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Never forget who the Pilgrims thanked, and then slaughtered – complete with a “Europe virus.” Indeed, as a counterfactual, one could easily imagine Pilgrims prevailing upon Native Americans back then to see wearing masks as not only unwelcoming but unnecessary. And, with the good-natured Natives obliging, the rest became history. Now this: COVID-19 data on… Read more.
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Christie, the commentator Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, is a regular commentator on the top-rated Sunday talk show This Week. On today’s episode, he and fellow commentators discussed Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. Here’s the indignant way Christie chimed in: The conduct of the president’s… Read more.
Everyone in New York has known for decades that Trump was a lazy, dumb, rich kid who squandered the hundreds of millions he inherited, and then proved so inept as a businessman that he managed the arguably impossible feat of bankrupting a casino … five times. ‘The house always wins’ was the motto that had… Read more.
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China has moved to tame [the legislative council], one of Hong Kong’s few remaining avenues for dissent and democratic ideals, as it effectively expelled four elected opposition lawmakers from office, prompting vows to resign from their allies. … The council … stood as a symbol of the ‘one country, two systems’ legal framework that was… Read more.
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As election results for the US Senate stand, Republicans have 50 seats, Democrats 46, and Independents (who invariably vote with Democrats), 2. This is why Democrats are banking on winning the two runoff elections in Georgia. Control of the Senate is likely to come down to the Jan. 5 Georgia runoff, when voters could be… Read more.
President Trump’s re-election campaign featured too many farcical and cynical moments to count. But perhaps none epitomized them more than the flyby rallies he held in covid hot spots. Because there we saw crowds variously cheering and baying as he regaled them with brazen lies and hollow threats. What took the cake, though, was Trump… Read more.
No doubt you’ve seen everyone in the media bending over backwards to avoid describing Kamala Harris as a Black woman. Here, for example, is the banner headline no less a media authority than The New York Times ran on Friday, hailing her historic election: Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman and Woman of Color… Read more.
