Month: February 2021

Governor Gina Raimondo, then-President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be secretary of Commerce, speaks at Biden’s transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., January 8, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo’s nomination to lead the Commerce Department sailed out of the Senate Commerce Committee in a 21-3 vote Wednesday morning, in spite of her refusal to
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) fired off an angry statement criticizing House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for refusing to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and promised to take action. Greene has been under fire for comments she made on social media posts and videos extolling various conspiracy theories and advocating for the execution
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Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming survived a campaign by allies of former President Donald Trump to expel her from GOP leadership after she voted with Democrats to impeach him after the riots at the Capitol on January 6th. House Republicans voted in a secret ballot to keep Cheney in her position as Republican Conference chair
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GOP lawmakers reportedly gave Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation Wednesday night at the Republican Conference meeting. This was reportedly after Marjorie apologized for previous positions and social media posts. Fwiw other sources saying it was likely less than half the conference but all say it was a substantial chunk of the conference. And
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House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) The House GOP voted on Wednesday to keep Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) in her position as the third-highest ranking Republican in the caucus. GOP representatives voted 145-61 to retain Cheney as
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America’s top infectious diseases expert says double masking is a “common sense approach” to preventing the spread of coronavirus. Dr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, recommended using two masks at a COVID-19 response news conference on Wednesday, saying there was “no harm” if people wanted to for added protection. He said
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House Democrats are preparing to force a vote on Thursday that would strip Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments unless House Republican leadership does so first. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Wednesday that he spoke with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, suggesting that he was leaning towards not removing
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement, attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, February 2, 2021. (Press service of Moscow City Court/Reuters Handout) Via Radio Free Europe, the courage Alexei Navalny displays in this speech in court is breathtaking: MUST WATCH: #Navalny’s speech from court.
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New York state Democratic Attorney General Letitia James recently reported that the state’s coronavirus nursing home deaths could have been undercounted by as much as 50%. In response, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said, “But who cares — 33 [percent], 28 [percent] — died in the hospital, died in a nursing home. They
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What is a left-wing city to do when its own, union-dominated school district refuses to even come up with a plan to reopen, which is required by state law? In San Francisco, city leaders are suing their own school district and board of education, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A California state law passed last
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Talk about high praise! Or was it the soft bigotry of low expectations? On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough said: “AOC’s never, actually, threatened to kill a Republican.” Scarborough made his remark for purposes of contrasting Ocasio-Cortez with unhinged, bizarre conspiracy-supporting Marjorie Taylor Greene. Scarborough noted that Greene liked a tweet calling for the assassination of
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Biden’s DOJ notified a federal judge on Wednesday that it is dropping a race-based discrimination lawsuit against Yale University. Trump’s Department of Justice opened an investigation into Yale in 2018 in response to a complaint alleging Yale discriminates against Asians in its admission process. Last summer, a Justice Department investigation found that Yale University illegally discriminates
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The campus of Yale University (Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters) As I noted yesterday, it’s expected that the Biden administration will reverse the Trump administration’s position supporting the appeal to the Supreme Court by Asian-American students who maintain that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants in admissions (Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard). Today, the Justice Department notified the
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College professors ought to be able to write their course syllabi and teach as they think best. That’s how things have been since America’s Founding. Unfortunately, there is a new trend, with administrators demanding that they include various statements with “woke” sentiments and requirements that they conduct their classes in specific, “anti-racist” ways. Advertisement In
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A political organization co-founded by former staffers of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are taking aim at moderate Democrats in an attempt to clear the way for their far-left legislative goals. The No Excuses PAC was founded by Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff for Ocasio-Cortez, and Corbin Trent, the former communications director for the
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