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Cpac, Transgender Students And Nasa's Exoplanet Discovery

... Jong Nam. Nam was killed in Malaysia last week. NASA finds habitable Earth-like planets. NASA has discovered, for the first time ever, seven Earth-size planets outside our solar system that could be suitable for life. The exoplanets orbit a single star relatively close to Earth. "I think that we've made a crucial step towards finding if there is life out there," University of Cambridge astronomer Amaury Triaud, one of the researchers, told reporters after the space agency made its announcement. Katy Perry appears to mock Trump at BRIT Awards. Pop star Katy Perry performed her latest single Chained to the Rhythm at yesterday’s BRIT Awards, considered the British version of the Grammys. Social media users were quick to compare two dancing skeleton props she used onstage to Trump and U. K. Prime Minister Theresa May. A former USA Gymnastics doctor has been charged with sexual assault. Hundreds of people protested in Anaheim, Calif. after a purported ...

Cpac Attendees Weigh In On Trump's Lifting Of Transgender Bathroom Rule

... Lifting Of Transgender Bathroom Rule. CPAC Attendees Weigh In On Trump's Lifting Of Transgender Bathroom Rule. Attendees of CPAC voice their opinions about President Trump's decision to roll back Obama's guidance to schools regarding transgender students and bathroom use. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST. Yesterday, the White House withdrew President Obama's guidance telling schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Those decisions will now be up to states or local school districts. In a moment, we'll hear from Gavin Grimm, a transgender student at the center of this debate. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST. But first we wanted to hear from conservatives who have long been critical of the Obama administration's move, so we sent a producer to CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. There, we heard from Franklin Debrot. He's a philosophy professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. FRANKLIN DEBROT: Well, I don't see transgender students - people like that - facing the same kind of discrimination that ...

Devos, Defiant At Cpac, Walks A Fine Line On Transgender Rights

... Sessions or De Vos but that "there has been some discussion between the timing of the issuance and recommendations, or between the exact wording.". De Vos squeaked through the confirmation process, and in those hearings, she disavowed conversion therapy, which her family has invested in. Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota asked about it. "I have never believed in that," she said, adding, "I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being, and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.". Earlier in her speech, De Vos struck an ideological tone about education. She took aim at the media and liberals, calling herself the "first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face, there's no such thing as a free lunch.". The ACU via You Tube. That was meant to draw laughs from the conservative activists, but low-income schools, ...

Cpac In The Trump Era

... he's made, racially-charged remarks, veering into anti-Semitism, those things were not a red line for you. SCHLAPP: They are red lines in the sense that they're offensive. And we don't agree with him. And we certainly don't agree with the alt-right. And we don't think racism has a role in the conservative movement. That doesn't mean that through the first amendment that our attendees shouldn't get the ability to hear a vigorous debate that's raging across the country. And we want to put that before them. Look. We believe that it is better when we air our political differences, left to right. And even within the conservative movement, give our attendees a chance to hear it. We think that helps us find the truth. I think that's actually something we have in common with NPR. MARTIN: Steve Bannon is speaking at CPAC today. He's the president's top adviser who ran Breitbart News, which he proclaimed to be a platform for the so-called alt-right. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence went to a Jewish cemetery in Missouri this week to signal his support after that cemetery was vandalized. And then pens went on to say there's no place in America ...

A Look Inside Cpac's Swag Room

... van, and everything except the Ronald Reagan knee socks are free—even the Sheriff David Clarke chapstick. Liveblogging From Inside the Beast-It's Day 1 of CPAC Liveblogging From Inside the Beast-It's Day 1 of CPAC Liveblogging From Inside the Beast-It's Day 1 of…. The Conservative Political Action Conference—a sort of conservative cosplay event where women in… Read more Read more. The swag room, a large ballroom filled with booths draped in red cloth, is a demented tour through the tenets of conservatism. This year, the NRA switched booths with Breitbart, taking a branding backseat to the website, whose massive display occupies the focal point of the room. Across the end, towards the back, is parked a Mercedes sprinter, which the pro-life group Save the Storks uses to give pregnant women free ultrasounds and lectures against abortion. There’s also lot of stickers—the NRA, the Tea Party, even Ken ...

President Trump To Speak At Cpac Gathering Near Washington

... The controversial chief strategist to the president, Steve Bannon, spoke at the event Thursday afternoon. “If you think they’re going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken,” he said. “Every day, every day it is going to be a fight.”. Bannon appeared with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, which was seen as an effort to squash rumors of tension between the men, CBS 2’s Tony Aiello reported. They said Trump has made his plans clear and will carry them all out. “All he’s doing right now is he’s laid out an agenda with those speeches, with the promises he made, and our job every day is just to execute on that,” Bannon said. “It was Donald Trump that was able to bring this party and this movement together,” Priebus added. Vice President Mike Pence, a longtime conservative favorite, speaks Thursday night. Trump is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m. Friday. When Trump cancelled last ...

White Nationalist Richard Spencer Kicked Out Of Cpac

... "His views are repugnant and have absolutely nothing to do with conservatism or what we do here," said CPAC spokesman Ian Walters. Spencer purchased a general admission pass Thursday morning, Walters said. "He's anti-free markets, anti-Constitution, anti-pluralism," Walters added. "This was one bad egg who bought a ticket.". He described the alt-right and Spencer's views as "vile," "venomous," "horrible" and "repulsive.". CPAC is trying to send a message that it wants nothing to do with the so-called alt-right, a white nationalist movement that latched on to Donald Trump's rise. The president's chief strategist in the White House, Steve Bannon, ran Breitbart, which he called a "platform for the alt-right." Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are speaking at CPAC Thursday afternoon. Article continues after sponsorship. After Comments On Pedophilia, Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns. CPAC also invited then disinvited Milo Yiannopoulos, a former ...

Read The Transcript Of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks At Cpac

... so, this is a long time ago story that still is enduring to this moment. I remind myself of it almost every day. I was young in my career, my company was a year old. I was a CNN paid political analyst at the time. And somebody called from a speaking agency and said, hey, we have a request from this financial institution for you and Mark Mellman, Democratic pollster, obviously a man, to come and speak to us on September 28 th, about the elections. And I said, OK. And the man said, it's September 28, you can each speak for 20 minutes, then we'll take 20 minutes Q&A preview, which we think will happen in the election, and talk to us a little bit about public policy. I said, that sounds great. It'll be at the Mayflower Hotel, which I can see out my office window. I literally was a block and half from there. They said, what is your speaking fee? And I froze. I completely froze because for me, even with my law degree at the time, for me free speech was not the First ...