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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Gone Too Far — The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied. — s cable television broadcast the scenes of Trump supporters breaking past police lines and even smashing their way into the Capitol on January 6, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. …
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
During January 6 Hearing, Schiff Doctored Text Messages Between Mark Meadows And Rep. Jim Jordan — Democrat Adam Schiff doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan during Monday's Jan. 6 hearings, an investigation by The Federalist shows. — Oops, he did it again.
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Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance — Shortly after 2 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Donald J. Trump breached the U.S. Capitol, turning the seat of American democracy into the scene of an unforgettable crime.
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Biden says Meadows seems ‘worthy of being held in contempt’ for failing to appear for interview with January 6 committee
Biden says Meadows seems ‘worthy of being held in contempt’ for failing to appear for interview with January 6 committee
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning.
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
WaPo analyst: Time to face the possibility that Biden loses on BBB — It's long past time for that consideration, although Henry Olsen likely doesn't disagree. He cites “progressives' irresistible force” clashing against Joe Manchin's immovable fiscal realism as an end stage, but that has been the clash all along.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Democrats push Manchin on ‘nuclear option’ for voting rights
Democrats push Manchin on ‘nuclear option’ for voting rights
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden and Manchin deadlocked on length of BBB programs
Scoop: Biden and Manchin deadlocked on length of BBB programs
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Reuters:
The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump's campaign of disinformation — After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote's legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Most Americans ‘Worn Out’ By Covid — Public officials' Covid ratings down; dip in support for mandates — West Long Branch, NJ - A majority of Americans say they feel “worn out” by how Covid has impacted their daily lives, and nearly half feel “angry” about it.
Washington Post:
This block used to be for first-time homebuyers. Then global investors bought in. — LA VERGNE, TENN. — The homes on Tammy Sue Lane aren't fancy. Modest in size and clad in vinyl siding, the houses were priced below $200,000 when most were built about 15 years ago …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Republicans Who Assailed Biden's Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money — Republican governors who criticized the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill as wasteful are championing state projects funded by the money. — WASHINGTON — At her annual budget address this month, Gov. Kristi Noem …
Dionne Johnson / KLFY-TV:
Lafayette City Judge Michelle Odinet responds to use of racial slurs in home video following burglary — LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet confirmed with News 10 that over the weekend she and her family were victims of an armed burglary at their home in the upscale area of Bendel Gardens.
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Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden set to surpass Trump in first-year judicial nominees; a window into a major Democratic push — (CNN)President Joe Biden will soon announce his latest wave of nine judicial nominees, according to a White House official, capping a year where the selections — and an effort to establish …
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Dylan McGuinness / Houston Chronicle:
Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge — A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Build Back Better would make Biden's annus horribilis even worse — At the end of his year of Old Testament afflictions — the political equivalent of Job losing his camels and acquiring boils — President Biden might be muttering: Job was at least spared Sens. Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema.
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry's Focus: Did He Mislead His Own Accountants? — The investigation, by the Manhattan district attorney, is zeroing in on information the former president and his company shared about the value of his assets. — As prosecutors in Manhattan weigh whether to charge Donald J. Trump …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems' best hope — There may be a rematch coming in the 2024 race for the White House. But we're not talking (God help us) Biden-Trump II. — Instead, 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is an interesting prospect to consider …
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Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
DeSantis takes aim at CRT training in schools and corporate America — DeSantis' administration moved against critical race theory in schools; now the governor is broadening his efforts — DeSantis: Americans are rebelling against the Democratic Party — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
N.Y.C.'s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen — New York is set to become the nation's largest city to enact a ban on gas heat and stoves in new buildings. It's a major step away from fossil fuels that is expected to influence wider markets.
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Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
A leader of an Ohio Muslim organization was fired for spying for a hate group — The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it fired one of its top leaders after discovering he was sharing information about the organization to “a known anti-Muslim hate group.”
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Keith E. Whittington / Washington Post:
The intellectual freedom that made public colleges great is under threat — Across the country, state legislators are trying to control what happens in classrooms — and who gets hired and fired — Faculty members at public universities are under fire in numerous states …
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Menendez slips, fractures shoulder in rush to get to U.S. Senate floor for vote — His Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing had ended and a vote awaited, so Robert Menendez darted to the U.S. Capitol to reach the Senate floor. — But en route, the New Jersey senator slipped getting onto …
T. Becket Adams / And another thing:
That Dana Milbank column is even dumber than you think — Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is as lousy a statistician as he is a political commentator. — Milbank claims journalists have been harder on President Joe Biden in the first year of his presidency than they were on former President Donald Trump in his last.
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Chauvin pleads guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of violating George Floyd's civil rights. — Chauvin, 45, appeared in U.S. District Court to plead guilty to the federal charges against him …
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Blinken cuts short trip to Southeast Asia after member of his entourage tests positive for coronavirus — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Secretary of State Antony Blinken cut short his trip to Southeast Asia on Wednesday after a member of the press corps accompanying him on his visits tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Five Republican governors seek vaccine exemptions, escalating a fight with the Pentagon. — Governors from five states have written a joint letter to Lloyd J. Austin III, the defense secretary, asking that their National Guard troops be exempted from a federal coronavirus vaccine mandate …
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Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds — ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
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Lola Fadulu / New York Times:
Cornell University goes on high alert after finding evidence of the Omicron variant on campus. — Cornell University canceled a ceremony for December graduates, closed libraries and took other restrictive measures on Tuesday after the school's coronavirus testing lab found evidence …
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died — And the killing is just getting started. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. — 4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019.