Backlash Against Trump Continues in Fight With Slain Army Captain’s Family

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Hillary Clinton defended the bereaved parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain, saying Donald Trump has a “total misunderstanding” of American values and has inflamed divisions in American society. Her comments came after the Republican nominee refused to back down from his criticism of the Gold Star parents’ remarks.

Making her most extensive statements about the Khan family since Trump criticized their Thursday night convention appearance, Clinton expressed concerns about the GOP nominee’s character, saying he repaid a family that made the “ultimate sacrifice” with “nothing but insults” and “degrading comments about Muslims.”

“I do tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans, who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity their disability,” she told parishioners in a Cleveland church on Sunday morning. “That’s just not how I was raised.” (Read more from “Backlash Against Trump Continues in Fight With Slain Army Captain’s Family” HERE)

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Mark Cuban Finally Endorses a Presidential Candidate

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Mark Cuban has been pretty politically open this presidential election, using Twitter as his primary tool to share reflections. When asked by major media outlets, he’s weighed in on the situation and given his thoughts about each candidate, at times praising both candidates and while other times being critical.

Friday he surprised some people when he tweeted out his presidential endorsement.

Until recently, the Dallas Mavericks owner has been on the fence. He told Fox Business last month that if Hillary Clinton chose Sen. Elizabeth Warren as her running mate, he would vote for Donald Trump. Cuban also mentioned he was open to running as the VP pick for both political parties — describing himself as “fiercely independent.”

The billionaire investor publicly stated last year that Trump was a breath of fresh air for politics, mentioning his candid responses to media questions and not giving prepared answers. Cuban even said that his preference was to be Republican, but he couldn’t because of the social stances the GOP takes:

The Republican Party does everything possible to discourage leadership. They want dogma. They want conformity. They want to conserve their romanticized past. That’s a shame. I wish they wanted to conserve the best of what America is today and find a leader that can take us to new places that make our future better.

Even though Cuban and Trump are both billionaires, the Mavericks owner thinks the Clintons are better negotiators and smarter business people. A couple of days ago he tweeted out that because Trump had refused to release his tax returns, he believes Trump has actually made less money than the Clintons and is trying to hide it. (For more from the author of “Mark Cuban Finally Endorses a Presidential Candidate” please click HERE)

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McCain Family Member Decides to Support Clinton

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In yet another case of party members changing their allegiances, Caroline McCain, the granddaughter of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, has announced she will vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in November.

Writing an article for Medium.com, McCain cited several factors which led her to the decision to leave the Republican Party.

She recalled Trump questioning whether her grandfather was actually a war hero.

Saying her grandfather responded to the incident gracefully and with forgiveness, she admitted to still holding a grudge for Trump’s remarks.

“He insulted my grandfather and attacked the very qualities — loyalty, bravery and selflessness — that he and countless other POWs embody,” she said.

She also blamed the Republican Party itself for being instrumental in her decision, writing, “The party I grew up in, the party I want to work in and change and push to be more inclusive, betrayed me and countless others.”

McCain asserted that loyalty to country is more important than party loyalty.

She goes on to write that she wants nothing to do with the Republican Party if it is willing to have as its presidential nominee a man she called a “racist” and “misogynist” who she says wants to ban Muslims and try to keep immigrants from entering the country.

McCain said that while watching the Democratic National Convention this week, she made the decision to leave her party and support Clinton, despite issues she has with the nominee.

These issues include questions about the Clinton Foundation’s finances and her unwillingness to speak with the press.

She admitted that these are not the candidates she wanted, nor is this the election she hoped for.

“So I’m not a Democrat — at least not yet. But this year, ‘I’m With Her,’” she concluded.

McCain was a college student when her grandfather ran against Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. At that time, she said in an interview that if George W. Bush had been running for re-election against Obama, she would have voted for Obama because Bush “does not represent the true face of the U.S.” (For more from the author of “McCain Family Member Decides to Support Clinton” please click HERE)

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The DNC Illustrated Devastating Identity Politics – Consequences to America Be Damned

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Martin Luther King Jr. said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

If the 2016 Democratic National Convention (DNC) was any indication, the party of Robert Byrd and Woodrow Wilson has little desire to turn King’s vision into reality.

