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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
By Attacking Me, Justice Alito Proved My Point — Last month, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the Supreme Court's critics are wrong. The Court is not “a dangerous cabal” that is “deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way, in the middle of the night, hidden from public view,” he said.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Divided Supreme Court considers who can defend abortion restrictions — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed which state officials can defend abortion bans in court — a procedural question with implications that extend beyond reproductive health in states where the governor and attorney general hail from opposing parties.
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Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
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Wall Street Journal, Zandar Versus The Stupid and UPI
Joshua Douglas / Washington Monthly:
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
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Slate, Washington Post and Digby's Hullabaloo
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Vaccine and economy fights driving tight Virginia governor's race — The Virginia governor's race is but one state contest, an entire year before the midterms. So why are the nation's political eyes all watching it so intensely? Because, as our poll finds …
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HotAir, The Hill, RedState, Blue Virginia and VA Scope
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American Greatness:
A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend … Southwest blamed “air traffic control issues” and inclement weather for the cancelled flights, but the problems were actually a direct result of the airline's announcement on October 4 that all of its 56,000 U.S. employees were required …
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Reuters:
Rebuffing Texas governor, American Airlines, Southwest stand by vaccine mandate
Rebuffing Texas governor, American Airlines, Southwest stand by vaccine mandate
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Insider, Above the Law and PolitiFact
Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:
Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order
Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order
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Wall Street Journal, The Texas Tribune and Washington Times
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
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Trending Politics, USA Today and Washington Examiner
Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
IBM, American Air, Southwest Snub Abbott and Back Biden on Shots
IBM, American Air, Southwest Snub Abbott and Back Biden on Shots
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Forbes, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg Law, Vanity Fair, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God. and The Federalist
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Marine who criticized U.S. handling of Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty, seek favorable discharge — A Marine officer whose viral videos criticizing senior officials for how they withdrew from Afghanistan created a political uproar will plead guilty to several charges and seek …
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Washington Examiner, Washington Times and Fox News
Shams Charania / The Athletic:
Kyrie Irving and his vaccine stance clarified: Why the Nets star has made a decision that will sideline him — Kyrie Irving believes he is fighting for something bigger than basketball — and the unintended consequences are that his mission is conflicting with his career and his franchise, the Brooklyn Nets.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage — 4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the workforce. — The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors …
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The Daily Caller, UPI and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries
A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries
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HotAir and The Daily Wire
Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
Bashar Assad's Playboy Cousin Spotted Driving $300K Ferrari in Beverly Hills — Ali Makhlouf, whose one-time billionaire father is on multiple U.S. sanctions list for financing the Syrian regime, told “what do you do for a living” Instagram star Daniel Mac he was doing an internship. — MP
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy — If only such nuance were a feature of the criticisms of Biden's policy — A Fox News host on Monday night offered a rare — if brief — commentary on his company's own vaccination policy, even as he and others continue …
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HotAir, BizPac Review, Townhall and Mediaite
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The ‘New York Times of the right’ is ... the New York Times
The ‘New York Times of the right’ is ... the New York Times
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Suspended Trump Appointee: Pentagon Is Keeping My Job in Limbo — OUT OF WORK — A top Pentagon official appointed by former President Donald Trump sued Tuesday over her suspension from the Defense Department, alleging that it is stalling her return and that she has not been allowed …
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Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Trump-Era Pentagon Official Sues as Suspension Reaches 5 Months
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation? — Get ready for the recriminations, because this won't end the internecine warfare taking place among Democrats. A few moments ago in her daily presser, Nancy Pelosi apparently signaled a retreat on the $3.5 trillion price tag on the progressive wish-list reconciliation bill:
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Axios:
Unruly customers threaten economic recovery — The pace of the economic recovery hinges in part on workers returning to jobs that involve dealing with an unpredictable public. But many of those workers say increasingly combative customers — angry about everything from long wait times to mask mandates — have prompted them to quit.
Reuters:
“There will be things that people can't get,” at Christmas, White House warns — White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.
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Instapundit, Yahoo News, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, National Review, Don Surber and Twitchy
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House tells states to prepare for Covid vaccinations in young children
White House tells states to prepare for Covid vaccinations in young children
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NBC Chicago and Political Wire
Amber Athey / spectatorworld.com:
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL's woke hypocrisy — Former head coach John Gruden of the Las Vegas Raiders (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) — Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after insensitive emails he'd sent a decade ago were leaked to the media, gifting us the latest example of woke mob hypocrisy.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel — Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office — Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Hundreds of Police Officers Have Died From Covid. Vaccines Remain a Hard Sell. — Far more law enforcement officers in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 than from any other work-related cause in 2020 and 2021. Even so, police unions are fighting vaccine mandates.
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Emily Anthes / New York Times:
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us — Viral evolution is a long game. Here's where scientists think we could be headed. — On Jan. 9, 2020, about a week after the world first learned of a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in central China, authorities announced …
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HotAir and The Indian Express
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Pro-Trump PAC fined over foreign money offer — A pro-Trump political group has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle allegations it illegally solicited $2 million from reporters posing as intermediaries for a Chinese national. — Why it matters: A key player in the scheme, a veteran Republican operative …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
How Not to De-Trumpify the GOP — Jonah Goldberg's plan to create a conservative third party would likely exacerbate the problems it's meant to solve. — In the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg proposes that the best way to fix the now-terminally “Trumpified” GOP is to establish …
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Past Pandemics Remind Us Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades — The skeletons move across a barren landscape toward the few helpless and terrified people still living. The scene, imagined in a mid-16th-century painting, “The Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, illuminated the psychic impact of the bubonic plague.
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor — Students at one of the oldest and most prestigious boys schools in the United States could soon face expulsion for a single “misplaced” joke, according to a draft “anti-bias” policy circulating among school administrators …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core — By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue. For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion …
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Raw Story
Abigail Constantino / WTOP:
Blue Line train car derails between Rosslyn, Arlington Cemetery stations — Several riders were stuck on a Metro train going toward Franconia-Springfield Station in Virginia after a single train car derailed Tuesday. — It happened just before 5 p.m. Metro received a report …
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Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Walgreens closes five more San Francisco locations, citing ‘organized retail crime’ — Walgreens is closing five more San Francisco locations as drug stores from the Bay Area to the Big Apple are besieged by rampant shoplifting and lax enforcement. — San Fran shoplifters have been emboldened …
Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
An Ocean Away, I Found Some Common Sense on Mask Wearing — Mr. MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. — BERLIN — You see it everywhere here in Germany, day in and day out: People taking the subway or bus or train put masks on as they prepare to board.
Elizabeth Howe / Defense One:
Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares — “No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience,” Broglio wrote. — Catholic U.S. troops should be allowed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based solely …
Dirk VanderHart / opb:
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof forms committee for Oregon gubernatorial run — After months of very public exploration, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has taken his most meaningful step to date toward running for Oregon governor.On Tuesday, Kristof officially formed …
floridahealth.gov:
Florida Department of Health Issues Notice of Fine to Leon County Totaling More Than $3.5 Million for Violation of Florida Law — Contact: — Communications Office — NewsMedia@flhealth.gov — 850-245-4111 — The County's illegal employee vaccine mandate results in 714 counts of violating law
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