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January 4, 2021
Joe Biden - Donald Trump, side-by-side

There are at least four Trump initiatives that Biden should retain, which would help the country, both domestically and internationally.

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January 4, 2021
Sen Ted Cruz speaks

America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law.

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January 4, 2021
Various religious leaders pray for Donald Trump

If there is any good to come from last weekend’s Christian-nationalist “Jericho March,” and other bizarre, angry, and sometimes-violent right-wing attacks on the 2020 presidential election, it’s that the scales may start to fall from the eyes of thoughtful American Evangelicals.

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January 3, 2021
Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York

A New York state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow the government to detain people deemed a potential public health risk, amid concerns that the Covid-19 crisis is being allegedly used to usher in authoritarianism.

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January 3, 2021
health-care-worker prepares covid-vaccine-

U.S. health care workers are first in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine — but an alarming number across the country are refusing to do so. Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine disclosed that about 60 percent of the nursing home workers in his state have so far chosen not to get vaccinated.

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January 3, 2021
Speaker-of-the-House-2021-Pelosi

Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so. Because of the responses of both elite officials and ordinary Americans to the COVID-19 epidemic starting last February and to the shocking Minneapolis police video released over the Memorial Day weekend.

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January 3, 2021
US Capitol Dome with Flag

With a new Congress convening, two runoff elections in Georgia that will determine party control of the U.S. Senate, and the presidential election’s electoral-vote count in Washington, the first week of 2021 is set to be a whirlwind.

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December 31, 2020
Pastor Rick Warren

In an interview with Relevant Magazine, author and pastor Rick Warren asserted that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a “fundamental weakness” in American churches: They’re too focused on corporate worship.

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December 31, 2020
coronavirus-model

COVID-19 and the public health measures in response to it have transformed the religious life of the United States, and not for the better. Until recently, many religious authorities have acquiesced to government mandates without acknowledging their right to dissent; still others have adopted an overly deferential view of the biblical command to be subject to governing authorities. Source: Submitting…

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December 31, 2020
Dont California my Georgia

One of the many beauties of freedom is there is always surprise. Georgia voters might consider what is happening in California as the nation’s blue-state poster child turns purple.

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December 31, 2020
Sen. Chuck Schumer & Sen. Dick Durbin.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 25, 2020 The CRA lets lawmakers nix regulations published in the previous 60 legislative days, with a similar “lookback” period for a new Congress. That review window moves: Whenever lawmakers dither in D.C., the CRA review period for their successors gets later on the calendar. Judging by Congress’s schedules, analysts thought new…

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