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Cooke: Whence Keystone Comes (5)
A trip to the Canadian oil sands, a modern wonder of the world. Alberta, Canada — While we are sitting on the tarmac waiting interminably for Newark’s permission to take off, the man in the seat to my...
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Cooke: Congress Seems Happy to Have Its Powers Usurped (5)
Don’t blame King Obama, blame his enabling band of cavaliers. To adapt a line from Thomas Frank, we might today ask ourselves, “What’s the matter with Congress?” Last night, in Las Vegas, the head of...
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Cooke: America’s Provocateurs Are at the Mercy of the Barbarians (5)
The most likely targets of Islamist wrath are in the cities with the most restrictive gun laws. To the foreign or uninitiated visitor, it must appear somewhat peculiar that the most prominent,...
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Cooke: The GOP’s Conspicuous Absence from Selma (5)
On the 50th anniversary of the historic march for civil rights, Republicans are largely no-shows. This afternoon, in the hot center of the state of Alabama, a parade of Americans will pay homage to a...
View ArticleCooke: At the NRA Convention, Scott Walker Previews a Likely 2016 Republican...
Don’t be surprised to hear Republicans hammering the president’s party for its routine lawbreaking. During his speech to the NRA Convention this afternoon, a relaxed Scott Walker said the following:...
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Cooke: David Clarke – The Sheriff as Rebel (5)
How the Milwaukee County sheriff became a political celebrity In January 2013, a 32-second radio advertisement was broadcast in Milwaukee, and — quite by accident — a political star was born. Hoping to...
View ArticleCooke: Will the U.K. Election Results Doom Labour in the Long Term? (10)
On the morning of April 10, 1992, my father came into the kitchen and told me that something remarkable had happened. The party, which had been widely expected to form the next British government, had...
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Cooke: The Left Won’t Let the Amtrak Tragedy Go to Waste (5)
Emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train wreck on May 13 in Philadelphia. Photo: AP It took just a few sorry hours for the news to become politicized. On Tuesday evening, we were told of...
View ArticleCooke: The Tolerant Jeweler Who Harbored an Impure Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage
In the American Conservative yesterday, Rod Dreher related the following story: So, a Canadian Christian jeweler custom-made a pair of engagement rings for a lesbian couple, Nicole White and Pam...
View ArticleCooke: International Soccer Is Governed by Clueless Hacks
FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, is not just corrupt but incompetent, callous, and megalomaniacal. Well, well, well. Seemingly out of nowhere, the U.S. government has entered the fray and...
View ArticleCooke: The Deadly Consequences of Draconian Gun Laws
Carol Bowne is dead — murdered in cold blood on her own property by a violent criminal who would not be restrained by good intentions. But there is no smoking gun, because she lived and died in New...
View ArticleNemesis
Historians searching for a pithy, acidic analogy with which to condemn Mrs. May’s campaign will likely have to search outside of British politics. It was just a few weeks ago that the Conservative...
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Fun With Gun Haters
Has there ever been a better illustration of the weird belief that the mere act of owning a firearm turns even “intelligent, hard-working, responsible” people into murderous psychopaths? From Live...
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