Lincoln even said if he could have avoided the war without freeing a single slave , he would (have).

The trick is not learning history but rather learning from it.

Govt is and always has been FORCE and favors a select few. It's a club the people are rarely invited to join.... any people.

Political parties are a form of segregation in and of themselves, and why I refrain from taking a title to any.

I refuse to give any a pass.

You can say anything..... it's what history can prove

Democrats' Hoodwinking of Blacks

Ask any black person which political party has been black people's political ally. With near unanimity, blacks would answer the Democratic Party. Asked which political party has been hostile to blacks, they'd say the Republican Party with similar unanimity. For better answers, check out Prager University's five-minute clip "The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party," by Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.

Since its founding in the late 1820s, the Democratic Party has defended slavery, started the Civil War and opposed Reconstruction. The Democratic Party imposed segregation. Its members engaged in the lynchings of blacks and opposed the civil rights acts of the 1950s and '60s. During Reconstruction, hundreds of black men were elected to Southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the U.S. Congress by 1900. The Democratic Party did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935.

President Woodrow Wilson was a Progressive Democrat and an avowed racist who shared many views with the Ku Klux Klan. He resegregated the federal civil service. He screened the racist film "The Birth of a Nation," originally titled "The Clansman," at the White House; it was the very first movie ever played at the White House.

What was the party of Orval Faubus, the Arkansas governor who blocked the desegregation of Little Rock schools and defied the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision? What was the party of Theophilus Eugene Connor, known as Bull Connor, who, as city commissioner, set vicious dogs, fire hoses and billy clubs on black civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama? Connor said: "You can never whip these birds if you don't keep you and them separate. I found that out in Birmingham. You've got to keep your white and black separate." If you answered that Faubus and Connor were Democrats, go to the head of the class. By the way, it was Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower who sent troops to ensure that black students could attend Little Rock's Central High School.

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Hey Moe. U know me. Been trying my bit to save the world from another coast for a while.

Been busy with veterans and homeless putting my money where my mouth is. May never be elected to anything important at my age but my advocacy is making changes at least for some.... for the better I hope.

It has kept me busy for sure. Health is taking a hit these days but I feel better about it now. Have scratched a few things from my bucket list.

The past 75 years (since WW2) the populace has been manipulated to a way of thinking thru media and education.

Hitler found Goebel's practices of propaganda (as conceived, practiced, and proven by Edward Bernays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays ) very effective.... and the western powers put many of the Hitler minds (yes Nazi's!) on their payrolls rather than turn them over for prosecution for their crimes.

No need to clone a leader, start a war (unless another black budget is needed). Just educate a population thru well placed educators in a school system, add a TV or radio chalked full of influence and programming, throw in a one world organization (The UN), slowly remove states rights, personal rights (by govt lawyer interpretations educated in those fine halls) and national sovereignty and we're all clones to whatever doctrine or belief they wish to sell us..... like stopping laws that protect our borders, banksters and corporations controlling rather than serving the public, etc, etc, etc.

Enter the John Birch Society..... listening to the the Welsh predictions of the 60's and 70's can be educational..... just sayin, not promotin.... compare the warnings to the demoncrapic agenda

This is not conspiracy, it is documented fact (if you read or research at all)

I truly hope that someday the lights come on for you

After 8 years of Oliar's liberal policies of course there is little hope!

He did put America on her knees.... he snubbed just about all our allies while supporting our enemies and making us look weak and stupid on the world stage.... Merkle is about to get the same wake-up call!..... because liberals can't learn! Can't keep their heads out of the person in front of them's a$$ long enough to see any sort of reality

That's a pretty good way to destroy hope alright!

As your party implodes, suffers the greatest losses of political seats all up and down the scale, POTUS Oliar seeks to make Trumps job even harder, further open our borders to unvetted, unknown immigrants from hostile muslim countries, destroy long standing alliances in favor of terrorist supporting and communist countries, incite a new cold war with Russia over hacking allegations after he sent a team to Israel to try to oust Nuttyahoo (mess with their elections) then as usual slap them in the face with an "abstain" at the Friday UN vote like the coward he has shown to be
But Trump is a bad choice?

