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When the Christian Right movement associated with White evangelical fundamentalists like Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, James Dobson and the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell, Sr. became prominent in the Republican Party in the early 1980s, one of the United States’ most influential conservatives expressed total disdain for the movement. The late Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, railing against Falwell, made it abundantly clear that he believed the Christian Right was bad for the GOP and bad for conservatism. Ironically, the arch-conservative Goldwater found himself in agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and shared their view that the last thing the U.S. needed was to become the type of theocracy that Falwell and other evangelicals wanted the U.S. to become. Goldwater, the ACLU and television producer Norman Lear’s People For the American Way weren’t anti-religion but rather, realized that a strong separation of church and state was necessary to protec...

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake (R) shared a video on Tuesday suggesting that some voters may not have had their ballots counted if they were wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" slogan. In the video shared by Lake, a woman named Sherry claimed to have been a poll watcher in Phoenix during the recent election. She recalled that a "young man" had his ballot rejected by a voting machine 24 times. "Because I counted the different times he got into line going from one tabulating machine to another," Sherry said. "Then that ballot was spoiled and he got a second ballot, got back in line and, again, I don't know how many times — I lost count of the number of times — the times that he went back and forth in line. And finally, he had that ballot spoiled and got a provisional ballot and the same thing happened." The poll watcher concluded: "This young guy was wearing a 'Let's Go Brandon' shirt. And there is no way that those were...

An attorney representing Donald Trump before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Jim Trusty , seems to have been mocked by one of the three judges hearing the former president’s appeal in what is being described as “ tense ” oral arguments Tuesday afternoon. One legal expert said judges were “roughing” up the former president’s attorney. Trump is appealing an earlier ruling in a case he brought against the United States. Trump claims the U.S. Dept. of Justice had no right to retrieve thousands of presidential records taken from the White House that he was storing in his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence. He is also claiming both that he declassified all the classified documents, and that all the items he took were personal items belonging to him. The case is being heard by three Republican-appointed judges – two of whom Trump himself appointed. In a prior ruling both Trump appointees ruled against him . READ MORE – ‘Denied’: Trump Just Lost Big at the Supreme Court Over His Tax Ret...

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One man in Rosebank has had enough of the cocaine deals that happen in the street regularly, and says humour is the South African way of dealing with things. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/4G9Ldw3 via sinceretalk

Later today, we’ll know the ANC’s top six candidates for the elective conference that takes place between 16-21 December The post ANC’s top six for the next five years will end some political careers appeared first on The Mail & Guardian .

Seven public service unions affiliated with three of the country's largest federations will embark on a one-day strike in the public service, complete with marches in eight provinces. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/vFqaQRy via sinceretalk