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Death of a White Woman
by Katie Kieffer
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Top Headlines
Senate testimony: Fusion GPS helped Russians by spreading phony Trump dossier. (The Federalist)
The House has accomplished a lot this year. The Senate, not so much. (National Review)
How bad has Trump Derangement Syndrome gotten? MSNBC just reached #1 in prime time. (Hot Air)
Trump bans transgender confusion in military. (USA Today)
CIA gives more power to spies to bolster intelligence operations. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Feds arrest Wasserman Schultz's Islamic IT staffer trying to leave the country. (Fox News)
IRS finally agrees to clear last Tea Party case — not a minute too soon! (The Washington Times)
Taxpayers are subsidizing housing for "nonexistent tenants." (The Washington Free Beacon)
Liberal professor files $3.8M claim against Evergreen State College over racism. (The Washington Times)
Humor: The Venezuela Diet! (YouTube — Reason)
Policy: Government unions after Wisconsin. (Capital Research Center)
Policy: Free market thinking is key for states to avoid financial disaster. (Inside Sources) ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Announces Military
Will No Longer Allow Transgenders
by James Barrett
{dailywire.com} ~ On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Military "will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity," citing the "tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgenders... in the military would entail." The decision reverses the "pro-transgender" policy implemented by President liar-nObama in his final year in office. "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump wrote in a series of tweets. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." The announcement signals the end of the liar-nObama administration's new policy implemented on July 1, 2016, which reversed the longstanding policy of excluding for psychological and medical reasons those who suffer from gender dysphoria, the desire to be of the opposite sex... http://www.dailywire.com/news/19005/breaking-trump-announces-military-will-no-longer-james-barrett?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=072617-news-title&utm_campaign=lead.
Will Congress Stop Paying Terrorists?
by Meira Svirsky
{clarionproject.org} ~ The terrorist who stabbed to death three members of a Jewish family in Israel as they sat down to eat their Sabbath meal last Friday night will be paid a monthly salary of $3,000 by the Palestinian Authority (PA)... The PA passed a formal government resolution in 2011 awarding all Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails monthly salaries for security and terror-related offenses. Aid money given yearly to the PA from the United States, Europe and other countries contributes to these salaries. Currently pending in Congress is the Taylor Force bill, which would limit American aid money to the Palestinians unless it ends these payments as well as its rampant incitement...What are you waiting for, pass the bill congress. https://clarionproject.org/monthly-salary-palestinian-terrorist-3000/.
Secretary of State Shills
for Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar
by Ryan Mauro
{clarionproject.org} ~ The Trump Administration still hasn’t designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization as it was expected to do... Designation falls under the purview of Secretary of State Tillerson, who has chosen the Muslim Brotherhood and its backers in Qatar and Turkey over their Arab rivals. His main point is that the Brotherhood’s political parties have representatives in governments like those in Bahrain and Turkey. That is irrelevant. If it was such a problem, Bahrain itself wouldn’t have banned the Brotherhood and the U.S. wouldn’t be dealing with the Lebanese government that has Hezbollah in it, which is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Tillerson also repeated the “non-violent” and “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. He claimed that the Brotherhood’s political parties in governments “have become so by renouncing violence and terrorism.” That was false when the liar-nObama Administration said it, and it is false now... https://clarionproject.org/secretary-state-disappoints-muslim-brotherhood-qatar/.
Senator Chuck clown-Schumer Attacks
Republicans Just Before Health Care Vote
By Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Just before Senate Republicans took up a crucial vote on a bill or set of bills to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, Cryin’ Chuck clown-Schumer took to the Senate floor to do what he does best: whine, and moan, and cry... about how mean Republicans are for trashing the disaster of a law known as liar-nObamacare. clown-Schumer spends three minutes rambling and gesticulating about the impending doom an liae-r-nObamacare repeal would bring. The Senate is a place designed for finely-worded debate, but clown-Schumer’s delivery is more grating than listening to Gilbert Gottfried sing the National Anthem... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-chuck-schumer-attacks-republicans-just-before-health-care-vote/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_7_26_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-07-26-17-morning&utm_medium=email.
