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Los Angeles Commuters Greeted by Billboard of the FrankenGroper

Liberals on their way to work in Los Angeles were greeted by a piece of guerilla art as a giant image of the immortal photo of Al Franken groping the breasts of a sleeping woman was added to a billboard in a high visibility area.

The Minnesota Senator continues to resist calls for his resignation even as more allegations that the “warm and friendly” guy have emerged of Stuart Smalley trying to force himself on women. The count is now up to six and Franken did nothing to dispel the idea that there would be many more when he spoke to the press on Monday.

The billboard was the work of the conservative street artist Sabo who also drew the ire of the left with hilarious renditions of transgender Bruce Caitlyn Jenner as Stephen King’s “IT” as well as an “Impeach Maxine Waters” campaign that called out the unhinged septuagenarian racist as a “poverty pimp.”

Via KTLA Los Angeles “Conservative Street Art Collection Says It Added Al Franken Groping Image to Movie Billboard in Palms”:

The leering likeness of Sen. Al Franken grabbing at a woman loomed over morning commuters on the 10 Freeway through Palms on Thursday.

A conservative street art collective has claimed responsibility for transposing the image over an existing billboard for the film “The Greatest Showman” that stands outside a Mobile gas station at the intersection of Overland Avenue and National Boulevard, just off the freeway.

Franken appears to emerge from the right side of the billboard, leaning across to grab a trapeze artist suspended in mid-air, portrayed by the actress Zendaya. (On the other side of the road, a billboard features her costar Zac Efron reaching out to catch her, photos obtained by the Hollywood Reporter show.)

The Franken photo was captured as he groped the breasts of a sleeping Leeann Tweeden while the two were on a USO tour in Iraq in 2006, but surfaced only two weeks ago after it was publicly released by Tweeden.

At least four other women have come forward to accuse Franken of sexual misconduct. Most recently, on Thursday, Army veteran Stephanie Kemplin said the Minnesota Democrat cupped her breast during a 2003 photo op, also while he was on a USO tour.

UnsavoryAgents, the group of “libertarian, constitutionalist, conservative street artists” behind the Palms billboard, hopes the installation will inspire passersby to question those in leadership positions, according to a member of the collective who spoke to KTLA on the condition of anonymity.

“We want them to laugh, we want them to think, and we just don’t want these elitists — these people in their ivory towers — to be constantly looking down their nose at the working class,” the man said.

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Janet Napolitano’s henchman gets a new university gig after being fired for corruption

The rot in higher education is spreading, thanks to solidarity among former sisters in the Obama Cabinet, both of whom have landed cushy, high-paying jobs as university presidents.


Seth Grossman used to be the chief-of-staff for Janet Napolitano, staying with her when she moved from Secretary of Homeland Security to president of the University of California system. In that position, he became a fall guy, after getting fired for corrupting a state audit of the various campuses of that sprawling public university.  I have written about that corruption several times, but will here cite the explanation offered two days ago by Dan Walter, the Sacramento Bee columnist, widely regarded as the premier journalist covering California state government.   



Let’s say you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company that’s under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting irregularities.


And let’s say that when the SEC’s investigators sought information from other executives at your company, you insisted that their responses be funneled through your office and altered to reflect more favorably on your leadership.


Finally, let’s say that your manipulations were exposed. You probably would be fired by your board of directors for exposing the company to legal penalties and quite possibly prosecuted for interfering in an official investigation.


That brings us to the University of California and its president, Janet Napolitano, whose top aides [Grossman and his direct subordinate – TL] intervened when the state’s auditor confidentially asked leaders of individual UC campuses about how she was handling certain finances.


As State Auditor Elaine Howle said in a report revealing that Napolitano’s office had $175 million in undisclosed reserves:


“We found it particularly troublesome that the office of the president intentionally interfered in our efforts to assess the types and quality of services it provides to campuses. Correspondence between the office of the president and the campuses shows that the office of the president inappropriately reviewed campuses’ survey responses, which resulted in campuses making changes to those responses prior to submitting them to us – campus statements that were critical of the office of the president had been removed or substantially revised, and negative ratings had been changed to be more positive.”


Howle’s bombshell generated a torrent of criticism from the Legislature, which had ordered the audit, and was eventually reflected in legislation making it an offense to interfere in a state audit.


