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Once you label a people “illegal”, that is exactly what the Nazis did to Jews. You do not label a people “illegal.” They have committed an illegal act. They are immigrants who crossed illegally. They are immigrants who crossed without papers. They are immigrants who crossed without permission. They are
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Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence
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“Thanks to the leadership of Gov[ernor] Ron DeSantis,” Florida Department of Transportation secretary Jared Perdue wrote on X, “Florida continues to be the freest state in the nation.” May 22, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Thoughts
In the 1920s, President Warren G. Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert Fall, went to prison for a year for accepting a $385,000 bribe from oilman Edward L. Doheny in exchange for leases to drill for oil on naval reserve land in Elk Hills and Buena Vista, California,
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Now extremists in the House are trying to run foreign policy on their own. The costs of that usurpation of power are clear in Niger, formerly a key U.S. ally in the counterterrorism effort in West Africa. The new prime minister of Niger, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, whose party
My Stuff
Now it seems the myth has come full circle, with the party led by a man whose wife rejects him and whose lovers ridicule him, who makes up stories about dangerous “others,” cheats on his taxes, solicits bribes, and tries to sell out his followers for cash—the very caricature
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So far, the court has heard testimony from David Pecker, the former CEO of American Media Inc. and ex-publisher of the National Enquirer, who has provided damaging information about Trump’s activities and even how many of Trump’s associates were involved. Trump has been hesitant to attack Pecker, leading
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The former president’s coif was the same as it appears in any windless venue. The Queens-raised Trump and the Bronx-raised Pecker appear to use the same lacquer on their hair, which marks them both as natives of New York’s outer boroughs rather than blue bloods from Manhattan. David
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The next civil war has not already begun. America is a violent country, armed to the teeth and blistering with hatred, but it’s also old, lazy, stupid, fat, medicated, and cowardly. 2020 marked a recent high point in American political violence, but all that violence was politically meaningless and
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House Republicans can’t take up issues like protecting voting rights or pass budgets on time. But it’s good to know they’re concerned with freedom for refrigerators. All told, House Republicans intended to take up such important measures this week as the “Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act,
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If country music is about being from the South, she playfully rejoins, why isn’t Houston’s gritty “chopped and screwed” style sufficiently country? If country music is about murder ballads that romanticize the darkest, most transgressive human desires, why isn’t it romantic when a Black woman is the
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Just by being Black, a woman, popular and impervious to country music’s gatekeepers, Beyoncé has made a political album. Puzzling over who is country enough to sing love songs to wheat fields and big trucks only seems prosaic. Big Country — the Nashville-controlled, pop-folk music that commodifies rural American fantasies