AMERICA LOST

America Lost is a feature documentary that explores life in three “forgotten American cities”—Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California.

The film reveals the dramatic decline of the American interior through a combination of emotional personal stories and thoughtful conservative commentary. Filmmaker Christopher F. Rufo spent five years gathering these intimate portraits of Americans on the edge, including an ex-steelworker scrapping abandoned homes to survive, a recently incarcerated father trying to rebuild his life, and a single mother dreaming of escaping her blighted urban neighborhood.

Ultimately, despite these grave challenges, the film offers a glimpse of hope for rebuilding America’s families and communities from the bottom up.

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What a Conservative Learns In College

Excerpt: . . .fear was a constant feeling for conservatives on campus. In May 2017, when a massive protest engulfed the college over racist notes found on campus, my progressive peers put up posters declaring “I’m sick of white tears” and “f*ck your white complacency.” During the protest, student demonstrators took over portions of the school, blocking some entrances and effectively barricading students inside. Rewarding demonstrators for having successfully commandeered a campus building, administrators canceled classes the next day to address their grievances.

Later it was proven that the main “racist note” that had launched the campus coup was a hoax, written by a black, female student.

As I reflect on my four years in college, I admit I am disappointed in many ways. The lack of diversity of thought, the absence of respect for differing opinions, the threats, the bullying–it was all so juvenile and the antithesis of everything higher education is supposed to be.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/what-a-conservative-learns-in-college.php

New anti-IRS website

Just added to "Join The 2nd American Revolution" (scroll down, right panel):

This website is dedicated to exposing government abuse and corruption, but more particularly exposing the corruption, abuse, arrogance and illegal activities of the Internal Revenue Service by providing IRS facts and reporting IRS horror stories. The website will chronicle court cases where taxpayers have beaten the IRS and will provide applicable documents, letters and forms. For those who are at odds with the IRS, this information could prove invaluable.

One of our important goals is to work towards a national movement to repeal the IRS and the Tax Code, first by petition and then by legislation.

http://www.attackwatchspies.com/

There is now a NEW political party for conservatives!!

The New Federalist Party is currently raising funds in order to file with the Federal Elections Committee.

http://www.TheNewFederalistParty.org
https://www.facebook.com/NewFederalistNationalCommittee

Our Mission

We shall ever seek to provide a deep and profound commitment to the founding principles of The United States of America. We shall commit to uphold and defend the Constitution without regard for any other ideology, premise or belief. We shall commit to the empowerment of each individual State, that they may again have sovereign control to the laws, citizenry and of the land and seas within their borders as is their right under the 10th Amendment.

We shall seek to establish a more efficient, and smaller Federal Government to uphold the Constitution, provide to the states that which is the responsibility of the Federal Government to do so, and protect the citizenry of this nation by use of the armed forces as proper and with complete regard for Posse Comitatus as the definitive answer for military action within the borders of our nation.

We shall seek to repeal and stand against all laws, amendments, and acts that are in conflict with the principles and ideologies of The United States of Americas’ founding; including those principles shown to exist by The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.

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It  is to the citizenry of this nation to be the change in which they wish to see. For more than three generations the Federal Government has over-stepped its limitations and usurped powers long before so recognized as those reserved to the States and the People. Many cry-out for violent means and methods. We believe that these members of the citizenry are simply overly burdened and frustrated at the failures and usurpations of those rights inalienable to the citizens of this nation.

Many had hoped that certain movements within our nation would begin to change the tide. Those movements unfortunately showed themselves to be just as fruitless and as willing to cherry-pick The Constitution as those we seek to remove from office means of installing our own candidates.

Your donations are precious to us. This is a volunteer organization and not a single individual will receive a single dime. It is time we give this nation and its people a viable third option on the ballot. So we ask that you please donate what you can spare.

Our Website is available at: www.TheNewFederalistParty.org

Ted Cruz: Lightning Rod

POLITICO:

Cruz has become a lightning rod, and all because he’s daring to do what he promised during his campaign for the Senate. That simple act of integrity has set him apart from the pack. Most politicians know what to say to get elected but then arrive in Washington with no real spine — or in many cases, no intention of ever doing what they promised.

