What the New York Times Got Devastatingly Wrong About the Orlando Massacre

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In an editorial, The New York Times viewed the massacre in Orlando as an example of hate against the LGBT community. The liberal newspaper blamed Republican efforts such as the North Carolina law that requires individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds to their sex at birth and “more than 200 anti-L.G.B.T. bills have been introduced in 34 states,” as factors that contributed to an atmosphere of bigotry conducive for violent reactions to gays and transgender people.

Nowhere in its 630 words did the article mention the fact that Omar Mateen was a Muslim and pledged his allegiance to ISIS – the terrorist group that executes homosexuals.

Instead, the editorial stated, “the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear…”

Sadly, it’s not just the New York Times that is jumping on the chance to blame anyone and anything BUT the real enemy. Democratic politicians, the media and progressive organizations avoided blaming the ISIS-inspired mass shooting on radical Islam. Instead, they point fingers at guns and supposed bias against the LGBT community by Republicans and Christian conservatives.

Speaking from the Oval Office about the shooting, President Obama emphasized the attack was not “part of a larger plot,” and added that the motivation behind the shooting was unknown.

And as usual, Obama then pivoted to guns saying, “We are also going to have to think about the risks we are willing to take by being so lax in how we make very powerful firearms available to the people in this country.”

Reacting to the shooting, and acting as Obama’s puppets, Senate Democrats pushed for gun control measures following the attack. Democrats launched a filibuster to force votes on preventing gun sales to individuals on a terrorist watch list and measures to tighten background checks.

In a tweet, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) proudly announced his filibuster accomplishment.

Democrat’s intense focus on guns and refusal to address ISIS drew criticism from Carl Higbie, former Navy SEAL and author of Enemies Foreign and Domestic: A SEAL’s Story. According to Higbie, Democrats are exploiting the terrorist attack to advance their progressive political agenda on guns and to protect Obama and Hillary Clinton from their foreign policy failure to defeat ISIS.

“Many on the left are jumping on this tragedy as a chance to push the same agenda they have been pushing for years. They also do not want to admit that their failed foreign policy could have in any way contributed to this,” said Higbie in an interview with Conservative Review. He added, “This is a scapegoat to not link Hillary Clinton to the influence of ISIS.”

Higbie believes the focus needs to be on the radical ideology and not the objects used in attacks noting, “No one blamed Boeing for the planes hitting the towers. We must not blame the objects, we must blame the ideology that possesses people to use them for evil.”

Amanda Marcotte, writing for Salon, criticized conservatives for citing radical Islam as the cause for the violent attack and added there isn’t a difference between Christianity and Islam regarding violence.

In tweets, ACLU attorneys added to the liberal view that avoided linking the terrorist attack to ISIS and went further by directly blaming the “Christian Right” for the attack citing the 200 anti-LGBT bills that were introduced this year.

Think Progress, a progressive policy group, said Christian views toward the LGBT community are as violent as radical Islam. Yes, you read that right.

Abraham Hamilton III, a public policy analyst for the American Family Association, a Christian and family values organization, was dismayed over the blame being assigned to Christians and believes it’s dangerous to not identify ISIS as the true cause of the attack.

“The speed with which some have turned their ire onto Christianity, as a result of this tragedy, [is] appalling and astounding. It’s sickening how quickly some are willing to politicize the death of some many,” Hamilton said in an interview with Conservative Review.

Hamilton believes there is no ambiguity regarding Mateen’s motivation since the murderer called 911 and pledged his allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the shooting.

Additionally, Hamilton noted that disagreement over an issue does not equate animus against others. He pointed out that Chick-Fil-A, the restaurant founded by Christians and normally closed on Sundays, opened last Sunday to serve food and drinks for the people waiting in line in Orlando to donate blood for the victims of the attack.

Finally, Hamilton is concerned about the failure of Obama and The New York Times to identify ISIS as an organization responsible for the attack especially science ISIS claimed responsibility for the shootings at the Pulse nightclub.

Hamilton concluded, “Failure or unwillingness to identify those who seek to destroy us puts our citizens more at risk of danger.”

