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CNN ‘clown’ Jim Clancy goes on incoherent anti-Israel tirade
CNN anchor and correspondent Jim Clancy attracted a lot of attention tonight when he started making completely bogus claims like this one. The cartoons NEVER mocked the Prophet. They mocked how the COWARDS tried to distort his word. Pay attention. — Jim Clancy (@clancycnn) January 7, 2015 @clancycnn Absolutely untrue. The magazine was targeted in the past over an issue in which Muhammad was listed as guest editor.
Brett Kavanaugh's Reputation is the Ball in a Game Where Truth Doesn't Matter
Whether true or false, the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh will have staying power because of who his defenders are. Kavanaugh by most accounts appears to be a good judge and a decent human being but the eleventh hour revelation of sexual assault accusations is now stalling his confirmation process. The timing and the manner in which the accusations were made public certainly suggest it is yet another political ploy by dishonest, ends-justify-the-means, party-first charlatans.
Are Conservatives Going to Ask Government for a Social Media 'Fairness Doctrine' or Learn to Take Risks and Compete?
All the hubbub about anti-conservative bias in social media and search engine results is starting to remind me of those days when the left was complaining about conservatives dominating talk radio. That was before social media was even a thing, or at least before it was being used by anyone with a job. The answer to the perceived unfairness we gave then is the same one we should give now: Let the market work. The old Fairness Doctrine was abolished by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987.
Canada's P.M. Orders Government to Study Full Ban on Handguns and 'Assault' Weapons
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directed his Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, Bill Blair, to look into banning handguns and “assault” weapons completely (“while not impeding the lawful use of firearms by Canadians”). In a longwinded “Mandate Letter” Trudeau listed what Blair’s top priorities will be and among them is this silly nugget.
Run for the Border? City in Mexico Legalizes Public Intercourse -- and I Don't Mean Conversation
The Left has a very complicated relationship with Mexico. On one hand, if Trump makes any kind of remark insulting the third-world country, they go nuts. Mexico is, we therefore deduce, a wonderful place. At the same time, however, left-wingers claim we must let Mexican natives in, because they’re running for the border for the sake of their children. Well, which is it?
Predatory Priests, Politics, and the Cancer of Coverups
It has become a cliche, but there is a lot of truth in the adage about the coverup being worse than the crime. Coverups take many forms from simple denials to complex schemes involving payoffs and destruction of evidence, but when you try to bury something toxic sooner or later it is going to bubble up to the surface. We’ve been seeing that for some time now with the clerical sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and it is pretty routine in politics.
Fingers in Their Ears: The Left Refuse to Acknowledge the Tragedy of Mollie Tibbetts
And it doesn’t seem wholly inapplicable to the Left. Recently, 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was murdered by an illegal alien. However, the Left can’t seem to even address the crime. Any mention of it causes them to raise their mirrored shields in order to deflect from any notion of an illegal immigrant committing an atrocity.
Yes, Rush, It Matters Whether the President Paid Off His Booty Calls (Even If There's No Russia Connection)
I had the misfortune of hearing Rush Limbaugh try to spin the news about Paul Mannafort and Michael Cohen in President Trump’s favor this afternoon. His argument boiled down to something like: nothing to see here because it doesn’t have anything to do with the Russian collusion witch hunt. Ok, with regard to Mannafort’s conviction you can probably make a decent argument for that being true.
Epic Chase Video: Cows (Yes, Cows) Aid Police in Apprehending Car Thief
Well here’s something you don’t see every day and naturally it comes out of Florida. The Seminole County Sheriff’s office posted night vision video of cows aiding in the capture of a car thief attempting to escape on foot through their pasture. The video was shot from a helicopter assisting officers on the ground.
Crazy New Trump Apocalypse Novel Reveals the Depths of Leftist Paranoia and Self Delusion
Now that talk radio has largely morphed into boring state run media, I’ve been listening to more music, non-political podcasts, and a lot of audio books while driving. Browsing through Audible.com for my next selection I stumbled across something that might possibly be the worst politically motivated schlock ever published. It’s called America 2034: Utopia Rising by someone named Jonathan Greenberg, whose background is in…wait for it…journalism! What a surprise.
