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  • Kamala Harris at war with the Constitution

    10/02/2024 9:29:01 PM PDT · by george76 · 4 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | September 29, 2024 | William Perry Pendley
    Kamala Harris would not be born for another six years when, in 1958, the Supreme Court of the United States issued one of the first of a series of decisions at the heart of the civil rights movement, the case of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama. The NAACP, a New York nonprofit corporation, had taken the lead in fighting for the civil rights of black people in Alabama, specifically in support of its chapter in Montgomery, along with other local groups (Women’s Political Council) and leaders (the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph...
  • Nikki Haley: MAGA "Is Starting To Fringe Out," You Need RINOs & People Who Don't Think Like You To Win

    10/02/2024 6:43:31 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 67 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 10/2/24 | Ian Schwartz
    Nikki Haley talks with a caller about the factions of the Republican Party on her new SiriusXM program: "A lot of Americans wanted to see the change that Donald Trump brought in. But what you're seeing is the MAGA movement's doing what the Tea Party did. It's starting to fringe out, and they're caring about these one-off issues that wasn't something that was thought about. That's not all of MAGA, but you're seeing it kind of fringe out. And what's concerning is you're seeing certain MAGA people not like other Republicans. And so MAGA doesn't like moderate Republicans. They don't...
  • Melania Trump to champion abortion in upcoming memoir: ‘Fundamental right’

    10/02/2024 6:21:25 PM PDT · by xoxox · 148 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | Wed Oct 2, 2024 - 7:49 pm EDT | Jonathon Van Maren
    Melania Trump has done her best to stay out of the spotlight throughout her husband’s presidential tenure and political career. Now, in a memoir titled Melania set to be published a month before election today, she has openly chosen a side in America’s abortion wars. The Guardian obtained a copy of the memoir, and published the former—and possibly future—First Lady’s pro-abortion declaration: It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government. Why should anyone other than the woman herself...
  • Judge Blocks California Law Restricting "Materially Deceptive" Election-Related Deepfakes

    10/02/2024 5:31:33 PM PDT · by CFW · 14 replies
    Reason-Volokh ^ | 10/2/24 | Eugene Volokh
    From today's decision by Judge John Mendez (E.D. Cal.) in Kohls v. Bonta: Plaintiff Christopher Kohls (aka "Mr. Reagan") is an individual who creates digital content about political figures. His videos contain demonstrably false information that include sounds or visuals that are significantly edited or digitally generated using artificial intelligence …. Plaintiff's videos are considered by him to be parody or satire. In response to videos posted by Plaintiff parodying presidential candidate Kamala Harris and other AI generated "deepfakes," the California legislature enacted AB 2839. AB 2839, according to Plaintiff, would allow any political candidate, election official, the Secretary of...
  • Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

    10/02/2024 9:29:46 AM PDT · by TBP · 13 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sun 29 Sep 2024 02.30 EDT | Kenan Malik
    Conservatism, the late philosopher Roger Scruton wrote, emerged into the modern world as “a kind of ‘yes but…’” response to liberalism. Conservatives, he observed, believe, like liberals, in the importance of the free market, of private property and of individual choice. They believe also in the overriding significance of community and tradition as setting limits to the reach of individualism. Liberalism, for Scruton, made sense “only in the social context that conservatism defends”. The relationship between these two philosophical wellsprings of conservatism has never been comfortable. The tension between the individualism of the market and private property and the communality...
  • LIVE: President Trump Gives Remarks in Waunakee, WI – 10/1/24 2:30PM EDT and in Milwaukee, WI - 6PM EDT

    10/01/2024 6:03:23 AM PDT · by Lakeside Granny · 155 replies
    President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks in Waunakee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 1:30PM CDT. Kamalanomics has devastated Wisconsin families. Overall, prices are up 20 percent since Kamala Harris and Joe Biden took office, with groceries up 21.5 percent, rent up 22.5 percent, and electricity up 30.7 percent. Americans are increasingly borrowing to cover daily expenses, finding their regular income is no longer enough to make ends meet, resulting in a record $17.69 trillion of household debt and over $1 trillion in credit card debt for families across the...
  • InfoWars’ victims and enemies consider buying it

