Posts on Sunday, June 14, 2020
On his game! Ben Carson dominates
Chris Wallace interview with a flawless
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Chris Wallace interview with a flawless
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While speaking Sunday morning with Fox News host Chris Wallace, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was repeatedly peppered with questions that were typical of an anti-Trump administration, anti-conservative anchor.For instance, Wallace brought up the fatal police shooting of a black suspect in Atlanta. But why would he bring that up with someone who works for HUD, not the Department of Justice? Nevertheless, Wallace wondered whether the shooting was justified. “Was it appropriate to use deadly force against someone whose original offense was that he sleep asleep at the drive-through lane at a Wendy’s?” he asked. Carson replied that he’s not sure and made it clear
At least 250 convicted and accused criminals freed from New York’s Rikers Island prison have been rearrested 450 times thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) jailbreak directive.New York Police Department (NYPD) data reported by NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reveals that since Cuomo issued a statewide order demanding jails and prisons release inmates to abide by social distancing measures in late March, at least 250 inmates from Rikers Island have been rearrested.Russo reports: Of approximately 2,500 defendants sprung from Rikers early because of COVID safety planning, at least 250 have been arrested again since, according to Michael LiPetri, chief of Crime Control Strategies for the NYPD.
A group of 22 media organizations, publishers and professional associations joined a brief filed last week in support of Oberlin College in its ongoing appeal of the multimillion-dollar legal judgment awarded last year to the Gibson family and Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin.(Snip)The organizations signed on to the amicus brief, written by attorney Melissa Bertke of the Cleveland division of the law firm Baker Hostetler, in support of Oberlin College. An amicus brief is named for the term "amicus curiae," which is Latin for "friend of the court" and a legal practice when a person or organization that has a strong interest in the outcome of the case,
Liberals Still Think Obama Was the
'Best President Ever,' Here Are 14
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'Best President Ever,' Here Are 14
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Are mass delusions possible? I didn’t use to think so, but every now and then I’m reminded of the fact that there are thousands of people who think Barack Obama wasn’t just a good president, but a great president, who magically fixed the economy and went two full terms without a single scandal. On Sunday, countless liberals took to Twitter, declaring #ObamaDayJune14th, that it’s #ObamaAppreciationDay and that Obama was #BestPresidentEver.
Why? Because June 14 is President Trump’s birthday! How clever! And these trending hashtags accompanied thousands of unironic tweets expressing nostalgia for the Obama years and appreciation for Obama, their lord and savior. What exactly are they nostalgic for? Beats me.
Ukrainian officials were allegedly offered $6 million in bribes to end a probe into the founder of Burisma—the energy company which once had Hunter Biden on its board. Artem Sytnyk, head of Ukraine's national anti-corruption bureau (NABU), said three people had been detained, including one current and former tax official, over the bribe offer. All are linked to former ecology minister Mykola Zlochevsky, who founded Burisma and has been living in exile amid a state probe of an embezzlement plot. Officials said the bribery case has no connection to former board member Hunter Biden, the son of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Towards the end of a very heated and contentious argument with Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis during Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter was so triggered by being called “fake news” that he angrily lashed out at his guest; telling her that in 10 to 20 years her kids and grandkids were long to look back on her work for President Trump with disgust.As they neared Stelter’s petulant attacks from the gutter, he threw a tantrum about the President blasting Comcast, the parent company of MSNBC and NBC News. Of course, he cited a former Obama administration official to preface his outrage:
Spearheaded by the recent protests and riots over the unjust killing of George Floyd, the dogmatic outrage and conceit that inform cancel culture are now invading the American workplace. As the outrage foments, it’s no longer enough that politicians and public figures get pitchforked into online kangaroo courts.Adam Rapoport, the editor-in-chief of food magazine Bon Appétit was recently forced to resign after a photo from almost two decades ago surfaced of him dressed in a Halloween costume viewed by some as a Puerto Rican stereotype. According to The Hill: Several staff at Bon Appétit reacted to the photo by calling for Rapoport’s resignation
Supporters of President Donald Trump decorated their boats and took to the water over the weekend to celebrate the president’s 74th birthday. Trump, whose birthday also coincides with Flag Day, tweeted his support for boaters on Thursday. (Tweet/Video) Hundreds of MAGA-supporting sailors in Jacksonville, Fla., attended the “Trump’s Birthday Boat Rally” on Sunday morning. The event was scheduled to begin with boats traveling from Metropolitan Park down the St. Johns River to Fleming Island, according to News4Jax, which also reported coinciding events in Pensacola, Tampa and Miami.“Rig up those patriotic flags, fuel up the boat, and head out to meet a couple thousand of your fellow Trump supporters
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he… and gay?
