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House Chooses Millionaire Actor To Argue for Slavery Reparations

It’s hard to succinctly recapitulate how preposterous some of the new Democrat-led House of Representatives’ hearings have been or will be. However, I think this might suffice: They’re having a hearing on reparations and one of the two major parties giving testimony is a millionaire black actor. There’s so much to unpack there you almost…

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As Ticket Requests Top 100K, Trump Campaign Announces All-Day ’45 Fest’ Tailgate Party at Orlando Campaign Kickoff Rally

The reelection campaign for President Trump announced an all-day ’45 Fest’ tailgate party will be held outside the Amway Center in Orlando on June 18 in conjunction with the 45th President’s campaign kickoff rally being held there that evening. Ticket requests for the 20,000 seat arena have topped 100,000, Trump told Fox & Friends in an interview Friday.

President Trump draws huge overflow crowds to his campaign rallies. This photo posted by Trump to Twitter on March 28, 2019, shows a sea of supporters outside his Grand Rapids, Michigan rally.

Trump will be joined at the rally by First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence.

Many Republican Party county groups from around Florida have organized buses to the rally, most of which sold out quickly.

The campaign is promising food trucks, live music and giant screen TVs to watch Trump’s speech. 45 Fest will start at 10 a.m. EDT, with the President not set to take the stage indoors until 8 p.m.

Text of the campaign press release:

New York, NY – Today, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. announced the inaugural “45 Fest” at the site of the Make America Great Again rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, June 18, where President Trump will announce his second term presidential run along with First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Second Lady Karen Pence.

The campaign’s 45 Fest will take place beginning at 10:00 am EDT and will feature food trucks, live music courtesy of “The Guzzlers”, big screens to see President Trump’s speech, and more.

“The President’s historic announcement of his second term presidential run has already generated tens of thousands of ticketing requests and will draw an enormous crowd,” said Michael Glassner, Chief Operating Officer of Donald J, Trump for President, Inc. “That’s why we’ve organized our first 45 Fest outside the Amway Center. We’ll have delicious food, live music, big screens, and a great time for all of our guests. Inside and out, the excitement at this Trump rally will be something to remember as President Trump makes history.”

The Amway Center has posted a special page for the Trump rally with answers to key FAQs. Please read carefully if you plan to attend.

AMWAY CENTER FAQ PAGE.

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Texas City Votes To Become State’s First ‘Sanctuary City of the Unborn’

From Alabama to Georgia, from Louisiana to Missouri, there are pro-life measures being taken by conservative-leaning states to protect the lives on unborn babies. Leftists are boycotting states — threatening to leave or threatening not to come. They are calling names, protesting and claiming that those who dare save the unborn are racists, sexists and…

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Clerk Shoots Armed Robbery Suspect in Neck

A convenience store clerk in LaPlace, Louisiana, shot an armed robbery suspect in the neck Thursday.

WGNO reports the incident occurred just before 9 am. WDSU identifies the robbery suspect as 43-year-old Darnell Lee. The manager of Birdie’s Food and Fuel said Lee allegedly came in with a “t-shirt around his head” and put a gun against the cashier’s head. The owner then pulled a gun and shot Lee in the neck, leaving him in “critical condition.”

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office confirms that Lee “robbed the store at gunpoint” and “one of the store employees, who also was armed, shot [Lee].”

The manager of Birdie’s Food and Fuel expressed hope that Lee will survive, saying, “I hope he can make it and he can get better life.”

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AWFUL: US Women’s Soccer Star and Outspoken Lib Megan Rapinoe Says Her Kneeling During Anthem Is a “F*ck You” to Trump


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Radical leftist Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016. She said it was a protest against white supremacy and in support of black lives matter movement. She later said it was a protest against the treatment of gays in the US.

(She should try Iran!)

But today she says her protesting during the anthem is her f*** you to Trump and all of his racism.

Megan Rapinoe is a captain of the US women’s soccer team.


Rapinoe was outraged after the women’s league made players sit in the locker room during the anthem after her antics made headlines.

Rapinoe sat with Henry Bushnell for Yahoo Sports last month to trash the US and President Trump good and hard before leaving to France for the Women’s World Cup tournament.

Megan Rapinoe used to sing. With grace and gusto, on fields from Frankfurt to Florida to Montreal, eyelids occasionally fluttering. Her chest would rise and fall with the trumpets on the “Star Spangled Banner,” lyrics rolling off her tongue, patriotism oozing from her entire figure.

She was an American hero, and belted out a national anthem befitting of one. Whether she was preparing to win gold medals or World Cups, whether with dazzling foot skills or majestic crosses, she would cup her hand to a U.S. Soccer crest and join the chorus. And whether the year was 2011 or 2012 or 2015, she would pull at the heartstrings of millions. She’d ripple nets, then serenade viewers with “Born in the USA.” She was equal parts inspirational and flamboyant, her blonde hair jibing with an irresistible personality, her game exuding joy.

She was an American hero. And eight years after first earning the title, she very much still is. She even has a captain’s armband to prove it.

