The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Who's Burning Black Churches? Oh.
Michelle Malkin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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Rubio Is Right About Wages 
Just hours after protesters nationwide hit the streets demanding a minimum wage increase, Marco Rubio took to the podium at Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate and noted a higher minimum wage isn’t needed but rather an America where hard work and perseverance lead to success. In other words, higher wages don't come from government.
“Here’s the best way to raise wages,” Rubio said. “Make America the best place in the world to start a business or expand an existing business, tax reform and regulatory reform, bring our debt under control, fully utilize our energy resources ... repeal and replace nObamaCare, and make higher education faster and easier to access.”
But he didn’t stop there. Instead, he immediately emphasized the importance of vocational training. “For the life of me,” he added, “I don’t know why we have stigmatized vocational education. Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.”
Apparently, them’s fightin’ words. After all, it’s one thing to say America needs more trade professionals, but dare to question the plethora of philosophers and all of a sudden you’re giving Socrates an extra dose of hemlock.
In truth, Rubio is on to something, in more ways than one. Primarily, he was making a sweeping generalization aimed at a particular audience: minimum wage earners. Want a job that pays better than the McDonald's drive-thru? Don't major in philosophy (i.e., shorthand for something not practical) only to be a higher-paid burger flipper. Go to trade school and learn how to weld. -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Pontificates on Betraying Vets Hilly Clinton supports our veterans — or so she says. After all, she says she tried to sign up for the Marines earlier in life, right? Never mind the factual questions surrounding her tale... Today, she's trying to take advantage of the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs to bash Republican plans to fix it through privatization. “Today we are failing to keep faith with our veterans,” Clinton said, adding that her administration would have “zero tolerance for the kinds of abuses and delays we have seen.” Clinton hurriedly put together a VA solution to give veterans VA insurance that they could use with private providers. She also focused on prominent services for women and homosexuals.
Meanwhile, Republicans have proposed to offer veterans a choice of services within the system or vouchers to receive services in the private sector. Of course, Democrats oppose vouchers for veterans' health care just as they do vouchers to help kids get out of failed government schools. And much for the same reason, Democrats want to maintain a stranglehold on every sector of services they can. They certainly don't want to offend their government and school union constituents.
But as for GOP proposals, Clinton declared, “As we work to improve the VA, I will fight as long and hard as it takes to prevent Republicans from privatizing it as part of a misguided, ideological crusade. I will not put our veterans at the mercy of private insurance companies. Privatization is a betrayal, plain and simple, and I’m not going to let it happen.”
No, betrayal is allowing 300,000 veterans die while waiting on the VA. -The Patriot Post
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Germany's Emissions Blitzkrieg
The German agency tasked with regulating that nation's automobiles announced Wednesday that it was investigating 23 automobile brands for emission cheating, two of them American-based Ford and GM. The announcement comes two months after news broke that the EPA found software on Volkswagen diesel cars designed to fool emission tests.
Out of 50 models being tested by Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), Germany's auto regulator, KBA said it has finished testing about two-thirds of them. "Since the end of September KBA has been investigating whether further manipulation of emissions, of nitrogen oxides in particular, is taking place in the market," said KBA in a statement in German, according to translation by the magazine Foreign Policy. Because it is announcing its investigation before it has its results, it appears that KBA is trying to lighten the pressure Germany's car manufacturer is facing over its cheating. In other words, KBA is making the situation political. It matters not if the charges stick — that is, if GM's Chevrolet Cruze also spews nitrogen oxide at many times the limit set by the EPA — the seriousness of the accusation is enough of a cloud. KBA is protecting Volkswagen by emitting more hot air. -The Patriot Post
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O'Reilly Libels Reagan
George Will tackled the subject of Bill O'Reilly's New York Times best-selling "biography" of Ronald Reagan with two columns eviscerating the Fox News blowhard for shoddy work parroting liberal rumors and innuendo about the former president. (And Will isn't the only one; numerous historians have likewise looked askance at O'Reilly's work.) "Styling himself an 'investigative historian,' O'Reilly purports to have discovered amazing facts that have escaped the notice of real historians," Will notes in his first column. The crux of the problem, Will says in his second column, is this: "O'Reilly 'reports' that the trauma of the assassination attempt was somehow causally related to the 'fact' that Reagan was frequently so mentally incompetent that senior aides contemplated using the Constitution's 25th Amendment to remove him from office. But neither O'Reilly nor [co-author Martin] Dugard spoke with any of those aides — not with Ed Meese, Jim Baker, George Shultz or any of the scores of others who could, and would, have demolished O'Reilly's theory. O'Reilly now airily dismisses them because they 'have skin in the game.' His is an interesting approach to writing history: Never talk to anyone with first-hand knowledge of your subject."