T-Rex: “I’m Not Going Anywhere”…
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The insufferable State Department correspondents, known throughout the world for their globalist banner-carrying tender sensibilities, shout divisive questions to Secretary of State Tillerson during a customary diplomatic photo-op... with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrachman Al Thani. The U.S. media are embarrassing. Seriously, just for context – consider the snark and ridiculous media questions against the substantive accomplishments of Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis, Secretary Kelly, Secretary Mnuchin, Secretary Ross, and President Donald Trump. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/26/t-rex-im-not-going-anywhere/
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by Katie Kieffer
{townhall.com} ~ “I can hear someone out back and I, I’m not sure if she’s having sex or being raped,” Justine Damond told a Minneapolis, MN police dispatcher at 11:27 p.m. on July 15. Eight minutes passed. No squad car. She re-dialed 911.
Minutes earlier, Damond had been awakened from sleep by a female’s chilling scream. The sound was particularly startling in a neighborhood known for low crime and peaceful streets. After calling the police, Damond called her fiancé and said the sound seemed to be coming from a neighbor’s garage.
Damond’s heart was too big to crawl back in bed when she sensed another woman hurting nearby. Her first instinct was always to help. A few weeks earlier, she had jumped—barefoot—into a drain to rescue a flock of eight ducklings. A personal coach, she spent her days trying to uplift others. So it probably didn’t occur to her that she could be in more danger than the owner of the scream.
When two officers eventually pulled into the alleyway behind her home, Damond walked toward the squad car window to greet them—still wearing her pajamas.
A bullet tore through her abdomen. The cop she had called for help had shot her.
Officer Mohamed Noor had reached across his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, from the passenger seat to fire the shot. Noor’s aim was true. By 12:45 a.m., the 40-year-old Australian-American woman with blond hair, green eyes and a megawatt smile was dead.
The Sound of Silence
One year ago in Minnesota, a Hispanic police officer named Jeronimo Yanez shot an African American man named Philando Castile in self-defense. “I thought I was going to die. I had no choice,” Yanez testified at his trial for second-degree manslaughter.
A jury found Yanez not guilty on all counts.
But Yanez’ foremost crime for which no jury could ever clear him was that he was not black and he had killed a black man. Despite research showing that black suspects are killed more often by a black officer than a white officer, the Minneapolis community—and national Black Lives Matter movement—erupted in rage.
“I think he was just black in the wrong place,” Castile’s mother Valerie said after her son’s death. Anger is understandable after a loved one dies. But it’s wrong to let one’s anger blind the facts and conclude that every black who dies at the hands of a non-black cop is killed out of racism and that whites never experience racism.
Unfortunately, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton made those presumptions. Following Castile’s death, Gov. Dayton declared: “Would this have happened if … the driver and passenger would have been white? I don’t think it would.”
Black Lives Matter took a cue from Gov. Dayton’s words. At 10:30 p.m. on the night of Yanez’ acquittal, some 2,000 people took to the streets of Minneapolis. They shut down a major highway, Interstate I-94, and wouldn’t budge for hours. Violence and destruction—not peace—was the hallmark of the protest. At least 21 Minnesota police officers were injured by protesters and hundreds of arrests were made at similar protests nationwide.
But when a black officer shot a white woman—an officer with three separate open investigations into his behavior who violated police rules by shutting off his body camera; by shooting across his partner; and by shooting in the absence of a reasonable threat—you could practically hear crickets chirping.
That is, until Gov. Dayton broke the silence by prematurely siding with Noor and stating that his behavior is not indicative of a “trigger-happy” police force.
Perhaps Gov. Dayton was emulating President liar-nObama, who did the same thing in 2012. Before anyone knew the facts, President liar-nObama rushed to a public microphone and declared an African American teenager named Trayvon Martin “my son.”
We soon learned from eyewitness accounts and expert forensic testimony that Martin was not as innocent as liar-nObama’s I Am Your Father speech made him sound. On the evening of February 28, 2012, Martin had pummeled a Hispanic man named George Zimmerman in an MMA-style “ground and pound” mount and reached for Zimmerman’s gun while shouting “You’re going to die tonight!” before Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
The selective silence of Black Lives Matter a group that purports to fight police violence—and the ridiculous comments of Gov. Dayton—in the wake of Damond’s death are alarming. Because, rather than promoting peace, Black Lives Matter and Gov. Dayton appear to be fostering racism.
Justice for Justine
We still need to hear all the facts of this case. But the key fact is that an innocent woman died while she was trying to help another woman. And next to no one seems to care. Because she happened to be white and her killer happened to be black.
The Minneapolis Police Department and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges fast-tracked Noor as part of the City’s “diversity” efforts and goals. But no city in America should have to accept ill-qualified persons into its police force in order to fulfill diversity goals.
