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Ramaswamy blasts WaPo reporter with viral response to question on condemning 'White supremacy'... (Fox 01/04/2024)
| • | "Institutionalized racism is institutionalized racial discrimination that we see that doesn't come from somehow discriminating against people on the basis of some tentative White supremacy." |
| • | "It's based on affirmative action. It's based on actually discriminating against people on the color of their skin in a way that's actually institutionalized today." |
| • | "I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism. I'm not going to bend the knee to your religion..." |
| • | "The reality is I condemned vicious racial discrimination in this country, but the kind of racial systemic discrimination we see today is the discrimination based on race in a very different direction. You want to know what the best way is to end discrimination on the basis of race? Stop discriminating on the basis of race." |
| • | "You people have been responsible for bringing this country to a breaking point, creating a projection of national division." |
Priest on CNN says Christmas is the story of a 'Palestinian Jew' living in an 'occupied' country (Fox 12/25/2023)
| • | "... Father Beck has to stop watching Al-Jazeera and start reading the New Testament." |
| • | "Palestine was not even a creation of the Roman Empire at the time of Christ's birth. Pushing a political agenda like this, using Christ, reflects poorly on the network." |
| • | "Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities." |
| • | "And it is also not good for those awarded the office of president who find themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on the scale." |
| • | "You know the difference between a communist and a Democratic Socialist? A Democratic Socialist is somebody you vote for, and then they take all your money and give back what they think you need. A communist- they just appoint themselves. There's no election and they do the exact same thing. That's the only difference." |
| • | "... So you're telling all the people of your generation don't have kids. Then in 50 years, there's nobody left on the Earth, moron!... This is what you're dealing with! Don't have kids. Okay. There'll be no one left to breathe your clean air. It's moronic!" |
| • | "... 'Cease-fire!' How can you have a cease-fire against Hamas when Hamas says we're never stopping til you're all gone..." |
| • | ... the network embraced the responsibility "to provide our audience the information to make decisions based on accurate coverage of the election process." |
| • | "We will reject all efforts to destabilize this vision, including from partisans within the press or the political machinery. Univision is not a tool of any party or organization. Univision is an independent news organization, and we will not be deterred by partisan interests and agenda-driven advocacy." |
| • | "We need to root out the evil that is Hamas wherever it exists, at home or across the globe, and the nation's Republican attorneys general are doing their part to hold terrorists and terrorist sympathizers accountable." |
| • | "To say I am disgusted by statements of support for Hamas that we've seen in recent days is an understatement. Celebrating, excusing, or downplaying the horrific rape, torture, and murder of innocent people is the same thing as supporting violence, or even calling for it." |
| • | "... the Israelis are now on the four-hour pause for people to get out. So people say 'oh, wow, how big of them.' Ok, but it is a war that the other side started! It's so interesting. When they fired [at] Israel. It's a war. When Israel fires back, it's a war crime. Little crazy... Also, would Hamas do that? Would they give four-hour pauses? No, no pausing." |
| • | See related Playing The Middle (Antonio Branco, 11/07/2023) cartoon from General picture album |
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| • | ... Ramirez cited the Washington Post's motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness," saying "When the protests and rancor of a distressed newsroom offended by a cartoon exposing the truth causes adults to retreat to their safe spaces, clutching their participation trophies and cancel the freedom of speech, these are truly dark days." |
| • | "If anyone in America must have the constitutional right to speak out against the judge, his staff, the witnesses, or the process, it's a defendant going through a process he believes is politicized and weaponized against him." |
| • | "What Edmund Burke said several centuries ago is right. The only thing for evil to triumph is when good men and women do nothing." |
| • | "Don't be frightened of bigotry... This is the United States of America. And you have to stand up and have one last point on the stage. When you say, 'Burn in hell,' you know what that means to people who are Jewish and people who are sensitive here? We burned in hell and, dammit, we're not going to hear that again." |
| • | "I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as frequently said," Mast said at the time. |
| • | "I don't think we would so lightly throw around the term 'innocent Nazi civilians' during World War II." |
| • | "I would challenge anybody [to] find me a better single word that you could use to describe the Palestinian relationship to Jews than Nazi," Mast said. "I would say Nazi is the singular word that you could use to describe how they feel about Jews." |
| • | "If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihadists, and then you don't want your country to do well, you don't want your country to be successful, you're just not going to get in, you're not getting in, you're not coming into our country." |
| • | "It's particularly ironic that he would talk about safety, in terms of his employees, and distract from the fact that he has made his stores unsafe for people to bring their own small children in who don't want to necessarily have to answer questions around, 'What is a transgender person?' or 'Mommy, why is there a book that asks if I'm a boy or a girl? I already know these things,'..." |
| • | "He is the one who made Target stores unsafe for children, for the children of his customers, for children of his employees. And yet he wants to deflect and put the blame back on his own customer base. He's basically blaming you, the customer, for his mistakes." |
| • | "I'm telling you, Hamas is a terrorist group, and whoever supports these terrorists don't belong to the United States of America, the land of the free." |
| • | These things are happening here, in America, because a foreign terrorist organization called for a "day of jihad," inciting violence across the country and overseas. |
| • | Some of those demonstrating are Americans who've never taken shelter from a barrage of terrorist rockets. |
| • | Others, though, are in America as guests. They presumably came to America to enjoy our freedoms, benefit from our economy, and escape dangers back home. |
| • | But now they are taking to the street to support foreign terrorists who murder innocent civilians and who hate America and the State of Israel. |
| • | We have one word for them: LEAVE. |
| • | The Immigration and Nationality Act prohibits entry of anyone who "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization." |
| • | That includes people who defend or support Hamas by calling for intifada, jihad, or other similar actions to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel. |
| • | Those who incite violence or endorse terrorist activity by supporting Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and attacks against Jews are in violation of the terms of their visas and should no longer be welcomed as guests of America. |
| • | And to Americans who support Hamas — think twice. It is your right to think it and even to say it, but if you act on those feelings to incite violence or provide material support, you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. |
| • | "Now, the real shame is, I've given to Columbia probably about $50 million over many years. And I'm going to suspend my giving. I'll give my giving to other organizations." |
| • | "Every casualty is a tragedy, every war is a humanitarian crisis, but we have to keep in mind the causes of the war. Israel did not start the war, the war was imposed upon Israel by the barbaric terrorism of Hamas which butchered 1400 Israelis, including babies." |
| • | "I demand that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib be prevented from participating in any classified briefing about Israel's ongoing military operations, Israel's self-defense efforts, or any American military movements in and around the region." |
| • | "We must not allow Hamas sympathizers in this body to serve as the mouthpiece for Palestinian terrorists. Rather than condemn the attacks by Hamas, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has chosen to side with Hamas by spreading misinformation." |
| • | ... it had "become clear that Congresswoman Tlaib's allegiance lies with Hamas," and that she couldn't be trusted with sensitive information that could "put American and Israeli lives at risk." |
| • | "I demand that her security clearance be revoked immediately and that she be prevented from participating in any relevant briefings." |
| • | "I don't know what's more concerning, that we have Members of Congress who are antisemites and support Hamas, or that we let those Members of Congress attend classified briefings on the war in Israel." |
| • | "You do not let the enemy know your plans, and letting Representative Tlaib into these briefings is doing exactly that. Furthermore, this anti-American, anti-Jewish sentiment from elected 'leaders' must STOP, it is dangerous!" |
| • | ... the tragedy in Israel revealed "how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed, in the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubbes." |
| • | "The same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence, were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings." |
| • | "They knew where to point the finger, at the murdered, and then it was off to ethics class." |
| • | "They don't know much of anything actually, but it doesn't deter them from having an opinion." |
| • | "They've convinced themselves Israel is the most repressive regime in history because they have no knowledge of history or even a desire to know it. And actual history doesn't come up in their intersectionality of politics and genderqueers identities class." |
| • | "... college life today is a day spa combined with North Korean re-education camp. It's a daycare center with a meal plan, except the toddlers can fire the adults." |
| • | "We write to request information regarding the potentially unlawful presence on U.S. soil of non-immigrant foreign nationals who have endorsed terrorist activity." |
| • | "... praising mass murder as 'creative' or 'valiant' and glorifying the perpetrators of such atrocities as'"martyrs' are clear endorsements of terrorism and terrorist organizations." |
| • | "If you're a visitor to our country and support Hamas' gruesome murder of innocent babies and killing people while they sleep, then you do not get to remain in America and enjoy freedoms that are antithetical to the terrorist extremists you support." |
| • | "Americans refuse to allow antisemitic terrorist sympathizers to create home-grown terrorist cells on our soil. Americans should never support terrorists over innocent people fighting for freedom from oppression." |
| • | "There is no action anyone at Penn can take to change that. I'm not asking for any actions. You have shown me who you are. My only remaining hope is that all self-respecting Jews, and all moral citizens of the world, dissociate themselves from Penn." |
| • | "I feel your firing is unnecessary, because it is wholly inadequate. If in fact the University of Pennsylvania as an institution has such a misguided moral compass that it can fail to recognize evil when it is staring us all in the face, I don't think replacing you will accomplish anything. Frankly, I don't think there is anything anyone can do to redeem the school, short of rebuilding its moral foundations from the ground up." |
| • | "Of course, most distressing to me was your first statement making vague equivalences between the intentional murder of children (and others) by terrorists and the accidental injury to children that sadly occurs when murdering terrorists hide behind children to escape justice. There is no semblance of equivalence. I must believe this equivalence was not your goal. But it clearly reads that way to me." |
| • | "When a coalition of 34 student organizations at Harvard can say that they 'hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence' and students at other elite universities blame Israel alone for the attack Hamas carried out on Israelis on Oct. 7 or even praise the massacre, something is deeply wrong at America's colleges and universities." |
| • | "Those of us who are university leaders and faculty are at fault. We may graduate our students, confer degrees that certify their qualifications as the best and brightest. But we have clearly failed to educate them. We have failed to give them the ethical foundation and moral compass to recognize the basics of humanity." |
| • | "We in the academy need to look more deeply at how it is possible that so many undergraduates, graduate students, law students and faculty at our nation's finest colleges and universities could have such moral blinders." |
| • | "At the same time, academia has become more hesitant," he wrote. "We often avoid challenging our students, avoid putting hard questions to them, avoid forcing them to articulate and justify their opinions. All opinions are equally valid, we argue. We are fearful of offending them." |
| • | "To say I am disgusted by statements of support for Hamas that we've seen in recent days is an understatement. Celebrating, excusing, or downplaying the horrific rape, torture, and murder of innocent people is the same thing as supporting violence, or even calling for it." |
| • | "Some organizations that have celebrated the unspeakable acts of terror that claimed the lives of 30 Americans and hundreds of Israeli men, women, and children currently enjoy tax-exempt status in the United States, and their statements call into question the academic or charitable missions they claim to pursue." |
| • | "University administrators, for example, have weaponized their institutions to attack speech and free inquiry as 'violence,' yet fail to condemn actual violence that threatens our way of life all while their institutions enjoy lucrative federal tax-exempt status." |
| • | "Congress and the American people will not forget on what side these institutions stood the day the largest number of Jewish people were killed since the Holocaust, and they must be held to account for their implicit, vile support of Hamas terrorists and violence against the people of Israel." |
| • | "I write to urge you to immediately deport any foreign national — including and especially any alien on a student visa — that has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks on Israel. These fifth-columnists have no place in the United States." |
| • | "Federal law is clear that any alien who 'endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization' is inadmissible and must be deported." |
| • | "Swiftly removing and permanently barring from future reentry any foreign student who signed onto or shared approvingly the anti-Semitic letter from the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee on October 7 would be a good place to start." |
| • | "The appalling explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States over the past few weeks should disturb anyone who shares American values. While American citizens may have a First Amendment right to speak disgusting vitriol if they so choose, no foreign national has a right to advocate for terrorism in the United States." |
| • | "... while terrorists were still killing Israelis in their homes, 35 Harvard student organizations wrote that they hold 'the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,' with not a single word denouncing the horrific acts by Hamas." |
| • | "The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week's massacre possible. It is shameful and has been tolerated for too long." |
| • | "If a student endorses hatred, it isn't only your right but your duty not to hire him. Do you want your clients represented by someone who condones these monstrous crimes?" |
| • | "What we are seeing at campuses across the United States is disgusting, but it speaks to a deeper long standing post-modernist rot in academia..." |
| • | "These same students probably scream about microaggressions and implicit bias, but now celebrate actual aggression based on [antisemitism] against women, children, and the elderly. At Harvard, students should be learning the university motto, truth - but in reality they are propagandizing for terrorism, and they should be denounced for their actions." |
| • | "Sadly, there are few places on earth with more vicious antisemitism and hatred of Israel than American 'elite' universities. It's disgusting, and it's dangerous. I'm particularly ashamed that student groups from my alma mater, Harvard, blamed Israel for the genocidal war that Hamas terrorists are brutally waging." |
| • | "I find the left to be just annoying. The western far left is habitually the most stupid, naive people you can imagine. They come up with these really goofy constructs and it's all about feeling good about yourself." |
| • | "Most people don't even know what they're talking about. The identity left are silly. They're not evil, they're just goofy." |
| • | "There is a certain coastal arrogance in this country, and people feel it. You got all these preachy people telling you what you should do." |
| • | "The reality is, if you've got somebody who's entered your facility with the intent to do harm, or even kill, as heavy as that is, we want to make sure that they're met with resistance." |
| • | "Team members are explicitly authorized to use deadly force to protect students, staff members, or others from what is reasonably believed to be an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury due to violence." |
| • | "Most of the time the event is over before law enforcement is able to get there. So that's kind of a critical security gap. And we just want to make sure that we have a line of defense between our students and our staff, and any one that would want to do them harm." |
| • | "I hear from parents every day that are concerned with this woke left-wing indoctrination or schools, this gender theory that continues to be thrust upon our kids. It's completely inappropriate." |
| • | "... the left has absolutely an agenda for our kids, that they are at war with our kids in the classroom. What they are doing is injecting this ideology for an end goal here. Their end goal is to absolutely break down a child's mind, break down the classroom, break down the family, and you see the results that have come from this. They want kids to turn on their parents and only listen to their leftist ideology." |
| • | "And how do you do it? You start... breaking them apart and say, listen, you're gender-fluid. Listen, you can change your pronouns.... Look at the sexual material. When the kid takes it home and their parent is outraged by it, the kids turn on their parents. This is absolutely trying to break down that family unit, so the kid is more susceptible to the most radical Marxist gender ideology we've ever seen to pit groups of people against each other. And frankly, it's to create Democrat voters." |
| • | "No parent wants to send their kids to school knowing that they could be exposed to this radical gender theory in any capacity. This woke war on our kids has to stop. We will not allow it in Oklahoma. This is the liberal insanity that every parent wants out of the classroom." |
| • | "We will not allow our kids to be part of their radical-left game for pushing ideology and furthering their end goal, which is creating social justice warriors instead of students that understand how education is a path for success for them. We will not allow it. This will stop." |
| • | See related Public School Kidnapping (Dick Wright, 07/03/2023) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Emily Drabinski's own statements speak for themselves, exposing her to be a dangerous radical hell-bent on sexualizing and indoctrinating America's kids, and using your local library to do it." |
| • | "It should be a self-evident fact that politics and pornography have no place in kids' libraries. Yet that is exactly the vision Drabinski seeks to implement." |
| • | "... there are times in this country's history where we have had a tyranny of the majority. We have now in the name of protecting against tyranny of the majority created a new tyranny of the minority." |
| • | "And I think that that's wrong. I don't think that somebody who's religious should be forced to officiate a wedding that they disagree with. I don't think somebody who is a woman who's worked really hard for her achievements should be forced to compete against a biological man in a swim competition. I don't think that somebody who's a woman that respects her bodily autonomy and dignity should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man. That's not freedom. That's oppression." |
| • | "And so I believe that we live in a country where free adults should be free to dress how they want, behave how they want and that's fine, but you don't oppress you don't become oppressive by foisting that on others, and that especially includes kids because kids aren't the same as adults." |
| • | "And so I think a lot of the frustration in the country, and if I'm being really honest that I also share, comes from that new culture of oppression where saying those things can actually get somebody punished." |
| • | "All they do on campus is throw people off of it for having thoughts that don't conform to the one true opinion." |
| • | "... a lot of teachers these days are kind of like semi-activists and they think they can reorder human society and the easiest way to do..." |
| • | "... He was at a school board meeting. And he was reading from the book that the little kids are being taught from. And it got very graphic. And so the parents in the room and the school board start to say, 'Please, please. It's a little - it's too much. We're in a school board meeting.' And he said, 'Okay, it's okay for you to read it to your children. But I can't read it here among the adults?'" |
| • | "One reason I like to watch things like that is because, okay, now I'm getting stuff firsthand. I'm not getting a New York Times report of what happened at the school board meeting. I'm seeing it." |
| • | ... a spokesperson for Montana Attorney .. called the ruling "absurd," and said the office planned to appeal. |
| • | ... the ruling was "not surprising from a judge who let the plaintiffs' attorneys put on a weeklong taxpayer-funded publicity stunt that was supposed to be a trial." |
| • | There are absolutes in this world no matter how much some people want to live in a fantasy world of their own making. |
| • | "I appreciate you being here tremendously. But here's the problem. We're here because of people like you. You're in Sacramento proposing things that pervert children." |
| • | "You may have a seat. You're not going to blackmail us. You already sent us a blackmailing letter on the previous point of order. You'll not bully us here in Chino." |
| • | See related Bark of the Beast (Antonio Branco, 10/29/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything – good or bad – that happens in their lives." |
| • | "A contrary, myopic world view based on individuals' skin color to the total exclusion of their personal choices is nothing short of racial determinism." |
| • | "What is most striking about these professors is how they continue to claim they are defenders of democracy, yet seek to use unilateral executive authority to defy the courts and, in cases like the tuition forgiveness and affirmative action, the majority of the public. They remain the privileged elite of academia, declaring their values as transcending both constitutional and democratic processes." |
| • | "In other words, they are calling for Biden to declare himself the final arbiter of what the Constitution means and to exercise unilateral executive power without congressional approval. He is to become a government unto himself." |
| • | "... why in [2017] when the best women's soccer team in the world lost to 15-year-old high school boys, how - why was that? How did that happen?" |
| • | "An average high school boys team. They lost - the best women's soccer team in the world... There is advantage. This is not trans bigotry. This is about girls and women." |
| • | "... Doing a double mastectomy on a 12-year-old girl. That's cruel. Castrating a ten-year-old boy. That's cruel. Putting them on permanent hormone therapy and puberty blockers that could prevent them from ever having children permanently changing their physiology. There's a cruelty to that for sure." |
| • | As evidence grows that America's universities are the headquarters of the left-wing cultural revolution we see unfolding in our society, many students and parents wonder how to resist the spread of ideology on campus. |
| • | My answer: when it comes to language, don't give an inch. |
| • | When faced with language policing that tries to deny reality, we need to forcefully insist on speaking the truth. |
| • | If we don't, we may soon find that we ourselves have forgotten what is true. |
| • | And when that happens (if we allow it to happen), it won't simply be our society and language that are conquered – it will also be our minds. |
Ben & Jerry’s gets 'Bud Light treatment' after claiming July 4 that US sits on ‘stolen indigenous land' (Fox 07/05/2023)
| • | "Give ALL of your property and land back to the Native Americans right now then... or shut up." |
| • | "Long overdue for the Bud Light treatment. You hate the country, fine. We won't buy your product. All good." |
| • | "I get a phone call if my kid is absent. I have to sign permission slips for everything, whether it be medicine or whether it be field trips or a syllabus." |
| • | "And for the attorney general to turn around and say that we can be involved in all that but not involved if our child decides to go by a different gender or a different name? That it's okay to keep from us?" |
| • | ... the only way to win against government overreach in your child's education is "to deprive the system of resources," and unenroll kids from government schools. |
| • | "Your child is healthier, safer and better sitting at home doing nothing rather than being in that government building and in a public school in New Jersey, or anywhere else for that matter." |
| • | "The First Amendment... forbids the state from mandating that he subscribe to or promote any official ideology." |
| • | "... If any student, regardless of gender identity or expression, sought to change their official school records or was seeking or identified as needing counseling, parents would and should be notified, just as they are informed of every other aspect of their child's activities in school..." |
| • | "It is our position that keeping parents in the dark about important issues involving their children is counterintuitive and contrary to well-established U.S. Supreme Court case law that says that parents have a constitutional right to direct and control the upbringing of their children." |
| • | ... one Democrat lawmaker suggested that his reputation had been sullied by allegedly helping Trump, to which an unbowed special counsel replied, "My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I'm perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them." |
| • | Meanwhile, the people who warned us about "the population bomb," nuclear winter, mass starvation, running out of energy, global cooling and a future so polluted that everyone would have to wear gas masks in cities, are telling us to just trust them as they are busy at work erecting a multitrillion-dollar climate change industrial complex that revolves around our planetary savior – the windmill. |
| • | The irony of all this is that today's children and teens are inheriting a living standard, a cleaner planet, and a level of goods and services and technologies and medical care that is far superior to anything anyone in history – even the richest kings and queens – had access to even 100 years ago. |
| • | We are the ones who have passively sat by as the Left turned our kids into neurotic Green New Dealers. Death to the machine. Turn the lights out. No more cars. No more flush toilets or washing machines. What's next to save the planet? Euthanasia? |
| • | That's what happens when you teach your children that they aren't inheriting the Earth, but a fiery hell. |
Female high school student scorches school district for allowing biological male student... (Fox 05/04/2023)
| • | "Firstly, the question we must address is: Why are we affirming the mental confusion of this boy and putting the safety of women in jeopardy by allowing mentally confused men to use women's spaces?" |
| • | "Why don't we ever get a say in whether or not we are comfortable with this? The truth is, we aren't, the majority of us aren't, and yet nothing has been done to protect the safety of these women." |
| • | "We were arguing [that] we're in the fight against the sexualization of our children in America and especially in New Jersey." |
| • | "And we feel that this content should not be made available to minor children, especially in the school district where our children are quickly rising. And that's what we spoke to. We spoke to the fact that these are our children, nobody else's. And we have the right to direct their upbringing and those books do not match the morals and values that I teach in my home." |
| • | "We have one chance to get this right with our children and we are their last line of defense against this agenda." |
| • | "And I say speak out. Who cares what they call you. You know your truth. You are on the right side of history. And, again, we are the last ones. We have parents, grandparents, teachers reaching out to us saying thank you. We have watched this go on in Roxbury for years. And we're disgusted, and thank you for speaking out. So speak your truth and don't be – don't let anybody silence you. This is about the kids." |
| • | "Every child goes through an identity crisis, but leaping to a permanent solution that sterilizes them for life before they could possibly consent for themselves is wrong. Plain and simple." |
| • | "I repeat my statement that any parents or doctors who do this should go to prison for life." |
| • | "When you cancel people now, you have to be prepared to be canceled later." |
| • | "Our schools will no longer be soft targets and unprotected. Most active-shooter events occur in areas of 'gun-free zones' or with minimal safety measures in place. We want to ensure our schools will not be soft targets." |
| • | "I propose that not another dime of our federal tax dollars be pumped into [soft policing organizations] until they can produce measurable outcomes of the effectiveness of what they are doing with our tax dollars." |
| • | "And as for this district attorney's office, if he is receiving one penny of federal dollars, you need to pull that funding until he starts doing his damn job and prosecuting crime." |
| • | "Don't insult my intelligence. You're trying to insult me like I'm not aware of what's going on here. I'm fully aware of what's going on here, OK? That's why I walked away from the plantation of the Democratic Party." |
| • | ... there were two solutions to the issue – transgender people could compete against members of their biological gender or begin the creation of an open category. |
| • | "What you cannot do is continue to allow more and more trans athletes to start decimating women's records – in some cases irrevocably. It's just not fair." |
| • | "Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life." |
| • | "Do you have any idea what 'fascism' means? You do know that it's a LEFTIST ideology, right? You do know that it depends on big, centralized government, right? You do know that the 'far right' actually wants very little government, right? You're so dishonest. It's disgusting." |
| • | "We're not teaching the basic terms of our democracy. Our Nation's law schools are failing this basic standard." |
| • | "I worry they're making the world a worse place. It's not a coincidence that the worst disruptions typically occur at the worst schools when it comes to one critically important metric: intellectual diversity on the faculty and in the administration." |
| • | "In 2020, harmful curriculum platforms laden with inappropriate sexual content, pseudo-gender ideologies and divisive anti-American content made its way into K-12 education. Of course parents and teachers like myself have expressed serious concern." |
| • | "Parents, community members and even taxpayers have a right to access and critique school curriculums without being smeared." |
| • | "If school districts can expend excessive funds on politicizing controversial issues, such as $1,500 an hour for liberated ethnic studies professional development or $15,000 for race consciousness training, why can't they just comply with simple public records requests from parents?" |
| • | "I don't know what they're hiding, but they're definitely hiding information. Why make it so difficult for parents to get [public records] if they don't have something to hide." |
| • | "School need to return to politically neutral zones, with curricula transparency restored and proper vetting of all books and texts. Parents see their children weaponized and adversely influenced by the constant barrage of bizarre content, it is their obligation and right to speak up and demand accountability. If schools are mired down by parental concern. Oh well, this is the hill we all die on." |
| • | "Any attempt to turn a mass murderer into a martyr is beyond disturbing. The notion that someone would try to justify this atrocity disgusts me to my core." |
| • | "March 27, 2023, was not a dual tragedy as this radical group wrote. It was a targeted attack on children attending a Christian school perpetrated by a hate-filled domestic terrorist. There is no place for accepting or justifying the actions of The Covenant School shooter." |
| • | ... DiAngelo's comments sounded like racial comments made by Dilbert creator, Scott Adams recently that caused several newspapers to pull his long-running cartoon. |
| • | "When Robin DiAngelo says it, it's inspirational and she gets paid $20k. When Scott Adams says it, it's racist and he loses his job." |
| • | "For people like Robin DiAngelo, it's always other white people who black people need to "get away from," but never her. DiAngelo is a woke Bull Connor, only instead of dogs and fire hoses, she uses the divisive and factious tenets of critical race theory to keep blacks in their place." |
| • | "I was a woke committed liberal until this game and school came into my life... seeing how KIPP exploited Latino children, and then how all the progressive politicians and organizations I sought support from didn't give this issue a time of day...that really gave me an aha moment as to who's really doing the work needed to stop the sexualization of kids." |
| • | "The Neville Chamberlain approach to aggression never ends well," said Graham, drawing a comparison between DeSantis and the British prime minister who worked during his tenure to appease Adolf Hitler. "This is an attempt by Putin to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms." |
| • | "It's dangerous for one major reason, and that is that these kinds of ideas are very controversial amongst Americans, and to have a medical world pick one side, if you will, pick one sort of approach in a very controversial ideological area just breeds mistrust." |
| • | "Ironic that a woman defending murder of the unborn would call for the murder of those defending the unborn. That's exactly what we can and should expect from the left. They have no dignity for any human life." |
| • | "Getting rid of people for the sole and shallow reason that you don't want them around has led to millions of deaths, and Jane Fonda once again shows that her so-called interest in human rights is only for people who think like her." |
| • | "What I've argued for my entire adult life is that Western culture is superior in the sense that it promotes individualism and freedom." |
| • | "The idea that freedom and reason and individualism only apply to people of certain skin colors is the actual original racist idea... |
| • | "If the person making the report feels as though they have been the victim of an incident of bias, then they have been the victim of an incident of bias. And we're going to create a database of all of these subjective, arbitrary, whimsical feelings that people have had, not anything objective or tangible at all." |
| • | "There are other countries, like our neighbors to the north, that are further along in this agenda. So it's not even a slippery slope argument. It's looking across the fence and not wanting to go there." |
| • | The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) movement has infected America's education system — from pre-school to medical school. |
| • | As a college professor, I've had a front row seat in watching the total devastation the DEISJ push has wrought on education and, ultimately, our country. |
| • | But taking back education will require more than just pushing back at woke, ideological zealots – there's a lot of money at stake – think of it as "Big Woke". DEI has rapidly evolved from relative obscurity to a thriving multibillion-dollar industry. |
| • | ... outside consulting groups provide training and certification in DEISJ ideology for schools, government agencies, corporations and other organizations. ... Clawing back money from this hungry beast won't be easy, but we must fight tooth-and-nail to do so — for the sake of our children and our nation. |
| • | Speaking as a professional educator, I can tell you that the DEISJ framework undermines academic rigor and intellectual freedom by pushing a political agenda and prioritizing identity over merit. |
| • | Furthermore, these efforts silence and exclude perspectives that oppose or even question the DEISJ narrative, encouraging groupthink and threatening the foundations of the American identity. |
| • | In short, it is destroying education and American culture. And as we learn more about its toxicity and cost, we need to be bold in turning knowledge into action. |
| • | The "Great American Pushback" against DEISJ has begun because Americans are waking-up to the fact that it's destroying our country. We need to restore unity, not division; merit, not victimhood; self-reliance, not dependency. |
| • | Cutting the funding for this poison will go a long way in returning academia to its core mission of pursuing knowledge and truth to produce a productive citizenry. |
| • | The local GOP called for Omeish's ouster, stating, "Her cruel attacks on the memory of 9/11's victims and heroes should be the last straw. They were not just incredibly tone deaf — they were vicious and, frankly, anti-American." |
| • | "To be fair, some families might actually want Omeish's 'woke' social justice worldview to inform their kids' education. That would be fine, as long as the rest of us are free to send our kids — and our kids' educational tax dollars — to schools that reflect our values, too." |
| • | "If you get rolled into an emergency room, you don't want a patient having to look up at that doctor sideways and think, 'Hmm. Is this one of those evil White devils, or is this a good doctor who's going to take care of my stab wound to the abdomen?'. This is so wrong, and it's being pushed on people." |
| • | "Having so much focus on race and bringing back the kind of focus that we fought for so many years to be gone, to look at people as individuals and their talents, their personality, their compassion – and they're wiping it away. And it's just wrong. It's criminal." |
| • | Van Fleet, who endured Zedong's Cultural Revolution before traveling to the U.S. at 26, recently argued before a Virginia school board that CRT ideology teaches our children to "loathe our history and our country," recounting her own experience emigrating from China to the U.S. where she was provided with freedoms and opportunities she had been deprived of before. |
| • | "I just want Americans to know that their privilege is to be here living in America, That is just the biggest privilege." |
| • | The board stated the university "shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement." |
| • | An employee or applicant also can't "be solicited or required to describe his or her actions in support of, or in opposition to, such beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles." |
| • | "Practices prohibited here include but are not limited to solicitations or requirements for statements of commitment to particular views on matters of contemporary political debate or social action contained on applications or qualifications for admission or employment included as criteria for analysis of an employee's career progression." |
| • | "It's a matter of indoctrination. They're going after kids' hearts minds and souls with stuff that neither the parents want, nor is it appropriate for those kids." |
| • | "Rather than teaching these kids about math, English, and science... these kids are being used and abused in order to help these people achieve some kind of sick agenda that they have." |
| • | "America's strength is not our diversity but the ideals that unify us across our differences. Merit. Free speech. Truth. Accountability..." |
| • | "The marriage of a man and a woman and their ability to raise their children is foundational to the strength of a nation." |
| • | "We believe that strengthening our families, defending parental rights and defending a natural definition of marriage are critical to achieving a strong and healthy nation." |
| • | "Growing up in the home of a married biological mother and father is the single largest predictor of success later in life." |
| • | "The MD degree from a certain set of woke med schools: half witch-doctor. This seems like a huge market opportunity for schools that boldly go anti-woke and brag about it. People concerned about quality care should avoid doctors from any institution like Columbia." |
| • | "We are ONE NATION, under God. Francis Scott Key's words ring true for every single American Citizen regardless of their skin color. James Weldon Johnson's 'Lift Your Voice' is a beautiful song, but it is not our National Anthem." |
| • | "It's really funny to this day to me that somehow not having a problem is a problem. They literally create a problem out of nowhere and create injustice out of thin air... Their oppression is that somehow we cannot catch up their ever-growing non-grammatical pronouns, and that's the biggest oppression they face." |
| • | "Inequality is a sign of progress. Inequality means you can rise, and there are other people in North Korea like me, watching my family members who are poverty, the enemies of poverty, and they don't say that." |
| • | "I think socialism is just about as bad as communism," Dutta said. "It co-opts the important decisions belonging to families and individuals." |
| • | "America is great. America's founding documents are great. And I do believe that socialism is very destructive, coming from a country which was founded as a socialist country." |
| • | One has to ask, are these genuine asylum seekers who would do anything to escape the punishing and unlawful conditions of their homeland, or tourists set to give Mayor Adams a poor Yelp review? |
| • | So where do Adams and his Democrat allies think the migrants should go? Some farm community in Idaho? The Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia? Those locales didn't sign up to be sanctuary cities, New York did. |
| • | There is an answer, and it is obvious, it's the answer any of us would say to an unruly guest in our own home, "take what we are offering or leave." |
| • | The most obvious answer, and frankly the one most likely demanded by our laws, is to deport those who refuse to accept our system and instead insist we handle their situation on their terms, not ours. |
| • | We don't get free hotel rooms, we don't get to dictate what our government provides for us, half the time we doubt we have any say at all. |
| • | This shouldn't be particularly controversial. If these young single men are truly escaping oppression then what New York is offering is a Godsend. If not, then it's time to leave. |
Ted Cruz chastises Dan Crenshaw for 'overheated rhetoric' in House speaker fight: 'Settle down' (Fox 01/06/2023)
| • | "My view is settle down. This will work out and it'll be fine. That kind of overheated rhetoric, calling people 'terrorists,' is not terribly conducive to anything resembling Republican unity. It's not conducive to having strong leadership for the next two years in the House, engaging in vitriol and personal attacks." |
| • | ... said in a recent interview that he was "worried about capitalism" because "socialism" has crushed the work ethic of Americans. |
| • | ... warned America that the success that he had as a founder of Home Depot and the success that "millions of people have earned" for themselves and their families was built on capitalism, not socialism. |
| • | "[LGBT] behaviors should never have been promoted, taught, or encouraged in the schools that you oversee." |
| • | "If any man or woman causes one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for [them] if a millstone to be put around your neck and thrown into the lake." |
| • | "Get back to reading, writing and arithmetic and quit grooming and pimping." |
| • | "To the best of my knowledge, words of God, words from the Bible have never been considered hate speech." |
| • | The Loudoun resident said since that meeting, people have been "making threats" against him online and trying to hurt his business. |
Baltimore teacher brags about 'indoctrinating' students with taxpayer money: 'Put the taxes in the bag' (Fox 12/11/2022)
| • | "We will put a stop to this nonsense in the upcoming legislative session. Schools must get back to fundamentals & stop pushing woke agendas. We will pass laws to get it done." |
| • | "It wasn't like a medical condition that you needed to be treated that was sad or serious. It was like a fun thing like you're trans now and it's celebrated and you're wonderful and you're a hero and all of that. And you know, that attention is what I was looking for." |
| • | ... is using her experience to encourage other young girls to consider their mental health before making physical alterations to their bodies. |
| • | "This muted response is yet another indication that the mainstream media are not genuinely interested in the flow of actual news, but instead are interested in the political shaping of the public sphere." |
| • | "Mainstream outlets surely don't even now believe they actually bungled the laptop story, because stifling that story ultimately served their political agenda. Activist media surely have no regrets in this matter, and they aren't going to acknowledge that this journalism of omission did a disservice to the citizenry." |
| • | "This sorry incident again shows that the noble mission of journalism has been bastardized by the establishment media." |
| • | "They know better than anybody how to spend money on Democratic candidates and undermine American education, but certainly not how to let children learn and thrive." |
| • | "We stopped trusting 'experts' when they locked our kids out of classrooms, tried to force-feed them propaganda, and proved that their political agendas were more important than our kids' wellbeing." |
| • | "They make these decisions openly. It's not even [a] secret and we all know what will be the consequences of it. The defunding of the police, allowing shoplifting, giving drugs to drug addicts, giving money to people to stop work[ing], what will be the consequences? You'll destroy society, you'll destroy the city, you'll destroy the economy... and it's already happening." |
| • | "If there is a bedrock principle in American self-governance, it is that the federal government has no place in quashing or criminalizing civic discourse." |
| • | "The strength of our democracy is dependent on the ability of all citizens to peacefully participate in public debate without fear of persecution from your agency or any other." |
Banks, asset managers should ignore calls for ESG and woke capitalism and stick to what they do best (Fox 09/27/2022)
| • | ... please resist the impulse to respond to the very loud noise in your left ear from political activists. |
| • | "Where was her outrage and condemnation of President Biden as he flew planeloads of migrants across the country and dropped them in communities in the cover of night?" |
| • | "If the mayor wants a solution to this humanitarian crisis, she should stop complaining and call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border — something the President continues failing to do." |
| • | "Defaming parents as 'extremists' for standing up for their children is right out of Merrick Garland and Randi Weingarten's playbook." |
| • | "New Jersey's parents deserve better than this NJEA slander — standing up for your children is not a political point, it is a parent's responsibility. The NJEA should be ashamed for pretending they care more about children than their parents." |
| • | See related Bark of the Beast (Antonio Branco, 10/29/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "It is unconscionable that school bureaucrats are actively seeking to undermine the relationship between a parent and their child, implying that these officials are a "safer" option compared to his or her family and codifying a practice of deliberately excluding families from significant life decisions." |
| • | "While Linn-Mar administrators may play a role in a child's life for a period of time, their presence ends when a student graduates - but meanwhile, mothers and fathers will always be there for their children, consoling them in their hour of need and picking up the pieces long past high school. Parents have clearly-established rights to be involved in decisions related to their children's welfare, and we intend to defend the rights of Linn-Mar parents to do so." |
| • | The Los Angeles Unified School District governs the educational life of 600,000 children, the majority of whom are racial minorities from poor families. |
| • | The implicit cynicism of the district's gender-ideology programming is sickening: highly educated, well-paid bureaucrats promote fashionable academic programming that will do nothing to provide a basic education for these children or help them move up the economic and social ladder. |
| • | It will only keep them trapped in a morass of confusion, fatalism, and resentment — while the bureaucrats keep collecting their paychecks. |
| • | "Dealing with an active shooter is dangerous under any circumstances. Because of this, we believe law-abiding citizens should have the right to carry firearms for protection as well as have the option to use said firearms to counter active shooters since law enforcement cannot be everywhere at once. The tragedy in Indiana showed that motivated armed citizenry are a critical part of stopping such tragedies from becoming worse than they already are." |
| • | "While there is a lot of coverage of the criminal use of firearms, there's comparatively little coverage of guns being used in self-defense despite every credible estimate showing the latter to be more common. And the normal use of guns for target shooting, hunting, competition, or recreational shooting is almost never covered even though that is how the vast majority of firearms are used by the vast majority of people in everyday life." |
| • | "Every situation is different, of course, but generally speaking if someone has the means and the training to engage an individual who's actively trying to murder as many innocent people as possible I don't see any reason why we wouldn't want them to act as quickly as possible." |
| • | "Who is she to decide what's the standard of being a real Democrat. If you look at what we do as members of Congress, we represent a district – she represents her district, I represent my district – and that's the way it should be." |
| • | "I would ask her to look up the definition of a progressive in the dictionary. It says that a progressive is one that's open to new ideas. The only thing wrong with some of these new progressives is that they're not open to the new ideas, they're only open to their ideas. And somebody down the line came up with a standard that the only standard there should be is 'you have to agree with me, and if you don't agree with me, then you're the pro-enemy' and that's what makes it so hard to work in Congress because people set these artificial standards when we ought to be looking at how do we work together." |
Webb calls out 'pop culture princess' AOC over SCOTUS impeachment push: 'Do your job' (Fox 06/27/2022)
| • | "Aren't you sick of being lectured by people who are pop culture princesses, which is what she is? She hasn't written a piece of legislation, passed a piece of legislation, yet she lectures America on how it should work. Do your job." |
Progressive San Francisco DA recalled by voters in one of nation's most liberal cities (Fox 06/08/2022)
| • | "Tonight showed that voters from every community and every walk of life, regardless of political ideology, are rejecting pro-criminal policies that are masked as criminal justice reform." |
| • | "George Gascon and Chesa Boudin's failed social experiments have destroyed communities while doing nothing to meaningfully reform the system. If LA County voters sign and return their recall petitions, Gascon will be walking the same plank in the near future." |
| • | "One of the things I'd say in response to the media is when they talk about, especially early on, about the way I did my job, I said ‘I will absolutely leave the court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours — and that was meant as a compliment really." |
| • | "We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want." |
| • | "Where's all this coming from? ... This is the Marxist global revolution – it's the Cultural Revolution – and this is what is coming into our schools. It is Marxist propaganda. It's designed to divide the kids from their parents, divide the kids from their country, divide the kids from their culture, and even in many cases, divide them from their very selves. So it is very dangerous." |
| • | "It is unconscionable for any teacher to go behind a parent's back to meddle in a child's mental, physical and emotional health." |
| • | "While us concerned parents get called domestic terrorists, it's the radical ideologues who actually threaten, harass, and intimidate parents who object to their woke agenda." |
| • | See related Bark of the Beast (Antonio Branco, 10/29/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "I mean, think of all the debates and disputes we've had over the last 50 years in our country. We worked them out by debating them. We don't work them out by the government being the arbiter. I don't want guardrails. I want you to have nothing to do with speech. You think we can't determine, you know, speech by traffickers is disinformation. Do you think the American people are so stupid they need you to tell them what the truth is? You can't even admit what the truth is with the Steele dossier. I don't trust government to figure out what the truth is. Government is largely disseminating disinformation." |
| • | "That's just false," Moms for Liberty Tiffany Justice told... "We are willing to partner with our children's schools, but we do not co-parent with the government. And every parent has the right to direct the upbringing of their children." |
| • | "There is no way that my child, or children, are any other person's child," Army of Parents co-founder Elicia Brand similarly said... "They are mine and my husband's. It is appalling what President Biden has said. We have a fundamental right to decide on the upbringing and the schooling of our children. And I am the primary person in my child's life." |
| • | "Never will there be a teacher, and administrator, or any public servant that is in charge of my child's life. And I will tell you that there are parents all over this country that will die on a hill to say that we do not co-parent with the government." |
| • | Quisha King, Senior Director with Moms for America, shared their displeasure... "Biden or any teacher for that matter, has some nerve to think that at any time of the day, I become irrelevant as a parent and that my child belongs to the state." |
| • | "This kind of thinking is exactly why some teachers and administrators believe they do not have to inform parents when there are issues going on with our children." |
| • | "We birth them, we clothe, feed and shelter them, we kiss knees when they get scraped and bruised. That's just a small part of what parents do. If a teacher, administrator, or elected official does any of this to my child, I'm calling the police, I'm not offering praise!" |
| • | "It is absolutely appalling that the President of the United States would effectively claim that the constitutional rights of parents to raise their children ends at the schoolhouse door," Fight for Schools Ian Prior told... |
| • | "It's frightening that Joe Biden is taking his talking points from failed gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and AFT President Randi Weingarten, but at least parents now know exactly where he stands - against them and their fundamental liberty right to makes decisions on the education and upbringing of their children." |
| • | See related Bark of the Beast (Antonio Branco, 10/29/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | ... there should be a bipartisan push against CRT because it is "adamantly opposed" the foundation of liberty – "free speech, equality, individuality, and the concept of merit." |
| • | "Election integrity means counting every lawful vote and prohibiting any attempt to illegally cast a vote." |
| • | "... the effective purpose of diversity, equity and inclusion is to create a political orthodoxy and enforce that political orthodoxy, which fundamentally distorts the intellectual and political life on campus." |
| • | "For Disney to come out and put a statement and say that the bill should have never passed and that they are going to actively work to repeal it, I think, one, was fundamentally dishonest, but, two, I think that crossed the line," DeSantis said... |
| • | "This state is governed by the interests of the people of the state of Florida. It is not based on the demands of California corporate executives. They do not run this state. They do not control this state." |
| • | DeSantis hit back at his critics in Hollywood, saying, "If the people who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein as exemplars and as heroes and as all that, if those are the types of people that are opposing us on parents' rights, I wear that like a badge of honor." |
| • | "They don't want to admit that they support a lot of the things that we're providing protections against. For example, they support sexualizing kids in kindergarten. They support injecting woke gender ideology into second grade classrooms... And so what they're doing with these slogans and these narratives is they are trying to camouflage their true intentions." |
| • | The Supreme Court has long held that "choices about marriage, family life, and upbringing of children are among associational rights this Court has ranked as of basic importance in our society, rights sheltered by the Fourteenth Amendment against the State's unwarranted usurpation, disregard, or disrespect." |
| • | In fact, it has declared that "parental interest in the care, custody, and control of their children is perhaps the oldest of fundamental liberty interests recognized by [the Supreme Court]." |
| • | "Don't you find the irony in that? You're exactly saying exactly what I'm telling you! You're giving it to our children! I would never give this to my children!" |
| • | "All this happened under your watch. Maybe if you spent more time reading these books instead of calculating the statistical demographics of those submitting the books, you wouldn't grooming our children. You're saying that we're embarrassing you? Well, you're embarrassing us and our kids. It's not okay! You are supposed to be giving them a safe space in school. These books? If I can't email them to you, if I can't say them, they shouldn't be in the school!" |
| • | "The actions of the Eau Claire Area School District are not only dangerous to the mental, emotional and physical health of its students, but they also violate the constitutional rights of parents to make choices about their family life and upbringing of their children." |
| • | "In Florida, our policies got to be based on the best interest of Florida citizens, not on the musing of woke corporations," the governor said... |
| • | "Unlike states who are doing everything in their power to make it harder for law-abiding citizens, Alabama is reaffirming our commitment to defending our Second Amendment rights." |
| • | "Here in Alabama, we dare defend our rights. And we will ALWAYS defend the right of Alabamians to keep and bear arms. Alabama Free. Alabama Strong." |
| • | "Under no circumstances can political or ideological activism be the primary purpose of a public university," they wrote. |
| • | Of course individual students or staff members have every right to be active in social causes. "However, in this regard the role of the university is to empower people to take action themselves — not to coerce students, faculty, or institutional units to do so." |
| • | They are objecting not because of their political views but because they are teachers: If political activism becomes "a central goal of the university," warns the open letter, inevitably "it will conflict with education and research. |
| • | The search for truth can never be subjugated to social or ideological beliefs." |
| • | "If your research on quantum computing is not perceived as promoting climate, environmental, or racial justice, will you be held accountable and your resources re-allocated?" |
| • | "A strong military is essential to preventing escalating situations like Ukraine and Afghanistan. Allowing transgender individuals to serve sends a message to our adversaries that we are more focused on social experimentation than on the defense of our nation." |
| • | ... noted that "serving in the military is not a right," so the military holds "strict ‘selective service' standards." |
| • | "In fact, many individuals with certain conditions, such as bedwetting and sleepwalking are disqualified from military service." |
| • | "They are not disqualified because they are bad people, but because these symptoms are considered mental and emotional issues that are not conducive to combat environments. Gender dysphoria is no different and should be treated the same; that it is not conducive to enhancing military performance or unit morale." |
| • | "Military recruiting needs to be focused on readiness. The military cannot afford to recruit a transgender individual who will need mental and physical attention over someone who is ready to fight from day one." |
| • | "I said, we're coming for your seats, all of them, because we are. We the parents are fed up, and we're getting these liberals off of our school board." |
| • | See related Parents (Mike Shelton, 11/05/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "... you're promoting the idea that academic freedom is the collective right of the faculty to decide which ideas are allowed on campus, not the individual right of faculty to express their own ideas. That is not what academic freedom means." |
| • | "Parents should absolutely be involved in the schools their kids attend. Politicians absolutely should not!" |
| • | "... we need to judge individuals based on their own merits, and we cannot be looking at their races or different ethnicity just to cater to meet the minority people that say, you know, we need to be giving opportunity for different races or individuals who may not even have the qualification. Everyone needs to work hard, and that's what America is." |
| • | House Bill 1134 would prohibit educators from promoting "certain concepts as part of a course of instruction" that "compel a school employee or student to adhere to certain tenets relating to the individual's sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, or political affiliation." |
| • | ... would ban educators from teaching that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin or political affiliation is superior or inferior to another, or that any individual should feel psychological distress due to their sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin or political affiliation. |
| • | It would also prohibit schools from requiring students to participate in surveys that reveal or attempt 'to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent." |
| • | If the bill is passed, parents could file complaints if teachers break any of the restrictions, which in some cases could lead to lawsuits against schools. Additionally, the bill would allow the state's secretary of education to suspend or revoke teaching licenses if educators "willfully or wantonly" violate its provisions around promoting divisive concepts... |
| • | "The overriding intent of this bill is to provide curricular transparency. As well as to empower parents by returning them the opportunity to participate in the curriculum process of selecting and approving instructional materials to be used by teachers in the classroom." |
| • | One Indiana mom, Monica Hutton, is fighting back against the lessons her ninth grade son is receiving within the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville. "If we don't get in charge, it's communism. It's here." |
| • | "It pains me to see so many young men and women who are black and locked up. But you know what else pains me even more? To see the bodies of their victims. So I'm always going to choose the side of the innocents, day and night." |
| • | "Canceling people may shut them up, but it doesn't change anyone's convictions. I'm about helping people shift their attention away from the lies of the evil one and focusing on Christ. The only way we can do that is to have a discussion. This is why I'm not for canceling even the most outrageous people like Whoopi Goldberg." |
| • | "Let her talk. Show her the same respect you want shown to your side of the political spectrum. Same thing with Joe Rogan – if the people who are screaming are all that confident that they are right, why are they so afraid of his speech?" |
| • | "If it is not stopped, voices like mine will not be quiet. I will do whatever I can to stand up against this antichrist movement." |
| • | "BLM promotes the destruction of nuclear families, they push for the sexualization of children, and this group should not be given any credibility by having their curriculum in our public school systems." |
| • | "To tell these little black boys and girls, who have been perfectly made and given power by God their creator, that they are oppressed, is disgusting and it's wrong and it needs to end right now." |
| • | "I send my child to school to be taught math, reading, writing, not another ‘R,' which is race. I don't value somebody telling me what to teach and how to teach my child about how to get along with other people." |
| • | "We're 51st in education in this state, now that they count D.C., and they go and lay out social studies standards that are not designed to fight our literacy issues, not designed to fight our math issues or writing issues. They're designed to divide kids, and it makes no sense." |
| • | "When I started to understand what it was, it frightened me because I have two children of color. I've always taught them that this is America, and whether you fail or succeed has nothing to do with the color of your skin, but everything to do with how hard you're willing to work." |
| • | "These people that are teaching this stuff are teaching kids how to be racist, really. I don't even think that ... should be part of the curriculum. Reading, writing and arithmetic should be what they're teaching, Not this kind of stuff." |
| • | "I speak now about African Americans. This is basically a level playing field that we are dealing with right here. In the freest, most prosperous, most dynamic society on the planet, that millions of people are willing to risk everything just to get into, we are birthright citizens here. The ball is in our court." |
| • | The debate over speech in this country is too often defined by people using their childishness and sense of entitlement as weapons. |
| • | That won't change until leaders are unafraid to tell them in frank terms to grow up. |
| • | The idea of non-citizen voting is absurd. If an American citizen moved to another country, would he expect to have a say in how that country is run without first becoming a citizen? Of course not. |
| • | "The mothers, the families of these victims care nothing about social justice theories. We care about restoring law and order to our city." |
| • | ... the perpetrators of this dogma of division push even further toward a dangerously erroneous conclusion: America is the worst place for Blacks and other minorities to live. |
| • | This outlook is false and dangerous — and it betrays the very principles the greatest Nation on earth was founded upon. |
| • | When we continue to search for different euphemisms to define — and therefore box in — the Black community, we overlook the simple scientific and spiritual truth that there is only one race, the human race. |
| • | Cancel me, do whatever the heck you want, but I'm always going to state the truth. And the truth today is that Black Lives Matter exploited the death of George Floyd and made millions off what they call the pain of black people. This is simply reprehensible. |
| • | What makes me especially mad is that we have had blacks like these who milked black pain for money ever since we came out of slavery. We called them trickster figures. |
| • | When Booker T. Washington wrote these words over 100 years ago, he was describing BLM: "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." |
| • | It shames me to see brothers and sisters exploiting our pain. It truly does. Let that be a dark mark on the heads of BLM. |
| • | See related Booker T. Washington (Tom Stiglich, 06/11/2021)") cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "We need radicalization out of schools, especially as children struggle with learning loss from the pandemic, and reading, writing and arithmetic back in schools." |
| • | ... America needs criminal control and, whenever possible, criminal elimination. |
| • | The time is now to arm the American people: Law-abiding citizens deserve maximum freedom to acquire guns, defend themselves against criminals and, when appropriate, erase them. |
| • | Too bad it has come to this. But here we are. |
| • | With the entire criminal-justice system in collapse, the last resort is to let Americans pack heat. The mere presence of armed citizens will deter some criminals. |
| • | The hardier weeds can be yanked out, once and for all, with sober aim and the swift infusion of lead. |
| • | This policy can be implemented with sensible precautions: Gun-permit applicants should be law-abiding, sane, and trained in firearms safety. |
| • | But within these common-sense parameters, the next step cannot happen too soon: Arm the American people! |
| • | "Whether I'm in the majority or the minority, I would always vote to reinstate the protections for the minority, It is the right thing for the country." |
| • | "I don't think that being a brute or having insensitivity or disrespect for women is anything to do with masculinity, or ever did. But I don't think that [in order] to be fair to women, we should become them." |
| • | "I don't like critical race theory. Critical race theory is a Trojan horse that has a lot of darker elements hiding inside." |
| • | "I don't like the idea of kids – Black kids, White kids, whatever – separated by race and then made to feel like one group is oppressed and the other group is not." |
| • | "... we don't make moderation decisions based on public pressure or PR considerations. An important principle for us is defending free expression, even for stuff we personally dislike or disagree with. We understand principles come at a cost." |
| • | "People already mistrust institutions, media, and each other. Knowing that dissenting views are being suppressed makes that mistrust worse. Withstanding scrutiny makes truths stronger, not weaker." |
| • | "We made a promise to writers that this is a place they can pursue what they find meaningful, without coddling or controlling. We promised we wouldn't come between them and their audiences. And we intend to keep our side of the agreement for every writer that keeps theirs." |
| • | "I respect that writers on Substack are people who like to think for themselves. They tend not to be conformists, and they have the confidence and strength of conviction not to be threatened by views that disagree with them or even disgust them. This is becoming increasingly rare." |
| • | "Who should be the arbiter of what's true and good and right? People should be allowed to decide for themselves, not have a tech executive decide for them. I wouldn't want someone to pick out my clothes for me, much less my ideas... If everyone who has ever been wrong about this pandemic were silenced, there would be no one left talking about it at all." |
| • | ... said during the hearing that he believes vaccines are effective at preventing severe COVID-19 cases. "They [vaccines] reduce the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 ... I don't think the objective of public health is coercion. I think it's education, and I think it's to allow people to make choices, so they don't feel coerced." |
| • | "If you're an elected official, whether it's a school board, whether it's, you know, all the way up to the president, you do work for your constituents." |
| • | "You work for the people that elected you. Whether I voted for you or not, you still technically work for me." |
| • | "I'm sick of people saying cops need more training. You had 18 years to teach your kids it's wrong to loot, steal, set buildings a blaze, block traffic, laser people's eyes, overturn cars, destroy buildings and attack citizens. Who failed who?" |
| • | "Hundreds of blacks shot and many killed (including children) by other blacks every week. Over a thousand Officers violently injured, some permanently, by rioters. Anarchists rioting in major cities every night, which has caused billions of dollars of destruction to private and public property. And you still think Police Officers are the problem. You are an idiot." |
| • | "It's nothing new for them. As far as I'm concerned, they're irrelevant. Most people see through their, for lack of a better term, BS. It's all about money for them. They've proven that time and time again they really don't care about Black lives. If that was the case, they would be out there protesting all shootings, not just those by police. It's silly to even give them any credit for anything, knowing what their agenda is." |
| • | "Despite the risks, these law enforcement officers continue to put their uniforms and badge on each day to protect you and me, knowing that this could be the last days of their lives. They are truly heroes." |
| • | "The author is basically saying every defendant should be released pretrial no matter the underlying charge, no matter any public safety concerns because all defendants are innocent until proven guilty." |
| • | "Focusing exclusively on the criminal and completely excluding public safety and the victim leads to horrible consequences..." |
| • | ... "bail should be based on facts, not political ideology." "Facts to consider are suspects' prior record, facts of the crime itself, public safety, victims' rights and safety, any prior failures to appear, and any bench warrants." |
