GOP Split on Trump’s Ex-Im Bank Pick Because He Disagreed With GOP’s Gay Agenda

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. . .[Rep. Scott] Garrett, the former chairman of a powerful subcommittee that regulates banks, is not popular because of his past attempts to shut down the Ex-Im bank and for his record on gay rights. Some groups have lobbied Republican senators to not move forward with a hearing and confirmation votes, while other groups who back Garrett have warned about failing to advance the nomination and are helping push it forward.

“The logjam over the Ex-Im Bank is just the most recent battle in the ongoing ideological war within the GOP between its pro-business wing and the free-market absolutists,” Compass Point analyst Isaac Boltansky told Politico. “The divides among congressional Republicans appear to be deepening, and I am left with the sense that for some issues, the GOP is closer to a coalition government than a unified party.” (Read more from “GOP Divided on Trump’s Ex-Im Bank Chair Pick” HERE)

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McClatchy: Cyber Hack Feared in USS John S. McCain Crash

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Red flags are being raised over fears that the latest at-sea collision involving the USS John S. McCain could have been caused by a cyberattack on the Navy’s electronic guidance systems, McClatchy reported.

The Pacific collision – the fourth involving a Seventh Fleet warship this year – occurred near the Strait of Malacca, a busy 1.7-mile-wide waterway connecting the Indian Ocean and South China Sea that accounts for roughly 25 percent of global shipping.

“When you are going through the Strait of Malacca, you can’t tell me that a Navy destroyer doesn’t have a full navigation team going with full lookouts on every wing and extra people on radar,” Jeff Stutzman, an ex-information warfare specialist in the Navy who works at Wapack Labs, told McClatchy.

“There’s something more than just human error going on because there would have been a lot of humans to be checks and balances.”

Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, did not rule out a cyberattack in the collision, from which 10 American sailors remain missing. (Read more from “McClatchy: Cyber Hack Feared in USS John S. McCain Crash” HERE)

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15 Antifa Photos You’ll Never See in Legacy Media

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Today’s Democrat Party is Antifa. They own this terror group. And, yes, it is a terror group.

As someone observed earlier today, the Democrat-Communists are really tough on fascists, unless you put “Islamo-” in front of the word. (For more from the author of “15 Antifa Photos You’ll Never See in Legacy Media” please click HERE)

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Trump Reverses on Afghanistan, Backs Intervention

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By Newsmax. Declaring the U.S. will win “in the end,” President Donald Trump vowed Monday night to keep American troops fighting in Afghanistan despite his earlier inclination to withdraw. But he insisted the U.S. would not offer “a blank check” after 16 years of war, and he pointedly declined to say whether or when more troops might be sent.

In a prime-time address billed as the unveiling of his new Afghanistan strategy, Trump said the U.S. would shift away from a “time-based” approach, instead linking its assistance to results and to cooperation from the beleaguered Afghan government, Pakistan and others.

Still, he offered few details about how that approach would differ substantively from what the U.S. has already tried unsuccessfully under the past two presidents.

“We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities,” Trump said. “Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.” (Read more from “Trump Reverses on Afghanistan, Backs Intervention” HERE)

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Trump Reverses Views on Afghanistan, a War With No Easy Exits

By Susan Page. In Afghanistan, there are no easy exits . . .

President Trump unveiled his “path forward” in Afghanistan in a nationally televised speech Monday night before a military audience at Fort Myer, just across the Potomac River from Washington. If that sounds familiar, it should: There have been more than a dozen official announcements of a changed course or a fresh approach or a strategic review in the 16 years since Bush ordered the invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“My original instinct was to pull out, and historically I like following my instincts, but all of my life I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office,” Trump declared, describing his decision to continue the U.S. involvement, albeit with conditions. “Our commitment is not unlimited, and our support is not a blank check. The American people expect to see real reforms and real results.”

The speech stood as a test of the new commander-in-chief’s ability to rally a nation weary of this war behind his strategy to wage it — and at a time his moral authority is under fire for his comments on last week’s march by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. (Read more from “Trump Reverses Views on Afghanistan, a War With No Easy Exits” HERE)

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Raisins? Toasters? You Won’t Believe Walmart’s Top-Selling Items in Each State

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In Pennsylvania, Walmart shoppers love those Legos. In Nevada, canned pumpkin just flies off the shelves of the local Walmarts. And in Arizona, nothing says a trip to Walmart like coming home with a toaster.

For whatever it might reveal about the various states that make up America, Walmart released its list of top-selling items by state.

Differences abound. In California, the allergy medication Zyrtec is the top seller. New Jersey is No. 1 for dumbells — literally.

Even in states where a food item is the best seller, why do Colorado residents prefer apple juice while Mississippi’s shoppers grab more cranberry juice?

Clayton Christensen, author of the bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma, said there’s likely no answer more simple than people buy what they believe they need to do a job.

“Jobs arise in my life that I need to address,” he said. “Some are simple, repetitive things that occur every day. Others are dramatic problems. When we have a job to do, we have to find something to get the job done. The causal mechanism that causes us to buy a product or service is that there’s a job that needs to be done.”

Jeff Petermann offered a similar reason for why people buy what they buy.

