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Biden’s sudden call for ‘respect’ is hollow and insulting
Spare us your fake pieties, Mr. President. Your definition of "respect" is "let me do whatever I want." It isn't rude to oppose your...
Hotel debacle shows how US can’t afford to absorb this many illegal immigrants
Democrats made New York a “sanctuary city.” Now they — and all of us — are living the results. And there’s much more to...
A Closer Look at the College Board’s Radicalism
Students will learn black political and social thought just fine without some of the elements in the originally proposed AP African-American Studies program.
A Couple More Thoughts on the Absurdity of Hunter Biden’s Latest Claims
If Hunter is serious, why didn’t he sue?
House Republicans launch probe into former FBI official Charles McGonigal
House Judiciary Republicans Thursday launched an investigation into Charles McGonigal, the former FBI official in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York Field Office who was arrested in January over ties to a Russian billionaire.
The art of shushing
I recently had the closest experience I will likely ever have to Woody Allen’s character in Annie Hall, irked by the guy pontificating behind him in the movie line, managing to summon Marshall McLuhan to tell the latter, “You know nothing of my work.” When a National Gallery of Art guard came over to tell two friends and me that multiple people had complained we were talking too loudly in the Vittore Carpaccio retrospective, I asked if he knew the museum’s handle recently tweeted “shushing people in a museum” was one of the 2023 “out” items.
Democrats urge McCarthy to form select committee to combat antisemitism
Two House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday calling on him to create a select committee to confront antisemitism. Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) sent the letter just hours after House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee, following alleged comments...
McCarthy breaks with Greene on death of Ashli Babbitt
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) broke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday when asked about the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol police during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, concluding she was not murdered, as Greene has said. “I think the police officer did his job,” McCarthy told reporters...
McCarthy notches win with hard-fought vote to oust Omar
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) chalked up a big victory on Thursday when Republicans rallied to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Omar, a frequent critic of Israel and its human rights record, has been a target of Republicans since her arrival on Capitol Hill in 2019, and McCarthy...
Ford CEO reports $2 billion loss in profits in 2022, falling short of expectations
Ford Motor Co. announced Thursday that the company fell short of its expectations in the fourth quarter and last year, reporting that it lost $2 billion in profits. In a press release published Thursday, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that the company should have done "much better" in 2022. The press release said that in...