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  • Line-By-Line: What Trump Said

    08/16/2017 1:28:29 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 16, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh
    RUSH: I want to go through line-by-line what Trump said. Because the media is reacting as though Trump lied and distorted and did so outrageously. And the media is beside itself. But as you go through each one of these things, what you’ll find is that Trump told the truth. He didn’t make anything up. We’ll start with this. “What about the Alt-Left that came charging in?” “Excuse me, excuse me,” the media started shouting the moment he said it. “What about the Alt-Left that came charging in, as you call them the Alt-Right. Do they have any semblance of...
  • The Press Is Not Trusted or Popular

    08/16/2017 7:01:06 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 16, 2017 | Brent Bozell
    CNN delighted in reporting the results of a recent poll question that asked: "How much do you trust the things you hear in official communications from the White House? Do you trust almost all, most of it, just some of it, or nothing at all?" If a regular viewer of CNN were to choose anything higher than zero, you'd assume he was a victim of the opioid epidemic. Given the size of CNN's audience as a percentage of the national population, this was an issue. Forty-three percent picked "some of it," as people tend to do in a poll. Twenty-four...
  • Conservative Student Attacked at Charlottesville Vigil in Syracuse for Wearing YAF Cap

    08/16/2017 6:53:53 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 55 replies
    Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. ^ | 08.16.17 | Posted by Mike LaChance
    Caleb Slater, a conservative student and the president of the Ithaca College Republicans, recently attended YAF’s 39th Annual National Conservative Student Conference, where he received a baseball cap with the Young America’s Foundation logo and our slogan, “The Conservative Movement Starts Here,” printed on the back. Caleb chose to wear his YAF hat when he attended a vigil in Syracuse, New York, for the victims of last weekend’s violent clash in Charlottesville. “I wore my Young America’s Foundation hat to the rally as a symbol of peace,” Caleb explained. “I wore the hat to show that conservatives condemn the actions...
  • Big Plans on the Hard Left for November 4

    08/16/2017 6:43:49 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 49 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | August 16, 2017 | J.R. Dunn
    One thing overlooked in the uproar over Charlottesville is that this was, evidently, merely a dress rehearsal for a much larger-scale effort planned for this Autumn. Activist groups on the left evidently have something big in store for November 4th. The idea seems to be a revival of the 1971 “Days of Rage” – an effort to shut down the country as a whole to force a change in government. Thanks to one of many political mailing lists that AT finds itself on, we received an email last Sunday from the “Stop Mass Incarceration Network,” a little-known left-wing agitation group,...
  • Beating Them At Their Own Game

    08/16/2017 6:18:48 AM PDT · by LRoggy · 14 replies
    Vanity ^ | 08/16/17 | LRoggy
    Came across an article from a few years back . . . http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/truth-about-che-guevara It lays out the entire horrific truth about Che Guevara. Here's my thought. Time to turn around the microaggression movement on the college campuses and give them a taste of their own medicine. Every time a conservative student sees a poster of Che in a dorm room, listens to a nutjob professor try to whitewash Che's legacy or something similar . . . report it to the school as a microaggression and demand removal of the offending image and request the professor to write a public apology...
  • Trump-Backed Immigration Bill Has Many Critics, But Voters Like It

    08/16/2017 5:04:15 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 9 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 16, 2017 | Byron York
    Some Democrats and their advocates in the press have been quick to denounce the RAISE Act, the new immigration reform bill proposed by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue and endorsed by President Trump. "The Trump, Cotton, Perdue bill is rooted in the same anti-immigrant, xenophobic, and isolationist rhetoric that was a cornerstone of the Trump campaign," said senior House Democrats John Conyers and Zoe Lofgren. "A xenophobic half-measure," added Rep. Ed Markey. "A play to the xenophobic sentiments that lifted Trump to the presidency," wrote the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin. Now, though, a new poll shows broad...
  • Women and Men Are Equal

