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The Democratic nominee went after Trump’s character – the President focused on his opponent’s political sinsPresident Donald J. Trump just gave an impressive and unprecedented State of the Union address from the lawn of the White House…oh wait, it was his 2020 Republication nomination speech. It just felt like a quasi-imperial event. The address was long, too long for an acceptance speech — coming in at over 6,000 words, it took more than an hour. Trump just always has to dwell on all his achievements. ‘I say very modestly that I have done more for the African American community than...

The New York Times this week published a lengthy sympathetic story about three men the paper suggested were guilty of the victimless crime of trying to have sex with underage girls. One of the men was Jace Hambrick, who the Times describes as a nerdy gamer who “wasn’t someone who could meet women at a bar.” So he gave Craigslist a try. There, he met girl who said she was 13, although the Times defends Hambrick by saying he thought she was older than she claimed. “Jus gamer gurl sittin’ home on sunny day,” the girl’s ad read. “we can...

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has emerged into a fresh controversy after she returned the Ripple of Hope Award bestowed upon her by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization in December 2019, following criticism from Kerry Kennedy. Kerry is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and the president of the organization. “Over the course of June 2020 — LGBTQ Pride Month — and much to my dismay, J.K. Rowling posted deeply troubling transphobic tweets and statements,” Kennedy posted on the organization’s website on Aug. 3. “On June 6, she tweeted an article headlined “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19...

GOP leaders sold a female-friendly version of Donald Trump at the convention, despite dark parts of the president’s history.President donald trump is in trouble with women voters, and the GOP knows it. .... Recent polling suggests that most women do not intend to vote for Trump this November. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump among registered women voters by 21 percentage points, according to an August poll from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, a gap consistently found in surveys taken throughout the summer. (snip) Women voters may determine who wins the 2020 election: They turn out to...

An editor of a peer-reviewed journal that deals with violence is asking students and faculty for research papers that prove the existence of “structural racism” in policing but refused to respond when asked if they’ll accept evidence that contradicts that view, according to The College Fix. The story: Prof. Carlos Cuevas, co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Laboratory at Northwestern University, is asking students and staff to provide papers that are “designed to advance the scientific knowledge about the excessive use of force by some law enforcement officers as applied to members of communities of color.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) is monitoring online conversations and posts in what it described as a “social listening” effort in order to combat what the organization is calling an “infodemic” — the spread of false coronavirus-related information online. The initiative: In a statement on its website, the WHO said it has teamed with over 50 digital companies and social media platforms including Facebook, TikTok, Google, Viber, WhatsApp, and YouTube “to ensure that science-based health messages from the organization or other official sources appear first when people search for information related to COVID-19.” “We’re not just battling the virus,” said...

Patrons at a Washington, D.C. restaurant were ceaselessly pestered and yelled at by a group of protesters on Monday night for apparently refusing to clench their fists in solidarity with the protesters. “White silence is violence,” chanted the protesters, and “No justice, no peace!” in an apparent effort to get a defiant woman to raise her fist like other patrons around her. A separate clip posted online shows protesters harassing a couple who refused to raise their fists as they yell “No justice, no peace!”

CNN changed a chyron during a segment early this week on the violent protests in Wisconsin over the weekend, removing the word “violent” from the chyron—even though the protests were, in fact, violent. During a live broadcast on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” the network aired the following chyron: 00:3800:56 8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER VIOLENT PROTESTS OVER POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED BLACK MAN IN WISCONSIN Several seconds later the chyron was taken down and was then put back up on the screen after the network removed the word “violent” from it: 8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER PROTESTS OVER POLICE...

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...