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Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin said the Republican Party under President Donald Trump’s leadership had become the party “of white vigilanteism of white supremacy,” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Reidout.” Rubin said, “Today Joe Biden walked out there confidently, and he slammed Donald Trump for being the cause of mayhem, the cause of violence, the cause of unnecessary deaths from COVID. He did exactly what he’s supposed to do, which is to hold Trump accountable and say, you’re the president, this isn’t about a Biden America, this is Trump America right now. What’s more, he dared Trump to...

This story originally was published by Real Clear Energy. Imagine an America where mountaintop ridges, coastal seashores, open plains, and most of our undeveloped lands are developed with wind turbines from coast to coast. Imagine an America where we are forced to transform two-thirds of the nation’s land mass into fields for industrial wind turbines, leaving little land left over for forests, open spaces, animal habitat, or anything else. That is exactly what Joe Biden’s climate plan would require. Under a Biden presidency, we must prepare for an environmental apocalypse. Adding Kamala Harris to the ticket makes the Biden climate...

Dear San Franciscan, The Census is a pillar of our democracy, enshrined by our Founders in the Constitution to ensure that all people who live in the United States, regardless of citizenship, are equally counted and represented. An accurate count is critical to communities across the country. The results of the 2020 Census will help determine how over a trillion dollars in federal funding flow into communities every year for the next decade. That funding shapes many different aspects of every community, no matter the size, no matter the location. Over the next decade, lawmakers, business owners and many others...

Nashville Fire Department Captain Tracy Turner isn't exactly a deep political thinker. Neither are most people on social media -- but in Turner's case, that could cost him his job. Turner has some particularly strong views on the Black Lives Matter movement, race, the recent protest movements and whether or not you should use face masks in public places. None of them are particularly deep and some of them are bound to anger people. On slavery: “If all white people can be guilty for slavery because of a few plantation owners… then black people get to share the same guilt....

Black Lives Matter is a damnable lie on every quantifiable level. If black lives mattered, the organizers and participants in said movement would not draw a sharp distinction between what they term "urban 'black' violence" and Black Lives Matter. The fact is: Black Lives Matter is a satanic heterodoxy that was transmogrified into a Marxist construct for the primary purpose of creating a toxic social environment fueled by riots and mayhem.(continued below)

Protesters were upset after they were prevented in toppling the statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, which is just across the street from the White House, on Monday. Park Police and D.C. Metro Police pushed everyone out of the park after they tried pulling down the statue with ropes. When one agitator got physical with a cop, he was shoved to the ground, according to an eyewitness. The white man got up and got in the African-American officer's face and went on a profanity-laced rant for almost four minutes.

CNN has made a name for themselves as one of the most anti-Trump networks out there. After all, they heavily pushed "Russia! Russia! Russia!" When Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no collusion took place between the Trump campaign and Russia, CNN focused their coverage on Ukraine and a supposed quid pro quo. Then it was impeachment. Anything that is anti-Trump can be found on CNN. So it's no surprise that one of their photographers captured pictures of President Trump golfing *GASP* without a mask on Saturday. Not only was he golfing with a few other people but he was riding...

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is once again airing his political grievances in over-the-top fashion. The 76-year-old rocker has accused Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of being “villains” who will “kill every living thing on this planet.” Waters made the far-fetched comments during a podcast interview with left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. The “Comfortably Numb” songwriter also extolled the virtues of socialism — the real “s” word, as he called it — while also slamming American foreign policy and the current Israeli government.

Hollywood celebrities including Amy Schumer, Gal Gadot, Jason Alexander, and Henry Winkler joined forces with former president Bill Clinton on Saturday for the first hour of CNN’s “Graduate Together: Honoring the Class of 2020” — a virtual graduation special that served as an extended pep talk to graduating high school seniors. While the celebrities steered clear of politics, Clinton’s message briefly alluded to some key points of the Democrat platform, including economic inequalities and the environment.

On Wednesday's Full Frontal show, liberal comedienne Samantha Bee was seen fawning over Senator Elizabeth Warren as the TBS host was seen in a pre-recorded interview speaking with the former Democratic presidential candidate. Bee oozed: "I wanted desperately to vote for you, and you dropped out of the race, and it felt like the end of the world." Bee went on to suggest Warren lost because she is a woman, and the two joked about not having to be around Senator Ted Cruz as members of Congress self-isolate during the pandemic. Bee set up the interview with clips of President...

