A cigar that was once smoked by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/winston-churchill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winston Churchill</a> is set to be auctioned alongside a handwritten note and the jar it was once stored in. 
Churchill, the British prime minister who led the United Kingdom through most of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/world-war-ii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World War II</a>, gave the cigar as a memento in August 1944 to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, the consul general in Rabat, Morocco. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing what turns up in glass jars. This is an iconic piece of memorabilia connected to one of Britain&#8217;s most famous prime ministers and the Second World War,” <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/amp/cigar-smoked-by-sir-winston-churchill-nearly-80-years-ago-up-for-auction-12893350" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Charles Hanson, the owner of the auction house selling the unique item. &#8220;Churchill was renowned for his love of cigars and occasionally gave them as gifts to people who had helped him in any way.”
The cigar has been kept in the possession of the Stonehewer-Bird family for over 75 years and will be sold at an auction house in Derbyshire. The guide price is expected to be between $750 to $1120. 
&#8220;The original handwritten label provides the provenance collectors like,” Hanson said. &#8220;We hope this item will excel under the hammer.&#8221;
Churchill, one of Britain’s most honored political figures, was frequently photographed with cigars, and it was <a href="https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/a-gentleman-of-history-6006#:~:text=Churchill%20typically%20smoked%20between%20eight,often%20became%20mauled%20and%20frayed." target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> that he went through between eight to 10 cigars every day. He once defended his smoking habit after the king of Saudi Arabia informed him that he would not be allowed to drink or smoke around him.
“As I was the host at the luncheon I raised the matter at once, and said to the interpreter that if it was the religion of His Majesty to deprive himself of smoking and alcohol I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them,” he wrote in his memoirs. 
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Cigars by the famed prime minister have done well at auctions before, with one selling for over $26,000 in March. That record-breaking cigar was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11922459/One-Sir-Winston-Churchills-cigars-sells-record-25-500-auction.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one that</a> Churchill had given to Chequers Trust auditor Leonard Herbert Norman in 1953. 
“The cigar box was circulated for the second time. I didn&#8217;t feel equal to smoking another,” he wrote in his memoirs. &#8216;But I did take one and hastily put it unseen (I think) into an inner pocket and still have it today.”
Last year, a box of Churchill’s cigars <a href="https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/winston-churchill-s-personal-cigars-sold-at-auction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sold</a> for nearly $20,000. The cigars, from Cuba, were labeled with his name and given to him by a New York businessman.

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MSNBC anchor <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/lawrence-odonnell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell</a> compared embattled Senate candidate <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) to former British Prime Minister <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/winston-churchill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winston Churchill</a> and former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a recent monologue.
O&#8217;Donnell, during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Last Word,&#8221; suggested that Fetterman&#8217;s apparent struggles in the aftermath of a stroke were no different than the physical issues that plagued Roosevelt after he battled polio myelitis at the age of 39. The only real difference in his mind was the fact that Roosevelt did not have cameras on him at all times.
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O&#8217;Donnell began with a clip of Fetterman&#8217;s debate with Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz — a debate that he noted many had said was &#8220;painful to watch&#8221; — before he launched into the comparison.
&#8220;While he was brilliantly winning World War II, Franklin Roosevelt once fell asleep in the oval office in the middle of signing his name to a letter. That was not painful to watch because no one got to see that,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell began, noting that both Roosevelt and Churchill &#8220;had the good fortune&#8221; to lead their respective nations during a time when most of their day to day activities remained private: &#8220;Long before television news could cover their every move and long before Twitter could have people pumping out of their instant reactions to their public appearances.&#8221;
O&#8217;Donnell <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/10/26/msnbcs-odonnell-compares-john-fetterman-fdr-winston-churchill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went on</a> to describe the lengths to which <a href="https://www.fdrlibrary.org/polio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roosevelt</a> went to ensure that the American people would never know that their president could not walk on his own — he often used a cane and leaned on an adviser if he had to make his way to a podium to speak, and had his personal wheelchair made from a regular kitchen chair so that it would look less out-of-place.
&#8220;Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed that it would be painful to watch him, being lifted in and out of a car by Secret Service agents so he never allowed cameras to capture that. Elaborate steps were taken when his train would arrive or depart so that he could be transferred from the car to the train, lifted in and out, without anyone seeing and without anyone thinking that it was painful to watch,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell continued.
The MSNBC host told another story about Roosevelt for good measure, talking about a young girl who had noticed the president&#8217;s wheelchair and said that she would keep the president&#8217;s secret.
&#8220;Painful to watch quickly became an oft-repeated phrase on Twitter last night during the Pennsylvania Senate campaign debate because Democratic candidate John Fetterman suffered a stroke this spring and has not fully recovered 100 percent of his verbal fluency,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell concluded.

