Republican congressional candidate Irina Vilariño, who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 26th District, slammed left-wing singer Ariana Grande on Thursday over a tweet from Grande that praised Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and showed Grande embracing the 78-year-old socialist.
&#8220;MY GUY. thank you Senator Sanders for coming to my show, making my whole night and for all that you stand for !&#8221; Grande tweeted on Wednesday. &#8220;@headcountorg and i are doing our best to make you proud. we’ve already registered 20k+ young voters at my shows alone. also i will never smile this hard again promise.&#8221;
Vilariño, a successful business owner, came to the United States as a refugee when her family escaped communist Cuba after being persecuted by the government.
&#8220;.@ArianaGrande this ideology your [sic] promoting has caused more problems than you will ever know,&#8221; Vilariño tweeted. &#8220;We must do a better job educating our youth. In this social media society of ours, we don’t have the luxury of allowing time to play its part. Young &amp; dumb today has major consequences.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArianaGrande</a> this ideology your promoting has caused more problems than you will ever know. We must do a better job educating our youth. In this social media society of ours, we don’t have the luxury of allowing time to play its part. Young &amp; dumb today has major consequences. <a href="https://t.co/wFCip5fYE1">https://t.co/wFCip5fYE1</a>
&mdash; Irina Vilariño (@irinavilarino) <a href="https://twitter.com/irinavilarino/status/1197726998040317953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Socialists always breed on vulnerable ground,&#8221; Vilariño told The Daily Wire. &#8220;They disguise their heinous ideology as social justice in order to attract ￼the Idealistic Utopian searching youth.&#8221;
&#8220;It seems everyone wants to be a social hero or at least appear as one. Celebrities even more so. It’s almost as if that is their way of contributing to society for taking a bigger bite out of the apple than they can chew.
&#8220;What Bernie, AOC and the likes of them are proposing to turn this country into has already been tried in many countries around the world and failed,&#8221; Vilariño continued. &#8220;Even in our very own hemisphere, we have examples &#8230; socialism disguised as social justice.￼&#8221;
&#8220;However, the only thing they’ve effectively accomplished is to turn these countries into poverty stricken misery ridden repressive states. It is no coincidence people are willing to risk their lives in order to make it to the United States at all costs and not the other way around,&#8221; Vilariño added. &#8220;The United States has fought socialism around the world; it’s unconscionable that they are proposing such a destructive ideology in our very own mainland.￼￼ In the end, it’s a model that goes against individual freedom and against the essence of what is America.&#8221;
Vilariño, 43, is the co-owner of Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine restaurants, the first of which opened up in 1984 which was just a few years after her family arrived in the U.S.
“My grandparents emigrated to Cuba from Spain to escape socialism. My parents came to the United States from Cuba to escape communism,” Vilariño said. “If we don’t fight to preserve our freedoms here, there is no place left in the world for my daughter to go. We must preserve the American Dream. This is the cause that will define the success of our generation, and I urge you to join with me on this mission.”
Vilariño&#8217;s campaign has been successful so far as she significantly <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/FL/26/2020/">out-raised</a> her Republican primary opponents.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire a couple of weeks ago, Vilariño said that she decided to run for Congress after seeing that “the same policies that wrecked my world in Cuba were beginning to take hold in the Democrat Party.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuban-business-owner-who-fled-communist-cuba-launches-gop-congressional-bid-dominates-gop-primary-field-in-fundraising">READ: Business Owner Who Fled Communist Cuba Launches GOP Congressional Bid, Dominates GOP Primary Field In Fundraising</a>

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With the announcement of the Grammy nominees, abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood took to Twitter to celebrate some of their biggest supporters: John Legend, Ariana Grande, and Lady Gaga.
&#8220;Artists that support abortion access get nominated for #Grammys. Coincidence??? We think nah. Congrats on the nominations!” the official Twitter account said as it tagged various musicians.
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Artists that support abortion access get nominated for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Grammys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Grammys</a>. Coincidence??? We think nah. Congrats on the nominations!
⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/lizzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Lizzo</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/billieeilish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billieeilish</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArianaGrande</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/boniver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@boniver</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/ladygaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ladygaga</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/johnlegend?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johnlegend</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/maggierogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@maggierogers</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/the1975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@the1975</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/SaraBareilles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SaraBareilles</a> ⭐<a href="https://twitter.com/ToveLo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ToveLo</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BansOffMyBody?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BansOffMyBody</a>
&mdash; Planned Parenthood (@PPFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/1197251786651901953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This list included artists who have signed the company’s new &#8216;Bans Off My Body&#8217; campaign, designed to raise awareness for what Rolling Stone described as &#8216;devastating restrictions on abortion that have swept across the country over the past few years,'&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2019/11/22/planned-parenthood-thanks-signers-ariana-grande-lady-gaga-and-john-legend-for-promoting-abortion/">LifeNews</a>. &#8220;Planned Parenthood thanked &#8216;body-positive&#8217; artist Lizzo (&#8216;Truth Hurts&#8217;) ,17-year-old singer Billie Eilish, &#8216;God Is a Woman&#8217; diva Ariana Grande, indie-folk artist Bon Iver, super lefty Lady Gaga, People’s &#8216;Sexiest Man Alive&#8217; John Legend, pop up-and-comer Maggie Rogers, UK band The 1975, Sarah Bareilles, and Swedish import Tove Lo for pledging support for the campaign.&#8221;
Celebrities have been fighting tooth and nail to keep Planned Parenthood alive during the Trump administration, though it’s confusing why they are so afraid; Republicans failed to defund the abortion giant when they had control of both Congress and the presidency.
Planned Parenthood held another celebrity fundraiser in 2017, in which the Old Style Guitar Shop in Los Angeles raffled off a guitar <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-foo-fighters-100-more-artists-sign-guitar-for-planned-parenthood-raffle-109133/">signed by over 100 musicians</a>. In addition to big names like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and John Legend, other celebrities whose names appeared on the guitar were The Foo Fighters, Michael Stipe (formerly of REM), composer Danny Elfman, Ryan Adams, Henry Rollins, Sam Smith, Nancy Sinatra, Mark Ronson, comedian Fred Armisen, Queens of the Stone Age, Charlie Puth, and Gary Clark, Jr.
Planned Parenthood receives over a half-billion dollars a year in taxpayer funds, and while the organization lobbies for cash, it still has enough money to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32101/planned-parenthood-spend-record-15-million-sway-paul-bois">bankroll politicians</a>. During the 2018 midterm elections, Planned Parenthood spent a whopping $20 million in just eight states. From <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/politics/planned-parenthood-midterm-20-million-8-state-plan/index.html">CNN</a>:
<blockquote>The offensive is set to cost $20 million, an initial mark that the organization’s officials say is all but certain to be exceeded.
The investment from Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Votes, the organization’s political entities, makes it one of the biggest outside spending forces in Democratic politics headed into a cycle in which the party sees a rare opportunity to pick off GOP seats across the map.
The initial list of targets includes eight states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.</blockquote>
Popstar Ariana Grande also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ariana-grande-donates-concert-proceeds-planned-paul-bois">recently donated</a> proceeds from her concert in Atlanta to Planned Parenthood in the name of fighting the Georgia abortion law. At the same time, Lady Gaga <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-alabama-abortion-ban-835821/">blasted the abortion ban </a>in Alabama as a “travesty.”
“It is an outrage to ban abortion in Alabama, period, and all the more heinous that it excludes those who have been raped or are experiencing incest, non-consensual or not,” Gaga said in a social media post. “So there’s a higher penalty for doctors who perform these operations than for most rapists? This is a travesty, and I pray for all these women and young girls who suffer at the hands of this system.”

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Pop singer Ariana Grande wanted to get &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYh6mYIJG2Y">7 rings</a>&#8221; in Japanese tattooed on the palm of her hand to celebrate her latest hit single. And, fittingly, a hyped Grande took to social media on Tuesday to show off the new ink.
Only, the tattoo didn&#8217;t say what Grande thought it said; her Japanese-speaking fan base quickly informed her that the tattoo means BBQ grill in Japanese.
Grande quickly deleted the embarrassing Instagram post.
&#8220;For those who are confused, [A]riana [G]rande got a tattoo on her hand in [J]apanese intended to spell out &#8220;7 rings&#8221; and posted it on [I]nstagram (now deleted), but [J]apanese people in the comments started saying how the REAL translation is bbq grill,&#8221; explained one Twitter user, posting screenshots of the mess-up from Grande and the corresponding comments.
