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Similarly, after a 40-year-old Arizonan decided to try politics as a candidate for the Phoenix City Council in 1949, he said: "It ain't for life and it might be fun." Barry Goldwater was right: Politics is supposed to be fun, and done right it is.
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Bush was, however, inscrutable when he recently mused about the possibility of a presidential campaign that would "lose the primary to win the general." This sounds like a baseball strategy that requires stealing first base. There is a reason this has not been tried: the rules of the game.
Still, it is bracing that Bush might bring to nomination politics the spirit of another son of a president, John Quincy Adams, who said America's leaders should not be "palsied by the will of our constituents."
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has he not noticed what the federal government is doing, using Title IX as a pretext?
It simply states that no person "shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." Based on those 31 words, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has stripped colleges and universities of a crucial component of self-government. Using ludicrous statistics based on flimsy social science to manufacture hysteria about a "rape epidemic" on campuses, the federal government is mandating the overthrow of due process in adjudicating accusations of sexual assault. Title IX's 31 words beget hundreds of pages of minute stipulations and mandates.
This crusade against a chimerical "epidemic" is rapidly collapsing under the weight of its absurdities and of the frauds (hello, Rolling Stone) that moralistic frenzy begets.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will122714.php3
Jeb's hurdles
By George Will
Published December 27, 2014
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