Posts on Friday, June 5, 2020
Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo have filed their Appeal Brief (pdf.) in the Gibson’s Bakery case. The NAACP also has filed an Amicus Brief (pdf.) in support of the college.(Snip)The Oberlin College Brief is redacted because some information was filed under seal (the information at issue in the various motions to unseal we previously covered). It’s not clear whether any Amicus Briefs will be filed supporting the Gibsons, to my knowledge no one is coming to their assistance. Gibson’s Bakery has 20 days to respond, unless they get an extension of time.
A Florida attorney wrote a letter Friday to a state prosecutor alleging that the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd while in police custody had voted illegally in Florida in 2016 and 2018.
Derek Michael Chauvin, 44, is listed as having property in both Oakdale, Minn., and Windermere, Fla. On Friday, Dan Helm, a Florida attorney and candidate for Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections, asked Orange County State Attorney Aramis Ayala to prosecute Chauvin for violating the state’s election laws when he voted in Florida elections. Helm said the violation is a third-degree felony. Orange County, Fla., voting records list
A video of a uniformed New York City police officer appearing to make a white power symbol at a George Floyd protest Saturday in New York City has prompted an internal review. The video showing the officer making the apparent "OK" hand gesture — touching the thumb and index finger to make a circle, with the remaining three fingers held outstretched — was posted to social media over the weekend. NBC News is not publishing or linking to the video to avoid providing a platform to apparent expressions of hate or white supremacy. The "OK" gesture has been used by people around
Newark—Newark's mayor is introducing legislation to denounce hate crimes, racism, police brutality and to declare white supremacy groups terrorists in his city. Mayor Ras Baraka announced the proposals Friday. “We are long overdue on a measure such as this,” Mayor Baraka said. “For this country to heal, we must begin to legally challenge the insidious and dehumanizing tenets of white supremacy, once and for all.(Snip) “This ordinance is no publicity stunt,” Baraka said. “These groups are a serious threat right here in New Jersey.” The ordinance also closes a precinct of the Newark Police Division by the end of 2021,
A new undercover video from Project Veritas shows, for the first time, Antifa instructors training members how to fight and disable opponents, which would likely include law enforcement officers sent to quell riots.(Photo) The undercover video posted Friday as part of Project Veritas’ “Expose ANTIFA” project contains footage of instructors and students who belong to New York City’s “RefuseFa” group, which is aligned with the loose-knit Left-wing anarchist movement that was declared a terrorist organization last month by President Donald Trump.In the newly released video, a ‘fight club’ instructor is seen teaching students how to kidney-punch and how to break ‘floating ribs
Joe Biden called the news that the nation’s sky-high unemployment level dropped “a sigh of relief,” but he accused President Trump of “spiking the ball” on Friday’s jobs report and argued the president was “completely oblivious” to the tens of millions of Americans still out of work. (Photo) The former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee also described as “despicable” remarks Trump made earlier in the day about George Floyd looking down and seeing “a great day” for the nation.Biden gave his brief address about two hours after the president repeatedly touted the jobs report as he spoke for 40 straight minutes in the Rose Garden
The New York Times staff is apparently in the midst of a “civil war” between two groups, with one side pushing for the idea of “safetyism,” NYT reporter Bari Weiss tweeted following public clashes over an op-ed published Wednesday. NYT employees openly rebelled against the publication’s decision to publish Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling for the U.S. military to be deployed in an effort to “restore order” amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. During the debacle, Weiss, a staff editor and NYT opinion writer, tweeted about the two sides currently at war
“USA! USA!” – Supporters Line Up to
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President Trump traveled to Guilford, Maine on Friday.Trump supporters lined the streets and chanted “USA! USA!” WATCH: (Tweet/Video) President Trump visited Puritan Medical Products on Friday, a producer of medical swabs used in Coronavirus testing. President Trump also spoke to fishermen in Bangor, Maine.WATCH: (Video)
These rioters aren’t Martin Luther King Jr. or even Malcolm X. They are Alex and his droogs from “A Clockwork Orange” out for a night on the town, albeit with less style and a duller patois. Violence is the point.Protests responding to the cruel police killing of George Floyd have been turned into nationwide riots and looting. This is not about Floyd anymore. His killing was universally condemned, the cops involved were fired, and homicide charges have been brought against the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck. More should be done, and what has been done could have been done sooner, but folks are not looting the Nike store
Two Brooklyn lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a chaotic George Floyd protest last weekend are now getting tossed into lockup themselves — for now. Princeton grad Colinford Mattis, 32, and his alleged accomplice and fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman, 31, lost their home detention status late Friday when three federal judges ordered them returned to official custody pending a further review of their bail appeal. Mattis and Rahman were initially granted permission to stay in their respective homes after posting $250,000 bail, and an initial attempt by federal prosecutors to get that decision overturned failed. Prosecutors appealed again and Friday the federal panel
The Pentagon has told Washington D.C.'s National Guard and guardsmen from other states who have are in the nation’s capital not to use guns or ammunition. The order came from Defense Secretary Mark Esper and made without consulting the White House, The Washington Post reported, and it's seen as a sign of de-escalation of the federal response to protests that sprung up in the wake of George Floyd's death.(Snip) The official said on condition of anonymity that Esper had made the decision and the troops would be heading back to Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York.