| • | "... I'm responsible for my kids and I want to instill in them my values. I don't think that's up to other people." |
| • | "Allowing one party to exert complete control in the Senate with only a simple majority will only pour fuel on the fire of political whiplash and dysfunction that is tearing this nation apart." |
| • | "Contrary to what some have said, protecting the role of the minority – Democrat or Republican – has protected us from the volatile political swings that we have endured over the last 233 years." |
| • | "The fact that any company feels they can make a such a patently absurd statement like this and not immediately be condemned by all is testament to how far things have deteriorated in this great country." |
| • | "I believe that the remedy for speech we find offensive is more speech, not censorship. We should be encouraging students to be anti-fragile rather than shielding them from ideas that they might find upsetting." |
| • | "Anyone who calls to shame another human being is resorting to a substandard approach and not a humane approach to helping us increase our connection, our human connection through good communication." |
| • | "What really is effective is highly effective, you know, interpersonal connection on a human level where we're listening to one another and shaming isn't listening. Shaming is talking down to and denigrating and that won't be effective." |
| • | Dr. Marc Siegel ... was hesitant to address the recent rhetoric by outlets such as the Post, MSNBC and L.A. Times because "anybody that would make a statement like that is disqualifying themselves from serious discourse," and dismissed the polarizing columns as "insensitive and purely political." |
| • | "Whether you want to decrease your risk of ending up in a hospital, that's a personal choice. I, as a health practitioner, certainly hope you make the right choice because I don't want to have, you know, the hospital flooded, but I have the hospital flooded with smokers who are getting lung cancer and I take care of them," Siegel told... "I don't shame them." |
| • | ... personally I no more believe that a man can become a woman, or the reverse, than that Joe Biden can play for the Lakers. |
| • | But even if I'm wrong about that, gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition, and as such, it requires medical diagnosis, not self-identification by pre-teens on a Department of Education survey form. |
| • | Let children be children, not perilous pawns on the chessboard of our current culture wars. There will be time enough for that. |
| • | Let us not replace their innocence with the indoctrination of identity politics. They are children, not experiments. |
| • | If we must, in defiance of the knowledge of thousands of years, now debate the nature of gender, so be it. But if it be so, for God's sake, leave my 11-old-year out of it. |
| • | "As a school, we do not subscribe to or promote Critical Race Theory, Gender Fluidity, or the mainstream narrative surrounding Covid, all hot topics that many schools are now choosing to teach as factual rather than as the theories they are." |
| • | "Instead of teaching students what to think, we teach them how to think." |
| • | "If a person can get away with violating the law, not complying with a police officer's direction and physically resisting the officer's attempts to arrest them, what message are we sending?" |
| • | "Interactions between officers and the public will needlessly escalate because the incentive to cooperate (i.e. accountability) is entirely eliminated from the equation." |
| • | Doesn't a consultation with a caring physician sound better than a government executed vaccine mandate that comes with the threat of losing your livelihood? |
| • | "There are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers and face zero consequences." |
| • | "When you pass laws to legalize bad behavior and have prosecutors who fail to hold people accountable, this is the end result." |
| • | "We are not in politics, we are in the business of creating beautiful stories about great people that will entertain children and give them life lessons." |
| • | "To cancel children's books because they celebrate American values that 90% of Americans believe in isn't even anti-conservative bias, it's anti-American. Pure madness." |
| • | See related Facebook Free Speech Assault (Dick Wright, 05/08/2021) cartoon from Corporate picture album |
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| • | See related Hang Em’ High-Tech (Antonio Branco, 01/11/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | ... I've long been a supporter of the filibuster because it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation rather than allowing our country to ricochet wildly every two to four years back and forth between policies," Sinema told... |
| • | "When you have a system that's not working effectively — and I think most would agree the Senate is not exactly a well-oiled machine — the way to fix that is to change your behavior, not to eliminate the rules." |
| • | "I am not going to be part of blowing up this Senate of ours or basically this democracy of ours or the republic that we have," Manchin said... |
| • | "When Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out rioters on Twitter, and Chief spokesman for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani but I get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics, Twitter is an enemy to America and can't handle the truth." |
| • | See related Twitter Evolution (Gary Varvel, 01/11/2021) cartoon from Corporate picture album |
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| • | "Now that Joe Biden is about to have an all time covid case high set one year into his administration his allies are suddenly arguing cases don't matter and it's time to get back to normal for most people. Anyone with a functional brain has been arguing this since last summer." |
| • | "And then it became a mission for me to spread the awareness that there is an organization nationwide that is supporting violent offenders to get out and helping them get out of jail by bailing them out." |
| • | "They are allowing people to donate and then they're bonding out violent criminals who are repeat offenders. I mean, this is not the shoplifting a candy bar from Wal-Mart. These are people who are committing murders, aggravated assault." |
| • | "You know, I'll be honest, I don't think they give a damn about public safety, They know exactly the people that they are bailing out. They know that these individuals that are out on already multiple felony bonds and they're helping them get another one. They know that some of these are very violent individuals, and you cannot look at this with a straight face and tell me that you care about the community that you're operating in." |
| • | "I'd like for him to step down. He's not going to change his ways if he's truly interested in public safety. We'll find someone who's on the side of the victim, rather than the criminal." |
| • | "I might have opposing views, but I don't call anyone on the opposing side ‘bigots' or brainless. That is reprehensible and despicable. She shouldn't be teaching." |
| • | "Why should working people & tourists be subjected to this?" Bratton continued. "How's it fair to those who need services? Imagine the cops' frustration with no support to deal with it!" |
| • | ... Manchin said that between ongoing inflation, the national debt, "geopolitical unrest" and the COVID-19 pandemic, the bill being pushed by his fellow Democrats was too much. |
| • | "What we need to do is get our financial house in order but be able to pay for what we do and do what we pay for." |
| • | ... the relationship between and parent and their child is the "most basic human relationship that we know and it is a precious bond for a lifetime, most critical during a young girl's, a minor's, formative years. We have enough problems in the state without creating more wedges between children and their parents." |
| • | "I don't like speaking in absolutes, but it seems like it's always the people who stand for ‘inclusion' that harbor the most hate in their hearts." |
| • | "While students are being forced to go through a virtual ‘diversity' training, DEI senators are tweeting how they want to literally end the lives of humans who support the Jewish people. It's dark and severely twisted. I can't imagine how every Jewish person feels in the presence of Yasmeen." |
| • | "I think what you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions." |
| • | "And they basically want to replace it with a very militant form of leftism that would absolutely destroy this country." |
| • | "Actually, it would be 51 senators ‘setting back' a presidential agenda ... The idea that senators are obligated to serve a president's agenda undermines the principle of checks and balances." |
| • | "Noncitizens should not be allowed to vote because it is a violation of New York's state constitution, which explicitly invokes the word 'citizen,' repeatedly, in defining the qualifications for voting." |
| • | "Obviously, if the City Council believes it can ignore the state constitution on the matter of who is permitted to vote, there is no reason to believe it would not similarly ignore the Constitution regarding qualifications for holding office." |
| • | "... when noncitizens vote, it dilutes the votes of citizens. The concept that the votes of citizens count is a bedrock of constitutional democracy. Also fundamental is the concept of citizenship, to which singular allegiance to the nation and its laws is basic." |
| • | "If citizenship is eviscerated, so are our ties to the nation and to the ideal that we are a unified political community. This is why citizenship has always been a prerequisite to voting. To be a citizen is not merely to have the rights but also the obligations of being an American. Citizenship implies a commitment to the nation and its principles, which is what makes the country work, and makes us a unique national community." |
| • | The measure will allow 800,000 noncitizens to "enact laws requiring the redistribution of the wealth and property of citizens," even if they have only lived in New York for a month... |
| • | Democratic New York City Council member Kalman Yeger of Brooklyn broke ties with most vocal lawmakers in his Party to voice concerns with the legislation's constitutionality... "The City Council has no legal authority to provide something greater than state law or the state Constitution. The most unfortunate part about this whole mess is that the sponsors of this legislation know this, and they don't care, because they legislate for the press release, and they'll be gone from the Council in three weeks, well before the courts strike this down." |
| • | Republican New York state Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called the legislation "careless"... "There is nothing more important than preserving the integrity of our election system." |
| • | "The government should be working to create more trust in our elections, not less. The right to vote is a sacred right given only to United States citizens. This careless legislation dilutes the voices of American citizens and is not in line with the views of the vast majority of our city. My local colleagues and I pledge to take the city to court and challenge this legislation." |
| • | "Now we hope that governors will likewise be emboldened to continue the fight against the evil gender ideology being forced on America's children by joining Arkansas and Tennessee in banning the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors suffering from gender dysphoria." |
| • | "Not sure what was hateful about my statement. I was calling for an end to the violence being perpetrated on these children. Another example of the upside-down world of the woke left, where war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength and protecting children from sexual abuse is violence." |
| • | Tafoya argued that playing in the NFL was an act of free will. "No one pressures them," she said. "They're not forced to go into the NFL." |
| • | "I thought comparing it to the slave trade was a little rough... These guys enter willingly. They are the most well-cared-for people. Yes, they play a hard sport, and every one of them – Black, White, Latino, whoever's playing the sport – will tell you how much they love it and they're willing to do it and they make a damn good living." |
| • | "Far from being deliberately held back, all students should have the opportunity to be nurtured and challenged to fulfill their potential," the letter said. |
| • | "This is not only for their own benefit but also for society and the nation's economic competitiveness." |
| • | Former Democratic congressional candidate Christopher Hale hit back at Hasan saying, "Bob Dole fought and was paralyzed in World War II so television pundits could trash him freely after his recently deceased body was still warm." |
| • | "The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we must have an independent judiciary and judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing, protests or attempts at intimidation." |
| • | "Our dress code policy is designed to ensure we are giving Team Members a workplace and customers a shopping experience focused entirely on excellent service and high-quality food." |
| • | "We do not believe we should compromise that experience by introducing any messages on uniforms, regardless of the content, that shift the focus away from our mission." |
| • | "I'm not going out there to hurt anybody. But like, I also have the right to say whatever I want to say and say it the way I want to say it." |
| • | "Three weeks ago, it was a prop gun. Four weeks ago, nobody knew how in the world this real weapon was loaded on the set. Today, he didn't pull the trigger." |
| • | "Guns do not go off by themselves. Let us not forget this was a single-action – it was not a Colt, it was a replica ... – a single-action weapon needs to be cocked and fired. So what kind of idiots do you take us for?" |
| • | "There is just no world in which guns go off by themselves... Hutchins is still deceased. And their family is not getting an apology, they're not getting any – in my opinion – they're not getting any justice, they're not getting any answers." |
| • | "First they're going to say, ‘I didn't know. I didn't know what was going on.' Then if that doesn't work – which, by the way, it still doesn't work because you are supposed to check the weapon, you fellow – but then you have the audacity to say, ‘I didn't pull the trigger.'"... |
| • | It wasn't just Baldwin that the actor took aim at, however. He called ABC's Stephanopoulos "the poster boy for leftist propaganda." ... "Why in the world anyone would look at an interview with George as being anything enlightening or having a modicum of truth, I don't know." |
| • | "We have a group of people. I don't know if it's Biden. It might not be. But we have a group of people that are destroying our country and perhaps knowingly destroying our country." |
| • | "He's an American who has committed no crime. He contributes to society the way any other American contributes to society who is not imprisoned. |
| • | "We should have zero bias towards him whatsoever, of what school he goes to or where he wants to be educated at, because he was acquitted. He has not committed any crimes, so he is free to go where he wants to go." |
| • | "... evil degenerates like Brooks, who are a clear danger to the rest of us, are allowed to roam our streets because Democrat leftist legislators, Democrat mayors, progressive Soros-funded DAs, and judges with their heads up in the clouds and other places as well, allow them to. They want them out. They don't care about you or any other victim." |
| • | "Dear Mainstream Media — a man intentionally drove his car through a parade killing 6 and injuring 50+. It was not an ACCIDENT. Call it by its name #WaukeshaMassacre." |
| • | "And it was a domestic terror attack. Don't minimize. Please." |
| • | "It was not an ‘accident.' It was not a ‘parade crash.' The killer was not ‘fleeing a crime.' All these lies disproven by the evidence/charges. This was an intentional mass murder by a cop-hating black supremacist released by Democrats. Those are the facts. Break the narrative." |
| • | "The superintendent and the bureaucracy are doing a disservice to the students by teaching them that color is everything, that America is oppressive, and that White supremacy is everywhere." |
| • | "Last time I checked, critical race theory doesn't help kids learn how to pay the bills, pay their taxes, or pass that job interview." |
| • | See related Alligator in the Pool (Dick Wright, 07/08/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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'Experts' blasted for cautioning against use of term 'looting' to describe large-scale California thefts (Fox 11/23/2021)
| • | "'Experts.' Remember — they believe if they can control the language they control reality. Time to 'smash and grab' this garbage." |
| • | "I keep saying this to the Democratic Party. The reason why you're so toxic is because you've become the party of no common sense..." |
| • | "We're all in trouble – whether we're religious or not – when we don't have the freedom to live consistent with our faith and our beliefs, when I don't have the freedom to run my business according to my beliefs, live my life according to my beliefs." |
| • | "Schools cannot override parents when it comes to decisions about their children. ... Schools must defer to parents about what is best for their child." |
| • | "The left doesn't care if an innocent individual's freedom is at stake. They are on a mission to destroy you and the foundation of this great nation. Anyone who gets in their path is dust..." |
| • | "I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion it's lying to a child, it's abuse to a child and it's sinning against our God," Cross said at that meeting. |
| • | ... the American dream is never about obtaining material means. It is always about having the liberty to take charge of one's own destiny, including maintaining independent thinking and the freedom of speech. |
Critics slam Bloomberg News for calling Winston Churchill 'racist,' questioning how he should be viewed today (Fox 11/09/2021)
| • | "I acknowledge Churchill's colossal faults but view them alongside his colossal virtues. Why is it so difficult for others to accept that the middle ground is where truth lies about most things in life?" |
| • | "We must judge every man and woman by the standards of their times, not those of our own." |
| • | "Nothing in this country works. It takes years to repair a bridge that was built in far less time. Every big city has skyrocketing murder rates. China is about to take over the world even as we name Navy ships after pedophiles. And our reporters ask about the racism of our roads?" |
| • | "... Reality is: most legislators have never built anything... so I guess it's easier to mindlessly and haphazardly try and tear stuff down." |
| • | "People are being taught the true history, but I just have to say one more thing: It goes back to how we teach the history. We teach the good and we teach the bad of history. But what we don't do is make 7- and 10-year-olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We've been through that, and we don't need to do that again for anyone." |
| • | So you're supposed to pretend that it isn't happening. But it is, and I don't want my children affected by it, and I don't want this country's intellectual culture to be based on that one thing. It's not that the one thing isn't true. There was slavery. There was racism, and there's still some now. But for that to be the main thing that an education is about, instead of teaching people to think. I say no, I as a Black person do not need that transformation on the behalf of Black people who need help, and neither do they." |
| • | "What went wrong is stupid wokeness. ... I mean this ‘defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools, people see that. And it really has a suppressive effect on all across the country on Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something." |
| • | "What the parents of Virginia have done is send a clear message to every single person who has treated us like dirt. They are all here, all of the moms and dads. We are mama bears and papa bears and we have said loud and clear: Get your hands off of our cubs." |
| • | "You are going to lose more races if you continue to treat us like dirt and we have risen. We are loud and we are strong And we are saying very clearly, we are not going to allow you to claim our babies. None of this nonsense is going to be acceptable anymore." |
| • | "This is the book that then becomes what our children get in our school system. And you can see here, this subtle image of a militant. And this is what they are turning our children into – militants." |
| • | "They came after my son's school. They came after the idea of merit and the American dream. I came here as a four-year-old girl from India believing in the American dream." |
| • | The Chicago principles state that "it is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable or even deeply offensive." |
| • | "Although the University greatly values civility, and although all members of the University community share in the responsibility for maintaining a climate of mutual respect, concerns about civility and mutual respect can never be used as a justification for closing off discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable those ideas may be to some members of our community," the rules state, according to the University of Chicago. |
| • | "Paying illegal immigrants hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for 'damages' is a slap in the face to hardworking Americans and individuals who legally immigrated to our country." |
| • | "... as a factual matter, supporting genocidal religious zealots is not the same as disagreeing with the current President." |
| • | "... this is not about defending big oil, or defending big anything. It's about defending the ability of people in our country to be free: say what they want, think what they want, spend their money how they choose. And if we are not going to be any better than the Chinese, how do we ever expect to beat them on the world stage when we're cutting our neck when it comes to energy production while they are burning more coal, burning more oil, they're increasing their emissions and they're not showing up in Scotland." |
| • | The speaker, who introduced herself as Claire Chu, said she was glad everyone had the "freedom to speak" and said she wanted to speak out against critical race theory, claiming it teaches students to "hate each other because of their race, because of their skin color and make them identify different from others." |
| • | "No, we are all American," she said to applause. "We are all one nation, one race. Don't let them divide by the CRT." |
| • | "Rule number one is you treat all guns as though they're loaded all the time." |
| • | "Number two rule is don't point a gun at anything you're not willing to destroy." |
| • | "If I see my friend unload a gun and he shows me it's unloaded and hands me the gun, I will immediately open the action and verify that the gun is unloaded. I don't trust anyone. You verify for yourself." |
| • | "If you're not in immediate control [of the firearm], it needs to be unloaded and put away. You never, ever leave a gun lying around. I don't care if it's a movie set or any other place, that's just that's a violation of the very basic tenets of firearm safety." |
| • | "That letter and those reports were the basis for your directive. This is shameful. Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge." |
| • | "Who does God put in charge of these kids? Their parents. God gave each one of these kids... to their parents and they speak for them. They may be wrong, they may be dumb, they may be perfect in their decisions. But it's still their responsibility. It's not yours. God gave it to them. Honor their wishes, either side of the fence." |
| • | "We live in America where freedoms are held close. I am a man who believes individuals have the right to do their research and decide what is best for them and their children when it comes to their health. I don't believe governments or institutions should dictate that." |
| • | "There are many, many great Americans who were born and raised behind the Iron Curtain. It is not about where she happens to be from, it's about the views she holds." |
| • | "I will be shocked if there's Republican support for this nominee... I would hope there would be significant Democrat opposition to someone who is so hostile to free enterprise, so hostile to the idea of private banking." |
| • | "One of the worries that I have about the way that we're talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow White people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past – I don't think that's very productive – or Black people have to feel disempowered by race." |
| • | "[W]hite children and adults should absolutely feel bad about the past atrocities committed by white Americans." |
| • | "They should feel guilty. They should cringe at what their ancestors did. They should also understand that modern white power is directly related to those atrocities." |
| • | See related Critical Child Abuse (Antonio Branco, 04/22/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "... I was uncomfortable with with ideologies that discourage discourse. Because when you can't speak with the other side, the only recourse is violence [to them]." |
| • | Civil rights veteran Bob Woodson ... condemned the training... "It is the most insulting proposition that I ever heard." |
| • | "I don't know how a black person could hold their head up and sit through someone saying this about them." |
| • | "It is the height of insulting and if people do not express outrage at this insulting, demeaning, patronizing, approach of Walmart, then there's something sick about them." |
| • | Justin Danhof, a Walmart shareholder through the National Center for Public Policy Research, also condemned the training. |
| • | "As a Walmart shareholder, I really want to know how much money the company is spending to indoctrinate its employees with this racist propaganda." |
| • | "I also want to know if Walmart staffers were given an opportunity to object to this madness without fear of reprisal." |
| • | "Telling company managers - in a mandatory training - that they are guilty of ‘white supremacy thinking' is beyond insane." |
| • | "But that's the exact state of play with corporate America as more and more companies adopt racist and Marxist training programs." |
| • | "Where can I start? Well, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you're not able to say out loud and in public there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we're not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad." |
| • | "When you're not able to say the Hunter Biden laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad. When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called progress instead of segregation, the world has gone mad. There are dozens of examples." |
| • | "As a teacher, your job is to provide a proper education, not indoctrinate with your personal opinion. Teachers forfeit all their First Amendment rights when they accept employment." |
| • | Ginsburg told ... those who kneel during the anthem were showing "contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life." |
| • | "Let me tell you plainly right here and right now: I will not back down. I will not be silenced and I will not be bullied into submission. I will continue to fight for the rights of our children to receive an education that is free from sexual concepts that do not belong in the classroom." |
| • | "There's no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth." |
| • | "... the idea that our children should be taught about concepts of transgenderism and be exposed to sexually explicit materials in the classroom is abhorrent." |
| • | "Am I to believe that Black Americans, who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the civil rights movement, and now sit in the highest levels of this government, cannot figure out how to get a free ID to secure their votes? That they need to be coddled by politicians because they don't think we can figure out how to make our voices heard? Are you kidding me? The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is insulting." |
| • | "[Parents'] voices are not heard, they're considered a nuisance, and the whole effort is essentially right out of the Marxist playbook to separate parents from their kids and control kids' futures." |
| • | "These acts are disruptive and inappropriate, but democracy is not a graduate school seminar, and parents are allowed to express themselves to elected school board members. Schools should want parents invested in the well-being of their children." |
| • | "Parents absolutely should be telling their local schools what to teach. This is the very basis of representative government." |
| • | "They do this both in elections and – as protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution – while petitioning their government for redress of grievance. Telling elected officials they're wrong is democracy, not intimidation." |
| • | ... when it comes to our children, the most precious gifts God has entrusted us with, we will not be scared into silence, especially by a bunch of power-hungry elitists with a distorted view of their role in our kids' lives and education. |
| • | The only threat we pose to school boards is taking back our kids and stopping their politically driven agenda and severe overreach into our children's education through their indoctrination. |
| • | See related Alligator in the Pool (Dick Wright, 07/08/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | See related You Better Shut up! (Mike Shelton, 06/28/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | ... called for a "mass exodus" from the public school system, arguing that school systems left parents with no other choice for fighting left-wing ideas. |
| • | "I really think at this point the only thing to do is have a mass exodus from the public school system – that's it," King said. In response, she received prolonged applause, and many in the audience stood to their feet... |
| • | "With this FBI thing, it just made me realize – what else are we supposed to do? Standing up to these people doesn't seem to matter. I mean, we have – all of us – we've been at these school board meetings, we've been voicing our opinions, we're writing articles, we're emailing teachers – we're doing all that stuff. And they don't care. I'm like the only thing left to do is to just peace out." |
| • | She added that "it has to be us doing it together" in order to "really send the message that you do not have the right to indoctrinate our children." 10/7/21 |
| • | "President Biden's latest decision is part of a disturbing trend in the Democrat Party to silence parents. We should encourage family participation in our schools, not baselessly attack opposing views because leftist groups want control over curriculums." |
| • | "Parents have a fundamental right to be lawfully involved in their children's education. We should encourage family participation in our school systems, not baselessly attack opposing views because some liberal education officials and special interest groups see it as a threat to the power they want to have over what children learn in America's classrooms." |
| • | "No employee should ever cower in fear of his employer's power to silence legitimate points of view, and no society should tolerate government-sponsored autocrats violating constitutional mandates." |
| • | "If you don't like the United States of America, go back to the countries that we the f** from, and you'll see how much you appreciate the United States of America." |
| • | "They knew what this country had to offer is that you could control your own destiny. You had opportunity. And you had the number one thing which was and which is freedom." |
| • | ... said he has "made clear to the President and Democratic leaders" that it would be the "definition of fiscal insanity" to greenlight more spending despite funding shortages for social security and Medicare. |
| • | "I'm coming to you today, not as a Black man but as a human being first," said one man who opposed flying the flag at school. |
| • | "There's a difference between being victimized and having a victim mentality and that flag and what that organization represents is a victim mentality," he said to a wave of applause. |
| • | "What are we teaching our children? Communism is OK?" said another opponent. "That Black lives are better than White lives and if you don't support it you're a racist?" |
| • | "Not only do we want a traditional classical education, but we want there to be a focus on character development." |
| • | "Custom TAX THE RICH dress while at the most elitist event in the world. AOC will soon be rich with a ginormous production deal from somewhere & done with Politics, guarantee it. Stop treating ANY of these people like celebrities they are public servants and work for us." |
| • | "It's a shame," Jim Riches, whose son died at the World Trade Center, said "Are they kidding me? 3,000 people died, plus we have more people dying from the air that was down there ... They're comparing it to score points politically. The families are really [angry]. When I talk to them, when they compare it to that, they find that outrageous." |
| • | One Colorado father, Derrick Wilburn, went viral for remarks during a school board meeting last month, when he said he "can think of nothing more damaging to a society than to tell a baby born today, that she has grievances against another baby born today, simply because of what their ancestors may have done two centuries ago." |
| • | "There's simply no point in doing that to our children, and putting critical race theory into our classrooms in part does that. Putting critical theory into our classrooms is not combating racism. It's fanning the flames of what little embers are left. I encourage you to support this resolution. Let racism die the death it deserves." |
| • | "Even if it's some partisan war, if it can keep our enemy at bay one more day that's worth it – and how dare you think that you can lead troops, and stand up there and speak glowingly about the people have tried to kill us for 20 years. Just how dare you do that?" |
| • | "I firmly believe that it is time for the next generation to get off the sideline and get engaged, that if the next generation doesn't stand up and fight ... there's not going to be a country left for our children to fight for." |
| • | ... described growing up in rural Alabama and how her family instilled the values of building good character, integrity and work ethic into her everyday life. "Those are the things that I can control. Those are the things that determine your path in life. I believe in the American dream and I believe it is alive and well..." |
| • | Republican Assemblymember Mike Lawler, who represents Rockland County, where the robbery happened, slammed the governor's announcement, calling him "a coward and an awful human being" and apologizing to the families of the victims, which included two police officers and a security guard. |
| • | "Only a sociopath, such as Andrew Cuomo, would think that David Gilbert, a man who participated in a heinous attack on law-abiding citizens and law enforcement alike, deserves to be eligible for parole." |
| • | "When the book is written on Andrew Cuomo, apart from leaving office in disgrace, his legacy will be a New York that has released unrepentant cop killers, child rapists, murderers, and terrorists. My only hope is that when all is said and done, the final chapter finds him in a jail cell." |
| • | "Some people have a lot of hatred for this country and have a lot of hatred for what the United States stands for." |
| • | The state representative then said he would have asked the woman, "Where else on this planet is better than America?" |
| • | The father of three went on to say that he "can think of nothing more damaging to a society than to tell a baby born today, that she has grievances against another baby born today, simply because of what their ancestors may have done two centuries ago." |
| • | "I taught my children they were victims of three things: Their own ignorance, their own laziness and their own poor decision making. That is all." |
| • | "The prevailing narrative of racial grievance has been corrupting the instruction of American history and the humanities for many decades, but has accelerated dangerously over the past year." |
| • | "The most damaging effects of such instruction fall on lower income minority children, who are implicitly told that they are helpless victims with no power or agency to shape their own futures." |
| • | "Embedded within the achievements of American history are the tools of self-betterment and self-renewal that our country has always deployed on the journey to become a more perfect union." |
| • | "Our children deserve an authentic vision of that story, one that will help them to achieve their own human flourishing." |
| • | "All we're asking for really is accommodation for all teachers to be able to speak without being forced to speak things that they believe are untrue and that are harmful to students." |
| • | "Can I say, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was born free. I'm not waiting for [Dr. Anthony] Fauci or some bodybuilder to tell me what I can and can't do." |
| • | "As an American Express shareholder, this is deeply disturbing, Critical Race Theory trainings, such as the ones American Express subjected its employees to, are blatantly racist. Full stop." |
| • | "Furthermore, the fact that they paid an outside firm - with shareholder money mind you - to come and conduct seminars that divided American staffers by race, gender, and who they prefer as sexual partners is insane." |
| • | "The company's management must explain how spending scarce resources to divide its staff along racial lines, potentially creating a hostile work environment, possibly increases shareholder value. Furthermore, to invite a speaker like Khalil Muhammad to rail against American capitalism shows just how much socialist and even Marxist thought now permeates American businesses." |
| • | "American capitalism is the greatest engine for human prosperity ever created by man, but all this woke nonsense is a cancer. Let's hope we still have time to kill the cancer of woke before it takes down its host." |
| • | We are more alike than we are different. We are one blood. We are one human race. |
| • | "Give us the evidence, give us both sides of the argument, convince us you have considered less intrusive means to accomplish the objective. Get rid of the hypocrisy and the politics." |
| • | "The call for the defunding police is not wrong, it's absurd and ridiculous. It is absolutely an intellectual and ideological crime against Black people to talk about defunding the police." |
| • | "You cannot be employed by the state and also demand immunity from public scrutiny. That's not how open government works in America. Academic transparency is not a collective bargaining negotiation. It's a parental right." |
| • | "We need to come together, not be driven apart by these crazy people." |
| • | See related Critical Child Abuse (Antonio Branco, 04/22/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "It's the difference between securing equality of opportunity regardless of race and guaranteeing equality of outcome based on race." |
| • | "It's said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That's why we have laws on the books ... that simply forbid the 'sordid business' of 'divvying us up by race' — no matter what our intentions." |
| • | "Why do we allow the people who just want to b*tch always win?... This is called a purge. It's a mentality that belongs in Stalin's Russia." |
| • | NPR announced ... that reporters could participate in activities that advocate for "freedom and dignity of human beings" on social media and in real life. "I think stop calling it journalism. If you want to engage in activism, go ahead. But to call it journalism, it's a joke. It's not journalism. It's not reporting, it's not analyzing, it's not investigative reporting because for all of those activities, you require an open mind, you require a kind of philosophy that you follow the facts to where they lead and then you have to have that disposition of honest, impartial reporting. That's not what activism is about." |
| • | "The only end is people standing up and ignoring it or pushing back, then it'll go away immediately." |
| • | "But as long as we listen to these idiots and apologize to them, then it's never going to go away." |
| • | "Nowhere else in the world are our own citizens taught to hate their own country." |
| • | "When George Soros funded scores of elections for prosecutors who have no intention of prosecuting criminals and every intention of prosecuting police officers, he knew exactly what he was doing. He was funding a counter-revolution in the U.S." |
| • | See related Can't Breathe (Sean Delonas, 06/2020) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "People of all colors, including myself, oppose critical race theory because it's based on a lie. This country was founded on liberty and freedom. And the idea that people should be looked at by skin color is insulting to everything that America stands for..." |
| • | "We live in a dangerous time today, however, when professional journalists want to blend opinion and reporting into the same place." |
| • | "What is systemic racism? It is all the policies that are designed to prevent one demographic from excelling over another demographic in our country." |
| • | "I implore anybody to find one statute or U.S. Code or even business corporation that has policies that meet that criteria." |
| • | "We should not be focusing on activism and things like this in the schools, We need to be just focusing on the subjects and teaching them how to be critical thinkers, and not what to think." |
| • | "If you don't find it deeply disturbing that the White House is ‘flagging' internet content that they deem ‘problematic' to their Facebook allies for removal, then you are definitionally [sic] an authoritarian. No other information is needed about you to know that." |
| • | "Parents, you cannot sit this one out. Whether it's socialism or racism or pornography or sex or transgenderism, you have to get to your kids first." |
| • | "The bright red line that we cannot cross is: Do not lie. Even if you're not going to rebut and refute all of the bad ideas, at minimum, don't lie." |
| • | "Why should we listen to an actor? Is he qualified? Is he a former professor? Is he a lawyer? Why should 340 million Americans, parents, teachers, students listen to him?.." |
| • | "Hard to imagine a more delusional group of people - thinking that lying about these bills, hopping on a chartered flight, sipping beer, and skipping work is ‘sacrifice,' You guys are pathetic. Totally pathetic." |
| • | "These delinquents are doing this to kill a bill that does things like make voting hours across counties the same, There isn't a single thing in these bills that is ‘voter suppression.' This a giant charade. Texans should be furious, and vote all of these children out of office." |
| • | "I remember getting teased when I was younger in rural South Carolina and my mom would say, your job is to show them how you're similar and not how you're different," Haley said. |
| • | "They don't need to be told what label they are when they walk in the school. We need to treat kids as the opportunities they're going to be to fix America, not break them before they start." |
| • | See related Critical Child Abuse (Antonio Branco, 04/22/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "... 'I am convinced that life is 10 percent of what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.' We are in charge of our attitude." |
| • | "It is more important than the past, than education, than circumstances, than failure, than success, than any of the thing that people would say or do about this. In other words, it is character that is, it represents the principal means by which people excel and move from poverty to prosperity." |
| • | "There's nothing more fundamental, than the right of parents to pass religion to their children. And it's monstrous for the state to interfere in that by indoctrinating students into alternative belief systems." |
| • | "If we teach that somehow the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed, it was corrupt, it was racist, it's really dangerous," former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told... |
| • | "It affects the... very foundations of our country. It is called critical race theory, but in the end they are attacking the central understandings we have shared together for 245 years and are trying to divide the country" . |
NY Times blasted for defending 'pornography literacy' for first graders: 'These people are sick' (Fox 07/08/2021)
| • | "These people are sick and need to be institutionalized or incarcerated." |
| • | "Aren't people who try to teach porn to kids also sex criminals?" |
| • | "I think that America is still a pretty darn good place to live and a pretty darn good place to come to pursue your dreams, This country is built on individuals. It was never built on big government." |
| • | "I think people that really think this is a horrible country really should go spend a year in other countries where they think their utopia is and find out what socialism and communism truly is all about." |
| • | "... the president should be begging his son not to go through with this sale, even if that means threatening to banish him from the family's Thanksgiving table this fall and publicly condemning his actions." |
| • | See related Quid Pro Art Show (Antonio Branco, 06/18/2021) cartoon from General picture album |
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| • | ... notable opponent of critical race theory Chris Rufo explained ... "They're teaching concepts like white privilege, white fragility, internalized white supremacy, white guilt, spirit murder. They're teaching the idea that that even elementary school kids can be labeled as oppressors. It's a really deeply disturbing phenomenon that we're seeing all over the country." |
| • | "How about don't knock on my door. You're not my parents. You're the government. Make the vaccine available, and let people be free to choose. Why is that concept so hard for the left?" Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, reacted to the president. |
| • | "It is utterly bizarre that the same crowd who yells ‘sedition,' ‘traitor,' or ‘treason' at any Trump supporter is the same crowd that goes to insane lengths to undermine and marginalize anything that celebrates this country." |
| • | "... Leave the children enough so that they can do anything but not enough that they can do nothing." |
| • | "They're undermining our children," says Kevin McGary, an African American IT executive in California. "They are taking the position as if they have the right to propagandize them, brainwash them and then use them for radical purposes with radical ends." |
| • | See related Garbage in... (Bob Gorrell, 05/16/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "America should be celebrated, not reviled — especially by our own federal government. This report is a prime example of government waste. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund a woke agenda seeking to revise America's history." |
| • | "Education policy and curriculum should reflect the values of Indiana families while meeting the mandatory requirements set forth in law." |
| • | "The single, most effective way to ensure school accountability is for parents to engage in their children's education..." |
| • | "Parents have a fundamental right to know what is being taught in the classroom." |
| • | "In a time when many public schools districts are adopting divisive and pseudoscientific ideologies such as critical race theory, parents must have open access to the curriculum, training programs, and enrichment activities. They deserve a Parent's Bill of Rights that protects their right to conscience and their children's right to a decent education that reflects their values. This is a necessary first step." |
| • | See related Critical Child Abuse (Antonio Branco, 04/22/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "I actually couldn't believe it. I mean, first of all, burning the American flag anywhere is disgusting. To use your forum on the podium of the Olympic Games, I was like really, could someone actually think about doing that? ... I just couldn't even imagine the mindset of someone thinking that made sense." |
| • | "Critical Race Theory teaches students to label, stereotype, and demonize people based on their race, gender or sexual identity rather than judge people based on their character, We cannot fight racism with more racism." |
| • | See related Garbage in... (Bob Gorrell, 05/16/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "To me it's a whole bunch of nonsense, virtue signaling, playing off people's emotion. The only race there is the human race." |
| • | "How much we value the right of free speech is put to its severest test when the speaker is someone we disagree with most," the ACLU says on a portion of its website dedicated to free speech at universities. |
| • | "Speech that deeply offends our morality or is hostile to our way of life warrants the same constitutional protection as other speech because the right of free speech is indivisible: When we grant the government the power to suppress controversial ideas, we are all subject to censorship by the state." |
| • | "Growing up in China, all of this sounds very familiar. The Communist regime uses the same critical theory is to divide people. The only difference is that used class instead of race. This is indeed the American version of the Chinese cultural revolution." |
| • | "These are our kids and this is their education and we need to keep being able to teach them ethics, morals, and values that are shared at home, not in the schools." |
| • | "... If this continues, we will look back and be responsible for the dismantling of the greatest country in the world by reverting to teaching hate and that race is a determining factor on where your destiny lies." |
| • | "Parents, the longer that you wait and don't have your child's schools accountable, gives these guys more time to dictate what's best for your child's physical, mental, and emotional health." |
| • | "Students, you are on the front lines of these indoctrination camps. Challenge the staff when you are presented with a ludicrous statement, and do not allow anybody to tell you that you cannot accomplish anything because of your skin color, or to hate yourself because of your skin color." |
| • | "Students, it is up to you to be the next generation of victims, or victors." |
| • | "These children are the future of this country. And if you love this country, you will do anything and everything to stand up for the vulnerable population and that is our children." |
| • | "Where is your regard for our freedom of speech? When I saw a teacher express an opinion and suspended for expressing his religious beliefs, I could no longer stay silent. When did it become acceptable to be tolerant only when someone expresses a view that we agree with? When did it become appropriate to silence those that hold Christian, biblical views just because you don't? When did it become appropriate to allow the school board – I don't know who you think you are – but it is not appropriate, it is not allowable to silence, bully, or dismiss our views." |
| • | ... "first and foremost, I am a Christian. What is most important? We live in truth, not lies. We look at character, not skin color. We love our lord and we love others. Know this – We will not yield. We will not let you have our souls or the souls of our children." |
| • | "If the American flag makes her so sick, she should move to another country, where she won't have to see it." |
| • | "Should she make that decision, I hereby pledge to buy her a one-way plane ticket to whatever nation will make her happier than the United States of America." |
| • | ... told LCPS' school board that he wouldn't "affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion. It's lying to a child, it's abuse to a child, and it's sinning against our God." |
| • | "It's the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country, and I'm not supporting that because I think it would divide us more. I don't want to be in a country that's divided any further." |
| • | "Do we really want to live in an America where one party can dictate and demand everything and anything it wants, whenever it wants? I have always said, ‘If I can't go home and explain it, I can't vote for it.' And I cannot explain strictly partisan election reform or blowing up the Senate rules to expedite one party's agenda." |
| • | "With that in mind, some Democrats have again proposed eliminating the Senate filibuster rule in order to pass the For the People Act with only Democratic support. They've attempted to demonize the filibuster and conveniently ignore how it has been critical to protecting the rights of Democrats in the past." |
| • | Louisiana's stand your ground doctrine states that, "A person who is not engaged in unlawful activity and who is in a place where he or she has a right to be shall have no duty to retreat before using deadly force... and may stand his or her ground and meet force with force." |
| • | ... is it really liberal for someone who doesn't go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?" |
| • | "Especially since colleges have turned into giant luxury day care centers with overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge every student whim." |
| • | "This kind of politicizing of children should be rejected by all — Republicans, Democrats and Independents. I understand a few students wrote it, but I am disappointed with the faculty who approved this yearbook for print." |
| • | "Instead of encouraging unity and mutual respect, they opted for division and biased political rhetoric." |
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| • | "The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling." |
| • | "What are you? You liberal fools. That's right, fools. What have you been taught to do? Ruin lives, steal, distort the idea of freedom? Freedom was the American dream. The Jewish man was taught to love, honor and respect the morals of the Ten Commandments. What are you liberals teaching? Taking down Israel? You claim to be good, you're a disgrace to this planet Earth." |
| • | "Equity, as you are calling it, is a political view and it is racist, None of this despicable, political, racist nonsense should be pushed on innocent children and has absolutely no business being taught in schools." |
| • | "Until the region says unequivocally they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace." |
| • | "The time has come to admit that the approach of giving militantly secularist government schools a monopoly over publicly funded education has become a disaster." |
| • | ... "it may no longer be fair, practical or even constitutional to provide publicly funded education solely through the vehicle of state-funded schools." |
| • | On the subject of Critical Race Theory, Barr called it "Marxism substituting race for class antagonism." "It's monstrous of the state to indoctrinate students into alternate belief systems." |
| • | "I have a message for Harry, who is now attacking one of America's most sacred rights, the freedom of speech under our First Amendment. Harry, we really don't need you coming from England to give us lectures on the First Amendment." |
| • | "All that Americans will take away from Harry's outburst about the First Amendment is a posh, privileged British royal slamming their Constitution and their unalienable rights to freedom of speech and expression." |
| • | "It takes an extraordinary amount of entitled arrogance to mock the most revered building block of your adopted country's history." |
| • | "That's actually how we should be thinking of politicians. You're not giving me an opinion – I put you in office, I gave you power and you're going to do what myself and my community, the Republican base at large, [want]." |
| • | "These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn," read the text of one of Trump's orders... |
| • | "Conservatives need to make the right argument, or else they need to find another platform to express their views. I mean, Facebook. I mean, why are they so popular? Why are conservatives using Facebook? I'm not, but why are others? So we gotta fight back in the marketplace." |
| • | "Our country doesn't survive not teaching history and civics, and it sure as hell doesn't survive teaching our children to hate their country and their history." |
| • | "Hear me clearly. America is not a racist country. It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present." |
| • | ... the bill contains the "same principles that have been the foundation of the Civil Rights movement." |
| • | "It's that every individual should be treated equally under the law, that no one should be compelled to believe something just because someone else does." |
| • | "It is a preventative measure. It does not indicate that we have a rampant problem in Idaho. But we don't want to get one." |
| • | "We need to stop the tribalism and the dehumanization of each other." |
| • | "We're human beings dealing with human beings and that's not always going to be perfect or pretty." |
| • | "What I would say to those activists is, Pump your brakes and slow down. Let the justice system take its course. Let's take a look at this and find out what's happened." |
| • | "What they should be focused on is the 7-year-old who was murdered in Hickory right here in North Carolina. What they should be focused on is the 7-year-old who was murdered in Chicago last week. We are seeing murders take place across this nation at an alarming pace. These activists and politicians at the highest level are turning a blind eye." |
| • | "We certainly want to keep police brutality at bay. But the way you do that is by partnering with the police to remove those bad actors from their ranks. You don't do it by degenerating the whole bunch of officers and degenerating policing all together. If we continue to do this, I can guarantee you we will reach a day when we are going to it sorely miss the friendly police officer, his badge, nightstick and his gun and wish we had those days back." |
| • | Simon and Schuster's Chief Executive, Jonathan Karp, rejected the employees demands last week in an internal letter once the company was aware the petition was circulating. |
| • | "As a publisher in this polarized era, we have experienced outrage from both sides of the political divide and from different constituencies and groups. But we come to work each day to publish, not cancel, which is the most extreme decision a publisher can make, and one that runs counter to the very core of our mission to publish a diversity of voices and perspectives." |
| • | The only two Democrats who have vocally supported keeping the filibuster in place are Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. |
| • | "There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. The time has come to end these political games, and to usher a new era of bipartisanship where we find common ground on the major policy debates facing our nation." |
| • | "LeBron James doxes [sic] police officer who saved a teenage girl from being stabbed to death, demands officer be held accountable, sets new record for athlete stupidity." |
| • | "That cop did nothing wrong by any reasonable standard, and now someone with 50 million followers is encouraging attacks against him." |
| • | "That's on top [of] countless news organizations lying about his actions. Decent people need to speak out. Real people will get hurt by this stuff." |
| • | "She's reckless, I'd love to see her resign. I'd throw her a goodbye party." |
| • | An anonymous group of parents penned a letter objecting to Dalton's direction in January. |
| • | "Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, ‘racist cop' reenactments in science, ‘de-centering whiteness' in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class." |
| • | "Wildly inappropriate, many of these classes feel more akin to a Zoom corporate sensitivity-training than to Dalton's intellectually engaging curriculum." |
| • | "The Democrats' obsession with bringing terrorists into Americans' backyards is bizarre, misguided, and dangerous," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said after Biden made the announcement. |
| • | "I was disgusted to learn last week that a Loudoun teacher whose salary is paid for by us and our tax dollars had the gall to phone into an equity meeting and call parents racist for being against this program." |
| • | "Bigotry comes in many forms and the fact that an LCPS employee can freely use such derogatory words to describe parents is a perfect example of what's wrong with this county's decisions." |
| • | "Another perfect illustration of how Wokeism is simply Marxism with class swapped out for race." |
| • | "As always, the rules the revolutionaries demand you obey don't apply to them, whether they're the Politburo in Moscow or the leaders of BLM in Topanga Canyon." |
| • | Eight years after graduating – and still working my butt off – I have paid off a majority of my debt, and am blessed to have family support in doing so. But I still have a long way to go. |
| • | Yet I still don't expect anybody else to pay off my obligations. And certainly not average taxpayers, the vast majority of whom have not earned a college degree. |
| • | At 18, I made key decisions that I have had to live with, and they were worth it to me. But they were mine alone. I am living with them – and paying for them. I don't need anybody else to do that for me. |
| • | "We're not each other's enemies. Trying to create Black victimhood and White guilt does not lead us to a good place." |
| • | "They have lost loved ones. I don't think those Americans want to simply turn the page and let bygones be bygones. We need to get to the bottom of what happened in Wuhan and how the Chinese Communists unleashed this plague on the world and we need to hold them accountable." |
| • | "If I say cancer is bad, AOC is going to say that I'm a racist. That's everything that comes out of their mouths these days. It's ridiculous. Those CBP agents, they are there trying to do their best to take care of those children. It is absolutely insane to say that by their pointing out the fact that there is a 400-percent increase, it's somehow racist. That's absurd." |
| • | "It's outrageous and despicable. Not only did this cop-killer get paroled, but now he gets a seat at the table to help dismantle a police department. Did anybody expect him to be fair and open-minded in his review? |
| • | "The entire process has trampled on the ideals that police officers like Robert Walsh upheld. It's the ultimate disrespect to his service and sacrifice." |
| • | Trump-appointed circuit judge Amul Thapar argued in the three-judge panel's ruling that Meriwether was punished for communicating a 'hotly contested' matter of public concern. |
| • | "If professors lacked free-speech protections when teaching, a university would wield alarming power to compel ideological conformity," Thapar wrote. |
| • | "A university president could require a pacifist to declare that war is just, a civil rights icon to condemn the Freedom Riders, a believer to deny the existence of God, or a Soviet emigre to address his students as 'comrades.' That cannot be." |
| • | "It's sad that criminals... have more rights than the victims. It's really sad and scary." |
| • | "Parents: Do you want your three year-old to be a joyless social justice drone by the time he/she/they hits kindergarten? Would you like little Pat to be the puritanical scold of the playground, sucking the fun, life and variety out of every grammar school interaction? Your pals at the Washington Post have a round-up of woke books and programs for toddlers — everything you need to ensure your child will never be burdened with excess popularity." |
| • | It's always wrong to blame an entire group for anything, ever. Treat people as individuals first — that's the whole point of America. |
| • | "Let me be clear: There is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory, Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money." |
| • | "Anything for a buck, including calling the President who ended slavery racist. Way to prove why no one should ever believe a thing that's ever on your network." |
| • | "I would love to see where he's getting these case studies from because I haven't met anyone that wants their loved ones' murderer out." |
| • | ... the only explicit guarantees in America's founding documents are of "freedom and the [right to the] pursuit of happiness." |
| • | "Now we're starting to ask the government to take care of us, This has been going on for a long time, but now it's just full-blown." |
| • | "That's about a feeling. 'I feel like I'm a woman, therefore you have to enact laws that that satisfy my feelings.' I'm not trying to denigrate or blast transgender people and their feelings, but a country can't operate on feelings." |
| • | "A country can't set up laws based on feelings. They have to be based on facts, data. It has to serve the entire country. It can't be this emotional thing." |
| • | "Martin Luther King Jr. and that generation fought for that liberation ... Now we have a generation that thinks America is at a place where we can start serving people's feelings ... We're creating laws to satisfy feelings, but a government can't do that. You can't sustain a society where we're just serving people's feelings, because people's feelings are irrational." |
| • | Thompson's vote was surprising since he was a co-sponsor of the legislation along with the rest of the Democratic caucus. |
| • | But Thompson said ... his constituents weren't supportive of the election overhaul, so he stood with them rather than his colleagues. |
| • | "My constituents opposed the redistricting portion of the bill as well as the section on public finances, I always listen and vote in the interest of my constituents." |
| • | "It seems like the focus and the outcry of the Democrats in New York State have brought on so much reaction of outrage on the sexual harassment, and they have totally ignored what he has done involving the nursing home scandal, his cover-up, his disregard for their attempts to have hearings." |
| • | "That's a bit overwhelming because I don't think that was expected to come out around the same time, People are more outraged regarding the sexual claims rather than the thousands of people who passed away in nursing homes. It's unfortunate." |
| • | That's funny, the one audience they fail to mention listening to is parents. Parents of all races, ethnicities and backgrounds. |
| • | What do those parents have to say about the imagery from Dr. Seuss? We don't know, because it appears none of us have been asked. |
| • | We can't let ourselves turn into a country that's quick to blacklist everything and slow to communicate anything. |
| • | We're all uniquely created, it's unreasonable to expect that we will all think the same. Nor should we. Our country cannot continue down this path of stamping into silent submission everyone with a dissenting viewpoint. |
| • | When we continue to erase stories and silence voices, we can never hear what they have to say. |
| • | "I am in no way minimizing the horrors of slavery in our country's history. My point was that we have these social justice warriors and vapid athletes talking about slavery that transpired hundreds of years ago, which we should never forget. But we have tens of millions of people enslaved today – more so than any point in history. And we're squandering our platform by not recognizing the real atrocities that are transpiring right now." |
| • | "Meanwhile, these ignorant and pompous athletes who attempted to cancel me who in this case kick around a ball for a living kick me off the athletes' council for bringing up relevant and historical facts in my desire to illuminate misplaced focus and comparison to the current atrocities happening today." |
| • | "I'm sure I'm going to ruffle some feathers with what I'm about to say, especially given the athletes council that I'm on, but given the evolution of our quote-unquote, progressive culture where everything offends everybody, those willing to take a knee for our anthem don't care about defending half of our country and when they do so, then I don't have too much concern in also exercising my First Amendment right." |
| • | "... I also feel compelled to articulate that I'm of mixed race and representative of undoubtedly the most persecuted people in our country's history, Native Americans." |
| • | "I keep hearing how our country was founded on the backs of slaves, even though approximately only 8% of the entire population even owned slaves, Every race in the history of mankind has been enslaved by another demographic at some point time. Blacks have been enslaved. Hispanics have been enslaved. Asians most recently in our country in the freaking 20th century, have been enslaved. Natives have been enslaved. Whites have been enslaved. Shoot, I lived in Africa for two and a half years where I could purchase people, slaves, between the price of $300 and $800 per person, per head depending on their age, health and physicality." |
| • | "Where were the social justice warriors and the news journalists there to bring their ruminations to these real atrocities? And yet in all of history, only one country has fought to abolish slavery, the United States of America, where nearly 400,000 men died to fight for the abolishment of slavery underneath the same stars and bars that our athletes take a knee for. Their sacrifice is tainted with every knee that touches the ground." |
| • | Ibrahimovic, one of the biggest names in soccer... praised James for being "phenomenal at what he's doing" but he believes he should just stick to what he does best. |
| • | "Do what you're good at. Do the category you do. I play football because I'm the best at playing football. I don't do politics. If I would be a political politician, I would do politics." |
| • | "That is the first mistake people do when they become famous and they become in a certain status. Stay out of it." |
| • | "This man is no 'Professor of Peace.' He is in fact a professor of propaganda and Oberlin College holds a responsibility to fully investigate Mahallati's anti-Semitic statements and his knowledge of the 1988 Massacre in Iran." |
| • | "Mahallati has not yet accounted for his role in the cover-up of the 1988 mass extrajudicial killings of political prisoners in Iran, with estimates of 5,000-10,000 Iranians murdered by the regime." |
| • | "Oberlin College is reputed to be an elite American institution of progressive learning. But what is progressive about having on staff a tenured professor ? of 'peace' no less ? who calls Israelis 'savages' and justifies the terrorist acts of Palestinian armed groups?" |
| • | "Mahallati did this when he represented the Islamic Republic at the UN in the 1980s, when the regime funded Palestinians as proxy forces against the State of Israel and massacred thousands of political prisoners at home. The people of Iran risk their lives to protest against the Islamic Republic's sponsorship of terror groups in the Middle East. But Mr. Mahallati is on the record defending this evil. Why is he legitimized with an academic post in the US?" |
| • | "What makes the families of the victims the most upset is that he is teaching in higher education, pretending to be a peace scholar. A man who was working for a brutal Islamic regime, helping them conceal crimes and lying to the world as a diplomat, now teaches ethics and morality. This hypocrisy is too much to bear and is frankly, unacceptable." |
| • | "Mahallati has not only been allegedly involved in a cover-up of a bloody massacre, but he has evidently failed to persistently and unconditionally condemn human rights violations in Iran. The refusal to condemn cruelty to other human beings is a disqualifier for any academic role, particularly a professor of ethics and religion." |
| • | "Mahallati recalls the days of the Soviet Union, where concepts were weaponized to serve the regime's goals. Selecting a man who defended the murder of Iranian citizens and support for the 'liberation of Palestine' from the 'Zionist regime' to be the college's Professor of 'Peace' is a perversion of basic academic responsibilities. Students are 'learning' from a man who publicly covered his regime's horrific human rights abuses and promoted the movement that sought to destroy the Jewish state." |
| • | ... Cuomo's "emergency powers must be rescinded, he & his admin must be subpoenaed, and a full investigation must result in justice for our grieving families." |
| • | "It is now unambiguously clear that this governor has engaged in an intentional obstruction of justice, as outlined in Title 18, Chapter 73 of the United States Code." |
| • | "This is a necessary first step in beginning to right the criminal wrongs of this Governor and his administration." |
| • | See related Whistling Past... (Michael Ramirez, 02/03/2021) cartoon from Government picture album |
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| • | "We're not talking about a minor issue where we disagree. We're talking about people's lives. We're talking about seniors, grandfathers, grandmothers, mothers, fathers, people who never found out exactly why they lost their loved ones." |
| • | See related The Joker (Gary Varvel, 05/19/2020) cartoon from Government picture album |
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| • | "Minnesota welcomed her, housed her, fed her, educated her, empowered her, elevated her and then elected her, and ultimately when she sees the United States, she sees a racist, oppressive or torturous country. When she looks back at Somalia, it's blissful. Those are her words, not mine." |
| • | "Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors...even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views." |
| • | "I stood up and opposed [Trump's] position on the Electoral College. I did vote to seat the electors. I thought the argument was wrong. I made that argument." |
| • | "Joe Scarborough is so unhinged now and so much a hater of all Republicans and things conservative that he doesn't listen to the issues." |
| • | ... noted that Scarborough made no mention of the fact that now-Vice President Kamala Harris donated to a bail fund for Black Lives Matter rioters or a Bernie Sanders supporter carried out an assassination attempt targeting congressional Republicans in June 2017. |
| • | "Not one time have we said ... that you should impeach Kamala Harris or impeach Bernie Sanders because we're much more fair-minded people, I'll let the public decide who is right on that." |
| • | "I'm not looking to get anybody to say good things about me. What I'm looking for is to help the people I'm retained to represent. And that's what I care about." |
| • | "I just don't feel like this is a police matter. This is a parenting issue ... We're fed up with it," ... "Let's take control of our kids. All of us – whether you're a parent, a grandparent, a store owner. We can't just let this happen." |
| • | In this time of testing, conservatives must not shrink back. We need to stand up for the right of every American to be heard. |
| • | We need to stand up for the basic principles that join all Americans together — the right to speak freely, to debate openly, and to address our differences graciously without fear of being silenced or punished for dissenting views. |
| • | The powerful see in the present moment an opportunity to consolidate their control over society and to squelch dissent. |
