You Gotta Love Rick Perry’s Optimism

oped: All I have to say about this: 'Remember the Alamo' Texas rocks the other 49 states a lil weak to say the least!
Perry knows that America can be great.
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Man, I have to tell you: What a difference! The last time Rick Perry ran (which, of course, was in 2012), he started out okay. The debates happened; we learned later that he was taking pain medication for surgery and so forth, and wasn’t quite himself.
But my memory of Rick Perry the last time around is that by the end of it there were a lot of people laughing at him, making fun of him, generally disrespecting him, not giving him much a chance. Which I always found kind of curious. Rick Perry has run Texas for a long time. Texas is in one of the best shapes of any state in this country. Texas is one of the few states where the Republicans do get a sizable percentage of the Hispanic vote. You look at Texas and from our standpoint, Texas would be a great model to replicate all over this country.


Yet here they are. People were making fun of or ridiculing Rick Perry for a number of reasons. So I expected more of the same. When Perry made his announcement, I thought there’d be the same catcalls, the same type of reaction. But it’s the opposite. It really is stunning. The Wall Street Journal: “Rick Perry’s Lodestar State — Perry has proven what America can look like from sea to shining sea. Former Texas Governor Rick Perry on Thursday joined the elephant herd running for president.
“And while the Beltway crowd considers the 65-year-old a long shot, he deserves as much of a hearing as anyone else given his impressive 14-year record as a reform conservative.” Now, the Journal editorial page, they sometimes go off the path on doctrinaire conservatism, particularly when if comes to things like amnesty and so forth. But this is… It’s not an endorsement, but it’s really flattering and positive, and it’s not at all what I expected, simply based on the kind of treatment Perry got last time out.
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Polyamorous the New “Normal” in America?

[Washington Insider: Obama Member of Chicago Gay Man’s Club]
[The big push began with the installment of the Obama Administration...need I say more?]

Liberals are making feelings the rule of the day since facts never work for them.

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The movement to promote transgender, polymorous, grouples, & throuples evidences an agenda extending far beyond same-sex marriage. The 3%​’s​ immoral agenda is perversely ​and ​relentless​ly​ making everyone ​among the 97% to ​affirm this behavior ​a​s normal​– or suffer the consequences of their wrath.​ ​
The question is what’s next, sex and marriage with animals or children? Should the government regulate this? Who decides how many sex partners ​any​one can ​legally ​have ​and for how​ long?
Continue reading on bethanyblankley.com

Let’s Get This Straight, Liberals – What Kinds of Molestation are Acceptable?

[Caption: Check my tats cause the rest of me not so attractive]

As the old saying goes...there is a match for everyone:

[Lena Dunham & Jack Antonoff (PeeWee Herman wannabee) - Grammys 2013 Couple!

This is about trying to trash a Christian conservative family.
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I can’t believe how crazy the media is going over the Duggar family compared to the big fat yawn they gave Lena Dunham when she wrote in her book that she sexually experimented with her sister. I’m sorry to have to do this, but let me remind you: 

In her new book called Not That Kind of Girl – according to Bradford Thomas — she writes about “experimenting sexually with her younger sister Grace, whom she says she attempted to persuade to kiss her using ‘anything a sexual predator might do.’ In one particularly unsettling passage, Dunham experimented with her six-year younger sister’s vagina. ‘This was within the spectrum of things I did,’ she writes.”
It gets worse.
She also – according to her own book – used her sister, “essentially as a sexual outlet, bribing her to kiss her for prolonged periods and even masturbating while she is in the bed beside her.”

That makes me want to puke.
Remember the liberal media outrage?
Oh that’s right. It didn’t happen. The liberal media darling Dunham was praised for her “honest and witty” book.
Continue reading on www.patheos.com

The Trifecta Of Bad News From The Obama Era

Sadly Obama tries to spin everything as good news!
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Three fresh headlines in recent days represent the status of the big issues that will shape the 2016 elections:

1. “U.S. economy shrinks in first quarter, raising questions about underlying strength” from The Washington Post.

2. “Exclusive Interview: Ian Bremmer says America is no longer ‘indispensable’” from the Telegraph.

3. “The New Nationwide Crime Wave” from the Wall Street Journal. 

A weak, slow or no-growth economy; diminished capacity and lack of resolve on a dangerous and threatening world stage; civil order breaking down as a result of political leadership mismanaging our police forces — these realities are a product of President Obama’s tone and policies, and they reflect his worldview.
Continue reading on www.washingtonpost.com

War Breaks Out on Border: U.S. Chopper Struck by Gunfire from Mexico

How long will we put up with this? We go into all these other lawless countries to restore order, but have a hands off approach to Mexico. It is beyond time to take action.
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Breitbart Texas has learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The helicopter was interdicting a narcotics load and working alongside agents from the U.S. Border Patrol, who operate under the umbrella of the CBP. The helicopter was operating in the Laredo Sector of Texas, immediately across the border from the Los Zetas cartel headquarters of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. 


[200 Members of ISIS Are Just Over The Mexican Border -Confirmed]



The helicopter was in U.S. airspace and participating in the interdiction of a narcotics load coming from Mexico into the United States.
A federal agent who spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity said, “U.S. Border Patrol agents were attempting to intercept a drug load. A law enforcement chopper was assisting Border Patrol agents. The chopper received gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The chopper had to do an emergency landing due to the gunfire.”

Border Patrol agent and National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 President Hector Garza confirmed that he received unofficial reports on this matter that indicate the information provided to Breitbart Texas by the unnamed federal agent is accurate.
Continue reading on www.breitbart.com

The Dark, Untold Story Of Transgenderism

His God given DNA will always say he’s a man.
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Unfortunately, the tragedy of sexual-reassignment surgery has a sordid history.
The heinous idea began with well-known sexual-perversion advocate Alfred Kinsey. Contending that people are “sexual from birth,” he used experiments on babies during World War II. His legacy stands largely unchallenged today by the American Medical Association, despite his advocacy of bestiality, pedophilia, sadomasochism and incest.


