Willie Robertson, star of A&E’s hit show “Duck Dynasty,” announced his support for GOP front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, one week after his father, Phil Robertson, endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for president.
The younger Robertson appeared alongside Trump Thursday at the Outdoor Sportsman Awards in Las Vegas, where he introduced the Manhattan real estate mogul. Robertson also made a crack about his dad’s support for Cruz.
“The man I have the honor of introducing is not afraid to tell it like it is, he’s not very politically correct, he’s very bold, he loves his country and he firmly stands behind the Second Amendment,” Roberston said. “I’m not talking about my father, OK? Phil’s not here, he had to cruise on back to Louisiana, so he’s unfortunately missing this event.”
Trump returned the kind words.
“Willie is an amazing guy, he’s a friend of ours and just incredible, and it was very hard for him to get here. This was not easy for Willie. And you know, he’s got a hot show, to put it mildly,” Trump said. Later, he vowed to protect outdoorsmen and “what they love.” (Read more from “Another Duck Dynasty Star Just Announced Their Presidential Endorsement – It’s Not Who You’d Expect…” HERE)
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By Mark Judge. Actress Stacey Dash is responding to Black Entertainment Television, which criticized Dash for comments she recently made about the Academy Awards.
After several media outlets and celebrities criticized the 2016 Oscars nominees for being overwhelmingly white, Dash went on Fox & Friends. “I think it’s ludicrous,” Dash, 49, said. “We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. If we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET (Black Entertainment Television) and the BET Awards and the [NAACP] Image Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black.”
After Dash made her comments, Black Entertainment Television posted a photo on Instagram of the actress appearing in the BET show “The Game” . . .
On January 21, Dash took to her blog at Patheos to respond. (Read more from “Actress Stacey Dash Goes off on BET Over Their Criticism of Her Answer to Oscar’s Boycott” HERE)
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How BET Lies to Black People
By Stacey Dash. Ever since I said THIS on Fox yesterday, Black Entertainment Television has been throwing shade.
They reminded me — and the rest of America — that I appeared on a show called The Game, which appeared on BET.
I’m thankful for all of the acting jobs I’ve had. But I look forward to the day when people don’t self-segregate based on skin color, while loudly complaining about a segregated society.
That might be hard for the people at BET to understand, especially after I read this quote from a BET exec about the Oscars:
“It would be great if the Oscar nominees represented even closely the percentage of moviegoers who are of different ethnicities, but they don’t,” said Stephen Hill . . .
Oscars are awarded to the actors and actresses who excel… not the audience. (Read more from “How BET Lies to Black People” HERE)
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says, “I think the odds are pretty high” countries like Iran, China, and Russia hacked Hillary Clinton’s email server.
In an interview with Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, the former CIA director said “the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day.”
Hewitt asked Gates, “[A]re you surprised by the news that continues to come out about the former Secretary of State’s server and the fact that the intelligence community’s inspector general has said there was a lot of very highly classified information on her server?”
“Yeah, that’s a concern for me,” Gates said. “I never used email when I was head of CIA or head of the Department of Defense. As I used to joke, I didn’t want to have some chief of station overseas email me and say he was going to do something if I didn’t get back to him in three hours, and I would get back from a five hour hearing to discover I was two hours too late. I preferred dealing with people face to face and putting a signature on a piece of paper on matters of real national security and importance.” (Read more from “Former Secretary of Defense Just Announced Another Terrifying Thing About Hillary’s Email Scandal… It’s Even Worse Than We Thought” HERE)
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We are either a representative republic or we are ruled by a judicial oligarchy. It’s time to choose once and for all.
Once again, we mark another grim anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which paved the road for over 58 million abortions since 1973. This year, in particular, marks a poignant milestone in the fight for the unborn, as the agenda of the abortionist movement has been exposed as one that, far from limiting the practice to being “safe and rare,” champions butchery in the mold of the ancient Moloch. The entire panoply of perverted liberal intellectualism on other issues stems from the moral decadence rooted in the death cult of abortion.
However, aside from the 58 million souls that were deemed unfit for protection in the few dozen pages of that court opinion, our constitutional republic and entire system of governance became threatened as well. From that point onward, the courts have been legitimized as the final arbiter of the most important political and societal questions of a given generation, the very decisions that were supposed to be left to the people’s representatives. It was from that decision that the courts not only became the supreme authority of the land, but completely countermanded the Constitution as was originally written and intended: to be used as a guide for acting as the supreme authority. As William Brennan used to tell his law clerks, “With five votes you can do anything around here.”
From Roe onward, the courts have been able to concoct “fundamental rights” that are not only omitted from the Constitution, they are antithetical to our founding values. At the same time, they infringe upon our unalienable rights or green light the other branches of government to do so. Thus, our Constitution was ruled unconstitutional.
