Month: April 2021

Justice William O. Douglas 1939—Two weeks after President Roosevelt nominates SEC chairman (and former Yale law professor) William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court, the Senate confirms the nomination by a 62-4 vote. On the Court from 1939 until 1975, Douglas will become the longest-misserving justice in history. 2017—“The goalposts have been moving over the
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Major League Baseball renewed a licensing contract earlier this week with a Chinese media company that has targeted an NBA executive over his support human rights and democracy activists in Hong Kong. The deal, which MLB signed with Tencent on Wednesday, has taken on new significance after the league’s decision Friday to pull its All Star
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been named one of the least effective members of Congress, according to a study from non-partisan group Center for Effective Lawmaking. What are the details? According to the New York Post, Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest member of Congress, was among the “least effective members of the last Congress.” “Ocasio-Cortez introduced a
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Texas GOP congressional candidate Sery Kim is facing backlash from Democrats and fellow Republicans over comments she made during a forum this week, where she purportedly said of Chinese immigrants: “I don’t want them here at all.” What are the details? According to The Dallas Morning News, after Kim said that does not want Chinese
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President Joe Biden, his fellow liberals, and his friends in the national news media are purposely—and cynically—misrepresenting Georgia’s new election reform law, and it’s a key part of a far-reaching strategy that stretches well beyond the borders of the Peach State. They are dishonestly attacking the Georgia legislation as a throwback to the Jim Crow
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer holds his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol, December 17, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will “move forward” with legalizing marijuana with or without the support of President Biden, according to a new report. In an interview with Politico this week, Schumer, who
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(Jonathan Ernst, Mark Makela/Reuters) Yesterday, while writing about President Biden’s late-coming conversation with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, a thought occurred to me: Had Biden been ducking the man responsible for handing him the White House? I suppose that the answer is technically “no” — that distinction belongs to Donald Trump — but I think we might
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Longtime Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has recently been elected to a five-year term as secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental economic group based in Paris. Cormann will assume his duties on June 1, replacing three-term Secretary-General Angel Gurría of Mexico. New leadership might be exactly what this taxpayer-funded international
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred addresses representatives from the grapefruit league in West Palm Beach, 2019. (Steve Mitchell / USA Today Sports via Reuters) Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, has managed to get to the left of Stacey Abrams on Georgia’s election law. Even Abrams, who still claims she is the rightful governor
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Reporters? Or unpaid publicists? On her Thursday show, MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson was joined by NBC reporter Blayne Alexander in Atlanta just publicizing calls to boycott Georgia and the lies that justify them, including President Biden’s Wednesday remarks where he outrageously called the Georgia’s new election law ”Jim Crow on steroids.” MSNBC just casually put that on screen, like it
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