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  • Father Attacked at McDonald’s While Holding Infant Daughter, Shoots One of Four Suspects

    05/17/2018 11:41:13 AM PDT · by rktman · 44 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 5/17/2018 | AWR Hawkins
    A father who was attacked in Memphis, Tennessee, McDonald’s while holding his infant daughter was able to get his gun and open fire, wounding one of the four attackers. WREG quotes police saying “four suspects attempted to rob the victim at the McDonald’s in the 1400 block of South Trezevant near Lamar and Airways.” A witness described a scene in which the suspects tried to catch the father while he was too busy to fight back. Witness David Chase said, “They jumped out of the car and they started fighting him and trying to take his wallet and stuff.” He...
  • Socialism is going mainstream, and Millennials are the cause

    05/17/2018 11:36:37 AM PDT · by rktman · 10 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 5/17/2018 | Rick Moran
    A headline in The Hill captures a significant moment in American history: "Four socialist-backed candidates win Pennsylvania legislative primaries." The Democratic Socialists of America supported all four candidates, who will almost certainly win in November, given their lack of GOP opponents. The DSA itself thinks socialism's time has come: The DSA hailed the legislative victories as a huge moment for the socialist movement. Arielle Cohen, co-chair of the Pittsburgh DSA chapter, told HuffPost that she feels a "monumental shift" after the victories, noting DSA's growing membership since President Trump's election. "We won on popular demands that were deemed impossible. We...
  • '**** the NRA' Candidate Doesn't Know a Thing About Guns, But Does Know What It's Like to Drive(T)

    05/17/2018 8:23:25 AM PDT · by rktman · 44 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 5/17/2018 | Micah Rate
    A Democratic congressional candidate from the state of New Mexico, Pat Davis has found himself in the national spotlight for his viral "**** the NRA" advertisement. Davis is getting even more attention for his interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night over another one of his controversial, and false, advertisements where he claims an AR-15 can fire 150 rounds in 15 seconds. But Pat Davis' controversial gun control advertisements aren't the only controversial thing about the candidate and current Albuquerque city councilor. In 2013, while chairman of the Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers, Pat Davis was arrested on an...
  • Gov. Cuomo announces more money for ‘holistic approach’ to fight MS-13 on Long Island

    05/16/2018 3:40:15 PM PDT · by rktman · 35 replies
    Back in January, President Trump gave his State of the Union and mentioned the threat of Central American gang MS-13, which has spread inside the U.S. thanks to lax immigration policies. At the time, there was some pushback from mystery-hacking victim Joy Reid who went on MSNBC to say, “he makes it sound like the biggest issue in the United States, the biggest threat is MS-13, a gang nobody that doesn’t watch Fox News has ever heard of.” Meanwhile, back in the real world, states around the country were dealing with murders by MS-13 gang members. “With these investments, New...
  • "Countless lives were saved:" Officer hailed for confronting gunman at Dixon High School

    05/16/2018 10:53:52 AM PDT · by rktman · 19 replies
    cbsnews.com ^ | 5/16/2018 | Unk
    A school resource officer is being hailed as a hero after confronting a gunman at an Illinois high school Wednesday morning, officials say. The officer encountered the 19-year-old former student, who was armed with a gun, at Dixon High School around 8 a.m., Dixon Police Chief Steven Howell said. Howell said the suspect fired several shots near the school's west gym and was then confronted by the officer assigned to the school. The suspect fled the school and the officer pursued him, Howell said. The gunman then fired several shots toward the officer, who shot back, wounding the suspect. The...
  • Here Are The Five Senators Who Voted Against Haspel

    05/16/2018 10:28:39 AM PDT · by rktman · 26 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 5/16/2018 | Robert Donachie
    A handful of senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee voted against President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA Wednesday. The committee voted 10-5 Wednesday in favor of Gina Haspel, who must now be confirmed before the entire Senate body before she can become the next CIA director. Dianne Feinstein of California Ron Wyden of Oregon Kamala Harris of California Martin Heinrich of New Mexico Angus King of Maine, who is an independent
  • Female Kent State Graduate Carries AR-10 on Campus

