Episode 22: Steely Dan
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Alfie Evans Foreshadows a Dark American Future
How? How does a nation reach a point where it will essentially kidnap a child from a loving, functioning family, yank that same child off life support, deny him care as he unexpectedly fights to stay alive, and then block attempts by a foreign government to rescue him and provide him top-notch care free of ...
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Gorsuch Was Wrong to Rescue a Felonious Alien
Some conservative analysts are unwisely praising Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for joining the court’s four committed liberals to keep a felonious immigrant from deportation.
These estimable analysts, including columnist George Will and the Wall Street Journal editorial board, give too much credit to ...
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Columbia 1968: Another Untold Story
Fifty years ago this week, Columbia students riding the combined wave of the civil-rights and anti-war movements went on strike, occupied buildings across campus, and shut the university down. As you revisit that episode of the larger drama that was the annus horribilis 1968, bear in mind that the past isn’t ...
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Only the Strident Survive
‘I am not prone to anxiety,” historian Niall Ferguson wrote in the Times of London on April 22.
“Last week, however, for the first time since I went through the emotional trauma of divorce, I experienced an uncontrollable panic attack.”
The cause? “A few intemperate emails, inadvertently forwarded ...
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Paul Krugman’s All-Renewable Delusion
In 2008, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was awarded a Nobel Prize for “his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.”
Unfortunately, when writing about energy issues in the Times, Krugman doesn’t bother to do any analysis at all. Instead, as he proves yet again with his April ...
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Poll Finds Nevada Voters Support School-Choice Programs
According to an April poll, a large number of Nevada voters support school-choice programs. The poll, conducted by Nevada Independent/Mellman, found that 70 percent of voters support a proposal for a special-needs Education Savings Account and 59 percent support expanding the funding for the current tax-credit ...
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Juanita Broaddrick Tweets Timeline of Alleged Rape by Bill Clinton 40 Years Ago Today
Juanita Broaddrick — a 73-year-old retired nurse whose allegations of rape against Bill Clinton were long ignored by the media — revisited her experience in devastating detail in a series of Wednesday morning tweets marking the 40th anniversary of the alleged attack.
Broaddrick, who initially went public ...
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Microscopic Dots. Let’s Look at Them.
Stuart E. Eizenstat has written a big book on the Carter presidency. (Eizenstat was Carter’s chief domestic-policy adviser. He also had a substantial hand in foreign affairs.) I have reviewed the book for the forthcoming NR. Eizenstat tells the story of a meeting between President Carter and Andrei Gromyko, the ...
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Mere Witness in Russia Probe Faces Financial Ruin
While Washington feeds its insatiable Trump/Russia-collusion jones, Americans are going broke in the process. Mere witnesses before congressional oversight panels, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, and the grand jury he has convened endure ginormous legal bills. Although they are not suspected of ...
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