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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 2:23pm

Justice Thomas Finally Gets The Recognition He Deserves!
Sep/26/17 Free Beacon by Charles Russell.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture added a display featuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shortly before the museum’s one-year anniversary on Sunday.
The display will honor both Thomas and Thurgood Marshall, the only other black justice to serve on the nation’s highest court, the Washington Times reported Monday.
The museum, which opened last year in September, came under fire for barely including Thomas, despite his distinguished life and legal career.
Thomas, who became chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1982 and was later nominated to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush, was not showcased, while Anita Hill, the woman who accused him of sexual harassment, was portrayed as a woman of courage.
Some conservative observers saw the omission of Thomas, a noted conservative jurist who tries to uphold the Constitution’s original meaning, as a form of ideological bias among Smithsonian officials.
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wrote a letter to the museum’s curators last year saying he was “deeply disturbed” by the omission. Cruz called Thomas an “intellectual leader” and described him as a “Black American who survived segregation, defeated discrimination, and ascended all the way to the Supreme Court.”

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 1:53pm

Liberal MELTDOWN Predicted When Trump Addresses This Conference.
5/1/18 Town Hall by: Matt Vespa
The news broke on Sunday. President Donald J. Trump will be addressing the National Rifle Association's Annual Meeting in Dallas this week.
The event, which kicks off on Thursday, will have close to 80,000 people attending the three-day event.
Eight hundred exhibitors will also set up shop, displaying the latest in firearms and firearms technology to those who support freedom and the U.S. Constitution.
The event will also have scores of seminars on firearm laws, concealed carry, how to engage law enforcement, and crime prevention strategies.
For history buffs, there will be a seminar on the firearms used during the Vietnam War.
Vice President Mike Pence has already been slated to speak, there were rumors over the weekend that the president would also address the convention, according to White House officials.
The NRA has now confirmed this:
President Trump will be speaking at NRAAM:
President Donald J. Trump has confirmed that he WILL speak at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on May 4 in Dallas, Texas during NRA's Annual Meetings and Exhibits!
“I am honored to welcome President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to the NRA Convention in Dallas this Friday,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA. “While I’m sure there will be a meltdown on the Left, we will be unapologetic in our celebration of American Freedom!”
The meeting will also be a time for supporters of the Constitution and Second Amendment freedoms to unite, rally, and be reminded of the fight that’s before us.
The tragic school schooling at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida set off the latest offensive on our civil rights.
Instead of focusing on school safety, the anti-gun Left has hijacked yet another tragedy to push their agenda. They’ve also recruited high school students to quarterback their efforts. In times past, other states, normally anti-gun states, passed laws that further constrained gun rights. The silver lining was that it was contained to the blue states, those with already anti-gun laws on the books.
Now, we’re seeing this activism leach into our areas.
Good for you Mr. President and thank you for standing up for the men / women who not only enjoy their guns but are the most responsible people in the Country. MAGA!
Wow! I would absolutely love to be there and feel the American spirit in a place where only conservatives would be comfortable with the Second Amendment, free speech. Thank you, President Trump! You are a real American with the spirit and cajones needed to MAGA!

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 1:32pm

Student Activists Plan Another Gun Walkout – the Reason Will Surprise You!
5/02/18 TheBlaze by: Aaron Colen
Students across the country plan to participate in a walkout protest to show their support for the Second Amendment, working to push back against the narrative that all students are in favor of stricter gun control laws, USA Today reported.
The walkout, “Stand for the Second,” is being organized by New Mexico high school student Will Riley.
“I’m watching the news and I see they’re saying, ‘Well we have to do something about this. We have to enact some sort of gun control legislation because this is what the kids are asking for.’ And I’m thinking, ‘I’m not asking for that,'” Riley told the Carlsbad Current-Argus last month:
“I look at my friends and I think ‘They’re not asking for that.’ I wanted to give a voice to all of the people who feel that they’re being misrepresented by the media.”
“I founded this movement of my own volition because I see the imminent threat for my generation’s future posed by the attack on our Second Amendment rights,” Riley wrote on the organization’s website.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 1:27pm

Parkland Teacher Who Attacked Pro-Gun Survivor Gets Devastating News.
4/28/18 Conservative Tribune by: Joe Saunders
One Florida teacher is getting a lesson in accountability for adults.
Since the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the teenage “survivors” with politically acceptable points of view have gotten a taste of celebrity and liberal adulation many Democrat politicians spend their lives dreaming of.
But an apparently quick-tempered teacher at the school is finding out things can be a little different if you’re actually old enough to vote.
Greg Pittman, an American history teacher at Stoneman Douglas, is under investigation by the Broward County School District for remarks he allegedly made in class comparing pro-Second Amendment student Kyle Kashuv to Adolph Hitler, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Friday.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 1:22pm

Parkland Teacher Viciously Attacks Pro-Gun Survivor.
4/26/18 Twitchy by: Sam J.
We’re starting to understand why Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and Broward County itself were so willing to jump on the bandwagon blaming the NRA for the mass shooting at the school over two months ago.
Especially if they have teachers on staff who speak this way openly about their students.
Parkland Teacher:
"My bosses explicitly told me not to publicly demean a student/survivor over political differences, so I can’t comment — except to say that he’s a dangerous proto-Hitler who must be dealt with."
Seriously, WTF? Guy Benson Apr/26/18
Gotta love public education. Yay.
Kyle Kashuv shared the following statement from another student who allegedly witnessed Gregory Pittman calling Kyle an ass, the next Hitler, and saying something must be done about him.

