Capitulating to the antics of players disrespecting the national anthem, the National Football League agreed to donate nearly $90 million over the next 7 years to support left-of-center social justice causes.
If that act alone isn’t enough to raise eyebrows, where the NFL is reportedly planning to get the money certainly will.
According to one of the athletes at the forefront of the
protests, San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid [#35 in the photograph
below above], the windfall will come at the expense of the league’s planned
financial support for breast cancer and military charities.
President Trump on Saturday questioned whether his former national
security adviser Michael Flynn was the victim of a "rigged system" after
he was indicted in the special council's Russia probe.
In
a series of tweets on Saturday, Trump suggested Flynn had his life
"destroyed" for lying to the FBI, while former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has got off free after deleting emails.
"So
General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked
Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday “interrogation” with no
swearing in and no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to
her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?" Trump wrote on Twitter.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that President Trump's Twitter habits have actually helped his agency gather and understand intelligence.
Asked
by Fox News' Bret Baier in a panel discussion at the Reagan National
Defense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif., whether Trump's propensity for
Twitter complicated the CIA's work, Pompeo demurred, saying that the
agency has gathered important intelligence by observing how U.S.
adversaries react to the president's tweets.
"I've actually seen
it help us," he said. "I have seen things the president has put on his
Twitter account actually have a real-world impact on our capacity to
understand what's going on in other places of the world."
"That
is, our adversaries responded to those tweets in ways that were helpful
to us to understand command and control issues, who's listening to what
messages, how those messages are resonating around the world."
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry
demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept
the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller
kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation.
Stories in both the Washington Post and New York Times
on Saturday reported that Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the
original FBI investigation into the Trump-Russia matter, and then a key
role in Mueller's investigation, and who earlier had played an equally
critical role in the FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation, was
reassigned out of the Mueller office because of anti-Trump texts he
exchanged with a top FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having
an extramarital affair.
Strzok was transferred to the FBI's human
resources office — an obvious demotion -- in July.
The
Post reported that Strzok and Page exchanged text messages that
"expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other comments that appeared to
favor Clinton."
I have watched all this fuss over Roy Moore in Alabama recently. For
all the allegations (and no proof yet) everyone is just supposed to walk
away from Roy Moore and vote for the liberal (socialist) Democrat. If
Roy Moore manages to pull off this election in Alabama and become
Alabama’s senator then he will be subject to the exact same treatment
that Donald Trump has been getting for almost a year now as president.
The pattern in both cases is clear. Why if I had a suspicious mind I’d
almost be tempted to think that the same people had planned both
campaigns against both men.
If Roy Moore manages to win and they can’t find a way to steal it
from him, all he has to do is look at Donald Trump and he has to know
what he is in store for–every day he is in office.
He will be yet one more vote for Donald Trump’s agenda, which Trump’s
adversaries don’t want and he will also be yet another vote against any
possible impeachment proceeding that may be brought against Trump for
his infamous “Russian collusion nothingburger.”
The Deep State is giving Roy Moore the same treatment with all these
women he is supposed to have chased as they gave Trump with his “Russian
dossier.”
Allegation — “Roy Moore was banned from the Gadsden mall for propositioning teenage girls.” — Witnesses Refuting Allegations —
Johnny Adams
– Employed 26 yrs. Gadsden Mall, Oper. Mgr 14 yrs. over security –
“Never heard of anything about Roy Moore being banned or mention of any
other issues concerning him.”
Johnnie V. Sanders
– Employee of Gadsden Mall from late 70’s to mid-2000’s for Morrison’s
Cafeteria Corp – “I never heard of Roy Moore’s name come in conversation
with any such misconduct against women or a supposed banning from the
Gadsden Mall.”
Barnes Boyles
– Former Manager of the Gadsden Mall – “We did have written reports and
things. To my knowledge, he {Moore} was not banned from the mall.”
BEVERLY NELSON’S ALLEGATIONS SUMMER 1977
Allegation — “I began work at the restaurant when I was 15.”
The South exists. It ought to exist. If Southerners can be brought to
acknowledge that “ought,” then it undoubtedly will not only endure but
prevail.
OF THE MAKING of books about the South there is no end. This one
differs from most in at least one respect—its unembarrassed embrace of
the notion that the South is a national asset, a priceless and
irreplaceable treasure that must be conserved.
The particular group of people gathered between these covers to
support and elucidate this audacious contention is occasional. All are
friends, or friends of friends, of the person privileged to compose this
prefatory statement. I freely admit that many other writers of equal or
superior merit might have been called upon, or even an entirely
different group assembled for this purpose. When word got around,
informally, that a manifesto of Southern pride was contemplated, to
coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of I’ll Take My Stand, the
outpouring of interest and sympathy was surprisingly large, certainly
large enough to indicate that the proposal struck a hidden vein of
public feeling. Like the Confederacy in its first year, we had more
volunteers than we could well make use of.
The ubiquitous caveat of the Twitter era –
“retweets are not endorsements” – may finally have demonstrated its
worth, after President Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos
Wednesday that had been posted by the leader of a far-right British
group.
Lacking the famous caveat, the
president’s retweeting caused a transatlantic incident and now threatens
the U.S. relationship with Britain, our closest ally, we are told.
It’s so bad that the president’s working trip to
Britain – planned for January to formally open the new American embassy
in London – has now been postponed indefinitely, according to a report and there are calls for a more formal state visit to be cancelled.
Well, I sure hope the visit is off. But not for the reason you might think.