But that's just your opinion.

Everything is based on an opinion of someone. An editor. a director, a lawmaker, you, me. Everything is opinion, interpretation, and edit by someone and the shite rolls down hill

The Real 'Fake News' is the Mainstream Media

It's been a little more than a month since an election that was the kind of seismic event in our politics that only happens once a century. It sent shock waves through the national political establishment and pretty much any other group of prognosticators that had been banking on an easy Clinton win. No one felt the sting more than the mainstream media. The morning after the election, anchors and columnists were making a collective stammering Act of Contrition about just how 'wrong' they were about the election - and the electorate.

But in the month since, the so-called mainstream media have, as if in coordinated fashion, executed a transparent strategy to bludgeon the President-elect at every turn. Republicans, Conservatives, Independents and the majority of Americans who actually want to give Donald Trump a chance to lead will likely see through this anti-Trump propaganda campaign, but perhaps a review of their strategy is instructive at this point.

Media outlets have again shown they are doubling down on the same strategy that has driven their own approval ratings close to - dare I say - Congressional territory. That's right. Survey after survey finds the same media that has made beating up conservatives, Republicans, and religious institutions an industry has seen their tactics boomerang on them. Even actor Denzel Washington blasted the media last week saying that, "One of the effects of "too much information is the need to be first, not even to be true anymore."

Hope for better isn't a strategy and change isn't coming. Here's the anti-Trump plan of attack in all its banality. Some of these elements will have a shelf life. Some will be part of a prolonged effort. The strategy has several key components that have quickly taken shape over the last few weeks.

First, they are advancing a strategy of attempting to tie the President-elect and his team to the so-called 'alt-right' and neo-Nazi, white supremacist lunatics. Despite Trump and his Transition Team issuing multiple statements denouncing the activities of a number of groups, the media still provided hours of coverage to small pockets of hate groups that used the election as a recruiting tool.

A sub-component to this was advancing a message that the country was in turmoil in the days after the election because of widespread protests against the newly-elected President. Even Fox News put a graphic on the screen that proclaimed there was "Anarchy in America." Again, more sensationalized information that only bares a faint resemblance to the truth.

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Opinion: What will resisting Donald Trump cost California?

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, The Times’ letters editor, and it is Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016. If you read only one tweet about President-elect Donald Trump’s transition, let it be this one: “If there were a Secretary of Mouse Welfare, Trump would appoint a cat.”

Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.

So-called sanctuary cities, those that refuse to use municipal resources to help the federal government deport immigrants, are scrambling to prepare for the start in six weeks of life under a president who promised to deport millions of people in the country illegally. Their worry: that the Trump administration might deny funding to cities that frustrate attempts by federal agents to enforce immigration law.

Some scholars and activists protest that such a punishment would be mean-spirited and possibly even unconstitutional. Not so, say constitutional lawyers David Rivkin and Elizabeth Price Foley in a Times op-ed article — courts would almost certainly allow Trump to financially punish cities in this way. They write:

Feldman and others point to New York v. United States (1992) and Printz v. United States (1997), in which the Supreme Court concluded that the federal government cannot conscript state or local officials to carry out federal law. The federal government must enforce its own laws, using federal personnel. So when state or local police arrest immigrants who are present in the country illegally, they are under no obligation to deport them, as deportation is the responsibility of the federal government alone.

This “anti-commandeering” doctrine, however, doesn’t protect sanctuary cities or public universities — because it doesn’t apply when Congress merely requests information. For example, in Reno v. Condon (2000), the court unanimously rejected an anti-commandeering challenge to the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, which required states under certain circumstances to disclose some personal details about license holders. The court concluded that, because the DPPA requested information and “did not require state officials to assist in the enforcement of federal statutes,” it was consistent with the New York and Printz cases.