    05/16/2018 8:34:04 AM PDT · by rktman · 60 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 5/16/2018 | AWR Hawkins
    Kent State University graduate Kaitlin Bennett posted a photo of herself walking on campus with an AR-10 demanding “#CampusCarryNow.” On December 19, 2016, Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a bill legalizing campus carry but allowing each university system to decide if it would allow it on its campuses. To date, Kent State has not permitted it. Moreover, Kent State has a policy against allowing students to open carry on campus, although open carry is legal in Ohio. In an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal on April 25, 2018, Bennett said, “Kent State is one of the few schools in...
  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz: NRA ‘Just Shy of a Terrorist Organization’

    05/16/2018 8:25:31 AM PDT · by rktman · 36 replies
    breitbart.co. ^ | 5/16/2018 | AWR Hawkins
    The Washington Times quoted North talking about threats which some have directed toward the NRA, including splashing blood “on the Virginia home of a top NRA official.” He said, “They call them activists. That’s what they’re calling themselves. They’re not activists — this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America.” Schultz responded, telling the HuffPo, “The NRA is kind of just shy of a terrorist organization. They have done everything they can to perpetuate the culture of violence that we have in our country with the spread...
  • Multiple Pro-Gun Groups Submit Comments to ATF Over Proposed Bump Stock Ban

    05/16/2018 7:46:00 AM PDT · by rktman · 6 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 5/16/2018 | Beth Baumann
    Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) on Tuesday submitted comments to the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on the proposed bump stock ban. These regulations will infringe the Second Amendment rights of Americans — the very same Americans who elected the current President based on his promises that he would defend those rights. Respectfully, we want to emphasize there is no legal authority to ban so-called “bump stocks” or “bump-fire stocks” by decree. An executive ban of bump stocks, by classifying them as machineguns [sic], would utterly contradict the plain text of the...
  • Nikki Haley Walks Out of UN As Palestinian Envoy Starts Speaking

    05/16/2018 7:38:29 AM PDT · by rktman · 38 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 5/16/2018 | Cortney O'Brien
    U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made quite the statement on the Middle East at Tuesday's Security Council meeting - and it had nothing to do with her speech. After the ambassador had finished condemning Hamas for the violence on the Gaza-Israel border this week and Palestinian Ambassador Riyad H. Mansour instead began condemning Israeli forces, she got up and left.
  • Pastor Hagee Gives Benediction at Opening of U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem: ‘Israel Lives

    05/15/2018 9:51:44 AM PDT · by rktman · 13 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 5/15/2018 | Penny Starr
    The final prayer spoken at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday thanked God but also touched on the historic and biblical significance behind President Donald Trump’s decision to officially recognize the capital of Israel by moving U.S. diplomatic headquarters from Tel Aviv to the “city on the hill.” The Rev. John Hagee, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and national chairman of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), gave the benediction following the dedication ceremony that included remarks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump advisors Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve...
  • Swedes lead Bethune Cookman to 'minority' golf title

    05/15/2018 9:43:58 AM PDT · by rktman · 7 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 5/15/2018 | Jack Cashill
    "The Bethune Cookman Men were led by medalist Marcus Sundlof, of Sweden (65-70-71 206), who bested his teammate Christian Hovstadius for the honor by seven strokes." So reads one of the more revealing sentences in a PGA website article on the soi-disant "PGA Minority Collegiate Championship," which was staged this past weekend in Florida. Forgive my French here, but the championship has a distinctly European flavor. Christian Hovstadius is a Swede as well. The Winning Bethune-Cookman team boasts two Swedes, two Irishmen, an Englishman, a Canadian, a white guy from Venezuela, and an all-white coaching staff. The top four finishers...
  • Democrats Disgrace Themselves Interrogating Trump's CIA Nominee

    05/15/2018 9:37:56 AM PDT · by rktman · 1 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 5/15/2018 | Elise Cooper
    At best, these Democrats were playing Monday-morning quarterback, but more likely, the takeaway is that they are politically correct, while appearing to sympathize with the terrorists. New Mexico senator Martin Heinrich asked her, "Do you think that a transcript that says the detainees continued to scream has the same gravity, the same reality of an actual video?" Is he kidding, or does he believe that Americans will ever feel sorry for these jihadist extremists who brutally killed 3,000 Americans? This just shows how out of touch the Democrats are with reality. Maybe Heinrich should think about the screams of those...
  • The RINO mayor's feel-good gun restriction (Orlando)

