Former Ambassador John Bolton Outlines How We Can Withdraw From Obama's Iran Deal

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Well, we all know the Iran nuclear deal is a mess. Guy has written extensively on it. It was a rather embarrassing few months, with the U.S. somehow thinking that working with a state-sponsor of terror could be beneficial to us. While negotiations were occurring between the U.S., the Iranians, and the rest of the parties involved (the four other members of the UN National Security Council), Iran was transporting militants to fight in Syria through commercial aircraft. We found out about it, but the Obama White House allegedly buried it to push through the agreement. Now, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, a staunch critic of the deal, wrote in National Review on how to withdraw from Obama's nuclear agreement, which requires recertification every 90 days. Bolton lays out the first vestiges of an extensive public relations and political strategy that aims to get us out of the deal. Given recent events, it does seems to be above what this White House is capable of handling, especially when it comes to leaks.

In essence, Bolton argues that the Trump White House has to have a clear and concise reason for not recertifying, give solid evidence, explain why this is not a reckless foreign policy move, and he suggests that the administration draft a white paper as a rehash of the horrible provisions that were included in the original agreement that were to the detriment of the United States

McMaster’s much-hyped strategic acumen called into question by high-level military sources
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

And not only that: “When reflexively anti-American, anti-military outlets like Mother Jones, Slate and the Washington Post offer fawning praise for a Republican military commander, the reasons underlying those plaudits deserve further investigation. When anti-American, anti-military, George Soros-funded, extreme leftist smear operations like Media Matters go to war to defend a Trump political appointee, it […]
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Linda Sarsour’s Hurricane Harvey Scam

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

 

Another day, another Sarsour scam. This is but another in a long line of Sarsour scams to fleece the infidel. Remember this and this? Not one cent of the money Linda Sarsour is raising will be donated to people who have lost their cars, possessions, and even their entire homes. “Instead it’ll be poured straight into the pockets of activists such as Sarsour as they continue their political posturing, dividing the country over race and ‘inequality.’”

Linda Sarsour Exploits Hurricane Harvey to Fund Community Organizing

August 29,2017, by Alexandra Desanctis, National Review:

Linda Sarsour seems unable to pass up any opportunity to make a quick buck, even at the expense of vulnerable Americans. Her latest target? Caring people all across the country who are looking for ways to help the hundreds of thousands of Texans who have lost everything as the result of Hurricane Harvey.

Sarsour recently requested donations for the Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund, which, on its face, sounds innocuous enough. But it turns out that this fund is, in fact, a thinly veiled front for leftist community organizing. From the fund’s website:

Read entire article here: https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/sarsour-hurricane-harvey-scam.html/

Just a Thought...
An Idea for New Statues
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

Here's an idea...for every Confederate statue the Antifa and BLM demand be taken down...a Texas 'hurricane hero' should be put up in its place. I dare them to try and take those down.

Uh-oh...it might NOT be over for Texas yet

An area of low pressure could form over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico by the weekend. Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur as the low moves slowly northward.

If this system does develop, it could bring additional rainfall to portions of the Texas and Louisiana coasts. However, any rainfall forecast is uncertain at this time range, and it is too soon to determine any specific impacts. 

Interests in these areas should monitor the progress of this potential system for the next few days.

Here's How You Can Help Those Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet

There are many ways you can help all those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Below is a list of some of the organizations that are in desperate need of donations.

The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, which was established by Houston’s Mayor Sylvester Turner

Team Rubicon, which teams up military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams.

Convoy of Hope
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Samaritan’s Purse
ReachGlobal
Catholic Charities
Feeding Texas
Houston Food Bank
Galveston Food Bank
Food Bank of the Golden Crescent (Victoria)
Corpus Christi Food Bank
Southeast Texas Food Bank (Beaumont)
Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley (Pharr)
Brazos Valley Food Bank (Bryan)
Central Texas Food Bank (Austin)
San Antonio Food Bank

Netanyahu: “There will not be any more uprooting of settlements in the Land of Israel”
By Robert Spencer/ Jihad Watch

 

“There will not be any more uprooting of settlements in the Land of Israel. It has been proved that uprooting settlements does not foster peace. We uprooted settlements and what did we get, we received missiles. This will not happen anymore.” Imagine, a politician who learns from the mistakes of the past. If only we […]
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Obama Hid Intel on Iran Jihadis to Push Nuke Deal

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

 

The leftwing media scrubbed and censored the perfidy of Obama’s Iran deal. We thought we knew how evil he was, but Obama’s malfeasance is even worse than that.

