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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In the latest NB Podcast we discuss how Politico reported President Biden has granted just 10 interviews in his first nine months as president, none since Labor Day. At this point, Trump had done 57, and Obama 131. Despite Biden’s dramatic interview avoidance, the media haven’t found democracy dying in darkness, even with only three interviews
When Pfizer vaccinated the control group in the initial clinical trials, many researchers were shocked. The loss of a control group means there is no group to compare with the experience of those who received the vaccine. This comparison between a treated and non-treated group is a basic tenet of the scientific method many learned
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
Outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Here’s yet another example of why “fact-checking” is the most dishonest form of journalism. To try and find an additional $7 trillion in taxes over the next decade, Joe Biden is floating a plan that would empower the IRS to access any account with $600
Facebook is reportedly planning to rebrand as founder Mark Zuckerberg aims to focus more on launching a metaverse, an augmented reality overlay to common life. Is Facebook’s Zuckerberg looking for an opening in The Matrix market? “Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to
The problem with central planning is central planners, and that’s why I’m convinced Communist China is a paper tiger. Let’s see if I can convince you, too. As economists much smarter than I’ll ever be — I’m thinking now specifically of Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman — have pointed out, even if central planners
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
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
NBC’s Ordinary Joe went woke this week with discussion of “binary language” and bisexuality. During the October 18 episode “Mask On Mask Mask Off,” a flashback memory shows Eric revealing to Joe that he is bisexual when they are younger teens. (The show follows Joe on each of three different paths he could have chosen
The respect and praise General Colin Powell earned over his military career was undeniably well earned. However, as a man whose reputation was built on his military prowess, he made some decisions in the past twenty years that sadly stain his legacy. While it may seem uncouth to discuss them so soon after his death,
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
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
Most of us would like to remain in this world as long as possible but when we inevitably shuffle off this mortal coil, CNN’s Chris Cillizza might be the last person you would want to write your obituary. Why? Because there is a strong chance you would be relegated almost to a sideshow in the
Howard Stern, who apparently is still on the air, returned from another vacation this week — after taking the entire summer off — and went on the warpath against unvaccinated NBA star Kyrie Irving. “In terms of idiots, he’s gotta be the top idiot in the country right now. Guy’s got a chance as a
Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing and give a speech on Wednesday. Maybe he’s resting up before the “invitation only” CNN town hall on Thursday… 9:30 AM Receive Daily Briefing 3:05 PM Depart the White House en route to Avoca, PA 4:15 PM Arrive in Avoca, PA 5:15 PM Deliver another speech
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
Continuing her media book tour on NBC’s 3rd Hour Today show Tuesday morning, the network’s former morning show host Katie Couric complained that her failure as anchor of CBS Evening News was due to America’s “sexism.” She bitterly whined that she was “not sure if the country was ready for a female anchor” during her
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
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
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.
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
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
Of all the stupid, petty, bigoted things Presidentish Biden ever sputtered, none bothers me so much as “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” In April of last year, when Biden’s $5 trillion “Build Back Better” scheme was first percolating in dark, shriveled mass that was once his frontal lobe, the then-candidate told POLITICO he
Additional security footage has been released from the Capitol on January 6th which shows those who entered the Capitol building. Since the day of the events, we have been told that these people stormed the Capitol and attempted to overthrow the U.S. government. Reports from on the ground told an entirely different story. They told
Platform at Union Station in Washington, D.C., in 2015. Today’s Wall Street Journal includes a story about the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Maryland between Baltimore Penn Station and Washington Union Station. The 1.4-mile-long tunnel was built from 1871 to 1873 and is in terrible shape, the Journal says: It causes delays
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,
On Monday evening, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) showed just how much they were done covering possibly the biggest blunder of Joe Biden’s presidency so far: abandoning Americans in an Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. And Fox News Channel correspondent Trey Yingst put it best when he declared “This story is not over”
Reportedly, OSHA sent the draft of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Because the agency is issuing the mandate for employers with more than 100 employees as an emergency temporary standard (ETS), there will not be a comment period. Once OMB finishes the review, it is published and goes
Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing, then, in two separate meetings, he will talk with House progressives and a group of moderate Democrats to discuss his very unpopular and now-stalled agenda. 9:30 AM Receive Daily Briefing 2:00 PM Meet with the Treasury secretary and House progressives 4:30 PM Meet with the Treasury