Grossman was a perp whose behavior was so egregious that his conduct was made a crime after it was discovered. This move was taken by the Democrat-dominated state legislature and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. No vast right wing conspiracy involved at all. Even progressive Democrats were outraged.


In the corporate world, Napolitano and her two stooges would be radioactive, even if they escaped prison. But in higher education, a little hanky panky with hiding $175 million from the board of directors (The Regents of the University of California) and intervening in an audit to prevent bad news from reaching them seems to be a job qualification, at least when it comes to another Obama cabinet member who leads a university. Grossman is a stand-up guy, after all, and he’s made his bones by taking the heat off his boss.


His new boss, who found such a hatchet man an attractive proposition is Sylvia Burwell, former Secretary of health and Human Services in the Obama cabinet, and now president of American University in Washington, DC.



This should be a major scandal, and questions need to be asked to Burwell about the propriety of her latest executive hire.  At a minimum, the trustees of American University should be asked how they allowed this to happen. What makes them think that Grossman won’t short circuit reports on Burwell’s performance or hide a slush fund fromt he trustees, as he did for Napolitano? Some of them, like Gina F. Adams, are senior officials of public companies like Fedex. Among them is Thomas Gottschalk, a lawyer at DC powerhouse law firm Kirkland & Ellis. How does an officer of the court allow such a hire?


Breaking the story is the campus newspaper at AU, not the Washington Post or any of the national media that congregates in DC.  Haley Samsel writes in The Eagle at AU:


University President Sylvia Burwell is standing behind her choice for chief of staff, Seth Grossman, after he and a colleague were found to have interfered with a California state audit into the office of his previous boss, University of California President Janet Napolitano. Grossman is set to start at AU on Dec. 4.


Burwell originally announced the hire on Oct. 30 [well after Grossman’s firing – TL] , citing Grossman’s experience as a top official in the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration and then as chief of staff to Napolitano. Napolitano oversees the UC system, which includes 10 campuses and nearly 240,000 students.


Were I an alumnus, I would not donate a penny to an institution run by someone who recruits a corrupt chief of staff. Corporate donors must be aware of this situation before they commit any funds to American University.


AU is a private university but still benefits from many forms of public funding, starting with tax exemptions and research funding, but also including Pell Grants and many other sources of money. It is travesty to former Obama cabinet members employees are scratching each other’s backs, and making sure a fall guy doesn’t remain bitterly unemployed, perhaps tempted to spill the beans on whatever else he has witnessed.


The pretensions of nobility in higher education mask an enormous, greedy industry that has pushed up its prices to the point where its customers are incurring ruinous debt in order to obtain products (diplomas) that they feel required to own in order to have a satisfying career. The industry is run for the benefit of its insiders, not shareholders, but the nature of the greed underlying is exactly the same. Reform is long overdue.


The rot in higher education is spreading, thanks to solidarity among former sisters in the Obama Cabinet, both of whom have landed cushy, high-paying jobs as university presidents.


Seth Grossman used to be the chief-of-staff for Janet Napolitano, staying with her when she moved from Secretary of Homeland Security to president of the University of California system. In that position, he became a fall guy, after getting fired for corrupting a state audit of the various campuses of that sprawling public university.  I have written about that corruption several times, but will here cite the explanation offered two days ago by Dan Walter, the Sacramento Bee columnist, widely regarded as the premier journalist covering California state government.   


Let’s say you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company that’s under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting irregularities.


And let’s say that when the SEC’s investigators sought information from other executives at your company, you insisted that their responses be funneled through your office and altered to reflect more favorably on your leadership.


Finally, let’s say that your manipulations were exposed. You probably would be fired by your board of directors for exposing the company to legal penalties and quite possibly prosecuted for interfering in an official investigation.


That brings us to the University of California and its president, Janet Napolitano, whose top aides [Grossman and his direct subordinate – TL] intervened when the state’s auditor confidentially asked leaders of individual UC campuses about how she was handling certain finances.


As State Auditor Elaine Howle said in a report revealing that Napolitano’s office had $175 million in undisclosed reserves:


“We found it particularly troublesome that the office of the president intentionally interfered in our efforts to assess the types and quality of services it provides to campuses. Correspondence between the office of the president and the campuses shows that the office of the president inappropriately reviewed campuses’ survey responses, which resulted in campuses making changes to those responses prior to submitting them to us – campus statements that were critical of the office of the president had been removed or substantially revised, and negative ratings had been changed to be more positive.”