Obama Admin Hid Intel on Iranian Militants in Syria to Push Nuclear Deal

Admin likely knew Iran shipping militants on commercial aircraft, but promoted sales

August 29, 2017, By Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon:

The Obama administration likely hid information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft in order to promote the landmark nuclear deal and foster multi-billion dollar business deals with Tehran’s state-controlled airline sector, according to lawmakers and other sources familiar with the matter.

The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed last week that congressional leaders are calling for an investigation into Iran for using its state-controlled air carrier, Iran Air, to ferry militant fighters into Syria, where they are taking up arms in defense of embattled President Bashar al-Assad.

Read entire article here: https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/obama-hid-intel-on-iran-jihadis-to-push-nuke-deal.html/

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Op-ed:
Why We Are Still In Afghanistan
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

This past Friday, in an impromptu White House press briefing regarding President Trump's new strategy towards Afghanistan, National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster was careful not to allow the words 'radical islamic terrorism' to cross his lips when talking about the taliban nor did he speak of the atrocities they have committed. But if you cannot call the enemy by their true name...if you cannot speak of the enemy's actions taken...then you simply cannot defeat that enemy. 

But then again maybe that is not the goal of McMaster and some others...maybe the best they hope for is a Soviet-style withdrawal if even that...'face-saving' at its not very best.

And while war is known to change even brave men...some wars are so horrific and the cost in both blood and treasure so high that what is known to be wrong gradually but surely morphs into the new right, with that new right turning into acquiescing and then excusing the actions of those they know are so morally wrong.

So it seems to be with the enemy we fight in the theater of war called Afghanistan...a war the Afghan people themselves see as nothing but a foreign invasion for the invader's profit alone. A never ending war so many decades long...a war whose invader's uniforms might change yet a war that has seen the one constant being that the taliban alone grow stronger with each passing day. The taliban...an enemy skilled in the art of guerilla warfare...an enemy who uses the country's rocky grounds, barren mountains, and its deep caves that lead straight down to hell as their impenetrable lair from which to control what passes for the Afghan government. And that government has long been impotent to stop the carnage and blood shed for said government is overrun with both corruption and incompetence, and sadly lacks the much-needed desire to initiate positive change.

And dare we forget that democracy is a foreign concept to a people still living like they did centuries ago...a people whose enemy is seen as any and all not of their village...making it impossible for democracy to take hold no matter if Afghanistan does become an American war won...because our political leaders refuse to understand that democracy cannot be born if a country's people do not want it nor are willing to fight for it. Nation building in our image has proven to be a failed objective time and time again and will be so with Afghanistan again for it remains a war that sees powerful warlords and tribal chiefs sitting back and enjoying the spoils of said war...spoils financed by incompetency sadly on both our and the Russians side.

For the Russians their war with Afghanistan was the Soviet Union’s final foreign military stand before its ultimate collapse in 1991. Soviet troops invaded the capital of Kabul on December 25, 1979, on Moscow's order to replace the radical islamist Hafizullah Amin with the Soviet-endorsed Babrak Karmal as head of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Moscow believed that by their overthrowing Amin they could somewhat control the timing of Afghanistan’s communist revolution and protect the communist regime from collapsing due to its being domestically unpopular, fearing this could result with Afghanistan ceding either to islamist or Western forces.
 
And while a 1989 armistice saw the failed Soviet army leaving Afghanistan with the above stated 'face-saving' of sorts, that 'face-saving' resulted in “no common front of resistance fighters which could have effected a smooth political transition.”* This left the country whose people were so tired of war...coupled with the ongoing rivalry between the different war lords...seeing the taliban easily occupying Kabul as well as other parts of the country. And the taliban did so with help from Pakistan...help that continues to this day no matter that the Trump administration has decided to reduce the level of U.S aid to Pakistan because of their not taking decisive action against the taliban and its offshoot known as the Haqqani network.

