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Democratic Contenders Go Rogue

Via American Greatness

The Democratic Party’s contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination look like a collection of losers, but they are not harmless. They do want to knock us down and take more than an arm.

Collectively, they represent their voters, a solid 40 percent of the American people. Most of them prefer socialists such as Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) to the conventionally liberal Joe Biden. These two promise an all-out assault on freedom, free enterprise, and our Constitution.

Warren or Sanders may miss out on the nomination this time around, because they are splitting the leftist vote, but they represent the majority of their party.

These voters are not going away. Some are Baby Boomer SDS-types like Sanders. Many more are campus neo-fascists like Warren who feel entitled to take over and purify corporate America, seize the wealth of the rich, and tell the rest of us what we may think and do.

The white elite enjoys the guilt trip of white privilege harped on by Beto O’Rourke. Senator Kamala Harris’s race-baiting of Biden in the first primary debate was so popular among these voters, it temporarily made the U.S. senator from California look like a potential winner. Many Democrats adore identity grievance groups, like Pete Buttigieg, a mediocre Midwestern mayor whose one outstanding attribute is that he is gay.

These Democrats hate America. They want rewards in life doled out equally to all by the government, not earned by personal effort, because personal effort almost always guarantees unequal outcomes. They claim America is a “white supremacist” society and that whites should now be penalized as individuals, in order to correct “institutional racism.” They want people to be handicapped in access to jobs and power unless they are the correct gender, race, and sexual orientation.

Where does the Constitution allow Democrats to outlaw private insurance? To seize people’s guns? To give the rights of citizenship to foreigners? To base government policies on race? To destroy our borders instead of protecting them?

We will be sharing the country with these America-hating Democrats for the rest of our lives. They are not going away. Trump supporters are likely to give Democrats a drubbing in 2020, but then it will be their turn. That is how American politics works.

Read the entire article HERE.

Silicon Valley heavyweights quietly aided Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford: Book

Via The Washington Examiner

Silicon Valley quietly got involved in the bitter fight over Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

A new book revealed a handful of executives from big tech companies aided Christine Blasey Ford before and after she went public with allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.

Among those who assisted Ford in the summer of 2018 were Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, game company Zynga founder Mark Pincus, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, according to The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, written by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly and on shelves Tuesday.

Sandberg, through her sister, Michelle, advised Ford to retain a lawyer after Ford relayed her alleged encounter with Kavanaugh to Rep. Anna Eshoo and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, both California Democrats, in late July 2018, the book revealed. The Facebook executive also compiled a list of attorneys who Sandberg heard specialized in cases like Ford’s, which was given to a friend of Ford’s through Sandberg’s sister.

Ford ended up hiring Debra Katz and Lisa Banks of the firm Katz, Marshall & Banks, which handles whistleblower and employment matters and was recommended by Feinstein’s office.

Read the entire article HERE.

Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun

Via The Daily Caller

The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.

HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon. The idea was first crafted in 2017 but has since gotten a renewed push after mass shootings killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August.

The Suzanne Wright Foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes, or Safe Home, the report notes, citing two people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump has a close relationship with Bob Wright, who founded the foundation after his wife died of cancer. Wright was a former chair of NBC and occupied that position while the president hosted “The Apprentice.”

HARPA would develop “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” according to a copy of the proposal. “A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis.”

Read the entire article HERE.

The Fall of Democratic Power Player Ed Buck

Via The Washington Free Beacon

Ed Buck used to mingle with prominent Democrats while simultaneously filling their campaign coffers with generous contributions. All of it came crashing down after two men died in his West Hollywood apartment over the course of two years and, most recently, a third overdosed but survived, leading to Buck’s arrest.

Buck was taken into custody Tuesday after he shot up his third victim with two substantial doses of methamphetamine, causing an overdose, in the same fashion as his first two victims. Buck attempted to stop his most recent victim from seeking aid, but the man escaped and made his way to a gas station to call for help.

Buck, who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats nationwide, is now charged with “three counts of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine, and maintaining a drug house.” Court filings describe the liberal power player as a “violent, dangerous sexual predator” who preyed on the poor and homeless while manipulating them into “participating in his sexual fantasies.”

Buck, a businessman and activist from Arizona who in the late 1980s successfully ran a campaign to impeach Arizona Republican governor Evan Mecham, pocketed large sums of money running Gopher Courier, a company he sold before moving to California in 1991.

The well-known LGBTQ activist and multimillionaire became politically involved locally by running for West Hollywood city council. He also poured money into a number of Democratic campaigns and causes, including local, state, and federal efforts. He has donated more than $500,000 to such efforts.

Read the entire article HERE.

Boise State rewards students for ‘unpacking white identity,’ ‘recognizing their privilege’

Via Campus Reform

The Boise State Gender Equity Center and the Center For Teaching and Learning are hosting a book circle series on a work by Robin DiAngelo, titled, “What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy” — and offering a reward to those who attend.

DiAngelo has published two other books on the topic: White Fragility: Why Is It So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism and Is Everyone Really Equal: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education. In the former, she wrote that “white people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview because it is the bedrock of our society and its institutions.”

The book circle page states that the group is intended for people who are interested in “unpacking white identity and how white folks distance themselves from conversations about race, as well as learning how to engage white folks in recognizing their privilege.”

DiAngelo has also written that she thinks racism today is, in some ways, more sinister than during the Jim Crow era.

“I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don’t. In some ways, racism’s adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow,” DiAngelo writes in White Fragility.

Read the entire article HERE.

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