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CHENEY: In Wyoming there's no question for us that Hillary Clinton would be devastating -- and far, far worse than Donald Trump. We've gotta unify behind him and make sure Hillary Clinton's not elected. I mean, she is a felon. She absolutely -- I mean, as you've covered better than anybody else -- clearly violated the law with respect to her personal server and her lack of willingness to take care of the national security information of the nation.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump in some of the most diverse battleground states, including by double digits in two of them.
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Hillary?s health is declining, as anyone who has looked at her can see. The question is: What condition does she have? A board certified Anesthesiologist has written a memo of Hillary?s…
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We just took a big step toward understanding the Donald Trump phenomenon.
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Today Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump’s proposal to reduce the corporate income tax rate. In a Monday speech at the Detroit Economic Club, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to lowering taxes for ALL businesses. This is welcome news because America has the highest tax rates for businesses in the developed world.
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In a Freudian slip, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee appeared to inadvertently admit Thursday that Democratic policies are inherently harmful to white Americans. While speaking to a group of black Baptists in New Orleans, Tim Kaine seemed to suggest that in order to achieve “equity” between the races, white people need to willingly submit themselves to a state of repression similar to what black Americans have experienced. White children in some of the nation’s most elite schools are literally being taught to be ashamed of themselves because of the color of their skin. “I’ve never been treated badly in life because of my skin color or my gender,” Kaine said. “I think the burden is on those of us who are in the majority — Caucasians. We have to put ourselves in a place where we are the minority.” Sen. Kaine is certainly in the right party, as turning white Americans into a minority — and a minority against which other races are
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Some see online posting seeking a roommate of color as racism, others defend it as a critical aspect of creating "safe spaces" on campus after a year of widespread racial tension.
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This is a pretty great interaction between Jim Sciutto of CNN and a Trump supporter that shows what it’s like to debate with the worst of the cultish mob for the orange-faced idiot. At one po…
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You thought "shoulder thing that goes up" or ".30-caliber clips" were the dumbest things ever said about guns? Meet Libertarian VP candidate Bill Weld.
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SALT LAKE CITY ? Utah Governor Gary Herbert has announced he will be voting Donald Trump in the November election. At his monthly news conference on KUED, Governor Herbert was asked by FOX 13…
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"Someone believed in them today."
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In a Freudian slip, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee appeared to inadvertently admit Thursday that Democratic policies are inherently harmful to white Americans. While speaking to a group of black Baptists in New Orleans, Tim Kaine seemed to suggest that in order to achieve “equity” between the races, white people need to willingly submit themselves to a state of repression similar to what black Americans have experienced. White children in some of the nation’s most elite schools are literally being taught to be ashamed of themselves because of the color of their skin. “I’ve never been treated badly in life because of my skin color or my gender,” Kaine said. “I think the burden is on those of us who are in the majority — Caucasians. We have to put ourselves in a place where we are the minority.” Sen. Kaine is certainly in the right party, as turning white Americans into a minority — and a minority against which other races are
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Trump warned voters against election fraud once again on Friday.
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It's been said before. I'm saying it again. And there will be cause to say it several times again before the year is out. Opposing Donald Trump is not the same thing as supporting Hillary Clinton. Sean Hannity took to the air Wednesday to claim the opposite, saying that Republicans who continue to criticize the Republican nominee for president are…
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(RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus fired up more than 7,000 people before introducing Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Listen to this secret recording speaking out against the NRA and the Second Amendment. She even goes after the Supreme Court by saying "they are wrong."
Hillary is known to be very anti-gun and wants to dismantle the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Clinton
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Lawyers for The New York Times Company and Gannett (the parent company of USA Today) pressed the New York Supreme Court on Thursday to unseal the records of Donald Trump’s 1990 divorce from his first wife Ivana. That looks like a transparent media-alliance move for Hillary Clinton. Tactically, this seems very similar to the Chicago Tribune playing this courtroom game to clear Barack Obama’s path to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
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Hillary Clinton is down with all the dankest memes -- just like you! Directed by Mike Diva http://youtube.com/mikediva SUBSCRIBE for NEW VIDEOS EVERY DAY - h...
