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Angry subscribers forced The New York Times to tweak today's top headline because it was apparently too kind to President Trump. The initial headline read, "Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism" and went into detail about the president's response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Upon seeing it, some readers said, how dare they.

If President Trump is a racist, then so am I. As a matter of fact, if President Trump is racist, a new paradigm for the definition and recognition of racism must be created. The truth is that President Trump is not racist. The truths he doesn’t hesitate to speak are not dog whistles to bigots and racist rednecks as neo-Leninist Democrats try to convince people. The truth by definition cannot be racist; and only the most evil, dishonest and reprobate assemblage of accusers would claim otherwise. Specific to my point: Evil, dishonest and reprobate is exactly what the Democratic Party...

In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib spewed out at least three times on Twitter her loathing for the power of prayer from those who expressed shock and sadness at the events and said they were praying. Look at how repugnant this is:   251 mass shootings in the United States in 216 days. Prayers aren't cutting it Senator. We need you to serve the people, not gun lobbyists. https://t.co/C8ejp9yofL — Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 4, 2019   She also retweeted this:   The House passed two gun safety bills months...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 2 Kings 12 Joash Repairs the Temple 12 [a]In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash[b] became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. 2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. 4 Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the Lord—the money collected...

What a kook. Beto O’Rourke started laughing today when asked about the horrific mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso. It was the seventh deadliest shooting in US history.

Fifty-two billion people—almost half of the cumulative human population—are thought to have perished at the hands of a creature no bigger than a fingernail: the mosquito. In his new book The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, historian Timothy Winegard exposes this insect as not merely an itchy pest, but a force of nature that has dictated the outcome of significant events throughout human history. From ancient Athens to World War II, Winegard highlights key moments when mosquito-borne diseases caused militaries to crumble, great leaders to fall ill, and populations to be left vulnerable to invasion. In addition...

So far, seven months into 2019, eight Republican representatives have announced retirement, six of them during the months of July and August 2019. By comparison, in 2018, 39 congressional Republicans (three U.S. senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives), together with 18 Democrats, did not run for re-election. What is going on with all these Republican retirements? One narrative has it that Republicans were retiring because they were fed up with the toxic political environment or were afraid of losing elections, but these narratives were prematurely formed or they lacked correlation.  There actually are three possible hypotheses...

If only we were more like the Canadians. Gunshots rang out on street corners, in nightclubs and at house parties across the city over the long weekend, injuring 15, Toronto police said Monday. The 14th and 15th victims were shot Monday afternoon in the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood. A man was transported to hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries, according to police. Another person later arrived at hospital with a gunshot wound. It was the 12th shooting incident police responded to in the span of three days. The incidents do not appear to be connected, Chief Saunders said. Early Monday...

Acclaimed author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison has died aged 88. A friend confirmed Morrison's passing to the Associated Press on Tuesday morning. The circumstances surrounding her death are unclear. Morrison is best known for her novel Beloved, which won a Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988. The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Morrison this spring with a gold medal for lifetime achievement in fiction.

China’s state-run media quickly seized on the obsessions of their American counterparts over the weekend by linking President Donald Trump to “white nationalism” and blaming gun violence on the large supply of firearms and loose gun laws in the United States. The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times worked the “white supremacist” angle on Sunday, citing the manifesto left by El Paso, Texas, alleged mass murderer Patrick Crusius: A hate crime is motivated by prejudice, and the victim is targeted because of their social group or race. Many US states have their hate crime laws. However, the number of hate crimes...

Jordan is supposed to be their transit country; they are seeking resettlement to other countries via the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Australian Special Humanitarian Program. The registration with the UNHCR gives them the protective status of refugee as they await resettlement. Yet, the process of resettlement takes at minimum several months and sometimes even years due to the growing refugee backlog..... "The majority of those stuck in limbo have been waiting more than two years—some since the rise of ISIS in 2014," according to the report. "Since January, the process has become...

“Baltimore City Police are investigating after more than a dozen people were shot in the city. From 1am Friday, until 3am Monday, 13 people including a 12-year-old boy were shot in the city. Six have died.” (WBFF, Baltimore July 29.) “One Thousand Killed in 5 days of Fierce Street Fighting! Commander Che Guevara appealed to Batista troops for a truce to clear the streets of casualties. Guevara turned the tide in this bloody battle and whipped a Batista force of 3,000 men.” (New York Times article on Jan 4, 1959 depicting the famous “battle” of Santa Clara in central Cuba, where the Times...

The U.S. Navy officer was eager to talk. He’d seen his ship, one of the Navy’s fleet of 11 minesweepers, sidelined by repairs and maintenance for more than 20 months. Once the ship, based in Japan, returned to action, its crew was only able to conduct its most essential training — how to identify and defuse underwater mines — for fewer than 10 days the entire next year. During those training missions, the officer said, the crew found it hard to trust the ship’s faulty navigation system: It ran on Windows 2000. The officer, hoping that by speaking out he...

(Excerpt) That’s more than the Dayton and El Paso shootings, respectively. (excerpt) Of the multiple shootings reported in the Windy City over the weekend, two were said to have been mass casualty incidents in the same police district. (excerpt) Gun violence in Chicago reportedly left eight people dead last weekend and 40 others hurt.

On college campuses, accused students often must prove they obtained “affirmative consent” from their partners before and throughout sexual activity. In a few states, it’s the law for college students. The American Bar Association, which sets academic standards for law schools and recommends legislation, is deciding whether it should be the law for everyone. Criminal lawyers and advocates of due process are urging the ABA to reject a resolution that they say would flip the burden of proof from the government to the accused in criminal cases. Mandating affirmative consent would functionally mean the end of the Fifth Amendment right...

Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Why does every tragedy have to be an opportunity for the Democrat Party to trash President Trump and America? Rather than letting America go through her shock of having two mass murderers terrorize their communities we have to hear how it's Trump’s fault and these were his Nazi supporters. There is never any introspection or grieving for the lost, only an opportunity to virtue signal and attack. Within 24 hours the...

“‘Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven’” (Matthew 9:2). Jesus’ ultimate words to the paralytic, “your sins are forgiven,” represent the greatest of all divine miracles and definitely the most desirable for the one who hears them. This is the holy Son of God forgiving the sins of an unholy man. He could control nature with a word, and with these words He dismissed the man’s sins and graciously made him right with God. The verb translated “are forgiven” means send away or do away with. David declares, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has...

For more than 150 years, it has played a key part in the maritime, economic and cultural story of these islands. As of 5.15pm yesterday, however, Harland & Wolff ceased to exist as a company. Once the greatest shipyard in the world — producing some of the most famous ships in British history — the Belfast institution had seen its workforce dwindle from 35,000 to just 125 employees. They have now received redundancy notices and, this morning, the firm of accountants appointed as administrators, BDO, will file for insolvency.

It was two days of contrast that tell us about America 2019. In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following the mass murders of Saturday and Sunday morning, the local folks on camera -- police, prosecutors, mayors, FBI and city officials -- were nonpartisan, patient, polite and dignified in the unity and solemnity of their grief for their dead and wounded. But for the Democratic presidential candidates, the El Paso atrocity was like a loose football in the Super Bowl. A mad scramble broke out over who would be first and most savage in indicting President Donald Trump for moral...

Trace Lysette posed nude for Women's Health Naked Strength issue on Monday. The stunning actress - who identifies as transgender - gave her fans a charge as she left little to the imagination during the outdoor photo shoot. And the 32-year-old opened up to the publication about why it was important for her to pose nude: 'Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies.'