President Donald Trump talks about imposing fresh sanctions on Iran as Vice President Mike Pence looks on in the Oval Office, June 24, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Donald Trump abused the pardon power on his way out the door. This is not the first time Trump has handed out improper pardons, and he is not the
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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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Belk department store John Greim | LightRocket | Getty Images KKR, Blackstone and other major lenders to Belk are in talks with the North Carolina-based department store chain to keep it out of bankruptcy, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company, its lenders and the private-equity firm Sycamore Partners are inching closer toward
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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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Model and entertainer Courtney Stodden says that her ex-husband, actor Doug Hutchison, courted other teenagers before — and after — their nearly 10-year marriage. The two were legally married in 2011 when Stodden was 16 years old, with her parents’ permission, and Hutchison was 51, and divorced in 2020. Stodden was Hutchison’s third wife. A
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Conservative journalist Jason Whitlock said Wednesday that he likens Black Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan — and that BLM and Antifa are the “enforcement arm of the Democratic Party.” What are the details? Whitlock made his statements during an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, who had just noted that Democrats apparently have
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In 1980, singer Neil Diamond recorded a song that celebrated American immigration, first in the early 1900s and then more recently. The song included this chorus: “On the boats and on the planes “They’re coming to America “Never looking back again “They’re coming to America.” The song makes no distinction between the legal and orderly
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In normal circumstances, word that the party that controls Congress will not be able to pass the president’s top priority for at least six weeks, and when “a half-dozen senior Democrats” declare “no clear agenda has been presented to them by President Joe Biden,” it would be seen as a supremely ominous indicator that the new
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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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Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) arrives before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/Pool) The funny thing about poetry is that few people read it, but when it comes to the big occasions of
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South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the No. 3 House Democrat, told reporters Wednesday that former President George W. Bush hailed him as a “savior” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, claiming that Bush said Biden was the only Democrat in the primary who could have beaten President Donald Trump. But a Bush spokesman has
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Antifa rioters attacked the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Portland, Oregon, and left anti-Joe Biden messages on the day of his inauguration in Washington, D.C. About a hundred protesters dressed in black marched in a demonstration against police on Wednesday before vandalizing the Democratic office. Inauguration Day in Portland. A group of about 100
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Joe Biden says he’ll “advance racial equity” by making “bold investments” in “Affordable Housing,” aiding “businesses owned by Black and Brown people,” establishing an “Equity Commission,” etc. Gosh, that’ll do it. Others demand reparations for slavery, more social programs and defunding the police. Yet, economist Thomas Sowell says, “I haven’t been able to find a
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