Unlike the 911 attack by Al Qaeda that unified the nation against a common enemy, the response to the terrorist attack in Orlando is split between ideological lines. (For more from the author of “What the New York Times Got Devastatingly Wrong About the Orlando Massacre” please click HERE)

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JAG EXPERT: FBI Director Comey Has Delayed the Hillary Investigation “For Too Long”

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The media continue their focus on accusing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of racist rhetoric, and facilitating the circular firing squad that some in the Republican Party and conservative movement are only too happy to take part in. Reporters continue to publish story after story damaging to Republicans, salivating over whatever Republican disunity they can unearth, and calling for Republicans to disavow Trump’s actions.

But in doing so they are hoping to protect Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, and the issue of whether or not its presumptive nominee will face criminal charges. The Obama administration has now admitted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a “criminal” investigation into the activities of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who used a private email server to send and receive classified information and has demonstrated a pattern of corrupt behavior while secretary of state.

“And that’s why the President, when discussing this issue in each stage, has reiterated his commitment to this principle that any criminal investigation should be conducted independent of any sort of political interference,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest, continuing, “and that people should be treated the same way before the law regardless of their political influence, regardless of their political party, regardless of their political stature and regardless of what political figure has endorsed them.” He spoke less than one hour after President Obama endorsed Mrs. Clinton for president last Thursday.

Earnest maintained that the civil servants at the FBI “aren’t going to be swayed by political forces” when conducting the investigation. But, surely, these civil servants will notice the direction of the political winds.

President Obama held a meeting with Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch shortly after his endorsement of Hillary. If FBI Director James Comey were to refer his investigation to Lynch, the Attorney General would have the power to not pursue the case.

“In order for Clinton to carry Obama’s torch, she has to stay out of prison,” writes Katie Pavlich for Townhall. “In order to do that, she has to avoid prosecution. I’m sure Obama made that very clear to his somewhat new Attorney General.”

We have regularly cited the various scandals still hanging over Mrs. Clinton’s head. They include the mishandling of classified materials, obstruction of justice, the public corruption scandal in which she used the State Department as leverage for benefitting the Clinton Foundation as well as her family, and Benghazi.

Contrary to President Obama’s assertion that he is allowing a non-partisan and full investigation, by endorsing Mrs. Clinton he has placed his hand on the scale of justice and made his wishes more than clear to federal investigators. The question is, will Director Comey and the FBI follow the President’s direction?

Despite the administration’s continued support for Clinton, new stories break daily outlining Mrs. Clinton’s corruption and pay-for-play. ABC News, with the help of Citizens United, found that a Clinton donor was placed on a sensitive intelligence board during Mrs. Clinton’s term as secretary of state—even though he lacked the credentials for the appointment.

The Wall Street Journal also reports that “many” of the 22 classified emails from Mrs. Clinton’s private email server that the government refuses to release, “dealt with whether diplomats concurred or not with the CIA drone strikes…” These highly sensitive and classified emails were “written within the often-narrow time frame in which State Department officials had to decide whether or not to object to drone strikes before the CIA pulled the trigger…” There are more than 2,000 emails that Mrs. Clinton handled that contained classified material on her private, unsecured server, whether marked as such or not.

“Several law-enforcement officials said they don’t expect any criminal charges to be filed as a result of the investigation,” reports the Journal, continuing, “although a final review of the evidence will be made only after an expected FBI interview with Mrs. Clinton this summer.”

Jonathan F. Keiler, a lawyer and former captain in the Army’s Judge-Advocate General Corps, writes that Comey has already delayed for too long. In an outstanding column for American Thinker, he wonders what Comey is up to: “What FBI director James Comey intends is perhaps the greatest conundrum in Washington these days. Is he playing Hamlet to Hillary’s Claudius, introspective, doubtful, and unwilling to strike the killing blow? Is he just being a careful apolitical policeman? Or is he a political hack who will do what’s best for Jim Comey? Perhaps it’s a bit of all three. Whatever the truth, it is in Hillary’s best interest to discourage Comey as much as possible. Her early claim to be the Democrat nominee serves that purpose.”

Keiler argues that Hillary’s convenient surge past the magic delegate number the night before the California primary, through a sudden burst of superdelegate declarations, served both her political and legal purposes. “If Comey is an honest policeman,” he writes, “the best time for him to have acted was before Hillary claimed the nomination. Then he would only have been referring charges against another—albeit notorious—private citizen. After the nomination, Hillary becomes not only the standard bearer of one of America’s two great political parties, but a ‘historic’ figure as the first woman to do so. As such, it behooved both Hillary and her backers in the media to reach that point ASAP.”

