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It is said a picture can speak a thousand words, and we can think of a few for this powerful image.

Strength. Resilience. Freedom. Pride. Inspiring. America. Service.

These all come to mind when first looking at the image of a man on a kayak in flooded streets holding an American flag.

The moment captured by Laura Boehm shows her husband Todd Boehm, who served in the Army for 23 years before retiring, honoring the star-spangled banner.

Laura said as they were kayaking through the flooded streets on Rosewood Drive to check on their home, her husband noticed an American flag touching the water.

“We couldn’t let it fall,” Laura said.

Without hesitating, he paddled over to where the flag hung and adjusted it so it could continue to wave in the breeze over the devastation left behind by Florence.

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YouTube is cracking down on conservatives content, according to one prominent conservative.

In a radio interview with The Jewish Press, PragerU’s founder and president, Dennis Prager, explained how big tech has censored PragerU. Prager attributed it to the left’s definition of “hate speech,” saying that “Leftists — unlike liberals — do not believe in free speech for speech they differ with.” Prager also said that there “was little rhyme or reason” for YouTube and Facebook to censor, restrict, and delete PragerU’s video content.

PragerU has been embroiled in a lawsuit with YouTube alleging that the company was putting PragerU’s videos in restricted mode. Recently, PragerU discovered that Facebook was deleting and blocking nine of its videos. Facebook claimed that the censorship was “a mistake.”  

Dennis Prager told The Jewish Press, “YouTube seems to target: a) videos that defend America; b) videos that defend Israel; c) videos that criticize the Islamic world; and d) videos that make the case for God and religion.” Prager also accused YouTube of “misleading the public” because the platform markets itself as an “open forum.”

YouTube has put dozens of PragerU’s videos under a restricted filter, meaning that if someone put a filter on their YouTube feed, the videos disappeared. Facebook, however, had a much bigger problem: PragerU’s videos were flagged as “hate speech” by users, then a Facebook employee moved the entire page into a “feature block.”

In reference to PragerU’s lawsuit, Prager said, “If Google, the owner of YouTube, would announce it is a left-wing advocacy group, that would make a lawsuit harder to defend.” YouTube’s sister organization, Google, was just on the Hill today meeting with conservatives to address issues of bias against the right.

 

If you had the stout constitution to sit through every moment of the Kavanaugh/Ford hearings Thursday, I’m both envious and curious. The envy stems from the fact that you could watch a room of craven politicians preen for the camera and donor-email clips and not lose interest. The curiosity stems from the fact that I get paid to do it, while most of our readership does not.

If you waited until the end, however, you got to glimpse the guiding spirit of the whole affair — or what a certain anonymous Op-Ed writer might have called the “lodestar” that directed the proceedings — in a line from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

After being accused of leaking the letter that set this whole thing rolling, the California senator denied either she or her staff released it. Instead, she blamed the leak on a woman who was now utterly disposable to her — Christine Blasey Ford.

The exchange began after Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz questioned the leaking of the letter, which had been passed on to Sen. Feinstein.

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“We also know that the Democrats on this committee engaged in a profoundly unfair process,” Cruz said.

“The ranking member had these allegations on July 30th and for sixty days, that was sixty days ago, the ranking member did not refer it to the FBI for investigation, the ranking member did not refer it to the full committee for an investigation.

“This committee could have investigated those claims in a confidential way that respected Dr. Ford’s privacy,” Cruz continued.

“Dr. Ford told this committee that the only people to whom she gave her letter, were her attorneys, the ranking member, and her member of Congress.

“And she stated that she and her attorneys did not release the letter, which means the only people who could have released the letter were either the ranking member (Sen. Feinstein) and her staff, or the Democratic member of Congress, because Dr. Ford told this committee those are the only people who had it.

“That is not a fair process,” Cruz said.

There were two options for Sen. Feinstein in this situation: a) apologize or b) deny. If she chose option b), however, there wasn’t the obligation to take path c): throw Christine Blasey Ford under an entire Greyhound station of buses.

That’s what she decided to do, however.

