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There have been numerous questions about why Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t do more to help the endangered Jews of Europe escape the inferno of the Nazi Holocaust and help them flee to the United States, but now evidence has arisen with one salient answer: Roosevelt wanted the Jews to go anywhere but the United States.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that the administration makes a habit of not being concerned about anything the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee does or says.
Asked about special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions for President Donald Trump that leaked Tuesday, Sanders said she was not able to comment on the matter. Daily Mail reporter Francesca Chambers specifically asked about a charge that the White House was behind the leak, and Sanders referred her to Trump’s outside counsel for anything involving the investigation.
"I can’t comment on anything regarding those questions, and I would refer you to the president’s outside counsel," Sanders said.
Chambers specified she was asking about the possibility of White House involvement, but Sanders said the matter was specific to the president and again referred her to the president’s counsel. Chambers then asked whether the White House was concerned about Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D., Calif.) opinion that Mueller’s leaked questions indicate a focus on obstruction of justice.
"Is the White House concerned, as Congressman Adam Schiff has said, that so many of the questions point to obstruction of justice?" Chambers asked.
"We here at the White House try never to be concerned with anything dealing with Adam Schiff," Sanders replied, moving on to another reporter’s question.
Schiff has for months alleged there is "damning" evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, despite the lack of proof. He claims Republicans are preventing the matter from being investigated fully.
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A California judge sentenced a former school teacher on Monday to 30 days in county jail for using his cellphone to take inappropriate photos of a student and an adult co-worker for sexual purposes, KOVR-TV reported.
Police arrested Scott MacMillan, who taught K-6 science and engineering, following an investigation into the allegations made against him in 2016.
In October, the 44-year-old MacMillan pleaded no contest to charges that included attempted possession of child porn, attempted use of a concealed camera to take photos a child for sexual purposes and attempted use of a concealed camera to take photos of an adult victim for sexual purposes.
In addition to jail time, MacMillan will also serve three years’ probation and must register as a sex offender.
Students at Heron School in Sacramento captured video of the teacher using his cellphone to take pictures of a 12-year-old student under her desk, The Sacramento Bee reported.
A staff member at the kindergarten through eighth-grade school also reported that MacMillan tried to take a photo under her skirt.
School officials contacted Sacramento Police Department, which launched an investigation.
Investigators found multiple images of girls’ chest and genital areas on his cellphone that were taken without their knowledge.
Some parents said they were disappointed in the sentence.
“I think it’s horrible. I think it’s ridiculous and I think you should do a lot more time for that,” one parent with two students in the district told KOVR.
A law professor at McGeorge School of Law said MacMillan’s sentence might sound light but there’s more to it than meets the eye.
“Spending 30 days in jail is not inconsequential. It’s not 30 years, which if I was a parent I might think was appropriate, but the judge made a judgment call,” John Myers told the outlet. “His career is over, he’s registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life, he’ll never teach again and he has to go to jail for 30 days.”
The Natomas Unified School District said in a statement that it placed MacMillan on leave during the initial investigation. He resigned when termination proceedings began.
“The sentencing of Scott MacMillan supports the actions we took when allegations were raised. Safety of our students and staff is our top priority, so we initially placed Mr. MacMillan on leave while we and law enforcement investigated,” the statement said.
MacMillan, who taught school for 18 years, was a finalist for California’s Presidential Award of Excellence in 2016. The award is the nation’s highest honor for science teachers.
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Who would have thought that "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening would become a crusader against political correctness?
In a recent interview with USA Today, Groening essentially told SJWs demanding he apologize for the character Apu to take their outrage and, well….you get the idea.
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The liberals on The View geared up to defend Michelle Wolf’s comedy routine for a second day, and Meghan McCain returned to underline how badly conservatives distrust the media elites. Whoopi Goldberg claimed “journalists are an endangered species.” But Joy Behar really took the cake by insisting that no panelist on The View ever attacked Trump voters, just Trump. That’s a Pants-on-Fire lie.
Here’s how it went down: Behar claimed that distrust in the media somehow started with the Trump presidential campaign and his “fake news” attacks, and that Kellyanne Conway coined the term “alternative facts.”
MEGHAN McCAIN, feeling embattled: Trust me, I understand what you’re saying and I’m trying to, like, again, just have my perspective. I don’t mean to disrespect any of you but I also think that I know Trump supporters. I know how they look at the media. There’s a reason why — by the way, I was against it when it happened when they would scream “look at the crooked media” and they would be yelling and screaming at them at rallies. There’s a palpable distrust and anger toward the media, and I think the dinner made it worse.
JOY BEHAR: On this panel no one – far as I could tell – has ever said anything negative about Trump voters. Our animosity is towards Trump himself.