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for those who are confused, ariana grande got a tattoo on her hand in japanese intended to spell out &#8220;7 rings&#8221; and posted it on instagram (now deleted), but japanese people in the comments started saying how the REAL translation is bbq grill <a href="https://t.co/rF0NvEa9Yv">pic.twitter.com/rF0NvEa9Yv</a>
&#8212; Alice (@alice2096) <a href="https://twitter.com/alice2096/status/1090457935862525952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;&#19971;&#36650;&#8216; means &#8216;portable clay cooking stove&#8217; in Japanese, not &#8216;7 rings.'&#8221;
&#8220;Nooo don&#8217;t do that, DONT DO THAT!! &#19971;&#36650; it means Japanese small charcoal grill.&#8221;
&#8220;When we translate &#19971;&#36650; in English directly, it means &#8216;Seven Rings.&#8217; BUT!! In Japan, the word &#19971;&#36650; is used for a portable clay stove used for cooking!!!!!!!! (I&#8217;m Japanese and living in Japan now.)&#8221; 
&#8220;It&#8217;s the typical archetype of people using google translate before getting a tattoo.&#8221; 
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&#8220;Ariana Grande&#8217;s new tattoo &#8216;&#19971;&#36650;&#8217; means Japanese style bbq grill, not 7 rings. If you want to know about &#19971;&#36650;, just google &#8216;SHICHIRIN,&#8217; said a Twitter user.
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Ariana Grande&#8217;s new tattoo &#8220;&#19971;&#36650;&#8221; means Japanese style bbq grill, not 7 rings. If you want to know about &#19971;&#36650;, just google &#8220;SHICHIRIN&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/HuQM2EwI62">pic.twitter.com/HuQM2EwI62</a>
&#8212; *amo* (@hey__amo) <a href="https://twitter.com/hey__amo/status/1090446543658803201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Imagine getting bbq grill tattooed on your palm,&#8221; wrote <a href="http://www.manofthehourmag.com/music/the-past-hundred-days-exclusive-interview-with-singer-eben">EBEN</a>, poking fun at Grande.
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Imagine getting bbq grill tattooed on your palm
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Grande copped to the embarrassing error on Twitter &#8211; though the tweets admitting the flub appear to have since been deleted.
&#8220;Indeed, I left out &#8220;&#12388;&#12398;&#25351;&#8221; which should have gone in between,&#8221; she wrote in a tweet, screenshots <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/entertainment/ariana-grande-tattoo/index.html">reported</a> by CNN show. &#8220;It hurt like f**k n still looks tight. I wouldn&#8217;t have lasted one more symbol lmao. But this spot also peels a ton and won&#8217;t last so if I miss it enough I&#8217;ll suffer thru the whole thing next time.
&#8220;Also&#8230;. huge fan of tiny bbq grills,&#8221; Grande said in another tweet.
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Ariana Grande clarifies that she left out some letters off her tattoo because the pain was intolerable and says she&#8217;s a huge fan of tiny bbq grills which is one of the things her tattoo translates to! <a href="https://t.co/SC1z4SSefW">pic.twitter.com/SC1z4SSefW</a>
&#8212; Pop Alarms (@PopAlarms) <a href="https://twitter.com/PopAlarms/status/1090489236191498241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Grande turned heads this summer when she gushed over her hyper-sexual song, &#8220;God is a Woman.&#8221; The song is packed with religious language and is supposedly meant to empower women.
&#8220;Sex is empowering,&#8221; Grande <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33014/ariana-grande-sex-proves-god-woman-amanda-prestigiacomo">said</a> about the song on social media. &#8220;It&#8217;s the source of all life. P***y- is a privilege.&#8221;
Grande has been unapologetically vocal about her left-wing politics, too. The entertainer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33014/ariana-grande-sex-proves-god-woman-amanda-prestigiacomo">told</a> Elle Magazine that it&#8217;s &#8220;wild&#8221; to her that some people in the spotlight remain apolitical. &#8220;[I]f I&#8217;m not going to say it, what&#8217;s the f***ing point of being here?&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Not everyone is going to agree with you, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m just going to shut up and sing my songs,&#8221; added Grande. &#8220;I&#8217;m also going to be a human being who cares about other human beings; to be an ally and use my privilege to help educate people.&#8221;

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Bishop Charles H. Ellis III issued an apology on Saturday after he appeared to grab singer Ariana Grande&#8217;s breast during Aretha Franklin&#8217;s funeral on Friday when he wrapped his arm around her.
