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Jim Banks: The Navy Should Apologize for Propping Up Ibram X. Kendi, Whose Antiracist Research Center Is Under Investigation
“The Navy put an anti-American radical and scammer on their official reading list. Henry Rogers, better known as Ibram X. Kendi, has always been an obvious fraud and the Navy should immediately apologize to Sailors for propping up a far-left, extremist huckster,” Banks said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News.
Boston University announced last week it was launching an inquiry into its Center for Antiracist Research, led by Kendi, after the center laid off more than half of its staff amid allegations of dysfunction and squandering $43 million in donations.
One former staff, Saida Grundy, a Boston University professor who worked at the center from fall 2020 to spring 2021, told the Boston Globe, “I don’t know where the money is.”
Former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday had put Kendi’s book, How to Be an Antiracist on his recommended reading list for all sailors in 2021, after a widespread belief among the left that a January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol had to do with racism.
The problem with Mr. Gaetz’s suicide mission this week was the same problem he had when he opposed Mr. McCarthy for speaker nine months ago. He had all kinds of complaints, but not one single solution.
Many of his complaints are valid. I would even call some of them the Holy Grail for finally fixing the thoroughly corrupted House of Representatives.
Yet none of these things gets fixed by removing Mr. McCarthy. Or the next speaker. Or the next one.
Nothing gets fixed until people like Matt Gaetz and the Suicide Caucus persuade fellow Republicans to join their cause. It is called politics — same as it ever was. And it requires leadership and vision, even if only once in a lifetime.
In defense of Mr. Gaetz, this is far beyond his capabilities. He is by far the most loathed member of the Republican caucus. It probably doesn’t help that he’s not an ordinary guy burning down the House, rather he looks like the evil Penguin character from the Batman comics and movies — if Penguin scored himself a prescription for Ozempic.
But that doesn’t mean he isn’t right on the issues. Single-issue legislation and regular order for approving all government spending is the only way to clear out the rat’s nest that Congress has become.
The appropriations process is so byzantine and opaque that no member has a clue what he is voting for and voters have no hope of understanding any of it. It is complicated for a reason: That is the only way lobbyists can live their wild, wild life and get Congress to spend billions of dollars on unpopular ventures like the war in Ukraine while starving crucially important priorities such as securing our border.
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Many of his complaints are valid. I would even call some of them the Holy Grail for finally fixing the thoroughly corrupted House of Representatives.
Yet none of these things gets fixed by removing Mr. McCarthy. Or the next speaker. Or the next one.
Nothing gets fixed until people like Matt Gaetz and the Suicide Caucus persuade fellow Republicans to join their cause. It is called politics — same as it ever was. And it requires leadership and vision, even if only once in a lifetime.
In defense of Mr. Gaetz, this is far beyond his capabilities. He is by far the most loathed member of the Republican caucus. It probably doesn’t help that he’s not an ordinary guy burning down the House, rather he looks like the evil Penguin character from the Batman comics and movies — if Penguin scored himself a prescription for Ozempic.
But that doesn’t mean he isn’t right on the issues. Single-issue legislation and regular order for approving all government spending is the only way to clear out the rat’s nest that Congress has become.
The appropriations process is so byzantine and opaque that no member has a clue what he is voting for and voters have no hope of understanding any of it. It is complicated for a reason: That is the only way lobbyists can live their wild, wild life and get Congress to spend billions of dollars on unpopular ventures like the war in Ukraine while starving crucially important priorities such as securing our border.
Burning down the House
Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican and psycho killer, led the smallest caucus in Congress this week across the aisle and into the lap of Democrats.
Jessie Watters has been reading out the earmarks set aside in this latest continuation spending bill. It's ridiculous. $1M to renovate a basketball court somewhere. And the Reps are as bad if not worse than the Dems.
Considering the SPLC’s long history of tarnishing organizations with Christian missions or conservative ties via a “hate map,” Grassley and Lankford said the FBI should “permanently refrain from relying on the SPLC as a source for any data or information for purported objective analysis, particularly related to designations of hate groups.”
“The FBI should not lend credibility to an organization that labels traditional values as ‘hate,’” the senators warned, concluding that “any use of SPLC data by the FBI” is “inappropriate and should be stopped immediately.”
