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See the link. I’m speaking to you today because I’ve seen people like this before. I’ve seen movements like this before. I’ve seen ideas like this before and I’m here to tell you, we cannot let them take over our country,” Álvarez asserted, referring both to Democrat Party presidential nominee Joe Biden and to the socialist faction of the party that largely supported rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). “I know all about the past — I’ll never forget my own. My family has fled totalitarianism and communism. And more than once. First, my dad from Spain, then from Cuba,” Álvarez...

President Donald Trump criticized the DNC and "anger and the hate of the Democrat Party" in remarks delivered at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting on Friday. The president said no party devoted to tearing down America should be allowed to lead it. "The Democrats held the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in American history," Trump said. "They spent four straight days attacking America as racist and a horrible country that must be redeemed. Joe Biden, grimly, declared a season of American darkness and yet look at what we've accomplished until the plague came in." "They want to...

The DNC used the story of an illegal immigrant mother to criticize President Trump but the person in question was first deported from the U.S. under the Clinton administration and later flagged for deportation while Barack Obama was in office. The story: The DNC on Wednesday showed a video that featured 11-year-old Estela Juarez who read from a letter that accused President Trump of orphaning immigrant children and spoke about being separated from her mother, Alejandra Juarez, who was purportedly deported by the Trump administration. “My mom is my best friend. She came to America as a teenager over 20...

brahim Bouaichi, an inmate in Virginia who was released on bond from jail due to the Coronavirus pandemic, made headlines last week for allegedly killing his accuser. At the time of his release, the jail where Bouaichi was held had no recorded cases of COVID-19. Ibrahim Bouaichi was arrested for the alleged rape of his ex-girlfriend Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez on October 21, 2019. Bouaichi was also held on five additional felonies. Per Virginia law involving violent crimes, he was held without bail. Bouaichi’s lawyers argued that Bouaichi should have been released on bond due to the increased health risks...

The Democrats’ used their convention on August 19 to prod Americans to welcome ill migrants who enter the United States in search of American health care. The video features an illegal immigrant who brought her disabled daughter into the United States for life-saving health care. Americans saved the child but cannot yet cure the spina bifida that keeps her apparently confined to a wheelchair. Jessica Sanchez, the grown daughter, told the Democrats’ audience, “I don’t have the right ID, so I can’t get health insurance through the [Obamacare] exchange. I need health insurance. I deserve it, right?” “Of course you...

Art Acevedo, the police chief of the Houston Police Department (HPD), is calling on officers with the Austin Police Department unhappy over the recent budget cuts to come and work for him. The Austin City Council last week unanimously approved to slash about $150 million from its police department’s funding, or nearly a third of the department’s annual budget. “People of Houston, they don’t want less policing, they want better policing and well-trained police officers,” Chief Acevedo said. The HPD welcomed 44 new officers to the force during a Cadet Class #245 graduation ceremony Monday, Fox 26 Houston reported.

Former President Bill Clinton lectured President Donald Trump on Tuesday night about his conduct in the Oval Office. Clinton, who had an affair during his presidency with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky, made the remarks during his speech at the Democrat National Convention. “At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center,” Clinton said. “Instead, it’s a storm center. There’s only chaos. Just one thing never changes—his determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame. The buck never stops there.” 00:4300:56 Clinton was impeached during his presidency for lying under oath to a federal grand jury...

Twenty-two-year-old Taeshia Rochon, who live-streamed herself looting luxury items during Chicago riots last week, has been arrested and charged with two felony counts of burglary and two felony counts of looting, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Video streamed to Facebook appears to show Rochon allegedly stealing Canadian Goose jackets from Nordstrom and multiple pairs of sunglasses from Sunglass Hut, last Monday, the report says. 01:0601:16 The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the 22-year-old is being held on $4,000 bail. At one point during the live stream, Rochon is heard yelling “I can’t breathe,” a slogan tied to the Black Lives Matter...

An English professor at Iowa State University warned students that they might get dismissed from the class if they argue against abortion or criticize the Black Lives Matter movement, according to her syllabus. The syllabus, which was obtained by Young America’s Foundation, was written by professor Chloe Clark, a 2016 Iowa State University graduate, for students who will be attending her English 250 class. The student who sent the syllabus to the organization wanted to remain anonymous, fearing retribution. Clark notified students that “othering” is prohibited in her class, as well as “any topic that takes at its base that...

President Trump on Monday dismissed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that he was trying to “sabotage” the 2020 election by “manipulating” the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), claiming the USPS has “run horribly” for years and “we’re going to make it good.” In an exclusive interview on Fox & Friends on Monday, Trump pointed out that the post office lost $78 billion over a “very short” period of time and he’s trying to improve operations ahead of the election. “I’m just making it good,” Trump said. “We have a very, very good business guy running it, and … I want to...

