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VIDEO During a little noticed moment at John Lewis' funeral, Bill Clinton thanked Congressman James Clyburn "for with a stroke of a hand" destroyed the campaign of Bernie Sanders. Gee! And I thought such things were supposed to be decided by elections, not the whim of one person. Silly me. And it sure puts some context on almost all the Democrat candidates dropping out of the primary race in unison just before Super Tuesday. Note the gloating chuckle by Clinton at the end of his observation. No reaction yet from Bernie Sanders but it will probably continue to be...

Tucker Carlson described former President Obama as "one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics" after his eulogy at the funeral of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Thursday night. Carlson, who also described the former president as "a greasy politician" for calling on Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act and to eliminate the filibuster, which Obama described as a relic of the Jim Crow era that disenfranchised Black Americans, in order to do so. "Barack Obama, one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American...

Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at Congressman John Lewis’s funeral on Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia.Classless Obama used John Lewis’s funeral for political purposes, attacked Trump and pushed mail-in voting. Barack Obama lashed out at President Trump for speaking out against mail-in voting.The Democrat-media complex is using the Coronavirus as a vehicle to rig the election with mail-in voting. President Trump has been pushing back on mail-in ballots because there is no voter ID and no chain of custody.Obama turned the eulogy into a political rally and said it’s too dangerous to vote in person in November. After Obama said...

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) scolded Attorney General William Barr ... in his opening statement. "When you all came here and brought your top staff, you brought no Black people. That, sir, is systematic racism. That is exactly what John Lewis spent his life fighting,” Richmond said. "I would just suggest that actions speak louder than words and you really should keep the name of the Honorable John Lewis out of the Department of Justice’s mouth."

One by one, they passed through the grand Capitol Rotunda to pay respects to the civil rights icon. It was a solemn display of unity as congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle offered praise for longtime Georgia Rep. John Lewis. There was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called Lewis the “conscience of the Congress”; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who praised him as a model of courage. Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, came as well. But missing was a man whose absence spoke volumes: President Donald Trump. “No,...

[snip] As the election approaches, the left has apparently decided for its political purposes to embrace religion. Our Tim Graham has documented how the MSM is now portraying Joe Biden as deeply devout. And nary a week goes by that Nancy Pelosi doesn't flaunt her faith. Morning Joe got into the spirit today. First, Joe Scarborough compared him to Jesus: "John Lewis was considered the conscience of Congress. He also was a Christian, who was Christ-like. You look at the Beatitudes, and so many of them apply to the life, day in and day out." Jon Meacham upped the ante:...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday told reporters has no plans to visit the casket of civil rights hero John Lewis as he lies in state in the US Capitol. “No, I won’t be going, no,” Trump said when asked if he would travel on Monday or Tuesday to pay his respects.

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Is the tide receding? Is some kind of high water mark now being reached? It's not just that Blacks are laughing at the lefty white sheet show shambles going on in dumpster-fire Portland. Now they're getting disgusted. PORTLAND, Ore. — Black community leaders are urging local protesters to shift the focus of demonstrations back to the Black Lives Matter movement and away from what has become a largely “white spectacle.” Standing in front of a large banner bearing an image of Rep. John Lewis, the Black civil rights icon who died last week, the Rev. E.D. Mondainé, president of the...

Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. In 1965, Lewis suffered a fractured skull when he led 600 civil rights workers on a peaceful protest that turned violent as Lewis and the protesters were attacked by the police on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Ten years earlier, Rosa Parks famously challenged the Jim Crow segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat in the front section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The Supreme Court, a year earlier, unanimously struck down "separate but equal" school laws. Congress...

The death of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, coming as it has amidst urban riots in Democrat-run cities following the murder of George Floyd by a deranged cop in a Democrat-run city offer the Democrats another opportunity for a Paul Wellstone-type funeral, a somber event to be transformed into a political rally in an election year. The October 29, 2002 funeral service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota quickly morphed into a political rally against the administration of Bush 43. The Democrats filled the basketball arena chosen for the event and if you never heard booing...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued a stern condemnation of Rep. Ted Yoho after he reportedly got into a heated exchange in the Capitol with the left-wing freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that allegedly ended with Yoho uttering the words "f------ b----." "The comments related to me were despicable," Hoyer, D-Md., said. "Unacceptable. Mr. Yoho owes not only the Congresswoman an apology, but an apology on the floor of the House." He added that Yoho, R-Fla., was acting like a "bully. It was the antithesis to John Lewis. It needs to be sanctioned."

VIDEO Joe Biden is the presumed Democrat nominee for president and yet he was absurdly missing in giving a personal tribute that we could see to John Lewis. In fact, has anybody seen Joe Biden the past few days? Yes, there was a tweet and some stories quoting him about John Lewis but absolutely no video (that I could find) from him giving such a tribute. In this video I speculate on the reason why Joe Biden has been MIA on this. Could we be in the middle of the big switcheroo from Biden to Hillary Clinton as the...

Congressman John Lewis was a great man whose courage and decades of public service changed America forever, and he will be deeply missed. John Lewis will be remembered as a giant of the civil rights movement whose selflessness and conviction rendered our nation into a more perfect union and his example will inspire generations of Americans.While John Lewis will be rightly remembered as an icon of the civil rights movement, for me he was also a colleague and a friend. Even when we differed, John was always unfailingly kind and my family and I will never forget the privilege of crossing...

As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding public service of Representative John Lewis, of Georgia, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions through July 18, 2020.  I also direct that the flag shall be flown...

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., on Saturday told President Trump to “say nothing” about the passing of civil rights icon John Lewis, who died late Friday of pancreatic cancer. Trump issued a proclamation shortly after 11 a.m. to order all U.S. flags be flown at half-staff at the White House, all public buildings and grounds, all military posts and embassies for the remainder of Saturday “as a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding public service” of Lewis. But Bass said Trump shouldn’t say anything about the death of the Democratic congressman from Georgia. Trump has a history of divisive...

VIDEO Congressman John Lewis passed away on Friday. During his life he had to face many instances of violence promoted by the segregationist Democrat establishment of the South. However, perhaps the weirdest thing he ever had to endure occurred in October 2011 when he visited an Occupy Wall Street rally in Atlanta. You can see the results of that encounter in this video which was originally uploaded by YouTuber conservARTive. The text dialogue you see is mine. I could try to explain what happened that day but it was so surreal as to defy description. You just have to...

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., one of the nation’s most preeminent civil rights figures, died Friday night, according to reports. He was 80. The congressman had been battling pancreatic cancer. SNIP A 23-year-old firebrand, Lewis toned down his intended remarks at the insistence of others, dropping a reference to a “scorched earth” march through the South and scaling back criticisms of President John Kennedy. It was a potent speech nonetheless, in which he vowed: “By the forces of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in...

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the renowned civil rights leader who served as a symbol of the movement throughout his more than three decades in Congress, died Friday at the age of 80. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis decisively carved a place for himself in the history books as a courageous young activist during the height of the civil rights movement. He was elected to Congress in 1986 and served 17 terms representing an Atlanta-area district. While in Congress, Lewis served as...

Civil rights icon John Lewis said Thursday that the video of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minnesota “made me cry.” “I kept saying to myself: How many more? How many young black men will be murdered?” said Lewis, D-Ga. “It made me so sad. It was so painful,” Lewis told “CBS This Morning.” “It made me cry.” Lewis said he was encouraged to see such diverse crowds protesting Floyd’s killing, seeking the arrests of the police officers involved and demanding an end to racial injustice. […] He urged protesters seeking justice in Floyd’s killing to embrace...