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We’re told by feminists and members of the elite media that we are not to comment on what women politicians are wearing because that would be sexist. Yet this past week, the mainstream media fawned over Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ Timberland boots, even though some outlets previously ripped First Lady Melania Trump for wearing the same brand. On Wednesday, multiple media outlets covered Harris’ choice to wear Timberland boots while visiting areas affected by the California wildfires. The most bootlicking (pun intended) of which came from Yahoo!Finance writer Brian Sozzi, whose headline read: “Kamala Harris may have made Timberland...

A statue of Jesus Christ at a cathedral in El Paso, Texas, was vandalized and decapitated on Tuesday. Police have identified and arrested the suspect in the attack. The story: The Catholic Diocese of El Paso announced on Instagram Tuesday that a suspect came into St. Patrick Cathedral’s sanctuary and destroyed the nearly 90-year-old statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that was standing behind the main altar. The statue was estimated to be worth $25,000.

A professor at Suffolk County Community College in New York has been reassigned pending an investigation by the university after a video of her encouraging students not to vote for President Trump during an online class was posted on social media. The professor in question has been identified as Janet Gulla, an assistant women’s studies professor at the university, according to Newsday. “He’s had four freaking years of a chance, and he’s done a crap job, and he’s really ruining our country,” Gulla said during a virtual lesson. She continued: “Many of you this may be the first time that...

Two Ohio high school students were reinstated on their football team after being suspended for disobeying an order to not carry flags supporting police onto the field, according to the school district. Students Jarad Bentley and Brady Williams from Little Miami High School were suspended from the team after they carried a thin red line flag honoring firefighters and a thin blue line flag honoring police onto the football field Friday, according to TV station Local 12. Both boys had previously requested the school to carry the flags onto the field, but their request was denied and they were warned...

During Monday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin said that President Trump’s campaign was “manufacturing” a false narrative that Black Lives Matter protest were violent. She actually recognizes them as ‘peaceful’ protests and all the chaos is being pushed by Trump and his administration… Pathetic! Talking about the two Los Angeles Country deputies being ambushed and shot in Compton, Hostin said: “I want to say that there’s no place for people to go and shoot officers that are sitting in their cars. My heart goes out to their families and their friends. I was so horrified to hear...

Two high school students in Morrow, Ohio, have been suspended from the football team after flying flags during a game in support of first responders on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The story: Brady Williams and Jared Bentley, players for the Little Miami High School football team, carried Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags when they appeared on the field for the game, which took place on Sep. 11, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They previously told the school that they planned to fly the flags to show their support for fallen police officers and...

Bands of armed Oregonians blocked roads and demanded identification from motorists after a small fire was ignited intentionally on Saturday, police said. Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese said the blaze was started by an illegal firework and was put out quickly, according to a Saturday tweet from the department. Oregon has been plagued by wildfires in recent days, as 22 people on the West Coast have lost their lives and large portions of the state were covered by an orange hue, ABC News reported. “We started receiving reports of local residents establishing roadblocks in East Multnomah County,” Reese said in...

Jose Ometeotl, the city manager of Lynwood, California suggested that the shooting of two Los Angeles County deputies over the weekend was not surprising and even indicated that it was payback for how law enforcement has treated the community. The story: Ometeotl posted a meme on his Instagram page featuring 1960’s black leader Malcolm X alongside the words “chickens come home to roost.” He wrote that “the shooting of anyone is a wholly unacceptable occurrence in society” and “[t]he fact that someone randomly opened fire on deputies is to be expected in the society we live in today.” Ometeotl pointed...

Ninety-two percent of voters stated in a Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll results that the violent demonstrations and riots would be a central factor in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats recently changed their tune on the violent riots with an attempted rebrand calling the violence a direct product of “Trump’s America.” If you evaluate all of the last decade’s mass violent demonstrations, most of them took place under the Obama administration. This is now the third Harvard CAPS / Harris Survey that published topline findings in the absence of any methodology or cross-tabs available from the study. The final results...

Rochester Police Department officers have been allowed to hide name tags while on duty after Black Lives Matter protesters started doxing them, “putting the safety of their families in jeopardy.” The story: Officers have already been allowed to remove the name tags from the uniforms but the decision was revealed during a virtual meeting Wednesday between Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and members of the city council. The city leaders convened to discuss their plan of action following the resignations of Police Chief La’Ron Singletary and six other command staff amid backlash over the department’s handling of a recent arrest that...