McCAIN: Sixty-six percent of Democrats feel that way, too, my producer just told me. [In the Monmouth poll she cites, 66 percent of independents, and 61 percent of Democrats agreed the media sometimes spread misinformation.]
BEHAR: We do go after Trump, I admit it. I’m one of his worst critics on television. But I do not attack the Trump voters. I don’t think you’ve ever heard me say that.
McCAIN: That’s not you.
BEHAR: You’re talking about the vibe here. And the vibe is not against Trump voters.
Behar apparently believes that a few months ago she was only mocking Vice President Mike Pence, and not traditional Christians in general, when she cracked “It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing when Jesus talks to you. That’s called mental illness, if I’m not correct. Hearing voices.”
We might spend several days making a long list underlining how preposterous these Behar statements are. Let’s just throw a few examples at the wall:
Co-host Joy Behar: “How is [removing birth control employer mandate from ObamaCare] it different from the Taliban I’d like to know?”…
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg: “I said this before. I’m going to say it again. With all these rollbacks and all the things we hear, what’s the difference between us and the people we’re fighting?”
Behar: “Nothing.”
Goldberg: “What’s the difference?”
Behar: “That’s what I’m saying. It’s to keep women down also. Let’s not forget they are trying to keep women in their place. Barefoot and pregnant.”
— ABC’s The View, June 1, 2017.
“What cost her the election is FBI Director Comey, what cost her the election, in my humble opinion is Russia’s hacking and what cost her the election is if you look at the stats, people – this was – I agree with Van Jones in a sense, this was a ‘white-lash.’ There’ve been studies. Twenty percent of people voted because of racism, and I think after eight years of a black president there was no way that this woman was going to win. There was no way….She was the most qualified candidate for president that we have ever had!”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, May 3, 2017.
“Can I have a second? I just want to say, there is a certain segment of the society that’s resentful of any poor child getting anything for free. Those people need to look in the mirror. There are certain people in this country they know who they are, a lot of them voted for Trump and there’s a resentment involved here.” – Joy Behar on The View, May 15, 2017.
Behar doesn’t just spew on The View. Promoting her book The Great Gasbag on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on November 24, 2017, she said she can’t handle Trump voters at dinner parties. “Because if you are a Trump supporter, there’s something going on with you that I can’t abide….That means that you don’t care about the environment. It means that you don’t care about women’s issues. It means you don’t care about the fact that he provokes that nutcase in North Korea. I’m worried about the country.”
Promoting that book on October 27, 2017 on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Behar mocked Van Jones. “He wants the Kumbaya. F— the Kumbaya! These people on that side are crazy! Don’t you understand they’re crazy? You don’t deal with white supremacists.” (She also said people should lay off the comedians, because “We are the philosophers right now.”)
PS: Joy has uncorked a variant of this “nobody mocks Trump supporters” argument before with Meghan McCain.
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A new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed that approximately two-thirds of eighth graders in American public schools were not proficient in reading and math last year.
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The bill, SB 174, would amend an old provision in the state code that was originally drawn up in 1872 “to exclude Chinese immigrants and other ‘transient aliens’ from holding appointed civil positions,” the Los Angeles Times notes.
However, Lara’s changes would not restrict state offices to citizens or legal residents, but rather allow anyone present in the state to serve, regardless of immigration status.
California has already allowed at least two illegal aliens to serve in state office. Most recently, State Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) appointed Lizbeth Mateo to the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee.
Mateo is an illegal alien who was brought to the U.S. as a minor by her parents but is not eligible for deferred deportation under DACA because she returned to Mexico and attempted to re-enter the U.S. in 2013 as part of a protest. She was detained at the border and requested asylum — after spending several weeks in Mexico with family.
Lara, who has made attacks on President Donald Trump the hallmark of his faltering campaign for California Insurance Commissioner, is notorious for proposing radical legislation.
Last year, Lara helped introduce the “Healthy California Act,” which would create a single-payer, government-run health care system in the state — though he never indicated how the state would pay for it. He also proposed legislation to discriminate against any contractors who work on President Trump’s border wall, banning them for life from doing business with the state. Lara also successfully introduced sanctuary state legislation that prevents local governments and law enforcement agencies from contracting with the federal government to detain illegal immigrants.
Despite his left-wing politics, which fit the current political climate in the state, Lara is reportedly losing badly to former California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who is running for his old job as an independent rather than as a Republican.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, MRC Censorship Project Director Allen West, and 61 other conservative leaders issued the following joint statement on Tuesday urging leading social media companies to adopt four key principles in order to ensure that conservatives receive equal treatment on these important platforms:
Social media censorship and online restriction of conservatives and their organizations have reached a crisis level. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearings on Capitol Hill only served to draw attention to how widespread this problem has become. Conservative leaders now have banded together to call for equal treatment on tech and social media.
