Last Friday, while the national anthem was playing before the Orlando Magic/Brooklyn Nets game, Magic forward Jonathan Isaac, an ordained Christian minister, became the first player in the NBA this season to stand for the national anthem. He also did not wear a “Black Lives Matter” shirt as his teammates did.
“A person with knowledge of Isaac’s decision said it was not a surprise to his teammates and that his choice was discussed ahead of time,” The Associated Press reported.
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By Hank Beckman -
If it’s August, three things are inevitable. It will be miserably hot in most of the country, the Chicago Cubs will wilt in the heat and part of the national conversation will focus on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
We tend to focus on anniversaries that end in “5” or “0.” This year being the 75th will probably bring more of the the usual amount of Hiroshima column inches and pontificating from talking heads about whether the bombing was really necessary.
(Oddly enough, no one seems terribly concerned about the lives lost at Nagasaki; apparently about 70,000 people being incinerated in one fell swoop loses its newsworthiness if it happens only a few days after the original show.)
If you’re a regular consumer of news and are at all interested in history, you have undoubtedly heard all the arguments about what was, after all, the most significant single event of the Twentieth Century.
LAKE COUNTY - Deep blue Illinois' political pendulum could swing away from its decades-long Democrat Party grip, says Illinois' GOP US Senate candidate Mark Curran.
That's despite the Republican National Committee telling Curran (far right in photo) he won't be getting much help from the party's top levels.
"The Democrat strategy of hiding until the online censors and left wing media get them elected is working. They don't debate, they don't talk to voters, they just trust the machine to hand them power again, so they can continue to self-enrich, while America burns," Curran told supporters in an email over the weekend.
"That means the folks at the RNC are busy playing defense," his campaign wrote. "They aren't paying much attention to my Senate race - but that's not me!"
"We can win this," Curran says.
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The Cato Institute just released a new report showing that 62 percent of Americans are inclined to self-censor what they say politically “because others might find them offensive.” Even moderate leftists report they feel increased fear of offending the offendable, while only the most “staunch liberals,” as Cato described them, feel free to speak their minds. The “very conservative” have been pushed deepest in the closet: they are most likely to refrain from saying what they think politically, at nearly twice the rate of the “very liberal.”
Buried deeper in the report, however, is a stunning data point that might be one of the most troubling current cultural indicators. Forty-four percent of Americans younger than age 30 believe a company is correct in firing an executive because he or she personally donated to President Trump’s reelection campaign.
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Illinois Politicians blame out-of-state sellers, but we all know the real problem lies at home.
The tragically incompetent mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on CNN’s State of the Union last weekend to deflect attention from the horror show unfolding in her city by blaming interlopers for its spiking murder rate: “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons — that is hurting cities like Chicago.”
Although these accusations have leveled by Chicago politicians for decades now, they are a myth.
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By John F. Di Leo -
The week of July 26 saw six days of memorial services for the late congressman, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D, GA). Some were big events, with lots of people in attendance. Since he was a politician, he had politicians speaking at his nationally-televised funerals. And that’s certainly fair.
But here’s the odd thing…
I lost a very dear friend, a few months ago. Not from “The Virus”… no, she was 89, and she had been suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's for 5 years. It was just old age.
She hasn't had her funeral yet.
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By Matt Walsh -
I have already made the case that systemic racism in law enforcement is a myth. The claim that racist police are prowling the street searching for black men to murder is absurd on its face, and even absurder when you look at the facts. It is by now well publicized — at least in some corners — that, despite all of the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year. But an even closer look at the data, and a study of each “unarmed” killing, reveals that the real number of unjustified police shootings of actual unarmed people — black, white, or any other race — is much smaller still.
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By embracing Marxism, the Left is ironically stoking the fires of genuine racism.
In these increasingly upside-down times, one of the most profound examples testifying to our altered reality is the popular redefinition of racism. While racism is still considered by the vast majority of America as evil, the leftist-driven understanding of what constitutes racism is fast becoming the exact opposite.
Those who battled for civil rights by and large were fighting for equality in society under the law. As Martin Luther King Jr. famously espoused in his “Dream” speech, he was pushing for a colorblind society where individuals are not judged by “the color of their skin, but the content of their character.” In today’s world, King would be branded a racist for failing to see color.
In fact, today’s leftist “anti-racists” share more in common with George Wallace and his views on race than they do King. Liberty Unyielding’s Hans Bader insightfully notes, “America’s colleges, media, and cultural institutions are being swept by the ideology of ‘anti-racism.’ It openly advocates racial discrimination against white people, and promotes bigoted, lower expectations for black people.”