So why hasn't the U.S. military...the greatest military the world has ever known...won a decisive victory against these backwards taliban fighters...simply because we are fighting with 21st century weapons and bombs against those who hide deep within caves in mountains of rocks that our bombs do little damage to. And those that our bombs have killed, for the most part, have been the collateral damage known as women and children, with collateral damage being the bane of civilian populaces more times than not. And this particular type of collateral damage has led the Afghan people's allegiance to actually turn more towards sympathy for their taliban oppressors than towards those seeking to set them free. And why...because true freedom the likes of which we take for granted is something the Afghan's have never really known.

And let's not forget that a war is not truly won if there is no plan in place for the peace that comes when weapons are finally laid down.

No tangible plans for peace meaning in the end even the military might of America will possibly go the way of all others who tried to conquer a country whose warlords and tribal chiefs are experts in the art of what we now call guerrilla warfare. And remember, Afghanistan is a country that has never been totally conquered. A brief history lesson...in the mid-4th century B.C., Alexander the Great tried to conquer this barren and inhospitable land, but the warlords and their fighters fought them off. In the 19th century the British tried not once but twice, but they too were driven back and done so with heavy casualties. And only a century later did the Soviets invade...a full invasion with their sole prize being to take and occupy Kabul...and yet after a decade of occupation, they too, were driven out to be replaced by American forces in the aftermath of 9/11...with a handful of U.N. forces thrown in for good measure.

And amid all these loses why do many of those currently holding political positions of power deem Afghanistan important enough to risk even more American lives...to further deplete American treasure...treasure that has already cost we taxpayers $800+ billion in a still failed attempt to overthrow the taliban when there remains no definitive win in sight...and especially when a 2014 U.S. government report stated that the cost of reconstruction in Afghanistan would total more than the entirety spent under the Marshall Plan...so why?

The answer to that for some of these political folks, I believe, is their erroneous assumption that we...like the Russians thought...must win to 'save-face.' Remember, while failure is rightfully not in America's vocabulary being obligated to undo the 'supposed' damage done to our reputation as the world's number one super power is not reason enough for more American blood to be shed or for treasure to be spent. Again why...because our 'supposed' reputation destroyed was done so by the words and actions...or lack thereof...of America's own enemy within...one Barack HUSSEIN Obama...and that damage has now become but perceived damage and no longer tangible damage thanks to the election of Donald Trump as president and his strong stance against those out to kill us all.

If a reason to fight on in Afghanistan is needed...one not just to 'save face'...let that reason be to prevent an all-out Afghan civil war coupled with country wide chaos that would deprive our military of much needed counter-terrorism bases...bases needed to help secure the U.S. homeland from terrorist attacks. Also, not having those counter-terrorism bases in Afghanistan would create a vacuum of power that would allow not only the taliban...who currently control 40% of the country and one-third of the population...but al-Qaeda and possibly even ISIS to establish and/or expand already existing areas of sanctuary throughout the rest of the country... areas from which they can continue to launch said terrorist attacks...attacks internet chatter promises will soon be on the scale of 9/11.

And know that the taliban already has sanctuaries within Pakistan itself...sanctuaries that harbor much of the taliban's leadership command. And knowing this has led our military commanders being unable to militarily target that leadership command because doing so would translate into an attack on Pakistani soil itself...an act of war against a country we are not at war with.

And this in turn allows Pakistan...who is well-known as the chief monetary sponsor of the taliban...to become the region's centralized terror hub...a hub to rival that of even Iran. 

So what is it about Pakistan that has turned a once ally into 'terror central'...and why is Pakistan's military and intelligence service (ISI) trying to under-cut our attempts to stabilize Afghanistan by their supporting the taliban?

To answer that one must go back to the Durand Line...the still in dispute 1,510 mile long internationally decided upon border between Pakistan and Afghanistan...a border that was established after an 1893 memorandum of understanding between Mortimer Durand of British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan...a border established when Pakistan was still part of India. This disputed border with its corresponding disputed territories translates into Pakistan having a vested interest in making sure that the Afghan government never gets strong enough to keep their current claim on the still disputed territories.

