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Post by kcrufnek on Nov 22, 2019 19:01:52 GMT -6
Remember back when the people of Iran were begging for support and Obama gave it to them? Yeah. Me either.
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Post by soonernvolved on Nov 23, 2019 5:02:08 GMT -6
Federal Judge William Bertelsman reopened the $250 million defamation case filed by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against the Washington Post in late October.
Sixteen-year-old Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann was smeared and maligned by the liberal press after he was harassed in Washington DC following the March for Life. The Washington Post accused the teen of blocking and impeding Nathan Phillips as the native American elder was harassing the Catholic boys in Trump hats. It was all a lie and the Washington Post was one of the leading liberal outlets attacking the young Catholic boys.
Attorney Robert Barnes responded to the news in October.
The same judge has now ruled in similar cases against CNN and NBC. This allows the cases to move forward on the same basis as the WaPo case.
Nicholas Sandman’s attorney Lin Wood cheered the decision by Judge Bertelsman.
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Post by soonernvolved on Nov 23, 2019 15:16:46 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-activists-storm-harvard-yale-game-demand-climate-action-police-arrest-themHundreds of far-left activists stormed the field of Saturday’s college football game between Harvard and Yale, demanding action on climate change and demanding that the U.S. cancel Puerto Rico’s debt. “Dozens of protesters started running on the field about three minutes before halftime ended and delayed the Game by roughly 30 minutes,” The Harvard Crimson reported. “They held signs bearing ‘Yale and Harvard United for Climate Justice’ and started chanting ‘Divest.’ Several dozen police officers took to the field to meet the protesters, and at least 50 people [were] escorted off the field by police officers.” WATCH: A Yale student told The Guardian that students began pushing the two universities to stop investing in energy companies they claim are causing climate change, saying, “They believe that they can engage with these companies and get them to change their fundamentally extractive business models, which we think comes from a place of naivety amounting to gross negligence.” A separate video that appeared to be from the incident showed the far-left protesters demanding that the U.S. cancel Puerto Rico’s debt. Shortly after the protests began, law enforcement officials began to take people into custody. ESPN college football studio host Matt Barrie tweeted: “Harvard-Yale update: The protestors have told police they want to be arrested. So police have tied them together, two at a time, and are taking them off the field. Kickoff in about 10-mins.” Far-left activist David Hogg, who attends Harvard, suggested that protesting at the football game was needed to save everyone on the planet from dying. “You know what’s more important than a football game? The survival of the human race,” Hogg tweeted. “Complain all you want, but if we don’t do something now, Harvard won’t be able to continue beating Yale 100 years from now because there will be no human race. #HarvardYale” “We need some 1960s level activism to save our planet and democracy. In the next couple of years, the protests will become so big that cops wont be able to handle it and the national guard/military will have to be called in. But you can be sure we will persist and win,” the far-left activist continued. “Peaceful political revolution is on the horizon, but we need to all get out, take a stand, vote and run for office. Our enemies are much bigger than any politician, our enemies are the sources of evil that perpetuate injustice.” “We will not act with violence, negativity, and hate because that is what the oppressor wants,” Hogg continued. “Instead we will act with love and tolerance to eradicate the hate and intolerance that empowers the oppressor. Together we can create a loving America and a truly free country.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 2, 2019 17:24:37 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/historians-shred-nyt-1619-project-claiming-slavery-defines-americaIn a series of recent interviews, prominent historians criticized The New York Times’ “1619 Project” — which describes itself as seeking “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are” — as an “unbalanced, one-sided account,” which lacks important “context and perspective” on the complexity of slavery’s role in America’s history. “In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists,” the “1619 Project” splash page reads. “No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. In the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.” TOP ARTICLES 1/6 READ MORE Obama: ‘I Don’t Care’ If You Like the Nominee, Just Vote Democrat Recent interviews with three highly regarded historians published by the World Socialist Web Site, which presents analysis and news from a socialist perspective, focus on the degree of historical accuracy and perspective fueling key claims made in the Times’ highly touted series and found it glaringly “biased” and at times even “anti-historical” (h/t HotAir’s John Sexton). For the first of the interview series, published Nov. 14, WSWS spoke with Princeton University’s James McPherson, “the author of dozens of books and articles, including thePulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, widely regarded as the authoritative account of the Civil War.” Asked about his initial reaction to the “1619 Project,” McPherson delivered a rather scathing rebuke of its “biased” and “narrow view” of the country’s history: McPherson: Well, I didn’t know anything about it until I got my Sunday paper, with the magazine section entirely devoted to the 1619 Project. Because this is a subject I’ve long been interested in I sat down and started to read some of the essays. I’d say that, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history. And slavery in the United States was only a small part of a larger world process that unfolded over many centuries. And in the United States, too, there was not only slavery but also an antislavery movement. So I thought the account, which emphasized American racism — which is obviously a major part of the history, no question about it — but it focused so narrowly on that part of the story that it left most of the history out. So I read a few of the essays and skimmed the rest, but didn’t pursue much more about it because it seemed to me that I wasn’t learning very much new. And I was a little bit unhappy with the idea that people who did not have a good knowledge of the subject would be influenced by this and would then have a biased or narrow view. In an interview published four days later, City University of New York’s James Oakes — author of two Lincoln Prize-winning books, “The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of anti-slavery Politics” (2007) and “Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865” (2012), as well as “The Scorpion’s Sting: anti-slavery and the Coming of the Civil War” (2014) — likewise expressed his dismay at the degree of bias and lack of context permeating the “1619 Project.” Asked to discuss the claim that “the horrors of contemporary American capitalism are rooted in slavery,” as suggested by Matthew Desmond in a piece for the “1619 Project,” Oakes noted that the attempt to connect chattel slavery and capitalism has received “some very strong criticism from scholars in the field” and mocked the overly simplistic thinking that guides Desmond’s argument: Oakes: There’s been a kind of standard bourgeois-liberal way of arguing that goes all the way back to the 18th century, that whenever you are talking about some form of oppression, or whenever you yourself are oppressed, you instinctively go to the analogy of slavery. At least since the 18th century in our society, in western liberal societies, slavery has been the gold standard of oppression. The colonists, in the imperial crisis, complained that they were the “slaves” of Great Britain. It was the same thing all the way through the 19th century. The leaders of the first women’s movement would sometimes liken the position of a woman in a northern household to that of a slave on a southern plantation. The first workers’ movement, coming out of the culture of republican independence, attacked wage labor as wage slavery. Civil War soldiers would complain that they were treated like slaves. Desmond, following the lead of the scholars he’s citing, basically relies on the same analogy. They’re saying, “look at the ways capitalism is just like slavery, and that’s because capitalism came from slavery.” But there’s no actual critique of capitalism in any of it. They’re saying, “Oh my God! Slavery looks just like capitalism. They had highly developed management techniques just like we do!” Slaveholders were greedy, just like capitalists. Slavery was violent, just like our society is. So there’s a critique of violence and a critique of greed. But greed and violence are everywhere in human history, not just in capitalist societies. So there’s no actual critique of capitalism as such, at least as I read it. In a third “1619” interview, published Nov. 28, WSWS spoke with Brown University’s Gordon Wood — author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Radicalism of the American Revolution” and “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815” — who likewise expressed disappointment, and even disbelief, at the reductive nature of the Times’ series: Wood: I was surprised when I opened my Sunday New York Times in August and found the magazine containing the project. I had no warning about this. I read the first essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones, which alleges that the Revolution occurred primarily because of the Americans’ desire to save their slaves. She claims the British were on the warpath against the slave trade and slavery and that rebellion was the only hope for American slavery. This made the American Revolution out to be like the Civil War, where the South seceded to save and protect slavery, and that the Americans 70 years earlier revolted to protect their institution of slavery. I just couldn’t believe this. I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways. Asked to expand on his comment about not being approached about the project, Wood said, “None of the leading scholars of the whole period from the Revolution to the Civil War, as far I know, have been consulted. ” Asked for his perspective on the relationship between the American Revolution and the institution of slavery, Wood replied: Wood: One of the things that I have emphasized in my writing is how many southerners and northerners in 1776 thought slavery was on its last legs and that it would naturally die away. You can find quotation after quotation from people seriously thinking that slavery was going to wither away in several decades. Now we know they couldn’t have been more wrong. But they lived with illusions and were so wrong about so many things. We may be living with illusions too. One of the big lessons of history is to realize how the past doesn’t know its future. We know how the story turned out, and we somehow assume they should know what we know, but they don’t, of course. They don’t know their future any more than we know our future, and so many of them thought that slavery would die away, and at first there was considerable evidence that that was indeed the case. At the time of the Revolution, the Virginians had more slaves than they knew what to do with, so they were eager to end the international slave trade. But the Georgians and the South Carolinians weren’t ready to do that yet. That was one of the compromises that came out of the Constitutional Convention. The Deep South was given 20 years to import more slaves, but most Americans were confident that the despicable transatlantic slave trade was definitely going to end in 1808.
