Grit - What Conservatives Need - TheCollegeConservative.com

Grit - What Conservatives Need - TheCollegeConservative.com:
"Grit, as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, is “firmness of mind or spirit :unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.”
Essentially, grit is a will to continue on against all odds.
And grit is something that conservatism desperately needs right now.
A PROUD HISTORY UNDER SIEGE
Conservatives are America’s backbone. 

Through the decades, our ideology has stood the test of time. 

We’ve brought hundreds of thousands out of poverty, and preserved the moral truth enshrined in our nation’s identity.
...The left will chip away at the ethical motivation of a conservative. 

It will devalue our ethical roots, and the fundamental values of freedom.
...Fortunately for us, we know the truth. 

That truth is that our beliefs have helped shape America into what it is today. 

We must not give them up for anyone’s outlandish politics.
SO WHAT ARE WE TO DO?

While President Truman may not be a conservative icon, his words hold true to our position today.
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman

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Carr: Left cries 1st Amendment only when convenient | Boston Herald

Carr: Left cries 1st Amendment only when convenient | Boston Herald:

"Suddenly the alt-left is very concerned about the First Amendment rights of people — some people, anyway.

Specifically, George Soros et al. care about those useful idiots in shoulder pads whom they want to use in their unending attempts to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election"

Menendez has set a new low for blatant corruption in the US | New York Post

Menendez has set a new low for blatant corruption in the US | New York Post
"The bribery trial of senior New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has it all.
Menendez is facing charges that he sold his US Senate office to a Palm Beach, Fla., eye doctor, his co-defendant Salomon Melgen, for bribes in the form of private jets stocked with Menendez’s favorite beverages, a private villa at one of the lushest resorts in the Caribbean, and a Paris hotel suite for which Melgen spent 650,000 American Express points.
...That relationship allowed Menendez to enjoy a lifestyle far beyond his legitimate income of $174,000.
It was a life of luxury funded by one of the largest Medicare frauds in history, a $105 million scheme for which Melgen has already been convicted on 67 counts of fraud in a separate federal trial in Florida.
In return, Menendez allegedly got Melgen visas for his girlfriends, pressured the State Department to deliver a Dominican port-security contract and pressed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to approve the massive Medicare overbilling scheme that kept the good times rolling.

• ...Sometimes a friend gives a senator access to the private jet. 
• And a friend lets a senator use a luxury resort villa and gives the senator hundreds of thousands of American Express points. 
• And what senator wouldn’t try to get his friend’s many supermodel girlfriends into the country? 
• Or steer his friend — an eye doctor with no security background — a massive port-security contract? 
• Or try to get him off the hook for the Medicare fraud that keeps both of them in the style to which they’ve grown accustomed?

‘The case against Menendez as a legal matter doesn’t look close, it looks overwhelming.’ - Ari Melber..."

8 Really Bad Laws That Went Into Effect Today - Hit & Run : Reason.com

8 Really Bad Laws That Went Into Effect Today - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Every year, thousands of new laws go into effect across the country on October 1.
States use the start of the fiscal year to begin enforcing these laws.
A sobering number of these laws will turn out to be bad.
...Here are eight of the worst going into effect today around the country and around the world!

• Touching your phone in Oregon---From this day forward, Oregon drivers are prohibited from touching their cellphones while operating their vehicles, except to make a single swipe intended to turn a phone off. While lawmakers passed the prohibition to make it easier for cops to enforce cellphone while driving laws, the "single swipe" exception is sure to muddy that...
• Gummy bear-ijuana ban in Colorado---As of today, gummy bears, chocolate bunnies, and other playfully-shaped marijuana edibles are banned in Colorado, where recreational marijuana has been legal since 2014..."

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Lunch video-----Paratroopers Static Line Jump From C-17

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WATCH: Crowder Infiltrates Antifa At Shapiro Event, Antifa Offers Weapons | Daily Wire

WATCH: Crowder Infiltrates Antifa At Shapiro Event, Antifa Offers Weapons | Daily Wire:

""Are they really an inconsequential group of rabble rousers?" asks Crowder of the group that has been championed by so many on the Left. As the video shows, and as so many around the country have learned over the last year, the answer is a resounding no.

