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November 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he won’t pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would divide the nation — and she’s already “suffered greatly.” “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons — I really don’t,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Times. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.” When asked…

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November 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton

Election 2016 is over, and the losing candidate, Democrat Hillary Clinton, is free to wind up her campaign apparatus and take on other personal ventures. But her email scandal, which played a major role in the election battle, isn’t going away anytime soon. The newest legal move by Judicial Watch, which was at the center of exposing the emails from…

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November 29, 2016
Downtown Old Havana

Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 science-fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes place in Los Angeles, circa 2154. The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite—the Elysium of the title—while the wretched majority of humans remain in squalor on Earth. The film works passably as an allegory for its director’s native South Africa, where racial apartheid was enforced…

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November 29, 2016
Downtown Old Havana

Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 science-fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes place in Los Angeles, circa 2154. The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite—the Elysium of the title—while the wretched majority of humans remain in squalor on Earth. The film works passably as an allegory for its director’s native South Africa, where racial apartheid was enforced…

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November 29, 2016
Jim DeMint

The Heritage Foundation, a longtime player in the conservative policy world, is poised to have a major influence on personnel in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, easing concerns among some conservatives about the ideological direction of the new government. A think tank that emerged in the 1970s as the premier conservative policy and research operation in Washington, D.C., the group has…

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November 23, 2016

Can We Please Stop With This Nazi, Hitler, Name-Calling Stuff? Adolph Hitler and the Nazis committed some of the most horrific acts known to the human race, systematically murdering millions of Jews — including one and a half million Jewish children and babies — along with other ethnic and social minorities, not to mention sparking a war that killed many…

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November 22, 2016

The Left’s Post-Trump Win Campaign of Terror A few months back, I wondered aloud here why campus leftists would invite fellow students to bite the heads off fetus cookies. Or what purpose was served by hanging a Jesus dartboard in a dorm. The answer I found was simple. And alarming. The left in America is engaged in what Catholic philosopher…

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November 16, 2016

Carpe Diem, Mr. Trump: Forgive, Unite, Stand Strong While we speak, a jealous age will have fled. Seize the day! Trust as little as you can in tomorrow. The Latin poet Horace’s advice of carpe diem— to seize the day and not worry about tomorrow — should be Trump’s transitional guide. The attacks on Trump won’t even wait until he…

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November 16, 2016

I usually scroll past Facebook “memes.” One such post, however, recently caught my eye. “1944: 18-year-olds storm the beaches of Normandy into almost certain death,” the meme, which I’m quoting from memory, began. “2016: 18-year-olds need a safe space because words hurt their feelings.” Of course, not every 18-year-old is seeking a “safe space,” but the overall theme of this…

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November 16, 2016

Pity the anti-Trump protesters thronging the streets of American cities. Apparently, no one ever told them that they live in a geographically, economically, and ideologically varied nation, and that about half of its inhabitants might support a Republican candidate for president. They mistook the country for the campus of Oberlin College. The news that it actually isn’t arrived with the…

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November 15, 2016

Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States of America. Many, including me, never expected to read those words. But for many Democrats, this election result is unfathomable. Many reasons exist for why Trump will swear the oath of office on January 20, 2017. But among them is the fact that the Democratic Party has become beholden to Planned…

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