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Watch: Ben Carson Says He Supports Creating Transgender Bathrooms

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By Overpasses For America. Carson apparently has forgotten that he’s a conservative, if he ever actually was.

He does however seem to have a grasp on the Communist Agenda.

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 . . .

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

Now, he wants to burden the American people with exhorbitant expenses to create bathrooms for transgenders. (Read more from “Watch: Ben Carson Says He Supports Creating Transgender Bathrooms” HERE)

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Ben Carson’s Past Called Into Question Again as Friends Doubt Claims He Hid White Classmates During Race Riots After MLK Assassination

By Meg Wagner. Critics are questioning more accounts from Ben Carson’s past, including a harrowing tale of how he sheltered his white classmates during Detroit race riots.

The revelations came a day after the GOP candidate called reporters “desperate” for asking questions about his 1996 autobiography.

A fiery Carson blasted the media Friday after reports questioned the validity of his book, “Gifted Hands,” specifically suggesting he may have lied about earning a scholarship to West Point and embellished stories about his violent outbursts as a youth.

“There’s got to be a scandal. There’s got to be some nurse he’s had an affair with. There’s got to be something. They have gotten desperate,” Carson told reporters Friday night, according to CNN. “Next week, it will be my kindergarten teacher who said I peed in my pants. It’s ridiculous.”

On Friday, a new media report scrutinized two more stories from the neurosurgeon-turned-politician. (Read more from “Ben Carson’s Past Called Into Question Again as Friends Doubt Claims He Hid White Classmates During Race Riots After MLK Assassination” HERE)

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Watch: Carson Blows up at Media; But Did He Fabricate West Point Story?

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By Derek Hunter. Showing exasperation with the media coverage of his campaign and the media investigation of his biography, GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson turned the tables on reporters, saying, “I do not remember this level of scrutiny for one President Barack Obama.”

After several minutes of questions regarding whether or not he had received an offer for a scholarship to West Point or was simply told he could get a scholarship to West Point, Carson had had enough.

“I do not remember this level of scrutiny for one President Barack Obama when he was running,” Carson said. “In fact, I remember just the opposite. I remember people just ‘well, well, we won’t really talk about that. We won’t talk about that relationship. Well Frank Marshall Davis, well we don’t want to talk about that. Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, well, he didn’t really know him. All the things Jeremiah Wright was saying, well not a big problem.’ Goes to Occidental College, doesn’t do all that well and somehow ends up at Columbia University. His records are sealed. Why are his records sealed? Why are you guys not interested in why his records are sealed?”

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Questions Over Ben Carson’s West Point Story Raised

By BBC News. Republican Ben Carson has admitted that he never applied to join the US military academy at West Point, despite implications in his book that he had.

The presidential hopeful wrote in his 1996 autobiography, Gifted Hands, that he had been offered a full scholarship by the prestigious school.

But the academy said it had no record of an application from Mr Carson.

His team has denied that he lied about West Point, saying the academy effectively offered him a place.

In his book, Mr Carson recalls a meeting in 1969 when he was a high school student in Detroit enrolled in the ROTC programme, which provides preliminary officer training for students. (Read more from “Questions Over Ben Carson’s West Point Story Raised” HERE)
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Problems With Politio’s Hit Piece on Carson

By Mollie Hemingway. Politico‘s Kyle Cheney admitted that he fabricated a negative story about Ben Carson. At least, according to his own standards, he admitted the grievous journalistic sin.

In a story published early on Friday, Politico’s Kyle Cheney authored a piece headlined “Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship” with a subhead “Carson’s campaign on Friday conceded that a central point in his inspirational personal story did not occur as he previously described.”

There were at least five major problems with the story:

•The headline was completely false

•The subhead was also completely false

•The opening paragraph was false false false

•The substance of the piece was missing key exonerating information

•The article demonstrated confusion about service academy admissions and benefits

But other than that, A+++ work, Kyle Cheney and Politico.

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Ben Carson Backs TPP Deal

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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Friday that he supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiated by the White House – aligning himself more with the GOP’s establishment wing than with the social conservatives who have powered his campaign.