To look over the guest list and listen to the proclamations of the DNC’s various speakers is to see a clinic in identity politics geared explicitly away from focusing on content of character and towards the physical attributes with which one is born and over which one has no control.

Each and every speaker from a paraplegic Hispanic female to the parents of various black males shot by cops was hand-selected as a political prop to perpetuate a narrative geared towards specific constituencies and an overall theme. The same could be said of the way each and every substantive soundbite was tailored.

The Democrats reverse-engineered their convention in such a way that their speakers would activate every last constituency necessary to win in November.

At some level one has to admire them for having a goal and developing strategies and tactics to achieve it, in spite of a woeful lying criminal of a presidential candidate, the manipulation of sympathetic individuals and the Democrats’ gratuitous pandering. This is politics, and the people seem to not only abide it, but revel in it.

And what the Democrats’ shameless efforts indicate is that winning is paramount, and not so for Republicans except when it concerns our own primaries, and perhaps the race Donald Trump is running.

The core of the Democrats’ message is that Republicans are evil and Democrats are good. Republicans hate and Democrats love. Republicans divide and Democrats unite.

In practice however, Democrats seek to evoke emotional and tribal sentiments completely antithetical to this message. Dividing Americans by race, class, gender and “identity” is the implicit aim of who Democrats highlight and what they say.

The Democrats’ entire campaign, starting with the “I’m with her” slogan is intended to make their constituents focus on voting with their groups against evil Republican oppressors. Democrats seek to signal to voters that everyone who looks like them votes a certain way. Peer pressure to go along with a message relentlessly pushed in the media and academia is a strong force. When many Democrats are wholly unaware that there is another perspective, voting the same way for life is a near certainty.

Regrettably, the individual, the most precious minority of all, is an afterthought versus the aggrieved group, and the collective.

Democrats have to play up race, class, gender and “identity” because the results of their policies in every place where Democrats predominate are so abysmal. I defy any Democrat to name a failing urban area run by Tea Partiers for the last 40 years. When you can’t win on reason, win on emotion.

There certainly are voters who are in the Democrats’ pocket and for which no matter how devastating the effects of their policies – be it in broken homes, failing schools or rampant crime – nothing will ever cause a change of heart because they fundamentally believe the Democrats’ agenda is in their self-interest.

But for others, appeals to empathy, guilt and envy triumph in spite of the apparent and overwhelming evidence of Democratic depredation.

This is a profoundly sad commentary in light of what Martin Luther King Jr. was advocating. Content of character over color of skin means judging people individually, not in terms of a group or a collective. Content of character over color of skin means judging people on their merits, not their genes. Content of character over color of skin means focusing on substance and fact over style and narrative.

Identity politics may enable Democrats and politicians of all stripes to win elections. Appealing to the worse angels of our nature appears to resonate most in our declining culture. But the damage done to the fabric of the country will last for lifetimes, and ultimately tear it apart absent a profound change in American society. (For more from the author of “The DNC Illustrated Devastating Identity Politics – Consequences to America Be Damned” please click HERE)

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INSANE Court Nixes NC Voter ID Law, Smears Every Thinking Person as Racist

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Here we go again: I sound like a broken record by now, but yet another court has thrown out a voter ID law. Last week, the Fifth Circuit gutted Texas’s voter ID law under the ludicrous notion that it discriminates against minorities. Today, the Fourth Circuit overturned North Carolina’s voter ID law and went a step further than the Fifth Circuit, asserting that the law was “passed with racially discriminatory intent.” In addition, they tossed out state laws limiting early voting, same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, and preregistration—all Democrat election “innovations” that are fraught with fraud and manifestly against our founding concept of Election Day.

As I noted last week, states have full authority over the methods and processes of conducting elections, while the federal courts have no power in that realm.

This ruling comes on the heels of the Fourth Circuit mandating transgender bathrooms and remaking North Carolina’s election maps in middle of the campaign season after millions of dollars and hours logged by volunteers had been spent campaigning in the districts drawn by the duly elected state legislature.

