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If you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immigration on a Chinese social media platform these days, it’s impossible to avoid encountering the term baizuo (白左), or literally, the ‘white left’. It first emerged about two years ago, and yet has quickly become one of the most popular derogatory descriptions for Chinese netizens to discredit their opponents in online debates. So what does ‘white left’ mean in the Chinese context, and what’s behind the rise of its (negative) popularity? It might not be an easy task to define the term, for as a social media buzzword and very...

The Army deployed 65 infantry divisions for the Second World War. Each was a small town with its own equivalents for community services within eight categories of combat arms. Units such as artillery, engineering, and heavy weapons engaged the enemy directly. Yet of all categories, the foot soldier faced the greatest hazard with the least chance of reward. These civilians become warriors confronted the most dismal fate of all whose duty was uninterrupted by missions completed or a fixed deployment time. The infantryman was enveloped within a most deranged, barbaric, and brittle existence against a resolute enemy where victory often...

The Republican also admitted in an exclusive interview with 7.30 that President Donald Trump sometimes made him "nervous". During a visit to Canberra, Senator McCain said Mr Putin was the "premier and most important threat, more so than ISIS". "I think ISIS can do terrible things. But it's the Russians who tried to destroy the fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election," he said. "I've seen no evidence they succeeded, but they tried and they are still trying to change elections. "They just tried to affect the outcome of the French election. So...

FULL TITLE...................Trump acted like a 'loud and tacky drunk tourist who steps on others without realizing' during his meetings with foreign allies, claims State Department official............................Donald Trump acts like a 'drunk tourist' who 'steps on others without realizing it' when it comes to diplomacy, a state department official has claimed after the president left a G7 Summit in Italy, in which he frustrated leaders in attendance. Trump's performance in the last leg of his first international trip left other world leaders fuming with his stances on climate change, taxes and security. But it was his 'arrogance' in threatening to oppose...

The vast majority of servicemembers joined the military to serve their country. While ready to do whatever that entailed, nothing prepares them for the horrors of war, some people were deeper "in the shit" than others and one can only imagine the long-term head trip that ensues.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is tempering expectations that the Senate will pass an overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system, promising his colleagues a vote but not success. McConnell in his public comments and private conversations about the ObamaCare repeal and replace bill is painting a more sober picture than Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who in March guaranteed passage through the House.

Let us never forget those who gave their life for our freedoms. Remembering the brave men and women who gave their “last full measure of devotion” for our freedoms, requires us to take a moment on this Memorial Day to focus on the individuals behind the numbers and remember they are not just names on a wall. One of those individuals who gave everything he had for us was Marine Captain John J. McKenna IV who was killed on August 16, 2006 during an operation in Fallujah, Iraq. The story of John McKenna’s life and death is the story of...

As we remember our brothers and sisters who have sacrificed and continue to sacrifice so we can have Liberty, let us also remember those that history denies their due glory. How many know that the first man to die in the Revolutionary War was a black man named Crispus Attucks? Crispus Attucks was freed slave who had become a whaler for the merchant marines. Here is a poem written about Attucks by John Boyle O’Riley:

“And in the Morning Watch, the Lord … Cast a Glance” - A Meditation on the Look of the Lord Msgr. Charles Pope • May 28, 2017 • Lest the Easter Season slip away and I miss the chance, I would like to look back on a reading from the Easter Vigil.There is indeed an astonishing verse in the Exodus account, which was read at the Easter Vigil. The Lord has parted the waters of the Red Sea by a strong eastern wind and the Israelites have just made the crossing with the Egyptians in hot pursuit.And in the...

As the days and years pass on, so too shall our freedom because of them. They shall not grow old, but we will because of them Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn them. They may be gone, but never the memory of them ..... Here some quotes about memory and sacrifice, designed to put you a frame of mind to remember the spirit of Memorial Day.... "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." --Joseph Campbell... "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as...

