[TownHall] Not content with filing nuisance lawsuits all over the country, most of them aimed at thwarting the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is plunging into local political campaigns.
In Philadelphia, about 40 ACLU ex-con canvassers like Mike Twiggs, 59, who served 41 years for murder, knocked on doors and distributed literature keyed to the Democratic primary election last Tuesday in which voters selected newcomer Larry Krasner as the district attorney candidate. Mr. Twiggs was featured in a May 16 Politico article about the ACLU’s new initiative.
The ACLU sure picked the perfect city for a test run because Philadelphia’s election officials refuse to remove those civic-minded individuals behind bars despite Pennsylvania’s prohibition against incarcerated felons casting ballots.
We know this because a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) in April against the City of Brotherly Love forced open its felon-heavy voter rolls. Before a recent Third Circuit three-judge panel, not only did the city’s attorney reject the idea of removing felons from the rolls, she said they could probably vote right there in prison if someone wheeled in a polling place.
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Circa 1800, there were no prisons or places of extended incarceration. Felons hung. In the 'kinder gentler' modern world, we warehouse them but strip them of the rights of the living. Dead men were not (yet) extended the vote. I doubt the ACLU of all organizations is prepared to argue that convicted felons are now to extended the right to bear arms.
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This is the Left's weapon after the election. No-platform dissidents by attacking their advertisers. It's unfortunately working well and silencing voice after voice.
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...Also keep in mind that the Murdoch boys (James, who now writes the checks and Lachlan, who doesn't really seem to care all that much as long as the goodies keep coming) both consider themselves 'responsible corporate guardians', i.e.; SJWs with a LOT of money.
Sir Rupert was the one who, with Roger Ailes, built Fox into a conservative news powerhouse. But Roger's gone and Sir Rupert is 86 and retired. The boys have no interest at all in keeping Fox even vaguely right-ish, and it's starting to look like that after O'Reilly got his, the word went out that Hannity should probably dust off his resume. He was the last 'name' they had left, and he won't be there long. Within a year or so, look for Fox to become a televised version of the Guardian.
Mike
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Like the telegraph went downhill after the barclay brothers bought it.
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Hannity is a perpetual whiner. He's an awful model for conservatives to follow, "Ooooh, look what those mean, dishonest liberals are up to now! Oooooh, my tummy hurts!" He's Glenn Beck with a better developed level of drool control.
Faux News is gone. Forget about it.
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Faux News is gone. Forget about it.
Most of us are no strangers to the tools used to destroy Fox. More commonly employed in the workplace, there really is no defense. Once they surface and you are targeted, you might as well begin looking elsewhere for employment.
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I really don't care where Whinnity goes. I meant consumers of news should forget about Murdoch family owned products.
Faux News wants some of the MSNBC anti-Trump ratings goodness. Watch them go get it.
Wall Street Journal is Buzzfeed without cat videos and bikini girl pictures. Is there a picture of Tory Burch on the cover today? I have no idea. I cancelled my subscription last year after a 30+ year run.
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One doesn't have to be a fan of O'Reilly or Hannity to be concerned that there could be ZERO channels that even pretend to lean towards the conservative side of the isle. I'm in no hurry for that to come about.
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The story that generated this brouhaha and pushback by the left is the Seth Rich murder coverage. There is no smoking gun. No one has been caught. It could just be a robbery. However, there is plenty of motive on the part of those connected to the DNC. There is circumstantial evidence and there is plenty of weirdness about the entire case. I think there should be a push to investigate it further by the DOJ and either put this to bed or take it as far as it will go. Does anyone know any political figures who have the large number of strange deaths and murders around them as the Clintons?
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John QC
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2017-05-24&ID=488636#3750939
go to the post today about Donna Brazile and listen to the Sanders lawyer at approx. 21 minutes on the tape about election rigging. The death of the process server after serving the DNC adds another corpse in a chain of events that seem to dog the Clintons over the years as people are discouraged from careless talk about them and their behaviors......
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Perfect opportunity for someone to put together a FOX news replacement. Hopefully someone with less love for scrolling news on the bottom of the screen.
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I agree it mostly is, but a replacement for Fox News doesn't have to be a cable network, or just a cable network. I'm assuming a new network would see the decline in the media and try to think outside the box.
If you don't know who Seth Rich is, he's the #1 suspect for leaking DNC emails to Wikileaks. He was shot twice in the back and nothing was stolen.
[WND] Former Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile is the high-ranking DNC representative who allegedly called police and the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and demanded to know why a private investigator was "snooping" into Rich’s death, the private eye revealed to WND Monday.
"The high-ranking DNC official that called the police after I inquired about Rich’s case was Donna Brazile," veteran homicide detective Rod Wheeler told WND. "Why shouldn’t I reveal who it was?"
Wheeler told Hannity: "There were some problems that Seth was having on his job at the DNC right before he was killed. And the person that called the father after I called the police to get information (Brazile), that’s the person that Seth was having problems with at the DNC. So connect the dots, here; it’s starting to all come together." The Democrats are screaming that the investigation needs to come to a stop. This means it must continue. If there was nothing there, they'd be shrugging with indifference.
[Gateway Pundit] On July 8, 2016, 27 year-old Democratic staffer Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington DC. The killer or killers took nothing from their victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.
