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George Clooney Donates $1M to Notorious Hate Group In Order to Fight ‘Hate Groups’

Jammie Wearing Fools  "Does he even realize the SPLC is an actual hate group?

George and Amal Clooney are donating $1 million to fight hate groups.

The couple announced Tuesday that their Clooney Foundation for Justice is supporting the Southern Poverty Law Center with a $1 million grant to combat hate groups in the United States.

George Clooney says in a statement Tuesday that they wanted to add their voices and financial assistance to the fight for equality.

Clooney said, “There are no two sides to bigotry and hate.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors the activities of more than 1,600 extremist groups in the U.S. and has used litigation to win judgments against white supremacist organizations.

"They also distributed a map which resulted in an act of terror against the Family Research Council, yet somehow they escape any scrutiny and are still a go-to source for most of the media. And now we have an ignorant actor giving them a million dollars to keep attacking the right.

"Unreal."

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

The complaint. . . stated that Mosby "made statements for purposes of quelling the riots rather than prosecuting police officers who had committed a crime,"  . . .

Cortney O'Brien  

 

"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." . . .

Awesome: Mike Rowe Goes Off When Someone Accuses Him of Catering to 'Anti-Intellectual' GOP, White Nationalists

Townhall

"Television host and prominent reasonable person Mike Rowe unloaded on a man who attacked him on Facebook recently, taking his critic to task over the accusation that Rowe embraces Republican "anti-intellectualism" and turns a blind eye to white nationalism.  He also parlayed the smear into an opportunity to advocate and model political restraint and humility among celebrities.  Let's start with the comment that set Rowe off in the first place, courtesy of someone named Chuck Atkins:

"One of the tenants of white nationalism is that college educated people are academic elitests. Comment? No? I'm not surprised. You never take a political stand because you don’t want to alienate anybody. Its bad for business. I get it. But there is a current of anti intellectualism in this country - promoted by Republicans. Those people love you, and they think your initiative is their initiative. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is kickin our ass academically."

What's rich about this supercilious and judgmental attempted defense of intellectualism is that it manages to both misspell "elitists" and mistake "tenants" for "tenets" in its very first sentence.  In a lengthy rejoinder, Rowe lets Atkins have it.  Some highlights:" . . .

RINOS Wrong on Arpaio

Daniel John Sobieski  "Arizona Sen. John McCain’s limited understanding of the law and the Constitution was on display when he falsely claimed that President Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio undermined the rule of law. McCain was joined by his Arizona colleague, Sen. Jeff Flake, who is up for reelection in 2018:"

. . .

. . . "Perhaps if Arpaio had given away the nation’s secrets, or been an international felon like the Clinton-pardoned Marc Rich, or been a New Black Panther intimidating Philadelphia voters in 2008, McCain, Flake, and Ryan might have a case. But they don’t. Joe Arpaio was and is a patriot fighting to protect our nation’s borders from invasion and was acting in good faith in enforcing federal laws it was originally written, not as reinterpreted by a liberal judge."

CNN Commentator Calls MLK Jr’s Niece A ‘Token Black Woman’

Weasel Zippers

"Free thinkers are a threat.

"Via Townhall:

Alveda King is a distinguished speaker, an author, a bold pro-life advocate, and a civil rights activist.

Yet, to CNN commentator Keith Boykin, she is just a “token right-wing black woman.”

King is a vocal Trump supporter. In several cable news appearances, she has commended President Trump for his “compassion” and “brilliance,” while crediting him with helping to progress civil rights.

Shame on her, according to liberals. Had she simply saved her praise for Hillary Clinton instead of Trump, she would be a hero instead of a disgrace.[…]

CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill took it a step further, calling Trump’s visitors “mediocre negroes.”

Keep reading…

New York Times Warns Purging of Monuments May ‘Mobilize the Right and Alienate the Center’

Adam Shaw at Breitbart  "As the alt-left, supported by members of the Democratic Party, look to tear down more and more monuments across America, the New York Times is warning that the increasing scope of the left’s iconoclasm may be alienating centrists and mobilizing the right.

