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Hey Jonah,
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Commentsby far the worst of the three shows. The Monday and Tuesday shows were
phenomenal – better than the Daily Show.
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Every element of the college admissions scandal, a.k.a “Operation Varsity Blues,” is fascinating.
There are the players: the Yale dad who, implicated in a securities-fraud case, tipped the feds off to the caper; a shady high-school counselor turned admissions consultant; the 36-year-old Harvard grad who ...
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The Bogus Lawsuit against Remington
Rule No. 1 of tort law: The bad guy is the one with the most money to pay you.
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people, 20 of them schoolchildren ages six and seven.
Lanza killed himself, too. Can’t sue him.
Lanza had a history of mental illness — a long one. He’d been treated under the ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Bartending Helped Her Recognize Cohen’s Lies
She's not a fan.
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This Week’s Russia Legislation Is Everything That’s Wrong with Congress
House Republicans this week joined with the chamber’s Democratic majority to pass Russia legislation that highlights the bad joke Congress has become. When not calling for a pointless investigation that will enable them to preen in opposition to Vladimir Putin — something Democrats never cared to do prior to ...
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Shibboleth Is a Fun Word
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.
Estimado Lector (y todos mis amigos a través del Atlántico),
Greetings from Barcelona. And it is Bar•ce•lona, not Barth•e•lona. That ...
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Why Did Ben Sasse Vote to Uphold the National Emergency?
Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse has been lambasted by many of his Trump-skeptical fans in the conservative movement for voting Thursday to uphold the national emergency declared by President Trump.
A month ago, Sasse issued a statement, saying:
We absolutely have a crisis at the border, but as a ...
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The SPLC Fires Its Co-Founder, and Its Own Intolerance Is Exposed Again
For fair-minded observers, this has been a bad week for the credibility of the two most aggressive (and punitive) “watchdogs” of the right -- Media Matters and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Thanks to Peter Hasson at the Daily Caller News Foundation, we discovered the stunning hypocrisy of Media Matters ...
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