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They stood between the #BlackLivesMatter lynch mob and the police. Once again, Judge Barry G. Williams handed the Freddie Gray lynch mob a decisive defeat, shredding the prosecution’s case against Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking police officer targeted by the mob. Judge Williams stated firmly that, the court “cannot be swayed by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion.” Instead he insisted that it had to follow the law. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who became a national figure by heading the Freddie Gray lynch mob, did not even bother to show up. She knew what was coming. And she had...

NOTE: I wrote the following immediately after Melania Trump's speech last night but pulled it from publication when I learned of the allegations of plagiarism by her (and/or her writer) from passages in Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. As a professional writer for decades, plagiarism does not sit well with me to say the least, even though I realize many -- including Joe Biden (more than once) and Obama himself -- have done it. This was a bush league play and does not speak well of the vetting process within the Trump campaign. Something's seriously amiss that should be investigated thoroughly....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So I just got a sound bite here from Carl Bernstein, famous for being a part of Woodward and Bernstein, who are accredited and acclaimed for destroying Richard Nixon. Carl Bernstein was on CNN's Newsroom this afternoon with Brooke Baldwin, and they were talking about the first night of the Republican convention. Now, Bernstein is a connected leftist. I mean, he's a joke to many of us, but to them, this guy is the Guru. I mean, he goes way, way back, and his take on things is seen as representative of what the deep, dark left...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, I don't want to make things about me. I never, ever, try to make it about me, but sometimes sharing personal anecdotes is a way to convey an opinion. Now you know, in case you ever wondered, why I do not listen to other people on the radio. I never have because I don't want to inadvertently hear something I think is clever and then inadvertently use it and then inadvertently be accused of copying somebody. So I don't listen to other people, and it's why I don't watch a lot of television anymore. It's why...

The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people — those who reside in big-city crime-infested and dysfunctional neighborhoods. There is virtually nothing that can be done about it without a major rebuilding of the black community from within. Let's examine some of the aspects of the problem and the dismal prognosis, given the status quo. The most important social unit is the family. Many talk about the "breakdown" in the black family when a far more accurate description is that the family doesn't form in the first place. About 73 percent of...

Lies have ways of being ground to dust by cruel realities. The liars, when it comes to the jihad against us, principally, are Democrats, though they have some enablers among the Republican establishment. Paul Ryan needs to zip his lip about compassion for Syrian refugees. The blood of innocents just spilled in Nice -- and in Orlando, San Bernardino, and Paris -- all within the span of less than a year -- tells a horrific tale. The killers do so for Allah. Misfits some of the killers may be, but misfits of a certain faith and similar cultural backgrounds, they...

Leading from behind is a business concept where leaders steer their organizations much as shepherds guiding their flocks, from behind. It is contingent on a basic reality, “One can lead from behind only if one knows what lies ahead and what it will take to get there.” President Obama’s foreign policy style has been described as “leading from behind” particularly in the Middle East. Another view of Obama’s style: “A foreign policy of hesitation, delay and indecision.” One look at the current Middle East shows how that is working out. Shifting from foreign to domestic affairs, how has the President’s...

It appears that no matter how many men, women and children Islamists slaughter or maim, few in the West take Islamic terror seriously. This may sound odd, given how much talk there is about terror, but a compelling case can be made for this assertion. 1) The Western elites The elites of the Western world are far more preoccupied with -- and fearful of -- global warming than Islamic terror. They regard those who believe that Islamic terror is the greatest threat to civilization as not merely wrong but bigots. They have labeled such people Islamophobes, but of course, there...

The announcement by Donald Trump of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate had not yet been made official last Thursday, but that didn't stop the hard left from hauling out its familiar and overused rhetoric. Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, released a statement which said, "If Trump picks extreme right-wing Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, he will be doubling down on his divisive and hate-filled approach to politics." Funny how turning people against each other is, for the left, a one-way street. When the left wants to obliterate history, tradition, biblical teachings and...

I believe that Donald Trump was smart to pick Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to be his running mate. All things considered, it's an encouraging development, whether Trump picked him because he truly wanted him or he did so at the strong urging of his advisers. If he was Trump's first choice among finalists, it's encouraging because it shows he is comfortable with a traditional conservative who strongly self-identifies as and behaves like a devout Christian. It indicates he understands the value to the ticket in picking someone who seems to be the Antitrump in terms of personality and style --...