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On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the British Parliament via teleconference and received a standing ovation for his inspiring words. 
He discussed what Ukraine has gone through over the past 13 days as Russia invaded and attacked the country. Zelensky also requested a “no-fly zone” be established over Ukraine. 
Zelensky <a href="https://www.axios.com/zelensky-churchill-uk-parliament-ukraine-7af05f9e-58e8-457c-a636-74706760f7ec.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_content=world-zelensky">mirrored</a> British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his famous June 1940 speech during World War II, saying, “We will not give up, and we will not lose. We will fight till the end — at sea, in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets.”
“The question for us now is to be or not to be,” Zelensky said, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/zelensky-uk-parliament-address-war-ukraine/">reportedly</a> echoing Shakespeare. “I can give you a definitive answer: It’s definitely to be.”
He also asked the United Kingdom to continue with the sanctions, state that Russia is a &#8220;terrorist state,&#8221; and &#8220;make sure our Ukrainian skies are safe.”
“We are looking for your help, for the help of the civilized countries,” he <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/597341-zelensky-to-uk-parliament-recognize-russia-as-a-terrorist-state">noted</a>. “We are thankful for this help &#8230; please increase the pressure of sanctions against [Russia], and please recognize this country as a terrorist state, and please make sure that our Ukrainian skies are safe.”
“Please make sure that you do what needs to be done and what is stipulated by the greatness of your country,” he added.
He received a standing ovation before and after he made his remarks, and members voiced the need to support Ukraine and put aside political differences. 
&#8220;Never before in all our centuries of our parliamentary democracy has the House listened to such an address,&#8221; U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1501247924080103424?s=20&amp;t=9bianizMdOP9fm8mWtbVmg">said</a> following the speech. &#8220;In a great European capital, now within range of Russian guns, President Volodymyr Zelensky is standing firm for democracy and for freedom. In his righteous defense, I believe he has moved the hearts of everybody in this House.” 
Johnson said the U.K. is going to take action to end the importing of Russian oil. 
“I speak for the whole House, when I say that Britain and our allies are determined to press on, to press on with supplying our Ukrainian friends with the weapons they need to defend their homeland … to press on with tightening the economic vice around Vladimir Putin … and we will employ every method that we can, diplomatic, humanitarian and economic &#8230; until Vladimir Putin has failed in this disastrous venture and Ukraine is free once more,” he <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/597341-zelensky-to-uk-parliament-recognize-russia-as-a-terrorist-state">said</a>.
In a video posted to Telegram on Tuesday, Zelensky said, “It’s been 13 days we’ve been hearing promises, 13 days we’ve been told we’ll be helped in the air, that there will be planes, that they will be delivered to us.” He suggested that “those who have not secured the Ukrainian skies from the Russian assassins” hold some responsibility for the resulting number of people killed.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-announces-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-in-bid-to-hold-putin-accountable">announced</a> a ban on the U.S. importing Russian oil and natural gas, stating that he is “targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy.”
“Russian oil will no longer be accepted at U.S. ports,” the president said during remarks at the White House. “We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war.”
“The president said his decision comes after consulting with European allies, although he said some are not able to join the U.S. in banning Russian oil. Still, the European Commission (E.U.) said it plans to reduce imports of Russian energy by two-thirds, even though it gets 40% of it from Russia. For its part, the United Kingdom is to phase out Russian oil imports by the end of 2022,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-announces-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-in-bid-to-hold-putin-accountable">reported</a>.

