In yet another example of the "anti-fascist" veto used to suppress conservative speech on a college campus, an event hosted by the College Republicans at Portland State University on Tuesday was eventually shut down by a single protester continually ringing a bell. Campus authorities, who were on the scene, said their policies did not allow them to take action because the protester didn’t get violent or destroy property.
Rush Limbaugh started his show Tuesday in medias res, launching right into the ongoing national discussion about the question that Democrats in particular are obsessing over night and day: Will Trump be re-elected in 2020? The answer in most Democrats’ minds, Limbaugh insisted, is yes. And some of the big stories of the week are yet more evidence of that fact, he suggested.
In 24 hours, NONE of the flagship morning and evening news programs for the Big Three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) saw fit to inform viewers that liberal darling, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was facing serious accusations of campaign finance violations. If true, those allegations carried possible jail time.
She has no problem shooting her mouth off any other time, why not now? AOC flees questions on allegations she may have violated campaign finance laws Q: “Do you have any comment on the FEC violation filed against your office?” AOC: “There is no violation…there’s no violation” Q: “Do you think that’s a sign of […]
For those who don’t think the world has gone mad enough with anti-science bullies demanding we embrace the madness of accepting biological men as a women, let me welcome you to the world of autosexuality.
One of my favorite Woody Allen jokes is, “Hey, don’t knock masturbation, it’s sex with someone I love.”
Well, you might want to hold tight to your copy of Annie Hall because ridiculing self-love is about to become as verboten as your copy of Dude Looks Like a Lady — because self-love is now a thing, yall, a real thing, another one of those things we are going to be forced to accept as normal and not at all as a sign of some kind mental illness or, heaven forbid, crybullying narcissism.
“What’s it like being autosexual, when you’re attracted to yourself?” the headline reads, and the answer is: “It can mean being turned on by your own look and nudity, getting butterflies when you think about yourself, being excited to spend time alone, and masturbating to the idea of yourself. It’s all the feelings we get for a potential new suitor but for ourselves.”
The piece gets most of its information from someone named Ghia Vitale, who is both “autosexual and autoromatic” — and no, I’m not looking up “autoromantic.” Google it yourself.
Ghia became aware of her sexuality at the age of seven — SEVEN — and “after unlearning her preconceived notions about relationships and the idea that you have to be with another person for it to be valid, Ghia wants to normalise autosexuality.”
“I still had sexual and romantic feelings about myself, but always assumed a relationship had to be with another person in order to be valid,” she explained. “I now realise that my relationship with myself is as valid as any other relationship.”
“The relationship I have with myself is special,” she adds. “I sometimes get butterflies in my stomach when I think of myself. I know I can always turn to myself if I’m having a problem. I love myself for my uniqueness, creativity, and beauty.”
You know, I normally don’t say things like this, but this poor girl needs to find Jesus.
But it may be too late. Ghia has already taken the next step and is engaged to herself, as in engaged to be married. “Although I will one day be my own wife, I am enjoying the feeling of being engaged,” she says.
Marriage to one’s self is called sologamy, and while sologamy is not yet legally recognized anywhere in the world, now that people of the same sex can be married, there is no argument against sologamy.
You know, it might be worth legalizing sologamy just so we can see what the divorce will look like.
Hey, remember when they told us same sex marriage was not a slippery slope? Remember when they said same sex marriage would not open a Pandora’s box, would not affect our lives? And here we are, just a few years later, living in a world where men are peeing next to our daughters, Christianity itself is labeled bigoted, men are triumphing in women’s sports, and gay rights crusader Martina Navratilova is being crucified for her opposition to allowing men to compete in women’s sports.
It is always a slippery slope, folks. Always.
Going back to Woody Allen, looks like Sleeper pretty much nailed what our future would look like — equal parts fascism and narcissism:
Let me be the first to apologize to the Baby Boomers for describing them as the “worst ever.”