“Mr. Chairman, let me be clear, I did not hide Dr. Ford’s allegations. I did not leak her story, she asked me to keep it confidential and I kept if confidential as she asked,” Feinstein said in response.

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“She apparently was stalked by the press, felt that what happened, she was forced to come forward, and her greatest fear was realized,” Feinstein continued.

“She’s been harassed, she’s had death threats, and she’s had to flee her home.”

After blaming the Republicans for their investigation, which she called “a partisan practice,” she continued to talk up the possible imperilment Ford was in.

“I was given some information by a woman who was very much afraid, who asked that it be held confidential, and I held it confidential until she decided that she would come forward,” Feinstein said.

She was then asked if her staff had leaked the letter by Sen. John Cornyn, another Texas Republican.

“I have not asked that question directly, but I do not believe — the answer is no,” Feinstein responded. “The staff, they did not.”

“Well, somebody leaked it if wasn’t you,” Cornyn said.

“I did not, I was asked to keep it confidential, and I’m criticized for that too!” she said.

“It’s my understanding that her story was leaked before the letter became public, and she testified that she had spoken to her friends about it and it’s most likely that that’s how the story leaked, and she had been asked by press.

“But it did not leak from us,” Feinstein concluded. “I assure you of that.”

Yes, the letter leaked because this woman, who thought she was in grave jeopardy, leaked the whole thing to the press by telling her friends, who were willing to put her in that grave jeopardy by passing it on.

It had nothing — nothing — to do with the Democrats who would have benefited most from this and would have had the motivation to pass it on.

Right.

Every single problem with this entire process can be, in some way, traced back to Dianne Feinstein. She’s the one who sat on the letter, refusing to bring it up when it should have been addressed. She’s the one whose cryptic statements helped stoke the embers of curiosity. She’s the one who would call for an FBI investigation even though the FBI added the letter to Kavanaugh’s background file and moved on. She’s the one who helped oversee the circus we witnessed Thursday.

And, once Christine Blasey Ford was finally disposable to her, she was tossed to the tigers as an encore.

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In the wake of the Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh hearings on Thursday, former Arkansas governor and political pundit, Mike Huckabee, pointed out that any Republican who voted no on Kavanaugh wasn’t fulfilling their sworn duty.

Well, he put it rather more bluntly: He said they will have “crapped upon the Constitution.”

In a fiery tweet after Thursday’s day-long innuendo festival on Capitol Hill, Huckabee — better known these days as the father of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders — retweeted an equally fiery speech by Lindsey Graham in which he eviscerated Democrats for their treatment of the nominee and the allegations against him.

“These comments by @LindseyGrahamSC will be forever remembered as a seminal moment that defined what Democrats really care about,” Huckabee tweeted.

“And if ANY GOP Senator votes ‘no’ they have crapped on the Constitution and should slither home in disgrace.”

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Huckabee’s words, surprisingly, weren’t even as perfervid as Graham’s when it came to the Democrats and the RINOs.

These comments by @LindseyGrahamSC will be forever remembered as a seminal moment that defined what Democrats really care about. And if ANY GOP Senator votes “no” they have crapped on the Constitution and should slither home in disgrace. https://t.co/4CQ0llfiVu

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 28, 2018

“If you wanted a FBI investigation, you could have come to us,” the South Carolina senator said, addressing Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“What you want to do is destroy this guy’s life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020. You’ve said that, not me,” he continued.

“When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said hello because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you’ve done to this guy.

“This is the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics, and if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn’t have done what you’ve done to this guy,” Graham said.

“Boy, y’all want power. Boy, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham, that you knew about it and you held it.”

“To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you’re legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics. You want this seat? I hope you never get it,” he added.

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Both Huckabee and Graham are fairly reserved when it comes to politicians, which is what makes both of these astounding.

When something gets Graham to go full William Jennings Bryan and Huckabee — a Baptist minister — to talk about Republicans having “crapped on the Constitution,” you can wager it’s something that’s moved them rather strongly.

Kavanaugh and other conservatives can only hope the rest of the party feels the same way.

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