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The names of Winston Churchill, the British prime minister who guided Britain through World War II, and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling have been axed as school ‘house’ names at one British school in an attempt to promote diversity. 
According <a href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/school-drops-winston-churchill-and-jk-rowling-from-house-names-in-diversity-push-41066616.html">to</a> the Belfast Telegraph, “Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School in Richmond has renamed houses honouring Britain’s wartime leader and Harry Potter author after footballer Marcus Rashford and nurse Mary Seacole.”
Churchill, who at one point stood nearly alone against the encroachments of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, will be removed, and Rashford, a 24-year-old soccer player for Manchester United will take his place.
Last month, a newsletter was sent out to explain the decision to cut Churchill and Rowling’s names. It explained how students at the primary school were “keen” to be “more diverse.” 
“The children across school have been keen to change some of the names of the school houses to be more diverse,” the school explained, “We are pleased to be able to announce the name changes during Black History Month. Churchill has been replaced by Rashford and Rowling by Seacole.”
The school’s headteacher explained that the changing of the names was something that students at the school started thinking about last year. 
“The changing of our school’s house names was an activity that our children began discussing last year as they did not feel the names reflected the diverse community of our school,” Alison Bateman said. 
According to the Daily Mail, the once-beloved Churchill has <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10216119/Church-England-school-CANCELS-Winston-Churchill-JK-Rowling.html">come</a> under fire in recent years in England, with even pictures of the former prime minister being taken off of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, which will also be renamed.
Rowling, the author of the bestselling Harry Potter books, has also drawn a lot of criticism to date. The ire toward her is because of comments and positions she took on transgenderism. 
Both Rowling and Churchill were targeted at British schools earlier this year as well. 
Seaford Head School in East Sussex in February removed the names of the two from ‘houses’ after students complained about them being ‘intolerant.’  According to <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/09/school-drops-winston-churchill-jk-rowling-house-names/">The Telegraph</a>, their names would be replaced by “new titles based on local topography.” 
Students accused Churchill of “torture” and racism and faulted Rowling as not a “suitable representative” because of her comments about transgenderism. 
“Churchill was a figure who promoted racism and inequality, unfairly imprisoning and torturing many,” said students of the wartime leader. Historians have hit back at claims against Churchill and defended him from criticism. 
“Parents of children at Seaford School, and anyone considering sending their children there in future, need to know that the historical knowledge there is so abysmally low that the teachers believe that Winston Churchill committed crimes of which he was in fact entirely innocent,” said historian Andrew Roberts. 
Roberts added, “Instead of trying to combat woke ignorance, they have submitted to it without trying to discover the truth. Churchill is in fact an incredibly inspirational figure for youth.”

British School Cancels Winston Churchill, Replaces ‘House’ Name With 24-Year-Old Soccer Player

Jacobin, the American socialist quarterly magazine, published an article in 2018 defending protestors who had previously desecrated a statue of Winston Churchill. In the BLM insurrection of summer 2020, it has once again become fashionable to smear Churchill, the Prime Minister who brought Britain through World War II, with accusations of racism. And so Jacobin has re-upped its hit piece as a way of saying: we’re with the rioters.
The article is called “<a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/winston-churchill-british-empire-colonialism/">The Real Winston Churchill</a>,” and it faults the beloved British hero for any number of supposed sins, mostly having to do with racism and imperialism. Churchill was known for his loud mouth, it’s true, and some of his comments can seem off-color in hindsight. But that’s not what Jacobin really wants him taken down for: they’re upset that he relished victory in war.
“Everywhere one looks,” writes the author, Richard Seymour, “one finds Churchill dripping blood from his mouth. He was fanatical about violence.”
One might pause here to note that the violence about which Churchill was fanatical was against Hitler and his allies — i.e., the murderous, authoritarian, anti-Semitic scum of the earth. Jacobin: condemning antifascism to own the British aristocracy. Nice going, chuckleheads. But wait: there’s more!
Near the beginning of the article, the author quotes Richard Burton, an actor who played Churchill in the movie <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjh_Pmmhs7rAhVXJzQIHd2ABkgQFjAAegQIExAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Gathering_Storm_(2002_film)&amp;usg=AOvVaw0rMBk94C1DyuJM9zfF-wUC">The Gathering Storm</a> (2002). In preparing for the role, Burton became repulsed by Churchill’s entitlement and his vindictive fury against his enemies in war. “What man of sanity,” asked Burton, “would say on hearing of the atrocities committed by the Japanese against British and Anzac prisoners of war, ‘We shall wipe them out, every one of them, men, women, and children. There shall not be a Japanese left on the face of the earth’? Such simple-minded cravings for revenge leave me with a horrified but reluctant awe for such single-minded and merciless ferocity.”
Well, I never! Such simple-minded cravings for revenge! Just let me pour myself another glass of port as I sniff disapprovingly at Churchill’s primitive ferocity from the comfort of my dressing room. Quelle horreur! The man who saved the free world was not pristinely decorous in his sentiments toward a Japanese army that enslaved, starved, and beat its captives half to death! Read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/0812974492">Unbroken</a> (2010), the story of an American POW in Japanese captivity, if you want to hear about “merciless ferocity.” Imagine having the absolute gall to claim, from the safety of a Western world made free by none other than Churchill himself, that he should be faulted for having run his mouth.
Seymour’s list of Churchillian sins goes on: he was impressed with Mussolini and did not immediately condemn Italian fascism, for example. The same is <a href="https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-original-fascist/">true</a> of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, of course, and any number of other elegant Democrat intellectuals who fell all over themselves for il Duce. Not that you’ll read about that in Seymour’s article. “Mussolini has the same opponents as FDR,” said Roosevelt’s pet economist Rexford Tugwell, “but he controls the press, which prevents them from daily spreading their nonsense.” Everyone — leftists especially — was unsure about Mussolini at first, but of course, what’s a little nuance like that got to do with fighting for social justice?
In reality, of course, Winston Churchill did more good before breakfast at the age of 20 than all the BLM thugs, Antifa radicals, and Jacobin editors in the world could hope to do in 20 lifetimes. If you really want to feel unworthy, read Churchill’s 1930 memoir, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Early-Life/Winston-Churchill/9780684823454">My Early Life</a>, in which he explains how as a young man he fought courageously in the British army, made a daring escape from enemy captivity, and penned masterful book-length reports on his experiences all the while. “You have not an hour to lose,” writes Churchill to the young men of rising generations. “You must take your places in Life&#8217;s fighting line. Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years!” Rarely have I felt more inadequate than when reading those words at the (apparently) ripe old age of 28.
What is actually happening here is that the children of the West, grown fat and happy after long years of prosperity won for them by men like Churchill, have lost all taste for the derring-do that makes such men both toweringly great and yes, a little rough around the edges sometimes.
The name of Churchill will be emblazoned on the hearts of all free and good people long after the miserable scolds at Jacobin are done nitpicking at him and the sniveling little brownshirts of BLM are done tearing down his statues. These moral cowards cannot even begin to measure up to Churchill, and so they hate him — that is all their pitiful sputtering amounts to. They may be having their moment now. But to <a href="https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches/">paraphrase</a> Churchill himself: for as long as we live, we will fight them, and we will never, never, never surrender.
Spencer Klavan is host of the <a href="http://youngheretics.com/">Young Heretics</a> podcast and assistant editor of the <a href="https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/">Claremont Review of</a> Books and <a href="https://americanmind.org/">The American Mind</a>. He can be reached on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/spencerklavan">@SpencerKlavan</a>.