A Pride Month tweet from the official Nickelodeon Twitter account has the internet believing Spongebob Squarepants is not just a happy guy.
“Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” the kids network tweeted out Saturday afternoon, along with rainbow-embossed art of the beloved sea sponge, along with Korra from “The Legend of Korra,” who is bisexual, and the transgender actor Michael D. Cohen from “Henry Danger.” Fans of the nautical cartoon, which began airing in 1999, have long-suspected Spongebob to be gay. In one 2002 episode
Philadelphia—A group of people gathered around a statue of Christopher Columbus in south Philadelphia over the weekend, saying they intended to protect it from vandals amid the recent protests – despite criticism from the mayor. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that about 100 people clustered around the statue of the explorer at Marconi Plaza on Saturday, at least two with guns and others with baseball bats.(Snip) Easterday and others said they hoped not only to ward off any vandals but to send a message to the mayor that they wouldn’t approve of removing the statue in the middle of the night–as the mayor did
This is a historic time in our country. It is critical, now more than ever, that we are listening to our readers and our employees and responding with thoughtful urgency. Many readers and employees have questioned why the USA TODAY Network doesn’t use an uppercase B when describing Black people, culture and communities.(Snip) In proposing this change, the USA TODAY diversity committee explained, "Black is an ethnoracial identifier that is inclusive of the collective experiences of the Black U.S. population, including recent immigrants. Capitalizing Black reflects an understanding and respect that is consistent with how many Black people and Black publications
A 42-year-old Camden man accused of taking an ax to the back of a neck of a police officer memorial in Dover early Friday morning has been arrested, Dover Police said. They arrested him after finding evidence at the scene and watching video surveillance, according to police. Police said Kyle Bullock left his cell phone at the scene where they found an ax, a vandalized statue of an officer kneeling, and two urine-soaked Delaware state flags. Shortly after 5:30 a.m. police discovered the damage to the memorial located on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
lhan Omar said Sunday that American communities will still be 'safe' even without law enforcement and the dismantlement of police departments, claiming that they would be replaced with something else – but she did not specify what that would be.'I think that's really where the conversation is going wrong, because no one is saying that the community is not going to be kept safe,' Omar told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning. The progressive Minnesota representative asserted that crimes would still be investigated and there would still be a 'proper response when community members are in danger.''What we are saying is, the current infrastructure that exists
For weeks, a black-and-white American flag with a blue stripe down the middle stood above the New Jersey Turnpike. The flag, posted on an overpass in Woodbridge Township, appeared this spring, residents say. Now, some are relieved that it has been removed. Residents who objected to the “thin blue line” flag says its message stands in opposition to the fight against systemic racism. Those who use the flag say it is a way to support police. But the image has come to be associated with the Blue Lives Matter movement, whose very formation was a response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
CHAZ has 99 problems, and all of them involve fighting. First, some of the left-wing activists who inhabit the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle are reportedly trying to rename it the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP), and the evidence suggests it’s because they’re embarrassed. The thing about autonomy is it denotes self-reliance. Yet the Chazistanis, as they’ve been mockingly called, displayed zero self-reliance when they called the Seattle Fire Department late Thursday to help them with a dumpster fire. Not too long after the story went viral on social media, videos began emerging of the left-wing activists formerly known as Chazistanis suddenly telling people
The daughter of country singer Hank Williams Jr. was killed in a car crash on Saturday night while driving with her husband in Tennessee. She was 27.