    10/01/2024 4:20:34 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Semafor ^ | September 30, 2024 | Max Tani
    The Scoop Some of the subjects of Alex Jones’ darkest and wildest conspiracy theories could end up taking over his iconic, unhinged InfoWars brand in less than two months. Over the past several years, courts in Connecticut and Texas have ruled that the face of the far-right network must pay the families of victims of the 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook nearly $1.5 billion in damages for repeatedly claiming falsely on his show that the shooting never happened. On Tuesday, a Houston judge ruled that a bankruptcy trustee could begin to liquidate and put up for auction Free Speech Systems,...
  • East and Gulf Coast ports strike, with ILA longshoremen walking off job from New England to Texas, stranding billions in trade

    10/01/2024 2:58:52 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 77 replies
    CNBC ^ | October 01, 2024 | Lori Ann LaRocco
    Key Points Approximately 50,000 ILA union longshoremen were walking off the job at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports from New England to Texas starting at 12:01 a.m. ET on October 1 after failing to reach an agreement with ports ownership on a new contract, the union’s first strike since 1977. Between 43%-49% of all U.S. imports and billions of dollars in trade monthly move through the U.S East Coast and Gulf ports. The International Longshoreman’s Association, the largest maritime union in North America, rejected an offer from the port management group USMX on Monday that included a wage hike...
  • Abolish the Death Penalty. It's Unjust and Outdated

    09/30/2024 5:05:48 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 66 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Sep 30, 2024
    On September 24, the state of Missouri executed a potentially innocent man. Marcellus Williams was convicted in 2001 for the crime of murder. Yet over time, with the help of the Innocence Project, doubts had arisen about his guilt and the legitimacy of the legal process used against him. In any case, the merest shred of doubt should have been enough to spare Williams' life. Yet the truth of the matter is that Williams' life should have never been on the line in the first place. The death penalty in America is a policy past its sell date; it's time...
  • The MAGA/America 1st Memorandum ~~ October 2024 Edition

    09/30/2024 4:44:23 PM PDT · by Jane Long · 285 replies
    Free Republic ^ | 10/01/2024 | Deplorables and Magadonians
    Make America Great Again!Countdown to Nov 5th, 2024Fight, Fight, Fight!
  • Okeechobee, Florida Banned Gun Sales Right Before Helene Hit

    09/30/2024 4:21:17 PM PDT · by TLI · 24 replies
    Bearing arms ^ | September 30, 2024 | Tom Knighton
    The City of Okeechobee, Florida adopted an illegal ordinance shortly before Hurricane Helene made landfall last week, which banned the sale of guns and ammunition and prohibited firearm possession in public by anyone other than law enforcement or members of the military. Donald C. Hagan, the Chief of the Okeechobee Police Department, signed the illegal ordinance, copies of which quickly rebounded around the internet. Chief Hagan did not immediately return calls or emails seeking his comments for this story.
  • Senate Democrat Introduces Bill to Expand SCOTUS(Wyden)

    09/30/2024 2:40:38 PM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 28 replies
    “The Supreme Court is in crisis and bold solutions are necessary to restore the public trust,” Wyden said in a statement. “More transparency, more accountability and more checks on a power hungry Supreme Court are just what the American people are asking for.”
  • Kerry at the WEF: First Amendment Is the Problem

    09/30/2024 9:45:01 AM PDT · by DeweyCA · 30 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 9-30-24 | David Strom
    Democrats have been ramping up the rhetoric, not just about eliminating Donald Trump and MAGA, but about getting rid of the Constitution itself. The first two Amendments of the Constitution are constantly attacked by the left, followed closely by the Electoral College. Your right to speak, to defend yourself, and for people outside New York, California, and deep Blue urban areas to be represented are all under attack. The latest example of this fact is John Kerry, Special Envoy for the President for the Climate (yes, John Kerry is the Earth's representative according to the Biden/Harris administration), bemoaning the fact...
  • LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Press in Valdosta, GA – 9/30/24 2PM EDT

    09/30/2024 8:04:52 AM PDT · by Lakeside Granny · 137 replies
    President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will visit Valdosta, Georgia to receive a briefing on the devastation of Hurricane Helene, facilitate the distribution of relief supplies, and deliver remarks to the press on Monday, September 30, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Watch LIVE on RSBN at 1:00 p.m. ET.
  • Puerto Rico Went from May Issue to Shall Issue. What Happened?

