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Hillary Clinton’s attorney who is accused of lying to the FBI is upset with the Durham investigation.  In a response to the Durham team, Sussman’s attorneys claim Special Prosecutor Durham’s actions this past weekend were political.  Hillary Attorney Michael Sussmann was indicted in September 2021 for lying to the FBI.  We noted at the time
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P.J. O’Rourke in 2016 (Intelligence Squared/via YouTube) On the menu today: not just a tribute to one of my favorite writers, the departed P. J. O’Rourke, but an observation of why he stood out so uniquely in the media landscape for so long and why the media environment evolved to prevent other idiosyncratic voices from
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(shironosov/iStock/Getty Images) Millions of able-bodied adults now clog the program’s rolls, while hundreds of thousands of truly needy Americans languish on waiting lists. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s SARS-CoV-2 spread through the U.S. in March 2020, congressional leaders passed several bills to provide relief to Americans experiencing financial hardship. The trillions of dollars in new
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Alec Baldwin is being sued by Halyna Hutchins’ family for wrongful death after the cinematographer was fatally shot on the movie set of ‘Rust.’ Alec Baldwin fatally shot 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured 48-year-old Joel Souza on the movie set in Santa Fe, Mexico in October. Hutchins’ family said Alec Baldwin never checked the
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A portrait of author P.J. O’Rourke, photographed at home in Sharon, New Hampshire, 2009. (David Howells/Corbis via Getty Images) My generation’s funniest, most incisive and irreverent writer, a true lover of American liberty and the good life, P. J. O’Rourke has reportedly passed away. I call him P. J. as if I knew him personally,
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Then-Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett reacts during the final minutes of her testimony on the third day of her Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, October 14, 2020. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) An attempt to portray the newest justice as a hyperambitious puppet of male power fails to capture her feminine genius. NRPLUS
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Exterior view of SoFi Stadium before Super Bowl LVI between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals, February 13, 2022. (Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports) MBD writes about how the Super Bowl signaled a culture-wide shift to normality after Covid. With 70,000 fans in attendance and hardly a mask in sight, “broadcasting that game —
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Supporters of truckers gather in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to support truck drivers on their way to Ottawa to protest Covid vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers January 27, 2022. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters) Pundits are attempting to cast the fundamental value as a ‘far-right’ code word, reinventing the notion of liberty itself. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he
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Gold medallist Gu Ailing Eileen of China celebrates on the podium. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Eileen Gu, the American-born freestyle skier who won a gold medal for China, has attracted her fair share of controversy. For one, critics have pointed out that she may have been afforded special treatment by the Chinese government, which appears to have
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A 15-year-old first-year student is still fighting for his life after collapsing during a basketball game last Saturday at Brooks School in North Andover. According to a Boston report, Preston Settles, who plays hockey, football, soccer, and lacrosse, complained to one of his teammates during a basketball game that his heart feels like it’s spasming.
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(bobakphoto/iStock/Getty Images) It is a matter of cultural identity, not a matter of policy or science. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hile there has been a quietly energetic campaign to memory-hole the fact, some of you will remember that, in the run-up to the 2020 presidential campaign, vaccine skepticism was a Democratic thing, not a Republican
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flanked by House Democratic leaders as she discusses the formation of a select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It is doing the impeachment investigation Democrats failed to do, but this poses legal problems. This is the
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). (Tom Williams, Sarah Silbiger/Pool via Reuters) Conservatives should address the censorship crisis in social media with more speech, not less. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T ed Cruz doesn’t shrink from invoking the “s” word, inveighing against socialism at every chance he gets. The Texas senator
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(Tero Vesalainen/iStock/Getty Images) The campus ideology that has seeped into other spheres of American life has replaced language as communication with language as power. Editor’s note: If you value reporting like this, we hope you will support our ongoing webathon. More here. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen I started a student magazine of conservative opinion during
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