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The media aided abortion activists’ misrepresentation. CNN said Brett Kavanaugh referred to contraceptives as ‘abortion-inducing drugs.’
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https://youtu.be/WT96kT08WqM This is an absolute disgrace and hopefully nobody will support this food truck after this announcement. Owner of Detroit-based food truck declared on social media that she would refuse to serve police.
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It’s always entertaining when a poorly thought-out feminist argument refutes itself, saving the rest of us the trouble. In a widely shared moment late last week, Sen. Kamala Harris asked Supreme Co…
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A Hispanic principal is systematically booting white, Jewish and older teachers from his Midtown high school, current and former staffers allege in lawsuits. “I think he hates us,’’ Peter Cohn, a f…
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The NY Times assists in the slander of Brett Kavanaugh
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Lindsey Graham on Booker's 'Gotcha' Document: You Should Have 'Read the Damn Thing' - Cortney O'Brien: Democratic senators put on quite a show Thursday at Supreme .09/10/2018 6:56:14AM EST.
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The resistance to Donald Trump was warring on all fronts last week.
Democratic senators vied with pop-up protestors in the U.S. Senate gallery to disrupt and, if possible, to derail the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. U.S. SenatorCory Booker (D-N.J.) played Spartacus, but
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Mayor Ben Zahn III, of the City of Kenner in Louisiana issued an order that effective immediately bans all purchases made by any booster club operating at any Kenner Recreation Facility for wearing apparel, shoes,
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Garieri Jewelers in Sturbridge, Mass., came under fire after their billboard showing a man proposing to a woman was called racist.
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Don't mess with Texas.
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In the era of Live Action Role Playing (larping) and legalized marijuana, historic weapons enthusiasts are expressing their concerns
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Thread by @andrewbostom: "Trial of Jihad Rape Gang in the UK: Girl was 'passed around and had sex with 100 Muslim men by age 16' dailymail.c-6… via @MailOnline Tanweer Ali (left) and Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar (right) both stand accused of indecently […]"
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Just when it seemed that disrespect for the American flag couldn’t sink any lower, someone found a way…and in the process reinterpreted American history at the expense of a genuine American hero. I had heard briefly that a movie about Neil Armstrong, First Man, had been made and had premiered at the Venice Film Festival. I was excited to hear that. I am a huge space buff, especially when it comes to NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. I have read many books on the subject and even have the official DVD’s covering each Apollo mission. I have been collecting astronaut autographs for years. My collection even includes a very rare Neil Armstrong autograph. Until his death, Armstrong’s autograph was the most valuable of any living person. To put it into historical perspective, the second most prized autograph amongst living persons was that of President Barack Obama. Setting aside politics, it can’t be denied that both men are key historical figures. The first human to set foot on the surface of another world and the first African-American President. I have a co-worker who also collects astronaut autographs and I mentioned First Man to them. Their immediate response was a frown. I found this odd, especially given that Armstrong was not a controversial figure. My friend then proceeded to tell me that the film omits Armstrong planting the American flag on the moon. Apparently the filmmaker wanted to focus on the first Moon landing as a human/universal achievement as opposed to an American achievement. This blew my mind. The director of First Man, Damien Chazelle explained his decision: “The flag being physically planted into the surface is one of several moments of the Apollo 11 lunar EVA that I chose not to focus upon.” His rationale was he would rather focus on Armstrong’s personal journey and the emotions he experienced as he made history. That is all well and good, but the whole point of the endeavor was a nationalistic one. The director’s choice to ignore the act of planting an American flag on the Moon would be akin to doing a biographical film about New England Patriot’s quarterback Tom Brady without mentioning the team he has led to 5 Super Bowl championships. Each player is an individual, but it’s a team sport. Winning the Super Bowl is the pinnacle of any NFL player’s career and no two guys are likely to share the same story but it would be nonsensical to do a biopic of Brady and depict him wearing some sort of generic uniform and helmet to obscure the team he plays for in an effort to focus solely on Brady’s perspective. The American flag omission in First Man is infinitely more absurd than failure to mention the Patriots in a hypothetical Brady biopic. Football teams only have roughly 50 players and 15 coaches. Those are the individuals who could and would have a direct influence on winning a championship. However, an NFL franchise employs many persons in all kinds of roles aside from players and coaches. Without them, it wouldn’t be possible for the players and coaches to focus on winning. In reality it takes a lot of people to win a Super Bowl. Despite that, most of the attention is directed at the quarterback. They are typically the face of the entire effort and in all fairness it’s typically the ability and decision-making of the quarterback that is the difference between winning and losing, but they don’t exist in a bubble. If Tom Brady were surrounded by mediocrity and his team had a terrible defense, he couldn’t win it all by himself. Even when he does win he certainly doesn’t do it by himself. The operation of a football team is nothing in comparison to NASA’s Apollo program. There were over 400,000 jobs associated with America’s Moon program. Landing on the Moon was and is arguably humankind’s greatest technological achievement. It was a massive undertaking and involved the best and brightest minds of the day constantly finding answers to things previously thought impossible. In less than 10 years the United States went from barely being able to launch a rocket to sending men to the Moon and back safely. What lit the fire? I’m unaware of any undertaking of such scale and scope that was accomplished so swiftly. Surely the motivation had to be massive. It was a concept that is politically incorrect these days, but it had and has a name: American Pride. In a very literal sense, putting men on the Moon was the culmination of a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. President John F. Kennedy got the ball rolling in his ‘We Choose to go the the Moon ‘speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962: “There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.” Kennedy inspired the American people that day. The words ‘our’ and ‘we’ did not refer to humanity in general, but America specifically. Wouldn’t it be nice if the American people could focus on what we can do again? Isn’t that the essence of the American spirit: competition? We weren’t going to let the Soviets beat us ?
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Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left. Click here to take a brief survey about this video.
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday decried what he described as incessant, politically-motivated efforts to take down American presidents as soon as they take office, which he argued has been a defining characteristic of politics in the U.S. since the Whitewater investigation dogged former President Bill Clinton's administration.
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Comedian Jim Carrey says Democrats need to stop running from Republican attacks and “say yes to socialism”
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Satellite data for the period 1982–2016 reveal changes in land use and land cover at global and regional scales that reflect patterns of land change indicative of a human-dominated Earth system.
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On Sunday, Miami Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson kicked off game one of the NFL season by taking a knee during the National Anthem. Kenny Stillis said he would consider stopping if his buddy Colin Kaepernick were signed by an NFL team. Former 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick celebrated the continued destruction of …
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U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a "coup", former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told Reuters, pointing to an anonymous column in the New York Times detailing resistance within the Trump administration.