“Kinsey has given the sexual revolutionists their license to sexually pervert our culture,” said Judith Reisman, author of “Kinsey, Crimes and Consequences” and director of the Liberty School for Child Protection.
In an interview with WND, she said, “We have a sexual revolution brought about by sexual revolutionaries.”
Walt Heyer, author of “Paper Genders” & “Gender, Lies and Suicide,” tells the secret that the medical journals are not telling and that news media today are largely ignoring in glorifying sexual reassignment and transsexualism.
Following Kinsey and his understudy, Harry Benjamin, Dr. John Money took up the sexual revolutionary mantle. In 1967, he was asked by a set of broken-hearted parents to simply repair a botched circumcision on their baby, a twin. Money convinced the trusting and distraught couple to raise the boy as a girl due to his “damaged” gender. He removed David’s genitalia, and David was raised as “Brenda.”
Continue reading on www.wnd.com

Trump: I've Made Up My Mind About Presidential Race

oped: *eye roll* Oh great we get to watch the Great 'Gatsby' Used Car Salesman rant and rave and bloviate his way through the primary process...telling us how great,smart,rich good looking and loved he is...I can hardly contain my excitement! 


By Melissa Clyne
It’s official.

Donald Trump has made a decision about his intentions for 2016, but the famously self-promoting billionaire real estate mogul is teasing the public announcement until June 16, he told MSNBC during a phone interview from Iowa Friday morning.

"In my own mind, I’ve decided, but I haven’t made it official — that’s for the 16th," he said. "Can’t tell you yet, though I’d like to!"

He may have tipped his hand in speaking to a crowd of more than 300 people in Mason City, Iowa, the Daily Mail reported, when he told supporters there that he would be returning to the Hawkeye State, which holds the first major electoral event of the nominating process for president of the United States, immediately after the announcement.

The big reveal will take place at Trump Tower in New York City.

Though a Quinnipiac University poll published May 28 showed Trump leading New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, he also topped the "no way" list in the same poll.

Trump received 5 percent support, compared with Christie’s 4 percent and Kasich and Fiorina’s 2 percent.

Twenty-one percent of Republican voters in the Quinnipiac Poll said they would definitely not support him, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (17 percent) and Christie (15 percent).

Tied for the lead in that poll were Bush, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 10 percent support each, followed by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (7 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (6 percent).

In his trademark blunt delivery, Trump told the Iowa crowd that America has "a chance to be great, but we can't keep it going like this," the Daily Mail reported.









"We can't continue to be led by stupid people who are being controlled by the wrong people, and that's what's happening with our country," he said.

A Trump presidency would means Americans would learn "hard truths," including that "the American dream is dead."

"But if I run, and if I win, we will bring the American dream back bigger and stronger than ever."

Michelle O Set To Tour European Hot Spots For A Week…And Look Who’ll Be Tagging Along

by Norvell Rose 

Just a few months ago, in March of this year, Michelle Obama went on the Ellen DeGeneres TV show and talked about how her life in the White House can be so hard. As Western Journalism pointed out at the time, the first lady complained, “The one thing people don’t realize is, we can’t do little things like open windows.”
Oh, no.
Not long after that little “true confession” session on Ellen, Mrs. Obama left the confines of the People’s House in Washington to wing her way to Asia to promote her pet project called “Let Girls Learn.” In Japan, Mrs. Obama ran up a tab of nearly $80,000 for a fleet of rental cars to carry her and her massive entourage to destinations such as the shrine of a Japanese rice god. Then, in Cambodia, Michelle and a delegation of U.S. government officials were booked into luxurious accommodations that cost American taxpayers close to a quarter of a million dollars.
Oh, yes. 



Right around a year before that pricey Asian jaunt, the first lady made an “official visit” to China during which she was accompanied not only by her entourage of Secret Service agents and assistants, but also by her daughters and her mother. Reports out of Beijing were not so glowing about the way the first family dealt with the locals at posh accommodations.
Uh-oh.
The Daily Mail reported: “Michelle Obama and three of her family members are staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite, but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced ‘pretty much everyone’ and made the hotel staff ‘fed up,’ a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline.”

Now, according to an announcement from The White House, the first lady is soon to be back on the road again…or to be more precise, back in the air and away from those frustrating closed windows at the uncomfortable DC mansion she calls home.
And when she takes off for Europe aboard her taxpayer-funded plane, bound for a taxpayer-funded stay at an expensive hotel, where she will enjoy taxpayer-funded amenities and events, Michelle Obama will be accompanied by her two daughters and her mother, Marian Robinson.
So why is the first lady bound for London, Milan, and Vicenza, Italy, for a week in mid-June? In part, says the White House notice, Mrs. Obama will once more be promoting her Let Girls Learn initiative as she did in Japan and Cambodia. Plus, she’ll put in an appearance at the Milan Expo 2015 to push her agenda for a healthier planet by way of Let’s Move.


The announcement of the first lady’s latest tour schedule doesn’t say much about what she and her family members will be doing all the time she’s not promoting girls’ education or physical activity or briefly visiting with members of the U.S. military. The one hint that there will be a little pleasure time in the schedule: “The First Lady will also visit cultural sites in Venice before returning to Washington, DC.”
When the trip was announced on Twitter, most of the comments were favorable, supporting the first lady’s excursion. A few tweets, however, noted that the American taxpayer is once again picking up the tab for what, to some, amounts to a pretty awesome summer vacation.



This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth

Hypocritical Hillary Clinton Accepted Nearly $10 Million From Church That Condemns Homosexuality

by James Beattie 

Despite Hillary Clinton’s pro-gay marriage stance, a philanthropic organization associated with the Clintons reportedly took millions of dollars between 2010 and 2015 from a church which staunchly condemns homosexual practices. It’s leader asserted homosexuality comes “from the devil.”
The Daily Mail reported that the Clinton Health Access Initiative took between $1 million and $10 million from Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC) Health Services. The CBC issued a statement in December 2013 which affirmed their position on human sexuality:

As a church we uphold the principle that marriage is celebrated between a man and a woman. We also uphold the principle that sexual intercourse outside marriage, sexual promiscuity, adultery, homosexuality, sexual exploitation, same sex marriage, incest, and sexual perversion contradict God’s purpose for human sexuality.

