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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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Democrats’ Hypocrisy on ‘Foreign Interference’
Here’s the main question that arises from Media-Democrat shrieking over President Trump’s twaddle about taking campaign-related information from foreign powers: Is it just silly or actually dangerous?
In our latest episode of Un-reality Government, the president was egged on by -- who else? -- George ...
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The Worst Advice Column Ever Written?
From Live Well Nebraska comes the most amusingly hysterical and extraordinarily ignorant advice column I have read in a long while. It consists of a question, posed by a man writing as "Dumbfounded Father," and a response, offered by "syndicated columnist" Amy Dickinson. At no point in the exchange does either ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges
Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself.
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With a Huge Punitive Damage Award, the Oberlin Verdict Becomes Even More Meaningful
Yesterday, the jury in the Oberlin College defamation trial delivered the school a staggering blow -- awarding the plaintiffs $33 million in punitive damages after last week handing down an $11 million verdict for the college's role in a defamatory campaign against a small Ohio bakery. The total damage award is ...
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There’s No Such Thing as ‘Brainwashing’
‘Nxivm: How a Sex Cult Leader Seduced and Programmed His Followers,” reads the New York Times headline. “Former Nxivm members testified they were brainwashed into being branded and assigned to have sex with him.”
None of that is quite true.
Blame Richard Condon.
Contrary to the New York Times, ...
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There Is No Such Thing as ‘Brainwashing’
In reporting on the NXIVM case, media outlets ranging from Vice to the Daily Beast to, just today, the New York Times have employed the term “brainwashing,” almost entirely uncritically.
The problem with that, which apparently has occurred to none of these outlets whose writers from time to time ...
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Will Democrats Learn Their Lesson before 2020?
Washington -- "It is a great advantage to a president," said the 30th of them, "and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man." Or, Calvin Coolidge would say today, a great woman. While today's incumbent advertises himself as an "extremely stable genius" and those who would ...
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The 2020 Battle Begins
The 2020 campaign begins in earnest next week in Florida, when Donald Trump officially launches his reelection bid. On June 26, 20 Democratic candidates and five moderators hold the first of two nights of debates. Where do things stand?
According to the polls, President Trump starts at a disadvantage. He has ...
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Kamala Harris Would Help Dreamers Get Green Cards — Sometimes at the Expense of Legal Immigrants
As she explains on her website, if elected president, Kamala Harris plans to protect 6 million illegal immigrants from deportation and provide 2 million “Dreamers” who were brought here as minors a better chance at green cards and ultimately citizenship — without action from Congress. I agree with David ...
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Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 14, 2019)
1. Ed Mechmann: Is there a Limit to Abortion Extremism?
2. Christians Are Pro-Life After Birth, Too
3. Child protective services needs to recruit better workers
4. Commercial surrogacy should stay illegal in N.Y.: A feminist’s perspective
5. Maine becomes 10th jurisdiction to legalize medically ...
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