Month: January 2021

More of that hard-nosed, just-the-facts journalism that has kept the New York Times the nation’s paper of record: Political reporter Shane Goldmacher’s 1,700-word story on a dog – a beagle named Alvin that featured prominently in a series of popular campaign commercials for new Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. The full headline read: “How Alvin the
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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) raised the alarm about the Democrats’ disturbing crackdown on “domestic terrorism” in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6. She warned that the domestic terror bill that House Democrats have proposed would “undermine our constitutional rights and freedoms,” and lead to law enforcement targeting “almost half of the country.”
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The major fight within the U.S. Senate isn’t on the upcoming impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump but the future of the filibuster. Democratic Illinois Senator Dick Durbin told NBC’s Meet the Press he didn’t believe any power-sharing agreement was possible without changes to filibuster rules. [W]hat Chuck Schumer put on the table was
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Antifa and others inserted themselves into the Capitol protests and framed Trump supporters.  There is now ample evidence to support this. Antifa-BLM leader John Sullivan organized an Antifa protest at the Washington Memorial not far from the US Capitol on January 6th. Advertisement – story continues below This was right before the violence at the
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J oe Biden has been around long enough that he knows a president really gets to do only one or two things. Barack Obama got his failed health-care scheme, Ronald Reagan got his tax cuts and eventual victory in the Cold War, Donald Trump got Paul Ryan’s tax cuts and Mitch McConnell’s
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A year ago, Bernie Sanders was powering toward a victory in the New Hampshire primary and confident he would take the nomination that Hillary Clinton had denied him in 2016. Then establishment Democrats decided that if Sanders were the nominee, his radical reputation would cost him the election to Donald Trump. In
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(Natural News) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released thousands of previously classified documents on unidentified flying objects (UFO) this week. The documents were made available to the public on the Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government documents. The site’s founder, John Greenewald Jr., reportedly purchased from the CIA the disc containing the previously released UFO records
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At least four financial institutions have severed ties with former President Donald Trump since the Capitol riots, according to reports. On Friday, Florida-based BankUnited announced it was ending its relationship with Trump, as reported by the Miami Herald. The Miami-area bank noted that Trump didn’t receive any loans from them. “We never had a lending
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The Biden administration’s 60-day pause on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits on federal land, signed by Acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega late Wednesday, could result in devastating consequences to state economies that rely on proceeds from oil sales. The order, which appeased progressive environmentalist groups, has significant immediate effects.
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Detail of James Madison portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1816. (The White House Historical Association/Wikimedia) Between elitism and populism is a middle ground that could renew a uniquely American strain of conservatism. As calls grow for Republicans to escape the supposed clutches of corporate villains and become the party of the working class, conservatism is due
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) during the presidential-inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021 (Greg Nash/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday that Democrats will use budget reconciliation, a process requiring only a simple majority in the Senate, to pass President Biden‘s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package if Republicans refuse to get on board. “We
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed Friday that his team exclusively obtained an email showing how Immigration and Customs Enforcement was directed to carry out one of President Joe Biden’s executive orders on immigration. What’s the background? After entering office on Wednesday, Biden signed numerous executive orders, many of which reversed the policies of his
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The public-radio business-news show Marketplace has this ongoing love affair with Janet Yellen, Biden’s new Treasury Secretary. When she was nominated in November, host Kai Ryssdal gushed she was the “economic EGOT” — like someone who’s won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony — because she’s already been head of the Federal Reserve and the
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ith Donald Trump out of the White House, pundits are trying to find coherent ways of summarizing what was, to say the least, an unconventional presidency. I had long planned to do an exit survey of the Trump administration’s constitutional record, as I did four years ago in cataloguing President Obama’s
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Then–president-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters in New Castle, Del., December 15, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) President Biden will sign a fresh round of executive orders during his first full week in office, including actions loosening restrictions around abortion and immigration. Biden will issue and order to rescind the Mexico City policy, which prohibits U.S. funding
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Katie Couric’s opportunity to guest host “Jeopardy!” is reportedly in danger after she advocated last week that supporters of former President Donald Trump should be “deprogrammed.” What’s the background? As TheBlaze reported, Couric suggested on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” that America needs to explore how to “deprogram” Trump supporters. Couric was speaking with
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Joe Biden has wasted no time in making the Oval Office his own. He’s chosen different furniture from the White House collection, switched out the busts of famous people – including Winston Churchill – and replaced the oval rug. But Biden has made an interesting choice of reportedly removing something from the office that President Trump found
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or much of the turbulent 60-year reign of George III — including the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars — the monarchy was an important branch of the British government. By the reign of Queen Victoria, who took the throne 17 years after George
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