Howle’s bombshell generated a torrent of criticism from the Legislature, which had ordered the audit, and was eventually reflected in legislation making it an offense to interfere in a state audit.


Grossman was a perp whose behavior was so egregious that his conduct was made a crime after it was discovered. This move was taken by the Democrat-dominated state legislature and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. No vast right wing conspiracy involved at all. Even progressive Democrats were outraged.


In the corporate world, Napolitano and her two stooges would be radioactive, even if they escaped prison. But in higher education, a little hanky panky with hiding $175 million from the board of directors (The Regents of the University of California) and intervening in an audit to prevent bad news from reaching them seems to be a job qualification, at least when it comes to another Obama cabinet member who leads a university. Grossman is a stand-up guy, after all, and he’s made his bones by taking the heat off his boss.


His new boss, who found such a hatchet man an attractive proposition is Sylvia Burwell, former Secretary of health and Human Services in the Obama cabinet, and now president of American University in Washington, DC.



This should be a major scandal, and questions need to be asked to Burwell about the propriety of her latest executive hire.  At a minimum, the trustees of American University should be asked how they allowed this to happen. What makes them think that Grossman won’t short circuit reports on Burwell’s performance or hide a slush fund fromt he trustees, as he did for Napolitano? Some of them, like Gina F. Adams, are senior officials of public companies like Fedex. Among them is Thomas Gottschalk, a lawyer at DC powerhouse law firm Kirkland & Ellis. How does an officer of the court allow such a hire?


Breaking the story is the campus newspaper at AU, not the Washington Post or any of the national media that congregates in DC.  Haley Samsel writes in The Eagle at AU:


University President Sylvia Burwell is standing behind her choice for chief of staff, Seth Grossman, after he and a colleague were found to have interfered with a California state audit into the office of his previous boss, University of California President Janet Napolitano. Grossman is set to start at AU on Dec. 4.


Burwell originally announced the hire on Oct. 30 [well after Grossman’s firing – TL] , citing Grossman’s experience as a top official in the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration and then as chief of staff to Napolitano. Napolitano oversees the UC system, which includes 10 campuses and nearly 240,000 students.


Were I an alumnus, I would not donate a penny to an institution run by someone who recruits a corrupt chief of staff. Corporate donors must be aware of this situation before they commit any funds to American University.


AU is a private university but still benefits from many forms of public funding, starting with tax exemptions and research funding, but also including Pell Grants and many other sources of money. It is travesty to former Obama cabinet members employees are scratching each other’s backs, and making sure a fall guy doesn’t remain bitterly unemployed, perhaps tempted to spill the beans on whatever else he has witnessed.


The pretensions of nobility in higher education mask an enormous, greedy industry that has pushed up its prices to the point where its customers are incurring ruinous debt in order to obtain products (diplomas) that they feel required to own in order to have a satisfying career. The industry is run for the benefit of its insiders, not shareholders, but the nature of the greed underlying is exactly the same. Reform is long overdue.






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Disney Knew: Instead of Firing Executive, They Hired Staffer to Protect Women From Him

When John Lasseter took over Disney’s animation studios, it seemed fitting. As one of the co-founders of Pixar and the director of movies like “Toy Story,” “Cars” and “A Bug’s Life,” as well producing and shepherding many of the studio’s most successful works, Lasseter was arguably the most influential name in animation since… well, Walt Disney.

As we’ve so frequently discovered ever since The New York Times opened the floodgates with their report on Harvey Weinstein, Mr. Lasseter was not entirely as clean cut as he was made out to be. Last week, an exposé from The Hollywood Reporter revealed Lasseter made unwanted passes at stars, inappropriately touched female employees and was known for heavy drinking.

The Disney animation head is currently on a six-month “sabbatical” (the duration of which one imagines could elongate itself in coming weeks) after having “had a number of difficult conversations that have been very painful for me” and “agree(ing) the first step in that direction is for me to take some time away to reflect on how to move forward from here.”

Now that Lasseter is safely away from the Disney lot, the focus is turning to the company itself. New reports indicate that Disney knew about Lasseter’s tendencies to harass and make unwanted physical contact with female employees, so much so that they assigned a minder to the Pixar co-founder.

