Month: January 2022

Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces walk at combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels outside the town of Popasna in Luhansk Region, Ukraine, January 6, 2022. (Maksim Levin/Reuters) On the menu today: A long look at the options the U.S. has to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine, short of
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Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) questions Dr. Anthony Fauci on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 11, 2022. (Greg Nash/Reuters) Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) released a list of follow-up questions for Dr. Anthony Fauci two weeks after Fauci’s latest Senate testimony, pushing for more information on U.S. funding of gain-of-function research. Paul sent eleven
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has spent more than three decades serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, announced a bid for re-election on Tuesday. The long-serving lawmaker, who will turn 82-years-old in March, has managed to remain the House’s top Democrat since 2003, serving either as House minority leader or House speaker, depending on
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(Natural News) Despite the fact that Israel has implemented some of the most draconian COVID-19 pandemic measures in the world, the country is now number one in the world in new cases, according to local reports. According to the Times of Israel, a leading health expert in the country said that 0.6 percent of the population
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) takes questions at her weekly news conference with Capitol Hill reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 22, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Tuesday she plans to run for reelection this year. “While we have made progress much more needs to be done to
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Lehigh University professor of religion studies and university chaplain Lloyd Steffen has written an opinion piece in which he contends that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is a “citizenship obligation” and that those who duck their duty should face some sort of obligatory alternative. Steffen wrote that “those who refuse vaccination should be viewed as owing
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For a brief moment Univision, the nation’s leading Spanish-language network, showed moral clarity by reporting a story unfavorable to Democrats in an unbiased manner. Watch late-night anchors León Krauze and Patricia Janiot as they cover President Biden’s personal dig at Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, as aired on Noticiero Univisión Edición Nocturna on
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Trucks loaded with shipping containers leave the Port of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17, 2021. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters) They won’t impact Covid’s spread; they’re only adding more stress to supply chains. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V accine mandates for truckers are causing a ruckus north of the border. As of Saturday, both the U.S. and
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Several South Carolina state representatives are backing a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for businesses and other entities to ask for the COVID-19 vaccination status of people seeking to enter a facility. The bill, sponsored by several Republican state lawmakers, indicates that violators would be fined thousands of dollars, or jailed, or both.
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On night two of Jim Acosta’s hosting of CNN’s Democracy in Peril, it’s safe to say he outdid himself with the dangerous hyperbolic rhetoric. During a Tuesday segment on Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) banning Critical Race Theory from influencing schools, Acosta referred to Virginia as a “Soviet-style police state.”  Acosta began the segment wailing about
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On Saturday the Daily Mail reported that Joe Biden told Kamala Harris that he loved her.  The comments on social media in response are priceless.  Joe Biden held an event on Saturday where he shared his love for Kamala Harris. President Joe Biden praised his ‘partner’ Vice President Kamala Harris for ‘always having my back’ during a Democratic National
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Wyatt Earp, in an undated photograph (Public domain/Wikimedia) In response to Wyatt Earp Was a Career Criminal I guess it’s respond-to-Kevin-Williamson-day on the Corner. Kevin makes a very strong anti-Earp case, but I still find his rejoinder a touch strange. I quote a line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance for the proposition there’s
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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House speaker Nancy Pelosi address reporters inside the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., July 23, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) In the Washington Post today, Paul Waldman, echoing a popular — and perplexing — talking point, contends that an activist Supreme Court is now the “most important policymaking arm of the conservative
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A recent Gallup poll of adults living in the U.S. found that while a majority of people consider President Joe Biden to be “likable” and “intelligent,” less than half would characterize the commander-in-chief as “a strong and decisive leader” or as someone who is able to “manage government effectively.” The survey, which was conducted from
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The Bravo cable network fired Jennie Nguyen from the cast of “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” after old social media posts resurfaced where she criticized Black Lives Matter protests and defended the police. The network announced their decision to fire Nguyen, who is Vietnamese-American, on Tuesday. “Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and
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A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. (Jury selection was delayed after Palin tested positive for Covid.) The Times is worried that the press’s free ride
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