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Left-wing activist and chair of the Lambeth &#8220;independent&#8221; police advisory board Lorraine Jones revealed live on-air Saturday that she doesn&#8217;t know who late Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in an embarrassing exchange with Cathy Newman, telling the host, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t personally met him.&#8221;
Churchill led Britain during World War II in its battle against the Nazis and has been dead since 1965.
Newman started the exchange by asking Jones her thoughts on the &#8220;far-right protesters&#8221; protecting monuments, including one of Churchill, from activists attempting to destroy them.
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&#8220;They were not guarding the Churchill statute,&#8221; Jones claimed in a fiery response. &#8220;The thuggery which we all witness was horrifying and totally unacceptable, so that was just an excuse &#8230;&#8221;
Last week, statues of Churchill and former President Abraham Lincoln were <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/the-new-iconoclasts/">vandalized</a> by “anti-fascist” and “antiracist” rioters in London.
&#8220;I think that what needs to happen,&#8221; Jones continued, &#8220;which I know has already started, we need to look at the people that are being placed on a high pedestal in this society, the reasons why they are, and honestly and rightfully [decide] if they are supposed to be removed.&#8221;
&#8220;And the sooner the government can make the decisions to take down the statues which shouldn&#8217;t be there, place them in a museum, like there are some people have requested, the better,&#8221; Jones added.
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&#8220;Should the statue of Churchill be there or not?&#8221; Newman asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard many arguments on both sides; some say that he&#8217;s a racist some say that he&#8217;s a hero,&#8221; said Jones. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t personally met him, but what I would say is that that question of whether he should remain should be put to the community.&#8221;
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&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m going to be honest, I haven&#8217;t done a lot of history work with Churchill, but if I was to do that and it will be based on my findings,&#8221; Jones admitted.
Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse Raheem Kassam commented on the exchange, &#8220;A leading London activist and local police advisory committee member doesn’t know who Sir Winston Churchill is,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;Of course she (Jones) doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1272363902756519936">responded</a>.
&#8220;None of the people who want to tear down statues of Robert E. Lee know anything about Lee,&#8221; he posited. &#8220;None of the people who want to tear down statues of Christopher Columbus know anything about Columbus.&#8221;
&#8220;They just want to tear stuff down,&#8221; Knowles added.
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On Wednesday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/36972/ep-232-kavanaugh-effect">The Michael Knowles Show</a>,&#8221; Michael hammered Democrat Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for her &#8220;sad&#8221; excuse to not vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh and used her as an example of the difference between &#8220;convenience politicians and conviction politicians.&#8221;
&#8220;So, she votes no on Kavanaugh,&#8221; said Knowles. &#8220;This is the old trick that I use when reality doesn&#8217;t agree with my preconceived ideological, convenient notions, this is a little trick that I use,&#8221; he said mocking Heitkamp&#8217;s much-criticized explanation. &#8220;I take my two fingers and I plug them into my ears and then I close my eyes really tight and I make this sound la la la la la la la I can&#8217;t hear you la la la la la! That&#8217;s the Heidi Heitkamp trick. This is the worst excuse she could have possibly come up with. It says, you know, you heard Kavanaugh and you found his testimony compelling, right? Yes? Oh yeah, totally. You know, what he said when he said what he said, then I believed it, so then I did this little trick. I muted him.&#8221;
&#8220;Really sad. It&#8217;s the best that they&#8217;ve got. The best she could say is &#8216;Yeah, well, I listened to him and he was compelling, so &#8230; then I tried to forget,&#8217; but also it shows the difference between conviction politicians and convenience politicians and this is an important distinction,&#8221; said Knowles.
&#8220;Because when you look throughout history, history has probably many more convenience politicians than conviction ones, but history doesn&#8217;t look kindly on convenience politicians,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;People who just go with the wind, don&#8217;t stand for anything at all, just want people to like them. Just want to aggrandize, self-aggrandize.&#8221;
