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Is the Republican ‘Red Wave’ fading for media?

People who follow politics are familiar with the scenario. When a Republican “wave” appears likely, or a Republican presidential candidate develops a significant lead over the Democrat candidate, the media begin reporting “stories” that the wave is receding, and the Democrat is gaining ground. Television networks prefer close races because it adds to ratings. For once influential newspapers, it used to help sales. Are these claims true? It doesn’t matter to the media. A majority of journalists identify as liberals/Democrats.Neither does it matter how often polls are ...

Scourge of originalism taking over SCOTUS

In 1987, the Senate rejected the nomination of Judge Robert Bork for the Supreme Court because it found his originalist views unacceptable. As a law professor, Bork argued that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted and can be changed only by amendment.Under this view, there would be no constitutional protection for abortion or other privacy rights, no protection for women or gays and lesbians from discrimination, and no right to freedom of speech except for political expression. Bork, who was impeccably qualified, was defeated by the largest margin of any ...

Good luck getting a glass of water in Jackson, Miss.

There is no water in Jackson, Miss. Not at this writing, at least. At this writing, the nearly 150,000 residents of the state capital have been advised that even if they are able to coax some of the precious liquid from their taps — water pressure is feeble — it is unsafe for drinking, bathing, or washing dishes.Note, please, that they were already under a boil-water order — the latest in a series. Then heavy rains and flooding overwhelmed the primary water treatment plant in a city where some of the pipes date to the days Model T’s still trundled dirt roads and biplanes carved ...

COLUMN: NCAA will never be the same if it adopts new transfer proposal

MORGANTOWN -- It sort of slipped through the cracks last week, or maybe was swept away under the darkness of nightfall, but there is much more going on in college athletics than conference realignment. That is the current storm sweeping through our sports world, as we now actually live in ...