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The terrorist attack in Barcelona follows a pattern that has left more than 100 people dead and hundreds more injured in Nice, Berlin, London, Stockholm and Ohio State University — a terrorist takes a van or truck and plows through innocent pedestrians on a crowded thoroughfare, turning the vehicle into “a mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah.

” Indeed, “US trade and tourism to Cuba is flourishing under Trump.” Denouncing Venezuela “is the right thing to do.

But ignoring Cuba’s abuses is morally wrong.”Conservative: Affirmative Action for AmbassadorsIn repudiating the racists at Charlottesville, notes Terry Eastland at The Weekly Standard, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also addressed “a great diversity gap” in ambassadorships — and pledged that “every time we have an opening for an ambassador position, at least one of the candidates must be a minority.

” But that, says Eastland, would “necessarily .

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result in discrimination” against a “better qualified” candidate who lacks “the ‘right’ race or ethnicity.

” Besides, “federal civil rights law and the Constitution would not seem to permit racial preferences in the selection of ambassadors and department employees.” It “routinely lumps conservative advocacy groups in with legitimate hate organizations, putting proponents of traditional family values in the same category as neo-Nazis and the KKK.

” Liberal journalist Ken Silverstein has reported that the SPLC “shuts down debate, stifles free speech and, most of all, raises a pile of money, very little of which is used on behalf of poor people.”— Compiled by Eric Fettmann

The terrorist attack in Barcelona follows a pattern that has left more than 100 people dead and hundreds more injured in Nice, Berlin, London, Stockholm and Ohio State University — a terrorist takes a van or truck and plows through innocent pedestrians on a crowded thoroughfare, turning the vehicle into “a mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah.”Those words come from an article called “The Ultimate Mowing Machine” in the 2010 edition of the glossy al Qaeda online magazine Inspire, which provided detailed instructions for how to carry out vehicular attacks, urging would-be terrorists to “pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control .

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