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Trump plans to attend the trial and take the witness stand
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Does Hillary Clinton figure she can say whatever she wants as long as it’s not exposed as a lie that same day? On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked her outright: “Have you been contacted — or …
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By conventional rules, Donald Trump should lose to Hillary Clinton in a landslide. But if God were enforcing conventional rules, Trump would be brooding atop his midtown Manhattan aerie, wondering …
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#DropOutHillary more popular than #DropOutBernie
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Oregon State University reportedly plans to force all students to take a “social justice training” beginning in the fall of 2016.
“This training initiative is intended to provide all students entering Oregon State University an orientation to concepts of diversity, inclusion and social justice and help empower all OSU students to contribute to an inclusive university community,” states the description of the proposed program, which Reason reports was sent in an e-mail to students earlier this week.
#ad#The proposal explains that the goals of the training would include getting students to “understand that systemic and local inequities exist and that we all play a role in creating an OSU community that resists and corrects injustice” and “recognize that each OSU student brings multiple stories and identities to their OSU experience.”
It also vows to teach students “how to identify bias incidents and learning how to interrupt bias in in our daily lives.” Now, as Reason’s Robby Soave points out, OSU’s bias response team has recently been spending massive amounts of time investigating pro-Trump chalk messages as if they were serious business. This signals to me the kind of tone the lessons in this training will likely take: One that teaches radical social justice ideals as facts, and requires that all students accept them as such — or else face a miserable four years of being called a racist.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
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With Donald Trump becoming the presumptive nominee Wednesday, some conservatives are pushing Republican senators to appoint Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court.
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VIDEO: Ex-Mexican President calls Trump voters are lazy, drunks. Vicente Fox made his inflammatory comments after meeting Nancy Pelosi to plot against Trump
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What lies behind Donald Trump’s nomination victory? Received wisdom among conservatives is that he, the outsider, sensed, marshaled, and came to represent a massive revolt of the Republican rank and file against the “establishment.”
This is the narrative: GOP political leaders made promises of all kinds and received in return, during President Obama’s years, major electoral victories that gave them the House, the Senate, twelve new governorships, and 30 state houses. Yet they didn’t deliver. Exit polls consistently showed that a majority of GOP primary voters (60 percent in some states) feel “betrayed” by their leaders.
#ad#Not just let down or disappointed. Betrayed. By RINOs who, corrupted by donors and lobbyists, sold out. Did they repeal Obamacare? No. Did they defund Planned Parenthood? No. Did they stop President Obama’s tax-and-spend hyperliberalism? No. Whether from incompetence or venality, they let Obama walk all over them.
But then comes the paradox. If insufficient resistance to Obama’s liberalism created this sense of betrayal, why in a field of 17 did Republican voters choose the least conservative candidate? A man who until yesterday was himself a liberal. Who donated money to those very same Democrats to whom the GOP establishment is said to have caved, including Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, and Hillary Clinton.
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Trump has expressed sympathy for a single-payer system of socialized medicine, far to the left of Obamacare. Trump lists health care as one of the federal government’s three main responsibilities (after national security); Republicans adamantly oppose federal intervention in health care. He also lists education, which Republicans believe should instead be left to the states.
As for Planned Parenthood, the very same conservatives who railed against the Republican establishment for failing to defund it now rally around a candidate who sings the praises of its good works (save for the provision of abortion).
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More fundamentally, Trump has no affinity whatsoever for the central thrust of modern conservatism — a return to less and smaller government. If the establishment has insufficiently resisted Obama’s Big Government policies, the beneficiary should logically have been the most consistent, indeed most radical, anti-government conservative of the bunch, Ted Cruz.
Cruz’s entire career has consisted of promoting tea-party constitutionalism in revolt against party leaders who had joined “the Washington cartel.” Yet when Cruz got to his one-on-one with Trump at the Indiana OK Corral, Republicans chose Trump and his nonconservative, idiosyncratic populism.
#share#Which makes Indiana a truly historic inflection point. It marks the most radical transformation of the political philosophy of a major political party in our lifetime. The Democrats continue their trajectory of ever-expansive liberalism from the New Deal through the Great Society through Obama and Clinton today. While the GOP, the nation’s conservative party, its ideology refined and crystallized by Ronald Reagan, has just gone populist.
It’s an ideological earthquake. How radical a reorientation? Said Trump last week: “Folks, I’m a conservative. But at this point, who cares?”
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Who cares? Wasn’t caring about conservatism the very essence of the talk-radio, tea-party, grass-roots revolt against the so-called establishment? They cheered Cruz when he led the government shutdown in the name of conservative principles. Yet when the race came down to Cruz and Trump, these opinion-shaping conservatives who once doted on Cruz affected a studied Trump-leaning neutrality.
Trump won. True, the charismatically challenged Cruz was up against a prepackaged celebrity, an already famous showman.
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True, Trump appealed to the economic anxiety of a squeezed middle class and the status anxiety of a formerly dominant white working class. But the prevailing conservative narrative — of anti-establishment fury — was different and is now exposed as a convenient fable. If Trump is a great big middle finger aimed at a Republican establishment that has abandoned its principles, isn’t it curious that the party has chosen a man without any?
Trump doesn’t even pretend to have any, conservative or otherwise. He lauds his own “flexibility,” his freedom from political or philosophical consistency. And he elevates unpredictability to a foreign-policy doctrine.
#related#The ideological realignment is stark. On major issues — such as the central question of retaining America’s global pre-eminence as leader of the free world, sustainer of Western alliances, and protector of the post–World War II order — the GOP candidate stands decidedly to the left of the Democrat.
And who knows on what else. On entitlements? On health care? On taxes? We will soon find out. But as Trump himself says of being a conservative — at this point, who cares?
As of Tuesday night, certainly not the GOP.
— Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2016 The Washington Post Writers Group.
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Northwestern University fraternities thought they were doing the right and noble thing, hanging banners off the sides of their houses reminding students that it was Sex Assault Awareness Month.
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Presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign has expanded its team by bringing on a writer whose has previously written that those accused of sexual assault should autom
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ason Riley was disinvited from a scheduled speech at Virginia Tech due to concerns over his conservative perspective on racial issues.
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Donald Trump's NAFTA criticism gets free trade completely wrong.
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AFA's Sandy Rios updated Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon on theTarget boycott, which now has support from 1.2 million families.
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A federal judge in San Diego set the stage on Friday for what could be one of the strangest presidential transitions in history: He ordered that Donald Trump must go to trial starting Nov. 28 in a civil case in which he is accused of defrauding students who attended Trump University. “No doubt this
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“I’m looking for people who understand the way the real world works.”
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Will he spill the national security secrets he's told?
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President Obama tried to tap a moderate to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but he ended up picking a fight with powerful Second Amendment groups that say Judge Merrick Garland has shown antipathy toward gun rights.
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Gene Kopf, whose 14-year-old daughter was wounded in a mass shooting, asks the presidential candidates how they can stop this epidemic if president during the CNN Democratic debate.
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The measure upheld by the 9th Circuit requires handguns to be secured with a lock or in lockbox.
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Six Parts of Hillary Clinton's Plan to Disarm Citizens
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Hillary Clinton Plans Executive Action to Exceed Obama on Gun Control