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The Democrats Made Two Joe Biden Miscalculations
I think it's safe to say that there are many, many progressive Democrats who are more than a little surprised -- and a lot chagrined -- at Joe Biden's polling dominance. Look at FiveThirtyEight's polling roundup. Aside from a few high and low outliers, he leads the race by a solid 20 points (at least). Even ...
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The Many Downsides of War with Iran
The news from the Middle East is grim. Last week, national-security adviser John Bolton announced that the United States was sending a carrier group and a bomber force to the Persian Gulf region in response to a “number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran. Over the weekend, four ...
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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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Alabama and Georgia Are Throwing Down the Gauntlet against Roe. Good.
We are witnessing the beginnings of an anti-abortion legislative revolution in Red America. Two generations of pro-life activism, persuasion, and argument have yielded pro-life supermajorities in state houses across much of the South and Midwest, and they recognize the fact that we have reached a moment of legal ...
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Our Modern Satyricon
Sometime around a.d. 60, in the age of Emperor Nero, a Roman court insider named Gaius Petronius wrote a satirical Latin novel, The Satyricon, about moral corruption in Imperial Rome. The novel’s general landscape was Rome’s transition from an agrarian republic to a globalized multicultural ...
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Heartbeat-Bill Opponents Reveal Their Own Incoherence
It is difficult to find anyone willing to defend the right to end innocent human life.
This is something we should celebrate. Human beings tend to have an instinctive aversion to harming the innocent. Society stigmatizes those who would openly advocate the right of the strong to subjugate the weak merely ...
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Meet the Bold Sexologist Questioning Transgender Orthodoxy
Ray Blanchard is an American-Canadian sexologist who served as the head of clinical sexology services in the law and mental health program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto from 1995 to 2010. His research on paraphilias, gender-identity disorders, and sexual orientation spans nearly ...
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De Blasio Is the Ferris Bueller of Democratic Presidential Candidates
The most rational response to the news that New York City mayor Bill de Blasio wants to be president is to ask, “Of what?”
When informed that he wants to be president of the United States and not of, say, the local organic-hemp co-op, perhaps the next best response would be to take a page from the South ...
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Idaho’s Deregulatory Revolution
Oh, gridlock! Glorious gridlock! Is there anything it can’t do?
It has been an ugly year in the Idaho state legislature. Both chambers are controlled by Republicans, but they disagreed over a constitutional question concerning how the state’s administrative rules — its regulations — are renewed, ...
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The Swedish Lesson: Welfare States Create Moral Hazard
At a time when the American Left wants to introduce Swedish-style socialism into the U.S., we should remember that generous welfare states pose a moral hazard. Their well-intentioned policies undermine individual responsibility and create a welfare-dependency trap. This is confirmed by history as well as by ...
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