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Outside a “vocational skills education center” in Dabancheng, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, September 4, 2018 (Thomas Peter/Reuters) The Economist’s argument against describing the Chinese Communist Party’s mass atrocities as genocide demonstrates a superficial understanding of this crime, motivated, at least in part, by a desire to preserve engagement with a regime that should be
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We know a lot more on February 12 than on January 6. First, it is clear that the assault on the Capitol has become the most damaging event of Donald Trump’s political career. Combined with forfeiting the Senate in the January run-off elections, the lethal storming of the federal legislature by Trump’s most unscrupulous and
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Her majesty Hillary Clinton, perhaps still bitter about some election or something, is working overtime to demonize the entire Republican Party. This week, she claimed that if the Senate fails to convict and remove former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, it will only be because Senate Republicans are also guilty of the crime
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(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) According to new reporting from the Daily Caller, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been sitting on emails exchanged with Planned Parenthood officials about COVID-relief loans that the abortion provider illegally obtained last spring. The emails were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and were heavily redacted, but one
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Liberal media outlets aren’t satisfied with merely seeking to disqualify Donald Trump from future influence over national affairs. They are seeking to judge and punish all of conservative media as responsible for the Capitol riot. In Thursday’s New York Times, their columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece asking “Can We Put Fox News on Trial
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A top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “privately apologized to state Democratic leaders for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19,” reports the New York Post. Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, told them “‘we froze’ out of fear the true numbers would ‘be used against us’ by federal prosecutors.” Last month
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When I was in high school and George W. Bush was president, the fear in progressive circles was that a Christian “fundamentalist” had hijacked the nation. Bush did what polite society never would, which was to speak of faith openly in public without irony or qualification. America, liberals feared, would be turned into a theocracy;
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Usually people have to wait until Monday to hear the latest Bachelor tea … but today brings a bonus scene. Contestant Rachel Kirkconnell’s recent racism controversy erupted online but what got even more attention was the defense she got from Bachelor host Chris Harrison in a recent interview. Essentially fans claimed Kirkconnell, a frontrunner on
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On Wednesday night, Disney announced that the company had cut ties with Mandalorian actress Gina Carano following outrage over her Instagram post comparing cancel culture to the Holocaust. Yet Pedro Pascal, the lead actor in The Mandalorian, also made an offensive and politically-charged Holocaust comparison, and it seems Disney has not taken any action in his case.
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Marc A. Thiessen offered an interesting take in the Washington Post today. It starts from the evidence Democrats themselves have been presenting about the efforts of the Capitol Police to keep Members of Congress safe on January 6, often at the expense of their own well-being. Just yesterday, Democratic impeachment managers showed video of Officer
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The Biden administration has embarked on an all-encompassing drive to banish any wording that may reflect negatively on illegal aliens from official U.S. government use. A much larger agenda appears to be at work here, and the “no human being is illegal” party line that Joe Biden is embedding into federal agencies works to further
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CBS This Morning co-hosts on Thursday seemed baffled at the controversy enveloping the Dallas Mavericks as the basketball team first canceled playing the national anthem and then was forced to reinstate it by the NBA. Co-host Gayle King marveled, “I appreciate the efforts to try to raise the conversation and see bring awareness to what many
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Gina Carano’s career is over at Disney. If you’re a pedophile you have a better chance of working for Disney than if you’ve ever indicated publicly that you might be conservative. That’s not an overstatement. Disney literally employs convicted pedophiles right now who are working on kids’ shows. The film An Open Secret detailed many
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The Biden administration is considering a requirement that domestic air passengers produce a negative COVID-19 test result before boarding a flight. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg have given comments this week that indicate this idea is under evaluation. Walensky spoke during a press briefing Monday. She encouraged state leaders and local
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