Kamala Harris’s History of Jailing Parents of Truants

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: Kamala Harris sets the tone for the 2020 Democrats with some wild far-left plans, why the Koch network talks so much about charities and nonprofits, news and notes from the winter meeting, and a bit of perspective about forgiveness in American history.

Kamala Harris 2020: You Can’t Keep Your Plan, Your Car Is Banned, and If Your Kids Miss Class I’m Sending You to Jail

Last night, presidential candidate Kamala Harris participated in a town hall with CNN and announced that she wanted a Medicare-for-all plan that would eliminate all forms of private insurance. (If you like your plan . . . you can’t keep your plan.) She said she supports the Green New Deal — no follow up questions on banning private ownership of cars, banning internal-combustion engines entirely, and cutting the military in half.

Also last night, Twitter started buzzing about an old video of Harris ... Read More

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The Failure of Modern Media

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In Defense of Assimilation

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Saying immigrants should assimilate is the opposite of xenophobia — it is an expression of a belief that they can be fully part of the American mainstream. 

Andrew Gillum Joins CNN as Ethics Probe Proceeds

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The former Tallahassee mayor joined CNN as a commentator just days after a state commission found probable cause to open an ethics investigation against him.

Sohrab Ahmari’s Journey to Rome

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Sohrab Ahmari traces the “awakenings” — spiritual, intellectual, personal — that led him to the Catholic faith.

Trump Outfoxes the Democrats

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Pelosi and Schumer may have won the short-term media battle, but in the longer term Trump will get the wall that he wants

Two Cheers for Inequality

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The sum of good things in the world grows greater through economic production; it is not simply a shifting of resources, taking a coin out of one pocket and putting it in another.

The Koch Network’s High Hopes and Early Push for an Immigration Deal

Jim Geraghty

Leaders of the Koch network say they’ve begun to nudge Congress and the administration toward immigration reform.

Roger Stone Pleads Not Guilty to Lying to Congress, Obstruction

Jack Crowe

Roger Stone pled not guilty Tuesday to seven criminal counts, including lying to Congress, obstruction, and witness tampering.

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