The existence of Chappaquiddick, the new movie about the 1969 car accident from which Ted Kennedy walked away while his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne likely suffocated slowly inside his partly sunken Oldsmobile, is a miracle of a kind. The script by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan was included on the 2015 Black List, the annual compendium of yet-to-be-sold screenplays of un-common quality. Only a third of Black List titles ever make it to the big screen. And the fact that Allen and Logan’s screenplay offered a cold-eyed view of a liberal icon gave everyone reason to think it would stay among the unfilmed.
Let’s be honest: Congress was never really going to reform entitlements under House speaker Paul Ryan. The subject is campaign poison—the only way lawmakers would act proactively is if congressional terms were measured in decades instead of years.
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Jonathan V. Last and Michael Warren discuss former FBI Director James Comey's forthcoming book, and the Zuckerberg and Pompeo hearings.
In this twee episode of the Substandard, our hosts discuss Isle of Dogs and the Wes Anderson oeuvre. Sonny gives us rankings. JVL goes back to the minors. Vic orients his kids with Chinese food. Plus "Gene" unleashed!
A site called Bipartisan Report, which has more than 1 million Facebook followers, posted a story claiming that the London offices of 21st Century Fox had been raided by the European Commission.
An ode to old textbooks. The fight in Oklahoma over education funding and teacher pay has found a strange new pawn: A student discovered that one of hertextbooks was once used by singer Blake Shelton ... in 1982. Which makes the textbook extremely old.
The book in question here is "Look Away (Keys to Reading)" by Louise Matteoni. When I was a kid, the Catholic school I attended had old and ratty textbook hand-me-downs from well-funded local public school district. My civics textbook in sixth grade referred to the Kennedy presidency as a recent event. The angry mother reports the book “is very educational and still in good shape.” What’s the problem, then?
What is it like to prep for a congressional hearing? Notoriously cold Mark Zuckerberg reportedly underwent “murder boards” to prep for his dual hearings on Capitol Hill, but what is the other side of things like? VICE takes youbehind the scenes in this five-minute video. It’s a good look behind the scenes and brought back painful memories of the many tax reform hearings I sat through in 2011.
Sally Kohn’s new book and the facts. Aninteresting thread from writer and media personality Aminatou Sow about Sally Kohn’s new book called The Opposite of Hate. Sow claims she is misquoted in the book and is not happy about it. Kohn’s publisher has agreed to remove Sow’s quote from the digital edition.
Many Title IX offices do a bad enough job investigating misconduct when relatively little time has passed. The idea that a bunch of university bureaucrats should investigate an eight-year-old assault that no one reported at the time is simply absurd. Dake has the right to pursue justice, but she should follow the procedures available to all people: contact the police. She still has time—the statute of limitations for rape in California was 10 years at the time of alleged crime.
Mick Mulvaney savages Congress: News Hour’s Courtney Norrisreports Mulvaney, who counts leading the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau as one of a handful of jobs in the Trump administration, as saying to a Senate panel: "while I have to be here by statute I don't think I have to answer your questions if you take a look at actual statute that requires me to be here." Mulvaney, of course, is trolling Senator Elizabeth Warren, creator of the CFPB, who insisted that it not be held accountable to Congress.
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