Louisiana has declared a state of emergency ahead of Tropical Storm Cristobal. The storm system weakened into a Tropical Depression Thursday, but it is expected to gradually strengthen as it moves toward the United States. Once it makes landfall, it will likely become a Tropical Storm. Cristobal is forecast to approach the Louisiana coast by Sunday evening, with winds up to 60 mph.
It brought heavy rain and flooding to parts of Mexico and Central America, and now, the same is expected to happen in the U.S. Flood watches have been issued for much of Louisiana, including Baton Rouge and
If you thought “abolish the police”—or it’s more moderate iteration, “defund the police”—was just some asinine slogan blue-check journalists, woke academics, and pandering public officials post on Twitter to show they support the Black Lives Matter movement, then you’re not keeping up with the revolution.This week Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, announced the city would be slashing the police department’s budget by $100 to $150 million and instead “reinvesting in black communities and communities of color.” The cuts to the LA police will make up the bulk of $250 million in funds to be reallocation to “end racism in our city,” Garcetti said.
The notoriously political DOJ lawyer who was assigned to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, has joined notoriously political DOJ lawyer Andrew Weissmann as a paid MSNBC analyst. The media are not even pretending any more.(break for twitter screenshot)Laughably, the media assembly of highly partisan DOJ and FBI officials continues. However, apparently the left-wing media does not think the American electorate will see all of these political operatives, gathering under one collective presence, as an indication of their extreme bias and political intent. They have no credibility left to burn.
Members of the National Guard on Friday were looking for a new place to stay, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered that they leave the hotel they were staying at, according to an official.The city had taken over the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington, D.C. to use for the National Guard’s coronavirus response mission, but many rooms remained vacant, so National Guard members deploying to D.C. as part of the civil unrest mission began staying there.
Bowser did not like the idea that Guardsmen from out of state were staying at the hotel, so she ordered the more than 1,000 members to leave.National Guard members who worked the night shift
The entire Buffalo police Emergency Response Team has resigned following the suspension of two officers who were caught on video shoving a 75-year-old protester to the pavement, according to reports Friday.
A total of 57 officers resigned from the emergency team in solidarity with the two suspended cops, who pushed Martin Gugino, causing him to stumble backward and crack his head on the ground, WGRZ reported. “Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, president of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association.(Snip)Gugino, an activist who is well known in Buffalo, was listed in serious but stable condition.
NBC News published an op-ed blasting NFL star Drew Brees for criticizing football players who kneel during the national anthem. The op-ed by Noah Berlatsky goes so far as to say that Brees’ “biggest mistake” in defending the American flag was “believing” that it “means anything.”
Brees has been hit with an unprecedented amount of backlash this week after simply saying that he does not agree with kneeling during the national anthem. The New Orleans Saints quarterback said that he views the move as a sign of “disrespect” and shared the story of his military roots.
The Daily Wire reports that Joe Biden is expected to attend George Floyd’s funeral. Biden, however, is not expected to attend the funerals of any of the innocent Americans murdered during riots over the past two weeks. Nor will he be attending the funerals of the black men killed by other black men every day in cities across the country.Floyd’s funeral provides the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a political opportunity that the others do not. And that, of course, is all this is. Biden is using Floyd’s dead body as a campaign platform, just as he used Floyd’s dying words as a fundraising gimmick. It’s crass, disgusting, and offensive.
If Joe Biden was a forensic pathologist his name would be Dr. Michael Baden.
