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The Rufini family’s peaceful life was shattered when a late-night FBI operation saw them hauled at gunpoint from their home and detained in a van while agents combed their house for evidence of what was presumed to be a potential violent plot by their 15-year-old son, who was a volunteer firefighter and an altar boy, American Greatness reported. Jeremiah Rufini, the father, detailed their plight in a now-unavailable GiveSendGo fundraising page, illustrating the profound impact of this investigation on their family life and finances. According to the unpublished fundraising page, the Rufinis had been grappling with unexpected legal fees resulting...

Conservative YouTube star Steven Crowder took a stand against the Deep State by obtaining the Nashville shooter’s manifesto — a document that authorities have kept from the public eye. Now, it’s clear why they wanted it under wraps. The perpetrator, a disturbed, racist and violent young girl masquerading as a boy harbored a vehement desire to harm white people. ABC News 4. Portions of the manifesto belonging to Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale are circulating social media after months of debate regarding its release. Steven Crowder, the host of the Louder with Crowder talk show, shared leaked images from the...

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The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday.

Sojourners President and Founder Jim Wallis, one of several faith leaders who are heading to Ferguson, Missouri this weekend to march for justice, is challenging Christians to put their faith ahead of their race when it comes to issues concerning racial relations. "If white Christians in America acted more Christian than white when it came to race, black parents would be less fearful for their children," said Wallis. Christians who put faith ahead of race would not be afraid to take on tough racial issues like the police shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson with their peers and fight...

Despite the much-criticized rhetoric of late from Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, which has struck many in the GOP as well as members of his own party as divisive, the outspoken DNC leader is making new appeals for support, both in Republican territory and among America's "ethnic communities." But one African-American leader believes more and more blacks are getting wise to Dean's true sentiments. According to Associated Press reports, Howard Dean appeared at recent events in Houston, Austin, and Corpus Christi, Texas, taking his message to a Republican stronghold that had been written off by Democrats until Republican House Majority...

The best thing the Democrat Party ever did to advance the Republican Party was to make Howard Screaming Dean the chairman of their party. He is so far to the left of the great majority of Democrats that he will push many of them into the arms of the Republicans. His latest insanity, screaming that the Republican Party is a “White Christian party” underscores that point. Any fair-minded person of either party would acknowledge that the Republican Party is just as diverse as, if not more diverse, than the Democrat Party. The main difference spiritually is that the Republican Party...

REFLECT ON THE FACT that Democrats are now more concerned with ousting Howard Dean from the Chairmanship of the DNC than they ever were about ousting Saddam Hussein from the dictatorship of Iraq. Rape rooms didn't faze them — I think mainly because that's what the Arkansas Governor's office was called when Clinton occupied it — but Dean's assertion that the GOP is a party of "white Christians" makes them bubble over with rage. To state the manifestly obvious, Howard Dean is a "white Christian." This much he admits. We're still waiting for the results of lab tests, but most...

June 18, 2005 — Republicans showered scorn upon Howard Dean when he said in recent weeks that the GOP is "pretty much a white Christian party," that many of its leaders "never made an honest living," and that a key Republican "is corrupt" and should "start serving his jail sentence." Some Democrats publicly disavowed the remarks by Dean, their own party chairman. But Dean did not back down. "We need to be blunt and clear about the things that we're going to fight for," he told Iowa Democratic leaders Saturday, according to the Des Moines Register. "People have criticized me...

REFLECT ON THE FACT that Democrats are now more concerned with ousting Howard Dean from the Chairmanship of the DNC than they ever were about ousting Saddam Hussein from the dictatorship of Iraq. Rape rooms didn’t faze them—I think mainly because that’s what the Arkansas Governor’s office was called when Clinton occupied it—but Dean’s assertion that the GOP is a party of “white Christians” makes them bubble over with rage. To state the manifestly obvious, Howard Dean is a “white Christian.” This much he admits. We’re still waiting for the results of lab tests, but most of us have come...

<p>When Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean said the other day that the Republicans were pretty much a "white, Christian party," I must admit I felt a guilty sense of self-recognition. He had nailed me cold, dead to rights. I looked in the mirror and confessed, "Yes, I am a white Christian, and I am a Republican."</p>

For sheer inanity, you can't beat the Democratic Party. If Shaquille O'Neal were to harangue fans not to root for the Detroit Pistons because there were too many black men on their team, we might think he'd come unhinged. But Dems don't think it's a bit odd to have Howard Dean fulminating about there being too many "white Christians" in the Republican Party. Dean can't hold a candle to Bill Moyers, though. To hear him rant and sputter against "Christians," you'd think he was auditioning for a spot on al-Qaeda Radio. Makes you wonder where he thinks he's going to...

