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One Tough Lady
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by Hillary's America July 21, 2016 2:09 PM
Our very own.....Vanderbilt Professor....
By Jack Fowler
No, not Hillary. Well, she is tough, in a Capone-ish way -- the point of Dinesh D'Souza's new book, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, is that the Clinton / Rodham party is little more than a criminal racket. The "tough lady" I refer to is someone else, Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain, who plays a big role in Hillary's America, the movie. I've got to admit, embarrassed: until I saw the film this past weekend at its red-carpet premier in Cleveland, where I met her, I didn't know of the professor. It takes a boatload of moxie to be a black scholar who takes on the racist roots of the Democrat party, as she does with great poise and authority. Her straight-talk indictment of the party's historic influences (the KKK), its role in fighting against civil-rights legislation, its thrill to white supremacy, and so much more is a highlight, and focal point, of the film. No wonder she is despised by the Left.Watch the trailer, and catch some glimpses of this special lady.
SOURCE HERE.
It is playing here this weekend - it may be playing at other theaters - check the one nearest you:
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The balloons have fallen...
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... and, come November, the voters in the United States have important decisions to make about who they want to lead this nation. There is NO perfect candidate. I think it that is it time for real, consistent prayer about our future.
How to Pray for an Election
2016 Election Prayer Guide
By Dave Butts
In every election cycle, American Christians face both amazing opportunities and grave dangers. We are privileged to be a part of those who can choose their own leaders. As people who believe that godly leaders are a source of blessing to a nation, this provides us with great opportunity. The dangers arise, however, when we begin to put our hope in leaders rather than the Lord.
God's Word is very clear that we should have an undivided heart and trust only in the Lord. The psalmist tells us: "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God" (Psalm 20:7, NIV).
Awareness of this can create a tension in thinking Christians, and some have overreacted and rejected the political process completely. If that is the case, it will be difficult to be motivated to pray about the elections. A balanced and biblical approach, however, allows us to fully participate in the electoral process without falling into improperly placed trust.
In Paul's great teaching on prayer in 1 Timothy 2:1-4, one of his major thrusts is praying for those in authority. According to Paul's reasoning, we want good government that allows us to live lives that ultimately free us to evangelize those who are lost.
Paul would have been amazed that Christians could one day actually take part in selecting those leaders. He would have been even more amazed (and appalled) that many of those Christians who had this privilege would not even bother to get involved in selecting those leaders for the purposes of God to be fulfilled.
Praying for the electoral process is the first step in seeing the fulfillment of what Paul wrote in 1 Timothy. We should not wait for a leader to be selected before we move into obedient prayer for those in authority. In prayer, we invite the Lord into the process of electing those leaders who will ultimately allow us to "lead peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness" (1 Timothy 2:2, NIV).
So why pray for the elections? There are a number of compelling reasons:
1. The Bible commands us to pray for those who are in leadership. This should certainly include those who are vying to become leaders.
2. Godly leaders can help slow the erosion of religious liberties in our land. This can provide an increased window of opportunity for the Church to pray and evangelize.
3. According to Scripture, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people" (Prov. 14:34, NASB). The selection of leaders who understand and lead according to God's righteous standards can bring great blessing to a nation.
4. Scripture also says, "For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisors" (Proverbs 11:14, NIV). The determination of who leads our nation will also determine who advises that leader and how we are guided
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Trump Caps Divided Convention with Uncharacteristic Discipline
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For an hour, at least, the GOP nominee made Cleveland normal again.
By Eliana Johnson & Tim Alberta - July 22, 2016
Cleveland - For the better part of four days, the Republican National Convention had been less about Donald Trump than about the flotsam of the Republican party left in his wake - and the attempts of its members to cobble together a life raft in the middle of an angry sea.
Then, for an hour and 15 minutes on Thursday night, Trump brought a modicum of normality to the proceedings with remarks that were tightly scripted and tightly focused, even if they were delivered in a shouted staccato. He took the stage wearing a gleaming red tie as the delegates on the floor broke out into a chant: "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
Trump's appearance, which followed a flawless introduction from his daughter Ivanka, brought an unfamiliar feeling of order to the convention, and on stage he promised to do the same for the country and the world. He cast President Obama's administration as the cause of the chaos that has roiled the country for the past several years, from the murder of American citizens at the hands of illegal immigrants to the assassination of law-enforcement officers on city streets.
"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said. "Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."
As if on cue, when a protester began to disrupt his remarks, police whisked her off the floor before the crowd could figure out what was happening. Looking down on the kerfuffle, Trump ad-libbed, "How great are our police and how great is Cleveland?" The crowd went wild.
Trump also faulted the president and the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, for sowing turmoil around the world. From the nuclear deal with Iran to the non-enforcement of the "red line" in Syria to the murders of four Americans in Benghazi, the U.S. has been suckered and embarrassed on the international stage, he said. When he made mention of the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, the crowd began to chant, "Lock her up!" Trump, in a remarkable display of restraint, raised an index finger to silence them. "Let's defeat her in November," he said. The crowd erupted in cheers.