Conservatives have encountered problems across platforms — Twitter, Facebook, Google, and its video platform YouTube especially. Social media firms have banned gun videos and rejected pro-life advertisements. They have skewed search results and adjusted trending topics in ways that have harmed the right. Firms have restricted and deleted videos, even academic content. Conservative tech employees have found their speech limited and their careers harmed. And top tech companies have given preferential treatment to anointed legacy media outlets that also lean left. These same tech titans then work with groups openly hostile to conservatives to restrict speech.
Here are four key areas that social media companies must address to begin to rectify their credibility problem:
1) Provide Transparency: We need detailed information so everyone can see if liberal groups and users are being treated the same as those on the right. Social media companies operate in a black-box environment, only releasing anecdotes about reports on content and users when they think it necessary. This needs to change. The companies need to design open systems so that they can be held accountable, while giving weight to privacy concerns.
2) Provide Clarity on ‘Hate Speech’: “Hate speech” is a common concern among social media companies, but no two firms define it the same way. Their definitions are vague and open to interpretation, and their interpretation often looks like an opportunity to silence thought. Today, hate speech means anything liberals don’t like. Silencing those you disagree with is dangerous. If companies can’t tell users clearly what it is, then they shouldn’t try to regulate it.
3) Provide Equal Footing for Conservatives: Top social media firms, such as Google and YouTube, have chosen to work with dishonest groups that are actively opposed to the conservative movement, including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those companies need to make equal room for conservative groups as advisers to offset this bias. That same attitude should be applied to employment diversity efforts. Tech companies need to embrace viewpoint diversity.
4) Mirror the First Amendment: Tech giants should afford their users nothing less than the free speech and free exercise of religion embodied in the First Amendment as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. That standard, the result of centuries of American jurisprudence, would enable the rightful blocking of content that threatens violence or spews obscenity, without trampling on free speech liberties that have long made the United States a beacon for freedom.
Social media companies must address these complaints if they wish to have any credibility with the conservative movement and its tens of millions of supporters. It is our hope they will do so in a positive way. If the social media firms engage the conservative movement with the spirit of cooperation, we will do our best to assist them.
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L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
LTC Allen B. West (USA, Ret)
Director, MRC Censorship Project
Media Research Center
Lamar Smith (TX-21)
Chairman, Media Fairness Caucus
Lila Rose
President
Live Action
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson
President & CEO
National Religious Broadcasters &
Internet Freedom Watch
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder and Chairman
ACT for America
Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
David Bozell
President
For America Inc.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan
Dave N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Ken Cuccinelli, II
President
Senate Conservatives Fund
Morton Blackwell
Chairman
Weyrich Lunch
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund
Ron Robinson
President
Young America’s Foundation
Tim Wildmon
President
American Family Association
James O’Keefe
CEO
Project Veritas
Richard Viguerie
Founder
American Targeted Advertising
Becky Norton Dunlop
Senior White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan
Kelly Shakelford
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
Cleta Mitchell
Political Law Attorney
Washington, DC
Penny Young Nance
CEO and President
Concerned Women for America
Kristan Hawkins
President
Students for Life of America
Mathew Staver, Esq.
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
Charles Copeland
President
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Frank Gaffney
Founder, President, and CEO
Center for Security Policy
Brian Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage
Clifford D. May
Founder and President
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Patrick Reilly
President
Cardinal Newman Society
Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
President
Heartland Institute
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer and Presidential Historian
William A. Donohue, Ph.D.
President
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
C. Preston Noell, III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc
James Martin
Founder and Chairman
60 Plus Association
Francis DeLuca
President
Civitas Institute
Gary Bauer
President
American Values
Diana Banister
President
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
Bob Adams
President
Revive America PAC
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Ryan Bomberger
Chief Creative Officer
Radiance Foundation
Tricia Erickson
President, Angel Pictures & Publicity, Inc
Publisher of TheConservativePundit.net
Author
Richard P. Bott, II
President and CEO
Bott Radio Network
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President
60 Plus Association
Floyd Brown
Publisher
Western Journal
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising, Inc.
Susan A. Carleson
Chairman/CEO
American Civil Rights Union
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Angelo Codevilla
Senior Fellow
Claremont Institute
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
T. Kenneth Cribb
President Emeritus
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Colin Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring
Gene Mills
President
Louisiana Family Forum
John Hinderaker
President
Center of the American Experiment
Everett Piper
President
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Amy Kremer
Co-chair
Women for Trump
The Honorable Donald J. Devine
Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
President Ronald Reagan
Tom Donelson
Chairman
Americas PAC
Jeffrey G. Hunt
Chairman
Western Conservative Summit
George Landrith
President
Frontiers of Freedom
Patrick Brown
CEO
Liftable Media
Rod D. Martin
Founder and CEO
The Martin Organization
Tom McCabe
CEO
Freedom Foundation
Avik Roy
President
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
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