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Posted Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:12 pm A conservative reader recently sent us a transcript of a monologue by liberal comedian Bill Maher, who hosts Real Time on HBO, and much of it rang true, particularly as it pertains to America and China and the race to “win” the 21st century. As Maher points out, it’s a race between a serious country and a silly country. You can guess which is which. “In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch, moved the major...

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment, in an article titled Julian Zelizer, a historian at Princeton University and CNN Political analyst, regularly organizes assessments of presidencies (George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and now Trump). Each volume brings together leading political historians to address different aspects of a recent presidency. The goal of this project is to be first-movers in shaping a serious and ongoing conversation about the historical significance ...

Can Biden get Infrastructure Week back on track? The GOP Catch-22: Fixing infrastructure is great, so long as you don’t raise taxes or increase the deficit  Every few months or so, the Trump White House would declare “Infrastructure Week!,” seven days for the president to focus the country’s attention on his plan to rebuild the country’s decaying roads, bridges and airports. The problem, of course, was that Donald Trump was an agent of chaos, pathologically incapable of detachin...

Joe Biden references joke on Donald Trump in promoting administrations infrastructure plan White House / Wikimedia Commons Related Stories President Joe Biden is now set on promoting his upcoming infrastructure plan, another major piece of legislation he seeks to pass in Congress and the Senate. In his White House address, Biden made a reference to a long-running joke from the Trump-era in his touting of his massive American Jobs Plan. Biden promoted his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan that wo...

Republicans signal support for much smaller infrastructure plan A city street is closed for repairs and upgrades, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. As part of an infrastructure proposal by the Biden administration, $115 billion is earmarked to modernize the bridges, highways and roads that are in the worst shape. (AP Photo/John Raoux) A EVgo electric vehicle charging station is seen at Willow Festival shopping plaza parking lot in Northbrook, Ill., Wednesday, March 31, 2021. President J...

WASHINGTON — Republicans may be ready to support limited infrastructure spending in President Joe Biden’s spending proposal, which would require scaling back the $2.25 trillion plan by more than two-thirds, a senior GOP senator said. With Biden’s Americans Jobs Plan on the table for less than a wee

Republicans might support limited infrastructure spending in President Biden’s spending proposal, which would require scaling back the $2.25 trillion plan by more than two thirds, a senior GOP senator said.

Republicans say they’ll support infrastructure plan, but only if the cost comes down two-thirds Updated 3:10 PM; WASHINGTON — Republicans may be ready to support limited infrastructure spending in President Joe Biden’s spending proposal, which would require scaling back the $2.25 trillion plan by more than two-thirds, a senior GOP senator said. With Biden’s Americans Jobs Plan on the table for less than a week, administration officials and Senate Republicans took to the Sunday news sho...

As Biden faces calls from parts of the Democratic Party to go bigger, Republicans are focusing their opposition on a corporate-rate increase.

Maybe historians will look back on this as the year of Old Power. Think about it. Older people, who were some of the first in line for the vaccine shots, are now being celebrated as the leaders of the post-COVID social scene ... “Good news: I just got vaccinated!” tweeted Steve Martin. “Bad news: I got it because I’m 75.” Meanwhile, President Joe Biden, 78, is going like a house on fire. A few weeks ago Congress passed his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. Now he’s ...