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It’s Time to Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America

By John W. Whitehead

It’s time to declare your independence from tyranny, America.

For too long now, we have suffered the injustices of a government that has no regard for our rights or our humanity.

Too easily pacified and placated by the pomp and pageantry of manufactured spectacles (fireworks on the Fourth of July, military parades, ritualized elections, etc.) that are a poor substitute for a representative government that respects the rights of its people, the American people have opted, time and again, to overlook the government’s excesses, abuses and power grabs that fly in the face of every principle for which America’s founders risked their lives.

We have done this to ourselves.

Indeed, it is painfully fitting that mere days before the nation prepared to celebrate its freedoms on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the City Council for Charlottesville, Virginia—the home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration—voted to do away with a holiday to honor Jefferson’s birthday, because Jefferson, like many of his contemporaries, owned slaves. City councilors have opted instead to celebrate “Liberation and Freedom Day” in honor of slaves who were emancipated after the Civil War.

This is what we have been reduced to: bureaucrats dithering over meaningless trivialities while the government goosesteps all over our freedoms.

Read the entire article HERE.

Why Nike’s Capitulation To Kaepernick Matters

Via The Federalist

Colin Kaepernick has made a fantastic living out of protesting the America flag. That’s fine. No political speech should be inhibited, not even pseudo-intellectual historical revisionism. But let’s stop pretending that kneeling during the national anthem at sporting events is really about “respecting the flag” or criminal justice reform or any fixable policy problem.

Whatever the underlying causes for Kaepernick’s popularity—some of them certainly legitimate—these protests are acts of contempt toward an irredeemable nation created in sin. This view of our founding is an increasingly popular position on the left. And if it ever takes hold in mainstream American life, we’re in real trouble.

After pictures of Nike’s Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July edition were released online, Kaepernick, who “sacrificed everything” by making tens of millions of dollars as a corporate-sponsored activist, complained to company officials that the Betsy Ross flag on the back of a proposed sneaker was an offensive symbol because of its “connection to an era of slavery.”

It seems unlikely that being triggered by an 18th century Quaker seamstress is going to help reduce police brutality. But the sneakers themselves aren’t really the point. I’m skeptical that the entire episode wasn’t just cooked up to bring attention to the company. As an old-timey flag-waver, though, I am curious which other American icons and beliefs will be deemed offensive as we head towards full wokeness.

Read the entire article HERE.

The American left is seriously out of control. Now it is dangerous

Via The American Thinker

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s victory in 2016 has escalated into something quite beyond mere hysteria. Now the leftists are well and truly dangerous. Antifa, the fascist organization that protests anything and everything with which it disagrees, is violent, very violent. These people show up with weapons, wearing masks, and attack anyone they perceive to be in opposition to their own warped ideology.

CNN has long defended the group as good guys, social justice warriors. That is how off the rails CNN is. Like Antifa, CNN is officially and openly anti-American. Over the weekend in Portland, Quillette journalist Andy Ngo was badly beaten, seriously injured, by a group of these thugs and got no help from the Portland police, who actually made him walk back through the mob to seek help.

Portland may be ground zero for the worst of leftist brutality at the moment, but the Left is definitely ramping up its malicious intolerance. As everyone who cares to look knows, there have been many incidents of violence against Trump-supporters around the country, often for just wearing a red hat.

The Left, aside from approving of all manner of violence in service of its agenda and its anger, has been willing to break every law on the books, abrogate every word of the Constitution to get its way and defend those who do these terrible things. But Trump is still the president and a damn good one. That is what really makes them mad as a bag of ferrets.

Read the entire article HERE.

Is Pete Buttigieg An Anti-Christian Bigot?

Via The Daily Wire

Political commentators certainly had their work cut out for them in the aftermath of the two Democratic Party presidential debates last week. Many moments received public scrutiny, as the 20 candidates jostled for support. Kamala Harris’ assault on Joe Biden dominated the headlines, with other areas of focus including heavy support for gun control, the effective removal of American borders, and the blatant attempt to pander to various voting groups with promises of duplicity and insincerity.

However, one statement from Pete Buttigieg crept by relatively unnoticed. The calmly delivered words of the unassuming Harvard- and Oxford-educated mayor of South Bend, Indiana received a moment of applause, but then slipped into obscurity beneath waves of absurd sound bites and radical promises. When analyzed in isolation, it’s clear that his words are dripping with the sort of virulent anti-Christian bigotry that has permeated even the highest levels of the American Left.

Read the entire article HERE.

‘Special’ LGBT-Edition Oreos Indoctrinate Kids About Trans Pronouns

Via The Federalist

Oreo cookies, a division of international foods giant Nabisco, announced yesterday a “special” LGBT edition that includes lectures about how to use transgender pronouns.

“We’re proud to celebrate inclusivity for all gender identities and expressions,” the company wrote in its Facebook post announcing the change. “In partnership with NCTE, we’re giving away special edition Pronoun Packs and encouraging everybody to share their pronouns with Pride today and every day.”

NCTE is the National Council of Teachers of English. While it sounds benign, this massive organization that affects millions of teachers all over the country—and helped write Common Core—has been politically far leftist for decades. For example, the organization came out against allowing trained teachers to defend themselves from active shooters using licensed guns. Its influence on actual English curriculum has been to degrade instruction with politicization and gobbledygook, according to the most rigorous research. Yet still they keep being treated as credible, just like all the other corrupt education institutions in this country.

Read the entire article HERE.

Hunter Biden Started Dating Dead Brother’s Widow After Harrowing Crack Binge

Via Zero Hedge

Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings in Ukraine and China, as well as his equally questionable romance with his dead brother’s widow, are rivaling his father’s ‘racist’ comments among the most embarrassing gaffes or scandals of the election cycle thus far.

The latest installment comes courtesy of the New Yorker, which on Monday published an interview with Hunter Biden. The title of the piece is pretty telling: “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?” Judging by the interview’s contents, it seems at times like he is doing this deliberately.

During the interview, Biden revealed that he started dating his brother’s widow while recovering from a week spent buying crack from a homeless encampment in LA.

The story begins in early 2016, around the time that Hunter separated from his wife. He moved out of the house he shared with his estranged wife, Kathleen, as his drug abuse worsened. Around this time, he became close with Hallie – his dead brother Beau’s widow – after a 2016 trip with her to the Hamptons. He soon began spending more nights at her place, where the two addressed a “very specific” grief.

Soon after, Biden decided he needed help. He planned to check himself in to a detox center in Arizona. But he got “sidetracked” during a stop in LA, where he approached a homeless man and asked him where he could buy some crack.

The man reportedly took Hunter to a homeless camp in downtown LA, where he returned several times over the course of a week to buy more drugs, despite having a gun pulled on him. After Hunter got into a fight outside a Hollywood Boulevard club, a man “took pity” on him and brought him to a Hertz car-rental office, where he rented the above-mentioned car and drove it to his detox in Arizona.

Read the entire article HERE.

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