Month: March 2022

A girl walks in the courtyard of an apartment building destroyed in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 28, 2022. (Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters) Putin’s forces may yet crush the Ukrainians. A sobering, and excellent, column comes from Bret Stephens: here. But the Ukrainians are putting up an extraordinary fight. Here in
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As Americans suffer under the heavy financial burden of sky high gas prices, reports indicate that the Biden administration may announce a plan to release one million barrels of oil per day from the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Associated Press reported that Biden is preparing to call for dispensing up to one million barrels
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Almost a year and a half years after laughably claiming Russia stole Hunter Biden’s e-mails or that the entire scandal was part of a “Russian disinformation campaign“, CBS Evening News finally returned to reality and reported on his corrupt business activities. While all three evening newscasts covered the story, CBS’s coverage was the most straightforward and free from making
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As in so many other places around the country, the public education system in Baltimore is failing the city’s children. Public schools have been failing American students for decades, but the issue is pronounced in Maryland’s biggest city.  Stories abound of Baltimore’s momentous failures to teach its kids. One report details how a student graduated
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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey speaks with attendees at the end-of-year board meeting for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Phoenix, Ariz., June 17, 2021. (Gage Skidmore) Republican Arizona governor Doug Ducey signed a bill Wednesday restricting participation in women’s sports to female athletes and another bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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U.S. President Joe Biden receives a second coranavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination after delivering remarks on COVID-19 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 30, 2022.  Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden warned Wednesday that the U.S. will not have enough Covid vaccine shots
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A British-born member of the so-called Islamic State Beatles nicknamed Jihadi George was part of a “brutal hostage taking scheme” where captors “seemed to enjoy” beating detainees, a court in the US has heard. Prosecutors say El Shafee Elsheikh and two other Britons were “utterly terrifying” and abuse carried out was “unrelenting and unpredictable”. Elsheikh
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One of the most entertaining aspects of football and media relations are locker room interviews. Throughout the years, we have seen countless players and coaches give timely quips, angry stares, or short-tempered replies in exchanges with reporters that have provided us with plenty of juicy and memorable content. The NFL’s COVID protocols forced the media
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Gen. Tod Wolters, commander of United States European Command, publicly contradicted President Joe Biden on Tuesday. What is the background? Biden sowed international confusion last week when he appeared to tell soldiers with the 82nd Airborne that they were headed to Ukraine. “You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been
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Parents have spent the last two years dealing with lawmakers’ and school officials’ indecisions about school re-openings, a nightmare for many. Public officials have constantly alternated between remote and in-person learning, masking and unmasking, social distancing and not. Now, many families are  rejoicing as they see states lift their remaining COVID-19 restrictions. Getting their children
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Debate moderator and then-Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first 2020 presidential campaign debate on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via Reuters) Wallace is obviously more comfortable living in a media culture that allows liberal conspiracies and biases but not
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A transient man pleaded guilty to multiple sex crimes against a 16-year-old with special needs who went missing and was found in his camper days later at a homeless encampment. Tarynn Finn was reported missing in Jan. 2021 by her family in Santee, California, a suburb of San Diego. She was found 5 days later
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President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal includes a minimum 20% tax on wealthy individuals, but the plan would allow for the taxation of unrealized gains, a move that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia says that he opposes. “You can’t tax something that’s not earned. Earned income is what we’re based on,”
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