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2016 had been a tough year for Taiwan, the jewel of an island nation that China views as an illegitimate breakaway province. In January, it elected a new president–a progressive female law professor who takes a decidedly dim view of the Communist tyranny a few hundred miles from Taiwan's shores. Mainland China, Taiwan's largest trading partner, was incensed by the Taiwanese people's daring to make a democratic decision—the temerity! And so it began a campaign of collective punishment.
Tourism from the mainland, a key source of revenue for Taiwan, was severely curtailed. And Taiwan was humiliated on the international stage repeatedly. First, at Beijing's behest, it was snubbed by ICAO. When the United Nations' aviation safety group met in Montreal earlier this year, Taiwan wasn't even allowed in as a guest. Then the democratic island of 23 million was given the cold shoulder by INTERPOL. When the global law enforcement group got together in November, Taiwan was shut out again. Despite its remarkable achievements—creating an open, prosperous country with a robust democratic political culture, all in the shadow of an aggressive tyranny hell-bent on reclaiming it—2016 saw Taiwan become, increasingly, a Rodney Dangerfield nation, commanding little to no respect on the global stage.
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Late Saturday, the Green Party backed down from a move to force a recount of the 2016 election outcome within the State of Pennsylvania. The Associated Press re
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Hawaii is bracing Sunday for another foot of snow, in addition to the 2 feet that landed on the island’s highest mountain peaks since Thursday, The Weather Channel reported.
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A female student at Ohio State called the Hannity radio show this week and told Sean that the reaction to ...
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Because it'll make them feel better. Or something.
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Today we go back to JustLatasha for more racist liberal cancer but the twist this time is sh is responding to buzzfeeds 27 questions black people have for bl...
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Karianne Solbrække, newly appointed editor of Norwegian news outlet TV2, was the girlfriend of radical jihadist Arfan Bhatti. Bhatti, among other things, was convicted as a co-conspirator in a shooting against a synagogue in Oslo. The relationship...
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"... a dream to be someone to help his community ..."
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The Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army's assistant secretary for civil works announced Sunday.
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Actor Alec Baldwin says he'll …
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"Saturday Night Live," back from …
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Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace engaged in a pretty combative exchange today while discussing Stein's recount efforts.
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Nancy Pelosi: I Don't Think Democrats 'Want A New Direction'
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AN SAS sniper has picked off his 100th Islamic State militant during fighting for the Iraqi city of Mosul.
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The president-elect’s threat to punish “sanctuary cities” has prompted officials to examine just what federal money could be lost.
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Compilation of violence perpetrated by the political left toward Trump supporters. They harass and assault women, children, and any normal folk who do not vo...
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On CNBC, Steven Mnuchin outlined a very interesting tax plan in which the bulk of tax cuts would go to middle-income households and no aggregate tax cut for the upper class. Problem is, that bears no resemblance to any of the multiple plans that Donald Trump proposed during the campaign.
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If we’re going to uphold free speech, we need to be consistent.
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One can exaggerate the degree of liberty in America before the 20th-century sprint of interventionism. (I have sinned myself.) One form of widespread government intervention in 19th-century America…
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The core platform for the Federalist Party is to dramatically reduce the size and overreach of the federal government, returning powers to the states to produce the original intent of the Constitution: checks and balances between equally powerful states and the federal governments. We abandoned the confederation of states in favor of the Constitution republic because our founding fathers saw the need for equivalent centralized strength, but the 10th Amendment has essentially been abandoned for the last century to give the centralized government way too much influence on issues that shouldn't reside in their purview.
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The death of Fidel Castro reminds us that the respectable press has been peddling “fake news” about Cuba & Castro for 60 years.
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Have you heard the news that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote?
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On Friday, conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell said that Barack Obama has behaved more like a dictator than a president. In addition, she stated that Donald Trump should first focus on restoring the rule of law. At
