Month: July 2021

Neera Tanden during a Senate hearing while she was a nominee for OMB director, Washington, D.C., February 10, 2021 (Anna Moneymaker/Reuters) Senior White House officials are engaging in “informal discussions” with external experts and GOP members on creating a second bipartisan package as an offshoot from a Democratic-only reconciliation bill that addresses “human infrastructure,” one
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This country needs a 9/11-style commission–and not for January 6. The COVID-19 pandemic response resulted in so many questionable actions from our public health bureaucracy that Americans deserve answers and accountability. The unelected, lab coat-wearing, glorified program managers that roam the halls of the CDC, NIH, and FDA should be the death of the progressive
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos officially handed over the position of CEO to successor Andy Jassy on Monday, transitioning to the role of executive chair. Bezos, whose stake in Amazon is worth roughly $180 billion according to the Associated Press, announced in a blog post his plans to step down from the chief executive officer position in
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, May 4, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Governor Greg Abbott. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. Professor Matthew McConaughey. The Texas governor’s race is going to be a hoot. Currently, Governor Abbott holds a “slight lead” in the polls over the naked-bongos guy.
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During a pre-game preview show for the Chicago White Sox’s televised Sunday game against the Detroit Tigers, former Major League Baseball player and manager Ozzie Guillen teared up when he remembered the day in 2006 that he became a United States citizen and became emotional when he discussed the opportunities the United States has provided
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The New York Times off-lead story Monday by national political correspondent Alexander Burns was headlined, “U.S. Surges, But Politics Hold Firm – Partisanship Immune to Signs of Recovery.” But it may as well have been titled, “What Is Wrong With You Trump Voters?” Flummoxed by Biden’s stubbornly so-so approval rating and continuing GOP strength, as shown
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(Stock image: Halfpoint/Getty Images) As if we needed further evidence that medicine is growing increasingly impersonal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal has published a study that claims a computer program can predict when seniors have six months to live. From the Global News story: Amid a lack of proper support for Canadians receiving home-based support
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Mention Mel Brooks in a crowd and you’re bound to get one of two reactions. Some will start reciting classic lines from his films, such as …  “Put the candle back!” It’s pronounced “Fronkensteen.” Funny, she doesn’t look Druish! Or, they’ll lament how the current culture warriors wouldn’t allow Brooks’ Blazing Saddles to be made today. Both
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More than 1,000 members of the Afghanistan security forces escaped to neighboring Tajikistan as the Taliban waged attacks throughout the country’s northern region. The Afghanistan soldiers’ escape represented the largest retreat since the Taliban, a powerful political and military group in the Middle Eastern nation, has increased advances, Reuters reported. The retreat is just the
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Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered a headline-making speech on Sunday to commemorate Independence Day and America herself. What are the details? McConaughey on Sunday afternoon shared a widely viewed video in which he said that America — still a very young nation — is “basically going through puberty.” “Happy Birthday, America,” he began the video. “Yes,
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Logo from the National Education Association’s 95th Representative Assembly in Washington, D.C., July 5, 2016 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The representative assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest teachers’ union, rejected an anti-Israel resolution that would condemn the Jewish state for its “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. The failed measure, which only 23 percent of
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The career of Francois Mitterrand has bemused many biographers. A political chameleon, he was noted for his progress from a functionary of Vichy France and at least a putative recipient of its highest decoration, the Francisque, to a popular front with the Communist Party in the early 1980s, and then halfway back again, with an
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