These New Candidates Come with Heavy Baggage

Jim Geraghty

Let’s close out this week with a quartet of surprises . . . that may not be quite so surprising, depending upon your level of cynicism: Michael Bloomberg was apparently a raging sexist before running for mayor; Deval Patrick made an egregious decision about a convicted sex offender while governor; Rashida Tlaib has run afoul of Federal Election Commission rules about payments to candidates; and Ivanka Trump has turned out to be a lot wonkier than I expected.

Michael Bloomberg, Notorious Creep

The New York Times reminds us that Michael Bloomberg, the divorced and never-remarried 14th-richest man in the world who has declared he’s automatically going to heaven, was once notoriously crude in his public comments about women:

It was a cheeky birthday gift for a hard-charging boss, a 32-page book of one-liners compiled by colleagues at his company. “The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit ... Read More

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Marco Rubio’s Bizarre Turn against Capitalism

David Harsanyi

Not even Bernie Sanders could have unfurled a more exhaustive vilification of the market economy than Marco Rubio did in his Catholic University speech.

Elite Law Schools Shortchange Students by Veering Left

Eli Nachmany and Jacob Richards

In an era when originalists fill the ranks of the federal bench and right-of-center legal-advocacy opportunities abound, law schools shortchange their students by veering left.

Black South Carolina Leaders Distance Themselves from Buttigieg Campaign’s ‘Douglass Plan’

Tobias Hoonhout

Devine, Thigpen, and Cordero all denied that they intended their correspondence with the Buttigieg campaign to be read as an endorsement of the candidate.

New York County Passes Bill That Could Jail People if They ‘Annoy’ a Cop

Katherine Timpf

This week, the Monroe County legislature in upstate New York approved a bill that would make it illegal to “annoy” a police officer or first responder — and violators could face up to a year in jail.

An Icon for Saint Greta Thunberg

John Hirschauer

In San Francisco, a Biblia pauperum for Thunberg disciples.

Elise Stefanik Stood Out on Day One of the Impeachment Hearings

John McCormack

New York representative Elise Stefanik was clearly the strongest Republican questioner of the first day of public impeachment hearings.

The pull of the tribe, &c.

Jay Nordlinger

On hypocrisy, North Korea, Deval Patrick, Elizabeth Warren, Jon Huntsman, and more.

Katie Hill Accuses McConnell of Prioritizing the ‘NRA’s Money’ Over ‘Our Kids’ after Calif....

Mairead McArdle

Two people were killed and three injured when a 16-year-old male student opened fire Thursday morning at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita.

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Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent

Michael R. McGowan & Ralph Pezzullo

“An excellent look into the murky world of Undercover. McGowan proves to be one of the top UCAs in the FBI. A must read.”

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