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A district attorney in Oklahoma hit several protesters with charges of assault, rioting, and terrorism in connection to recent violent protests that took place in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said on Friday that he chose to pursue the toughest charges against the rioters because he does not support the lawlessness that has taken place in some parts of the country, including the “police-free” region of Seattle known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protests, or CHOP.
“This is not Seattle,” he told the Oklahoman. “We’re not putting up with this lawlessness here.”
Prater leveled strict charges against many of those who were arrested during the protests. Isael Antonio Ortiz, 21, Eric Christopher Ruffin, 26, and Malachai Davis, 18, were hit with terrorism charges after police alleged that Ortiz burned an Oklahoma County sheriff’s van during protests on May 30…
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The Mississippi state House of Representatives on Sunday overwhelmingly approved a bill that calls for removing the state flag and redesigning it to eliminate the controversial Confederate symbol it currently bears.
The 91-23 vote means that the state Senate will now decide on the matter. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has indicated willingness to sign legislation if it reaches his desk, according to Mississippi Today, though the outlet reported that the state executive had not taken a firm stance on the issue of altering the flag.
“The gallery of the Senate broke out in applause when they heard that the House had passed the flag bill,” the Clarion Ledger reported…
Close to 300 New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have filed for retirement over the last month amid riots against the police and as violent crime keeps surging.
According to figures released to the New York Post, about 272 NYPD uniformed officers have filed for retirement since riots over the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd began in late May. At the same time last year, about 183 officers had filed for retirement, indicating a nearly 50 percent spike in retirements this year.
One officer, who wanted to wait to retire until he hit 30 years with the NYPD, told the Post “It’s an all-out war on cops and we have no support.” More than 300 officers were injured in the recent riots.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to cut funding to the NYPD and Commissioner Dermot Shea has announced the disbanding of the city’s 600-officer undercover anti-crime unit that was responsible for keeping shootings and violent crime down…
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The California legislature voted last week to strike anti-discrimination language from the State Constitution.
In a 30-10 vote, the legislature passed the Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5 (ACA 5), which removes the words “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin,” from California’s constitution, which were put in place in 1996 with Proposition 209.
Proposition 209 effectively repealed the state’s Affirmative Action policies, which allowed public institutions such as schools and universities to give preferential treatment to underrepresented groups even if they were less than qualified…
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Thursday that he would use federal power to require Americans to wear face masks in public – a move that would mark a significant intervention by the federal government and could see considerable pushback from states.
Biden made the comments in an interview with CBS affiliate KDKA, in which he spoke about what he thinks should be done to reopen the country from the coronavirus shutdown. He said that he wants to see greater use of masks.
“The one thing we do know, these masks make a gigantic difference. I would insist that everybody in public be wearing that mask,” he said. “Anyone to reopen, it would have to make sure that they walked into a business that had masks.”
The interviewer asked if he would use “federal leverage” to mandate mask-wearing,
“Yes, I would from an executive standpoint, yes I would,” he said, to which the interviewer asked if he would then be mandating mask-wearing…
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Attorney General Bill Barr revealed that the Department of Justice has approximately 500 ongoing active investigations into rioters and vandals involved in violence and destruction during the nationwide crime spree following the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
Bill confirmed that the federal government is using its anti-terrorism law enforcement task forces to properly investigate and charge suspects in the widespread political violence.
“When the real violence started around May 25, 26, and so forth, we started using our joint terrorist task forces around the country. And there are 35 of them around the country.”
Barr was speaking on Thursday’s edition of Senator Ted Cruz’s podcast with co-host Michael Knowles…
The zombie government program known as Obamacare just won’t die. Donald Trump has tried several times to end its existence and each time has come up short.
The president has, however, been able to chip away at its more onerous aspects, including killing the individual mandate. And the death of the mandate could lead to the death of the entire Affordable Care Act. The administration, along with two dozen states, submitted an 83-page brief to the Supreme Court asking them to declare the act unconstitutional, using the repeal of the individual mandate as a primary reason.
NRO:
In 2017, when Republicans in Congress failed to repeal and replace Obamacare, they settled for removing the individual mandate, the penalty levied against those who have no health-insurance coverage. Now, the administration is throwing its weight behind the argument that the removal of that key portion of the law invalidates the rest of it…
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A federal judge on Friday struck down orders issued by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that limit the size of church services.