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That brings us to North Dakota. This race is one of the most beautiful ones. Heidi Heitkamp. Ever since this Kavanaugh thing has dragged on, her numbers have been falling and then she finally decided she was gonna vote no on Kavanaugh.
And you know Joe Manchin ended up voting yes, another swing state Democrat. A Democrat in a state that voted for Trump. Heidi Heitkamp said no. Why? Because she&#8217;s got a lot of pressure on her from the left. Money is gonna go away. Donor money, of course. Also foundations, organizations that are donating to her, that money will dry up.
Those activists will dry up. Those ground game supporters will dry up, if she voted for what she thinks about, you know, if she voted for what is just.
And also what probably would be politically right in a general election, that would have all gone away.
So look, the Kavanaugh thing was exposed as a total farce and Heidi Heitkamp however now is trying to have it both ways. She was always trying to have it both ways. We&#8217;ll talk about politicians who try to have it both ways.
So, she votes no on Kavanaugh.
This is the old trick that I use when reality doesn&#8217;t agree with my preconceived ideological, convenient notions, this is a little trick that I use.
I take my two fingers and I plug them into my ears and then I close my eyes really tight and I make this sound la la la la la la la I can&#8217;t hear you la la la la la!
That&#8217;s the Heidi Heitkamp trick. This is the worst excuse she could have possibly come up with. It says, you know, you heard Kavanaugh and you found his testimony compelling, right? Yes? Oh yeah, totally. You know, what he said when he said what he said, then I believed it, so then I did this little trick. I muted him. I listened with the sound off. Okay, this is something sometimes at night, Sweet Little Elisa will say to me. I&#8217;ll mention something and I&#8217;ll say, you know, I talked about this on the show today. She goes Oh Mike, I listen to your show every day on mute. I every day I&#8217;ve got to take it up on my iTunes and I click the mute button and I listened to the whole show. That&#8217;s Heidi Heitkamp talking about Brett Kavanaugh. Oh I listened to Brett Kavanaugh all the time on mute.
Okay. Really sad. It&#8217;s the best that they&#8217;ve got. This is obviously is an emperor has no clothes moment. I mean, she was just totally caught with it. The best she could say is yeah well I listen to him and he was compelling so then I forgot then I tried to forget, but also it, you know, it shows the difference between conviction politicians and convenience politicians and this is an important distinction.
Because when you look throughout history, history has probably many more convenience politicians than conviction ones, but history doesn&#8217;t look kindly on convenience politicians. People who just go with the wind, don&#8217;t stand for anything at all, just want people to like them. Just want to aggrandize, self-aggrandize.
Just look around the Second World War, you&#8217;ve got Lloyd George. Lloyd George. Neville Chamberlain. These squishy wishy wishy-washy people and then you&#8217;ve got Winston Churchill. Look, Winston Churchill had major election losses. He had major victories for civilization, but he was a conviction politician. He knew what he believed. He knew what he believed about the Soviet Union, what he believed about Hitler, what he believed about Nazi Germany. All these other guys, squishy wishy Neville Chamberlain, Lloyd George. History looks on them like total cowards. In modern parlance, they&#8217;d be called cucks, you know. It&#8217;s just nobody wants to be that. Dante puts the apathetic in the first circle of hell. When Dante goes into hell, when he passes through the gates of hell, the first people he encounters are the apathetic. The people, the angels who didn&#8217;t rebel against God, but they didn&#8217;t defend God. They just were always in it for themselves. They kind of were a little wishy-washy, they didn&#8217;t have any convictions, those guys. He sometimes is misquoted. You know, there&#8217;s that quote all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing and this is variously attributed to Edmund Burke and Dante and all of these people none of whom said those precise words but that&#8217;s where it comes from.
And in Dante, it&#8217;s the first souls that he encounters and they&#8217;re damned. Mercy doesn&#8217;t want them. Justice doesn&#8217;t want them. Heaven doesn&#8217;t want them. Hell doesn&#8217;t want them. They&#8217;re just in it for themselves and that is politicians like Heidi Heitkamp. And it&#8217;s so pathetic. Why would you put yourself through this? Why would you put yourself through the grueling, awful experience of running for office? Sitting in office? Going to all those spaghetti dinners? Going to constituent town halls? Why would you do that, if it&#8217;s for nothing other than yourself? What is the point of that?
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Knowles: Heitkamp Perfectly Illustrates Convenience Vs. Conviction Politicians

