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Shadow President?
by Seth Barron
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No, the First Amendment Is Not Limited by ‘Hate
Speech’
In the aftermath of Charlottesville’s antifa vs. alt-right riots, the mainstream media is, predictably, using the violence to feed the political narrative that all Donald Trump supporters are tacit defenders of white supremacy and racism. While the narrative is nothing new, it seems to have picked up steam due to the murder of a woman in the protest crowd by a sociopath from Ohio. Shamefully, the MSM exploited the murder to call into question the ACLU-defended First Amendment rights to freedom of speech — including ugly speech.
One of the Left’s favorite hobby horses is calling for the limiting of free speech it finds offensive, and leftists would love to have the power to silence speech they disagree with by labeling it “hate speech.” The trouble is the Constitution does not recognize this limit to Americans’ right to free speech. Still, that doesn’t stop leftists from claiming it does. A recent example emerges from an MSNBC interview of Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter — which, one might argue, is a black supremacist group.
Cullors was asked to explain the distinction between the BLM protesters and the white supremacist protesters who were clashing in Charlottesville. Cullors responds by claiming that BLM’s message is about seeking equality while the white supremacists’ is “hate speech.” Not a surprising response, but she then flat-out lies, stating — without any pushback from the MSNBC host — that “hate speech” is not protected by the First Amendment. The truth is that “hate speech” is protected, because for the U.S. Constitution that caveat simply does not exist. Time and again the Supreme Court has ruled broadly in favor of Americans’ right to free speech. Just because one person or group may find certain speech to be offensive and reprehensible, they do not have the right to call for the government to silence someone else. This is the entire essence of the freedom of speech.
~The Patriot Post
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Attention Mongering “Antifa”
Twerps Crash Charlottesville Victim’s Funeral
by Andrew West
{constitution.com} ~ By all accounts, the political divisiveness of our nation has become a liability and a threat to the United States of America... Beginning from the moment that Donald Trump was elected President, an ever-widening chasm of hate and intolerance has opened up, promising to swallow us whole if we don’t somehow come together. We can certainly lay blame for much of this vitriol on the radical left, whose “resistance” to Donald Trump’s presidency has turned from constant, consistent bickering and name-calling, to all out violence the likes of which we have not seen in our nation in 170-some years. This loosely-organized “resistance” has made way for the rise of violent “antifa” groups who employ the brutal “black bloc” tactics of the West German protesters of 1977. Clad in black clothing from head to toe, complete with masks to hide their identities, these ironically monikered neo-fascists trade in fear and political bigotry to gather numbers and strength... http://constitution.com/attention-mongering-antifa-twerps-crash-charlottesville-victims-funeral/.
Setup? Man behind white-supremacist
rally supported liar-nObama
by Chelsea Schilling
{wnd.com} ~ The organizer of the violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was until recently a Barack liar-nObama supporter and was also a member of the leftist radical Occupy Wall Street Movement, according to a report from a hard-left activist group... The details from his recent past have many in the blogosphere and on social media asking: Is the Charlottesville rally organizer really a left-wing plant? Jason Kessler organized the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” rally in which white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and other groups battled in the street with “Antifa” and counter-protesters... http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/setup-man-behind-white-supremacist-rally-supported-Obama/.
New U.S., Chinese MIlitary Communications
Agreement Follows Years of Naval Engagement
by Ben Werner
{news.usni.org} ~ Creating a means for quickly de-escalating tense operations is the goal of a recently signed communications agreement between military leaders from the United States and China... Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Fang Fenghui of the Chinese army, chief of China’s joint staff, signed a joint strategic dialogue mechanism at the Ba Yi, the People’s Liberation Army headquarters in Beijing on Tuesday. Dunford, visiting China to further military-to-military ties between the two Pacific powers, was formalizing what had been an idea discussed by leaders from the U.S. and Chinese navies for several years... https://news.usni.org/2017/08/16/new-u-s-chinese-military-communications-agreement-follows-years-naval-engagement?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=ec9fb9c855-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-ec9fb9c855-231491269&mc_cid=ec9fb9c855&mc_eid=3999f18767.
V.P. Pence: I Stand With Trump On Charlottesville
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Iceland Eradicating Downs Syndrome By Aborting Every Kid With Downs
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NSA Whistleblower Explains How The Agency Tracks You
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Senate Targets Palestinian ‘Pay to Slay’
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ANTIFA Starting The Violence In Charlottesville
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Coming Monday 8/21: The Great American Eclipse
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Gun Grabber MCAULIFFE LYING That
WHITE RIGHTS Activists Were “Like An ARMY”
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Gun grabbing Virginia Governor and pathological liar Terry McAuliffe must have thought it was a great timesaver and propaganda idea, to make up a story about the “evil white racists” and their “evil guns”... as a way to kill two American patriot birds with one leftist stone. The liar-Clinton operative knows that he won’t be challenged on anything he says. Most of those who follow him are either too dishonest, stupid, lazy, or disinterested in the truth to question him. After all, he’s the guy who said in June that we lose a fourth of the population of the United States, 93 million Americans, every day “gun violence” and the media surrounding him never batted an eye or questioned his claims. On Monday McAuliffe was interviewed by his partner in attacking white Americans, racist DeRay Mckesson of Black Lives Matter. During that conversation the lid blew off the septic tank and McAuliffe began to spew... http://rickwells.us/gun-grabber-mcauliffe-lying-white-rights-activists-like-army/.
