Month: July 2021

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is an avid supporter of the “defund the police” movement, yet she is reportedly also a strong proponent of funding her own personal security force, which includes a former Blackwater contractor. Ocasio-Cortez purportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars for her own personal security in the first half of 2021, according
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New York Times covid-beat reporter Apoorva Mandavilli’s overheated lead story on Saturday, “Immunized People Can Spread Virus, the C.D.C. Reports – Cases Among Vaccinated Are Relatively Rare and Tend to Be less Severe,” seized upon rushed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control to push once again for universal masking. The numbers from a comprehensive study
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Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar rarely agrees on anything with GOP Senator Lindsey Graham. But Cuellar, whose Texas district is being swamped with illegal alien crossings, is joining with Graham to push Joe Biden to name former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to ramrod the administration’s efforts to control the influx of illegals at the southern
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) speaks in Boston, Mass., March 24, 2021. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Members of the progressive “Squad” slept outside the Capitol on Friday night to protest the end of the federal eviction moratorium.  Representatives Cori Bush (D., Mo.), Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) camped outside the Capitol after the
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Fame is a drug. It’s the most addictive and destructive drug known to man. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles has suffered an accidental overdose. She’s experiencing “twisties,” which is another way of saying she’s twisted and tweaking, a common side effect of excessive fame. A child star of the 2016 Olympics, Biles’ fame dealers, aka corporate
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was forced to issue a correction late Friday after an interview on Fox News in which she admitted the Biden administration is exploring the possibility of a nationwide vaccine mandate. What did she say on Fox News? While speaking with Fox News anchor
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to let Republicans pick their own members for her Select Committee on the January 6 riot, making the panel look obviously stacked. But on the Week in Review segment of Friday’s PBS NewsHour, this was an unfortunate kerfuffle that should be overlooked. New York Times columnist David Brooks called any
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York City, N.Y., July 6, 2021. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Cuomo is a mean-spirited bully with a flagrant disregard for the rule of law, ruthless in defense of his own interests. New Yorkers deserve better. What’s that adage about a leopard and its spots? Last
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Statue in Prospect Terrace Park overlooking Providence, R.I. (SeanPavonePhoto/Getty Images) Providence’s municipal-reparations scheme helps left-wing activist groups, not students trapped in Rhode Island’s union-dominated schools. It used to be referred to as the soft bigotry of low expectations: the unspoken bias among many liberals, who subconsciously believe that minority populations are not capable of succeeding
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The Los Angeles Unified School District announced Thursday that it will require all students and employees returning for in-person learning to be tested for COVID-19 on a weekly basis. The district is the second-largest school district in the country. What are the details? On Thursday, KTLA-TV reported that all returning students and employees will be
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Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about potential gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Two House Republicans want to question a top scientist as to why he originally said the COVID-19 virus looked engineered, but then just days later he called the idea a “crackpot theory” after speaking with Dr. Anthony Fauci. House Committee
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Anjem Choudary’s Facebook and Twitter accounts were permanently shut down after just five days of use. Twitter said his account was suspended for “violating the rules” of the organization’s policies on violence and hate. Described as a “hate preacher,” Choudary was convicted of inviting support for ISIS five years ago and served half of his
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Liberal Democrats continue to insist that President Joe Biden can and must cancel billions of dollars in federal student loan debt. But they have an uncommon adversary in their push to get around Congress: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who made it clear that the president doesn’t have the power to do it — and
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Merrick Garland US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday sued Texas over Governor Abbott’s order outlawing most ground transportation of illegal aliens. On Wednesday, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order banning ground transportation of illegal immigrants by anyone other than law enforcement officers. The new guidance was issued just one day after he ordered Texas National Guard troops
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during an interview with Reuters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Progressive pundits promote a lunatic conspiracy theory about Republicans and vaccines. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C onspiratorial thinking runs deep among a certain species of progressive pundit, but even by that standard, this is
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