The SPLC is known for disseminating its “hate group” list, which contains at least 1,225 organizations, to Democrat allies in Congress, Big Tech, and woke corporations on a regular basis. The activist hub recently aided the Biden regime’s quest to target concerned parents by sullying a dozen grassroots groups, including Moms For Liberty, as “anti-government extremist groups” in its 2022 “hate and extremism” report.
The leftist organization has also gained infamy in recent years for galvanizing a Virginia man to attack the Family Research Council (FRC) and for the behavior of its staff, like lawyer Thomas Webb Jurgens, who faces domestic terrorism charges for his role in targeting an Atlanta police training facility with rocks and incendiary devices.
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“The FBI should not lend credibility to an organization that labels traditional values as ‘hate,’” the senators warned, concluding that “any use of SPLC data by the FBI” is “inappropriate and should be stopped immediately.”
The SPLC is known for disseminating its “hate group” list, which contains at least 1,225 organizations, to Democrat allies in Congress, Big Tech, and woke corporations on a regular basis. The activist hub recently aided the Biden regime’s quest to target concerned parents by sullying a dozen grassroots groups, including Moms For Liberty, as “anti-government extremist groups” in its 2022 “hate and extremism” report.
The leftist organization has also gained infamy in recent years for galvanizing a Virginia man to attack the Family Research Council (FRC) and for the behavior of its staff, like lawyer Thomas Webb Jurgens, who faces domestic terrorism charges for his role in targeting an Atlanta police training facility with rocks and incendiary devices.
Senators Demand FBI Quit Relying On 'Extremely Biased' SPLC
Grassley and Lankford asserted that ‘there is never a legitimate reason to use the SPLC as a source’ because of the organization’s bias.
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Would love to see a very deep dive audit on them, too.Considering the SPLC’s long history of tarnishing organizations with Christian missions or conservative ties via a “hate map,” Grassley and Lankford said the FBI should “permanently refrain from relying on the SPLC as a source for any data or information for purported objective analysis, particularly related to designations of hate groups.”
“The FBI should not lend credibility to an organization that labels traditional values as ‘hate,’” the senators warned, concluding that “any use of SPLC data by the FBI” is “inappropriate and should be stopped immediately.”
The SPLC is known for disseminating its “hate group” list, which contains at least 1,225 organizations, to Democrat allies in Congress, Big Tech, and woke corporations on a regular basis. The activist hub recently aided the Biden regime’s quest to target concerned parents by sullying a dozen grassroots groups, including Moms For Liberty, as “anti-government extremist groups” in its 2022 “hate and extremism” report.
The leftist organization has also gained infamy in recent years for galvanizing a Virginia man to attack the Family Research Council (FRC) and for the behavior of its staff, like lawyer Thomas Webb Jurgens, who faces domestic terrorism charges for his role in targeting an Atlanta police training facility with rocks and incendiary devices.
Senators Demand FBI Quit Relying On 'Extremely Biased' SPLC
Grassley and Lankford asserted that ‘there is never a legitimate reason to use the SPLC as a source’ because of the organization’s bias.
Graham calls Trump’s praise of Hezbollah a ‘huge mistake’
In recent days, Trump has faced blowback for saying Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, is “very smart, they’re all very smart.” The U.S. has labelled Hezbollah a terrorist organization. GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and former Vice President Mike Pence have all pushed back on Trump’s comments.
The Trump campaign has attempted to walk back the remarks, saying that just because he called Hezbollah “smart” does not mean that he was praising the group.
“President Trump was clearly pointing out how incompetent Biden and his administration were by telegraphing to the terrorists an area that is susceptible to an attack. Smart does not equal good,” read a tweet from the campaign’s “War Room” account.
JFC .... Graham is an embarrassment ...
Trump was not ' praising ' just from calling them ' smart '
Lindsey is following the Democrats lead interpreting Trump in the most rediculously inaccurate manner possible.
Stick a fork in the GOP.
Arkansas Gov. Sanders' Latest Move Against the CCP Is a First in the Nation
The 160 acres of land owned by Syngenta — an agrichemical company headquartered in Switzerland and owned by Chinese Communist Party-controlled ChemChina — is the first to be hit with the consequences of Act 636 which went into effect earlier this year after being signed by Governor Sanders.
