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How crazy has the left gotten? They’re even forbidding speech on knitting sites. We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. More details: https://t.co/hEyu9LjqXa — Ravelry (@ravelry) June 23, 2019 While they got […]
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“Hey UT23! Do you wanna be famous?” tweeted an account allegedly operated by leftist students, “If you join YCT or Turning Point USA, you just might be. Your name and more could end up on an article like one of these. So be sure to make smart choices at #UTOrientation.”
The tweet also contained two links from an anarchist blog called “Austin Autonomedia.” The blog posts include personal information — such as the names, phone numbers, and emails —belonging to the school’s YCT and TPUSA members.
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Do you wanna be famous?If you join YCT or Turning Point USA, you just might be. Your name and more could end up on an article like one of these 👇https://t.co/kJq6zJHwEGhttps://t.co/AGa4n2tHfC
So be sure to make smart choices at #UTOrientation
— Bevo MCCCXII (@Bevo1312) June 6, 2019
The term “dox” refers to the disclosure of personal, private information — such as a phone number or home address — belonging to a specific individual, which is typically posted to the Internet or in a public area for others to use with malicious intent.
“Over the past months, we’ve gathered lots of data connecting various parties within the YCT and telling us more about their activities,” reads one blog post published last October, “So far, we have 4 articles published on this site about the YCT — we’re putting out this compilation of all of the information on all of the YCT members we currently know of.”
“Two weeks ago, the new chapter of Turning Point USA at UT hosted their first meeting,” states a second blog post published a week later, “It was interrupted for a while by a fire alarm, forcing the meeting to move outside — where it was easy to see and overhear their conversation.”
“We’ve gathered intelligence about what exactly happened at this meeting, who is involved in TPUSA, and what TPUSA’s emergence on campus means,” continues the blog, “We encourage you to share this article with your professors, TAs, classmates, and other networks.”
The blog goes on to actively encourage the harassment of conservative students, stating that it is “extremely important to get organized early, while this [TPUSA] group is in its infancy.”
“Building connections and sharing information between students and professors will be essential to solidarity campaigns in case of targeted harassment,” reads the blog, “Disrupting their organizing, slowing down their recruitment, and shutting down their larger events will make their efforts both uncomfortable, infeasible, and unprofitable.”
“They should be organized against accordingly,” affirms the Austin Autonomedia blog.
The following month, when the school’s TPUSA group held an event on campus, leftist students attempted to shut down the event. One of the groups involved in organizing the protests was the “Autonomous Student Network.” Two leftists were arrested as a result of the protests.
Moreover, the same group had also harassed and doxed pro-Kavanaugh students on campus. In the fall 2018 semester, leftists at UT Austin surrounded conservative students during a pro-Kavanaugh demonstration, where they shouted obscenities and destroyed signs expressing support of the judge.
The next day, the pro-Kavanaugh students were doxed in yet another blog post by the same “Austin Autonomedia” website.
According to the recent tweet, it appears the leftists are preparing to dox incoming freshmen who dare to join conservative groups on campus — and given their track record, it doesn’t seem as though it is simply an empty threat.
“Students should never be targeted or face harassment for their affiliations, political beliefs or any other reason,” said UT Austin spokesperson Shilpa Bakre to Breitbart News, “The anonymous group behind this doxxing is not affiliated with the university, is not a registered student group and should not present itself in that way.”
“As they did last fall, University Police are continuing to work to ensure the safety of any targeted students and monitor for any potential criminal acts,” added Bakre.
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The U.S. Catholic Church is facing “one of the most serious potential violations of religious freedom in its history in the form of SB 360 in California,” writes Allen, author of the 2013 bestseller The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution, since the bill would compel priests to reveal information learned while hearing confessions as evidence against possible sex offenders.
“The bill passed the California senate in late May by a 30-2 vote and is expected to be considered by the State Assembly in September,” Allen notes.
On the international scene, “the scope of anti-Christian hostility is staggering,” Allen continues, with the number of Christians facing “harassment, physical assault, arrest and imprisonment, torture, and even death” on a daily basis estimated at around 200 million.
