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This is not just a coup and a Constitutional crisis. It is a national security catastrophe for the United States from which there is no assurance we will ever fully recover. Not hyperbole. If foreign enemies had landed troops on our shores it’s unlikely they would’ve done as much damage as fast.
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#overheard
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Here's my answer. pressthink.org/2017/09/norm... "What they have to report brings ruin to what they have to respect. So they occasionally revise it into something they can respect: at least a little."
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Ha! Thanks for only bringing good memories!
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All this and so much more about the Carter years is covered so comprehensively in Rick Perlstein’s Reaganland. -end-
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The Reagan administration reluctantly accepted the official demise of the segregation academies. So it turned its attention to another education target: affirmative action. (9)
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The last case involving segregation academies reached the Supreme Court involving Bob Jones University at the college level during the early Reagan years. (8)
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Schaeffer called the group of gun rights advocates, anti-ERA/anti-abortion campaigners, and anti-tax supporters, “co-belligerents.” Their goal: deny Carter a second term. (7)
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Falwell’s Lynchburg Christian School and Bob Jones University saw their existence threatened by the IRS finally taking action. They were joined by New Right architects like Paul Weyrich and Francis Schaefer in forming a new alliance of anti-tax zealots and a range of religious leaders. (6)