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No one likes to say “I told you so” when people die, but sometimes you just have to. I have been talking and writing about the left-wing mob and their violence for years, even wrote a book about it, and it keeps on rolling. Democrats refuse to denounce it or even admit it exists. The murders in CHAZ/CHOP (or whatever the hell it was called when they finally shut it down) didn’t matter, the murders and attempted murder of police officers didn’t matter (no celebrity stepped up to pay for the funeral of David Dorn and Al Sharpton or Ben...

It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about. So far, hundreds of police have been injured, dozens of people have been killed, and we have seen billions of dollars in property and collateral damage. Ostensibly, many of the summer demonstrations were in protest over the gruesome detention and death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25. Yet three months later, few of those trying to burn down a Portland police precinct -- with police barricaded inside -- or looting the high-end boutiques of Chicago's Magnificent Mile, or...

As so much despair has gripped our nation during this difficult time, I decided to go into our nation's most distressed communities with a message of hope and truth. I have been working on policy issues dealing with race and poverty through my organization, UrbanCURE, for 25 years. We purchased billboard space in hard-hit cities across the nation and posted a short, time-tested message that strikes at the heart of what drives poverty. The billboards show a picture of a young black man or young black woman and say: "Tired of Poverty? Finish school. Take any job. Get married. Save...

Life is about priorities. That’s an important lesson everyone should learn. Our time on the planet is limited, what you choose to spend it on says more about you than almost anything else. Democrats, in the midst of a pandemic, have chosen a political show over you. The post office is going broke. Were it not for a string of continual bailouts, the U.S. Postal Service would have closed its doors years ago. Were it a publicly held company, the people who run it would likely be in jail. Meanwhile, the economy is shut down and millions of Americans are...

I don’t blame Tennessee’s Gov. Bill Lee for signing this bill into law. He increased punishments against those engaging in the type of mayhem seen in Portland, Seattle, and Chicago, some of which include the loss of voting rights. Yes, you can bet the liberal media, Democrats, and the American Civil Liberties Union is going to be immensely triggered by this law. Oh wait; the ACLU state chapter already responded saying, “We are very disappointed in Governor Lee’s decision to sign this bill, which chills free speech, undermines criminal justice reform and fails to address the very issues of racial...

True Santa Monica, California, story: I saw a white man wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. I went up to him and said, "You know, Guevara was racist, called Blacks dumb and lazy." He said, "Really?!" I said, "Google it." As I walked away, it looked like he was Googling it -- either that or calling 911. "This virus has impacted almost every country. But there's a reason it has hit America worse than any other advanced nation. It's because of Trump's failure to take it seriously." -- Kamala Harris, Aug. 12, 2020. Actually, Belgium, the U.K., Spain, Italy and Sweden...

President Trump recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country. A little more than half of the troops being withdrawn will return home. The rest will be redeployed to other NATO member nations such as Belgium, Italy, and perhaps Baltic and Eastern European countries. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to be furious. She claims the redeployments will "weaken the (NATO) alliance." German commercial interests chimed in that the troop withdrawals will hurt their decades-old businesses serving U.S. bases. Perhaps, but Merkel surely cannot be surprised....

Whether we like to admit it or not, most of us crave freedom from the responsibilities of our lives. Freedom from having to pay the bills, from working all day, from making dinner, and from the silent restraints we put on ourselves to be respectable members of our communities. Progressives in this country believe not only that such responsibilities make them unfree, but make them oppressed. Those who embrace organizations like Black Lives Matter—which, according to its website, “disrupt[s] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement”—believe motherhood is a burden imposed on women by tyrannical husbands. They believe gender is the...

This practice in the media of journalists needing to find a racial problem in society is becoming more than comical; it is bordering on pathological. It feels like an internal memo went out declaring that every member of the press has to come up with at least one systemic racist example by a deadline. How else to explain the dolts who see racism in crosswalk signs, or declare that front lawns at homes are inspired by supremacy. They even declare there is racism within the robot community; somehow the bias towards skin color involves machines which do not have skin....

Parents, legislators, taxpayers, and others footing the bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the upcoming academic year. Since many college classes will be online, there is a chance to witness professors indoctrinating their students in real-time. So, there's a chance that some college faculty might change their behavior. To see recent examples of campus nonsense and indoctrination, visit the Campus Reform and College Fix websites. George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley warned congressional lawmakers that Antifa is "winning" and that much of academia, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is complicit in its...

