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4-Year-Old Girl was So Abused, She Thought Her Name was ���Idiot���

Hardly an upbeat story, but one that reminds you just how far we still have to go in what is supposed to be the greatest country on earth.

Sadly, it���s not a great surprise anymore to learn that a 4-year-old girl living with her mother���and mom���s live-in boyfriend���ends up subject to violent physical abuse. Arkansas police found just such a girl recently, with a black eye, all sorts of horrible bruises, scars on her back, and even ligature marks on her wrists.

In this child���s case, however, it is the mental abuse she suffered, and perhaps one particular component of it, that may exert the most devastating long-term effects on her overall development.

According to The Washington Post, the little girl was subject to mental and emotional abuse to such a degree that she thought her name was ���Idiot.���

You read that right.

According to police, when they asked the little girl her name, she simply replied, ���Idiot.��� As it turns out, the child was so frequently referred to as ���idiot��� by the boyfriend, a quality fellow by the name of Clarence Reed, that she thought that was her actual name.

Reed and Jennifer Denen, the mother of this horribly unlucky little waif, are being held on $50,000 bond, awaiting an August 23 appearance in Garland County District Court, according to the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

Glenn Beck: I Can ���Relate��� to Black Lives Matter and ���Understand Them on Many Different Fronts���

Glenn Beck seems to be making his piece with the Black Lives Matter movement.

This past Saturday, in an interview with NPR, the guy who has been one of the most outspoken proponents of the idea that not just black lives matter, but all lives matter, said some things suggesting that perhaps ���black lives matter��� should be the priority line of thought.

In the interview, Beck was apparently channeling his inner Jack Kemp, talking about how it is of overriding importance that conservatives appeal to all demographics���all races, economic strata, etc.

Here���s how Beck himself put it:

���I had a new kind of thought on Black Lives Matter and the all lives matter thing. The best way to explain it is if we���re all sitting around a table having dinner, and everybody gets pie except for you, and you say, ���My pie matters; I don���t have pie.��� And everybody at the table looks at you and says, ���I know; all pie matters.������

Okay���

Beck further said that while he disagrees, in some areas, with those behind BLM, he can, nevertheless, ���relate to them and understand them on many different fronts.���

While I certainly don���t fault Beck for wanting to see fewer walls, fewer barriers���in the national dialogue (which is something else he said in the interview), the problem with according BLM much by way of credibility or stature is that the group has seen fit to hang its hat on as many, or more, incidents of perceived injustice to blacks that have been fueled by evidently-false narratives���as it has incidents where the black victims were truly victims.

Few would disagree with the assessment that true supporters of BLM are zealots, and one of the inherent problems with zealotry is that, pretty much by definition, zealots are rarely capable of seeing anything with a healthy dose of objectivity. This is perhaps the biggest problem with BLM, and is, therefore, the problem with granting BLM much in the way of grace.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

Talk Show Host Ellen Degeneres A Racist?

Don���t you love it when the left eats its own?

Ellen DeGeneres, she of the very popular Ellen DeGeneres Show (also known as Ellen or The Ellen Show) and one known to be sympathetic to a variety of liberal causes���including that of the LGBT community, of which she���s a prominent member���found herself in some hot water with other liberals over a ���controversial��� meme featuring superstar Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt that she generated and put out on social media.

DeGeneres (or someone working for her) created a custom meme that shows her riding ���piggyback��� on Bolt as he is running, and the image was posted to the official Twitter account of The Ellen Show. The message she wrote to accompany the photo read:

���This is how I���m running errands from now on. #Rio2016���

What was predictable was that some out in the Twittersphere would be offended���or would claim to be offended���by the image of a white woman riding around on the back of a black man. What was perhaps a little more difficult to predict was that people would see such a meme generated by a liberal lesbian and decide that she was a racist.

Well, it happened.

To her credit, after being roundly criticized on Twitter for the post, she tweeted out a simple, ���I am highly aware of the racism that exists in our country. It is the furthest thing from who I am,��� and let the meme stand.

Additionally, large numbers of Twitter users���of all colors���tweeted their support of DeGeneres, and seemed to come down hard on those who saw the meme as racist. For his part, Olympian Bolt retweeted the original post on his own Twitter account.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

Comedy Central���s Hard-Left ���Nightly Show��� Abruptly Canceled Due to Low Ratings

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is now a thing of the past, and host Wilmore seems to be of the opinion that the show should have remained on in perpetuity, without regard to its abysmal ratings.

