Month: March 2021

When we allow the other side to the set the terms of discussion, and police ourselves to conform to them, the battle is already lost. WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 25: Rachel Levine, nominee for Assistant Secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor,
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This is Biden’s America. BLM terrorists shut down traffic in Louisville, Kentucky Tuesday night to show support for Breonna Taylor. Breonna Taylor was killed during a knock and announce drug raid last March during which her boyfriend shot at police and they returned fire. LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot during the exchange and has
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C ancel culture has many faces. Few reveal the ugliness of the impulse more clearly than banning books. This time, the target of the book-banners is perhaps the most beloved American author of all: Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. The culprits include Seuss’s own heirs, the Biden administration, and
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Tuesday’s White House press briefing was more of the same with Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s continued refusal to offer substance on the cancelling of Dr. Seuss, immigration, and scandal-ridden Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). Fox News’s Kristin Fisher played a leading role, battling Psaki on Cuomo on the astute observation that, in addition to the fact
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Today on The Editors, Rich, Michael, Jim, and Maddy discuss the allegations being leveled at Governor Cuomo, Trump’s CPAC speech, and the uproar over some of Dr. Seuss’s books. Listen below, or subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Members of the
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President Joe Biden withdrew the nomination of Neera Tanden to his Cabinet after several Democratic senators said they could not support her over toxic tweets against Republicans and progressives. The major defeat for the Biden administration was first reported by the Washington Post. A statement from Tanden, the head of the Center for American Progress,
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Outgoing Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron claimed the Post has no “ideological attachment” to the Democrats. But the front of Tuesday’s Style section had a splashy article headlined “The cachet of having Jill Biden as a customer.” The paper that now touts merchants getting thrills up their leg for a Jill Biden visit is the
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Women’s groups that backed sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have stayed silent as two former staffers to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accuse him of sexual harassment. Advocacy groups clamored to support Christine Blasey Ford in September 2018 when she accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in high school. Groups
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Crowds gather outside the U.S. Capitol for the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) Does all this talk about “insurrection” and domestic terrorism, or calls to apply counterinsurgency tactics to the American people in peacetime, strike you as a little irresponsible? What are you, a
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Joe Biden evaded questions about the border crisis on Tuesday and shuffled away as reporters shouted questions. Biden delivered remarks on the Coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday as his babysitter Kamala lurked in the background. “Did you receive a briefing about the border today?” a reporter asked Biden after he finished his presser. “Uhhhh. Yes I
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Amir Dan Rubin David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A congressional committee overseeing the Covid-19 crisis has opened an investigation into concierge health-care provider One Medical over reports that it gave vaccine shots to family and friends of executives and to wealthy clients who weren’t yet eligible in their states. Rep. James Clyburn,
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In the 1930s when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were busy cleansing Germany of all Jewish “influences,” they paid particular attention to the sciences — academic disciplines that Jews around the world have excelled in. They ended up destroying physics, chemistry, biology, and other sciences by creating “German physics,” “German chemistry,” and “German biology.” Predictably,
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That will certainly put a hole in the *ahem* alternate theories of events surrounding the January 6 riot/attack on Capitol Hill. The FBI has developed hundreds of cases against its perpetrators, Christopher Wray testified in the Senate this morning, some of whom have connections to white supremacy movements or militias. None so far, however, have
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Former CIA Director John Brennan said Monday that he’s “increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days.” MSNBC analyst and former Sen. Claire McCaskill said during a panel segment on “Deadline: White House” Monday that she’s “never seen so many whiny white men calling themselves victims” until the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
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I wrote today on the home page about my Mom and Alzheimer’s disease: . . . I’ve come to believe that this crushing disease does not, during almost all its progression, achieve as complete a victory as it might seem. It takes away so much. The ability to live independently. The ability to talk. And
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The president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles blasted California’s school reopening plan Monday, characterizing an element of it as “a recipe for propagating structural racism” — and also called out “white, wealthy parents” for “driving the push” to reopen schools too soon. What are the details? UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz uttered her words
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed the New York Police Department for deploying its new robotic dog in the Bronx, suggesting that the $75,000 new crime-fighting tech is wasteful and its existence racist. The democratic socialist “Squad” leader criticized the NYPD’s “Digidog” after it was deployed to respond to a home invasion last week, saying that
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CNN this morning mocked former First Lady Melania Trump for not publicly revealing that she and her husband received coronavirus vaccinations in January before leaving the White House. When New Day co-host John Berman complained out loud “how many lives could have been saved” if President Trump had revealed their vaccinations and promoted vaccinations to Americans, fellow
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