| • | That means those who believe in the First Amendment and the fundamental principles of American liberty must now take a stand, while we still can. |
| • | See related Resist! (Antonio Branco, 07/09/2020) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the lievlihoods of Americans." |
| • | "Blacklisting is becoming a form of virtue signaling, almost a badge of honor, America's Newsroom It is getting to be like junior high school. Who are you not going to talk to?" |
| • | "PS it's not new to call people who disagree with you CULTS.. Christianity was called a cult for 300 years. Using the word CULT is the buzzword to create fear , hatred and chaos. Kinda obvi.. consider it a compliment. It means they are desperate to shut you up." |
| • | "Readiness to silence someone because of who he is or whom he associates with is often called the ‘cancel culture,' but I prefer an older term – blacklisting – whose historical associations expose the ugliness of what is going on." |
| • | "Not so long ago, publishing professionals would have been horrified to be accused of it. Today they compete to see who can proclaim his blacklist with the fiercest invective." |
| • | "We're proud to publish Mr. Hawley's book, which his original publisher has made more important than ever. We don't have to agree with everything – or anything – Mr. Hawley does. We ask only if his book is well-crafted and has something true and worthwhile to say, The answer is yes." |
| • | "The statement of the 250 ‘publishing professionals' shows that today's censors recognize no limits. I appeal to the real professionals of publishing, some of whom may be the bosses and mentors of those who signed that mindless rant: Remember that you are Americans. Americans argue, write, preach, campaign and vote. They don't blacklist." |
| • | "The first thing would be to get some of these leftist loons [to] take their boot off my neck. I don't need that, I'm supposed to be a free American with the capacity to think for myself. If my views are as horrible as they think they are, then nobody will follow them." |
| • | ... asserted that there is "no cult" of Trump supporters, but rather people who "appreciate the many" actions that President Trump made for the country such as "standing up for the sanctity of life, standing with Israel by moving an embassy into that country, and resetting the Middle East." |
| • | "I'm glad he cut taxes, deregulated for businesses so that people had the highest number of jobs among Hispanics, Blacks and women in the history of the country. I'm glad that he pushed back against China so we're not rolling over as these Communists continue to steal everything, including our information and our data and every single secret and innovation we've created." |
| • | "There are some things that even a leftist ought to be able to look at and say, 'You know what? President Trump has done some good things,' but they can't. And they're the ones who are following the cult, the cult of the left, that thinks somehow that they're always right, they're never wrong, and the rest of us are crazy." |
| • | "We're one nation under God. We're not one nation under Twitter, we're not one nation under big media and or under essential government. We're trying to have media and big tech control our lives — the government control our lives. We need to not move away from God. We need to move closer to God. They want to cancel God. They want to cancel speech, our speech. They want to cancel our culture, our history, our liberty." |
| • | "Shame, shame on the ten Republicans who joined with @SpeakerPelosi & the House Democrats in impeaching President Trump yesterday." |
| • | "After all that he has done for our country, you would turn your back & betray him so quickly? What was done yesterday only further divides our nation." |
| • | "It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal." |
| • | "Dorsey justifies this by saying the president incited violence, I'd like to be the judge of that. I can decide for myself. I want to see and hear what the president has to say." |
| • | "Do we really want a couple of billionaires who run near-monopoly businesses, dictating what we may see and hear?" |
| • | See related Jack (Gary Varvel, 10/19/2020) cartoon from Corporate picture album |
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| • | "Last week, I did not yield to pressure to exert power beyond my constitutional authority to determine the outcome of the election." |
| • | "And I will not now yield to efforts in the House of Representatives to play political games at a time so serious in the life of our nation." |
Liz Cheney faces backlash from some GOP lawmakers after backing Trump impeachment (Fox 01/13/2021)
| • | Biggs said ... "individuals who committed the crimes at the U.S. Capitol last week are solely to blame for their violent actions. |
| • | "And yet, Democrats want to blame President Trump for the violence that took place at the Capitol – a continuation of a years-long effort to undermine and overthrow the 45th President of the United States. Their partisan and spiteful actions are shameful, serving only to tear our nation further apart and shatter our Constitution." |
| • | "The decision by Harvard's administration to cower and cave to the woke Left will continue to erode diversity of thought, The Ivory Tower's march toward a monoculture of like-minded, intolerant liberal views demonstrates the sneering disdain for everyday Americans and will instill a culture of fear for students." |
| • | "Really sad," Cruz wrote ... "At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden's choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing. This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart." |
| • | Hawley fired back with his own statement. "President-elect Biden has just compared me and another Republican Senator to Nazis. You read that correctly. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. Because I raised questions in the format prescribed by the laws of the United States about the way elections were conducted in the state of Pennsylvania, just as Democrats did about other states in 2001, 2005, and 2017, he is calling me a Nazi." |
| • | "He should act like a dignified adult and retract these sick comments. And every Democrat member of congress should be asked to disavow these disgusting comments." |
| • | "He can celebrate that Trump is leaving office all he wants. But it is the height of hypocrisy for those in the media to condemn others for violent acts that are dwarfed in comparison to the consistent violence of the far-left — one act doesn't justify the other — and then go out and call for something like a 'cleansing' of people and think there's nothing wrong with a statement like that." |
| • | "If we are the party of personal responsibility, we need to take personal responsibility, We can and should talk about our major differences. But we must stop turning the American people against each other – and this Republican Party must lead the way." |
| • | "We need to speak out with more conviction than ever before. We must proudly declare that America is the freest, fairest, and most just country the world has ever known. Our fellow citizens still believe it, even if the left has forgotten." |
| • | For four years now, we have scolded liberals who claimed repeatedly that President Trump is an authoritarian who would make democracy die in darkness. |
| • | But the riot of Trump supporters at this late date, deluded with the bizarre notion that Trump won in a landslide, suddenly falsifies our critique. |
| • | Democracy was under siege by people wearing Trump hats and waving American (and Confederate) flags. |
| • | Millions of Americans sincerely believe the last election was fake. You can dismiss them as crazy. You can call them conspiracy theorists. You can kick them off Twitter. But that won't change their minds. |
| • | Rather than trying to change their minds, to convince them and reassure them that the system is real, that democracy works — which you would do if you cared about the country or the people who live here — our new leaders will try to silence them. |
| • | What happened Wednesday will be used by the people taking power to justify stripping you of the rights you were born with as an American: Your right to speak without being censored, your right to assemble, to not be spied upon, to make a living, and to defend your family. |
| • | These are the most basic and ancient freedoms that we have. They're why we live here in the first place. They're why we're proud to be Americans. They're what make us different, and they're all now in peril. |
| • | When thousands of your countrymen storm the Capitol building, you don't have to like it. We don't. You can be horrified by the violence, and we are. |
| • | But if you don't bother to pause and learn a single thing from your citizens storming your Capitol building, then you're a fool, you lack wisdom and self-awareness, and you have no place running a country. We got to this sad, chaotic day for a reason. |
| • | "First of all, I don't hear the Democrats making such outrageous claims when they were the ones who were objecting during the electoral college certification in 2004 and 2016. Democrats have done this for years to raise concerns about election integrity," Hawley said... |
| • | "Now when Republicans and 74 million Americans have concerns about election integrity, we are supposed to sit down and shut up? Somebody has to stand up here." |
| • | "We have no congressional investigation of the fraud, We need it. We've had no congressional action. We need that to protect our elections going forward. I will make all these points and try to force a debate about all of these points." |
| • | The actor said it is a deliberate choice of his not to take one side or the other in public. "Who the hell cares what I think? I'm not an expert — what am I qualified to talk about?" |
| • | In a 2016 interview ... when Gibson was asked about the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, he remarked simply: "How is it going to play out? — One of them is going to win." |
| • | "Liberal elites have been conquered by the ‘woke.' They demand freedom, but want to silence & control anyone who disagrees with them." |
| • | "They demand equality, but want to build a new society based on discrimination. They are set on using the full force of govt to achieve their vision." |
| • | "The left is forcing its anti-American worldview into classrooms. It's taking over corp boardrooms, pushing businesses to make decisions based on politics & not what's best for consumers & communities.Big Tech is censoring conservative voices & forcing its leftist views on society." |
| • | "With Biden as Pres, we should all be worried about the woke left. They will stifle free speech in the name of ‘freedom' & enact discriminatory policies in pursuit of ‘equality' & do it with a vision that has no resemblance to the America we know & love." |
| • | Former President Barack Obama last year cautioned young people about the dangers of a woke mindset that sets a purity test for others. |
| • | "This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws." |
| • | See related Head Honcho (Antonio Branco, 09/01/2020) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "Of all of the countries in the world, our country put so much against this utopic socialistic idea that it's crazy for me to see how quickly we made the turn to the left." |
| • | "It's just strange to me how quickly these ideas can [take hold] especially for young people." |
| • | "A lot of those kids [say], 'I'm Marxists.' I'm like, 'Are you kidding me? Do you even know what it means?'"... |
‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei hopes Marco Rubio suffers allergic reaction to coronavirus vaccine (Fox 12/21/2020)
| • | "This is psychotic. We want everyone to take this vaccine and be in good health, especially those who are setting the right example by getting it. That includes @marcorubio. Seriously, seek help because this is not a normal reaction to seeing someone get a vaccine." |
| • | "You can strongly disagree with someones policies without wishing them a painful death. It's actually even more effective in convincing the world that your argument is stronger." |
| • | "My ancestors experienced white supremacy by being slaughtered." a Jewish parent told... "The idea that being white automatically means you are privileged or a white supremacist is ridiculous. My child comes from people who had to fight for everything they got. |
| • | "It's completely absurd and a total step backwards. This supposed anti-racist agenda is asking everyone to look at black kids and treat them differently because of the color of their skin." |
| • | "The school is more focused on virtue-signaling this nonsense than it is in actually helping students of color. More parents are going to be pulling their kids out." |
| • | "This isn't just Dalton, but one of the most extreme examples, There's a rituatualistic self-abasement these private schools feel they have to subject themselves to." |
| • | "BTW, the right word for those who fleece & scam working families is actually ‘socialist,'" Rubio shot back. |
| • | "My reasons for opposing student loan forgiveness are not a secret. I've written at length on this page about the fundamental unfairness of doing such a thing — especially to the millions of Americans who have paid their college debts, and sacrificed much to do so." |
| • | "I've also said that forgiving student debt would send a terrible message to the very same universities that already gouge their customers with sky-high tuition. Tuition will never come back to earth if we bail out those who borrowed more than they could repay." |
| • | "I pity every young man and woman who is struggling today under the yoke of a crushing student loan. I sincerely do. You were quite possibly sold a bill of goods. You were very likely pressured by your friends, your parents, or your guidance counselor, to attend the 'right' school." |
| • | "... But that's not my fault. Nor is it the fault of the American people. The fault belongs to you, and so does the debt." |
| • | "Abraham Lincoln... George Washington... even Diane friggin' Feinstein: NONE are woke enough for the America-hating radical Left." tweeted Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. |
| • | "This will never stop, until Americans say 'ENOUGH!!' and call it out for the ignorant nonsense that it is." |
| • | "Identity politics is having an incredibly destructive effect on our country rather than recognizing what connects all Americans." |
| • | "It's being done to help people and parties get in power and stay in power by pitting individual Americans against each other." |
| • | "It's the height of hypocrisy for someone who claims to be an advocate for women's rights to also simultaneously to deny the biological existence of women. How can someone claim to be a champion of women while denying our very existence?" |
| • | "I will point again to what I said about identity politics, The word ‘diversity' gets tossed around a lot. You want to have people in our government who are best suited to serving the American people. There's a lot of criticism about the people Biden is choosing. Maybe don't have everyone coming in from the elite world of Washington. How about having some diversity in the actual qualifications you bring to the job?" |
| • | "Whether it be Antifa, a terrorist group, whether it be, BLM, a terrorist group, I tell you one thing they have in common with the KKK: They're cowards and bullies." |
| • | "They hide their face. They go out every single night. They do it in gangs. Their goal is to destroy things, to intimidate people, to hurt people and to do all the things that are totally against the American way." |
| • | "Unlike many communities who are grappling with icons of the past, VMI has direct ties to many of the historical figures that are the subject of the current unrest. Stonewall Jackson was a professor at VMI, a West Point graduate who served in combat in the Mexican War, a military genius, a staunch Christian, and yes, a Confederate general"... |
| • | "It is the Democratic Party's power quest that has caused this entire thing. They are vilifying history. They are trying to do away with history." |
| • | "This EXPLOSIVE fraud is ORGANIZED." |
| • | "People do not spontaneously conceal cases of ballots in a counting room to be counted later in secret." |
| • | "It requires money, logistics & leadership – like Stacey Abrams' group that's already under investigation." |
| • | "Who's running this operation?" |
| • | "Work more, tweet less & one day you too can make a difference," Rubio advised Ocasio-Cortez, whose online savvy has been credited with helping her attract national media attention despite being a first-term lawmaker. |
| • | "This is wrong," wrote Kasey Lovett, press secretary for HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson. "I was a waitress for 5+ years throughout high school and college. I am a Republican and I cried in walk-in fridges just like you. The difference between us? I don't expect the gvt to provide for me. I make my own $ and provide for myself." |
| • | "What's crazy is Jeremiah Wright saying that America got what it deserved on 9/11, that America created the HIV virus to attack its citizens, and that God should damn America," Loeffler campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson said of Obama's remarks. |
| • | "But what's even crazier? Raphael Warnock celebrating the same man and standing by those comments." |
| • | "This type of complaint from a random political hack literally NEVER leads to disbarment or even sanctions, at least in California." |
| • | "He isn't a client; he isn't injured; and the lawyers zealously represented clients. Pascrell's is just a nasty and impotent spasm of hate & thuggery." |
| • | "I remember you. You were the one glaring at Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his hearings. You were the one that called conservatives every name in the book and didn't sensor your words in the least. No way you'd be offering an olive branch had your party lost ... How about NO." |
| • | "This has to be another sick joke what has happened to you? four years of the most insane sick tweets about our @POTUS and anyone who stands with him now you have been cured? we the normal and descent will ask just 1 question this time next year what has SLEEPY done for you?" |
| • | "Andrew Cuomo deserves to be on trial for the elderly people his nursing home order directly murdered. Instead, he's getting an Emmy." |
| • | See related The Joker (Gary Varvel, 05/19/2020) cartoon from Government picture album |
| • | See related Flattened the Curve... (Mike Shelton, 09/11/2020) cartoon from Government picture album |
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| • | "Here's a radical proposition — elections are decided when the results have been counted and the legal proceedings are over. That didn't use to be a controversial proposition," Cruz summarized. |
| • | "We're supposed to believe that our intelligence agencies can track and take out an Iranian terrorist (Soleimani) overnight but they can't manage to get to the root of ANTIFA and black lives matter — well-funded domestic terrorist cells that have been operating unchecked for YEARS." |
Progressives furious over Supreme Court Justice Alito comments (Fox 11/13/2020)
| • | "Let's go back to some basics: the Supreme Court was created by the Constitution, not by Congress, and under the Constitution we exercise the judicial power of the United States." |
| • | "Congress has no right to interfere with that work anymore than we have the right to legislate." |
| • | "It is something progressives have done for a long time, disgracing the memory of those who have passed in the Holocaust in order to make a false accusation against the United States president." |
| • | "It seems the only time many people care about anti-Semitism is when they can use it to their political advantage." |
| • | "Barack Obama became the president of the United States because White Americans supported him. And rather than show some unity, rather than show some respect for this country that gave him literally everything he has, he turns his back ... and says, ‘Look at this despicable country. It's broken.'" |
| • | "He is the first president that has ever sat in the White House and come out ... hating America." |
| • | "Do you think that [Democrats] could have the humility to pause for a second and say, ‘You know what? Maybe it's not because every single person in America is a racist,'" |
| • | "People are standing behind Donald J. Trump because he is an effective and good leader who tells the truth and doesn't ... run on identity politics." |
| • | See related Miss Me? (Glenn McCoy, 02/28/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "This system, the Senate, this so unique body in the world. It was made to work together in a bipartisan way." |
| • | "And once you start breaking down those barriers, then you lose every reason that we are the institution that we are, the most deliberate body. So I want to lay those fears to rest that that won't happen because I will not be the 50th Democrat voting to end that filibuster or to basically stack the court." |
| • | "Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I'm a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans' jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police." |
| • | "Let's not have any lectures, no lectures, about how the president should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election and who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate too if they lost again – only if they lost." |
| • | "The people who push this hysteria could not have any more egg on their faces than they do right now." |
| • | "The president has every right to look into allegations and to request recounts under the law and, notably, the Constitution gives no role in this process to wealthy media corporations." |
| • | "The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the president of the United States." |
| • | Why would any Supervisors of Election reject efforts to promote transparency? If they have nothing to hide, stop hiding. |
| • | "Normal relations meaning the president spins, obfuscates, and misleads and journalists fall for it because they have a jovial relationship with him, like they did repeatedly under Obama and Bush? No thanks!" |
| • | "This will happen without doubt. The press corps will go back to being well-behaved, deferential and sleepy, tapping into the extensive practice they had doing this in the 16 years before Trump. With Biden in office, the media will be the first to take post-brunch naps." |
| • | See related Evening\\\'s Top Story (Jake Fuller, 10/2019)") cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | See related Mount Surigaffle (Antonio Branco, 07/02/2020) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | "What on earth is Governor Cuomo talking about? This is great news and everyone - Republicans and Democrats and apolitical folks - should all be jointly thrilled about the possibility of an effective vaccine," Sasse said. |
| • | "After this nasty virus has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and put millions out of work, it is beyond disgusting that Governor Cuomo would use a glimmer of hope for another worn-out ‘Trump is bad' talking point. When we get a vaccine, we're going to need all hands on deck distributing it as fast as possible - shamelessly politicizing this is dangerous and stupid." |
| • | Thousands of nursing home patients died in their facilities after the directive had been issued, but Cuomo has so far failed to release statistics of patients who were infected with coronavirus while at their facilities who then died in hospitals. |
| • | See related The Joker (Gary Varvel, 05/19/2020) cartoon from Government picture album |
| • | See related Flattened the Curve... (Mike Shelton, 09/11/2020) cartoon from Government picture album |
| • | "A member of Biden's new coronavirus task force is a lockdown enthusiast who has written that living past 75 isn't worth it," Cotton wrote... "Americans want our country opened up, not creepy bioethicists who enjoy playing God." |
| • | "We have a series of localized affidavits and allegations of intentional fraud. ... These initial allegations may or may not be indicative of a more systemic problem. Let's find out." |
| • | "Every legally cast vote should be counted. Every illegally cast vote should not." |
| • | "This should not be controversial. This is not a partisan statement — free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy." |
| • | "The loud guy always looks like the bad guy. REAL bad guys are stealth and as you've heard a million times about killers 'He seemed like such a nice guy. He was very quiet,'" |
| • | "While strong opinions and tremendous passion characterized this US election, it is the responsibility of each of us to respect the democratic process, and ultimately, the outcome." |
| • | "We must have faith in our electoral and judicial systems and have the patience and fortitude to await the final determination." |
| • | "While I have a deep and abiding faith in the United States of America, we do not have a divine right to success. Let us all do what we can to strengthen our exceptional union." |
| • | "The peaceful and stable transition of power - whether it is to the second administration of a president or a new one - is a hallmark of America's 244-year history as an independent nation." |
| • | "Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear, and why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?" |
| • | Often associated with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, originalism refers to the judicial philosophy that laws should be interpreted as they were written. |
| • | "In English, that means that I interpret the Constitution as a law, that I interpret its text as text, and I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it," Barrett said. |
| • | "So that meaning doesn't change over time and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it." |
| • | "@JoeBiden Where have you been for 47 years? America is the greatest nation in the world. We stand for freedom and opportunity for all. Our nation is filled with strong, innovative and hard-working individuals who love this nation & don't want to fundamentally transform it," Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp wrote. |
| • | "47 years, 0 accomplishments. Americans deserve better than your apology tour," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., tweeted. |
| • | "When my father lay wounded on a beach in the Pacific defending his country in World War II, America more than lived up to her promise. When Americans walked on the moon, we were the brightest star in the firmament. If you weren't owned by China, you might love this country, too," actor James Woods scolded the former VP. |
| • | "'We've never lived up to it'? Speak for yourself, man!" Center for American Liberty founder and trial lawyer Harmeet Dhillon exclaimed. "This immigrant is so grateful to be an American — and I never diss her or take her for granted." |
| • | "When state and local leaders impede their own law enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest," Attorney General Bill Barr said... |
| • | "We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance." |
| • | "It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens." |
| • | "My administration will not allow federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones," Trump wrote... |
| • | "You know, I wake up every day and thank God that I did. I go to bed every night praying I'm gonna wake up." |
| • | "Someone told me — I think this is good advice, may be helpful — the only thing that any of us are certain of is right now, today. That's why I thank God every morning when I wake up." |
| • | "I thank God that I did. I try to make it the best day I can no matter what. I don't look too far ahead. I certainly don't look too far back." |
| • | "They really think they're that important. They really think we're walking around going, ‘Wait, what? Springsteen's going to leave? And Tommy Lee? Oh, I'm changing my vote!'" |
| • | ... said there's no way Springsteen, Lee, or any celebrities who have vowed to flee in the past would ever follow through with it. |
| • | "We knew these celebrities were self-centered. We knew they were stupid. We just didn't know how cowardly they were. With Springsteen saying this, I guess it gives new meaning to ‘Born to Run.'" |
| • | "When celebrities declare they're going to leave, we should have some new kind of candyman law. Meaning, if you declare it three times, you have to leave. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya." |
| • | See related Don't Have the Addresses... (Mike Lester, 12/21/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | See related Celebrity Exit (Michael Ramirez, 11/16/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "And I said ‘all lives matter, every single one', because I meant it. Do the lives of Black people matter? Hell yeah, the lives of Black people matter." |
| • | "Do I make mistakes? Yeah, I make mistakes and if I make a mistake, I try to say that I'm sorry. But I'm not sorry for saying ‘all lives matter, every single one.' I'm not sorry because I believe that every life is important. I'm not sorry because I believe in equality for all. I'm not sorry because I try to treat everyone, regardless of the color of their skin, the same." |
| • | "This is a third arm of the DNC. The radical left movement — and that's the biggest problem our country has. It's not with the right. It's with the left. The radical left is the biggest — Antifa and that scum — is the thing that's hurting our country." |
| • | "With China, Russia, Cuba & Venezuela as members, the Council makes a mockery of its intended purpose and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." |
| • | President Trump took to Twitter on Monday and posted, "The Radical Left fools in Portland don't want any help from real Law Enforcement which we will provide instantaneously. Vote!" |
| • | "Courts have a vital responsibility to enforce the rule of law, which is critical to a free society." |
| • | "But courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life." |
| • | "Courts are not arenas for politics. You are not there to decide cases as you may prefer," Barrett says... "You are there to do your duty and to follow the law wherever it may take you." |
| • | "No big deal. Just The New York Times openly wondering if (read: rooting for) Trump should QUIT the election and thus preemptively concede to Joe Biden." |
| • | "And yet, the national press don't want to be called the enemy of the people." |
| • | "... I was confused why [debate moderator] Chris Wallace would ask the president about the Proud Boys. ‘Cuz I've never seen the Proud Boys break any windows, assault any police officer, kill anyone. Never seen them destroy a business, try to intimidate anyone, destroy a restaurant, but I have seen BLM and Antifa do that." |
| • | "When you bail an 'idea' out of jail, do you do it with Monopoly money?" |
| • | After Joe Biden called Antifa an "idea, not an organization" at the first presidential debate, Dave Rubin shared his firsthand experience with the far-left group's violent protests at his events on "Fox & Friends." "An idea doesn't burn down buildings. An idea doesn't throw Molotov cocktails at people. An idea doesn't assault people on the street. People do that." |
| • | "... when you start to say that you're against them because their religion, in this case, their Roman Catholicism determines their point of view. you're doing something really abhorrent that I think is bigoted, is un-American, and incidentally, is unconstitutional." |
| • | ... emphasized that "Article VI of the Constitution says that you can't apply a religious test for any office of public trust in America. That's how wise and fair the people who wrote the Constitution were." |
| • | "There's no reason why a religiously observant person should be accused more of dogma than somebody who is particularly ideological in a secular way." 9/25/20 |
| • | "Certainly there was no legitimacy to continuing [the Russia investigation] any time past January 2017, because in early October 2016 ... they had information that the sub-source might have ties to Russian intelligence, could have been a former KGB officer." |
| • | "So the FBI was well aware of how unreliable the Steele dossier was, and yet in March of 2018, the FBI briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee and still claimed that the Steele dossier was reliable." |
| • | "So, no, [the Russia investigation] should have been shut down by the end of January [2017]. We never should have had a special counsel." |
| • | "When you take a look at that 15-page interview memo just released by Attorney General Barr, what you will find out is the lawyers running the special counsel operation had their predetermined outcome." |
| • | "Basically you have the court approvals already predetermined and have the FBI agents as the lackeys to go do the bidding of [the] special counsel..." |
| • | "Every infant born alive, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has the same dignity and the same rights as every other individual and is entitled to the same protections under federal law." |
| • | "Regarding today's statements at the press conference, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but prosecutors and Grand Jury members are bound by the facts and by the law." |
| • | "These ANTIFA and BLM people, especially the ones who just jumped on the bandwagon ‘yesterday' because they became ‘woke' (insert eye roll here), do not deserve a second glance or thought from us. Our little pinky toenails have more character, morals, and ethics, than these punks have in their entire body." |
| • | "Do not stoop to their level. Do not respond to them. If we do, we only validate what they did. Don't make them important, because they are not. They will be the ones washing our cars, cashing us out at the Walmart, or living in their parents' basement playing COD [Call of Duty] for their entire life." |
| • | ... Trump said Biden has a "tremendous" advantage in the debates because he's been in politics for so many years. |
| • | TRUMP VISITS SUPREME COURT TO PAY RESPECTS TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG, PROTESTS HEARD OUTSIDE "No, I think I'm the one without experience. I've just been doing this for a few years, he's been doing it for 47 years-plus." |
| • | Graham added... "Democrats chose to set in motion rules changes to stack the court at the Circuit level and they chose to try to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's life to keep the Supreme Court seat open. You reap what you sow." |
| • | See related Who Are You Voting for? (Glenn McCoy, 08/03/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Joe Biden is expecting people to vote for him without knowing who he'll put on the Supreme Court. That should scare every single American." |
| • | See related Who Are You Voting for? (Glenn McCoy, 08/03/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "This is MY opinion. I am sharing it with you at the cost of everything, because it is my right. It is your right to refute it. What I hope comes from this, is that we are able to have an open dialogue." |
| • | "There are so many in our great country who have been bullied into silence at the doing of a far left mob." |
| • | ... encouraged her followers to "stop placating to the emotionally undeveloped, who have an inability to process the meaning of personal responsibility, as if they are the cultural guide of which we should follow." |
| • | "Freedom of speech must be restored. Logic must be restored. Critical thinking must be restored." |
| • | ... criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, stating that it is an "act of warfare at the hands of Marxist criminals, ‘woke' white, angsty uneducated #ANTIFA, who do not have the bandwidth to navigate an indoor golf course, let alone life." |
| • | "They are not bright. They are manipulative criminals. They are puppets, of an agenda. We too have been puppets. This must end now." |
| • | "White guilt, celebrity endorsement, and corporate pandering has funded this 1 billion dollar domestic terrorist organization." |
| • | ... the Black Lives Matter organization is "destroying, and dismantling our first line of defense against criminals." |
| • | "Our policemen and women have been thrown under the bus by spineless politicians. We owe the police our most heartfelt apologies and gratitude for their sacrifice." |
| • | "They are teaching to your kids, that your family should be destroyed. Why are we allowing this? You know what this is, it's an all-out war on the most important thing we have, which is the American family." |
| • | "... you might think a Marxist organization that destroys private property and wants to replace parents is a bad thing, but that's not what your children are learning. Other lesson plans actually teach children the specifics of the BLM platform which rejects western family structures." |
| • | "All lives don't matter? This is insane." |
| • | Their goal is simple — and parents must take note... "They wish to redefine education at all levels and turn it into a shell for propaganda." |
| • | "Biden has supported every disastrous global sellout for half a century, including NAFTA, ... [and] China's entry into the World Trade Organization, the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] — he supported them all." |
| • | "If Biden wins, it's very simple, China wins. If Biden wins, the mob wins. If Biden wins, the rioters, the anarchists, arsonists, and flag burners — they win." |
| • | "If you've clicked on any news source online the past three or four months or so you've seen maybe some of the ugliest times in our nation's history." |
| • | "People have been out in our streets doing incredibly violent things in the name of justice. Cars have been torched, property has been destroyed, business looted and burned and police officers and other people have been intimidated, assaulted and even murdered." |
| • | "In 2001, Al Qaeda came with the goal to destroy America, little by little, with acts of terror." |
| • | "In 2020, many of our own people are now out there in the streets wanting to remake America into something else by destroying what it is today. Little by little. There's no great army. It's riot by riot." |
| • | Graney said two groups were attempting to start a revolution in America with the "goal to implement communism: a stateless, classless society." He described the first group, Antifa, as "an anarchist, terrorist organization" against capitalism, law enforcement and any government hierarchy. |
| • | "If you go to BlackLivesMatter.com and go to the page where they outline what they stand for and their beliefs, there are some pretty disturbing things." |
| • | "First, there are some good things like, ‘we work rigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and by extension all people.' That's very good. It's great." |
| • | "However, the organization also says this ‘We foster a queer affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking'." |
| • | ... website also says "We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families (villages) that collectively care for one another," ideology Graney categorized as pro-communism. |
| • | "Al Qaeda's goal was to come to the United States and kill Americans. Really just wanted to wipe America off the map. And they would have done it if they could." |
| • | "But today, those who we see wanting to bring down America, are Americans. And they want to do it under the facade of justice, freedom and love. But it is all a big bunch of baloney. It's anti-Christian. It's anti-family. It's evil." |
| • | "We don't need a teacher brainwashing my kids. I'll teach my kids about what's right and what's wrong." |
| • | "They're not animals because I have a dog now and my dog knows right and wrong." |
| • | "So you have savages that show up at the hospital while the mother of a six-year-old is fighting for her life for the very act of showing up and protecting your community, is shot and nearly killed and they're screaming that we want her dead or whatever kind of savagery." |
| • | "Animals that must be hit hard!" Trump wrote, referring to criminals who target law enforcement. Trump later tweeted, "If they die, fast trial death penalty for the killer. Only way to stop this!" |
| • | "For him to be censored simply because a Chinese word sounds like an English pejorative term is a mistake and is not appropriate, especially given the educational setting. It also dismisses the fact that Chinese is a real language and has its own pronunciations that have no relation to English." |
| • | "Our schools and campuses need to be places where free speech and open conversation are respected. While bias and discrimination have no place in our universities, mindless censorship is equally harmful." |
| • | Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich slammed the course... "Washington and Lee University's course on "how to overthrow the state" is one further sign of the insanity taking over higher education. The alumni should rise up and show how to overthrow a crazy college administration." |
| • | See related Higher Education (Antonio Branco, 08/24/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "I take offense to this," one flight attendant said to airline management in an email... "Serious offense. My husband is a LEO (Law Enforcement Officer), as was my deceased father and as far as I'm concerned ALL LIVES MATTER." |
| • | "I am completely disgusted at the fact that we can't show support for our GOD, our COUNTRY, our LEOs but when it comes to BLM organization (which is controversial in itself), American Airlines says that's obviously different," she wrote. "How is that right? Well, I don't feel included." |
| • | Another flight attendant ... said that if the BLM pins are allowed, then they will be wearing their Trump pin to show support for the commander-in-chief. |
| • | "Was I being a bit sensitive, and is the word happy discriminative? Or has this whole world all gone mad?" |
| • | "Does this mean that every descriptive word is discriminative... happy, tall, smart, elegant? Good luck with your search." |
| • | "I thought this was a joke, realizing it clearly isn't has left me absolutely speechless... what has the human race come to?" |
| • | "For the District Attorney to put out that kind of plan is irresponsible and where do you exactly draw the line on need because these are people's businesses that are being impacted and livelihoods that are being destroyed." |
| • | "It shows the District Attorney's Office is picking and choosing the types of crimes it will prosecute versus just following the laws on the books." |
| • | "When we have these White liberal writers like Vicky Osterweil or anybody who says that looting is a good thing and they're trying to kind of romanticize this for a liberal audience, these people rarely live in the communities that looting strikes. These people rarely engage with any of the citizens that this looting and rioting and destruction actually damages." |
| • | "Their communities are destroyed and when these people are making these ridiculous arguments that looting ... strikes at the heart of getting back against whiteness or this is just a great thing, these are these very weird academia conversations that have no basis in the lives of real people and that have no basis or even thought or consideration for the people whose lives and livelihoods and neighborhoods are destroyed by this behavior." |
| • | "Xenophobe who speaks one language mocks immigrant who can speak five." |
| • | "The party of diversity mocks an American for her accent..." |
| • | "Your bosses at CNN defamed this kid. The entitled snot nose idiots were from CNN ... not the other way around." |
| • | "We have a God-given right to defend ourselves. The right of self-defense is one of the most basic civil rights — one of the most basic human rights" |
| • | "You cannot have freedom and an opportunity to advance unless you have basic safety and security, and that it is not just limited to big cities. They are bringing it to a neighborhood near you." |
| • | "As someone whose family lived (and some not) through both Nazi and Communist regimes this is absolutely disgusting and @jemelehill, if you spent one month in a real authoritarian state you would come crying back here to kiss the ground you walked on in the USA." |
| • | Former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind said: "REMINDER for @jemelehill about just a FEW of the differences between AMERICA and NAZI GERMANY!" |
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| • | "If the theme [of Biden's acceptance speech] is 'I'm a decent man' — we are not voting for a priest, we are voting for president." |
| • | "When they say that you can't have Blue Lives Matter, you can't show a blue line, you can't wear a MAGA hat, but you can have other things that are Marxist in nature, there's something wrong with the top of Goodyear," Trump said at a White House briefing... |
| • | "Cities that endanger residents by defunding law enforcement should not be able to get more property tax dollars from those same residents whose lives the city just endangered." |
| • | "This notion that you can go to a workplace in America and express support for radical Marxist movements, express support for anti-police movements, and you can't express support for Donald Trump or the police and law enforcement? The left is trying to create a two-tiered system of free speech in this country." |
| • | "A system where leftist thought is completely protected, sacrosanct, can't criticize it, but if you express traditional, mainstream American views like 'I love cops,' that somehow is hate speech and you should be punished." |
Tom Homan says Dems 'want chaos' because they think it helps them beat Trump (Fox 08/22/2020)
| • | "People like [New York City Mayor Bill] de Blasio who wants to defund and take a $1 billion from the police, defund your protective detail first." |
| • | "Show what a true leader you are. Defund the 22 men that protect you 24/7. If you want to take safety and security away from the communities, take your safety and community away first." |
| • | "So often it's those who preach tolerance and acceptance and love and understanding that are the ones trying to cancel everybody." |
| • | "What I saw last night was violence; these people did not care about property. Talk. Work your problems out, and vote. If you don't like what's happening vote them out, vote for change, that's democracy." |
| • | "For a nation already deprived of a traditional campaign schedule because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it makes no sense to also deprive so many Americans of the opportunity to see and hear two competing visions for our country's future before millions of votes are cast." |
| • | "... We have to stand up for our flag, we have to stand up for our country, we have to stand up for our anthem and a lot of people agree with me. Hey, if I am wrong, then I am going to lose an election and that's OK with me. I am always going to stand for our country and flag." |
| • | See related Taking a Knee (Glenn McCoy, 09/25/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "It's quite comical to watch the Democrat Party talk about not accepting the results of the election," McEnany said, "because the only people who haven't accepted the results of elections are people in the Democrat Party, like Hillary Clinton, who's blamed her loss on, I think it was something like two dozen different entities, never blaming herself." |
| • | "What makes me concerned for the country is this is the first time in my memory that the leaders of one of our great two political parties, the Democratic Party, are not coming out and condemning mob violence and the attack on federal courts," Barr said. |
| • | "Why can't we just say violence against federal courts has to stop? Could we hear something like that?" |
| • | "I have chosen not to politicize the death of Congressman Lewis, but to remember him as a peaceful, nonviolent warrior and encourage everyone to resolve our conflicts peacefully." |
| • | "We have no reason to apologize for anything. If you're a communist sympathizer, I can't help you. But none of these people (who have complained about the sign) ever contacted me and asked me what I think." |
Michigan teacher claims school fired him for tweeting ‘Trump is our president,’ report says (Fox 07/21/2020)
| • | "I know a lot of people are just rooting for Trump to fail, and I don't think that anybody should do that." |
| • | "Agree with him or not, you should want the president to do well." |
| • | "The argument that the mere presence of federal officers and agents causes violence, that is outrageous and it's ridiculous, and I believe that most American people do not believe that." |
| • | "The life of every African American matters. But Black Lives Matter is a 501(c)(3) organization run by 'trained Marxists.' We cannot allow our great country to be destroyed under the pretense of social justice." |
| • | "There's this new weird sort of fascism of people thinking they know what you can say and what you can't say and it's a really weird thing that there's this new trendy myth that people who want free speech want it to say awful things all the time, which just isn't true. It protects everyone." |
| • | "The two catastrophic problems with the term ‘hate speech' is, one, what constitutes hate speech? Everyone disagrees. There's no consensus on what hate speech is. Two, who decides? And there's the real rub because obviously the people who think they want to close down free speech because it's bad are the fascists. It's a really weird, mixed-up idea that these people hide behind a shield of goodness." |
| • | "Social media amplifies everything. If you're mildly left-wing on Twitter you're suddenly Trotsky. If you're mildly conservative you're Hitler and if you're centrist and you look at both arguments, you're a coward and they both hate you." |
| • | "What's not in place and what should never be in place is, you mustn't say something that someone, somewhere might find offensive because someone, somewhere might find anything offensive. And I've always said, ‘Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.'" |
| • | "Offense is good because it makes you think and it makes you come up with an argument. And what's happened recently is that ‘I'm offended' has replaced an argument." |
| • | "Why flee from Mogadishu, why flee from anarchy, why flee from oppression — and then come to the United States and do all your best to turn Minnesota and the U.S. into Mogadishu? It's one of the things I'd like to ask her." |
| • | "Her job is to write laws. Instead, she encourages mobs to break them. She is complicit with criminal activity, plain and simple." |
| • | "This week, they threatened to burn the system down — literally and figuratively if they don't get what they want. I mean, this is an organization that seeks to destroy American principles and I had to draw the line. I had to speak out for those [who] disagree with this movement because our country's too important." |
| • | "You've seen anarchy and riots. You've seen murders in Atlanta. This organization didn't come out and protest the murder of an 8-year-old girl in our streets as a result of this mob rule that was happening in this autonomous zone. Where are the voices on that?" |
| • | "We have this cancel culture that is threatening America and the foundation of it is that Americans are afraid to speak out because of the cancel culture. And, I'm not going to be silenced by it." |
| • | "And, I encourage other Americans to speak out. And, I'm going to stand for them because I am taking a tax from the left and they're not just attacking me; they want to destroy me." |
| • | ... this is exactly the kind of thought-policing they want to implement everywhere." |
| • | "The new cultural revolution is being fought via corporate HR, city diversity training, and public school curriculums. When you find something like this in your community, expose it, criticize it, mock it, and reject it." |
| • | See related And That\\\'s Why We Are Letting You Go (Mike Lester, 06/14/2020) cartoon from Corporate picture album |
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger calls on Americans to protect monuments, stop erasing U.S. history (Fox 06/27/2020)
| • | "... here's the bottom line. We live in a democracy. In a democracy, it takes a group of people — a majority — to make a decision about what this country does, what laws it passes." |
| • | "The call from Black Lives Matters leaders to destroy images of Christ and deface houses of worship is nothing less than a terroristic threat to people of faith." |
| • | "These socialists & antarchists [sic], that hate America, hate Christian values, came to our town, While we were closed, trying to instigate violence! Claiming to be peaceful protestors, but the part you did not see in the " media", was anything but that!" |
| • | "You cannot believe the media folks! These "peaceful" protestors have burned churches, taken over police departments, dragged people from their cars, looted, destroyed towns, torn down historical statues... yet the media & weak-minded politicians STILL call them "peaceful protestors"!" |
| • | "They will not be happy, until they have taken all of the freedoms you enjoy! Until every bit of American pride and patriotism is gone!" |
| • | "Until every small town, bows down to there [sic] socialist/communist ideology! Until anything that could possibly offend them, is gone. This is not about our little T-shirt shop....this is about FREEDOM!" |
| • | "This is a civil society. It's a great country. You don't like it? Pick up your a* and leave. We have people trying to get into this country by the millions, from every continent on the face of the earth." |
| • | "This is no longer about equality. This is a radical rewriting of our history and in South Dakota we won't stand for it." |
| • | "The more we focus on the flaws of these men that are on our mountain, the less likely we are to recognize the virtues and the lessons we can learn from their lives." |
| • | "Those who carry out attacks on NYPD officers or vehicles are not protesters. They are criminals and they will be treated as such." |
| • | "These were lawyers, in particular, who had every reason to know what they were doing was wrong." |
| • | "Listen, if this was a standard-issue Taser — and I have no reason to believe it was anything other than that — it produces 50,000 volts of electricity. That's enough to stop an elephant and it's enough to kill a human being." |
| • | "But, the test is not, 'is the Taser a deadly weapon?' The test is: 'did the police officer reasonably believe that a deadly weapon was being aimed at him?' It could have been an elastic band and paper clip. But if he reasonably believed it was a deadly weapon, then he was authorized to use deadly force." |
| • | "Without that law, the cops can't do their jobs." |
| • | "... the American left has lost its mind. It's become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness." |
| • | ... the leaders of the left's new movement "are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats and intimidation." |
| • | "They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thought crime, and it's established now that anything can be an offense." |
| • | "... press activism is limited to denouncing and shaming colleagues for insufficient fealty to the cheap knockoff of bullying campus Marxism that passes for leftist thought these days." |
| • | "We're allowing extreme narratives to become the norm because the media perpetuates them and we become so scared to speak up it goes unchallenged by the masses." |
| • | "I really feel like our country itself is at a breaking point and we are going to lose a lot of things we hold dear, especially the police and so I felt the need to speak up for them at this time." |
| • | "We know how much of your sacrifice goes unnoticed, but we know that the worst of you get the spotlight instead of the best." |
| • | "So many of you have given your lives to protect ours, to keep us safe. We will not stand by and let your work go unnoticed." |
| • | ... acknowledged that "it's good to be critical of the police who do bad things," adding that "that's necessary and improving things is always necessary." |
| • | "But you can't dismantle or defund the entire police force. These are, in my opinion, they're insane concepts and I don't want to live in a world without police." |
| • | ... "these are the same people who ran into buildings on 9/11. They need to be celebrated." |
| • | "I'd rather the US not have a soccer team than have a soccer team that won't stand for the National Anthem." |
| • | "You shouldn't get to play under our flag as our national team if you won't stand when it is raised." |
| • | "What has historically made America unique is the durability of its institutions against the passions and prejudices of the moment. When times are turbulent, when the road is rough, what matters most is that which is permanent, timeless, enduring and eternal." |
| • | "President Trump says that we all bleed the same. We are one nation under God. Uncle Joe, as they call him — many do — is in his basement missing the mark. And, he is out of touch with reality." |
| • | "So, I look at the message that is right at the heart of it — which Uncle Joe doesn't want you to see, by stirring up the race card. America needs sanity. America needs peace. America needs love." |
| • | Instead, King accused Biden of "bowing his knee to tyranny, anarchy, confusion," [and] "fighting over skin color." |
| • | "You know, we are one race — [the] human race — one blood. We can see you, Uncle Joe. And, we're listening. But you, have the wrong message, Uncle Joe." |
This company is daring to defend police amid cancel culture (Fox 06/13/2020)
| • | "At a time when we should be humanizing each other... we are vilifying each other." |
| • | "At a time when we should be unified with each other... we are segregating each other. Our great country is at a time of crisis and yet we are frozen with fear to even express ourselves." |
| • | "We know how much of your sacrifice goes unnoticed, and we know that the worst of you get the spotlight instead of the best." |
| • | "So many of you have given your lives to protect ours, to keep us safe. We will not stand by and let your work go unnoticed. We will speak truth." |
| • | "Over 60 million Americans have police interactions per year. Many of which result in lives being saved. #speaktruth." |
| • | "Serious journalism, complete with a vigorous exchange of ideas, cannot survive in an atmosphere in which modest intellectual risk-taking or minor offenses against new ideological orthodoxies risk professional ruin." |
| • | "It is a violation of the principles that are supposed to sustain the profession, particularly our obligation to give readers a picture of the world as it really is." |
| • | "And, as the paper dismisses distinguished journalists along with controversial opinions, it's an invitation to intellectual cowardice." |
| • | "Removing these heroes from your communities and my community will do nothing but ensure chaos and destruction." |
| • | "Police officers are the front lines, putting themselves between the evildoers among us and the honest, hardworking Americans just yearning for some security and prosperity in a small slice of Americana." |
| • | ... said that Americans "should commit to police accountability," but said that "we can do it without shredding the thin wall between civilization and chaos." |
| • | "The actions of a few are dividing us as a nation. We will never solve generational systemic injustice with looting burning, destruction of property and killing in the name of justice." |
| • | "When those in a position of authority choose to abuse their power, that is a very definition of oppression. And when innocent people are harmed in the name of justice, no one prevails. We all lose." |
| • | "Time for sensible adults to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it all..." |
| • | "Look: I understand, that some out there still wish to go and protest and say #defundpolice and all kinds of stuff, while you are still young and responsibility does not matter," he said. |
| • | "Enjoy! Express yourself! Just don't break anything, ok? And be back by 8 pm." |
| • | "Of course, these football players have the right to express their views about the treatment of blacks by the police, they have the right to protest President Trump and they have the right to kneel during the national anthem. Club owners have the right to fire them because of it, by the way: so Trump actually did not attack the constitutional rights of football players..." |
| • | President Trump on Monday issued a broad condemnation of the "defund" push. |
| • | "LAW & ORDER, NOT DEFUND AND ABOLISH THE POLICE. The Radical Left Democrats have gone Crazy!" |
| • | "This is dangerous, counterproductive, and deeply irrational," Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said... |
| • | "'Defund the police' is not a call from the fringes of the far left anymore. It has gone from a radical slogan to actual policy in a major American city, within days." |
| • | "It cannot be the case that you can be arrested for opening a business but not for looting one." |
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| • | "These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives." |
| • | "Many poor communities that still bear scars from past upheavals will be set back still further. One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers." |
| • | "This venerable law, nearly as old as our republic itself, doesn't amount to 'martial law' or the end of democracy, as some excitable critics, ignorant of both the law and our history, have comically suggested." |
| • | "In fact, the federal government has a constitutional duty to the states to 'protect each of them from domestic violence.' Throughout our history, presidents have exercised this authority on dozens of occasions to protect law-abiding citizens from disorder." |
| • | "Tell me Black Lives Matter. You lied. You wanted to loot the store. You needed money? Get a job — like I do." |
| • | "Stop stealing. This is a neighborhood. We're trying to build it up and you're tearing it down." |
| • | "America [is] burning. The time now is for handcuffs, not rhetoric." |
| • | "You have to dominate, if you don't dominate you're wasting your time. They're going to run over you, you're going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate." |
| • | "You've got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again." |
| • | "If Mayor DeBlasio wants a light touch then let him stand in front and take the first brick to the face. Or perhaps he can sit in a police vehicle and catch the Molotov Cocktail that's thrown into it. Here's the light touch, DeBlasio brain!" |
| • | "And, let me just tell the truth why: because these Democratic lawmakers do not want to alienate black voters." |
| • | "I've got news for you: you're alienating me. I'm a black voter and you have lost me if you don't stand up and do something about these criminals." |
| • | "What's funny yesterday becomes illegal today and the person uttering it must be canceled. Outrage culture is as strong as it is toxic." |
| • | "Part of what makes [comedy] difficult is also the tidal wave of idiocy that can be created on social media in a day... the outrage mob." |
Hawley proposes stripping Twitter of liability immunity after fact-checking Trump: 'Time to start...' (Fox 05/28/2020)
| • | "They are editorializing, they are censoring, they are making judgments. They claim 'we aren't like traditional media, we are neutral, we don't have any opinions, we post other people's opinions.' It just isn't true," he argued, "and it's time to start calling them out on it." |
| • | "How about the Chinese Foreign Ministry who have been on Twitter ... saying that United States soldiers actually started the coronavirus." |
| • | "Twitter has not had a word to say about any of these things. This is not a joke, this is Twitter showing its political bias." |
| • | "If they want to editorialize like The New York Times, go right ahead. It's a free country, they are a free company." |
| • | But, Hawley added, "they should not get a special deal from government because of it." |
| • | "Thanks for the clarification @jack. This makes YOU accountable for allowing the Chinese Communist Party to abuse this site with misinformation & propaganda spread across the globe - all while the CCP bans and suppresses their own people from using Twitter!" |
| • | "Partnering with the biased fake news media 'fact checkers' is only a smoke screen Twitter is using to try to lend their obvious political tactics some false credibility." |
| • | "I understand the pain, but I would encourage people, if you are going to protest, do it peacefully and don't cause more issues. Your mom and dad are at home and they want you to come home alive. You have a whole life ahead of you. Let the system do its job." |
| • | "They [the officers] deserve due process and to be tried in the court of law. There should not be anarchy ... rioting, but there should be swift justice." |
| • | "I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online." |
| • | "Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that." |
| • | "I'm 77 years old. I mean, what are they going to give me? Life? I've got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. I [couldn't] care less." |
| • | "What am I going to do: live in fear all my life? I can't do that." |
| • | "The monster who stabbed, murdered, robbed an innocent 80 yr old grandmother over the weekend, has been arrested 67 times! And was out on 2 felony PR bonds! The colossal failure of bail and CJ reform in Houston is on full display here. Innocent people are dying. This has to STOP!!" |
| • | See related Coronavirus Public Safety (Sean Delonas, 04/09/2020) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "When a disc jockey or a talk show host or a journalist who is being paid to work from his or her home tells people who can't work, pay bills or pay their rent or mortgage to 'Stay home and be careful because we're all in this together,' it's okay to question the premise." |
| • | "Many members of Congress, including some in my own party, have decided to use this package as an opportunity to make political statements and propose a bill that goes far beyond pandemic relief." |
| • | "I am deeply troubled by numerous provisions in this bill that could see large amounts of taxpayer dollars allocated to helping those who are not hurting at all." |
| • | "Obviously she [Whitmer] has no concept at all, the damage that she's doing to our state and to families." |
| • | "I don't need the governor to be my mother," Manke told ... last week. |
| • | "I have one. God bless her, she's gone now. I don't need another mother. I can make these adult decisions myself." |
| • | Larry Kudlow ... national economic council director, told ... that he did not want to engage in a political back and forth with the former president, but said Trump has worked well in incorporating the private sector and parts of the government in the response. |
| • | "I don't understand what President Obama is saying. It just sounds so darn political to me. Look, what we have done may not be 100 percent perfect. These things happen once every 100 years." |
| • | "I think Tara Reade's accusations against Joe Biden should be treated exactly as Joe Biden wanted Ms. Ford's allegations treated. Let's call it the 'Biden Test.'" |
| • | "Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat." |
| • | "In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants — we are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together and we are determined to rise. God bless you all." |
| • | "... what we have done is to put 26 million people out of work and the only people that still get their paychecks are government — and that includes members of Congress — and they are not going back to work." |
| • | "So, I would say, cut their paychecks off. Quit paying members of Congress. And, let's see how long it is before they say, 'You know what? I think we have got to ramp this economy back up and get people back out into the workplace." |
| • | "Yeah: The first aid bill didn't go far enough. Nor did the second. Nor did the third. The fourth didn't get there either, but the response to crises happen in steps. If everyone said no to each massive package because it didn't go all the way, we'd all be even deader in the water." |
| • | "I think that people are just a bit tired of being lectured to. Now celebrities think: 'The general public needs to see my face. They can't get to the cinema – I need to do something.' And it's when you look into their eyes, you know that, even if they're doing something good, they're sort of thinking, 'I could weep at what a good person I am.' Oh dear." |
| • | "This is also a person. who may want to go back to her roots and remember that most Americans – unlike those in Congress – have to show up in order to get paid and that they don't have the luxury of not doing their job and still being able to provide for their family like she does as a member of Congress." |
| • | "There are people who are really hurting. The president is looking for ways to protect them, to help them. She might want to join in that effort instead of putting people down who are struggling and trying to figure out how best to help their families and provide that food." |
| • | "She might want to go back and remember that when she was a bartender and not a member of Congress, she didn't have that luxury." |
| • | "She had to show up to do her job in order to get a paycheck and there are millions of Americans [who] are like that [and who] need a paycheck — not just for the money but also their sense of sanity and their ability to be able to get out and do what they do best and that's work hard, because that is who the American people are." |
| • | "Her totally out-of-touch lack of understanding of that is mind-blowing." |
| • | "These kind of confused government policies fuel public anger — and rightfully so." |
| • | "Should guidelines for masks in confined spaces be emphatically promoted? Absolutely." |
| • | "But we will NEVER support 180 days in jail or $1,000 fine for not wearing a mask." |
| • | "Do not let commonsense guidelines lead to unjust tyranny." |
| • | "Everyone should be wearing a mask in public, I wear 1 everyday. But making not wearing 1 punishable by law, and asking our officers to enforce it, will do irreparable damage to our relationship with the community. We are already stretched too thin without having to enforce this." |
| • | "It is clear the so-called leader of Harris County lacks any critical thinking skills. But let me assure the public, our officers do!" |
| • | "Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation," Jones said in a separate statement officially announcing his resignation. |
| • | "I've seen more Democrats attack me for my decision to endorse @realDonaldTrump than ask me why." |
| • | "At a time when we must unite the people of NYC and America, the failed Mayor of NYC chooses to encourage citizens to rat out individuals failing to follow the strict restrictions, which invade their usual sense of privacy." |
| • | "While the restrictions may be necessary, compliance is obtained not by turning people against each other but by a repetitious and creative explanation for the rationale behind the restrictions." |
| • | "Let me enlighten you, Nancy, because you seem to be living in an insulated $25,000 freezer ice cream bubble and you don't get it." |
| • | "Here it is plain and simple: People have to feed their families. These are smart Americans who are intelligent. They understand there's a risk. They live with risk every day." |
| • | "Hillary Clinton in 2016 openly smeared white, working-class Trump voters as 'deplorables,'" |
| • | "Four years later, Joe Biden is picking up where Hillary left off. In a private, virtual fundraiser with wealthy liberal donors last night, Biden 'laughed' that he had no plans to reach out to Trump voters in November, condescendingly describing them all as deplorable racist xenophobes, just as Hillary did in 2016." |
| • | See related About Right... (Michael Ramirez, 08/11/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | See related Basket of Deplorables (Glenn McCoy, 10/17/2016) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "And I've got one big question, which is, Why are Democrats more interested in supporting the Chinese than in trying to get the American businesses restarted?" |
| • | See related Coronavirus (Sean Delonas, 03/012/2020) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | See related Coronavirus (Mike Lester, 03/13/2020) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "After this is over I never want to hear people moaning about the welfare state again, I never want to hear people moaning about nurses again. Or porters." |
| • | "These people are doing 14-hour shifts and not complaining. Wearing masks, and being left with sores, after risking their own health and their families' health selflessly. But then I see someone complaining about being in a mansion with a swimming pool. And, you know, honestly, I just don't want to hear it." |
| • | "Democrats' entire strategy is to legalize ballot harvesting nationwide, and this letter proves it. Sending far-left activists door-to-door to collect ballots not only jeopardizes people's health, it threatens the security of their ballot. The last thing our country needs during a time of crisis is to weaken confidence in our elections, but that is exactly what would happen if Democrats get their way." |
| • | "The federal government can provide crucial resources, but the burden is on the governor and her team to distribute them. No two states are alike, and blanket approaches won't work." |
| • | "America is better served when presidents respect the diversity of states instead of dictating uniform solutions." |
| • | "As our highest nationally elected leader, of course President Trump has enormous responsibility in this unprecedented crisis, and he is marshaling the federal response on a massive scale." |
| • | "But in implementing plans to save people's lives and keep our economy afloat, look no further than the governors." |
| • | "Denial? From the man who restricted travel in January & saved lives, while your party celebrated his impeachment? |
| • | You may be confusing him with the Washington Post, telling America to get a grip. That COVID19 wasn't scary, & that we should be wary of an aggressive govt response." |
| • | "... the world has never experienced this, and I don't think it's a time to be political. I think it's just time to get behind our government and have everybody do what they can. If you want to point blame after, that's another story, but right now I think we all just really need to come together on this." |
| • | "Mika must be immediately challenged to produce whatever evidence she might have in support of her explosive claim. To accuse the President of the United States of outright corruption in the midst of the greatest crisis in the lives of most Americans, is a libel most vile unless she can substantiate it." |
| • | See related Trump Press (Glenn McCoy, 08/12/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | ... few people in public life will emerge unscathed from the blame game if we ask everyone the same questions: What did you know, when did you know it and what did you do about it? |
| • | On the other hand, mutual destruction is neither required nor desirable, and there is a better option. |
| • | We can just skip the blame game for now and work together to help America get through this worst of times. |
| • | Think of that as the patriotic choice. |
| • | "I don't think we're witnessing the end of the world, just a very tumultuous moment in history. These briefings are now a central part of that moment and it would seem CNN would be living up to Ted Turner's original vision by televising the briefings as they are," Lord said. |
