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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Wednesday that she has no plans to attend Israeli president’s Isaac Herzog upcoming joint address to Congress, citing the ongoing tensions between Israeli government and Palestine. “There is no way in hell I am attending the joint session address from a President whose country has banned me and denied…

May 1, 2021 President Joe Biden speaks to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., after speaking to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol. Michael Reynolds Pool Photo NORMAN — The only member of the Oklahoma delegation to attend President Joe Biden’s Joint Session Address in person this week was also one of seven House Republicans to take part in Biden’s official escort into the House chamber. Norman’s Rep. Tom Cole, ...

*People believe what they want to believe which is the essence of what’s known as confirmation bias. I was watching an episode of Air Disasters on the Smithsonian Channel in which the pilots of an aircraft entered the wrong heading number into the plane’s flight plan system that took them in the wrong direction. When they realized they were lost, they relied upon a visual assessment of the terrain, and discovered what they thought to be a familiar landmark – it was not, but they believed it to be because they wanted it to be. They did not check to verify, nor did they seek reliable thi...

President Biden, in his first address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, laid out his vision for America, through a slew of policy proposals and a legislative wish list, while vowing to work with both Republicans and Democrats to deliver on his agenda.  Biden delivered his address, which lasted just over an hour, from the House chamber Wednesday night, outlining proposals from continuing to address the coronavirus pandemic, to his jobs package, to universal preschool, healthcare, immigration reform, gun control, foreign policy and more.  "My fellow Americans, while the settin...