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The DCLeaks document dump exposes the pro-Islamist Left's sinister attempt to slime truth-tellers about Jihad. Radical left-wing billionaire George Soros developed a strategy five years ago to publicly disparage, delegitimize, and marginalize conservatives like David Horowitz who go to great pains to warn Americans about the threat posed by political Islam and the ongoing Islamization of the U.S. It is part of the Left’s push to create an alternate reality in which world temperatures claimed to be rising at an imperceptibly slow rate pose more of a threat to mankind than militants flying commercial jetliners into skyscrapers. Soros is a...

Will it work? Update: initial reports suggested Trump had already spent $60 million on ads. That’s not the case. Today’s buy total just $4 million, but more is to come. The eventual total has not been announced. The piece has been altered to reflect this. Here in Michigan, we don’t see too many Presidential campaign ads. That’s because, at least in terms of the top of the ticket, Democrats have dominated the state since 1988. Those of you who live in battleground states? I feel your pain.

When Democratic Convention delegate Gwen Snyder went to this year’s convention in Philadelphia she never expected to by sexually accosted by anyone, let alone a fellow delegate. When she was sexually molested by the male delegate Snyder expected to be treated with respect and have her complaint taken seriously by Democrat District Attorney Seth Williams’ office. That is exactly what did not happen. The determined Snyder called the Special Victims Unit in the belief that since she was the victim of a crime she had only to follow instructions to get justice. She was taken to the august sounding Philadelphia...

There have been numerous articles about the crime of the century that’s only 16 years old. In one, it’s claimed that a crowd of screaming Brazilians, eager to taste American blood surrounded the car he was in, banging on it, apparently on the verge of being a murderous mob, so much so that the harried by the lies of Lochte Rio police had to save him out of a total dedication to law enforcement principles. But oddly, nowhere in the article that contains dozens of photos do we see a murderous mob. Only a mob of reporters surrounding the car...

Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, will have her dikat baning numerous semi-automatic rifles challenged in court. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has stated it will file a lawsuit against the AG on the measure. The NSSF is the gun industry trade association.  From bostonherald.com: The firearm industry group, based in Newtown, Conn., said it retained former U.S. attorney Michael Sullivan for the lawsuit, which will attack Healey’s interpretation of the 
statute that could be used to ban the sale of all semiautomatic guns. Keane declined to detail the plans for the lawsuit and to name other parties joining the...

Brad Woodhouse, president of the pro-Clinton advocacy group 'Correct The Record' responds to Donald Trump's apology for offensive statements and his appeal to black voters in an interview with MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid. (snip) About Trump's appeal to African-Americans: "Well, that is completely outrageous. I mean, let's remember here, here's someone who was in Wisconsin the other day, talking, you know, talking about a -- a good game about the African-American community in front of an audience that was 95 to 99% white. He's rejected every invitation to speak before African-American audiences, NAACP and others. And here's someone who lived...

Meanwhile it’s not the lifeless vulgar statues planted on city sidewalks that citizens should fear, but the living, breathing statues-in-their-head ones who walk the streets of Washington, D.C. It’s worthy of note that the anarchist group INDECLINE—which unveiled life-size statues of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the nude on Thursday, in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle—bears the same name as the state that their uber heroine Hillary Clinton’s health is currently in—“IN DECLINE!” Marxist projection, its most recognizable signature, is predictable, ongoing and always willing to publicly mock the enemy by polarizing it, Saul Alinsky...

I thought it unnecessary to add to Paul’s analysis below of the dismissal of the remaining charges in the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore, but then I watched Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby’s press conference announcing the decision. You have to see it, not to believe it. She attacks the police. She attacks the judge. She says her case against the officers is solid, but is dismissing it anyway because the (black) judge is biased. And more. Then she closes by saying she won’t take any questions because of the civil litigation she faces for bringing the case. I can’t believe...

Trump is jihad group’s worst nightmare. The fact is Trump’s comparison to the Cold War is spot on. Islam, like Communism, is a political ideology a with religious component. Groups like CAIR aid and abet terrorism and should be prosecuted. The Department of Justice is sitting on a “mountain of evidence” against CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood groups. Obama scuttled those prosecutions. Trump will right that wrong.

America is imploding as useful agitators, like BLM and illegal immigrants, grasp at Hillary and company's dangled carrot of superficial power by selling themselves as equal rights advocates Mob politics spur the growing rage against people of color. No, this is not a misstatement. It describes the current rash of riots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the death of a black suspect brandishing a gun at a black officer who delivered the fatal shot. The fact that anger is leveled against people who actually lack certain color doesn’t change the premise. The concept that someone has less “stuff” than others due...

