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An estimated 100 protesters littered the grounds surrounding the Thomas Jefferson statue at the University of Virginia (UVA) Tuesday night to show strength behind a list of demands the Black Student Alliance gave to the university in August in response to the now infamous “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. More than 100 students, residents, and faculty members joined the protest, chanting, “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist UVA!” as they circled the statue which they adorned with a sign, reading, “TJ is a racist and rapist” and covered the university founder’s statue with a black tarp. “Black Lives Matter”...

Huma Abedin's mother told then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to talk about sensitive issues like the prohibition on women drivers in Saudi Arabia, just before Clinton gave a speech at a Saudi women's college. "Do not even mention driving for women!" Saleah Abedin wrote in an email to Clinton. "The last visitor received a torrent of rejoinders from the students who said they have more important challenges to contend with." Saleah Abedin lectures on sociology issues at Dar Al Hekma, a women's college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Clinton gave a speech in February of 2010. Her daughter Huma...

Bishop E.W. Jackson, who heads Exodus Faith Ministries in Virginia and is a former U.S. Senate candidate for Virginia, said that liberals constatntly seek to mock Christians who view natural disasters as divine punishments and they do this, along with groups like the KKK and the LGBT community because they all share a "virulent hatred of true Christianity." “What is the similarity between the Ku Klux Klan and the left?" said Bishop Jackson on his Sept. 12 radio show The Awakening. " And I’ll include the LGBT community in this. What do they have in common? What do the...

It’s high time for Hillary Clinton to come out of her Chardonnay ‘Whine’ Cellar What’s Happening? Hillary Clinton’s making her way out of her Chardonnay ‘Whine’ Cellar to the presidency through the pulpit. That’s what. Clinton must have taken her longtime pastor Methodist Minister Bill Shillady at his word when he compared her possible return to politics to “Jesus Christ’s resurrection.”

It is very rare for a federal agency to admit having made a mistake and rarer still for the secretary of a cabinet department to announce a U-turn in policy in a heavily publicized speech. But that is exactly what Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos did on September 7. Speaking at George Mason University, Secretary DeVos went straight after the most contentious element of the Obama Administration’s higher education policy, namely its interpretation of Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972. The language of the statute was twisted by bureaucratic fiat (a “Dear Colleague” letter) from prohibiting discrimination...

Bizarre misreading: @HillaryClinton thinks the lesson of Orwell's 1984 is that you should trust experts, leaders and the press

The birth of a child is possibly life’s greatest and most beautiful blessing. Unfortunately, for some people, it’s also an occasion to spew venom. This morning, Eric and Lara Trump welcomed their first child, a son, into the world: And scumbags wasted no time flinging their crap. Here’s just a sample of the hate thrown at the proud father — and, even more sickeningly — at the innocent child:

Tobin Panton was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for manslaughter in the first degree after he fatally shot a sleeping neighbor while firing at a fleeing car thief. (Photo: Komo News) A man who fired his Glock at a car thief leaving his driveway with his vehicle is headed to prison for the death of a neighbor struck by one of his bullets. Tobin Panton, 40, of Bonney Lake in the Tacoma area, was sentenced last week in Pierce County Superior Court on one count of manslaughter in the first degree for the death of 61-year-old Linda Green. “Instead...

Hurricane Irma Florida House Call It was definitely in a “glad-I’m-still-here-to-see-for-myself” mood that Doug Bronson ventured outside early this morning to see what kind of damage Hurricane Irma left on his multi acre farm, near Haines City, Polk County, Florida. Doug, known fondly as “Dub” had spent Sunday at his house, hunkering down with neighbors and friends listening to the shrieking winds, house pounding and lashing rains of Hurricane Irma. He was pretty sure that his 45 KW, 30 HP diesel generator would keep the electricity running, and it did.

Political Hack: The tragic truth of our times is that ‘The Titular Head of the Globalists’ walks like a Marxist, talks like a Marxist and likely prays as a Marxist The one official title you will never see among those set aside for the pope: ‘Francis, Titular Head of the Globalists’; ‘Francis, the Political Pope’, ‘Francis, Pope Putting Politics Ahead of Prayer’. “The pope’s proper title, according to the Vatican’s website, is Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the...