More damning, Will writes, "Instead, O'Reilly made the book's 'centerpiece' a memo he has never seen and never tried to see until 27 days after the book was published. Then Dugard asked the Reagan Library to find it." How does one purport to write the authoritative work on a subject one has not even tried to see?
"Tidying up after O'Reilly could be a full-time job but usually is not worth the trouble," Will concludes. "When, however, O'Reilly's vast carelessness pollutes history and debases the historian's craft, the mess is, unlike O'Reilly, to be taken seriously."
Not that O'Reilly will go quietly (he never does). In a contentious exchange on his own TV show, O'Reilly ends by shouting Will down with the insult, "You're a hack." The truth is the other way around.
-The Patriot Post
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#MillionStudentMarch Campus Uprising has Soros Written All Over It
{Melissa Dykes} ~ The pot is being stirred. It’s no coincidence that WAPO published an article two days ago about how college campuses are once again becoming “civil rights battlegrounds.”... It’s also no surprise at all that the nationwide protest going down today is timed perfectly to piggyback off the media outcry over the University of Missouri protests, either. In what is being called “a day of action,” a highly organized, scripted, and surely bought-and-paid-for #MillionStudentMarch is scheduled to take place on 106 colleges campuses across America today. Have you figured it out by now that somewhere up the food chain this entire highly scripted, highly organized, national committee-led “movement” is not just some natural “grassroots campaign” concocted by a few pissed off college students buried in loan debt, but instead is a bought-and-paid for protest-in-a-box à la George Soros’ phony color revolutions?.
In Afghanistan protest ISIS beheading of civilians, including a girl
{Edwin Mora} ~ Protesters in Afghanistan stormed the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday, carrying the coffins of seven civilians from the Hazara Shiite minority, recently beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorists... Two women and a 9-year old girl were among the victims. Angry protesters, reportedly numbering in the thousands, demanded protection from the government of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. “Death to the Taliban,” “Down with the Government,” “Death to the Islamic State,” and “Death to Pakistan,” chanted the crowd. “They accused President Ashraf Ghani of incompetence in the face of deteriorating security and called for the resignation of his coalition government,” reports the New York Times(NYT). The Times reports that their throats were cut with “metal wire.”
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Why Americanized Muslim reformers are failing
{Dr. Stephen M. Kirby} ~ For many years we in the United States have regularly heard from a small number of Muslim American “reformers” who aspire to change Islam in ways that will make it more “modern” and compatible with American values such as freedom of speech and religion, and the equality of all people... According to these reformers, such change would rescue Islam from the “perverted” and “radical” interpretations of the jihadists, and return it to the way the reformers claim Muhammad originally taught it: as a religion that commanded peace and tolerance toward all, and promoted the rights of women. These aspiring reformers seem to be generally Muslim males who were either born in the United States, or have spent a significant portion of their life in the United States. They have used the freedoms in the United States to explore Islam and to strike out on their own in providing an interpretation of that religion that conforms largely to American values. These personal interpretations commonly focus on Islam as a religion of peace that has been perverted by a few radical jihadists, and the aspiring reformers present Islam as such to non-Muslim audiences. I use the term “Americanized Muslim reformer” as a general reference to these aspiring Muslim reformers. But what most non-Muslims don’t realize is that Islam prohibits exactly what these Americanized Muslim reformers are trying to do. Let’s look in the Koran, the holy book of Islam considered by Muslims to consist of the timeless, perfect, unchangeable words of their god Allah. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260743/why-americanized-muslim-reformers-are-failing-dr-stephen-m-kirby.
