Month: January 2022

We have Omicron to thank for reminding us that we have to make choices for ourselves, irrespective of health and policy wonks. As we wait for the latest wave of Covid to crest and recede, I am reminded of two comments from liberal-minded acquaintances of mine. The first was something to the tune of “Trump
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A statewide court in Pennsylvania ruled on Friday the expansive two-year-old mail-in voting is unconstitutional. According to a Commonwealth Court filing released Friday,  Act 77 which allows residents to vote by mail in Pennsylvania, violates Article VII, Section 1 of the Pennsylvania constitution. This is HUGE news. President Trump weighed in. TRENDING: Canadian Freedom Convoy
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The largest lobbying group in the U.S. is raising concerns over President Joe Biden’s latest high-profile nominee, Jane Serene Raskin, according to a letter released Thursday. “Some of Ms. Raskin’s past actions and statements have raised concerns among the U.S. business community and merit the Committee’s scrutiny,” wrote the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Senate
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J.K. Rowling attends the British premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in London in 2018. (Toby Melville/Reuters) In olden days, institutions of higher education thought it was their duty to teach adult concepts to young minds. Now they’re teaching children’s fantasy books. But books for the middle schoolers of 20 years ago are
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Chaos erupted online after CNN ran with a leaked report about alleged statements President Joe Biden made to the president of Ukraine in a phone call amidst rising tension from the possibility of a Russian invasion. Biden spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday about the threat from Russia but a leaked report claimed that
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Desi Cuellar, a Republican running to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District, says that as a member of Congress he would put forward legislation to require capital punishment for those who kill police officers. Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez currently represents the Empire State’s 14th Congressional District. “So-called progressives like @AOC have created a culture where
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Before he appeared at his first solo news conference of 2022, President Joe Biden knew he had a communications problem he had to deal with. Namely, how to get off the defensive. How to avoid spending his time with the White House press corps defending his decisions and explaining his actions as allegations of failure,
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A new subtype of Omicron variant is reportedly spreading in more than 40 countries worldwide including Denmark,UK, India, Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, South Africa, and the USA. Scientists had reported cases of this new variant, “omicron BA.2,” in at least four states in the United States – California, New Mexico, Texas and Washington. Scientists has not
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Prince Andrew has formally responded to Virginia Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against him in New York by outlining his key legal arguments. In an 11-page document submitted to the court, he individually addressed each of Ms Giuffre’s 73 points and outlined 12 “affirmative defences” he plans to use at trial. He also requested a trial by
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Big Tech to remove Joe Rogan’s podcast because of COVID “misinformation.” Murthy was discussing COVID “misinformation” on social media platforms with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. Brzezinski asked Murthy what he thought of Rogan’s podcast, which reached 11 million people per episode. Rogan has been criticized for promoting alternative
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The campus of Yale University in 2012. (Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters) Yale’s divestment committee is investigating whether companies that the university’s endowment is invested in have links to China’s ongoing human-rights abuses, according to the Yale Daily News. That probe could well result in the $42 billion endowment’s divestment from certain Chinese firms. The Yale student newspaper
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The teenager who sexually assaulted a girl in a high school bathroom in Loudoun County, Virginia won’t have to register as a sex offender after a judge reconsidered the sentence. The unnamed 15-year-old had been sentenced earlier in January to supervised probation in a residential treatment facility until he turned 18 years old. He was
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Following New Day co-host Brianna Keilar’s spectacularly bad week hosting CNN’s poisonously partisan Democracy in Peril special, carnival barker Jim Acosta received his chance to audition for the primetime slot formerly held by Chris Cuomo and, through three days, Acosta did even worse. Among the shows he lost to, Acosta fell behind a Hallmark movie,
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Ilya Shapiro at the 2016 CPAC conference. (Gage Skidmore) Ilya Shapiro has been writing and speaking on the Supreme Court for the Cato Institute (where he ran the Cato Supreme Court Review), the Federalist Society, various conservative publications, and mainstream outlets such as guest blogging at SCOTUSBlog for years. His recent book, Supreme Disorder: Judicial
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