Calm Down, Lefties: YouTube Star’s Delta Air ‘Discrimination’ Claim Could Very Well Be #Fakenews

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The internet is ablaze with a story of alleged racial discrimination on a Delta Air flight Wednesday morning. But before anyone jumps to conclusions, we need to wait for all the facts.

Adam Saleh, a 22-year-old YouTube personality posted a video to Twitter in which he claimed Delta Airlines kicked him off his flight before departure for “speaking Arabic.”

The Guardian reports that Saleh was on board a flight from London to New York with his friend (and fellow YouTube personality) Slim Albaher, when both young men were escorted off the plane. Saleh alleges that fellow passengers became “uncomfortable” from his Arabic and alerted flight attendants.

Saleh posted video of the aftermath to his social media accounts, and the story has since gone viral.

According to the Guardian, in later videos Saleh claimed that flight attendants told him and his companion they were “too loud,” and asked them to speak outside the plane.

“All the racist people in there, they were like ‘we feel uncomfortable’ but because there were like 20 of those racist people, the captain came and he kicked us out,” he said. “I’m not letting this slide … They were screaming at us like we were terrorists.”

Liberal websites immediately pounced on the story before the flight even landed in the United States.

The Huffington Post U.K. neglected to use the word “allegedly” in their headline: “YouTuber Adam Saleh ‘Kicked Off Delta Airlines Flight For Speaking Arabic.’”

The Guardian, of course, is also taking Saleh at his word: “YouTube star kicked off Delta Airlines flight ‘for speaking Arabic’”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has already put the story on “Islamaphobia Watch.”

#BoycottDelta was launched in no time by Saleh to spread the word. –

Outlets that run with Saleh’s story before the entirety of the incident and facts are known open themselves up to “fake news” accusations.

We simply do not know all the facts yet. Adam Saleh claims he was the victim of racial/religious discrimination but the video he posted offers no evidence of such.

Now, this man could very well have been the victim of discrimination. Or, this self-described “professional idiot” (who produced a hoax video about racial discrimination in 2014 and posts several prank videos to his YouTube channel) could be outright deceiving the public.

Saleh has a history of trolling people on airplanes.

However, security cameras revealed his video to be fake and a spokesperson from the airline condemned his “publicity stunt.” Are these accusations against Delta Air and the flight’s passengers another stunt? We don’t know.

In a statement, Delta said: “Two customers were removed from this flight and later rebooked after a disturbance in the cabin resulted in more than 20 customers expressing their discomfort. We’re conducting a full review to understand what transpired. We are taking allegations of discrimination very seriously; our culture requires treating others with respect.”

So an investigation into the matter is underway. Again, the story could very well be true. But until a proper review of the evidence is conducted, the media should refrain from pronouncing judgement and any conclusions. After all, can they really afford to lose any more credibility than they already have? (For more from the author of “Calm Down, Lefties: YouTube Star’s Delta Air ‘Discrimination’ Claim Could Very Well Be #Fakenews” please click HERE)

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Fake News and FEMINISM! How a Liberal Feminist Learned the Media Sucks

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Fake news! Celebrity tantrums! FEMINISM! This week’s “Louder with Crowder” had it all.

Feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye stopped by to talk about her new documentary, “The Red Pill,” a film that documents the Men’s Rights Movement. She also talked about how her views on feminism have changed since learning about the ways men are disadvantaged and discriminated against.

She shared how the liberal media have viciously gone after her for not conforming to the progressive view on feminism.

For his part, Steven Crowder shared how he was kicked in the nards in grade school.

Yes, he cried.

Also, liberal CNN commentator Sally Kohn came on the program to debate your host (and have fun doing it!). And Not Gay Jared on the shelf is still trying to ruin Christmas. (For more from the author of “Fake News and FEMINISM! How a Liberal Feminist Learned the Media Sucks” please click HERE)

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Offers Evidence He Says Proves Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Not Real

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The office of Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio presented what it characterized as proof that the birth certificate the White House offered as evidence of President Obama’s American birth is not real.

Arpaio began the press conference Thursday in Phoenix by assuring reporters the office had “followed the evidence” and would have been just as satisfied if it had determined the certificate was authentic.

In the hour-long presentation, Arpaio’s lead investigator, Mike Zullo, made the case that the certificate was created from a “source” document: the birth certificate of Hawaiian Johanna Ah Nee, who was born within weeks of Obama in August 1961.

The Ah Nee document was originally obtained from investigative journalist Jerome Corsi, the author of several books and a contributor to the website World Net Daily.

According to Zullo, two separate forensic expert sources from two continents — Reed Hayes from Hawaii and the For Lab team in Italy — reviewed the Obama certificate and concluded it was not authentic.