It follows that, consistent with the anti-commandeering doctrine, Congress can require state, local or university police to tell federal agents when they arrest an immigrant present in the country illegally. …

Whatever one’s view of the best immigration policy, it should be uniform. Some, including the Washington Post’s editorial board, have suggested that Congress should give sanctuary cities flexibility to report only those who’ve committed the most serious violent offenses. But precisely which criminals should be subject to deportation requires resolution by Congress, not each city or university.

Sanctuary policies create Balkanization on an issue with important foreign policy implications and corresponding potential for diplomatic embarrassment. As the Supreme Court affirmed in Arizona v. United States (2012), “the removal process is entrusted to the discretion of the Federal Government” because it “touch[es] on foreign relations and must be made with one voice.”

The Constitution is clear that power to determine deportation policies belongs to Congress, not states, municipalities or universities.

Can Trump cut off funds for sanctuary cities? The Constitution says yes.

Several cities and public universities have vowed to resist President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented criminals by doubling down on sanctuary policies. In response, Trump has pledged to curtail federal funding for sanctuary providers. Activists, predictably, are crying foul, and some legal scholars, such as Harvard’s Noah Feldman, have even claimed that such a response would be unconstitutional.

But whatever one thinks about Trump’s strategy, it almost certainly would pass muster at the Supreme Court.

Feldman and others point to New York v. United States (1992) and Printz v. United States (1997), in which the Supreme Court concluded that the federal government cannot conscript state or local officials to carry out federal law. The federal government must enforce its own laws, using federal personnel. So when state or local police arrest immigrants who are present in the country illegally, they are under no obligation to deport them, as deportation is the responsibility of the federal government alone.

This “anti-commandeering” doctrine, however, doesn’t protect sanctuary cities or public universities — because it doesn’t apply when Congress merely requests information. For example, in Reno v. Condon (2000), the Court unanimously rejected an anti-commandeering challenge to the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, which required states under certain circumstances to disclose some personal details about license holders. The court concluded that, because the DPPA requested information and “did not require state officials to assist in the enforcement of federal statutes,” it was consistent with the New York and Printz cases.

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rivkin-foley-sanctuary-city-20161207-story.html

Thanks To 'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide

Ed Rensi Mr. Rensi is the former president and CEO of McDonald’s USA. As the labor union-backed Fight for $15 begins yet another nationwide strike on November 29, I have a simple message for the protest organizers and the reporters covering them: I told you so. It brings me no joy to write these words. The push for a $15 starter wage has negatively impacted the career prospects of employees who were just getting started in the workforce while extinguishing the businesses that employed them. I wish it were not so. But it’s important to document these consequences, lest policymakers elsewhere decide that the $15 movement is worth embracing. Watch on Forbes: $15 Minimum Wage, What We Can Expect ...

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Los Angeles workers protest for higher wages, union rights in 'Fight for 15' movement

Hundreds of workers across Los Angeles, including at least 40 who were arrested, joined a national effort for higher wages in what is being considered a "day of disruption" for businesses Tuesday morning in downtown L.A. and near Los Angeles International Airport.

http://www.yahoo.com/news/los-angeles-workers-protest-higher-150430722.html

I don't think it's the cows that are full of methane in California.....

California targets dairy cows to combat global warming

GALT, Calif. (AP) — California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation’s leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.

Despite strong opposition from farmers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat-trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills.

Cattle and other farm animals are major sources of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas. Methane is released when they belch, pass gas and make manure.

“If we can reduce emissions of methane, we can really help to slow global warming,” said Ryan McCarthy, a science advisor for the California Air Resources Board, which is drawing up rules to implement the new law.

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Trump Is About To Ban Muslim Brotherhood

Then-Republican nominee hopeful, Donald Trump, built his campaign for the presidency based on many issues ignored by the powers that be in the United States government, including banning the Muslim Brotherhood from entering the borders of our country.

