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COVID marshals walk on Eel Brook Common in Fulham, London, England, December 22, 2020. (Kevin Coombs/Reuters) Regulators love to write rules and then try to abandon them when they’re inconvenient, whether it be over COVID-19 regulations (Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo) or budget rules (Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden). Britain’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, a COVID rule–happy “wet”
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Donald Trump visited the US-Mexico border in Weslaco, Texas Wednesday with Governor Abbott. Trump held a security briefing with Governor Abbott before touring the border. Advertisement – story continues below Trump spoke about his administration’s work in securing the border and blamed Biden for the current crisis. Then he roasted vegetable Biden, saying he cannot
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, June 17, 2021. (Issei Kato/Reuters) We should welcome a more assertive Asian ally. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C hina is in a tough neighborhood, bordering Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. But for both
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) Hubei province, Wuhan, China May 15, 2020 (Stringer/Reuters) Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn, Chuck Grassley, and Roger Marshall sent a letter Monday to the director of the National Institutes of Health, which operates a scientific facility that conducted coronavirus research, demanding that he disclose the details surrounding the deletion of
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) compared critical race theory to Jim Crow laws in a speech calling to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol. House Minority Leader
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Wisconsin’s courts refuse to address the election drop boxes which allegedly are illegal.  Just the News reported yesterday (emphasis added): The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit Monday challenging ballot dropboxes and absentee ballot collections in Wisconsin. The suit was filed just days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court side-stepped a legal challenge
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By Stephen Moore & Alfredo Ortiz republished with permission from Real Clear Politics Inflation is accelerating — every consumer in the country feels it every day. If there is any economic sense left in Washington, the rising inflation threat should grind President Biden’s big-government spending plans to a halt. Federal Reserve officials have called inflation “transitory,” but what if they are wrong?
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After ignoring Melania Trump, a beautiful supermodel, Vogue stars milkmaid Jill Biden on the cover of their August issue. .@flotus @drbiden stars on the cover of our August issue! Read the full profile: https://t.co/nxKE4csnjT pic.twitter.com/gopBPIxCff — Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) June 29, 2021 Vogue ran a nauseating puff piece on Jill Biden but failed to mention
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A northbound Amtrak Acela train rolls past commuters at the Wilmington, Del., station in 2002. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters) There’s no practical reason for the president’s tiny hometown to be a stop on Amtrak’s flagship high-speed-rail line. It ought to surprise no one that President Biden would propose a major increase in funding for the Amtrak passenger-rail
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(Illustration: Florence Lo/Reuters) Last year’s furor over TikTok, the popular social-media app owned by China’s ByteDance, has subsided. Although TikTok faced threats from President Trump, litigation halted the administration’s implementation of executive orders that would ban the app. Then, earlier this month, President Biden repealed those orders and said he would instead develop a broader
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Crooked Manhattan DA Cy Vance won’t charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations according to the former president’s personal lawyer. It was reported last week that New York prosecutors were considering bringing charges against the Trump Organization amid claims employees illegally ‘received tax-free perks such as
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California State Capitol in Sacramento. (rschlie/Getty Images) California attorney general Rob Bonta announced a ban on state-funded travel to five states on Monday, citing new laws in those states pertaining to transgender people. The California legislature banned state-funded travel to states with laws deemed discriminatory toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Bonta cited examples
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Katie Hobbs/Twitter  Arizona lawmakers voted Thursday to strip power from controversial Secretary of State Katies Hobbs. The measure was inserted into major budget legislation last week. Yahoo News reported: The Republican-controlled state Legislature in Arizona voted Thursday to revoke the Democratic secretary of state’s legal authority in election-related lawsuits, handing that power instead to the
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A customer and employee wear masks at a Walmart store in North Brunswick, N.J., July 20, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Three tiers: essential, inessential, and expendable Over a year ago, seeing the immediate effect that quarantines, shutdowns, and lockdown policies were having on Western democracies, I put out my futile prayer: “Let’s Never Get Used to
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The manhunt to find the shooter of 26-year-old Daytona Police Officer Jason Raynor has ended.29-year-old Othal Wallace was captured on Saturday morning near Atlanta. Othal Wallace shot Officer Raynor in the head as the Daytona officer approached Wallace in his vehicle on Wednesday night. Advertisement – story continues below The police captured Wallace in a
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Attorney general William Barr sits with President Trump during a White House meeting in Washington, D.C., September 23, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Former attorney general William Barr reportedly said that he knew all along that former President Trump’s claims of election fraud were “bulls**t,” according to a new book. ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl
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Community activist India Walton looks on as she campaigns to replace four-term Mayor Byron Brown in Buffalo, N.Y., December 15, 2020. (Lindsay DeDario/Reuters) Buffalo’s new mayor has big-city problems — and small-city resources. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B uffalo mayor-elect India Walton will be the “first socialist mayor of a big city in 60 years,” reports
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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) Texas has joined Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Tennessee in passing laws to ban public schools from teaching critical race theory (CRT). Other states, such as Florida, have done
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