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David Browne / Rolling Stone:
Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense—He's Bankrolling It — Eric Clapton went from setting the standard for rock guitar to making ‘full-tilt’ racist rants to becoming an outspoken vaccine skeptic. Did he change? Or was he always like this? — Cambel McLaughlin thought he was being punked.
New York Times:
Navy Nuclear Engineer Attempted Espionage, FBI Says — Jonathan Toebbe and his wife tried several times to pass information on nuclear propulsion systems to a foreign government, according to a criminal complaint. — WASHINGTON — A nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy and his wife …
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Politico:
'The president's decline is alarming': Biden trapped in coronavirus malaise — Democrats are ringing alarm bells and coming to the simplest of conclusions: It's the pandemic, stupid. — President Joe Biden's standing with Americans has plummeted, with his average approval rating plunging by nearly 15 points since late June.
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Outside the Beltway and New York Times
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Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Biden administration competency doubts increase
Biden administration competency doubts increase
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New York Magazine
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
‘Frustration is at an all-time high’: Behind Biden's falling poll numbers — ATLANTA — W. Mondale Robinson spent a large chunk of last fall in clubs and bars and concert venues in Georgia, trying to convince disenchanted Black men that casting a ballot — in the 2020 general election …
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Althouse
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan — ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country's new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday.
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HotAir, Foreign Affairs, The Daily Wire, Mediaite, UPI, BizPac Review, One America News Network and Al Jazeera
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David Brunnstrom / Reuters:
U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’
U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’
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Bloomberg and One America News Network
The Daily Beast:
Corey Lewandowski in Exile: Banned at Trump Properties — Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is no longer allowed on Trump properties or at Trump parties after a high-profile donor accused him of sexual misconduct. — After a GOP donor accused Corey Lewandowski of sexual misconduct late …
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Raw Story
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges — Gift exchanges between U.S. and foreign leaders, a highly regulated process, devolved into sometimes risible shambles during the Trump administration. — The Saudi royal family showered Donald J. Trump and his entourage …
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The Indian Express
Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
Celebrate Columbus's Achievements — We should acknowledge his flaws, but his treatment by the left is reminiscent of communist propaganda. — Friends, Americans, citizens of the world, lend me your ears. I come to bury Christopher Columbus, not to praise him.
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
There Is Shadow Inflation Taking Place All Around Us — Some companies haven't been raising prices. Instead, they've been cutting back customer services and conveniences, but how should that be measured? — Inflation has surged in 2021, with various official measurements of consumer prices rising faster than they have in years.
Dan Hannan / Washington Examiner:
Why should Spain despise its greatest explorer? — Monuments to Christopher Columbus are regularly vandalized throughout the Americas, but Spain remains faithful to his memory. Last week, I visited Seville Cathedral, where his supposed remains are carried shoulder-high by massive statues representing …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Two Journalists Started an Argument in Boston in 1979. It's Not Over Yet. — A writer for an alt-weekly called out a Boston Globe editor for his “fealty” to the idea of objectivity in a column that reads as if it was written yesterday. — In 1979, two journalists got into an argument.
Wall Street Journal:
Biggest U.S. Retailers Charter Private Cargo Ships to Sail Around Port Delays — Home Depot, Costco and Walmart resort to private charters in push to stock shelves for holiday shoppers — Global supply-chain delays are so severe that some of the biggest U.S. retailers have resorted to an extreme …
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Reason
David Catron / The American Spectator:
VA Dems Want Last Minute Voting Rule Change — Virginia's gubernatorial contest between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe clearly has supporters of the latter worried. Recent polls show a far tighter race than they expected. Consequently, it was all but inevitable …
New York Post:
White House throws up its hands at new questions on Hunter Biden's ‘art’ scam — “I'd refer to the gallerist for questions,” huffed White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki last week in non-answer to reporters asking about Hunter Biden's star-studded Los Angeles art show.
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Louder With Crowder, BizPac Review, Trending Politics and Daily Mail
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
This Far Right Group Wants Anti-Mask Protests to Fuel Its Comeback — The John Birch Society used to boost segregation. Now it's back to attack schools over mask mandates. — On a sunny Saturday in a Knoxville, Tennessee park, a man with a microphone told a crowd of parents to bar entry to their children's schools.
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Raw Story
American Greatness:
The Left Got What It Wanted—So Now What? — There is no schadenfreude in seeing the Left destroy everything it touches—because its claws tear all of us as well. — What was the purpose for the insane opposition of the Left between 2017 and 2021? To usher in a planned nihilism …
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The Hill, NBC News and Washington Post
The Intercept:
Steven Mnuchin Stepped In to Prevent Ivanka Trump World Bank Appointment … In January 2019, Jim Yong Kim threw the global financial development sector into a state of disarray: The former academic and health official announced he would be stepping down the following month from his role …
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The Guardian, Insider and Raw Story
New York Times:
Inside Rikers: Dysfunction, Lawlessness and Detainees in Control — With a staffing emergency disrupting the basic functions of the jail system, detainees have had free rein inside. — When a detainee decided to hijack a bus inside the Rikers Island jail complex, little was in place to stop him.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
After the Taliban seized their school, Afghanistan's all-female orchestra tried to flee. Only some escaped. — KABUL — The girls came from homes broken by war and poverty to chase an unimaginable future as musicians. And with grit and determination they succeeded: Some played at Carnegie Hall.
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different — Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago. In recognition of his research on climate change, MIT invited him to deliver the John Carlson Lecture, which takes place every year at a large venue in the Boston area and is meant to …
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Progress Pond and Reason
Michel Martin / NPR:
Rep. Schiff reveals impeachment regrets, tensions on Capitol Hill after insurrection — Nine months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., says the Capitol is a “different place.” — “I think the relationships that we had with our [GOP] …
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Townhall and Iowa Capital Dispatch
Joe Concha / The Hill:
The Biden-Harris train wreck may have its savior: 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump — Former President Trump recently declared he would beat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a potential Republican primary match-up for the party's 2024 presidential nomination. And based on current polling, he's almost certainly right.
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The Daily Beast
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker off to $3.7M fundraising start in 2022 Senate race — Republican Herschel Walker has raised $3.7 million since launching his campaign for U.S. Senate about five weeks ago, as GOP donors came off the sidelines to support the former Georgia football star.Walker's campaign …
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The Hill and Florida Politics
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Liberal Democrats have become the mainstream of the party and less willing to compromise with dwindling moderates — Moments after President Biden instructed House Democrats to make concessions or risk derailing passage of his economic agenda, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus hastily gathered …
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New York Times:
'It's Not Sustainable': What America's Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close — An enduring traffic jam at the Port of Savannah reveals why the chaos in global shipping is likely to persist. — SAVANNAH, Ga. — Like toy blocks hurled from the heavens, nearly 80,000 shipping containers are stacked …
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blaming weather and staffing — Southwest has cancelled more than 1,800 flights over the weekend so far. — The Dallas-based airline blamed the disruptions on air traffic control issues, bad weather and staffing shortfalls.