Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday dismissed comments from Donald Trump that the GOP needs new leadership in the Senate and suggested that the party is moving forward without the former president. “Well look, we’re looking to the future, not the past. And if you want to
0 Comments
Joe Rogan clarified his position on vaccines after receiving criticism and opposition to his previous comments on his massively popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Rogan had said that he was supportive of people getting the vaccine but that if someone were younger and healthy that they didn’t need to get it necessarily. He received
0 Comments
Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) received some criticism for greeting President Joe Biden warmly before his address to Congress on Wednesday, and she fired off a response from her Twitter account. Among those criticizing Cheney was Donald Trump Jr. who repeated the “warmonger” epithet his father used against Cheney on Tuesday. “Republican” warmonger Liz
0 Comments
Welcome to my nightmare hangover, if you’ll allow me to paraphrase the late, great Alice Cooper. Look, I know Cooper is alive, but who in 1975 would have bet on that still being true in 2021? He’s our American Keith Richards, and that’s worth some serious respect. Sorry, I’m supposed to be promoting Thursday’s FIRST
0 Comments
A Walmart pharmacist draws a dose into a syringe from a Moderna coronavirus vaccine in West Haven, Conn., February 17, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Vaccine ‘skepticism’ and other coronavirus-related kookiness fit seamlessly in a long historical tradition. The other day, I fell into one of those crazy Internet rabbit holes, in this case involving amateur day-traders
0 Comments
Then-Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a rally in Kinston, N.C., October 25, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Former Vice President Mike Pence served up a harsh rebuke of the Biden administration’s first 100 days and called on Americans to unite behind a positive agenda to “win back America” on Thursday in his first speech since leaving
0 Comments
President Joe Biden tried to get past an awkward moment with loud protesters interrupting his rally by telling them that he agreed with their cause, but they continued until they were kicked out. Biden was speaking at a drive-in rally near Atlanta when protesters began demanding that he shut down all detention centers and abolish
0 Comments
US Attorney General Merrick Garland The Biden Justice Department is “actively considering” whether to give prosecutors new authorities to bring specific charges against “domestic terrorists.” “One of the things we’re looking at is would we need new authorities,” Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorney general for the department’s national security division, said Thursday. Because the current
0 Comments
Over at Foreign Policy, Blake Herzinger makes a bracing argument for radically re-capitalizing the United States Navy, even if it means cuts for the Army: Without going too far into the esoteric world of the defense budget, the Army receives approximately 40 percent more funding than the Navy for its personnel costs and only slightly
0 Comments
(Natural News) The Department of State claims that solar panel makers in the Chinese region of Xinjiang employ victims of genocide and forced labor. Last January, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) repression of the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group native to Xinjiang, “genocide.” He noted that a million Uyghurs had been forced into concentration camps
0 Comments
Vice President Kamala Harris applauds as President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS) Let’s pause to appreciate something Vice President Kamala Harris said this morning. And then, perhaps those who piled on Senator Tim Scott for saying the same
0 Comments
The state of Oregon suffers a problem similar to its neighbor to the north, Washington. Much of the state — especially the east side — is conservative but is dominated by the hard-core liberalism of its biggest urban center in the northwest corner. For Washington it’s Seattle. For Oregon it’s Portland. Because of the left’s
1 Comment
Former professional quarterback Tim Tebow is reportedly attempting a return to the National Football League — but this time at tight end. The one-time quarterback for the Denver Broncos is said to have recently requested a tryout with the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to veteran ESPN reporter Adam Schefter. “Tim Tebow recently reached out to the
0 Comments
President Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) The African Americans whom the president’s proposal openly targets are likely to bear the brunt of enforcement. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M aking yet another mockery of the Constitution’s insistence that the federal government’s powers remain “few and defined,” President
0 Comments
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks to residents during a community meeting at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis., September 3, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In a reporting article yesterday evening, one of the Washington Post’s religion reporters attempted to explain a debate within the U.S. Catholic Church but instead revealed her own misunderstandings of Catholicism as
0 Comments