Obama's Commutation of Manning Sentence Sends a Horrible Message
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Jan. 18, 2017 |
| Good morning from Washington, where much head-scratching greets President Obama's decision to free the soldier who gave state secrets to WikiLeaks. Cully Stimson analyzes the move. In a departure from tradition, Obama isn't leaving town or staying quiet after Donald Trump takes over Friday. Fred Lucas has that story. Plus: Abigail Doty on Harvard and the decline of higher education, Morgan Walker on Newt Gingrich's take on Trump and spending, and Katrina Trinko on feminists who can't make room for pro-life women. |
CommentaryObama's Commutation of Manning Sentence Sends a Horrible MessageThis is a case about an Army private first class who, while stationed abroad, having access to top secret and other classified material, decided to steal that material and give it to WikiLeaks, knowing full well that WikiLeaks would publish the material for the world to see. |
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CommentaryOnce Again, Feminists Silence Pro-Life WomenAs much as the left (and some of their cheerleaders in the media) love to portray women as a unified bloc of pink-wearing Planned Parenthood cheerleaders who cherish no political right as much as they do the right to abortion, the political reality is far more complicated. |
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CommentaryWhat Went Wrong in US Higher Ed? Harvard Tells the StoryCharles W. Eliot, Harvard president, said in his 1869 inaugural address, "The worthy fruit of academic culture is an open mind, trained to careful thinking … penetrated with humility. It is thus that the university in our day serves Christ and the church." |
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