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The Arizona Supreme Court Strikes a Powerful Blow for Free Speech and Religious Freedom
Free speech and religious liberty are on a winning streak. Last month the Eighth Circuit Court of appeals ruled that Christian wedding photographers could not be compelled to use their artistic talents to help celebrate same-sex weddings. Today, the Arizona Supreme Court reached a similar holding, this time on ...
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The Architect of the Latest Kavanaugh Smear Just Gave a Self-Damning Radio Interview
There is no substantiated evidence of any sexual misbehavior by Brett Kavanaugh at any point in his entire life. Several shaky claims have been made along these lines, but all of them are badly undercut by available evidence. None of them is more likely than not to be true.
Yet in a casual radio interview this ...
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Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
They're facing charges.
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The New York Times Still Doesn’t Understand What It Did
It was every writer’s dream — or it should have been. Two New York Times reporters, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, wrote a book about one of the most controversial and most reported news stories of our time, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, and thanks to their due diligence, they uncovered a truly ...
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George Packer Gets Mugged by Reality
Few journalists are as respected by, and respectable to, liberals as The Atlantic’s George Packer. The author of The Assassin's Gate (2005), The Unwinding (2013), and a recently published biography of Richard Holbrooke, Our Man, Packer has written for bastions of liberal thought from the New York Times Magazine ...
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Thanks to Michigan’s New Vaping Rules, It Looks Like I’m Going to Prison
According to a leaked draft of Michigan’s potential “emergency” anti-vaping rules, it looks like I very well may be going to prison the next time I travel to my home state.
According to a piece in the Detroit News -- co-written by Jesse Kelley, a criminal-defense attorney and the government-affairs ...
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Pelosi Strongly Criticizes Nadler in Fight over Impeachment Process
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler in a closed-door meeting last week, saying that the panel has taken the push for impeachment of President Trump far beyond the position of the House Democratic caucus.
Pelosi shocked those present at the meeting with her ...
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Peanut Butter Falcon: A Film with a Conservative Soul Teaches Three Great Truths of Manhood
This weekend, I watched one of the most deeply conservative movies I’ve seen in a very long time. At its heart, it’s a movie about a boy becoming a man — and becoming that man through ancient forms of tradition and ritual that are disguised behind the modern frame of the unconventional, accidental ...
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CNN: Everything but the News
For a while, we thought MSNBC had temporarily usurped CNN as the font of fake news — although both networks had tied for the most negative coverage (93 percent of all their news reports) of President Trump’s first 100 days in office.
A cynic would argue that CNN had deliberately given Trump undue coverage ...
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The Absurd Campaign against Vaping
There has been a burst of panicked news, competing claims, and unfounded fear related to “vaping,” the use of electronic devices to produce an inhaled vapor, usually containing nicotine, which has emerged as a common alternative to smoking.
As is commonly the case, the controversy surrounding vaping ...
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