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The exaggeration of white privilege has become a cornerstone of progressivism. It’s also one of the ways Democrats risk losing the 2020 presidential race, as it leads inexorably to the devaluation of voters needed to clinch the Electoral College. The problem with a race-based, victim-washed vision of 2019 America is that being white is not enough, and never has been. I was a diplomat for 24 years, about as privileged a job on paper as you can get. But inside the State Department, being white was only a start. The real criteria was “pale, male, and Yale.” Being white (the...

It was Boris Johnson in City Hall who innovated, putting together a team of expert outsiders as deputy mayors. He rejected the clannishness that infects Westminster, where loyalists are promoted (epitomised by David Cameron’s notorious chumocracy). Boris chose on talent alone: hence figures as diverse as Lynton Crosby, Munira Mirza and Kit Malthouse joined him in City Hall. He is doing the same in No. 10 and his various advisers will report to Sir Eddie Lister, his chief of staff. This might infuriate MPs, especially those who thought they’d follow their hastily-chosen chieftain into No. 10, but the clannish model...

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” anchor Chris Wallace questioned White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on President Donald Trump’s attacks on Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore. Wallace said, “This goes back to what happens with the four members of ‘The Squad.’ Nobody objects to the president defending his border policy, but this seems to be the worst kind of racial stereotyping.” He continued, “Black congressman, majority-black district, I mean, no human being would want to live there? Is He saying people who live in Baltimore are new, not human beings?” (snip) Wallace...

Guns commonly available on the consumer market in 43 states are banned for ownership in California, a prohibition upheld this week by a federal judge (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)A federal judge this week upheld California’s ban on many popular semi-auto firearms, saying they were “essentially indistinguishable from M-16s.” The order, in a case brought by several gun owners in 2017 seeking to declare California’s “assault weapon” ban unconstitutional, saw U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton side with the state’s point of view. Staton, extensively citing briefs in the case from anti-gun groups such as the Brady Center, Everytown and Giffords, found that...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) As our fake news media once again tries to paint President Donald Trump as a “racist” for daring to speak the truth about the rank squalor in a Democrat-run city, here is what the New York Times had to say about it in a piece published in March of this year, a piece titled…wait for it…”THE TRAGEDY OF BALTIMORE”: “On April 27, 2015, Shantay Guy was driving her 13-year-old son home across Baltimore from a doctor’s appointment when something — a rock, a brick, she wasn’t sure what — hit...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Democrats and their toadies in the fake news media are once again trying to label President Donald Trump as a “racist,” this time because he had the temerity to point out the truth about the squalid conditions in the West Baltimore congressional district represented since the time of Moses by Elijah Cummings, who happens to be a black man. Baltimore is by and large a hell hole, but it is not alone. All one has to do is look at the list of cities that have been run exclusively or almost exclusively...

The Boris and The Donald have far more in common than the funkiest hair in the room. World Leader Finalists “Funkiest Hair” Category They both left a woman in the dust on their way to becoming world leaders, and they’ve both staked a position in favor of sovereignty that involves enforcing borders. In fact the UK’s new Prime Minister just warned the EU to drop the “Irish Backstop”and negotiate a new deal or face a “No-Deal Brexit” on Halloween. The “Irish Backstop” by the way is a demand that Ireland maintain an open border on the north. British Prime Minister Boris...

This deranged @realDonaldTrump hater harassed a Trump voter, told her to go back to her country, hit her and sexually degraded her. If this was done in reverse it would be front page news. Yet another Magaphobic harassment & assault case the media ignores.

After recruiting thousands of donors for the American Conservative Union — the powerful organization behind the annual CPAC conference — a Republican political operative pushed the same contributors to give millions to a PAC that promised to go after then-President Barack Obama, but then steered much of their donations to himself and his partners. The PAC, called the Conservative Majority Fund, has raised nearly $10 million since mid-2012 and continues to solicit funds to this day, primarily from thousands of steadfast contributors to conservative causes, many of them senior citizens. But it has made just $48,400 in political contributions to...

Roman poet Virgil penned these words in his epic, The Aeneid, roughly a generation before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. They can be loosely translated to, “the descent to hell is easy.” Those who’ve traversed this passage can attest to the veracity of this axiom. Though not apparent in the milieu of Virgil’s poem, for our purposes today, we’ll extend its application to the insidious progression of currency debasement. What short utterance more aptly characterizes the steady degradation, as currently practiced by today’s church of state? Yesterday [Thursday], for example, the House acted with untroubled ease to further America’s...

