Charles Lipson
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Peter B. Ritzma Prof Emeritus, Pol Sci, U. of Chicago; contributor to Real Clear Politics, Spectator|World, WSJ, The Telegraph, Newsweek, . and others
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The election in a nutshell:
If it's about Hillary, Trump wins
If it's about Trump, Hillary wins
& both candidates want it to be about Trump
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When your city elects a mayor whose main qualification is “organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union,” you get what you paid for. His extreme policies and poor administration have cost him almost all his political support w/n a year of election.
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The political logic of these immigrant buses is not to show the hypocrisy of
#SanctuaryCities
. That's a bonus. The real goal is to raise the national profile of a wide-open border & thus the costs to
#Biden
and
#Democrats
of their inaction. And the buses are doing exactly that.
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Here is a sure-fire prediction. The national media will watch
#DeSantis
' response to the hurricane with a microscope, looking for any flaws to the emergency or rebuilding effort. The mainstream media consider DeSantis a top contender for 2024, so sinking him is a high priority.
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#Trump
's attack on
#DeSantis
just before the
#election
was a big mistake, & the former president will pay for it. Almost all
#Republicans
think DeSantis has been a very effective governor & expect him to reelected overwhelmingly. Many think he is their best shot to win in 2024.
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#Democrats
have a “law-and-order problem,” and it's getting worse, thanks to
#TheSquad
. Recent polls show 75% of voters want more police, not less, & that
#RisingCrime
is the biggest issue for the
#2022Election
.
#Crime
#Politics
#Policing
#DefundthePolice
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Neera Tanden Withdraws Nomination for Budget Director. Says she wants to spend more time harassing her countless enemies.
#OMB
#NeeraTanden
#Biden
#JoeManchin
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"There's a big difference between equality and equity," Kamala Harris tweeted in Nov. She's right. It’s the difference between equal treatment and equal outcomes.
#equity
#equality
#ruleoflaw
#USConstitution
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Bob Zimmer, a great mathematician & a great university president, has died after a long illness. When campus after campus allowed free speech to be crushed, Bob acted. He & Purdue's Mitch Daniels led a principled movement for free and open discourse. May his memory be a blessing.
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I think we all remember where we were when Biden's student debt forgiveness bill passed Congress. (Kidding aside, these mental lapses are very disturbing when they occur repeatedly to the most powerful officeholder in the world.)
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The city needed the Tribune. The city needed the competition with the Sun-Times. The city needed so many of the voices that have left the building.
#Chicago
#ChicagoTribune
#JohnKass
#EricZorn
#HeidStevens
#Alden
@John_Kass
@EricZorn
@HeidiStevens13
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Please, let's not call it a "crisis." That would be too...what's the word?..."accurate."
#Immigration
#bordercrisis
#Biden
#Bidensbordercrisis
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AFTER CLINESMITH, THE DELUGE
The guilty plea sheds light on Durham’s larger probe. Who should be worried? Anyone who worked on Crossfire Hurricane with Clinesmith.
#Clinesmith
#Spygate
#ObamaGate
#BillBarr
#Durham
#Comey
#Mueller
#Weissmann
#CarterPage
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DEMOCRATS RELENTLESS HUNT FOR THE GREAT ORANGE WHALE
D's are trying to spin the Mueller Report as welcome news. Legally, they’ve got no case left. Politically, they are making a serious mistake. Voters want to move on to health care, immigration, & more.
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If that plane leaves the ground and you're not wearing a mask and washing your hands repeatedly, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
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"Mrs. Cleaver, could you please tell Emmanuel to stop acting goofy?"
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) wins the coveted Lipson Merit Badge for Virtue Signaling for ending a prayer for the House with "Amen and Awomen." The Hebrew word is not a reference to gender. It means "so be it"
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Did you see the President's strong statement of support for the women of
#Iran
and the demonstrations against the regime? Me neither.
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New, improved
#JohnCena
picture. Now, with more Mao. He has learned from the Glorious Peasants!
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What struck me about the Army-Navy game, aside from the patriotism so evident in the stands and the exciting ending, was that (1) the players were actually the size of recognizable human beings and (2) they undoubtedly took real college courses.
