Valerie Richardson writes at the WTimes:

Colin Kaepernick started out taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality, but his activism has since expanded to encompass a wide range of leftist causes, including a group named after a convicted cop-killer.

The Colin Kaepernick Foundation donated in April $25,000 to Assata's Daughters, a Chicago "direct action" resistance organization honoring Assata Shakur, who escaped prison and fled to Cuba after being found guilty in the 1973 murder of Officer Werner Foerster.

The grant includes $2,500 for CopWatch, a program that trains volunteers to follow and video police, and $15,000 for teen training, part of the group's commitment to "develop and train young people, ages 4-19, in the Black queer feminist tradition and in the spirit of Assata."

Read more.

The name of that star hockey player is P.K. Subban, who seems to have forgotten his place on the liberal plantation and is "getting a little uppity" for the likes of judgmental sportswriter Greg Wyshynski at Yahoo.

The uppityness? Subban actually said publicly that "he would never kneel during the national anthem."

My oh my oh my! Thinking while black! Get the whips and call in the crackers!

Well, John Nolte at Breitbart appreciates folks who think for themselves, who don't let skin rein them in, and therefore Nolte rains down hockey puck enlightenment upon Mr. Wyshynski.

You may have noticed: Racist thinking and racist media have an inescapable problem -- Racism is always too shallow for the content of our thinking and the content of our character.

Racism is always skin deep, utterly shallow. You can drown in it, but you have to go really low. 

By the way, Nolte shoots, Nolte scores here at Breitbart.

"Communist West Point graduate 2nd. Lt. Spenser Rapone called Secretary of Defense James Mattis the most 'evil, vile f***' in the entire Trump administration," Jonah Bennett writes at the Daily Caller.

According to the Daily Caller, statements such as this "run the risk of violating Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice."

Article 88 states:

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

It appears 2nd Lt. Rapone might have joined the wrong army. He may feel more at home with the Taliban, which is taking credit for tryng to kill Defense Secretary Mattis during an attack this morning at the Kabul International Airport, the DC reports.

I wonder how Mr. Rapone got into West Point, and if there are others there who share his communism.

Cyrus Farivar writes at Arstechnica:

In the wake of a stunning security breach that has sent shock waves throughout the financial world, Equifax's CEO, Richard Smith, has stepped down from his post.

According to a Tuesday press release, Smith's "retirement" is effective today. The company's board of directors have already appointed Mark Feidler, a board member, to serve as non-executive chairman. Equifax officials also named Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., who has been president of the Asia Pacific division of the company, to step in as interim CEO.

"The Board remains deeply concerned about and totally focused on the cybersecurity incident," Feidler said in the statement. "We are working intensely to support consumers and make the necessary changes to minimize the risk that something like this happens again. Speaking for everyone on the Board, I sincerely apologize."

"The move comes weeks after two top Equifax executives also removed themselves from their posts," Farivar writes.

"Equifax’ notorious breach was accomplished by attackers exploiting a Web application vulnerability that was discovered by researchers in March," according to Farivar. "The vulnerability was not patched by Equifax until May."

AP reports:

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon told conservatives Sunday at a rally that they needn't worry about Democrats but instead should focus on the "corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment."

Bannon spoke to about 400 people at a St. Louis hotel during the rally hosted by Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a spinoff of the conservative think tank Eagle Forum that Schlafly founded and led until her death last year at age 92.

During a three-minute speech, Bannon said he left the White House because Trump "needed a wingman to go against the Republican establishment."

"It's not the Democrats, we'll get to them and we'll beat them, like we beat Hillary Clinton," AP quotes Bannon as saying.

"But the first thing you've got to get through is a corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment,” Bannon told what AP reports as a cheering crowd.

These establishment Republicans, Bannon said, are not "conservatives. They're liberals, and that is why we've got to fight every day."

"Despite his continuing support for the president, Bannon is heading to Alabama to campaign against the Trump-backed candidate [Luther Strange] in that state's Republican Senate primary," AP states.