"In an article Friday about the movement to rip down monuments and images in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month, the Times says the disputes have proliferated with “dizzying speed” and suggests that the left’s fervor has started to produce questionable results:

But since the violence in Charlottesville, Va., two weeks ago, the anger from the left over monuments and public images deemed racist, insensitive or inappropriate has quickly spread to statues of Christopher Columbus, the former Philadelphia tough cop Mayor Frank Rizzo, Boston’s landmark Faneuil Hall, a popular Chicago thoroughfare and even Maryland’s state song. An Asian-American sportscaster named Robert Lee was pulled from broadcasting a University of Virginia football game so as not to offend viewers.

"The article goes on to say that as the campaign moves past Confederate monuments, and begins to encompass a number of other grievances, “they have become to some an example of politically correct sentiments gone too far, with the potential to mobilize the right and alienate the center.' ” . . .

I miss just being able to enjoy pure, simple entertainment.

Is our US Navy incompetent or did Obama seriously undermine it?

National Security, Politics

"The US Navy has been in the news lately for crashes and corruption. Is this the reasonable follow-up to 8 years of Obama’s approach to the military?"

. . . "Superficially, it appears that the Navy is having a competence problem. It’s equally likely, though, that we’re seeing a reflection of a very serious morale problem. Eight years of Obama attacks on the military may be taking their toll. Here are two things to keep in mind as you think about that theory. First, during the Obama years, the Pentagon engaged in a massive purge of officer ranks across the services. A list compiled in 2014, while the purges were still ongoing, gives an idea of the purge’s scope.

. . . 

"Once president and Commander-in-Chief, Obama . . . also made it plain that he believed the military’s best and highest purpose is to serve as a petri dish for social justice and climate change experimentation. There was one other thing he did that had to have been a real morale buster — he kicked religion out of the military. For men and women who must daily contemplate the possibility that they will be plunged into dangerous situations in the service of their country, that was cruel and unnecessary.

"In addition to reconfiguring the military He also threw away the military’s victory in Iraq, which pretty much amounted to spitting on the graves of those who died to make the victory possible and spitting in the eyes of those who, though terribly wounded, survived. In Afghanistan, he announced a pre-determined defeat date, even while keeping troops on the ground to fight an enemy emboldened by its pending victory." . . .  Hat tip to WOW! Magazine

Newspaper Clipping from Oct 13, 1975.

From the Trenches World Report  "Here is an old C.G. newspaper clipping a mother saved in her Bible.

"She had been a school teacher and believed prophesy, so she always kept up on issues, long before most ever thought of them here. "  

Hillary Clinton didn't lose because of the media, and her supporters can't accept it

"Don't You someday Want to See a Woman President?" Hillary Clinton

Scott Ferrarello‎atMoretti Underground

Washington Examiner  "That Hillary Clinton's White House hopes were stunted at least in part by an unfair news media is a conviction that continues to burn strong with her hardcore believers, even as the rest of us know that, like Santa, the Easter Bu nny, and Chris Cillizza's political insight, it isn't real.

"Complaints about the media as it relates to Clinton resurfaced this week after a New York Times reporter defended his paper's coverage in 2016.

"Critics bombarded New York Times White House Correspondent Glenn Thrush on Monday after he shared a news article on Twitter about the Secret Service running out of money to pay its staff due to President Trump and his immediate family's frequent traveling.

" 'Trump's gilded lifestyle is bankrupting the Secret Service," Thrush tweeted."

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Weasel Zippers photo

"While the nation's former top diplomat was under federal investigation for her "extremely careless" communications practices (that spinning sound is Walsh rolling her eyes), Trump was skating by a distracted media all the way to the finish line.

"Wait, that's not right.

"CNN was actually playing the infamous "pussy" tape on an endless loop, reporters were feverishly looking for his tax returns, and every news article called Trump a bigot.

"Other headlines Trump saw throughout the campaign: "Donald Trump mocks reporter's disability," CBS News (a lie); "In 1927, Donald Trump's father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens," Washington Post (deceitful); "Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S.," CNN (okay, that one was true and his proposal was popular)."

Who’s Behind Civil War In America?

Would I not be accurate in thanking an academia raised and indoctrinated by Howard Zinn's version of American History for their part in all this? TD

Noisy Room

"Larry Grathwohl’s daughter Lindsay is a free speech activist who has been attacked by the “anti-fascist” activists. She has to wear a football helmet for self-protection. “They were throwing rocks and bricks.” Her father was an FBI informant in the communist terrorist Weather Underground." . . .