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ARE YOU (HISS! BOO!) A CATHOLIC?
by Burt Prelutsky
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Erasing America's History
by Culture Beat: The University of Virginia’s board of visitors voted last week to remove bronze tablets bearing the names of graduates who had fought and died for the Confederacy during the War Between the States. According to the board, the tablets, which have hung in the Rotunda since 1903, will be placed in an undisclosed location “where they may be preserved as artifacts of the era in which they were erected, and utilized to provide context to the history of the University.” The board voted to accept three of 10 demands that had been made by the school’s student council, which included the banning of open flames on campus and that the university agree to acknowledge that it received a gift of $1,000 from the Ku Klux Klan in 1921. There is dispute as to whether the KKK ever gave the money to the school.
In the wake of the Charlottesville violence, the major of Chattanooga, Tennessee, home to significant War Between the States history, similarly over reacted as UVA’s board has done. In August, Democrat Mayor Andy Burke announced that the city would no longer maintain the Confederate Cemetery in town. Burke opined, “Our action today makes it clear that the City of Chattanooga condemns white supremacy in every way, shape and form.” No it doesn’t. Burke just caved to the social justice mob. He continued, “While we honor our dead, we do not honor the principle for which they fought. Our city should be invested in our future, not a discredited past. Confederates fought against America to preserve slavery. That is the truth, and we should no longer subsidize any myths to the contrary.”
So instead Burke and others like him will continue to peddle the myth that the War Between the States was fought purely out of the South’s desperate attempt to preserve racism. These leftist iconoclasts won’t even consider the other pressing political considerations and convictions of those who fought to protect their homes and families from what they perceived as tyranny from the Northern states. They wholly ignore the fact that the issues leading to war were much more nuanced than they were black and white. Finally, in service to their divide and conquer agenda, they continue to popularize the myth that America is essentially an evil nation of white supremacists that continues to institutionalize racism and even slavery. (Never mind the Democrat-run urban poverty plantations.) And they label conservatives as motivated by bigotry and racism in order to shut down our speech — it’s easier than having to actually produce an intellectual argument to counter their social and political challenges.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51349
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DACA Monsters – Use Free Legal
Education To Sue US For Enforcing Our Laws
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Viridiana Chabolla is one of six illegal aliens who have the gall to sue the United States for enforcing its immigration laws... They have all benefited from the fact that America had an illegal alien criminal squatting in our White House. Now that we have a new President who ran on returning to law enforcement, predictably, the legal challenges are coming like cockroaches out of the woodwork. She says, “Thanks to DACA I was able to get a full time job.” One might think it’s a job that would have otherwise gone to an American, as is normally the case. But she’s been working to spread the DACA poison, not something many Americans are anxious to do... https://rickwells.us/daca-monsters-sue-us/.
Unmanned aircraft
shot down over northern Israel
by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ An unmanned aircraft was shot down over the Golan Heights Tuesday afternoon, an IDF spokesperson reported... The drone unit was shot down by Israeli forces after it penetrated Israeli airspace. “Soldiers from Israel Air Force’s air defense command fired a Patriot missile to shoot down an unmanned aircraft, apparently operated by the Hezbollah organization,” a statement released by the IDF read... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/235736?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl.
Trump signals end of Iran nuclear deal by
calling it an 'embarrassment' in UN speech
by Melissa Quinn
{washingtonexaminer.co} ~ President Trump on Tuesday signaled he is close to ditching the Iran nuclear agreement struck by former President Barack liar-nObama, by saying the deal is an "embarrassment to the United States"... in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly. "We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles and we cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program," Trump said. "The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into," he added. "Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don't think you've heard the last of it, believe me."... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-signals-end-of-iran-nuclear-deal-by-calling-it-an-embarrassment-in-un-speech/article/2634870?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2009/19/17&utm_medium=email.
Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ Producer Murdered in Mexico
by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ AND BRANDON DARBY
{breitbart.com} ~ Organized crime members are believed to be responsible for the murder in Mexico of a producer for the Netflix series, Narcos... The producer traveled to Mexico to search for shooting locations for the upcoming season. The fourth season of the show is reported to provide an inside look at the rise of Mexican drug cartels. Carlos Muñoz Portal traveled to that country to search for shooting locations in the state of Mexico which is located near the border with Hidalgo. Officials found his body was found inside his vehicle in the town of San Bartolo Actopan, Infobae reported. The film company issued a short statement acknowledging the filmmaker’s passing — claiming that the case was still under investigation... http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/16/netflixs-narcos-producer-murdered-mexico/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social.
Soros, liar-Clinton-Linked Teneo
Among Donors to RINO-McCain Institute
by RICHARD POLLOCK
{dailycaller.com} ~ Arizona Republican Sen. RINO-John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the RINO-McCain Institute for International Leadership... The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for RINO-McCain and “is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom.” It is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University. Conservative and liberal critics, however, believe the institute constitutes a major conflict of interest for RINO-McCain, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned... http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/19/exclusive-soros-clinton-linked-teneo-among-donors-to-mccain-institute/.
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ARE YOU (HISS! BOO!) A CATHOLIC?
by Burt Prelutsky
There was a time when the worst thing you could ask a politician was whether he was or ever had been a Communist. Now, judging by the grilling that Democrats Dianne Feinstein (Jewish) and Dick Durbin (Catholic) of the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Appeals Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, apparently it is open season on Catholics. But only if they’re the sort of Catholics who take the Church’s prohibition on abortions seriously and might personally object to the federal funding of Planned Parenthood.
