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National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. My colleague Charles Cooke pens a most worthwhile appeal about the infamous Mann v. National Review legal atrocity that is a threat to all — can there be a more consequential attack on our First Amendment rights now in the court system? Our webathon seeks your selfless help,
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Joe Scarborough boasted on Thursday he’s “always been a champion of the filibuster.” But now he wants the Democrats to abolish it!  Wasn’t Joe supposed to be the mugwump who supported institutions over radical ideology? Now his argument is that because of increased political polarization, there are few moderates left, and thus that “nothing can get
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Legal Insurrection reports that 21 states are suing to block Joe Biden’s executive order that halted the Keystone XL pipeline. Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 19 other state attorneys general filed suit today in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to block President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of HUD Marcia L. Fudge hold a briefing Thursday. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. EST. [embedded content] Content created by Conservative Daily News and some content syndicated through CDN is available for re-publication without charge under the Creative Commons license. Visit our syndication page for
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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) During yesterday’s hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted that the federal government had released migrants without testing them for COVID-19, and in that
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Focusing on the federal level distracts from opportunities closer to home. Organize Right is a regular column with not so much a beat as a meander on the subject of organizing: how the right does it, how the left does it, lessons from its history, and its implications for today. In the wake of the
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An Oscar statue stands in an outdoor shopping center located next to the Academy Awards venue as preparations for the ceremony continue in Los Angeles, Calif., February 7, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) I’ve been writing columns for years observing that the Academy Awards audience is shrinking so quickly over time, regularly setting records for lowest-ever ratings,
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Somebody needs to pay for California’s staggering inequality and injustice. A recall election for Governor Gavin Newsom will do. California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a news conference after touring Barron Park Elementary School on March 02, 2021 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The last time California had a gubernatorial
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In Will Democrats Nix (or Weaken) the Filibuster?” New York Times “On Politics” newsletter editor Giovanni Russonello went beyond the usual liberal media whining over the filibuster to hint that Republicans are abusing the process in the name of — you guessed it — racism. Major investments in infrastructure and green jobs. Expansions to voting rights
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The fake Trump quotes scandal just got more interesting. It appears that Jordan Fuchs, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state, was not only the anonymous source of the Washington Post story claiming that Trump pressured Georgia election investigator Frances Watson to “find the fraud” and that if she did she’d be a “national hero,” but that she
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Few things make me nostalgic for old-school blogging like dunking effortlessly on John Kerry. Via the Tennessee Star: @TheTNStar Exclusive: Biden’s @ClimateEnvoy John Kerry, took off his mask as he settled into a book in his first-class seat just before takeoff today on an @AmericanAir flight Boston to DC. He was not eating, nor drinking.
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The House voted to award Congressional Gold Medals to law enforcement agencies that protected the Capitol during the deadly riot on Jan. 6. The bill, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, would award three medals: one for Capitol Police, one to Washington, D.C.’s Metro Police Department and one honoring additional members of law enforcement who responded
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Chinese President Xi Jinping walks to the lectern to deliver his speech during the opening session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, October 18, 2017. (China Daily via Reuters) . . . from its meeting with Secretary of State Antony
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In our society, too often the big guy feels the need to tear down the little guy. A recent National Review editor’s attacks on a new non-profit could not better illustrate this truism. Conservative nonprofit American Moment launched on February 24. The Generation Z co-founders, Saurabh Sharma (23 years old), Nick Solheim (24 years old),
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A notable reaction, in large part because this appears to be just about the only reaction to Sheldon Whitehouse’s nonsense letter to Merrick Garland. Ben Sasse (R-NE), who isn’t exactly a Trumpian voice on the Senate floor, blasted the Rhode Island Democrat’s “paranoid obsession” with Brett Kavanaugh. The demand for a new review of the FBI’s
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The source for the Washington Post‘s fake quotes also made the January 2 recording, sources say. ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JANUARY 04: Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s Voting System Implementation manager, speaks during a press conference addressing Georgia’s alleged voter irregularities at the Georgia State Capitol on January 04, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. In a one-hour phone call
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National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. To the 1,597 kindly friends who — whether via our donation page or by check (a good number have already come into the NYC office) — have responded to our webathon appeal, we can only say thanks. Well, that’s not the only thing we can say: We are
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Republicans are often cast as the villains on TV, but one show finally made a GOP “hero:” a “pro-immigration, pro-choice” one who refused to vote against the impeachment of President Trump. On the March 16 episode “One-Zero” of FBI: Most Wanted, Agent Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon) and his team take on the case of Representative
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CBS Evening News, citing unnamed sources, reports that the Department of Homeland Security has detained more than 13,000 unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border since Joe Biden’s inauguration. What was becoming a more orderly, if still unruly, border across 2020 is now in crisis — CBS reports, even using that word the Biden administration has
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NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 07: Supporters of President Donald Trump protest outside the Clark County Election Department on November 7, 2020 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Around the country, supporters of presidential candidate Joe Biden are taking to the streets to celebrate after news outlets have declared Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden winner
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