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The fake news media spent the past week screeching that we have a policy of “separating families” at the border. And that this is a “zero tolerance” policy. Nope. The only policy we have is arresting people who cross the border illegally. That’s it. If they have kids, then like every other criminal with kids,…

Ocean’s 8 seemed like it might escape the dreaded curse of the failed Ghostbusters reboot and the faltering Disney Wars franchise. It didn’t show disdain for previous incarnations. And it was doing well enough that, unlike Ghostbusters and Solo, didn’t need to lean on identity politics to excuse its failures. But there are no shortage…

As Mayor Sadiq Khan would say, having your children chased down the street by a knife-wielding Muslim woman screaming about the Jews is ”part and parcel of living in a great global city.” A female suspect was arrested on Sunday after she ran after children with a knife while shouting “I want to kill all…

For some context, here’s a summary of this story from March. Qatar’s influence operations took an ominous turn when Elliott Broidy, a top Trump donor, had his emails hacked by individuals he alleges were Qatari agents. “We have reason to believe this hack was sponsored and carried out by registered and unregistered agents of Qatar…

_Picture courtesy of Bluebear2 via Wikimedia_ The recent revelations which appear to show that Harvard maintained an Asian quota by ranking Asian applicants lower on personality even without having met them is unsurprising. The connection between higher education and meritocracy has always been shaky. It’s just less shaky in this country than in most. And…

And no, we’re not talking about Snopes. Though it’s fact checking spam has become notorious. Instead this is the end result of the media’s hysteria about “fake news”, the pressure on Facebook and Google to embed fact checkers, and the subsequent swarm of clickbait fact checks. This story itself doesn’t matter. It’s just symptomatic of…