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Chris Christie Wants the Post-Trump G.O.P. to Move Past 2020 — In a new book and in an interview, Mr. Christie says that if the former president wants to be a positive force, “he's got to let this other stuff go.” — Chris Christie wants to be very clear about something: The election of 2020 was not stolen.
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The Guardian and BizPac Review
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Stephen K. Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress
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Mark Meadows' “defiance” could lead to contempt referral, Jan. 6 panel says
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Washington Examiner, Snopes.com, KLRT-TV, Breitbart, Washington Post and HuffPost


The Man Who Freed Me From Cant — I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert its influences over my thinking long after I've forgotten its particular details, or even its title. Moreover, people who set as their job …


‘Staggeringly overbroad’: Court affirms pause on Biden vax mandate for private biz — An appeals court on Friday upheld its decision to pause President Biden's sweeping vaccine mandate for private companies, calling the rule “staggeringly overbroad.” — A three-member panel …
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HotAir, Yahoo News, Fox Business and Townhall
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U.S. appeals court affirms hold on Biden COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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Politico, Slate, Insider, Breitbart, The Last Refuge, CBS News, Deseret News, Washington Examiner, The Right Scoop and 6abc

Appeals Court Extends Block on Biden's Vaccine Mandate for Employers
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Lake and McHenry County …


Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial faces backlash from ‘Asian food’ joke: ‘Definitely not okay’ — As the court in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was set to adjourn for lunch Thursday, Judge Bruce E. Schroeder thought it was a good time to joke about whether their food would get there on time.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Beast, The Daily Wire, CNN and Townhall
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Kyle Rittenhouse Shot Three (3) White People and Zero (0) Black People
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Instapundit

Some journalists and court watchers admit initial bias in Rittenhouse trial
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Instapundit, National Review and Townhall


When All The Media Narratives Collapse — In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong. — The news is a perilous business. It's perilous because the first draft of history is almost always somewhat wrong, and needs a second draft, and a third, and so on, over time …


Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command — The new commander of the Oklahoma National Guard has declared the organization will not enforce the Defense Department's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its troops, according to local media outlets.
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Washington Post, The Hill and The Oklahoman


US announces big hike in Medicare premiums — (CNN)The federal government announced a large hike in Medicare premiums Friday night, blaming the pandemic but also what it called uncertainty over how much it may have to be forced to pay for a pricey and controversial new Alzheimer's drug.

Documents Expose ‘Staggering Pattern of Political Interference’ in Trump's Covid-19 Response — “Top elected officials preferred to keep Americans in the dark and set policy based on political considerations, not science,” said one former CDC adviser. — Documents released Friday reveal …
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Rolling Stone, Politico and Bipartisan Report


Migrants Say Belarusians Took Them to E.U. Border and Supplied Wire Cutters — Iraqi Kurds and other migrants said they were fleeing despair at home, but Belarus encouraged them, offering visas and helping them get to the border. — SULAIMANIYA, Iraq — The sudden surge of migrants …
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Fox News, New York Post, Associated Press and One America News Network


Retirement talk growing around Rep. Jerry Nadler — Rep. Jerry Nadler, a liberal warhorse who has represented Manhattan's West Side in Congress since 1992, may pack it in at the end of his current term, insiders tell The Post. — “People are wondering when he would decide to retire,” …
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Political Wire


How Does This End? — Thinking about Covid and normalcy. — Among the Covid experts I regularly talk with, Dr. Robert Wachter is one of the more cautious. He worries about “long Covid,” and he believes that many people should receive booster shots. He says that he may wear a mask …


Project Veritas Tells Judge It Was Assured Biden Diary Was Legally Obtained — But a search warrant in the case suggests the Justice Department believes the diary kept by the president's daughter Ashley Biden was stolen. — Project Veritas, the conservative group under scrutiny …
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Power Line, Raw Story, Mediaite, BizPac Review, National Review and NOQ Report


Inside DNC chair's ‘challenging’ bid to avert midterm defeat — He is not particularly close to the White House. He's never won statewide office or a seat in Congress. And just last year, he lost a high-profile Senate race by double digits. — But if you ask him, Jaime Harrison will tell …
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The Guardian


Americans Need to Learn to Live More Like Europeans — Supply-chain shortages are constraining U.S. consumers' endless appetite for buying whatever they want whenever they want. It's about time. — It's become the conventional wisdom that the U.S. economy is built on Americans' endless appetite to buy lots and lots of stuff.


Pardon for Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson's ‘separate but equal’ ruling, heads to Louisiana governor's desk — (CNN)Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana.
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Homer Plessy, key to ‘separate but equal,’ on road to pardon
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WBRZ, Associated Press and The Hill


Police patrols around Rep. Andrew Garbarino's office stepped up after death threat, commissioner says — Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Friday that patrols are being stepped up around the local office of U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino after a retired Long Island Rail Road worker allegedly phoned …


Jes Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Epstein that included unexplained phrases — Regulators flagged ‘snow white’ reference in messages between former Barclays boss and sex offender — Jes Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Jeffrey Epstein over a four-year period with content …
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New York Post and The Daily Caller


After a misfire in New Jersey, pollster offers a remarkable apology for error — All too often when their work goes awry, election pollsters turn to feeble excuses such as “polls really aren't predictions. They're just snapshots in time.” That is nonsense, because no pollster takes …


Nationalized races threaten Dem governors in '22 — The sharp swing away from Democrats last week in Virginia and New Jersey has the party newly alarmed about even more vulnerable governorships across the country next year. — President Joe Biden's sinking approval rating in Virginia …


Inside the Red-State Plot to Take Down a Top Trump Ally — For many Utahns, the Trump rally was the breaking point. A few days before the 2020 election, Senator Mike Lee paced across a red, white, and blue stage in Goodyear, Arizona, microphone in hand, rhapsodizing about the president's many virtues while he looked on.
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Raw Story


On Podcasts and Radio, Misleading Covid-19 Talk Goes Unchecked — False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications. — On a recent episode of his podcast, Rick Wiles, a pastor and self-described “citizen reporter,” …
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Balloon Juice


Family affair: Adams campaign paid Brooklyn Dem boss' hubby $80K — It pays to be married to the boss. — Eric Adams' mayoral campaign overpaid a campaign consultant who did little work — because he is the powerful Brooklyn Democratic Party leader's husband, multiple sources claimed to The Post.


Are Americans starting to embrace one-earner households again? — Americans quitting their jobs at a pace never seen before despite record job openings have left many economists scratching their heads. Conventional analyses pin the discrepancy on a host of concerns, such as lack of child care and lingering fear of covid-19.
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CNN, Breitbart and New York Times


Backlash to school books centering on race, sex and LGBTQ people turns into conservative rallying cry — The scene in Spotsylvania County this week unfolded like many others — a parent stepped up to a microphone in a nondescript room, glanced at a sheet of prepared remarks and claimed …
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New York Times and Michael-In-Norfolk