But nowadays, when the trumpets perk up, and when immense pride swells within the 10 women around her, Rapinoe doesn’t flinch. She stands and stares, lips pursed, cheekbones taut, hands clasped behind her back, face expressionless.

“I’ll probably never put my hand over my heart,” she says matter-of-factly. “I’ll probably never sing the national anthem again.”…

…She is at ease, however, in her role as USWNT co-captain. She is “a walking protest when it comes to the Trump administration,” she says, because of “everything I stand for.”

“I feel like it’s kind of defiance in and of itself to just be who I am and wear the jersey, and represent it,” she continues. “Because I’m as talented as I am, I get to be here, you don’t get to tell me if I can be here or not. So it’s kind of a good ‘F you’ to any sort of inequality or bad sentiments that the [Trump] administration might have towards people who don’t look exactly like him. Which, God help us if we all looked like him. Scary. Really scary. Ahh, disturbing.”

She laughs.

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Does NY’s new law ending religious exemptions for vaccination “attack religious freedom”?

A defense of public health, or an attack on religious freedom? New York legislators passed a law late yesterday ending the religious exemption on vaccination requirements, leaving in place only an exemption for medical necessity. Andrew Cuomo wasted no time signing the bill, which took effect immediately — but not without angry protests over the infringement on religious rights:

“We are facing an unprecedented public health crisis,” said Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan and the sponsor of the legislation in the Senate. “The atrocious peddlers of junk science and fraudulent medicine who we know as anti-vaxxers have spent years sowing unwarranted doubt and fear, but it is time for legislators to confront them head on.”

Hundreds of parents of unvaccinated children gathered at New York’s Capitol before the vote to protest what several called an assault on religious freedom.

“People came to this country to get away from exactly this kind of stuff,” said Stan Yung, a Long Island attorney who has three children.

Yung, who is Russian Orthodox, said he has religious views and health concerns that will prevent him from vaccinating his three young children. His family, he said, may consider leaving the state if the bill is signed into law.

This wasn’t a slam dunk in the state legislature. The bill only passed by ten votes in the state senate, 36-26, and the gap wasn’t much wider in the assembly, 77-53. The controversy over religious freedom turned out to be a bigger hurdle than some might have thought, especially in deep-blue New York. Expect more political backlash as the law goes into effect over the next 30 days, as parents will face new demands to submit vaccination records.

Part of the problem is that the religious exemption had no real controls on it. Many people used it in connection to legitimate religious doctrine, but as one person notes in the PIX 11 news report, many others used it as a means for their personal opposition to vaccines regardless of religious issues. The combination of the two left a lot of children without immunity and susceptible to exposure through travel or immigration, from a disease that the CDC declared eliminated in the US less than twenty years ago.

Regardless of what Yung says, people don’t come to the US just to get away from required vaccinations. Schools have required vaccinations for more than a century, with the Supreme Court approving the authority for such requirements in a 1905 case. Plenty of people have emigrated to the US since that time, and almost all of them get vaccinated at some point. An argument might be made, in fact, that the generally excellent health of the US population might be a bigger draw than some largely mythical ability to avoid vaccinations.

Perhaps if a solid test for religious exemptions could be developed that locks out the anti-vaxx manipulations of such loopholes, then the state might be able to make such a thing work. The epidemics of measles in New York and other states make it pretty clear, however, that these policies present a public-health danger, especially when it becomes faddish to exploit that loophole. Parents are required to send their children to schools, usually public schools, where unvaccinated children could put their own children in danger, which means that the schools have a responsibility to minimize that danger as much as possible. Vaccinations have been proven effective and reliable in mitigating — and until recently, eliminating — that danger.

The free expression of religious doctrine should be a high priority in American life, and too often is encroached by the nanny state. That’s why we passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) at the federal level and in many states, and required strict scrutiny on laws and regulation that cross that First Amendment line. In this case, though, serious diseases threaten public health when required participation in education leaves children vulnerable, which crosses into a clear state interest that would easily survive strict scrutiny. New York made the right decision in this case.

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Church BOMBING in Sweden. Anti-Christian Hate Crime?

Guest post by Peter Imanuelsen, more commonly known as Peter Sweden

Early Friday morning there was an explosion near the St. Afrem church in Swedish city Geneta. This is the second time the place has been bombed, the previous attack happened in September last year. No-one was arrested in connection with the previous attack.

The church is a Syrian Orthodox church. The building that was targeted is the party rooms owned by the church, and are located nearby the church itself.

“Because this is the second time it happens, it appears to be a motive against the church, but it is hard to know for sure” says Zakay Cicek, responsible for security at the church to Expressen.

“We are also glad that the explosion didn’t happen during worship” he adds.

The explosion caused material damage to the building, but thankfully no-one was injured in the attack.

There has been barely any reports of this bombing in international media, despite that this could potentially be a hate crime against Christians.

This is the sixth bombing in Sweden this week. Previously 25 people were injured after a massive bomb at apartments in Linköping. There has also been three bombings in Malmö, and one bombing in Gränby this week.

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