Episode 50: The British American Conservatarian Florida Man
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The Steele Dossier and the ‘Verified Application’ That Wasn’t
Here’s what you need to know: In rushing out their assessment of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Obama-administration officials chose not to include the risible Steele-dossier allegations that they had put in their “VERIFIED APPLICATION” for warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...
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Anti-Catholic ‘Blaine Amendments’ Harm Children Now, in the 21st Century
Republican James G. Blaine (1830–1893) was a House speaker, senator, and two-time secretary of state, but he is remembered, if at all, for this doggerel: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine / the continental liar from the state of Maine." His lasting legacy, however, is even more disreputable than his involvement ...
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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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Cold Brew’s Insidious Hegemony
Soon, many parts of the United States will be unbearably hot. Texans and Arizonans will be able to bake cookies on their car dashboards; the garbage on the streets of New York will be especially pungent; Washington will not only figuratively be a swamp. And all across America, coffee consumers will turn their ...
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Australia’s Voters Reject Leftist Ideas
Hell hath no fury greater than left-wingers who lose an election in a surprise upset. Think Brexit in 2016. Think Trump’s victory the same year. Now add Australia.
Conservative prime minister Scott Morrison shocked pollsters and pundits alike with his victory on Saturday, and the reaction has been brutal ...
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The Warmonger Canard
Whatever the opposite of a rush to war is — a crawl to peace, maybe — America is in the middle of one. Since May 5, when John Bolton announced the accelerated deployment of the Abraham Lincoln carrier group to the Persian Gulf in response to intelligence of a possible Iranian attack, the press has been aflame ...
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Bill de Blasio, the Sponge of Woke Platitudes
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 the Democrats not running for president. Let’s have lunch),
And then there were 24.
Of course, you normally ...
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A Liberal Law Professor Explains Why the Equality Act Would ‘Crush’ Religious Dissenters
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage. What’s made him unusual is that in recent years he’s been trying to make the case to liberals that “same-sex marriage and religious liberty can co-exist.” In 2017 he co-authored an article ...
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We’ve Had Bill Barr’s Back
One of the more dismaying features of the national political debate lately is how casually and cynically Attorney General Bill Barr has been smeared.
He is routinely compared to Roy Cohn on a cable-TV program that prides itself on assembling the most thoughtful and plugged-in political analysts and ...
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Game of Thrones: A Father’s Legacy Endures
Warning! If you don't want to read any spoilers from last night's series finale of Game of Thrones, stop reading. Right now.
There is a lot to unpack about the Thrones finale, and I fully understand many of the criticisms I read on Twitter and elsewhere. Yes, the show was compressed. Yes, there were moments ...
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