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Styles of the Times: Old Gray Lady ain’t what she used to be

  • December 12, 2022
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Good grief. It’s as if the New York Times weren’t content with making a total laughingstock out of themselves last week. You know, with their ardent appeal to ban 12 gauge AR-15s.WHUT. THIS week they have to go whole end-o-year hog, and outdo even that. Yessir, the arbiter of fashion in New York has made […]

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More than 10,000 Virginia felons still on the voting rolls

  • December 12, 2022
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Another “anomaly” has shown up in Virginia’s electoral process. The problem currently under examination started more than a decade ago when the state moved to relax the rules making some felons ineligible to vote after having been convicted. Under those less strict rules, eligible felons could have their voting rights reinstated. There’s nothing wrong with […]

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Republicans Make Midterm Gains With an Unlikely Group: Young Americans

  • December 12, 2022
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Republicans made gains in the midterm elections among voters under 30, a demographic that tends to lean heavily Democratic, according to The Associated Press. Young voters swung 53% for Democratic House candidates and 41% for Republican candidates, AP reported. The result marks a decline for Democrats from recent elections: In 2020, voters under 30 chose Joe […]

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Good news? SCOTUS takes up second case in Biden’s Academia bailout

  • December 12, 2022
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The question mark in the headline is no typo. Should conservatives celebrate the apparent consolidation by the Supreme Court of two extant challenges to Joe Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan? The answer: Yes. Er … probably. Maybe. Earlier today, the Supreme Court refused to stay the ruling on the merits of a challenge to Biden’s Academia bailout in […]

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J.K. Rowling Opens Biological Women-Only Shelter For Sex Abuse Survivors, Progressive Meltdown Ensues

  • December 12, 2022
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Scotland is quickly hurtling toward enshrining transgenderism into its constitution, a move that could put women’s rights and safety at great risk. The transgender trend has disproportionately affected women by removing the etiquette surrounding modesty and privacy, and forcing women to accept the presence of men in female spaces, simply because a man says they […]

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Thought for the Day: Laurence Berns on Modern Science

  • December 12, 2022
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From long-time St. Johns College tutor Laurence Berns, in the new essay collection Politics, Nature, and Piety: On the Natural Basis of Political Life (hat tip to Alex Priou for this compilation): Science was originally pursued and regarded as a most important component of the perfection of human life. The crisis of modern science consists, […]

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Iran executes second protester after “sham” trial

  • December 12, 2022
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A second protester has been executed in Iran. Majidreza Rahnavard was executed in the city of Mashhad, northern Iran, on Monday. This comes after the first known protester execution was carried out last week. Rahnavard was publicly hanged from a construction crane. The execution was meant to send a message to protesters. He was charged […]