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Post by kcrufnek on Dec 3, 2019 0:39:06 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Dec 3, 2019 0:55:31 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 3, 2019 13:00:39 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 3, 2019 13:01:41 GMT -6
Tito Ortiz: “This President is doing things that other Presidents always promised to do but he is keeping his promise and I am thankful for it.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 6, 2019 15:38:07 GMT -6
Our great economy & jobs numbers vs this: business.financialpost.com/news/economy/canadas-economy-loses-71200-jobsCanada loses 71,200 jobs in biggest employment drop in decade Canada’s job market unexpectedly weakened for a second-straight month, registering the biggest drop in employment since 2009 and casting doubt on the resiliency of the domestic outlook. The economy lost 71,200 jobs in November, Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa, following a decline of 1,800 in the prior month. That pares the total number of jobs added this year to around 285,100. The report missed the median economist forecast for a gain of 10,000 jobs. The unemployment rate increased to 5.9 per cent in the month, from 5.5 per cent in October, the biggest one-month jump since 2009. The decrease in employment was broad-based among both the goods-producing and service-producing sectors. Canada’s jobs report is disappointing, showing job losses for the second month in a row,” said Julia Pollak, labor economist at ZipRecruiter, an online employment marketplace. “But observers should remember that the numbers are highly volatile and that this is still the strongest year for job growth in Canada in 17 years.” The Canadian currency depreciated on the report, dropping 0.6 per cent to C$1.3249 against its U.S. counterpart at 8:40 a.m. Toronto time.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 12, 2019 18:24:12 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 12, 2019 18:37:08 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/12/12/left-attacks-president-trump-for-executive-order-on-combatting-antisemitism/Left Attacks President Trump For Executive Order On Combatting Antisemitism Trump’s EO 'Combating Anti-Semitism' arrives as antisemitism continues to proliferate on college campuses, largely under the guise of 'anti-Zionism.' Erielle DavidsonBy Erielle Davidson DECEMBER 12, 2019 Just one day after two Black Hebrew Israelites targeted a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, killing one police officer and three private citizens, President Trump signed an executive order designed to address growing antisemitism on college campuses. The Order permits the federal government to deny funding to universities that don’t properly address the rising epidemic of Jew-hatred on their campuses. Of course, the left is melting down Twitter with embarrassing hot takes. The order directs those departments enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to adopt the definition of antisemitism formally recognized by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Title VI states, “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Jewish Insider obtained a draft of the executive order, titled “Combating Anti-Semitism.” The EO opens by stating that the Trump “administration is committed to combating the rise of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and around the world.” It notes the alarming rise in anti-Semitism on college campuses. “Anti-Semitic incidents have increased since 2013, and students, in particular, continue to face anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.” The EO does not, contrary to The New York Times’ initial reporting, label Judaism a category of “national origin.” It instead states that antisemitism will be treated as harshly as any other discrimination against individuals on the basis of their race, color, or national origin. It orders that Title VI be enforced “against prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously as against all other forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI.” It also allows for departments enforcing Title VI to consider “‘Contemporary Examples of Anti-Semitism’ identified by the IHRA, to the extent that any examples might be useful in determining whether a discriminatory event has actually taken place. According to IHRA’s Working Definition of Anti-Semitism, such examples include “accusing Jews of dual loyalty, denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, comparing contemporary Israeli policy to that of Nazism, and using classic anti-Semitic symbols to portray Israel or Israelis.” In predictable fashion, media outlets rushed to criticize Trump’s EO before its full release on Wednesday, declaring with spastic breathlessness that the president’s order was akin to Nazism because allegedly, the document was supposed to define Judaism as a “national origin.” There are several things wrong with these critiques–beyond the obvious left-wing bias such that corporate media figureheads’ brains seem to be falling out of their heads whenever Trump so much as breathes. “When news of the impending executive order leaked, many rushed to criticize it without understanding its purpose,” Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, stated in a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday. “The executive order does not define Jews as a nationality. It merely says that to the extent that Jews are discriminated against for ethnic, racial or national characteristics, they are entitled protection by the anti-discrimination law.” Despite the hallucinations of the permanently Trump-scarred left, even if the EO had defined Judaism as a nationality, it would not have been an incorrect assessment. Relatively recent ahistorical and revisionist views on Judaism notwithstanding, it has long been understood to be “simultaneously a religion, a culture, and a nationality.” This is particularly true if you are describing a nation as a group of people sharing a common language, history, and culture. Although I have not constructed the Venn Diagram in its entirety, I have a sinking suspicion that those declaring the Jews do not comprise a nation run roughshod with the same individuals who pen fruitless thought pieces on how Israel should not exist. Just a hunch. Trump’s EO “Combating Anti-Semitism” arrives as antisemitism continues to proliferate on college campuses, largely under the guise of “anti-Zionism.” Just a few weeks ago, a former Israeli soldier arrived at Vassar to deliver a speech and was met by raucous protesters from the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The crowd enthusiastically chanted, “from the river to the sea,” a popular anti-Zionist refrain that advocates for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the nation of Israel (in other words, from the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — which is, of course, all of Israel). There are countless more instances in which antisemites, masquerading as anti-Zionists, have engaged in open antisemitism on an American college campus, unfettered by the bloated administrations of some of our allegedly “top schools.” Earlier this year, New York University opted to award its chapter of SJP with the President’s Service Award, an honor given to a student group that has “positively impacted the NYU community through significant contributions to either community service and civic engagement or student leadership and campus programming.” But this group has repeatedly engaged in Jew-hatred, sometimes in mind-bendingly bizarre ways. In 2014, members of NYU’s SJP chapter sent out fake eviction notices to Jewish students at NYU in order to “protest Israeli policies.” Just last year, they crashed an Israeli Independence Day event, stole the flags, and burned them. SJP is cultivating some sort of culture, indeed, but it’s certainly not one we should be encouraging on our college campuses. Earlier this year, when Chelsea Clinton attended an NYU memorial honoring the victims of the Christchurch mosque shooting, she was confronted by members of NYU’s SJP chapter, who accused her of “Islamophobia” by questioning whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s statements regarding Jews buying political influence were antisemitic. If pointing out antisemitism is now “Islamophobic,” American