 

Other donors to the Clinton Health Access Initiative include Bill and Melinda Gates and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. 

As Bloomberg News points out, the Democratic presidential candidate’s position on the issue has wavered in the last 15 years. In 2000, Hillary said she believed marriage was between a man and a woman. In 2006, her position was that it was up to the states. Eight years ago, she was “positive about civil unions.” Now she has affirmed a pro-gay marriage stance.
The CBC’s president, Joe Chebonkeng, told CameroonWeb last year:

[The idea of homosexuality] is coming from the devil because it is not prescribed by the Bible which means that if you practise unorthodox things, these are things that are coming from the dark world and they know what they do with such things, because, it is unthinkable. Only recently, Cameroonians began to know that a man can get married to a man. And many people confront me to ask what it means for a man to get married to a man? You begin to imagine some devilish type of a thing. I think that Cameroonians should be resolute on issues of homosexuality and these are not practices that are common in our societies. These are imported ideas, imported ways of life which are alien to our society. It is time Africans spoke out on this ill.

Are you fed up with Clinton hypocrisy? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth

Ethanol Is a Failure so EPA Wants to Force Us to Use More

by Bob Allen 

The EPA is trying to impose more environmental damage and less fuel-efficiency on the American people, along with higher food prices, for the sake of ethanol.
It is far, far, far beyond time for Congress to de-fund, and shut down the EPA.
From the Patriot Post: “EPA Proposes More Corn for Fuel, Not Food.”

Compared to this time last year, Americans are paying much less at the gas pump. Enjoy it while you can, though, because gas prices are about to rise. The expected price increase isn’t due to chaos in the Middle East or a shortage of fossil fuels. No, it’s due to the Environmental Protection Agency and its newly released proposal to increase ethanol production. By the way, do you like your food bill? Get ready, because that’s about to increase too. 

 

 

The EPA’s proposed three-year ethanol mandate will increase the amount of biofuel mixed into the gasoline supply. This may sound great to supporters of so-called renewable energy, but it’s actually doubling down on a terrible idea. 

This one phrase from later in the post says it all: “The EPA would rather ignore reality…” 

I’ve written extensively and repeatedly on the failed ethanol boondoggle, yet here they are again, back to triple and quadruple down on a pathetic idea. Ethanol does not help the environment, it hurts people all over the world through higher food AND fuel costs, it harms engines, lowers gas mileage… it does nothing positive. Except… it keeps the campaign donations flowing from the farm lobby. That’s the entire reason for many government mandates!
Ignoring reality pretty much describes Washington, DC, today. They live in a bubble of illusions and debauchery, with virtually zero connection to real life. They make tyrannical rules that they themselves often don’t have to follow, and set their own bloated salaries, no matter how much the nation is in economic pain

Show me one business that could demonstrate a 95% failure-rate—as the TSA just did—and remain in business, with no one getting fired! Not one terrorist caught in its entire history, and they missed 95.7% of guns and bombs sent through the circus-inspired airport screening process (and at least circuses are entertaining, and one can decide whether to support them or not!).
If the push for an Article V Convention of States fails it’s time to begin moving toward peaceful secession; DC needs to get its walking papers—the great experiment in liberty has failed. The majority of today’s Americans are not worthy of freedom, and at this rate won’t have any semblance of it much longer.
It’s time for drastic change before hope dies.

 

Transgender Is Here; Is Transabled Next?

by Bob Allen 

Transabled means people claim to have an inner identity that is disabled and demand that their bodies be altered to match “what’s inside.” Sound familiar?
This is not The Onion. This is a real story from the Canadian National Post: “Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies.”

People like Jason have been classified as ‘‘transabled’’ — feeling like imposters in their bodies, their arms and legs in full working order.

“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa. 

“The person could want to become deaf, blind, amputee, paraplegic. It’s a really, really strong desire.”

Researchers in Canada are trying to better understand how transabled people think and feel. Clive Baldwin, a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies who teaches social work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., has interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled.

Most of them are men. About half are in Germany and Switzerland, but he knows of a few in Canada. Most crave an amputation or paralysis, though he has interviewed one person who wants his penis removed. Another wants to be blind. 

Many people, like One Hand Jason, arrange “accidents” to help achieve the goal. One dropped an incredibly heavy concrete block on his legs — an attempt to injure himself so bad an amputation would be necessary. But doctors saved the leg. He limps, but it’s not the disability he wanted.

Transgendered… transabled… people alienated from God manufacture countless ways to express that sense of alienation in increasingly grotesque and saddening forms. They suppress the truth that their root disaffection is rebellion against the Creator, and absent God’s freely offered solution in the Messiah, Jesus, men futilely seek everywhere for peace.
Bruce Jenner ascended the summit of human physical achievement in the Olympics… and found it fleeting. He married into what the world sees as the most glamorous of female satisfaction… and found it hollow. His heart, and those of the “transabled” in this article, have an ache only God can satisfy, yet each persists in looking everywhere else to assuage the gnawing pain in his or her soul. They can deface their bodies… but it will not bring peace. Only Jesus can do that. Only Jesus

We are made to seek our identity in Christ, and short of that, we find innumerable substitutes—many of them incredibly destructive to mind, life, and limb. I do not laugh at these people—and neither should you! I hurt for them. I pray for God to raise up faithful followers who will proclaim the Good News that although things are, indeed, messed up beyond recognition, God Himself has paid the full penalty for our rebellion, and offers to apply that satisfaction to our account when we acknowledge and turn from our sin, and cast ourselves on God’s mercy.
The Bible records times in history when men have gone mad in their brokenness. It’s very clear we live in such a time. Heaven weeps.

 

Dear Liberals, If I Can Get Your Attention Away from “Caitlyn’s” Boobs for a Minute…

[Photo-shop]

[Reality: Bruce Jenner caught cross dressing]

Bottom Line the dude is gay by choice won't admit it..thus all the transgender crap!


by Mark Horne 
Dear Liberals, about this transgender thing: don’t you think you might be just a little bit crazy?

