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EPAs so-called waters of the United States rule is one of the worst examples of federal regulation, and its truly run amok, Trump said during the signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

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Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses opposed the rule, as it allowed the EPA to regulate any water on a farmers land.

Trump called it a disaster during remarks, reminding the public that the EPA threatened a Wyoming rancher with fines of $37,000a dayafter he duga stock pond on his land.

Its a horrible, horrible rule, Trump said. It was a nice name, but everything else is bad.

Trumps executive order directs the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw and reconsider therule back to the government agencies on the basis that it overreaches their authority.

Several U.S. senators, including Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Sen Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND.), attended the signing. Some members of the House of Representatives andseveral county commissioners also attended.

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As President Trump is pressured to substantively respond to the rise in anti-Semitic incidents since his election, a new analysis reveals that Breitbart News under Trumps chief strategist Stephen Bannon fostered a comment section a sample of Breitbarts readership that increasingly reflected language specific to the white nationalist alt-right movement, including anti-Semitic sentiment.

Comparing the language of Breitbart commenters to thelanguage of the most aggressive far-right extremists online e.g. language used by Twitter users who advocate for violence against minorities and are openly pro-Nazi we can see a clear trend of increasing similarity over a three-year period, the bulk of it under Bannon. Bannon left Breitbart to join the Trump campaign in mid-August 2016 but the editorial focus of the site stayed the course he set it on.

Diving deeper into anti-Semitic sentiment we see a similar trajectory. In early 2013, the term Jewish was used in a similar way as white or black as a racial/ethnic descriptor, which is similar to how Jewish is used in the mainstream press. By 2016 on Breitbart, however, Jewish had morphed into an epithet, used in similar contexts as socialist or commie.

In a mainstream newspaper article, the word Jewish is statistically similar to words such as Muslim and Christian. This means that mainstream commentators usually rely on the word Jewish to describe someone or something religious. This was the case for Breitbart comments back in July 2013.

For far-right wing extremists, the word Jewish is used in a totally different context. Instead, its use is statistically similar to words such ascommunist, homosexual, anti-white, and satanic. Within Breitbarts comment section, Jewish was increasingly used in contexts similar to commie and socialist or even progressive.

After Bannon was appointed as chief strategist, his record as a far-right propagandist came under increased scrutiny. Most contested by Bannon and his defenders was his August 2016 comments to aMother Jonesjournalist that Breitbart became the platform for the alt-right.

Trump in an interview with theNew York Timesargued that Breitbart News was just a publication. Breitbart also went on the offensive. On Nov.19, Breitbart published Steve Bannon: Zero Tolerance for Anti-Semitic, Racist Elements of the Alt-Right.

In the article, Bannon wassummarized as saying:

Bannon also highlighted the diversity of views that were given a platform at Breitbart News, while also making it clear that both he and the site had zero tolerance for racial and anti-Semitic views.

Given the comment section analysis, however, it would appear Bannon and Breitbarts tolerance for anti-Semitic views was higher than zero. It confirms what Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart editor, said when he claimed that Bannon turned the comment section into a cesspool for white supremacist mememakers.

On this point, Breitbart editors have repeatedly attacked critics who connect the website to the anti-Semitic elements of the alt-right by pointing to Jewish writers on staff and their editorial embrace of far-right Israeli politics. It is Breitbarts other coverage, however, that is most likely attracting these elements to the site.

A focus on globalist elites, traditionally an anti-Semitic dog whistle used by the radical right and a core appeal embraced by right-wing populists both in the US and in Europe today, was a rolling narrative covered extensively by Breitbart. One Breitbart London piece attackedWashington Postwriter Anne Applebaum bycalling her a Polish, Jewish, American elitistwith global media contacts is the best example, which was roundly criticized as being anti-Semitic. Similarly, Breitbarts undeniably inflammatory coverage of the migrant crisis and terrorism resonates with the hard right, which includes anti-Semitic fellow travelers.

Bannon, however, in aninterview with Politicoafter the first wave of criticism started to die down in late December, again embraced Breitbarts readership. As Politicoreported, Bannon said the best things about Breitbart are the comments section and the callers.

