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A professor who admitted to local press that he is a member of the far-left militant group Antifa has been removed from his position at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. According to a press release obtained by Campus Reform, Kirkwood Community College President Lori Sundberg made the “decision to remove … from the classroom” Professor Jeff Klinzman after he admitted to being a part of the violent left-wing political group Antifa. On Thursday, Klinzman admitted to a local media outlet that he is active with Antifa. According to the local media report, Klinzman expressed his desire to engage...

Whites tend to vote Republican, while nonwhites tend to vote Democrat. This proved true in the 2016 election, when Trump carried white voters by 20 percent, while Hillary Clinton won 74 percent of nonwhite voters. With the number of Latinos living in the United States nearly doubling since 2000, it is not difficult to see why Texas could soon follow California, Colorado, and Nevada into the Democratic camp in the next 20 years. Using the 2000 census and the 2010 census along with 2018 data, the electoral reality becomes more clear. The population of those under 18 will be majority...

[Catholic Caucus] Does "Communist" Francis's only Book demonstrate he "Favors... [Marxist] Cuban Dictatorship... [&] Authoritarianism"? The Jesuit Post reported that the authoritarian dictatorship friendly Francis's Vatican joined authoritarian Cuba and Communist China in refusing to recognize the "internationally-recognized interim president" of Venezuela Juan Guaido: Guaido['s]... team was in Italy on February 11 seeking... for recognition, they also met with representatives of the Vatican." (The Jesuit Post, "Will Pope Francis Save Venezuela," February 25, 2019) Pope Francis's Vatican refused to recognize Guaido. If Francis's Vatican had recognized Guaido it is possible that the Venezuelan military backing may have crumbled for the...

Today’s independent Russia is a country that has risen anew. It has been obliged to solve, practically from scratch, the question of its place in the world — what unites the people who inhabit it, what kind of relationship these people have with the state and what they expect from it. During Putin's first term, the state did not try to impose its ideology, did not intrude into private life and created conditions for economic growth and new consumer opportunities. Even a series of catastrophes and tragedies in the early 2000s (the Kursk submarine sinking, the Nord-Ost hostage crisis, Beslan...

Has the reach of #MeToo finally come for Renoir? ... The piece, titled "Renoir's Problem Nudes" has doozies like these: Who doesn’t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter’s prodigious output of female nudes, “Renoir: The Body, the Senses,” at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sparks a sense of crisis. The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days. Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind’s incisors; there’s a more burning issue....

“Nice life you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if someone destroyed it, leaving you and your family in poverty and despair for the crime of not being leftists.” That’s the message that the mainstream press has been sending to anyone who dares to be a conservative in the late 2010’s. Remember when they doxxed a Facebook grandma for unknowingly contributing to a Facebook page run by a Russian company, fueling the conspiracy theory that President Donald J. Trump was a Russian agent? She received death threats. I wrote about them in my latest book Enemies: The Press vs. The...

Israel Mocks Iran Over Failed Drone Attack Launched From Luxury Villa With Pool: ‘That Sounded Good in the Morning Meeting’ The Israeli Army mocked a leading Iranian general on Twitter Sunday following an IAF airstrike in Syria that thwarted an attempted drone attack on Israel’s north. “TO: Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, RE: Last Night,” the tweet said, “’We will carry out a large-scale attack of killer drones on the ‘Zionist entity’ from Syria.’ It sounded good in your morning meeting, didn’t it?” At the same time, details began to emerge about the background to the planned Iranian attack....

President Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has been vilified in recent days as a racist and misogynist by liberal pundits and organizations -- but conservative allies claim the attacks amount to a smear campaign and a gross distortion of his past writings. The attacks against judicial nominee Steven Menashi picked up last week with a segment by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, in which the host discussed a 2010 article Menashi wrote for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, titled “Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy.” Maddow started off her discussion by comparing the term...

The Department of Education says she “stepped down,” but longtime Upper West Side superintendent Ilene Altschul got pushed out because she’s white, sources told The Post. “Carranza and his team targeted Ilene — among others — because she is white and Jewish,” said a veteran white DOE administrator who is close to Altschul. “They wanted to replace her with one of their cronies, regardless of her work and commitment to advancing equity in her community.” Altschul, the longtime leader of the District 3, which also includes Harlem, is the latest casualty of Carranza’s sweeping reorganization of the Department of Education....

Update for Aug. 24: Astronaut Anne McClain has issued a statement refuting the claims of her estranged spouse. Read the full story here.The closely-guarded private life of a NASA astronaut burst into the spotlight in a New York Times report Friday (Aug. 23) on a messy divorce battle involving American astronaut Anne McClain that has apparently led to claims of identity theft against the space flyer. The incident is rooted in a bitter separation with McClain's spouse, Summer Worden, the Times report continued. According to Worden, her bank account was accessed without her permission from a NASA-affiliated computer network, prompting...

