Month: February 2021

We’re a looooooong way from this moment. Remember? [embedded content] Eight years and a thousand lifetimes later, Senator Mitt Romney just uncorked a family welfare plan so progressive that various lefty commentators are comparing it favorably to Joe Biden’s. Biden’s own chief of staff took to drumming up interest in it online this morning: Really
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Edward Banfield, in his book The Unheavenly City, explained why criminals perform illegal acts, by explaining that they are unable to foresee any punishment for their breaking the law, so they do illegal things spontaneously and repeatedly because of their lack self-control and an inability to connect cause and effect. So they continue to commit
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President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Biden Effect at the border is gaining steam faster than I’d expected. My colleague Todd Bensman (whose new book is just out) went to the South Texas border this week and reported that “Border Patrol and ICE are
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week that it’s time for President Joe Biden to get serious when it comes to reopening schools. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with MSBNC on how the nation can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg pulled no punches when it came to getting schools reopened across
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Former President Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild, proclaiming that he no longer has any interest in being associated with the actors union. The SAG-AFTRA board condemned Trump following the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan.6, claiming that he violated its guidelines and threatened to expel him from the union. According to reports,
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Former Vice President Mike Pence will be joining The Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow, the think tank announced Thursday.  “The Heritage Foundation is a flagship of the conservative movement and I am profoundly honored to join them as a distinguished visiting fellow to advance conservative solutions that will benefit every American,” Pence, who
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Guest post by Lawrence Sellin In his 1952 book The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, Israeli historian J. L. Talmon described a political system in which lawfully elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of government. The federal government has become such
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Bret Stephens goes through a depressing list of defects in California’s blue-state model of governance. Another item that ought to be added: The state’s high poverty rate. The official poverty measure obscures the point. If you use it, California has a poverty rate that is just a tick below the national average. If you use
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On Thursday’s episode of the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to apologize for having mocked the Space Force a day earlier and skimped on funding schools that teachers unions have kept shuttered, and falsely claimed that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the first openly gay cabinet secretary. And yet, no one
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Allahpundit looked into this on Tuesday, but the story behind Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s massively popular Instagram video where she describes her experience during the January 6th Capitol Hill riot keeps growing more convoluted. Despite claiming that she thought she “was going to die” and at least insinuating that rioters were attempting to break into her
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People who are leaving Russia and Belarus want out of the repressive regimes, an immigration consultant told the Daily Caller News Foundation.  Despite repercussions such as jail sentences and fines, over 100,000 Russians participated in demonstrations in support of the anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny.  In Russia, discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities are by
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has deployed agents to investigate social media posts about GameStop and other companies that hit the news for wild stock rallies over the past few weeks, searching for evidence that fraud was committed, according to a new report. What are the details? According to Bloomberg, sources say “the scrutiny
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If the GOP is to be saved, it must reject both the delusions of Q and those who have wrecked our public policy. Of all the crackpot things believed by Marjorie Taylor Greene—the kosher space laser blowing holes in California, the cabal of Jews trying to, as Jews are wont to do, flood Europe with
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Second only to his fixation on “climate change” is President Joe Biden’s focus on “systemic racism.” In addition to reinstating mandatory race theory training for federal employees, Biden proposes spending even more money we don’t have to fix a problem beyond the government’s reach. As with original sin, curing racism is best solved internally. It
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n the eve of the EU’s first antigen-type vaccine clearance, its rollout of COVID shots already had the look of a train wreck. On January 29, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, a type known as “viral vector,” received a “conditional marketing authorization” for use in the EU on the recommendation of the Union’s European
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Sister Toldjah at RedState reported CNN head of “strategic communications” Matt Dornic on Wednesday “thought he’d play gotcha games with Fox News media reporter Brian Flood by pointing out how Flood sometimes goes about trying to obtain quotes from sources via LinkedIn.” The strategy didn’t end well.  Dornic noted CNN employees forwarded their emails from
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Parler’s board of directors, headed by Rebekah Mercer, fired CEO John Matze from the company last week. “On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision,” Matze wrote in a memo to employees. “I understand that
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