universities will no doubt have their work cut out for them. However, such behemoth institutions, with their mazes of diversity officers and “Student Success Managers” and “Health Promotion Specialists,” are largely to blame for their own woes. Under the weight of their own administrative excesses, they fail to see what is directly in front of them, or perhaps, more perniciously, they simply don’t care. As Leil Leibovitz emphasized his Tablet article entitled “Get Out” back in May, American universities, in all their attempts to indulge the fantasies of far-left antisemites, are destroying their bonds with the American Jewish community and shunning the principles of rational thought and critical human inquiry that once made them excellent. In the words of Leibovitz, it’s time for Jews to “get out.” American universities are openly breaking their bonds with the Jewish community by embracing active discrimination against Jewish students and rejecting their intellectual, emotional, and moral attachments to the values of equal human dignity, universal rights, critical inquiry, and rational thought… Now is the time for all of the good people involved—students, parents, donors—to get out, and fast. Trump’s EO solves what had perpetually been a problem for enforcers of Title VI, who were unable to respond with any real teeth to incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses. As Kenneth Marcus, the assistant secretary of civil rights in the Department of Education, noted in an essay nearly a decade ago titled “A Blind Eye to Campus Anti-Semitism?” enforcement issues have stemmed largely from issues of legal categorization. The lack of a coherent legal conception of Jewish identity has rendered the Office for Civil Rights (henceforth, OCR) unable to cope with a resurgence of anti–Semitic incidents on American college campuses, of which the Irvine situation is enragingly emblematic. The problem stems from the fact that federal agents have jurisdiction under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act over race and national-origin discrimination—but not over religion. And because they have been unable to determine whether Jewish Americans constitute a race or a national-origin group, they found themselves unable to address the anti-Semitism at UC-Irvine. This confusion has led to enforcement paralysis as well as explosive confrontations and recriminations within the agency. The left’s anger towards the EO designed to combat antisemitism was particularly virulent, in part due to the fact that the left has spent the last three years marketing itself as having seized the moral high ground on tackling Jew-hatred, despite the fact that anyone with a set of eyes and a brain can tell that this a far cry from reality. No matter how many times the left screams that Trump is a Nazi, it will not change the fact that the vast majority of antisemitism on college campuses is being perpetrated by radical leftist groups. No matter how many times the left shouts that Trump hates Jews, it is the majority of Democratic House leadership that has met with rabid antisemitic hate preacher Louis Farrakhan—several times. No amount of inane, baseless deflection will undo Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ (D-N.Y.) “great” phone call with aspiring UK Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn, whose victory, if it were to come to fruition, would compel nearly half of U.K. Jews to “seriously consider” leaving the country. Indeed, there isn’t enough political spinning in the world to undo the damage the Women’s March caused the Democratic Party in this area. They ripped the mask off of the Democratic establishment, exposing the party’s perpetual coddling of Marxist, antisemites in exchange for votes from the radical left. Just this past week, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) was the headliner at an event hosted by American Muslims for Palestine, a group that regularly peddles antisemitic conspiracy theories and has among its supporters many who seek the annihilation of Israel. “AMP has its organizational roots in the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an anti-Semitic group that served as the main propaganda arm for Hamas in the United States until it was dissolved in 2004,” stated the Anti-Defamation League to Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon. “Since its creation in 2005, AMP continues to work closely with some former IAP leaders who currently hold positions as AMP board members.” The reason corporate media hasn’t given ample coverage to attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn is the same reason that mainstream media outlets haven’t asked Tlaib about her latest speech. When the perpetrators are on the left, calling out antisemitism is no longer politically rewarding. I applaud President Trump for doing what the American left (and British left) seem incapable of doing — ensuring Jews are treated with equal dignity. You would think such an endeavor would be uncontroversial, but the left has shown us otherwise.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 12, 2019 18:38:27 GMT -6
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Post by wishboned on Dec 12, 2019 21:12:17 GMT -6
He keeps saying he can't believe he has to report on the meme. Well...he didn't. But the orange man lives in their heads rent free 24/7.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 12, 2019 21:54:18 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/12/san-francisco-opening-parking-lot-for-homeless-living-in-vehicles/San Francisco’s homeless population living in vehicles has increased 45 percent in the last year, and now the city is opening a parking lot to accommodate some of them. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that an estimated 1,700 people fall into that category and that the city wants to accommodate this sector of the homeless by setting up a pilot program. The parking lot, located near the Balboa Park Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station, is set to open in the coming days and will allow 30 vehicles to park for 90 days. The Chronicle reported on the development, including the amenities at the lot and criticism of the program: Want Breaking News from Breitbart Direct to Your Inbox? Takes Just 2 Seconds... Enter your email address SIGN UP The lot is being dubbed a “Vehicle Triage Center,” where people will have daily access to case managers, portable toilets and a portable shower three times a week. While city officials hail it as a productive first step toward addressing vehicular homelessness, others see it as an inadequate response to the crisis and a veiled attempt to clear RVs from residential neighborhoods. “Thirty parking spots for all of these RVs?” Stephanie Brown told the Chronicle as she sat on a couch outside of her trailer. “You’ve got to be high.” Urban Alchemy will provide security for the lot. “This is a start,” said Lena Miller, CEO of the non-profit. “I don’t think it’s a solution.” “We’re throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks,” Miller said in the Chronicle report. Case managers will also visit the site to provide referrals to shelters, addiction treatment, and mental health care, according to the Chronicle. “San Francisco’s overall homeless population has grown 17 percent in the past two years, much of that attributed to people using their vehicles for shelter,” the Chronicle reported. “Vehicular homelessness has become prevalent all over the West Coast and other cities, like Oakland, have opened up similar lots to address the issue.” San Francisco Mayor London Breed has said she wants to add 1,000 shelter beds to the city’s inventory by the end of next year, according to the Chronicle. The parking lot is temporary, however, because it is the site for a future affordable housing project.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 12, 2019 23:23:15 GMT -6
A Georgia man who has played a mall Santa Claus for the last 50 years was fired earlier this week for posting a photograph in a Trump hat on his personal Facebook account. Frank Skinner’s decades long career playing Father Christmas includes 14 years at the Mall of Waycross, the mall that just fired him after receiving a complaint about his post.
The photo in question was taken as the mall was closing, when no children were around, and just meant for his friends and family.
