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Donald Trump entered the Republican presidential primaries vowing that he would show the Republican party how to win again. It was a curious claim then, and it is a more curious claim now.
It is a curious claim now in ...
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Antonin Scalia, Disciple of the Word
Editors’ Note: On October 26, the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., posthumously honored Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia with its John Paul II New Evangelization Award. This is the prepared text of remarks that Mr. Whelan delivered at the ...
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Venezuela under the late socialist firebrand Hugo Chávez and his successors has been this century’s longest national train wreck — and the situation only continues to get worse. Colossal economic mismanagement, corruption, and political repression have led to the ...
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Social Conservatism's Demise Is Neither Inevitable Nor Desirable
Previously, I’ve argued that social conservatives have greatly benefited from their fusion with other factions on the right. Far from “losing every battle,” the alliance of social conservatives with the Republican Party has produced many victories. It has not ...
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Never Trumpers and Reluctant Trump Supporters, Stop Questioning Each Other’s Motives
With Donald Trump flailing in the polls just under two weeks from the presidential election, an open conflict has broken out between many of those Republicans voting for Trump and those who see him as a moral and political bridge ...
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Lessons from the Highway of Death
California State Route 99 is the north-south highway that cuts through the great Central Valley. And it has changed little since the mid-1960s.
A half-century ago, when the state population was about 18 million — not nearly 40 million as it is today — ...
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Progressive Celebrities Want You to Vote . . . If You’re Voting for Clinton
Recent years have seen a growing trend of celebrities, athletes, and politically neutral organizations emphasizing the importance of voting simply for voting’s sake. In many cases, the advice isn’t partisan per se — instead it encourages people to register ...
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Trump’s Gettysburg Address Overflows with Conservative Ideas
If Donald J. Trump becomes president, he barely will have time to attend his own inaugural parade. The Republican nominee promised voters in Gettysburg, Pa., Saturday that he would stay spectacularly busy on his first day in office.
As part ...
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One revelation from the WikiLeaks trove of John Podesta’s e-mails stands out as more serious than all the others: Hillary Clinton attempted to solicit a $12 million donation to the Clinton Foundation from the Moroccan government, agreeing to a personal ...
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The best book about American presidential politics is a book that isn’t about America, or presidents, or politics per se; it is The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, a work of comparative religion exploring the roots of ancient ...
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WikiLeaks Exposes Podesta-Steyer Climate McCarthyism
The latest WikiLeaks dump contains plenty of insider dirt on John Podesta, the founder of the Center for American Progress and the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps the tawdriest story to be exposed by Podesta’s pilfered e-mails is ...
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Hillary's Climate of Hate
Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power?
Only one presidential candidate has wielded the sledgehammer of government against personal enemies.
Only one presidential candidate has exploited a spouse’s public office to ...
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McMullin Scenario a Last-Ditch Hope for Dismayed Voters
If you think 2016 will stop being weird come November 8, please look at your calendars: This whole election process actually lasts almost an additional two months beyond then, finally ending (probably) when Congress counts the electoral votes in early January. But ...
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Samantha Bee’s Dishonest Attack on Catholic Hospitals
While most late-night shows tend to lean left, comedienne Samantha Bee frequently takes progressive bias to the next level, making fun of conservatives with harsh, distinctly unfunny jokes.
Last night, on her show Full Frontal, Bee lambasted the Catholic Church ...
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Twitter Goes Nuts Over NYT ‘Pho’ Recipe That Uses Quinoa Because It’s ‘Cultural Appropriation’
An old New York Times recipe for pho that replaces the noodles with quinoa reappeared and Twitter went completely nuts over it being “cultural appropriation” and offensive to Vietnamese people.
Heard of this yesterday, assumed it was a bad joke.
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Barack Obama Is 2016’s Biggest Winner
Who in American politics is having a better year than Barack Obama? At this point in his second term, he has a better approval rating than every post-war president except Bill Clinton and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
It’s easy to ...
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Donald Trump, in characteristically muddled and haphazard fashion, said he thought the election might end up “rigged” (if he lost). Therefore, he would not endorse the November 8 result if he found that fear confirmed — unless, of course, in Jacksonian fashion, ...