It is fairly obvious that you see the presence of Christians in this country as getting in the way of achieving your dreams for society—which requires the criminalization of all dissent.
Isn’t it time you thought critically about your own agenda? It seems to us Christians (and perhaps to others) that avoiding critical thought is a daily requirement for your life. I just want to write to you about one instance, having to do with the big civil rights victory for Photoshop: the person who can change his name but not his gender, “Miss” Jenner.

I’ve written about Paul McHugh before. He was the psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital when they were pioneering alleged “sex change operations”—or to Photoshop it a bit more, “sexual reassignment surgery.” They stopped doing it. I recently found an older piece by McHugh and he said something in it that I think you need to consider:

I have learned from the experience that the toughest challenge is trying to gain agreement to seek empirical evidence for opinions about sex and sexual behavior, even when the opinions seem on their face unreasonable. One might expect that those who claim that sexual identity has no biological or physical basis would bring forth more evidence to persuade others. But as I’ve learned, there is a deep prejudice in favor of the idea that nature is totally malleable. Without any fixed position on what is given in human nature, any manipulation of it can be defended as legitimate. 

I read someone who mentioned that we live in a world where gender is allegedly fluid and undefined (except by evil imposition from “outside”) and sexual “orientation” is absolutely fixed and unchangeable.
That is correct; it is your Liberal world. Way to dominate!
But think about that for a minute.
Offer to cut off a man’s penis and leave an opening there, or close up a woman’s vagina and use her skin to make a protrusion, and you are a human rights hero.
Offer to help someone who wants to get married to the opposite sex and have a family with children, but is hampered in the pursuit of that goal by same-sex erotic thoughts, and you are a moral monster—a hater and a bigot.
Yes, dear Liberals, that is obviously completely sane and rational. The only thing that could possibly prevent us from agreeing with you is our allegiance to ancient superstition. If we didn’t believe Jesus rose from the dead, this would all make immediate sense to us.

But, hey, the glossy Photoshop job on Jenner looked all glamorous, so what do we know? Gaze at his boobs for awhile and any unpleasant thoughts this post may be stirring up will go away.
Did it ever occur to you, dear Liberals, that you are reversing cause and effect by blaming religion for opposing your vision for society?
Maybe so many people continue to believe because you show that the alternative is insane self-destruction and slavery.

NEW BLACK PANTHERS: The Terror Attack They Just Admitted to Plotting In #Ferguson Will Make Your Jaw Drop

This is unreal. Yet, the Left will label them as freedom fighters.
Two members of the New Black Panther Party who met in Ferguson during protests over Michael Brown’s death admitted in court Tuesday they planned to blow up a police station and kill the prosecutor involved in the case.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 23-year-old Olajuwon Ali Davis and 24-year-old Brandon Orlando Baldwin each pleaded guilty to multiple explosive and gun related charges in federal court today. Federal agents who tracked the duo’s conversations by phone and text message say they planned to target Robert McCulloch, the prosecutor who handled the Michael Brown grand jury, and Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson. The plot involved blowing up cars using remotely triggered bombs and also using bombs to blow up a police station.
Read more: Breitbart

Nevada: Legislature Adjourns Sine Die with Governor Sandoval Signing Critical Gun Legislation

via:  NRA-ILA
Late last night, the Nevada Legislature adjourned their legislative session sine die and today, Governor Brian Sandoval signed pro-gun Senate Bill 175 and Senate Bill 240 into law. The 2015 legislative session was a successful year for gun owners in the Silver State as huge improvements were made to Nevada’s gun laws.  Please thank Governor Sandoval for signing both SB 175 and SB 240. 

Governor Brian Sandoval:
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SB 175 makes drastic improvements to Nevada’s gun laws.  This is done by improving Nevada’s preemption statutes, ensuring consistency in gun laws throughout the Silver State and most importantly, abolishing handgun registration in Clark County.  SB 175 also improves the self-defense statutes by extending the castle doctrine to include automobiles, protects from civil liability those who have used force justifiably, and creates a rebuttable presumption in state law for when a person is acting in self-defense.  Finally, SB 175 expands the list of out-of-state permits that will be recognized to carry concealed in Nevada.  SB 175 passed the Assembly on May 22 with a 25-17 vote and was signed by Governor Sandoval today. 

SB 240, introduced by state Senator Michael Roberson (R-20), requires a court to transmit within 5 business days certain records of adjudication concerning an individual’s mental health to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for purposes relating to purchasing and possessing a firearm. In addition, SB 240 also removes the fees on voluntary background checks and provides provisions to target “straw purchasers.”  Further, SB 240 includes improvements to the state preemption laws and abolishes the handgun registration requirements in Clark County.  SB 240 passed the Assembly on May 21 with a 23-18 vote and was signed by Governor Sandoval today. 

As previously reported, Assembly Bill 136, introduced by Assemblyman John Ellison (R-33) was signed by Governor Sandoval on Wednesday, May 27, and will take effect on July 1, 2015.  AB 136 recognizes the right of archery hunters to carry a firearm for personal protection.  While afield, hunters may face threats from large predators or violent crime, and the limitations of archery equipment can leave a hunter helpless.  There is simply no reason why a hunter using a bow and arrow should lose his or her ability, and therefore right, to personal protection.  AB 136 also allows for the adoption of reasonable accommodations for those hunters with certain disabilities.

AB 121, introduced by Assemblymen Jim Wheeler (R-39), John Ellison (R-33) and Brent Jones (R-35), prohibits schools from disciplining certain pupils for simulating a firearm or dangerous weapon or wearing clothes and accessories which depict firearms.  AB 121 passed the Senate on May 22 with a 15-6 vote and has been sent to Governor Sandoval for his signature. 

Senate Joint Resolution 11 passed the Assembly on May 4 with a 32-10 vote and has been sent to the Secretary of State.  As previously reported, SJR 11, sponsored by state Senator Scott Hammond (R-18), proposes an amendment to the Nevada constitution that establishes an individual right to hunt, trap and fish in The Silver State.  SJR 11 would ensure that wildlife conservation and management decisions continue to be based on sound science in order to preserve Nevada’s hunting heritage and to protect it against future attacks from well-funded, anti-hunting organizations.  In order to be put before voters on the ballot, this bill must pass two consecutive legislative sessions.  This is the first step to amending the Nevada Constitution to protect Nevadan’s right to hunt, trap and fish.  SJR 11 must also pass the 2017 legislative session.

