Via the Telegraph’s intrepid Toby Harnden, I hear that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan introduced Obama as “the distinguished President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama.”
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That’s it. Erdogan’s off the McCain campaign.
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Gillette Is Not Wrong
Is the new Gillette razor ad a radical feminist attack on masculinity — the commercial embodiment of a woke sensibility? I was prepared to think so. But having watched it twice, I find a lot to like. The ad has been panned by some conservative commentators. With all due respect, I think they are falling into a ...
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Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Kamala Harris
1. As both a district attorney and state attorney general, Harris pushed for a new statewide law that lets prosecutors charge parents with misdemeanors if their children are chronically truant. “We are putting parents on notice,” she declared. “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Issues Follow-Up to President Trump’s Address
She's not holding back.
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Pelosi Says She ‘Doesn’t Care’ After DHS Contradicts Claim that SOTU Should be Cancelled
Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted with ambivalence Wednesday night after the Department of Homeland Security contradicted her claim that the upcoming State of the Union address should be cancelled due to security concerns resulting from the ongoing government shutdown.
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David Webb’s White Privilege
And here I thought I was the only black man with white privilege.
Areva Martin, a CNN “analyst” — whatever in hell that means anno Domini 2019 — was in the middle of a spirited exchange with the conservative talk-radio host David Webb about racial preferences in hiring. Webb argued — as ...
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The Politics of Snobbery, and Its Inverse
There is a longstanding myth that the two major U.S. political parties “traded places” on issues related to race, and that the debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — supported by most Republicans, but opposed by conservatives led by Barry Goldwater — was the pivot. But African-American voters already ...
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When Did It Become the FBI’s Job to Act as a Check and Balance to the President?
I appreciate David’s response to my column on the FBI counterintelligence investigation of Trump, but unfortunately don’t find it persuasive.
David emphasizes how the regulations governing a counterintelligence investigation focus on the activity of the foreign power. Yeah, sure. But that’s why the ...
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Forget the Gillette Ad, This Is What an Attack on Masculinity Looks Like
I confess to being profoundly un-offended by the now-infamous Gillette ad. Yes, it was preachy, and the indictment of suburban dads made no sense (after all, our real problem isn’t mean dads, it’s not enough dads), but the message was little more than "bad things are bad, and good things are good.” No one ...
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