Hillary the donkey is a castaway no longer. The most famous donkey in Mariposa County was removed from her lonely 1-acre island in the middle of Lake McClure in an intricate operation that involved no fewer than 20 state wildlife biologists and veterinarians, a tranquilizer gun and a donkey trailer that came all the way from Texas to transport Hillary to donkey paradise. It almost didn’t happen, however, donkeys being donkeys. Hillary had been living on the small island for two years, ever since the lake waters rose and cut her off from the mainland. Local do-gooders had been dropping...

Workers at a Maryland office space are lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping a powerful gas explosion that authorities said 'totaled' the building. The incident started just before 7am on Sunday when someone pulled the fire alarm at the Lakewood Office Building and shopping center in Columbia Maryland, a town located about 19 miles southwest of Baltimore, authorities said. Howard County Fire and Rescue emergency crews responded to the scene where fire fighters found gas hissing out of a crater in the parking lot. They made sure the shopping center was completely evacuated just before the office exploded around...

Luke Lenzner says he was 'sucker punched' outside an Oregon bar on Saturday Pictures show Lenzner in the Make America Great Again cap with cuts to his face He says he was 'mobbed' outside the bar by people who 'circled me and my wife' Adebisi A. Okuneye, 23, and Leopold A. Hauser, 22, were arrested nearby They have been charged with third-degree assault after leaving the scene Lenzner appears to point at his hat and say something before the altercation ========================================================================== A man and woman have been arrested accused of attacking a MAGA hat-wearing Trump supporter who was on a...

I spotted this headline this morning and thought, “No way does he end up as the nominee.”And now, thanks to Monmouth, we have confirmation.Alternate headline: “CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER, MASS HYSTERIA.”If you believe this data, Grandpa Joe has suffered a partial collapse over the last two months — even though there’s no obvious reason why. There’s been no scandal or catastrophic debate performance. What might have caused this?Has the gaffe-o-rama caught up to him, with Dem primary voters wondering if he’s “lost a step,” to borrow a favorite euphemism? Or is this a simple matter of Dem voters...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Carrie Yvette Fischer just moved to Colorado. She wants to work, but her mother's attempted abortion left her with facial deformities that she says make it difficult to land a job. So she reached out on Facebook to find some help and found hundreds of connections. "When I go out or when I go meet somebody I always feel like I have to warn them. I don't want to scare you when you meet me," Fischer said. Fischer and her husband Richard just moved to Colorado Springs from Houston. They're living at a hotel for now....

This is the dramatic moment the three thieves who raided a New York jewelry store on Sunday launched their brazen heist by whipping out their guns and taking the employees hostage. New footage released by the New York Police Department shows how one of the robbers posed as a customer in a private meeting with three employees in the back room of Avianne and Co. in Midtown's Diamond District, before pulling out his gun. The NYPD shared the 40-second clip of additional surveillance footage on Monday morning asking for help in identifying the thieves. The clip shows the suspect, who...

Some bad news for Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa’s 4th District this week. As you may be aware, he’s been embroiled in some controversy in the media over a variety of remarks he’s made recently, ranging from opposing abortions stemming from rape and incest to saying that most of us wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for rape. How the voters back home have been viewing this dustup isn’t exactly clear, but we may be getting a hint from his fundraising numbers. Specifically, a number rapidly approaching zero in terms of how much campaign cash he has in...

Full Title: Obama on wealth inequality: ‘There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have.’ Former United States President Barack Obama believes that ballooning wealth inequality is a threat to society, and that those who have the means should help those who are less fortunate. “Right now I’m actually surprised by how much money I got,” the 44th President said in his address to more than 10,000 people gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. “There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have. There’s only...

Beto O'Rourke, Woke Why did the Civil Rights movement succeed? It might have failed. In the U.S., unlike in South Africa, black Americans didn’t make up a huge, oppressed majority. They constituted just 11 percent of the population. Nor did they wield proportionate economic power — the heritage of slavery and Jim Crow had seen to that. They weren’t well-armed. Gun control laws, which always disarm the most helpless, had made quite sure of that. The militant approach favored by Malcolm X, and later the Black Panthers, certainly frightened white people. But it could have just as easily provoked...

Mary Taft lives with her two daughters, seven cats and two dogs in a mansion in Panama — and she wouldn’t have it any other way. But the former teacher and school administrator didn’t always know that a Panamanian retirement was in store for her. Indeed, as she consulted with her two adult daughters about where to move, dozens of spots were on the table. “We had this blue-sky conversation — where can we all go and live together?” the 63-year-old former Springfield, Mass., resident recalls. “Canada was out because it was too cold. We wanted the tropics because we...