Christians in North Korea, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria and a host of other countries live under a constant threat of active persecution, as documented by Open Doors, a Christian persecution watchdog group.
Even in Latin America, the world’s largest “Catholic” region, the number of Catholic clergy and personnel killed each year frequently tops the list of continents.
While the defense of religious freedom should apply equally to all creeds, Allen asserts, anti-Christian persecution deserves particular focus “given the wall of silence that still too often surrounds the subject.”
“Just as one didn’t have to be Jewish to sympathize with the plight of dissident Jews in the Soviet Union, and didn’t have to be black to be outraged by apartheid in South Africa, similarly today one shouldn’t have to be Christian to recognize anti-Christian persecution as a human rights scourge of mammoth proportions,” Allen writes.
Saturday marked the beginning of the U.S. bishops’ yearly “Religious Freedom Week,” which runs this year from June 22-29.
The bishops have assigned a particular focus to each day of the campaign, urging the faithful to pray for their brothers and sisters who face persecution and to inform themselves as to the depth and breadth of the problem:
Saturday: Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, martyred under King Henry VIII
Sunday: Middle East Christians
Monday: Faithful Public Servants
Tuesday: Persecution of the Rohingya
Wednesday: Foster Care and Adoption
Thursday: Persecution of Christians in Nigeria
Friday: Religion: A Public Good
Saturday: Religious Freedom for Incarcerated Persons
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America’s most beloved (and hated) fast-food chain, Chick-fil-A, will be going straight into the lion’s den this week by opening its first ever restaurant in the ultra-left-wing haven of Seattle, Washington.
According to Eater, the restaurant will be operating within the Seattle city limits in Bitter Lake and it already has customers camping overnight to get themselves that first bite of a juicy chicken sandwich when it opens on June 27.
“In the past, opening events have included parking lot campouts of fans hoping to win a year’s worth of free meals. They’ve also caused traffic jams for weeks,” reports KIRO. “In 2015, the opening of the Bellevue location had police officers directing traffic to keep cars moving and the crowds continued for several weeks. The city had to implement a new traffic plan to accommodate the massive lines of cars traveling around the restaurant.”
Despite the restaurant’s clear popularity, some leftists have expressed hope that Seattle-ites will mount a sandwich-killing boycott of the new location. Writing for The Stranger, Katie Herzog wrote a cruelly mean-spirited piece in which she suggested that Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s “biblical definition of the family unit” means he wants “a mob to rape his daughters instead of the angels they’d rather rape instead.”
“Will there be protests when Chick-fil-A opens its doors?” wrote Herzog of the new Seattle location. “It’s certainly possible—Seattle loves a good picket … The president of Chick-fil-A has some crazy and clearly bigoted beliefs, to be sure, but tons of other corporations have donated to anti-gay politicians and no one pitches a fit about it on Twitter, much less starts a boycott. Even worse, some of these companies do it while promoting themselves as pro-gay.”
Despite the obvious hatred for Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A, Herzog ultimately concluded that dozens of companies who wave the rainbow flag and pronounce themselves as being pro-gay have a ton of hypocrisy in how they practice.
“This doesn’t mean I’ll be frequenting Chick-fil-A, and I fully support anyone who chooses to wage some kind of protest against this company coming to Seattle,” said Herzog. “But at the same time, if you’re going to boycott Chick-fil-A for being anti-gay, you may want to consider boycotting companies that wave Pride flags while donating to politicians who harm actual queer people.”
The fact Seattle actually allowed a Chick-fil-A to stand without some serious governmental pushback is a nothing short of a miracle in light of the discrimination the restaurant has faced in recent months, with universities and airports seeking to ban the fast-food chain from doing business over to the founder’s biblical worldview on human sexuality. In 2019 alone, the chain has been banned from two major airports — San Antonio and Buffalo — and several universities.
Most recently, a dean at Rider University resigned from his post when the school banned the fast food restaurant on campus. Officials in San Mateo, California, also tried (and failed) to prevent the restaurant from obtaining an architectural permit.