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A journalist for the U.K.&#8217;s Independent found himself seething Sunday night after Gary Oldman won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Winston Churchill in the film, &#8220;Darkest Hour,&#8221; and had the nerve to thank Winston Churchill himself.
Immediately after Oldman left the stage, Ryan John Butcher, hopelessly triggered, expressed his frustration at Churchill, calling the man whose leadership in World War II likely helped to save western civilization, a &#8220;war criminal&#8221; and a &#8220;racist.&#8221;
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Lest it be said that we were glossing over history by ignoring some of Churchill&#8217;s less noble moments, the World War II prime minister, who was well known for speaking his mind, made regrettable remarks about the Indian uprising, including that he &#8220;hated&#8221; Indians.
But most people recognize that Churchill&#8217;s hot temper was a small price to pay for his leadership during World War II, facing down the Nazis even as most of his countrymen &#8212; and particularly those in power &#8212; contemplated turning the U.K. over to Adolf Hitler. Oldman&#8217;s performance depicts Churchill&#8217;s first days on the job, where he fought that precise uphill battle with no support from anyone.
Fortunately, Twitter is full of amateur history scholars with a better grasp on Churchill than Mr. Butcher, and Butcher was quickly schooled.
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Yes, how dare he pay tribute to the man who stared down fascism when real heroes like [checks notes] the most successful people in Hollywood should have been praised. <a href="https://t.co/d40gvW3ELj">pic.twitter.com/d40gvW3ELj</a>
&#8212; Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/970670628033441792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Really asinine. Churchill was wrong on many things, but right on the most important issue of his lifetime, which directly contributed to the demise of the least inclusive regime of the 20th century. Relative progress = good. Absolute judgement : not even Lincoln would survive.
&#8212; Ross Taylor (@rosstaylor90) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosstaylor90/status/970625441613611008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ryanjohnbutcher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ryanjohnbutcher</a> the guy fought the nazis. Are you now against a guy who actually fought nazis? Like the ACTUAL nazis, the ones who murdered Jews, Slavs, gays, disabled, really?! <a href="https://t.co/yb9gRDSTdR">pic.twitter.com/yb9gRDSTdR</a>
&#8212; PavelP. (@Pavelprisyazhn1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pavelprisyazhn1/status/970710330312572928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
Butcher has since made his account private.