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Why Is Indiana’s Ninth District Competitive?
Jeffersonville, Indiana — “It’s always the little dogs that bite,” Trey Hollingsworth says as he approaches a house where a little dog is visible through the glass door. This is a subject on which Hollingsworth, a first-time GOP candidate for ...
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A Couple of Givers: Bruce & Suzie Kovner, Part II
Editor’s Note: Bruce and Suzie Kovner have won the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. It is given by the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Kovners are celebrated in the current issue of Philanthropy magazine. The article about them is ...
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The False Dichotomy of Being ‘For’ or ‘Against’ Immigration
Despite controversies that rage over immigration, it is hard to see how anyone could be either for or against immigrants in general. First of all, there are no immigrants in general.
Both in the present and in the past, some ...
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A Christian Baker Must Make a Cake in Support of Gay Marriage, Say Judges in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland, a small bakery lost an appeal after it refused to bake a cake in support of same-sex marriage. Today’s ruling confirmed the initial court decision, which held that the bakery had discriminated against a prospective customer ...
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An Election Unworthy of America
Yes, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are terrible presidential candidates, but not all of the blame for this thoroughly depressing election year can be placed at their feet. The primaries gave the general electorate two bad, disliked, dishonest, vindictive options . . . ...
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Clinton Crony’s Allies Donated $675,000 to Political Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife
Every time you think you must have heard the last of the irregularities in the Clinton e-mails investigation, another shoe drops. So now we learn that the political backers of a longtime Clinton crony and fixer, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, ...
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Republicans Who Care about the Future of the Party Should Ask These Questions
There is much discussion among Republicans, and particularly for those of us who have long counted ourselves as Never Trump, about the future of the Republican party once Donald Trump is defeated on November 8, as many of us expect he ...
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Barbara Comstock for Congress
In the worst-case scenario, Donald Trump’s sagging campaign is going to endanger the Republican majority in the House. It is imperative that conservatives — and all people of good will who don’t want to see Hillary Clinton get a ...
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Misguided Opposition to Free Trade Is Bipartisan
President Obama is pressing to have the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) approved by the Republican-controlled Congress — after the election. He’s right that it should be approved. But if it isn’t, and it might not be, there will be plenty ...
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A Couple of Givers: Bruce & Suzie Kovner, Part I
Editor’s Note: Bruce and Suzie Kovner have won the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. It is given by the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Kovners are celebrated in the current issue of Philanthropy magazine. The article about them is ...
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Republican Senate Hopes May Rest with Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson
Milwaukee — In 49 states, when you order breakfast in a restaurant you might be asked if you would like pancakes or an omelet. In Wisconsin, you are asked if you would like pancakes with your omelet. Ron Johnson would, thank you. ...
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Honor Resistance to Slavery, but Don’t Honor Nat Turner
The truth is really hard to take, especially historical truth. I was reminded once again of this reality by the conversation taking place around Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s controversial film about Nat Turner’s 1831 slave revolt. To ...
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Stop Iran by Stopping North Korea
Twice in the last week, North Korea has attempted to launch its new “Musudan” ballistic missile. Both launches failed, but according to a new report from a Johns Hopkins think tank, the missile could be perfected and operational next year — ...
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In Gettysburg, We Need the Pro-Life, Pro-Growth, King-Dollar Donald Trump
The Trump campaign has announced that their candidate will deliver a major speech in historic Gettysburg, Pa., on Saturday, October 22. Donald Trump will present his closing arguments for American voters, outlining the steps he will take in his first 100 days ...
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Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual
A few years before he became president, Ronald Reagan appeared on Firing Line. The topic of the January 13, 1978, episode of William F. Buckley Jr.’s long-running debate show was the treaties by which the United States relinquished the Panama Canal ...
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The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump
I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old daughter’s face in a gas chamber. It was the evening of September 17, 2015. I had just posted a short item to the Corner calling out notorious Trump ...
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed Wednesday night about partial-birth and late-term abortion. Judging by the media coverage of that exchange, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion about these subjects. I’ll try to dispel some of ...
