The Curious Mystical Text Behind Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Bid

NY Times  "In the living room of an apartment near Wall Street last month, a group of supporters huddled around a large television watching as their candidate, Marianne Williamson, made her debut on the debate stage. The host pulled her hair nervously.
"Ms. Williamson’s start had been shaky, but there were some breakout moments. Then her dramatic closing. “Mr. President, if you’re listening, I want you to hear me, please: You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out.”
"She went on, building now: “I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field. And, sir, love will win.”

"It was exactly what her supporters were waiting for. The host sprung up and gave three short shouts. “Woo-woo-woo!”

"Ms. Williamson’s debut may have appeared offbeat, a not-so-serious collection of truisms about love. But more was happening here. She was, in fact, drawing directly from a homegrown American holy book called “A Course in Miracles,” a curious New York scripture that arose during the heady metaphysical counterculture of the 1960s." . . .

Ms. Williamson at an AIDS charity event at the Los Angeles
Center for Living, which she founded. 

Will the last CNN viewer please turn off the TV?

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Silvio Canto, Jr.  . . . "The latest ratings report is not good for the three-letter network known as CNN.  It's hard to believe that things are this bad, but they are:

The far-left fake news outlet CNN came in 15th place in primetime during the previous quarter and lost nearly 20 percent of its already pathetic viewership.

"On one hand, I know that many of us want to say "yes"!
"On the other hand, CNN is such a waste of energy and talent.
"CNN never exploited the middle and reported seriously about the news.
Imagine if we had a network that did not tilt right like FOX or left like MSNBC.  Wouldn't you love to turn on the TV on prime time and not get opinion shows?
"Yes, CNN is a victim of its own bias and irresponsible journalists like Jim Acosta.
"Maybe a stockholder will stand up and say something like this: "You are terrible at the anti-Trump stuff.  Why don't you try news?  Maybe we can convince advertisers to buy time with us."
"In the meantime, I find myself watching less and less cable news."

Jim Acosta of CNN, an embarrassment to village idiots

. . . "CNN should strip him of his press credentials. He should be forced to file as a registered lobbyist for the Democrat National Committee or whatever committee handles this virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Someone needs to change his diaper and shove a pacifier in his suckling lips.
"Responding to this unserious nitwit, Mr. Trump answered the way a parent answers a crybaby having a temper tantrum.
“ 'Yes, I do. I think it’s horrible,” Mr. Trump replied flatly.
"Mr. Trump has witnessed enough drama and theatrics from Jim Acosta to know what he is in for whenever Mr. Acosta gets a question. Yet the president calls on him anyway.
"So much for this whole ridiculous lie that Mr. Trump wants to shut down the media. He doesn’t even shut down the fake media, the true Enemy of the People. Not only that, he calls on them." . . .

But why is CNN on everywhere I go? And I understand CNN is the only US "news" channel available in the UK.

Something San Francisco This Way Comes

Our nation is most definitely NOT in good hands.

High School Considers Removing George Washington Murals That Are ‘Traumatizing’ Students

The Spectator  "The San Francisco School Board last week authorized $600,000 in spending to destroy a mural depicting George Washington at a high school named for him.
“ 'It’s rude and disrespectful to people’s cultures,” a junior at the school told the San Francisco Chronicle. The school board president agrees. “I think the images are really harmful,” Stevon Cook explains. “But I do understand the sensitivity about it being art. It’s a difficult position to be in.” The board’s vice president, Mark Sanchez, maintains, “Painting it over represents not only a symbolic fresh start, but a real fresh start.”
"The censorship follows the removal of an “Early Days” statue, which depicted an American Indian lying at the feet of a Spanish cowboy and Catholic missionary, outside the San Francisco Public Library in September. The city’s Historic Preservation Committee voted unanimously to remove it, and the Arts Commission dubbed the 2,000-pound sculpture “disrespectful, misleading, and racist” in unanimously voting to censor it. The school board similarly found no opposition in its ranks in voting to paint over the Washington mural — despite a New Deal program funding it, a Communist artist painting it, and its message in depicting slavery and a dead Indian as clearly critical of Washington.
"The Free Speech Movement called the Bay Area home in the 1960s, and a decade earlier, Allen Ginsberg published his racy poetry through the City Lights bookstore’s publishing arm. A place that once imagined itself as a safe harbor from censors now looks to Savonarola and Mullah Muhammad Omar as guides. Unsurprisingly, Google, Twitter, and other tech companies headquartered in the area follow, and lead, the intolerant zeitgeist." . . .

Christian University Caves in to the LGBTQ Crowd

It is wrong for a Christian institution to surrender some of its autonomy to get a little reward. There is nothing free except personal salvation.  Christian colleges made a Faustian bargain to give a little autonomy for the grand prize and now it is time to pay the devil his due -- capitulate to federal demands or close your doors.