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<p>LANCASTER (CBSLA.com) — Cellphone video of a Lancaster High School student screaming profanities and racial epithets at a teacher made the rounds on social media Friday, with shares topping 4,000 shares on Twitter. Students and authorities are stunned.</p> <p>In the footage captured earlier this week, the student, whose name has not been revealed pending confirmation of his age, can be seen entering an Eastside High School classroom behind the teacher. The video doesn’t capture what happened before the altercation inside, but it shows the visibly upset teen yelling and attempting to destroy objects in the room.</p>

Main Menu Memorial Day in a Divided Nation An important lesson for the left. May 29, 2017 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. It has been over 150 years since our nation’s last civil war. Time enough has passed that we have come to associate the holiday once known as Decoration Day with the graves of soldiers fallen on other continents far from home. It is important to honor our wartime dead. But Memorial Day has a powerful meaning that we...

About 10 various groups, organizations and volunteers gathered around Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery Caretaker Specialist Lynn Roehsler early Saturday morning to announce themselves and to listen to Roehsler’s instructions. Roehsler also directed the volunteers on how to properly place American flags at the grave sites at the cemetery. The contingent volunteering their time from Davis-Monthan from Tucson received a warm round of applause when they announced their presence. With that, an estimated crowd of around 300 spread out in the cemetery to pound, with hammers, flags at each grave and in front of the rows of columbarium niches. “We...

The new State flag design was similar to the 1894 design except that the canton corner color was changed from red to blue and the representation of the Confederate Battle Flag was replaced with 19 small white stars surrounding one large white star. The 19 small stars represented the number of states that were already part of the Union when Mississippi joined in 1817. The large white five-pointed star in the center represented the State of Mississippi. When all the votes were counted the message was clear. The 107 year old Mississippi State Flag would continue to fly over the...

John F. Kennedy would be 100 years old on Monday, were he still alive. The 35th president of the United States was killed in 1963, midway through his term in office, but he is revered today as one of the most towering figures in modern American politics.

FORT HUACHUCA -- It was the wild west once again at Fort Huachuca during its second Cavalry Heritage Day hosted by the B Troop Fourth U.S. Cavalry on Saturday. Nine riders and their mounts galloped around the arena to bleachers full of families to showcase techniques used in the late 1800s U.S. Cavalry. It wasn’t just any regular demonstration, though. Riders were pitted against each other in an obstacle course race complete with bean bags and hay bales in place of the enemy. The riders had to finish the course making sure to slice or shoot each target while guiding...

48 of 50 Moroccan child immigrants in Sweden were recently found to be adult men. Fingerprint analysis was used to check the age of the migrants. Fria Tider reported (translated) via Religion of Peace: Almost all so-called unaccompanied children from Morocco who are controlled by the Swedish police are lying about their age and identity, Svenska Dagbladet reports. SvD has taken part in a PM that was sent in May from the border police to the Ministry of Justice. The document shows that out of a total of 77 people expelled and Morocco agreed to withdraw, 65 were used as...

Pennsylvania State Rep. Jamie Santora (R-163) is pushing a ban on private gun sales nearly identical to the ones Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action pushed in Washington state, Maine, and Nevada. Santora’s bill would bar the private sales that Americans have enjoyed since the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 and would require that every sale be processed in front of an agent of the government via a background check. This means that law-abiding Pennsylvanians selling a gun to a fellow hunter, lifelong co-worker, or childhood friend would have to seek out a Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder and the...

The theories and practice of Globalism have become so accepted that it is hard to imagine any country ever being able to elect a leader that is not sold on the concepts of “shared sovereignty”, “Free-Trade zones” and the use of international regulation to administer nation states. But there is a secret at the heart of the Globalist project: that those who try to operate outside of its margins are swiftly killing themselves…And no one is looking to stop the deaths. The European Union shares much of the blame for the dramatic rise in suicide rates. A detailed study published...