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  • Obama’s Opposition to ‘Defund the Police’ Is Common Sense

    Obama’s Opposition to ‘Defund the Police’ Is Common Sense0

    Former President Barack Obama took a bold step the other day when he suggested that calls to defund the police might alienate a number of voters. “You lost a big audience the minute you say it,” Obama noted in a Snapchat interview, “which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get

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  • Obama’s Anti-Discipline Policies Set Our Students Up for Failure

    Obama’s Anti-Discipline Policies Set Our Students Up for Failure0

    President Barack Obama’s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights. Later that year, as a result of widespread support across

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  • Obama’s Going to Get Paid

    Obama’s Going to Get Paid0

    Today President Barack Obama will leave the White House after two terms in office. In spite of the toll that the stress of being the POTUS takes on one—their hair usually turns gray while in office—I’m sure there will be some sadness on Obama’s part. But that sadness may soon diminish, because the fact is,

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  • Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch

    Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch0

    Neal Kathal, an acting solicitor general in Barack Obama’s administration and a law professor at Georgetown, says that liberals should support Neil M. Gorsuch, whom Donald Trump nominated for the Supreme Court Tuesday evening. Via the New York Times: I am hard-pressed to think of one thing President Trump has done right in the last

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  • Obama Says He Can’t Have a Discussion With People Who Don’t Believe in Climate Change

    Obama Says He Can’t Have a Discussion With People Who Don’t Believe in Climate Change0

    Former President Barack Obama said he can’t have a debate with someone who thinks man-made global warming is a hoax while speaking at a summit in India on Friday. Obama is in India as part of a three-country tour to promote the Obama Foundation. It’s the first speech Obama has made in India since leaving

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  • Obama Pushes Back on Identity Politics

    Obama Pushes Back on Identity Politics0

    Progressives have been lamenting the absence of Barack Obama. The former president has been largely absent from the political arena since President Trump’s ascendancy to the office. This, of course, is the norm for ex presidents. But, as I noted in 2017, this tradition has proven difficult for progressives to accept for various reasons, including

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