Mr. Carson’s backing of the 12-nation Pacific trade deal places him at odds with Donald Trump, his chief rival for support among anti-establishment Republicans. Mr. Carson had expressed skepticism about the TPP, saying in a June interview with the Huffington Post that he would not give President Barack Obama “fast-track” authority to negotiate the deal.

Now, a day after the White House posted the text of the TPP deal online, Mr. Carson’s campaign said Friday that he supports the final product.

Mr. Carson, spokesman Doug Watts said, “believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.” Mr. Watts said Mr. Carson is “now inclined to support TPP, with reservations.”

Mr. Carson’s new support for the trade deal comes as the Republican Party’s decades-long support for free trade is splintering. Mr. Trump is leading a wing of anti-trade candidates that includes social conservatives Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who had backed the “fast-track” legislation aimed at expediting TPP approval, backed away from the bill because he said Republicans couldn’t trust Mr. Obama and said approving the deal would open American companies to increased foreign competition and boost illegal immigration. (Read more from “Ben Carson Backs TPP Deal” HERE)

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Ben Carson Endorses a Pro-Gay, Pro-Abortion Candidate in 2014

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Ben Carson’s wholehearted endorsement of pro-gay-marriage and pro-abortion candidate [was] utterly heart-breaking . . .

As it turns out, Carson is just another Judas who has no problem throwing lip-service to the preborn and to marriage and simultaneously endorsing pro-gay-marriage and pro-abortion candidates for office. He even gave a speech to lobby for Monica Wehby for the U.S. Senate. His justification of his unconscionable endorsement is what is most troubling to me. The GOP, according to Carson, needs to be big enough for pro-abortion Republicans. He doesn’t have a “litmus test” – not even when it comes to the slaughter of innocent babies. Fully aware of her public positions, Monica Wehby, according to Ben Carson, has “a very good value system.”

Ben Carson assures us she’s “personally pro-life”, but, she justifies abortion in cases of rape and incest and for the health of the mother. She goes further and says, “I believe this is a personal decision between a women and her family, not a woman and the federal government.” Isn’t that a justification of all abortion as long as it is a personal decision of the mother? (Read more from “FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Ben Carson Endorses a Pro-Gay, Pro-Abortion Candidate in 2014” HERE)

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Ben Carson Is Right to Compare Abortion With Slavery

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By David French. This weekend, Ben Carson did what he does best. He clearly and plainly stated a mainstream conservative view that most Republican politicians dare not utter — in this case, that the debate over abortion is comparable to the debate over slavery. Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd, Carson said: “During slavery — and I know that’s one of those words you’re not supposed to say, but I’m saying it — during slavery, a lot of slave owners thought they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave, anything that they chose. And what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe in slavery, but you guys do whatever you want’? Where would we be?”

Carson’s statement is an entirely mainstream, pro-life view. As my National Review colleague Ian Tuttle wrote in July, the debate over abortion is “every bit as urgent a question of justice, of fidelity to our fundamental tenets” as the debate over slavery. He continued: “In the Civil War, we fought to vindicate every man’s right to liberty. What is at stake in the current conflict is the only right more fundamental: that of life.”

Throughout my entire career, pro-life Americans have made the argument that the moral dimensions of the case for life are similar to the moral dimensions of the case against slavery. In both instances, the abhorrent practice rested on dehumanization: the declaration that black Africans were somehow innately inferior to whites, and the declaration that unborn children are somehow less than fully and completely human.

In other words, while women seeking abortions bear moral responsibility for their actions, that responsibility generally pales in comparison with the moral responsibility of the abortionist. Even worse than a slave-owner, the abortionist is a mass killer who possesses scientific knowledge far superior to all but the tiniest percentage of his or her patients. The abortionist knows the facts about the baby’s distinct DNA. The abortionist knows the gruesome reality of the procedure itself. And by relentlessly fighting against common-sense informed-consent laws, the abortion industry actively seeks to perpetuate ignorance in their targeted population. (Read more from “Ben Carson Is Right to Compare Abortion With Slavery” HERE)

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‘The View’ Hates Ben Carson’s Views on Abortion

By Steve Guest. The hosts of “The View” called Ben Carson’s views on abortion “despicable” and pathetic.”