| • | "Not televising them sends the message that whichever network is doing that is into politics, not news." |
| • | "The first thing I want to tell people to do is just take a collective deep breath and let's really start to really focus on the things that we can control." |
| • | "We cannot control Congress. We cannot control this virus right now and all the uncertainty that's going on. But we can control our attitude, our outlook and our actions." |
| • | Alexander interrupted the next reporter who was called on, shouting, "What do you say to Americans who are scared?" |
| • | "I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say," Trump fired back. |
| • | "I think that's a very nasty question and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people," Trump said. |
| • | "The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope. And you're doing sensationalism and, the same with NBC and Con-cast. I don't call it Comcast, I call it Con-cast" |
| • | See related Media and Corona (Gary McCoy, 03/12/2020) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | Trump said during a national televised press conference that he is using the phrase as a response to China spreading conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus. |
| • | "Rather than having an argument, I said, I have to call it where it came from. It did come from China." |
| • | "Cuomo wants "all states to be treated the same." But all states aren't the same. Some are being hit hard by the Chinese Virus, some are being hit practically not at all. New York is a very big "hotspot", West Virginia has, thus far, zero cases. Andrew, keep politics out of it..." |
| • | It's hard to believe that we even have to post this. Do not call 9-1-1 just because you ran out of toilet paper. You will survive without our assistance. |
| • | In fact, history offers many other options for you in your time of need if you cannot find a roll of your favorite soft, ultra plush two-ply citrus scented tissue. |
| • | Seamen used old rope and anchor lines soaked in salt water. Ancient Romans used a sea sponge on a stick, also soaked in salt water. We are a coastal town. We have an abundance of salt water available. Sea shells were also used. |
| • | Mayans used corn cobs. Colonial Americans also used the core of the cob. Farmers not only used corn cobs, but used pages from the Farmers Almanac. Many Americans took advantage of the numerous pages torn from free catalogs such as Sears and Roebuck. The Sears Christmas catalog, four times thicker than the normal catalog, could get a family of three wiped clean from December through Valentine's Day; or Saint Patrick's Day if they were frugal. |
| • | Then, of course, there are always alternatives to toilet paper. Grocery receipts, newspaper, cloth rags, lace, cotton balls, and that empty toilet paper roll sitting on the holder right now. Plus, there are a variety of leaves you can safely use. Mother Earth News magazine will even tell you how to make your own wipes using fifteen different leaves. When all else fails, you have magazine pages. Start saving those catalogs you get in the mail that you usually toss into the recycle bin. Be resourceful. Be patient. There is a TP shortage. This too shall pass. Just don't call 9-1-1. We cannot bring you toilet paper. |
CNN’s Jim Acosta blasted for ‘trying to hurt Trump and divide’ America with coronavirus report (Fox 03/13/2020)
Schumer faces mounting ethics complaints over Supreme Court comments (Fox 03/10/2020)
| • | "At a minimum, Attorney/Senator Schumer's statements appear to be improper conduct that reflects upon his character and fitness to practice law in New York." |
| • | "It strains credulity to believe that, regardless of his Brooklyn pedigree, Sen. Schumer, who is a Harvard-educated lawyer, Senator minority leader, and vocal opponent of both Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, did not intend to choose the exact words he spoke as he turned and pointed to the Supreme Court behind him to further emphasize his point." |
| • | "In short, his non-apology is a lame excuse for inexcusable conduct." |
| • | "The Senate must immediately reprimand, if not censure, Sen. Schumer for his outrageous and dangerous attack on Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh." |
| • | ... carrying a firearm in public "gives you more options to respond to dangerous situations. It's all about having a choice and a chance." |
| • | "I view my gun as a tool that gives me parity of force with bigger, stronger or more numerous opponents." |
| • | "I have the ability to enforce decisions about my body and my boundaries without depending on others... I have more options than just hoping for rescue. I'm my own rescue." |
| • | In reality, however, had Bloomberg divvied his advertising dollars among all Americans, the per-capita cash-out would have been more like $1.53 per person – not even enough to take a ride on New York City's subway. |
| • | "What is wrong with these people? This would be right here if there were 327 people in the US. And this reflects horribly on the NY Times too. Can someone stop and think for two seconds?" |
| • | See related Fake News (Mike Lester, 11/27/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | "There can be few things worse in a civilized, law abiding nation, than a United States Senator openly, and for all to see and hear, threatening the Supreme Court or its Justices. This is what Chuck Schumer just did. He must pay a severe price for this!" |
| • | "This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that 'You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.'" |
| • | "Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter." |
| • | "We have to get back to basics, the basic and primary function of government is to protect the safety of its citizens...[law enforcement] has to be first in line and fully and adequately funded before other resources are deployed." |
| • | "When a terrorist or sex offender becomes a U.S. #citizen under false pretenses, it is an affront to our system — and it is especially offensive to those who fall victim to these criminals." |
| • | "The new Denaturalization Section will further the Department's efforts to pursue those who unlawfully obtained citizenship status and ensure that they are held accountable for their fraudulent conduct." |
| • | "I am an American," wrote Republican Dalia al-Aqidi, a former Iraqi refugee who hopes to replace Omar in representing Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. |
| • | "That's why I'm running for Congress." |
| • | "It really makes a difference when those you murder at the firing squad can read & write." |
| • | "Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors. Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy." |
| • | "If anyone wants to show human tragedy in Auschwitz it is enough to reach for the thousands of sources (survivors' testimonies) that are deeply shocking, but creating fiction that distorts the history of this real place is disrespectful of the people who suffered here." |
| • | These highly educated, well-read policy nerds somehow can't imagine that a comedy routine like this mixed in with candid shots of Wolf Blitzer or Brian Stelter guffawing along isn't helping the idea that the press is nonpartisan... |
| • | They're urged to keep their "foot on the gas" and excuse most of us for not daring to hitchhike. |
| • | See related The President Is Vulgar (Glenn McCoy, 04/30/2018) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | "Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and if the Republican AGs were saying that ExxonMobil was going to be paying for 25 full-time lawyers to be working out of the office?" |
| • | "Amid all the handwringing over Bill Barr, if you want to talk about weaponizing law enforcement, consider what Bloomberg would do, with the roadmap of what he's already done." |
| • | "Given the main stream media's willingness to destroy the lives of teenage conservatives, like the Covington Catholic kids, it should come as no surprise that they would barely touch this story of an adult far left Democrat assaulting a 15 year old." |
| • | "Where are you clowns on this?" |
| • | "It is high time that the national media begin to act responsibly in this case and call this deranged criminal's attack what has been clear: An obvious assault motivated by blind rage toward President Trump." |
| • | President Trump tweeted: "Be careful tough guys who you play with!" |
| • | "The president is entitled to staffers that want to execute his policy, that he has confidence in, and I think every president's entitled to that." |
| • | "We're not a country where a group of lieutenant colonels can get together and dictate what the policy of the United States is." |
| • | "The policy of the United States is decided by an elected President of the United States. We're not some banana republic where lieutenant colonels get together and decide what the policy is." |
| • | "If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg." |
| • | "So if you win, come up, accept your award, thank your agent, thank your God, and f** off." |
| • | "I'm a recipient of the GI Bill. The GI Bill was earned by agreeing to serve my country for six years and to put my life at risk as an infantryman in Afghanistan. It wasn't something just given to me with nothing expected in return. Don't cheapen our sacrifice w/ this comparison." |
| • | "The president has a right to have White House staff who he is comfortable with... and in whom he has confidence." |
| • | "Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn't make those remarks and the Speaker didn't rip the speech?" |
| • | "They're arguing it's deceptively edited to misinform and want twitter to censor it." |
| • | "But.. she tore the speech that had those stories. Repetition to highlight exactly what she was tearing is not 'misinformation,' these Reps are gaslighting." |
| • | "Democrats talking about free college tuition or debt forgiveness. I'm not here to debate the idea. What I can tell you is that people all over this country worked their way through school, sent their kids to school, paid off student loans. They don't want to hear this s**t." |
| • | See related What Have I Done to Mytself? (Fuller 2018), ) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "Her conduct tore up more than a speech, but decades of tradition and left any semblance of civility in tatters on the House floor." |
| • | "That is why I was (and remain) so offended by this display." |
| • | "There's always a basic decorum and a basic respect. But to have her [Pelosi] stand up and tear up that speech really dishonored the moment and I really thought it was beneath the dignity of a joint session of Congress and I think it will be remembered as such." |
| • | Chief Justice Roberts told Schumer before that vote series that he would not break ties in the Senate, after Democrats in recent days raised the possibility Roberts could possibly tip the scales for them during votes on amendments. |
| • | "I think it would be inappropriate for me, an unelected official from a different branch of government, to assert the power to change that result so that the motion would succeed," Roberts told Schumer. |
| • | "Your Trump hatred at CNN is a real cancer to our body politic. This means absolutely nothing in terms of being able to stop a deadly virus. I'm pretty sure the #coronavirus doesn't care that this room isn't 'diverse,'" |
| • | "If Trump used an executive order to deploy resources for research that cured coronavirus, CNN would publish editorials on his 'authoritarian tendencies in addressing public health,'" |
| • | New Yorkers should pay close attention: this is true endgame of the anti-police movement, an end of all policing & destruction of public order. Our members have spent their careers — and in some cases given their lives — to bring public safety back to NYC. We can't go backwards |
| • | "If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist." |
| • | "It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party." |
| • | "Schiff, personally, is obviously a deranged human being," Gingrich observed. |
| • | "This is about Schiff. Schiff is a guy who is a pathological liar," added Gingrich. |
| • | "It all disintegrated. He looked like a fool. He learned nothing. He came back and lied again and again. Here we are at the end of the cycle, he goes back and decides to lie again. I think somehow people have to decide that Adam Schiff is a compulsive, uncontrollable liar." |
| • | Gingrich said that if the House of Representatives were a "healthy" body, it would kick Schiff off the Intelligence Committee. |
| • | "How can you expect the president and the CIA and others to share secrets with a person who is this profoundly, publicly dishonest?" |
| • | "You're asking the Congress, the Senate now, to remove the President of the United States." |
| • | "It's a legitimate point for the president's team and the Republicans to say: 'Shouldn't we go to the very origin of this?'" |
| • | "Why do I care what someone who overheard the conversation felt about it or thought about it or believed about it? I can read it for myself." |
| • | "You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided." |
| • | "This is a real segment from an actual program on a cable news network that asks to be taken seriously. Not subtle message to huge parts of America: THEY HATE YOU." |
| • | "The smug political class hates the tens of millions of Americans who comprise our movement. They can cackle and grandstand...as we build a country based on sovereignty, economic nationalism, and the diffusion of power." |
| • | "Don Lemon will laugh for a minute straight over Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali mocking Trump supporters and calling them stupid, but don't you dare make a meme or he will freak out." |
| • | "If you want to give people a reason to vote Trump as a screw you to the media, keep airing segments like these." |
| • | See related , )">Just in the Way (12/23/2019)", ) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "It's a false sense of compassion that they're offering. They always cloak their policies in compassion, but it's a lie." |
| • | "It's not fair to take from people and give to other people just because you want their votes. That's the definition of buying votes." |
| • | An angry father confronted Sen. Elizabeth Warren saying those who responsibly saved to pay for student loans themselves would get "screwed" under her student debt cancellation plan. |
| • | "I just wanted to ask one question. My daughter is getting out of school. I've saved all my money. She doesn't have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?" |
| • | "Of course not," Warren answered, without hesitation. |
| • | "So you're going to pay for people who didn't save any money and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?" the father pressed. |
| • | "No, you cannot take the taxes of people who have paid off their student loans or people who didn't get to go to college and maybe got a vocational training certificate instead, working hard, you want to take their tax money and pay off somebody else's investment." |
| • | "These firings weren't based on any incompetency within the department; they were just a transparent effort to cripple the department's prosecutorial ability. Boudin is advancing a radical ideology that's focused on completely redesigning the city's — and the nation's — criminal justice system." |
| • | "Criminal organizations and their operations are often very complex, especially in a metropolitan area such as San Francisco. Without prosecutors who have a deep understanding of the various syndicates and the players within them, lawful prosecution of crimes becomes tremendously more difficult, allowing real criminals to walk free." |
| • | "For criminals, actions should have consequences. That will also be true in 2020 at the ballot box when voters are provided a choice between protecting law and order or protecting criminals." |
| • | "I was a police officer in Rudy Giuliani's New York. Listen, nobody's perfect, no mayor, no president, nobody else. But this kind of nonsense was never ever acceptable." |
| • | "If you were in this video in Rudy Giuliani's New York, they didn't have cell phone cameras back then, but if they did, you were going to jail." |
| • | "There was no doubt about it and these people need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." |
| • | "Tell me Mr. Mayor: What are you going to tell [Fuerte's] family? ‘I could have prevented your loved one's rape & murder but I decided to provide sanctuary to criminal aliens instead.'" |
| • | "It's time to publicly call out those who have put politics over public safety, those who make our communities less secure, who create safe havens in which criminal aliens and gangs are allowed to flourish and can victimize innocent people with impunity." |
| • | "Nancy Pelosi's souvenir pens served up on silver platters to sign the sham articles of impeachment. She was so somber as she gave them away to people like prizes." |
| • | "So it's fitting that Democrats are handing out pens for their sole accomplishment: impeachment. Democrats have done NOTHING for the American people." |
| • | "Embarrassing spectacle - Pelosi using sterling silver platters and handing out ceremonial pens to everyone in sight, made it ridiculously theatrical and so tacky and clownish. What goofballs." |
| • | "Impeachment is so 'Prayerful' that Pelosi was handing out pens in celebration. Pathetic." |
| • | "... For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up. That said... I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong." |
| • | Mike Berry, chief of staff to First Liberty Institute, told Fox News Weinstein's "constitutional arguments are almost worse than the Star Wars prequels." |
| • | "The tradition of using a Bible for swearing-in dates back to the very founding of our nation, with presidents and members of Congress doing so since George Washington." |
| • | "It is in every sense part of our historic heritage and is perfectly legal." |
| • | "Ultimately, we don't think decisions about political ads should be made by private companies," said Rob Leathern, Facebook's director of product management. |
| • | "In the absence of regulation, Facebook and other companies are left to design their own policies. We have based ours on the principle that people should be able to hear from those who wish to lead them, warts and all, and that what they say should be scrutinized and debated in public." |
| • | "It was not unjustified, and this is a common theme from the left." |
| • | "These American apologists that like to go out there and say that because America did something, this resulted in some other country going out there and taking some unnecessary actions, some ill-fated action. And it's not the Americans' fault — it's the fault of those who went out there and took those actions themselves." |
| • | "No matter what the president does, he's going to be wrong in doing." |
| • | "If he exercises diplomacy to go talk to Kim Jong Un or talk to Vladimir Putin, that's wrong. If he withdraws our troops out of harm's way on the border of Turkey and alongside the Kurds, then he's wrong. ... Whatever he does, the other side is going to say he was incorrect for doing that for whatever the made-up reason is that they're going to come up with." |
| • | "The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we need to use it... we do not want to use it." |
| • | "The U.S. is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it." |
| • | "I was in the same briefing as you, @RepJayapal, and this is absolutely false. You and your squad of Ayatollah sympathizers are spreading propaganda that divides our nation and strengthens our enemies." |
| • | "Yes, this is just like Benghazi, except um... this time reinforcements were sent. And nobody is blaming it on an obscure YouTube video. And what the hell is a 'veterans org' doing gleefully tweeting about an attack on the US?" |
| • | "No big deal. Just a 'veterans group' hoping for our troops and embassy personnel to die because Orange Man Bad." |
| • | "Besides the fact that the ambassador hasn't been murdered & dragged thru the streets, that the protests haven't been blamed on a YouTube video but rather on the violent [demonstrators] themselves & their foreign backers, & that dozens of reinforcements were quickly sent — yep. Same." |
| • | "Ilhan Omar views sanctions on terror regimes to be 'economic warfare' but supports them when aimed at the world's only Jewish state. Must just be a coincidence." |
| • | "Ilhan Omar has now decried sanctions on the Castros in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, and the Ayatollah in Iran. At the same time, she's the leading voice in Congress on sanctioning the Jewish people in the world's only Jewish state. Wonder why." |
| • | Rep. Ilhan Omar complained she's "stricken with PTSD" because of recent events in the Middle East." |
| • | "This is a disgrace and offensive to our nation's veterans who really do have PTSD after putting their life on the line to keep America safe." |
| • | "In the end, the American people are not going to vote for anyone for president who they don't think is willing to use American force to protect our security." |
| • | "You may not like President Trump, you may have voted for the impeachment in the House, but if you're someone like ... Alexandria Ocasio Cortez saying that a tweet from the President threatening the Iranians is a war crime, you've lost your mind." |
| • | "I don't care about Iranian cultural sites. If they could, if you understand the Islamic Republic of Iran, if they had the power, they would destroy every single one of our cultural sites and build a mosque on top of it." |
| • | "You're in no position to lecture the public about anything." |
| • | "You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg." |
| • | "It's great to vote but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives and hope that we can do that." |
| • | "We don't have to take private jets to Palm Springs for the award sometimes..." |
| • | See related Jet Setters (Antonio Branco, 12/28/2018) cartoon from World picture album |
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| • | "If we don't get the articles this week, then we need to take matters in our own hands and change the rules, deem them to be delivered to the Senate so we can start the trial, invite the House over to participate if they would like." |
| • | "If they don't come, dismiss the case and get on with governing the country." |
| • | "According the the [sic] Obama Department of Defense, Qasem Soleimani was a terrorist directly responsible for the murder of over 500 US service men [sic] & women. Why are congressional Dems outraged that he's finally dead?" |
| • | The USA Today has no clue what terrifying is. |
| • | Terrifying is my daughter on the 3rd floor for 40 minutes with no one to help her. |
| • | I would have prayed for "terrifying" concealed carry holders to be at her school! |
| • | "Because we have to restore common sense and you're not seeing it here at all. What you're doing is now you are posing a danger to the community." |
| • | ... Harris, 30, has more than a dozen total arrests to her name. She was released without bail on Saturday in advance of the new "soft-on-crime" reform laws, only to be arrested again on Sunday for allegedly punching a woman unprovoked. |
| • | She was freed on Monday after pleading not guilty to her crimes. |
| • | "Christmas Eve you had a hit-and-run of a mother of three who was killed, you had an NYPD officer who was sucker-punched, and all these criminals [are] being released out without bail back into our streets and back in our communities." |
| • | ... there used to be judicial discretion in cases like Harris's where judges could determine on a case-by-case basis whether or not the defendant was a "serious offender," posed a danger to the community, or were potentially a flight risk. |
| • | "What happened [was] the legislature overreached its authority, stepped into [the] judiciary, stripped from judges to determine [that]," he explained. "And, that could no longer be the case. That's a huge issue." |
| • | ... there is a one-party rule in blue states like New York and California — eliminating compromise or a "counter" to Democrats' positions. |
| • | "That's why you have to start remembering the law-abiding middle-class residents — standing up for them, their values — not criminals." |
| • | See related For which One of Us? (Sean Delonas, 07/06/2005) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Within the Democratic Party there's a double standard. The hate, the anti-Semitism that emanates from within the left, you don't hear anything, you hear very little." |
| • | "The mayor of the city of New York has continued to call the hate coming from the right. All the hate in New York is coming from the left." |
| • | "... it's the easiest job to throw rocks. It is just such fun. But you have to have some responsibility for these things and that's not what everybody's doing." |
| • | "I do wish she would stop using Democratic talking points to make the argument that she is making. The fact of the matter here is that the House's job is done and this idea that they should have any say in how the Senate conducts this trial just is not supported by what is written in black-and-white in the Constitution." |
| • | "The idea that Mitch McConnell isn't going to be bipartisan enough or objective enough, that is not his job. I expect him to be as bipartisan as Nancy Pelosi was and as Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler were." |
| • | "Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?" |
| • | "Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren't allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!" |
| • | "Hello everyone. Billionaires in wine caves have as much right to say who gets to be president as waitresses in diners and plumbers in my bathroom. Class warfare is ugly, @ewarren." |
| • | "You know, to hear this nonsense, look at her: How much money is she worth today and what the hell did she do to get that money?" |
| • | "Nancy Pelosi 'feels sad' about impeachment only because she knows this Democrat scam is a generous in-kind contribution to President Trump and every Republican running against a Democrat in a Trump district. Too bad she's too weak to stand up to the angry liberals in her party." |
| • | "I want an enduring Constitution and the idea of originalism is just simply that judges should follow the original meaning of the words on the page. And, neither add things that aren't there nor take away things that are there. And, I worry that both of those things happen when we depart from the original meaning of the Constitution." |
| • | ... the truth is that our rights, including the separation of powers, are only as good as the people who want to keep them there." |
| • | "The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it." |
| • | "I don't agree with anything you say. I used to. I voted for you in 2016." |
| • | "And I've been to Vietnam and seen what socialism has done. It's destroyed the lives [of many]." |
| • | "You can laugh all you want. Donald Trump is helping our country. All right? He's a good man... Socialism does not work." |
| • | See related Socialism (Gary Varvel, 02/21/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "... it's a very bad thing for our country and you're trivializing impeachment. And I tell you what, someday there will be a Democrat president, and there will be a Republican House." |
| • | "And I suspect they're going to remember it. Because [that's what happens] when you use impeachment for absolutely nothing other than to try and get political gain." |
| • | "My objection is not that you cannot impeach Trump for abuse of power but that this record is comparably thin compared to past impeachments and contains conflicts, contradictions and gaps, including various witnesses not subpoenaed." |
| • | "I suggested that Democrats drop the arbitrary schedule of a vote by the end of December and complete their case and this record before voting on any articles of impeachment." |
| • | "In my view, they have not proven abuse of power in this incomplete record." |
| • | "I remain concerned that we are lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger." |
| • | "There is an intense 'rancor and rage' and 'stifling intolerance' that blinds people to opposing views. My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee." |
| • | Trump "has done nothing but lead our country - resulting in a booming economy, more jobs & a stronger military, to name just a few of his major accomplishments. We look forward to a fair trial in the Senate." |
| • | "The Do Nothing Democrats had a historically bad day yesterday in the House. They have no Impeachment case and are demeaning our Country. But nothing matters to them, they have gone crazy." |
| • | "Therefore I say, if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business. We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is. I was elected to 'Clean the Swamp,' and that's what I am doing!" |
| • | "Franky, we'd love to govern with you. We'd love to pass USMCA, we'd love to put out a helping hand to our seniors and lower prescription drug prices. It's the will of the people you ignore when you continue down this terrible road of impeachment." |
| • | "The fact that you have somebody who has benefited basically saying that we need to escape from economic freedom is just patently ridiculous and, unfortunately, there are too many people spreading this horrible message." |
| • | "You understand the panic these deep-staters are in right now? That's why they are coming out and doing these stories." |
| • | ... Trump and his supporters are also "done being quiet" and are eager to see Horowitz's report on potential abuse by the FBI in starting the Russia investigation. |
| • | "She was the lead FBI lawyer on the biggest political spying scandal in human history. ... You're upset that the president hurt your delicate sensibilities by calling you a name? Is this serious?" |
| • | ... noting that Page testified under oath to lawmakers last year that she told Strzok that Russian collusion suspicions against Trump could have been "literally nothing" even as Bob Mueller was appointed to investigate. |
| • | "Lisa Page is trying to be recast as the victim and a news site wrote up an adoring interview for her. This is why we don't trust the media. Her bias while working extremely political cases is clear and evident to anyone with a functioning brain. To pretend otherwise is insulting." |
| • | "Imagine thinking yourself the victim for receiving criticism in response to your engaging in conduct personal, political and professional that imperils, corrupts and undermines our system of government" |
| • | "It wasn't an 'honest mistake' you tried to dunk on Trump and ended up dunking on yourself because you couldn't resist. Notice how there's never been a story that broke in Trump's favor & had to be corrected the other way? These aren't mistakes, they are a very consistent pattern." |
| • | See related He's Crazy! (Glenn McCoy, 05/16/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | He began his column by pointing out that readers have asked his sister how it is possible that he can still support the president. He responded, "Have you looked at the alternative?" |
| • | Kevin Dowd praised Trump over his handling of Iran and North Korea and pointed to economic gains seen during his presidency. |
| • | He praised Trump for supporting law enforcement and criticized 2020 candidates – Michael Bloomberg in particular – for "apologizing" for reducing crimes in big cities. |
| • | He said Trump may be a bully at times, but overall he's been "pleasantly surprised that he has done exactly what he promised despite a hostile press." |
| • | He went on to criticize the media over its attempt to "valorize" bureaucrats taking part in the impeachment inquiry armed with second and thirdhand information. |
| • | He said, "If these people were that conflicted, they should have quit." |
| • | He called the inquiry into the allegation that Trump withheld military funding from Ukraine in an attempted quid pro quo a "farce," and said he thinks all "aid is a quid pro quo." |
| • | "The Democrats have never recovered from the 2016 election when they nominated the worst candidate in political history and lost to a political novice." |
| • | "What irks me is the absolute and total disrespect for a police officer who, instead of being home with family and enjoying a meal and a football game, is patrolling his little town." |
| • | The police chief said that when he called the coffee chain, they offered to "replace the coffee with a correct label," but he said that given Starbucks' track record of other anti-police incidents, he wasn't buying it. |
| • | "The proverb ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' came to mind." |
| • | "What I love about her, by free stuff... essentially she wants everybody on the planet to be able to come here. So that's free borders, and free health care and free college," Steyn said on "Fox & Friends." |
| • | "She wants seven billion people essentially, to be able to enjoy what in the 19th century would be the life of the younger son of a middle European grand duke — at the cost to the U.S. taxpayer. And she says, 'Oh, but don't call that free stuff.' God bless her." |
| • | "Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality and the fact that voters, including the Democratic voters and certainly persuadable independents or even moderate Republicans, are not driven by the same views that are reflected on certain, you know, left-leaning Twitter feeds." |
| • | "If citizens cannot speak freely and without fear about the most important issues of the day, real self-government is not possible." |
| • | "To ensure that our democracy is preserved and is permitted to flourish, this Court must closely scrutinize any restrictions on statements that can be made on important public policy issues. Otherwise, such restrictions can easily be used to silence the expression of unpopular views." |
| • | "Sorry to have to repeat this again: Free Speech is ALL speech. Even the speech that you find repugnant." |
| • | "You are either for ALL of it or... you are for none of it. We don't need people deciding FOR us what to think, see or hear. That's a load of totalitarian crap." |
| • | "Mr. Holmes, that information had nothing whatsoever to do with the subject matter of any of these hearings. It was anecdotal, it was extraneous. Your statements that your interests are protecting Ukraine are very dubious when you embarrass President Zelensky by making those statements you didn't have to make," Turner said. |
| • | "Who cares that Ambassador Sondland said that? And, you didn't embarrass Ambassador Sondland, you embarrassed Zelensky, because you know that he got asked that question in his own country, and people are hearing that statement as if it's true, and it's totally dubious of you to do that." |
| • | "Every day Hillary Clinton was in office WAS an actual emergency." |
| • | "Lest we forget her policies helped create a massacre in Benghazi, Libya, a humanitarian disaster in Syria, and the rise of ISIS in Iraq. Stephen Miller is dedicated to this country and I am proud to work alongside him every single day with the goal of making our nation even greater. He is a friend and colleague, and we are lucky to have him in the White House." |
| • | "This is absolutely uncalled for and disgusting. What is wrong with people? George Conway is the last person that can call someone 'trash,'" |
| • | "He's interviewing for a job, if I'm correct, and he's asking people to pay him a lot of money and now he's going to dictate to them the conditions? It doesn't work that way in the real world." |
| • | "This is the result of our leftist colleges, having kids come out of school with no common sense [and] elitism. ... You have to show up every day. You're gonna have to play by the rules and if you don't, you're not gonna have a job." |
| • | "I wonder if you could explain to the American people, why the legal rights of the whistleblower should prevail in this political setting over those of President Trump, who should ordinarily enjoy a right to confront his accuser?" |
| • | "The question I asked ... Pelosi as a reporter ... was fair and respectful. Her reply descended to personal insult without addressing the substance, and was accordingly beneath her office." |
| • | "In this impeachment hearing today, where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or other high crimes, where was the impeachable offense in that call? Are either of you here today to assert that there was an impeachable offense in that call? Shout it out. Anyone?" |
| • | "You're gonna impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn't happen and giving money and it wasn't withheld? I don't know what you would impeach him on." |
| • | "The Ukrainians never did the investigation. And the president released the funds. I mean, when you look at those, there's just nothing impeachable there." |
| • | "Maybe I'm just too biased to think that if you create a company that's super-valuable, that at least some part of that, you should be able to have – a little bit for consumption, and hopefully the balance to do philanthropic things." |
| • | "When you have a large part of Americans that are getting a biased perception of what's going on in the political process, a lot of these 16 and 17-year-old kids have only heard one side from this point in their lives." |
| • | "They feel that social pressure on social media, from their peers, from teachers. They would likely be voting for Democrats at this point in their life." |
| • | See related Child Abuse (Antonio Branco, 09/24/2019) cartoon from General picture album |
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| • | See related Who Told You ThatQ (Mike Lester, 10/09/2019) cartoon from General picture album |
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| • | "In all the hearings, there's nothing compelling, nothing overwhelming, so the speaker should follow her own words and that bipartisan vote on that floor and end the sham that has been putting the country through this nightmare." |
| • | "For one man to turn this country upside down, to have this vote today, our Founding Fathers warned about this in the Federalist Papers." |
| • | "That a future Congress would base impeachment, at some point in time, would base it on partisan politics." |
| • | "Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats' unhinged obsession with this illegitimate impeachment proceeding does not hurt President Trump; it hurts the American people." |
| • | "The Democrats want to render a verdict without giving the Administration a chance to mount a defense. That is unfair, unconstitutional, and fundamentally un-American." |
| • | See related Guilty and Sentenced (Gary Varvel, 09/24/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "As misguided as I think it is, it's the American way of life that we're able to [express ourselves] and I'm sure there are people in this room, if not their family members, who have fought and died for that." |
| • | See related Counterpoint (Glenn McCoy, 02/03/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically woke, and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly," Obama said. |
| • | "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids, and share certain things with you." |
| • | It's good to hear this guy bash leftist "cancel culture," but I wish he'd done it when it mattered. That is, when he was president. |
| • | "Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies." |
| • | "I watched him last night and truly believe he may be ‘punch-drunk.' I guess he doesn't realize the economy is the best it's ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!" |
| • | See related De Niro (Antonio Branco, 11/01/2018) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Why are people that I never even heard of testifying about the call. Just READ THE CALL TRANSCRIPT AND THE IMPEACHMENT HOAX IS OVER!" |
| • | When asked if he notified Pelosi beforehand, Trump said he did not because he did not want any members of the U.S. forces to die. |
| • | "No, I didn't. I didn't do that. I wanted to make sure this kept secret. I don't want to have people lost." |
| • | #"We've notified some, others are being notified now as I speak," Trump said. |
| • | "We were going to notify them last night but we decided not to do that because Washington leaks like I've never seen before." |
| • | The president went on to call Washington, D.C. "a leaking machine, and said he decided "we will not notify them until our great people are out," because "I don't want to have them greeted with firepower like you wouldn't believe." |
| • | ... said Springsteen — not Trump — is dividing Americans. "I also think he's the one who is dividing because he's the one labeling someone un-American." |
| • | "I think being president of the United States is about as American as it gets, especially for a guy who gave up his cushy lifestyle as a billionaire to decide to run for president, get his teeth knocked in every single day by the media, as well as the left." |
| • | "That's pretty darn American. He also gives up his salary. So I think President Trump loves this country." |
| • | "He has said that he has problems with President Trump. And, my feeling is, there are plenty of people that I have problems with but, the reality is when police officers are out on the street, we do not engage in political activity. |
| • | "The reality is that we are here to enforce the laws and, unfortunately, the police department doesn't get to choose which laws they want to enforce. We try to enforce them impartially and if you want laws changed, you go to that body and try to change them." |
| • | ... "the ones who want to shout down a meaningful discussion — they will remain ignorant." |
| • | See related Counterpoint (Glenn McCoy, 02/03/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | See related Tolerance (Michael Ramirez, 02/06/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "This shouldn't be going on here. If this was going on in a banana republic, we'd say that's pretty bad." |
| • | "It's going on in the United States of America. It's going on in Congress. And it's enough." |
| • | "Anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem. Anti-Semitism is everyone's problem. Anti-Semitism is evil and, as evil, it damns the soul." |
| • | "The Ghost of Hitler is walking across the colleges and university campuses of this nation smiling. If we do not use our freedom to defend our freedom, we're going to lose our freedom." |
| • | "The left blames incivility on @realDonaldTrump. Watch this video and decide who the rude ones are..." |
| • | "We should welcome any sitting president coming here. We've welcomed other presidents with open arms and now because there's a disagreement or we have a president across a different aisle, there's an issue here. So, I believe we should disagree with dignity." |
| • | "And, anybody [who] does not like the president: we're going to have an election a couple of years down the road." |
| • | Our schools are not for brainwashing children to march under the banner of one political agenda. |
| • | Teachers aim to unleash children's ability to think critically and live responsibly. |
| • | "We're all different and I think that we've forgotten that that's OK. That we're all different... but just because I don't agree with someone on everything doesn't mean that I'm not going to be friends with them." |
| • | "When I say, 'Be kind to one another,' I don't mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone." |
| • | That's the key; we need to get back to debating ideas instead of tearing down people. |
| • | "... There's a lot of slander and name-calling and lying that's going on and passing itself off as news..." |
| • | "... Somebody has to stand up and say that and punch back at that nonsense. This is not America. The Democratic Party doesn't represent America anymore." |
| • | "What I find infuriating about what she said there — Democrats are the ones who are threatening our democracy by casting doubt on the legitimacy of President Trump." |
| • | "They are the ones who are undermining our faith in institutions, particularly the electoral process." |
| • | "It's particularly puzzling that our show, which allegedly critiques media, would choose to host a Hollywood celebrity with zero discernible news value." |
| • | "What is his credential, other than deeply hating the president? What did our viewers gain from his vulgarity?" |
| • | See related De Niro (Antonio Branco, 11/01/2018) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "I'm not gonna sit there and let them tell lies about my president, tell lies about the men and women of the Border Patrol and ICE. ... At a certain point it's like, I'm not gonna shut up. ... Just because you have a gavel, doesn't make you queen of the day, it doesn't allow you to lie to the American people." |
| • | He added it's "incredible" that he is under oath when he testifies at these hearings, but the lawmakers are not. |
| • | "Look, you want to know why there's 50,000 people in detention? You want to know why there are a million illegal entries into the United States? You want to know why we have these issues? Because you have failed to secure the border." |
| • | "You guys failed to work with this president to close the three loopholes we've asked for two years to close." |
| • | "I'm a taxpayer. I'm a taxpayer, you work for me." |
| • | "Can you imagine the outrage if I had put a t-shirt together like that for impeaching President Obama?" |
| • | "First of all, my mother would have called me and told me, ‘Shame on you.' Then I would have heard from my Republican colleagues asking me, ‘What in the world are you doing?'" |
| • | "The real danger here is that Democrats keep using baseless accusations in hopes of crippling a successful presidency." |
| • | "The transcript really shows how dishonest news media is. Unlike Joe Biden, no military aid was withheld, no threats, and absolutely no pressure. Zelensky introduces me into the conversation, not POTUS Trump." |
| • | "Wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their country first. The future does not belong to globalists, the future belongs to patriots." |
| • | "The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique." |
| • | "If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty. If you want peace, love your nation." |
| • | "The public chattering class of Democrats and Republicans who remain apoplectic about Trump's success and their own pathetic failures hate Trump because they hate the average American who put him in office. The president is the proxy for the American voter and every person who dared to fire the establishment in 2016, and it's those people who must be dealt with." |
| • | "Watching Bernie pander to different groups to get their vote has always disgusted me, but now it's personal." |
| • | "I didn't go to war so that you would take care of me, Bernie. I went because I wanted to serve and our country needed it." |
| • | "I don't want to have crazy people have guns. I don't want to have bad people have guns. But, we're going to do nothing to hurt the Second Amendment. And what we want to do is see if we can come up with a compromise, and that's what we're working on." |
| • | "Here's the thing: I'm voting for Trump but I wouldn't be friends with Trump. I'm not voting for Yang but I'd definitely be his friend." |
| • | President Trump noticed the tweet and responded, "I'm OK with that!" |
| • | "Results are more important than rhetoric. ... While I don't like some things he tweets or says, I do want to vote for him." |
| • | "He's really protecting the religious community, he's pro-life and there's a lot of different things he's delivering on and I think it's really important to look beyond just the rhetoric." |
| • | "They arrested 127,000 criminals off the streets last year. Not just illegal aliens, those that committed crimes against U.S. citizens. And they want this company to stop working with us?" |
| • | "Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue. The lies being told about him are unbelievable. False Accusations without recrimination. When does it stop? They are trying to influence his opinions. Can't let that happen!" |
| • | "How do you impeach a President who has helped create perhaps the greatest economy in the history of our Country? All time best unemployment numbers, especially for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians & Women. More people working today than ever before." |
| • | "Rebuilt Military & Choice for Vets. Became Number 1 in World & Independent in Energy." |
| • | "Will soon have record number of Judges, 2 SC Justices." |
| • | "Done more than any President in first 2 1/2 years despite phony & fraudulent Witch Hunt illegally led against him. WIN on Mueller Report, Mueller Testimony & James Comey IG Report, which showed him to be a Disgraced & Dirty Cop." |
| • | "Republicans have unified like never before. You don't impeach Presidents for doing a good (great!) job. No Obstruction, No Collusion, only treasonous crimes committed by the other side, and led by the Democrats. Sad!" |
| • | "Today I am here to respond to you exactly who did what to whom." |
| • | "Madam, objectively speaking, we know who and what was done. There is no uncertainty about that. Why your confusion?" |
| • | "On that day 19 Islamic terrorists, members of Al Qaeda, killed over 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars of economic damage. Is that clear?" |
| • | "But as to whom? I was attacked. Your relatives and friends were attacked," Haros Jr. said, looking out to the crowd. |
| • | "Our constitutional freedoms were attacked and our nation's founding on Judeo-Christian principles was attacked." |
| • | "That's what some people did." |
| • | "Got that now? We are here today congresswoman to tell you and the Squad just who did what to whom. Show respect in honoring them, please." |
| • | "A representative of the House referred to our loss as just another incident'" he said last year, referring to remarks from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. |
| • | "Stop. Stop, please stop using the bones and ashes of our loved ones as props in your political theater." |
| • | "Their lives, sacrifices and death are worth so much more." |
| • | "The NYT says airplanes caused 9/11. Wrong. It was Muslim terrorists who waged jihad on American soil and killed thousands of our fellow countrymen in the name of their religion." |
| • | "Twin Towers NOT brought down because "airplanes took aim" at them, but b/c radical Islamists hijacked planes & took aim at them." |
| • | ... compared the rhetoric in the Times tweet to an infamous remark made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., earlier this year when she said "some people did something" when describing the 9/11 attacks. |
| • | Does the evidence show Earth has warmed over the past century? Yes, of course. |
| • | Is warming likely to continue for the next several decades, at least? Yes, probably. |
| • | But the available evidence shows that warming is not dangerous and not likely to be catastrophic, despite numerous dire reports from climate alarmists like Ocasio-Cortez and biased government agencies, which are often more interested in accomplishing political goals than engaging in real scientific inquiry. |
| • | For example, the evidence clearly shows that sea-level rise is not accelerating at a dangerous pace and that it's in line with sea-level rise measured prior to the widespread use of fossil fuels. |
| • | ... the hard data overwhelmingly shows that recent warming has not been catastrophic and that humans are better off in our moderately warmer world that they would otherwise be... |
| • | "During the past 150 years, as Earth has emerged from the Little Ice Age, the warming climate has brought immeasurable benefits that continue today, including crop yields that have set records in the United States and globally nearly every year." |
| • | "Higher temperatures have also spurred a significant increase in global plant life, as measured by NASA satellites. |
| • | Recent warming has led to a reduction in persistently lower temperatures, which researchers estimate kill 20 times more people than higher temperatures, and objective data show extreme weather and climate events have actually become slightly less frequent and severe in recent decades, despite numerous false or misleading media reports to the contrary." |
| • | Numerous scientists have made similar observations in recent decades, a reality the mainstream press continues to ignore. |
| • | ... the chief meteorologist at weatherbell.com, has found that "in the fossil fuel era, in spite of a four-fold increase in population," the number of deaths related to climate has "plummeted." |
| • | "So what's happened as it's warmed this half a degree in the late 20th century and the CO2 has gone up and up in the atmosphere, well, what we've done is we've created a greener and greener planet and the greening of the Planet Earth is profound." |
| • | Alarmists like Ocasio-Cortez also ignore the many important economic benefits provided by affordable, reliable energy sources like oil and natural gas. |
| • | Unlike more expensive wind and solar, conventional energies work regardless if the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. |
| • | Many conventional energy power facilities, especially nuclear, often last significantly longer than solar or wind facilities. |
| • | And conventional energy sources require a lot less land. |
| • | Will global warming cause some problems, yes, but probably not nearly as many as proposals like the Green New Deal. |
| • | And whatever problems do come humans' way will likely be outweighed by the benefits of warming and could easily be dealt with through technological innovations, human ingenuity, and, if necessary, behavioral changes. |
| • | So, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, feel free to have as many kids as you'd like and sleep well. |
| • | Humans are going to be just fine! |
| • | See related The End IS Near... (Michael Ramirez, 01/24/2019) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | See related Green New Deal (Gary Varvel, 03/16/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "It's a hat, and this is a Free Country, " John Betts wrote. "The very fact that you're triggered by the hat shows what a serious problem you have with tolerating opposing political views." |
| • | It's due in large part to the fascist antics and modus operandi of the left, including actress Debra Messing, of "Will and Grace" fame, who is seeking what amounts to a blacklist of Trump supporters |
| • | I'll be supporting Trump in his reelection bid, in part, because of his surprising policy successes, and, in part, because he is the only thing standing between an America as we've known it and a nation that will be irretrievably transformed into an unrecognizable socialist state. |
| • | As frustrating as his insensitive and often divisive rhetoric can be, any danger Trump may pose is far less than a Democratic Party seeking to impose open borders, class warfare, an unrealistic Green New Deal that will cripple our economy, appeasement to traditional foes such as China and Iran, a hostility toward the Israeli democracy and a clampdown on free speech, as highlighted by Messing's quest to punish those not sharing her political views. |
| • | When close to 50 percent of the population is constantly barraged by the Democratic media cabal with accusations that they are complicit in a racist mass murder in El Paso because they had the temerity to support Trump, or to not follow liberal orthodoxy, these folks are going to push back. |
| • | The best way to thumb your nose at those who would seek to destroy you for not following their groupthink is to lend support to the very person they so loathe. |
| • | As the old saying goes: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
| • | Who do these radical scoundrels think they are trying to intimidate average law-abiding American citizens from carrying out their constitutional right to support anyone they so desire? |
| • | The left has emboldened Antifa and its violent ways. It condones the banishing of conservative speakers on college campuses. |
| • | It is giving a wink and a nod to miscreants who are hurling water, and even concrete slabs, at our police officers. |
| • | It is now doxxing contributors to political campaigns to pressure them into dropping their support for a candidate of their choice. |
| • | Why would so many Americans support Donald Trump even though they basically don't like him personally? |
| • | Well, as a wise politician once said: People will vote for someone they don't like, but won't vote for someone they believe doesn't like them. |
| • | It is increasingly clear that the Democratic Party and their allies controlling the media, academia and the entertainment industries have a visceral disdain for middle America. |
| • | On the other hand, despite his often grating personality, Trump is perceived as truly fighting for these forgotten folks in flyover country. |
| • | His economic policies have jump-started a stagnant Obama economy that gave us an anemic 1.6 percent level of growth in his final year. |
| • | And while Trump hasn't yet succeeded in reining in illegal immigration or China's criminal trade practices, the feeling is, at least he's trying. |
| • | And then there is the judiciary, which Trump is slowly moderating after Obama stacked the courts with hundreds of leftist, interventionist jurists... |
| • | Equally important is the department heads a president appoints. Trump's appointees have reversed ludicrous Obama regulations that classified rain puddles on farms as toxic sites, or protocols that restricted due process for male students on campus accused of sexual assault, or restrictions on needed pipelines to heat our homes in the winter. |
| • | An election is a binary choice. Even if an independent-minded voter has reservations about Trump's demeanor, there is far more to be concerned about with the intolerant, radical, anti-public safety and often anti-American forces seeking to displace him. |
| • | See related Gets Me Where I Want (Michael Ramirez, 02/25/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "They want to cost people their livelihoods just because you don't agree with them politically." |
| • | "People who they just don't agree with, they want to take and punish. I absolutely believe this is a fascist behavior, and I totally reject it." |
| • | See related Love Trumps Hate (Sean Delonas, 11/10/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "I think this is a growing problem inside America. We've lost the fundamental friendliness with one another, we've lost a sense of fairness." |
| • | Gun control doesn't work. Look at Chicago. Disarming law-abiding citizens isn't the answer. Stopping violent criminals — prosecuting & getting them off the street — BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let's protect our citizens. |
| • | "Don't trust Wall Street to take care of China." |
| • | "If there were a deal tomorrow with China – even though it would be a terrible deal – the stock market would go up 1,000 points, and 10 years from now we'd reap the consequences of that terrible deal." |
| • | "Will we feel this as consumers? Yes. But [it's] pay now or pay later." |
| • | "The great sage, AOC, apparently didn't take Civics so she wants to get rid of the Electoral College. The college we need to close is the one who gave her a degree! She won't watch this, but hope you will. Electoral College is good for Dems and GOP." |
| • | "Ocasio-Cortez (and many 2020 Dem candidates) think it's a "scam" to allow anyone but coastal elites have a say in our elections." |
| • | See related The End IS Near... (Michael Ramirez, 01/24/2019) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "In my opinion, if you vote for a Democrat you're being very disloyal to Jewish people and you're being very disloyal to Israel and only weak people would say anything other than that." |
| • | "My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3000, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer." |
| • | "President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion." |
| • | "Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have a well-documented history of anti-Semitic comments, anti-Semitic social media posts and anti-Semitic relationships." |
| • | "Israel has the right to prevent people who want to destroy it from entering the country – and Democrats' pointless congressional inquiries here in America cannot change the laws Israel has passed to protect itself." |
| • | "Sorry, I don't buy Rep. Tlaib's tears. I have watched her violence, craziness and, most importantly, WORDS, for far too long." |
| • | "Now tears? She hates Israel and all Jewish people. She is an anti-Semite. She and her 3 friends are the new face of the Democrat Party. Live with it!" |
| • | "No one should have to justify their free speech or their religion to a regulatory body." |
| • | "To threaten someone's job because they express their faith makes free speech unfree, and so we must fight these assaults on religious liberty aggressively whenever they arise." |
| • | "The fact that they are Muslim women has zero to do with this. " |
| • | "The issue is their vile anti-Semitism and support of a movement dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel." |
| • | "And @AOC should realize she hurts all women every time she claims phony gender discrimination." |
| • | "It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!" |
| • | "MSNBC is willing to put complete lunatics on the air who will say absolutely anything at any time, as long as it makes Trump look bad." |
| • | "The Philadelphia shooter should never have been allowed to be on the streets. He had a long and very dangerous criminal record. Looked like he was having a good time after his capture, and after wounding so many police. Long sentence - must get much tougher on street crime!" |
| • | "If you think this is 'sacrifice,' you are delusional. All you've done is haphazardly denounced the entirety of our country because of its imperfections. You and your fellow athletes have only succeeded in politicizing one of the few things that still unite us: sports." |
| • | "People look at this and they're sick of it. Dan Crenshaw is right, that is the farthest thing from sacrifice I have ever seen. Look around, buddy, look around in this country, the men in blue, the folks that wear camouflage and what they do for us every day, and you're talking about sacrifice?" |
| • | ... said he grew up in Iowa and supported Trump based on immigration, trade and staying out of foreign wars, not because he supports hate or racism. |
| • | "I had kids in my neighborhood that went to Vietnam and I'm 1,000 percent against foreign wars. I want to bring all the kids back. No. 2, the trade deals decimated Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We used to have manufacturing all over town, it's all gone." |
| • | "I treasure the people from around the world. ... I have nothing against immigration. I think the world of the people who come here. The Cubans built a wonderful city in Miami. But I just think you should come to America legally. Those three things that Trump stood for resonated throughout the Rust Belt, where I'm originally from." |
| • | "Seriously @IlhanMN this is your intellectual come back? I said as a MUSLIM! I dont stand for your anti-American, anti-Semitic, Muslim Brotherhood agenda using this democracy to further YOUR & YOUR FRIENDS Islamic socialism goals of dividing & weakening our country." |
| • | "When you @IlhanMN come to my State, My City, My zip code right here in CA & accept an award from CAIR a Muslim brotherhood affiliated organization IT IS my business!" |
| • | First was the Middle East, then Europe & now the USA. I fled from the same ideology you're trying to export here..." |
| • | "It says something sad about the state of the ‘entertainment' industry that this movie ever got conceived and produced. Hollywood clearly thinks it is OK to stereotype so-called deplorables and set them up for a hunt." |
| • | "Why would anyone think it's a great idea to have a movie about hunting down someone who doesnt agree with them politically? It's remarkable to me that the left blames Donald Trump's rhetoric for violence, then literally spends millions to normalize the killing of people based on politics." |
| • | "We're told over and over again by the left, especially in Hollywood, that this country is more divided than ever and we need to come together... is this what they mean by it? Come together to murder your neighbors that you don't agree with? This film is sick and shows just how hateful the left has become." |
| • | "This certainly shows Hollywood for what it really is — demented and evil. At a time when journalists try to blame President Trump for every act of violence in the world, wannabe Tinseltown terrorists are making sick murder fantasies about right-wingers." |
| • | "Let's not give either an evil racist force or a lunatic left wing nut any satisfaction by turning on one another in the wake of these heinous acts of domestic terror." |
| • | "Now conflating the evil racism of a deranged killer with Trump's reasonable and much-needed call for border security is not just offensive, it's absolutely obscene." |
| • | "Why are we picking through the words of evil lunatics trying to connect the dots and figure it all out. Whether inspired by people on the right or left, they're nuts. Period. What the country needs now is healing and unity." |
| • | The answer to how he or the El Paso shooter found their way from fantasy to murder won't be found in pointless spitting matches between the left and right over whose politics bears the blame. |
| • | "I understand that the president's actions and the verbiage he uses about illegal immigration are going to be part of this debate — but to suggest that he's responsible, that he's encouraging, that he's condoning the actions of a crazed gunman seems to me to be horribly unfair on the media's part. Politicians can do it, they're running for office. But should the media tolerate this?" |
| • | "You are a Canadian making a living as an 'actor' in The United States Of America. If you're so embarrassed by our Country that is putting food on your table, I'd be more than happy to purchase your 1 Way ticket back to America's Hat." |
| • | See related Don't Have the Addresses... (Mike Lester, 12/21/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "What's protecting the president is that he didn't do anything worthy of impeachment and even the Mueller memo, I've read it, there's nothing of an impeachable offense there. These guys are delusional and I don't think America wants to go through an impeachment process." |
| • | "It's always a call of racism. And my problem with this, and I think so many people's problem with continually using racism when we know that that is not true, when it is just a talking point for the left and so much of the mainstream media, is that when it actually is true — when there's real racism — people aren't going to pay attention to it anymore." |
| • | "I'm sort of dumbfounded how unappreciative she is of our country." |
| • | "While I'm not saying we forcibly send her anywhere, I'm willing to contribute to buy her a ticket to go visit Somalia, and I think she could look and maybe learn a little bit about the disaster that is Somalia - that has no capitalism, has no God-given rights guaranteed in a constitution, and has about seven different tribes that have been fighting each other for the last 40 years." |
| • | "And then, maybe after she's visited Somalia for a while, she might come back and appreciate America more." |
| • | "I've met people who have come here from behind the Iron Curtain, that got away from communism. They're some of the best Americans we have, because they really appreciate how great our country is." |
| • | Omar, by contrast, is "about as ungrateful as you can get," Paul said. |
| • | "It's like, well, she came here and we fed her, we clothed her, she got welfare, she got school, she got healthcare, and then, lo and behold, she has the honor of actually winning a seat in Congress, and she says we're a terrible country?" |
| • | "How dare Midler dismiss these grown black men as props for hire, rather than sapient citizens who support the candidate of their choice? And why shouldn't they? Thanks to the Trump/GOP tax cuts, black unemployment is near record lows, and average real wages for blacks are up 3.3 percent over the last 12 months, the Dallas Federal Reserve reports." |
| • | "Also, President Trump's criminal-justice reform disproportionately benefits blacks." |
| • | "Israel is our best ally in the Mid East; a beacon of hope, freedom & liberty, surrounded by existential threats." |
| • | "Shame on Rep Omar for bringing her hateful twist on that reality to House Foreign today, propping up the BDS movement & blaming Israel for all of its challenges." |
| • | "This disrespect for the uniform in NYC is result of a Democrat-Progressive (Retrogressive)-Socialist Mayor. This is what happens with knee-jerk disrespect for police. It will only get worse until these Left wing idiots are defeated." |
| • | "He's a disgrace, and even Democrats don't support him and are embarrassed of him." |
| • | "The way you reduce crime is to have police officers with high morale. That uniform should be respected." |
| • | "I fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize somebody, and they happen to be a different color skin, that that makes it a racial criticism." |
| • | "If you want to have a colorblind society, that means you can criticize immigration policy, you can criticize people's views, you can ask questions about where they're born, and not have it be seen as racial." |
| • | "The same people who are screaming racism & are defending the Squad have been attacking the color of Trumps skin & telling him to Leave since day one!" |
| • | "They have attacked his immigrant wife, her accent & the languages she speaks, they have attacked his Jewish daughter & son-in-law." |
| • | "Israel is our best ally in the Mid East; a beacon of hope, freedom & liberty, surrounded by existential threats." |
| • | "Shame on Rep Omar for bringing her hateful twist on that reality to House Foreign today, propping up the BDS movement & blaming Israel for all of its challenges." |
| • | See related I'm ... Anti-Semitic (Bob Gorrell, 02/13/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "It just came to me... America, I love it. If you don't love it, leave it.'" |
| • | "People that feel hard about our president and want to down the president, and down the country and everything, they ought to go over there and live in these other countries for a little while." |
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| • | "They're socialists and they want to impose their vision to Texas and we certainly know that in Texas our vision is very different from ... what I call these Justice Democrats, which are really socialists. They're not really Democrats." |
| • | "We all know that [AOC] and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country, they're calling the guards along our border — the Border Patrol agents — concentration camp guards," Graham said. |
| • | Just minutes before the representatives were set to take the stage, Trump invoked Omar's infamous casual reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an instance in which "some people did something" — and renewed his calls for anti-American individuals to leave the country. |
| • | "We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country." |
| • | "They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, 'some people did something'." |
| • | "Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders, which means drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more." |
| • | "Detention facilities are not Concentration Camps!" |
| • | "America has never been stronger than it is now – rebuilt Military, highest Stock Market EVER, lowest unemployment and more people working than ever before. Keep America Great!" |
| • | "If someone doesn't like our country, if someone doesn't want to be in our country, they should leave." |
| • | "These are people that hate our country... They hate it, I think, with a passion." |
| • | "When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said." |
| • | "If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S." |
| • | "So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion. Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, 'RACIST,'" |
| • | "Their disgusting language... and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged." |
| • | "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crytpo Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity." |
| • | "Similarly, Facebook Libra's "virtual currency" will have little standing or dependability." |
| • | "If Facebook and other companies want to become a bank, they must seek a new Banking Charter and become subject to all Banking Regulations, just like other Banks, both National and International." |
| • | "We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever, both dependable and reliable. It is by far the most dominant currency anywhere in the World, and it will always stay that way. It is called the United States Dollar!" |
| • | "They didn't want to hear the truth. They wanted to push their narrative and not let me speak. ... They wanted me to get up and walk out and I wasn't gonna give that to them," he said, adding that his answers were directed to the American people. |
| • | "So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run." |
| • | "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done." |
| • | "These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!" |
| • | "She is a complete fraud." |
| • | "Her peers do not take her seriously." |
| • | "She is a nobody. She is a freshman member of Congress with no power." |
| • | "First of all, your comments are disgusting... and yes I have held a 5-year-old boy in my arms and said a prayer for him knowing what his last 30 minutes was like." |
| • | "For you to sit there and insult my integrity and my love for my country and for children ... that's why this whole thing needs to be fixed. And you're the member of Congress. Fix it." |
| • | "The same people that vilify [the] Border Patrol for detention conditions are the same people that refuse to answer the call for help until it's too late." |
| • | ... "this body has failed to secure the border and created the very magnet that is causing these migrants to come through and be abused by cartels while this body sits cowardly in the corner doing nothing about it." |
| • | "Sarsour's attempt to reference the Quran is interesting because she seems to not mention other aspects of how Jesus is described in Islamic theology." |
| • | "For instance, he is seen as a messenger to the ‘Children of Israel' and an adherent of the laws of Moses. He is linked to the line of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes of Israel, as well as kings David and Solomon." |
| • | "The American flag serves as a symbol of our identity, resolve, and values as one people. To honor its significance, the federal government should only use flags entirely manufactured in the United States." |
| • | "Nobody in government can watch everything that's being said about an entity in social media." |
| • | "What gets posted at 5 p.m. today will be buried under thousands of messages tomorrow." |
| • | "People like AOC create the disaster, refuse to fix it, vote against funding to help people and then go down there to attack the people who are saying to her, ‘we don't have enough money, we don't have enough facilities,'" |
| • | "How many migrant women did @AOC help by voting AGAINST the $4.6 billion bipartisan humanitarian aid that is FOR THEM?" |
| • | "What they're really doing is trying to stand on their moral high horse and sling arrows at everybody else while not offering a solution." |