“As a political and media matter,” he adds, “an FBI referral at this point will be against not only the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, but also a historic figure, an affront to the American political system and women everywhere.”

The evidence against Mrs. Clinton is clear. If Director Comey finds no evidence of criminal activity by Mrs. Clinton, he will lose his reputation as a straight shooter. Either way, at this point, it will be viewed as a political act. If the Attorney General and President Obama stymie an investigation through political interference, Director Comey could, and should, go public. There might even be a revolt within the FBI. Whether or not that happens, Hillary Clinton’s fate is now quite clearly in Director Comey’s hands. (For more from the author of “JAG EXPERT: FBI Director Comey Has Delayed the Hillary Investigation “For Too Long”” please click HERE)

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CIA Director Affirms Obama’s ISIS Strategy Is Not Working

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No, President Barack Obama—we aren’t winning the war against the Islamic State.

The head of the CIA, John Brennan, testified on Thursday that, “Despite all our progress against [the Islamic State] on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capacity and global reach.”

In fact, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is actively recruiting, training, and deploying operatives for future attacks in the west.

According to his remarks, “[ISIS] has a large cadre of western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the west … the group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the west, including refugee flows, smuggling routes, and legitimate methods of travel.”

So, ISIS has not been contained—or even deterred. This revelation really shouldn’t surprise us.

The Obama administration has stubbornly maintained its position that we are actively containing and defeating ISIS despite all contrary evidence. Reality and hard facts appear irrelevant. Plus, the Obama administration knows how to spin a narrative.

In the wake of Orlando, the U.S. needs to double down against ISIS both at home and abroad. Overseas, the U.S. should proactively double down and lead a multipronged global effort to deny ISIS territory, disrupt recruitment efforts, and uproot its destructive ideology.

At home, the U.S. should reform the counterterrorism enterprise by refocusing the Department of Homeland Security on intelligence capabilities and improving coordination between the DHS and other agencies.

For the sake of our safety and security, the Obama administration needs to abandon its position that we are winning this war and take a good look at the hard facts. (For more from the author of “CIA Director Affirms Obama’s ISIS Strategy Is Not Working” please click HERE)

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This New Law Ensures South Carolina Students Will Study the Founding Documents

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Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, signed a South Carolina House bill into law that implements the study of U.S. founding documents into the state’s public high schools.

The South Carolina Founding Principles Act requires the study of the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and “the structure of the government and the role of separation of powers and the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights” to be added into statewide social studies programs.

This bill, signed June 1, reinforces South Carolina’s Section 59-29-120 that required all public education students, both in high school and in college, to pass a test after a year-long class on the founding documents and principles.

The Founding Principles Act bolsters the existing law by adding an accountability clause requiring the State Department of Education to report to the House and Senate Education Committees as well as the Public Works Committee every two years. This report will outline how South Carolina educators are teaching the documents in their classrooms.

State Rep. Chip Huggins, R-Lexington, told The Daily Signal, “I was just so worried about the erosion away from our foundation, and when I say that, I think it’s time we get back to the basics. The basics in which this country was founded. That’s exactly what we wanted to accomplish with this bill.”

Furthermore, teachers will be provided with “professional development opportunities” to ensure the subject is being properly taught.

“A major part of forming future citizens capable of self-government is ensuring that they are properly educated in the founding documents of our nation,” Arthur Milikh, associate director for principles and politics at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in an email. “This was once common sense throughout America, but now we are forced to fight to ensure that even the most basic texts—the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence—are taught.”

“These works tell us about the nature of our country, the principles for which we stand, and the way to preserve our constitutional order. Should these texts be lost to students, the next generation will be ruled entirely by popular culture and public opinion,” Milikh wrote.

Huggins, the main sponsor of the bill, said the legislation “ensures that when the standards are rewritten, the founding principles will still be included.”

The Founding Principles Act, however, does not force South Carolina public colleges to do the same.

Section 59-29-120 states that “no student in any such school, college, or university may receive a certificate of graduation without previously passing a satisfactory examination upon the provisions and principles,” but does not hold either public high schools or colleges to that standard. The accountability aspect of The Founding Principles Act only applies to South Carolina public high schools.

