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“Defund the police” has become the latest battle cry of liberals protesting George Floyd's death in demonstrations across the country. But it won’t be echoed by lawmakers in the halls of Congress. Top Democrats are carefully - but forcefully - speaking out against growing calls from activists to defund police departments, an idea backed by prominent progressives to dismantle the system that has perpetuated the type of brutality seen in Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. “I think it can be used as a distraction and that’s my concern,” Rep. Karen Bass, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told reporters on Monday....

My children attend the public middle and high schools in a suburb of Boston. Since George Floyd's death, school officials have been emailing parents on almost a daily basis about racism. Their goal is to train children to be "anti-racists". Here are three recent emails they sent, with names changed. I bet lots of schools are doing this, especially in progressive areas. *************************************************** June 7, 2020 Dear Parents and Guardians, I hope you are doing well. The work of Beverly Daniel Tatum, prominent psychologist, clearly indicates that children are aware of racial differences and the impact of racism at a...

Barron Trump is a wonderful person. At only thirteen years old he has dignity and grace, and I read that he has a very high IQ. Barron is outstanding, and President Trump wants his son educated. While every president’s child over the past 35 years has attended Sidwell Friends, the White House has confirmed Barron is attending St. Andrew’s in Potomac, Maryland. He is the first presidential child to do so. In a statement, Melania praised the school for “its diverse community and commitment to academic excellence.” He needs to be smart because leftists are constantly attacking him! The same...

There are three things you need to know about the unrest associated with the killing of George Floyd. First, almost all major cities these days are governed by Democrats, usually liberal Democrats. Second, black Americans have suffered because of the public policies these cities have adopted. Third, the reason why city governments adopt policies harmful to black families is not because they are racists; it’s because they are liberal.In city after city, all too often black families are forced to send their children to the worst schools; they are forced to live in the worst housing; they receive the worst...

I would like to thank every liberal, Antifa, democrat, low-info voter, crooked politician, Karen, professor, and left wing freak for showing the world that I made the right decision when I left that godless diseased corpse of a party.

U.S.—We finally have some healing and unity in our nation as a Klansman and a rich liberal activist were seen cheering together as a black neighborhood burned down. Similar scenes played out across the country as looters and rioters destroyed many minority neighborhoods and both the KKK and rich, white, liberal activists joined arms to celebrate. Powerful stuff. The uniting of the two unlikely allies has even caused some confusion, as some liberals are being mistaken for KKK members and vice versa. “This is what justice looks like!” tweeted a man as majority-black neighborhoods burned, though it was unclear if...

“I Can’t Breathe” George Floyd protesters have been marching in Montgomery County for the last several days. A large group of white liberals in Maryland took their activism to the next level on Tuesday and turned a protest into a reeducation camp. Thousands of white people were groveling in front of blacks begging for forgiveness at the Connie Morella Library in Bethesda, Maryland on Tuesday.

Where’s the police? Where’s the National Guard? This is unreal!!! We’re almost into ‘The Purge’ range where no one is restricted and uninhibited in what they do

What happened to George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman recently cannot be explained away by emotions, feelings, nor necessity. It is a flagrant and careless violation of the basic code of all policemen to protect and serve. I don’t believe that placing one’s knee on the neck of an already subdued man can be found in any police training manual anywhere. Also culpable are the other policemen who stood by without putting an end to the obvious deadly overuse of force. A scary parallel is the case of Eric Garner, who died as the result of a...

Amy Cooper, the woman made famous for threatening to sic the police on a black man during an incident that occurred in Central Park on Monday, is allegedly a liberal Democrat who previously donated to the likes of Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg and John Kerry. The allegation is based on leaked campaign contribution information that was picked up by a contributor for The Independent but that hasn’t yet been acknowledged or confirmed true by any other mainstream outlet

Stanford School of Medicine Professor Michael Levitt, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says the strict lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic may have cost more lives than they saved. Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free! "I think lockdown saved no lives," Levitt said on Saturday, The Telegraph reported."I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives, things like that, but social damage — domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism — has been extreme. And then you...