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by Seth Barron
{city-journal.org} ~ After leaving the White House in January 2017, Barack liar-nObama and his family set out to do what all newly retired presidents have done—go back home, or find a new one. In liar-nObama’s case, though, the new residence is in Washington, D.C. At first, the liar-nObamas presented their choice as temporary—they wanted to let their younger daughter, Sasha, finish high school in Washington, they said—but their purchase of an 8,200-square-foot, $8 million mansion suggests a permanent stay. liar-nObama’s postpresidency is thus shaping up to be virtually unique in American history: rather than departing Washington, he is planting his flag there, establishing, in effect, a shadow presidency.
liar-nObama’s move breaks with long-standing precedent. Conscious of threats to the safe transfer of executive power in the young republic, America’s early presidents departed Washington on the expiration of their terms. After relinquishing his commission as general following victory over the British, George Washington was compared with Cincinnatus, the retired Roman general who assumed emergency powers, saved Rome, and then returned to his plow. Washington repeated his valiant act when he declined a third term as president—Garry Wills calls him a “virtuoso of resignations”—and set the standard for future executives by going home when his political work was done.
The American ideal of a president is essentially republican: a citizen steps forward to serve the government and returns to private life when his term is up. Washington’s diaries and correspondence of 1797 are consumed with matters of housekeeping, husbandry, and accounts. Mount Vernon had gone to seed, and Washington was forced to shore up his personal finances. Though he stayed abreast of national events and voiced his opinions to his associates, he stayed out of the affairs of government; keeping a safe physical distance from the capital reinforced that resolution.
Following Washington’s model, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe each returned to their farms, in varying degrees of insolvency. True, John Quincy Adams, finding retirement dull, soon returned to public service as a congressman, a role he embraced and thrived in, but his ambitions were not imperial. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren went home, too, when their terms in the White House were finished.
In the modern era, only one other former president remained in Washington after his term of office ended. Stroke victim Woodrow Wilson took up residence on S Street—just a few blocks away from the liar-nObamas’ new Kalorama home. But Wilson was an invalid—indeed, he spent the last 18 months of his presidency in seclusion, with his wife largely managing the affairs of state. Unlike liar-nObama, he was in no position to assert his postpresidential authority or impose himself as a presence on the national stage.
Harry Truman retired to Missouri, broke, in 1953. Dwight Eisenhower retired to Gettysburg, eight years later. In 1969, Lyndon Johnson lit his first cigarette in 15 years, telling his daughters, “I’ve now raised you girls. I’ve now been president. Now it’s my time!” He went to his ranch, grew a ponytail, and died within three years. Richard Nixon skulked off to California and reengineered himself as a statesman, Gerald Ford made himself rich, and Jimmy Carter became a professional humanitarian. Ronald Reagan rode off into the sunset. George H. W. Bush splits his time between Houston and Maine; his son George W., a full-time Texan, paints. liar-Bill Clinton arguably broke the mold through his efforts to install his wife as president, but even that ambitious enterprise was centered in New York, not Washington.
True, some ex-presidents have plotted returns to office. When Grover Cleveland left the White House in 1889, his wife, Frances, told a staff member to keep everything in place because she and her husband would be returning in four years. They did. But Cleveland was an outlier. He’s also the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
Traditionally, former presidents gave their successors a lengthy grace period, during which they refrained from critiquing them: George W. Bush waited until 2015 before criticizing liar-nObama’s foreign policy. By contrast, liar-nObama, only two weeks after Donald Trump’s November victory, announced that he would take on the new president “if necessary.” Necessity arose quickly: liar-nObama held a conference call that month with staff members of his “social welfare” nonprofit Organizing for Action, the successor organization to his liar-nObama for America campaign. The ex-president told the depressed troops to “get over it” and “move forward.” Ten days after leaving office, liar-nObama said that he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests. Now, recent news reports indicate that liar-nObama is planning a return to the national stage as soon as this Fall, and that he wants to take an "active role" in running the Democratic Party.
liar-nObama’s new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said that liar-nObama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level liar-nObama campaign staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct action against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the liar-nObama Organizing Handbook. Former White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina runs Organizing for Action.
liar-nObama and his affiliated organizations are not addressing broadly humanistic policy goals, in the model of the Carter Center or even the liar-Clinton Global Initiative. Rather, liar-nObama is the spearhead of a movement seeking to obstruct the administration of his successor. By establishing himself so visibly within the nation’s capital, liar-nObama is effectively turning the postpresidency—up to now, a venerable, if vague, institution—into something more ominous.
