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It isn't just the party saving itself from a hostile takeover, it's sending a message that conservatives are for something better.

Generous amenities for the wealthy and eviction notices for ordinary workers: Is this the future of the progressive city?

Dear Readers, I had the opportunity to listen to Ted Cruz yesterday. As a Christian voter and lifelong Upstate New Yorker I value the things he had to say. He was a breath of fresh air to our area!…

White people do not bring the right ?energy? for an event held in Portland and found themselves quickly kicked out. ?If you?re white and you defend Donald Trump at a Black P…

It isn't just the party saving itself from a hostile takeover, it's sending a message that conservatives are for something better.

1 RecommendedRecommend Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES If you ever wondered where all those Trump trolls on Twitter, Facebook and in comment sections come from, wonder no more Patrick Ruffini, Co-Founder/Partner of EchelonInsights polling and data outfit in Washington DC (and #NeverTrump), is leading a Twitter army of investigators who are snooping out thousands of fake Trump supporter accounts. Here he found many fake | Read More »

Every poll that comes out of New York puts Trump way ahead of the pack, by an average of 33 points. So let’s get that out of the way. But in this new poll by Emerson, Cruz has improved his st…

Leftists, the most tolerant people in America, are now demonstrating their tolerance by boycotting entire states that do not govern in accordance with leftist social policy. On Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would bar non-essential state-funded travel to Mississippi after the state passed a bill re-enshrining First Amendment protections for freedom of religion and association. Cuomo, who termed the law “sad, hateful,” isn’t the only big government leftist to utilize the power of taxpayer-funded nastiness: the mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee, did the same.

I never thought I’d type these words, but here goes: Yesterday, Bill Clinton spoke the truth passionately, convincingly, and with great clarity. And if Americans have ears to hear, he’ll go a long way towards ending one of the more fraudulent protest movements in recent American history. While Clinton was speaking at a rally in Philadelphia, Black Lives Matter protesters attempted to interrupt him, making all the standard arguments (if you can call loudly shouted lies “arguments”). The core of their case against the Clintons — why they say Bill “destroyed black communities” — is that the 1994 crime bill he signed “fueled mass incarceration.” #ad#The bill was one part — an important part — of a massive national effort to respond to soaring crime rates, and in the years since its passage, violent crime has plunged to rates not seen in decades. No one gives all — or even most — of the credit to the 1994 bill (and elements of it, such as the assault-weapons ban, were ineffective), but it was entirely consistent with a strategic approach that combined more cops and harsher sentences with new technological tools (such as New York City’s CompStat) that helped place police exactly where they were needed most. Countless thousands of black lives have been saved. But don’t tell that to social-justice warriors. To them, the 1994 bill is proof positive of pervasive white supremacy, black-on-black crime is a myth, and Democratic politicians have to repudiate their past support for law-and-order policies or face shame, protest, and disruption. And, for a time, both Bill and Hillary largely complied. They repudiated key provisions of their bill and decried “mass incarceration” with rhetoric lifted from Black Lives Matter. Hillary also apologized for calling young, hardened criminals “super predators” in a 1996 speech. But that’s old news. Yesterday, Bill was angry, and angry Bill told the truth: Of course he’s still Bill Clinton, and that means Slick Willie’s gonna Slick Willie. He tried to blame the more punitive aspects of the bill on Joe Biden and Republicans, when history clearly demonstrates that Clinton ran and governed as a law-and-order “new Democrat.” This is the man who famously oversaw the execution of a mentally disabled black man as governor of Arkansas in the midst of the 1992 presidential race. This is the man who engineered the original “Sister Souljah” moment when he famously condemned a marginal rapper who said, “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” #share#But after his efforts to deflect blame, Clinton unleashed. In perhaps his most memorable comment, he defended Hillary’s “super predator” line and hit the heart of corrupt Black Lives Matter ideology: I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-olds hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the street to murder other African-American children. Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t! . . . You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter! Tell the truth! You are defending the people who caused young people to go out and take guns.  He wasn’t finished. He argued that the crime bill helped bring about a “25-year low in crime” and a “30-year low in the murder rate” and asked, “And who do you think those lives were that mattered? Whose lives were saved that mattered.” Clinton was bold, but 2016 isn’t 1992, and the Democrats aren’t desperate to reclaim the White House but rather are secure in their cultural and political position. The social-justice warriors rule the Democrats, and they were not amused. A Jezebel writer declared that Clinton reached “peak white mansplain.” MSNBC’s Christopher Hayes called Clinton’s argument “twisted.” Responding to BLM protesters/complaints w, basically, ‘You must not care about people that murder black citizens’ is twisted. — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 7, 2016 Josh Marshall said that Clinton “stepped in it.” Bill Clinton really stepped in it. And not the first time. But there’s a LOT of historical amnesia abt the origins of the 94 crime bill. — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 7, 2016 Social-justice activists passed around Michelle Alexander’s widely-read February piece in The Nation arguing that Hillary doesn’t “deserve” the black vote — in large part because of the 1994 bill — and Vox’s German Lopez warned that “criminal justice reformers just got another reason to be skeptical of the Clintons.” #related#Bill Clinton is a shrewd and talented politician, but he may have misjudged the temper of his own party. It’s growing more progressive by the day, and it’s convinced that its demographic edge means that it doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) moderate. Many members of the progressive base are angry that Obama didn’t govern left enough, and Hillary herself is reeling after multiple consecutive defeats at the hands of a socialist far to her left. Angry Bill may have let the truth slip. Or perhaps he was making an intentional play for the middle. Either way, the next few days will be instructive. Will he back down? How will Hillary respond? While both Bill and Hillary draw on an enormous reservoir of good will among rank-and-file Democrats, one thing is clear — progressives are not amused, and in the modern Democratic party, progressives almost always get what they want. — David French is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review. 