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In recent days, he has fanned the flames of “cover-up” by reporting that Mr. George Floyd was indeed choked to death despite the county medical examiner’s finding that Floyd did not die from asphyxiation and he did not die from strangulation.(Snip)And if you aren’t careful you would believe it but Michael Baden is a hired gun and he is used by attorneys to say what needs to be said to drive pubic opinion and drive the civil lawsuit settlement higher.
The truth is Michael Baden didn’t do an autopsy.
Black Caucus PAC Defames WH’s
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The Congressional Black Caucus PAC is circulating an online petition that calls for the resignation of Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany over supposed “racist statements” she made about former President Barack Obama.
There’s just one problem. The petition does not explain what those statements are.
There are no pull quotes – or any quotes at all – citing what supposedly bigoted words the Trump spokeswoman uttered about the President’s predecessor.
The petition appears more intended for fundraising purposes than actual action against McEnany, but some of the questions, featuring yes or no options, include:
Looters and hoodlums attacked the founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliva, during the riots this week in New York City.The looters broke Sliva’s jaw with a hammer and another Guardian Angel lost his eye during the attack.The Guardian Angels stated goal is to keep order and protect the community.(Tweet) The Daily Mail reported: Curtis Sliwa said he and his Guardian Angels clashed with hundreds of looters as they tried to steal from a FootLocker athletic shoe store in New York’s Soho neighborhood after George Floyd protests Tuesday night.
Chicago—It was bad before and it’s even worse now. Food deserts in some South Side communities have even fewer choices for groceries after the weekend’s violence. CBS 2’s Marissa Parra has more from Bronzeville with a look at how it’s impacting the community. For neighbors, the Jewel-Osco on 75th is the grocery store. But no longer.(Snip) On Sunday night, it was ravaged by looters, as you can see by the aftermath captured in video from the next day, leaving neighbors frustrated.
“It’s not what you do. It’s how do you do it,” Wright said. “What did we accomplish,
Writing at the Washington Post, author Alyssa Rosenberg has a unique solution for the problems with our policing: Cancel all the cop shows on television. She argues we need to do that because there’s a “reactionary streak” behind the “surface liberalism” in these shows. For a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action-hero style of policing over the harder, less dramatic work of building relationships with the communities cops are meant to serve and protect. There’s a reason for that beyond a reactionary streak hiding below the industry’s surface
Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step.(Snip) The public school board in Minneapolis voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the city’s police department on Tuesday in response to Floyd’s death. “I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools,” school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. On Thursday, the superintendent of
'Orgy of violence': Ami Horowitz
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Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz embedded himself in the Minneapolis protests-turned-riots and said the majority of protesters he spoke with supported an "orgy of violence," including "killing cops."(Snip) "My biggest takeaway is the media malpractice on how these protests are being reported as if they have nothing to do with the violence," he said. "The reality is different in that the protesters are justifying the violence and the anarchy and the rage."(Snip) After two nights of witnessing riots, he said he thought both the police and national guard were acting with incredible restraint.
A fixture at Dallas Love Field has been hauled away to storage. Airport officials decided to remove the iconic statue of a Texas Ranger after a recently published excerpt from an upcoming book and image of the Ranger depicted in the sculpture came to light. The decision was made on Wednesday, according to airport spokesperson Chris Perry.(Snip) The over 12-foot tall brass sculpture depicting Texas Ranger Jay Banks captioned ‘One Riot, One Ranger’ has welcomed travelers at Dallas Love Field since the early 1960s, until today.(Snip) “Jay Banks was involved in efforts in 1957 to keep black children out of
The official BlackLivesMatter DC chapter recently tweeted their disappointment in response to a mural stating “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street in front of the White House calling it “counter organizing” to their demands.
“This is performative and a distraction from [Mayor Muriel Bowser’s] active counter organizing to our demands to decrease the police budget and invest in the community. Black Lives Matter means Defund the police,” they replied to a tweet by Rachel Chason, a Washington Post reporter. (Snip)Mayor Bowser, according to NBC4 Washington, renamed the street “Black Lives Matter Plaza” shortly after D.C. Department of Public Works crews and muralists completed the painting, which stretches across 16th Street.
