An article By David Horowitz

David Horowitz is the president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a leading conservative thinker.

The tragedy in Charlottesville could have been an occasion to stop and consider how the tolerance for politically correct violence and politically correct hatred is leading the nation towards civil war.

Instead the media and the political left have turned this incident into the biggest fake news story of the summer, transforming its real lessons into a morality play that justifies war against the political right, and against white people generally.

The organizers of the "Unite the Right" demonstration in Charlottesville were repellent racists.

But they came to defend a historic monument honoring a complex man and cause, and not to attack it or presumably anyone else.

They applied for a permit and were denied. They re-applied successfully in a petition supported by the local ACLU.

If they had come to precipitate violence, why would they have gone to the tedious trouble of applying for a permit?

Who knows what — if anything — would have happened if that had been the end of the story and no one had showed up to oppose them.

What Unite the Right actually demonstrated was that the assortment of neo-Nazis, pro-Confederates and assorted yahoos gathered under the banner of the "Alt-Right" is actually a negligible group.

This supposed national show of strength actually attracted all of 500 people.

Compare that to the tens of the thousands who can readily be marshaled by two violent groups of the left — Black Lives Matter and Antifa — and you get an idea of how marginal "white supremacists" are to America's political and cultural life.

Yet "white supremacy" and its evils became the centerpiece of all the fake news reporting on the event, including all the ludicrous attacks on the president for not condemning enough a bogeyman the whole nation condemns, and that no one but a risible fringe supports.

Talk about virtue signaling!

Omitted from the media coverage were the other forces at work in precipitating the battle of Emancipation Park, specifically Black Lives Matter and Antifa, two violent leftwing groups with racial agendas who came to squelch the demonstration in defense of the monument.

Unlike the Unite the Right demonstrators, the leftist groups did not apply for permits, which would have been denied since there was another demonstration scheduled for that park on that day.

But why should they have applied for a permit, since the mayhem they had previously caused in Ferguson, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland and other cities, was accomplished without permits, while their criminality was presented by the media as "protests," and their rioting went completely unpunished.

In other words, there were two demonstrations in Charlottesville — a legal protest by Unite the Right and an illegal protest by the vigilantes of Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

Who started the fight is really immaterial. Both sides were prepared for violence because these conflicts are already a pattern of our deteriorating civic life.

Once the two sides had gathered in the same place, the violence was totally predictable.

Two parties, two culpabilities; but except for the initial statement of President Trump, condemning both sides, only one party has been held accountable, and that happens to be the one that was in the park legally.

What is taking place in the media accounts and political commentaries on this event is an effort by the left to turn the mayhem in Charlottesville into a template for their war against a mythical enemy — "white supremacy" — which is really a war on white people generally.

The ideology that drives the left and divides our country is "identity politics" — the idea that the world consists of two groups — "people of color" who are guiltless and oppressed, and white people who are guilty and oppressors.

This is the real race war.

Its noxious themes inform the mindless, hysterical hatred of President Trump, and the equally mindless support of racist mobs like Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

It is a war from which no good can come. But it won’t be stopped unless enough people have the courage to stand up and name it for what it is.

An article By Jeffrey Rodack

Donald Trump's re-election campaign accused CNN of censoring an ad detailing the president's accomplishments, the Washington Examiner reports.

The 30-second spot starts off with a commentator saying: "Democrats obstructing." A clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is shown.

The ad then goes on to say: "The media attacking our president." CNN's Anderson Cooper can clearly be seen in a collage of news personalities shown.

But it claims Trump's plan for America is working. And it cites the creation of one million jobs and the stock market at an all-time record high as just two of his accomplishments.

In an email to supporters, Trump's campaign claimed CNN blocked the ad and is "censoring the message to the American people that 'President Trump's plan is working.''

Donald Trump's re-election campaign accused CNN of censoring an ad detailing the president's accomplishments, the Washington Examiner reports.

The 30-second spot starts off with a commentator saying: "Democrats obstructing." A clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is shown.

The ad then goes on to say: "The media attacking out president." CNN's Anderson Cooper can clearly be seen in a collage of news personalities shown.

But it claims Trump's plan for America is working. And it cites the creation of one million jobs and the stock market at an all-time record high as just two of his accomplishments.

In an email to supporters, Trump's campaign claimed CNN blocked the ad and is "censoring the message to the American people that 'President Trump's plan is working.''

 

“One of the many reasons that so many millions of Americans support President Trump is because of their complete mistrust of the mainstream news media, and the president's refusal to allow their biased filter to interfere with his messages," said Michael Glassner, executive director of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. "Today, CNN provided further proof that the network earns this mistrust every day by censoring President Trump's message to the American people by blocking our paid campaign ad. Clearly, the only viewpoint CNN allows on air is CNN's."

 

America Post-Obama

It is common knowledge and totally undisputed that the FBI issued a subpoena for ALL of Hillary Clinton’s emails. It is also common knowledge and totally undisputed that Hillary DID NOT provide ALL of the subpoenaed emails. By Hillary’s own words she testified that she destroyed over 33,000 emails BEFORE providing the remainder to the FBI. There was NO confirmation of her statement that the destroyed emails were all personal emails. The subpoena did not provide her with the option of deciding which emails to give to the FBI. The subpoena was for ALL of her emails. It is crystal-clear that her act of destroying 33,000 emails was obstruction of justice. It is also crystal-clear that her reason for destroying them was to prevent them from being seen. This is obviously a cover-up of information which SHE DID NOT WANT TO FBI TO HAVE! At the very least, Hillary should have been charged with obstruction of justice. Of the remaining emails which she did release to the FBI, there were many which were classified secret or higher. This is a violation of several laws regarding maintaining classified information. At the least, she should have been charged with violating these laws. Although, there was plenty of evidence that Hillary had committed crimes, James Comey did not even convene a grand jury to look at the evidence, and obviously she was never charged with anything. Why not? In my opinion, the answer is simple. She is a democrat. The FBI officials are almost entirely liberal-left in their political views. The FBI will not pursue any substantial investigation of any high-ranking left-leaning politician. You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours. Obama’s purposeful corruption of the Justice Department and the FBI is plainly showing itself in the continual cover-ups of misdeeds and dishonesty of the left-leaning politicians. It is obvious that the FBI has degenerated into an American Gestapo to be used to protect left-leaning lawbreakers and persecute and prosecute right-leaning individuals even if they have done nothing illegal. More is forthcoming on this subject in future posts.

Ditch Mitch

The legislative filibuster in the senate is totally out of sync with the concept of democratic rule. It is intended and used exclusively as a vehicle by a minority of senators to sabotage and impede the efforts of a majority of senators to implement legislation. Stating it differently, the senate filibuster is strictly a destructive instrument which ensures that nothing can be accomplished. This leads to the inescapable conclusion that any senator who defends the filibuster or tries to describe it as having ANY positive value is either willfully lying or woefully ignorant or helplessly stupid. Let me give you the name of a senator who is fighting to defend the filibuster, Senator Mitch McConnell. Unfortunately, Senator McConnell sits in a very powerful political position which he has obtained simply by being a senator nearly forever. I certainly cannot see any other characteristic which he displays to qualify him to be occupying such a powerful position. He is a roadblock preventing any progress for the GOP agenda! I have been calling for the elimination of the filibuster for a long time because I know that nothing will ever be accomplished worthwhile while it continues to exist. It is just plain stupid to demand that the passage of a bill in the senate requires the support of 60 senators out of 100. As long as Senator McConnell maintains his leadership authority in the senate, the filibuster will continue to exist and the GOP agenda will continue to be unattainable. DITCH MITCH NOW!!!