Leftist Journo Triggered After Gary Oldman Thanks ‘Racist, War Criminal’ Winston Churchill

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Racism

Historian and bestselling author Andrew Roberts hosts the newest Prager University <a href="https://www.prageru.com/videos/churchill-man-who-saved-free-world">video</a> &#8220;Churchill: The Man Who Saved the Free World.&#8221; The short film details how former British Prime Winston Churchill is, in-large part, responsible for keeping the West free. 
&#8220;In May 1940, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi war machine were sweeping across the European continent. The future of the free world hung in the balance,&#8221; Roberts says. &#8220;An isolationist-leaning United States was an ocean away. There was one man who stood between Hitler&#8217;s seemingly invincible army and crushing defeat. That one man was Winston Churchill.&#8221;
Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, to Lord Randolph Churchill of English nobility and his wife, Jennie, the daughter of a wealthy New York stock speculator.
&#8220;From his early school days, Churchill recognized the power of words. Throughout his life, he used them with consummate skill. They never let him down,&#8221; Roberts says.
&#8220;He first made a name for himself as a war correspondent in the 1890s, covering conflicts in Cuba, Northern India, the Sudan, and South Africa. Though he never abandoned journalism, and became one the greatest historians of his age, Churchill used his family connections and his own fame to launch himself into politics. His confident manner and matchless oratory marked him as a natural leader.&#8221;
Churchill had a tumultuous career during the First World War. He became First Lord of the Admiralty, when he tried to lead campaigns against Germany through Turkey. This strategy proved to be a failure and he took the blame. Despite that, he rose in politics and became a leader before the Second World War, seeing the growing threat of Nazism in Europe. 
&#8220;The English had been traumatized, as had all of Europe, by the shocking amount of death and destruction of the First World War. No one wanted to face the possibility that it could happen again,&#8221; Roberts says. &#8220;Churchill, however, saw that a new confrontation with Germany was inevitable. And when the inevitable arrived with the stunning German attack on France in May 1940, a desperate nation turned to him. 
&#8220;He was ready.&#8221;
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WATCH: Churchill, The Man Who Saved The Free World

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Dennis Prager

Making History

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He warned Britain and the United States about the rise of Adolf Hitler.
He fought the Nazi war machine alone until Russia and the United States joined him.
And he is a public health menace. 
Winston Churchill, it seems, is rarely pictured without a cigar in tow.
And the new Churchill biographical film, &#8220;Darkest Hour,&#8221; wants you to know that &#8220;there are serious health risks associated with smoking and with secondhand smoke.&#8221;
That line is included in the film&#8217;s credits, which also say that &#8220;the depictions of tobacco smoking contained in this film are based solely on artistic consideration and are not intended to promote tobacco consumption.&#8221;
Not surprisingly, the warning did not distinguish between cigarette smoke, which is inhaled, and cigar smoke, which is not.
Gary Oldman, who delivered what many critics say is an Oscar-worthy performance of Winston Churchill, has a cigar between his lips in nearly every scene of the film. It&#8217;s often not even lit &#8212; true to history, as Churchill often simply chewed on a cigar before smoking it.
At one point in the film, Churchill smokes a cigar while riding the London Underground and chatting with delighted passengers. He continues puffing away as he leans in to greet a mother and her five-month old baby.
Historians and biographers have ridiculed the public health warning. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5208993/Biopic-Churchill-carries-secondhand-smoke-warning.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">quipped</a> that the filmmakers should have also included a line in the credits stating, &#8220;Sir Winston Churchill lived to be 90.&#8221;

