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Splendid Dishonesty

William Watkins, Jr.

Stephen B. Presser identifies a crisis in American legal education. In his book Law Professors, he shows us why a newly minted graduate of an elite American law school has no clue how to handle a case or provide useful legal services.

If It Leads, It Bleeds

Justin Raimondo

The bonds that bind us together as a nation are fraying, and this is by design. Divide and rule is the byword of the “Resistance,” but they are banking on a victory that isn’t necessarily in the cards.

Wonders

George McCartney

Wonder Woman is the first installment of what threatens to be an endless line of sequels. Patty Jenkins directed the movie, an odd choice.

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Is Iran in Our Gun Sights Now?
Pat Buchanan | July 21, 2017
President Trump is key. If he does the War Party's bidding, that will be his legacy, as the Iraq War is the legacy of George W. Bush.
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Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Don’t Make Me Laugh
Tom Engelhardt | July 20, 2017
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science.
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Up, Up, and Away
Bill Kauffman | July 19, 2017
Howard E. McCurdy, a political scientist fascinated by "the relationship between imagination and public policy," has written a lively account of the "concerted effort by writers of popular science and science fiction, along with other opinion leaders, to prepare the public for what they hoped would be the inevitable conquest of space."
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The Russia Question—About Hillary Clinton
Chilton Williamson, Jr. | July 17, 2017
I invite readers of this blog to review this article by Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash (Harper Collins, 2015), in light of the stories about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russian lawyer, Miss Veselnitskaya, in Trump Tower a year ago last June.
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