The president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, had some choice words for her feelings about Mayor Emanuel’s decision to close a number of Chicago schools.
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The New York Times Runs a Sloppy, Specious Democratic Hit on Brett Kavanaugh
What does the word “primarily” mean? If you look it up in a dictionary, the definition is plain enough. Merriam-Webster says it means “for the most part.” Dictionary.com’s definition is even more helpful, providing a string of synonyms: “essentially; mostly; chiefly; principally.”
Why does this ...
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Revoking Brennan’s Security Clearance: The Right Thing, Even if for the Wrong Reason
I do not share my friend David French’s theoretical constitutional concerns about the president’s revocation of security clearances -- at least when it comes to former government officials who become media commentators and have no demonstrable need for a security clearance. Like David and many other ...
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Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history.
Warren’s proposal is ...
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Road Trip
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 (Especially future contributors to my GoFundMe page),
I am currently in the passenger seat of our family fun mobile, passing mile marker ...
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The Agenda That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Democrats have decided that agendas are overrated. Back in May, the party unveiled its "Better Deal" program, calling for expanded broadband access, an increase in the minimum wage, and paid family and sick leave. Voters didn't bite. So last month the Democrats came up with "For the People," which simplifies ...
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Answering my Critics
My post on Elizabeth Warren’s cynical/bonkers proposal to effectively nationalize every American firm with revenue of $1 billion or more has met with predictable criticism. I will address two points here.
One, some have complained about the use of the word “expropriation,” or more broadly about ...
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The Maker of Middle-earth, in Gorgeous Detail
Oxford, England — After five months of ferocious and futile slaughter in “the Great War,” an Oxford undergraduate — knowing his deployment to the Western Front was inevitable — used his Christmas break in 1914 to cultivate his imagination. Twenty-two-year-old J. R. R. Tolkien began writing “The Story ...
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Winslow Homer’s Art, through the Camera Lens
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's show Winslow Homer and the Camera takes a perceptive, original look at one of America's great art visionaries. It's special for many reasons. It takes a much-considered artist — Homer (1836–1910) is among the gods atop the heap of American artists — and finally makes ...
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