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Rachel Maddow has one of the most embarrassing nights in media history, can we believe anybody anymore, and 4Chan pulls off one of the great trolls in American history.

Until Donald Trump became president, Kelsey Thomas spent her time studying, hanging out with friends and lounging on the beaches of Florida. For Thomas, a 29-year-old university student, the turning point was the huge wave of women-led protests that filled Washington and other cities on January 21,

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during an interview Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that the U.S. will not “be better off” if it allows marijuana to be “sold at every corner grocery store” and be readily available to American teenagers. Sessions noted the possession and distribution of marijuana still remain illegal under federal law — even if some states have legalized and regulated the drug for recreational and medicinal purposes. Saying the Justice Department intends to develop strategies for how to deal with the issue, the attorney general made clear the department will not stop prosecuting marijuana cases in states that have legalized it. “And we’ve got to be careful that a few bad apples don’t cause us to pull away from proven crime-fighting techniques that … save lives by the hundreds.” “I do not believe that this country is going to be better off if we have marijuana sold at every corner grocery store — and that it’s available in large amounts to

Why is the state still messing around in the marriage business anyway?

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Nearly three decades after my family came to the United States, refugees today anxiously hold their breath because what seemed certain to us—that we would be welcomed in our new home—is no longer so obvious.

Actress Ashley Judd wrote a lengthy Facebook post recounting an "uncomfortable" encounter with a Trump supporter at a NCAA basketball game over the weekend.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation took formal action Wednesday to reverse an Obama-era decision to move forward with some of the strictest regulations for cutting emissions and improving fuel efficiency in cars and light trucks. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao made the decision in a joint declaration just moments before President Trump was supposed to discuss the rollback at an event in Michigan. These standards are costly for automakers and the American people, Pruitt said in a statement. We will work with our partners at [the Department of Transportation] to take a fresh look to determine if this approach is realistic. This thorough review will help ensure that this national program is  good for consumers and good for the environment. The Obama EPA had sped up the findings of a report it prepared that showed increasing fuel efficiency standards from about 30 miles per gallon to more than 50 mpg was achievable by 2025. But the auto industry refuted the findings, saying the determination did not account for lower gasoline prices driving increased demand for sport utility vehicles and pick-up trucks with lower fuel economy.

OPINION | Senate GOP will realize protecting animals is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do as well.

Progressives are now horrified at the fervor with which students carry out their ideas—but they are still the ones who enlisted these youngsters.

Michael Savage was violently attacked at restaurant north San Francisco, Calif., restaurant on Tuesday night, according to Rich Lieberman at 415 Media.   Finishing his dinner at Servino Restaurant, Savage was confronted by an unnamed assailant, described thusly by Lieberman:  

Trump Details Big Plans in Detroit: ‘The Assault on the American Auto Industry is Over’

