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Last summer, we covered the cancellation of a planned Patriot Prayer rally in San Francisco. The event was cancelled after "Californian leaders, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D), ... adamantly opposed a rally organized by the Patriot Prayer group on the grounds that it is 'alt right' and 'white supremacist'.”  Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson ably refuted these allegations at the time. Gibson, who is running for the U. S. Senate in Washington state, was in Portland, Oregon yesterday with over a hundred of his Patriot Prayer group for an announced, permitted rally.

One of the predicted outcomes of the nuclear deal with Iran, contrary to what President Barack Obama claimed, is that it would strengthen the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the "hardliners" in the regime. (I don't believe there are moderates in the regime. It is a revolutionary regime that seeks to export its ideology across the region. President Hassan Rouhani would not have been allowed to compete or win if he did not subscribe to the same ideologies as the hardliners.) Rather than opening up or liberalizing Iran, the deal was correctly predicted to lead to further repression.