As summarized by the state House, the legislation "prohibits certain foreign parties from acquiring any interest in Arkansas agricultural land, provides penalties for violations, [and] creates the Office of Agricultural Intelligence for information analysis and enforcement." The Chinese Communist Party is one such entity that is now prohibited.
Governor Sanders will announce the first action taken under Act 636 alongside Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward at noon ET.
"For far too long, in the name of tolerance, we've let dangerous governments infiltrate our country," Governor Sanders told Townhall of her administration's action. "Arkansas will tolerate them no longer."
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
No reporting on political ties
Thiel is a citizen of Germany, the United States, and New Zealand; as of last year, he was reportedly in the process of acquiring yet another passport, from Malta. In 2016, he donated $1.25 million to Trump's campaign and endorsed him from the stage at the Republican National Convention. After Trump won, Thiel served on his transition team.Johnson, who said that he was also an informant for Buma, told Insider that he believes that Thiel's reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley. Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google's ties to the Chinese government.
Thiel, Johnson said, was directed by the FBI not to report on his interactions with Donald Trump or other US political figures.
Many of the politicians that Thiel has bankrolled — including Trump, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, and Blake Masters, a former Arizona senatorial candidate — have repeatedly attacked the bureau and its leadership in public. In 2022, Vance, whose campaign and affiliated PACs received a total of $15 million from Thiel, falsely claimed that the FBI had illegally wiretapped Trump's phone. Vance accused the bureau of "harassing faithful Christians" and pledged to block all of President Joe Biden's Department of Justice nominees in retaliation for the Trump prosecutions. (Most but not all of Thiel's donations occurred in early 2021, before the launch of Vance's campaign and the many false claims he made over the course of the race.)
Masters, whose campaign received $20 million of support from Thiel, has endorsed the false conspiracy theory that undercover FBI agents fomented the January 6, 2021, insurrection and accused the FBI agents who executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago of "going after President Trump because they hate him." (As with Vance, most but not all of Thiel's donations to Masters occurred before Masters made his most inflammatory and baseless statements during the later stages of his campaign.)
Thiel is reportedly planning to sit on the sidelines of the 2024 election.
Neither Trump, Masters, nor Vance responded to requests for comment.
Mitt Romney Admits He Didn’t Know Anything About Burisma During Trump’s Ukraine Impeachment
Mitt Romney’s longtime stenographer McKay Coppins has a new book out called Romney: A Reckoning. The book is an airing of silly and surprisingly petty grievances from Utah’s unpopular junior senator, who lost a winnable presidential campaign against Barack Obama in 2012 and is now being driven out of the Senate by his inability to win reelection.
Much of the book details Romney’s growing appreciation of his Democrat colleagues and their policies and political goals, even as he spews invective about many of his Republican colleagues, particularly those with a reputation for advancing conservative ideals.
One of the Democrat goals Romney aligned himself with was the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. As he tells the story through Coppins, he is full of invective for every Republican but himself. He calls Attorney General William Barr “nervous” and “like all the other toadies in the Trump administration.” The entire GOP conference is smarmy, craven, and cowardly, he asserts, since they didn’t agree with his anti-Trump obsessions.
Romney spent the fall of 2019 giving public interviews to left-wing media, in which he complained about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and telegraphing his eventual vote in favor of impeachment. Yet Romney claims to have been shocked that conservatives weren’t elated with his grandstanding.
Prime-time hosts on Fox News, where I’m a contributor, were apparently “treating him with mounting hostility,” according to the book, which adds, “Sean Hannity accused Romney of ‘morphing’ into a ‘weak, sanctimonious Washington, swamp politician,’ and suggested the senator was simply ‘jealous’ of Trump’s myriad successes.”
Romney was hurt by Hannity’s remarks, according to the book, since the host had been a staunch supporter of Romney’s presidential campaign. Romney called up the man described as his “old buddy,” but the call did not go well. Hannity accused Romney of just trying to be liked by left-wing media. Then he asked why Romney wasn’t more outraged by the Burisma scandal, the entire issue that was at the heart of the Ukraine impeachment scandal.