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<p>However, among all the various groups mentioned, Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal somehow omitted the LGBT community.</p> <p>Breitbart News noted the omission in its first report on the Green New Deal: “(Note: the legislation fails to mention — even once — the historic oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. This is a homophobic and transphobic document.)”</p>

Few facets of today’s politics are more obvious or more startling than the Left’s hatred of Israel. Be it the United Nations, elite universities or The New York Times, the Left unashamedly uses its institutions as forums from which to conduct its relentless campaign of vilification. What makes the Left’s behavior especially puzzling is that it runs counter to one of its supposedly most cherished principles – concern for oppressed minorities. Its opprobrium of the country sheltering a group that has been persecuted longer, more unjustly and more cruelly than any other thus presents a seemingly irreconcilable contradiction. To see...

NOW, about the re cent DNC meet that crowned former Vermont governor and former presidential I-coulda-been-a-contenduh Howard Dean as the party's new chairman. A hot lapel button going around the event read: "Dear Jesus, please protect us from your righteous followers."