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Just when you thought you had a handle on the treasonous thought-police infractions known as microagressions, folks at Rutgers University had to go ahead and further muddy the waters of what is and isn’t allowed to be uttered on today’s college campuses. Since I know you’re all dying to find out, let’s turn to Campus Reform to learn about the latest verbal (and nonverbal) transgressions: “microassaults,” “microinsults’ & “microinvalidations”: Students in at least one Rutgers University residence hall are being encouraged to use only language that is “helpful” and “necessary” to avoid committing microaggressions. The display, photos of which were...

To some degree every White House Press Secretary is shilling for their President, but Josh Earnest has gone the extra mile. Where some might be willing to dodge questions and lie, Earnest is willing to write angry old man letters to the editor op-eds in which he both denies obfuscation AND demands you give his administration props for its record-setting level of transparency. I’ll say this for the guy: He has a job to do, and he does it with gusto. Special: Actress Melissa McCarthy Stuns Millions by Losing 35 Oh sure, that job is shilling for the least transparent,...

Hillary and Bill Clinton have been around the national security block for at least twenty-one years Hillary Rodman Clinton (“HRC”)‘s campaign for President has been wrought with controversy. But the most telling issue is Hillary’s direct run-in with national security. This article shines a bright light on why Colin Powell said: “Don’t Pin It On Me!” Safeguard Failures Handling Classified Information Agency Heads by law have the critical responsibility to safeguard classified information. President Obama made this crystal clear in his Executive Order 13526 (12/29/09). It is quite apparent that HRC did not have adequate safeguards in place for classified...

Hillary doesn't want a fair fight. Or even an unfair fight. She wants to cripple the GOP so it can't fight at all. It's the ultimate rigged election.... We’re a little more than two months from the November 8th election and everyone knows that all Democrats, a good number of Republicans and conservatives, and almost the entire media have been agonizing over and militating against the fact that billionaire businessman Donald Trump is the last man standing in a contest that pits him against Crooked Hillary for the presidency of the United States. But why are no professional political commentators—on...

A recent study by a conservative think tank found that raising the state minimum wage to $15 an hour would cost Michigan the equivalent of 281,000 full-time jobs in 2021. The wage raise would directly affect 37.4 percent of wage and salary workers in Michigan, said the study, which was conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. The study, titled “How $15-per-Hour Minimum Starting Wages Would Affect Each State,” also looked at the effect of raising the federal minimum wage, which covers fewer jobs than the state law. Raising the federal wage to $15 an hour would lead to an...

image from YouTube It has become a truism that a great many college campus environments have become toxic to rights that were once celebrated and are specifically named in the Constitution, Rights such as freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms. It used to be axiomatic that on a campus, people were able to argue about controversial ideas without being subject to censorship.  This was especially pushed hard by leftist groups in the 1960's.  It was all a charade designed to gain power for the left. Those efforts led to professors such as Karla Holloway, pictured...

Ayn Rand’s classic novel, Atlas Shrugged, opens with the question “Who is John Galt?” It’s a question often repeated amid an ongoing quest to discover the answer. John Galt is a man who opts out of a failed society, who rejects a nation near collapse, an eroding economy, escalating crime, and an authoritarian government for a better life. Galt then recruits society’s producers, smart, inventive people, the best of the best. They gather in a secret community, Galt’s Gulch, and set to work to rebuild what they’ve lost. In Hillary Clinton’s “alt-right” speech, I see shades of Rand’s dystopian society,...

The deportation program Donald Trump praised in his immigration speech last night is the same program that radical activists on George Soros’s payroll bragged earlier this year about killing. The information about the Soros allies came in a hacked document posted on the DCLeaks website. (The information was contained in a 62-page document titled, “Open Society U.S. Programs Board Meeting, Montgomery, Alabama, May 4-6, 2016.” A link is at the bottom of this blog post.)

Georgetown will offer an admissions edge to descendants of slaves as part of a comprehensive atonement for the university's historical ties to slavery, its president announced Thursday. Those ties go back nearly two centuries, when the Washington, D.C., school sold 272 slaves and used the proceeds to pay off debt. Georgetown President John J. DeGioia will offer a public apology Thursday afternoon for the 1838 sale and will also outline what the university plans to do to acknowledge racism in its past. In addition to offering descendants the same preferential status in admissions that Georgetown currently offers children of alumni,...

