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After four years under tacky Trump, the Biden administration is bringing celebrity back to D.C. God help us. US Singer Lady Gaga looks at US Vice-President Kamala Harris as she arrives to sing the US National Anthem during the 59th Presidential Inaguruation on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by
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To paraphrase Richard Nixon, we won’t have Ali Khamenei to use to kick Twitter around any more. Maybe. After enduring accusations of hypocrisy for weeks in editing and finally banning Donald Trump while allowing Iran’s Supreme Leader unfettered access to its platform, Twitter finally suspended Khamenei earlier this morning. Ironically, the reason involves Donald Trump: The
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President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Some illiterate jabroni over at RedState is in a lather about my farewell to Trump, so mad that he’s holding down the shift key and writing in
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Against the surreal backdrop of sometimes violent nationwide protests, one alarming story as reported by The New York Times seems to have slipped under the radar. Law enforcement arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man on suspicion of firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House. Several days prior to the arrest, the Secret Service had responded
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CNN was caught in an awkward situation Thursday after they first touted anonymous sources within the Biden administration as having told them they planned to rebuild COVID vaccine distribution “from scratch.” But shortly thereafter, Dr. Anthony Fauci blew up their story. Apparently, CNN’s reporting was so ridiculous that even PrimeTime host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo says he doesn’t
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Dr. Peter Daszak described how easy it was to manipulate bat-based coronaviruses in an interview filmed just weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Daszak has close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and reportedly pushed back against a National Institute of Health request that he arrange an outside inspection of the lab. Daszak
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Yuval Levin wrote here this morning about the Biden administration’s PR game on COVID vaccination. It gave CNN a story that it was having to “build everything from scratch” to distribute the vaccines. In reality, we’re already on pace to hit the Biden team’s vaccination goals, which have been set low so that they can
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The liberal media and Hollywood left are telling you the Capitol riots were “atrocities,” an “armed insurrection” and “violent sedition against our government” and trying to link all Trump supporters to them. But last summer they were praising, defending, and donating to the Black Lives Matter movement which led to more violence against innocent Americans
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Bill Evanina, who as the U.S. government’s top counterintelligence official sounded the alarm on China’s threat to the U.S., resigned from office on Wednesday. Evanina, who was director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced his resignation in a post on LinkedIn on
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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Valley International Airport after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Harlingen, Texas, January 12, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) My colleagues Dan McLaughlin and Andrew C. McCarthy have both written about the possibility that Democrats or progressive lawyers will use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to disqualify from
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About 50 miles northeast of Houston is headquartered a land development company called Colony Ridge. According to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, Colony Ridge has about 22,000 residents, and evidence suggests it serves as a sort of landing ground for people who have entered the country illegally. Colony Ridge is owned by the Harris family,
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While many inaugural addresses have gone down in history for their inspirational rhetoric and bold vision, most inaugural speeches have been snoozers. Biden’s attempt at greatness yesterday did not disappoint anyone expecting a boring, pedestrian address. All the headlines today are glowing tributes to Biden’s call for “unity.” But as Kevin Williamson of NRO points
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Joe Biden delivered a rousing speech following his inauguration with a theme of healing the bitter divide in our nation and coming together in the wake of Donald Trump’s “destructive” presidency. He then turned around and immediately demanded that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel resign nearly a year ahead of the end
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President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden arrive for his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images) If presidential inaugurations are all about symbolism, what to make of this one? There was no grace present as Trump slunk off early
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On Wednesday, former President George W. Bush — very much an opponent of former President Donald Trump — reportedly identified “the savior” who may have been ultimately responsible for Trump’s defeat: House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.). “George Bush said to me today, he said, ‘You know, you’re the savior because if you had not
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