It s been a rocky few months for the U.S. Postal Service.
Numerous lawsuits were filed over the post office s handling of mail-in ballots during November s elections. Then came the holiday season, and customers became frustrated by backlogs that meant their Christmas cards and packages weren t delivered until January.
Among those frustrated is Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., who says cards his office sent to constituents on Dec. 1 are still arriving at homes in his district.
Pascrell says enough is enough. It would seem to me that if we shrink the trust of the post office any more, there won t be any post office left to trust, he says. So we need to do something that s strong. It s time to clean the house. And that s what I m recommending.
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By Karl Rove â The Wall Street Journal.
If America were diabetic, it would be suffering from hyperglycemia after the sugary coverage of President Bidenâs first week.
Much praise was heaped on the new administration in opinion commentary and what passes for straight journalism nowadays. Mr. Biden was celebrated for beginning the âhealing,â punching plenty of âreset buttonsâ and extending a much-needed âolive branch.â
His inaugural address was âgrand and deeply intimate,â a âbalm for a wounded nation.â Mr. Biden âmet the challengeâ simply by appearing at his swearing-in âat a moment of profound national vulnerability.â One veteran observer admitted it left him âin a bit of a swoon.â Iâm sure it did.
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Following the letdown of Jan. 20 when, contrary to QAnon belief, former President Donald J. Trump did not declare martial law, announce mass arrests of satanic pedophiles and stop President Biden from taking office some QAnon believers revised their predictions.
They told themselves that “the storm” the day of reckoning, in QAnon lore, when the global cabal would be brought to justice would take place on March 4. That is the day that U.S. presidents were inaugurated until 1933, when the 20th Amendment was ratified and the date was moved to January. Some QAnon believers thought that it would be the day that Mr. Trump would make a tri
Elise Stefanik: from ambitious private school student to ardent Trump backer
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While New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who was recognized by President Donald Trump the day after the U.S. Senate acquitted on two articles of impeachment, has been a person noted in the Times Union’s pages since the newspaper interviewed her as a 14-year-old fan of former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D Amato in 1998. (File photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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At a Kids Health conference held in Albany in 1999, Elise Stefanik, far right, fights off Butt Man with NYS Comptroller H. Carl McCall and fights Albany Academy For Girls students Genevieve Burger-Weiser and Caroline Feinberg. (Times Union archive photo)Skip Dickstein/DGShow MoreShow Less
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