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Virginia Déjà Vu?
Virginia’s odd-year elections this November 7th offer the nation’s premier race for governor, pitting Republican Ed Gillespie against Democrat Ralph Northam . . . . . . oh, and also Libertarian Cliff...
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The Reverse of the “Spoiler Effect”
“Voter surveys have found the GOP-controlled Congress,” I wrote last weekend at Townhall, “to be more popular among self-described Democrats than self-described Republicans.” Why? Because Republican...
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Free the Truck Drivers
Should our government liberate truck drivers from the country-wide prison in which they’re incarcerated? You say I’m exaggerating. Being metaphorical. Yes. Maybe metaphors and hyperbole are not to your...
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Wabbit Season — or Duck Responsibility Season?
Venezuelans are starving. The country’s children are malnourished and — if something is not done soon — “it will be very difficult for these children ever to get back onto their nutritional growth...
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The Great Faction
Politics isn’t a pretty business. Frédéric Bastiat called the beast it serves “that great fiction” not because it doesn’t exist — intrusive state power sure persists — but rather because what it...
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Evil Capitalists Hook Brazil On Eating
Have you heard the latest? More and more peoples around the world these days have the unfortunate misfortune of having adequate food — not merely vegetables either!! — thanks to the ruthlessly...
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We Are At War — So What Else Is New?
As if on some hellish, punitive treadmill, we keep “experiencing” the last federal election, over and over. Hillary Clinton, who didn’t get a majority of all votes and who lost in the Electoral...
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Off the Field
At last Friday’s event to rally support* for Sen. Luther Strange, the Mitch McConnell-financed establishment candidate in today’s GOP runoff in Alabama, President Donald J. Trump veered — as he is wont...
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Keystone Correlation
Ninety-three-year-old Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe with phony elections and brutal repression for the last 30 years. Conversely, only one president in U.S. history has served more than two...
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Self-Determination, Anyone?
An election can be a clarifying event. So can the suppression of an election. Over the weekend, more than two million Catalans, greater than 40 percent of those eligible, voted in a referendum on...
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Not So Bad, Communism?
First the good news. The New York Times has repudiated Walter Duranty’s 1930s-era “journalism” for whitewashing — “underestimating” — the murderousness of Soviet Communism. So that’s done, right?...
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Time for Action
More protests during the national anthem; more opposition to those protests by the Trump administration; more recriminations about the administration’s opposition to the protests. Ah, modern times....
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Throwing in (and out) the Towel(s)
There is a time and a place for everything. Including the truth. You do not proclaim that Uncle Eben was a skinflint miser and a sour old puss at his funeral. (You wait for the reading of the Will.)...
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Crossing the Twitter Rubicon
No sooner had I upbraided media folks for overreacting to various presidential peccadillos regarding Puerto Rico, when Donald J. Trump, in his running media battle, crossed a line with this week’s most...
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Force Over Persuasion
Today’s campus radicals assert that free speech is bad because it “gives voice” to people with hateful, dangerous views. Does that argument seem at all familiar? It is the old RightThink rationale for...
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Initiative Surplus?
Only nine out of 50 states can pay their bills and meet their obligations; 41 cannot, barring major tax increases or spending cuts. That’s what we learn in last month’s “Financial State of the States”...
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Shadow Boxing with “Nazis”
Voltaire’s prayer, “make my enemies ridiculous,” has been granted to Ben Shapiro. The New York Times has graced its pages with the writings of one Jane Coaston, who, in “The Hollow Bravery of Ben...
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It’s the Stupid Spending
These United States are approaching a crisis. Mounting debt seems increasingly unpayable. Sovereign default and financial chaos are “in the offing” — drifting from the (future) horizon to the (present)...
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Daughter Draft
“A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.” For years, the Selective Service System — the friendly folks who bring us the military draft — used the above slogan to portray registering for the draft as a...
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The New Ortho-Doxing
“What a nice Halloween,” my wife remarked as we turned out the lights. Well, not in nearby Oakton, Virginia, where Jamie Stevenson walked past her neighbor’s home last Saturday and saw “a racist...
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