How Race Relations Got Worse

Steve Chapman / Townhall Columnist

The election of Barack Obama was a unique moment in the long and complicated history of race relations in America. A huge symbolic barrier had collapsed. Never before was there so much optimism about escaping the grim clutches of the past. We had made a new start that would lead to new heights.

Hope was infectious. Most whites voted against Obama, but on the eve of his inauguration, 55 percent of whites, as well as 75 percent of blacks, thought his presidency would improve race relations. The profound symbolism of a black man in the nation's highest office could hardly be overstated.

"Even in polls taken earlier this year, a majority of African-Americans said that a solution to the country's racial problems would never be found," CNN reported shortly after the election. "Now blacks and whites agree that racial tensions may end." One African-American told CNN, "I've seen this country vindicate itself."

When urban crime declined significantly in Obama's first term, some experts attributed it to the psychological impact of his election. Urban blacks had a new confidence, wrote Ohio State University historian Randolph Roth, and "their greater trust in the political process and their positive feelings about the new president led to lower rates of urban violence."

Despite Hillary’s Historic Nomination, Democrats Are Kind Of Freaking Out That Trump Will Beat Her

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Hillary Clinton made history, but that may not be enough to get her to 270. Some Democrats are still worried that Donald Trump might win, given the level of volatility this election cycle, how Trump deflects media attacks like Teflon, and the high level of Democratic discontent within their own ranks over Clinton’s nomination. Those feelings were intensified when leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee showed staffers trying to find ways to derail Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign. The amount of booing, even during Clinton’s acceptance speech Thursday night just highlighted those divisions within the Democratic Party (via The Hill):

While the Electoral College may give her an advantage, party leaders and strategists say they remain concerned that Clinton is a tough sell when a majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track and want to shake up Washington. 

“The most important thing is there is a bias for change and there’s an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll where people express that bias even when they don’t know what the change is going to be,” said Geoff Garin, a pollster who worked for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and now advises Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton super PAC.

State Dept spends $16 million on totally ineffective program to dissuade jihadis
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

This New York Times story is about how the State Department’s appeals to jihadis have switched from snark to emotion. It notes that the program has thus far been completely ineffective, but has no idea why. In reality, both the snarky and the emotional versions of this program are doomed to failure because they manifest […]
 
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WikiLeaks' Assange: We Could Release More Clinton Campaign Emails

By Todd Beamon / NEWSMAX

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that his website might release more emails on Hillary Clinton and ripped both political parties for the "Swiss cheese" security methods that led to hacks of the presidential candidate's and other Democratic Party operations.

"We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign, that is correct to say that," Assange told Anderson Cooper Friday on CNN.

On Wednesday, WikiLeaks released audio recordings from the emails of the Democratic National Committee that were obtained by hacking its servers. The earlier email drop led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Assange's interview came as The New York Times quoted a law enforcement official saying that a hack into the Clinton campaign's computer system was similar to those of the DNC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The breaches have been tied to an entity known as the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service, the Times reports.

California to proclaim August “Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month” at behest of terror-tied Hamas-CAIR
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Terror-tied Islamic groups like Hamas-CAIR dictate what we, as Americans, must do in submission to Islam, jihad and sharia. Terror-tied Islamic groups like Hamas-CAIR dictate counter-terror policies. Terror-tied Islamic groups like Hamas-CAIR direct the Department of Justice hate crime prosecutions.

Is it any wonder we are losing to this brutal and extreme ideology?

Bill Quirk — contact Bill here (be polite).
Address: 22320 Foothill Blvd #540, Hayward, CA 94541
Phone: (510) 583-8818

California to proclaim August “Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month” By Robert Spencer, July 30, 2016:

‪This is being done at the behest of Hamas-linked CAIR. Is Assemblymember Bill Quirk aware that Hamas-linked CAIR is an ...

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The Hillary Recession

Larry Kudlow / Townhall Columnist

This economy may be perilously close to recession. That was the message of the second-quarter real-GDP report and its meager 1.2 percent growth rate.

Over the past year, real GDP has slipped to a paltry 1.2 percent. Business investment continues to fall. Building and factory construction has dropped sharply. Productivity is flat. The profits recession is still in force.

And what’s the Hillary Clinton plan? Tax us into prosperity.