The ruling, a preliminary injunction delivered by District Judge Gary Sharpe, notes that by endorsing protests for racial justice while simultaneously discouraging large gatherings in churches, both Cuomo and de Blasio undermined their claim that their lockdown orders were “generally applicable.”
“The State argues, in overly-simplistic fashion, that the challenged laws only incidentally impose a burden on religious exercise, and they are neutral and generally applicable, and therefore, only rational basis need be shown, which is self-evident: preventing the spread of COVID-19,” Sharpe wrote…
In a case that has cast a cloud over Paterson’s political landscape, the Attorney General on Thursday announced voter fraud charges against two of the winners in the city’s recent ward council elections, along with two campaign workers involved in a third race.
Councilman Michael Jackson, 48, and Councilman-elect Alex Mendez, 45, were accused of violating state law governing the way mail-in ballots are supposed to be collected and filled out, said Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
Mendez, who was charged with second-degree election fraud and five other crimes, won the 3rd Ward election. He allegedly handled “one or more voter registration applications, which he knew to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, in that he knew the person for whom the application was procured was not eligible to vote in the election district identified on the application,” according to authorities.
Mendez, who won by 240 votes, is scheduled to take office on July 1 and it’s not clear what impact – if any – the charges against him will have on his inauguration…
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Sparked by a mix of anti-police sentiment, “vigilantism,” and apparent misinformation via social media, chaos erupted in Milwaukee on Tuesday during the search for missing teen girls.
According to local news reports and video footage, in the process of the urgent search, officers and other first responders had bricks thrown at them, three people were injured in a related shooting, and a house was burned to the ground.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Wednesday that the crowd outside the home that was later burned to the ground included “a mix of neighbors observing the situation, people expressing frustration with police and activists who’d marched in Milwaukee’s racial justice protests.”…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a rule on June 23 to prevent special interest activists from interfering with retiree investments.
The rule, which aims to protect American investors, will not allow retirement-plan fiduciaries to sacrifice financial returns for environmental, social, and other policy goals.
“Private employer-sponsored retirement plans are not vehicles for furthering social goals or policy objectives that are not in the financial interest of the plan,” Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in a statement. “Rather, ERISA plans should be managed with unwavering focus on a single, very important social goal: providing for the retirement security of American workers.”
Through the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), DOL oversees private retirement funds such as 401(k) accounts and pensions to protect savings of Americans from mismanagement and abuse. According to the DOL, $10.7 trillion is invested in private pension plans…
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With Joe Biden, you can never tell if he lied or if he blundered. Today at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden said that 120 million Americans have already died of COVID. That’s why we need Obamacare, or something.
Numbers aren’t the strong suit of #BarelyThereBiden. Indeed, it’s difficult to determine which cards he’s still holding, and which ones fell on the floor. You’ll remember, of course, when he said that 150 million Americans have died of gun violence.
So he defeated the NRA, but half the country died anyway. Now, today, the other half died of the CCP coronavirus pandemic. At this rate there will be nobody left to vote for Joe Biden by election day. Thoughts and prayers…
As calls from the Left intensify to abolish the police, and New York City takes action to remove officers and dismantle vital anti-crime units, the city that never sleeps surged in gun violence by a stunning 358% since this time last year.
“It has been nearly a quarter century since New York City experienced as much gun violence in the month of June as it has seen this year,” The New York Times reported Tuesday.
NYC “logged 125 shootings in the first three weeks of the month, more than double the number recorded over the same period last year, police data show,” the report noted. “Gunmen opened fire during house parties, barbecues and dice games, and carried out coldly calculated street executions.”
Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said you would “have to go back to 1996 to have a worse start of June.”
Over this past weekend, 38 people were shot in just 72 hours, and that total only grew larger by Monday…
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A night of unrest in Madison, Wisconsin, left two statues destroyed, windows smashed and a Democratic state senator hospitalized after he was attacked by a group of protesters near the state Capitol. State Sen. Tim Carpenter said he had been heading into work late Tuesday when he stopped to take a video of protesters gathered outside the Capitol.
‘I don’t know what happened… all I did was stop and take a picture… and the next thing I’m getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head,’ Carpenter, 60, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Video footage captured by the senator shows hundreds of protesters chanting in the street, before two white female activists break from the pack and charge towards Carpenter’s direction…
The Dixie Chicks have changed their name ahead of their first album in 14 years, dropping the “Dixie” and renaming themselves “The Chicks.”
