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Jay Nordlinger
@jaynordlinger
Senior editor, National Review; music critic, The New Criterion
New York, N.Y.NationalReview.comJoined March 2015
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Biden said he’d be a “bridge” — a clever and effective concept. But if he tries to extend the bridge too far …
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Chris Cillizza
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"Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, the Post-ABC poll finds 58 percent say they would prefer someone other than Biden as their nominee in 2024 — almost double the 31 percent who support Biden." washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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Nationalism has its upsides (a sense of sovereignty; a sense of obligation to one’s fellow, particularly to one’s neighbor or countryman). But the downsides — what curses.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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"The number of people who refused to provide an ethnic identification grew substantially," one expert said of the 2021 Russian census. "This is a result of growing xenophobia." trts.io/xAn3w
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Statesman-like. (Seriously.)
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Lindsey Graham
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Thank you to the men and women of the United States military who were responsible for completing the mission to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon. The Biden Administration did the right thing in bringing it down.
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His cause was great — rescuing people from destruction. I admire him tremendously.
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Visegrád 24
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BREAKING: The American volunteer medic Pete Reed has been killed near Bakhmut. The ambulance he was using to evacuate civilians from the frontlines was hit in a Russian artillery strike.
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So commonsensical, it is almost un-modern.
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David French
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One thing I've been thinking a lot about since the murder of Tyre Nichols (and since multiple other terrible incidents)--what does it mean to "support" an institution, to be "pro-police" or "pro-military"? I consider myself both pro-police and pro-military, but.../1
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When nat-pops say “free-market fundamentalism” — one of their favorite insults — what they mean is “economic sense, as anyone over about 16 ought to grasp.”
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Scott Lincicome
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National Conservatives cheered Viktor Orban's price controls as a pro-family "win," but - as @MrRBourne documents here - the result was just what Milton Friedman and other "Free Market Fundamentalists" would predict: Misery. reason.com/2023/02/02/nat
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People who live in liberal democracies and want to campaign against liberal democracy, do so with the tools and rights of liberal democracy itself. I say to all Putinists, scribbling: Vladimir Kara-Murza and other political prisoners would like the same rights that you enjoy.
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Reading the first paragraph would be enough -- enough to give one a sense of what has gone on in Congo. There are many hellish places in the world: Ukraine, Syria, North Korea. This is one of the worst.
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Before a crowd of 1 million, Pope urges Congolese to forgive
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Congo's people to forgive those who have harmed them as he presided over a Mass before an estimated 1 million people who flocked to his first...
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Question: Have people become numb to the perpetual assault on civilians in Ukraine? I mean, people other than Ukrainians? My sense is, this has happened, and that it was inevitable -- as inevitable as it is lamentable.
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EU officials visit Kyiv as Russia strikes civilian target
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Top European Union officials arrived in Kyiv on Thursday for talks with Ukrainian officials as rescue crews dug through the rubble of an apartment building in eastern Ukraine...
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Great. I wish to add something--something of a historical nature, if you will. Deirdre's father, Robert McCloskey, was a Harvard political scientist. Two friends of mine--eminent intellectuals--count him as one of the most important teachers they ever had. Wish I had known him!
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Walter Olson
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Grand news for @CatoInstitute: eminent economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey has joined us on a full-time basis as the Distinguished Scholar, Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought, Cato president and CEO Peter Goettler announced today. Hurrah!
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Of interest.
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Hanna Liubakova
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Back in USSR: in Volgograd, Russians unveiled the monument to Stalin. Reportedly some 1,400 people came. I won't be surprised if among them were the descendants of those repressed by Stalin because memory became really short in today's #Russia.
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Good goin', Jack.
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Jack Butler
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I understand why Mitch Daniels decided not to run for Senate. But his decision demonstrated exactly why he should have done it, and gave a victory to forces that are making our politics worse. My lament in @NRO: nationalreview.com/corner/mitch-d
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Perfect. In every particular.
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Allan Smith
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Turning Point is hosting an event with Jair Bolsonaro near Miami next week that it's billing as his first public appearance since he fled Brazil following the presidential election It's being hosted at Trump's Doral golf club
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Very important, very gratifying.
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Petr Pavel
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I would like to thank president @ZelenskyyUa for his congratulations on the Czech presidential election results and his invitation to visit Kyiv. In our phone call today, I assured him that Ukraine can continue to rely on the support of the Czech Republic.
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In electing Petr Pavel president, the Czech people have done something important.
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Petr Pavel
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Today, I spoke with the president of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen. I thanked her for her congratulations and I assured her that Taiwan and the Czech Republic share the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights. We agreed on strengthening our partnership.
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I've noticed something: Americans who oppose our Ukraine aid -- for their various reasons -- tend to say, "Stop giving money to Zelensky." They don't say "Ukraine" or "Ukrainians." They say "Zelensky." Kind of interesting. A bogeyman?
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