The Fifth Column

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-Where have ye gone Chris Matthews?
-California’s governor race is a freak show (Fang Fang rides again)
-Bring Kevin Spacey to the table?
-Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, and different standards
-The anti-gambling jihad
-Talks about talks about talks
-The good ‘ole days of Lebanon, Libya, Valerie Plame, Bob Novak
-Dr. Jesus
-Trump versus the Pope
-From melting pot to…

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Sarah Isgur, Executive Editor of SCOTUSblog, has a book! Last Branch Standing is out today.
-The Ted Lasso version of the Supreme Court
-The Supreme Court is not the 6-3 cartoon people think it is
-RBG thought Roe was built on weak foundations
-The Court decides legal questions, not good policy vs. bad policy
-Congress is now mostly bookers, comms staff, and 535 Inst…

-The wrong Greenwald, but the actual Abe
-Everyone loves our ad spots
-Iran’s deranged peace menu
-Ceasefire, with extra missiles
-The joint Hormuz tollbooth fantasy
-What Iran lost, even if nobody can sell it
-Regime change, but not the fun version
-Vanceworld (probably) leaks to the Times
-Trump threatens apocalypse, then shrugs
-Pakistan, Vance, and easier marks
-Groypers and other forms of loser energy
-The anti-Jewish right stops pretending
-Sovereignty for me, not for thee
-When the right starts sounding like the left
-Israel’s image problem, and America’s deeper one
-RFK Jr. enters the podcast economy
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BEHOLD, the Mailbag (aka male-bagging, aka you-yell-at-us-and-we-tell-you-to-fuck-off)
-The Easter Bunny claps for the Iran rescue
-Lie long enough and eventually your conscience taps out
-about that Rahm moment
-who remembers Jazz Hands?
-maybe woke actually is over
-Bret Weinstein, vindication for the Evergreen psychos
-Helen Keller and her commie ventriloqu…

The Fifth Column marks ten years with a live, loose, alcohol-assisted celebration featuring Thor Halvorssen, Pete Meijer, Olivia Reingold, Nick Gillespie, and Nancy Rommelmann, with stops along the way for Venezuela, culture war absurdity, Jewish identity, sexual politics, old stories, new grievances, and the usual refusal to keep anything on the rails.
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