Christopher Columbus Statue in N.Y. May Not Receive Landmark Status

A Christopher Columbus statue in New York may or may not receive landmark status.
The White Plains Historic Preservation Committee will be holding a public forum on the issue.
This comes after the idea of whether the explorer is worth celebrating sparked controversy in July.
Many Italian Americans supported the statue, which was built by the “Sons of Italy” more than 100 years ago.
However, one local argued Columbus was a slave owner who killed Native Americans.
Local law says a statue can receive landmark status if it has special value or is part of the cultural, political, or social history of the city, state, or nation.

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Herman Cain: Trump's critics can't make 'racism' claim stick

Critics and the liberal media can’t make a claim of racism stick against President Trump, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Wednesday on “Hannity.”

Speaking amid the controversy surrounding Trump's comments about the racially-charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, Cain said attempts from the president's opponents to change the narrative have failed.

“They couldn’t make ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ stick. They couldn’t make ‘refugees, refugees, refugees,’ stick. So, now the desperate attempt is ‘racism, racism, racism,’” Cain said.
“But here’s what they don’t understand: the American people are not stupid. Those people that are supporting Donald Trump because of the results he is getting and he is trying to get are not going to persuade Trump supporters to move over to the dark side. They have not just crossed the line, they’ve gone over the cliff. And the only people that are going over the cliff with them are those people that are just as deceived and deranged as they are. That’s what this is all about,” Cain said. “It’s their desperate attempt to try and get people to follow them off the cliff.”
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Those attempts, Cain said, derive from what he's called “TDS” – Trump Derangement Syndrome.
“They are never going to get over it,” he said. “They are still stuck in ‘Hillary should have won.’ She should not have won because she was not the best candidate. They’re stuck in Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Cain added: “It’s sad, it’s unfortunate and it doesn’t help this country. But that’s what they are trying to do, is to destroy and divide this nation with all of this racist rhetoric that they are continuing to put out there.”
Despite the rhetoric surrounding recent events, Cain said, the American people “are not stupid.”
“They see past this,” he stated. “The only ones that are following this racist rhetoric and this racist indication of what they think defines America are the people who are already predisposed to their position. Here’s what they don’t understand: Violence does not define America. Violence does not define who we are. They don’t understand that. The liberal media believes that if they say it often enough, over and over and over, that more people are going to fall into their camp but that simply is not happening.”

Oregon abortion law funds procedures for illegal immigrants (Bringing Down America)

Oregon has passed the nation’s most progressive abortion bill, requiring state insurers to provide free abortions for all, including illegal immigrants.

Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, signed the historic health bill Tuesday, after the Legislature approved it in July. It would require Oregon insurance companies to cover reproductive procedures, all on the taxpayers' dime.

The $10.2 million bill takes effect immediately, allocating $500,000 for abortions for the estimated 22,873 women eligible under the Oregon health pan, the Washington Times reported. This will include abortions for immigrants who are otherwise ineligible under the state’s Medicaid program.
Opponents argued that the bill will force people who morally object to abortions to assume some of the costs. They also predicted that lawsuits will quickly follow, arguing that the new law violates the Weldon Amendment, a 2004 congressional provision that prohibits Health and Human Services funds for states that discriminate against health care providers that refuse to cover abortions, the Washington Times further reported.
Providence Health Care, a nonprofit Catholic health care provider that is also the only insurer operating in Oregon that does not cover abortions, will have its expenses reimbursed by the state.
Two other states, California and New York, also require state insurers to cover abortion.

Pres. Trump Disbands 2 Economic Advisory Councils

U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions about his responses to the violence, injuries and deaths at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville as he talks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 15, 2017. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

President Trump is pulling the plug on two of his economic advisory councils.
In a tweet Wednesday, the president said quote, “rather than putting pressure on the business people of the Manufacturing Council and Strategy and Policy Forum, I am ending both.”
This comes after several executives have stepped down from the president’s Manufacturing Council, which is separate from the Economic Advisory Panels.
President Trump blasted the CEO’s Tuesday, saying he has many others that can take their place.

Baltimore Removes 4 Confederate Statues, N.Y. Church Set to Remove Another

Workers remove a monument dedicated to the Confederate Women of Maryland early Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, after it was taken down in Baltimore. Local news outlets reported that workers hauled several monuments away, days after a white nationalist rally in Virginia turned deadly. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

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Days after the deadly unrest in Virginia, confederate monuments in the city of Baltimore are removed overnight.
On Monday the Baltimore City Council voted unanimously to remove the statues immediately, and crews began taking them down late Tuesday.
The city’s mayor says by 5:30 a.m. local time all four of Baltimore’s confederate statues had been removed.
Local reports say the statues removed in Baltimore include the Roger B. Taney Monument, and monuments honoring Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
Meanwhile, another General Robert E. Lee plaque at a New York church in Brooklyn is set to be removed.
Officials for Saint Johns Episcopal Church in Fort Hamilton say custodians will take down the 105-year-old plaque sometime Wednesday.
It marks where the general planted a maple tree in the early 1840s while stationed there.
He was among many military men who allegedly worshipped at Saint Johns, and gathered in a nearby structure that predates the current building.
The issue was brought up by protesters demanding the streets General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive be renamed.

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Laura Ingraham: Politics to blame for 'newfound outrage' over Confederate statues

Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham said Tuesday that politics are clearly at the root of the string of protests surrounding the removal of Confederate statues.

On Saturday, one person was killed and more than a dozen others injured after a rally protesting the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. Clashes between protesters and counter-protesters sparked a national outcry. Both sides of the political spectrum chimed in.

But it was politics, Ingraham said on “Hannity”, which caused the “newfound outrage” behind the removal of the statues.
“I understand that there’s this newfound outrage and level of offense that’s reached this fever pitch about these statues,” Ingraham said. “I think a lot of people have driven by these statues probably for decades and never thought twice about them. But now they’ve become a political symbol. And, if it’s a symbol that represents the racist past – or any vestige of a racist past of the south – then they’re going to be able to say, ‘well, then that has to go, too.’”
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What comes next after the protests, Ingraham says, is unknown. “I don’t know how far they want to take it,” she said. “I said this morning, maybe they’ll take it to certain books that they think are offensive or certain speakers on college campuses who are offensive. It’s a symbol and people can do what they want with symbols. They can vote to get rid of all of them then I think we have to ask the question: What next? How are we going to heal as a nation, condemn that which is evil and then come together as a country?”
Addressing the controversial remarks President Donald Trump gave on Tuesday afternoon -- in which he doubled down on his claim that “both sides” were responsible for the violence -- Ingraham said the left was hoping for more from the president.
“But there are some people out there that are just never going to be satisfied with what he (Trump) says,” Ingraham argued. “No matter what he says, in response to any crisis, they’re going to ridicule him, or satirize him or say he’s dumb or say he doesn’t really care or he’s an egomaniac or… you know, pick your poison. He’s not trying to satisfy them at this point.”