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FLASH: Home Choose Jan 6 Committee subpoenas Home GOP chief Kevin McCarthy, Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep Scott Perry (R-PA), Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL), Rep Andy Biggs (R-AZ) as a part of its rising investigation
Committee chairman Rep Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to GOP Chief Kevin McCarthy: “Sadly you declined voluntary cooperation”Committee: Chief McCarthy was in communication with President Trump earlier than, throughout, and after the assault on Jan 6The committee has already accomplished approx. 1,000 interviews. Its public hearings start in lower than a month
How Overturning Roe May Backfire for Republicans
The social gathering was making headway with suburban ladies on crime, faculties and inflation. Now the abortion debate is entrance and heart.
Sandra Sloan, 82, is the form of voter Republicans are relying on to assist them reclaim this contested part of a newly purple state. But Ms. Sloan, a retired highschool instructor who lives in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood, is uneasy concerning the social gathering for one essential motive.
“I’m a Republican, however I nonetheless imagine that it’s a girl’s proper to decide on,” Ms. Sloan mentioned.
Dan Froomkin/The Nation:
The New York Instances Has Badly Misplaced Its Bearings
Its subsequent editor, Joe Kahn, must get it again on the right track.
When the present editor, Dean Baquet, took excessive job in 2014, American politics nonetheless labored more or less by the identical guidelines that had utilized for many years: The 2 rival events largely agreed on the details; they only interpreted them very in another way.
Enter Donald Trump, on a wave of ignorance, disinformation, and white grievance, taking the Republican Get together to what had been thought-about an extremist fringe of alternate details and conspiracy theories. The variations between the events have been not about coverage; they have been about fact and lies.
Craig Gilbert/Milwaukee Journal Sentinal:
Ron Johnson wants to maximise his base, and attract some anti-Trump Republicans, to win reelection
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson faces a Wisconsin citizens that’s extra unfavourable towards him — and extra polarized over him — than ever.
He has misplaced vital floor previously few years with key voting teams similar to ladies, moderates, independents and suburbanites, together with voters within the as soon as lopsided GOP stronghold of the “WOW counties” exterior Milwaukee.
And the dividing strains over Johnson have deepened since he was final on the poll in 2016.
Greg Sargent/WaPo:
J.D. Vance, migrant infants and the unhinged GOP enemy hunt
The primary of those received began when Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) posted photographs depicting baby-formula shortages in shops. Regardless of these hardships, she complained, “they” are sending “system to the border.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) then amplified the declare. The administration is offering “child system to unlawful immigrants,” he railed, “whereas moms and dads stare at empty grocery retailer cabinets in a panic.”
Besides it’s a crock. As Glenn Kessler shows, in supplying system to migrant children, the administration is following the regulation, which requires quickly holding them earlier than switch to guardians. That features mandated nourishment. The Trump administration did the identical.
Republicans don’t say outright that ravenous detained migrant children is preferable, that Biden ought to take system away from them and provides it to American mother and father. So why hyperlink the 2 developments in any respect?
John Stoehr/The Editorial Board:
Truly, the Democrats are fairly good at messaging
The issue is not messaging. The issue is infrastructure.
The established order, no matter that’s, nonetheless bigoted it may be, is within the Republicans’ favor. The established order is within the favor of the individuals who personal essentially the most profitable media properties. We have now seen makes an attempt by liberals to create a liberal Fox. Guess what? They will’t make cash.
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How the conservative Christian proper is hijacking homeschooling
The conservative Christian proper has been working onerous to dismantle public education for years.One of many essential purveyors of homeschooling was a fundamentalist, Rousas Rushdoony, whose work starting within the Nineteen Sixties in establishing Christian day schools grew into the homeschooling motion. He noticed homeschooling as a option to lower the federal government out of training Christian youngsters and to organize them to take their place in a theocratic authorities. Julie Ingersoll, writer of “Constructing God’s Kingdom: Contained in the World of Christian Reconstruction,” says Rushdoony “was one of many mental godfathers of the Spiritual Proper, however he’s usually handled like a loopy uncle.”
Loopy or not, homeschooling supplies impressed by Rushdoony’s theology are on sale as we speak to folks who homeschool in America, and lots of of these supplies reached mother and father throughout the pandemic. Cameron’s documentary selling homeschooling is just not an aberration; it’s half of a bigger undertaking about dismantling the general public schooling system in the USA.