Katherine Williams-Dunning, the youngest daughter of Williams Jr., was driving a 2007 Chevy Tahoe along Highway 79 in Henry County. People reports that Katherine's SUV suddenly crossed the center median and rolled over, before it ultimately came to a stop at the shoulder. (Photo) The vehicle, which was towing a boat, drove across the northbound lanes around 7:45pm. Katherine died shortly after the crash and her husband Tyler Dunning, 29, was airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
New York– New York’s governor threatened to roll back phased reopening plans Sunday after large crowds gathered outside bars in New York City in violation of coronavirus lockdown guidelines. Andrew Cuomo said his office had received 25,000 complaints of reopening violations by businesses as New Yorkers flocked to streets to enjoy a weekend of late spring sunshine. “Lots of violations of social distancing, parties in the street, restaurants and bars ignoring laws,” he tweeted. “Enforce the law or there will be state action,” Cuomo warned local authorities. New York City, the epicenter of America’s coronavirus outbreak, is in phase one of Cuomo’s four-phase reopening plan.
The Jacobins of Our Time
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Not long ago, it was all #MeToo, all the time. All men were potential rapists; all women, potential victims. (Snip) It looks very much like a revolution. Indeed, it looks like the mother of all modern revolutions, the French Revolution of 1789.
In particular it looks like the Reign of Terror, which lasted from September of 1793 to July of 1794 and was directed largely by Maximilien Robespierre, head of the Jacobins. The main difference is that the Reign of Terror was carried out by revolutionaries who already had managed to gain control of the apparatus of the state.
Three people were injured, one seriously, while marching in a Black Lives Matter protest in New Jersey on Friday when a deer bolted into the crowd of demonstrators, according to officials.
The South Brunswick Police Department said on Twitter the incident happened during Friday's "March for Justice," which began around 5 p.m. at South Brunswick High School.
As demonstrators marched along County Route 533, a deer ran from the high school property into the marchers, according to police.
Two people were killed and at least five others were injured in a drive-by shooting in an Atlanta-area neighborhood on Saturday, authorities said.
Officers responded to the Edgewood neighborhood in northeast Atlanta around 5:45 p.m. after shots were fired into a crowd of people, FOX5 Atlanta reported.
Five victims were found at the scene and rushed to the hospital in serious condition, police said, according to the station. Two other victims were driven to the hospital before police arrived.
Two of the victims died from their injuries while the five others are in stable condition, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, citing a police spokesman.
Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments. In 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution. The new numbers come from Michael Lauer, NIH’s head of extramural research. Lauer had previously provided some information on the scope of NIH’s investigation, which had targeted 189 scientists at 87 institutions.
Good for Andru Volinsky and his fellow Democrats on the Executive Council for thwarting Gov. Chris Sununu’s reckless plan to “demean” (in Volinsky’s words) the state’s Board of Education. Where does Sununu get off trying to mess with the makeup of the board? Imagine wanting to add to it a young (29 years old) businessman from one of the state’s largest cities (Snip) He only came to New Hampshire, nine years ago, to go to college. He should now go back from whence he came (New Orleans), and volunteer for public service there.
The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating a shooting that left six people injured early Sunday morning.
According to police, just before 2 a.m., officers were notified about a ShotSpotter activation on the 200 block of West Broadway.
Once officers arrived at the scene, they were advised that the victims had all been taken to the hospital by private transportation. Officers then notified both North Memorial Medical Center and Hennepin County Medical Center to be aware that there may be shooting victims arriving in private vehicles.
The Atlanta Police Department has released officer bodycam and dashcam video of the events leading up to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks on Friday night.
The footage shows Officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan speaking to Brooks for nearly 30 minutes on suspicion of DUI after apparently finding him asleep behind the wheel of his car in the drive-thru line of a Wendy’s restaurant.
Brosnan is seen on video knocking on Brooks' car window and appears to have trouble waking him. He asks if Brooks is all right or needs medical attention. Brooks says he’s OK, before appearing to fall asleep again. Brosnan wakes him a second time
This is a little lengthy of a discussion, but it touches upon something very relevant to this election cycle. Author Diana West discusses a network and pattern of ideology within the modern pentagon leadership, and how a worldview is threatened by President Trump.(Snip)
The conversation necessarily gets in the weeds and is filled with unique insight into a very complex alignment. However, in the big picture it’s not difficult to figure out why the Pentagon would be opposed to Trump. (Snip)
President Trump’s preferred use of economic warfare makes the Pentagon’s role diminished. Instead of punching North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, President Trump hits the checkbook of Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn said he lives in more fear of police now than during racial segregation in the South.“I didn't grow up in fear of police, even in a segregated environment. We never feared the police. All of a sudden, now I do fear the police. The young blacks fear the police,” the South Carolina Democrat told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.“Why? Because we have built-in a system that’s responding, once again, to Brown v. Board of Education and everything that comes with it,” he said in reference to the Supreme Court decision that deemed segregation in schools unconstitutional.
