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Why Were Authorities So Evasive About the Synagogue Gunman's Motive? — Actual statements from our president, midday Sunday: … Biden says the gunman's motivation was a mystery, and then mentions that he was “using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.”
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American Greatness, Instapundit, The Week and The White House
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Rabbi threw chair at gunman before he and other hostages escaped Texas synagogue: “It was terrifying” — A rabbi who was among the four hostages held during a nearly 11-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue managed to escape after throwing a chair at the gunman, he told “CBS Mornings” on Monday.
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Washington Free Beacon and The Hill

EXCLUSIVE ‘You get picked up in the US for walking on cracks in a pavement!’ Security services are accused of ‘intelligence failure’ after British synagogue siege terrorist, 44, evaded officials despite criminal convictions and 9/11 rant — FBI identifies Texas synagogue shooter …
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Texas rabbi: Security training paid off in hostage standoff — COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — U.S. and British authorities Monday continued an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi crediting past security training …
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Mediaite, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, New York Post, Associated Press, The Daily Wire and BizPac Review

FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’
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Texas synagogue hostage-taker was a British citizen; two arrested in England
Texas synagogue hostage-taker was a British citizen; two arrested in England
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BBC, New York Times, Breitbart, New York Post, BizPac Review, Politico, NPR and The Times of Israel
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
FBI reverses and says Texas synagogue hostage case was terror, Jews were targeted
FBI reverses and says Texas synagogue hostage case was terror, Jews were targeted
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Washington Post, National Review, Al Jazeera, Breitbart and The Daily Caller

U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — On average, Americans' political party preferences in 2021 looked similar to prior years, with slightly more U.S. adults identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic (46%) than identified as Republicans or leaned Republican (43%).
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ron DeSantis Is Going to Get Trump Trucked — 1. Fake Versus Real — I wrote about the brewing Trump-DeSantis feud back in July, when it was clear that DeSantis was Single White Female-ing Trump to a degree that was going to get super uncomfortable. — Now the fight is almost out in the open …
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Vanity Fair, Townhall, Raw Story and IJR
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Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte — A spat over Covid has exposed friction between the former president and a rising G.O.P. governor unwilling to curb his ambitions. — For months, former President Donald J. Trump has been grumbling quietly …
David Reaboi / Newsweek:
Ron DeSantis Welcomes You to Florida, America's New Texas
Ron DeSantis Welcomes You to Florida, America's New Texas
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The Guardian and Raw Story

How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision — The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states.
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RedState, The Dispatch and National Review
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Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong in Biden's Voting Rights Push
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Katherine Shaver / Washington Post:
Martin Luther King Jr.'s family marches in D.C. for Senate action on voting rights bill
Martin Luther King Jr.'s family marches in D.C. for Senate action on voting rights bill
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The Hill, IJR, NBC4 Washington, NBC New York and HillReporter.com

School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error. Progressives Still Haven't Reckoned With It. … Recently, Nate Silver found himself in the unenviable role of main character of the day on Twitter because he proposed that school closures were a “disastrous, invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision.”
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Joanne Jacobs and National Review

The left dreamed of remaking America. Now, it stares into the abyss as Biden's plans wither. — In 2020, prominent liberals promised major changes to the safety net and climate policy — Just three years ago, as they vied to lead the country, the Democratic Party's presidential candidates competed …
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Fox News, BizPac Review and Instapundit

POLITICO Playbook: MLK's family hopes Biden is working today — DRIVING THE DAY — For decades, MARTIN LUTHER KING III has heard his father's words invoked by politicians across the ideological spectrum on behalf of all sorts of positions — even ones antithetical to his beliefs.
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The C.D.C.'s New Challenge? Grappling With Imperfect Science — The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Covid Live Updates: Approval of U.S. Pandemic Response Hits New Low
Covid Live Updates: Approval of U.S. Pandemic Response Hits New Low
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CNN, Slate and Vanity Fair

‘Morning Joe’ hosts mock Trump — “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked former President Trump for sending a statement Monday morning attacking the MSNBC show. — “Will ‘Morning Joe’ be canceled? He and Mika's ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard …

New on this season of Veep: Harris comms director has comms problems with Hispanics — Kamala Harris brought in Jamal Simmons as her new communications director in order to reverse the public perception of a stumbling, bumbling, fumbling Vice President. Instead, Simmons' hiring might end up confirming that assessment.
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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Harris' new communications director to meet with Latino lawmakers after old tweets surface
Harris' new communications director to meet with Latino lawmakers after old tweets surface
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The Hill, New York Post, The Daily Caller, RedState and Axios

Kristi Noem's on a Political Rocket Ship. But Don't Rule Out a Crash. — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — One Saturday last fall, around the opening of South Dakota's pheasant hunting season, a crowd of businesspeople and political benefactors who'd come to meet and hunt with the state's governor …
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South Dakota State News

Book bans are back in style — School districts from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are bowing to pressure from some conservative groups to review — then purge from public school libraries — books about LGBTQ issues and people of color. — Why it matters: A pivotal midterm election year …
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The Left Place

Trump Claims White People ‘at the Back of the Line’ for COVID Vaccines, Treatments — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that white people are being discriminated against and sent to the “back of the line” when it comes to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.
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Statement by Joint Staff Spokesperson Col. Dave Butler on Gen. Milley testing positive for COVID-19 — Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Public Affairs 0 — WASHINGTON - Joint Staff Spokesperson Col. Dave Butler provided the following statement:
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A Synagogue Shouldn't Be a Fortress — Security experts maximize defenses. But places of worship need to remain welcoming. — About the author: Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, is the faculty chair of the homeland-security program …
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Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and Power Line

‘270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors — Only a handful are practicing physicians. — Are you seeing all of those blaring corporate press headlines targeting Joe Rogan this weekend …

CDC's suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called ‘unrealistic’ — (CNN)If the scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had their way, to curb the spread of Covid-19 right now, nearly every US school would cancel football, wrestling, band and loads of other mainstay school activities.
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TheBlaze

Revealed: the Flint water poisoning charges that never came to light — The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials. Then the team was dismantled — A team of prosecutors and investigators leading …
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News & Views … and The Crime Report