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DC Residents Protest Trump’s Meeting with House Republicans
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DC Residents Protest Trump’s Meeting with House Republicans

WASHINGTON- Early morning on Thursday, July 7, 2016, a few dozen protesters waited outside the Capitol Hill Club as Donald Trump met with various GOP leaders. “Donald Trump, you can’t hide. We can see your racist side,” chanted the protesters who held various signs criticizing Trump’s honesty and his professional record. “Trump U was a […]

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Has the Left Been Trumped?
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Has the Left Been Trumped?

Regular Republicans may still be skittish about him but even their most eloquent and articulate critics on the left are hard put to make a coherent case against the presumptive Republican candidate for president. This was evident at Accuracy in Academia’s second authors’ night in June with John Wilson. Refusing to directly answer questions, Wilson […]

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Donald Trump challenges Hillary Clinton at Road to Majority conference

WASHINGTON — Over the weekend, the Trump train took a more faith-friendly route, making a stop at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington D.C. That didn’t stop Donald Trump from speaking about whom he refers to as “Crooked Hillary Clinton.” Friday afternoon the businessman announced he would like to challenge […]

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Some Portland State Students Upset at Students for Trump Display
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Some Portland State Students Upset at Students for Trump Display

From Campus Reform: A Students for Trump event at Portland State University was greeted with hostility Saturday when campus police officers tried to kick Trump’s supporters to the curb while protesters reacted hysterically to chants of “USA! USA!” Students for Trump began the event by erecting a wall on campus but campus security attempted to […]

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Trump University Court Docs Aren’t Flattering
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Trump University Court Docs Aren’t Flattering

Was it a fraud, or was it not a fraud? Interesting that it hasn’t hurt Trump in the polls yet. Newly unsealed documents from the ongoing class action lawsuit against Donald Trump’s real estate training business reveal that managers working for the company believed it to be “misleading, fraudulent and dishonest” in its operations and […]

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Trump Campaign Plans College Overhaul

Who knew that the Trump campaign would be getting involved in higher education policy this year? Sam Clovis, a tenured economics professor and Trump campaign co-chair, recently noted that their objectives include getting the government out of student lending, requiring colleges to share in student loan risk, and discouraging borrowing by liberal arts majors. Clovis […]

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University of Illinois Mandates 2 Diversity Courses Required for Graduation after the Trump Chalk Message Controversy

#TheChalkening apparently struck fear into the modern snowflakes that we call college students: At a public meeting last week, the Academic Senate voted to require students entering the university in 2018 to take one class each in “non-Western culture” and “U.S. minority culture.” Currently students must take one course that satisfies either of those categories. The […]

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