In fact, Bannon is set to speak this evening "at a rally for former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, ahead of the Tuesday runoff."

Bannon reportedly said the GOP establishment has practiced a "politics of personal destruction" against Roy Moore.

"They're out to destroy him. Do you know why? Because they cannot take the righteousness the people like Judge Moore represent," Bannon said, according to AP.

Peter Doocy writes at Fox News:

Sarah Palin returned to the campaign trail Thursday night to rally support for Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, armed with a pitch heavy on anti-GOP establishment criticism.

"We're sending Trump someone who has our back -- not Mitch McConnell's," Palin told a raucous crowd of hundreds . . . .

"Sebastian Gorka, who served as a White House adviser until August, joined Palin on stage in Montgomery last night," Doocy reports.

"All you need to know is that Luther Strange is endorsed by Mitch McConnell . . . . He is a creature of the establishment, that's why we can’t support him," Gorka told Fox News, according to Doocy.

Read more.

Chris Weller writes at Business Insider:

Members of the royal family aren't often told what they can and can't do. But just a few days into his first year of school, 4-year-old Prince George already faces a mandate: No best friends allowed.

Thomas's Battersea, the school George attends, bans kids from having best friends, Marie Claire reports. Instead, teachers encourage all students to form bonds with one another to avoid creating feelings of exclusions among those without best friends.

"The trend of banning best friends has been growing for several years, and it's spread beyond European borders to American schools as well," Weller continues. "Some psychologists and parents argue kids become more well-adjusted when they have larger friend groups and can avoid negative feelings associated with feeling left out."

According to Weller, "Critics . . .  say the approach robs kids of the chance to form valuable coping skills. By grappling with mild social exclusion when they're young, kids will emerge as more capable, resilient adults, these advocates argue."

Comment: I wonder how Thomas's Battersea school (which highly recommends itself) feels about the concept of "better" and "best" schools. Perhaps societies should adopt a core value of that does away with any kind of school evaluation, lest students feel "left out" for not being able to attend schools that qualify as better or best, and lest parents' feelings are hurt in cases where their kids are excluded from such schools.

One could argue that if the concept of best friends is harmful, then equally so must be the concept of best schools, and, really, "best" anything. Just give every school a trophy for having walls and no grades (A+ signifying the "very best"). "Best" is so yesterday.

Another question: Is being educated better than not being educated? Is it "best" to be ignorant? Apparently yes, in some circles, as long as you feel good about it, and your support group agrees.

Sounds a bit cultish, though, doesn't it? "Ooh, we love you! Now Believe."

This is a boon for gender fanatics. Who cares if teacher-activists in non-best schools with no best friends declare there are 7,986 genders and counting? Wouldn't want anyone to feel left out and under-liberated. Long live the anti-binary binary.

Read more at Business Insider.

David Hookstead writes at the Daily Caller:

NFL ratings are in an absolute free fall after week two of the season.

Viewership for the league is down to its lowest point since 1998, according to Sports Media Watch [SMW].

The evidence? Hookstead quotes the following from SMW:

The Week 2 NFL singleheader window delivered an 8.4 rating and 14.5 million viewers on CBS Sunday, down 24% in ratings and viewership from last year on FOX (11.0, 19.2M) and down 14% and 13% respectively from 2015 on CBS (9.8, 16.7M).

The 8.4 rating is the lowest for the Week 2 singleheader since at least 1998. The first two NFL windows on CBS this season have both declined double-digits to multi-year lows.

How to account for this dismal performance?

"The writing has been on the wall since last season when Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem," Hookstead explains. "People have grown tired of the NFL becoming a political side show, and it's exhausting getting lectured about the problems with society during games."

Are people simply growing tired of football? Consider: "College football has no problem getting viewers. Plenty of unimportant games are still garnering at least a million viewers," Hookstead writes, "which is a pretty clear indication that it's not football itself that's becoming unpopular."