    05/15/2018 8:34:11 AM PDT · by rktman · 12 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 5/15/2018 | Carl Jackson
    Generally speaking, conservatives learn their lessons from tragedies like the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, while leftists figure out how to exploit them. For the second time, the “Republican” mayor of Orange County, Florida, Teresa Jacobs, is sticking her finger in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing on gun issues after the Parkland shooting. Due to term limits, the mayor has turned her attention to running for Orange County’s school board chairwoman. In hopes of winning the seat, the mayor has thrown law-abiding gun owners under the bus to appease Orlando’s left-wing anti-gun lobby. As...
  • The orchestrated deceit of Trump-haters

    05/15/2018 8:28:52 AM PDT · by rktman · 11 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 5/15/2018 | Mychal Massie
    The most tested way to combat the pernicious culture of lies and duplicitous double standards orchestrated by dishonest self-interested politicians and the contumelious media acting as their winged monkeys, a la “The Wizard of Oz,” is by publicly reiterating past evils of the aforementioned. The comunistas masquerading as fair-minded journalists at the behest of ideologically inbred politicians are determined to prevent President Trump from a second term. They are making an industry of falsely maligning our president. But let’s consider what the pretenders before him did. George W. Bush let two border agents rot in prison in defiance of a...
  • Steyer Video Warns Mothers to Spot Signs Child Becoming a Racist, Thieving, Pro-Life Republican

    05/14/2018 8:30:44 AM PDT · by rktman · 30 replies
    cnsmews.com ^ | 5/14/2018 | Craig Bannister
    Bullying, stealing, and racism are just some of the “signs” your child might be turning into a Republican, a video by billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer’s NextGen America warns mothers. In a video redolent of public service videos about teen drug use, a mother laments that she didn’t recognize the signs her son was becoming Republican - until it was too late: “This Mother’s Day, talk to your child about the GOP. I wish I had.”
  • Karenna Gore: Religious Leaders Should Urge Climate Activism on 'Moral and Spiritual Level'

    05/14/2018 8:24:34 AM PDT · by rktman · 41 replies
    pjmedia.com ^ | 5/13/2018 | Nicholas Ballasy
    Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, urged the Catholic Church and other “faith communities” to become climate change activists and preach about taking action on the issue. “I actually think that [preaching is] one of the main things that could actually break through on this issue. One of the ways that we could break through on this issue is if people really start to think deeply on another level about it; on a moral and spiritual level and are moved from a different kind of place to take action, to raise it with...
  • Tom Steyer Town Hall Attendee: What’s The Difference Between Trump And Hitler? [VIDEO]

    05/14/2018 6:54:36 AM PDT · by rktman · 60 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 5/13/2018 | Jason Hopkins
    A woman attending a Tom Steyer-led town hall asked what the difference was between President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, arguing that the Republican president has done things similar to those of the detested leader of Nazi Germany. “Through all of this, and through the time [Trump’s] been president, he reminds me of Hitler,” an Iowa woman named Sally said to Steyer on Thursday. The line drew cheers and applause from the audience. “I just keep thinking: what’s the difference between him and Hitler. Hitler really strikes me, and you just mentioned what he’s doing to families at the border....
  • The Haspel Pick Breaks the Model

    05/14/2018 6:14:24 AM PDT · by rktman · 1 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 5/14/2018 | Ishmael Jones
    As a Trump supporter I’m always delighted to find the genius in Trump’s actions. Where’s the genius in picking Gina? Here it is: Gina may have done a great deal of sitting, but she did some of it in foreign countries. She showed an early interest in espionage in foreign lands, and has had multiple, successful foreign assignments. She has shown respect for acquiring foreign languages and skills. She's a trained reports officer -- a strict gatekeeper in the intelligence process. The phony Trump Dossier would never have gotten past her. Any reports officer would instantly recognize it as fake...
  • The Intellectual Dark Web: Truth requires free thinking, honest talk

    05/14/2018 5:59:34 AM PDT · by calvincaspian · 21 replies
    The Boston Herald ^ | 05-14-2018 | Herald Staff
    If you don’t know what the Intellectual Dark Web is, you probably will soon. In short, it is a group of free thinkers who are having conversations with each other in the form of podcasts. On its face it doesn’t seem so extraordinary, but it is. Why? Because they are having honest, thoughtful exchanges without restraint and outside the politically correct parameters that today confine most discussions, the theoretical “safe zones” in which no one is allowed to say anything that might offend. As it happens, no matter how well thought out, disciplined and sound those conversations are, they routinely...