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August, 2017

New York Times v. Good America

Nothing says “cultural divide” quite as succinctly as the differences in media coverage of natural disasters. Liberals see every glass half-empty. When natural disasters occur, they buy themselves $7 cold-drip coffees at industrial-chic coffee houses and bang away indignantly on their expensive laptops about greedy and evil American bourgeois not caring if poor people drown
By Tina Trent -- BombThrowers- Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

Ryan Bundy Holds the Key

On January 26, 2016, several people, in two private vehicles were on their way to a scheduled meeting in John Day, Oregon. While in a forested area, with extremely poor, if not non-existent, cell phone coverage, they were set upon by modern day highwaymen (highwaymen were people who stopped travelers and robbed them). The driver and passengers of the second vehicle submitted to the demands of the heavily armed interlopers, at gunpoint, to leave the vehicle and sit on the side of the snow-covered roadway.
By Gary Hunt - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

Republican spokesmen aren’t very good Republicans

Since Inauguration Day, Republicans and (some) conservatives have decried the relentless media assault on the Trump administration. From Russia to Charlottesville, members of the Fourth Estate have almost without exception given this nascent presidency no quarter.
By BombThrowers -- Clint Carson- Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

Why Are Unions Against the Right-to-Work?

I come from a union family. I grew up in a union home. The good pay and benefits gained by one of America's greatest unions provided for my room and board every day that I lived at home. My father and my uncles were all proud union members. My brother and some of my best friends spent their entire careers as union workers and the unions are providing them with generous pensions and great benefits. I myself was at one time the Vice President of an International Union. For all of this I am grateful.
By Dr. Robert R. Owens - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

Limiting access to language, water and air in Harvey’s aftermath

As much as these issues may appear to be unrelated, it's time the parallel was examined. When we look at the devastation of Harvey, blowing in and out, up and down the Gulf Coast, water is not just overwhelming neighborhoods, it is an abundant commodity (that's how government views this essential of life).
By A. Dru Kristenev - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL GRACE AND CLASS IN TEXAS

President Trump’s visit to flooded parts of southern Texas went off without a hitch yet he has been besieged with scathing attacks by rabid left-wingers and their media allies desperate to find fault with him and treat his every action as a crazed assault on the time-honored political norms of the country.
By Matthew Vadum -- Front Page Mag- Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

ANTIFA DEMANDS THE U.S. BE DESTROYED

Video has surfaced showing masked Antifa thugs in Berkeley, California, last weekend calling for the destruction of the United States.
By Matthew Vadum - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

FBI rejects FOIA request for Hillary documents, claiming there’s not enough ‘public interest’ to war

Oh sure, you THINK you have a vested interest in seeing FBI documents related to investigations of Hillary Clinton's infamous email server, but you don't. Or, if you do, it's not a sufficient interest. At least, that's the word from the FBI which is currently refusing to comply with a 2016 FOIA request because - get this - no one has demonstrated a public interest in releasing the material.
By Robert Laurie - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

The Wrong Way to Save Nuclear Power

Earlier this month, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, released a book showcasing the dire state of America’s nuclear energy industry. Keeping the Lights on at America’s Nuclear Power Plants highlights the problems facing the beleaguered power source and offers a range of proposals to save America’s nuclear reactors. And while some of their proposals would make meaningful headway toward transforming nuclear power into a viable power source, others would merely make the nuclear energy industry dependent on government largesse and raise costs on consumers in the process.
By Institute for Energy Research - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

FEDERAL JUDGE DENIES CHICAGO MOTION IN SAF-BACKED GUN SHOP CASE

BELLEVUE, WA – A federal court judge in Illinois has denied a City of Chicago motion for summary judgment and refused to dismiss a case challenging a ban of firearms sales within city limits that is backed by the Second Amendment Foundation.
By Second Amendment Foundation - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story

SPLC Should Rename “Hate Map” to “Groups We Hate Map”

ORLANDO, FL - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) admitted its fault and removed a town from its "Hate Map" this week. That map irresponsibly mixes religious organizations with violent hate groups, and this time it included the town of Amana because an unknown source alleged some people who might have been associated with The Daily Stormer met one time in a restaurant for coffee.
By Liberty Counsel - Thursday, August 31, 2017 - Full Story