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Rucho v. Common Cause: A tale of three maps

COGNITIVE BIAS : Climate Change Alarmists Refuse To Accept ‘The Science’ That Proves Extreme Weather Events Are NOT Increasing

 

 

HEADLINES*

18Mar19
No, The New Zealand Shooter Was Not A Nationalist
Judicial confirmation update: Trump nominees “begin takeover of federal appeals courts”
​House Democrats’ ‘Anti-Hate’ Resolution Is A Stress Test For Criminalizing Their Opposition
Speaking of Microaggressions…
Amy Klobuchar calls on Trump to publicly defend Muslims after mosque attack (Umm... what??)
Freshman Republican Senator Wants To Drain The Swamp By Taking Away A Prized Cash Cow​
President Trump Saves Thousands of Lives?
​Coup d'état

• More Damning Evidence of FBI Corruption
• Trump On Mueller Report: It’s ‘Illegal’ And ‘Conflicted’
• Mueller pursues new Trump-Russia collusion leads despite talk of probe winding down​

Education

• What about the private sector’s ability to fund teacher pay at the ‘national average’?
• ​Low-income mothers ask Supreme Court to stop Montana from limiting school choice
• GOP chairman sues school district for indoctrination, helping to organize gun control protests
• Identity of Georgetown admissions scammer challenges the Left’s divisive narrative
• We Can’t Fight The Campus Cultural Revolution By Whining About It On YouTube
• ​Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw Defends Chelsea Clinton After Student Claims Her Words ‘Stoked’ Mosque Shooting
• At Catholic and Protestant schools, different approaches to religious diversity
• Va. Public School Indoctrinates 5-Year-Olds About Transgenderism Without Telling Parents
• The College-Admissions Fraud

​​National Security — Border Control

• The media is catching up to the border crisis. Will Congress?
• Border Patrol Rescues Five Illegal Immigrants Stranded On Arizona Mountain

​2A

• Campus Carry Bill Defeated in West Virginia
• NM Legislature Adjourns from 2019 Legislative Session – Multiple Anti-Gun Bills Defeated
  Beto Takes One Question On Guns — Gives An Answer Both Sides Will Hate

Watermelons

• Analysis: ‘Rick Perry has surrendered’ – ‘It is time to pick a new Secretary of Energy’ – Perry has conciliatory words for AOC & Green New Deal
• Expand the Lie — Algore: Over 99.9% of Scientists Agree with Me on Climate Change – "There’s no basis for doubting what Mother Nature is telling us now. It’s beyond consensus of 99 percent of the scientists"
• Green New Deal: Collateral Damage
• With Hickenlooper out, Colorado’s empowered environmentalists target oil and gas industry
• Delingpole: 1.5 Trillion Reasons Why the Kids’ Climate Strike Is Dishonest, Stupid, Pointless
• Rush: Republicans Don’t Need an Answer to Lunacy!​
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Returning to National Geographic Following Assault Investigation​

The Fourth Estate

• Even A Blind Squirrel Occasionally Finds An Acorn
• Reporter Now Admits He Buried Bad Beto Story Until After the Election​
• Totenberg Denies NPR’s Lefty Bias, Attacks Kavanaugh’s Hit on Clintons​
• ABC Panel: The GOP Is Too Far to the Right, Dems Closer to the Center
• CNN Puts On Khizr Khan to Blame Immigration on Meddling from the West

​​Jihadists in America and other anti-semetism

• Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Represent American Muslims, She Represents Islamists
• Omar Unloads Israel Judgement In Washington Post Op-Ed
• Germany deports convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, cancels BDS event​

