Morning Jolt: Donald Trump vs. LaVar Ball

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Making the click-through worthwhile: A qualified defense of Trump's tweet about LaVar Ball, how we're outsourcing our thinking about political figures, and the ugly truth about Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones.

A Ball Goes Out of Bounds

A minute, qualified, half-defense of Trump's otherwise inexcusable tweet about the three UCLA players who were arrested in China and ultimately released.

Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, ...

November 20 2017

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Donald Trump vs. LaVar Ball Jim Geraghty Happy Thanksgiving Week! Making the click-through worthwhile: A qualified defense of Trump's tweet about LaVar Ball, how we're outsourcing our thinking about political figures, and the ugly truth about Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones. A Ball Goes Out of Bounds A minute, qualified, half-defense of Trump's otherwise inexcusable tweet about the three UCLA players who were arrested in China and ultimately released. Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, ... READ MORE The Treasury Secretary's Wife Kevin D. Williamson First ladies are bad enough, and the recent habit of referring to the wife of the vice president as "the second lady" is nauseating. The first Mrs. Trump does have a point: From a certain point... Trump's Response to LaVar Ball — Most Unpresidential Katherine Timpf Trump's Response to LaVar Ball — Most Unpresidential ADVERTISEMENT 'Neither of the Above' in Alabama? Doug Jones on Abortion Is a Zealot Alexandra DeSanctis Roy Moore is undoubtedly in trouble in Alabama. And yet, even as his Senate campaign rapidly takes on water in the wake of credible allegations that he sexually assaulted two teenage girls when... What Happened to the 'Libertarian Moment'? Henry Olsen A year is an eternity in politics, the saying goes. If that's true, then two years is an eon. And it seems an eon ago that the common wisdom held that the GOP was entering its "libertarian... An Injustice to Winston Churchill Kyle Smith Because an irresolute and small-minded age applies its own neuroses backward to history, because actors love to portray internal torment, and because we fancy ourselves so sophisticated that we... In Defense of the Senate Jay Cost In recent years the United States Senate has become the bête noire of many good-government liberals who believe that increasing disparities in state populations mean that the Senate is becoming... ADVERTISEMENT March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 'The Red Wheel is a sprawling and fascinating mix of philosophical and moral discernment, literary inventiveness, and historical insight that sometimes strains the novelistic form, but is also one of the great works of moral and political instruction of the twentieth century.' - Daniel J. Mahoney, co-editor, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings LEARN MORE Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Tesla's Road Warriors ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.