J Robert Smith
Throughout the crawling duration of It Chapter Two — all two hours and 50 minutes of it — I felt like I was being taken for a ride by a driver who was wearing a blindfold. This movie is so meandering, so stuffed with easily excisable scenes whose revelations wick off with the arrival of the next fit-for-the-cutting-room-floor vignette, it’s as though everyone made this all up as they went along. [snip]
— Jezebel, September 6, 2019
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J Robert Smith
Venice (AFP) – Rock legend Mick Jagger attacked US President Donald Trump for his rudeness and lies Saturday and for “tearing apart” environment controls when America should be setting the standard for the world.
— AFP, September 7, 2019
Rock icon, Mick Jagger, just ripped President Trump as an all-around cad. Per Mick, Trump isn’t only ill-mannered but trampling the environment. Mick didn’t quote Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Beto O’Rourke that the world is going end in a dozen years (AOC) or a decade (Beto). Sounding environmental alarms without running through the streets shouting that the end is near is downright negligent.
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J Robert Smith
Evidently, the mayor [Pete Buttigieg] has decided that it’s to his advantage to embrace the radical, unpopular position of his party, advocating that a pregnant woman alone should have control over whether the unborn human being inside her is permitted to continue living, even after the point when it is able to survive outside the womb. He should at least have the decency not to twist Scripture in defense of his abhorrent decision, and to cease lecturing us about his superior understanding of Christian morality while he’s at it.
— National Review, September 6, 2019
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J Robert Smith
National Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign field have dodged questions of whether they agree with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ decision to declare the National Rifle Association (NRA) a “domestic terrorist organization.”
— Breitbart, September 6, 2019
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
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J Robert Smith
“We have to actually unify the country around this project. And that means bringing people to the table who haven’t felt that they’ve been part of the process. I mean, this is the hardest thing we will have done certainly in my lifetime,” he said. “This is on par with winning World War II, perhaps even more challenging than that.”
— The Hill, September 4, 2019
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J Robert Smith
Walmart stepped forcefully into the national gun debate on Tuesday, saying it would stop selling ammunition that can be used in military-style assault rifles, would discourage its customers from openly carrying guns in its stores and would call on Congress to increase background checks and consider a new assault rifle ban.
— New York Times, September 4, 2019
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Old foes
House lawmakers will return to the Capitol from a lengthy summer vacation to find that they are already in the midst of an impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
They have taken no vote on the matter, but Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, has repeatedly told federal judges in recent weeks that it’s exactly what he is doing as he investigates Mr. Trump’s behavior toward Russia and suspected efforts to thwart FBI and special counsel investigations.
— Washington Times, September 2, 2019
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J Robert Smith
The faculty council, filled with “extreme frustration,” wants America’s favorite restaurant removed from campus for being a “bastion of bigotry” after KU administrators relocated a Chick-fil-A from a basement to “prime real estate” on campus to the Memorial Union. [snip]
— Fox News, September 2, 2019
The “Sexuality & Gender Diversity Faculty and Staff Council” at the University of Kansas wants Chick-fil-A kicked off campus. The reason? The fast food franchise enterprise’s owners, the Cathy family, are traditional Christians who adhere to biblical teachings. Chick-fil-A’s only offense is that the Cathys are Christians and, hence, poison to these campus PC mandarins.
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J Robert Smith
At least 24 people were shot and five people were killed Saturday in a series of shootings in the area of Midland and Odessa, Texas, an Odessa city official told Fox News.
A suspect, who local police identified only as a white male in his mid-30s, was shot and killed at an Odessa movie theater, local police said.
— Fox News, September 1, 2019
At this writing, details remain sketchy about the second mass shooting in Texas in less than a month. But we do know this: a chorus of calls will erupt today from Democrats and the MSM for stricter gun control laws. It’s as predictable as the sun rising.
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J Robert Smith
During his dissertation, [MSNBC’s Chris] Hayes made the astounding conclusion that if the Electoral College were not a part of the U.S. Constitution, it would be unconstitutional.
— Breitbart, August 31, 2019
Let’s start with the simple proposition that Chris Hayes is a dolt or disingenuous. You’d think that a guy who’s an “expert” on politics would have a fundamental understanding of the Constitution. But Hayes is a leftist, and his analyses are really thinly veiled attempts to push his side’s agenda.
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