Stephen Moore: The Democrats’ $100 trillion agenda
GOP Trolls Beto To Encourage Safe Driving On St. Patrick’s Day, Gets Slammed For 'Stereotyping'​
Trump maintains poll bounce after State of the Union
​Healthcare By The People, For The People
Nancy Pelosi: “I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16”​
Why The College Cheating Scandal Proves The Meritocracy Largely Works
Professors Protest University Of Wyoming Slogan Praising Cowboys, Then This Happens
Robert Knight: The ‘cowboy way’ under fire
Mike Pompeo has Trump’s ear, but who really wields the influence?​
​A St. Patrick’s Day lesson for Ireland on good tax policy
Deterrence Will Keep America Safe When ‘No Nukes’ Demands Fail To Move North Korea
Steyn: Beto Goes Bovine
Ocasio-Cortez Explodes After Learning Her 'Unfavorable' Rating Has Skyrocketed
​Threat of increased gun control in New Zealand sparks run on AR-15s, other firearms​
THIS: Trump: ‘Last in his class’ McCain gave dossier to FBI, media to undermine White House bid
​THAT: ​Trump Posts Misleading Tweet About McCain’s Involvement In Steele Dossier Distribution
​‘Self-Sufficiency, Not a Sinkhole’: JOBS Act Updates Work Requirements for Welfare Recipients
The Downfall of Venezuela
Trump's Perfectly Normal Decision On Boeing's 737 Max B
Jeremy Frankel: Govern As A Conservative, And You’ll Be Successful
The FBI Shouldn’t Be Prosecuting College Fraud, It Should Be Rooting Out Its Own Corruption
Twitter Mob Comes For Dean Cain Over Egg Attack Comments — He Fires Back
Tulsi Gabbard Poignantly Discusses America’s Devastating Regime-Change Wars
Time to Fully Embrace the American’s Creed
​How Each Of The Democratic Frontrunners Is Using Twitter So Far
How Obergefell Taught Me Marriage Is Far More Than A Piece Of Paper
British MP Thinks All Knives Should Have GPS Trackers To Combat Crime
Joe Biden Just Somehow Messed Up Announcing He’s Running For President

17Mar19
Illegal Alien Decapitates NC Man and Drives Off with His Body – Gets Only 14 Months in Prison — Victim’s Family Holds His Photo During Sentencing (VIDEO)
Cherokee County, North Carolina, Declares Itself a 'Gun Sanctuary'​
Newspaper: Making sense of socialism’s growing popularity​
Martin Center column targets academic radicals
Re: Tillis’ backbone​
​U. Chicago Law School ethnic/racial groups organizes boycott due to school’s defense of free speech rights
Socialist agenda stalls in the House​
​Gil Gutknecht: The Oncoming Train
Andrew McCarthy: This Week’s Russia Legislation Is Everything That’s Wrong with Congress
The Bogus Lawsuit against Remington
Coup d'état

• Trump on Mueller report vote: I encouraged Republicans to ‘vote for transparency’
• Newly unsealed court documents reveal who shared the Russia dossier with the FBI & media
• Brilliant: Chris Steele Admits He Used Random Internet Posters as Trump Dossier Sources
• Fired/disgraced FBI Director McCabe caught in another lie to Senate Judiciary Committee
• According To More Than Two Dozen Sources, FBI Withheld Exculpatory Evidence On FISA Court Application To Spy On Carter Page
• NEW: Fusion GPS Internal Memo Blows Up (Another) Trump Dossier Claim

 ​Why Did The Southern Poverty Law Center Fire Its Co-Founder?
A Dissident’s Testimony: Vladimir Bukovsky’s 'Judgment in Moscow' Now in English
Derek Hunter: The FDA Needs To Leave Vaping Alone
1A WIN!  Court shoots down lawsuit that would have forced churches to pay $1B more in taxes
Why Is the Pelosi Congress Waging War on the First Amendment?​
Wayne Allyn Root: Lunatic Democrats Are In Charge (And I Love It) 
NY Daily News Reporter Covering Trump Administration Calls Donald Trump Jr. a “Nazi”
CO Dem Gov. signs bill that favors popular vote over electoral college (The Left is on the move!)​
Paul Jacob: Dear Fellow Peasant
Polish Politician Tarczynski Thanks Pres Trump, Vows to “Make Europe Great Again” (VIDEO)
Matthew Continetti: Operation Varsity Blues and the hypocrisy of Hollywood liberals
Julio Rivera: FBI Director on Cyber Threat: ‘It’s bigger than the government itself,’
Police arrest nine middle schoolers after a mob of 70 teens surrounds officers at B-ball game
Not an 'Honorable' Man: Liz Warren Slams Mike Pence for 'Homophobia'
Jeremy Dys: Management Companies Drive Religion Out of Housing Communities
Oh Please! Hillary Clinton Answers FaceTime From Her Grandkids During Speaking Gig – Acts Like Call Is Spontaneous (VIDEO)
Ohio Union Faces Class Action Lawsuit
​Watermelon News

• ‘Welcome to Neo-Stalinism’: Google promptly vanishes Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Moore from enviro group’s history after Trump tweets his skeptical climate views
• Al Gore: Kids climate strike from school was ‘extraordinary’ – ‘I don’t have words for the pride and joy I feel’
• Analysis: THE MANUFACTURING OF TEEN CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG
• No specifics please! Al Gore: ‘General Notion’ of Green New Deal Has ‘Huge Majority Support’

Bruce Bialosky: College Admissions Scam vs. Free College Scam
​​Jihadists in America and other anti-semetism

• The Democratic Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem Is Obama’s Legacy
• Pelosi’s “no impeachment” message really isn’t sinking in with Tlaib
• Sarsour: I'm Triggered By Those Who Condemned Omar Because...
• Good! College President Rejects Motion to Suspend Israel Study Abroad Program

