The Women’s Health Protection Act passed the House on Friday, in a largely party-lines vote of 218-211, with only one Democrat, Henry Cuellar of Texas, joining the unanimous Republican opposition. The bill would enshrine the right to have an abortion, criminalizing attempts by states to hinder terminations, whether by banning …
Read More »‘Unacceptable!’: Republicans & Democrats team up for Israel after progressives strike Iron Dome funding from spending bill
House Democrats on Tuesday scrubbed $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from a broad spending bill. The bill, a stopgap measure meant to ensure the functioning of government past the end of the month, was then reintroduced minus the missile-defense bounty for Tel Aviv. The …
Read More »US Republicans call for sanctions against Australia over police treatment of protesters
On Sunday, Ben Kew – the English editor of the conservative Florida-based publication El American – declared in an article that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison “must be made to pay for such flagrant human rights violations” that have taken place against protesters and other Australians through the use of …
Read More »The Republicans should interrogate Gen. Mark Milley as the Democrats did Mike Flynn and Donald Trump… but it will never happen
In a yet-to-be-released book entitled ‘Peril’, authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reveal that General Mark Milley, the United States’ top military officer, reached out to Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army on two separate occasions without the knowledge of President Donald Trump. Milley also found it …
Read More »After outrage, comment on SHOOTING Republicans disavowed by Free Press, a group petitioning FCC over ‘structurally racist’ media
The group led over 100 “organizations and community leaders” on Monday in petitioning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate “the history of racism in its media policies and identify reparative actions it can take to redress the structural racism that exists in the US media system.” Among the comments …
Read More »‘Time to resist’: Republicans denounce Biden vax mandate as ‘absolutely unconstitutional,’ claim he has ‘ZERO’ authority to do it
As part of a six-prong “Path out of the Pandemic” first announced by the White House on Thursday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Department of Labor will enact a rule mandating vaccinations for businesses with 100 or more employees. Biden is also requiring all federal employees …
Read More »Sen. Rand Paul & top Republicans demand Fauci’s firing after new docs indicate his agency funded risky Covid studies in China
Demands for the health adviser’s firing come after the Intercept obtained more than 900 pages of material related to coronavirus research funded by Fauci’s agency – the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – including previously unpublished grant requests from a US-based org that passed federal funds to …
Read More »Republicans demand return of $169mn in aid money allegedly embezzled by exiled Afghan President Ghani
In letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ranking Republican members of the House Committees on Oversight and Reform and the Subcommittee on National Security urged the Biden administration to do “everything in its power to seize any illicitly gained funds that were corruptly embezzled …
Read More »Are the politically left-behind flocking to the Republicans? A new survey suggests that might be the case
A Pew Research survey released earlier this week revealed that Republican views concerning the effects of banks and large corporations on the US dimmed noticeably in the last two years, bringing them close to, if not indistinguishable, from Democrats’ own views. As of July 2021, exactly half of Republicans or …
Read More »Vast majority of Republicans still believe 2020 US election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump, poll shows
The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll, released on Wednesday, showed that 66% of Republicans believe last November’s election was “stolen” from former President Donald Trump. Just 18% said they consider Biden’s victory to be “fair and square,” and approximately 16% were undecided. While only 3% of Democrat respondents believe Trump was …
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