In N.C. State Conference of the NAACP v. Patrick McCrory, Judges Diana Motz, James Wynn, and Henry Floyd invalidated the laws clamping down on non-traditional methods of voting, while the latter two (over the dissent of Motz) agreed to strike down the revised photo ID law as well. We have reached a point in time when all the circuits have codified the entire Democrat Party racial agenda into the Fourteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Act, and Voting Right Act, to the extent that even the most basic laws protecting the franchise of the entire citizenry are thrown out by the courts. The judges openly said that because these laws would result in less Democrat votes, and because most African-Americans vote Democrat, these laws are discriminatory. This ruling comes just a week after a federal judge in Michigan mandated that the state must offer a box on the ballot for straight-ticket voting denoting the Democratic candidates so African-Americans can identify them. This is insane!

This ruling overturns a 485-page district judge’s opinion, which upheld the state laws with unassailable facts and impressive scholarship. The Left will always find a judge at any level willing to enshrine their policies. Conservatives have to win every case, they only have to win once and the law is permanently changed.

As a result of this ruling, one week of early voting and preregistration for 16 and 17-year-olds will be forced upon North Carolina. Practices that our founders would likely have ruled unconstitutional are now being mandated by the courts. The Constitution is unconstitutional.

It has gotten so bad that we can’t even get a circuit split on most issues to even afford the eminent tribunal – the Supreme Court – to render its edict on society. Remember, even the most sacred conscience rights of the Little Sisters of the Poor and similar religious institutions just barely got one circuit to uphold the most foundational of inalienable rights after over a dozen circuits ruled against them. The Supreme Court couldn’t even agree to uphold this sacred right and remanded it back to the lower courts.

There is simply no point to winning elections anymore – on a state or federal level – unless Congress strips the courts of their illegal power grab, and to a certain extent, states begin saying no. The unelected judges are essentially ruling our Constitution and the preamble of the Declaration’s dictate for popular sovereignty – unconstitutional. Disenfranchising the citizenry is something that even King George never did to the colonies in their respective state legislative elections. It makes no sense that the unelected judiciary, especially the lower courts – which themselves are a complete creation of Congress – have such authority.

As Conservative Review’s very own Editor in Chief, Mark Levin, observed over a decade ago in his book, Men in Black, “judges are appointed for life because they are not politicians. And because they’re not politicians, they’re not directly accountable to the people and are not subject to elections.”

Not only will court interference render elections meaningless in terms of pursuing conservative policies, we won’t even have the ability to win elections anymore thanks to the Judiciary’s block and tackle strategy in securing the Democrat voter fraud scheme.

Once again, I urge everyone to pick up a copy of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America. We can’t afford another 50 years of wringing our hands over the courts and merely hoping to change the irremediably broken profession by “appointing better judges.” It will take years before we could even make a dent in the circuits, and as I plan to demonstrate next week, there are a dozen other reasons why this won’t work in the short term and long term.

The legal profession has declared war on the very foundation of our democratic republic and state sovereignty. It’s time to respond in kind. (For more from the author of “INSANE Court Nixes NC Voter ID Law, Smears Every Thinking Person as Racist” please click HERE)

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Trump: DNC Speech Beamed Down From Clinton’s ‘Fantasy Universe’

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s speech Thursday night “an insulting collection of clichés and recycled rhetoric … delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today.”

In statements released on Twitter and Facebook, Trump lambasted the speech and said it proved Clinton was not fit to be president.

Trump criticized Clinton’s foreign and domestic agenda.

In a statement released on Facebook, Trump said the speech showed Clinton’s disconnect from the American people.

“She spent the evening talking down to the American people she’s looked down on her whole life,” the statement said, adding that Clinton’s “globalist agenda denies American citizens the protections to which they are all entitled.”

“Her radical amnesty plan will take jobs, resources and benefits from the most vulnerable citizens of the United States and give them to the citizens of other countries. Her refusal to even say the words ‘Radical Islam,’ or to mention her disaster in Libya, or her corrupt email scheme, all show how little she cares about the safety of the American people,” the statement said.

The statement said that although Clinton talked about unity, her proposals would not achieve it.

“Excluded from Hillary Clinton’s America are the suffering people living in our inner cities, or the victims of open borders and drug cartels, or the people who’ve lost their jobs because of the Clintons’ trade deals, or any hardworking person who doesn’t have enough money to get a seat at Hillary Clinton’s table,” the statement said. (For more from the author of “Trump: DNC Speech Beamed Down From Clinton’s ‘Fantasy Universe'” please click HERE)

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Justice Department Knew of IRS Scandal 2 Years Before Congress but Did Nothing

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Recently unearthed documents reveal that the FBI knew the IRS was unfairly targeting groups because of their conservative politics two years before Congress even heard about the agency’s misconduct.

