Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., October 19, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Narcissism is the essence of democracy. And a politics of narcissism is a politics of envy. Welcome to the Tuesday, a weekly newsletter about major issues and minor irritations. To subscribe to the Tuesday, which I

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President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 29, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) This is among the most wrongheaded, poorly designed tax proposals in recent memory. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he last time the White House put Treasury secretary Janet

An Australian cartoonist is canned for the creation of a cartoon about the COVID-19 vaccines comparing Australias mandates to the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Daily Mail reports: Cartoonist Michael Leunig has been axed from his prime spot in The Age newspaper after a cartoon comparing resistance against mandatory Covid vaccines to the fight for democracy in

The People’s Republic of China flag and the U.S. flag fly on a lamp post along Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters) On the menu today: A new book compares the New York Times’ appalling Walter Duranty-era coverage of the Holocaust and the Soviet Union to that newspaper’s current coverage of China and

Parents and community members attend a Loudoun County School Board meeting which included a discussion about critical race theory, in Ashburn, Va., June 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Attacking woke curricula on First Amendment grounds won’t work. Parents must instead hold school boards accountable in local elections. When it comes to exposing the illegitimacy of the

Brian Laundrie Brian Laundrie’s initial autopsy came back “inconclusive” after his partial remains were found in a Florida nature park last Wednesday. Anthropologists will conduct another review for further evaluation. “Last week, I was told that the manner and cause of death were not determined and the remains were sent to an anthropologist for further

Shipping containers are unloaded from ships at a container terminal at the Port of Long Beach-Port of Los Angeles complex in Los Angeles, Calif., April 7, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) When something causes nationwide problems, it’s tempting to look for a nationwide response. The current supply-chain crisis is indeed causing nationwide problems, and many have looked

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A demonstrator dressed as Uncle Sam wears a “tax the rich” sign during a climate change protest organized by Extinction Rebellion in New York City, September 17, 2021. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) Columnist Binyamin Appelbaum butchers the facts to tar Republicans as a threat to ‘the American experiment in multicultural democracy.’ In a tour de force of

More shady issues from ActBlue were identified over the weekend.  In June 2020 we reported on the Democrats’ funding machine ActBlue and how donations from Black Lives Matter (BLM) were flowing through this entity and handled by radical characters on the left. EXCLUSIVE: Donations to BLM Are Funneled Through Democrat Related ActBlue and Handled by

(ismagilov/Getty Images) On the menu today: This morning, a lot of news institutions are going to breathlessly tell you about the latest spending negotiations on Capitol Hill, or the latest on the congressional January 6 commission, or the latest infighting within Facebook about politics. Whatever you think of those stories, there’s a hugely consequential story

Many people are objecting to the mandate to get vaccinated and there are a number of lawsuits working through the courts. For the most part, people are arguing for an exemption. The core question should be “Does the Federal Government have the legal authority to issue a vaccine mandate?”  In a word, no. State Vaccine

Actress Melle Stewart Actress Melle Stewart is fighting for her life after she suffered a stroke after taking AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. The 40-year-old actress suffered a rare blood-clotting side effect following her AstraZenaca vaccine injection. Actress fighting for life after stroke caused by AstraZeneca vaccine’s blood-clotting side effect https://t.co/o84y5tRCaj — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) October

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Sign mandating face masks at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Ariz., September 24, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) For some progressives, the prospect of post-COVID normalcy is terrifying. Ben Franklin’s famous remonstrance that “those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” is cited regularly by critics

Fiona Hill is a former George W. Bush and Obama administration official. Trump kept her on for a while but she eventually revealed herself to be just another anti-Trump part of the DC machine. Hill went on to testify at Trump’s first impeachment hearing. Now she is claiming that if Trump wins again in 2024

U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, patrol in Mazraeh village, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan in 2010. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters) For far too long, lawmakers have ceded their warmaking powers to the executive. Reform bills gaining steam in the House and Senate would rebalance the scales. It has been

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said he may impose new lockdown restrictions on unvaccinated people. “The pandemic is not yet in the rearview mirror,” Schallenberg said. “We are about to stumble into a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” AP reported: Unvaccinated people in Austria could face new lockdown restrictions if coronavirus case numbers continue to rise, Chancellor

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 6, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters ) Over the past 30 years, Justice Thomas has taken the American people on a tour of constitutional law. For that, we should all be grateful. This semester, we co-taught a seminar on

The woman in charge of guns on the Alec Baldwin on the set of “Rust” deleted her social media accounts today. Hannah Gutierrez Reed was the “armorer” on the set of the western film. Baldwin was handed a loaded gun for a scene he was shooting. He ended up killing one woman and injuring a

People walk in Times Square, New York, N.Y., July 23, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) On the menu today: As two new polls show President Biden’s job approval still particularly lousy and a mood of fear, frustration, disappointment, and exhaustion setting in from coast to coast, it’s time for us to reassure the anxious that we’ve largely

“Best Product Ever” – Ginger “Superb. Worth Every Penny!” – The Alleys “It Works!” – Stacey People are saying Mike Lindell’s mattress topper is the best thing that’s ever happened for their sleep. TRENDING: Alec Baldwin’s Negligent Discharge: Unhinged Actor May Face Involuntary Manslaughter Charges Some say it even saved them the cost of a

A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in New York City, January 29, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Anti-vaccine propaganda and conspiracy theories are not something the government can successfully control, but the government can absolutely make them worse by acting as if it has a bias toward

Time to clean up the messy reporting on Alec Baldwin’s negligent shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and director Joel Souza. We still do not know what firearm was used, but the film was being shot on a movie set used principally for 19th Century westerns–Blazing Saddles and Jimmy Stewarts’ The Man From Laramie. So it

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Capitol Hill in 2008. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) On the uniquely American story and jurisprudence of Justice Thomas NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I first met Justice Clarence Thomas in June 1992, at the end of his first year on the Supreme Court. He was interviewing me, a 25-year-old fresh out of

Meghan McCain has been in the news lately, not that anyone cares.Apparently, the talentless NeverTrumper needs a new gig. Maybe FOX News will come through for her? It would be a nice fit for the channel. President Trump released a statement today on “bully” Meghan McCain and the “slobs and radical left maniacs” on “The

An illustration of the Declaration of Independence against the backdrop of an American flag (smartstock/Getty Images) Get to know Mark Haidar, a computer engineer and tech entrepreneur in Dallas. I have done a Q&A podcast with him, here. We met at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Haidar is a Presidential Leadership Scholar,

Republican lawmaker ended his floor speech Thursday telling his colleagues, “Let’s go Brandon!” — the ultra-popular euphemism for the viral statement “F$%k Joe Biden.” Rep. William Posey is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 8th congressional district since 2009. Rep. Posey took to the House floor on Thursday blasting

Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to questioning from Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters) We still don’t know if a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology caused the COVID-19 global pandemic. But now we do know for certain that there