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Apparently, when President Trump took time to hug the American flag on the CPAC stage on Saturday, he triggered people on the left and sent them into a tailspin. And in a report during Tuesday’s edition of Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN reporter Jeanne Moos dedicate time to hype negative responses on Twitter and by late night comedians, while lampooning the President for his display of affection for the flag.
Candace Owens hosted a Blexit — or black exit from the Democrat Party — event on Sunday in Richmond, Virginia, where hundreds of people gathered to hear from Owens and several other featured speakers, including Breitbart News Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson.
Hundreds of eager event attendees wearing MAGA hats and Blexit t-shirts gathered at The National Theater in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, to attend the Blexit rally. This was Owens’ second Blexit event of the year, the first having been held in Los Angeles, California, in January.
Breitbart News was present at the event and had the opportunity to speak with attendees and speakers. While waiting in line to get into the event, one young attendee, Chandler, told Breitbart News he believes he has “awoken earlier than most people” due to having “fantastic parents.”
“I had fantastic parents that allowed me to, instead of being indoctrinated — do my own research,” said the young activist, “and when I did my research and found these things about the Democrat and the Republican Party, I was angry — because my people had been lied to for generations.”
“And I just didn’t know what to do with it, but then, I went to YBLS, and my skills were cultivated and activated, and after that, I just wanted to help people — I wanted to free my people, both Latino and black, and create a better future for my people.”
“I get a lot of flack from people,” said another event attendee, Russell, “They’ll see my [Blexit] shirt and ask me about it, and when I tell them what it’s all about — they’ll look at me like I’m crazy — like, ‘don’t you know that you’re not supposed to be thinking that way?’”
Russell added that he has a “Trump 2016” sticker on his car, and is often questioned when getting out of his car. “They’ll see me get out of the car, and they’ll go, ‘Is that your car?’ — ‘You’re a Trump supporter?’”
“It’s just crazy,” continued the Blexit attendee, “It’s just amazing that I actually have to justify — the only reason they ask those questions is because of the color of my skin.”
“I’ve always been a supporter of the Democratic Party,” said a third attendee, Reginald, “but now — since I’ve started to now do my own research and find out that the Democratic party is not for minorities, of any race, whether it be black, Latino, Asian.”
“Now I’m getting the bash for making my own decision and being a free thinker.”
The event-goers waiting outside of The National Theater did not look like the people who the establishment media would likely want you to believe are conservatives. In fact, there was no mainstream media outlet present to cover the Blexit event.
Sunday’s Blexit audience gathered to hear remarks from Candace Owens, as well as featured speakers such as conservative politician E. W. Jackson, political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, and Turning Point USA Director of Urban Engagement Brandon Tatum, among several others.
One speaker was Breitbart’s own entertainment editor, Jerome Hudson, who encouraged attendees to harness their power as citizen journalists, echoing the sentiments of the news outlet’s late founder, Andrew Breitbart.
“Our founder, Andrew Breitbart, famously said that politics is downstream from culture,” said Hudson to his audience, “That’s why your voice on social media is so important. You have a megaphone in your pocket that empowers you to fight back.”
“Long before the social media movement in America exploded, Andrew Breitbart used to hold up his phone at rallies just like this one and tell the audience to harness their power as citizen journalists. See, you are more powerful than you realize.”
Breitbart Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson encouraging attendees to use the power of their cell phones to be citizen journalists. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
Owens announced her “Blexit” project last October, aimed at leading “the black exit from the Democrat Party,” in which she vowed to take her mission of exodus to cities controlled by Democrat politicians.
This made the state of Virginia an obvious choice for hosting the second Blexit event, considering recent scandals involving the state’s governor, Ralph Northam, and attorney general, Mark Herring.
In January, Northam had been exposed on video casually endorsing infanticide, and then, days later, the governor’s medical school yearbook photo was leaked to the public, displaying one individual in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
While the reaction to Northam’s revealed stance on infanticide was — in comparison to his leaked yearbook photo — virtually nonexistent, (despite abortion having a disproportionate effect on the black community), Northam’s yearbook photo, on the other hand, elicited a response of public outrage across the country, as well as calls for his resignation.
