'One of its five founders, Tim LaHaye, is the co-author of the Left Behind series of apocalyptic Christian novels and a man who has described gay people as “vile,”'
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"Another advocated for a society ruled by Old Testament law requiring, among other things, the stoning of adulteresses, idolaters and “incorrigible” children."
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"Eleven years after it was founded in 1981 as a tax-exempt organization, the IRS yanked that status on the grounds that CNP was not run for the benefit of the public."
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"The Council for National Policy (CNP) is, in the words of The New York Times, “a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country,” an organization so tight-lipped that it tells its people not to admit membership or even name the group."
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"But what is most remarkable about the directory is that it reveals how the CNP has become a key meeting place where ostensibly mainstream conservatives interact with individuals who are, by any reasonable definition, genuinely extremist."
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"The 2014 CNP members are paragons of the conservative establishment. There are business titans, Christian college presidents, owners and editors of right-wing media outlets, GOP mega-donors, government staffers and leading members of conservative think tanks."
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"There are officials of organizations like the National Rifle Association and the Federalist Society. There are politicians and political appointees, anti-abortion activists and also some who are less known publicly as conservatives, like Linda L. Bean, who owns @LLBean"
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"On the CNP’s board of governors, for instance, is Michael Peroutka. Peroutka was for many years on the board of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate hate group that advocates for a newly seceded South ruled by white people." He is opposed to abortion in all cases.
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"Jerome Corsi is the propagandist hit man responsible for the “Swift boating” of John Kerry, has written an error-filled book alleging that President Obama was not born in the United States, once described Martin Luther King Jr. as a “shakedown artist,”"
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"Another on that board is Joseph Farah, who runs the conspiracist online “news” outlet, "WorldNetDaily" and employs Corsi. Farah’s site... spends its time doing such vital work as running a six-part series alleging that eating soybeans causes homosexuality."
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"Chad Connelly, the two-term head of the South Carolina Republican Party who left that post in 2013 and is now the Republican National Committee’s national director of faith engagement."
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"T. Cullen Davis, a multimillionaire from Texas who was tried and acquitted in two separate murder cases"
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"The CNP directory is a remarkable roster of significant figures on the political and religious right"
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"...includes officials from 14 different conservative media outlets, including the opinion editor for The Washington Times; the publisher of the Daily Caller website; the editor-in-chief of CNSNews.com; and Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of American Thinker"
/15
"The speakers at CNP’s candidate forum last October included Trump, Ben Carson, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum."
Investigation to be limited to "credible witnesses", but FBI is forbidden from verifying Judge's dates of employment because it would corroborate Ford testimony?
the bureau has not been permitted to investigate the claims of Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of engaging in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s, those people familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
A White House official confirmed that Swetnick's claims will not be pursued as part of the reopened background investigation into Kavanaugh
Not only did he travel all the way uptown to the bookstore in Harlem and buy some of Bob Avakian's books, but he was also moved to leave this testimony about how inspired he was by his experience:
"I have spent the last few years feeling growing amounts of frustration, shame, and contempt for my country and those in power. Police brutality, growing white supremacy, misogyny, and the eroding of civil liberties under the Trump/Pence administration have made me realize