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Voters cast their ballots to vote in state and local elections at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, U.S. November 5, 2019. (Ryan M. Kelly/Reuters) In response to The Richmond Public Schools Division Is Doing Terry McAuliffe No Favors in Virginia As Charlie notes, the Richmond, Virginia schools abruptly deciding that
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The Washington, D.C., chapter of an environmentalist group rejected an invitation to speak at a left-leaning voting rights event because three Jewish groups would be present. We do not “stand with … those who defend Israeli violence,” announced Sunrise DC, a local chapter of the Sunrise Movement, which seeks “to stop climate change.” The local
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PHARR, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Pharr International Bridge Cargo Facility intercepted $768,500 in alleged cocaine and methamphetamine in multiple incidents. “The commercial environment continues to be an area where we experience a continued drug smuggling threat, as these seizures clearly illustrate,” said Port Director Carlos Rodriguez, Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas
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National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) As of Wednesday afternoon, 821 of you have contributed to NR’s Fall webathon — raising over $100,000! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Your generous donations go towards supporting the best conservative journalism in America. It’s readers like you who allow us to cover the
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Facebook is reportedly planning on rebranding and is set to announce a new company name next week, according to The Verge. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg intends to announce the new name at the Facebook Connect conference on Oct. 28, a source familiar with the matter told The Verge. The rebrand is reportedly an attempt by Zuckerberg to
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Xenotransplantation — that is, animal to human — organ transplants offer distant hope for ethically ending the long wait for a transplant. That hope came a big step closer recently as scientists were able to successfully attach a genetically modified pig kidney to the outside of a person who was brain dead and observed it
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy and the Labor Department’s September jobs report at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Over at Politico, Christopher Cadelago and Marianne Levine offer the latest excuse for Joe Biden going quiet in public, in this case on the reconciliation-bill fight on Capitol
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Perhaps no major city will prove more instructive on the political fallout from that appalling slogan than Minneapolis, where residents will vote on Nov. 2 to elect a mayor and, perhaps more importantly, decide the future of their city’s police department. If Minneapolis voters approve the ballot measure, the city could create a new public safety agency without being
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Simply taking a look at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach yield much different views of the supply chain crisis than anything coming from the White House. The White House said that ports would become 24/7 operations after Biden virtually met with port management. Unfortunately, they haven’t and now another 10 cargo ships
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 3, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A long, long time ago… er, late August… we were assured that the only thing Americans would remember about Afghanistan is that President Biden brought U.S. troops home, and that once the debacle faded from the day’s headlines.
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China is a serious rival to the United States, as demonstrated by a recent hypersonic missile test, but war in the Pacific will not solve America’s problems. The Twitter barbs wrote themselves: While U.S. generals dabbled in critical race theory and fretted about nail polish online, China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that careered around
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When Meghan McCain suddenly left The View, one TV critic hailed her turn as ”a highly effective heel, a love-to-hate reality villain.” But Meghan McCain’s forthcoming audio memoir Bad Republican insists her liberal partners on the show were the villains. Howard Kurtz at Fox News revealed some of the details of her “scorching response.”  What will
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A radical Bush Doctrine of preventive war that the former general and politico helped sell spelled the final demise of the Powell Doctrine. 20th September 1993: General Colin Powell testifying before a Senate committee on his appointment as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Photo by Howard Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images) In establishment circles,
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