Tag: Commentary

British charity Oxfam's deputy chief executive on Monday resigned amid a scandal involving sex abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
(Nick Ansell/PA via AP, file)

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Don’t condemn Oxfam for their sexual abuse, condemn them because they want to keep poor people in poverty

Tim Worstall · February 12, 2018 10:19 pm

Here are all the media headlines that gave soft and fluffy coverage to North Korea over the first weekend of the 2018 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Here are all the times the media praised North Korea during the Olympics

Siraj Hashmi · February 12, 2018 10:08 pm

While Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt requires a full-time security detail to protect him from environmental terrorists, the degree and cost of his security arrangements are significantly higher than those of his predecessors. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is playing taxpayers and Trump

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 9:30 pm

Those cheerleaders may be slaves, but look at them dance! (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Free press debases itself with coverage of North Korean Olympic delegation

Becket Adams · February 12, 2018 8:46 pm

They have taken political correctness to another level. (Columbia Pictures/Sony via AP)

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The ‘Peter Rabbit’ allergy warriors are humorless losers

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 8:22 pm

Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company "will not necessarily go in the volume direction that Netflix has gone" in a call last month with Wall Street analysts. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

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Disney plots its own course with online streaming shows and movies

Stephen Kent · February 12, 2018 6:51 pm

The next fight over the tax credit will more than likely come in the farm bill. (Micah Walter/Bloomberg News)

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Biofuel boom: Budget deal gives away $2.6 billion to biodiesel industry

Philip Wegmann · February 12, 2018 6:08 pm

Republicans are increasingly open to a gas tax towards generating revenue for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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To fix infrastructure, Republicans should raise the gas tax and repeal the Davis-Bacon Act

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 5:05 pm

Nassar — enabled by the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, and Michigan State University — abused his position of power to molest hundreds of girls. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)

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How to make sure systemic abuse like Larry Nassar’s never happens again

Charles Sauer · February 12, 2018 5:00 pm

Some media outlets fawn over Kim Yo Jong with headlines and news articles disturbingly similar to North Korean state-run propaganda. (Presidential Blue House, via AP)

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Before you praise Kim Yo Jong, remember how brutal the North Korean regime is

alana-mastrangelo · February 12, 2018 4:21 pm

As ABC News reports, Ron Wyden wrote to the Treasury Department last Friday, arguing that "It is imperative that Congress follow the money and conduct a thorough investigation into any potential money laundering or other illicit financial dealings between the president, his associates, and Russia." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Ron Wyden is probably wasting time with his Russian money laundering investigation of Trump’s Palm Beach sale

Tom Rogan · February 12, 2018 2:08 pm

Walter Mondale, more than anyone else, transformed the vice presidency into a useful office. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Michael Barone: Happy 90th birthday, Walter Mondale, and thanks

Michael Barone · February 12, 2018 1:21 pm