To prevent further discrimination, the Texas House recently passed a “Save Chick-fil-A” bill to prevent the San Antonio Airport and other venues in the state from banning the restaurant. As noted by The Daily Wire, however, the chicken giant just continues to thrive, becoming the third biggest fast-food chain in the United States with $10.2 billion in sales.
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Gaffe machine strikes again. Via Mediaite: Former Vice President and current Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden compared the election and administration of President Donald Trump with the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. On Saturday, Biden sat for his first cable news interview since launching his campaign, speaking at length with […]
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President Trump sat down for an interview with MSNBC host Chuck Todd and told him his biggest regrets of his first term as US president.
The President told Chuck Todd that if he could have one do-over it would be personnel.
“I would say if I had one do-over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.”
“That’s your, in your mind, that’s your worst mistake?” Chuck Todd asked.
“Yeah, that was the biggest mistake.” Trump replied.
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.@realDonaldTrump: "I would say if I had one do-over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general."@ChuckTodd: "That’s your, in your mind, that’s your worst mistake?"
"Yeah, that was the biggest mistake."https://t.co/qtrOpuhoDT pic.twitter.com/9KY6N6L2xM
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 23, 2019
Trump is correct.
His appointment of Jeff Sessions proved to be a disaster for his first two years because the Justice Department got hijacked by Deep State criminals.
After recusing himself like a coward and allowing Rosenstein and Mueller to hijack the Justice Department for two years – which ended in a bloodbath of Trump associates, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions had the gall to say in April it’s time to move past the Mueller probe.
Thankfully Trump fired Jeff Sessions in November and brought on Bill Barr to be his new Attorney General. Barr took control of Mueller’s witch hunt and immediately shut it down.
Sessions cited the wrong law when he recused himself from the Russia investigation and all things Hillary Clinton the first day on the job.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein became the de facto Attorney General and quickly appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller and gave him permission (with THREE scope memos) to rove around unchecked in a massive, $35 million witch hunt.
Mueller, Rosenstein, Weissmann and over a dozen angry, crooked Democrat donors on the special counsel’s team ruined many lives and reputations over the past two years with perjury traps and damaging leaks to the media.
General Mike Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Carter Page were targeted for ruin — Manafort ended up in solitary confinement and sentenced to over 10 years in prison.
Flynn, a three-star General, was forced to sell a home after being buried in legal fees thanks to Mueller’s corrupt witch hunt.
Good riddance, Jeff Sessions!
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Prior to the Trump administration, assessed Spalding, America had not effectively realigned its global strategy towards addressing geopolitical threats from an ascendant China.
“Despite the fact that the National Security Strategy said we have entered an era of great power competition, again, we just haven’t oriented ourselves to it,” said Spalding. “In addition to the regional competition you have between Iran — which is both a Persian-Arab and a Shiite-Sunni competition — you have a global competition between the U.S. and China.”
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Spalding continued, “In each of the regions … we have regional combatant commanders. In Europe you have the Russians who are causing problems for the European commander. In the Middle East you have Iran who is causing problems for the Central Command commander. In the Indo-Pacific, you have the North Koreans who are causing problems for the Pacific Command commander.”
China, stated Spalding, is the primary common denominator unifying the aformentioned regional threats to America’s global security interests.
“Each of these commanders are vying for resources in dealing with these regional challenges,” explained Spalding. “The problem is that each one of these regional problems is linked to the main problem, which is China. Now, the interesting thing we had in the competition in the Cold War is that Soviet Union wasn’t really an economic competitor. It didn’t have a strong economy. The Chinese do. They’re the number two economy in the world. So they’re using this big economy and this wide global net to support each of these challenges to the United States.”
China wages economic warfare against the U.S. by supporting — and enriching itself off of — America’s competitors in Asia and the Middle East.
“Since we’re in economic competition, part of that competition by the Chinese is to drain the coffers of the United States — so keep defense spending high — by keeping it pinned down in the Middle East, in Europe, and in Asia,” determined Spalding.
Spalding called for more responsibility-sharing and decentralization of military and security preparations with America’s allies and partners against the aforementioned potential threats.
