#253851
Natural immunity was six times stronger during the delta wave than vaccination, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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#253852
A library director in Tennessee has been fired after the actor and evangelist Kirk Cameron accused him of "unkind pushback" to celebrities.
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#253853
The book neglects to mention all the times Harris' office appealed cases that were thrown out for gross prosecutor misconduct.
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#253854
NASHVILLE, TN—The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution today that true Baptists will use only non-alcoholic hand sanitizer.The SBC encouraged member churches to sign the pledge, available on the convention's website, not to use any hand sanitizer with "even a hint" of alcohol in its chemical makeup. The SBC is also offering a &qu …
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#253855
The New Hampshire House voted to expand New Hampshire’s “stand your ground law” Thursday, approving legislation that would allow people to use lethal force in self-defense inside their vehicles. Currently, New Hampshire law allows someone to use...
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#253856
To claim that her first child had the power to 'jeopardize' a future family she envisioned misplaces blame for one's own actions on an innocent child.
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#253857
A college student claimed she was forcibly raped by a man and reported him to police. Now she’s been arrested for filing a false accusation.
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#253858
DaVida Sal shared the images of herself wearing a mask bikini in Los Angeles. While she wore masks over her chest and genitals, she wore none over her nose and mouth.
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#253859
Billionaire Elon Musk said Thursday that he would welcome a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into his tweets about meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
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#253860
In a major hot mic gaffe for President Biden on Monday, the leader of the free world got caught calling Fox News' Peter Doocy a "stupid son of a bitch."The
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#253861
Those are our only two choices — we cannot have both of these things.
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#253862

How the Center Does Not Hold

Submitted 7 years ago by ActRight Community

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.— William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” Given that things are not quite as dire as some claim, it may be a bit premature to be dropping Yeats quotes in columns about the Trump administration. Donald Trump is not the “rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem” — or toward Washington, D.C. But just because people make fools of themselves comparing the 2016 election to Pearl Harbor and other calamities doesn’t mean things are not amiss. There’s been a lot of talk about how Trump is a “disruptor,” overturning conventional wisdom, throwing out the playbook, tearing down the establishment, transgressing “democratic norms,” and a dozen other similar clichés. There’s little debate about whether or not Trump has done these things, but there’s a massive divide out there about whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing. That debate itself is part of the problem. It’s not either/or but both/and. Some of the things Trump has done to turn the page on politics-as-usual are probably good, and some are obviously bad. The problem with a bull in a china shop is that he doesn’t discriminate between the lousy dishware and the good stuff. More importantly, what distinguishes the lousy from the luxury is in the eye of the beholder. Consider the current “war” between the intelligence community and the Trump White House. High-ranking officials somewhere inside the “deep state” have broken the rules to embarrass the Trump administration. Their campaign of extraordinary leaks paid off. They collected the scalp of retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who lasted as Trump’s national-security adviser for about three weeks. It remains unclear whether Flynn is a victim of an unfair smear, a bureaucratic bumbler who invited trouble, or some kind of nefarious collaborator with the Russians. Flynn’s defenders, starting with the president himself, insist the leaks are the real scandal — and that Flynn was unfairly done in by “fake news.” This raises the question of why the president fired a trusted aide for a bogus accusation. But the dynamic that concerns me is how a climate of “mere anarchy” has been loosed upon Washington. Trump spent much of the campaign touting, celebrating, and promoting WikiLeaks as a “treasure trove.” “I love WikiLeaks!” Trump told a crowd that was chanting “Lock her up!” He’s changed his tune of late, railing on Twitter against “the low-life leakers!” and insisting that stories based on leaks are outrageous and fraudulent: “FAKE NEWS media, which makes up stories and ‘sources,’ is far more effective than the discredited Democrats — but they are fading fast!” Democracies — never mind civilizations — depend on a minimal amount of buy-in to rules of conduct and behavior. Now, there’s certainly an important difference between government officials releasing top-secret information to settle political scores and a foreign government aiding in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee. But in the environment we’re in now, such distinctions seem more like niceties or talking points for professional spinners. And that’s because in a world where one side sees inconvenient rules as illegitimate, it’s only natural that the other side will see rules that inconvenience them as illegitimate too. This applies not just to laws or democratic norms, but to simple good manners. Trump and his biggest supporters saw nothing wrong with insinuating that Ted Cruz’s father was an accomplice to JFK’s murder. They shrugged at his insults of his political opponents and even their wives. He and they reject any suggestion that he should apologize for such statements. But the merest slight against Trump or his family is an outrage. This is how the center does not hold. Democracies — never mind civilizations — depend on a minimal amount of buy-in to rules of conduct and behavior. It’s no different than good sportsmanship. If you claim that every bad call by the ref is illegitimate because “the fix is in,” and this behavior pays off, the incentive for the other side to play by the rules evaporates. Trump didn’t create the crisis of confidence in the rules, but his passionate intensity has accelerated the collapse. — Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. © 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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On Tuesday morning, CNN legal analyst Areva Martin, appearing as a guest on Sirius XM radio host and Fox News contributor David Webb’s show, spoke too soon when she accused him of “white privilege,” prompting Webb to disabuse her of that notion with one simple response.
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The North Carolina Republican political operative at the center of an absentee ballot fraud scheme that led the state to order a rerun of a congressional election was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice on Wednesday, officials said.
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#253866
‘Do not repeat myths as a way to refute them,’ the elections guide document says. ‘Instead, control the narrative.’
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#253867
"TikTok flew them to D.C. to participate in the press conference."
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Publishers Weekly on Twitter

Submitted 7 years ago by ActRight Community

“Simon & Schuster is canceling the publication of 'Dangerous' by Milo Yiannopoulos "After careful consideration." Full story coming soon.”
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#253869
George Papadopoulos, the former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, revealed during a closed-door interview with ...
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#253870
The content of four phone calls and one voicemail between Flynn and Kislyak were released, documenting conversations during the Trump presidential transition, including about sanctions.
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#253871
Jen Rubin fails big time, as only she can.
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Andrew Trunsky  President Joe Biden’s approval rating has plummeted in Georgia, a new poll showed, the state that he narrowly flipped in 2020 and that
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#253873
Antisemitic attacks reportedly reached a record high in the U.S. in 2022 -- the second year of President Joe Biden.
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#253874
Facebook’s opaque policies strike again.
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#253875
Do think traditional masculinity is good or bad?
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