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Michael Avenatti’s Prison Guards Are the Men of the Year

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In almost every instance, kicking a man when he’s down is total bitch move. Unless the down man is Michael Avenatti. According to a Politico profile of the convicted felon, the guards patrolling the 10 South block of the Metropolitan Correctional Center did the honorable thing when the disgraced porn lawyer requested some reading material. They brought him The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump. 

Jon Gruden Is 2021 Man of the Year

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Raiders coach Jon Gruden was forced to resign for using offensive language in a series of old emails leaked to media outlets. In one exchange, Gruden referred to then-vice president Joe Biden as a “nervous clueless pussy,” which is only offensive to people who are offended by the truth…For his unabashed willingness to call out fellow men lacking testicular fortitude, Jon Gruden is a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.

To Mainstream Media, John McCain Was a Maverick, Manchin Is an Obstacle

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t wasn’t so long ago that a senator bucking his party was greeted by the press in a much different way. Former Senator McCain cast perhaps his most famous vote in 2017, torpedoing the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare. This was an effort the GOP had made the centerpiece of its 2016 election strategy, and McCain’s thumbs-down was a deliberate middle finger to his own party.

Review: Hillary’s Master Class on “The Power of Resilience

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Scholars beware: Hillary Clinton’s new course on “the power of resilience” is not for the faint of heart. Completing the three-and-a-half hour Master Class requires an extraordinary amount of intellectual resilience. Your humble reviewer was forced to confront his own lack of resilience when his failure to overcome the tedium of Hillary’s lectures caused him to miss his deadline. (Disclaimer: Unless you’re getting paid to review it, do not attempt.)

Soros Prosecutors Let Sex-Offender CVS Burglar Free

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Karim Clayton has a criminal history ranging from menacing a CVS employee with a knife to leading police on a high-speed chase. But Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano and Arlington County prosecutor Parisa Dehghani-Tafti—who cruised to victory with six-figure donations from Soros—have brought charges against Clayton at least a dozen times, only to abandon their cases or plead him out on misdemeanors with almost no jail time.

Top Biden Aide’s Lobbyist Brother Wins Presidential Visit for Client

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Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of Biden’s political consigliere Steve Ricchetti, has disclosed $160,000 in payments from General Motors since Biden took office to lobby the White House and Congress on electric vehicle tax incentives, according to his firm’s lobbying disclosure forms. Today Biden will attend the opening of the company’s electric vehicle factory as part of his push for Congress to “approve big tax incentives for zero-emission vehicles.”

Thousands of Massachusetts Parents Pull Kids from “Woke” Sex Ed Classes

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Worcester Public Schools this week announced that 13 percent of its students opted out of sex education, including 20 percent of K-4 students. The “Rights, Respect, Responsibility,” or “3Rs,” curriculum teaches elementary students about gender identity and instructs high school students to act out scenes in which gay and transgender couples decide to have sex.

20% of Academic Jobs Require Diversity Statements

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Nearly a fifth of university jobs require diversity, equity, and inclusion statements that press applicants to express and expound upon their commitment to diversity, according to a new study from the American Enterprise Institute. The study is the first to empirically estimate the prevalence of diversity statements in higher education, may narrow the research questions that academics feel comfortable addressing.