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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Hero to Zero: The Rise and Fall of Michael Avenatti
Remember when Michael Avenatti was the Democrats’ big hope for 2020? He wasn’t just that, though. Parachuting in to launch his presidential campaign to the DNC’s “Ethnic Council” and its black caucus in Chicago in August, he enthusiastically adopted the party’s guiltspeak. “People that look like me, ...
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G-File Mailbag: The Results of a Bad Idea
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 (Including those of you just standing there eating Zarg nuts),
I had a bad idea. It wasn’t a terrible idea, like asking a meth addict ...
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Mika Brzezinski Apologizes On-Air for ‘Butt Boy’ Slur: ‘I Am Really, Really Sorry’
Her comments came after she caused an uproar.
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How Democrats Can Blow It in 2020
Donald Trump probably can’t win the 2020 presidential election, but the Democrats can lose it.
What I mean is that in a contest between Trump and a generic Democrat, Trump would almost surely lose if the current political climate holds through 2020. According to a Fox News poll this week, 38 percent of ...
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The Collusion Scenario
It has become an article of faith in some quarters on the right -- well, most -- that the Mueller investigation has found no evidence of collusion with Russia and has accordingly shifted gears to process crimes like lying to the FBI or obstruction of justice. Having decided that this must be true, many have ...
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Democrats’ Border-Barrier Flip-Flop
Is steel more moral than concrete?
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said last week that she and other Democrats consider a border wall “immoral.” But some of the same Democrats who decry President Donald J. Trump’s proposed concrete wall as a 30-foot-tall human-rights violation actually ...
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Payoffs to Mistresses as In-Kind Contributions? It’s an Open Question
Kevin, if I can butt into your exchange with Rich for a moment (since you raise a question that he and I batted around in The McCarthy Report podcast this week), the question of whether the Trump/Cohen transactions are campaign expenditures as a matter of law has not been addressed, much less settled.
The ...
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If There’s No Collusion, There’s Always Stormy Daniels
The most legally fraught part of the Russia probe now revolves around payments to an American porn star.
As of yet, instead of a dastardly scheme to participate with the Russians in the hacking of Democratic emails to subvert the election, prosecutors have uncovered a dastardly scheme to try to keep from the ...
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