Twitter Suspended Candace Owens for Re-Posting Sarah Jeong's Racist Tweets With Other Races Replacing "White"
Post racist things about white people and Twitter won’t bat an eyelash. Hell, the New York Times might even defend you. But post something racist about any other race, and Twitter will be all over you like black on rice…see what I did there? According to the Daily Caller, Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens tweeted out Sarah Jeong’s words verbatim, but replaced the word “white” with “Jew,” just to show that in any other context, Jeong would have looked an awful lot like a neo-Nazi.
Latest Crackpot Theory Shows Russian Trutherism Is Surpassing Birtherism on the Crazypants Scale
It goes without saying that I’m not a fan of Trump, but even I couldn’t let this ludicrous bit of Russian trutherism go without saying something about it. This is how far some true-believers will go to argue that Trump is a Russian operative. Really? That is a stretch of Reed Richards proportions. I think it smacks more of a blogger writing under the influence of too much Russian vodka.
Sen. Cory Booker Poses for Anti-Israel Photo; Plus: Terrorism, Nudism, Avon, and Walls
On Friday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was seen on Twitter holding a sign endorsing the removal of Israel’s border security. The placard advertised a “no walls” approach to international living in general: What does that even mean? What kind of imagined world needs no protective barriers? How about no locks? Imagine the beauty of the planet if they were all banned. Working out at the Y this weekend? Leave your Master Lock at home. And your locker open. In fact, let’s get rid of all doors.
The Alt-Right Is Dumber Than a Sack of Swastikas
The last couple of days I have been blessed with becoming a political football for a bunch of alt-right idiots. It’s been interesting in a morbid sort of way, and somewhat humorous, at least until I remembered that the extraordinary stupidity on display is being exhibited by adults with the right to vote. Some of you may have watched some of it play out on Twitter.
Nikki Haley Slams the "Own the Libs" Mentality, and She's MOSTLY Correct
Look, I am all about mocking and satirizing the left. It’s how I arrived on the scene in 2011 when I created Misfit Politics. It’s fun to do because it’s easy, and there’s a kind of pleasure to it. Like an itch being scratched. With the arrival of Trump, this mocking of the left and making them look foolish has gone into overdrive. The Republican leader has taken the gloves off and insults the Democrats and their media lapdogs at every turn.
I Can't Stay Silent About What May Be Trump's Most Egregious Offense Yet
I’ve been tremendously unmoved lately to write about anything political. So many issues now create a square-wave oscillation between left-wing hysterical conspiracy theories and right-wing defend Trump at all costs water-carrying…and that’s without even delving into social media or the blogosphere. It’s become a lot like trying to have a productive discussion at 2 AM with someone during their seventeenth round of frat party beer pong.
WATCH Dems Chant USA! USA! With Their Fearless Leader, Steny Hoyer
It seems that every day we sink deeper into Bizarro world, and today is no exception. On the House floor (show) today, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Pelosi’s hiney) nearly stroked out while attempting to deliver a patriotic, rousing, call to action on an amendment that would extend federal election security grants to states into 2019 (when there’s still unspent money in the current budget).
Dumbest Tweet Ever: Amid Russia Pile-on, Hillary Clinton Literally Forgets Who She Is
That the Trump administration didn’t unequivocally reject Putin’s request to interrogate Americans is ridiculous and tone deaf, but I think Hillary Clinton just one-upped Trump. Her oblivious tweet came in response to the same story that prompted me to agree with John Kerry. (I still can’t get that taste out of my mouth, by the way.) That Hillary could tweet something like that about anyone is an indication of one (or more) of the following things: But what difference at this point does it make?
The Intelligence Community Is Back to Revealing Top Secret Information to Try to Damage President Trump
Image by ddcnegocios via Pixabay CC0 Creative Commons. Free for commercial use No attribution required Today the New York Times runs an article headlined From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered. Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.
