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Fifty years ago, in March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam, the first American combat troops on the ground in a conflict that had been building for decades.

For several years, colleges have been battling an alleged campus “rape culture.” Before taking their first class, almost half a million students are taught that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted in college. As a result of this and other efforts on the part of faculty and administrators, many women are led to ? Continue reading "Paranoia and Paternalism Fuel the Fight Against “Rape Culture”"

Stung by Janus, public-employee unions resort to thuggish tactics to discourage citizen challenges.

Democrats dump Franken and move against Trump, Republicans rally around their worst people, and free speech comes under social assault – plus we check the mailbag! Date: 12-08-2017

Jeb has moved from far right toward the center. Walker’s done the opposite. Why can’t anyone just take a consistent position and defend it?

The value of Elon Musk;s Tesla stock is up by over $2 billion since the election of Donald Trump as President.

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Clint Eastwood: Donald Trump Challenging ‘Kiss-Ass Generation’

Less than Half in New Poll Think Obama Loves America -

WAPO: Obama hurts gun control movement by exaggerating gun stats

Nonpartisan public radio show Intelligence Squared U.S. is holding a debate on the motion "Blame the Elites for the Trump Phenomenon" on Tuesday evening that will live stream online. The event begins at 6:45 pm EST. Four major conservative media voices are debating this issue: Bret Stephens (Wall Street Journal) & Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post) vs. Ben Domenech (The Federalist) & Timothy Carney (Washington Examiner). It's less about Trump the person and more about the popular movement he's leading.

Yesterday was International Men’s Day but unlike its longer running and far more celebrated female counterpart, you likely didn’t hear anyone discussing the holiday. At least not in any kind of positive light. In fact the

Is the Women’s March on Washington cursed? The anti-Trump protest set for Jan. 21 keeps running into weird trouble. Start with the name, originally the Million Women’s March. The three white femini…

Writer Drew Magary (actual photo above) has penned a new piece for GQ Magazine titled “Fuck Ben Carson” because he’s ...

As Rand Paul presided over the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Democratic Leader Harry Reid took a few moments to thank the Kentucky Republican and ophthalmologist for helping him with an eye injury.

Demanding the perfect plan would kill the good one.

The Pentagon will announce the services have six months to figure out how to integrate transgender troops into the military.

"What the holy hell is this?"

The endgame of hijab culture in Islam is totalitarian. For all their talk of ‘renegades,’ Playboy and The Huffington Post are hawking the banal conformity of this age: Anything but Western Christendom.

None of it was real. Not the fraternity party at the University of Virginia one September night in 2012.

The Kentucky Republican is glad Trump stripped ex-CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. But Trump shouldn’t stop there, Paul says.

Marco Rubio may have stood out in the Republican debate, but if you ask competitive debaters, Ted Cruz was the hands-down winner.

My father Irwin A. Schiff was born Feb. 23rd 1928, the 8th child and only son of Jewish immigrants, who had crossed the Atlantic twenty years earlier in search of freedom. As a result of their hope and courage my father was fortunate to have been

‘Ronald Reagan is dead, and he’s not coming back.” “I wish more conservatives could come to grips with this relatively simple fact. We are now in something like the fifth round of the pin-the-tail-on-the-next-Reagan game and it’s getting old. Catering to the conservative base, the GOP presidential candidates keep trying to put on the Reagan mantle the way Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters tried to cram their dogs into her glass slipper. Not gonna happen.” #ad#I wrote the above nine years ago. I’m not plagiarizing myself to save time, but to point out that Reagan obsession on the right has been a problem for a long time. Every election season, Republican candidates start rising to their feet to declare, like the slave rebels in Spartacus, “I’m Ronald Reagan!” “No, I’m Ronald Reagan!” My favorite version came from Bob Dole in 1996. He couldn’t bring himself to fully commit to the play-acting, saying instead, “I’ll be Ronald Reagan if that’s what you want.” My objection to this Reaganophilia isn’t derived from any antipathy toward the Gipper. He was a great man and a great politician. Rather, the problem is with using Reagan as a kind of ideological shorthand. Asking “What Would Reagan Do?” about challenges Reagan never faced has limited value. Before the GOP became the Party of Reagan, it was the Party of Lincoln. But you wouldn’t expect a Republican politician to spend a lot of time promising to free the slaves or preserve the Union. Trying to see today’s economic problems through Reagan-colored glasses isn’t impossible — we’re still over-regulated by a too-large government — but it can be distorting. Similarly, casting the war on terrorism as a replay of the long battle against communism (which Reagan won) can be done, but it requires bending reality to theory. Marxism was a relatively brief and modern imposition on ancient cultures. Islam is an ancient religion, and radical Islam is an effort to fight off the imposition of modernity. Different threats and different contexts require different thinking. All of these criticisms still stand. What’s different these days is the desperate effort to insist that Donald Trump is a new Reagan — not by Trump himself, but by a kind of conservative priesthood eager to prove by analogy what it can’t prove with facts or logic. Newt Gingrich, Bill Bennett, and Rudy Giuliani are just a few of the prominent conservatives miraculously finding Reaganism in the outbursts of a loutish and crude real-estate developer the way the high lamas of Buddhism try to identify a new dalai lama based on a baby’s gurgling. Most of their arguments are shockingly spurious given the intellects involved. Among the most common: “They said Reagan couldn’t win, too.” Logically, this has nothing to do with Trump’s alleged resemblance to Reagan (or Trump’s general-election chances). “They” — whoever they are — also claimed Kermit the Frog couldn’t win 270 electoral votes. That doesn’t mean they were wrong, or that Kermit is an amphibious Reaganite. Of course, ‘they’ were wrong about Reagan. But the ‘they’ in 1980 were overwhelmingly liberal. Trump’s most important critics are overwhelmingly conservative. Indeed, all of the “They said X about Reagan, too” arguments are preposterous, but one stands out: “They said Reagan was a dunce, too.” Of course, “they” were wrong about Reagan. But the “they” in 1980 were overwhelmingly liberal. Trump’s most important critics are overwhelmingly conservative. The claim that conservatives in 2016 are wrong about Trump because liberals 36 years ago were wrong about Reagan is a hard one to diagram on a grease board. And getting to the conclusion that these combined errors mean Trump is Reagan-like is the logical equivalent of crossing a canyon in three leaps. In terms of personal character and ideological seriousness, Trump and Reagan could not be more different. Reagan was one of the most dignified politicians of the 20th century, one who turned his cheek to vicious attacks, refused to use profanity, and rarely showed an angry side. Meanwhile, Trump’s crude and vengeful streaks virtually define the man. Reagan’s ideological principles were derived from decades of reading, speaking, and debating. Trump, meanwhile, is winging it. “I don’t think he has an ideology,” Pat Buchanan told the Washington Post. “He very much is responding to the realities that he has encountered and his natural reactions to them. It’s not some intellectual construct.” Here lies both the irony and farce of the cult-like effort to anoint Trump as the second coming of Reagan. The one meaningful similarity between the two men is that they can both be seen as authentic responses to their times. The difference? Reagan was the right response. — Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected], or via Twitter @JonahNRO. © 2016 Tribune Content Agency

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