What the Jim Webb Debacle in Annapolis Is Teaching the Military

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Jim Webb

Imagine you are a young midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy processing the news that Jim Webb—Annapolis class of '68, recipient of the Navy Cross, former senator and secretary of the Navy, former member of the Annapolis faculty, bestselling novelist and acclaimed journalist—has been forced by political pressure to decline an award for distinguished alumni at your school this week.

The most widely cited reason for his political toxicity is an article he wrote in 1979 (side note: almost forty years ago!) in Washingtonian Magazine entitled "Women Can't Fight."

Oh Boy: NC Republicans, governor have deal to end ‘bathroom’ bill standoff

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 Republican leaders Rep. Tim Moore, left, and Sen. Phil Berger, hold a news conference Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C., where they announced they thought they had reached a compromise with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on a replacement for HB2. Berger holds papers that he said were the Governor's proposal. The law limits LGBT nondiscrimination protections and requires transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate.  (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP)

North Carolina Republican lawmakers say they have an agreement with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on legislation to resolve a standoff over the state’s “bathroom bill.”

GOP leaders announced the new legislation would be debated and voted on Thursday. Details about the replacement weren’t immediately available, and House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger declined to take questions during a brief news conference.

Paul Ryan doesn't want Trump working with Democrats to fix Obamacare

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"I don't want that to happen," Ryan replied. "You know why? I want a patient-centered system. I don't want government running healthcare. The government shouldn't tell you what you must do with your life, with your healthcare. We should give people choices."
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's concerned that President Trump might strike a deal with Democrats should Republican lawmakers fail to come up with a follow-up to the failed American Health Care Act.

A Northern Arizona University student lost credit on an English paper for using the word “mankind" instead of a gender-neutral alternative.

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“She told me that ‘mankind’ does not refer to all people, only males. I refuted, stating that it DOES refer to all people......
A Northern Arizona University student lost credit on an English paper for using the word “mankind" instead of a gender-neutral alternative.

Cailin Jeffers, an English major at NAU, told Campus Reform that she received an email from one of her professors, Dr. Anne Scott, informing her that she had been docked one point out of a possible 50 on a recent paper for “problems with diction (word choice)” related to her use of the word “mankind” as a synonym for “humanity.”

“The words we use matter very much, or else teachers would not be making an issue of this at all.”    
“I would be negligent, as a professor who is running a class about the human condition and the assumptions we make about being ‘human,’ if I did not also raise this issue of gendered language and ask my students to respect the need for gender-neutral language,” Scott explained. “The words we use matter very much, or else teachers would not be making an issue of this at all, and the MLA would not be making recommendations for gender-neutral language at the national level.”

The Muslim Jesus According to the Koran and Sunna: Critical Differences from the New Testament Jesus

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The Muslim Jesus According to the Koran and Sunna: Critical Differences from the New Testament Jesus

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who in 2011 claimed to read the Koran every day for spiritual guidance, once tried to calm British fears of growing Muslim population, influence and terrorism in Britain by mentioning that Jesus along with, Mary, Abraham, Moses, Aaron, David, Jonah and many other Old Testament prophets and kings are also spoken of in the Koran. Although this in itself is a true statement, the major problem is that the stories about them in the Koran are generally taken from heretical Jewish and Christian sources and are significantly different in theological overview and detail from Judeo-Christian canonical Scripture. They are often entertaining and sometimes inspiring but false or distorted in detail and often wide of the mark of traditional Jewish and Christian theology.

More recently, Blair seems to have opened his eyes a bit. May he and other European and American leaders open them much wider!

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Heavily armed left-wing group tries to intimidate liberal reporter filming them. It doesn’t work.

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Amid an Arizona “Make America Great Again” march in support of Republican President Donald Trump on Saturday, a heavily armed left-wing group  tried to intimidate a liberal reporter into not recording video of their actions.

Reporter Stephen Lemons spotted the group of “about 40 or so assorted anarchists, Brown Berets, and members of a group calling itself the Phoenix John Brown Gun Club across the street from the state Capitol, openly armed to the proverbial teeth,” he wrote in the Phoenix New Times.