“There’s evidence Disney may well have been aware of troubling behavior on the part of the digital animation pioneer,” Deadline Hollywood reported late last week. “Indeed the Pixar co-founder attended some wrap parties with a handler to ensure he would not engage in inappropriate conduct with women, say two people with direct knowledge of the situation.”

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“Lasseter was observed passionately kissing a female subordinate at a 2010 Miramax party, according to an executive who witnessed the amorous display and another source who corroborated the account. The incident at the Oscar night celebration, attended by celebrities and Pixar and Disney executives, prompted high-level discussions about Lasseter’s conduct.”

Another bizarre story involved Lasseter’s treatment of “young character actresses portraying Disney’s Fairies, a product line built around the character of Tinker Bell.

“At the animator’s insistence, Disney flew the women to a New York event,” Deadline noted. “One Pixar employee became the designated escort as Lasseter took the young women out drinking one night, and to a party the following evening.

“He was inappropriate with the fairies,” the executive said, adding that Lasseter would often give them long hugs. “We had to have someone make sure he wasn’t alone with them.”

One employee quoted wondered whether the contact was sexual in nature or just bizarre behavior on the part of Lasseter.

“He’s very tactile in a weird way,” an anonymous female executive said. “He would rub my leg in a meeting … It was creepy and weird. It got to the point where I wouldn’t sit next to him in a meeting, because it undermined everything I said.”

While not precisely Lauer-esque in its arrant depravity, Lasseter’s conduct is still unusually bizarre; one does not develop that kind of bizarre obsession with young actresses dressed up in Tinkerbell-like attire without some sort of severe emotional misfire taking place.

Leaving Lasseter and his multitude of alleged quasi-paraphilias alone for a moment, let’s talk about Disney’s role in this. Genius though he may be — and of the individuals caught up in the post-Weinstein perv-shaming extravaganza, Lasseter is clearly the most talented — the fact that Disney allowed him to roam the halls of their corporate offices even knowing he was a danger to every female employee he came into contact with raises serious issues of liability here.

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It’s unlikely we yet know the full extent of Lasseter’s transgressions — or, in fact, what Disney knew about them. However, given what we know now and the fact that Disney refused to fire him, this could turn into one giant legal headache for the House of Mouse.

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The sanctuary state of Oregon finally convicts an illegal for horrific sex crimes, released after ignoring fed detainer request

The day after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate skated on killing Kate Steinle, his fellow countryman, who was deported more than a dozen times and released upon the public thanks to “sanctuary” legislation, was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison for horrific violent sex crimes that have traumatized two women for the rest of their lives. But he did not meet his fate in prison before heaping a final injurt upon his victims, as Fox News reports:


Sergio Jose Martinez told victims’ relatives he would see them in hell after the sentence was pronounced Friday in a Portland courtroom.



Once again, but for “sanctuary” flouting of federal law enforcement, the two victims and their families would have been spared:


A week before the attacks, Martinez was freed from jail in Portland where he had served time for interfering with police and providing a false birth date. He was let go despite a request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office to hold him so the agency could take him into custody.


Oregon became America’s first sanctuary state when it adopted a law in 1987 preventing law enforcement from detaining people who are in the United States illegally but have not broken other laws.


Sheriff Michael Reese said he could not legally continue to hold Martinez on the federal agency’s “immigration detainer” request. Reese said that if ICE had sent a criminal detention warrant signed by a judge, he could have been held longer.


 But, the Democrats continue to harvest votes by portraying those who want the law to be followed and dangerous, repeat criminals to be kept off our streets as hateful. These women, along with Kate Steinle, are just collateral damage for the cause of Democrat power.


The day after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate skated on killing Kate Steinle, his fellow countryman, who was deported more than a dozen times and released upon the public thanks to “sanctuary” legislation, was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison for horrific violent sex crimes that have traumatized two women for the rest of their lives. But he did not meet his fate in prison before heaping a final injurt upon his victims, as Fox News reports:


Sergio Jose Martinez told victims’ relatives he would see them in hell after the sentence was pronounced Friday in a Portland courtroom.



Borders? We don’ need no stinkin’ borders!


Once again, but for “sanctuary” flouting of federal law enforcement, the two victims and their families would have been spared:


A week before the attacks, Martinez was freed from jail in Portland where he had served time for interfering with police and providing a false birth date. He was let go despite a request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office to hold him so the agency could take him into custody.


