“Two gunmen were killed Sunday after opening fire on a security officer outside a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of Prophet Muhammad in Texas and a bomb squad was called in to search their vehicle as a precaution, authorities said, “ reported the Associated Press.

Provocative is ISIL executing 21 Coptic Christians – especially to the majority of Christ-followers around the world.

The gunfight took place outside the Mohammed Art Exhibit event at the Curtis Culwell Center in suburban Garland, Texas. Police said the suspects began shooting wounding a security guard, and along with traffic officer, killed both suspects.

In January, gunmen attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo,the French satirical magazine that has a history of depicting Mohammed, and killed 12 people. The following month a gunman attacked a free speech forum in Copenhagen, Denmark, who was angry over depictions of Mohammed.

Federal authorities identified the suspects as Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi.

Indicted in January 2010 after lying to the FBI after telling investigators he hadn’t discussed traveling to Somalia to engage in “violent jihad.” A year later Simpson received three years probation, once convicted.

Oh, and the FBI had Simpson on their watch-list for the last 10 years.

And true to their nature, Progressives with the aid of the media, have been quick to point out that the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI,)which organized the event, is an ‘anti-Muslim hate group’ as claimed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC.)  However, the same Progressives and their media mouth-pieces failed to point out that in 2014 the FBI severed its relationship with the SPLC, after being exposed for it’s “anti-Christian hatred.”

And does anyone in the media recall Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” — a crucifix in a jar of urine that won a competition sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts? Those who denounce AFDI for sponsoring the contest should consider Serrano’s detractors, none of whom were violent.

As Rush Limbaugh asked: “If Americans are to respect and obey the laws of Islam that say drawing pictures of Mohammed is not permitted…why don’t we respect Islam’s punishment for gays and women, hmm?”

After the shooting, authorities escorted attendees to another room in the conference center. Once there, a woman held up an American flag, and the crowd sang “God Bless America,” followed by the National Anthem.

Chants of “USA, USA, USA” could be heard throughout the arena after the songs concluded. Also, two members of the group led prayers for the wounded security officer and for the officers protecting the group against further attacks.

It appears there are U.S. citizen’s who will not back down from terror or any threat that tries to stop” the right of the people peaceably to assemble,” and “abridging the freedom of speech…” as stated in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The day that no American stands up for the constitution is the day radical Islam and Sharia Law win.

A new Associated Press poll shows that 56-percent of Americans say religious liberties are more important to protect than homosexual rights when the two come into conflict. But don’t tell the Obama Administration or Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“Far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care,” Clinton recently told the Women in the World Summit in New York City. “Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will,” she added. “And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

In other words – if Christians and Jews don’t change their points of view – the state will do it for them.

Prior to that, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asked this question during arguments about homosexual marriage: “In the Bob Jones case, the Court held that a college was not entitled to tax-exempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating. So would the same apply to a university or a college if it opposed same-sex marriage?”

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli answered, “It’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is — it is going to be an issue.”

Churches and synagogues will lose their tax-exempt status and there’ll be no more “respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion…” as guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

And now the only Christian member of a delegation from Iraq isn’t being allowed entry into the U.S. even though scheduled to testify before the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees. The U.S. consulate in Erbil told Sister Diana Momeka of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena that they rejected her non-immigrant-visa application.

The reason: “You were not able to demonstrate that your intended activities in the United States would be consistent with the classification of the visa.”

The State Department claimed that “every overseas post and domestic bureau will seek opportunities to engage religious leaders” as part of its program for countering “violent extremism.” But the voice of a lone Catholic nun doesn’t count.

ISIL forced Sister Diana, along with 50,000 other Christians to flee for their lives from the Iraqi city of Qaraqosh. The State Department claims that because she’s an ‘Internally Displaced Person,’ she intends to stay, not jus’ visit, and that’s illegal immigration, which is strictly forbidden.