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By Mark Weyermuller -
Last Saturday, several hundred people gathered in support of police at Grant Park in Chicago. It was called the “Back the Blue” Rally. It was held at the same site where earlier in the week the park's Christopher Columbus statue was removed by order of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
A few days earlier than the removal, there was a violent protest at the statue including arrests and many Chicago Police officers injured. Leftist protesters attempted to pull the statue over as they have done at many locations around the country.
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By Nancy Thorner -
Faulty information and mistakes in the middle of a crisis, such as the coronavirus pandemic, are to be expected.
For this pandemic, it has been something more. What happens when your own people exaggerate circumstances and repeatedly provide fraudulent data?
Host Scott Barbour, M.D. examines the hoaxes surrounding COVID-19 in The Doctor's Lounge podcast program of July 23, 2020, Hoaxes Abound, who along with Hal Scherz, M.D., both Docs 4 Patient Care doctors who appear on American web radio.
Listen to the July 23, 2020 PODCAST HERE of Dr. Barbour's presentation of COVID-19 hoaxes.
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Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that Antifa “protesters” are “largely peaceful.” And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle, and Denver haven’t been looted yet, who am I to argue?
Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform downtowns into a mess and create quality-of-life issues for thousands of law-abiding citizens. And the mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing “protesters” are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves.
There’s little doubt that if alt-right activists had occupied a few city blocks in Seattle or tried to firebomb a federal courthouse in Portland, we’d be in for feverish wall-to-wall media coverage, engulfed in a national conversation about the perils of right-wing radicalism. Every elected Republican would be asked to personally denounce the extremists to make sure they take implicit ownership of the problem.
When a few hundred angry tiki torch-carrying Nazis marched in Charlottesville, you would have thought the Republican National Committee had deployed the Wehrmacht. Those who led the riot were even asked to opine on CNN.
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Critical race theory is embedding itself in America's governmental agencies. Christopher F. Rufo writes:
Critical race theory—the academic discourse centered on the concepts of “whiteness,” “white fragility,” and “white privilege”—is spreading rapidly through the federal government. Last month, a private diversity consultant, Howard Ross, conducted a training for federal financial agencies called “Difficult Conversations about Race in Troubling Times,” which asked white employees at the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the National Credit Union Association, and the Officer of the Comptroller to pledge “allyship amid the George Floyd Tragedy.”
The New Jersey mail-in voting debacle is a bad sign for upcoming elections. Jason Snead writes:
Even as New Jersey voters look to the general election, many are still coping with the aftermath of the state’s first all-mail vote.
Paterson, the Garden State’s third-largest city, is mired in a burgeoning election scandal. One in 5 ballots have been rejected. The local NAACP has cried foul. And now, four men—including a councilman and councilman-elect—have been charged by the state’s attorney general with criminal election fraud.
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Exactly a hundred years ago this morning—on January 3, 1920—Americans woke up to discover just how little their own government regarded the cherished Bill of Rights. During the night, some 4,000 of their fellow citizens were rounded up and jailed for what amounted, in most cases, to no good reason at all and no due process, either.
Welcome to the story of the Palmer Raids, named for their instigator, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Though largely forgotten today, they shouldn’t be. They constituted a horrific, shameful episode in American history, one of the lowest moments for liberty since King George III quartered troops in private homes.
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Whether it be The New York Times' “1619 Project” or the mobs tearing down statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it’s clear that Liberals want to erase our history so we forget what America stands for.
But grassroots conservatives are fighting for America—and some of our elected leaders are too. To expose the Left’s blatant hypocrisy, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced legislation banning the Democratic party from Congress and requiring them to change their name.
Why? Because according to Gohmert, "A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. To avoid triggering innocent bystanders by the racist past of the Democratic Party, I would suggest they change their name. That is the standard to which they are holding everyone else, so the name change needs to occur."
It will take more than a resolution to preserve America. But winning on the policy and messaging fights is an important part of shaping our society.
“Rioting” no longer describes what is happening on our streets—no, our great cities are under siege.
Nowhere is this more clear than the striking photos and videos that came out of Portland this week. For over 50 days, the Leftist mob has gathered night after night to spread fear, intimidate dissenters, and attack personal and Federal property.
The Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse has been ground zero for their lawlessness. Protesting is not leaving graffiti, starting fires, and throwing bricks. This is not how democracy works.
The real story is getting buried by the mainstream media. But there are good journalists out there doing the work to document the chaos and violence. Check out some serious reporting on the Portland riots:
