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It was not surprising to see Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson dodge the question “What is a woman?” But it was surprising how she dodged it. In response to Senator Blackburn, Brown Jackson might have said something to the effect of: “Some argue sex should be defined as strictly anatomical. Others argue it should include gender
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President Joe Biden speaks next to Vice President Kamala Harris before signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 20, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Some of President Joe Biden’s advisers accused Kamala Harris of being too focused on “first-world problems” as the vice president and her team continually
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Raw grains of lentils (Sergiy Akhundov/Getty Images) Some advice for dealing with inflation NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ome “foods” have no place on a plate — anchovies, capers, and lentils, to pick out but three. Don’t @ me. It was thus dispiriting to read the now-infamous article by Teresa Ghilarducci in Bloomberg, in which she
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(Anthony Bolante/Reuters) The medical-marijuana movement touts cannabis as almost a cure-all. It supposedly relieves pain, depression, and anxiety, improves appetites for people in chemotherapy, etc. Well, not so fast. It turns out that there isn’t all that much science behind some of these claims. To the contrary, a just-published study in JAMA Open Network concluded
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Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute writes about the failure of an effort to raise taxes in Arizona: That effort first began in 2018, when public-school teachers across the state led an illegal strike that shut down most public schools for over a week. Falsely claiming that the state’s schools were money-starved, school employees refused show up for work
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Sen. Josh Hawley (left) and Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Tom Williams/Pool, Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) He distorts her record on ‘sex offenders.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I would oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because of her judicial philosophy, for the reasons outlined by Ed Whelan last week. I address that in a separate post. For
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Then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts at the final election rally in Munich, Germany, September 22, 2017. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters) Even as his country remains dangerously dependent on Russian oil and, even more so, natural gas (a vulnerability that is not going away any time soon), Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has signaled his intention to take
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A branch of HSBC bank is seen in central London, August 3, 2009 (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters) Bloomberg: HSBC Holdings Plc promised to “phase down” its financing of the fossil fuel industry, sending a warning to oil and gas clients as the bank works toward its target of net-zero emissions. The step is in line with “what is
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla., February 24, 2022. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Several ESPN broadcasters on Friday participated in an on-air moment of silence to protest Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which would prohibit classroom instruction relating to sexual orientation or gender identity for students in
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(Darren415/iStock/Getty Images) Inflation is on almost everyone’s mind these days. Consumers are upset because it is gobbling up their budgets, while “progressives” are upset because they fear a backlash if people conclude that profligate federal spending has something to do with the rise in prices. Recently, Representative Lisa McClain of Michigan spoke with economists Dale
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A day after U.S. forces completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, refugees board a bus taking them to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., September 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On Wednesday, the New York Times published a piece whose opening paragraphs were highly misleading about Afghan refugees. In
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I was just reading the Axios write-up (“Ignoring abortion access is getting harder for companies”) of a new Citigroup policy in Texas to pay for employee travel expenses for abortions, and this jumped out at me: The company plan already covers people with, say, a heart condition who need treatment at a far-off hospital. This
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Pro-Russian troops in uniforms without insignia gather in the separatist-controlled settlement of Mykolaivka (Nikolaevka) in Donetsk Region, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters) On the menu today: Another batch of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems might be headed to Ukraine if the U.S. and Slovakia can work out the details; the little-known man who would take
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas (center) prepares for the 500 free prelims at the NCAA Womens Swimming & Diving Championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga., March 16, 2022. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports) Concerned Women for America on Thursday filed a federal civil rights complaint against the University of Pennsylvania for allowing transgender swimmer
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President Joe Biden listens during a virtual roundtable at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 22, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In return for pleading guilty, the terrorists would demand to remain at Gitmo, keeping Biden from closing the facility. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Biden administration is apparently leaning toward abandoning the death penalty as
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Hillsborough High School students walk out of school to protest the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, in Tampa, Fla., March 3, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) A narrow majority of U.S. voters support Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill, which prohibits the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity to public school students in kindergarten through third grade.
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1933—Ruth Joan Bader is born in Brooklyn, New York. At her Supreme Court confirmation hearing sixty years later, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, defending the invention of a constitutional right to abortion, decries the fact that her mother did not have the legal right to kill her in utero: “The decision whether or not to bear a
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Idaho State Capitol in Boise. (jerryhopman/iStock/Getty Images) The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy It includes a Texas-style mechanism that leaves enforcement to private citizens, rather than the state government, to sue abortion providers. In a 51-to-14 vote, the state House approved the measure after
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(ronniechua/Getty Images) Teachers at a school district in Wisconsin are being instructed to hide their students’ changing gender identities from parents on the grounds that “parents are not entitled to know,” and that it is “knowledge that must be earned,” according to leaked training documents. The instruction was part of several recent staff development sessions
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U.S. soldiers with First Battalion, Sixth Infantry Regiment, Second Armored Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, in the Central Command area of responsibility, January 4, 2021. The soldiers are in Syria to support the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve mission. (Specialist Jensen Guillory/US Army) Phil and Jack have taken exception to my call for
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Stacked containers at the Port of Los Angeles, November 22, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) If a market constrained by national borders is what you want, all you need do is look around. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ren Cass, the executive director of American Compass, has written a long article called “Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage
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