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Conservatives are declaring the Boy Scouts dead after it announces it will drop ‘boy’ from its name – ThinkProgress

[ad_1] The emasculation of the Boy Scouts is complete, at least according to former governor of Arkansas and noted terrible tweeter Mike Huckabee. On Wednesday, the Boy Scouts announced they will drop the word “boy” from their name, becoming Scouts BSA, as they prepare to welcome girls to the organization starting next year. The organization has also been facing low membership numbers and bad press, two other factors that may have affected the decision to change the name. But the move isn’t going over well with Huckabee and other conservatives. “The emasculation of the Boy Scouts is complete,” Huckabee tweeted Thursday morning. “Old Scout oath ‘Be Prepared.’ New oath ‘Be Pretty.'” The emasculation of the Boy Scouts is complete. Old Scout oath “Be Prepared.” New oath “Be Pretty” https://t.co/YOSl2tl5vx — Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 3, 2018 Huckabee also shared a video of an earlier appearance on Fox News in which he derided the name change. “I think the Boy Sco...

Trump Assails Justice Dept., Siding With House Conservatives in Dispute

[ad_1] But those efforts have not quieted two of Mr. Trump’s most loyal supporters on Capitol Hill, Representatives Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio. In an unusual show of defiance of their committee chairman, they have insisted the agreement is not good enough and that they need access to an unredacted version of an August 2017 memo outlining the scope of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. Democrats fear that the requests — many of which call on the department to ignore longstanding policy about what it shares with Congress — are merely meant to provide Mr. Trump with a reason to fire Mr. Mueller. Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said the latest Republican efforts were “clearly trying to sabotage” the Mueller investigation and court a confrontation with Mr. Rosenstein. “All of this noise is aimed at undermining the special counsel’s work as the investigation closes in on the president,” Mr. Nadler said in a ...