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On Monday, Laura Ingraham’s Lifezette ran a piece from Edmund Kozak proclaiming that I had sold out true conservatism. According to Kozak, “The Constitution worship of those like Shapiro and Sen. Ted Cruz reveals that the mainstream conservative movement has largely forgotten the principle of imperfectability.”
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If you drive anywhere in Pennsylvania, from the turnpike to the old US routes to the dirt roads connecting small towns like Hooversville with “bigger” small towns like Somerset, you might conclude …
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Until recently, Donald Trump wasn’t known for discoursing at length on the economic and social plight of African-Americans. In promising to “Make America Great again,” he often seemed to be re
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Trump or Clinton, who is winning? The Democrats are using false polls as psych ops to discourage Trump supporters, Bill calls them out.
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A new Gallup poll released Monday shows nonwhites in America favor voter I.D. laws more than whites by about 12 percent.
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CBS This Morning on Monday eagerly hyped a new expose by the Washington Post: As a child, Donald Trump pulled pigtails and threw rocks at kids. This is the same Washington Post that went after Mitt Romney for allegedly forcing a haircut on another boy in 1965. Talking to reporters Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish, CBS co-host Norah O’Donnell wondered, “You go all the way back to his childhood to help reveal some of Donald Trump. What did you learn?”
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In a social media-driven world, everyone is a brand. When everyone becomes a brand, virtue signaling is destined to become an epidemic.
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You are not just deciding the next president of the United States.
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Jean-Claude Juncker (pictured) called for all borders across Europe to be opened, despite the chaos caused by the flood in refugees fleeing Syria and the wave of terror attacks in European cities.
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Speaking from his 'prison' in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks out about the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty, which would link his home country of Australia with the U.S. economically. "It is mostly not about trade," Assange says. "Only 5 of the 29 Chapters are about traditional trade."
JULIAN ASSANGE, WIKILEAKS: First of all, it is the largest ever international economic treaty that has ever been negotiated, very considerably larger than NAFTA. It is mostly not about trade, only 5 of the 29 Chapters are about traditional trade.
The others are about regulating the internet, and what information internet service providers have to collect, they have to hand it over to companies under certain circumstances, the regulation of labor conditions, regulating the way you can favor local industry, regulating the hospital, health care system, privatization of hospitals, so essentially every aspect of a modern economy, even banking services are in the TPP.
So that is erecting and embedding new ultramodern neoliberal structure over U.S. law and the laws of other countries. And putting it in treaty form.
By putting it in a treaty form, there are 14 countries involved, that means it is very hard to overturn, so if there is a desire, a democratic desire to do it on a different path. For example, to introduce more public transport. Then you can't easily change the TPP treaty, because you have to go back to the other nations involved.
Now looking at that example, what if the government or a state government decides it wants to build a hospital somewhere, and there is a private hospital has been erected nearby.
Well the TPP gives the constructor of the private hospital the right to sue the government over the expect loss, the loss in expected future profits. This is an expected future loss, this is not an actual loss that has been sustained, this is a claim about the future.
We know from similar instruments where governments can be sued over free trade treaties, that that is used to construct a chilling effect on environmental and health regulation laws. For example, Togo, Australia, Uruguay are all being sued by tobacco company Phillip Morris to prevent them from introducing health warnings on cigarette packaging...
It is not even an even playing field, lets say you were going to let companies, make it easier for companies to sue governments, maybe that is right, maybe the government is too powerful and companies should have the right to sue them in certain circumstances.
But it is only multinationals that get this right. U.S. companies that operate in the U.S. in relation to investments that happen in the U.S. will not have this right.
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A U.S. district judge on Monday denied a motion from three University of Texas professors who wanted to ban guns in their classroom after the state gave so
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At a time when NFL players have been criticized for not speaking out on social issues, one prominent quarterback quietly took action in connection with his offseason nuptials. Via TheKnot.com, wedding planner Mindy Weiss said that Wilson’s wedding to Ciara originally was set for North Carolina, but that they changed the location due to the…
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UW-Milkwauee accuses its critics of playing speech police, fails to grasp irony.
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The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) – a public broadcaster funded by a “TV licence” fee forced on UK television owners – has declared that resistance to Shariah law is “Islamophobic"
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Trump capitalizes on an opportunity to appear presidential.
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Libertarian Party presidential nominee and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said he’s no skeptic of man-made global warming and endorsed a “fee” on carbon dioxide emissions.
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Both the bombing of Germany and the CIA interrogation programmes of captured Al Qaeda terrorists have one thing in common. Their main achievement was not their intention. Their main achievement was…
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All over the nation people are getting hit. My health insurance company wanted to nearly double the rate I was paying when Obamacare fully kicked in.
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A senior executive at the Clinton Foundation left almost 150 telephone messages for Hillary Clinton’s top aide at the State Department within a two-year time frame, according to previously unpublished documents obtained by Fox News.
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Web giant caught censoring negative information about Hillary yet again!
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WOW! These people are sooo corrupt! Monmouth University released a poll today that had Donald Trump defeating Hillary Clinton. Trump ...
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Stelter said news coverage of flooding has "got to be connected to climate change."
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Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency entered a new crisis at the end of this week with the resignation of Paul Manafort, his campaign manager, amid allegations of dirty money and Kremlin conn…
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Huma Abedin, wife of Anthony ?Carlos Danger? Weiner, is the closest confidante and adviser to Hillary Clinton. Previously described as ?Clinton?s second daughter?. (V…