    09/30/2024 4:29:30 AM PDT · by marktwain · 3 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | September 23, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    Puerto Rico changed from “may issue” permits to “shall issue” permits on January 1, 2020 On January 1, 2020, Puerto Rico changed from “may issue” permits to carry firearms to “shall issue” permits.Puerto Rico recently underwent a sea change in its firearms law. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico had one of the most restrictive firearm laws of any American jurisdiction. In 2016, there were only 225,000 legally owned firearms in the Commonwealth. The legislature noticed the Supreme Court decisions in Heller, MacDonald, and Caetano, and the many cases pending before the courts. They also must have noticed Puerto Rico’s homicide...
  • NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith Joins ‘Athletes for Harris’ with Endorsement

    09/29/2024 4:37:18 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 69 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/29/2024 | Warner Todd Huston
    Former Dallas Cowboys star Emmitt Smith has joined 14 other NFL Hall of Fame players in endorsing left-wing Democrat Kamala Harris’s run for the White House in the Harris campaign’s “Athletes for Harris” effort. Calvin “Megatron” Johnson, formerly of the Detroit Lions, and 1970s Minnesota Vikings star Alan Page are among the others who signed onto the vice president’s campaign.
  • John Kerry Derides First Amendment as Major Roadblock to Government Being Able to “Hammer” Dissent “Out of Existence”

    09/29/2024 11:04:17 AM PDT · by DFG · 135 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 09/29/2024 | Miriam Judith
    During the Sustainable Development Impact Meeting held by the World Economic Forum (WEF), John Kerry brazenly admitted that first amendment is a threat to government power. During the discussion, Kerry stated that free speech, particularly on social media, threatens ‘democracies’ by inhibiting the government’s ability to manufacture a consensus through the control of information. ”…I think the dislike like of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing, and that’s part of our problem particularly in democracies — in terms of building consensus around any issue, its really hard to govern today.” He goes on to...
  • Role models are missing in today’s GOP. It used to have people like Gov. Dan Evans

    09/29/2024 6:24:25 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 35 replies
    Idaho Statesman ^ | 9/29/24 | Bob Kustra
    In Evans’ case, that’s where the Seattle Times comes in. For anyone who wants to know the measure of the man, the Times did an excellent job recently of summing up a storied life and career in the service of his fellow citizens that now appears more like a memory from yesteryear rather than a reflection of Republicans in politics today. Of course, there are some good ones out there at every level of government, but over the course of my lifetime I have seen the overall quality of Republicans elected to state and national office decline. And just to...
  • LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in Erie, Pennsylvania – 9/29/24 2PM EDT

    09/29/2024 5:56:08 AM PDT · by Lakeside Granny · 125 replies
    President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 2:00PM EDT. Erie is no stranger to the disastrous policies of the Harris-Biden administration. Pennsylvanians are paying an extra almost $1,000 per month for the same basket of goods due to Kamala’s inflation crisis, and real wages have declined as Americans’ total credit card debt breaks new records. Gas and diesel prices remain at historic highs thanks to the Harris-Biden administration’s crackdown on American energy and Pennsylvania fracking. Meanwhile, Border Czar Kamala Harris'...
  • Kansas GOP icon Nancy Kassebaum endorses Kamala Harris. Can it make a difference? (92 year-old has-been liberal Republican)

    09/28/2024 7:18:55 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 36 replies
    Kansas City Star ^ | 9/27/24 | Dion Lefler
    This is one of those days when something happens and you don’t know exactly what it means, but you know it means something. I woke up this morning to find that Nancy Kassebaum, one of the few living legends left in Kansas Republican politics, had endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Joining her in the endorsement statement, which was provided to Fox News Digital, were Sandy Praeger, the Kansas insurance commissioner from 2003 to 2015, and former federal appeals Judge Deanell Reece Tacha, a Kansas native appointed to the 10th Circuit Court by Ronald Reagan...