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Gawker founder Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy Monday, listing $10 million to $50 million in assets and $100 million to $500 million in debts. The filing comes after Denton exhausted appe…
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"You are traitors! I am an American Patriot!"
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Mayor David Lisnard says the swimwear does not respect 'good morals and secularism.'
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High productivity (and, hence, high wages) result from the deep market-directed specialization of labor made possible by global trade itself. Tarrifs will only lower their productivity.
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Google “Donald Trump” and “nationalism” and you’ll get 1,090,000 results, the large percentage of which are, to judge from the top hits, negative. “Nationalism” is deemed to be bad stuff, maybe even akin to Nazism.
But is nationalism always so bad? Not, it seems, for the millions of people around the world watching the Rio Olympics. They watch as the TV networks keep track of the medal count — and they root for the men and women they see representing their nations.
Americans were thrilled to see Michael Phelps propel the U.S. team to gold in the freestyle relay and excited to watch 19-year-old Katie Ledecky destroy the field in the 400 meter freestyle. People who watch gymnasts at only four-year intervals were amazed at the skill of the 4-foot-9-inch Simone Biles.
News coverage in other countries has focused on their own athletes. British front pages flashed pictures of record-breaking breaststroker Adam Peaty, mouthing the words of “God Save the Queen” as he held his gold medal. Brazil’s TV Globo showed judo medalist Rafaela Silva, who grew up in a Rio favela, bow down on her knees to Brazilian fans in the stands.
Sports nationalism easily embraces ethnic and racial diversity, not only from historically biracial America and Brazil (which abolished slavery in 1865 and 1888) but also from European and other nations. One Olympic table-tennis match featured a Japanese-descended Brazilian and a Chinese-descended Congolese. People from nations with sharply divisive politics (not least our own) and suffering from economic setbacks and pervasive corruption (like the Olympics host, Brazil) nonetheless find themselves united in rooting for their country’s athletes.
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An elite globalist may scoff at the arbitrariness of national borders and style himself “a citizen of the world,” as Barack Obama described himself before a massive crowd in Berlin in 2008. But most people don’t think of themselves that way. Nation-states inspire loyalties in a way the United Nations or the European Union have failed to do.
Nationalism, properly understood, can be a positive force, welding otherwise disparate people together to build a decent society, secure a competent government, and rally to defend themselves against attack. Each nation has developed its own particular culture, its own manners and mores, its own rules, written and unspoken.
An intelligent nationalist can respect the strengths of other nations, while preferring his own, just as an Olympics fan can appreciate the superb performance of athletes from other countries even while keeping an eye on the medal scoreboard.
#share#The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, writing in The American Interest, notes that as nations grow more prosperous, their elites become more globalist in outlook, and consider nationalism as blind prejudice or even racism. But, as he writes, “having a shared sense of identity, norms and history” — e.g., nationalism — “generally promotes trust.”
“Nationalists feel a bond with their own country, and they believe that this bond imposes moral obligations both ways,” he goes on. “Citizens have a duty to love and serve their country, and governments are duty-bound to protect their own people.”
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This is a principle that Donald Trump, in between off-the-cuff gaffes and self-harming diversions, affirms. Nations have boundaries and owe greater duties to their citizens than to foreigners. They have no obligation to open their borders entirely. It is not racist, Haidt argues, to bar those “whom they perceive as having values that are incompatible with their own, or who (they believe) engage in behaviors they find abhorrent, or whom they perceive to be a threat to something they hold dear.”
Hillary Clinton takes a different view. She would not deport any noncriminal illegal immigrant, which amounts to a permanent open borders policy — as extreme a position as Trump’s now discarded ban on Muslim immigration.
#related#But even Democrats at their national convention found it useful to sound nationalist themes, decrying Trump’s “dark” picture of America in his acceptance speech as somehow unpatriotic and, after conservative bloggers noted their supposed absence on the Democratic convention’s first day, installing more prominent American flags on the stage.
And former Treasury Secretary and Obama adviser Lawrence Summers has called for “a responsible nationalism” which recognize government’s responsibility “to maximize the welfare of citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good.”
Evidently, nationalism, like rooting for your nation’s Olympians, is not necessarily a bad thing.
— Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner. © 2016 The Washington Examiner. Distributed by Creators.com.