Morning Jolt: For their Own Good, the Kennedys Should Stop Running for Office

Making the click-through worthwhile: Yet another member of the Kennedy family aspires to the title "Senator," prompting the question of whether both the voters and the Kennedys would be better off taking a break from each other; China starts pumping out disinformation on Twitter and Facebook; and a new poll indicates that support for Kamala Harris has rapidly collapsed.

For their Own Good, the Kennedys Should Stop Running for Office

You would think one family couldn't suffer so many untimely deaths, generation after generation. At the beginning of the month, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, died of an apparent drug overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. She was enrolled at Boston College, where she was vice president of the College Democrats, and had written about struggles with depression and mental illness for the student newspaper at Deerfield Academy, a private preparatory school in Massachusetts, in 2016.

In the wake of her tragic death,  news broke that Rep. Joe Kennedy ...

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For their Own Good, the Kennedys Should Stop Running for Office Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: Yet another member of the Kennedy family aspires to the title "Senator," prompting the question of whether both the voters and the Kennedys would be better off taking a break from each other; China starts pumping out disinformation on Twitter and Facebook; and a new poll indicates that support for Kamala Harris has rapidly collapsed. For their Own Good, the Kennedys Should Stop Running for Office You would think one family couldn't suffer so many untimely deaths, generation after generation. At the beginning of the month, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, died of an apparent drug overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. She was enrolled at Boston College, where she was vice president of the College Democrats, and had written about struggles with depression and mental illness for the student newspaper at Deerfield Academy, a private preparatory school in Massachusetts, in 2016. In the wake of her tragic death,  news broke that Rep. Joe Kennedy ... Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories Progressive Democrats Renounce Their Former Selves Victor Davis Hanson To win the nomination, almost all the leading candidates on the Democratic debate stage now believe that they must renounce almost everything they once stood for — at least for a while. Criticizing Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic Dennis Prager Pretty much all you need to know about anti-Zionists' motives is the fact that, of all the world's 200-plus countries, the only country that they declare illegitimate is also the only Jewish country. Tlaib Dismisses Criticism of Anti-Semitic Group That Planned Palestine Trip as... Jack Crowe Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) defended her aborted plan to attend a trip to Israel and Palestine sponsored by a notoriously anti-Semitic group on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Black American History Should Give Evangelicals a Sense of Perspective — and Hope David French The civil-rights movement birthed First Amendment precedents that Christians rely on today, and it created civil rights laws that Christians can wield against those who would deny them employment or economic opportunity. On Title X, the Media Parrot Planned Parenthood's Misleading Talking Points John McCormack Planned Parenthood is free under the regulation to provide abortion counseling, but it doesn't want to separate its contraception business from its abortion business, as required by the statute establishing Title X. Beto and the Press Throw America under the Bus Rich Lowry To pretend that racism is the essence of America and constituted one of the country's founding principles is an odious and reductive lie. Jay-Z Joins the Ranks of the Insufficiently Woke Jim Geraghty The social-justice Left sees only one path to redemption for the NFL, and that's a team signing Colin Kaepernick. Barr Reassigns Bureau of Prisons Chief in Aftermath of Epstein Suicide Mairead McArdle Attorney General William Barr has demoted the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Hugh Hurwitz. ADVERTISEMENT WHAT NR IS READING Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Andrew C. McCarthy “If you want to become conversant in every aspect of this [Russiagate] hoax that matters, if you want to be the one in your family that has the answers to any question about this, then this book is a must. Not only that, it is fun to read it... It blows this thing to smithereens.” — Rush Limbaugh LEARN MORE Photo Essays Scenic Greenland Sand Sculpture Festival ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.