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The company donated to Georgia’s new bill’s sponsors and then tried to walk a middle line that does not exist.

Ginger Luckey, a 26-year-old Harvard Business School student, has been engaged to Gaetz since December 30, 2020. Gaetz and Luckey met at Trumps Mar-a-Lago club last March Luckey spoke with the Daily Mail about her relationship with the 38-year-old Gaetz, detailing how she met the conservative congressman. She said her mother "dragged" her to an event at former President Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago resort in March 2020, and that they attended Kimberly Guilfoyles wedding together shortly thereafter....

As our sister publication Townhall reported, “The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would essentially eliminate freelancers and the gig economy. The bill passed 225 to 206. Five Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the act.’ As we have seen so clearly over the past year, it’s less about the letter before your state, and more about who is putting the feed in your trough; and how much. The PRO Act is a clear “gimme” to...

Inman Connect Marcia L. Fudge was sworn in as the 18th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Wednesday after the U.S. Senate confirmed her on a bipartisan 66-34 vote. Fudge has represented northeastern Ohio’s 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2008. Before that she had been the mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, since 2000. She is the second Black woman to serve as HUD secretary and the first in more than 40 years. The first was Patricia Rob...

[LISTEN] Civil Society Organisations Come Out in Support of Zondo Commission, While Zuma Frustrating & Delaying Inquiry Mar 10, 2021 Civil Society organisation Open Secrets says with just a few months left before the Zondo Commission concludes and reports on its findings, there needs to be support for the inquiry into state capture. Some of South Africa’s foremost civil society organisations have come out strongly in support of the State Capture Commission and have insisted that former presid...

Originally published on March 4, 2021 5:45 am JPR reviewed campaign finance records of two local Republicans, one in Southern Oregon and another in Northern California, to try to understand the impact of that vote and whether it will have a lasting effect. On Jan. 6, a far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, upset about the results of the 2020 election and the loss for former President Trump. During the attack five people died, lawmakers had to flee to safety, and the seat of American democra...

Jonah Goldberg The Democratic Party is often called the party of government Ideologically, this is so obviously true it’s not worth belaboring. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. We have a federal government for a reason, and there are things it should do. Reasonable people can debate what those things are. But there’s a difference between being the party of government in the ideological sense and being the party of government in the literal sense. A core constituency of the Demo...

Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict. In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yemen, a small republic in the southern Arabian Peninsula. This according to an investigation by NPO Open Secrets titled “Profiting from...

Exposed: South Africa’s role in Yemeni civil conflict’s humanitarian crisis © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict. In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yem...

/ California Rep. Doug LaMalfa and Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz were among 147 Republicans who voted not to certify one or more states electoral votes after the 2020 election. The decision prompted dozens of corporations to end or pause campaign contributions. After the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, dozens of large corporations announced they would suspend political contributions to members of Congress. It was an effort to boycott Republicans who voted not to certify the results of the 20...