Pompeo Heads to Israel Ahead of Contested Election
Washington State Joins New Jersey In Trying To Keep Trump Off Its 2020 Ballot
New Zeland Mass Murder

• Update: NZ Mosque Killer a Socialist, Ecoterrorist, Who Praises Commie China and Condemns Conservatism… Media Calls him a Trump Supporter
• ​Abdul Aziz stopped the Linwood mosque shooter with a credit card machine & an empty gun
• Mass Murderers Crave Publicity. Maybe Giving Them Less Would Be Helpful.​
• My Thoughts And Prayers
• New Zealand attorney general backtracks on vow to ban semi-automatics
• ​Academia wastes no time blaming Trump for New Zealand murders
• Here's NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Solution to Preventing Shootings In The Future
• Australia Bans Milo...For This Analysis Of The Christchurch Shooting
• COMPARE: Media Reaction To Fusion Nightclub Terror Attack Vs Christchurch Terror Attack
• Hamas Front-Group CAIR Grifters Fundraise Off New Zealand Massacre
• NPR Issues Guidance On All The Details They won't Report About The Massacre
• Trump Jr. defends Clinton over 'sickening' New Zealand blame​​
• Fox News Channel Scrubs Scheduled Judge Jeanine Pirro Show After Ilhan Omar Controversy, Mosque Attack​

Julian Castro Inadvertently Endorses Trump Policy Toward Central America (Oops!)
​Riots Are Currently Taking Place In Paris. Here's What You Need to Know.
Beto: Sorry about all that kid murdering stuff (We think there is likely little import to something he wrote at 15)
Jeff Crouere: Beto The Buffoon 
Dem hopeful Fauxcahontas is backing weed legalization after sounding alarm in 2003
Jeb Bush: President Trump needs a GOP primary challenger
Nancy Pelosi’s Problems Are Just Beginning​
Netflix boots Lori Loughlin over college bribery charge
Meghan McCain lashes out at Trump: ‘No one will ever love you the way they loved my father

16Mar19
Radicalized Democratic Party

• O’Rourke calls America’s capitalist economy ‘racist’
• O’Rourke open to Idea of packing the SCOTUS
• Yes, Beto Can Win The White House
• Bernie, in '70s, urged nationalization of most major industries
• Bernie's Pres Campaign To Be First To Unionize
• SeAL-Turned-Congressman Suggests 3 Reasons Young People Are Buying into Socialism​

Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago Versus Today
How to Make America Smart Again
​Mandatory Jail Time for Firearm Assault on Law Enforcement Unanimously Approved by North Carolina House
​Bill Requiring Sheriffs To Cooperate With ICE Detainers for Illegal Immigrants Charged With Crimes Filed in N.C. House
​State Board of Elections’ absentee ballot fraud recommendations are insufficient​
Congress: where constitutional conservatism goes to die
​Order set for 9th District primary; 10 Republicans seeking seat
No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill
Lawmakers look to allow beer sales at college games
​Loosening arbitrary state restrictions would let craft breweries expand
Tucker Carlson Takes on Media Matters President​
12 reasons gov-paid leave impoverishes newborns & the nation (Wrong path Mr. Trump)
Coup d'état

• Strzok Testimony Suggests Steele Dossier Did Help Launch FBI’s Trump Investigation
• ​Fusion GPS Tried To Bolster Dossier Claim, But It Didn't Work Out So Well
• Court files reveal role of McCain, associate in spreading anti-Trump dossier
• CNN's Erin Burnett Reveals How Little She Knows About Steele Dossier
• Lindsey Graham Wants To Know Whether DOJ Plotted A ‘Coup’ Against Trump
• What David Kramer Said
• What Christopher Steele Said

The FEC is broken – H.R. 1 will break it differently​
The Most Intolerant County in America (and the Most Tolerant City)​
Dozens killed at two New Zealand Mosque's​
New Zealand shooting survivor describes hero tackling gunman
Fake News Pushes New Zealand Mosque Killer, But Ignored Larger Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Last Month​
Observations on Christchurch
​National Security — Border Control

• The U.S. Senate votes for open borders
• First Trump Veto: Kicks Back Resolution Denying Border Security Emergency Declaration
• Rush: Congress Demonstrates Why Illegal Immigration Hasn’t Been Stopped
• Congress Should Have Reclaimed Its Power Over National Emergencies Instead Of Signaling Against Trump
• ​AG Barr says Trump’s national emergency is what the law was made for, but CNN, MSNBC refused to air it!
• Two killed in high-speed car chase of cartel smugglers in South Texas
• Build the Wall to Save Taxpayers Billions
• Trump says voters will ‘LOVE’ senators who backed his wall