Selective Outrage on Campus
{Alan M. Dershowitz} ~ Following the forced resignations of the President and Provost of the University of Missouri, demonstrations against campus administrators has spread across the country... Students – many of whom are Black, gay, transgender and Muslim – claim that they feel "unsafe" as the result of what they call "white privilege" or sometimes simply privilege. "Check your privilege" has become the put-down du jour. Students insist on being protected by campus administrators from "micro-aggressions," meaning unintended statements inside and outside the classroom that demonstrate subtle insensitivities towards minority students. They insist on being safe from hostile or politically incorrect ideas. They demand "trigger warnings" before sensitive issues are discussed or assigned. They want to own the narrative and keep other points of view from upsetting them or making them feel unsafe. These current manifestations of a widespread culture of victimization and grievance are only the most recent iterations of a dangerous long-term trend on campuses both in the United States and in Europe. The ultimate victims are freedom of expression, academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6870/selective-outrage-on-campus.
Neil Cavuto CrushesCollege Liberal's Utopian Dream
{Trey Sanchez} ~ A young college student made a terrible mistake Thursday morning in agreeing to talk with Neil Cavuto live on Cavuto Coast to Coast on Fox Business... Unfortunately for her, she received no trigger warning before submitting to a large dose of crushing reality. Keely Mullen is the national organizer of the Million Student March, an activist group demanding free public college, absolution of student debt, and a $15/hour minimum wage for campus jobs. Cavuto politely entertained her pitch for socialist utopia, while at the same time administering calm, yet devastating, rebuttals. "How's that going to be paid?" Cavuto asked. This initial verbal punch knocked Mullen off balance and she never recovered. She could only manage to meander her way through the favored progressive idea of taxing the rich until Cavuto reminded her that even at 100% tax/confiscation, there isn't even enough to pay for just one of her group's demands. Beautiful job, Neil. Just beautiful..
nObama Proud His Creation, Illegal Alien Infestation Is Too Big To Fix
{rickwells.us} ~ The communist subversive who is occupying our White House seems quite proud of himself for having created what is proving to be a difficult problem to deal with... He’s naturally a divisive individual so it must be hard for him to contain himself at his success with his illegal alien importation project. nObama, in league with his comrade Jihadi Jeh Johnson, abused the power of DHS, turning it into a law violation agency instead of a law enforcement and security agency. They deliberately created a large population of illegal aliens within our borders as one of the tools of manipulation through which to create “fundamental transformation,” and simultaneously increase Democrat control over the American political process. Now that he’s gone to all of the trouble to import his parasitic populace, nObama’s going to protect them, to speak on their behalf, and to criticize anyone who doesn’t share his position that occupying space in America is equivalent with being an American. http://rickwells.us/archives/22126.
Jihadi John Potentially Killed After US Finally Acts Against ISIS
{JAMES BOSWORTH} ~ The Pentagon says U.S. forces have conducted an airstrike in Syria targeting the British man known as “Jihadi John” who participated in the beheading videos of two American journalists and the slayings of several other captives... Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook says the airstrike Thursday in Raqqa targeted Mohamed Emwazi. Cook says whether or not Emwazi died in the strike is not clear. Emwazi is in the videos showing the killings of journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages. Cook says the Pentagon is assessing the results of the strike. http://absoluterights.com/jihadi-john-potentially-killed/utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=slnews11-13-15.
How Dangerous Did nObama Just Make Our Cities?
{leanrightamerica.org} ~ According to a new report from Fox News, police departments and sheriffs across the country are warning that the nObama administration’s decision to release more than 6,000 federal inmates could have dire effect on the safety of the public... “There’s no transition here, there’s no safety net,” Sheriff Paul Babeu told Fox. Babeu, who works in Arizona’s Pinal County, put it bluntly: “This is the biggest shame they are trying to sell the American people.” This is the largest simultaneous prisoner release in U.S. history, but nObama’s cronies have assured the public that everything is copacetic. They swear that all of the illegal immigrants released this month will be taken directly to detention centers to await certain deportation. They tout the fact that they found 77 percent of the inmates halfway houses and other programs to ease them back into free society..