It was through the Roe decision (among other Warren-era decisions) that the 14th Amendment, which was intended to do nothing more than guarantee freed black citizens the life, liberty, and property rights of every other citizen, was perverted into a mandate for “rights” that would have shocked the consciousness of the Reconstruction-era Congress.
At the time of the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, 36 states and territories had laws on the books banning abortions. Yet, we are told that the Constitution, and even the 14th Amendment as originally conceived, is unconstitutional and preempted by the evolving interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which is rooted in nothing but the political imagination of the judges. And unlike politicians who must stand for reelection, these judges now get to engage in political issues, serve as the final authority, and never stand before the people for reelection.
That we tolerated this coup d’etat for even one year is astounding, yet we’ve sat passively for over 40 years watching the courts build precedent upon precedent of anti-constitutional legal fog to destroy our Constitution even further. It represents a colossal failure of the professional “conservative movement.” It has led to the pro-live issue being used as ceremonial window dressing to elect more Republicans whose modus operandi has saddled us with the judicial tyranny we have today.
For quite some time, a number of legal theorists on the right figured that we’d benefit from a strong judiciary at least when we needed them to strike down liberal laws passed by Congress or state legislatures when they are legitimately unconstitutional. Yet, as witnessed by Obamacare, state gun laws, and many of Obama’s immigration acts, these strong judges are nowhere to be found.
The core job of the judiciary is to interpret the statutes passed by Congress, yet they refused to hear a case against Obama’s DACA, which flagrantly violates immigration statues. Just yesterday they refused to hear a case against Obama’s lawless EPA carbon emissions rule, which violates executive authority under the Clean Air Act. And while judicial review of laws passed by legislatures is controversial, if we are going to abide by an all-powerful judiciary that invalidates state marriage laws dealing with the building blocks of civilization, how could they not toss out state gun laws violating the plain language of the Constitution?
The answer, of course, is that the Constitution the courts use is the Democratic Party playbook or the pagan gospel of the legal profession that has roped in a number of Republican judges as well. As such, property rights, gun rights, and religious liberty are stripped out of the Constitution and abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, and immigration are inserted in.
There is no greater threat to our democratic republic than the court system as it is currently and illegally constituted. Part of my upcoming book will be dedicated to the imperative of stripping the courts down to size and how that can be accomplished. There are endless reasons why this is among the most important priorities of our time. But for now, on this 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, let’s remember there are also 58 million other reasons to reclaim our system of governance from the courts. (For more from the author of “58 Million Reasons to Reclaim America From the Courts” please click HERE)
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There’s great news for adventurous male Olympic hopefuls: if they declare themselves women and reduce their testosterone below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to competition, they can compete against ladies.
There’s even better news for these men; according to transgender guidelines approved by the International Olympic Committee, genitalia does not serve as a prerequisite. The guidelines state: “To require surgical anatomical changes as a pre-condition to participation is not necessary to preserve fair competition and may be inconsistent with developing legislation and notions of human rights.”
Cyd Zeigler at OutSports.com reported on the policy change.
The IOC held a “Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism” in November at which they created the new guidelines, loosening prior rules adopted in 2004 to allow transgender athletes into the Games. The previous rules required that transgender athletes must have undergone external genitalia changes and removal of gonads, as well as obtaining legal recognition of their assigned sex from appropriate official authorities.
The new guidelines attempt to justify themselves by citing various societies’ acceptance of fluid gender identity, writing, “Since the 2003 Stockholm Consensus on Sex Reassignment in Sports, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of autonomy of gender identity in society, as reflected in the laws of many jurisdictions worldwide.” (Read more from “Olympics Are Now Allowing Transgender Women to Compete” HERE)
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By BBC. The murder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 in the UK was “probably” approved by President Vladimir Putin, an inquiry has found.
Mr Putin is likely to have signed off the poisoning of Mr Litvinenko with polonium-210 in part due to personal “antagonism” between the pair, it said.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the murder was a “blatant and unacceptable” breach of international law.
But the Russian Foreign Ministry said the public inquiry was “politicised”.
It said: “We regret that the purely criminal case was politicised and overshadowed the general atmosphere of bilateral relations.” (Read more from “Former Spy Killed After Claiming Putin Is a Pedophile, Russian President Likely ‘Approved It'” HERE)
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How Ex-KGB Spy Was Killed With Tea After Accusing Putin of Pedophilia
By Laura Italiano. The radioactive poison that killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was delivered under the most civilized of circumstances — at tea time, as he sipped green tea with lemon and honey with two former spy colleagues at a posh London hotel.
It was Nov. 1, 2006, and Litvinenko was joined by former KGB agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun in the pine-paneled barroom of the Millennium in the city’s Mayfair district. . .
Just four months before his death, Litvinenko would publish an embarrassing account on a Russian news site that detailed evidence purporting to prove that Putin was a pedophile.
