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As Byron York asks “Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto?”Answer: Irrelevant. If anyone in the MSM has read Crusius’ manifesto they certainly are not reporting on the murderer’s rant which he titled “An Inconvenient Truth” because it contains well, far too many inconvenient truths. Beginning with the fact that his inspiration was Christchurch, New Zealand murderer Brenton Tarrant, not President Trump. Nothing else should surprise anyone anymore but Aaron Klein at Breitbart lays out the incohesive ramblings of the sick and not-so-bright mind of Patrick Crusius in “Nine Themes in El Paso Shooter’s Manifesto the Media Ignored to...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – Signs for ‘school prayer zones’ are popping up across South Carolina. A local non-profit said prayers over schools, students and administrators need to become a regular practice, so a woman designed the signs and got the Department of Transportation’s approval to sell them to local churches to be placed on their property. “This is a perfect example of church and state. Whereas we’re staying out of the area of the state but we’re bringing it onto the land of the church,” said Vanessa Frazier with Christ Teens. The woman who came up with the idea said...

(WTNH) — After this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, gun control is back on the national agenda. There is a vigil scheduled in Newtown Thursday night. On Wednesday, the brother of a Sandy Hook victim was part of a CNN Town Hall. The young man we’re talking about is JT Lewis. His brother was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, but JT is now running for state senate as a pro-second amendment Republican. JT was alongside shooting survivors and other families who have been touched by gun violence. Plenty of people there were calling for more gun control...

Immediately following two horrific mass shootings — one in El Paso, Texas, and another within a matter of hours in Dayton, Ohio — the blame game started. For many, culprit No. 1 is, of course, President Donald Trump. Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said: "There is a complicity in the President's hatred that undermines the goodness and the decency of Americans, regardless of what party. To say nothing in a time of rising hatred, it's not enough to say that, 'I'm not a hatemonger myself.' If you are not actively working against hate, calling it out, you are complicit...

Today’s Cryptogram KTR TODFRNK KTYZV KU WRODZ YZ WYMR YN HTYJT EDYFVR KU JDUNN OZF HTYJT KU ELDZ. ---FOCYF DLNNRWW Author of today’s quote You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips...

As the family came together, talk began of the new ones: refugees some called them, invaders others said. They came from far away and had traveled weeks to get here, sometimes longer. They did not have a good life in their country. They were treated with hostility. Injury and hunger seemed to be their way of life, and they came here to escape. “They should not be coming here.” an old man said, “They should stay and change their system. They should stand up for themselves there, not come here.” “But uncle”, said a younger woman, “They do not have...

Last weekend's mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have produced a flood of words about everything from gun control to mental illness to white nationalism. Most of those words have addressed the right to keep and bear arms as if it were a gift from the government. It isn't. The Supreme Court has twice ruled in the past 11 years that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual pre-political liberty. That is the highest category of liberty recognized in the law. It is akin to the freedoms of thought, speech and personality. That means...

MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI counterintelligence official, floated a conspiracy theory about the president issuing secret Nazi messages on "The 11th Hour With Brian Williams" on Monday night. FRANK FIGLIUZZI: And I'll give you an example of that. We have to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with. And if we don't understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them. So, it’s little things and language and messaging that matters. The President said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. That's 8/8. Now, I'm not going to imply that...

“And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, ‘Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, “Your sins are forgiven,” or to say, “Get up, and walk”? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins . . .’” (Matthew 9:4–6). Because He is the Son of God, Jesus “did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man” (John 2:25). Christ knows all about every sin, even the unseen ones (cf. 1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chron. 28:9), and stands firmly against...

“[Gabriel] came to [Mary] and said, ‘Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!’” (v. 28). - Luke 1:26–38 In the history of Christian theology, we often see that theological error sometimes sparks a response that goes to the extreme in the other direction. For example, the theological liberalism popular at the end of the nineteenth through the beginning of the twentieth century essentially ignored the transcendent lordship of God and focused entirely on His immanent presence. The Lord was made such a part of this world that He could not be distinguished from it. This error motivated the...

