Episode 73: The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Why It’s Unlikely the McCabe Grand Jury Voted against Indictment
In coverage of the Andrew McCabe investigation, there seems to be a lot of adding two plus two and coming up with five.
The New York Times and Washington Post have reported that a grand jury met on Thursday in connection with a probe involving McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director. As I write this column ...
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Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns
At the Democratic-primary debate in Houston last night, Beto O’Rourke formally killed off one of the gun-control movement’s favorite taunts: The famous “Nobody is coming for your guns, wingnut.” Asked bluntly whether he was proposing confiscation, O’Rourke abandoned the disingenuous euphemisms that have ...
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Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
They're facing charges.
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Back Off from the ‘Resist’ Nonsense
When Donald Trump was elected president of these United States — or, more properly, president of the federal government of the United States of America, a distinction worth keeping in mind — some of those who were disappointed by his election declared their intention to, in the now-inescapable word, ...
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Politico Doubles Down on Fake Turnberry Scandal
It's tough to be an investigative reporter. Everybody who feeds you a tip has an axe to grind. Or, alternatively, you find yourself going, "I wonder if . . . ?" You put in your research, you talk to lots of people, you accumulate a huge pile of information, but you still haven't proved your hypothesis. A wise ...
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Bill Burr’s Dirty Joke about Michelle Obama, and Other Stuff You Can’t Say
Should we #BelieveAllWomen? Bill Burr is skeptical. People will say, “You can’t make something like that up,” he notes. “Well, did you see Star Wars? Somebody made that up.” He adds, “If women ran the world there’d be no war. Evidently there’d be no due process either.” As for “male ...
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Booker: ‘Demagogues’ Are ‘Fear-Mongering’ about Police Confiscating Assault Weapons
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker on Friday criticized what he called "fear-mongering" about police showing up to confiscate legally owned assault-style weapons such as the AR-15 rifle.
"I hate when Democrats use the language that Republicans try to use to scare people away as opposed to the sort ...
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Four Cheers for Incandescent Light Bulbs
It brought me much -- indeed, too much -- joy to hear of the Trump administration's rollback of restrictions on incandescent light bulbs, even if the ban will remain in place. The LED bulbs are terrible. They give off a pitiable, dim, and altogether underwhelming "glow," one that never matched the raw (if ...
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AOC Calls for Kavanaugh’s Impeachment following Botched NYT Article
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) called for the impeachment of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh in a tweet on Monday, amid controversy over a discredited New York Times story detailing further allegations of sexual-misconduct against Kavanaugh that was published Saturday.
Along with her ...
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California Bans State-Sponsored Travel to Iowa over Refusal to Provide Medicaid Coverage for Gender-Reassignment Surgeries
California added an eleventh state to its travel blacklist on Friday, banning state-sponsored travel to Iowa over that state's refusal to cover gender-transition surgeries under its Medicaid program.
California attorney general Xavier Becerra announced the decision to add Iowa to the travel-ban list, which ...
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