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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, New Yorker, retired from lawyering. Opinions 100% my own. Not the ex-Cardinals broadcaster.

New York
Joined May 2009
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Ok a good bit.
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Patrick Stewart brought a new level of performance to science fiction with his peerless performance as Jean-Luc Picard. He was also a genius on stage--I saw his Christmas Carol and two Pinter plays I disliked but for him. And he wrote a remarkable memoir. What a loss.
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A Maine woman claims a videographer told her she would be appearing in an ad for Sen. Susan Collins... She was shocked when the ad came out, and it was for Troy Jackson. "If they're willing to mislead me, how far will they go."
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Baseball is quite literally one of the only reasons to listen to the radio. Besides going in person, it's the ideal way to consume the product. Nothing brings the innate rhythm, cadence, & beauty of the game to life like listening to a radio call & imagining the field of play.
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Nothing sums up Barack Obama quite like this.
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It's kinda amazing how with all the population movement from the Rust Belt to Sun Belt since the 1970s, sports team allegiances have remain firmly anchored in the old Midwest and Northeast. Not just for the Packers and Steelers and Bills. Lots of teams in various sports. – at Gettysburg, PA
This has been a problem in Sun Belt markets since professional sports arrived (Atlanta is the ultimate case study in visiting fans taking over their stadiums). Feels like it’s gotten way worse with the rise of SeatGeek, etc. Fundamentally bad dynamic for the leagues long-term.
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2026 turned out to be the real Brat Summer
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Alaska Governor DUNLEAVY tells FOX, Dan J. Sullivan refused to talk under oath during the initial probe.
Alaska Governor DUNLEAVY tells FOX: "We knew there was something going on there, but we're also somewhat surprised by the revelations. And we now believe that that's probably the tip of the iceberg to be honest with you."
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I appreciate the positive attention from new corners of the political Twitterverse. But if you’re a Democrat who opposes these actions by Republicans but supports any of them from your own party, you also missed the point of the article.
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Voting is important. You should vote. More important than voting is what you tell yourself about your vote. Your actual vote may not matter much. It's one of many. What you tell yourself about what you're doing shapes you.
.@Timodc: "I could not be happier to endorse Abdul El-Sayed over the human trash that is Mike Rogers."
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Legend RIP Captain
Patrick Stewart, who will be remembered most for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, has died at 86. variety.com/2026/tv/news/pat…
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If it’s a blowout, the GOP should not once again cheat itself out of a valuable confrontation with defeat and refuse to incorporate the voters’ verdict into their appeals to the electorate.
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There should be a lot more inquiry about why the AK Supreme Court said in June than an opinion would follow in the Dan Sullivan case explaining the decision to put him on the ballot. And yet 4 months later there's no opinion on the eve of the election. alaskanews.com/c/alaska-news…
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Dan McLaughlin retweeted
"Castanets" is a fantastic song from a great album and it is a worthy selection by Rolling Stone. But that's a pretty dumb reason to delete a song from a live repertoire.
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When fake "Dan Sullivan" filed to run in Alaska, he filed as Republican. However, his voter registration card has always been listed "NONPARTISAN." He has been registered nonpartisan for 40 years. Alaska Stat. § 15.25.030(a)(5) requires a candidate’s declaration of candidacy to state the political party or group "with which the candidate is registered as affiliated." The Alaska Supreme Court confirmed in Kohlhaas v. State (2022) that a candidate "cannot lie about being affiliated with a particular party." Well, he lied as we now know it was a whole plot to deceive voters. In June 2026, a complaint was filed on behalf of the Alaskan Republican Party. It was overruled by Alaska Supreme Court on the grounds of "good faith." It was NOT good faith.
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I love how people are reacting to the Bulwark endorsement of 9/11 Guy like it’s a thing. Bulwark is a Dem GOTV op like what did you think they were going to say hahahahaha Anyone want to debate Catturd on the merits of Donald Trump? That’s what we’re dealing with here.
We sought to be a Bulwark for liberal democracy and against MAGA authoritarianism. And that’s exactly what we’re doing. With a supine congress, captured institutions, blatant corruption, a weaponized DOJ, etc, there’s only one real lever to check Trump’s power. Dems winning. And we’re pulling it.
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.@JohnPuri2026 is a smart guy and a good writer, and no journalist gets to control who happens to enjoy their work. He's written plenty of stuff they wouldn't like as well, because he's a principled free-market thinker who doesn't write to please any political party.
This kid proudly enjoying the praise of Bill Kristol, Adam Kinzinger, and George Conway says quite a bit about where NRO is at these days.
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#1 is so important. Every election cycle some people we’ve never heard of do big numbers on here for extrapolating early vote numbers and it later becomes clear they had no idea what they were talking about.
So far, I've knocked off four of the six articles I promised when we launched Poll Vault. I will do Ohio eventually, but today I'll do a deep dive into a different state and possibly the models article.
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I periodically argue against tenure and civil service firing protections, and am berated by teachers and professors saying "How would you like it if your boss could just fire you because they didn't like you?" as if the very idea would shock me.
At Nuremberg, American judges had to teach the Soviet judges about concepts such as “innocent until proven guilty.” The Soviets saw the trials as simply being about whether the accused went to the gulags or were taken out back with a pistol. Most people aren’t prepared to learn just how different their cultures are from others, let alone realize the implications.
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