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When a vote for Trump provides a license to destroy a man’s character and credibility by any means necessary. We live in strange times. Since the election of Donald Trump, it has often seemed as if half the country has gone blind or, more likely, lost the ability to see beyond their noses. The divisions that have resulted are so deep they have split us effectively into two nations, damaging and destroying individual relationships at every level. The political left and its media blame Trump for this fracturing of the nation’s fabric, but Trump was first the target of accusations...

Why the Washington Post Fears the Freedom Center We’re making a difference and the media is trying to stop us. October 22, 2018 Daniel Greenfield 11 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. “Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a dark whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi,” the Washington Post nervously warned. It was the third week of Khashoggimania. And some difficult questions were being asked. The Washington Post had provided Jamal Khashoggi, a Hamas supporter and an old friend of Osama bin...

Editor’s note: Below is the transcript of the panel discussion, “Obama’s Foreign Policy Disasters,” which took place at the Freedom Center’s 2013 Restoration Weekend. Restoration Weekend was held November 14th-17th at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Michael Finch: I’m going to ask, first of all, Angelo Codevilla to give us a couple of comments. Angelo Codevilla: Thank you. (Applause) I was asked to speak about anything other than the Middle East — delighted — but also about Obama’s foreign policy, as if that were really the problem; I wish it were. The problems with American foreign policy go...

On November 19, Glenn Beck spoke at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s “Restoration Weekend,” where he addressed the current political situation in America, entrepreneurship, Occupy Wall Street, Israel and plenty more. “I think the question — how much trouble are we in — I’ll address. But the bigger question that I would like to address today is — how much trouble is the Left in?,” Beck said at the beginning of his speech. “Because America is waking up. And there’s only going to be one of us standing in the end. And I have every intention of it being us.”...

The Freedom Center's annual Restoration Weekend at the Breakers in Palm Beach is always an intimidating event. Combine a world class resort with world class intellectuals and activists and it's easy to be overwhelmed. But as the weekend gets going that anxiety gradually melts away as the realization sets in that you're among friends and patriots. I've decided to feature 12 videos focused around 10 of the speakers at Restoration. Click the links below to jump to a particular one and their accompanying videos: Frank Gaffney - The President of the Center for Security Policy presents an important new...

I was surrounded by sartorial splendor at the magnificent Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach last weekend as world-class experts expounded on some truly frightening topics – our government's handling of the war on terror, the pitiable state of Muslim women unfortunate enough to be born under Sharia law, and the consequences of a Hillary Clinton victory in 2008. The Restoration Weekend, hosted last week by David Horowitz's Freedom Center, is my all-time favorite conservative gathering. Unlike CPAC or other well-known conservative conferences, attendees have three days to hobnob with true conservative luminaries. To hold actual conversations with the likes of...

I'm right in thick of things this weekend. Surrounded by more conservative luminaries than I can count. It's David Horowitz' 11th annual 'Restoration Weekend' at the tony Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. For those who are not aware of David Horowitz, suffice to say he's THE most effective conservative activist I've ever had the pleasure to meet. And I've met most of them. David is mega bestselling author, red-diaper baby, 60's radical complete with a stint with the Black Panthers. Having seen the best the left has to offer and being a logical man, David switched to the Right and...

I spent this past weekend bunkered in with 350 movement conservatives and some of their favorite pols and strategists – from John Ashcroft to Tom Tancredo to Jim Woolsey --and let me tell you, even many of these folks are openly worried about Republican chances in the Fall. The Phoenix gathering was the latest edition of David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend, a traditional gathering of the right-wing tribes. And no, I didn't go native. I was merely a panelist on the future of the Democratic Party along with Matt Bai of The New York Times and Democratic consultants Flavia Colgan and...

Audio files of speeches and panels at the David Horowitz/Center for the Study of Popular Culture "Restoration Weekend" Feb 23-26 are available at Rightalk.com!. AVAILABLE State of the World War/R. James Woolsey - Former CIA Director NSA Surveillance Program/Senator John Kyl (R_AZ) Able Danger and the War on Terror/Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) Center for the Study of Popular Culture/David Horowitz Origin of the Annie Taylor Award/David Horowitz Annie Taylor Award/John Ashcroft Salute to the Troops/John O'Neill Entertainment/Comedian Evan Sayet Panel 1 - Emerging Threats General Paul Vallely, Ken Timmerman, Lt. Colonel Gordon Cucullu, Humberto Fontova, Congressman Tom Tancredo Panel 2...