Hallel Ariel And Rabbi Mickey Mark (HY"D) killed by terrorist attacks “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” Thus remarked Thomas Sowell, a famed American economist and philosopher. The barbarism is before us. Our precious little ones are the tragic victims. Hallel Yaffa Ariel was merely thirteen years old. She was an aspiring performer. She had a whole life ahead of her when she was brutally murdered in her bed. The murderer, an Arab teen from a nearby village, climbed through her window, locked the door and repeatedly stabbed young...

Germany: Muslim Migrant Screaming 'Allah Akbar' Injures 21 with Axe What else did Angela Merkel expect? July 19, 2016 Robert Spencer    The latest jihad attack in Germany reveals how difficult it is becoming for the political and media elites to maintain their fantasy-based narrative in the face of reality. An axe-wielding Muslim refugee from Afghanistan stormed a train, screamed “Allahu akbar” and began attacking passengers. This happened, of course, as a result of policies that Angela Merkel aggressively pursued. And as she did so, she must have known that this kind of thing would start happening. What else...

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. No sooner are the bloodstains and bits of human flesh hosed off the concrete from the latest Muslim or #BlackLivesMatter terrorist attack and the grieving families ushered through the cold metal doors of impersonal morgues to identify the bodies of their loved ones that the vultures of the media rise above a wounded city and begin spinning the same old lies. The propaganda, the artful selection and deselection of facts, have become as familiar to us as they were to any...

Hillary, the Black Lives Matter Candidate Where racist pandering and cop-hatred meet. July 19, 2016 Matthew Vadum    CLEVELAND -- Hillary Clinton's appalling address to black activists yesterday suggests that she may be an even more fanatical supporter of the dangerous, violent Black Lives Matter movement than Barack Obama. Clinton is clearly now the Black Lives Matter candidate. Spewing lies and half-truths, she has become increasingly radical on the issue of race relations in recent months. The former secretary of state, U.S. senator, first lady, and now presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, speaks warmly of those black criminals who kill...

What’s the best case for Donald Trump? The question comes in the week Republicans here will formally nominate him for president, and the answer is not complicated. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence gave it as his reason for signing on as Mr. Trump’s VP: The alternative is President Hillary Clinton. This is the reality of choice in a two-party democracy. Still, many have a hard time accepting it. So even as Mr. Trump handily dispatched 16 more-experienced rivals, his shortcomings and unfitness for office have become a staple of conservative fare.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We go to the audio sound bites and we start with media montage, the Drive-Bys versus Trump. This kind of speaks for itself. It's a montage Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We have a number of different people, both in the media and out, commenting on Mike Pence as Trump's vice presidential nominee selection. KELLYANNE CONWAY: He referred to himself as Rush Limbaugh on decaf. LAURA ANTHONY: A former radio talk show host once described as Rush Limbaugh on decaf. MARC SANDALOW: He likes to call himself Rush Limbaugh without the caffeine. LETICIA ORDAZ: He described himself...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: They are in Cleveland, and even as we speak, ladies and gentlemen, paid professional protesters, quote, unquote, are starting up at the convention outside the Quicken Loans Arena. They're being called anti-Trump protesters, by the way, by the Drive-By Media. Most of these, they're being called grassroots, they're being portrayed as organic, they're not unified, they're just a bunch of protesters. They're so outraged, don't you know, they're so outraged at the Republicans, they're outraged at Trump that they've just shown up independently of each other. This is what the Drive-Bys want you to know, but it's...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Late-breaking news. The Freddie Gray case, a judge has acquitted the fourth defendant. That means not a single charge has stuck on any of the cops in the death of Freddie Gray, a nice young man, as he was referred to by Marilyn Mosby, the DA there. "Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case." This means that police are gonna have to be on the lookout for disgruntled and angry Tea Party people to maybe start rioting and taking matters into their own hands. Wait, did...

If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong. Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers as grievance mongers have been built on the foundation of that assumption, which is almost never tested against any facts. A recent article in the New York Times saw as a problem the fact that females are greatly under-represented among the highest rated chess players. Innumerable articles, TV stories and political outcries...

CLEVELAND -- We didn't want them anyway. That's what the primary voters said. We didn't want them, we didn't want their priorities, we didn't want their way of doing things. I'm talking about the Republican bigwigs. The royalty of the GOP. The people who've grown fat sucking off the teet of conservatives and Republicans. The folks who have now said they won't come. The folks who've put their noses in the air and said they won't attend the Republican National Convention. The folks who've said that Trump and his people aren't the right kind of people, that somehow the party's...