“It really was an innocent thing. It really was,” Skinner told First Coast News. He explained that he felt as though his constitutional rights were violated when they told him he could not return to his job.
In a Facebook post about the firing, Skinner stated that he did not mean to “create a firestorm by doing that but simply intended to post the photo on my page for a little humor, as I have many friends and family who, like me, support our president.”
“I in no way meant to cause anyone discomfort,” Skinner said. “At the time I thought it was harmless fun. Now I realize in this day and age that I should not have posted it. Obviously it did offend some folks. I can assure everyone that was not my intent. I have learned a lot from this. Going forward I will keep this in mind.”
“Unfortunately, after posting the photo someone went to my personal Facebook page and took a screen shot to use and report. I don’t know the exact actions taken by that community member from that point, on, but somehow the Mall management received a request for the removal of my trump hat, (request sent out of context as if I wear it all day) & First Coast News received the photo as well. The news contacted the mall management for a statement. The statement the mall received claimed I would be replaced and from that point on this all became a massive controversy,” Skinner explained.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 13, 2019 20:55:44 GMT -6
Green teen and TIME Magazine Person of the Year Greta Thunberg just finished her trip from New York to Europe for the globalist climate conference. Thunberg and her team claimed it was a carbon neutral trip. But they lied. The ship likely used two engines to travel east at this time of year and burned up more fuel than a flight from New York to Spain. Of course, the leftists lied to the public about this fabricated stunt. www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-razones-greta-contaminado-mas-bordo-catamaran-si-hubiera-viajado-avion-201912130234_noticia.html (Translated) Anyone who knows some navigation knows that catamarans cannot sail against the wind and only do so if they are fed by carrying winds, that is, fin or stern . To cross the Atlantic at this time of year the prevailing winds are from the east, that is to say that the catamaran would be found in the bow. To save them, he should have headed north on a board that would put him far north of the British Isles so he could turn starboard (right) and head towards the coast of Galicia. November and December, as it has been shown, are two months of great swells in the North Atlantic, which together with the gulf currents is a great effort for fishing and oil tankers that are going to motor… …This navigation on this type of boat does not last three weeks, that surely does not. For the course that has marked the catamaran’s logbook this navigation was not done, but the north was avoided by the storms and the arrival in Galicia was rejected by changing it to Lisbon. This means that the Australian catamaran Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu is either extraterrestrial or has been sailing with its two engines. Volvo consuming more or less four liters of diesel per hour each of the engines, which with the bad conditions with which they say they found consumption may have been, more or less twice, that is about 16 liters of diesel time . How much have they spent? Check out. How much have they contaminated? Much more than if I had flown from New York to Madrid in a commercial plane.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 13, 2019 20:58:48 GMT -6
A Michigan high school teacher is on leave after he ripped a “Women for Trump” pin off of a student’s shirt. www.wilx.com/content/news/Student-says-teacher-pulls-off-her-Women-For-Trump-pin-565990631.htmlA Mason High School student turned to the police alleging a teacher assaulted her during school hours because she supports President Donald Trump.
Sadie Earegood told NEWS 10 that the teacher involved was Paul Kato.
Paul Kato is the media technology teacher at the high school. Students say that he has not been in school since the alleged incident on Dec. 5, but Mason Schools has not confirmed that.
Earegood claims she was assaulted by Kato when he ripped her “Women For Trump” pin from her shirt.
Earegood is 16 and a junior at the school. She said Kato, started off by saying he didn’t like the pin she was wearing.
“I was just really shocked that a teacher would especially do that,” she said. “He’s talking about the ‘Women for Trump’ pin and I said, ‘that’s fine you don’t have to like it, we can have our opinions.'”
Earegood described a struggle between herself and the teacher where he tried to take the pin off her.
“He grabbed it and I pulled, I tried to push his hand away and he grabbed my shoulder,” she said. “(He) just kind of put his hand there, and then he started pulling more and more and I just started backing up.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 13, 2019 23:51:07 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/12/13/faked-up-fox-news-sexual-harassment-bombshell-film-fizzles-like-a-dud/Faked-Up Fox News Sexual Harassment ‘Bombshell’ Film Fizzles Like A Dud Huge dollops of deceit undercut both the credibility and even the message of 'Bombshell' by allowing it to be dismissed as politically expedient fiction. James DawsonBy James Dawson DECEMBER 13, 2019 The misleading trailer for “Bombshell” makes the misbegotten movie look like an amusingly updated #MeToo era reboot of “9 to 5.” That actually may have been preferable to this cheesy yet somehow insufficiently trashy account of the sexual harassment scandal that ended the career of Roger Ailes, the monstrously misogynist former head of Fox News. Instead of presenting three woke women co-workers joining forces to take down their 21st-century Dabney Coleman with slapstick style, “Bombshell” plays like a drearily padded made-for-TV yawner, with occasional, tiresomely obvious, “SNL”-level political one-liners. The movie also makes the bafflingly wrongheaded mistake of adding a completely fictional major character and a ridiculously phony minor one to what is billed as an “inspired by actual events” narrative. Margot Robbie’s wide-eyed Fox News producer Kayla Pospisil, despite never existing in this plane of reality, is literally the only character shown suffering any on-screen degradation (“lift your skirt … higher”) or discussing giving in to actual sexual demands from Ailes. She also plays an important role in joining the ranks of the victimized. And as a crucifix-wearing conservative, she naturally is so pop-culture clueless that she can’t tell Glenn Frey from Don Henley, because the Eagles aren’t a Christian rock band. The minor but more outrageously preposterous fake character is Fox News producer Jess Carr (Kate McKinnon), a closeted lesbian liberal with posters of Hillary Clinton in her kitchen. That’s how desperate the makers of this movie apparently were to inject someone they could present as the voice of reason among what they regard as all of the automatically reprehensible right-wingers at Fox. She even manages to seduce a female Fox true believer into joining her in bed — because if you’re not real in the first place, absolutely anything can happen. Right? Those huge dollops of deceit completely undercut both the credibility and even the message of the movie by allowing it to be dismissed as politically expedient fiction. Likewise, the film presents every Fox News employee as either naïve, stupid, cynical, misguided, or outright evil. Despite this, the movie never seems clever enough to work as effective satire, even though it is too unconvincing to be taken seriously. Two Stellar Performances That’s too bad, because two of the performances here are excellent. Charlize Theron does a shockingly good impersonation of Megyn Kelly and is also a jaw-dropping lookalike for the Fox News host. Kelly’s testily adversarial relationship with then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election is complicated by the fact that her boss, Ailes, was a Trump backer, but Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch was not. John Lithgow is hiss-worthily grotesque as the insultingly vile Ailes, who says would-be on-air females should show off their physical attributes in his office because “TV is a visual medium.” He also stresses the importance of loyalty, while unsubtly asking potential hires to “find a way to prove it.” As for performance reviews, Ailes points out that “nobody wants to watch a middle-aged woman sweat her way through menopause.” Nicole Kidman is Fox host Gretchen Carlson, who starts the harassment-suit ball rolling after getting fired. Strangely, the aggrieved Carlson comes off like a mere supporting player who soon is relegated mostly to scenes with her lawyers, while the movie’s primary focus is on the flashier and more conflicted Kelly. ‘Bombshell’ vs. ‘The Loudest Voice’ That raises another important issue regarding the project’s veracity. Earlier this year, Showtime aired the excellent seven-episode series “The Loudest Voice,” covering many of the same real-life events chronicled in “Bombshell.” It was adapted from the book “The Loudest Voice in the Room” by