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WHAT IS GASLIGHTING? The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to...

What do you suggest IS an effective remedy for corruption, @LindseyGrahamSC?How are you fighting “effectively” for President @realDonaldTrump?A wise mentor once told me, “Don’t point out a problem without also proposing a solution.”So what’s your brilliant idea? pic.twitter.com/mKHHkWl2ey— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) January 3, 2021

by Samantha Foster The BLM cult is spreading and having some ugly impacts on our society everywhere. A Black woman who was blocking the aisle of a Spirit Airlines flight with her body and bag, while talking with people in their seats. When asked to move, she then launched into a crazy, racist, Black Supremacist rant against the flight attendant and multiple white passengers, threatening violence against several. Here the attendant, who was trying to prepare for takeoff, and had waited for several minutes for the woman to move, tries to get past her. The Black woman then claims...

THE Portland protester accused in the violent, videotaped assault of a truck driver Sunday night is on the run and begging for cash through social media. Marquise Love, 25, has yet to be nabbed by police and is apparently using his time at large to send snapchat messages to fund his flight. A message posted on a pic that appears to be from his account says: “Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all i did was fight him look it up on twitter put money on my books and come see me."

The fired Florida Health Department employee in charge of the state's COVID-19 response website has a lurid past including three arrests, a torrid affair with her student and being fired from her previous university teaching job, a DailyMail.com investigation can reveal. Rebekah Jones, 30, claims she was asked to leave by health officials this month because she refused to fudge coronavirus infection numbers. But a different picture has now emerged after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that Jones was canned because of insubordination and called her 'disruptive.' A DailyMail.com investigation has revealed Jones, a married mother-of-two, was fired from Florida...

The petition, started by Josh Powell reads: Recall Governor Whitmer. Her failure’s during the Covid-19 Corona Virus is causing more Michiganders to get sick. Closing and banning various non essential business’s and activities while leaving others open. Further promoting the pandemic. She has lied since day one with her #Fixthedamnroads which she has failed to do anything in this regards. The response to #PFAS was negligence and completely removing funding for #PureMichigan clearly shows her lack of anything positive for the State of Michigan. You can visit the petition here.

President Donald Trump has lost a bid to block an advice columnist’s lawsuit over his remarks that she lied in accusing him of rape. In a decision this week, a Manhattan judge declined to order a hearing on Trump’s request to dismiss E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit and to put evidence-gathering on hold in the meantime. A lawyer for Trump, Lawrence Rosen, had argued the New York court shouldn’t handle the case, saying that the president’s statements weren’t made in the state and that Trump currently lives in Washington, not New York, his longtime home. Judge Doris Ling-Cohan said the...

Former NFL player Colin Kaepernick on Saturday accused the United States of targeting minorities "at home and abroad," just days after the administration ordered a drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. "There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism," he tweeted. In a separate tweet, Kaepernick decried "American imperialism" and its "policing and plundering of the nonwhite world." "America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad," he wrote. "America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its...

If there is a prevailing message in Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s The Book of Gutsy Women – albeit perhaps not precisely the one they meant – it is that making change for women and girls is painful, tough, and requires almost inhuman reserves of personal grit. The volume is a collection of mini-biographies of “gutsy” women, and its intended mood, I surmise, is upbeat and inspirational. The subjects range from the learned 17th-century Mexican nun Suor Juana de la Cruz to the bracingly named Cherokee politician Barbara Mankiller. But behind the celebratory gloss the real “take-home”, to use the requisite...

I review Surah XXIV of the Koran, and describe where true light comes from.

When staff at Westglades Middle School heard that Nikolas Cruz had committed the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS, some couldn’t believe it. The fact that he was a mass murderer wasn’t what surprised them, but rather the fact that he had attended that school. “How is that possible?” one Westglades educator recalled thinking. “We did our jobs. It took forever, but we got him [to the specialized school] where he needed to go. We couldn’t believe they ever let him into [Stoneman].” Westglades students and staff had never seen anyone like Nikolas Cruz. One student, Paige, recalled the time...

