#320526
In recent years, the FBI has plotted against the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump, treated parents objecting to the indoctrination of their children as criminals, called devout Catholics domestic terrorists, failed to arrest those who harassed Supreme Court justices, and cooperated in squelching news…
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The SSC-8 cruise missile is prohibited under a 30 year old arms control treaty.
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This is nothing new. Al-Qaeda has long considered the contamination of food as a jihad mass murder tactic. And in 2017, the Islamic State called on Muslims to poison food in Western supermarkets And it has happened at least twice in Britain: UK: Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human feces UK: Muslim who sprayed...
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"Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?"
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#320530
On second thought, maybe it's the Christian flag and you just smeared someone as racist.
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In 2021, violent crime surged in the wake of a flood of calls by Democrats and left-wing activists to “defund the police.”
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A university in Michigan has decided to host five separate, identity-based graduation "celebrations" in addition to its regular commencement ceremonies to celebrate the school's supposed "diverse identities and cultures."Grand Valley State University, located in Allendale, Michigan, just a few miles...
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On Friday, President Trump, obviously enthusiastic about his media-bashing Thursday press conference, which was widely panned by the media and the left, and widely chuckled at and cheered by the right, took to Twitter to double down on his anti-media messaging: Here's the tweet Trump deleted—he's seriously calling the media "the enemy of the American people" pic.twitter.com/TxhnjuNL7q
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On Monday, Republican Representative Steve King saw his chronic political career ostensibly come to a conclusion. Following a distasteful, repulsive comment made in an interview with the New York…
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#320535
Both sides are dug in on extreme positions, but the facts say it’s time to reopen, carefully.
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Former President Donald Trump said the White House's policy to bolster transgender athletes in women's sports will destroy ...
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Jennie Taer  Republican lawmakers have demanded the Biden administration answer questions regarding alternate forms of identification the Transportation
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#320538
A single firing at Disney may signal a major turnaround at the company.
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#320539

CPAC’s Milo Disgrace

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), organized by the American Conservative Union, is regularly the most anticipated event on the conservative calendar. Although it has become increasingly circus-like in recent years, it remains the year’s foremost gathering of conservative activists, several days of speakers normally include leading officeholders, and it is considered a testing ground for prospective presidential candidates. Over the weekend, CPAC invited Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at this year’s event, happening later this week in Maryland. Of late, Yiannopoulos, a “tech editor” for Breitbart News, has been a regular guest on college campuses and a constant source of irritation to campus liberals. Recently, the University of California–Berkeley greeted his arrival with riots. Despite the fact that Yiannopoulos holds a number of noxious opinions, we have defended his right to air them against those who would shout him down or worse. CPAC is different. The annual event helps to define and broadcast the priorities of grassroots conservatives. Whatever Yiannopoulos’s politics, they are not conservative in any meaningful sense. Indeed, Yiannopoulos has said so himself. Appearing on HBO’s Bill Maher Show just last week, Yiannopoulos said that he was not sure he would call himself conservative. What Yiannopoulos has called himself is a “chronicler of, and occasional fellow traveler with, the alt-right,” that various group of “reactionaries,” ethno-nationalists, white supremacists, and others, who have set themselves against Reagan-style conservatism and who have developed a robust online presence over the last year. The latter is in no small part thanks to Yiannopoulos, who wrote an essay largely praising the alt-right last spring; according to him, the alt-right is generally composed of “dangerously bright” “intellectuals” and “mischievous” “rebels.” While Yiannopoulos has tried to distance himself from Richard Spencer and other, more unabashed white nationalists, he has had no qualms making common cause with the hordes of Twitter users who photoshop Jewish conservative writers into ovens. Yiannopoulos — who has himself hurled anti-Semitic slurs (he recently described a Jewish BuzzFeed reporter as “a typical example of a sort of thick-as-pig s**t media Jew”), and who helped to popularize the term “cuckservative” — defends himself against charges of bigotry by reminding everyone that he has Jewish ancestry and is gay. The latter is part of his excuse for defending pederasty on a podcast in September 2015, then again during an interview in January 2016. Recordings of those statements were unearthed this weekend, shortly after CPAC’s announcement. ‘Trolling’ is not conservatism, and there is no virtue merely in upsetting campus Democrats. On Monday morning, the ACU cited those recordings as its reason for rescinding Yiannopoulos’s invitation. But that Yiannopoulos did not have a place at CPAC, or at any forum that describes itself as “conservative,” should have been obvious from the start. Instead, the ACU put conservatives in a no-win situation. Had they permitted him to speak, it would have been considered a tacit endorsement of his opinions. Now, having rescinded his invitation, CPAC will be portrayed by Yiannopoulos’s many fans as one more organ of leftist-style speech-policing. Whatever happens later this week, CPAC has diminished true conservatism’s appeal. It has become fashionable in conservative circles to cheer every apparently right-leaning gadfly. But “trolling” is not conservatism, and there is no virtue merely in upsetting campus Democrats. There are many conservatives who do regular battle with left-wing agitators — but who also are of high character, and advance conservative arguments and defend conservative principles with poise, wit, and good cheer. If CPAC wants to highlight the challenges for conservatives on campus, there are dozens of respectable options. The alt-right and its “fellow travelers,” meanwhile, openly detest the “conservatism” that the ACU was founded to defend. CPAC should have taken them at their word.
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#320540
A Virginia state senator this week began openly carrying a .38-caliber revolver strapped to her hip, calling it a “deterrent” against confrontational protesters and other potential threats.
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#320541
Four police officers were fired over the death of a black man who was pinned down by a white officer, in a case that has drawn comparisons Eric Garner, the A...
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#320542
Nitpicking the word ‘sued’ ignores the basic truth: Becerra spent years challenging Catholic nuns’ religious liberty.
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#320543
Guess who ends up paying for all of this?
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LOS ANGELES, CA — As the legal drama surrounding former President Donald Trump's alleged inappropriate payments of "hush money" to adult film star Stormy Daniels years ago continues, the son of current President Joe Biden has been left frustrated after hearing about the concept of "hush money" long after it would have been useful to him.
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#320545
Maybe people should be expected to retire on a smaller Social Security benefit if they did not contribute the next generation of taxpayers. 
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Actor and comedian Tim Allen said in a new podcast that he got a kick out of how former President Donald Trump “pissed people off.”
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#320548
A Kentucky State Trooper was shot multiple times on Friday in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
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#320549
Climate Envoy John Kerry says the United States needs to work with China and Russia on climate change.
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Even more intrusive, however, are the more than 400 federal agencies created by Congress that issue thousands of regulations controlling every aspect of our lives, from our air and water to our farms
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