Governor Northam has since successfully dodged calls for his resignation.
Owens told Breitbart News she had chosen Richmond, Virginia, to shine a light on “the hypocrisy of the left.”
“The problem is that there’s not enough of a reaction,” said Owens, “What we’re seeing down here is that they’re trying to just gloss it over, say it’s okay, and then we’re supposed to all go back to normal.”
“This, of course, would never be allowed on the conservative side,” added Owens.
Owens also noted Northam’s stance on late-term abortions, adding, “This is a perfect time to talk to black America, Hispanic America, and all of America, of the hypocrisy of the left, and the results of these progressive policies, which are always regressive for communities that are afflicted by them.”
Additionally, Owens touched upon Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“The idea that a sitting person in Congress can refer to a black conservative as a token or say that they are participating in tokenism, that’s a racial slur,” said Owens of Ocasio-Cortez’s recent tweet in reference to Trump staffer, Lynne Patton.
“This is what I mean when I say that we give a pass to and an okay to people on the left.”
Blexit attendee watches attentively as she waits for the next speaker to arrive on stage. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
Maga hat-clad Blexit attendees applaud as Dinesh D’Souza is welcomed to the stage. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
Conservative politician E. W. Jackson tells attendees not to believe the socialist lies that they need big government to succeed. (Matthew Perdie / Breitbart News)
E. W. Jackson, who was Northam’s opponent for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2013, added that Northam had once actually refused to shake his hand.
“These liberals really think that they have a free pass to do and say whatever they want because they are liberals, when in fact, they are the most condescending, paternalistic, racist individuals in this country,” said Jackson, as the crowd roared with applause and cheers in concurrence.
“Because they think they own black people, they think they own Latino people,” continued Jackson, “and it’s time to tell them, ‘You don’t own us, we are our own people and we will chart the course of our own lives!”
“We will think for ourselves, we will write for ourselves, we will speak for ourselves!”
“I want to tell you young people something,” added Jackson, “don’t believe the socialist lie that you’ve gotta have government — you can do anything you want to do because this is the greatest nation on the face of the earth for fulfilling your God-given potential.”
The Blexit audience responded with a standing ovation and chants of “USA!”
“And don’t you let anybody tell you anything different,” said Jackson, as the crowd roared, “That’s right! USA!”
Abbott and Costello, zany comic geniuses, are enjoying a big second act 75 years after their original success.
That’s because people need easy ways to describe the pretentious but ultimately silly Common Core. Abbott and Costello cooked up some mad math that sounds strangely like C.C. homework, such as “Loan Me Fifty Cents” (2 minutes):
Common Core is a challenge for the normal mind because it is unnecessarily complicated, pompous, and dishonest, all at the same instant.
There are many scores of videos trying to illuminate the tangled web known as Common Core. This one has the virtue of being only 96 seconds.
Here’s how a C.C. shill defends the indefensible: “[E]ven if they said 3 times 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focusing on the how[.]”
Does it matter what the student “explains”? This woman thinks so. And there we enter the Comedy Zone. Abbott and Costello were there first, as we see in “Two Tens for a Five.“
Common Core is a mix of implausible and impossible. W.C. Fields, with his famously stunned expression, could be the poster boy for hifalutin stuff that doesn’t make sense. (I used him years ago to create a character called Captain Dolch, AKA The Father of Sight-Words, because phony reading instruction and phony math instruction start from the same impulse: to befuddle children.)
But maybe Jack Nicholson does it best. In The Shining, he’s crazy but also dangerous. Give him long enough, and he’s going to hurt you, just like Common Core.
Common Core makes little children cry. It exasperates parents eager to help, even parents with degrees in scientific subjects. And it depresses mathematical knowledge throughout the population, to a point lower than anyone thought possible. A terrorist trifecta like this is hardly imaginable. One has to assume years of research funded by your taxes. Or did they go directly to Abbott and Costello for guidance? These guys easily prove 13×7 is 28.