American Thinker   "You don’t win battles when there is an abundance of white flags in your arsenal. Christian universities haven’t grasped that concept. One after the other, Christian schools have hoisted the white flag of surrender regarding their practices, policies, and precepts. That’s called apostasy.  

"Last month, California passed a resolution calling on religious leaders to affirm homosexuality and “transgenderism” and to accept that Christian efforts to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion are “ineffective, unethical and harmful.” Eager to please, Dr. Kevin Mannoia, Azusa Pacific University (APU) chaplain and the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, kissed the LGBTQ ring and genuflected under the rainbow flag by “directing pastors and counselors to reject biblical views of sexuality and deny counseling for those struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion.”

"And another white flag went up.

"Earlier, Azusa had shamefully lowered the banner of Calvary and raised another white flag of surrender after hoisting the rainbow flag of perversion. (Last week I did a national radio show dealing with homosexuality and perversion and the host said, “It’s been 30 years since I’ve heard perversion and homosexual used in the same sentence.”)

"Azusa Pacific University “specifically removed language that barred LGBTQ relationships as part of a standing ban on pre-marital sex” from its student handbook, according to media reports.  That is the third time the Christian university changed its position on “gay” relationships." . . .

Ted Cruz sacks Colin Kaepernick, grabs ball, and scores (on Twitter)

Thomas Lifson  "Colin Kaepernick, Nike's commissar of America-hatred, may have been a quarterback, but he took a half-a--ed approach to anti-slavery hero Frederick Douglass.  Flaunting the blinders that progressives wear when they consider our collective history, he took a quotation out of context in order to try to score an own goal against the country that birthed him, made him a multi-millionaire, and now indulges him in his extended adolescence.

Fortunately, Ted Cruz knows much more than Kaepernick and demolished his point on Twitter (hat tip: Twitchy).

Incidentally, President Trump's patriotic and utterly non-partisan speech yesterday on the National Mall (watch it here) included praise of the "great Frederick Douglass" among other heroes of our past.

"Weak point:"...Sen. Cruz gives Kaepernick the context of Douglass's statement

Ted Cruz Schools Kaepernick on His Quote From Frederick Douglass Speech

. . . "As for Cruz’s second point: “Douglass was not anti-American; he was, rightly and passionately, anti-slavery. Indeed, he concluded the speech as follows:

“ 'Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country.

“ 'There are forces in operation, which must inevitably, work the downfall of slavery. ‘The arm of the Lord is not shortened,’ and the doom of slavery is certain.

“ 'I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from ‘the Declaration of Independence,’ the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.' ”. . . 

If only it had not taken us so many decades for Americans to live up to the aspirations of our founding documents. If only we could go back in time and right the wrongs done to the Tuskegee Airmen and those excluded from society by Jim Crow laws and many vicious racists, including sadly, my own flesh and blood in the deep South. But I want not one penny to go into the coffers of the Sharptons, Farrakhans and Maxine Waters who only bring shame on those African-Americans who are so much better than them. TD

Sickening Photos Of The Humanitarian Crisis At US Border Detention Centers.....From 2014!

Business Insider

. . . "The office of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who represents the district including the southern border town of Laredo, provided Business Insider with photos showing just how bad the conditions are at one federal facility where some of these immigrants are being held.

"Cuellar's office said the photos were taken recently in a Customs and Border Protection facility in south Texas. The congressman's office declined to identify the exact source or location of the photos to protect the source's identity.

"Overall, the pictures show some of the stark challenges facing immigrants as well as federal officials attempting to address the flood of people streaming over the border. In many cases, the undocumented immigrants are crammed into rooms with nowhere to sleep or even sit. And in at least one case (the first photo below), one of the immigrants has rashes that Cuellar's office said were reported to be either scabies or chickenpox.

"The situation is rapidly becoming a "humanitarian crisis," in the words of President Barack Obama." . . .

Via Lee Williams at Mark Levin

Rashida Tlaib Denounces America, Declaration of Independence in Disgusting July 4th Tweet

News Point  "So the Declaration of Independence is “sexist, racist, and prejudiced”?

"Do you know who else believed that? Roger Taney, the author of the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, and Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln’s challenger in the 1860 presidential election.

"Do you know who DIDN’T believe that the Declaration was “sexist, racist, and prejudiced”?

"Abraham Lincoln. And Frederick Douglass.

"So why is Rashida Tlaib repeating the arguments of the racist Taney and Steve Douglas against the anti-slavery Lincoln and Fred Douglass?

"Because she doesn’t know any better.

"From Salon:

Yet despite its overwhelmingly positive impact on history, the Declaration of Independence was also a product of its time — and bears some of the shortcomings of its era, including sexism, racism and prejudice against Native Americans. …

"I won’t repeat any of the historical distortions and outright lies that the piece makes in order to make its point.

"I could go line by line and explain how Salon and Tlaib get everything wrong about the Declaration and the American Founders.

