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Jussie Smollett Jokes Declared Off-Limits
The Jussie Smollett story has been declared not fit for jokes. "It's a straight-up tragedy," declares the co-creator of a Comedy Central show, South Side, set in Chicago.
Bashir Salahuddin, a former Jimmy Fallon writer, says “The whole situation is unfortunate. Particularly for the city, there’s bigger ...
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Progressive Democrats Renounce Their Former Selves
All politicians are “flexible.” If they are in politics long enough, many reinvent themselves ideologically several times over — given the perceived volatile mood of 51 percent of their constituency.
But rarely have we seen an entire primary field of candidates scrambling to renounce all their past ...
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Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
They're facing charges.
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What The 1619 Project Leaves Out
“The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year,” The New York Times Magazine editors declare. “Doing so requires us to place ...
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Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness
This might come as some surprise to observers of our campus culture wars, but there was a time, not long ago, when the situation in American higher education was much worse. There a wave of vicious campus activism aimed at silencing heterodox speakers, and it was typically empowered by a comprehensive regime of ...
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At Michigan State University, the Word ‘but’ Is a Trigger
Michigan State University instructed student employees to avoid using words and phrases including “but,” “I apologize,” and “no problem” -- because apparently, they’re “triggers.”
The students received these instructions during a mandatory hour-long training, titled “Inclusive and ...
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The Wrong Side of Pete Buttigieg’s History
Pete Buttigieg was conducting a “town hall” with Jake Tapper on CNN last night when he was asked what he thinks of religious Democrats who oppose gay marriage, given his wont to condemn Mike Pence for the same.
He responded by invoking his experience in Indiana, where “people were able to move past old ...
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Bill Maher Mocks Rashida Tlaib’s Call to Boycott His Show
Bill Maher mocked Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) Wednesday after she called for a boycott of his program, HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, in response to his criticism of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
“Some people have one move only: boycott. Cancel. Make-go-away,” Maher ...
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Please, America, Let’s Take a Break from the Kennedys
Making the click-through worthwhile: Yet another member of the Kennedy family aspires to the title “Senator,” prompting the question of whether both the voters and the Kennedys would be better off taking a break from each other; China starts pumping out disinformation on Twitter and Facebook; and a new poll ...
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Beto and the Press Throw America under the Bus
Beto O’Rourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting.
“This country, though we would like to think otherwise,” he intoned over the weekend, “was founded on racism, has persisted through racism, and is racist today.”
This is now a mainstream sentiment in the Democratic party. Bernie ...
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