That’s why Sen. Feinstein made reference to dogma when she had Barrett on the hot seat and why Sen, Durbin questioned why Barrett would refer to "orthodox" Catholicism, a form of Catholicism that Durbin obviously finds objectionable, and well he should, considering how essential he seems to find the world’s largest abortion franchise.
Can you even for a second imagine either of these two political hacks daring to question a Muslim about his take on Sharia law or asking him to defend female genitalia mutilation?
What’s bizarre about this attack on Catholicism is that five members of the Supreme Court (Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito and Sotomayor) are Catholic. Gorsuch was raised and educated as a Catholic, but opted to join the Episcopalians.
Also, 24 members of the Senate are Catholics. So far, I haven’t heard any of them call out their liberal colleagues for engaging in religious baiting, which is not only unseemly, but unconstitutional.
● Democrats, who were up in arms when Rowan County (KY) clerk Kim Davis refused to issue a marriage license to a homosexual couple, because the law, after all, is the law, don’t appear to be the least bit perturbed by the large number of left-wing mayors and governors who have decided to flout federal law when it comes to dealing with illegal aliens.
Consistency doesn’t seem too much to ask of our so-called public servants. I, after all, object to same-sex marriages because I believe it is a silly notion that opens America up to justifiable mockery and scorn, but I nevertheless thought and wrote that Kim Davis should have resigned if her religious principles prevented her from obeying the law.
Today, I believe that every mayor and governor who promotes sanctuary status for his city or state should either resign or be arrested by federal marshals, and I don’t know why the members of Congress don’t feel the same way. After all, they’re the ones who passed those laws.
● It occurs to me that we live in topsy-turvy times. Consider, if you will, that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate group, claims to have the authority to label and call out hate groups; Antifa, a gang of fascist agitators, claims to oppose fascism; and Black Lives Matter, clearly a mob of black racists, claims to oppose racism.
Your calendar will tell you it’s 2017, but current conditions should convince you that it’s George Orwell’s 1984, when right is wrong, peace is war and up is down.
● It is difficult for me to fathom the widespread opposition to Christianity both here and in Europe. It seems that every time that those on the Left refer to Christianity it’s to insult those who follow the faith, whether it’s liar-nObama’s dismissing “those who cling to their guns and their religion;” liar-Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables;” or Durbin and Feinstein suggesting that a person who takes her Catholicism straight can’t be trusted to make honest, constitutionally-based, decisions from the bench.
I realize that Christianity has a checkered past if you go back far enough in history, which is something I notice that liberals are wont to do whenever anyone points out that Islam is not the peace-loving religion that George W. Bush kept insisting it is, even as its demented followers were killing our troops, beheading non-believers and bringing down our skyscrapers.
The fact that liberals never seemed able to grasp is that it’s not quite cricket to compare 13th century Christianity with 21st century Islam.
It seems particularly unfair when it was essentially a group of Christians who created this nation based on their belief in Judeo-Christian values, and where it was devout Christians, often ministers, who made it their sacred mission to abolish slavery in America.
Their opposition to the cursed practice wasn’t based on economic factors, but based, instead, on their God-inspired understanding that slavery was morally reprehensible. It was evil, something that liberals are reluctant to say about anything or anybody, except, possibly, white male heterosexuals; preferring to claim that blood-thirsty mobs, for instance, aren’t really evil, but simply acting out of rage based on economic deprivation.
● Before you fall, hook, line and sinker, for polls that claim that Donald Trump couldn’t even count on getting Melania’s vote if he were running for president this November, I will share a Time magazine poll taken in March, 1982.
As reported in the Fort Myers News-Press, 52% of those polled said they hoped Reagan would not seek a second term, with only 37% hoping he would. A whopping 61% said it would be impossible for him to both cut taxes and increase Pentagon spending. No doubt, the media gloated over those numbers, as no doubt the editors at the NY Times are gloating over Trump’s current poll numbers.
I doubt very much whether those in the media mentioned the poll two years later when Reagan not only won re-election, but garnered 59% of the popular vote, along with 525 electoral votes to Walter Mondale’s 13.
Three years ahead of the 2020 election, I will go where wise men fear to tread and predict that if Trump gets his tax cuts through Congress, and the economy soars as it would inevitably do, he will win re-election in a cakewalk.
● I have always said that the greatest modern invention anyone has managed to come up with is air-conditioning. Having recently lived through multiple black-outs here in the San Fernando Valley when the temperature was hovering between 104 and 111, I am willing to state that nothing else even comes close.
But in times gone by, I would have assumed that before baths and showers came along, it was only perfume that made daily life bearable. That’s why whenever I see movies set in the distant past, I don’t care how melodic the music, how majestic the language, how beautiful the costumes and scenery, I’m sitting there thinking how those people must have reeked.
● I recently stated that I considered those who looted during natural disasters to be the scum of the earth. One of my more religious subscribers let me know “That in the last days, perilous times shall come. And Ye shall know them by their fruit.”
Not being a biblical scholar, I let him know that I would recognize them by their loot, but I would prefer to recognize them by their bullet-riddled carcasses.
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