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Breaking: First Video of Irma Destruction Is Released

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Breaking: First Video of Irma Destruction Is Released

By Kimberly J Smith
on September 6, 2017 at 10:24am

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Video of Hurricane Irma making landfall in the Caribbean revealed just how powerful the storm is.

The video, uploaded to Youtubeby PTZtv, was reportedly footage from St. Martin’s Maho Beach camera at a AAA Rent-A-Car in the area.

The winds in this hurricane are reaching a devastating 185 mph and the video shows just how powerful that is as trees can be seen bending in the wind.

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The National Hurricane Center has warned that the life-threatening storm is capable of catastrophic damage, and it is easy to see why from this video.

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Irma is shaping up to be a monster, and everyone in the path of this hurricane should take warnings seriously.

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The hurricane passed directly over Barbuda and St. Martin and was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in that region.

As Irma passed over Barbuda, a weather station in the area registered wind gusts to 155 mph before going offline. The rise in water reached nearly 8 feet.

Irma is forecast to weaken to a Category 4 or 5 storm over the next two days, but that doesn’t mean she will be any less dangerous.

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Irma is heading toward the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the southeastern Bahamas and Florida, presenting a clear and present danger to the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands, in particular.

Iram is expected to slam Florida on Saturday with tropical-storm-force winds, with the worst conditions occurring Sunday. It is nearly impossible to pinpoint exactly where Irma will go, but one thing is clear — this is a major storm that has the capability of tearing up everything in its path.

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Colleges Struggle Financially After Refusing to Uphold Free Speech Principles

Colleges Struggle Financially After Refusing to Uphold Free Speech Principles

by Tom Ciccotta4 Sep 20170

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Institutions of higher learning including the University of Missouri and Evergreen State College have faced significant financial repercussions following their decision to tolerate radical calls to curb free speech rights.

A report published by Fox News on September 1 argues that prospective students and parents are growing wary of universities that are bowing to the demands of leftist faculty and students who want to de-platform speakers and label certain ideas as “off-limits.”

Both the University of Missouri and Evergreen State College have faced serious financial repercussions in response to decisions that were made over left-wing protests. These repercussions in include effects on institutional reputation, which affects all students as they go out into the world and seek employment.

The University of Missouri has closed five dormitory buildings following a series of protests that took place in 2015. The university’s residential life director, Frankie Minor, announced in April that three additional dorm buildings would be “taken offline” for Fall 2017 academic year due to a decrease in first-year enrollment. This was announced in an email that informed student employees who work in residential life that they may be transferred to another job on campus due to the lack of enrollment. Most assumed that the drop in enrollment was in response to a serious of protests that took place on the campus in 2015. Most memorably, then-Professor Melissa Click called for some “muscle” to remove a student journalist was documenting the protests with his camera.

More recently, Evergreen State College faced a similar drop in enrollment and a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall following a series of chaotic protests over Professor Bret Weinstein’s email about a planned activism event at the college.

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni told Fox News that the way an institution approaches free speech matters greatly to prospective parents and students. “When they look to what college to pick, parents and students are thinking of the largest investment their family is likely to make beyond the purchase of a home,” Pfeffer Merrill said. “Across the political spectrum, one of the most essential assets is [the opportunity] to be exposed to a wide range of views.”

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Photo: The Real Michelle Just Got Caught in Sick, Cop-Hating Photo

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Photo: The Real Michelle Just Got Caught in Sick, Cop-Hating Photo

By Ben Marquis
on September 5, 2017 at 3:14pm

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The internet and mainstream media were all aflutter Monday, not in celebration of Labor Day or anything else of national importance, but because it was the birthday of pop superstar Beyoncé, and some of the singer’s most famous friends dressed up like her as tribute.

According to CBS News, even former first lady Michelle Obama joined with the likes of tennis champ Serena Williams, former Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, and more than a dozen other friends of the singer to don her signature look from the “Formation” music video in portraits that were later posted online.

CNN positively gushed over the photo of Michelle Obama wearing two thick braids and a wide-brimmed black hat pulled low over her eyes, as if this were the greatest sight ever witnessed in the entirety of humanity.

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The post proceeded to explain how the former first lady and pop singer have been friends for many years, with Beyoncé performing at both of former President Barack Obama’s inaugurations. The now 36-year-old singer also helped launch Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign in 2011.

