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Some protests are more worthy than others, apparently We must respect Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the national anthem, we are told, because the right to protest is sacred and never to be questioned, and the last thing we should ever do is turn some inanimate piece of cloth into an idol that’s more important than our right to express our true feelings. Remember: American flag = mere piece of cloth. Not sacred. Not entitled to respect. In fact, the refusal to stand for it is entitled to the ultimate in respect. Get it straight. So then, if the American flag...

Oh, well then it's all ok. Earlier, Dan wrote about the fact that the Clinton campaign’s newest anti-Trump weapon, Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, was accused of being involved in a 1998 homicide. What Dan didn’t mention was that the judge in the case also accused her of threatening to assassinate him if he indicted her boyfriend. Yesterday, Machado appeared on “CNN’s 360 with Gloria Vanderbilt’s Son,” where she levelled a blistering attack against Trump. When she finished, the host decided to ask her about her possible involvement with the murder.

The Bundy Affair - #1: What we are seeing in a Nevada Courtroom is a far more heinous "political crime". God forbid that Free Americans have any right to question the actions of the government In a related article, “Burns Chronicles No 30 - Officer? What Officer?”, I addressed a common element to the Indictments from Oregon and Nevada. You may also want to refer back to that article to see how the federal government has, over the years, expanded its authority (jurisdiction) well beyond what the Constitution granted to that government. The article covered the extent of the Oregon...

You have prayed for Donald Trump’s success; given money to his campaign; spoken to friends and family about the need to defeat Hillary Clinton and maybe even gone to a Trump rally; but you still want to do more. Well now there is a new and exciting option to join this fight for our survival as a nation in a simple yet very effective way. This is through the use of MP3s that send a brief but powerful message to specifically targeted audiences by reaching them over the radio. MP3s are Email features that allow you send sound. We at...

Color us shocked: Shocker, Omar Mateen wasn't a gay-hating gun nut inspired by decades of right-wing talk radio You’ll obviously remember that, on June 12, Omar Mateen walked into an Orlando-area gay nightclub and started shooting. He murdered 49 innocent people and injured 53 others. What you may not remember is that police stormed the club - and killed Mateen - only after they’d spent several hours trying to convince him to surrender. Liberals, as usual, spent the following days trying to blame anything other than Islam for Mateen’s attack. At various times he was portrayed as a crazed homophobe,...

Moral of the story: Never accept a source supplied to you by the Clinton campaign One consequence of a gym membership is that, for better or for worse, you see TV you would otherwise never see. I would never knowingly sit down and turn on the Today Show. The last thing I need is to ingest intellectual rot that makes me stupider by the second. But when you climb on the elliptical to do 30 minutes of cardio, the machine’s built-in TV doesn’t have MLB Network. Yeah. I know. And this morning, for some reason, Fox Sports Detroit wasn’t replaying...

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam…is there any food product that’s more divisive than Spam? When it comes to this American staple, you either love it or you hate it. But it’s actually one of the more intriguing food products out there, with a long, wild history. Here are six things that you probably didn’t know about this legendary tinned lunch meat.

Much to the horror of the deep-in-the-tank Washington Post. The real reason Trump is so hated by the political press is not that they don’t like what he would do as president. They don’t even have any idea what he would do as president. The real reason they hate him is that he not only refuses to play by their rules, but he pays no price for said refusal. It’s sort of like Hillary and the law, except that that’s the law, and Trump’s apostasies are merely a constant middle finger to the news media. It’s not hard to see...

A lesbian supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is taking Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s gay campaign manager to task for his blatant hypocrisy. Twitter’s “DeplorableCorgiGirl” posted a video Monday to chastise Mook over his involvement with Clinton, who has accepted millions of dollars from foreign Muslim nations that treat gays as subhuman. In the segment, “Recording from my Basket – Robby MOOK,” “Deb” laid out exactly why she believes Mook is selling out gays. “My message today … is to Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s manager,” she said. “You know, I’m 61 years old. I’ve been out of the closet...

Preferably to zero. You’re a fool if you don’t. One of the reasons I hate politics is that political people exist in a world completely divorced from the reality in which normal people live. In the fantasy world of political people, the most wonderful and high-minded thing you can do is fork over an enormous chunk of your wealth to the federal government, because this is how you keep everyone else living, breathing, fat and happy. And in this fantasy world, anyone who would not want to do this is a greedy pig, beneath contempt and unworthy of a place...

