Devin Kelley Went To First Baptist Church’s Fall Festival The Week Before He Shot Everyone

Horrible.

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It was just five days before gunman Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire on the congregation in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that the members of the small church welcomed him in under much different circumstances.

On Sunday, Kelley killed 26 people and injured 30 others. But less than one week before, he brought his children to First Baptist Church’s annual fall festival, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Though his attendance wasn’t expected given his past troubles with his mother-in-law, Michelle Shields, who attends the church, the congregation still welcomed Kelley with open arms — some even thought he and his family were turning a corner.

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Judge Rules DACA Recipients Have Due Process Rights

A federal judge in Seattle, Washington, ruled that illegal aliens receiving amnesty under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cannot have their status revoked without due process.

Judge Ricardo S. Martinez, appointed by President George W. Bush, said illegal aliens have due process rights and that DACA cannot be canceled justification, The Washington Times reported.

“While the Court recognizes and acknowledges that DACA does not confer lawful status upon an individual, the Court also finds that the representations made to applicants for DACA cannot and do not suggest that no process is due to them, particularly in Plaintiff’s case where benefits have already been conferred,” Judge Martinez stated in his ruling.

The judge did not explain what that due process might be or how what reasons could be acceptable.

“What process is due, and whether Plaintiff received such process, are ultimately questions for another day. But at this stage of the proceedings the Court is satisfied that Plaintiff has raised a plausible due process claim that will not be dismissed,” Martinez explained.

Texas and nine other states announced they would sue the Trump Administration if it did not end the DACA program in June, Breitbart Texas reported. The states threatened to add DACA to an existing lawsuit that effectively ended Obama’s other amnesty program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA).

“We respectfully request that the Secretary of Homeland Security phase out the DACA program,” Texas Attorney General Paxton and the coalition wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “Just like DAPA, DACA unilaterally confers eligibility for work authorization and lawful presence without any statutory authorization from Congress.”

“For these same reasons that DAPA and Expanded DACA’s unilateral Executive Branch conferral of eligibility for lawful presence and work authorization was unlawful, the original June 15, 2012 DACA memorandum is also unlawful,” the letter continued. “The original 2012 DACA program covers over one million otherwise unlawfully present aliens.”

As the deadline for the threatened lawsuit approached, Attorney General Sessions announced the Trump Administration would end the DACA program, Breitbart News reported.

“I’m here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated by the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions said. Later calling for an “orderly and lawful wind-down.”

President Donald Trump put the responsibility for a DACA replacement program in the laps of congressional leaders — giving them six months to act or he would revisit the program, Joel Pollack reported for Breitbart News.

Shortly after the administration’s announcement, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the states would drop the threatened lawsuit.

Paxton and other officials from 10 states were hit with major pushback efforts by the open borders lobby to drop their lawsuit against DACA. Paxton refused to do so, Breitbart Texas reported.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTXGAB, and Facebook.

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What GOP Must Learn from the 12 Reasons Virginia Went Democrat in 2017

Much of the commentary on Election Day 2017 is misinformed or only half of the picture. There are 12 reasons that Virginia went Democratic on November 7, and lessons the GOP can learn from them if they want to turn future wipeouts into victories.

Historical pattern: past five presidents, Virginia goes the other way. Ever since 1988, when one party wins the White House, Virginia swings the other way. It started when Bush 41 was elected president in 1988, followed by Democrat Douglas Wilder in 1989. Then Republican George Allen (1993) followed Democrat Bill Clinton (1992). Then Democrat Mark Warner (2001) followed Republican Bush 43 (2000). Then Republican Bob McDonnell (2009) followed Democrat Barack Obama (2008). Now Democrat Northam (2017) has followed Republican Donald Trump (2016).

Each time, the out-of-power national party declared the election results a sign of national rejection of the president’s agenda. But that has not been true for five consecutive presidencies. Instead, it has been a natural swinging back of the pendulum. However, people wonder if McDonnell’s 2009 win could be the last Republican victory in Virginia, regardless of which party wins the White House. That may be true unless the Trump administration can drain the swamp in Washington to dredge out the Virginia suburbs of the nation’s capital.

Virginia is an indigo state—in reality, two states. The Old Dominion was once reliably Republican. But with the growth of the federal government, NOVA (Northern Virginia) is now populated by hundreds of thousands of big-government employees, contractors, recipients of federal and state welfare dollars, and liberal devotees who vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Most Americans want to drain the swamp, but swamp creatures rather like their ecosystem. Virginia has gone from red, to purple, to now a midpoint between purple and blue—indigo.

Although not as bad as when deep-blue Chicago jerks the entire state of Illinois to the left in statewide elections, with Democrats’ massive and growing stronghold in NOVA, a Republican must post very strong wins in the western and southern parts of the states to take the whole state. Virginia has joined Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, and Missouri as a state that is in reality two states. Fortunately for the GOP, though, President Trump proved that a Republican can win some of those states.

Targeting the swamp. In addition to NOVA’s general inclination to vote Democrat, President Trump has promised to drain the swamp. Nothing is more dangerous than a cornered animal. D.C.’s swamp creatures in NOVA know that the president is targeting their environment, explaining the record turnout of Democrats in NOVA precincts, giving Northam record turnout in those places.

Northam was not an inspiring candidate. Gillespie was a better campaigner and a smarter strategist. Democrats did not chant Northam’s name as they marched en masse to polling locations in the counties of Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William. Swamp creatures’ self-preservation instinct is what motivated them to vote.

