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Mizzou Student Destroys TPUSA Sign, Calls Conservatives ‘Fascist’

A student at the University of Missouri was caught on video destroying a Turning Point USA flyer that had been promoting the group’s upcoming event. The vandal then proceeded to call the school’s TPUSA vice president a “fascist” in response to the conservative student questioning him about the flyer he had destroyed.

Mizzou’s TPUSA student group says that the flyers they had put up last month were destroyed by leftists on campus. The flyers were to promote the group’s upcoming “Campus Clash” speaking event featuring TPUSA founder and executive director Charlie Kirk, as well as Candace Owens, Brandon Tatum, and Anna Paulina.

In one video uploaded to the group’s Facebook page on Thursday, a student can be seen tearing one of the flyers off of an outdoor post on campus, before throwing it at a TPUSA member and calling him a “fascist.” The TPUSA member told Breitbart News that the vandal is a member of the”MU Socialists” group on campus.

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“Hey, buddy, you want to put my sign back up?” asked the TPUSA chapter member, who approached the student tearing the sign off the post — to which the vandal responded by giving the conservative student the middle finger.

“[Unintelligible] Christchurch, you asshole,” said the vandal, before throwing the crumbled up sign at the conservative student.

“Oh, the tolerance,” replied the TPUSA member.

“Fuck off, fascist,” said the vandal.

“This was an extremely common occurrence,” said Mizzou TPUSA vice president Ian Czarnowski to Breitbart News, “My signs and posters would be ripped down within 30 minutes to an hour of me putting them up.”

I always find it ironic when we get called fascists,” added Czarnowski, “I get called the fascist yet they try and suppress our free speech.”

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David Horowitz: We Are Marching to a One Party State… One Person’s Dissent Is Another Person’s Hate Speech (VIDEO)

Twitter suspended David Horowitz from the Freedom Center on Tuesday.
Horowitz was the latest conservative banned or suspended by the far left media giant.

We are witnessing the elimination of conservatism from the public square.
And Republicans do NOTHING!

The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in 1968. The David Horowitz Freedom Center is dedicated to the defense of free societies whose moral, cultural and economic foundations are under attack by enemies both secular and religious, at home and abroad.

This was a stunning move by the tech giants. The Freedom Center works to defend free societies. Twitter doesn’t respect this.

On Tuesday night David Horowitz was back on Twitter. David said Twitter emailed him that it was a mistake.

David Horowitz said he doesn’t believe it was a glitch.

On Friday David Horowitz joined Stuart Varney on Varney and Co. after his Twitter account was suspended earlier this week.

Horowitz told Varney,

“Democrats think if you disagree with them on anything it’s hate speech. If you want borders, you’re a racist… One person’s dissent is another person’s hate speech… We are marching to a one party state.”

David Horowitz is the author of “Dark Agenda, the War to Destroy Christian America.”

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Liberals Were Very Wrong About Tax Cuts. Again.

For those of you who survived the Great GOP Tax Cut Massacre, things are finally looking up. The unemployment rate fell to 3.6% last month, the lowest level since 1969. We’ve now experienced over a full year of unemployment at 4% or lower. The economy beat projections, adding another 263,000 jobs in April. Wages are rising.

It was Larry Summers, Bill Clinton’s former treasury secretary and Barack Obama’s White House economic adviser, who warned that tax reform would lead to over 10,000 dead Americans every year in December of 2017. Summers, considered a reasonable moderate by today’s political standards, was just one of the many fearmongers.

The same month, after cautioning that passage of tax cuts would portend “Armageddon,” then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explained that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a reform of corporate tax codes and a wide-ranging relief, was “the worst bill in the history of the United States Congress.”

Worse than the Fugitive Slave Act? Worse than the Espionage Act? Worse than congressional approval of the internment of Japanese-Americans? That’s a really bad bill.

