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Why does anyone take this woman seriously? It makes perfect sense to me that a candidate for president who has a long history of breaking the law - including her blatant disregard for national security in the way she handled sensitive information via a non-secured homebrew e-mail server, not to mention lying to the American public about a terrorist attack that killed four people - would be interested in ways to make life more difficult for law enforcement. Who hates the police more than dishonest people who consider themselves above the law and constantly rely on legal maneuvers to get...

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This is a story that contrasts the managerial skill of Ben Carson with that of Donald Trump. It is very unlikely Trump would handle this the same way Carson is handling it. It might have gone under the radar of the mainstream media, but the blogosphere has told an interesting story about one of Ben Carson’s advisers that directly reflects on the presidential candidate’s ability to hire quality people to help him administer his affairs. Given his public questioning of Muslims’ suitability to hold positions of trust, it is not insignificant that a top adviser of Carson has called for...

I took it for granted that a leftist like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was truly shocked to see Sanders—not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the Senate floor—flatly call the death penalty "murder." On his MSNBC show this morning, Al Sharpton played the Sanders clip to illustrate how Sanders is working to differentiate his policy positions from those of Hillary Clinton, who says she supports the death penalty in "rare" cases. Question: how can we begin to explain the moral compass of liberals like Sanders who...

An outspoken black sheriff has made the harrowing claim that Black Lives Matter activists will eventually join forces with the Islamic State terror group to bring down the United States. “Before long, Black Lies [sic] Matter will join forces with ISIS to [bring] down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here,” Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke tweeted to his 96,400 followers on Tuesday. “I have been right on every call I have made about these subversives. I will be right again,” he added.

Republican Donald Trump slammed the Black Lives Matter movement tonight on The O’Reilly Factor. Trump added the Democrats who support the mob movement, “Are not fit to run for office.” “I think they’re trouble. I think they’re looking for trouble. I looked at a couple of the people who were interviewed from the group. I saw them with hate coming down the street last week talking about cops and police and what should be done to them. I think that it’s a disgrace that they’re getting away with it. I think it’s disgraceful how they are being catered to by...

Grassroots activists are pushing their way through spaces and forcing conversation. That makes us all a little tense but that’s the whole point, isn’t it? On Saturday, Black Lives Matter organizers Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford got on stage and took the microphone away from from presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders to remind him that the Black Lives Matter movement is the grassroots movement of the 2016 race. As a black woman, a part of me felt like I should have stood up and cheered when I watched the video, but I also felt downright uncomfortable. I cringed at the...

The Republican Party and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that has sprung up in response to the all-too-common police killings of unarmed African-Americans across the country. The intent of the campaign — evident in comments by politicians like Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky — is to cast the phrase “Black Lives Matter” as an inflammatory or even hateful anti-white expression that has no legitimate place in a civil rights campaign

"Gun control advocates," reports Politico, "frustrated by repeated failures to pass even moderate restrictions on gun ownership, are trying to forge an alliance with Black Lives Matter and the criminal justice reform movement in a strategy shift aimed at overcoming the lobbying power of the National Rifle Association." Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently said: "I think that we have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence. This has gone on too long and it's time the entire country stood up against the NRA. The majority of our country supports background checks,...

Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is not a fan of the “Black Lives Matter” movement. She appeared with Neil Cavuto yesterday to essentially tell the movement to shut up. In case you missed the news, a “Black Lives Matter” mob showed up at a Jeb Bush campaign event and started chanting their racist mantra. King was not impressed. “You know, our good friend, Sheriff Clarke, said the other day a lot of this disruption is designed to distract,” she said. “And if you have enough strife or confusion, people can’t think. They just panic or...

RUSH: It was just yesterday that we had the audio sound bites from Black Lives Matter, a representative there talking to Hillary Clinton. Of course the Black Lives Matter gang has been showing up and disrupting Democrat personal appearances by Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders. And in both instances, Bernie Sanders allowed the Black Lives Matter mob to come attack his stage and take over his microphone, and he slinked away in cowardice. Martin O'Malley did the same thing. Martin O'Malley made the mistake of saying "all lives matter," and to the Black Lives Matter gang, that is not the...

