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According to multiple media outlets, the Trump administration announced earlier today that they would consider a solution to making Mexico pay for the famous Trump Wall: a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico. This comes on the heels of Trump slamming the North American Free Trade Agreement for creating a “$60 billion trade deficit” and threatening Mexico that if they didn’t sign a check, they might as well cancel their meeting with him.

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The vote to expel her was unanimous.

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A Fairfax, Va., teen has accomplished the rare feat of being accepted to all four military academies.

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Drew Carey's 11-year-old son has gotten himself into trouble.

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Message to de Blasio: thieves aren't bread "winners." They're bread stealers.

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Ahead of September election, Merkel government keen to avoid negative coverage of its 'Refugee' policy

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Whether a country has a trade deficit or a trade surplus, that is — with the world in general — does not make the slighest difference to its welfare

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After President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive action ordering the construction of a wall along the United States' border with Mexico, Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) issued a scathing statement criticizing Trump's order.
"The facts have not changed. Building a wall is the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border," Hurd said in a Wednesday statement. "Each section of the border faces unique geographical, cultural, and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the agents on the ground with the resources they need. A wall may be an effective tool in densely populated areas, but a variety of tools are needed between Brownsville, Texas and San Diego, California."

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The purge of pro-life sponsors from the Women’s March on Washington offered pro-life feminists a choice: Protest the organizers’ decision to exclude them or stay silent.
It is one thing that the march provided speaking slots exclusively to pro-choice women, and another that abortion access was visibly a key issue for most of the marchers. But the organizers erased all ambiguity by forcing pro-life groups out. Forget that pro-life feminists claim to support the sanctity of life — here, all they had to do was stand up for the basic principle of inclusion.
Many, however, opted not to, including progressive Christian leaders who buried their objections to abortion and praised the march more or less unreservedly.
In case you haven’t heard, intersectionality is a prominent new framework for feminism. It purports to represent different identities and their intersecting concerns, such as race and gender identity. Since religion is also treated as one of these intersections, some Christians have made the mistake of thinking that their views could be treated as equal, but intersectional leaders place pro-life women in the category of oppressors.
Episcopal priest Broderick Greer espouses the belief that pro-life views are oppressive. In some ways, Greer exists on the fringe of American Christianity, but he is treated as a legitimate voice even outside his pro-choice denomination. Christian magazine Sojourners has quoted him, including in a recent piece on intersectionality, and he has written for the Washington Post and the Guardian. He has clout, and he uses it to demonize pro-lifers, even as he’s lauded by many progressive Christians.
It’s now common for progressive Christians to prioritize intersectional-feminist doctrine over the pro-life cause, even if they claim to support life. The fuzzy logic of intersectional feminism links oppression to the pro-life cause, and that motivates others to relax their opposition to abortion.
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As expected among progressive Christians, Sojourners has recently focused its energy on social-justice causes popular on the left, from LGBT rights to the Dakota Access Pipeline. It has previously published qualified objections to Planned Parenthood’s abortions, and has tried to maintain pro-life bona fides as a faith-based publication.
But as the women’s march has come to a close and Friday’s March for Life approaches, recent Sojourners stories praise the former and say nothing about the latter. Sojourners has an entire series, “Why I Am Marching,” that showcases readers’ essays about attending the march to stand up for women’s rights. It has not published any essays critiquing the ethics of the march, and barely mentioned the hostility and exclusion faced by pro-life feminists who attended, some of whom were spit on.
The feminist movement exercises power by legitimizing pro-choice zealotry, even to Christians who should be reluctant to join abortion absolutists. Bestselling author Rachel Held Evans has expressed pro-life views as a Christian feminist, but lately she has had a lot more to say about gay, transgender, and intersectional issues than she has about unborn life. She praised the women’s march with little reservation, and even called out fellow feminist author Karen Swallow Prior for merely saying that “pussy hats” sounded silly on Twitter.
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Prior tells National Review that intersectionality’s ability to unify is called into question by such interactions. “One of the prominent images from the march — the ‘pussy hat’ — ended up being more divisive than unifying because not all that identify as women have female genitalia,” she said. “This sort of incoherence signals the implosion of a worldview.”
If that implosion is coming, silencing dissenters will only hasten it. But intersectional feminism is all the rage, so traditional doctrinal claims are being pushed out of the discussion among progressive Christians who want to be on the “right side of history.”
Regardless of one’s faith, it’s clear how deeply intersectional ideas have sunk in on the left.
Regardless of one’s faith, it’s clear how deeply intersectional ideas have sunk in on the left. “The majority of Americans favor significant restrictions on abortion,” Prior points out. “And 41 percent of American woman are pro-life. That’s a lot of women to leave out of a march that claims to be for women.”
It should be perfectly clear that the women’s march is hurting its credibility by purging pro-life groups. Perhaps more so, progressive Christians are hurting their own credibility by refusing to stand up to the exclusion of their views.
But they could demonstrate that they are not kowtowing to the abortion industry by the way they approach the March for Life tomorrow. That march is open to people with a wide range of beliefs who simply agree about the right to life. It will probably not receive the fawning media coverage that the women’s march got, but progressive Christians should at least give it a passing glance.
— Paul Crookston is a Collegiate Network Fellow at National Review.

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The governing elites of the European Union versus the nationalism of most Europeans. Analysis by Viktor Orban.

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Three men have been arrested for an alleged three-hour gang rape of a woman in Uppsala, Sweden, which the armed thugs livestreamed on Facebook.

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On Thursday afternoon, our friends at RedState flagged this peculiar development that ABC News refused an exchange from the David Muir-President Trump interview where Trump scolded Muir for the media’s lack of coverage of the March for Life versus the Women’s March on Washington.

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“If this keeps going like this, President Trump's first 100 days are going to be like waking up Christmas morning for 100 straight days!”

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Tribute To Freedom | Vol.2 | Douglas Murray, Mark Steyn, Camille Paglia,Christina Hoff-Summers,Charb
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Organisational psychology shows that there are those that Give and those that Take. But the majority see the world as Quid Pro Quo.

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The mayor of Miami-Dade County has ordered his jails to obey federal detention requests from the President Donald Trump administration to avoid punishments for so-called "sanctuary cities."

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In order to better inform Americans about the impact illegal aliens are having on crime rates in sanctuary cities, President Donald Trump today ordered the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by illegals. In an executive order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the …

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Members of the anti-science activist group Greenpeace risked their lives Wednesday for a futile publicity stunt, climbing a 270-foot crane in downtown Washington DC to unfurl a giant 35 foot-by-75-foot orange and black anti-Trump banner that read: “Resist.” The banner was visible from the White House.

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According to the leftwing Politico, Democrats are attending classes to learn tips on "how to talk to real people." Politico only fabricates damaging stories to hurt Republicans, so this must be true. As someone who was a Democrat until his mid-twenties, as someone who grew up in a working class household, as someone who was once a member of the working class, let me see if I can't help.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May addressed Republican lawmakers at their retreat in Philadelphia. Learn more: http://to.pbs.org/2j9oitK

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Trans and feminist ideology are fundamentally irreconcilable, which means intersectionalism is stillborn, because women like womanhood.

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President Trump goes full gansta in his first week on the job. But is he a fascist? We dive in. Taken from episode #113 of #DailyCrowder at CRTV.com Take med...

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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan has been asked to step down as the agency moves toward tougher enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration, a Department of Homeland Security official told Reuters on Thursday.
