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[ad_1] Pro-life activists carry a banner during the the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) What Sibarium gets wrong about the moral choice we face at the polls Having profited from Aaron Sibarium’s writing in various venues recently, I was interested in his Twitter essay offering “friendly philosophical
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[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released parts of the documents underlying his earlier revelation about Hillary Clinton’s role in orchestrating the Trump-Russia collusion farce. The new revelations are important, particularly in clarifying a suggestion, made last week by Ratcliffe, that U.S. intelligence agencies referred former
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[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speak to reporters after their coronavirus relief negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., August 7, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Whatever electoral harms the GOP may suffer from its refusal to negotiate a
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[ad_1] White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller watches as President Donald Trump holds an executive order signing event on “hiring American” at the White House, August 3, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller has tested positive for coronavirus, the latest senior Republican official to contract the illness. “Over the last 5 days
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force news briefing at the White House, July 22, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump has instructed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and other officials to halt negotiations for a new coronavirus relief bill until after the November elections. The announcement came hours after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Morry Gash/Reuters Pool) President Trump confirmed on Tuesday that he will participate in the upcoming presidential debate, after being briefly hospitalized for coronavirus infection. “I am looking forward to the debate
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaking during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a 16-point lead over President Trump with Election Day less than a month away, according to a new poll conducted after the first
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he departs Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., October 5, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center Monday evening, after receiving treatment for COVID-19. Trump walked out of the hospital to an SUV and was driven to Marine
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[ad_1] White House physician Dr. Sean Conley flanked by doctors as he arrives to speak to reporters about President Donald Trump’s health at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., October 5, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Roughly three days after the president was transported by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the
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[ad_1] Sen. Lindsey Graham questions former FBI director James Comey as he testifies remotely before the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing to examine the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation in Washington DC., September 30, 2020. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via Reuters) Senate Judiciary Committee head Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) announced on Monday a schedule for hearings for
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[ad_1] Charlie, Pete Buttigieg is claiming that Justices Thomas and Alito are “openly calling” for Obergefell to be overturned. That is at best an overstatement. The justices’ concurrence admits of a different interpretation altogether. They write, “By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and
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[ad_1] National Rifle Association executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 26, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Internal Revenue Service is investigating National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. New York attorney general Letitia James filed
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[ad_1] Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) meets with Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Reuters) Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) said Monday that President Trump had “let his guard down” on the coronavirus and created “confusion” about the severity of the pandemic in trying to paint a
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[ad_1] A police officer watches demonstrators in Portland, Ore., September 26, 2020. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters) Portland police spent $7.9 million responding to demonstrations and violent riots in just the first two-and-a-half months of unrest in the city, according to a National Review analysis of protest costs. The vast majority of the spending, or $5.3 million, was
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[ad_1] Ronald Reagan delivers his “A Time for Choosing” speech, October 27, 1964. (Reagan Foundation/via YouTube) As noted in today’s Morning Jolt, the president of the United States is covered by HIPAA just like any other American citizen, and thus, his doctors cannot disclose any of personal health information if the president doesn’t want disclosed.
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[ad_1] White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a daily press briefing in Washington, D.C., August 31, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced that she tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, the latest official among President Trump’s inner circle to contract the illness. “After testing negative consistently, including every day since
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[ad_1] Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer address the media after several dams breached, in downtown Midland, Mich., May 20, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Sunday she would no longer use criminal prosecution to enforce the governor’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions after the state Supreme Court found the orders were unconstitutional.  Other law enforcement
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[ad_1] The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2020. (Will Dunham/Reuters) 1989—By a vote of 4 to 3, the Florida supreme court rules (in In re TW) that a state statute that requires parental consent for a minor’s abortion (subject to a judicial-bypass exception) violates the state constitutional right to privacy.
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[ad_1] White House physician Sean Conley (right) walks with other doctors to speak to the media about President Donald Trump’s conidtion, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., October 4, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) President Trump could be discharged from the hospital as soon as Monday, doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center told reporters. However,
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