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Why is conventional opinion so quick to assume that the American people lack the imagination and initiative if insurance schemes get scrambled overnight?
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On Monday, BuzzFeed headlined, “These 8 Men Own As Much Wealth As Half The World.” This vital bit of information came with this supporting fact, courtesy of BuzzFeed special correspondent James Ball and UK editorial developer Chris Applegate: “The world’s eight richest men are worth $426 billion. The world’s poorest 3.7 billion people together own $409 billion -- $17 billion less.”
Those statistics come courtesy of Oxfam. BuzzFeed tut-tuts:
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The divinity schools at Duke and Vanderbilt Universities have instructed their professors to start using more “inclusive” language when referring to God because the masculine pronouns “have served as a cornerstone of the patriarchy.”
For example: This year’s divinity course catalogue at Vanderbilt tells professors to give “consistent attention to the use of inclusive language, especially in relation to the Divine,” because the school “commits continuously and explicitly to include gender as an analyzed category and to mitigate sexism.”
“It is up to the individual professor’s interpretation for their classes and is suggestive rather than mandatory,” the associate dean for academic affairs at Vanderbilt’s divinity school, Melissa Snarr, said in an e-mail to Heat Street.
Now, that may sound fair, but in many cases, it’s really not up to the professor. For example, if we are talking about the Christian God, every single reference to Him in the Bible uses a masculine pronoun . . . which kind of gives you the vibe that Christians have decided that their god is a dude. The fact is, teaching anything else would be giving inaccurate information — which is what makes Duke’s particular guidelines even more absurd.
According to Heat Street, Duke’s particular divinity school is “geared toward people already working in the Methodist church, taking supplemental weekend or summer classes.” Yes, “Methodist,” as in the Christian religion that has already completely, officially, 100 percent decided that their God is a man. And yet, Duke’s guidelines suggest avoiding gender specific pronouns when discussing Him and suggest using “God” and “Godself” instead.
(Yes — “Godself.”)
Look: The great thing about this country is that your religion can be whatever you want it to be. If, in your eyes, God is a woman or genderfluid or a microwave, then you can totally refer to God as being a woman or genderfluid or a microwave. Literally no one is stopping you. In fact, there is an entire Constitution protecting your right to worship His Holiness Microwave if that’s how you want to live your life. But if you are talking about the God of the Methodist religion, then it’s just plain inaccurate to refer to Him as anything but “Him.” It would be like teaching Hamlet and calling Hamlet “she.” There is a point where an obsession over political correctness can blind people from basic of facts, and call me archaic, but I really do feel like facts are still the way to go.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
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Obama wanted to “fundamentally transform” America but instead turned out to be an incremental statist. Even if Obama's policy wins aren't revoked, they were hardly game-changers.
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A defamation lawsuit in the “Clock Boy” incident was part of an agenda to suppress any speech critical of Islam.
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A federal judge has ruled that key parts of a lawsuit against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, filed by five of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, can move forward.
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Trump's pick for director of communications at the National Security Council "will not be taking a position in the incoming administration," she said Monday.
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Project Veritas has dropped another undercover video bombshell. This time they are exposing radical leftist group, D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition. They ...
#331659
Trump's pronouncement on NATO has set off alarm bells.
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#331661
He fought hard to preserve the best of America’s principles and values.
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A proposed law that would punish countries that refuse to take back their illegal immigrant criminals is two years too late to save Casey Chadwick, but the Texas congressman behind it figures it’s the least Washington can do.
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Totalitarianism touches every aspect of every person’s life, and Cuban communism has been traumatic for adults and children not drunk with fanaticism.
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Loretta Lynch: 'Waves of Hatred, Waves of Intolerance and Injustice Are Still Blowing in This Country'
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President-elect Donald Trump's pro-Israel views likely influenced Sunday's peace summit, a Fatah official told Breitbart Jerusalem..
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In 2016, politics seemed off by most people’s standards. Generally, election cycles start with crowded primaries, thinning down after the Republican and Democratic primary races. At that point, the most moderate candidate in each party sporting the biggest war chest and nicest speech pulls ahead in the race. In the end, manufactured politicians always reign victorious. For libertarians, this wasn’t going to be the case. Even though former Texas Congressman Ron Paul fell short in his hard-fought battle in 2012, the momentum was destined to steamroll through until 2016. This was the year that the liberty movement stormed the political establishment and turned Washington D.C. upside down. For libertarians, we were going to be just days away from the inauguration of President-elect Rand Paul. Unfortunately for many conservatives and libertarians, history was written differently. Not only did the United States Senator from Kentucky lose the Republican presidential primary, he also lost after a miserable first showing. For all the hype behind the next Paul liberty politician, he?
#331667
It is not by chance that defenders of PC in the United States are called ‘social justice warriors,’ for behind their claims lies a permanent war.
#331668
Americas Nobody-in-Chief is finally going away, his last spasm of rhetorical onanism completely overshadowed by Donald Trump neatly turning the tables on the media purveyors of that fake dossier that tried and failed to paint the PEOTUS as the second coming of Bob Crane.
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#331670
The Clinton Foundation is shutting the doors on the Clinton Global Initiative amid a sharp drop in foreign donations. After announcing back in September that CGI would lay off a number of staff members but remain open, the Clinton Foundation notified New York City last week that the CGI office was closing and its 22 staffers were to be laid off. No President Clinton, no need for the CGI — even at reduced capacity. The Clinton Global Initiative was at the very center of allegations that the Clinton Foundation was little more than a pay-to-play scheme for the Clinton family. Indeed, as the New York Observer reported on Sunday: “As soon as Clinton lost the election, many of the criticisms directed toward the Clinton Foundation were reaffirmed. Foreign governments began pulling out of annual donations, signaling the organization’s clout was predicated on donor access to the Clintons, rather than its philanthropic work.” Following Clinton’s loss, the Australian government announced it
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia over its annexation of Crimea in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Moscow, he told The Times of London.
#331672
The Obama years, which left us divided and angry, paved the way for the ascent of Donald J. Trump.
#331673
The queen of conservative talk radio, Laura Ingraham, is eyeing a Senate run in Virginia and a challenge to Hillary Clinton's running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine. Knowledgeable sources said that several party insiders have approached the media giant to run and that she is considering it. In preparation for a bid, her business partner, Peter Anthony, has begun buying website domains for Ingraham to use should she decide to move forward. It includes: ingrahamsenate.net, ingrahamsenate.com, ingrahamforvirginia.com and ingraham2018.com. Ingraham wouldn't comment on any run. While it would be considered an uphill fight, Ingraham brings her well-known personality and several influential backers to a race that could translate into immediate media and fundraising opportunities. Ingraham also would come to the race with a powerful media enterprise behind her. Besides her popular radio show, she also heads the news site Lifezette.com.
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President-elect Donald Trump will spend Martin Luther King Jr. Day meeting with Martin Luther King III, the incoming White House press secretary announced. ?Today we observe the birthday of #…
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'ACLU Nationwide selectively edits their less-than-honest Sessions testimony.' -Ted Cruz