Gabriel Sherman, who wrote and executive produced the series (and who is portrayed briefly in “Bombshell”). Meaningfully, Sherman did not even include Megyn Kelly as a cast member in the Showtime series. According to an interview in The Hollywood Reporter, Sherman noted, “Megyn Kelly was a peripheral participant in Ailes’ downfall. … Any dramatization that makes her a central character in Ailes’ takedown is pure fiction.” In fact, it’s impossible not to compare the barely fizzling “Bombshell” to the more viciously nasty and engrossing “The Loudest Voice.” As the center-stage and justifiably paranoid Carlson in “The Loudest Voice,” Naomi Watts was more believable, interesting, and sympathetic than Kidman’s aloof Carlson, who seems only mildly concerned and peeved about her situation. While Lithgow is a more convincing Ailes appearance-wise, Russell Crowe’s version in “The Loudest Voice” had more villainously self-righteous and blustering charisma. The dueling Rupert Murdochs are a quietly resolute Malcolm McDowell in “Bombshell” versus the more reptilian Simon McBurney in “The Loudest Voice.” Also, a major character who played a significant role in the Ailes drama is missing entirely from “Bombshell.” There is no mention of his mistreated and miserable longtime mistress Laurie Luhn (Annabelle Wallis in “The Loudest Voice”), a former Fox News staffer who later filed her own mega-millions lawsuit against the company. ‘Bombshell’ Misses the Mark “Austin Powers” trilogy director Jay Roach, whose last two efforts were 2015’s Dalton Trumbo biography “Trumbo” and the 2012 Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis political satire “The Campaign,” never brings much life to a story that relies too much on spoken references to past events instead of providing scenes showing them. Not a single garter-belt shot, even though they’re a favorite fetish of leg-man Ailes? For shame. Screenwriter Charles Randolph co-wrote 2015’s “The Big Short,” which managed to make the 2005 mortgage market meltdown entertaining. He doesn’t work the same magic here, relying too much on flat liberal laugh lines that barely rise to the level of stale Stephen Colbert snarkiness. Discussing his stewardship of Fox News, Ailes at one point explains, “News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel, and it pulls to the left.” “Bombshell” could have benefited from similar guidance, which may have made the movie more honest — not to mention more fair and balanced.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 14, 2019 19:48:16 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/the-law-is-the-law-virginia-democrats-float-prosecution-national-guard-deployment-if-police-dont-enforce-gun-controlThe law is the law’: Virginia Democrats float prosecution and National Guard deployment if police don’t enforce gun control
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures likely to pass in Virginia should face prosecution and even threats of the National Guard.
After November’s Virginia Legislature elections that led to Democrats taking control of both chambers, the gun control legislation proposed by some Democrats moved forward, including universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, and a red flag law.
Legal firearm owners in the state, however, joined with their sheriffs to form Second Amendment sanctuary counties, which declare the authorities in these municipalities uphold the Second Amendment in the face of any gun control measure passed by Richmond.
Over 75 counties in Virginia have so far adopted such Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in the commonwealth, the latest being Spotsylvania County. The board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution declaring that county police will not enforce state-level gun laws that violate Second Amendment rights…
Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin suggested cutting off state funds to counties that do not comply with any gun control measures that pass in Richmond…
McEachin also noted that Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam could call the National Guard, if necessary.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 14, 2019 23:48:39 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/media-smears-army-navy-cadets-accuses-them-of-flashing-white-power-symbols/Media Smears Army, Navy Cadets, Accuses Them Of Flashing White Power Symbols Left-wing media publications were quick to smear a group of Army and Navy cadets on Saturday as the two service academies squared off on the gridiron in what is an intense football rivalry, accusing a group of them of flashing “white power” signs. USA Today’s Mike Brehm reported: www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2019/12/14/army-navy-students-make-white-power-sign-on-espn-broadcast/2651114001/Questions erupted during the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia when students appeared to make the White Power hand symbol during a pregame broadcast. Spokespersons from the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy told USA TODAY Sports they have been made aware of the issue – which blossomed on social media as the game wore on – and the schools are looking into it. Far-left activists posted close-up videos of television screens showing what they claimed was the cadets flashing the white power sign. Others urged their followers to make the photos and videos go viral on Twitter, which quickly happened as “#WhitePower” and “West Point” began trending nationally on the left-wing tech platform. There was strong pushback against the smear attempts, with many noting that the cadets were playing the “circle game.” Former senior White House adviser Cliff Sims wrote: “Here we go again. This time it’s @bymikebrehm of @usatodaysports trying to ruin the lives of cadets for playing the circle game, because in some alternate reality they just MUST be white supremacists. At some point someone’s gotta bring a defamation case against these lunatics.” Popular sports analyst Clay Travis tweeted: “Good lord. They were playing the circle game. America has gone insane.” Curt Schilling wrote: “This is just idiotic. It’s a bunch of guys playing the circle game about 10 years after their friends all stopped. But ya, let’s make it out to be racist, since everything else you see and hear is as well.” This is just idiotic. It's a bunch of guys playing the circle game about 10 years after their friends all stopped. But ya, let's make it out to be racist, since everything else you see and hear is as well t.co/0tcDjTZeDg— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 15, 2019 Others, like left-wing activist Christine Teigen tried to suggest that the hand gesture was spurred on by Trump administration officials and were ultimately mocked. “Let’s pretend for a second these people really are doing the white power/white nationalism hand gesture,” Teigen tweeted. “What does it even do for anyone? Do you get points for each time it’s seen like? Is there a boss out there keeping score? Or is it like paging someone?” They scored plenty of points too if that’s the criteria pic.twitter.com/yfpLlBHCST — Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) December 14, 2019 Austen Fletcher responded to Teigen by writing on Twitter: “Exactly. It does/means nothing. It’s not a real thing. You figured it out.” Exactly. It does/means nothing. It’s not a real thing. You figured it out. t.co/wbWsW0CMCt— Austen Fletcher (@fleccas) December 15, 2019 Attorney Kurt Schlichter issued a warning to the media, writing on Twitter: “This is a warning to the media… If you Convington the cadets, you will be held accountable in court in front of a jury and not in your comfortable, sympathetic blue enclave venue. Do not participate in the defamation of these American heroes.” This is a warning to the media… If you Convington the cadets, you will be held accountable in court in front of a jury and not in your comfortable, sympathetic blue enclave venue. Do not participate in the defamation of these American heroes.@roncoleman @pnjaban @barnes_Law — Kurt Schlichter (@kurtschlichter) December 15, 2019 And cadet libeled by the garbage media in Covington 2: OK Sign Boogaloo needs to contact:@roncoleman @pnjaban @barnes_Law or another attorney who can fully vindicate a defamed plaintiff's rights. — Kurt Schlichter (@kurtschlichter) December 15, 2019 Many people on social media were quick to point out the double standard that the media and far-left activists were using to smear the cadets by highlighting politicians on the political Left who use the same hand gesture, like socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who posts photos of herself using the gesture on her verified social media accounts:
