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Dallas Police Chief David Brown Is Helping Pull a Nation Back from the Brink

David French  "It’s difficult to imagine a more difficult challenge than running a police force during the worst massacre of law enforcement officers since 9/11 — all against the backdrop of intense protest and ideological scrutiny. No one can do it perfectly — indeed, it’s difficult to even imagine what perfection would look like under these circumstances — but it’s hard to conceive of a more effective public voice than Dallas Police Chief David Brown. At a time when the loudest voices are seeking to increase conflict and often capitalize on tragedy, he’s charted a different course entirely. He’s a reformer who’s responded to the shootings from a position of credibility with many liberals and conservatives." . . .

Obama’s race baiting lecture at the Dallas memorial worthy of rotten tomatoes (Updated)

Lisa Payne-Naeger  "Today, President Barack Obama should be considered the luckiest man in the United States. No one heckled him as he spoke at the memorial service for the slain police officers in Dallas. No one threw rotten tomatoes at him or stormed the podium as he openly spewed racial barbs and admonished Americans for being racially biased. His speech, today, had to be the most egregious and insulting display ever by the race-baiter-in-chief. Rivaled by none. He put Sharpton and Jackson to shame in their abilities to divide a nation and its people. And again, he is the luckiest man in the United States in that none of the officers in the room slapped the cuffs on him and hauled him off to jail for intentionally inciting disruptive discourse.

"But I guess you have to consider the source, from whom this kind of race-baiting speech comes, and the dignity of the audience to which it was delivered. Even faced with profound disparagement, the officers, and other mourners, behaved with class and integrity. But the rest of the country is gonna be hopping mad when they see this video."

"Shameful doesn’t begin to cover it folks. We have six more months of this mega-@$$ and his embarrassing, insulting, and humiliating exploits. Hopefully there will be no more memorials for fallen heroes, and only a celebration of a nation that anxiously awaits the exit of the greatest racial divider this nation has ever seen."

Obama Mentions Himself 45 Times During Memorial Speech For Dallas Officers

To help counter the Obama effect, we are thankful for these people:

Chick-fil-A’s Act Of Support For Cops Could Be Considered Real Act Of Courage

. . . "But a position at one of its Texas locations that was noble last November could put the sandwich-making outfit on the receiving end of more than mere hate speech in this environment — it could lead to violence, if recent events are any indication." . . .

UPDATE:  AS EXPECTED, OBAMA MAKES SPEECH ABOUT GUN CONTROL, RACE AT DALLAS COP MEMORIAL SERVICE
 . . . "If you were stupid enough to think that Obama was actually going to act presidential and show some real compassion for the families of the cops who were killed by a black lives matter terrorist, then you are probably gullible enough to vote for Hillary Clinton." . . .

Obama swims in a sea of racism and bigotry, getting drenched in the process

Obama: Every American Is Racist

. . . “ 'If we are honest, perhaps we have heard prejudice in our own heads and felt it in our own hearts. We know that. And while some suffer far more under racism’s burden, some feel, to a far greater extent, discrimination’s sting, although most of us do our best to guard against it and teach our children better, none of us is entirely innocent.' ” . . .

After Dallas, Obama Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Inciting Violence   . . . "Larry Klayman, the head of Freedom Watch and founder of Judicial Watch, filed a class action lawsuit on Monday in federal district court in Dallas against President Obama and others for inciting violence, leading to the killings of law enforcement officers.

In his complaint, Klayman named not only Barack Obama but Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, former Attorney General Eric Holder and the Rev. Al Sharpton, among a total of nine defendants." . . .

Obama Refuses Request To Honor Dallas’ Fallen Heroes  . . . "Although the White House has been illuminated for occasions such as Breast Cancer Awareness (pink) and the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriages (rainbow), Obama refused Adler’s request." . . . Petulant juvenile.
The Texas governor's mansion, however, did honor the fallen officers.

Words that a Democrat liberal could have said but did not seem capable of:
George W. Bush’s Remarks at Dallas Police Officer Memorial Ceremony Were a Welcome Change   

 . . ."President George W. Bush spoke at the memorial service for the fallen Dallas officers killed in last week’s attack. His remarks were a welcome departure from the current narrative and a reminder that principled leadership can still be found in this country.

"Speaking of American values and our common bond, President Bush said, “we have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit, by shared commitments to common ideals.”

“ 'Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions,” he observed.

"A uniter indeed." . . .

Is anyone out there sick of Obama's reprimands?

Victor Davis Hanson: "Fundamentally Transformed"

NRO

"Have we reached a point of no return?"

"Multicultural societies — from 19th-century Austria–Hungary to contemporary Iraq, Lebanon, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda — have a poor record of keeping the peace between competing tribes. They usually end up mired in nihilistic and endemic violence."

The only hope for history’s rare multiracial, multiethnic, and multireligious nations is to adopt a common culture, one that artificially suppresses the natural instinct of humans to identify first with their particular tribe. 

. . . 

" But such a bold experiment was always tenuous and against the cruel grain of history, in which the hard work of centuries could be easily torn apart by the brief demagoguery of the moment. Unfortunately, President Obama, ever since he first appeared on the national political scene in 2008, has systematically adopted a rhetoric and an agenda that is predicated on dividing up the country according to tribal grievances, in hopes of recalibrating various factions into a majority grievance culture. In large part, he has succeeded politically. But in doing so he has nearly torn the country apart. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that no other recent president has offered such a level of polarizing and divisive racial bombast." . . .

. . . 

"Punish our enemies” characterized Obama’s approach to race and bloc voting. Each time an explosive racial confrontation appeared on the national scene, Obama — always in his accustomed academic intonations — did his best to exploit the issue. 