It was always great to hear what the hobbits had to say because at the end of the day, what they had to say was what mattered most. This whole movement, its really the top of the first inning.

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The Minneapolis Institute of Art(MIA) is breathing a sigh of relieffollowing an altercation between members of a right-wing groupand anti-fascistsinside its galleries. Punches were thrown, though no artwork was damaged in the incident, according to the New York Times.

February 25 was a normal day at the museum. Save, that is, for the 50-or-so protesters from the Twin Cities General Defense Committee (GDC), part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union,gathered outside. At first glance, it appeared they were speaking out againstthe anti-immigrant sentiment being stirred up by President Donald Trumps administration by the proposed border wall, increased deportation efforts, and the travel ban targeting seven Muslim majority countries. In actuality, their message had a more immediate target.

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According to a statement from the GDC, the protesters had gathered after getting word ofa planned White Lives Matter rally from a group called AltRight MN at the museum.

A statement from AltRight MN contests this narrative, claiming that we were there only to meet a few new faces and enjoy the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection of traditional art. However, when we got there, the IWW protesters were waiting. We had no idea that it had anything to do with us until two of our members were attacked upstairs.

They allege that the anti-fascist protesters had learned of their meetup by posing as a Trump supporter to gain access to a private chat room.

Conflict broke out when the two groups came face to face. On its website, GDC has shared a photo of a man appearing to give a Nazi salute in response to the gathered protesters. One witness told Twins Cities news outlet City Pages there were shouts of Heil Trump!

Image of alleged fascist protester at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.Courtesy of the Twin Cities General Defense Committee.

According to theStarTribune, three men who appeared to be neo-Nazis, one of whom allegedly sported neo-Nazi imagery on his jacket, entered the museum. IWWprotesters followed, leading to a heated encounter in a gallery of 18th-century art, home to French armchairs, English landscape paintings, and a piece of Svres porcelain.

In their statement, the GDC alleges that one of the groups involved wasIdentity Evropa, which hasadopted classical European art as a symbol of defending white culture. For instance, Identity Evropa has taken credit for the appearance of posters of MichelangelosDavidwith the words Lets Become Great Again around the Minneapolis area last year.

A search of the internet reveals that Identity Evropa has been on a postering campaign across the country, targeting campuses.

I heard voices that were louder than usual for a museum. There [was] a large man with a buzz cut arguing loudly with some people. They were getting in each others faces and quickly started pushing each other, Vijit Nanda, a visitor who witnessed the incident, told theTribune. The people who were fighting started throwing punches.

A female security guard reportedly broke up the fight after a protester knocked one of the men down and was hitting him.

She was terribly brave, MIA director KaywinFeldman told the New York Times. As you can imagine, our security officers are trained not to put themselves in harms way ever. And so this was just a reaction on her part to protect another human.

In his account, Nanda added that, as he was leaving the museum, a group dressed in mostly darker colors walked out in front of us chanting and pumping their hands in the air. I honestly do not remember the exact words, but it was something along the lines of Nazi scum get off our streets!'

TheTribune reported that there were no arrests made, but that police responding to the scene did impound a large knife from one of the individuals involved in the fracas. AltRight MN claims that the weapon was found on one of the assaulters, while the GDC claims that they disarmed a man with a nazi flag shirt carrying a large folding knife after he started a physical brawl.

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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

Yet, given the divisions among us, deeper and wider than ever, it is an open question as to how, and how long, we will endure as one people.

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After World War II, our judicial dictatorship began a purge of public manifestations of the Christian nation that Harry Truman said we were.

In 2009, Barack Obama retorted, We do not consider ourselves to be a Christian nation. Secularism had been enthroned as our established religion, with only the most feeble of protests.

One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations. Heads would roll, literally.

Which bring us to the first culture war skirmish of the Trump era. Taking sides with Attorney General Jeff Sessions against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the president rescinded the Obama directive that gave transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice in public schools. President Donald Trump sent the issue back to the states and locales to decide.

