Don Lemon explained “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men,”

Don Lemon’s Attack On ‘White Men’ Isn’t Just Racist, It’s Incredibly Misleading

OCTOBER 31, 2018 By David Harsanyi

The notion that a person’s race predisposes him to act violently is unequivocally racist. It’s also easily debunked by a cursory reading of history. Then again, in today’s environment, where identity politics often strips Americans of their accomplishments, ideas, and actions so they can be judged by their melanin, it’s an unsurprising thing to hear.

“I keep trying to point out to people and, not to demonize any one group or any one ethnicity,” CNN host Don Lemon explained to his colleague Chris Cuomo, before telling him that “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men,” adding that “there is no travel ban on them”

This isn’t a new accusation. Now, Lemon is right that the vast majority of white shooters are men. He’s also correct that men are more violent than women. The majority of men in the United States are white. So some quick back-of-the-envelope calculation informs us that most shooters are probably going to be white men, just as most murderers in Arab countries are Arab men and most murderers in Asian countries are Asian men and so on.

A terrorist is a person who uses illegal violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. This is not a movement. These white men have no palpable ideological or philosophical connection. They are not part of a concerted effort. They do not idolize the same people or subscribe to the same set of ideas. They do not share a worldview. Most of them do not kill in the name of “whiteness.” Few of them have a coherent message. I have as much to do with the Pittsburgh shooter as Lemon does.

The left-winger who yelled “This is for health care” before attempting to assassinate Republican congressional leadership in 2017 — somehow Lemon overlooked this event in his rant about angry white men — has nothing to do with the man who yelled “All Jews must die” when killing 11 innocent people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. There is no nexus between the person threatening Republicans with ricin letters and the person threatening Democrats with pipe bombs.

Whether travel bans from terror-ravaged nations are effective or necessary is a worthy debate. But unlike Islamic terrorists, who destabilize entire regions, enslave entire communities, and in engage in decades-long campaigns against civilians, white men only share a hue. There is no infrastructure to assist them in their murders. There is no nation-state egging them on and abetting their efforts around the world. There are no big-money donors funding them. There is no movement recruiting them to kill, then rewarding their families afterwards.

Moreover, there is no rational or decent person in America, on either side of the partisan debate, justifying their actions. No matter how hard Democrats try to smear half the country as a party of budding brown-shirts, there is no political base for their violent ideology.

Unlike Islamic terrorism—which is propelled by a set of ideas and beliefs that has been adopted by people of every color in every area of the world—random white shooters do not generate massive numbers of refugees whom other nations are compelled to deal with. Governments don’t have to spend trillions of dollars to protect their citizens from this constant threat.

It’s also true Islamic radicals haven’t been as successful at targeting Americans lately because, after a highly effective day of carnage back in 2001, we became vigilant. The price has been high, in treasure, and sometimes in civil rights—another negative externality of Islamic terrorism.  Does Lemon demand a similar domestic effort aimed at white men for merely being white men?

Radical Islam is an ideology that’s quite popular in the world. White supremacy is a fringe belief that generates outsized coverage because of the horrible actions of some individuals and the political upside some in the media see in giving them attention. Stringing together every act of random violence in the nation—no matter how ambiguous, disconnected, and muddled the political motives of the perpetrators might be—does not make a terror problem. Even if it did, violence is not the monopoly of any group. In the past century, genocides have been perpetrated in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Some people feed off the idea of drumming people they find objectionable out of public discourse. I’m not sure someone who uses hyperbole in the heat of a national debate deserves this fate. But in an environment where people are (ostensibly) thrown off their TV shows for a dumb statement about Halloween costumes, it seems rather extraordinary that others can unambiguously refer to “white men” as terrorists without repercussion.

David Harsanyi is a Senior Editor at The Federalist. He is the author of the new book,First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today. Follow him on Twitter.

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Fake News Threatens Our Nation

COMMENTARY BY

Star Parker@UrbanCURE

 

President Donald Trump was right to tweet out: “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news honestly and fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…”

He’s right.

I open to the opinion section of The Washington Post and find the following headlines:

“Trump has stoked the fears of the Bowerses (the Pittsburgh synagogue murderer) among us.”

“Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media can’t escape responsibility.”

“Trump’s America is not a safe place for Jews.”

All on one opinion page in one day.

As I wrote recently, we learned in the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh that Democrats are no longer pretending to care about facts. An outstanding American was almost destroyed by uncorroborated allegations.

