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The 2020 presidential election has kicked off in many states as voters begin mailing the first ballots, marking the start of an eight-week sprint to November. The left has such a fanatical fixation on this election, the fate of our nation is clearly riding on the outcome. The liberal media are openly warning that there will be violence if Trump wins, so in their mind, the only way to ensure a peaceful transition is a Joe Biden blowout. They are basically using the old mafia line, “Nice country you have here. It would be a shame if something bad happened...

For half a century, it’s been a term of disdain: the “throwaway society,” uttered with disgust by the environmentally enlightened. But now that their reusable tote bags are taboo at grocery stores and Starbucks is refusing to refill their ceramic mugs, they’ve had to face some unpleasant realities. Disposable products aren’t merely more convenient than the alternative; they’re also safer, particularly during a pandemic but also at any other time. And they have other virtues: the throwaway society is healthier, cleaner, more economical, less wasteful, less environmentally damaging—and yes, more “sustainable” than the green vision of utopia. These are not...

“For every New Yorker that doesn’t fill it out, all that means is that other states receive our funding and our Congressional seats,” said Menin, who is hitting the alarm bell over the Manhattan’s current no-show status. “This is not a time to be invisible, this is a time to stand up and be counted.” At stake is potentially two seats in Congress and an estimated $7,000 per household in annual federal funding and support, according to a study released by the good government group Common Cause. So, Manhattan’s failure to show up so far could cost New York City...

The Milwaukee papers of the 10th bring additional details of the wreck of the Lady Elgin. The Sentinel gives the following list of lost and saved, the latter being designated by an asterisk; Arnold George; a man and wife from Washington; *a deck hand from Chicago, name unknown; *a woman saved at Evanstown, without clothing, name unknown. Bishop Harry and Augustus; Barry, Captain of Union Guards; Burns, deputy sheriff; Burns, Michael and Welland; Burtel, Michael; *Boyd, Frank; Boesenberg, Pred, city band; Balfin, Thos.; Burns, Fanny; Bulger sisters, Black Hugh, Blatz Mrs. Helen, Bohan Thos., Birmingham Cornelius, Barron Mrs., supposed to...

It’s mid-September and two different Americas now embrace two different election processes, with each side convinced of the illegitimacy of the other’s process and skeptical of the results. The mainstream media and social media giants have lined up on the expected side, with Facebook recently announcing they’ll somehow support, versus detract from, the integrity of the elections by preventing political campaigns for advocating for their interests or declaring victory before they – Facebook – deem appropriate. Opposition leader Barack Obama seeds doubt about the fairness of the election and even the survival of the country if his slate of candidates...

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Evidence of an alliance between Democrats and BLM couldn’t be more glaring. Pernicious riots have persisted, unchallenged, in Democrat strongholds with the imprimatur of untold Democrat mayors, city councils, and governors. The Democrat media delivers the news with an Orwellian blackout of the word “riot” as our cities immolate before our very eyes. *snip* That the violence would endure and balloon as it has, should come as no surprise. BLM never hid their incendiary Marxist agenda targeting the police, our political system, free markets, and the family -- all of which are products of white supremacy and privilege. After a...

When the tactics of Black Lives Matter coincide with the ideology of NPR, Americans should realize that the left has crossed yet another line on the indecency scale. A reporter for an NPR station showed up at the Los Angeles hospital where two sheriff’s deputies who had just been shot while sitting in their car were taken. A BLM crowd had miraculously appeared within minutes to block the emergency entrance, some of them shouting “I hope they f****** die.” Some were vowing to “rape a cop’s girlfriend like a dog instead of a pig.” The NPR station’s reporter allegedly interfered...

Wow: Joe Biden’s staff won’t even let him do a “spontaneous” Q&A session without a script. Is he really that far gone? Obsessive scripting is the only explanation for what happened at last week’s Biden question-and-answer session with AFL-CIO union members, when the candidate responded to a young barista’s query with the non sequitur, “Move it up here” — then paused. Anyone who’s been following Biden’s travails recognizes those words as a cue to his aides to jog the teleprompter, as he’s done time and again in recent weeks. (Why an experienced politician with a top-notch staff keeps having this...