Mount Holyoke College hosted in September its Common Read Keynote with Pulitzer-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to talk about The 1619 Project, which was chosen to be this year’s common read. During the keynote, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Kijua Sanders-McMurtry interviewed Hannah-Jones. "I don’t think we’re an exceptional nation. I think that’s ludicrous for any nation to make that claim, and we certainly cannot make that claim." Tweet This “I think the 1619 Project should honestly be at every college, university, corporation, and school foundationally if these institutions are truly interested in...

A student in New York has been arrested after arriving at school for in-person learning, in violation of the school’s COVID-19 regulations, after the school previously suspended him for the same reason. The suspension: Maverick Stow, a 17-year-old senior at William Floyd High School in Long Island, was suspended Tuesday after attending in-person classes when he was supposed to follow them virtually from home. After one of the teachers noticed he was not on the list of students for in-person teaching, he was told to go to the principal’s office where they told him to leave the school’s premises, to...

The vast majority of people don’t plan on watching NFL games if players kneel, according to a Twitter poll. The first game of the 2020 season is Thursday night when the Chiefs and Texans play, and there’s a good chance we could see players kneel during the national anthem. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) I asked people in a Twitter poll if they’d tune out in the event of kneeling, and the results weren’t close at all. Of the 4,850 voters, 86.7% voted that they would stop watching if...

CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, during a segment Tuesday night, took a swipe at Trump supporters and poor white people, whom they labeled “suckers,” and claimed that American Christians enjoy a “privilege” unlike any other religious group in the country. Lemon declared that “America has a problem with race” while Cuomo suggested President Trump is “scaring white people” for his “political advantage” because “scaring white people works.” Lemon said poor white people are being “pitted against” other races and taken advantage of by wealthy white people. “They’re playing for a sucker,” Cuomo said, referring to working-class white people.

CNN appears to have altered a widely-seen photograph of Joe Biden with his young son to remove the logo of the Washington Redskins. The Democratic nominee and former vice president initially shared the photo in June to commemorate Father's Day. CNN PANNED FOR ON-AIR GRAPHIC READING 'FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTEST' IN FRONT OF KENOSHA FIRE However, when CNN featured the photograph in its Monday night special "Fight for the White House: Joe Biden's Long Journey," the Redskins logo was removed from the hat. CNN did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick will remain a free agent for the fourth straight season after no team showed interest in signing the former quarterback-turned social justice warrior ahead of the 2020 season, slated to begin this weekend. The story: Kaepernick became a free agent following the 2016/17 season after his controversial decision to kneel for the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality against black Americans. But as the Black Lives Matter movement spread across America following the death of George Floyd, professional sports organizations, including the NFL, have allowed players to kneel during the...

The Georgia man arrested for stabbing a stranger last month claiming that he “felt the need to find a white man to kill” after watching videos of “police brutality,” has murdered the white cell mate he was placed with following his arrest. Jayvon Hatchett, 19, was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime after stabbing a random AutoZone employee in late August. Following his arrest, he was placed in the Muscogee County Jail. If convicted for the initial stabbing, Hatchett could be one of the first people sentenced under a new Georgia...

Republicans say President Trump’s decision to make Hispanic voters a priority is boosting his support with this critical bloc in public opinion polls and threatening Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s prospects in key battleground states. Trump received 28% of the Hispanic vote four years ago. But a fresh national poll from Quinnipiac University pegged the president’s support with this demographic at 36% — despite trailing Biden by 10 percentage points overall, progress reflected in other surveys conducted over the summer. In swing states that will determine the outcome of the presidential race, that level of Hispanic support could push Trump over...

An 11-year-old and a 12-year-old student in Colorado were temporarily suspended from school after they were spotted with an Airsoft gun and a toy gun, respectively, during their online lessons. Story 1: 11-year-old Maddox Blow, who goes to Bell Middle School in Golden, Colorado, told the FOX31 Problem Solvers that he finished a quiz early at one of his online classes and got bored waiting for the others, so he took his Airsoft gun and started fidgeting with it. The teacher noticed Blow playing with the Airsoft gun several hours after the lesson while reviewing the recordings. According to an...

A new study by the University of Washington-Tacoma argues that one of the reasons why minority communities in inner cities experience hot temperatures in the summer is because of systemic racism. Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology Christopher Schell and the co-authors of the study concluded that systemic racism in city planning leads to fewer trees being planted in low-income neighborhoods and, consequently, higher temperatures. Wealthier “urban residential neighborhoods generally have greater vegetation cover, canopy cover, and plant diversity,” reads the paper, titled “The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments.” “The geographic distribution of urban heat islands...