I was in Jerusalem earlier this year and participated in ceremonies in which the Embassy of the United States was moved to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

A sense of awe, tied to the history of the moment and the bold leadership of Trump, permeated the proceedings. Certainly no one in attendance would question that the Jewish people have no greater friend than this president, who did what no other American president had the courage and conviction to do.

In June 2015, a year and half before the Trump presidency, a young white supremacist entered a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and murdered nine black Christians.

“It is unfathomable that somebody in today’s society could walk into a church while people are having a prayer meeting and take their lives,” said Charleston’s police chief.

Then-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley provided extraordinary leadership following the incident, sharing her genuine grief with South Carolinians and all Americans. She took the bold step as a Republican governor to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol.

Haley understood that the best way to fight evil is by identifying evil for what it is and fighting it not with politics but with virtue.

For the last two years, Haley has demonstrated similar leadership by principle as Trump’s United Nations ambassador.

A story on CNN Wire, reported nine days before Election Day, leads with the headline: “‘Voting while black’: How activists are racing to create a midterm ‘black wave.'”

According to the report, “A growing network of African-American political groups are laboring to build a lasting political clout for African-Americans, especially in the South, where more than half of nation’s black residents live.”

The article focuses on three black Democrats running for governorships in Georgia, Florida, and Maryland.

You would think that being black and political meant only electing far-left, progressive Democrats. Totally ignored are exciting and potentially paradigm-changing elections involving black Republicans.

John James, a black Republican running for the Senate in Michigan against three-term liberal Democrat Debbie Stabenow, doesn’t exist for these CNN writers. James is a conservative Christian, a West Point graduate who flew Apache helicopters in Iraq, and he now runs his family business in Detroit.

James is real news and hence a non-item for the “fake news” dealers whose interest is peddling progressivism, not truth.

Differences of opinion are healthy and vital in a free country. National unity and mutual respect are not threatened by differences of opinion but by the destruction of our first principles that guarantee every American equal protection of life, liberty, and property.

Politics of identity, special interests, or moral relativism rely on feeding the vulnerable fake news rather than truth. Our national health and prosperity are endangered when the truth is lost to politics.

This is what voters should be thinking about between now and Nov. 6.

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Invasion, USA

Invasion, USA 

An army is marching on us. Right now, somewhere beneath the line that separates the United States from the Third World, a massive force approaches, intent on pouring into America like the Spaniards did in Mexico. They rolled across Mexico's southern frontier — and Mexico's finest — liketoros over juevos. While the arena-sized crowd contains many men, women and children whose dreams of life among the gringos are filled with champagne and caviar — or at least potable water and edible food — many among them are thinking more "Grand Theft Auto" than "America the Beautiful."
The latest estimates place the size of the mobs around 10,000. Even if only 1 percent of them aspire to an American nightmare instead of an American dream, that's 100 new rapists, murderers, MS-13 narcoterrorists or garden-variety thugs who are making a run for our border. While the overwhelming majority might never do worse here than overstaying the time on the parking meter, I would be remiss if I did not note that nearly all of them illegally crossed the border separating Guatemala and Mexico, and say they plan to do the same when they reach the border separating us from them. Whatever they intend, from day labor to drug dealer, they intend to do it here. And somehow, despite the danger unfettered illegal immigration presents to any nation which allows it — I'm looking at you here, pretty much every country in Europe — we're actually embroiled in a debate over what to do.

While Americans who think America is worth protecting have expressed alarm, the Democrats are acting like little kids on the night before Christmas. While conservatives see people, some of whom are intent on doing serious harm to the Union, liberals see potential voters to be purchased with taxpayer-funded entitlements. While I suggest we consider combing the mob for malefactors, the pro-amnesty crowd wants to show them where we keep the valuables. While we call for action to preserve the country, they act on what the country should call illegal aliens.

Moreover, they don't even like the place. Even at the heights of the Obama regime's war on liberty, liberals never stopped shrieking about their grievances. Since Hillary Clinton came up one burrito short of the El Presidente Special, they've yammered about the racism and sexism which define everyone and everything. The same people who insist we should let every Tomas, Ricardo and Jorge crash on our national couch despise everything about America. Imagine how disappointed our newest residents will be when the liberals who rolled out the red carpet have turned the house into a replica of the crappy haciendas they fled. Eventually, we will have imported enough of what makes Latin America such a party that we'll be drinking ourselves under the same table.

The cohort bearing down upon us like Cortez on the Aztecs won't be the last. But rather than build up the battlements, we're yelling at each other about whether to build them at all. Someone should tell the pro-amnesty crowd how well that worked out for the Aztecs. 

Who Are the Real Partisans?

Who Are the Real Partisans?