From the Fox News Insider:

Laura Ingraham, the newest member of the Fox News Channel primetime lineup, joined "Fox & Friends" this morning to discuss her new show and the big stories of the day.

She said "The Ingraham Angle," which debuts on Fox News Channel on October 30th at 10:00 p.m. ET, is going to be an unpredictable, wild ride.

"We're going to have a chance to talk about the issues that I think our country is really in turmoil about, and also a lot of the good stuff that's happening that we sometimes overlook in the culture and in politics," Ingraham said. "New voices and a new experience. We're looking forward to it."

Read more.

From Liberty Counsel:

Atheists masquerading as a so-called Satanist Temple group recently ended its after-school program at Point Defiance Elementary School in Tacoma.

The After-School Satan Club ceased meeting soon after teachers from the Seattle Satanic Temple offered their first meeting in December 2016. Apparently, only one child joined the club.

The group states that its purpose is to target the districts where Good News Clubs meet after school. The Good News Clubs are sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship.

"Tacoma School Board’s decision last year to allow the Satanist club drew protests from parents who asked school officials to ban it," according to Liberty Counsel.

"The Satanic Temple is an atheist organization known for controversial publicity stunts proclaiming it is a Satanic group in order to scare school boards into blocking access to the Good News Clubs," Liberty Counsel states. "The After-School Satan Club promotes evolution, gender confusion, and abortion to club attendees."

Read more.

Dave Urbanski reports at the Blaze:

The poor guy had been making lame-brained decisions all morning -- but his worst misstep by far was landing on 83-year-old Wilford Burgess' rooftop.

After getting word from a caller who complained about being followed Tuesday morning, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies spotted a man jumping from roof to roof in La Puente, California -- and the chase was on, KTLA-TV reported.

The suspect managed to keep cops on the run for several hours until he stopped on Burgess’ roof where a standoff commenced, the station said. Sheriff's department officials even used a crisis negotiator in an attempt to talk the guy down, KTLA added.

But after another hour went by, Burgess told KABC-TV he "got tired" of the trespasser's "games" -- then he grabbed a ladder and told deputies, "I'm going up on the roof -- that sucker's coming off."

Read more. Watch video of this event here.

At Fox News Insider:

Tucker Carlson debated a writer from Alternet DC who said the Star-Spangled Banner's designation as our national anthem has its roots in neo-Confederate circles.

One day before the 203rd anniversary of Francis Scott Key penning the song while onboard a ship during the Battle of Baltimore, Key's monument in the Charm City was defaced with the term "racist anthem."

Jefferson Morley told Carlson that for nearly a decade in the 1920s, neo-Confederate groups petitioned - ultimately successfully -- to have Key's tune made our official anthem.

That goal finally came to pass in 1931.

Carlson said the anthem itself is not racist [and, by the way, the writer agrees], and the Confederacy came to exist decades after Key took that famous glance across the Patapsco River.

Read more and view the video here.

Cameron Cawthorne reports at the Free Beacon:

Two security contractors on Tuesday blew the whistle during an exclusive interview with Fox News' chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge about Hillary Clinton's State Department silencing them on Benghazi lapses.

Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, were killed on September 11, 2012, in a terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

"Was the State Department contract officer trying to silence you?" Herridge asked.

"Oh absolutely," longtime special forces soldier and security contractor executive Joe Torres said. "The U.S. ambassador is dead and nobody is held accountable for it."

"Brad Owens, a former Army intelligence officer echoed Torres," the Free Beacon reports, "saying that those 'who made the poor choices that actually, I would say, were more responsible for the Benghazi attacks than anyone else, they're still in the same positions, making security choices for our embassies overseas now'."

"Torres went on to say that this terrorist attack could happen again and ‘nothing [has] changed' in making the security safer," according to the Free Beacon.

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But establishment swamp monster Mitch McConnell's "Attacks Endanger Safe GOP Seat," says Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.