| • | "They fought us tooth and nail against that $4.5 [billion] in humanitarian aid the president needed, that DHS needed." |
| • | "American exceptionalism is based on freedom and liberty on the founding documents of this country." |
| • | "Because of the founding documents and freedom and liberty that we provide to this nation, we have developed the greatest nation on Earth." |
| • | "People on the left hates our president so much that they are willing to just put a negative spin on anything. How many times have you seen a flyover and an athletic event? Everybody loves them except for when President Trump is the one proposing them." |
| • | "We are a sovereign nation. It's absurd that we don't know how many citizens and non-citizens are living in this country. That's why I'm introducing this bill to require a citizenship question on the census - and ensure that states harboring millions of illegal immigrants are not rewarded with additional taxpayer dollars." |
| • | "She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity." |
| • | "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care." |
| • | "Her statement is evil. It hurts a lot of people. At the concentration camp, we were not free." |
| • | "We were forced there by the Germans who executed and murdered people — there's no way you can compare." |
| • | "This gang is the new version of the KKK using masks to terrorize citizens going about their business." |
| • | The Academy Award winner said he was part of the anti-war left during the 1960s, but later discovered the "truth" and changed his political ways. |
| • | "I have sympathy for people that are in ignorance. It doesn't scare me. Ignorance doesn't scare me. I was like that myself. I just root for everybody to come to the truth." |
| • | "He is rebuilding the nation my son gave his life for. I feel like our country was rescued in November of 2016 from I don't even know what, and I will fight with my last breath to get him re-elected in 2020." |
| • | Voight agreed, calling socialism a "disaster" and lamenting that young people are being "indoctrinated" in schools and don't fully understand the perils of socialist policies. |
| • | "If they knew anything about the Second World War, they'd know that socialism is a disaster. It's never produced anything anywhere in the world. It's an economic sinkhole, but it also produces nothing but misery and violence." |
| • | "The online discussion about the incident is troubling. Hundreds of people are calling for the demise of our business, threatening our employees, and posting fake reviews... they are wrong to do so based on the actions of a lone individual." |
| • | "So too, however, are those people wrong who are praising this as an act of civil disobedience. We have voices and the means to be heard. A degrading act lowers the tenor of debate. To some it might feel good, but it is unlikely to serve any larger purpose." |
| • | "We hope this incident can, at least, serve to illuminate the current absurdity of the discourse in our politics. As fellow Americans and citizens, we should all aim higher." |
| • | ... A lot of those folks on the left, the loving and tolerant left, believe they have a moral obligation to attack, disparage and harass people who don't think like they do." |
| • | "This is a shocking comment from a House Committee Chairwoman. She is literally repeating the lies of the Iranian regime. What a disgrace." |
| • | "Maxine Waters' hate for Trump runs so deep that she is willing to take Iran's side over the word of our military." |
| • | "AOC — look at me. My name is Sami Steigmann. I am a holocaust survivor. I went through it. How can you — looking at my face, telling me that the camps we have in the South are concentration camps? What you are doing is you are insulting every victim of the Holocaust. Shame on you!" |
| • | "I'm not only a Holocaust survivor, I was in a labor camp ... I was subjected to medical experiments and, later on, a German woman saved my life, when I came to the stage of dying of starvation." |
| • | "My name is David Tuck. I'm a holocaust survivor. I was in four concentration camps. We have no concentration camps [in America]." |
| • | "This is just a political comment. She's in politics. She's looking out for herself. There must be a purpose, a reason. Why would she say it? She wants to be popular? You can't be popular by annihilating other people. Don't talk to me about concentration camps." |
| • | "The first camp was Posen Stadium. And then I went to Auschwitz. Then I went to Mauthausen, then I went to Gusen." |
| • | "Out of every 10 Jews, nine were killed. I was lucky. I still have the number on my arm. Nobody can deny that the Holocaust ever happened to me." |
| • | "I'd wake up in the morning and I'd say 'Please God, let me see the light the next day." |
| • | "When I heard that we are free and I looked up in the sky and I said, 'tell me, where can I go?' And I came to America ... It's still the best country in the world. Enjoy life. We have no concentration camps here. God bless you all." |
Biden calls Iran tensions ‘self-inflicted disaster’ after US drone shoot-down (Fox 06/19/2019)
| • | "Iran shoots down an American drone in international airspace, and Joe Biden's response is to attack President Trump? What is his solution? Send Iran more pallets of cash? Let Iran take more U.S. sailors hostage? More coddling?" |
| • | "I don't want to fight. But you do have situations like Iran, you can't let them have nuclear weapons — you just can't let that happen." |
| • | A 1965 letter to then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from a person whose name was redacted included news clippings about Alinsky and said, "The situation that amazes me about this enclosed clipping is the fact that our Constitution permits people freedom — people who try to tear it down." |
| • | "I wish I could, personally, do something about a man like this," the person wrote in the letter to Hoover. |
| • | But the sender said, "all I can do is to be on the alert, respect law and order and justice and be a loyal American to our Democracy." |
| • | "Her campaign and the DNC paid for a foreigner's information on her opponent." |
| • | "So it's already been done. And this is the double standard and hypocrisy that we're seeing today... We don't even have an investigation into how Hillary Clinton did this or why she did it and the Democrats are saying 'don't do that investigation.'" |
| • | "[Russian President Vladimir] Putin tends to back the candidates he believes will lose on the theory that an alienated losing faction will make it harder for the winning faction to govern," he said. |
| • | "It is a mistake, I respectfully submit, to allow him to divide us by portraying him as on one side or another. He's against all of us." |
| • | "One would think the Democrats would simply apologize and get back to lawmaking and oversight but it's clear they couldn't stop this grotesque spectacle even if they wanted to," he said. |
| • | "After years of false accusations and McCarthyite smears, the collusion hoax now defines the Democratic Party." |
| • | "The hoax is what they have in place of a governing philosophy or a constructive vision for our country." |
| • | See related Trump Witch Hunt (Sean Delonas, 03/10/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Homeowner who grabbed rifle, fatally shot intruder won't be charged, authorities say (Fox 06/08/2019)
| • | "People have the right to defend themselves." |
| • | "I have to tell you, as a liberal Democrat, I'm appalled at Nancy Pelosi. The idea of her weaponizing the criminal justice system — and calling for the imprisonment of the president of the United States without him being charged with any crime, without him being charged with any impeachable offense — it's just outrageous." |
| • | "You can't just target a president and say we want to see him in prison without producing evidence." |
| • | "Democrats can't impeach a Republican President for crimes committed by Democrats. The facts are "pouring" in. The Greatest Witch Hunt in American History! Congress, go back to work and help us at the Border, with Drug Prices and on Infrastructure." |
| • | See related Impeach Painting Corner (Sean Delonas, 05/23/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "Thousands of innocent lives are taken every year as a result of this lawless chaos. It must end NOW! ... Mexico's passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an emergency and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States." |
| • | ... De Niro "lives better than 99.99 percent of people in the entirety of human history have ever lived, and he cannot accept that a close election in a 50-50 country didn't go his way." |
| • | ... "no prosecutor should ever say or do anything for the purpose of helping one party or the other." |
| • | "I cannot imagine a plausible reason why Mueller went beyond his report and gratuitously suggested that President Trump might be guilty, except to help Democrats in Congress and to encourage impeachment talk and action. Shame on Mueller for abusing his position of trust and for allowing himself to be used for such partisan advantage." |
| • | See related What's the Charge? (Glenn McCoy, 08/07/2017) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "When I conclude as a prosecutor and I'm not confident that a person committed a crime, that's called exoneration." |
| • | "The person is innocent until proven guilty. That's not a slogan, it's not a joke, it's a basic fundamental of our Constitution, of the Magna Carta, of elemental fairness." |
| • | "She accuses him of a cover-up in front of everybody to appease her Democratic caucus after an impeachment meeting, and then wonders why the president would have something to say about her behavior and what they are doing." |
| • | "I probably should be a little more prepared in these hearings for just hostility and attacks. My general modus operandi is if I am nice and respectful to them, they will be nice and respectful to me. But that obviously doesn't work in this setting." |
| • | "He is not allowing her to go out there, call him a criminal, saying he is committing crimes by covering things up and then walk over to his house and look him in the eye and pretend that she wants to do some legislation. He is calling her out." |
| • | No idea what she means with "casual tornadoes" and how this line of severe thunderstorms is proof of any "climate crisis". |
| • | It's just the weather in D.C. |
| • | The Congresswoman AOC does not know the difference between weather and climate. |
| • | Let's try an easy analogy: |
| • | Weather is what outfit you wear heading out the door. |
| • | Climate is your closet wardrobe. |
| • | "The Green New Deal is a socialist's wish list of absurd proposals rooted in fantasy and funded by raising your taxes. It deserves to be defeated." |
| • | See related AOC Green New Deal (Gary McCoy, 02/11/2019) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Congressional investigations are intended to obtain information to aid in evaluating potential legislation, not to harass political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized ‘do-over' of exhaustive law enforcement investigations conducted by the Department of Justice." |
| • | "The 'Constitutional Crisis' is the Democrats refusing to work. Let them start by fixing the mess that their Immigration Laws have caused at the Southern Border." |
| • | "I think it's all about trying to destroy Bill Barr because Democrats are nervous he's going to get to the bottom of everything." |
| • | "He's going to find out how and why this investigation started in the first place." |
| • | See related Now We Need to See Where This Goes (Gary Varvel, 04/12/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "Nicolas Maduro is a socialist dictator who has taken what was one of the most prosperous nations in this hemisphere and brought it literally to a level of deprivation and oppression and poverty that we have never seen." |
| • | "Nine out of 10 people in Venezuela live in poverty. Three million people have fled Venezuela. That's not a result of U.S. policies. That's the result of dictatorship and socialism that has been imposed on people of Venezuela by Nicolas Maduro." |
| • | "For a member of congress, who frankly, one who sits on an important national committee, making a statement blaming America first in this way, it's not only ignorant, it's disgusting." |
| • | "If he has evidence of collusion that somehow the special counsel couldn't find over 22 months and $35 million of our money, I want Adam Schiff to produce that." |
| • | "He ought to put up or shut up." |
| • | "I find it ironic as hell that the woman worried about what the Russians were doing was the one who paid them to tamper with the election." |
| • | See related Trump Collusion Charges (Glenn McCoy, 10/30/2017) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "The reason Barr is not here today is because Democrats decided they didn't want him here today. That's the reason he's not here." |
| • | "What's amazing to me is that you say he's scared of answering questions...yet yesterday he sat for over six hours in the Senate answering questions." |
| • | "We're not getting that opportunity today because the stunt and circus continues over here." |
| • | "As a woman I find this so insulting, Eric. You must really think we're stupid to try and sell this ridiculous rhetoric." |
| • | "Under my administration we will never surrender American sovereignty to anyone, we will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom and that is why my administration will never ratify the U.N. trade treaty." |
| • | "By taking these actions, we are reaffirming that American liberty is sacred and that American citizens live by American laws not by laws of foreign countries." |
| • | A question the 23-year-old gets a lot is: "Why do you support Trump?" |
| • | "I support his support for the State of Israel and moving the embassy [to Jerusalem], something that so many presidents promised to do and they didn't. I support that he puts our country first, something that is shockingly not heard of apparently with candidates that are running for president in this country. |
| • | "I support the way that he shares his views the same way that I share my views. I support the fact that he's not politically correct and tells it like it is and gets young people excited for their futures in the country... and apart from politics, he also continued on and fought probably every critic... that told him he was never going to do it. He continued on, stayed confident and became probably the most powerful man in the world. So if you can't get inspiration from that, then that's a deeper issue." |
| • | Voting is an important right of American citizens, but it's predicated on the commitment we all make to the social compact. |
| • | Just like freedom is only guaranteed when you don't break the agreement, as defined by our laws. |
| • | The moment you decide our laws, and the compact, do not apply to you, neither do certain rights accorded to law-abiding citizens, like personal freedom and the right to vote. |
| • | "The extremity and radicalism of the 2020 Democrats knows no bounds." |
| • | "Giving imprisoned terrorists, sex offenders, and murderers the right to vote is an outrageous proposal that is deeply offensive to innocent victims across this country, some of whom lost their lives and are forever disenfranchised by the very killers that 2020 Democrats seek to empower." |
| • | "You have every right to protect yourself or your family if you're in fear for your life or safety, and it appears that's what happened in this instance so far." |
| • | After more than two years of investigations, subpoenas, witness testimony and millions of dollars wasted, Mueller's report concluded, "The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."* |
| • | As for obstruction of justice, how does one obstruct something that is not a crime?* |
| • | Imagine how President Trump must have felt. Not only the establishment, which includes Democrats and Republicans, but the major media were constantly assaulting him starting before the election and ever since. |
| • | Some critics have accused him of paranoia, but as the saying goes, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you." And out to get Trump they are. |
| • | "President Trump has every right to feel liberated. What the (Mueller) report shows is that he endured a special counsel probe that was relentlessly, at times, farcically obsessed with taking him out." |
| • | "It is increasingly clear that the only scandal here is the Obama administration's repeated failure to act against Russian cyber meddling, and instead, how they prioritized spying on a political opponent — the Trump campaign — and used a phony DNC-funded dossier as justification." |
| • | See related Trump Witch Hunt (Sean Delonas, 03/10/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | See related Attempting to Steal the Presidency (Antonio Branco, 12/03/2018) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "When you look at what Russia did, buying some Facebook ads and trying to sow dissent, it's a terrible thing," Kushner said... |
| • | "But I think the investigations and all of the speculation that's happened for the last two years has a much harsher impact on our democracy than a couple Facebook ads." |
| • | "First of all, I'm not going to take a lecture on truth-telling from anybody in the mainstream media who has been lying about this president for the last two years, telling the American people that Donald Trump committed treason which is a crime punishable by death as you well know." |
| • | See related Mueller Report and CNN (Sean Delonas, 03/24/2019) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | "Know what makes me sick, Mitt? Not how disingenuous you were to take realDonaldTrump $$ and then 4 yrs later jealously trash him & then love him again when you begged to be Sec of State, but makes me sick that you got GOP nomination and could have been POTUS." |
| • | "The law cares about what is done, not what is thought and what is said. And so the president's instincts were very aggressive. He knows how to fire people and he fires people. But, guess what? He may have come to the brink but he didn't walk across that as it were a red line." |
| • | "He showed wisdom at the end. I wish the president didn't foment so much. He is sometimes his worst enemy. Fomenting is not a crime and lashing out is not a crime. Totally understandable. Let's put ourselves in his situation. We might have said some naughty words as well." |
| • | "Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress and is getting nothing done, decides to defend her leader, Rep. Omar, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements Omar has made. She is out of control, except for her control of Nancy!" |
| • | "Certainly the president is wishing no ill will and certainly not violence towards anyone, but the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her not only one time but history of anti-Semitic comments," Sanders said. |
| • | "The bigger question is, why aren't Democrats doing the same thing? It's absolutely abhorrent the comments that she continues to make and has made and they look the other way." |
| • | "... one reason for why I destroyed your porn was for your own mental and emotional health", his father said. |
| • | "I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine. Someday, I hope you will understand." |
| • | "I urge you to apologize to our colleague prior to coming to visit Kentucky." |
| • | ... describing Ocasio-Cortez's' remarks as an example of a "lack of civility that is becoming far too common in the U.S. House of Representatives." |
| • | "Ilhan Omar isn't just anti-Semitic – she's anti-American." |
| • | "Nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives to Islamic terrorists on 9/11, yet Omar diminishes it as: 'Some people did something.' Democrat leaders need to condemn her brazen display of disrespect." |
| • | "First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as 'some people who did something. Unbelievable." |
| • | Since Omar seems unclear on what really happened on September 11, 2001, let me see if I can be of some help. |
| • | That was the day when a group of terrorists waged jihad on American soil in the name of Allah. |
| • | They flew jetliners into the twin towers in the name of Allah. |
| • | They flew a jetliner into the Pentagon in the name of Allah. |
| • | They slaughtered American citizens in the name of Allah. |
| • | But it was also the day America fought back — when passengers aboard Flight 93 sacrificed their own lives in a Pennsylvania field to save their fellow countrymen. |
| • | Not in the name of Allah, but in the name of freedom and liberty. |
| • | "There is no context in which IlhanMN description of 9/11 as "some people did something" is anything but disgraceful. Defending her is shameful, especially for a representative from NY." |
| • | "First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as 'some people who did something. Unbelievable." |
| • | "Ilhan Omar mentions 9/11 and does not consider it a terrorist attack on the USA by terrorists, instead she refers to it as "Some people did something", then she goes on to justify the establishment of a terrorist organization (CAIR) on US soil." |
| • | "Ilhan Omar isn't just anti-Semitic – she's anti-American. Nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives to Islamic terrorists on 9/11, yet Omar diminishes it as: 'Some people did something.' Democrat leaders need to condemn her brazen display of disrespect." |
| • | CAIR has been infamously listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in funding of Hamas, stemming from the case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development which led to millions of charitable dollars getting funneled to the Palestinian terrorist organization. |
| • | "Every one of those billionaires we ought to lock them up, take away their money and give it to deserving people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez..." |
| • | "... Why are we paying attention to this woman?" |
| • | See related Tax (Taylor Jones, 01/10/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "He personally murdered or gave the order to kill anyone who stood against the new regime, including several of his former comrades in arms, who were not in favor of the communist agenda that they wanted to impose. In a letter to his father he wrote: ‘I have to confess to you, dad, that at that moment I discovered that I really like to kill.'" |
| • | "It is a sad reflection of the warped moral mirror of our time that it is Guevara, the squalid killer and totalitarian tyrant, who remains, more than 40 years after his death, the iconic emblem of ignorant idealists the world over." |
| • | "From suggesting that illegal immigrants should be able to vote, to trying to lower the voting age to 16, to now proposing convicted felons behind bars should be able to vote, Democrats are once again trying to rewrite the rules for their own political agenda. When they can't win at the ballot box, Democrats instead try to rig the system in their favor." |
| • | From sea to shining sea, America's public K-12 schools and colleges are teaching our children a completely distorted view of history to accomplish their political goals – and they're using your tax dollars to pay for it. |
| • | If those of us who believe in conserving the values of the Declaration of Independence want to stop the expansion of left-wing indoctrination on college campuses, we must stop agreeing to pay for it with our tax dollars. |
| • | And we especially need to stop voluntarily funding these schools and supporting their alumni activities and networks. |
| • | Further, and perhaps most importantly, it's long past time for the wealthiest conservatives to start funding efforts to build new private conservative higher education institutions and to expand existing schools. |
| • | Conservatives can't afford to sit idly by any longer. |
| • | Maybe getting a little angry about left-wing extremism gone wild on campuses is justified if it leads to constructive action to make needed changes. |
| • | "These outrageous and irresponsible comments have demeaned each and every Chicago Police Officer, regardless of their race." |
| • | See related (Bob Gorrell, 03/27/2019) www.cagle.com/author/bob-gorrell (, ) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "The way we structure democracy requires you to take into account people who don't agree with you." |
| • | "And that by definition means you're not going to get 100 percent of what you want." |
| • | "This was a disgrace. I partially blame AOC for the loss of Amazon. She doesn't know what she doesn't know. That's scary. We have to make sure she's better educated or vote her out of office." |
| • | "We were at the table talking to Amazon on how students could get jobs... Those opportunities were snatched away." |
| • | See related In the Red (Antonio Branco, 02/19/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "This is very alarming because these are law students who are supposed to understand that people are innocent until proven guilty and that Brett Kavanaugh, in the eyes of the law, is still 100 percent innocent and he's a Supreme Court justice. What an opportunity for a law student to be able to learn from a Supreme Court justice." |
| • | ... the school has so far rebuffed the activists' demands and issued a statement affirming the hiring of Kavanaugh on the grounds that the university seeks to have students being taught by the "most influential legal experts in the nation." |
| • | "I will tell you this about Russia, if they had anything on me, it would have come out a long time ago, probably a long time before I ran because they would have been much better off." |
| • | "I hope we really get along well with them but they would have been a lot better off with Hillary Clinton as president." |
| • | The president went on to claim that the Kremlin had more reason to back Clinton, who would have only helped Russia's energy industry as the Democratic candidate opposed American oil and gas drilling. |
| • | "In terms of energy, in terms of oil and gas. Look at what we're going with the energy, it's incredible in our country. That's tremendous competition for Russia. Hillary wouldn't let you drill: there'd be no oil, there'd be no gas, there'd be no anything to compete." |
| • | "Russia much rather have Hillary than Donald Trump. I can tell you that right now." |
| • | See related Trump Collusion Charges (Glenn McCoy, 10/30/2017) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | "When I said there could be somebody spying on my campaign, it went wild out there." |
| • | "They couldn't believe I could say such a thing. As it turned out, that was small potatoes compared to what went on. ... Millions and millions [spent] on the phony dossier, and then they used the dossier to start things. It was a fraud, paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats." |
| • | "We're getting to the bottom of it. This can never, ever happen to a president again. That was a disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. ... Hopefully they won't get away with it. |
| • | "We'll have to see how it all started, but I'm going to leave that to other people, including the attorney general and others, to make that determination." |
| • | "Fifty years, 100 years from now — if someone tries the same thing, they have to know the penalty will be very very great if and when they get caught." |
| • | "It's an indefensible decision, a deal hashed out in secret, with — this is outrageous — Smollett not even required to take ownership of his apparent hoax." |
| • | "Not even required to apologize for allegedly exploiting hate crime laws. And not even required to reimburse Chicago taxpayers for the enormous cost of this investigation." |
| • | And how did prosecutors justify this travesty? With a vague statement claiming that "we believe this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case." |
| • | "Rarely do we find ourselves nodding vigorously in agreement with Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod, but both onetime Obama lieutenants expressed needful levels of disbelief and disgust at the surprise outcome of L'Affaire Jussie Smollett..." |
| • | "Smollett's staging was obviously intended to disparage his avowed political enemy Donald Trump and Trump supporters, and he even said on 'Good Morning America' that he believed his 'attackers' were motivated by his public anti-Trump stance. Sharing his priors about the deplorables, far too many Americans who should have known better believed Smollett's tall tale." |
| • | In the end, Smollett's alleged scam wasn't about the president. |
| • | But it was very much about Trump country. |
| • | See related One of His Better Performances (Tom Stiglich, 02/18/2019) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "If your first question when faced with evil is always ‘but is it right wing or left wing evil we wouldn't want the wrong side to look bad here?' you just might have a brain morally rotted by politico-tribal warfare." |
| • | "This guy works for IlhanMN. Note the implication of this (false, antisemitism spans the political spectrum) statement: @IlhanMN is not right-wing, so she can't be antisemitic. This is the sort of crap American Jews are going to deal with as the Dems lurch toward Corbynization." |
| • | "I could not be more glad that the American people will have the opportunity to learn precisely where each one of their senators stand on the "Green New Deal": a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy." |
| • | "It was all a malicious, preposterous lie given wall to wall media coverage despite zero evidence. This should never again happen to an American president." |
| • | See related Fake News (Mike Lester, 11/27/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | After two years, $25.2 million, almost 3,000 subpoenas and approximately 500 witnesses interviewed, does President Donald Trump owe Robert Mueller an apology? |
| • | Sanders shot back, "Are you kidding?," before countering that Democrats had accused Trump of committed acts "equal to treason". |
| • | "I think Democrats and the liberal media owe the president and they owe the American people an apology." |
| • | See related Trump Interrogation (Sean Delonas, 02/10/2018) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "Hate crimes are loathsome. Faking them is insidious and shouldn't be excused. Despite Smollett's denials, nothing the prosecutor said in dismissing the case supports that. If prosecutors have evidence that contradicts the indictment THEY brought, they should share it today." |
| • | News of the dropped charges came as a surprise to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendant Eddie Johnson. Both men angrily pushed back angrily at the decision. |
| • | "From top to bottom, this is not on the level," Emanuel told reporters... |
| • | "Our officers did hard work day in and day out, countless hours workign to unwind what actually happened that night. The city saw its reputation dragged through the mud ... It's not just the officers' work, but the work of the grand jury that made a decision based on only a sliver of the evidence [presented]." |
| • | "Because of the judge's decision, none of that evidence will ever be made public." |
| • | Johnson added, "If someone ever falsely accused me [of a crime], I would never hide behind a brokered deal and secrecy." |
| • | See related One of His Better Performances (Tom Stiglich, 02/18/2019) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "It's a shame that our country has had to go through this. To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this." |
| • | See related Trump Collusion Charges (Glenn McCoy, 10/30/2017) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | See related Attempting to Steal the Presidency (Antonio Branco, 12/03/2018) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | "There has to be a full and complete investigation, with at least as much enthusiasm as this one, to figure out where did this charge emanate, who started it, who paid for it." |
| • | See related Trump Interrogation (Sean Delonas, 02/10/2018) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | "... He's not allowed to be normalized as a president. So whatever changes he makes have to be resisted by the Resistance." |
| • | "I know I'm not the only journalist who's watching in horror as opinion and pejorative language is passed off as fact." |
| • | "It's no secret that the vast majority of academic institutions in this country are liberal." |
| • | See related He's Crazy! (Glenn McCoy, 05/16/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | Quite frankly, it needed to be done. I am saddened it took government intervention to make it happen. |
| • | It shouldn't be that way. College kids and their school administrators shouldn't be so fragile, so delicate, so close-minded an executive order is necessary to stop the madness. |
| • | It's sad to think some college-age students are signing up to fight for our country in the U.S. military and meanwhile, others are sitting on their precious California campuses whining about Ann Coulter and others. |
| • | Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. |
| • | You know free speech isn't just saying what you want to say, it's also hearing what you don't want to hear and that includes conservative opinions too. Sorry. |
| • | And let's not forget, no one forced these students to go listen to these conservative speakers. |
| • | It didn't cost them anything. They aren't losing college credits or hurting their grades by not going. |
| • | Conservative students have to listen to liberal garbage from professors every day and yes, they are required to be there for that! |
| • | Over the course of your lives, you're gonna have to hear things you don't want to hear from folks you may not like. Get used to it. |
| • | You're not that special. And if you can't be around people you don't like saying things you don't like, you can't go around creating mass chaos and physically attacking people because you think words hurt. |
| • | Grow up. Get over yourselves and develop a thicker skin. |
| • | See related Counterpoint (Glenn McCoy, 02/03/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | See related Tolerance (Michael Ramirez, 02/06/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "To start a four-year job, or maybe an eight-year job, at age 79 may not be the smartest thing to do..." |
| • | "I just couldn't see a path to where I could get the nomination. It's just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me starting where I am unless I was willing to change all my views and go on what CNN called 'an apology tour.'" |
| • | "Joe Biden went out and apologized for being male, over 50, white." |
| • | "He apologized for the one piece of legislation which is actually a pretty good anti-crime bill, which if the liberals ever read it, most of the things they like would be in that bill. They should have loved that. But they didn't even bother to read it. You're anti-crime, you must be anti-populist." |
| • | "And so everybody else, Beto, whatever his name is, he's apologized for being born." |
| • | "Of all the ugliness in politics, the utter disrespect George Conway shows toward his wife, her career, place of work, and everything she has fought SO hard to achieve, might top them all." |
| • | "Viewpoint diversity is asking that multiple viewpoints are considered on campus and in the classroom. So that means rather than simply attack capitalism and free markets without a deep understanding of history and teach socialism, we also teach the value of markets, choice and individualism." |
| • | "Rather than teach that government needs to get bigger, and is the solution to poverty and improving the welfare of Americans, and this is often the only view taught, we need to also teach how capitalism has lifted millions up, and allowed markets to make the nation efficient." |
| • | See related Political Correctness (Glenn McCoy, 11/11/2015) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "What's bizarre about this, is in any other situation, there's no possible way they would allow the potential perpetrator to self-select what the FBI gets to see." |
| • | "The FBI should be the one to sort through those emails — not the Clinton attorneys." |
| • | "The disgrace is what this man has done to our justice system." |
| • | "I can't help but wonder, when I see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eyes and lie to her about Lisa Page?" |
| • | "Why would we not suspend our program with China? Or take our longest standing program in Nepal, where the Pitzer in Nepal program has been run for over 40 years. During that time they have had a bloody civil war that killed 19,000 people. Why Israel?" |
| • | "This push to ban the study abroad at Haifa is nothing but the absolutely worst form of virtue signaling." |
| • | "Elizabeth Warren just said she had "zero" sympathy for the parents involved in the college admissions cheating scandal." |
| • | "It's ironic that she's so offended given that she lied about being a minority to climb the Ivy League ladder." |
| • | "Ocasio-Cortez is making a highly misleading comparison, ... the situations are not comparable." |
| • | "Trump has no need to transfer billions of dollars for the opioid emergency because Congress already has appropriated billions of dollars. Trump's backing of a national public-health emergency did more than raise awareness; it triggered a congressional response. So it's the exact opposite of the standoff over the wall." |
| • | "It became an issue for the Democrats of ‘we can't censure this person because it's a woman and a person of color' and that I think is identity politics, is it not?" |
| • | "We would agree that Palestinians are victims, but not of Israel. They're victims of other Palestinians, unfortunately." |
| • | "Now [the resolution] condemns just about everything. ... Hatred for Israel is a special kind of hatred. It should never be watered down." |
| • | "Today's resolution vote was a sham put forward by Democrats to avoid condemning one of their own and denouncing vile anti-Semitism." |
| • | "While I stand whole heartedly against discrimination outlined in this resolution, the language before the House today did not address the issue that is front and center." |
| • | "Why are we unable to singularly condemn anti-Semitism?" |
| • | "It feels like we're only able to call out the use of anti-Semitic language by a colleague of ours — any colleague of ours — if we're addressing all forms of hatred. It feels like we can't say it's anti-Semitism unless everyone agrees it's anti-Semitism." |
| • | "Whether consciously or not, Representative Omar is repeating some of the ugliest stereotypes about Jews — tropes that have been unleashed by anti-Semites throughout history. She is casting Jewish Americans as the other, suggesting a dual loyalty that calls our devotion to America into question." |
| • | "For centuries, this trope has been aimed at Jews in countries around the world. In embracing it, Omar is associating herself with calamities from the Spanish Inquisition to the Russian pogroms to the Holocaust. That's not historical company that any American should want to keep." |
| • | See related I'm ... Anti-Semitic (Bob Gorrell, 02/13/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | "It is shameful that House Democrats won't take a stronger stand against Anti-Semitism in their conference. Anti-Semitism has fueled atrocities throughout history and it's inconceivable they will not act to condemn it!" |
| • | Americans have been paying for public schools to teach the "everyone should get a blue ribbon just for showing up" views for years. |
| • | Meanwhile, personal finance and history lessons are missing from many classrooms across the country. |
| • | ... only 16.4 percent of American high school students in just 17 states are required to take a personal finance class to graduate. |
| • | In California, there is no such requirement and only 1 percent of New York high school students have such a requirement. |
| • | Is it any wonder why there is $1.5 trillion in student loan debt? |
| • | Or why, with the talk of student-loan relief by many Democrats, millennials would look so favorably on government as being the answer to any problem? |
| • | ... 88 percent of elementary school teachers at the time considered teaching history a low priority. |
| • | So, it should be little wonder then why only 12 percent of high school students show proficiency in history... |
| • | Obviously, if American public-school students do not study history, they cannot know its lessons and they will certainly repeat its most egregious errors. |
| • | Socialism, including its destruction of rights and its imposed poverty, like we are seeing in Venezuela today, is one of history's most egregious errors. |
| • | Instead of teaching that truth, my daughter and students like her were and are being taught the sentiment that we should be given things as opposed to working hard for them. |
| • | History teaches us, however, that socialism "achieves" the equality of poverty, because it destroys the incentives for achievement – and worse. |
| • | What should bother every parent — and American — is that our schools don't teach the history of achievement and they fail to teach personal finance — let alone the failures and horrors of socialism. |
| • | Of course, worst of all, Americans have been paying for it for decades. |
| • | "I'm frankly, as an American and as a Muslim, insulted at their resolution because it doesn't name Ilhan Omar." |
| • | "When did congressional office become a deprogramming rehab for radical Islamist ideologies?" |
| • | "Congress is actually seeming to turn into sort of the U.N. where everything... when you talk about anti-Semitism you have to talk on Islamophobia." |
| • | "Every American should be offended. There's no moral equivalency in western history between anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bias. There isn't." |
| • | "When are we Muslims going to be treated like adults?" |
| • | "They're treating her like a child. When they did a resolution against Steve King and he was removed from committees, I don't remember them talking about other forms of hate because he was treated as an adult, as he should have been, who should have been removed from his committee. |
| • | "She should be removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee." |
| • | Her comments quickly drew criticism from a fellow New York Democrat, U.S. Rep. Max Rose, who fought in Afghanistan and received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. |
| • | "After our city and country were attacked we were very clear with the Taliban — either they give up Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, or we would come and get them ourselves." |
| • | "They chose to protect Usama bin Laden, and they rightfully paid the price." |
| • | ... challenged the media to: "devote as much time to the lives lost, and the potential lives that could be saved, by dedicating the same amount of coverage that you do to idle gossip or trivial stories. |
| • | "... drugs are dangerous. It will mess up your head. It will mess up your body and nothing comes positive out of it." |
| • | "Pompous little twit. You don't have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death." |
| • | "It's her GND that would be worse than WW2. Imagine no fuel for cars, trucks, tractors, combines, harvesters, power-plants, ships, aircraft, etc. Transport of people & goods would grind to a halt." |
| • | "I suspect AOC is a flash in the pan. Her GND is so completely crazy it is bound to be rejected in the end. But she does have wind in her sales due to the political situation. 2020 will be even more interesting now." |
| • | "The 'world as it is' has the option of taking the subway rather than a taxi, option of Amtrak rather than plane, option of opening windows rather than A/C. You're just a garden-variety hypocrite like the others. And you have ZERO expertise at any of the things you pretend to know." |
| • | See related Tax (Taylor Jones, 01/10/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | ... Ocasio-Cortez "leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance — of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom — and still succeed." |
| • | "As much as conservatives are aghast at the over-the-top collectivist ideas of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we cannot ignore the oversize intrigue with this young woman, who has gained instant influence and celebrity. Perhaps it is because people see her as so all-American." |
| • | "Heaven has strict immigration laws," the sign read. "Hell has open borders." |
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| • | "... If you read scriptures, it tells them the road to hell is wide and broad, but the road to heaven is narrow and straight." |
| • | "That resolution will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here. I know what can pass, and I know what can't pass." |
| • | "You know what's interesting about this group is I've been doing this for 30 years. I know what I'm doing. ... You come in here and say, 'It has to be my way or the highway.' I don't respond to that." |
| • | A little humility and more study might benefit these kids, as would different teachers, textbooks or even a change in schools. |
| • | None other than former Secretary of State John Kerry said this about foreign aid: "Foreign assistance is not a giveaway. It's not charity. It is an investment in a strong America and in a free world. Foreign assistance lifts other people up and then reinforces their willingness to link arms with us in common endeavors." |
| • | I agree. And when foreign aid goes to countries that take our generosity and bite our hand, rather than link up arms with us, it's time to stop it. |
| • | See related All You Can Eat (Mike Lester, 12/22/2017) cartoon from World picture album |
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| • | "We welcome all the enthusiasm that people want to put on the table, and the Green New Deal is one of them, but we have to operate in a way that's evidence-based, current in its data." |
| • | "The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it right?" |
| • | "Hitler, just like Planned Parenthood, practiced and defended mass extermination, all in the name of racial purity, which is exactly what the founder of Planned Parenthood believed. Margaret Sanger believed deeply in eugenics." |
| • | "Hitler was vehemently anti-abortion for Nordic Germans, and vehemently pro-abortion for the so-called inferior races. This can hardly be called a pro-life position!" |
| • | ... "federal judges are appointed for life, not for eternity." |
| • | "She became, not only a terrorist, she became an enemy of our country and if she did believe in the citizenship oath...she abandoned it and actually violated it and became an enemy combatant." |
| • | "She became, not only a terrorist, she became an enemy of our country and if she did believe in the citizenship oath...she abandoned it and actually violated it and became an enemy combatant." |
| • | "If she is allowed in, the other path she could have is to come in and get due process of law as a citizen, which I hope would include imprisonment, and then a trial for treason, and committing acts of war against her own country." |
| • | "They should get the message that jihadists have no space here and they need to be rejected legally with the full brunt of our law." |
| • | How does someone: Own three homes. Become a millionaire in a free market system. Honeymoon in the USSR. |
| • | Never hold a real job. Spend hundreds of thousands on private air travel. |
| • | ...claim to be a Socialist and qualified enough to be President? |
| • | I don't know — ask BernieSanders. |
| • | "They should be brought home and charged criminally under terrorism, murder or other applicable laws. At the very least they should be charged with material support to a terrorist group." |
| • | "These women should be held responsible for their choices and actions in support of a genocidal death cult." |
| • | "The bottom line is this: You cannot conceive of a nation without a strong, secure border." |
| • | "It is fundamental and essential to the idea of sovereignty and national survival to have control over who enters and doesn't enter the country." |
| • | "I didn't give in to big Nike and big dollars. I didn't give in. I did it my way." |
| • | "That part of the military respect that's in me just cannot be sacrificed or compromised, as I believe Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick both did. I don't like losing a business over it, but I rather be able to live with myself." |
| • | "We are sick and tired of having targets on our back. We are sick and tired of having dirtbags trying to take our lives when all we're trying to do is protect this community and protect our families. Enough is enough." |
| • | "Capitalism is not immoral - it's amoral. It requires our instruction." |
| • | "Capitalism has taken more people out of poverty than any other ‘ism.' But it is a wild beast that, if not tamed, can chew up a lot of people along the way." |
| • | "There are two sides to every story. I made a snap judgment based on a photograph & I know better than to judge a book by its cover. I wasn't there. I shouldn't have commented. I'm glad there wasn't violence. I hope these two men can meet and find common ground as can WE ALL!" |
| • | "It was something that I did not give any thought to. It was just a fast, profoundly stupid tweet... I would throw my phone into the ocean before doing that again." |
| • | "I'm seeing what I believe to be sincere apologies from some journalists and verified media persons regarding their lack of professionalism in rushing to judgement re the #CovingtonCatholic situation." |
| • | "These apologies are welcome and necessary, but they don't address the damage that cannot be undone which was inflicted upon young people who are about to embark on adulthood - applying to colleges, looking for employment, etc. These young people will forever have these smears follow them through their life every time they proffer their resume with the word "Covington" on it. It will also affect anyone who ever has or ever will attend that school. The damage is incalculable." |
| • | "She needs to decide: Does she want to be an effective legislator or just continue being a Twitter star?" |
| • | "There's a difference between being an activist and a lawmaker in Congress." |
| • | "I certainly hope she's not the future and I don't believe she is." |
| • | Stoically controlling your emotions is necessary. |
| • | Competitive spirit drives success. |
| • | Dominance – and the mental and physical strength required to dominate – is far superior to a lack of strength, which results in being dominated by someone else. |
| • | And aggression is a means to an end. Without aggressive action, you will likely be on the receiving end, bowing to someone else's aggression. |
| • | The world is a hard place. Life is tough. |
| • | Human beings are not always benevolent and kind. You cannot count on charity, tolerance and compassion. |
| • | If you show your emotions, you might get taken advantage of. |
| • | If you make emotional decisions, they will likely lead you in the wrong direction. |
| • | If you lack competitive spirit, you will probably lose on many fronts... |
| • | Finally, if you are not aggressive, you will not be able to capitalize on opportunities. |
| • | Good things in life don't just appear on your doorstep – you have to be aggressive and make them happen. |
| • | Failure to do so will result in missed opportunities. Instead of you being in control of your life, life will be in control of you. |
| • | So: Be stoic, be competitive, be dominant and be aggressive. |
| • | .. list of dichotomies continues on endlessly: as a leader and as a man, you have to have balance. |
| • | You must be courageous but not foolhardy, decisive but not dictatorial, open-minded but principled, disciplined but not rigid. |
| • | "The larger message that a lot of people are going to take from this story is that the news media are a bunch of leftist liars who are dying to get the president and they're willing to lie to do it." |
| • | See related He's Crazy! (Glenn McCoy, 05/16/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | "Officers explained that having a cell phone under the age of 18 is a ‘privilege' and not a ‘right' as she believes." |
| • | "Officers suggested she follow the rules her father set, if she hoped to get the phone returned." |
| • | "Jim Acosta just posted one of the biggest self owns ever. He's walking along the border where there's a wall in place talking about how there's nothing that ‘resembles a national emergency situation' and ‘there's no migrants trying to rush.' That's because there's a wall, Jim." |
| • | "So where there are steel slats, there isn't an emergency crisis. Got it." |
| • | "... you found a place where there is a barrier and all is quiet? Jim, do you know what point you're actually making here?" |
| • | "Acosta making videos for the Trump administration showing the effectiveness of border barriers" |
| • | "I would like to thank Acosta for pointing out how peaceful, safe and secure it is at a part of the border that HAS a wall." |
| • | "One day we'll look back and remember that time Jim Acosta tried proving that the American border doesn't need a wall by showing how safe the part of the American border that already has a wall is." |
| • | I didn't ask to come to the U.S. when I was a baby – I was too young to talk. |
| • | But I thank God I was brought here and grew up in the greatest country on Earth. |
| • | I pray to God that I can stay. |
| • | "These aren't my facts," Nielsen shot back. "These are the facts." |
| • | ... was already lucky when an appeals court in 1973 reduced his death sentence to life in prison. |
| • | "this man does not belong outside the walls of prison." |
| • | "We love this painting. It represents a lot of people. It was a tragedy. And the complaints against it? I think you out to be shipped to another country that believes like you do." |
| • | "To compare the American political system to anything that happened in the Holocaust is just outrageous." |
| • | "If I set off on foot across this country with a 7-year-old child and dragged said child 2,500 miles, I would be charged with child abuse. Further, if the child died at the end of the journey, I would be charged with murder." |
| • | ... it is time to bring some order to Establishment Clause jurisprudence. It is absurd to claim that a memorial cross is an intentional "establishment of religion" by the government. |
| • | And it is even more absurd for the courts to act based upon a person's emotional reaction. And the law should never lead to absurd results. |
| • | ... let us honor our fallen as we will. No reasonable person would mistake the purpose of those crosses, and no legal principle should justify toppling them one by one. |
| • | "The Senate confirmation process is not a trial, but there are certain standards we have to abide by," Collins said, "and if we were going to throw overboard the presumption of innocence despite the complete lack of corroborating evidence even from Dr. Ford's best friend, and if we were going to dispense with fairness, the rule of law and due process, I really feared for what our country would become and whether anyone would be willing to put their name forth for public service? Who would go through that?" |
| • | "Categorically, no group or entity or individual associated any way with Farrakhan or the Nation of Islam should receive any federal funding. What Farrakhan preaches is hatred and anti-Semitism and racism, and to use any federal money for any group that's he's involved with that do any type of teaching or proselytizing is just wrong." |
| • | "All I can say is this: President Trump, before he became president, that's another world. Since he's become president, this economy has charged ahead. We're all better off, the country is better off." |
| • | "I don't care. All I can say is, he's doing a good job as president." |
| • | "Vox is quickly becoming a parody of itself and this fantasy of wanting her to be president even though she hasn't been sworn in yet is ludicrous." |
| • | "At least Barack Obama had served in the state Senate and then the U.S. Senate for a few years and could have claimed to have had some experience in office." |
| • | You are being scrutinized and treated with suspicion because every time you speak you say something more stupid than the last time you spoke. You are a college graduate and likely the most unintelligent person, man or woman, in our government. |
| • | "... We put in a diagnosis in his records, so there's no question what we're using the opioids for. [The restrictions] are an exercise in silliness. In hospice, addiction is the last of our concerns." |
| • | ... appreciates that Ocasio-Cortez is so active on social media, because she consistently highlights just how "empty-headed" her ideas are. |
| • | "To mock him during the coverage of the president's funeral is just despicable garbage. I would say ABC News should apologize, but it wouldn't be sincere if it did. This is about the billionth example of unprofessional journalism in their attacks on Trump. It's only more outrageous because of the solemn occasion." |
| • | "It's in bad taste to joke about any of our current leader's future passing. But what this highlights again is the media outrage double standard where you can say basically anything you want about a Republican and get away with it." |
| • | ... public reaction would be much different if the ABC News reporters joked about Obama's potential future funeral. |
| • | "There would have been full blocks of TV dedicated to 'how disgusting they were' on CNN and forced apologies from their own network." |
| • | ... "our future is: AMERICAN." |
| • | "An identity based not on gender, race, ethnicity or religion. But on the powerful truth that all people are created equal with a God given right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness." |
| • | "These people are coming in violently, unrespectfully, not as good law-abiding citizen and that is what hurt us ... It's not all of them but yes a lot of them are not really nice people who want to work, who want to integrate into our economy, they are just troublemakers." |
| • | "Honestly, I have read more coherent thoughts scribbled on the bathroom walls in gas stations." |
| • | "If a news outlet had written something similar about Obama supporters, the publication that printed it would be roundly - and rightfully - ridiculed by every other media outlet." |
| • | "I've never met more insecure men than sad leftists who lecture women about what they're supposed to believe." |
| • | "That half of millennials and Gen Z believe that the country in which they live is both ‘racist' and ‘sexist' shows that we have a major fraction of an entire generation that has been indoctrinated by teachers starting in grade school that America is what's wrong with the world." |
| • | See related Sanders (Glenn McCoy, 03/09/2016) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "It is unfortunate to see the forces of hatred and rejection co-opt and seduce news commentators into believing their lies and false narratives." |
| • | "It is a shame that once again, this annual event at the United Nations does not promote constructive pathways to ‘Palestinian solidarity' and a future of peace, but instead divisive and destructive action against Israel." |
| • | "Hill's call at the United Nations for the destruction of the Jewish state was not some accident. He didn't misspeak. He was an invited guest. He was the only person invited to speak as 'the' representative of 'civil society.' When he ended his extraordinary tirade with 'Give us a free Palestine from the river to the sea' his words were met by a round of applause. The only applause for any speaker." |
| • | "The Democrats would like people to believe that they're legitimate asylum seekers, but legitimate asylum seekers don't attack border guards. They don't throw rocks and bricks and projectiles and rush the border." |
| • | See related Leading the Caravan (Sean Delonas, 10/22/2018) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "I recommend she take a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC. Might help her better understand the differences between the Holocaust and the caravan in Tijuana." |
| • | "I wonder if Chuck realizes how he's contradicting himself and proving Trump's point in this statement? I doubt it." |
| • | "So Schumer rips the Judiciary as being partisan in the same tweet that he praises Roberts for responding to Trump for criticizing the judiciary as being partisan... Stunning!" |
| • | "Shorter Chuck Schumer: Trump is totally right about the courts, except when Republican appointees criticize him; then the judiciary is Independent and Good." |
| • | "A government's first duty is to its citizens – to serve their needs, to ensure their safety, to preserve their rights, and to defend their values." |
| • | "We recognize the right of every nation in this room to set its own immigration policy in accordance with its national interests, just as we ask other countries to respect our own right to do the same — which we are doing," he said. |
| • | "Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens." |
| • | "[Julie] Swetnick is 55 y/o. Kavanaugh is 52 y/o. Since when do senior girls hang with freshmen boys?" |
| • | "If it happened when Kavanaugh was a senior, Swetnick was an adult drinking with & by her admission, having sex with underage boys. In another universe, he would be victim & she the perp!" |
| • | The sheriff leading the state commission investigating Florida's high school massacre says he now believes trained, volunteer teachers should have access to guns so they can stop shooters who get past other safeguards. |
| • | ... he will ask the panel to recommend state law be changed so teachers who undergo background checks and extensive training will be allowed to have guns on campus as a last line of defense. |
| • | ... he long believed only law enforcement personnel should carry guns at school, but his position "morphed" after studying other shootings and watching security video of the Feb. 14 Stoneman Douglas attack, which left 14 students and three staff members dead. |
| • | He said it "gnaws" at him that suspect Nikolas Cruz stopped firing five times to reload his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, but no teacher or other school employee could use those pauses to shoot Cruz. |
| • | The athletic director and a coach, both unarmed, died trying to stop Cruz and at least one teacher minutes later would have had a clear shot. |
| • | Meanwhile, video shows the Broward County sheriff's deputy assigned to the school drew his gun but stayed outside. |
| • | "We know from the history of these things that the majority are stopped by school personnel." |
| • | "People need to keep an open mind to it as the reality is that if someone else in that school had a gun it could have saved kids' lives." |
| • | ... Sharpton is an extreme, divisive figure who's profited from stoking racial tensions for decades, while lacking any "real constituency." |
| • | "... It is the worst kind of pandering from Nancy Pelosi." |
| • | See related What Do We Want? (Glenn McCoy, 12/22/2014) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Calling #Tennessee voters uneducated racists while holding that seat is unconscionable." |
| • | "It saddens me to know that somebody who feels that way about her constituents has such a trusted position." |
| • | "A person with that attitude should not be in the House of Representatives in the state that she trashed on Facebook." |
| • | "The White House cannot run an orderly and fair press conference when a reporter acts this way, which is neither appropriate nor professional. The First Amendment is not served when a single reporter, of more than 150 present, attempts to monopolize the floor. If there is no check on this type of behavior it impedes the ability of the President, the White House staff, and members of the media to conduct business." |
| • | "Oh, I guess she wrote a book. She got paid a lot of money to write a book and they always insisted you come up with controversial." |
| • | "It is past time that localities realize the perils of dangerous sanctuary policies and resume their primary goal of protecting their residents." |
| • | "The fact that the ACLU and its partners would go to court to specifically sue for the right for aliens to enter the country illegally is demonstrative of the open border community's disdain for our nation's laws that almost all rational Americans find appalling." |
| • | "Consistent with our immigration laws, the President has the broad authority to suspend or restrict the entry of aliens into the United States if he determines it to be in the national interest to do so." |
| • | "I don't understand what you think your other options are if someone like this deranged individual shows up with a firearm intent on murdering tens or hundreds of people," Bongino said. "What are your choices?" |
| • | "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a firearm. If you have another way to do it, I am all ears. I've yet to hear one." |
| • | ... tendentiousness and bad faith pervade the effort to replace the old understanding of racism with the new one. |
| • | It is a renunciation of intellectual honesty and responsibility to posit that someone's words and beliefs should be evaluated, not according to whether they are factually accurate, logically sound, or morally admirable but, instead, on the basis of whether the person putting forward the idea is privileged or oppressed. |
| • | The illogic of this position leads the social justice Left to demand that people ignore plain facts in front of them. |
| • | "... progressives appropriate the tragedies of history in order to summon rhetorical gravitas in the present." |
| • | "... racism has become a conserved quantity akin to mass or energy: transformable but irreducible." |
| • | "Progress means getting nearer the place you want to be," C.S. Lewis wrote, which means that, "If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road." |
| • | "How, precisely, is diversity our strength?" Carlson asked on air in September 2018. |
| • | "Can you think of other institutions, such as marriage or military units, in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are?" |
| • | "Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended. That being said, I hope @nbcsnl recognizes that vets don't deserve to see their wounds used as punchlines for bad jokes." |
| • | "We don't do stunts in this department. Thank you," Mattis said. |
| • | "The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!" |
| • | See related Fake News (Mike Lester, 11/27/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | See related Trump Press (Glenn McCoy, 08/12/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | "... Unfortunately this is how so many leftists actually think." |
| • | "Imagine the outrage if you changed 'white men' with any other demographic?" |
| • | "I'm a citizen. He's my president. He is certainly welcome." |
| • | "People who do this should get the death penalty." |
| • | "I think they should stiffen up laws and I think they should very much bring the death penalty to anybody who does a thing like this to innocent people." |
| • | "They should really suffer the ultimate price — pay the ultimate price. I've felt this way for a very long time. People disagree with me, and I can't imagine why." |
| • | "I enjoyed my meal in Louisville on Friday night, and I will continue to eat with my friends and family at my favorite Kentucky restaurants." |
| • | "I appreciate those who spoke up against the shameful behavior. We hope other customers weren't too inconvenienced by the extremist left-wing tantrums." |
| • | "I'm not sure exactly what in my career suggests I would be easily swayed by such a spectacle." |
| • | "The reality is simple: I will not be intimidated. But this issue is not really about me, or about any individual elected official. It's about something larger: The mob mentality that is being systematically fed and encouraged by the far left all across our nation." |
| • | "I agree with President Obama 100%". |
| • | "We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States," Obama says in the 31-second clip. |
| • | "But those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants into this country." |
| • | ... former President Bill Clinton, whose State of the Union address in 1995 featured the following: |
| • | "All Americans ... are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country," Clinton said... |
| • | "The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens." |
| • | "We are a nation of immigrants," Clinton added. "But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it." |
| • | "I don't agree with Nancy Pelosi's agenda, but this is absolutely the wrong way to express those disagreements. If you want to stop her policies, don't threaten her, VOTE! That's how we settle our differences." |
| • | For me this is about Liberty vs Totalitarianism. This is fascism in action, subscribe to my ideology or face violence." |
| • | "When leaders of the political left from Eric Holder to Corey Booker to Hillary Clinton are making statements that Democrats should not be civil in dealing with whom they disagree, it follows that abortion activists like Metcalf are going to take those words to heart and act upon them." |
| • | "The over-heated rhetoric beginning with the response to President Trump's election to the confirmation hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh have reached an alarming level. It figures that we are being attacked on college campuses." |
| • | In America, we win battles at the ballot box, not through mob rule or intimidation. |
| • | While it's clear many Democrats refuse to accept the election of President Trump, if they want change, they need to convince people with their ideas and actually win elections, rather than call for violent resistance, harassment, and mob rule. |
| • | As the oldest democracy, our country has long been heralded as the freest country in the world. |
| • | It doesn't feel so free if anyone lives in fear for holding or expressing a differing opinion. |
| • | "No peace until they get their way?" McConnell continued, quoting Clinton's comments. |
| • | "More of these unhinged tactics? Apparently, this is the left's rallying cry. But fortunately, the American people know that the fact-free politics of hate, fear and intimidation are not how we actually govern in our democratic republic. ... The Senate and the nation will not be intimidated." |
| • | "How can we expect the next generation to step up and serve, to be interested in public life, and to aspire to get involved when all we show them is how to spar, attack, and destroy each other." |
| • | "We don't have to share the same motivations to want the same outcomes. Let's focus on each other, and strengthening our communities, and reflecting on what's happening. Let's live in justice and respect and let others fight it out now to the bitter ends. This is our country too. Every woman, man, and child in it, our American future. We've got work to do." |
| • | "I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure," the president said. |
| • | "Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. Not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. |
| • | "[In] our country, a man or a woman, must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty." |
| • | "And with that, I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. Thank you." |
| • | "Democrats should believe any allegation against themselves. No [due] process, just punishment for you." |
| • | "Democrats constantly want to change the game every time they don't get their way." |
| • | ... Long wrote that "few things are more serious than rape" but the timing of Ford's claim "stinks of political maneuvering." |
| • | He also said that the #MeToo movement was long overdue but that the allegation against Kavanauagh amounted to "lesser miscreant behavior." |
| • | "You are beyond dreaming if you think 17 year old boys are not going to misbehave from time to time as they begin to attempt relationships with the opposite sex. That is just the way we animals are made!" |
| • | "The Democrats have become too extreme and too dangerous to govern." |
| • | "You don't hand matches to an arsonist, and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob — and that's what they've become." |
| • | "Yeah, please move to South Carolina," the senator fired back after the protester said she will vote him "out of office." |
| • | He added: "I hope you come. You'd be welcome in South Carolina." |
| • | When an adult makes a serious allegation, asking real questions is the only correct response. |
| • | It's not an attack to ask for follow-ups or probe inconsistencies, it's not victim shaming. In fact, it's patronizing not to. |
| • | Instead of gathering facts about this story, they are busy moralizing and lecturing the rest of us about how Kavanaugh's very existence proves that an entire class of people is evil. |
| • | The real evil is the way that our elites stoke race and gender hatred in order to divide this country. |
| • | And that is another thing that people of good faith ought to be questioning. |
| • | "There's always another reason. If you don't believe there's a gang rapist, if you don't believe he's a sexual predator, if you don't believe he's a stumbling, bumbling drunk, how about this: He just doesn't have the temperament to be a judge." |
| • | "How would you react if somebody destroyed your life and you found yourself in front of the entire nation being humiliated?" |
| • | "I saw a man who was offended to his core, defended his good name, took it to the people who were trying to destroy his family." |
| • | "The idea that his temperament is in question, you're rewarding the worst behavior I've seen in 20 years if you buy that garbage." |
| • | "Let me get this straight @USATODAY... you believe uncorroborated allegations from 30+ years ago allow in essence to call someone a pedophile? Kavanaugh claims the media will continue to attack him and you just proved his point. Despicable." |
| • | The burden of proof is not on Kavanaugh to prove he didn't do it. He cannot prove a negative. In the United States of America, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. |
| • | "This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics," a visibily angry Graham said from the dais while pointing at Democratic senators. |
| • | "And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy." |
| • | Graham added: "Boy, y'all want power and I hope you don't get it." |
| • | "To my Republican colleagues. If you vote no, you are legitimizing the most despicable thing I've ever seen in my time in politics." |
| • | "[Lindsey Graham] has more decency and courage than every Democrat member of the committee combined. God bless him." |
| • | Now I'm not prejudging Swetnick's allegations, and no one else should, either. Her affidavit is quite chilling. But it does raise certain questions that he hasn't answered. |
| • | What I, or any other journalist, would ask Swetnick: |
| • | If girls were being groped, drugged, verbally abused and even raped by Kavanaugh and his friends at these parties, why did you keep going to them? |
| • | And since such horrendous conduct would have been witnessed by many students at these house parties, why has no one else corroborated either what you say or what Ford has said? |
| • | "... It requires respect, listening, and sometimes a little etiquette, like keeping your elbows and politics off the dinner table." |
| • | ... opponents of Kavanaugh want to "fundamentally change this country." |
| • | "And now they don't see themselves as being able to control the courts for another generation. So what is left? Chaos and destruction." |
| • | "Are women born with a special gene for telling the truth and men with a special gene for lying?" |
