[ad_1] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley speaks in Washington, D.C., October 4, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said Thursday that he would block the confirmation of two Trump appointees over unanswered questions about the administration’s firing of two inspectors general, on the grounds that the White House has failed its
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[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2019 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr on Thursday defended his order to force back protesters ahead of President Trump’s Monday photo op at St. John’s Church, saying the group was “becoming increasingly unruly” and was asked
[ad_1] Police officers stand guard during a protest against the death of George Floyd, New York City, June 3, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) To secure convictions, prosecutors must prove that officer Derek Chauvin was the proximate cause of Floyd’s death and that the others assisted him in the act. It was nearly 20 years ago that
[ad_1] Tennis player Dominic Thiem during the Austrian Pro Series 2020 in Maria Enzersdorf, Mödling, Austria, May 27, 2020 (Alexander Schwarz/Red Bull/Reuters) The backlash to Dominic Thiem’s recent comments highlights the need to balance compassion and liberty when arguing against entitlement programs. The ATP and WTA — the men’s and women’s professional-tennis tours, respectively —
[ad_1] New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks after the USNS Comfort pulled into a berth in Manhattan during the coronavirus outbreak, New York City, March 30, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) De Blasio’s policy escalates the Left’s war on religious liberty. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has become a convenient punching bag for both
[ad_1] Travis McMichael poses for a booking photo after he and his father were arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and charged with murder in the shooting death of unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Ga., May 7, 2020. (Glynn County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters) The white man who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery allegedly called
[ad_1] The U.S. Navy Rifle team stands at attention before the ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific aboard the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 2, 2015. (Hugh Gentry/Reuters) A U.S. Navy veteran held in Iran for the past two years
[ad_1] (Jason Lee/Reuters) The U.S. will designate four Chinese state media outlets as foreign embassies in addition to five such outlets that have already been placed under restrictions, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The State Department could announce the designation as early as Thursday. China Central Television (CCTV) and China News Service are expected to be
[ad_1] The Golden Gate Bridge and the skyline of San Francisco, Calif. (hanusst/Getty Images) The case against culture wars, the imperial presidency, and Leviathan NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n 1821, the 19th-century French intellectual Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante, wrote On the Communes and the Aristocracy. It does not recommend itself to an
[ad_1] Then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Donald Trump before a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House, October 23, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Retired Marine general James Mattis, who resigned as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense in 2018, broke his silence on the administration in a statement Wednesday, saying
[ad_1] People take part in a protest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Boston, Mass., June 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) It’s still mandatory — unless you’re looting, rioting, and starting fires. Cardenas Ortiz-Sandoval’s mother, Guadalupe, died last month. Cardenas, 22, helped to plan her funeral. She was told by mortuary
[ad_1] Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, January 14, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Secretary of Defense Mark Esper drew the ire of the White House Wednesday for publicly stating that he opposed invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military to states beset by unrest, after President Trump said
[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters) The former president ignores one of the fundamental sources of officer misconduct. Seeing President Trump’s ham-fisted response to protests and riots this week, some Americans might reasonably feel nostalgia for Barack Obama’s oratorical skill
[ad_1] United Auto Workers President Gary Jones delivers remarks in Detroit, Mich., July 22, 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) The United Auto Workers faces the threat of a government takeover after former president Gary Jones pleaded guilty on Wednesday to racketeering charges. Jones admitted that he helped steal over $1 million from rank-and-file union members, in a
[ad_1] Rep. Steve King speaks during a town hall in Primghar, Iowa, January 26, 2019. (KC McGinnis/Reuters) Dumping him is an act of both political and moral hygiene. The Republican primary voters of Iowa’s fourth district finally sent Steve King packing last night by a margin of almost ten points, in favor of more conventional
[ad_1] The U.S Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Does the Constitution safeguard religious organizations with a traditional view of marriage that participate in our nation’s social safety-net programs? Can state, local, and federal officials weaponize seemingly neutral anti-discrimination laws and policies to banish faith-based social-service programs that don’t toe
[ad_1] Pro-choice supporters hold up signs outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) In a live online event this evening, Pro-Life San Francisco will debut a new video exposing entanglements between the publicly funded University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and
[ad_1] People raise their arms during a protests against the death of George Floyd near the White House in Washington, D.C., June 1, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The risks will be great if the present unrest drags on in the weeks and months ahead. In his speech in the Rose Garden on Monday, Donald Trump dared
[ad_1] Former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, June 3, 2020. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters) Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified to Congress on Wednesday that he would not have signed off on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal to spy on former Trump
[ad_1] David Dorn, a 77-year-old former St. Louis police captain, was shot and killed by looters breaking into Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry, a pawn shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. in St. Louis around 2:30 Tuesday morning. Gruesome images of the shooting were sent out via Facebook Live as it was happening. Some 55
[ad_1] Butler Library on the campus of Columbia University in New York City (Mike Segar/Reuters) Is a self-consciously conservative approach to the humanities and social sciences desirable? Prominent right-leaning scholars are skeptical. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E arlier this year, author Avi Woolf argued that right-leaning academics ought to start crafting a conservative vision for research
[ad_1] NYPD officers detain a protester who was involved in the looting of a store in Manhattan, June 2, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD over the past several days are immediately released as a direct result of New York’s new bail-reform law, New York City police chief
[ad_1] President Donald Trump pumps his fist toward police as he walks in Lafayette Park during ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) In the Rose Garden yesterday evening, President Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military to restore order in the American cities if mayors and
[ad_1] An NYPD police car burns as protesters clash with police during a march against the death of George Floyd in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 30, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Rioters and their enablers claim that the present disorder is justified by an epidemic of police shootings of unarmed black men. But no such epidemic exists. There
[ad_1] A woman holds up a sign in support of the 2nd Amendment around the Virginia State Capitol grounds in Richmond, Va., January 20, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Even a cursory examination of American history shows that gun rights are not racist. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones had some thoughts on the Second Amendment yesterday: This
[ad_1] Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) arrives to hear testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, in Washington, D.C., October 17, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Representative Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.) was caught on hot mic on Tuesday admitting that he only wanted to speak at a George Floyd rally because of his upcoming primary.
[ad_1] (George Frey/Reuters) A Philadelphia gun shop owner shot and killed a man who broke into his store early Tuesday morning as rioting and looting continued in the city in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Greg Isabella, the 67-year-old owner of Firing Line Inc. in South Philadelphia, was staying in his shop
[ad_1] Joe Biden speaks about President Donald Trump’s response to protests and rioting during an event in Philadelphia, Penn., June 2, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) “Justice excuses violence” is a self-destructive maxim that risks producing new atrocities. Last week, the nation was stunned by the senseless murder of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police
[ad_1] Detroit police line up next to an armored vehicle in preparation to enforce a curfew in Detroit, Mich., June 1, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Right now providing security must be a higher priority than law enforcement. Since the revolution in policing that began in the early 1990s, we have had a generation of peace and
[ad_1] Protesters sit in the street facing a line of riot policemen during nationwide protests following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Raleigh, N.C., May 31, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Whatever the Supreme Court does going forward, a 150-year-old law needs a rewrite as the nation clamors for greater police accountability. As
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