In the tweet below, Michelle Obama is on the left. Beyonce is on the right.

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But as Independent Journal Review pointed out, what the vast majority of mainstream posts on the Beyonce birthday tribute failed to mention was the controversy that came along with the release of the “Formation” song and video that Obama and the other women were emulating.

The fiery song and accompanying video released in early 2016 was a pointed, politically charged piece that featured plenty of anti-police and pro-Black Lives Matter movement imagery.

The singer then performed the cop-hating, controversial piece — accompanied by backup dancers dressed as cop-hating Black Panther Party militants — as part of the halftime performance during the 2016 Super Bowl, spurring numerous protests by police organizations nationwide.

The imagery of a former first lady approving that sent a message to police officers and their supporters loud and clear — that the cop hatred among liberals the final years of the Obama administration isn’t going away.

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Obviously, none of that apparently matters to the media, who ignored the controversy and celebrated Michelle Obama’s ode to an anti-cop song.

Though some may see absolutely nothing wrong with Obama dressing as Beyoncé from “Formation,” others have received a message loud and clear from that portrait — one Obama may or may not have been intending to send.

At least she didn’t flip the bird to the camera while posing in the outfit as the singer defiantly did in the video, so there is that, for whatever it is worth.

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WATCH: Dem Sen. Dianne Feinstein Admits DACA is on “Shaky Legal Ground”

During an appearance on MSNBC with Chuck Todd Tuesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was asked if DACA was legal. After a little bit of prodding, Senator Feinstein admitted DACA is on “shaky legal ground.”

Breitbart News reports:

Feinstein answered, “DACA was executive order. Legal is the law of passage of something. I — you know, there are ten attorneys general that are prepared to sue. I don’t want to get into that. The point is, DACA is here. And we’ve got 800,000 young people –.”

Todd then cut in to say, “Your answer indicates, though, that it’s on shaky legal ground.”

Feinstein stated, “It is. That’s why we need to pass a law, and we should do it.”

On Tuesday President Trump announced an end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to illegal immigrants who arrived in this country illegally with their lawbreaking parents or guardians.

After Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement Barack Obama posted a statement on Facebook.
Obama calls DREAMERS “some of our best and brightest young people… who want to contribute to the country we love.”

Obama then plays his race card, something we are all very familiar with after his eight years in the White House.

What makes us American is not a question of what we look like, or where our names come from, or the way we pray. What makes us American is our fidelity to a set of ideals – that all of us are created equal; that all of us deserve the chance to make of our lives what we will; that all of us share an obligation to stand up, speak out, and secure our most cherished values for the next generation.

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Chicago: Thousands More Votes Than Voters In 2016, GOP Official Says

No problem there… Via Fox News: The head of the Chicago Republican Party is claiming the city reported thousands more votes cast than voters in the 2016 election — sparking a battle with Chicago officials who call the allegations overblown. First reported by the Chicago City Wire, the Chicago GOP filed a Freedom of Information […]

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Anti-Trump Actress Alyssa Milano Gets Slammed For Tasteless National Prayer Day Tweet

There’s a lot of noise about so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome; while this seems like an over-used hyperbolic swipe at lefties, the term is actually fitting for actress Alyssa Milano.

On National Prayer Day, a day designated by President Donald Trump to offer prayer for the victims and the people fighting through the destruction of Hurricane Harvey, anti-hate Milano sought to bash the president, instead of applauding or merely ignoring the nonpartisan move like all the sane people.

The actress captioned the tweet with, “Remember, Sunday is National Asshole Day (by Presidential Proclamation)!”

Classy.

Milano was then hammered by folks across the political spectrum for her moronic tweet.

Ouch.

To be fair to Milano, she’s been going through some hard times. Since November, Pantsuit Queen Hill lost the election, Hollywood favorite Jon Ossoff lost the special election in Georgia, Milano reportedly evaded taxes (which is ironic because liberals love taxes and big government), and President Trump has remained in office despite her temper tantrums.

Life is hard.

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Antifa Loses It When “Proud Boys” Make Their Rounds in Harvey Relief Efforts

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, goodhearted Americans have traveled to Texas to aid in recovery efforts, including a “pro-Western fraternal organization” known as the Proud Boys.