| • | "I don't believe her. I don't believe him. I have an open mind. I want to hear both sides of the story and make a determination." |
| • | "That's what the American system of justice is all about." |
| • | "Trump is the product of self-government, like it or not. Almost nobody in power on either side wanted him to become president. They outspent him two-to-one. They attacked his voters as immoral, they got the intel agencies to spy on his campaign, and he won anyway because lots of people voted for him. That is the textbook definition of democracy." |
| • | "It's inconsistent with what foreign policy of the United States is as directed by this president, and it is beyond inappropriate for him to be engaged." |
| • | "It's offensive. It's of questionable legality. And it is extraordinary to me that people would want to participate in trying to essentially buy a Senator's vote." |
| • | "I consider this quid pro quo fundraising to be the equivalent of an attempt to bribe me to vote against Judge Kavanaugh." |
| • | "If the court comes after us ... this administration will fight back to protect American constitutionalism, our sovereignty, and our citizens. No committee of foreign nations will tell us how to govern ourselves and defend our freedom." |
| • | "... My perception is 'let's see what he gets done.' Let's stop banging on the pilot's door and trying to pull the guy out of his seat while he's still flying. You might not like how he's flying the plane but let's let him land it." |
| • | "The media won't give Trump credit for the economy but they will blame him for a hurricane. You can't make this stuff up." |
| • | "Hurricane Florence will likely be another tragedy that will affect millions of Americans and it's disgusting when folks in the media will try to exploit it to attack the president." |
| • | ... "shamelessly exploiting the death of 3,000 Americans in an attempt to do political damage to President Trump is a new low, even for Joe Scarborough." |
| • | "Just when you think that there are lines of decency that won't be crossed, Trump-deranged media people like Scarborough prove they will do anything and everything to try to take down the president." |
| • | See related He's Crazy! (Glenn McCoy, 05/16/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | "I'm a firm believer in respecting the country, respecting the flag, respecting the national anthem." |
| • | Garieri said the billboard was staying up despite the backlash. |
| • | "Barack Obama was one of the most divisive presidents in American history." |
| • | I would like to take a moment to remind Nike executives what sacrificing everything looks like: It's not a multimillionaire, social justice warrior whose greatest feat of bravery is kneeling on a football field and wearing those socks against our police officers. |
| • | Instead, those who sacrifice everything can be found on the ground in Afghanistan as we speak: U.S. soldiers fighting and dying to keep this country safe — fighting for a cause bigger than themselves. |
| • | They can be found in the bravery and the courage of men and women that protect and serve: the police, firemen, first responders that run towards danger when we all run away. And they can also be found in graveyards all around the world from Normandy, to the Pacific, from Vietnam to Korea. |
| • | All across the United States, there are millions of men and women who have really sacrificed everything for strangers they didn't even know, so that the world, this country, could be a better, safer, freer place. |
| • | "The individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States. He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people. This coward should do the right thing and resign." |
| • | ... said it's an insult to those who have served to suggest that Kaepernick has "sacrificed everything" by protesting during the anthem. |
| • | "It's an offense to every single person that has donned that uniform to fight for our freedoms. Really fight for our freedoms." |
| • | He said he's had numerous friends who have made the ultimate sacrifice, and a multimillionaire potentially losing out on additional millions is not a true sacrifice. |
| • | ... acknowledged that there are issues in America surrounding racial inequality and policing, and there should be a national discussion. |
| • | "But not at the cost of disrespecting our flag and our national anthem. That's not the place for it." |
| • | "My judicial philosophy is straightforward. A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. A judge must interpret statutes as written. A judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent." |
| • | "The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution." |
| • | When the disruptions continued, Kavanaugh asked Grassley, "Should I proceed?" |
| • | Grassley told Kavanaugh to continue speaking, despite the outbursts. "Let these people have their free speech and interrupt the other 300 million people listening." |
| • | "The first thing that makes a good judge is independence, not being swayed by political or public pressure. That takes some backbone, that takes some judicial fortitude." |
| • | "Look, this is the most powerful unelected position in the most powerful country in all human history. There's no margin for error." |
| • | "The question before us today is not what does Brett Kavanaugh think 11 years ago on a policy matter. The question is whether or not he has the temperament and character to take his policy views and political preferences and put them in a box marked irrelevant and set it aside every morning when he puts on the black robe." |
| • | "'Sacrificing everything' is not a multimillionaire social justice warrior whose greatest feat of bravery [is] kneeling on a football field." |
| • | "There are millions of men and women who have really sacrificed everything for strangers they didn't even know, so the world, this country, could be a better, safer, freer place." |
| • | "There are plenty of heroes in this country that Nike could feature, but [a] Castro-loving ... cop-hating, ex-three-year-backup quarterback is not one of them." |
| • | "The attacks today on my wife are repulsive. Everyone tweeting this vicious conspiracy theory should be ashamed of themselves. We weren't even familiar with the hateful symbol being attributed to her for the random way she rested her hand during a long hearing." |
| • | "Zina is Mexican on her mother's side and Jewish on her father's side. She was born in Mexico. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. We of course have nothing to do with hate groups, which aim to terrorize and demean other people — never have and never would." |
| • | "Some of the Twitter comments have even referred to our baby daughter. I know that there are good folks on both sides of the political divide. I hope that people will clearly condemn this idiotic and sickening accusation." |
| • | "A good judge must be an umpire — a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy." |
| • | "I don't decide cases based on personal or policy preferences. I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge. I am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. I am a pro-law judge. ... If confirmed to the Court, I would be part of a Team of Nine, committed to deciding cases according to the Constitution and laws of the United States." |
| • | "This would have taken months and months to complete," Grassley said. "As I have repeatedly stated, I am not going to put the American taxpayers on the hook for the Democratic leaders' fishing expedition." |
| • | "First the @NFL forces me to choose between my favorite sport and my country. I chose country. Then @Nike forces me to choose between my favorite shoes and my country. Since when did the American Flag and the National Anthem become offensive?" |
| • | "They said, ‘You made a fatal mistake ... apologizing to the Left.' Once you apologize to them they never forgive, they just try to beat you down until you don't exist. That's how they do things. They don't accept apologies." |
| • | "He's the president of the United States. You have to respect the office. No matter who is in the office, you may like, dislike personality or the politics, but we all must respect the office." |
| • | "You don't have to agree with trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought." |
| • | "We were patriotic. The greatest day of my life was when I put on the colors, representing the United States." |
| • | "I should be criticizing Trump on every level because he does certain things that call for criticism, but when I look at television I see all these announcers become experts and they're pointing the fingers and they're not doing a doggone thing but pointing their fingers, I find myself really pulling for the president." |
| • | "I think the reason she's reaching out to those children is because they're the only ones naive enough to believe the nonsense of socialism." |
| • | "It should be frightening to every American that a sitting member of Congress would threaten the safety of any person and their family, and incite the public to take acts of violence against them, let alone the lives of those whose job it is to protect us and keep us safe." |
| • | ... officers were "highly derelict in their duty by standing back and allowing these outside criminal elements to riot and destroy state property." |
| • | See related P.C. (Glenn McCoy, 08/15/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "I just cannot state strongly enough how totally dishonest much of the Media is. Truth doesn't matter to them, they only have their hatred & agenda." |
| • | "He's the President of the United States. You have to respect the office. No matter who is in the office, you may like, dislike personality or the politics, but we all must respect the office." |
| • | ... "the blood-soaked history" of socialism is unknown by millennials, leading them to identify as supporters of the movement. |
| • | "They've got to indoctrinate an ideology rather than educate in history because if they teach history, they're going to lose." |
| • | "Has anyone looked at the mistakes that John Brennan made while serving as CIA Director? He will go down as easily the WORST in history & since getting out, he has become nothing less than a loudmouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country!" |
| • | "When a politician admits that "We're not going to make America great again," there doesn't seem to be much reason to ever vote for him." |
| • | "How does a politician, Cuomo, known for pushing people and businesses out of his state, not to mention having the highest taxes in the U.S., survive making the statement, WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT? Which section of the sentence is worse?" |
| • | After one particularly violent weekend earlier this month when more than 70 people were shot, Emanuel deflected questions about police staffing and strategy. |
| • | Instead, he ignited a firestorm when he said there needs to be a politically incorrect conversation about character and values. |
| • | "This may not be politically correct, but I know the power of what faith and family can do... Our kids need that structure... I am asking ... that we also don't shy away from a full discussion about the importance of family and faith helping to develop and nurture character, self-respect, a value system and a moral compass that allows kids to know good from bad and right from wrong." |
| • | "If we're going to solve this ... we've got to have a real discussion... Parts of the conversation cannot be off-limits because it's not politically comfortable... We are going to discuss issues that have been taboo in years past because they are part of the solution... We also have a responsibility to help nurture character. It plays a role. Our kids need that moral structure in their lives. And we cannot be scared to have this conversation." |
| • | "At this point in my administration, any benefits that senior officials might glean from consultations with Mr. Brennan are now outweighed by the risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior." |
| • | Trump's statement also said that Brennan was "leveraging" his clearance in order to make "wild outbursts" against the administration. |
| • | "The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that's what he's doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action." |
| • | This is now a pattern of individuals who have worked inside the building who are trying to profiteer off of their relationship with the president," Lewandowski said. "It's too bad, it's shameful and our country, and the president, deserve better." |
| • | "The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their "outrage" at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love." |
| • | "Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!" |
| • | See related Not Standing for the Anthem (Sean Delonas, 09/28/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Discussion and debate are not "bad intentions." Slandering someone as a sexist catcaller without reason or evidence does demonstrate cowardice and bad intent, however." |
| • | "OMG this is insane and yet the liberal campaign to make her the rockstar face of the left will continue... let's face it, I guess they don't have much else. It's amazing the illusions libs can create with the MSM in their back pocket." |
| • | "People are coming from out of town and bringing weapons and are committed to violence...We don't want people to be able to do that with anonymity." |
| • | "If she has so much disdain for the country in which she lives, why doesn't she just leave?" |
| • | Another man said that he respects her right to protest, but that Schlag should do so on her own time. |
| • | "I don't care whether she's Puerto Rican, whether she's Anglo-Saxon, I don't care whether she's an Eskimo, socialism doesn't work and it's wrong." |
| • | "When Barack Obama was president, I didn't vote for him. I wasn't happy about it, but I respected the office of president, and I think people need to respect the office of president." |
Sessions rips campus culture for creating generation of 'sanctimonious' snowflakes (Fox 07/24/2018)
| • | "Rather than molding a generation of mature, well-informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes." |
| • | "Too many schools are coddling students. There was a ‘cry-in' at Cornell after the 2016 election, therapy dogs at the University of Kansas... I hope they had plenty of tissues." |
| • | "Unfortunately, what happened with my piece – the tarring of a commonsensical view as somehow bigoted or not thought out: the capitulation on the part of those who are supposed to be the adults to the mob – is a pattern happening all over the country within institutions that pride themselves on open-mindedness and liberalism." |
| • | "I think we've reached a point where we are raising a generation of people who are going to think that if they have anything to say to slightly contradict leftist orthodoxy that they shouldn't say it, and that if they do say it that they should expect these crazy consequences." |
| • | "I think that's the bigger problem – we're raising a broader generation of people to think that this is normal, and it's not." |
| • | "Democratic Socialism is a false paradise. What New Yorkers and Americans want is the ability to achieve success. Every American family deserves individual freedom, and the opportunity to achieve real success." |
| • | "I don't think New Yorkers or Americans want to embrace a party that hands over all aspects of our lives to a government that can barely provide services competently." |
| • | See related Socialism Illustrated (Mike Lester, 07/26/2007) cartoon from General picture album |
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| • | "I've never seen a more outrageous thing, where they sue the victims in an effort to find a judge they like." |
| • | "It's just really sad that they would stoop to this level." |
| • | "He was a member of the Communist Party during the Cold War." |
| • | "So this is not exactly the guy I would listen to about Russia." |
| • | See related Russian Youth Vote (Chip Bok, 03/21/2018) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "I don't care when it was written. I don't care whether it was long hand, cursive. I don't care about any of that. I want to know what it meant, Agent Strzok." |
| • | After Strzok said he didn't "appreciate" how Gowdy was characterizing those events, the congressman fired back: |
| • | "I don't give a damn what you appreciate, Agent Strzok." |
| • | "To my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, please replace President Trump's name with your own name in a small sample of things Mr. Strzok has said." |
| • | "Envision how you would feel if you found out that the chief agent investigating you as a Member of Congress was making these comments: 'F Trump,' 'Trump is a disaster,' 'Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support' – or, perhaps most alarmingly and revealingly, 'We'll stop it' – referring directly to Mr. Trump's candidacy for President." |
| • | "How can the Rigged Witch Hunt proceed when it was started, influenced and worked on, for an extended period of time, by former FBI Agent/Lover Peter Strzok? Read his hate filled and totally biased Emails and the answer is clear!" |
| • | See related My Badge (Glenn McCoy, 12/07/2017) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling. Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network." |
| • | "In the US, political scores are settled at the ballot box, not by trying to kill your political opponents." |
| • | "I will not change my views as a result of these attempts to ostracize me, but there are some who may remain silent for fear of being shunned," he wrote. |
| • | "Silence is not my style. Cowardice is not my philosophy. I intend to speak up when I disagree with Republicans, and I intend to speak up when I disagree with Democrats. Right now I am speaking up in disagreement with Maxine Waters. She — like those who shun me on Martha's Vineyard — is part of the problem rather than the solution." |
| • | "We've seen the bias, we need to see the evidence." |
| • | "If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people." |
| • | "You know what would happen to parts of our country [if ICE was abolished]? It would be overrun with the worst criminal elements you have ever seen." |
| • | "These radical Democrat protesters — they really want anarchy. But the only response they will find from our government is very strong law and order. We will not tolerate attacks on our law enforcement. We will protect our law enforcement like they protect us." |
| • | "We are going to make trade fair and reciprocal. You know what that is? They do it to us, we do it to them ... We're not starting a trade war, but we'll finish it." |
| • | Based on the last week, Democrats apparently want to campaign on open borders, mass migration, & abolishing ICE. Give them points for honesty. Let's vote. |
| • | "Please, Democrats, make ‘Abolish ICE' the focus of your campaign this fall!" |
| • | ... Waters' comments "are in direct conflict with the reputation of the United States as a nation where individuals have a right to debate their differences civilly, without fear of physical retribution." |
| • | "It's an incredible thing when people in the name of their liberty want to deny someone else theirs." |
| • | "Murdering a police officer in cold blood is a crime beyond the frontiers of rehabilitation or redemption." |
| • | "... Think very, very carefully before you go down that route, because (suicide) will absolutely devastate, in ways you can't imagine, the people you leave behind." |
| • | "If you haven't talked to a psychologist, talked to a psychiatrist, if you haven't tried antidepressants, if you haven't revealed to your family that this is how you're feeling, if you haven't been to the hospital, well, explore any possible avenue before you take a final step." |
| • | "For some people, antidepressants work. They don't work for everyone. I'm not claiming they are a panacea, but they certainly beat the hell out of suicide. Even if they have some negative side effects — and they do, quite frequently they do — the negative side effects aren't fatal. So try that. You owe it to yourself to try everything else." |
| • | "Consider that your life has intrinsic value," ... meaning you can't just opt out, because to do so will leave a "hole in the fabric of being itself". |
| • | "Don't be so sure that your life is yours to take. You don't own yourself the way you own an object ... you can't just casually bring (your life) to an end because, the fact is, suicide is wrong." |
| • | ... if you take your own life, it won't end the pain. The pain will simply be transferred to other people, who then have to live their lives in agony. |
| • | Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so." |
| • | "We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it!" |
| • | "Outrage, minus any solution, creates a bloodthirst targeting Americans trying to solve a problem that the loudest voices never cared about until now." |
| • | "I think it's appalling that faculties of education are pushing this sort of nonsense." |
| • | ... children that are exposed to such "idiot social justice pseudo-education," they should be pulled out of their schools. |
| • | "Why would we turn the education of our children over to idiot ideologues?" |
| • | "The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility. Not on my watch. Look what's happening in Europe." |
| • | "These outbursts are little more than political masturbation for the left — it may make them feel good, but it produces nothing." |
| • | "On the eve of a summit that could lead to the denuclearization of N. Korea DiNiro [sic] stands before a national TV audience and says "f** Trump". That's the left for you." |
| • | "Thank god entertainers are not as important as they think they are." |
| • | "Robert De Niro helped me realize tonight that Trump will easily win in 2020. Hollywood won't learn from their mistakes in 2016 and neither with Democrats or the media." |
| • | "Frankly, I don't think the celebrity mouthpieces of the so-called ‘Resistance' have thought one iota about how their insane outbursts will affect any election. Their vulgar tirades only serve to remind Trump's base why they voted for him to begin with and also remind independent swing voters just how unserious the left really is." |
| • | "These comedians and actors can try to one up each other on vulgarity and classlessness all they want; they're only helping to re-elect Trump in the areas of the country that played pivotal roles in deciding his presidency." |
| • | "So, I say thank you. Let them continue to show hypocrisy and condemn ‘deplorables,' proving themselves to be exactly what they claim to detest." |
| • | ... pointed out that Trump's critics often turn to vulgarities and insults, as opposed to substance and solutions. |
| • | "I think it's really pathetic and all it really does is embolden President Trump and bring more people into his camp." |
| • | ... it's sad that the left would apparently rather see America fail than the president succeed. |
| • | "I think that demonstrates just the vitriol and the hatred from the left." |
| • | "You look at the Great Recession: millions of jobs lost, trillions of dollars in household income and wealth gone. And that's what the left wants, just so President Trump doesn't have a victory or get re-elected. It's sad." |
| • | "... The law states that parents have the ultimate authority in impacting values to their children, not the schools." |
| • | "There's an agenda in California and every other state to target the minds and hearts of children. The agenda is to lure them into promiscuity and condition their minds to accept lifestyles that are against the teaching of God's Word." |
| • | "Using smutty language and imagery to taint the minds of elementary school children — or any age students for that matter — is wrong." |
| • | "People today have been taught to be offended, people live to be offended. That's why they need a ‘safe space' and a ‘cry closet,' and what they mean by that seems to be a space where they can be safe from hearing the voice of reason and truth." |
| • | "If you speak the truth, you might not be safe." |
| • | "So let's be politically incorrect, like St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of political incorrectness." |
| • | The field is a place of work for football players, a place of work where they make millions of dollars, yet somehow feel oppressed. |
| • | The NFL, as an employer, has every right to require players in uniform to respect the flag and national anthem. |
| • | Football is a job. Yeah, they can still kneel, protest, pout and peaceably assemble on their own time — but NOT at work. |
| • | Do you get to protest at your place of work? Probably not. |
| • | Private companies get to dictate how their employees behave at work. That's just the way it is. |
| • | "These people who want to create their own social policy are not worthy of the office." |
| • | "I am extremely upset because I did not send my child to a New York City public school to pray for Hamas operatives." |
| • | "What is so ironic and pathetic is that the media — in their never-ending quest to destroy the President — has become everything they claim to hate about Trump." |
| • | "I don't ever want to hear anyone in the media complain about a Trump tweet or bemoan ‘this isn't normal' as long as the media itself acts in such an insanely abhorrent manner." |
| • | To deny that Karl Marx was, at times, a startlingly original thinker, would be nutty. |
| • | To deny that he was, in many respects, one of the most lethal of a long line of millenarian preachers, is to embrace ignorance. |
| • | And to deny that his work inspired the death of maybe one hundred million victims is something altogether more sinister. |
| • | Marx may or may not have anticipated the scale of the slaughter to come, but he understood perfectly well that mass murder was part of the package. |
| • | "These phones, especially to a 14-year-old girl, it's like heroin." |
| • | "As a father, I had to tell him that I know who you are. I know what you did. And I had to see the monster myself. |
| • | "Even if the extraordinary allegations of bias and collusion posited by the defense in their motion to dismiss were true, and they are not, they would have no bearing on the guilt or innocence of the defendants currently before the court." |
| • | "The United States does not need John Kerry's possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He was the one that created this MESS in the first place!" |
| • | President Trump, in his announcement, called the Iran nuclear deal an "embarrassment" that "should never have been reached." He further stated that "after the sanctions were lifted, the dictatorship used its new funds to build nuclear capable missiles, support terrorism, and cause havoc throughout the Middle East and beyond." |
| • | "The agreement was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time. The deal's sunset provisions are totally unacceptable." |
| • | "... I don't think that we would take advice from somebody who created what the President sees to be one of the worst deals ever made." |
| • | "I'm not sure why we would start listening to him now." |
| • | "John Kerry can't get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it! Stay away from negotiations John, you are hurting your country!" |
| • | "We don't want anyone with unfettered power." |
| • | "I'm now afraid to graduate in December and to walk out into the world with a degree from Fresno State. All people are going to see is that woman and not me. Not the hard work that I put into my degree." |
| • | "If I know that teachers with tenure can say whatever they want to me as long as it doesn't pertain to academics, then that is not right." |
| • | "She advocates violence and there's an element of racism in there. If that's not hate speech, I don't know what's hate speech." |
| • | ... suggested the professor should teach an empty classroom when she returns next semester. |
| • | "Schools should teach that we should be respectful of each student and each person. This is what we all agree on. However, schools should not be used to advocate for lifestyles that are against the religious values of the students and parents." |
| • | "Every caricature thrust upon the national press — that we are culturally elitist, professionally incestuous, socioeconomically detached and ideologically biased — is confirmed by this trainwreck of an event. Journalists, the joke's on us. The WHCD is broken. Fix it or end it." |
| • | Sarah Sanders is the White House press secretary the mainstream media loves to hate, Hollywood loves to mock, and ultra-left feminists abhor, which tells you that she's doing something right. |
| • | She is a highly intelligent and articulate woman who day after day we watch call the media on the carpet, weed out their games, deal in facts, and maintain complete control of the briefing room at all times. |
| • | America saw Sanders react Saturday night with dignity, class, and the way we always see her react - she was not shaken. |
| • | See related Trump Press (Glenn McCoy, 08/12/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | It's time for President Trump to give the White House Press Corps the heave-ho. |
| • | Let them find some other place to spew their vulgar lies and half-truths and slander. |
| • | "It's the personal attacks, it's vicious, it's not fun, it's not funny. ... Who blames Trump for not going? I don't." |
| • | "It's like being invited to a restaurant where you know you're going to get food poisoning." |
| • | "The WHCD was supposed to celebrate the 1st Amendment. Instead they celebrated bullying, vulgarity, and hate. They got all dressed up so they would look nicer when they had a hired gun savagely attack their guests. Do they really wonder why America has no respect for them? Sad!" |
| • | "If it is offensive, I apologize, but it's been that way for over 30 years." |
| • | "I just don't feel someone's right to be offended is more important than my right to own a business." |
| • | ... it's a free-speech issue, and "communities can't regulate when it comes to names and sign." |
| • | "This is the perfect example of why you need to spend your money in businesses that you want to see in your community." |
| • | "Way to prepare students for the real world. Wonder how many prospective employers have cry closets?" |
| • | I suspect the highbrow editors at GQ Magazine would not know the difference between John the Baptist and Balaam's Ass. |
| • | The truth is the Bible documents the greatest story ever told – a story about agape love and sacrifice and redemption – everlasting life. |
| • | And it's also the best-selling book of all time – more than 5 billion copies sold, according to Guinness World Records, which also reports that the whole Bible has been translated into 349 languages and says at least one book of the Bible has been translated into 2,123 languages. |
| • | "The Holy Bible is God-breathed, it is living and active, and it is sharper than a double-edged sword. There is nothing more powerful, and there's nothing more needed by mankind than the Word of God." |
| • | Now far be it from me to tell the pompous, erudite, literary crowd at GQ Magazine what books they should and should not read, but they might want to glance at John 3:16 before they kick the bucket. |
| • | It states "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." |
| • | "How do you police a 4-year-old from expressing their feelings?" |
| • | ... she is removing her daughter — who she now says is hesitant to use the term — from the school. |
| • | "I want her to be able to express her thoughts and feelings in a healthy way, as children should." |
| • | Mohr sent a tweet to Joseph Castro, president of the Fresno State campus, calling for Jarrar's termination. |
| • | "COWARD. I'm a comedian, huge free speech advocate. Randa Jarrar should be fired 4 her sheer arrogance. A garbage person that cannot possibly be shielded through your terrible+weak PC statement today. Protecting her hate isn't why you make 300k a year." |
| • | "Good news: you won't have to see her when she's in heaven and you're burning in hell." |
| • | "This is nothing more than a poorly executed PR stunt by Comey to desperately rehabilitate his tattered reputation and enrich his own bank account by peddling a book that belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section." |
| • | "Our citizens have concealed weapons," the welcome sign reads in part. "If you kill someone, we might kill you back." |
| • | "WARNING: Harris County is politically incorrect. We say: Merry Christmas, God Bless America and In God We Trust. We salute our troops and our flag. If this offends you... LEAVE!" |
| • | "I spent 20 years in the army to give everyone the right to disagree with me or anyone else. Hopefully, if they disagree, they can voice that opinion. But if it offends them, truly offends them, maybe they're in the wrong country." |
| • | "If we want to talk about what happens when you lie to the FBI, I want to know what happens when the FBI lies to us." |
| • | See related The Mueller Team (Glenn McCoy, 12/15/2017) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | "Someone should've told the martyrs about ‘Christian privilege.'" |
| • | "I think America has too much ‘university privilege,'" |
| • | "There is a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people... you cannot say it's an honest mistake when you're purposely putting out information you know is false." |
| • | See related Fake News (Mike Lester, 11/27/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | "... I'd like to point out that as you are making the protest about your right to freedom of speech, don't forget that people like Jefferson gave you that right." |
| • | "The citizenship data provided to the [Department of Justice] will be more accurate with the question than without it." |
| • | "Which is of greater importance than any adverse effect that may result from people violating their legal duty to respond." |
| • | "You can't surround yourself with an armed retinue and then tell the rest of us we don't have a right to defend ourselves. That's worse than flying your private jet to accept a climate change award." |
| • | A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by the father of a boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to his Texas school that officials say resembled a bomb. |
| • | ... I'd rather stand alongside a gun-toting, Bible-clinging Deplorable – than a bitter woman who turned a blind eye when her husband was soiling the dignity of the Oval Office. |
| • | "These politicians, they need to talk to the victims of alien crime, talk to the parents that I talk to that lost children at the hands of criminal aliens." |
| • | "It cannot be the policy of a great nation to reward those who unlawfully enter its country with legal status, Social Security, welfare, food stamps, and work permits and so forth. How can this be a sound policy?" |
| • | "A nation that does not protect prosperity at home cannot protect its interests abroad." |
| • | "When it comes time where our country can't make aluminum and steel, you almost don't have much of a country." |
| • | "It cannot be the policy of a great nation to reward those who unlawfully enter its country with legal status, Social Security, welfare, food stamps, and work permits and so forth. How can this be a sound policy?" |
| • | "Meanwhile, those who engage in this process lawfully and patiently and wait their turn are discriminated against, it seems, at every turn." |
| • | "How dare you! How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open borders agenda." |
| • | "If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!" |
| • | "The United States has an $800 Billion Dollar Yearly Trade Deficit because of our "very stupid" trade deals and policies. Our jobs and wealth are being given to other countries that have taken advantage of us for years. They laugh at what fools our leaders have been. No more!" |
| • | "I've served in Congress for over three decades. We've been waiting for this. We don't want to wait for the steel industry collapse. We can't afford to have the aluminum industry collapse in this country." |
| • | "When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don't trade anymore-we win big. It's easy!" |
| • | "When a country Taxes our products coming in at, say, 50%, and we Tax the same product coming into our country at ZERO, not fair or smart. We will soon be starting RECIPROCAL TAXES so that we will charge the same thing as they charge us." |
| • | "We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON'T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY!" |
| • | "If the industry doesn't want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it." |
| • | "I hope that the music and entertainment industry will become more tolerant and inclusive and recognize that a true love for kids having access to the arts is more important than a dislike for someone or a group of people because of who they are or what they believe." |
| • | "I did not go into teaching thinking about a shooting in my school. But holing up inside a classroom and hoping the shooter doesn't see you didn't seem like a good idea. So I decided to take a class to get a concealed carry permit." |
| • | "When you have these shootings it's about the high number of casualties, and these shooters think they're successful when more people die. But we can stop them and if I can save the life of just one student than I think it's worth carrying a gun." |
| • | "Voting against a highly qualified nominee because of the color of his skin does nothing to bring our country and nation together." |
| • | "I think it's a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he's affirmatively stated that there's no truth to it. I don't think that's a question you would ask many other daughters. I believe my father, I know my father." |
| • | "The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school's security preparedness, the failure of America's mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement." |
| • | "Given your dreadful performance, the real question sir is what TF where [sic] you doing there?" |
| • | "The teachers just huddled their kids in the corner and stood in front of them and hoped for the best. They didn't have any defense for them, and all that they could do was hope that the bad guy didn't come in and shoot up their room." |
| • | "For me, I needed a better option, I needed a better plan set in place rather than hunker down and just hope for the best." |
| • | "I became a teacher because I love children. I love children, and I would do anything for them." |
| • | "And if that means taking a bullet, then yes, I will take a bullet for my children. But why not give me the chance to also fight back in the process?" |
| • | "The whole idea from some of our opponents that armed security makes us less safe is completely ridiculous. If armed security makes us less safe, let's just go ahead and remove it from everywhere. Let's remove it from the White House, from Capitol Hill, and remove it from all of Hollywood." |
| • | "You should be anxious and you should be frightened. ... If they take over the House and Senate and God forbid they get the White House again, our American freedoms could be lost and our country will be changed forever and the first to go will be the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." |
| • | ... history has proven that gun control is the first action when the "political disease" of socialism takes power. |
| • | ... emphasizing that "to stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun." |
| • | "As somebody who proudly served our country and risked life and limb to defend our nation and our families, I believe that no candidate for public office should attack our service members." |
| • | "We serve because of our innate passion to protect our country. We should never tear down veterans." |
| • | "I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health." |
| • | ... "a gun-free zone to a maniac, they're all cowards, is 'let's go in and attack because bullets aren't coming at us.'" |
| • | "History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average 3 minutes. It takes police & first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/ coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!" |
| • | "If a potential ‘sicko shooter' knows that a school has a large number of very weapons talented teachers (and others) who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won't go there... problem solved. Must be offensive, defense alone won't work." |
| • | At what point did politics become the determining factor to decide how liked you are in society. I mean come on. It's a T-shirt. His daughter was just murdered and you guys are telling him he's wrong for a political opinion he had. Y'all need to learn some respect. |
| • | "There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections, there's no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes." |
| • | "Until we, as a country, are willing to get serious and talk about mental health issues, lack of available care for the mental health issues, lack of discipline in the home, horrendous lack of parental support when the schools are trying to control horrible behavior at school (oh no! Not MY KID. What did YOU do to cause my kid to react that way?), lack of moral values, and yes, I'll say it – violent video games that take away all sensitivity to ANY compassion for others' lives – as well as reality TV that makes it commonplace for people to constantly scream up in each others' faces and not value any other person but themselves, we will have a gun problem in school." |
| • | "Parents, it's time to step up! Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend. They have enough ‘friends' at school. Be their parent. Being the ‘cool mom' means not a damn thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME." |
| • | "... I never dreamed of shooting anyone with his guns. I never dreamed of taking one! I was taught respect for human life, compassion, rules, common decency, and most of all, I was taught that until I moved out, my life and bedroom wasn't mine... it was theirs. And they were going to know what was happening because they loved me and wanted the best for me." |
| • | "Time and time again we point to the one common theme with mass shootings, they occur in gun-free zones." |
| • | ... law-abiding citizens should be able "to defend themselves and most importantly our children from the worst-case scenarios." |
| • | "We have got to wake up, wake up and understand that we have to have... specially trained people that have concealed firearms that can run to the threat and protect our children." |
| • | "At some point, we're going to be fatigued with everybody being the victim." |
| • | U.S. schools should follow an Israeli practice of training and arming teachers... |
| • | "You can't keep a lunatic from wanting to kill somebody. The only way to stop this is by superior fire power." |
| • | ... in favor of U.S. schools following the Israeli security practice Opens a New Window. requiring guards at schools and permitting certain individuals to carry firearms. |
| • | "They are teachers ... who have been trained and practice every week and silently, stealthfully, not ostentatiously carry a gun." |
| • | "The changes proposed by Senators Schumer-Rounds-Collins would effectively make the United States a Sanctuary Nation where ignoring the rule of law is encouraged." |
| • | "... this Amendment would only compound the problem by encouraging millions of additional minors to be smuggled into the United States. We need to solve the problem, not perpetuate it indefinitely." |
| • | The DHS ... said the bill would mark "the end of immigration enforcement in America and only serve to draw millions more illegal aliens with no way to remove them." |
| • | ... it falls short of the "four pillars" that Trump said needed to be fulfilled for him to sign immigration legislation. |
| • | "What we really think is the best solution to these problems is to have people properly trained in the use of firearms." |
| • | Last year, Georgia's governor signed a law allowing people with permits to carry concealed handguns on the state's public college campuses. |
| • | The state also requires people to be at least 21 — or at least 18 with proof of basic training or active service in the military — to receive a concealed carry permit. |
| • | "If someone thinks you have a gun, they are far less likely to target you for a robbery." |
| • | "Peoples [sic] lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new." |
| • | "There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?" |
| • | "The fact that he's an illegal alien or an undocumented immigrant, been removed four times, that doesn't make him evil. He is evil because he's a despicable human being that just happens to be here illegally." |
| • | "Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented (and) unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country." — Sen. Barack Obama, news conference, 2005 |
| • | "All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers." — President Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995 |
| • | "I continue to believe that we need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace. And that means a workable mandatory system that employers must use to verify the legality of their workers." — Sen. Barack Obama, Senate floor, 2007 |
| • | "If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides — and that's a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of babies born at taxpayer expense (in) county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?" — Sen. Harry Reid, Senate floor, 1993 |
| • | "We need to start by giving agencies charged with border security new technology, new facilities and more people to stop, process and deport illegal immigrants." — Sen. Barack Obama, 2005 |
| • | "We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it." — President Clinton, State of the Union address,1995 |
| • | If someone is denied a slot on a team because of prejudice, that's one thing. Complaining that every team isn't a rainbow of political correctness defeats the purpose of sports, which is competition. |
| • | At the Olympic level, not everyone is a winner. Not everyone gets a little plastic trophy to take home. |
| • | Sorry. "Faster, Higher, Stronger" still works better than "We win because we're different." |
| • | ... with the rhetoric heating up, others have called for their former colleagues to refrain from firing from the hip, with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warning that it could easily harm the institutions they are working to defend. |
| • | "I think that people who have been in these positions, and I would include retired military, need to be very careful in terms of political commentary because you can be looked upon as representing that institution, not just yourself." |
| • | "... I think people who have occupied senior positions in the intelligence community, in the military and others, need to be very cautious about getting involved in the political process." |
| • | "Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep." |
| • | "Tonight, I call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground, and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people we were elected to serve." |
| • | "Past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation. I will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this dangerous position." |
| • | "I'd like to know what country... that would let 1.8 million people [in] who violated their rules and disrespected their laws, but were still willing to forgive them and generously allow them citizenship." |
| • | The heart of a university education used to be exposure to a wide range of ideas and the opportunity to debate their merits in order to inform one's own positions and learn to articulate them persuasively. |
| • | ... everyone should be concerned about threats to free speech, regardless of their political beliefs. |
| • | Viewpoints that are mainstream now may quickly become minority views, and vice versa, as has happened repeatedly throughout history. |
| • | That is why protecting even unpopular speech in the short run benefits everyone in the long run. |
| • | Free speech is not only a fundamental right, but, as James Madison said, the "effectual guardian of every other right." |
| • | Free speech enables citizens to advocate for all their other civil rights and is the single most powerful bulwark against government tyranny. |
| • | "A minority of Democrat senators take advantage of this day to shut the government down, holding the American people hostage...military families, and sick children, choosing to prioritize and protect 700,000 DACA recipients who aren't even citizens." |
| • | "Thank you for calling the White House, unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because congressional Democrats are withholding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate. Due to this obstruction, our government is shut down." |
| • | "The White House position remains the same, that we will not negotiate the status of 690,000 unlawful immigrants while hundreds of millions of taxpaying Americans, including hundreds of thousands of our troops in uniform and border agents protecting our country, are held hostage by Senate Democrats." |
| • | "CNN's Chief Medical Conspiracy Theorist Sanjay Gupta is not a cardiologist, not the White House physician, has never examined the President, and has been spreading these debunked heart rumors since 2016" |
| • | "CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta diagnosed Trump with heart disease. What kind of ethical professional would publicly diagnose someone without an examination and the permission to make public? This is EXTREME malpractice." |
| • | "Apparently CNN's "doctor" Sanjay Gupta forgot the first rule of ethics in the medical field: you never diagnose someone without examining them. As I've said many times, when it comes to Trump, these CNN lapdogs all of a sudden become experts on everything." |
| • | "Sen. Flake, turn on the news. It's wall-to-wall with biased coverage against @POTUS. He has every right to push back. Comparing the leader of the free world to murderous dictators is absurd." |
| • | See related Trump Press (Glenn McCoy, 08/12/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | "Maybe Mika's friends should stay in Paris if they're too embarrassed to admit that they are American. We might be better off." |
| • | "A provocateur and media polemicist, Wolff has a penchant for stirring up an argument and pushing the facts as far as they'll go, and sometimes further than they can tolerate, according to his critics. He has been accused of not just re-creating scenes in his books and columns, but of creating them wholesale." |
| • | See related He's Crazy! (Glenn McCoy, 05/16/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | "As Americans, you need identification, sometimes in a very strong and accurate form, for almost everything you do... except when it comes to the most important thing, VOTING for the people that run your country. Push hard for Voter Identification!" |
| • | "You can't stop consenting adults from being stupid. But, we should at least try." |
| • | ... at least Malsky's screaming match says one good thing about the greatness of America. If he tried the same stunt in Russia, Iran, China, North Korea or a lot of other nations without the freedom of speech Americans enjoy, he'd probably be spending the next several years behind bars, after a government judge ordered: "LOCK HIM UP!" |
| • | A new conservative Christian college – free from "safe spaces" and students screaming helplessly at the sky – is set to open in 2018. |
| • | ... will, instead, focus on three c's: core academics, Christian character and keeping education costs down. |
| • | "The modern educational system is too expensive, it's academically weak and it's hostile to faith." |
| • | ... pointed out that the average student, after four years of college, is worse off when it comes to issues like pornography addiction, drug use, cheating and promiscuity. |
| • | "It's time for a revolution to get college back on track to think about character as much as it thinks about developing the mind. |
| • | The First Lady did order the historic tree to be removed, but only after specialists determined that it needed to be removed. The tree has long been supported by poles and wires and posed a hazard for anyone standing near it. |
| • | "Newsweek's bias and disdain for the First Lady and our administration was on full display when they actively chose to use a false headline instead of practicing responsible journalism. This is why Americans' trust and confidence in mass media continues to fall." |
| • | "They either find something to attack him on or they just make it up." |
| • | "In suggesting that God is ‘queer' Swarthmore College is guilty of nothing short of modern day idolatry." |
| • | "When you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture's immorality." |
| • | Swarthmore College did not return my calls seeking comment. Nor did they respond to a question about whether they had read the Book of Revelation, Chapter 22, Verse 19. |
| • | I also inquired about whether the religion department will be offering courses on "Queering Mohammed" or "Queering the Koran." |
| • | Something tells me they won't respond to that query either. |
| • | "People get offended by different things, but just because something offends you, doesn't mean the whole world has to change to accommodate you..." |
| • | It's time to wake up and realize you are special to your parents, not anyone else. You need to get over the notion that the worst thing that can happen to you is hurt feelings. |
| • | If you sit back and wait for someone to offend you, you're not living a very full or productive life. |
| • | Dry your tears, accept reality, and get to work. If you don't like the way your life is going, change it. |
| • | "We'll save a lot. We don't care." |
| • | "For all these nations, they take our money and then vote against us. They take hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions of dollars and then they vote against us." |
| • | "We're watching those votes. Let them vote against us." |
| • | Haley said the Trump administration is "simply asking that you acknowledge the historical friendship, partnership, and support we have extended and respect our decision about our own embassy." |
| • | "The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We will take note of each and every vote on this issue." |
| • | "At the UN we're always asked to do more & give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American ppl, abt where to locate OUR embassy, we don't expect those we've helped to target us. On Thurs there'll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names." |
| • | See related Doctrines (Michael Ramirez, 09/22/2017) cartoon from World picture album |
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| • | "Uh probably because I helped write the bill for the past year, have multiple provisions included, got multiple Senators on board over the last week and have worked on tax reform my entire time in Congress. But if you'd rather just see my skin color, pls feel free." |
| • | I say better that than the run-of-the mill pornographic debauchery that normally spews out of Hollywood. |
| • | Fortunately, for the folks over at Slate there is a perfect solution to their television viewing dilemma – just change the channel. |
Port Authority bombing suspect's family faces backlash after chastising authorities (Fox 12/12/2017)
| • | "Rude? Attempting to murder innocent Americans, while your family and son are privileged guests, entitles you to be handled with kit gloves? REALLY? You haven't anything worthy of sympathy, America wants and deserves the answers." |
| • | "The only thing the 'Ullah family" should be saying is, "We are profoundly sorry for unleashing a psychopath into your midst.'" |
| • | "Our teams use appropriate, reasonable and lawful methods to accomplish these goals. But to be clear, our teams will move with speed and move with purpose." |
| • | Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday called for an end to the chain migration visa and a switch to a merit-based system to prevent terror suspects from entering the country. |
| • | "That means welcoming the best and the brightest and turning away not only terrorists, but gang members and criminals." |
| • | "We should give priority to those who are likely to thrive here — such as those who speak English or are highly skilled — not someone chosen at random or who happens to be somebody's relative." |
| • | See related Anything Else to Declare? (Glenn McCoy, 11/01/2017) cartoon from Terror picture album |
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| • | "There is a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people... you cannot say it's an honest mistake when you're purposely putting out information you know is false." |
| • | See related Fake News (Mike Lester, 11/27/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
| • | ... Geller called Sarsour a "pro-terror, pro-Sharia, anti-Semite" and Yiannopolous called her a "Sharia-loving, terrorist-embracing, Jew-hating, ticking time-bomb of progressive horror." |
| • | "Having Linda Sarsour... leading a panel on #antisemitism is like Oscar Meyer leading a panel on vegetarianism." |
| • | "These panelists know the issue, but unfortunately, from the perspective of fomenting it rather than fighting it." |
| • | "Robert Mueller is not a ‘man of integrity' as the Washington, D.C., Democrat and Republican political establishment like to spin." |
| • | "He is just another pol who is representing his establishment benefactors in both political parties who want to see the presidency of Donald Trump destroyed." |
| • | "He must be held accountable to the law and should not be able to do as he pleases to further his and his friends, like former FBI Director James Comey's, political agenda." |
| • | "To have a national ‘news' host call rural America a ‘core threat' to our democracy is both striking arrogance and striking ignorance." |
| • | "I think it's a sad commentary on what's happened to America when a father being told that his son was shoplifting in China isn't really angry at his son." |
| • | " "He ought to be grateful to the president, because his son could have been in really deep trouble." |
| • | "I'm embarrassed for that father that he didn't have the decency to say, 'Thank you, Mr. President. I've got to talk to my kid,'" |
| • | "I just think this is a sign of what's sick about America, that people don't take responsibility, they don't take accountability." |
| • | "People should be pretty irritated that these guys who have a privileged life, have a privileged future, have the chance for a multi-million dollar career in the NBA are out here embarrassing America, looking stupid and doing something that's totally dumb." |
| • | "What he ought to say is, 'I wish that father had been there in jail. Let the kids come home.' It's the father who's being ungrateful, not the kids." |
| • | "Wow, both Manson and Trump used language to gain followers? Next you're going to tell me that they both drank water to quench thirst." |
| • | "Please know this is not a gun free zone — we are heavily armed — any attempt will be dealt with deadly force — yes we are a church and will protect our people." The message is signed "The Pastors." |
| • | "If you think you are going to come here and do that, this is a deterrent for you because it is everywhere, it's not like we hide these signs. They're big signs, and it's going to tell these people, we will protect our people." |
| • | "Would I rather ruffle a few feathers, or do I want to count bodies?" |
| • | "It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation, absolutely stuns me... I thought at least that was sacred." |
| • | "There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room and they're going to be diverse too because they're going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation." |
| • | "Leadership starts at the top, and this is an example of poor leadership," Schnatter said. "The NFL has hurt Papa John's shareholders." |
| • | "This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago. The controversy is polarizing the customer, polarizing the country." |
| • | "No one in the schools system needs to be teaching my daughter what a mistress is or a trophy wife or boy toy. It's inappropriate for a school. Period." |
| • | Importantly, illegal immigrants – no matter how much empathy I maintain for them – have no standing to make loud demands of the American people. |
| • | Their attitudes should convey incredible gratitude that this country – unique among nations – shows such compassion to people who do not belong here legally. |
| • | As a pro-DACA Latino, I urge these groups to cease using the leftist radical tactics of the so-called "Occupy" movement, and instead make a humble, reasoned case to persuade America why they should be allowed to stay. |
| • | "The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military." |
| • | "Sgt. Bergdahl does not have a monopoly on suffering as a result of his choices." |
| • | "Although I am touched and honored to be selected for such an award, the ongoing controversy with NFL players' disrespect for the national flag forces me to decline to participate in the presentation." |
| • | "I am unable, in good conscience, to enter an NFL stadium while this discourtesy prevails. Since this award is tainted with the dishonorable actions of the NFL and its players, I cannot accept it." |
| • | "Maybe we should focus on those who were brutally murdered than a backlash you hope manifests. |
| • | "Instead of the story being the barbaric murder of innocents, the media wants the story to be imagined backlash. Disgusting." |
| • | "NBC's priority in reporting is about ‘backlash' to Muslim Americans, not that eight people were killed." |
| • | See related First Responders (Mike Lester, 04/28/2013) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | See related NBC Loses Credibility (Robert Ariail, 02/06/2015) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | "It's a shame sporting events are being used to communicate disrespect for this great country. We will not be a part of this." |
| • | ... "there is very little difference between the Nazis of the hard right and the anti-Semites of the hard left." |
| • | "I grew up in a time when it was as much the woman's responsibility as it was a man's – how you were dressed, what your behavior was." |
| • | "I'm from the old school that you can have behaviors that appear inviting. It can be interpreted as such. That's the responsibility, I think, of the female." |
| • | ... men have a "responsibility to be professional themselves." |
| • | "I think we also need to start talking about the power that women have to control the situation. There's law enforcement, you can refuse to cooperate with that kind of behavior." |
| • | "I think that many times, men get away with this because they are allowed to get away with it by the women." |
| • | "You're making fun of the President of the United States helping a polio survivor that stumbled." |
| • | "So very cheap and sleazy journalism — if it even could be called journalism just a hate post." |
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| • | The restaurant's post also mentioned the eatery would not broadcast NFL games until "the organization got it together." |
| • | "There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of. Now maybe I'm not watching it as carefully as other people." |
| • | "I don't care who you are or how much money you make. If you don't respect our country, then you shouldn't be in this country playing football. Go to another country and play football. If you had to go to somewhere else and try to play this sport, you wouldn't have a job." |
| • | "If you can't respect the flag and this country, then you don't respect what this is all about. So I would say: Adios." |
| • | "Today's conservative speech is violence. Unprovoked liberal violence is self-defense." |
| • | Here's a thought for teachers across the fruited plain — instead of indoctrinating the kids with your far-left political ideology, how about teach them how to parse participles and do long division? |
| • | "I'm of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony." |
| • | "How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?" |
| • | "While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem. I stand with President Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem." |
| • | Dear @NancySinatra there are 5 million NRA members Explain why they should be killed. ALL Recent Mass Shooters Were #Dems NOT @NRA Members. |
| • | "As Americans we have one common thread and that is that men/women of all color have fought and died to give us the right to live free and get to play football on a Friday night and all the other liberties we have." |
| • | "I want to be clear that I don't have a problem with people protesting if it is done the right way." |
| • | "But to disrespect the flag that gives us the right to protest is the wrong way to do it. I gave the two players other ways to protest that I felt was fair." |
| • | "Americans know and understand that if we lose that one common thread – the love of country and respect for what we have – then it won't be long before we lose that freedom that we have." |
| • | "Though many may disagree with me this is what I believe and as an American I have that right." |
| • | "I pray these young men across American can come to understand there is a right and wrong way to do things." |
| • | "Theodor Seuss Geisel — or Dr. Seuss — used his incredible talent to instill in his most impressionable readers universal values we all hold dear," Obama wrote. |
| • | "Through a prolific collection of stories, he made children see that reading is fun, and in the process, he emphasized respect for all; pushed us to accept ourselves for who we are; challenged preconceived notions and encouraged trying new things." |
| • | I know your protest is more than just some misguided political movement, misplaced protest, or bogus facts. It's bigger than just football. |
| • | You players decided to disrespect our country and her flag. You decided to insult your customer. |
| • | You decided to insult those who have made the ultimate sacrifice so you can have the freedom to play a game and make a fine living. |
| • | You decided to alter an American institution to fit your own political needs. Alas, I'm sure you have supporters. |
| • | ... you need to understand that my God and country far exceed my desire to watch Sunday football. |
| • | "There is a time and place for civil debate, and wearing team jerseys and using sporting events to disrespect our country doesn't wash with millions of military veterans who have and continue to wear real uniforms on real battlefields around the globe." |
| • | "I stand for our flag and anthem, and I kneel for our fallen. That's what patriots do. We rally around the flag of our country, not use it and our Constitution as both shield and sword." |
| • | "It wasn't political when it was written and it shouldn't be political today. Having a right to do something does not make it the right thing to do." |
| • | "The players and the owners of the NFL have confused politics with patriotism." |
| • | Americans have a choice – they can either stand with the VFW and the American Legion or they can stand with a bunch of overpaid, subversive cowards. |
| • | "The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were the ones quick to criticize Tim Tebow for bending a knee to pray and thank God on the field." |
| • | "Kaepernick is entitled to his opinion, but I'm also entitled to mine, which is that he's an ideological idiot." |
| • | "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast." |
| • | #If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!" |
| • | The sign ... notifies customers that staff may say things like, "Merry Christmas," "Happy Easter," and "God Bless America." |
| • | "We Salute and Honor the Flag, Give thanks to our Troops, Police Officers, and Firefighters, Give thanks for the USA and give free Sundaes to Veterans on Veterans Day." |
| • | ... even provides the owner's contact information for offended readers, so he may "arrange a designated ‘snowflake safe space' a minimum 24 hours in advance." |
| • | The notice signs off: "In God We Trust." |
| • | "I felt the sign was appropriate to hang in terms of being transparent about the views of the owner and staff supporting God and country." |
| • | "It just seems that those kinds of values and principles are becoming controversial in society." |
| • | Pompeo called Manning an "American traitor." He said he agreed with military and intelligence officials who believe Manning's leak endangered the lives of CIA personnel. |
| • | Morell, a former CIA deputy director who twice served as acting director, announced his resignation from Harvard's Belfer Center was a result of Manning's appointment, saying he couldn't be part of an organization "that honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information." |
| • | "Senior leaders in our military have stated publicly that the leaks by Ms. Manning put the lives of U.S. soldiers at risk." |
| • | "I have an obligation in my conscience — and I believe to the country — to stand against any efforts to justify leaks of sensitive national security information." |
| • | Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, holds law and business degrees from Harvard. He reacted to Morell's resignation by tweeting, "Well done, Mike. And abject shame on Harvard." |
| • | The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued on behalf of the macaque monkey in 2015, seeking financial control of the photographs for the benefit of the monkey named Naruto that snapped the photos with Slater's camera. |
| • | "PETA and David Slater agree that this case raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for non-human animals, a goal that they both support, and they will continue their respective work to achieve this goal." |
| • | "So you'd be ok with someone breaking into your house and stealing all your stuff to avoid a 'carceral state'?" |
| • | "You're saying non-whites can't help but steal, so they shouldn't be punished? Seriously? Keep your racist opinions to yourself." |
| • | "As far as the congressman and other irresponsible members of congress are concerned, they have the luxury of saying what they want as they do nothing and have almost no responsibility. |
| • | "They can call people liars but it would be inappropriate for me to say the same thing back at them. As my blessed mother used to say ‘empty barrels make the most noise.'" |
| • | "The congressman has a right to his opinion." |
| • | "I don't have a problem serving on a commission with people who I might disagree with. We don't get anywhere if you refuse to talk to people who you might disagree with." |
| • | "In today's climate, it's all-too-easy to allow your views and outlook to be shaped by dominant opinion on your campus or in the broader academic culture." |
| • | "At many colleges and universities ... it leads [students] to suppose that dominant views are so obviously correct that only a bigot or a crank could question them." |
| • | "Epithets like 'bigotry' far too often are used to shut down debate." |
| • | "Certainly don't practice it. But don't allow yourselves to be intimidated and bullied by those who do practice it. They are the real bigots." |
| • | "Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts." |
| • | "The violent actions of people calling themselves Antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation." |
| • | "You're not talking about the far left of the Democratic Party — they're not even Democrats. A lot of them are socialists or anarchists or whatever." |
| • | "This is the stupidest thing I have heard lately and believe me there have been some really stupid things done lately in the name of 'racism' - How ignorant are you people - Never will I go to this theater or any other one that promotes this BS." |
| • | "In his last days, (President) Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning — a treasonous intelligence analyst who shared a trove of intelligence with the infamous Wikileaks." |
| • | "While no one can dispute Manning acted to undermine our country's national security, Joe Arpaio has spent a lifetime trying to maintain it... It is easy to discern that Arpaio is a patriot, while Manning is a traitor." |
| • | "I stressed over and over with the principal that I am all for protecting the rights of [the transgender child], but my children have rights as well." |
| • | What's happening ... is an example of how schools have become indoctrination grounds for the LGBT agenda. |
| • | And the only way to stop the indoctrination is for moms and dads to take a stand. |
| • | It may be unpleasant and it may be uncomfortable, but we've got to stand up to these activist bullies. |
| • | "We're engaging in identity politics to a poisonous degree. It's getting to be extremely dangerous." |
| • | "It can only end badly. And I would hope that we reverse this and seek to apply the law and seek to apply the way we condemn violence in a universal fashion and an even-handed fashion." |
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| • | "We have basically been told our whole lives that white people are racist and evil and should be erased." |
| • | "We have basically been told that it is a crime to be born a white male." |
| • | "Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" |
| • | "Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!" |
| • | "When you see bands of criminals, which is what they were yesterday, ripping down public property and being celebrated in the American media for doing so, we have a real problem on our hands." |
| • | "This is not about racial healing or racial unity when you see property being destroyed. That's not what it's about. It's about the eradication of history and acknowledgment that we had really difficult, horrible moments in our country's history that we were able to overcome." |
| • | "... we believe that family and faith, not government and bureaucracy, are the foundation of our society." |
| • | "... in America we don't worship government, we worship God." |
| • | What about dignity and respect for females? Obviously, Obama and his leftist cohorts didn't give a rip about that. |
| • | Once again, here is another example of the left making up rules that favor a microscopic minority while inflicting irrefutable damage on the resounding majority. |
| • | Military members did not volunteer to be brainwashed with leftist propaganda. They volunteered to serve. |
| • | It is hard to do that if they are preoccupied with altering their natural and human responses to things their brain and conscience reckons as abnormal. |
| • | ... "policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention." |
| • | "In other words, if you are a parent, don't send your sons to Princeton." |
| • | "As an academic authority at SDSU, Dr. Graubart's sickening lack of respect toward Senator McCain will not be tolerated by our organization and should not be tolerated by university administration." |
| • | ... people should be armed and prepared just in case they are faced with an active shooter. |
| • | "The armed assailant doesn't plan on you fighting back. He plans on having a gun, doing all the shooting, and you're just a sitting duck. Well, the ducks need to shoot back." |
| • | ... citizens should have a concealed weapons permit and carry their gun with them whenever they can. He also says gun owners should keep their skills sharp. |
| • | "If you're not afraid of a gun, get one. And if you need to shoot somebody, shoot ‘em a lot." |
| • | ... the "equal protection clause does not demand that things that are different in fact be treated the same in law, nor that a government pretend there are no physiological differences between men and women." |