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Chicago's new mayor, Brandon Johnson is an organizer for the powerful Chicago Teachers Union. His win is a huge victory for public-sector unions, the AOC wing of the party, & those who want to raise taxes, "defund the police," etc. It's unlikely to work.
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Griftin' along with the tumblin' tumbleweeds. He can't stop for a nanosecond, it seems.
#HunterBiden
#PoliticalCorruption
#Biden
#HuntersArt
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Let's eliminate the middle man. Instead of pretending to run things through City Hall, just let the Chicago Teachers Union officially set city policy on schools. That will leave Mayor Johnson free to do all those other things he does so well.
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The Colorado decision to remove Trump from the ballot is part of a century-long progressive effort to reshape the Constitution. It has centralized power in Washington, delegated enormous rulemaking power to bureaucrats, & turned judges into policymakers.
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Softball leagues across the country are outraged at being compared to
#CNN
questioning.
#BidenTownhall
#journalism
#Biden
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Deface the Lincoln & Jefferson Memorials: SURE
Rip up the Washington Monument: FINE
But, dammit, not Graceland
#Graceland
#graffiti
#WashingtonMonument
#LincolnMemorial
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I just hope the State of the Union address is not real political, like the Grammys.
#SOTU
#Trump
#StateOfTheUnion
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Before Garland was picked & Biden sworn in, I wrote that the AG was the worst job in this administration. He either had to cover up what Hunter, Jim, Frank, & others in the family were doing or he had to investigate without fear or favor. Either way was bound to bring him grief.
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Why has the
#Biden
team hidden
#KamalaHarris
when the
#WhiteHouse
needs public support & Biden himself is out stumping for his
#infrastructure
bill? Bc Harris is ineffective & unpopular. Unfortunately, the public now has real doubts about Biden's health.
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Not going well for
#LoriLightfoot
or
#Chicago
.
She combines bad policy outcomes, a thin skin, and an increasing perception she's unlikeable. (Likeability is a real political asset. It helped
#JoeBiden
enormously in 2020 and hurt
#Hillary
just as much in 2016.)
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Andrea Mitchell's first course (on Shakespeare plagiarizing William Faulkner's Sound and Fury) was so popular, she has created a follow-up. It's a more advanced course on Twain, Steinbeck, and others.
#AndreaMitchell
#TedCruz
#MarkTwain
#WilliamFaulkner
#Soundandfury
#Steinbeck
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It shouldn't be a hard lift for the Pres. Biden to condemn Palestinian terrorism. But he didn't do it. Instead, he blandly condemned "violence" after visiting with "my friend" Mahmoud Abbas, whose gov. pays lifetime annuities to families of terrorist bombers.
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The left's immediate, highly PERSONAL attacks on Sen.
#TimScott
are truly malign. It is contemptible is to slur him as "Uncle Tim" (a trending hashtag). That accuses him, in effect, of being a "race traitor" and tool of "white oppressors." Real arguments are fine. Slurs aren't.
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The surge of open hatred of Jews on college campuses is unprecedented in modern American life. That's intolerable. And it is inconsistent with an open, liberal society and the goals of higher education.
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If I never hear the words
#MeghanMarkIe
again, never hear her whining and self-serving complaints, never witness more of her rampant narcissism, that will be just fine with me.
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A candidate for
#Kentucky
governor is being slimed with racially-charged attacks. They need to be called out. Paid ads by a BLM affiliate are calling
#Republican
#DanielCameron
, “Uncle Tom,” to make sure he doesn’t peel off the black votes Disgusting.
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The
#Biden
family business had only one product: selling influence. It always centered on Joe’s public position and the access it ensured. Now, the flood of evidence about this grift has overtopped the levees built by the DC establishment.
#HunterBiden
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Today's devastating
#Ukrainian
strike on
#Russia
's
#Novofedorivka
air base in
#Crimea
is very bad news for
#Putin
.
#1
It inflicted huge, irreplaceable loss of aircraft.
#2
#Kremlin
now knows its Crimean military bases are vulnerable. Huge impact in fight for
#Kherson
oblast.