May Justine Damond’s tragic death ultimately be a tribute to her life by reminding us that political correctness can be fatally destructive. To save lives, we must seek the truth in every story.
Death of a White Woman
{townhall.com} ~ “I can hear someone out back and I, I’m not sure if she’s having sex or being raped,” Justine Damond told a Minneapolis, MN police dispatcher at 11:27 p.m. on July 15. Eight minutes passed. No squad car. She re-dialed 911.
Minutes earlier, Damond had been awakened from sleep by a female’s chilling scream. The sound was particularly startling in a neighborhood known for low crime and peaceful streets. After calling the police, Damond called her fiancé and said the sound seemed to be coming from a neighbor’s garage.
Damond’s heart was too big to crawl back in bed when she sensed another woman hurting nearby. Her first instinct was always to help. A few weeks earlier, she had jumped—barefoot—into a drain to rescue a flock of eight ducklings. A personal coach, she spent her days trying to uplift others. So it probably didn’t occur to her that she could be in more danger than the owner of the scream.
When two officers eventually pulled into the alleyway behind her home, Damond walked toward the squad car window to greet them—still wearing her pajamas.
A bullet tore through her abdomen. The cop she had called for help had shot her.
Officer Mohamed Noor had reached across his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, from the passenger seat to fire the shot. Noor’s aim was true. By 12:45 a.m., the 40-year-old Australian-American woman with blond hair, green eyes and a megawatt smile was dead.
The Sound of Silence
One year ago in Minnesota, a Hispanic police officer named Jeronimo Yanez shot an African American man named Philando Castile in self-defense. “I thought I was going to die. I had no choice,” Yanez testified at his trial for second-degree manslaughter.
A jury found Yanez not guilty on all counts.
But Yanez’ foremost crime for which no jury could ever clear him was that he was not black and he had killed a black man. Despite research showing that black suspects are killed more often by a black officer than a white officer, the Minneapolis community—and national Black Lives Matter movement—erupted in rage.
“I think he was just black in the wrong place,” Castile’s mother Valerie said after her son’s death. Anger is understandable after a loved one dies. But it’s wrong to let one’s anger blind the facts and conclude that every black who dies at the hands of a non-black cop is killed out of racism and that whites never experience racism.
Unfortunately, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton made those presumptions. Following Castile’s death, Gov. Dayton declared: “Would this have happened if … the driver and passenger would have been white? I don’t think it would.”
Black Lives Matter took a cue from Gov. Dayton’s words. At 10:30 p.m. on the night of Yanez’ acquittal, some 2,000 people took to the streets of Minneapolis. They shut down a major highway, Interstate I-94, and wouldn’t budge for hours. Violence and destruction—not peace—was the hallmark of the protest. At least 21 Minnesota police officers were injured by protesters and hundreds of arrests were made at similar protests nationwide.
But when a black officer shot a white woman—an officer with three separate open investigations into his behavior who violated police rules by shutting off his body camera; by shooting across his partner; and by shooting in the absence of a reasonable threat—you could practically hear crickets chirping.
That is, until Gov. Dayton broke the silence by prematurely siding with Noor and stating that his behavior is not indicative of a “trigger-happy” police force.
Perhaps Gov. Dayton was emulating President liar-nObama, who did the same thing in 2012. Before anyone knew the facts, President liar-nObama rushed to a public microphone and declared an African American teenager named Trayvon Martin “my son.”
We soon learned from eyewitness accounts and expert forensic testimony that Martin was not as innocent as liar-nObama’s I Am Your Father speech made him sound. On the evening of February 28, 2012, Martin had pummeled a Hispanic man named George Zimmerman in an MMA-style “ground and pound” mount and reached for Zimmerman’s gun while shouting “You’re going to die tonight!” before Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
The selective silence of Black Lives Matter a group that purports to fight police violence—and the ridiculous comments of Gov. Dayton—in the wake of Damond’s death are alarming. Because, rather than promoting peace, Black Lives Matter and Gov. Dayton appear to be fostering racism.
Justice for Justine
We still need to hear all the facts of this case. But the key fact is that an innocent woman died while she was trying to help another woman. And next to no one seems to care. Because she happened to be white and her killer happened to be black.
The Minneapolis Police Department and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges fast-tracked Noor as part of the City’s “diversity” efforts and goals. But no city in America should have to accept ill-qualified persons into its police force in order to fulfill diversity goals.
May Justine Damond’s tragic death ultimately be a tribute to her life by reminding us that political correctness can be fatally destructive. To save lives, we must seek the truth in every story.
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