You're a racist, you're a racist, everyone's a racist. Repeating a theme we’ve heard from virtually every Democrat for years, Hillary took some time last night to argue that, sure, cops are a bunch of racists. However, she went a step further because she wants you to know the problem isn’t limited to police officers. According to Hillary, virtually everyone in the country harbors their own secret racist feelings. She calls it exercising “implicit racial bias” and - in Hillary’s mind - you’re all guilty of it. Here’s Hillary, demanding that ask yourself “why am I feeling this way?”

No matter how awkward the debates may seem, never forget the truth for America’s sake Contrived and coached Hillary’s game on the first debate was to appear collected and together, with apparently, way too much bright red lipstick, while throwing ‘racist’ bombs regarding old lawsuits against Trump. The old lawsuit she brought up was deceitfully used to paint him a racist. Never mind the lawsuit had gathered up many companies and Trump in his innocence ended up paying zero. Hillary also tried to paint Trump as an unethical, non payer of business contacts, with one disgruntled former merchant sitting in...

Perhaps Donald Trump should coin a phrase, “doing the jobs that the American press won’t do.” The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has come and gone. So who won? That’s a harder question to answer than “who lost?” The loser in this case was journalistic integrity. The “performance” by so-called moderator Lester Holt could be likened to that of the interfering third party in a pro wrestling event. Anytime Trump was pounding away on Hillary, Lester Holt was there to jump in the ring and hit Trump over the head with a metaphorical chair or other...

Every US state has a motto. Some are interesting, like “Live Free of Die,� in New Hampshire, and some are sadly truthful, like, “Our Government is Vampiric� in Massachusetts. Just kidding. It’s more along the lines of “We’ll Tax You to Death,� or something like that. Anyway, some, like the motto for the 49th state, Alaska, are very upbeat and offer a sense of adventure. In Alaska, politicians tell us to look, “North, to The Future.� But, a shocking move by the federal government might inspire Alaskans to change their motto to, “Our Land Is Being Stolen By The Feds!�...

By now, except in the Hillary Clinton propaganda mills, it is pretty well established that Donald Trump is going to get at least 20% of the Black vote while Clinton can’t break 75% with African Americans. This is a full 15 points below the bare minimum she needs to have a chance to win in November. Nevertheless, the crafty Goebbelsesque media presents this and other “horse races” within this election as one requiring Trump to get 51% or be defeated. This same twisting of the truth would produce a headline saying, “Trump down in 8 of 9 important states,” which...

Pssst! It didn't happen. If you’ve tuned into any of the big news outlets this morning, you’ve no doubt heard some talking head yakking about “Hillary’s big win.” If all you heard were the mainstream reviews, you’d think Clinton crushed her opponent in one of debate history’s most epic beat downs. They’ve basically gone wall-to-wall with tales of their queen’s decisive victory over an unprepared dullard. The thing is; if she really did that well, they wouldn’t need to be work so hard to sell you on it.

Nothing like last night Watching my Tigers go down to the Indians last night was not much fun, especially since we had to swallow the very tough pill of watching the Indians celebrate on our field after clinching the American League Central Division title by beating us 7-4 last night. (So fine, OK, congratulations Indians, I guess, whatever, jerks . . .) But I’m still glad my family and I went, and did not stay home to watch the embarassment that was the latest incarnation of our modern-day, media-driven bastardization of the presidential debate. I’ve seen all your opinions on...

America: Don’t waste valuable time answering mainstream media questions about “Who won the debate”. Instead get out there and show them that Donald Trump will win the election in spite of them If millions of Americans are feeling down today after the hyped up ‘Debate of the Century’, how down do you think they will feel if Hillary Clinton gets to be lawfully addressed as “Madam President?” The Talking Heads of television and radio talk show hosts are peppering their audiences this morning with the Question: “Who won the debate last night?” That’s not the question that matters most. The...

Safe Streets Ahead? Judicial rulings and anti-cop activists threaten the city’s triumph over crime. Heather Mac Donald Special Issue 2013 Public safety New York As the 1990s came to a close, the criminology profession declared that New York’s recent crime free fall was over. Homicides had declined a remarkable 72 percent over the previous decade, but that trend couldn’t possibly continue, the academy opined. “It is probable that another crime wave will engulf the City in the near future,” warned Andrew Karmen, a sociologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in 2000. Karmen and his colleagues were right about...

House Speaker Paul Ryan is facing a major obstacle in his months-long quest to pass criminal justice reform: unenthused House Republicans still skittish about looking soft on crime. The Wisconsin Republican for weeks has repeated his personal desire to move a bipartisan package that would include allowing well-behaved nonviolent prisoners to be eligible for early release and easing some drug-related sentencing requirements.