And now President-elect Donald Trump is keeping true to his promise, as he is reportedly preparing to immediately push a bill through Congress that would ban the Muslim Brotherhood by declaring it a terrorist organization.

Trump’s foreign-policy adviser, Walid Phares, told an Egyptian news outlet that the legislation, which was introduced originally by Senator Ted Cruz, was held up due to President Obama’s support of the Brotherhood.

Trump will be reintroducing and backing the bill when he takes office in January of 2017.

Cruz’s bill was called the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015-16, which identified the Brotherhood’s several terrorist offshoots, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America.

Russia also banned the Brotherhood as a subversive terrorist organization as well as several other countries, including Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna.

In the 1970s, it transitioned from a primarily nationalist group seeking to Islamize Egypt, to an international network seeking to spread the concepts of Shariah throughout the world.

It now has franchised affiliates in more than 70 countries.

The Brotherhood employs different strategies for different countries.

In Western democracies such as the U.S. and Canada, it seeks to destroy those countries “from within” through a process it calls “civilization jihad.”

And when the FBI raided a Muslim Brotherhood safe house, they discovered documents that clearly stated their strategic plans against America under Shariah Law.

The documents read:

“An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America.

Work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.

Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet.

It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack.”

And the Muslim Brotherhood’s motto is:

“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. [Allah is greater!]”

The Brotherhood and its offshoots – CAIR and ISNA – are not only able to operate legally in the United States, but they have been offered seats at the table – across from the highest positions in our government.

Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota – who has been an enthusiastic supporter of CAIR and ISNA – may become the Democratic Party’s leadership as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Ellison is one of two known Muslims currently in Congress; the other being Democrat Andre Carson from Indiana.

It sounds like Donald Trump is dedicated to cleaning up this toxic mess and stopping the Muslim Brotherhood from bleeding into our borders.

And with Republicans now in control of Congress, it should be just a matter of time.

http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/latest/trump-is-about-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood/

‘Hamilton’ Cast Lectures VP-Elect While Barring Immigrant Actors from Broadway Roles

Oh how the left rejoiced at the cast of Hamilton’s very public upbraiding of Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

“The show’s politics — particularly its celebration of diversity and of the critical role immigrants played in the American Revolution and the early republic — stand in sharp contrast to some of the harsh language about immigrants that Mr. Trump used during the campaign,” The New York Times wrote in the wake of Friday night’s Pence-Hamilton kerfuffle.

It’s a good story: The build-a-wall candidate’s vice president attends the Broadway show extolling immigrants and winds up getting a lecture from the cast. But a good story could have been a true thought-provoker had the Times asked a simple question of Brandon Victor Dixon, the Hamilton actor who addressed Pence during the curtain call: Does the American-born Dixon agree with the anti-immigrant stance of Actors’ Equity Association, the Broadway actors union that represents him and every other member of the Hamilton cast?

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WikiLeaks Released This Shocking Statement About The U.S. Election

WikiLeaks emerged as a major player in the U.S. election.

The pro-transparency online activist group released tens of thousands of emails that exposed our rigged political system.

And on Election Day, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, released a surprising statement about their role in the election.

For months, Democrats and other establishment Republicans have blasted WikiLeaks as a Russian front group out to elect Donald Trump.

Anti-Trump forces in America launched these attacks because the emails WikiLeaks released were obtained from the Democrat National Committee and Clinton Campaign Chairman, John Podesta.

The emails showed how national party staff colluded with the Clinton campaign to rig the primary against Bernie Sanders.

And emails from Podesta’s account demonstrated how so-called “journalists” were really Democrat party operatives, who worked with the Clintons to slant their coverage against Republicans.

Assange answered the charges of being pro-Trump in his statement.

He also reflected on the impact WikiLeaks had on the U.S. election.

Zero Hedge reports he wrote the following:

“We publish as fast as our resources will allow and as fast as the public can absorb it.

That is our commitment to ourselves, to our sources, and to the public.

