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California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in San Diego, Calif., October 9, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Elizabeth Warren tweets, “In a naked partisan power grab, extreme right-wing Republicans are trying to recall Gavin Newsom.” If so, just collecting the 1.5 million signatures to force a recall election would represent the biggest accomplishment of
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Two years ago, Americans tended to see Russia as the nation’s number one threat. Years of the media incessantly pushing Russia as a threat may have had something to do with that. Economically, Russia has not been competitive with the United States and if it had not inherited the Soviet Union’s seat on the UN
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Last week a professor at the University of Vermont uploaded a video criticizing what he dubbed the “secular religion” of race at the school. Professor Aaron Kindsvatter said he was afraid to make his comments because he doesn’t want his current or former students to think he is dismissing genuine complaints of discrimination they might
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The Hill’s Joe Concha called The Washington Post a “political operative” for misquoting former President Donald Trump’s phone call with a Georgia elections investigator on ‘Fox & Friends’ Tuesday.  The Post reported that Trump told Georgia election investigator Frances Watson in December to ‘find the voter fraud’ and that she would be a ‘national hero’
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Clubhouse’s new global marketing head blamed all 74 million Trump supporters for being “complicit” in “domestic terroris[m].” She didn’t stop there. Clubhouse Head of Global Marketing Maya Watson’s Twitter feed featured several incendiary comments  One America News Network (OANN) correspondent Jack Posobiec posted a series of embarrassing screenshots from Watson’s account. Clubhouse was established as
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Virginia’s Democratic governor Ralph Northam has signed legislation allowing elective-abortion coverage to be included in insurance plans on the state health-care exchanges. Because health-care options on the state exchange often receive subsidies, this policy means that taxpayers will effectively be forced to fund elective abortions. Prior to this revision, Virginia law allowed health-care plans on
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(Pixabay) Are we at some halfway point for this country? At some tipping point? Ides has a calendar significance — but as far as Caesar was concerned, the Ides weren’t the middle: They were the bloody end. Well, we’ll be damned if we are at the end of what Lincoln called the last best hope
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A staggering number of murders and shootings took place in Portland, Oregon, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis touched off violent riots across America. Many of the most violent riots occurred in Portland, and with police resources stretched thin, lawlessness increased exponentially across the city. The correlation could not be more clear—after Floyd’s
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President Biden is taking a victory lap after signing his $1.9 trillion ‘COVID’ spending bill. “Help is here,” he wrote in a tweet promoting his plan.  But Americans who are initially glad to hear that more ‘COVID’ relief is supposedly on its way may be surprised when they learn that the latest legislation funnels $350
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A man walks through Georgetown University’s campus, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Cancellation has become so frequent that there’s a tendency to note the latest example perfunctorily and move on, hoping you’re not the next victim. Last week’s termination of Professor Sandra Sellers of Georgetown Law School bears more than a perfunctory mention.
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Border crisis? The Democrats, with a helping hand from CNN, have the perfect solution: open the borders! Presto-change-o: crisis gone! On today’s New Day, co-host John Berman parroted the Democratic line that the border crisis is: “All the more reason to pass comprehensive immigration reform.”  Berman also fretted over the “roadblocks” [read, Republicans] such reform will
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On Monday, the Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s 2,000-year-old doctrine that marriage is between one man and one woman and that homosexual acts are illicit. Therefore, the Vatican stated that the church cannot bless same-sex weddings because that would lead to confusion about the doctrine of marriage. This should not surprise anyone with a
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Erik Wemple giveth, and Erik Wemple taketh away. The Washington Post’s media critic appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources yesterday, where host Brian Stelter learned the hard way not to ask questions when you don’t want the real answers. Stelter asks Wemple to assess the media coverage of Andrew Cuomo’s scandals, and at first Wemple blasts “the
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Among many other acts, Sunday night’s Grammy Awards showcased an anarchistic anti-police performance by rapper Lil Baby. His song began with a voice over from a communist playwright who believed anti-communism was a form of white supremacy. It also included a speech from a Farrakhan-loving anti-Semite who was too radical even for the Women’s March. Before Lil Baby’s
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China’s declaration that “patriots” need to run the Hong Kong government is about as scary as it is nebulous. Patriotism is a malleable word because various homegrown factions with vastly different policy positions and goals can easily declare allegiance to a country. China’s Ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, sees “patriotism” in Hong Kong as
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300 year old statue of Lady Justice overseeing the Well of Justice at Frankfurt’s Roemer Square, Germany. Dana Remus, President Biden’s White House counsel, has addressed a letter to Democratic senators asking for their recommendations of candidates for appointment to the 40 or so vacancies on the federal district courts. She has asked for persons
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