The grisly slaughter of a beloved racehorse is shining a light on just how desperate Venezuelans are for food as they struggle to survive their country’s economic collapse.
Ocean Bay, who galloped away with Venezuela’s most prestigious titles, was stolen and butchered Monday, sparking outrage that spread like wildfire across the country, The Associated Press reported. “What a disgrace,” Ramón García, the stallion’s longtime trainer, tweeted. “This isn’t the Venezuela that I grew up in.” Farmers and veterinarians have reported dozens of horses cut to pieces over the past few years as a recession has deepened into a depression.
Brooklyn will get a giant Black Lives Matter mural similar to the one painted in yellow in downtown Washington, DC. Artists, elected officials and others joined in painting the words along Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant Saturday. State Attorney General Letitia James tweeted a photo of herself with a paint roller in hand saying “Proud to help Brooklyn say it loud: #BlackLivesMatter.” James was standing next to the Rev. Al Sharpton who also tweeted that he was helping the effort. He posted a photo of himself with Spike Lee saying he was on Fulton Street for the renaming of the block as “BlackLivesMatter Way.”
As tragic as officer-involved shootings of anyone is, not all of them are worth burning down a Wendy's for. For radical activists and their enablers, this act is getting old fast.
The latest incident, in Atlanta, wrought a huge amount of turmoil:
Atlanta police units initially responded to a 911 call reporting a suspicious person at Wendy's around 10:30 p.m. Friday. Officers found a man asleep in his car, parked in the drive-thru lane and blocking customers, according to GBI.
They reportedly conducted a sobriety test, but when they attempted to arrest the man, identified as 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, a struggle ensued.
Eugene, Ore.—Two historic statues have been torn down on the University of Oregon campus this weekend—the Pioneer Mother and the Pioneer outside Johnson Hall. The Pioneer Statue has been dragged up the steps of Johnson Hall, while the Pioneer Mother was still laying next to her mount. Statues of Confederate figures have come down during protests in the southern US, and protesters in England tore down a statue of a slave trader and dumped it in a nearby river.(Snip)
Protesters have taken to the streets of Eugene for the past two weeks, with several different groups organizing protests and marches.
Given his record of shamelessly exploiting racial strife for his own political gain, Joe Biden should be the absolute last person to lecture America about race and justice.
Unlike President Trump, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president has been strategically silent about the destructive riots that have unfolded on our streets in recent days, issuing a feeble condemnation of violence before focusing his attention on critiquing the president for walking across the street to the iconic “Church of the Presidents”the day after it was set ablaze by rioters.
President Trump’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church was a powerfully symbolic gesture of solidarity with everyone hurt by the recent lawlessness
The death of George Floyd, an African-American, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer has sparked weeks of urban protests—some marked by looting and violence—across the United States. It has also brought fierce condemnations of President Donald Trump. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio partly blamed the president for the unrest, noting “there’s been an uptick in tension and hatred and division since he came along,” while Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot said that she had a message for the president: “It’s two words. It begins with F and it ends with U.”
Warsaw, Poland—Polish President Andrzej Duda accused the LGBT rights movement of promoting a viewpoint more harmful than communism and said he agreed with another conservative politician who stated that “LGBT is not people, it’s an ideology.”(Snip) The president said that during Poland’s communist era, regimes ensured survival by indoctrinating the youngest generation. “That was Bolshevism. It was the ideologizing of children,” he said. “Today, there are also attempts to push an ideology on us and our children, but different. It’s totally new, but it is also neo-Bolshevism.”