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Schumer in 2013 said Dems believe in 'up-or-down' votes, not 'obstruction' & Former Sen. Alan Simpson: Schumer has 'a harshness on him now that's ugly'

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a filibuster against Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court arguing that Gorsuch should reach a 60-vote threshold. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a filibuster against Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court arguing that recent high court nominees have all reached a 60-vote threshold, so Gorsuch should too.

At a 2013 press conference, however, Schumer was singing a different tune – saying that Democrats prefer up-or-down votes "no matter who's in power."

"We much prefer the risk of up-or-down votes in majority rule, then the risk of continued total obstruction," he said. "That is the bottom line, no matter who's in power," he said at a press conference.


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 Referring back to his nearly 20 years in the Senate that ended in 1997, Simpson said, "the coin of the realm when I was there was trust, and the coin of the realm is severely tarnished." (Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg)

Former Planned Parenthood official suggests babies born alive after abortions left to die: Video

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David Daleiden heads the Center for Medical Progress' undercover investigation. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pro-life activists released a new undercover video Wednesday showing a former Planned Parenthood official suggesting that babies born alive after abortions are sometimes left to die.

The video was released less than a day after David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress were charged by California prosecutors with 15 felonies for covertly recording Planned Parenthood executives without their consent.

DeShawn Taylor, former medical director for Planned Parenthood Arizona, appears in the video.

Mexico Now Dealing With All-New Immigration Crisis After President Trump Gave The ICE-Cold Order

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President Trump’s election revitalized flagging border agents and infused ICE with fresh powers. Obama’s administration fumbled with immigration policy. The former president deported hordes of violent criminals, but he also severely weakened our borders and manipulated the law so illegals could stay in the U.S. while their cases were being decided.

Now that Trump has assumed office, undocumented migrants are being sent home at unprecedented rates. Crossing the border is becoming increasingly difficult. Illegals are pooling in Mexico, unable to go farther north and unwilling to go south. The government expects to process at least 5 times as many refugee applications in 2017 than 2015. 

Commies Leftists Flip Off Memorial Dedicated To Victims Of Communism & AP Fails to Report on First Annual Vietnam Veterans Day

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More than forty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American GIs who served in Nam still can’t get respect from the U.S. media.

Today marks the first annual National Vietnam Veterans Day per an act of Congress signed into law on Tuesday by President Donald Trump.

Yet there is no report by the Associated Press to be found. A search of the AP News website only returns a Today in History article noting the last U.S. combat troops withdrew from South Vietnam on March 29, 1973 but no mention of Vietnam Veterans Day.

"Malicious" Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby to Face Civil Trial following Huge Loss to Freddie Gray Cops

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 Five of the six Baltimore police officers who were charged in the death of Freddie Gray have won again in a lawsuit against Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby.  After putting the officers on trial without the evidence to back up the charges against them, a federal judge in Maryland is allowing a "malicious prosecution" case against her to move forward.

Officers Garrett Miller, Edward Nero, and William Porter, Sgt. Alicia White and Lt. Brian Rice have sued Mosby and Assistant Sheriff Samuel Cogen in federal court, alleging they knowingly brought false charges. Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Gray was placed, was not a part of the lawsuit.

Nikki Haley: 'Wave of populism' shaking United Nations

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United States UN Ambassador Nikki Haley warns that United Nations diplomats should worry about the "wave of populism" sweeping across the world. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

United Nations diplomats should worry about the "wave of populism" sweeping across the world, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned Wednesday.

"The U.N. is missing the growing discontent and growing distrust among the people it's supposed to represent," Haley said at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The fact is, a wave is building throughout the world. It's a wave of populism that is challenging institutions like the United Nations and shaking them to their foundations."

Fox News Brings Back Judge Napolitano, Who Still Stands By Obama Wiretapping Claim

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Judge Andrew Napolitano made his first appearance on Fox News Wednesday since making the claim that President Obama surveilled Trump Tower during the 2016 election nearly two weeks ago.

At his beginning of his latest appearance, host Bill Hemmer brought up the suspension, yet Napolitano said he still stands by claim.

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