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After President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, the reaction from liberals has been nothing short of unhinged. It was a liberal Harvard professor, though, who took the prize for single dumbest tweet. And the reaction from Harvard alum Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has us cheering. Joyce E. Chaplin, the chair of American Studies and history professor at Harvard University, tweeted that the U.S. was created by the international community through the 1783 Treaty of Paris. "The USA, created by int'l community in Treaty of Paris in 1783, betrays int'l community by withdrawing from #parisclimateagreement today "...

The White House is attempting to minimize Solicitor General Elena Kagan's role in banning military recruiters from Harvard Law School while she was dean. The Obama team is using a variation on the Nuremberg defense, that Ms. Kagan was only following the established policies, and that this episode actually shows her at her most pragmatic. But far from simply implementing existing Harvard policies, Ms. Kagan was the prime mover in seeking to have the policies changed to keep recruiters out. Ms. Kagan explained the motives for her drive to ban recruiters from campus in a Sept. 2005 message to students...