Oregon became America’s first sanctuary state when it adopted a law in 1987 preventing law enforcement from detaining people who are in the United States illegally but have not broken other laws.


Sheriff Michael Reese said he could not legally continue to hold Martinez on the federal agency’s “immigration detainer” request. Reese said that if ICE had sent a criminal detention warrant signed by a judge, he could have been held longer.


 But, the Democrats continue to harvest votes by portraying those who want the law to be followed and dangerous, repeat criminals to be kept off our streets as hateful. These women, along with Kate Steinle, are just collateral damage for the cause of Democrat power.






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ABC Chokes Down Double Helping of Crow, Retracts MAJOR Detail in Flynn Story

Liberals were gripped by something very close to orgasmic rapture on Friday morning when it was reported that Michael Flynn cut a plea deal with Deep State dirty cop Robert Mueller.

President Trump’s former National Security Advisor may be ready to cooperate with the unaccountable Mueller and his Gestapo by singing like a canary, it was the moment that the left has been waiting for and was like Christmas came early.

Ironically Flynn cited his dedication to the country but also his massive legal costs as the reason for him becoming a stool pigeon, there is also the matter that Mueller like a true fascist, hauled in Flynn’s son as leverage against his father.

There was joyous exultation within the swamp as the smell of Trump’s blood hung in the air, a D.C. pub was offering $5 “Moscow Mueller” drinks and the swamp roiled with anticipation of the coming show trials – alas, it was just the smell of bullshit.

When reporting the scoop, ABC presstitute Brian Ross made one very big mistake.

He tweeted out that Flynn was ready to cop to getting ordered by Trump to contact Russia BEFORE the election back when he was a candidate.

JUST IN: @BrianRoss on @ABC News Special Report: Michael Flynn promised “full cooperation to the Mueller team” and is prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump “directed him to make contact with the Russians.” https://t.co/aiagnvr8eS http://pic.twitter.com/r8u2LWAd0O

— ABC News (@ABC) December 1, 2017

It was such a bombshell that the markets tanked.

Then, realizing that the goof, ABC had to do a CNN and retract their story because the truth is that Flynn was chatting with the Russian ambassador after Trump had already won and was just waiting to be sworn in which is an entirely different matter.

Some of the wind was taken out of the sails of the Democrats who would be erecting the scaffolding to string Trump up with over the weekend if that were the case.

Via CNBC “ABC News clarifies, then corrects its bombshell report of Michael Flynn’s discussions with Russia”:

ABC News on Friday corrected a stunning news report about Michael Flynn, the former White House official who pleaded guilty to giving a false statement to the FBI, which sparked a feeding frenzy and ricocheted across markets.

Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, admitted to lying to federal investigators about conversations he held with Sergey I. Kislyak, a Russian diplomat. The former general’s plea was part of an ongoing probe into Russia’s suspected attempts to influence the 2016 election.

Earlier in the day, ABC cited an unnamed source saying Flynn was prepared to testify that he made overtures to the Russian ambassador at Trump’s behest, while the heated presidential contest was underway.

Yet Friday evening, the network backtracked, saying Flynn would likely state that Trump’s instructions occurred after the election. That distinction effectively altered the timeline and lessened the significance of the discussions — which according to ABC’s report were meant to galvanize U.S.-Russian efforts to fight ISIS in Syria.

It’s gonna take a lot of Moscow Muellers to wash down the crow that Brian Ross will be eating after that epic fuckup.

While the timing of when Flynn spoke to Ambassador Sergey Kislyak shows that there was no collusion – it was his freaking JOB as a member of the transition team – the fact that he has now turned on Trump is not good news for the President because Mueller isn’t done, not by a longshot and will continue using Flynn’s son to extort him.

At the end of week one of the Fake News Trophy race, ABC has just assumed a commanding lead.

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PRAGER: If It Damages America, It’s Good for Democrats

In almost every area of American life, the better things are, the worse it is for the Democratic Party. And vice versa.

Marriage.

Even today, after decades of feminism, most Americans agree that it is better for women (and for men) — and better for society — when women (and men) marry. Yet, when women marry, it is bad for the Democratic Party; and when women do not marry, even after — or shall we say, (SET ITAL) especially (END ITAL) after — having children, it is quite wonderful for the Democratic Party.