Written by David Limbaugh

Someone please tell me what bizarro world Democratic activists inhabit — those who are grumbling that Republicans are unscrupulous partisan warriors imposing their agenda by government coercion and trampling the innocent, passive left in the process.

This is frighteningly delusional and shockingly divorced from reality.

Without question, Democrats and their never-Trump supporters on the right would have us believe that Donald Trump is the very creator of partisan politics, someone who has gobsmacked the unsuspecting collegial political left into abject impotence.

By their telling, Barack Obama was an exemplar of bipartisanship, a man who never met a Republican he wasn’t willing to work with. Obama really meant it when he said he was ushering in a new era of cultural harmony in America centered on our “common humanity” — a favorite phrase of the left that conveys no meaning and serves no purpose other than to cloak a militant call to political activism with an elegant lilt.

The left knows that Trump didn’t introduce partisan stridency to American politics. It’s been with us since the beginning of the republic. In fact, Obama was one of the most partisan presidents of the modern era. He demanded the wholesale adoption of his agenda — not compromise and conciliation. He is the one who rammed through Obamacare against the will of the people, the one who responded to pleas for compromise with “I won,” “I’m the president” and “Elections have consequences.”

Obama said:

• “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

• “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”

• “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they’re independent or whether they are Republican, and I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”

• “We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose a– to kick.”

• “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies, and we’re going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on Nov. 2.”

And Trump is the authoritarian? Really? How about Obama’s endless use of lawless orders, such as on immigration, to implement an agenda that he couldn’t get passed through the duly elected legislative branch? How about the targeting of conservative groups by his IRS and overreaching by his Environmental Protection Agency? Trump’s tough rhetoric somehow constitutes an abuse of authority when Obama’s actual usurpations didn’t?

And consider what Hillary Clinton has to say about working with Republicans. This week on CNN, she said:

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. That’s why I believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.”

Which major political party is bullying members of the other one out of restaurants? Which is refusing to accept the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process and disrupting congressional proceedings and shrieking outside the U.S. Supreme Court like maniacal demons waging full-scale spiritual warfare?

Which party demands partisan lockstep among members of a gender or race and ridicules women and blacks (Kanye West) as sellout know-nothing traitors if they stray from the party’s plantation? Do you ever see people pressured to leave their media jobs for supporting a liberal cause? Well, a CBS reporter in California resigned after expressing favorable comments about Brett Kavanaugh. Do you ever see liberal students punished by conservative university professors (what few there are) for expressing their political views? Name one Hollywood liberal afraid to express a political opinion because he or she could lose work. Name one conservative initiative on any college campus to impose a speech code on students.

Conservatives have awakened from their slumber and their naive complacency, realizing that the cultural and political left, the liberal media and the Democratic Party apparatus are relentless warriors engaged in an ongoing struggle to impose their agenda by any means possible, irrespective of the Constitution and rule of law.

That’s a primary reason President Trump has become so popular among conservatives. He is showing Republicans that he understands we are in a fight over the future of this nation and is providing a template for fighting back.

When a recent caller to my brother’s radio show complained that Democrats and liberals are fighting dirty and that we can’t save this nation unless we begin to get right down in the mud with them, Rush gently corrected him, saying, “We don’t need to fight dirty to win; we just need to fight as fiercely and intensely as they do.”

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Every adult in the state owes $4,000 for teacher health care costs; pensions not included

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Every adult in Illinois is on the hook for $4,000 in retired teacher health care costs, according to a new study showing the state has no money saved to pay for the growing cost of its promises.

The report released Tuesday by Bellwether Education Partners estimates that Illinois owes $54 billion in future health care costs that have been promised to teachers after retirement. That’s the sixth-most of any state when divvied up by each state’s adult population. This is not included in the estimated $130 billion in unfunded teacher pension liabilities.

Thirty-five states offer post-employment health coverage to teachers, of which Illinois is one, according to the report.

“For too long, employers were able to promote the benefits without recognizing their long-term costs,” the report said. “That reckoning is coming, and there are better and worse ways to tackle it.”

Chad Aldeman, principal at Bellwether, said the growing bills from health care could edge out dollars intended for the classroom.  

“Less money is going to current services like schools or teachers that are in the classroom right now,” he said, adding that the costs are bound to grow as retirees live longer and health care costs increase.

The growing cost will have to be paid for by either cuts to retiree benefits, tax hikes, or a combination of both, Aldeman said.

Health care benefits, like pension payments, are a promise made by the state and local school districts but, unlike pensions, the benefits aren’t protected from diminishment by Illinois’ constitution.

States should put qualified retirees into health care exchanges, the report said, and rescind coverage of retirees making more than a certain amount.

