POLITICS & POLICY

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the face of clear evidence that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his surrogates have promoted wild and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that voting machines changed the votes needed to deliver Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Last week, President Trump shared a One America
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies on the Trump administration’s response to the country’s economic crisis on Capitol Hill, September 1, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via Reuters) Silly debates over whether emergency credit-facility programs should be allowed to expire — they should — distract from a more important question. On Thursday, Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin sent
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Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing. (pabradyphoto/Getty Images) President Donald Trump met this afternoon with Michigan Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey and Michigan House of Representatives speaker Lee Chatfield, both Republicans in a state where Republicans hold both houses of the state legislature, but Democrats hold the governorship. It has been widely rumored that Trump
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At least two Catholic bishops have been urging pro-lifers not to use the COVID vaccines on the ground that their development involved abortion. (You may recall a controversy last month regarding how President Trump’s COVID case was treated.) Drudge is linking to this story that centers on Joseph Brennan, the Catholic bishop of Fresno. Hayley
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A polling station in Atlanta on Election Day in 2018 (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) A federal judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit from a Trump ally that sought to block the certification of Georgia’s election results, which is scheduled to take place Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg, a Trump nominee, ruled against conservative attorney
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A friend just shared this new study by Zurich Insurance: It details the big jump in female job applicants (and hires) for senior management roles when those positions were described as potentially including part-time, job-share or other flexible work options. This could be a silver-lining of COVID-19. More employers recognize that at-home and non-traditional employment
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President Donald Trump during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., November 13, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Retuers) Noah Rothman’s excellent piece in Commentary, “The Dumbest of Coups,” deserves to be widely read. I’ve been writing about conspiracy theories for a while now — QAnon, the Flat-Earth gang, etc. — and one
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A person walks past the Pfizer headquarters building in New York City, November 9, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The ‘follow the science’ Democrats care more about politics than science. Where has the coronavirus gone? Nowhere. The pandemic has gained a second wind, even as it is mysteriously scarcer in post-election headlines. If anything, COVID-19 seems more
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne must read to the end of the Washington Post’s editorial, “Abolish the electoral college,” before hitting on the real reason the Post’s editors want to upend the long-standing constitutional institution. “Mr. Trump’s election was a sad event for the nation,” notes the Post, “his reelection would have been a calamity.”
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In a complicated set of opinions today (in In re Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Execution Protocol Cases), a divided D.C. Circuit panel denied relief to federal death-row inmates seeking an injunction against their execution. The case involves several legal issues (including some on which the panel was unanimous), but I’m going to focus here on
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The distortions in the campaign and voting that we saw on November 3 will likely be child’s play compared with what will march through Georgia next January. If recounts don’t change the November 3, 2020, result, the January 5, 2021, Georgia senatorial election becomes a black-swan event like none other in … Read More
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Mexico’s defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos attends an event at a military zone in Mexico City, Mexico September 2, 2016. (Henry Romero/Reuters) The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it would drop drug trafficking charges against former Mexico defense minister General Salvador Cienfuegos, allowing Mexico to prosecute the case instead. Cienfuegos was arrested in October
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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks during an Election Night event in Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Pool via Reuters) Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock is trying to run away from his radical left-wing record in his campaign to persuade Georgia voters to elect him and hand Democrats unified control of Congress
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(digicomphoto/Getty Images) Amazon’s new online pharmacy feature made its debut on Tuesday, immediately disrupting the pharmaceutical landscape and sending the stock of other pharmacies tumbling. Amazon Pharmacy allows customers in the U.S. to order medication or prescription refills — including creams, pills and even medications that need to stay refrigerated, like insulin  — and have
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A paramilitary policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 2013. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) Whether due to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, or thanks to Beijing’s increasingly intimidating, if not aggressive, behavior in recent years, one of the more dramatic shifts in global opinion has started a long-overdue reconsideration of the
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) attends a hearing with the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hill, September 16, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Reuters) Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) said he was “in no hurry” to give Joe Biden intelligence briefings, in a Saturday interview on Newsmax
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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a campaign event for Joe Biden in Detroit, Mich., October 31, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) With a surging coronavirus outbreak across the U.S., state officials have instituted various restrictions and have warned that full lockdowns may be necessary if the outbreak does not ebb. The possibility of stay-at-home orders comes
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Last week, President Trump sparred with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that reported positive results for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. After reporting early results from its vaccine trial, Pfizer’s communications team was quick to point out that it did not receive funding from the White House’s Operation Warp Speed vaccine-development program. Advertisement “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine development
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to sue the Trump administration if it does not change its coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to allow for more equitable delivery among “black and brown communities” hardest-hit by the virus. “The Trump administration is designing the distribution plan, and their plan basically has private health care companies
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