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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort to contain political fallout from revelations that his administration had concealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the Covid pandemic.

Things are surreal here in Texas right now. From Dallas to San Antonio, century-old low temperature records were shattered almost every day this week. The state is blanketed in snow and ice, and the power grid has failed.

Last week, First Liberty Institute and the Institute for Justice (IJ)—a leading nonprofit law firm in school choice issues—petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision in our Maine School Choice case. On behalf of two families, our legal team is challenging a Maine law that excludes students attending faith-based schools from the state’s high school tuition…

We knew that with the speed Congress rushed to write and pass the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) last March, very little attention was given to the potential for fraud and abuse.

The fallout from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building has reached the level of chilling. Leftist politicians and commentators are uniformly referring to the riot as an “insurrection” while systematically ignoring the wide-scale damage and destruction that was done to American cities during 2020. We are now seeing calls to “deprogram” conservatives. Media outlets have been shut…

Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels.

President Biden was slammed by conservatives on social media after saying, “We didn’t have a vaccine,” when he came into office on Jan. 20.

His death is a powerful loss to conservatism. His life was an inspiration and a lighthouse.

President Biden preaches unity but practices division. Witness his “Executive ­Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” part of an unprecedented barrage of such orders. It calls for “an ­ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda” that smacks of a Great Society for identity politics.

This past Sunday, Bill Gates (net worth, $133 billion) and Anderson Cooper ($110 million) got together on 60 Minutes to discuss the numerous sacrifices Americans will be expected to make to avert an imminent climate catastrophe.  

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 15, 2021 While Texas is normally awash in gas and oil, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the state’s wholesale power market, urged residents this weekend to conserve power to avoid power outages. Regulators rationed gas for commercial and industrial uses to ensure fuel for power plants and household heating. Texas’s…