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A view of the Interstate 81 freeway in Syracuse, N.Y., April 28, 2021. (Zoe Davis/Reuters) Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) has some solid ideas about what an infrastructure bill should look like. A sampling: On his second day in office, President Biden repealed the Trump-era “One Federal Decision” executive order designed to speed up the
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Xavier Becerra at his Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 24, 2021 (Greg Nash/Reuters) What we can expect from America’s first woke budget. On the Friday before Memorial Day, President Biden quietly released his budget for the fiscal year 2022,  clearly hoping people’s attention would be anywhere but on
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Single-family home construction in Valley Center, Calif., June 3, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Higher prices could be the least of our problems. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the 1990s, Alan Greenspan dwelt somewhere between Olympus and Delphi — godlike in his power and prone to handing down cryptic pronouncements. Bob Woodward lionized him as the “Maestro”
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Old Campus at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, November 28, 2012. (Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters) A trendy progressive ideology buckles under the weight of its own paradoxes. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T oday’s edition of the Washington Post comes with the comforting news that the psychiatrist who told an audience at Yale’s medical school that “she fantasized
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Passengers aboard the first 100% vaccinated North American cruise tested positive for Covid-19. Two passengers on the Celebrity Millennium, which is operated by Royal Caribbean, tested positive for Covid-19 during end-of-cruise testing which is conducted 72 hours before returning to the US. The passengers are asymptomatic and have been forced into isolation on the vessel.
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President Joe Biden departs after delivering an update on his administration’s coronavirus response at the White House, June 2, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) One of the familiar Washington press traditions of Republican presidencies is the media’s tide of stories citing unnamed leakers criticizing others in their administration. While some of those stories turn out to be
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President Joe Biden speaks at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 4, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) He’s re-reversing Trump’s reversal of Obama’s policies. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s another game of executive-order ping-pong. President Obama made a variety of efforts to insert the federal government into local zoning debates and make it
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On Wednesday afternoon, Former Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones and former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik received a walkthrough of the legendary Arizona audit process. Then they absolutely DESTROYED an Arizona far-left reporter during a presser outside the audit center. EPIC: Vernon Jones In Arizona – Only THREE Pallets Remain to be Counted – Officials Expecting
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President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 25, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Bipartisan measures could force the executive branch to be transparent and accountable in its use of taxpayer dollars. If you’re measuring in dollars, the stakes for congressional oversight of the executive branch have never been higher. The Committee for
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference with Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 7, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) If this is what constitutes ‘success’ for the vice president, one shudders to contemplate what failure would look like. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE K amala Harris was not happy about being publicly associated
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Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a nomination hearing for Eunice C. Lee, who was nominated by President Biden for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, among other nominees. Lee was born in 1970 on a U.S. Air Force base in Wiesbaden, Germany. She graduated summa cum laude from Ohio
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President Trump on Tuesday cheered Nigeria’s decision to ban Twitter from the country and called on other countries to follow suit. The Nigerian government last Friday announced it is suspending Twitter operations in the country indefinitely. Twitter suspended Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday for “abusive behavior.” Buhari tweeted a warning to ‘insurrectionists’ on Thursday
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference with Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei in Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 7, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) On the menu today: Kamala Harris tells Guatemalan migrants, “If you come to our border, you will be turned back. Do not come”; in May 2020, the intelligence division of Lawrence Livermore
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( Natalia Bratslavsky/Getty Images) That’s the real lesson to be learned from ProPublica’s exposé of the richest Americans’ tax information. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hat did you make of that big ProPublica story on the intimate tax information of America’s richest men? Personally, I concluded that I can’t trust the IRS. There are only a
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A Brandon Motor Lodge displays a “Help Wanted” sign in Brandon, Fla., June 1, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) We don’t see the struggles of those who aren’t returning to work. And government benefits are no substitute for concern that they can live meaningful lives. Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment data for
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Chris Cuomo (Mike Segar/Reuters) Andrew Cuomo’s little brother is a continuous embarrassment to the cable-news network that employs him. So why does he still have a job? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t this point in the proceedings, one is tempted to conclude that Chris Cuomo must have laced CNN’s corporate offices with dynamite and informed
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