Growth of the federal government masked Virginia Democrats’ terrible mismanagement of Virginia’s economy. Under three Democrats and one moderate Republican, the commonwealth has sunk to the bottom bracket in America for economic growth, job creation, stifling regulation, and losing young families to other states. But trillions of dollars in federal spending has included billions spilling over into Virginia, making many voters feel pretty good without realizing that their own state was making the situation worse, not better. They were living a subsidized lifestyle, so a factor that should have cost Northam votes was instead was a plus.

Felon voters. In 2015, Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe violated the Virginia Constitution by granting mass amnesty to 206,000 convicted felons in the commonwealth. Felons vote overwhelmingly Democrat. The Virginia legislature challenged McAuliffe’s actions as unconstitutional. The Virginia Supreme Court agreed, saying his actions violated by the Virginia Constitution. But when McAuliffe reissued 13,000 of those pardons months weeks later, implausibly claiming that he had personally considered each individual application, the Virginia Supreme Court denied the legislature’s follow-up motion to enforce the court’s decision. All those felons were added to the voter rolls, with many thousands more added since.

Gillespie ran on Bush issues, with Bush style. His campaign was taken straight from the Bush 43 playbook of moderate, soccer-mom issues with which Republicans could carry elections in 2000 and 2004, but not since then. Generic calls for economic growth and job creation through cutting taxes and regulations, improving education through teacher pay hikes, and safer neighborhoods through supporting law enforcement in feel-good tone are worthwhile issues, but do not carry the day anymore. The ads emphasized words like “compassion,” “pragmatist,” and “centrist,” and was soft on illegal aliens. That is not where the electorate is in 2017 if a Republican wants to win.

GOP voters noticed Gillespie did not embrace Trump, or Trumpism. These issues and style were a refusal to embrace President Trump and his agenda. The GOP nominee refused to campaign with the GOP president. Republican voters strongly support the president, and were turned off by the fact that Gillespie kept President Trump at arm’s-length. The Republican trailed Northam by up to 17 points in the polls.

Gillespie’s raising a couple Trump issues was too little, too late. A sophisticated and experienced political strategist (albeit running on the wrong strategy), Gillespie changed course in the final weeks of the campaign, hitting Northam hard on illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, and protecting historical monuments that Democrats were attacking. He closed the gap, with some polls showing him tied or possibly slightly ahead. But on Election Day too many voters were unpersuaded that these positions were heartfelt, or that they went far enough.

Northam adopted Trump positions. The Democrat candidate raced to the right to co-opt several Trump issues to neutralize Gillespie’s advantage there. Northam never reversed his call to tear down historical monuments and markers, but he denounced sanctuary cities, and toned down his support for amnesty for illegal aliens. That likely helped him claw back in the last few days some of the ground he had lost to Gillespie on those issues.

Republicans lost even in red states on November 7. While losses in Virginia and New Jersey were expected, there was a nationwide trend on Election Day, as Republicans lost some local races in solid GOP areas in other states. Part of this is the natural pushback against any new president, but there was much more. Namely …

Democrats are angry, but Republicans are not happy. There is currently a gross imbalance in enthusiasm. Democrats have mobilized against President Trump’s agenda, but Republican voters do not match that enthusiasm with positive energy, because Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate have failed to pass legislation enacting that agenda. The House has passed over 300 bills that are paralyzed in the 52-48 Republican-controlled Senate.

Republicans have not delivered on the Trump MAGA Agenda that Americans voted for. To his credit, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) understands this, using unprecedented tactics to block all things Trump to stifle Republican excitement. Judges are (slowly) being confirmed over Schumer’s objections, but enough moderate Republican senators have joined Schumer to kill Trump-agenda bills, keeping them from reaching the president’s desk for his signature into law. Some Republicans appear to be on a suicide mission, evidently oblivious to the severe consequences the GOP could suffer in 2018 if they fail to get things done.

Fortunately for the GOP, all is not lost.

The Left is already overreaching. Democrats are misreading the failure of establishment Republican candidates in blue states as a repudiation of President Trump’s agenda. Groups like the Latino Victory Fund promising to double down with extremist ads that people across the political spectrum denounce as despicable—showing a Gillespie supporter in a pickup truck trying to run down minority children—could chase voters by the droves into the GOP’s column.

Most Democrats’ 2018 and 2020 candidates will not resemble Northam. Although a liberal, he was challenged from the left in the primary. The Sanders-Warren wing of the Democratic Party is ascendant, and more stridently liberal candidates can be expected over the next couple years. The perfect illustration of Democrats’ problem and direction is that Northam was shouted down during his victory speech by advocates for sanctuary cities and illegal alien amnesty. Security had to escort Northam off the stage.

Republicans might be turning the corner. Since Tuesday, several establishment Republican elected leaders have told the media that they know voters are very unhappy with their failure to pass legislation enacting the president’s agenda. Their instincts for self-preservation may overcome their non-MAGA preferences, and rally a few crucial additional votes to pass legislation.

Election Day 2017 was a lousy day for Republicans. But it was not a repudiation of President Trump or his agenda, and it is possible that enough politicians are figuring out that the MAGA agenda that carried Election Day 2016 may be the key to their success in 2018 and 2020.

Ken Klukowski is senior legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski.

