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U.S. Media Loves Dictators -- As Long As They're Leftists
https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2018/02/15/us-media-loves-dictators--as-long-as-theyre-leftists-n2449467
– , NPR, the Associated Press, Yahoo News, Business Insider, The Daily Beast and Slate, among others. … Our national media are a disgrace: deceitful, duplicitous, untrustworthy. … Freedom of speech must give way when anyone asserts that a political viewpoint with which they disagree is "hate speech."…
Wait–The FBI Agents Who Interviewed Michael Flynn Didn't Think He Lied To Them?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/13/waitthe-f…s-who-interviewed-michael-flynn-didnt-think-he-lied-n2448344
– Remember former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn? … The conversation is highly classified, but made its way into the news media. … the meeting would be about a prosaic issue involved in getting the new Trump National Security Council up and running.…
Trump Boom: Pro-Expansion Sentiment Among US Small Businesses Spikes to All-Time High
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/02/13/small-business-optimism-n2448525
– rose more than forecast in January, fueled by a record number of owners who said now was a good time to expand, according to a National … To that end, here's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promoting various news accounts about reductions to many Americans' energy … The good news is: The law occurred. Reality is setting in.…
Outrage! Liberals Blew A Gasket When AG Sessions Said Law Enforcement Was Part Of 'Anglo American Heritage'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/13/outrage-l…t-when-ag-sessions-said-law-enforcement-was-part-of-n2448163
– Attorney General Jeff Sessions drew the ire of progressives (again) when he addressed the National Sheriffs Association winter meeting … Wondering what AG Jeff Sessions meant when he told National Sheriff's Association sheriffs are critical part of Anglo-American heritage … National Review’s Charles Cooke took the political correctness crowd to the woodshed over their idiotic outrage over this term: Genuinely…
New York Democrat: I Was More Like Trump On Immigration, But I Represented Rednecks Back Then
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/12/new-york…like-trump-on-immigration-but-i-represented-rednec-n2448080
– Last week, CNBC’s Ron Insana commented on the Democratic National Committee’s fundraising issues. … That’s not the makings of a national party. Obama had a good message and clear agenda. … Sharyn Alfonsi: Your critics will say it's political opportunism. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: As is their right.…
American Media Literally Fawned Over North Korea’s Propaganda Minister
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeves/2018/02/12/america…erally-fawned-over-north-koreas-propaganda-minister-n2447991
– Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, ABC, NBC, and CNN incited a massive backlash from people across the political … As the Vice Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s Propaganda and Agitation Department (PAD), Kim has led national efforts to both … shape internal propaganda directed at North Korean citizens and censor any wayward thoughts about the Dear Leader in their news media…
Nunes: Hey Dems, Stop Going on TV and Make Those Memo Redactions
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/02/12/nunes-calls-dem-memo-rebuttal-ridiculous-n2447931
– We think it’s ridiculous on the face of it," Nunes said during an interview on Fox News. … "We think it’s very political about how they attack myself, they attack Chairman Gowdy, they turn Carter Page into some super-secret … Yet, on Friday President Trump decided not to declassify their response because it would threaten national security, he said.…
Get the People the Truth
https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2018/02/12/get-the-people-the-truth-n2447686
– A growing percentage of Americans no longer trust the national media. … Remember, it was the Left and their friends in the media who created the term “Fake News.” Now it’s come back to bite them. … Worse, that they likely did so out of purely political motivations.  The American people can handle the truth.…
Fear Strikes State Legislators...Over the Possibility of a Teen Governor
https://townhall.com/notebook/bethbaumann/2018/02/11/legisla…this-state-panic-over-6-teens-running-for-governor-n2447446
– focus on raising the minimum wage to $12 an hour, legalizing medical marijuana and building a high-speed rail for major cities, National … an independent who is focused on raising the state's minimum wage, legalizing marijuana and pushing for universal Medicaid, ABC News … Blake Carpenter introduced legislation that would require different political offices to have minimum age requirements for candidates…
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/02/11/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-n2447387
– But this isn’t about politics, the current political climate is what grows out of what the culture as a whole has become. … Not to be outdone, the news service Reuters actually published a piece wondering if there is a glass ceiling in dog shows. … NBC News Black, because news has a race now, posted an interview with one of the actors in the movie proclaiming the movie, set in…
Fake News on the Nunes Memo
https://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2018/02/10/fake-news-on-the-nunes-memo-n2447012
news story and that the court was not told that Steele himself planted the story. … Another piece gives an unflattering summary of some of President Trump’s political options. … There has ceased to be any difference between news and opinion at the New York Times.…
Dear Lord, What Were You Thinking?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/02/10/dear-lord-what-were-you-thinking-n2446959
– Igoe introduced their third number, “Dear Lord, what were you thinking,” with a sly, subtle suggestion that it might have political … The 1787 Constitution also launched the concept of federalism: the idea that a national government should legislate and rule only on … national issues, but otherwise should leave individual states to innovate and test their own governing principles, for better or worse…
The First Amendment Is In Far Greater Danger Than The Second
https://townhall.com/columnists/frankcannon/2018/03/01/the-f…amendment-is-in-far-greater-danger-than-the-second-n2455654
– While many still mistakenly view our political arena as a skirmish between “liberals” and “conservatives”, it would be more accurate … In the news media, a narrative emphasizing the immediate necessity of national gun control legislation has become a 24-hour rallying … We cannot keep pretending, like so many Never Trumpers do, that we are operating in an environment of normal political give-and-take…
