[ad_1] Every year at this time, presidents issue pardons, and some of the most controversial pardons have been issued when they are leaving office. For example, President Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, a fugitive from justice who was facing 51 counts of tax fraud and was alleged to have owed $48 million to the IRS.
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[ad_1] The last few days have not exactly been full of joy and Christmas cheer for Google.  One coalition of 38 states and territories and a separate coalition of 10 states have piled on in filing antitrust lawsuits against Google. The Department of Justice brought a third in an October lawsuit against the search and
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[ad_1] Much of the criticism of my book, The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It), has come from those on both the left and populist right who think I am not concerned enough about inequality — see this, for example, from former labor secretary Robert Reich, who argues for the psychological
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[ad_1] I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting a lot of heartwarming Christmas cards this yuletide season from President-elect (allegedly) Joe Biden’s ministers and ambassadors of healing and reconciliation. They’ve touched me in such a deep, special place that I must share such glad tidings of great joy with a weary nation. Take
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[ad_1] This, dear NewsBusters readers, is what counts as journalism from our liberal media in 2020. On Thursday night, CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert spent an hour fluffing the pillows of President-Elect Joe Biden and incoming First Lady Jill Biden.  Whether it was defending Jill Biden’s doctorate in English, lamenting Hunter Biden being
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[ad_1] Give the Gray Lady credit for stepping up and acknowledging its failure. Their award-winning enterprise effort fell apart on them, and the New York Times admirably accepted responsibility for not scrutinizing it more closely: Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, said the blame fell on the newsroom’s leaders, including himself. “When The
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[ad_1] Visa and Mastercard are reportedly blocking payments on Pornhub due to allegations of child pornography on the website. What is going on here?  Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, recently wrote a heartbreaking column on the children of PornHub, telling some of the stories of the children of PornHub. What
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[ad_1] No media analyst believes Vanity Fair is a “news” magazine. It’s a glossy liberal rag. But on December 16, they really displayed some amazing partisan gymnastics on the offspring of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. This headline was certainly clickbait for the haters: “Ivanka Trump Faces Off With Father to See How Many People
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[ad_1] Generations of presidents have cited “the will of the people” to legitimize power grabs. The Founding Fathers wouldn’t approve. In his cough-ridden victory speech Monday night, President-elect Joe Biden proclaimed again that “the will of the people prevailed” in the 2020 election. Biden invoked that phrase four times in one speech, and he’ll likely
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[ad_1] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has recently released a blog post that appears to be an attempt to get the new incoming Administration to make radical changes to the immigration system. The title of the post is, “The Questions You Probably Think You Know the Answer to—But Likely Don’t—About ICE Detention.” When I
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[ad_1] Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that President-elect Joe Biden offered him a position in his administration but that he turned it down. Garcetti made the admission during a media briefing on Thursday about the spike in coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County. “There were things on the table for me but I said
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[ad_1] Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has launched an initiative to help keep struggling small businesses afloat as they continue to suffer from lockdowns, saying something has to be done since government won’t get “off their a**” and do something about it. What are the details? Portnoy, who has been on a rampage against coronavirus
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[ad_1] 1. Timothy Dolan and Toufic Baaklini: Remember the Persecuted at Christmas We hope President-elect Biden will build on the accomplishments of the Trump administration, namely its assistance to genocide survivors and priority on international religious freedom as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy. At the same time, Mr. Biden should correct the Trump administration’s
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[ad_1] As multiple U.S. federal agencies report breaches by hackers who used a compromised software manufactured by IT company SolarWinds to infiltrate government computer networks, the state of Michigan says that so far there is “no indication” that the state network was affected. Michigan, a key battleground state in the 2020 presidential election, has been
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[ad_1] Abraham Lincoln didn’t do enough for black lives, according to militant proponents of the woke revolution. In October, the San Francisco Unified School District School Names Advisory Committee suggested a list of school names to be replaced in the city. On that list was a school named after Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. In just
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[ad_1] This year, the coronavirus pandemic presented new hurdles for 55.1 million students and their families after 124,000 public and private schools closed nationwide. Despite these unprecedented challenges, policymakers and families responded quickly with innovative solutions, which helped to advance education choice in 2020. Here are eight examples of education choice wins from this year:
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