Month: December 2021

In September, when Joe Biden announced a federal vaccine mandate on private businesses with 100 or more employees, a clear majority of the public supported Biden’s mandate, according to Gallup. That poll showed 58 percent favoring Biden’s mandating vaccination or weekly testing of employees. A Morning Consult-Politico poll released last month showed that while most Americans still supported
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While COVID-19 cases surged in New York City, Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pictured vacationing in Florida, National Review reported. Ocasio-Cortez was spotted drinking cocktails outside of a restaurant in Miami Beach on Thursday while New York City reported a record high number of COVID-19 cases, National Review reported. Ocasio-Cortez represents New York’s
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Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Don’t Look Up. (Niko Tavernise/Netflix) When Mike Judge’s Idiocracy first came out, I criticized it (wrongly, in retrospect) as being too uncharitable, too mean-spirited, and cruel. I did not have that reaction to Don’t Look Up, the Netflix comet-headed-for-Earth comedy written by Adam McKay (Anchorman) and leftist journalist David
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Although it is still too early to say for sure, the early data suggests strongly that the Omicron variant, while more infectious than its predecessors, is significantly less deadly. Nevertheless, as the variant causes yet another wave of COVID-19 positive test results, many parents with students in districts where states have not required schools to
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A series of animal studies released in recent days regarding the Omicron variant all point to the same conclusion: that while Omicron is highly infectious, it is significantly less lethal than any previous variant of COVID-19 because it causes much less damage to the lungs, according to the New York Times. The Times highlighted a
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This was CNN cognitive dissonance on steroids — with a booster shot of hypocrisy. Picture this. In its 7 am hour, New Day brought on CNN medical analyst  Dr. Jonathan Reiner who called the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration a potential “superspreader” event that is “completely unnecessary” and “unwise.” Reiner called omicron “the most
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New bereavement policies in Boston and Portland acknowledge the death and grief the act entails. While conservatives might be skeptical of the city of Boston’s new parental-leave policy, which provides up to twelve weeks of paid leave after a miscarriage or voluntary abortion, some of us in the pro-life community are grateful that Boston’s political
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(dkfielding/Getty Images) The Cook Political Report released several ratings on Thursday showing the GOP as the clear favorite to take control of the U.S. House in the 2022 midterms. Three Democratic-held districts have fallen into the “lean Republican column,” while another two are in the “likely Republican” column. Meanwhile, just one Republican-held district currently leans
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A member of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s staff described the nation of Israel as “a racist European ethnostate,” according to Fox News. The outlet reported that Hussain Altamimi, who is a legislative assistant for the Democratic lawmaker, posted the comment on Instagram last week. “Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from it’s
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Isabella Weber, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has written an opinion piece suggesting that price controls should be considered as a possible tactic to deal with inflation. Americans have been hit hard by the economic consequences of rapidly rising costs, with the consumer price index recently registering the biggest
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For every conservative woman who rejects feminism, there’s a female pundit who says “but only what it has become.” There are many, it seems, who want to hold on to the idea, or perhaps even just the appearance, of political equity between the sexes, even as they reject what it has brought about. Far be
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While guest hosting Inside Politics on CNN on Thursday, Phil Mattingly wondered how President Biden’s approval rating could be so low – after all he has signed major pieces of legislation, and the economy is allegedly “robust.” To alleviate his confusion, Mattingly welcomed CNN historian Tim Naftali to explain that Biden’s numbers will eventually go up because at the
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