The revelation has already added fodder to the conservative case to impeach the current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

Almost 300 pages of documents released Thursday and obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the IRS subjected conservative groups to increased scrutiny beginning in 2011.

Even though the FBI uncovered the scandal in 2011, the documents show, the Department of Justice chose not to act.

In interviews with FBI agents, IRS officials said that a Cincinnati branch of their agency targeted conservative groups.

“Cincinnati was categorizing cases based on name and ideology, not just activity,” Nancy Marks, a senior official at the IRS, told the FBI. That was in the summer of 2011. The public wouldn’t learn of the scandal until May 2013.

The scandal first erupted at an American Bar Association event when IRS official Lois Lerner answered a planted question about the tax agency’s handling of applications for nonprofit status. She apologized for the inappropriate scrutiny some groups experienced, adding that the conduct “was incorrect, insensitive, and inappropriate.”

The documents expose former IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller as the author who actually wrote Lerner’s response word for word.

After multiple congressional hearings, a vote to censure Lerner, and her eventual retirement, the Department of Justice announced the administration would not level criminal charges against the tax official.

“We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt or other inappropriate motive,” the Justice Department wrote members of Congress in an October 2015 letter.

That the administration sat on the information for two years before deciding not to prosecute is “par for the course and, frankly, the stench is overwhelming” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.

The documents underscore the need to impeach Koskinen, members of the House Freedom Caucus say, even though the tax chief wasn’t with the IRS at the time. The group argues that he impeded a subsequent congressional investigation into the scandal and they want a political pound of flesh.

“At the end of the day we have to be able to strike at least one blow on behalf of accountability,” Huelskamp told The Daily Signal.

The administration won’t deal with the situation, said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. The episode, he told The Daily Signal, shows that “there are two sets of rules in this country—one for ‘we, the people’ and another for the politically connected.”

To can Koskinen, members of the Freedom Caucus have filed a parliamentary measure known as a privileged resolution to force a floor vote on impeachment.

Rep. John Fleming, R-La., who introduced the motion along with Huelskamp, says the new documents establish a more troubling problem.

“While this provides further confirmation that the IRS was acting to suppress the voices of certain conservative groups, it now raises questions about whether the FBI has been compromised or politicized,” Fleming told The Daily Signal.

That’s “simply outrageous,” says Heritage Foundation legal scholar Hans von Spakovsky, who has watched the scandal unfold since 2013. “No one at the IRS has been punished over this, no one has been prosecuted,” he notes. “Nothing has been done to ensure that this won’t happen again.”

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Member of Bush Family Makes Surprising Presidential Endorsement Announcement

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One Bush family member has announced whom he intends to endorse for president in the upcoming election.

Marvin Bush, brother to former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, revealed Wednesday he will be supporting Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and his vice presidential running mate, William Weld.

Speaking on WJFK-FM in Washington, Bush stated that both Johnson and Weld served two terms as governor of their states, and both balanced their states’ budgets.

He continued, saying, “So they’re fiscally conservative and their essential message is get bureaucracy off our backs. It used to be a part of what the Republicans believed.”

The president’s brother has been critical of Republican nominee Donald Trump as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

He criticized Clinton, saying, “I think she’s one of the most dishonest people that’s ever been in politics.”

Pointing to the controversies and scandals that have plagued Clinton, Bush suggested a pattern of deception, adding, “That’s the reason her trust ratings are lower than almost any politician around.”

Bush’s criticism of Trump lies mainly in the way he has chosen to run his campaign.

He accused Trump of portraying to young people that the only way to succeed is to tear apart your opponent and belittle them. Trump had harsh words for candidate Jeb and other members of the Bush family during the primary campaign.

When the comment was made that voting for Johnson equaled a vote for Trump, Bush said, “First of all, I want to have a conscience. I want honest leadership. I want proven, effective people running this country, and so I want to be able to go to bed at night. And so I don’t really care about that.” (For more from the author of “Member of Bush Family Makes Surprising Presidential Endorsement Announcement” please click HERE)

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Putrid, Cop-Hating BLM Hecklers Erupt During Moment of Silence for Fallen Officers

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DNC attendees acted completely classless and vile when they interrupted a moment of silence for fallen police officers Thursday night.