He had repeatedly been warned about threats on his life, and as recently as the very day of his poisoning had been told by an Italian colleague that he was on a “hit list” kept by Russian security services agents. (Read more from “How Ex-KGB Spy Was Killed With Tea After Accusing Putin of Pedophilia” HERE)
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Like clockwork, political campaigns degrade to low-rung rhetoric for some candidates. They also bring old acquaintances out of the woodwork who didn’t like you then and don’t like you now.
Such is the reported case for Conservative Presidential candidate Ted Cruz and a film writer in Hollywood. Conflicts in principles and ideas appear immediately apparent in any sentence that mentions Conservative and Hollywood. The Senator and the writer, Craig Mazin, have a very brief history. They were reportedly on the same dorm at Princeton during Freshman year. Mazin has been dogging Ted Cruz with attacks that surfaced nationally during the Conservative’s 2012 run for the Senate.
A skilled trash-talker, who weaponizes Twitter, screenwriter Mazin resorts to schoolyard taunts and name-calling worthy of a bully who enjoys attacking someone who rises above the ugly fray and chooses to walk away. Say, a Christian, perhaps. In a less profanity tinged missive about Cruz, Mazin recently tweeted: “Getting emails blaming me for not smothering Ted Cruz in his sleep in 1988. What kind of monster do you think I am? A really prescient one?”
What is really going on here? What would possess an adult film writer to resort to the pettiness and mean-spirited jargon of a pubescent adolescent? What could a Hollywood screenwriter have against a Senator who runs for office in the defense of faith, freedom and patriotism? The question likely answers itself.
Assuming that Mazin is for freedom and patriotism, possibly it is the issue of faith that so sticks in his craw. It is well reported that the young Ted Cruz was principled in prayer in his college days. Senator Ted Cruz hides his Christianity from no one. It is safe to say that his faith is an irritant at best for a writer of scripts that the Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) assigns an R-Rating for “graphic nudity, violent images and drug use.” It can be said for Mr. Mazin that he stands by his “graphic nudity, violent images and drug use” in his films and his juvenile, low-grade tweets.
There are others with differing opinions. Famed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz (a renowned Liberal) calls Ted Cruz “off-the-chart brilliant”. Now, that’s got to hurt a guy like Mazin whose tweeted claim to fame is: “In 1988, I puked all over Ted Cruz’s textbooks.”
A closer look at Senator Ted Cruz and his support of the faith may only give Mazin fuel for his Twitter fire. Possibly, however, there may be a lesson in it for who Ted Cruz is today as opposed to how Mr. Mazin chooses to conjure him up during the college years. Assuming that it is the Christian faith that has Mazin all rankled, he may find the following highly disturbing. That Cruz put his years of law school to work and prevented a “takeover” of churches by the Obama administration could create a full-on, tweet blast from Mr. Mazin.
While Mr. Mazin was writing Hollywood films which can have great cultural impact, both good and bad, Ted Cruz was already protecting faith and freedom of religion before ever announcing a run for the Presidency.
In 2013, Senator Ted Cruz (TX-R) exposed unprecedented power grabs by the Obama administration in multiple cases before the Supreme Court. Cruz stood firm against Obama’s Justice Department in these cases and successfully helped block an attack on the faith and its pastors:
“If the Department of Justice had won these cases, the federal government would be able to… “dictate who churches choose as ministers…” — Ted Cruz (The Legal Limit: The Obama Administration’s Attempts To Expand Federal Power)
On the Obama Justice Department’s hit list was freedom of religion with Christianity as the primary target. Long a bane to the Progressive Left (that rejected God from it 2012 Presidential convention) is that the Ten Commandments – that are foundational to the Judeo-Christian faith – served as the biblical inspiration for both the U.S. Constitution and Capitalism. True Christians stand with Israel much to the disdain of Democrat Presidents from FDR, to Jimmy Carter, to Barack Obama. True Christianity is a blockade to bigotry and tyrannical aspirations.
In an outrageous attempt to increase its power, the Obama administration attempted to usurp the right of a church to choose its own pastors. In the case, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC, the Justice Department reportedly argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that it “had the right to oversee a church’s choosing of ministers.” The Supreme Court foiled Obama’s egregious attempt to curtail a fundamental right of churches. In a 9-0 opinion, the justices sided in favor of the Lutheran Church.
The day Barack Obama swore on the Bible to uphold the U.S. Constitution – which includes the freedoms of speech and religion – the assault began. Obama’s gibes at Judeo-Christian belief and scripture are well documented. Gaining control of who preaches in Christian churches would have given the Obama administration control of the message. Obama acolytes in the pulpit would be in position to convolute the scripture to serve their political ideologies.
