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Legislators in Arizona want to end college classes that promote discrimination.
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The 9th Circuit is widely considered one of the most liberal courts in the country.
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Media Matters for America, the George Soros-funded progressive activist organization, has secretly been strategizing a major campaign to “stop” Breitbart News.
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Police are allowing anti-Trump rioters to destroy banks, cars and property. Berkeley UC is complete chaos. Twitter: https://twitter.com/VeryDicey Website: ht...
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The president sympathized with the sheriffs’ complaint that they are being pressured to reform civil forfeiture practices.
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Loretta Lynch is still waiting to be confirmed as attorney general, and her allies are hoping a hunger strike will do the trick. The advocacy group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, along with female civil-rights leaders, are launching the hunger strike – where groups of fasters will alternate days abstaining from food until Lynch is confirmed...
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In the wake of the horrific attack on an Orlando nightclub by a man espousing allegiance to ISIS, it didn’t take long for the Big Three networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) to advance the preferred political line of the Democrats, in this election year, to push for more gun control. Beginning on the evening following the shooting, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on June 12, sounded the clarion call for gun control: “Today’s terror attack brings national security and the debate over gun control to forefront of the presidential campaigns once again.” And for the next week, an MRC study shows the broadcast network news programs flooded their shows with statements favoring gun control over gun rights by a ratio of 8 to 1.
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Thanks to a teachers? union convention at the beach in Ocean City, students in 19 of Maryland?s 24 school districts will get a day off from school on October 21, 2016. The only 5 distri…
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“@danahull Rex is an exceptionally competent executive, understands geopolitics and knows how to win for his team. His team is now the USA.”
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Authorities were searching for an assailant or assailants Saturday after two men were killed and two others were wounded after gunfire erupted in Pasadena late Friday night, police said.
The incident also spurred a single-vehicle wreck as two men trying to flee crashed their car at the intersection of California Boulevard and St. John Avenue, according to Pasadena Police Lt. Vasken Gourdikian. The shooting was reported just before midnight in the 100 block of West Claremont Street, where officers found "an obvious scene of a shooting," he said.
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NBC News has reported that 209 people have thus far been indicted over felony rioting charges, meaning they face a fine of up to $25,000 and a maximum of 10 years in prison.
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This woman wins at life.
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Trump Agenda on Offense: 7 Stories in 24 Hours Give President's Base Hope
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While the broadcast networks spent Wednesday focusing on a Senate hearing they were hoping would implicate President Trump in obstruction of justice, they ignored a House Oversight Committee report that showed President Obama’s administration did just that. “An absolutely blistering report tonight out saying the Obama administration in general and former Attorney General Eric Holder in particular repeatedly lied to the family of a slain Border Patrol officer about the weapons used in his death, and stonewalled efforts to get at the truth,” announced Fox News’ Bret Baier on Special Report.
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#TheRefinery crew talk about the use of shocking and horrific images of aborted babies when advocating Pro-Life messages and debate their effectiveness compa...
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Spread the loveSaturday Night Live was its usual Trump-hating self in its season premier, but “Weekend Update” anchor, overrated black “comedian” Michael Che, went way too far during one of his traditional yawn-inducing rants about “white people.”After the Mayor of Puerto Rico insulted President Trump, he recently remarked that she was “told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to ?
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According to social activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein, climate change isn’t just destroying our planet -- it’s making racism worse, too.
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The mayor faced persistent questions about taxpayer-funded trips she took with the head of her security detail, with whom she has acknowledged having an affair.
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The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) I?ve been traveling this week, so I just noticed this myself this afternoon. In an interview with Fox New?s Shannon Bream …
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White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday said the White House hopes to send Congress a package of new spending cut proposals in the coming weeks, even as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears cool on trying to roll back parts of the recent $1.3 trillion spending bill.
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Sell your Adam Smith ties, everybody, and smash your busts of Ronald Reagan. It’s all over.
Why? Because we have entered a new era of “nationalism,” or “patriotism,” or simply “Trumpism,” and the GOP will never be a traditionally and ideologically conservative party ever again.
