The Texas Supreme Court granted Gov. Greg Abbott his emergency motion for temporary relief on Sunday when it comes to mask mandates in Dallas and Bexar counties. In reporting for The Texas Tribune, Allyson Waller called it “a pivotal moment.” On Friday, the 4th Court of Appeals in San Antonio had upheld a Bexar County mask mandate for…
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Speaking with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CNN’s Jake Tapper demanded to know on Sunday how President Biden got the Afghanistan withdrawal “so wrong.” While the secretary tried to shift blame to Biden’s predecessor setting a May 1 withdrawal timeline, Tapper pushed back, noting that the deadline was passed, troops were still on the ground,…
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced Customs and Border Protection U.S.-Mexico border apprehensions for the month of July while speaking at a press conference in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday. In July, despite the extreme summer heat, CBP had 212,672 apprehensions, beating out June’s apprehensions, which totaled 188,829. Only 95,788 of the 212,672 encounters resulted…
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A Democratic legislator took to the floor of the Texas Senate on Wednesday evening in Austin, railing against a Republican-backed voting rights bill for more than 15 hours. The legislator, state Sen. Carol Alvarado (D-Houston), began speaking at 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday and held the floor until approximately 9 a.m. on Thursday. In accordance with…
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday morning that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased .5 percent in July after rising .9 percent in June and tying last month’s year-over-year increase of 5.4 percent — the largest jump since 2008. “This is the type of thing, economists like to brush it off and say ‘it’s…
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Every time we’d written about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political fate in the midst of his myriad scandals, we’ve expressed skepticism about the prospect of true accountability. His approach has been shameless, his resistance to relinquishing power has been complete, and his party has appeared unwilling to force him out. That combination, merged with New York’s deep blue…
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Everyone must wear masks again, including the vaccinated. That’s the edict that is being reimposed in some parts of the country. The Delta variant doesn’t make you sicker and it’s not more lethal, but the unvaccinated are the biggest group impacted by the new spike. We have three vaccines that are effective, the latest studies on the Johnson…
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continued to fire back at President Biden on Wednesday after the commander in chief got confrontational with GOP governors over the rise in Covid cases. “I say to these governors: Please help. But if you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way,” Biden said Tuesday. “The people…
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MCALLEN, Texas — The city leaders for the border town of McAllen declared a local state of disaster due to the continuing increase of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States and being released by Border Patrol within the city. In a statement sent out on Wednesday, the city of McAllen explained the respite center run…
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The White House will not call this a crisis. The administration tells us the border is closed and secure. They wave away concerns about their glaring culpability, blaming the previous president (whose administration massively reduced this problem), “seasonal” migration patterns (an excuse getting pulverized in real time), and risible “root causes” (see more below). The reality is that the Biden…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James James announced Tuesday New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo broke the law by sexually harassing eleven women, many of them aides. But Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal isn’t the only one detailed in the lengthy report. Documents included in the appendix show CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo was involved in managing the scandal…
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As Katie and I covered, Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday threatened Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) with legal action over an executive order he signed on Wednesday which stopped ground transportation of illegal immigrants who might test positive and which directed any vehicle suspected of such a violation to be stopped and turned back. After Gov. Abbott refused to back…
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The anti-Trump January 6 circus is underway and yesterday did not disappoint. The Democrats called up police officers to testify. Nice move since who will attack cops, right? Well, they become agents for the Democratic Party—It’s fair game. One officer, Harry Dunn, gave a tearful recount of the racial epithets hurled at him and other…
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It’s an old game, but one that never loses its entertainment value. How would the media react if Donald Trump or his White House staff gave this answer on this, that, or the other? You all know the answer. It would be a total meltdown. Not since reactor four in Chernobyl exploded would we see…
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On Sunday morning, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) spoke to Martha MacCallum on “Fox News Sunday” about the select committee to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. The congressman was one of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) five picks for the committee, though McCarthy pulled all five after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Throughout…
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) will be stripped of the emergency powers she wielded during the pandemic. On Wednesday, the Michigan state House passed the Unlock Michigan Initiative by a vote of 60-48, Dave Boucher with the Detroit Free Press reported. The state Senate had already done so on July 15. As was reported last month, the Michigan Supreme…
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President Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia today. There, he will give a speech opposing efforts by Republican lawmakers to bolster voting integrity through voter identification requirements and bans on ballot harvesting. According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Biden will argue these efforts are the gravest threat to democracy since the Civil War.…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the Democratic state lawmakers who flew to Washington, D.C. on Monday so the Legislature would not be able to vote on the Republicans’ elections reform bill can be arrested. Speaking to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday, Abbott said, “Once they step back into the state they will be arrested…
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Yesterday Texas Democrats abandoned their duties as state representatives, boarded private jets (without masking) and travelled to Washington D.C. to seek “refuge.” They left the state in order to block Republicans from obtaining quorum and passing a new voter integrity law. ON PLANE TO DC: Texas Democratic lawmakers are leaving state to break quorum to…
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On Sunday, former President Donald Trump returned to the stage for CPAC, which was held over the weekend in Dallas. Trump also spoke at CPAC on February 28, held in Orlando. While the former president has emphasized his signature “Make America Great Again Line” at the conclusion of his remarks, he did so in the beginning this…
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