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An Update on the November Elections from Mollie and Mark Hemingway

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Hosted by Mark Hemingway & Mollie Hemingway

Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist and Mark Hemingway of The Weekly Standard give us a weekly update on the November elections. Among other issues, the Hemingways discuss President Obama and Donald Trump’s respective reactions to the terrorist attack in Orlando, and Mollie defends Hillary Clinton, but maybe not in the way you’d imagine.

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Kevin Creighton
Kevin Creighton
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According to gun rights activist John Lott and BearingArms.com, Epix, the streaming service behind Katie Couric’s Under the Gun documentary, has pulled the movie from circulation. After initially defending @katiecouric movie, Epix just announced that bec of fraudulent editing it is pulling the movie from being aired. Preview Open

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Aaron Miller
Aaron Miller
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I noticed that this article by Mark Steyn has already received 2,000 likes on his Facebook page and hundreds of shares, whereas usually when Steyn links to his articles on Facebook, they only receive a couple hundred likes and dozens of shares, if that. It’s interesting that readers seek out particular pundits during particular scenarios. After an […]

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Tim H.
Tim H.
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Thank goodness confirmation bias never strikes the purveyors of global warming panic. In the Washington Post, Chelsea Harvey reports on a study regarding the spread of misinformation online. She eagerly applies it to those who are skeptical of global warming claims and dives into a lesson on confirmation bias … which apparently only affects people […]

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Mona Charen
Mona Charen
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There are few more repugnant spectacles among the liberal elites of this country than the festivals of smugness that follow any comment by a conservative public figure that can be twisted into a racial slight. This week it is Justice Antonin Scalia’s turn. In an oral argument over affirmative action, Scalia said: There are those […]

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Misthiocracy has never
Misthiocracy has never
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As a pretty fabulous illustration of the power of media to direct narrative, Canon Australia hired six photographers to shoot portraits of the same man, wearing the same clothing, in the same setting. The twist: each photographer was told a different backstory about the man. One was told he was a self-made millionaire. Another was told he […]

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Claire Berlinski
Claire Berlinski
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The editors were just asking each other, backstage, who among us might be in Canada and able to give us an update on the Canadian elections. We were running through the names of our Canadian members from memory. Then we realized we should really be more organized about this. Ricochet has a presence in every inhabited continent (and we […]

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Claire Berlinski
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A Turkish court leveled formal charges of terrorism at three VICE News journalists and their colleague yesterday. The Iraqi journalist Mohammed Ismael Rasool, and two British journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, were detained late Thursday evening and taken into custody in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır. So was their driver, who was released. They’ve been accused of working for both the PKK and […]

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Claire Berlinski
Claire Berlinski
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As you probably know, Google, Facebook, and other news aggregators work very hard to please you. In fact, they’re sort of like the creepiest guy you could imagine dating. (Adapt the simile as appropriate, if you date ladies.) They study every term you search and think deeply about what it says about you. They remember every link you’ve ever clicked, […]

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Aaron Miller
Aaron Miller
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Pseud’s recent post about Sharyl Attkisson fact-checking Trump’s passing remarks about McCain raises an interesting dilemma for journalists. How do you report on non-literal statements? As I said in my comment there, I believe Trump was clearly being sarcastic when he said, ”[McCain] is a war hero because he was captured.” The implication, as evidenced […]

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