Married women vote Republican. Unmarried women lopsidedly vote Democrat.

It is both silly and dishonest to deny that it is in the Democrats’ interest that women not marry.

Blacks.

Blacks who are not angry at America, especially white America, are more likely than those who harbor such anger to vote Republican. On the other hand, the more a black American considers America a racist society, the more he or she is a guaranteed Democratic voter.

Therefore, it is in the Democratic Party’s interest to ensure that as many blacks as possible regard America negatively. If Democrats feel it will benefit their party, they will play with fire — the fire of violence. Take Ferguson, Missouri. No Democrat or Republican knows what happened in Ferguson just before a black teenager was shot by a white policeman. The only thing almost any American has known about Ferguson is that a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager. Yet, while blacks in Ferguson demonstrated, some violently, the reaction of Democrats — both politicians and the mainstream left-wing media — has been to side with the demonstrators.

There does not appear to be any level of black anger at white America that is too much for Democrats, who would rather see riots — no matter how unwarranted — than potentially lose black votes.

Latinos.

The more a Latino assimilates into American society, the more likely he or she is to vote Republican. On the other hand, the more Latinos continue to identify with the country they or their parents fled, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

Thus, Democrats and the rest of the Left have engaged in two massive undertakings for decades: One has been to label Republicans “nativist,” “anti-Hispanic,” “xenophobic” and “anti-immigrant.” The other has been to promote “multiculturalism,” the anti-assimilation doctrine that cultivates ethnic identity over American identity.

Democrats repeatedly assert that America is “a nation of immigrants.” This is undeniable. But there is a big difference today. In the past, nearly all immigrants sought to become American and to shed their previous national or ethnic identity. Today, many, perhaps a majority of, immigrants from Latin America do not have that goal. They come primarily or exclusively for economic benefits (and no one should blame them for doing so). Meanwhile, under cover of “multiculturalism,” Democrats and the rest of the Left cultivate these immigrants’ Latin American identities, knowing that the more American an immigrant feels, the less likely he or she is to vote Democrat.

Victim identity.

Americans who do not see themselves as victims — of an “unfair” or “racist” or “misogynist” society — are more likely to vote Republican. On the other hand, Americans who see themselves as victims of American society are likely to vote Democrat.

Therefore, the Democratic Party and its supportive media cultivate victimhood among almost all Americans who are not white and male.

Dependency.

The more Americans depend on themselves or on their family or community, the more likely they are to vote Republican. On the other hand, the more Americans depend on the government — whether for a job or for economic assistance — the more likely they are to vote Democrat. Therefore, it is in the Democrats’ interest to have more and more Americans depend on the state.

In other words, in almost every area of life, the better things are, the worse it is for the Democratic Party. Democrats have placed themselves in the role of benefiting from social and moral dysfunction.

And they have embraced this role. The Democratic Party cultivates singlehood, black anger at America, Latino separatism, victimhood, group grievance and dependency on government. Nor is this the only way in which Democrats do terrible damage to America. They are also tearing America apart, setting women against men (with such falsehoods as “the war on women,” “the rape culture” at American colleges, and the nonsense that “women are paid less for the same work”), blacks against whites, and Latinos against other Americans. They do this because the less women see men as an enemy, the less blacks regard whites as an enemy, and the more Latinos see themselves as Americans, the worse it is for Democrats.

The Democratic Party has been become a wholly destructive force in this country. Even though you may not intend to, if you vote for any Democrat, you contribute to that damage.

Dennis Prager’s latest book, “The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code,” was just published by Regnery. He is a nationally syndicated radio show host and creator of PragerUniversity.com.

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Rivers of Liberal Tears Flow After Republicans Pass Senate Tax Reform Bill

Democrats and their media surrogates like the New York Times threw everything into depriving President Donald Trump of a big legislative victory by sinking the tax reform bill but like so many other things in this year of their discontent, their efforts failed.

Thinks began looking bad when reliable allies like Susan Collins and John McCain cut and run on their Democrat pals and in the end, only bitter, backstabbing Bob Corker was left as the “Republican” who sided with the obstructionist Dems who saw the Senate bill pass 51-49 early Saturday morning.

Via Politico “Senate passes sweeping tax overhaul”:

The Senate narrowly passed a massive tax overhaul early Saturday morning, putting Republicans on the cusp of revamping the U.S. tax system for the first time in more than three decades.

