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Author: Mary Chastain

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Mary Chastain

Mary is the resident libertarian. She covers stories in every vertical, but her favorite thing to do is take on the media. She saw its bias against the right when she was a socialist.

Mary loves the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, tennis, cats, Oxford comma, Diet Coke, and needlework.

Congress will vote Monday night on a COVID-19 relief bill worth $900 billion along with a $1.4 trillion spending bill to cover the remainder of the 2021 Fiscal Year. The Democrats wanted a $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill before the election, but Republicans offered $900 billion. The left only agreed to that amount after their guy won the presidential election.

The New York Times 2018 podcast Caliphate gained traction after it featured Shehroze Chaudhry, a Canadian who claimed to take part in Islamic State executions among other things. The 12-part podcast won a Pulitzer Prize. Now it has all fallen apart after Canadian and American intelligence officials determined Chaudhry, who used the name Abu Huzayfah, lied about everything. The Times admitted massive failure on their part from the top of the publication.

The newly declassified texts from disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok show the agency began investigating President Donald Trump before they opened Crossfire Hurricane. Another set of texts show that the FBI spied on a call between an executive at Fox News and former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos.

Oh, look. Glamour interviewed two Democrat women over the hardship of juggling campaigns and motherhood. Magazines never do this with Republican or conservative women. Jen O'Malley Dillon, Joe Biden's campaign manager and his pick for deputy chief of staff, told Glamour that while she wants unity, she admitted Republicans are "a bunch of f*ckers."

The San Francisco Unified School District targeted 44 schools for possible name changes back in October. The list included Abraham Lincoln. Dianne Feinstein, Herbert Hoover, and others. The school district voted this week to rename Abraham Lincoln school due to his comments about black people and "the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to [Native Americans]."

I tried hard to word a decent headline but the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) makes it impossible. The teachers will not return to the classroom with the students in January. So the cash-strapped city will hire supervisors to be in classes and at the school with the students. This is because the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) refuses to get back to work.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015: Boko Haram technically defeated. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on December 1, 2020: War against Boko Haram far from over. Boko Haram, the radical Islamic group that has been terrorizing Nigeria for years, claimed their militants kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys in the northwestern state of Katsina.

Weird how all of this Hunter Biden news is coming out in the mainstream media after the election. NBC News first reported (granted on a Friday night) that an email brings up "fresh questions" about Hunter's tax problems like not reporting $400,000 income from Burisma.

You guys, the race to represent New York's 22nd Congressional District keeps finding ways to outdo itself. Now a stained ballot might help determine the race. No, it's not like the blue dress. No one knows if the stain is blood or chocolate.