The tenor of left-wing cable news and punditry was predictably panic-stricken. After asserting that the cuts wouldn’t help create a single job, Bruce Bartlett told MSNBC that tax relief was “really akin to rape.” Kurt Eichenwald tweeted that “America died tonight.” “I’m a Depression historian,” read the headline on a Washington Post op-ed. “The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929,” proclaimed the same writer. And so on.

None of this is even getting into the MSM’s straight news coverage, which persistently (and falsely) painted the bill as a tax cut for the wealthy. “One-Third of Middle Class Families Could End up Paying More Under the GOP Tax Plan,” noted Money magazine.

An Associated Press headline read, “House Passes First Rewrite of Nation’s Tax Laws in Three Decades, Providing Steep Tax Cuts for Businesses, the Wealthy.” “Poor Americans Would Lose Billions Under Senate GOP Tax Bill” reported CNN. Yahoo News ran one piece after the next predicting doom.

The GOP tax cut’s “unstated goal is to leave the poor and vulnerable in America without the support of their government,” an ABC News “analyst” alleged. “It’s not enough to give money to rich people. Apparently, Republicans want to kick the poor and middle class in the face, too,” a columnist at Washington Post noted, leaning hard into two of the stalest canards about tax policy.

Of course, the notion that allowing Americans to keep more of their own money is tantamount to “giving” them something is just transparently specious. Does any liberal really maintain that government owns all your income, and anything you keep is a gift?

Tax rates were not handed to us on Mount Sinai, they were cooked up by economists. In truth, you only “give” taxes, you never keep. And the government only spends.

In any event, the idea that the poor or middle class are being shaken down by the cuts was even more of a dishonest claim. As Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute has pointed out, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s largest percentage tax cuts went to the middle class.

Even the liberal Tax Policy Center estimated that 65% of Americans paid less last year (6% paid more) due to tax reform. More than 44% of Americans pay no federal income tax. (Though corporate taxes are also a tax on consumers, so cuts benefitted nearly everyone.)

That hasn’t stopped former Vice President Joe Biden. “There’s a $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it? Of course not. Of course not. All of it went to folks at the top and corporations,” the presidential hopeful claimed the other day. It’s a fabrication.

Whenever you hear people bellowing about the wealthy benefitting most from across-the-board tax cuts, they always leave out the fact that the wealthy pay the vast majority of income taxes: The top 20% of income earners paid over 95% of individual income taxes in 2017, the top 10% paid 81%, and the top 0.1% paid nearly a quarter of all federal income taxes.

Supply-side economics isn’t a panacea. We’re racking up debt and continuing spending as if it doesn’t matter. Not all the underlying numbers are positive. There are thousands of economic unknowns that can’t be quantified or computed by economists, which is why the central planners and technocrats are almost always wrong.

And yes, when the recession finally comes, as it always does, liberals will once again blame tax cuts and deregulation. But to be this wrong this often deserves recognition.

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California’s Sex Ed Guidelines Suggest Asking Kindergartners What Gender They Identify As

“It’s pornography.” That’s how one mom described California’s new guidelines for sex ed.

Patricia Reyes, who spoke up Wednesday during a hearing in Sacramento, can’t fathom sending her children to school to learn about things that would be embarrassing for most of us to say out loud—let alone teach to elementary students.

“If this continues, I’m not sending them to school,” she said.

And she won’t be the only one.

Hundreds of parents protested the new framework Wednesday—which includes everything from lessons in self-pleasure to transgenderism.

As CBN pointed out, the guidelines even go so far as to encourage kindergarteners to think about whether they might identify with another gender.

Are you kidding? At that age, they don’t even know what gender is. The goal, officials say, is to create “an environment that is inclusive and challenges binary concepts about gender.”

Of course, the state Board of Education wouldn’t admit that. Instead, President Linda Darling-Hammond said, “We’re on a careful trajectory here not to be introducing things as though they are endorsed in some way.”

