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After two full nights of presidential debates on CNN, Democrats still have no answers to the problems plaguing America’s most dangerous cities. They were happy to call President Trump a racist for correctly pointing out that Baltimore is in horrific shape, but they are woefully mute on what to do about it.The Democratic Party’s silence on solutions for the nation’s most suffering cities is ironic given that the latest Democratic debate took place in Detroit, Michigan—according to one study, the second most dangerous city in America. It would have been an appropriate and excellent opportunity for Democrats to speak...

People have long misunderstood and misrepresented Baltimore, my cherished hometown, but much of what President Donald Trump said this past weekend about Charm City was right on the nose. The president categorized Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” which sparked ire among his always-vocal choir of critics but offered no untrue information.The president was responding to longtime Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose district includes Baltimore, who had issued an incendiary attack on acting Department of Homeland Security head Kevin McAleenan for conditions on the U.S. southern border. Cummings yelled at McAleenan during a House Oversight...

It doesn’t get more hypocritical than A-listers jetting in on private planes to bemoan climate change at Google’s private party in Sicily this week. The Gulfstreams, mega-yachts and gas-guzzling Maserati SUVs used to ferry the wokerati around the seaside Google Camp have been spewing out greenhouse gases at the rate of small nations. Former President Barack Obama, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, singer Katy Perry and Prince Harry are said to be among 300 guests invited by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to their luxurious annual shindig which has been dubbed “Davos by the Sea.” Either they don’t believe climate...

he holiest site in the Islamic faith is preparing for more than two million worshippers to gather for one of the world's largest annual pilgrimages. Mecca, on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, has announced it has finished preparations for the hajj, a mandatory journey in which every Muslim must visit the holy city. More than 30,000 workers, guides and security staff have been drafted in to the city to manage the huge influx of visitors, who will be arriving via 14,000 domestic and international flights to be greeted by temperatures of up to 44C.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 2 Kings 9 Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah 14 So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead against Hazael king of Aram, 15 but King Joram[b] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.” 16 Then he got into his...

If her first interview is any indication, the new leader of Planned Parenthood is doubling down on abortion as “one of our core services.”On July 16, Alexis McGill Johnson became the acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood Action. The move came after her predecessor, Leana Wen, claimed she was fired for not prioritizing abortion enough while at the helm of the nation’s largest abortion provider.While Wen served for a short eight months, McGill Johnson may head Planned Parenthood for more than a year. In one press statement, Planned Parenthood revealed that its search for a more permanent leader...

A host of A-list celebrities faced an angry backlash today after they travelled to a climate change conference in Italy in a fleet of supercars, expensive yachts and more than 100 private jets. Guests at the secretive Google Camp were accused of hypocrisy after they gathered this week to discuss the environment while leaving a considerable carbon footprint of their own. Prince Harry is understood to have given a passionate barefoot speech about saving the planet, although Buckingham Palace has refused to confirm his attendance or whether he too travelled by private jet. 'This is not something we are commenting...

A pro-Hong Kong rally at the University of Queensland in Australia last week turned ugly after a violent group of pro-Beijing students crashed the event and attacked the pro-democracy demonstrators. The incident blew up into a diplomatic crisis on Wednesday when the Chinese consul-general in Brisbane praised the “spontaneous patriotic behavior of the Chinese students” and lauded them for attacking the “anti-China separatists.” Australia has a sizable population of students from both mainland China and Hong Kong. The confrontation at the University of Queensland last Wednesday began after a group of students from Hong Kong organized a rally to show...

A HUMAN-MONKEY hybrid has been grown in a lab in China in a world first scientific breakthrough. Scientists have successfully formed a hybrid human-monkey embryo – with the experiment taking place in China to avoid “legal issues”. Researchers led by scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa spliced together the genes to grow a monkey with human cells. It is said the creature could have grown and been born, but scientists aborted the process. The team, made up of members of the Salk Institute in the United States and the Murcia Catholic University, genetically modified the monkey embryos. Researchers deactivates the genes which...