Leahy writes:

An Emerson College Poll released on Monday shows that Judge Roy Moore is leading incumbent Senator Luther Strange (R-AL) in the September 26 Republican primary runoff election by 14 points.

This is the fourth in a series of polls conducted since the August primary in which Moore and Strange qualified for the September 26 runoff election that shows Moore with a double-digit lead over Strange.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) well financed paid media attacks on Moore, however, are putting the safe Republican Senate seat in jeopardy for the December general election.

Read more.

From Justin Bogie at CNSNews.com:

Late Wednesday night, the Senate released the text of legislation that would provide disaster relief funding and other federal aid for Hurricane Harvey and other 2017 disasters, suspend the debt limit, and extend the National Flood Insurance Program and government funding into December.

The latest budget deal forged by President Donald Trump and key Senate Democrats is a failure on numerous levels.

It takes advantage of a natural disaster to increase domestic spending and the federal debt limit -- both of which are unrelated issues. [emphasis added]

It also fails to prioritize national defense spending and continues to spend money on inefficient and outdated domestic programs.

Congress should reject this deal and go back to the drawing board.

Bogie concludes: "Congress and the administration are using the victims of a disaster to push their own agenda through -- once again avoiding the serious and necessary discussions over bloated federal spending and the unsustainable national debt."

Read the entire column here.

Yes, coffee lovers, Friday just got happier: Here at LifeZette is "plenty of confirmation your morning concoction supports good nutrition and offers numerous health benefits."

For example, as the column from Manny Alvarez, M.D., reports: A "study by Spanish researchers from the Hospital de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain," found that "drinking coffee may reduce a person’s risk of death by 64 percent. Even those over the age of 45 could lower their risk of death by 30 percent with 2 extra cups per day."

Slackers beware -- A single cup will not do. According to LifeZette, the "magic number of cups for the healthiest individuals was not one, but four cups each day."

Yep. It's a tough job. But somebody's got to drink it.

To read more about the health benefits of coffee, go here.

Michael Chapman reports at CNSNews.com:

Feminist icon Germaine Greer, author of the best-selling The Female Eunuch and other works, has been pilloried by her fellow leftists and some journalists because she does not believe that transgender surgery turns men into women and, as she told the BBC, the sex-reassignment procedure has been "a disaster" in some cases.

"What I'm saying is it doesn't make them a woman," said Greer about sex-reassignment surgery during an interview with BBC Newsnight, hosted by Kirsty Wark. "And apparently people have decided that because I don't think that post-operative transgender men, i.e., M-to-F transgender people, are women, I'm not to be allowed to talk."

Greer also explained that she did not care if some people were offended by her views because "people get hurt all the time" and "I'm not about to walk on eggshells."

Chapman reports that Wark objected during the BBC interview, saying, "But surely you've heard a man who feels that he would like gender reassignment to make him/her feel more comfortable in her body, then that's what should be done and they should be allowed to do that."

To which Greer countered: "I'm not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure. What I'm saying is it doesn't make them a woman. It happens to be an opinion. It's not a prohibition. Carry on, if that's what you think it is you want to do. I've been accused of inciting violence against transsexual people. That's absolute nonsense."

According to CNS, Greer also stated, "I think that a great many women don't think post-operative, or even non-post-operative transsexual, M-to-F, transsexual people sound like or behave like women. But they dare not say so. . . . Not everybody does feel comfortable, by the way, post-operatively. There have been a couple of cases, I found very interesting, where the actual acceptor of the procedure has felt that it's been a disaster."

Greer also noted the unfortunate complication of steroid use. "It's also a problem if what you have to do after gender reassignment is use steroids every day of your life," Greer said, according to CNS. "That's not a happy outcome either."

Wark raised another objection, CNSNews reports: "But for those who do not feel it's been a disaster and feel more comfortable, then do you understand how they might feel you've been hurtful to them?"

“People are hurtful to me all the time," Greer reportedly countered. "Try being an old woman, I mean, for goodness sake. People get hurt all the time. I'm not about to walk on eggshells."

