Month: June 2020

[ad_1] The Supreme Court on June 29 held that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) violates the constitutional separation of powers, but held that its unconstitutional structure can be fixed without scrapping the entire agency. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which, among other things, created the bureau to administer and
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[ad_1] Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. February 5, 2019. (Doug Mills/Pool via Reuters) There will be much good and astringent commentary on today’s Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana’s modest attempts to regulate abortion clinics like any other medical provider. But one of the most bracing
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[ad_1] Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Museum in Florence, Italy. (Max Rossi/Reuters) Only a culture soaked in a belief in original sin can honor men for the good they did, for the events at which they were present. This magazine’s former Washington editor, George Will, is displeased at the sight of his nation’s statues toppling
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[ad_1] Anti-abortion marchers rally at the Supreme Court during the 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Court’s justification for blocking anti-abortion state legislation rests on shaky grounds and ignores common-sense constitutional interpretation. Pro-abortion activists are sure to be celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision this morning in June
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[ad_1] Members of the Taliban hand over their weapons in Jalalabad, Afghanistan June 25, 2020. (Parwiz/Reuters) A U.S. intelligence official claims that intelligence reports alleging Russia offered bounty payments to Taliban militants to target American forces in Afghanistan were “uncorroborated” and hence not presented to President Trump as part of his briefings on national security
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[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters) Former President Barack Obama told aides this month that the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd are “a tailor-made moment” to help his former vice president Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in
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[ad_1] Black lives matter, right? As previously reported, there was another shooting in the CHAZ/CHOP “autonomous zone” of Seattle around 3 a.m. on Monday morning — this is the fifth one since rioters took over the area. Early this morning it was reported that two people were shot, one to the head. A person who
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[ad_1] Following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation, and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, New Jersey, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud—including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body. With races still undecided, control of
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[ad_1] Chief Justice John Roberts presides during the final votes in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2020. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the Supreme Court’s liberals today in June Medical Services v. Russo, overturning
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[ad_1] Activists realize they can bully people into giving them what they want by rioting in the streets or pressuring online. Reddit, like other corporations, has responded by giving them exactly what they want: shutting down pro-Trump political speakers online and politically-incorrect speech of all kinds. “Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other
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[ad_1] Topics in this post: reparations BET co-founder Robert Johnson recently renewed calls to implement a program of reparations. Apparently, even waiting for H.R. 40, a House bill that would create an exploratory committee on black reparations, wasn’t the right process. This is a bill that would investigate basic questions of cost, feasibility, and eligibility
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[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday called on two top intelligence officials to provide a briefing to all members of Congress regarding reports that Russian intelligence has paid bounties to Taliban fighters to attack U.S. service members in Afghanistan. “Congress needs to know what the intelligence community knows about this significant threat to American
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[ad_1] A Black Lives Matter activist screamed at an older Black man Friday for defending the Abraham Lincoln statue activists intended to pull down. Protesters last week promised to tear down the Emancipation Statue in Washington, D.C, depicting Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling slave. Activists across the country have demanded the removal of statues
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[ad_1] The topic of race enveloped two sporting events this past weekend. Saxophonist Mike Phillips, who performed the Star Spangled Banner prior to Sunday’s NASCAR competition at Pocono Raceway, called America a racist nation. All members of the Portland and North Carolina teams kneeled during the national anthem prior to their National Women’s Soccer League
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[ad_1] This not-yet-peer-reviewed study, looking for the coronavirus in wastewater samples, is generating a lot of double-takes in surprise, with the surprising suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 virus might have been circulating in Barcelona, Spain as early as March 2019: This possibility prompted us to analyze some archival WWTP samples from January 2018 to December 2019 (Figure
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[ad_1] As corporate America continues to pander to violent left-wing mobs, Fox Business’s Charles Payne expressed major concern about what this trend could mean for conservatives in the workplace. The Making Money with Charles Payne host took to Twitter June 28 to express his concern about the Marxist pandering he saw coming from the corporate world.
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