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The Venezuelan leader was often marginalized as a radical. But his brand of socialism achieved real economic gains
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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES Here is what happened this weekend at Nebraska’s bizarre GOP state convention, and the message it was clearly intended to convey. During the course of the long and contested GOP primary, almost exactly 60% of Republican voters did not vote for him. If you remove the New York and the Acela primary states (which have no hope of going | Read More »
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This Mother's Day TARGET needs to hear from the Mothers in this nation. Target's WICKED pro-Sodomite agenda is harming the very fabric of this nation. Mother...
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The German government created a website dedicated to teaching the influx of Middle Eastern immigrants about sexual norms in German culture.
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Attending a rally for Bernie Sanders usually involves long lines and security screenings, but that wasn’t the case at an intimate, informal event Friday evening supporting the Vermont senator’s presidential campaign in a park here.
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Congress once again has a very real chance to stop President Obama’s wildly overreaching Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation. Senator Mike Lee has proposed an amendment to defund AFFH. The amendment should reach the floor for a vote on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. This is the time for readers who oppose AFFH to contact your senators and press them to support the Lee Amendment.
AFFH puts unaccountable federal bureaucrats in charge of your local government. It’s not too strong to say that over the long term, AFFH spells the effective end of local government in America and a shift to a federally controlled “regionalist” system instead. For a sense of what that means, consider the way in which the Obama administration took control of housing in Dubuque, and the reaction in Dubuque itself to my attack on that federal takeover. Or consider the way in which the Obama administration’s attempt to take control of housing in Westchester County, New York is now threatening free speech everywhere. Senator Lee himself has just taken on AFFH in a piece entitled, “We Don’t Need a National Zoning Board.”
Senators considering their vote on the Lee Amendment need to keep the politics as well as the substance of this issue in mind. AFFH is a political nightmare for the Democrats. That’s why they put so much effort into keeping AFFH under the radar. Yet the issue is already catching far more public attention than it ever has before. It’s been increasingly discussed on talk radio, and conservative writers are beginning to take notice as well. More important, AFFH itself is going to begin hitting localities intensely in the coming years. Public uproar is destined to grow. Senators need to ask themselves if they want to be on record in favor of AFFH once the rule itself takes full effect and stirs up public outrage.
The House has already passed the Gosar Amendment defunding AFFH twice. House Republicans supported that amendment by an overwhelming margin. AFFH’s overreach is so egregious that it unites all factions of the Republican Party. So if the Lee Amendment passes the Senate, its equivalent is very likely to carry again in the House.
Defunding AFFH would go a long way toward uniting a divided Republican party, and that could have a big effect in this election year. Moderate Democrats who go on record in favor of AFFH are going to be in some serious trouble as well once this regulation begins to function in the coming months and years. Senators of all parties should take note. This vote is destined to be remembered.
— Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He can be reached at [email protected].
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You’ve heard these popular myths about welfare and the people who use welfare. But here’s the truth.
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"The Arabs had everything, we had nothing. And we still won. When I'm asked how we did it, I say: 'We just didn't have a choice. That was our secret weapon.'"
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Burlington College, which Jane Sanders ran from 2004 to 2011, will close its academic programs on May 27
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Republicans like to say that liberals are stupid, but these five scientific studies prove they're not even smart enough to make this assumption.
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Burlington College anticipated losing its accreditation after massive debt and strained finances.
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One of the reasons Bernie Sanders is doing well with Millennials is because he’s promising free college for everyone. In ...
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15 months of research found that the financial inconsistencies rise to the level of "fraud."
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Ballotpedia is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professionally curated encyclopedia designed to connect people to politics and elections at the local, state and federal level.
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Uh oh! Plus Steven Crowder's attorney weighs in on legal motion.
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If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans - Ultra Spiritual Life episode 35 Claim Your free download of "7 Ways to Be More Spiritual Than Your Friends" at http://Awak...
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Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are locked in a statistical tie in Georgia, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll that laid bare the deep divide over the presidential race.
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H/T MAGS-4-TRUMP2016 @magnifier661 SHORT VERSION HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3OfXMlQRRY CNN Anderson Cooper CAUGHT running DEFENSE for #CrookedHil...
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President Barack Obama took aim Sunday at presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump while delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University, telling graduates to tout their knowledge, not brag about their ignorance.
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Hillary Clinton has always made known that she wants Bill Clinton to have some kind of role in the White House should she become president, and over the past few weeks, she's begun to reveal more about what exactly that would be.
During a campaign event in Fort Mitchell today, the Democratic...
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The Supreme Court punted Monday on a challenge by religious-affiliated employers to ObamaCare’s contraception mandate, sending the dispute back to the lower courts.
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Donald Trump went to Washington last week, and the GOP establishment jumped on the Trump train. They're going to tell conservatives to do the same.
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The openly gay pastor who ignited a firestorm when he sued Whole Foods over the claim that one of the supermarket chain’s stores sold him a cake with an anti-gay slur on it has officially dropped his lawsuit and apologized. "Today I am dismissing my lawsuit against Whole...
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A former model who was featured at the center of a lengthy New York Times report that assailed Donald Trump’s treatment of women said Monday that her account was taken out of context, misquoted and “spun” by the Times in order to portray the Republican presidential candidate in a negative light.