Wednesday during MSNBC’s post-Democratic debate analysis, “AM Joy” anchor Joy Reid expressed her disappointment when the 2020 presidential candidates apparently attacked former President Barack Obama more than President Donald Trump. Reid said, “It was weird for me to watch about almost 40 minutes of — primarily — attacks on the Obama Administration’s policies. It was odd. It took — I mean, de Blasio made a full-on attack of ObamaCare. Essentially said we have no working health care system in America. But hello, we have ObamaCare. So that means the system he’s attacking and saying it isn’t working is ObamaCare.”

Night Two of the second round of Democratic presidential primary debates was expected to be a fireworks display between former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and CNN did its best to light the fuses early on. Sadly -- for the viewers who didn't want to be bored, anyway -- all of those fuses were duds.The following is my assessment of the painful display, using some of my live tweets from the evening rather than having to type more. Thank you in advance for indulging me, dear readers.The first ten minutes of Wednesday's debate was...

Inspector General Michael Horowitz is preparing a "damning report"on former FBI director James Comey's conduct and has referred him for possible prosecution under the classified information protection laws, the Hill's John Solomon reported Wednesday night. Unfortunately, Solomon is reporting that Department of Justice prosecutors under Attorney General William Barr have decided not to prosecute Comey for the alleged infractions.According to Solomon's sources, the IG report will conclude that Comey "leaked classified information and showed a lack of candor," but DOJ prosecutors declined to bring charges because they didn't think they had enough evidence to prove that Comey intended to violate the law.It...

Just yesterday, a 45-year-old US Navy veteran, with 25 years of active duty service, named Floyd McLendon, Jr. declared his candidacy for Texas’ US Congressional District 32. This is the congressional district I have lived in since moving to Texas back in December of 2014. Floyd served 15 of his 25 years in the US Navy as a SEAL. Floyd McLendon, Jr. is a Republican, an American Black Republican. It did not take long for this to incense and force several progressive socialists in Dallas to show their true colors — pardon the pun — on the issue of Floyd’s...

After two nights of the Democrats’ presidential field debating each other, it’s clear that they are doing harm to their party’s prospects of regaining the presidency in 2020. Part of the problem is a field so large that a circular firing squad is inevitable. As the field is winnowed down, there will be fewer grenades hurled at the frontrunner(s), but it is likely that the surviving candidates will be the most ambitious and ruthless among them, and they will not be tempted to take the high road. So, if anything, the attacks will intensify and gain focus. But a bigger...

The media is abuzz over the first icy “casualty” of climate change: a small glacier in Iceland named Okjökull, also known as “OK.” The claim, made in a press release from Rice University, is OK became the first glacier in Iceland to lose its glacial status because of global warming. According to the press release, “This will be the first monument to a glacier lost to climate change anywhere in the world.” Of course, the fearmongers do not say why the glacier has stopped growing. Instead, they simply invoke the new universal boogeyman of “climate change” as the reason....

Presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said during Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate that she can address “institutional racism” by explaining white privilege to women in the suburbs. “I can explain it to white women in the suburbs,” Gillibrand said on the debate stage. “When their son is walking down the street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot.” The New York senator was addressing racial injustice issues when she made the remarks. “I don’t believe that it’s the responsibility of Cory and Kamala to be the...

Ilhan Omar and a male companion were seen holding hands inside Caffé Pinguini in Playa Del Rey on March 24 Video, obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV, shows Omar leaving the restaurant with the man who tried to prevent them from being photographed 'The question is why they were at this particular restaurant. It's so out of the way. It's the sort of place you go when you don't want anyone to know where you are,' the man who took the video said He added: 'He seemed very protective of her, it was not a random person. It just felt to me...

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A law in Ann Arbor could force a Democrat to write speeches for President Donald Trump or a pro-life artist to create a mural for Planned Parenthood. On Tuesday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a conservative political consulting firm, warning that an Ann Arbor non-discrimination law would force that firm to parrot liberal messages and help Democrats get elected. If they refuse, they could get hit with fines of $500 per day. ADF is representing Grant Strobl and Jacob Chludzinski, founders of the company ThinkRight Strategies. "On the face of the law, it is illegal...