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When Every GOP Presidential Nominee Is the Worst Republican Ever
Of all the great American political traditions, there is perhaps none more instructive than the progressive tendency to sentimentalize Republicans from years past. You can effectively set your watch by it: Whatever Republican ran for office four or eight or ...
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Hillary Clinton’s Dishonesty Was on Display in Final Debate
The third and mercifully final presidential debate also turned out to be the most conventional. Fox News’s Chris Wallace did a solid job pressing the candidates on issues in Las Vegas, giving them space to spar but not enough ...
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Despite Trump, Demotic Protest Politics Doesn’t Always Fail
This has been a big year for protest politics — not just in the United States, what with Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump getting over 40 percent of primary votes, but also all over Europe and Latin America, where voters have been ...
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Fear-Mongering about Citizens United Undermines Faith in Elections
Because of what came later — Donald Trump’s refusal to say whether he’d accept the results of the election — Hillary Clinton’s similar, if somewhat less incendiary remark about our system’s legitimacy went nearly unnoticed.
Right out of ...
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It’s Not Okay To ‘Dress Up As’ Anyone or Anything for Halloween -- It’s All Appropriation
I am sick of articles telling people how to choose what to “be” for Halloween without being insensitive . . . because the truth is, dressing up as anyone or anything other than yourself is always offensive.
Let me say it again: It’...
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Hillary Clinton Relentlessly Exploits Voter Ignorance
Let’s suppose for a moment that you’re a normal human being. And by “normal” I mean a person who keeps politics at a healthy distance. You’ve got kids, a challenging job, and thriving relationships. Your spare time ...
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Hillary’s Appalling Defense of Partial-Birth Abortion
Early on in last night’s debate, Hillary Clinton confirmed that, if elected, she will toe the party line on abortion: Predictably, she promised to uphold Roe v. Wade and guaranteed that Planned Parenthood would never be defunded under her ...
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Big Wind Tries Voter Payola in Vermont
A foreign wind-energy company is in such a hurry to collect the maximum possible amount of subsidies from the U.S. Treasury that it has taken an unprecedented step: It has promised to share the federal gravy with individual voters ...
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It’s Time for Congress to Pass Reaganesque Tax Reforms
Thirty years ago this week President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, landmark legislation recognized as the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in our nation’s history. Upon signing the bill into ...
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Some Advice for President Clinton
Madam President:
Criticized for his advising Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman offered the only persuasive response: “I gave him good advice.” I cannot congratulate you on your election — no sane person could — but I can offer some good advice.
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California’s War on Crisis-Pregnancy Centers
Last Friday, the Ninth District Court of Appeals upheld a California law requiring crisis-pregnancy centers to advertise for abortion clinics. The state legislature passed the Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency (FACT) Act last year, and the law was subsequently ...
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‘The Greatest Pop Song Ever Sung,’ Part I
In August, I was writing about the two presidential nominees, and our extreme familiarity with them. What else was there to know? I was moved to quote a song: “If you don’t know me by now, you will never ...
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The Diversity Colleges Need
A specter is haunting academia, the specter of specters — ghosts, goblins, and “cultural appropriation” through insensitive Halloween costumes. Institutions of higher education are engaged in the low comedy of avoiding the agonies of Yale.
Last October, the university was rocked ...
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Professor: A University Placed a Trigger Warning on the Movie ‘Clueless’
According to one anonymous professor, the film-studies program at a college in the Midwest has placed a trigger warning on the movie Clueless.
Clueless, in case you didn’t know, is a film about a bunch of high-school kids that ...
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Clinton’s E-mails: The Gift That Keeps on Giving to Vladimir Putin
The mainstream media is an accomplice in the Clinton campaign’s diversion from her e-mail scandal to Donald Trump’s alleged crude behavior. As the generally anti-Trump Wall Street Journal puts it: “It’s almost impossible to turn on the ...
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The Case for Shrinking the Supreme Court
Senator John McCain made minor headlines this week by stating that a Republican Senate might well be justified in refusing to confirm any nomination that a president Hillary Clinton might make to the Supreme Court. The only problem with such ...