"But I realized I don’t have to do that because someone else already did.

"Now here’s where it gets REALLY interesting.

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whether she knows it or not, actually contradicted Tlaib in her own July 4th message this morning.

"Here’s what AOC tweeted this morning:" . . .

She will walk it all back this week. Meanwhile, Tlaib stays true to form.  TD

President Trump gives his Fourth of July speech in the rain at the Lincoln Memorial

8 Times The Media Said There Was No Crisis At The Southern Border

The Federalist "Now that media-savvy congressional Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have brought attention to the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border caused by Congress’s refusal to fix our exploited immigration laws, political pundits are having to eat their own words from just a few months ago claiming that the border crisis was manufactured by President Trump as a political stunt.

"Last week, before President Trump departed for the G20 Summit in Japan, he told reporters on the White House lawn that his critics are now seeing he was right all along. 

“It’s humanitarian aid, it’s very important and I think that a lot of people are starting to realize that I was right when I said we have a crisis at the border,” Trump said. “…A crisis at the border wasn’t a manufactured crisis, which they were saying, it wasn’t manufactured at all. We have a crisis at the border.”

"So who are the people he’s referring to? Many of the journalism world’s favorite pundits and media institutions. Here are the receipts." . . .

Uh Oh, Guess Who Had the Betsy Ross Flag at His Inauguration

Katie Pavlich  "As you've heard by now, Nike decided to pull the sale of a Betsy Ross American flag themed sneaker this week after woke and washed up athlete Colin Kaepernick complained it is tied to racism. 

"But there's just one huge problem with that argument: " . . .

Democrats running for president have officially lost it. Beto & Castro strongly imply that the Betsy Ross flag is a symbol of hatred. Do the rest of the Dems agree? Pictured here, of course, is the notorious flag prominently featured at President Obama's 2nd inauguration.

Veteran-Owned Apparel Company Has Perfect Response To Nike Dropping American Flag-Style Shoe UPDATED, July 5th

Daily Wire  "Veteran-owned clothing store, Nine Line Apparel, offered a response to Nike’s controversial move to drop an American Flag-style shoe with their own gear, nodding to the allegedly “offensive” Betsy Ross flag." . . .

“Nike has pulled a Betsy-Ross-themed Fourth of July sneaker after Colin Kaepernick – now a Nike ‘endorser’ – found it offensive,” Nine Line Apparel said in a statement. “In response, Nine Line Apparel, a veteran-owned apparel company, has just released a t-shirt line that proudly features the Betsy Ross flag.”

. . . "The apparel store is also "calling on Americans to boycott Nike and to display their patriotism with the hashtag #NoToNike.” As reported by The Daily Wire on Tuesday, a #WalkAwayFromNike boycott gained traction online when Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) similarly asked Americans to refrain from buying Nike goods." . . .

Their Betsy Ross collection here.

Nine Line Apparel statement:

“IT'S MUCH MORE THAN GETTING DRESSED EVERYDAY, IT'S ABOUT BEING PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU WEAR, AND HOW YOU WALK THROUGH LIFE. WE ARE RELENTLESSLY PATRIOTIC. WE HOLD NO PUNCHES, WE DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR OUR LOVE OF COUNTRY, WE ARE AMERICA'S NEXT GREATEST GENERATION.” 

UPDATE: Forget Nike, This Company’s Flag Support Can’t Be Wavered: Betsy Ross Sneakers On Sale, With Proceeds To Benefit Veterans’ Charity

. . . "I spoke with PrintedKicks’ CEO and founder at length about the issue since PrintedKicks  
already sells really cool Trump sneakers (see here) and I wanted to see if they had any comments or plans revolving around the Betsy Ross controversy. He revealed that sneakers were in the works, but unlike other companies mass producing shoes in China for huge profits off of hard-working conservatives, I have been promised that 100 percent (not a single penny less) of the profit that PrintedKicks makes off the sale of these stylish Betsy Ross sneakers, will go to support a charity that helps veterans suffering from PTSD. In summarizing his remarks, the CEO stated that while he realizes there is demand for Betsy Ross Flag-themed Sneakers and that he is proud his company prints and embroiders its products in the USA, he wanted his company to give back to the country that has given us all so much." . . .  Via Kimberly D. Mons

Nike: Headed the wrong direction

Richard Jack Rail  . . . "Nike needs to listen to its own best spokesman, one Michael Jordan.  Mike understands that politics need not enter into business, and in fact should be kept out altogether.  Out of advertisements, out of public discussions, o-u-t — OUT.  Why?  Because, Mike says, Republicans buy shoes, too.  Nike has alienated half its customer base for no other reason than wanting to look politically correct." . . .

Tony Branco

Will O'Toole

This Independence Day, Nike Appeases America Haters and Dictators
"Want a sign that the left is now bringing ruin to the business world, after it has done the same for the education and entertainment industries? Look no further than Nike" . . .