Conservative former Congressman Steve Stockman is languishing in prison with COVID-19. Some crooked bureaucrats at the Bureau of Prisons will not allow him to move to home confinement, despite the fact he is over 60 years old and has diabetes and other health problems. Every other inmate in his prison over 60 with diabetes has been moved to home confinement. He has heard they won’t allow it because he’s basically a conservative political prisoner. Meanwhile, murderers and rapists all around the country have been let out, with some committing new heinous crimes.  Stockman is serving a 10-year sentence for raising money...

At a time when inflamed racial and political tensions threaten to further erode the most important elements that unite us, here is a story of a true patriot’s journey to return home amid an unprecedented global pandemic. As a Master Sergeant in the United States Army for 20 years, serving in multiple war zones, I’ve fought alongside some incredible men and women of many races and backgrounds. Most recently, I was in Syria where I took part in the fight against the Islamic State. While there, I became friends with another man also fighting against the jihadis. Michael Enright served in...

Today we begin a two-part Bible Study series. Part 1 explores what the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) reveals about the Face of God and, next week in Part 2, we will discuss the New Testament. Just seeing the phrase “Face of God” is enough to make hearts and minds go aflutter while setting off alarms in others. The words conjure up visions, emotions, and, unfortunately, tremendous division. How can we really know someone if we don’t know their face? Faithful Judeo-Christians want to know God. We seek his blessings, love, guidance, protection, and mercy. Millions of believers actively seek the face of God as part...

The teachings of Jesus are filled with paradoxes, but none is more paradoxical than this: “whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25). As expressed in another passage, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life” (John 12:24-25). This is a cardinal, revolutionary principle, and by understanding...

Today, America has a choice of two paths. We can embrace the foundational principles that created this nation of limited government and individual liberty. Or we can veer down the path of bigger, more intrusive government that promises to solve all our problems if we just turn over more of our freedom and our paychecks. The difference between the two paths recently has become even starker as those on the left have gotten more radical. They have sought to destroy the lives of those who disagree with them, rewrite history to teach our children that America was illegitimate from the...

SALT LAKE CITY - A retired judge has been asked by the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office to prosecute the criminal cases of nine people accused of vandalizing the district attorney’s building during recent protests. But the unusual move is already raising eyebrows and has become the latest chapter in an already controversial situation. District Attorney Sim Gill announced this week that former 3rd District Judge Dane Nolan, who retired in 2017, will serve as “conflict counsel” for the vandalism cases. That means Nolan will handle the cases of those accused of breaking windows and spreading gallons of red...

Attorney General Bill Barr has established himself as one of the few public officials willing and able to accurately describe the ongoing wave of violence and radicalism. In an interview with Mark Levin on Sunday, Barr cut straight to the point with his description of the violent, organized, and often armed “anti-fascist” radicals who have been rioting in cities across the country.“They are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism,” he said, “they are essentially Bolsheviks[.]”Barr went on to make clear that when masked extremists attack police, destroy property, and “occupy” city streets and public...

America has witnessed months of civil unrest in cities around America following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many of the protesters decry income and net worth "inequality." But the most serious "inequality" is the unequal percentage of fathers in Black households, a phenomenon that has been encouraged by government policies that normalize and reward out-of-wedlock births. In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, assistant secretary of Labor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, published "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action." At that time, 25% of Blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that this former adviser to President...

The Democrats are wargaming how to steal the 2020 election, and after Grandpa Badfinger selected Lady Mac (Willie) Brown, their last best hope seems to be the military marching in and removing Donald Trump from the White House after he wins and they refuse to accept the election results. But will the military actually do the bidding of the coterie of Marxist Muppet masters with their fingers, ironically, up inside Joe Biden like he is a crusty, senile Kermit? Which he is, except the real Mr. Miss Piggy isn’t a manifestly mentally incompetent socialist Trojan Frog.And don’t even get me...

Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored. Our nation, it was shouted in our faces, is a place where white cops harass, brutalize, assault and kill black Americans regularly and with impunity. "Defund the police!" the Black Lives Matter demand went out, to be echoed and re-echoed by BLM's amen corner of progressive elites. The pendulum may be swinging back, for this weekend reintroduced us to the...