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Post by kcrufnek on Dec 16, 2019 20:31:57 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/media-smears-army-navy-cadets-accuses-them-of-flashing-white-power-symbols/Media Smears Army, Navy Cadets, Accuses Them Of Flashing White Power Symbols Left-wing media publications were quick to smear a group of Army and Navy cadets on Saturday as the two service academies squared off on the gridiron in what is an intense football rivalry, accusing a group of them of flashing “white power” signs. USA Today’s Mike Brehm reported: www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2019/12/14/army-navy-students-make-white-power-sign-on-espn-broadcast/2651114001/Questions erupted during the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia when students appeared to make the White Power hand symbol during a pregame broadcast. Spokespersons from the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy told USA TODAY Sports they have been made aware of the issue – which blossomed on social media as the game wore on – and the schools are looking into it. Far-left activists posted close-up videos of television screens showing what they claimed was the cadets flashing the white power sign. Others urged their followers to make the photos and videos go viral on Twitter, which quickly happened as “#WhitePower” and “West Point” began trending nationally on the left-wing tech platform. There was strong pushback against the smear attempts, with many noting that the cadets were playing the “circle game.” Former senior White House adviser Cliff Sims wrote: “Here we go again. This time it’s @bymikebrehm of @usatodaysports trying to ruin the lives of cadets for playing the circle game, because in some alternate reality they just MUST be white supremacists. At some point someone’s gotta bring a defamation case against these lunatics.” Popular sports analyst Clay Travis tweeted: “Good lord. They were playing the circle game. America has gone insane.” Curt Schilling wrote: “This is just idiotic. It’s a bunch of guys playing the circle game about 10 years after their friends all stopped. But ya, let’s make it out to be racist, since everything else you see and hear is as well.” This is just idiotic. It's a bunch of guys playing the circle game about 10 years after their friends all stopped. But ya, let's make it out to be racist, since everything else you see and hear is as well t.co/0tcDjTZeDg— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 15, 2019 Others, like left-wing activist Christine Teigen tried to suggest that the hand gesture was spurred on by Trump administration officials and were ultimately mocked. “Let’s pretend for a second these people really are doing the white power/white nationalism hand gesture,” Teigen tweeted. “What does it even do for anyone? Do you get points for each time it’s seen like? Is there a boss out there keeping score? Or is it like paging someone?” They scored plenty of points too if that’s the criteria pic.twitter.com/yfpLlBHCST — Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) December 14, 2019 Austen Fletcher responded to Teigen by writing on Twitter: “Exactly. It does/means nothing. It’s not a real thing. You figured it out.” Exactly. It does/means nothing. It’s not a real thing. You figured it out. t.co/wbWsW0CMCt— Austen Fletcher (@fleccas) December 15, 2019 Attorney Kurt Schlichter issued a warning to the media, writing on Twitter: “This is a warning to the media… If you Convington the cadets, you will be held accountable in court in front of a jury and not in your comfortable, sympathetic blue enclave venue. Do not participate in the defamation of these American heroes.” This is a warning to the media… If you Convington the cadets, you will be held accountable in court in front of a jury and not in your comfortable, sympathetic blue enclave venue. Do not participate in the defamation of these American heroes.@roncoleman @pnjaban @barnes_Law — Kurt Schlichter (@kurtschlichter) December 15, 2019 And cadet libeled by the garbage media in Covington 2: OK Sign Boogaloo needs to contact:@roncoleman @pnjaban @barnes_Law or another attorney who can fully vindicate a defamed plaintiff's rights. — Kurt Schlichter (@kurtschlichter) December 15, 2019 Many people on social media were quick to point out the double standard that the media and far-left activists were using to smear the cadets by highlighting politicians on the political Left who use the same hand gesture, like socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who posts photos of herself using the gesture on her verified social media accounts: I heard someone going all fire and brimstone today. Talking about their commanders dropping the whole load on them or something.
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Post by kcrufnek on Dec 16, 2019 20:32:48 GMT -6
Green teen and TIME Magazine Person of the Year Greta Thunberg just finished her trip from New York to Europe for the globalist climate conference. Thunberg and her team claimed it was a carbon neutral trip. But they lied. The ship likely used two engines to travel east at this time of year and burned up more fuel than a flight from New York to Spain. Of course, the leftists lied to the public about this fabricated stunt. www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-razones-greta-contaminado-mas-bordo-catamaran-si-hubiera-viajado-avion-201912130234_noticia.html (Translated) Anyone who knows some navigation knows that catamarans cannot sail against the wind and only do so if they are fed by carrying winds, that is, fin or stern . To cross the Atlantic at this time of year the prevailing winds are from the east, that is to say that the catamaran would be found in the bow. To save them, he should have headed north on a board that would put him far north of the British Isles so he could turn starboard (right) and head towards the coast of Galicia. November and December, as it has been shown, are two months of great swells in the North Atlantic, which together with the gulf currents is a great effort for fishing and oil tankers that are going to motor… …This navigation on this type of boat does not last three weeks, that surely does not. For the course that has marked the catamaran’s logbook this navigation was not done, but the north was avoided by the storms and the arrival in Galicia was rejected by changing it to Lisbon. This means that the Australian catamaran Riley Whitelum and Elayna Carausu is either extraterrestrial or has been sailing with its two engines. Volvo consuming more or less four liters of diesel per hour each of the engines, which with the bad conditions with which they say they found consumption may have been, more or less twice, that is about 16 liters of diesel time . How much have they spent? Check out. How much have they contaminated? Much more than if I had flown from New York to Madrid in a commercial plane.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 20, 2019 10:06:17 GMT -6
New Jersey’s Democrat Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill into law that will allow illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses in the state on Thursday. The bill will allow those who cannot prove that they are here legally to get learners permits, standard driver’s licenses, or identification cards. Allowing residents the opportunity to obtain driver’s licenses regardless of their immigration status will decrease the number of uninsured drivers and increase safety on our roads,” Murphy said in the statement. The new law will allow “hundreds of thousands” of illegal aliens to be licensed and insured, according to Motor Vehicle Commission Chief Administrator Sue Fulton. “Those who pass our driver testing and meet our strict identity requirements will be able to drive to work, school, doctor’s appointments, and other activities, without risking the break-up of their families,” Fulton told The Hill. thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/475456-new-jersey-governor-signs-bill-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-to-get
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 20, 2019 14:54:11 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/20/exclusive-monica-crowley-vindicated-by-columbia-university-after-fake-plagiarism-accusations-from-cnn-establishment-media/Exclusive: Monica Crowley Vindicated by Columbia University After Fake Plagiarism Accusations from CNN, Establishment Media Treasury Department Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Monica Crowley has been vindicated by Columbia University after a years-long investigation ultimately concluded she did not plagiarize her thesis, despite allegations by CNN and other establishment media outlets that she did. Crowley, now the Treasury Department’s top spokeswoman but previously a Fox News contributor, had been under consideration to join the National Security Council (NSC) in the White House at the very beginning of President Donald Trump’s administration under his first national security adviser, retired Gen. Mike Flynn. Then, allegations from CNN and Politico, among other publications, claimed that she plagiarized her 2012 book and her thesis at Columbia, sparking Columbia to launch a review of her thesis that has now concluded. The review found Crowley did not commit research misconduct, and sources familiar with the investigation added that the university is “not disciplining her in any way.” The university also, the source familiar with the details of the investigation told Breitbart News, found no research misconduct by Crowley. She encourages the public to read her PhD dissertation—which is about U.S.