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At Thursday’s 69th National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden provided a jarring sound bite that demonstrates why America doesn’t need the National Prayer Breakfast. In his remarks, Biden called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) his friend. Then he said of the man who created a new standard to block President Barack…Continue Reading

Liz Cheney, it turns out, matters after all.Otherwise, why would the Republican National Committee have engaged in such an extraordinary display of self-humiliation on Friday?With only a few scattered dissents, the RNC voted overwhelmingly for a resolution condemning the Wyoming congresswoman and her fellow representative, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, for their roles investigating what the…Continue Reading

Over the course of the last year, I’ve periodically marveled at the number of Republican voters who were caught committing voter fraud, only to receive light sentences. Nevada’s Donald Kirk Hartle, for example, received probation. So did Bruce Bartma and Robert Richard in Pennsylvania. Ohio’s Edward Snodgrass was locked up, but only for three days.None…Continue Reading

The Chinese flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympics in Beijing, China, February 4, 2022. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that China’s decision to prominently include a Uyghur athlete in the Olympic opening ceremony was a calculated move intended to “distract us from the…Continue Reading

Marc Short participates in Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s daily briefing at the White House, March 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Marc Short, who served as chief of staff to Mike Pence, said Sunday that President Trump had “many bad advisers who were basically snake oil salesmen” at the time of the January 6 Capitol Riot. During…Continue Reading

People are silhouetted in front of the Canadian national flag at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 21, 2019. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters) A judge in New Brunswick, Canada recently blocked a father’s shared custody of his three children over his refusal to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, according to a new report. The parents…Continue Reading

Sarah Palin arrives for the trial in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times at the United States Courthouse in New York City, February 4, 2022. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Advantage: Palin NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A fter the 2008 election and “The Masked Singer” and all the rest of it — finally, here is a contest…Continue Reading

TIJUANA, Mexico — About a hundred members of the police, National Guard and army on Sunday evicted 381 migrants, mainly Central Americans and Mexicans, from a makeshift camp they had been staying in for almost a year in Tijuana at the U.S. border crossing.The migrants’ tents around El Chaparral crossing were demolished with the help…Continue Reading

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Sunday congratulated President Joe Biden for last week’s deadly raid in Syria that killed the leader of the Islamic State group, the Israeli premier’s office announced.In a phone call with the president, Naftali Bennett told Biden that “the world is now a safer place thanks to the courageous operation…Continue Reading