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Texas State Police officers watch over the Rio Grande River near the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, September 21, 2021. (Marco Bello/Reuters) What can states do when federal enforcement falls short? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n late February, a grim morale survey of National Guard troops stationed along the Texas border was leaked to
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a video address to Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via Reuters) ‘Our task is to arm the Ukrainians, not fight the war,’ says one GOP senator. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE ‘S trong doesn’t mean big,” Ukrainian
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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) The American people deserve to know where their tax dollars are going. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A rizona taxpayers are getting ready to remind the education bureaucracy of the
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is urging the public to call the jail where Jussie Smollett is incarcerated and demand the disgraced actor be freed. Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist,” resigned as executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation last year amid criticism of her lavish lifestyle, personal wealth and ownership
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Russian service members drive tanks during drills held by the armed forces of the Southern Military District at the Kadamovsky range in the Rostov region, Russia, February 3, 2022. (Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters) Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has underscored the extent to which Russian nuclear disarmament is critical to U.S. national security. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T
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President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 (Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress/via Wikimedia) America’s most toxic two-term president left a lasting welt on the nation. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you were dragging getting out of bed to start this week, thank Woodrow Wilson. Daylight saving time is just one of a battery of ways that Wilson
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky listens to the chief of the National Military Medical Clinical Center Major General Anatolii Kazmirchuk, and chief of Medical Forces Command Brigadier General Tetiana Ostashchenko, at a hospital’s compound in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 13, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters) On the menu today: Beware the Ides of March, even
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CNN television news anchor Wolf Blitzer poses as he arrives at the WarnerMedia Upfront event in New York City, May 15, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) CNN will charge six dollars a month for more stuff nobody watches. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C an you feel the excitement? It’s already blockbuster season on the screens. Batman! Bullock! And,
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U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) A detail in a CNN report this morning: But so far the Biden administration has opted not to help provide those heavier, Soviet-made weapons systems. US officials continue
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(ronniechua/Getty Images) Teachers at a school district in Wisconsin are being instructed to hide their students’ changing gender identities from parents on the grounds that “parents are not entitled to know,” and that it is “knowledge that must be earned,” according to leaked training documents. The instruction was part of several recent staff development sessions
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Then-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at a news conference in Seattle, Wash., 2014. (Jason Redmond/Reuters) Amazon is temporarily moving employees from its downtown Seattle office due to an increase in violent crime in the area, including shootings and carjackings. “Given recent incidents near 3rd and Pine, we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Sunday said a fourth Covid jab is “necessary.” “It is necessary – a fourth boost – right now,” Bourla told “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan. “The protection that you are getting from the third — it is good enough, actually quite good for hospitalizations and deaths,” he said. “It’s
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The universal DH is a mistake. Replacing the worst hitter by dropping in a competent hitter who is useless on defense only makes sense in an era that is starved for excitement. But it doesn’t solve the problem, as the DH is more likely to be a three-true-outcomes player. Designated hitters are not going to
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