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San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Responding to the recall of three progressive members from her city’s school board, San Francisco mayor London Breed said the voter backlash shows the panel lost sight of its main priority: educating children. “In this
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1980—Justices Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, and Stevens dissent from Justice White’s majority opinion in Committee for Public Education v. Regan, which rules constitutionally permissible a New York statute authorizing the use of public funds to reimburse private schools (both religious and secular) for performing various testing and reporting services mandated by state law. The dissenters would
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In this Brownstone Institute essay, David McGrogan argues that the truckers’ protest in Canada highlights the core conflict of our age: Society versus the State. He writes: Justin Trudeau’s confrontation with the Canadian truckers may be the single most significant event of the Covid pandemic – not because of its eventual outcome, whatever that may
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As Abigail Shrier shows in her post “The Gender Cult Marches On,” it’s very bad. And it’s not just the gender stuff aimed at youngsters, it’s also the continual barrage of statist, pro-BLM, anti-America messaging. These “teachers” don’t really concern themselves with fundamental skills and knowledge. All they want to do is use their influence
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Left: U.S. Attorney John Durham. Right: Michael Sussmann on C-SPAN in 2016. (United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut/Wikimedia; Screenshot via C-SPAN) For the special counsel, the prosecution of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann in a Washington, D.C., courtroom will not be a home game. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R oy Cohn, the notorious rogue lawyer and
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Then-president Donald Trump talks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., March 29, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The National Archives confirmed that former President Trump had classified material at his home at Mar-a-Lago, Fla., in a notice to the House Oversight Committee on Friday. The Archives in January retrieved 15 boxes of documents
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Trucks loaded with shipping containers leave the Port of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17, 2021. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters) Two of America’s biggest trucking companies have made record profits, and they are using that money to invest in new equipment, reports the Wall Street Journal. Old Dominion Freight Line is increasing its capital expenditures by 50
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(Pornpak Khunatorn/iStock/Getty Images) Medicine should only play a supporting role. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast week, Pope Francis warned his general audience against euthanasia, saying that “we must accompany people towards death, but not provoke death or facilitate any form of suicide.” He’s right that the moral musts and must nots of caring for the
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(JerryB7/iStock/Getty Images) The Surface Transportation Board needs to avoid adding new inefficiencies to supply chains by rejecting a cumbersome proposed regulation on freight railroads. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n March 15, the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the economic regulator of railroads, will begin a hearing about a new regulation on freight railroads that would introduce
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Supporters of the San Francisco School Board recall at a rally in the Sunset District of San Francisco, Calif., February 12, 2022. (Stephen Lam/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Writing about politics in Great Britain in his day, Edmund Burke compared the radicals to “half a dozen grasshoppers” and cautioned his readers, “Pray do
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People walk between concrete barriers as protesters demonstrate against racial inequality and occupy space at the CHOP area near the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct in Seattle, Wash., June 16, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) Newly elected Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell has pledged to recruit more cops and enforce the laws on the books in a “back
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Ilya Shapiro gives a talk on judicial abdication for the Acton Institute. ( Acton Institute/via YouTube) The university is implementing the academic analog of a SLAPP suit against Ilya Shapiro. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow do you stifle unpopular speech at a place like Georgetown University whose policy states that students and faculty have “the
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U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Pomona College professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky penned a Washington Post column titled “Biden said he won’t make an ‘ideological’ Supreme Court pick. Republicans do exactly that.” At first glance, this seems to be pro-Democrat propaganda about how Republican justices are ideologues but Democrats, gosh darn it, just reach totally
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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino, Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Justice David Lametti, and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair, at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 14, 2022. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has invoked special emergency
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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser testifies at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) It’s welcome news that Washington, D.C., is dropping its indoor mask mandate in most places, but it’s beyond cruel at this point that the one group that is left out of this easing
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United States Department of the Treasury headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The country lacks a critical mass of citizens disposed to support the hard decisions that would enable America to rein in its national debt. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or one brief moment in the news cycle, the size of America’s national debt was
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White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan addresses the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) National-Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s claims that Russia might use a false-flag operation to justify invading Ukraine, despite not offering evidence to back up its claims.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference following the passage of the Build Back Better Act at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C. November 19, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Sunday claimed that “defund the police” is “not the position of the Democratic Party” after Representative Cori Bush
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A demonstrator screams and bangs gas canisters together as truckers and supporters continue to protest Covid vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 10, 2022. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Canadian political junkies, to the extent they exist, usually have to look south to get their fix. The last big scandal in Canadian politics — the subject of a
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Police officers stand guard on a street as truckers and supporters continue blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Canada February 2022. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters) Canadian police moved on Saturday morning to clear protesters blocking most traffic on the Ambassador Bridge, a vital trade artery connecting Windsor, Ontario with Detroit, Mich. “The Windsor Police
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Sarah Palin leaves during her lawsuit against the New York Times at the United States Courthouse in New York City, February 10, 2022. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Jury deliberations began on Friday for former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s libel suit against the New York Times. The jury discussed the case for two hours before taking a break for
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Public policy should have a role in adapting to a radically new and different technological landscape. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R obert H.
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Scenes from Covid-19-related protests, alongside a mask-mandate sign at the Phoenix airport. (Getty/Reuters — National Review Illustration) Dear Weekend Jolter, One of the most shocking scenes in the Netflix drama The Crown depicts the real-life Aberfan disaster of 1966, in which a mass of coal waste slid down a mountain and smothered 144 people, most
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(File photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Rebutting the hysteria over Florida bills on children’s education NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epublican legislators in Florida have introduced a pair of parental-rights-in-education bills that create greater curriculum transparency and allow parents to review and object to age-inappropriate content. Naturally, Democrats and the media are outraged. President Biden condemned the legislation
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Graduates attend commencement ceremonies at the University of California, Berkekely in 2015. (Noah Berger/Reuters) There’s no good reason to keep saddling students with debt — and using them as a human slush fund for relatively wealthy Democratic constituencies. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s Democrats prepare to run themselves into a cinder-block wall at 103 mph
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