Midterms: Could Trump’s Tax Bill Punch Democrats In The Mouth?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/28/pollster-says-its-clear-that-a-blue-wave-is-coming-but-is-it-n2447769
– Earlier this month, Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report went on MNSBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s show and delivered the grim news … David Wasserman, also of Cook Political Report, said that the turnout was miniscule in these races, though it shows the strength of … Bruni also warned Democrats that they should be prepared to lose: Those who look to the past to predict the current political moment…
ICE Raids in California Net More Than 150 Arrests This Week--Even After Mayor's Warning
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/02/28/ice-arrests-more-than-150-in-california-n2455446
– The agency spoke of one fugitive arrested, 38-year-old Mexican national Armando Nuñez-Salgado, who is a documented member of the gang … that have resulted in more than 15 years of prison sentencings,” spokesperson James Schwab, of the San Francisco bureau, told Fox News … preparing to conduct an operation in the Bay Area, including Oakland, starting as soon as within the next 24 hours,” Schaaf told local news
Exploiting Teenager Rage
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2018/02/28/exploiting-teenager-rage-n2455166
– The school shooting in Parkland, Florida, shows how quickly our media elites move horrors from tragedy to political opportunity. … It matched their own political agenda and emotional temperature. When Rep. Joe Wilson yelled, "You lie!" … at then-President Obama in 2009, these networks all angrily replayed it ad infinitum as a national disgrace.…
The Political Oscars
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2018/02/28/the-political-oscars-n2455068
– They leave out political actors. That's not right. Politicians deceive and manipulate people just as much as actors do. … That's a crime, not good government, but both political parties supported it. … Good news -- it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017." Give me a break.…
CNN's Many Minutes of Second Amendment Hate
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnkass/2018/02/27/cnns-many-minutes-of-second-amendment-hate-n2454498
– CNN's town hall political takedown of the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment -- in response to the tragic murders at a Florida … It pushed the right Democratic political buttons. … The news broke about how that armed deputy stationed at the school had failed to act, and later news sources suggested three other…
Flashback: When The Broward County Sheriff Was Accused Of Creating A Political Machine With Taxpayer Money
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/26/yes-look…ball-and-for-his-controversial-political-hires-too-n2454283
– Two years ago, he was accused of creating a political machine paid for with taxpayer money (via Sun Sentinel): Sheriff Israel is not … Obviously. — Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) February 23, 2018 Israel's hiring practices have been criticized by his political foes … "I'm not on a timeline for TV or any news show. We need to get it right. We need to get it accurate.…
Counterattack Hard Against Liberal Attacks on Our Gun Rights and Other Civil Liberties
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/02/26/co…attacks-on-our-gun-rights-and-other-civil-liberties-n2454192
– We need to recognize this dangerous trend and counterattack ruthlessly with our political power. … They are exercising political power. We have our own political power, and we need to exercise it - ruthlessly. … The liberals are also pushing venues like Amazon and Roku to drop NRA News - to actively censor a news outlet because they don't like…
Liberals See Only Opportunity in the Murders in Florida
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2018/02/25/liberals-see-only-opportunity-in-the-murders-in-florida-n2453871
– But it is yet another straw on the back of the camel already overloaded with the angry divisions and hatred the political left has … But you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone, child or adult, on cable news making that point. … As long as Democrats want to play the blame game to score political points, Republicans should act as though they don’t exist.…
Nigel Farage Praises Trump, Urges People to Fight the Establishment
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/alexnitzberg/2018/02/24/nigel…aises-trump-urges-people-to-fight-the-establishment-n2453835
– Former UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage praised President Trump during his address Friday afternoon at the Conservative Political … also said that “center-left broadsheet newspapers” in the US and UK contain “conspiracy theories” about him which he called “fake news … Soros, he said that “people like Soros don’t believe in the existence of the nation state” and he also said “they don’t believe in national
WATCH: Frank Luntz Holds a Focus Group of Current and Former NRA Members to Talk About Mass Shootings
https://townhall.com/notebook/bethbaumann/2018/02/24/watch-f…and-former-nra-members-to-talk-about-mass-shootings-n2453673
– VICE News asked Republican pollster Frank Luntz to put together a focus group of current and former National Rifle Association (NRA … We do have political division and discourse in our country. … We have the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and it's not going anywhere.…
NRA-basher Emma Gonzalez (Whose Father Fled Castro's Gun-outlawing Cuba) Celebrated as Hero by Cuba's Media
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2018/02/24/n…gunoutlawing-cuba-celebrated-as-hero-by-cubas-media-n2453475
– president says it’s a terrible tragedy but he can’t do anything about it, I will gladly ask him how much money he gets from the National … I won’t bother asking if you’ve ever heard of this ferocious insurgency on our very doorstep from The FAKE History Channel, FAKE News … At one point in 1962, one of every 17 Cubans was a political prisoner.…
The Child Soldiers of the Gun-Control War
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2018/02/23/the-child-soldiers-of-the-gun-control-war-n2452968
– This point was once obvious to many of the people eagerly hiding behind these children to wage a political battle. … NBC News turned Sheehan into a national folk hero. … The introduction of child combatants in this political war seems only fitting in the never-ending cycles of exaggeration.…
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