Month: October 2021

On Friday, CNN Newsroom claimed to discover the real villain of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memo on “harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against local school boards: Fox News for pointing out the absurdity of it all and for defending those “angry parents.” Host Victor Blackwell declared that ”This week we know that Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the FBI to address,
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Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema was ambushed in a women’s bathroom last week by left wing activists who were angry that she wasn’t supporting the Democrats’ massive spending bill. Instead of supporting Sinema, Biden brushed it off saying that’s just “part of the process.” Now Sinema is apparently not returning Biden’s phone calls. Can anyone blame
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Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe speaks at the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) 2019 legislative conference in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) As I’ve previously noted, Terry McAuliffe’s effort to tie Glenn Youngkin to Donald Trump’s stolen-election theories has been tripped up by McAuliffe’s own record — including from the podium of
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Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 5, 2021. (Jabin Botsford/Pool via Reuters) The populist Right’s infatuation with slaying the Facebook dragon is asinine. The government is not going to remedy what’s wrong with our culture. NRPLUS
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A white transgender showrunner is leaving Netflix over comments made by iconic comedian Dave Chappelle on his stand-up comedy special, but the boycott backfired badly on social media. Jaclyn Moore said on Twitter that Chappelle had been one of her heroes but that his controversial comments on his latest special have forced her to leave
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that will require California public schools serving students in grades 6-12 to stock free menstrual products in women’s bathrooms, all-gender bathrooms, and at least one men’s bathroom. “On or before the start of the 2022–23 school year, a public school, including a school operated by a school district,
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Something shocking happened on NPR on Friday. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed a pro-life activist in Texas, Rebecca Parma of Texas Right to Life. It was less shocking that it was hostile throughout. He tossed questions like “Wasn’t your strategy actually to stop abortions in a way that is unconstitutional at the moment?”
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Left: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign event in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. Right: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe participates in a campaign event at Lubber Run Park in Arlington, Va., July 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin, the two major party candidates to become Virginia’s
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Martha Sepúlveda, a 51-year-old Colombian woman suffering from ALS, plans to become the first individual in that country without a terminal prognosis to die via legally permitted euthanasia, according to The Washington Post. Until this year the nation had just permitted euthanasia for individuals with a life expectancy of half a year or less, according
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters following the weekly Senate lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) sent a letter to President Biden on Friday warning that he would not offer Democrats assistance with raising the debt limit in
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The Department of Justice announced on Friday that there would be no civil rights charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an incident taken up by Black Lives Matter activists. Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Blake seven times as he resisted officers’ commands during a domestic disturbance call on Aug. 23, 2020.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky issued a scathing statement lambasting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and saying he would no longer help them in future budget deals. McConnell expressed his anger and frustration after Schumer attacked Republicans on Thursday after a deal was reached to raise the debt ceiling by $480 billion
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Attendees at the Black Voices for Trump Coalition rollout event in Atlanta, Ga., November 8, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Albert Eisenberg’s recent RealClearPolitics piece on Republican outreach strategies in black communities contains some admirable in-person reporting, based largely on Eisenberg’s focus-group conversations with a dozen “swing” black voters in suburban Philadelphia. But the article — titled
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This was weird.Kamala Harris pimped space travel to kids in another bizarre White House production. Their filming looked like a bad kids flick. Advertisement – story continues below Minutes before this was filmed… pic.twitter.com/ShluJ38kIl — ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) October 8, 2021 TRENDING: Manchin Buries His Head in His Hands, Tells Schumer His Unhinged Senate Speech Attacking
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Attorney John Eastman (left) speaks next to Then-President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) One of the side-effects of our political culture’s descent into tribalism is that we increasingly respond not to what someone else has said but to what we think people like them say — even
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) One-hundred-and-thirty-five countries agreed today to the global tax deal that Joe Biden and Janet Yellen have long wanted. The arrangement would establish a global minimum corporate-tax rate of 15 percent and reduce the sovereignty of
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) is defending language he used in a church message describing homosexuality and transgenderism as “filth” as state Democrats express outrage at his comments and at least one lawmaker has called for him to resign. The lieutenant governor told WRAL-TV on Friday he is “unashamed” of language he used
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The Biden administration refused a request from former President Donald Trump to claim executive privilege over documents being sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. White House counsel Dana Remus said in a letter Friday to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero that they would not seek to
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So, it turns out that Karina Ruiz, the Latina dreamer who filmed herself accosting senator Krysten Sinema (D-Nevada) aboard an airplane about her stance on immigration reform, is an immigrant rights leader, as per a Telemundo News report about nationwide protests calling for an immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.  In previous reports
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