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This suggests that Trump will be more dependent on the RNC for money than he has led voters to believe.
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Before Hillary rewrites history, let's look at how the Clintons contributed to the Great Recession, write Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore.
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Has Citizens United protected your freedom of speech? Or has it made it so that our democracy is overrun by corporate interests? Let us know your opinion in ...
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As a public official, she took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, but it would appear state representative Barbara Norton of Louisiana has little regard for this nation?s founding documents, including the very decree that made the Constitution possible ? the Declaration of Independence. She made her anti-American commentary on the floor of the ?
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Exposed as a liar. Again. You should get used to this feeling.
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"Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." -- Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)
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A sociology professor at DePaul University announced her resignation in a public Facebook post Friday morning in which she denounced the idea that universities should be "neutral platforms for 'equal
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The Corsair Covers the Ecosextravaganza which took place May 14. Attending members of the SMC Ecosexual Club and participants of the ceremony were wed to the...
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NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell said the federal finding that Hillary Clinton violated record-keeping rules during her tenure as secretary of state is devastating to her campaign for president.
It completely undercuts the argument she has been making for more than a year, Mitchell said Thursday on MSNBC. I don't see how this is anything but devastating ...
MSNBC also played a clip showing Clinton saying over and over again that her private email server was allowed by the State Department, something that was not backed up by the inspector general report.
The inspector general for the State Department said Wednesday that Clinton did not comply with the department's policies when she used a personal email server for her electronic communications and declined to turn over many of her messages when her tenure ended.
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We remember Jimmy Stewart as the amiable Hollywood icon who appeared in such classic movies as "Harvey" and "Vertigo," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"...
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'If I win, believe me, we're going to start opening up the water'
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A Facebook community called “Islamic Female Circumcision” was launched earlier this month with the stated goal of clarifying “misconceptions” around the Muslim faith’s practice of female genital mutilation or FGM. The page already has more than a dozen posts, including articles and infographics advocating for the practice of what they call ?female circumcision,? instead of referring to the ?
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CII bill proposes more curbs on women in the name of protection
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Former Republican governor's praise for former Republican governor comes under fire from current Libertarians
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Today, the president of the United States spoke at Hiroshima, Japan — the site of the first of two American atomic-bomb attacks on Imperial Japan — and served up a heaping helping of moral equivalence and maudlin sentimentality. To Obama, the real lesson of Hiroshima is that it exposes humanity’s “core contradiction.” I am not making this up:
Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction. How the very spark that marks us as a species, our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our toolmaking, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will — those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction.
#ad#No, Mr. President, in the image of the mushroom cloud, were are starkly reminded of the horrific evil of Imperial Japan and the ingenuity and resolve of the American people to defeat one of the most genocidal forces the world has ever seen.
Americans have short memories, and to the extent they think about World War II, they tend to think of Hitler and the Holocaust — and justifiably so. His attempt to exterminate an entire race of people was among the worst crimes in world history. But in remembering Hitler, we cannot forget Japan. It killed an estimated 14 million Chinese citizens in its invasion of China. And during the course of that invasion, its forces acted much like Hitler’s SS, conducting mass-scale rapes, grotesque human experimentation, and enslaving countless men, women, and children.
RELATED: The Horrors of Hiroshima in Context
Japan’s rank-and-file military fought with a ferocity matched on the European Theater of Operations only by Hitler’s most dedicated fanatics. Japan’s troops fought to the last man, and when its military plight grew increasingly desperate, it launched a suicide-bombing campaign that dwarfs anything ISIS or al-Qaeda have ever imagined, much less attempted. Even many Japanese civilians demonstrated that they’d rather die than surrender — throwing themselves off cliffs to escape American forces.
As American forces approached the Japanese mainland, the blood flow became a hemorrhage — with the Battle of Okinawa demonstrating the scale of the carnage to come. In slightly less than three months of combat, more than 20,000 Americans died, over 70,000 Japanese troops lost their lives, and up to one-third of Japanese civilians perished. In other words, that one battle was deadlier than the Hiroshima bombing.
SLIDESHOW: Battle of Okinawa
Americans today simply can’t imagine the horror that an invasion of Japan would have unleashed. Our country had already lost more than 400,000 men, with hundreds of thousands more grievously injured, and we stood to perhaps match or exceed that total in the great battle for the mainland. Japanese losses would have numbered in the millions. Could we have withstood suffering on that scale? Would the carnage have caused us to relent?
#share#In those circumstances, if there was an opportunity to defeat Japan without causing such immense loss — a loss that would have unpredictable consequences for our own people, much less for Japan — should we not seize it? In deciding to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Harry Truman made perhaps the most critical — and wisest decision — of any American commander-in-chief in our history. He saved lives. He ended the great calamity of World War II. And, ironically enough, he even saved Japan — leaving behind enough of a country and enough of a people to allow them to rebuild and re-imagine themselves as the great nation they are today.
SLIDESHOW: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Can anyone say that the same outcome would hold if millions more men and women died? If the Soviet Union ended the war holding vast sections of Japanese territory?
Few things illustrate the moral bankruptcy of modern times more than the fashionable habit of scorning America’s response to Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. We were indispensable in extinguishing two great evils, and when it came time to rebuild, we rebuilt nations that have since become beacons of freedom and prosperity. Only fools believe we could have prevailed in a civilizational conflict without resorting to total war.
It is to our moral credit that we are sobered by the scale of the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It is to our moral credit that we are sobered by the scale of the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One is reminded of Robert E. Lee’s words, “It is well that war is so terrible — we would grow too fond of it.” Americans have proven that we can fight. We have proven that we can create the world’s most devastating weapons. But we are aware of their horror, and we have restrained ourselves, using our full force only when the cause is most desperate.
Yet there are men who are genuinely fond of war. They lust for it, just as they lust for death. We see them in the ranks of ISIS and al-Qaeda. We confront them daily in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. And in 1945 we confronted them on a scale we can’t comprehend today.
RELATED: Truman Made the Right Call. And It’s Probably Why I’m Alive to Tell the Tale
Here is the true message of Hiroshima: So long as America remains a great nation, it will rise to defeat great evil, and it will do so with its full power and deepest conviction. That message has been indispensable to keeping our nation — and the world — out of another global conflict for more than 70 years.
Great evil requires a terrible response. It has ever been the case. The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima represented the beginning of a long peace. We must never be ashamed of our national resolve.
— David French is an attorney and a staff writer at National Review.
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Donald Trump’s mother, Mary-Anne MacLeod, comes from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. So does my great grandfather, John MacLeod.
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"I wouldn't know the man if he sat in the chair next to me..." Then explain this...
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Why have no Democrats formed the equivalent of #NeverTrump? Bernie Sanders is not even a member of their party. Have they no principles? Many of their republican opponents do in rejecting Trump and…
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Listen to Ace of Spades HQ Podcast episodes free, on demand. Ace and The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro tread all the ground between #NeverTrump and #HillaryYouGoGirl. Listen to over 40,000 radio shows, podcasts and live radio stations for free on your iPhone, iPad, Android and PC. Discover the best of news, entertainment, comedy, sports and talk radio on demand with Stitcher Radio.
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A retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant who returned to England this month for the first time in 71 years to visit the country he defended during World War II has died during his “final mission.”
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DePaul Sociology Professor Angrily Resigns Over Milo Visit
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Why is Donald Trump still criticizing his fellow Republicans? Suddenly the mainstream media is aflutter with the news that the billionaire real estate mogul Trump hasn’t decided to play nice-nice wi