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January 26, 2023
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today asked six former presidents and their vice presidents to look to see if they have any…
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January 26, 2023
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January 25, 2023
Democrats are generally staying out of the way and letting Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans make a spectacle of themselves. In order to…
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January 25, 2023
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January 24, 2023
The fact that former vice president Mike Pence’s lawyer disclosed on January 18, 2023, that Pence also had documents with classified markings at his…
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January 24, 2023
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January 23, 2023
Today a jury found three members of the Oath Keepers gang, along with a fourth defendant associated with them, guilty of seditious conspiracy for their…
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January 23, 2023
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January 22, 2023
We need to put on the record another public mass shooting over the weekend. It happened in Monterey Park, California, last night, when a gunman killed…
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January 22, 2023
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January 21, 2023
Tomorrow marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided that for the first trimester of a…
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January 21, 2023
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January 20, 2023 (Friday)
Tonight’s letter was supposed to be a photo, but then it turned into just a few things I didn’t want to miss, and now it’s a sort of roundup of a whole…
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January 20, 2023 (Friday)
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January 19, 2023
As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned would happen today, the U.S. hit the debt ceiling, although it can avoid default for a few months with what…
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January 19, 2023
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January 18, 2023
One of the promises House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made to the extremist members of the Republican conference to win his position was that he would…
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January 18, 2023
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January 17, 2023
Today the bill for the elevation of Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to House speaker began to come due. McCarthy promised the far-right members of his conference…
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January 17, 2023
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January 16, 2023
A quiet day today, and a quiet night tonight. Would love to predict a quiet week ahead, too, but that seems to me unlikely. Still, let’s take our calm…
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January 16, 2023
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January 15, 2023
You hear sometimes that, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, America has no heroes left. When I was writing…
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January 15, 2023
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