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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sits in front of a picture of George Floyd displayed during Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis on March 29 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) The Chauvin defense called its big witness Tuesday afternoon, retired federal and state law-enforcement officer Barry Brodd, an expert in police training and the use
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Vice President Kamala Harris is not a controversial figure, not to The Washington Post. They’ve added a whole staff to champion “diversity and inclusion,” and that’s Kamala for you, line-dancing backward and forward. So we get stories like this gem from design writer Jura Koncius: “Vice President Harris is making her mark on the Washington-area
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Texas and Missouri sued President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday in an effort to restore the so-called “remain in Mexico” policy that the president revoked shortly after entering office. “President Biden could immediately remedy the influx of crime pouring across our border by reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP),” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in
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1. This is a horrendous move: Chemical abortion poses serious health risks to women and has a complication rate 4x higher than surgical abortion. The farther along a woman is in her pregnancy, the more likely she is to experience complications. Policymakers should strengthen, not weaken, restrictions. https://t.co/GAHbWs9Ex0 — Melanie Israel (@Melanie_Israel) April 13, 2021
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Please stop trying to cover your hack journalism with ever-worsening hackneyed excuses. Thank you. Glad I could blow off the steam about 60 Minutes’s dumb attack on Governor Ron DeSantis and his supposed sweet and secret deal with the Publix stores to distribute coronavirus vaccines across Palm Beach County, Florida. For giving the ubiquitous supermarket
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Last week, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the premier federal firearms enforcement agency. Biden complemented that announcement with a call for a national red flag law to entitle police to preemptively confiscate firearms from citizens suspected of being a threat to themselves
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A number of states have introduced legislation that would ban transgender surgeries and procedures for minors. Arkansas became the first state to ban transgender procedures for minors when the Arkansas legislature over rode Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of the “Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act.” Many other states are also attempting to ban the procedures. 
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Priests attend as Pope Francis leads a Holy Mass to mark the feast of Divine Mercy at the Vatican, April 8, 2018. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters) Picture this if you dare: Christ standing before his heavenly Father and pleading for us, still bearing his wounds. Yesterday, I read this from the homily I was present for during
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Black Lives Matter leader and self-described Marxist Patrisse Khan-Cullors reportedly bought a luxurious mansion in a white-majority neighborhood. Twitter censored popular users who roasted her over it. Perhaps BLM now stands for “Buying Large Mansions”? Twitter has censored criticism of the co-founder of the official Black Lives Matter movement after users mocked Khan-Cullors for buying
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President Joe Biden announced two key immigration official nominations Monday as migrants continue to arrive at the southern border in record numbers. Police Chief Chris Magnus of Tucson, Arizona, will be nominated to head Customs and Border Protection and immigrant rights advocate Ur Jaddou will be tapped to lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
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Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the ‘Real America’ by Kevin Williamson (Regnery: 2020), 256 pages.  Kevin Williamson has made quite a name for himself. In an era of partisan lining-up, Williamson has the rare distinction of making both sides want to line him
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The Trump-deranged entertainment industry has resorted to lampooning Trump voters since the bad Orange Man is no longer in office. An example of this aired during the April 11 episode of Showtime’s Shameless. In the series finale, titled “Father Frank, Full of Grace”, Ian Gallagher (Cameron Monaghan) and his husband Mickey Milkovich (Noel Fisher) are
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Demand Justice is “a progressive movement fighting to restore balance to the courts.” Today, the organization’s demands go well beyond justice: We need to start the process of confirming a Black woman justice now. Sign the petition to tell Justice Breyer: Put the country first. Don’t risk your legacy to an uncertain political future. Retire
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Last week Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY-D) was mocked on social media for declaring that social programs like “paid leave,” “child care,” and “caregiving” were “infrastructure” because they were part of President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure slush fund. And, during Sunday’s morning newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today took up the Orwellian redefinition
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China Joe Biden’s pen has been busy lately. He has signed new Executive Orders that will begin to dismantle our Second Amendment.  Sleepy Joe said it himself. He’s doing it to ‘keep the American people safe.’ How will we be safer if we can’t defend ourselves? Oh, I almost forgot. Biden’s big government will do
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Sign at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters) CNN currently is running an explanatory piece titled, “How to fly safely a year into the pandemic.” Unfortunately, whoever was responsible for the article does not understand vaccines — or basic math. One paragraph of the article reads: In addition, real world studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech
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