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by Rod Thomson There’s a deeply inconvenient truth that the Black Lives Matter, Inc. left does not want Americans to hear. Anyone can be racist and anyone can be the victim of racism. We’ve seen this over the past months with multiple videos of black people attacking white people because they are white, even with police investigating some as hate crimes. The media doesn’t care to report those, but fortunately they are not the lone informational gatekeepers anymore. This bookends with obvious racist acts against black people. The true number of incidents on both sides are small, but the point...

As Obama administration Secretary of State, John Kerry delivered the deal with Iran that made the Munich Agreement look good and lied volubly about it in crushing tones of condescension. The signing of the Abraham Accords at the White House this week affords us the opportunity to look back at this piece of conventional wisdom circa 2016 and evaluate it in light of this week’s events. Often wrong but never in doubt is the adage that applies here, as with the foreign policy of Joe Biden.

I found my copy of The Art of the Deal in paperback recently, I read it originally in the 90s, and the one chapter that stuck with me all these years was Chp 12 The Wollman Rink. A thought experiment... What if in the coming days leading up to Election Day 2020, a surge of purchases of this classic book were to flood into Random House, propelling PDJT's book back onto the NY Times best seller list. Just think about that... I was inspired by a POST earlier today, I decided to create a challenge for one and all. A...

September 1 82020 Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty-fourth Friday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 447 Reading 1 1 COR 15:12-20 Brothers and sisters: If Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then empty too is our preaching; empty, too, your faith. Then we are also false witnesses to God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not...

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Noel, the Scottish Fold, plays with his toy ball and won't let anyone else have it. Video, 3 minutes & 30 seconds

Joe Biden is not the first person in his family to have gone to college. But he has a lengthy history of claiming otherwise, no matter how much the lie gets him in trouble. Even after having famously admitted exactly 33 years ago to the day that he had family who had gone to college before him, Biden once again made the false claim at a CNN Town Hall on Thursday night. Biden enthusiast Charlotte Alter, a national correspondent at Time magazine, tweeted out his line, apparently unaware of its role in Biden’s 1987 presidential campaign collapse: https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-1.20.21-AM.png Back in...

In the past, being labeled as 'mean' or harsh or heartless, even if one was just ironic and witty, as Bob Dole was, was political death. Nixon suffered under this standard, and so did John McCain (before his tiffs with Donald Trump). You always wanted to be the baby smoocher, anything else was political death. But somehow Joe Biden has avoided this fate, based on a fawning press that acts as his filters, echo-chambering his phony pitch to voters as being the candidate of 'civility,' 'decency,' and 'dignity.' Fact is, Biden is pretty mean and cranky, with a special contempt...

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin At least today. Can I hear an “amen?” Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

The Commerce Department announced Friday morning that it would ban U.S. business transactions with Chinese-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok on Sunday. The announcement comes ahead of an expected statement Friday by President Donald Trump on whether or not the government will approve a deal for Oracle to take a minority stake in TikTok and become a “trusted technology partner” for the company in the U.S. It’s unclear if the Commerce Department’s announcement means there’s no possibility of a deal going through before the Sunday deadline, and it could be an aggressive move from the Trump Administration to push for...

Now that Al Sharpton has lost interest in Minneapolis — after all, there are no more televised funerals of criminal suspects who died in police custody for him to hijack — the rest of his comrades in the national media have moved on as well. The vultures got what they needed from George Floyd’s corpse and flew away, so now the people of Minneapolis are left to their own devices. Their riot-ravaged neighborhoods and crime-ridden streets don’t fit the preferred narrative, so they’re being ignored. But the residents still have to live there. They’re still trying to go about their...

In June, the Minneapolis City Council proudly announced that it would be defunding and dismantling its police department as an unseemly institution of racism and white privilege. By July, the Minneapolis City council began to approve substantial cuts to the police. By August, nearly 20% of Minneapolis police were in the process of retiring and those who remain are tentative about policing. Crime in Minneapolis has skyrocketed. And just this week, two events occurred, one hilarious and one tragic. The hilarious thing is that the same town council that proudly announced that it would abandon all societal norms and end...