Not Cruz. He’s proved himself an effective advocate for the founding principles that made our nation great: personal freedom and responsibility, local control and adherence to the law as it is written, not the way some politicians wish it was written.

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What is at stake could be the very future of American Conservatism.

FORBES: Will Jim DeMint Destroy The GOP Or Save It?

Andrew Klavan: The Long Game

Brilliant: Three areas the Right should address, financially and intellectually...

This AND MORE from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.

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Patriotism and traditional values, like those displayed in "Thor," "The Artist," "Soul Surfer" and "Hugo," are what moviegoers want, says a group that will honor such films at an awards gala Friday.

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It's time to dump Grover Norquist...

...and here's why!

To the shrill left, he's a pariah because his famous anti-tax pledge prevents new revenues from flooding into the U.S. Treasury.

To most on the right, he's a hero for fighting for smaller government.

The truth about Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, is that he is neither of these things.

Norquist’s Network & Iran: Another Heads-Up for the GOP?

Why Sarah Palin Needs To Run For President In 2012

While always open to the idea of one day supporting Sarah Palin for President, since 2008, I've gone back and forth on whether or not I thought it was smart for her to run next year. Re-visiting my thoughts yesterday, what with Palin's appearance in Iowa, not only am I convinced she should run, she needs to run and, regardless of one's preferred candidate, all Conservatives should encourage her to run and welcome her into the race, assuming she does.

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I AGREE!

S&P UPGRADES...OHIO!

Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) explains how Ohio turned its greatest fiscal shortfall into a structurally balanced budget, all while cutting taxes for every Ohioan.

Conservative ideas work!

Socialist ideas don't (never have).

A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Debt Limit Debate

From Hillsdale College

HAT TIP: Desert Exile

The Secret Knowledge...

EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK THAT WILL ROCK THE LIBERAL MIND AND DEMOLISH THE IDEA THAT ONLY "STUPID" MEAN PEOPLE ARE CONSERVATIVES!

(And, it's a big 'f*ck you' to Bill Maher who really IS stupid and mean.)

The other Barry...

Message from Dr. Jack Wheeler at ToThePointNews.com

Fifty years ago, the other Barry wrote down his dream. Just think of how much greater, how much safer, how much richer, and how much freer we would all be today if Americans had the brains and courage back then to put him in the White House instead of his precise opposite. Here is Barry's Dream:

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution ... or have failed their purpose ... or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.

I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

This was the dream, the pledge to America, of Barry Goldwater (1909-1998). You'll find these words on page 15 of his book, written in 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative.

2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse

UK TELEGRAPH: Forget the liberal hype about a comeback...

What do you think? Should the Republican Party solely concentrate on fiscal matters, or is there room for social conservatives?

Indiana Congressman Mike Pence has a stellar record of conservatism...

The Architect Has No Clothes

What the will a Senate majority full of Olympia Snowes and John McCains and Lindsey Grahams get you? Easy. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid in power. This is exactly the legacy of the Bush presidency --and Rove was right there at the levers of power the entire way.

Truth be told, Rove's biggest architectural accomplishment is the Obama administration. By doing his part as senior advisor to the president to define conservatism down, he sullied the reputation and disoriented the understanding of what it means to be conservative to millions of half-informed voters nationwide.

How did this manifest?

It has had a disastrous effect on the outcome of elections across the country since 2006. Frankly, a case can be made that only the Democrats' Wellstone Memorial in 2002 and an awful Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004 allowed the perception that the Bush White House had an effective political wing. I submit that they never did. With Bush leaving office at around 26% approval, no one debates that now. This was Rove's wing.

Which raises the question I've had for ten years: can we finally -- once and for all -- bury the myth of the "architect"? With all due respect, putting together a strategy that forged a statistical tie with Gore-Lieberman and edged Kerry-Edwards by 3 points with the power of incumbency is not the stuff of genius.

Lee Atwater would be ashamed of such results. So how did Rove get this reputation?

