New York Post,
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Dalia Al-Aqidi
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I was a young journalist when I immigrated to the U.S. in 1993.
Growing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the idea that I would one day run for office in America never occurred to me. But I took my oath of U.S. citizenship seriously, which also meant becoming part of America’s rich cultural fabric and giving back to the country I am lucky to call home.
I moved to Minneapolis from Washington, DC in 2019 and I fell in love with the Twin Cities.
You would be hard-pressed to find more open, friendly, and hopeful people.
And yet, most Minnesotans would tell you that Minneapolis was in decline long before the COVID-19 lockdown and
The Hill,
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Doug MacKinnon
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As former President Donald Trump accelerates toward the 2024 Republican nomination, he might want to contemplate conquering another arena as well — academia.
More specifically, becoming the president of Harvard University. While most of the left-of-center professors, administrators and students might walk off the fabled campus en masse, that might be the best thing to happen to Harvard in decades. At least for those who believe the reputation of the school, as well as the quality of its professors and students, is being irreversibly sucked down by the “woke” vortex swirling about its ivy-covered buildings.
If ever an institution needed the skills of a “turnaround expert,” it is Harvard.
New York Post,
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Michael Goodwin
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Over the many years they have been in the public eye, Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu were never friends and rarely allies. Their fundamental political differences were compounded by years of long-distance disagreement.
Then suddenly, terrorism brought them together in something of a shotgun wedding. Biden visited Israel just 11 days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack where he and Netanyahu embraced in an awkward, aborted hug. In hindsight, that appears to have been the high point of their new relationship. It’s been downhill ever since and the gap between them is growing at an alarming pace. Headlines from recent days illustrate the tensions:
The Hill,
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Jonathan Turley
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This week, millions of people were glued to their televisions as Hunter Biden defied a House subpoena in a press conference with the Capitol building in the background. It was an act of legal self-immolation as the president’s son engaged in flagrant contempt of Congress, a federal crime.
Stranger still was that behind Hunter was standing his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who watched as his client effectively begged to be criminally charged. But it was a familiar figure behind Lowell that was the most incongruous: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
Washington Times,
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Don Feder
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President Biden is running for reelection to save what he calls democracy from Caesar Augustus in waiting: former President Donald Trump.
Since “Bidenomics” is as popular as Dylan Mulvaney’s commercials for Bud Light, the president’s reelection team — aka the Suicide Squad — has decided that the road to victory lies in convincing voters that the likely Republican nominee is a sinister figure who would transform the land of the free into a nation of storm troopers, stiff-arm salutes and tax reform.
Mr. Biden told a fundraiser in September, “Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy.” American democracy is here defined as at least 8 million
American Spectator,
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Melissa Mackenzie
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12/16/2023 3:03:37 PM
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The road to the Trump White House winds through Arizona, and that means Kari Lake’s Senate bid is critical. The question for Republicans in the state is whether they’ll get on board with the Lake candidacy and help Donald Trump win the presidency and the GOP control of the Senate. Kari Lake, who ran for governor of Arizona and was beaten by a mostly absent Katie Hobbs and lots of ballot shenanigans in the Republican-controlled Maricopa County, has enemies. Lake has been shunned by some McCain-loving and Trump-hating Arizona Republicans. In her first book, Unafraid, she writes of an embarrassing interaction with then-Gov. Doug Ducey
Washington Examiner,
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Editorial Board
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President Joe Biden should be leading public opinion on Israel's effort to eliminate Hamas, not using his office to shame our close ally. Unfortunately, after a strong start in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist pogrom of Oct. 7, Biden has allowed himself to be dragged into equivocation by the pro-Hamas/Palestinian Left and has thus become a less effective advocate for good than he should be.
Speaking at a fundraiser on Tuesday, Biden observed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was "losing" the world's support for its campaign in Gaza. He lambasted what he falsely claimed was "indiscriminate bombing" by Israel. This is demagogic and dangerous.
American Mind,
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Joel Kotkin
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The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left. The authoritarian multicultural ideology generated on campuses and transmitted dutifully by the established media has reached its apex and may now begin to descend.
The signs are tentative but some are unmistakable. Corporate and university Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) departments are being slashed, and increasingly seen as both burdensome and discriminatory toward whites, Jews, and Asians. One-third of DEI professionals lost their jobs in 2022.
The Messenger,
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Jessica Tarlov
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Jews across the globe knew that Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack was different. The scale and the planning it took. The medieval approach and butchery. The trauma inflicted. The sexual atrocities.
But what we couldn’t have expected was how deeply the attack, and the ensuing fallout, would be felt here in America. It’s hard to think of any event — especially one that occurred several thousand miles away — that has caused more consideration of the facets of American society than 10/7 has.
This terrorist attack has unsettled key orthodoxies that have guided us since as far back as the Constitution. It has rattled us to our core
Real Clear Politics,
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Victor Davis Hanson
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12/15/2023 9:26:13 AM
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Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.
If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts.
Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.
By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether.
Or was it worse than that when candidate Joe Biden in September 2019 urged would-be illegal aliens to "surge" the border?
As a result, through laxity and entitlement incentives, eight-million illegal entrants have swarmed the southern border under the Biden administration.
The Free Press,
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Bari Weiss
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12/14/2023 12:32:44 PM
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One of the words that’s become utterly void of meaning in the last few years because of its overuse and misuse is privilege. White privilege, male privilege, able-bodied privilege, gender privilege, heterosexual privilege, even hot privilege. In these contexts, privilege is a stain, an original sin meant to guilt the offending party into repentance.
“Check your privilege” became a common refrain of the past decade. What all of this has done is confuse and undermine the idea of real privilege, which, of course, really exists in this country.
The ultimate privilege in America is not being born white or straight or male. The ultimate privilege,
New York Post,
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Miranda Devine
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Hunter Biden showed he has his father’s chutzpah Wednesday when he blew off a congressional subpoena to hold a woe-is-me press conference on Capitol Hill.
“I’m here. I’m ready,” he said, and then swept away in his motorcade without answering a single question. Like father, like son.
Of course, there’s nothing bold or brave about inviting a contempt charge from Congress when you have Daddy’s pardon power in your back pocket.
Hunter could have taken his entourage over to the House hearing room where Oversight Chairman James Comer was waiting for him to testify — and simply pleaded the Fifth, to avoid complicating his twin indictments on tax and gun charges.
Instead,