The facts that natural disasters occur for reasons other than global warming, such as oceanic currents and underwater volcanic eruptions, are inconvenient details for the environmental/green growth agenda The severe flooding in Louisiana, the result of torrential rain, the location of Baton Rouge below the sea level, and those proverbial levies that did not hold after the disaster of Katrina, destroyed 40,000 homes and 30,000 people and 1,000 pets had to be rescued. The New York Times published a story immediately, “Flooding in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change,” blaming the flood on the global warming hoax created...

Hey all, I hope you don't mind if I start this, and I do hope we get some useful information out of it. It would be great if Freepers can share some GOOD relief orgs that are doing great work NOW, for people and animals. We are donating the bulk of our tithing fund to these Flood Relief efforts. Right now the misery and worry our fellow Americans are sitting in is heartbreaking. I've found the NOLA Junior League is doing a stellar job of handing out diapers, necessities and gift cards in $20 increments. I know Samaritan's Purse will...

"Hillary Clinton is against the police." One of the things I love about Trump is that he’s not afraid to just lay it out. The price you pay, I suppose, is that Hillary’s servants in the news media will take anything they can and use it to create a narrative against him. I’m a little surprised they haven’t jumped all over his statement that “Hillary Clinton is against the police.” You’d think there would already be media “fact-checkers” presuming to “debunk” this statement. But Trump makes himself clear if you’re willing to pay attention. She’s against the police in the...

In 2008 and 2012 the firearms industry saw a surge in both gun and ammo sales thanks to the presidential election, and while this cycle is no different for gun sales — in fact, this maybe a record year — ammo is a different story. Mark DeYoung, chief executive officer of Vista Outdoor, a conglomerate of shooting and outdoor brands said consumers just aren’t buying up ammunition like they had in those years. “As you’ll recall, we were out of stock,” he said during a conference call with investors last week. He thinks consumers built up a vast inventory...

Ahh, how to begin a story about “transgender accommodations” and the government? Well, one could simply look at the issue of “transgender accommodations” as a political economist, and see that the conflict over new rules and laws teaches us something incredibly important about the nature of politics. Let’s take two breaking news items as examples. First, on Aug. 15, Dominic Holden of BuzzFeed reported that the federal General Services Administration (GSA) will post new rules this week commanding 9,200 properties run by the federal government to open their bathrooms to folks according to their “gender identities.” GSA spokesperson Ashley Nash-Hahn told BuzzFeed: This includes all kinds...

Faking regret... You’ll probably know CNN as that network you only watch when you’re trapped in an airport, there’s no wifi, your laptop’s battery is dead, you don’t want to spend money on outdated print media, and you need something to look at while you slurp up your third watered-down Bloody Mary. For you it’s background noise, nothing more. However, there are apparently still people out there who regard it as a source of actual news. We’re not sure who those poor, ill-informed, souls are, but we’ve been assured that, yes, they really do exist. Thanks to CNN’s deceptive editing,...

Realpolitik, sexual assault style The left is some piece of work. The most charitable thing you can say about our liberal friends is that their principles are always, er, flexible when it come to balancing notions of right and wrong against the need to serve the agenda. If pragmatism means I’ll look the other way to keep my teammate on the field, these guys would win the pragmatism World Series in a four-game sweep every year. Take, oh, say, rape. Especially when committed by a powerful white male against a woman who is subordinate to him. That would seem to...

Donald Trump is a very successful businessman. He knows how to generate jobs and prosperity for those he employs. Clearly he is the person we want to guide our economy in the future. Trump has a record of success. Hillary Clinton has a record of economic failure and lies. Her tenure as a New York State United States Senator is dismal. In 2000 when Clinton was running for Senate she made a fake “listening tour” of upstate New York a depressed area that has seen more than its share of decay and decline over the past thirty years. During this...

The New York Post hit new lows when they went after Donald Trump’s wife, Melania. The Post sank to a level far below the tabloids they claim to despise by publishing Melania’s nude modeling photos. At least we expect it from the tabloids; from a major newspaper it’s both disappointing and terrifying. The Post’s front page spread is significant beyond the attempted smear. It’s a snapshot in time, the moment when a major newspaper proudly waved the banner of biased coverage and shameful tactics to damage their opponent and elect their candidate; the moment when the press ripped off the...

Those who want a better future for themselves and their families will heed his message. Those who choose not to, he doesn’t need. Polls can be useless Donald Trump’s recent speech regarding the atrocious state of urban, majority-black communities was a stellar achievement. As with much of the good he proposes for the nation, someone, somewhere will always impugn his efforts and this occasion was no different. Whatever can be done to hack away at his steely resolve will be done by those who are headed for irrelevance if this man becomes the next President of the United States. The...