Monday on “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Raven-Symone and Michelle Collins criticized Carson’s views on abortion, which he shared on “Meet the Press.”

“If people can come up with a reasonable explanation of why they would like to kill a baby, I’ll listen,” he said.

After the interview clip, Behar said, “What can you say to that, you know? It’s pathetic.”

Collins called Carson’s views “despicable.” (Read more from “‘The View’ Hates Ben Carson’s Views on Abortion” HERE)

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Ben Carson: Hillary Will Lose Because She’ll Be in Jail

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Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said Representative Rep. Paul Ryan is running for speaker “the right way,” “I’m not sure that there’s anything useful to be gained” by criticizing former President George W. Bush for 9/11, and Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “could well be in jail” in an interview with Fox News Radio’s John Gibson released on Wednesday, that, according to Gibson’s site, took place before Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement that he was not running for president, which was made around 12:15 pm EDT on Wednesday.

Carson stated of Ryan, “I think he’s doing — he’s going about it the right way. He said I don’t want to do it if I can’t get the support, you know, of all the factions. That’s leadership, and that’s good. So, you know, I’m very encouraged to see that” . . .

Regarding the feud between fellow candidates Donald Trump and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush over 9/11, Carson said that he doesn’t believe Trump is blaming George W. Bush for 9/11, and that the topic wasn’t important.

When asked if Jeb Bush was right to say his brother kept the US safe, Carson responded, “There is no question that George W. Bush was laser focused on keeping us safe, and I think he did a very good job of it, no question about that. But, you know, at the same time, I would have loved to have seen more emphasis on the budget, not allowing it to get completely out of control” . . .

Carson was also asked to predict who will be the Democratic nominee, to which he said Joe Biden will win because, “Hillary could well be in jail, and it’s hard to run from there.” Carson added that, “I think she may not be actually in jail, but I think the controversy swirling around that will have an extremely damaging effect.” (Read more from “Hillary Will Lose Because She’ll be in Jail” HERE)

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Ben Carson Just Called on Every Christian in America to Do THIS, and It Shouldn’t Be Ignored

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Dr. Ben Carson told an audience of thousands at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Presidential Forum on Saturday that inviting God back into America is part of his prescription for what ails the nation. He encouraged the evangelical crowd that they have an important role to play in bringing about a renaissance of faith and liberty in the culture.

“It is time to bring God back into our country,” Carson stated. “Our faith gives us our freedom.”

The former neurosurgeon used his own life as an illustration of God’s ability to transform the individual, who can then turn around and spread the good news and help change the culture. Breitbart reports that Carson spoke about the anger issues that he had as a teenager. “At one point, he described a fight he got into with another man where he actually stabbed the man with a knife because of his rage. Fortunately, the man was wearing a large metal belt buckle that broke the blade. The man safely fled, but Carson was shocked at what happened because of his temper,” according to the news outlet.

[Listen to this activist’s overview of the forum in Texas and who came out on top:]

Immediately following the incident, he locked himself away and prayed and read Bible verses on anger for two hours. What came out of that time was a recognition that his violent outbursts (which had happened on previous occasions as well) were not his strength, but his weakness. He told the Faith and Freedom audience that he has never had an outburst of anger since that time with the Almighty. “God doesn’t just do a paint job, he fixes things,” Carson said. (Read more from “Ben Carson Just Called on Every Christian in America to Do THIS, and It Shouldn’t Be Ignored” HERE)

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So How Long Has Ben Carson Really Been a Republican?

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Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump has received a lot of scrutiny for donating to Democratic politicians in the past. But Republican primary voters may be curious to know why one of his chief rivals, Dr. Ben Carson, officially joined the Republican Party less than one year ago.

The American Mirror has obtained several public records that show Dr. Ben Carson, one of Trump’s chief rivals, did not affiliate with the Republican Party until he changed his voter registration on October 31, 2014.

Photo Credit: The American Mirror

Carson filed this “record update/change” on that date to change his party affiliation to “Republican Party of Florida” — less than six months before declaring his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.

The office of Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections confirms, “Dr. Carson was previously registered with a minor political party: Independence Party of Florida (IDP).”

