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Single family homes under construction in Valley Center, Calif., June 3, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. (Mike Blake/Reuters) COVID-19 managed to do quickly what our anti-trade protectionists have tried to do slowly: deprive American consumers of inexpensive imports. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you ever have built a house, then you have probably experienced
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In October Henry County Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero dismissed a lawsuit brought forward by Garland Favorito and VoterGA that alleged fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the 2020 election. The lawsuit, which was originally filed back in December 2020, sought a review of roughly 147,000 absentee ballots in search of illegitimate votes.
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A Home Depot store is seen in Los Angeles, California, March 2015. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Two Los Angeles County stores became the latest victims of California’s “smash and grab” looting wave on Black Friday. A group of 15-to-20-year-old suspects targeted a Home Depot store in Lakewood around 8:30 p.m., making off with crowbars, mallets and sledgehammers,
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(tomloel/iStock/Getty Images) Surrendering to the progressive dominance of the state is not an option. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Wall Street Journal recently ran one of those opinion pieces you know you’ll remember years later. In “The Impossible Insurrection of January 6,” the Journal’s Barton Swaim argues that the invasion of the Capitol by a mob
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Biden speaks to well-wishers in Nantucket Joe Biden on Friday told reporters in Nantucket that he is not considering any new vaccine mandates… for now. A new variant of the COVID virus identified in Southern Africa is “highly transmissible and vaccine-resistant.” Biden on Friday announced plans to restrict travel from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini,
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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in an illustration released by the CDC in Atlanta, Ga., January 29, 2020. (Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via Reuters) Amid the discovery of the new highly infectious “Omicron” variant of the coronavirus, the Biden administration has imposed a travel ban on eight African countries. The restrictions apply to
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The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., July 2, 2020 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) With no sound constitutionalist basis for Roe or Casey on their own terms, the only serious argument left for an originalist to consider in Dobbs is stare decisis. Should the abortion precedents be left to stand even though they are, to use
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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) attends a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2021. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) The outgoing senator from Vermont has left the judicial-confirmation process in much worse shape than he found it. NRPLUS MEMBER
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The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914, by Jennie A. Brownscombe (Public domain/via Wikimedia) America was made by people from a different world. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he first Thanksgiving was celebrated after the harvest 400 years ago this autumn, in 1621. The exact date is unknown. The feast was celebrated by the Pilgrims, the breakaway
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(Nattakorn Maneerat/Getty Images) Let us again celebrate so that we might preserve, and feast so that we might build. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hanksgiving is a conservative holiday. Not so much in the mode of contemporary partisanships of “Left” and “Right” but in its broadest, purest sense. Ultimately, true conservatism seeks to preserve. It desires
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Janis and Uri Segal celebrate Thanksgiving with a Zoom call with their family before a small dinner together in Detroit, Mich., November 26, 2020. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) Let’s just come right out and say it: Last year’s socially distanced holiday family gatherings were awful. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F rom the perspective of Thanksgiving 2021, we can
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Five Senate Democrats have told the White House they will not support Saule Omarova, the Communist chosen by Biden to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Without support from these five Democrats, Omarova’s nomination is DOA – Comrade down. Axios reported: Five Democratic senators have told the White House they won’t support
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The Pilgrims Signing the Compact, on board the Mayflower, Nov. 11th, 1620, engraving by Gauthier (Library of Congress) On Thanksgiving, take care to remember that this pilgrim republic, fearfully and wonderfully made, was made for better and higher things. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W illiam Bradford, the Pilgrim leader who organized the first Thanksgiving in 1621,
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(LeManna/Getty Images) Political leaders on both the left and the right seem to think that economic growth is more important than families. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or all their rhetorical complaints about neoliberalism and the heartlessness of unfettered capitalism, progressives in today’s Democratic Party are often remarkably friendly toward corporate interests. From an obsession with
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