Episode 96: Strain Explains
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Acosta’s Sweetheart Deal Likely to Foreclose Epstein’s SDNY Prosecution
Alex Acosta did a bad job on the Jeffrey Epstein case. This column was nearly finished when news broke Friday that he would resign as labor secretary. I was going to argue that his lapses did not justify joining the nakedly political mau-mauing by Democrats who have no interest in exploring the behavior of ...
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Gender Dissenter Gets Fired
Allan M. Josephson is a distinguished psychiatrist who, since 2003, has transformed the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology at the University of Louisville from a struggling department to a nationally acclaimed program. In the fall of 2017 he appeared on a panel at the Heritage Foundation ...
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Culture with Kat Timpf: Dear Cornell University: Questioning ‘Reason’ Is Part of a ‘Scary Trend’
Kat Timpf reports that Cornell University is preparing to ask students whether or not Americans should use concepts like ‘rationality.’
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Are the Uber and Lyft Bubbles about to Burst?
One of my favorite things to ask rideshare drivers is whether and how they calculate their earnings: Do they keep track of hourly wages, how important are incentive bonuses, how do they maximize fuel efficiency and minimize expensive wear on their car, etc. The answers vary wildly, as do the reasons that people ...
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The Mob Comes for Scarlett Johansson Again — and Wins Again
Political correctness kills art, rendering it bland. Which is why it was encouraging when Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson said that — as an actress — she should be able to play "any person, or any tree, or any animal."
No doubt Johansson would make a very sexy tree, and a very bold badger ...
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Pelosi’s House of Pain
Not so long ago — as recently as the cover of the March 2019 Rolling Stone, in fact — they seemed like the best of friends. I'm referring to Nancy Pelosi and the members of "The Squad": Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and (not pictured) Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. They shared some good ...
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To Defeat Trump, Democrats Should Nominate Michael Bennet
Washington -- With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40 percent of his ten Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which is ...
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Ninth Circuit Hands Trump Administration Win in Sanctuary-City Case
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the Trump administration Friday in a case concerning the withholding of federal funds for local policing from so-called sanctuary cities.
A three-judge panel of the court ruled 2–1 that the Justice Department could deny Community Oriented Policing Services ...
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A Herd Has No Mind
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Funny thing about my new book: I had begun shopping around the proposal for writing it long before my brief period of employment with that other magazine and the subsequent witless chimp-brained media freakout and Caffeine-Free Diet Maoist struggle ...
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Connecticut Girls Resist Transgender Sports Policies
In today's Wall Street Journal, I share the story of Selina Soule, a Connecticut girl who, along with two others, has filed a Title IX complaint with the Education Department due to her state's transgender sports policy. You can read the op-ed here.
Additionally, I have spoken to one of the other ...
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