MADRID — Vitriolic climate protesters funded by Russia and Big Oil at the United Nations COP25 “climate change” summit in Madrid gave the United States first, second, and third place awards for “being the best at being the worst.” Government officials from around the world cheered on the spectacle.

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In a column calling for conservatives and Republicans to distance themselves from racists and anti-Semites, neoconservative columnist Jonathan Tobin deceived readers of the New York Post and the fringe left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Writing about the dispute between the John Birch Society and National Review founder William Buckley, Tobin got the facts exactly backwards. In addition to lying about and demonizing the JBS with blatant falsehoods, Tobin praised Buckley as “conservatism’s intellectual leader,” completely ignoring Buckley’s controversial writings calling for whites, as the “advanced race,” to use force to keep blacks from voting in order to preserve “civilization” in the face of “Negro backwardness.”

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A new survey that added the names of former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to the current field of Democratic 2020 presidential contenders found Clinton leading the candidates by a tight margin.

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John Sopko, head of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which conducted hundred of interviews to diagnose policy failures in Afghanistan, told the Washington Post that documents uncovered during the interviews demonstrate that “the American people have constantly been lied to” about Afghanistan. The Post released the results of its findings on December 9. 

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President Trump railed at FBI Director Christopher Wray over his response to a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general on the origin of the Trump-Russia investigation and the use of surveillance warrants to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump advisor.

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Five months after Child Protective Services (CPS) tore their four-year-old son from their arms, a Texas homeschooling family is finally free of CPS’ threats after the agency agreed to drop all charges against them.

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The item at MoronMajority.com was funny enough: “Trump Pardons Charles Manson.”

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The 5,000 folks who used to live in Amelia, Ohio, take their Declaration of Independence seriously: “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of [its obligation to protect the rights of its citizens to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.”

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The number of migrants from African nations such as Congo, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon — as well as the Caribbean nation of Haiti — found heading to the United States through Mexico has more than doubled this year. Mexican immigration officials have reported that the number of such migrants increased from approximately 2,700 in 2018 to 5,800 this year.

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The supreme court of world trade, otherwise known as the “appellate body” of the World Trade Organization, will cease functioning on Wednesday. The court is supposed to have seven members but it currently has four vacancies, with two more members retiring on Tuesday. That leaves one active judge, two short of the number required to rule on international trade disputes.

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