-China relations—because it is a clearly newsworthy topic and added she is proud of her work. “After CNN and other news outlets falsified my PhD dissertation by omitting nearly 40 footnotes, Columbia University began a process to review the work,” Crowley told Breitbart News on Friday afternoon. “I am delighted that they have concluded that there was no research misconduct, as I have maintained all along. I was also happy to address any inadvertent and honest errors and update the work. I am extremely proud of the dissertation, particularly given the fresh timeliness of its subject—the U.S.-China relationship—and hope that others will read and appreciate it.” Want Breaking News from Breitbart Direct to Your Inbox? Takes Just 2 Seconds... Enter your email address SIGN UP A source familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that the university’s use of the word “plagiarism” in its statement is a purely academic definition, and not the widely accepted use of the term. “In 2017, concerns were raised about potential plagiarism in this dissertation,” Columbia University intends to state publicly about the review. “Columbia University conducted a formal research misconduct investigation into the allegations, in accordance with its Institutional Policy on Misconduct in Research. The investigation was completed in 2019. The investigation identified localized instances of plagiarism, but concluded that the preponderance of the evidence did not support a finding that Dr. Crowley committed research misconduct. For the dissertation to stand, the University required certain corrections, which Dr. Crowley has provided.” In other words, the review did find she could have sourced a few things slightly more, and she has offered to make additional annotations—an offer the university has accepted, sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News. “They’ve accepted her offer to revise the dissertation with additional annotations,” a source with direct knowledge of the investigation’s details said. “The University has accepted that and concluded their investigation.” Overall, the attacks from the establishment media—in particular CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and a separate Politico piece—which claimed she engaged in wide-scale plagiarism were deemed untrue by the Columbia University review. A source familiar with the investigation added that it seems as though the political biases of those in media behind these smears of Crowley were a driving motivator of the attacks against her. “This all started because this CNN guy had an axe to grind against Trump and anybody affiliated with Trump,” the source, who is familiar with the details of the investigation, added. “At the time, Monica was being considered to be Flynn’s deputy at the NSC. Kaczynski went after Monica because she was an easy target and had a paper trail. Once it went into the news, Columbia had to do an inquiry. They did an inquiry and appointed a committee. Universities are like molasses, they take an enormous amount of time to do anything. This took a long time to do anything. At the end of the day, she was vindicated—there were some footnotes she could have done better, but these corrections are minor.” A Trump administration official added that the media and American political left have shown their true colors throughout the administration’s tenure but that Crowley was “patient zero” in fake news attacks on Trump administration officials. “Monica was patient zero in the ongoing war between the president and those on the left and in the media that wish to impede his agenda by any means necessary,” the administration official said. “Nothing is beneath these people and their derangement is so extreme that I expect they’ll be going through Monica’s trash next. I am beyond thrilled to see Monica vindicated by this review, and I look forward to watching as she continues to communicate the president’s outstanding economic agenda. She’s a fighter who will continue to fight on behalf of this president against the Fake News media, as well as in the best interests of the American people.” Two former Trump White House officials added that the fake news media should be ashamed of themselves. “The media and enemies of President Trump simply cannot stand a strong woman serving in the Administration, so they peddle fictitious allegations and outright lies with no regard for what is actually true,” one former White House official said. “Monica is a world class talent that serves her country well. We need more people like her, not less.” “Monica is a driven and intelligent public servant whose name was senselessly under attack from day one of the administration,” a second former Trump White House official added. “This proves that she’s an effective messenger who poses a threat to the totally unhinged left who will stop at nothing to tarnish the name of anyone associated with the president. I’m glad that justice has prevailed as this marks another blow to the heart of the left and its manufactured resistance.” UPDATE 3:30 P.M. ET: After Breitbart News broke the news of Crowley’s vindication, the New York Times published its own story on the matter–which some GOP officials have noted does not cite the fact that Breitbart News broke this story before the Times: Your story doesn’t mention that this was first reported by @breitbartnews. Very dishonest of you. Obviously I’m not surprised. — Arthur Schwartz (@arthurschwartz) December 20, 2019 The Times piece confirms all the same details that Breitbart News did about her vindication in particular about the finding that she did not engage in “research misconduct” and that she is updating several annotations in her thesis.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 20, 2019 14:56:34 GMT -6
And another media wrong corrected: thefederalist.com/2019/12/20/west-point-debunks-media-reports-of-cadets-flashing-white-power-symbols/West Point Debunks Media Reports Of Cadets Flashing White Power Symbols DECEMBER 20, 2019 By Chrissy Clark At the Army-Navy football game last week, cadets were caught playing the “circle game” on national television. An official investigation by West Point confirms it was indeed the “circle game” and not a “white power” symbol as many media outlets reported. The “circle game” consists of holding up the “OK” symbol below your stomach, if someone see the circle, you have the right the punch the person that saw the circle. After a photo of a cadet flashing the OK symbol on television went viral, leftists attacked the cadets claiming they were engaging in white supremacy. According to the mainstream media, the “OK” symbol used to play the “circle game” is actually a sign for white power. Their reporting disregarded the fact that the “OK” symbol is just the “OK” symbol, and that sometimes basketball players use it to signify a “3-point” shot, sometimes kids use it to play the circle game. News outlets such as NBC and USA Today published articles that did not mention an alternate explanation. They simply published articles accusing the cadets of being white supremacists. “Military officials say they are looking into an incident Saturday in which students flashed what appeared to be white power hand signs during televised activities before the Army-Navy football game,” NBC News tweeted. “Students appeared to make the White Power hand symbol during a pregame broadcast of the Army-Navy game,” USA Today tweeted. Facing media pressure, West Point initiated an investigation into the issue. On Friday, the school released their findings, affirming the cadets were in fact playing the “circle game” and not making the white power symbol. “The evidence strongly supports a finding that [the cadets] made “OK” hand gestures during the ESPN broadcast of GameDay because they were playing the ‘circle game’ or ‘gotcha game,’ There is no evidence that [the cadets] hold any racist or white supremacist view or attempted to communicate such messages by using the “OK” hand gesture on national television,” the West Point report reads. This is just another example of the media trying to “Covington” young people who appear to potentially hold conservative values. In January of 2019, the media made allegations against a young man from Covington Catholic High School wearing a MAGA hat. They accused the student of harassing a Native American man, based on one picture. In actuality, a full video of the incident revealed the picture was taken incredibly out of context and the Native American man was actually harassing the student. The mainstream media have found their newest victim — cadets that serving our country and preparing to sacrifice their lives.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 21, 2019 7:02:53 GMT -6
Progressive policies are hurting the state of California. It is now known for high taxes, a massive homeless problem, disease in the cities, and human waste in the streets. All of this combined is causing people to flee the state. apnews.com/5cc2751843937eb79c8ab5205f9e216d?utm_medium=APWestRegion&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlowCalifornia still most populous, but stalls at 39.9 million
More people are leaving California than moving in, evidence of the toll the state’s housing crisis is taking as the world’s fifth largest economy inches toward 40 million people.