Even though Huggins didn’t win the battle with mandating the founding principles into state college curriculums, he believes he won the war with high schools. He stated that the important thing is “we now have the assurance that the founding principles will be taught.” (For more from the author of “This New Law Ensures South Carolina Students Will Study the Founding Documents” please click HERE)

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Woman: I Aborted 18 Baby Girls to Give My Husband the Son He Wanted

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Most of us don’t pay much attention to the issue of sex-selective abortion – either because we think it doesn’t affects us, or because we don’t realize how widespread it is and how much it is affecting our world. But its impact reaches far and wide, even here in the United States.

We are all aware of the population control that occurs in China with its one child policy. Most parents there want a boy, so over the years, the ratio of males to females born has been greatly altered. In 2004, the ratio was 121.2 boys for every 100 girls. The natural ratio is 103 to 106 boys for every 100 girls. But it isn’t just China . . .

One such woman had already given birth to four daughters, and was depressed for not conceiving a son. She recently admitted on Vietnam television that she aborted 18 baby girls in order to give her husband the son he wants.

Eighteen preborn baby girls aborted to get one son— and groups like Planned Parenthood support this. When the abortion lobby shows that support, they also enforce the idea that baby girls are inferior to baby boys. And that belief is one that leads to gendercide, abandonment, infanticide, and gender imbalance. (Read more from “Feminist: Toddler’s Gator Death ‘Social Justice'” HERE)

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Less Than a Week After Gay Massacre, Obama Holds Meeting That Stirs Outrage

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White House spokesman Erick Shultz told reporters Thursday that President Obama planned to meet with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman on Friday. Shultz spoke at a press briefing (conducted on Air Force One en route from Washington to Orlando) and informed reporters the purpose of the meeting would be “to further discuss issues of mutual concern and cooperation, including the situations in Yemen and Syria, our campaign against ISIL, Saudi Arabia’s national transformation program of reforming its economy.”

But critics charge the president was insensitive for meeting with Saudis just days after the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday. Saudi Arabia classifies homosexuality as a crime punishable by death.

As the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reported in March, being gay in Saudi Arabia is criminal. “A published report indicates that people who come out online in Saudi Arabia could face the death penalty,” Lavers wrote. “Oraz, a Saudi newspaper, reported on Saturday that prosecutors in the city of Jiddah have proposed the penalty in response to dozens of cases they have prosecuted over the last six months. These include 35 people who received prison sentences for sodomy.”

And prison sentences are not given just to gay men. Prison terms also apply to cross-dressers. Lavers continued, “Okaz reported that Jiddah authorities have prosecuted 50 cases in which men allegedly dressed as women.”

Sympathizers are also targeted, according to the Washington Blade. “A doctor who lives in the port city on the Red Sea has been released on bail after officials arrested him for allegedly raising an LGBT Pride flag over his home,” Lavers wrote.

Lavers said he conducted an interview with “a gay Saudi man who lives outside the kingdom” and was told the new penalties are being applied to the entire country and fear in the LGBT community is the result. (For more from the author of “Less Than a Week After Gay Massacre, Obama Holds Meeting That Stirs Outrage” please click HERE)

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Wikileaks Hints at Document Leak Big Enough to Haunt Hillary

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his company has collected quite a dossier of information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – so much that he could severely hamper her presidential run if he released it all.

And releasing it all is a plan that’s in the works, Assange told a British television station.

“We’ve accumulated a lot of material about Hillary Clinton,” he said, AOL News reported. “We could proceed to an indictment.”

Assange, who has been living in Ecuador’s London Embassy since seeking asylum in August 2012, faces extradition to Sweden for rape allegations if he leaves. He also faces charges in America for leading sensitive information about U.S. intelligence and security via the WikiLeaks organization he founded in 2006. (Read more from “Wikileaks Hints at Document Leak Big Enough to Haunt Hillary” HERE)

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Court-Sealed Videos May Offer Fodder for Trump, Clinton Attack Ads

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The presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both trying to prevent the public release of videos that are critical to legal cases involving the candidates.

Trump’s lawyers are intensifying efforts to stop the release of video of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee testifying under oath in a fraud lawsuit about the now-defunct Trump University. They told a federal judge in San Diego late Wednesday that the video could be used by the media and Trump’s opponents during the presidential campaign.