Socialism in Venezuela​
Sanders Institute to Close Over ‘Blurred Lines Between Family, Fundraising and Campaigning’​
In A ‘Direct Threat To Democracy,’ Stacey Abrams Still Refuses To Concede Election
Watermelon News

• Permanent drought update: ‘California is drought-free for the first time in nearly a decade’ – ‘It’s official: California is 100% drought-free’​
• Rush: California Drought-Free? How?
• NBC, CBS Promote Teens Skipping School to Protest Global Warming
• ​‘This is a fascist tactic’ – Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore on kids school climate strike: ‘This is child abuse of a psychological nature…Mao would be proud’
• AUSTRALIA’s Hottest Summer? Maybe Not.
• Meteorologist Bastardi: Climate Crisis? Four Major Metrics That Say Otherwise
• Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus demonstrates that pursuing climate mitigation will make a nation worse off
• Kids climate protest on a mission to save the Earth from — from Donald Trump
• Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on record Colorado snow: ‘Colorado snowpack so juiced in 2019 that they had to redo the scale’

Voters in 2020 battleground state struggle to excuse Trump’s hiring of illegal immigrants​
The Myth of American Meritocracy​
​Why I Have Concerns About Our Justice System
It was quiet at Gaza border today, proving Hamas completely controls the ‘Great March of Return’​
Israel Unveils New Hezbollah Terror Activity In The Golan Heights
Houston Public Library Apologizes For Allowing Sex Offender To Read To Kids During 'Drag Queen Story Time'
​About Time: Pro-Israel Lawyers Question Jurisdiction Of International Criminal Court​
The Fifth Column

• Montage: Watch the media race to politicize the tragic terrorist attack in New Zealand and pin blame on @realDonaldTrump
• CNN’s Zucker: Trump “Literally” Puts The Lives Of Journalists At Risk With Words; FOX News “Follows The Script”
• 7 Ways to Find Truth in a Clickbait World
• Rep. Kinzinger spars with CNN’s Berman over mosque murders: ‘Cannot put this’ on Trump
• Former Time Writer Mocks Democrat Notion Fox Is Uniquely Biased
• King Hits Beto From the Left: Hard Being a ‘Privileged White Man?'
• Jay Leno Laments the One-Sided Politicization of Late Night Comedy
• Bill Mahr blasts Dems for ‘terrible decision’ of turning down Fox News debate offer

Australian senator slaps teen for cracking an egg on the back of his head during live interview
Google Refuses To Work With America's Military, But Joint Chiefs Chair Says They Provide 'Direct Benefit' To China's
Jimmy Fallon’s Beto O’Rourke Is An Overzealous Lightweight
2A

• Activist Court Turns the Law Designed to Protect the Firearm Industry from Frivolous Lawsuits on its Head
• The Origins Of Second Amendment Sanctuary Communities
• Firearms Freedoms and the Re-emergence of Socialism
• MSNBC Host Blast GOP Over ‘Ritual Grief’ After Mass Shootings
• Canada’s Senate Holds Hearings on “Rube Goldberg” Gun Control Law, Bill C-71

Senator Joni Ernst On Women In Combat, Iowa, And Paid Family Leave
Three-Quarters of Parents ‘Adulting’ for Their Grown Children
Questions, But No Answers
​Germany to deport Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh at urging of U.S. Amb. Richard Grenell​
Scam of the Century Week in Higher Education​
After 20-Year Investigation, Black Conservative Clears Rush Limbaugh of Racism Allegations​
Project Veritas Suit Makes First Amendment HISTORY: Changes MA. Recording Law
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now as unpopular as Ted Cruz during 2013 government shutdown over Obamacare defunding
​David Limbaugh: Uncle Joe Biden meets Hollywood McCarthyism — and folds
Study Offers More Proof That The MMR Vaccine is Safe, says AMAC​
​‘I Need A Butt Shine Right Now’ – Beto O’Rourke’s Poetry Revealed
‘Golden State’ Depicts A World When Telling The Truth Becomes A Crime
The Week In Pictures: Varsity Blues Edition

At Catholic and Protestant schools, different approaches to religious diversity

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VIDEOS

Walls Across America: Rob Reiner (3:30) 18Mar18

REBUTTAL: AOC's Response to Steven Crowder! (15:59) 17Mar18

Tucker uncovers Beto O'Rourke's cow-themed poetry (4:02) 16Mar18

WHY JOHNNY CAN'T THINK: Progressive Education's Toll on Millennial Minds (7:28) 15Mar18

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