Unfortunately, a number of bills died in the Senate Judiciary Committee, including several which related to campus carry and parking lots. 

Thank you to all NRA members and Second Amendment supporters for your active involvement throughout the 2015 legislative session.  Your NRA will continue to stand and fight for the rights of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen across Nevada.

Neil Cavuto Can’t Hide His True Feelings About Bruce Jenner’s Gender Change: ‘Rome, Final Days’

oped: Ok first and foremost... disclaimer: I am not a psychiatrist/psychologist I have no degree from a prestigious university saying I am smart or a genius...just a everyday guy with a PhD from the college of hard knocks...earned over seven decades of fighting my way through what we normal people call life...some teach some do...those who do 'Common Sense' a true oxymorn yes? ...well we who have just plain old fashioned sense do the work and research on their own...no BS /PC allowed...as Sgt Friday on the old TV series "Dragnet" always stressed...'Just the Facts Ma'am ...just the facts'
So here we go:

There is no so called 'Gay' gene...nor a transexual gene...prove me wrong..sorry you can't it simply does not exist....so the so called LGBT movement is a fraud from the get go...homosexuality/transexuality is nothing more than a fetish...caused by either sexual abuse during the formative years of development or rejection by the opposite sex for whatever perceived reasons ie: sexual immaturity or a power trip SEE: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/08/revisiting-pink-swastika.html  

 ...it is a state of mind not a cause of biological genetics...the only exception would be documented by science 'Hermaphrodites'...having been born with both sexual parts a fluke of nature ...cause by chemically damaged genes or passed on by defective genetics... if a person is born male or female with just those single parts then they are male or female not transexual...biologically normal...if they become homosexual/transexual  it is a cause by outside influence not nature!  

Therefore I stand with Neil Cavuto...yes indeed those who fail to study history...or take the time to research for facts are doomed to repeat history ie: the Roman Empire... Caligula/Nero or the German Nazi Party of Hitler...Just a fact Jack!  We are in the final days of the repeat of the last days of Rome/Nazi Germany...#WakeUpPeople


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One TV news host who is decidedly not on board with Caitlyn Jenner’s gender transition is Fox News host Neil Cavuto. “Bruce Jenner is now Caitlyn Jenner,” Cavuto said on his Fox Business show Monday afternoon, showing the newly-released Vanity Fair cover on screen before asking reporter, Dagen McDowell, “What the hell is going on?!” For her part, McDowell at first did her best to defend Jenner from Cavuto’s joking inquiries, but still continued to use male pronouns to describe the post-transition reality star, suggesting Caitlyn Jenner was trying to one-up step-daughter Kim Kardashian, who announced she was pregnant over the weekend. She also called Jenner’s cover outfit “very Playboy bunny-esque.” “Look at the time,” Cavuto joked, apparently eager to move on to another topic. He then proceeded to crack up the entire set by introducing contributor “Charlene Payne, or shall I say Charles Payne?” But it was Cavuto’s final words on the subject that revealed his true feelings: “Rome, final days. But that’s fine.”
via Mediaite

Will ISIS Attack on the June 29 Anniversary of the Caliphate?

(A photo posted by ISIS today of their caliphate police force)

by Bridget Johnson
It’s not the best time for the United States to be facing a terror threat from within.

Intelligence services have been overwhelmed with not just covert communications but a massive web of open-source outreach including tweets, chats, books, videos, new slick radio, memos, photo essays and magazines by terror organizations, members and sympathizers. Even when a suspect is known to authorities, such as Garland, Texas, shooter Elton Simpson, they’re flying under the radar. 

It’s a time when ISIS is emboldened from the seizures of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, expanding their territory as their opponents squabble over who gave up the Iraqi city 80 miles west of Baghdad. As ISIS contractors around the globe are written off as “lone wolves,” the terror group is letting its followers know that they needn’t come to the caliphate to train but can prep for and execute a lethal attack at home. And if someone does choose to get on a plane, they need only get their confidence boosted by today’s report that Transportation Security Administration screeners caught just 3 out of 70 attempts to sneak banned items, including dummy bombs, through checkpoints by red-teamers for the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general. 

Jihadists didn’t attack a heavily armed “draw Muhammad” event last Friday outside the Phoenix mosque attended by Simpson and fellow attacker Nadir Soofi, though the organizer has gone into hiding after threats. Online jihadists were relatively subdued about the event, though al-Qaeda did release guidelines last week detailing which blasphemers would be on their hit list.
So what is ISIS waiting for? Their anniversary, perhaps.
British jihadi Siddhartha Dhar, who now goes by Abu Rumaysah al-Britani after slipping off to the Islamic State when UK authorities arrested him but failed to take his passport when he was released on bail, recently penned what he passed off as a rather innocuous guide pitching the homey comforts of the caliphate from lattes to pickles. Yet he stressed in “A Brief Guide to the Islamic State [2015]“ the importance of an upcoming date: He called the founding of the Islamic State on June 29, 2014, a “date right up there with 11th September 2001.”

“In fact, in many ways it surpasses it purely for what it symbolizes,” he added.
Rumaysah ended the 47-page guide on a decidedly dark note: “As the Islamic State army edges closer and closer to Damascus and Baghdad, as a lion stalks its prey, watch closely at how defeat eats away at the loser, because these two cities are just appetisers. When we descend on the streets of London, Paris and Washington the taste will be far bitterer, because not only will we spill your blood, but we will also demolish your statues, erase your history and, most painfully, convert your children who will then go on to champion our name and curse their forefathers.”
June 29, a Monday, is one day before the P5+1 deadline for a final nuclear deal with Iran. Congress is in recess that week for the Fourth of July holiday. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins June 17.
Charlie Winter, a researcher at the Quilliam Foundation, told The Independent that he believes ISIS will be “more active than ever” as their anniversary approaches.

