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"I'll vote for Hillary before Trump" faux conservatives are every bit as snobbish as anyone on the left I see the children of the global business elite marry each other and settle in London or New York or Mumbai. They send their children to the same schools and are alert to all class markers. And those elites, of Mumbai and Manhattan, do not often identify with, or see a connection to or an obligation toward, the rough, struggling people who live at the bottom in their countries. In fact, they fear them…. —Peggy Noonan “How Global Elites Forsake Their Countrymen”...

Future revelations of Clinton’s corruption are not going to make a difference as long as she continues to tell a lot of people what they want to hear There are definitely similarities between the 2014 Ontario election and the current presidential campaign. And if these parallels hold true, Hillary Clinton will be the 45th president of the United States no matter how many scandals she becomes embroiled in.

The mainstream media and all of the above are selling the Big Lie that Clinton would be better for America than Donald Trump From the very dregs of the filthy scum pond that is the coverage of Election 2016, the main media message is not that corrupt Hillary Clinton is immoral but that the defenders of and those who would vote for Donald J. Trump are! Were it not for the fact that America is on its last legs, this would go down as someone’s sick joke. “Liars Are Us” is not only a tag that can legitimately be worn...

Amazingly, as I watched the various 'spokespersons' on TV, it became clear that the defense is 'everybody does it.' Said with a straight face, no sense of shame, no hint of a sense of wrong. "So many lobbyists, so much money, it's how the system works...": Those were all comments that I heard from various mouths. THIS is the system that must be rejected and changed. They think it is just fine.

Greedy PACs drained the movement with endless pleas for money to support “conservative” causes and candidates. I worked for one of them. But Tea Party ideas live on. As we watch the Republican Party tear itself to shreds over Donald Trump, perhaps it’s time to take note of another conservative political phenomenon that the GOP nominee has utterly eclipsed: the Tea Party. The Tea Party movement is pretty much dead now, but it didn’t die a natural death. It was murdered—and it was an inside job. In a half decade, the spontaneous uprising that shook official Washington degenerated into a...

Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Turkey later this month to smooth over the administration’s relationship with the NATO ally. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime survived a coup attempt last month and has since been cracking down on journalists, academics and the military in an effort to suppress what it sees as vestiges of the coup movement. The White House said in a release that Biden's stop in Ankara will be part of a three-day trip that also includes visits to Latvia and Sweden.

An ATF spokesman who was intimately involved in the Fast and Furious cover up has been promoting a national gun registry on CBS.  On Sunday, 31 July, Deputy Director Thomas E. Brandon appeared on Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. Brandon was the ATF official who oversaw the discipline or more accurately the lack thereof, in the Fast and Furious operation. His role has been detailed in the americanthinker.com: According to outgoing Director Jones's sworn testimony of April 2, 2014 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Mr. Brandon was the person who determined disciplinary punishments for all of...

Bill Clinton recently updated his January 26, 1998 response to allegations that he had *ahem* sexual relations with “that woman,” Monica Lewinski:It’s “the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard,” said Hillary Clinton’s consort-of-sorts.And that goes double for the accusations being recklessly hurled at Hillary by that FBI pimp, Comey:  “They saw two little notes with a ‘C’ on it — this is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard — that were about telephone calls that she needed to make. The State Department typically puts a little ‘C’ on it to discourage people from discussing it in public in...

A website called Real. True. News. (RTN) published an interview on August 7, between RTN‘s Max Insider and an unnamed source within the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The source says Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is imploding because every weapon they’ve deployed against Donald Trump has failed, and Hillary may soon drop out of the race. Note: Max Insider describes himself as having “20+ years of reporting for liberal news outlets in the Main Stream Media. Fed up with the lies, the manipulation, and the outright criminality, he is undertaking a crusade to bring truth, righteousness, and vigilance back to America....

I sing the hymn, (I'd Rather Have Jesus), the music for that hymn was composed in 1939 by George Beverly Shea, the renowned gospel singer. and ending hymn, (Nothing But The Blood), by Robert Lowry.

PyeongChang 2018 offered people around the world a chance to participate in the next Olympic Winter Games today with the launch of an online volunteer recruitment campaign. Using a new website for applications, the initiative seeks to recruit 22,400 volunteers to assist with a range of tasks in areas that include sport, medical services, media operations, technology and language services. Volunteers will undergo free training and will be offered uniforms, accommodation, meals, insurance and other benefits. Several Korean universities, volunteer organisations and other groups expressed their willingness to support the Games at a news conference a day before the website...