This is not due to a personal desire to influence the outcome of the election. The Democratic and Republican candidates have both expressed hostility towards whistleblowers. I spoke at the launch of the campaign for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, because her platform addresses the need to protect them. This is an issue that is close to my heart because of the Obama administration’s inhuman and degrading treatment of one of our alleged sources, Chelsea Manning. But WikiLeaks publications are not an attempt to get Jill Stein elected or to take revenge over Ms Manning’s treatment either.

Publishing is what we do. To withhold the publication of such information until after the election would have been to favour one of the candidates above the public’s right to know.

This is after all what happened when the New York Times withheld evidence of illegal mass surveillance of the US population for a year until after the 2004 election, denying the public a critical understanding of the incumbent president George W Bush, which probably secured his reelection. The current editor of the New York Times has distanced himself from that decision and rightly so.

The US public defends free speech more passionately, but the First Amendment only truly lives through its repeated exercise. The First Amendment explicitly prevents the executive from attempting to restrict anyone’s ability to speak and publish freely. The First Amendment does not privilege old media, with its corporate advertisers and dependencies on incumbent power factions, over WikiLeaks’ model of scientific journalism or an individual’s decision to inform their friends on social media. The First Amendment unapologetically nurtures the democratization of knowledge. With the Internet, it has reached its full potential.”

Liberals were outraged that WikiLeaks exposed their corrupt dealings.

While she was a CNN contributor, current Democrat National Committee Chairwoman, Donna Brazil, leaked debate questions to the Clinton campaign.

The emails also exposed how the elites in Washington band together to continue their way of life by planning out administration jobs and mapping out how they will work to keep outsiders at bay.

No matter what happens in the election, WikiLeaks is here to stay.

They will continue to be a thorn in the side of the establishment because of their corrupt dealings kept secret from the American people.

http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/latest/wikileaks-released-this-shocking-statement-about-the-u-s-election/

The Dems are running a Chelsea market study to see if Hitlery has ruined the brand. She may, and probably will, go in to politics, she knows nothing else. Her hubby is Soros's nephew but he will probably ditch her if the market study shows the brand is tainted or dead. Soros won't back a losing pony and that probably runs in the family.

Shocker: In Wake of Hillary's Defeat, Donations to Clinton Foundation Dry Up

Who could have seen this coming?

Donations to the Clinton Foundation plummeted amid Hillary Clinton's failed presidential run, it has been revealed. The non-profit organization's latest tax filings show contributions fell 37 per cent to $108million - down from $172million in 2014, according to the New York Post.

Donations fell as the former Secretary of State left the group in April last year shortly after announcing her run for the White House. Her departure also meant that revenue brought in from paid speeches plunged from $3.6 million in 2014 to just $357,500.

The foundation became an issue during the presidential campaign when Donald Trump pledged to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate it amid pay-to-play allegations. Trump called the foundation 'the most corrupt enterprise in political history' adding, 'It must be shut down immediately.'

The Clintons really did gamble everything on hoisting the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua into the White House, because the only alternative was the Big House.

It's not known whether Trump will keep his promise as he has since backed down in a recent interview on his vow to investigate Clinton again for her use of a private email server, calling the Clintons 'good people.' But Rep. Jason Chaffetz, head of the House Oversight Committee, has suggested that the investigation into the foundation will continue.

http://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/11/20/shocker-in-wake-of-hillarys-defeat-donations-to-clinton-foundation-dry-up/?singlepage=true

Dr Carson was/is a wise man. I respect his decision to stay outside the admin and not burden himself to ridicule or attack by the leftist media and continue his work on issues from the outside in a non political advisory position.

Trump has his work cut out for him repairing the damage liberal policies have imposed on the working and small business class.... and lord knows it has been eminence..... as well as protecting and defending the country as our CIC elect.

I for one wish him the best and refuse to pass judgement until he has had a chance to do so after taking office.

He may not have been my favored choice as our candidate but he is what we were offered and by a winning landslide of the electoral vote, chose for that position, and in my view, he was a far better choice than any other options we were offered!