Here is one of my favorites by the Delmore Brothers: She Left Me Standing On The Mountain (1946). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf have reported unusual GPS interference, among other problems, and the US believes Iran is to blame. The Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration issued a warning on Wednesday highlighting threats to commercial vessels posed by Iran. The warning revealed that ships have had a variety of issues when operating in the region, including "spoofed bridge-to-bridge communications from unknown entities falsely claiming to be US or coalition warships." (excerpt) US defense official told CNN that Iran has GPS jammers operating on Abu Musa Island, an island in the Persian Gulf located...

Intrusions come as tensions between Iran and its Gulf neighbors ratchet up over sanctions, nuclear program and shipping Suspected Iranian hackers infiltrated critical infrastructure and government computers in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain within the last month, raising fears among leaders in the region that Tehran is stepping up its cyberattacks amid growing tensions. “Bahrain au­thor­i­ties iden­ti­fied in­tru­sions into its Elec­tric­ity and Wa­ter Au­thor­ity. The hack­ers shut down sev­eral sys­tems in what the au­thor­i­ties be­lieved was a test run of Iran’s ca­pa­bil­ity to dis­rupt the coun­try.”

Call them whistlepigs, woodchucks or whatnot, these eastern burrowers can provide good hunting – and meatier meals than rabbits, squirrels. The groundhog is the most underrated small game animal in the country. We call them whistlepigs in northern Georgia, a reference to their calls and their food value. Groundhogs are good eating and there is a lot more meat on them than on squirrels and rabbits. Some folks boil an older one until tender and then put it in the oven. I simply cover it with barbecue sauce and put them in the oven. Whatever way you prepare them, they...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) You seriously cannot make this stuff up, folks. – Democrat activists in Hollywood are planning to release a movie in September in which Trumps supporters are dehumanized by being portrayed as no better than game animals to be hunted for sport by the nation’s “elite.” Breitbart reports that ESPN made the decision over the weekend to pull ads for the film, uncreatively titled “The Hunt,” from its dying channel over the weekend in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. This film is an obvious, blatant dog-whistle attempt...

An exclusive report from Entertainment Weekly confirms what many of us have already been saying from the start: The Liberal agenda is about deconstructing norms and foisting their lifestyle on kids as young as possible. It’s not even hidden in the article, the journalists outright say it while promoting the Netflix special of Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, whose story centers around a transgender character that Rocko is in search of. Creator Joe Murray revealed to Entertainment Weekly that since they couldn’t outright include alphabet soup propaganda in the 1990s run of the show, they had to subversively instill the...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pledged that as president he would disclose government information about aliens and unidentified flying objects. Sanders, one of the leading 2020 Democrats, told podcast host Joe Rogan on Tuesday that his wife would "demand" he tell people about the mysterious phenomena. “Well I tell you, my wife would demand I let you know," he told Rogan who asked whether Sanders would disclose that information. When Rogan asked whether his wife was a UFO nut, he said she wasn't but said she has previously asked him about the information he might have as a senator. “No, she’s...

Okay, but isn’t it possible that cosmetics matter? Certainly gun manufacturers act as if they do. They’ve designed guns to look more and more like weapons of war. They are advertised with images of heavily armored soldiers. Some gun ads use language exquisitely attuned to men’s desire for respect and even dominance. “Forces of opposition, bow down,” said one. The AR-15 Bushmaster was marketed with the slogan “Consider your man card reissued.”

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Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in the 2000 election, Bush had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. Democrats were still furious that Bush supposedly had been "selected" by the Supreme Court over the contested vote tally in Florida rather than "elected" by the majority of voters. By late 2003, Bush's popularity had dipped over the unpopular Iraq War, which a majority in both houses of Congress approved but had since disowned. Bush was attacked nonstop as a Nazi, fascist, and war criminal. "Bush lied, people died"...