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Traffic passes The New York Times Building in New York, June 29, 2021. (Brent Buterbaugh) 2006—New York Times public editor Byron Calame criticizes Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse for violating the paper’s ethical guidelines by asserting, in a speech at Radcliffe, that the government “had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule
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President Joe Biden is using what one court opinion called “the most dramatic weapon in OSHA’s enforcement arsenal” to back up his COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more workers.  But relying on this bureaucratic weapon could be a risky strategy in the face of litigation threats, since courts have struck down all
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A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over $600 to the IRS is under fire. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended the proposal on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” calling the collection of financial information “routine” after some in the banking community criticized it
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American singer Billie Eilish performs during the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, June 30, 2019. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) At a concert in Austin, Texas, earlier this week, the immensely popular singer Billie Eilish voiced her rather inarticulate support for legal abortion and denounced the state’s recently enacted heartbeat bill. “I am so f***ing sick and tired
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently tweeted that he believes parents should determine what their kids are taught at school, but Nikole Hannah-Jones pushed back, noting that parents are not the only people who fund public schools. She also claimed that Pompeo loathes having “an informed citizenry in a multiracial democracy.” “Believe it or
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Last month, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, was busy trying to persuade other European states to take a stand against the USA. The immediate cause of the contretemps was AUKUS, a U.S.-U.K.-Australia military agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, Australia will receive technological support
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(rarrarorro/Getty Images) The Senate approved an extension of the federal debt ceiling through December on Thursday in a 50-48 vote, averting a looming default sometime this month. Senators approved the extension after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) proposed the short-term fix. According to the proposal, Republicans did not filibuster the debt-limit extension while Democrats
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Democrats continue to push for passage of a bill giving the federal government veto power over state election laws, including those requiring voter ID and regular updates of voter registration rolls.  “Photo ID laws are not on their face invalid,” an assistant attorney general testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It really depends on
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The ladies of The View on Wednesday spent their first segment discussing President Biden’s lavish, multi-trillion dollar spending bill flush with socialist programs. After discussing the two Democrat holdouts whose votes are needed to pass the bill, Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, co-host Sara Haines suggested a possible compromise to bring the price tag
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(National Review) At only age 34, I would be hard-pressed to recall much of the year 1996. I was nine years old, and my memories of that time are nebulous at best. I am certain, however, that news and politics were hardly on my mind, as I was more concerned about whether I’d be getting
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Chicago gang members involved in a deadly shooting Friday were released from custody without charges — one of them being first-degree murder — in part because the five arrestees were “mutual combatants” and willingly fought with each other, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. What are the details? The paper — citing an internal police report and
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A true third way in American politics would be one that represents the interests of non-elites. What does “elite” mean? What is the significance of the word when it is used adjectivally (in phrases like “elite habits,” for example)? To whom are we referring when we use the word as a plural noun, especially in
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Signs at the Supreme Court during the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Marist has released a new poll purporting to show low levels of support for legislation such as the Texas heartbeat bill. This poll surveyed more than 1,200 adults in late September and was conducted in conjunction
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Project Veritas released video on Wednesday of a whistleblower at Pfizer who accused the pharmaceutical company of trying to hide the connection between its new COVID-19 vaccine and aborted babies. In a new Project Veritas video, Pfizer employee Melissa Strickler provided emails from corporate executives asking staff to avoid mentioning the fetal cell lines that
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Pro-amnesty activists followed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into a ladies’ room at Arizona State University over the weekend to demand that she support fellow Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill.  Video of the intruders lecturing Sinema, D-Ariz., from outside a closed stall door—while other women went about their personal business—quickly went viral.  “Yesterday’s behavior was not
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