Two armed groups on opposing sides of the ideological divide squared off at Stone Mountain, Ga., on Saturday as right-wing militias and their allies stood face to face with Black Lives Matter and other left-wing radicals who had come to oppose them. A militia group from Georgia wanted to demonstrate their support for the monument at Stone Mountain — the largest bas-relief carving in the world that depicts Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee as well as Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Black Lives Matter was there to shout down the militias. The situation became dicey at times as...

Rioters tore down a statue of George Washington in Grand Park near Los Angeles City Hall on Thursday evening, the latest monument to fall in the ongoing left-wing demonstrations around the country. The monument to the first President of the United States was apparently vandalized and draped in the American flag when it was toppled. Unconfirmed video and images of the tearing down and the aftermath circulated on social media...

The mainstream media is being called out for skipping the murder of the 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant that took place over the weekend. The story: On Sunday, 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, who is black, reportedly walked up to Cannon Hinnant, who is white, and shot him in the head at point-blank. At the time, Hinnant was in the front yard of his family’s house, riding his bike. His two sisters, ages seven and eight, were also there and saw the shooting, according to witnesses. Sessoms left the scene and was arrested Monday. He has been charged with first-degree murder and is being...

Shortly before Joe Biden announced that his vice presidential pick was Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a group of Democratic women released a letter, telling news organizations and journalists to avoid “racist” and “sexist” coverage of the candidate, among other things. Yet, the media broke most of those rules in reporting on John McCain’s vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin in 2008, writes NewsBusters’ Tim Graham. The recent letter urged the media to steer clear of “sexism” and “racism,” and to avoid commenting on Harris’ “ambition,” her relationship with staffers, her “tone of voice,” the way she dresses, and whether the California Democrat...

The last couple of weeks have been frustrating for the sizable chunk of Trump’s base who think lockdowns, untargeted social distancing, and forcing everyone to wear masks are neither effective nor necessary responses to COVID-19 and, in fact, are a much greater menace than the virus itself. They believe we ought to finally start listening to the thousands of doctors and scientists that the drive-by media have gone out of their way to silence instead of blindly following the dictates of life-long bureaucrats who’ve been puffed up, pushed, and placed on a pedestal by professional purveyors of fake news like...

The Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia is advising parents not to hire private tutors for their children, claiming it would “widen the gap in educational access” between students who can and those who can’t afford private tutors “While [the Fairfax County Public School system] doesn’t and can’t control these private tutoring groups, we do have concerns that they may widen the gap in educational access and equity for all students,” the FCPS said in a memo Friday.

Andrew Cuomo's got a load of nerve. Imagine being one of the relatives of the thousands of elderly nursing home residents who died as a result of their residences becoming sealed incumbators for COVID, which Andrew Cuomo literally ordered. These people were banned from visits from their own families for their own 'safety' they said. Yet it was Potemkin stuff, they had no protection from COVID, as they had to breathe the air of coughing, infected patients all around them, with absolutely no way to get away from it. Once they got it, they died alone. It's the biggest scandal...

A sheriff of a small New York town was forced to apologize after prompting calls to be fired for sharing news articles of violent crimes believed to have been committed by black suspects. Lou Falco, a third-term sheriff of Rockland who has been a law enforcement officer for four decades, was labeled a racist and was called out for sharing the stories, one of which included two black suspects shooting an infant in the face “just for the fun of it,” according to the article’s headline. After triggering outrage, Falco deleted the posts and apologized and members of the Rockland...

Chants of “Black Lives Matter” were heard outside the home of Wauwatosa police officer Joseph Mensah’s girlfriend’s house Saturday night. Around 50-60 “peaceful protesters” began breaking windows, entering the premises, and shooting at Mensah and his girlfriend with firearms that included at least one shotgun. Mensah is Black. His girlfriend is Black. The children in the home that Black Lives Matter and Antifa “peaceful protesters” were shooting are black. Cities in Wisconsin are starting to look more like Portland and Seattle as rampant anarchy rules the streets. Neither law enforcement or the people of these communities are safe. The violence...

Axios reported on Sunday that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) has become a “GOP Trump critic” ahead of the 2020 elections. Sasse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Finance Committees, released a statement after President Donald Trump issued executive orders granting Americans a payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance after negotiations with leading Democrats fell through. Referring to Trump’s executive orders as “unconstitutional slop,” Sasse said in a statement on Saturday: The pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop. President Obama did not have the power to unilaterally rewrite immigration law with DACA, and President Trump does not...