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Not the way to do minority outreach

Not the way to do minority outreach

Mona Charen

In the nanosecond between Donald Trump's foot-in-mouth moments last week, just before he made headlines by announcing changes in the topless blender that is his senior staff, he gave what many consider to be the finest speech of the campaign. CBS' Major Garrett tweeted "Having been listening since august 2015, objectively best drafted & best delivered (Trump) speech of campaign. Will resonate." Byron York of the Washington Examiner, while acknowledging some of Trump's critics' objections, thought Trump delivered a "focused, powerful, and disciplined speech … focused largely on problems that disproportionately afflict black Americans, arguing that his proposals on crime, immigration, trade, jobs, education, and other issues will improve African-American lives more than Hillary Clinton's."

Donald Trump is currently polling near zero among African-Americans in key swing states. In a normal year, Republicans struggle with this demographic, and I've written whole books (well, a chapter anyway) about the Democrats' low, despicable use of race to stoke fear among blacks in order to be rewarded with votes.

Judge in Texas temporarily blocks Obama’s transgender rules
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Judge in Texas temporarily blocks Obama’s transgender rules

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration's order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the federal education law known as Title IX "is not ambiguous" about sex being defined as "the biological and anatomical differences between male and female students as determined at their birth."

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