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Termination of Scientists Sparks Concerns About Possible China-Related Probe
Two Chinese American scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston were removed from their jobs on the same day last month, raising concerns among colleagues that they may have been targeted in fallout from the Justice Department’s controversial China Initiative.nThe two scientists, who are both naturalized U.S. citizens working in the biomedical sciences, were informed of their termination at the same time on the morning of August 30, according to three sources and a document reviewed [...]
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How Moderate Democrats Derailed Police Reform
Bipartisan negotiations on police reform fell apart once and for all this week, four months after Congress missed its symbolic deadline to pass a package designed to raise standards for accountability and transparency in law enforcement. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., blamed his counterpart in leading negotiations on the bill, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., for walking away from talks this week after Republicans rejected Democrats’ final offer.nBooker told reporters that Republicans would not get on board [...]
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Even RBG Can’t Escape Censorship From New Leftists
The American Civil Liberties Union tweeted a botched quote on Sept. 18 that the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg supposedly told the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearings in 1993.nnnnOn the one-year anniversary of Ginsburg’s death, the American Civil Liberties Union attributed the following quote to her: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person’s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity. When the government controls that decision for [peopl [...]
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Biden Struggles to Corral His Party Over Trillions in Spending
President Joe Biden expressed confidence Friday that Congress will pass both a $3.5 trillion spending bill and a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, although the more expensive measure is backed only by his fellow Democrats.nnnnBiden is facing a divided party as more centrist Democrats from purple and red states express concern about the price tag of the $3.5 trillion spending bill, which is largely a wish list from progressives that is filled with “free” programs. nnnnThe president, speakin [...]
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6 Takeaways From Findings of Arizona Election Audit
The Arizona Senate’s audit of election results in the state’s most populous county has affirmed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump last November to win Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. nnnnHowever, the election audit in Maricopa County did find procedural problems such as duplication of ballots and potential for fraud. Auditors recommended that the state address these issues to avoid questions in future elections. nnnnThe state Senate released the findings during a hearing Friday after [...]
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Biden Talks Tough on Nicaragua, but Caves to Vicious Regime
In recent months, Nicaragua’s brutal and longtime dictator-president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, have plunged the Central American nation into an unprecedented human rights and political crisis—just hours south of the U.S. border. So far, the Biden administration’s response has been weak.nnnnElected with just 38% of the vote in 2006, Ortega and his wife have systematically deconstructed democracy in Nicaragua with the financial aid of Venezuelan strong [...]
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Twitter and the ‘Fact-Checkers’ Line Up for Biden
Twitter makes it easy to realize that the purpose of “fact-checkers” is most commonly rushing to defend President Joe Biden from misinterpretation … and mockery.nnnnOn Sept. 20, Twitter warned, “A video of President Biden discussing hurricane preparedness has been edited out of context, according to fact-checkers.”nnnnTweets aired this clip of Biden from Aug. 10: “Let me be clear: If you’re in a state where hurricanes often strike—like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas—a [...]
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The Hunter Biden Cover-Up Is a Scandal
The Hunter Biden email cover-up may not be the most contemptible example of the modern political media’s corruption, but it is probably the most demonstrable.nnnnPolitico reports that Ben Schreckinger’s new book, “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” corroborates much of the New York Post’s pre-election reporting on Hunter Biden’s emails.nnnnTwo of them stick out: The first is a 2015 missive from a Ukrainian businessman thanking Hunter for the chance to [...]
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LuLaRich Reveals a Hole in the American Economy
People who have heard of LuLaRoe have usually come across it for one of two reasons. Either someone they know has tried to sell them the company’s stretchy leggings and fit-and-flare dresses over Facebook, or they’ve seen some of the gleeful coverage of LuLaRoe’s very public disintegration as a brand: the lawsuits, the bankruptcies filed by its sellers, the boxes of apparently moldy clothing shipped to vendors that smelled, in one woman’s description, like a “dead fart.” (Leggings! N [...]
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Tucker Carlson Makes a Play for the Barbz
Nicki Minaj appears to be taking a break from Twitter. The rapper, who has more than 22 million followers on the platform and is known for spending nearly every day joking and bickering with them, has been uncharacteristically silent for the past week. The last entry in her feed is from September 15—a retweet of a fan’s post reading, in part, “When will people learn NICKI MINAJ is NOT going to be backed into any damn corner?”It all started two days earlier, the evening of the Met Gala, w [...]

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