Other records show Carson was also registered as an independent in Maryland. According to the Baltimore County Board of Elections, despite registering to vote in that county in 2001, Carson only voted in the general elections of 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 — and never in any primaries. (Read more from “So How Long Has Ben Carson Really Been a Republican?” HERE)

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Ben Carson on the ‘End of Days’

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By Al Weaver. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has weighed in on whether the world is coming to an end.

During a Sunday interview with new TV host Sharyl Attkisson, the former neurosurgeon said that one could “guess that we are getting closer” to the end of the world as we know it if we are approaching the Biblical “end of days” . . .

“Do you think we’re at the end of days?” Attkisson asked.

“You could guess that we are getting closer to that,” Carson said. “You do have people who have a belief system that sees this apocalyptic phenomenon occurring, and that they’re a part of it, and who would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if they gain possession.”

The former CBS News investigative reporter went on to ask the 2016 hopeful if there is “a chance to change the course,” noting that it is “something that is prophesied.” (Read more from “Ben Carson on the ‘End of Days'” HERE)

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Ben Carson: We’re ‘Closer’ to End of Days

By Tal Kopan. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says the world could be approaching its end — but we may be able to change course.

When Carson was asked by journalist Sharyl Attkisson if he believed the “end of days” was near, he said, “You could guess that we are getting closer to that. . .”

Attkisson was asking the devout Carson about his faith and feelings about religion and asked how he felt the state of the world today relates to what’s in the Bible.

She followed up by asking if the end times could be avoided or whether it is prophesied. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Carson Says Mainstream Media Can’t Stand the Thought of a Black Conservative

By Adelle Nazarian. Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson says one of his predictions is coming true: The mainstream media is manipulating reality, based on its ideological underpinnings, to come after him during his presidential campaign.

“They’re actually playing right into the narrative that I have predicted for them,” Carson told host Matt Boyle on Breitbart News Sunday. “Because they can’t stand the thought of a black person who is a conservative, who hasn’t had to make it on their handout and be at their beck and call and doing the things that they want them to do. It just infuriates them.”

Carson’s comment came in response to Boyle’s request that he weigh in on the hypocrisy inherent in Daily Show host Trevor Noah’s recent criticism of Carson for saying he would defend himself by fighting back against the gunman in the deadly Oregon shooting on his show, only to admit on a different outlet that the neurosurgeon was correct.

Carson said Noah, along with the mainstream media, lack the quality of “integrity” that would allow for him to admit on his own show that he was wrong suggesting that there’s very little of that value in the mainstream media.

So none of that surprises me. In fact, because I fly in the face of the secular, progressive ideology, I expect them to continue to attack me constantly. The only thing that they don’t seem to be bright enough to realize that the more they attack me, the stronger I get. People expect them to do that.

(Read more from this story HERE)

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GOP Presidential Hopeful Carson Discusses Constitution and Same-Sex Marriage

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That’s the basic message behind “A More Perfect Union,” a book that author Ben Carson hopes will tell his reader, as the subtitle puts it, “what we the people can do to reclaim our constitutional liberties.”

Carson admits up front he’s no constitutional scholar. His expertise and most of his fame come from being a pediatric neurosurgeon, although his conservative political views have propelled him to the forefront of the GOP presidential race. But while surgery is complicated, Carson views the supreme law of the land as sublimely simple.

“That’s the wonderful thing about the Constitution, it’s written in a way that people can understand,” Carson said in a phone interview with the Herald. “There are those who want you to think it’s so complex you can’t understand it, but if you read it, it’s written at an eighth-grade level” . . .

Carson is adamantly opposed to the Supreme Court’s June decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country, ruling that the equitable application of marriage law is a question of “equal protection of the laws” under the Fourteenth Amendment. But the doctor says the people’s vote in states that had banned recognition of gay marriage shouldn’t be ignored by federal courts.

“The reason we address civil issues at the state and local level is because it’s a question of lifestyle,” and local officials will be more in tune with locals’ views on such sensitive issues than federal ones. “They can decide what’s most compatible with their belief system, and someone else shouldn’t impose their will on them.” (Read more from “GOP Presidential Hopeful Carson Discusses Constitution” HERE)

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