Vice President’s Secretariat ‘Good governance needs good legislatures’, says Vice President VP expresses concern about poor oversight function of legislatures due to disruptions‘MPs or MLAs not discharging their functions lose their moral right to question the executive at various levels’VP stresses need for bridging governance deficit in service delivery in states and local bodiesCalls for…Continue Reading
Prime Minister’s Office PM greets people on Christmas Posted On: 25 DEC 2021 9:34AM by PIB Delhi The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has greeted the people on the occasion of Christmas. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said; “Christmas greetings to everyone! We recall the life and noble teachings of Jesus Christ, which placed…Continue Reading
Detail of Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst, c. 1622. (Public Domain/Wikimedia) And the darkness has not overcome it. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t gets cold in Bethlehem. Even in our own time of global warming, it is down in the low 40s there today, almost as cold in the original Bethlehem as…Continue Reading
We can be better from basking in the glow of a fleeting life that gives and teaches, because even when the life is tragically short, the love endures. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I fooled around and fell in love. No, not that kind of “in love.” Guys like me who marry up don’t make that mistake…Continue Reading
‘Happy XMas (War Is Over)’ vs. ‘Wonderful Christmastime’: It’s on. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E very Christmas season returns a collection of classic Christmas songs to store speakers, car radios, and home-audio setups across the country. It also revives an eternally recurring conversation about which of these songs is the worst (see National Review‘s own…Continue Reading
In the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois KEVIN McCALLISTER, Plaintiff -v.- PETER McCALLISTER and KATHERINE McCALLISTER, Defendants Opening statement of Mr. Kenneth Brogan, attorney for plaintiff: My client, Mr. Kevin McCallister, a ten-year-old minor, has been subjected to years of physical and mental abuse by his parents, Peter and Katherine McCallister, whose…Continue Reading
Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton in Reds. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) Forty years ago this month, Warren Beatty’s Reds exposed Communism through a self-destructively naïve American Bolshevik. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W arren Beatty makes you wait so long for it that it feels like a cloud of emotion opening after a drought. We’re three…Continue Reading
One day, humans will explore space en masse and live scattered across the solar system on planets like Mars and beyond. Inspired by his time as artist-in-residence at the European Space Agency, TED Fellow Jorge Mañes Rubio wants to rethink what we need to bring on this grand journey — and more importantly…Continue Reading
When Vice President Kamala HarrisKamala Harris Harris tests negative for COVID-19 after close contact with aide Asylum isn’t the solution for Haitians’ plight Staffer who had contact with Harris tests positive for COVID-19 MORE appeared on Comedy Central’s “Tha God’s Honest Truth” earlier this month, some Democrats were happy to see a glimpse of the…Continue Reading
France reported more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, setting a new record as the highly contagious omicron variant rips across Europe.Saturday marked the first time the country recorded six figures in a single day, with 104,611 cases.The country logged 94,124 new infections on Friday, according to France’s public health agency.The omicron variant has quickly become the dominant…Continue Reading