Zullo told reporters Hayes has 45 years in the field and originally did not want to take the case because he is an Obama supporter and voted for him twice.

After reviewing the Obama certificate, the court expert stated, “I can’t clear this. There is something wrong with it.”

Zullo showed a video to reporters that purported to demonstrate how the date stamp in two different boxes on Obama’s certificate had the exact angle and placement, matching one of the date stamps on the Ah Nee original.

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The One Christmas Video You Have to See

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In a time where videos of happy Down’s Syndrome children are banned in some places, this video of a nativity play is joyously subversive.

The mother interviewed for the video shares her story of learning to accept the gift God gave in her child with Down’s Syndrome as a parallel to Mary’s acceptance of being chosen by God to bear Christ. Don’t bother trying not to cry, but do keep your eyes on the children — and share this video with a friend who needs reminding that Jesus came as one of us to be present in the times we grieve and don’t understand.

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Heisman Winner Lamar Jackson: ‘First and Foremost…I Want to Thank My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ’

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University of Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson was awarded the Heisman Trophy a few days ago at a ceremony in New York City.

Jackson wore a crucifix around his neck during the day, while doing interviews, and then during the ceremony itself.

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75 Years Later: What Pearl Harbor Taught Us About Patriotism

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Seventy-five years ago at about this very hour — 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time — airplanes bearing Japanese insignia began dropping bombs on ships docked at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack took place on December 7, 1941 — a day which will forever “live in infamy,” as President Franklin Roosevelt declared shortly after the attack. The strike claimed the lives of 2,403 Americans, mostly seamen at the Pearl Harbor naval base. Most were teenagers. A strong sense of patriotism washed over America following the events of December 7, 1941, an emotion not lost on America’s youth. Pearl Harbor has taught Americans a lot about patriotism — then and now.

A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

It was early in the morning, just before 8 a.m. when squadron personnel working inside Hangar 54 heard the sound of Japanese Zeros (A6M2) and Kates (B5N2) dive-bombing the base. At first they thought it was a prank. But when they stepped outside, they realized the gravity of their situation. “Then it became survival,” recalled then-Navy flight engineer Dick Girocco in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “As luck would have it, they were putting a pipeline of some sort out there by our hangar … we took cover in that.” He and the others ran away from the hangar and into the ditch for cover. “What I remember most was the noise and concussion,” said Girocco. “When the Arizona exploded, it actually shook the ground like an explosion.” Girocco was 20 years old at the time.

Jon “Chief Johnny” Gordon, now 94, said he was a 19-year-old kid getting ready to go to the beach when an airplane flew by. Most of the men at Pearl Harbor were just teenagers, like Gordon. “All kids and a few officers,” he said. “That was when we were called to save the world,” Gordon recalled.

Lester Lindow was aboard the USS Maryland when the attack began, he told FOX News in an interview. He, like Gordon, was planning to go surfing but as he and his buddies stepped out on the quarterdeck, he saw a Japanese plane fly overhead. About that time, said Lindow, “The bugler sounded general quarters and he said ‘This is no bull-you-know-what.’” Lindow remembered getting below in his battle station “pit” — at 19 years old he was a trainer on a 60-inch battery — and didn’t see much, but did feel and hear the enormous explosion that devastated the USS Arizona.

Stuart Hedley, 95, stationed on the battleship West Virginia, told The San Diego Union-Tribune most people today “don’t have the slightest idea what happened there.” When the bombers hit Battleship Row, the West Virginia was docked close to the Arizona. When the bomb hit the Arizona and detonated in a powder magazine, the 20-year-old saw “dozens of bodies” flying through the air. Hedley had to swim through oil-covered water with flames as high as buildings just to get to shore. “I knew how to swim, but not underwater,” he remembered. “I swam underwater that day.”

The average age of the men at Pearl Harbor was 19 years old.

The Rush to Enlist

The next day, December 8, President Roosevelt declared war on Japan.

The surprise attack had taken so much from so many. It took lives, of course, thousands of them. It took the innocence of a nation that believed it could remain out of the war just a bit longer. From a different perspective, though, it also took courage, bravery and heroism for the men to get in their planes and fight back during the second strike on Pearl, just an hour after the first. And it took strength and pride in their beloved America to make thousands upon thousands of men and women rush to enlist in the military. They believed in the USA and the good she stood for and could accomplish. They held a strong standard of right and wrong — and the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor would not go unpunished. In those days this young generation showed why it would become known as the Greatest Generation.