Last week, Harvard released a new research guide on “fake news.” “Fake news,” of course, is the source of all evil, according to the Left. It’s only thanks to lies that Donald Trump was elected! Instead of targeting stories that are completely false, however, the Left applies the label of “fake news” to outlets that report factual stories but draw political conclusions from them — in other words, they call everything with which they disagree “fake news.” Which means that their talk of “fake news” is actually fake news. Of course, the largest “fake news” item of all is that “objective” news sources aren’t biased in their coverage. They obviously are, and it’s why conservatives have warmed to President Trump’s labeling left-leaning outlets such as CNN “fake news” even if CNN isn’t actually reporting anything factually false but merely drawing convenient leftist inferences from overblown coverage of core facts. Nonetheless, the Harvard guide, written by “social justice” professor Melissa Zimdars of Merrimack College, purports to compile a handy-dandy list of fake-news sites to avoid. The list provides ten different ways to label the stories on such sites: fake news (actual fake news)satireextreme bias (“sources that come from a particular point of view and may rely on propaganda, decontextualized information, and opinions distorted as facts”)conspiracy theoryrumor millstate newsjunk science (“sources that promote pseudoscience, metaphysics, naturalistic fallacies, and other scientifically dubious claims”)hate newsclickbaitproceed with caution (“sources that may be reliable but whose contents require further verification”) Two other indicators are used for leftist sites that meet Zimdars’s politically correct standards: political (“sources that provide generally verifiable information in support of certain points of view or political orientations”)credible (“sources that circulate news and information in a manner consistent with traditional and ethical practices in journalism”) So, for example, AlterNet.org, a far-left site, is labeled “political” and “credible.” Here’s one of their top headlines as I write this, by one John Feffer: “The Trump Dystopian Nightmare: Nuclear War, Climate Change, and a Clash of Civilizations Are All on the Horizon.” National Review is labeled unknown. The website I run, the Daily Wire, is labeled with “extreme bias,” as is the Daily Signal, the website of the Heritage Foundation, as well as the Drudge Report, which is essentially a linker site. The Daily Caller is called “political,” “clickbait,” and “unreliable.” The Blaze is called “political” and “clickbait.” The list doesn’t mention Barack Obama’s favorite outlet, Vox; it doesn’t mention Slate or Salon, either. Every outlet has its bias. We’re all better off admitting our bias openly rather than slathering facts in opinions and then conflating the two. No wonder conservatives don’t trust the media — or the supposed media police. They’re too busy upholding the myth of mainstream-media objectivity to be concerned with the truth, which is that every outlet has its bias, and that we’re all better off admitting our bias openly rather than slathering facts in opinions and then conflating the two. I’ll proudly state that National Review and the Daily Wire are more honest than CNN; both outlets have an editorial point of view reflected in their content, but neither mistakes news for opinion or opinion for news. The supposedly objective outlets, by hiding behind the façade of that faux objectivity, constantly conflate their opinions with their news. Here’s the reality: We’re not all going to be able to agree on narrative. But we should strive to find the facts we can discuss together. So, how do we identify the facts? Here are a few tips for determining reliability of information — tips that we all (including me) fail to use consistently but that could prove handy: 1) Locate the information intersection. If we view news coverage from various sides of the aisle as lines on a grid, the point where they converge — the common point of coverage – gives us the facts. So long as an outlet reports those facts, it’s not fake news. It’s just opinion journalism, unless it obviously treats opinions as facts. So if Huffington Post and National Review report the same underlying facts but disagree about the ramifications, we can at least identify the underlying facts worth discussing. This does mean that you should survey the literature — and that you should move outside your Facebook feed from time to time. 2) Wait 24 hours to believe supremely controversial claims. The Twitter/Facebook news cycle favors the people who are the first on a story, but exclusivity and speed often trump reliability. That’s why veteran Twitter watchers almost never tweet out early reports from shooting scenes: The information from the ground evolves over time. Most of us on Twitter fall victim to this from time to time. “Too good to check” sometimes overrides better judgment. 3) Anonymous sources are anonymous sources. Don’t put tons of weight on anonymous sources unless an organization with a history of caution has a bunch of them claiming the same thing. This also means that when one anonymous source denies an allegation from another anonymous source, you shouldn’t just believe the anonymous source you like. 4) Outlets that make corrections are more reliable. If an outlet issues corrections, it is more likely to be more reliable than others. Outlets that double down after they’ve been proved wrong are either stubbornly right or — far more likely — stubbornly wrong. That doesn’t mean that outlets that constantly back down are better than those that don’t. It means that outlets that never back down are probably willing to fib to you. 5) Consider the ideology. Let’s say a site leans right but will print information that counters its prevailing orthodoxy or will tolerate voices of dissent within a band of the spectrum. It’s more likely that such a site will treat information with respect, since the ideology doesn’t trump the facts. It’s dangerous when a site decides to quash news or rewrite news based on the ramifications of the news. 6) Read the whole article. Don’t just read the headline. We all read the headlines for shorthand, but all too often the real point of an article is buried in paragraph 19, as all the mainstream outlets understand (which is why, as good little leftists, they bury all the exonerating information about Trump-Russia connections deep in their articles). More complexity in information makes it more difficult to digest and tempts us to filter out new or conflicting info, but it also makes our information more accurate. All in all, don’t believe that everything the Left labels “fake news” is fake news. It’s far more likely that the real fake news is that the Left is capable of policing fake news honestly, rather than merely determining that sources they hate must be ruled out of the news realm entirely. — Ben Shapiro is the editor in chief of the Daily Wire.

The University of Minnesota's Student Activities Office announced that it would no longer refer to Homecoming honorees as "King" or "Queen." Instead, it elected to replace those gendered titles with the name "Royals" in order to "promote a spirit of inclusion at the University of Minnesota." Rather than men applying for the title of "King" and women applying for the title of "Queen," the "Royals" can be anyone, regardless of gender identity, and the "Royals"  could be any combination of personalized genders.

Michael Savage was violently attacked at restaurant north San Francisco, Calif., restaurant on Tuesday night, according to Rich Lieberman at 415 Media.   Finishing his dinner at Servino Restaurant, Savage was confronted by an unnamed assailant, described thusly by Lieberman:  

The indictments mark the first criminal cyber charges ever brought against Russian government officials.

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The landmark class action settlement involves some 7.5 million allegedly defective Remington guns.

GOP Senators are demanding an investigation in to allegations that Obama tampered with foreign elections.

Look, I'm a “glass is half full” kind of guy. You have to be. I try to stay positive. I try to keep thinking maybe, maybe someday CONGRESS will remember the vision of our Founding Fathers ... and that those we elect will represent us, not the special interests.

A glossary of social justice terms published by UC-Davis plainly asserts that only white people are capable of racism.

‘VCU needs to hire more faculty that aren’t white males.'

“I think he’d want to pay his fair share.”

In the last few weeks, there has been a spate of columns by writers on the left condemning the left-wing college students who riot, take over university buildings and shout down speakers with whom they differ.

Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman characterized his meeting with President Donald Trump as a "historic turning point in bilateral relations" between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. A stateme