Earlier in the week, Duda signed a declaration drafted for the stated
A day before Flag Day, two city employees were spotted using the Stars and Stripes to mop the floor of a filthy Coney Island restroom, a witness told The Post. Jose Gonzalez, a Guardian Angel who was on patrol on the boardwalk Saturday afternoon, said he saw two employees from the Parks Department wiping down a men’s bathroom with a flag mop. An enraged elderly veteran confronted them, saying they “can’t use the flag to wipe up urine and s–t from the floor.”(Snip) “The Parks guy didn’t see what the big deal was and told him, ‘It’s just a symbol.'”
Exclusive: ‘I’ve Been Scared Every Day’:
Seattle Resident Speaks Out About Life
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Seattle Resident Speaks Out About Life
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A Seattle resident living in Capitol Hill, where activists have taken over a roughly six-block radius and turned it into the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ), spoke with the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview about life on the border of the commune.The man, who asked to only be referred to as Brandon, said he has been terrified since the protests began. Brandon said protesters are at his gates every night, adding that his “own government” has abandoned the people.“I’m scared,” Brandon said.
When he announced on May 1 that masks would be worn in public places, Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker was emphatic.
"We view this as common sense. This is going to be basically a way of life. No ifs, no ands, no buts, no doubts."
However, doubts are showing up.
First, Baker's order said to wear face coverings when in public places and unable to keep a social distance of six feet. Why'd he pick six feet? There is no research showing that six feet means anything in a public space. (snip) The disease isn't contagious in the open air, but the mask-wearing anxiety sure is
It appears that someone has prevailed upon Seattle Mayor Jenny “Summer of Love” Durkan to bring to an end the glorious revolutionary commune that is Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (aka CHAZ). Many of us would have liked to see this race-based, criminal-friendly, socialist experiment last a little longer. Still, even during its short time as an independent nation within America, CHAZ provided useful insights into what happens when you abandon both the framework of civil society and the free market.
Here’s the sad news for those of us enjoying Seattle’s “Revolutionary Commune Reality Show”: The Seattle Police Department has announced that it intends to reclaim the Capitol Hill neighborhood
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A freshman Virginia GOP congressman who angered social conservatives in his district when he officiated a gay wedding lost his party’s nomination. U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman lost a GOP convention Saturday that was done via drive-thru because of the coronavirus pandemic. He was defeated by Bob Good, a former official in the athletics department at Liberty University.
Amid the chaos and anarchy across blue-city America that exclusively possessed public attention for the last couple of weeks, it was not hard to miss any other bit of news — especially if that news has not appeared or been even briefly mentioned by any major mainstream media outlet. Take for example the news of Hillary Clinton, who lost her appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 2, where she tried to avoid testifying under oath about her emails and the Benghazi case.
The hearing in the D.C. Circuit came in the case Judicial Watch v. Clinton, a public records case
The left everywhere, from college campuses and newsrooms, to corporate headquarters and city councils, has gone stark, raving mad. I’m not the first to say it, and probably not the last, but most Americans are rational and aren’t going to take this much longer. As for those wanting to defund and abolish the police, and -- in colleges and newsrooms -- forbid dissent from the BLM injustice mantra, Edmund Burke’s observation is timeless:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites… in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good,
Cornell University law professor William Jacobson thought he had grown callous to petitions for his ouster. Activists—including students, faculty, and alumni—have called for his firing on numerous occasions since he launched the popular conservative website Legal Insurrection in 2008, but the campaign against him has taken personal attacks to new levels in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody."On [the Black Lives Matter] issue, you cannot deviate one iota or they will try to get you kicked out of the school, they will falsely accuse you of being racist, they will do a ‘name and shame' campaign against you," Jacobson told the Washington Free Beacon.
Robert E. Lee, who led the Army of Northern Virginia through the Civil War, opposed the construction of monuments commemorating the vanquished Confederacy.
Within the past week, NASCAR announced a ban on the Confederate flag, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi renewed calls to have Confederate statues removed from the Capitol, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted anything named after Lee in his city "has to go," and thousands of protesters across the country tore down Confederate monuments. After the Civil War, Lee repeatedly voiced his objection to statues or monuments that honor the Confederacy.
Lee's underlying rationale behind opposing the monuments
Every journalist who appears on television has courage. That's a given. But joining the elite ranks of the world's most noble profession requires something few possess—that rare combination of talent, charisma, grace, humility, eloquence, and cheeky bravado.