It appears the Obama Administration’s set on denying ISIL’s Christian victims that status.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is coming to Las Vegas on Cinco de Mayo for the first, of what her handlers are calling, “many conversations with Nevadans.” Beginning around 2:45 that afternoon, she’ll join a roundtable of young people at Rancho High School, who claim they’re personally affected by our ‘broken’ immigration system.

Immigration is apparently a ‘divisive issue’ in Nevada, since about 30 percent of the population is Latino. Advocates for immigration reform want legal status given to an estimated 11 million ‘extranjeros ilegales’ living in the U.S.

President Obama has already taken executive action to protect illegal’s from deportation. Initially his action protected only youngsters raised here after their parents or relatives broke the law by illegally entering the U.S., later expanding the protection order to all illegal’s who already have family here.

A judge in Texas has put the order on hold after that state filed a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. Nevada joined a majority of other states in a lawsuit challenging Obama’s unconstitutional actions on immigration, much to the consternation of the state’s first ‘Hispanic governor,’ Brian Sandoval.

And jus’ like her trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, she’ll continue talking about the “four fights” that supposedly define her campaign, with an emphasis this time on the second fight: strengthening families and community.

There is no word yet on a possible trip to northern Nevada – but then many of us don’t care if she ever visits this part of the state.

The Nevada National Guard is cleaning up the area south-east of Reno. Their CH-47’s Chinook helicopters are heard thumping loudly, lift ing the rusting bodies of abandoned automobiles skyward, hauling them away.

Considered blights, most people want them gone, never to return. They are scrap, garbage, waste — man-made and unsightly, a danger to the panoramic beauty of a mornings’ walk or evening hike.

Yet, isn’t it odd that from time-to-time a large, barely sea-worthy hulk of a ship’s dynamited, sunk to create a man made-reef for the aquatic life. The abandon vehicle that dots the desert landscape are the same thing.

They’re home to field mice, snakes, spiders and their cousin the scorpion, among other wildlife. And if you sit patiently, quietly watching — you’ll learn both the hawk and the coyote often find a meal inside the oxidizing metal frames.

Like a man-made reef, abandoned automobiles are never left unoccupied — nature always fills the empty spaces.

It’s what remained of an old water storage tank that sat back in the woods some three to four hundred feet up the hill above Sander’s Court in Klamath. And it was the site of a number of childhood memories, including the time I tried and failed to kiss Goldie Arnold.

One afternoon, Goldie’s older brother,  John Paul, Chucky Yates, my brother Adam and I were playing up there. The game was simple: run up the outside rim of the wall that we called the cliff, and slide down the fallen redwood log on the other side.

Around and around we ran and slid. It was truly a simpler time back then.

During a lull in the game, I asked John Paul the name of the place. He quickly glanced at Chucky, then with a smile declared, “Booger Nose Flat.”

We returned to playing our game.

It would be some years later that I’d learn what the flat was actually used for at one time. I also learned at about the same time that John Paul had made the name up, right off the top of his head.

But by then, it didn’t matter – because it was and will always be ‘Booger Nose Flat’ to me.

It was September 2011, when President Obama ended “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” in the U.S. military, thus allowing homosexuals to serve openly in uniform. Obama claimed the 18-year-old law forced ‘gay and lesbian’ service members to “lie about who they are.”

At the time, there were questions about whether disciplinary rules would be adequate to deal with any future instances of harassment in the ranks. Professor Michael Corgan of Boston University and U.S. Naval Academy graduate, claimed the problem would come down to a matter of leadership.

“Discipline problems that might arise from gays serving with an overwhelmingly straight population in the military should be able to be handled the way any other disciplinary problems are, if commanders are up to their jobs,” Corgan said.

He couldn’t have been more right.

Recently, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a group of ROTC cadets that sexual assault is a “particular challenge and a particular disgrace” to the U.S. military. He noted that last year, far more men than women “experienced unwanted sexual contact.”

“Last year, we estimated that at least 18,900 service members — 10,400 men and 8,500 women — experienced unwanted sexual contact.”

Carter added that “too few” men report the incidents as sexual assault.