The more transparent a leader is with the use of power the more citizens can constrain the abuse of power. On that score, Trump has more political virtue than Hillary The political Left has for quite some time been on a witch-hunt to find the essential evil of Donald Trump that would eliminate him from the presidential race in the minds of voters. Trump has repeatedly been compared to Hitler and Mussolini in an attempt to irrefutably stigmatize him. But to assess the candidates on whether they are essentially evil we need to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of...

Dunh-dunh-duuuun Last week, we discussed the fact that Hillary’s odds of victory were collapsing - despite massively outspending her opponent. At the time, her chances of taking the White House had fallen to just over 53%. The data came to us via Nate Silver’s 538 site. Long a favorite among Democrats, Silver is a statistician who rose to national prominence during the 2008 presidential race, when he correctly predicted 49 of 50 state outcomes. In 2012, he went 50 for 50. A month ago, he gave Hillary Clinton a 96% chance of victory. How times have changed:

California is a Failure at Business The inconsistencies of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate change policies, together with his immigration policies, are formidable and deliberately deceptive — one policy is driving taxpayers and businesses out of the state, and the other is driving droves of unskilled, unemployed aliens into the state. Last year, in 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown claimed California has an overpopulation problem, and the ongoing drought was proof that the explosion of population in California has reached the limit of what the states’ resources can provide. “We are altering this planet with this incredible power of science, technology...

Knowing that “Without America there is no Free World”, Canada Free Press is starting on those prayers right now Everyone reading this should say a fervent prayer ahead of tonight’s so-called ‘Debate of the Century’ that some kind of semblance of fairness will still be in place even though the debate is being organized by the Democrats in league with the lib-left NBC. As CFPN Liberty Media colleague and YouTube producer Marc Patrone reminded me this afternoon: “Will Hillary have prior access to the debate questions and not Trump? This question needs to be asked.” “The lib media wants to...

The Trump campaign is dealing with an enemy that does not fight fair and is desperate to hold on to power at any cost. Does anyone out there really believe they’re above this and that Clinton and the media wouldn’t try it? Conservative talk radio is abuzz with questions about how Hillary Clinton is going to avoid getting destroyed in tonight’s debate at the hands of a surging and confident Donald Trump. Think they’ll play fair? Forget it. There’s too much at stake for the Democrats and their media allies to leave anything to chance. They’ll cheat and the easiest...

We’re living in America 180, where good old American common sense has been thrown out the window and replaced by political correctness, militant feminism and cultural Marxism. The wimps and freaks and the loonies are running the country. Two stories this morning solidified the true nature of the craziness being pushed on the nation by the militant left: The first story was titled, “Parenting Magazine warns Blond, Cheerful Families Dangerous, Probably Right Wing.” Parenting magazine Baby & Family has told readers to beware of families who are “inconspicuous” and “cheerful”, as these warning signs indicate they are right wing and...

Even without the cough–heard–round–the–world With apologies to George Ramos, this year the first presidential debate is the Big Enchilada. Independent voters will finally be tuning in to see both candidates boca–y–boca. This cumulative first impression will probably decide the election. And what will Independents be concerned about? Many are participating in betting pools based on the exact time Hillary will cough, with over–unders on duration and intensity. Not since Ronald Reagan’s second debate with Walter Mondale has candidate health been a primary topic. That was in 1984 and health was a byproduct of the first debate after Reagan appeared to...

The lead is already written I am not looking forward to tonight’s debate. (In fact, I’m going to the Tiger game. Trump can take care of Hillary while we take care of the Indians.) And one of the reasons I’m not looking forward to it is that it won’t really be a debate. Presidential debates are not serious discussions of issues, problems, solutions and decisions presidents might have to make. They should be. But they’re not. At their best, they are glorified joint press conferences in which the entire discussion is driven by randomly selected questions chosen by a media...

Burns Chronicles #30 In the Indictments, both in Oregon and Nevada, there is one Count that raises some serious questions. The exact wording, to the extent of understanding the charges being made, is as follows: For Oregon: COUNT 1: (Conspiracy to Impede Officers of the United States) (18 u.s.c. § 372) On or about November 5, 2015, and continuing through February 12, 2016, in the District of Oregon, defendants…

Oh dear Way back in the summer of 2015 - shortly after Donald Trump announced his candidacy - I was asked if he could actually win. My answer was an emphatic yes. While the media was obsessing over his style, I was arguing that people felt the country was dangerously of course. They wanted a candidate who would drop the namby-pamby political schtick and throw some real punches. If Trump could stop getting in his own way, I argued, Hillary’s glass jaw would emerge and her campaign would collapse - just as it did in 2008. My liberal friends laughed....

