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As a recap, two nights ago 17-year-0ld Kyle Rittenhouse was serving with an armed citizen’s militia group to attempt to prevent property destruction at the hands of the Democrat-endorsed and mostly peaceful arsonists and rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. During the course of the evening, Rittenhouse became isolated, was attacked, chased, and beaten in the street. At the end of it all, Rittenhouse was alive, two Antifa goons were dead and a third is learning to become left-hand dominant. Rittenhouse was arrested on the charge of first degree murder. Wisconsin law requires anyone older than 16 to be tried as an...

Tuesday night, the free-for-all of looting and general criminality visited upon Kenosha, WI, by Antifa street thugs came to an abrupt halt as a violent confrontation between a single “militia” member attempting to prevent property damage ended with three Antifa shot, two fatally. (clip) What struck me as particularly strange was the total absence of information forthcoming on the identities of the dead and wounded men who had been recorded on video chasing down 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, beating him in the street and, in one case, brandishing a pistol at him. (clip) And by “protect others,” they, of course, mean...

There’s a lot of attention to the shooting of multiple people last night in Kenosha. Police have arrested 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse and charged him with murder. Liberals are already off to the races, calling him a “white supremacist” murderer and of course, always blaming President Donald Trump. Of course there is nothing to support this, his background simply suggests he was supportive of the police. But if you look at the video, there are likely going to be big problems with legally trying to make that stick. While all the facts are not yet clear, enough facts have...

After suffering a loss in the 2016 presidential election herself, Hillary Clinton is warning 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not to concede “under any circumstances” in the upcoming election to avoid falling victim to Republican efforts to disrupt the vote count. In an interview with The Circus on Showtime, the former secretary of state accused Republicans of trying to “mess up” absentee balloting to gain “a narrow advantage in the electoral college.” She claimed that in Wisconsin’s primary in April, Republicans “did everything they could to mess up voting.” “But because courts had ordered absentee ballots to be counted...

The first night of the Republican National Convention averaged 15.9 million viewers on Monday, a sharp drop of 28% from 2016. The audience figure from Nielsen was also below the opening night of last week’s Democratic National Convention which averaged 18.7 million viewers over the three major English language broadcast networks and three leading cable news channels. The audience for the Democrats on the first night of their convention was also down about 28% from 2016. With additional channels added, the final total was 19.7 million for the Democrats on Aug. 17. A total for coverage of the Republicans’ proceedings...

(CNN)Former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele is joining the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans working to prevent President Donald Trump's re-election. "Today is the day where things should matter and you need to take stock of what matters to you -- and the kind of leader you want to lead in these moments. And for me, it ain't him," Steele, a political analyst for MSNBC said making the announcement to host Nicole Wallace on Monday afternoon. Steele was the first African American to be elected to statewide office in Maryland, serving as lieutenant governor from 2003...

Normally, during a party convention, the party’s presidential candidate gets a bump just because of the attention and focus on him/her. But given the absolutely dismal fail that the Democratic virtual convention has been – failed ratings, the endorsement of radical BLM movement and the crazy postal conspiracy theory, Barack and Michelle Obama both telling audacious lies – one can’t expect much of a bump. But the candidate apparently did get a bump. President Donald Trump, that is. According to the Rasmussen poll, it was Trump who got the bump and went up four points in just 24 hours. Andrew...

One of the funniest things about Michelle Obama’s speech on the first night of the DNC virtual convention was how it was completely lacking in any mention of Kamala Harris. Because it took so long for Joe Biden to come to his decision on a running mate and because many of the speakers like Obama had pre-taped their speeches, she likely didn’t know when she make her video. But she couldn’t even be bothered to re-tape it to add a reference to Harris. Since the Democrats can’t have an audience in a convention hall, one of the lame things the...

New York (CNN Business)America's parents are going through a year of tough choices, and it isn't getting any easier. With the school year starting, many have to choose between their jobs and staying home to take care of their kids. More often than not, this burden falls on mothers. clip Kelly Bebout, a mom in California who's been in her health care job for nearly a decade, said she's able to take 12 weeks of leave when the school year starts to support her children in distance learning. What happens after that is uncertain. "I fully expect to have to...

Why does a mayor’s wife need a staff at all, complete with a $70,000 a year videographer? Good question, but apparently that’s the current setup in New York City, which should surprise no one. The Daily Mail has released some details on Chirlane McCray’s setup and it’s pretty astonishing. Not only does she have 14 people on her “staff,” the taxpayers are on the hook for about $2,000,000 as a result. Bill de Blasio’s unelected wife has been branded a ‘disgrace’ for having a staff of 14 costing New York City $2 million, including a $70,000 videographer who filmed her...

