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If only we’d been able to see sooner that the disease wasn’t the hoax, the response was. How do we even know now? Pigs are flying everywhere. The media are fessing up. After fanning COVID panic for a year, Democratic newsletter Salon admits it was all for partisan purposes: “Americans have been sucked into an
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There is very little good news here lately. After all, the majority of us fall into the key demographics of conservative or Christian. By public perception, those two very demographics make us racist, bigoted, xenophobic, homophobic, white supremacist, and about a dozen other things that we have heard from those on the alternative side of
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver remarks during a stop at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) On this week’s second installment of The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Maddy discuss Biden’s enormous infrastructure bill, the allegations coming out against Matt Gaetz, and more bullying over Georgia’s voting law
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Major League Baseball renewed a licensing contract earlier this week with a Chinese media company that has targeted an NBA executive over his support human rights and democracy activists in Hong Kong. The deal, which MLB signed with Tencent on Wednesday, has taken on new significance after the league’s decision Friday to pull its All Star
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(Jonathan Ernst, Mark Makela/Reuters) Yesterday, while writing about President Biden’s late-coming conversation with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, a thought occurred to me: Had Biden been ducking the man responsible for handing him the White House? I suppose that the answer is technically “no” — that distinction belongs to Donald Trump — but I think we might
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Reporters? Or unpaid publicists? On her Thursday show, MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson was joined by NBC reporter Blayne Alexander in Atlanta just publicizing calls to boycott Georgia and the lies that justify them, including President Biden’s Wednesday remarks where he outrageously called the Georgia’s new election law ”Jim Crow on steroids.” MSNBC just casually put that on screen, like it
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A free speech case involving children and public schools is going to be going before the Supreme Court. This case, out of Mahonoy, Pennsylvania, has been rattling around in the courts for nearly four years now and it could set a new precedent in terms of how restrictive public schools are allowed to be when
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President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 2, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Conservative lawmakers are concerned that the Biden administration is failing to address China’s evasion of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and, worse, that officials could deliberately be turning a blind eye to the violations
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On Thursday, National Review posted a blog by Zachary Evans headlined “NBC’s Lester Holt Urges Journalists to Ditch Objectivity: ‘Fairness Is Overrated.’” This offended the “independent fact-checkers” at Snopes.com, who flagged the headline — not the article — as “False.” Once again, they’re complaining about a lack of context. They’re arguing about spin.  Jordan Liles labeled
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Full disclosure: Sometimes, reporting the news terrifies me and makes me despair for my country. When I saw that Coca Cola, Delta, and Major League Baseball repeated the Left’s false smears against the Georgia election integrity law, I couldn’t believe it. Now, the MLB has pulled the all-star game out of Atlanta — all because
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Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are at it again. The two lawmakers are battling on social media over the crisis on the border and immigration reform. AOC called for Cruz’s resignation and Cruz dropped a Rickroll tweet during their back and forth exchange. AOC was tweeting about “Ted Cruz types” taking tours of
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred speaks to the media before announcing the All-MLB team during the MLB Winter Meetings in San Diego, Calif., December 10, 2019. (Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sport) Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred announced that it would not be holding its 2021 All-Star Game or draft in Georgia as originally planned because
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Since Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, evangelical Protestants have been a seemingly solid segment within American conservatism. “Seemingly” is important, because conservatives often scratch their heads at evangelical habits of mind. Some of the pundits who have had the biggest platforms during the Trump years, for instance, are Michael Gerson, Peter Wehner,
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