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H/T: RiehlWorldView

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Islamo-Fascists to Build Mosque Steps Away from the 9/11 Site

In a stunning insult to the families of the 9/11 victims, Islamist scum are planning the construction of the Cordoba House, a mosque and cultural center. It will be built just steps from the 9/11 site where 3000 people lost their lives when jihadists flew planes into the Twin Towers.

Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who helped found the Cordoba Initiative following the 9/11 attacks, said the project is intended to foster better relations between the West and Muslims. We at Neville feel safer already

For those not in the know, Cordoba was the capital of the Islamic Emirate of Al-Andalus (Andalusia) in Spain, seized by Muslim invaders from Africa in 711 and recaptured by Spanish Christians under Ferdinand III of Castille in 1236. What better indication could there be of the Islamic intent to make America a Moslem Al-Andalus Emirate?

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Islamo-Fascists to Build Mosque Steps Away from the 9/11 Site -- Pt. 2

The New York based Landmarks Preservation Commission has voted unanimously to deny landmark status to a building two blocks from the World Trade Center site that developers want to tear down and convert into an Islamic community center and mosque.

The decision has cleared the way for the Islamist scum, including CAIR, and the Islamic apologists and enablers on the left , to begin construction near Ground Zero.

The decision drew praise from the idiot Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who called the mosque project a key test of Americans' commitment to religious freedom. Bloomberg would have been very comfortable collaborating with the Nazis in WWII.

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Obama Unmasked: Announces His Support of Ground Zero Victory Mosque

Politico.com has announced that our not-so-newly-minted Muslim President and Fraudinator-in-Chief's support for the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. What took you so long Barack? I guess you were waiting for the controversy to really heat up so that you could, once again, be on the wrong side of a clear majority of Americans.

Of course, this was perfectly predictable. After nineteen months of bowing to "kings" and dictators, blaming America for all of the evils in the is world, four Islamist attacks on U.S. soil, trying to have the KSM trial in N.Y., wrecking the economy by turning a mild recession into a prolonged one, why not slap the 9/11 families and the American people around a little more and poke a sharp stick in our eye.

Obama's not alone in this insanity. Mayor Bloomberg, NY Attorney General Cuomo and any number Democratic congressmen, many of them suicidal Jews, and Liberal commentators are falling all over themselves in their desire to "out-tolerance" the next one.

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Oliver Stone Comes Out: Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic

Oliver Stone's true colors finally emerged after years of anti-Americanism and acceptance by the morally perverse Hollywood community. He felt comfortable enough come out as a Jew hater that he always was. What a surprise. He's now right up there with Helen Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave and Jimmy Carter.

In an interview with The Sunday Times of London Oliver Stone said that Hitler caused more damage to the Russian people than to Jewish people, but that the American focus on the Holocaust stems from the "Jewish domination of the media."

Stone: "Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein," Stone said "German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support...

"Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than to the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million killed."

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America vs Obama and the Ruling Elite

You can feel it more and more…the elites don't care what you think or how you vote. And no matter how far our Fraudinator-in-Chief's poll numbers sink he keeps getting what he wants either by judicial or regulatory fiat, or Congressional chicanery due to the large Democrat majorities in Congress.

The country is coming to slow boil as the east and west coast elites remain locked in their ivory towers. Let them eat cake.

We are coming to a boil because of the $862 billion "stimulus" that turned into a welfare program for bankrupt states and public unions. We are coming to a boil because of the $700 billion TARP program that became a giant porkulus program for Democrats and their supporters. We are coming to a boil because of the job-killing duo of ObamaCare, jammed through Congress despite overwhelming opposition by the public at large, and financial reform (FinReg). Obama, Pelosi, Reid and company seem oblivious to the deep and lasting damage they're doing to America's economy.

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No Recovery? No Shit!

New York Times sez: No Recovery in Sight

Wow. Conservatives knew what would happen if the voters [HowObamaGotElected.com] put an economic midget with no experience [unless you count 3 failed years as a community organizer and 143 days in the Senate] in office. I guess we should be grateful that they're starting to notice something's wrong, but it just really pisses me off to think how they are dragging everyone down with them while they experiment on the country and for what? So they could feel good about having a black President. Great. How good does it feel when you can't feed your children?