The Profound Racism of ‘Black Lives Matter’Posted By John Perazzo On June 2, 2015 @ 12:09 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 8 Comments [1]“Black Lives Matter.” At first blush, it seems difficult to imagine anyone taking issue with the obvious, self-evident truth articulated by those three simple words. But when we peel away the veneer of deception, we find that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is in fact one of the most destructive, hateful, racist movements in living memory. Founded by a core group of revolutionaries who detest the United States and revere the nation’s most devoted radical enemies, BLM is,...

“Black Lives Matter.” At first blush, it seems difficult to imagine anyone taking issue with the obvious, self-evident truth articulated by those three simple words. But when we peel away the veneer of deception, we find that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is in fact one of the most destructive, hateful, racist movements in living memory. Founded by a core group of revolutionaries who detest the United States and revere the nation’s most devoted radical enemies, BLM is, at its essence, an ideological reincarnation of the Black Panther movement that flourished in the Sixties.

An African-American man in his 30s has been arrested for setting a string of fires at black churches in St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting. Speculation swirled that the fires were racially-motivated, especially given the proximity to Ferguson, Mo., the St. Louis suburb that was the site of massive protests last year over the police-involved shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man. A white priest at St. Louis’ Christ Church Cathedral asserted that the arsonist had racist motives. “Holy God, if we ever needed a wake-up call to believe that racism is alive in St. Louis —...

illary Clinton was interrupted multiple times Friday by Black Lives Matter protesters at her first "African Americans for Hillary" rally in Atlanta. The group of activists chanted “Black Lives Matter” as Clinton delivered her speech on racial injustice and criminal justice reform. Clinton at first acknowledged them: "Yes they do and I’m going to talk a lot about that in a minute,” she said. "Now, now my friends I am going to get to some very important points that actually prove that black lives do matter and we have to take action together," Clinton said. "And I hope that we’ll...

ATLANTA — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is using a Southern campaign swing to outline criminal justice proposals she says would treat black Americans more fairly. The trip to Georgia and South Carolina comes as Clinton works to solidify her advantage in the African-American community over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Both candidates have called for ending mass incarceration in the United States. In Atlanta on Friday, Clinton will call for eliminating sentencing disparities between crack cocaine crimes and powder cocaine. Clinton proposes making the change retroactive. The changes would build on a 2010 act of Congress that narrowed the...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed Hillary Clinton on Friday for president. "The candidate who I believe can fundamentally address income inequality effectively, the candidate [that] has the right vision and the right experience and ability to get the job done is Hillary Clinton," de Blasio said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." De Blasio, who was Clinton's campaign manager for her 2000 Senate bid, had been debating for months whether to endorse her. "I've seen her vision and platform develop over five months. I'm extremely pleased with what she's put on the table," said de Blasio, who also served...

The Black Lives Matter crowd apparently doesn’t feel like Democrats are pandering to them quite often enough. The official website for the #BlackLivesMatter movement posted an online petition on Tuesday, demanding that Democrat National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz organize a debate focused entirely on racial issues. **SNIP** It is not enough to poll the Presidential candidates on whether or not they think “Black lives matter” or “All lives matter” – we deserve substantive responses – including and in addition to criminal justice reform, what will the presidential candidates do to ensure that Black lives matter? We deserve substance and...

If you know a cop, you know a hero. And today, heroes are getting fired for a new kind of bravery: telling the truth about black crime and black on white racial hostility. They already have enough to do: George Orwell famously said “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” In Salt Lake City, it is going to take a crowbar to remove the police department t-shirts from the backs of two grateful 20-something sisters who were recently attacked and stabbed by a...

The Iranian regime is exploiting race tensions in the United States between police and African Americans by inviting the families of those killed by law enforcement to attend a discrimination conference in Iran Monday. The third annual "New Horizons" conference will focus on “police brutality against blacks in America,” according to the event announcement.