One of the reasons they are so influential, Crowder explains, is their broad support base on the Left. "Antifa is in a PR battle, so what they claim and what they do is very different," says Crowder. But behind the scenes, they are organizing and planning — as his undercover operatives found out firsthand — to enact violence."

Why Didn't They Shoot the German?

Articles: Why Didn't They Shoot the German?
"I was watching a World War II movie in a theater, with an Asian immigrant friend, when I learned a lesson in culture that no university could have taught better. 
In one battle scene, there is a cease-fire order, and a German soldier approaches the British position, under a white flag of truce.
The British commander steps forward, completely vulnerable, but the Germans do not shoot.
There is a brief exchange of words, as the Germans demand surrender, and the British commander declines.
Both men then return to their positions, and the deadly fighting resumes.
My friend in the theater leaned toward me, and quietly asked, why didn’t they shoot the German?
I was both amused and horrified at the question.
It was unthinkable that one would shoot a man under a white flag, so unthinkable that it was literally laughable. I actually did laugh.
My answer was, they can’t shoot him; he’s under a white flag.
My Asian friend was perplexed for a moment, and then got it. 
So, this is how Western people fight wars.
This incident sticks in my memory all these years later, because it enlightened me to a profound truth.
Not all cultures are equal. 
In that same war, the Japanese, for example, had utterly no regard for our white flags, unless it suited their purposes.
Their concept of honor was utterly unlike ours. 
To them, it was the white flag of surrender that was dishonorable, and anyone who surrendered, friend or enemy, was a pariah.
...When Middle-Easterners take up residence in the West, they have no intention of adopting our values and morals. 
Quite the opposite, they seek to impose their will upon us, by force if necessary, by mass murder if it comes to that.
...I have long wondered why it is that the American left supports unfettered Muslim immigration to America. 
I am beginning to understand.
The American left shares many of the cultural values of the Middle East, including the practice of brutalizing anyone who openly disagrees with them.
Antifa is the glaring example of that."

‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’: CEO | New York Post

‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’: CEO | New York Post
"Jorge Rodriguez, 49, is the Harvard-educated CEO of PACIV, an international engineering firm based in Puerto Rico that works with the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.
The Puerto Rican-born engineer says he has dispatched 50 engineers to help FEMA rehabilitate the devastated island — a commonwealth of the United States — after Hurricane Maria.
He refuses to work with the local government, which he called inept and riddled with corruption.
For the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one. 
Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. 
And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.
The governor Ricardo Rossello has little experience. He’s 36 and never really held a job and never dealt with a budget. 
His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
For instance, shortly after the hurricane hit, the government imposed a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am and then changed it. 
Now, it’s 7 pm to 5 am, and makes no sense. 
The curfew has prevented fuel trucks from transporting their loads. 
These trucks should have been allowed to run for 24 hours to address our needs, but they have been stalled, and so we have massive lines at gas stations and severe shortages of diesel at our hospitals and supermarkets.

#1 This day 1980-----Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (Official Video)

Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage… | The Last Refuge

Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage… | The Last Refuge:
"Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:

…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.

“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)

The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space....
The reason for truck drivers not showing up?
The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.

"The toothless guy is complaining about a law that the governor passed three weeks ago.
The reporter CONFIRMS that the truck drivers are refusing to work in order to get revenge on the governor.
The toothless guy says that the governor’s policies have impacted truckers, so now truckers will show the country THEIR OWN suffering.
The reporters says, “But all this stuff is in the past. In the present, it’s an emergency.”
The toothless guy says that the country can now experience what the truckers experienced due to the governor’s policies.
The toothless guy says the truckers are not responsible for helping the country. That’s the governor’s job.
Three weeks earlier, nobody cared about the plight of the truckers, so now the truckers don’t care about the country.
This is all the governor’s fault, the toothless guy says. He passed a law, and now he has to live with it.
The governor didn’t understand the suffering of the working man, so now the truckers will show the country what suffering is.
Since the country doesn’t care about truckers, the truckers won’t help..."

