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Liberal journalists now lament that some in the conservative media “have routinely repeated Russian talking points on TV,” as if liberals have always treated the Russian government as an expansionist enemy. In reality, American conservatives have long been the harshest domestic critics of Russia, and the liberals have long suggested a moral equivalence between Russian totalitarians
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The United States Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. While it’s embarrassing that this is one of the few things both sides of the aisle unanimously agreed upon in Congress, this is a fantastic idea. According to National Public Radio, the last attempt to ditch the dreaded twice
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Some days, you can’t even make it up. President Biden has assured Russian despot Vladimir Putin that Biden’s proposed Iran nuclear deal will immunize Moscow from the sanctions the administration otherwise portrays as crushing Moscow for its barbaric, unprovoked war against Ukraine. So Russia will not only reap desperately needed revenue; it will also continue
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Chinese international students at Cornell University booed and heckled a young Uyghur woman and walked out of a campus event in protest Thursday as she described her family’s experience with persecution in China, according to Axios. During a speaking event at Cornell University featuring Democratic Michigan Rep. Elise Slotkin, student and Uyghur Muslim Rizwangul NurMuhammad
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Sarah Bloom Raskin is seen during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 3, 2022. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) The welcome decision by Sarah Bloom Raskin to withdraw her candidacy for the Federal Reserve Board has been poorly received where you would expect it to be poorly
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The long-running CBS News program 60 Minutes has a manically split personality: vicious attack dogs when Republicans are in power, and supportive infomercial producers under Democrats. Take March 13, when anchorman Anderson Cooper hosted a promotional segment for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the “bipartisan infrastructure bill.” Buttigieg was touted as “40 years old, a Harvard
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When I read about kindergartners being taught to solve social justice issues, I couldn’t help but be angry. This isn’t satire – this is actually happening. Teachers are pushing an agenda on our kids that they’re not even old enough to understand. What’s next? Are we going to force them to believe in certain political
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Purdue Boilermakers president Mitch Daniels watches a replay during the first quarter of the game against the Oregon State Beavers at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind., September 4, 2021. (Marc Lebryk-USA TODAY Sports) Overwhelmingly, college and university presidents are chosen from lifelong academics who have risen through the ranks — professor to dean to
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A conductor wears a mask while waiting for passengers to load into the New York City Subway during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 30, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Senate voted on Tuesday night to overturn the federal mask mandate that applies to people traveling on planes, trains, and the like: 57-40,
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Only when the American character abroad and at home is clarified can there be any coherence to our political goals. Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Most of us learned that mnemonic device at some point in our mathematical education. Calculations must be done in an appropriate succession to reflect distributive and associative properties. So,
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The U.S. head office of TikTok in Culver City, Calif., September 15, 2020 (Mike Blake/Reuters) The use of Gen Z internet “influencers” seems to be a central plank of Joe Biden’s youth-outreach strategy. On the 2020 campaign trail, Biden’s team “hired a firm to assist with influencer outreach,” Recode reported in September 2020. The campaign’s
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A few years back, Eric and Donna Reed shopped for groceries and household products just once for an entire year. How on Earth? I know. That was my reaction, too. The Reeds got the idea after reading a column in USA Today wherein the writer confessed to his weakness when it came to buying clothes.
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Pro-China supporters wave Chinese flags to celebrate Chinese National Day, in Hong Kong, China, October 1, 2021. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Another day, another large pension-fund manager playing politics with pension money. Reuters: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the country’s biggest pension fund, said on Thursday that directors of its portfolio companies presiding material environmental, social and corporate
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Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominee to be vice chairman for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, speaks before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on February 3, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Ken Cedeno-Pool/Getty Images) Two of the most critical issues facing Americans
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Monday’s episode of The Psaki Show featured Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich and NewsMax’s James Rosen grilling Press Secretary Jen Psaki over the Biden administration showing weakness when dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the lead up to his invasion of Ukraine as well as their reluctance to provide Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the
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People wait to board an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv at Kyiv central train station, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. (Umit Bektas/Reuters) Everyone who finds themselves caught in a war zone is deserving of sympathy. Some have suggested that transgender-identifying individuals trying to leave Ukraine are especially vulnerable. Oddly, by spotlighting trans-identifying individuals in a
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