They fail to report it as ‘sexual assault’ because not even Secretary of Defense Carter can find the courage to call it what it is – sexual assault. Instead he uses the politically correct term ‘unwanted sexual contact,’ effectively tying commander’s hands when meting out discipline.

Carter also claimed that dirty jokes are among the military behaviors that need to be corrected to stop sexual assault in the ranks.

“Our military is based on an ethos of honor, and this is dishonorable,” Carter said. “And second, we’re based on trust. We have to have trust.”

Dirty jokes are not the problem. The problem comes down to the fact that Department of Defense Directive 1332.14 which deals with homosexual conduct, and Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice which talks about sodomy, aren’t being applied anymore.

As Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, points out: “The increases do seem to coincide with repeal of the law regarding gays in the military in 2010. It went into effect about 18 months after that, and that’s when the numbers started to go up.”

This is what happens when the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military leads from behind.

A Christian printer who was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to print T-shirts for a gay pride parade won big after a court ruled he can decline to print messages that run in opposition to his religious views. The Fayette County Circuit Court’s ruling overturned a decision by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission, finding that Blaine Adamson, owner of ‘Hands on Originals,’ of Lexington, Kentucky, was within his rights when he declined to make shirts for the Lexington Pride Parade.

That’s the good news, but…

On the West Coast, a crowd funding campaign that raised more than $109,000 for the Christian-owned bakery Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Oregon was removed after complaints from gay rights advocates. Lisa Watson of Cupcake Jones, a competitor of ‘Sweet Cakes,’ contacted GoFundMe to alert them that the Kleins’ had violated the terms of service.

She complained:

“This business has been found guilty of discrimination and is being allowed to fundraise to pay their penalty. The GoFundMe terms of service address hate speech, bigotry, criminal activity and sexism among other things in their campaign . The amount of money they have raised in a matter of a few hours by thousands of anonymous cowards is disgusting.”

In a statement, GoFundMe said that the page was yanked because the campaign violated their policy against raising money “in defense of formal charges of heinous crimes, including violent, hateful, or sexual acts.”

“After careful review by our team, we have found the ‘Support Sweet Cakes by Melissa’ campaign to be in violation of our Terms and Conditions. The money raised thus far will still be made available for withdrawal. While a different campaign was recently permitted for a pizzeria in Indiana, no laws were violated and the campaign remained live.”

They added, “However, the subjects of the ‘Support Sweet Cakes by Melissa’ campaign have been formally charged by local authorities and found to be in violation of Oregon state law concerning discriminatory acts. Accordingly, the campaign has been disabled.”

The rules seem to be fluid, depending on what the charges are as Jeremy Meeks, the California criminal whose mug shot went viral last year was able to raise over $6,000 for his defense. Meeks was arrested in June 2014 on felony weapons charges and sentenced to two years in prison in February.

Oh, and incidentally — Watson’s bakery was honored earlier this year by the ‘Basic Rights Education Fund’ for “outstanding leadership to advance equality for all LGBTQ Oregonians.”

Peaceful protests quickly turned violent Saturday evening while jus’ 50 miles away elites in Washington partied with President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. That’s pretty much all American’s saw from the national media outlets.

Meanwhile, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is drawing fire for fueling her city’s riots. At a press conference on Saturday evening, Rawlings-Blake made a comment that is now getting a lot of attention:

“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well,” she said.

The ‘space to destroy’ comment became a green light for radical elements within the protesters to loot, burn and riot the city at will. For most of the night, police battled flare-ups around the city.

The city has now officially declared a “state of emergency,” and the National Guard called out. It came after authorities learned through social media that the Nation of Islam brokered a peace agreement between rivals, the Bloods, the Crips and Black Guerrilla Family “to take out law enforcement officers.”

But that’s not how they’re framing the agreement.

“I can say with honesty those brothers demonstrated they can be united for a common good,” said Carlos Muhammad, a minister at Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 6. “At the rally, they made the call that they must be united on that day. It should be commended.”

More violence erupted after Monday’s funeral for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died last week from a severe spinal cord injury he suffered in police custody. Gray’s family denounced the violence, saying it was not the way to honor him.