There are lots of videos promoting Common Core. One expert might brag about how children are taught to look for “multiple strategies.” Why not the best one? Another official says it didn’t matter if students can’t find the right answer and wander hopelessly. What matters is the search. Getting the correct answer quickly is so 19th century. Yet another professor raves on about “multi-dimension mathematics” and “rich, open tasks.” Apparently, students should struggle to find the correct answer, and that struggle is supposed to be the genius of Common Core.
Common Core is a cheap trick. When fourth-grade questions are given to second-graders, you’re almost guaranteed bewilderment. That’s the basic gimmick all the way through New Math, Reform Math, and Common Core Math. Go over their heads, make them feel helpless, so they give up.
Advocates talk about how Common Core is more rigorous, collaborative, and creative. No, it’s just confusing. Wags and wits on the internet compete to capture the nutty essence of Common Core. For example: “If you have four pencils and seven apples, how many pancakes will fit on a roof? Purple. Because aliens don’t wear hats.”
Almost as offensive as the faux math itself is the pretentious professors who try to intimidate anyone who scorns Common Core. These annoying trolls chat smugly about how when they took advanced grad school courses, they perceived the full beauty of the Common Core approach, and you would, too, if you were that smart! Superciliousness is rarely more irritating.
Here is a golden moment. A Common Core question wants the student to say 5 + 5 + 5 = 15. Sorry, that’s the wrong answer. The third-grader should have figured out the correct answer — namely, 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15.
This stuff is so annoying, but if you can stand a heavy dose, here is a six-minute video that shows the Common Core Two-Step: start with simple arithmetic; add complexity. Just the way Abbott and Costello would do it.
We are told that, thanks to Common Core, students will learn to think like mathematicians. This is the central nonsense. Manifestly, there is no need for that in elementary school, even if it could be done. First, children should be taught to do basic arithmetic with confidence. Then, and only then, teachers might begin explaining the depths. That’s the natural sequence. Common Core violates it from the first day.
Abbott and Costello, zany comic geniuses, are enjoying a big second act 75 years after their original success.
That’s because people need easy ways to describe the pretentious but ultimately silly Common Core. Abbott and Costello cooked up some mad math that sounds strangely like C.C. homework, such as “Loan Me Fifty Cents” (2 minutes):
Common Core is a challenge for the normal mind because it is unnecessarily complicated, pompous, and dishonest, all at the same instant.
There are many scores of videos trying to illuminate the tangled web known as Common Core. This one has the virtue of being only 96 seconds.
Here’s how a C.C. shill defends the indefensible: “[E]ven if they said 3 times 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focusing on the how[.]”
Does it matter what the student “explains”? This woman thinks so. And there we enter the Comedy Zone. Abbott and Costello were there first, as we see in “Two Tens for a Five.“
Common Core is a mix of implausible and impossible. W.C. Fields, with his famously stunned expression, could be the poster boy for hifalutin stuff that doesn’t make sense. (I used him years ago to create a character called Captain Dolch, AKA The Father of Sight-Words, because phony reading instruction and phony math instruction start from the same impulse: to befuddle children.)
But maybe Jack Nicholson does it best. In The Shining, he’s crazy but also dangerous. Give him long enough, and he’s going to hurt you, just like Common Core.
Common Core makes little children cry. It exasperates parents eager to help, even parents with degrees in scientific subjects. And it depresses mathematical knowledge throughout the population, to a point lower than anyone thought possible. A terrorist trifecta like this is hardly imaginable. One has to assume years of research funded by your taxes. Or did they go directly to Abbott and Costello for guidance? These guys easily prove 13×7 is 28.
There are lots of videos promoting Common Core. One expert might brag about how children are taught to look for “multiple strategies.” Why not the best one? Another official says it didn’t matter if students can’t find the right answer and wander hopelessly. What matters is the search. Getting the correct answer quickly is so 19th century. Yet another professor raves on about “multi-dimension mathematics” and “rich, open tasks.” Apparently, students should struggle to find the correct answer, and that struggle is supposed to be the genius of Common Core.
