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Tue, 01/17/2023 - 15:57
Mural of Vladimir Lenin (Getty Images)
“The vast majority of commercial and industrial establishments are now working not for the free market but for the government.” V.I. Lenin, State and Revolution; 1917
This Lenin quote leapt to mind amid the recent revelations coming from the “Twitter files” and exposed over the past several weeks. Among other disclosures, the files revealed direct lines…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 15:52International
President Biden with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Oval Office of the White House in July 2021. (Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Almost a decade after the Department of Justice filed charges against a Jordanian woman in connection with a 2001 bombing in Jerusalem in which U.S. citizens were killed, she remains at large because Jordan, a major recipient of U.S. aid…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 15:07
Talk-radio host, author, and constitutional scholar Mark Levin.
Conservative talk-show host and best-selling author Mark Levin said that the timing and secrecy of Attorney General Merrick Garland's handling of the recovery of classified documents from when Joe Biden was vice president "was a cover-up."
Garland wanted to sweep the scandal "under the rug" as quickly as possible before House…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 13:03
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San Francisco's reparations committee has proposed that San Francisco pay $5 million each to virtually all black San Francisco residents over the age of 18, and also pay reparations to black people all over the country with drug convictions. This would cost the city trillions of dollars, bankrupting it. Yet the plan was praised by the President of the City's Board of…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 12:36
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Having been an editor on three journals, I can say that the most difficult thing a journal must do is find referees. So I was thinking last week of how nice it would be to have a “refbot” (software that was trained on what made for a good, publishable article) to use as a referee. And then I suddenly realized that I was contemplating a new kind of singularity.
The word “…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 12:16Washington
President Joe Biden returns to the White House from Walter Reed hospital on the South Lawn in Washington, DC on January 11, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) told “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday that he thinks there should be “some grace” given to former presidents or vice presidents who mistakenly take classified documents…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 11:38
Hunter Biden (L) and his father, President Joe Biden
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First Son Hunter Biden has done what was once thought impossible: reach a new low, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley says.
Turley, professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney, made the comment in response to news that…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 11:21
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After the Army missed its recruiting target by 25 percent, it expanded the Future Soldier Preparatory Course, a program for recruits who fall short of the physical and academic standards to enlist.
The 84-day program helps recruits outside of height and weight standards with weight management, an effort recently dubbed “army fat camp” by The Economist.
The program–piloted at…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 11:00
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Two Jewish teenagers were charged with vandalizing a Christian cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem and "insulting religion," reported Ha'aretz on Jan. 16.
The cemetery, which was established in 1848 and is maintained by local Anglicans and Lutherans, was vandalized on Jan. 1.
A surveillance camera caught the vandals on tape toppling headstones and crucifixes, destroying…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:49
Pete and Chasten Buttigieg (Getty Images).
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently told Fox News host Brett Baier that his travel expenses were not inappropriate, especially given that other public officials have taken their spouses on official business trips. “Why is it any different when it’s me and my husband?” Baier had no answer.
Does Buttigieg really have a husband? Of course…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:24
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I’m routinely critical of the many ways that government intervention has created an expensive and inefficient health system in the United States.
But there are countries where government causes even greater problems. So when I want to feel good about America’s clunky healthcare system, I look at the mess across the ocean.
The United Kingdom has a socialist health system. And it…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 09:53
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On Friday, January 13, the Biden administration’s DOJ and ATF enacted perhaps the most anti-gun rule in a generation. By “clarifying” that a certain firearm accessory, the pistol brace, is illegal without special registration and regulation, they have pulled the rug from under millions of Americans who own them. If these people don’t act to register or destroy their property or “…
Tue, 01/17/2023 - 09:40National
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. law defines hate crimes as offenses involving "actual or perceived" race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Now a Texas Democrat says "white supremacy inspired hate crime" should be added to the list.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-…