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Recently our fool president poked fun at Donald Trump by insultingly informing the American citizens...
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Mainstream media outlets in Great Britain and the US were running news Sunday of a stunning petition that shows 2 ...
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Investigate the authors? Debunked climate change paper garners over 500K downloads - The College Fix
The proverbial goose/gander if that's the way they wanna play it.
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Michael Levin’s photogenic, mixed-race family appears straight from central casting for the modern American middle-class family, seemingly the perfect choice to be featured in Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s video for MoveOn attacking presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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George Will announced this weekend that he has left the Republican Party because of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Rex Murphy: There is a price for governing from on high, for dismissing opponents always as small-minded, driven only by xenophobia and racism
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The winner of the five-way primary faces an uphill battle against the well-funded Michael Bennet.
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The Obama administration is allowing immigrants seeking citizenship from a key part of the Oath of Allegiance. They now do ...
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Today an estimated 1,000 evangelical leaders are making a pilgrimage to Trump Tower to "listen" to Donald Trump. The organizer of this meeting came to my office to tell me in person why I wasn't being invited. I had been too vocal in my anti-Trump views.
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Breitbart News announced the death of Mike Flynn, one of their founding editors late Thursday night. The cause of his death is not being released at this point. He was reportedly 48. He is survived b
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Most coverage of Donald Trump’s rallies are about people disrupting it. But one American journalist went there and quietly observed what was going on. He came back shaken and scared. Jared Yates Sexton is a writer and political correspondent from the state of Georgia. Yesterday, Donald Trump held a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sexton […]
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Police in London confirmed Sunday (26 June) they were investigating “racially motivated” damage to a Polish cultural centre, in the wake of Britain’s Brexit vote, as other citizens used social media to self-report incidents of racist abuse.
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The difference between ideas and facts is lost on leftist scholars.
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A ground called Delegates Unbound is releasing a new TV ad encouraging delegates to vote their conscience and dump Trump: CNN – A group of Republicans pushin...
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Kris “Tanto” Paronto, one the CIA security contractors who helped fight off jihadists during the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack, spoke to Breitbart News Saturday about combating radical Islam.
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Half are anxious about a Clinton presidency; some with reservations about Trump say they will vote for him anyway.
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This is an entry from the June 22, 2016 Live Blog
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Misconduct has led to delays and 1 retraction in environmental quality measurements reports By Jessica Morrison (E&CN) Alleged misconduct and data manipulation at a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS…
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Are you a “potential terrorist” on a secret watch list? (Infowars) ? Democrats are waging a war on due process, the rule of law, and the principle of legal rights going back to the Magna Carta. Clause 39 of the Magna Carta issued by John of England in 1215 declares: “No free man shall be ...
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall Evidence is mounting that Brexit, and possible ?contagion? of the British exit from the EU, the empowerment of nationalist movements throughout Europe demand…
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Liberals' logic makes perfect sense in their heads.
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Muslim Profiling Isn't Illegal, Unconstitutional, or Un-American
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I’m old enough to remember when history had a side. History, you see, had chosen to progress toward an international order that de-emphasized international sovereignty, elevated a bureaucratic and technocratic elite, and sought to solve international conflict through a combination of moral and economic pressure. Nations caused wars, so nationalism (and even patriotism) had to be set aside. Democracy unleashed bigotry, so “the people” mattered mainly when they agreed with the elite.
It was a system that worked remarkably well for the international upper class. Men and women dedicated to commerce enjoyed unprecedented access to international markets. Activists dedicated to social justice could engineer their societies without ever truly facing the accountability of the ballot box. The logic of the system was self-proving. It would triumph through the sheer force of its virtue.
#ad#Unable to grasp the extent to which the new international order had endured and prospered not so much through its self-evident goodness but through the protection of American arms, it proved completely incapable of meeting the challenge when America chose to retreat. Vladimir Putin wanted no part of a system that sidelined Russia and viewed it as just one more economic and bureaucratic entity in a global superstate and decided to exert raw power to shape the world. He put boots on the ground in Crimea, and he dared the world to move him. He exerted his will in Syria, and he dared the world to stop him.
In response, John Kerry actually said, “You just don’t, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext.” It’s a comment that would be hilarious if it weren’t so impotent. Putin did as he liked, and “history” had nothing to say about it.
EDITORIAL: Reflections on the Shock of Brexit
At the same time, ISIS emerged — reminding a world that had already largely forgotten 9/11 what jihad looked like. To men who believed in divine favor for holy war, the new international order meant opportunity. European countries compete for the title of “moral superpower,” while ISIS merely calls them “targets.” It confronted a civilized world that had vowed “never again” with a new genocide, and that civilized world — possessing immense military power — largely chose ”compassion” over confrontation, opening its borders to floods of refugees whose ranks contain those who despise European culture, subvert European values, and rape and kill European citizens.
Is it any wonder that citizens of one of the greatest and strongest nations in human history would recoil from an international order that was proving mainly that it could enrich an elite without seeming to lift a finger to preserve the nation’s core values and traditions — the very things that had made it great and strong? Is it any wonder that citizens of other great countries are —wondering what loyalty they owe to that same elite?
#related#And so we launch yet another phase in human history, where what’s old — nations pursuing their own interests — is new again. On one end of the European continent sits Russia, a nation that is flexing its muscles and seeking to reclaim its traditional power. On the other end is Britain, a nation that has reclaimed its independence and now faces an uncertain future defining its new relationship with the world.
Across the ocean, America faces its own crisis. Our technocratic elite has constructed its own self-serving system — one that mirrors the very system that Britain rejected yesterday. Our politics are more uncertain and chaotic than at any time in decades. We can’t predict what will happen. But one thing I do know — history never truly had a “side.” Instead, it is the story of action and reaction, and no outcome is inevitable.
Britain has acted. The world is set to change, and history can’t tell us what’s next.
— David French is a staff writer at National Review.