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U.S. marines take part in a military exercises near Kherson, Ukraine, as part of multinational Sea Breeze drills, July 2, 2021. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters) The public esteems the Marines for their discipline and toughness. Like their bulldog mascot, Marines latch onto an enemy and don’t let go. They stand ready to fight in any clime or
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Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro speaks during a ceremony in Caracas, January 22, 2021. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) Dear Weekend Jolter, So who’s going to tell the Biden administration that oil extracted from Venezuela is just as bad for the environment as oil extracted from Texas? This week’s scramble to convince mustachioed socialists and dismemberment-prone princes to boost
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2021. (Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via Reuters ) The big-picture danger is not men such as the Russian dictator. It’s the totalitarian states that produce them. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V ladimir Putin is one man. How has it come to pass that a
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Entenmann’s Raspberry Danish Twist. (Philip Klein ) In response to Top 10 Entenmann’s Desserts — Definitive Ranking Phil, this is a solid ranking in honor of the late Charles E. Entenmann, but you can’t please all the people all the time, and count me among them. You rank Raspberry Danish Twist as No. 6, which
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Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Va. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Since the grassroots coalition of minority moms, dads, and their children won their anti-discrimination lawsuit challenging the Fairfax County Public Schools’ equity admissions policy, the school board has refused to comply with the decision, persisting with litigation in the hopes of
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A Navy guard patrols Camp Delta’s detainee recreation yard at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, July 7, 2010. (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth/US Army/Handout via Reuters ) ‘20th hijacker’ Qahtani’s transfer from Gitmo presses vexing questions for which answers are way overdue. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ohammed al-Qahtani was repatriated to
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Migrants expelled from the U.S. and sent back to Mexico under Title 42 walk towards Mexico at the Paso del Norte International border bridge, in this picture taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, September 9, 2021. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) Biden inherited the policy from Trump, but even immigration hawk Mark Krikorian calls it a ‘dishonest means
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Joe Biden, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations: Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves line up before game three of the 2021 NLCS at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif., October 19, 2021. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports ) Baseball avoided a long strike, but it also degraded its regular season. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ajor League Baseball’s lockout, instituted by the owners
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Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) applaud as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2022. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters) The party’s blatant falsehoods can distract voters from the mess over which it presides for only so long.
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Supporters of then-president Donald Trump fight with riot police outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) We can acknowledge the traumatic events of that day — and the role they might’ve played in some officers’ later deaths — without bending the truth. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here
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The mayhem at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters) An argument mounted by many of the January 6 defendants gets a boost in district court — but the government is likely to prevail on appeal. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E arlier this week, a federal jury in Washington, D.C., took under
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(Brian Snyder/Reuters) The Census Bureau has a confession to make. A pair of analyses “revealed that the 2020 Census overcounted or undercounted various demographic groups”: The results show that the 2020 Census undercounted the Black or African American population, the American Indian or Alaska Native population living on a reservation, the Hispanic or Latino population,
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Ford Motor Co. 2021 F-150 pick-up trucks are seen waiting for missing parts in Dearborn, Mich., March 29, 2021. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Drive what you like. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E verybody knows what’s best for you — especially when it comes to what you drive. Some of you are probably old enough to remember when Arianna
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President Joe Biden at a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) If he persists in refusing to embrace the obvious solutions, voters could be forgiven for wondering whether he might just be a part of the problem. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P resident Joe
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Left: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during CPAC in Orlando, Fla., February 26, 2021. Right: Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek speaks at the Boston College Chief Executives Club luncheon in Boston, Mass., November 15, 2021. (Joe Skipper, Katherine Taylor/Reuters) Governor Ron DeSantis’s position on Florida’s recently passed LGBT education bill “has not changed” despite
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during a visit at the Charlotte Area Transit System facility, in Charlotte, N.C., December 2, 2021. (Chris Keane/Reuters) Kamala and Pete know what’s good for you. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE ‘W ell, you all imagined it,” Vice President Kamala Harris commented yesterday during a so-called clean-transit event, where she appeared with
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