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Media inaccuracy and bias provide cover for lawmakers to oppose commonsense pro-life legislation.
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Dozens of Democratic superdelegates say they're willing to sacrifice party cohesion to prevent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from becoming their party's nominee.
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The Department of Justice on Tuesday submitted a federal court brief contending that Harvard University's use of race in its admissions process violates federal civil rights law as well as Supreme Court precedent. The DOJ sided with a group representing Asian-American applicants who were rejected by the prestigious university.
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You’ve probably noticed that coronavirus panic has increased several notches over the past week. The revelation of a cluster of cases in northern Italy last weekend, seems to have triggered a media frenzy across Europe. That is very much the case in Ireland too. This has shone a light on testing for the disease and...
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Dr. Óscar Elías Biscet, told Breitbart News he considered the Obama-era Cuba policy a "disaster" that "increased repression."
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Bernie’s decision to endorse Hillary Clinton back in July 2016 left his supporters with a little option as they would
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Former Obama adviser Anton Gunn from South Carolina joined MSNBC today to discuss the recent surge of socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democrat primary. Gunn told the liberal channel the people don’t really pick the party’s nominee. Anton Gunn: “This is what people need to remember. The Democratic Party has a party. The party decides …
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is preparing a procedural vote that condemns Bernie Sanders' praise of purported accomplishments by communist regimes.
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Democrats Civil War Just Went From Crazy To Insane, They Had To Call The Cops On Bernie Supporters. Bernie supporters and a progressive candidate for the Dem...
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One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor Posts. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
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'We live in a society which acknowledges and embraces diversity'
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PRINCETON, NJ—The makers of Tickle Me Elmo are releasing a brand new toy based on presidential candidate Joe Biden with a new and exciting twist. Unlike the previous toy which received and reacted to tickles, the Tickle You Biden doles out tickles uninvited and can appear at any moment with its rapidly wiggling fingers at your sides, often surprisin …
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CNN quietly removed the phrase "a fetus that was born" from a CNN report on pro-life legislation following coverage from conservative media outlets.
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BORIS Johnson has admitted that a £111 a month Universal Credit payment is not enough to live on. The PM was grilled on the case of a pregnant Scottish mother, who barely has enough to get by on de…
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Attorney General Bill Barr said some self-proclaimed "progressives" have become increasingly militant and totalitarian in their collectivist and revolutionary policies. In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention on Wednesday, Barr said the goal of the progressive movement is to create a permanent coalition of able-bodied citizens dependent on government.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: While many factors have contributed to the polarized politics of today, I think one significant reason our politics has become so intense and so ill-tempered is that some in the so-called "progressive" movement have broken away from the fold of liberal democracy to pursue a society more in line with the thinking of Rousseau than that of our nation's Founders. That has played a major role in our politics becoming less like a disagreement within a family, and more like a blood feud between two different clans.
Over the past few decades, those further to the left have increasingly identified themselves as "progressives" rather than "liberals." And some of these self-proclaimed "progressives" have become increasingly militant and totalitarian in their style. While they seek power through the democratic process, their policy agenda has become more aggressively collectivist, socialist, and explicitly revolutionary.
The crux of the progressive program is to use the public purse to provide ever-increasing benefits to the public and to, thereby, build a permanent constituency of supporters who are also dependents. They want able-bodied citizens to become more dependent, subject to greater control, and increasingly supportive of dependency. The tacit goal of this project is to convert all of us into 25 year-olds living in the government's basement, focusing our energies on obtaining a larger allowance rather than getting a job and moving out.
Political philosophers since Aristotle have worried that democracies are vulnerable to just this form of corruption. Probably the greatest chronicler of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, foresaw that American democracy would be susceptible to this evolution. As he described it, our society was vulnerable to a soft despotism wherein the majority would gradually let itself be taken care of by the state - much like dependent children.
Yet this process would be slow and imperceptible. The tyranny that results, Tocqueville wrote, "does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces action, but it constantly opposes your acting; it does not destroy, it prevents birth; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupifies, and finally it reduces [the people] to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
It would be totalitarianism beneath a veneer of democratic choice. As Tocqueville summed it up: "By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again."
Historically, our country has relied on a number of bulwarks against this slide toward despotism, each of which has been essential in preserving the liberty that has defined our democracy. Today, I would like to discuss three institutions that have served this vital purpose: religion, the decentralization of government power, and the free press.
The sad fact is that all three have eroded in recent decades. At the end of the day, if we are to preserve our liberal democracy from the meretricious appeal of socialism and the strain of progressivism I have described, we must turn our attention to revivifying these vital institutions.
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“NO SERVICE BECAUSE TRUMP HAT. Me and my 4 boys went to @chilis and guess what as always, I wore my Trump hat. Server said she “wont do it!” Luckily another waitress did serve us we gave her $80 tip. HAHAHA why the #TDS #TrumpDerangementSyndrome #chilis #noservice #Liberalism”
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The Associated Press is calling out two leading Democratic presidential candidates for what the outlet says were inaccurate comments about the government's ability to address diseases like the coronavirus.
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The new office was first opened less than two weeks before the vandalism.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering invoking special powers through a law that would allow the United States to rapidly and aggressively beef up its domestic manufacturing capabilities to combat the coronavirus. The Defense Production Act, which was “passed by Congress in 1950 at the outset of the Korean War, would mark an escalation of […]
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This week brought a Steven Spielberg blockbuster no one saw coming.
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President Trump URGENT Press Conference at the White House Press Briefing Room on Virus risk with the CDC ð´Support Golden State Times by SHARING this Video o...
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A survey of the TV industry found that, contrary to popular belief among "woke" commentators, gays and minorities are hugely overrepresented.
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It's a unanimous decision by a federal appeals court.
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Border Patrol discovers new smuggling tunnel in southern Arizona
