Month: October 2021

Many would argue that the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has been the low point of Biden’s presidency. Between the rapid collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, the Taliban’s rapid takeover, and the deaths of 13 U.S. service members at Kabul airport, things got so bad for Biden that he saw his approval ratings collapse. Even
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National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) A week into NR’s fall 2021 webathon, readers like you have already donated more than $50,000 to the mission of supporting conservative journalism. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We truly couldn’t do this without you. Tim chipped in 500 bucks and writes, “Appreciate
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A Texas middle school teacher was reportedly caught on video removing her mask, then getting in the face of a student to seemingly breathe on her. After the video went viral, the school district launched an investigation into the teacher — who has since been removed from the classroom. On Sept. 17, there was an
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) is taking a stand as he faces calls to resign for describing homosexuality as “filth.” What is the background? While speaking at Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove, North Carolina, in June, Robinson described “transgenderism” and homosexuality as “filth,” while condemning such concepts from being taught in school. “There
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John Durham By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations: Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign, according to
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Outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Having the tax-collection agency subject millions of Americans to unreasonable warrantless searches is a terrible idea on its face. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen it comes to combined malice and incompetence, it is tough to beat the IRS — and the Biden administration, working
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Facebook plans to reduce the presence of politics on people’s feeds after it lifted “exceptional” safety measures implemented for last year’s US election, Nick Clegg has said. The former UK deputy prime minister, now vice president for global affairs and communications at Facebook, said users had expressed a desire to see “more friends, less politics”.
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (D., Vt.) attends a hearing to discuss President Biden’s budget request for FY 2022, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2021. (Greg Nash/Reuters) I have already written against the congealing left-wing conventional wisdom which suggests that, if Democrats don’t get everything they want, then democracy itself has
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The United States military plans to drop the hammer on Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the Marine officer who criticized top military commanders for the role they played in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. What are the details? The Marine Corps revealed last week that Scheller has been formally charged with six violations of the Uniform
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Facebook is allegedly using a debunked fact-check from the Associated Press to censor posts for criticizing critical race theory. “The reason the DOJ/FBI are starting to target “angry parents at school board meetings” as domestic terrorists is because school boards and town councils are folding under the pressure of the public,” Ian Smith, fitness enthusiast
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Hundreds of thousands of US troops are still not fully vaccinated against Covid as the Pentagon’s deadline looms. There are different vaccination deadlines across the different services – The Navy and Marine Corps both share a November 28 deadline. The Air Force’s deadline for vaccination is November 2 and the Army’s deadline is December 15.
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(jaflippo/Getty Images) 2008—By a vote of 4 to 3—with the decisive vote provided by a lower-court judge who, as a result of two curious recusals, was sitting in for the chief justice—the Connecticut supreme court, in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, invents a right to same-sex marriage under the state constitution.
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In this article SAVE A Spirit Airlines aircraft takes off at Orlando International Airport. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Spirit Airlines‘ CEO Ted Christie on Friday told staff to get inoculated against Covid-19 ahead of forthcoming federal vaccine mandates for large companies. President Joe Biden last month said the government
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Attendees at the Black Voices for Trump Coalition rollout event in Atlanta, Ga., November 8, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Albert Eisenberg’s recent RealClearPolitics piece on Republican outreach strategies in black communities contains some admirable in-person reporting, based largely on Eisenberg’s focus-group conversations with a dozen “swing” black voters in suburban Philadelphia. But the article — titled
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Dave Chappelle has been embroiled in controversy this week because of comments deemed to be “transphobic” in his latest comedy special. The legendary stand-up comedian mocked cancel culture, fired back at the critics who attacked him, and blasted the mainstream media that wrote hit pieces on him. Chappelle performed a stand-up comedy show at the
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