The Artist Is Speaking Out After Making This Controversial Painting Of President Trump

Alexander Smith

"An artist based in Utah has published images of his latest painting. The portrait includes President Trump standing at the center of a football stadium – and is a confrontation to the dozens of professional NFL players who have been taking a knee during the anthem to protest police violence and racial injustice. Because military personnel and police officers saw the anthem protest as a direct affront to their patriot values, the artist Jon McNaughton turned to his canvas to show the President holding a trampled flag to his breast in a fatherly gesture of protection.

"Protestors of the anthem have been accused of trampling on the American flag and disrespecting military service men and women who put their lives on the line to protect the country. And the image plays right into that conversation.

"In “Respect the Flag,” McNaughton depicts a heroic-looking President Trump standing in the middle of an NFL football stadium with a muddied and disrespected flag pressed to the center of his chest in the act of protection.

"As you can imagine, the artist’s painting has caused a stir among the leftist who supports activist Colin Kaepernick and the other NFL players who have taken a knee during the anthem in the act of protest. But many people find their act disgraceful to American patriotism and the men and women putting their lives in harm’s way to keep the country safe." . . .

This Governor Said The NRA was a “Terrorist Organization” And Is Now Feeling The Backlash

American Overlook  "One Democratic governor is certainly ruffling some feathers amongst members of the National Rifle Association (NRA). On Monday, Democratic Governor Dan Malloy from Connecticut publicly stated that the NRA has devolved into a terrorist organization, and the NRA was quick to share their very loud response, which was followed up with supportive examples. He shared the following statement with the press:

“ 'They act quite frankly in some cases as a terrorist organization. You want to make safer guns? We will boycott your company. That’s who they are. That’s what they do. The NRA today is a far cry from the NRA that in 1999 said that teachers shouldn’t carry weapons in schools. Or in the 90s said we should have universal background checks. They have in essence become a terrorist organization.”

"In response, the NRA recruited the help of their members and called upon those who had a variety of different backgrounds including rape survivors, immigrants, and a U.S. Navy SEAL who is a Navy Cross and Purple Heart recipient.

"When it comes to the gun control debate, there is always a lot that is said and commenters shared their thoughts on the matter…

“ 'What an extremely ignorant thing for a governor to say. He and the state of CT should be embarrassed.”

“ 'Maybe the snowflakes need to look at NRA membership among the disgusting school and church shooters. I would bet NONE belong to the NRA.' ” . . .

California’s Reputation for Loony Left Behavior Only Gets Worse

Have we all considered how virtually every TV show, movie and worshipped celebrity comes out of this state?

John Fund at National Review

“California, we have a problem,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech in Sacramento on Wednesday. “Here’s my message — how dare you. How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open-borders agenda.”

 

"In Oakland, the mayor warns illegal immigrants of an ICE raid, and a coffee shop refuses service to the police.

"Move over, San Francisco. Oakland, the city of 420,000 people just ten miles away on the other side of the Bay Bridge, has shoved you aside for the title of Loony Left Capital of the country.

"Hasta Muerte, an Oakland coffee shop whose name means “Toward Death” in Spanish, is refusing to serve police in uniform in order to show concern for the “physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.” All over the country, coffee shops love to serve up coffee and doughnuts to cops knowing that customers appreciate the security their presence represents. But at Hasta Muerte Coffee, an employee-owned co-op, the message to the men and women in blue is: Take a hike.

For their part, the Oakland police responded to this provocation with extreme — bordering on craven — restraint. “I think their position is very clear that they don’t want the police in there, and I can respect that,” Sergeant Bryan Hubbard, who runs the city police’s training academies, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “If they do call the police for any need, we’re going to respond professionally and give them the same level of service as anyone else regardless of their position.”

. . . "If you don’t like the law, work to change it. But don’t prove your membership in the Loony Left by spitting on it and pretending that makes you virtuous."

