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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." —Sun Tzu. CIA Director John Ratcliffe in a pensive momentYou understand, don’t you, what the aim was of the “Seditious Six” politicians who made last week’s now-notorious video suggesting that US military personnel should refuse the president’s orders if they deemed them to be “illegal?” This was the old Lefty game of provoking the authorities to react intemperately so they can be labeled “fascist.” It’s like the old schoolyard game of the kid who goes I’m touching you. . . I’m touching you. . . until the touched...

Happy Friday everyone. This is something you don't see often: the White House Press Corp is missing George W. Bush. Finally after years of abuse, major media and newspaper outlets like ABC News, the Associated Press and the Washington Post have sent a letter to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, demanding photojournalists be granted the same access as the official White House photographer. Other outlets like McClatchy and USA Today are boycotting official White House photos and refusing to print them with news articles. During White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's daily briefing yesterday, reporters continued to ask about...

For a president who campaigned on the fact that he would be the great unifier of America, he has proven to be the exact opposite. Besides the fact that he has pitted political parties against each other in the most intense, ferocious ways since the American Revolution, he has also inflicted policies and programs that are fiscally murdering our country. He instigates social, economic and class warfare at every turn and his administration constantly and unjustly accuses Conservatives of racism. The only way our states have been united lately was when 27 of them filed lawsuits against Obamacare. Here are...

Abbas: Gaza pullout due to "Palestinian Sacrifices."

Black Teen Killed in Ax Attack in U.K. LIVERPOOL, England - A black teenager who was followed through a park by a group of men shouting racist taunts died Saturday after an attacker embedded an ax in his skull. Anthony Walker, 18, was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend and a cousin when a man started shouting racist taunts at them late Friday near Walker's home in Liverpool, police said. The three left to find another bus stop to avoid any trouble, police said. But a group of three or four men followed them through a park, and Walker's...