Therefore, logic to the Pakistani government dictates their siding with any and all who are against the Afghan government...hence their support for the taliban and their not aiding us in our fight against said taliban. 
 
But why does Pakistan want those disputed territories...what drives them to support an enemy akin to the likes of ISIS? To answer that think back to the 'Land Grab' series** my Right Side Patriots partner and friend Craig Andresen and I wrote just a few years ago and the answer becomes clear...for just like Obama's wanting certain areas of America to come under federal government control, Pakistan wants control of certain disputed areas for the very same reason...as in what is under the surface of the land.

And what territory is at the heart of Pakistan's want...it is the Wakhan Corridor...a narrow finger strip of mostly mountainous land tucked into the northeastern corner of Afghanistan...a desolate and inhospitable place which all of a sudden, in 2014, was set up by the corrupt Afghan government as a national park...a national park in a war-torn country...a national park being protected at all costs by a for the most part bankrupt government whose what little money they have would be better served aiding its poverty-stricken people than on what appears to most to be on the surface nothing but ruggedly barren mountainous land.

But we know that appearances can be deceiving for the seemingly barren land Pakistan wants that the Afghan government still controls is brimming to a tune of an estimated $1 trillion with iron, silver, gold, copper, cobalt, lithium, oil, natural gas, emeralds, rubies, azure, other precious and rare minerals, and most importantly it is brimming with uranium...and those heading Pakistan's government know that if they secure a major source of uranium they gain an all-important upper hand over their enemy India.

And to secure that specific territory and make sure it becomes part of Pakistan, I would bet Pakistan's government made a deal with the taliban that would have the taliban giving them the territory they want after we finally pulled out just like the Russians did in order to 'save-face'...that is something the Pakistanis are counting on. And with us gone the Pakistanis would give the taliban their so-wanted nuclear weapon...or two or three...in return for a deal completed...with one to keep for themselves...the others to sell to the highest islamic bidder. 

Clearly, Pakistan knows what is under the ground and wants it as much as we want them not to have it, and I believe that is one of the real reasons why we continue to fight a war in a country whose people do not want us there...with the other reason being that what lays under the ground would not only help finance the devastated country's rebuilding...instead of us paying for it all...but would also go a long way into Afghanistan paying us back for both American lives lost and treasure spent.  

And the Afghan government knows well that by their losing control of certain key areas of Afghanistan gives the taliban not just the 40% of the country they already control but gives them the entirety of Afghanistan to do with what they wish. And we know we cannot allow any of these players to control Afghanistan for he who controls Afghanistan controls not only what up until this point in time Iran has controlled...as in terrorist operations worldwide...but would now allow Pakistan to arm with nuclear weapons any and all who meet their price or agenda...and that we cannot under any circumstances allow.

“From New Delhi to Tehran when we talk about South Asia and a critical element of our strategy in the region has to be Pakistan. And we cannot be successful in Afghanistan -- we've seen that over the last several years -- unless we have a higher degree of cooperation from Pakistan. So Pakistan is absolutely an integral part of the strategic review that's ongoing,” were the recent words of Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and we best listen and act upon those words for the alternative will surely not be pretty.
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*Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical and Critical Study, By Walter Laqueur
** Government Land Grabs: The Truth Exposed
Part 1:  http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2014_05_03_archive.html
Part 2:  http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2014_05_04_archive.html
Part 3:  http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2014/05/op-ed-government-land-grabs-truth.html
Part 4:  http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2014/05/op-ed-government-land-grabs-truth_5.html

Copyright @ 2017 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved

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Trump To Visit Texas on Tuesday; Gov Abbott Praises FEMA, Trump's Response

Christine Rousselle / Townhall Tipsheet

President Donald Trump will visit Texas on Tuesday to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey, the White House announced on Sunday. Earlier in the day, Trump had tweeted that he would not visit Texas until it would not be a distraction.

The storm dumped over two feet of rain on the state, and the city of Houston suffered heavy flood damage. There have been harrowing images of flooded roadways and daring rescues. A Houston news station was forced to stop broadcasting and evacuate the studio as the floodwaters began to rise.

