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A migrant gang, who attacked the father of a girl they harassed for being "immodest" at a shopping centre, have been sentenced in court.
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Need a representative in the National Statuary Hall? Why not Tebow?
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A New York City Home Depot employee has sparked an uproar by wearing a hat that said "America Was Never Great."
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WEST VIRGINIA (The Barbed Wire) – Hillary Clinton has been talking tough in recent months about driving coal miners and their industry out of business. Her talk caused voters to swat her away…
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Arab women tears apart Islamic Sharia and its treatment of women and girls as objects of sexual pleasure ----------------------------------------------------...
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Nicholas Kristoff wrote a column in the New York Times recently that ran under the headline: “A Confession of Liberal Intolerance.” It was about the hypocr
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Today's Google homepage features Yuri Kochiyama, a "human rights" activist who openly admitted admiration for Osama Bin Laden.
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"The Mexicans want it, and that doesn't sound good to me," Trump said in 1993, according to one account.
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Jesse tells about his conversion from Liberal to Conservative and the impact it's had on his life' "I Used to be a Liberal" was written by Jesse Goldberg and...
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Hillary Clinton to Join Cast of All-Female 'Ghostbusters' on 'Ellen'
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Bernie Sanders wants Scandinavian "socialism." But it doesn't exist. Norway, Denmark, & Sweden are more free market than U.S. What Sanders wants is France.
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This week, the Little Sisters of the Poor were granted a
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Last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a stirring address at the 2016 commencement of Hillsdale College.
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“REPORT: David Koch Backs Libertarian Gary Johnson
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The fracture that Donald Trump’s campaign has caused in the Republican party has left an opening for a libertarian candidate to unite conservatives, libertarians, and small-government moderates. Austin Petersen, a Missouri businessman vying for the Libertarian party’s nomination, thinks he can be that candidate.
#ad#Petersen is the CEO of Stonegait, a media consulting firm, and the founder of the online magazine The Libertarian Republic. Although he’s unmistakably libertarian on foreign policy, Petersen falls somewhere closer to conservatism on one social issue in particular: He’s pro-life. Petersen tells National Review he believes the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness begins at conception.
Petersen tossed his hat into the ring after Rand Paul dropped out of the Republican race and the Republican field began to winnow, when he says he realized there would be no constitutional, pro-life candidate on the ballot: “When I saw my banner thrown on the field, I ran to grab it.”
His anti-abortion stance is a hard sell in the “live and let live” Libertarian party, but it doesn’t seem to faze Petersen. “What’s right isn’t always what’s popular,” he says. To Petersen, being pro-life also means opposing the death penalty, which his website says is the “consistent pro-life ethic.”
On almost every other social issue, Petersen is staunchly libertarian. “I want gay couples to be able to protect their marijuana fields with fully automatic rifles,” he says — a line he often uses to sum up his domestic policy. “That might terrify some people,” he says. “If you’re terrified of freedom, you might be better off with Bernie or Hillary.”
Peterson raised some eyebrows last year when he noted his views on marriage with some tongue-in-cheek exaggeration:
There’s no right to gay marriage. There’s no right to straight marriage either. Why should my tax dollars go to pay to…
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“My humor gets me into trouble sometimes,” Petersen says. His point was that government should get out of the business of marriage altogether. “It’s the golden rule: ‘Live and let live.’ The government should play no role.” He admits that untangling the government’s regulation of private life is a hefty undertaking, but one worth pursuing: “Before we talk about what’s feasible, we should talk about what’s right.”
#share#Petersen says he thinks voters in the heartland will identify with him over Hillary or Trump, calling himself a “favored son of the Midwest.” Petersen was born and raised on a farm in Independence, Mo., where he says he spent his childhood “riding horses, shooting guns, and learning about the Constitution.”
“‘New York values’ are not reflective of flyover country,” Petersen says. “I’m sticking up for the little guy. I’ve always been a part of the middle class. I’m much more anti-establishment than Donald Trump.”
If elected, Petersen would support blanket amnesty and an “Ellis Island” approach to immigration, which he admits might cost him some support from former Republican voters during an election cycle in which immigration has been a major issue. “It will probably hurt me.” he says. “I think it’s realistic. . . . Ronald Reagan gave blanket amnesty. Republicans don’t like to talk about that.”
#related#Petersen’s goal, like that of many libertarians, is minimal government. His slogan, “Taking over government to leave everyone alone,” is a consistent message throughout his campaign. “If I were elected president. . . . I’d stall Congress in their schemes and plans, so in this eight-year period, the American people can go about their business and get things done,” he says. “We’ve authorized the executive branch with too much power.”
Petersen views 2016 as a “breakthrough year” for the Libertarian party (whose nominee will be on the ballot in all 50 states). The Libertarian nominee will certainly not garner enough support to make it to the White House in 2017, but a third-party candidate might be the only option on the ballot for “Never Trump” and “Never Hillary” voters. If it’s Petersen, he says he’s running on conscience, “damn the consequences.”
— Brooke A. Rogers is the assistant to the publisher at National Review.
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Lawmakers in the US state of Oklahoma pass a bill that would make the act of performing an abortion a crime, punishable by up to three years in prison.
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A rebuttal to the ever-popular School of Life's defense of Communism and Karl Marx. More at http://louderwithcrowder.com The original The School of Life "Pol...
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Home Depot cashier Krystal Lake was photographed wearing a custom-made, white baseball cap with the words "America Was Never Great" as she worked at her Staten Island location Sunday. The image was posted to social media and has sparked support, outrage and — according to Lake — death...