What a truly remarkable achievement, then, that one network—MSNBC—has managed to accumulate so many all-star journalists and contributors over the past 10 years. Congratulations to the members of the MSNBC All-Decade Team!
When guest hosting The Last Word on Friday, MSNBC's Ali Velshi declared that given the protests and reaction to the death of George Floyd, Joe Biden has been prophetic in his calls for the country to move past President Trump's racial divisiveness. Similarly, Jonathan Alter was amazed at Biden's "perfect message for 2020."Velshi began by saying that Biden's type of campaign messaging was perhaps not working, "But, in fact, George Floyd and the movement about police brutality and the movement about institutionalized racism that seems to be picking up steam amongst Americans who are not black and not people of color goes right back to where Joe Biden
President Trump is defending his slow, careful descent from a stage ramp following his commencement address at West Point earlier Saturday.Cameras had filmed Trump gingerly walking down the lengthy ramp after his speech, sparking wild speculation online from detractors that he has health issues.
A #Trumpisnotwell tag trended online.“The ramp that I descended after my West Point Commencement speech was very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery,” Trump tweeted late Saturday.“The last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!”
The Summer of our Discontent
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We are entering the summer of our discontent. The season promises to be a long, hot struggle to maintain the integrity of our founding principles that are increasingly compromised with the best and worst of intentions.The worst intentions are those of the rabble whose objectives we shouldn’t underestimate. They will instigate and inflame chaos and anarchy to achieve what a former president promised: “to fundamentally transform America.”They will opportunistically take advantage of the nation’s weakened status from overreaction by government to COVID-19, compounded by the well-intentioned but ultimately destructive flood of trillions of dollars in “temporary” cash benefits.
The betting in Washington seems to be that the judges who ride the District of Columbia circuit of the federal appeals court are going to turn down General Michael Flynn’s petition for a writ of mandamus to end his case. The three circuit riders certainly hinted that they are not eager to tell the district judge, Emmet Sullivan, what to do, and that they have high regard for him.
We share that regard, as we made clear in the editorial with which we jumped into this fray. Yet this case is about a claim that the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the prosecution of General Flynn “reeks” of “improper political influence.”
Welcome To Your New World Order: A Rundown Of
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America is in the midst of a new cultural civil war that for years has been brewing under the surface as left-wing academics breed aggressively woke children now permeating throughout the nation’s mainstream institutions.
Since the killing of George Floyd at the knees of a Minneapolis police officer sparked the worst outbreak of civil unrest in decades, protests that grew out of demanding justice for Floyd morphed into a dark operation to fundamentally transform the nation’s psyche, convincing the people of their own inherent evil from ancestral wrongs.
Battle lines are clearly being drawn, where the radical left has offered Americans a binary choice in a false dichotomy between total submission
ABC News has put a top executive on administrative leave after a HuffPost investigation alleged she had a pattern of making insensitive and racist remarks.
Following publication of the story Saturday morning, ABC announced that Barbara Fedida, senior vice president of talent, editorial strategy and business affairs for the network, has been placed on leave while the claims are investigated.
Among other duties, Fedida oversaw newsroom inclusion and was responsible for hiring and developing network anchors and correspondents. According to Yashar Ali’s report in HuffPost, Fedida’s alleged misconduct has led the network to spend millions of dollars in confidential settlements with former talent and staff. That includes at least one
The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast to coast following weeks of rioting in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police. As antifa itself would say, “It’s going down.”(Snip)More than 50 people have been indicted on various charges in La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma.
Everything these days is “systemic.” But what is that “system”? I think it must be capitalism, when you get right down to it. Just think, the basic accounting terminology of capitalism is rife with implicit racism. Just think about it: when a business is losing money, we say it is “in the red.” An obvious slur at native Americans. And when a business is doing well and making profits, we say it is “in the. . .” Oh, wait. It should be “white” shouldn’t it?
Rename Fort Bragg? Don’t Do It
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Alfred Lord Tennyson was right: We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven. Sadly, we do not have the consolation of being able to claim that we are “one equal temper of heroic hearts,” either.
