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During an interview on CNN Tuesday, Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a campaign surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, called out host John Berman for showing a "bias" that is "naked to everyone watching." The discussion began when Berman's CNN co-host Kate Boldaun asked Cuccinelli about...

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Rand Paul Pushes Bill to Block Obama's Social Security Gun Ban

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Bill Kristol – Founder and Editor of The Weekly Standard and ABC News Contributor – joined Steve Malzberg on Newsmax ...

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Two Republican leaders in Congress declined Tuesday to embrace a bill moving through the Senate that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

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Learn more about Ted Cruz: www.tedcruz.org Follow Ted: twitter.com/tedcruz Like Ted: fb.com/tedcruzpage Ted’s Instagram: instragram.com/cruzforpresident Dona...

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Caught up in one distraction after another, Sanders never came close to the upset victory he once predicted.

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CNN: DONALD TRUMP Will Win 90+ Delegates in New York, Kasich Takes 3 to 5 Delegates, Cruz Gets Zilch
IT WAS A SHELLACKING – A ROUT! CNN reported Donald Trump will win 90+ delegates in New York state in ...

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Photo by Pabak Sarkar/Flickr “Just Google it,” is the simple answer to so many questions for today’s tech-savvy millennial. While beneficial, having the whole Internet world at our fingertips has also eliminated the need to ask the people we actually know for explanations and advice. This has...

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A Methodist bishop whose church receives millions of dollars in federal grants each year to house unaccompanied alien children asserted in a House hearing on Tuesday that the U.S. has "raped" immigran

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This story will update throughout the evening as New York's returns and reaction roll in. PHILADELPHIA – Eager to shrug off a rough night in New York, Sen. Ted Cruz?

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"All white people owe reparations. If you don't give it, we coming to take it."

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Our nation’s centuries-old commitment to free speech and religious liberty was already under threat. But it took men wanting to use women’s bathrooms and vice versa for the Left to truly show its hand, plainly and unequivocally declaring that American legal traditions should be set ablaze.
Yesterday, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a “Statement Condemning Recent State Laws and Pending Proposals Targeting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community” — a statement motivated by new Mississippi laws protecting religious freedom and by North Carolina’s much-discussed “bathroom law.” The Commission claims that any law requiring men and women to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex “jeopardizes not only the dignity, but also the actual physical safety, of transgender people whose appearances may not match societal expectations of the sex specified on their identification documents.”
#ad#While this is standard leftist rhetoric — notice it omits any concern for women and girls who will be exposed to male nudity and could be rendered more vulnerable to sexual predators — what follows is perhaps the clearest and most unequivocal statement of radical progressive legal philosophy I’ve ever read. It articulates three principles that, taken together, would render religious liberty permanently subordinate to the interests and demands of LGBT activists:
Civil rights protections ensuring nondiscrimination, as embodied in the Constitution, laws, and policies, are of preeminent importance in American jurisprudence.
Religious exemptions to the protections of civil rights based upon classifications such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability status, sexual orientation, and gender identity, when they are permissible, significantly infringe upon these civil rights.
Overly broad religious exemptions unduly burden nondiscrimination laws and policies. Federal and state courts, lawmakers, and policy-makers at every level must tailor religious exceptions to civil liberties and civil rights protections as narrowly as applicable law requires.
The first bullet point is breathtaking in scope, taking the concept of “nondiscrimination” and establishing it as a form of super law, in a “preeminent” jurisprudential position above even the enumerated liberties of the First Amendment.
#share#The next point makes the preposterous claim that religious liberty “significantly” infringes on civil rights. Such a contention is only credible if the commission would concoct a “civil right” to force a Christian baker to help celebrate a gay wedding, or if a “civil right” for a gay couple to work with Christian adoption agencies, or a “civil right” for a lesbian woman to lead a Christian organization.
EDITORIAL: Capitulation on Religious-Liberty Laws Is Shameful and Shortsighted
None of these alleged civil rights have previously existed in American law. Instead, they represent coercion, pure and simple — the destruction of the civil rights of the faithful for the sake of the convenience of the radicals. After all, not one of these despised religious exemptions actually deprives an LGBT person of the right to marry or adopt or form their own religious organization.
The last bullet is the final twist of the knife. Since our nation’s founding, religious freedom has been deemed so vital to the health of our democracy that lawmakers and judges have often attempted to make sure that state actions are “narrowly tailored” when those actions conflict with religious freedom. Now the Left wants liberty to be narrowly tailored when it conflicts with the new nondiscrimination regime.
#related#In the Commission’s eyes, there is no true accommodation of religion, because religion is merely an “excuse” for discrimination. Thus, there is no value in attempting to build a society where religious believers can live with integrity and — yes — “dignity” alongside sexual revolutionaries. But accommodation and mutual respect have never been the revolutionaries’ aim. Their goal is clear and explicit: to equate sincere religious objections to sexual immorality with the invidious discrimination of Jim Crow, and then to banish believers to the same margins of society currently occupied by white supremacists.
Indeed, Commission chairman Martin Castro says as much, comparing religious-freedom laws to efforts to “block racial integration,” which, of course, have “no place in our society.”
The Commission has issued a declaration of war — not just on religious liberty but also on the First Amendment writ large. After all, if the new religion of nondiscrimination is now legally “preeminent,” then every other civil liberty can be cast aside in the name of ending “transphobia.” Four centuries of American legal and cultural tradition are thus rendered less important than the “dignity” of those who demand mixed-gender bathrooms.
— David French is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review.

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This is likely the easiest way to address all of you out there who are just dying to be offended so you can create some sort of faux cause to rally behind. Let’s make one thing clear right up…

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Sen. Ted Cruz spoke to supporters in Philadelphia prior to Tuesday night's GOP primary results in New York. Instead of speaking directly about New York he chose to criticize President Obama's for failing to deliver on his "Yes We Can" slogan.

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MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews isn’t much for keeping his promises of transparency when it involves political contributions to his wife’s congressional campaign. Last June, the blabbermouth c…

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With Trump closing in on the 1,237-delegate threshold, wresting the nomination away will seem underhanded to Republican voters.

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You are entitled to your sovereignty as an individual and you do not owe anybody anything. Do not patronize this nonsense.

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Ted Cruz was on the Sean Hannity Radio show today and it got contentious quick. Hannity wanted to talk about the delegate minutia that Trump has been whining about, but Cruz hit back quick and hard…

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Trumps’s assertion that he helped clear rubble in the search for 9/11 survivors — an anecdote meant to show his “New York values” — is fraught with questions.

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Attendees at this year's White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia took to Twitter over the weekend to express their one complaint with the conference: that it was "too white." Using the hashtag "#WPCSoWhite" on Twitter, conference attendees complained that the conference, which was supposed to bring to light the...

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Get live updates and results from today’s primary elections in New York.