    08/16/2017 4:46:13 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 29 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 16, 2017 | Walter E. Williams
    Google fired software engineer James Damore for writing a 10-page memo critical of the company's diversity policy. The memo violated the company's code of conduct by "advancing harmful gender stereotypes" by suggesting that biological factors were part of the cause for the male/female gap in the tech industry. I shall make the case that Google's actions were totally justified. Other than differences in certain physical attributes such as genitalia, capacity to give birth and the presence of functional mammary glands, males and females are identical in every other respect. Any remaining male/female differences are a direct result of oppression, discrimination...
  • Sometimes the Good Guys Win

    08/16/2017 4:32:50 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 15, 2017 | Dennis Prager
    I am writing this column to inform readers of some good news. The sustained efforts of individuals, organizations and the media who oppose everything people like me stand for -- America as an exceptional nation among the nations of the world; the unique contribution of the Judeo-Christian value system in shaping America and the best of Western civilization; sustaining Western civilization as a moral imperative; preserving the American Trinity of liberty, In God We Trust and e pluribus unum; promulgating the American and Judeo-Christian belief that race is insignificant; and an openness to all points of view -- to shut...
  • Google Women

    08/16/2017 4:17:02 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 16, 2017 | John Stossel
    Why aren't there more women criminals?! Men in jail outnumber women by a ratio of 14-to-1. We male stutterers outnumber women, too. This isn't fair! We need more affirmative action! These disparities must be caused by sex discrimination because everyone knows there are no real differences between genders. After all, Google fired engineer James Damore for daring to suggest that there is a biological reason men dominate tech leadership. Google's CEO said: "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive." Then the media lied about what Damore wrote....
  • Where Is the Corporate Disavowal of Black Lives Matter?

    08/16/2017 4:06:01 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 18, 2017 | Michelle Malkin
    Liberal business executives are leaping like lemmings from President Donald Trump's manufacturing advisory council. Good riddance. These silly string-spined CEOs have sided with social justice agitators, Beltway media enablers and Democratic resistance knuckleheads who believe Trump was wrong to condemn violence and hatred on all sides of the political spectrum. Never mind that of the four people arrested after the violent outbreak in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend, two were identified with the white nationalist movement and the other two were left-wing "antifa" counterprotesters. One of those radical leftists is the man identified as having reportedly punched a female reporter for...
  • The Left Is Doing Exactly What White Nationalists Want

    08/16/2017 3:59:48 AM PDT · by IBD editorial writer · 30 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 8/15/2017 | Staff
    Extremism: It wasn't long ago that Americans were being told repeatedly not to overreact to Islamic terrorism, because that would only serve as a terrorist recruiting tool. That's worth remembering now, in the wake of the white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Va. Harsh language, bitter attacks, backlash against attacks, accusing whole groups of being in bed with terrorists, were all, we were told again and again, "just what ISIS wants." "The Islamic State wants the West to overreact," was a typical comment over the years. One commentator complained after the Manchester bombing in England this summer that saturation coverage of...
  • Out of Control ‘Hardball’ Lumps GOP in with Neo-Nazis, Shocked Wilson Loved ‘Birth of a Nation’

    08/15/2017 5:05:05 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 19 replies
    Newsbusters.org ^ | August 15, 2017 | Curtis Houck
    MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was back and firing on all cylinders Monday night, overseeing a show devoid of reason as it linked conservatives, Republicans, and anyone in the “right-wing” to the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists associated with Saturday’s Charlottesville terrorism.  Matthews also showed ineptitude in not knowing until very recently that progressive heartthrob and President Woodrow Wilson loved the KKK film Birth of a Nation so much that he had it shown at the White House. Out of Control ‘Hardball’ Lumps GOP in with Neo-Nazis, Shocked Wilson Loved ‘Birth of a Nation’He began his show with a personal summation...
  • Calexit: California Attorney General Allows Secession Effort To Move Forward (YES WE CAN!)