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Black Professor Says It’s Welfare, Not Slavery, That Decimated US Black Families | www.independentsentinel.com

Black Professor Says It’s Welfare, Not Slavery, That Decimated US Black Families | www.independentsentinel.com:

"There is little evidence to support the idea that slavery, racial discrimination and poverty caused the problems of today’s black Americans, the economics professor wrote.

The number one problem is the weak family structure:"

Fake weather reporting? - Ice Age Now

Fake weather reporting? - Ice Age Now:
"Look at these two contrasting reports and see what you think.

“I wonder which side of the “Climate Wars” Intellicast weather service is on?” asks reader. 
“Here is the forecast map for high temperatures today from Intellicast:”

“Notice the temperatures are quite seasonal, but the color scale chosen is quite inappropriate for North America in September. We are not likely to need to depict temperatures in the -30 F range any time soon, but the range chosen makes 60s F orange and 70s F Red.”“We’re burning up!”

“Contrast this to the U.S. National Weather Service map for the same date:”

“I believe these colors more accurately convey the “feel” of a fall day.”

“Kudos to the NWS.”

Fake weather reporting? You decide. But even if the words are true, I think the Intellicast graphic is at the very least very misleading.

AM Fruitcake

History for October 1

History for October 1 - On-This-Day.com
James Lawrence 1781, William Boeing 1881, Walter Matthau 1920


Jimmy Carter (U.S.) 1924, Richard Harris 1930, Julie Andrews 1935


1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.


1961 - Roger Maris (New York Yankees) hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60.


1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.


1964 - The Free Speech Movement was started at the University of California at Berkeley.


1968 - "Night of the Living Dead" premiered in Pittsburgh, PA.


1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL.


1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to Panama.


2001 - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from children at city libraries. The board left the decision up to the Library Commission to decide whether to install filtering software in children's areas. A federal law in the U.S. mandated the use of the filters.

Chloe Bressack, Florida teacher, gives gender-neutral lessons to children - Washington Times

Chloe Bressack, Florida teacher, gives gender-neutral lessons to children - Washington Times:

"So when a fifth-grade teacher requested that students address her with nongendered pronouns such as “they” and “them,” it stirred consternation among parents (if not education officials) in the state’s capital city — and abroad.
Chloe Bressack, a 23-year-old math and science teacher at Canopy Oaks Elementary School in Tallahassee, recently sent a letter to parents that has gone viral on social media and made international headlines.
“One thing you should know about me is that I use gender neutral terms,” Ms. Bressack said in the single-page letter. “My prefix is Mx. (pronounced Mix)."

The way we were-----Patience and Prudence - Tonight You Belong To Me

Boob-tube-----1960's TV Used Car Ad Outtakes "Ralph Williams" Bloopers

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™:
"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance."

The Quiet Islamic Conquest of Spain

The Quiet Islamic Conquest of Spain

• "Evicted five centuries ago by crusading Christians, the Arabs are back in Spain, using their oil dollars to buy land that was seized from their ancestors by the sword". — James M. Markham, The New York Times, 1981.
• The Madrid daily ABC wrote that 800 mosques in Spain are out of control. The Spanish daily La Razon charged that Gulf donors, such as Qatar, were a source of Spain's Islamization. The Saudis also launched a new Spanish television channel, Córdoba TV, as did Iran.
• They dream of, and work to, regain the "lost Caliphate" of Spain. Some Islamists do it with bombs and car-ramming attacks. Others, more surreptitiously, do it with money and dawa, Islamic propaganda. The second way may be even more effective than the first.

The ceremony in 2003 was announced with bombastic headlines: 
"After a wait of more than 500 years, Spanish Muslims, have finally succeeded in building a mosque of their own in the shadow of the Alhambra, once the symbol of Islamic power in Europe". 
A troupe from al Jazeera was sent to follow the event: a muezzin climbed to the minaret of the Great Mosque of Granada to call the faithful to prayer for the first time in five centuries..."
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ICE nabs nearly 500 aliens in sweep of sanctuary cities - Washington Times

ICE nabs nearly 500 aliens in sweep of sanctuary cities - Washington Times:

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it netted more than 100 migrants in Los Angeles and Philadelphia each, and dozens more in Baltimore, Chicago, Denver and New York, among other sanctuary jurisdictions.
Of the 498 aliens caught, 310 of them were targets and the other 188 were “collateral” arrests of illegal immigrants whom officers encountered while going after their targets, the agency said.
ICE officials also said they’re seeing an increase in resistance from aliens as they step up enforcement of the law. Through the first 11 months of fiscal year 2017, the agency recorded 37 assaults on officers, compared to just nine assaults in all of 2016."

