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It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets. That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam...

June 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – What in the world is happening in cities across America? Is it a peaceful, spontaneous modern civil rights movement, or is it a planned and orchestrated seditious revolution? We will show you how the violent riots tearing American cities apart are part of the anti-American, anti-Trump Resistance movement. We will also show how the Resistance effort itself is part of a long string of Marxist efforts aimed at destroying what is left of Christian civilization in America, and how George Soros is likely playing a leading role in causing this mayhem. If you would like...

The obscure British group that nearly forced Google to drop ads on The Federalist is continuing its efforts to demonetize American conservative media outlets it accuses of publishing inflammatory or racist content. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), founded in 2019 by Labour party organizers, put out a call for donations Tuesday after NBC News reported that Google was poised to ban The Federalist and Zero Hedge, a libertarian-leaning website, from making money off of Google Ads. CCDH’s affiliate, “Stop Funding Fake News,” claimed on Wednesday that it had pressured Ford, the auto maker, to consider dropping ads on...

The fund is one of many across the country fighting against America’s cash bail system, which disproportionately impacts lower-income people In the weeks since the onset of the protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American at the hands of police, the Minnesota Freedom Fund gained popularity as many people, including celebrities took to donating to the nonprofit dedicated to posting posts small cash bails for people who otherwise couldn’t afford them. The fund is one of many across the country fighting against America’s cash bail system, which disproportionately impacts lower-income people. Without the resources...

When George Floyd was allegedly killed by a callous police officer needlessly placing his knee to his neck for several minutes, the nation was united, for about a minute. Nobody in America looked at that video and thought, “that guy got what he deserved.” Nobody. And yet, leftist-led protests that quickly turned to lawless riots quickly turned off a huge segment of law-abiding American society. Instead of a rational, national discussion on police militarization, community policing, use of force, proper de-escalation tactics, and other common-sense reforms that would help ALL races in their interactions with law enforcement, the ‘movement’ quickly...

In a tortured way, it all now makes sense. Most of us are at least vaguely familiar with the expression that police represent the thin blue line that stands between us and anarchy. While it seems like insanity to most rational people, if the objective is anarchy, then eliminating that blue line is critical. The movement to defund the police is blossoming. Proponents have now enlisted support from a significant number of elected officials and celebrities. The Minneapolis City Council is leading the pack. Given the fact that scores of buildings in the city were looted and burned, council members...

The city of Seattle announced that it would turn a fire station into a community center for black residents after weeks of protests. The city announced on Thursday that it would be turning over ownership of the fire station to the community in line with a list of demands given to the city from Africatown and other black activist groups. "We at the City of Seattle understand the urgency behind making bold investments in the Black community and increasing community ownership of land in the Central District," the city wrote.

It’s pretty clear that the mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, and the Governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, have no idea what the heck they are doing or how to respond to armed insurrectionists taking over a police station and several blocks in the city. Both seemed more intent on attacking President Donald Trump than addressing the problem. Inslee actually said that the anarchists were “largely peaceful” and termed the “protest” “fundamentally American,” in a completely bizarre statement defending the anarchists. Inslee wasn’t upset with them but with Trump offering to help them if they didn’t get their act together. That,...

 The leftist mob of idiot sticks took to social media Wednesday to take their anger out on Cracker Barrel? Wait, that can’t be right. Oh wait, yes it is because they exist with a name that could only offend white people, but why not let it offend Black Lives Matter and Antifa folks, because it’s 2020 and logic is gone.As I opened up my Twitter browser today, I was stunned that Cracker Barrel was trending in the top two. After all they have amazing food, breakfast, and you can’t beat their chicken and dumplings, or the Uncle Hershel’s special.When I...

Portland, Oregon, a sanctuary city with a progressive mayor named Ted Wheeler: A plywood wall is going up around Portland City Hall. pic.twitter.com/Wb3xCvZi4J — Portland Tribune That doesn’t look like a bridge to us, and we’ve been told that’s the way it should be: Let's build bridges, not walls. Work together, not against each other.https://t.co/BHS3I7INsy — Mayor Ted Wheeler When his own security is at risk, @tedwheeler’s platitudes about not building walls suddenly no longer apply. https://t.co/Ao5ZGu0JLH — Andy Ngô

In a lecture about erosion of standards at The NY Times, I borrowed a exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.” “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asks. “Two ways,” Mike responds. “Gradually and then suddenly.” For the Times, “suddenly” has arrived. Its standards are now bankrupt. The revolt of the paper’s newsroom over publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed and the craven surrender of management marks the end of any semblance of basic fairness. Stick a fork in the Gray Lady. Last week’s developments amounted to a hostile takeover of the paper. It’s an apt description because...