An estimate released Friday by the California Department of Finance put the California’s population at 39.96 million, just shy of the 40 million milestone demographers had predicted the state would have passed by now.
The report shows California added more than 180,000 people when accounting for births and deaths for the 12 month period ending July 1. But when you include people who moved in and out of the state, California lost 39,500.
State officials say it is the first time since the 2010 census that more people left California than moved in over the course of a year, contributing to the state’s slowest recorded growth rate since 1900.
“People won’t move here because they can’t afford to come in the door,” said Dowell Myers, professor of policy, planning and demography at the University of Southern California. “The jobs are there. The people aren’t there.”
More than 158,000 people moved to California over the 12 month period that ended July 1. But more than 197,000 people left.................................................... The homeless crisis is definitely one of the driving factors here. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hud-estimates-2-7-percent-rise-u-s-homelessness-due-n1106061?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_maHUD estimates 2.7 percent rise in U.S. homelessness due to California housing crisis
An estimate of annual homelessness in the U.S. released Friday by the federal government shows that the number of people living on the streets increased 2.7 percent this year over last because of crisis-level housing issues in California.
The nation’s most populous state experienced a 16.4 percent increase in homelessness in 2019, the report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development said, even though voters approved a $4 billion affordable housing bond more than a year ago, and Los Angeles passed its own $1.2 billion housing bond in 2016.
L.A. has been slow to spend its money on shelters because of neighborhood opposition, and the state’s largest coastal cities have long experienced housing prices and rents that exceed the budgets of many families. In November, San Francisco voters approved $600 million in bonds for affordable housing.Vote liberal & get what you deserve.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 21, 2019 13:20:28 GMT -6
Over the past few months the people in Iran protested against the Mullahs and and their horrible abuse of the Iranian people. In response Congress sent a letter to the Trump Administration to lift sanctions against the evil regime that is killing its own people in the streets.
What are the Democrats doing when not holding a corrupt impeachment sham? Well they are petitioning the Trump administration of course to lift sanctions on the regime that is killing its own people.
Not to be outdone, Newsweek recently published a story pushed by the Iranian regime.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jan 4, 2020 8:14:08 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/01/03/california-democratic-party-settlements-eric-bauman/The California Democratic Party will reportedly pay more than $1 million to settle three lawsuits from former staffers alleging sexual misconduct racial discrimination against the party’s former chair, Eric Bauman. The party is paying more than $1 million to settle one of the lawsuits alleging sexual assault, harassment and racial discrimination from three individuals — former operations director Tina McKinnor, former communications director John Vigna and activist Spencer Dayton — The Wall Street Journal reported. McKinnor, who is black, alleged in the lawsuit that Bauman had criticized her “urban” clothing style and told her that the California Democratic Party is “not ready” to have an African-American such as herself interact directly with major donors. Dayton said in the lawsuit he was groped twice by Bauman, and Vigna said the former party chairman groped him “nearly on a daily basis” while calling him “baby” and asking to be referred to as “Daddy,” the Journal reported. Details surrounding the settlement agreements reached for the other two cases are unclear. One involved Bauman’s former personal assistant William Floyd, who alleged the former party chair forcibly performed oral sex on him at least three times between March 2016 and November 2018, and the other involved former video editor Brendan Stepp, who accused Bauman of making unwanted sexual advances. California Democratic Party chairman Rusty Hicks said the party reached “equitable settlements” with the plaintiffs in a Facebook statement Friday. (RELATED: California Dem Chair Looking Into Alcoholism Treatment After Numerous Sexual Assault Allegations)
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Post by kcrufnek on Jan 4, 2020 11:46:13 GMT -6
I'm surprised no one burst into flames.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jan 4, 2020 13:53:00 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/01/04/softball-cnn-interview-with-iranian-ambassador-borders-on-propaganda/Softball CNN Interview With Iranian Ambassador Borders On Propaganda JANUARY 4, 2020 By David Marcus For three years now, CNN has dedicated itself almost exclusively to attacking Donald Trump. It’s own laughable claim of being straight, objective news is clearly abject nonsense to anyone who has watched it for more than 5 minutes. And that’s all fine. All news outlets have their biases, and while it would be nice if CNN owned theirs, it doesn’t really matter if they refuse to. But last night something happened that didn’t just look like anti-Trump sentiment, but rather straight up Iranian propaganda. Anchor Erin Burnett interviewed Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Mavid Ravanchi, and what viewers were treated to was not so much an interview as a joint press release. From the first question, whether the US had committed an act of war by killing Qasem Solemiani, to the final one, whether this act of war “changes the game,” everything was framed as poor Iran being bullied by a President Trump who at best overreacted and who at worst is lying to the American people. Video Player 00:00 07:41 Not only was there no push back whatsoever in regard to any of the claims made by Ravanchi, several vital questions went completely unasked. How on earth can one interview the Iranian ambassador without asking about Iranian support for a violent attack on an American embassy last week? Or how about an attack on a base that left an American contractor dead? Or the shooting down of an American drone over international waters? Time and again in the interview Ravanchi claimed that by killing Solemiani the US had moved from an economic war (pulling out of the Iran Deal) to a military war. But Iran has engaged in military actions against America and American interest for months now. The network that fatuously insists they are all about the facts allowed the ambassador to flat out lie to the their viewers without the least bit of resistance. This is simply journalistic malpractice at best. At worst, it is giving comfort to an enemy dedicated to the destruction of the United States (Death to America) by handing over the CNN platform for the pushing of propaganda, including failing to mention at all the Iranian regime’s brutal and murderous crackdown on protesters in its own country last month. Ironically, it was only just back in September that the same Erin Burnett was chiding the president for not backing up his tough rhetoric with action. She said, “Trump does love to issue threats and then do nothing.” Given this grave concern on the part of Burnett wouldn’t she first of all be happy to see the president follow through? And more importantly shouldn’t she have pointed out to the ambassador that these threats have been out there for some time and yet Iran continued with its deadly provocations? CNN's Erin Burnett asks: Why should Iran take Trump's threat seriously? She examines President Trump's history of issuing threats to foreign powers and not following through amid threats made to Iran after an attack on Saudi Arabia oil facilities. t.co/Syx9GH8uT1 pic.twitter.com/3TbCCkJawa — CNN (@cnn) September 17, 2019 If CNN wants to be the media wing of the anti-Trump resistance, then so be it. But when that starts to turn into handing over airtime, to a brutal, anti-semitic, anti-gay, terrorist regime for softball puff propagandistic interviews, it is walking into very dangerous territory. Hey CNN, Iran is not the “good guys,” it is not a peace-loving nation being abused by the big bad United States. Next time you interview an Iranian official, maybe ask some actual questions instead of reading off of their script and showing them deference.
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