House Democrats aren't planning on coming back to Washington D.C. until May, but they're still scheming from afar about how to recklessly spend your money during the Wuhan coronavirus crisis. Republican Congressman Jim Jordan is warning his leftist colleagues want to use taxpayer money to pay states to let criminals out of prison, including felons. "Use of Grant Funds --- A grantee shall use amounts provided as a grant under this section for programs that provide for the following: "(1) Adopting and operating a cite-and-release process for individuals who are suspected of committing misdemeanor and felony offenses and who do...

The New York Times finally got around to a story (page 20-21) on sexual assault allegations made against Joe Biden by former staffer Tara Reade. The trappings were comprehensive, with many interviews about the alleged incident, but this particular #meToo tale got a cool reception, as reporters Lisa Lerer and Sydney Ember emphasized doubts, scrupulousness the paper manifestly failed to show regarding charges made against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And there was one paragraph (encapsulated in an already notorious deleted tweet) so jaw-dropping that it was swiftly edited out. But Twitchy caught that gaffe by the Times: Other than...

Yesterday the NY Times’ editorial board announced a new project titled “The America We Need.” The general thrust of the first piece in this two-month long series was summed up in this line, “What America needs is a just and activist government.” More specifically, that meant adopting most of the platform that Bernie Sanders has been running on, i.e. an end to “exclusionary zoning,” free health care, free child care, free elder care, and housing for all. And that’s just the start. Today the Times posted its next entry in this project, a piece by opinion writer Viet Thanh Nguyen....

One classic is, "What is a shipload of lawyers that sinks in the ocean?" "A good start." But now they're losing their place. The new subjects for the sometimes ribald, sometimes outlandish, and mostly funny stories are journalists. (Watch out for the R-rated ones on that link). Twitchy, that aggregator of Twitter social media comments, has pointed out that #JournalistJokes is a new, and big, hashtag on social media. "Full transparency, folks. At this point in the week, we’re just SO GLAD to write about anything other than the freakin' coronavirus. We realize it's the biggest story in the WORLD...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans refuses to take responsibility for her decision not to call off Mardi Gras over concerns of the Wuhan coronavirus. That decision has caused New Orleans to become the epicenter of coronavirus cases in the state of Louisiana, according to medical experts. So who exactly does the Democratic mayor blame for not canceling Mardi Gras in her own city? Donald Trump. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Cantrell said she didn't take the threat of the virus too seriously because President Trump didn't take it seriously. She then gave herself credit for canceling other events...

Sunday's Washington Post Magazine has a one-page "Just Asking" interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. On the opposing page was an arty photo of Maddow in blue light (for the blue states)? Joe Heim started out with overt flattery: You have a highly rated nightly news show, your new book, Blowout, was a bestseller and your podcast, “Bag Man,” just won an award. As a journalist, I find all of that success very annoying. Ha! Points for honesty. Well done. Why aren’t you exhausted? I am! I am a catastrophe. I’m [worried] I will have a herniated disc collapse while...

CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Friday accused President Donald Trump of being “the take-no-responsibility president” after announcing a host of measures — from boosting coronavirus testing availability to suspending interest on federal student loans — to ease concerns as the United States combats the spread of the deadly illness.

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal commentator Mark Shields made a very odd historical comparison -- the 2020 Democrat presidential contenders were like American revolutionaries of 1776, fighting a president who is somehow like King George III, the tyrannical English monarch. But first, both Shields and David Brooks agreed that Bernie Sanders -- the antithesis of 1776 libertarian ideas -- was the clear front-runner among Democrats, and Michael Bloomberg had a terrible debate. "He couldn't go toe to toe with Elizabeth Warren. I mean, she absolutely dominated him. She dominated the stage," proclaimed Shields. "I'm not sure she won the crowd,...

The Vermont democratic socialist went on his usual line about how socialism is awesome. He railed against what he sees as socialism for the rich, calling out Donald Trump for getting hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for his business ventures. Sanders also railed against the welfare state expenditures for Walmart’s workers because the Walton family pays what the Left sees as “starvation wages.” And then Bloomberg torpedoed it in a couple of sentences. “What a wonderful country we have. The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss...

Do you ever feel like Luke Skywalker when he walks into the alien bar where the bizarre is portrayed as normal? Just considering a recent Democratic proposal in Alabama makes it feel as if we have awakened to find ourselves surrounded by drunken space creatures. It seems that a Democrat Alabama state legislator has lost her mind over new state laws that offer greater protections to preborn babies. Her response is for the Alabama government to require that every man over 50 and every father of three children to undergo forced sterilization. State Rep. Rolanda Hollis tweeted: "The Vasectomy bill...