Common Core is a cheap trick. When fourth-grade questions are given to second-graders, you’re almost guaranteed bewilderment. That’s the basic gimmick all the way through New Math, Reform Math, and Common Core Math. Go over their heads, make them feel helpless, so they give up.
Advocates talk about how Common Core is more rigorous, collaborative, and creative. No, it’s just confusing. Wags and wits on the internet compete to capture the nutty essence of Common Core. For example: “If you have four pencils and seven apples, how many pancakes will fit on a roof? Purple. Because aliens don’t wear hats.”
Almost as offensive as the faux math itself is the pretentious professors who try to intimidate anyone who scorns Common Core. These annoying trolls chat smugly about how when they took advanced grad school courses, they perceived the full beauty of the Common Core approach, and you would, too, if you were that smart! Superciliousness is rarely more irritating.
Here is a golden moment. A Common Core question wants the student to say 5 + 5 + 5 = 15. Sorry, that’s the wrong answer. The third-grader should have figured out the correct answer — namely, 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15.
This stuff is so annoying, but if you can stand a heavy dose, here is a six-minute video that shows the Common Core Two-Step: start with simple arithmetic; add complexity. Just the way Abbott and Costello would do it.
We are told that, thanks to Common Core, students will learn to think like mathematicians. This is the central nonsense. Manifestly, there is no need for that in elementary school, even if it could be done. First, children should be taught to do basic arithmetic with confidence. Then, and only then, teachers might begin explaining the depths. That’s the natural sequence. Common Core violates it from the first day.
Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Monday approved a controversial "red flag" gun control bill that would allow courts to order the temporary seizure of firearms from individuals deemed to be a risk.
The bill passed in a 38 to 25 vote, and will now head to the Senate for debate. It’s expected to pass and be signed by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.
HB 19-1177 would allow judges to issue temporary extreme risk protection orders (ERPO), leading to a search warrant and temporary seizure of firearms if a person is thought to be a threat. Family members or law enforcement would first have to petition the court for an ERPO.
The bill would require a court-appointed lawyer for the respondent and hold a hearing in the first two weeks of the temporary ERPO. The court would be able to issue a continuing ERPO that lasts up to 364 days under the bill if family members or law enforcement can demonstrate clear and convincing evidence of risk.
A similar bill was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate last year, despite bipartisan support. Democrats now have a majority in the Senate.
Earlier this month, the House debated the bill for 10 hours, eventually passing it on first reading.
Law enforcement officials are split on the bill, and some counties have passed "Second Amendment Sanctuary County" resolutions, citing due process concerns.
Custer and Fremont counties have both passed resolutions which would mean sheriffs in those counties wouldn’t have to enforce ERPOs if the bill becomes a law.
Democratic House Majority Leader Alec Garnett, D-Denver, mocked the counties in a floor speech before the bill’s passage Monday.
"Now we have sanctuary counties," he said. "I mean, do we have to talk about the ridiculousness of sanctuary counties? You’re not going to enforce a judicial order?"
The counties of Weld and Montezuma have also considered passing sanctuary county measures. Sheriffs in El Paso and Teller Counties have also said they won’t back the bill.
Dave Kopel, research director for the Independence Institute and head of its Second Amendment Project, said the resolutions "don’t formally negate state laws."
"If a county sheriff won’t enforce a particular law, then the only available enforcers are municipal police plus state police," he said.
The bill’s main sponsor, Rep. Tom Sullivan, D-Centennial, lost his son in the Aurora shooting. Sullivan and Garnett announced the bill at a press conference last month on the one-year anniversary of the shooting that took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Poor Will Smith can’t catch a break! First the African-American star was roundly mocked on the Internet for being the color blue in the new live-action Aladdin movie, now social justice warriors are complaining about his skin color in a different way.
