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Any man who is under 30, and is not a Liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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The military attempted a coup today in Turkey. The military released a statement saying they had taken over the government. ...
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Democrat leads Trump in Colorado, Virginia, Florida and North Carolina.
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The Turkish military claims to have "fully seized control" of the country amid reports of gunfire and explosions.
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ENEVA, July 15, 2016 — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to include any non-Islamic term for Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in a UNESCO resolution out of fear that he and Jordan’s King Abdullah would be targeted by ISIS, reported Israel’s ambassador to the Paris-based UN agency on science, education and culture. (See story below.) Israel is expressing alarm over an EU members’ revised draft resolution at a session of UNESCO?s World Heritage Committee now meeting in Istanbul. Foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said it would be “crazy” for EU states on the 21-member committee—Poland, Portugal, Croatia, and Finland—to agree to a text that is “denying Jewish Jerusalem” and Temple Mount, thereby “denying the roots of Christian Europe.” In a statement by the foreign ministry, Israel said it was ?concerned by the European Union’s intention to propose a draft resolution that denies the connection between the Jewish people and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site.? ?The EU resolution would serve as an alternative to the draft resolution proposed by the Palestinians,? yet ?the EU proposal is a continuation of the attempts being made to negate the Jewish people’s deep historic and religious ties to the Temple Mount.? ?This despite France’s apology and admission that it erred in supporting the April decision of UNESCO’s Executive Board that considered the Temple Mount to be a site holy only to Muslims.? (See below for more on France.) ?They must come to their senses!? wrote spokesman Nahshon on Twitter. #UNESCO ? denying Jewish Jerusalem n Temple Mount amounts to denying the roots of Christian ?
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On Friday’s Today, NBC terror analyst Michael Leiter partly blamed France for Thursday’s terrorist attack in the resort town of Nice: “The French really do have a disenfranchised Muslim population...which has become extremely isolated. And even France’s efforts to allow for the free expression of religion has, I think arguably in some cases, produced more isolation and more radicalization.”
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Turkish army officers said they seized power in the country as warplanes flew over the capital and tanks blocked roads in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by video link to a local TV station, said he’s still in charge and urged the public to take to the streets and public squares in resistance.
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Watch comedians Alice Wetterlund and Nato Green navigate the barriers the anti-choice movement creates to interfere with women’s reproductive choices, then f...
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Mike Pence would bring constitutional fidelity, conservative credentials, traditional faith, foreign policy, and Washington know-how to the Trump ticket.
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"It's a little bit difficult because..."
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Some Turkish military units have attempted an uprising that will be not allowed to succeed, the country's prime minister said late Friday in a phone interview with Turkish broadcaster A Haber.
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Billionaire George Soros has funded liberal organizations intent on bringing confusion, disarray and trouble to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week.
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With the British Cabinet evolving, industry group Oil & Gas U.K. said it was incumbent upon the new leadership to focus on one of the country's best assets.
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I keep seeing writers on the Left and Right praising Mike Pence as a stalwart conservative. Have they forgotten the Battle of Indiana? The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway hasn’t:
Recall that last year, Indiana passed a state religious freedom restoration act (RFRA), which was the state version of existing federal legislation that passed Congress and was signed into President Bill Clinton with overwhelming bipartisan support . . . Though the Indiana law is not in conflict with other LGBT protections, it was decried as an act of bigotry. Journalists started fishing for villains, settling on the religious owners of an Indiana pizza parlor who said they would not (hypothetically) want to cater a gay wedding. Companies such as Apple and Ebay, which have no problem doing business in bastions of enlightened attitudes on gays as Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, threatened to boycott Indiana. (Curiously, they have not also threatened to boycott the existing 21 states with RFRAs.)
Did Pence stand firm to protect our nation’s first liberty? Hardly:
Once it became clear that Pence was going to have to make a stand on religious freedom, he folded. Indiana’s religious freedom law was gutted at Pence’s direction within a week of it being passed.
Pence was not only unable to withstand one single news cycle of pressure, he also essentially provided a proof-of-concept for much of the corporate bullying that’s happened since. He energized boardroom activists, showing them that a few press releases and a day or two of Twitter trends could cause even alleged “true conservatives” to back down. Pence has done good things in his career, but this capitulation has an enduring and bitter cultural and political legacy. It was an act of surprising and consequential weakness.
A candidate whose concern for religious liberty was already suspect just selected a symbol of cultural defeat as his running mate. I’m not sure why Christian conservatives would cheer the choice.
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A veep nod would parachute Pence out of facing the wrath of voters he's screwed. Good for him. Not so good for Trump or the country.
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RNC Convention Host Committee Is Insolvent And Forced To Panhandle Thanks To Donald Trump | RedState
The RNC Convention host committee is facing a $6 million shortfall
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'Western civilization is in a war,' GIngrich declared following the Nice attack.
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Students at the University of Houston are calling for the removal of their own student body vice president for co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement on Facebook.
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Now that Donald Trump’s forces, including the GOP establishment, have bullied the anti-Trump forces in the GOP into submission and secured the nomination for him, a report has surfaced confirming the kind of Mafioso tactics that had been alleged of Trump supporters.
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A French government committee has heard testimony, suppressed by the French government at the time and not released to the media, that the killers in the Bataclan tortured their victims on the second floor of the club.
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The Obama White House sent three officials to robber Michael Brown‘s funeral in Ferguson. Obama sent more officials to Brown’s ...
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An incomprehensible VP rollout in its entirety.
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In quite the egregious chryon fail, CNN’s live coverage on Friday of the Nice, France terror attack featured an interview with one young survivor and was deemed by the CNN graphic of having been a “Trump Rampage Survivor” hinting that he had lived to tell of a rampage carried out by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