Ellis awkwardly placed his arm around Grande on stage at the funeral after she finished performing &#8220;A Natural Woman,&#8221; which was one of Franklin&#8217;s songs.
Grande did not appear comfortable with how Ellis had his hands placed on her as she kept a noticeable space between her body and his body.
After being called out on social media, Ellis issued an apology on Saturday, saying, &#8220;It would never be my intention to touch any woman&#8217;s breast. &#8230; I don&#8217;t know I guess I put my arm around her.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe I crossed the border, maybe I was too friendly or familiar but again, I apologize,&#8221; Ellis continued.
Ellis also apologized for making a racially disparaging remark about Grande after referring to her as an item on the Taco Bell menu, saying, &#8220;I personally and sincerely apologize to Ariana and to her fans and to the whole Hispanic community.&#8221;
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The pastor at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArethaFranklinHomegoing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArethaFranklinHomegoing</a> was gettin a little handsy with <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArianaGrande</a> <a href="https://t.co/vI8a50BoOC">pic.twitter.com/vI8a50BoOC</a>
&#8212; BreatheHeavy (@breatheheavycom) <a href="https://twitter.com/breatheheavycom/status/1035644794322571264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Bishop Appears To Grab Ariana Grande’s Breast, Makes Racial Insult. Issues Apology.

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He&#8217;s at it again.
At Aretha Franklin&#8217;s funeral service, former President Bill Clinton ogled 25-year-old Ariana Grande as she sang Carole King&#8217;s &#8220;Natural Woman.&#8221;
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Gross&#8230; Watch Bill Clinton look Ariana Grande up and down when she sings at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArethaFranklinFuneral?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArethaFranklinFuneral</a> and try not to throw up in your mouth. <a href="https://t.co/aXQvcBmW2Y">pic.twitter.com/aXQvcBmW2Y</a>
&#8212; Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1035566822538571777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Bill &#8220;Mr. Steal Your Girl&#8221; Clinton is back to his old ways <a href="https://twitter.com/BarstoolNewsN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarstoolNewsN</a> <a href="https://t.co/dvZQCtU4kI">pic.twitter.com/dvZQCtU4kI</a>
&#8212; Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href="https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1035573313706311682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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At President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, Clinton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/12619/did-bill-clinton-ogle-ivanka-during-inauguration-hank-berrien">was also seen ogling</a> Ivanka Trump, and was hilariously caught by his wife Hillary Clinton.
Clinton is always prepared:
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Slick Willie fly down ready for the weekend <a href="https://twitter.com/BarstoolNewsN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarstoolNewsN</a> <a href="https://t.co/yAlOXzUSNR">pic.twitter.com/yAlOXzUSNR</a>
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Here&#8217;s the full video of Ariana Grande&#8217;s performance:
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On May 22, 2017, a suicide bomber murdered 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. That bomber had been rescued from Tripoli, Libya, by England&#8217;s Royal Navy in 2014, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/31/manchester-arena-bomber-was-rescued-from-libya-by-royal-navy">The Guardian</a>.
The bomber detonated a home-made bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena; 19 people were immediately killed; three more died at the hospital; 200 more people were injured. The bomber, his brother, and roughly 100 other British citizens were evacuated from Tripoli by HMS Enterprise, taken to Malta, then returned to the United Kingdom in August 2014.
A government spokesman stated, &#8220;During the deteriorating security situation in Libya in 2014, Border Force officials were deployed to assist with the evacuation of British nationals and their dependents.&#8221; The bomber&#8217;s name was on a list of stranded citizens handed to the crew running the evacuation; the bomber had been monitored by UK security forces before his rescue. The bomber&#8217;s brother is in jail in Libya, but the British government wants to extradite him because of the Manchester attack.