“The state is providing retiree benefits even to a retired superintendent who’s making $150,000 or $200,000 a year in a pension and they get free healthcare on top of that,” Aldeman said. “That may not be a good use of public dollars.”

Lyft Pushes Ahead for a 2019 IPO

Lyft Pushes Ahead for a 2019 IPO By Monica Savaglia Written Sep. 04, 2018 Public transportation has drastically changed recently. Within these past few years, we’ve seen an emergence of new ways to get from point A to point B other than the metro, bus, taxi, or train. Ride-sharing apps have made their way into our lives in full force. Globally, millionsuse ride-hailing apps as an alternative way to get to their next destination. I remember my first Uber ride. Honestly, it was such a crazy concept to me, and I was a little hesitant during my first ride. All my life, I’ve been taught to never get into cars with strangers, but ride sharing-apps like Uber and Lyft challenged that entire concept, ultimately changing our society forever. Now, an ordinary person can pick me up at my location and deliver me to my desired destination. Of course, these drivers go through the necessary steps to become Lyft or Uber drivers to ensure rider safety.  Uber and Lyft have transformed the way we think about transportation. Uber and Lyft: A New Way to Get to Your Destination According to Forbes, for 2017, Uber’s global business completed 4 billion rides. The company has been around since 2009 and now operates in 600 cities and 78 countries. Uber's business model was one to emulate... Uber’s competitor, Lyft, has been giving rides since 2012. And it’s become a strong competitor for Uber in those few short years. It’s been growing its business at a fast pace. In fact, in 2017, the company gave 375 million rides, up from 160 million rides in the previous year. That’s a 134% increase in just one year! Lyft has now taken 35% of the U.S. market share. While this might not seem like too much right now, Lyft hasn’t been around that long, and its business is growing fast. It’s also creating a reputation for itself that has made ride-sharing users appreciate and even prefer riding with Lyft to Uber. Uber in Crisis… Lyft Picks up the Slack 2017 wasn’t a great year for Uber, as it seemed to be going through crisis after crisis, but Lyft was there to catch the customers that were turning away from Uber because of its many catastrophes. Lyft became a better option as riders grew skeptical of Uber’s reputation. The year began with a trending hashtag: #DeleteUber. Hundreds of thousands of riders deleted the app. Then followed the loss of its CEO, as he was faced with an investigation into Uber’s work culture. Lyft’s VP of Operations, Woody Hartman, had this to say: I’ve been at Lyft five years, and every year is bigger and more exciting than the last, but 2017 really felt different. It felt like the year in which the public really got to know us for our mission and our values and that led us to bring a bunch of new passengers and drivers onto the platform and … Uber’s turmoil turned into Lyft’s reward. The public became more aware of Lyft as a ride-sharing option. And as they became more aware of Lyft and its business and values, riders began to respect and prefer Lyft. Hartman added: We started 2017 with about 55% of the U.S. population covered with Lyft and ended at 95%. So now almost everyone in America has the opportunity to take a Lyft and drive for Lyft and we’ve seen immense growth from that. In five years, Lyft has managed to build its business and brand. Now, riders are dedicated to using Lyft as a way to get around. This growth in both business and reputation has helped Lyft become confident in making its market debut. Lyft is now in talks to hire an advisor for a 2019 initial public offering (IPO). Lyft Aims to IPO in 2019 Lyft has been in talks with an advisor to guide the company toward a March or April 2019 IPO. Lyft recently raised $600 million in its most recent funding round, which was led by Fidelity Management in June of this year. This latest round has doubled the company’s valuation in just a little over a year — the company is valued at $15.1 billion. Uber has also been contemplating the idea of going public, and there have been rumors that Uber plans to go public in 2019 as well. Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, said the company is aiming for its IPO in the second half of 2019. You’d better believe Lyft will begin taking pitches from banks as early as this month in hopes of beating Uber to the public market. If investors get on board with Lyft before Uber, that would greatly benefit the company and its potential gain market share. 2019 is going to be a really interesting year, especially in regards to which ride-hailing company will benefit the most from its public debut. We’re finally going to see two extremely popular companies go public, but only onecan come out on top.

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Some of what Mike Fricilone & Steve Balich have  ACCOMPLISHED  for you

1. Lowered the tax rate the last 3 years while at the same time building a New Public Safety Building, Court House,  Health Department, and starting a program to replace squad cars on a yearly basis.

2. Stopped code violations initiated by aerial Photos. Code violations are now complaint driven.

3. Reduced the tax rate for the last 3 years.

4. Stopped mandatory sprinkler systems from being required in all homes.

5. Passed a Resolution allowing the Court to return your money for towing, storage, and administration if not guilty in court.

