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Just when the situation seemed like it couldn’t get much worse for Cruz — his statement about coming back Thursday, after all, had been misleading at best — a cute pooch entered the narrative. Houston-based journalist Michael Hardy had driven by Cruz’s house Thursday and snapped a photo of the
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So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. This feels like the truest thing I’ve read in a long time. * The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber
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But they are no longer setting the terms of the country’s politics. By refusing to engage with the impeachment trial, Biden and his team escaped the trap of letting Trump continue to drive the national narrative. Instead, they are making it a priority to protect voting rights. At the
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Trump did not call off the rioters for several more hours. * February 12, 2021 - Letters from an American
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[Trump's] lawyers claimed the riot was premeditated, pointing to pipe bombs that were planted before the rally. “You can’t incite what was already going to happen,” said Mr. Van der Veen. * Impeachment Briefing: A combative defense
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It includes, obviously, the reason the first republic and its Constitution, so revered, lasted about as long as the USSR, a mere seventy-four years, before dissolving into the bloodiest conflict of the nineteenth century. For my part, I always considered this a pretty weak foundation on which to erect unconditional
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Des Moines schools would stand to receive and estimated $2 million dollars if the district was included in the payments. Sen. Amy Sinclair, R-Allerton, said leaving the district out is not meant to be punitive, but she also named Des Moines Supt. Thomas Ahart and said he did not act
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Republican Senators willing to excuse Trump for his incitement of an insurrection that attacked our peaceful transfer of power are tying the Republican party to the former president and to an ideology that would end our democracy. * February 9, 2021 - Letters from an American
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At the end of all these intellectual and emotional gymnastics is relief. Really, there’s nothing to not be proud of. Because if American history makes you feel bad, it’s a lie. If the places where most Americans live are terrible it doesn’t count because those aren’t
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Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is. * E. B. White on “The Meaning of Democracy” | The New Yorker
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On Tuesday morning, the nation’s foremost marmot weather expert saw his shadow after scurrying out of a burrow at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney. As the legend goes, that means the country can expect below-average temperatures for the next six weeks. There’s clearly widespread fraud here, though I
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Monday was supposed to be the first day of a new session of Parliament following November elections that Suu Kyi’s party won in a landslide — and that the military-backed party did poorly in. The military has claimed widespread irregularities on voter lists could have led to fraud in that