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Hillsborough High School students walk out of school to protest the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, in Tampa, Fla., March 3, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) A narrow majority of U.S. voters support Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill, which prohibits the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity to public school students in kindergarten through third grade.
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The misappropriation of the economic freedom of millions of mom-and-pop investors by BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink has unintended consequences. “We have a new bunch of emperors, and they’re the people who vote the shares in the index funds,” Charlie Munger, business partner of philanthropist Warren Buffett and a big proponent of index fund investing,
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A conductor wears a mask while waiting for passengers to load into the New York City Subway during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 30, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Senate voted on Tuesday night to overturn the federal mask mandate that applies to people traveling on planes, trains, and the like: 57-40,
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The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, a move that would be welcomed by many people weary of the time changes twice each year. The proposal passed the chamber through unanimous consent. By unanimous consent, Senate ok’s bipartisan bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Will eliminate shifting
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Dr. Anthony Fauci has suggested that if Republicans take control of Congress, they will target him, but uncover nothing. “It’s Benghazi hearings all over again,” Fauci said, according to the Washington Post. “They’ll try to beat me up in public, and there’ll be nothing there,” he said. “But it will distract me from doing my
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During his opening monologue on the ongoing war in Ukraine, MSNBC’s host of All In Chris Hayes claimed that European nations like Poland are racist for accepting refugees from their next-door neighbor Ukraine. Because everything on MSNBC must turn into a race issue, Hayes whined that Poland was against allowing Syrians to flee their war-torn country
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Only when the American character abroad and at home is clarified can there be any coherence to our political goals. Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Most of us learned that mnemonic device at some point in our mathematical education. Calculations must be done in an appropriate succession to reflect distributive and associative properties. So,
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China’s annual session of the National People’s Congress—a “rubber-stamp” parliament whose outcomes are predetermined by Chinese Communist Party officials—concluded on March 11. The overriding message of the session was simple: Make sure nothing gets in the way of President Xi Jinping’s bid for a third term in power. The purpose of the session was to
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) met on Wednesday to discuss S.3799, the PREVENT Pandemics Act. The contents of the PREVENT Pandemics Act is here. Remarkably, the committee did not include a section on banning funding for gain of function research in Chinese laboratories in their bill. That might come in handy
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The U.S. head office of TikTok in Culver City, Calif., September 15, 2020 (Mike Blake/Reuters) The use of Gen Z internet “influencers” seems to be a central plank of Joe Biden’s youth-outreach strategy. On the 2020 campaign trail, Biden’s team “hired a firm to assist with influencer outreach,” Recode reported in September 2020. The campaign’s
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New York Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has his work cut out for him. As the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, it’s his job to, well, make this November less miserable for the Democrats than it currently appears to be shaping up to be. Any political observer worth his salt has figured out
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On Tuesday, The Washington Post added a “clarification” to a local story Friday that claimed Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin’s proposal to set up a parental hotline to report “divisive” content in schools was wholly opposed by every single one of the commonwealth’s 133 superintendents even though, in reality, it was only a letter passed
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On March 21, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing will begin. Senators will be scrutinizing her past judicial opinions on critical issues from labor law to illegal immigration to presidential claims of executive privilege. This brief overview of several of those key opinions provides some insight into her general approach to resolving legal
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