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Hamas’s Barbarity Heightens the Crisis in Higher Education
19Nov By adminNo Comments
Health

Hamas’s Barbarity Heightens the Crisis in Higher Education

The barbaric attack by Hamas against Israel—the intentional slaughter of defenseless civilians, including children and babies, and the taking of hostages—should have been a unifying moment for America. Shamefully, it has become something else: a wake-up call about a crisis in higher education.It has been painful to watch students at elite colleges implicitly or explicitly endorse Hamas’s attack. They aren’t old enough to remember 9/11, and it’s clear they never learned its lesson: Intentionally targeting civilians for slaughter is inexcusable no matter the political circumstances. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Hawley Aims at Wokeness and Misses
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hawley Aims at Wokeness and Misses

Nov. 12, 2023 12:51 pm ETConservatives celebrated when the Supreme Court ruled, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), that corporations have a right to free speech. Now Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has joined Bernie Sanders to propose legislation that defies Citizens United. Mr. Hawley is up front about wanting to silence publicly traded corporations because he doesn’t like what some have to say. “Corporate America has funneled billions of dollars into elections in favor of politicians who favor their woke, social agendas,” he says in a press release. He wants to “hold mega-corporations’ feet to the fire and stop their dollars from buying our elections.” He exhorts: “To my conservative friends, listen, there is no reason we should want to empower these mega-corporations....
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The First Amendment Threat in the Trump Civil Case
1Nov By adminNo Comments
World

The First Amendment Threat in the Trump Civil Case

Can the government penalize someone for an inaccurate statement that wasn’t made with bad intent, recklessness or negligence, and that didn’t cause concrete harm to an identifiable third party? That’s the First Amendment question underlying the civil-fraud suit against Donald Trump. The stakes are high for the former president—and for the rest of us.New York’s Attorney Gen. Letitia James has charged Mr. Trump under the state’s Executive Law for allegedly overstating his business’s real-estate assets. The statute, however, has long been constitutionally suspect. Although historically only courts or their grand juries could issue subpoenas, the law grants the state’s attorney general a subpoena power to fish through private documents. Worse, the statute authorizes Ms. James to bring a civil...
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Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial: We Owe It to History
4Aug By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial: We Owe It to History

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017.  A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow a...
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A New Lawsuit Alleges That Leonard Leo Called for the Arrest of a Pro-Choice Protester
20Jul By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

A New Lawsuit Alleges That Leonard Leo Called for the Arrest of a Pro-Choice Protester

Even an exclusive summer oasis is no refuge from the divisive partisan politics poisoning much of the country. In the fall of 2018, Leonard Leo, the powerful leader of the conservative legal group the Federalist Society, bought a lavish $3.3-million waterfront estate in Northeast Harbor, Maine, on Mount Desert Island, an area famous for its staggering beauty and equally staggering old money. Northeast Harbor’s ethos is understated and blue-blooded. Peabodys, Vanderbilts, and their latter-day incarnations sail, golf, play tennis, and host dinners at grand shingle-style houses often referred to as “cottages.” “Until recently, the only thing anyone thought about here was their backhand,” Alison Schafer, a fifth-generation summer resident, told me. “But, since Leo arrived, the town is in turm...
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