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January 28, 2016
Press Coverage of March for Life

Some things are unstoppable – even in the face of a blizzard. Friday’s 2016 March for Life took place in Washington, D.C. on the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. But The Washington Post described what it called “thousands” of Americans marching together for the nearly 60 million babies destroyed by abortion as “small.” That…

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January 28, 2016
Trump Boycotts Republican Debate

Donald Trump will widen a rupture between his supporters and the Republican Party establishment on Thursday when he boycotts a presidential debate in a snub to Fox News only days before the 2016 election season starts in earnest. The billionaire front-runner for the Republican nomination will host his own event in Iowa during the Fox News debate, likely damaging prime…

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January 27, 2016
Ted Cruz Strategy

Ted Cruz has a ready answer for the many Republicans who see him as a rigid ideologue likely to be demolished should he make it to the general election: Such an ideologue is the party’s only hope of winning in 2016. Since his election to the Senate in 2012, Cruz has argued that center-right candidates such as John McCain in…

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January 26, 2016
Bloomberg Presidential Run?

In October last year, The Atlantic magazine detailed the 25 media boomlets over the past decade that have speculated Michael Bloomberg would run for president. Today the New York Times launched yet another one, reporting that the former New York mayor would be willing to spend “at least $1 billion of his fortune” on an independent race, should Bernie Sanders…

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January 26, 2016
Things to Watch in the Democratic Town Hall Debate

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Time is running out. With just a week left until the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley will make their closing arguments Monday in a town hall hosted by the Iowa Democratic Party and Drake University and aired on CNN. The event, moderated by CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, will air from 9 p.m. to…

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January 25, 2016
Trump and the Meaning of Anti-Establishment

Since When Do I Have to Support Trump Just Because He’s the Front-Runner? Dear Reader (including those of you in D.C. who may try to burn this “news”letter in a desperate attempt to stay alive during the snowstorm), Well, here we go. National Review’s “Against Trump” editorial and symposium came out Thursday night and the fecal matter hit the rotor…

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January 22, 2016
El Chapo and Fast and Furious

Obama-administration scandals never resolve. They just vanish — usually, under a new scandal. So it was with one of this president’s earliest embarrassments, “Operation Fast and Furious,” designed to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) dismantle drug cartels operating inside the United States and disrupt drug-trafficking routes. Instead, it put into the hands of criminals south…

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January 22, 2016
Clinton Emails So Secret Lawmakers Can’t Read Them

Some of Hillary Clinton’s emails on her private server contained information so secret that senior lawmakers who oversee the State Department cannot read them without fulfilling additional security requirements, Fox News has learned. The emails in question, as Fox News first reported earlier this week, contained intelligence classified at a level beyond “top secret.” Because of this designation, not all…

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January 22, 2016
Republicans and Certain Kinds of Democrats

I live in Donald Trump country. Maury County, Tenn. — like much of the South — was dominated by the Democratic party until just a few short years ago. Tennessee’s legislature didn’t flip red until 2008, and my own legislative district in my own “conservative” county was blue until 2010. Tennessee didn’t change dramatically between 2004 (when Democrats were in…

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January 22, 2016
Conservative Panel Says Trump Is Not a Conservative

National Review Urges ‘Say No’ to Trump Donald Trump is “a menace to conservatism” who should not be elected president of the United States, 22 conservative leaders argue in the new issue of National Review. Essays by the conservative thinkers were posted online Thursday night and will be included in the conservative journal’s Feb. 15 print edition, which goes to…

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January 22, 2016
Donald Trump is a Cultural Phenomenon

Will Donald Trump Follow Barack Obama’s Path to the White House? Cruz and Rubio are running as mere politicians; Trump’s running as a phenomenon. Do you remember 2008 and the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, when it felt like the entire country had gone mad, viewing an unaccomplished first-term senator as a national messiah? His face stared out at…

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