Episode 83: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
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Beto Admits Non-Compliant AR-15 Owners Would Receive a ‘Visit from a Law-Enforcement Officer’ under His Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke admitted on Wednesday that under his federal gun "buyback" plan, police officers would go to the homes of those gun owners who refused to sell their weapons to the government in order to "recover" the banned semi-automatic rifles.
"What's the next step for the ...
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O’Rourke’s America
With apologies to Margaret Atwood and a thousand other dystopian novelists, we do not have to theorize about what an American police state would look like, because we know what it looks like: the airport, that familiar totalitarian environment where Americans are disarmed, stripped of their privacy, divested of ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: Professor Says More Will Die if Trump Doesn’t Resign
Jared Yates Sexton, a professor at Georgia Southern University, has declared that 'people have already died' because of President Trump.
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Klobuchar and Buttigieg Stand Out in an Otherwise Dull, Plodding Night
The October Democratic presidential-primary debate finally brought a genuine surprise, in that a pair of second-tier candidates who were in danger of being forgotten woke up, smelled the coffee, and brought their A-games: Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Considering how other second-tier candidates have turned ...
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Kamala Harris’s Debate Performance Was Pathetic
Kamala Harris briefly surged in the Democratic primary after after she successfully deployed a premeditated attack on Joe Biden’s record on busing during the first debate. Harris faded after she backtracked on forced busing, a deeply unpopular policy no one really wants to reinstate in 2019, and then she tried ...
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Is America Becoming Sinicized?
A little over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976.
The results of Deng’s revolution astonished the world. In four decades, ...
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LeBron James Looks Like a Fraud
So, LeBron James claimed that Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey was simply “misinformed or not really educated on the situation” when he tweeted his support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
“I don’t want to get into a feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at ...
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Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies
Outrage met Donald Trump’s supposedly rash decision to pull back U.S. troops from possible confrontational zones between our Kurdish friends in Syria and Recep Erdogan’s expeditionary forces.
Turkey claims that it will punish the Syrian Kurds for a variety of supposed provocations, including aiding and ...
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A Democrat, and Social Conservative, Challenges Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic city councilman Fernando Cabrera sounds like a New Yorker. He’s speaking fast when I reach him by phone Monday, rattling off the myriad differences between himself and the woman he’s challenging for the Democratic primary nomination for New York’s 14th district: Representative Alexandria ...
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Progressives Are All Too Willing to Cut Constitutional Corners
Presidential aspirant Beto O’Rourke, thrashing about in an attempt to be noticed, says tax exemptions should be denied to churches and other institutions that oppose same-sex marriage. O’Rourke’s suggestion, and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren’s plan to tax the “excessive” exercise of a First ...
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