Lawyers for a top Clinton aide used similar arguments to persuade another judge to keep video depositions sealed in a lawsuit about the likely Democratic presidential nominee’s use of a private email server while she was the nation’s top diplomat. (Read more from “Court-Sealed Videos May Offer Fodder for Trump, Clinton Attack Ads” HERE)

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Omar Mateen Once Threatened to Kill Classmates Because Pork Touched His Hamburger

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Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen once threatened to massacre his classmates at a barbecue in the spring of 2007 after a piece of pork touched his hamburger. The barbecue was put on by an academy designed to instruct future hopeful corrections officers, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Immediately after the pork touched the burger, he reportedly threatened to kill everybody at the event. Although his classmates tried to laugh off his unhinged remarks, Mateen followed up by insisting that he was not joking and that he was definitely “going to come back and shoot” them.

Soon after, Mateen again threatened to carry out a shooting at a policy academy. The reason? He felt he was being mistreated as a Muslim.

Throughout his life, Mateen repeatedly flew into rages and threatened to kill people for reasons connected to his Islamic beliefs — biographical information that challenges claims that his Muslim background played no part in his massacre at the Pulse nightclub Sunday, which left 50 dead, himself included, and injured 53.

Seddique Mateen, Omar’s father, insisted that his son’s actions had nothing to do with religion whatsoever, but added that Omar had been enraged two months before after seeing two men kiss.

Additionally, Omar bragged about having terrorist connections and pledged allegiance to numerous terror organizations like Hezbollah and, at the scene of the shooting, the Islamic State. He also posted comments on Facebook such as “The real Muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the West.” In another instance, he said he wanted to get raided by the feds and mistreated just so he could claim the title of “martyr.”

Despite all the warning signs, the FBI was not conducting surveillance on Mateen when he shot up the Pulse nightclub, even though agents had previously interviewed him numerous times. (For more from the author of “Omar Mateen Once Threatened to Kill Classmates Because Pork Touched His Hamburger” please click HERE)

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Alaska’s Legalization of Pot Was Really About Commercialization

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There was quite a myth going around in 2014 that Ballot Proposition #2 was only to legalize marijuana. In fact, as many people are finding out with over 50 zoning permits issued, it did little for legalization, it mostly was for commercialization. This has led to many establishments being proposed and approved in residential neighborhoods. A lot of those starting those business don’t seem to care about neighborhoods, or even borough and state rules.

Here’s some examples.

1) There is a cultivation operation being put in an adjacent lot to Camp Li-Wa, a Christian youth camp that has been here since statehood. That’s up for protest next Thursday night (23rd) at 7pm.

2) There is a retail establishment that got a borough zoning permit, but it is within the borough zoning buffers for schools next to the Sprucetree Montessori School. It is also within the state buffer distance from churches, being close to Immaculate Conception Church off Illinois.

3) There is a cultivation facility that got a conditional use permit from the planning commission, but it is in violation of state buffer distances from both a nearby church and a daycare that it’s only 50’ away from (and is right next to a residential neighborhood).

There have also been a few establishments that the Borough Assembly has voted down protests for that were in residential neighborhoods.

While there is a small window for people to protest and testify against these at the State and Borough level, it’s complicated to keep track of it all and to be able to testify on regulatory details, and comes with tight timeframes.

One common theme that has come out from talking to people is that while they wanted legalization or decriminalization, they had no idea that all these establishments would be so pervasive and in their neighborhoods.

Drug-Free Fairbanks has started a petition to create a ballot initiative to ban all marijuana establishments outside of the city boundaries. The logic is clear on this, in the cities there are local police forces that can maintain order and enforce the laws, outside of the city we only have the State Troopers who are spread pretty thin, and may not have the resources to do full-on drug investigations.

Also, a large amount of the residential neighborhoods outside of the cities have general use zoning, so they have virtually no protection from these facilities coming in and affecting their neighborhoods.

The sponsors of the petition have to gather 2000 signatures in about two weeks. No one who is a city resident can carry a petition or sign one, you have to live in the borough but outside of the cities. So they need all the help they can get from non-city residents to get petitions and get them signed. You can pick up the petitions at the Borough offices, 809 Pioneer Rd. After you gather signatures, and get your petition copy notarized you can call Drug-Free Fairbanks at 378-8229. You can also sign the petition at the Midnight Sun Festival, or call the above number to find somewhere you can sign. This is the one real chance you have to stop these establishments, and remember it doesn’t change the legalization status of marijuana, it just stops the pot shops from being next door.

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