The speech, delivered from a black-and-white teleprompter in the center of Quicken Loans Arena, dragged near the end, and included some 4,500 words. But Trump stuck almost entirely to the script. Both in substance and in style, the speech exhibited a discipline at odds with a convention otherwise characterized by disarray.
Just hours before Trump took the stage, a pro-Clinton super PAC, Correct the Record, obtained and leaked the transcript of his speech. It was the capstone to a convention that has been defined by the party's squabbling disunity, enhanced by the Trump campaign's disorganization and repeated political miscalculations.
There was plagiarism, there were grudge matches, and there were more than a few awkward embraces.
Janet Creighton, a longtime Ohio GOP official who formerly served in the George W. Bush administration, was attending her fifth convention as a Republican delegate. Creighton says she has always worn red, white, and blue during all four days of past conventions, but decided not to this year. "This is a different Republican convention. It doesn't have the same Republican feel," she says. "People are holding their breath because we've never done it like this before." She smiles and shrugs her shoulders. "It's his convention," she says of Trump. "He can do what he wants."
Trump, of course, has done just that. The campaign's worst self-inflicted wound this week came the first night of the convention, when Melania Trump delivered an impressive speech that, it soon turned out, included passages lifted from first lady Michelle Obama's address to the Democratic convention in 2008. The incident dominated cable-news headlines for nearly 48 hours as the Trump campaign denied and demurred before finally issuing a mea culpa from an unknown speechwriter mid-day Wednesday. In the interim, talking heads denounced the campaign's amateurishness and incompetence. "The highlight of tonight's activities was Melania Trump's speech," Republican strategist Steve Schmidt told MSNBC. "This turns this night into a catastrophe." Fox News's Bill O'Reilly took to the airwaves the next night to declare that the speechwriter should be fired. "There's no excuse for plagiarism," he said. "There's just none. You can't do it."
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Winners and losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention
The Washington Post
That's a wrap. The most unpredictable and newsy political convention in at least four decades is in the books. Donald Trump's speech dominated the night, of course, but there was plenty of other fodder, too.
My take on the best and the worst from the night that was is below.
Winners
* Ivanka Trump: Everyone - including me - expected Ivanka to be good. After all, she's spent most of her life in the spotlight and shown, time and again, that she is entirely comfortable there. But Ivanka soared past those lofty expectations in her speech introducing her father.
She was poised. She was confident. And, most of all, she was on message. Ivanka spent the bulk of her speech rebutting the idea that her father has a woman problem. She touted his "gender neutral" approach to hiring. She told stories of how he encouraged her, as a young girl, to think big. She recalled how he would send her sketches of buildings and tell her he couldn't wait until she would be building them alongside him.
Ivanka did it all without savaging Hillary Clinton or Democrats. She simply painted an alternative - and far more appealing - picture of a man who everyone already thought they knew. Ivanka's speech was a home run - and, without question, the best speech of the convention.
* Donald Trump: The Republican nominee gave the crowd what it was looking for - a command performance of the tough-talking, details-free approach that won him the nomination in the first place. He promised to wipe out crime as soon as he took office. He promised to defeat Islamic State militants "fast." He promised a whole lot things. What he didn't do was provide any meaningful specifics about how he might do it.
The crowd in the room was with him for the whole address - cheering in the right moments, booing when it was required. Trump, too, seemed relatively dialed in - staying, generally, on the teleprompter and hitting his applause lines well. The speech itself was well crafted - if way too long. (It clocked in at almost 80 minutes.)
What I don't know, to be honest, is how Trump's volume - he yelled almost the entire thing - and, more importantly, the deeply grim picture he painted of the state of the country will play beyond the convention hall. Trump's vision of America is deeply dystopian and dark. The America he painted in his speech is badly broken and he is the only one who knows how to fix it.
That grim vision, when combined with the anger in Trump's voice, made for a decidedly unconventional acceptance speech - no real surprise given who Trump is and how he won the GOP nomination.
On the whole, the speech - I think - did Trump more good than harm, particularly at a convention in which his message had repeatedly been muddled by self-inflicted errors. But, is Trump's America a portrait that undecided voters recognize? And do they believe that he is the only one who can truly fix it?
* Heavenly Joy : That six year old little girl can really sing. Awesome .
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20 Stars Who've Said They'll Leave The U.S. If Donald Trump Gets Sworn In
While the likes of Scott Baio and Antonio Sabato Jr. have pledged their allegiance to Donald Trump, overall the showbiz world has reacted overwhelming negatively to the presidential hopeful. In fact there are some celebrities who have publicly declared they won't live in an America where Trump reigns supreme. And they mean that literally, because these 20 stars have actually vowed to emigrate should the Republican nominee make it into the White House. And some have put an awful lot of thought into their exit plan, too...
20. Amber Rose
Amber Rose admits she would be devastated at the reality of a Trump presidency. The model and actress, who isn't a fan of Trump's gender politics, told Us Weekly that she would take her three-year-old son and get out of the country.
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