Trump says he’ll sign executive order for free speech on college campuses

Via: Ender  •  Op/Ed  •  184 Comments  •  7 years ago

President Trump announced Saturday he intends to sign an executive order mandating colleges and universities take steps to guarantee free speech to attain federal research grants. "We reject oppressive speech codes, censorship, political correctness and every other attempt by the hard left to...

Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling

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FOUNTAIN, Colo. — When Army Staff Sgt. Samuel Fortune returned from Iraq, his body battered by war, he assumed he’d be safe. Then the people around him began to get sick. His neighbors, all living near five military bases, complained of tumors, thyroid problems and debilitating fatigue. Soon,...

'I DON'T CARE IF I OFFEND ANYBODY': CALIFORNIA STUDENT SAYS SCHOOL MAGA HAT BAN VIOLATES FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT

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A California student has claimed that her First Amendment rights have been violated after her school district told her she couldn’t wear a “Make America Great Again” hat on campus. Maddie Mueller—who attends Clovis North High School in Fresno—is part of a group known as the “Valley Patriots”...

Justice Clarence Thomas calls for reconsideration of landmark libel case

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Washington (CNN) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday called for reconsideration of a landmark First Amendment precedent, criticizing the 1964 decision that the Constitution creates a higher barrier for public figures to claim libel. Thomas wrote alongside a court decision not to...

Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats

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“The editor and publisher of a local paper in Alabama is under fire for penning an editorial calling for mass lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).”

The editor and publisher of a local paper in Alabama is under fire for penning an editorial calling for mass lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The opinion piece ran in his print-only newspaper, the Democrat-Reporter, last Thursday, Goodloe Sutton confirmed on Tuesday. He said Democrats were...

DON JR. TELLS CONSERVATIVES TO FIGHT THEIR “LOSER” TEACHERS

Via: Ender  •  Op/Ed  •  2 Comments  •  7 years ago

“The president’s son is worried about the youth of America, who are apparently being “indoctrinated” by educators “from birth.””

Republicans have never been big fans of education, or, as they like to describe it, elitist sources of liberal, possibly Satanic ideology that allow our children’s brains to become infected with book learning and facts. Rick Santorum famously called Barack Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody...

Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion restrictions, handing anti-abortion movement a temporary setback

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WASHINGTON – A deeply divided Supreme Court Thursday temporarily blocked abortion restrictions in Louisiana that critics complained were virtually identical to those struck down by the justices in 2016. Although the court's new conservative majority may be poised to uphold more limits on...

Trump attacks intel chiefs after they contradict him on Iran, North Korea, ISIS

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared "tremendous progress" has been made defeating ISIS and there is a "decent chance of denuclearization" in North Korea, pushing back at assessments top intelligence officials made to Congress. He also insulted the intelligence community's report on...

Jussie Smollett: New Details Emerge About Night of Attack

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© Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images More details are coming to light about the attack Jussie Smollett suffered early Tuesday morning in Chicago. A source previously told ET that the Empire star was walking when two men started yelling racial and homophobic slurs at him, before...

Will the Supreme Court Use a New York City Regulation to Strike Down Gun Laws?

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“The Justices agree to hear another Second Amendment case, this time with Brett Kavanaugh on board.”

By Amy Davidson Sorkin New York City is a strange and dangerous place, if the plaintiffs in a gun-control case that the Supreme Court has just agreed to hear are to be believed. The suit, which calls the city’s restrictions on transporting handguns through its streets “bizarre,” “irrational,”...