“There is a concerted effort to appear as relevant as ever, stronger than ever and more defiant than ever in the face of international opposition,” he added, predicting the group would be planning “more violence, more advances, more attacks.”
They may not be specifically aiming for a U.S. attack; the Islamic State hacking division just days ago published the names and addresses of Italian military commanders online as targets, the faces of the women cut out.

Maurizio Gasparri, a senator with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, last month accused the government of “bringing in Islamist fundamentalists and using Italian ships as taxis for potential jihadists” with migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy.
Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni warned that they “don’t have months and months” to address the migrant crisis with humanitarian and national security implications. “The double risk of an advance of the Islamic State group in Libya and the waves of migrants means we are in a race against the clock,” he told Corriere della Sera.
ISIS’ desire to sack Rome warranted an entire e-book, predicting “recruits” from among “left-wing activists” in Europe sympathetic to their cause “will give intelligence, share weapons and do undercover work for the Muslims to pave the way for the conquest of Rome.” They also predicted, though, that the Mafia will put up a fight.

Here in the United States, nearly a month ago the Pentagon raised the security level at military bases to the highest level since the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
FBI Director James Comey warned around the same time that “the haystack is the entire country” when it comes to finding ISIS.
“We are looking for the needles, but increasingly the needles are unavailable to us. … This is the ‘going dark’ problem in living color,” Comey said. “There are Elton Simpsons out there that I have not found and I cannot see.”
As far as specific threats for America, a message to “brothers and sisters fighting for the Sake of Allah” was posted on an online file-sharing site days after the Garland attack by a user claiming to be an ISIS-affiliated American.
“We have been watching closely who was present at this event and the shooter of our brothers. We knew that the target was protected. Our intention was to show how easy we give our lives for the Sake of Allah,” said the message, which was tweeted by a user who described him or herself as “stuck in the lands of the kufr [nonbelievers],” with a photo of an ISIS flag and a residential suburban neighborhood in the background.

The message said ISIS has stationed “71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire.”
“Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah. Of the 15 states, 5 we will name… Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan,” the posting continued. “The disbelievers who shot our brothers think that you killed someone untrained, nay, they gave you their bodies in plain view because we were watching.”
“The next six months will be interesting.”

Am I the Only One Who Ditched the Libertarian Movement?

by Robert Wargas
I used to identify as a libertarian. There are many reasons why I no longer do so. One is the libertarians’ often obsessive attempt to figure out every question in life as if it were a matter of simple algebra: plug in The Perfect Libertarian Axioms and get The One True Answer.
Another reason is a style of debate, common among the younger, orthodox libertarians, that allows for no disagreement without denunciation. Reflecting on Rand Paul’s theatrics, Ace at Ace of Spades HQ writes:
We define ourselves not just by our heroes and devotions, but even more by our enemies and our anathemas. I believe that it is foundational to the capital-L Libertarian creed, whether they realize it or not, that conservatives are enemies on an emotional level and to be treated with contempt and jeering. A large part of capital-L Libertarianism, many have noted, seems to be a sort of performance art of ritualized disdain for the Squares and Stiffs of the right.

Every political ideology has proponents that are obnoxious, crude, and intolerant. Every faction has its awful tendencies. But the propensity to denounce and castigate will always be stronger among those groups that define themselves in opposition to some traditional mainstream.
The nature of our technology only makes it worse. In the age of social media, when one’s political views are increasingly linked to one’s social status and employability, there is an overwhelming need for people to prove themselves worthy of sitting at the cool kids’ table.

Iraq Lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul to Islamic State – Worth $579 Million

Obama certainly has built the Islamic State Army into a formidable force.
Check it out:
Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when ISIS overran the northern city of Mosul, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday.

“In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons,” Abadi said in an interview with Iraqiya state TV. “We lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone.”
While the exact price of the vehicles varies depending on how they are armored and equipped, it is clearly a hugely expensive loss that has boosted ISIS’s capabilities.
Last year, the State Department approved a possible sale to Iraq of 1,000 Humvees with increased armor, machineguns, grenade launchers, other gear and support that was estimated to cost $579 million. 

Yep, a whole truckload of #Iraq army Hummers captured by ISIS and on their way to #Syria: pic.twitter.com/BLqcbhnL52

— Aymenn J Al-Tamimi (@ajaltamimi) June 13, 2014

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A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA: Bounding Fire & Movement

by BearingArms.com Staff 

Gun control supporters always whine that they think the militia isn’t “well-regulated,” because they:

1. don’t understand that we are pretty much all militia, and;
2. don’t grasp that “well-regulated” means “in proper working order,” not “legislated out of existence.”

In this video from Forgotten Weapons at Full30.com, you get to see an example of the sort of “well-regulated militia training” that our Founding Fathers would proudly recognize.

https://videos.full30.com/bitmotive/public/full30/v1.0/videos/forgottenweapons/f492b44461b0f9805da70c265c1f1d3e/854x480.webm

Here’s a brief excerpt of a drill from the third day of a 4-day rifle training class from Suarez International. In this drill, a teammate and I are advancing on a position while maintaining covering/suppressive fire. To do this, one of us keeps fire on the target area while the other moves a short distance forward. Roles then switch, and the second team member moves up while the first provides covering fire.
The key to this is communication, and the purpose here was really to practice communicating with your partner. I should also point out that as we were continuously moving downrange of each other, we were completely violating normal range safety protocols. This was not a safety issue because our movement routes kept us each well away from fire and because we were both competent shooters who were not going to start throwing wild rounds all over the place. In addition, to actually practice real-world combat use of a rifle one must eventually move beyond the square range paradigm.

Colorado D.A. Confirms Shooting Of Three Thugs Was “Common Sense Self-Defense”

by Bob Owens 

A trio of young thugs attempted to rob three men moving furniture into a condo in Aurora, Colorado Friday night. Two of the men accosted handed over their wallets. The third pulled his legally-concealed weapon and opened fire, hitting all three suspects:
One robbery suspect died on the way to the hospital. A second robbery suspect suffered serious injuries. A third fled, but walked into to Aurora South Medical Center where he was arrested.
The shooter had a concealed to carry weapons permit and put the gun down when he saw officers arriving.
Brauchler says Colorado’s self-defense law allows the use of deadly force.
“If you have a weapon on you and you are placed in imminent fear of serious bodily injury or death, you are entitled to defend yourself,” Brauchler said.
Brauchler noted it’s not a case of Make My Day because the shooting didn’t happen inside a residence.

