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  • Joe Biden: Youth Idol?

    Joe Biden: Youth Idol?0

    Today at Spectator USA I write about Joe Biden’s forgotten status as a fount of youthful genius in “Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth.” Biden won his first Senate election at the 29, the same age as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and spent the next two decades being extolled for his age and sophistication – before spending the

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  • Joe Biden, the New Brezhnev

    Joe Biden, the New Brezhnev0

    Leonid Ilych Brezhnev presided over the irreversible decline of the USSR during his 18 years in power, initially as Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party and later also as chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. He was two years younger than Joseph Biden is today when he died in 1982, but – just like

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  • Joe Biden, The Comeback Senior Citizen

    Joe Biden, The Comeback Senior Citizen0

    California complicates the picture, but former Vice President Joe Biden has staged perhaps the fastest and most impressive comeback in recent American politics. Even if Senator Bernie Sanders comes away with the biggest prizes, Biden has gone from dead man walking to at least a co-frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in just a few days.

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  • Jo Cox: looking at refugees with a mother’s heart

    Jo Cox: looking at refugees with a mother’s heart0

    The tragic death of British Labour MP Jo Cox yesterday brought to light a powerful speech that she made in April asking the government to accept thousands of child refugees.  Mrs Cox, 41 and the mother of two young children, was murdered by a crazed loner wielding a gun and a knife while she was visiting her

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  • Jimmy Kimmel, George Washington, and Unhappiness in the U.S.

    Jimmy Kimmel, George Washington, and Unhappiness in the U.S.0

    Jimmy Kimmel is famous for showing the ignorance of Americans, and his Super Tuesday man-on-the-street interviews were no exception. Kimmel’s team went to California, a state which did not participate in Super Tuesday voting. Despite this fact, interviewees were quick to say they had fought large crowds to get into their polling places. One man

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  • JFK’s Assassination Speech Has a Message America Needs to Hear

    JFK’s Assassination Speech Has a Message America Needs to Hear0

    November 22 marks the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Although I wasn’t around at that time, I’m well aware that the occasion was as horrifying to my parents’ generation as September 11th was to mine. While reflecting on this anniversary, I came upon the remarks that President Kennedy was supposed to make that

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