Crying “racism” has jumped the shark

Aaron Clarey on why “racist!” has jumped the shark:

Of course, deep down inside we all knew being called a “racist” or a “sexist” was nothing more than a cowardly tactic by leftists with precisely that intent. To taint and paint anybody who advocated free markets, capitalism, freedom and treating people as genuine equals as a racist because it would divert people’s attention from the left’s ultimate lack of solutions.

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Rand Paul: Obama “Unqualified” For Office

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After Obama’s press secretary claimed that Donald Trump has lost all legitimacy and has been “disqualified” from running for office, Senator Rand Paul who is also running for the GOP nomination, blasted back at the arrogance of the Obama White House, suggesting that President Obama should address his own “disqualifying” characteristics.

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The IMF’s Proxy War Against Russia

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Tuesday, the IMF joined the New Cold War. It has been lending money to Ukraine despite the Fund’s rules blocking it from lending to countries with no visible chance of paying (the “No More Argentinas” rule from 2001). When IMF head Christine Lagarde made the last IMF loan to Ukraine in the spring, she expressed the hope that there would be peace. But President Porochenko immediately announced that he would use the proceeds to step up his nation’s civil war with the Russian-speaking population in the East – the Donbass.

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Google Knows Best

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In an op-ed for The New York Times, Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, inserted himself directly into the middle of a heated debate about the line between fighting terrorism’s online reach and internet censorship.

 “It’s our responsibility to demonstrate that stability and free expression go hand in hand,” he writes. “We should build tools to help de-escalate tensions on social media—sort of like spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment.”