Image by Brandy Shreve/ Skagit Valley Herald The Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington is the latest site of a mass killing.  Motive is uncertain, but the shooting was done by a 20 year old immigrant from Turkey, who came here as a young boy.   The Cascade Mall has been widely reported as a gun free zone.  I believe it is.  It has been stated that the parent company, Macerich, has a corporation wide gun free zone policy.  From an opencarry.org post: Cascade Mall (201 Cascade Mall Drive) - Burlington (Macerich Corporate-wide policy, due to this thread)  I am...

America can never expect more freedom and opportunity and a government that serves its citizenry if we give up our sovereignty to some greater global power The United Nations has always been a forum for speeches by American-hating nations. This year one of those berating America was the President of the United States. Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has only good things to say about “the United States of America, the most powerful and the most generous nation on earth.” Under the guise of “investing in our people” our President went on and on, blaming “soulless” capitalism for the...

For writing a few conservative social media posts, Steve Clevenger became the target of obsessive stalker Bob Nightengale We told you Friday about the disgusting attack leveled against Seattle Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger by USA Today columnist Bob Nightengale. Because Clevenger had made a couple of posts on social media criticizing Black Lives Matter, President Obama and the Charlotte rioters, Nightengale went on the warpath, demanding that the Mariners release Clevenger. The posts were harshly worded, but they weren’t inaccurate and they certainly weren’t racist. Didn’t matter. Nightengale simply labeled them as such and that’s apparently all that needs to...

Your own gentle humanity is the power behind the Power and goal of a total, prison planet, and worldwide domination I have to tell you, calling people “black” or any color at all, it turns my stomach. I can’t separate or fault Anybody based on the color of their skin or race alone. It makes me literally sick. I can’t listen to puns or jokes about it—-even from someone of that “color” or race. So-called Modern “black comedians” who make their fortunes disparaging races are enablers and pawns of those who would try to separate us from each other and...

Dirty Democrats want All to Hail Hillary before NBC says goodnight, because as far as they are concerned the Fundamental Transformation of America must continue long after November 8 On behalf of the Ruling Democrat Party, at 9 p.m. tonight, NBC will showcase the worst candidate for presidency ever in the running, next to her mentor Barack Hussein Obama. Upwards of 100 million viewers are expected to watch the first ‘Presidential Debate’ of 2016. We’ve seen the Mainstream Media doing dirty Democrat work before in 2012, but this time out it’s NBC ‘moderator’ Lester Holt as CNN’s Candy Crowley, who...

Now that our monsoon is winding down, perhaps you are noticing areas on your property where heavy rainfalls have begun to wash away one of your most precious resources – your soil. Depending on the topography of your property, you may notice areas of bare ground, new small channels that are forming or older channels that are deepening with every rain event. Soil erosion is a natural and human-caused phenomenon worldwide and can even be seen from space through satellite imagery. For example, a quick peak on Google Maps of the delta south of New Orleans shows a very muddy,...

Talk about a loaded question! Right? All the same, for this conversation and if all parties agree to embrace total honesty, neither answer is accurate. Unless you happen to be a heavenly being on a deluxe slumming tour of our charming little planet, you are probably part devil and part angel. The only difference is the degree to which either entity is in greater control than the other at any given time. Of course, we do not mean to imply that an actual miniature devil sits on one shoulder and a miniature angel on the other whispering in your ears,...

What's in it for America, and for you? The Islamic State of Iran is held to be a sovereign state bordered on its west by Iraq and Turkey, in the east by Pakistan and Afghanistan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, and to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. This presents the world of Asia with a land mass of over 636,000 square miles. Barack Obama said, in Oregon, in 2008, that Iran is “…a tiny country,” and that, “they don’t pose a serious threat to us.” However, how does...

Everything that ever happens is not a reason for a race war, and we need to stop acting like it is My friend Dr. Alveda King was on Fox News last week invoking the words of her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King: “Either we live together as brothers or we die together as fools.” That seemed more important than ever as the riots in Charlotte entered a second night, and no one could say for sure how long it would last, or how many people would be hurt. It now appears that at least one life has been tragically lost....

I date myself by saying that my first knowing glimpses of an unclad human female's top came from the venerable "National Geographic" Magazine. While the photos were always in context with the learned articles, still, when the article was set in the tropics of some exotic place, even the most sheltered child could get a glimpse of 'forbidden fruit!'

“That ain’t no cop’s gun, Frank!” —DIRTY HARRY 2: MAGNUM FORCE, 1973. Does anybody really think the police are so stupid they would toss “a throw down, cold piece,” a planted gun, into a crime scene, knowing they are under video surveillance from multiple sources? And that the police never heard about pocket-lint being caught in a throw-down, “cold piece,” thereby ultimately incriminating the thrower?