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Liberal Freaks Scream at Sky Like Mental Patients One Year After Hillary Went Down in Flames

Mental illness is a very serious thing and is no joke and it isn’t going to get better without seeking serious professional help.

That would be damned good advice for the pathetic liberal crybabies who still can’t wrap their minds around the very simple concept that elections have winners and losers and while losing sucks, that’s just the way that life is – especially in the system that exists in here in the USA.

But millennial brats and other low-information freaks have become so used to being rewarded for failure that one year after the worst day in their lives, they are still unglued that President Trump pasted the heavily favored Hillary Clinton right in her ugly kisser.

On Wednesday, many of them gathered across the country to pointlessly throw their stupid ongoing hissy fits, wave signs and scream like a pack of baboons, many doing so aimlessly at the sky that God didn’t see fit to give Mrs. Clinton a participation trophy.

Here is a sample, I don’t know whether to laugh my ass off or recoil in horror that these folks are out walking around instead of being securely locked up in mental institutions.




These people are just plain nuttier than squirrel turds.

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‘Insane’ wait time of 4.5 years for new patients to see specialist, Canadian doctor says

What happened?

  • Canadian doctor Joy Hataley, a family practice anesthetist in Kingston, Ontario, told CTV News she was “shocked” after trying to refer one of her patients to a neurologist at Kingston General Hospital and was told in a letter the wait time for new patients is 4.5 years.
  • The outlet said that while Hataley was used to long wait times — particularly from specialists — she called the 4.5-year delay “insane.”
  • “Initially I was just a bit stunned,” she told CTV News Toronto on Friday. “I actually thought I misread it.”
  • “I put my reading glasses on — because I am that age — to check if it was a 1.5,” Hataley added. “I couldn’t fathom it was a 7.5. I walked to a physician’s room nearby me just to verify that I was actually reading 4.5.”
  • She said such a wait time deems the referral moot: “Who knows what happens in 4.5 years?” Hataley noted to CTV News Toronto. “Will we even remember that we had a consult? Will we still be on the list?”
  • Hataley posted an image of the letter to Twitter and asked Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins and Kingston MPP Sophie Kiwala for an explanation:

What is Hataley saying about Canadian patient wait times in general?

  • “I sense that this is not a problem, I perceive, to be in isolation,” she told CTV News. “This issue is an issue for people across the country.”
  • “I don’t think this is the norm by any stretch of the imagination,” Hataley added, “but [the fact that] it even occurs at all is shocking.”
  • She also told the outlet she believes the system has “hit a wall.”
  • “My main message is: We need timely, consistent and reliable health care in our province and we do not have it,” she told CTV News.

What are other Canadian doctors saying?

  • Dr. Shawn Whatley, president of the Ontario Medical Association, told CTV News the wait times are “atrocious.”
  • Wealthier patients at least can travel to get care faster, he told the outlet, which creates “a massive two-tiered system.”
  • “We’ve known about it for 15 years where people with means can get procedures and test more quickly,” Whatley added to CTV News.
  • A 2016 Commonwealth Fund survey focusing on 11 developed countries found 56 per cent of Canadians waited more than four weeks to see a medical specialist compared to about 36 percent, which is  the international average, the outlet reported.

How are Canadian institutions reacting?

  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre told the outlet delays are “a challenge” across the board but the neurologist in this case is in high demand due to “referrals from a very large catchment area.”
  • “Ensuring the lowest possible wait times for all parts of our health-care system is a key priority, particularly including referrals from general practitioners to specialists,” Laura Gallant, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Long-term care, told Global News.

(H/T: Townhall)

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Bannon Backs New Limits on Carried Interest to Spur Long-Term Investment in Companies

Bannon Backs New Limits on Carried Interest to Spur Long-Term Investment in Companies



Steven Bannon is backing a House proposal to spur long-term investment in companies and limit the ability of hedge fund and private equity managers to take advantage of the carried-interest tax break.

Bannon told Bloomberg news that he is backing a provision in the House tax bill that would require investment managers to hold investments for at least three years to qualify for the lower capital gains rate on carried interest. This would encourage hedge funds and private equity funds to focus on longer-term investments, Bannon outlined in a statement to Bloomberg. He said:

I have long called for the elimination of the carried interest loophole but I believe that the proposal in the House tax bill requiring investments be held for a minimum of 3 years to qualify for capital gains is a good way of eliminating short-term financial engineering that benefits no one, while encouraging long-term investments that create good paying jobs.

Carried interest is the share of a hedge fund or private equity fund’s profit that gets paid to investment managers. This has traditionally been around 20 percent of the profit but can be much higher in some of the more sought after investment funds. Currently, tax authorities treat that income as capital gains so long as the underlying investment profit is based on capital gains. That means the profit is eligible for a tax rate as low as low as 23.8 percent instead of being subject to ordinary income tax rates, which go as high as 39.6 percent.

It is employed by managers of real estate firms and venture capitalists in addition to some hedge fund and private equity managers.

Other changes to the tax code may make carried interest less important. If private equity firms qualify for the 25 percent pass-through rate, for example. Some may choose to organize as regular corporations to qualify for the 20 percent corporate tax rate.

On the campaign trail, Trump said he would  he would eliminate the carried-interest tax break.

