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23 April 2014, 9:00 pm by: George Will
Recently, Barack Obama -- a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance, a Pericles sent to ameliorate our rhetorical impoverishment -- spoke at the University of Michigan. He came to that very friendly venue -- in 2012, he…
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23 April 2014, 7:44 pm by: Wesley J. Smith
This will not impact the abortion issue because of federal preemption. But the Alabama Supreme Court has accepted that fetuses and embryos "from the earliest stages of development," qualify as a "child" under Alabama law.The case involves a law that…
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23 April 2014, 7:36 pm by: Andrew Stuttaford
Writing from the left (I you don’t believe me, read what he has to say about the death tax), James Galbraith dissects Capital in the Twentieth-First Century, the new confiscation manifesto by Thomas Piketty, and he does so in a way that is not necessarily to…
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23 April 2014, 6:40 pm by: Tim Cavanaugh
Sometimes it seems like you only hear the bad news about the Internal Revenue Service: the targeting of the president's enemies; the padding of union bosses' hours.But sometimes the federal tax collector is there to lend a hand.During 26 of the darkest months…
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23 April 2014, 6:13 pm by: Ramesh Ponnuru
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23 April 2014, 6:01 pm by: Ed Whelan
I don’t contest at all Justice Sotomayor’s proposition, in the Michigan case decided yesterday, that race continues to matter in lots of ways in this country. But I think that Chief Justice Roberts rightly responds, in his brief concurrence, that…
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23 April 2014, 5:50 pm by: Michael Potemra
It begins: “I am puzzled as to why racism is thought to be a terrible thing . . .” I won’t link to the piece, which appeared on a conservative site today.Back in the ’80s, David Letterman used to make fun of Madonna’s publicity stunts by saying, “I…
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23 April 2014, 5:40 pm by: Andrew Johnson
There's no love lost between Keith Olbermann and the leadership of his former network (or one of them, at least).The ESPN-turned-MSNBC-turned-Current TV-turned-ESPN2 host replied to a follower on Twitter who asked if Olbermann finds joy in watching the…
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23 April 2014, 5:34 pm by: Christine Sisto
Another model came forward Monday with allegations of sexual misconduct by celebrated fashion photographer Terry Richardson. Model Emma Appleton tweeted a screenshot of a Facebook message that endearingly reads, “If I can [expletive] you, I will book you in…
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23 April 2014, 5:09 pm by: Andrew Johnson
Winthrop University's Socialist Student Union stuck wire hangers into the ground on a main campus lawn as part of a display ridiculing pro-life advocates' efforts of putting up flags to represent unborn children who have been aborted.Additionally, the SSU's…
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23 April 2014, 5:05 pm by: Josh Encinias
David Letterman made a fat joke about Chris Christie on his show Tuesday night.A "CBS News Special Report" broke into his monologue to announce that Governor Chris Christie had received a father of the year award.The "report" also let viewers know that…
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23 April 2014, 4:51 pm by: Josh Encinias
When the 9/11 museum opens on May 21, the documentary “The Rise of Al-Qaeda" will play on loop, but an interfaith panel and an imam disagree with the documentary's portrayal of Islam. The documentary is less than seven minutes long and is a small feature in…
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23 April 2014, 4:46 pm by: Ed Whelan
See Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5Much of Bruce Allen Murphy’s new biography of Justice Scalia is dedicated to a tedious and tendentious account of seemingly every speech or interview that Scalia has ever given (e.g., the “controversial television interview with…
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23 April 2014, 4:46 pm by: NRO Staff
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23 April 2014, 4:43 pm by: Josh Encinias
A team of Yale scientists recently discovered that parts of ancient Antarctica and polar regions of the southern Pacific Ocean were once as warm as today's California and Florida.Hagit Affek, an associate professor of geology and geophysics, co-created a…
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23 April 2014, 4:28 pm by: Jesse Saffron
All too often, people on the left confuse well-articulated snark and sarcasm with rigorous argumentation. They confuse attacks on an individual's personal background with sound criticisms of that individual's ideas. But they choose not to address or even…
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23 April 2014, 4:08 pm by: Reihan Salam
In "The New Abolitionism," Chris Hayes of MSNBC observes that just as the end of chattel slavery meant that Southern slaveholders lost what they had come to understand as an income-producing asset, the fight against climate change requires that fossil fuel…
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23 April 2014, 4:07 pm by: Wesley J. Smith
The Hemlock Society Compassion and Choices has no shame. Now, they have bootstrapped assisted suicide onto the recent success of LGBT issues. From one of its ubiquitous emails:1994 was a different time in America. A vicious plague was erasing entire…
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23 April 2014, 4:04 pm by: Josh Encinias
The problem of radical Islam is so serious that it demands that the West eschew tensions with Russia and China to confront Islamist terror, Tony Blair said in a speech Tuesday."At the root of the crisis [in the Middle East] lies a radicalized and…
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23 April 2014, 3:54 pm by: Andrew Johnson
A prominent Democratic senator doesn't want to talk about contributions she received from David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who have been targeted for abuse and attacks by Democratic politicians and liberal media.Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, a…
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23 April 2014, 3:51 pm by: Jonah Goldberg
Jeff Goodell has a piece in the current Rolling Stone which, as the web version notes, went to press before Obama announced his latest punt on Keystone. Goodell writes:At the same time, the president is likely to announce his decision on the northern leg of…
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23 April 2014, 3:26 pm by: Andrew Johnson
The Republican National Committee alleges Harry Reid's tirades against the Koch brothers on the Senate floor and use of congressional resources to attack Republicans have "crossed the line." As a result, the RNC has filed an ethics complaint against the…
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23 April 2014, 3:24 pm by: David French
Thanks of course to Thomas Piketty and millions of words in op-eds, blog posts, and social-media screeds, now is apparently the time for the coastal elite to talk about inequality. It's a big thing -- the biggest thing -- and unless it's fixed, it may very…
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23 April 2014, 3:08 pm by: Jim Geraghty
Also in today's Jolt...Progressives' Knee-Jerk Finger-Pointing on Race Spreads to the Supreme CourtNow we know: A liberal Supreme Court justice will tell another liberal Supreme Court justice to his face, with the whole country watching her read her dissent…
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23 April 2014, 3:08 pm by: Michael Potemra
Jonah, I’m glad you, too, endorse that letter. And you call to mind a deeper issue: I’m not a big fan of people who deploy what they believe to be “ruthless and unforgiving logic.” I am regularly informed by pro-choicers -- to take one example -- that…
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23 April 2014, 2:55 pm by: Iain Murray
Regular readers will remember that for many, the most vindictive part of the government’s shutdown was the treatment of national parks, going so far as to close roads leading to private dwellings, and to shutter private businesses that had never been closed…
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23 April 2014, 2:34 pm by: Jack Fowler
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23 April 2014, 2:24 pm by: Josh Encinias
American Commitment launched an ad campaign called "Colorado Steyer Infection" on Wednesday, attributing Colorado senator Mark Udall’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline to the generosity of billionaire Tom Steyer, who doesn't seem to care much for the…
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23 April 2014, 2:21 pm by: Jonah Goldberg
Mike - I like the letter too. And I am friends with some of the signatories as well. But there's one thing that grates on me a little. I think it's admirable that some advocates of same sex marriage are relatively magnanimous in victory (and I'm certain it's…
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23 April 2014, 2:16 pm by: Jonah Goldberg
Eli Lake reports:A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al Qaeda has taken control of a secretive training facility set up by U.S. special operations forces on the Libyan coastline to help hunt down Islamic militants, according to local media reports,…
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