Yes, This Election is a Life and Death Matter – What to do? The answer is easy and it raises yet one further question – who is listening? The thing about politics that is easy to disdain is that it more often than not uses words to cover and mask serious errors in judgment with more publicly acceptable rhetorical phrases and words. Wickedness and immorality are clandestinely draped with words like, liberalism, inclusion, civil rights and safety. It is only when we examine the product of a world view that we see what it really is – or do we?

It’s a “little girls’ game,” Mr. Trump and the little girl that wants to be president is one that loudly screams: “Misogynist!” Mainstream media headlines on the day after the first presidential debate at Hofstra University: ‘Donald Trump, World’s Biggest Misogynist!” That’s the plan, and that will be the mainstream media’s take no matter how Trump performs at the debate. On the day after the presidential debate, moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt and expected to attract upwards of 100 million viewers, Mark Cuban sitting in in the front row as Hillary Clinton’s guest, and Gennifer Flowers should she show up...

New Quinnipiac polls offer encouraging data for Donald Trump and a sagging future for Hillary Clinton. The Q-poll shows Clinton leading in Colorado 44/42, and in Virginia 45/39. It shows Trump leading 47/40 in Georgia and 44/37 in Iowa. In Colorado, where Obama won by 5 points in 2012, Clinton’s 8 point lead on August 17 has dissipated to 2 points which is within the 3.9% MOE. Moreover, Colorado is 87% White which is just at the beginning of certain trouble for Clinton since she is polling so poorly with Whites that Reuters has ALREADY all but called Vermont for...

Although overshadowed by your regularly scheduled terror attacks, as well as pre-debate effluvia, the media’s attempt to turn Donald Trump Jr.’s recent tweet into a cause célèbre for smug leftists is worth examining in detail. While some right wing pundits pointed out the similarity between his Skittles metaphor and a feminist-inspired meme involving a different chewy candy, the actual root of this analogy is the precautionary principle, a deeply flawed approach to risk management. The idea being that the introduction of a new product or process whose impact is unknown or disputed should be resisted. The problem is that the...

In May of 2012,  Clifford Charles Tyler filed a suit to regain his Second Amendment rights, which had been improperly withheld from him when he attempted to buy a firearm. When he attempted to purchase a firearm, he had been denied because he had been involuntarily committed 28 years before. The District Court dismissed the lawsuit on January 29, 2013. Tyler appealed to the Sixth Circuit.  A three judge panel of the Sixth Circuit ruled the provision unconstitutional in December of 2014. The Obama administration found the case important enough that they asked for, and got, an en banc review....

“How do I think she should prepare? I think she should say I’m going to hold three press conferences, I’m not doing the debates. Because it’s like the third rail,” Ablow said. “I don’t know that debating Donald Trump is something you can plan for great success with. It’s like getting in the ring with Muhammad Ali. Because you got the rodeo clown and the skilled boxer in one person. In a way if I would have been advising Hillary Clinton I would say listen, say that he’s a reality TV host that’s been beyond the pale and simply don’t...

It's time to recognize what freedom really entails. It's not the freedom to destroy by invoking "free speech," but the freedom to work, produce and build a strong family, community and nation The war of semantics has overshadowed the rising tempers among special interest minority groups. In an effort to diffuse or whitewash (look it up if you’re inclined to infer racist overtones) the growing divide between communities in the United States, talking heads have come up with another ‘softening’ term for plain old racism. By employing this newspeak term, “racialism,” pundits seek to deflect from identifying their remarks as...

With her unpopular positions and repulsive mindset, the real question is why isn’t Hillary Clinton 50 points behind in this election? In a bizarre video message this week to the Laborers International Union of North America, Hillary Clinton asked, “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?” She seemed concerned that her opponent, Donald Trump, had closed the gap in the polls. Clinton claimed that Trump was staunchly opposed to labor unions, but she had a long history of support. She also noted her strong opposition to Right to Work laws. According to Clinton, “Right to Work is wrong for workers and...

Set-up nearly finished for 2016 GRPC I am writing from the Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Tampa, Florida.  Got up at 0400 this morning in Dallas where I was visiting family.  The Dallas/Fort Worth airport was easy to get to, but if you are flying out of it,  research off-site parking.  The $24 a day inside the airport parking is a little stiff. Once inside, the ticket counter agent knew her gun protocol inside and out.  No problem.  The TSA agent did not need to X-ray.  Maybe an extra 5 minutes, max.  Going through the security screening a...