Gerry Davison was a college student sitting in class when he and his fellow students heard the news about Pearl Harbor. His professor got a call in the classroom and told them what had happened. “I didn’t even know where Japan was really on the map — or Pearl Harbor … but I knew immediately I was going to go,” he recalled, speaking to News8. Davison, along with nearly all of his classmates, quickly made plans to enlist. “It was such a devastating attack. It absolutely meant that we were totally going to go to war. And having heard from my dad about World War I all my life, I thought that’s what you’re supposed to do.” Asked if there was anything he
wished he could have done differently, Davison replied, “Only that I could have been there sooner.”

Patriotism in Decline

The sense of patriotism and love of country in America isn’t what it used to be. In the past, the identity of an American, the love of country, and the passion and uniqueness of America drove soldiers to enlist and fight for her. The idea of patriotism in America’s youth has changed.

In the aftermath of 9/11, even following Time magazine’s evocation of Roosevelt’s “day of infamy,” enlistment in the military was marginal at best. The New York Times reported that “Americans did not flock to military recruiting stations after 9/11 the way they did in 1941.” Perhaps it’s a waning patriotism that could not be revived even in the aftermath of 9/11.

In a 2014 Pew study, 75 percent of Baby Boomers felt they were patriotic, 64 percent of Generation Xers felt they were patriotic, but only 49 percent of Millennials felt the same. Perhaps the reason is that younger generations were raised with a sense of entitlement, receiving trophies for participation and scoring higher on a narcissism scale than previous generations, according to Time. Social media has flattened the world. Globalization has made the world a much smaller place; the younger generation identifies with faraway cultures and nations much more than in years past.

The one percent who were deployed to the Middle East following 9/11 wonder if the average American thinks about them and their service or the battles they have endured. One injured soldier said he wishes people would worry less about “Escalades and big-screen TVs,” and appreciate what they already have, to think about the world now and then, and to be more informed.

Today, on the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor only about 70 survivors of the attack still remain, a fast dwindling number of patriotic heroes. Those still living and able have been flown in to participate in the 75th commemoration ceremonies, perhaps their last trip to the site where so many of their friends and colleagues lost their lives. For some, thinking about Pearl Harbor and the events of that day is an opportunity to reflect on what “we as Americans value.” The takeaway for younger generations reflecting on Pearl Harbor is simple for Lester Lindlow: “Be American.”

Here is President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech:

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Pence Defends Trump’s Call with President of Taiwan, Says American People ‘Encouraged’ by Engagement

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In an interview Sunday on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos pressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence on the topic of President-elect Donald Trump’s phone conversation Friday with Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of Taiwan.

Since 1979, the United States has recognized a “One China” policy and had no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province.

“Let’s get right to China, that call with the leader of Taiwan,” began Stephanopoulos. “As far as we know, no president or president-elect has spoken with Taiwan’s leader in nearly four decades.”

“Why did Mr. Trump choose to break that precedent?” he asked.

“Well, I’ll tell you what,” Pence replied, “from the morning after the election we’ve seen the president-elect engaging the world. He’s spoken to more than 50 world leaders. I’ve spoken to several dozen myself. And he received a courtesy call from the democratically elected president of Taiwan to congratulate him.”

When asked about China’s unfavorable reaction to the call, Pence directed the focus back to what Trump’s outreach with foreign leaders says about his impending presidency.

“Did he intend to send the kind of signal it sent?” Stephanopoulos asked. “Because the Chinese government has already complained about this. How did you guys respond to that?”

“Well, I understand some of the controversy in the media about this, but I –” began Pence.

Stephanopoulos interrupted to say it wasn’t just an issue in the media, but that the Chinese government had registered its displeasure with the call.

“Well, yes, of course,” answered Pence. “But I would tell you that I think the American people find it very refreshing, the energy that our president-elect is bringing to this whole transition.”

The vice president-elect added, “He’s not only bringing together a Cabinet at a historic pace for the last 40 years, he’s not only assembling a legislative agenda to move forward this country at home and abroad, but he’s also been engaging the world.”

“I think the American people are encouraged … to see that President-elect Trump is taking calls from the world, speaking to the world. They know he’s going to be out there advancing America’s interests first with that broad-shouldered leadership that’s characterized his entire life,” he continued.

Stephanopoulos then inquired as to whether Trump’s call would have implications for the “One China” policy

“Well, we’ll deal with policy after Jan. 20,” Pence responded. “This was a courtesy call.”

Pence then drew a comparison with the current president and his talks with the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

“It’s a little mystifying to me that President Obama can reach out to a murdering dictator in Cuba in the last year and be hailed as a hero for doing it, and President-elect Donald Trump takes a courtesy call from the democratically elected leader in Taiwan and it’s become something of a controversy,” he said.

