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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
‘I knew they were here,’ West Texas sheriff says of ISIS
Post Date: 2015-05-11 23:32:11 by out damned spot
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Midland sheriff doesn’t think U.S. is serious about securing border Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter became somewhat of a sensation last year after appearing on national television outlets such as Fox News and CNN warning of an ISIS presence in Texas. It would be naïve to assume that they are not here, Painter told a CNN news anchor in an interview. He used the cable news soapbox to send a firm message to the terrorist group, saying, "If they rear their ugly head, we'll send them to hell." The "ugly head" has reared, according to CNN reports. Days after two gunmen were shot by law enforcement outside an anti-Islam Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in ...
With his #WH2016 bid, here's how Ben Carson can destroy his real legacy
Post Date: 2015-05-11 17:29:47 by Willie Green
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Over decades of a brilliant career as a brain surgeon, Dr. Ben Carson attracted legions of admirers -- black, white and brown; liberal, moderate and conservative; fundamentalist Christian and agnostic. His story is the stuff of legend, the awe-inspiring tale of a poor black boy in Detroit who overcame daunting obstacles and vaulted to the very top of his profession. Given that his profession was pediatric neurosurgery, black Americans were particularly proud. Carson, who was the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins attached at the head, stood as stark repudiation of invidious stereotypes about black intellectual capacity. His memoir, "Gifted Hands," has been ...
Libertarians Should Hope for Clinton Versus Bush in 2016
Post Date: 2015-05-10 11:30:46 by Hondo68
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The more I think about the coming presidential election—it’s not unreasonable to ask why I think about it at all—the more I am convinced that the best contest for libertarians would be Hillary Clinton versus Jeb Bush. Why? Because all we libertarians would need to do is point to the ballot and ask, "Here’s our argument against politics. Need we add anything?" DonkeyHotey/Flickr What could better illustrate the bankruptcy of the political system than that race? What better way could there be for us to capitalize on the presumed disillusionment, especially among young people, with the Obama years? You wanted hope and change? Here’s what it got you. The ...
Only in America!
Post Date: 2015-05-09 14:17:44 by buckeroo
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Does anyone realize what the contemporary US political system has performed for Americans? Here, let me remind you of history: Only in America! Can the politicians turn against the US citizenry! The present political system is designed to keep EVERYONE poor and destitute. We can thank the vision of both the Republican & Democratic political machines.
Rush: Should the Left Stop Advocating Same-Sex Marriage to Avoid Provoking Islamists?
Post Date: 2015-05-07 00:54:47 by out damned spot
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Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh asked if the same media criticizing the Mohammed Art Exhibit would stop advocating gay marriage because that could also be provocative to radical Islamists on Wednesday. Rush said, “the militant Islamists command us not to draw cartoons or any other kind of picture of the prophet Mohammed, and our Drive-By Media and Democrat Party readily agree, ‘Ain’t no way that should happen! It offends them, and we shouldn’t do it. And when anybody does, and they get shot at, it’s their fault.’ To which I ask, ‘Well, now, wait a minute. The same militant Islamists who do not permit the drawing of pictures of the prophet Mohammed also do ...
Pam Geller's "Draw the Prophet Mo" event : Unnecessary provocation OR are hypocrites of select intolerance and outrage exposed?
Post Date: 2015-05-06 10:58:18 by Liberator
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Pamela Geller's "Draw the Prophet" event in Garland Texas has drawn quite a spectrum of opinion in the media. Especially once two local Islamic terrorists who planned a massacre at the scene were dispatched to their 72 virgins ASAP by vigilant LE. In its aftermath, editorial opinion of much of the Mainstream Media considers Geller and her group's cartoon "challenge" may be creating "more dead Americans" for being too "provocative." Was it "too provocative"? Will it kill Americans IN America? Threats have already been issued by domestic ISIS cells here in the heartland. Would any of you like to weigh in on the pro and con?
Garland Attack: Neocon Network Baits Jihadists and Pumps Up the Clash of Civilizations Agenda
Post Date: 2015-05-04 20:50:33 by Hondo68
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"Draw Mohammad" contest sponsored by neocon network propagandizing for war The group responsible for the Draw Muhammad event in Garland, Texas is part of a larger network of neocon organizations working behind the scenes to stoke tension between Muslims, Christians and Jews. Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum (MEF) funds David Horowitz’s Freedom Center which in turn funds Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer’s American Freedom Defense Initiative. MEF is closely linked to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), where Pipes was an adjunct scholar. WINEP is a spin-off the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the more influential advocacy groups in ...
Do you live in the most racist place in America?
Post Date: 2015-05-03 09:53:52 by Willie Green
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This map of Google searches will tell you If you live in the rural Northeast or the South, the chances are good that you live in one of the most racist places in America, according to a new report that analyzed Google search data to find the most racist communities in America. The report published on PLOS One comes from data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who, as The Washington Post reports, used a similar method to measure the impact of racism on President Barack Obama's electoral fortunes. "Google data, evidence suggests, are unlikely to suffer from major social censoring," Stephens-Davidowitz wrote in a previous paper, The Post reported. ...