'Watchdog' Group Files Most Tone Deaf and Badly Timed Ethics Complaint Ever
CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) has either just revealed that they are a ridiculously tribal, blindly partisan organization organization or that they have been asleep for the last month. Maybe both. An ethics group has filed a complaint arguing that first lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman violated federal law by using the president’s campaign slogan on her White House Twitter account.
How Federal Healthcare Meddling Can Destroy a Family
We hear a lot from the free healthcare for all crowd about how no one should ever go bankrupt because of medical costs but what about getting divorced just to qualify for Medicaid when the government has made that your only option for assistance? A Texas couple is considering just that in order to cover the high costs of care for their disabled daughter. Jake and Maria Grey have been married for nine years.
The Trump Baby Balloon Says More About The #Resistance Than It Does Trump
Have you seen the giant Trump baby balloon in London? Of course you have. Rumors are floating around (pun intended) that the ballon may make it’s way to Scotland to meet Trump on the next leg of his visit to the UK. Of course there are plenty of people here in the U.S. who have been gleefully sharing the story of the Trump baby balloon and even hoping it makes it’s way over to America soon.
Why Doesn't Trump Just Use His Silver Bullet to Beat Jon Tester?
Last week, President Trump took his show on the road to the big sky country of Montana. Ostensibly the purpose was to campaign for Senator Jon Tester’s Republican challenger Matt Rosedale. It appeared to be just another of the now standard perpetual-campaign style rallies where Trump feeds his fans well aged red meat and they fuel his ego by going gaga. There was some new material this time though with some shots taken at “low-IQ” Maxine Waters. “Did you ever see her? Did you ever see her?
Unbelievable: Facebook Flags Founding Fathers for Hate Speech
Everyone in Washington seems to think social media giant Facebook is on the hook for protecting people from fake news. I’ve written about how that is a really bad idea before. You can’t outsource your critical thinking to a computer algorithm cobbled together by people who probably couldn’t fairly identify fake news themselves. An incident surrounding Facebook posts about Independence Day only strengthens my resolve on that issue.
HILARIOUS: Ten Fireworks Fail GIFs to Get You Laughing This Independence Day
Here’s something fun to keep you occupied while you wait for your hot dogs to finish grilling. Few things are more fun than watching other people maim themselves with their own dumb ideas. 2.This was never going to turn out well. 3.Nothing is more AMERICA than all of your city fireworks going off at the same time. 6.Part Two of this story involves a trip to the hospital, extensive rehab and a permanent position with the Vienna Boys Choir.
Three Reasons I'm Not Giddy About Justice Kennedy's Retirement
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to see Justice Kennedy leave the bench and I’m glad his replacement isn’t being picked by a Democrat. I’m not ready to celebrate yet though. (Who am I kidding?
No, Joe Biden Wasn't Denied Service At A Bakery; Here's Why That's A Lie
The Resistance is in overdrive attempting to paint a narrative that just doesn’t jive with facts. This week has been one hot political topic after another with one Machiavellian tactic after another. Days after Sarah Sanders and her family were denied service at the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia the topic continues to drag on. While the owner had the right to deny Sanders service, it’s been a public relations nightmare for the small business.
BREAKING: Jackson Family Patriarch Dead at 89
The father and manager of one of the most successful bands in music history has reportedly died at the age of 89. TMZ reports that Jackson died Wednesday morning at around 3:30a.m. We broke the story … Joe was hospitalized in June with terminal cancer. His family had been flocking to his bedside since. His wife, Katherine, had been at his bedside as were some of Joe’s children and grandchildren. Joe had been battling health problems for some time now.
New RNC Campaign Ad Targets Left's Heated Rhetoric...and It is BRUTAL
The insanity has been ratcheting up in recent day, in no small part thanks to the unhinged left and their Democrat representatives in the mainstream media. There was the Sarah Sanders incident at the Red Hen. Not only was Sanders asked to leave, but her family was then followed across the street and harassed at a different restaurant.
Largest U.S. Nail Manufacturer Gets Screwed by Trump's Tariffs, May Move to Mexico
It’s not just Harley Davidson making noise about leaving the U.S. because of the Trump’s trade war. Mid-Continent Nail in Poplar Bluff, Missouri is getting pounded by the steel tariffs. The company spokesman James Glassman told CNN that they are “on the brink of extinction.” The Mid-Continent Nail plant in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, laid off 60 of its 500 workers last week because of increased steel costs. The company blames the 25% tariff on imported steel.
