This week, John, Jonah, and Rob riff on Bradley/Chelsea Manning, Glenn Greenwald’s smuggling partner, the NR Cruise, The Butler, and Breaking Bad.
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The ‘Burn It Down!’ Democrats
The Senate. The Electoral College. The First Amendment. The Second Amendment. The Supreme Court. Is there a part of our constitutional order that the Democrats have not pledged to destroy?
There are some Democrats out there in the sticks — a lot of them, in fact — who simply don’t understand the ...
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New Zealand Retailer Pulls Jordan Peterson Book after Mosque Shootings
Whitcoulls, New Zealand's largest bookstore franchise, pulled the work of Jordan Peterson from its shelves Wednesday in response to the mosque shootings that claimed 50 lives in Christchurch last week.
Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, which contains a chapter addressing the particular ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Bartending Helped Her Recognize Cohen’s Lies
She's not a fan.
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Betsy DeVos Strikes a Blow for Religious Freedom
Last week, Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that the U.S. Department of Education will stop enforcing a provision in federal law that has long barred religious organizations from contracting with private schools to provide federally funded “equitable services,” such as tutoring and professional development. In ...
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In Defense of the Electoral College
Senator Elizabeth Warren has joined a growing chorus within the Democratic party in calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. Speaking at a forum in Mississippi on Monday night, Warren said that she hoped to ensure that “every vote matters” and proposed that “the way we can make that happen is ...
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There’s a Partisan Fiction at the Heart of the Case against the Electoral College
On the substance of the defense of the Electoral College, consider me four-square behind our editorial today. This paragraph is key:
In our era of viciously divisive politics, the states are arguably more necessary than they have ever been. Critics of the Electoral College bristle at the insistence that it ...
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In Defense of the Iraq War
Today is the 16th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and Twitter is alive with condemnations of the conflict -- countered by precious few defenses. Yet I believed the Iraq War was just and proper in 2003, and I still believe that today. When Donald Trump condemned the war during the 2015 primary campaign and ...
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Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Pete Buttigieg
One: South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg’s father, Joseph Buttigieg, immigrated to the United States from Malta and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1979. He was a professor of European literature who taught at New Mexico State and then Notre Dame. The elder Buttigieg was a fan of Manchester United soccer and ...
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