Shadow President?
{city-journal.org} ~ After leaving the White House in January 2017, Barack liar-nObama and his family set out to do what all newly retired presidents have done—go back home, or find a new one. In liar-nObama’s case, though, the new residence is in Washington, D.C. At first, the liar-nObamas presented their choice as temporary—they wanted to let their younger daughter, Sasha, finish high school in Washington, they said—but their purchase of an 8,200-square-foot, $8 million mansion suggests a permanent stay. liar-nObama’s postpresidency is thus shaping up to be virtually unique in American history: rather than departing Washington, he is planting his flag there, establishing, in effect, a shadow presidency.
liar-nObama’s move breaks with long-standing precedent. Conscious of threats to the safe transfer of executive power in the young republic, America’s early presidents departed Washington on the expiration of their terms. After relinquishing his commission as general following victory over the British, George Washington was compared with Cincinnatus, the retired Roman general who assumed emergency powers, saved Rome, and then returned to his plow. Washington repeated his valiant act when he declined a third term as president—Garry Wills calls him a “virtuoso of resignations”—and set the standard for future executives by going home when his political work was done.
The American ideal of a president is essentially republican: a citizen steps forward to serve the government and returns to private life when his term is up. Washington’s diaries and correspondence of 1797 are consumed with matters of housekeeping, husbandry, and accounts. Mount Vernon had gone to seed, and Washington was forced to shore up his personal finances. Though he stayed abreast of national events and voiced his opinions to his associates, he stayed out of the affairs of government; keeping a safe physical distance from the capital reinforced that resolution.
Following Washington’s model, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe each returned to their farms, in varying degrees of insolvency. True, John Quincy Adams, finding retirement dull, soon returned to public service as a congressman, a role he embraced and thrived in, but his ambitions were not imperial. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren went home, too, when their terms in the White House were finished.
In the modern era, only one other former president remained in Washington after his term of office ended. Stroke victim Woodrow Wilson took up residence on S Street—just a few blocks away from the liar-nObamas’ new Kalorama home. But Wilson was an invalid—indeed, he spent the last 18 months of his presidency in seclusion, with his wife largely managing the affairs of state. Unlike liar-nObama, he was in no position to assert his postpresidential authority or impose himself as a presence on the national stage.
Harry Truman retired to Missouri, broke, in 1953. Dwight Eisenhower retired to Gettysburg, eight years later. In 1969, Lyndon Johnson lit his first cigarette in 15 years, telling his daughters, “I’ve now raised you girls. I’ve now been president. Now it’s my time!” He went to his ranch, grew a ponytail, and died within three years. Richard Nixon skulked off to California and reengineered himself as a statesman, Gerald Ford made himself rich, and Jimmy Carter became a professional humanitarian. Ronald Reagan rode off into the sunset. George H. W. Bush splits his time between Houston and Maine; his son George W., a full-time Texan, paints. liar-Bill Clinton arguably broke the mold through his efforts to install his wife as president, but even that ambitious enterprise was centered in New York, not Washington.
True, some ex-presidents have plotted returns to office. When Grover Cleveland left the White House in 1889, his wife, Frances, told a staff member to keep everything in place because she and her husband would be returning in four years. They did. But Cleveland was an outlier. He’s also the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
Traditionally, former presidents gave their successors a lengthy grace period, during which they refrained from critiquing them: George W. Bush waited until 2015 before criticizing liar-nObama’s foreign policy. By contrast, liar-nObama, only two weeks after Donald Trump’s November victory, announced that he would take on the new president “if necessary.” Necessity arose quickly: liar-nObama held a conference call that month with staff members of his “social welfare” nonprofit Organizing for Action, the successor organization to his liar-nObama for America campaign. The ex-president told the depressed troops to “get over it” and “move forward.” Ten days after leaving office, liar-nObama said that he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests. Now, recent news reports indicate that liar-nObama is planning a return to the national stage as soon as this Fall, and that he wants to take an "active role" in running the Democratic Party.
liar-nObama’s new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said that liar-nObama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level liar-nObama campaign staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct action against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the liar-nObama Organizing Handbook. Former White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina runs Organizing for Action.
liar-nObama and his affiliated organizations are not addressing broadly humanistic policy goals, in the model of the Carter Center or even the liar-Clinton Global Initiative. Rather, liar-nObama is the spearhead of a movement seeking to obstruct the administration of his successor. By establishing himself so visibly within the nation’s capital, liar-nObama is effectively turning the postpresidency—up to now, a venerable, if vague, institution—into something more ominous.
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