“This is straight up regular common sense and statutorily codified self-defense,” he said.
All three suspects were shot as they stood in a 10′ x 6′ space between two doors.
Though the robbers have been described as “young people,” which is typically reserved for teens, the identities of the young men and their exact ages have not been discovered Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz said that they are looking for help in ascertaining who the three suspects are. The dead criminal obviously cannot speak, and the two surviving criminals either can’t speak, or think that by remaining silent they are somehow helping themselves.
Colorado Revised Statute § 18-3-102 is the state’s implementation of the felony murder rule, meaning that the two injured criminals can face first degree murder charges for the death of their compatriot.

Obama Administration Prepares “Final Assault” Against Gun Owners

by Bob Owens 

The Hill is reporting that Barack Obama has directed his Department of Justice to prepare an final executive-level attack on the Second Amendment during the waning years of his failed presidency:

The Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, according to list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration.
The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse.
Gun safety advocates have been calling for such reforms since the Sandy Hook school shooting nearly three years ago in Newtown, Conn. They say keeping guns away from dangerous people is of primary importance.

While short on specifics, the article notes that the Obama Admin will be targeting “high-powered pistols.” This must be interpreted as an attempt to ban magazine-fed rifle-caliber pistols, such as AR-15 and AKM-based pistols. These same firearms were used as an excuse for attempts to ban 5.56 NATO M855 rifle ammunition earlier this year. The Administration will also presumable attempt to ban arm braces attached to these pistols designed to make one-handed firing more easy for the physically disabled.
We’re unsure of precisely how the anti-gun Obama Administration is going to address gun storage requirements, or if they even have the legal authority to make requirements. This will bear watching.
The most insidious avenues of attack on gun ownership are through the trojan horse regulations to “keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse.” Both of these avenues of attack sound reasonable to many people who simply don’t pay attention to the issues and would never look at the details of what the regulations are proposing. Unfortunately, like so much done by this corrupt administration, it’s the details that matter.

While none of us want the criminally insane to be armed, the Obama Administration is going to do everything they can to take firearms away from people who are not a threat by defining “mentally unstable” to cast as wide of a net as possible. They aren’t just going after those with diagnoses of homicidal or suicidal thoughts, but would love to deny gun rights to those who seek for treatment of non-violent mental health concerns. Targets for these sweeping denials are thought to be people with chronic but relatively minor problems such as veterans with PTS and those diagnosed with minor depression. They are also thought to be targeting people with one-time mental health issues years or decades old, such as someone needed to be temporarily treated after being a victim of a tragic accident, violent crime, sudden loss of a loved one, or similar overwhelming tragedy.

Likewise, no one wants serial abusers (male or female) to be allowed to follow the deadly pattern of escalating abuse that ends with serious injury or death, but Obama isn’t attempting to deny firearms to these people, is he? Instead of going after serial abusers, Obama is attempting to target people with one-time, misdemeanor convictions on their records, and would likely try to follow California’s “thought crime”-based gun violence restraining orders, where you can be stripped of your Second Amendment rights without a conviction based merely on hearsay, without even having a chance to rebut your accusers in front of a judge.
The clean intent of the Obama Administration is to find a way to disarm as much of the citizenry as possible, by hook or by crook. It doesn’t matter to the Obama or the gun confiscation if people are innocent of these accusations. It doesn’t matter if these people are law-abiding citizens. It doesn’t matter that they aren’t a threat to anyone.

Obama is using the fig leaf of “mental instability” and “domestic violence” to attack the Constitution itself.
Considering the lawlessness of this failed President, none of us should be surprised.

House Democrat Backed By Insurance Companies Pushes Mandatory Gun Insurance

[A face only a mother or progressive could love!]

oped: I for one am sick and tired of the looney left dictating every function of our collective lives...they are on a rampage to tax and insure us all to death!
How about we conservatives turn the tables on the looney left progressives...let us start by demanding they have mandatory/separate supplemental insurance for being pro-choice abortion related ...oh and tax them for not procreating a continuing tax base for the future this tax should also be levied on the Gay community at large~ those being pro-life exempted...mandatory /separate supplemental insurance for recreational drug users since they are more likely to harm themselves and others...mandatory supplemental insurance/registration for street (green) bicycle riders and pedestrians since they could fall into the path of a moving vehicle or another person! oh and tax them for using more oxygen than one who does not peddle or walk for transportation...see this is the problem with the looney left progressives they are opening a can of worms that will surely come back and bite them in the proverbial ass! 

by Bob Owens 

New York Democrat Carolyn B. Maloney showed her allegiance to some of her biggest campaign backers Friday by proposing legislation that would require gun owners to buy blatantly unconstitutional liability insurance:

House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) has introduced a bill that would require gun owners to carry liability insurance.
The Firearm Risk Protection Act, unveiled Friday, would require gun buyers to have liability insurance coverage before being allowed to purchase a weapon, and would impose a fine of $10,000 if an owner is found not to have it. Service members and law enforcement officers, however, would be exempt from the requirement.
“We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns,” Maloney said in a statement. “The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise.”

Maloney manages to cram an impressive three lies into two sentences here, which is par for the course for this liberty-hating Congresswoman so deeply in the pockets of her investors.

There is no law mandating that Americans must purchase insurance to possess or own a car. Nor is there any tie whatsoever between liability insurance and the declining lethality of automobile accidents; the lives saved in motor vehicle accidents are best attributed to rapid advances in automobile safety technologies demanded by consumers (not government intervention) in recent decades.
And it should probably come as no surprise that Maloney is lying about firearm homicides as well. They are not only not rising, but they have continued a long-term decline, and are down 49% from 1993.
OpenSecrets.Org provides data suggests that Maloney may be pushing this legislation on behalf of the insurance industry, which has become one of her strongest campaign contributors.


