This week, Bret sits down with Founding Editor of
The Washington Free Beacon and AEI Resident Fellow Matthew Continetti, former Campaign Manager for Senator Scott Brown and Republican Strategist Colin Reed and Democratic Strategist and Syndicated Talk Radio Host Leslie Marshall to discuss
President Biden’s willingness to compromise on his infrastructure plan in a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers.
The panel also discusses how cities and politicians are preparing for the likely unrest following the imminent verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd and how President Biden is being tested on the foreign policy stage by China, Russia, and Iran.
Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American?
Russell Cobb | This Land Press | August 2014 | 16 minutes (3,976 words)
This Land PressFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share a brand new essay from Oklahoma’s This Land Press, just published in their August 2014 issue. This Land has been featured on Longreads often in the past you can support them here.
Let’s take a voyage to a not-so-distant land and visit a strange tribe. Or maybe not so strange. In fact, you may even belong to it. Before we begin our expedition, a trivia question:
What do Bill Clinton, Miley Cyrus, Johnny Cash, and Elizabeth Warren all have in common?
man accused of triggering major flight delays by skipping through airport security. you may remember the man on the left here haisong jiang. police arrested him last month after he walked through unmanned guard post in new jersey. inspectors couldn t find the person who breached security so they evacuated new york s busiest terminal on the busiest travel day of the season. the result as you can imagine flight delays that rip belled across the nation. he is facing a misdemeanor charge that carries, get this, a $500 fine. one after another in texas, churches have burned. and investigators now seem certain it is no accident. tonight, the hunt is on for the person or people, as they put it, setting fire to houses of worship. and he helped republicans win back the filibuster. tonight, senator scott brown and his g.o.p. colleagues are wasting absolutely no time in threatening to use it. what the republicans blocked
position. republicans feared, however, he would use his post to, quote, advance quote radical views. and republicans are saying why are we rushing this through? are they so confident that they are going defeat barack obama? we have approved dozens of nominees we have disagreed. the problem this nominee has shown in his writings and in his responses to committee that his thinking is far outside the mainstream. shepard: senator scott brown by the way voted no but president obama perhaps anticipating this outcome today, shep, warned at his news conference that he might make several of these kinds of appoint wants while congress is in recess. shepard: james, republicans are wrapping this up in their fears of unionizing, right? that s right. mr. becker in his writings and his answers to the committee had made clear that he take as very wide view of how much power the national labor relations board should have in figuring out what congress meant when it passed this or that piece of
terrorism advisor john brennan took on congressional republicans, writing in u.s.a. today that politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al qaeda. brennan has taken criticism from senator kit bond and congressman pete hoekstra that the administration botched the investigation of the christmas day bomber and lost the opportunity to learn whether future attacks by al qaeda are in the pipeline. contract isly a week ago the intelligence community told congressional died will try again soon. both blair and panetta are political appointees of the administration. what is the likelihood of another terrorist-attempted attack on the u.s. homeland in the next three to six months? high or low? director blair? an attempted attack, the priority is certain, i would say. mr. panetta? i would agree with that. mr. moeller? agree. as for the revelation that