Joe Biden indicated during a CNN town hall Thursday that President Trump is responsible for every single coronavirus death. "If the president had done his job... had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive," the Democratic presidential nominee told the audience in Pennsylvania. "All the people -- I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data." Critics on social media were quick to jump on Biden for his comments.

So much controversy has surrounded the disastrous COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. Masks are bad, then good; protesting en masse is a constitutional right; worshiping in church is forbidden; and now we also have to question the death count related to the virus. Americans are angry, worried, and confused with the misinformation from our media and our governments. But one thing has been clear: Local government officials have grown ever more addicted to and drunk on power. They are flexing their might like never before and are training Americans like dogs to Sit, Stay, and Roll Over. Sit! Yes, sit still...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called on lawmakers in the Buckeye State this week to pass a series of reforms aimed at blunting the spike in gun-related violence. The reforms are part of a larger plan called “STRONG Ohio” that DeWine introduced in October of 2019 in the wake of the Dayton massacre. “I’m going to keep saying it. We have to, in Ohio, get tougher on repeat violent offenders,” DeWine stated on Tuesday, according to local media. “We have to get tougher on those who are convicted felons who have absolutely no business having a gun. We need to do...

In 1980, Apple founder Steve Jobs called the computer “a bicycle for our minds.” Today, the advent of smartphones gives individuals the power to share images instantaneously with the rest of the world, often accompanied by an admonishment to college-bound students to “watch what you post online.” That is merited advice, as colleges and universities continue to seek out, surveil, and review the images posted by their current and admitted students. But educational institutions themselves must be held accountable when their review of images leads to actions that violate students’ expressive rights. Far too often, schools punish their students for...

Hundreds came to Town Hall Park in Lower Saucon Township on Thursday to see the St. Louis couple who attained celebrity after a confrontation with protesters outside their home. Some came to stand alongside them, bearing arms & backing calls for President Trump’s reelection. McCloskey said the firestorm that followed made the couple afraid to leave their home. Then the White House reached out, offering security. The incident outside the McCloskeys' house resulted in trespassing citations for nine protesters & a felony charge of unlawful use of a weapon for both Mark & Patricia McCloskey. McCloskey said the charge against...

'When they think they've gone to commercial break, they get so close to each other that Biden is whispering in Cooper's ear' ============================================================================ Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and CNN host Anderson Cooper were criticized on social media Thursday night, after viewers noticed that the two threw social distancing out the window as the cameras pulled away after carefully staying far apart during the candidate's town hall. What are the details? Pundit Steve Krakauer shared footage of the incident, tweeting, "Joe Biden and Anderson Cooper are making a point of social distancing during the CNN Town Hall while on the...

At this time four years ago, the "Never Trump" movement was alive and well. Birthed in earnest by National Review in its infamous "Against Trump" issue in February 2016, Never Trump consisted of conservatives and Republicans who vowed, even if he were to become the GOP presidential standard-bearer for the general election, to never, ever support Donald Trump. Never Trumpers supported other candidates throughout the presidential primary season, pushed to "free" committed delegates away from Trump at the Republican National Convention and continued to oppose his candidacy through Election Day. The hashtag #NeverTrump became ubiquitous on Twitter as a mark...

Pursuant to the established policy of the TIMES in giving a fair and impartial representation of the various contending parties before the people, we surrender a large portion of this morning's issue to the cause of Messrs. BELL and EVERETT. Much of this ocean of oratory was discharged last evening at the Cooper Institute, where there was an unprecedented rally of over-zealous friends of the Union and Constitution, to be instructed and strengthened by the exhortations of various partisan evangelists. The occasion was well improved. The addresses deserve the praise of producing some new and highly satisfactory variations upon that...