Month: January 2020

George Packer of The Atlantic has been awarded the Hitchens prize, which is given to reward “willingness to pursue the truth without regard to personal or professional consequence.” This essay in The Atlantic adapted from his acceptance speech is very much worth reading. I cannot recommend it highly enough. [A] kind of fear pervades the
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Billionaire investor George Soros attends the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019 (Lisi Niesner/Reuters) Billionaire Democratic donor George Soros warned a crowd Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Facebook is conducting an “informal mutual assistance operation” to help get Donald Trump elected in 2020. “I think there is a
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Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe explains his role in the Senate impeachment trial after being appointed to the president’s defense team. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on
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As conservative writers for online magazines are all too well aware, their leftist adversaries are not interested in serious debate or mannerly conversation. Civility is not the left’s strong suit. Tactics vary along a spectrum of readily predictable talking points, false assertions, vituperation and obscenity, the stock in trade of those who have come to
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Medical staff transfer a patient of a highly suspected case of a new coronavirus at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, China January 22, 2020. (cnsphoto/ China Out via Reuters ) We could dodge this bullet, but we need to be prepared for the next one. I’m worried about the new coronavirus that has
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South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg holds a town hall event in Creston, Iowa, November 25, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) This observation from McClatchy political correspondent David Catanese is downright surreal: 10 DAYS til I o w a — and not 1 major candidate is there! – @JoeBiden in Claremont + Manchester, NH then to Boston for
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Clayton Christensen at a TED Talks in 2012 (via YouTube) The guru of innovative technology leaves a legacy that extends well beyond the business world. Read through the marketing materials for a given startup and one adjective will inevitably appear: “disruptive.” The term “disruptive technology” might induce semantic satiation nowadays, but the man who coined
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Oh, dear. This isn’t going to go over well at all and somebody may be losing their key to the executive all-gender bathroom at the next Executive Woke Staff meeting. Over at National Review, Madeleine Kearns unearths a story out of Great Britain, where science teacher and a transgender activist Debbie Hayton has gone public
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The impeachment managers have been harping on the damage that President Trump’s hold-up of aid to Ukraine allegedly did to our foreign policy. The argument, at least as they have often made it, is not compelling. First, as Trump’s defenders have pointed out, it is implausible that great harm was done by a temporary freeze.
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Two weeks ago, the United States seemed on the brink of starting another war in the Middle East after a drone strike killed Iran’s most notorious spymaster, Qasem Soleimani, as he departed an international airport in Baghdad. The shadowy general, in charge of the Iranian equivalent of the CIA, was one of the … Read
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Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson and House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving deliver the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, January 15, 2020. Following are impeachment managers House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, Rep. Val Demings, Rep.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks to the media as the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump continues in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) What he’s implicitly saying is that his choice to be financially responsible has cost him things that money cannot replace.  During Elizabeth Warren’s campaign stop in Iowa on Monday, a
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Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter attend an NCAA basketball game in Washington, D.C., January 30, 2010. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) They deny Trump the right to present a defense, then complain that he has produced no evidence. Imagine you get indicted in a swindle. The prosecutors represent that they can prove you and your
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Is the “confidant” Steve Bannon? Because it sounds like Steve Bannon. Vivid tough-guy bluster. Axe-grinding about fickle establishmentarians. Whispering on background to reporters. It has all the hallmarks. Some lefties are taking the line literally, not because there’s any actual doubt that it’s metaphorical but because it’s Friday and content is thin and “the Trump
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Pro-life demonstrators recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally before the start of the March For Life in Washington, January 24, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Friday’s rally saw a standout speech from Louisiana state representative Katrina Jackson, a Democrat who spearheaded the state’s abortion restrictions. Louisiana state representative Katrina Jackson stood out on the
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 8, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Though I’m not a regular listener to Joe Rogan’s podcast, when I do tune in I find him to be refreshingly open-minded, smart, and engaging. But Rogan’s stated justification for voting for Bernie Sanders makes
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CNN, MSNBC praise Rep. Adam Schiff during impeachment trial. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top five-cable network,
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