The bomber hung around other men in Manchester who wound up joining Islamic State. An Islamic State recruiter named Raphael Hostey worshiped in the same Didsbury mosque as the bomber.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40019135">According</a> to the BBC, the bomber was born in Manchester; his parents fled Libya during the Qaddafi regime, moved to London, then settled in Manchester. His father did the call to prayer at a mosque in Didsbury.
The BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45021513">also noted</a> that the independent review of the Manchester attack revealed that the bomber had been actively investigated starting in January 2014, but by July 2014 MI5 officers closed his file. The BBC added, &#8220;He was officially classed as a &#8216;closed subject of interest of low residual risk&#8217; who had limited engagement with genuinely dangerous people.&#8221;

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On Sunday, pop stars gathered in Manchester, England, to perform a benefit concert headlined by Ariana Grande. In late May, 22 people, including children, were <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16755/heres-everything-we-know-about-manchester-james-barrett">murdered</a> while exiting the singer&#8217;s concert in Manchester by a radical Islamic suicide bomber. 
The concert, which came just one day after the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17137/prime-minister-theresa-may-far-too-much-tolerance-joshua-yasmeh">fatal radical Islamic attack</a> in London, included performances by Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Mumford and Sons, Pharrell Williams and Coldplay, along with other artists, to benefit the &#8220;We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.&#8221; The victims of the Manchester attack were honored during the event, dubbed the &#8220;One Love Manchester&#8221; concert. 
&#8220;I want to thank you for coming together and being so loving and strong and unified,&#8221; 23-year-old Grande told the crowd. 
&#8220;I love you guys so much, and I think that the kind of love and unity that you&#8217;re displaying is the medicine that the world really needs right now,&#8221; she added.
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<a href="https://t.co/LtwB4dRr94">pic.twitter.com/LtwB4dRr94</a> for the people in Manchester. You guys deserve that concert. <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande">@ArianaGrande</a> you are amazing. Love you
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Among other songs, an emotional Grande performed &#8220;My Everything&#8221; with the Parrs Wood High School Choir, whose earlier tribute to Manchester victims went viral.
Honoring the victims of the Manchester attack, the pop star said she spoke to the mother of 15-year-old victim Olivia Campbell, who said her daughter would have wanted to here Grande&#8217;s hits. 
&#8220;She told me Olivia would have wanted to hear the hits,&#8221; said the singer, before playing &#8220;Side to Side.&#8221;
In the days following the attack, Grande made her rounds to hospitals to visit with victims of the Islamic attack. 
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/06/05/justin-bieber-fights-back-tears-at-manchester-benefit-concert-want-to-honor-those-that-were-taken-from-us.html">Justin Bieber</a> notably won over the crowd with his message, telling concert goers, &#8220;God is good is the midst of the evil. God is good in the midst of the darkness. He loves you.&#8221;
The singer added, &#8220;I just want to honor those who were lost, those that were taken from us. &#8230; We love you so much, to the families we love you so much.&#8221;
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Grande closed the event with a tear-filled performance of &#8220;Over the Rainbow.&#8221;
As <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40153433">noted</a> by the BBC, the concert scored huge ratings, with &#8220;an average of 10.9 million viewers, peaking at 14.5 million as the gig drew to a close.&#8221; The concert was said to have raise over $2.5 million for victims and their families.

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On Sunday&#8217;s GPS, CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria described his search for a &#8220;silver lining&#8221; in an analysis of Saturday&#8217;s Islamic terrorist attack in London, heralding the U.K.&#8217;s broad criminalization of firearm ownership (emphases added):
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What is interesting about [the methods of the Islamic terrorists in London] to me is, it&#8217;s in many ways very low-tech. A van going into crowds, people brandishing knives and using them as weapons. Of course, guns are very hard to get in Britain. All of that, I&#8217;m maybe just trying to look for a silver lining &#8212; here, all of that means that they&#8217;re finding it hard to do big bombs at symbolic locations and that kinda of thing, and what they are reduced to is driving vans and using knives &#8212; which is of course terrible and tragic &#8212; but you can only kill so many people [without guns], particularly if the police respond as they did in this case.
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On May 22, an Islamic terrorist detonated a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people and injuring 119 others. This did not involve firearms.
None of Zakaria&#8217;s &#8220;expert&#8221; guest panelists considered the preventative or deterrent aspects against Islamic terrorism of an armed citizenry lawfully possessing firearms. 
