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All resistance to Israeli occupation - violent and non-violent - is deemed illegitimate.

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Last night Hollywood actress Meryl Streep was honored with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) lifetime achievement award at the ...

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The fight over the House ethics office brought Republican disunity to the surface.

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North Korea declared on Sunday it can test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile at any time from any location.

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Young Obama Voter Says Race Relations Worse After 8 Years Of America’s First Black President [VIDEO]
Sadly, America’s race relations are worse off under President Barack Obama, our first black president, says a passionate black graduate student who voted for him twice. She blames Obama’s eight

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A chilling act of brutality largely ignored by national media because of racial implications

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Taiwan on its way to solely Taiwanese identity: academics.Up to 43 percent of Taiwanese younger than 40 defend independence for the island, even if it means war with China, according to a poll mentioned by academics in a piece for The Washington Post.

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Stefan Molyneux's recent interview with John Wright focused in large part on liberal criminality relative to the conservative tendency to a...

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Amid growing outrage about the UN, legislation to get the U.S. out of the UN and evict the scandal-plagued global body from the U.S. has been re-introduced in the new Congress. By Alex Newman

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There is no need to go into all of what Meryl Streep said last night. There’s no reason to be outraged about it either. Streep can talk all she wants about the small town in New Jersey where she lived (Summit, NJ is not some middle-class enclave – it’s upper middle class without a doubt) but the fact is, she lives in California, far away | Read More »

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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/StefanMolyneux MP3: http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3555/want-to-be-a-millionaire-migrant-slumlord-call-in-show-january-6th-2017...

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Without them, the individual market could tip into a death spiral after repeal.

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Joe Sheahan is in the fight of his life to save his family’s Nevada mine from being swallowed up by the federal government's mysterious Area 51.

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From Brexit to Trump to the rise of nationalist parties across Europe, the old division between left and right is giving way to a battle between self-styled patriots and confounded globalists

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For eight years, President Obama’s position on Israel teetered between disregard and open hostility. The argument that it was merely a personality clash with Israel’s leadership never made any sens…

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Charlie Brotman, who served as the announcer at every inaugural parade since 1957, has been replaced by President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration committee.

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When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of the U.S. participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations. Obama leaves office serene because “almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago.”
Two seemingly unimpressed nations are Russia, which is dismembering a European nation (Ukraine) and China, which is shredding international law by turning the world’s most important waterway, the South China Sea, into militarized Chinese territory.
Obama’s policies that brought America to a pinnacle of admiration, as he sees it, were an amalgam of Wilsonian and anti-Wilsonian elements. Wilson’s grand ambition for America was to reorder the world in a way that would make it unnecessary for America to have grand ambitions. He thought America could lead a restful life after strenuous diplomacy had written rules for the game of nations.
Many progressives believe — they take this from the Founders’ favorite philosopher, John Locke, while rejecting his natural rights teaching — in humanity’s natural sociability. This disposes them to believe that peace among nations is natural and spontaneous, or it would be if other nations would cleanse their minds of the superstitions that prevent them from recognizing the universal validity and demonstrable utility of American principles. These, said Wilson, are shared by “forward looking men and women everywhere” and “every modern nation.” He also said, inconsistently, that “every nation of the world needs to be drawn into the tutelage of America.”
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Obama seemed to doubt that America has much to teach the world, beyond post-Iraq modesty — herewith his Wilsonian dimension — and the power of diplomacy’s soft power to tame the world. Although neither the English nor the American nor the Russian nor the Spanish nor the Chinese civil war was ended by negotiations, Obama thought the especially vicious and complex civil war in Syrian’s sectarian and tribal society could be ended diplomatically. Russian president Vladimir Putin picked a side and helped it win.
The fact that the world is more disorderly and less lawful than when Obama became president is less his fault than the fault of something about which progressives are skeptical — powerful, unchanging human nature. Humans are, as Job knew, born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward: They are desirous and competitive, and hence are prone to conflict.
And to causing progressives to furrow their brows in puzzlement. In 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, Secretary of State John Kerry was disappointed with Putin, saying, more in sorrow than in anger: “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th-century fashion.” If you do, you place yourself on (in one of Obama’s favorite phrases) “the wrong side of history.”
Obama’s foreign policy presumed the existence of “the community of nations.”
Make that History, which, in progressives’ lexicon, is a proper noun, an autonomous thing with a mind, or at least a logic, of its own. Kerry’s reprimand of Putin expressed a progressive’s certitude about progress: The passage of time should ineluctably improve the comportment of nations. Which is why in 1911, the renowned 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in its entry on torture, said “the whole subject is one of only historical interest as far as Europe is concerned.” The Dachau concentration camp was opened in March 1933.
Obama’s foreign policy presumed the existence of “the community of nations.” But that phrase is worse than hackneyed and sentimental, it is oxymoronic: Different nations affirm different notions of justice; a community consists of people made cohesive by a consensus about the nature of justice.
#related#Obama’s second-worst unforced error, second to declaring and then abandoning a “red line” about Syrian chemical weapons, was involving the U.S. military in regime change in Libya. Perhaps this venture appealed to him because it was untainted by any discernible connection with American national interest. He conducted it by “leading from behind,” which he described as U.S. forces “being volunteered by others to carry out missions” in Libya. As George Orwell said, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
Soon, foreign policy will be conducted by a man who, although in 2010 he said WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange deserves the death penalty, now seems to trust Assange on the subject of Russian hacking more than he trusts the consensus of the nation’s $53 billion civilian intelligence institutions. Time passes and, we are told, brings progress.
— George Will is a Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2017 Washington Post Writers Group

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The changes would harm the global economy and reverberate back to America

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This, from NBC New York, is just awful. A timeline of mass shootings carried out by veterans and active duty soldiers over the last two decades https://t

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“Guilty. And you are 100% correct. My mistake and I erased it and humbly apologize,” Hannity wrote.

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Why Senator Jeff Sessions is possibly the worst cabinet pick by Donald Trump, but not for the reasons the media claims he is.

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Cybersecurity for Liberal Dummies - Timothy Daughtry: In this digital age, when a teenager with a smartphone .01/08/2017 10:59:16AM EST.

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Friday’s declassified intelligence report “has absolutely no backup data” to support its conclusions, noted Fox News Channel’s chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge:

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PLEASE, MR TRUMP, THE WINNING, ITS TOO MUCH She fell for the "Trump mocked reporter's disability" meme. CNN: Serge Kovalesk & Donald Trump Mocking His Disabi...
