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August 8, 2017 — Steven Hayward
The Simpsons anticipated the gender difference/sameness nonsense at Google in an episode from six years ago (3.40 long):
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May 28, 2015 — Steven Hayward
I’ll defer to Paul at Power Line’s sports desk for the definitive understanding of the FIFA scandal, but it is worth noting that “The Simpsons” was on to the matter a while ago (just over 1 minute):
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December 2, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Confess: you don’t remember what, exactly, the Simpson-Bowles “Fiscal Responsibility and Reform” Commission proposed. I didn’t remember, either, but with many conservatives, including Steve Hayward, suggesting that the House pass Simpson-Bowles as its proposal to avert the fiscal cliff, I thought it would be good to refresh both my memory, and yours. You can read the Commission’s report here; it isn’t particularly long. The Commission’s proposals are good on taxes
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December 1, 2012 — Steven Hayward
In my National Review print edition article right after the election (behind a subscriber wall, alas), I suggested the House pass a bold tax reform bill right away, and send it to the Senate. Heck, I added, “the House GOP could even just pass Simpson-Bowles, and rightly say they are passing the plan President Obama’s own commission recommended.” I am happy to see this idea is catching on. Mary
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May 24, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I haven’t always been a fan of former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, but do not miss his recent letter to a greedy geezers lobby group in California. Politico has the whole story, but here’s the complete text of Simpson’s letter, which is, shall we say, “candid,” even for a westerner: To Whom It May Concern: Erskine Bowles and I thoroughly enjoyed our time on the West Coast and received an
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December 6, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff
I just got off of a conference call in which ISG members William Perry and Alan Simpson discussed the ISG Report with a group of bloggers. Since I haven’t read any further in the Report than when I posted this morning, I’ll confine myself to reporting on the call, without editorial comment. Perry summarized the Report’s conclusion as follows: the situation in Iraq is dire; if we don’t change course
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May 13, 2005 — Paul Mirengoff
I highly recommend today’s column by Diana West in the Washington Times about, ultimately, South Park Conservatives. Not that I agree with Diana that we should feel the same way about the battle between these young (and let’s remember that they are young) conservatives and political correctness as we did about the war between Iraq and Iran. I’m not a South Park Conservative, but there’s a little bit of Simpsons
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September 1, 2004 — John Hinderaker
We talked to former Senate Whip Alan Simpson a little while ago. He’s a funny, entertaining guy. But what I love about him is his combativeness. He enjoys the fight, and we Republicans need more of that. Sen. Simpson agrees with my conviction that the Bush administration erred by not responding vigorously to the attacks that peppered the administration over the last year, i.e., Joe Wilson, Michael Moore, Richard Clarke
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February 16, 2003 — Scott Johnson
This evening Fox ran the 300th episode of the Simpsons, a hilarious chapter in which Homer attends Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp with the Rolling Stones and finds re-entry into the real world somewhat difficult. In recognition of the Simpsons’ milestone, yesterday’s Star Tribune carried a good feature on the characters’ voices: “Look who’s still talking — the voices behind the Simpsons.” Today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press carries the AP
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April 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Listening to Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure channel on Sirius XM yesterday I heard a Motown song I hadn’t heard since I was a teenager — “You Beat Me To the Punch,” a hit single for Mary Wells and a deep track on The Temptations Sing Smokey. The song was written by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ Ronnie White. I take it from Nelson George’s Where Did Our Love Go? that
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March 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The public shaming of Ronna McDaniel by NBC/MSNBC’s partisan talent represents an almost unbelievable failure of self-knowledge. One wants to shout Look in the mirror, you fools! The mob in this case was led by Chuck Todd, who is himself a pathetic excuse of a journalist. Todd’s role in this episode rankles. He was among the many of his tribe who promoted the Steele Dossier and the Russia hoax during
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February 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
About the immigration bill that is apparently dead on arrival in both houses of Congress, some observations: Some conservatives are saying this is the best immigration control bill proposed in the last 30 years, with features that, if proposed in the past, most sensible people would have jumped to embrace and vote for. This is correct. It is still a no good rotten bill that should be scorned with extreme
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July 26, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika is suddenly in the spotlight. Today she refused to approve Hunter Biden’s plea agreement, as we have discussed in several previous posts. Liberals immediately denounced Judge Noreika as a Trump appointee. All of which raises the question: who is she? A useful source of information is the form she filled out when she was nominated to the federal bench in late 2017. This is a standard
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May 18, 2023 — Scott Johnson
John Durham’s detailed report on the Russia hoax should destroy the (positive) reputation of the FBI. It is devastating. One has to go beyond the four corners of the report to assess the impact it should have on the (positive) reputation of the establishment press, though its positive reputation has been crumbling for decades. The press was of course an integral part of the Russia hoax all along the way.
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May 16, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The 306-page report issued by Special Counsel John Durham seems a bit muted to me. The Durham report renders judgment in his report’s executive summary: “Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report.” You don’t say.
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March 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Aretha Franklin — the Queen of Soul, as Steely Dan reminded the “sweet young thing” in “Hey Nineteen” — died in August 2018. Jon Pareles recounted her life and work in his excellent New York Times obituary. Dominic Green paid tribute to her as “simply the finest popular singer of her generation.” Dominic also wrote a brilliant review of the Amazing Grace documentary for the Spectator. Yesterday was the anniversary
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February 11, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Former New York Times investigative reporter Jeff Gerth has written a lengthy retrospective on the coverage of the Trump presidency and the award-winning journalism supporting the Russia hoax in particular. Indeed, we regularly mocked the coverage of the Russia hoax, as in my five-part mock epic Dossiad ridiculing the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer. It is useful to have Gerth’s 24,000-word series as published in four parts by the Columbia Journalism
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