Zakaria opposes the Second Amendment&#8217;s codification of the right to keep and bear arms. <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10338/zakaria-data-clearly-proves-gun-house-makes-people-robert-kraychik">Last October</a>, he postured as a data-driven policy analyst by claiming that &#8220;data clearly proves&#8221; that household firearm possession &#8220;makes people less safe.&#8221; He will not, however, openly call for repealing the Second Amendment.
Despite hosting a weekly flagship show ostensibly dedicated to in-depth analyses of global affairs and international relations, Zakaria did not inquire about the overlaps between Islamic terrorism and Islam as a religion and ideology. He similarly neglected to examine the overlaps between Islamic terrorism and Muslims, or the calibration of contemporary immigration and refugee admission policies pertaining to Muslims.
At one point, Zakaria asked of Islamic terrorists in the U.K.: &#8220;Who are these people and why are they doing this?&#8221; He later described Islamic terrorism as &#8220;nihilistic&#8221; and &#8220;purposeless,&#8221; as if its perpetrators do not adhere to a coherent religious and political ideology.
Zakaria presents himself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media figure. CNN similarly casts itself as politically objective and non-partisan in its presentation of news and information, marketing itself as &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News.&#8221;

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On Wednesday, a leftist professor at the University of Michigan argued that pop star Ariande Grande, whose concert was the scene of the horrific massacre in Manchester, England, in which a terrorist loyal to ISIS (ISIL) murdered 22 people and injured scores of others, understands combating terrorism better than Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, who hates Israel so much that he even wrote an <a href="https://www.juancole.com/2015/02/surprising-better-israel.html">article</a> titled &#8220;5 Surprising Ways Iran Is Better Than Israel,&#8221; writes in <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/ariana-grande-understands-counterterrorism-better-jim-mattis/">The Nation</a> that Mattis <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-defense-secretary-james-mattis-on-face-the-nation-may-28-2017">said</a> in an interview that U.S. strategy toward ISIL was based on annihilating members of ISIS. Cole added, &#8220;He also urged a battle of humiliation against them in cyberspace, depriving them of any mantle of legitimacy.&#8221;
Cole posits that ISIL &#8220;want to engineer such a clash, by hitting soft targets like pop music concerts and getting angry Westerners to mistreat Muslims and drive them into the arms of ISIL. They did the same thing in Iraq, hitting Shiite weddings and then coming back and blowing up the funerals, in hopes of provoking Shiite attacks on Sunni Arabs. They succeeded. Talk, and strategy, like Mattis&#8217;s plays into this ploy. &#8230; The strategy of annihilation is sort of like fighting forest fires with gasoline hoses.&#8221;
Get ready for this load of garbage: Cole writes, &#8220;The fighters could not have amounted to anything if the citizens of cities such as Falluja and Mosul had felt well-treated by their government and well-represented in the Baghdad parliament. As for eastern Syria, its hardscrabble Sunni Arab farmers have lived under a totalitarian, one-party state for decades, a state oriented to the country&#8217;s west and controlled by a Shiite minority. The drought of the last decade killed 70 percent of their livestock and drove tens or hundreds of thousands off their farms.&#8221;
Yup, the classic leftist &#8220;It&#8217;s poverty that creates terrorism&#8221; argument. You just know Cole is going to lay the blame for ISIS on America eventually.
Bingo! &#8220;George W. Bush&#8217;s war on Iraq, in other words, created the exact conditions in that country that were guaranteed to foster terrorism. &#8230; More recently, President Trump&#8217;s conviction that the Arabs need a strong hand at the till is exactly the policy that leads to terrorism. Trump&#8217;s speech in Saudi Arabia last week promoting a Sunni alliance against Shiites, moreover, is another push for regional violent conflict that will spill over onto the West.&#8221;
Barack Obama&#8217;s pull-out from Iraq, leaving what had been a successful surge behind while he congratulated himself? Forget that: &#8220;Despite a lot of big talk from Washington over the past decade and a half, the so-called Global War on Terror has been a bigger bust as a U.S. military campaign than any since Vietnam.&#8221;
Ah, but the terrorists will be defeated by the grand plan of Grande:
Cole gushes, &#8220;The second-most-followed person on Instagram stressed that her concert was about inclusiveness and that would not change.&#8221; He quotes her statement:
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The way you have handled all of this has been more inspiring and made me more proud than you&#8217;ll ever know. The compassion, kindness, love, strength and oneness that you&#8217;ve shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday. &#8230; We will not quit or operate in fear. We won&#8217;t let this divide us. We won&#8217;t let hate win.