From "About Us" page: "Pivot is a television network from Participant Media (Lincoln, Spotlight, CITIZENFOUR, Food Inc., An Inconvenient Truth) that is dedicated to delivering entertainment that inspires and compels social change. With award-winning original programming (Please Like Me, Fortitude, Hit Record on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt), groundbreaking documentaries and exceptional films, you won't just be entertained – you’ll be inspired to become a part of the story. When you watch Pivot, we’ll give you the opportunity to take action on the issues raised in our content right from your screen or during the next commercial break. Available to more...

"Crooked" is a label that aptly fits Hillary Clinton, but the FBI and WikiLeaks revelations regarding Hillary's private email server and 33,000 deleted emails points to another apt label for Hillary: reckless. Hillary's foreign policy mistakes -- even traitorist activity -- in the Middle East are "reckless" in two senses, for they show: 1) a careless lack of attention to detail, and 2) a coldness or lack of caring about what happens to the people her actions affect and even our Nation. Trump and his team are doing a fantastic job of exposing Hillary's and Obama's reckless and misguided...

Bassam Tibi: Euro-Islam Doesn’t Have a Chance The following essay by the Syrian-German Islamic reformer Bassam Tibi was originally published by Die Welt. Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation: Young men who bring a culture of violence with themby Bassam TibiThe events in Cologne were just a prelude: Many Arab migrants bring very misogynistic social values to Germany. That makes it almost impossible for them to be integrated. A guest commentary.Is there any connection between the attacks on New Year’s Eve in Cologne and the situation in Syria? The answer is: Yes, there is a connection and the common...

What is “Cognitive Infiltration”? RationalWiki describes CI as: “Cognitive infiltration is a term coined by Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule to refer to the use of government and third party “cognitive” provocateurs and front groups to “infiltrate” social networks, other online groups, and “real life” groups built around conspiracy theories.” While the term originated within the context of, “Conspiracy Theories”, the application of these techniques is not limited strictly thereto. Any belief, culture, or ideology, ranging from politics, to religion could essentially be substituted for the term, “Conspiracy Theory”. In short, PSYOPs. Maybe I’ve been quaffing too much Kool-Aide™, but...

Would you vote for a presidential candidate whose campaign promises eternal life? If yes, then vote for Zoltan Istvan, a third-party transhumanist presidential candidate, who believes the technology necessary to make humans immortal could be a reality in two to three decades. Istvan is an ambitious man. He doesn’t just want to beat Trump in the polls by a landslide; he wants to beat death. “I’m hoping I will live indefinitely, that’s a major priority,” Istvan told the Daily Mail. “Even if don’t, I would freeze myself or use some other type of mechanism.”

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem said Friday that she believes Hillary Clinton's low favorability ratings are at least partially due to her being a woman. She said that isn't the only reason the Democratic nominee has hit her lowest approval ratings in 24 years, but the subliminal connections associated with her and her womanhood affect public perception. "As children, most of us are raised by women, so we may tend to associate female authority with childhood. We see it as emotional, overwhelming, perhaps inappropriate to public life, not rational enough," Steinem told the Hollywood Reporter. "You can see that in some...

The police obviously know which candidate has their back that is not Hillary Clinton. Donald J. Trump is the law and order candidate and the police in Florida gave him the respect he gives them with this massive police escort. Hillary will NEVER get this type of respect by police because they know she loathes them.

This is a video from a local group in Southern Ohio. They are getting popular and have an album that has just dropped this is their first video. They are all good old country-rock pickers and strong supporters of the 2nd Amendment. So if you all would be so kind and watch the video and give them a thumbs up click if you like it. All-American Beer Team Help us piss off the liberals and spread the video across the internet.

To get a glimpse of the future of commerce in America, look no further than Sweden. The Scandinavian country is largely a cashless society, with consumers relying on mobile phone payments or plastic. While the U.S. is still far from achieving the same level of cash-free existence, increasing numbers of restaurants and retailers are now snubbing the lowly dollar bill. Some merchants such as SweetGreen, a salad chain, refuse to open their registers for cash, telling customers they can pay only with mobile payments or cards. With some newer vending machines, only a card or mobile wallet will get that...