People Have Been Attacked For A Lot Less Than What Maxine Waters Said
Maxine Waters is in some hot water for a statement. It is still in the headlines and it does not appear to be going away. That statement? “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” There’s a reason that it won’t just go away.
Stop Whining About Maxine Waters - This Is the Political Freak Show You Asked For
Maxine Waters is a lunatic and her calls to harass Trump administration officials in public is only one among many stupid things she has said or done. I just don’t understand why so many unconditional backers of President Trump can act surprised or even offended that she would say something like this or that a restaurant would give Trump’s Press Secretary the boot. This is exactly the kind of political climate and discourse that they wanted.
Kyle Kashuv Is Beginning the Task of Bridging the Gap Within His Divided School
It’s easy to throw opinions around from behind the safety of a keyboard, but the Parkland students had to first first face death in the face before they could come to theirs. An event like the one they had to survive is going to cause some very strong opinions, and give various circumstances, take some strong stances in very public ways.
Netflix Institutes It's Own Bizarre Version of the 5 Second Rule in Response to #MeToo
I stumbled across this item from earlier in the month that probably got buried under all the hoopla concerning Trump’s Singapore summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It seems Netflix is instituting a bit of a dictatorial regime of their own in response to the #MeToo movement.
Abortionists Caught Failing to Report Sexual Abuse
Nine Indiana abortionists were caught performing abortions on girls as young as 12 years old without reporting the sexual abuse or statutory rape to law enforcement as required by law. Life News reports reports that these nine practitioners failed to report in 48 such cases since July 1, 2017. One practitioner is of exceptional concern. Indiana Right to Life said: The pro-life community is especially concerned with the apparent non-reporting of underage abortions by abortion doctor Glazer.
Trump Buckles, Too Late to be a Hero and Too Early to be Strong
On Wednesday, the Associate Press reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was composing an executive order to keep families together at the Mexican border (the action has since been signed). Trump has moved his line in the sand for immigration reform.
The Left's Unhinged Nazi Comparisons Drag the Discourse from the Gutter down into the Sewer
A while back I observed that one of the consequences of Adolf Hitler’s stain on history is that his reign of evil was so horrific and pervasive that he forever rendered it impossible to use any policy of Nazi Germany’s government as a cautionary example. You may invoke Nazi gun control policy when defending the right to bear arms. Doing so only leads to hysteria as people suddenly act as if you just equated gun control with genocide.
Planned Parenthood Campaign Spending Exposes a Number of Democrat Lies
Democrats often argue that revoking federal funding for America’s largest abortion provider will remove women’s “access” to healthcare. However, while Democrats fight to protect Planned Parenthood’s funding, the group somehow manages to raise enough money to drop $1.5 million on a single gubernatorial election. $1.5 million would buy a lot of mammograms (if Planned Parenthood actually performed that service like they often say they do).
The Nomination of Corey Stewart for U.S. Senate Already Chasing Away Big Money in Virginia
The “but he fights” wing of the Republican Party in Virginia just chased off Americans for Prosperity. The influential group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers won’t be helping the GOP in the Virginia U.S. Senate race, thanks to them nominating possible crypto-racist Corey Stewart. A tea party group backed by billionaire conservatives plans to sit out the U.S. Senate race in Virginia.
Twitter CEO Reminded by LGBT Community that He's Not Allowed to Enjoy Chick-Fil-A
The chicken sandwich restaurant Chick-fil-A is so good, be it the food or the customer service, that pretty much everyone enjoys it. In fact, they enjoy it so much that it’s quickly rocketing to third place in the most frequented fast food chains, coming under Starbucks and McDonald’s. But Chick-fil-A is also a Christian establishment, and as such is the recipient of all sorts of hate. None more so public than the LGBT community.
