Month: March 2022

Local lawmakers in Boston, Massachusetts are seeking restrictions on political demonstrations after anti-mandate protesters harassed the mother of a city councilman and protested outside the home of the mayor. City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo said that the anti-mandate protesters accidentally harassed his mother when they were seeking to protest outside his home instead. This AM my
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Republican Sen. Mitt Romney told CNN’s Kasie Hunt that he has not decided whether he will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Romney, who voted against confirming Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last year, said that he has started a “much
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President Biden’s revival of the Bush Doctrine is dangerously out of tune with the deeper processes transforming world order Joe Biden presents George W. Bush and Laura Bush the 2018 Liberty Medal at The National Constitution Center on November 11, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) Much has been made of
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As gas prices rise, the Biden administration is “looking for someone to blame, and unfortunately they really just need to turn and look at themselves,” Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says.  The Biden administration “talks about environmental sustainability, [but] they don’t think about economic sustainability as well,” Graves says, adding that when it comes to energy
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Hong Kong faces a tough balancing act as the city aims to lift some border restrictions for international travelers starting next month, according to a government official.  The Chinese territory intends to ease a travel ban on flights from nine countries, including the U.S., U.K. and Australia, and allow those travelers to quarantine in a
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At a Monday press conference after returning from a gaffe-packed trip to Europe where he made multiple provocative comments regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden asserted to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy that none of his gaffes occurred. And despite running reports highlighting his biggest gaffe and showing Biden sticking to it,
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Women clear debris from a school that was shelled by Russian forces in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 27, 2022. (Thomas Peter / Reuters) You may have “reached out” to people in a war zone. Tried to contact them. When you hear back — there is hardly a better feeling, true? • A cellist from Kharkiv, Denys
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Since the 1940s, the global monetary system has radically changed three times: “Bretton Woods one” in 1944, when the U.S. dollar was attached to the gold standard. Then, “Bretton Woods two” in 1971, when Nixon took us off the gold standard and the dollar was semi-attached to oil. And in March of 2022, “Bretton Woods
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The Associated Press reported that Oregon will stop requiring terminally ill people to be state residents in order to obtain deadly medication to end their own lives. A lawsuit targeted the residency requirement, according to the outlet which reported that a settlement was filed in which the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Medical Board
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On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law the “Parental Rights in Education” bill which bans teaching children in kindergarten through third grade about “sexual orientation and gender identity.” If you thought the bill’s final passage meant the media would stop freaking out about it, think again. All three evening news broadcasts labeled the
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About 255,000 excess votes were cast in the 2020 presidential election across six battleground states, according to a new study that examined individual voting precincts.  Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, is the author of the peer-reviewed study, which looked at precincts in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.  The
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Shipping containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China. (Aly Song/Reuters) Shanghai is locking down as Covid cases rise. The measures are expected to be the most extensive lockdown in China since the Wuhan lockdowns over two years ago. Chinese authorities have ordered nonessential
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In this article DIS Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World. Roberto Machado Noa | Lightrocket | Getty Images After Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law on Monday, the Walt Disney Company condemned the legislation and vowed to help have it repealed. “Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t
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With gas prices up 50% in the last year, natural gas more than double its pre-pandemic price, and electricity price hikes far outpacing the official inflation rate, Democrats argue that there’s no time like right now to switch to alternative energy sources. About that. The US Solar Supply Chain is Under Attack. Before we get
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U.S. allies distanced themselves from President Joe Biden’s declaration Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power!” Biden said in a speech in Poland. The White House quickly walked back Biden’s remarks moments after his speech ended, stating the president was not discussing regime
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Notre Dame Main Building ( ReDunnLev/Getty Images) Tomorrow evening, I’ll be out at my alma mater Notre Dame to debate feminist attorney Jill Filipovic on the resolution “Legal Access to Abortion is Necessary for the Freedom and Equality of Women.” (I’ll let you guess which side of the resolution I’ll be taking.) She and I
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A CNN analyst suggested that the reaction of the Academy Awards audience to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage is a “psychological case study on how Trump got normalized.” What are the details? The analyst in question is Asha Rangappa, whose Twitter profile indicates she also is a former FBI special agent, a Yale faculty
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The 2022 Academy Awards really wanted to boost their ratings this year. The typical dose of wokeness infused in the star studded event was curtailed to a few brief thank you speeches and hostesses. But there were a few moments during the night that were worth discussing. Ukraine on the Brain Of course there would
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