A round-up of responses to the Vanity Fair release here .
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Klobuchar and Buttigieg Stand Out in an Otherwise Dull, Plodding Night
The October Democratic presidential-primary debate finally brought a genuine surprise, in that a pair of second-tier candidates who were in danger of being forgotten woke up, smelled the coffee, and brought their A-games: Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Considering how other second-tier candidates have turned ...
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O’Rourke’s America
With apologies to Margaret Atwood and a thousand other dystopian novelists, we do not have to theorize about what an American police state would look like, because we know what it looks like: the airport, that familiar totalitarian environment where Americans are disarmed, stripped of their privacy, divested of ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: Professor Says More Will Die if Trump Doesn’t Resign
Jared Yates Sexton, a professor at Georgia Southern University, has declared that 'people have already died' because of President Trump.
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Beto Admits Non-Compliant AR-15 Owners Would Receive a ‘Visit from a Law-Enforcement Officer’ under His Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke admitted on Wednesday that under his federal gun "buyback" plan, police officers would go to the homes of those gun owners who refused to sell their weapons to the government in order to "recover" the banned semi-automatic rifles.
"What's the next step for the ...
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Kamala Harris’s Debate Performance Was Pathetic
Kamala Harris briefly surged in the Democratic primary after after she successfully deployed a premeditated attack on Joe Biden’s record on busing during the first debate. Harris faded after she backtracked on forced busing, a deeply unpopular policy no one really wants to reinstate in 2019, and then she tried ...
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Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies
Outrage met Donald Trump’s supposedly rash decision to pull back U.S. troops from possible confrontational zones between our Kurdish friends in Syria and Recep Erdogan’s expeditionary forces.
Turkey claims that it will punish the Syrian Kurds for a variety of supposed provocations, including aiding and ...
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LeBron James Looks Like a Fraud
So, LeBron James claimed that Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey was simply “misinformed or not really educated on the situation” when he tweeted his support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
“I don’t want to get into a feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at ...
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Don’t Run a Government Like a Business
One enduring thing of value that ought to come out of the Trump administration — ought, but apparently won’t — would be to finally drive a stake into the heart of these deathless twin superstitions: that the skills and talents that enable success in a particular kind of business are infinitely transferable ...
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When Cops Create Their Own Risk, Innocent People Die for Their Mistakes
The video is puzzling and shocking. After receiving a call to a non-emergency number requesting that police check on a neighbor’s house that had its doors open and its lights on, police approach silently. They look into an open door and into a brightly lit room, but they don’t say anything. They then creep ...
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Ocasio-Cortez Salutes Immigrant-Bashing Denmark
As other socialists have done, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points to Denmark as a model country:
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1183401439546216449
A problem with countries with generous social-welfare spending is that the open-checkbook state is pretty much incompatible with the open-borders ...
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