Robert Mueller’s testimony this week was the biggest flop since Heaven’s Gate, which is an apt comparison since Democrats are in full eschaton mode and their heavenly dream of deposing Trump is turning into the hellscape of a likely second term of full-scale Trumping (Trumpdown?). Maybe Mueller was trying to pull off a community theater version of Columbo? Or maybe he’s a deep cover agent for the Russians after all.

VIDEO A few scenes from our vacation at Weeki Wachee Springs on July 21. Among the activities were a riverboat ride down the Weeki Wachee River, watching the Little Mermaid show, and an incredibly refreshing swim in Weeki Wachee Springs at Buccaneer Bay for several hours. The water there is a constant 74 degrees year round and since the springs feeds 150 million gallons of water from deep underground, it is crystal clear and absolutely pure. Price of admission is only $13 for adults and $8 for children. Riverboat ride, mermaid shows, and use of the Buccaneer Bay water park...

On Monday, Equifax settled with the US Federal Trade Commission over its 2017 data breach, which affected 147 million Americans. The settlement of up to $700 million includes as much as $425 million for individual compensation including $30 million for "Alternative Reimbursement Compensation." So naturally, AOC sent out this absurd tweet:

President Donald Trump has completely had it with Elijah Cummnings, the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district and House Oversight Committee Chairman. Earlier, Rep. Cummings made headlines after he called the treatment of illegal immigrant children "government-sponsored child abuse." "We have seen cases where the administration has deported parents without their children and still, to this day, have not reunited those families," he said. "This is government-sponsored child abuse ... on a grand scale." If Rep. Cummings thought President Trump would take this lying down, he's sadly mistaken. The president responded this morning with an epic tweetstorm. "Rep, Elijah...

MUST READ: Fired FBI Director James Comey Is Culpable for Numerous Crimes Related to His Leaked Classified Notes On President Trump Alone – Lock Him Up!

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Adam Schiff, the bug-eyed, pencil-necked chairman of one of Nancy Pelosi’s House kangaroo court committees, told the cackling shrews on “The View” on Friday that he would use his clown-car committee to go after allegations of Trump “money-laundering” now that the whole Mueller Witch Hunt charade has miserably collapsed. As he always is when leveling his disgracefully dishonest allegations against the President, Schiff was totally non-specific about exactly what he thinks it is Mr. Trump has done that would remotely constitute “money-laundering,” meaning that he’s just moving the Democrat goal...

NEW YORK — Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has done everything short of publicly calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment since Democrats unleashed their oversight arsenal on the president earlier this year. But Lindsey Boylan, a former New York state official who’s giving the liberal stalwart from Manhattan’s West Side one of his toughest primary fights in decades, says that’s not enough. While Nadler has pushed his party leadership behind the scenes to move on impeachment, Boylan is aiming squarely at Nadler’s reluctance to publicly support an official House inquiry against Trump — and she’s using the...

Why the Dems think a porous border is a good idea in the first place is anybody’s guess.But suffice to say they will be predictably outraged now that SCOTUS has cleared the way for President Trump to allocate military funds to provide border protection, i.e., BUILD THE WALL.Fair warning, the caterwalling is about to begin.‘Caterwauling” Painting by Louis WainClose the gate and shut the door unless you want to listen to it all day and all night.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

The Campaign Update Week in Review (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this #WINNING yet? – Late Friday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the absurd lower court ruling by an Obama-appointed judge denying the President his clear constitutional authority to redirect unused funds from the military budget towards the building of the wall along our southern border. Let us never forget that the building of that wall was fully authorized by the U.S. Congress during both the Bush and Obama administrations, and those bills were signed into law by those two ex-presidents. For now, $2.5 billion in...

Left-leaning co-host of "The View," Joy Behar, changed course on the urgency of impeaching President Donald Trump after previously disagreeing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has rebuffed calls for his impeachment . Following former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on Wednesday, Behar spoke about why she thinks it's "too distracting" to impeach Trump leading up to the 2020 election — a view she shared with conservative co-host Meghan McCain, who emphasized the importance of winning over swing states.