Some say Trump’s call was a calculated move designed to send a message to China.

Marc A. Thiessen, writing in The Washington Post, said it “wasn’t a blunder by an inexperienced president-elect unschooled in the niceties of cross-straits diplomacy. It was a deliberate move — and a brilliant one at that.”

“Trump knew precisely what he was doing in taking the call,” he wrote. “He was serving notice on Beijing that it is dealing with a different kind of president — an outsider who will not be encumbered by the same Lilliputian diplomatic threads that tied down previous administrations. The message, as John Bolton correctly put it, was that ‘the president of the United States [will] talk to whomever he wants if he thinks it’s in the interest of the United States, and nobody in Beijing gets to dictate who we talk to.’” (For more from the author of “Pence Defends Trump’s Call with President of Taiwan, Says American People ‘Encouraged’ by Engagement” please click HERE)

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Can Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Really End Common Core?

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On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump made big promises about getting rid of Common Core. “We’re going to end Common Core, we’re going to have education an absolute priority,” he said in a campaign video.

Upon being nominated secretary of the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos made clear her stance against the national education standards. “I am not a supporter—period,” she wrote.

But what can Trump and DeVos really do to dismantle the national education standards? The Daily Signal explains. (For more from the author of “Can Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos Really End Common Core?” please click HERE)

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7 Top RINO Moments of Betrayal This Week

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One of the excuses for Republicans failing to promote a conservative agenda is that “outside organizations” have unrealistic expectations of what they can accomplish when they are out of power.

That excuse comes to an end in January when Donald Trump is sworn into office with a Republican-controlled House and Senate. However, based on what we’re seeing from the lame-duck session, it is clear that the dearth of conservatism is not due to a lack of power but a lack of will. The alacrity of Republicans to promote mediocre or liberal priorities in a lame-duck session with Obama as president instead of passing a budget CR and getting out of town — so that we can do better things next year — demonstrates that they fundamentally don’t share our values.

To that end, I present a week in review in the form of the top seven RINO moments of betrayal. (Warning: John McCain, R-Ariz. (F, 32%) and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (F, 30%) are the stars of the show.)

1. Sold out to the transgender lobby

GOP leaders negotiated a conference report for the final version of the FY 2017 defense bill (NDAA). The transgender lobby pushed hard to remove a provision protecting defense contractors from Obama’s mandate forcing them to comply with his transgender policies and views on gay marriage or risk losing contracts. John McCain, as the lead Republican negotiator, agreed to take out this provision (the Russell Amendment).

Let’s get this straight: Republicans are passing an NDAA in a lame duck, which is already several months into the fiscal year, instead of waiting until early next year when we have a Republican president who could sign an NDAA with better provisions, protecting religious liberty. Remember, this is an authorization bill — not an appropriations bill — and can wait until February. Then again, the sexual identity movement tells Republicans to jump and they ask, “How high?”

Unfortunately, with leadership presenting members with a false choice of passing a defense bill with bad provisions instead of waiting, conservatives felt compelled to vote for it and so as not to appear they oppose the military. This is what leadership does to conservatives on a daily basis.

2. Jammed through 1,000-page health care spending bill

Who doesn’t want to cure cancer? Under the guise of discovering the cure to cancer, GOP leadership passed an “unpaid-for” $6.3 billion health care spending bill that threw even more money at the HHS, which already spends about $1 trillion a year on health care programs. Once again, conservative members were placed in a tough position between the false choice of either appearing to be against a cure for cancer and some good reforms or creating a lot of wasteful big government programs.

3. Funded Syrian al Qaeda in defense bill

In addition to caving on the transgender provision in the NDAA, Republicans, at the behest of John McCain, extended funding for the training and equipping of Syrian rebels through 2018! Yes, they are extending Obama’s legacy of funding Syrian Islamist groups — who call for the beheading of the troops who are training them — into Trump’s presidency. Again, why not wait until Trump becomes president and disband this harmful program? Because McCain, as you will see in a moment, loves himself some Islamist rebels.

4. Proposed an amendment to protect al Qaeda and Saudi Arabia

Obama is not the only one who mixes up enemies and allies. Just how strong is the support of John McCain and Lindsey Graham for the Syrian Islamist rebels? They proposed an amendment this week to strip out a provision from the Justice Against Sponsors of Terror Act (JASTA), which allows families of terror victims to bring civil claims against governments that fund those terrorist groups responsible.

