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January 12th, 2021
As my listeners and readers can hopefully attest, I have been on a lifelong quest to understand human nature and human behavior. I am sad to report that I have learned more in the last few years…
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January 11th, 2021
‘Tis the season. No, not the Yuletide; that joyous annual season is behind us. It is instead the season of the eleventh-hour pardon, when a soon-to-depart president, freed of concerns about the political implications, makes copious use of the chief executive’s most boundless, corruptible, and, in modern times, unnecessary power. The Constitution should be amended to end it.
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January 11th, 2021
After temporarily suspending President Trump’s account on Wednesday, Twitter late Friday afternoon permanently banned the accounts of several of his prominent allies, including lawyer Sidney Powell and his former national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
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January 7th, 2021
The US Congress early this morning certified the Electoral College vote making Joe Biden the forty-sixth president of the United States. Vice President Mike Pence confirmed Mr. Biden’s victory at 3:41 a.m. ET.
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January 7th, 2021
Senator Ben Sasse’s speech Mr. President, thank you and Mr. Vice President, let me just say before I begin… Thank you for the way you have fulfilled your constitutional duties and your oath of office today. It obviously hasn’t been easy. Colleagues, today has been ugly. When I came to the floor this morning, I planned to talk about the...
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January 7th, 2021
Senator Ben Sasse’s speech Mr. President, thank you and Mr. Vice President, let me just say before I begin… Thank you for the way you have fulfilled your constitutional duties and your oath of office today. It obviously hasn’t been easy. Colleagues, today has been ugly. When I came to the floor this morning, I planned to talk about the...
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January 7th, 2021
Patriots enlist and defend their country. They work hard, do their best, raise good families. They help their neighbors. They perform civic duties. They grit their teeth and pay their taxes. Then they show up and vote.
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January 3rd, 2021
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 3rd, 2021
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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December 27th, 2020
I am an ER physician married to another ER physician, and COVID-19 has rocked my world. With two small children to care for at home, we had to draw on new skills as we contemplated and prepared for the care of our children should we not survive the disease. Now we are on the precipice of the unfathomable: a vaccine...
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