Criminal charges threatened; Parent speaks out on 'Fox & Friends'

"Go home, John. This is getting sad."

CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose on Friday demanded that Bernie Sanders retreat from his tough new attacks against the Democratic front-runner. Rose, who once began a Clinton interview by reading a poem to his “friend,” lectured Sanders: “The tenor of this campaign has changed when you're questioning the qualification of a person to be president.”

Anybody who tweets out against real estate mogul Donald Trump immediately get swarmed hordes of vicious pro-Trump Twitter accounts. It turns out many of those accounts appear to be fake and part of a coordinated campaign. The speculation about the phoniness of the Trump Twitter army began with a post by Erick Erickson in The Resurgent, and he bases his conjecture on three main points:

“…as many records as the…”

Of all the arguments against Donald Trump, the softest has been his poor prospects for victory in the general election. True, he has consistently polled worse against Hillary Clinton than have Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and virtually every other person who ran. But polls change. And if Trump were to win the Republican nomination, it would be such an earthquake that the political order might be transformed. Clinton, moreover, has huge vulnerabilities. She lacks many basic political skills, and she is a hostage to fortune—in both the usual way, as the heir to an incumbent president, and in the unusual one of being the subject of an FBI investigation. Yet the electability argument against Trump is hardening, fast. He has a 67 percent unfavorable rating (per the Washington Post/ABC News poll), which would be the highest ever recorded for a major-party nominee, and a net favorable rating of minus-39 among white women and minus-31 among independents. Trump's numbers aren't just bad; they're the stuff of nightmares.

The only thing they might agree on is the Keystone pipeline. Should Ted Cruz become U.S. president, Trudeau will understand what ‘real change’ actually means

Mark Levin just announced on his radio show that he is now officially #NeverTrump. This just after he hammered #NeverTrumpers the other day. He explains below: Levin attributed his #NeverTrump conv…

Presidential candidate John Kasich explains why he believes the Monday after the Super Bowl should be considered a national holiday.

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I constantly hear that only Donald Trump supporters can understand the Trump phenomenon, as if it were inaccessible to nonbelievers, like the secret knowledge of ancient Gnostics. But I don't believe it's a matter of comprehension.

Via The Libertarian Republic   Millennials. They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors,…

The 2016 presidential race has shifted, and John Kasich would be crazy to drop out now.

Washington State promises to be another delegate selection bonanza for Ted Cruz.

Despite his serious problems with Donald Trump, conservative radio host Mark Levin has even bigger problems with the #NeverTrump conservatives refusing to vote