In her own words at the DNC on Thursday night, this is the fix: “Wall Street, corporations, and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes.” Why? “Not because we resent success. [!] Because when more than 90 percent of gains have gone to the top 1 percent, that’s where the money is.”

Let me get this right. In order to spur growth, Hillary intends to raise taxes on individuals, businesses, capital gains, stock trading, and firms that move overseas (which they do because the U.S. has the most uncompetitive tax system in the corporate world). In addition, Hillary’s door is open for a carbon tax, higher payroll taxes, and a 25 percent gun tax.

She also argued in Philadelphia that the economy is not working the way it should because our democracy isn’t working the way it should.

Huh?

Most of the Officers Charged by Marilyn Mosby Are Now Suing Her

Cortney O'Brien / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Baltimore State Attorney General Marilyn Mosby's attempt to lock up the officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray has come up short. In a turn of events, she is now the one facing charges.

Last year, after an independent investigation by her office, Mosby announced she was seeking charges against Officers William Porter, Edward Nero, Garrett Miller, Caesar Goodson, Lt. Brian Rice, and Sgt. Alicia White for the death of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died in their custody in a police transport van.

Following the acquittals of Nero, Goodson and Rice and the mistrial of Porter, Mosby announced last week she was dropping the remaining charges. Yet, she made it clear that justice was not served. In a press conference, she sounded more like a protester than a state attorney as she shouted that Gray was a victim of police brutality.

After all is said and done, the five of the six officers Mosby sought punishment for are returning the favor by filing a lawsuit against her, alleging she is guilty of defamation, false arrest, false imprisonment and more.

The complaint filed by Porter and White stated that Mosby "made statements for purposes of quelling the riots rather than prosecuting police officers who had committed a crime," and that Mosby "exceeded her authority" and "brought charges against police officers that were wholly unsupported by evidence and probable cause."

The officers, attorney Michael Glass claimed, were "humiliated" by Mosby. As such, she now has to play the role of defendant.

General who issued groveling apology for alleged Qur’an desecration says Hillary will beat ISIS

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

General John Allen, former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, spoke at the Democratic National Convention, saying that the U.S. would defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) with Hillary Clinton as Commander-in-Chief. Here is Allen several years ago, issuing an embarrassing and groveling apology to “the noble people of Afghanistan” for an alleged desecration of the […] 
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Hillary Clinton Mainstreamed America’s Largest Al-Qaeda Fundraiser, Abdurahman Alamoudi

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Hillary and the godfather of modern jihad terror, Yaser Arafat.

People always ask, how did we get here? How did this happen? How did jihadists embed themselves so deeply into the annals of power? Here’s how:

“EXCLUSIVE: How Hillary Clinton Mainstreamed Al-Qaeda Fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi,” By Patrick Poole, PJ Media, July 29, 2016, (thanks to Todd):

Right now, prisoner #47042-083, Abdurahman Alamoudi, sits in his cell in a federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky.

It’s a long way down from being one of Hillary Clinton’s favorite colleagues. Alamoudi organized White House events during the Bill Clinton administration. Under Hillary’s supervision, he held...

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Hillary's Tax Plan Bad News For Bedridden Obama Economy

Donald Lambro / Townhall Columnist

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton handed Donald Trump the best campaign issue he could hope for this week, on a silver platter, and he ignored it.

While Clinton was proposing a huge increase in capital gains taxes on investors, which would kill jobs and what little is left of the chronically weak Obama economy, Trump was urging his buddy, Russian thug Vladimir Putin, to step up his cyber-war on the U.S. to find Hillary's 30,000 deleted emails.

Worse, Trump didn't respond negatively when a reporter asked him if he would recognize Putin's military seizure of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula as Russian territory. Or whether he would lift U.S. sanctions against Moscow for its act of war on a sovereign country.

"We'll be looking at that. Yeah, we'll be looking," Trump responded at a news conference Wednesday.

Putin's military takeover of Crimea in 2014 was the first time since World War II that a European nation has seized territory from another country in the region. And he is now said to be looking at the Baltic states as his next victims.

Ha: California Delegates Change "Hillary" Signs To "Liar"

Christine Rousselle / Townhall Tipsheet

 

The Democratic Party is still far from unified after a long and drawn-out primary season. Plenty of Bernie Sanders supporters are not about to jump on the Hillary Clinton train, and these California delegates figured out a way to show their displeasure at their party's choice of nominee. They covered up part of the "HILLARY" sign to change it to "LIAR."