    08/15/2017 4:34:12 PM PDT · by Libloather · 54 replies
    7/27/17
    Link only - http://www.dailywire.com/news/19047/calexit-california-attorney-general-allows-john-nolte
  • Yes, you can reject Antifa Commies and Alt Right Nazis at the same time

    08/15/2017 3:55:19 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 45 replies
    The Libertarian Republic ^ | Aug 15, 2017 | AUSTIN PETERSEN
    The tragic events in Charlottesville, VA last week provided a flash point for the nation to have a discussion that we’ve been putting off for too long. The past few years of extremist politics have turned fringe ideas into mainstream ones, with Antifa communists and Alt Right Nazis getting plenty of the attention they crave, but don’t deserve. But why is this happening? Antifa activists have been gathering steam for some time now, with a major incident that brought them into the public eye being the riots at Berkeley over the appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos, himself a figure who was...
  • Charlottesville Was an Organized Crisis Democrats Didn’t Let Go to Waste

    08/15/2017 3:31:31 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 15, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh
    RUSH: I think the mayor of Charlottesville took a page out of the book from the mayor from Baltimore. What was her name? Forget her name. Remember where she said — what was her phrase? Give them space. Give them room so they can get it out of their system, give them space. Look, the police were ordered to stand down in Charlottesville. Somebody wanted that to happen, folks. The police were told to stand down. The police are saying, “No, no, no, no. We were retreating to go get our riot gear.” Well, why didn’t you show up in...
  • New York Times Columnist Backtracks After Threats from Violent Left

    08/15/2017 2:26:08 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | August 15, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh
    RUSH: Yesterday on the program I happened to mention that a New York Times writer, Sheryl Gay Stolberg must not have gotten the memo because she sent out a couple of tweets acknowledging that the hate in Charlottesville was equally distributed. That there was as much hate on the left and violence on the left as there was on the so-called right here. She admitted that the Antifa — by the way, who is this Antifa? They keep naming this. All this is Occupy Wall Street. All this is is Black Lives Matter. There’s nothing new here. It’s not a...
  • Theories Abound Over Meaning of Trump’s ‘Many Sides’ Remark

    08/15/2017 8:23:39 AM PDT · by Hadean · 46 replies
    New York Times ^ | August 15, 2017 | JEREMY W. PETERS
    There is no shortage of theories about why President Trump was so cagey in blaming “many sides” for the white supremacist-fueled violence in Virginia. Some suggested the president did not want to alienate whites who voted for him out of a sense of racial grievance. Others said he was offering his white nationalist supporters a wink and a nod. Yet another concluded advisers like Stephen K. Bannon must be influencing the president in dark ways. But there is an alternate explanation, one that is espoused by many on the right... In this version, a violent and dangerous left fringe is...
  • Pathetic Democrats

    08/15/2017 6:02:01 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 19 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | August 15, 2017 | Bruce Walker
    Republicans in Congress look pretty pathetic to many Americans, but even more pathetic is the Democratic Party, which is nothing these days but an anti-Trump circus. This is a direct consequence of victimology run wild, geographic myopia, and the utter sterility of modern leftism. Consider the "leaders" of the Democratic Party in the last election cycle. Hillary Clinton, who has done nothing of consequence her entire life, won the nomination based on the fact that she was an insider and an old, angry woman. Moreover, Hillary has clearly committed a number of crimes related to her private email server and...
  • How to Break Silicon Valley’s Anti-Free-Speech Monopoly

    08/15/2017 5:33:32 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 19 replies
    National Review ^ | 08/15/17 | Jeremy Carl
    It’s time to treat Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter like public utilities.... Yes, they are private companies, just as many utilities are. And yes, these Internet monopolies do not have the same physical-infrastructure advantages that electric-utility monopolies have. But because of their network effects, their dominance and monopoly power are in many ways even starker. If I don’t like my utility I can put solar panels on my roof and an inverter and battery in my garage, and I can still get power. But if I can’t get access to the 2 billion people on Facebook because Facebook doesn’t like...
  • Here’s How Virginia State Police Facilitated Violence At Charlottesville

    08/15/2017 4:52:30 AM PDT · by csvset · 80 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 8/14/2017 | Pax Dickinson
    As an attendee of the Unite The Right rally and scheduled speaker, I have serious questions about the actions of Virginia police on Saturday. It appears that police created a dangerous situation which was entirely avoidable. I will explain in detail the facts of what happenedOne does not need to support any of the positions of the alt-right to be concerned about what this means about the state of free speech in America.This is Lee Park in Charlottesville, as it was laid out for Saturday’s rally. The red lines indicate the position of metal barriers. The rally had a legally...