Real community organizers in New Orleans embarrassed ‘world is now viewing our city’ as violent

Deborah CottonIn a grim irony, one of those injured in the New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting had lamented the violence committed by, in her words, “the men of my tribe.”

Deborah Cotton is a “multimedia journalist and cultural advocate” who was one of 19 injured when a gunman opened fire on attendees at a Mother’s Day parade.

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University holds workshop on sculpting genitals from Play-doh

Play-doh sex organ eventIf there is anything positive that can be said about a workshop held at the University of Central Florida last month it is that you cannot contract gonorrhea by touching sex organs made out of Play-doh.

Campus Reform reports that the workshop was conducted by a “sex expert” (sexpert?) from a local adult toy store called Fairvilla. It is not clear what educational value is to be derived from learning to carve genitals out of modeling clay, but the event, titled “Finals? That blows,” also included a condom hunt.

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Obama administration targeting of reporter finally hits a nerve: MSM reacts

James RosenGerman theologian Martin Niemöller is enjoying a mini-renaissance. In the last 24 hours, his famous exhortation to rise up against tyranny before it’s too late (“When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out”) has appeared in two columns. Yesterday, the verse from which the line came was rehearsed in its entirety by James Taranto. Today, it is the lead-in to a report by The Daily Beast’s Kirtsen Powers on the revelation that the Obama Justice Department “spied” on Fox News Channel’s chief Washington correspondent James Rosen.

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Nazi flag flies high over West Bank mosque (Video)

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Keeping alive the long history between National Socialism and Jihaddist Islam, the twisted cross of Nazism is flying high and proud over a heavily Arab-Muslim town south of Jerusalem today.

In the West Bank town of Beit Omar, an over-sized red, white, and black swastika-emblazoned flag of the Third Reich was reportedly clearly visible to Israeli residents living in the southern outskirts and suburbs of Jerusalem, especially the Jewish town of Gush Etzion.

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Sorry, GOP: Impeachment is NOT an option

Johnson Impeachment TicketAmerica is getting frustrated with this administration’s fight to keep the truth behind its three current scandals under wraps. As frustrated as the public may be, Congress, who is in charge of finding out the truth is even more frustrated. Yesterday’s performance by White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, who appeared on all five Sunday News programs, was at best ridiculous. It seemed as if he answered each and every question with “that’s irrelevant.”

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White House told of IRS targeting probe in April

Ovana shadyYesterday, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer defended President Obama’s statement that he knew nothing about the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups until he learned about it through the media. “No president would get involved in an independent IRS investigation,” Pfeiffer said. “It would be wholly inappropriate.”

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Prison poetry website awarded $75,000 NEA grant

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Thanks to sequestration, there is not enough money in the government coffers to keep “the people’s house” (aka the White House) open for tours. You’ll be pleased to know, however, that there’s plenty of money — $75,000 worth — for prison poetry.

According to CNSNews.com, a new website that features readings of poems written by current inmates was launched this week with the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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