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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America’s First Third-World State
‘Third World” is now an anachronistic geographical term of the old Cold War. But after 1989, “Third World” was reinvented from a political noun into an adjective to mean more than just Asian, African, and Latin American nations nonaligned with either the West or the Soviet bloc.
Rather, the current ...
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In Defense of Coleman Hughes
Picture the scene: A young man walks into a congressional hearing to offer witness testimony. His grandfather was barbarically brutalized by people who are now long dead. The nation in which he resides built its wealth of his grandfather’s brutalization. The question: Should his fellow citizens pay the young ...
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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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College Leaders Should Learn from Oberlin
Thanks to their social-justice warrior mindset, the leaders of Oberlin College have caused an Ohio jury to hit it with $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages in a case where the school couldn't resist the urge to side with its “woke” students against a local business.
College leaders should learn ...
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The Media’s Double Standard on Culture-War Controversies
When Vice President Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana, he got along well with the mayor of South Bend, Pete Buttigieg, despite the fact that Buttigieg is a gay, liberal Democrat and Pence is a straight, socially conservative Republican.
Ironically, Pence is a straight man in both the sexual-orientation ...
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Toy Story 4: A National Anthem
The Toy Story franchise is the closest thing we have to an undisputed national anthem, a popular belief that celebrates what we think we all stand for — cooperation, ingenuity, and simple values, such as perpetual hope. This fact of our infantile, desensitized culture became apparent back in 2010 when I took a ...
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Judge Appoints Special Prosecutor to Investigate Kim Foxx’s Handling of Smollett Case
A Chicago judge appointed a special prosecutor on Friday to investigate Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's handling of the investigation into Jussie Smollett's alleged hoax hate crime.
Judge Michael Toomin said that Foxx's unorthodox decision to drop all charges against Smollett absent an admission of ...
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Whoever Wins Istanbul’s Mayoral Election, There’s Trouble Ahead for Erdogan
Tomorrow, for the second time this year, residents of Istanbul will go to the polls to determine who will be the city’s mayor. Some observers see the vote as the latest test of whether Turkey will shed what remains of its more democratic recent past and move firmly into the orbit of Russia and/or China. But it ...
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Joe and the Segs
Joe Biden has stepped in it, good and deep.
Biden, if he has any hope of ever being elected president, will be dependent on residual goodwill among African Americans from his time as Barack Obama’s loyal and deferential vice president — so deferential, in fact, that he stood aside for Herself in 2016 even ...
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Supreme Court Backs Immigrant Unaware of Legal Status in Gun-Possession Case
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that an illegal immigrant unaware that his legal status barred him from possessing a gun cannot be prosecuted for possession, in a decision that could affect thousands of previous cases.
The Court's decision will force prosecutors to prove that a member of a group barred from ...
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