#ad#That seems to be the conclusion of a vast and growing number of prominent conservative commentators who are sure that Donald Trump has changed, or destroyed, conservatism forever. Type “The Republican Party is Dead” or “GOP R.I.P.” into a search engine and you’ll get a sense of how far and wide this notion has spread.
Consider the inestimable Peggy Noonan, writing from the Olympian heights of the Wall Street Journal. She is increasingly adamant that Trump has ushered in a grand new era, a kind of Year Zero for the American Right. The once-conservative masses no longer want to hear about liberty or freedom — they want to be “protected” by government, Noonan wrote in February.
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As Trump solidified his power, Noonan set about to shoot the wounded. “Those conservative writers and thinkers who have for nine months warned the base that Mr. Trump is not a conservative should consider the idea that a large portion of the Republican base no longer sees itself as conservative,” she wrote last month.
A week later, Noonan again castigated anti-Trump forces in Washington. She insinuated that the Beltway elitists opposed to Trump seek to rebuild a post-Trump GOP as “a neoconservative, functionally open-borders, slash-the-entitlements party.”
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That won’t happen, she insists, because “centers of gravity are shifting. The new Republican Party will not be rebuilt and re-formed in [the tony D.C. suburb] McLean, it will be rebuilt or re-formed in Massapequa [the Long Island suburb made famous by Joey Buttafuoco].”
Looking past the uncharacteristically weak and unfair snipes, this is somewhat amusing, given where Noonan works. The Wall Street Journal — arguably America’s best newspaper, by the way — is editorially closer to “open borders” than any other mainstream outlet. Its position on entitlements is even more stridently — and more correctly — in favor of major reform, as was Noonan not long ago. The term “slash” is beneath her, given that this is the sort of irresponsible left-wing rhetoric she once decried.
#share#Which gets me closer to my real point. A few years ago, Noonan lionized another populist movement.
“Here is a great virtue of the tea party: They know what time it is. It’s getting late,” Noonan wrote. “If we don’t get the size and cost of government in line now, we won’t be able to. We’re teetering on the brink of some vast, dark new world — states and cities on the brink of bankruptcy, the federal government too. The issue isn’t ‘big spending’ anymore. It’s ruinous spending that they fear will end America as we know it, as they promised it to their children.”
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The point here isn’t to criticize Noonan, of whom I am a fan (though I have profound disagreements with her of late). Again, she is hardly alone in claiming that Trump represents a welcome break from conservative ideas as we’ve known them — ideas I once associated Noonan with.
We can debate whether the New Thinking is good or bad. But we can all agree that one of the lessons of the Trump moment is that the conventional wisdom can change in an instant.
And yet to listen to Trump’s biggest media cheerleaders, most of them in that populist heartland of New York City, the new conventional wisdom will go on and on — forever. As George Orwell noted, such assumptions stem from power-worship; that the winner of the moment will be invincible for all time.
#related#For instance, in 2010, when Noonan was praising the free-market and constitutionalist tea party, our entitlement situation was worse, our immigration problems were no better, and Big Government was roughly the same (serious) threat it is today.
Yet now she rallies to the protectionist and Constitution-agnostic Trump, despite Trump’s admission he will do nothing to fix entitlements or shrink government. The math on entitlements hasn’t changed, just the mood.
Hence Trump’s focus on a Muslim ban and a wall on the Mexican border. Whether or not those are good ideas (I think the former is insane, the latter sadly necessary), it seems rather silly to expect this agenda to permanently displace the ideas that have formed the backbone of the conservative movement for generations.
The mood will change again. It will be interesting to see whose ideas change with them.
— Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. You can write to him by e-mail at [email protected], or via Twitter @JonahNRO. © 2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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Omar Mateen Raged Against 'Filthy Ways of the West'
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President Donald Trump believes the stock market rally since his election win gives him the cushion to address the trade conflict with China and other countries.
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On Tuesday, Out Magazine cheered an upcoming "queergender" adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" set "after society has exterminated cisgender men."