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Outspent and lacking a big profile, Gina Hinojosa has made the Texas governor race unexpectedly competitive. The post Can Hinojosa Win Texas? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Can Hinojosa Win Texas? Outspent and lacking a big profile, Gina Hinojosa has made the Texas governor race unexpectedly competitive. (Katina Zentz/San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images) Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) couldn’t believe what he was about to do. Less than three months out from the midterms, Kennedy was leaving for a trip to Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. States that, as the Louisiana senator colorfully put it, “ought to be fat-guy layups for us.” His travel was a response to a very real and deeply uncomfortable situation facing the Republican Party: the looming prospect of electoral…Open
Garry Trudeau may be a talented cartoonist, but more often than not he merely mirrors convention. The post Doonesbury’s Long, Not-So-Strange Trip appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Doonesbury’s Long, Not-So-Strange Trip Garry Trudeau may be a talented cartoonist, but more often than not he merely mirrors convention. Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography, by Joshua Kendall, Abrams Press, 339 pages. Early in my career as a second-grader, my teacher asked the class to take a piece of construction paper and draw the cover of a recently read book. For me, already a member of the journalism club, this was an ideal assignment, although it also brought forth the nascent contrarianism that would prove so useful in my professional career. I remember not wanting to pick a book that might be shared by a classmate. I…Open
Ingratitude may revive socialist repression—but at least the political jokes might get better. The post The Dictator Who Laughs Last appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture The Dictator Who Laughs Last Ingratitude may revive socialist repression—but at least the political jokes might get better. TakiMag Photo by Miguel Palacios/Cover/Getty Images In the good old days of the late Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship, he was known as la vache qui rit, the cow that laughs, because of his uncanny resemblance to the trademark animal of the French cheese brand of that name. (The best political jokes always emerge from dictatorships—they are the thing that one misses most about the Soviet Union.) Now it so happens that I bought…Open
The singer-songwriter began his Philadelphia show on Saturday night by apologizing for “mistakes” and saying he felt compelled to speak out about the “humanitarian issue.”
Eighteen service members have been killed since the U.S. war with Iran began in late February — including in hostile and non-hostile action — and more than 800 have been injured, the DCAS database said as of Friday.
The lawsuit names the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI and several Trump officials, seeking to prevent them “from deploying agents in a manner that unlawfully intimidates voters or anyone urging or aiding voters.”