Shortly after the killing, Redditors and social media users were pursuing a "lead" saying that Rich was en route to the FBI the morning of his murder, apparently intending to speak to special agents about an "ongoing court case" possibly involving the Clinton family.
Seth Rich’s father Joel told reporters, "If it was a robbery -- it failed because he still has his watch, he still has his money -- he still has his credit cards, still had his phone so it was a wasted effort except we lost a life."
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Somebody flew into a temper tantrum and screwed up big: wouldn't even wait to get a pro who'd make it look like a mugging?
I guess, I have some ideas about who that somebody might be.
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Donna Brazile was the woman who gave Hillary the questions and answers in the presidential debates. Why should anyone listen to her. She has zip credibility. Moreover, she is probably a part of a huge cover-up. Why won't the DNC give their servers to the FBI? Comey botched that investigation as he did the Hillary illegal server investigation. Trump was right to fire him. I wonder what the DOJ will find that was taken from his office while he was away giving a speech in California at the time he got canned. Should be an interesting summer.
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The lawyer for the group of Bernie Sanders supporters suing the DNC et al for return of campaign contributions to the DNC in Federal Court hired a DC based process server company to deliver the initial legal documents to the DNC, and had it filmed. The DNC in court claimed the service was improper and when the Saunders lawyer went to get an affidavit from the 25 year old who did the service, her was found DEAD in his DC apartment. Another coincidental death associated with the DNC and the Clintons. It is curious that the DNC server has never been examined by actual FBI tech, only a trusted corporate surrogate, the basis for the entire Russia hacking trope. The smell grows around yet another thing the Clintons and their cronies controlled, surely there must be something more than decades of coincidental death?
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I contend, shocking though it may appear, that the senior members of the Democratic Party have the right -- and indeed the responsibility -- to put forth candidates for presidency and every other spot on the ballot that they believe will be the best for the party. In the old days they did this openly, bargaining among themselves in smokey back rooms without any input from the party rank and file. And indeed the party's current oligarchal set-up, with senior party members being given the status of superdelegates able to overrule the votes of the little people, underlines that the primary vote was never intended to be more than a way to whip up the party faithful for the eventually chosen designated candidate, rather than an opportunity for them to weigh in.
And the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders was a carpetbagger candidate, an avowed Socialist who had openly scorned the Democratic Party for decades, though he did caucus with them in the Senate. Why on earth should those who made the party what it is today, by dint of long hours and large donations, turn it over to that self-righteous ninny and his thoughtless followers to loot and destroy even more thoroughly than Mrs. Bill Clinton had and would have done.
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Why has wikileaks been silent about Seth Rich's involvement, if he was their source he can't be hurt any further and certainly other sources wouldn't clam up because he was revealed months after his murder.
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Twas the night before the FBI Meeting re: Hildabeast. Someone had him under surveillance while he was bar hopping, hoping to see who he would be meeting with the night before the meeting. And when it was clear he was going home and photos of his contacts taken, take him out. I am sure the surveilance involved at least a couple of people.
[FreeBeacon] Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) is worried that rhetoric from the Trump administration could lead to a major terror attack in the United States.
We can tell by the heavy wrinkling of his brow and the tilted head creating the classic concerned expression...
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Murphy said that the U.S. needs "a commitment to try to stop giving ISIS recruiters recruitment fodder."
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Murphy for his response to the terrorist attack in Manchester, England during an Ariana Grande concert.
Unexplained is any reason why we should care about the honourable senator's opinion about anything.
The attack killed 22, including eight-year-old Saffie Roussos. Murphy said that responses to such an attack required a comprehensive approach.
"We have got to complement this military strategy with increased intelligence, increased intelligence sharing with Europe, and a commitment to try to stop giving ISIS recruiters recruitment fodder," Murphy said, emphasizing his belief that enemies of ISIS were providing such fodder.
"And so many of us are worried," Murphy continued, "about some of the rhetoric of the Trump administration, because we worry that that combined with robust online recruitment might end up in an attack like this happening in the United States." Awaiting his "I told you so." moment.
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A couple of attacks *have* happened in the US you idiot! Just because you refuse to call them *ISLAMIC* *TERRORIST* *ATTACKS* doesn't mean they aren't.
Being 'understanding' and 'compassionate' doesn't work - we have 8 years of proof of that. Didn't work out very well did it?
Time for some good old fashioned killing. And yes - it does solve the problem most of the time.
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Given how many illegals have left since President Trump was sworn in, it seems likely wannabe jihadis have quietly been leaving, too, for more congenial environments.
Idiot. There will be another one again, but this time we won't just clutch our collective sphincters and whine how we oppress them. We will actually arrest and/or kill the fucks that want to kill us.
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We still have the Donk lefty appeasement crowd around. A few more terrorist's attacks on the U.S. and a few more election cycles and we should be rid of both terrorists and appeasers.
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If Sen Murphy has his way 'potential ISIS recruits' i.e. pretty much the general Muslim populace will impose their will on the West using the threat of armed force.
Muslims would be winners, not 'evil losers', their winning enabled by Western masochism.
This recipe for ending asymmetrical war is surrender.
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[Gateway Pundit] On July 8, 2016, 27 year-old Democratic staffer Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington DC. The killer or killers took nothing from their victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.
I would never survive as a Pirahã. Cultural incompatibility is a reality. Let's face it, Gawd was into control groups. 
