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'''Benjamin Solomon "Ben " Carson''', M.D. (born September 18, 1951), is the 17th United States [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] under Republican President [[Donald Trump]]. He is also a widely admired [[conservative]] who was a candidate for the [[Republican]] nomination for president in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election|2016 election]].<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/04/ben-carson-tells-tv-station-is-running-for-president/ "Carson, Fiorina launch 2016 bids as diversity of GOP field grows"] (May 4, 2015). Fox News website/Politics/Republicans.</ref> Carson finished a strong fourth in the [[CPAC]] straw poll in 2015. Carson and [[Mike Huckabee]] are the only presidential candidates willing to speak the truth against the [[homosexual agenda]].
In August 2015, Ben Carson rebuked the [[liberal media]] and "dismisses '[[anchor-babies]]' controversy as 'silly'"''': “We need to talk about the actual issue and stop getting pulled off into the weeds and saying, 'you can't use this term, you can't use that term.'"'''<ref>Herb, Jeremy (August 23, 2015). [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/ben-carson-anchor-babies-immigration-2016-121639.html#ixzz3jeO9xbve "Carson dismisses 'anchor-babies' controversy as 'silly'"] (August 23, 2015). Politico website.</ref>