Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are urging President Obama to use executive power to unilaterally change the way background checks for gun purchases are handled.
On July 20, the Huffington Post taunted the NRA for refusing to politicize the heinous June 17 attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Members of the Houston Police Department Bike Relay Team made an emotional stop at the site of last week’s horrible shooting in Charleston on Sunday morning. The 43-member group – 40 members of the Houston Police Department and 3 civilians – came to pay respects at the Mother Emanuel AME Church as part of their 2200 mile trip from Houston to New York City to raise money and awareness to help find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma.
Behold the smeared, clownish face of politics in America today.
President Barack Obama delivered a stirring eulogy Friday for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney and eight others who were murdered in their church earlier this month by a white racist who hoped his act of terror would ignite a racial war. The first part of Obama’s remarks were a fitting and inspiring tribute to the victim, whom he knew personally. The second half was a regrettably political speech that exploited the pulpit for partisan ends–and claimed the murderer had been “used by God.”
A North Charleston police officer was fired after posting a photo of himself wearing Confederate flag boxer shorts on Facebook.
During his eulogy Friday in Charleston for the slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney, President Obama described faith in the believing in things unseen. “Things unseen” would be apt description for Democrat solutions for the problems black Americans face.
This week saw a sudden flurry of attempts to rid America of symbols of the Confederacy–not just the flag at the South Carolina State House, but statues, street names, and even songs. While many welcomed the changes as a way to heal
Rapper Nas has joined a growing chorus of artists speaking out on racial equality in America in the wake of the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month.
Some have claimed that Solove was merely a “random passerby” in Charleston whose views weren’t important to the larger story, but an investigation by Breitbart News shows that while Solove may be outspoken, she’s a recognized and respected activist in the modern Black Power movement.
For those without faith, Michael Wear acknowledges, this may make little sense, especially for those who have never personally experienced the forgiveness of God. “But that does not grant us the right to whitewash the motivation for the forgiveness we witnessed in Charleston,” he said. We need to “take the family members seriously when they say it is a sincere, thought-out expression of their faith,” he wrote.
Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was slain in the massacre at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dylann Roof killed nine black worshipers, voted for the Confederate flag’s display at the Statehouse on May 3, 2000, when he was a state senator.
On Wednesday, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham warned that the frenzied purging of Confederate flags will likely lead to Democrats and Republicans joining together to toss all traces of Southern heritage down the memory hole.
In Arlington, the Armstrong African Methodist Episcopal Church sits a few blocks north of downtown, and on Sunday, around two dozen parishioners were grieving with the rest of the nation for those lost in the attack when a young white man, alone and in his late 20’s, entered the sanctuary. Churchgoers went on alert, and within minutes, the church pastor, Portia Duncan, called 911.
There is great power in symbols, especially in an era when so many people have been taught to emote rather than thinking. The quick surge of emotion people feel upon viewing a potent symbol can be bottled and used in politics. It’s excessively charitable to call the current flag battle a “debate,” because it mostly consists of one side screaming that anyone who hesitates to dump that flag into the wood chipper of historical oblivion is either a racist, or an accessory to racism in the first degree. There isn’t much in the way of measured reason involved here.
On June 23, Sacramento Flag Works ceased sales of the the Confederate flag because Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed nine people at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last Wednesday.
A rash of instances of property destruction, vandalism, and petty crimes have cascaded across the country unleashed by the “Black Lives Matter” movement as families grieve those killed by a lone gunman in a South Carolina church.
The Confederate flag was once cheered by thousands of freed slaves. It happened in 1863, when the CSS Alabama caught a Union ship off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. The spectacle was so thrilling to the locals, particularly the Malay and
Malik Zulu Shabazz, the national President of the New Black Panther Party, has announced two rallies in Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of shooting deaths of nine black Christians that prosecutors say was committed by America-hating white racist Dylann Roof.
Haley left a door ajar that the left intends to prop wide open, from now until Election Day and beyond. Emboldened by South Carolina’s quick shift—on an issue that was tangential to the horrific atrocity in Charleston—the left is eager to mount a continued campaign against the Confederacy and its symbols.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco penned a lengthy three-part open letter addressed to “White Supremacy” over the weekend in response to the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina last week.
Late-night comic and South Carolina native Stephen Colbert joined thousands of marchers in Charleston on Sunday to form a “unity chain” in response to the murders of nine people at a black church last week.
Over the weekend, leftist politicians and the media blamed the racist terror attack in Charleston, South Carolina on conservatives.
The dead are not yet buried in Charleston, yet the South Carolina legislature is to meet in special session Tuesday to debate the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol grounds, reportedly at the behest of Gov. Nikki Haley. Whether the flag belongs there or not–and I would argue that it does not–the flag had nothing to do with the nine murders in a church last week. To tear it down in such haste is to dishonor the dead–and to accept a collective guilt that knows no end.
An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.
On Friday, a Democrat South Carolina state legislator appeared on CNN insisting that the 21-year-old man who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston last week was driven to his act because he watches Fox News. This is despite the fact that no one seems to know what media habits the killer possessed.
On June 18, President Obama called for Hollywood celebrities to join him in pushing gun control in the wake of the Charleston attack but not every celebrity is falling in line.
During an interview with people gathered outside the Mother Emmanuel American Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Wednesday’s deadly shooting left nine black churchgoers dead, a woman called for a “race war” and discussed black anger.
Sources tell NBC News that during his confession, Roof said he “almost didn’t go through with it because everyone was so nice to him,” but in the end decided he had to “go through with his mission.”
On Friday evening, July 2, 1999, a crazed young man drove through my Chicago neighborhood looking for Jews to kill. He had already shot half a dozen in a neighboring area (all of whom survived). He saw a black man walking with his family and decided that was good enough. He shot him–and Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University basketball coach, died. The killer led an interstate manhunt, during which he killed a Korean man and attacked a church before shooting himself.
President Obama on Thursday addressed the horrific massacre of nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church–and then boarded Air Force One to California for a series of high-dollar fundraisers to benefit the Democrat party.
President Obama wasted no time in light of the massacre at the historic and symbolic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
The killer evidently attended the prayer meeting he attacked for nearly an hour before opening fire and killing nine people.
