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A statue depicting Jesus Christ has been found decapitated inside a South Florida church, leaving congregants of the house of worship shaken.

Conservative figures Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, and Allen West joined a video celebrating the Founders, veterans, and police officers. 

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Thursday that she did not oppose the violent, unlawful removal and destruction of a statue of Christopher Columbus on July 4 in her native city of Baltimore, Maryland.

The Jackson, Mississippi, city council voted Tuesday to take down a City Hall monument of its namesake — Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States —  by a vote of 5-to-1.

Work crews ventured to the heart of Richmond, Virginia, where they removed the statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on Tuesday, one week after the city’s mayor ordered all Confederate monuments on city property be removed.

President Donald Trump told a reporter Tuesday that the controversy over NASCAR’s recent ban on the display of the Confederate flag at races is not about the symbol itself, but about “freedom of speech.”

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, has urged that the Washington, D.C., memorial honoring the third president be replaced with a statue to abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Donald Trump’s reelection strategy should bind Joe Biden to recent lawlessness, including riots and vandalsim of monuments, said Charles Hurt.

Pop superstar Justin Timberlake declared to his 64 million Twitter followers on Monday that the men who “believed in and benefitted from racism” built America.

Disney’s debut on its streaming service of the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton over the weekend ignited renewed ire with the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and the plays co-creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda, who locked his Twitter account just as leftists pushed “Cancel Hamilton” on the social media site.

It shouldn’t have to get to this point, but here it goes: We need a written pledge to protect our statues and monuments. That is, a written document for politicians to sign, if they wish, pledging to protect public order and the dignity of our society.

What kinds of political vultures sit around bobbing their nasty little heads in search of rotten carrion after a human catastrophe?

The statue of Christopher Columbus that Black Lives Matter protesters tore down and threw into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on July 4th was dedicated by President Ronald Reagan in October 1984 as a monument to the Italian-American community.

On Friday evening, President Donald Trump said the destroyers of American statues and monuments will receive a minimum of ten years in federal prison if convicted.

The overwhelming majority of likely U.S. voters, including a majority of black Americans, oppose the tearing down of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial featuring Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, a poll finds.

Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” correspondent Leyla Santiago commented on President Donald Trump traveling to Mount Rushmore for an early Independence Day party and July Fourth fireworks display in front of the sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore

NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker responded to the growing tensions across the country by appealing to the Bible, stressing the power of forgiveness and asking, “Why are we penalizing people for what their ancestors did?”

CNN joined the establishment media effort to “cancel” Mount Rushmore, lamenting the “dark history” of the sculpture and criticizing President Trump — who is set to deliver a speech at the historic landmark Friday night —  for defending “racist monuments.”

Columbus, Ohio, named after the famed explorer, has removed a statue of Christopher Columbus that stood outside the City Hall.

The New York Times has set its sights on Mount Rushmore as protesters demand the removal of historic monuments in the name of racial justice, citing its location on “Indigenous land,” the sculptor’s purported ties to white supremacy, and two of its subjects’ slave ownership.

Students at Fresno State University have circulated a petition that calls for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on campus. The students argued that the statue should be removed on the basis of Gandhi’s alleged prejudices against minority groups.

Left-wing director Spike Lee has joined the effort to topple Confederate monuments, telling the “Black List” podcast that they all “need to come the “f*ck” down.

BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s arts commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet.

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) defended statues and monuments for George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and distinguished them from Confederate statues and monuments by pointing

Republicans should prioritize violent crime in large cities rather than “attacking the police,” said Ryan Girdusky, author of They’re Not Listening: How The Elites Created the National Populist Revolution, offering his comments on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

A case also needs to be made to these fascist snowflakes and cry-bullies that their feelings are their problem. It’s not up to the rest of us to constantly accommodate their precious feelings. They need to grow a thicker skin and leave the rest of us alone.

The Connecticut GOP called upon the “Democratic Party” to change its name Monday, issuing a resolution that asserts Democrats must address “the hundreds of years of racial oppression, violence, and multiple violations of human rights” associated with their party.

Native American leaders in the San Francisco area are upset that city leaders decided to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus that was targeted by Black Lives Matter riots, because indigenous leaders were not consulted or present.

The Democrat Party tweeted, then deleted, an attack on Mount Rushmore, negatively portraying an upcoming event President Trump is planning ahead of Independence Day at the historic monument to four great American presidents.

Two statues depicting George Washington, the United States’ first president, were defaced early Monday morning in New York City’s Washington Square Park.

Four individuals who allegedly attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson near the White House were charged Friday with the destruction of federal property, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Saturday. 

The flyer urges Americans to contact the U.S. Park Police or the FBI if anyone has information on the people possibly involved with the crimes that occurred on June 22.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli stated that President Trump’s executive order on monuments has put withholding federal dollars from local governments that are not enforcing the law “firmly on the

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) reacted to President Trump’s executive order on protecting monuments by stating that he wishes the president “cared more about living Americans instead of dead Confederates.” Host Wolf Blitzer

“I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues – and combatting recent Criminal Violence,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!”

John Jay College Professor of Criminal Justice Erin Thompson advised on social media how to topple monuments such as a Christopher Columbus statue so that “it’ll go [down] faster.”