Chicago—In a bold new move, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean bowed down to the House of Jackson on Sunday, making not one but two visits to friendly audiences at the Rainbow/PUSH headquarters, trying to tone down the rhetoric that has landed him in so much hot water lately, while announcing his plans for a new coalition on reaching out to evangelicals. Dean’s newfound message discipline did not preclude a personal snipe at his counterpart, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman. The new coalition, called ‘The Committed Christian Coalition,’ is part of Howard Dean’s new strategy to counter the Christian...

une 20 issue - By the glamour-challenged standards of Washington, it was a big-box-office move. On short notice last Saturday, C-Span decided to cover—live—a normally snooze-inducing meeting of the Democratic National Committee. The big draw was the Beltway answer to Russell Crowe: DNC Chairman Howard Dean, whose phone-throwing attacks on Republicans have made him a star again. Earlier in the week at an "ethnic press round table" in San Francisco, Dean had branded the Republican Party "pretty much a white, Christian party"—as if that were some kind of a crime. Wise guys of both camps viewed the statement as a...

Let's see now. Democrat Party leaders are constantly harping about President Bush not uniting the nation (even though he is constantly reaching over the proverbial aisle). Simultaneously, the Democrat Party is being led by a man who frequently tenders the most divisive and hate-filled language on the political horizon. This man is Howard Dean. He has said he "hate[s] Republicans and everything they stand for."

The Maryland Democratic Party is calling for an apology from Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele for endorsing a book by an author who accuses Democrats of exploiting blacks but is declining to seek an apology from national party Chairman Howard Dean for describing Republicans as a 'white Christian party.' Mr. Lierman this week began circulating a letter asking fellow Democrats to sign a petition calling on Mr. Steele, a Republican, to apologize for praising the book Back to Basics for the Republican Party, by Michael Zak. The book celebrates the Republican Party's anti-slavery founders and urges Republicans to challenge Democratic...

Hugh Hewitt: Mark, good to chat with you again. Mark Steyn: Good to talk with you, Hugh. HH: Mark, let's start by playing the clip of the day, from Howard Dean's appearance in San Francisco yesterday. Here's the money quote: Dean-Christians.mp3 HH: Mark Steyn, pretty much a white, Christian party, all behaving the same, all looking the same. What do you say about Howard Dean's latest foot-in-mouth? MS: Well, you know, in a decade as Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean did not appoint a single minority, single African-American, to his administration. I mean that's not his problem. It's a 98.5%...

The Maryland Democratic Party is calling for an apology from Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele for endorsing a book by an author who accuses Democrats of exploiting blacks but is declining to seek an apology from national party Chairman Howard Dean for describing Republicans as a 'white Christian party.' 'I don't think there is a double standard,' said Derek Walker, spokesman for the state Democratic Party. Maryland Democratic Party Chairman Terry Lierman, who has initiated a petition drive for Mr. Steele's apology, was unavailable for comment yesterday.

To investigate Howard Dean's claims that most Republicans are "White Christians who have never made an honest living," I decided to take a look at the other contributors to The Western Alliance, all Republicans: Bonfire: White and Christian, however certainly not a slacker. Read this list of just some of the things she has done in her life. Craig DeLuz: African American, Christian. Works for Assemblyman Tim Leslie. Fetching Jen: White, Christian, owner of her own business I believe. Rightside: Hispanic, Christian. An insurance agent of some kind; I think he owns his business as well. Roseville Conservative: White, Christian....

Howard Dean’s recent comments are quite interesting when one considers Dr. Dean’s record on race. Dean attacked the Republican Party as a "white Christian party.” I feel that it is more important to look at someone’s actions rather than their words. So perhaps he should compare the minorities that Dean appointed to his cabinet as Governor of Vermont and the minorities that George W. Bush appointed to his cabinet. Here is a list of the minorities George W. Bush appointed to his cabinet during his first term: Colin Powell, Secretary of State Rod Paige, Secretary of Education Spencer Abraham, Secretary...