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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 1:01pm

Top Democrat Steny Hoyer Under Major Pressure To Resign… From Democrats!
Liberal groups demanded the resignation of a top House Democrat on Thursday after he was caught on a secret recording trying to strong-arm a progressive candidate to nix his congressional campaign and clear the way for party leaders’ preferred pick to win, reports The Washington Times.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, told Levi Tillemann, a Democrat running in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, to drop out because “a judgment was made very early on” that opposing candidate Jason Crow, an Army veteran, was the party’s choice to take on a vulnerable Republican.
The recording, which Tillemann released to the Intercept news website, has infuriated pressure groups who say it’s the latest example of party leaders undercutting progressives, just as they did in the 2016 presidential race by backing killary clinton over Sen. bernard sanders of Vermont.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 1:01pm

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“There is a battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, and Steny Hoyer and his corporate cronies already lost,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which quickly sent out a fundraising email over the dustup.
In the edited recording, secretly taped in December, Hoyer signaled the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party organization dedicated to winning House races, had picked sides.
“So your position is a decision was made very early on before voters had a say, that’s fine because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District, and we should line up behind that candidate?” Tillemann asks.
Hoyer responds, “That’s certainly a consequence of our decision.”
Hoyer’s office did not respond to a request for comment but Minority Leader nancy pukelosi defended her lieutenant and said he was just delivering the political “realities of life.”
“Some candidates can do better in the general than others,” the Mexifornia Democrat said. “That’s a clear-eyed conversation that we should be having.”
Tillemann told Democracy Now! that the party’s intervention showed “Washington insiders” were trying to protect their interests.

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“They are pumping money for its candidates who are going to fight for corporations and Wall Street and the establishment,” he said.

Activists said party voters should be allowed their say on candidates.

They hearkened back to the Clinton-Sanders primary, when the Democratic National Committee was actively working to derail Mr. Sanders — but said problems began long before that.

“We saw what happens when Democratic Party leaders put their fingers on the scale in primaries in 2006 through 2016, when we lost nearly 1,000 elected offices up and down the ballot,” said Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America.

In the 2018 election season, progressives say national Democrats have intervened in races in Texas, Kansas, California, New Jersey and Wisconsin.

The winner of the Democratic primary in Colorado in will face off against Republican Rep. Mike Coffman, who analysts say is one of the most vulnerable GOP incumbents.

He has raised $1.7 million and has nearly $1.2 million on hand, according to the most recent campaign finance reports. Mr. Crow, meanwhile, has outraised Tillemann by $923,000 and has almost $800,000 more than him in the bank.

The dustup might help Tillemann. After the DCCC attempted to pick a candidate in a heated Texas congressional primary last month, the liberal groups’ choice, Laura Moser, saw a surge of fundraising and managed to reach a May 22 runoff for the party’s nomination.

A big loser from the secret recording, meanwhile, could be Hoyer, who has long signaled an interest in replacing Mrs. Pelosi when she retires.

Mr. Chamberlain said Hoyer no longer deserves that chance.

“It’s time for him to recognize that only thing that’s truly not viable is his leadership role in a House Democratic caucus that depends on an enthusiastic grass-roots progressive base for its majority,” he said. “Steny Hoyer should resign or be removed from House Democratic leadership immediately.”

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 12:51pm

Trump Hires Heavyweight To Replace White House Lawyer.
5/02/18 NY Times Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented bill clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation, who is retiring, according to two people briefed on the matter.
In a phone interview, Mr. Cobb said he informed the president weeks ago that he wanted to retire. He said he planned to stay at the White House, likely through the end of the month, to help Mr. Flood transition into the new job.
“It has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House,” he said. “I wish everybody well moving forward.”
Mr. Flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach to the investigation than Mr. Cobb, who had pushed Mr. Trump to strike a cooperative tone. Mr. Flood initially spoke with the White House last summer about working for the president, but the talks ultimately fell apart because Mr. Flood did not want to deal with Mr. Trump’s longtime New York lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz, who was overseeing the president’s dealings with the special counsel at the time.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 11:37am

Trump's Ambassador Warns Countries At The UN.
5/01/18 Fox News by: Ben Evansky
When Nikki Haley started as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, she warned she'd be “taking names” of countries that do not have “our back.” Now, a newly released annual State Department report on voting records at the world body will tell her who exactly is in America’s corner – and who is not.
The report found that U.N. member states only voted with the United States 31% of the time last year on resolutions at the U.N. General Assembly – down 10% from the prior year.
Reacting to the new report, Haley said in a statement that it was not an “acceptable return” on the United States’ investment and suggested this could factor into aid decisions.
Haley emphasized that U.S. taxpayers pay for 22% percent of the U.N. budget – more, she said, than the next three highest donor nations combined.
Haley noted that the U.S. cares more about “being right than popular and are once again standing up for our interests and values” but said:
“Either way, this is not an acceptable return on our investment.
When we arrived at the UN last year, we said we would be taking names, and this list of voting records speaks for itself.
President Trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars – the most generous in the world – always serve American interests, and we look forward to helping him see that the American people are no longer taken for granted.”

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 2, 2018 at 11:24am

23-Year-Old Gets Her First Gun. It Pays Off Big Time a Week Later!
4/26/18 WRAL Candace Sweat and Alfred Charles
RALEIGH, N.C. — A robbery suspect was shot and wounded when his intended victim fought back and opened fire on him in downtown Raleigh, authorities said Friday.
Jonathan Tyrone Peace, 28, has been charged with common law robbery in connection with the incident Thursday in the 300 block of South Blount Street around 3 p.m., police said.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was rushed for medical treatment to WakeMed.
Information about his condition was pending.
Police said Morgen Matthews, 23, was walking on South Blount Street when Peace tried to rob her. She fired her weapon to stop him from attacking her, police said.
She remained on the scene until police arrived, authorities said.
A man who said he was Matthews' boyfriend showed WRAL News a cell phone text from the woman as the event was unfolding. In it, she asks the man to come downtown because she had been attacked.

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