The man who killed seven people in Odessa, Texas, over the weekend had been fired from his trucking job hours before the mass shooting, according to multiple reports. The gunman, identified Sunday as Seth Aaron Ator, lead officials on a high speed chase during which he indiscriminately fired on motorists and police officers. Ator was killed after being chased by officers. The New York Times first reported that Ator had been fired from his trucking job in Odessa. ADVERTISEMENT He was pulled over Saturday by state troopers for failing to use a turn single before beginning firing, according to police....

If former special counsel Robert Mueller's unnecessary and oftentimes painful testimony about his Russia report on Wednesday didn't convince the Democrats to call it quits, will anything? Impeachment Democrats were especially left out in the cold. Mueller did little to help their cause, besides reiterate what he'd already written in his 448-page report, including how his team found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Even the mainstream media said this thing is over, move on. Yet, somehow, during a Democratic caucus meeting following the hearings, some lawmakers were reportedly convinced more than ever that it's time...

From the beginning of the Left's attempt to destroy the Trump candidacy, then presidency, it was Adam Schiff who was the most consumed by the fabricated hoax that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the election. He believed every morsel of disinformation that was carefully leaked by the collaborators at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, DNC and the Clinton gang. Once their fake news was leaked, they could and did use those articles as evidence against the President. They used those columns of fabricated tales of Trump's collusion to get FISA warrants to spy on every person who was part...

A woman reported a blackface incident to police Saturday after she saw a group of young people at a Mokena gas station in black facial masks. The white teens had applied black peel-off facial masks before going to the Speedway at 19724 Wolf Road about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Mokena Police Chief Steve Vaccaro said. “[The masks] had to dry for a certain period of time, so they went to the Speedway to get slushies,” Vaccaro said. He said the Freeman-brand masks were made out of volcanic ash and were supposed to clear pores. Facial masks such as this one typically...

Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) reportedly said on Monday that he will not go on an “apology tour” for being a successful white man if he decides to run for president. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, McAuliffe, who said he would make his 2020 decision by March 31, told conservative radio host John Fredericks that he is “very close” to making a 2020 decision, saying he is still “going through the process” and will “have a decision shortly.”

Liberal freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims President Donald Trump hasn't attacked her on Twitter yet because 'maybe he thinks that he's met his match.' The Democratic lawmaker and Republican president are social media fire houses in their respective corners of the political world but Trump, who is not shy about blasting his rivals on Twitter, has yet to send any shots Ocasio-Cortez's way. 'I'm not sure,' she told The Hollywood Reporter of not being a Trump target. 'I think as nuts as this guy is, one thing he does have an expertise in is media and branding and marketing. And...

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, January 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The irate “transgender” man who went viral for chewing out a GameStop employee who called him “sir” has gone public, telling local media he has no regrets about his behavior at the video game retailer. Earlier this month, LifeSiteNews reported on the video, which shows a man angrily attempting to return a purchase then swearing at the man behind the counter and another customer who called him “sir.” Despite his masculine face, voice, and physique, the customer demanded to be regarded as “ma’am” because “quite clearly I am not” male. The individual...

Two Minnesota cops were placed on paid leave Friday after a photo of a Christmas display with “racist” ornaments outside a precinct surfaced on social media. The tree, displayed outside the Fourth Precinct of the Minneapolis Police Department, was littered with police tape, an empty can of Steel Reserve malt liquor, a cup from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, bags of Takis chips and packs of Newport cigarettes, CBS reported. Black Lives Matter Twin Cities posted the photo online last week and it quickly spurred outrage from members of the black community as well as local officials. “These pieces of trash were...

“I do hope that somebody does run in the primary against the president,” the Arizona senator told C-SPAN on Friday. “I think Republicans need to be reminded of what conservatism really is, and what it means to be decent.” . . . “I fear for the future of the party if we don’t remember who we really are,” he said.