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@ByronYork
@nypost
Known to Olympic diving judges as the “reciprocal grift w taxpayer dollars”
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The politics of sending
#immigrant
buses north is simple: it puts
#illegalimmigration
on the media's front burner. That hurts D's and helps R's. It highlights an issue that infuriates voters: rich, powerful people can escape costs they impose on others.
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In DC last night, a violent demonstration by pro-Palestinians trapped Democratic congressmen inside the DNC headquarters, injured multiple police officers required police to escort lawmakers to safety, and led to .... one arrest. One. This kind of law enforcement is a sick joke.
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Biden’s speech made 3 points:
1) Trump is awful
2) I’m not senile
3) Everyone gets presents
#Election2020
#JoeBiden
#Biden
#Trump
#MAGA2020
#MAGA
#Republican
#Democrat
#OrangeManBad
#OMB
#Kamala
#KamalaHarris
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#QueenElizabeth
pleased to meet Pres.
#Biden
but says her real favorite was Grover Cleveland.
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The national debate over the Georgia runoffs focuses, naturally, on which party will control the Senate. But just beneath the surface lurk major constitutional issues.
#GeorgiaRunoffs
#Ossoff
#Warnock
#Perdue
#Loeffler
#Democrats
#Republicans
#SCOTUS
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Proof is mounting that the DA ① hired Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor when he was already her lover, ② showered him with public money, ③ never questioned his vaguely-worded bills,④ benefited from his income by traveling with him on lavish trips,…
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Gloating over
#RushLimbaugh
’s death ought to shock the conscience. Our sense of human decency has been warped by bitter political differences. BOTH sides do it. For those who say, "We are better than that," it’s time to show it.
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CBS now expects Gen. Eisenhower to open a second front somewhere in northern France.
#CBS
#HunterBiden
#HunterBidenLaptop
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How to make trillions disappear with just one bad syllogism.
Yes,
#Biden
really did tweet that the multi-trillion plan costs "zero dollars."
Aristotle weeps.
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Bernie Sanders is an endless fountain of bad ideas. His latest would mandate 32 hours work for 40 hours pay. The immediate effects would be
*Another 25 percent price increase for labor-intensive products,
*A huge burden on low-income consumers and
*An…
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This is a big deal, and it is even bigger coming on top of the resignation at Penn. The Harvard Board of Overseers should be out, too. They chose her and, in doing so, harmed the institution.
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WHEN ‘J’ACCUSE’ IS JUST A SMEAR
#ChicagoTribune
columnist
#JohnKass
is being maliciously attacked. Debating his ideas is fine. Smearing him as a religious bigot is false & wrong. He isn't.
#Antisemitism
#Racism
#Violence
#Riots
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Voters have a dim view of VP Kamala Harris, according to polls. She is rated “very unfavorably” by some 40% and will be a drag on the 2024 ticket if Biden runs. Still, he cannot drop Harris because of identity politics.
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Mayor Johnson also plans to bring suit against Wisconsin for the cold air blowing in each winter. His brain trust is considering whether to add Iowa to the suit.
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FROM THE WSJ OPINION PIECE BY YALE JEWISH STUDENTS: Organizers refused us entry because we weren’t registered but waved others through who also weren’t on the list. What we heard was two hours of denial, lies and incitement. ¶ This event had broad institutional support from Yale.
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Where did they all go? It's a mystery. Why weren't they removed earlier? Sherlock Holmes couldn't solve it.
#homeless
#illegalimmigration
#Biden
#elpaso
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The virulent anti-Israel protests across America & Europe throw a glaring light on the bizarre alliance between left-wing activists & militant Muslims. They stay united by focusing on shared hatreds. The liberal West needs to rebut them to survive.
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A deeply disturbing strand in American life--and all the more disturbing when it is not promptly and strongly rejected by political leaders.
#Antisemitism
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As I thought about this fiasco, I remembered the early Hollywood moguls, who really knew their customers. They began by running nickelodeons & small theaters. The exec at
#BudLight
came up thru Harvard, Wharton, & various marketing jobs. She knew her cohort but not her customers.