The move comes amid national protests over the history of race relations in the United States – and was perhaps inspired by a Jun 17 article in Variety titled “After Lady Antebellum, Is It Time for the Dixie Chicks to Rethink Their Name?”
As Variety’s Jeremy Helligar writes:
“Dixie,” for the record, is the epitome of white America, a celebration of a Southern tradition that is indivisible from Black slaves and those grand plantations where they were forced to toil for free.
The origin of the word, though, is unclear. One theory links it to Jeremiah Dixon, who along with Charles Mason, drew the Mason-Dixon line as the border between four states that later became the unofficial separation between free states and slaves states…
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The University of Alabama football team released a new video supporting the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement across the United States. Written by offensive tackle Alex Leatherwood, members of the team and head coach Nick Saban express the need for speaking up in favor of change and concluding that “all lives can’t matter until Black lives matter.”
Several Alabama players have been outspoken on social media about the need for systemic change and social justice reform:
“Change is coming from this generation whether you like it or not,” offensive lineman Chris Owens tweeted on May 30. “Enough is enough.”…
Former Vice President and now 2020 Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed months ago that he knew “nothing” about moves to investigate former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn, but newly-released documents proved otherwise.
Biden, appearing in May on ABC News’ This Week, was asked by news anchor and host George Stephanopoulos what he knew about moves to investigate Flynn while he was vice president. Biden first responded, “I knew nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn.”
When confronted by Stephanopoulos that he attended a now-famous January 2017 Oval Office meeting with then-President Obama and other top officials where they discussed Flynn, Biden claimed he understood the question to be whether he had anything to do with Flynn’s prosecution.
Then he said, “I was aware that they had asked for an investigation,” without specifying who “they” were…
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for the Trump administration in a key immigration case, determining that a federal law limiting an asylum applicant’s ability to appeal a determination that he lacked a credible fear of persecution from his home country does not violate the Constitution.
The ruling means the administration can deport some people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge. The 7-2 ruling applies to those who fail their initial asylum screenings, making them eligible for quick deportation.
In a decision in the case of Dept. of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, the court ruled that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) does not violate the Constitution’s Suspension Clause…
A collection of Seattle businesses, property owners, and residents sued the city over its tolerance of an “occupied” protest zone saying officials have been complicit in depriving them of their rights to their property.
The plaintiffs, including a tattoo parlor and auto repair shop, emphasized in the lawsuit filed Wednesday that they were not trying to undermine the anti-police brutality or Black Lives Matter messaging of the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.”
“This lawsuit is about the constitutional and other legal rights of Plaintiffs – businesses, employees, and residents in and around CHOP – which have been overrun by the City of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public at large.
The City’s decision has subjected businesses, employees, and residents of that neighborhood to extensive property damage…
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James O’Keefe’s team of undercover journalists Project Veritas have released hidden camera footage of Facebook employees admitting to deliberate political bias, censorship of Trump supporters, as well as discrimination against conservative and white male employees.
A Facebook insider, Ryan Hartwig, has also come forward to Project Veritas to give his account of bias and discrimination at the company. The hidden camera footage reveals a host of Facebook employees and contractors admitting to political bias.
Steve Grimmett, team lead for content review at Facebook can be heard admitting that he lumps the MAGA movement in with “Nazis” and “Hitler.” Grimmett can be heard telling an undercover reporter that he monitors “hate organizations” including “Hitler, Nazis, MAGA, you know, proud boys, all that stuff all day long.”…
A government watchdog has found that federal authorities sent COVID-19 stimulus checks worth some $1.4 billion to over 1 million dead people. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), an agency that reports to Congress, released the findings in a June 25 report on the federal response to the pandemic.
The GAO noted in its report that as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury Department “moved quickly” to disburse over 160 million economic impact payments, the official name for the CCP virus stimulus checks, the agencies left themselves open to misallocation risk.
“The agencies faced difficulties delivering payments to some individuals, and faced additional risks related to making improper payments to ineligible individuals, such as decedents, and fraud,” the watchdog said.
The IRS and Treasury jointly disbursed 160.4 million economic impact payments worth $269.3 billion…
Comes from Red Pill Jew, who makes the same point I have been making for years about the left
This is why the Left cannot be argued with. It cannot be reasoned with. It can’t be bought, or appeased. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are enslaved and love your slavery. Because they’re MISSIONARIES.