For way too long, too many conservatives and other normal people have failed to deploy our most potent weapon in the defense of free thought and expression – the utter refusal to go along with the demands of the carnivorous left. As has been said before by me and others, we need to introduce these spoiled brats to the concept of “no.” This is a critical moment, and how we react now will determine if our future is citizenship or serfdom. The Democrats’ kinetic operation that was the rioting has failed, the violent thuggery egged-on and enabled by half-wit MSNBCNN...

House Democrats intend to go big in their coming legislation to tackle systemic racism and patterns of violence against African Americans — a package responding to the killing of an unarmed black man by Minneapolis police exactly two weeks ago. The legislation, while centered around criminal justice reform, will seek to address racial disparities well outside the realm of law enforcement, delving into issues as varied as health care, education and environmental justice. The strategy advances the notion that the plague of police violence against African Americans — as exposed in graphic fashion with the death of George Floyd last...

The similarities between this week’s riots and the Los Angeles riots of 1992 are obvious. Both were occasioned by appalling video images, and both divided the nation along partisan and ideological lines. ............... ............... But perhaps the most striking difference is the rationalization, and sometimes full-throated defense, of violence from left-wing elites: the glorification of havoc, the vilification of cops and their middle-class admirers, highfalutin defenses of vandalism. The sense of revolution and class warfare was everywhere this week: the cognoscenti and underclass arrayed against the petty bourgeois shop owners; the elite and those they claim to represent against everybody...

I have been posting a lot about my upcoming book Live Not By Lies, though it won’t be published until September, because events of the past ten days have validated its thesis beyond anything I could have expected. It’s a book that tells Americans — especially American Christians — to prepare themselves for “soft totalitarianism” at the hands of the woke, who are taking over established institutions. It offers lessons from those who endured Soviet, and Soviet bloc, hard totalitarianism. As I was finishing the book this spring, I worried that the thesis might be hard for many Americans to...

Actress Patricia Arquette is urging people to participate in a one-day economic shutdown that is designed to inflict damage on the U.S. economy and hurt President Donald Trump. Arquette isn’t the first Hollywood celebrity to advocate for damaging the U.S. economy in order to hurt President Trump, even if it means ordinary Americans will have to bear the brunt of a slowdown. Comedian Bill Maher has repeatedly said on his HBO show that he hopes the U.S. goes into a recession if it means that the Trump administration will suffer.

I would like to thank every liberal, Antifa, democrat, low-info voter, crooked politician, Karen, professor, and left wing freak for showing the world that I made the right decision when I left that godless diseased corpse of a party.

Voters in Portland, Oregon, will decide in November whether to elect an Antifa mayor, even after President Trump vowed to declare Antifa a domestic terrorism organization. . . . Despite her proud stance, or maybe because of it, Ms. Iannarone placed second in the crowded May 19 mayoral primary with 23.8% of the vote. That landed her in the November runoff with Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who came up just shy of the 50% threshold needed to win the race outright. A former Oregon state treasurer, Mr. Wheeler is as liberal as the next big-city mayor. He is a Democrat,...

Virtually every conservative in America knows the title of this column is true. Virtually every leftist knows it, too, but lying for the cause is what the left does (think "Russian collusion"). And those liberals who have become increasingly indistinguishable from leftists know it's probably true but won't say so -- lest they side with conservatives and, more importantly, be branded "racist" by the left. How the left brands a person now determines many people's moral and political positions. If the left cared about blacks, leftists would work to raise blacks to universal academic standards, not lower and abolish standards...

Prominent leftists on Monday raged over President Trump’s walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church after authorities cleared out protesters in the area around Lafayette Park, accusing the president of having demonstrators “viciously attacked” for a “photo op” and deeming him a “fascist.” The president concluded his Rose Garden address by announcing his intention to “pay my respects to a very, very special place.” From there, Trump departed, walking to the historic church that rioters targeted on Sunday night. Authorities cleared out protesters ahead of Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 7:00 p.m. curfew and Trump’s walk to the church.