The program, which had seen ratings drop 55 percent (as of February of this year) from those enjoyed by The Colbert Report, the show it replaced, will have its final broadcast this Thursday.

The Nightly Show was a more racially-centered, more left-wing ���companion��� to the super-popular Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and found its way to that role when Stephen Colbert left The Colbert Report in December 2014 to become the host of The Late Show over on CBS. The Nightly Show first aired about a month later.

Wilmore himself had previously written that he didn���t want his program to be overly similar to either Stewart���s Daily Show or The Colbert Report, and, instead, wanted it to explicitly ���focus on race, class and gender.���

Well, that it did, to a nauseating degree. The broadcasts not infrequently devolved into rants���from Wilmore and guests���of a kind like those you could count on from your annoyingly-opinionated and largely-inarticulate uncle during Thanksgiving dinner.

While I will never be accused of having sympathy for the dominant political ideologies of any of the aforementioned shows, I am objective enough to have noticed some real wisdom and intelligence in the Stewart and Colbert programs, characteristics noticeably absent from Wilmore���s show. It���s too bad, in one sense, because Wilmore seems as bright a guy as he is (or ���can be���) an effective comedian, but he didn���t seem to care that the program became so unrestrained in its base politicization that it just wasn���t funny or clever. It was too important to him to be pissed off, and, as a result, he was unable to get out of his own way.

The Nightly Show had been referring to this year���s election as ���The Unblackening,��� because, of course, the two major parties had the gall to nominate white standard-bearers this time around; in the wake of his cancellation, Wilmore decided that Comedy Central���s decision to boot his program was an example of racial whitewashing, also. As he put it, ������I guess I hadn���t counted on ���The Unblackening��� happening to my time slot as well.���

I guess he doesn���t think that a 50-plus percent drop in viewership should matter. Well, it does, and it always will, even to a network that itself puts so much importance on serving as an organ for liberal talking points.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

California Bill Would Criminalize Reporting on Undercover Videos; Free Speech Advocates Aghast

A bill that���s motoring its way nicely through the California Legislature would make it a crime to report on undercover videos taken on the premises of ���health care providers.���

Assembly Bill (AB) 1671 was introduced by Democrat Los Angeles Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, and is a direct, legislative response to the hidden-camera videos shot by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, which showed Planned Parenthood staff discussing the beneficial (to PP)sale of fetal tissue.

The bill would make criminals out of reporters and news agencies that air any such undercover footage in the course of their journalistic efforts. Penalties include up to a year in prison and fines of up to $10,000 per violation.

The bill, unsurprisingly, has the enthusiastic support of Planned Parenthood, but many are understandably concerned about the legislation���s implications for free speech.

The legal counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association, Nikki Moore, wrote to Assemblyman Gomez directly to register that group���s concern for the risks to investigative journalism posed by the bill.

Wrote Moore, ���AB 1671 seeks to criminalize the exchange of information. It exposes the media and individuals alike to criminal penalties for simply pushing the send button on an email. And it ties the hands of California journalists whose job is to report on issues of public concern.���

For his part, Thomas Peele, an investigative journalist for the San Jose Mercury News, wrote that while he supports Planned Parenthood���s work to make available ���vital medical services,��� the free speech implications of AB 1671 ���should have First Amendment advocates, journalists and good-government types gravely concerned.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

Calais Descends into Chaos

Calais, a French port that has served as an important location of trade and exchange with England for centuries, has been overtaken by Muslim immigrants to such an extent that parts of it have become a ���no-go��� zone for police.

Calais has been a haven for migrants for years now, due to weak immigration controls not only in France but throughout Europe. Many who have made their way to Calais have done so in an effort to get into Great Britain, and while this has been going on for decades now, the recent heavy influx of refugees throughout Europe has seen the migrant population in Calais rise to pressure-cooker levels.

The migrant community in Calais generally lives in what has become known as Calais Jungle, the name given to the makeshift camps that serve as ���home��� to much of the refugee community there. Now, with the population in the Jungle far in excess of that at which French politicians said would be the limit���almost 9,000, versus the 2,000-person figure that is ���supposed��� to be the cap���violence against locals, at the hands of the migrants, is becoming increasingly common.