“Think back to your last non-emergency purchase of a large item…was it something that solved an issue for you?” he wrote.

“Maybe you kept dropping your phone, so you opted for a higher-end, drop-proof phone case? Maybe you were buying shampoo that made your scalp dry out, so you opted for a moisturizing version? Maybe you hate sweet relish, so you went and bought dill. Anyway you look at it, you have an issue, and you want to buy things that will help you eliminate that issue or solve the problem that you are having,” he wrote.

Sometimes, consumers are influenced to make their purchases.

“The affects of advertising are powerful. Imagine the piles and piles of money spent on advertising every year. It’s astronomical. Why do companies spend so much money on advertising? They would only do so if it worked,” wrote Lauren Greutman. (For more from the author of “Raisins? Toasters? You Won’t Believe Walmart’s Top-Selling Items in Each State” please click HERE)

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Black Lives Matter Activist Makes List of ‘Requests’ for White People

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An activist associated with the Black Lives Matter movement recently offered a list of requests for white people.

The article for Leo Weekly, titled, “White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader,” was written by Chanelle Helm, a self-described “cofounder and core organizer of Black Lives Matter Louisville.”

In the post, Helm opens by telling white people, “if you don’t have any descendants, will your property to a black or brown family. Preferably one that lives in generational poverty.”

White people who can “an afford to downsize” are urged to “give up the home you own to a black or brown family.”

“White people, re-budget your monthly so you can donate to black funds for land purchasing,” reads another request. (Read more from “Black Lives Matter Activist Makes List of ‘Requests’ for White People” HERE)

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PayPal Bans Conservative Sites After Soros-Funded Group Attacks Them

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PayPal banned Jihad Watch and the American Freedom Defense Initiative from receiving online donations using their platform because of the site’s “activities” after being designated as “hate sites” by left-wing groups.

Jihad Watch was reportedly banned from PayPal on Saturday after ProPublica – a George Soros funded investigative group – targeted the site and its director Robert Spencer (not to be confused with white nationalist Richard Spencer) in a hit piece that claimed the site was guilty of “extreme hostility toward Muslims.”

The assault on Jihad Watch began on Friday when Spencer received an email that he described as a “threatening” from ProPublica journalist Lauren Kirchner.

The email informed Spencer that she was including his site among a list of hate sites identified as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – both widely considered to be left-leaning organizations. (Read more from “PayPal Bans Conservative Sites After Soros-Funded Group Attacks Them” HERE)

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America Warned of ‘Race War’ If Whites Do 1 Thing

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To all the white people in the U.S. who worry that anti-white racism is at a fever pitch in today’s post-Charlottesville America, black radio host and author Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson has a simple message: You’re 100 percent correct.

“I’ve been telling white people for the last 27 years that you’d better start speaking up,” Peterson told Stefan Molyneux recently on the Freedomain Radio podcast. “You’ve got to speak up, because if you don’t speak up, eventually you’re going to become angry. And then when you become angry, you’re going to come out fighting in the wrong way. And then they’re going to accuse you . . .

Peterson, an exclusive WND columnist, urged white Americans to speak up and defend themselves, but never to do so in anger or with physical violence.

“If they fight with anger, and a lot of white folks are becoming angry, especially young whites. It’s going to be bad for the country,” he warned. “I predict that there will either be a race war or something – something bad will happen if white folks start to fight in anger. I understand why they’re mad, but it’s not right to get angry because anger backfires on you.”

Peterson has spent much of his career trying to help black men overcome their anger, just as Peterson did when he was young. It’s part of the mission of his nonprofit Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, or BOND, and it was a central theme of his book “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame, and Victimhood.” (Read more from “America Warned of ‘Race War’ If Whites Do 1 Thing” HERE)

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Wounded Judge Fires Back, Kills Gunman Who Ambushed Him

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A US judge in Ohio has fatally shot a gunman who critically wounded him in an ambush-style attack outside court.

Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr was shot several times just after 08:00 local time (12:00 GMT) in Steubenville on Monday morning.

Sheriff Fred Abdalla told reporters the attacker and the judge exchanged about five shots each.

A court officer also fired several shots at the suspect.

The Jefferson County prosecutor identified the attacker as Nathaniel Richmond, but said they had not yet identified a motive. (Read more from “Wounded Judge Fires Back, Kills Gunman Who Ambushed Him” HERE)

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The Eclipse Is Racist – According to the Atlantic

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The Atlantic, a once-great magazine, has determined that the total eclipse of the sun due to occur on Monday will fail to affect enough black people.

The Atlantic’s very lengthy essay on the failure of the eclipse to occur where a sufficient number of black people reside is entitled “American Blackout.” It clocks in at a remarkable 4,544 words and does not appear to be satire.

Concerning “the Great American Eclipse,” Brooklyn Law School professor Alice Ristroph writes in the rapidly deteriorating magazine, “there live almost no black people” “along most of its path.”

The Atlantic’s longwinded law professor assures readers that “implicit bias of the solar system” is “presumably” not the cause of eclipse’s failure to affect enough black people.

“Still, an eclipse chaser is always tempted to believe that the skies are relaying a message.” (Read more from “The Eclipse Is Racist – According to the Atlantic” HERE)

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