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How does Cole know Grande is right, and Mattis wrong? Try this: &#8220;&#65279;Her sentiments, the essence of counterinsurgency when it comes to ISIL&#8217;s polarizing plot, were shared by Manchester Muslims, <a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/muslims-march-to-manchester-arena-13100687">who marched in solidarity with the victims</a>. I&#8217;m hoping that the Pentagon follows Grande&#8217;s Twitter feed. Because she nailed it.&#8221;
Well, why not. Let&#8217;s just play nice with the terrorists trying to murder us. That should do the trick.
Here&#8217;s Grande&#8217;s statement:
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&#8212; Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/868164986887176192">May 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Leftist Professor: Arianda Grande Knows Counterterrorism Better Than James Mattis

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All that matters now is misdirection.
On the Left, all major issues can be ignored by pointing to the evils of Trumpism. Are Americans concerned about the rise of radical Islam? Well, it&#8217;s Trumpian Islamophobia that poses the real threat. Are Americans worried about college-campus free-speech crackdowns? Well, Trump is a threat to the First Amendment! We&#8217;re about to bring about The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale! Resist!
On the Right, all scandals can be excused by &#8220;whataboutism&#8221; &#8212; what about Obama? Or Clinton? Where were you when the Democrats did X? And hey, if you&#8217;re worried about that thing President Trump did, what about that far more horrific thing some leftist did?
It&#8217;s all dumb.
And it&#8217;s making us all dumber.
Last week, an Islamic terrorist in Manchester, U.K., attacked Ariana Grande concertgoers, targeting children and teenagers. The Left quickly responded by moving quickly to tamp down worries over Islamophobia. Their chief tool: Jeremy Christian.
Who is Jeremy Christian? The same week as the Manchester attack, a white supremacist named Jeremy Christian murdered two men in Portland, Oregon. Christian&#8217;s Facebook page included comments about &#8220;cutting off the heads of people that Circumcize Babies,&#8221; and sending &#8220;All Zionist Jews, All Christians who do not follow Christ&#8217;s teaching of Love, Charity, and Forgiveness And All Jihadi Muslims . . . to Madagascar or the Ovens/FEMA Camps!!!&#8221; Police considered Christian mentally ill; he had a rap sheet including robbery and kidnapping.
Christian had been berating two Muslim women, one wearing a hijab. Three men attempted to stop him: Ricky John Best, 53, a military veteran with four children; Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, a graduate of Reed College and an environmental consultant; and Micah Fletcher, 21, a student at Portland State University.
The Left called Christian an emissary of the Right: a Trump-supporting violent maniac intent on acting out Trump&#8217;s unstated goals. The website Heavy noted that since Trump&#8217;s election, &#8220;hate crimes against Muslims have continued to rise.&#8221; Jill Stein tweeted, &#8220;Another heartbreaking tragedy in Trump&#8217;s America, as a white nationalist shouting anti-Islam slurs murders 2 on Portland, OR subway.&#8221; The media condemned Trump for not speaking up about Christian&#8217;s attack &#8212; and after Trump spoke up, they condemned him for not speaking out sooner.
But Christian wasn&#8217;t a Trump supporter, or an emissary of Trump&#8217;s ideology. Trump supporters booted him from a free-speech march just a few weeks ago. His Facebook page showed that Christian was actually a Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporter.
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448124/political-left-right-misdirection-bad-arguments-ignoring-evidence-facts">Read the rest here</a>.

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Celebrities get a lot of flack from conservatives &#8212; and rightly so. Broadly speaking, Hollywood is rife with self-important progressive elitists who take every opportunity to promote causes anathema to conservatism, like abortion on demand. Many celebrities also have an affinity for mocking or outright condemning those who hold conservative positions (see: Joss Whedon calls those who want to defund Planned Parenthood &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16599/avengers-director-defunding-abortion-mill-act-evil-amanda-prestigiacomo">evil</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16599/avengers-director-defunding-abortion-mill-act-evil-amanda-prestigiacomo">inhuman</a>&#8220;).