NEW YORK – New York City reached a significant milestone in the fight against COVID-19 this week. There were no confirmed deaths from the coronavirus Wednesday. That’s the first time the city has reported zero deaths from the virus since March 10. The worst day came on April 7, when 590 people died. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday only 3% of people tested positive for COVID-19. The initial goal is to keep hospitalizations below 200, ICU patients under 375 and the percentage below 15. The latest indicators put the city on pace to start Phase 1 of reopening on
In the first Monday in May, the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington was on coronavirus lockdown — or at least it appeared to be from the outside. (Snip)One has to assume that Trump is keeping a close eye on the 70-year-old Barr right now. The powers of the attorney general, as the executive branch’s rule interpreter and law enforcer, peak during moments of social unrest. Barr knows these powers well: He led the Justice Department through the Los Angeles riots of 1992, (Snip)(Later, Barr said the L.A. riots were “opportunistic” gang activity (Snip)) Like Trump, Barr is a stalwart believer in the righteousness of the police;
President Donald Trump’s economy proved it’s not going down without a fight. An excellent new jobs report has Keynesian New York Times economist Paul Krugman babbling about a Trump conspiracy on Twitter to make sense of it.CNBC reported that “Employment stunningly rose by 2.5 million in May and the jobless rate declined to 13.3%,” based on Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’s (BLS) report. The report “was far better than economists had been expecting and indicated that an economic turnaround could be close at hand.” Krugman didn’t appear to know what to do with these numbers, except try to speculate the “possibility” that the Trump administration has “gotten to the BLS”
More help is on the way for Chicago businesses.Mayor Lori Lightfoot joined Jewel-Osco and community partners Friday morning in announcing new supports for small businesses. Those include the launch of Together Now: Chicago's Fund to Rebuild Our Neighborhoods. (Snip) While businesses throughout the city will be eligible, allocations will be made with an equity weighting to account for a disproportionate impact felt in particular neighborhoods throughout the city. Black and Latinx business owners are more frequently uninsured or under-insured and living in communities that have faced decades of disinvestment, both of which will be considered in the decision-making process, the city said.
Retired General Michael Flynn on Friday released an important message for our challenging times.General Flynn has not spoken out on the issues since he was silenced by the deep state and crooked operatives in 2017.General Flynn sent the letter to Scott Kesterson who later published the message on Twitter at BardsFM. (Tweet) General Flynn is still waiting for the court to officially drop his case.Rogue DC Judge Emmet Sullivan wants to drag the case out.
Minneapolis City Council members are expected to hold an emergency meeting Friday to vote on some of the first changes to the city’s police department following the death of George Floyd, with some of the council’s members vowing to “dismantle” the police department, according to the Star Tribune. The council is working with the state’s Department of Human Rights on a stipulated restraining order that would require some immediate changes to the police department. The order would also set up a timeline for an investigation into whether the police department participated in racial discrimination over the last 10 years.
D.C. artists create government-
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D.C. artists on Friday created, with the approval of the city, a “Black Lives Matter” mural stretching over two city blocks leading up to the White House after several days of large protests in the city and nationwide.
D.C. Public Works Department sanctioned and assisted with the project that stretches out on 16th Street NW between K and H streets, an area officially renamed as Black Lives Matter Plaza. Mayor Muriel Bowser shared a video of the completed mural with the Black Lives Matter hashtag. Massive crowds have been gathering outside the White House during the protests daily, and on Wednesday night,
Former Obama Intelligence Official Helps
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A former Obama administration intelligence official who worked in both the Departments of State and Defense has guaranteed bail for a human rights lawyer accused of firebombing a police vehicle in New York City.
The former official, Salmah Rizvi, told a judge the alleged firebomber is her "best friend." Rizvi, now an attorney at the D.C.-based law firm Ropes & Gray, helped secure the release of fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman by agreeing to be a suretor for her bail. That means Rizvi is liable for the full cost of the $250,000 bail if Rahman fails to obey the court's orders.
After three months of wall-to-wall television coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost overnight the live infection dashboards and often-uttered phrases like “social distancing” have all but disappeared, replaced with images of a nation in racial turmoil. How are the major cable news channels covering the protests and what do their different narratives teach us about how the media frames national events? The data provide some clues.
Since late February, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News have spent at least 15% of their daily airtime on the pandemic, based on data from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project.
The U.S. economy added a stunning 2.5 million jobs in May and the jobless rate dropped to 13.3 percent, the Labor Department said on Friday, pointing to a swifter-than-expected rebound from the unprecedented coronavirus lockdown."Today was a shocking jobs number – and for the first time this year it was a positive shock," said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance. "It’s very encouraging to see workers being recalled back by their employers and the unemployment rate dropped back down in May." The private sector accounted for the majority of the gains last month, with nearly 3.1 million positions added to the payroll,
The death of George Floyd after an interaction with the Minneapolis Police Department has rocked the world and while everyone reading this believes that an officer that put his knee in the back of Floyd’s neck for close to nine minutes was the cause of death, the facts and evidence are anything but that.
