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...During this time I was single, and friends set me up on a lot of dates. When they asked me if there were any deal breakers, I explained there was only one: No religious people. Shortly after I made that declaration, I started dating a guy who mentioned, in passing, that he attended a Presbyterian church. I flinched. But I liked him, and because I was so religiously illiterate, I didn’t understand that some Presbyterian churches are evangelical. I assumed he was a cultural Christian, like the few other Christians I knew. A few months into the relationship he confronted...

There has been a big question mark about the sincerity of Donald Trump's views, given that he has spent 99% of his adult life supporting liberal positions, including amnesty for illegal aliens,and saying at one point that Hillary Clinton was a really good secretary of state.But he was said to be changed when he ran for president earlier this year. He spoke rousingly against illegal aliens and against Muslim immigration.But all of a sudden he has taken a leftward tack,perhaps figuring, erroneously,that this is the best way to outflank Ted Cruz. Trump has actually criticized Ted Cruz for failing to...

A group of liberal clergy and religious leaders are calling on Texas Governor Greg Abbot to reverse his decision to revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Abbott’s administration cut taxpayer funding for the abortion company after it was caught selling the body parts of aborted babies, though Planned Parenthood is fighting in court to keep taxpayers on the dole. “The gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed in Texas, and the barbaric practice must be brought to an end,” Abbott said at the time. The signers (some listed below) of the...

“Burglars for Gun Control,” a video skewering those against the Second Amendment when used by homeowners protecting themselves and their families, has just been released by a west coast comedy group, We The Internet. Resembling a local television news video, the clip tells the story of two would-be burglars who encounter an armed homeowner. The incident ends badly for one of the robbers, as the homeowner shoots and kills him after first calling 911 and warning the bad guys she’s armed and willing to shoot to protect herself and her child. The fake news clip depicts the surviving robber as...

AUSTIN - Pro-gun demonstrators staging a mock mass shooting near the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday were overwhelmed in number and ferocity by a large group of counter-protesters wielding dildos and machines that generated fart sounds. "This isn't about guns necessarily. This is about scaring our community. This is about a choice between fear and a little bit of good humor," Andrew Dobbs, a UT alumnus who organized the "mass farting" counter-protest, told the crowd. "We are in a scary time right now and lots of scary things are happening, and some people want us to be more...

Faithful readers know that I enjoy The Nation's e-newsletters. While I don't have the time to read all of them, it is useful to get an unfiltered look at the views of the Radical Left. One of last week's newsletters had not one, not two, but three eye catching headlines. Let's look at select excerpts from each - first up is the Chicago police shooting scandal that prompts the question: Why Are Democrats Silent On Rahm Emanuel? If you care about police brutality, you care even when "your team" needs to be held accountable.By George Zornick The murder case against...

The latest video from the left in support of their national socialist agenda of civilian disarmament in the face of IslamoFascist Terrorism from the Daeshi calls for 'ending gun violence'. Besides being either extremely naïve and/or evil, this video is completely out of touch with reality. So, in the spirit of getting those people back into the realm of reality we should have a new rule: Before said 'Celebrities' are to be taken seriously, they should be required to live like normal people WITHOUT a virtual wall of Guns surrounding and protecting them 24/7. These 'Celebrities' want to be rid...

The following is an imagined conversation between a liberal and conservative about guns, gun violence, and gun control that is meant to answer and address common questions and arguments liberals have on this subject. Liberals will look at this and say all I'm trying to do is make them look bad. I want to be very clear that I'm not trying. --- Liberal: Isn't it time to stand up to the NRA?Conservative: Name one mass shooter that was one of its members. Spoiler alert, there aren't any. The NRA fights to preserve the second amendment, and it promotes responsibility, so...

College presidents across the nation apparently need a Parenting 101 class, because they're capitulating to protesting students like frustrated mothers handing tantrum-throwing children a lollipop to shut them up. The College Fix has rounded up the most egregious examples from the last month, which show that those who lead America's institutions of higher learning are letting the students in their charge call the shots.

In 2012 a poll found a plurality of people thought Santa would be a Democrat.Let's go down the ways this poll was right, and the (more) ways it was wrong. You can link to this and tell people that one "study" showed Santa is almost twice as conservative as he is liberal. ;-)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ayauna King-Baker loved Ben Carson’s “Gifted Hands” memoir so much that she made her daughter Shaliya read it. So when Carson showed up in town to sign copies of his new book, King-Baker dragged the giggly 13-year-old along to the bookstore so they could both meet him. To King-Baker, Carson’s “up-by-your-bootstraps” life story makes him a genuine celebrity worth emulating in the African-American community. But she’s also a Pompano Beach Democrat watching Carson rise in the Republican presidential polls. For King-Baker and many other African-Americans, the vast majority of whom are Democrats, there are two...

Police Chief raises concern about VMI, W&L relations Al Thomas speaks to W&L students about staying safe when interacting with cadets on the weekends Jordan Cohen November 9, 2015 Filed under News, Showcase Cam Tyler, ‘17, was throwing a birthday party for her housemate in their home on North Randolph Street when some unexpected visitors arrived. “Two VMI guys walked up our front steps, and I can’t even remember if they knocked on our door or if they just came right in,” Tyler said. “But their explanation of why they needed to come in was a party that they were...

Progressives, who have always claimed to be the authoritative source of progressive attitudes on race, have actually become one of the centers of racist thinking in America over the last quarter century, a period of time in which postwar liberalism/progressivism itself was being reconfigured by the radical Sixties worldview. Progressive racism began in the last years of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, when organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) radicalized the issue of color in America by focusing on legitimate “black rage” and the “institutional racism” they claimed was embedded in the...

Generated randomly from my (new) Liberal Insult Generator. It's still got some kinks...but it's far enough along to share now.

If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar. You actively spread absurd falsehoods about the nature of men, women, sex, and culture that can’t withstand even the slightest scrutiny. You change history and conceal facts to fit preferred narratives, even when it costs human lives. You claim the best of intentions yet achieve the worst of outcomes. And through it all, you hate the very nation and political system that have granted you the liberties you so grotesquely abuse...SNIP...If you disagree — if you think that political correctness is gaining momentum — then consider a few facts. First, the top...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the Republican in the 2016 presidential field whom Democrats I know like the most. He evokes his Christian faith to explain his support for government spending. At the CNBC debate, he declared, "I care about poor people'' -- in a way that made you wonder if he thought he was the only R who could make that claim. Kasich even liked the CNBC debate. Leon Wolf, a blogger for the conservative web site RedState, seized on Kasich's remarks to declare him "far and away the candidate in this field who is just utterly clueless about...

Marco Rubio’s rise in the Republican primary polls might not even last the proverbial “15 minutes.” Rubio is the personification of two major evils in the eyes of Republican primary voters. They see him as synonymous with amnesty and part of the Republican establishment that has betrayed their trust. He is the Republican establishment’s “Great Brown Hope,” a mantle that comes from the GOPe’s foolish and demonstrably false insistence that Republicans must pander to Hispanics with amnesty in order to win. This puts Rubio and the GOPe squarely on the wrong side of the issue. Rubio is a perfect example...

It is as though the neighborhood were divided by an invisible wall. On one side, children attend a public elementary school where test scores are high, the students are mostly white and well off, and the parent-teacher organization can raise $800,000 a year to pay for things like a resident chef. On the other side, children attend a public elementary school where 87 percent of the students are black or Hispanic and 84 percent receive some form of public assistance. Just over a tenth pass the state reading and math tests. There is no library or art teacher.