Essay: Russia’s Military Role in Syria
{Daniel Trombly} ~ The deployment of a major Russian expeditionary force to Syria in late September resulted in a flurry of public attention and heated rumors... Pro-Syrian regime sources spoke of a massive offensive against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) that would put the long-frustrated U.S. and coalition effort to shame. Many worried that Russia would flood Syria with new interceptors, such as the Mikoyan MiG-31, or the latest generation of surface-to-air missile systems (Syria’s long-rumored order of MiG-31s remains unfilled, and the Buk and Pantsir surface-to-air missiles defending Russia’s base do not do much more than Syria’s own Buk and Pantsir systems to improve the regime’s air defense capabilities). Even rumors involving Russia’s sole Typhoon-class ballistic-missile submarine and aircraft carrier entered the mix..
Russia “Accidentally” Aired “Secret Nuclear Weapon Plans” ...
{Melissa Dykes} ~ It is all over the media, courtesy of the Associated Press, that Russia “accidentally” aired “secret plans” for a new nuclear weapon on two Russian national TV channels... NTV and Channel One, two channels under tight State control in Russia, reportedly aired footage curiously shot over a general’s shoulder as he was meeting with Putin (reportedly one of four meetings Putin has held on defense just this week). One large document contained drawings of a new submarine-launched nuclear torpedo Russia is calling Status-6. The system includes nuclear subs that carry huge, self-propelled underwater long-range torpedo-shaped drones that can, according to the documents, travel 5,400 miles and create extensive, uninhabitable ” zones of radioactive contamination”..
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Who's Burning Black Churches? Oh.
Michelle Malkin
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Over a two-week period in October, an arsonist targeted seven churches in the St. Louis area -- including several in Black Lives Matter protest hotspot Ferguson, Missouri.
Over a two-week period in October, an arsonist targeted seven churches in the St. Louis area -- including several in Black Lives Matter protest hotspot Ferguson, Missouri.
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The Atlantic magazine, invoking the "long history of terrorism against black churches in America," lamented that the crime spree had been "slow to get the same attention" in the local and national media as another string of church arsons that occurred earlier this summer.
The Atlantic magazine, invoking the "long history of terrorism against black churches in America," lamented that the crime spree had been "slow to get the same attention" in the local and national media as another string of church arsons that occurred earlier this summer.
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Reminder: Several of those hyped hate crimes against "black churches" had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the "black churches" were, in fact, white churches; and the complex motives behind the crimes included mental illness, vandalism and concealment of theft.
Reminder: Several of those hyped hate crimes against "black churches" had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the "black churches" were, in fact, white churches; and the complex motives behind the crimes included mental illness, vandalism and concealment of theft.
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Reminder: The same hyperventilators who stoked fears about this summer's church incidents had also stoked hysteria about the 1990s black church arson "epidemic" that fell apart under scrutiny and ended with USA Today admitting that "analysis of the 64 fires since 1995 shows only four can be conclusively shown to be racially motivated."
Reminder: The same hyperventilators who stoked fears about this summer's church incidents had also stoked hysteria about the 1990s black church arson "epidemic" that fell apart under scrutiny and ended with USA Today admitting that "analysis of the 64 fires since 1995 shows only four can be conclusively shown to be racially motivated."
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Undaunted, agitators did their best to fan the flames over the latest alleged wave of race-based black church burnings in October. On Twitter, social justice activists resurrected the #WhosBurningBlackChurches hashtag. "Black churches are burning again," Oklahoma State University professor Lawrence Ware lamented in Counterpunch. The far left propaganda outfit U.S. Uncut concluded unequivocally: "Racists in Ferguson Burn Down 5 Black Churches in 9 Days."
Undaunted, agitators did their best to fan the flames over the latest alleged wave of race-based black church burnings in October. On Twitter, social justice activists resurrected the #WhosBurningBlackChurches hashtag. "Black churches are burning again," Oklahoma State University professor Lawrence Ware lamented in Counterpunch. The far left propaganda outfit U.S. Uncut concluded unequivocally: "Racists in Ferguson Burn Down 5 Black Churches in 9 Days."
