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The "gender reveal" has become a growing phenomenon in the world of social media. When expectant parents discover the gender of their unborn baby, they make a big announcement revealing the baby's sex, with cakes and balloons and even pyrotechnics. It's a celebration of life, a desire to share the joyous news of the little boy or girl. Ah, but there's the rub. A boy or a girl. In today's perverted culture, this is wrong -- very wrong. It's not surprising that in today's war on the "gender binary," major newspaper columnists appointed to write on "gender issues" (can you...

Those who believed America's racial divide would begin to close with the civil rights acts of the 1960s and the election of a black president in this century appear to have been overly optimistic. The race divide seems deeper and wider than at any time in our lifetimes. Most of the aspiring leaders of the Democratic Party have apparently concluded that branding the president a "racist" and "white supremacist" is the strategy to pursue to win the nomination and the White House. Here is Joe Biden, speaking in Iowa as President Donald Trump was visiting the wounded communities of Dayton,...

Hundreds of the millions in the United States illegally are in the custody of.... 680 is the number of established by ICE of those originally arrested but now some 300 are freed.... "The same Democrat Party that has left places like Jackson, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and Houston to suffer under the tyranny of violent criminals wants us to believe they have the solution to mass shootings" That's part of the latest message from 2020 Republican US Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore in Alabama who's also noting that many in the Republican Party seem to be moving in the direction...

Editor's Note: The column was co-authored by Lori Roman. America’s founders understood that the right to own firearms — the right to use effectual force to defend oneself, one’s family, one’s neighborhood, one’s nation — was the difference between a mere subject and a free, independent, equal citizen. The United States was designed to enjoy a government of, by, and for the people, as President Lincoln put it. To that end every citizen was entitled, and often required, to own firearms. On the frontier, defending the community was the responsibility of every man.For black communities, however, the threat has rarely...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday. Here's another I want in the YouTube format: John Dilleshaw - Streak O' Lean Streak O' Fat. That is seven-time Georgia fiddle champion A.A. Gray on the fiddle. The tune was recorded in March of 1930 and is on the Document Records CD John Dilleshaw (1929-1930). For a complete bio on Dilleshaw see http://www.1001tunes.com/fiddlers/dil... The Westerner http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

WASHINGTON—The number of migrants encountered by U.S. authorities at the southern border has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in five months amid increased collaboration with Mexico and Guatemala to crack down on the flow, according to government data released on Thursday, Aug. 8. In July, there were 82,049 people encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), down 21 percent from June when there were 104,344 people and down 43 percent from May. The number of family units and unaccompanied minors crossing the border also dropped. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan traveled to border town—Yuma, Arizona—on Thursday...

While President Donald Trump is an ideal scapegoat for leftist hatred and demagoguery, the left's ultimate goal is to permanently reduce conservatism and the Republican Party to minority status by indelibly associating them with racism. Listen to what the Democratic presidential candidates and other Democrats are saying. If you support border enforcement, you are a racist. If you support Trump, who pushes border enforcement, you are a racist. If you don't condemn Trump for being a white supremacist, which he is not, you are a white supremacist. Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, chairman of the presidential campaign for his twin...

A fleet of Chinese ships has left Vietnam's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, Hanoi said Thursday, ending a tense month-long stand off in the resource-rich waterway claimed by both sides and others. A Chinese survey vessel and several accompanying ships entered the waters around the Spratly Islands early last month, drawing ire from Hanoi, the US and the EU over Chinese increasing aggression in the resource-rich seas. Hanoi on Thursday confirmed the vessels had left its exclusive economic zone, after weeks of repeated demands to vacate. "On August 7, 2019, the group of Haiyang 8 vessels belonging...

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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT- MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives that there -- that there be appropriated, as a loan, a sum sufficient to create a national boys camp, to be paid back to the United States Treasury by...