6. Stopped the County from putting raised barriers on 143rd St.

7. Continue to vote against raises for County wide and County Board elected officials.

8. Stopped light ordinance that had no measurements relying on the opinion of Code officers as to what is a nuisance.

9. Argue that code inspectors can only inspect what a permit was written for. They don't have the right to write violations for other items out of code.

10. Worked with Lockport to move barricades north of Gougar and 147th, allowing for cars to cut through like the past from 151st over to Lemont rd/State via 147th.  A signal was placed at Gougar and 143rd.

11. Worked with Citizens Utility board to reduce the rate increase from Illinois American Water. The Rate increase was reduced but we still got an increase to an already high cost of water.

12. Voted to not allow County Board Elected Officials to take the IMRF Pension.

13. Worked to get the light at RT. 6 and Parker.

14. Stopped Will county Land Use from initiating a rental inspection program targeting 17,000 plus landlords based on HUD guidelines. Will County never adopted HUD guidelines.

15. Stopped requiring a building permit for some repair and maintenance items on your property.

16. Cut the Tax Rate at the Forest Preserve the last 4 years while expanding recreational opportunities.

17. Since we have be on the Board there have been no pay raise for County Elected officials and County Board member Pensions were eliminated. Fricilone & Balich never took the Pension even though it was a benefit.

Mike Fricilone 708-310-9831 mikefricilone@gmail.com    Steve Balich 815-557-7196 sbalich@comcast.net

Central and Southern Illinois Candidates Pledge to Refuse a Pension

For Immediate Release

Central and Southern Illinois Candidates Pledge to Refuse a Pension

“Illinois is in crisis. There isn’t a softer way to put it.”

WATCH: AUGUST 30 PRESS CONFERENCE HERE

Collinsville, Illinois - August 31, 2018 –  Yesterday, Illinois House candidates Dwight Kay (Glen Carbon) and Blaine Wilhour (Effingham) joined a growing a coalition of conservative reform legislators and candidates who have pledged to refuse a legislative pension when they are elected to the state legislature.  Standing with the candidates were State Representatives Jeanne Ives (Wheaton) and Brad Halbrook (Shelbyville).

State Representative Jeanne Ives said, by signing the pledge, Kay and Wilhour are demonstrating the type of leadership that is needed to change Illinois. “We need wholesale pension reform,” said Ives. “It begins with legislators.”

State Representative Brad Halbrook discussed dire situation in Illinois by saying, “The system is broken… The Edgar Pension Ramp has actually become the Edgar Pension Time Bomb... Action has to be taken now to protect employees, and those in and near retirement … [Legislators] have to lead by example.”

Blaine Wilhour, a conservative reformer running for State Representative in House District 107, outlined the case for leadership and culture change saying, “Illinois is in a crisis. There isn’t a softer way to put it. … Maintaining the status quo is going to result in further erosion of core services… I got into this race determined that I was going to do my best to make a difference… If you’re going to make a difference you have to have some tough conversations. This is a tough conversation that affects a lot of people.”  “The reform movement starts right here in Central and Southern Illinois,” continued Wilhour. “It’s up to us to drive these ideas in Springfield… Legislators have to lead the way. I am proud to sign the pledge.”

Dwight Kay a candidate for State Representative in the House District 112 outlined the stakes for Illinoisans in this election. “I think Illinois is worth fighting for,” said Kay. “The problem, right now, no one is fighting. It is almost malfeasance for legislators on the other side of the aisle, who have kicked this can down the road for 10, 15, 20 years to say, “Now we’re going to throw it back to the taxpayers because they’re the only ones who have any money…

“The truth is structurally we are bankrupt,” continued Kay. “Yet, throughout State of Illinois campaigning is not about pensions. It’s not about jobs. And it’s not about reforms. It’s about who can run the best smear campaign… I think people need to get out and debate this issue… Make sure people understand what’s at stake. We’re talking about whether Illinois is an affordable place to live down the road, or an unfit place to live down the road.”  

The pledge was penned by Wirepoints, an economic, business and policy journal.

Other candidates who have signed the pledge include:

Darren Bailey, House District 109

Dan Caulkins, House District 101

Alyssia Benford, House District 98

Ken Idstein, House District 62

Jillian Bernas, House District 56

Marilyn Smolenski, House District 55

Tonia Khouri, House District 49

Jay Kinzler, House District 46

Amy Grant, House District 42

Ammie Kessem, House District 19

Craig Wilcox, Senate District 32