Now, before you quickly go the typical “you are justifying the murder” of Mr. Floyd, go ahead and take a step back.
Our job here is to give you the facts and whether you want to believe it or not, many of the facts are either not reported or not yet known and that should be concerning to
Washington DC Mayor Bowser painted a giant ‘Black Lives Matter’ message on the street to the White House on Friday.
The painting was commissioned by the far left mayor.She can’t control her streets from rioters but she can use taxpayer money to paint a slogan on the street to the White House.This message in yellow paint spans two blocks on 16th Street to the White House. (Tweet/Photo) CNN reported: “The painting of 16th St with “BLACK LIVES MATTER” is an effort not only blessed by Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser but initiated by her,”
President Donald Trump on Friday celebrated a new jobs report showing better-than-expected economic numbers in the month of May.“This is outstanding what happened today,” Trump said to reporters.The unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent in May from a record high of 14.7 percent in April and payrolls unexpectedly rose by 2.5 million workers. Economists estimated the unemployment rate would rise to nearly 20 percent in May and that the economy would shed an additional 8 million jobs.The president held a triumphant press conference in the Rose Garden after the news was announced Friday morning.“This is better than a ‘V,’ this is a rocket ship,”
The U.S. economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 percent. That’s down from 14.7 percent in April, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The surprising data comes amid the phased reopening of businesses across the country after months of economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic, which pushed up unemployment to Great Depression-era levels and obliterated all job gains since the Great Recession. President Donald Trump was swift to celebrate the positive labor market news, tweeting three minutes after the release, "Really Big Jobs Report. Great going President Trump (kidding but true)!"
Just a couple weeks ago, it would have been the stuff of public health professionals’ nightmares: Thousands of people clustered together amid a pandemic, chanting, shouting, and, after police hit them with tear gas, coughing.
But that was before Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd, and before the week of protests (snip) Jennifer Balkus, an assistant professor of epidemiology at UW and another signatory, said it was a risk to gather and recognized the concern of a spike in infections. But, she said, institutional racism is “a public health crisis that’s been with us for decades.”
It wasn’t enough to throw Molotov cocktails into squad cars or hurl recently-bought, pristine bricks at the backs of cops’ heads or through the windows of their precincts.
Now we must “Defund the Police” as well.
That along with a new call-and-response-on-your-knees demonstration of white fealty to blacks (cf. Bethesda, Md. and West Hollywood, Calif.) are the most recent tropes in our ongoing, Robespierre-like societal suicide.
I wonder how real-life African-Americans feel about that latter unbelievably bizarre cultish display of Caucasian virtue signaling gone berserk?
Taking the knee has become a political act in protests that have sometimes turned violent. Whether this is being done out of solidarity with a cause or out of fear, who can say? Protesters who insist they hate oppression publicly compel police and politicians to kneel. I’ve heard it said that the kneeling is about healing the nation, even as the violent bear the nation away.
But with all the kneeling going on, as we’re told all the chaos is still only about what happened to George Floyd, a question:
Dorn, 77, was a retired St. Louis police captain. The other night, as violence raged in St. Louis,
President Trump was happy as heck at the news that Michael Pack, his choice for new director at the Voice of America, finally got confirmed by the Senate. It came as a sort of miracle, given the dirty, protracted battle from deep state's Obama holdovers to keep him out. It was so underhanded it involved a last-ditch Kavanaugh-style bid to smear Pack as corrupt if for nothing else to delay his Senate confirmation to eternity. It was deep state at its worst and it failed. Now, what's probably the last solid Obama bastion of deep-state government has toppled. (Snip for tweets) But if you want to know who's howlingly happy
Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that intelligence officials have evidence of foreign meddling in the George Floyd protests. "We're seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence" during the protests, Barr said. He also identified three major groups involved in the protests – peaceful demonstrators, those exploiting the protests to loot, and "extremist agitators" including Antifa and other groups from across the political spectrum.
