Month: October 2021

President Biden speaks with House Speaker Pelosi at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., October 28, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Even the scaled down bill still represents a reckless expansion of the welfare state, and some of it may end up permanent.  NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F rom a conservative standpoint, nothing good was ever going to come
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Trial attorney Jeff Harris said that a question of negligence on the “Rust” movie set following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins could come down to the level of firearm training that actor Alec Baldwin received.  “It may ultimately boil down to really a question of whether or not the actor was appropriately trained
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New York Times congressional reporter Jonathan Weisman offered some strong “soak the rich” energy in his optimistic analysis of the Democratic Party’s latest money-raising proposal, “How Democrats Would Tax Billionaires to Pay for Their Agenda — The plan stakes out new territory by putting levies on unrealized gains in the value of billionaires’ liquid assets,
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Michael Ramirez Ramirez, who studied premed at the University of California, Irvine, originally considered journalism a hobby. But he was hooked when his first cartoon for the college newspaper, lampooning candidates for student office, had the student assembly demanding an apology. “Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions
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A screen grab shows people carrying an injured person to a hospital after an attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 26, 2021. (ReutersTV/via Reuters) Colin Kahl, the Defense Department’s undersecretary for policy, told a Senate committee yesterday that Afghanistan’s ISIS affiliate could have the capability to launch terrorist attacks on Western
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Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina has introduced legislation that would block the secretary of labor from utilizing any funds to develop, promote, or enforce a rule obliging employers to require that their workers either get vaccinated against COVID-19 or get tested for the illness. “No funds may be used by the Secretary of
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On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid continued her emotional breakdown over Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin’s prospects of victory, tag-teaming with Youngkin opponent and former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) to insist Youngkin’s side has peddled “[t]he critical race theory bogeyman” and opposed any sort of “American history” that “doesn’t completely absolve
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) listens during a business meeting with the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 20, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The senator from West Virginia makes a big show of demanding rationality but seems unwilling to follow through. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s the debate over the
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The United States has issued its first gender-neutral passport. The official document features an “X” gender designation. Dana Zzyym, of Fort Collins, Colorado, told the Associated Press it was their passport and they have been in a battle with the government over the issue since 2015. Image: Dana Zzyym prefers a gender-neutral pronoun. Pic: AP
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Sen. Bernie Sanders during a Senate Budget Committee hearing to examine President Biden’s proposed budget request for fiscal year 2022 on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2021. (Shawn Thew/Pool via Reuters) This argument seems to be growing in popularity among progressives: Joe Manchin represents .5% of US population but just killed paid family leave supported by
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It is official. The revolver fired by Baldwin that killed Halanyi Hutchins and Joel  is a F.lli Pietta 45 Long Colt Revolver. Take a look at the video of how it operates: [embedded content] It is a single action revolver. That means you have to cock it manually in order to fire it each time.
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 27, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki bristled on Wednesday when a reporter asked if President Biden, who is Catholic and pro-abortion, will discuss “the human dignity of the unborn” when he meets
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ free community college plan will increase costs for both students and taxpayers. Fortunately, the Biden-Harris promise of free community college appears less likely to make it into the final version of the Build Back Better Act, the $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend plan currently under debate in Congress. The
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