The US has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures - Business Insider

The US has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures - Business Insider: 
"The United States has many regions, and author Colin Woodard argues that it can be divided into 11 sub-nations.
Woodard's defined nations range from the "Deep South" to the "Midlands" and "El Norte."
The cultural differences between them contribute to the political tensions between states and how they fit into the US overall, he said.
The United States comprises several different regions, each with its own rich history and cultural identity.
Exactly where those regions start and end has been a long-running debate..."
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Robert Mueller probe 'witch hunt,' plurality of voters say in CBS News/YouGov poll - Washington Times

Robert Mueller probe 'witch hunt,' plurality of voters say in CBS News/YouGov poll - Washington Times:

"President Trump has long blasted the special counsel’s investigation as a “witch hunt,” and it turns out a plurality of voters agree with him.
The CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker released Sunday found that 44 percent of those surveyed view special counsel Robert Mueller’s year-long probe into possible ties between Russian and the Trump campaign as “just a political witch hunt and distraction.”"

POLITICIZING THE FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed | The Daily Caller

POLITICIZING THE FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed | The Daily Caller
"A little over 40 years ago, Richard Nixon went from a landslide re-election winner to a president forced to resign in disgrace.
Nixon’s downfall was the direct result of his unsuccessful attempts to politicize through patronage of an independent, straight-arrow FBI.
The commonsense, ethical lesson from this for all government officials would be to avoid attempts to use our nation’s independent fact-finder as a partisan force.
There is as well, of course, a more perverse lesson to be learned from Nixon’s downfall at the hands of an independent FBI, to wit: there is much power to gain by politicizing the Bureau, but only if its upper-leadership team is all on partisan board.
Emerging evidence increasingly suggests, sadly, that this was former FBI Director James Comey’s leadership strategy in our country’s most sensitive investigations..."
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'Transgender handouts' examine 'Gender-Normative Privilege'

'Transgender handouts' examine 'Gender-Normative Privilege'

• The “LGBTQIA+ Resource Center” at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst offers a variety of "transgender handouts" addressing issues such as "Gender-Normative Privilege" and "How Can Your Campus Be More Trans-Inclusive?"
• There is also a glossary of "Transgender Terminology" that defines terms such as “Cisgender Privilege,” “Two Spirit People,” “Genderqueer Individuals,” and “Gender Affirming Surgery.”

..."[The Stonewall Center] has served as a model for many other colleges and universities, and today more than 150 LGBT campus centers and offices exist across the United States and Canada." 
A primer on Gender-Normative Privilege, for instance, provides a checklist students can use to identify “if I am gender normative (or, in some cases, simply perceived as gender normative).”
Some of the indications that one is gender normative include 

• the ability to “purchase shoes that fit my gender expression without having to order them in special sizes or asking someone to custom-make them,” 
• being able to use the showers at a gym or public pool, and
• not being “expected to constantly defend my medical decisions.”...

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Majority of Likely Voters in 2018 Swing-Districts: Immigration is Making American Life 'Worse' | Breitbart

Majority of Likely Voters in 2018 Swing-Districts: Immigration is Making American Life 'Worse' | Breitbart:

"The majority of likely voters in 2018 midterm swing districts across the United States say immigration to the U.S. has made American life worse, a new poll reveals.
In the latest CBS News/YouGov Poll, which surveyed likely voters in 2018 midterm battleground districts, Americans by a majority say overall immigration to the country is making their life worse off."

Popularity of the Name ‘Muhammad’ in Europe Is an Element of Jihad | Homeland Security

Popularity of the Name ‘Muhammad’ in Europe Is an Element of Jihad | Homeland Security
"Muhammad is slowly gaining ground against the infidels -- and in their own homelands. 
As one recent report notes, the German city of Bremen is the first in the country for which it is the most popular name for newborn boys.

It’s the same in other Western European cities. 

“Mohammed [is the] most popular name for newborn boys in the Netherlands for second year in a row,” reads another recent report.   

Muhammad is also the most popular name in England. 

In fact, Muhammad is one of the most popular names throughout Northwest Europe; where the name is not most popular, it is among the tops: “Mohammed is already the 3rd most popular baby name in Vienna.”

While this may seem innocuous enough -- what’s in a name? -- the fact is many Muslims see their offspring as their contribution to the jihad, the “struggle” to make Islam supreme, since more numbers equate more influence and power. 
The popularity of “Muhammad” is not a fad, but a message from the parents (usually the father) concerning whom they most revere and hope their sons emulate: the founder of Islam/jihad..."

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Starbucks Employees Say 'Bias' Training Was Mostly Anti-Cop Propaganda - Blue Lives Matter

Starbucks Employees Say 'Bias' Training Was Mostly Anti-Cop Propaganda - Blue Lives Matter
"Philadelphia, PA – Employees of color who attended the highly-publicized “unconscious bias training” for Starbucks employees on Tuesday have reported it was more of a lesson on police brutality than anything else.
Starbucks closed 8,000 stores for several hours on May 30 to facilitate seminars for its employees after the coffee shop was at the forefront of a racial controversy in April.
“It felt like we were off task the entire time because we didn’t reflect on the situation itself,” a black 18-year-old Starbucks employee called “Tina” told Philadelphia Magazine.
“The training materials focused a lot on police brutality, which had nothing to do with the incident that happened,” Tina said..."
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White Privilege Has Become A Religion, Complete With Church Ladies

White Privilege Has Become A Religion, Complete With Church Ladies
"John McWhorter examines the religious nature of racial “wokeness” in an insightful essay published in The American Interest, and finds it bears some resemblances to the Christian worldview, albeit without the hope of redemption or forgiveness.
“The parallels with Christianity are almost uncannily rich,” he writes. 
“White privilege is the secular white person’s Original Sin, present at birth and ultimately ineradicable. 
One does one’s penance by endlessly attesting to this privilege in hope of some kind of forgiveness.”
The religion of social justice and wokeness is stern, however, with little hope of redemption, love or reconciliation. 
...Wokeness is a religion of judgment, and the preachers have only contempt for their (white) flock. 
...Forgiveness is hard to obtain from the strange gods of this new faith, for reasons McWhorter’s excellent essay only begins to explore..."
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