Socialist-Progressives in the Democrat Party are going to great lengths to escape the authority of God, preferring to live by their own countenance and self-devised morality while attempting to subjugate or eliminate God out of society. In a head-fake to voters, many assume the role as pretenders of faith. Those who outsmart themselves in matters eternal, including those in Washington and Hollywood, go so far as to cherry-pick the Bible and mismatch or purposely convolute scriptural intent to serve their political agenda.
That Ted Cruz professes the Christian faith may cause any number of Hollywood screenwriters angst. If so, that explains it. Though just being conservative, or simply independent in thought, has always been enough to tee-off any Hollywood liberal worthy of their far-Left credentials. Third-grade name calling or vitriolic rhetoric, whether from the Left or from the Right, that does not promote serious discussions — does the country no service. The message to Mr. Mazin is that the pillars of faith on which Ted Cruz professes to firmly stand cannot be knocked down. Whether a bitter sounding, former acquaintance can cheapen the national dialogue, that is a whole other matter entirely. (For more from the author of “Ted Cruz, Hollywood and Faith” please click HERE)
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Sharon Sebastian, author of the book, “AGING: WARNING– Navigating Life’s Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields,” is a columnist, commentator, and contributor in print and on nationwide broadcasts on topics ranging from healthcare, culture, religion, and politics to domestic and global policy. Sebastian’s political and cultural analyses are published nationally and internationally.
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For more than a decade the U.S. government has known that “Arab extremists” are entering the country through Mexico with the assistance of smuggling network “cells,” according to State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch that reveal among them was a top Al Qaeda operative wanted by the FBI. Some Mexican smuggling networks actually specialize in providing logistical support for Arab individuals attempting to enter the United States, the government documents say. The top Al Qaeda leader in Mexico was identified in the September 2004 cable from the American consulate in Ciudad Juárez as Adnan G. El Shurkrjumah. The cable was released to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act.
The new intelligence records were released as a result of an ongoing JW investigation into the critical national security threats on the southern border, specifically those created by Islamic terrorists teaming up with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate and attack the U.S. In response to JW’s reporting in the last two years the Obama administration—through various spokespeople, including FBI Director James Comey—has vehemently denied that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican towns near American cities or entering the U.S. through the famously porous southern border.
The State Department documents, which include substantial redactions supposedly to protect classified and personal information, contradict this. JW obtained them as part of an investigative series into Shukrijumah, an Al Qaeda operative also known as Javier Robles. In December, 2014 Shukrijumah was killed by the Pakistan Army in an intelligence-borne operation in South Waziristan. But before he died Shukrijumah helped plan several U.S. attacks, including plots to bomb Oprah Winfrey’s studio and detonate nuclear devices in multiple American cities. For years Shukrijumah appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list and, despite being sought by the agency, he crossed back and forth into the U.S. from Mexico to meet fellow militant Islamists in Texas. JW has reported that, as one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, Shukrijumah piloted an aircraft into the Cielo Dorado airfield in Anthony, New Mexico. (Read more from “Judicial Watch Uncovers New State Department Records Confirming Arab Smuggling ‘Cells,’ Al Qaeda Leader in Mexico” HERE)
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The illegal immigrant who was arrested this week in Arizona for a sex crime against a three-year old girl, was being shielded from repatriation by President Barack Obama’s 2012 ‘Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals’ program, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The little girl was found Monday, while duct-taped, inside a trash bag, and covered in feces in a closet in an apartment occupied by Francisco Rios-Covarrubias. He was charged with kidnapping, sexual conduct with a minor, felony child abuse, and sex trafficking. The child’s mother was also arrested.
Rios-Covarrubias was caught after he allegedly offered the girl for sex to another man, who subsequently notified the police . . .
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Jeff Flake say their committee has information that Rios-Covarrubias was protected from repatriation by Obama’s 2012 decision to largely halt deportations of younger illegals, and to give them work-permits.
“According to information received by the Committee, 30-yr-old Rios-Covarrubias was a recipient of deferred action under the President’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program,” Grassley and Flake wrote in a letter Friday to DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson. (Read more from “Something Disgusting Was Just Revealed on How a Illegal Arrested for Child-Sex Abuse Was Protected From Deportation” HERE)
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Dr. Ben Carson resumed his campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination Thursday, ending the temporary suspension of all campaign activities following a tragic crash involving his volunteers.
The accident took place in Iowa on January 19th, according to a statement issued by the Carson campaign.
I'm suspending all campaign activities today due to a car accident involving members of our team. Full statement: https://t.co/Uf9HZrn2P6
“A van transporting three campaign volunteers and a Carson campaign employee hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side where it was struck by another vehicle,” the statement describes.
The campaign members injured in the crash, according to another campaign statement, were Braden Joplin, Drew McCall, Aaron Ohnemus and Ryan Patrick Shellooe.
Joplin, who was a campaign volunteer, succumbed to his injuries and passed away.