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Down the Memory Hole: Obama Stole the 2008 Primary with Help of DNC


It’s an odd experience to dig this information out of the memory hole.  No Democrat cares: no party leaders, no members of Congress, no journalists, and no ordinary people.  Democrats do not care about  rule of law or fair elections.  All of them feel morally entitled to win.  That is the corrupting influence of their identity politics that tars political opponents as moral reprobates.


Democrat primaries show us who they are: their will to power trumps every other value.  Progressives want permanent power, not a functioning republic.    They don’t accept fair and free elections – witness their dirty attempts to overturn the last one and deprive Trump voters of their victory. 


As Hillary might say, Democrat corruption, Hollywood corruption – it takes a village.


Like the revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s abuses, one big dog gets punished, while the even bigger dog – Bill Clinton for sexual abuse, Barack Obama for political abuse – remains untouchable. 


A documentary by Hillary supporters on Obama’s cheating and abuse was reported on Fox & Friends only in 2010; at the time of the election, no one would cover their complaints. Read about it here.


In one documentary interview, civil rights activist Helene Latimer recounts seeing an elderly woman being intimidated at the polls. “As she approached the entrance way to go into the building, one of the young men said to her, ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home because you’re not voting here today.'”


“It’s our right as Americans to be able to vote and everybody was alerted, we went to press, we went to Fox, we went to CNN, nobody wanted to hear the story (in 2008),” Gaston told Fox’s Alisyn Camerota. “Nobody wants to deal with this.”


From “How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination”:


… the Obama Campaign… encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.


Political junkies will recall that Obama gained crucial momentum after his surprise win of the Iowa primary.  He won in Iowa by breaking the law and busing in supporters to vote.  Everyone in Iowa could see it with their own eyes – and that includes the entire national press corps.


Dr. Long spent several months studying the caucus and primary results, published here


“After studying the procedures and results from all 14 caucus states… my conclusion is that the Obama campaign willfully and intentionally defrauded the American public by systematically undermining the caucus process,” she said.


In Hawaii, caucuses ended up with more ballots than participants.  In Nevada, Obama supporters upturned a wheelchair-bound woman who wanted to caucus for Hillary.  They flushed Clinton ballots down the toilets.  Union members were told they could vote only if their names were on the list of Obama supporters.


Two thousand Texas Democrats filed official complaints, in outrage and total frustration, against Obama’s lawless tactics. The party acknowledged that the Obama campaign’s actions “amount to criminal violations” and ordered them to be reported to state and federal law enforcement.  Nothing happened.


Thanks to these and other strong-arm tactics, Obama won victories in all but one of the caucuses, even in states such as Maine where Hillary had been leading by double digits in the polls.


Bernie Sanders supporters are justifiably angry that the superdelegates gave the nomination to Hillary.  The Washington Post reports in 2008 Hillary won the popular vote in the nomination process.  She was neck and neck with Obama in the delegate count.  Yet the DNC pressured the superdelegates who were pledged to Hillary to flip their votes.  From the Washington Post:


In 2008, the superdelegates became infamous — and essential. That year, as in this one, they helped the party’s front-runner cross the threshold by releasing endorsements around the final primary.  The irony was that the 2008 election, a near-tie, ended with pro-Clinton superdelegates flipping to support then-Sen. Barack Obama.


The Post makes it sound like the superdelegates flipped themselves.  Hillary delegates tell us the  DNC did the deed:


Basically, the delegations would meet and the leadership would say, ‘We need to vote for Obama. You need to basically switch your vote from Hillary to Obama.’ Even though in some 16 or 14 states it was required by law that the delegation needed to vote for the candidate that they represented on the first ballot. Those state party chairs were still manipulating that delegation to break the law and vote for Obama.”


As early as April, Virginia’s party leaders pressured their superdelegates:


Another Clinton superdelegate, senior Democratic strategist Mame Reiley, said she understood targeting undecided superdelegates, but including longtime Clinton supporters only created ill will.  “If we wanted to have a nominee decided in June then we’d have scheduled the convention in June,” Reiley said. “It sort of makes me wonder what they’re afraid of.”


In May 2008, Hillary wrote to the superdelegates, begging them to respect the popular vote.


As we reach the end of the primary season, more than 17 million people have supported me in my effort to become the Democratic nominee – more people than have ever voted for a potential nominee in the history of our party. … And with 40 and 35 point margins of victory, it is clear that even when voters are repeatedly told this race is over, they’re not giving up on me – and I am not giving up on them either.


Clinton trounced Obama by half a million Democrat votes in the 2008 Democrat primaries.  She bettered him among women, seniors, Latinos, the working class, those earning less than $50,000 and first-time voters.  Clinton won the primaries where it is harder to cheat; Obama’s delegate count was based on his fraudulent caucus wins.  Polls showed Clinton beating McCain and Obama losing.  Rasmussen showed Clinton was more competitive than Obama by 16 points.  Yet 100% of the superdelegates threw the nomination to the weaker, less popular candidate.


Senator Obama’s win in Indiana was used by the Democratic leadership to call for the party to unify behind him.  But Obama lacked the minimum number of signatures to legally run   In 2013 two county election board workers were convicted on felony charges for forging hundreds of signatures to get Obama on the ballot.  Separately, Acorn was caught turning in 5,000 fraudulent voter registrations.


In Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.


“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”


As a Heritage Foundation expert on election fraud explains, Obama’s Indiana victory was at a crucial juncture. 