The group, which celebrates Western civilization and its contributions to the world instead of apologizing for it, not only assisted in rescue efforts, but members also collected supplies for storm victims and stood in flood-ravaged neighborhoods with firearms to protect damaged homes from looters.

It was the latter of those efforts that attracted the attention of so-called “antifa” leftists who, of course, had a problem with the group walking around with guns, daring to use their Second Amendment rights to protect the community.

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After a picture of the Proud Boys holding guns while standing in calf-deep water was posted to social media, liberals came out of the woodwork to criticize them.

One Twitter user mocked the Proud Boys as being in Texas to “wave rifles around” in their efforts to prevent looting.

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Actually, I’d be willing to bet that these guys would do a lot more than “wave their rifle around” if some looters tried to steal from a hurricane victim.

Another Twitter user labeled them “fascist paramilitaries.”

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In reality, these were men who, without concern for their own well-being, took up arms to protect a community from criminals.

“(W)hen I saw the picture of a group of Houston Proud Boys, it gave me joy. I saw men who were standing up for their communities,” a writer for the Proud Boys website noted.

Nevertheless, because some leftists believe that the Proud Boys are “fascist” and “racist,” they feel compelled to attack their well-intended actions in helping flood victims.

In fact, as pointed out by a Proud Boy, the group is decidedly not racist, fascist, homophobic or any other insult the left has thrown at them. They are just men who believe strongly in Western society.

“We are a fraternal organization like the Elks Lodge,” founder Gavin McInnes wrote for the Proud Boy magazine. “There are NO racial requirements to be in the Proud Boys. We don’t care what your sexual preference is and that includes guys dating trans.”

In addition, McInnes noted, although a majority of the group support President Donald Trump, some of even backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Why do radical leftist groups like antifa have such a problem with Americans going out of their way to help others?

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Liberals Suddenly Discover That Registering With A Federal Database Is A Bad Thing

The amazing thing about Donald Trump is he helps liberals see how things they once thought were good are suddenly bad. Take for instance federal registries. Liberals thought it would be a great idea to force all gun owners to register their weapons in a federal database and saw no potential for abuse of power. Now that Trump has ended DACA, they worry that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who registered are at risk from having their names and address in a federal database. Is president Trump amazing or what?

When he was running the ship (into the ground) Obama decided to legislate from the Oval Office and granted amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens with his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Because this “law” was created by executive order and bypassed the Congress, who are the ones who make our laws, DACA is completely unconstitutional. President Trump repealed DACA with instructions that Congress should get off their asses and pass meaningful immigration reform.

Under DACA, illegal aliens who were brought to this country by their illegal alien parents were granted temporary relief from deportation. Known as “DREAMers” people who were eligible for this program registered with the federal government and were given, among other things, work permits. Everyone who didn’t give a shit about our immigration laws or the security of American workers (I believe we call them liberals) rejoiced in this illegal action from Obama. Now however, they see a potential downside.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was one of the first lefties to have that “oh shit” moment:

“Dreamers registered their addresses under DACA, so now the government knows exactly where to go to arrest them and their parents,” wrote Kristof.

Clearly liberals are bummed that people who are breaking the law might actually face justice, but this reaction also exposes some pretty serious hypocrisy. Liberals like Kristof and definitely his employer have for years supported a national gun registry. They wanted every gun owner in the US, except criminals, to register their names, addresses, and firearms with the federal government.

I never heard any liberals complaining that an abusive government could use that national gun registry to track down gun owners and confiscate their weapons. I don’t recall anyone on the left being concerned that a national gun registry could lead to the mass arrests of American gun owners. A gun registry would tell the government exactly where the gun owners live and what types of weapons they have. In the event that democrats were in power, they could use the registry to enact their goal of disarming the country and yet not one liberal uttered a word against it.

Yet now, registries are bad because the government could use them to enforce existing immigration laws. And really, that’s the biggest difference with this. Americans have a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, while illegal aliens have no right to be in this country.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter how liberals got there, President Trump has shown them how bad federal registries and databases are. Now if only he could get them to understand how destructive illegal immigration, high taxes, and senseless regulations are as well as the fact that all civil rights are important, they could become normal productive members of society.