Have You Noticed: LF Stats are Skewed? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-03 08:28:19 by buckeroo
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For almost any article on LF, anymore, there are thousands of views. Have you noticed? For a wee little chit-chat channel on the out-skirts of the Internet with little meaningful existence, the stats are of no significance anymore as the views/posts ratio are dramatically skewed into absurdity.
Hillary Blames The Cops For Black “Incarceration And Premature Death”–I. E. Black Crime
Post Date: 2015-05-02 10:07:38 by nativist nationalist
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Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today. No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of “Black Lives Matter!” No one would care, three weeks later, but his family and friends. It was the manner of his death, suffering a fractured spine in police custody, that makes Freddie matter. For he can now be credibly cast in the victim’s role in the great new narrative against America–that ours is a society of unequal justice where racist cops routinely brutalize black men and boys and are rarely called to account. In this narrative, the ...
The Baltimore riots within the context of White Privilege
Post Date: 2015-04-28 15:40:28 by GeorgiaConservative
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Numerous studies have proven that, in America today, white people are more privileged than black people. We are not dealing with overt racism, but with a subtle form of prejudice that most people do not even know they are guilty of. White privilege gives some the benefit of the doubt White people nearly always get the benefit of the doubt, but black people rarely ever do. White people are considered hard working until they prove themselves to be lazy, but black people are considered lazy until they prove to be hard working. White people are considered safe until they prove themselves to be dangerous, but black people are considered dangerous until they prove themselves to be safe. White ...
Frat boys spit on wounded vet, urinate on American flag
Post Date: 2015-04-24 11:15:53 by misterwhite
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Investigations have been launched at two universities over accusations that fraternity members taunted wounded war heroes, urinated on an American flag, and spit on a wounded veteran and his service dog in Panama City Beach, Florida. The April 17 incident, involving Zeta Beta Tau fraternity members from the University of Florida and Emory University, has infuriated residents of Panama City. “They were being treated like the Vietnam veterans were treated,” said Linda Cope, the founder of the Warrior Beach Retreat. The local charity provides an annual all-expense-paid vacation for more than a 100 combat-wounded warriors and their spouses or caregivers. All of the expenses are ...
Wisconsin's Semi-Favorite Son
Post Date: 2015-04-18 11:58:50 by Rufus T Firefly
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MADISON, Wis. — Why, during a recent visit here — while asking some trusted Wisconsin sources for their candid assessment of Scott Walker, the state's governor, an undeclared but leading 2016 Republican presidential candidate — did I keep thinking about a conversation I'd had 17 years ago with one of my favorite American politicians and the most recent Democrat to win the Texas governorship, the late Ann Richards? You see, Richards used to remind audiences she was only the second female governor of Texas, that the first had been Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson, who had followed her impeached husband, "Pa" (honest) Ferguson. The big issue of Ma ...
Yes, She Can
Post Date: 2015-04-18 11:06:38 by Rufus T Firefly
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Will she? She will. Would she? She would. It was inevitable. She did. Now where is that tingling feeling? I remember when Fritz Mondale announced that he had chosen Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. Mind you, I knew — I'd already switched her hotel rooms around. But I still got that tingling feeling gathered in front of a television, watching our own walls tumbling down. This time, everyone knew it was coming. It wasn't some far-off dream of a handful of crazed feminists. It was Sunday, and the favorite to be the next president of the United States was just making it official. How remarkably unremarkable. But it will be truly remarkable if she wins. That's what ...
No Wonder Neocons Like Hillary – Hillary Clinton Is a Conservative Republican
Post Date: 2015-04-13 10:13:49 by Hondo68
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Although she is no longer first lady, a U.S. senator from New York, or Secretary of State, and has not officially announced her candidacy to be the Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton can’t seem to stay out of the news. Conservatives love to hate Hillary almost as much as they love to hate Obama. And rightly so. Most lately it has come out that she used a private server for all of her e-mails when she was President Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. At the very least, she concealed government documents from the very government she worked for and failed to secure classified documents in a government-approved manner. Perhaps even Bush would have been ...
I’m a libertarian, and I’m supporting Ted Cruz
Post Date: 2015-04-12 09:47:47 by A K A Stone
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The other night as my wife Kelsey and I were getting ready for bed, we were talking about the 2016 presidential race and discussing how things would shape up for the first-in-the-nation caucus state – our home state – of Iowa. We had both heard that Ted Cruz was set to announce his candidacy at midnight, and were keeping a finger on the pulse of the reaction within our liberty-heavy political circles. My wife’s phone buzzed, and then I heard her groan. Another of our friends had asked her who we would be supporting for president in the state where politicos never sleep. Both of us knew that we were leaning toward supporting Sen. Ted Cruz, but both of us also knew that we ...