This past Saturday a mentally unhinged gunman walked into a Wal-Mart in El Paso, TX and brutally murdered 22 innocent people. The gunman, who for decency’s sake shall remain nameless, was a deranged white nationalist. The mainstream media and Democrat politicians alike, never ones to let an opportunity to smear Donald Trump go by, even (or especially) in times of national mourning, quickly tried to tie President Trump to the shooter. Unlike previous false narratives about the president, this one is especially disgusting. Unlike the Russia Collusion false narrative which became almost comical towards its eventual evaporation with the Mueller Report,...

What's the point at which rhetoric forces action? When do words become incitement? At what point do political attacks get so reckless and unhinged that you can no longer heal the divide they create with politics? It's hard to know exactly, but the left is getting very close. Take, for example, this exchange on MSNBC, in which frequent guest Malcolm Nance accuses the president of the United States of sending secret messages to neo-Nazis: "These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling, and Donald Trump is giving them...

President Donald Trump on Thursday took a step closer to sparking a currency war in the escalating conflict with China, saying he is not happy with the strong US dollar. Trump has pursued a policy of maximum pressure, including subjecting all Chinese goods to punitive tariffs as of September 1, and accusing Beijing of manipulating its currency to gain a competitive edge. In a move that breaks with decades of US policy, Trump on Thursday seemed to call for a weaker dollar to help American companies compete. (please see link for full article) Pretty long bit, not quoted here.

The Democrats’ all-consuming hatred of President Trump leads to some serious lapses in judgment. They don’t even seem to mind if their own constituents become collateral damage in their scorched-earth campaign to take down the President. Democrats are now employing a tactic of “naming and shaming” that all Americans, including other candidates and party leaders, should condemn and disavow.Representative Joaquin Castro — a San Antonio Democrat who also runs his twin brother Julian’s presidential campaign — deliberately put Trump supporters from his own district in harm’s way Tuesday, proving that Democrats are totally insincere when they accuse Trump of inflaming...

Actual title: Some fun videos of Asia; to include China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan. (Part 13) This is part 13 of a 20 part series of videos of Asia during July and August. The post begins on a discussion of the importance of the Seinfeld Soup Nazi and starts to go into the subject of elementary schools in Thailand, when the protests in HK broke out. This particular post places five videos of the protests and the relative impact on China as a result.

The frightening pages were revealed by a former friend who paints a confounding picture of Betts as a frequent methamphetamine smoker who played violent video games - but was never a racist or interested in weapons...Himes can testify, however, to the fact that Betts was a frequent drug user, taking methamphetamine, cocaine - or 'whatever upper he could get his hands on' in days-long binges...'But he was very consistent with the methamphetamine. I don't know if he got into slamming with needles, but he was pretty much smoking it every day when we were hanging out. 'Coke was also a...

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/statuses/1159251658230128640 Some have asked, “who needs 100 rounds?” If 6 brave, trained, and alert police officers with professionally maintained weapons fired 58 rounds to subdue the Dayton shooter, I’d say my wife deserves at least that many chances to protect herself and my kids when I’m not home. More at: https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1159252434759356416

There are two very important questions we all should be asking: 1. Why are things the way they are in this world? 2. How do we fix it? The world is wearing themselves out trying to figure out the second question, but they don't care too much to ask themselves the first question. But we'll never know the answer to the second question until we can find the answer to the first question.

When did it become ­acceptable for politicians, and their media helpers, to target private citizens for their ­political opinions? A pair of ­incidents this week revealed just how routine such bullying has become. In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) released the names of a few dozen San Antonio residents who had donated to President Trump’s re-election campaign. (Castro is chairman of the presidential campaign of his twin brother, Julián.) Castro was apparently unconcerned by the prospect that these people — retirees and small-business owners — would be inevitably targeted for ­harassment. They...

When Ben Goldey, a House communications director from Kentucky, saw a Facebook Live video of protesters outside of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s house, he immediately took a screen grab of the video and posted it to Twitter. The protest was led by left-wing activist Chanelle Helm, who chanted, “Just stab the ­motherf- -ker in the heart.” A growing movement of radical left-wing activists has become bolder, and Goldey’s tweet highlighted the danger that Republican lawmakers are increasingly facing. There was once a time when a mob of protesters outside of a senator’s personal residence chanting death threats would be national news, but...