However, in a world in which the only intellectually honest thing to do is call balls and strikes, sometimes celebrities deserve praise for their good deeds. This is one of those times.
According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/celebrities/ariana-grande-katy-perry-coldplay-benefit-concert-manchester/">CNN</a>: &#8220;Ariana Grande has called on her celebrity friends to join forces with her for a benefit concert honoring the victims and families of the Manchester terrorist attack.&#8221; The concert, called &#8220;One Love Manchester,&#8221; will feature Grande, Coldplay, Niall Horan, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and others, and will be held on June 4th in Manchester.
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&#8212; Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/869576721124663296">May 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
This is not only a lovely thing to do, but a brave gesture as well.
Obviously, the security at the event will be staggering. However, to hold a concert in the city that just over one week ago was subject to an Islamic terrorist bombing is a courageous sign of defiance.
Sometimes, celebrities do good things.

NICE: Ariana Grande And Others To Hold Benefit Concert In Manchester

According to some reports, pop star Arianda Grande has offered to pay for the funerals of those murdered in the terror attack in Manchester following her Monday night concert.
An account dedicated to Ariana Grande claimed she would help the families of the 22 people who lost their lives:
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News on Ariana: Ariana has reached out to the families who&#8217;s loves ones died last night&#8230;.she is gonna pay for the funerals! <a href="https://t.co/lmGHt4GbEg">pic.twitter.com/lmGHt4GbEg</a>
&#8212; Ariana Updates! (@ArianaDailyWW) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaDailyWW/status/867157656271802369">May 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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In the aftermath of the attack, which also wounded 119 people, Grande tweeted her followers:
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from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don&#8217;t have words.
&#8212; Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/866849021519966208">May 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4537034/Ariana-Grande-offers-pay-gig-victims-funerals.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb#ixzz4hzLrLoTB">The Daily Mail</a>, concert-goers said Grande&#8217;s mother Joan, who had been sitting in the front row, called as many as 10 children to follow her backstage and find safety. Joan and her daughter&#8217;s security team escorted a large group of fans out of the concert hall and into the dressing rooms.
Grande&#8217;s manager, Scooter Braun, stated, &#8216;Tonight, our hearts are broken. Words cannot express our sorrow for the victims and families harmed in this senseless attack. We mourn the lives of children and loved ones taken by this cowardly act.&#8221;
Grande has suspended her concerts in England, Belgium, Poland, Germany and Switzerland; <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/22/ariana-grande-suspends-world-tour-bombing-terrorism/">TMZ </a>reported she was &#8220;incapable&#8221; of performing her concert in London on Thursday night.
Grande&#8217;s fans were all over Twitter after the news broke that she might pay for the funerals:
 
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Ariana Grande has reached out to the families of the deceased to give her condolences and apologize. And she offered to pay the funerals.
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ariana grande paying for the funerals of those who died at her concert is so selfless and kindhearted she really doesn&#8217;t deserve this
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ariana grande contacted the families and is paying for the funerals of those who died at her concert last night in Manchester. A true legend
&#8212; pray for Manchester (@chanelxcoast) <a href="https://twitter.com/chanelxcoast/status/867182234062729217">May 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Ariana Grande has spoken with the families of the victims and offered to pay for their funerals. A beautiful heart. <a href="https://t.co/HPsZtcEJgJ">pic.twitter.com/HPsZtcEJgJ</a>
&#8212; Jack Mull (@J4CKMULL) <a href="https://twitter.com/J4CKMULL/status/867311117856649218">May 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Ariana offered to pay for the funerals of deceased children, 
It&#8217;s an angel this woman a real influence<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PrayForManchester?src=hash">#PrayForManchester</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande">@ArianaGrande</a> <a href="https://t.co/cc6xnV9T95">pic.twitter.com/cc6xnV9T95</a>
&#8212; Florchu (@Florchu29) <a href="https://twitter.com/Florchu29/status/867163850239606786">May 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Ariana Grande contacted all those whose loved ones have died during the Manchester attack &amp; is going to pay for the funerals,She&#8217;s so nice
&#8212; RiceGum (@RiceGum) <a href="https://twitter.com/RiceGum/status/867175749270224897">May 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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