Numerous reports of migrants in Calais attacking and vandalizing vehicles traveling on area roads are coming to light, with one resident, Maeva Mayla, posting photos of her brother-in-law���s vandalized automobile on her Facebook page several days ago and saying, ���You���re leaving work and then you���re attacked by migrant s--ts just for fun ��� it disgusts me!���

French officials have issued a warning that the Calais Jungle is likely now home to numerous radical Islamist terrorists, and it is now quite normal for French police to be attacked whenever they try to enter the ���community.���

By all accounts, it is a horrible, and worsening, situation.

 By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

Germany Sees Official Retirement Age Going Higher���and Higher���

While Western countries have been spoiled for so long by the privilege of retirement���the ability to stop working once you are of ���a certain age��� and still live an enjoyable existence until the event of your passing���an increasing number of those same countries are finding that they must reconcile that model with the realities of now-prominent factors like decades of low birth rates and the damage that has been done by socialist economic policies.

Now, the Bundesbank, the German Federal Bank, recommends in a report issued Monday that Germany should plan to increase its official retirement age to 69 by year 2060. The present retirement age is 65, and is due to be raised to 67 by 2030.

Germany is finding its version of so-called entitlement programs hamstrung by an ever-increasing life expectancy among its citizens, combined with a distinct drop in the national birth rate.

For her part, Chancellor Angela Merkel is not on board with an increase in retirement age past 67. Her head spokesman, Steffen Seibert, responded to the Bundesbank���s report by saying that ���the government stands by retirement at 67.���

The larger point, perhaps, is that, due to a variety of factors, citizens the world over can expect that retirement, in its most ideal form, will continue to head toward extinction���something that people generations from now will read about in history books as having once been a standard part of the existence of the citizens of the world���s developed countries, but that was eventually discarded as the West continued to find itself under pressure from a variety of social factors.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

 

The Mystery Of Numbers In The Bible

Dr. Michael Magee, author of Divine Numerics And The Coming World War, joins Jim Paris Live to discuss the significance of numbers in the Bible. Does God assign a meaning to numbers that repeatedly appear in the Bible? Why is the study of biblical numbers different from numerology? What can biblical numbers tell us about future events? Are these numbers providing clues about the future of the United States and World War III? Can these numbers provides clues as to the identity of the Antichrist? The signicance of the most infamous number in the Bible - 666 (Mark Of The Beast).

 

Chicago's Deadliest Day In 13 Years

Chicago has deadliest day in 13 years, historic floods in Lousiana, Wisconsin governor activates the National Guard to protect Milwaukee from ongoing riots, will pastors be forced to perform gay marriages?, more robberies at the Olympics, and is the stock market predicting the winner of the presidential election?

 

Newt Gingrich Now Publicly Wondering About Seth Rich Murder

Did you hear about this?

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is now wondering aloud about the person or entity responsible for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich in Washington, DC, a murder that can now be fairly characterized as ���mysterious.���

During the morning hours of July 8, Rich was shot and killed���after being beaten���while he was walking back to his home and chatting on the phone with his girlfriend. Police have no leads to speak of, and are unsure as to a motive for the killing. Rich���s wallet, watch, and phone were still on his person when he was found.

While Rich���s killing may ultimately prove to be a robbery gone wrong, many have been speculating that his job as a Democratic National Committee (DNC) staff member might have played a part in his demise. Conspiracy theories surrounding Rich���s death began with ���regular folks,��� many of whom are active commenters on the popular social news site Reddit. However, as police struggle with defining a motive for the killing, the conspiracy speculation has gained significant traction. Last week, Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks, suggested on a Dutch news program that Rich may have, indeed, been one of his informants, and now, an esteemed American political figure no less than Newt Gingrich is publicly suggesting that there is more to the Rich murder than meets the eye.

Gingrich, appearing on the Mike Gallagher Show last week, said, in reference to the killing, ���You begin to realize that there are dangerous things going on in the world.���

���First of all, of course it���s worth talking about. If someone is gunned down in our national capital, we ought to have a pretty passionate interest in knowing why. If it wasn���t a mugging and it wasn���t for money, what was it for?���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large