Month: January 2021

With Democrats in control of Congress and the White House, advocates for D.C. statehood have renewed calls to make the nation’s capital the 51st state. The proposal faces considerable opposition from Republicans and questions about whether it could be done through legislation alone, or requires a constitutional amendment. Advocates argue that statehood can be achieved
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Donald Trump’s impeachment-trial defense lawyers have quit, CNN reports:  Former President Donald Trump’s five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy. […] A person familiar with the departures told CNN
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Three members of the Minneapolis City Council unveiled a plan last week to finally make good on their promises to fundamentally transform the Minneapolis Police Department. What is the background? Following the tragic death of George Floyd last May, the Minneapolis City Council promised to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department. City council members vowed a
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With teachers’ unions proving to be a major roadblock in preventing struggling kids from returning to school, CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan used her show Sunday to press the Biden administration to use his “bully pulpit” to provide “political cover” for his “fellow Democrats” in the unions. This, as students were committing suicide
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We remember reading in the Scripture that the Father has his sun rise on the just and the unjust. The light and warmth emanate immediately and without hesitation over the whole of Creation. This is the model that we need to bear in mind as we consider the dissemination of the two COVID-19 vaccines, even
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President Donald Trump was the first US President in modern history to oversee a decline in heroin deaths. But immediately after his inauguration, Joe Biden rescinded President Trump’s order expanding access to opioid abuse treatment. According to Freedom Wire: TRENDING: Palm Beach Conducting Legal Review of Trump’s Residency at Mar-a-Lago According to anonymous sources reported
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reconvenes a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January, 6 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters) Jared Bernstein, a member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, claimed Sunday that Americans “really couldn’t care less” about what process lawmakers use to pass another round
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If anybody still wonders about whether or not Twitter’s banning of President Donald Trump from its platform was utterly political, Politico’s story on Thursday by Natasha Korecki  should resolve any lingering doubts. In fact the article forthrightly reveals Twitter’s blatant  favoritism right in the headline, “Twitter’s priceless gift to Biden.” As he entered his first week
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On Thursday, the Biden administration announced its plan to offer coronavirus vaccinations to inmates at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as early as next week, Pentagon officials told Fox News. The New York Times confirmed on Friday that “an official in the Pentagon just signed a memo approving the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine to
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Pro-life markers walk near the U.S. Capitol as they take part in the 48th Annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 29, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) From elsewhere on NRO: Editors: Joe Biden’s Abortion Extremism Editors: Andrew Cuomo’s Shame Benjamin Watson: Pro-Justice Means Pro-Life 1. Mary Hallan FioRito: Remembering the legacy of pro-life pioneer Joseph
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Democrats are completely outraged over a fake quote from Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters. A Twitter troll replaced Waters’ original tweet that targeted Trump administration staffers with Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Democrats took the bait and called Waters’ words “dangerous” and many said it was “inciting violence.” In June 2018, Waters delivered a
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The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline was one of President Joe Biden’s first actions in the White House. TC Energy Corporation, the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline project, said they would cut more than 11,000 jobs. One of the Americans who lost their job due to President Biden’s action is Neal Crabtree,
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The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A growing number of federal judges are electing to take senior status in the wake of President Biden’s inauguration. This will provide the Biden Administration with the opportunity to begin making an imprint on the federal courts. Thus far in January, at least
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The American health-care system may be buckling under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, but one number is inexplicably falling. Disciplinary actions against doctors were down sharply in the first nine months of 2020, with 4,393 adverse action reports recorded against physicians in the National Practitioner Data Bank, a federal registry of health care professionals
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On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a massive executive order restructuring the federal government around his climate alarmist agenda. The move came days after Biden had canceled construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, costing thousands of jobs. While Biden’s climate order does not come close to implementing the full vision of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.)
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