The insurance industry has become increasingly vital to Maloney, becoming her third-leading source of campaign cash in 2014. In 2012 they were her fourth-leading source of campaign funds, and in 2010, were her sixth-leading source of campaign money.
We hope that Rep. Maloney isn’t influenced at all by the insurance companies that have become increasing important to her reelection efforts year-after-year, and we’d like to be certain that she’s not involved in any of the illicit scheming that is claiming one New York politician after another this year.
Unfortunately, Maloney has a proven track record of being dishonest, and a record of hating the right to bear arms, including another bill recently to build a de facto database of gun owners.
Fortunately, the congresswoman’s bills have no chance of getting anywhere in a Republican-dominated House and Senate.

Pro-‘Gay,’ Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi Says Rubio is a Bad Catholic

by:Gary DeMar 

Nancy Pelosi says she is a faithful Roman Catholic. She has said that Marco Rubio is a bad Roman Catholic:
“I thoroughly disagree (with Rubio’s opposition to gay marriage), being raised in a Catholic family, raising a Catholic family, mainstream Catholic – well, the Baltimore Catechism, to get back to our hometown of Baltimore, was what we were raised on. And I think that this statement by Senator Rubio is most unfortunate. It’s a polarizing statement. The fact is, is that what we’re taught was to respect people in our faith and to say that this endangers mainstream Christian thinking is so completely wrong.”

Here are the question and answer to the marriage issue in the Baltimore Catechism:

Q. What is the Sacrament of Matrimony?
A. The Sacrament of Matrimony is the Sacrament which unites a Christian man and woman in lawful marriage.

Being a “mainstream Catholic” when Nancy Pelosi was growing up, the Catholic Church never would have approved of same-sex marriage. It would have been “mainstream Christian” thinking in the 1940s and 1950s (Pelosi was born in 1940) that same-sex sexuality was a sin, and same-sex marriage never would have been considered.
Have you noticed that liberals can appeal to their religious beliefs but conservatives can’t? You never hear liberals say “there’s a separation between church and state” when a fellow-liberal appeals to the Bible.

Read more: “Nancy Pelosi Compares Illegal Immigration to Jesus and Moses.”
The Baltimore Catechism is a man-made document that’s supposed to be based on the Bible. In many places it is. Therefore, in order to be a good Christian, the Bible and its commandments must be followed. And what does the Bible say about a person’s confession? It must be backed up by deeds. A tree is known by the fruit it produces (Matt. 7:15-20; 12:33; Luke 6:43-44), and that fruit must be evaluated by God’s Word.

Later in the New Testament, James writes:

“[F]aith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. But someone may well say, ‘You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.’ You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?” (James 2:17-20)

The works of Nancy Pelosi are “dead.”

There are at least three major commandments that Nancy Pelosi breaks as a political official.
First, sixth commandment: “You shall not murder” (Ex. 20:13). Abortion is murder, and Nancy Pelosi is part of Murder, Inc. Pelosi’s appeal to the Baltimore Catechism is comical since it has a lot to say about the evil of abortion: “Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.”
Here’s the problem: The Roman Catholic Church, like Pelosi, doesn’t follow its own catechism because it will not excommunicate people like Pelosi and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York.

Second, the seventh commandment: “You shall not commit adultery” (Ex. 20:14). The general commandment regarding adultery applies to the biblical definition of marriage. Same-sex marriage is a violation of the fifth commandment because it redefines the biblical definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman to include the marriage of people of the same sex. The same Bible that defines marriage also describes same-sex sexuality as being an abomination.
Third, the eighth commandment: “You shall not steal” (Ex. 20:15). Of course, she’s not the only politician who steals from millions of Americans. Pelosi repeatedly votes to tax people – take their hard-earned money from them – so she can give it to other people to buy their votes. And the most nefarious aspect of this theft is that she does it in the name of compassion and care for the poor. A person can’t be compassionate with other people’s money.

Pelosi’s real religion is government. She worships the State, and she wants you to worship it with her. Fascist Benito Mussolini captures the modern-day state worshipers: “Everything for the State; nothing outside the State; nothing against the State.”

Gay Newspaper Hunts Down Gay Hotelier for Cruz Donation, Gay-Shames Him

 
by Michael Walsh
That would be the New York Times, of course, incensed over a couple of gay guys who not only hosted an event for the Antichrist, Ted Cruz, but — gasp! — made a donation as well:

When the gay hoteliers Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass found themselves under siege for hosting a dinner for Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who is running for president and has been vociferously opposed to same-sex marriage, they repeatedly stressed that the event was not a fund-raiser.

 

“There were no checks given, it was nothing like that,” Mr. Reisner told New York magazine, after The New York Times first reported on the mid-April dinner at the Central Park South penthouse. Protests and calls for boycotts of Mr. Reisner’s and Mr. Weiderpass’s properties, including their groundbreaking hotel for gay clientele, the Out NYC, ensued.

As it turns out, Mr. Reisner himself wrote a check to Mr. Cruz’s presidential campaign, making a $2,700 donation — the maximum allowed in a nominating contest — around the time the dinner took place.

Can you believe it? Luckily, the enforcers of political correctness won the day:

But shortly after The Times reported on the dinner, where about 18 people sat down at two tables in separate areas of the palatial penthouse, Mr. Reisner called the campaign and asked for his check to be refunded.
“In the interest of transparency, I gave Senator Cruz a $2,700 check to show my support for his work on behalf of Israel,” Mr. Reisner said in a statement he provided after The Times learned of the donation from two people with direct knowledge of it. “When I realized his donation could be misconstrued as supporting his anti-gay marriage agenda, I asked for the money back. Senator Cruz’s office gave the money back, and I have no intention of giving any money to any politicians who aren’t in support of L.G.B.T. issues.”
A spokesman for Mr. Cruz declined to comment. Mr. Reisner, a friend insisted, was aware that his donation — and the refund — will appear on Mr. Cruz’s campaign finance filing when it becomes public in July. Mr. Reisner and Mr. Weiderpass have been doing damage control for over a month since the dinner, which made them pariahs in New York City’s gay rights community in which they’d been figures for years…

Let that be a lesson to the rest of you: any sort of deviance from “progressive” orthodoxy will be severely punished.