Matthias Thorpe, a co-organizer for the Boston free speech rallies,
was brutally attacked by a mob of Antifa on Friday evening — resulting
in multiple fractures in his face.
Thorpe, 28, and a few friends had attended a discussion about Antifa
featuring Mark Bray, the author of the Anti-Fascist Handbook at the Harvard Coop.
He stated that they had not attended with intentions to shut down the
event or disrupt it, but did ask meaningful questions about the
implications of communism — such as asking if fascism that killed six
million people is worse than communist fascism which has killed
approximately 100 million people.
“He never answered my question, but people in the crowd recognized me
because my picture was on one of the Antifa websites,” Thorpe told
Gateway Pundit.
My colleague, Annie Holmquist, discovered some
statistics about the decline in masculinity that have troubled me since
the moment I looked over them. Here’s the key part of her piece:
“In recent years, a mildly trending topic of
discussion has been the question, ‘Where have all the men gone?’ While
there are a number of theories as to the answer, a British survey just
released by YouGov may shed some light on the issue.
Among other things, the survey asked participants
about their impressions of the word “masculinity” and found a surprising
generational gap:
‘Both young men and young women have a lower
opinion of 'masculinity' than older people, but young men are harsher
critics of the concept than young women. In contrast, the majority of
young men (58%) have a positive impression of 'femininity', as do the
majority of young women (55%).
Overall 'femininity' has a net positivity
score of +56 compared to +44 for 'masculinity'.’”
It is indicative of how completely the left has taken over our major public organs and institutions, including the press, the entertainment industry, and Higher Ed, that many are embarrassed to admit to others the secret we carry around in our hearts like a treasure -- we absolutely love Donald Trump.
This is the reason Trump's approval numbers are almost certainly way under-reported: who wants to admit that they love an uncouth, billionaire New York braggart who made his fortune by parlaying a "small" $150 million-dollar loan from dear old dad into a business that literally changed the skyline of the world's greatest city? The answer, apparently is: millions.
This has led to articles and blog posts such as Tiffanie DiNato's "Why I'm so darned afraid to admit I support Donald Trump," subtitled, "I'm a Donald Trump supporter, and I'm coming out of the closet." Or this from the uber-liberal UK Guardian: 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out.'
So what about the frantic insistence of “Russiagate” partisans that
Flynn’s plea practically portends the downfall of the president they
refuse to accept as legitimate? Their elation is unwarranted and
premature, warns McCarthy. If a prosecutor has a cooperating witness who
is an accomplice in a criminal scheme, the plea is structured so it
proves the existence of the scheme. “That is
not happening in Flynn’s situation. Instead, like Papadopoulos, he is
being permitted to plead guilty to a mere process crime,” he wrote, referring to a volunteer Trump campaign adviser who likewise pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about seeking contacts with (a nonexistent) “Putin’s niece.”
President Donald Trump’s short-lived national security adviser,
Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Most US media jumped
on the plea as proof of Trump’s collusion with Russia. Actual documents,
however, tell a different story.
A court document
signed by special counsel Robert Mueller, dated Thursday, specifies two
instances of Flynn telling FBI investigators things that were not true.
They relate to two conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, in December 2016.
In the Statement of Offense
signed by Flynn at his court appearance on Friday, he admitted to
acting on instructions from a senior “Presidential Transition Team”
(PTT) official, prompting breathless speculation if that was Trump
himself, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, or someone else altogether. The
one question nobody seems to be asking is, “So what?”
President Trump said Saturday it’s a “shame” former National Security
Advisor Michael Flynn lied to his administration and the FBI because
“there was nothing to hide.”
“I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI,” the president tweeted,
before referring to the news Friday that Flynn pleaded guilty to lying
to the FBI in January about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
“He
has pled guilty to those lies," Trump added. "It is a shame because his
actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!”
Liberalism creates these “sanctuary cities,” (or in the case of California Governor Brown — a sanctuary state in California.)Remember, he wanted to send the Vietnamese refugees back in 1975.
A pregnant young woman, Kate Steinle, is murdered in cold blood. Her
father witnesses this horror, cradling her in his arms as she begs him
to help her.
An illegal immigrant, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate — deported four times
and arrested a number of times for criminal activity — was charged.
Many witnesses saw him shoot and kill Kate Steinle. This week he was
acquitted of all charged.
I have to wonder how in the world this acquittal happened — with so
many witnesses, including the Kate’s father. I also have to question
why such a high profile criminal trial wasn’t moved out of San Francisco
to a more neutral milieu.
The president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch
thinks President Trump should shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation after former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s
guilty plea.
“Sally Yates, Andrew McCabe, and James Comey improperly targeted
General Flynn. And Mueller got him. Deep State victory. [Donald Trump]
should consider a pardon,” Fitton tweeted Friday. “The Mueller special
counsel continues to be unconstitutional and out of control. Shut it
down.”
Helicopter pilot Scott Alwin, a native of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with
his UH-1 ("Huey"). Alwin spent five tours of duty in Vietnam from 1967
to 1972, serving in one of the most dangerous assignments of the war. He
is believed to have clocked more air time than any other American in
the war. He was awarded two bronze stars, a distinguished flying cross, a
purple heart, and 70 oak leaf clusters. Alwin received a field
commission to 2nd lieutenant and was promoted to captain. He resigned
the commission in order to remain in flight status. Scott Alwin was
killed by a drunk driver in 1976.
(University of Georgia Press, 1981).
