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Via the Free Beacon, an enjoyable blue-on-blue hit inspired by Hillary’s “blame me but don’t really blame me” appearance yesterday. America’s collectively running out of interesting things to say about who or what caused Clinton’s defeat, but I suppose a tweet by the president slagging his own FBI director for having given her a “free pass” counts as “interesting.”

The Founding Fathers of Insider Trading by Thomas J. DiLorenzoby Thomas J. DiLorenzo To this day, the U.S. government has not provided a clear legal definition of insider trading. This allows the feds to engage in periodic witch hunts against unpopular business people such as Martha Stewart, the purpose of which is to divert the public’s attention away from the government’s own failed policies and blame it all on "capitalism." But there is a particular type of insider trading – political insider trading – that has been clearly understood for generations. Because this kind of insider trading involves politicians...

Jewish center to stage play on Grant's anti-Semitic order By JUDITH EGERTON • August 10, 2003 jegerton@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal BY KEITH WILLIAMS, THE COURIER-JOURNAL Playwright Nancy Gall-Clayton has written a Civil War play about Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's ordering Jews out of his territory. Few historians know about it, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant omitted it from his autobiography. But it happened. During the Civil War, the Union Army leader issued an order expelling Jews from their homes, including 30 families in Paducah, Ky. President Abraham Lincoln revoked the order about three weeks later, but much damage had already been...