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Is the American mainstream media correct about what provokes mad dog killers? Did the gay rainbow flag provoke Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the 24 year-old naturalized American citizen born in Kuwait who murdered four Marines Thursday, to commit his heinous crime? Abdulazeez, who was shot and killed by police Thursday, was a devout Muslim. And one thing we know about devout Muslims is that many vehemently oppose same sex marriage and consider homosexuality a sin.

Big people don’t need a pervasive nanny state with vast power, money, and manpower to micro-regulate their business transactions and personal life choices. A larger public sector inescapably means a smaller private one. This is especially true as power shifts from elected officials to the permanent big government bureaucracy, which voters have very little influence upon.

If Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s alleged July 16 attack on the Chattanooga Navy Reserve Center brought anything to light, it is the elite’s hypocrisy in demonizing southern heritage while protecting radical Islam.

Leftist agitator and Muslim propagandist Musa al-Gharbi is calling progressives to strike while the iron is hot, re-appropriating, abolishing, or otherwise re-identifying Confederate monuments, street names, and public schools while the anti-Confederate flag momentum still holds sway.

On Wednesday, University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban joined the Confederate flag debate when he said that he does not advocate “symbols that are not positive toward human rights.” Saban later clarified his comments about the flag Wednesday on ESPN

According to a report that aired on Oklahoma City, OK’s KFOR NewsChannel4 on Wednesday, a man identifying himself as “The Black Rebel” was leading the Confederate flag-laden protest against President Barack Obama, who paid a visit to Oklahoma’s capital city

Some of the protesters explained to local media that they were there to demonstrate the true nature of the flag as a symbol of Southern heritage. “We’re not gonna stand down from our heritage. You know, this flag’s not racist. And I know a lot of people think it is, but it’s really not,” said a man who told local media he drove three hours from Texas to join the protest. “It’s just a southern thing, that’s it.”

While on tour to promote his 1985 album Southern Accents, Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers at times performed alongside a Confederate flag; a decision he now says was “downright stupid.”

University of South Carolina Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier says that he supports removing the Confederate flag from public spaces and even thinks that “all” the coaches in South Carolina support the move.

Detroit members of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network now plan to pressure General Motors to cut ties with musician Kid Rock over his use of the Confederate flag at concerts, and the company is hearing them out.

On June 24, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from the state Capitol grounds in Montgomery. On July 13, the Huntsville, Alabama, chapter of the NAACP said the Confederate battle flag worn by every Alabama state trooper and emblazoned on every trooper’s vehicle needs to go away, as well.

A second high school in Texas is refusing to be daunted by the current Confederate frenzy. The superintendent of Evadale High School in east Texas says there are no plans to change the role that the flag has played in the high school since the 1950’s, according to a report by KFDM in Beaumont, Texas.

On July 10, Wild Bill’s Old West Trading Company in Elk Grove, California, took down its Confederate flag after allegedly receiving death threats.

On July 12, a reproduction of the Dukes of Hazard’s General Lee led an “eight-mile convoy” supporting and waving various Confederate flags in Ocala, Florida.

On his Sunday HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took aim the Confederate flag, which he noted was just brought down at the South Carolina capitol. That gesture by the South Carolina state legislature was not enough for Oliver,

A local civil rights activist lodged state and federal complaints against a North Texas high school over its Confederacy focused team mascot, the Rebel. In response, hundreds of parents, students and other supporters showed up on Sunday afternoon for an impromptu rally to defend the mascot from criticism that it is a divisive symbol of the Confederacy.

On July the 7, the Nashville Metro Council voted to ask the Tennessee Department of Transportation “to plant vegetation to block the view” of a statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

There is a sickening, immoral, and politically correct cartel that knows no bounds in its pursuit of a tyrannical agenda to fundamentally remake America.

In an on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell Williams Brooks commended Bree Newsome, the civil rights activist who climbed the flag pole and removed the Confederate flag at the South Carolina state capitol, on her “patriotic gutsiness.” “I

Democrat Mayor Ivy Taylor, San Antonio’s first black and female mayor, is not buying into the Confederate flag frenzy. Other liberal politicians in the birthplace of Texas freedom and liberty push to jump onto the national bandwagon to eradicate Confederate historical sites and symbols from the Lone Star State’s past.

During a July 9 discussion on a spending bill, Democrat members of the House—led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12th Dist)—began pushing a vote to ban all “Confederate symbols from the Capitol.” This was a continuation of a push that began Tuesday, wherein Democrats sought to ban Confederate flags from all federal cemeteries.

Now that the Confederate flag has been used as an excuse to eviscerate the history of the South, others are looking to destroy more symbols that are part of the region’s history, including Louisiana’s fleur-de-lis.

Friday on CNN, Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) said the Confederate flag, which has now been removed from the grounds of the statehouse, caused political battles and personal pain since it went up and declared, “It just never should have been there.” “It’s

Early Thursday morning, the State House of South Carolina voted to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State Capitol. Gov. Nikki Haley has pledged to sign the bill immediately, and the flag may come down as soon as today.

Author Isabel Wilkerson argued the removal of the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was “perhaps, truly the beginning of the end of the Civil War” on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Wilkerson said, “Well, of course, South Carolina

In a preview clip from his interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said there will be a debate about removing the Confederate flag from national cemeteries in Congress but in his opinion the flag “should

On July 7 Florida’s Marion County reversed course, ended what had only been a seven-day ban on the Confederate flag by raising it again over their Fallen Officers Memorial.

On July 9, Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-7th) introduced a bill banning Confederate flags from Virginia cemeteries.

Earlier this week, the Detroit chapter of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network began protesting a Kid Rock exhibit at a local museum over the musician’s use of the Confederate flag at concerts. Thursday night, Kid issued a blunt response.

Some high schools around the nation rush to eliminate their use of the Confederate flag or “Rebels” nicknames. Others take their stand.

University of Pennsylvania Professor of American Social Thought and History and former Chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Mary Frances Berry argued that South Carolina should pass a minimum wage law in addition to removing the Confederate flag

“South Carolina taking down the confederate flag – a signal of good will and healing, and a meaningful step towards a better future,” he wrote. The flag was removed in a short ceremony this morning as some in the crowd shouted U-S-A! U-S-A! and sang “Na na na na, hey hey-hey, goodbye!”

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill into law Thursday that will bring down the Confederate flag outside the Statehouse, a move that seemed unthinkable only a month ago in this Deep South state that was the first to secede from the Union.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) declared that “the ghosts of the Confederacy invaded the Republican conference” and wondered whether the Confederate battle flag represents “slavery, rape, kidnap, genocide, treason, or all of the above” at a press conference on Thursday. Jeffries,

Thursday on Capitol Hill, a vote on resolution that would remove flags containing the Confederate flag symbol from the U.S. Capitol led to a boisterous shouting match. MSNBC News’ Luke Russert reported, “Let me give you a rundown of what

So many citizens of the Tar Heel state have rushed to order their Confederate flag license plates that the North Carolina DMV has run out of the tags, officials report. Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman Mike Charbonneau reported that in