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Except, they didn't. Again.
Except, they didn't. Again.
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Last week, police charged 35-year-old David Lopez Jackson, who is black, with setting two of the fires. "Forensic evidence linked him to the fire on Oct. 18 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1011 Theobald Street," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, and "video of his car near New Life Missionary Baptist Church, 4569 Plover Avenue, links him to the fire there on Oct. 17, police Chief Sam Dotson said." Jackson is a suspect in the other fires and additional charges are pending.
Last week, police charged 35-year-old David Lopez Jackson, who is black, with setting two of the fires. "Forensic evidence linked him to the fire on Oct. 18 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1011 Theobald Street," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, and "video of his car near New Life Missionary Baptist Church, 4569 Plover Avenue, links him to the fire there on Oct. 17, police Chief Sam Dotson said." Jackson is a suspect in the other fires and additional charges are pending.
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The arrest follows another black church hate crime spree-gone-bust in my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs. In late June, after a pair of churches received menacing notices ("Black men, be aware, you are the target," read one), black suspect Vincent Broughton admitted to posting the ugly signs.
The arrest follows another black church hate crime spree-gone-bust in my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs. In late June, after a pair of churches received menacing notices ("Black men, be aware, you are the target," read one), black suspect Vincent Broughton admitted to posting the ugly signs.
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And yes, Colorado Springs is also the home of the January 2015 NAACP office bombing that wasn't.
And yes, Colorado Springs is also the home of the January 2015 NAACP office bombing that wasn't.
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The smoke-blowing never ends.
The smoke-blowing never ends.
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In Texas last week, a professor who cried "racism" against police officers was exposed as a fraud when dashcam video showed the cops politely asking her to move to the other side of the street while exercising -- so she wouldn't get run over.
In Texas last week, a professor who cried "racism" against police officers was exposed as a fraud when dashcam video showed the cops politely asking her to move to the other side of the street while exercising -- so she wouldn't get run over.
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In Berkeley, California, this week, high school and University of California students cranked up the protest machine and walked out of classes en masse over dubious "KKK" messages discovered on a school library computer. The texts threatened a "public lynching," used the n-word, and referenced a hanging in a backyard.
In Berkeley, California, this week, high school and University of California students cranked up the protest machine and walked out of classes en masse over dubious "KKK" messages discovered on a school library computer. The texts threatened a "public lynching," used the n-word, and referenced a hanging in a backyard.
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Of course, suspicion is warranted: Almost a year ago, Berkeley students similarly exploded after effigies of blacks hung from nooses appeared on the UC campus. It turned out they were hung by a "Bay Area collective of queer black and PoC [People of Color] artists" to raise awareness.
Of course, suspicion is warranted: Almost a year ago, Berkeley students similarly exploded after effigies of blacks hung from nooses appeared on the UC campus. It turned out they were hung by a "Bay Area collective of queer black and PoC [People of Color] artists" to raise awareness.
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Unrepentant race hustlers go bonkers when advised to approach these alleged hate crimes with caution. Anyone showing an iota of skepticism or journalistic responsibility is branded a bigot or collaborator. If you're a racial or ethnic minority who expresses doubt or hesitation, you're a sellout or Uncle Tom/Aunt Tomasina.
Unrepentant race hustlers go bonkers when advised to approach these alleged hate crimes with caution. Anyone showing an iota of skepticism or journalistic responsibility is branded a bigot or collaborator. If you're a racial or ethnic minority who expresses doubt or hesitation, you're a sellout or Uncle Tom/Aunt Tomasina.
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This is nuts. There's a long, shameful trail of hate crime hoaxes exploiting racial division in America that can no longer be whitewashed by the media and academia. The real sellouts are the phonies and fraudsters "of color" who must manufacture racism for attention, clicks and career advancement while victims of all backgrounds pick up the pieces.
This is nuts. There's a long, shameful trail of hate crime hoaxes exploiting racial division in America that can no longer be whitewashed by the media and academia. The real sellouts are the phonies and fraudsters "of color" who must manufacture racism for attention, clicks and career advancement while victims of all backgrounds pick up the pieces.
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