Amen. Leftist are the new crazy religious zealots fanatics.And yes, they are all about making everyone “believe” as they do. And, nothing is off limits. This explains the rise of increasingly hateful rhetoric and behaviors from the left. Frightening? Yes, but, the truth, no matter how sobering, can help patriots stem the tide. Pray, stay informed, stay active, and yes stay armed and aware. If this tide of leftist fanaticism continues, there will be greater risks for those who dare oppose it.
Remember also that as the currentwar on police gets worse, more officers will quit, or not be able to do their jobs as is needed. We already see rising violent crime rates, that will also worsen. As this happens more Americans, who are buying and carrying firearms will be forced to defend themselves, and loved ones. This will, of course, lead to new calls for more “common sense” gun laws. Never forget that of all your liberties that of armed self-defense is the one the left loathe the most. That liberty is the one that will keep our liberty, without it……………….
Dear Lord, why would a person who is charged with assault with a gun be bailed out? Who thinks that is a good idea? Now, a sweet seven-year-old is gone forever. Here is the story, I cannot even comment right now
“We just lost a 7-year-old innocent child in our family for no reason,” Kenneth Woods, a relative of Aaliyah Norris told WLOS at a memorial for the girl Thursday night.
Aaliyah was sitting in a car in Forest City when she was shot in the head. She was taken to a local hospital, where she remained on life support until succumbing to her injuries two days later, according to a Forest City police news release obtained by PEOPLE.
On Wednesday, Shaquille Marshon Francis, 26, was arrested and charged with murder.
Francis was arrested earlier on Tuesday for assault by pointing a gun, according to arrest records obtained by WLOS. However, he bonded himself out and three hours later, he allegedly shot Aaliyah.
Dear God whywas this animal walking around? We know why, violent people are DANGEROUS!YET, we keep letting them out. And they keep hurting innocent people
6 months to decide that shooting someone, threatening you with a baseball bat inside your own home is OK. Was this DA hoping he could charge the homeowner with something?
Nash said the prosecutor’s office believes the use of force by the homeowner in the confrontation was justifiable, legal self-defense. “We have nothing at this point to suggest otherwise in this case,” Nash said.
Icannot think of a worsedecision frankly. These men were great military leaders who fought for their state, and were men of great character as well. Anyone who studies them with an open mind would, I believe agree. Here is more about them. The most decorated Marine in history admired them.
Yesterday was Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller’s birthday. Puller was a USMC Lt. General and considered one of the best and bravest marines in USMC history. He was also a Virginian, born in West Point, Virginia. During his legendary career, he was awarded five Navy Crosses and one U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross making him the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps.
The Puller documentary below, “Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend”, was produced by John Ford with an introduction by John Wayne. At about 20:07 in the video, you’ll see Puller visiting Stonewall Jackson’s grave and Lee Chapel in Lexington, VA where General Lee is entombed. Wayne notes that Lee was Puller’s boyhood hero and “recalls how studies of this man’s military genius helped him win his own battles so many years later.”
You might think CEO’s would be smart enough to just shut up and make products people buy, but, as Pirates Cove reports, apparently they are stuck on stoopit
It took a while to get to the heart of why Coke is suspending advertising for a bit, but, it, hey, if they want to call for private companies to censor users, maybe it’s time to boycott Coke
Coca-Cola announced on Friday that it is pausing its advertising on all social media platforms for 30 days as it assesses its strategy amid a flood of criticism over tech companies’ handling of racist content on their platforms.
James Quincey, CEO of the Coca-Cola Company, said his organization would take the time to examine if changes are needed in its policy and called on social media platforms to allow greater accountability over what’s written online.
Good Freaking Grief!It is called freedom of expression. Ifyou use Facebook, or Instagram then you are going to see and read things that offend you. Why does this come as a shock to some? If something someone posts, or tweets offends you, either ignore it, respond to it,or at least just accept that freedom of speech is messy. And corporations need to stop trying to decide what is and is not acceptable
“There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media. The Coca-Cola Company will pause paid advertising on all social media platforms globally for at least 30 days,” he said in a statement. “We will take this time to reassess our advertising policies to determine whether revisions are needed. We also expect greater accountability and transparency from our social media partners.”
The company did not clarify if it was joining a burgeoning boycott of social media advertising that has taken off in the aftermath of national protests over systemic racism and police brutality. The company’s social media accounts have been amplifying messages advocating for systemic changes.