“In order to actually break out of this, you have to step back and take an approach that relies on regional partners,” Spalding said. “So in the Middle East, that’d be the Saudis and a lot of their Arab allies, and in Asia it’d have to be the South Koreans and the Japanese.”
Spalding went on, saying, “In each of these regions, the partners there have to step up, and then we have to basically save our strength. We have to reinvest in the country. We have to grow our economy. We haven’t invested in infrastructure, STEM education or research and development in 30 years. All those things are being taken away by these endless wars that we’re fighting.”
Spalding drew on Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 warning of a growing “military industrial complex” driving American policies towards its own ends.
“What we have to do is basically take a page out of Eisenhower’s book, where he said, ‘Beware the military industrial complex; the undue influence of them,’” advised Spalding. “And then focus on deterrence. Don’t spend all your money on weapons and focus on growing your economy. So things that Eisenhower did like the national highway system. In the space race we educated all our scientists on federal grants and our R&D budget in the 60s was 2 percent. All those things lead to enormous economic growth, and we haven’t spent on any of those things in the last 30 years.”
Military capacity cannot be separated from economic capacity, noted Spalding.
“The challenge is that we have this enormous budget expenditure on defense, and we’re not actually building — or rebuilding, in the case of infrastructure — the things that actually grow the economy,” declared Spalding.
Spalding recalled his time as a national security adviser in the Trump administration.
“When I got to the White House, one of the biggest contentions I heard was, ‘Economic security and national security have no relation whatsoever,’ and what I tried to impart on my colleagues was, ‘If you don’t have a strong economy, it doesn’t matter, because you’re not going to be able to pay for the things you need to secure yourself,’” shared Spalding.
Spalding added, “Now we’ve got an even bigger challenge because not only have we not invested in the things that actually grow the economy, like infrastructure, STEM education, and research and development, we’ve actually divested of most of our industrial base.”
China’s control of international logistics — particularly global shipping infrastructure — threatens American national security, explained Spalding.
“Today, when you talk about the defense industrial base in the United States, when China entered the WTO, we closed 78,000 factories,” recalled Spalding. “We put 5.4 million people out of work. We closed ship-building facilities. We closed so much of our manufacturing capability that today we’re heavily reliant on the Chinese to provide the things we need to fight.”
Spalding continued, “Not only that, [the Chinese] have managed to — in buying all these global ports and buying most of the global shipping — control all the logistics. So think about that $800 billion [defense] budget we spend, and then all the money we’re spending to move and ship personnel and supplies all over the world, and you realize that the Chinese are making enormous sums out of what we do on a day-to-day basis. This is what they’ve built.”
Spalding explained China’s procurement of influence via financial relationship with America’s academia, businesses, entertainment and news media companies, non-profits and think tanks, and politicians.
“What the Chinese have done — they’ve studied us, they’ve studied the competition we had with the Soviet Union — they realized that if we ever became focused on their activities, then that would be tough for them because they relied on our openness in order to go after us,” stated Spalding. “So they were essentially slowly eroding our personal freedoms through their economic and financial interaction with the country.”
Spalding said, “Most of the country’s elites have essentially aligned themselves — corporate interests, academia, politics, law firms, think tanks — with the Chinese Communist Party because of financial interests, and the Chinese knew that if they could continue to pursue that — and if we stayed distracted in the Middle East or in Europe or in Asia with North Korea — that they could continue to slowly erode our competitive edge.”
“In essence, they want us to spend as much money as we can on defense, because that is not their area where they want to compete with us,” assessed Spalding. “They want us to bankrupt ourselves. That’s the goal.”
President Donald Trump, said Spalding, had reversed the status quo of America’s approach towards China set by his presidential predecessors.
“Until 2017, when the president basically said, ‘Enough is enough,’ that’s what we were doing,” Spalding remarked. “The only challenge I think that we have going forward is that we have to realize that the defense budget is actually taking away from other things that we need to invest in that would make us more competitive in a long-term economic competition with China that we find ourselves in.”