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Feinstein Admits DACA on Shaky Legal Ground

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) gave a lengthy conceded Tuesday that the Obama-era executive action DACA was on "shaky legal ground."

On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would phase-out DACA, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions emphasizing that the order constituted an "unconstitutional exercise of authority."

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA,  gave those brought into the United States illegally as children shelter from deportation. The executive order was implemented under President Barack Obama in June of 2012.

Chuck Todd, host of MSNBC’s "Meet the Press Daily," asked Feinstein straight: "Was DACA legal?"

"DACA was executive order," Feinstein said. "Legal is the law of passage of something. I, you know, there are ten attorneys general that are prepared to sue. I don’t want to get into that."

Feinstein then argued that DACA’s legality is now irrelevant.

"The point is, DACA is here. And we’ve got 800,000 young people who depend on it," she said.

Todd, clearly not satisfied, tried again.

"Your answer indicates, though, that it’s on shaky legal ground," he said.

"It is. That’s why we need to pass a law. And we should do it," Feinstein said.

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PAPER: NSA Offered Hillary Clinton’s “Lost” Emails to FBI— Comey Turned Them Down

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election expands, one curious detail in Hillary Clinton’s email probe remains. The “lost” emails from Clinton’s private server aren’t lost — in fact — the NSA has them, but during the FBI’s investigation, Comey didn’t want to hear about it. 

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Remember, the Republicans now control this committee. So bad news isn’t going to be stifled anymore.

Clinton, you probably remember, “lost” her private emails, which she’d been storing on a personal computer server. Comey chastised her harshly in a televised speech but then said there was a unanimous decision not to recommend prosecution.

Clinton’s emails, which were stolen by the Russians, have never been found. But as I’ve mentioned numerous times, the messages are still in the possession of the National Security Agency (NSA), which offered to give them to the FBI.

Comey turned down that offer, according to a source who has been very reliable.

I’ve also mentioned that Comey fibbed when he said his agents unanimously agreed that prosecution was unnecessary. In fact, my source says that FBI agents were irate about the decision not to go after Clinton.

James Comey’s irreparable reputation took another body blow last week after a memo emerged, written by the former FBI Director, appearing to exonerate Hillary Clinton of any wrongdoing in relation to her handling of classified information — prior to the investigation’s conclusion. With all the focus on Comey’s role in Hillary Clinton’s exoneration, it begs the question if the decision was made by a “higher power.”

No, not God.

But by a man who may think of himself as one — Barack Obama. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy believes Obama was the puppet master, so to speak, driving the narrative to insure Hillary was gotten off the hook, ensuring the Democrat Party continued its control over the White House.

National Review reports:

Let’s think about what else was going on in April 2016. I’ve written about it a number of times over the last year-plus, such as in a column a few months back: On April 10, 2016, President Obama publicly stated that Hillary Clinton had shown “carelessness” in using a private e-mail server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the [criminal statutes relevant to her e-mail scandal]). The president acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, its importance had been vastly overstated. This is precisely the reasoning that Comey relied on in ultimately absolving Clinton, as I recounted in the same column: On July 5, 2016, FBI director James Comey publicly stated that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in using a private email server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the relevant criminal statute).

The director acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, it was just a small percentage of the emails involved. Obama’s April statements are the significant ones. They told us how this was going to go. The rest is just details. In his April 10 comments, Obama made the obvious explicit: He did not want the certain Democratic nominee, the candidate he was backing to succeed him, to be indicted. Conveniently, his remarks (inevitably echoed by Comey) did not mention that an intent to endanger national security was not an element of the criminal offenses Clinton was suspected of committing – in classic Obama fashion, he was urging her innocence of a strawman crime while dodging any discussion of the crimes she had actually committed.

As we also now know – but as Obama knew at the time – the president himself had communicated with Clinton over her non-secure, private communications system, using an alias. The Obama administration refused to disclose these several e-mail exchanges because they undoubtedly involve classified conversations between the president and his secretary of state. It would not have been possible to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for mishandling classified information without its being clear that President Obama had engaged in the same conduct. The administration was never, ever going to allow that to happen.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday, it looks like Comey has some explaining to do. The former FBI Director testified to Congress that he decided not to recommended charges in relation to handling of classified information, after the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton on July 2, 2016. However, a new report reveals Comey penned a memo exonerating Clinton in the Spring.

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