Kamala Harris: today California, tomorrow this nation

What has happened to California, no - this nation - that we no longer find people like Harris reprehensible but instead elect them to run America? With the liberal school system and media indoctrinating future generations how bad must things get before we reject such silliness? TD

Rich Terrell

Kamala Harris: ‘I Support’ Oakland Mayor Who Helped Criminal Illegal Aliens Evade Deportation ‘100 Percent’  . . . "Harris’s defense of Schaaf’s warning to criminal illegal aliens is at odds with a plurality of Americans who say that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) should prosecute Schaaf for obstruction of justice.

"A plurality of swing voters, about 40 percent, agreed that Schaaf should be prosecuted for warning criminal illegal aliens ahead of an ICE raid.

"Most recently, Breitbart News exclusively reported how the sanctuary state of California is likely responsible for at least 5,000 crimes that were committed by criminal illegal aliens who were released by the state rather than being handed over to ICE agents for deportation." . . .

(President Trump will visit Harris's turf soon. That should prove, er, interesting.)

From Legal Insurrection:  . . . "It’s clear that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) wants to be president.  What’s not clear is in what country she wants to president.

"She wants to be president of a country with no borders, with a Supreme Court that bases its decisions on “feelings” rather than law, with few (preferably no?) gun rights for citizens, with “free” college, with government-run (i.e. single payer) healthcare, with severely restrictedspeech, with unrestricted abortion funded by taxpayers.  To be fair to Harris, this is the same imaginary country in which all Democrat presidential hopefuls aspire to be president.

"Harris’ ongoing, if not yet announced, 2020 presidential campaign is currently focused on floutingfoiling our nation’s immigration laws." . . .

In order to make her “turn back the clock” fallacy work, Harris intentionally misrepresented what Attorney General Jeff Sessions said about California’s war on federal immigration law.  (Chris) "Hayes prompted the comments from Harris when he brought up Sessions' reference to "slave states in nullification and secession" in denouncing California for evading federal immigration law. (Editor's note: Sessions actually said: 'There is no nullification. There is no secession.' He then invited "any doubters to Gettysburg, and to the graves of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln." There was no abject overtures to slavery and reconstruction.) . . .

"I don't recall AP stories about Obama's disastrous policies imperiling global economic growth"

Jack Hellner  "On the front page of my morning paper is this headline on an Associated Press article: Trump tariffs may imperil a delicate global economic rebound"

"In the article, Moody's economist Mark Zandi said:

“Tariffs threaten to strangle the global golden goose,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “The global economy is on the same page for the first time in over a decade. This threatens to derail it.”

"During Obama's eight years of the slowest economic recovery in seventy years I do not recall the AP or other media outlets fret about the largest economy in the World stifling global economic growth.

"As Obama stacked regulation upon regulation, it was similar to adding tariffs to whatever the regulations applied to -- and the media cheered.

"Obamacare also added many new taxes and mandates and each added costs (equivalent to tariffs) to the product. As prices went up, businesses had less money to hire more people and people had less money left over to buy other products or services or to invest and save -- and not once do I recall the media worrying about the taxes and regulations slowing down the economy.

"The biggest quasi-tariff of all -- and the most potential destruction to the global economy --  was the Paris Climate Accord." . . .

Texas: Armed Civilian Stops Violent Crime Spree

Legal Insurrection

Suspect had already murdered one person

NBC DFW reports:

One man’s violent crime spree ended Friday morning when an armed civilian held him at gunpoint until police could arrive to make an arrest.

Bill Nguyen, 47, is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Chi Pham, and setting her home in the 2900 block of Hastings on fire before driving to a nearby nail salon and assaulting another woman.

Grand Prairie police said the good Samaritan intervened and stopped Nguyen’s violent episode in the 5100 block of Magna Carta.

“He held the suspect at gunpoint while this individual had a gun himself. Had he not been there, there is no telling what could have happened. We are in his debt and very grateful for him taking action when he did,” said Assistant Chief Daniel Scesney.

. . . . Nguyen has been charged with murder, aggravated assault, and arson.

. . . 

Orange Crush: Inside the GOP Struggle to Hold the Southern California Suburbs

Politico

"Democrats think they can win the House by toppling the Reagan-era fortress in Orange County."

