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President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., November 3, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) This evening, the Fifth Circuit reaffirmed its stay of President Biden’s illegal federal vaccine mandate. Setting the order in context, the court recorded that in its fifty-year history, OSHA has issued just ten ETSs. Six were challenged in court;
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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 13, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images) Wagie wagie get in cagie. All day long you sweat and ragie. NEET is comfy. NEET is cool.
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The students union of Durham University in England promoted a sex work training course offered by the university in an email to all students and staff, the Independent reported. “The SU position on students in sex work are [sic] clear: support, informed advice, de-stigmatization and collaboration with expert organizations,” read the email, according to the
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I’m a huge fan of Allahpundit over at Hot Air but don’t find his post speculating about Christie’s motives in attacking Trump very persuasive. Is he angling to be bought off into a future Trump cabinet position, or maybe even Trump’s VP? I think Christie was genuinely appalled by Trump’s post-election conduct, is saying what
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The inflation crisis has gotten so bad that multiple liberal outlets are now admitting that it spells disaster for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda.  CNBC published an eye-opening piece headlined, “Inflation has taken away all the wage gains for workers and then some.” The story analyzed that “Real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation,
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An analysis by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank run jointly by the left-wing Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, shows that 20-30 percent of Middle-Class families will pay more in taxes in 2022 if Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion spending boondoggle passes. It’s not a lot more — a $100 increase over last
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For more than a half century, the post-1960s Democratic Party has employed a strategy of using Critical Theory and Identity Politics to foment an intense loathing of Republicans. The success of that strategy was illustrated by an angry liberal voter in the lead-up to the 2020 elections. With white hot hatred oozing from every fiber
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A woman receives a coronavirus vaccination, at Jordan Downs in Los Angeles, Calif., March 10, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) ABC News asks, “Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. So why are cases surging?” Vaccination prevents severe reactions, not infections. A high vaccination rate should reduce deaths and hospitalizations and other severe reactions, but
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In 1958, British sociologist Michael Young coined the term “meritocracy” in his satirical novel, called “The Rise of the Meritocracy.” Its point was simple: When intelligence and effort are selected by any society as the basis for success or failure, those with such merit begin to comprise their own class. That class hardens into an
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Joe Biden had every reason to expect pushback when he announced a federal vaccine mandate on private companies with 100+ employees, and he got it. Republican governors and attorneys general promised to fight the mandate in court, and they have. As a result, the mandate was temporarily blocked by the U.S. Court of Appeals for
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A giant baby balloon inflated by Climate Change activists at Glasgow Green as the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, November 8, 2021. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) Imagine being so monomaniacally obsessed with climate and so cynical about life in general as to reduce all the potential of a child to its carbon
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The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets. According to Reuters, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) sets out a list of things companies can and cannot do that would be enforced by a fine of up to 10% of global turnover.
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In 2020, many believed that Joe Biden was more of a Trojan Horse than the candidate Democrats actually wanted. After twice electing Barack Obama, was the Democratic Party really excited about voting for another old white guy? Establishment Democrats likely understood that Biden was a means to an end—someone “electable” compared to the radicals who
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Officials asked U.S. citizens to make plans to leave Haiti because of increased gang violence and kidnappings, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti announced on Wednesday. The embassy warned of widespread fuel shortages impacting basic and emergency services across Haiti, according to the State Department. U.S. citizens were encouraged to purchase commercial flights out of the
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In response to Democrats’ Spending Bill Breaks Biden’s Tax Pledge, Analysis Finds Phil notes that the Tax Policy Center, a project of the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, finds that the House Democrats’ reconciliation bill would violate Biden’s pledge that no one earning less than $400,000 would see his taxes increase by a
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The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate just launched a broadside attack against nine conservative digital outlets with its “Toxic Ten” report. The report aimed to silence entire outlets for writing stories that don’t follow the leftist climate policy narrative. The hyperbolic report used data out of context to make it appear that users
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Pelosi and her elite friend are above their own COVID rules, like wearing a mask in public. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2021. Donations/Tips accepted and appreciated – $1.00 – $5.00 – $25.00 – $50.00 – $100 – it all helps to fund this website and keep the cartoons coming. Also Venmo @AFBranco – THANK
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Berta Valle, wife of the Nicaraguan political prisoner Félix Maradiaga, speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Miami, October 2021 (Courtesy of the Oslo Freedom Forum) Impromptus today is a grab-bag, as usual, but it begins with a dark, dark subject: Nicaragua. Ortega has just staged another election — a non-election, more accurately. The dictatorship
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Let us note this moment in time when the devolution of self-defense came to this:Mr. Rittenhouse, I remind you that you’re under oath. Shouldn’t you have let him kill, maim, bash, stomp, thwack, shoot, roundhouse kick, jab, or connect with that haymaker before you pulled your trigger? This is where we are. You won’t find
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The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber) for charging “wait time” fees to passengers who, because of disability, need more time to enter a car. Uber’s policies and practices of charging wait time fees based on disability have harmed many passengers and potential passengers with disabilities throughout the country. The
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My latest New York Post column: Silverstein now frames the Times retreat under fire as a “clarification.” Hannah-Jones, who has not written a bylined piece in the Times in over a year, continues on Twitter to aggressively defend the claim and keeps trying to dig up historical support — an implicit admission of the homework
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