Here is video of the BBC interview. For a longer, saltier video of the interview, go here.

"U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp signed an emergency order allowing the seizure of private guns, ammunition, explosives and property . . . . in preparation for Hurricane Irma, the Daily Caller reports.

My hunch is that homes that are appropriately defended are less likely to be looted. Why court a man-made disaster when a natural disaster is already breathing down your neck?

Meanwhile, in "Gun-Controlled Chicago: At Least 45 Shot, Seven Killed over Labor Day Weekend," according to Breitbart. Government control of the means of self-defense seems to make Chicago less safe, more dangerous. And that's bad government, not good government.

Meanwhile, part 2, Chicago Mayor and former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel tells "Dreamers" that Chicago schools are a "Trump free" zone, the WTimes reports.

Is this really a solution? Let's make an already violent gun-controlled Chicago an avowed magnet for illegal aliens? You expect folks who disrespect immigration laws to care about obeying gun laws? Something's not adding up. 

Chicago already suffers from a hurricane of violence. Based on current policies, more violence could be on the way. Not from nature, but from politics.

Ian Mason reports at Breitbart:

Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration (EBI), a group of faith leaders and other Evangelical Christian conservative activists, offered President Donald Trump and the GOP Congressional leadership advice on the impending end of DACA.

"While some faith groups use selective Bible words for open borders and amnesty, we consider the whole counsel of scripture," the letter reads. "We find that the bible does not teach open borders, but wise welcome."

Addressed to the president, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the letter comes as President Trump is rumored to be on the verge of announcing the repeal of President Barack Obama's Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

"DACA, a legally questioned executive order, offers amnesty and work authorization to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in direct contradiction of federal immigration law. Contrary to popular portrayal, DACA does not affect illegal alien children," Breitbart reports. "The average age of illegal aliens protected by DACA is 25."

Read more.

Brendan Kirby writes at LifeZette:

Outsider Roy Moore, who is favored to knock off Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in this month's Republican primary runoff, suggested Friday that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should be replaced as majority leader.

In an interview with LifeZette, Moore objected both to McConnell's lack of results in passing President Donald Trump’s agenda and his attempts to prop up Strange.

"I wouldn't necessarily think he would be a majority leader I would support," he said. "But, you know, I can work [with] anybody. I'm not a person who doesn't forgive. But, you know, you don't get over these things easily."

Election Day Background: "Alabama Republicans will pick their nominee on Sept. 26 for the [seat] vacated by Jeff Sessions, who became President Donald Trump's attorney general," Kirby explains. "Strange, who was appointed to the seat by former Gov. Robert Bentley, finished second in the first round of balloting last month. Moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice and popular figure on the religious Right, came in first."

McConnell Missteps: "The Senate Leadership Fund, a political action committee closely aligned with McConnell, dumped more than $2 million into the primary during the first round. Much of that went into attack ads targeting Moore and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), who finished third," Kirby reports.

Moore Critiques Approach of Ethically Challenged Establishment: "It has a lot to do with the kind of campaign ads they've run and the kind of campaign they're running," LifeZette quotes Moore as saying.

"If you can't run on your credentials, if you take after the other candidate with false and deceptive advertising, then what does that say about ethics? What does that say about your ethical standards? And I think that's what's lacking in Washington," the Senate hopeful said.

Moore Critiques Failure of Establishment Leadership: "A lot is in leadership,” Moore said, according to LifeZette. "The people of Alabama, the people of America in November of 2016, signaled they wanted a change in the way Washington does business. And I think the Establishment under McConnell is doing business the same way they did before. They don't want change. They want to keep the same system going that they had before."

Accordng to LifeZette, "Moore backs Trump's call to eliminate the filibuster rule that requires a 60-vote supermajority to pass most legislation -- a move McConnell has resisted. Moore said he believes it is not just unwise but unconstitutional."

"McConnell's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment," LifeZette reports.