The residents of a nursing home were safely evacuated after a photo of them lounging in floodwater went viral on Twitter.

Read entire article and see video and photos here: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2017/08/27/trump-to-visit-texas-on-tuesday-n2373848?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad= 

New Hampshire: Investigator charges mosque with “extremism,” police chief charges investigator with “Islamophobia”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

This Union Leader article is a particularly noxious example of how law enforcement authorities and the establishment media treat charges that a mosque may be teaching jihad and Islamic supremacism. As always, instead of investigating the charges and reporting on them accurately, they shoot the messenger. “On a scale of 1 -10, with 10 being […]
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“Palestinians” to Give US Ultimatum on “Peace Process”

By Pamela Geller / tHE GELLER REPORT

 

The chutzpah. The “Palestinians” should be receiving ultimatums from President Trump about ending their genocidal incitement and Jew-hatred. Instead, the Trump administration has lost its way, and Mahmoud Abbas and his henchmen think they’re in the driver’s seat, able to call on “Palestinian” Muslims to murder Israelis wholesale on the one hand and then pose as “peace partners” on the other. And why shouldn’t they think this? They keep getting away with it.

“Report: Palestinians to Give US Ultimatum on Peace Process,” United With Israel, August 23, 2017:

The Palestinians are threatening diplomatic warfare if the US does not give in to their demands.

The Palestinians have decided to present President Donald Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, with an ultimatum at their upcoming meeting with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the end of the month.

The Palestinian ultimatum states that unless progress is made within 45 days on launching talks with the Israelis, the Palestinians will consider themselves no longer committed to the US mediation and will turn to an alternative plan to push for unilateral United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state.

Read entire article here: https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/palestinians-ultimatum-peace.html/

Sheriff Joe Arpaio wins pardon from Trump

Fox News / Politics

 

President Trump granted a pardon to Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., on Friday. 

Arpaio, 85, was recently found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a judge's order to stop traffic patrols that allegedly targeted immigrants.

He had been charged with misdemeanor contempt of court for allegedly willfully defying a judge’s order in 2011 and prolonging his patrols for another 17 months.

Arpaio acknowledged extending the patrols, but insisted it wasn't intentional, blaming one of his former attorneys for not properly explaining the importance of the court order and brushing off the conviction as a "petty crime."

He was expected to be sentenced on Oct. 5 and faced up to six months in jail if convicted.

"Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now 85 years old, and after more than 50 years of admirable service to our Nation, he is worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon," the White House said in a statement.

"I am pleased to inform you that I have just granted a full Pardon to 85 year old American patriot Sheriff Joe Arpaio," the president tweeted on Friday night. "He kept Arizona safe!"

Read entire article and see video here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/25/sheriff-joe-arpaio-wins-pardon-from-trump.html

North Korea missile tests didn't fail, US military says in revised report

Fox News

 

North Korea fired three short-range missiles on Saturday -- all successful -- despite earlier reports suggesting failure, according to the U.S. military.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectiles fired from the North's eastern coast flew about 155 miles. It said South Korea and U.S. militaries were analyzing the launch and didn't immediately provide more details.

According to earlier reports, U.S. Pacific Command spokesman and Cmdr. David Benham suggested two North Korean missiles "failed in flight" while the third one had "blown up almost immediately."
The U.S. Pacific Command has since revised its evaluation of the missile launch, now reporting no missile failures -- in line with the South Korean military assessment.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un visits the Chemical Material Institute of Academy of Defense Science at an undisclosed location.  (KRT via AP Video)
 

Benham said the missiles did not pose a threat to North America or U.S. military facilities on the U.S. territory of Guam. Earlier this month, North Korea created a tense standoff with the United States by threatening to lob some of its missiles toward Guam.

South Korea's presidential office held a National Security Council meeting to discuss the missiles, which are the first known launches since July, when the North successfully flight tested a pair of intercontinental ballistic missiles that analysts say could reach deep into the U.S. mainland when perfected.