Had this fraud been discovered, Barack Obama would have been disqualified from the primary ballot in a major state…the course of the campaign—and history—could have changed. …


The Indiana fraud was uncovered in 2011 by a Democrat Yale college student.  The inquiring mind wants to know –did anyone bother to check Obama’s victories in other close primary states?


Nees said the fraud was easy to detect “because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting.”


Some of the Obama campaign abuses Democrat voters testified to in “We Will Not Be Silenced,” are disturbing in the extreme.  The documentary is available in four parts on YouTube here. (hat tip canadafreepress.)


In Texas, Hispanic voters were told to go home before they got a chance to sign the caucus sheets, so their vote was not counted.  In Indiana, parents were livid that their high school children were taken out of school, bussed to vote and told to vote for Obama.


The most emotional report is from a Civil Rights activist who had marched with Martin Luther King (Part 3, 3:54). 


I got out of my car and there was this lady, probably about 80 years old, who was slowly walking up the street. As she was approaching the entranceway to go into the building, one of the young men called to her ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home, because you’re not voting here today.’ She turned and walked away. The pain that I felt, because of the people who have fought for African Americans to have the right to vote… While I was standing there, there were other people approaching, maybe four or five, and when they heard that they all turned and walked away.


In Texas, elderly Hillary voters were also turned away from voting:


Part 3, 7:20, The two women saw that these women had Hillary stickers on them… so they weren’t going to let them caucus. They said ‘Oh, you must be in some other caucus.’ I said ‘Look lady, I’m from Chicago and I know tricks like this. Let me see that book or we’re going to get the precinct captain over here and we’re going to look and find the names together. I guarantee this woman’s in here, because she’s not a liar. She’s ninety years old and has been looking forward to this. Don’t tell me she’s not in the book.’ Well then, wouldn’t you know it, … she magically found her name in the book and let her go be a part of the caucus… I noticed that that was not happening for any of the Obama people, they were just getting waved right through.”


Fixing the nomination for Obama didn’t end with secret lawbreaking.  There was the infamous ruling by the DNC to not count the primary votes in Florida and Michigan, where Clinton won.  These two states were allotted 796 superdelegates.  After their ruling, Clinton came up 137 delegates short.


The Democrat primary process is not this corrupt and ugly by accident.  This is not a problem found in both parties.  It is characteristic of our leftist party, and its leading politicians, because they feel morally entitled to hold power, and are given cover by the mainstream media.  The Democrat lust for power destroys other civic virtues. They lie to voters about themselves, they lie to voters about this country, and they lie about their own elections. 


In 2008, Obama used the obvious but unstated threat of black voters boycotting the election to silence even Clinton, who knew very well he was cheating.  In 2016, Hillary adopted not only Obama’s identity politics but his cheating in the primaries.  She did it her own way, by buying the DNC, which had been cleaned out by Obama and left $24 million in debt.  (President Obama, it turns out, did that non-stop fundraising for his personal foundation, Organizing for America, not the party.) 


Obama, I suspect, is now busy destroying Clinton via his surrogates, trying to set her up as the fall guy for the administration’s corruption of the FBI and spying on candidate Donald Trump.  Neither Obama nor Hillary can reconcile themselves to honest elections, where there is a chance they lose. 


President Trump won free and on the square, relying on his message and his voters.  The Democrats are at their wits’ end.  They can’t scare Trump, they can’t fool Trump voters, and they can’t silence the conservative websites.  What was done in the dark is coming to the light.


The country is shocked, shocked that the DNC colluded with the Hillary campaign to anoint her as their nominee. In her 2015 caper, Clinton made a backroom deal with the DNC. In 2008, Barack Obama used outright election fraud and thuggery, the tried and true Chicago methods. to steal the nomination directly from the voters.  When he got far enough, the DNC pressured Hillary’s pledged superdelegates to violate their voters’ wishes and award Obama an unearned victory.


Obama’s illegal shenanigans in the 2008 Democrat primaries were far worse than Clinton’s – and will never be widely reported.  


It’s an odd experience to dig this information out of the memory hole.  No Democrat cares: no party leaders, no members of Congress, no journalists, and no ordinary people.  Democrats do not care about  rule of law or fair elections.  All of them feel morally entitled to win.  That is the corrupting influence of their identity politics that tars political opponents as moral reprobates.


Democrat primaries show us who they are: their will to power trumps every other value.  Progressives want permanent power, not a functioning republic.    They don’t accept fair and free elections – witness their dirty attempts to overturn the last one and deprive Trump voters of their victory. 


As Hillary might say, Democrat corruption, Hollywood corruption – it takes a village.


Like the revelations of Harvey Weinstein’s abuses, one big dog gets punished, while the even bigger dog – Bill Clinton for sexual abuse, Barack Obama for political abuse – remains untouchable. 


A documentary by Hillary supporters on Obama’s cheating and abuse was reported on Fox & Friends only in 2010; at the time of the election, no one would cover their complaints. Read about it here.


In one documentary interview, civil rights activist Helene Latimer recounts seeing an elderly woman being intimidated at the polls. “As she approached the entrance way to go into the building, one of the young men said to her, ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home because you’re not voting here today.'”


“It’s our right as Americans to be able to vote and everybody was alerted, we went to press, we went to Fox, we went to CNN, nobody wanted to hear the story (in 2008),” Gaston told Fox’s Alisyn Camerota. “Nobody wants to deal with this.”


From “How Obama Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination”:


… the Obama Campaign… encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote.


