Month: February 2021

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) declared Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) should be impeached if the standard Democrats are applying against former President Donald Trump is applied equally to all politicians in positions of leadership. What is the background? Last spring, as the Supreme Court was preparing to hear oral arguments in
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Originally introduced on CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” as a reporter who would hold White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s “feet to the political fire,” Yahoo! News White House correspondent Brittany Shepherd ended up giving her a rhetorical foot massage instead. Especially after she falsely claimed that former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s press briefings had
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Writing for the Foundation for Economic Education, Professor Gary Galles argues against the idea that has been put forward by sundry left-wing zealots for the appointment of a “reality czar,” with powers to suppress what he or she finds to be lies and misinformation. That would be done, of course, only in the interests of
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This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:29–39: On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them.
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(Pixabay) Collectivism in any guise, including its postmodern progressivist variety, has been historically antithetical to a free society. The idea of the self-constituting citizen, endowed with rights and constrained by law, has been indispensable to the forging of a stable democratic political system in America, legitimizing its institutions and ultimately birthing a cohesive nation bereft
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Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing. (Reuters photo: Jonathan Ernst) 2017—In his desperate effort to obstruct the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer continues to propagate the myth that a 60-vote standard exists for Supreme Court nominees. Never mind that even the Washington Post’s Fact
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ViacomCBS has restored its working relationship with Nick Cannon less than one year after the media conglomerate terminated Cannon following a controversy over anti-Semitic remarks that Cannon made on his podcast. What is the background? As TheBlaze reported, Cannon was fired from ViacomCBS last July after remarks he made in 2019 resurfaced in which Cannon
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A California high school football player went viral for his compelling rant against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns that have shut down team sports. Isaiah Navarro, who attends Paraclete High School in Lancaster, voiced his frustrations on all of the paramount life experiences that he was robbed of in his “wasted final year of
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PBS doesn’t care how liberal they sound when their White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor goes on the hot-talk programs on MSNBC and launches into how “cruelty was the point” of President Trump’s immigration policies, “to try to torture immigrants at the border.” On Tuesday’s Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace could only agree: “Trump turned
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Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) Don’t wait for the midterm pendulum to swing. Press for ambitious changes at the local level now. Behind his talk of unity, President Biden is pursuing a radical progressive agenda. His administration does not just have the sort of high ambitions that all administrations start with. It seems
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At first glance, this headline from Tim McMillan at The Debrief is the sort of opener that could get all of the geeks and nerds in the audience excited. “Army Research Develops ‘Living Material’ that Interacts with its Environment.” What sort of Frankenstein experiments are going on with the Army these days? Creating “living material”
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New York Democrat Anthony Brindisi, the incumbent for New York’s 22nd congressional district, said Friday that he is “shocked” a New York judge rejected his campaign’s claims that voting machine irregularities resulted in his loss to Republican Claudia Tenney. What are the details? New York State Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte ruled Friday that Tenney
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There is an important detail regarding the Capitol riots that is buried in the eighth paragraph of a CNN article with the headline: “Investigators struggle to build murder case in death of US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick.” The article states that U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died during the storming of the
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Sen. Mitt Romney walks through the subway system at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 17, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I’ve been meaning to briefly lay out why I think Mitt Romney’s new Family Security Act is a good idea and the right direction for family policy. But between them, Ramesh Ponnuru and Ross Douthat have
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M any people have debated the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Is it a natural virus that emerged from the live-animal market in Wuhan, or is it the product of a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, released either by accident or on purpose? No one outside the Chinese leadership knows
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President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing as Vice President Kamala Harris listens at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 25, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden is trying to defend his $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal from the charge that it is too big. Last week, the president said: “The biggest
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During his flurry of executive orders in his first week in the White House, President Joe Biden signed an EO that mandated face masks be worn on public transportation, including trains, buses, and aircraft. Enforcement of the new policy went into effect this week, and noncompliance can result in some hefty fines. Biden’s executive order
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Ya gotta love The New York Times. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recounts being in her office minding her own business when the Capitol riot breaks out. Quickly she races for the office bathroom. She falls silent, terrified as a male voice yells “Where is she?”  I confess the thought crossed my mind…was she even in the Capitol? In the
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