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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.
#345529
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
#345531
'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.
#345533
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.
#345535
The Obama White House sent three officials to robber Michael Brown‘s funeral in Ferguson. Obama sent more officials to Brown’s ...
#345536
An incomprehensible VP rollout in its entirety.
#345537
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.
#345538
Governor Pence, a former congressman and radio host, should help Mr. Trump shore up his support with socially conservative voters and provide him with experience in how Washington operates.
#345539
The bureau might never know Omar Mateen’s true reasons for singling out the nightclub.
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Instead of simply redistributing wealth and doubling down on short-term stimulus policies, we should be looking at ways to make it easier for people to start businesses and move jobs.
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We exclusively reveal how Islamist killers in the Bataclan gruesomely tortured the victims before killing them.
#345543
About 4,000 new regulations take effect each year, costing the US billions. Time to rein in the out-of-control regulatory state.
#345544
On Tuesday, Republican senators Mike Lee of Utah and Ben Sasse of Nebraska spoke about their newly introduced ALLOW Act, which would stop the Washington, D.C. government from enacting excessive and arbitrary requirements for people to get jobs. They hope that states will follow their lead.
The two senators spoke about the problem—one of few, as Lee noted, that is more rampant in states than in the federal government—in speeches at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
Occupational licensing laws require individuals to meet qualifications, like passing an exam, or obtaining a professional certification, or completing a job training course, explained Lee. When applied in certain ways to certain fields, these requirements make sense. Lee specifically cited professions like doctors and electricians.
#345545
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said a lot of horrible things about groups of people. Here are 11 of them.
1. Clinton thinks that white people need to atone for systemic racism.
Back in April, Clinton was shamelessly pandering to blacks at a church in Philadelphia, PA.
#345546
On Friday, former CIA officer Gary Bernstein blasted President Obama for his dereliction of duty, asserting that the Commander-in-Chief has “failed in his responsibilities” to defend the United States and keep Americans safe.
The bold remarks came just hours after what appears to be a terrorist attack in Nice, France that left at least 84 people dead and dozens of others critically injured.
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Newt: 'If They Believe in Shariah, They Should Be Deported'
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#345549
Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists have claimed the terrorist attack in France was “to make people lose attention” [sic] in their movement.
#345550
There's a certain type of Trump supporter - we'll call them, "the average Trump supporter," - who supports Trump mostly because of the belief that Trump will keep the dirty Mexicans at a sufficient distance from them. You know, he'll build a giant wall, and then a giant trebuchet that will catapult all the Mexicans who are currently here over that wall, and then a giant | Read More