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Writing on the Wall: Replace Obamacare, Stat
Inflation in Argentina is expected to run around 25 percent in 2017. Inflation in Obamacare health-insurance premiums will come in just a few points under that. Therein lies a lesson.
With the news that Obamacare premiums will go up by an average ...
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Facing Iran, U.S. Allies in Lebanon Are in Trouble
Bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the west, Israel in the south, and Syria in the east, Lebanon is surrounded by water, stability, and war. But next week will bring new developments: Lebanese politicians hope to form a new government. In ...
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One Nation, United in Wanting This Election to End
Here’s the good news, America: Less than two weeks remain in what might be the most embarrassing election of all time, at least on our fruited plain. This presidential contest has ruined countless perfectly good dinner parties, made cringing ...
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Did Social Media Kill Juvenile Delinquency?
YouTube killed the juvenile delinquent.
That’s the conclusion I came to recently when I got together with some of my high-school friends from the early 1980s. Reliving our glory days, we found ourselves thankful that there was no social ...
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A Couple of Givers: Bruce & Suzie Kovner, Part IV
Editor’s Note: Bruce and Suzie Kovner have won the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. It is given by the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Kovners are celebrated in the current issue of Philanthropy magazine. The article about them is ...
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The Republican Party Needs to Revert to Nominating Republicans
When told that the New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller had grandly declared “I accept the universe,” the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle dryly remarked: “She’d better.” Much ink and indignation has been spilled concerning whether Donald (“I am much more ...
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Tufts University’s Greek Students Warned Their Costumes Could Be Investigated by Campus Cops
Student leaders in Tufts University’s Greek system wrote a letter warning members that they might be investigated by campus police if they choose to wear politically incorrect Halloween costumes.
“This year we want the Greek Community to help prevent ...
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Talk-Radio Hosts and Their Audience — Who Led Whom?
There’s a partly true story about the present GOP crisis that goes something like this: Conservative media — especially conservative radio and Fox News — spent years stoking and inflaming the conservative base. Hyperbolic rhetoric, holier-than-thou conservatism, and crazed conspiracy thinking ...
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Clinton Transmitted Classified Information to Her Lawyers
What was the legal rationale under which Hillary Clinton quite intentionally shared classified information with her lawyers, including David Kendall, Cheryl Mills, and Heather Samuelson?
As I outlined in last weekend’s column, we know that Clinton’s e-mails were ...
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Turning Pro-Life Centers into Abortion-Referral Agencies
On October 14, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a California statute that forces pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) to recommend abortions. The ruling allowed the state to enforce this unjust law.
This case is the latest in a decades-long ...
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A Win for Airbnb and the Constitution in Nashville
Rachel and P. J. Anderson live with their two children in Germantown, a neighborhood just outside of Nashville. P. J., a musician, often brings his family along while traveling. Like many Nashville residents, the Andersons rent out their home through ...
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A Couple of Givers: Bruce & Suzie Kovner, Part III
Editor’s Note: Bruce and Suzie Kovner have won the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. It is given by the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Kovners are celebrated in the current issue of Philanthropy magazine. The article about them is ...
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Turnout Will Make All the Difference in Congress
Some of us this election year don’t even want to say the words “Clinton” or “Trump” — and with good reason. However, there is one word that we should keep in mind: “turnout.”
If we sit home in disgust on ...
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‘We Need to Clean This Up’: More Evidence Obama Lied about Hillary’s Private E-mails
There was panic in Camp Clinton when President Obama falsely told the public he had not known about then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail until he heard about it “through news reports.”
In reality, Obama and Clinton exchanged ...
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Offering Poor Value, Obamacare Exchanges Have Become Medicaid-like Ghettos
The October surprise that Washington knew about all along finally arrived yesterday, as the Obama administration announced that premiums would increase by nearly 25 percent nationally for Obamacare’s individual insurance. With the exchanges already struggling to maintain their long-term viability, ...
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Hillary Clinton, taking a break from lying about her own record, spent the weekend lying about Pat Toomey’s. The first-term Republican senator “still refuses to stand up to Donald Trump,” Clinton said on Saturday, at a rally in Pittsburgh. “...
