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Judge Merchan Allows Testimony That Unidentified Man Threatened Daniels

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — May 7th 2024 at 13:06
What does a claim of intimidation in 2011, uncharged and absent proof implicating Trump, have to do with alleged falsification of business records in 2017?

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo makes opening arguments as former U.S. President Donald Trump watches with his attorney Todd Blanche before Justice Juan Merchan during Trump’s criminal trial, in New York City, April 22, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.
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Moscow’s War to Compel the West

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty — May 7th 2024 at 13:05
The Biden administration should think seriously about its legacy and whether it wants to negotiate for itself or potentially allow Trump to do it.

Russian president Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with winners of the Leaders of Russia national management competition at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 12, 2024.
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Stormy Testimony Shows: Trump’s Humiliation Is the Point of Bragg’s Prosecution

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — May 7th 2024 at 12:07
The porn star’s story is irrelevant to the charges.

Stormy Daniels is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger before Justice Juan Merchan during former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City, May 7, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.
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Princeton Now Speaking with Pro-Palestinian Student Activists

By: Abigail Anthony · Abigail Anthony — May 7th 2024 at 10:39
The university’s stance is clear: The administration is willing to consider — even implement — demands raised by students who occupy buildings.

On the campus of Princeton University, 2013
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The Math on Colleges Divesting from Israel Doesn’t Add Up

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 7th 2024 at 10:38
Say, fellas, I realize few of you majored in math or international relations, but BDS is not going to bring the State of Israel to its knees.

Signs in front of Deering Meadow where an encampment of students are protesting in support of Palestinians at Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Ill., April 25, 2024.
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The Case against Saying ‘Pregnant People’ and other Gender-Neutral Phrases

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — May 7th 2024 at 08:13
Somehow, for thousands of years, the human race has managed to accurately identify the sex of newborns by a mere glance. No Columbia doctorate required.

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Stop Greenlighting High-School Walkouts

By: Stanley Kurtz · Stanley Kurtz — May 7th 2024 at 05:30
When public schools abandon political restraint and impose ideological partisanship on students, it results in bias, pressure, manipulation, and division.

Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, in Tampa, Fla., April 21, 2023.
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Man of the Book

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — May 6th 2024 at 17:56
On a podcast with Mohamad Jebara, scholar and explainer of Islam.

A fragment of a Koran manuscript is seen in the library at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Judge Merchan’s Threat to Detain Trump for Contempt: Is Home Confinement an Option?

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — May 6th 2024 at 17:31
The logistics of detaining Trump would be challenging, to put it mildly.

Former president Donald Trump speaks to the press at the end of the day at his trial for allegedly covering up hush-money payments at Manhattan criminal court in New York City, May 6, 2024.
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AI, Graduates, and Jobs

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 6th 2024 at 17:16
Questions about AI’s effects on jobs have not gone away.

Graduating seniors line up to receive their diplomas during Commencement at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., May 26, 2017.
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House Oversight Seeks More Briefings on U.S. Government Response to China’s ‘Political Warfare’

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn — May 6th 2024 at 14:25
NR obtained letters sent to the FBI, the State Department, DOJ, and other agencies.

Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) attends a hearing in Washington, D.C., April 26, 2023.
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Chicago Transit Authority Embraces Homeless-Shelter Status

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — May 6th 2024 at 12:38
If homelessness is a growing problem in the city, this is not for the transit authority to solve.

Richard S. Vargas, The Salvation Army Director of Community Social Services, checks on homeless person in Chicago, Ill., January 31, 2019.
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Why You Should Be Skeptical of Reports That Hamas Agreed to a ‘Cease-Fire’

By: Philip Klein · Philip Klein — May 6th 2024 at 12:22
Hamas has likely made a counteroffer that it knows would be a nonstarter for Israel merely as a propaganda move to make it seem that Israel rejected peace.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh gestures as he delivers a speech in Gaza, April 30, 2018.
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What Holocaust Remembrance Means

By: Natan Ehrenreich · Natan Ehrenreich — May 6th 2024 at 11:15
Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us what the IDF is fighting for.

