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AmericaĢƵ higher education brought low

Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely called educators have taught, by their negative examples, what intelligence is not.Melissa Click is the ...

Silly season finally over for GOP

Paris was for all Americans, but especially for Republicans, a summons to seriousness that should have two immediate impacts on the Republican presidential contest. It should awaken the partyĢƵ nominating electorate from its reveries about treating the presidency as an entry-level job. And it ...

Fantasy sports under scrutiny

Americans have been betting on sports since the first time a Puritan pilgrim boasted that his horse was the fastest in Massachusetts Bay Colony and another said, “Wanna bet?”But fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and government gotta fret about gambling on fantasy sports. Torrential ...

Judicial restraint no longer relevant

A supremely important presidential issue is being generally neglected because Democrats have nothing interesting to say about it and Republicans differ among themselves about it. Four Supreme Court justices are into the fourth quarters of their potential centuries — Stephen G. Breyer (77), ...

Democrats bent on ruining Chicago

A Midwestern humorist, IndianaĢƵ Kin Hubbard, said people often confuse bad management with destiny. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel knows better. He must play the cards that fate has dealt him, and he is too polite, or at least too prudent, to say that another name for fate is Democratic rule of ...

IRS director should be impeached

“Look,” wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, “my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets.” Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, was referring to Southern secessionist ...