When you look at it hard, two conclusions are impossible to escape: First, at the height of the 2016 campaign, Obama intelligence officials anxiously adopted Christopher Steele’s allegations of traitorous conduct by then-candidate Donald Trump rather than first subject his “dossier” to rigorous investigation — even though...

January 14 2018

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Politicizing Steele’s Raw, Unverified ‘Intelligence’

Andrew C. McCarthy

When you look at it hard, two conclusions are impossible to escape: First, at the height of the 2016 campaign, Obama intelligence officials anxiously adopted Christopher Steele’s allegations of traitorous conduct by then-candidate Donald Trump rather than first subject his “dossier” to rigorous investigation — even though...

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Is Fire and Fury Fizzling?

Michael Barone

The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of Fire and Fury they had ordered was subtitled...

Trump’s ‘Sh**hole’ Comments Double Down on Identity Politics

David French

The president of the United States should not, by word or deed, communicate that he is hostile to or disdainful of entire classes of the American population. It doesn’t matter if such divisive...

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A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can’t End DACA

Josh Blackman

On January 20, 2017, the executive power peacefully transitioned from President Obama to President Trump. At least one judge in San Francisco didn’t get the memo. Yesterday, Judge William Alsup...

Anatomy of a Farce

Andrew C. McCarthy

Someone with fourth-hand knowledge that the bank was robbed claims that Smith conspired — er, I mean, colluded — with the local organized-crime family to rob the bank. Jones figures it must be...

What If Tonya Harding Were Black?

Kyle Smith

There’s this movie about an impoverished girl who gets beaten and otherwise abused by her mother, then beaten and otherwise abused by her husband. Naturally, it’s a comedy. I, Tonya, which...

What If American Life Expectancy Declined Again and the Elite Cared More About Trump’s...

David French

The news came and went so fast that you might have missed it. American life expectancy has declined. Again. In 2015 and 2016, in fact, the average American life span declined for two years in a...

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Ten Restaurants That Changed America

Paul Freedman

'Impeccable . . . . The culinary and cultural journey Mr. Freedman has taken us on demonstrates the abiding qualities in our society ― its openness to new sources and sourcing, its diversity, its restlessness with the same old thing, its capacity for reinvention and assimilation ― all of which bode well for the future of America’s restaurants and its cuisine.'
Martin Rubin, Washington Times

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