The 51 to 49 vote came after Senate Republicans frantically rewrote the multi-trillion dollar legislation behind closed doors to win over several final holdouts, and left congressional Republicans just a few steps away from sending legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk. The House passed its own plan in November.

Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee was the only Republican to oppose the measure, in what’s also a big victory for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who repeatedly fell short in his efforts to push through an Obamacare repeal measure this year.

“I think one reason we were able to get there was because there’s widespread interest,” McConnell said in an interview with POLITICO. “Every single member of our conference wanted to get to yes, and all but one did.”

President Donald Trump praised McConnell and Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch in a tweet after the bill passed, adding, “We are one step closer to delivering MASSIVE tax cuts for working families across America.”

McConnell and GOP leaders were able to score the necessary votes on Friday by acceding to demands by Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and others for expanded tax breaks for small businesses, homeowners and others. That gave leadership the breathing room to reject conflicting demands by Corker and others to rein in the cost of the plan.

Democrats harshly condemned the legislation and the way it came together.

But of course, the Democrats condemned the legislation, they want no part of governing and at this point are so consumed by the mission to avenge Hillary’s loss and their irrational hatred of President Trump, they are about as useless as pieces of furniture.

Some of the early reactions from the sore losers – including those “leadership” figures who helped to establish the idea that the Dems didn’t need to even bother wasting time on issues that actually affect the lives of real Americans. They only pander to the low-skilled, lazy chiselers who are only motivated to vote because they are promised “free” stuff that productive members of society have to pay for.

Let’s start with the supreme commander of the resistance himself:

Now the rest of them who are as worthless as tits on a bull and need to be voted OUT, OUT, OUT!

Perhaps had the Dems spent a bit more time on trying to reach across the aisle instead of holding sham hearings on Russian election meddling they may have been able to get some of their input recognized but tough titty said the kitty.

They have nothing to whine about but their own lack of interest in jobs, affordable health care, lower taxes and any one of hundreds of other issues that matter to real Americans.

And it isn’t fantasies that Russia cheated Hillary out of the White House.

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Kate Steinle Jury that Acquitted Illegal Alien Killer Was Not Sequestered, Stacked with Millennials

Kate Steinle Jury that Acquitted Illegal Alien Killer Was Not Sequestered, Stacked with Millennials

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by John Binder1 Dec 2017San Francisco, CA0



The jury that found 32-year-old Kate Steinle’s illegal alien killer not guilty of first and second-degree murder or negligent homicide was not sequestered and was stacked with millennial Americans, including some legal immigrants.

On Thursday, the jury in the Steinle murder trial found five-time deported and seven-time felon illegal alien Jose Garcia Zarate, also known as Juan Francisco López-Sánchez, not guilty on homicide charges that he murdered the woman, despite his previous admission to shooting and killing Steinle while she was walking on a pier with her father.

In a mid-October profile of the jurors selected to serve on the Steinle murder case, the Mercury News revealed that six of the jurors were men and six were women. Of those 12 jurors, three were immigrants.

The report also revealed that most of the jurors appeared to be in their 20’s and 30’s, with the pool of individuals including at least two tech workers, and degrees ranging from high school diplomas to PhDs. The Mercury News described the jury as “a cross-section of today’s San Francisco” where the foreign-born population is more than 30 percent of the overall county population.

Despite Kate Steinle’s murder sweeping the nation and galvanizing a grassroots movement of pro-American immigration reformers and Angel Parents — the family members of Americans killed by illegal aliens — to demand an immigration policy that works in the American publics’ interests, the jury was not sequestered, as juries sometimes are in high-profile trials.

Steinle was killed while walking with her father on a pier in San Francisco in 2015 when the illegal alien shot her. Steinle pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed away in her father’s arms.

In 2015, a local news station interviewed Zarate. In this interview, the illegal alien admitted that he had relocated to San Francisco because of its sanctuary city policy.

“Sanchez said he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city where he would not be pursued by immigration officials,” the report added.

Since Steinle’s death in 2015, the state of California has become a sanctuary state, Breitbart California reported in October, allowing illegal aliens to roam freely across the West Coast region without being detained or deported by federal immigration officials.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has committed to deporting — for the sixth time — the illegal alien who caused Steinle’s death, as Breitbart News reported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

via Breitbart News

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