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The Painful Reality of 'Love Trumps Hate’
by Susan Stamper Brown
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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Free Speech
The Supreme Court ruled in an unanimous 8-0 decision Monday to strike down the Patent and Trademark Office's denial of trademark for an offensive band name. The case in question was brought by the Asian-American band The Slants, who had been denied a trademark on the basis that their name was deemed disparaging and offensive. The government argued that trademarks did not fall under First Amendment protections of free speech because they weren't private speech — in fact, that a trademark is government sanctioned speech. Therefore, the government argued, when the government reviews trademark applications it is free to deny granting them based on what it deems offensive or disparaging.
Thankfully, the Supreme Court correctly saw the government's contorted rationale for what it was — a justification to deny freedom of speech. Justice Samuel Alito stated, "We have said time and again that 'the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers.'" He continued, "We now hold that this provision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend."
Not only is the Supreme Court's ruling good news for The Slants, but it holds positive implications for the National Football League's Washington Redskins. In 2014, the Patent and Trademark Office canceled the trademark on the team's name because it deemed "Redskins" to be "disparaging" to Native Americans. Lost on the social justice warrior yahoos is that no one names their team something they find disparaging. The Redskins' appeal is currently stuck in the Fourth Circuit Court, but this ruling should inform the lower court's decision.
Americans should rejoice over the fact that freedom of speech has been protected from those who would seek to prevent it, no matter how "noble" their cause may have been. And this should be a reminder that there will always be those who will seek through the power of government to silence the speech of those with whom they find offense or disagreement.
~The Patriot Post
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DHS Still Continuing liar-nObama Catch
And Release – Surrender And Stay In USA Policy
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The word is getting out south of the border, catch and release is alive and well despite claims to the contrary... Crash our border, surrender and you’ll be released into an American neighborhood of your choosing. Pay no attention to the claims of tougher border enforcement, it’s a joke, played on the American people. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, one that escapes most patriots who believe in American sovereignty including most Trump supporters, rather than the promised end to catch and release and DACA, both are continuing as if we never had an election or as if liar-Hillary Clinton had won. The illegals thought the border was being enforced. Now they’ve discovered that it isn’t and they’ve responded accordingly...If this is true then Trump is failing. http://rickwells.us/dhs-still-continuing-obama-catch-release-surrender-stay-usa-policy/
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Israel and Palestinian
Authority Plunge Gaza into Darkness
by Luis Miranda
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Since last April, the only power plant in the Gaza Strip has been shut down for lack of fuel, so the two million inhabitants of the Palestinian Mediterranean enclave have been provide only four hours of energy per day... If the decision taken by the Israeli Government on Sunday at the behest of the Palestinian Authority is confirmed, the Gazans will remain in the dark. When it comes to ten years of the seizure of power in Gaza by the Islamist Hamas movement – in which three wars have been waged against Israel – the Palestinian territory has been plunged into darkness. The escalation of tension threatens to blow up the fuses of a new armed conflict... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/israel-palestine-plunge-gaza-darkness/.
China Not Yet Ready Militarily,
Economically to Take on America’s Global Role
by John Grady
{news.usni.org} ~ Because Beijing lacks the hard power of global military strength and the soft power to shape other nation’s attitudes through its economic diversity, one of China’s leading diplomatic scholars said it is not now in China’s interest... as a rising power to try and take over the United States’ role in the world in maintaining international order. Speaking Tuesday as part of a panel at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank, Jia Qingguo, dean of the department of diplomacy at Peking University, said in answer to a question, “China should expect the United States to live up its responsibilities” in maintaining the international order and where it can “China should help the United States.” Jia acknowledged “maintaining the international order is a very costly business,” but the United States through its creation of a network of alliances, such as it has with Japan and Korea, use of U.N. organizations and development of various types of partnerships, such as it has India and others, has defrayed some of that expense... https://news.usni.org/2017/06/21/panel-china-not-yet-ready-militarily-economically-take-americas-global-role?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=12ac6d81b7-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-12ac6d81b7-231491269&mc_cid=12ac6d81b7&mc_eid=3999f18767.
