Taliban v Duke U

Via John

Which is worse?  The Taliban removing Buddha -or- Duke University removing Robert E. Lee? 

Both Duke and the Taliban committed the same acts of censoring history and both actions are based on hatred. In one case, the case of the Taliban, it is the result of religious fervor and in the other, Duke, a racist fever among academics who may be be among the least informed in our society.....but who feel they have a bully pulpit in the Duke Chapel as though they can wield a visual scalpel and make important personages of the past, "disappear."

Truly, this removal is an act of reprehensible academic vandalism and misplaced vigilantism.

The Lee statue was removed in the dark of the night, at a time when other thieves and vandals are also active.

Do any of you who are BCC'd have a list of Duke alumni donors or know where I can obtain it? Also, please place this information on your Facebook pages to expose these Duke elites people for the frauds and fakes they are.

-J

How the Left Is Outsourcing Censorship of the Internet

 

Liberals control every newspaper in America, as far as I know, except the Manchester Union Leader.

They control CBS, ABC, NBC and every cable network except Fox News. They control what is left of the news magazines, and pretty much every other magazine, too. Only talk radio and the pesky internet lie outside their grasp, so that is where they seek to impose censorship.

But they have a problem: the First Amendment. The government can’t suppress conservative speech on the ground that it is “hate speech,” i.e., something that liberals don’t like. That was recently reaffirmed by a 9-0 decision of the Supreme Court.

So liberals have outsourced censorship of the internet to the tech titans of Silicon Valley.

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Facebook Blocks Ad for Upcoming Diamond & Silk Movie ‘Dummycrats’

Bill Maher 8/17/18 slams liberal opponents of free speech:‘I don’t like Alex Jones - gets to speak’

FBI Dealt Blow By DC Judge; Must Address Measures Taken To Verify Steele Dossier

 

The FBI has been dealt a major blow after a Washington DC judge ruled that the agency must respond to a FOIA request for documents concerning the bureau's efforts to verify the controversial Steele Dossier, before it was used as the foundation of a FISA surveillance warrant application and subsequent renewals.

US District Court Judge Amit Mehta - who in January sided with the FBI's decision to ignore the FOIA request, said that President Trump's release of two House Intelligence Committee documents (the "Nunes" and "Schiff" memos) changed everything.

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Nigel Farage: The time has come to teach the political class a lesson: I'm back fighting for a real Brexit

 

It is now beyond doubt that the political class in Westminster and many of their media allies do not accept the EU referendum result. They refuse to acknowledge the wishes of the majority of those who took part in that historic plebiscite of 2016 by voting to leave the European Union. As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst case of Stockholm syndrome ever recorded.

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David Crockett

 

I had a Davy Crockett lunchbox. :)

This essay is taken in part from the chapter “Frontiersman” in Brion McClanahan’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes (Politically Incorrect Guides) and is presented here in honor of Crockett’s birthday, August 17.
 
The modern actor Billy Bob Thornton once said David Crockett in the film The Alamo was his favorite role. John Wayne played him, too. Every boy who grew up before the 1970s wanted to be Crockett. He was the “king of the wild frontier,” the man who wrestled bears and jumped rivers, the man with the sharpshooter’s eye who tamed the wilderness. He was larger than life; as one historian wrote, “His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth. It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea.” Crockett was so popular because he was one of us, a common man without advantages who achieved great things on his own merit. He was the quintessential American.

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Don't Ask Me II

Via Chính 

Judge rules Confederate statues that were taken down in Memphis can't be sold yet

Via Susan 

 

A judge in Nashville has ruled that the Confederate statues that were recently taken down in Memphis can't be sold yet.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans calls the judge's ruling a small victory. The leader of the group that currently holds the statues, Memphis Greenspace, says not much has changed, since the group wasn't planning to transfer the statues until lawsuits were over.

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John Brennan Was Long a Danger to US National Security

Via Billy

 “Mr Brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility.” (President Donald Trump, Aug.15, 2018.)

“Cuba is not a threat to the United States…They don’t implicate our national security in any way…The government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month period; and the government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” (President Obama after meeting with Raul Castro in Panama and recommending that Stalinist Cuba be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, April 14^th, 2015.).

Presumably the head of the CIA at the time John Brennan, who had been a close national security advisor to Barack Obama since his 2008 campaign, signed-off on (and maybe even encouraged) Obama’s decision to whitewash and legitimize the Castro-Family-Crime-Syndicate. Never mind that this whitewash required taking one of modern history’s most infamous liars at his word. 

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