“Generating New Revenue Streams”
Post Date: 2015-04-10 05:37:07 by Deckard
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…from impoverished serfs, no less. Any person of decency and even the flimsiest compassion feels for the myriad victims of the Feds’ failed economics. Contrast your sympathetic reaction with that of cops: they see the same misery and disaster and lament the “downward spiral in … city governments’ revenue streams” that “has occurred for the last five years starting with the housing bubble that burst property tax returns by 40 percent.” Poor little piggies might face the same unemployment their sky-high expenditures have inflicted on taxpayers: “The common reaction to a budget crisis is reducing personnel and cutting services.” And so cops ...
Rev. Cruz: If Gay Marriage is ‘Civil Right,’ Gov’t Will Force Pastors to Obey ‘Unjust’ Law or ‘Obey God and Face Prison’
Post Date: 2015-04-09 18:06:48 by out damned spot
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If gay marriage is legally viewed as a “civil rights issue,” as may happen with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the subject in June, then it becomes a broader religious liberty concern, not just a marriage issue, said Reverend Rafael Cruz, adding that then pastors will have to choose between obeying an “unjust” law and obeying God and potentially going to prison. Pastor Cruz, who is the father of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), made his remarks during an interview with conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly on her radio program “Eagle Forum Live.” “We need to realize that the attack on marriage is more than just an attack on marriage, it actually goes to ...
My Beef With Cops...
Post Date: 2015-04-05 16:35:35 by Gatlin
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My Beef With Cops...
The end of television? [Time to finally shut it off for good?]
Post Date: 2015-04-05 11:36:07 by Tooconservative
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I was watching Ace go through a fairly epic rant on Twitter the other day on the subject of television, and I’m fairly sure it led to this rather remarkable essay and declaration of war on the boob tube. It’s easy enough to criticize television in general for many of us, and particularly when politically fixated consumers are talking about cable news or network anchors. But Ace has taken this to the meta level, essentially walking away from every band on the broadcast spectrum because of the way it is “soaked” in the language of the left, not to mention being a colossal waste of time. We all know what the expanded version of the problem is: The problem is that we live ...
The Gay Rights Agenda Stops at the Door to My Church–and My Business
Post Date: 2015-04-05 08:47:50 by cranky
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I have a dream. I have a dream that I will wake up one day in a country where we don’t have to go to court or pass a law to protect our fundamental natural rights—from the government. I have a dream of a place where elected officials have so much regard for the Constitution that they memorize it like Scripture, in order to not sin against it. I have a dream about a country where it doesn’t matter if you are on the right or the left, because you have so much respect for the freedoms you were given that you’d do nothing to put those liberties at risk. If you told me that America in 2015 was such a place, I’d have to say, “April Fools” and go back to sleep. ...
Asians And THE BELL CURVE In Fairfax, VA–Diversity Or Meritocracy?
Post Date: 2015-04-03 21:20:37 by nativist nationalist
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A voracious and eclectic reader, President Nixon instructed me to send him every few weeks 10 articles he would not normally see that were on interesting or important issues. In 1971, I sent him an essay from The Atlantic, with reviews by Time and Newsweek, by Dr. Richard Herrnstein. My summary read: “Basically, (Herrnstein) demonstrates that heredity, rather than environment, determines intelligence–and that the more we proceed to provide everyone with a ‘good environment’ the more heredity will become the dominant factor … in their success and social standing.” In a 1994 obituary, The New York Times wrote that Herrnstein, though he “was often harassed ...
Israel: Beware of Obama
Post Date: 2015-03-28 20:51:53 by cranky
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First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet. He lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican “enemies.” He abandons our allies, appeases tyrants, coddles adversaries and uses the Crusades as an excuse for inaction as Islamist terrorists slaughter their way across the Mideast. Now he’s coming for Israel. Barack Obama’s promise to transform America was too modest. He is ...
William Cruz
Post Date: 2015-03-24 06:22:25 by out damned spot
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Michael Van Der Galien has tried to understand why the Ted Cruz presidential candidacy announcement has set social media on its ear and advances a tentative theory. “But why are leftists’ heads exploding as well? I’ve got no doubt I know the answer: they fear him. Tremendously even. He is everything they oppose: a true, small-government conservative.” If that were all Cruz were guilty of it wouldn’t be half bad. It’s far worse. His “Imagine” speech seemed calculated to ridicule every Leftist shibboleth with predictable effect. The Left lost no time characterizing him as a Christian bigot, a patriarchal supremacist, an uneducated, crazy, anti-poor, ...
UN: Israel #1 Violator of Women's Rights [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-21 08:06:01 by out damned spot
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RUSH: From Anne Bayefsky at Fox News: "Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today?" I posed the question right before the end of the previous hour, and the staff on the other side of the glass, they're all guessing, "Ah, it's gotta be Saudi Arabia. It's gotta be Iran. It's gotta be, it's gotta be, it's gotta be, it's gotta be some Muslim country for crying out loud." No, no, no. According to the UN, who is the number one violator of women's rights in the world today? The answer is -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut -- Israel! (laughing) They're violating the rights of Palestinian women. It's ...
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