| • | "Folks, now more than ever is the time for our citizens to be prepared to serve as the first line of defense, not only for them, but for their families." |
| • | "What's next is to fully understand that this is war, and you better be prepared to wage war to protect you, your family, and those around you if attacked." |
| • | "No matter who you are or what your position is on guns, there's no denying the fact that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun or a knife is an armed and well-prepared citizen or law enforcement officer." |
| • | Former Democratic Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich told F... that there was a "danger in engaging in compulsive opposition." |
| • | "It is destructive to America to proceed with an impeachment at this stage of the presidency" |
| • | "This is not the first thing you reach for, because when the first big move a party makes is towards impeachment, it's very difficult for the American people to conclude that it is anything but a partisan issue." |
| • | "... what we cannot allow to happen is ourselves reduced to mob rule, which is what Black Lives Matter's all about." |
| • | "We battle in the voting booth in a free society." |
| • | "When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people — not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power." |
| • | "We have zero tolerance when it comes to child pornography. Why don't we have zero tolerance when it comes to radical Islamic ideology?" he asked. |
| • | ... even someone who let a terror suspect "sleep on their couch" should be "locked up for decades. |
| • | "We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don't get smart it will only get worse." |
| • | The law-and-order sheriff has frequently told Black Lives Matters protesters to "stop trying to fix the police, fix the ghetto" and referred to Ferguson demonstrators as "vultures on a roadside carcass." |
| • | "I feel that young lady only stood up for her freedom of speech by using the quote of her choice." |
| • | "Every senior was given the opportunity to choose a quote. It was her right as an American to choose any quote under the sun." |
| • | Students who repeatedly infringe on others' free speech on campus may soon face a one-year suspension or even expulsion... |
| • | The state lawmaker says he hopes the legislation would prevent so-called "shout-down vetoes" of controversial campus speakers in Michigan. |
| • | "You have a right to express your concern with [a speaker], but you don't have the right to shut them down during the actual speech... It's time we look at people who are prohibiting free speech rights, not trying to use that right." |
| • | The Campus Free Speech Act would also allow those silenced to take civil action against anyone who has stopped them from speaking. |
| • | "It's important to understand that people will disagree, but that does not mean that you roll over and play dead because you disagree. This is a good day for us. Can you imagine how many institutions would love to have the secretary of education, the highest educational officer in the land, to be their commencement speaker and hopefully open new doors for this institution?" |
| • | "Since when did college become a place for parents to ship their kids off to become indoctrinated and brainwashed?" |
| • | "Since when did professors stop teaching critical thinking and mental fortitude? Since when did it become more important to protect people from getting their feelings hurt than preparing for real life?" |
| • | "Because here's the deal, college students: there are no 'safe spaces' in real life." |
| • | "We're seeing these perpetually hurt feelings all over the country, and the scary thing is, you can't reason with these social justice warrior college students." |
| • | "Not because they have a good argument, but because they don't have one, because their protests and their riots are largely based on feelings and on a subjective interpretation of what's right and wrong." |
| • | "They are becoming the totalitarian fascists that use physical violence to shut down 'violent speech,'" |
| • | "It's extremely hard for me to understand how they don't see their own hypocrisy." |
| • | She expressed doubt that Broadway would be the right venue to change people's minds about Trump. |
| • | "I thought that what Trump did, in leaving the swamp and doing that rally last night, was absolutely brilliant." |
| • | ... Minhaj's jokes were "vile" and "not funny," and the whole event illuminated just how anti-Trump most of the White House media really is. |
| • | "This is an annual gathering of news-fakers and Hollywood America-haters and Trump-bashers, who get together to convince themselves that they are absolutely indispensable to American democracy and our constitutional republic," Cruz: Take Billions Seized From El Chapo to Pay for Border Wall http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/26/ted-cruz-el-chapo-money-should-pay-mexico-border-wall |
| • | Cruz noted that federal prosecutors are eyeing the recovery of about $14 billion in drug profits from Guzman. |
| • | "Fourteen billion dollars will go a long way toward building a wall that will keep Americans safe and hinder the illegal flow of drugs, weapons, and individuals across our southern border." |
| • | The El Chapo Act is actually an acronym, meaning Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order. |
| • | Cruz said this morning he's looking for a way to block Democrats' "obstruction" on funding the wall. |
| • | "The listener gets to decide what he wants to hear and the speaker gets to decide what she wants to say. The government has no role in it — that's not me [saying that], that's the Supreme Court of the United States." |
| • | "The Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans aren't pants. They're not even fashion. They're a costume for wealthy people who see work as ironic – not iconic." |
| • | Science is never settled. |
| • | As Albert Einstein once observed, "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." |
| • | "I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power." |
| • | Ever tried dealing with a playground bully? What shuts him (or her, for our politically correct readers) up fastest? A bloody nose. |
| • | Bullies operate on the assumption that they are safe from retribution. |
| • | When they find out that's not true, they curdle like spoiled milk. |
| • | Until then, their conduct can only spiral further out of control. |
| • | That's what's happening at colleges across America. Students who think they can dictate what is said on their campus are shutting down any point of view they oppose. |
| • | That's not youthful indiscretion. It's a crime. And the perpetrators should be prosecuted for it. |
| • | The students who, masked in balaclavas and paisley handkerchiefs, think the best way to express their opinion is to smash in windows and set fire to cars? |
| • | They want their freedom of speech to be unabridged, including acts of violence. |
| • | It's time for college administrators and campus police to grow a pair, and prosecute students who engage in these antics. |
| • | So let's stop worrying about the students' rights and prosecute the criminals among them. |
| • | College life is a time for young people to be exposed to new ideas, to weigh them and decide what works for them as they form their adult personalities. |
| • | The message today's students are getting is: agree with me or keep your mouth shut. |
| • | That's not education. It's tyranny. |
| • | I believe the Trump Administration should go a step further. |
| • | If an illegal commits a felony crime in a sanctuary city - the mayor of that city should also face criminal charges – from harboring fugitives to aiding and abetting. |
| • | Countless Americans would be alive today if sanctuary cities were shut down. |
| • | See related Murder (Michael Ramirez, 07/08/2015) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | This hypocrisy must end. The free exportation of extremist ideologies — religious or atheistic — is what drives people to violence and the curtailment of freedoms. |
| • | The international community must adopt a reciprocal approach to religious tolerance in response to those nations that abuse our freedoms while forbidding freedom among their own. |
| • | It is high time that the West, with its evolved understanding of freedom of conscience and liberty, begins to ask for this kind of reciprocity in bilateral relations with nations. |
| • | The act would forbid a national of any country that limits the free exercise of religion from spending money in the United States to promote a religion. |
| • | "I strongly urge our nation's states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies." |
| • | "Such policies make their cities and states less safe, public safety as well as national security are at stake, and put them at the risk of losing federal dollars." |
| • | "The American people want and deserve a lawful system of immigration that keeps us safe, and one that serves national interests." |
| • | "This expectation is reasonable, just, and our government has the duty to meet it and we will meet it." |
| • | "Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk, especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators." |
| • | Spicer said in the video that the United States is "such a great country that allows you to be here." |
| • | "The U.S. has the highest proportion of women in senior management positions (43 percent) of any country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (women comprise 47 percent of the U.S. labor force); the U.S. was ranked eighth globally in gender equality by the World Economic Forum; 24 percent of working American women are in professional fields (compared to only 16 percent of working American men); 46 percent of American firms are owned or co-owned by women." |
| • | "Despite rhetoric to the contrary, men and women are different. Our needs and desires differ significantly from those of men. Our priorities are not the same, and neither is the way we seek to balance our lives with our careers. The decisions that we make in regards to career and family contribute to the perception of a glass ceiling." |
| • | "The only people who are going to be affected by this are women — poor women who cannot afford to miss wages or pay for day care." |
| • | "Agree with President Trump or not, he is our president, and I think what I see happening in D.C. and with the Democrats — it can't stand." |
| • | "Being a married man myself, I think my wife really appreciates the fact that I can provide for a family and take some of the stress off her." |
| • | "For various reasons, we are sometimes asked to stop selling a product. Our response is always the same, no matter the product: How a product performs is our single measure for what stays on our shelves and what goes." |
| • | The wisest course of action is for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to name an independent counsel to examine two questions and for both sides to stand down on the matter while the investigation is ongoing. |
| • | First, did the Trump campaign collaborate with the Russians to affect the election? |
| • | Second, are some members of the intelligence community leaking to undermine the President? |
| • | We need answers to both. The first to satisfy the left and the second to satisfy the right. |
| • | The left is going to have to get over their phony "stolen seat" talking point. |
| • | The right is going to have to concede the left has legitimate concerns about the Russian mess. |
| • | The constant inflaming of grievances by political organizations is going to do us all in. |
| • | I have to wonder, though, why every story still has to note that THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AT ALL of Trump-Russian collaboration. |
| • | Given the open hostility for the president that the intelligence community has, one would think they would have produced some actual proof of something other than innuendo by now, if there was something to produce. |
| • | But they have not. |
| • | "The idea that Donald Trump is now inexorably on a path to impeachment has taken almost gleeful hold in the wake of the Michael Flynn resignation among liberal elites and anti-Trumpers generally — and everybody better stop and take a deep breath and consider what might arise from this. This isn't fire we're playing with, it's a nuclear war." |
| • | "We've seen example after example ... of individuals becoming radicalized and joining terrorist groups." |
| • | "The reality ... is that it is a daily feature of life for law enforcement officials and federal investigators all across this country to be investigating, interdicting and preventing terrorist acts that are only being conceived of ... because we let these individuals into our country in the first place." |
| • | "An unelected judge does not have the right to remake the immigration laws and policies for the entire United States of America." |
| • | "This was an issue put before 300 million American citizens and they voted ... to put in place new, tough vetting measures so that we don't end up [spending] hundreds of billions of dollars long-term dealing with the effects of an immigration system that is not properly controlled." |
| • | "When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot, come in & out, especially for reasons of safety & security — big trouble!" |
| • | So here's what needs to happen: President Trump should immediately issue an executive order blocking Berkeley students from receiving any federal funding. |
| • | And the same goes for any other public universities that want to silence conservative voices. |
| • | Universities must guarantee free speech for all students – conservative and liberal. |
| • | It's time for the federal government to eradicate this un-American infestation in higher education. |
| • | See related Love Trumps Hate (Sean Delonas, 11/10/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | As you well know, Senator Schumer, the president's first constitutional duty is to protect the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. |
| • | It is not his duty to bow to the neurotic, loony whims of women on "The View," naive, airhead actors at an awards ceremony or the anarchists your party has unleashed once again in big cities across the country. |
| • | The examples of terrorists who have infiltrated into the US under the guise of the refugee or visa programs are numerous. |
| • | You don't know who these people are, or where they're going, or what their motivations are, do you Senator Schumer? |
| • | How is the government supposed to scrutinize the backgrounds of refugees, when laws prohibit officials from examining the social media pages of those who wish to settle in the USA? |
| • | You do know one thing though, Senator Schumer; they will eventually vote Democrat and that's all that counts, national security be damned. |
| • | Mean spirited and a moral outrage Senator? |
| • | Mean spirited is a Jihadi firing a couple hundred rounds into innocent men and women in a crowded Paris theater. |
| • | Moral outrage is an Al Qaeda operative roaming freely around the US, with a shiny new green card and a carload of C4. |
| • | Mean-spirited is a Jihadi driving over people with a semi-truck in downtown Nice. |
| • | Moral outrage is a Somali refugee stabbing a dozen people at Ohio State University. |
| • | Mean spirited are the constant threats by Iran against the United States. |
| • | Moral outrage is a series of ISIS suicide bombs detonating in the Brussels airport, killing 32 innocent civilians. |
| • | NO ONE has a constitutional right to be here who is not an American citizen. |
| • | Those who come here do so at the discretion of the president and the Congress, which represents we the people. |
| • | The president of the United States is the leader of this nation. |
| • | Like all leaders, he must make decisions that are sometimes unpopular among certain groups, for the greater good of America. |
| • | Strength is a trait that has all but vanished among liberals and national security is anathema to the left's obscene world view. |
| • | It is more than obvious that Democrats are willing to gamble with the lives of the American people in order to be politically correct. |
| • | "There is nothing minor when drunk driving kills or injures 300,000 people every year." |
| • | "Drunk driving is always a major offense and we should never minimize the impact it has on families and victims." |
| • | Parcel carrier FedEx is maintaining its support of a driver who intervened in a public protest in Iowa where several people were desecrating and burning American flags. |
| • | ... Trump said persecuted Christians from Syria would get priority. |
| • | "They've been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them." |
| • | The order said while the program is suspended, the U.S. may admit people on a case-by-case basis "when in the national interest" and the government would continue to process refugee requests from people claiming religious persecution, "provided that the religion ... is a minority religion in the individual's country." |
| • | That suggests that would allow the admission of Christians from Muslim-majority countries. |
| • | Two Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would prevent President Trump from launching a nuclear weapon without a obtaining a congressional declaration of war. |
| • | Students at Independence High School in Williamson County, Tennessee, will not be allowed to watch President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration during class on Friday. |
| • | "... this is a nationwide event in history that I think an a US citizen (whether you are happy about it or not) should be watched to honor and support the president of The United States of America (no matter who it is) And pay respect to the country we are privileged to live in." |
| • | House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., called Obama's decision "outrageous." |
| • | "Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets." |
| • | "President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes." |
| • | ... Obama is "undermining our ability on criminal justice reform by granting clemency at an alarming rate." |
| • | Applied to police officers and law enforcement of all kinds, the image is neither complimentary nor salutary. It's offensive. |
| • | I thought of all the men and women who honorably and faithfully wear a badge, who protect our communities and streets. |
| • | I thought too of our collective obligation of a society to uphold these defenders of law and justice, even though too it is right that decision makers hear and respond properly to instances when law enforcement does overstep. |
| • | So as an American citizen and a former Marine who supports law enforcement, I took matters into my own hands. I unscrewed the painting from the wall and returned it to the Democratic Congressman who represents the award winner. |
| • | But a painting of that kind — projecting the message it does — does not belong in the U.S. Capitol. |
| • | There is a thin blue line on which police officers stand in protection of us all. They deserve our respect and appreciation. |
| • | There's nothing inclusive or healing when police officers are referred to as swine. |
| • | Country star Travis Tritt took to Twitter to offer his "advice to all actors." |
| • | "Advice to all actors, musicians and entertainers: Please stick to your crafts that we all love you for and drop the political rhetoric." |
| • | "If you have fans who respect your talent enough to spend hard earned money to see your talent, be thankful and gracious and leave it at that." |
| • | Piers Morgan echoed Tritt's words, adding he hasn't "heard such elitist snobbery since Hillary Clinton branded Trump supporters 'a basket of deplorables.'" |
| • | Streep began her speech by saying "the most vilified segments of American society right now" are Hollywood, foreigners and the press. |
| • | Morgan called her hypocritical, saying at that moment, "the cameras panned out to hundreds of the richest, most privileged people in American society sitting in the audience in their $10,000 tuxedos and $20,000 dresses, loudly cheering this acknowledgement of their dreadful victimhood." |
| • | He wrote ... "You'd be hard-pushed to find an industry that encourages more disrespect and violence than Hollywood." |
| • | "Look, it's not just jobs. And when I say that, I don't mean to minimize it at all, but there's just something ... larger at work here, and it has to do with our identity, it has to do with what it feels like when we're actually making things as a country." |
| • | "At some point we have to ask ourselves ... who are we? What do we do other than buy things that other countries make on our behalf?" |
| • | "Eventually, when the bottom falls out, it's like [the 2006 movie] ‘Idiocracy,' [where] we don't know how to hang a picture any more, much less make a car." |
| • | "Life in prison. No parole. I'm not interested in whether these kids had a tough life, whether their parents loved them enough, I don't care." |
| • | "This is the cold blooded torture of an innocent human being. That's bigger than a hate crime, it's bigger than racism." |
| • | "If you can do this to another human being once, you can't be trusted to not do it again." |
| • | "Oregon is a very beautiful state, but it's infested with liberals." |
| • | "To all the ignorant liberals including Bruce Springsteen... The 4 people who kidnapped & tortured a disabled teenager just because he supports Donald Trump – Just shows everyone you are a party of complete morons. I'm embarrassed to call you Americans. Go straight to Hell where you belong. We've had it with you idiots." |
| • | For the record, there's no clear evidence the young man who was tortured was actually a Trump supporter. However, it's clear the victim's attackers were displeased with not only Trump but white people, too. |
| • | Oh, he also had a message for CNN, calling them "Comedy News Network, Fake News all the Time, Propaganda for Liberals." |
| • | "You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way. Because I'll tell you what: No computer is safe." |
| • | "It's childish and very unprofessional... The restaurant owner doesn't have to worry ... I will not be stepping foot in that establishment." |
| • | "People should be able to get food without hearing a political message. I will never go back." |
| • | "... this place can rot away. Stay away. Hawaii ain't like this. There's a lot of better places on the island than to have deal with extra crap like this." |
| • | "... But in the meantime, you can't eat equality. You know?" |
| • | "... For the good of the country, Democrats must stop their cynical attempts to undermine the legitimacy of this election, which Donald Trump won decisively in the Electoral College with more votes than any Republican since 1988." |
| • | My position is the same with every administration: Journalists should aggressively cover those in power. It's supposed to be an adversarial relationship.* |
| • | "Why should some other nation be able to say I can't take a call?. I think it actually would've been very disrespectful, to be honest with you, not taking it." |
| • | "A little self-awareness would do for a team that is blaming everybody but themselves for this. It's Bernie Sanders' fault ... It's the alt-right's fault," she said. "It's ... fake news' fault. It's Russian interference. It's James Comey. ... How about you had no message?" |
| • | Kasich himself tweeted Tuesday that he's not a candidate and urged electors not to vote for him: |
| • | "... Our counrty had an election and Donald Trump won. ... The election is over. Now is the time for all of us to come together as Americans. |
| • | ... because Obama is a progressive, and because he's surrounded by progressives, he projects their sense of political urgency and identity onto his political adversaries. He assumes we're all just like him, only in reverse. |
| • | The bottom line: The division began decades ago, when the left made politics a measure of your morality. |
| • | If you weren't like them, you were immoral. You were not simply wrong, as the saying goes, you were evil... |
| • | So you're left with a President Obama — a smart, gifted man — ending his tenure bitterly chatting to a pathetic, marginal magazine about a network he believes gave the country President-elect Trump. |
| • | He's lost the plot. All Trump did was galvanize and organize a group of people tired of being villain-shamed by the arrogant and the elite. |
| • | The fact that this group happened to watch Fox News is simply a correlation, not a cause. |
| • | "Every single Muslim who disapproves of my actions is a sleeper cell, waiting for a signal. I am warning you Oh America!" |
| • | "Because of lobbying by the Chamber of Commerce and big tech companies, they've succeeded in loosening standards and we've seen the increasingly common scenario where American workers are fired, and have to train their replacements." |
| • | "I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions." |
| • | In 2015, Sessions sent round an "immigration handbook" to Republican members of Congress that calls immigration reform "a legislative honorific almost exclusively reserved for proposals which benefit everyone but actual American citizens." |
| • | In that handbook and since, Sessions has railed against what he sees as the abuse of the program. ... he cites statistics suggesting that guest workers make up two-thirds of all new IT hires, while half of Americans with STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic]) degrees can't find work. He says that while the cap is 85,000, the real number is much higher. |
| • | "But, due to overlapping admissions and other factors, the total number of H-1B workers physically present in the U.S. is actually much higher — it has been estimated to fall somewhere in the range of 650,000 to 750,000." |
| • | Those opposed to the current state of the program say there are a number of things a Trump administration could do without needing whole-scale reform from Congress. |
| • | "One of those is to collect the data and make it available to the public. That would strike horror into the industry." |
| • | "This has been kept secret or not collected. We don't know who are getting the visas, we don't know where the people are, what occupations they're in or what the salary is." |
| • | Other possible reforms include a clarification on the definition of "specialized knowledge," which could help cut down on abuse, and a limit on such visas for two years. |
| • | "As both a veteran and a taxpayer, I am appalled at the decision of this college to ban the flying of the US flag, the symbol of your school's educational freedom. I sincerely hope that the parents of your precious students, the ones actually paying the tuition, withdraw their support, both financial and moral." |
| • | "You people are pathetic! You're setting these kids up to fail in life by them never hearing the word no! This is America, you should tell your students that regardless of how they feel, men and women died for that flag to say and feel the things they do and do not like and if that's not good enough then feel free to leave! My god, have a backbone." |
| • | "I can assure you that whether you voted for him or you did not vote for him, if you are a citizen of the United States, he is your president. He will be your president, and if you do not like that, you need to go to another country." |
| • | If Donald Trump, with no political experience, rises to the height of the office and can compromise with competing factions, he will be a successful president. |
| • | If Trump does not, his administration will fail to live up to his promises. |
| • | That, to my mind, is a more normal outlook than insisting that the country just elected an abnormal businessman. |
| • | "We want every disadvantaged child to be able to choose the local public, private, charter or magnet school that is best for them and their family." |
| • | "Each state will develop its own formula, but the dollars should follow the student." |
| • | Imagine if Mr. Dixon has not displayed such anger at the election but instead found just a few ounces of grace and delivered something along these lines. |
| • | "We, sir, are the part of the diverse nation that is America. With the election now past, we all hope for your administration's success in defending our planet, our children, and the inalienable rights of every American. We are grateful you came and hope this show inspires you as you work on behalf of all the people of our common country." |
| • | Mr. Dixon would have made his point but without being condescending or rude. |
| • | It is a measure of Mike Pence's basic decency that after being booed by a few self-righteous New Yorkers in the audience, who probably don't know anyone who voted for Trump except maybe their doorman, that Mr. Pence stayed, patiently listened to Mr. Dixon's supercilious lecture, and then gently took his leave. |
| • | It would have been so easy for Mr. Dixon to have made his point and helped the country heal while doing so. |
| • | So easy, but apparently that was not the actor's purpose. Shame. |
| • | So your candidate lost. You have a right to be upset, frustrated and angry, but you also have an obligation to be respectful to others and to the will of the American people. |
| • | Intellectual hypocrisy continues every day on campuses, where opinions that are not the norm are vilified or silenced. |
| • | Imagine if you treated people of different races as you treat people with different opinions. ... somehow it is fine to discriminate against those with different views. |
| • | Did it ever occur to you that this may be why people voted for Trump? |
| • | That it might not have been the "racist proclivities" of the U.S. or the "dangerous nationalism" of the people, but that it was people who tell them not to think or speak the way they do. |
| • | Trump won, and he did not overthrow the government or kill people to silence them. He won in the standard fashion — by getting 270 votes in the Electoral College. |
| • | As I said, you have a right to be upset, but what we have on our hands now is an embarrassment. |
| • | Protesting the orderly transfer of power under the Constitution is a head-scratcher. |
| • | Maybe we can trace the root cause of this behavior to our generation receiving participation trophies while growing up. |
| • | Many never learned how to be graceful in defeat, much less handle it. |
| • | The election is over. The people have made their decision. |
| • | You can be angry, happy or indifferent, but above all you can be polite, have some etiquette. |
| • | There is a difference between political correctness and politeness etiquette, and unfortunately one has taken over universities while the other has been lost. |
| • | It's time to put away your Play-Doh (yes, some universities are actually handing out Play-Doh to help students cope), move on and do what it takes to better our nation, because we are all on this ship together. |
| • | Loony liberal crybabies need to get over themselves and accept the fact that Donald Trump will be our next president. |
| • | ... I was not happy with the results in 2008 and 2012, and I'm sure some of you weren't that happy, either. |
| • | Did you see me throwing a temper tantrum? Was I crying hysterically? |
| • | Was I carrying on because I didn't get my way or you didn't get your way? |
| • | Of course not, because that's not how adults act. |
| • | We have a national epidemic, with about a quarter of a million soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan and experiencing real suffering. |
| • | It's called PTSD, and they experience real pain, real trauma, real suffering, watching their friends have their legs blown off and die right in their arms. |
| • | But we're supposed to roll out the red carpet for sore loser liberals because their subpar, crooked and corrupt candidate lost an election? |
| • | Please, give me a break. It's time to grow up. |
| • | "It would incorporate mostly live shooter scenarios. So then teachers are familiar with how to approach that gunman on campus, how to interact with getting children away from... danger situations and how to confront that until law enforcement arrives." |
| • | ... it would make the state one of more than a dozen to allow teachers to carry on school grounds. |
| • | "I'm very comfortable with guns and I think there are people who can handle a gun in a school situation." |
| • | "I believe it will take a lot of planning and a lot of scrutinizing before it just hops on to campus." |
| • | "We know it would require more training, maybe going to the shooting range to make sure they are proficient on their marksmanship.> |
| • | Since Donald Trump's upset victory last Tuesday, colleges across the country have brought in therapy dogs, canceled exams and held "cry-ins" on campus. |
| • | "I saw schools with rising, skyrocketing tuition costs where they are also finding money and expenditures for things such as cry rooms. I heard reports of rooms where you can play with Play-Doh, where you can color on books and talk about your feelings, and I was hearing reports of some schools that were bringing in ponies to be able get students through the election." |
| • | ... that's a waste of money, and can actually hurt students as it doesn't prepare them for the real world. |
| • | "And in life, when your car breaks down, your kids get sick or you have to take a second job to pay your mortgage, you don't get to go to a cry zone, you don't get to pet a pony, you have to deal with it." |
| • | The bill also establishes new criminal penalties for protesters who shut down highways. |
| • | "... you don't have a constitutional right to block the constitutional rights of others." |
| • | The 51-year-old woman wrote in the Post that she voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, but she became a Trump voter over the issue of Islamic terrorism. |
| • | "As a liberal Muslim who has experienced, first-hand Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the ‘Islam' in Islamic State." |
| • | "He is insensitive at times with what he says and his proposals are tough, but they reflect a reality of concern people have about an issue that's killing people from Orlando to Paris." |
| • | "Now, that the world has been upended and you are all, to a person, in a state of surprise and shock, you may want to consider whether you should change your focus from telling the reader what and how to think, and instead devote yourselves to finding out what the reader (and nonreaders) actually think." |
| • | "Please come down from your New York City skyscraper and join the rest of us." |
| • | ... also sent a note to staffers on Friday reminding the newsroom to "give the news impartially, without fear or favor." |
| • | "But we also approach the incoming Trump administration without bias." |
| • | "It is an embarrassment, I think, to the entire of Democratic Party that millions of white working-class people decided to vote for Mr. Trump, which suggests that the Democratic message of standing up for working people no longer holds much sway among workers in this country." |
| • | "You cannot be a party which on one hand says we're in favor of working people, we're in favor of the needs of young people but we don't quite have the courage to take on Wall Street and the billionaire class. People do not believe that. You've got to decide which side you're on." |
| • | "My actions were a little aggressive. I'm sorry, but I felt I was protecting my family." |
| • | ... has started his own war against so-called social justice warriors, claiming that the current politically correct culture of trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias reporting have fomented a culture of hyper-protectionism, hyper-vigilance and self-surveillance. |
| • | ... "expose the viral identity politics of academia and its destruction of academic integrity." |
| • | ... "current academia is like an infirmary or a hospital where everybody is potentially a sick patient who needs to be secured, protected and quarantined from anything that might be deemed challenging". |
| • | "I won't try to please these people anymore. I am not going to hold their sacrosanct identities preciously with kid gloves, and to defer to them in all matters relating to identity and so on, and so forth. It has gotten insane. If this is the kind of treatment they want, put them in a quiet room where they can be by themselves with padded walls." |
| • | ... refused to put "trigger warning" or "bias reporting line" on his syllabi explaining that "every experience in the classroom would be subjected to a question of bias and it would turn the classroom into a state of surveillance, reporting, discipline and punishment." |
| • | "When people are unhappy with one of our honorees, we would hope that they would project their anger in more positive ways than to vandalize a California State landmark." |
| • | "Our democracy is based on respect for the law. People can make a difference by voting and not destroying public property." |
| • | "I think it's a problem. Anybody who disrespects this country and the flag. If they don't like the country, they don't like our flag, get the hell out."' |
| • | "I don't think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this ... Now, with the people with the guns, and shooting up neighborhoods, and not being responsible citizens, that's a big change, and I think that's the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America." |
| • | "If you're black and you haven't been successful in the last 50 years, it's your own fault. You've had every opportunity, it was given to you." |
| • | "You've had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn't have. You had all the advantages and didn't take advantage of it. It's not our fault, certainly." |
| • | "I think the media is disgraceful. I think they're unbelievably dishonest ... a large portion of the media is disgustingly dishonest, and I could name every one of them that are that way, and probably someday I will, but they should be ashamed of themselves." |
| • | "The media was not treating statements fairly. I mean they would chop them up and shorten the statement, and it didn't sound proper, or it didn't sound as good when they did that, it was very unfair, now I'm doing it a little bit differently." |
| • | "Defendants incite people to violence and cause violence by telling those people that they are under attack. Defendants are encouraging disaffected blacks, Black Muslims, Muslims and others allied with them including certain whites to ignore, disrespect, and assault law enforcement officials, and commit violence and lethal force." |
| • | The lawsuit alleges the defendants "have repeatedly incited their supporters and others to engage in threats of and attacks to cause serious bodily injury or death upon police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities." |
| • | "The defendants, if not legally reined in, are allegedly responsible, along with others, for igniting a race war that will ultimately totally destroy the freedoms that our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us." |
| • | The legislation also would create a "stand-your-ground" right, meaning people don't have a duty to retreat from danger any place they are legally entitled to be present. |
| • | The NRA says 30 states have laws or court precedents stating people have no duty to retreat from a threat anywhere they are lawfully present. |
| • | It also expands the "castle doctrine" by allowing invited guests such as baby sitters to use deadly force if confronted in homes. |
| • | "The basis of this whole bill is that it allows law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families." |
| • | The entire inscription reads: |
| • | "On September 11, 2001 nineteen Islamic terrorists unsuspectedly boarded four airliners departing east coast airports to hijack the planes and carry out a series of coordinated attacks against the United States. This is a tribute to all the lives lost that day and to the heroic sacrifice of all who rushed to help. As Americans, we honor their memory by living our lives in freedom. We will never forget." |
| • | "I don't live in a politically correct world. I live in a historical fact world...whether it's American, homegrown, Christianity, Islamic, you call it what it is. And we don't whitewash things, especially here." |
| • | "This is not about religion. It's about one event on one day that killed more than 3,000 people." |
| • | The facts surrounding 9/11 are very clear. Islamic radicals committed jihad on American soil. They were not shouting, "Jesus Saves" when they flew those jetliners in the buildings. |
| • | "Our message to the world will be this: You cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country." |
| • | "Can't do it. This declaration alone will stop the crisis of illegal crossing. You can't just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized. Those days are over." |
| • | Kaepernick's comments weren't just an insult to the over one million Americans — many thousands of whom were African-American — who have given their lives in defense of the United States from wars as far back as the American Revolution to the more recent conflicts in the Middle East. |
| • | Kaepernick also turned his back on the thousands of police officers — again, a tremendous number of whom were African-American - who have died defending their communities and upholding the rule of law at home. |
| • | No one should question whether or not Kaepernick had a right to sit, stand, or protest the National Anthem, no matter his motivation. |
| • | We are blessed to live in a country where an act perceived by most as an ugly display of disrespect is protected by the very system of government prompting the protest. |
| • | Many celebrities — and yes, even a backup quarterback on one of the worst teams in the NFL qualifies as a celebrity nowadays — use their status within pop culture to advance their beliefs and opinions, often without acknowledging differing perspectives. |
| • | This is nothing new. |
| • | But if Colin Kaepernick were truly interested in being a part of the solution — a meaningful interlocutor offering not just hyperbole but considered rhetoric — he may have thought to open this dialogue with a sense of mutual understanding and respect and not by boldly thumbing his nose at both the American flag as well as the men and women of all races who have given their lives defending an American ideal — imperfect in practice, yet exceptional nonetheless — and one far greater than themselves. |
| • | "I think it's a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him, let him try, it's not gonna happen." |
| • | "Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called "trigger warnings," we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual "safe spaces" where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own." |
| • | ... "education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think." |
| • | "It's a radical sexual revolution being forced on our kids." |
| • | ... that the new policies "will seriously endanger students' privacy and safety, undermine parental authority and severely impair an environment conducive to learning." |
| • | "The American people have had enough of failed status quo policies which have left them less hopeful in our country's future." |
| • | "They have had enough of serially dishonest, corrupt, and self-interested career politicians." |
| • | "If we do not elect Donald Trump president, these will be the inevitable, unaffordable hallmarks of a Clinton presidency." |
| • | "We are seeing a clear pattern in which a number of recent attacks have been carried out by ISIS terrorists with ties to Syria, including: the July 24 bombing of a music festival in Germany; the July 26 killing of a French priest; and the July 24 murder of a German woman with a machete. Syrian refugees played a part, either as attackers or accomplices, in all three attacks." |
| • | "In the context of this clear threat, your goal of admitting 10,000 Syrians as a part of a so-called ‘surge operation' is extremely troubling... Terrorists are leaving Syria disguised as refugees and carrying out attacks in the West. The prudent course of action is to halt all admissions of Syrians into the U.S. until the safety of Americans can be guaranteed." |
| • | Ronald Reagan said it best, "Our unique experience demonstrates that law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder, and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression." |
| • | My challenge to my fellow elected officials – both Republicans and Democrats – is to pause before rushing to judgment and to speak in a way that reduces fear and apprehension. |
| • | When a police officer is targeted to be shot and killed, that's an attack on a civilized society as much as it is on the man or woman in the crosshairs. |
| • | It read "Hate cops? The next time you need help call a crackhead." |
| • | "Western civilization is in a war," Gingrich said, before going so far as to say the U.S. should "test" Muslims in America, and, "If they believe in Sharia, they should be deported." |
| • | "We are in a war. We had better rethink the rules or we are going to lose the war." |
| • | Here's a sobering thought for Americans to contemplate as we now deal with the aftermath of the horrific murders of law enforcement officers in the name of Black Lives Matter in Dallas, Texas: this was mission accomplished for Black Lives Matter, not an aberration. |
| • | The violence and hate-filled messages pouring out of Black Lives Matter seek exactly this kind of bloody resolution, or revolution, though they cannot admit it in polite society. |
| • | Stand up to Black Lives Matter. Show you don't kowtow to the liberal pressure exacted to achieve their political goals on the backs of the suffering of black Americans due to crime and the dissolution of their communities. |
| • | It is the hard road to sow in our culture where the right thing is shamed and the wrong thing is held up, but as a law enforcement officer I can tell you this is the time for choosing: law and order, justice, the American way or anarchy, division, hate, and authoritarianism. |
| • | Black Lives Matter has shown their hand in Dallas: they choose the latter. |
| • | "Become a part of the solution. We're hiring. Get off that protest line and put an application in. And we'll put you in your neighborhood, and we'll help you resolve some of the problems you're protesting about." |
| • | "To give these types of planes to the Iranian regime, which still is the world's largest state sponsor of terror, is to give them a product that can be used for a military purpose." |
| • | "It seems to a lot of us that the average Joe ... if they had done what you laid out in your statement, that they'd be in handcuffs." |
| • | "And I think there is a legitimate concern that there is a double-standard — if your name isn't Clinton or you're not part of the powerful elite, that lady justice will act differently." |
| • | "... The American people deserve to know exactly what your investigation uncovered and why the FBI came to the decision to recommend that no criminal charges be brought against Secretary Clinton." |
| • | ... delegates who have decided they can't support the presumptive nominee as promised, should step aside in lieu of an alternate delegate. "Let somebody who's enthusiastically engaged in the process to go and participate." |
| • | "At the very beginning of our state convention we have a vote on our rules. It was unanimous...and guess what one of the rules are? That they need to sign the pledge." |
| • | "...do hearby pledge my vote and support for the nominee who received the greatest number of votes in the Arizona Presidential Preference election..." |
| • | "So if they go there and try to change the rules, they are deceiving a million three hundred thousand voters that voted openly. They should actually let that weigh in on their conscience." |
| • | A Louisiana district attorney said on Friday he has no intention of charging a 30-year-old mother arrested for whipping her three boys after she found out they had burglarized a neighbor's house. |
| • | A sheriff's report said she allegedly whipped her 13, 12 and 10-year-old boys. |
| • | "At this time I have no intention to prosecute. It would take something significant to change my opinion." |
| • | Spears said she whipped her children to make sure they do not take to a life of crime. She said the children's father was in prison and that she didn't want them to end up there, too. |
| • | "It was perfectly justified, reasonable discipline of her children." ... said Spears' actions never rose "to the level of what you could call abuse or any criminal behavior." |
| • | The United States "does need profiling based on the characteristics of suspected murderers, suspected terrorists. You can't investigate everyone, and law enforcement is constantly profiling. You have to make a distinction between profiling based purely on race, religion, ethnic background or gender, and profiling based on facts." |
| • | "It's tragic to watch such an iconic American company make such a terribly short-sighted decision." |
| • | "If Boeing goes through with this deal, the company will forever be associated with Iran's chief export: radical Islamic terrorism. The U.S. Congress will have much to say about this agreement in the coming days." |
| • | "We strongly oppose the potential sale of military-fungible products to terrorism's central supplier. American companies should not be complicit in weaponizing the Iranian Regime." |
| • | The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Obama's immigration executive actions, in a tie decision that delivers a win to states challenging his plan to give a deportation reprieve to millions of illegal immigrants. |
| • | "The Constitution is clear: The president is not permitted to write laws — only Congress is. This is another major victory in our fight to restore the separation of powers." |
| • | "The action taken by the President was an unauthorized abuse of presidential power that trampled the Constitution, and the Supreme Court rightly denied the President the ability to grant amnesty contrary to immigration laws." |
| • | "Today's ruling is also a victory for all law-abiding Americans — including the millions of immigrants who came to America following the rule of law." |
| • | "You needn't be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts. They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They've grown up there. They know the police. They've been arrested." |
| • | Top House Republicans have raised some concerns that could eventually kill the deal between Iran and Boeing, warning it could end up benefiting Iran's military and the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah. |
| • | "We strongly oppose the potential sale of military-fungible products to terrorism's central supplier. American companies should not be complicit in weaponizing the Iranian Regime." |
| • | "Let me say something to every political hack pretending to know an AR-15 from a double-barrel shotgun, in the wake of the Orlando attack." |
| • | "For the vast major of people I work with, there is nothing better to defend their homes against realistic threats than with an AR-15 semi-automatic." |
| • | Female lifeguards had complained that male lifeguards were using their dressing rooms. |
| • | "WE are NOT Target," he wrote to the lifeguards. "USE the locker room that corresponds to your DNA... If You're NOT SURE go to Target." |
| • | "I used humor to make the point," he said. "I was ONLY looking out for the women of the patrol and was not attempting to put down any group or individual, only maintain a nice facility for the women who choose to use a gender specific facility." |
| • | "I don't care about being politically correct," he told the newspaper. "That's one of the problems in the country right now." |
| • | "One thing wrong with society in these turbulent times isn't Arbin or anyone like him, but is the increasingly delicate dance of public discourse at a time when those who seek tolerance are themselves intolerant." |
| • | "You repress people, you engage in anger, and what you do is turn people into skins that are blistered by moonbeams. Young men now are far too sensitive because they've never been in a draft." |
| • | These BLC demands violate the Supreme Court ruling that "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right of freedom of expression." |
| • | "... By asserting their right to protest, individuals cannot decide for the entire community which ideas will or will not receive free expression." |
| • | One exception was Ohio State, which quickly ended a sit-in by student protestors to support demands for "justice, transparency and democratic process," by informing them that if they don't "clear the room, ... our police officers will physically pick you up and take you to a paddy wagon ... to be arrested." |
| • | In the absence of strong administration, the well-organized destroyers of academic freedom will continue to win. |
| • | It is now time for alumni, parents, and right-thinking academics to organize to defeat this growing cancer. |
| • | "It is wrong to extend the vote to individuals who have not entered the American social compact or made a commitment to the our Constitution, our law, and our cultural and political heritage by becoming citizens." |
| • | "It is even worse to extend the franchise to illegal aliens whose very first act is to violate our laws; that encourages contempt for the law." |
| • | "The Brewster County deputies' crosses neither establish a religion nor threaten any person's ability to worship God, or decline to worship God, in his own way." |
| • | "The symbol of the cross appropriately conveys the solemn respect all Texans should have for the courage and sacrifice of our peace officers." |
| • | "While I am sensitive to the confusion that some people experience surrounding their gender, I resent the fact that Mayor Bill de Blasio and other bathroom bullies are telling our daughters that something is wrong with them when they feel discomfort sharing potentially dangerous situations with older biological males." |
| • | "I'm not sure if this is the best use of taxpayer money. However, I guess it is fair to warn people that there may be men in the women's restroom in the future." |
| • | ... Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged at a press conference Tuesday to support schools that refuse to let transgender bathrooms of their choice. |
| • | "Transgender students deserve the rights of anyone else. It does not mean they get to use the girls' room if they're a boy." |
| • | ... the privacy and safety of students are put at risk by letting transgender people use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. |
| • | Neighbors are calling Mr. Diallo a good man — an upstanding citizen — who did what any husband would do. |
| • | I hope the district attorney comes to his senses and drops all the charges. This man did the community a public service. |
| • | Mr. Diallo should be hailed as a hero — not a criminal. |
| • | These memorials — whether in California, Maryland, Iowa, or in hundreds of other locations across the national landscape — remind us that freedom is not a birthright. |
| • | It was purchased at a terrible price: nothing less than the blood of America's sons and daughters. |
| • | Throughout our nation's proud history, our veterans have given their lives for us. The least we can do is guard and defend the memorials that honor them. |
| • | ... Bratton blamed the shootings on "the crazy world of the so-called rap artists who are basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence that they live all their lives." |
| • | "I meant what I said about the thugs who call themselves rap artists, and shoot up crowded clubs, and in this case, kill and wound people." |
| • | He said he's concerned about the "subset that not only glamorize violence but some who employ violence like a prop for 'street cred.'" |
| • | ... Bratton said rap music "oftentimes celebrates violence, celebrates degradation of women, celebrates the drug culture." |
| • | "It's unfortunate that as they get fame and fortune that some of them are just not able to get out of the life, if you will." |
| • | "What dad wants his daughter parading around with the word ‘Juicy' on her behind?" |
| • | Louisiana's governor is expected to sign a first-of-its-kind bill Thursday afternoon that would make it a hate crime to target police officers and first responders. |
| • | "I thought it was critical that we add protections for the people that protect us." |
| • | "The members of the law enforcement community deserve these protections, and I look forward to signing this bill into law." |
| • | "I have never seen a case for homeschooling more clearly put forward. This is further proof that public schools are not interested in education, only political indoctrination." |
| • | A petition, meanwhile, circulated by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) currently lists nearly 32,000 signers, including 9,000 Ph.D.s, who say, "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth." |
| • | Taking a page from the Obama playbook that advocates blatantly overriding the will of the people through decrees, policies, and regulations... |
| • | "These new regulations were imposed by the superintendent without any prior notification or input from the parents, and without an actual vote from the school board." |
| • | "This demonstrates exactly what we've known for years: Radical activists can only win when they operate in secret. If the superintendent actually held an open forum, this policy would not have been passed." |
| • | It is time for all Americans to stop and analyze why we are allowing this nonsense. |
| • | It is dangerous for the country — and dangerous for all kids who need guidance, not kowtowing. |
| • | We need to figure out why we are allowing the LGBT machine to change the essential character of America one school, one confused child at a time. |
| • | A lust for permanent change that focuses on people's sexual identity, and not their character, has now pervaded the culture — with the enthusiastic support of the president, the schools, and even clergy, who sadly confuse fear-mongering with a love of God's word and of country. |
| • | "All I've seen from ‘Black Lives Matter' is a fomentation of hatred against the police, increased racial division and making excuses for the combination of poor parenting and failed policies from big city liberal politicians." |
| • | "It would be a tragedy to let Georgetown go down the path of other universities that have allowed students obsessed with safe spaces and echo chambers to prevail at the cost of a diversity of opinions and beliefs." |
| • | And here we are – a nation where boys who identify as girls have more rights than girls who were born biological girls. |
| • | "It's an outrageous attack on our Creator Himself, upon human sexuality and morality and a further advancement of the flagrant attack on religious freedom in our culture." |
| • | "Sooner or later we have to determine that enough is enough. It's not going to change until Christians get involved in this battle." |
| • | How about some moral clarity, Mr. Trump? How about standing up for the privacy and safety of women and children? |
| • | "Obama is turning bathrooms into courtroom issues." |
| • | "I believe the Obama administration is now directly responsible for endangering our students." |
| • | "If the president chooses to go forward with this outrageous order – then congress should begin impeachment proceedings." |
| • | "Every parent, every school board in America should absolutely refuse to sacrifice the safety of their children for the threat of taking away nine federal pennies that make up every educational dollar." |
| • | "The left always uses children to accomplish its goals of social reengineering." |
| • | The time has come for all Americans to stand up and defy this president's immoral agenda. |
| • | If losing federal funding is the price we must pay to protect women and children – then so be it. |
| • | We will not betray what we know to be true for the government's 30 pieces of silver. |
| • | The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned us about a time such as this. Not to speak is to speak, he once said. Not to act is to act. |
| • | Far too long society has turned a blind eye as President Obama fundamentally transformed our nation. |
| • | But now the country stands at the edge of a great moral abyss. And we must ask ourselves — do we defy the president and save the nation or do we keep the peace and sacrifice our children? |
| • | "I assess that the only way Islamophobia contributed to global warming is from the hot air Hage emitted while presenting this lecture." |
| • | And it is my contention that in these kinds of cases prison is not primarily to rehabilitate, nor for the purpose of punishment. Rather, I believe that prison in such cases is primarily for the purpose of separating known-dangerous felons from the rest of us. |
| • | Do the rights of boys who identify as girls trump the rights of girls who are born girls? |
| • | "What about the civil rights of women who don't want men in their bathrooms. Do their rights matter at all?" |
| • | See related Women and Children First! (Glenn McCoy, 04/25/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | Three 20-year-old college students who had claimed a group of white men and women harassed them with racial slurs on a bus in January were indicted on charges including assault. |
| • | ... a review of multiple videos of the incident showed the accusers, all women who were students at SUNY Albany, were not the victims of a crime or subjected to racial slurs, but rather were aggressors who assaulted a 19-year-old woman. |
| • | The Lone Star State is coming to the rescue of shoppers confused over whether to leave the seat up or down in Target's transgender bathrooms. |
| • | "It is possible that allowing men in women's restrooms could lead to criminal and otherwise unwanted activity." |
| • | "As chief lawyer and law enforcement officer for the State of Texas, I ask that you provide the full text of Target's safety policies regarding the protection of women and children from those who would use the cover of Target's restroom policy for nefarious purposes." |
| • | The attorney general reiterated that Target is free to open its bathrooms to whoever it wants in the Lone Star State. However, he's not all that sure Texans will welcome such policies. |
| • | ... has one simple request of Target – how do they plan on protecting women and children in their stores? |
| • | ... the Supreme Court on Friday denied an emergency request from a coalition of Latino advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers who say the measure is discriminatory. |
| • | ... it requires voters to provide certain government-issued photo ID in order to cast a ballot. |
| • | "Respect for privacy that individuals have – especially our youth have when they go into a locker room to shower or restroom," he said he was concerned about. "They expect only people of their gender to be there in that shower, locker room or rest room." |
| • | "It's the basic expectation of privacy that I hear from moms and dads and families that when their daughter or son goes into a facility, they expect people of that gender or biological sex to be the only other ones in (there). That's the expectations we've had for many, many years." |
| • | "The selective hypocrisy is outrageous by PayPal when they're doing business in Singapore when you can get arrested for chewing gum in public." |
| • | See related Women and Children First! (Glenn McCoy, 04/25/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "Nearly everyone has a mother, wife, daughter or friend who is put in jeopardy by this policy." |
| • | "Predators and voyeurs would take advantage of the policy to prey on those who are vulnerable." |
| • | "Everybody knows it's wrong for men to use the same bathrooms and fitting rooms with little girls." |
| • | "Target has decided they don't care about the vast majority. They only care about the tiny, tiny minority." |
| • | "... this misguided and reckless policy provides a possible gateway for predators who are out there." |
| • | Granted, Target has every right to determine its corporate policies. |
| • | But I also have a right to buy my Cocoa Puffs at a place that respects common sense. |
| • | For the sake of inclusivity, would Target allow a 16-year-old who identifies as a 21-year-old to purchase a six-pack of beer? |
| • | Would Target provide a senior citizen discount to a 30-year-old who identifies as a 70-year-old? |
| • | "Corporate America must stop bullying people who disagree with the radical Left agenda to remake society into their progressive image." |
| • | "A man shouldn't be able to enter the women's restroom or dressing room because he says he ‘feels like a woman today,'" |
| • | "... The fact is, gender identity isn't something we choose or feel. We are the sex God created us to be – male or female. How a person feels doesn't change the facts." |
| • | See related Target (Glenn McCoy, 05/06/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | See related Women and Children First! (Glenn McCoy, 04/25/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | Target's policy is exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims |
| • | And with Target publicly boasting that men can enter women's bathrooms, where do you think predators are going to go? |
| • | Clearly, Target's dangerous new policy poses a danger to wives and daughters. |
| • | And we think the average Target customer is willing to pledge to boycott Target stores until it makes protecting women and children a priority. |
| • | One solution is a common-sense approach and a reasonable solution to the issue of transgendered customers: a unisex bathroom. |
| • | Target should keep separate facilities for men and women, but for the trans community and for those who simply like using the bathroom alone, a single occupancy unisex option should be provided. |
| • | See related Target (Glenn McCoy, 05/06/2016) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | "Whomever owns the idea that decided to reprimand these two men instead of giving them a medal for their actions should be asked what the hell they would've done if it was their child in question... " |
| • | "I am a citizen of the US, married, a father, actor and former Marine. American values are on the line here, and no person I know would not have taken the same actions SFC Martland and Capt. Daniel Quinn did to protect a child, period. That's an American value." |
| • | As a pediatrician and advocate for all children, I believe that giving biologically male children the right to share bathrooms with girls and vice versa is not only wrong, it is harmful to children with and without gender identity issues. |
| • | Our children are not social experiments. They are young people with hearts, minds, and souls. |
| • | Every child deserves protection from trauma and humiliation. |
| • | ... causing more suffering to already troubled children is fair to no one — except, perhaps, the adults who want to see their own agenda promoted. |
| • | Shame on them. |
| • | For almost 15 minutes Clinton sparred with protesters who objected to the 1994 criminal justice reform bill he signed into law as president that increased prison sentences for a number of gang-related offenses. |
| • | "I don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the streets to murder other African-American children, maybe you thought they were good citizens." |
| • | "You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter. Tell the truth. You are defending the people who cause young people to go out and take guns." |
A message to Trump, Cruz and their followers (Fox 03/31/2016)
| • | It's time to knock it off. Enough is enough. |
| • | We're tired of the insults. We're tired of the tabloid gossip. We really don't care how big your hands are. We really don't care if you sweat profusely. |
| • | We do care about American sovereignty and securing our borders. |
| • | We do care about losing American jobs to China and Mexico. |
| • | We really do care about protecting our families from Islamic radicals. |
| • | So knock it off and stop acting like a bunch of five-year-old Democrats – otherwise we may have to learn how to say, "Madame President." |
| • | ... GOP front-runner Donald Trump calling for an end to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program and suggesting so-called "enhanced" interrogation methods like water-boarding for terror suspects. |
| • | Trump ... also suggested after the recent Paris bombings, which like the deadly Brussels attacks have been connected to the Islamic State terror group, that the United States put a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants. |
| • | Cruz has criticized Obama's plan to allow tens of thousands more Syrian refugees into the U.S., over concerns about ISIS infiltrators, and suggested stepped-up policing of Muslim neighborhoods across America. |
| • | He said the president while in Cuba was "toasting a communist dictator who tortures and murders his citizens and who spreads terrorism throughout Latin America." |
| • | House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes said, "the president of the United States should not be hanging out with a known financier of terrorism." |
| • | "The more we don't take care of ISIS or al Qaeda, the more this threat will grow." |
| • | "You've got the president of the United States dancing down in Argentina when he should be meeting with the leaders of Europe and other allies to try to take the fight to the enemy." |
| • | He also Obama was "delusional" in defending his decisions and actions after the deadly attacks Tuesday by saying "it is very important for us not respond with fear." |
| • | Calls for the resignation of a Minnesota superintendent grew on Monday, after a high school teacher was suspended for social media posts deemed racist by the Black Lives Matter activist group. |
| • | Olson wrote on Facebook, "Anyone care to explain to me the school-to-prison pipeline my colleagues and I have somehow created, or perpetuated, or not done enough to interrupt? Because if you can't prove it, the campaigns you've waged to deconstruct adult authority in my building by enabling student misconduct, you seriously owe us real teachers an apology. Actually, an apology won't cut it." |
| • | "Phones and iPad devices, used for social media and gaming. There have always been rules for ‘devices,' and defined levels of misconduct. Since we now have no backup, no functional location to send kids who won't quit gaming, setting up fights, selling drugs, whoring trains, or cyber bullying, we're screwed, just designing our own classroom rules." |
| • | Parents and teachers, meanwhile, are rallying behind Olson — and calling for the resignation of Silva... |
| • | "This petition has been started because the current incumbent Valeria Silva has constantly demonstrated her inability to drive improvements in local St Paul schools." |
| • | "Her inability to make changes to benefit the teachers and students include, but are not limited to, rapid increase in violence towards students and teachers; the lack of support for teachers; the removal of disciplinary actions for violent students, and the lack of transparency between her and protagonists such as Rashad Turner." |
| • | ... to deny parole, probation or any type of early release to criminals who were in the United States illegally when they committed a crime. |
| • | ... makes a judge impose at least the "presumptive" sentence for a crime and denies the person any chance to argue for a more lenient sentence. |
| • | Ronnebeck said the man who shot his son had been out on a $10,000 immigration bond for more than 470 days. |
| • | ... Republican legislators who called it a "reasonable policy" to consider immigration status when deciding on parole. |
| • | "People who are here illegally are already breaking the law." |
| • | ... a bill that would essentially make it impossible for immigrants in the country illegally to receive any leniency in the courts when they commit serious crimes. |
| • | ... the bill came in response to a case from last year in which an immigrant who entered the country illegally and was out on bail for a separate crime shot and killed a 21-year-old convenience store employee over a pack of cigarettes. |
| • | "It's a good first step in the right direction of protecting families like his," Smith said, referring to the victim's father, who was in attendance for the vote. |
| • | Trustees and alumni at a presitigious Ohio college are turning up the heat on the school administration, which has so far taken no action against a nutty professor who believes Jews were behind 9/11 and the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in France. |
| • | The Board of Trustees at Oberlin College demanded answers in a statement posted on the school's own website, with Chairman Clyde McGregor blasting "rhetoric and composition" Professor Joy Karega for anti-Semitic online postings. |
| • | "These postings are anti-Semitic and abhorrent. We deplore anti-Semitism and all other forms of bigotry. They have no place at Oberlin. |
| • | ... the school and faculty must "challenge the assertion that there is any justification for these repugnant postings and to report back to the Board." |
| • | "Several student organizations at Oberlin have assumed the role as the mouthpiece of the BDS movement, which claims to be a defender of Palestinian rights, but whose inflammatory language falsely portraying Israel as an illegitimate, colonialist and murderous regime demonstrates that its primary goal is to demonize the Jewish state." |
| • | "As an Oberlin alumna, I can tell you that the vile anti-Semitism now on full public display before the nation has festered on the campus for decades." |
| • | "Despite its professed commitment to tolerance and ‘diversity,' the left-wing faculty, administration, and much of the student body have embraced Israel-bashing and Jew hatred as a feature, not a bug, of an Oberlin ‘education.'" |
| • | "The waffling and spinelessness of Oberlin's president Marvin Krislov is also no surprise." |
| • | "He and other tenured radicals are much more comfortable manufacturing fake hate crime and hate speech outrage than they are with dealing with the real deal." |
| • | See related Political Correctness (Glenn McCoy, 11/11/2015) cartoon from USA picture album |
| • | The man hired to help ease racial tensions at University of Missouri had tough love for the African-American activists who led fierce demonstrations there last fall, telling them late last week he has no intention of caving in to their demands. |
| • | "If you sincerely want better relationships, the time for demands, threats and arbitrary deadlines is over — you don't need them." |
| • | "There are things, like hiring faculty or staff, or admitting students based on protected characteristics to meet a numerical target, will not and cannot be done." |
| • | "It is against state and federal law. It also is a bad model for a sustainable community." |
| • | A Midwestern community has united in a show of patriotism after an atheist organization targeted a local post office's "God Bless America" poster. |
| • | ... the sign's removal after nearly 15 years of display had an unintended effect. |
| • | ... a business in the area, Jake's Fireworks, printed 1,200 "God Bless America" yard signs and 300 banners. Jake's gave away all of the signs within 45 minutes. |
| • | "Obviously, we're among the majority that didn't agree with the decision to take the sign down." |
| • | "It is outrageous that some would aim to divide a community over a banner that has been proudly displayed since Sept. 11, 2001." |
| • | ... employees who wish to carry firearms must receive training and Board of Education approval. |
| • | "There have been numerous shootings in the country, and we want to keep our students safe. These are our kids." |
| • | "Empowering the people to protect themselves is a good place to start." |
