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In response to The Absurdity of Ibram X. Kendi’s Receiving a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Jack, you invite me to repeat a story I never get tired of telling, because it is illuminating. From the Wall Street Journal: [T]he Atlantic was sponsoring a panel about marginalized points of view and diversity in journalism. The panelists, all
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On Friday morning, the British medical journal The Lancet proudly announced on Twitter, “Our new issue is here! On the cover—’Periods on display’ and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and #PeriodPoverty…” As if that wasn’t ridiculous enough, the attached image of the issue cover simply highlighted the text, “Historically, the anatomy and physiology of
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That headline is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The next few days in Washington will either see the salvation of Joe Biden’s presidency or its ending. Washington Democrats are walking around Capitol Hill with a perpetual frown on their faces. None of them are happy with the current state of affairs that has brought the presidency
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A Washington state school allegedly required teachers to complete a “privilege” training, where teachers discussed their privilege based on particular attributes, according to an anonymous teacher. One exercise in the Tumwater, Washington, school district’s “privilege” training included “The Privilege Pie,” where participants were told to color in sections prevalent to them, the teacher told advocacy
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Former president Donald Trump attends a rally in Perry, Ga., September 25, 2021. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) Donald Trump, at his rally on Saturday in Georgia, told his supporters not only that Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, was “a disaster” and that “the people of Georgia must replace” him, but even that the arch-progressive Democrat Stacey Abrams
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A Twitter employee announced that the platform is “exploring new controls” for a filter that automatically prevents users from having to see “potentially harmful or offensive” replies.  The next step for Big Tech censorship may be preventing users from having to see rhetoric they disagree with in the first place. “We’re exploring new controls called
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YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki dodged whether the digital media company took down material belonging to Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, at the request of the Russian government in an interview with Bloomberg on Sunday. The site removed a number of Navalny’s videos, while Google, YouTube’s parent company, and Apple,
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks at Monmouth Park Sports Book in Oceanport, N.J., June 14, 2018. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The New York Post reports: Unemployed New Jerseyans who return to work could get a $500 bonus in their first paycheck under a state program unveiled Monday. The “Return and Earn” program aims to curb labor shortages caused
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GoFundMe has deleted a fundraiser in support of harassed students at Arizona State University, according to Reclaim The Net.  Two students were allegedly asked to leave the school’s multicultural center for “being white” and “supporting the police,” Reclaim The Net reported. A video documenting the reported incident was posted to the “LibsofTikTok” Twitter page. “This insanity
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If you don’t put a fence around your swimming pool, and a kid falls in, you can be held liable. And if you don’t put a fence around your country, and migrants suffer harm trying to get in, your government is liable. The analogy isn’t perfect, of course. Children don’t know any better, whereas most
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies in SWAT gear prepare to serve search warrants in 2011. (Chris Miller/Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department/Handout via Reuters) When I write about police corruption, as I did today, I reliably hear complaints that I am making too much out of a “few bad apples.” Well. San Diego, March 2021
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Continental Europe’s iron lady exits the stage after 16 years in power, with neither Germany nor Europe clearly better to show for it. It was the funniest of Donald Trump’s dyspeptic relations with world leaders, particularly with women.  Germany’s own “iron lady,” the most significant European woman since British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel
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In the latest chapter of CNN stoking hatred against Republicans and further dividing Americans, Sunday’s so-called “Reliable Sources” featured host Brian Stelter chatting it up with Yale Professor Timothy Snyder about what the mission of the liberal media should be as we approached the next presidential election. According to Snyder, and with Stelter’s agreement, the
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas followed up a horrific week with an array of Sunday show appearances, seeking to halt criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border crisis. The ineffectual Mayorkas tried defending policies that angered everyone, since conservatives want border security, and Democrats, including President Joe Biden, prefer to vilify those keeping
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army General Mark Milley at a news briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. August 18, 2021 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Here’s having a crack at offering an unsolicited recreational suggestion for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because it proves timely and irresistible: On Tuesday, September 28, at 3:45
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