Politico has an update on the dealmaking process. There is an interesting dynamic at play. Some Republicans hope that if they sign on to a deal, they can keep the price tag down. The deal would fund normal “hard” infrastructure such as highways, and would avoid raising taxes. This would leave only the trickier topics

Ships and shipping containers at the port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., January 30, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) There’s an old joke about an economist and an engineer who fall into a deep hole together. As the engineer is devising ways to get out of the hole, the economist says, “Don’t worry, I’ll get

The Supreme Court’s ruling today in Terry v. United States is a huge embarrassment for the Biden administration, the Biden Department of Justice, and the Office of the Solicitor General in particular. On top of other actions, it powerfully exposes the falsehood that the Biden DOJ is abiding by nonpolitical norms of independence. In Terry, the

Recently, renowned US Democratic Party strategist James Carville decided that, so far as Wokeness is concerned, silence is violence:[1] “Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it,” the mastermind behind Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election said. “It’s hard to talk to anybody today… who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) holds a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R., Ga.) apologized Monday for her comments last month comparing COVID-19 restrictions to the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. After a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,

Marines with Weapons Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, seize apartments at the edge of Falluja, November 8, 2004. (Lance Corporal James J. Vooris/USMC/via Reuters) The White House announced its support for legislation that would revoke the 2002 authorization for the Iraq War on Monday, days ahead of an expected

( Rattankun Thongbun/Getty Images) During a Monday appearance on CBS This Morning, former Biden White House Senior Advisor for COVID Response Andy Slavitt suggested that Americans should have “sacrificed a little bit” more during the pandemic. When host Tony Dokoupil asked how much of the crisis was preventable, Slavitt blamed the policies of the Trump

A medical syringe in front of a Novavax logo, October 30, 2020 (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Novavax has announced that its coronavirus vaccine was 90.4 percent effective in a large clinical trial, potentially paving the way for its authorization for use in the U.S. The vaccine showed levels of efficacy similar to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines,

Then-President Obama listens as he participates in his last news conference of the year in Washington, D.C., December 16, 2016. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) In a revealing interview, Obama tried to burnish his image for progressive posterity — but he still doesn’t understand his fundamental errors. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B arack Obama rose to political stardom in

(Thomasaf/Getty Images) 1966—In a 5-4 ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, Chief Justice Warren’s majority opinion declares that a voluntary confession made during custodial interrogation will be conclusively deemed involuntary and inadmissible unless police first provide what are now known as the Miranda warnings (or unless other effective safeguards are adopted). It therefore vacates Miranda’s conviction.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) holds her weekly news conference in Washington, D.C., May 20, 2021. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) denied that House leadership rebuked Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) following a tweet in which Omar compared the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban, in comments on CNN’s State

Salman Rushdie during an interview with Reuters in 2012. (Paul Hackett/Reuters) His new essay collection vies for attention through studied insults of sacred cows. Even all these years after Salman Rushdie dominated headlines following the fatwa declared against him for his alleged anti-Islam blasphemy in the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the name still evokes

A Thick-billed longspur (formerly known as a McCown’s longspur) in Colorado. (kahj19/Getty Images) Those who think bird names reinforce prejudice have gone stork raven mad. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C ancel culture is at it again, and this time, they’re coming after . . . birds? Look out, Bachman’s sparrow. Because you were named after a

Police clear the U.S. Capitol with tear gas in Washington, D.C. January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) The rioters will be punished appropriately, but not punished as if they were terrorists who were trying to overthrow the United States government. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he office of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia

Ibram X. Kendi on CBS This Morning in 2019. (CBS This Morning/via YouTube) So are we doing the thing where we are pretending that curriculum, instruction, and materials can’t be determined by school boards and state legislatures and should be left to radical education consultants who are hired by bureaucrats? What is popularly known as

(Spc. Cody Black/Reuters) 2008—In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 5 to 4, rules that aliens detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo have a constitutional habeas right to challenge the basis of their detention in the course of an ongoing war. In so doing, the majority invalidates the statutory scheme that

Portrait of a man said to be Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519. (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Open Access) The Board of Education in Randolph, N.J. voted unanimously on Thursday to remove the names of all holidays from the school calendar in favor of a neutral “Day Off” title. The decision came in response to

Outside the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Larry Downing/Reuters) The Federal Reserve has directed employees to use “bias-free language” and avoid using terms it believes show bias, such as “Founding Fathers,” according to a new report. The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors issued the instructions to all employees nationwide on April 29, according to

Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot speaks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 88th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., January 23, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot again defended her policy of only accepting interview requests from “black and brown journalists” on Friday, calling a discrimination lawsuit filed against her by the Daily Caller News

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asks questions during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs/Rules and Administration hearing to examine the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters) YouTube suspended Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) from uploading videos for seven days and removed a video

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 20, 2021. (Oliver Contreras/Pool via Reuters) President Biden has proposed a budget scrapping the Hyde amendment, an annual budget measure that prevents federal funding of elective abortions for Medicaid recipients and thus saves tens of thousands of

Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 26, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) On the menu today: contemplating the madness of CNN bringing back Jeffrey Toobin, wondering whether Europe is destined to drift towards China, and the shutdown of a massive port in southern China offers more evidence that

Central American migrants surrender to a U.S. Border Patrol agent south of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) In this week’s Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, I was joined by Ken Paxton, attorney general of Texas, to talk about what the states can do to fight the Biden administration’s immigration

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 20, 2021. (Oliver Contreras/Pool via Reuters) Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said he would continue to support the Hyde amendment, in comments to Bloomberg Government on Thursday. “I’m going to support Hyde in every way possible,” Manchin said.

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A bipartisan group of ten senators reached a deal on an infrastructure plan on Thursday to present to the Biden administration for further negotiations. The plan includes about $579 billion in new spending and, including expected future spending, would cost $974 billion over five years or $1.2 trillion over eight years, multiple outlets

A healthcare worker holds coronavirus vaccines at a vaccination center in El Paso, Texas, May 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) President Biden has pledged that the United States will donate 500 million Pfizer vaccines to help boost inoculations across the globe. The plan will primarily target African nations, whose vaccination rates are considerably behind Western

A demonstrator carries an “End Racism Now” sign during a demonstrate against police brutality in Baltimore, Md., May 2, 2015. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Double standards exist all across American culture. Men are expected to appear less vulnerable than women, a city dweller using country slang is often viewed as a caricature, and mistakes made by children

Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during a U.S. Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing at the Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 23, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Reuters) Senators Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), and Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) are calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s resignation, claiming that he has “lost the confidence of

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds speaks to the RNC from Washington, D,C.. (Handout via Reuters) Iowa’s move comes as a number of Republican-dominated state legislatures have enacted similar legislation. Republican Iowa governor Kim Reynolds signed a law Tuesday targeting the inclusion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in public school classroom curricula. “Critical Race Theory is about

Office of Management and Budget acting director Shalanda Young answers questions during a Senate Budget Committee hearing to discuss President Biden’s budget request for FY 2022 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters) During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)