‘Darkest Hour’ Warns Viewers About Dangers Of Churchill’s Secondhand Cigar Smoke

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For those who dismiss the idea that a foreign power could decisively influence American policy through the use of covert intelligence operations, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks, a closer look at history would reveal that the British government, which was a friend and ally, unlike present-day Russia, used those kinds of efforts to help propel the United States into supporting the Allied cause fighting the Nazis in World War II.
As noted by <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/when-a-foreign-government-interfered-in-a-us-electionto-reelect-fdr-214634">Politico</a>, &#8220;British intel officers in New York and Washington worked to elect candidates who favored U.S. intervention, defeat those who advocated neutrality, and silence or destroy the reputations of American isolationists they deemed a menace to British security.&#8221;
Great Britain&#8217;s bulldog of a prime minister, Winston Churchill, was aware that without American intervention, an anticipated German invasion might well prove successful. But isolationists and &#8220;America-Firsters&#8221; in Congress opposed American intervention in 1940, despite the fact that Germany had been at war with the Nazis since 1939. Churchill also knew the power or American public opinion on representatives in Congress.
Therefore, SIS, the British intelligence agency, went to work, using fake stories, leaking illegal electronic surveillance and targeting candidates who held isolationist views on the war. The links between the SIS and its American collaborators have been revealed because William Stephenson, the Canadian businessman who headed British Security Coordination (BSC), the official front for SIS operations in North and South America from 1941&#8211;1945, commissioned a history of the organization&#8217;s operation. The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/British-Security-Coordination-Intelligence-1940-1945/dp/088064236X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484169486&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=british+security+coordination+history%20or%20https://www.worldcat.org/title/british-security-coordination-the-se">history</a> that was revealed showed
British intelligence tapped a telephone call in June 1940 between President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., the ambassador to Great Britain, who was an isolationist. The phone call revealed the U.S. was making contingency plans in case the Nazis conquered Great Britain.
Churchill trusted Roosevelt, but bettered the chances of America backing intervention by helping Wendell Wilkie win the GOP nomination in 1940 against Thomas Dewey, Robert Taft and Herbert Hoover, all of whom were isolationists.
On example of the BSC&#8217;s work included the New York Herald reporting on a poll of convention delegates. It reported that the poll &#8220;conducted by Market Analysts, Inc., an independent research organization&#8221;&#8212;found that three-fifths of GOP delegates supported helping the allies &#8216;with everything short of war.&#8217;&#8221;
Market Analysts, Inc.&#8217;s chief, Sanford Griffith, was an American who had secretly been working for British intelligence since the 1930s.
Market Analysts&#8217; client group, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, was led by William Allen White, a nationally syndicated columnist, who noted that Wilkie was the best representative of Republicans&#8217; views.
BSC also funded and coordinated the activities and messaging of the Century Group, which worked to get Willkie to eschew criticizing a proposal that allowed Roosevelt to unilaterally authorize the transfer of scores of destroyers to Britain.
The BSC targeted Rep. Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish III, a Republican and leading isolationist. They weakened him considerably, although he won reelection in 1940 and 1942. One BSC agent wrote targeting Fish was designed to &#8220;put the fear of God into every isolationist senator and congressman in the country.&#8221;
One journalist in charge of BSC&#8217;s propaganda efforts said the BSC used &#8220;subversive propaganda in the United States for the exposure and destruction of enemy propaganda &#8230; [and] countering isolationist and appeasement propaganda which is rapidly taking on the shape of a Fascist movement, conscious or unconscious.&#8221;
The British government &#8216;s planted rumors, called &#8220;sibs,&#8221; were approved by an organization called the Underground Propaganda Committee (UPC), later issued through the Overseas News Agency, a news service controlled by the BSC. One sib consistently planted revolved around the supposed ill-health of Adolf Hitler; another, appearing in the New York Times, reported on the death of a 130-year-old Bedouin soothsayer, seen in the Middle East as &#8220;a sign of a coming defeat for Hitler.&#8221;
Most tellingly, in summer 1941, the Roosevelt administration urged and succeeded in getting Congress to amend an emergency military conscription law and extend mandatory service from one year to 2½ years. The measure passed by only one vote in the House. British efforts may have helped, and it mattered; if the measure hadn&#8217;t passed, tens of thousands of men would have been sent home, and American forces would have been depleted.

Did The British Hack The 1940 Election?

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President-elect Donald Trump is asking for Winston Churchill&#8217;s bust back in a move that is sure to score points with London. President Obama removed the WWII hero&#8217;s bust and replaced it with a bust of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. upon assuming office in 2009. At the time, many questioned why Obama simply couldn&#8217;t move Churchill&#8217;s bust or place MLK&#8217;s bust elsewhere.
&#8220;Some speculate, including conservative documentary filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, that Obama removed the bust because he has a hatred of American and British imperialism, which dominated the world in the early 20th century,&#8221; <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/11/report-trump-personally-asked-for-winston-churchills-bust-to-be-returned-to-oval-office/?utm_content=bufferabfff&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">explains</a> The Blaze. &#8220;[British Foreign Minister Boris] Johnson <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/04/25/boris-johnson-no-platformed-over-obamas-ancestry-comments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has made similar accusations,</a> even going so far as to say that Obama had the bust removed because of his &#8220;ancestral dislike of the British Empire.&#8221;
The bust was originally presented to President George W. Bush in 2001 by an English envoy.
But in an apparent effort to smooth over eight years of tensions with UK ruling-party conservatives and nationalist affiliates, Trump&#8217;s transition team is asking for the bust back from Britain&#8217;s top diplomat.
During a meeting in New York City with Johnson over the weekend, Trump&#8217;s right-hand men Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon placed a request for the bust back from England.
London has already stated that it plans on complying with the request.
&#8220;The Prime Minister is happy to loan the Churchill bust to the White House and will be delighted to view it on display when she visits this Spring,&#8221; a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/11/report-trump-personally-asked-for-winston-churchills-bust-to-be-returned-to-oval-office/?utm_content=bufferabfff&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">told</a> the Sun.
According to <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/11/report-trump-personally-asked-for-winston-churchills-bust-to-be-returned-to-oval-office/?utm_content=bufferabfff&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">The Blaze</a>, &#8220;The idea of bringing back the bust was originally announced by former British political leader Nigel Farage in November when he met with the president-elect at Trump Tower.&#8221;
Farage is an ideological fellow traveler with Trump. The pro-Brexit nationalist-minded UKIP party head was one of the first foreign leaders to visit Trump on the eve of his victory over rival Hillary Clinton.

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