As Patrick Poole reports, the intent behind their amendment, which comes on the heels of an intense lobbying campaign from Saudi Arabia, is “to immunize countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar that have funded Sunni terrorist groups in Syria — the Syrian ‘rebel’ effort that both McCain and Graham have publicly supported since 2011.” Meanwhile, as they promote Saudi Arabia and Syrian al Qaeda, McCain and Graham are publicly criticizing domestic policies of Egyptian President al-Sisi in his efforts to clamp down on the Muslim Brotherhood. Who needs Democrats when we have two of the most senior Republicans on foreign policy promoting the same dyslexic Muslim Brotherhood agenda?

5. Thom Tillis threw a tantrum over criminal justice reform

Imagine being a Republican now as we look forward to the opportunity of controlling all branches of government. There is an endless list of conservative priorities to push on social, fiscal, and national security issues, right? Well, for Sen. Thom Tillis (R-K Street), his hill to die on his promoting jail break.

This week, he threatened to retire from the Senate in 2020 unless Republicans pass criminal justice “reform.” So as a member of the Judiciary Committee, with the opportunity to focus on immigration and election fraud, which are helping create a permanent Democrat majority, he instead focuses on Soros’ number one priority: help grow the Democrat voter base?! This is a man whose priorities are already dyslexic, as he sided with the transgender lobby over his own state party. His threat to retire should actually come as welcome news to conservatives. Unfortunately, his threat is likely as real as the threat from Hollywood actors to leave the country when Trump becomes president.

6. Lindsey Graham just can’t divorce himself from amnesty

Lindsey Graham has long peddled the open borders electoral myth: Republicans cannot win elections without embracing amnesty. This election completely repudiated that premise and proved conclusively that just the opposite is true. So what is Graham’s first priority for 2017? He plans to introduce another Dream Act amnesty designed to preserve Obama’s executive amnesty! At a time when more and more young, illegal immigrants are flooding our southern border, induced precisely by these very promises of amnesty, Lindsey wants to pour gasoline on the fire.

Meanwhile, there are new reports that illegal immigrants are more successful than ever at evading apprehension at the border and that unaccompanied minors are draining our federal health care funds. Thanks Lindsey! You are just what the doctor ordered.

7. Orrin Hatch might violate his pledge and run again

Facing a competitive primary in 2012, old-bull establishment hack Orrin Hatch, R-Utah (F, 33%) pledged that this would be his final — and most conservative — term in the Senate. Well, it has been his most liberal, and he is now indicating he will break his pledge and run for another term in 2018. If re-elected, he will be 90 years-old at the end of his term. Then again, the growing fumes of more power will always get in the way of doing the right thing, turning the House of Lords into a retirement home.

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Tolerance Strikes Again: College Students Shout Down Rick Santorum During Speech

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Open-minded, tolerant liberals are at it again — this time, shouting down former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate Rick Santorum for making a speech at Cornell University on the future of America under President-elect Donald Trump. Famously socially conservative, Santorum made a short speech and opened up the floor to questions from the packed audience.

But liberals couldn’t wait that long to heckle Santorum, both in the marked area outside the auditorium and indoors. Hosted by the Cornell Republicans, the campus’ Young America’s Foundation and the Student Activities Funding Commission, Santorum was introduced by Cornell College Republicans President Olivia Corn. Within a minute of speaking, Corn had to firmly ask hecklers to “please give me the respect I’m giving you.”

It only got worse from there, with hecklers chanting “Shame!” as Santorum spoke. They also said he should leave campus, and were otherwise hostile despite claiming to have liberal values. The event can be seen in full at the video immediately below, starting around 29:00.

In a particularly poignant clip, Santorum seemed to chuckle as he noted that the same liberal students yelling “Shame!” were likely to “walk around this campus and talk about tolerance.” Santorum was interrupted this time by cheers and a partial standing ovation, after which he continued: “And all of them will tell you that you have to celebrate what? Diversity! Celebrate diversity! Preach tolerance! But when it comes to anybody who disagrees with them, there is no tolerance.”

The conservative student publication Cornell Review mocked the protesters, while The Cornell Daily Sun gave prominent voice to students who claim Santorum is “anti-gay” and “racist.” The independent student newspaper The Daily Sun article noted that the evening began with the usual reading of the university’s free speech policy, which had to be read again half-way through, “as protesters were continually hindering the speaker’s ability to address attendees.”

The SJW students at Cornell clearly can’t tolerate a viewpoint or rationale with which they disagree, though it appears the number of outlandishly rude and intolerant students was small compared to the 500-person audience reported by the Review. Cornell’s student leadership and administration deserve credit for hosting Santorum despite the students who showed their liberal values go no further than their safe spaces. (For more from the author of “Tolerance Strikes Again: College Students Shout Down Rick Santorum During Speech” please click HERE)

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