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Richard Grenell EXPLODES at Biden's administration and exposes the conspiracy in Guatemala – POLITICAL BOMBSHELL: Joe Biden's administration and USAID, led by Samantha Power, have been accused of funding radical left-wing groups, destabilizing governments, and pushing globalist agendas in Hispanic America. Explosive allegations claim that millions of US taxpayer dollars have been funneled into socialist NGOs, extremist activists, and projects aimed at destroying conservative values ​​in the region. https://x.com/RichardGrenell/status/1886200655712596110? For example, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) wasted $32,000 of taxpayer money to fund the creation of a transgender comic book in Peru , according to information compiled...

For Republican presidential contenders challenged by the media, the go-to answer has become a claim of victimhood: You are biased against us. As Marco Rubio put it at the CNBC debate last month, "The Democrats have the ultimate super PAC. It’s called the mainstream media." Are media outlets really biased against Republican candidates? One of the most careful studies, by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro of the University of Chicago, doesn’t find much evidence of that. Its central conclusion is that readers...

Books by Cass R. Sunstein discussed in this essay: The Partial Constitution After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need it Now More than Ever Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, co-written by Richard H. ThalerDesigning Democracy: What Constitutions DoA Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What it Meant Before Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America A specter is haunting liberalism—the specter of postmodernism. Liberalism came to dominate American politics in the last century as the embodiment of progressivism, which...

WHOSE SIDE? Cass Sunstein's theories on cost-benefit analysis align him more with conservatives, critics say. Cass Sunstein, selected to be Obama's regulatory czar, has labor activists and environmentalists digging into his record. Reporting from Washington -- Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein, a widely admired intellectual and friend of President Obama, has spent years delving into the obscure issues of regulatory law and behavioral economics. Though he is generally described as left of center, Sunstein's academic interests in regulation have led him to raise questions about the constitutionality of liberal favorites such as workplace safety laws and the Clean...