That’s interesting, since LGBT activists are tripping over themselves to tell California what a wonderful job they’ve done. And, as we all know, their goal isn’t to just “introduce things.” So many want to indoctrinate and recruit—and nothing short of that will suffice.

At one point, CBN notes, the state was considering cartoon drawings of genitalia for 5-year-olds and material for the older kids on bondage and homosexual acts.

“An earlier draft of the guidelines also suggested high schoolers read the book: ‘S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties.’”

After enough protest, these requirements were dropped.

But there’s still more than enough content to outrage parents—like the opt-out policy, which is allowed for portions—but not the LGBT lessons. That, most families have argued at various meetings, is a direct attack on parental authority.

“Now we’re teaching kids how to have a robust sex life? Not everything under the sun needs to be taught to our kids, with no moral judgment,” California Family Council’s Greg Burt, told The Sacramento Bee.

And the anger over the state’s curriculum isn’t just anecdotal. Stephanie Yates, founder of Informed Parents of California, says 20,000 people have joined the group since she created it last year.

And what about the teachers? They don’t want to send these messages any more than parents want their kids to hear them.

“Teachers are afraid they will be forced to teach concepts that go against their conscience, and use non-binary terms or else they could lose their jobs,” said Brenda Lebsack, who works for Santa Ana Unified.

Some of you may roll your eyes and dismiss this as “just California.” Don’t be fooled. This same extremism is coming to a classroom near you—and parents need to be equipped and ready to mobilize like these families have.

This sex ed countermovement in California is a testament to the involvement of a lot of moms and dads, teachers, and churches. As bad as some of these guidelines are, they would have been a lot worse if Californians hadn’t been actively engaged.

Make sure you are. For advice, check out the Family Research Council’s “A Parent’s Guide to the Transgender Movement in Education.”

Originally published in Tony Perkins’ Washington Update, which is written with the aid of Family Research Council senior writers.

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Parents sue Oregon school district over attempts to transgender 8-year-old

When does in loco parentis cross over into just plain loco? A story from Oregon earlier this week demonstrates at least one instance where the line got crossed. A lawsuit alleges that a teacher took an 8-year-old aside to repeatedly question his gender identity, and then began giving him instruction on transitioning to female.

Now the parents are struggling to work and their 9-year-old son is still confused (via Instapundit):

Parents in Woodburn said their 8-year-old son was held back from recess multiple times for one-on-one conversations about his gender identity – and they had no idea.

The mother and father in Woodburn are now suing a school district for nearly a million dollars after they say a second-grade teacher singled out their son by asking him if he was transgender. The parents say the teacher had inappropriate conversations with the child at school without their permission. …

The parents say this all started when their son started using the staff restroom because of a stomach problem. They say their son was uncomfortable using the boy’s bathroom because of his medical condition. However, they believe the teacher assumed their son was uncomfortable because he was transgender.

“Still today, a year later, if he plays with my niece, he’s a girl in that moment… if he plays with my nephew, he’s a boy,” said the mother.

The mother says her son was left confused and hurt after being singled out. Now, a year later, the 9-year-old is taking anxiety medication and going to therapy, according to his parents. The family says the boy’s confusion and emotional distress has also affected the entire family. The father says he’s suffering from panic attacks and the mother says she’s now on medical leave, suffering from anxiety and depression, and staying home from work.

There’s video at the link, but it’s not embeddable here. Bear in mind that this wasn’t a teenager, which might be bad enough, but an eight year old with a stomach problem. Even granting the best of possible intentions, why wouldn’t the first step in dealing with suspicions of gender dysphoria be to contact the child’s parents? It’s not as if the parents in this case are social neanderthals, at least from the perspective of Academia. They tell reporter Bonnie Silkman in the video that they aren’t concerned about what identity he chooses as long as he chooses it, and not get indoctrinated into it by an activist teacher.