Hollywood once gave us the Cold War thriller called "The Hunt for Red October." And now the U.S. Senate and its Republican committee chairmen in Washington have launched a different sort of hunt made for the movies. Armed with subpoenas, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., want to interrogate a slew of Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials hoping to identify who invented and sustained the bogus Russia collusion narrative that hampered Donald Trump’s early presidency.
May sees biggest jobs increase
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Employment stunningly rose by 2.5 million in May and the jobless rate declined to 13.3% according to data Friday from the Labor Department that was far better than economists had been expecting and indicated that an economic turnaround could be close at hand. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting payrolls to drop by 8.333 million and the unemployment rate to rise to 19.5% from April’s 14.7%. If Wall Street expectations had been accurate, it would have been the worst figure since the Great Depression. As it turned out, May’s numbers showed the U.S. may well be on the
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Thursday evening said most Americans believe the country needs to get better, arguing “10 to 15 percent” of people “are just not very good.” Mr. Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, argued the president is vital in setting the standard for the rest of the country during a virtual town hall event on “The Shade Room” hosted by actor Don Cheadle. “Do we really think that this is as good as we can be as a nation? I don’t think the vast majority of people think that,” he said. “There are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent
Former president George W. Bush released a curious statement on Tuesday addressing the riots across the country: It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country…. This tragedy, in a long series of similar tragedies, raises a long overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society?… The doctrine and habits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our Union. Bush may have meant well, but his words, being inaccurate, aren’t doing Americans any favors. As Heather Mac Donald wrote recently in City Journal,
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Americans stopped fighting in the streets on Thursday morning as the balm of Meghan Markle’s platitudes washed over us like a healing draught of tear gas. Why send in the troops when you can send in the clowns?
The Duchess of Malibu has released a video of her graduation address to the seniors of Immaculate Heart High School, the private Los Angeles school whose teachers bear at least some of the responsibility for launching the woke royal upon the gas-guzzling, meat-eating, racist public.
Radicalized district attorneys in cities across America are putting violent rioters and looters back on the streets, and letting other hardened criminals walk. More than anyone, one man is responsible for this outrage: Billionaire socialist George Soros.
St. Louis is a case in point. There, prosecutor Kim Gardner let 36 people arrested for looting and rioting go scot-free, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gardner’s office used the pathetic excuse that it needed “essential evidence” from the police, implying it had none.
One wonders how people caught in flagrante delicto could simply be released. The answer is, Gardner is a
Following the sudden death of a beloved political reformer, Hu Yaobang, 200,000 students gathered at Tiananmen Square on April 22, 1989, to await the hearse carrying Hu’s body—but it never arrived. The mass of students were angered, and their burning desire for freedom could be contained no more.
On Thursday, after staffers at The New York Times had rebelled because the Times had published an opinion piece by Senator Tom Cotton in which he suggested using the U.S. military to quell the violence rampaging across the nation, the Times meekly offered an apology, adding it would publish less op-eds in the future.The Times stated: “We’ve examined the piece and the process leading up to its publication. This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards. As a result, we’re planning to examine both short term and long term changes, to include expanding our
A widely read study claiming the use of the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus leads to an increased risk of death has been retracted, the study’s publisher said Thursday.
The Lancet, the medical journal that published the original study in late May, said in a statement that they “can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources,” and “due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.”
“We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during the COVID-19 pandemic,” they said. “We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership
Amid the scenes circulating on social media this week of protesters and rioters and burned out storefronts and police barricades, two of them stand out as harbingers of what all of this means for the future of mainstream American society.The first was a video clip of a small group of white people kneeling down before a group of black people. A white man at the head of the kneeling group was praying, his voice shaking with emotion: “Father, we ask for forgiveness from our black brothers and sisters for years and years of racism, of systematic racism.”The second was a clip of a large gathering in the affluent DC suburb
Stocks rallied Wednesday, adding to a recent hot streak and signaling that investors think the worst of the economic upset from the coronavirus pandemic is over.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 2.1% Wednesday, and the S&P 500 rose 1.4%, marking its longest winning streak since early February. The S&P 500 performance Wednesday was led by energy, financial, and industrial groups, which have sustained the worst losses in 2020.
The market has largely overlooked the protests that have spread across the country. As states reopen sectors of their economies, markets have regained much of the losses suffered while the number of coronavirus cases was rising exponentially.
Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted two words that succinctly describe the winning coalition that will assure his November reelection: “SILENT MAJORITY.” This prompted a considerable amount of fustian mirth from the Twitter mob, a number of ostensibly serious opinion pieces in the corporate media, and contemptuous dismissal by the Democrats. The consensus was that Trump was indulging a Nixonian fantasy whereby white suburbanites frightened by an increasingly diverse electorate would save his presidency. This interpretation betrays profound ignorance about the term “silent majority,” which never had any racial connotation, and disregards what suburban voters really fear — Democratic incompetence in a time of economic uncertainty and social unrest.
Going Viral: Candace Owens Posts Video,
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Popular conservative went on Facebook this week to record an 18 minute video on George Floyd, the Minnesota man who was killed by police last week.Since his death Leftists, Antifa and Black Lives Matter have looted and burned hundreds of stores, businesses and government buildings. Candace loves her country and she is against the violence we have seen this week promoted and excused by the left and Democrat leaders.Candace posted this video on Wednesday it has over a million views
Flames from False Narratives
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The indefensible killing — captured on video — of George Floyd, following closely after the release of video showing the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, triggered the riots, looting, and conflagrations that have engulfed scores of cities across the country. As horrific as these killings were, it’s questionable whether, in isolation, they would’ve prompted riots on the scale and in the numbers that have occurred in the last week. Demonstrations, sure. On a visceral level, the videos almost compel them. But nationwide riots would be unlikely.
Rather, the riots are a result of the narrative that the Floyd and Arbery killings are but the latest of increasing examples of innocent blacks
Breaking things and burning buildings is enjoying a vogue it hasn’t had since the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Arson and looting are a perennial feature of urban unrest, but they have been pretty universally condemned for decades now — until the last week or so.
Forced to choose between criticizing the George Floyd protests when they get out of hand and defending the indefensible, activists and writers on the left have been tempted into the latter.
Their inventive, if completely absurd, contention is that the destruction of property doesn’t qualify as violence and, at the end of the day, isn’t such a bad thing, maybe even a salutary thing.
Police groups break with Biden
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Joe Biden has long prided himself on being a union-friendly Democrat with a good relationship with rank-and-file cops.
But Biden’s call for more national policing reforms and oversight in the wake of the death of George Floyd — and the perception that he hasn’t shown enough solidarity with law enforcement amid the ensuing nationwide protests and unrest — have created a fissure with law enforcement groups, leaving many who once supported him frustrated by what they regard as political posturing by their one-time ally.
“Clearly, he’s made a lot of changes the way candidates do during the primary process,
All rioters, arsonists, and looters have been released from jail in St. Louis, Missouri, without facing charges thus far by city prosecutors.Throughout riots in St. Louis this week, only 36 individuals were arrested for rioting, looting, and committing arson. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch confirmed that all of those arrested, though, have been released from jail without charges against them.“In a stunning development, our office has learned that every single one of the St. Louis looters and rioters arrested were released back onto the streets by local prosecutor Kim Gardner,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement posted online.
Please Don’t Go!
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That is what officials in cities that have been devastated by rioters, looters and arsonists are saying to businesses whose investments in those cities have gone up in smoke. Steve touched on this earlier, but I want to amplify the point. The following are just three examples of many that we will see in the coming weeks.
From Chicago: Mayor Lightfoot Pleads With Walmart, Other Retailers To Not Abandon Chicago.
Mayor Lightfoot said she’s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. But, she’s unsure of one of the biggest.
America’s Make-Believe Moment
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Let’s all pretend a Republican now serves as mayor of Minneapolis rather than for one day out of the last 59 years.
Let’s all pretend Democrats do not enjoy a political monopoly over every big city plagued by the worst violence.
Let’s all pretend white supremacists and Nazis and Russians destroyed American cities rather than the people who vote for the people saying white supremacists and Nazis and Russians destroyed American cities.
Let’s all pretend that one cop’s inhumanity indicts the entirety of law enforcement but many activists’ violence says nothing about the protests.
An American flag from a World War II battleship stolen from its display after people broke into the Reno City Hall on Saturday amid protests in Nevada over the death of George Floyd was anonymously returned Tuesday.
City spokesman Jon Humbert confirmed the glass display case that held the U.S.S. Reno flag was smashed during demonstrations over the death of Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for minutes, even after he stopped moving. \The Reno protest was peaceful until a smaller group of people was seen defacing the old police headquarters, stealing from downtown businesses
A new study shows that less than one percent of the coverage from the broadcast networks was spent on the deaths as the result of rioters amid the George Floyd protests.
