Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld ran on the Libertarian ticket in 2016 with former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. On Monday afternoon, he announced that he is planning to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020.

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The College Republicans were making fun of the Orwellian “Common Language Guide’ released by the school and that’s a big problem.

The College Fix reports:

Amherst student government threatens to derecognize College Republicans for mild private jokes

Not everyone was thrilled when Amherst College released a “Common Language Guide” last month that defined terms...

This is classic projection. Last month a conservative student was violently attacked at Berkeley, but the left is trying to paint Republicans as the potentially violent ones.

Campus Reform reports:

WSU teaches students how to handle College Republicans at bias training

Washington State University’s Bias Advisory Response Team planned two de-escalation trainings in late...

House Republicans attempted to add pro-Israel and anti-BDS language into an unrelated resolution on Thursday.

The resolution “aimed to end U.S. participation in Yemen’s civil war,” which has caused a humanitarian crisis, “where Iran-backed Houthi rebels have sought to overthrow the country’s government, prompting a Saudi bombing campaign that has lasted nearly...

Add Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to the growing list of high-profile Republicans who want to know what President Obama himself knew at the time about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
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The very concept of isolating free speech to certain areas is insulting. We need more representatives to speak up in this way.

Campus Reform reports:

Congressman breathes fresh air into campus free speech debate ahead of Trump’s exec. order

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) is seeking to remove free speech zones on college campuses with...

Captain America actor Chris Evans visited Capitol Hill last week to talk to lawmakers about a variety of issues, but one meeting in particular threw the star for a loop.

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This all unfolded as campus police stood by and did basically nothing. Independent journalist Andy Ngo documented the incident on Twitter:

Last night, College Republicans invited conservative blogger Michael Strickland to @Portland_State. Event got shut down by anarchist who came w/a bell. Strickland was to speak about his conviction related to him...

A Wake County Superior Court judge in North Carolina has written a ruling so outlandish that state Democrats and Republicans, who are normally at each other’s throats, have found themselves in rare agreement.

The Raleigh News and Observer reports:

A judge has just thrown out two amendments to the North Carolina Constitution that...

The line between student activists and professors is blurred once again.

The Hill reports:


College professor accused of vandalizing Nebraska GOP lawmaker’s campaign signs

An assistant professor and political activist in Nebraska was ticketed Tuesday on suspicion of vandalizing a GOP lawmaker’s campaign signs.

Patricia Wonch Hill, a research assistant professor of sociology at the...

CNN has hired Sarah Isgur Flores as a political editor to cover the 2020 campaign. CNN staffers and media fans of the network are upset because Isgur Flores has a long history of working for Republicans.

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It seems like every time a conservative is going to appear on a college campus, there’s some issue.

The College Fix reports:

UC-Irvine cites ‘security threat’ to disrupt Dennis Prager event, College Republicans claim

A conservative student group accused the University of California-Irvine of bureaucratic shenanigans ahead of its Tuesday event with conservative columnist...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) witnessed the GOP take a hit in the 2018 midterms in the House where the number of GOP women was reduced from 23 to 13.

Stefanik wants to change that through her leadership political action committee called E-PAC.

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The College Republicans say they have screen shots of a candidate for editor of the paper basically admitting the publication is biased for the left.

The College Fix reports:

Stanford Daily forced to defend itself against accusations of leftist bias after internal document leaked

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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is no stranger to racial controversy and it’s nice to see the Republican party finally doing something about it. The Republicans have booted King from committees after he told The New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” From ...

Stanford has been throwing up roadblocks to this event for weeks. It took a bold move by the College Republicans to make the administration finally relent.

The College Fix reports:

Stanford grants funding to Dinesh D’Souza event after College Republicans file constitutional complaint

An internal complaint and external litigation threat appear to have convinced...

For many people on the left, the mere act of voting Republican is considered scandalous. At the University of Chicago, it was considered newsworthy.

The College Fix reports:

U. Chicago student paper considers it news that school president … voted Republican

In a seeming indication of just how far left colleges have become, the...