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Mar 06 2022
Opinion
US Border Agents Asked to Leave Southern Border, Go to Poland for ‘Operation Ukraine Support’
The Southern border of the United States is in unimaginable crisis. Border agents set a new record for arrests of people trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico: 1.9 million in 2021. And 402,000 of those were released within the United States, with asylum hearings scheduled, for which some will never show up. Biden has vilified and lied about border officials; they’re clearly just
FrontPage Magazine
Jun 18 2021
Fact Check
Grothman right on claim that 9.3 million jobs are open in U.S.
Thanks to the crush of COVID, the U.S. last year went from low unemployment rates to record high numbers.
But as more people have been vaccinated, and the economy continues to gain steam, things are shifting once again. Across the country, employers added 559,000 jobs in May alone, according to a June 4, 2021 report from USA Today.
But many businesses can’t find enough workers to
PolitiFact
May 26 2020
News
Why Native Americans took Covid-19 seriously: 'It's our reality'
Coronavirus is novel to the world, but the impact on native communities is anything but a new experience
In the first few weeks of 2020, as president Donald Trump dismissed and mocked warnings about a novel virus killing people faraway in China, Native American leaders were taking the deadly threat seriously.
And they were right.
The infection rate among the Navajo Nation
The Guardian
Aug 13 2021
News
Single-Family Home Prices Soar by 23 Percent In Q2 Over Year Ago, Sharpest Rise on Record
A shortage of housing stock combined with robust homebuyer demand and low mortgage rates sent U.S. home prices soaring by the highest annual rate on record in the second quarter, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
The median price of an existing single-family home surged by 22.9 percent in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the year-ago period,
The Epoch Times
Jan 26 2022
Opinion
The Worst Ally
President Joe Biden’s press conference last week was atrocious, but one of his worst missteps amounted to telling the truth about Germany, if not by name.
Biden said there’d be divisions within NATO over a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine. This is true enough, and the chief cause would be a Germany that is staking a strong claim to being our worst European ally.
If NATO
Rich Lowry
Dec 13 2019
News
Inside the messy fight over strategy among campaign finance reformers
Marty Wulfe opened his inbox one day this fall and found an unsettling email from an old friend.
It was a dire warning from the Maryland chapter of Common Cause: Special interests in his state are pushing a "dangerous" proposal for a second constitutional convention.
But Wulfe himself was one of those special interests, because he's a board member of Get Money Out – Maryland. The
The Fulcrum
Oct 14 2021
Analysis
Biden’s Chief Of Staff Agrees: Inflation A ‘High-Class Problem’
On Wednesday night, President Biden’s White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, apparently sympathetic with the infamous quote attributed to 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette, “Let them eat cake” regarding starving plebeians, agreed that the current inflation was a “high-class problem.”
Klain echoed the claim of the former chairman of former President Barack Obama’s Council of
The Daily Wire
Jul 25 2022
Analysis
We’ve all got Covid-19 fatigue, but BA.5 shows it’s not over
The BA.5 Covid-19 subvariant is now the most dominant strain in the country; the highly infectious variant has caused an uptick in cases and hospitalizations both in hotspots like New York City and the nation overall, but public health action and messaging is less aggressive than with previous outbreaks.
BA.5 typically causes familiar symptoms like fever, headache, muscle aches, cough,
Vox
Feb 28 2022
News
Russia invasion of Ukraine could play unusual role in midterms
Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine could throw a wrench into the midterms as voters scrutinize President Biden’s efforts to counter aggression from a global superpower and U.S. adversary.
Foreign policy rarely touches down-ballot elections. But Russia’s moves in Europe, and the U.S.’s response, could have domestic implications that hit Americans’ pocketbooks and would come on top of
The Hill
Jul 18 2022
Fact Check
No, Biden didn’t give the ‘same exact speech’ months apart
Footage showing President Joe Biden’s supposed verbal blunders has repeatedly circulated on social media, especially in conservative circles.
But many of these videos were deceptively edited or taken out of context. Such is the case with a July 14 Instagram post that suggests the president delivered the same speech twice.
“Two separate occasions, months apart, exact same speech
Poynter