Posts by Swedan margen
Good Luck to Bari Weiss at CBS | National Review
The legacy media have lost the trust of the public and are in dire need of reform. Source link
Read MoreStudents Are ‘Learning with Their Feet’ — by Shunning Bad Colleges | National Review
Students are reshaping the higher education market by abandoning low-ranking schools and low-earning majors. Source link
Read MoreManchán Magan, Keeper of the Irish Language | National Review
God rest him. Source link
Read MoreJapan’s New Female Leader Faces Tired Feminist Critiques | National Review
The left hasn’t yet overcome its bias against conservative women. Source link
Read MoreNational Guard arrives in Illinois as Trump pursues crime crackdown
The first contingent of President Trump’s call-up of National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday as the administration pushes to crack down on crime in some of the country’s major cities. Local news captured video of members of the Texas National Guard as they arrived at a facility about 50 miles outside of Chicago.…
Read MoreSenate confirms 107 more Trump nominees, clearing bulk of backlog
Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed 107 of President Trump’s nominees to executive roles, taking advantage of their recent rules change to clear most of the backlog that built up amid Democrats’ universal filibuster of the president’s personnel. The 107 nominees confirmed in the 50-47, party-line vote reduces the number of Trump picks who’ve been reported…
Read MoreSenate Democrats want to see more evidence that the FBI illegally spied on GOP lawmakers
Senate Democrats on Tuesday said they wanted to see more evidence that President Biden’s FBI spied on Republican lawmakers before they would believe there was wrongdoing. An FBI document released Monday by Senate Republicans revealed the FBI spied on phone calls by eight Republican senators and one GOP House member as part of operation “Arctic…
Read MoreMichigan creates additional marijuana tax to fund Whitmer’s plan to ‘fix the damn roads’
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law a new 24% tax on marijuana sales between producers and dispensaries, creating revenue to partially fund her long-promised effort to improve the state’s roads. Whitmer made road repairs her priority this year. The Legislature’s fiscal agencies estimate the wholesale tax will generate $420…
Read MoreBondi dodges questions as she clashes with Democrats over claims she’s weaponized Justice Department
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly deflected questions as she sought during a combative congressional hearing on Tuesday to defend herself against growing criticism that she’s turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon to seek vengeance against President Donald Trump’s political opponents. Democrats sought to use the hearing, coming on the heels of…
Read MoreAttorney General Bondi challenges Democrats to let go of ‘hate’ for Trump
Attorney General Pam Bondi blasted Democrats on Tuesday for the government shutdown, accusing them of allowing an overriding hatred of President Trump to leave her law enforcement agents patrolling their cities without pay. Ms. Bondi defended the decision to send National Guard troops to crime-plagued major cities and to surge immigration enforcement personnel to arrest…
Read MoreRepublicans eye layoffs, military pay deadline as pressure points for Democrats to end shutdown
Republicans are eying the end of the week as a pivotal pressure point in their campaign to persuade Democrats to end the federal shutdown. President Trump said Tuesday, a full week into the shutdown, that his repeatedly threatened layoffs of nonessential federal workers would be announced in four or five days. “It’ll be substantial, and…
Read MoreBiden buried CIA memo about son Hunter’s corruption
A newly released CIA document revealed that Vice President Joseph R. Biden sought to suppress a 2016 intelligence report in which Ukrainian government officials “mused” about his family’s ties to “corrupt business practices in Ukraine.” The document was based on U.S. intelligence gathered in December 2015 that revealed officials in the administration of Ukrainian President…
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