Month: December 2020

J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building in Washington, D.C. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) There is more to architecture than soul-crushing concrete boxes and redundant Greek columns. In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe notes that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like
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A Congressman-elect from Louisiana died from coronavirus complications just days before the swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. The family of Republican Luke Letlow confirmed that the 41-year-old died on Tuesday. “The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the past days but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected time,” said Andrew
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Stacey Abrams’s voting rights organization was called Fair Fight. You may think this means she wants free and fair elections that follow the law passed by duly elected legislators. You would be wrong. She worked tirelessly to implement fraud-ridden processes like drop boxes and to remove signature matching requirements. Abrams’ group accomplished all this outside
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Before Vice President Mike Pence was sued by Representative Louie Gohmert their lawyers met and the two sides disagreed about how the Electoral College is formally accepted. After the meeting, Rep. Gohmert sued VP Pence and argued that Mike Pence should pick competing slates from the swing states Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigann, Wisconsin due to
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It’s been quite the year, and today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss its boldest political moves, worst campaign moments, most memorable sports games, and everything in between. They also talk about their hopes and fears for the world in 2021. Listen below, or subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher,
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Vice president-elect Kamala Harris received the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday after saying she wouldn’t take it if it were developed under President Donald Trump before or after the election. Harris happily posed for photographs while receiving the Moderna vaccine injection at the United Medical Center in southeast Washington, D.C. Harris had said in September that
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The Justice Department building in Washington, D.C., February 1, 2018 (Jim Bourg/Reuters) The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it would not press charges against two Cleveland police officers involved in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014. The announcement closes a case that has been frequently cited by supporters of the Black Lives
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The U.S. Capitol during a morning rainstorm on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Representative Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) said Monday that “dozens” of House Republicans may object to the Electoral College results on January 6 when Congress meets to tally the votes. Brooks claimed there is “overwhelming” and “compelling” evidence
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J immy Galligan — the 18-year-old biracial teen who has “no regrets” about purposefully derailing the life of his white former classmate for once using a slur when she was 15 — is hardly the first teenage bully. Hopefully he’ll grow out of that. But in any case, neither he nor his
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Spain plans to set up a register of people who refuse to receive a vaccination for the coronavirus and share it with officials in other European Union nations, the country’s top public health official announced this week. Spain’s health minister, Salvador Illa, insisted the vaccine will not be mandatory and that the list of those
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If The Washington Post were capable of recognizing irony on any level, it might think twice running an interview with the head of America’s busiest abortion mill in the “Lifestyle” section. But that’s where Post Magazine contributor KK Otesen’s soft-ball session appears.  “Alexis McGill Johnson,” Otesen told readers, “is a political scientist, social justice advocate,
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Remember the Hunter Biden laptop story? The story that the Big Tech and media giants censored before the election because it would hurt their candidate, Hunter’s dad, Joe Biden? Remember when Twitter censored The New York Post’s account because it claimed the explosive business memos, photos of a drug-imbibing Hunter, and boudoir photos, some allegedly
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Senators Kelly Loeffler (R., Ga.) and David Perdue (R., Ga.), wave during a campaign event in Milton, Ga., December 21, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Republican Georgia senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on Tuesday came out in favor of sending $2,000 coronavirus stimulus checks to Americans, a full week after President Trump voiced his support for the proposal. “I
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(Natural News) The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to ravage countries across the world, with desperate people counting on a vaccine that can help protect them from this infectious disease. And yet despite warnings from health experts about potential negative side effects, Moderna Inc. has already begun testing its experimental coronavirus vaccine on kids aged 12 to
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(Natural News) A VoterAction letter from July 6, 2010, hosted on the NIST.gov website, reveals that Dominion’s roots trace right back to Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan government, and that this fact has been known in the United States for at least a decade. The NIST is the National Institute of Standard and Technology, part
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