagerness, and bright expressive eyes. Western art has always...

Where are all the secular liberals in the Muslim world? I've lost count of how many times I've heard this question. The answer is both unsurprising and heartbreaking. In Muslim-majority countries, they are often being lashed and imprisoned for blogging, hacked to death in open daylight, or sentenced to death for writing poetry. Here in the West, they are often being disowned from their families, ostracized from their communities, and even murdered by their own families in "honor killings." As for those who choose to leave the religion altogether, the outcome is even more sinister. There are thirteen countries, all...

New York police were searching today for a man who pushed a 61-year-old man onto subway tracks, where he was killed by a train. Wai Kuen Kwok, 61, was standing with his wife and waiting for a downtown train at a Bronx subway station this morning, when he was pushed off the platform, according to the New York Police Department. Police said Kwok was killed this morning after being pushed into the path of an oncoming train at 8:44 a.m. Police confirmed that Kwok was pushed as he was waiting with his wife for a downtown train at the East...

So you want to write about poverty, joblessness, homelessness, and general misery in America. Let me give you some advice, and I'll cut right to the chase and be as blunt as possible. First, consider your audience. It’s white people. If you are trying to tell a sob story that ends in “we need more social services” most minorities are already on your side and the ones that aren’t have their own sources of information. You’re talking to mainstream white America, so you need to tailor your story to them. Start with a young white couple who has fallen on...

I have been a Freeper for 12 years and a teacher for 10. I work in Los Angeles, in a public school, and I teach English. I want to say something about Common Core, although my observations will be strictly limited to my particular domain: English. I cannot comment on the Math portion. I will begin bluntly: I do not understand the conservative outcry about Common Core. Perhaps it’s only because I teach in California, but to me it is an improvement, at least in some ways. If you aren’t a teacher (and most conservatives aren’t, which is a pity)...

Well, if the Zimmerman trial has shown us nothing else, it has shown us what would have happened if Nicole Simpson or Ronald Goldman had had access to a gun the day OJ Simpson killed them. And let's not pretend he didn't. What's more, let's not pretend that those black Americans who did celebrate with jubilation when OJ walked didn't know full well he was a killer. Many admitted it openly then, and still do today. But that was the last time a trial held such attention for such obviously racial reasons. The celebrations when OJ got away with murder...

Ten years ago, a white man from South Africa, one Kim du Toit, wrote an essay titled “Let Africa Sink.” It’s rather famous in the blogosphere in a sort of underground way. His thesis was essentially, we (Western Civilization) cannot save Africa. Life is cheap there. The mortality rate is a result of a perfect storm of natural disaster, human savagery, and unwitting complicity by Europeans that worsens the situation every time they try to help. As a result, death is treated more casually by Africans than by Westerners. I, and I suspect most Africans, am completely inured to reports...

A woman grieving the shooting deaths of her son and granddaughter is now trying to come to grips with news that one of the accused is a longtime family friend whom the 7-year-old victim affectionately called "Uncle Mike." Michael Bell, 21, played high school football with Jeremy Crane and spent many weekends at the Crane family's ranch-style home in suburban Indianapolis. On Wednesday, Bell and another man were formally charged in the deaths of Crane, 21, and his niece, Kyleigh Crane. Cathy Crane, Jeremy's mother and Kyleigh's grandmother, found the bodies Dec. 12 after returning home from work. She said...

Watching the OWS protestors, I realize that everything I need to know about their mentality, I learned from a Marxist anthropology professor ten years ago. I’ll call him Chomsky (it’s not the real Chomsky. Just a knock-off version. Probably made in China.) My Chomsky believed in what he called “equality of outcome.” Like the protestors, he was very upset that some people made “too much” and others had “not enough.” He wanted everyone to have food, shelter, and clothing. That’s understandable. But it wasn’t all. He wanted them to have education and health care, job counseling, and transportation. Dental. Vision....

I met a typical Democrat on the bus last night. Here’s a little context: I live and work in Los Angeles and am a woman in my mid-40s. I’m about as attractive as a woman in her mid-40s can be when she cuts her own hair and needs to lose about 10lbs. In other words, I’m okay enough. I wear skirts and make-up. But I’d had a long day, so I doubt I was in top form. I got on the crowded bus downtown, and a heavy-set black man in his 60s offered me the seat next to him. (No,...

NEW YORK -- The wife of an imam planning an Islamic community center and mosque near the World Trade Center site said Sunday that she and her husband have received death threats. "For the record, my life is under threat," Daisy Khan said during a town hall debate on Islam broadcast on ABC's "This Week" news program. Khan, who's married to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said her husband's life also is under threat but, "We do not walk around with bodyguards because we love this country." Chief police spokesman Paul Browne confirmed that Khan had told authorities about the telephone...