Shouts of “Black Lives Matter!” were shouted more than once during the tribute. Even Democrats on Twitter were disgusted at the lack of respect.

One observer reminded the #DemsinPhilly to get their hate in order!

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Obama’s Baghdad Bob Speech Suitable for a Different Era

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By all objective measures, the prose and delivery of Obama’s convention speech last night were excellent. If its intended purpose was to unify the Democrat Party and reconstitute the liberal base turnout that benefited Obama in 2008, this speech was likely a success. But if this speech was designed to slow the bleed of moderates and white blue-collar voters from the party, it was completely disjointed from the reality starring those voters in the face.

Obama tried to deliver a 1988-style “passing of the baton speech” much like Ronald Reagan did for George Bush. The problem for him is that while the snobby elite demographics of his party might view the present as the 1988 equivalent for Democrats, in the eyes of most swing voters this is more like 2008.

In 1988, nobody could deny that it was a tranquil and prosperous time for the country. The economy was experiencing the most protracted period of growth post-WWII and the Soviet Union was defeated. People were not looking for fundamental change. Reagan just had to pass the baton to his successor and project his popularity on his Vice President while assuaging some of the concerns from GOP base voters. Swing voters never had a problem with Bush. That was essentially a convention speech for Reagan’s third term. The crowd even chanted “four more years” – not referring to four more years of GOP governance, but of Reagan himself.

Fast-forward 28 years later and we have a similar dynamic with a two term president attempting to pass the baton to the “next in line” in his own party for a third term of his presidency. Sure, they can post slick videos demonstrating some successes, such as killing Osama bin Laden (but not the assassination of SEAL Team Six just three months later!). But no swing voter in this country believes we are living in a stable, peaceful, and prosperous era. While the economy recovered from the deep recession, it recovered in the most lethargic way imaginable, inducing an indefinite period of stagnation instead of the traditional boom we experience following a sharp economic downturn.

More important than the economy, nobody outside of the gender studies lecturing rooms in elite colleges believes we are living in a period of safety and security. In fact, most voters, including Democrats, likely believe we have never faced a time where our nation was confronted by such an existential threat. The killing of Bin Laden has been rendered moot by the rise of ubiquitous terror attacks throughout western countries. Just 18 percent of the country believes we are on the right track; 73 percent believe we are on the wrong track.

There is no way to sugarcoat reality; most voters, even those who are not appalled by Obama’s values and governance, do not want a third term of Obama. They want a dramatic change. As I noted following Trumps’ acceptance speech, the weakness of the GOP nominee is not his diagnosis of the problem; it’s some of his solutions or the lack thereof on many issues, along with his character. To attack his diagnosis and deny the problems is akin to Saddam Hussein’s Minister of Information, otherwise known as Baghdad Bob, telling the press that the American military was being defeated even as they entered Baghdad.

The crisis we face in this election is the national security equivalent of the economic meltdown in 2008 after 8 years of Republican rule. And it’s not like the economy is great now either. Tack on the domestic insurrection in our major cities and we are experiencing the convergence of the worst elements of many periods of our history. It is for this reason why the McCain convention in 2008 relegated the sitting president to a short video message rather than a blockbuster prime time speech like Reagan did for George H. W. Bush in 1988. If Democrats wanted to project a new image and chart a new path, something the voters are demanding, they would have followed the 2008 model rather than 1988.

But that is not what the DNC was trying to accomplish. This speech was about the triumph of liberalism; the triumph of their vision. This was a culture war/values speech. And there is no doubt Obama has been an unrivaled success at implementing the fundamental transformation, thanks in large part to the collapse of the Republican Party. While the country is experiencing stagnation, rising crime in major cities, and the worst homeland security threat of our generation, Obama has been unflinching in leading his movement to victory after victory in remaking the country in their extreme ideology. He reminded those base voters who are not excited about Hillary or who badly wanted to see Bernie Sanders accept the nomination, that the party has already adopted the “Bern,” and his vision is already well on its way to changing America. He left no doubt that Hillary is committed to that agenda as well.

The question that remains is can Democrats, thanks to the demographic changes, succeed in winning a base turnout election even in a macro political climate that would have destroyed an incumbent party in any other era. (For more from the author of “Obama’s Baghdad Bob Speech Suitable for a Different Era” please click HERE)

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