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  • PolitiFact Flubs Betsy DeVos Fact-Check

    PolitiFact Flubs Betsy DeVos Fact-Check0

    It would be difficult to think of any principle more basic than that criminal defendants can’t be convicted except by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But left-leaning “fact-checker” PolitiFact doesn’t even know it. In an error-filled January 19 “fact-check,” PolitiFact’s Anna Orso writes about “the ‘clear and convincing’ standard used in criminal trials.”  The clear

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  • Politics Will Make You Dumber

    Politics Will Make You Dumber0

    Hunter S. Thompson is one of my favorite authors and one of the smartest humorists of the last hundred years. He also shot himself in the head once he reached his mid-sixties. I don’t think he viewed himself as a humorist per se. Maybe I don’t fully understand the implications of that descriptor. I think of

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  • Politics Is Not the Only Game in Town

    Politics Is Not the Only Game in Town2

    For many conservatives today’s political news may resemble the early days of World War II: endless defeats and little to suggest future victories. Make no mistake, the defeats are real, but the situation is not as bleak as it may appear. The left triumphs in the political realm and this makes its victories public. By

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  • Politics is Crowding Out Culture and Childhood

    Politics is Crowding Out Culture and Childhood0

    Many years ago, when I was teaching at Providence College, I showed up for a meeting of the faculty senate. That was rare for me. I loathe campus politics. But a friend of mine had put forward a proposal for a program in Classics, and I attended to lend my support. It turned out that

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  • Politics Is Beginning to Consume Our World. That’s Bad.

    Politics Is Beginning to Consume Our World. That’s Bad.0

    I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Even after I’d earned my Ph.D. degree, my dad used to look at me with a twinkle in his eye and tell me, “Son, the trouble with you is that you don’t know nothing.” And he was right in regard to knowing worthwhile, practical things and having

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  • Politics By Infomercial

    Politics By Infomercial0

    If you’re like me, you dread presidential campaigns. With nearly a year and a half to go until the next election, we are already being inundated with banal sloganeering. It’s like being bombarded with advertisements for products you have no use for, have no desire to purchase, and yet are forced to choose which one

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