Dear Coke, I detest racism, I also detestanyone who screams RAAAAACISM to silence debate, and, I detest companies who would use their dollars to, pressure social media to gag and hinder essential liberties like freedom of speech. Now, get back to youractual jobsyou elitist fucks
Last month I wrote about Jimmy Fallon tripping all over himself to apologize for an SNL sketch twenty years ago in which he appeared in blackface to impersonate Chris Rock. I noted then and still note – we never heard from Chris Rock on the issue. Why? Because Chris Rock is an adult who knows what’s real. He knows nuance and intent. He knows Jimmy Fallon. They’re probably friends. That “controversy” wasn’t real. It was the beginning of a month-long “controversy” avalanche that became more absurd with each passing day.
Two things can be true at the same time, of course. George Floyd was killed at the hands of an abusive cop. The mob rule that ensued afterward was outrageous. Individual police departments reviewing the way they physically handle those they encounter is warranted. Tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln in Boston is intolerable.
The next time you watch video of some Marxists tearing down a statue, save some disgust for Conservative Cowards
There is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are. So do the rest of us. These are the reasonable conservatives, the good ones, so ever careful not to be called racist. They had a compromise in mind because they always do. Throw the Confederate statues under the bus and we can save the rest. Well.
Friday night, a statue of Ulysses S. Grant was toppled. Also the statue of a Catholic saint. Do you know who is to blame? It is not the hordes of progressives with ropes and chains; it is every conservative who thought those Jacobin lunatics could be appeased by just tearing down certain statues. It is a metaphor for the fecklessness of an American right too cowed to stand up for itself.
I get it. You see, these conservatives don’t want to be called names. I mean, nobody enjoys that. But here’s the thing: after you write your little op-ed about how of course the evil Confederate statues have to come down, they still think you’re a racist. They just think you are a spineless one.
George Orwell wrote a book once called “1984.” Let me know if this sounds familiar: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Beautifully written by David Marcus, and this, this is a dead center bullseye
To these fair-weather friends, I have a message: This is your fault. And you were well warned. For years, those of us with the courage to open our eyes knew exactly where this was going. It was never about the Confederacy, or slavery, or racism. It was always about destroying the very concept of America and replacing it with a Marxist utopia. That’s who you decided to compromise with.
AMEN! Will these fools ever learn? I doubt it. Just this morning, I listened to John Leboutillier, who wroteHarvard Hates America as he opinedthat we should move Confederate monuments to museums and place plaques beside them to “explain” them. And, of course the explanation would come from a leftist historian, wanna guess how that would work out? And, one day, an activist would see the monument or statue, and become TRIGGERED AF, and the statue would then be removed by a gutlessgovernor, or city council. And if not, another mob would come and well, know how that ends.
Gutlessness folks is as bad as the thugs destroying our history.
WE hear lots about “privilege” these days, usually in reference to “White Privilege”. But, if we are honest, we would all recognize we all have some form of privilege. It could be looks, or personality, experience, maybe it is our resume, or even race. It really could be any number of things. And, yes, what may serve us a privilege on one job interview might actually hurt us in another. One day, I will write more about this, but, today, let me call NY Governor Cuomo for his “privilege”, that is his media privilege.
That privilegeallowed the governor to not take an ounce of responsibility for his policy of making nursing homes take in Covi-19 patients. A move which, tragically led to many deaths of the elderly patients in those facilities. The media? They let Cuomo cop out with little push back
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday denied his office was at fault for the coronavirus deaths of more than 6,000 nursing home residents in the state, calling such accusations a “political charade.”
Cuomo defended his office’s response to the pandemic during an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.
“Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else, because we had more people die, because the federal government missed the boat and never told us this virus was coming from Europe and not from China,” Cuomo said. “And January, February, March, before they did the European travel ban, 3 million people came from Europe and brought the virus to New York and the federal government didn’t know and the federal government and the CDC and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation.”
“So, New York had more cases, more deaths, and more deaths in nursing home because that’s who the virus affects. It affects senior citizens, we know that. You look at any state and they had a tremendous number of deaths in nursing homes,” he added. “It’s all a political charade, and it’s an ugly one frankly, to talk about a number of deaths and suggest there was politics added.”
See!Not his fault, everyone knew that the elderly were the most vulnerable. YES, yet, Gov. Cuomo still forced nursing homes to take these patients, and thousands died! But, Cuomo is a leftist so…….. Check your privilege Governor!