Political junkies will recall that Obama gained crucial momentum after his surprise win of the Iowa primary.  He won in Iowa by breaking the law and busing in supporters to vote.  Everyone in Iowa could see it with their own eyes – and that includes the entire national press corps.


Dr. Long spent several months studying the caucus and primary results, published here


“After studying the procedures and results from all 14 caucus states… my conclusion is that the Obama campaign willfully and intentionally defrauded the American public by systematically undermining the caucus process,” she said.


In Hawaii, caucuses ended up with more ballots than participants.  In Nevada, Obama supporters upturned a wheelchair-bound woman who wanted to caucus for Hillary.  They flushed Clinton ballots down the toilets.  Union members were told they could vote only if their names were on the list of Obama supporters.


Two thousand Texas Democrats filed official complaints, in outrage and total frustration, against Obama’s lawless tactics. The party acknowledged that the Obama campaign’s actions “amount to criminal violations” and ordered them to be reported to state and federal law enforcement.  Nothing happened.


Thanks to these and other strong-arm tactics, Obama won victories in all but one of the caucuses, even in states such as Maine where Hillary had been leading by double digits in the polls.


Bernie Sanders supporters are justifiably angry that the superdelegates gave the nomination to Hillary.  The Washington Post reports in 2008 Hillary won the popular vote in the nomination process.  She was neck and neck with Obama in the delegate count.  Yet the DNC pressured the superdelegates who were pledged to Hillary to flip their votes.  From the Washington Post:


In 2008, the superdelegates became infamous — and essential. That year, as in this one, they helped the party’s front-runner cross the threshold by releasing endorsements around the final primary.  The irony was that the 2008 election, a near-tie, ended with pro-Clinton superdelegates flipping to support then-Sen. Barack Obama.


The Post makes it sound like the superdelegates flipped themselves.  Hillary delegates tell us the  DNC did the deed:


Basically, the delegations would meet and the leadership would say, ‘We need to vote for Obama. You need to basically switch your vote from Hillary to Obama.’ Even though in some 16 or 14 states it was required by law that the delegation needed to vote for the candidate that they represented on the first ballot. Those state party chairs were still manipulating that delegation to break the law and vote for Obama.”


As early as April, Virginia’s party leaders pressured their superdelegates:


Another Clinton superdelegate, senior Democratic strategist Mame Reiley, said she understood targeting undecided superdelegates, but including longtime Clinton supporters only created ill will.  “If we wanted to have a nominee decided in June then we’d have scheduled the convention in June,” Reiley said. “It sort of makes me wonder what they’re afraid of.”


In May 2008, Hillary wrote to the superdelegates, begging them to respect the popular vote.


As we reach the end of the primary season, more than 17 million people have supported me in my effort to become the Democratic nominee – more people than have ever voted for a potential nominee in the history of our party. … And with 40 and 35 point margins of victory, it is clear that even when voters are repeatedly told this race is over, they’re not giving up on me – and I am not giving up on them either.


Clinton trounced Obama by half a million Democrat votes in the 2008 Democrat primaries.  She bettered him among women, seniors, Latinos, the working class, those earning less than $50,000 and first-time voters.  Clinton won the primaries where it is harder to cheat; Obama’s delegate count was based on his fraudulent caucus wins.  Polls showed Clinton beating McCain and Obama losing.  Rasmussen showed Clinton was more competitive than Obama by 16 points.  Yet 100% of the superdelegates threw the nomination to the weaker, less popular candidate.


Senator Obama’s win in Indiana was used by the Democratic leadership to call for the party to unify behind him.  But Obama lacked the minimum number of signatures to legally run   In 2013 two county election board workers were convicted on felony charges for forging hundreds of signatures to get Obama on the ballot.  Separately, Acorn was caught turning in 5,000 fraudulent voter registrations.


In Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.


“All the signatures looked exactly the same,” Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. “Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same.”


As a Heritage Foundation expert on election fraud explains, Obama’s Indiana victory was at a crucial juncture. 


Had this fraud been discovered, Barack Obama would have been disqualified from the primary ballot in a major state…the course of the campaign—and history—could have changed. …


The Indiana fraud was uncovered in 2011 by a Democrat Yale college student.  The inquiring mind wants to know –did anyone bother to check Obama’s victories in other close primary states?


Nees said the fraud was easy to detect “because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting.”


Some of the Obama campaign abuses Democrat voters testified to in “We Will Not Be Silenced,” are disturbing in the extreme.  The documentary is available in four parts on YouTube here. (hat tip canadafreepress.)


In Texas, Hispanic voters were told to go home before they got a chance to sign the caucus sheets, so their vote was not counted.  In Indiana, parents were livid that their high school children were taken out of school, bussed to vote and told to vote for Obama.


The most emotional report is from a Civil Rights activist who had marched with Martin Luther King (Part 3, 3:54). 


I got out of my car and there was this lady, probably about 80 years old, who was slowly walking up the street. As she was approaching the entranceway to go into the building, one of the young men called to her ‘If you’re not voting for Obama, go home, because you’re not voting here today.’ She turned and walked away. The pain that I felt, because of the people who have fought for African Americans to have the right to vote… While I was standing there, there were other people approaching, maybe four or five, and when they heard that they all turned and walked away.


