You might think that people who get
paid to write for prestige publications would be better journalists than
mere bloggers, but then you encounter people like David Graham, who not
only writes for the Atlantic, but actually teaches journalism at Duke University. In a remarkably counterfactual column Tuesday, Graham claimed that the riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, “could cost Trump the election.”
Showing up with a rifle at mob scene like the Kenosha riots was a
decision almost guaranteed to end badly. The question deserves to be
asked, however: Why did officials allow this mob scene to happen?
While his primary object was to amplify Democratic talking points —
accusing President Trump of “making every effort to stir up racial
tension and provoke violence after the shooting of Jacob Blake” — Graham
also casually smeared 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse. Graham expressed
astonishment that Trump would defend the teenager who shot three rioters
after being attacked last week. At a Monday press briefing, Trump “not
only didn’t condemn Rittenhouse’s actions, but defended him,” Graham
huffed, before misquoting the president. Here is what Trump actually said Monday when asked about Rittenhouse:
Tyler Memorial Garden at William and Mary, tribute to Lyon Gardiner Tyler, his father and grandfather.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler(1853-1935) was the fourth son of our 10th
United States president, John Tyler, who was president from 1841 to 1845
and later a member of the Confederate Congress. Lyon Gardiner Tyler had
a distinguished career as an educator, genealogist and historian. He
was the 17th president of the College of William and Mary and served
from 1888 to 1919. Today's history department at William and Mary is
named after him: The Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History. He
founded the William and Mary Quarterly, a highly respected history journal, and is author of the books Parties and Patronage in the United States; The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and the James River; England in America; Williamsburg, the Old Colonial Capital; Men of Mark in Virginia; Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography; History of Virginia from 1763 to 1861; and his most prominent work, The Letters and Times of the Tylers. He also wrote scores of articles, addresses and booklets including A Confederate Catechism.
He was a prominent critic of Abraham Lincoln and wrote several
important pieces challenging Lincoln including this one, "Propaganda in
History.", which was published by the Richmond Press, Incorporated,
printers, in 1920 (original from Princeton University). NOTE: The
spelling and punctuation are verbatim from the original article.
Three words. Eloquent in their simplicity, biting in their clarity.
They come from a letter, posted on
Facebook, from the N.C. Bar and Tavern Association. They come a day
after the group’s founder, Zack Medford, who, in a letter to Gov. Roy
Cooper, writes poignantly about how the lockdowns have crippled his
industry. Have cost him so much.
“You can’t imagine how hard it is to
watch all you’ve built up be destroyed — and your family’s future
evaporate — while lines outside your competitors’ bars are filled with
the patrons you used to serve,” he writes. “Even ABC stores have posted
record sales while we face ruin.”
Please keep the
entire St Louis Metropolitan Police Department in your thoughts and
prayers tonight. Two of their officers have been shot, one in the head.
Police Officers shot in America are sky rocketing in
2020 and no one is talking about it. Truly sickening. #EnoughIsEnough
That’s what we’re learning tonight about a shooting and standoff in St. Louis that started just before 6 p.m. Saturday evening.
According to investigators with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police
Department, two officers were shot in the 3700 block of Hartford
Street. That’s in the South Grand neighborhood just south of Tower
Grove Park.
According to St. Louis Police Chief
John Hayden, it happened when the officers were responding to a
shooting call in the neighborhood.
Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton has slammed parents who raise "white children of privilege" during a new interview.
Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter demanded that kids raised with such privilege must "erode" it.
Clinton made the bizarre remarks during a live-streamed Women for Biden event to discuss "voting rights."
Speaking with far-left Democrat "Squad" member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Chelsea flipped the discussion from voting access to race and "white privilege."
Analysts and attorneys at Court TV explain. It’s worth a full watch:
“From coast-to-coast everyone, absolutely outraged, especially by
that fact, the knee on the neck. Well, guess what folks, take a look at
what you’re looking at right here. That is from the police training
manual,” attorney and host Vinnie Politan said. “Where this all comes
from is from a motion to dismiss. A motion to dismiss that was filed by
Derek Chauvin’s attorneys saying that the knee on the neck is part of
his training as a Minneapolis police officer. And there we see it in the
manual on the left and on the right is what we all have seen in the
video of Officer Chauvin. So, is this a game-changer?”
“This one is absolutely shocking. I mean, this is what the whole
story is about. This is what outraged millions and millions of people,
this is what caused the protests. It was the knee on the neck…and now
the defense is saying dismiss the charges because the knee on the neck
is right there in the police training manual,” he continued.
So why did Chauvin continue holding his knee on Floyd’s neck after he became unresponsive?
"Smokey" was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese. The soldier sold Smokey to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland, OH for 2 dollars Australian.
Over the next two years Wynne carried Smokey in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue missions, She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, in a parachute made for her. She would warn G. I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."
Early in retaking the Philippines combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield. The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smokey could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did. Smokey's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.
In her down time she performed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea. Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".
After the war she became a sensation back in the states, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals. Smokey's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away. He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation, Ohio.
President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the federal government
to initiate a review that could result in the defunding of four
Democrat-controlled cities that have allowed “lawless” behavior to
transpire during protests and that have moved to cut police budgets
while violent crime has surged.
“My Administration will not allow
Federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate
into lawless zones,” Trump says
in the memo, according to the New York Post. “To ensure that Federal
funds are neither unduly wasted nor spent in a manner that directly
violates our Government’s promise to protect life, liberty, and
property, it is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of
Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and
destruction in America’s cities.”
