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Actress and comedienne Rosie O’Donnell exceeded the legal limit in donations to Democratic Party candidates, according to a New York Post analysis of her campaign filings.

The Post reported that O’Donnell, 56, repeatedly broke Federal Election Commission that prevents an individual from giving over $2,700 to a candidate at any single election.

“Nothing nefarious,” O’Donnell wrote in an email to the outlet. “I was not choosing to over donate.

“If 2700 is the cut off — [candidates] should refund the money,” the former View co-host wrote. “I don’t look to see who I can donate most to … I just donate assuming they do not accept what is over the limit.”

Some of O’Donnell’s donations include $4700 to Sen. Doug Jones in his Alabama Senate race against Judge Roy Moore, as well as $3,600 toward Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb in March’s special general election.

Other recipients include California Rep. Adam Schiff, and congressional candidates Lauren Wood and Omar Vaid in Illinois and New York, respectively.

According to campaign filings, O’Donnell gave over $90,000 in donations throughout the 2017-2018 election to 50 separate federal candidates and committees. She has also given at least $25,100 for local candidates since 2000, including a maximum donation of $4,950 to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“My anxiety is quelled by donating to those opposing trump [and] his agenda — especially at night — when most of these were placed,” she said.

O’Donnell, of course, is one of Hollywood’s most prominent anti-President Donald Trump and anti-Republican campaigners. Last year, she described everyone working under President Trump as a “Nazi.”

Following House Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement last month that he would not run for re-election, O’Donnell declared that the Wisconsin representative is going “straight to hell.”

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Kanye West’s Twitter account may have replaced Donald Trump’s as the most watched in the world.

The only consolation to the president, should this irk him, is that it’s all because Kanye deigned to praise President Trump — and slam former President Barack Obama.

While we’ve all seen plenty of tweets from the rap superstar in the news of late, this one is probably his best:

In fact, Chicago may have gotten worse during that period. But never mind that, at least as far as the media was concerned.

This didn’t get as much play as his “dragon energy,” remarks and it’s easy to see why — unlike stuff that can be mocked and used to create a narrative about Kanye, this raises an uncomfortable question about the city that both the former president and rapper have called home.

In a series of tweets on Thursday that have since been deleted, another prominent Trump supporter who’s received flak — Roseanne Barr — stood by the rapper’s characterization of the Windy City.

“(Kanye) is telling the truth about (Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s) Chicago,” the sitcom star wrote, according to Breitbart.

“Ppl (sic) do not want to hear the truth-that Chicago could be a better city for its citizens, but the establishment is corrupted.”

In a follow-up tweet, she added, “Let’s do something about #Chicago — all of us… instead of hurling insults and division.

“Let’s try efficient government and unity JUST THIS ONCE!”

That’s unlikely to happen, of course, at least as long as the city remains in the hands of Mayor Emanuel, formerly President Obama’s chief of staff, who has overseen Chicago’s descent into America’s gun crime capital despite some of America’s most draconian gun laws.

In fact, a 2017 study revealed that 20 percent of the increase in violent crime in the United States could be traced to Chicago alone, and 10 percent of it to just five neighborhoods.

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“Crime is incredibly geographically concentrated … which suggests that any sort of take on what’s causing this has to take an incredibly nuanced look because it’s not just what makes Chicago different from New York City, it’s what makes one neighborhood in Chicago different from other neighborhoods,” John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University in New York City, said at the time of the study’s release.

The fact that it’s geographically concentrated in Chicago, however, is no surprise. During the Obama administration, which was supposedly a renaissance for African-Americans in this country, Chicago saw a dramatic rise in crime. It also also fell from seventh to 21st when it came to the percentage of black households earning over $100,000 a year, according to the Chicago Tribune.

And yet, Cook County — the county where Chicago is located — also has the largest number of black residents in the United States. That number is dwindling, thanks to black flight from the city. However, it raises the question: If Obama was so great for African-Americans, what the heck happened to Chicago?

That’s a question Kanye would like answered. Roseanne wouldn’t mind an answer, either, from the sound of things. Sadly, that request is going to get lost in the media speculation over Kanye’s sanity and coverage of his other comments regarding slavery. If the media’s so willing to spend time on that, however, they should also be willing to spend some time covering what’s happened to the town Barack Obama likes to call home.

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Most of us remember having murals at our high schools. They usually contained simple things. The school mascot. Paeans to graduating classes past. The bloodied, decapitated head of the current president on the end of a spear.

What, you don’t remember that at your alma mater? Well, you’re clearly not a student at the MAAC Community Charter School in Chula Vista, California, where school officials are now answering a lot of questions after a mural depicting Trump a lá Kathy Griffin made the front pages.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the mural was painted last weekend at an event called Battlegroundz, a scholarship fundraiser during which both students and amateur and professional artists utilize their talents to help out the school and/or make a horrifyingly violent political statement. (Whichever works.)

Artist Sasha Andrade was responsible for the part of the mural containing Trump’s head. “The mural depicts three warriors, each with different types of dress. One appears to be holding a human heart and another wears a leopard headdress and is holding a spear. At its end is the severed head of Trump, with the spear’s tip protruding from his mouth,” the Union-Tribune noted.

Classy! Here’s the work itself before it was removed, which is obviously extremely graphic.

Viewer discretion, as always, is advised.

San Diego school orders artist to change mural depicting Trump’s head on a spear https://t.co/1oy3wRlEx0 pic.twitter.com/onzDNwNETD

— The Hill (@thehill) May 5, 2018

The San Diego-area school, which serves 300 students ages 14-24, apologized for the mural, although not necessarily for the reasons you might think.