Do they have a case? Silkman posted a letter from the school essentially corroborating the parents’ allegations:

The most impressively loco part of this story is that the teacher still works at the school — a full year after the school confirmed the parents’ story. The only correction the teacher received was to be reminded of the district’s policies on “controversial issues” and to notify parents and the school when she “alters a student’s regular school day.” Meanwhile, this family will be dealing with the aftershocks of her actions for years.

The school district declined to comment on the story because of the lawsuit, but they might owe an explanation to the other parents in the district, especially to those whose children are within this teacher’s supervision. How many other children has she attempted to indoctrinate into transgender identities? And how many of the parents in this school district — and elsewhere — might start considering private schools or home-schooling to protect their children from predatory behavior?

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New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Hit Ballistic Missile Program, Regime’s Cash

In announcing another round of sanctions on Iran this week, the Trump administration took unprecedented steps to roll back a series of cash windfalls authorized by the Obama administration that have lined the extremist regime’s pockets and enabled it to make strides in its ballistic missile technology, according to policy experts.

President Donald Trump, on the anniversary this week of leaving the landmark nuclear deal, issued another salvo of sanctions that target Iran’s lucrative iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors. Each of these arenas has helped Iran’s hardline regime stockpile billions in cash as the country’s economy teeters on the brink.

The sanctions represent "the first significant expansion of sectoral sanctions since 2013," according to veteran foreign policy analysts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, or FDD, a think-tank that enjoys close ties with the Trump administration.

The sanctions will pressure Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, the regime’s paramilitary fighting force that also controls significant portions of the country’s economy, mainly those like the precious metals sector that can be used for military purposes.

The Trump administration shows no signs of slowing down with its sanctions, angering the Islamic Republic and fueling a range of hostile military moves that have put U.S. military assets in the region on high alert.

"This [new] designation significantly increases pressure on Iran’s economy by targeting industries from which Iran derives significant income," according to FDD, which examined how the new sanctions could impact Iran’s multi-billion dollar energy sector. "It also enhances the administration’s targeting of materials necessary to support Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and provides for the first significant expansion of sectoral sanctions since 2013."

In addition to generating billions for the Iranian regime, these sectors play a critical roll in fueling Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The sanctions will make it more difficult for the Iranian regime to trade in these commodities and use raw materials for its military.

"The industrial metals sector is also a supplier of raw and processed materials for military uses, including as part of Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear program; the sector is heavily penetrated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," according to FDD’s analysis. "Iran has large reserves of copper—the second largest in the world by some estimates—which is used for reduced‐visibility treatments in missiles to protect them from detection and interception."

Additionally, "aluminum products contribute to the missile program by increasing the performance of solid- and liquid-rocket propellant. Iran’s largest aluminum producer—the Iran Aluminum Company, or IRALCO—also had a crucial role in the country’s nuclear program by supplying aluminum alloys to manufacture centrifuges," FDD noted.

With sanctions on Iran’s crude oil trade beginning to strain the regime, the new sanctions on Iran’s metal sector seek to cut off another source of revenue. Iran exported nearly six billion in industrial metal products from March 2018 to 2019, a significant portion of the $44 billion it made from all non-oil imports.

"The industrial metal sectors now subject to U.S. sanctions—iron and steel, aluminum, and copper—generated $5.5 billion of exports, or 94 percent of the total for industrial metals," according to FDD’s analysis of Iran’s economy. "Since these metals comprise vital inputs for other key industries in Iran, such as the construction and automotive sectors, which generate nearly 10 percent of Iran’s GDP, the sanctions-related disruption of trade will have a far-reaching effect on other parts of Iran’s economy."

"The lion’s share of industrial metal exports came from the steel and iron industry, with almost 79 percent of the total exports by value. Second in line is copper, with 12 percent," FDD found. "Iran also exported $207 million of aluminum, comprising 3.5 percent of the total export value."

The sanctions on Iran’s metal sector appear to be part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to choke Iran’s most vital economic sectors, which are also closely tied to the country’s military industry.

