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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.

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Hey, give him credit for being honest.

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Politico is reporting that the Trump campaign and top GOP officials are having a “come to Jesus meeting” in Orlando today.
But will a meeting be enough to get the Trump camp back on track after two solid weeks of self-inflicted wounds, flailing organization, and polling numbers approaching wipe-out territory?
Though a campaign source dismissed it as a “typical” gathering, others described it as a more serious meeting, with one calling it an “emergency meeting.” It comes at a time of mounting tension between the campaign and the Republican National Committee, which is facing pressure to pull the plug on Trump’s campaign and redirect party funds down ballot to protect congressional majorities endangered by Trump’s candidacy.
The request for the Orlando Ritz Carlton meeting originated with Trump’s campaign, according to a source familiar with the broad details, and is being viewed by RNC officials as a sign that the campaign has come to grips with the difficulty it is having in maintaining a message and running a ground game.
“They want to patch up a rift that just keeps unfolding,” one source said. “They finally realize they need the RNC for their campaign because, let’s face it, there is no campaign.”
Politico reports that RNC officials are warning of “staff problems and disagreements [with the Trump campaign] and RNC staff on the edge of mutiny.”
That’s particularly evident in must-win Florida, the nation’s biggest battleground state, where Trump’s campaign has only one field office and no visible footprint otherwise. It plans to open 25 offices by early September, but rank-and-file Republican Party members and candidates are worried that Hillary Clinton’s team is building a robust campaign across the state.
Al Cardenas, a former Florida Republican party chairman, told Politico that “in Florida, usually, by this time, we’d have 10 field offices set up, but right now, there is only one.”
It’s possible (though based on the campaign’s track record, unlikely) that Trump’s team can manage to put the organizational infrastructure in place to power a major Get Out the Vote operation by November. What isn’t likely is that this, or any, RNC meeting can convince the Republican nominee to stop shooting himself in the foot and pivot to a winning message.
As Jonah chronicled last week, those still hoping for the legendary just-around-the-bend Trump change are only “Waiting for the Pivot at the End of the Universe.”

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This is just more blood on Obama's hands. In his desperate quest to roll back the sentences of "non-violent" drug felons Obama has created a more dangerous country and a much larger problem. Sadly …

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An article posted on radio host and Fox News host Sean Hannity's website back in May wove a tale of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump providing over 200 stranded Marines a ride home.
It turns out that this heartwarming story was nothing more than a fairy tale.

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The open letter pushes the RNC to shift resources to Senate and House races.

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Hillary Clinton delivered her economic speech in Michigan on Thursday, and while the former first lady intended to sound like Bernie Sanders, she ended up mimicking populist positions from Donald Trump. 1. Trans-Pacific Partnership She started off by flip-flopping on the...

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Just how corrupt was the State Department under Hillary Clinton?
This corrupt: Cheryl Mills, while serving as chief of staff for Clinton when Clinton was Secretary of State, interviewed candidates for a top job at the Clinton Foundation, according to CNN.

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It wasn't that long ago...

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Panic has now broken out at Republican National Committee headquarters, where Reince Priebus and the rest of the crew have finally realized that they are on the verge of losing the Republican Senate majority. According to Politico, the RNC is slated to meet with the Trump campaign today, where Trump will beg the RNC for help with his campaign. According to Politico, what Trump is asking for is fully nuts:

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For Donald Trump, the latest recurring question around his candidacy-incited by the liberal left and parroted by even some Republicans-is whether he has the right temperament to be Commander in Chief.

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The Donald Trump campaign has abandoned New Jersey