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Liberty and Security Together, Under Assault
On November 8, American voters must answer a question that was before our Founders in 1787: What policies are most likely to assure our continued liberty and prosperity, and which of the candidates is most likely to support and implement those policies?
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Hillary Clinton may be the first candidate in American history to win a contest of personalities without having one.
She has been content to make the election all about Donald Trump’s character, and Trump has obliged because, really, what ...
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The Politics Two Unpopular Nominees Hath Wrought
In last week’s third and (thank goodness) final presidential debate, each candidate did an excellent job of presenting convincing arguments for why people shouldn’t vote for the other.
Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a felon, and Clinton called ...
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Google/YouTube vs. Conservative Speech
Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote the following editorial about YouTube restricting access to 16 videos — down from 21 — created and posted online by my non-profit educational organization, Prager University: “YouTube thinks Dennis Prager’s videos may be dangerous.”
Tech giants ...
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Petition Demands ‘Meltdown’ Snowman Shirt Be Removed Because It’s Insensitive to the Mentally Ill
A petition is demanding that the British supermarket Asda stop selling a children’s T-shirt featuring a picture of a snowman and the words “I’m having a meltdown” on the grounds that it’s insensitive to the mentally ill.
“...
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In Washington State, Unions Advance a Ballot Measure to Keep Members in the Dark
On November 8, voters across the state of Washington will decide Ballot Initiative 1501, the Seniors and Vulnerable Individuals’ Safety and Financial Crimes Prevention Act. If passed, the measure’s proponents claim, I-1501 will increase criminal penalties for targeting seniors and vulnerable ...
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Senator Tim Scott: Putting a Face on Poverty
It’s no secret that the War on Poverty hasn’t been as successful as Americans had hoped it would be when President Lyndon Johnson first announced his federal anti-poverty effort, known as the Great Society. After five decades of ...
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Matt Continetti’s characteristically incisive “Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual” is well worth reading in full, and its final paragraph warrants especial consideration. He outlines some of the trends that have brought the GOP and the conservative movement to the ...
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The Magis Isn’t Running for President
Someone on Twitter the other night commented that New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan, sitting between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, must have some kind of “magic.” After all, he managed to get the two of them to talk to ...
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Republicans Increasingly Optimistic about Indiana Senate Race
South Bend, Ind. — At a time when many Republicans find little to be optimistic about, some hope that the Indiana Senate race will be a bright spot.
Republican representative Todd Young has made significant progress closing a more than 20-point ...
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States, Plates, and Pates
Del Mar, Calif., is one of this nation’s beautiful places, a surfing town on the California coast not far from San Diego. That also puts it close to the Mexican border — less than two hours to Tijuana down the 805. ...
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Hillary F. Clinton Curses Those Who Keep Her Safe
Hillary Clinton’s “treatment of DS [Department of State] agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment or employment elsewhere,” according to a just-released summary of an FBI interview with a former State Department ...
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Moonlight: A Plea for Pity for a Black, Gay Statistic
Moonlight is structured in three parts, separating the case history of a black gay Florida youth into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Each phase is titled by nicknames — Little, Chiron, Black — that were bestowed and then, eventually, self-chosen so that identity ...
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Clinton’s Pretense That She Didn’t Understand ‘C’ Was for ‘Classified’
So now Hillary finally knows what the “(C)” stands for in government documents: It’s Cartwright . . . as in four-star Marine General James E. Cartwright, the retired 67-year-old former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the expendable federal official ...
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‘The niceties of liberal democracy,’ &c.
Before there was Trump and Trumpism, there was Buchanan and Buchananism. PJB — Patrick J. Buchanan — is still kicking, and someone sent me his latest column.
It is about how the “establishment” is doing down “the people,” etc. And, more specifically, ...
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Chaput: To Contribute to American Life, Catholics Must First Step Back from Its Culture
The Al Smith Dinner usually specializes in self-deprecating humor by the candidates, but while some of that was on display last night, both Hillary and Trump used the occasion also to try to land a few body blows.
Trump’s ...
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During the final presidential debate, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared herself a totalitarian. She did not use that word, of course, but that was the substance of her remarks.
She began by arguing that the Supreme Court, and lesser federal courts, ...
