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The Texas senator hasn’t polled particularly well among female voters, but Trump has handed him an opening in Wisconsin.

A class at the University of Oklahoma on human relations theory is being taught that singing R&B star Rihanna's songs is a "microaggression." “I was told as a white woman it’s insulting and a microaggression for me to cover or sing a Rihanna song because I’m not from Barbados,” a student who was in the class told Fox News' Todd Starnes. “I was literally told to go sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'"

We will get to know one of two possible Trumps in the coming weeks.

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Character matters in the 2016 elections.

Bill Clinton trespassed against the cardinal rule of contemporary Democratic politics, which is that Thou Shalt Not Contradict Black Lives Matter Protesters. #ad#Clinton’s lapse came at a Philadelphia rally last week. When demonstrators inveighed against the 1994 crime bill signed by Clinton, the former president gave much better than he got. He rebutted them in finger-wagging detail, repeatedly returning to the point that the crime bill sought to diminish the rampant criminality that was destroying black lives. Clinton thought he was winning the argument, and by any reasonable standard he was — but, politically, he committed a multitude of sins. He defended the old term “super predator” as an accurate description of gang leaders who prey on kids — not realizing that the phrase has been deemed dehumanizing (gang leaders are very sensitive to such microaggressions). Instead of denouncing the police as agents of systemic racism, he defended sending more of them into the streets. And by using the phrase “black lives” in the context of blacks killing other blacks, he signaled he doesn’t get that the only approved use of the slogan is as a bludgeon against the criminal-justice system. RELATED: Bill Clinton Tries Sister Souljah, the Sequel, but It Won’t Fly with Today’s Progressives In short, Clinton demonstrated a commonsensical, pre–Black Lives Matter understanding of criminal justice, and quickly had to backtrack. Presumably, he won’t be guilty of such an offense ever again. Both Clinton and his critics exaggerate the effect of the 1994 crime bill, which, among other things, funded more cops and prisons. Clinton attributes the drastic decline in crime rates to it, when the drop had already begun. The critics attribute the drastic increase in incarceration to it, when that, too, preceded the bill. #share#But the notion that the crime bill, and other tough-on-crime measures like it, was part of a racist dragnet to imprison black men guilty of low-level drug offenses is obviously absurd. It is easy to forget now, but between 1960 and 1990, the United States experienced perhaps the worst crime wave in its history. Violent crime increased more than 350 percent. Across the 1960s, robbery rose 500 percent in cities with a population of a million. It would be impossible for the political system not to respond vigorously to such a tide of disorder, especially when the criminal-justice system was initially so inadequate to the task. RELATED: The Numbers Are In: Black Lives Matter is Wrong about Police In his book The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America, Barry Latzer notes how the criminal-justice system was fraying as crime spiked in the late 1960s: “The number of arrests per reported crime went down, not up; sentencing to prison occurred less often, not more; and prison time served for serious crimes actually shortened, not lengthened.” Subsequently, we readjusted, and it wasn’t an exercise in quasi–white supremacy. From 1976 to 2005, blacks were 47 percent of murder victims. Bill Clinton’s talk of kids wasn’t just pulling at the heartstrings. During the crack epidemic in Washington, D.C., about 500 kids were shot and stabbed in a roughly two-year period. Since their communities suffered so grievously from drug crime, black Democrats supported important legislative elements of the crackdown on drug offenses from the 1970s onward. RELATED: Black Lives Matter’s Agenda Is Costing Black Lives Yet the war on drugs wasn’t the main driver of the remarkable 30-year rise in incarceration, from roughly 300,000 to more than 1.6 million. According to John Pfaff of Fordham Law School, less than 20 percent of the inmates in state prisons (they house most U.S. prisoners) are there primarily on drug charges. The vast majority are guilty of violent or property offenses. There is no doubt that policing and prisons — as well as the waning of the crack epidemic — played a role in breaking the great crime wave of the 1960s. That we are safer creates the political opening to rethink our incarceration policies. Bill Clinton will now want to button his lip before saying such a thing, but it doesn’t make it any less true. — Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: [email protected]. © 2016 King Features Syndicate

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Whether Trump or Cruz gets the nod, the party has failed. Whether it rises again, depends on the choice.

Mizzou was ground zero for the campus protests that began last fall.

