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Eleventh-hour panic?

Inflation is on the run at rates the United States hasn't seen since 1992, and consumer prices in May 2021 were up five percent over May 2020. Americans are paying

The New York Times was blasted by critics on Sunday for a “biased” and “inaccurate” tweet in regards to Sen. Joe Manchin's, D-W.Va., moderate positions on voting rights and keeping the filibuster. 

From false election fraud claims to threats to secede, state and local Republican parties are compounding Donald Trump's grip on the national party.

WASHINGTON — Months after Donald Trump left the Oval Office, Republicans at the state and local level are cementing their loyalty to the one-term president, assuring that Trump will remain the partys future despite his November defeat. From espousing his discredited election conspiracy theories to threatening to secede, state and local officials are increasingly leaving aside community issues to reflect Trumps ongoing hold of the national GOP. The extension of Trumps dominance in the GOP dow...

  Share Source: Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, Pool Partisan gerrymandering is bad. When Republicans do it. Leftists are constantly carping about the "brokenness" of institutions like the Supreme Court, the Senate and the Electoral College because they perceive said institutions to be obstacles to their arrogation of power. When Democrats controlled 60 Senate seats early in the Obama era, their hand-wringing about the "undemocratic" nature of the upper chamber was strange...

Indoor mask mandates aren’t going away until 2022 at the earliest. Still, it’s nice to see an expert as respected as Gottlieb taking the bull by the horns. “How this seems to work is Gottlieb says it, a couple of weeks later a lib-shaming piece gets published in The Atlantic, and three weeks after that Biden tells the CDC to do something,” Patrick Ruffini half-joked about Gottlieb’s influence this morning. That’s an exaggeration but not a huge one: Gottlieb has consistently been mor...

Former President Donald Trump congratulated Susan Wright, widow of late Rep. Ron Wright, on Sunday

Poll: MLB wrong, most Americans back Ga. election law Sunday, April 11, 2021  |  Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com) Spanish After Major League Baseball moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because Georgia passed an election reform bill requiring ID for absentee voter ballots, a poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans back the voting integrity law. Despite President Joe Biden and the left staging the Georgia law passed by Republican lawmakers as something equa...

AP Photo/Jessica Hill There’s a lot on this topic floating around on news sites today. It’s been on my mind too every time we’ve heard some exciting new vaccination stat touted by the White House. (Eight million doses dished out last Friday and Saturday alone!) Right now the vaccine practically administers itself because we haven’t yet exhausted the population of people who are eager to get it. They’re motivated, they’re scheduling, they’re showing up, and the shots are going out....