. . . "Republicans hold four of the county’s six congressional seats. There’s buttonedup Ed Royce, the quintessential Southern California Republican, who is retiring after 26 years on the job. To his southeast, Walters is facing the fight of her political career. To her west lies Dana Rohrabacher, a Democratic target partially thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller’s interest in him and his chats with Julian Assange. And, down the coast, voters are saying good-bye to Darrell Issa, who’s ditching Congress after barely squeaking by to re-election in 2016. 

"Today less than half white, roughly one-third Latino, and nearly one-fifth Asian American, Orange County would appear from the outside to be a reasonable target for Democrats. At least 18 serious Democrats are running for one of the four Republican seats. The county is heavily, and famously, suburban, and the GOP is losing ground fast in areas like it: Donald Trump in 2016 became the third straight Republican presidential nominee to fall short of 50 percent in the suburbs nationwide. When Hillary Clinton won Orange County by beating Trump in 2016, she became the first Democrat to do so in 80 years, since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected with 61 percent of the national vote." . . .

The world is listening to Parkland teens. Some Philly kids wonder: Why not us?

Philadelphia Inquirer

“Politicians are going out of their way to help these kids,” Tatiana Amaya said of the Parkland activist students. “And there’s just a disconnect — when something happens in the white community, the black community is expected to support them, but people don’t stand up for the black community. The focus isn’t ‘What can we do to make black and brown kids feel safe in school?’ ”

Amaya, Sullivan, and the other members of Raised Woke, a Mastery-Shoemaker club focused on social justice and youth engagement, wonder where the outrage is when people in predominantly black neighborhoods get shot.

They’re not alone. From Florida to Chicago, some people in marginalized communities have been asking the same question in the wake of the Parkland massacre.

“When something happens in the black community, we don’t get a lot of support,” Sullivan, 17, said. . . .

Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix

NY Times  Quoting:

"Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions."Under terms of a proposed deal, which is not yet final, Netflix would pay Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, for exclusive content that would be available only on the streaming service, which has nearly 118 million subscribers around the world. The number of episodes and the formats for the shows have not been decided.Mr. Obama does not intend to use his Netflix shows to directly respond to President Trump or conservative critics, according to people familiar with discussions about the programming. They said the Obamas had talked about producing shows that highlight inspirational stories.

But the Netflix deal, while not a direct answer to Fox News or Breitbart.com, would give Mr. Obama an unfiltered method of communication with the public similar to the audiences he already reaches through social media, with 101 million Twitter followers and 55 million people who have liked his Facebook page. . . .

Meet the Gaza-Raised Grandson of a Munich Terrorist Running for Congress

In 2012, Campa-Najjar was an Obama campaign deputy regional director. After Obama’s victory, Campa-Najjar was rewarded by Obama’s Labor Department: he was chosen to serve as head of the Office of Public Affairs of the Employment and Training Administration. . . .

PJ Media

"Meet Ammar Campa-Najjar, a 2018 primary candidate for California’s 50th Congressional District. According to his website, he’s just your run-of-the-mill southern California Democrat.

"He’s a gun-grabber from the word go, utterly dedicated to a woman’s right to murder the fruit of her womb, and celebrates the full range of possible psycho-sexual unions, including, generously, the one likely to bear such fruit. He favors Medicare for all without a hint of how to pay for it, and he demands the total abolition of any meaningful border between California and the drug cartels.

"Oh, yes -- he happens to be the grandson of one of the masterminds of the 1972 slaughter of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics

Muhammad Youssef Al-Najir lies dead after being shot by Israeli commandos in his Beirut apartment. His wife also died in the raid.

"Born and raised in San Diego, Campa-Najjar had a fairly conventional upbringing -- if you consider a four-year sojourn in Gaza part of a normal childhood. When his neighbors began to make things a bit too hot, Campa-Najjar and his Mexican-American mother decided it was time to return to the land of effete decadence, the Hotel California.

"Campa-Najjar wants to run against the ethically challenged (investigated by the FBI for campaign finance abuse), rock-solid conservative (ACU rating: 97%) Republican Duncan Hunter. " . . .