Don't miss the exciting panel discussions this afternoon during the David Horowitz spnsored "Restoration Weekend". Rightalk.com will be webcasting LIVE several of the panels and the entire conference will be available via podcast/download post conference! All times Eastern. Friday FEBRUARY 2411:00am - Emerging ThreatsModerator: General Paul Vallely, FoxNews ChannelPanelists: Ken Timmerman, author Bill Gertz, The Washington Times Lt. Colonel Gordon Cucullu, writer and columnist Humberto Fontova, author and columnist12:45pm - Has the Democratic Party Lost It's Way?Moderator: Joe ScarboroughPanelists: Flavia Colgan, Democratic Consultant Matt Bai, New York Times Magazine Pat Caddell, Political Consultant Marc Cooper, The NationSaturday FEBRUARY 2511:00am -...

Don't miss the exciting panel discussions this weekend during the David Horowitz spnsored "Restoration Weekend". Rightalk.com will be webcasting LIVE several of the panels and the entire conference will be available via podcast/download post conference! All times Eastern. Friday FEBRUARY 24 11:00am - Emerging Threats 12:45pm - Has the Democratic Party Lost It's Way? Saturday FEBRUARY 25 11:00am - The Coming Elections 12:45pm - The Media and the War 12:45pm - Civil Liberties and the War on TerrorSunday FEBRUARY 26 10:30am - Immigration Debate 12:00pm - The Lobbying Scandal

Rightalk.com is proud to announce the LIVE webcast schedule for the David Horowitz/Center for the Study of Popular Cultures "Restoration Weekend". All times Mountain Standard. Podcasts will be available post conference. Friday FEBRUARY 24 7:30am - R. James Woolsey "State of War" 9:00am - "Emerging Threats" General Paul Vallely - Fox News Analyst Bill Gertz - Washington Times Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu - Writer and columnist Humberto Fontova - Author and columnist 10:45am - "The War on Terror: Are We Winning?" Lt. General Thomas McInerney - Fox Consultant Daniel Pipes - Middle Eastern Forum Robert Spencer - Jihad Watch Phyllis...

The Rightalk.com LIVE webcast schedule for "Restoration Weekend", sponsored by David Hororwitz and The Center for the Study of Popular Culture, is as follows; Friday FEBRUARY 24 7:30am - Breakfast - R. James Woolsey "State of War" 9:00am - Panel - "Emerging Threats" 10:45am - Panel - "The War on Terror: Are We Winning?" 10:45am - Panel - "Has the Democratic Party Lost It's Way?" 12:00pm - Lunch - Senator John Kyle Saturday FEBRUARY 25 7:30am - Breakfast - Congressman Curt Weldon 9:00am - Panel - "The Coming Elections" 10:45am - Panel - "The Media and the War" 10:45am -...

David Horowitz gave the following speech -- on the importance of pointing out the betrayal of the Left, the cozy relationship between leftists and terrorists, how far we've come, and how far we have to go -- at Restoration Weekend 2004. -- The Editors. I really want to begin today by thanking everybody in this room for your support for what I do. I began the Wednesday Morning Club with the idea of supporting conservatism in the entertainment industry. When I began it 12 years ago, everybody was pretty much in the closet. I remember how people had to hide...

I've just returned from the annual Restoration Weekend I put on, this year at the Boca Resort in Boca Raton. The highlight of the event was the Saturday night banquet where we gave our Annie Taylor Award to the men who defeated the party of defeatism and the saboteurs of the war on terror in this last election. Annie Taylor was the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive. It is a fitting award for American heroes who were slandered and defamed while they were being tortured in Communist prisons by an American traitor who...

The following forum was held at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture's annual Restoration Weekend, Nov. 13-16, 2003. David Keene:  My name is Dave Keene, and those of you who know me know that I know very little about the Middle East, almost nothing about Shiites and Sunnis and Wahhabi Muslims.  However, since September 11, like a lot of us, I’ve spent a good bit of my time reading and trying to learn something about this, and, of course, one of the most delicate issues that the current administration has been dealing with is the question of Saudi Arabia. ...

This is the continuation of fmr. CIA Director R. James Woolsey's speech at the 2003 Restoration Weekend. Click Here for Part One.Unidentified Speaker:  You made the comment of the stress between security and liberty, and it seems to me one of the elements of that is for whom. The liberty, as long as we provide the same liberties for U.S. citizens on our territory as we do for non-citizens, we are then subjecting ourselves to a security issue that is appropriate for both citizens and non-citizens. As a consequence, we're going to lose, relatively speaking, liberties of citizenship in order to make...

The following speech was given at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture's annual Restoration Weekend, Nov. 13-16, 2003. David Horowitz introduced Judy Black, who then introduces former CIA Director R. James Woolsey. The question-and-answer session is continued in Part Two.David Horowitz: This is the Eighth Annual Restoration Weekend. It hasn't always been the Restoration Weekend. It began as the Dark Ages Weekend, but Republicans couldn't handle the joke. And, actually, they were quite smart not to, which is one of the reasons we changed the title.  It's also -- began in year one of the revolution on New Year's 1994. The reason...