Profiling Project Issues Bombshell
Report on Seth Rich Murder Investigation
by Rachel Alexander
{stream.org} ~ The Profiling Project on Thursday morning filed an emergency petition against the District of Columbia. They are seeking an injunction that would require the Metropolitan Police Department to “preserve, protect and properly organize” all the online information of Seth Rich... The research group notes that several of Rich’s social media accounts including on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit have already been deleted or altered. They assert the information may be critical to determining a motive for Rich’s murder and the “MPD must now be forced by this Court to act swiftly and decisively to preserve evidence.” The Profiling Project also accuses the MPD of unlawfully causing “spoliation of evidence” by failing to preserve Rich’s social media accounts in the first place. The Profiling Project, an independent, nonpartisan group, has released a lengthy report of its probe into the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich...https://stream.org/profiling-project-issues/?utm_source=The+Stream&utm_campaign=71a4abcea9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8da00e4cb4-71a4abcea9-371883569.
Tapes Of Lynch, Bill liar-Clinton Tarmac
Conversation May Be Subpoenaed For Testimony
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Last week Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) agreed to have former Attorney General Loretta Lynch come before their committee to do some explaining... She’s been exposed by former FBI Director James Comey as having colluded with the liar-Clintons and the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign in the decision not to prosecute her for her espionage and other crimes. The committee worded the appearance as them being to “examine then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s involvement in the liar-Clinton email server investigation.” Maybe they meant to call it a matter. liar-nObama, Lynch, Comey, liar-Clinton, her criminal cadre and their deep state cronies are smart cookies. They know they got away with a big one and are smart enough to count their blessings, leaving well enough alone, right? Nope. Democrats never stop, that is their strength and it is also their weakness. Possibly it’s a weakness that will, in this instance, land them all before a judge and jury. The first consequences of their power lust and greed getting the better of them may become evident, not in the DOJ prosecution of liar-Clinton we expected, but in the information revealed or withheld by Loretta Lynch before the Judiciary Committee... http://rickwells.us/tapes-lynch-bill-clinton-tarmac-conversation-may-subpoenaed-testimony/.
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The Painful Reality of 'Love Trumps Hate’
by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ Although longtime Democrat voter and Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson is the one who pulled the trigger at the GOP batting practice in Alexandria, Va. on June 14, the Democratic Party and its leftist media sidekicks should take a long look in the mirror.
They are not without fault, given their relentless spewing of hate-filled propaganda framing President Trump as a Russian Hitler, his supporters as racists and Nazis and Republican lawmakers as evil villains who want people to die.
Garbage in, garbage out. No wonder Hodgkinson went postal.
Those calling for unity should understand unity is impossible unless those smarmy swamp dwellers slither their way out of the sludge and cap off the sewage they have been gushing since Trump’s inauguration.
Until they do, leftists will do what leftists do, communicating their opinions and demonstrating their frustrations by breaking and burning things…or going on Hodgkinson-style shooting sprees…or stabbing police horses with nail-embedded flagpoles like one did in Harrisburg, Pa.
Every time the swamp princess herself, Nancy Pulosi, opens her mouth, she inspires normal Americans to donate campaign dollars and dash to the polls to support anyone but Democrats. Pulosi’s latest tasteless word salad came barely 24 hours after the Alexandria shooting when she said Republicans are “sanctimonious” for blaming the left for inciting violence.
Leftists inciting violence? Let me un-sanctimoniously count the ways.
Art Institute of Washington’s Professor John Griffin commented on a since-deleted Facebook post that Republicans in the House of Representatives “should be lined up and shot” for passing the American Heath Care Act to fix liar-nObamacare. Griffin stressed, “That’s not hyperbole; blood is on their hands.”
The Washington Times reports a California State University lecturer, Lars Maischak, tweeted: “To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better.” He also tweeted: “Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?”
If this kind of hate-filled vitriol falls on the wrong ears, it could be interpreted as a dog whistle to people like Hodgkinson or the crazy Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporter in Portland, Oregon who yelled at two Muslims then slit their defenders' throats.
Hodgkinson was reportedly a member of a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.” After the shooting, some fellow members celebrated a now-deleted post preserved in a screen catch by the Daily Caller which read, “And it’s one, two, three shots you’re out at the old ball game.”