While treated by the media and left as the civil rights cause of our era, the bathroom debate calls to mind Marxs observation, History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

There was vigorous dissent, from DeVos, to returning this issue to where it belongs, with state and local officials.

After yielding on the bathroom question, she put out a statement declaring that every school in America has a moral obligation to protect children from bullying, and directed her Office of Civil Rights to investigate all claims of bullying or harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.

Now, bullying is bad behavior, and it may be horrible behavior. But when did a Republican Party that believes in states rights decide this was a responsibility of a bureaucracy Ronald Reagan promised but failed to shut down? When did the GOP become nanny-staters?

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

But what kind of society, what kind of people have we become when we start to rely on federal bureaucrats to stop big kids from harassing and beating up smaller or weaker kids?

While the bathroom debate is a skirmish in the culture war, Trumps solution send the issue back to the states and the people there to work it out may point the way to a truce assuming Americans still want a truce.

For Trumps solution is rooted in the principle of subsidiarity, first advanced in the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII that social problems are best resolved by the smallest unit of society with the ability to resolve them.

In brief, bullying is a problem for parents, teachers, principals to deal with, and local cops and the school district if it becomes widespread.

This idea is consistent with the Republican idea of federalism that the national government should undertake those duties securing the borders, fighting the nations wars, creating a continental road and rail system that states alone cannot do.

Indeed, the nationalization of decision-making, the imposition of one-size-fits-all solutions to social problems, the court orders emanating from the ideology of judges to which there is no appeal that is behind the culture wars that may yet bring an end to this experiment in democratic rule.

Those factors are also among the primary causes of the fever of secessionism that is spreading all across Europe, and is now visible here.

Consider California. Democrats hold every state office, both Senate seats, two-thirds of both houses of the state legislature, 3 in 4 of the congressional seats. Hillary Clinton beat Trump 2-to-1 in California, with her margin in excess of 4 million votes.

Suddenly, California knows exactly how Marine Le Pen feels. And as she wants to Let France Be France, and leave the EU, as Brits did with Brexit, a movement is afoot in California to secede from the United States and form a separate nation.

California seceding sounds like a cause that could bring San Francisco Democrats into a grand alliance with Breitbart.

A new federalism a devolution of power and resources away from Washington and back to states, cities, towns and citizens, to let them resolve their problems their own way and according to their own principles may be the price of retention of the American Union.

Let California be California; let red state America be red state America.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority. To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at http://www.creators.com.

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Both Tesla and Chevrolet are trying to head up the electric vehicle market, with the Chevy offerings being more of an everyman's vehicle up to now and Tesla being more in the luxury department. However, with the upcoming Tesla model 3 aiming to be a more affordable EV for the masses, it's likely that both companies are going to butt heads sooner rather than later.

It's something that is apparent to many an automotive writer as mentioned over at forbes.com with them highlighting how a visit to a few Chevy dealers didn't offer that many Volt or Bolts for sale, which concluded that without a larger portion of their EV vehicles in the marketing department, they may not be able to shift as many vehicles and spread the word by the time the Tesla model 3 appears at the end of the year.

There is in comparison an increasing number of Tesla vehicles on the road along with plenty of the likes of the Toyota Prius. This means that moving forward GM will have to start shifting more units and doing far more promotion or Tesla will possibly catch up, or even bypass them in the next five years.

The odd thing is that GM do have a head start in the market as the Volt has won lots of praise and the Bolt appealing to a Japanese and German car buying public at present. It's not that they are not shifting units as they are clearly selling in the likes of Los Angeles and other eco conscious states. However, GM need to start to target a wider reach as plenty of their competitors are gearing up for their next generation of EV vehicles. With the likes of Hyundai providing a wide range of electric and hybrid vehicles, Toyota and BMW also producing midpriced offerings, the competition is soon to hot up in the midpriced arena.

Tesla are also planning to move a lot of their model 3s in 2018 and with a planned price tag of $35,000 compared to the Bolt's $37,000, means the more affluent eco-conscious may just plump for a Model 3 over its competitor.

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