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The Biden presidency is perhaps the most consequential “We told you so!” moment in American political history. Biden supporters said his many years of experience and willingness to compromise made him the right guy for the job after the norm-crushing presidency of Donald Trump. Joe Biden, they said, would restore our alliances with other nations,
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Facebook and Instagram are as damaging as they are corrupt. Some years ago, in a typical attempt to make his point in the most cringe-inducing manner possible, Barack Obama defended the American immigration system on the grounds that, as he put it, “Instagram was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and
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The COVID-delayed 41st season of CBS’s Survivor came with many new changes, but the dumbest had to be one woke man’s insistence that the iconic reality series ban the word “guys.” At the beginning of Wednesday’s season premiere, titled “A New Era,” host Jeff Probst asked the contestants what they thought of his trademark phrase
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) takes questions as he speaks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 14, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) We are at the outset of what promises to be a frenzied and confusing fall on Capitol Hill, with a lot on the
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More than a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses over the last two decades, with a record amount perishing from various drug addictions during the current pandemic. Similar numbers undoubtedly had their lives negatively affected or destroyed. Yet while media, politicians, and corporate leaders may bemoan these tragedies, they also promote widespread use of
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Groups representing major tech companies filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Texas over a social media law passed earlier this month that aimed to curb online censorship. The lawsuit, filed by technology trade associations NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) that represent tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, alleged
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Jerry and Judy Horton, in 2017 (Jay Nordlinger) I have a couple of links to throw at you: to a Q&A and a Music for a While. The Q&A is with John U. Bacon, the veteran journalist and book-author. We are old friends and classmates, from Ann Arbor, Mich. He became the coach of our high-school
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The construction industry is struggling to recover from the pandemic due to difficulties hiring workers and severe supply chain shortfalls, a report found. Construction contractors project revenue to remain stagnant and below pre-pandemic levels over the next 12 months even as the economy-wide recovery continues, according to the report published Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber
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Jose Espinoza, 27, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Vaccine mandates are a fraught subject at the intersection of the twin conservative values of public order and private liberty. They are complicated by the fact that there is more than one kind of mandate.
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Another set of bombshell documents has dropped related to EcoHealth Alliance and the research it intended to do in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In a grant proposal for EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Peter Daszak requested more than $14 million from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue
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A meteor streaks past stars above Leeberg hill during the Perseid meteor shower in Grossmugl, Austria, August 10, 2018. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters) A new paper in Nature collects the scientific and archaeological evidence of a massive meteor explosion in the atmosphere, destroying an entire city in around 1,650 B.C.; the authors speculate that this may match the
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Four star generals and the process of their promotion, then and now, are worlds apart. On September 1, 1939, Brigadier George C. Marshall took the oath of office as the 15th U.S. Army chief of staff, a post he held until November 1945. When the ceremony ended, General Marshall confided to his aide de camp,
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Americans are misinformed about the risks of COVID. That’s a fact. Earlier this year, a Franklin Templeton/Gallup study found that when people were asked what “percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized,” more than a third, 35 percent, said the risk was 50 percent. It’s actually somewhere between
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Parents across the U.S. have spoken out against ideology and curricula they don’t agree with, often in viral moments caught on video criticizing school boards’ decisions on masks, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, reopening and critical race theory. “When something happens where people feel like they can no longer control what’s going on in their schools, they
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press briefing at the White House, March 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in congressional testimony on Tuesday that “approximately three percent” of the 60,000 Afghan evacuees already brought to the United States “have been individuals who are in
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Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that its second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine increases protection by 94% after two months of receiving the initial shot. The Phase 3 study found that Johnson & Johnson’s two-month booster shot gives 100% protection against severe cases of COVID-19, and 94% against moderate symptomatic cases in the U.S., according
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