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“That’s when it started to take over…”
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But he's still frustrated.
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Isn't democracy wonderful? The death of free speech: The West veils itself http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7915/the-death-of-free-speech-the-west-veils-its...
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If you ever want to know what liberal Hollywood really thinks, just watch a Shonda Rhimes show. In about every other episode she has characters going off on thinly veiled self-righteous liberal monologues. Tonight, ABC’s Scandal had two separate characters rant about "white men" and "country people."
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In an open letter to “the majority of America” posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday evening, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) expressed dissatisfaction with the nominees of each party and called for a third option to enter the race for the White House. The Nebraska Republican has maintained...
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He's still fighting the good fight.
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So the likely Republican nominee for President is going to trial for a class action lawsuit.
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Dear The Daily Show, Stop lying. Your integrity depends on it. Other Channels ------------------------------------------------ Livestream Channel: https://ww...
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1) One who espouses a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual deve...
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House Speaker Paul Ryan made some political waves of late with his “I’m not ready to endorse Trump yet” declaration during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. It was apparently a poor choice of words that now has the Eyes of Manafort settling upon the still newly-minted Speaker. Within twenty-four hours of Paul Ryan’s seemingly …
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might have failed to carry her home state into the Trump column during the “Last Frontier’s” Republican caucus, but that didn’t stop her from pushing ahead with a ple…
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On Friday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, targeted former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for being "pro-adoption."
This is an extremely bizarre attack on a couple of levels. One, is there a candidate who is not pro-adoption? Two, Romney has an adopted grandchild. Was this the intent of the attack, or was this a slip-up?
Romney was targeted by Pierson following the former nominee's public refusal to support Trump.
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Stossel Fox Business Libertarian Debate (Full 2 hours)
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Marissa Jenae Johnson is a cofounder of Black Lives Matter and now insists saying “all lives matter” is a “new racial slur,” In a Fox News interview she said, “White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like ‘Black Likes Matter’.
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Think before you post how much you hated the justice.
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Trump plans to attend the trial and take the witness stand
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(((Subscribe))) now for more! http://bit.ly/1QHJwaK A black man waving guns around says he's going to kill Donald Trump, his daughter, and his wife, and is a...
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Does Hillary Clinton figure she can say whatever she wants as long as it’s not exposed as a lie that same day? On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked her outright: “Have you been contacted — or …
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It?s no exaggeration to say that Obama has planned to ?bankrupt? the coal industry since he was elected back in 2008. In fact, he has specifically said that this was his goal all …
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Poll: Stopping Hillary Is The Top Reason Why Voters Will Back Trump - Matt Vespa: Well, the number one reason why voters will vote for .05/07/2016 8:58:09AM EST.
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Now that Donald Trump has sewn up the Republican nomination, never-Trump conservatives are talking seriously about third-party candidates. Smart conservatives — people I respect — are talking about Gary Johnson, the attractively libertarian but disastrously isolationist ex-governor of New Mexico. Some have already pulled the trigger, so to speak, and started hosting fundraising brunches for him. Other smart conservatives (including National Review’s own Reihan Salam) suggest Mitt Romney. Still others, including a few who threaten to vote for Hillary, hope New York City’s moderate-leftist ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg will run.
What would their chances be?
#ad#If Bloomberg runs, Trump will be elected. Bloomberg would pick off a few angry Republicans, but as a gun-, smoke-, and soda-banning big-government guy, he would have more support among blue-dog Democrats than among never-Trump Republicans. He would probably tip Florida, Ohio, and Virginia to Trump, which would put Trump at least two Electoral College votes over the threshold of 270. This is the logic that persuaded Bloomberg to announce last month that he would not run third-party. But he might reconsider; he’s very ambitious, and he endeared himself to the Right this week by attacking coddled undergraduates and their safe spaces. If he does run, it’s vanishingly unlikely that he’d win so much as a single electoral vote.
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Likewise Gary Johnson. Johnson will definitely run, and will certainly have at least a small-scale reverse-Bloomberg effect: He’ll peel off a few classically liberal liberals but many more small-government conservatives. He won’t win an electoral vote either — even if, per a few grandiose predictions, he clears 10 percent of the popular vote. But he might hand Hillary the White House.
#share#Then there’s Mitt Romney. Mitt would win electoral votes — six of them, in Utah, where he won 73 percent of the vote in 2012 (his best state), and where Trump won just 14 percent of the primary vote, finishing behind both Cruz and Kasich. Nationwide, he would attract substantially more support than Gary Johnson, inevitably giving Hillary an enormous electoral landslide. Unless –
– Mitt were to run only in Utah. If Hillary wins Virginia, Ohio, or Florida, it’s all over; she has a majority. But if Trump carries all three, Utah’s six electoral votes would be the difference between a Trump majority of 272, and a Trump–Hillary tie of 266 each. (Assuming, as I do, that Colorado will go Hillary.)
When no one has a majority in the Electoral College, the House of Representatives takes over. Each state delegation gets one vote; currently, the Democrats have a majority of members in 15 delegations, 32 are Republican- majority, and the remaining three are tied.
If the House decides the election, Hillary will have no chance.
If the House decides the election, Hillary will have no chance. So Utah and the Democratic delegations would vote Romney in preference to Trump, along — presumably — with the three tied delegations, which would be forced to compromise. That would give Trump a 31 to 19 lead. Could Romney win over enough Republican representatives to pick up seven more delegations?
It’s possible. Romney could swing eight Republican-majority delegations by changing the mind of a single member of each. In four more, changing the mind of one member would split the delegation in half, between Republicans and Democrats plus Romney-Republicans. Several of those states were strongly anti-Trump in the primaries, and several will have voted for Hillary, so reasonable cases could be made.
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For those unwilling to pin their hopes on so many long shots paying off, there’s another option — total chaos. If Romney and Bernie Sanders were both to enter the race as third-party candidates, every single state would be in play.
#related#Would it be hard to get Sanders into the race as a third-party candidate? I doubt it. This is his big year — and with Romney in the race too, he would have a slight chance of actually winning. If he did get in, he and Hillary would split the vote in reliably Democratic states, opening the door for Trump or Romney. In reliably Republican states, Trump and Romney would split the rightist vote, opening the door for Bernie or Hillary. It would be a battle royal; like the previous scenario, it would likely end with a vote in the House. (Which would choose from the top three electoral-vote-getters.)
Of course, there’s one last option: learning to love Trump. Decide for yourself what’s most realistic.
— Josh Gelernter writes weekly for NRO and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard. He is a founder of the tech startup Dittach.
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By conventional rules, Donald Trump should lose to Hillary Clinton in a landslide. But if God were enforcing conventional rules, Trump would be brooding atop his midtown Manhattan aerie, wondering …
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#DropOutHillary more popular than #DropOutBernie