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If our current ideals don’t allow us to exclude people who vow, “With your democratic laws, we will colonize you,” then those ideals are only for schlemiels It can be a good thing to be idealistic. But you’d better make sure you have the right ideals. As to this, the modern West is quickly becoming something non-Western — precisely because our ideals are now far less than ideal. It has often been noted that some among us use our freedoms to destroy our freedoms. George Soros, a real-life James Bond villain, comes to mind; other leftist entities such as the...

Subtlety is his thing but not theirs, apparently We talked last week about how just about everyone is getting Donald Trump’s position on immigration wrong. He is not going to round up 11 million people and deport them. Never was. Never will. What he’s said all along was that everyone in the U.S. illegally will be subject to deportation, which means that unlike Obama and Hillary he’s not going to concede up front that they’ll be given a pass for breaking the law. He will prioritize those who are lawbreakers or otherwise causing problems in deciding who to deport, but...

Taking America back in any meaningful way starts by freeing all school children from the clutches of Marxist progressives Enjoy Labor Day Weekend 2016 with family and friends, while getting ready to hit the ground running on Tuesday. ‘Labor’ is another one of those words heading toward being crossed off the government lexicon list, labor being a concept progressives elected to office strive to have shunned.

The stooge that Hillary Clinton selected as her running mate is a carbon copy of her. Democrat Virginia Senator Tim Kaine has a long and disgusting history of being on the wrong side of issues vitally important to everyday Americans. As a Democrat he was a big tax and spend Governor in Virginia, but Kaine is still worse than the average Democrat. He has a long track record of siding against our safety and demanding that Barack Obama bring in 65,000 more Muslim warriors disguised as “refugees” to murder, rape and degrade us at will. Last year Kaine joined with...

A national talk show comedian's 18-minute takedown of the nationwide charter school movement concluded the schools have been allowed to “run wild,” based in part on financial scandals. The segment from HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver was applauded by the Washington Post, Rolling Stone and many other news outlets. But critics of Oliver’s pseudo-serious tirade say he cherry picked incidents from around the country – some as far back as 2000 – to portray a charter school movement with little or no oversight. At one point Oliver talks about a charter school in Philadelphia that was under new...

We need someone in the White House "that understands how business works," said Henderson. Clarence Henderson, one of the North Carolina A&T students who defied segregation laws by sitting down at a Whites-only Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, has thrown his support behind Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Henderson joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to explain why he is backing Trump, who has newfound interest in Black voters and conditions in the African-American community, and why the often times boisterous self-proclaimed billionaire should be the choice for African-Americans. Henderson said, “We only have two choices, that is Donald...

Not many hunters get a chance to film a moose hunting scene like this one. Watch what happens as this moose charges up to these hunters. This moose came charging up like he owned the space, but the hunter was ready for him. I was impressed by how calm and collected the hunter was throughout the hunt. Not many people could keep their cool like this guy did. It took two shots to take down this huge bull. He went down fighting and didn’t stop struggling until the second shot ended it. That was a very close encounter! See the...

It Gets Worse: Bill Clinton Paid To Install Hillary’s Private Server With Taxpayer Money by Charlie Spiering 1 Sep 2016 Former president Bill Clinton used taxpayer funds from cash provided to him as an ex-president to pay for employees to set up the family’s private email server, according to a new report from Politico. Clinton drew money from the General Services account to pay part of his aide Justin Cooper’s salary — the same person who helped set up a private email server in Clinton’s home. It goes deeper. Clinton used taxpayer funds to boost the salaries of ten different...

Hillary Clinton was welcomed with what is described as "polite applause" at the annual convention of the American Legion in Cincinnati today as she laid out her foreign policy plans before veterans from across the country. Clinton argued that she would best uphold American values and characterized her opponent Donald Trump as a dangerous choice who is "insulting to the rest of the world." (snip) Donald Trump is scheduled to address the convention on Thursday. It will be interesting to see if he will be able to fill the room and receive more robust applause. https://twitter.com/LeahR77/status/771078773160706048/photo/1 Leah #OurREVOLUTION ‎@LeahR77 LOTS...

First they come after you, then they target your family and business relationships It is no secret that the mainstream media has decided that the threat presented by a possible Donald Trump presidency is so grave that it has suspended even the illusion of objectivity. Writing in The New York Times, media columnist Jim Rutenberg granted permission to his fellow journalists “to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career.” The Observer and others have...