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May 2019

Posted by Tyler Hummel on May 20, 2019 29 Comments
The general consensus following these last two seasons of Game of Thrones has been universally negative. Fans are mad at the large stretches in logic, characters teleporting across Westeros for the convenience of the story, intelligent characters getting written off and for entire character arcs being disregarded at the last minute to further the plot.

Posted by Daniel McGraw on May 19, 2019 22 Comments
We have completed 6 days of witness testimony in Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin College. The events giving rise to the lawsuit have been said to represent “the worst of identity politics.”  You can read about some of the background on this case here. The upcoming week will probably be key in terms of what evidence is being presented to the jury. Gibson’s Bakerywill be trying to show that the school did not merely try to “deescalate” the protests against Gibson's and accusations of racism, but “fanned the flames” and made the outcome far worse.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on May 19, 2019 34 Comments
One of the first and most vocal #NeverTrump members of Congress, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is now making headlines as "the first Republican" to call for President Trump's impeachment. So far, there is no indication at all that he is "first," it seems more likely he is the "lone" Republican making such a call.  Even Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) stated Sunday that the case for impeachment "just isn't there."

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2019 15 Comments
The recent controversy regarding Rep. Rashida Tlaib focused on her use of the term “calming feeling" regarding the Holocaust. That was an error by those focusing on the term, and a deliberate distraction by those defending the term. The reality of Tlaib's statement was much worse, because it used Holocaust inversion and revisionism to portray Palestinians as the victims of the Holocaust. I wrote about Tlaib's Holocaust inversion and revisionism:
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