Facebook Should Not be Deciding What is Fake and What is News, That's Your Job
I have long thought that all of the drama regarding Facebook and so called “fake news” is overblown as well as misguided I don’t dispute that there is a lot of garbage published and shared on that platform, but I bristle at the hysteria and political posturing over how the fate of our republic hinges upon Mark Zuckerberg protecting us from bogus news articles—or at least what some computer algorithm programmed by humans with their own subjective notions about what “bogus” means determines to...
Florida Issued Concealed Weapon Permits for a Year Without Background Checks for
The tricky thing about background checks is that they don’t really help in keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them unless you actually do the background checks. Federal and state law enforcement has really been doing a terrible job with regard to guns. In Parkland, not only did sheriff’s deputies fail to respond to the school shooting, the FBI failed to follow up on a multitude of tips suggesting the shooter was dangerous.
Army Gives Commie West Point Grad the Boot
Remember commie West Point graduate Spenser Rapone who infamously flashed a “Communism will win” sign inside his hat at his graduation from West Point? Well the Army has finally given comrade Rapone an “other than honorable” discharge. It was last September when Spenser Rapone’s Marxist attention-whoring became a national story thanks to the message inside his hat and pictures of the Che Guevara t-shirt he wore under his uniform at the West Point graduation.
Today President Trump May Have Put the Libertarian Party Out of Business AND Locked Up the Millennial Vote For 2020
Even though marijuana remains a Schedule 1 narcotic, it is legal in some form in most states. In nine states, it is permitted for recreational use. States were permitted to do this under the authority of what was known as the Cole Memorandum, a DOJ memo, which did for weed what the Napolitano Memo did for illegal aliens. Based on fiction of “prosecutorial discretion” the Obama administration did an end run around Congress. While marijuana laws were on the books, DOJ was told not to enforce them.
Bernie Sanders is Obviously Endorsing His Son's Congressional Run Despite the Bogus Media Narrative
The media narrative goes like this: Bernie Sanders’ son Levi is running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st district but he won’t be getting endorsed by his socialist Senator father. The reasoning given by the elder Sanders is pure baloney as one might expect from a millionaire socialist. “Levi has spent his life in service to low income and work families, and I am very proud of all that he has done,” the elder Sanders told the Boston Globe.
Seth MacFarlane, In His Wisdom, Wants To Resurrect The Fairness Doctrine
On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh made a really interesting point. He said that Democrats in California were in open defiance of the federal government with their push back against the Trump administration’s hard line stance on immigration and move to make California a sanctuary state.
Why Isn't the #MAGA Army Rushing to Defend EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt?
The media is desperate to find scandals within the Trump administration, especially with regard to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, since he represents defiance of the climate change alarmist orthodoxy. While there have been no large scandals for Pruitt, there seems to be a continuous stream of little ones. Sweetheart real estate deals from lobbyists, overspending on office supplies, enlisting federal employees and using his position to influence personal business, etc.
ABC Open to 'Roseanne' Spinoff, but Network Strikes Further with Caveat; Meanwhile, Samantha Bee...
On May 28th, Roseanne Barr stepped in it something fierce. Disney/ABC responded immediately by firing her and distancing itself. The Mouse’s Bob Iger didn’t beat around the bush: Barr has since claimed her tweet regarding Valerie Jarrett was made while under the influence of Ambien.
Game Changer: Terminal Patient Now Cancer Free Thanks to Breakthrough Treatment
I have been hearing about immunotherapy to treat cancer for some time now but this breakthrough seems huge. A 49 year old woman named Judy Perkins, for whom chemotherapy had failed, has been cured of advanced breast cancer that had already metastasized to other organs. She literally went from being told that she had only about three years to live to being cancer free.
Unbelievable: Dancing FBI Agent Accidentally Shoots Nightclub Patron (VIDEO)
In Denver, an off duty FBI agent (who hasn’t been named) was dancing in a nightclub when he accidentally discharged his firearm while doing a backflip and shot another dancer in the leg. With everything that’s gone on in the news regarding the FBI during the last year or so, they sure don’t need this sort of publicity. An off-duty FBI agent accidentally fired his gun, striking another patron in the leg, at a Denver nightclub while he was dancing early Saturday, police said.
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