A Pennsylvania school director resigned Wednesday amid backlash over a Facebook post that said she would “shoot” anyone who came within 6 feet of her without a face mask on. Selinsgrove school director Jennifer Rager-Kay, a physician who last year unsuccessfully ran as a Democrat for Rep. Fred Keller’s state House seat, came under fire Monday after she posted a rant against anti-lockdown protesters that gathered last week in Harrisburg. “I find it interesting that the largest group of those protesting in the anti-lockdown protest and refusing to wear masks in public as they see it as a violation of...

The federal government gave more than $121 thousand in coronavirus relief money to the Jamestown Regional Medical Center, a hospital that has been closed since June 2019. The Department of Health and Human Services says the hospital received $121,722 from its provider relief fund. Records show the Rennova-owned hospital still owes $1.2 million in unpaid federal taxes. Reports suggest that the hospital has been closed since June 13, 2019. “It’s not fair for them to direct money to a hospital that has currently no real ability to re-open and provide adequate and safe patient care,” former Jamestown nurse Miah Elmore...

When groups feel threatened, they retreat into tribalism. When groups feel mistreated and disrespected, they close ranks and become more insular, more defensive, more punitive, more us-versus-them. In America today, every group feels this way to some extent. Whites and blacks, Latinos and Asians, men and women, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, straight people and gay people, liberals and conservatives – all feel their groups are being attacked, bullied, persecuted, discriminated against. Of course, one group’s claims to feeling threatened and voiceless are often met by another group’s derision because it discounts their own feelings of persecution – but such is...

In the history of expensive software mistakes, Mariner 1 was probably the most notorious. The unmanned spacecraft was destroyed seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral in 1962 when it veered dangerously off-course due to a line of dodgy code. But nobody died and the only hits were to Nasa’s budget and pride. Imperial College’s modelling of non-pharmaceutical interventions for Covid-19 which helped persuade the UK and other countries to bring in draconian lockdowns will supersede the failed Venus space probe and could go down in history as the most devastating software mistake of all time, in terms of economic costs...

The federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s criminal prosecution has directed the law firm that Flynn fired to reappear as an interested party in the controversial proceeding. On Thursday, that firm complied by filing a notice of appearance. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the clerk of the court to “add Covington & Burling LLP (‘Covington’) as an interested party in this matter and directed counsel for Covington to file a notice of appearance on behalf of Covington as an interested party.” John E. Hall, the chair of Covington Burling’s global litigation practice, submitted...

A video shows a white couple bending down and kissing the boots of black power group members to apologize for slavery. The eight-minute clip appears to have been filmed in First Citizens Plaza in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was uploaded to the YouTube page of the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, a radical faction of the black nationalist Black Hebrew Israelite movement, under the title: “WHEN HEATHENS #RECOGNIZE TRUE #PROPHETS OF #GOD.” Two people who had expressed an affinity with the group were responsible for the December 2019 attack on a JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey...

As Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker tries to meet goals for daily COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, he’s not banking on any help from the federal government, he said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper. “I have not been counting on the White House because there have been too many situations in which they’ve made promises not delivered,” Pritzker said. “Very recently they promised a lot of swabs. They’re supposed to arrive today, the first shipment of those. I’m looking forward to that. But what we’re doing is we’re going it alone, as the White House has...

More U.S. likely voters say it’s “time for America to get back to work” despite the COVID-19 pandemic, but that plurality is driven by conservatives, results of a national Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday reveal. While 43% of voters nationwide say “Yes,” it’s time to get back to work, 38% say “No,” it’s not. Another 19% are “unsure,” according to the survey of 1,000 voters conducted April 30 and May 3, 2020. Report this ad But, 71% of conservatives say it’s time for the country to return to work, compared to just 30% of moderates. Only 14% of liberals say...

From an Unhinged Liberal: More deaths from Coronavirus in the US than many wars - and of course that’s with lots of remediation in place. You do realize that’s more Americans (in just 3 months) than were lost in the Vietnam War (58,200), the First World War (53,402), the Korean War (36,574), the 2003 Iraq conflict (4,431) and the Afghanistan misadventure, the longest armed conflict in American history (2,445).