The conservative media watchdog group NewsBusters clocked in 710 minutes of protest coverage from the morning and evening programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC between May 28 and June 3. ABC spent 200 minutes of coverage divided between "Good Morning America" and "World News Tonight," CBS spent 201 minutes on "CBS This Morning" and "CBS Evening News," and NBC spent a whopping 309 minutes between "Today" and "NBC Nightly News."
However, between the coverage from the three networks,
Grassley holds up key Trump
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nominations, demands White House
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced on Thursday he will hold up two of President Trump's key appointments until the White House provides some reason for the recent firings of the Intelligence Community and State Department inspectors general -- even as Grassley implied a pretextual justification would suffice. Grassley specifically said he would object to efforts to quickly and unanimously confirm Christopher Miller as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and Marshall Billingslea as undersecretary for arms control and international security at the State Department. The broadside came after Grassley said (snip) the White House had failed to comply with the 2008 Inspector General Reform Act,
Donald Trump wrote Thursday that he would campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski over her praise of comments made by Gen. James Mattis, who the previous day lashed out at the president over threats to use the U.S. military to put down nationwide protests over the death of African-American George Floyd.
Posting to his Twitter account, Trump vented over Murkowski’s public rebuke and vowed to head to her home state of Alaska and campaign on behalf of her as-yet-unnamed opponent in 2022.
On Thursday, Twitter removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, claiming the video violated the social media platform’s policy on copyrighted material.
“We are working toward a more just society, but that means building up, not tearing down. Joining hands, not hurling fists. Standing in solidarity, not surrendering to hostility,” the Trump campaign tweeted with the video. [Tweet]
On Thursday, Twitter removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, claiming the video violated the social media platform’s policy on copyrighted material.
“We are working toward a more just society, but that means building up, not tearing down.
You’ll want to grab a (Molotov) cocktail and sit down for this Obama tale.
Perhaps you’ll recall the news story of two well-to-do lawyers caught supplying leftist rioters with Molotov cocktails Saturday night. They were later seen tossing the bombs inside a police car, according to authorities.
For this material support of terrorism, which to now has been a serious crime in the America after 9/11, the female attorney, Urooj Rahman, was allowed to post bail and be put on house confinement pending her trial.
Rahman is seen above holding a Molotov cocktail in the van driven by her alleged co-conspirator. She’s covering her face with a keffiyeh scarf,
It seems impossible to believe, but the last person to receive a Civil War pension has recently died. Irene Triplett, who had received $73.13 per month since 1938, passed away on May 31 at the age of 90. Her father, Mose Triplett, earned the pension after defecting from the Confederate Army in 1864 and joining the Union forces. When he died at age 92, his daughter Irene inherited the pension.
Imagine that. A pension that began 155 years ago paid out by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs finally stopped in 2020. Mose Triplett married very late in life, to a woman 50 years his junior. Irene was born in 1930.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine twisted himself into a pretzel this week trying to justify limitless Black Lives Matter protesters (and rioters) while standing by Coronavirus restrictions for churches and small businesses.
Dr. Levine, who is the first transgender person appointed to a Pennsylvania Cabinet, became secretary of health in 2017.
A reporter asked Dr. Levine about Governor Tom Wolf calling business owners cowards for wanting to open their businesses just a few weeks ago and then marching this week in Harrisburg with Black Lives Matter protesters.
Navy Veteran Michael White on His Release
From Iran: ‘I Want to Thank President Trump’
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From Iran: ‘I Want to Thank President Trump’
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President Trump on Thursday announced 48-year-old Navy Veteran Michael White, who had been detained in Iran for over a year and a half, was on a Swiss plane on his way back to the US.
“We expect him to be home with his family in America very soon,” Trump wrote. “I will never stop working to secure the release of all Americans held hostage overseas!” [Tweet]
According to the State Department, White was arrested in the city of Mashhad in 2018 and was sentenced in 2019 to 13 years for insulting Iran’s Supreme Leader and posting private information online.
Mr. President, you’ve taken step one: Declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. That was a brilliant move. Now it’s time for step number two: Cut the head off the snake. We’ve got to move to aggressively cut off the funding of domestic terrorism.
Those who provide funding are terrorists themselves. Who is providing the funding? There are many suspects. Suspect number one is globalist billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. It starts there.
Is Soros guilty? That’s way above my pay grade. That’s why we need a global investigation. And indictments and a trial.