In Texas, elderly Hillary voters were also turned away from voting:


Part 3, 7:20, The two women saw that these women had Hillary stickers on them… so they weren’t going to let them caucus. They said ‘Oh, you must be in some other caucus.’ I said ‘Look lady, I’m from Chicago and I know tricks like this. Let me see that book or we’re going to get the precinct captain over here and we’re going to look and find the names together. I guarantee this woman’s in here, because she’s not a liar. She’s ninety years old and has been looking forward to this. Don’t tell me she’s not in the book.’ Well then, wouldn’t you know it, … she magically found her name in the book and let her go be a part of the caucus… I noticed that that was not happening for any of the Obama people, they were just getting waved right through.”


Fixing the nomination for Obama didn’t end with secret lawbreaking.  There was the infamous ruling by the DNC to not count the primary votes in Florida and Michigan, where Clinton won.  These two states were allotted 796 superdelegates.  After their ruling, Clinton came up 137 delegates short.


The Democrat primary process is not this corrupt and ugly by accident.  This is not a problem found in both parties.  It is characteristic of our leftist party, and its leading politicians, because they feel morally entitled to hold power, and are given cover by the mainstream media.  The Democrat lust for power destroys other civic virtues. They lie to voters about themselves, they lie to voters about this country, and they lie about their own elections. 


In 2008, Obama used the obvious but unstated threat of black voters boycotting the election to silence even Clinton, who knew very well he was cheating.  In 2016, Hillary adopted not only Obama’s identity politics but his cheating in the primaries.  She did it her own way, by buying the DNC, which had been cleaned out by Obama and left $24 million in debt.  (President Obama, it turns out, did that non-stop fundraising for his personal foundation, Organizing for America, not the party.) 


Obama, I suspect, is now busy destroying Clinton via his surrogates, trying to set her up as the fall guy for the administration’s corruption of the FBI and spying on candidate Donald Trump.  Neither Obama nor Hillary can reconcile themselves to honest elections, where there is a chance they lose. 


President Trump won free and on the square, relying on his message and his voters.  The Democrats are at their wits’ end.  They can’t scare Trump, they can’t fool Trump voters, and they can’t silence the conservative websites.  What was done in the dark is coming to the light.





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Pot Calls Kettle BLACK as Al Sharpton Blames Trump for ‘Toxic’ Race Relations

When it comes to those who depend on keeping racism alive largely because doing so is in their best personal business interests, there are few bigger grievance pimps that the Reverend Al Sharpton.

Since exploding onto the national scene in the 1980s due to his exploitation of a number of high profile New York City criminal cases, Sharpton has managed to make a nice living for himself as one who can find the tint of race in pretty much everything.

It not only pays the bills but he has risen to become one of the left’s greatest voices and even landed his own gig on Democrat propaganda network MSNBC.

A loud, overbearing, and flamboyant gadfly, Sharpton must be in his true glory now that Barack Obama and the Democrats have set race relations back decades and despite his advanced age, he remains relevant.

But Big Al is a chronic bull manure spreader and in a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black, he is blaming President Donald Trump for making race relations “more toxic” going back into his heyday to rip off the scabs of wounds that will never be allowed to heal thanks to Sharpton and his ilk.

In an opinion piece for NBC News entitled “Rev. Al Sharpton President Trump Is Exactly the Same Selfish Blowhard I Knew Back In New York”, one of the loudest empty barrels of all writes:

There were hopes last year that the executive office would temper some of this pettiness, but sadly we now see this is not the case. Rather than attempt to grow and learn, Trump has leaned into his role as divider-in-chief. This is exactly the same racially divisive, unapologetic blowhard I knew in New York.

And the results unfortunately speak for themselves. His ugly, contentious presidential campaign has translated into an equally ugly and divisive first year. Whether it’s attacking Congresswoman Frederica Wilson following the tragic deaths of four soldiers in Niger, hesitating to condemn white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, advocating for the firing of NFL players exercising their First Amendment rights, or politicizing terrorist attacks, Trump’s time in office has only made this country more polarized.

Put simply, Trump took America’s existing racial tensions and made them even more toxic.

A year ago, I wanted to believe that there was hope. I wanted to believe that this man who had spent years questioning President Obama’s birthplace might be humbled by his office. I wanted to believe that the gravity of the situation would eventually kick in, and he would work to achieve something admirable with his newfound power. I wanted to believe America was not in the hands of an unyielding demagogue incapable of growth. And I was wrong.

Sharpton also called Trump a “consummate narcissist and self-promoter” which would seem to be a perfect description of the face in the mirror that stares back into his ugly mug every morning.

There will never be an end to racism as long as there are cynics like Reverend Al who are able to benefit both financially and politically from exploiting resentments of those who are too quick to blame their own failures on a white supremacist society that has kept them down.

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NAACP Calls on Gov’t to Eradicate National Anthem Once and for All

First they came for Confederate statues. That may have made you feel a bit weird, but most Americans have conflicted feelings about the South and the Civil War anyway. So, you likely didn’t make too much of a fuss.

Then the left came for Founding Fathers, like Washington and Jefferson, or men like Lincoln, all because they represent some form of “white supremacy.” That seemed a bridge too far, but you figured the mania would die down.

Now, the left is coming for Francis Scott Key’s hymn to America.

According to the Sacramento Bee, the California chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal of “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem.

And, given the state and the cause, you may not be surprised that a particular unemployed former NFL quarterback is being mentioned by supporters of ditching the anthem.