Differences between Trump and Clinton considered

I cannot, in good conscience, make light of any infidelity to his wife, but recall how the left defended Bill Clinton and cheapened those with whom he had trysts while calling for Trump to be impeached. 
The thought of being a James Carville makes my skin crawl, but if Mr. Trump had been a Democrat all this would have been,as liberals like to say, "just sex".  TD
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Trump and Clinton: The difference that matters  "The left is making a big thing of an alleged affair between Trump and a porn queen over a decade ago.  Each side points, with some justification, to the other's hypocrisy.  Morally, there's little difference between Bill Clinton's dalliances with Monica Lewinsky and what Trump is accused of.  But the other differences are many.

"First, Clinton provably did what he was accused of doing, whereas there is no proof that Trump did what he's accused of.  Second, Clinton was in office, while Trump was a private citizen.  Third, the "power differential" between a president and an intern cannot be overstated; there was no such differential between Trump and his accuser.

"Fourth, there is good reason to suspect that Clinton crossed the line with other women while in office, some against their will.  Trump has done nothing of the sort in office.  Lastly, there is good reason to believe that Clinton actually raped a woman before ascending to the presidency whereas Trump has no such accusations against him.

"We must recognize that there is a serious difference between Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.  In a single year, Trump has proven himself loyal to America, even if not necessarily loyal to his wife.  Bill Clinton was loyal to himself and no one else.  He and his wife – they are one – have done more harm to America than perhaps any president not named Barack Obama." . . .

Bill Clinton is a sex-addicted 'monster' who mocked Hillary Clinton by calling her 'The Warden' in front of friends and privately boasted about his high notch count, according to his long-time mistress and childhood friend Dolly Kyle.

She remembered one conversation she had with Bill, when they discussed Wilt Chamberlain's famous claim that he had slept with 20,000 women.'And Billy and I were talking about that, and he said 'Hmm. That's 10 times more than I've had,' said Kyle. 'He had this admiration and maybe a bit of jealousy in his voice when he said that.'

"The pair's (both pictured above in their high school yearbook photos) relationship ended in 1990 when Bill Clinton allegedly threatened to 'destroy' Kyle if she spoke to the media about their relationship, Kyle says"

Mike Pence goes for the jugular with anti-Christian Joy Behar

Monica Showalter  "Vice President Mike Pence is considered a gentleman. He's someone who stays out of the spotlight, says quiet and sensible things, steers clear of controversy, plays by the rules, follows Christian principles, seems neat and orderly, and comes off as an all-around nice guy. It's easy to see him as a duplicate of President George W. Bush, who let the left run roughshod all over him for his gentlemanliness, and out of decorum, never let out a peep. Even when Hugo Chavez smelled sulfur, hollered 'donkey,' and spewed filthy race-tinged rape-fantasy rants against then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Bush kept silent. All out of respect for the office, or something like it. Chavez knew he'd do nothing and repeatedly got away with it, knowing the rest of the left would cheer.

"President Trump's election showed it doesn't pay to be that kind of gentleman - it pays to fight.

"Thank goodness Pence is on the same page. After leftist television host Joyce Behar questioned his sanity for professing his Christian faith, his supporters, who watch that kind of TV, were up in arms. And Behar was forced to apologize to him privately, for going overboard and being such a pig.

"Pence wasn't interested. He directed her to speak to the real people she had insulted: all Christians.

"Behar, of course. didn't. But with his move, he laid the pressure on her, and there is remains as her viewers go the way of the NFL's viewers.

"Pence's move was a good one because it showed that the man had more fight in him than Bush, and wasn't afraid to be who he was. No, it's not gay people who have problems being "who they are" these days, it's Christians.

"It's the big problem in the Christian community these days. Not even the pope wants to admit he's Christian, it sometimes seems. Christianity is embarassing, socially unacceptable, too hard, all that dreck, never anything worth standing up and fighting for these days. But Pence didn't back down and that sets a good standard.

"And in doing this, he made it just a little easier to be Christian. Hollywood culture and people like Joy Behar, have gotten away with putting Christian beliefs down for decades. Now with Pence's leadership and viewer anger, working in tandem, the cost of that just went up for the intolerant.

"Thanks, Mike Pence."

But do not go on her TV show, Mr. Vice-President; these ladies speak in applause lines and have the "Applause"sign on their side.

From the Tunnel Wall blog