“We understand that there was a mural painted at the event this past weekend that does not align with our school’s philosophy of non-violence,” a statement from MAAC Community Charter School director Tommy Ramirez read.

“We have been in communication with the artist — who has agreed to modify the artwork — to better align with the school’s philosophy.”

Note there’s nothing about the fact that it was basically envisioning the death of the president. Forget about the political implications of that at a school run by taxpayer funds. It doesn’t “align” with the “school’s philosophy of non-violence.” One can guess their reaction might have been slightly different had the head on the end of this spear been Barack Obama’s.

Unfortunately, the school’s philosophy of non-violence didn’t have them asking questions about the grotesque mural before people in the community did. They complained to the school, and local television station KUSI-TV soon dedicated coverage to the mural, which seemed to put the school on the defensive..

By Wednesday, the school had covered the mural in black plastic. By Friday, the cover was plywood and access was blocked by a vehicle.

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“Obviously there’s a lot of concern over what is depicted,” said Manny Rubio, public information officer with MAAC’s parent district, said about the numerous phone calls. “Because of that, they’re going to rework it. Our ultimate goal is that instruction continues and is not interrupted.”

“Francia Baluca, marketing and communications manager for MAAC, the nonprofit that oversees the school, said officials were looking into questions raised about the mural, including whether anyone knew of its content before it was painted and when school officials first became aware of it,” the Union-Tribune reported.

As for Sasha Andrade, she wasn’t available for comment Friday. However, she was quite talkative earlier in the week, when she bragged about the mural on Facebook.

“They can try to #censor it but here it is guys!!!!” she said on Wednesday, adding, “lets (sic) make this #viral lol who wants some stickers???” The message was topped off with hashtags like “#urwelcome” and “#freedomofexpression.” She later said comedian George Lopez had liked the mural and signed that post with the hashtag “#firstamendment.”

Just in case you were wondering whether Andrade had a sudden change of heart, the mural was still her Facebook banner. Apparently, her values haven’t brought themselves into alignment with the MAAC Community Charter School’s philosophy of non-violence yet. Give her time, I suppose.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the president depicted in grotesque artworks that involve him being dead in some way, shape or form, usually involving decapitation. Whether it’s Kathy Griffin’s infamous effigial head incident or the Hieronymus Bosch-like portraits of Trump and various administration officials Jim Carrey seems fond of posting to Twitter these days, there’s enough of depressingly-violent Trump artwork out there to satiate even the most benumbed of “Faces of Death” devotees.

It is, however, the first time one of these abominations has appeared at a public school. That vile fact is reason enough to condemn this mural in the strongest terms. The fact that taxpayer funds were possibly involved in the creation of the painting — and almost certainly the venue in which it was painted — merely adds to the outrage. Perhaps it’s time that the Secret Service had a discussion with Ms. Andrade about just how far her “#firstamendment” privileges go when it involves tacitly calling for the assassination of the president.

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Leave it to James Woods to cut to the chase.

The Hollywood actor — a rock of conservative logic in a puddle of flaccid thinking — has built a well-earned reputation for cutting commentary on social issues.

But his question this week about the news that the Boy Scouts have officially, unconditionally surrendered to political correctness by changing their name was even sharper than usual.

And his logic was unassailable.

Now that the Boy Scouts no longer exist and must accept girls, how is it possible Girl Scouts still exist, but don’t accept boys?

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 3, 2018

Not even the biggest fans of the change have an answer.

Woods’ tweet was spurred by the news that the Boy Scouts of America — a revered name in youth development since it was incorporated in 1910 — would no longer be known by anything so gender-specific as the word “Boys.”

Instead, the organization will now be known as “Scouts BSA,” to reflect its decision last fall to buckle under to conformist pressures and open its ranks to girls.

The move might have been greeted with joy by liberals, but there’s no small amount of outrage — and contempt — among critics for the Scouts’ about-face, and the new name that symbolizes it.

As always, Woods tweet stirred up comment from all ends of the political spectrum, but there were quite a few that saw a dark force at work.

As crazy as it sounds, I honestly believe these leftist libnuts have a plan to make the men of America as weak and sissy-fied as possible so that our ability to defend our country will be greatly deminished!!

— Deb Williams ن (@DebWilliams57) May 3, 2018

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Because James, women on the Left are “neutralizing” men right before our very eyes. I’ve been warning men about this for awhile now. It will get worse unless it’s reversed.

— SusanKnowles (@SusanKnowles) May 3, 2018

And then there was this:

Thank you James. Why are news organizations not asking this simple question?

— Mason Lopez (@mglcll) May 3, 2018

The answer to that one, unfortunately, is obvious.

The media that destroyed its own credibility as an institution by its slavish devotion to the Barack Obama presidency isn’t capable of even questioning any part of the liberal agenda anymore.

It’s not even capable of understanding that it should be questioned.

No one questions the Girl Scouts because they’re an unthreatening American institution that, for most of us, means cookies every spring.

The Boy Scouts, however, were offensive to liberals because of their understandable reluctance to let gay men near young boys, emphasis on honesty and honorable behavior, self-reliance and a general attitude that it was important to teach boys to be men — what liberals today call “toxic masculinity.”

For liberal purposes, the Girl Scouts don’t have to be destroyed. The Boy Scouts do.

Forcing the group to accept gays was one step (The Associated Press laughably claims the group is stronger than ever since the move). Forcing it to accept girls is another. Now a name change that’s literally emasculating — “Scouts BSA” — is a third.

Woods wondered why the Girl Scouts still exist? At this rate, they might last longer than whatever the group formerly known as the Boy Scouts ends up.

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