Month: May 2021

The federal government has broken the bank with an astounding $6+ trillion in (ostensibly) pandemic-related spending to date, and President Biden wants to spend trillions more. Unfortunately, many Republicans in Congress have been too inconsistent on this issue to protest this spending binge in any meaningful way.  But one of the few principled fiscal conservatives
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Oregon lifted the face mask mandate for people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but also implemented a stipulation that a business or church must require maskless entrants to show proof of their coronavirus vaccination. The business or house of worship must then review the vaccination card to ensure that it is authentic. Last
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 17, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Hint: it’s not an aversion to Truth and Science. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ur friends on the left think they understand why so many on the
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Mary Kate Marshall fell in love with track and cross-country in high school.  Running “gives me so much confidence,” Marshall said. Now an athlete at Idaho State University, Marshall is fighting for Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act—and for every woman’s and girl’s right to compete on a level playing field.  The Fairness in Women’s
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(Wavebreakmedia/Reuters) At the initiative of state senator Ryan Maher (and with implicit encouragement from Governor Kristi Noem), legislators in South Dakota have introduced a new tool designed to prevent the feds from forcing action civics (invariably leftist protest and lobbying) and Critical Race Theory (attacks on “whiteness,” “Eurocentrism,” etc.) onto schools. The device, a legislative
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During a Wednesday segment on CNN Newsroom on the latest developments surrounding the recently bombed building in Gaza that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, Brian Stelter declared that it would be “incredible if true” if Hamas did indeed attempt to use journalists as human shields. Host Jim Sciutto apparently thought that Stelter was the man to
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Police clear the U.S. Capitol building with tear gas as protesters gather outside in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) The House of Representatives voted 252-175 Wednesday to establish an independent commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. Most rank-and-file Republicans rejected the vote with the exception of 35 who broke with their
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Almost 20 years after inspiring a nation as America’s mayor, Rudy Giuliani faces a criminal probe and is reportedly trying to get paid by former President Donald Trump for his legal representation in the post-election battle. As the feds have reportedly expanded their purview from Ukraine to Romania, Trump is apparently uninterested in providing any
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In recent days, CNN has put a major emphasis on “new” videos of the dreadful Jan. 6 Capitol riot, expressing outrage in heavy rotation over Republicans who would try to dismiss what happened as resembling a routine day of tourism. You can’t say the people there were “mostly peaceful.” CNN even aired an hourlong anti-Republican
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On Friday, May 14, Amazon Prime premiered The Underground Railroad, an orgy of gratuitous violence that is the latest entry among shows with a disturbing focus on “black trauma porn.” Relentlessly violent and viciously anti-Christian, it mixes historical truths with exaggerated fictionalized narratives, often trying to tie the constant brutality against black people to the “very foundations” of
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