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It’s strange, the way things have changed in twenty years. I have a lot of fond memories of the 2004 presidential campaign. I’d graduated from college a few years earlier and had only really been politically active a couple of years. It may be a cliché to say this, but 9/11 made me see the
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AH-64 Apaches with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade launch from Katterbach Army Airfield for a battalion attack training mission during Operation Eminent Strike in Katterbach, Germany, March 17, 2021. (Major Robert Fellingham/US Army) NBC reported this afternoon that the Biden administration is prepping a potential plan to scale back U.S. forces in Europe, according to
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As Democrats shift their message to the center, we should not lose sight of what blue governance really looks like. Talk is cheap and misgovernment is expensive. We should remember that this year, as people we are used to tuning out suddenly start sounding sort of reasonable. The standoff with Chicago public school teachers resisting
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Cecilia Martinez, a member of the White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ), announced that she would resign Friday, nearly one year after accepting the role. Martinez explained that she needed rest and wanted to spend more time with her family in an interview with the Associated Press. She was in charge of crafting the
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Medical staff treat a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, January 5, 2022. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Princeton’s “infanticide bioethicist” Peter Singer — a favorite of the elite and a crass utilitarian, is at it again. He is advocating punishing the unvaccinated when it comes to triaging life-saving treatment by
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After being critical to the Democrats’ strategy for winning the 2020 election, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is now anticipating huge problems complying with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate and is requesting a temporary waiver. Biden’s mandate requires companies with over 100 employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly COVID tests.
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The mayhem at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters) There is a fair amount of confusion on the question of federal agents or others “instigating” January 6. To start with, there is a difference between the legal defense of entrapment and the fundamentally political question of who instigated political violence. Entrapment
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The Division of Light and Power, by Dennis J. Kucinich (Primedia eLaunch, 2021), 683 pages. Younger readers can be forgiven for being unfamiliar with Dennis Kucinich. When he ran as a presidential candidate in the 2004 election, he put up a platform that was regarded as utterly ridiculous: not only legalizing same-sex marriage but also
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Austrian police performed nationwide raids against those suspected of selling fraudulent vaccination passes on Wednesday, Euro News reported. The Ministry of the Interior said a total of 22 individuals were under investigation for “forgery, use of falsified documents and fraud,” Euro News reported. Officials said each of the suspects is an anti-vaccine activist, accused of
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. (CBS via YouTube) Isaac notes that: Shemia Fagan, Oregon’s secretary of state, notified longtime New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof Thursday morning that he was ineligible to become Oregon’s next governor. Fagan’s office issued a press release after informing Kristof of her decision to reject his filing, citing the fact that “Article V, §
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Chicago schools will not hold classes again Thursday, as teachers’ union leaders continue to ignore science and push a political agenda. “We have no choice but to cancel classes tomorrow,” Chicago Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said Wednesday night. Coming off a two-week paid vacation, teachers deprived children of instruction Wednesday in the nation’s third-largest school
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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received $1,400 in COVID-19 relief funds during the latest round of federal stimulus, according to court documents. Tsarnaev received the $1,400 stimulus payment in mid-June 2021, according to a Wednesday filing by federal prosecutors. The documents also show that the bomber received roughly $20,000 from other sources. The money may assist him
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A digital sketch portraying the Three Magi following the star of Bethlehem. ( lukbar/Getty Images) January 6 is traditionally the Christian feast of the Epiphany. Wise men still seek Him, each and every day of the year, until our time is up. In the United States, January 6 will now always be known as the
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The real stories of 2021 haven’t been covered. Do you know what happened in 2021? There were at least 28 school shootings in the U.S. last year. In December 2021 alone, there were 34 mass-violence incidents in the U.S.—that is, a single event in which at least four people were killed or injured. There were
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School bus drivers lead a caravan through the downtown to demand that legislators provide more funding for COVID-19 re-opening procedures in Los Angeles, Calif., August 13, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) In response to $4.5 Trillion in Covid Relief and People Still Can’t Find Covid Tests Not only that, David, but schools claim they don’t have the
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