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Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation from the New York gubernatorial office on Tuesday. Just a few months ago Cuomo was paraded around as a figurehead of the Democratic Party. His lockdowns were harsh, and he shut down the economy of the entire state. Cuomo gave many press conferences about his policies, and other democratic states
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In response to I’m Wrong Again Kyle, the prediction business isn’t kind to anyone. I will say that when we discussed this on The Editors podcast earlier today, Jim and I predicted that Cuomo would resign before he got impeached but obviously didn’t think it’d be today (I will let Charlie and Xan fess up
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The sweeping “infrastructure” legislation making its way through Congress takes a pretty flexible view of what counts as “infrastructure.” Evidently, cryptocurrency regulation makes the cut, as the bill includes a provision imposing costly regulations on the digital, decentralized currency industry.  But some skeptics are sounding the alarm, and warning that Congress’s attempt to regulate newfangled
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Back in March, former staffer Charlotte Bennett blamed the media “absolutely” for making Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) feel so “untouchable” that he thought he could get away with victimizing her. On Sunday, Fox News media reporter and host of MediaBuzz, Howard Kurtz called out the media for acting like political operatives and minimizing the allegations
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DaBaby performs during the BET Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., June 27, 2021. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) The entertainment business has progressively grown more and more despicable. The music industry is probably the most egregious offender. Its treatment of the rapper Jonathan Kirk, better known by his stage name, “DaBaby,” is yet another example of how synthetic
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The bipartisan infrastructure legislation moving through Congress could end up on President Biden’s desk before we know it. The $1 trillion bill has reportedly cleared major hurdles in the Senate and will soon land before the House of Representatives. The president would almost certainly sign the bill, which has his support, and its bipartisan passage
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The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., July 2, 2020 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) So much for that “crisis” at the Supreme Court. Per FiveThirtyEight: Marquette University Law School is out with its annual poll on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Americans somewhat or strongly approve of the nation’s highest court 60 percent to 39 percent, making
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It was never just a mask, it has always been a way of thinking. “Mask” is just shorthand. I got dumped from my volunteer work at the Hawaiian Humane Society for choosing not to wear a mask outside while walking their dogs. Neither science, the CDC, nor the state requires a mask outdoors, and I’m
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John Sexton at Hot Air aptly summarized the exposed modus operandi of Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler, and how he can be caught going after conservatives based on faulty assumptions. Kessler’s intended prey was Christopher Rufo, the prominent critic of “critical race theory.” But he had to fold his “fact check” when his suspicions of
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Bryce Deadmon of the United States celebrates after winning gold in the men’s 4×400 meter relay at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, August 7, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The 2020 Olympic Games have now concluded — in August 2021. After being delayed an entire year, they were, in fact, ultimately held in Japan. The United States
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Is there something strange in the water? First we had Politico on Thursday declaring that “Biden’s Vision for the border has gone bust” and then on Friday CNN New Day anchor Brianna Keilar has similarly slammed the border crises by talking about ”Biden’s immigrations plans being derailed” by “reality.” It wasn’t only Keilar that noted the border
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A new study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that people previously infected with the China flu are not safe from getting COVID again after all. Weird, because that’s not what we were told in January, when The National Institute of Health (NIH) reported that antibodies remained in COVID positive people, and “promisingly,
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