Report: “Palestinians” to give US ultimatum on “peace process”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 
“The Palestinian ultimatum states that unless progress is made within 45 days on launching talks with the Israelis, the Palestinians will consider themselves no longer committed to the US mediation and will turn to an alternative plan to push for unilateral United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state.” They have turned down numerous offers for […]
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The Never-Ending Liberal Bait And Switch

John Hawkins / Townhall Columnist

Although a donkey fits the Democrat Party well as a mascot, a shifting goalpost would work even better. With liberals, it’s almost always a bait and switch.

Take the Confederate flag, for example.

Back in 2015, liberals demanded that Confederate flags be taken down because Dylann Roof had a picture of one on his Facebook page. Most Republicans, even Southern Republicans, didn’t care all that much about the Confederate flag. So, in South Carolina for example, Republicans voluntarily removed the Confederate flag.

That’s what liberals wanted, right? So, that was it? No, that was the start of the bait and switch.

The Dukes of Hazzard was taken off the air. Confederate flags were ripped down. There were liberals who said that waving a Confederate flag should be considered a hate crime and Southerners in general were attacked as racist. Then people who protested this stupidity were labeled as bigots.

Next the Left moved on to statues. Liberals demanded that the statues be taken down and began to vandalize them. Now, they are taking it further. In fact, the Left has gotten so hysterical about this subject that ESPN pulled an Asian broadcaster by the name of Robert Lee off of a University of Virginia game because there was a controversy over a Robert E. Lee statue. Now, we begin a fight over taking down the hundreds and hundreds of Confederate monuments across the country. After that (and, yes, this part has already started) the battle will be over renaming buildings and streets.

Freedom of Speech More Important Than Offending Others, Say 85 Percent of Americans: Poll

By Geller Report Staff

 

In the face of PayPal’s shameful debacle of banning the likes of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and the counterjihad PI News site, comes this slice of good news: Fully 85 percent of Americans say freedom of speech is more important than the risk of offending people.
 
The poll, conducted by Rasmussen Reports, was just published this week, around the same time Spencer’s Jihad Watch account was blocked — briefly — by PayPal. Similar blocks occurred to the accounts of the German-based PI News and the donation-funded Pamela Geller accounts.

“PayPal did inndeed suspend my account after a hit piece by ProPublic, a George Soros-funded uber-left quote-unquote ‘think tank,’ as it were,” Geller told Breitbart News Daily.

Well, if polls are to believed, most Americans find such censorship outright distasteful.
Breitbart has the story:

An overwhelming 85 percent of Americans say freedom of speech is “more important than making sure no one is offended by what others say,” according to a poll published by Rasmussen Reports on Wednesday.

Read entire article here: https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/freedom-speech-important-offending-others-say-85-percent-americans-poll.html/

Just a Thought...
Russia Gets the Blame Again
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

Idiocy once again rears its ugly head as some news sites are reporting that the Navy is looking into hacking as a possible cause of the collision of the four Navy ships. Here we go again folks...Russia did it...sigh...

'Blood On Your Hands': Charlottesville City Council Meeting Devolves Into Chaos As Protesters Takeover

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

The people of Charlottesville are not happy that white nationalists came into their town and they want the city council to do something the next time they hold a rally within the city limits. The council meeting on Monday was intense, with residents excoriating the elected body for not acting quickly enough to stop the violence that sent many to the hospital and left one person, Heather Heyer, dead, after being run over by a white nationalist.

Extremist white nationalist and left wing groups clashed on August 12, with the former holding a rally in the city to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.

During the three-hour comment period, protesters became increasingly unruly, forcing the meeting to close. A banner that read “blood on your hands” was held behind the city council members, as the situation quickly became chaotic. Not happy with the mayor’s response to the violence, the demonstrators demanded Mayor Michael Singer resign. Police had to step in during the meeting (via NBC 29/WVIR):

Read entire article and see videos here: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/08/23/blood-on-your-hands-charlottesville-city-council-meeting-devolves-into-chaos-as-protesters-takeover-n2372255?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Free Speech: The Left Moves In for the Kill 

By Robert Spencer/ Jihad Watch

 

The campaign to label all disagreement as “hate speech” is taking victims. My latest in PJ Media: The Left is mounting an all-out assault against the freedom of speech, and is using Charlottesville as its Reichstag Fire moment to try to crush all dissent. Several days ago, I received an email that set in motion […]
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