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Democrat proposes bill to remove Statue of Liberty in protest of GOP's immigration bill.

Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ White House may have violated law by deleting fact-checked tweet: watchdog One of the thousands of Twitter employees laid off by new CEO Elon Musk is an alleged Antifa protester, according to a report. Eric Shamow, a site reliability engineering manager who attended BLM protests in Oregon in 2020, was among those the company let go, The Post Millennial reported. Shamow was among the rioters who took over downtown Portland and clashed with police during violent protests after the death of George Floyd, Andy Ngo, The Post Millenial’s editor-at-large, claimed in...

The district attorney of San Francisco left a debate on Thursday after being heckled by a group of student protestors. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins debated challengers John Hamasaki and Joe Alioto Veronese on stage at San Francisco State University. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins delivers remarks on the city's strategies to confront open-air drug dealing at Police Headquarters in San Francisco, on Oct. 5, 2022. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins delivers remarks on the city's strategies to confront open-air drug dealing at Police Headquarters in San Francisco, on Oct. 5, 2022. (Tayfun CoÅkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) After...

The rise of critical race theory is alarming and dangerous, but all isn't lost. Americans have never taken to being told what to think.New rulers often find themselves imitating the habits of the old. Part of this is the necessities of leadership, how those on the outside have grand ideas that, when finally applied to reality, are inadequate and quietly withdrawn. Witness, for example, the change from decrying “kids in cages” under President Donald Trump to the “migrant children in overflow facilities” under President Joe Biden. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss; the only difference is the...

Making Sense of the Sixties is a six part series analysing certain facets of the social and political upheaval of the 1960s and beyond in the United States. The series chronologically examines the cultural and political changes which shaped the era and left an indelible mark on later decades. From the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King; to the rapidly escalating atrocities in Vietnam; to the height of the Cold War and the Space Race, Making Sense of the Sixties weaves historical retrospect with the experiences of ordinary people to capture the mood and mindset...

The explosion of sexual harassment and assault claims, some going back forty years, is the inevitable consequence of the sexual revolution. Long before Bill Clinton’s sordid sexual escapades led him to impeachment, our culture had normalized public sexual behavior and mores once hidden away in the private realm, and kept there by laws, morals, and customs. Like many of our social pathologies today, our sexually saturated public culture and the unleashing of sexual predators are the bitter fruit of the free love movement of the Sixties. Those who didn’t live through that period cannot imagine how quickly and radically our...

The Manson murders — the seven killings committed by Charles Manson’s followers in two days in Los Angeles in August 1969 — are often thought to mark the end of the 1960s, as if those brutal slayings were the inevitable outgrowth of the counterculture, the dark consequence of long hair, free love, casual drug use and a general breakdown of authority and social norms. This sentiment was most famously expressed by Joan Didion in her book “The White Album.” She wrote that “in a sense” it was true that “the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the...

A federal agent who had been scrutinized for his handling of rare evidence and his behavior at the counterculture Burning Man festival is no longer an employee of the Bureau of Land Management, authorities said Friday. Daniel Love, who played a command role in federal agents' 2014 standoff with Nevada rancher and states' rights figure Cliven Bundy, no longer works for the agency. .... Love still worked for the agency on Aug. 24, when a federal investigative report was released saying he handed out valuable stones known as moqui marbles to colleagues and a contractor "like candy,". The rocks are...

Governments around the world consider mushrooms and LSD to be among the most dangerous illicit substances, but a new survey of drug users suggests that these psychedelics are actually some of the safest.

The left has controlled culture and politics for quite some time. it was only natural that in the past the Right was fought against by Counter-Culture people. Well, the fact is for teenagers and 20 year olds, all they have known is the Left dominating culture. Now rises the new Counter-Culture: Libertarian Right, which is the more accurate label for this new Conservative Rise we see happening before our eyes.

Paul Joseph Watson discusses how the left is the new puritanical class and how they are driving away the newest generation. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avb8cwOgVQ8

Here's a partial list of laws which were implemented to restrict Second Amendment rights in order to prevent criminal acts with firearms and which were obeyed by the shooter in Orlando. 1 Mateen was over 18 years old. 2 Mateen was a permanent U.S. resident. 3. Mateen was a resident of the state in which he purchased firearms. 4. Mateen filled out a federal firearms purchase record, 4473. 5. Mateen passed a background check. 6. Mateen had never been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or any felony. 7. Mateen purchased a non automatic rifle. 8. Mateen purchased a rifle...

Read it, and consider what a parish priest and a Catholic high school principal will do to a veteran teacher and parish worker who spoke intemperately on Facebook about homosexuality, ticking off Susan Sarandon and a drama queen who was on the Real Housewives of New Jersey:

I was recently invited to make some remarks at a charity dinner for a cause that I strongly support. The organizers worried that, because their cause affected only Third World nations, they would have a hard time raising money from an American audience. Localism, it seemed, in everything from farm produce to charity giving, was the new vogue. People wanted to see their dollars at work locally rather than watch them disappear into the coffers of some international organization. Could I help them make the case for international giving? On the night of the dinner it occurred to me to...

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Growing up in the 60’s, my older brother, Wayne, made certain that I was properly schooled in the fine art of psychedelic rock. He was generous with his sophisticated collection of vinyl and kindly tolerated my tagging along to live concerts by The Who, Blues Magoos, and Fever Tree. We even saw Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs once. My friends and I followed musicians like baseball card athletes as they migrated between The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, and Blind Faith. I came to understand that Frank Zappa was equal parts profound & bananas and that the best...

The illiberalism of student radicalism in the 1960s shaped the world we live in today.SDS leader Mark Rudd at a Columbia University protest, 1968It is now 45 years since that momentous year 1968, one of the turning points of contemporary world culture, if not quite of contemporary politics. Not unlike 1848–49 in Europe, 1968 was marked by events that involved student and political protests in several places. There was a dire sense of crescendo and momentum: the heightening of protest against the Vietnam War, the violent turn of the civil-rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the utopian libertinism...

Republicans Plan Counter-Convention in Charlotte, NC Sure, Democrats had some spokespeople wandering around Tampa, Fla. But Republicans plan to bracket Democrats’ Charlotte, N.C., convention with an unprecedented counter-convention right outside the gates of the Time Warner Cable Arena, where Democrats will gather after Labor Day. As many as 50 “communicators” will travel straight from the Republican convention, which wrapped up Tuesday in Tampa, up to Charlotte, where Democrats kick off their convention in earnest on Tuesday, according to a plan provided to ABC News. Primetime speakers from the Republican event who will travel up to Charlotte include RNC Chairman Reince...

It has become increasingly apparent that our Culture has become leftist. With Environmentalists, Unionists, Big-Government supporters, bias media, teachers, and liberal Hollywood it has become clear that the original Counter Culture of the 60s has won the battle over the minds of Americans. CNN and NYT are preaching to their dwindling fan base that the Occupy Movement is the New Counter-Culture in America. Occupiers resemble the 60s Counter-Culture in a number of ways. Both movements believed that government should end it's overseas wars, wanted sexuality to be more open, and believed that fat cat businessmen should pay their “fair” share....

But Barack Obama is not an "other" so much as he is a child of the 1960s. His coming of age paralleled exactly the unfolding of a new "counterculture" American identity. And this new American identity—and the post-1960s liberalism it spawned—is grounded in a remarkable irony: bad faith in America as virtue itself, bad faith in the classic American identity of constitutional freedom and capitalism as the way to a better America. So Mr. Obama is very definitely an American, and he has a broad American constituency. He is simply the first president we have seen grounded in this counterculture...