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The news image that comes up is from Reuters, from the summer of 2009, of U.S. President Barack Obama shaking hands with the now-deceased dictator. Should be the image for Barry Rubin’s comments earlier today.
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Karen Pence, Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, Part of a Christian Ministry?
Karen Pence is a believing Christian woman. She took a part-time job at a private Christian school. And this, believe it or not, is a scandal. Don’t believe me? Her job has already merited not just one, but two critical Washington Post stories. There’s the obligatory CNN report, accompanied by a piece of ...
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Gillette Is Not Wrong
Is the new Gillette razor ad a radical feminist attack on masculinity — the commercial embodiment of a woke sensibility? I was prepared to think so. But having watched it twice, I find a lot to like. The ad has been panned by some conservative commentators. With all due respect, I think they are falling into a ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Issues Follow-Up to President Trump’s Address
She's not holding back.
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Pelosi Says She ‘Doesn’t Care’ After DHS Contradicts Claim that SOTU Should be Cancelled
Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted with ambivalence Wednesday night after the Department of Homeland Security contradicted her claim that the upcoming State of the Union address should be cancelled due to security concerns resulting from the ongoing government shutdown.
"I don't care what they said," Pelosi told ...
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David Webb’s White Privilege
And here I thought I was the only black man with white privilege.
Areva Martin, a CNN “analyst” — whatever in hell that means anno Domini 2019 — was in the middle of a spirited exchange with the conservative talk-radio host David Webb about racial preferences in hiring. Webb argued — as ...
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A New Report Accuses Trump of Suborning Perjury, the Gravest Allegation Yet
BuzzFeed News has tonight printed perhaps the most damaging claim against Donald Trump yet, a claim that, if true (a very big "if"), produces evidence against the president that is remarkably similar to evidence used to support articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. And while there are ...
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Trump’s Reelection Chances May Be Better Than You Think
What are Donald Trump’s chances for reelection in 2020?
If history is any guide, pretty good.
In early 1994, Bill Clinton’s approval rating after two years in office hovered around a dismal 40 percent. The first midterm elections of the Clinton presidency were an utter disaster.
A new generation of ...
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When Did It Become the FBI’s Job to Act as a Check and Balance to the President?
I appreciate David’s response to my column on the FBI counterintelligence investigation of Trump, but unfortunately don’t find it persuasive.
David emphasizes how the regulations governing a counterintelligence investigation focus on the activity of the foreign power. Yeah, sure. But that’s why the ...
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The Politics of Snobbery, and Its Inverse
There is a longstanding myth that the two major U.S. political parties “traded places” on issues related to race, and that the debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — supported by most Republicans, but opposed by conservatives led by Barry Goldwater — was the pivot. But African-American voters already ...
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