The Marine Corps, long the most counter-cultural branch of the U.S. military, just banned even the informal use of the battle flag it used to wink at. Widespread emotional and sometimes felonious response to recent actions of a rogue police officer makes it perilous to tag preface that observation with an introductory clause like “For good or for ill…,” so revisionist history proceeds not just unchecked,
The 1793 Project Unmasked
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Anyone who still doubts that woke progressives can pose a material threat to the pursuit of truth should consider the case of David Shor. A week ago, as protests over the unjust police killing of George Floyd took place in major cities across the country, Shor—a 28-year-old political scientist at the Democratic consulting firm Civic Analytics—tweeted some observations about the successes and failures of various movements. He shared research by Princeton University's Omar Wasow, who has found that violent protests often backfire whereas nonviolent protests are far more likely to succeed. The impulse behind Shor's tweet was a perfectly liberal one: He feels progressive reforms
Winston Churchill noted in 1947 that “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.” And what of the world’s oldest democracy, the United States of America? Still the worst country on earth — except for all of the others.
Thirty-five years of hard-left campus indoctrination has now permeated the media and the leadership of our cultural institutions to create a huge intellectual constituency for contempt of America. All over the land, we’re told that we either have failed to live up to our ideals or that our ideals themselves are wicked.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent on duty in a remote part of New Mexico was found dead last week, federal authorities confirmed Saturday.
The body of the agent, identified as Johan Mordan, 26, was found “unresponsive lying on a trail” during a search that was launched after Customs and Border Protection officials lost communications with him, KVIA-TV of El Paso, Texas, reported. An autopsy will determine the cause of death, CBP officials said.
A luxury watch company is defending police and calling for others to “speak truth” in an ad released Friday in the wake of pushes for local law enforcement agencies to be defunded.
International brand Egard Watches shared the video to YouTube on Friday along with a message from CEO Ilan Srulovicz. “At a time when we should be humanizing each other... we are vilifying each other,” Srulovicz wrote. “At a time when we should be unified with each other... we are segregating each other. Our great country is at a time of crisis and yet we are frozen with fear to even express ourselves.”
New Orleans—Protesters Saturday tore down a bust of a slave owner who left part of his fortune to New Orleans' schools and then took the remains to the Mississippi River and rolled it down the banks into the water. The destruction is part of a nationwide effort to remove monuments to the Confederacy or with links to slavery as the country grapples with widespread protests against police brutality toward African Americans.
Police said in a statement Saturday that demonstrators at Duncan Plaza, which is directly across the street from City Hall, dragged the bust into the streets, loaded it onto trucks
A march is taking place on Saturday at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, until 3 p.m. to show support for law enforcement officers across the country.The march takes place after nationwide protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police. Left-wing groups, including Antifa, anarchists, and even some Democrats are calling for police departments to be defunded, and in some cases, eliminated. “On June 13th, let’s show them OUR courage and support!” the website states.
Texas land commissioner George P. Bush, the eldest son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, delivered a simple message for rioters who might be thinking about trashing The Alamo: “Don’t mess with The Alamo.”Bush released a statement on Saturday evening after social media posts claimed that so-called “protesters” were wanting to take down The Alamo, which comes as violent rioters have trashed inner cities across the country and have destroyed historical monuments and statues in recent days.One social media post that went viral online came from lawyer Robert Barnes, who wrote: “Protesters in San Antonio now demanding tearing down The Alamo.” The tweet had nearly 9,000 retweets
A protester in the police-free district set up by demonstrators in Seattle demanded that white demonstrators fork over $10 to their black counterparts.A video, uploaded to Twitter Saturday, shows a man inside the city’s Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, urging protesters to donate the cash.
“I want you to find by the time you leave this autonomous zone, I want you to … to give $10 to one African American person from this autonomous zone,” said the unidentified protestor speaking to dozens inside the area near the city’s East Precinct that was abandoned by police last week following two weeks of clashes
Rioting protesters set fire to an Atlanta Wendy’s Saturday night. The fast food restaurant was the scene of the deadly police shooting Friday night of a black man, 27-years-old Rayshard Brooks, as he resisted and fled from arrest with a Taser he stole from an officer. Brooks, who was being arrested after being found passed out at the wheel of a car in line at the Wendy’s drive-thru and allegedly failed a field sobriety test, was shot by police when he turned and aimed the stolen Taser at an officer as he fled.Atlanta police Chief Erika Shields resigned Saturday afternoon over the shooting.