An Israeli flag is seen near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, Israel, December 6, 2017
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The Magic of Missile Defense

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — May 6th 2024 at 11:02
Missile defense is still just one component of a wider defense strategy.
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Trump Fined Again

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — May 6th 2024 at 10:56
Judge Merchan is just another Democrat who is using his power to punish Trump while suppressing the politicized nature of the prosecution.

Donald Trump speaks to reporters before the start of his criminal trial at New York State supreme court in New York City, May 6, 2024.
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DeSantis Wrong to Criminalize Lab-Grown Meat

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 6th 2024 at 09:44
The market should decide, not the government.

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Tim Scott’s Gotta Make You Nervous 

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — May 6th 2024 at 08:46
Scott was okay on Meet the Press yesterday, but allowed himself to get cornered on accepting the 2024 election results.
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If Trump Wants to Alienate Women with His VP Pick, He Should Definitely Choose Kristi Noem

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — May 6th 2024 at 08:39
If Cricket didn’t finish off Noem’s VP chances, her interview yesterday on CBS should do it.
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MIT Dumps Diversity Dogma

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — May 6th 2024 at 06:38
May other schools join in and do away with the diversity statements’ affront to merit.

People stand in front of Building 10 behind Killian Court at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., November 21, 2018.
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Welcome Self-Awareness from the New York Times

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — May 5th 2024 at 22:29
A Q & A from the deck of the Titanic.

People line up for taxis across the street from the <i>New York Times</i> building in New York City.
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A New Battery Promises Less Child Labor per Kilowatt

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — May 5th 2024 at 22:18
Congress should try its best not to subsidize the new sodium-ion-battery technology out of existence.

A lithium-ion battery in an Apple iPhone 6S in 2018
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California’s Minimum Wage Wipes Out Thousands of Jobs

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 5th 2024 at 11:42
In their incessant efforts at pretending to help the poor, leftist politicians come back again and again to this issue.

An In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Encinitas, Calif., May 9, 2022
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You Have to Squint to Find Good News for Biden in the Latest Poll

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 5th 2024 at 09:39
ABC News, summarizing its latest poll: ‘A chief question raised by the survey is why Biden is competitive at all, given his substantial disadvantages.’

President Joe Biden interviewed on MSNBC, March 9, 2024.
☑ ☆ ✇ The Corner | National Review

On Government Power and Inequality

By: George Leef · George Leef — May 5th 2024 at 09:10
One economist’s case for decreasing government power.

☑ ☆ ✇ The Corner | National Review

Again with the ‘Plants Are Intelligent’ Nonsense

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — May 5th 2024 at 07:04
Periodically, the mainstream media focus on advocacy for the idea that plants are intelligent and/or moral beings.

Oliver Emocling waters his plants on the rooftop of his family home in Malabon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 15, 2018.
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Oh, Right, the Business Records

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — May 4th 2024 at 11:39
After two weeks of the Trump trial, prosecutors still haven’t focused on the crimes actually alleged in the indictment.

Hope Hicks departs at the conclusion of her closed door interview at the House Judiciary Committee, after almost seven hours of questioning, Washington, DC, June 19, 2019.
☑ ☆ ✇ The Corner | National Review

Hollywood’s Daredevils Shine in The Fall Guy

By: Giancarlo Sopo · Giancarlo Sopo — May 4th 2024 at 09:59
The Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt action comedy makes for an irresistibly fun time at the movies.

Ryan Gosling in <i>The Fall Guy</i>
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That Other Recently Indicted Democrat in Congress

By: Jim Geraghty · Jim Geraghty — May 4th 2024 at 08:39
Another Democrat in Congress just got indicted on corruption charges, but folks on the right might be less eager to focus on this one.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) questions Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2024.
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The Tyranny of Relativism

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — May 4th 2024 at 06:23
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes remains as good a question as it always has been.

French writer Julien Benda
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