#17401
Senate Republicans put out a roughly $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill proposal Monday, launching a mad dash to reach a bipartisan agreement on the legislation before a federal unemployment insurance supplement ends this week.
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#17402
The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared three of America's largest Army bases Confederate monuments "with the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed" if activists don't "take down" the A
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#17403
Let's just say that Al Gore isn't smiling right now.
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#17404
A Raw Story article says they were, but I don't think that's a correct reading of the Oregon Commissioner's decision.
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#17405
Earnest: 'There's one thing between having a copy of the document and knowing exactly what's in it.'
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#17406
Had accused "John Doe" Prosecutor John Chisholm of political motives.
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#17407
The latest PPP poll shows Donald Trump leads all Republican presidential candidates with Hispanic voters. Trump scored a 34% favorability ...
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#17408
Any one of these would be huge, even by itself.
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#17409
Last year, every graduating senior at Ballou High School got into college. A WAMU and NPR investigation shows that many of those students missed more than a month of school and struggled academically.
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#17410
A letter to the editor of The Silverton Standard and The Miner by a retired geologist predicted the disastrous toxic spill in Colorado at the hands of the Environmental Protection Agency exactly one week prior to the accident. Taking it one step further, the author added that they will do this on purpose in order to secure more funding.
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#17411
Twitter has shut down a network of sites dedicated to archiving deleted tweets from politicians around the world. The sites — collectively known as Politwoops — were overseen by the Open State...
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#17412

Kim Davis vs. Judicial Tyranny

Submitted 9 years ago by ActRight Community

By Patrick J. Buchanan If the law supposes that, the law is a ass — a idiot. Charles Dickens gave that line to Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist. And it sums up the judgment of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis about the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, which said the 14th Amendment guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. Davis refused to provide marriage licenses to gay couples lined up at her clerk's office and was sent to jail for five days by a federal judge for contempt of court. Good for her. We need more like her. For behind her defiance are more authoritative sources than the five justices who gave us Obergefell: the Old and New Testaments, Natural Law, two millennia of Christian teaching and tradition, and the entire body of U.S. federal and state law up to Y2K. Moreover, Kentucky never enacted a law authorizing same-sex marriage. Nor did the Congress of the United States. Whence, then, did this law come? Answer: This is a creation of a Supreme Court that has usurped the legislative power to impose a secularist anti-Christian ideology on a nation, much of which still rejects it, but has no recourse against it. A right to same-sex marriage was no more in the Constitution as written or amended than was a woman's right to have an abortion. The Court has lately been declaring to be constitutional rights that used to regarded as shameful crimes. This is judicial tyranny. And Kim Davis' defiance is as old as the republic. Recall, we were born in a rebellion against the tyrannical acts of a king and Parliament we did not elect. President Jefferson ordered the release of all those convicted under the Sedition Act, declared that he would no longer enforce that Federalist-enacted law, and pronounced it a nullity. When Chief Justice Roger Taney declared slaves were property and could not become citizens, Harriet Tubman ignored his Dred Scott decision, defied the fugitive slave laws, and helped slaves escape from her native Maryland. Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs defied the Espionage Act of 1917 and spoke out against World War I. Convicted of sedition, he was sent to prison for 10 years under Woodrow Wilson, but freed by President Harding. Throughout American history, industrial workers, civil rights and anti-war activists, and political dissenters have defied laws, ignored court orders, and gone to jail for contempt. Rosa Parks broke the law in Montgomery, Alabama, by refusing to move to the back of the bus. Martin Luther King, a disciple of Gandhi, preached and practiced civil disobedience his entire life. Now there is a statue on the mall and a holiday for King and talk of putting Tubman or Parks on America's currency. They are honored because their defiance of court orders and law-breaking were done in the cause of social progress. But Kim Davis' defiance of a court order was done because that is what God told her to do, and she wanted to be faithful to the beliefs she had embraced as an Apostolic Christian. Yes, Virginia, there is a double standard. In the 20th century, if you were breaking the law or violating a court order to protest segregation, Vietnam, or apartheid in South Africa, you got an indulgent press. But if you were defying a court order to stop blocking integration at the University of Alabama or Little Rock High, or stop protesting too close to the local abortion mill, you got lectures on the rule of law. Some conservatives say that Kim Davis as a public official has to carry out court orders, even those she believes to be immoral, or quit. Yet the course she took has undeniably advanced her cause in our unending culture war. For she rallied and inspired many with her witness, defiance and willingness to go to jail. She set an example of nonviolent resistance. She treated same-sex marriage not as some great social leap forward, but as a moral abomination. Many among the silent majority were surely nodding in approval. She has also exposed the breadth and depth of the division in the country between an older Christian America and new Secular America. Once, the Supreme Court could rely upon a residual respect for its proceedings, grounded in a belief that ours is a good government whose actions, even if we disagree, are rooted in principle and merit respect. That reservoir of trust and good will is about gone. Almost all of the civil and uncivil disobedience of the last half-century, from campus uprisings to urban riots to political protests, came from the left. But as an anti-Christian secularism becomes ascendant, dominant and imperious, rumbles are coming from right. Indeed, from the raw politics of the Summer of Trump, it seems clear that Middle America has come to believe it has been had, and that the state that rules the nation is hostile to the country they love, and needs to be resisted and defied. We are headed for interesting times.
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#17413
Critics who charge that prioritizing police killings over other, more prevalent forms of violence misunderstand the purpose and methods of the movement.
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#17414
In a BLUNT MOVE, President Trump did what should have been done years ago: Stop sending money to countries that HATE AMERICA!
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#17415
I remember shaking my head, on the day that Donald Trump announced, when NPR’s Mara Liasson declared that this would be the best day of his campaign and it was downhill from there.
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#17416
Putin Laughs Off Obama At G20 Summit: "He's A Child...He's A Child."
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#17417
An unwavering focus on gun control in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting may leave the president in an uncomfortable and likely untenable position
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#17418
Newly crowned Olympic gold medalist Kevin Durant and Draymond Green fired back at the media on Saturday for a lack of support in Tokyo following a rough start, telling the critics: “You are an American, too. Act like it.”
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#17419
I'm willing to bet that wherever Obama is right now, he's not too happy!
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#17420
Americans’ wallets fattened in January on recent tax cuts, indicating increased spending power may boost the economy this quarter.
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#17421
Senator Chuck Schumer criticizes Ted Cruz after the election bill he put forward at 3:30 A.M. was blocked by Senator Cruz.
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#17422
HARTFORD --  A war of words has erupted between two Connecticut lawmakers and the National Rifle Association. "The idea that the NRA should be recognized as a voice for gun safety is ridiculous," Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said Tuesday night. Bronin firing back at the NRA, said the organization does more to oppose progress and prevent collaborative dialogue about gun safety than any other organization in the country.
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#17423

Biden: Reagan couldn't win in 2016

Submitted 9 years ago by ActRight Community

"We are reaping the downside of what has become a nasty political environment," Biden said.
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#17424
“Ted Cruz understands that…”
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#17425
Anchorage voters defeated a bill that would have banned transgender people from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. In just six years, Anchorage voters flipped on LGBT issues.
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