A tweet with a picture of the modified sign has gone viral:

 

 

Props to them to sticking to their guns and sticking it to the DNC. 

After spate of Muslim migrant jihad massacres, Merkel refuses to reverse Muslim migrant policy
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

The worst German Chancellor since Adolf Hitler is bent on national suicide. “Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks,” BBC, July 28, 2016: Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our sense of community, […]

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EU President: No Matter How Bad Migrant Crisis, Terrorism Gets, We’ll Never Give Up On Open Border

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

That’s why Europeans have to give up on the EU, if they hope to survive.

“Juncker: No Matter How Bad Migrant Crisis, Terrorism Gets, We’ll Never Give Up On Open Borders”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, July 25, 2016:

Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed that no matter how bad terrorism or the migrant crisis gets, the European Union (EU) will never give up on open borders. The European Commission president said terrorism could be countered with better intelligence-sharing between member states.

On France 2’s Four Truths programme this morning, Mr. Juncker said “a lot of initiatives” will be required to strengthen security in the EU. After a bloody month for Europe in which the continent has seen multiple Islamic terror...

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When A War Went Worldwide 75 Years Ago

Victor Davis Hanson / Townhall Columnist

Seventy-five years ago, the world blew up in just six months.

World War II ostensibly started two years earlier, when Germany invaded Poland. In truth, after the rapid German defeat of Poland in September 1939, the conflict was mostly confined to Western Europe for nearly the next two years. By summer of 1940, only Britain had survived Hitler's European victories.

The dormant European war only went global on June 22, 1941, when Germany suddenly surprise-attacked the Soviet Union, its former partner.

America and Asia were still not directly involved in the 1941 expansion of the war until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and British Malaya on December 7-8.

Yet the war was even then not truly global until Germany and Italy inexplicably declared war on the United States on December 11.

America was suddenly mired in a two-front war on land, sea and in the air against the Axis powers -- from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert, and from the coast of Florida to China.

These three calamitous events of 1941 marked the real beginning of World War II, in which some 65 million perished, more than 60 percent of them civilians.

Democrats Get Mad At the Russians; In Other News, a Dog Marries a Cat

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall Columnist

I guess we should be excited that liberals and the media have finally sided against the Russians. After all, my college years were spent listening to them demand that we unilaterally disarm in the face of the Big Bad Bear. And then my post college years were spent in West Germany with the mission of killing Russians for as long as I could before my platoon and I were wiped out. Later, I helped train Ukrainians. So welcome to the party, you pinko dorks. It’s about freaking time. 

 

But apparently now me and a bunch of other certified Cold Warriors – yeah, the Army gave me a certificate for perfect attendance in the Cold War – are Putin’s pals because we are enjoying the hell out of the strongman’s perfectly timed disclosure of the DNC’s purloined emails. They make undeniable what we always knew, and what the Democrat-owned media has tried desperately to hide; that the Democratic Party is not a political party but a crime cartel peddling lies, trading influence for dollars, and crushing the aspirations of anyone stupid enough to actually believe in it.

Of course, the DNC’s reaction to revelations was not to change its ways. No, all it did was dump that babbling half-wit Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a sacrifice akin to giving up Spam and Clamato smoothies for Lent.

Erdogan tightens iron grip on power: Turkey shuts down over 130 media outlets, dismisses 2,400 military personnel
By Christine Williams / Jihad Watch

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is actively using the recent coup attempt that led to some 290 deaths on July 15 to claim sweeping new powers for himself. Now he has ordered the shutdown of over 130 media outlets and dismissed 2,400 military personnel. Some say that the coup was staged precisely to give the tyrannical leader […] 
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VIDEO: Democrats BURN Israeli Flags at #DNCinPHL
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

There were no American flags at the convention of the party of treason. But there were American flags at the flag burnings outside. Inside the arena, there were terror flags such as the “Palestinian” flag of jihad, and communist flags, too. As one tweeter said, “Didn’t see any Palestinian flags at the #RNC. @TheDemocrats aren’t hiding anything anymore. #DNCinPHL”

Every Jew who supports the Democrat party ought to wear these proudly.

“Protesters burning an Israeli flag at the DNC convention,” The Jewish Press, July 27, 2016:

Reporter Byron Tau tweeted Wednesday morning that “protesters are burning an Israeli flag now in front of the secure perimeter and chanting ‘intifada.’”...

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