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The Bee reports that the California NAACP “began circulating among legislative offices two resolutions that passed at its state conference in October: one urging Congress to rescind ‘one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon’ as the national anthem, and another in support of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who launched a protest movement against police brutality among professional athletes by kneeling when ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ was played before games.”

“We owe a lot of it to Kaepernick,” said Alice Huffman, president of the California NAACP. “I think all this controversy about the knee will go away once the song is removed.”

Well, first, it’s worth noting they may have had better luck getting Kaepernick back in the league if they circulated resolutions calling on the former 49ers quarterback to stop sabotaging his own chances at landing a job in the NFL (or perhaps a resolution that rechristens “interceptions” as “redistributionist passes.”)

Second, Kaepernick’s reasons for protesting the anthem are actually different from the NAACP’s. For his part, Kaepernick was protesting social injustice or something and police brutality blah blah blah Fidel Castro yadda yadda yadda Black Lives Matter or whatever.

The California NAACP, to its marginal credit, actually has a substantive problem with one of the later verses in the anthem, even though most Americans don’t know it exists since it never gets sung at sporting events (or anywhere, really):

Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave

“Some interpretations of the lyrics conclude that they celebrate the deaths of black American slaves who joined British troops during the War of 1812 to gain their freedom,” the Bee reports.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” writer Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, as were many prominent individuals at the time. Some recent historians have also tried to pin an 1835 Washington D.C. race riot and lynch mob on Key for (as part of his role as the district’s attorney general), arresting an individual who was distributing abolitionist material.

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Huffman openly admits she drafted the resolutions in response to President Donald Trump’s call to fire players who refused to stand for the national anthem, which doesn’t make the NAACP’s effort to get rid of the song entirely sound very reasonable — or sane.

“Trump got in the middle of it. He blew it out of proportion,” said a woman who admits she’s trying to replace a song that’s been the official national anthem since 1931 over a tossed-off line by the president during a campaign rally.

Instead, she says it’s time to find an anthem that isn’t “another song that disenfranchises part of the American population.” Let me be the first to recommend “The Ketchup Song” by Las Ketchup, because if we’re going to go ridiculous on this one we might as well go all the way. It’s in Spanglish, too, so you’ve got the inclusivity thing going on.

Thankfully, the NAACP effort has no chance of having any real effect whatsoever. However, it’s yet another reminder that the slippery slope of revisionism is a very real thing.

There’s been plenty of hyperbole used when it comes to toppling Confederate monuments or throwing fake blood on the statues of former presidents, but this takes it to a new level. Calling the national anthem “one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon” — as if it were a tune lifted from a minstrel show — is nuclear-level hyperbole.

And you know what? It’s not like we can say we weren’t warned.

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NFL Collapse: Monday’s Game Was One of Lowest-Rated in History

It’s getting a bit superfluous to state that the NFL has a ratings problem. It’s a bit like saying that Greece has a budgetary shortfall or that Lindsey Lohan has career issues: The trope is so old and the issue so formidable that such simple language seems unsuitable for the gravity of the issue.

If you don’t believe it, believe the “Monday Night Football” ratings this week.

According to NBC Sports, the matchup between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers drew a 7.6 rating on ESPN.

Not only is that lower than last year’s Week Nine game between the Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills, it was also the lowest-rated Week Nine “Monday Night Football” game since 2007 and one of the lowest-rated in history.

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There’s even more trouble if you look closer at those two games.

The 2007 game in question — which involved the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens — was essentially over at halftime, with Pittsburgh taking a 35-7 lead into the locker room on the way to a 38-7 victory.

While the Lions haven’t lived up to expectations and the Packers are without star QB Aaron Rodgers, who’s lost for the season, both teams are still within striking distance in the NFC North, particularly if the division-leading Minnesota Vikings continue to have their usual quarterback-related problems.

(The Vikings are currently starting Case Keenum at the position. For the uninitiated, the only more unreliable thing in the stadium on any given Sunday that Mr. Keenum is playing would be if there were a Yugo in the parking lot.)

And while the Lions-Packers game wasn’t exactly the most thrilling thing you would ever see, it was at least closer than the aforementioned contest between the Steelers and Ravens, with the Lions winning 30-17.

Now, we don’t want to subscribe to the fallacy of the single cause here. The NFL has a lot of problems, especially when it comes to ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” There’s cord-cutting, traumatic brain injury, ESPN’s political drift to the left and the growth (and renewal) of other sports like basketball, soccer and baseball.

However, let’s face facts: At least part of the ratings freefall the league is experiencing has to do with the anthem protests and the league’s response to them.

The freefall certainly began accelerating rapidly the moment that Colin Kaepernick started the whole kneeling trend, and the politicization of sports this year has just made things worse for the league.

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It’s worth noting that Lions owner Martha Ford has asked players not to kneel, although the venerable Packers have been one of the more active teams in terms of demonstrations. It’s gotten bad enough that one man rented a plan to fly over Lambeau Field with a banner that read “Real men and NFL owners should stand for our country.”

Week 10 might be a little better for the NFL and ESPN, at least as far as “Monday Night Football” is concerned. The 6-3 Carolina Panthers are involved, at least, although the unexciting Miami Dolphins and Smokin’ Jay Cutler are their opponents.

However, for fans who are boycotting the league over its perceived disrespect for the anthem, it could be the 1984 49ers facing off against the 2001 Patriots and they still wouldn’t watch.

And that’s the real problem.

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