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Hillary Clinton’s Blackout America
Three presidential debates in which there was only one question on the subject that, more than any other, would transform America under Hillary Clinton. “We can be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses,” the ...
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‘The Greatest Pop Song Ever Sung,’ Part II
Not long ago, I posed a question to readers: What is the Greatest Pop Song Ever Sung? It had come up, for reasons I could explain. In fact, I do, in Part I of this series. I realize the question ...
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Reporters’ Political Biases Should Be Clear
‘Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for a side. Period.”
This declarative tweet came from the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza on October 16. The next day, Cillizza posted on Twitter, “Well, this is super depressing. ...
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No one can accuse Kellyanne Conway of complacency. She is already preparing for post-election recriminations.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager has recently cited Hillary Clinton’s financial advantage, media bias, and President Barack Obama’s popularity as reasons Trump should ...
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The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures. But these documents do provide hard textual backup.
The most sensational disclosure was the proposed deal between the State Department and the FBI in ...
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Chris Wallace Was Right about How to Moderate a Debate After All
In the run up to last night’s debate, moderator Chris Wallace was widely maligned for declaring that he would not fact-check the candidates during the event; in its aftermath, he’s been widely praised for a performance that easily ...
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Does Hillary Believe in an Individual Right to Bear Arms or Not?
In last night’s third and final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton made two seemingly conflicting assertions about the Second Amendment: that she supports an individual right to bear arms and that the Heller case was wrongly decided.
Here’s the ...
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Déjà Vu — Time for the GOP to Stop a ‘Blank Check’ for a Clinton
The last time an inarticulate, septuagenarian Republican candidate fared poorly in debates while running against a member of the Clinton family was 1996. That year Bob Dole lost to Bill Clinton. Dole is not Donald Trump, but Republicans reacted to Dole’...
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The Coming ‘Sexism’ Tsunami
Say what you will about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, but it’s done a heck of a job of feeding various ideological hobgoblins across the United States. Some will fade away after November 8; others, alas, will quickly shoot up ...
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Religious Freedom? A Judge Bans a Jewish Ritual in California
‘That should not happen in America,” exclaimed a left-leaning friend of mine upon hearing that a federal judge had prohibited some Jewish Californians from engaging in a ritual that Jews have performed for thousands of years. Unfortunately, it did happen ...
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The Media Will Learn to Love Trump in Due Time
He is the worst major-party candidate in history.
He’s a gaffe machine. He’s an evil racist who wants to return black people to slavery.
He’s a brutal sexist who wants to return women to the subservience of ...
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In Las Vegas, a Tale of Two Debates
Las Vegas — Donald Trump saved his best for last, and his best wasn’t good enough.
It was a tale of two debates — and two elections — here on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where the Republican ...
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The Election Year Features More Than One Presidential Race
A presidential campaign is figuratively called a “race.” Two runners sprint toward the Election Day finish line for the prize of the presidency.
But the 2016 presidential campaign has spawned lots of weird races.
The first sprint is one between embarrassments ...
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DePaul Invokes ‘Catholic Values’ to Ban Pro-Life Poster
Last week, Reverend Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., the president of DePaul University, prevented a College Republicans poster bearing the phrase “Unborn Lives Matter” from being displayed on campus.
According to Holtschneider’s open letter to the DePaul community, the ...
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Did the State Department Float a Quid Pro Quo to the FBI over Hillary’s E-mail Scandal?
This is a long column, so let me cut to the chase. Hillary Clinton’s circle, including Patrick Kennedy, the State Department’s under secretary of state for management, absolutely subordinated national security to politics and broke federal law. But ...
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Why the U.S. Role in Mosul Is Crucial
Approaching from the east and south, Iraqi forces have begun operations to retake Mosul. Their fight will not be easy. While ISIS, or Daesh, knows it will lose the city, it hopes to make the Battle of Mosul as militarily ...
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Obamacare Is Falling Apart, and Liberals Want to Replace It with a Single-Payer System
The Affordable Care Act was never designed to be a permanent solution. Obamacare’s architects predicted that the law’s success would prove the government could be trusted to federalize health care, paving the way for a single-payer system. Reality ...
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