| • | "Terror has arrived at our doorsteps, and we will and we can never be the same again." |
| • | ... plan is a three-pronged approach: Calling for county workers – especially those with military experience – to be voluntarily armed, advocating for a "strategically located weapons" cache and encouraging the populace to apply for concealed weapons permits. |
| • | "Make no mistake: This is not a call for vigilantism. This is a call for self-defense under the law." |
| • | Gun sales have spiked in San Bernardino since the Dec. 2 shootings and so have applications for concealed carry permits. The county reported a nine-fold increase in applications in the month after the attack. |
| • | "I'm being mocked by the media about this but it is affecting people's lives and families." |
| • | "This is not a Mormon thing, a Utah thing. This is not a conservative thing. It's based on science. Not all scientists will agree on this, but scientists don't agree on everything." |
| • | The divorce lawyer turned politician said he's not trying to impose morals on anyone but simply making people aware of porn's perils. |
| • | Voters who show up at the polls without ID will still be able to vote, but will have to sign an affidavit attesting that they are who they say they are. Then election officials will take the voter's photograph with an instant camera, and attach the photo to the affidavit. |
| • | A review of active shooter cases by the Air Force has confirmed what gun rights advocates have long been saying: Firearms in the hands of good guys are often the best bet for stopping massacres. |
| • | Muhammad Youseef Abdulazeez's rampage only ended when responding police shot him. |
| • | "Concealed handgun permit holders have stopped dozens of what would have clearly been mass public shootings." |
Hillary Clinton comes out against deportation raids in break with Obama (Fox 01/12/2016)
| • | "As I have said repeatedly, our borders are not open to illegal migration. If you come here illegally, we will send you back consistent with our laws and values." |
| • | "It matters not if Tracy simply refrains from mentioning FAU when defaming murdered Americans and their families." |
| • | "There is ample evidence to demonstrate that his extracurricular misconduct has already adversely affected FAU's reputation and will continue doing so as long as he continues down this path." |
| • | The college said it has had frank conversations with Hawkins on doctrinal issues as it pursued the possibility of reconciliation with her but that "Hawkins has stated clearly her unwillingness to participate in such further clarifying conversations." |
| • | The University of Missouri professor who called for "some muscle" to toss a reporter out of a demonstration on public property could be the one who gets bounced, after state lawmakers on Monday demanded that she be fired. |
| • | "Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here." |
| • | ... more than 100 House Republicans and 18 Senate members from the state Legislature have signed a letter to the school's board of curators demanding Click's "immediate firing." |
| • | "The fact that, as a professor teaching the communication department and the school of journalism, she displayed such a complete disregard for the First Amendment rights of reporters should be enough to question her competency and aptitude for her job." |
| • | The letter also questioned Click's taxpayer-funded research into "50 Shades of Grey," Lady Gaga and "Twilight." |
Va. lawmaker wants to defund Gov. McAuliffe's armed guards over gun dispute (Fox 12/29/2015)
| • | ... pushing to defund the governor's armed bodyguards unless he revokes an order that banned firearms in most state buildings. |
| • | "It's easy for someone who is surrounded by armed state policemen to tell someone else they can't carry a weapon to protect themselves." |
| • | "It's just equal treatment, that's all I'm saying." |
| • | I stand with Jerry Falwell, Jr. |
| • | And like the president of Liberty University, I am proud to call myself a gun-toting, Bible-clinging American patriot. |
| • | Over the past few years we have seen the Islamic radicals wage jihad across the fruited plain. We have seen the jihadists spill American blood on American soil. They have terrorized our people — from Boston to Fort Hood to Chattanooga to San Bernardino. |
| • | We have watched as the jihadists beheaded our brothers and sisters in foreign lands. We have watched as churches have been destroyed, parishioners crucified. |
| • | President Falwell's admonition was made out of prudence, not anger. The enemy is now beyond the gate. They live among us. |
| • | And should the Islamic radicals wage jihad in your town — I suspect most Americans would want to share a foxhole with someone like Jerry Falwell, Jr. — armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other. |
| • | "I've always thought if more good people had concealed carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in," Falwell said. |
| • | "Let's teach them a lesson if they ever show up here," Falwell told students at the Christian school. |
| • | Falwell was met with rousing applause from students, but some said he went too far when he appeared to be referring specifically to Muslims. |
| • | "What if just one of those students or one of those faculty members had a concealed permit and was carrying a weapon when the shooter walked into Virginia Tech? Countless lives could have been saved." |
| • | Falwell said the university is only encouraging responsible gun ownership, not just gun owners. He also said he's decided to carry a gun after recent attacks. |
| • | This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt "victimized" by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. |
| • | It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love! |
| • | In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable. |
| • | Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic! |
| • | I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience! |
| • | The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins — not coddle you in your selfishness. The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your self-actualization! |
| • | If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place. |
| • | If you're more interested in playing the "hater" card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don't want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn't one of them. |
| • | Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a "safe place" but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that's wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that's wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up! |
| • | This is not a day care. This is a university! |
| • | A chapel sermon on love left a student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU), feeling "offended" and "victimized." |
| • | "This is not a day care. This is a university." |
| • | "Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic." |
| • | "Any time their feelings are hurt, they are victims! Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them ‘feel bad' about themselves, is a ‘hater,' a ‘bigot,' an ‘oppressor,' and a ‘victimizer.'" |
| • | It's refreshing to see a grown man with advanced degrees willing to stand up to a generation of perpetually-offended nincompoops and bullies. |
| • | The student felt offended because the "homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love." |
| • | "In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable." |
| • | Dr. Piper offered some wise advice for the young man. |
| • | "If you want the chaplain to tell you you're a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you're looking for." |
| • | "If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place." |
| • | For weeks we've watched academically-castrated university presidents capitulate to the outrageous demands of students. |
| • | "The bottom line is that at the end of the day I would argue that college is not about safe spaces or being a safe place." |
| • | He said the nation's universities should be ashamed for educating a culture of "selfish individuals." |
| • | "The university needs to recognize that our obligation is to challenge bad thinking and bad ideas and not coddle individuals in their self-absorption and narcissism." |
| • | The modern-day collegian is a fragile snowflake – who needs psychological help for such atrocities as reading the works of a white author or attending Taco Night at the campus dining hall. |
| • | "Do we want ideological fascism or do we want intellectual freedom and academic freedom." |
| • | "Because really what we have right now is an argument for ideological fascism. You must submit. You must agree. You must be one of us. And if you don't, we will silence you. We will crush you." |
| • | The nation needs more academic leaders like Dr. Piper – a grownup willing to say what needs to be said to coddled collegians. |
| • | It's time to put on your big-boy pants, kids. |
| • | Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson released a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday seeking the termination of "all public funding" for federal programs to resettle refugees from Syria. |
| • | "There's currently no ability to vet these people and by doing so, we are putting America at risk," Carson said. |
| • | Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also called on Ryan to "reject the importation of those fleeing the Middle East without assurances that we can separate refugees from terrorists." |
| • | Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told Fox News that the U.S. should profile refugees. |
| • | "Yeah, absolutely, that's what screening is. We should be profiling, of course we should. This is Islamic terrorism," Bush said. |
| • | ... he reached his decision "[a]fter full consideration of this weekend's attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris ... I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way." |
| • | "It is irresponsible and severely disconcerting to place individuals, who may have ties to ISIS, in a state without the state's knowledge or involvement... As governor of Louisiana, I demand information." |
| • | GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson told "Fox News Sunday" that the United States is making a "huge mistake" in accepting the refugees and instead called for helping them to resettle in safer parts of their own region. |
| • | "But to bring them here under these circumstances is a suspension of intellect," said Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon. |
| • | Fellow GOP challenger Sen. Marco Rubio suggested that even the concept of finding a foreign fighter amid Syrian refugees is impossible. |
| • | "The problem is not the background checks. There is no background check system in the world that allows us to find that out because who do you call in Syria to background check them?" |
| • | "Well we're being a little bit too tolerant, I guess you might say, accepting infantile behavior. I don't care which side it comes from. To say that I have the right to violate your civil rights because you're offending me is un-American. It is unconstitutional. And the officials at these places must recognize that and have the moral courage to stand up it. Because if they don't, it will grow, it will exacerbate the situation and we will move much further toward anarchy than anybody can imagine, and much more quickly." |
| • | G.K. Chesterton, a prolific writer of the early 20th century, once said, "Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out." |
| • | Yet the difference between boys and girls is so painfully evident to any parent one wonders whether the management at Target have children themselves. |
| • | Will there be children who differ from the norm? Of course. Some girls are into sports, and some boys like to read. |
| • | Parent whose children fall outside the norm are perfectly capable of buying their children whatever it is they're interested in. They don't need Target to hold their hand and lead the way. |
| • | Target's new policy has nothing to do with making children feel better about themselves. It looks like it's about the company making sure it doesn't get sued by parents who see injustice everywhere. |
| • | Boys and girls are born with preferences based on their unique biology. To ignore this fact, or to help spread the notion that biology isn't real, is unethical at best and dangerous at worst. |
| • | For years, academic feminists have thumbed their nose at science and insisted — based on ideology, not fact — that biology is irrelevant. The result is gender warfare. |
| • | "That question is not as easy as it seems. There's a lot of complexities ... and I don't know that everyone would understand that." |
| • | If a man with male anatomy and a "Y" chromosome can assert he is female and be put on the covers of celebrity magazines and given awards for bravery, why can't a white woman assert that her internal identity is that of a black woman? |
| • | Why does factual history have to dictate current reality if a human being feels very deeply that that factual history is not in tune with his or her inner sense of self? |
| • | I mean the question sincerely, because we are rushing into this philosophical and psychological landscape with almost no consideration of its implications. |
| • | If our measure of what a person is must be no more and no less than what she feels she is, then Rachel Dolezal can be black, if she wants to be, and if she can show evidence that she has sincerely adopted that vision of herself. |
| • | Here's one to ponder: If a man feels, to the core of his being, that he is 65 when he is chronologically 35, and if he can show evidence that he has voiced this self-concept, repeatedly, and has objected vigorously to being treated as though he is 35, who are |
| • | I have warned and warned and warned that breaking free of certain apparent realities that define us as human beings – genetically and historically – can have profound implications for how closely people remain tied to reality, in general. |
| • | Let us see how far down this path of "self"-assertion we travel, and with what results. |
Illinois Passes Anti-BDS Bill (INN 05/19/2015)
Boston University condemns prof's racist tweets after Terrier alums bark (Fox 05/11/2015)
| • | Then, amid a deluge of angry emails from former students, the school sought to amend the comment. |
| • | "The University does not condone racism or bigotry in any form and we are deeply saddened when anyone makes such offensive statements." |
| • | "In light of the university's willingness to invite vile rhetoric onto a campus that I spent four wonderful years at, I commit to never donate to Boston University." |
| • | "As a Boston University alumnus and a father of a son who will graduate from BU next week, I am deeply saddened by this revelation. It has become apparent that BU no longer supports a value system in line with human decency." |
| • | "I'm not surprised that Boston University is hiring a racist to teach African-American Studies. Anti-white racism is rampant in Black Studies programs." |
| • | "If she were a white racist rather than an anti-white racist, she would never be hired. Professors are supposed to be experts in some scholarly field, and professionals in their classroom discourse. They don't have a license to indoctrinate students in their prejudices — whether those prejudices are right or left." |
| • | "We're all in real danger if something isn't done to put a stop to this kind of deliberate targeting and malicious treatment of Christians." |
| • | "... it would financially ruin their family and could cost them their home. They have done nothing wrong, and their lives, along with their five children, have been turned upside down by this persecution." |
| • | "You can't call it anything else. This is wrong, and it's happening right here in our own country. Liberal judges and officials siding with the LGBT crowd are trying to make a point with the undeserved punishment of this family. This is America — we should have the freedom to live by our sincerely held religious beliefs. It's obvious who is really being discriminated against here." |
| • | "Sir, East Lake Courts is not your hood. It's the citizens of the United States who own that – because they work and pay taxes. You don't own that." |
| • | "It used to be a very nice place to live. In fact, my grandmother lived there and I spent many a night and it was a nice place where you could walk around. People like you have made it a violent, unsafe place to live, and hopefully we can make it the place that it used to be back when it was originally built for people who didn't have anywhere else to live, to make it a safe place to live." |
| • | "Sometimes I do give short speeches to people in domestic situations. I say things like, if he beats you up, he doesn't love you. I also tell them to get an education. A man is not a plan." |
| • | "That struck a nerve that he was claiming that was his property. There are a lot of people that live there that are law-abiding citizens." |
| • | "They are bringing crime into those communities," she said. "It's so unfair for people who have to live there." |
| • | McCain last week said that comments by Iran's supreme leader had suggested that Iran and the Obama administration were on different pages. |
| • | "These widely divergent explanations of the nuclear deal must be fully explained and reconciled if we are to give serious consideration to this agreement." |
| • | Carrying the tagline, "Jew Hatred: It's in the Quran," the ads call on the United States government to "stop the hate" and "end all aid to Islamic countries." |
| • | "A pension, in a lot of ways, is regarded as a reward for a job well done. I think we would all agree that raping children is not a job well done." |
| • | The GOP argues the mandate is a common sense step toward reducing election fraud. |
| • | "Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him." |
| • | "Our leaders must clearly identify the enemy as Islamist extremists, understand the ideology that is motivating them and attracting new recruits, and focus on defeating that enemy both militarily and ideologically." |
| • | Gabbard called "mind-boggling" Obama's refusal to associate ISIS with the Muslim religion, even though the terrorist army is emphatic it is enforcing a strict interpretation of Islam. |
| • | "[Obama] is completely missing the point of this radical Islamic ideology that's fueling these people." |
| • | "Rep. Gabbard is correct as a matter of history, she is correct as a matter of current events, and she is correct of published Islamic law." |
Pennsylvania town packs heat, and wants visitors to know it (Fox 02/10/2015)
| • | "If you were a thief breaking into homes and businesses, would you choose a city that openly endorses the ownership and training of guns to protect persons and property?" |
Chris Christie, Rand Paul hit for vaccine remarks (Fox 02/03/2015)
| • | "I also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. So that's the balance that the government has to decide." |
| • | "I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines." |
| • | "I think the parents should have some input. The state doesn't own your children." |
| • | "With a disease like measles there is no question kids should be vaccinated." |
| • | "I'm more concerned for parents' rights to make decisions about their own children, period. That's paramount." |
| • | "I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable as the last demonstration that just took place." |
| • | "Get out of here, you low-life scum." |
| • | "We are dealing in lethal firearms. I'm not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Ku Klux Klan member in here, either." |
| • | In the meantime, Morgan is not budging. She likened offering target practice to potential terrorists to flight schools offering lessons on simulators to the 9/11 terrorists. And because firearms are involved, she said her case is not analogous to cases in which private businesses have been sanctioned for refusing to serve other groups, such as gays. |
| • | "One mistake can cost another human being's life. There's no room for mistakes when you're handling firearms. We aren't just refusing to make a wedding cake here." |
| • | She also said she has been threatened, which she responded to by posting her home address on the range website and daring those issuing threats to do so in person. |
| • | "I am the infidel your Imam warned you about," Morgan wrote under an image of her packing heat. |
| • | "I'm sure that his grandfather, who died serving this country, is rolling over in his grave knowing that his grandson is using him to justify him calling U.S. servicemen cowards." |
Scalia on torture morality: 'I don't think it's so clear at all' (CNN 12/12/2014)
| • | "I don't think it's so clear at all. I think it is very facile for people to say 'Oh, torture is terrible.' You posit the situation where a person that you know for sure knows the location of a nuclear bomb that has been planted in Los Angeles and will kill millions of people." "You think it's an easy question? You think it's clear that you cannot use extreme measures to get that information out of that person?" "... each society's perception of what it believes human rights should be ought to be up to that society, and I think it's very foolish to yield that determinations not only to a foreign body but to a foreign body of judges. I don't know why anyone would want to do that." "... the amount of money that is spent on all elections — state, local and federal — in the United States, is less than what women spend on cosmetics for a year, OK?" "If you think that a fair system of election speech is going to be devised by the incumbent senators and congressmen, you are naive. They will for sure, as they have in the past, devise a system that favors the incumbent. If that's the choice of evils — have a system that always favors the incumbent or, you know, let people speak as much as they want with as much money as they want — I choose the latter. I don't even regard the latter as an evil." He said if people really believe "the masses are so ignorant that they are swayed by television ads," then "let's have a king. Right? Let's have a king." |
| • | "With respect to trying to define that as torture, I come back to the proposition torture was what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11. There's no comparison between that and what we did with the respect to enhanced interrogation." |
| • | Way back in time, Confucius said it this way: "Put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order." |
| • | ... people who torched buildings in Ferguson are "scumbags" and some blacks degrade successful African-Americans too often as not black enough. "Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong." |
Court upholds 4 same-sex marriage bans; will Supreme Court review? (CNN 11/06/2014)
| • | Our judicial commissions did not come with such a sweeping grant of authority, one that would allow just three of us — just two of us in truth — to make such a vital policy call for the thirty-two million citizens. |
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| • | "She was abducted by an evil terrorist organization. What is with you and your government and your paid for media affiliates constantly down playing / attempting to repress horrific acts that happen to children. You are a disgrace." |
France looking to deport immigrants with extremist ties after teacher killed by man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (Fox 10/16/2023)
| • | Macron wants the state to be "implacable against all those who support hatred and terrorist ideologies." |
| • | "There are about 60 dossiers of Russian citizens. Among them are people from Chechnya. The instruction we had until now was to systematically expel these people who could be particularly dangerous." |
| • | "Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization. They said it themselves," IDF asserted — to which Musk replied, "Yes, they are crystal clear about this." |
| • | Elon Musk replied, "Our policy is that everything is open source and transparent, an approach that I know the EU supports. Please list the violations you allude to on X, so that the public can see them. Merci beaucoup." |
| • | "Israel is the victim of a terrorist attack. Hamas is the perpetrator. It's as simple as that. There are no 'both sides,'..." |
| • | "Yet here you have 30+ student organizations from Harvard University, blaming the victims, Israelis, for their own murder, rape, and abduction, rather than blaming the perpetrator, Hamas, for murdering, raping, and abducting them." |
| • | "Demonizing Israel — to the point of denying the humanity of Israeli victims and the inhumanity of their perpetrators — is moral confusion masquerading as moral clarity." |
| • | "Shame on anyone who glorifies as 'resistance' the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. It is reprehensible and repulsive." |
| • | "There simply is no diplomatic solution or 'measured response' available. This tragically necessary effort will come at a horrifying price. But the price of failing to permanently eliminate this group of sadistic savages is even more horrifying." |
| • | Rubio urged Israel to respond "disproportionately" to Hamas's bloody ambush and "to any futures attacks from any enemy." |
| • | "There can be no cease-fire, negotiated solution or peaceful coexistence with depraved barbarians who murder teen-aged girls, children & the elderly and then dump them in the streets of Gaza so bloodthirsty crowds can desecrate their bodies." |
| • | "While the butcher of Tehran is speaking at the UN and is being respected by the international community, hundreds of Iranians are protesting outside, shouting and calling on the international community to wake up and help them." |
| • | "It is a disgrace that member states stay to listen to a mass murderer. It should not be possible for a murderer with blood on his hands to receive a platform here at the UN. I left the speech to make it clear that the State of Israel stands by the Iranian people. I call on the international community to stop the madness and prevent murderers and anti-Semites from coming and speaking here at the UN." |
Online mockery of Titanic submersible leaves cultural observers sickened: 'Garbage dump of vile commentary' (Fox 06/23/2023)
| • | "Like a digital Tower of Babel, social media is evolving into an increasingly ugly and chaotic space — a real-time repository for our worst impulses, uninspired musings, scatalogical humor and ill-formed thoughts that should be kept to ourselves." |
| • | "When you see something like this, it just makes you not want to take them seriously as an education establishment." |
| • | "They are at such a tender age, and you want them to be children as long as possible." |
| • | The student responded, "I didn't say that. I said if they want to identify like a cat or something then they're like genuinely unwell." |
| • | The student attempted to explain it was their opinion. "If I respect their opinion, why can't they respect mine?" |
Canadian pastor arrested second time for protesting children's drag queen events: 'Sick, twisted perversion' (Fox 03/16/2023)
| • | "Calgary was immune for a little bit from the drag queen perversion — because that's what it is: it's a sick, twisted perversion, and you can quote me on that." |
| • | "An adult man who dresses as a woman in a sexual manner and has the urge to do that in front of little children is a pervert, end of story." |
| • | "I've warned Canadians for a very long time — and I'm warning Americans, as well — that you will be ruled by what you tolerate*." |
| • | "If you tolerate corruption, you will be ruled by corruption. If you tolerate perversion, you will eventually be ruled by perversion." |
| • | "Telling young children that hairstyles and clothes will change their sex and that other children will then believe it to be true is a cruel deception, playing as it does on a child's developmentally limited understanding of biology. It's a cynical trick to use on children who are at an age when fantasy play is at its most intense." |
| • | "The point is, it's not appropriate for 4-year-olds, and it's not appropriate for a Church of England school to be teaching this or promoting it." |
| • | "The second we say, 'Hang on a minute, that differs from our opinion,' we're homophobic or transphobic; we're misogynistic, we're bigots, because we believe in one man, one woman. And our opinions are just washed away. So we've got to stand up and say this is not right." |
| • | "Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women." |
| • | "All humanity is the tension of differences. It is to grow through the tension of differences. The question of gender is diluting the differences and making the world the same, all dull, all alike, and that is contrary to the human vocation." |
Elon Musk says 'single world government' could lead to end of civilization at 'World Government Summit' (Fox 02/15/2023)
| • | "I know this is called the 'World Government Summit,' but I think we should be a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government." |
| • | "If I may say, we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having — frankly, this might sound a little odd — too much cooperation between governments." |
| • | Musk referenced the fall of Rome, which took place in the 5th century, as an example of civilizational collapse. |
| • | He pointed to the simultaneous advancements in the arts and sciences among Islamic societies as an example of the benefits of separated civilizations that are capable of survival without the other. |
| • | "While Rome was falling, Islam was rising, so you had a caliphate doing well while Rome was doing terribly. And that ended up being a source of preservation of knowledge and many scientific advancements." |
| • | "So I think we need to be a little conscious of being too much of a single civilization because if we are too much of a single civilization then the whole thing may collapse." |
| • | "I'm obviously not suggesting war or anything like that. But I think we want to be a little wary of actually cooperating too much." |
| • | "It sounds a little odd, but we want to have some amount of civilizational diversity so that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization that the whole thing doesn't just collapse and humanity keeps moving forward." |
Russia slams long-time diplomat who quit over war in Ukraine: 'He is against us' (Fox 05/24/2022)
| • | Boris Bondarev, who served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2002 and as Counselor of the Russian Mission to the UN Office at Geneva since 2019, announced his resignation... |
| • | "For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on February 24 of this year." |
| • | ... said the "aggressive war unleashed by Putin" posed not only a threat to Ukraine, but to a free Russian society. |
| • | In a scathing letter, he accused Kremlin officials of seeking to "remain in power forever" and "live in pompous tasteless palaces." |
| • | "I regret to admit that overall these twenty years the level of lies and unprofessionalism in the work of the Foreign Ministry has been increasing all the time. However, in most recent years, this has become simply catastrophic." |
| • | "The prime minister of Canada, the way he's behaving right now – he's exactly like a tyrant, like a dictator. He's like Ceau?escu in Romania." |
| • | "If you raise doubts about the vaccines, you're outcasted. What's the difference between what he does and what happened under The Inquisition?" |
| • | "It would appear that the so-called ‘fringe minority' is actually the government," Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk tweeted. |
| • | "If we are supposed to pay attention to their EDI - their woke score - does this mean it doesn't matter if they are useless at teaching and research? Or do you now have to get a minimum woke score to get a job?" |
| • | "This is political correctness gone mad. They want to turn Notre Dame into an experimental liturgical showroom that exists nowhere else, whereas it should be a landmark where the slightest change must be handled with great care." |
| • | "COP26 is a load of hypocritical garbage. The 30,000 climate alarmists flying in on their private jets and staying in luxury hotels while telling everyone else to give up meat, cars and gas boilers, can stick their New World Order where the Sun doesn't shine." |
| • | "This crooked judge wants to turn me into a CBC reporter or CNN reporter, that every time that I am in public, every time I'm opening my mouth, I am to pray their mantra to the government." |
| • | "They're telling me what I can and cannot preach. They're telling me that every time I want to address the public, I have to spew their lie first in order for me to deliver my message. That's China. That's North Korea." |
| • | "When I grew up under the boots of the Soviets, the courts like this were called 'show courts'. It was to show that the government can do with you whatever they want, and there is nothing you can do about it. And it's just to scare the public, telling you, ‘See, we can finish off anyone we want.' They're terrified of the truth." |
| • | "I'm not hiding. I'm not a criminal. I said I will not obey this court order. I refuse to obey a crooked judge's order. He's not a judge, he's a political activist." |
| • | "The true activists here aren't Hamas terrorists engaged in arson and murder — it is the AP allowing its 'journalists' to employ Orwellianisms to mislead readers about attacks on Israel." |
| • | We will not give up Samaria, the ancient kingdom of Israel, for ice cream, nor will we give up Joshua's Altar or ancient Shilo for a McDonald's hamburger. |
| • | The people of Samaria and this country will stand firm long after Ben & Jerry's ice cream melts and disappears from the world. We will not give in to this anti-Semitism that permeates Jews in the United States as well. |
| • | I call on all residents of the State of Israel and Samaria, and all lovers of Israel in the world, to stop consuming the ice cream that is trying to create a boycott of Israel. |
| • | We will not succumb to threats from either left-wing organizations or commercial companies that are willing to boycott Israel in order to flatter certain people. |
| • | We will continue to build Samaria, enjoy culture, a good education and also ice cream. Not necessarily Ben & Jerry's. |
| • | "I'm not very keen on unbalancing society by having quotas," John Caudwell, the founder of a U.K. chain of cellphone stores... |
| • | "I always think the best person should win, whether they're Black, White, male or female." ... "I don't like positive discrimination ... I think positive discrimination is dangerous for society. It leads to resentment and I've witnessed that a lot. |
| • | ".. it's about a far bigger issue than one delusional Duchess, and that's everyone's right to be free to express our honestly held opinions, forcefully and passionately if we feel like it." |
| • | "... if our rights to free speech are denied, then democracy as we know it will die. It's time to cancel the cancel culture before it kills our culture." |
| • | See related Gone with the Wind (Chip Bok, 06/12/2020) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | "Two key points from the past week that need reinforcing: 1) It's not ‘racist' to disbelieve someone who's telling lies. 2) You don't have to agree with a word I say to support my right to have my own opinions." |
| • | "Someone who kills another sentient being, cuts out their heart, and boasts about it fits the definition of a sociopath." |
| • | "We shouldn't worry about General Xi Jinping's feelings, We should worry about protecting the American people ... We have to confront the challenge that the Chinese Communis Party is presenting to America and to the world." |
| • | See related Assurance (Chip Bok, 04/10/2020) cartoon from World picture album |
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| • | "Interesting to see those who've spent the last few years screaming that Trump's an uncaring, heartless empathy-devoid b*stard now spewing their gleeful joy that he & his wife have a deadly virus. They're no better than the man they loathe." |
| • | "Although manufacturers of new vehicles have built-in safeguards to prevent drivers from taking advantage of the new safety systems in vehicles, those systems are just that — supplemental safety systems." |
| • | "They are not self-driving systems, they still come with the responsibility of driving." |
| • | "We support the rights of all of our clients to express their thoughts and beliefs, and we believe in freedom of speech. Publishing and the creative arts are dependent on these things. It is our duty, as an agency to support all of our clients in this fundamental freedom and we do not comment on their individual views." |
| • | "To reiterate, we believe in freedom of speech for all; these clients have decided to leave because we did not meet their demands to be re-educated to their point of view." |
| • | "... Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of publishing." |
| • | "Today's Human Rights Council's ‘urgent debate' featured Syria's chemical weapons aficionados lecturing the United States on solutions for ‘brutality' and ‘social inequality.' The members of the U.N. Human Rights Council who will vote on tomorrow's resolution include some of the world's most appalling examples of racism, racial and religious discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya. |
| • | "The saddest part of invoking the U.N.'s so-called ‘Human Rights Council' as a means to encourage reform in a democratic society like the United States, is that the U.N.'s lead human rights body is a global vehicle to cover-up and promote intolerance, not to eradicate it. Hypocrisy, double standards, deceit and duplicity is not a recipe for moral progress." |
| • | Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tweeted the resolution is hypocrisy: "America is not perfect, but it's a farce for the UN Human Rights Council to debate police practices in America, when it refuses to debate concentration camps in China, political murders in Cuba, torture in Syria, state-imposed starvation in NK & slavery in parts of Africa." |
| • | Vigano said attacks on Trump for visiting the shrine are "part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction." |
| • | "For the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship." |
| • | Vigano believes Americans "are mature and have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters." |
| • | The majority of good people must wake up, "come together and make their voices heard," he said, adding that the most "effective" way is through prayer. |
| • | "Australia will continue to, of course, pursue what is a very reasonable and sensible course of action." |
| • | "(Coronavirus) has shut down the global economy. It would seem entirely reasonable and sensible that the world would want to have an independent assessment of how this all occurred so we can learn the lessons and prevent it from happening again." |
| • | "We make no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove dangerous foreign criminals." |
| • | "We will be urgently pursuing the removal of those who were prevented from boarding the flight due to a legal challenge over a mobile network failure." |
| • | "All this outcry about us attacking an individual. No, he was a terrorist." |
| • | He was a designated terrorist leading designated terrorist organization and he's fair game after attacking U.S. property and people and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad." |
| • | "I opposed [automatic release] both in 2003 and 2008, and now that I am prime minister I'm going to take steps to make sure that people are not released early when they commit... serious sexual, violent or terrorist offenses." |
| • | "I absolutely deplore that fact that this man was out on the streets... and we are going to take action against it." |
| • | "Jewish cultural property such as Torah Scrolls does not constitute the national heritage of governments who expel or who forced their Jewish communities to flee anti-Semitic prosecution." |
| • | "No doctor, or researcher, or philosopher, can demonstrate or prove that a person can change sex." |
| • | "Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended." |
| • | "It is deeply disturbing that this is the first time in the history of English law that a judge has ruled that free citizens must engage in compelled speech." |
| • | "Half the world's terrorist organizations still exist there and can attack the United States." |
| • | "And if you believe the Taliban's promises, which I don't, but if you believe them, how do they have the capability to keep a lid on these groups that the American Army has struggled with?" |
| • | "Let's fight these wars in places like Kabul, [otherwise] it will follow us home." |
| • | "We won't allow those who deny our right to exist in this world to enter Israel. In principle, this is a very justified decision." |
| • | "We absolutely understand this approach because you raise the question ‘How should anyone be taken into consideration as a refugee if he or she already crossed a safe country?'" |
| • | "If you are a refugee that means you would like to reach the first safe place in order to avoid the negative impact of the crisis that makes you escape." |
| • | "If you cross safe countries to get to another one, that is economic migration and it is up to national competences to decide whether a country would like to receive economic migrants or not, and these national competences must be respected." |
| • | "We raised the question, ‘What should be the legal or humanitarian reason to allow anyone to violate a border between two safe and peaceful countries?'" |
| • | "And the answer is that there is none." |
| • | "Since the days of King David 3,000 years ago, the Jews had always lived in, built, and defended the Holy City. Generation after generation the Jews kept their presence in Jerusalem. When the Arabs rejected the UN resolution in 1947, they attacked the Jewish Quarter and expelled the Jewish population and for nineteen years the Old City was separated from its western neighborhoods. Only in 1967, when Israel overcame another Arab attempt to harm the Jewish State, did Israel succeed in reuniting Jerusalem and liberating it." |
| • | "For the past 52 years, Jerusalem has been a city that protects the right of all worshipers of all faiths to pray in peace." |
| • | "... the time has come for the international community to recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel." |
| • | "By doing so, she was not just giving the metaphorical bird to Trump, as she would have most definitely wanted to do, she was giving it to his host the Queen, her country who he is representing and the country whom she now represents." |
| • | ... also accused her of putting her own personal beliefs above the commemorations for the D-Day veterans. |
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador withdraws asylum (Fox 04/11/2019)
| • | "Julian Assange is no hero and no one is above the law. He has hidden from the truth for years." |
| • | "Terror does not grow without a supportive population. If this population supports terror, they won't work with us." |
| • | "We don't see any moral or security reason to allow these people to work near our children, in our towns, and receive their livelihoods from us." |
| • | "I didn't understand what the problem was and what there is to investigate. Whoever throws rocks at Israeli vehicles is a terrorist, and it's very good that he was shot and killed." |
| • | ... Istanbul "is actually a city called Constantinople! The capital of the Byzantine empire and center of orthodox Christianity for more than a thousand years before Turkish occupation!" |
| • | See related Birds of a Feather (Michael Ramirez, 12/10/2015) cartoon from World picture album |
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| • | ... Muslims, who are the majority population in 50 nations, should be able to accept tiny Israel as the only Jewish nation in the world. |
| • | Muslim nations and their citizens would be far better off if they had normal diplomatic, trade and cultural relations with Israel. |
| • | "Stop & search is necessary to bring down knife crime. We need to be tough. We need to back our police. We need to change the odds in the minds of the kids who carry knives. And we can. We've done it before." |
| • | "Love you my American friends. Love you more because you aren't here. We have enough trouble with Trudeau's (our Prime Minister) socialism." |
| • | "We don't need to import more from your whacko-democrats. Here's the new 'green deal' - we'll pay you to stay home!!" |
| • | ... launched an astonishing rebuke of former President Barack Obama's foreign policy at the site of Obama's famous speech to the Muslim world — declaring that "the age of self-inflicted American shame is over." |
| • | ... said that "it was here, in this city, another American stood before you" and "told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from ideology." |
| • | "He told you that 9/11 led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly in the Middle East." |
| • | "He told you that the United States and the Muslim world needed ‘a new beginning.' The results of these misjudgments have been dire." |
| • | "May the memory of the murdered be a blessing. I hope that we merit to see their deaths avenged, as happened last night with the murderer who killed Kim and Ziv in the Barkan terror attack. There will never be peace with the monsters in the form of humans who have been called ‘Palestinians' since 1964. We need to encourage them to emigrate from our country to the 22 states of their fellow [Arabs]." |
| • | "The digital police of the radical progressives at Facebook have gotten to me this time! Mazel Tov! Facebook has official pages for groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime. And there are an endless amount of pages calling for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews. There are thousands of violent, radical posts from leftists against me and against my family, including threats of physical violence and threats of murder." |
| • | "None of this violates Facebook's community rules. They are protected as ‘free speech'. The right-wing around the world needs to wake up. The only outlet we have is social media, since the established media outlets are controlled entirely by the radical left (in Israel, as well as in the US and Europe). Now they're trying to shut out mouths in the one place we've had the right to express our opinion." |
| • | It's one more time that countries feel they can poke the United States in the eye. But you're not hurting the U.S. when you do this. You are literally hurting the Cuban people by telling the regime that their treatment of their people is acceptable." |
| • | "We're going to terminate the agreement, and we're going to pull out." |
| • | "They have been violating it for many years. I don't know why President [Barack] Obama didn't negotiate or pull out. ... We're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons, and we're not allowed to." |
| • | Trump went on to say he would be open to a new, similar agreement only if Russia and China signed on and demonstrated a sincere commitment. |
| • | "We'll have to develop those weapons, unless Russia comes to us, and China comes to us, and they all come to us and they say ‘let's really get smart and let's none of us develop those weapons." |
| • | "I have never in my life seen diplomats behave the way the Cuban delegation did today. It was really shocking and disturbing and it makes you wonder that if the diplomats of this government behave this way, how do the police behave?" |
| • | "You can imagine what it's like in Cuba if the government of Cuba behaves like this in the chambers of the United Nations with security present." |
| • | "We will never surrender American sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy. America is governed by Americans." |
| • | "We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism." |
| • | "America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control and domination." |
| • | "The United States will not tell you how to live, work or worship. We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return." |
| • | "In America we believe in the majesty of freedom and the dignity of the individual, we believe in self-government and the rule of law and we prize the culture which sustains our liberty, built on strong families, deep faith, and fierce independence." |
| • | "We celebrate our heroes, treasure our traditions and above all, we love our country." |
| • | "The United States supports a direct and robust peace process, and we will not allow the ICC, or any other organization, to constrain Israel's right to self-defense." |
| • | "What we should do is, the countries that we give money to, do they believe what we believe? Are they still actually wanting to be our partner and work with us? If they're not and they're shouting, 'Death to America,' why would we give them a single penny? And so you are seeing the efforts of de-funding those things that are not helpful to us and that aren't in the United States' interest. |
| • | "Our policy is based on a clear-eyed assessment of the Iranian dictatorship, its sponsorship of terrorism, and its continuing aggression in the Middle East and all around the world." |
| • | "Americans are very generous people. We are humanitarian oriented. And we continue to seek out ways to help the Palestinian people, whose plight is of genuine concern to us." |
| • | "But we are not fools. If we extend a hand in friendship and generosity, we do not expect our hand to be bitten. And as we extend our hand, we also expect others to extend theirs as well." |
| • | "I think he embarrassed himself, he's embarrassed Britain because no matter what you think of Donald Trump, it's irrelevant. America is the most powerful country in the world, the office of president has got to be respected no matter who that person is and that wasn't done and I was very disappointed." |
| • | "Sadiq Khan should be ashamed of himself. He's so busy attacking President Trump's visit and, in the meantime, crime is spiraling in London. Maybe he should just do his job instead of attacking a world leader." |
| • | "He's in no position to be throwing rocks in glass houses." |
| • | "I think he should be sacked. I think he's a disgrace for mayor. If I don't do my job properly I lose my job. He's not doing his job properly, he's disrespecting the most powerful office in the world and he's only doing it only to gain himself politically." |
| • | ... "probably has documents of which I am not aware, but on the basis of meteorological knowledge, it is not possible for a country to steal snow or clouds." |
| • | "Raising such questions not only does not solve any of our problems, but will deter us from finding the right solutions." |
| • | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Iranians that Israel faced similar water issues and found ways of dealing with them, adding Israeli technology can help the Iranians. |
| • | Netanyahu offered to share Israel's water expertise with Iran, saying "the Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water. |
| • | "A man who sends thousands of Turkish soldiers to hold the occupation of northern Cyprus and invades Syria will not preach to us when we defend ourselves from an attempted infiltration by Hamas." |
| • | "A man whose hands are stained with the blood of countless Kurdish citizens in Turkey and Syria is the last one who can preach to us about combat ethics." |
| • | "President Donald J. Trump ran against political correctness in the United States. He will stand up for Americans resisting efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to impose Chinese political correctness on American companies and citizens." |
| • | "What fate awaits Sami A. in Tunisia is not the problem of German taxpayers." |
| • | "... to protect and financially equip an Islamist, to feed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, while for their own population less and less remains, but this fits the [Chancellor Angela] Merkel Germany of this time." |
| • | "Erdogan is not used to having people talk back to him. But he should get used to it. Someone who occupies Northern Cyprus, invades Kurdish areas and massacres civilians in Afrin won't lecture us about morals and values." |
| • | "The most moral army in the world will not be lectured to on morality from someone who for years has been bombing civilians indiscriminately," Netanyahu wrote. |
| • | "... soldiers who encounter terrorists in the middle of an act of terrorism must be instructed to open fire to kill and not to neutralize..." |
| • | "We're going to be doing a reciprocal tax program at some point, so that if China is going to charge us 25% or if India is going to charge us 75%...we're going to be at those same numbers." |
| • | "Now, let me tell you why – my view, why we don't have peace. Because the fact of the matter is that too many Palestinians and too many Arabs do not want any Jewish state in the Middle East. The view of Palestinians is simple, the Europeans treated the Jews badly culminating in the Holocaust and they gave them our land as compensation." |
| • | ... "never forget what Israel and its freedom mean to the Jewish people and what the friendship of the United States means to securing that freedom." |
| • | Instead of normalizing the regime, this should be an opportunity to educate the massive Olympic audience about the realities of life in North Korea under the murderous Kim crime family that is pursuing the ability to threaten American cities with nuclear destruction. |
| • | "We give them hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and support ... that money is on the table and the money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace." |
| • | "He rejected any American role in peace talks. He insulted the American president. He called for suspending recognition of Israel." |
| • | "He invoked an ugly and fictional past, reaching back to the 17th century to paint Israel as a colonialist project engineered by European powers." |
| • | "A speech that indulges in outrageous and discredited conspiracy theories is not the speech of a person with the courage and will to seek real peace." |
| • | "When they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and support — tremendous numbers, numbers that nobody understands — that money is on the table, and that money's not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace." |
| • | "The truth is, the Palestinians walked away from negotiations for peace with Israel since 2014. It's time for the Palestinians to come back to the table." |
| • | "The reality is President Trump made a promise to the American people and he kept that promise in recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel." |
| • | "We've made no determination on the final status of boundaries of any peace agreement and if both sides come together and agree, we'll accept a two-state solution." |
| • | ... in Davos, the Alpine mountain idyll that has come to symbolize the Woodstock of the rich and powerful, his globalism-be-damned message is sure to make him as welcome as an overnight avalanche. |
| • | "The president is trying to change the existing order, and that is jarring to a lot of people. What it says is intended to change the way people think. He's tired of seeing America get pushed around." |
| • | "The corrupt Palestinian Authority was a creation of the Oslo-Accords. If the Oslo process is dead as suggested by Abbas - it would follow that the Palestinian Authority and its leadership are irrelevant. It's time to find alternative Palestinian leaders and alternative peace plans that focus on building bridges between real people on the ground instead of making people like Abbas rich and famous." |
| • | "We will remember it when we are called upon once again to make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations." |
| • | "And we will remember when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit." |
| • | Haley added that Thursday's vote "will make a difference on how Americans look at the U.N. and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the U.N., and this vote will be remembered." |
| • | Despite the condemnation, the Trump administration isn't caving to international pressure, with Haley serving notice that she "will be taking names" on who votes in favor of the resolution Thursday. |
| • | "The European Union, cowards, are doing all they can so a pro-Palestinian terrorist movement can have supremacy over a pro-Israeli movement." |
| • | "I‘m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people." |
| • | See related Birds of a Feather (Michael Ramirez, 12/10/2015) cartoon from World picture album |
| • | ... "under the pressure of political correctness, language is no longer destined to describe the most beautiful possible reality. It becomes a pure place where minorities should take revenge on history". |
| • | Welcome to the dictatorship of the new soft consensus, which is invisible and at the same time widespread and pervasive, without alternatives. |
| • | It is a dictatorship desired by everyone and considered a form of protection. |
| • | This consensus is the new Western communism. |
| • | "Physical sciences is a VERY hard subject, which will require ALL of your attention and your FULL brain capacity (and for a large fraction of you, even that will not be quite enough)." |
| • | "You can ONLY do well (ie achieve your potential, which rightly or wrongly several people here assumed you have) if you are completely focused, and learn to enjoy the course. People who just TAKE the course, but enjoy their social life, can easily survive in many subjects — but not in this one." |
| • | "Remember that you are NOT at any other uni, where students do drink a lot and do have what they regard as a ‘good time' — and you are NOT on a course, as some Cambridge courses sadly are, where such a behaviour pattern is possible or acceptable." |
| • | "... when it comes to Israel, the UN development agencies cross the bright red line from humanitarian assistance to political advocacy." |
| • | "We call on the United States, Canada, Australia and other democracies to ensure that their taxpayer contributions are not being misused to undermine UN institutions through an escalation of politicized attacks on Israel." |
| • | "Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid... hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!" |
| • | "We're never going to say in advance what the president will do." |
| • | "The age of pretense has ended, and the IDF has turned equality into the measure for everything, and decided openly and officially to prefer it over operational competence." |
| • | "It's time IDF commanders stop giving in to internal and external pressures, and understand that the efforts to integrate women into combat units have failed." |
| • | "We need to stop prioritizing equality over security. Israel doesn't have the privilege of finding out how much we can change the army before it won't be an army anymore, because it harms Israel's security." |
| • | Another way to look at it: From family to global government — from emphasis on the traditional, God-created unit to the man-made, borderless, all-encompassing world government. |
| • | It's not that a "Special Person's Day" is, by itself, that big a deal, or even that bad an idea. |
| • | It's that the substitution of traditional for untraditional, and the tossing of commonly held principles, ideas and beliefs for those of minority segments of society, is a slow chip to a society's identity. |
| • | A society that doesn't have a grip on what it stands for is a society ripe for takeover. |
'Now is the time to hit Hamas' (INN 08/10/2017)
| • | "... Why do we always have to deal with the threats from the other side? After all, we're the strong one here, so why don't we force them to be on the defensive?" |
| • | "The best thing would be if tomorrow morning the Hamas leaders woke up for the last time ever and saw IDF soldiers smiling at them." |
| • | "There is no other way of achieving deterrence than being willing to pay the price of victory. Words do not deter anyone." |
| • | "Deterrence is caused by actions and only actions - and winning, by causing the other side to feel defeated. That is the best kind of deterrence." |
| • | "This is a guy who said terrorist attacks are part and parcel with living in a big city." |
| • | "We are well beyond the point of a conversation with the Muslim community. This is a counterinsurgency right now." |
| • | "Do you think the parents that had children killed during the Ariana Grande concert want to talk about a conversation?" |
| • | "Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We're not going to allow them to do so. We're going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate." |
| • | To those who scream about "rights," what about the rights of those now dead and wounded young people and children to live a normal and productive life? |
| • | How do you explain the "rights" of terrorists to grieving parents? |
| • | "We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but as an opportunity for carnage." |
| • | "I won't call them ‘monsters' because they would like that term... I will call them, from now on, ‘losers' because that's what they are, they're losers." |
| • | "... these efforts by Russia to discredit the United States and weaken the West are not new. These efforts are, in fact, at the heart of Russian – and previously, the Soviet Union – intelligence efforts." |
| • | "China is the only one that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy fat kid that's running North Korea. They could stop North Korea's economy in a week." |
| • | ... U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley reiterated that the administration intends to take a hard stance with the U.N. against anti-Israel bias. |
| • | "The U.N. has been Israel-bashing for decades and what we are trying to do is make sure they understand that there's a new administration in town and we're not going to put up with it." |
| • | "When you make everyone who kills Israelis a martyr, you make the very idea of coexistence impossible." |
| • | "It is time for the international community to take a clear stand against those who build the foundations of terror by teaching children to detest and despise." |
| • | "This must start by speaking out against incitement in Palestinian society." |
| • | ... prohibiting the veil was essential to stopping the development of "parallel societies." |
| • | "In communication between people, which is of course essential to our living together, we have to show our faces. So the full veil should be forbidden wherever legally possible." |
| • | "I think at the end of the day, a woman's job is to be a mother, and after the traumas of war, she'll be completely different. The motherly feeling, the mother's touch, the ability to nurse and give birth, it won't be the same." |
| • | "We can't put a couple, a man and a woman, a male soldier and a female soldier, into a closed box for a week and expect that nothing will happen. You'll get a little tank soldier in another nine months." |
| • | ... the idea to put women in the Armored Corps was a leftist plot to weaken the IDF. ... the decision is a "scandal that will harm everything you can even think of, including the IDF's abilities to fight." |
| • | We must resist the thanatocracy by supporting two pillars: the defense of political values derived from the Enlightenment and the Judeo-Christian affirmation of the sacredness of life. |
| • | "For their own safety, women foreign tourists should not wear short dresses and skirts ... Indian culture is different from the western." |
| • | "Girls wanting a night out may be all right elsewhere but it is not part of Indian culture." |
| • | Former President Nicolas Sarkozy accused the government of bad policies that he says failed to prevent three major attacks in the past 18 months. |
| • | "We are in war, a total war. Our enemies don't have no taboos, no borders, no principles. So I will use strong words: It will be us or them." |
| • | He called for electronic bracelets for anyone suspected of potential radicalization, and for expelling anyone suspected of possible terrorism links, direct or indirect. |
| • | Germany's interior minister says he plans to push a new law that would force more than a million refugees to learn the German language and integrate into society – or lose their residency. |
| • | "For those who refuse to learn German, for those who refuse to allow their relatives to integrate — for instance women or girls — for those who reject job offers: for them, there cannot be an unlimited settlement permit after three years." |
| • | "We must not only support integration but demand it." |
| • | If passed, the legislation would enable military courts to sentence terrorists convicted of attacks "intended to kill citizens for political, national, religious, or ideological purposes." |
| • | The law would also require only a majority, rather than a unanimous decision, to sentence terrorists to death. It would also prohibit reducing the sentence once it has been finalized. |
| • | A Jewish man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Petah Tikvah on Tuesday afternoon, but succeeded in fighting back and killing his attacker. |
| • | According to eye witnesses, the Arab terrorist attacked the Jewish man, stabbing him repeatedly. |
| • | But his victim fought back, pulling the knife from his own neck, and stabbing the attacker to death with his own weapon. |
| • | "Currently we can treat everyone. ... But when we reach the 'day of judgement' in which we won't be able to treat everyone, I think — and I say this with full caution — that if it is impossible to treat everyone, I think there is no avoiding the moral statement that we need to give the innocents different rights than the person who harmed them intentionally." |
| • | The IMA's ethics committee raised a fury last December, when it called to treat the most wounded person first at the scene of an attack - even if that person is the terrorist. |
| • | ZAKA head Yehuda Meshi Zahav also took part in the medical ethics conference this week, and condemned those opining that terrorists should be treated first if they are more seriously wounded. |
| • | "If we treat the murderer and the victim continues bleeding — effectively we're doing what the murderer wanted. Maybe you are taking part in murder because you didn't treat the victim." |
| • | "It is morally unacceptable because a casino goes against our national values, it serves the strong and weakens the weak. From a practical standpoint, it is prohibited because we will all have to pay the price for the physical and psychological damage that it causes." |
| • | "As the minister in charge of education in Israel I fight everyday against harmful trends that affect children, teenagers and women, and I will fight against the establishment of a casino. We will instill in our children an education of values and not one of gambling. Israel is not Vegas, and will not be like Vegas. We will fight it." |
| • | It takes a village to raise a child. |
| • | Children are being raised in many Arab villages to hate from birth with the ultimate aim and honour of being a shahid — a martyr — if they kill Jews. Their schoolbooks and their media bring them up to believe this. |
| • | Their teachers, their parents and their whole villages dance and celebrate when Jews are murdered by their own teenagers. It is no accident that their young people are murdering Jews. |
| • | One solution to these murderous acts by young people and the support of their society is to raze the village of the murderers to the ground and to expel all of their residents to their brothers in Jordan, Gaza (or dare I say Syria?). |
| • | A Jewish community should immediately be built in its place. |
| • | If Israel does this a few times it will be in the interests of every single Palestinian who wants to live in Israel to discourage these murders. |
| • | "At the end, in the State of Israel, as I see it, there will be a fence that spans it all. I'll be told, 'this is what you want, to protect the villa?' The answer is yes. Will we surround all of the State of Israel with fences and barriers? The answer is yes." |
| • | "In the area that we live in, we must defend ourselves against the wild beasts." |
| • | "In the Middle East there are no concessions. When you make concessions they get motivation. They don't want peace, rather they want to eliminate the state of Israel. They don't want us here." |
| • | "we are fighting against cruel, ideological and religious terror that is unique in the world, we need to destroy it from the root in an all out war." |
| • | "I want collective harm in every town that a terrorist emerges from, and in the next stage to harm his family." |
| • | "So that the next time that someone dares to do an attack, they'll know that the lives of their family are also in danger of being distanced to Jordan, Gaza or Syria. In a democratic state there is no place for these people." |
| • | "The Jews brought morality to the world and no one will teach us what morality is." |
| • | "Despite the ethical code which mandates the most injured victim be treated first, you must know morality has a limit. If we will not keep our distinction, we will lose our direction." |
| • | "Even in Halacha, it is written: All who merciful to the cruel will end up being cruel to the merciful." |
| • | "No need to fool ourselves," a French government official told the newspaper. "What we have in front of us is a complete failure." |
| • | "Israel must act as an example and spearhead the struggle against radical Islam whose emissaries we saw massacring innocent people in Paris" and elsewhere. |
| • | Israel says the violence is the result of incitement from Palestinian leaders and has blamed the Islamic Movement for fanning the flames among the country's Arabs. |
| • | Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has approved the use of sniper rifles against violent rioters in Jerusalem. |
| • | As part of his declared "war" on rock-throwing terrorists in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sought permission on Wednesday from the Attorney General to deploy snipers to target the attackers. |
| • | The army regularly deploys sniper teams to tackle rock- and firebomb-throwing rioters in Judea and Samaria. Regulations allow soldiers to use relatively low-caliber Ruger .22 rifles with telescopic sights to pick off rioters who pose a particularly serious threat to life. |
| • | Arab rioters have rampaged through parts of the capital - particularly the Old City and Temple Mount - since Sunday, in an attempt to force Israel to ban Jews from visiting the Temple Mount. |
| • | Jewish worshipers were beaten and chased by Muslim mobs in the Old City during the two-day holiday, and 64-year-old Alexander Levlovitz was murdered by rock-throwers while driving home on Sunday night. |
| • | "There are no such things as eternal enmity or eternal love.There are only eternal interests. We should identify our country's interest. ... As a man who knows a little bit about history and about international relations, I believe that it is in our interest to maintain normal relations with Israel." |
| • | "The state is not the problem. The problem lies with the people, who still live the old ideology and the cultural heritage on which we were raised. Our generation was raised upon hatred and upon these people being barbaric..." |
| • | "For over 70 years, the Palestinian cause has brought upon Egypt and the Egyptians nothing but harm, destruction, and expense. We have been preoccupied all our lives with the Palestinian cause." |
| • | "Am I supposed to shackle myself to the Palestinian cause? Let the (Palestinians) resolve it... We have tried to help them many times." |
| • | "They don't think it is in their interest. They don't want to resolve their own problem." |
| • | "Israel exists, whether we like it or not, and it will continue to exist, whether we like it or not. So let's just accept this." |
| • | "We need to return to the basic truth of our rights to this country. This land is ours. All of it is ours. We did not come here to apologize for that." |
| • | "We expect as a matter of principle of the international community to recognize Israel's right to build homes for Jews in their homeland, everywhere." |
| • | Cameron reportedly emphasized his position that there could be no comparison between Israel's actions during the conflict and those of its terrorist adversaries. |
| • | "What I've seen is the attacks that take place on Israel and the indiscriminate nature of them." |
| • | "Because Israel is trying defend against indiscriminate attacks, while trying to stop the attackers – and there's such a difference between that and the nature of the indiscriminate attacks that Israel receives." |
| • | "Obviously we regret the loss of life wherever it takes place, but I do think there's an important difference – as Prime Minister Netanyahu put it: Israel uses its weapons to defend its people and Hamas uses its people to defend its weapons." |
| • | Corrie had been standing in front of a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer and acting as a human shield to try and interfere with the razing of a house in Rafiah, Gaza. |
| • | Judge Oded Gershon ruled against the Corries' civil lawsuit and supported the IDF claim that the driver of the bulldozer could not see Corrie when she was hit by the bulldozer's blade. |
| • | The court noted that Corrie, who was 23 years old, was fully aware that she was in danger and that she could have prevented her own death by moving out of the path of the bulldozer. |
| • | The petition noted that several candidates, primarily Zoabi, have given vocal support to terrorists such as Hamas in their efforts to destroy Israel, and promote "the armed struggle of Israel's enemies and terror groups against Israel, which according to the Basic Law: Knesset prevents then from running in an election." |
| • | "It is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom... But if you don't like freedom, for heaven's sake pack your bags and leave." |
| • | "If you do not like it here because some humorists you don't like are making a newspaper, may I then say you can f--- off." |
| • | "Today, those terrorists who go and commit suicide, reach heaven: their family receives a pension and they are residents of Israel. We need to change the equation - destroy the terrorist's home the same day and not three months later, and deny benefits and residency to his family." |
Israeli Civilians Must Be Able to Defend Themselves (INN 11/18/2014)
Putting a Stop to Israeli Arab Violence (INN 11/14/2014)
Regev: Don't Let in Palestinian Workers if Terror Continues (INN 11/12/2014)
Canada: Crackdown on 'Barbaric' Islamist Practices Against Women (INN 11/09/2014)
Cabinet Toughens Sentences for Rock-Throwers (INN 11/02/2014)
Canada to stop processing visas from Ebola hot spots in West Africa (CNN 10/31/2014)
Geert Wilders' plan to save the West (JWR 10/24/2014)
Financial Giant SWIFT Rejects Israel Sanctions Call (INN 10/07/2014)
Jackie Chan responds to son's drug bust: 'I'm extremely furious' (CNN, 08/21/2014)
There Will be Blood (CNN, 08/06/2014)
Curb The Nitpicking (INN, 07/22/2014)
Nigerian villagers fight off attacks by Boko Haram (CNN, 05/15/2014)
Hevron Commander — It's OK to Cock Weapon (INN, 05/06/2014)
Stop Being ‘Nice Jewish Boys’ (INN, 03/12/2014)
Cruise Operator Cancels Tunisia Stops After Israelis Are Barred (INN, 03/12/2014)
The Search in Sochi: Hannah Arendt where are you? (JWR, 02/14/2013)
Revolutionary Bill Proposal: No Pardons for Convicted Murderers (INN, 12/31/2013)
Sex workers are victims (CNN, 12/27/2013)
A Gentleman's Answer to President Karzai (JWR, 11/28/2013)
Canada severs ties with Iran (CNN, 09/08/2012)
Let's Just Negotiate Peace! (INN, 09/23/2011)
Nine years in prison for attack on Danish cartoonist (CNN, 02/05/2011)
German multiculturalism has 'failed,' Merkel says (CNN, 10/17/2010)
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