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Listen to This Article: The Jeffrey Epstein Story is Beginning to Smell Like Russiagate
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) November 22, 2025
Once again, inference zooms past fact in a mania with Trump as a targethttps://t.co/6MKKU9UE74 pic.twitter.com/WALggcBXbo
Ed: It's been smelling for some time, actually. The stink is now attaching itself to Democrats, however.
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College Fix: A Young Americans for Freedom leader at Gettysburg College expressed frustration with the on-going hostility directed at the club on campus, including the destruction of dozens of fliers leading up to an event this week.
“I would approximate around 80-90% of our flyers get torn down or defaced in one way or another within 12 hours of us putting them up,” Nick Alverson, chapter vice chairman, told The College Fix in an email Thursday.
In the most recent incident, YAF students posted fliers across campus advertising an event Thursday with conservative author Vince Ellison. The event, “Everything you’ve been taught about race relations is wrong,” was hosted by the YAF chapter with funding approved by the student government.
Ed: The Left has been violent toward any dissenters on campuses for years. It's about time that universities put an end to it, or that the federal government stop funding them.
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Two months ago, I offered a Pulitzer-Prize-winning-journalist $10,000 if she could find video evidence of the exact quote she was attributing to Charlie Kirk in her post, word for word.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) November 21, 2025
She still hasn't found it.
This is PULITZER PRIZE winning journalist... pic.twitter.com/lQd0csoBMx
Ed: Walter Duranty was a Pulitzer-winning journalist, too. So too were the New York Times and Washington Post for their Russiagate coverage before the hoax got exposed. All of those Pulitzers are still active. So ... no big surprise, right?
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Jonathan Turley: There is an interesting ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on the COVID-19 closures in April 2020. The panel found that the closures of private beaches in Walton County, Florida, constituted a taking under the Fifth Amendment.
The Takings Clause provides that “private property” shall not “be taken for public use, without just compensation.” U.S. Const. amend. V. As noted in this case, the takings clause embodied a deep commitment of the Founders to the protection of property.
Ed: It will take many years to unwind all of the authoritarian actions taken during the pandemic. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will get a chance to set firm precedents that will prevent similar actions in the next "emergency." This should have been obviously unconstitutional, but the district court got it wrong first.
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He made this post when it was 65 degrees (at night, 80 during the day) in Gaza.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 22, 2025
And then three days later, we find out he’s actually in Poland.
It’s all fake. Always has been. https://t.co/08pkA4ptZn
Ed: Get that man a Pulitzer!
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Free Beacon: The Trump administration on Thursday revoked the visa of Naledi Pandor, the South African official who spearheaded a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), spoke by phone with former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, and repeatedly offered support for terrorism, a senior State Department official exclusively confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.
"Pandor's visa has been revoked," the official said. "Pandor has openly supported terrorism and endorsed violent jihads. Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government will no longer tolerate dangerous foreigners traveling into our country to spread their violent policies." ...
The former diplomat, a convert to Islam, has professed her support for terrorism on numerous occasions. She said in September that Muslims "are permitted to engage in jihad when necessary" and told an audience in October that "armed struggle may become a necessity if there is no movement toward fundamental change."
Ed: I'm surprised it took this long. We should take a very long and hard look at our diplomatic relationship with South Africa and its partnership with Iranian terror proxies. And that should include our trading relationship.
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🚨NEW PETITION FILED: Derek Chauvin’s attorney, @keithellison and corrupt prosecutors “can only run from the truth for so long”.
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) November 22, 2025
50 former & current police officers provide sworn declarations stating the technique used by Derek Chauvin was part of MPD training.
RETRIAL. pic.twitter.com/HEonur7mBa
Ed: At some point, the Supreme Court will have to tackle this case. It may be that Chauvin contributed to the medical causes of Floyd's death in a negligent manner, but that wasn't the crime on which he was convicted, and the case presented turns out to have been at least somewhat cooked. A retrial and reconsideration of the charges in the state case are clearly indicated here, as well as a more rational review of both the federal and state cases -- at a minimum -- five years after the hysteria and mob-justice environments have dissipated.
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Charles Fain Lehman at City Journal: What is alarming about Pekec’s comment is the implied equivalence between the protesters outside and those exercising their religious rights inside. Perhaps the people outside Park East Synagogue were breaking the law by intimidating those entering a house of worship. But in Pekec’s telling, so too were those inside, merely for contemplating a religiously motivated move to Israel. ...
Concerns about Mamdani’s labeling of his own city’s citizens as criminals are not academic. It is one thing to posture on campus or on the stump; it is another to serve as chief executive of the most important city on earth, responsible for an army of police officers, and to declare worshippers no better than those trying to prevent them from worshipping.
This should concern more than just Jewish New Yorkers. The city is home to millions of devout Catholics, Protestants, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and others across the panoply of American religious life. Many of these people, and their families, came to this country to enjoy the blessings of religious liberty.
They should be able to do so without intimidation. And when their soon-to-be mayor can’t help but endorse the views of intimidators, based on claims of defending the law—international law, no less—they, too, should be alarmed.
Ed: Indeed. And New Yorkers should wonder what kind of mayor they elected, who seems to prioritize "international law" over their constitutional rights.
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BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say. https://t.co/NorKDw5GLu
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 22, 2025
Ed: I suppose it's "testing" the ceasefire, although Hamas refusing to disarm in compliance with the cease-fire terms "tested" it first. There's not much more to say about this, other than to remind everyone that the value of the agreement for Israel was to disarm Hamas and end the threat it represents. If the agreement doesn't have that result, expect a lot more "tests" in the future.
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Decider: Bill Maher and former DNC chair Donna Brazile weren’t having it on Friday night, taking aim at Michelle Obama’s recent suggestion that Americans still aren’t ready to elect a woman as president. The pair unpacked the former first lady’s remarks during the season finale of Real Time, calling her assessment — as Maher put it — “bulls*t.” ...
“She was in the news this week, Michelle Obama. She has a book out. A coffee table book,” Maher said. “Her statement, I was rather shocked by it.
“To me, this is logical fallacy 101. Just because we weren’t ready or didn’t like the candidates, Hillary and Kamala, doesn’t mean we are not ready for a woman.”
Ed: I'm only surprised in that Decider chose to highlight this. No Pultizer for them, I guess.
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Let me tell you what the opposite of a lame duck is: when you withdraw your endorsement of someone and it ends their career within days.
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 22, 2025
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NBC News: While Jay Leno beamed into living rooms as host of the “Tonight Show” for decades, Mavis Leno established her career as well, earning a nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for supporting women in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s regime.
Jay Leno told Hoda that Mavis has become reliant on him.
“That’s part of it because now she really needs me, and I like that. And I can tell that she appreciates it,” he said.
“And the idea that you get married and you take these vows, nobody ever thinks they’ll be called upon to act on them, you know?” he continued. “You know that part for better or worse. But even the ‘worse’ is not that bad.”
Ed: Pray for the Lenos, and for the grace that can be found in this difficult but moving story. I have always been a casual fan of Leno, always considered him a class act, but I have come to admire him and the example he sets on what is truly important. May the Lord shower them both with grace in this passage.
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