Also on Monday, during another news conference Rawlings-Blake blamed the media for what happened.

“I never said, nor would I ever say, that we are giving people space to destroy our city,” she claimed. “So my words should not be twisted.”

Perhaps the folks of Baltimore ought to listen to Vietnam veteran Robert Valentine, who while being interviewed by CNN, said, “I love my country, I love my charmed city, and I’m an American. I’m not black, white, red, yellow, or nothing; I am American.”

Inspirational words from a real American hero. Mayor Rawlings-Blake ought to take lessons from this man.

She starred as the red-headed, freckle-faced Tracy Partridge in the 70’s TV sitcom, “The Partridge Family.” Born March 6, 1963 in Fullerton, California, Suzanne Crough Condray passed away in Laughlin, Nevada, on Monday at the age of 52.

Though she did some TV work including cartoon voiceovers, commercials and a few movies afterwards, she was forever identified with her “Partridge Family” role. In 1993 she told People she was proof that some child stars could leave Hollywood and go on to live a normal life.

“There is life after acting,” Suzanne told the magazine.

But that wasn’t to say she didn’t miss acting from time to time.

“When I saw ‘A League of Their Own,’ I said, ‘I could’ve been in that picture.’ It would’ve been fun.”

Following her role on “The Partridge Family,” Suzanne appeared in several TV shows including “Wonder Woman,” “Mulligan’s Stew,” and “Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.” Her last on-screen role was in the 1980 film “Children of Divorce.”

“I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older,” she said in an online interview in 2000. “You can’t just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.”

When she appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” with some of her “Partridge” costars in 2010, she revealed she had left the limelight for good and was working as a manager of an Office Max in Arizona.

Suzanne’s husband is attorney William Condray. The couple has two daughters, Samantha and Alexandra, one of whom is getting married this summer.

It’s still unclear what caused her death, but a family member said it was sudden. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said an autopsy’s scheduled for Wednesday.

Before there was Hillary’s Uraniumgate, Bill Clinton hindered investigations into illegal Chinese contributions made to his campaigns by creating bureaucratic roadblocks. In 1995, both the FBI and the CIA found evidence damaging to Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Chinese.

During the same period the FBI was also investigating technology theft by China. Had the FBI confirmed China’s theft of weapons technology and later transfer of weapons technology to Pakistan, Iran and Syria, Clinton would have had to answer questions about the flow of Chinese money into his political coffers.

The FBI began collecting evidence in 1995 linking illegal DNC donations to China. However, Congress didn’t find out about the Department of Justice’s failure to act until 1997, long after the 1996 election.

Documents show that from 1994 to 1997 the CIA learned China sold missile technology, a nuclear fission reactor, advanced air-defense radar, and chemical agents to Iran. The Chinese also provided Pakistan with 5,000 ring magnets, used in producing weapons-grade uranium and uranium fuel for India’s reactors.

Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive 24 (PDD 24) placed intelligence-gathering under the control of the President’s National Security Council, through a four-level, top-down chain of command. The directive also created the National Counterintelligence Center (NCI) to oversee the CIA and staffed it by Clinton appointed FBI agents.

The NCI reported to an administration-appointed National Counterintelligence Operations Board (NCOB.) The NCOB reported to the National Intelligence Policy Board, (NIPB) which through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, reported to Clinton.

Clinton and the DNC weren’t the only ones benefiting from Chinese espionage, acquisition of military technology and campaign contributions. The McDonnell Douglas Corporation transferred military tools to China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation in 1994 that ended up in the hands of the Chinese army.

A year later, General Electric lobbied to aid China in replacing coal-fired power stations with nuclear plants. At the same time, GE’s Hughes Electronics pushed for satellite export controls to be lifted which lead to sensitive data finding its way to China allowing it to develop intercontinental and submarine-launched missiles.

Clinton erected his roadblock to stop investigations implicating him and the Democratic Party in illegal activities. These same roadblocks prevented the FBI and CIA from sharing information before 9/11 happened, leading to the deaths of 2,605 Americans.