“They use the profits they make off [their dealings with America] to help the Iranians, to help the North Koreans, to help the Russians, both in a technological sense [and] economic sense,” concluded Spalding of China’s geopolitical strategy, describing Trump’s “decoupling” of America from dependence on Chinese exports and logistic as a means to reinforce America’s global positioning. “Essentially, they’re aiding and abetting these countries that we’re trying to put sanctions on, while at the same time turning around and helping them. Whether or not they’re directly involved in the Iranians placing mines on tankers in the Persian Gulf, they’re complicit in that they’re enabling the Iranians to have the resources that enable them to do these things.”
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According to a New York Times survey, eleven 2020 Democrat presidential candidates backed healthcare for illegal immigrants either under Medicare for All or a public option, while eight Democrats either did not answer the question or did not provide a clear answer.
Here are the 2020 Democrats that backed health care for illegal immigrants:
They would be allowed to buy into my public option. Under current law, hospitals in the U.S. cannot refuse to treat patients who need care. Therefore, our system already pays for health care for undocumented immigrants — usually through emergency rooms, which are the most expensive form of care.
Here are the 2020 Democrats that did not back health care for illegal immigrants or did not answer the question:
Many 2020 Democrats’ embrace of giving health care to illegal immigrants raises the question over whether it will only increase America’s illegal immigration problem.
As Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak noted in October, “You can’t have universal health care and open borders.”
“The same people who say we should have “Medicare for All” also want to allow as many immigrants into the country as possible — legal or illegal,” Pollak explained. “That would swiftly bankrupt and destroy whatever health care the government managed to provide, leaving Americans with nothing.”
Further, 2008 and 2012 presidential candidate and former Congressman Ron Paul contended that America’s current welfare system encourages more illegal immigration.
To solve the problem, Paul contended that America should make it harder for illegal immigrants to access American welfare. Paul said that to fix illegal immigration there should not be “a penny in welfare for immigrants. It’s really that simple.”
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The New York Times recently asked 21 of the Democratic candidates running for president 18 questions, hitting topics ranging from immigration and climate change to their favorite comfort foods and most recent embarrassing moments.
The Washington Free Beacon came up with 18 much better questions to ask the massive field. Here they are.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the current frontrunner to win the Democratic party’s presidential nomination in 2020, is under attack this week after touting his close working relationship with two segregationist senators in the 1970s.
Biden’s primary opponents are piling on, while some of his former colleagues in Congress are defending him, which is more than can be said about some of his own campaign advisers. A bizarre dynamic appears to exist between Biden and these advisers, who seem all too willing to throw their boss under the bus when controversy strikes.
Joe Biden’s advisers had warned him not to use racist former Sen. James O. Eastland as an example of someone he could work with.
But Biden did last night. Now he is under fire from 2020 foes and others. Cory Booker says he should apologize immediately. https://t.co/ifzVli2TfN
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CNN reports that Biden advisers warned the candidate not cite James Eastland, a former Senator from Mississippi who repeatedly referred to black Americans as an "inferior race," when discussing his ability to work with people who don’t share his views. A person close to Biden told CNN the former veep needed to find a "new, less problematic example."
Politico also spoke to a campaign source who said the issue had become "a point of contention" between Biden and his staff, who appear eager to wash their hands of the situation. "There’s only so much we can do. This is his decision," the source said.
It’s not the first time Biden staffers have confronted the candidate on a hot-button issue. The Atlantic reports that campaign advisers previously lobbied Biden to rescind his support of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of abortions. They were ultimately successful, but Biden was not easily persuaded to change his position:
Joe Biden’s aides knew that the 2020 front-runner was going to get ripped apart over his support of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion procedures. They were frustrated that the former vice president wouldn’t change his stance, and that he wasn’t initially receptive to their concerns. Now that Biden has come out against Hyde, his aides are trying to prevent him from being labeled a flip-flopper.
One also gets the sense that Biden advisers are routinely annoyed with their boss’s shenanigans. Former example, senior adviser Symone Sanders, who worked for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and donated to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign before joining Team Biden, said she "cringed" when Biden made light of his aggressive touching scandal by claiming he had "permission to hug" a union president at a campaign event. Sanders "didn’t think the joke was funny," but she’ll presumably have to get used to it, because her 76-year-old boss does not seem to be very willing to change his ways.
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