As of this writing (1 p.m. ET, Sunday, September 13), two young Los Angeles sheriffs are fighting for their lives after being shot in the head and face. One is just 31 years-old and a married mother; the other is only 24. They were ambushed and shot in cold blood by a single suspect last night, but as of now, there has been no official statement from BLM leaders condemning the shooting. Why? We have no idea who the shooter was. But we do know that when word got out that ambulances were racing the downed officers to an LA hospital...

[This piece uses heavy video content.] When the virtue signaling isn’t virtuous enough. – Opening week NFL games were chock-full of kneeling players and virtue signaling designed to appease activist players and the openly-Marxist Black Lives Matter domesetic terror group. But the head activist player – who hasn’t actually played in four years – was not mollified by it all. Not mollified at all. Colin Kaepernick, still angry that no NFL team wanted his poisonous presence in their locker room after he started the trend of kneeling during the national anthem at the suggestion of his Marxist girlfriend, lashed out...

Watching Democrat-aligned radicals raze our cities over the past three months has felt like a thousand mini-Pearl Harbors -- only the enemy is within and the damage is in our backyards. While beleaguered Democrats dig their own graves as they prop up the riots, the ordeal has been exhausting, dispiriting, and frustrating for the rest of us. Evidence of an alliance between Democrats and BLM couldn’t be more glaring. Pernicious riots have persisted, unchallenged, in Democrat strongholds with the imprimatur of untold Democrat mayors, city councils, and governors. The Democrat media delivers the news with an Orwellian blackout of the...

Another justified police shooting, another unjustified riot. – We’ll see how long it takes for the corrupt news media to turn this lunatic into another “model citizen who never hurt anybody.” BLM terrorists fomented another Democrat-funded riot on Sunday night after a completely justified police shooting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Body cam footage of the incident clearly shows a man rushing a police officer wielding a large knife with obvious intent to stab the officer. The officer protects himself exactly as he is trained to do: by putting the lunatic down. Here’s the body cam footage: Best Natural Hair Masks That...

With Hidin’ Biden being in the basement, live events limited to almost non- existent, interviews with a teleprompter, statements issued, video speeches that are likely edited. Is Joe Biden the modern day equivalent to 1980s Max Headroom? Got to admit they look a lot of like, just Joe is older.

Racism is America’s original sin, and despite a century and a half and more of efforts to put it behind us, it is more of an issue than ever. A great deal of this is the responsibility of a man whose election to the presidency was hailed as the beginning of a new, post-racial era in American society, a man who was supposed to embody America’s rejection of racism: Barack Hussein Obama. There were many people who opposed Obama who nonetheless hailed his election to the presidency for what it showed about the United States. There are vanishingly few countries...

The Hawai'i Federal District Court has issued an opinion in Teter v. Connors that guts the Second Amendment. The opinion holds that even if butterfly or “balisong” knives are protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution, a state law banning any possession, manufacture or transport of such knives is constitutionally valid. From the opinion: The popularity of an all-encompassing class of weapon (the knife, or even the folding knife)is immaterial when only one narrow subset of the class (the butterfly knife) is banned here.The Court declines to treat the ban on butterfly knives—a relatively obscure weapon—the same way the...

“He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he” (Proverbs 14:21).

Authorities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead on Sunday afternoon. It happened on the 300 block of Laurel Street around 4:15 p.m. when Lancaster City police officers arrived for a domestic disturbance call. According to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office, bodycam video shows the suspect, identified as 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz, immediately run toward the officer “in a threatening manner” while brandishing a knife in front of the residence. Bodycam video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=CHBeRPxZ6KE&feature=emb_title But for BLM it doesn’t matter if the victim wasn’t innocent. They started a series of riots. Police deployed...

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On Saturday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill SB-145 into law. This law “exempts from mandatory registration under the act a person convicted of certain offenses involving minors if the person is not more than 10 years older than the minor and if that offense is the only one requiring the person to register.” The bill was introduced by State Senator Scott Wiener (D), who applauded Newsom’s legislative endorsement, saying “Newsom’s signing of the bill ended “blatant discrimination” against LGBTQ youth in California by treating them “the exact same way that straight young people have been treated since 1944.””The...