Shortly after the shooting, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) received a threatening email with the subject line reading “One down, 216 to go.” “Did you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit,” the sender wrote.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, police blanketed a town hall meeting for Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) after he received threats targeting Garrett, his family and even his dog. “This is how we’re going to kill your wife,” read one threat.
Tuscson.com reports the FBI arrested a school employee for threatening to shoot U.S. Rep. Martha McSally and other voicemail messages warning her to “be careful” and telling her “her days were numbered.”
WSBC-2 reports the FBI was called to investigate that GOP candidate for the Georgia House special election, Karen Handel, received a threatening letter and a suspicious package June 15. Her neighbors also received envelopes containing a white powdery substance. I could go on, but I’m only allowed 650 words.
Love trumping hate sure requires an awful lot of visceral abhorrence toward those with whom leftists disagree.
If anyone is sanctimonious, it is Swamp Princess Pulosi, for blaming the right for blaming the left for inciting violence. Pulosi’s time would be better spent working to drain the Democratic Party swamp and culling the hate before another Hodgkinson-style atrocity occurs.
{townhall.com} ~ Although longtime Democrat voter and Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson is the one who pulled the trigger at the GOP batting practice in Alexandria, Va. on June 14, the Democratic Party and its leftist media sidekicks should take a long look in the mirror.
They are not without fault, given their relentless spewing of hate-filled propaganda framing President Trump as a Russian Hitler, his supporters as racists and Nazis and Republican lawmakers as evil villains who want people to die.
Garbage in, garbage out. No wonder Hodgkinson went postal.
Those calling for unity should understand unity is impossible unless those smarmy swamp dwellers slither their way out of the sludge and cap off the sewage they have been gushing since Trump’s inauguration.
Until they do, leftists will do what leftists do, communicating their opinions and demonstrating their frustrations by breaking and burning things…or going on Hodgkinson-style shooting sprees…or stabbing police horses with nail-embedded flagpoles like one did in Harrisburg, Pa.
Every time the swamp princess herself, Nancy Pulosi, opens her mouth, she inspires normal Americans to donate campaign dollars and dash to the polls to support anyone but Democrats. Pulosi’s latest tasteless word salad came barely 24 hours after the Alexandria shooting when she said Republicans are “sanctimonious” for blaming the left for inciting violence.
Leftists inciting violence? Let me un-sanctimoniously count the ways.
Art Institute of Washington’s Professor John Griffin commented on a since-deleted Facebook post that Republicans in the House of Representatives “should be lined up and shot” for passing the American Heath Care Act to fix liar-nObamacare. Griffin stressed, “That’s not hyperbole; blood is on their hands.”
The Washington Times reports a California State University lecturer, Lars Maischak, tweeted: “To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better.” He also tweeted: “Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?”
If this kind of hate-filled vitriol falls on the wrong ears, it could be interpreted as a dog whistle to people like Hodgkinson or the crazy Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporter in Portland, Oregon who yelled at two Muslims then slit their defenders' throats.
Hodgkinson was reportedly a member of a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.” After the shooting, some fellow members celebrated a now-deleted post preserved in a screen catch by the Daily Caller which read, “And it’s one, two, three shots you’re out at the old ball game.”
Shortly after the shooting, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) received a threatening email with the subject line reading “One down, 216 to go.” “Did you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit,” the sender wrote.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, police blanketed a town hall meeting for Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) after he received threats targeting Garrett, his family and even his dog. “This is how we’re going to kill your wife,” read one threat.
Tuscson.com reports the FBI arrested a school employee for threatening to shoot U.S. Rep. Martha McSally and other voicemail messages warning her to “be careful” and telling her “her days were numbered.”
WSBC-2 reports the FBI was called to investigate that GOP candidate for the Georgia House special election, Karen Handel, received a threatening letter and a suspicious package June 15. Her neighbors also received envelopes containing a white powdery substance. I could go on, but I’m only allowed 650 words.
Love trumping hate sure requires an awful lot of visceral abhorrence toward those with whom leftists disagree.
If anyone is sanctimonious, it is Swamp Princess Pulosi, for blaming the right for blaming the left for inciting violence. Pulosi’s time would be better spent working to drain the Democratic Party swamp and culling the hate before another Hodgkinson-style atrocity occurs.
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