I hear that the administration is requesting $51.8 billion in supplemental spending to pay for Katrina recovery. Fifty billion will go to FEMA.
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Why the Effort to Demonize Attorney General Barr?
The current progressive effort to demonize attorney general William Barr is creepy, but then again not so strange. He came into the office with singular experience and an excellent reputation from past service. As attorney general, he has followed the law to the letter in handling the release, redactions, and ...
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Another Warning Sign
The Mueller report is of course about Russian interference in the 2016 election and about the White House's interference in the resulting investigation. But I couldn’t help also reading the report as a window into the manner of administration that characterizes the Trump era, and therefore as another warning ...
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Attorney General William Barr Makes First Ruling Against Asylum Seekers
The U.S. Attorney General is ending asylum seekers’ opportunity to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge.
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The Mueller Report Vindicates Bill Barr
Democrats and their media partners owe Bill Barr an apology. He won’t get one, it goes without saying.
Just to recap, the attorney general was accused of misrepresenting Mueller’s report; of providing a false summary of the report; of plotting to use grand-jury law and other secrecy provisions as a pretext ...
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Jesus Is Not the Joker
Actors love to think they can play anything, but the job of any half-decent filmmaker is to tell them when they’re not right for a part. If the Rock wants to play Kurt Cobain, try to talk him out of it. Adam Sandler as King Lear is not a great match. And then there’s Joaquin Phoenix. He’s playing Jesus ...
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Supreme Court Mulls Citizenship Question for Census
Washington -- The oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday will be more decorous than the gusts of judicial testiness that blew the case up to the nation’s highest tribunal. The case, which raises arcane questions of administrative law but could have widely radiating political and policy ...
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What’s So Great about Western Civilization
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
Dear Reader (Redacted: Harm to Ongoing Matter),
One of the things I tell new parents is something that was told to me when my daughter still had that ...
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The Mueller Report Should Shock Our Conscience
I've finished reading the entire Mueller report, and I must confess that even as a longtime, quite open critic of Donald Trump, I was surprised at the sheer scope, scale, and brazenness of the lies, falsehoods, and misdirections detailed by the Special Counsel's Office. We've become accustomed to Trump making up ...
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