A liberal female Saudi television news anchor recently interrupted her own broadcast to criticize Muslims who claim that Islamic terrorism doesn't represent Islam, the Christian Post reported yesterday.

Last month, Gov. Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 2, a bill to address Charlotte’s misguided bathroom ...

Cleaning up the many messes that Obama leaves behind.

Trump claims he has a mandate from Republican voters, but the data suggests otherwise.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz waded into the controversy over the Republican party's nominating process Monday, accusing his rival for the GOP nomination, Donald Trump, of whining over Cruz's sweep of Colorado's delegates for this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

From the Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt: Sanders: The Panama Papers Prove I’m Right, and Also, Time Travel Bernie Sanders seems to think everything he doesn’t like is connected. “We now know, as a result of the ‘Panama Papers’ released by an international consortium of investigative journalists, that more than 214,000 entities throughout the world have been using a law firm in Panama to avoid paying taxes. “At a time of massive income and wealth inequality in the United States and around the world, the wealthiest people and largest corporations must start paying their fair share of taxes. Children should not go hungry while billionaires use offshore tax havens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. “The Panama Free Trade Agreement put a stamp of approval on Panama, a world leader when it comes to allowing the wealthy and the powerful to avoid taxes. Where to begin? For starters, there aren’t that many Americans named in the Panama Papers yet – and the ones that have been mentioned so far have fraud indictments or other reasons to hide their assets from prying eyes of investigators. If you’re a wealthy American, setting up a secret account in Panama isn’t a particularly wise way to avoid taxes – you’re probably going to lose money once you add up all the fees, lawyers, accountants, and etcetera. It’s only worth it if you want the money to stay hidden – say, if you’re hiding it from an ex-spouse in an alimony fight. But the big headline out of the papers was the number of foreign political leaders who were keeping their money in Panama, a move probably designed to avoid taxes and uncomfortable questions in their home countries. There the issue is hypocrisy and, if the income was never reported, fraud. But it’s really hard to believe that Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson set up a company in the British Virgin Islands in 2007 through the Panamanian bank because of a U.S.-Panamanian free trade deal enacted in 2011. If the Icelandic Prime Minister is hiding his money, that’s really an issue for Icelandic law enforcement and Icelandic voters to address. Secondly, the timeline doesn’t fit Sanders’ perception of the scandal at all. Accounts set up through this Panamanian law firm go back four decades, long before the 2011 Panama Free Trade Agreement. What, were wealthy people setting up accounts in Panama in the 1980s because they could sense that in 2011, the U.S. would set up this free trade agreement? It’s not often you see the editorial board of the Washington Post declare, “this Democratic presidential candidate has no idea what he’s talking about.” Even before the free-trade deal, Panama was under pressure from both the United States and Europe to clean up its tax-haven act; the pressure intensified after the financial crisis of 2008. The Obama administration, backed by members of Congress, made it clear the free-trade deal – which Panama badly wanted, to match a deal between its Central American neighbors and the United States – hinged on a separate agreement granting U.S. tax authorities more access to Panama’s financial system. The United States particularly insisted on plugging the “bearer shares” loophole. Panama agreed and changed its laws accordingly – before the free-trade agreement reached the Senate and Sanders nevertheless voted “no,” claiming, wrongly, that it would make the tax haven “worse.” In response to our questions, the Sanders campaign didn’t address the data, but said the administration had missed an opportunity to completely “eradicate” the Panama tax haven. To us, it looks like the Obama administration’s diplomacy resulted in real progress, and that if anyone’s entitled to say “I told you so” about that, it would be Clinton.

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Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) hit back Monday night against assertions from the Donald Trump campaign that the process for selecting delegates in Colorado was "corrupt" and "rigged." In a series of tweets, the junior senator defended the system his state had in place and blasted Trump for throwing...

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A white student at a predominantly Hispanic and black Long Island high school says he was targeted for punishment over his race — punched, hit with a chair and repeatedly called “cracker” and “whit…

Ted Cruz's and Marco Rubio's supporters have teamed up in Arkansas.

Hillary Clinton's ally, in a speech to top donors, outlines plans of attack against GOP presidential candidates.

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Donald Trump may be favored to win big in New York next week, but it looks like he'll be missing out on two votes, from his own kids. Eric and Ivanka Trump won't be eligible to vote for their father in the closed Republican Party primary after missing the deadline to register with a political...