"When Obama invited Black Lives Matter founders to the White House in February, he praised them by asserting that they were “much better organizers” than he had been at a comparable age, adding that he was “confident that they are going to take America to new heights.” Prior Black Lives Matter marching death chants to police should have been known to Obama at the time.". . . 

So much for this "post-racial" president

Obama to Police: ‘I’m Your Best Hope’   
 Where has this "best hope" been the last eight years?
. . . "Since becoming president, Obama has faced criticism from his home town as the murder rate in Chicago has spiked, and he has been seen to do little to address the problem, other than calling for more gun control." . . .

Cops stage walkout over BLM protest at basketball game  . . . "But the broader question, the worry that at some point police will stop doing their duty out of disgust, is quite real. The “Ferguson Effect,” as Heather Mac Donald calls it, already has cops doing less “proactive policing” (such as stop and frisk) and as a result, crime rates are soaring in many cities.  There could be more and worse issues with duties, if police continue to feel marginalized."

#BlackLivesMatter kills cops, Fort Worth police group claims in viral post

 Democrats Endorse BLM and ‘Pigs in a Blanket’  "The Democratic National Committee was on record as endorsing Black Lives Matter during its summer meeting of 2015, shortly before BLM activists chanted"Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon." "Pigs in a blanket" refers apparently to police officers in body bags. The DNC did not withdraw its endorsement after this display; it instead invited BLM activists to organize a town hall meeting on "racial justice.' " . . .

Below: 'Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon' demonstrators

#BlackLivesMatter kills cops, Fort Worth police group claims in viral post

. . . "We urge law enforcement supporters around the world to DELETE the Pandora Radio app from their devices," the officers group posted to its official Facebook page. "Pandora Radio openly supports an organization that chooses to kill American law enforcement officers." . . .

What happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline.

DVD 360

Clapper to Ryan: I’ll still let Hillary see classified info

Hot Air  "So much for consequences. Even while declining to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for the unauthorized retention and transmission of classified information through her private e-mail system, FBI Director James Comey envisioned “security or administrative sanctions” for Hillary and her team. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper refuses to consider any such sanctions, making it clear to House Speaker Paul Ryan that it will be business as usual with the Clintons:

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan’s request to block Hillary Clinton from receiving classified intelligencebriefings was denied by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday.

In a letter to Ryan, Clapper wrote that he did “not intend to withhold briefings from any officially nominated, eligible candidate.”

The Chart That Barack Obama Does Not Want Young, Black Males To See

Zero Hedge  Since the minimum wage increases, the jobless rate for young blacks went up. Thanks, government.

. . . "As we learned from Milton Friedman many years ago:

The minimum wage law is most properly described as a law saying that employers must discriminate against people who have low skills. That’s what the law says. The law says that here’s a man who has a skill that would justify a wage of $5 or $6 per hour (adjusted for today), but you may not employ him, it’s illegal, because if you employ him you must pay him $7.25 per hour. So what’s the result? To employ him at $7.25 per hour is to engage in charity. There’s nothing wrong with charity. But most employers are not in the position to engage in that kind of charity. Thus, the consequences of minimum wage laws have been almost wholly bad. We have increased unemployment and increased poverty.

Moreover, the effects have been concentrated on the groups that the do-gooders would most like to help. The people who have been hurt most by the minimum wage laws are the blacks. I have often said that the most anti-black law on the books of this land is the minimum wage law. . .

(Emphasis in the original) 

SIRENS SONG

HopeNChangeCartoons

. . . "The cartoon above isn't so much targeted at readers of Hope n' Change(a singularly well-informed, logical, and compassionate group of people) so much as an expression of our sense that the American people are being very actively manipulated into division and confrontation by those who actually hate our nation, desire power, or simply want ratings or celebrity - even purchased with the blood of innocents.

"Sadly, it's become a sick tradition that as a presidential election nears, myriad forces try to kindle hatred and fear in the voting population - no matter what the damage to our national morale. It's a special kind of treason and a despicable betrayal of the public trust." . . .

General Flynn Calls Out Irresponsible Hillary

Independent Sentinel  "General Michael Flynn is a registered Democrat and a harsh critic of Barack Obama’s. Flynn is an old-time Democrat who really has no place in today’s Socialist Party parading around as a Democrat party.

"Martha Raddatz interviewed the general who has been mentioned as a possible running mate to Donald Trump.

" 'She asked him, “— Orlando showed that voters think Hillary Clinton showed a better temperament to respond to things like this. You talk about Donald Trump’s leadership. What about the temperament?”

The general said,  “I think her speech a couple of nights ago was totally irresponsible when she talked about white people being to blame. I mean, that is so irresponsible. What we have to look at is speech that’s positive, that’s forward-looking and demonstrates an intellectual courage that doesn’t try to attack an ideology one way or the other. I mean, how are we going to fix this? We have to — we cannot keep having these types of events in our country, whether it’s a Islamic terrorist attack or whether it’s an attack on our law enforcement professionals in this country." . . .

"Race hustler Hillary said this in all seriousness:"

General Flynn: Military Fired Me for Calling Our Enemies Radical Jihadis

. . . "Yesterday, General Flynn published an article in The New York Post entitled “The military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis.”  In this article, General Flynn undermines the early reports of problems with his leadership.

General Flynn writes:

Two years ago, I was called into a meeting with the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and the director of national intelligence, and after some “niceties,” I was told by the USDI that I was being let go from DIA. It was definitely an uncomfortable moment (I suspect more for them than me).

I asked the DNI (Gen. James Clapper) if my leadership of the agency was in question and he said it was not; had it been, he said, they would have relieved me on the spot.