Senator Specter predicts long confirmation hearings for Judge Alito — longer than for Judge Roberts — though he thinks a filibuster is unlikely. According to the Washington Post, “he believes the nominee’s fate will turn largely on “how credible he is” at the panel’s confirmation hearing, which begins Jan. 9.”
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The Prosecution of Count Dankula
The problem with defending free speech is that you never get to defend it on exactly the territory you hoped for. Of course, one keeps one’s fingers crossed that the next defense of free speech will be mounted against an attempt to ban Areopagitica or burn all extant copies of A la recherché du temps perdu. ...
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Yes, California Is on the Verge of Banning Some Christian Books, Here’s How
Late last week, I wrote an article that caused a bit of a furious reaction in social-justice Twitter. Activists claimed I was lying, arguing in bad faith, and/or exaggerating the effect of California’s AB 2943, a bill that purports to declare “sexual orientation change efforts” to be an “unlawful business ...
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Penn State Forbids Outing Club from Going Outside Because It’s Too Dangerous
Pennsylvania State University’s 98-year-old Outing Club is no longer permitted to go outside -- because administrators believe that it’s too dangerous.
That’s right. In the past, members of the Outing Club would participate in activities such as hiking, canoeing, kayaking, and camping, however, the ...
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Russiagate’s Epic Fail vs. Watergate’s Windfall
Like Captain Ahab, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has spent eleven months frantically hunting a giant whale. So far, Mueller has harpooned a couple of cod and a few salmon. But these fish have yet to demonstrate that the huge, ocean-going mammal in question merits capture. And Mueller’s barely productive ...
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Joy Reid Denies Writing Homophobic Blog Posts
MSNBC personality Joy Reid's former blog, The Reid Report, published a series of anti-gay posts, which she claims were added to the site after it was shut down, by a hacker intent on destroying her reputation and nascent cable-news career.
Reid, who discontinued the blog roughly a decade ago, apologized in ...
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Monday Links
A Supercut of Epic Movie Explosions.
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Authorities Confiscated Waffle House Shooter’s Guns Months Before Massacre
Authorities confiscated Travis Reinking's AR-15 months before he used it to kill four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee, according to Illinois police records.
Reinking, who has been on the run since the Sunday shooting, was detained by secret service in July after breaching the White House perimeter in an ...
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We’re a People in Need of Babette’s Feast
Everything seems to become at once deeper and lighter from the moment you sit down in the Theatre at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church for the off-Broadway production of Babette’s Feast. Originally a short story first published in English in Ladies' Home Journal, it’s the story of a Christian community in ...
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On Trade, No One Is Waiting for Washington
President Donald Trump’s flips and flops on trade are now as ubiquitous as his 5:00 a.m. tweets. Many predicted that trade-expansion efforts would come to a standstill and world commerce would suffer amidst all the uncertainty. Instead, the precise opposite has happened. In the last few months, it’s become ...
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Trump’s Syria Quandary
President Trump raised eyebrows recently when he ended a tweet lauding the airstrikes he’d ordered against chemical-weapons facilities in Syria with the words “mission accomplished.” The phrase, of course, became infamous in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, when President Bush used it in a speech ...
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