Articles: The Free Lunch Slide into Socialism

Articles: The Free Lunch Slide into Socialism
"New York City's Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina recently announced the new "Free School Lunch for All" for the big Apple's public schools.
This means that the entire public-school population, some 1.1 million students, will now be provided with free lunches irrespective of family income.
Prior to this, approximately 75 percent of the city's students were getting free lunches.
...To the precious few in New York City who worry about the cost of public education, officials say not to fret.
This added expenditure won't adversely affect the school's budget.
It's "cost free" to the city as the tab will be paid out of state and federal funds. 
That's me and you.
Incidentally, NYC is not breaking new ground here.
Cities including Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and Detroit are already offer free lunches in all in their respective public school..."

Hillary’s legacy in Libya could affect you! « Refugee Resettlement Watch

Hillary’s legacy in Libya could affect you! « Refugee Resettlement Watch
"UN short-circuiting the flow from Libya to Europe by sending migrants to the good ol’ welcoming USA?

Hillary, along with her gal pals Susan Rice and Samantha Power, are the leading culprits in the Obama Administration’s disastrous involvement in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the creation of a failed state that has become a primary route for the migrant invasion of Europe.
Now we learn that the UN, partially in hopes of saving the present Italian government (Italians are pretty angry about the Libya to Italy express), is planning to open up a refugee holding facility in Tripoli where migrants will be detained until they can be moved to transit centers.
But, guess what! 
Most in the transit centers will go to Canada, Norway, and drum roll—the United States.
Hillary gloats about knocking off Gaddafi turning Libya into a completely unstable hell hole, and America gets more refugees!"
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Lunch video-----Reagan - Peace Through Strength

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NFL players' protests risk stadium funding - Washington Times

NFL players' protests risk stadium funding - Washington Times:

"American taxpayers shelled out billions of dollars to build the stadiums that National Football League players are now using to stage their kneel-down protests of the national anthem.
The players say they have a right to express their displeasure with racism in the U.S. with their protests, but lawmakers say the NFL could be risking its access to the public trough if the team owners don’t get a grip on the situation."

“F**K Freedom of Speech”: Crazed Leftist Steals MAGA Hat, Claims Speech Is Genocide And that Trump Supporters Need To Be Gotten Rid Of

“F**K Freedom of Speech”: Crazed Leftist Steals MAGA Hat, Claims Speech Is Genocide And that Trump Supporters Need To Be Gotten Rid Of:
"A Trump supporter attending the University of California, Riverside had his “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat stolen from him by a crazed leftist who then went on a psychotic rant that attacked everything from the very idea of free speech to the existence of too many white people in the country.

The shocking video, first released by Campus Reform, began with Trump supporter Matthew Vitale desperately trying to get his property back from the thief who was so lost (see crazy?) that she apparently believed that going to the school’s Student Life Department would help her cause, as if they were going to openly support her obvious crime.

After entering the department the student proceded to act like she was in the right, complaining that, “This guy thought it would be a good idea to go into a conference wearing this f***ing hat.”

“Look at the kind of sh*t he’s wearing. You know what that represents? This represents genocide of a bunch of people,” she ludicrously continued.

That’s right, in the new leftist orthodoxy, literally wearing a hat about making the country great again after years of globalist shenanigans is now openly labeled as support for genocide.

After threatening to burn the hat, the women goes on a disgusting rant against a variety of issues that most Americans cherish.

“F**K freedom of speech, it’s killing people,” she yelled as Vitale tried to explain that he simply wanted his property back and that he was only using his first amendment rights to wear it in the first place.

The so far unidentified women then continued her obvious Marxist screed, claiming that America was never great and that she has always hated the country itself.

“I f**king hate this country because we need to get rid of all ya all,” she continued..."
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Fans of Best of the Web Today

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#1 This day 1958-----It's All In The Game - Tommy Edwards 1958