Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Why Were the Antifa a No-Show at Phoenix Trump Rally? ~ Here’s Matt Barber’s theory ~

I, personally, would like to think that it’s because the Leftist’s Militant Antifa knew that they were risking their own lives if they descended en masse into the largest Red City in a large Red State with Constitutional Gun Carrying laws, Phoenix PD, Secret Service and 1000 Bikers guarding the door.

 
9th Circuit claims praying coach preyed on players Speaking of prohibiting prayer at school ~ The “9th Circus” out on the Left Coast is at it again ~

A (Washington State) high school football coach and his attorneys are considering their next legal steps after a federal court upheld his firing for praying after games.
 
“Banning all coaches from praying individually in public, just because they can be seen, is wrong,” (Coach Joe Kennedy’s attorney Jeremy) Dys insists. “That is not the America contemplated by our Constitution.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center Is the Most Dangerous Hate Group in America ~ The SPLC (a once-useful non-profit, now gone rogue) has set themselves up as totalitarian thought police; either you and your organization agree with the progressive world-view or you’re labeled a “hater.” Here’s their twisted logic ~

(Y)ou are “anti-LGBT” if you believe that it’s best for kids to have a mom and dad or that marriage should be limited to the union of one man and one woman or that homosexual practice is sinful or that gays can change or that Bruce Jenner is not a woman or that a 15-year-old boy should not be able to play on the girls’ sports teams and share their locker rooms and showers.
 
And since you are “anti-LGBT,” according to the SPLC, you are a hater. And if your organization or ministry is known for such views, you belong on their hate list side by side with the KKK, neo-Nazis, Black Supremacists, and Islamic radicals.

 
Leftists use the same deceitful tactic on all fronts, misusing words until they’re meaningless ~ Dirty Deeds: How the ‘Green’ Energy Cult Stole the English Language ~

(Climate alarmists) have fudged the surface temperature data, used meaningless climate models, argued that human emissions of carbon dioxide will warm the planet despite the strong evidence to the contrary, and so on, but their greatest perversion is of the English language.

 
They have branded CO2 as a pollutant and claimed that reducing it is necessary to make the world “clean.”

 
Poland Refuses to Take Any Muslim Migrants After Latest Terror Attacks ~ One of the few remaining European countries that still has an instinct for self-preservation

“We are convinced by the latest attacks that there is a natural base for terrorists where a large number of poorly integrated Muslims live,” (Paweł Soloch, head of the Polish National Security Office) said according to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung.
 
“I see a growing number of Muslim refugees and a surge of terrorism,” Soloch said and added that there was evidence of a potential migrant wave headed for Poland.

 
College Republican threatened after asking Muslims to decry terrorism ~ When the rubber meets the road, Islam isn’t too interested in coexisting. You want us to condemn violence? Don’t make us get violent!

 
One person calls First Nations tribute “offensive” — and Media Party calls it “news” ~ This is from Canada – but progressive propaganda knows no boundaries ~

Since 2003, a Ukrainian dance troupe has been performing a tribute to the many cultures of Canada, including that of the First Nations.
 
What could be more Canadian, more multicultural?
 
But one aboriginal woman has called the troupe’s use of powwow moves and headdresses “offensive,” and the Media Party is actually treating this as an important story.

 
It’s almost as outrageous as this ~ ESPN Removes Announcer Named Robert Lee From U. Virginia Football Game ~ If you’re on social media you couldn’t possibly have missed this most recent example of leftist lunacy – but just in case ~

A commentator named Robert Lee was scheduled to call a football game in Charlottesville, Virginia, but the coincidence that he shares a name with Confederate general Robert E. Lee caused ESPN to reverse course.
 
Lee was set to announce the University of Virginia’s game against William and Mary but was moved to Youngstown State at Pittsburgh

 
If Confederate Statues Must Fall, Black Nationalist Statues Must Fall ~ Daniel Greenfield points out the glaring hypocrisy of the ignorant, indignant Left ~

New York City, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles all have streets named after a supremacist and nationalist who palled around with Nazis. New York City has a statue of him. Washington D.C. has an art tribute to him. If we are going to take down Confederate memorials, there’s no way he can stay up […]
 
General Robert E. Lee never cheered the head of the American Nazi Party the way that Malcolm X did. Nor did he break bread with the Klan or defend the Nazis. If he must go, actual Klan and Nazi sympathizers like Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois should be tossed in the trash.

 
NFL Player Ben Watson Slams Margaret Sanger as the “Ultimate” Racist, “She Wanted to Exterminate Blacks” ~ The Baltimore Ravens tight end just happens to be black ~

(He) recently told Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center in San Diego that he believes abortion is “the ultimate form of racism.”

 
“I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and [founder Margaret] Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks,” said Watson, an African American. “And it’s kind of ironic that it’s working.”

There Is No Such Thing As White Cultural Heritage. The West’s Legacy Is Open To All ~ Excellent defense of western civilization. It’s not skin pigmentation – it’s worldview. They’re not all equal ~

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history […]
 
The achievements of European culture in art, literature, philosophy, government, and so on are inseparable from the roots of that culture. Remove the religion and philosophy, and the tapestry of Western culture falls apart, a few disparate threads fluttering to the floor amidst the dust. There is no unified “white” culture or heritage except for that of Western civilization, which is not defined by race and which always reaches beyond race.