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Post-Pittsburgh Sympathy Just A Start For Jewish Security
Dear non-Jews, especially liberal non-Jews: Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy following the killing on Saturday of 11 of us at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Ira Stoll
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To Understand Comey and Mueller, Read James Q. Wilson
The best explanation of the firing of FBI director James Comey and of the subsequent investigation by special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller may just come from a social scientist who died years before President Donald Trump took office. When James Q. Wilson died in 2012, he was
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‘Insider Trading’ Case Against N.Y. Congressman Shows Danger of Legislative Default
Did U.S. Representative Christopher Collins commit the federal crime of securities fraud when he spoke to his son, Cameron, on the phone shortly after he found out bad news about an Australian biotechnology company that they both held shares in? The answer may depend in part on which one
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Schumer, Sanders, and Schwarzenegger Discover States’ Rights
Could California's liberal Democratic attorney general end up asking conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the federal Clean Air Act as an unconstitutional infringement on states' rights? It sure looks as though things are headed in that direction.
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Kavanaugh Confrontation Is Latest Twist In Yale Griswold Story
One way to look at the situation of Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee awaiting a Senate vote, is as only the latest episode in the long story of Griswold v. Connecticut. In other words, it's a story about Yale Law School.
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Growth Numbers Have Kudlow Looking More Like a Prophet Than a Pinocchio
When one of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow, said in June that the federal budget deficit "is coming down," the Democrats and the press — apologies for the redundancy — accused him of lying. The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, issued
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Democrat Front-Runner for 2020 Wages Class-Warfare Campaign
A recent poll shows Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts leading the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field in neighboring New Hampshire. The New York Times is following her encouragingly around early-voting Nevada. Maybe it's time, though, to start paying some more skeptical attention to Warren. The former Harvard Law
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As Presidents Depart, Center-Right Think Tanks Face New Pressures
Two of America's largest and most prominent center-right think tanks will have new leadership next year. The Manhattan Institute announced on last month that its president for the past 23 years, Lawrence Mone, intends to "hand over the reins of leadership to a new president in early