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Delco judge shoots down Democrats' power-grab

A Delaware County judge ruled Wednesday the Democrat-led county council overstepped its authority earlier this year when it passed an ordinance allowing itself to reject Republican nominees to the county’s bipartisan election board — a violation of the law and of decades of bipartisan precedent. The court struck down the attempt at one-party rule in Delco, but the fight isn’t over yet. Read more at Broad + Liberty. ([link removed])


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University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigned last weekend, but the controversy over campus antisemitism is far from over. As Guy Ciarrocchi explained this week, the problem is not with Magill but with the whole rotten edifice ([link removed]) of elite universities across the country. “Magill didn’t misrepresent Penn’s values,” he writes, “she stated them loudly, clearly, and repeatedly.” And that’s the problem.

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Another symptom of our society’s ills is the wave of crime that is still sweeping the nation’s cities, even if it has receded slightly from its 2020 heights. Criag Snyder wrote for us about the senseless murder of a security guard at Macy’s ([link removed]) (né Wanamaker’s) this month and how a society that too often justifies criminality as “resistance against an unjust society” invites tragedies like this one to occur.

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And finally this week, a deep dive into the November election data by Liv DeMarco and Beth Ann Rosica shows that some local election results may offer a path forward for suburban Republicans ([link removed]) — a hopeful note amid a generally dismal year for the GOP in local races.

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James Bennet, one-time editor of the New York Times, wrote this week in The Economist about the madness of the cultural revolution that swept him and others right out of a job at the Grey Lady ([link removed]) . It confirms nearly everything conservatives thought about the insanity that swept newsrooms in that annus horribilis of 2020 in a lengthy essay that really gets at the question the rest of us were asking of the mainstream media: What on Earth were they thinking?

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