Red State,
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Jim Thompson
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8/11/2021 11:54:35 AM
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Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has led the charge of 19 senator republicans, hell-bent on running off a cliff.Like a bunch of lemmings, 19 GOPers sided with Democrats and signed onto an infrastructure bill that isn’t about infrastructure it’s a debt and bureaucratic disaster in the making.Although we are told it will “pay for itself”, it won’t. Repurposed Covid funds are insufficient to fill gaps, and “Covid funds” were funds created out of thin air in any event so claiming it pays for itself with fake money, is just more mafia-style creative accounting.
Democrats included a whole bunch of “equity” language throwing money at “disadvantaged groups”.
Associated Press,
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Lisa Mascaro
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Washington— When President Joe Biden first announced the framework he’d reached with a bipartisan group of senators for a big infrastructure bill, he said it meant more than building roads and bridges.Agreement, he said two months ago, would send a signal “to ourselves and to the world that American democracy can deliver.”The senators who led the legislation to passage Tuesday agreed. “We all knew that, quite honestly, that the world was watching,” said Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. Approved on an overwhelming 69-30 vote, the nearly $1 trillion package would boost federal spending for major improvements of roads, bridges, internet access
Trending Politics,
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Seton Motley
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8/11/2021 10:47:43 AM
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The United States is a very young country. Our sense of history is compressed. Our history is a blip on the radar of many other nations’ and peoples’ histories. So our perspective on things is often quite different. China has been China for thousands of years. Basically the same people living in the same place for eons. With a very different history — which imbues them with a very different perspective.We in the US are VERY fortunate. The reason we remember so desperately the Great Depression is because it was such an anomaly for us. Ten years of hard times scarred the psyche
Trending Politics,
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Jonathan Davis
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8/11/2021 10:42:11 AM
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County-level Republican parties in Wyoming are beginning to abandon Rep. Liz Cheney ahead of the 2022 midterm primaries over her ongoing criticism of former President Donald Trump and her participation in the select Jan. 6 Committee.“In the immortal words of the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump …’You’re Fired!'” said letters sent recently to Cheney from GOP officials in Park and Carbon counties.The state has 23 counties, most of which are very rural. Because of the state’s low population, Wyoming has just one congressional seat.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Harriet Alexander
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8/11/2021 3:57:44 AM
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A Virginia teacher has dramatically resigned during a meeting of her scandal-hit school board after blasting its obsession with lessons on critical race theory. Laura Morris spoke before Loudoun County School Board in an emotional address, explaining why the 'equity trainings' and political dogma forced her to resign.She said she could no longer be part of an organization that told her 'white, Christian, able-bodied females' needed to be reined in.Morris, who has taught at Lucketts Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, for five years - half of her career - told the board:
New York Post,
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Editorial
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8/11/2021 3:38:48 AM
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Faced with universal demands for him to step down and clearly unable to govern, Gov. Andrew Cuomo did the only sane thing: He tendered his resignation. Good riddance. Now Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will take over at a key moment for the state.She’s largely unknown and untested — but good signs abound: The Buffalo native has called herself “an independent Democrat” and got her start in politics as an aide to Rep. John LaFalce and the late, great Sen. Pat Moynihan, both independent-minded liberals.When then-Lt. Gov. David Paterson took over in 2008 after a prostitution scandal forced out Gov. Eliot Spitzer,
American Greatness,
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Lucretia
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8/11/2021 3:34:48 AM
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Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) was challenged recently by a caller on the “Jay Thomas Show.” The caller asked Cramer to reveal the identity of the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, on January 6. Cramer claimed he did not know the name of the officer, nor did he believe the public had any right to know that officer’s name because he had not been found guilty of any wrongdoing. Such pandering to the ruling class and its railroaded investigation is embarrassing enough, as the available evidence (to say nothing of the evidence that the government refuses to release) indicates that the officer recklessly—
BizPac Review,
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Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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8/11/2021 3:31:10 AM
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Biden and the White House called an early lid before noon on Monday following a daily presidential briefing at 10 a.m. and the President then proceeded to continue to relax at his home in Delaware as if nothing important was going on.“It is Monday, before noon, and President Biden/the White House have called a lid at 11:27 am,” conservative commentator Katie Pavlich reported. “The White House has called a travel pool lid at 11:27,” the White House pool report stated. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also wasn’t scheduled to give a briefing on Monday afternoon as she usually does. Biden reportedly spent all weekend at his Wilmington, Delaware home.
Trending Politics,
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Collin Rugg
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According to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, he and Vice President Kamala Harris talked about “the complete opening” of the 2,000 mile border between the United States and Mexico. The announcement comes after the border has been closed to non-essential travel between the two contries.Obrador tweeted, “We spoke again with Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States. In good terms, we dealt with the immigration issue, the complete opening of the northern border to reactivate our economies and continue with mutual cooperation to face the pandemic.”
New York Post,
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Steven Nelson
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8/11/2021 3:23:50 AM
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President Biden on Tuesday declared that it was “infrastructure decade” and that the US economy is in for a “long term boom” after the Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill — despite much of it not being paid for.The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday with 19 Republicans joining all 50 Democrats in favor. House passage is likely weeks away due to a scheduled summer vacation period.“After years and years of ‘infrastructure week’, we’re the cusp of an infrastructure decade that I truly believe will transform America.” Biden said at the White House — before bungling his victory speech by saying Gov. Andrew Cuomo did
Daily Mail (UK),
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Matt McNulty
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8/11/2021 3:20:26 AM
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US Intelligence officials are warning that the Afghan capital of Kabul could fall to Taliban forces in as little as a month, despite a huge security force that far outnumbers the rogue group previously triggering claims that the city would be able to defend itself for at least a year. As stability in the region continues to erode, the Washington Post reports that the White House is currently bracing for the fall of Kabul, with an accelerated decline of security in the city taking it's toll over the last several weeks.Initial intelligence estimates had pegged the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces at six to 12 months following the departure
Daily Wire,
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Ryan Saavedra
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8/11/2021 3:17:10 AM
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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) officially signed civil arrest warrants for 52 House Democrats who refused to show up for another special legislative session, thereby keeping the session from proceeding.As The Washington Post reported: Phelan spokesman Enrique Marquez said warrants were signed for 52 Democrats who failed to return during the fifth day of the House’s second special session, leaving the chamber eight members short of a quorum.The move by Phelan comes after the Texas Supreme Court overturned a ruling Tuesday “by a Travis County district judge that blocked them from ordering the arrest of quorum-busting Democrats, who were in Washington, D.C., for about a month,” KXAN reported.