“We should tear down all memorials of the United States that inspire hatred, fascism, and neo-Nazism” This is the rallying cry and unmitigated tactic of white ‘superiorists’ who call themselves ‘Progressive’ elitists and anti-fascists. Through use of violence, they cry ‘self-defense’ and justify any action to silence the voices of so-called ‘alt-right extremists’. One of the voices that these intolerant ‘social justice warriors’ seek to silence and erase from our fragile and fractured culture is Thomas Jefferson. He is scowled at for owning and selling the slaves he inherited, which he could not legally release because of Virginia state law....

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter has gone radical on Facebook calling for “violent resistance, whether black bloc or full-scale armed conflict” in its fight against fascism, White Supremacy and Zionism. SJP’s latest event: “Smashing Fascism: Radical Resistance Against White Supremacy,” claimed “there is no room for fascists, white supremacists, or Zionists” at the Illinois university. Although SJP has its roots in anti-Zionism, since Trump entered the political realm they’ve broadened their target to include fascism and white supremacy.

As someone who had never really thought much about our political system in the U.S, I was drawn to the 2016 Presidential election as never before. I knew what the Electoral College was, yet after the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Albert Gore Jr.--when Gore won the popular vote but not the election--I remember thinking it was unfair to Gore that Bush should win the Presidency. In 2016 I was more involved, opinionated and became more informed about the candidates and the process. When it came to the actual election, I watched as electoral votes stacked up for...

Days before her latest book, the election-themed memoir "What Happened," is set to hit the shelves, former Secretary of State #Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with CBS host #Jane Pauley. Most of the "Sunday Morning" segment touched on themes similar to those contained in Clinton's new book, including an introspective look back at the 2016 presidential election she lost to real estate developer and former reality television host Donald Trump. While the Democratic nominee has expressed dissatisfaction with her own actions during the arduous campaign, she told Pauley that she believes Trump was able to win in part...

It was around the time of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, that memorials stopped being remembrances of virtue, and became therapy sessions. The old statues of determined men gave way to empty spaces to represent loss. Their lessons of courage and sacrifice, were replaced by architecture as therapy session, clean geometrical shapes, reflective pools and open areas in which to feel grief at what was lost and then let go of it. September 11 memorials have inevitably followed this same pattern, empty spaces, still pools of water groves and names tastefully inscribed in row after row. How do you tell the...

Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities. Starting Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau will end the 20-year practice of issuing gang member designations, which police say can lead to “unintended consequences” and a lifelong stigma even for those who have given up the gang lifestyle. Officials intend to notify the approximately 300 people on the gang list that the bureau will purge all records related to the designations, The Oregonian reported. “There are still criminal gang members. That...

It should go without saying that Pelosi, Schumer and the Democrats bear ill will and not “unity” when it comes to President Trump Has President Donald J. Trump thrown in with the enemy just as the entertainment industry’s portrayal of his supporters has peaked with them being characterized as “Klingons” in Star Trek: Discovery that is now tacklingTrump-era political divide? In the movie world Trump supporters will be immortalized as the Klingons. In that dirty movie known as Washington, D.C., will it from now on be the long-running ‘Donald, Nancy and Chuck Show’? Perish what’s just got to be the...

Is the chaos generated by Hurricane Harvey being used by NWO (New World Order) globalists to further implement their odious Agenda 21 which has currently been morphed into the dangerous Agenda 2030? Two websites up with analysis and videos point to Texas’ opposition to the United Nation's Agenda 21. It’s the state's fiercely independent history that places it directly in the crosshairs of these Marxist, one-world dreamers. "There is much more going on than meets the eye," says the Lucid Dreamer. "Texas resists the UN attempt to reduce its sovereignty." For example: Texas pushes to close its borders to human...

For politicians who are searching for an appropriate way to talk about their Christian faith in public, the Bible can sometimes appear to contain contradictory mandates. In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, he admonishes his disciples to pray in secret and “not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.” Later, however, the resurrected Jesus, just before he is taken up to Heaven, implores his followers to go forth and “be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the...

A number of people have argued over the past few days that Hurricane Harvey will NOT boost the US housing market. As if any such argument would or should be required. Hurricane Irma will not provide any such boost either. News about the ‘resurrection’ of New Orleans post-Katrina has pretty much dried up, but we know scores of people there never returned, in most cases because they couldn’t afford to. And Katrina took place 12 years ago, well before the financial crisis. How do you think this will play out today? Houston is a rich city, but that doesn’t mean...