This week’s sanctions mark "the first time since June 2013 that the United States has expanded sectoral sanctions against Iran," according to FDD. "Previously, the Trump administration had only restored the sectoral sanctions waived by the Obama administration as part of the nuclear deal. Now, any individual or entity doing business in Iran must ensure that they are not doing business in the newly proscribed sectors, further limiting businesses from investing in Iran."

In the coming weeks, the administration could decide to sanction Iran’s mining, construction, and engineering sectors in order to further erode the country’s sources of income.

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From Burkini to Obesity: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Features Morbidly Obese Bikini Model

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit featured a morbidly obese bikini model this week as part of their new push for ‘diversity.’

Hunter McGrady, the young woman featured in Sports Illustrated SI 2019 is no doubt very pretty, however, she is morbidly obese.

“For too long we have heard talk that we need of diversity in media, but what exactly does that look like. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and not only recognizing our individual differences, but accepting them wholeheartedly.” Hunter said in a SI column when asked what her thoughts on diversity are. “Differences of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs or other ideologies need to be fully embraced as the very fabric that make up our modern understanding of the world today.”

Morbid obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of cancer and should never be celebrated –it is not ‘diverse,’ it is very unhealthy.

People who are morbidly obese, which is defined as being 100 pounds over his/her ideal weight, increase their chances of getting many different types of cancers.

Super morbidly obese women are 7 times more likely to develop endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus) than normal weight women.

Obesity is not something that should be promoted or celebrated.

“Exposure to diversity is the catalyst that will ignite tolerance, acceptance and understanding.” – Hunter McGrady

A couple weeks ago, Sports Illustrated glamorized the oppression of women and promoted Sharia law by featuring a Muslim woman donning a hijab and burkini.

“We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Halima Aden is the newest member of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuitfamily, making history as the first Muslim model to wear a hijab and burkini in the magazine,” SI wrote.

The oppression of women and morbid obesity is now being celebrated by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit under the guise of diversity. Let that sink in.

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Brian Sims can’t bully them all: Hundreds show up for pro-life rally in Philly

Friday, hundreds of pro-life people showed up for a rally at the same Planned Parenthood clinic where state Rep. Brian Sims recently berated an elderly woman and attempted to dox young, pro-life teens. Speaker Matt Walsh said he had a simple message for Sims.

“We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced,” Walsh said. He continued, “So, Brian, maybe now you understand something, that if you try to shut us up, we’re only going to get louder. If you try to shame us, we’re only going to stand taller. And if you try to scare us, we’re only going to get bolder.”

That definitely seemed to be the case today. Sims had no problem bullying a lone elderly woman praying. He’d have a harder time pulling that act on this crowd:

Sims, who said that he lives across the street from the clinic, was a no-show today. Former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson had invited Sims to meet her there to discuss the issue. She offered a theory for why he failed to show up: “It is cowardly to defend death. It is courageous to defend life.”

Of course, not everyone can attend a hastily organized rally in Philadelphia. But lots of people also responded by making donations to a GoFundMe page set up by the parents of the teen girls who Sims harassed. The goal was to raise $100,000 but as of now, the page has raised $118,000 for the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia. I hope Rep. Sims feels good about helping to make that happen. Will it make him think? Will he offer an actual apology instead of the non-apology he gave this week? I wouldn’t count on it. But maybe he’ll think twice before bullying any more pro-lifers in the street.

Here’s Abby Johnson’s speech at today’s rally:

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CNN Misleads About ‘School Shootings,’ Claims Already 15 In First 19 Weeks Of Year

From Georgia to California, at elementary, middle and high schools and on college and university campuses. We’re 19 weeks into 2019, there have already been 15 school shootings in the US in which someone was hurt or killed. https://t.co/tJSwYYnKBi — CNN (@CNN) May 9, 2019 But if you go to the story: – one is […]

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