The Annals of Internal Medicine just published a comprehensive new study on how contagious the COVID-19 virus is. And I’m sorry to report that the case for a number of popular new practices that seem to have filled some spiritual need a lot of Americans have for self-abasement just completely collapsed. The list of practices no longer having any conceivable rationale includes: -Closing down schools. -Closing down gyms, barber shops, or any other businesses. -Limiting the number of patrons allowed in restaurants or other businesses at one time. -Mass testing for the COVID-19 virus. -Putting healthy people in quarantine. -Keeping...

Subtitle: Network pundits took turns praising former first lady following DNC speech. CNN fawned over Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech while overlooking a misleading claim that even the Associated Press felt compelled to fact-check. CNN bills itself as a network dedicated to “facts” and fact-checks President Trump and members of his administration at every turn. However, a review of the network’s transcripts showed no mention of a misleading moment in the first hour following Obama’s speech. “Michelle Obama assailed President Donald Trump on Monday for ripping migrant children from their parents and throwing them into cages, picking up on...

How damaging has the faux hysteria emanating from the media over the coronavirus been? If a new poll from Franklin-Templeton Gallup is an indication, the result has been making most of the country completely ignorant of the scientific facts regarding the current pandemic. Not coincidently, the false perceptions that now abound just so happen to play right into left-wing desires, like perpetual lockdowns and keeping schools closed. Brit Hume shared some of the results of the study in question this morning. They are either mind-blowing or mind-numbing depending on your outlook. Brit Hume Twitter This is from the Franklin-Templeton Gallup...

Last month, I reported on the thousands of doctors and scientists trying to cut through all the media gaslighting and make people understand just how deadly the pseudoscientific quack medicine Anthony Fauci’s been peddling really is. Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist, Michael Levitt, has been sounding the alarm about our suicidal response to COVID-19 from the very beginning: Michael Levitt/MLevitt_NP2013 “Thus, the Western World has been encouraged by their lack of responsibility coupled with uncontrolled media and academic errors to commit suicide for an excess burden of death of one month. Surely we or someone we know can do something about this!”...

Democrats have been desperately trying to think of ways to get Joe Biden out of debating President Donald Trump. As it is, Biden is now obligated to do three debates. Former Clintonista, now CNN Commentator Joe Lockhart tried to pitch the idea that because Trump “lies” that Biden would have to spend too much time correcting him so that he shouldn’t debate him. That of course is patently silly. If in fact Biden were able to correct Trump, that would actually make him look better. So that makes no sense. Now, Bill Kristol is trying another tack. Bill Kristol (Twitter)...

Karla Dominguez was a native of socialism-destroyed Venezuela, when, on October 10, 2019, she told police that was violently raped and sodomized by Ibrahim E. Bouaichi. The Washington Post reported: In October, Dominguez called police and alleged she had been sexually assaulted by Bouaichi on Oct. 10. Bouaichi was charged with six felonies — rape, sodomy, strangulation, abduction, burglary and malicious wounding — and turned himself in on Oct. 21. He was held without bond. At a preliminary hearing before Alexandria General District Court Chief Judge Donald M. Haddock in December, prosecutors dismissed the rape and malicious wounding charges, and...

Leftist teachers aren’t happy that you can now hear them programming your child with social justice ideology. The left owns our public education system due to years of infiltration, coercion, and strong-arming. They’ve apparently become so comfortable and cocky in the position that they’re not openly complaining that you’ll now be able to hear their attempts at brainwashing your children. Apparently, you being involved in what your child learns bothers these teachers. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh screen-capped the tweets of educator and author Matthew R. Kay who has since switched his Twitter account to “protected” after his tweets began...

On the same day former Vice President Joe Biden launched a new national ad targeting Black voters, the presumptive Democratic nominee faced criticism for saying the African American community largely lacked diversity of thought. Biden: "What you all know but most people don't know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things" . He noted that the Latino community in Florida will have a "very different attitude" toward immigration than there may be in Arizona. Newsweek reached out to the Biden campaign for comment, but...

The rioters in Portland have left the federal courthouse, but they aren’t stopping their chaos and destruction, just going back to redirecting it at the Portland Police and the people of Portland. Sort of showing that it was never about the extra federal agents deployed there at all now, was it? As we mentioned earlier, the rioters tried to attack the East Precinct, destroying the cameras to prevent pictures from being taken of them, then ripping off the protective barrier.

Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he won’t travel to Wisconsin to accept the Democratic Party nomination. Yes, the man who wants to be president is using coronavirus as an excuse to not travel at all now. I bring that up to make a prediction. Bonchie(bonchieredstate(twitter response to Pager below) He's not gonna debate, guys. Tyler Pager(tylerpager twitters) SCOOP: Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic nomination. His plans to travel to the convention have been scrapped because of coronavirus concerns. 11:54 AM · Aug 5, 2020 As we’ve seen over the last week or so,...