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Today in legal history. Move over "Dobbs,""Brown vs. Board of Education," "Plessy vs. Ferguson," and "Marbury vs. Madison." Here comes "Florida woman vs. Mac-and-cheese."
#law
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The surest sign the
#Russians
are retreating from a city is their widespread looting. Dreadful as that is, it signals a likely retreat from
#Kreminna
. Cutting off that
#logistics
hub will be the biggest
#Ukrainian
triumph in the north since their victory in Lyman.
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For any president, the single most damaging assessment voters can reach is that he is incompetent.
Once that assessment takes hold, it is like red wine spilled on a white carpet. Indelible.
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Want to know the most effective way to clear a homeless camp from your downtown? Just ask President
#Biden
to give a speech there and they will clear it just before he speaks. That’s what they did around Washington’s Union Station today.
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Before you pull that finger, you better ask yourself, punk, "Am I feeling lucky?" Well, are ya, punk?
#AndrewCuomo
#nursinghome
#COVID19
#NY
#NewYorkState
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#NormMacDonald
's brief comment after the O.J. verdict seems particularly apt after the
#Sussmann
verdict.
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IRONY. The company that erected the "Fearless Girl" statue pays fine on pay discrimination, re women and blacks.
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#FreeSpeech
is under constant attack at our
#universities
, and it is losing. There is good data on the decline. Fortunately, there are proven ways to restore robust, open dialogue.
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To paraphrase the blues lyrics, "If it wasn't for bad judgment, he wouldn't have no judgment at all."
#BrandonJohnson
#Crime
#ChicagoPD
#ChicagoRiots
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There is more intellectual diversity in the College of Cardinals than in most US colleges.
#heterodoxacademy
#Snowflakes
#PC
#PoliticalCorrectness
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It's not about
#NancyPelosi
’s hair. It's about the entitlement, unwarranted privilege, and hypocrisy (after months of lecturing us on how to behave).
#Covid19
#MediaBias
#SanFrancisco
#Seattle
#NewYork
#PelosiBlowout
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We still don't know when the Pentagon spotted this balloon, why they didn't present options to POTUS immediately, whether there have been previous balloons (were they spotted? was POTUS told?) The idea that they couldn't shoot it down over unoccupied parts of Montana is ludicrous
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Kudos to Don Weisberg for suggesting this great title. I certainly identify with the sentiment.
#PrinceHarry
#PrinceWilliam
#MeghanMarkle
#Spare
#SpareUsHarry
#SpareUs
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#ABC
's
#GeorgeStephanopoulos
had 90 minutes to ask Joe Biden about the
#NYPost
revelations. His silence was journalism as P.R. Just dreadful.
#AbcTownHall
#ABCTownHallJoeBiden
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For election integrity and public confidence, it is important for late counting in this year’s election finish before early voting for 2024’
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“War Is Peace.
Freedom Is Slavery.
Ignorance Is Strength.
Shoelaces are infrastructure.
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WHY "I am Spartacus" WILL STICK TO CORY BOOKER
My latest at Legal Insurrection. I explain why some mistakes fuse indelibly to the candidate and others fade away, ”What better place to start than the Senate's fearless gladiator, #
#SpartacusBooker
?
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One less obvious effect of the
#Sussmann
verdict is that half the country, which already distrusts Washington, will have another, high-profile reason to distrust the Capital and think the people who live and work there are from a different universe.
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Still, utter silence from the MSM, the same ones who flogged the scandal in the first place. Have they no shame?
#sussmanTrial
#Durham
#HillaryClinton
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How on God's green earth do we have a national security apparatus that is so porous and incompetent about handling its crown jewels that they are in the hands of a junior member of the national guard? Why not just hand them out at subway stations?
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NOTHING would be a greater gift to
#SouthPark
than to have
#HarryandMeghan
sue over the parody. The whining couple would lose because parodies are protected, and they would generate enough publicity for the episode to ensure the whole planet sees it.
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The
#UniversityofChicago
is rightly considered a rare bastion of
#FreeSpeech
among US
#universities
. Yet some students here want to block circulation of John
#Mearsheimer
's speeches on Russia/Ukraine/NATO & get the university to condemn them. Nuts! Debate freely, don't suppress.
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