Episode 42: Andrew Sullivan
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Does Brian Sims Hear Himself?
How to explain Brian Sims? None of the three most likely possibilities -- that he is not very bright, that he is insane, that he is a fanatic -- speaks very well of the Pennsylvania state representative, who for some reason decided to accost an elderly woman praying silently in front of an abortion facility, to ...
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A Thousand Pro-Life Protestors Pray outside Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia
Philadelphia -- At 1144 Locust Street in Philadelphia, in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, at least a thousand pro-life protestors gathered on the spot where, one week ago, state representative Brian Sims filmed himself harassing a peaceful woman praying outside the clinic.
“She is an old ...
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Attorney General William Barr Makes First Ruling Against Asylum Seekers
The U.S. Attorney General is ending asylum seekers’ opportunity to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee Is Right to Subpoena Donald Trump Jr.
We are now officially in the midst of yet another Republican civil skirmish. Two days ago, Axios broke the news that the GOP-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee had “subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. to answer questions about his previous testimony before Senate investigators.” At issue, we later learned, is ...
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Top Dems Now Have Access to All But Two Full, Seven Partial Lines of Mueller’s Obstruction Report
As Congressional Democrats prepare to hold attorney general William Barr in contempt over his supposed lack of transparency, it's worth remembering that he has made available to top Democrats the entirety of volume II of the Mueller report, save for two full and seven partial lines, which were redacted to protect ...
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Against the Persecution of Bill Barr
The Democratic party’s current war on Attorney General William Barr is one of the most misguided, misplaced bursts of outrage that I’ve seen during the first term of the Trump administration. Barr protected the Mueller investigation, he went above and beyond legal requirements to release Mueller’s report to ...
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Washington’s Dirty Little Secret: No One Is Running the Show
One of the hardest lessons for young, idealistic, and educated people to learn when they come to Washington — and some never learn it — is that nobody is running things. Sure, they know how to hold a press conference or write a law or conduct a study. But no person or group of people has the power to impose ...
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Rules, Regulations, and Right-Wingers
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 all of you having a constitutional crisis),
A hundred years ago, if you wanted to tell a lot of people across the United ...
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Valerie Plame, Who Worried About ‘America’s Jews,’ Is Running for Congress
Valerie Plame, the former CIA employee and husband of Joe Wilson who was the center of controversy in George W. Bush's second term, is running for Congress as a Democrat in New Mexico’s 3rd district. If Plame wins the primary, she'll have a good chance of winning the seat, as the 3rd district is pretty heavily ...
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What If Joe Biden . . . Really Is the Strongest Option for Democrats?
Fans of Joe Biden who contend that he's the only one who's “electable” and that the other candidates are not have another small but intriguing bit of data to support their view. An OH Predictive Insights survey completed May 1-2 in Arizona asked respondents their view about hypothetical matchups in the 2020 ...
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