Month: October 2021

An anti-critical race theory sign is held at a Loudon County School board meeting in Ashburn, Va., June 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) In a letter to the White House, a group that represents school boards urged the Biden administration to consider whether confrontations by outraged parents over COVID restrictions and critical race theory (CRT) being
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Democrats are in disarray after a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal was canceled this week because President Joe Biden was unable to unite the warring factions within his own party. ABC News reporter Terry Morgan described the Democrats’ failure to meet a self-imposed Thursday deadline to pass the infrastructure bill as “more than messy”
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A Georgia neighborhood was terrorized by a person claiming to be a white male member of the Ku Klux Klan. However, police now say that the person making racially motivated threats to burn down houses in the neighborhood and kill people is actually a black woman. Last December, residents of the Brookmont subdivision of Douglasville
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For several months now, the Biden administration has tried to get Americans vaccinated. Things were going really well until the disastrous decision to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over a one-in-a-million chance of severe blood clots. Since then, vaccinations declined, and Biden’s target of 70 percent vaccination of U.S. adults by July 4 wasn’t
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Harvard Professor Steven Pinker in 2011. (Rose Lincoln/Harvard University/via Wikimedia) Ominous signs from Harvard and other prestigious American institutions of higher learning NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s a tale as old as time, the stereotype of the liberal professor pushing his opinions on impressionable students. But the stereotype reflects real numbers. In 2017, only 8
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Detail of a photograph of Earl Warren, chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969 (Wikimedia) 1953—Less than one month after the death of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, President Eisenhower recess-appoints California governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice. In January 1954, Eisenhower nominates Warren to hold that office “during good Behaviour,” but
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Police in Stone County, Missouri, arrested a man this week after he neglected to remove his bag of methamphetamine and a used syringe from view while trying to sell a catalytic converter on Facebook Marketplace. James Kertz, 38, a convicted felon, was arrested Wednesday and charged with trafficking drugs and unlawful possession of a firearm,
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Far-left media figure Cenk Uygur is getting swatted all over Twitter after claiming he would “end” Joe Rogan — who’s a well-known practitioner of mixed martial arts — in a physical altercation because, among other things, he “fought” his “whole life.” And Uygur also said he’s “larger than Joe.” Which, as you might guess, didn’t
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Despite reportedly having 95% of their players vaccinated, the NBA now has several stars seriously questioning the league’s vaccine mandates — including LeBron James. The cities of San Francisco and New York have a vaccine mandate for indoor public gatherings — which applies to NBA players on the New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, and Golden
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The travails of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin have been well documented on these pages and the pages of many other news sites. He’s lionized on the right for standing in the way of the radical juggernaut looking to transform the country. He’s vilified by the left for his stubborn refusal to kowtow to the
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California Governor Gavin Newsom makes an appearance after the polls close on the recall election at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., September 14, 2021. (Fred Greaves/Reuters) At the direction of Democratic Governor Newsom, California will soon be the first state to require that all K-12 students present proof of vaccination as a condition
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va) confer before addressing reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 9, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The tension between Democratic senators was palpable Thursday after Senator Joe Manchin released a secret memo that he and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer had cosigned back
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Vice President Kamala Harris (D) is in “frantic damage control” over her praise of a student who claimed the nation of Israel was guilty of “ethnic genocide.” CNN reported that the latest incident had many doubting whether Harris has the political acumen to fulfill the ultimate responsibilities of her office and take over as president
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pushed back forcefully at critics decrying the recent “shadow docket” decisions of the highest court in the land. Alito made the comments during a lecture on the “emergency docket” at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday. Critics cite three controversial cases where the Supreme Court made emergency rulings with
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Opponents of critical race theory attend a packed Loudoun County School board meeting in Ashburn, Va., June 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Recent debates over bans on critical race theory in schools point to growing divisions between the Koch political network and the conservative movement. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A n Associated Press report this week on
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